Jun
21
2010

Scaler Weapons

Weather manipulations are another aspect of the scalar terrorism which is
facing us, and this has in fact been on-going for the past several decades.
The Yakuza took over the weather war against the West when it leased the
older longitudinal wave interferometers from the KGB. In section 16 of
Bearden's new document he sets out an incredible and frightening list of
methods of scalar weather attacks, and of other means of scalar attack. This
list drives home how versatile these weapons are, and how much more
dangerous they are than the kind of "terrorism" targeted by the so-called
"war on terrorism" of the current administration. Maybe the situation is so
hopeless that the government is right in denying that it exists. Perhaps it
would be too much for the public to bear if the truth were broadcast. But
forewarned is certainly forearmed, at least to a degree. Here are just a few
items from the list of attack possibilities. See the document for the full
list.

Weather engineering
Steering the jet streams, thus "steering" or "guiding" weather entities. By
warming the air in one region, the warm air expands so that it is thinner.
Thus the interferometry makes a low pressure area in that region. By
gradually moving the "warming region" (by moving the interference zone's
location), the low pressure area is "steered" and its path is determined. By
cooling the air in a region, a high pressure area is created, and it is
steered in the same fashion. By making multiple highs and lows and adroitly
positioning and steering them, the jet streams and other prevailing winds
can be entrained, "captured" and steered. This alone allows substantial
augmentation and steering of weather effects.

Triggering volcanos
By focusing the interference zone inside a volcano to its magma, and
steadily depositing additional EM energy in the piezoelectric matter, a
buildup of pressure in the volcano is induced. Eventually the volcano will
erupt from the increased pressure. If the increase in pressure is applied
slowly, the slow increase in pressure will be held longer by the static
friction, so that a higher pressure is reached before the volcano erupts.
This engenders a large and violent eruption, with consequently greater
ejection and distant dispersion of ash, lava, and other debris.

Blasting away with explosions
All sorts of "patterns" of EM energy -- glowing spheres, hemispheres,
etc. -- can be produced and these can be used against various targets,
either for electrical and electronic destruction or for electromagnetic
explosions of these balls of energy once they contact the intended target

Triggering earthquakes
By depositing the extra interferometry energy in a fault zone location, the
increased piezoelectric activity will also result in increased stress in the
rocks, thereby inducing an earthquake when the rocks finally slip. By
adjusting the rate at which the excess energy is added, the size of the
resulting earthquake can also be changed.

Direct Killing
By inducing repeatedly pulsed negative energy in an area containing living
animals or humans, the animals or humans can be directly killed. Strong
pulsing will result in rather instant death, where the bodies drop limply,
with not even a nerve cell firing thereafter. Everything living ¾ cells,
microbes, viruses, whatever ¾ in the struck bodies is killed instantly, and
the bodies do not decay, even over a month or more. The Soviets tested such
weaponry in this mode against two Afghan villages in their own war in
Afghanistan, and it is probable that the Yakuza is now able to produce
portable weapons with this capability.

Killing underground or underwater
Since the longitudinal EM waves used in the interferometry of a scalar
interferometer easily penetrate Faraday shields, the ocean, the earth, etc.,
such weapons are very useful in attacking deep underground targets and
facilities and destroying them or wreaking damage. In Japan, the Yakuza has
demonstrated this capability on a few occasions to kill severe Japanese
critics inside deep shelters or shielded facilities. The significant impact
on strategic command and control centers in underground bunkers and
facilities can be easily appreciated. Essentially all facilities and
personnel become vulnerable.

Triggering nuclear powerplant meltdown
The use of a more portable scalar interferometer to destroy the electronic
controls of a normal or nuclear power plant from a distance is obvious. With
nuclear power plants this poses the risk of a melt down. Electrical controls
for pipe valves, etc. are also vulnerable; the storage of spent nuclear fuel
rods is largely underwater in pools on normal power plant sites. If the
water is drained from those pools, the rods will heat up and again a melt
down condition or very hazardous venting of radioactivity can ensue

Wiping out electronics & power grids
Large electronic complexes such as switching and control systems,
centralized control systems for power grids and substations, etc. are deadly
vulnerable to scalar interferometry attack, by either long range or short
range interferometers.

Targeting infrastructure
Chemical plants, refineries, fuel storage sites, tank farms, etc. are also
deadly vulnerable to scalar interferometry, including portable attack.

Sinking tankers
Liquid natural gas ships, oil tankers, etc. are also highly vulnerable to
scalar interferometry attack.

Turn out the lights and keep them out
Surges on the power distribution grid transmission lines can easily be
accomplished by scalar interferometry, methodically causing great damage to
the grid and emergency shutdown of most of its "feeding" power plants. As
much of the grid as desired can easily be kept nonfunctional, as long as
desired, by occasional repeats.

This gives an idea of the real future of terrorism. The centralized power
grid is our greatest vulnerability, our weakest link, and so is obviously
the first choice target of new scalar terrorists.

"Once the Yakuza scalar interferometers are factored into the strategic
terrorist threat situation, there is no recourse that can save the present
centralized electrical power system. Instead, the only way to prevent the
induced total economic collapse of the United States by collapsing the
centralized electrical power system, is to immediately initiate the
strongest possible "energy from the vacuum" systems development and
production program, to replace the entire centralized power system,
including its long distribution lines and large feeder power plants. That
system is simply not defensible and not sustainable against the threat as it
already exists, and against the hostile assets already successfully inserted
or waiting in support from abroad."
"As can be seen, the action that is necessary if we are to prevent our total
economic collapse in a little more than two years, and also our subsequent
total destruction, is a Manhattan type project to massively develop and
deploy EFTV electrical power systems. We bluntly state without further
discussion that such systems are indeed already developed in our own country
and worldwide, and so they are available, but they have deliberately been
withheld or suppressed for many decades.

"Short of a direct Presidential order and Decision Directive, there appears
to be no way that the necessary program can be or will be galvanized. Our
morose assessment is that, unless some other major strategic factor enters
the conflict, the Yakuza and terrorists, under present centralized control
and planning, will probably succeed in catastrophically destroying the U.S.
economy on schedule, leaving the U.S. prostrate for its subsequent physical
destruction in a giant "turkey shoot"."

U.S. Societal Polarizations Are Being Gradually Increased

An even more fantastic deployment of scalar terrorism is the use of scalar
weapons in "psychoenergetics" mode, the mode and wave patterns that affect
the human minds in the targeted interference zone. This becomes a true
"enemy within," for the weapons are operating within our own minds themselve
s, inducing thought forms and feelings, without the people themselves being
aware of the true cause. The psychoenergetics aspect of the scalar
terrorists is to create polarization within the targeted population, to
cause neighbor to fight with neighbor creating increasing enmity, chaos and
division. Why fight us if they can make us fight each other? Why declare a
war if they can bring about a civil war and make us kill each other?

"Among sociologists, there is much support for the position that societal
polarizations are phenomena which naturally tend to increase anyway {}.
Further, many pollsters already state that the nation is very seriously
polarized already, as the election looms. For example, quoting John Zogby:

"'I have been calling this the Armageddon election now for months because we
are so polarized, so split culturally, politically, ideologically,
demographically, like almost no other time in American history. … The last
time the nation was this deeply divided over what course to take was the
original Armageddon election of 1800."

"However, for the first time in history, certain rather esoteric FSB/KGB
weapons are being directly employed to gradually intensify the societal
polarizations in America ¾ straight vs. gay, conservative vs. liberal,
Republican vs. Democrat, one religion against another, one race against
another, labor class vs. financial class, etc. The strategic objective is
that these increasing societal polarizations will become so fierce that,
about two years from now, they will also be spilling into the streets of our
cities in serious rioting and bloodshed, resulting in chaos, martial law,
etc. and severe polarization and disorganization.

"So far, this plan -- deliberate escalation of our societal polarizations --
is right on schedule, as anyone can see now, and as one will increasingly
see in the time remaining prior to the election.

"U.S. societal polarizations will increase in intensity until the election,
after which the polarizations and their intensities will remain -- and in
fact they will continue to increase after the election is over. Temporary
conversions and fractional conversions of the minds and mind operations (and
therefore the behavior) of selected leaders or prime movers in the various
polarization areas are being used. This capability has arisen from the
branch of energetics known as psychoenergetics, and such measures are now
being used in a highly selected manner to intensify our polarizations."

Is the current deeply split polarization of the U.S. population being
augmented by psychoenergetic use of the KGB/Yakuza Tesla-type weapons? If so
it is one more card in our house of cards being flicked away at by the new
scalar terrorists. Bearden estimates all these methods are being used and
are leading toward the final ultimate attack attack which will come about
two years from now.

"As stated, the Yakuza is a major arm of the KGB's coordinated asymmetric
war and terrorism. The Yakuza reports to and coordinates with those hidden
FSB/KGB directors. The Yakuza view is that ¾ together with the other
terrorist organizations already having infiltrated substantial assets into
this nation, and together with chaos in U.S. streets due to severe
polarizations gradually being intensified now ¾ they are already helping to
bleed the dragon increasingly. Then within two years they will joyfully
begin the direct destruction of the centralized U.S. electrical power system
and other key economic targets (harbors, refineries, pipelines, etc.). They
will also participate in immune system spreading (explained later in this
paper), as a force amplifier to biological warfare strikes by other
terrorists. As all this destruction ramps up over the next two years, it
will crescendo and catastrophically collapse the entire economy of the U.S.
within about two and a half years from now.
"Given the planned present offensive schedule and the insertions already
accomplished, indeed the plan for full strategic destruction of the U.S. is
likely to succeed."

Bearden concludes his article on scalar terrorism with a chilling summary.
The dangers posed by the proliferation of scalar weapons to rogue criminal
groups are almost too terrible to contemplate. The government pretends the
situation does not exist, perhaps to avoid panic, perhaps partly out of
gross ignorance, which amounts to incompetence. We don't even know what they
know since all real government is now conducted in total secrecy. The people
are unprotected and blissfully unaware. In such a situation it is hard to
see how the plans of scalar terrorism could fail.

"We will see the operational unleashing of this terrible plan, beginning
during the next two years, gradually increasing in intensity, and finishing
in the early part of the third year with the catastrophic economic collapse
of the United States. Once the economic collapse is complete and the nation
is in utter chaos, the sudden dudding of all our nuclear weapons, power
plants, and nuclear propulsion systems will be the coup de grace that leaves
us a hapless target. The rest of it is a turkey shoot, to simply execute us
and finish us off."

The KGB/Yakuza faction is now a force to be reckoned with which trumps all
other factions and renders them meaningless. The bank factions are fairly
meaningless once the whole banking system is rendered inoperable by the
destruction of the power grid. It becomes total chaos. The corporations are
also rendered impotent without electricity. Our defensive nuclear weapons
lie dudded and useless in their silos. The electronics on which our military
now depends is fried to a crisp by scalar electromagnetic devices, now being
produced by Japanese organized crime syndicates. Assymetric scalar terrorism
is utterly destructive, sending us backward in time by at least a century.
The so-called "new world order" becomes total worldwide disorder. There is
no gas for cars, no electricity for anything, food and water become the only
really significant issues. Our previous concerns about terrorists getting
nuclear devices will seem ridiculous in retrospect as the survivors attempt,
perhaps hopelessly, to restart civilization.

In those day people will be mourning "We should have been paying attention
to this. We should have developed free energy. We should have listened to
the warnings. Our leaders deceived us. We have destroyed ourselves."

Bearden's "Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons and their Terrorist Use" is a
must-read document. I have only been able to give a summary here, there are
many more details and considerations in the document itself. It should be
widely distributed in hopes that we can wake up in time to avert the madness
and destruction. Above all, the secrecy in which all these matters are held
by governments must be abolished and all of it brought out into the light of
day. For his part in doing that, Tom Bearden remains a true American hero in
my eyes, a patriot of the highest order, and his website remains a treasure
trove of hidden and "forbidden" knowledge.

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For further study:

Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons and their Terrorist Use
by Tom Bearden
(MS Word document)

Fer de Lance - Bearden's book about scalar weapons
http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/index.html

Tom Bearden website, Cheniere.org - Table of Contents
http://www.cheniere.org/toc.html

Scalar Wars: The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics
http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm

Some other articles on scalar topics
http://prahlad.org/pub/bearden/index.htm

Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons and their Terrorist Use

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KOBE EARTHQUAKE

The Aum science minister, Hideo Marai, a nuclear physicist, regarded as the
most intelligent living Japanese, was present at Banjawarn during the scalar
fireball events on 28 May 1993. According to David Guyatt, Hideo Murai,
(said to have a higher IQ than Einstein) was killed by a Korean with a
knife. His last words were "Yudaya", translated as "Judea". This was a
codeword. Guyatt claims the assassination was orchestrated by the Yakuza,
the feared Japanese crime mafia and that the Aum sect was researching and
developing Tesla electromagnetic pulse, earthquake inducing and plasma
weapons in remote regions of the world. Murai, was researching EM
technology, microwaves, and other EM/ray/wave technology and cosmic X-ray
analysis. The Aum sect had a laser device capable of inducing massive
earthquakes. An Aum guru claimed on Jan 8 1995 that Japan will be attacked
by an earthquake in 1995 and the most likely place was Kobe. It happened on
Jan 17 1995, and the epicenter was Hayakawa's faculty. According to Robert
Sterling the Aum sept military trained its members at Russian bases. They
recruited staff at Russia's best faculty. Boris Yeltsin's confidante, Oleg
Lobov arranged this and helped Aum recruits scientists into the cult, and
carry out espionage. This Russia-Japan college is financed by Japan's
Liberal Democrat Party. According to Sterling, Aum had amassed a great
fortune, and recruited thousands of followers including Russian scientists
and many technical people in the Soviet Far East. They were working on
genetically manipulating biological anti-toxins, plasma technology and
experimenting with brainwaves. Hideo Murai was a scientific genius and said
on radio, that he was familiar with scalar and Tesla weapons and the he
could shield Aum members from EM weaponry. Before the massive earthquake,
with the near exact epicenter at Kobe Steel, Murai's faculty, there were
massive electromagnetic disturbances in the ionosphere for several months
before, also for several days prior glowing orange-red and pink lights and
spherical forms hovered over the Kobe fault line. Over 5,500 people died. It
may have been Russia, or N Korea suggested Ted Daniels, in order to make the
prophecy come true, or perhaps an accident at Murai's earthquake lab. Mason
wondered if US had done it for a warning to comply with the NWO and with the
threat towards the Exmouth faculty on 28 may 1993, was it tit for tat? Mason
says that the fireballs love flying on 1 May, ironically asking who
celebrates that day? However looking at the dates, one can see a pattern: 17
Jan 1995 Kobe "quake", 20 March 1995 Tokyo subway gas attack, 17 April 1995
OK city bombing, 1 May 1995 Perth exploding fireball, 17 July shootdown of
TWA Flight 800 off NY/LI. Could the 17th day be a sign of payback Mason
asks? He says apart from the gas attacks, there is evidence of scalar
weapons for all of these. Mason also writes that the Tokyo gas attack may
have named Aum as a patsy. Strangely over 50% of the Japanese Liberal
Democratic Party Cabinet flew to N Korea for a week, the day after the
subway attack. Mason says there is evidence that the CIA executed the subway
gas attack to destabilize the LDP govt.

Just thirty days before the OK FBI building 'bombing', Murai Aum's science
minister told foreign reporters he was ready to "tell all", which would
clear Aum of all charges regarding the Tokyo subway gas attacks. But three
weeks later Murai was stabbed by a N Korean, soon after the subway attacks.
Aum blamed US for the Kobe earthquake. According to Sterling the Japanese
Liberal Democrat Party has been in business with the Yakuza for decades, and
that they helped sponsor the Russia-Japan College in Moscow, where Aum was
able to obtain so many of its newest recruits, and that both this cult and
the Yakuza had deep roots in the Kobe/Osaka area!

Sterling wrote: "The whistle- blower Debra von Trapp stated, in late April
of 1995, that the Clinton team had some advance warnings of the impending
[OK city] attack -- that U.S. military intelligence had "popped the Sarin"
in Tokyo to punish the Japanese for buying American agents who set up a
surveillance operation in the White House, and who bugged the Clintons'
computers! And that the Oklahoma City attack followed the first Sarin attack
by precisely thirty days! Again and again ... everything conspires to
implicate "Japan, Incorporated" with the Yakuza and the bold, openly
aggressive Buddhist cult called Aum Shinrikyo... means, motive, money and
access to super-weapons and secret technologies." Sterling blames the Yakuza
for 9/11 using technology developed by Aum, though others say it was an
inside job, however there is evidence scalar technology was used to topple
the WTC buildings - but whose? Mason says that Japanese investigative
journalists at www.pelago.com suggest that Aum was a cover for the Japanese
govt. to rearm Japan with new Russian weapons systems, and support for this
has been given because Japan purchased new frontline jet fighters and
bombers and did joint defense exercises between Russia and Japan. Aum has
trained with Russian troops. In 1993 and 1994 Shoko Asahara, the Aum leader
complained to Australian authorities that himself, and Aum had been
subjected to gas and laser attacks. The press suggested that a very
influential foreign secret service has been getting at Aum and the Japanese
govt. According to David Guyatt in his Tesla Doom Weapons & Aum Shinrikyo
found at http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/aumi.html yet another Japanese
cult is operating throughout all govt. departments and has enormous
influence over Japanese foreign policy. It is the militaristic cult called
Soka Gakkei, with 15 million members worldwide and massive finances. Every
major Japanese business corp is riddled with members. They adhere to the
teaching of a 13 century Buddhist monk, who preached a doctrine of "Final
War" to be fought against the Christian West and Islamic world. This was
revitalized in the 1930s by the chief military strategist for the Japanese
army of Occupation in Manchuria, China and he was an admirer of Hitler. It
was the location of their unspeakable biological experiments on the Chinese
and allied prisoners. Aum also adhered to the teachings of this monk.

In 1987 a Japanese satellite was launched to detect gamma radiation from
Russian and Chinese nuclear tests. They registered a massive pulse of gamma
rays emanating from a Soviet satellite, which was radiating the Van Allen
belts. The conclusion was that the Russians were engaged in weather
engineering, as well as developing a spaceplatform for missile defense and
earthquake induction. Hideo Murai, the Aum science minister received this
information being one of Japan's leading X-ray astronomers at the time. The
head of Japan's foreign intelligence sponsored Aum, and hence Murai started
his scalar testing in Western Australia. He was about to reveal all, but was
killed. According to journalist Jack Amano, in David Guyatt's article: "It
was Hayakawa who decided to purchase the sheep station [in early April
1993], just days prior to the energy event and subsequent ground tremor.
Hayakawa's sojourns to Russia reaped rewards: "Aum's Russian scientists had
provided detailed designs and the theoretical grounding to develop a
technology more powerful even than the ultimate weapon predicted by Asahara.
Not least in the Aum efforts, was the acquisition of related US weapons data
obtained by hacking into "sensitive US databases. This, with the aid of
Japanese government funding, Russian technological know-how and advanced
equipment provided by major Japanese transnational corporations, a
terrifyingly powerful super-weapon was being constructed in secret."

CHINA

In 1985 a Chinese Boeing 747 aircraft enroute to Los Angeles suffered
anomalous engine flameout. The jetliner fell 32,000 feet, and the pilot
finally managed to restart the engines and make an emergency landing in San
Francisco. In the incident, different instruments apparently disagreed with
each other and disagreed with the observations of the pilot and crew.
Bearden says this was a scalar test, but only a mild one with scalar
interferometry (endothermic mode) causing electrostatic cooling in the
internal combustion gases of the jet turbine, which reduces the pressure and
thrust. The Chinese got the latest exotic U.S. weapons and time travel
technology, when a worker there Dr Wen Ho Lee leaked top-secret technology
information back to China, when he worked at Los Alamos laboratory a few
years ago. This included nuclear cluster bombs and a weapon which struck
with a bolt of lightning. At Los Alamos a Tesla Long-Pulse Magnet self
destructed some years back. This magnet was comprised of nested cores of
copper wire, which were all inside the other. It was what is called a
60-Tesla magnet. A 1-Tesla magnet holds a piece of paper, and 2-Tesla could
yank a refrigerator door off. This could be used to create the time portal
there that Dr Richard Boylan wrote about. He claimed they used a
'holographic' portal to travel across space-time and possibly
interdimensionally. Dr Wen Ho Lee worked on this 'holographic portal'. It
has been said that the Russians ordered an enormously powerful gigantic
sized magnet from U.S. a few years ago. Magnets give off scalar waves which
distort hyperspace and can be used to create dimensional doorways. The
Chinese space center is at Lop Nor, which is known as a natural vortex. Did
they too create their own interdimensional doorway to time-travel? Lop Nor
had sixteen nuclear bombs dropped on it at Sinkiang Provence until 1975.
According to the article 'Fortress Australia' the Lop Nor super computer is
linked to the American military supercomputer at Pine Gap, also a natural
vortex area. It's possible that time has been bent to access Lop Nor because
it is possible to walk down a short corridor at Pine Gap and come out at
U.S. Military base Area 51 in Nevada. The Chinese also now have beam weapons
which can knock down satellites. It is not known what kind of beam weapons
they use to knock down satellites, but they do have scalar weapons and
quantum potential weapons (which can induce deseases using scalar waves).

In 1978 Dr. Andrija Puharich described early Soviet work with Tesla's method
of 'controlled earthquakes,' he stated: "Of the many great earthquakes of
1976, there is one that demands special attention -- the July 28, 1976
Tangshan, China earthquake." Puharich's analysis is significant because it
describes airglow plasma effects created by the Soviet Woodpecker system.
Ionosphere heating ELF systems, like HAARP, can generate similar effects. He
stated: "The reason that this 1976 earthquake attracted my attention is that
it was preceded by a light flare-up of the entire sky over Tangshan. Also,
this earthquake occurred during the first month of Soviet Woodpecker radio
emissions...The most prominent effect was that when the Soviet Woodpecker
emission was on at full strength -- the sky would light up like an ionized
gaslamp -- just as Tesla had predicted." The 6/5/77 New York Times described
the great earthquake, which destroyed Tangshan, China and killed about
800,000 people: "Just before the first tremor at 3:42am, the sky lit up like
daylight. The multi-hued lights, mainly white and red, were seen up to 200
miles away. Leaves on many trees were burned to a crisp and growing
vegetables were scorched on one side, as if by a fireball." These electrical
effects are tied to electromagnetic plasma and ball lightning and the
strange array of flashes which results from Tesla-style and HAARP-like
transmissions. However the article in Nexus by Gary T. Whitford on
earthquakes says that five days before the Tangshan earthquake the French
detonated a nuclear bomb at Muroroa Island in the Pacific and also one day
before the earthquake U.S detonated a nuclear bomb in Nevada.

According to the Oct 1995 Nexus magazine, in 1974 a scientist called Dr
Matsushita working at the national Center of Atmospheric Research in U.S.
discoverd the magnetic field of the earth and ionosphere were disturbed for
ten to forteen days after an underground nuclear test. In 1977 he was
forbidden by the U.S. government to take measurements for two weeks after a
nuclear test! Satellite data shows nuclear testing is the cause of abnormal
polar motion of the earth. The normal polar motion of the earth, called the'
Chandler Cycle' which makes a revolution every 430 days, shifts radically
after every nuclear test. Is this being done deliberately to invoke a pole
shift 'to create a new world?' Gary Whiteford said that there were 1,800
nuclear bombs exploded from 1945 to March 1989 alone! Since 1980 there has
been an average of close to fifty underground nuclear tests taking place
every year. The rotation of the earth is in severe danger with this as well
as the Russians sending in scalar waves to the molten core and distrupting
the earth's rotation as well. It has been said that the molten core produces
the earth's magnetic field and Americans are also ripping this to shreds
with all the HAARP transmitters, not only above large areas but altering the
magnetic north poles deliberately with this to position them away from its
natural place.

OKLAHOMA FBI BUILDING 'BOMBING'

On 17 April 1995, the FBI building was supposedly blown up by Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols with contrary evidence to prove this. However 5-10
seconds before the explosion, the FBI building shook violently, as in an
earthquake according to Mason. Seismic evidence recorded showed a
double-pronged explosive energy event, with two nearly identical 3-5 second,
low amplitude multiple wave trains, separated by a null field, occurring
over a 9 second interval after the initial seismic action 5-10 seconds
before the blast. A loud click before the explosion was heard as well.
Sparks came out of wires in the building before, lights went out 5 seconds
before and an ionizing electrical sensation of hot air flow prior to the
explosion. An eyewitness about 200 meters away from ground zero watched a
silver-white light flash or beam coming out the top of the building,
followed by a large blue-white electrical arcing flash or beam, followed by
an orange-red light flash or beam that shot out the top of the building 5
seconds before the explosion. This was followed immediately by two explosive
shock waves, that came out of the base of the building. Several cars on the
above ground carpark, had electrical ignition computers burnt out
completely, as well as many office computers getting burnt out circuit
boards, and Mason says these facts point to a major EM pulse attack.
Everything up to almost a mile from ground zero had been knocked down and
shattered, the devastation was beyond belief. At the epicenter steel girders
were twisted like spaghetti, but no witnesses described any kind of fireball
or fiery effects. There was just pre-explosion light flashes, followed by
pure energy waves, with a very high plasma-type heat affecting car paint.
Aerial photos of the FBI building show two nearly identical tube-like damage
forms running through the building, representing slightly displaced near
vertical, but divergent beam/pulse orientations, suggesting an orbital
platform was used. Was it even a cosmosphere or even a satellite?

According to Bill Morgan: "If you can cause an earthquake you can also set
it to, say, bring down a single buildings, of pair of buildings. It may be
that the collapse of WTC twin towers was actually the first major scalar
attack in world history. Because in a certain mode the waves at the
interference zone can cause metal to soften, even to melt. If so, the planes
crashing into them were merely a cover story to cloak the fact that the
Tesla Howitzer had been used. A mishap with one of these devices could wipe
out all life on earth. They could disrupt the scalar wave balance between
earth and sun in such a way that would cause massive solar disturbances and
storms, completely frying the earth." It's possible that the metal softening
mode was set for both the FBI building and the WTC twin towers, which may
have caused the buildings to collapse. A UFO was seen at the WTC and filmed
by some Japanese who were at the scene. They put it online as a video. It
appeared to have been cloaked. Who was in it? Could more than one faction
have been involved besides the bombs placed on the supports (heard by
firemen going off), the planes hitting and the scalar attack. Did an outside
scalar attack take advantage of a first hit by someone else?

WHO ELSE HAS UFOs?

The Sept 2000 UFO magazine (UK) ran an article called 'Electrogravitics'and
it said that many countries have anti-grav research going. Graham Birdsall,
the editor was told by a man who used to be a US navy seal, who was a Knight
of Malta. The Knights of Malta are the military arm of the Vatican and Malta
Knighthoods are award to the military and intelligence community. He said
that corporate bodies and multinational institutions who have a vested
interest in conventional energy production, gave out blank checks to those
who invented anti-grav devices, or even $10-$20 million. Apparently this was
nothing when trillions of dollars are at stake. He said that environmental
friendly energy saving devices have been suppressed for decades, and even a
car which runs on water has been suppressed for twenty years. According to
the article the B-2 stealth bomber and F-117 both use anti-grav technology.
Brazil also has this technology. A physics professor called Fran de Aquino
demonstrated to thirty-six scientists around the world how his anti-grav
technology worked. He has been given a $600,000 grant from the US dept. of
energy to validate it and parallel Russian work. Is this connected with
Brazilian space program? British Aerospace anti-gravity research is headed
by a Chinese-American female scientist. Britain's anti-gravity research was
first developed at universities in Lancashire and South Yorkshire.
Unfortunately Graham Birdsall has since died, did he say too much? The
things he published of late were very confidential information, and many UFO
researchers have died in suspicious circumstances. In the book :the
Controllers" by Commander X, a Serb man called Vladimir Terzinski told of
the Nazi UFO program. He claimed that the Catholic Jesuit Order was the link
between the Illuminati and the Nazis. He had documents and photos of the
disk shaped craft the Nazis constructed, that were powered by Schauberger
turbines and Kohler TACHYON magneto-gravitic drives (all based on free
energy or antigravity) He claimed that the British may have landed on the
moon a century ago, and that even the Vatican has a group of scientists who
rocket off into space from South American bases. Others have also said that
the Vatican has a base on the moon. The US anti-grav base is at Area 51. The
book also says that the Japanese has anti-grav technology developed at Thoku
university in Sendai, Japan. With alien alliances it is possible that
various countries have reached outerspace long before planes were even
invented. Considering how many underground and undersea alien bases here
(some of which have been here for at least hundreds of years) would it not
be easy to form an alliance with the inhabitants of over one thousand bases,
according to Al Bielek now on the planet? Bill Morgan claims that according
to Tom Bearden, fifteen nations now have scalar weapons and apparently the
most developed are those in Russia, China and Israel. No information can be
found on the Chinese scalar weapons program but it known that the U.S.
helped Taiwan with theirs. Israel has been said to have given covert
technology to China and there was a Chinese spy Wen Ho Lee working at Los
Alamos. The countries which are said to have scalar weapons are: Russia, US,
France, Britain, Australia, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Israel, South Africa,
Brazil, Argentina and China. It is unknown who the fifteenth country is
(perhaps Ukraine?) or if anyone else has them but Brazil is tying in with
India and China scientifically so possibly India would have access to the
technology at some point. They can be manufactured with a device creating a
simple modification of radar and Russia may be selling them to many
countries or even leasing them as they do to the Japanese Aum and Yazuka
cults. Perhaps as long as the money is given they will lease to anyone and
if they are secretly at war with the U.S., they may be only too pleased to
encourage people to use them as long as it's not on themselves!

Henry Kroll (http://mittymax.com/Archive/0082-SpaceShipsOfTheGods.htm)
covered some Nazi activity in Antarctica in his book 'Space Ships of The
Gods'. He wrote: " I have a copy of a 1948 list of 261 German flying
saucers. There are 84 Vrills of 11.5 meters in diameter and three Haunebu
II's 25 meters in diameter and several Hanebu III's of 79 meters diameters.
These have speeds of 2900 miles per hour and the capability of traveling to
Mars. A Hanebu IV was on the drawing boards. Several Andromeda mother ships
were constructed in the old Zeppelin hangers at the same time as the
Vrills...If the Nazis had 261 flying saucer craft in 1948 they could very
well have built thousands of them since then. Even if all of their bases in
Germany were bombed out of existence I am sure that some of them survived
such as the Marconi plant located inside an extinct ten-thousand-foot,
volcano some where in South America. Who knows what underground cities they
have by now."

W.A. Harbinson's wrote in his book 'Genesis': "Admiral Byrd is quoted by a
reporter as saying: "It is necessary for the USA to take defensive actions
against enemy air fighters which come from the polar regions," and in the
case of a new war the USA would be "attacked by fighters that can fly with
incredible speed from one pole to the other without refueling."

Branton also wrote in his book 'Secrets of the Mojave': "U.S. Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd [in] the Antarctic region...involved nearly 4,000
well-trained military Naval troops, military vessels such as destroyers,
subs, aircraft carrier and aircraft. Upon arriving at the polar continent
they reportedly split into three separate groups and began a massive
reconnaissance- like operation. One source even claimed that Byrd's Navy
encountered 'resistance' there and that there was a photo-finish FIGHT
between American and Nazi forces there, with losses on both sides...When the
Americans left two weeks later... Byrd, after arriving home, reportedly went
into a rage and began demanding that the government turn Antarctica into a
nuclear test range. Byrd was sworn to secrecy and his diaries are sealed to
this day."

According to Kroll when Admiral Byrd encountered the Nazi UFOs and lost too
many men trying to attack the Nazi base in Antarctica, they returned to
America to build their own UFOs based on the designs retrieved in Germany
after the war. His book says: "Thousands of slave workers and their SS
overlords disappeared in the chaos of the liberation and were never seen
again."... "It is quite possible the Nazis continued to ship saucer parts,
men, and documents to Antarctica throughout the war. Judging by the gigantic
size of underground bases found in Germany after the war, with wind tunnels,
assembly plants, launching pads, machine shops, supply dumps,
accommodations, and adjacent slave quarters for thousands, it is quite
possible they constructed similar bases in Greenland, Antarctica and South
America...Their technology was at least thirty years ahead of the U.S."
Kroll says: "Captain Heinz Schaffer in his book U-977 stated that in April
1945 an SS associate had offered him a demonstration of a "death ray" (laser
weapon)...According to our mainstream scientists lasers weren't invented
until the 1960's....SS General Hans Kammler who pushed the development of
the V-1 and V-2 rockets disappeared from Germany in April 1945, His
whereabouts is a mystery to this day. The German flying saucer team members
Schriver and Bellonzo are dead, and Habermohl was captured by the Russians.
This may account for America's fear of Russian saucers after the war. Miethe
who worked on Projekt saucer, went to work in Canada and America." Allied
bombers and fighter also reported hundreds of flying fireballs along side
their planes and also "death rays" were reported.

According to the book 'UFOs Nazi Secret Weapon?' when Admiral Byrd returned
from his Nazi hunting expedition in Antarctica he decided that the best
thing to do would be to turn Antarctica into an 'atomic test range' for
atomic and hydrogen bombs. No sooner had this intention been announced in
the press than an entire 'swarm' of UFOs flew over the White House the book
says "in perfect, 'typically-German' formation." Kroll wrote: "In July 1952
a fleet of flying saucers flew over the White House. They were seen by
thousands of people and document on radar. Jets were scrambled three times
but the saucers easily outran them each time." However Kroll claims that on
Aug 27th, 30th and Sept 1st 1958 the U.S did drop several nuclear bombs on
Antarctica. It is not known how many. According to Nexus magazine two
atmospheric nuclear bombs were dropped on Antarctica in 1975.

Branton's book 'The Coscon Files : Part 33' "Terziski [claims].. that the
German experiments in mind control, genetics, and hybridization (between
humans and animals) -- which were apparently aided by the discovery and
perfection of the microscope in Germany, including a Tesla scalar-wave
microscope which helped the Germans to unlock the human genome -- were
repeated in ten times their intensity in the underground Nazi South Polar
colony or 'city'. This base-city, rumor has it, is known by its inhabitants
as the 'NEW BERLIN' and contains a population of over 2,000,000 people loyal
to the Nazi philosophy."

Advancing the idea that the Nazis continually shipped men and material to
the South Pole throughout the war years, author W. A. Harbinson wrote,
"Regarding the possibility of the Germans building self-sufficient
underground research factories in the Antarctic, it has only to be pointed
out that the underground research centers of Nazi Germany were gigantic
feats of construction, containing wind tunnels, machine shops, assembly
plants, launching pads, supply dumps and accommodation for all who worked
there, including adjoining camps for slaves and yet very few people knew
that they existed."
In the article UFO's. Alien or Man Made by Al Pinto
(http://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/New-Files/980615/ufosAlienOrManMad
e.txt) writes about Nazi super weapons. The South Wales (UK) Argus [Dec
13,1944] stated, "The Germans have produced a 'secret' weapon in keeping
with the Christmas season. The new device, which is apparently an air
defense weapon, and resembles the glass balls that adorn Christmas trees.
They have been seen hanging in the air over German territory, sometimes
singly, sometimes in clusters. They are coloured silver and are apparently
transparent."

The New York Herald Tribune [Jan 2, 1945] said: "Now, it seems, the Nazis
have thrown something new into the night skies over Germany. It is the
weird, mysterious 'Foo Fighter' balls which race alongside the wings of
fighters flying intruder missions over Germany. Pilots have been
encountering this eerie weapon for more than a month in their night flights.
No one apparently knows what this sky weapon is.The balls of fire appear
suddenly and accompany the planes for miles. They seem to be radio
controlled from the ground, so official intelligence reports reveal". Could
they beTesla Globes?

In 1978 at a scientific exhibition at Hanover, Germany some people gave out
a paper containing detailed drawings of Germany's WW2 flying disks (not
mentioning the designer's name) and claimed that the drawing was altered by
the West German govt to render it "safe" for publication. It said that the
patents for the craft went into secret Russian, American and British files
and that the remainder of the files and most likely, the most important
ones, went with the "missing" German scientists and S.S. men. Al Pinto
wrote: "Allegedly, they [Nazis]took with them members of the flying saucer
research teams, the last of the most vital saucer components, the notes and
drawings for the saucer, and the designs for gigantic underground complexes
and living accommodations based on the
underground factories of Nordhausen in the Harz mountains [to Argentina,
Chile and Antarctica].

W. A. Harbinson wrote in his book 'Genesis' "...Robert Ley, Minister for
Labor in Nazi Germany in April 1945, excitedly told Albert Speer that German
scientists had invented a "death ray" (possibly a laser weapon). Captain
Heinze Schaeffer, captain of the U-977 submarine (suspected taking Hitler
and Martin Bormann to Patagonia, then on to a secret Nazi base in the
Antarctic), stated in his book "U-boat 977" that in April 1945 an S.S.
associate had offered him a demonstration of a so-called "death ray". In
1960 Soviet Premier Khrushchev had announced the scalar interferometer to
the world saying: "We have a new weapon, just within the portfolio of our
scientists, so to speak, which is so powerful that, if unrestrainedly used
it could wipe out all life on earth. It is a fantastic weapon." How many
people have built a Tesla 'Death Ray"? In the book "Time Storms" by Jenny
Randles it says that on 22 May 1966, during a survey in Antarctica, Irish
explorer Eric Wilkinson observed what appears like a Tesla Globe being
created. A dense white mass apeared in the south and rose vertically to
about 600ft altitude from near ground level. Its diameter was about 100 ft
and it was largely homogenous during its forty-five minute duration. It
seemed to move very slowly, expand and contact in a pulsating motion in
density. As it did a noise like a swarm of bees or like an electricty
transformer occured. A dark 'tube' emerged from the cloud and struck the
snow at a 45 deg angle. From that point, it created a second reflected ray
or beam from this at a 75 deg angle rising from the first 'tube'. The snow
rose upwards as if by a whirlwind. Wilkinson took several photos. The
Russian Tesla Globes had a black line down the center.

Harry Mason's wrote in 'Bright Skies' that on 1 May 1995 at 2am a large
spherical orange-red fireball with a conical blue-white tail flew from the
Indian Ocean above Perth city, W. Australia Its past trajectory skimmed
Antarctica, near Enderby Land where one Japanese and two Russian bases
reside. One Russian base at Enderby Land has a scalar weapons complex. It's
projected trajectory would have end towards the NE coast of Japan across the
center of the Siberian Kamchatka Peninsular, then over N Alaska emerging
near Nova Scotia, Canada. (The Kamchatka Peninsular has a scalar howitzer
site and according to Bearden the Soviets shot down the Korean plane KAL 007
possibly spying on it a few years ago.) The fireball was flying in a N, NE
direction. The fireball, which emitted a loud roaring pulsed noise stopped
dead above Perth. Suddenly an enormous burst of blue-white light arced
upwards lighting the city as clear as daylight for many km, similar to a
nuclear blast. A loud, vibrating massive explosion and seismic wave (lasting
two minutes) reverberated through Perth causing buildings to shake. Four
bright lights from the center of the fireball raced out and formed a cross
in the sky. That same night other strange aerial noises and small lights
were heard N, NE of Perth. Also 1,900 km north of Perth (north of Broome)
there was a loud, roaring pulsed diesel engine sounding noise which rose to
a cresendo causing objects to fall from their shelves. The seismic vibration
lasted 1-2 minutes.

It will be a battle to the death, with whole cities able to be turned to
ashes with crossed beam scalar weapons and particle beam weapons fired from
satellites. Some unanswered questions still exist though..Will the Earth
survive, or will it get increasingly unsteady and keep wobbling on its axis
as it has been happening recently? Is it better to teach Tesla's scalar
technology openly at the universities or best to keep it under wraps? What
would have been the price to pay for free-energy had Tesla been financially
supported in his work? Is it better to have had the less dangerous but
expensive electricity and associated cancers, OR, to have been able to have
had many gadgets powered by scalar waves and just buy a legal spaceship and
visit other planets with no charge for free-energy power. Government honesty
has been lacking since WW2. Mars could have been colonized openly, and earth
might possibly have been taken over openly by aliens and accepted within an
alien federation. Instead all this is done in secret. Now we are in the
situation where we can be subjected to mass hypnotism via satellite; cities
can be destroyed in an instant by nuclear-like explosions without warning;
any airborne object can be exploded upon launch; earthquakes and erupting
volcanoes manufactured to order; the worrisome thought of the already ripped
magnetic field failing us with major solar flares increasing; or massive
fissures splitting the earth from stimulation of the molten core and the
upsetting of the relationship between the Sun, Moon and Earth. This is just
from fifty years of scalar weapons in the hands of men who care not for the
citizens of other countries. We need to know just who has them and what they
intend doing with them and to whom. No part of the world is safe, especially
when scalar waves can pass right through the planet. I wish us all a safe
journey through the next millenium -- Christi Verismo

RESOURCES:

For an extremely chilling expose by Tom Bearden on what the Russians have
been doing since the late 1950's with scalar technology against the U.S. and
numerous more examples of scalar attacks can be found at:

(http://www.earthchangestv.com/ufo/0209gandor.htm)

(http://216.247.92.101/pub/bearden/examples.htm)

(http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/110502.htm)

Scalar Wars: The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics
(http://216.247.92.101/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm)

The Historical Background of Scalar Weapons by Tom Bearden.
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project233.html)

Fire from the Sky (http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/files.html)

Harry Mason 'Bright Skies':
http://www.tmgnow.com.repository/secret/brightskies.html

Tom Bearden's website (http://www.cheniere.org)

Fortress Australia: http://rumormillnews.com/FORTRESS_AUSTRLAIA.htm

Fire From The Sky: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/files.html

HAARP. the Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy by Jerry E Smith.
(www.jerryesmith.com)

UFOs Nazi Secret Weapon? Mattern-Friedrich. Samisdat Publishers Toronto,
Canada. (About 1966.)

Encounter in the Pleiades: An Inside Look At UFOs by Preston Nicholas and
Peter Moon.

The Montauk Project by Preston Nicholas and Peter Moon.

Anti-Gravity and the World Grid. Edited by David Hatcher Childress.

My Contact With UFOs by Dino Kraspedon.

GLOSSARY

Scalar waves are also known as:

Tesla waves;

longitudinal EM waves;

teleforce;

Radiant Energy;

energetics;

gravitic waves;

electrogravitational waves;

free-energy;

zero-point energy;

zero-vector EM waves;

electromagnetic quantum energy;

vacuum field energy;

aether/ether-energy;

magnetic travelling waves;

electrostatic/magnetostatic waves;

waves of pure potential.

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May
20
2010

Intentional Community Forming in Costa Rica

This is just to inform you that we are starting to put together our core group for a Costa Rican intentional community.

The plan is simple. Since getting the right people together is the most difficult part in forming a community, we have decided to do this by starting a “gateway starter community” here in the metropolitan area of greater San Jose.

We will start with renting a large house, and renting out rooms to singles in that house to form sort of a core group.

Couples and families are welcome to relocate close to our Community Center, so that they can participate in community activities easily. It would be ideal for their rental locations to all be within walking distance to the CC, but if they can’t find suitable housing close by, they will have to find something elsewhere as close as possible.

We plan to have community activities, including a food service, in the community center most days of the week.

Personality conflicts and problems have sunk many potentially promising projects here in Costa Rica and around the world over the years. By renting near a CC, both the community members and the new perspective members will get a chance to “try each other out” for compatibility before any large financial commitments have been made.

Once this core group grows big enough to reach a critical mass of compatible people, those who wish to move on to help purchase or work on a location in the countryside will be given that chance to. Ideally, we will form a whole cluster of self sustaining intentional communities starting with this starter community.

This is just the broad outline of our plans. You are welcome to join in the discussion on our SuccessQuest.info board , and to send me private messages through the Board.

We need to start doing this immediately before the ongoing worldwide financial crisis makes such things impossible.

I look forward to hearing from you.

You may find this first thread here:

http://successquest.info/index.php/topic,307.0.html

As a final note, in order to post messages and replies in our board, you must send a Private Message to username success requesting an upgrade of your account to Silver Status. This is a precaution against spam.

Look forward to seeing you in the forum for this important discussion!

John

May
14
2010

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Mar
8
2010

5 Ways to Get Back at Your Ex — Or Is There a Better Way?

Relationships are fragile bonds that need to be built up and maintained in order to keep them healthy and allow them to flourish. Unfortunately, break ups do happen, and they are nerve wracking, stressful and frustrating. If you are involved in a relationship that breaks up, you may be thinking that you want to get back at your ex but is this really the best step to take? One of the most influential ways that you can actually get back at your ex will not only put your ex in an interesting predicament, but it may also repair the relationship by showing your ex how important you are and were to them. So not only are these 5 tips to get back at your ex but they are also excellent methods for getting your ex back as well.

1 – Be strong. No one needs the needy, and this saying applies very well when it comes to broken up relationships. You need to stop begging, clinging or exhibiting the behavior of someone who is feeling desperate. Let your ex think that you have moved on just fine without them by acting strong and moving on. When you’ve moved on, your ex will realize that they have not.

2 – Minimize communication. Closing the doors of communication may appear counterintuitive when your primary focus is to rekindle things, but it is one of the most important steps when getting back at your ex or getting your ex back. Take a break from your ex, close off communication, and let him or her stew for a little while without any contact. This will allow your ex to clear his or her mind and realize how valuable your relationship was.

3 – Be flexible. Do not be forceful with your ex, demanding that they move out, or pick their things up by a certain date. Be flexible, be a listener and a sympathizer. Your ex will be surprised when they see this side of you, and it may inspire them to build the lines of communication that were lacking when the breakup came into play.

4 – Get the heck out! This is no time for you to be alone. Call your friends and get out of the house. Develop a social network and enjoy some entertainment in your life. This may not mean you need to date, or even pay attention to the opposite sex, but you do need to be getting out and enjoying your time with your friends. Not only will this be therapeutic for you, but it will also help convince your ex that they lost a gem.

5 – Simply be yourself. There was a really good reason for why you and your ex had a relationship to begin with, so go back to being yourself and let your ex remember why they loved you in the first place. This renewed self perception of your own self will surely rub off on your ex as well.

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Feb
20
2010

Personal, from M. John Allen

I am not very much in the habit of airing my personal views in print. I often give them at the beginning of Bible studies or the Ambassador for World Peace program, but I am pretty bad at keeping a journal about my daily activities.

I am trying to make a resolution to change this, because, sadly, I think I am still somewhat of a mystery to my readers and listeners – even those who have been around for a while.

This week I have made major progress on getting our new SuccessQuest Forums up and running. After many painstaking days of work, things are finally getting up and running there as well as some updates to our other websites. But there is so much to do I don’t think it will ever get done.

Anyway, we have added a new 4X trading site as well, and we have pretty much transitioned from using the Yahoogroups to using our own forums at http://successquest.info. This has many benefits, but rather than going into them, why not visit this new site and you will see how much more I can do with this site than with the yahoogroups, and how much more beneficial it will be to our overall Work.

In this Work, we take a HOLISTIC approach to life, rather than dealing only with one little box. In order for us to become the kind of Success that God wants us to be in life, this is the only way. We must deal with the whole person in a positive way, changing their lives for the better.

After all, the INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL is to become GOD AS GOD IS GOD, and, in order to do this, we need to shed this world’s selfishness and negativity. It requires the renovation of the WHOLE PERSON, not just the religious aspect.

After all, what is religious about becoming God? I know that sounds like a weird question,, but THINK ABOUT IT FOR A MOMENT!

The unconverted human mind is like an unfertilized egg into which God’s Holy Spirit, like a sperm cell, penetrates and fertilizes it and transforms that mind, changing the person into a NEW CREATION. Apart from this fertilization, we are not all there! We are incomplete because we can’t understand spiritual knowledge and truth. After this change, our entire worldview and perspective should change from the way of GET to the way of GIVE.

Once our wordview is changed, we begin to think as God thinks and act as He acts – or at least we should!

Humanity apart from God is not able to comprehend or understand the spiritual dimmension in life. The carnal mind thinks selfishly and materialistically. The converted mind is supposed to concentrate on the unseen dimension in life.

So many times, though, “religious people” turn off others because they get a “holier than thou” attitude, looking down their noses I CONTEMPT at “all of those dirty rotten sinners” rather than being kind and loving to all. We need to be loving, helping, and serving, thinking of the other person at least as much as we think of ourselves, having outgoing love and concern for them.

What a shame it is that many of those who should be a light to the world are, instead, the BIGGEST TURNOFF to this Way of Life.

This is why we take a holistic approach to helping the WHOLE PERSON, not just a tiny bit. If your “religious life” consists mainly of just going to church once a week, and then being like everyone else the rest of the week, then, my friend, you have MISSED THE BOAT!

And another thing. Most people think of “religion” as a list of dos and don’ts imposed by an “angry God who doesn’t want you to have any fun in life.”

That is as far from the truth as it could be. God never denies you anything that is good for you. In fact, His laws, when properly understood and implemented, are a roadmap to a healthy, fun filled, exciting and RICH LIFE far beyond your wildest imaginations! So, why is it that many religious people think and act in exactly the opposite way?

I don’t know, but it’s truly a shame that those who are supposed to represent Him are doing such a poor job of it.

Believe it or not, the spark of God’s spirit is in every single human being – but most ignore it. As Christ said, He is to be in us and we are in Him. This is true for everyone, but it’s supposed to be even more true with God’s own people.

Sad to say, so few of us really exhibit the fruits of God’s Holy Spirit, which is LOVE. A “holier than thou” attitude is exactly the opposite of love, it is really HATE, and comes from the author of hate, division, strife, and competition, whose author is Satan the Devil.

We are here to COME HELP HUMANITY, not to look down our noses and wag our fingers.

Now, some may say that is what I do each week lately in our prophecy Bible studies. And yes, I have no choice but to condemn the utter wickedness of this world and its leaders. But, that’s not out of hate, but out of LOVE, because, unless this world’s people MAKEA COURSE CORRECTION – AND FAST – our “way of life” is leading us over a cliff to death and destruction.

We need to learn to live and love. We need to learn to forgive. We need to take the words of Paul to heart, when he said, “to the pure, all things are pure.” And he also said that “whatever things are good, pure…… THINK ON THESE THINGS.”

Years ago, I thought these admonitions were a bit trite and unrealistic. But now, I have learned enough about the LAW OF ATTRACTION to understand more of what he meant!

We attract to ourselves that which we constantly think on. Our overall attitude shapes our destiny and future. If it’s good, we attract good things, if we, instead, concentrate on what’s BAD, then that is what we are going to attract!

So, once again, the Bible, the most sold, yet least read and understood book, had it all written down for us centuries ago! If we think on the good, we will attract the good, if we think on the bad, we will attract the bad. Sounds a little like The Secret, doesn’t it?

Well, GOD HAS HAD MANY SECRETS for millennia. I think its about time we blew the dust off of this book and began to understand what it really says, rather than what Churchianity THINKS it says.

How in the world could “good Christians” fight each other and kill each other in wars and strife? And think they do God a service in so doing?

It’s ridiculous and a total contradiction to the teachings of Christ, yet that doesn’t seem to stop people.

It’s about time you dig into what the Bible really says and begin to live the way that brings abundance and joy, rather than lack, limitation, and heart ache.

Start reading through the Restoration Website Library today, listen to our Bible studies and other material, and become a part of the solution instead a part of the problem. It really will make a difference in your life – both now, and the God life you will have later.

Look at the bottom of this blog for the links to all of our websites, but, may I suggest you start off with The Restoration Website – you’ll be glad you did!

Feb
1
2010

War in Heaven May be Going on NOW!

From information I have just received, it looks like the war in Heaven, foretold in Revelation 12, is now in full swing!

What this means for our planet is horrendous, because, when Satan’s forces are forced out of the heavens down to this earth, Satan will have “great wrath,” and will seek to do as much damage as he can before Yahweh arrives here to finally put him away.

This information was confirmed by a Project Camelot whistleblower, Aaron McCollum, a third generation super solder and the leader of a black ops group who has had his life threatened for telling his story.

You may find his interview Super Soldier Interview and it is a real eye opener. I suggest you listen to it as soon as you can.

Aaron talked at length about the real reason the war mongers are stirring up war in Yemen, the reason for the so called “piracy” in the area, and the reason why warships from all nations are there. It is because there is an underwater stargate in the Gulf of Aden, just off the coast of Yemen, which became active on January 5th of this year!

Even the evil minions from Blackwater have a ship there, and there is a ship there for “scientific research” that is doing experiments to unite “alien” and human DNA. Of course, these “experiments” have been going on for thousands of years, ever since a contingent of fallen angels came down and mated with human women.

This tells me that it is Satan’s forces that have activated this stargate, not the forces of Yahweh, as such experiments are forbidden to the Holy Angels.

It should also be remembered that it is mostly the higher levels of Satan’s minions who use the stargates, while the lower level ones use ships to come here in. It is possible to assume, then, that their “place in the heavens” is even now being overrun, and the elite in Satan’s kingdom are preparing to flee to the earth, their last hideout.

Aaron also warned about impending, massive, false flag operations to get the American people to accept this new “war on terror” in Yemen, and to get them to give up their rights.

Friends, we need to really be hard at work doing Yahweh’s Work as we see the end approaching. This earth is about to be INVADED BY “ALIENS” WHO WILL ENACT A REIGN OF TERROR ON MANKIND SUCH AS HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN EXPERIENCED.

We need to be ever ready. We need not worry if we are Yahweh’s people, because He promises us protection from Satan and all of his servants, But, time is now VERY SHORT.

You need to get off the fence and actively involved in Yahweh’s Work and drink in of His truth and build His character in your life while here is still time.

You need to get your nose in The Restoration Website Library while you still can.

Jan
12
2010

Super Soldiers and Mind Control

Over the last few days I have been introduced to the topic of super soldiers.

What is a “super soldier,” you might ask?

A super soldier is an enhanced soldier, with implants and other augments to increase physical strength, etc. But, there is more to this story…… LOTS MORE!

Take the case of the only super soldier I know of so far who has regained a lot of his memories. He still doesn’t remember much, but what he does remember is earth shaking.

His name is Duncan O’Finioan. He has a fascinating and bone chilling story to tell.

He was tested as a 6 year old child, with the consent of his own parents [his dad was a CIA operative, if that gives you a clue]. He passed the test, his mother signed some forms, and he was whisked away to a place of training. He didn’t return home for a couple of years, and then only for a short time.

During this training, he was tortured, beaten up, and pretty much treated the way an adult would be treated. He says well over half did not survive the “training.”

The reason the children were tortured was so that their personality could be split. This splitting off of a new personality is used as a mind control technique, turning someone into a virtual robot. The new personality is a blank slate on which the “instructors” program a compliant personality trained in martial arts and every form of combat known to man. Starting with a child, they create a robot who can be turned on with a phone call, and sent to his or her next assignment, which often times is an assassination.

By the way, Duncan also had some psychic skills that they also trained an used. However, at some point, a determination was made that he was more skilled as a physical soldier than as a psychic warrior, and so he went in to that part of the program.

However, one incident he remembers form the age of 12 was when he was he and a group of 11 other children were flown into Cambodia to help extract some special forces soldiers who were pinned down by enemy forces. The children were flown in by helicopter, got out, and formed a semi circle holding hands. They concentrated and discharged a bright energy burst, and all the enemy soldiers were killed. They then got back into the helicopter and returned to Vietnam.

The details of all of this are to be found in a couple of interviews done by Project Camelot.

However, as an introduction to this subject, you should probably watch the episode on this produced by Jesse Ventura in his new show, Conspiracy Theory.

Click here to watch this captivating episode on YouTube.

Now that you have watched this, you are ready for Duncan’s interviews with Project Camelot, which you can find here.

Duncan’s own website can be found here.

I am presently reading The Men Who Stare at Goats, which is a real eye opening about these types of experiments.

Now that you realize what the government is doing to CHILDREN, maybe now you will wake up out of your complacency and do something?

For further reading, you can check out these books:

Innocence Turned Deadly

Unshackled

Operation Blue Light: My Secret Life among Psychic Spies

Secret Weapons : Two Sisters’ Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage

La Taza Azul

Psychic Warrior: The True Story of America’s Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA’s Top-Secret Stargate Program

Trance: Formation of America

Thanks For The Memories … The Truth Has Set Me Free! The Memoirs of Bob Hope’s and Henry Kissinger’s Mind-Controlled Slave

Mind Controlled Sex Slaves And The CIA

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Amazon.com Review

Just when you thought every possible conspiracy theory had been exhausted by The X-Files or The Da Vinci Code, along comes The Men Who Stare at Goats. The first line of the book is, “This is a true story.” True or not, it is quite astonishing. Author Jon Ronson writes a column about family life for London’s Guardian newspaper and has made several acclaimed documentaries. The Men Who Stare at Goats is his bizarre quest into “the most whacked-out corners of George W. Bush’s War on Terror,” as he puts it. Ronson is inspired when a man who claims to be a former U.S. military psychic spy tells the journalist he has been reactivated following the 9-11 attack. Ronson decides to investigate. His research leads him to the U.S. Army’s strange forays into extra-sensory perception and telepathy, which apparently included efforts to kill barnyard animals with nothing more than thought. Ronson meets one ex-Army employee who claims to have killed a goat and his pet hamster by staring at them for prolonged periods of time. Like Ronson’s original source, this man also says he has been reactivated for deployment to the Middle East.

Ronson’s finely written book strikes a perfect balance between curiosity, incredulity, and humor. His characters are each more bizarre than the last, and Ronson does a wonderful job of depicting the colorful quirks they reveal in their often-comical meetings. Through a charming guile, he manages to elicit many strange and amazing revelations. Ronson meets a general who is frustrated in his frequent attempts to walk through walls. One source says the U.S. military has deployed psychic assassins to the Middle East to hunt down Al Qaeda suspects. Entertaining and disturbing. –Alex Roslin –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Jan
5
2010

Securing Your Personal Finances, Part 1

Nothing intrigues the average person more than money — something most have too little of — or so they think. People love money, crave money — even WORSHIP money! Millions have made the acquisition of more money their goal in life — assuming it will result in true happiness. This Bible study exposes the folly of such reasoning, and shows why millions in the affluent Western World SUFFER from serious money problems.

WHY MILLIONS ARE IN DEBT

High taxes, runaway inflation, and surging DEBT rob millions of peace of mind — create worry and financial anxiety. But it is all so needless! This first of a three-part series reveals the often overlooked and little understood FACTS about FINANCES — explaining WHY millions are in financial trouble today.

“CHARGE IT!” has become the favorite phrase of millions in the Western world. Today’s glittering world of luxury is available on credit — and available IMMEDIATELY. Whatever you desire can be yours — right NOW!

If you are the average American, Briton or Australian, the chances are you are HEAD OVER HEELS IN DEBT! You are making payments on your home, your furniture, automobile, your household appliances — maybe even your clothing.

But — is it WORTH THE PRICE?

False Prosperity

Never has there been a richer or more affluent society than in the Western nations today. And yet never has there been a time when more people felt afflicted by the lack or the misuse of money.

Today’s generation, unlike past generations, has not been brought up on the axiom that debt is a danger, and that to be in debt carries somewhat of a stigma. In times past, the concept was that you saved your money until you could pay cash for what you bought. But in today’s society, the underlying concept is that you should enjoy TODAY what you hope to pay for TOMORROW.

That is, IF YOU are still employed and ABLE to pay — tomorrow!

While millions are heedlessly plunging deeper and deeper into debt, tens of thousands are already hopelessly in debt. They have over-obligated their incomes. They simply can’t meet the payments anymore.

In the last year, the global financial crisis has bankrupted more people and businesses than at any time since the Great Depression. Millions find themselves out of work and hopelessly in debt. Many have lost or are about to lose their homes. The number of homeless has skyrocketed in our cities.

Even the Federal Government of the United States, as well as many other Western governments, find themselves so far in debt that they will never be able to pay it off. A total collapse of the world economy is in sight.

The growing bankruptcy problem is a part of the moral and spiritual decay of our time. Many don’t care if they can’t pay!

“So what?” is the attitude of thousands.

“The stigma attached to personal bankruptcy in the past has all but faded in the minds of many,” says Alfred Hackbarth, of the National Foundation For Consumer Credit. “THERE IS A BREAKDOWN IN PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.”

Such irresponsibility is actually stealing — defrauding and taking advantage of their creditors who expected them to repay in full.

The Curse of High Taxes

Governments, too, are spending beyond their means — and are ALSO HEADED TOWARD BANKRUPTCY! The same irresponsible behavior is displayed in government’s sky-high taxes and seemingly UNLIMITED debt “limits.” It’s a rare occurrence today when any government — be it federal, state or local — can balance its budget.

Welfare, poverty programs, social security and the like need increasingly larger sums. War and defense spending take more than 50% of all available income. As a result governments borrow and borrow. And tax rates go up and up.

Already inheritance taxes take up Securing Your Personal Finances, Part 1to 80% of the property left at death. If you are a millionaire, your income tax may approach 50% of your income — or even more in some countries.

And would you believe — a tax that takes MORE THAN ALL! Such a tax — 136% in the top bracket — was proposed by the British government in 1968 on income from investments in a desperate attempt to balance its unwieldy budget.

Now THAT’S a tax!

Governing bodies are diligently seeking NEW forms of taxation, while you — the average citizen — must already work from THREE TO FIVE hours out of eight just to pay the taxes — many of which are “hidden.”

WHY? Why so much personal debt? Why do governments often operate “in the RED”? Why sky-high taxes?

Is there a solution? What is the answer?


Many seem to think that printing more money is the solution to national fiscal ills. But without gold backing, what will happen to “faith” in American money when the economy falters?


Gone the Way of Rome

We are living in days like those of ancient Rome. During those days just before “the Fall,” the typical free-born Roman was HEAVILY in debt — and on the brink of bankruptcy. Living beyond one’s means was the mania of the age.

As moral fiber broke down, more and more was demanded of the government. So the government in return not only exacted a tremendous toll in taxation, but frequently resorted to outright confiscation of property. Defense spending in ancient Rome also necessitated enormous taxes.

Inflation skyrocketed. The coinage was deliberately debased with substitutes for gold and silver, which became increasingly rare.

Sound familiar? It should.

Since then, nations have tried everything — EXCEPT THE ANSWER! Securing Your Personal Finances, Part 1

Simply printing a “wealth” of paper money has seemed an easy solution to many governments. But increasing the money supply without adding value to back it only spurs “creeping inflation” to a gallop — with the result that everyone pays MORE, to get LESS.

The fact is that all “new” ideas of “monetary gadgetry” only make bad matters worse. They simply do not resolve money problems — but only postpone and redouble them. They do not attack the BASIC CAUSES of national fiscal ills. Neither do the ways most INDIVIDUALS try to solve their financial woes.

It’s time we faced the financial facts of life!

If we would get back to the BASIC LAWS governing finances, we would finally UNDERSTAND that nations — and individuals — can have sound financial systems ONLY when they do NOT SPEND MORE than their incomes!

But most people have IGNORED these simple laws. Indeed, most people would be SHOCKED to realize that SPIRITUAL laws exist which regulate FISCAL affairs. Yet these living, inexorable principles would teach us to recognize the right value of money — they would keep us out of debt — would give us life-long financial security.

Most people would laugh if anyone would suggest searching the Scriptures to learn how to be a success at handling money. But there is no facet of life that the Bible does not touch upon, and reveal IN PRINCIPLE HOW to live.

PERSONAL FINANCES CERTAINLY ARE INCLUDED!

Let’s begin to understand these overlooked and little-understood financial principles. But first, let’s understand exactly WHY the Israelitish nations possess unparalleled material blessings today — and why they are about to LOSE them!

How Israel’s Descendants Became Wealthy

1. From where was Israel to receive the POWER to get wealth? Read all of Deuteronomy chapter 8. Notice especially verses 13 and 18.

2. Did God know it would be Israel’s tendency to attribute her accumulated wealth to her OWN power? Verse 17.

3. Wasn’t it because of God’s promise to ABRAHAM and his DESCENDANTS, that the nations of Israel were to be blessed exceedingly? Deut. 9:5 and Gen. 12:1-2; 27:26, 28-29; 28:13-14.

COMMENT: If you haven’t already done so, read Mr. Armstrong’s book, “The United States and British Commonwealth In Prophecy”, to learn exactly who the modern-day descendants of ancient Israel really are, and how they have received this promised national wealth within the last two centuries. You may find this important book in the Fundamentals of Bible Prophecy sub section off of the prophecy section of The Restoration Website http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/library.htm

4. But is the national wealth God has given us to be taken away because our nations have served a false god with it? Hos. 2:8-10.

COMMENT: Our nations have not realized that our wealth did not come as a direct result of OUR industry, OUR know-how, or OUR efforts; but because of God’s PROMISE to obedient Abraham!

Consider for a moment the fact that the United States and Great Britain were small among the nations of the world up until 1803. At that exact time — completing 2520 years during which Israel’s blessings had been withheld — Britain and America began to possess the “lion’s share” of the world’s wealth. London became the financial capital of the world. The United States acquired the Louisiana Territory and went on to become the richest single nation the world had ever known!

Of all the gold in the hands of the world’s governments in September 1949, the United States actually possessed TWO THIRDS — TWENTY-FOUR BILLION DOLLARS!

But look at the picture now.

The second World War cost Great Britain an enormous part of her wealth.

After the war, America began busily giving away billions to help the starving millions of Europe, and to REBUILD their war-torn countries. In 1947, Greece became the first of many nations to receive U.S. aid in an attempt to halt the relentless march of Communism. And maintaining a fantastic global military force has cost many MORE billions.

Meanwhile, at home, great spending programs were inaugurated in both Britain and America. The government and citizens alike took to deficit financing, creating mountainous debts, which in turn fueled a rising inflation. Inflation, with its spiraling prices, caused further depletion of U.S. gold reserves.

The U.S. gold reserve is now LESS than the claims held against it by foreign nations. If all creditors were to demand payment at once, the U.S. would literally go BANKRUPT!

Formerly, the U.S. maintained by law a gold reserve of at least 25% of the total value of its circulated paper money. But in March, 1968, former President Lyndon Johnson had to remove that gold cover because all gold in excess of that 25% minimum was already gone!

Silver, too, has all but disappeared from American coinage. Today faith, hope and PAPER stand behind American money.

Meanwhile, the national debt has crept inexorably upward. Now, we are so many TRILLIONS of dollars in debt that we will never be able to pay it all off.

It’s about time our peoples faced the facts and took what God reveals about our finances SERIOUSLY!

What Went Wrong

Said well-known economist, Roger Babson: “The test of a nation is the growth of its people — physically, intellectually, and spiritually. Money and so-called ‘prosperity’ are of very little account … Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain, and France all had their turn in being the richest in the world. Instead of saving them, their so-called prosperity ruined them ….

“Money will not save us …” Mr. Babson continued, “Only a sane spiritual revival which CHANGES THE DESIRES OF OUR PEOPLE will save us. We must be filled with a desire to render service, to seek strength rather than security, to PUT CHARACTER AHEAD OF PROFITS.”

Since World War II, the driving ambition of our Western society has been that of making more money and having a GOOD TIME — to “GET” something out of life. We are constantly encouraged to crave luxuries that were completely unknown a generation or two ago. We are goaded to compete, to spend more than we make, to do more than we ought. “You owe it to yourself,” read the subtle advertisements. We would be foolish, they taunt, not to buy a bigger car, eat at a more expensive restaurant, or take longer and more costly trips.

Totally unrecognized by its victims, this well-planned advertising campaign has TURNED THE TRUTH UPSIDE DOWN! This insidious commercial propaganda has made it seem “backward” or WRONG, if you don’t compete and LUST after as many material possessions as someone else owns.

The emphasis is all on GETTING for the SELF!

“If I wanted to destroy a nation,” wrote author John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson, “I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, GREEDY and SICK ….” The present greedy, debt-ridden “keeping up with the Joneses” attitude is a symptom of OUR SICK SOCIETY!

“We can stand anything … save only plenty …” said Steinbeck.

The Appeal to Lust and Greed

What’s WRONG with this world’s society?

Just THAT! It is THIS WORLD’S — a system based on the vanity, jealousy, covetousness, lust and greed of human nature. This world has not learned how to rightly use its money, wealth and resources.

1. What does the Tenth Commandment say? Ex. 20:17.

COMMENT: LAWFULLY desiring a wife, a house, a new automobile or color TV — or other material things — is NOT wrong. But when the desire to possess supersedes all RIGHTFUL and logical bounds established by God, it breaks this commandment. Such desire is “inordinate” desire, or LUST!

2. Is it NATURAL TO COVET? James 4:5.

3. Do nations fight and kill because of this natural attitude of heart? James 4:1-2. Is this world therefore filled with corruption? II Peter 1:4, last part.

COMMENT: Human nature EQUALS the way of GETTING! It’s time we looked at our nature for what it is. Uncontrolled, it leads to FINANCIAL RUIN!

4. Does this spirit of lusting after things break the First Commandment also? Col. 3:5.

COMMENT: A young African studying in America was interviewed in a sobering article in “The Canadian Churchman”. He said:

“Before I came to study here, I was a good Christian. I dreamed someday of becoming a medical missionary. Now I’m an atheist!”

“Why?” asked the shocked interviewer.

“Since coming here,” was the reply, “I’ve discovered that the white man has two gods. One that he taught us about, and another one to whom he prays. A Presbyterian mission school taught me the tribal doctrines of my ancestors who worshiped images and believed in witchcraft were wrong and almost ludicrous. But here you worship larger images — cars and electrical appliances. I honestly can’t see the difference.”

Surprising? It shouldn’t be. But most people get so close to their own sins that they can’t see them for what they are. Our so-called “Christian” society is actually based on LUST for more and more material things!

The frenzied effort to compete with others and “get ahead” is the source not only of most financial problems, but the real cause of much physical and mental illness, broken homes and frustrated lives.

5. Did Isaiah long ago prophesy that Israel, having become wealthy, would have this false kind of “Christianity”? Isa. 2:5, 7-9 and Micah 5:13.

COMMENT: The Moffatt Translation makes the last verse even plainer: “I will cut out of you idols and sacred stones — you must no longer WORSHIP things you MANUFACTURE” (Micah 5:13).

Your god is what you serve and devote your time and attention to.

What do Americans — and most other people — worry about most? MONEY and material things, a survey reported. And what makes them happiest? Money again, and children. (Reported by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan.)

Our Western society actually WORSHIPS money and the things it can buy. People think money and material possessions equal success. “Money is the root of all happiness,” most people seem to believe. Almighty Dollar is king.

This is WORSHIP!

6. Our generation needs to UNDERSTAND the words of the Son of God. What did He warn concerning covetousness? Luke 12:15.

You Can’t STEAL Prosperity!

Keys in your pocket and locks on your doors bear witness to the utter depths of depravity this civilization has sunk to. No one dares to trust his fellowman.


Today there are mirrors, detectives, closed-circuit TV, etc. in supermarkets and department stores. Why? Because shoplifting customers are robbing them blind! In return many stores will cheat you, the consumer, with short weight, inferior and substitute merchandise. Clerks sometimes shortchange you at the cash register, and ticket sellers do it at the gate.

Have you ever stopped to consider the ENORMOUS financial loss this involves?

1. Does the Eighth Commandment forbid stealing? Ex. 20:15. Do terrific penalties result for breaking this commandment? Jas. 5:1-3. What is the ultimate SPIRITUAL penalty? I Cor. 6:9-10.

COMMENT: Few realize how all-inclusive these commandments of God really are. If you INDIVIDUALLY KEEP them, you can be PROTECTED from financial and spiritual penalties.

If you don’t have our free booklet “The Ten Commandments”, go to our website library, in the Basic Literature section, and STUDY IT!

2. How does God view the all-too-common attitude of the buyer? Prov. 20:14. And the practices of the seller? Verses 10 and 23. Also Prov. 11:1 and Deut. 25:13-16.

COMMENT: Ours has become a generation of crooks! It’s a sad, but true indictment. And it DOESN’T PAY OFF!

Dishonest employees pilfer from their employers. Businessmen swindle one another. “That’s business.” they say.

Banks lose nearly twice as much to staff members as to more “conventional” bank robbers. And retail EMPLOYEES steal twice as much as shoplifters do!

3. What else does the SPIRITUAL intent of the Eighth Commandment include? Deut. 24:14-15 and Lev. 19:13.

COMMENT: The Eighth Commandment covers far more than outright stealing. It requires giving full value in product, in labor, in wages and salaries.

It has a message for both capital and labor. To capital: “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work.” To labor: “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s wage.”

The employer who lusts for more money than he can earn by paying fair wages is ROBBING his employees by paying too little, and/or by spending too little on improving working conditions and safety.

Because employers formerly demanded more in production than they paid in wages, laborers organized. NOW the labor union’s principle is to get more in wages than they give in production. The average laborer — often misguided by unscrupulous union leaders — lusts after more than he can honestly earn.

“In these Disunited States today,” said R. E. Strain, “every special interest group — nurses, social workers, teachers and college professors, as well as farmers, truck drivers, machinists and businessmen — is hell-bent for building and using collective power to gain a larger share of the nation’s product for its members while doing everything possible to reduce their contributions of time and talent to the creation of anything needed or desired by other citizens” (Professor of Economics, California State College, Long Beach).

That is STEALING, too!

Deluded labor unions seem to think they can GET MORE FOR NOTHING through organized pressure and political trickery. Instead, they are unwittingly bringing a financial CURSE on themselves and their members! The result is today’s devastating unemployment statistics. Rather than pay more, or even what is fair, companies have just moved their production to countries where they can exploit labor all over again. This, of course, will start the cycle all over again in the country they have moved to, but, in the meantime, they make outrageous profits on the backs of poor peasants in other countries.

It seems the cycle of greed and exploitation between capital and labor never ends. But this is human nature at work, that’s for sure!

3. Should the laboring man organize and fight for his rights and higher wages? James 5:1-7, especially verse 7. Also see Mal. 3:5.

COMMENT: Absolutely NOT! True Christians should wait for God to solve their problems with unjust employers. Even though the tactics of unionism HAVE gained higher wages over the years, employers have simply raised prices so that today’s record wages actually purchase little more than the lower wages of the preunion era.

And what is the result of strikes and slowdowns? Obviously LESS IS PRODUCED. So everyone has LESS in the end!

Communism Not the Answer

There are those who will argue that Communism is the answer to the fiscal woes of our “Capitalist” society.

1. But do both the Eighth and Tenth Commandments recognize the RIGHT of the individual to ACQUIRE and OWN property? Ex. 20:15, 17.

COMMENT: In principle, these two Commandments actually FORBID all forms of Communism which basically deny man’s right to private ownership of property. Notice how this is clearly brought out in the wording of the Tenth Commandment: “Thy neighbor’s … thy neighbor’s … his … his … his … his … thy neighbor’s.” This is a seven-fold guarantee guarding INDIVIDUAL, not communal interests.

The Bible emphatically does NOT teach Communism!

While advocates of Communism promise more, they are really interested in getting control of what you already possess.

Far from being the ideal economic system, Communism HAS proved to be UNWORKABLE! A lack of incentive permeates and vexes their communal programs, because an individual NEEDS to have things of his very own. God is the greatest “Capitalist” of all. Acquiring and caring for possessions is part of our training for the time when we shall inherit and possess the ENTIRE UNIVERSE as members of the God Family! But we must also learn NOT TO COVET what belongs to our neighbors.

2. Does Acts 5:1-4 prove individual members of the early true Church could and DID POSSESS property and/or money?

COMMENT: Some have carelessly cited this passage as biblical evidence for the principle of Communism. Actually it proves just the opposite!

Many who became pioneer members of God’s Church had come up to Jerusalem from a distance to keep the spring festivals. The arrival of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost caused them to stay longer than they had originally planned. This emergency (not Communism) and love for one another caused each to treat “THE THINGS WHICH HE POSSESSED ” AS IF they were “common” property. No one selfishly insisted “It’s mine.” (Read Acts 4:32.) Yet, until actually turned over as an offering, everything remained his “own” (Acts 5:4).

Having said that, though, this lifestyle continued for quite some time in the Jerusalem and other churches. This is why Paul said that “he who does not work should not eat.” The last two chapters of my book, The Restoration of Truth, explain the balance in this area. Because we are not living in the best way, but like the world around us, we have the same attitudes and curses as the world around us.

Since this is a complex subject, it is best that you read those two chapters, which were originally written as two separate articles, so they are self contained. Yet, they will form the basis for the Church in the final days we are now approaching. You may find this book, along with several commentaries, in the Basic Literature section of our online library.

Success Is More Than Money

Did Jesus Christ know the way to true success? He certainly did! Christ’s life IS the MOST OUTSTANDING SUCCESS STORY OF ALL TIME.

Financially, He might be compared to a multi-billion billionaire! His wealth is totally beyond comprehension. He now owns and controls all the riches of the entire universe!

But while on earth as a human being, Jesus did not seek for material possessions. He put FIRST THINGS FIRST in order to become a true success. He sought the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, knowing full well that wealth and possessions would follow (Matt. 6:33).

But the people of this grasping, money-conscious, money-hungry world think money, and all the material things it can buy, IS “success.”

1. What did Christ inspire King Solomon to write about getting wisdom AHEAD of gold? Prov. 16:16; 3:13-15.

2. DOES ACQUIRED WISDOM THEN bring ABUNDANCE and honor, with pleasantness, peace and happiness? Prov. 3:16-18.

COMMENT: There is MUCH MORE to success than wealth. And money can’t buy these things. The plain truth of the matter is that the broad majority of people never make a fortune, and the few who do, aren’t happy with it! They simply have never learned HOW to ENJOY or APPRECIATE IT. There is always SOMETHING MISSING.

You need to study our free booklet “The Seven Laws of Success.” It will show you what true success really is, and how you can achieve it in this life.

Becoming a True Success

Jesus Christ’s teachings revolved around becoming a spiritual success in life. But He also had something to say about becoming a MATERIAL success. In His “sermon on the mount” He expounded the basic trunk-of-the-tree principle concerning material wealth. Let’s carefully notice what He said.

1. Did Jesus first show the foolishness of storing up wealth far beyond our actual needs? Matt. 6:19.

COMMENT: How clearly Jesus’ words apply to our modern age of dog-eat-dog competition, hoarding and universal thievery!

2. But where and what kind of treasure should be stored up, safe from all thieves and decay? Matt. 6:20.

COMMENT: The treasure Christ is referring to here is godly, spiritual character. This “wealth” is the same as the true wisdom of which Solomon wrote.

But how do we lay up this spiritual treasure? Notice the double meaning in this verse. If we use our literal, physical wealth to advance the cause of Christ’s coming heavenly kingdom, where no thieves shall “break through and steal” — when this whole world order of grasping and greed will have been replaced — THEN we will have SPIRITUAL “treasures” — spiritual rewards — in the coming Kingdom of God!

3. What else did Jesus say in Matt. 6:21?

COMMENT: Jesus knew that setting one’s heart on anything physical is WORSHIP, and hence IDOLATRY! Setting our hearts on EARTHLY treasures breaks the First Commandment. It automatically makes us suffer. Jesus did not want us to suffer.

Verse 24 explains it further: “No man can serve two masters (money and God): for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve (both) God and mammon (money).”

4. Do we have to be VERY CONCERNED about providing for our physical needs? Read Matthew 6:25-32, noticing especially verses 25 and 31.

COMMENT: Jesus answers in verse 25: “Take no ANXIOUS thought …” as the proper translation from the original Greek should read. That is — “Don’t WORRY, don’t be OVERLY concerned about” your physical life. Food, clothing and shelter certainly are necessary, but they are not the most important things in life.

Consider the assurance Christ gives us in verses 26 through 30 and 32. If your heart is in God’s Kingdom — and in His WORK preparing the way for that kingdom — Jesus shows you need not experience material WORRIES!

5. What is the summation of the matter? Matt. 6:33.

COMMENT: Yes, “Seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God … and ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.”

A great many people parrot Matthew 6:33. But not enough really understand it — or practice it. If we are going to claim God’s material promises, we will have to truly seek God’s Kingdom and obedience to Him FIRST — not just “kid” ourselves that we are, while putting them second or third or fourth in our time, interest, study and application.

Your heavenly Father knows you have need of physical things. Just do your part, and He will take care of them. ASK according to His PROMISE, and you WILL receive — if you keep His commandments and do those things pleasing in His sight (Matt. 7:7; I John 3:22; 5:14).

Why Laodiceans Are “Lukewarm”

1. When you have put God’s Kingdom first, and God HAS blessed you — what are you warned NOT to do? Psalms 62:10, last part.

COMMENT: Don’t ever let abundance turn your heart from God. Always KEEP your heart set on God’s Work and His Kingdom! But surely no one would desert a winning team — WOULD THEY?

2. Why is the Laodicean Era of God’s Church pictured as being “lukewarm” toward Christ? Rev. 3:17.

COMMENT: Because they have become (comparatively) “rich” in material possessions, these Laodiceans therefore foolishly deceived themselves into thinking they are SPIRITUALLY rich also!

The attitude of the typical Laodicean will be a by-product of modern Western luxury and affluence. Compared to the average person of the rest of the world and of past ages, the poorest man — especially in the United States — is really WEALTHY! Modern affluence and ease will, to a great extent, be responsible for the soon-coming era of “lukewarm” spiritual zeal. The Laodiceans will be overly concerned with MATERIAL prosperity!

Let’s really understand this relationship between physical prosperity and spiritual temperature.

3. Did Jesus say the “DECEITFULNESS of riches” may sometimes “CHOKE” those who have heard and believed God’s truth? Matt. 13:22 and Luke 8:14.

COMMENT: Wealth tends to DECEIVE people into relying on IT — and can counteract their faith and zeal toward God.

4. Does sin FLOURISH in time of prosperity? Deut. 32:15 and Jer. 5:7-8. What happens to the person who begins to trust in his wealth? Prov. 11:28.

COMMENT: He will “wither” is how the Revised Standard Version renders Proverbs 11:28. That is precisely what happens to the Laodiceans. Therefore Christ commands them to “be ZEALOUS … and repent” (Rev. 3:19).

But what does being “ZEALOUS” really mean? The word is Greek, from the root “zeo”, meaning “to be HOT,” or figuratively, “to be earnest.”

Jesus Christ Himself was very zealous — “on fire” for the honor of God’s Temple (John 2:14-17). Likewise, He wants all Christians to be SPIRITUALLY HOT — BURNING WITH ZEAL — NOT lukewarm or tepid, NOT indifferent and apathetic!

5. What does Christ warn those to whom much is given? Luke 12:48. Are we also warned that the “prosperity” of fools will destroy them? Prov. 1:32.

COMMENT: The Revised Standard Version translates “prosperity” as “complaisance” — that is, LUKEWARMNESS.

6. Does Christ exhort us to learn from what He tells the Laodiceans? Rev. 3:22.

COMMENT: Affluence can become a problem to some in the Philadelphia Era of God’s Church today — if they’re not careful and on their guard. The Laodicean ATTITUDE can begin to creep into their thinking!

But how can you recognize Laodicean characteristics?

Try this simple experiment in order to understand a vital principle. Fill three basins with water. Make one very hot, one lukewarm and one ice cold. Now put your hand in the ice water for a few moments. Withdraw it and place it immediately in the lukewarm water.

The lukewarm water will seem to be BOILING HOT! It will seem to BURN YOU. But it’s all a matter of comparison.

When we judge ourselves by COMPARISON with the unconverted world around us, we SEEM HOT — such “good Christians” — when actually we may not be hot at all! And this, regrettably, is how all too many true Christians usually test themselves.

But now dip your other hand into the scalding hot water for just a second, and then dip it into the lukewarm water. Now lukewarm will feel cold. This is very possibly the way Christ views some of the members of His Philadelphia Church!

7. Did the Apostle Paul think it wise to compare ourselves with OTHER HUMANS? II Cor. 10:12. To whom SHOULD we compare ourselves? Eph. 4:13, last part.

COMMENT: This is the only SAFE WAY to check one’s own spiritual temperature!

The Danger of Riches

1. Should we labor to become rich? Prov. 23:4. Why not? Verse 5.

2. What did Paul tell Timothy would happen to those who DESIRE to be rich? I Tim. 6:9.

COMMENT: Paul did not mean that it is wrong to prosper. Christ wants everyone to follow the way which will provide full, abundant lives — both physically and spiritually. But to “WILL” to become RICH — to make that your goal in life — is absolutely WRONG!

3. Do all kinds of evil grow out of the LOVE of money? I Tim. 6:10.

COMMENT: Money of itself is not evil. Money IS POWER. A PROPER RESPECT FOR money — for the great good it can do — is right and GOOD. But INORDINATE love (LUST) for it leads to lying, cheating, stealing, prostitution, organized crime, murder, suicide, war — and to frustration, discontent and family quarrels. A poor person may be drawn into sin by the LUST for money just as easily as a rich person. (Note: the love of money is not “the” (only) root of all evil — as erroneously translated in the Authorized Version — but “a” root.)

4. What is God’s admonition to the rich — what should be their duty in life? I Tim. 6:17-19. This includes MOST Western European, North American and British peoples, when you compare their prosperity with the poverty of MOST of the world.

COMMENT: To “communicate” means to SHARE, to use our wealth for good. God’s way to eternal life and permanent prosperity is absolutely certain, but nothing is as “uncertain” as this world’s riches!

“Be Content”

1. What lesson had the Apostle Paul learned in life? Phil. 4:11-12.

COMMENT: Paul could BE CONTENT whether “abased” (poor and without funds) or abounding (having abundance). Yet Paul continually gave God thanks in every circumstance!

2. What did John the Baptist exhort repentant Jews to do? Luke 3:11-13. Did he tell the Roman soldiers to be content with their wages? Verse 14, last part.

3. Are we to BE CONTENT with the basic necessities of life? I Tim. 6:6-8. Should we be SATISFIED with what we have? Heb. 13:5.

COMMENT: How much would it ready take to completely “satisfy” most people today? Those interviewed in one poll thought that a 30% increase in income would solve most of their financial problems. But soaring incomes today prove the cry will always be “MORE!”

Human nature is NEVER satisfied!

What a person THINKS would satisfy him often just depends on what rung of the financial ladder he is on at the moment. While $75 a week would please one man, as another poll showed, a successful businessman considered a million dollars per year not too much.

The deluding concept that money and all the things it will buy are an END in themselves is totally false. Luxuries are only the FRINGE BENEFITS which God intends for those who have become truly successful. Seeking to acquire things merely to satisfy the ceaseless cravings of the flesh is useless vanity — utter emptiness!

King Solomon, the wisest and one of the richest men who ever lived, proved this for himself. He HAD everything. DID everything. In the end, Solomon realized he had nothing but a handful of “wind.” Read the first two chapters of the book of Ecclesiastes. It will be a real eye-opener.

Grief for the Greedy

1. What does Solomon say to those who think they wouldn’t experience any problems if they became wealthy? Eccl. 5:12.

COMMENT: A relatively few men have amassed tremendous wealth. Yet they have never found peace of mind and true happiness in vaults bulging with money, or in huge bank accounts. Even billionaire J. Paul Getty is reported to have said he would gladly trade his millions for just one successful, HAPPY marriage!

2. Will the ways of the greedy boomerang? Prov. 1:18-19. How is this possible?

COMMENT: The trap which will destroy all chances for true success and happiness gapes greedily to repay the greedy. The strain and worry of those greedy for gain damages and often WRECKS mental and physical health.

What most people need to realize is that they have been pursuing the wrong values and goals in life. People the world over equate MATERIAL WEALTH with HAPPINESS. So millions have made the acquisition of material wealth their goal in life — assuming that this will result in true happiness. But has it really?

In spite of the general increase in the standard of living throughout the Western world, statistics show there is more unhappiness, crime, divorce and juvenile delinquency than ever before!

3. Is a “little” with obedience to God better than great wealth with troubles and injustice? Prov. 15:16; 16:8.

4. Has God promised to supply every NEED of the righteous? Phil. 4:19.

COMMENT: Notice that God does not say every LUST, but “every NEED.” And while He has promised to PROSPER YOU (Matt. 6:33), He does it AS it is good for you to how well you can HANDLE it, and as you EARN it.

Our major NECESSITIES are just three: food, clothing and shelter. Expensive furniture, automatic washers, television and Hi-Fi sets, a second car for the family, double ovens, and many other modern “conveniences” are LUXURIES — which you may or may not be able to afford. But luxuries should be purchased ONLY as one IS FINANCIALLY ABLE TO AFFORD THEM!

“Installment Buying” the Rage

Few realize that the financial troubles plaguing most families today are NOT the result of low incomes. Surveys have shown that most money problems are the direct result of OVEREXTENDING a normally adequate income for LUXURIES AND PERSONAL INDULGENCE through the pernicious habit of “installment buying.”

The basic problem? Greed, lust and ENVY! People compare themselves with themselves (II Cor. 10:12) and envy one another (James 4:5). It’s only NATURAL to want to “keep up with the Joneses”!

“Oh, yes, I know rich people aren’t happy,” goes the quip, “but I want to be UNhappy IN STYLE!”

We are constantly deluged with advertising that appeals to our human nature. Ads urge us to “BUY NOW, pay LATER.”

One-southern store has been selling television sets to PRISON INMATES on the installment plan! Since prisoners are not permitted to sign contracts, all sales are based on CHARACTER.

CHARACTER? No wonder credit costs so much!

Actually, when you really understand, most credit sales are based on a fundamental LACK of character. Millions today are not willing to WAIT until they have SAVED enough money to purchase things with cash.

Going into debt became fundamentally fashionable in the U.S. under the New Deal. People were told that NATIONAL deficit spending was a good thing to get prosperity rolling again — and just a TEMPORARY measure to prime the financial pump.

It took a WAR TO bring about an artificial prosperity, but seven years were enough to TEACH PEOPLE THE HABIT of staying in debt by purchasing “on time.” Now it has become a national fixation and has spread widely to other nations. Our national economy has become absolutely dependent on it.

For example, if installment buying of automobiles in the United States suddenly stopped, production of new autos would drop 50%! That would also mean as much as a 30% cut in the production of related industries. Close to half a million auto and oil workers, an equal number in sales and service, and thousands of others would suddenly be jobless!

What a tragedy that this world would not obey and practice God’s ways from the start!

Nothing EASY About “Easy Credit”!

There are those in the credit business who would have us believe that the installment plan is a good system of SAVING which puts the debtor on a regular monthly budget, thus enabling him to “save” what he NEVER would have saved otherwise.

Notice what the Bible has to say about this principle of “enforced savings.”

1. When you borrow or BUY ON TIME, who is really helping whom? Prov. 22:7 and Neh. 5:4-5.

COMMENT: People do not seem to understand (or even consider) that illness, a recession, loss of a job — all common occurrences — can easily bring one into a condition of virtual serfdom where EVERYTHING is “in hock” to his creditors!

The only possible way you can gain by using the installment plan is in TIME. But you pay for it dearly! And when you stop to consider it, credit buying even puts you in bondage to TIME.

It’s true that once you get caught in the credit trap you’re doing the same thing as saving the money BEFORE buying. But there is ONE BIG DIFFERENCE creditors conveniently fail to warn you about. Now you are FORCED to “save” AT THAT RATE REGARDLESS of what happens to your income! And you may end up paying an annual interest rate of up to 18%, or MORE!

You may be completely convinced you could not do without your charge accounts or installment purchases. But the fact of the matter is YOU MUST LEARN TO get along without them, or at least STRICTLY CONTROL them, or you will NEVER experience true financial security!

Before you dive into debt, REMEMBER — it’s a lot easier getting IN than getting OUT!

Start today to exercise the STRENGTH OF CHARACTER to WAIT until you save the cash!

2. What is a person like without self-control? Prov. 25:28.

COMMENT: The lack of self-discipline in handling money can prove to be very costly. Many husbands come home only to find that their wives have gone out and foolishly purchased costly clothing, unnecessary household gadgets, and other needless items. They simply gave in to their vanity and lust. Men will turn around and do the same thing!

The knowledge of God should make you FREE (John 8:32), and the power He makes available through His Holy Spirit will give you the strength to RESIST temptation. Utilize this power!

Another problem is that of working mothers.

The wife and mother SHOULD NOT HAVE TO go to work to keep up the payments for things that should not have been bought in the first place. The resultant neglect of children by millions of working mothers has been a prime cause of juvenile delinquency in the United States.

YOUR standard of living is probably already beyond the wildest dreams of the typical inhabitant of this planet. Few realize that the AVERAGE person on this earth has NO shoes, LITTLE food and NO fine furniture or appliances of any kind!

If you are in debt, analyze your recent purchases, or your present “possessions.” How many of them do you REALLY NEED? Are they absolutely necessary for the health and welfare of your family? Are they a genuine HELP in serving God and His Work? You need to answer these questions for yourself.

A Typical Case History

Consider this hypothetical, yet typical case history.

John Doe WAS doing all right financially. He usually had a few dollars left over at the end of the month. So he rented a nicer house. His friends had nice homes, and he felt he “deserved” one too.

Soon afterward, the family car was in need of major repairs. A salesman persuaded him to try out a newer model. Its luxurious “feel” and the offer of installment credit “sold” him at once. John reasoned that the amount he WOULD have had to spend anyway to fix the old car was enough for the down payment.

Now John Doe was beginning to feel pinched financially. But they “just HAD to have” some rugs and a color TV for that nicer house. A dealer cheerfully told him these “needed” items could be paid for by the month. So John bought them without hesitation. Since nothing was said about interest or finance charges, he ASSUMED the installment “privilege” was simply a courtesy of the dealer.

Months later, John finally read the contract he had signed, only to discover that he was being charged an annual interest rate of 33%! That rate, indulged in frequently, would bankrupt anyone.

By then, having contracted to pay 36 monthly installments for other furniture (which turned out on inspection to be costing him an annual interest rate of 19.4%) and facing additional expenses for dental work, children’s school clothing, etc., John was unable to meet his obligations.

To keep up the installments, he borrowed $300 from the bank, thus paying more interest on money to pay interest. Finding that difficult to repay, he borrowed again — this time from a finance company. In just a few months of a series of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” operations, he ended up so hopelessly “in the hole” that he owed MORE than the original debts.

1. Did Christ teach that one ought to be wise enough to “count the cost”? Luke 14:28. See also Proverbs 27:12.

COMMENT: Most people have never thought of Luke 14:28 as a FINANCIAL principle. Yet it is! Like millions of others, the Does were victims not only of their own foolishness and lust, but of a credit system which (before the “Truth in Lending Law” was passed in the United States) was a model of contrived confusion and often deliberate deception!

Instead of solving financial problems, installment credit plans perpetuate them, keeping people in the HABIT OF OVERSPENDING and paying out interest. Is it any wonder those who are in debt usually remain so?

2. If you have contracted and borrowed, must you repay? Psalm 37:21.

COMMENT: God holds you strictly responsible for paying your debts. Bankruptcy proceedings are a last resort only.

Not Always Wrong to Borrow

1. Does Luke 19:23 indicate that God approves of lending? See also Deut. 28: 12, last part.

COMMENT: The Bible shows it is not wrong to borrow under certain circumstances — but a person should borrow ONLY after wise counsel and proper planning. The verses we have just read would not be there if God prohibited all borrowing.

But some have misunderstood Romans 13:8. Paul did not forbid borrowing when there is a real need. However, he commands us to be diligent to PAY whatever we owe — “tribute to whom tribute,” etc. (verse 7) and not to owe anything that is OVERDUE. The only thing we should owe continually is LOVE TOWARD ONE ANOTHER (verse 8).

Our present system of deficit financing and high taxation has been developing so long that it is virtually impossible for the vast majority of people to pay cash for a home or an automobile. But it will pay you big dividends to pay cash for nearly everything else.

2. What about the use of CREDIT CARDS?

COMMENT: WISE, CAUTIOUS use of the popular credit card is not wrong, especially to avoid carrying large sums of money when traveling (an unsafe practice) or to purchase needed items and to pay for some service when you immediately and/or temporarily lack sufficient cash.

Unlike other borrowing, no interest is charged on credit card purchases — IF YOU pay at the first billing. With the newer BANK credit cards — not the cards of individual stores, gasoline companies, etc. — participating stores pay a flat 3% fee which barely covers the bank’s cost of billing and collecting. However, banks prosper on the 1 1/2% monthly service charge (18% yearly) from the TWO THIRDS of credit card users who do not remit in full the first month.

If you don’t have the character to CONTROL your buying, then DON’T HAVE credit cards, and DON’T open any type of charge account! If you are already IN debt, then strive to get OUT as soon as possible.

Credit Can Kill Faith in God

Why do you want your financial problems solved? Is it so you can have a more active part in God’s Work? Or is it so you can afford more and costlier possessions in this world?

1. What is the purpose of all too many in asking blessings of God? James 4:3.

2. What did Christ have to say about the proper use of blessings? Acts 20:35.

COMMENT: It IS more blessed to give than to receive — even FINANCIALLY more blessed. How? Let’s consider. Suppose you work for a man and you really practice this principle. You’ll really SERVE him, going above and beyond what is expected. Seeing your diligence, he will very likely reward you with a better paying job, a promotion, or an increase in salary, wishing he had MORE employees like you. Your actions will please God, too, and He will BLESS YOU for applying His Laws in your work!

But to operate successfully under this principle you must REALLY “BELIEVE that he (God) IS and that He is a REWARDER of those who DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM” (Heb. 11:6). This is the WAY to QUALIFY for blessings NOW, and RULERSHIP in the world tomorrow. Plunging into credit financing, revolving charge accounts, etc., is NOT the way! It is a veritable TRAP for the unwary!

Trusting in MAN’S financial systems instead of God could become such a habit that you fail to practice God’s financial laws, turn more and more to LUSTING for physical things, and finally become SPIRITUALLY BANKRUPT! Abused credit is a satanic substitute for practicing God’s ways and TRUSTING IN HIM for your sustenance!

3. Is a true Christian ever a beggar? Psalm 37:25 and Proverbs 10:3. What does Psalm 34:9 have to say?

4. What is the reward of humility and Godly fear? Prov. 22:4. Is even the wealth of the sinner laid up for the just? Prov. 13:22. And what does the sinner receive? Prov. 15:6.

5. Are the blessings which come from God free of sorrows? Prov. 10:22.

COMMENT: Those who seek first the Kingdom of God and are prospered by Him, can be spared BOTH the troubles of poverty and the troubles of the worldly rich!

If you’ve found yourself bogged down in a seemingly endless and wearisome routine of striving for FINANCIAL success — STOP!

God doesn’t want you on a dull, dreary, monotonous treadmill day after day. He doesn’t want you to just endure a boring life. Jesus came to give you a full, vibrant, joyful and ABUNDANT life (John 10:10). You can have it — if you’ll seek it the WAY HE SAYS in His Word.

GOD will see to it that the rising cost of living doesn’t leave you destitute. HE will bless you according to your obedience to His Word, and diligence in your work. And you have the satisfaction of really serving, producing and ACCOMPLISHING.

Coming in the next lesson — more financial principles from God’s Word, with special emphasis on how to INCREASE your income and make it go further.

NOTE: This lesson has been edited and adapted from the “old” Bible Correspondence Course. This lesson was written in the late 60’s, but, by and large, it’s as true today as it was when written. The following two lessons will fill out the information you need to achieve true prosperity and security – not the fake kind this world offers.

The Restoration Website Library is chock full of important information vital to your life and the lives of your family. As this present world continues to go down the drain, we will be dependent more and more on GOD AND GOD ALONE for our protection, safety, and security – both financial and physical.

Dec
29
2009

The Truth About NEW YEAR’S!

The Plain Truth
December, 1964

The Truth About NEW YEAR’S!

How did the celebration of New Year’s Eve begin? Why is the
beginning of a year placed in the middle of a dead winter? And
where did the many customs surrounding it originate?

by William H. Ellis

MOST people carelessly assume that celebrating New Year’s Eve is
a Christian custom.
But did the practice of “waiting the old year out” really
come from the Bible?
Is January 1 the true beginning of a new year? Who has the
AUTHORITY to determine when a new year begins?

An Ancient Pagan Custom

New Year’s is one of the oldest and most universal of all
pagan TRADITIONS! The custom of celebrating it has remained
essentially unchanged for 4,000 years!
“There is scarcely a people, ancient or modern, savage or
civilized,” writes Theodor H. Gaster, in his definitive book “New
Year”, “which has not observed it … in one form or another. Yet
no other festival has been celebrated on so many different dates
or in so many seemingly different ways.”
In ancient Babylon, New Year’s festivals were closely bound
to the pagan feast called “Christmas” today. The little-known
connection of New Year’s with Christmas is made clear in our free
booklet, “The PLAIN TRUTH About CHRISTMAS!” If you haven’t read
it before, write for it immediately.
When and how did New Year’s celebrations originate? Who
began the custom?
Notice the proof of history.
“Mesopotamia,” writes Earl W. Count, “is the very ancient
Mother of Civilization. Christmas began there, OVER FOUR THOUSAND
YEARS AGO, as the festival which renewed the world for another
year. The ‘twelve days’ of Christmas; the bright fires and
probably the Yule log; the giving of presents; the carnivals with
their floats, their merrymakings and clownings, the mummers who
sing and play from house to house; the feastings; the church
processions with their lights and song — all these and more
began there centuries before Christ was born. And they celebrated
THE ARRIVAL OF A NEW YEAR!” (“4000 Years of Christmas”, pp.
20-21.)
That is how it began. The celebration of New Year’s began in
ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia. It was a pagan custom of
ancient sun-worship 2000 years before the birth of Jesus.
The celebration of New Year’s is never once commanded in the
Bible. Jesus and the apostles never observed it. Moses forbade
it!
Don’t say “it doesn’t matter.” It does matter to God whether
we adopt the customs of the heathen. Your Bible says, “Learn not
the way of the heathen” (Jeremiah 10:2).

——————-
PHOTO CAPTION: New York’s famed Times Square at midnight,
December 31, as thousands gather to usher in the pagan Roman New
Year. The undampended spirits of the crowd bring to mind the
ancient Roman Saturnalia. One lone celebrant, center, holds sign
reading: “Christ for a troubled world.” Probably not one in the
crowd really understands how Christ will solve the troubles
brought on this world by its foolish pagan traditions!
——————-

A Pagan Roman Feast

The New Year’s festivities that had originated in Babylon
found their way to Greece and finally to Rome. The Romans called
it “Saturnalia” — in honor of Saturn. Among them it was
extremely popular — a time of revelings, drinking bouts, orgies
– finally ending in HUMAN SACRIFICE!
“The first day of the Saturnalia shifted during the lifetime
of Rome … it began around the middle of December … and
continued until January first. In its midst was December
twenty-fifth, the day, as the Romans calculated, when the sun was
at its lowest ebb ….” (E. W. Count’s “4000 Years of Christmas”,
page 28.)
It was Julius Caesar, Emperor of pagan Rome, who instituted
the New Year’s festival on January first. In 46 B. C., Caesar
adopted the Julian calendar. He transferred to the first of
January ALL of the licentious customs surrounding the Roman
Saturnalia!

Accepted by “Church Fathers”

But how did such a thoroughly pagan day ever insinuate
itself into our modern “Christian” calendar?
Read the answer from church history — about 375 A.D. This
is the period Emperor Constantine imposed “Christianity” on the
Roman world.
“There were many immigrants into the ranks of the Christians
by this time,” writes Earl W. Count. “The Church Fathers
discovered to their alarm that they were also facing an invasion
of pagan customs. The habit of Saturnalia was too strong to be
left behind. At first the Church forbade it, but in vain” (page
31).
Rather than resist the influence of pagan customs, the
Catholic Church fathers compromised!
“The Church finally succeeded in taking the merriment, the
greenery, the lights, and the gifts from Saturn and giving them
to the Babe of Bethlehem …. The pagan Romans became Christians
– but the Saturnalia remained!” (E.W. Count, page 31.)
Modern Christians have gone A STEP FURTHER!
Rather than present a gift to Jesus Christ on the day they
falsely assume to be His birthday, the world is busily trading
presents among themselves! Christ has been not only forgotten at
Christmas time, but is not so much as toasted amidst the partying
of New Year’s Eve!
During the Middle Ages many of the ancient Roman customs
were maintained and augmented by the incoming heathen rites of
the Teutonic peoples. It was during this period that the
customary yule log and mistletoe were added to the popular New
Year’s festivities. The yule log is a carry-over from the
bonfires of sun-worship, and mistletoe is a parasite used in
Druid rites as a symbol of sex-worship!
As Teutonic customs were added, the date of New Year’s
celebrations was temporarily changed to March 25, to coincide
with the Germanic spring rites of fertility.
Finally Pope Gregory re-instituted the ancient pagan Roman
date of January first. He imposed it on the whole Western world
in 1582 when his Gregorian calendar “reforms” were accepted. All
Roman Catholic countries accepted this change AT ONCE! Sweden,
Germany, Denmark and England, the strongholds of Druid customs,
finally acquiesced to Rome in the 1700’s!

The Modern Attitude of Compromise

Today, New Year’s Eve has become a time for people to wallow
in excesses of liquor! The modern attitude seems to be, “have a
wild time on New Year’s Eve, and turn over a new leaf on New
Year’s Day!”
New Year’s resolutions are empty and meaningless, usually
trifling matters of jest! Few people make a lasting change.
Most people seem to have convinced themselves that God is
out of the picture for good. That God is not concerned with their
modern revelings, drunken parties, promiscuous behavior!
What does God have to say about New Year’s? Does He condone
observing a pagan festival? practicing pagan customs in the name
of Christ?

God Labels New Year’s “PAGAN”!

God Almighty does not compromise! Notice the Eternal’s stern
warning to Israel as they conquered the pagan nations of the
promised land:
“Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that
thou INQUIRE NOT AFTER THEIR GODS, saying ‘How did these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.’ THOU SHALT NOT DO
SO UNTO THE ETERNAL THY GOD: for EVERY ABOMINATION to the
Eternal, WHICH HE HATETH, have they done to their gods ….”
(Deut. 12:30-31.)
What were the customs God hates and condemns in Deuteronomy?
What are those pagan rites that are an ABOMINATION to Him?
These very rites and customs practiced in ancient Canaan and
Syria included the NEW YEAR’S FESTIVALS! From the ancient
Canaanites the Greeks learned the same rites.

Greek God of WINE!

Theodor H. Gaster writes concerning the familiar “New Year’s
babe”:
“Actually the New Year babe is FAR OLDER than he looks. In
ancient Greece, it was customary at the great festival of
Dionysus to parade a babe cradled in a winnowing basket. This was
taken to symbolize the annual (or periodic) rebirth of that god
as the spirit of fertility!” (New Year.)
Who was this Dionysus?
None other than Bacchus — the god of wine! In his honor the
Greeks held a festival called the “Festival of the Wine-Press” at
the time which corresponds to our months of January-February!
Today more alcoholic beverages are consumed during the
“holiday season” than at any other time of the year! New Year’s
Eve is noted for its licentious, wild, and wanton partying.
People are deceived by riotous pagan holiday spirits — for the
most part emanating from liquor bottles — all the while calling
it “Christian”!

“Father Time”

Another symbol of New Year’s celebrations is equally pagan!
It is the familiar figure of a white-haired man carrying a
scythe. What does he represent? The ancient Greek god Cronos. It
is from the name “Cronos” we derive our “chronograph” which
measures time.
Among the Greek gods, Cronos originally cut a swath of HUMAN
SACRIFICE with his sharpened scythe! The “silent reaper”
anciently “reaped” little children in horrible episodes of
mythical CANNIBALISM! This Greek rite of human sacrifice was
adopted by ancient Rome, where human sacrifice was practiced at
least until 300 A. D.
No wonder God Almighty warns the pagan New Year’s
celebration is AN ABOMINATION to Him! See Deuteronomy 12:31.

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PHOTO CAPTION: Amid falling snow, London revelers welcome New
Year with a snowball battle at Piccadilly Circus early January 1.
Other celebrants stand around the statue of the Greek god of
sexual love, Eros, in the background (upper left), which is
boarded up for the occasion. The pagan Romans also celebrated New
Year’s in the dead of winter. God ordained no such thing. The
beginning of spring, when new life buds forth, is the true
beginning of God’s sacred year.
——————-

Strange as it seems, the professing Christian world praises
and practices customs and days of pagan origin — thinly cloaking
them in “Christian” sounding names! You too, may have accepted
these vain traditions of men, never realizing they are PAGAN TO
THE CORE!
“In VAIN do they worship me,” said Jesus Christ, “teaching
for doctrines the commandments of men!”
Jesus said it is possible to WORSHIP GOD — to venerate the
NAME of Christ — and still do it ALL IN VAIN!
“Full well YE REJECT THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, that ye may
keep your own tradition,” He continued, “… making the Word of
God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have
delivered!” (Mark 7:7, 9, 13.)
Many people will confess, when forced to, the pagan origin
of these days. But they stubbornly REFUSE to stop observing them!
God is their Judge!
Don’t you make this mistake!

When Does God Begin the New Year?

Remember! It is God Almighty who created the Universe. He
set the heavenly bodies in their courses at Creation. It is by
His “master-clock” that time is determined.
The earth’s rotation regulates the length of a day — the
lunar phases indicate the length of a month. And the orbit of the
earth around the sun dictates the length of a year!
But ONLY GOD has the AUTHORITY to set the date of the
beginning of the new year!
God’s sacred calendar year begins in the spring — not in
the middle of a dead winter! Notice Exodus 12:1-2, “And the
Eternal spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be
the FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR TO YOU.”
The first month of God’s sacred calendar is called, in the
Bible, “Abib”. It means the month of “green ears.” Later, the
Jews called it “Nisan” — a Babylonian word having the same
meaning.
It was in the month of Abib or Nisan that Israel came out of
Egyptian captivity under Moses (Ex. 34:18). The Hebrew month Abib
overlaps the months of March-April on the pagan Roman calendar in
use today.
God placed the beginning of the sacred year in the early
spring to mark the beginning of the seasonal harvests. The two
annual harvests in Palestine foreshadowed God’s Plan for the
twofold SPIRITUAL harvest of souls to be born into His Kingdom.
Your Bible speaks of a great false religious system which
will “think to change times and laws” (Dan. 7:25). This system
has deliberately thought to change the beginning of God’s
calendar year in an attempt to hide God’s Plan for the salvation
of mankind! But man has no authority to change God’s
“master-clock.”
Satan, however, has cleverly deceived the world into
believing the new year begins on January first!

Why National Captivity?

The very same pagan practices God condemns in the Old
Testament are being perpetuated in our modern world today!
The very same festivals of paganism adopted by ancient
Israel have become an integral part of this modern society!
Read, in II Kings 17:15-18, the reason why God Almighty took
ancient Israel into captivity: “And they rejected his statutes,
and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his
testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed
vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were
round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that
they should not do like them!”
What was the result of Israel following the customs of the
heathen nations around them?
“Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
them out of his sight …. and afflicted them, and delivered them
into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his
sight …. SO WAS ISRAEL CARRIED AWAY OUT OF THEIR OWN LAND TO
ASSYRIA UNTO THIS DAY!” (II Kings 17:18, 20, and 23.)
Israel NEVER returned as a nation to the land of Palestine!
Israel was lost! Its true identity was concealed until
modern times! Now there is proof that the lost ten tribes of
ancient Israel migrated to Northwestern Europe. The chief peoples
among them have become the United States and British Commonwealth
today! (If you don’t already have your copy of our free booklet,
“The United States and the British Commonwealth in Prophecy”,
send for it immediately.)

Modern Paganism Will Be Punished!

Do you suppose God has changed His mind about compromising
with paganism?
“For I am the LORD, I CHANGE NOT!” warns the Eternal in
Malachi 3:6. This same reminder is repeated in Hebrews 13:8.
Speaking to the modern nations of Israel today, Almighty God
says, “As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Eternal God;
Go ye, serve ye every one his idols and thereafter also, if ye
will not hearken unto me: but POLLUTE YE MY HOLY NAME NO MORE
with your gifts and with your idols” (Ezek. 20:39).
In other words, God is saying, “Be pagan if you insist; but
quit calling it Christian.”
God continues to warn modern Israel against the holidays of
paganism, in Hosea 2:11:
“I will also cause all her mirth to cease, HER feast days
{days THE PEOPLE chose}, HER new moons {marking the beginning of
the pagan New Year}, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn
feasts.” Notice that these were Israel’s feast days — those
Israel had acquired from the pagan nations around them — NOT
those God had originally instituted through His Bible! “And I
will visit upon her the DAYS OF BAALIM, wherein she burned
incense to them …” (verse 13)!
The very same punishment awaits any nation today that
forsakes God’s law as revealed in His Holy Bible, and turns to
the customs of pagan nations — observing pagan days of worship!
Does it make any difference if YOU continue observing pagan
customs — like New Year’s? IT CERTAINLY DOES! God says so!

What You Should Do

God Almighty prophesies a final revival of Babylonian
religion in great power just before He cuts short man’s misrule
of this earth. Read His warning in Revelation 18:
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from
heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened with his
glory. And he said mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon
the Great is fallen, is fallen.
her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed
rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another
voice from heaven, saying, come out of her, my people, that ye be
not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues!”
New Year’s celebration began in Babylon 4,000 years ago. It
is practiced today by almost every people on the face of the
earth. Satan the Devil has indeed deceived the whole world! (Rev.
12:9.)
But God Almighty has sent His ministers to warn this world
– to cry aloud, and spare not, and SHOW HIS PEOPLE THEIR SINS
(Isa. 58:1). Punishment will not be forever withheld!
May God help you to HEED THIS WARNING, and FORSAKE THE PAGAN
PRACTICES of this modern world!

Dec
18
2009

Does It Matter WHICH DAYS We Observe?

Good News
September 1960
Vol. IX, Number 9

Does It Matter WHICH DAYS We Observe?

Some brethren need to WAKE UP from their spiritual laxity and
begin to perform what Jesus commanded!

by Herman L. Hoeh

OUR BAPTIZING tours have discovered a dreadful spiritual
condition among some brethren.  They have found, for example,
that some have been carelessly neglecting Jesus’ passover
command: “DO this in remembrance of Me.”
Some admitted they just “forgot” about the passover service.
Others insisted they did not know where to purchase wine!
Brethren!  IF, INDEED SOME OF YOU ARE BRETHREN, THIS MUST NOT
BE!
THINK of it!  Some of you have supposedly ACCEPTED THE BLOOD
OF JESUS CHRIST — His PERFECT, Holy, Righteous Self, in YOUR
stead!  You have asked your Heavenly Father to apply the
sacrifice of THAT perfect Life to blot out YOUR SINS!
WHAT AN INEXCUSABLE, UNTHINKABLE, HEEDLESS, CARELESS,
UNGRATEFUL ACT — to IGNORE the command of YOUR SAVIOUR to
observe the commemoration of the SHEDDING of that precious blood!
You who have done such a thing, I sternly REBUKE with the very
indignation of Almighty God, and in the name of the Jesus Christ
you have been FORGETTING!
Don’t carelessly say: “I don’t see as it makes any difference
whether I observe these days”!

It Does Make a Difference!

Brethren, it does make a difference!  YOUR ETERNAL DESTINY
depends on it!  You are soon — very soon — going to stand
before the judgment bar of Christ.  Then you won’t carelessly
say: “I do not think it makes much difference”; or, “Here is the
way I look at my situation.”
It does not matter how YOU look at it, or what you think.  God
says it makes a difference WITH HIM!  You can’t treat His Son
with disrespect and get away with it!  There is a way that seems
right to a man — to some of YOU but the end result are the ways
of DEATH (Proverbs 14:12).
You will be judged by what God says — not by what you think!
But neglect of the passover service is not the only cause of
spiritual lack.  Many more of you have been neglecting to attend
the Feast of Tabernacles. Some living no more than 250 miles from
the Tabernacle grounds claim “it is too far to go” — or they
just did not have the money.”
These typical excuses are NOT valid reasons.  The only reason
some of you do not have sufficient money is that you have failed
to save your second tithe — you have been disobedient!  And as
for distance — there is no distance too great to keep you from
the feast IF YOU WANT TO COME.  Some brethren travel 2500 miles
each way to attend!
The real reason why some of you have not been coming is that
you are ashamed of your spiritual  condition — your smoking
habits you haven’t overcome — your other problems.  Brethren,
that is just the reason you NEED the Feast of Tabernacles!  You
cannot afford to miss it!
I met one man last year at the feast whom I had not seen for
six years!  He confessed to me: “I HAD TO COME.  I FOUND MYSELF
DRIFTING — I knew I could not continue that any longer.  So I am
here and will continue to be here henceforth.”
Yes, it does make a difference!

A New Testament Command

The Church of God today is a New Testament Church.  Its Head,
Jesus Christ, preached the New Testament gospel.  Nowhere did
Jesus during His entire New Testament ministry ever observe the
temporary customs of the law of Moses.
Christ never once offered an animal sacrifice.  Yet Christ
kept the sabbath and the annual festivals — and we shall see He
commanded us to do the same.
Jesus kept the feast of Tabernacles (John 7:2, 10, 14, 37).
He set us an example that we should follow His steps!  The
apostle John was inspired to write: “He that saith he abideth in
him (Jesus Christ) ought himself also so to walk, even as he
(Christ) walked” (I John 2:6).
Are we walking as Christ walked?  Are we doing the things
Christ commanded?
Jesus commanded His apostles to teach their converts “to
observe ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED You” (Matthew
28:20).  You have been taught these things.  But it seems some
have carelessly neglected to HEED that teaching!
The apostle Paul commanded Christians to follow him as he
followed Christ.  What was Paul’s example?
Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, not only observed the
sabbath and the annual festivals, BUT COMMANDED HIS CONVERTS TO
DO THE SAME!  It is in your New Testament!
So the sabbath and the annual Holy Days were not done away
with after all.  Of course!  They originated before the law of
Moses — and they now continue long after the law of Moses ceased
to be binding.
But notice the examples of Scripture.  Notice the inspired New
Testament practice of God’s Church.  Notice why we do these
things today!

The New Testament PROOF

In I Corinthians 5:7-8 we have a New Testament command to a
church predominantly of Gentile origin. Notice Paul’s
instruction!  “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be
a new lump …”  Why?  Why put out leaven, the type of sin?
“For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.”  Sin has
been paid for.  Christ paid for and conquered sin in the flesh!
Therefore let us keep sin from recapturing us.  Let us keep sin
out of our lives!  How?  By what annual reminder?  Here is the
apostle’s answer:
“THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST, not with old leaven” — put
away leaven out of your houses each feast — not only the
physical leaven and leavening agents, but also “the leaven of
malice and wickedness” and keep the feast “with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.”
No Easter here.  No Lent here.  But instead the New Testament
passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread.
In I Corinthians 11:18-34 the apostle had to explain in detail
how to keep the passover in the local congregation.
To these same Gentile converts at Corinth Paul writes: “For I
will not see you now by the way; but I trust to remain a while
with you, if the Lord permit.  But I will remain at Ephesus until
Pentecost” (I Cor. 16:7-8).  No Hallowe’en here — or Christmas
or Whitsunday!  But what do we find?  The feast of Pentecost –
and in the predominantly Gentile city of Ephesus!
That should not surprise us.  Fifty-four days after everything
that was nailed to the cross was abolished the disciples and
apostles were assembled to keep the day of Pentecost!  Notice
Acts 2:1, “And when the day of Pentecost” — one of the annual
festivals God ordained, not some pagan feast — “… when the day
of Pentecost was being fulfilled, all were together in the one
place” (Panin trans.).
Here again is the New Testament example.  What could be
plainer!
Now turn to Acts 20:6.  “And we” — Luke and those with him –
“sailed away from Philippi” — a Gentile city — “after the days
of unleavened bread …”  Notice.  Luke did not sail after Easter
or some other pagan holiday.  They sailed away after they had
marked the days of unleavened bread!

Example of the Colossian Church

Did you know that your New Testament reveals the Gentile
converts at Colosse were keeping the annual sabbaths, were
following God’s calendar, and rested each weekly sabbath?  It is
there and yet you probably have never noticed it!  The very
scripture most often quoted against these days is, in fact, the
strongest proof they were being kept!
These Gentile converts, like the Thessalonians, “became
followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ
Jesus” (I Thess. 2:14).  The churches of God in Judaea kept these
days.  They followed the example of the Headquarters church in
Jerusalem.  And the scattered churches of God in the Gentile
world followed their example!
Notice Paul’s commendation of the converts at Colosse.  “For
though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your
faith in Christ” (Col. 2:5). Paul had never seen or visited with
these converts.  The local church had been raised up by one of
Paul’s evangelists.  The apostle Paul had received a glowing
report of the church.  The Church of God at Colosse was following
Christ — doing the things He did, keeping the days He kept.
They had ceased their pagan customs.  They had quit their heathen
practices.  “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in
your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he (Christ) reconciled in
the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable … if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,
and be nor moved away from the hope of the gospel …” (Col.
1:21-23).
These Gentile converts, verse 27, had been called out of the
world — called to separate from the traditions of the world –
but they still lived in a world steeped with pagan superstition
and custom.  They were under pressure from their neighbors to
give up their new-found faith.  Their Gentile neighbors did not
like them taking up with Biblical practices.  They did not want
any “Jewish practices” developing in their community! They wanted
everybody to continue with the traditions and doctrines of the
pagan philosophers, whom the world respected.  They weren’t about
to have their pagan holidays replaced by God’s holy days, or
their sunworship rites superseded by the weekly sabbath, or the
pagan Roman calendar replaced by God’s calendar.

Gentile Colossians Were Ascetic

Colosse was a very ascetic community.  The people there did
not believe in enjoying pleasure.  They believed in a religion of
severity.   They believed in rigidly suppressing the body “in
order to purify the soul.” They thought that any indulgence of
the senses was wrong.  They fasted often, punished themselves,
were vegetarians in part, refused to eat those clean meats God
created for us, and thought drinking wine was terrible!
To keep everybody “in line” they brought social pressure, and
instituted local “blue laws” to keep the preaching of the gospel
from spreading.  (See “The Church in the Roman Empire Before A.D.
170,” by W. M. Ramsay, Chapter X.)  These pagan beliefs were
commonly known to the heathen by the name “philosophy.”  Paul
used this very word in Colossians 2:8: “Beware lest any man spoil
you through PHILOSOPHY and vain deceit, after the tradition of
men, after the rudiments (or basic concepts) of the world, and
not after Christ.”
Philosophy was the doctrine that you could pay for your own
sins by denying yourself the pleasures of the body.  It was a
pagan doctrine which denied the need of a Saviour.  It was called
philosophy because the pagan PHILOSOPHERS were responsible for
its introduction.  Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, among others,
taught that the soul was immortal, that the body was a prison
house, that the soul could be released from this prison house of
flesh only if it were purified from any desires of the flesh.
The early Catholic writers used this same expression in their
day to mean asceticism. “It was very common … to call an
ascetic mode of life ‘philosophical,’ or ‘the life of a
philosopher.’ … The growing sentiment had its roots partly in
the prevailing ideas of CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY, which
instinctively emphasized strongly the dualism of spirit and
matter, and the necessity of subduing the latter to the former,
and partly in the increasing moral corruptness of society.” “The
Neo-Platonic philosophy of the times, through its doctrine of the
purification of the soul by its liberation from the body or
sensuous things, taught celibacy and ascetic practices
generally.” (From pp. 252 and 546 of “Nicene and Post-Nicene
Fathers of the Christian Church,” second series, edited by Schaff
and Wace.)
Those who followed this philosophy were stern ascetics.  They
were the opposite of many other Gentiles who loved pleasure and
indulged in the sins of the flesh, whose motto was “Let us eat
and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Not so the Grecian Gentiles at Colosse.  They severely judged
their Christian neighbors for the least infraction of ascetic
behavior.  They did not like to see the Christians freely eating
meat good for food, or drinking moderately, or keeping the
sabbath and the annual festivals.  That is why Paul wrote; “Let
no man therefore judge you for eating or drinking, or in
connection with the observance of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbath days” (Col. 2:16, margin).
Here were Gentile converts, judged by relatives and neighbors,
for doing the things Jesus did, Gentiles being judged for their
part in the celebration of festivals commanded to be observed
forever.  Here were Gentiles judged for keeping holy the days God
made holy!  And yet this verse has been cleverly quoted by the
churches to make it say the exact opposite of what it does say.
It is time we noticed what this chapter really says.  It is time
we see for ourselves the meaning of this scripture, and quit
taking for granted what it nowhere says!

Not Law of Moses

Probably most of us have taken for granted for years that Paul
is writing about the law of Moses in Colossians that the newly
converted Gentiles there were being led into “Judaism.”  This is
absolutely untrue! There is not one indication that there were
any Jews attempting to lead Christians into Judaism.  (See the
plain admission of this in the Introduction to Colossians in the
“International Critical Commentary.”)
Paul DOES indeed speak of Judaism in Galatians and Romans, but
not here in the book of Colossians. Notice with your own eyes the
startling proof here revealed — proof that the converted Gentile
Colossians were being judged by their heathen neighbors FOR
KEEPING THE DAYS GOD MADE HOLY!
Consider verse 8 again. “Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit — it does NOT say the law of Moses.
It does speak of pagans who adhered to “philosophy.”
Continuing: “after the rudiments (fundamental beliefs) OF THE
WORLD, and not after Christ.”  The evil doctrines Paul is
condemning were OF THE WORLD.  The world then was a GENTILE
world.  It was a pagan Roman world, filled with foolish and vain
traditions.  The Jews prided themselves on being racially
separate from the world.  The Jews thought themselves superior to
the sinful Gentile world.  So these traditions were Gentile
traditions which Paul warns us to beware of!
Now verses 9 and on: “For in him (Christ) dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily.”  God dwelt in Christ, not in the
philosophers. “And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of
all principality and power.”  We are made perfect in Christ, not
through asceticism and human traditions.  Christ is the Head over
all.  He is the One we must look to, not to the highly vaunted
philosophers.
“In whom (Christ) also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision or Christ” (verse 10).
Paul elsewhere reveals we are to be circumcised in the heart”
(Romans 2:29).
Christ conquered sin in the flesh.  If we surrender ourselves
to Christ, He will enter into us through His Holy Spirit and
clean us up, conquer our sins — circumcise our hearts or minds
spiritually.  Physical circumcision involves cutting away a tiny
portion of flesh, but Christ circumcises the WHOLE BODY which is
full of sin.  He enables us to completely cut away sin out of our
lives — enables us to bury all our past sins in the waters of
baptism, as you read in Col. 2:12: “Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also we are risen with him through the faith of the
operation of God” — faith in God’s ability to supply us with the
Holy Spirit and raise us from a dead past to new life just as He
“hath raised him (Christ) from the dead.”

Sin, Not Law, Blotted Out

“And you,” Paul continues, “being dead in your sins and the
UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH” — these people were, prior to
conversion, uncircumcised Gentiles — “hath he (the Father)
quickened together with him (Christ), having forgiven you all
trespasses.
God forgives sin.  These Gentile converts had sinned.  They
had been following the foul, heathenish practices of the world
about them.  They had been trying to pay for their own hurt
consciences by penance, by ascetism.  But always they had their
past to live with.  No matter what they gave up or denied
themselves, their consciences continued to plague them.  They
still weren’t forgiven.
NOW things were different.  They had really been forgiven.
They were no longer bound to their past sins. They had no longer
the guilt of following human customs, human ordinances, human
decrees and vanity. Their sins had been blotted out; Christ had
taken them away.  Every truly converted person knows what a
relief it is to have his sins BLOTTED OUT forever, never to
reappear in the judgment.  And it was all accomplished by Christ
who “bare our sins in his own body on the tree” (I Peter 2:24).

What Was Nailed to the Cross?

Notice that CHRIST was nailed to the cross.  HE bore our SINS.
When He shed His blood from the cross in our stead, He thereby
blotted out all our sins by paying for them in full with His own
life.  It is SIN which was blotted out.  Notice Acts 3:19, “that
your SINS may be BLOTTED OUT.” “Have mercy upon me, cried David,
“blot out my TRANSGRESSIONS … Hide thy face from my SINS, and
BLOT OUT all mine INIQUITIES” (Psalm 51:1,9).
Turn now to II Corinthians 5:10: “For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive
the things done in his body, according to that he hath done,
whether it be good or bad.”  Are your bad deeds covered by the
blood of Christ?  Are the SINS WHICH STOOD AGAINST YOU blotted
out?
Next, read Revelation 20:12.  Here is what happens in the
final judgment.  “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened … and the dead were
judged out of those things which were WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS,
ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS.”
The record of your past sins stands at this moment AGAINST YOU
– unless Christ’s blood covers them, blots them out.  Christ
died to blot our the written record of your and my guilty past.
The record of our past sins has been figuratively nailed to the
cross, taken out of the way.
Now we all can better understand Colossians 2:14.  Notice this
verse as it stands in the King James Version.  “Blotting our the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”
Haven’t you assumed this verse to mean God’s law? — some
assume the ten commandments, others the law of Moses.  But look
at the verse again.
What is blotted out?  SIN!  It does not say “the ten
commandments.”  It does not read “law of Moses,” or “works of the
law.”  It reads “handwriting of ordinances.”
What “ordinances” were these?

Sinful Pagan Customs

Let the Bible answer.  Paul tells us in verses 20 to 23 of
this same chapter!
“Wherefore if ye” — the Gentile converts — “be dead with
Christ from the rudiments (fundamental principles or ideas) of
the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ORDINANCES” (verse 20).  ORDINANCES!  Notice it.  But which
ordinances?  Notice the answer in the next verse: “(Touch not;
taste not; handle not; which are all to perish with the using;)
AFTER THE COMMANDMENTS AND DOCTRINES OF MEN?”
There you are!  They were human traditions!  Ways of sin!
Continuing:
“Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in WILL WORSHIP” –
pagan asceticism — “and humility, and neglecting of the body” –
appearing outwardly humble and self-denying, but inwardly
self-righteous — “BUT ARE OF NO VALUE AGAINST INDULGENCE OF THE
FLESH” (last part from Panin trans.).
Did you catch it?  These evil practices were pagan ordinances,
or customs of men — based on the commandments and doctrines of
pagan speculative philosophy.  They were HEATHEN ordinances,
HEATHEN customs forbidding people from touching, tasting and
handling those things God allows.  We see the same customs today:
don’t dance, don’t drink, etc. in pseudo-Christianity today!
Those heathen Gentiles at Colosse did not want THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.  They wanted THEIR OWN righteousness.
“Don’t eat this!  Don’t drink that!  Don’t touch something else.”
In other words, a pagan religion of “don’ts!”
So the original inspired Greek for “handwriting of ordinances”
is not even referring to Moses’ laws!  In fact this is not a
proper translation!  The original Greek reads “cheirographon tois
dogmasin.”  It does not mean a code of laws.
The Greek word for “handwriting” originally referred to “a
note of hand, or writing in which one acknowledges that money has
either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to be
returned at an appointed time.” (From Thayer’s “Lexicon.”)
It came later to refer to any acknowledgment of debt.  We all
owe a spiritual debt to God because of sin. We have all sinned
and must pay that penalty or have Christ pay it for us.  That is
the meaning of the word “handwriting” here — all acknowledgment
of debt.  But how was it originally incurred?  What did the
Colossians do that brought on that debt of sin?  The answer is in
verse 13.  What was blotted out were TRESPASSES (verse 13, last
part) incurred through following SINFUL ORDINANCES, believing
LYING DOGMAS — like the doctrine of the immortality of the soul
which was at the root of pagan asceticism!
Nothing is said here about any “law of Moses.”  Those Gentiles
had never heard of or kept THAT law!
So the written record of SINS which were blotted out involved
the frightful practice of evil pagan ordinances for which Christ
paid the penalty and God forgave us.

How Colossians OBEYED

The Colossians had been taught the gospel.  They obeyed it.
They were doing the things Christ did.  Christ was living His
life in them as they yielded to Him.  They were being knit
together in love (Col. 2:2). Love is the FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW
(Romans 13:10).  The Colossians were KEEPING God’s law.  Like
other Gentiles they had not heard of God’s law before it was
preached to them.  (See Romans 2:12,13.)  They did not know the
way of love.  But now they not only knew it, they were practicing
it!
They were no longer ascetics, trying to conquer the flesh by
themselves.  They were conquering themselves through the Holy
Spirit.  But God gives His Holy Spirit only to those “who OBEY
Him” (Acts 5:32).  Because the Colossian Christians were obeying
God, it made their neighbors feel self-condemned and inferior.
Their neighbors began sitting in judgment of them — condemning
them — for following the ways of Christ which they had newly
learned.  And what were these Christians being judged for?
Notice it!  It was not for keeping Christmas and Easter and
Sunday — pagan holidays, not for abstinence from certain foods
and alcohol!  No indeed!  But — notice it:
“Let no man therefore judge you in eating and drinking”
(margin) — the Colossians were no longer ascetics — or in
connection with the observance of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbaths.”
That is what they were being judged for — “in connection with
the observance” (as Moffatt translates it) — of God’s festivals,
His calendar measured by the new moon, and the sabbath!
The once-pagan Colossians never kept these days before!  They
were heathen prior to conversion.  Now that they had learned the
gospel, they were keeping holy the days God made holy.  And Paul
is warning them not to return to or be influenced by their old
pagan ways — the ways of their relatives and neighbors who hated
God’s law and His festivals.
For years most of us have taken for granted that these verses
in Colossians were speaking of the law of Moses and rituals and
sacrifices.  They are not!  There is nothing here about the
ceremonial law — about animal sacrifices and drink offerings.
The original Greek is “en broosei” and “en posei” and means
“in eating and in drinking.”  It does not mean meat and drink
offerings.  Every competent scholar acknowledges this to be true
– yet they ASSUME it does not mean eating and drinking but
sacrificial rituals!
No, these verses are speaking of the Christian liberty to
enjoy life!  Jesus came eating and drinking (Matthew 11:19 and
Luke 7:34).  Jesus set us the example.  He was no ascetic!  And
neither were the Colossian Christians any longer!  They were
daily enjoying the Christian life in temperance and self-control,
and especially in connection with each feast, every new month and
the weekly sabbaths!

What Did They Foreshadow?

Now notice verse 17. “Which are shadows of things to come …”
Or, better translated, “which foreshadow things to come.”  Did
these scriptural days foreshadow things to come?  Indeed!
Does the weekly sabbath foreshadow good things to come?
Indeed it does!  Not only is the weekly sabbath a memorial of
creation — but it also fore-shadows the seventh 1000-years in
which man shall rest from his labors of sin.  In speaking of the
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK, in Hebrews 4:4, the apostle Paul goes
right on to show that that day foreshadows God’s thousand year
millennial rest.  But does that do away with the weekly sabbath?
Not at all!  “There REMAINETH therefore THE KEEPING OF A SABBATH
to the people of God (Hebrews 4:9, margin).  Sabbathkeeping is a
TEST OF OBEDIENCE.  NO one shall enter into an eternal rest
unless he first, here and now, is willing to enter into the rest
of each sabbath, each seventh day of the week.  And that is
exactly what the Colossians were doing — observing the weekly
sabbaths.
In like manner the annual festivals, instituted as MEMORIALS,
also foreshadow the plan of God.  They were given to the Church
in order to keep the Church in the knowledge of that plan.
Only one festival has been entirely fulfilled in type — the
passover.  Yet Jesus said that each year we are to celebrate it
again: “DO THIS in remembrance of Me.”
Seventh Day Adventists and other groups claim that Colossians
2:16 refers “to annual feasts, new moons, and annual sabbaths” –
not to the weekly sabbaths.
THIS IS NOT TRUE!  Whenever the expression “sabbath days” is
used WITH “holy days” and “new moons,” the WEEKLY sabbaths are
ALWAYS meant!  There is no exception.  Read I Chr. 23:31; II Chr.
2:4; 31:3; Ezra 3:5; Neh. 10:33.
All annual holy days ARE annual sabbaths!
Notice that in all these verses the weekly sabbaths are
referred to IN THE PLURAL just as in Colossians 2:16!  Col. 2:16
includes BOTH weekly AND annual sabbaths!  If it abolishes one,
it abolishes the other.  But as it establishes one, SO IT
ESTABLISHES THE OTHER AS NEW TESTAMENT PRACTICE.

The Body of Christ

“Let no man therefore judge you” in these matters, said Paul,
“but (rather) the body OF Christ” (Col. 2:17, last part).
This verse has troubled many.  Yet it should not.  Notice that
the word “is” in the King James Version is in italics.  It does
not appear in the original.  The original Greek says only: “the
body of Christ.”  What is the body of Christ?  How does Paul use
this expression in Colossians?
Turn to chapter 1.  In verse 18 we find that Christ “is the
Head of the body, THE CHURCH.” And in Col. 2:19: “And not holding
the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands [has]
nourishment ministered …”
The true Church of God is the body of Christ.  Just as the
Spirit of God once dwelled in the earthly body of Jesus Christ,
so now the Holy Spirit dwells in each member of the Church and
together we constitute one body, doing the very work Christ did.
We are therefore Christ’s body today!  And Christ is the Head as
the Husband is the head of the wife (Ephesians 5:23).
No man is to sit in judgment of our Christian conduct, Paul is
declaring in Colossians 2:16-17.  Man does not determine how we
should live.  But it is the responsibility of the Church — the
body of Christ — to determine these matters!  The Church is to
teach how to observe the festivals — to explain the meaning of
self-control, etc.  So these little-understood verses ought to be
translated clearly: “Let no man therefore judge you … but
(rather) let the body of Christ (determine it).  Greek scholars
recognize that the first expression “let no man” demands that
there be a subsequent expression which tells who is to do the
judging of the matter!
How plain these verses are.  How clear that the Colossians
were keeping holy the time God made holy!
Since the true meaning of the expression “handwriting of
ordinances” according to the Bible is  “acknowledgment of guilt
through (following human) dogmas” — what about the “law of
commandments in ordinances” mentioned in Ephesians 2:15?

Another Common Assumption

Here again people take for granted the Law of God or the
“ceremonial” law of Moses!  But it is neither!  Notice hurriedly
verses 11-12 of chapter 2: “Wherefore remember, that ye being in
time past Gentiles in the flesh” — not Jews, notice, but
Gentiles — “who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that
time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise” — having
no knowledge of God’s covenants and His laws — “having no hope,
and without God in the world.”
But Christ came to bring those far off near to God.  How?
Through the blood of Christ (verse 13).  Christ reconciled us to
God — reconciled the Gentile who was far off and the Jew who was
near.  This is explained in verse 16: “And that he might
reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain
the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh.”  So we now have access to
God by the Holy Spirit and whether Jew or Gentile are part of the
one body — the body of Christ!
How did God reconcile us to Himself?  Through the sacrifice of
Christ!  Christ paid for our sins!  He condemned sin in the
flesh.  He conquered the carnal mind. “The carnal mind is ENMITY
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be” (Romans 8:7).  It was because of the enmity — the
ill-will, the hatred — of the natural mind in every human being
that Christ had to die.  What stood between all humanity and God
was the natural enmity in every human mind.  That is what
separated us from God.  “But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from
you, that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2).
It is not the law of God that has separated us from God.  It
is the violation of that law — sin — that separated us.  That
is the meaning of Ephesians 2:14 — “and hath broken down the
middle wall of partition” Notice that the words “between us” have
been added and are in italics.  Granted that there was a physical
wall in the temple which separated the Jews who were “near” to
God from the Gentiles who were “far off,” but merely reconciling
Jew with Gentile would not reconcile us with God.  It is our
relationship to God that counts!  The only wall referred to in
Scripture is the wall that separates man from God.  Notice
Ezekiel 43:8. Because of idolatry — sin, God says “there was a
wall between Me and them” (margin).  That wall of sin — the
natural ENMITY in the human heart and in society is broken down.
Christ paid for it by sacrificing His own life for ours –
“having abolished in his flesh the ENMITY” — having paid for sin
and making possible the receipt of the Holy Spirit to conquer the
carnality of man, the carnal opposition of society with its ways.
Jesus said, “I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).  Through
the power of the Spirit in our lives, we, too, can overcome the
world, its customs, its false teachings, its heathen dogmas
masquerading in the name of Christ, the dictates of society!
That is what Christ abolished — “Having abolished in his flesh
the ENMITY, even the law of commandments in ordinances”.  Notice
it!
The enmity against God is expressed by commands in the form of
“ordinances” — “dogmasin,” in the Greek — the very commandments
of men, human tradition, heathen customs, the dictates of
society, which Paul condemned in Colossians.  That is what Christ
abolished through His sacrifice.  The Gentile Ephesians did not
know the law of God — they never practiced the law of Moses.  It
was their frightful sins which separated them from God.
Now they were reconciled to God, forgiven of their past sin.
They had the Spirit of God to overcome themselves and to overcome
the world around them, with its human traditions, its human
dogmas, its human commandments which were in opposition to God
and to His law!  There is certainly not one word here about the
law of Moses or the Ten Commandments being annulled.
Yes, it does make a difference to God whether we obey Him.  It
does make a difference which days we keep!
But what about Galatians 4:10 and Romans 14:5-6.  What are the
days referred to here?

Esteeming One Day Above Another

Let’s notice what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 14:5, 6.
“One MAN esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth
every day alike.  Let every man be FULLY PERSUADED in his own
mind” (Romans 14:5, 6).
By taking these verses out of their setting, people make Paul
say something altogether different from what he intended.  Does
Paul say to observe Christmas, Easter, Lent, Good Friday, Sunday,
or the Festival of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven?
Does he say here that Jesus by His death did away with the
very days He kept during His whole life?
Does Paul say “GOD esteemeth one day above another” and “GOD
esteemeth every day alike?”  NO!  The Scripture says “one MAN
esteemeth one day above another.”  This tells us what certain MEN
thought, not what God says!
We are not to be JUDGED by what MEN think, but by the word of
God!  John 12:48 reads: “The WORD that I have spoken, THE SAME
shall judge him in the last day.”  Jesus is not going to judge
you by what any MAN believes, but by the words He spoke!
Next, notice that these saints at Rome, having differing
opinions, were forbidden to JUDGE ONE ANOTHER as unworthy of
Christ.  “Who are you that judges another man’s servant? to his
own master he stands or falls.  Yes, he shall be helped up: for
GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE HIM STAND” (Rom. 14:4).
Paul is not sanctioning nor condemning any particular periods
of time, but warning the saints not to JUDGE one another and
cause strife for having differing opinions about things THEY DID
NOT YET UNDERSTAND CLEARLY.
The Lord is the Judge of their deeds.  “He that regardeth the
day, regardeth it UNTO THE LORD, and he that regardeth not the
day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.”
Continuing, “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own
mind.”
Does this give license to believe whatever you want?  God
commands: “Lean not unto thine own understanding” (Prov. 3:5).
How are you going to be fully assured in your own mind UNTIL YOU
KNOW WHAT GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD?  “The holy scriptures … are
able to make you wise to salvation,” wrote Paul (II Tim. 3:15).
By studying the Word of God to prove all things, and by
holding fast that which is good (I Thess. 5:21), YOU BECOME FULLY
PERSUADED IN YOUR OWN MINDS concerning what GOD says.

Converts at Rome Were Weak

The saints at Rome were weak in the faith, not having acquired
perfect knowledge.  Paul says: “For I long to see you, that I may
impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you MAY BE
ESTABLISHED” (Rom. 1:11).
It is so plain.  Here were new converts at Rome, without a
regular local congregation, still weak in the faith, who were
divided in their regard of certain customs.  Paul told them not
to sit in judgment of one another, but to follow peace, because
GOD would judge them, after setting them aright through more
perfect knowledge which Paul was going to preach to them.  In the
meantime they were to act in accordance with the best they knew
from GOD’S Word, not MAN’S word.
This did not give them liberty to do as they pleased.  They
were to obey what God revealed.  It would be sin if they
disobeyed AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH HAD COME.  For to him
that KNOWS to do good and doesn’t do it, it is sin (James 4:17;
John 9:41).

What Were These Days?

But what days was Paul referring to?
Let’s read these verses in Romans 14 in their setting, rather
than take them out of their context.  Notice! Paul is writing to
the saints at Rome, both Jew and Gentile.  He admonished them to
receive those who are weak in the faith (Rom. 14:1), not to
dispute with them over unimportant matters and sit in judgment on
them.  Some of these recently converted Gentiles, being weak in
the faith, refused to eat meats, subsisting on vegetables mainly.
The reason for this is explained in I Corinthians 8.  Most
meat that could be bought had been offered to idols.  Therefore
some, with conscience of the idol “ate it as a thing offered unto
an idol; and their conscience being WEAK is defiled.  But meat
commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the
better; neither, if we eat not are we the worse” (I Cor. 8:7, 8).
There is the simple answer!  Some Gentiles at Rome had been
converted and HAD GIVEN UP IDOLATRY.  But they still held
superstitious beliefs in their minds, thinking that the idol was
something REAL.
But why did Paul break into his dissertation — about eating
meat or refraining from eating it — and mention “days?”
Notice the answer in the Moffatt translation of this passage:
“Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that
man rates all days alike.  Well, everyone must be convinced in
his mind; the man who values a particular day does so to the
Lord.  The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his
food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God”
(Rom. 14:5, 6).
Did you catch what Paul wrote?  Not only were there weak
converts who were afraid of eating meat offered to idols, but
there were others also who customarily ABSTAINED FROM PARTICULAR
FOODS — THEY SEMI-FASTED — ON CERTAIN PARTICULAR DAYS.  STILL
OTHERS REFUSED TO PRACTICE A SEMI-FAST OR ABSTAIN FROM FOODS BUT
REGARDED EVERY DAY IN THE SAME WAY.
The whole question surrounded the matter of abstention on
particular days.  It is not a question of pagan holidays or God’s
Holy Days.  It is merely a question of the days upon which many
voluntarily abstained from certain foods.
Jesus said that our fasting should be done before God, and not
to be seen or known of men unnecessarily (Matthew 6:16).  But
many Jews and Gentiles both practiced semi-fasts on particular
days of each week or month.  The Jews customarily fasted “twice
in the week” — Monday and Thursday (Luke 18:12).  They also
fasted during certain months (Zech. 7:4-7).  The Jews were
divided on this matter.  The Gentiles also had their divisions
over when to abstain from certain foods.  See Hasting’s
“Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.”
In God’s sight it does not matter when one abstains or fasts
– but it does matter that we do it with a right heart.  Paul was
going to Rome to straighten the brethren out on when and how to
abstain, but for the moment he wanted them to live at peace with
one another.
SO THESE DAYS WEREN’T GOD’S DAYS AFTER ALL!
There is nothing here referring to the Sabbath or the holy
days of God which Paul commanded to be observed by the Gentiles.
But what about Paul’s warning to the churches in Galatia
against observing “days, months, times and years”?  What were
THESE DAYS against which Paul preached?  The answer will probably
stun you!

The Letter to the Galatians

Here is what Paul wrote to the Galatians:
“Howbeit then, WHEN YOU KNEW NOT GOD, YOU DID SERVICE TO THEM
WHICH BY NATURE ARE NO GODS.  But now, AFTER you have known God,
HOW TURN YOU BACK AGAIN to the weak and beggarly elements
[Gentile traditions] where-unto you desire AGAIN to be in
bondage?  YOU OBSERVE DAYS, AND MONTHS, AND TIMES, AND YEARS” –
(Galatians 4:8-11).  I am alarmed about you, he concludes!
What is this that Paul is saying?
Read it again!
Did he say, “Ye observe the Sabbath and annual holy days such
as the Passover, Pentecost and Feast of Tabernacles”?  No!
Paul said: “Days and months, and times, and years” –
something altogether different!

What Days Were These!

Notice this entire fourth chapter of Galatians.  Paul begins
the chapter by addressing the JEWS — not Gentiles, but Jews –
who had been enslaved to worldly traditions sinful practices
inherited from the Gentiles since the days of Alexander the
Great’s conquest of Palestine.
These worldly traditions, which the apostle called “elements
of the world” (Gal. 4:3), came to be known as Judaism.  These
were NOT God’s laws, but the “traditions of the elders” (Mark
7:9) — worldly customs the Jews had adopted.  Paul addresses
these Jews as “we,” because Paul was also a Jew.  He says “we” –
THE JEWS — were redeemed from “under the law”‘ — that is,
redeemed from death — the penalty of breaking God’s spiritual
law.  The law had a claim over our lives because of our sins –
because of following human, sinful practices (verse 5).
Beginning with verse 6, PAUL CEASES TO SPEAK TO THE JEWS.  Now
he is speaking to the Gentile converts.  He does not say “we,”
but “you.”  Notice it!  “Howbeit, then, WHEN YE KNEW NOT GOD” –
remember, THE JEWS KNEW GOD, but the Gentiles had not known God
before the preaching of the gospel!  Jesus said to the Gentile
Samaritan woman: “YE” the Gentiles — “worship ye know not what:
WE” — the Jews — “know what we worship for salvation is of the
JEWS” (John 4:22).
Continuing with Gal. 4:8: “When YE knew not God, ye did
service unto them which by nature are no gods.  But now, after
that ye have known God … how turn YE again unto the weak and
beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire AGAIN to be in bondage?”
These converts to whom Paul is now writing WERE NOT JEWS!
They were Gentiles by birth.  These GENTILE converts in times
past did not know God, were cut off from Him (see Eph. 2:12),
“were slaves to gods which were no gods at all.”  They had been
serving demons and idols, not the Living God.  False teachers
were coming among them, perverting the true gospel, beguiling
them to TURN AGAIN TO THEIR FORMER WAYS.  Paul was alarmed.  They
were departing from the gospel and RETURNING to WHAT?  “Days, and
months, and times and years.”
Pagan practices! — doing penance an Christmas, Easter, New
Year’s, Sunday!
They couldn’t be returning to God’s festivals.  They never
kept them before Paul preached about them.

What Are “Times”?

Next, turn to Leviticus 19:26 and Deuteronomy 18:10, 14.  Here
Moses, according to the command of God, orders the Israelites NOT
TO OBSERVE “TIMES!”  This is ABSOLUTE PROOF that the days Paul is
forbidding are pagan and NOT God-given.  To observe TIMES
originally was a HEATHEN practice often attached to the heavenly
bodies, especially in determining the pagan calendar and the
heathen religious seasons.
Some today try to make you believe Paul was condemning Jews
for returning to the Sabbath and holy days of God, which they
claim were in the Law of Moses.  But the Law of Moses forbade
observance of “times.” Paul was writing to GENTILES who wanted to
return to observing penance on the Gentile “days” associated with
“times” — pagan “times” or “seasons” — such as the Easter and
Christmas seasons!
The Catholic Bishop Chrysostom, who lived in the fourth
century, admits that these superstitious TIMES which Paul
forbids, were PAGAN CUSTOMS practiced by “Christians” in his day,
as in the days of old.  He says: “Many were superstitiously
addicted to divination … upon them … In the celebration of
these TIMES [they] set up lamps in the marketplace, and CROWN
THEIR DOORS WITH GARLANDS” — as is done at Christmas time today!
(From “Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church,” pp. 1123,
1124).
Besides TIMES, the Greeks observed special DAYS in honor of
the dead.  “The rites took place on the … unlucky DAYS
accompanied by complete idleness and cessation of business” (From
“Rest Days,” p. 79). Today several churches celebrate pagan days
in honor of the dead, such as All Souls’ Day and All Saints Day
[CALLED Hallowe'en by the world].  These are the heathen days
Paul forbids Christians to observe!
These Gentile Galatians were returning to the custom of doing
penance on the old pagan days — days which now masquerade under
Christian sounding names!
“Many of the holy days in the religious calendar of
Christendom were BORROWED, as is well known, FROM THE FESTIVALS
OF ANCIENT PAGANISM” (“Rest Days,” p. 306).
Paul denounces this vain and abominable practice.  We are NOT
TO LEARN the way of the heathen (Jer. 10).
In connection with the old pagan idolatry, WERE NUMEROUS DAYS
OBSERVED AS IDOLATROUS PENITENTIAL FESTIVALS.  These days were
consecrated to deities of the state religious cults and were
“UNLUCKY” because of the supposed influence of the gods!
These religious holidays were set aside as periods of penance
because they were “regarded as unsuitable for many purposes, both
public and private: for battles, levies, sacred rites, journeys
and marriages.  We are told that they owed their unlucky quality
to the pronouncement of the Senate and pontiffs.”  (From “Rest
Days” by Webster, p. 171.)
As many as ONE THIRD OF THE DAYS OF the old Greek and Roman
calendars were marked as “unlawful for judicial and political
business … and … on which the state expected the citizens to
abstain, as far as possible, from their private business and
labour!”
No wonder Paul spoke of “days!”
And how many “worldly” as well as religious people still have
similar beliefs today!  Such as “unlucky” FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!
Paul was writing to the Galatians to enlighten their minds so
they would GIVE UP this foolish regard of heathen days.

Other Heathen Holidays

Notice that Paul also condemns the pagan custom of observing
“months and years” — another pagan custom!
Certain MONTHS of the year were considered sacred to the Greek
gods, Apollo (April, October), Zeus (February, June), Artemas
(April), Bacchus (January) and many others which you can read of
in the “Encyclopedia Americana,” article “Festival.”  God never
commanded His people to commemorate months.
But the world today has adopted the heathen months of the
Roman calendar — and forgotten God’s calendar!
Also certain YEARS were set aside quadrennially and biennially
during which were national idolatrous feasts and the celebration
of the Olympic, Ithmaian, Nemean and Pythian games.  Every one of
these was connected with idolatrous worship and ceremony.
Paul was forbidding Gentile converts to return to these
heathen practices.
So, many of the present holidays of Christendom were
celebrated in the heathen world WHEN PAUL AND CHRIST WERE ON
EARTH, but they refused to observe them and commanded the true
Church not to observe them!

It Was Prophesied to Happen!

“Why,” it is often asked, “did the Bible not warn us that
pagan holidays would be substituted for the holy days?”
The answer is that THE BIBLE DOES WARN US!  It was prophesied
in advance — over 800 years before Paul warned about it in
Galatians 4:10.
Turn to the book of Hosea.  The prophet had a message for the
future — for our day!  Notice: “And I” — God is quoted by the
prophet — “will punish her” — our people today — “for the
FEAST DAYS OF THE BAALS!”
Sunday, Christmas, Easter, Halloween are feast days of Baal!
What could be plainer!  Our people “forgot Me, says the Lord”
– because they have rejected His holy days.  “And in that day”
– the very near future when Christ intervenes in world affairs
– “I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they
shall be mentioned by name no more” (Hosea 2:13, 17, RSV) .
How clear!  Israel today — our people — have adopted the
feast days of Baal.  The greatest of church holidays — Easter –
is named after the wife of Baal or Nimrod.  God forbids us to
honor Him by celebrating these Babylonish feasts.  God warns:
“Take heed … that thou inquire not …`How used these nations
to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.’  THOU SHALT NOT
DO SO UNTO THE LORD THY GOD.  For every abomination which He
hateth, have they done unto their gods” (Deut. 12:30-31).
These pagan abominations are forbidden by the apostle Paul in
Galatians.  THAT is New Testament teaching!

Misunderstood Texts in the Old Testament

God chose Israel for a special mission they have failed to
perform.  He revealed to them His Sabbath as a sign so they would
never forget that He is the Creator.  He also gave Israel annual
holy days, MEMORIALS, to commemorate Israel’s deliverance from
Egypt — A PICTURE FOR HIS CHURCH OF THE PLAN OF GOD IN
DELIVERING THE WORLD FROM SIN.
But Israel did not remain faithful to these God-given
festivals!  They invented days of their own!
Several chapters are devoted by the prophet Ezekiel to a
CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL FOR BREAKING THE SABBATHS GOD HAD GIVEN.
Take special note of Ezekiel 20:12-26 and 22:26.  The punishment
inflicted upon the House of Israel was for desecrating the
Sabbaths.
What was the extreme evil of Sabbath-breaking?  With the
desecration of the Sabbaths, idolatry was a natural consequence,
and Sunday, Christmas and Easter were introduced.  THESE pagan
holidays God calls “abominations!”
Some claim there are texts in the Old Testament in which God
says “My” Sabbaths and festivals “I hate.” This is not true.  God
said: “I hate, I DESPISE your feast days, and … YOUR solemn
assemblies.”  Notice it.  “YOUR new moons and YOUR appointed
feasts my soul hateth: for they are a trouble unto me” (Amos
5:21; 8:10, Isaiah 1:10-15; Hosea 2:11) .
These were not divine institutions, but MAN-APPOINTED days
observed in Israel.  These days God despised.
Ancient Israel did NOT continue to observe the holy days of
God.  They refused His judgments and statutes (Ezekiel 20:18).
They copied the heathen idolatrous feasts of surrounding nations.
History proves this fact!
The chronicler of ancient Israel preserved a record of just
such A CHANGE IN THE LAWS of God, WHEN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
SEPARATED FROM JUDAH.
“And JEROBOAM ORDAINED A FEAST in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah,
and he offered upon the altar … sacrificing unto the calves
that he had made the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in
the month WHICH HE HAD DEVISED OF HIS OWN HEART …” (I Kings
12:32, 33).  This feast is the origin of Hallowe’en!
Thereafter ISRAEL ALTERED THE NEW MOONS AND CHANGED THE SACRED
CALENDAR.  They EXCHANGED THE SABBATHS FOR IDOLATROUS DAYS FOR
SUN-WORSHIP — the rest day was transferred from Saturday to
Sunday.  Israel, taking over the feasts of the HEATHEN BAAL –
SUN-WORSHIP turned them into IDOLATROUS rest days according to
the statutes of the kings of Israel (II Kings 17:8).
When the House of Israel is next found in history, as the
nations of Northwestern Europe, they are keeping the day of the
sun!  So the Ever-Living God never hated nor abolished His
feasts.  But He did hate the different days which Israel
invented!
Now let us continue with the history of the Jews.

Did Judah Remain Faithful?

Consider now what God says about “Jewish” feasts!
Now notice the first chapter of Isaiah.  It is addressed in
particular to Judah.  Like the ancient people of Sodom and
Gomorrah, the Jews instituted their own appointed feasts and
tampered with the period of the new moon.  “YOUR new moons and
YOUR appointed feasts my soul hateth,” said the Word of the Lord
(Isaiah 1:14).  This was the beginning of what are customarily
called “Jewish feasts.”  Being instituted BY THE JEWS they were
naturally “Jewish.”
But NOTHING is said about the Jews’ instituting their own
Sabbath!  It is not surprising then, that THE JEWS HAVE PRESERVED
THE RIGHT SABBATH of God to our generation.  The house of Israel
(the Democratic nations of the Western World) which did not keep
the seventh day as the Sabbath, has NEVER OBSERVED IT SINCE.
Although the Jews added their own appointed feasts and new
moons, they ALSO RETAINED the Biblical ones — “THE new moons and
Sabbaths, THE calling of assemblies.”  These they turned into
abominations and profaned by idolatry and labor.  “I cannot
endure iniquity,” says God, along with the solemn assembly.” No
wonder GOD ABHORRED THE MANNER in which the Jews treated His holy
Sabbath and festivals (Isa. 1:13).
For that sin, especially, they were driven out of Judea and
DEPRIVED OF ONE OF THE MAJOR BLESSINGS OF GOD — the joy of
keeping His days.  They became the property of their enemies and
“the Lord … caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be
forgotten in Zion” (Lamentations 2:6).  Jeremiah does NOT joy
over the abolition of the festivals, but LAMENTS OVER THEIR BEING
FORGOTTEN!
Notice that at the return of Christ — when He brings “good
tidings” and “announceth peace” — He also commands His feasts to
BE KEPT ONCE AGAIN (Nahum 1:15 and Zechariah 14:16-19 and Isaiah
56).
It is time we begin to follow Jesus’ example and keep holy the
days God made holy, instead of neglecting them!
Let’s all be at the Feast of Tabernacles!