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The Modern Romans

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Rome fell – a fact of history!

But why? The reasons have never been fully understood. The lessons have not been learned. Many of the same basic mistakes that weakened the once mighty Roman Empire before its toppling by barbarian hordes are now being repeated in America, Britain and the Western world.

You need to understand!

This booklet contains a shocking message – a warning for our day. And unless our peoples and nations wake up and immediately alter their course, they will – in modern fashion, and much more rapidly – suffer a similar crashing downfall!

Shepherd

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Cruise travelers tell of deadly waves off Spain – Yahoo! News

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Passenger Margit Kohe Ternes of Germany talks to reporters after getting off the

BARCELONA, Spain – The Mediterranean was heaving as the 68-year-old Italian stood in the cruise ship lounge. A moment later a monstrous wave shattered the windows and sent shards into her head, leaving her bleeding on the floor and calling out for her husband.

Torrents of water gushed into the Louis Majesty, pouring through several floors of the ship.

“I thought I would end up in the sea, drowned,” said Anna Lita, who had a black eye and bandages on her head and hand Thursday.

via Cruise travelers tell of deadly waves off Spain – Yahoo! News.

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American Thinker: Family Breakdown and the Nation’s Pocketbook

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

In the lobby of the Department of Health and Human Services is a large bronze sculpture of a solitary woman playing with her three children. That sculpture is called “Happy Mother.”
Nothing better illustrates what’s wrong with American culture today than the philosophy behind that sculpture — that fathers are extraneous. Yet that myth is the basis of forty years of failure by the leftist research communities to honestly report on the problem of fatherless families.
Many social scientists now agree: A loving mother and father within a committed marriage is the very best foundation for the family, for the economy, and for the nation. Yet currently, about forty percent of American children are born out of wedlock. That fact affects everyone and all of American culture. Though many have tried, there is no way to separate the social and economic issues; they are intertwined. Family problems always hit our pocketbooks — hard!

Family Breakdown and the Nation’s Pocketbook

By Janice Shaw Crouse

via American Thinker: Family Breakdown and the Nation’s Pocketbook.

SOMETHING caused the Creator God to decide to create MAN on this planet. Few indeed know what it was and what the PURPOSE for humanity’s presence really is. WHERE are We going, and what is the way?

The Family – God’s Plan for Mankind

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Is this incredible thing in heavens a sign from God?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

‘The truth is, we’re still struggling to understand what this means’

Some people are seeing a flying cross, or perhaps a Star of David.

Others say it resembles a ninja-style throwing blade or even a science-fiction spaceship from such Hollywood creations as “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Babylon 5″ or “The Last Starfighter.”

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By Joe Kovacs
World News Daily

Boycott Hasbro’s Pink Ouija Board for Girls!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

A Canadian man once heavily involved in the occult is launching a boycott of both Hasbro and Toys-R-Us for marketing a new pink Ouija board for girls ages eight and up.

“This is the mainstreaming of the occult,” said John Cain, 50, of Ottawa, Canada. He first spotted something about the pink Ouija board on a Jan. 28 post appearing on the Catholic Answers Forum and decided to look into it.

He found an ad for the toy on the Toys R Us website which proudly proclaimed: “ . . . (N)ow the OUIJA Board is just for you, girl.” The new flashy pink board comes with 72 questions to ask the board, a carrying case with storage pockets and instructions for how to use it to contact the dead. “Make up your own questions, and let the OUIJA Board satisfy your curiosity in virtually endless ways,” the site says. “OUIJA Board will answer. It’s just a game – or is it?”

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist http://lhla.org/

Avatar and the Coming One World Religion

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

AvatarJames Cameron’s movie, Avatar, is a spellbinding blockbuster whose effects are so astonishing that they vividly transport the audience into another worldly realm where worshipping a tree and communing with spirits are not only acceptable; they are attractive. Avatar  is also markedly pantheistic and essentially, the gospel according to James Cameron. This pantheistic theme that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe is outwardly depicted by the heroes and heroine in the movie who all worship Eywa, the “All Mother” Goddess, who is described as “a network of energy” that “flows through all living things.”

Overall, the movie is strewn with ritualistic magic, communion with spirits, shamanism, and blatant idolatry as it conditions the audience to believe these pagan occult lies. In addition, the audience is led to sympathize with the Avatar and even ends up pulling for him as he is initiated into pagan rituals. Even the lead scientist becomes a pagan in the end, proclaiming that she is “with Eywa, she’s real,” and goes to be with her upon her death.

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By: Joe Schimmel
http://www.goodfight.org/

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.”(Romans 1:21-25)

United Europe’s New Decade

Monday, January 25th, 2010

UNited Europe's New Decade

With the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon taking effect December 1, the framework has been hammered in place for what critics fear will be the structure for an authoritarian super state that will strip sovereignty from the EU’s 27 member countries and open the way for a powerful dictator to seize absolute control in the event of a major crisis.

 As 2010 gets under way, the new decade promises to be a momentous one for a unified Europe, which does not bode well for the rest of the world as events in the Middle East threaten to spiral out of control and the beleaguered American economy teeters on the brink of collapse.

The Holy Bible prophesies that a seventh, final resurrection of a monstrous, ruthless Roman Empire on the European continent will precede the return of Jesus Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Individual countries will willingly surrender their freedoms to this all-powerful central authority, weakening their democracies.

Notice Revelation 17:12-14: “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

For the first time, the Treaty of Lisbon establishes a single EU president and a foreign/security affairs official to speak with one voice for the entire European Union. It also gives the European Parliament increased involvement in the legislative process. The European Central Bank gains official status as an EU institution, and the euro becomes the EU’s official currency. It also paves the way for a common military defense agreement. It essentially strips the right of Britain and other member states to veto new EU rules, surrendering more powers to the European Union.

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By Mark Mendiola, Elder
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from the January-February 2010 Philadelphia Remnant Magazine

Why Does God Allow Wars?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

http://www.house.gov/delahunt/images/graves.jpgWhy Does God Allow Wars? More people have asked me this question than any other: Why, if there be a God, does God allow wars and all this human suffering and anguish? Why such terrifying world conditions as we face now?

People put it to me this way: If God is good, if God is love, if God is merciful, he wouldn’t want people to suffer like they do on this earth, would he? And, if God is Almighty, if he has all power, he could stop it. He could prevent it. Then, why doesn’t he?

I want to make plain to you what you may never have heard or thought of before.

The God I believe in—the God that I know exists, because I can prove it!—is the God who created all things. He is the Creator not only of matter, but also of force, of energy, of all the laws that exist: the laws of chemistry, the laws of physics—spiritual laws as well as physical laws to regulate man’s life and man’s happiness.

God created man in his image, and for a purpose that almost no one seems to understand. Did you ever stop to think and wonder why you were born?
What is this purpose that God is working out?

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By Herbert W. Armstrong
Feburary 1986 Plain Truth Magazine
Personal from the Editor
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Free Booklet: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are the
beginning of sorrows;

Mat 24:5  For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6  And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat 24:7  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8  All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.


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THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTMAS

Saturday, December 19th, 2009
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Where did the world get Christmas? … from the Bible, or paganism?

Here are the astonishing facts which may shock you! Test yourself.

How much do you know of the origin of the Christmas tree — of “Santa Claus”  — of the mistletoe — of the holly wreath — of the custom of exchanging gifts?

WHEN I was a very little boy, I was taught to hang up my stockings on Christmas eve. When I awakened the next morning, they were filled with small toys and sacks or little boxes of candy and nuts.

And beside the mantle, from which my stockings hung, a Christmas tree had suddenly appeared, decorated with shiny tinsel. And on it hung presents. Other presents for us children were piled on the floor underneath.

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by Herbert W. Armstrong
1952, 1972, 1974 edition
Formatted by Frank Olive
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