Captain David Y. Pyron of the Army of the Republic of Texas - 8:57 AM, 12/17/2009 |
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Captain David Young Pyron of the Army of the Republic of Texas Bernard Pyron A few years ago I found Captain David T. Pyron or David Y. Pyron of the Texas Army on the Internet. But I lost his trail when I found a copy of a Travis county, Texas Probate Court document from 1847 disposing of the estate of David Y. Pyron. David B. Pyron is probably the same man as David T. Pyron and David Y. Pyron. Captain Pyron was given a tract of land in Brown county, Texas for his service to the Republic. Brown county in the early forties was still mostly Indian country. This land may be the bulk of his estate which was in Probate Court in Travis county in 1847. One way of identifying David Y. Pyron is by his Texas regiment and Company. See http://www.tshaonline.org/supsites/military/rep_rev7.htm Pyron, David T. Company C 1st Regt. Permanent Volunteers (T.A.?) Period: 6 Mo. or D.W. Enlistment from Jun 1, 1836 Dec 29, 1836 [A3; T1 p185-186] Note that Captain Pyron enlisted in the Texas Army on June 1, 1836. This was after the decisive battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836 in present day Harris County, Texas. Apparently the dates of June 1st to December 29th of 1836 are only his first enlistment. He explains in an existing letter - see link below - how he became Captain of his company. On http://www.forttours.com/pages/idfallof1843.asp This story of an Indian fight north of Austin in the Fall of 1843 is from from the book, Indian Depredations in Texas by J. W. Wilbarger, first published in 1889 The story in the book, Indian Depredations In Texas says: "During the fall of 1843 Captain Pyron, Donavan, John Gravis, Jim Berry and Harrell went out to Brushy Creek at a place called Kinney's Fort, to get a load of corn from a little field which they had cultivated that year in the vicinity of the fort. After having loaded their wagon they all started home and when within a few miles out of the city of Austin - then a mere village town in point of population - about where the Lunatic Asylum now stands, they were attacked by a party of Indians, about fifty in number, supposed to be Lipans. In fact there was no doubt in the minds of those who were attacked upon this point. In the afternoon and before the attack was made, a heavy rain had fallen and had so thoroughly drenched the guns of the whites they they were almost unfit for use. When the Indians charged upon them they were traveling in the direction of the timber. The whooping and yelling of the savages so frightened the oxen that they changed the course with which they had been traveling and atarted out into the open prairie. While Pyron was attempting to change the course of the lead steers back in the direction of which they had been traveling towards the timber, an Indian rushed upon him and thrust him through the side with a lance, producing instant death. Donovan was also killed in the engagement but the other three made good their escape to the timber and came on down Shoal Creek into Austin and notified the citizens, who set out immediately in pursuit of the Indians. Of course some little time had intervened between the attack and the notification of the citizens by those who escaped, and by the time the crowd had collected together and arrived upon the battle ground the Indians had reached the cedar brakes of the mountains near by, which always afforded them a secure hiding place after committing their fiendish murders and outrages upon the settlers. This was the first positive evidence that the citizens of Travis county had that the Lipan Indians were hostile toward the settlers, though they had been strongly suspected by some who did not place much confidence in any tribe of Indians." But it does not give the first name of Captain Pyron. However, a contemporary Pyron, John E. Pyron, in a message of December 10, 2009 to me, says "All I know of him, other than his ancestry, is from a note of my grandfather's that says he died childless, "killed by Indians at Austin." There is a possibility he is the Captain William Pyron killed by Indians north of Austin mentioned in a book on Bigfoot Wallace. A Donovan and a Harrell are said to have been in this Indian fight, and interestingly Jacob M. Harrell was the administrator of David Pyron's estate. John Harrell bought Pyron's 1200 acres in Brown county. Jacob M. Harrell was mayor of Austin in 1847. On p. 68 of Bigfoot Wallace by Stanley Vestal (1942) there is a brief mention of an Indian fight north of Austin. To me, this book seems to be part legend, as well as history and Stanley Vestal may not have gotten the first name of Captain Pyron right. Vestal did say that Bigfoot Wallace was the one who found Captain Pyron's body, I think with an Indian lance through it or nearby, Here is the link to the letter of Captain Pyron to an uncle: http://www.vialibri.net/item_pg/2987619-1836-captain-david-pyron-1836-army-texas-als.htm The letter opens in saying "Recently found on viaLibri....Captain David B. Pyron 1836 Army of Texas...Written in ink and datelined "Headquarters - Army of Texas / Camp Johnson Nov. 24 1836," letter reads in part: ".Dear Uncle, Sir I received your friendly letter of Oct 23.I was happy to learn that none of my friends were dead but regret to learn that my mothers health is what it is though I would have been more uneasy had I not heard from her... I [served] three or four months in the capacity of a private when the captain of our company died, and the company chose me to fill his place. Since that time I have the honor to command the most intelligent and respectable company in the Texas Army..." On Captain Pyron's Pyron ancestry, contemporary John E. Pyron says "This is in reply to your Facebook posting, Bernard. I'm reasonably sure your Capt. David Pyron was my great-grandfather's older brother, David Young Pyron, born in Knoxville in late 1806 or early 1807. All I know of him, other than his ancestry, is from a note of my grandfather's that says he died childless, "killed by Indians at Texas." He was the 1st cousin of Charles Lynn Pyron, who fought in the Mexican War and was later Colonel of the Confederate Texas Mounted Riflemen. I would be delighted to have any other information you have on David. He was the grandson of John, born 1762 (1st cousin of William, born 1757), and hence your 3rd cousin a few times removed, I think. John Pyron" In a December 16, 2009 E Mail on Facebook John E. Pyron says " David Y. Pyron's father was Charles, born in Mecklenburg Co., NC, in 1783, married to Ann Henderson in Knox Co., TN, in 1806, died in Williamson Co., TN in 1847. His father was John, b.1762." Charles Pyron is a son of John Pyron, born in 1762. According to http://genforum.genealogy.com/pyron/messages/88.html "John Pyron, born c.1735, was married to Mary Cates and that they had two sons (and daughters Ann and Margery): John, born c.1762, and Joshua, born c.1770." In addition, Charles Pyron, father of Captain David Young Pyron of the Texas Army, was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina. Later he lived in William county, Tennessee. The William Pyron (1757 to 1850) line, including my great grandfather, Andrew Jackson Pyron, also lived in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina. Andrew Jackson Pyron, grandson of William Pyron, 1757-1850, was born in 1814 and died in about 1859.. According to John E. Pyron our William Pyron and John Pyron, born 1762, were first cousins. So the father of Andrew Jackson Pyron, William Pyron the Younger, about 1789 to 1844, and Charles Pyron, born in 1783, were second cousins. Andrew Jackson Pyron, as a grandson of William Pyron, 1757-1850, was on the same Pyron generational level as Captain David Pyron. Below is the entire letter of Captain Pyron to an uncle: http://www.vialibri.net/item_pg/2987619-1836-captain-david-pyron-1836-army-texas-als.htm viaLibri Resources for Bibliophiles Recently found on viaLibri.... Captain David B. Pyron 1836 Army of Texas ALS - 1836 Army of Texas letter by Captain David B. Pyron. Original historical document with references to Sam Houston's leadership and the formation of the new republic. Written in ink and datelined "Headquarters - Army of Texas / Camp Johnson Nov. 24 1836," letter reads in part: ".Dear Uncle, Sir I received your friendly letter of Oct 23.I was happy to learn that none of my friends were dead but regret to learn that my mothers health is what it is though I would have been more uneasy had I not heard from her. You seem to think I acted an unwise part in leaving.when I did as perhaps every man would.with all the circumstances with which I was surrounded.I had commenced the practice of medicine without having received a diploma and it has ever been my disposition not to engage in any profession until I stood upon an equal footing with the members of that profession. I consequently would have had to attend some two or three courses of lectures which would have cost me all I could have made for three years by my practice, I should then have had to commenced anew. I could have cleared fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars a year. At this rate it would have taken me five years to get able to purchase a farm and hands to work it on a small scale. This I conceived too tedious for me and another thing I did not like the practice of medicine. Another thing which induced me to come to Texas was I had an offer made me by a worthy and experienced young man to go into the mercantile business with him in Texas thinking that there would be a prime opening here as soon as peace was made, which from what I can learn will be the case. Another thing which induced me to leave the Chickasaw Nation was I did not find it to be the country I expected to find, and I did not like the manner they were managing the lands there. Another was I believed Texas, from what I could learn, was the finest country on the globe which I find is the fact. And finally, I was in a proper situation to embark in the most hazardous enterprise being separated from all my kindred friends and acquaintances, standing alone as it were, surrounded by suspicious and ungrateful world. I left and came to Texas and I do not repent it yet, though we have had to live thirty days on beef and beans alone. I joined the army as a private at the same time I was solicited to act in the capacity of a surgeon. I discovered their task was disagreeable and unthankful one and the one.to which their was not much honor attached. I [served] three or four months in the capacity of a private when the captain of our company died, and the company chose me to fill his place. Since that time I have the honor to command the most intelligent and respectable company in the Texas Army. Congress is now in session and appear to move on which perfect harmony in organizing a new republic. There seems to be a tolerable share of intelligence in both houses with Samuel Houston at their head.Their acts seem thus far to prove this fact. They are at this time about reorganizing the army thru regimenting of volunteers.The number of men in the army at this time does not exceed eight hundred men.Felix Huston has the confidence of the army at this time.His opinion seems to be that we will have a fight with the Mexican forces this winter. My impression is we will not as they are fighting at home. The plan, I believe, is to wait awhile and if the Mexicans do not come in or make peace there will be an expedition filled out for the attack of Matemoros and by this means we will force them into a treaty. I have no doubt that if such an expedition was declared but what we could raise three thousand troops ready to march into Matemoros. I still think that peace will be made." Letter measures 9.75" x 15.5". Some soiling and dampstaining to creases; bites and chips to edges. 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Who Is the Remnant of Israel? - 2:05 PM, 12/16/2009 |
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Who Is The Remnant of Israel? Bernard Pyron "I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD. The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid." This is Zephaniah 3: 12-13 In Romans 11 Gentile Christians are grafted into ethnic Israel reborn as spiritual Israel. Before the Cross and the Day of Pentecost Israel was made up of descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and a few Gentiles who joined themselves to Israel. After Pentecost, reborn Israel was made up of Peter, John and a few thousand other Jews who had become reborn in Christ. It is this group of reborn Jews to which Gentile Christians are grafted in. There is in Scripture no "Church" which is different from Israel. The Greek word ekklesia in the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, number 1577, is said to mean "a calling out, a popular meeting, a religious congregation,Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both." An ekklesia is not a capital C Church in the sense of an institution authorized by the Bible, and certainly not a corporation set up under the federal government, i.e., the Internal Revenue Service. An ekklesia is just a community of Christians who have been called out of the world.... Who then is the Remnant of Israel? Daniel 11: 33 "And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days." Daniel 12: 3 "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.... For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." Isaiah 60: 1-2 The dispensationalists have contributed to the confusion over what and who is Israel. They do not clearly separate out that small group (who numbered maybe a few thousand) of Jews in the very early Jewish community in Jerusalem who were transformed into spiritual Israel by the Cross and at the Day of Pentecost - and for a while after Pentecost - from an also small number of Jews who were not transformed but who were mostly faithful to the Old Covenant, and from another larger group of Jews who followed Talmudic Judaism and the religion of the Pharisees. Traditionally the Reformation Christians taught that born again Christians are Israel. Present day Calvinists and orthodox Lutherans still teach we are Israel. This does not mean the Christian Remnant now is Calvinist or Lutheran. Most of the Calvinists and Lutherans have not studied Bible prophecy in much detail, while the Remnant is interested in prophecy. |
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Apostasy As the Rejection of the Transformation of Ethnic Israel To Spiritual Israel - 3:23 PM, 12/5/2009 |
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Apostasy As the Rejection of the Transformation of Ethnic Israel To Spiritual Israel Bernard Pyron Acts 15: 1 says: "And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved." Acts 15: 5: "But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses." This is evidence of an early apostasy coming out of the church at Jerusalem. There are similarities between this early Jerusalem apostasy and the apostasy of classical dispensationalism, which is the dominant man-made theology taught in very many contemporary churches. Both dispensationalism and the early Jerusalem church apostasy show a... failure to accept the transformation of ethnic Israel (I.e. the Jews) into spiritual Israel. Both apostasies represent a rejection of the change from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. Dispensationalists say Jeremiah 30 and 31 - the New Covenant - refer to their futuristic tribulation period which is to occur after the rapture of the church and/or to their Jewish millennium. A dispensationalist J. Dwight Pentecost says:... "This covenant must follow the return of Christ at the second advent".4 4 J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1958), pages 120-121 "This covenant will be realized in the millennial age" 5 5 Ibid., page 121. Pentecost goes on to say "Regardless of the relationship of the church to the new covenant as explained in these three views, there is one general point of agreement: the new covenant of Jeremiah 31:31-34 must and can be... See More fulfilled only by the nation Israel and not by the Church".6. Some recent dispensationalists have not stressed the theory that the New Covenant is a Jewish covenant. Read Hebrews 10:14-18, Hebrews 12:22-24:,II Corinthians 3:6, and Mark 14:24 and see if this dispensationalist theory holds up. But - the theory of Pentecost and Walvoord is still taught as doctrine in many churches. For a huge percentage of Christians, dispensationalism rather than Scripture is their authority. And dispensationalists, especially those who have become celebrities, are in part the authority for Christians, though many Christians can't name dispensationalists who the church Christians got their doctrines from Charles C. Ryrie (born 1925) says: "basic promise of Dispensationalism is two purposes of God expressed in the formation of two peoples who maintain their distinction throughout eternity." Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, 1966, pp.44-45. J. Dwight Pentecost is another dispensationalist theologian who in his book Things To Come ( 1965) says "The church and Israel are two distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan. The church is a mystery, unrevealed in the Old Testament. This mystery program must be completed before God can resume His program with Israel and bring it to completion. These considerations all arise from a literal method of interpretation." (page 193, J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965).... See More For dispensationalists Christians cannot be spiritual Israel. The classical dispensationalists - John Darby, C.I. Scofield, Lewis S. Chafer and Charles C. Ryrie - insist that "Israel" in the Old Testament always means physical or ethnic Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And - the Catholic Church did not replace ethnic Israel. Ethnic Israel was reborn in Jesus Christ. It was transformed rather than replaced. To say that, after the Cross and after the Day of Pentecost, God has two distinct and separate peoples, the Jews and the Church, whom he deals with differently, is a rejection of the Lord's transformation of ethnic Israel into spiritual Israel. Read John 3: 1-7, Galatians 3: 28, Romans 2: 28-29, and Galatians 4: 22-26 John 3: 1-3 "There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." This shows that Jews, even Pharisees, must be born again in Jesus Christ to be saved. They are not saved just by their race. Galatians 3: 28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." After reading this verse i don't see how the dispensationalists, who are now so popular in the churches, can say there are two people of God, the Jews and the church. There is only one people who are saved, which is Israel, but Israel reborn. Romans 2: 28-29 "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Dispensationalists may have difficulties with these verses. To them the Jew is always in Scripture an ethnic Jew, a Jew by race. Paul here is using "Jew" in a metaphoric sense to teach that in the New Covenant the Jew is on the same footing as the Gentile and both must be born again. Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is saying that a real Jew can be a Gentile who is born again. Galatians 4: 22-26 "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. Dispensationalists want everything in the Bible to be literal But the Bible has all kinds of metaphors. The Jerusalem which is below and in bondage in the Jerusalem which represents the Old Covenant and the law of Moses. The Jerusalem which is free and is above is the mother of us all - who are saved - is spiritual Israel, the New Covenant of faith and grace as opposed to the Old Covenant of legalism. By not fully accepting the transformation of ethnic Israel into spiritual Israel, the classical dispensationalists support, at least for the Jews, bondage to the Old Covenant and legalism. I know that some dispensationalists will say that Jews are not saved by going through Christ on the cross, but by some other way, while other dispensationalists will deny this is a doctrine of their theology. Some dispensationalists make contradictory statements and are ambiguous on how the Jews are saved. The statements below are from: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/357-john-hagee-salvation "Televangelist John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, whose Cornerstone Church and Rodfei Sholom congregations are based in San Antonio, told The Jerusalem Post that Falwell had adopted Hagee’s innovative belief in what Christians refer to as “dual covenant” theology. This creed, which runs counter to mainstream evangelism, maintains that the Jewish people has a special relationship to God through the revelation at Sinai and therefore does not need “to go through Christ or the Cross” to get to heaven. Scheinberg said this has been Hagee’s position for the 25 years the two have worked together on behalf of Israel and that Falwell had also come to accept it. Falwell sent a representative to the San Antonio launch of Christians United for Israel in early February, as did popular televangelist Pat Robertson. Pastors John Hagee and Jerry Falwell have both denied a report in The Jerusalem Post earlier this week that they embrace the “dual covenant” theology, which holds that Jews are saved through a special relationship with God and so need not become Christians to get to heaven. In a statement to the Post, the Texas-based televangelist Hagee said that neither he nor Southern Baptist pastor Falwell “believe or teach Dual Covenant.” Hagee added that he had “made it a practice for 25 years not to target Jews for conversion” at any “Night to Honor Israel” events. If Jews “inquire about our faith at a later time, we give them a full scriptural presentation of redemption.” ... But who is right, the article attributed to John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg in the Jerusalem Post or John Hagee when he denied he supports a special salvation for Jews John Hagee has a huge church in San Antonio and is the founder of CUFU, Christians United For Israel. Hegee gives the impression that he and CUFI reject the transformation of ethnic Israel to spiritual Israel, even though he may deny he supports salvation for the Jews by the Old Covenant. ""He came unto his own, and his own received him not" (John 1:11)." Nevertheless, any Jew can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ and by being born again.... See More Ethic Israel (the Hebrews and/or Jews) as a Remnant was transformed into spiritual Israel at the Day of Pentecost and beyond Peter and John and a few thousand other Jews were transformed. Peter and John were just fishermen before that great transformation by being in the Lord. This all happened before Gentiles became Christians, or before large numbers of them became believers. This transformed Israel - Jews transformed by the Holy Spirit - is the good olive tree of Romans 11 into which Christian Gentiles are grafted. Romans 11: 17-20 says " And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:" And Romans 11: 24 tells us that "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" "Thou" in 11: 17 refers to Christian Gentiles. "Because of unbelief they were broken off" refers to Jews who rejected Jesus Christ. Matthew 8: 11- 12 says "And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Paul was trained as a Prarisee and his transformation into the man who the Lord assigned to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles began when Saul - who became Paul - encountered the risen Christ on the road to Damascus. Christ knocked Saul the Pharisee off of his high horse and made him his servant. Paul, however, was not part of that early Jewish Christian community in Jerusalem. Paul and his followers tended to operate out of Antioch in Syria rather than from Jerusalem, where the Christian Jewish community became apostate as shown by Acts 15. Some followers of dispensationalism get things all confused and in danger of being on the way to the spirit of anti-Christ by saying Gentile Christians are grafted into some kind of vague Jewish construct, .without separating out transformed Israel, from the Israel which faithfully followed the Old Covenant and from Talmudic Judaism and the religion of the Pharisees. Dispensationalists tend to reject this transformation of ethnic Israel into spiritual Israel, saying or implying, that Jews remain now under the Old Covenant and perhaps also that the small remnant of Jews who became Christians are under the Old Covenant. Some early classical dispensationalists even said or implied that Jews are saved by race. Later dispensationalists sometimes deny thus, but it is still there as background of dispensationalism. Bernard |
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The Population Reduction Movement - 3:25 PM, 9/14/2009 |
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The Population Reduction Movement Bernard Pyron The New Age Occult Movement and Population Reduction Several leaders in the New Age Occult Movement have called for the elimination of numbers of people now living. The New Age Occult people arrived on the scene of the counterculture toward the end of the sixties and early seventies. Of course, earlier than that, many who into the drug and hippie affairs had been into astrology, and some were interested in the ancient Chinese I Ching. The New Age Occultists go back to earlier occult movements, especially back to Helen P. Blavatsky and Alice B. Bailey. In 1875 Blatavsky published Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. Some say she influenced Hitler. Alice Bailey published a number of works from 1919 to 1945. In the period of the counterculture and its aftermath, Marilyn Ferguson's The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation In the 1980's is one of the more influential books on the New Age. John Randolph Price's The Planetary Commission is another such book. Price also wrote Practical Spirituality. In this book Price has some things to say that parallel the Nazi concept of Der Ubermensch, the superior people, or the master race, and Der Untermensch, the sub-human, or under races. In Practical Spirituality, Price says "These individuals with their lower vibratory rates will be removed during the next two decades." How are these useless people going to be removed? Barbara Marx Hubbard, another New Ager, in her book, Revelation: The Book of Co-Creation, tells us "Only the useless is destroyed..." She goes on to say that "We, the elders have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to cut out the corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity...We are in charge of God's selection process for Planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death." You might think that Price and Hubbard are just crazies and not really dangerous. But Hubbard has been involved in leftist politics. Marilyn Ferguson is or was associated with Humanistic Psychology and with a journal by that name. The Satanists Also Want To get Rid of Many People on www.dpjs.co.uk/elitism.html it is said that "Satanism if a...brutal religion of elites and Social Darwinism that seeks to re-establish the reign of the able over the idots..." In an August 1971 article in Newsweek, called "Evil Anyone," Satanist Anton LaVey is quoted as saying that his goal was "...the creation of a police state in which the weak are weeded out and the achievement oriented leadership is permitted to pursue the mysteries of black magic." Texe Marrs and others have connected members of the ruling elite, the oligarchs, or the Big Bankers, to the occult, high level Freemasonry and the Satanic. One such book by Marrs is Dark Majesty: The Secret Brotherhood of a Thousand Points of Light. Another is Circle of intrigue: The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati Conspiracy. Marrs also has a book called Dark Secrets of the New Age. There is a lot of information on the Internet about the Nazi movement, Hiter and the occult, such as the book, Hitler and the Occult, by Ken Anderson. According to www.cephasministry.com Hitler joined the occult Thule Society in 1919. An Occult Society of the Ruling Elite At Yale William Huntington Russell, from the old New England elite, spent some time in Germany and when he returned to Yale University in 1832 he and Alphonso Taft started the Yale Skull and Bones Society, based upon the German Thule Society. www.vocfux.com. Russell is said to have been given the authority by the German Thule Society to start a chapter at Yale. Skull and Bones is not just another college fraternity. It is an occult society,and is now one of the major centers out of which the New World order is supplied with its leaders and puppets. Both the father and grandfather of the present occupant of the White House were Skull and Bones members as is the President himself. The Environmentalists and Population Reduction Many people know that the Environmental Movement has long called for a large reduction in the human population - and they want to return large areas of North America to a wildland condition. For example, on the website of the Sierra Club at www.sierraclub.org they say that "Sustainability can only be achieved with population reduction and stabilization." Jacques Cousteau is reported to have said "...to stabilize the world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day." www.overpopulation.org. Ted Turner is reported to have said essentially the same thing, "We must eliminate 350,000 people per day/" www.fatima.freehosting.net. The figure of 350,000 per day adds up to 1.27 billion people eliminated in ten years. Henry Kissinger and Third World Population Reduction Henry Kissinger has not only been close to David Rockefeller, but has also held high level posts in the federal government. In the seventies, Kissinger created the Office of Population Affairs, which was involved with the NSV Ad Hoc Group, also created by Kissinger after he met with the Club of Rome during the 1974 population conferences. The Club of Rome is one of several organizations of the ruling elite calling for a reduction in world population. In the early seventies Kissinger also wrote a then secret National Security Memorandum (NSM 200) in which he said "Overpopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. towards the Third World." This information is from www.geocities.com/mypinkmagazine/aids.htmlElimination of part of the population in the Third World has been U.S. national security policy since the seventies. Iraq and Afghanistan are part of the Third World, and have been given the DU population reduction treatment by the ruling elite. The same site also reveals that in July of 1969 the U.S. Army requested and received ten million dollars from Congress to create "A synthetic biological agent that would impair or destroy the human immune system." The World Health Organization gave out smallpox vaccinations to some of the people in central Africa, now known as the "AIDS Belt." Along with the AIDS virus, Ebola, Gulf War Syndrome, possible the deadly 1918 flu bug the Mad Scientists got from frozen bodies of its victims and maybe some other diseases secretly created by the Dark Scientists in labs like those at Fort Detrick Maryland, could the use of DU, in part, be intentional genocide, to reduce population. DU does give the U.S. an edge in war and that is a second reason for using it. Bush Senior and the Budsters Stewart Webb, whistle-blower on the wrong doings of the Bush dynasty said that Bush senior, the President in the First Gulf War, calls the American people the budsters, meaning broke, useless, and depressed. Bush is quoted by Webb as saying "As long as we keep food on their tables, gas in their gas tanks and a roof over their heads,we don't have to worry about the budsters." www.stewartwebb.com Daddy Bush was not saying that the ruling elite at that time planned to kill off a large number of American budsters. His statement does, though, indicate the disdain the ruling elite has for the common people. Bush's remarks also suggest that he believes the ruling elite could cut off the food, gas and housing for the common people whenever the elite wants to do so. Is DU One of Several Means For Eliminating People From the Earth? And so, the New Age Occultists, the Satanists, the environmenalists and National Security Policy all want to get rid of people from the earth. In addition, the Rockefeller trusts have called for a large reduction in the population of the Third World, if not all the world. As Leuren Moret has said, DU is a weapon that can be used to "destroy populations." It is, she noted, also a "permanent terrain contaminant," ruining the soil, water and plants for many years, maybe for eternity. Major Doug Rokke tells us that DU kills on the day of combat, and then continues to kill for a long time, leaving many with lingering sickness. DU (Depleted Uranium) is a good weapon for genocide in the Third World. Whether it will be used within the United States or in Western Europe on "insurgents" remains to be seen. The ruling elite likes to take actions which accomplish more than one objective, and one of their objectives may be hidden from sight to most. They like to kill two or three birds with one stone. By using DU in the First Gulf War, in Yugoslavia, in Afghanistan and again in Gulf War Two of "Shock and Awe," and "Lets Roll," the elite has done at least two things. They have eliminated thousands of people in the Third World, and DU will kill many more in the years to come. Second, the use of DU has helped to establish totalitarian government of the U.S.over the Third World at least. In addition, vaccines can be used to reduce populations oif people, as well as disable millions. |
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The Importance of Freemasonry In Texas - 5:54 PM, 9/12/2009 |
| The Importance of Freemasonry In Texas Bernard Pyron I lived in Wisconsin for 22 years and never heard anything good or bad about Masons there. Here in Missouri, I am aware of one Masonic lodge in the town only a mile and a half from me. But no one here seems to be much interested in Freemasonry as far as I can tell. But Freemasoney appears to be more important in Texas. I know that historians affirm that Sam Houston and some of his officers in the Texas Army were Masons, as were some of the leaders of the men who fought in the Alamo, such as Davy Crockett. Mexican General Santa Anna, who was captured at San Jacinto by the Texas army, was also a Mason. Yet I have heard the claim that most of the men who died in the Alamo were Masons. I have been away from Texas for many years, but I am reminded from time to time of the significance of Freemasonry in that state. Only since about 1995 when I became interested in so-called patriot short wave broadcasting did I hear about the Masons and other secret societies which tend to be, at their higher levels, organizations of the ruling elite and also the much larger ruling class of lawyers, CEOs, doctors, government bureaucrats, elected officials, etc. In addition, Remnant Christianity, represented by Christian Media network, was also found on short wave in the mid-nineties and now on Internet radio. Remant Christianity teaches that Freemasonry is occultic and not Christian at all. After learning what Freemasonry is, I remembered that many of the businessmen in the town in South Bexar county, Texas where I grew up were Masons, including my father. When I was younger and still there, I did not know of the importance of being a Mason in Texas, nor did my father talk about his being one. Here is what the Online Handbook of Texas says on Texas Masons: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/FF/vnf1.html "Between 1838 and 1845 the Texas Grand Lodge issued charters to twenty-one more lodges, and membership increased from seventy-three to 357. In addition, there were probably some 1,100 Masons from other jurisdictions living in Texas at this time. Although constituting only 1½ percent of the population, Masons filled some 80 percent of the republic's higher offices. All of the presidents, vice presidents, and secretaries of state were Masons. After annexationqv Masons continued to be equally prominent in the state government, and between 1846 and 1861 five of the six governors were members of the fraternity. Masonry continued to prosper; by 1860 Texas had 226 active lodges and 9,000 members." On http://www.godonthe.net/cme/links/masons.htm they list about 22 Christian denominations that oppose Masonry. The Southern Baptist Convention is not in this list. But one site on the Internet claiming to be Southern Baptist does oppose Freemasonry. http://freemasonrywatch.org/holly.html "This is the document that was mailed to 5,000 Southern Baptist Ministers and Church Leaders that resulted in the ground breaking passage of an Official SBC Doctrinal Statement in 1993 that Freemasonry was incompatable with Christianity and Southern Baptist Doctrine." The Southern Baptist Convention and Freemasonry, By James L. Holly, M.D. Holly says "Many fear addressing the issue of the Lodge, and without the power of the Blood and of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ well they ought to fear "taking on" the allies of the Devil. The problem of Freemasonry will not be solved by a vote of the Southern Baptist Convention, this year or any year. Yet, without the Convention voting to declare Freemasonry an evil which must be removed from the church, the problem will not be solved. The vote is not the solution; it is only the begining of the solution." Going on, Holly says that "The first Masonic book to be examined is *Lightfoot's Manual of the Lodge -- Texas. The edition which is quoted is copyrighted by the Grand Lodge of Texas Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 1934. The memorial to this book concludes with the statement: "This is to certify that Lightfoot's Manual of the Lodge was approved and adopted as the official manual or monitor of the Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F.& A.M. and its subordinate Lodges, by a resolution adopted December 5,1934." The preface to this edition further states: "A section has been added, entitled 'Commentaries' which is designed to present in condensed form, additional light on our ancient rites, forms, symbols and ceremonies. The commentaries are largely compiled from the standard works of the best Masonic scholars, including Mackey, Pike, Bromwell, Oliver, Preston, Webb, Tannehill, Higgens and others.." Every Mason in Texas has this book in his home. The most recent edition of the Monitor* which was adopted in the late 1980's eliminated the commentaries section because it revealed too much about the truth of Freemasonry. This book establishes Albert Mackey and Albert Pike as "the best Masonic scholars." Albert Pike's book, Morals and Dogma is online. Apparently the entire book can be found at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/index.htm If you want to know about Freemasons, this is one major source on them. In Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike stated: "All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kaballa and return to it; everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kaballa; ALL MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS OWE TO IT THEIR SECRETS AND SYMBOLS." (p.744 of Pike's Morals and Dogma) " http://www.cuttingedge.org/free002.html to Albert Pike, page 102, "Morals and Dogma", "The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is personification of Atheism and Idolatry. For the initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil." Pike again refers to the "Infinite God" as "the mighty cosmic force" on Page 707. Albert Pike says on Page 321 of Morals and Dogma that "Lucifer, the Light Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness. Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, selfish Souls? Doubt it not!" I don't think that Pike would have agreed that Lucifer and Satan were one and the same. In Morals and Dogma Pike wrote that, "...there is no rebellious demon of Evil, or Principle of Darkness coexistent and in eternal controversy with God, or the Principle of Light... (page 324)." Then Pike explains in Morals and Dogma that ""…Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. For the initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. (page 102)." On one of the websites of James Lloyd he quotes Daniel 11: 27-39 and commnts on it: http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-65.html "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honor the god of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory…. (Daniel 11:37-39)" "This passage has mystified scholars for many centuries as they sought to understand the particulars of this veiled passage. As Daniel was told "shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end" (Daniel 12:4)." Daniel 11: 37-39 is talking about an impersonal force,. similar to the "god" of the Masons. But unlike the God of the Bible, the Masonic "god" of Albert Pike is not a person. There are other verses in the Bible that deal with pagan religions derived from ancient Babylon, Babylonian Mystery Religions and the secret societies coming down through history based upon all this. Ezekiel 8: 7-17 is a very interesting presentation of occult practices and some have found hints of secret societies and even Freemasonry in these verses. Ezekiel is told by God to dig through a wall. The building he was to enter apparently was not normally accessible by doors. Ezekiel was shown idols and pagan rituals which are called abominations in the text. In Ezekiel 8: 24 "...he brought me to the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." Tammuz was a Babylonian god and the symbol of death and rebirth in nature. He was the husband or consort of Ishtar. Ishtar leads her followers in lamentation and weeping for Tammuz.. She then descends to the nether world, and after many trials succeeds in bringing him back to life. Tammuz was Osiris in Egyptian myth. The Babylonian pair were Ishtar and Tammuz, and in Egypt they were Isis and Osiris. In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was identified with the sun-god. Ezekiel 8: 16 says about 25 men were seen with their back to the temple of the Lord, with their faces to the east "...and they worshipped the sun to the east." Here is a connection to the secret societies, including Freemasonry, that come out of ancient pagan sun worship. Psalm 118: 22 says "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner." Matthew 21: 42 shows that Psalm 118: 22 was a prophecy that was fulfilled in Christ. "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes." The word "builders" is used in the Old Testament in other places, but there it refers to actual builders of buildings. In Psalm 118: 22 builders is metaphoric. Peter in Acts 4: 11 calls the Pharisees "you builders." He says "This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner." Now why would Peter call the Pharisees "you builders?" He is using "builders" in a metaphoric sense, not referring to them as actual stone masons. He is referring to some kind of pagan religious influence upon the Pharisees in calling them "builders," and the choice of this word does seem to point back to Solomon and Hiram (see I Kings 5: 18, for example, which talks about the builders of Solomon and Hiram). Solomon and Hiram are important in Freemasonry. Freemasonry is not just a fraternity of the good ol boys. Its a pagan religion and is clearly not Christian, and if one is a Christian he or she should have nothing to do with the Masons. At its higher levels, the 32nd and 33rd degrees, Freemasonry is much like the elite Skull and Bones Society of Yale. One member of the Skull and Bones Society went to West Texas as a sort of carpetbagger of the early fifties. See http://www.tarpley.net/bush8.htm Online : George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, especially their "Chapter -VIII- The Permian Basin Gang, 1948-59 "During the years following the Second World War, the patrician families of the Eastern Anglophile Liberal Establishment sent numbers of their offspring to colonize those geographic regions of the United States which, the families estimated, were likely to prosper in the postwar period." Tarpley reveals how Daddy Bush deceived West Texas land owners with oil leases to make money. And so the Northeastern ruling elite - and there were others besides Daddy Bush who came to Texas - helped to corrupt the Texas culture. If my great grandfather, Gideon Blake Blackburn, who was in Texas during the days of the Republic, were brought back to Texas in 2007 by a time machine he might realize that a big part of the heritage of Texas is now only history. Gideon's brother, John L. D. Blackburn, my grandmother's uncle, was in the Texas Army and in the Mier Expedition, the "invasion" of Mexico.. |
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Problems In the U.S. Health Care System - 8:31 PM, 9/1/2009 |
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U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM RANKS 37TH IN THE WORLD Bernard Pyron "But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?" Plato, The Republic. "And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any." Luke 8: 43 The doctors got all the money this woman had, but they did not heal her. It is the link at the top which leads to the web site with the information shown below that link. http://www.newsday.com/news/ A 2007 report by the Commonwealth Fund campared health care in the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. The United States health care system ranked last. Ken Thorpe, professor of health care policy at Emory University, says "We...have 46 million people who are uninsured, and that raises a whole host of health and financial issues." http://www.who.int/inf-pr- The World Health Organization did an analysis of the world's health systems by studying 191 countries. This study ranked the French health care system as the best, followed in order by Italy, Spain, Oman, Austria and Japan. The United States health care system was found to be the most expensive in the world. But the United States health care system was ranked 37th out of 191 nations. Life expectancy was used as one measure of how well a nation's health care system contributed to good health. Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States health care system does not contribute very well to good health in this country.. http://ezinearticles.com/? The Commonwealth Fund reports that Americans receive the poorest quality of health care, yet pay the most for it out of the six top industrialized nations. Their study was based on quality, access, efficiency, equity and outcome measures of health care. Germany had the top rank, followed in turn by England, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The report found that Texas ranks at the bottom of the United States in number of people who have no health insurance, at just over twenty five percent being uninsured. The U.S. had the highest infant mortality rate of all six industrialized nations. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ There are large differences in the quality of health care between different regions in the United States. The indicator, premature death rate before age 75 from preventable causes, shows a wide range between different states in the U.S. The lowest premature death rate are found in Minnesota, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming and Alaska. The states with the highest premature death rates are Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. In the five states with the lowest premature death rates the average rate was 74.1 per 100,000 people. But in the five states with the highest premature death rates it was 141.7 per 100,000 people. This report ranked states on 32 indicators in five groups of indicators: access to health care, quality of care, costs of care, equity, and "ability to live long and healthy lives." States in the Northeast and in the Upper Midwest ranked the highest in health care indicators. States with the poorest health care, according to these indicators, were in the South. In the five top states for health care ninety percent of adults have health care insurance. These states are Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. In the five lowest ranked states 70 to 78 percent of the adults are insured. These states with the worst health care systems are Nevada, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma. The conclusion is that competence and cost-effectiveness of health care systems is very different in different regions of the United States. http://www.iht.com/articles/ The people in the United States spend more on health care than all other 190 nations in this study. But the U.S. ranks 37th in effectiveness of its health care system. http://www.commondreams.org/ A study funded by the Commonwealth Fund found that one-third of all United States Health Care System patients reported experiencing medical mistakes, medicatis, or inaccurate or delayed lab results. The U.S . has thew highest medical problem rate of any nation studied. http://www.commondreams.org/ People in forty one nations are now living longer than Americans on the average. The web site above says "For decades the United States has been slipping in rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles. Countries that surpass the United States include Japan, most of Europe, as well as Jordan, Guam and the Cayman islands." "Something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. "A baby born in the U.S. in 2004 is expected to live an average of 77.9 years. That ranks 42nd down from 11th two decades earlier according to international numbers provided by the Census Bureau and domestic numbers from the National Center for health Statistics." "A relatively high percentage of babies born in the U.S. die before their first birthday,. compared with other industrialized nations." "Andorra, a tiny country between France and Spain, had the longest life expectancy, at 83.5 years, according to the Census Bureau. It was followed by Japan, Macao, San Marino and Singapore." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ In 2004 per capita spending for medical services in the U.S.was more than double that in Canada. People in the United States spent $6,096, on the average, but in Canada they spent $3,038. Average income for physicians in the United States in 1996 was nearly twice that for doctors in Canada. But life expectancy in 2006 was about two and a half years longer in Canada than in the United States. These statistics say that cost-effectiveness of medical care in the United States is lower than that in Canada. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ But the Japanese health care system appears to be even higher in cost-effectiveness than that of Canada. The Japanese have the best longevity rate, at least of all the industrialized nations, with relatively .low health care costs. Note: There is much more on this topic, especially on the problem of the exclusive use of the allopathic medical model within a system concerned mainly with making money. The allopathic medical model is the use only of prescription drugs made by the giant drug corporations and surgery. Problems With Effectiveness of U.S. Health Care In health care, as in many other services, there is effectiveness and then there is cost. I really doubt that the federales in this country are going to do anything to improve the effectiveness of our health care system. They may extend federal funding to those without health care insurance which will be paid by taxpayers, which is part of cost rather than effectiveness. Many people have had personal experiences with ineffective health care for themselves, relatives or friends. We need to bring these negative experiences with doctors, hospitals, etc to public attention in a way that has not been done before. The Internet is one way to do this. Set up blogs to tell readers about procedures done by doctors which did not help a person, or which had some harmful effects. Try to get the attention of the mainstream media on this issue. There are professionals who can do more to bring awareness of ineffective and/or harmful medical procedures to the attention of the public. Naturopathic Physicians, Chiropractors and nutritionists have done some work in bringing to the public an awareness that medical doctors often mess up or that their standard procedures don't work or are harmful. Ph.D. physiologists are in a good position to turn their knowledge to use in a criticism of the medical profession, though they are tied down in the universities by their research being funded by drug corporations and institutions who don't have an interest in medical criticism. Finally, clinical and experimental psychologists could try to use their training to turn the cold fishy eye upon the behavior of doctors - if the doctors will let them do it. I am not aware of any studies of doctors by psychologists. Medical doctors and other workers in the money making health care system, such as hospital administrators, might be led by public and expert professional criticism of their system to improve procedures in some parts of the country. After all, their purpose is to make money, and if the public is demanding a better health care system, some of them might try to make it better. I wonder though if public opinion is not opposed in part to public criticism of the health care system. Pride in the U.S. may prevent many from accepting the idea that our health care system is flawed and that many medical procedures are ineffective and/or harmful. Its not hard to come up with chronic moral and effectiveness problems where doctors are concerned. Few doctors oppose the practice of abortion practiced by their doctor peers. There is the cancer scam where doctors for years and years have been using chemotherapy and radiation for cancer which almost never really works and which weakens the person's body and hastens death in some cases. Some recent novels have presented people of courage who have cancer but refuse to be subjected to chemotherapy or radiation and defy the doctors to go off and live their lives without this questionable treatment. Where the River Ends - A Novel by Author Charles Martin - is about a gifted woman who develops cancer, goes through chemotherapy, which does not cure her cancer and weakens her until finally she and her husband flee the doctors and decide to paddle the entire length of the St. Mary's river in northern Florida and Georgia. She dies as they enter the Atlantic ocean. Vaccines are not what the doctors claim them to be. For many years they have been putting stuff into vaccines that is harmful, such as mercury. Vaccines may be harmful in other ways and may not prevent the diseases they are claimed to prevent. There are professionals critical of vaccines who are qualified to do so, but public opinion is still on the side of the idea that vaccines prevent disease and are not harmful to the body. “The medical authorities keep lying. Vaccination has been a disaster on the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are changing our genetic code through vaccination."” says Guylaine Lanctot M.D. Canadian author of the best-seller ‘Medical Mafia’. It will be interesting to see - if the swine flu vaccine is made mandatory - whether the authorities will allow the usual religious exemption from compelled medical procedures. Leviticus 17: 11 says "For the life of the flesh is in the blood..." And I Corinthians 3: 26-17 says "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." The bodies of Christians are the temple of God.. Injecting vaccines into the bloodstream of Christians is contamination of the blood and desecration of the temple of God.. Some say the churches will be one place where the swine flu vaccine will be given to people. It will also be interesting to see if the churches do give the swine flu vaccine, so contiminating the blood of Christians who are the temple of God according to Paul. |
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The Great Rebellion and My October 2007 Broadcast - 2:18 PM, 8/16/2009 |
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The Great Rebellion and My October 2007 Broadcast
Bernard Pyron Here is the stuff on my October 2007 broadcast on The Threshing Floor, which is an Internet Radio outfit under Randy Maugans. http://forum. Culture Creation, American Zionism, Sexual Liberation, Tavistock, The Hippy Anti War movement, and Christianity "The Threshing Floor - October 12, 2007: The Great Rebellion-Witness To Apostacy with Bernard Pyron Posted October 15th, 2007 by Randy Maugans Bernard Pyron was a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology working in the field of experimental social and environmental psychology. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he met and worked with Dr. Carl Rogers , one of the fathers of the humanistic psychology movement. Bernard was also part of the �New Culture��the avante-garde bohemian art movement, working in pottery and ceramics�until he was �vomited out�. He also worked in the bureacracy of the state mental health system and around 1978 repented for being part of the erosion of the culture. After gradually coming to an understanding of Christ and embracing the cross, Bernard authored the book �The Great Rebellion�(1985) , which surveyed the �popular culture of 1962-85 and its Christian versions.� Now, lamentably, out of print�that book detailed HOW the Christian church embraced self-help psychology, new age thought, and the culture of selfishness. Join us for a whirlwind tour of the great culture clash of the mid-�60s to the �80s, through the eyes of a man who witnessed, first hand, the leavening of mainstream Christianity and the backwash into the mainstream culture. Topics: The Art Bohemian movement, surrealism, the Frankfurt School, Theodore W. Adorno, The Beatles, Herbert Marcuse, C.H. Maslow-�hierarchy of needs�, Ehrich Fromme, Carl Rogers, �needs fulfilment� and the culture of self, the sexual liberation movement, self actualization, the �New� Left, early roots of Zionism, the corruption of the gentile race and culture while preserving the Jewish race and culture, Cyrus Scofield-supported by American industrialists, the new age occult movement, Alice Bailey, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons and Jet PropulsionLaboratories, L. Ron Hubbard, origins of the right wing movement and the modern day neo-cons, overt sins vs. �sins of the mind�, �Christian culture� leavened by the emergence of new age occult." http://threshingfloor. This link seems to be authentic and will download my broadcast. But here it may not work. If it does not work, try going to http://forum. Find the same link there at the bottom of the page and it may work. Note: Randy said I have a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Thats not true. In fact, on the broadcast I said I have a Ph.D. in experimental psychology. Second Note: Randy refers to the anti-war movement of the late sixties, especially at the University of Wisconsin, as the "hippie anti-war movement. It is true that students who acted like hippies took part in that movement. But it was not led by "hippies" The leaders were leftists and more intellectuals than hippies, and at Wisconsin there was a core group of two or three thousand leftists who really were not hippies who went to the demonstrations and marched in the streets. "They Marched Into Sunlight" is a 2003 book by journalist David Maraniss which is about the Battle of Ong Thanh in the Viet-Nam war and an anti-war protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is known as the Dow Demonstration in October of 1967. I got there late and did not see the students in the front line standing firm against the police who were beating them over the head with clubs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bernard In Ol Misery (MIssouri) |
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Galatians 1: 6, Isaiah 28: 24-26 and Galatians 4: 22-26 - 4:31 PM, 8/5/2009 |
| Galatians 1: 6, Isaiah 28: 24-26 and Galatians 4; 22-26 Bernard Pyron "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:(Galatians 1: 6)." "...for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. (Isaiah 28: 15, 17)." The line and the plummet refer to Amos 7: 7-8, "Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. 8. And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:" The plummet or the plumb line is the device used by carpenters to determine if a wall is straight or true. A string with a metal bob that comes to a point is suspended say five inches out from the top of a wall. Then the carpenter measures how for that metal pointed bob is from the wall at the bottom. If its exactly the same at the bottom as it is at the top then the wall is true, or straight. In Amos 7 the plumb line is metaphoric for God's judgment of the righteousness of a person or of a people. If they fall on one side of the plumb line they are righteous. If they are on the wrong side they are unrighteous and subject to the judgment of God. And Paul argues in Galatians 5 that Christ has made us free of bondage to the law when we walk after the Spirit of Christ. If we do not walk aftet the Spirit but are overtaken by a fault as he says in Galatians 6: 1, the implication of Galatians 6: 1 is that such a group or person can fall back under the bondage of the law. They may not fully realize this has happened. In Galatians 6: 1 Paul says those who are spiritual can restore such as fallen one to spirituality again. The fault might be a specific sin the person continues to do even after being nudged by the Holy Spirit to stop it, or it might be belief in some false doctrine. Before the theology of dispensationalism arrived in the 19th century, and began to become popular in America in the early 20th century, a great many Christians saw "Israel" as referring either to national Israel in the Old Testament or to all of Israel, which included the Christians. Christians were, to them, Israel reborn in Christ. So when Amos says God puts a plumbline in the midst of his people Israel, and he will not pass by them any more, this is not only Old Testament Israel, but also Christian Israel Dispensationalism is the theology taught in a great many churches - a tradition of men (see Matthew 15: 6, 9) - which contradicts Scripture in several ways. Two of its most popular treachings are the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church and Jewish supremacy. Dispensationalism places a value on physical Israel, the Jews, most of whom have remained unsaved since Pentecost, and this theology detracts from an understanding of spiritual Israel, that is, Israel born again in Christ (John 3: 1-6). In John 3: 1-6 Nicodemus, who was a Jewish Pharisee, came to Christ asking questions. Jesus clearly answered this Jewish Pharisee by saying "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." The Jew, just like the Gentile, must be born again in Christ to get into the kingdom of God. Once bvorn again in Christ the Jew is no longer limited to physical Israel; he has become part of spiritual Israel. Galatians 4: 22-26 says "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." The dispensationalists place a value, for Christians, on the physical Jew. But the physical Jew, who is not born again in Christ and not a member of spiritual Israel, belongs to the Jerusalem which is below, the Jerusalem that is in bondage to the law. Those saved by Christ's work on the cross are part of the Jerusalem which is above, is free, and is the mother of all of spiritua Israel. What heppens then when the Christian who should belong to the Jerusalem that is above, and is free from the law, in gace, when the Christian then turns to honor the Jerusalem which is in bondage and is below? Dispensationalism has helped to create the situation in he Churches in which members attend chufch every Sunday for years and years, and do not come to know he Scriptures very well. On http://the-moneychanger.com/outside/another_gospel.phtml they say "ANOTHER GOSPEL Michael Vlach recently published a report called “Crisis in America’s Churches: Bible Knowledge at All-Time Low. Polling data from researcher George Barna shows a widespread lack of biblical and theological knowledge in the US among people who claim to be Christians. So complete is that ignorance that one can justly call it widespread apostasy from Christian orthodoxy. It’s not misunderstanding, it’s heresy. I say that not merely from a narrow denominational perspective, but from the standpoint of classical Christian orthodoxy. People calling themselves “Christians” literally have no idea what that means. Instead, they follow another, invented, gospel, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Legalism has replaced grace. |
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Dennis Murphy et al In Madison 1962 - 7:11 PM, 8/1/2009 |
The Prelem Party: Dennis Murphy et al, 1962Dennis Murphy et al, 1962 Bernard Pyron When my wife Gail and I were living on Middleton Beach Road at the west end of Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin, Dennis Murphy was one of her music major friends. Dennis used to visit us there and I remember Murphy and I used her piano to do prepared piano pieces. That was in 1959. In 1959 I visited Dennis in his apartment on Bassett Street in Madison, which was almost across the street from what later became the Mifflin Street Coop. At that time Dennis was living with roommates who were art majors and Jim Quigley in Art History. As early as 1959 there was a sort of art bohemian group there in a neighborhood which later in the sixties became a hippie area. Dennis Murphy was the leader of a group of art and music majors who met regularly at our house at 5710 Bittersweet Place in Madison's Crestwood, a few blocks north of Frank Lloyd Wright's prefab house of about 1956. We improvised on oriental, renaissance, medieval and American folk music. Clayton Bailey, a pottery student then, and I were not musicians, but Dennis taught us to play the mouth bow and Jew's harp. The mouth bows we made were constructed from two inch wide hardwood strips of wood, with one or two piano strings at the upper end of the scale secured with tuning pegs. The regulars of the group were Dennis Murphy, Raleigh Williams, a math teacher, musician, singer and instrument maker, Monona Rossol, who was a pottery student like Clayton Bailey and myself, and she was also a classical singer. My wife Gail, a piano major, and I were also regulars. Thomas J. Banta, then an assistant professor of psychology at Wisconsin, became a regular also though he did not participate in the music making. The exceptional Wisconsin social life that brought art and music majors together in small groups was not that evident among the professors and grad students of the psychology department. This is perhaps partly why Tom Banta became part of our group. Tom Banta is the announcer at the beginning of the piece The Prelem Party, May 1962 now on Gcast. See the link below. .There were some others such as Gloria Welniak, another potter, and an art major I called Old Dick Gong. One time in May of 1962 we met at Clayton Bailey's place out in the country south of Madison. We built up a good sized camp fire which can be heard burning on the audio we made that night. Dennis Murphy was playing on his sitar, Monona Rossol was wailing or vocalizing, Clayton Bailey was blowing his blatting ceramic horn he had made by rolling a slab of clay and firing it, and I was pounding on my Chinese tom-tom. Had someone nearby heard all that, they would never have known that three of those performers were to become well known - Dennis Murphy, Clayton Bailey and Monona Rossol. Here are a few links to Dennis Murphy, including a wikipedia article on him: http://www.kalvos.org/murphyd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Murphy_%28musician%29 http://www.yhttp:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv_T5mfoubQoutube.com/watch?v=Fv_T5mfoubQ http://www.fyreandlightning.org/Pages/bios.html On http://www.kalvos.org/murphyd.html above there is a good photo of Dennis Murphy. Clayton Bailey attained to some image as a sculptor on the West Coast. Bailey has been written up in numerous art journals and newspaper and magazine articles and has many links on the Internet. He turned seventy this year. Dennis Murphy is now 75. Monona Rossol is an authority in New York City on the toxic aspects of art materials and has written several books. She also has many links to her on the Internet. I have audio cassette copies of most of the old reel to reel tapes I made of our improvised music sessions of 1960 to 1962. I now have two audio files from our 1960-1962 group on the Internet at the link below. "The Real Music of 5710 Bittersweet Place is a mouth bow piece by myself and Clayton Bailey and Raleigh Williams playing together. Bailey is on the Jew's harp and Williams on the guitar. The link is: http://www.gcast.com/u/bernardpyron/main I have eleven minutes from the May 20, 1962 session at Clayton Bailey's place in the country south of Madison on this audio site. Its the same address as given above, and is called The Prelem Party, May 20, 1962. Unfortunately the sound is not as good a quality as the mouth bow and Jew' s Harp-guitar piece. If someone has a comment or question about the Dennis Murphy group in Madison, Wisconsin during the early sixties, my E Mail is: bernardpyron@gmail.com Bernard Pyron |
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What Is The Christian Church? Is It In Scripture? - 3:20 PM, 7/30/2009 |
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What Is The Christian Church? Is It In Scripture? |
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The Origin of AIDS - 8:20 AM, 7/23/2009 |
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AIDS TRANSMITTED IN THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE Bernard Pyron, Ph.D. Several researchers and physicians have pointed out that AIDS was introduced into the gay population of several U.S. cities in the hepatitis B vaccine. I found a site with excerpts from each of 22 chapters of Len Horowitz' Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola - Nature. Accident or Intentional. According to him, Litton Bionetics and Merck pharmaceutical corprations were involved in the creation of AIDS and in the transmission of it in the hapatitis B vaccine given to homosexuals in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St Louis and Denver. There is a good internet article by Thomas Keske which is a statistical study of homosexuals in San francisco. He used data obtained by a Doctor who had data on which of the men had received he hepatitis B vaccine and which did not receive it, but this doctor was not interested in the issue of whether the vaccine caused AIDS or not. The years Keske focused on were 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. Of course, the incidence of AIDS in both groups was near zero for 1979, the year the experimental group of 359 got the deadly vaccine. There were 799 gay men in the control group who were matched as well as possible for risk factors but who did not get the vaccine. In 1980 15 percent of the vaccine group had AIDS and that year 4 percent of the controls had it, most likely given to them by some of those in the vaccine group. The year 1982 Keske considers critical for his analysis because that was some time before the outbreak had spread to so many in the queer community. In 1982 40 percent of the vaccine group had AIDS, but 23 percent of the controls had it. With the numbers of men involved, 369 and 799, and the difference of 40 percent versus 23 percent, even a simple Chi Square analysis would show it is statistically significant beyond the level of chance generally accepted. He used a more sophisticated computer program to test the probablity the difference happened by chance. It was way up there, way, way above one chance in a hundred. Dr Alan Cantwell wrote two books on this subject, one was AIDS and the Doctors of Death and the other Queer Blood. Cantwell is an MD. There are several other MDs who have come out exposing the government and drug companies for creating AIDS. Horowitz focuses on evidence that AIDS had its origin in that hepatitis B vaccine program, but thinks that Ebola and Marburo virus was also man made. I forgot to mention that Dr Cantwell says during the days of the National Cancer Institute studies they became able to produce several different strains of AIDS. One strain has an affinity for the rectum, hence that was given to the homosexuals and the other the vagina, and that was given to the people in Africa, hence in Africa it is a heterosexual disease or maybe mostly so. The Cell Tumor Biology Lab of the National Cancer Institute had developed a number of immune system destroying viruses before the 1978-79 hepatitis B vaccine program which apparently used their viruses. At one time Robert Gallo headed this lab and he later claimed to "discover" AIDS. He and his group created it with help from Litton Bionetics and Merck pharmaceutical corporations. Henry Kissinger enters this dark story several times, first with his National Security Memo 200 of 1974 calling for population reduction. Earlier he was assistant and gopher for General Alexander Bolling's project of bringing in large numbers of former Nazi intelligence operatives. Erich Traub, top Nazi bioweapons researcher and expert on viruses went to the US Naval Research Institute and his work had some influence on that of the National Cancer Institute where AIDS was created. Quotes from: Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile, by Paul Manning: From: Pages 116-117: Chapter Four: On page 116-117 Manning says that Herman Schmitz, a Swiss banker, assembled in 1925 the larger German chemical and dye companies including Bayer. The new conglomerate was named INTERNATIONALE GESHELLSHAFT FARBENINDUSTIE, or I. G. Farben. Herman Schmitz was an early supporter of Hitler. The Schmitz bank was in Basel, Switzerland. He concealed the bank's ownership of the I.G. Farben empire. From: Page 127: Apparantly Chapter 4 or 5: On p. 127 Manning says Bayer Company and several other chemical companies "...owed their existence to ongoing prosperity to the exclusive use of I.G. Farben patents and licenses in the production of chemical and related During ar II George W. Merck was in the Roosevelt administration as Director of the War Research Service. George W. Merck became head of Merck and Co., a large American pharmaceutical outfit. Earlier in the 20th century, the American Merck and Co was a branch of the German Merck, which was the parent company. Probably, the Merck that Manning says received a share of the Nazi Flight Capital was the German Merck parent company and not George W. Merck individually. In 1891, George Merck, grandson of Emanuel Merck, took over the company?s New York office and established Merck & Co. In 1902, he began the manufacture of fine chemicals including bismuths, iodides, and narcotics such as morphine and cocaine. Bayer | Bristol-Myers Squibb | Hoechst Marion Roussel | Eli Lilly | Merck From: Page 257 of Manning: In 1947 the U.S. military occuption authority dissolved the I.G. Farben Nazi empire into 47 smaller companies. But by 1950 the I.G. Farben empire was organized into three main companies, BSAF (Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabri), Bayer (the pharmaceutical company), and Hoechst. Hoechst was apparently a pharmaceutical outfit. There were four smaller I.G. farben companies other than the big three which are now all giant multinational corporations. From: www.spitfirelist.com Dave Emory apparently did a series of broadcasts caslled For the Record on the Martin Bormann Nazi Flight Capital. On www.spitfirelist.com Emory says "Captured documents in Manning's possession reveal that on August 10, 1944 a conference of top representatives of German industry and finance enacted a Flight Capital program in which Germany's economic wealth was to be legally but clandestinely moved to safe havens in neutral countries." Emory says the underground Reich associated with the recipients of the Flight Capital in 1944-1945 still has much economic and political power. The underground Nazi organization had or still has an intelligence arm which was in postwar years tied in with the Gehlen espionage outfit and its security was headed by former Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller, which was called SS/Odessa Network. Emory says Paul Manning had access to captured Third Reich documents, and he also used the files of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), FBI files, and British Intelligence papers. Manning also had access to the records of the U.S. Treasury Department on "Operation Safe Haven." the American name for Borman's operation. Reinhard Gehlen headed the Soviet union branch of the Nazi Abwehr. he and his spies became part of Operation Paperclip in which the CIA and other U.S. government agencies brought Nazi intelligence operatives and scientists into America to work against the Soviet Union, etc, Former Nazi intelligence agents became part of the American CIA and part of other government agencies. Kurt Blome who worked on putting plague germs into vaccines given to Nazi prisoners was hired by he U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on biological weapons. Kurt Blome was brought into the U.S. by Operation Paperclip. He should have been tried as a war criminal. 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Who Is Israel? - 4:17 PM, 7/19/2009 |
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Who Is Israel? Bernard Pyron A large number of denominations and churches teach that unsaved Jews are still God's chosen people, that God has two different groups he deals with in different ways, the Jews and the Christian Church, and that there will be a rapture of the Church off the earth before the tribulation begins, and then God will work to save the Jews. Traditionally, the Calvinists have taught that Christians are Israel, not unsaved Jews. The Calvinists held to the belief that born agan Christians are Israel long before dispensationalism and its Jewish supremacy doctrine came along in the 19th century. Here is a statement from Richard L. Pratt Jr. of the Reformed Theological Seminary on Christians being israel: http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/articles/jewsfirst.html "In the first place, separation theology views Israel and the New Testament church as two relatively separate peoples of God. This viewpoint has become popular in recent decades through Scofieldian Dispensationalism, and continues to varying degrees in many contemporary expressions of Dispensationalism. In general, separation theology radically distinguishes the divine program for ethnic Israel from that of the New Testament church." "In the second place, replacement theology holds that ethnic Israel has ceased to be special in the eyes of God. This outlook has dominated a number of denominations throughout the centuries. In this view, God has abrogated the special covenant status of ethnic Israel and replaced Israel with the Christian church. At times, this replacement is thought to be so categorical that Jews no longer have any special role whatsoever in the plan of God. " "...many Christians outside the Reformed tradition characterize the Calvinistic position as replacement theology. I suspect that this misperception stems largely from the strong rhetoric many Reformed theologians employ against the separation theology of Dispensationalism. It is important, however, to understand that the Reformed position differs from both separation and replacement theologies.... "It is more accurate to describe the Reformed view on the people of God as "unity theology." In this outlook, the New Testament church is one with Israel of the Old Testament. The promises to Israel are not abrogated, but extended and fulfilled through the salvation of both Jews and Gentiles in the New Testament community." "Calvin's interpretation of Paul's statement in Romans 11: 26 that "all Israel will be saved" points to this strong sense of unity. In Calvin's view, "all Israel" refers neither to believing Jews alone, nor to believers within the New Testament church alone. Instead, "all Israel" denotes the combined number of believing Jews and Gentiles from both the Old and New Testaments periods.... "In line with Calvin's view, it is common for Reformed theologians to speak of Israel as the church and the church as Israel."15 15 Clowney, Edmund P. The Church. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995, pp. 42-44. Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993, vol. 3, pp. 548-552" The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, also holds that Christians are Israel, a teaching that contadicts that of dispensationalist churches. Romans 2: 28-29 says: "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." Would not traditional Calvinists interpret Romans 2: 28-29 as saying that born again Christians are inward Jews? Then there is Revelation 3: 9-10 which says "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10.Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." To be consistent with the Calvinist interpretation of Romans 2: 28-29, a Calvinist should see those who say they are Jews, and are not but do lie as unsaved physical descendants of Abraham, the Jews. The true Jews are the Christian elect. There is some connection here between those who say they are Jews but do lie and keeping the world of the Lord's patience and the Lord's promise to keep the Church of Philadelphia from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the earth. James LLoyd of Christian Media Network has said that the hour of temptation of Revelation 3: 9-10 and the snare of Luke 21: 35-36 are the same thing in his recent broadcasts and in an essay called "The Snare." The snare of Luke 21: 35-36 is the same as the hour of temptation during the tribulation period according to LLoyd. Luke 21:34-36: "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36.Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." It may very well be that the hour of temptation and the snare during the tribulation is accepting the dispensationalist teaching that unsaved Jews are God's chosen people even now, that God has two distinct peoples, the Jews and the Church, he deals with differently, and that there is to be a pre-tribulation rapture of the Church before God then turns to saving the Jews. I Peter Chapter One, verses one and two say "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2.Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." Peter is addressing Christians and calling them elect. Then Peter in I Peter 2:9 says "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." Again, Peter is addressing Christians as being a chosen generation. Christians, not unsaved Jews, are God's elect and chosen generation. We are Israel, born again in Jesus Christ. Could the snare during the tribulation be falling into the error of believing the unsaved Jews, not elect Christians, are God's chosen people? Luke 21: 36 tells us to watch and pray that we can be worthy to escape the snare and other things that are coming on us during the tribulation. |
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Recreation of the 1918 Flu - 3:11 PM, 4/28/2009 |
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Recreation of the 1918 Flu Bernard Pyron a deadly flu. |
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Excerpts From the Great Rebellion - 1:31 PM, 4/27/2009 |
| Excerpts From the Great Rebellion Bernard Pyron The Great Rebellion (1985) is a self-published book I wrote at that time. It is a criticism of the counterculture of the sixties from a Biblical point of view. I didn't get into specific examples of the counterculture, such as that in San Francisco, Madison, Wisconsin or Ann Arbor, Michigan. The hippies were into drugs, sex and an anti-Christian attitude, and those in the drug movement were about equally anti-Christian. One of the driving forces of the counterculture back in the sixties was the revolt against the teachings on sexuality taught in the churches. Not only did the counterculture lead many young people out of the churches. In leaving the Churches because of their teachings against sexuality, many in the counterculure also left Christianity, left Christ, and his doctrines. Few ever bothered to read Scripture like I Corinthians 7: 2-4, which does not suppress sexuality within marriage. The counterculture soon led to some degree of apostasy within an increasing number of people who remained in the churches. "Excerpts From The Great Rebellion, 1985, by Bernard Pyron From Chapter Four, The Great Rebellion: "If you wanted to drive Christianity out of American life, how would you go about doing it? Suppose you could design a whole New Culture that you think would so weaken American Christianity that it would no longer be a vital force in society... Part of your plan would be to create a kind of drouth of culture and spirituality in the fifties so people would soon be starving for culture and spirituality. Then, when the New Culture began to arrive, it would be very exciting and would be the "springtime of the cultural revolution." At first only a few thousand people would be involved in the New Culture, from about 1959 to 1963. But then a few years later it would grow to include millions of participants. The early excitement of the "cultural revolution" and artistic bohemianism of about 1959 to 1968 was like experiencing a long wanted rain on sun-parched and whitened ground in the Southwest. After a long and hard drouth, when rain does finally come, its smell on that dry soil is so invigorating and delightful. So, in the late fifties there was for a few people some promise of a cultural rain. We waited for it like old George West who sat up there on top of his huge pile of skulls from his longhorns, dead from lack of rain, looking southeast to the Gulf of Mexico for rain that would bring relief to his herds in South Texas. The art bohemians were the first cultural rain, and then in 1962 came the drug movement under psychologists Tim Leary and Richard Alpert. Soon we had self psychology and humanistic psychotherapy and an added interest in all kinds substitute religions and pseudo-spiritual experiencing. In 1966 the hippies came on the scene, and the feminists got going strong by 1970. It rained and rained liberating movements, all designed to free us from the restraints of pleasure and self-fulfillment which many thought were part of Christianity. After it starts to rain and the rain keeping going, it takes a while for all the little streams to get to the Big River and fill it to flood stage. By the early seventies the more negative side of all these movements flowed together into one New Popular Culture. But before the national media sold the New Culture on a mass scale there was a social openness, some trust, creativity, expansiveness and excitement going for a few thousand followers of the avant-garde then. By the late seventies the Big River was way above flood stage. The flooded Big River is the New Culture. By 1978 just about everybody was being swept downstream in the middle of the Big River, which is the late 20th century popular culture. Some people in the backwoods are not being swept along as fast...By the end of the seventies most Christians and non-Christians were just drifting along under the beguilement of the New Culture. If you had been the designer of all this, things would have seemed to be working according to plan. The current out there in the middle of the Big River was fearfully swift by 1980 and there were strong undertows that could pull you under. The use of hard drugs is one dangerous undertow. So is the drift into the occult. There are mills of people out there in the current of the New Culture. Like dumb cattle, people follow one another around swimming in circles, until they go under and may drown. The New Culture and its Christian versions were designed to make sure it would be very hard to swim against that flood current all alone. Only a good swimming horse will take us back upstream against that strong current of the New Culture - which is both outside and inside of American Christianity. But one does not sit up there proudly on the great swimming horse, which is the word of God, and ride the river...You throw off all the heavy gear - saddle, bridle, boots, spurs, ten gallon hat, six-shooter and ducking coat - and hang on to the horse. He will land you safe on solid Biblical ground upstream. Being blind, these New Culture people just follow the mill of people. The full effect of some of these mills was not to be fully felt until the children of the families that were broken in the mills and in the quests began to turn to crime in the late seventies. From 1972 to 1981, violent crime rose 44 percent. I Timothy 3: 2-7, A Fulfilled Prophecy? This is from Chapter One of the Great Rebellion, pages six to nine. I used the James Moffatt Translation in the Great Rebellion. Here I switch over to the King James Version, but follow my original text otherwise. The text reads as follows: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." "Social scientists and others have tried to describe the selfishness of the followers of the New Culture that emerged in the sixties. It is interesting that the 17 personality traits listed in II Timothy 3" 2-7 line up fairly well with many of their descriptions. The 17 traits are listed below: l. "Lovers of their own selves." In Verse 2 the Greek word translated as lovers of their own selves is philautoi. Social scientists Hendin, Lasch and Yankelovich said that people in the New Culture show a great deal of self-peoccupation. They also place much importance on attaining self-esteem. Herbert Hendin. The Age of Sensation, 1975. Christopher Lasch. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life In An Age of Diminishing Expectations, 1978. Daniel Yankelovich. New Rules: Searching for Self-Fulfillment In A World Turned Upside Down, 1981. 2. "Covetous." The three social scientists did not list this trait for those in the New Culture, but many in that culture are covetous and money loving. 3. "boasters, proud." In verse 2 alazones, or boasters, and huperephanoi, or proud, both appear. Then in verse 4 we find tetuphomenoi appears, meaning puffed up. These words suggest an emphasis on mere appearance, on appearing to be better than others and the desire to win out over others. "Lasch, the historian, described people in the New Culture as worshipping image, and of being obsessed with "mere packaging of people. Lash also identified the second trait of pride. This can be stated as the goal of wanting to win over others in games of social power disguised as love, friendship or business." 4. "Blasphemers." This can mean speaking evil of others or of God."None of the descriptions of people in the New Culture by the three social scientists are explicit in noting this trait. But the tendency to verbally abuse others is common in the New Culture." The meaning of the Greek word "blaphemoi" which includes blasphemy against God, is hidden by its translation as "reproachful" in the Moffatt Translation. 5. "Disobedient To Parents." Being disobedient to parents was certainly a trait of the rebellious young people of thje Me Generation of the sixties. 6. "Unthankful." Or ungrateful. Again, although the three social scientists seem to miss this trait in the Me Generation, it is present. They were too obsessed with self to be thankful to parents and others. 7. "Unholy." Being unholy toward the God of the Bible is an essential trait in the counterculture people, though those who became caught up in the New Age Occult Movement which more fully on the scene in he early and mid seventies might be seen as having a "holy" attitude toward their occult channeling or mystical experiencing or toward Far Eastern religions. 8. "Without natural affection." Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin found hat many of the college students he studied of the early seventies showed a lack of affection to close relatives, lovers and friends. 9. "Trucebreakers." Perhaps "irreconcilable." This trait could describe people who are not willing to forgive others and to put a stop of interpersonal strife. A trait in the New Culture people identified by Lasch and Hendin comes close to this trait - they found that New Culture people have a war-like approach to life. 10. "False Accusers." "Slanderers." The Greek word here in verse 3 is "diaboloi," or diabolos , from 1225, to traduce, accuse, Satan, false accuser, devil, slanderer. The Moffatt translation "slanderers" misses important strands of the meaning of the Greek "diaboloi." Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary says "slander" means "a false report, tending to injure the reputation of another." More generally, many New Culture people are liars because they have lost Christian and common morality. Many of these people may also make false accusations about others. 11. "Incontinent." This characteristic, the lack of self-discipline, corresponds exactly to a trait of New Culture followers found by Lasch. The Me People lack the self-control of the many in the older generations. 12. Fierce." Uncivilized, barbarian or beastly might be which is being described here. This trait also describes many in the New Culture, 13. "Despisers of Those That Are Good." Lawlessness and rebellion against people who follow an older decency might be what is involved in "aphagathoi," not lovers of good." Many New Culture people despise Christian morality and try to see how much lawlessness they can get by with. 14. "Traitors." Or "those who betray others." Me People can become nasty toward others when they don't get their way, their self-esteem, they think is threatened, and others are not fulfilling their "needs." 15. "Headlong." Rash behavior can be acting in a too-hasty, reckless way toward others without consideration of how that action will affect others. Lack of self control, found by Lasch in New Culture people hits this general trait. In addition, the emphasis on self-assertiveness in the self psychology and women's liberation movements contributed to rash behavior. 16. "Lovers of Pleasure Rather Than Lovers of God." Hendin found that his college student subjects of th early seventies sought after momentary physical sensations of pleasure in sex, touch, taste, taking drugs, more than in long term fulfillments. 17. "Having A Form of Godliness, But Denying the Power Thereof." This trait describes many Christians under the spell of the New Culture. The Personality Traits, Assumptions and Goals of the New Culture. In the Great Rebellion I found four major strands of rebellion against an older culture which retained slight influences from Protestant Christianity. These are: l. An Increase in Selfishness and Self-Preoccupation. 2. The Revolt Against Christianity, Especially Opposing Christian Morality 3. The Reduction of the Human To Desire, Feeling and Conditioning. 4. The Denial of Objective Reality. The New Culture not only allows for the telling of lies in certain circumstances. As a culture, it also teaches that there may be no agreed upon reality outside your individual mind against which your statements can be checked to see if you are telling lies or not. In the drug movement the idea that one creates his own reality was taught by Tim Leary, Ken Kesey, Richard Alpert and other leaders. Starting in about 1962 with the drug movement and going on through the sixties and the arrival of the New Age Occult movement in the early seventies, this New Culture taught many people to focus upon dreams, fantasy, the occult and especially on experiencing during LSD trips. All this emphasis moved reality toward the subjective. The drug movement taught a few thousand and later millions that you can create your own reality in your mind. Truth is found in subjective mystical experience, not in interpreting Scripture. The create your own subjective reality idea was also taught in psychology. Psychologist Randie L. Timpe says "Our constructions of human nature and God are based on a philosophy of constructive alternativism (Kelly, 1955) where the individual is free to formulate new and alternative explanations." Self psychologists Carl Rogers and A.H. Maslow said that the expression of feelings and fulfillment of desires and "needs" come first. They ignored intelligence and cognitive abilities, contributing to the bent in the New Culture to reduce the person to his or her feelings, desires and conditioning. Emphasis upon feelings rather than cognitive clarity also made it much easier to see the idea that we create our own reality, that we are free to construct our own subjective view of external reality. The Great Rebellion discusses the contribution to the New Culture of Self Psychology, the Art Bohemians, TV and Other Media, the Hippies, the Feminists. the Drug Movement, and Sex Liberation Movement. Self Psychology led the New Culture people into several aspects of Selfishness. Self Psychology said that New Culture people serve themselves but do not serve others, and they have a right to be served by others. Self psychology taught the people the Assumption that the self is "real" when one serves himself but when he serves others. The Goals that Self Psychology taught are that the person should have more self-esteem, and more self love, that the person should fulfill as many "needs" or psychological desires as possible, all at once, and because the self is a collection of "needs," one must fulfill many needs to be a winner in the culture. TV and other mainstream media taught that one should be obsessed with image, with one's appearance, and that appearance is reality. And the Art Bohemians taught the New Culture that creativity is reduced to novelty and shock value of art and action, which creates visibility and image success. For the second major strand of rebellion - The Revolt Against Christian Morality - the Hippies showed that they waned to demonstrate as much lawlessness as they might get by with. After the Hippies and the counterculture had been around a few years in the major centers like San Francisco, the Near East Side in NY, Ann Arbor, and Madison, crime rates rose in those Hippie communities. The art bohemians said, in effect, that morals are not given by God and morality is not absolute. Self psychology taught the assumption that a person need not make moral judgments about his behavior, and that morals are not objective and shared. Self psychology taught that man is basically benign without a sin nature. The art bohemians, hippies, those in the drug movement and self psychologists all agreed that Christian morality restricts freedom and should be done away with. The feminists said the person must be independent of Christianity and the family. Under the third major strand of rebellion - the Lowering of Man to His Desires, Feelings and Conditioning - self psychology taught the Me People to have a lack of self control, that expression of feelings is all important and knowing is not as important. Self psychology said the fulfillment of "needs" is most important. The sex liberation movement said the goal is to have freedom to have sex outside of marriage. The feminists and behavior therapy from B.F. Skinner said the lower animal functions of reward and punishment define human behavior. Within the fourth strand of rebellion - the Denial of Objective Reality - the drug movement promoted the assumption that there is no shared, objective reality. Self psychology taught that people make up their own perceptions of others, themselves and the world around them, and are free to create alternative constructions of "reality." Reality is subjective and in the individual mind only. Self psychology also claimed that expression of feelings is "authentic," but expression of knowing is not "authentic." Notes: In the Great Rebellion I used the allegory of riding a swimming horse upstream against the strong current of the flood which was the counterculture of the sixties and seventies. At the time I wrote this I did not know of Revelation 12: 13-17 where Satan, called the Dragon and the Serpent, in verse 15 sends a flood after the woman who is creating the Remnant, but in verse 16 the earth swallowed up the flood sent by the devil. I have never rode a horse in water so deep the horse had to swim, nor have I ever seen anyone else do this. But I knew that cowboys did ride swimming horses across rivers, especially during the period of the Texas trail drives. There were no bridges then or ferries acoss the rivers they had to cross going from South Texas to Kansas. So they swam their horses across river after river and floated their wagons across pulled by swimming horses hitched to the wagons. There are stories of Texas Trail drivers riding swimming horses across rivers in the book Trail Drivers of Texas. There is an online version of this book now. For example, at http://www.carolyar.com/Cluck.htm there is the story of George W. Cluck who in 1871 took his wife and three children up the Chisholm Trail. But when they got to the Red River it was on a rampage. Mrs Cluck sat on a horse behind her husband while some experienced cowboys took their children on horses. The all rode swimming horses across the flooded Red River into Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The online Trail Drivers of Texas is at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/texasclassics/traildrivers/txu-oclc-12198638-c-0 706.html |
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One Taken and One Left - 7:47 AM, 4/17/2009 |
Interpretation of Matthew 24: 28, Matthew 24: 40-41 and Luke 17: 34-37 Bernard Pyron Lets start with Luke 17:34-37, "I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 37. And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together." The "body" here is not the body of Christ; its a dead human body. Now look at Matthew 24: 28, "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." Ok, the "body" in Luke 17: 37 is a carcase. Then, bring in Matthew 24: 40-41, "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." Matthew 24: 40-41 is saying the same thing as Luke 17: 35-36, two women are grinding together and one is taken and the other left. Matthew 24: 40 adds another instance of two being together and one is taken. Eagles in Luke 17: 37 and in Matthew 24: 28 can be translated as vultures. On http://www.blueletterbible. They say of aetos, Strong's number 105, "...an eagle, since eagles do not usually go in quest of carrion, this may (be) a vulture that resembles an eagle." The same site quotes Thayer's Lexicon as saying "In Matthew 24: 28 (and) Luke 17:37...it is better, since eagles are said seldom or never to go in quest of carrion, to understand with many interpreters either the vultur percnopterus, which resembles an eagle...or the vultur barbatus." Matthew 24: 28 and Matthew 24: 40-41 are not together in Matthew 24. But in Luke 17: 34-37, a parallel text, the verses are together. Matthew 24: 28 in using the Greek word ptoma, or corpse, instead of soma, body, clarifies the issue of the "body" in Luke 17: 27. One out of two is not taken to the resurrection when Christ appears. These verses, Luke 17: 34-37, Matthew 24: 28 and Matthew 24: 40-41, are describing a different event in the tribulation period, not the resurrection. Bernard |
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Contradictions In Romans? - 3:09 PM, 3/18/2009 |
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Contradictions In Romans? Bernard Pyron Dispensationalism is the dominant theology now taught in a great many Protestant Churches. This theology says there is to be a pre-tribulation rapture of the Church, that God has two distinct peoples he deals with differently, the Jews and the Church, and that the Jews, saved or unsaved, are God's chosen people. On the web site http://www. they say dispensationalism teaches that "The Church is not the continuation of God's Old Testament people, but a distinct body born on the Day of Pentecost. The Church is never equated with Israel in the New Testament, and Christians are not Jews, true Israel, etc. The prophecies made to Israel in the Old Testament are not being fulfilled in the Church, nor will they ever be. The Church does not participate in the New Covenant prophesied in the Old Testament; it is for ethnic Israel, and will be established in a future millennial kingdom..." J. Dwight Pentecost is a dispensationalist theologian who in his book Things To Come ( 1965) says "The church and Israel are two distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan. The church is a mystery, unrevealed in the Old Testament. This mystery program must be completed before God can resume His program with Israel and bring it to completion. These considerations all arise from a literal method of interpretation." (page 193, J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965). Romans 11: 26 is an important Scripture for the dispensationalist claim that God is going to bring his plan for physical Israel to completion in the future, perhaps during the tribulation. Romans 11: 26 says "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." The classical dispensationalists - John Darby, C.I. Scofield, Lewis S. Chafer and Charles C. Ryrie - insist that "Israel" in the Old Testament always means physical Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. With that interpretation of Israel, they then go on to say that the Christian Church is not found in Old Testament prophecy. In part their view that "Israel" must always refer to Old testament physical Israel, both the faithful and the unfaithful Children of Israel, comes out of their belief that Scripture should always be interpreted literally. Since dispensationalism defines "Israel" in Scripture as always referring to physical Israel, i.e., the Jews as physical descendants of Abraham, then Romans 11: 26 must be, for dispensationalists, a prophecy of a future restoration of the Jews as the chosen people. Therefore, even now, to dispensationalists the Jews, saved or unsaved, are the chosen people. Dispensationalist Theology As the Leaven of Our Time In Matthew 16: 6 the text says "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." Paul adds in Galatians 5: 9 that "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." The "lump" would be a loaf of bread, and the leaven might be the yeast that is put in the loaf to make it rise. However, in this metaphor to be leavened is to be corrupted or defiled. The leaven of the Pharisees at the time of Christ was their false doctrines and practices. A small amount of false doctrine contaminates the whole group who were influenced by the Pharisees. Likewise, just a small amount of false doctrine taught in the Churches comntaminates the entire Church. So in our age dispensationalism is one of the main false teachings which leavens the Church, or makes it corrupt, so that it becomes part of the spirit of antichrist (I John 4: 3). Dispensationalism Is Also A Tradition of Men In Matthew 15: 6, and Matthew 15: 9: Christ says " Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition....But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Dispensationaism - if it fails to teach the truth as the doctrines of Christ (II John 9-10) - is a tradition of men. Contradictions In Romans? Romans 9: 27 says "Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:" Since dispensationalists say "Israel" always ,means physical Israel, the Jews, they would interpret Romans 9: 27 as saying that only a remnant of physical Israel will be saved. This means the majority of Jews are not to be saved. But Romans 11: 26 says "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:" For dispensationaists "Israel" in Romans 11: 26 is physical Israel, the physical descendants of Abraham, now called the Jews. How can only a remnant of the Jews be saved in Romans 9: 27 and all Jews be saved in Romans 11: 26? When interpretation of Scripture comes up with a contradiction, we need to look again at our interpretation, because something is wrong within that interpretation. Then Romans 11: 20 says "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:" "They" who are broken off because of unbelief in Christ are Jews. Romans 11 shows that it is Jews who are broken off because of unbelief. Paul says in verse 7 "What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded." In verse 7 "Israel" is physical Israel, the Jews. But - following the dispensationalist doctrine that "Israel" in Scripture must always be physical Israel, we arrive at another contradition in Romans. Romans 11: 20 says Jews were broken off because of unbelief. But using the dispensationalism interpretation, Romans 11: 26 then says all physical Israel are to be saved. Are many Jews broken off and then sometime in the end times are they all to be brought back in, that is, saved. I don't think so. So between Romans 11: 20 and Romans 11: 26 - using dispensationalist man-made theololgy as a tradition of men - we have a second contradiction. These contradictions come abut because of the insistence of dispensationalists that "Israel" must always be physical Israel and never spiritual Israel. In Romans 11: 26 all Israel will be saved because all who are part of spiritual Israel are saved. Just as Paul teaches in Galatians 4: 25-26 that there is two different Jerusalems -one in bondage and the other which is above and is free - so he uses "Israel" in Romans 11 as physical Israel in several verses and as spiritual Israel in verse 26. A Jew can become part of spiritual Israel by being born again as Christ said to the Pharisee Nicodemus in John 3: 16. The question followers of the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church, of the theory that God deals differently with Jews and the Church and that contrary to I Peter 2: 9 unsaved Jews are God's chosen people need to ask is this: Is dispensationalism part of the doctrine of Christ? It is a serious matter to give up one's position in Christ as a member of spiritual Israel to another people. I John 8-11 says "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11. For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." |
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Romans 13 and Obeying the Beast - 4:41 PM, 2/24/2009 |
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Romans 13 and Obeying the Beast Bernard Pyron The beast is the government beast of Revelation 13: 1-10. A majority of Protestant - Lutheran and Reformed - churches in Nazi > Germany supported Hitler, just as many "conservative" churches in the > U.S. today support the Bush regime. > > Many American 501C(3) churches and preachers have been deceived into > supporting the Bush regime, and the present federal government which > fails most of the time to act in the interests of the common people, > including most church members. Are they not moving toward the attitude > of the majority of German Protestants during the Nazi era? Part of > this attitude says that Christians should support and obey their > government, no matter how wicked it may be in the view of some. > > One of the main leaders of a small network of remnant German > Christians who opposed Hitler was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran. > Bonhoeffer and his brethren called their opposition the Confessing > Church in Nazi Germany. Bonhoeffer was hung in 1945 by the Nazis for > his testimony to Christ and for his courage. > > This majority of German Lutherans and Calvinists who supported Hitler > and the Nazi government seemed to have forgotten that first the German > Lutherans, and later the European and English Calvinists in the > sixteenth century formulated a rationale to justify Christian > opposition to the tyranny of government. And/or, the German pastors > who knew of this Protestant history thought it better to ignore it and > go along with Hitler. > > Blind obedience to bad government, one that oppresses and threatens > many of its citizens or kills innocent people in foreign lands is not > the Protestant heritage. > > As early as 1531 Martin Luther himself in his Warning to the Dear > German People said that if the Catholic political leaders made war > upon the Protestants, they were the real rebels, no longer lawful > magistrates, and nothing but "assassins and traitors." > > Lutheran Martin Bucer at about this time wrote that "...if a superior > ruler falls into ungodly or tyrannical rule or causes injury to his > subjects, the inferior rulers...must attempt to remove him by force. > (The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol Two, Quentin > Skinner, 1978, p.206)." > > Did not the FBI at Waco on April 19, 1993, acting as > the federal government, and hence, in the capacity of the ruler, kill > by burning and shooting a number of its "subjects, according to the film Rules of Engagement (1997) by William Gazecki? Then in 1999 Michael McNulty released Waco: A New Revelation about the killng of the Branch Davidians which had been attributed by the media to their mass suicide. Did not the > "ruler," that is, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, shoot and kill Vicki Weaver > from a distance away in August of 1992 when Daddy Bush was president? > Earlier U.S. Marshals shot and killed fourteen year old Sammy Weaver > in the back, and killed his dog Striker. Many American 501C(3) churches and preachers have been deceived into > supporting the Bush regime, and the present federal government which > fails most of the time to act in the interests of the common people, > including most church members. Are they not moving toward the attitude > of the majority of German Protestants during the Nazi era? Part of > this attitude says that Christians should support and obey their > government, no matter how wicked it may be in the view of some. > > One of the main leaders of a small network of remnant German > Christians who opposed Hitler was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran. > Bonhoeffer and his brethren called their opposition the Confessing > Church in Nazi Germany. Bonhoeffer was hung in 1945 by the Nazis for > his testimony to Christ and for his courage. > > This majority of German Lutherans and Calvinists who supported Hitler > and the Nazi government seemed to have forgotten that first the German > Lutherans, and later the European and English Calvinists in the > sixteenth century formulated a rationale to justify Christian > opposition to the tyranny of government. And/or, the German pastors > who knew of this Protestant history thought it better to ignore it and > go along with Hitler. > > Blind obedience to bad government, one that oppresses and threatens > many of its citizens or kills innocent people in foreign lands is not > the Protestant heritage. > > As early as 1531 Martin Luther himself in his Warning to the Dear > German People said that if the Catholic political leaders made war > upon the Protestants, they were the real rebels, no longer lawful > magistrates, and nothing but "assassins and traitors." > > Lutheran Martin Bucer at about this time wrote that "...if a superior > ruler falls into ungodly or tyrannical rule or causes injury to his > subjects, the inferior rulers...must attempt to remove him by force. > (The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol Two, Quentin > Skinner, 1978, p.206)." > Quentin Skinner (l978, p. 206) says that the Calvinists "...took over > and reiterated the arguments in favor of forcible resistance which the > Lutherans had already developed in the 1530's, and had subsequently > revised in order to legitimize the war against the Emperor fought by > the Schalkaldic league after 1546." The Emperor was a Catholic. > > Swiss Calvinist Pierre Viret (1511-1571) had said in his Remonstrances > (1550) that inferior magistrates are powers ordained by God with a > duty to protect the people against supreme rulers when the supreme > rulers fall into ungodliness or tyranny. > > "Inferior magistrates" would be state governors, state legislatures, > and county and city governments. Yet the Viret idea that lower level > government should protect the people against tyranny by the highest > level rulers is not made explicit in the U.S. Constitution. The 1787 > Constitution, according to historian Gordon Wood in The Creation of > the American Republic (1969), was not fully based upon the English > republican ideology of opposition between the people's freedom and the > power of the government. The Constitution of 1787 was, Wood, said, > "...intrinsically an aristocratic document designed to check the > democratic tendencies of the period." > > The powers of American state government, in relation to the power of > the federal government, are rather weakly supported by the Tenth > Amendment. The Tenth Amendment, which is not really an amendment but > more a part of the original Constitution, says "The powers not > delegated to the United States by the Constitution...are reserved to > the states respectively..." The Amendment seems to assume that the > powers of the federal government really are limited to those powers > enumerated in Section 8 of Article One. The Tenth Amendment gives no > powers to state and local governments to resist the federal government > when it over-steps the specific powers given to it in Article One, > Section 8 - or when the federal power becomes ungodly and tyrannical, > and kills its citizens without moral or legal common law > justification. I know that some U.S. cities have passed bills against > the Patriot Act of the federal government - but this does not mean > that Act is outlawed in the jurisdiction of those cities. > > John Knox (1505-1572), a Scottish Calvinist, and Christopher Goodman > (1520-1603), apparently an Englishman, came up with the doctrine that > it is the duty of each citizen and of the "whole multitude" to > maintain and defend the moral laws of God against their own rulers and > lesser magistrates (Skinner, 1978, p.237). > > Calvinist John Ponet (1514-1556) taught that when the people allow > rulers to become idolators and wicked that God will punish the people > with famine, pestilence and wars. > > But what about Romans 13: 1-7? The Catholics and the Church of > England interpret Romans 13 to mean that the ruler has a divine right > to govern the people, given to him by God. The people must obey the > ruler, or government in all that he or it does. > > Romans 13: 1-7 says "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. > For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of > God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance > of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. > For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou > then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou > shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to > thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid: for he > beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a > revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must > needs to subject, not only for wreath, but also for conscience sake. > For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, > attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all > their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; > fear to whom fear; honor to whom honored." > > John Gill, in his 18th century commentary on the Bible says of Romans > 13: 2 that "This is not to be understood, as if magistrates were above > the laws, and had a lawless power to do as they will without > opposition; for they are under the law, and liable to the penalty of > it, in case of disobedience, as others; and when they make their own > will a law, or exercise a lawless tyrannical power, in defiance of the > laws of God, and of the land, to the endangering of the lives, > liberties, and properties of subjects, they may be resisted, as Saul > was by the people of Israel, when he would have took away the life of > Jonathan for the breach of an arbitrary law of his own, and that too > without the knowledge of it, (1 Samuel 14:45) ; but the apostle is > speaking of resisting magistrates in the right discharge of their > office, and in the exercise of legal power and authority." > > On Romans 13: 4, John Gill goes on to say that "He is a minister of > God's appointing and commissioning, that acts under him, and for him, > is a kind of a vicegerent of his, and in some, sense represents him; > and which is another reason why men ought to be subject to him; and > especially since he is appointed for their "good", natural, moral, > civil, and spiritual, as Pareus observes: for natural good, for the > protection of men's natural lives, which otherwise would be in > continual danger from wicked men; for moral good, for the restraining > of vice, and encouragement of virtue; profaneness abounds exceedingly, > as the case is, but what would it do if there were no laws to forbid > it, or civil magistrates to put them in execution? for civil good, for > the preservation of men's properties, estates, rights, and liberties, > which would be continually invaded, and made a prey of by others; and > for spiritual and religious good, as many princes and magistrates have > been; a sensible experience of which we have under the present > government of these kingdoms, allowing us a liberty to worship God > according to our consciences, none making us afraid, and is a reason > why we should yield a cheerful subjection to it." > > Again, Gill seems to be saying that Paul is describing Godly rulers, > and that these Godly rulers should be respected and obeyed, as long as > they are Godly. > > Romans 13: 6 says to pay tribute to rulers, who are God's ministers. > Gill comments on this verse in saying that the actions of rulers are > "...not of laying, collecting, and receiving tribute, but of service > and ministry under God, for the welfare of their subjects; for rightly > to administer the office of magistracy requires great pains, care, > diligence, and assiduity; and as great wisdom and thoughtfulness in > making laws for the good of the body, so a diligent constant concern > to put them in execution, to secure the lives of subjects from cut > throats and murderers, and their properties and estates from thieves > and robbers; and they are not only obliged diligently to attend to > such service at home, but to keep a good lookout abroad, and penetrate > into, and watch the designs of foreign enemies, to defend from their > invasions, and fight for their country; that the inhabitants thereof > may live peaceable and quiet lives, enjoying their respective rights > and privileges; and since therefore civil government is a business of > so much care, and since our rulers are so solicitous, and constantly > concerned for our good, and which cannot be done without great > expense, as well as diligence, we ought cheerfully to pay tribute to > them." > > John Knox, the sixteenth century Calvinist leader in Scotland, was > sentenced to death by the Catholics in 1556. Knox said that the king > and the lower level magistrates were not placed above the people to > rule as tyrants. He said the chief duty of magistrates is to punish > evil doing, and to support the well doers (Skinner, 1978, p.55). > John Knox pointed out that Romans 13 defines the duty of rulers as one > of punishing those who do evil, and to protect the people from those > who would harm them.. > > Like any other text in the Bible, Romans 13 needs to be interpreted in > light of other Bible verses. > > One text that is often used to set some limits upon the interpretation > of Romans 13 to mean we must obey rulers regardless of their policies, > actions or words is Acts 5: 29. The Pharisees and the high priest > had warned Peter and the other apostles not to teach in Christ's name. > Peter then said, "We ought to obey God rather than men." > > If a ruler requires a Christian to do something that clearly violates > a moral law in the Bible, then Acts 5: 29 should be applied rather > than the view that Romans 13 commands us to obey the government > regardless of what it does. > > There is more in the Bible that can be used to interpret Romans 13. > The Ten Commandments and other moral laws in the Old and New > Testaments were given to protect us from murder, theft, > wife-stealing, harm to an unborn child (Exodus 21: 22), from being > cheated by usury (Exodus 22: 25, etc) and some other harmful acts of > others. > > The Old Testament speaks often of the rights of people. Psalm 9: 4 > says "For thou hast maintained my right and my cause." Right is from > mishpat, justice. Psalm 9: 4 says God will maintain the right to > justice of the Psalmist. > > Psalm 140: 12 says "I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of > the afflicted, and the right of the poor." Afflicted is from aniy, > humble, or lowly in circumstances, and poor is from ebyown, destitute. > Some other texts that promise protection for the rights of the people > are Proverbs 29: 7, and Proverbs 31: 9. > > "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write > grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from > judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of my people... > (Isaiah 10: 1-2)." This is a warning from the Lord to rulers not to > take away the rights of the people, especially of the poor. If the > rulers make and enforce laws that cause harm or injustice to the > powerless, then God says woe to them. This also applies to judges who > judge unrighteously; it also applies to the police and prosecuting > attorneys who charge innocent people with crimes. > > Then Isaiah 59: 14 says "And judgment is turned away backward, and > justice standeth afar off : for truth is fallen in the street, and > equity cannot enter." Judgment is turned away backward and stands > far off in many of our courts now. Equity is defined by Black's Law > Dictionary as "...the spirit and habit of fairness, justness and right > dealing..." The confusion in America from our having become the > Babylon of Prophecy means that moral standards have been lowered and > many morals have been lost, and as Isaiah 59: 14 explains, "truth is > fallen in the street." We hear too many lies and are confronted with > too much deception from government, the media and others. > > The American rulers at this point in time have failed to a great > extent in their duty to punish evil and to reward good works. > > And the ruling elite have been moving behind the scenes to fully > reestablish the old divine right of rulers so that just about all the > people will be willing to obey them, no matter how oppressive they > are.. They might then come out from behind the > curtains into the open, perhaps when the devil, their leader, has come down > "...unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but > a short time (Revelation 12: 12)." Bernard > ?" Did not the > "ruler," that is, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, shoot and kill Vicki Weaver > from a distance away in August of 1992 when Daddy Bush was president? > Earlier U.S. Marshals shot and killed fourteen year old Sammy Weaver > in the back, and killed his dog Striker. > > Quentin Skinner (l978, p. 206) says that the Calvinists "...took over > and reiterated the arguments in favor of forcible resistance which the > Lutherans had already developed in the 1530's, and had subsequently > revised in order to legitimize the war against the Emperor fought by > the Schalkaldic league after 1546." The Emperor was a Catholic. > > Swiss Calvinist Pierre Viret (1511-1571) had said in his Remonstrances > (1550) that inferior magistrates are powers ordained by God with a > duty to protect the people against supreme rulers when the supreme > rulers fall into ungodliness or tyranny. > > "Inferior magistrates" would be state governors, state legislatures, > and county and city governments. Yet the Virey idea that lower level > government should protect the people against tyranny by the highest > level rulers is not made explicit in the U.S. Constitution. The 1787 > Constitution, according to historian Gordon Wood in The Creation of > the American Republic (1969), was not fully based upon the English > republican ideology of opposition between the people's freedom and the > power of the government. The Constitution of 1787 was, Wood, said, > "...intrinsically an aristocratic document designed to check the > democratic tendencies of the period." > > The powers of American state government, in relation to the power of > the federal government, are rather weakly supported by the Tenth > Amendment. The Tenth Amendment, which is not really an amendment but > more a part of the original Constitution, says "The powers not > delegated to the United States by the Constitution...are reserved to > the states respectively..." The Amendment seems to assume that the > powers of the federal government really are limited to those powers > enumerated in Section 8 of Article One. The Tenth Amendment gives no > powers to state and local governments to resist the federal government > when it over-steps the specific powers given to it in Article One, > Section 8 - or when the federal power becomes ungodly and tyrannical, > and kills its citizens without moral or legal common law > justification. I know that some U.S. cities have passed bills against > the Patriot Act of the federal government - but this does not mean > that Act is outlawed in the jurisdiction of those cities. > > John Knox (1505-1572), a Scottish Calvinist, and Christopher Goodman > (1520-1603), apparently an Englishman, came up with the doctrine that > it is the duty of each citizen and of the "whole multitude" to > maintain and defend the moral laws of God against their own rulers and > lesser magistrates (Skinner, 1978, p.237). At this time, however, Christians are not called to make physical war against an evil government. > > Calvinist John Ponet (1514-1556) taught that when the people allow > rulers to become idolators and wicked that God will punish the people > with famine, pestilence and wars. > > But what about Romans 13: 1-7? The Catholics and the Church of > England interpret Romans 13 to mean that the ruler has a divine right > to govern the people, given to him by God. The people must obey the > ruler, or government in all that he or it does. > > Romans 13: 1-7 says "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. > For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of > God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance > of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. > For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou > then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou > shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to > thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid: for he > beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a > revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must > needs to subject, not only for wreath, but also for conscience sake. > For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, > attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all > their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; > fear to whom fear; honor to whom honored." > > John Gill, in his 18th century commentary on the Bible says of Romans > 13: 2 that "This is not to be understood, as if magistrates were above > the laws, and had a lawless power to do as they will without > opposition; for they are under the law, and liable to the penalty of > it, in case of disobedience, as others; and when they make their own > will a law, or exercise a lawless tyrannical power, in defiance of the > laws of God, and of the land, to the endangering of the lives, > liberties, and properties of subjects, they may be resisted, as Saul > was by the people of Israel, when he would have took away the life of > Jonathan for the breach of an arbitrary law of his own, and that too > without the knowledge of it, (1 Samuel 14:45) ; but the apostle is > speaking of resisting magistrates in the right discharge of their > office, and in the exercise of legal power and authority." > > On Romans 13: 4, John Gill goes on to say that "He is a minister of > God's appointing and commissioning, that acts under him, and for him, > is a kind of a vicegerent of his, and in some, sense represents him; > and which is another reason why men ought to be subject to him; and > especially since he is appointed for their "good", natural, moral, > civil, and spiritual, as Pareus observes: for natural good, for the > protection of men's natural lives, which otherwise would be in > continual danger from wicked men; for moral good, for the restraining > of vice, and encouragement of virtue; profaneness abounds exceedingly, > as the case is, but what would it do if there were no laws to forbid > it, or civil magistrates to put them in execution? for civil good, for > the preservation of men's properties, estates, rights, and liberties, > which would be continually invaded, and made a prey of by others; and > for spiritual and religious good, as many princes and magistrates have > been; a sensible experience of which we have under the present > government of these kingdoms, allowing us a liberty to worship God > according to our consciences, none making us afraid, and is a reason > why we should yield a cheerful subjection to it." > > Again, Gill seems to be saying that Paul is describing Godly rulers, > and that these Godly rulers should be respected and obeyed, as long as > they are Godly. > > Romans 13: 6 says to pay tribute to rulers, who are God's ministers. > Gill comments on this verse in saying that the actions of rulers are > "...not of laying, collecting, and receiving tribute, but of service > and ministry under God, for the welfare of their subjects; for rightly > to administer the office of magistracy requires great pains, care, > diligence, and assiduity; and as great wisdom and thoughtfulness in > making laws for the good of the body, so a diligent constant concern > to put them in execution, to secure the lives of subjects from cut > throats and murderers, and their properties and estates from thieves > and robbers; and they are not only obliged diligently to attend to > such service at home, but to keep a good lookout abroad, and penetrate > into, and watch the designs of foreign enemies, to defend from their > invasions, and fight for their country; that the inhabitants thereof > may live peaceable and quiet lives, enjoying their respective rights > and privileges; and since therefore civil government is a business of > so much care, and since our rulers are so solicitous, and constantly > concerned for our good, and which cannot be done without great > expense, as well as diligence, we ought cheerfully to pay tribute to > them." > > John Knox, the sixteenth century Calvinist leader in Scotland, was > sentenced to death by the Catholics in 1556. Knox said that the king > and the lower level magistrates were not placed above the people to > rule as tyrants. He said the chief duty of magistrates is to punish > evil doing, and to support the well doers (Skinner, 1978, p.55). > John Knox pointed out that Romans 13 defines the duty of rulers as one > of punishing those who do evil, and to protect the people from those > who would harm them.. > > Like any other text in the Bible, Romans 13 needs to be interpreted in > light of other Bible verses. > > One text that is often used to set some limits upon the interpretation > of Romans 13 to mean we must obey rulers regardless of their policies, > actions or words is Acts 5: 29. The Pharisees and the high priest > had warned Peter and the other apostles not to teach in Christ's name. > Peter then said, "We ought to obey God rather than men." > > If a ruler requires a Christian to do something that clearly violates > a moral law in the Bible, then Acts 5: 29 should be applied rather > than the view that Romans 13 commands us to obey the government > regardless of what it does. > > There is more in the Bible that can be used to interpret Romans 13. > The Ten Commandments and other moral laws in the Old and New > Testaments were given to protect us from murder, theft, > wife-stealing, harm to an unborn child (Exodus 21: 22), from being > cheated by usury (Exodus 22: 25, etc) and some other harmful acts of > others. > > The Old Testament speaks often of the rights of people. Psalm 9: 4 > says "For thou hast maintained my right and my cause." Right is from > mishpat, justice. Psalm 9: 4 says God will maintain the right to > justice of the Psalmist. > > Psalm 140: 12 says "I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of > the afflicted, and the right of the poor." Afflicted is from aniy, > humble, or lowly in circumstances, and poor is from ebyown, destitute. > Some other texts that promise protection for the rights of the people > are Proverbs 29: 7, and Proverbs 31: 9. > > "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write > grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from > judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of my people... > (Isaiah 10: 1-2)." This is a warning from the Lord to rulers not to > take away the rights of the people, especially of the poor. If the > rulers make and enforce laws that cause harm or injustice to the > powerless, then God says woe to them. This also applies to judges who > judge unrighteously; it also applies to the police and prosecuting > attorneys who charge innocent people with crimes. > > Then Isaiah 59: 14 says "And judgment is turned away backward, and > justice standeth afar off : for truth is fallen in the street, and > equity cannot enter." Judgment is turned away backward and stands > far off in many of our courts now. Equity is defined by Black's Law > Dictionary as "...the spirit and habit of fairness, justness and right > dealing..." The confusion in America from our having become the > Babylon of Prophecy means that moral standards have been lowered and > many morals have been lost, and as Isaiah 59: 14 explains, "truth is > fallen in the street." We hear too many lies and are confronted with > too much deception from government, the media and others. > > The American rulers at this point in time have failed to a great > extent in their duty to punish evil and to reward good works. > > And the ruling elite have been moving behind the scenes to fully > reestablish the old divine right of rulers so that just about all the > people will be willing to obey them, no matter how oppressive they > are.. They might then come out from behind the > curtains into the open, perhaps when the devil, their leader, has come down > "...unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but > a short time (Revelation 12: 12)." Bernard > |
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Dispensationalist Interpretation of Romans 11: 25-26 - 8:34 PM, 2/23/2009 |
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Dispensationalist Interpretation of Romans 11: 25-26
Bernard Pyron
Romans 11: 20 says "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:"
Who are they? Paul says in verse 14, "If by any means I may provoke to emulation them whih are my flesh, and might save some of them."
Most of the Jews of Paul's time rejected Christ and they were broken off.
Now Paul says in Romans 11: 25-26 "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob."
Who is "Israel" in verse 26?
Dispensationalists say in the Bible Israel must always be physical Israel, not some spiritual construct. Therefore by dispensationalist definition, Israel in verse 26 must be physical Israel and therefore Paul is predicting that at some time all physical Israel will be saved.
This interpretation contradicts Paul's statement in verse 20 that the Jews were broken off because of unbelief.
If all Israel is to be saved, then Israel here refers to Israel as being all of God's people who are saved, no matter what their race, Jew or Gentile. This interpretation is consistent with what Paul says in Romans 2: 28-29, "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
And this interpretation of Romans 11: 25-26 fits what Paul says in Galatians 3: 28, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
Paul is pointing out that after physical Israel was reborn, or the small remnant of physical Israel who were more faithful were translated into Christians as spiritual Israel race no longer matters in the eyes of God. And remember what Paul also says in Galatians 4: 22-26, "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all."
Not only was race as a measure of acceptance by God done away with at the Cross, but the Cross opened up Christians to receive the Holy Spirit and operate in the Spirit. Operating in the Spirit, Christians are not in bondage to the old law of Mount Sinai. Christians are in Jerusalem which is free, not literal physical Jerusalem.
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Interpretation of Revelation 17: 18 - Is Only Catholicism In Apostasy? - 1:50 PM, 2/9/2009 |
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Interpretation of Revelation 17: 18 - Is Only Catholicism In Apostasy? Bernard Pyron Revelation 17: 18 says: "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The traditional protestant interpretation of Revelation 17: 18 is that the woman who reigns over the kings of the earth is Roman Catholicism. John Gill, Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes all say she is Catholicism. The problem with this interpretation is that now Roman Catholicism is not alone in having departed from the doctrines of Christ (II John 8-11). The Protestant Church has also departed. We can go to plain scripture and use it to interpret Revelation 17: 18, which is part of a chapter in heavy metaphoric language. II Thessalonians 2: 3 says "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;" I Timothy 4: 1-2 says "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2.Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;" II Timothy 4: 3-4 says "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4.And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." Then, II Peter 2: 1-3 says "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." These texts of plain Scripture predict a departure from Christ's doctrines and do not say that departure is limited to the Catholic church. We can use these texts to help interpret Revelation 17: 18 as not being limited to the Catholic Church, but including the Protestant Church. Plain Scripture should be used to establish basic doctrine. Then, Scripture in metaphoric language can be used to add details to that basic doctrine derived from plain Scripture. Go back to the subject of Revelation Chapter 17. Verse one says "Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters." In verse 3 a woman sits upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy..." Then verses 5 and 6 tell us "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." The Great Whore and the woman are said to have the name of Babylon, or Mystery Babylon the Great, written on her forehead. Metaphorically the great whore is Babylon. Babylon as a construct and as an historical religion is the mother of Talmudic Judaism, Roman Catholicism and Evangelical Protestantism in false doctrines. Babylonian religion was a very early form of false religion and pagan worship. Here again is the triune division of the peoples who consider themselves as belonging to God as seen in Zechariah 13: 8-9 and Ezekiel 5: 1-12. The woman of Revelation 17: 18, which reigns over the kings of the earth is Babylon, or Mystery Babylon the Great of verse 5. She includes the Latin Church, or Roman Catholicism, which killed some saints of Jesus. Babylon includes Evangelical/ mainstream Christianity, much of which is dispensationalist, but has some other false doctrines. Finally, Babylon includes Zionist/Talmudic- Kabbalistic Judiasm, the various sects of the contemporary Jews. The woman of verse 18 is Babylon as a construct and historically since ancient Babylonian religion was one of the foundations of Roman Catholicism. This woman can also include Freemasonry as Mystery Babylon, the Babylonian Mystery Religions, and other secret societies such as Skull and Bones. And as prophecy Revelation 17: 6 can also be predicting the martyrdom of the one third of Zechariah 13: 8-9 by the serpents and scorpions of the apostate Protestant church in the Trumpet Judgments of Revelation 9. Paul's teachings in Galatians on walking in the Holy Spirit and not being in bondage to the law given on Mount Sinai applies to the three divisions of God's people. the Talmudic Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants in false doctrines. Galatians 5: 16-18 says "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulful the lust of the flesh. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." In Romans 8: 1 Paul says "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." The people of God who do not have the Holy Spirit, who do not walk in the Spirit, are under the law. "Christ us become if no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.(Galatians 5: 4). Paul says in Galatians 6: 1, "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." The fault which he speaks of here can be a behavior that is sinful but is continued after the Spirit has nudged the person to stop. Or, the fault can be following of false doctrine, and again, the Spirit may have warmed the person to get out of the false doctrine but the person did not heed the warning. After several warnings gthe Spirit may give up and let the Christian continue in false doctrine as strong delusion (II Thessalonians 2: 11) The implication of Galatians 6: 1 is that a Christian can lose his or her walk in the Spirit. Other Christians who remain in the Spirit, are spiritual, can help that person be restored to walking in the Spirit. Then in Galatians 4: 22-26 Paul writes that "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26.But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." There are two quite different Jerusalems here. One is in bondage to the law given on Mount Sinai, and the other is above and is free of bondage to the law. Galaians 4: 25, that Jerusalem which is in bondage with her children, fits a Babylonian Religion construct that now includes Evangelical/ mainstream Christianity, much of which is dispensationalist, as well as Catholicism and Zionist/Talmudic- Kabbalistic Judiasm. Using this Jerusalem which is in bondage to help interpret Revelation 17: 18 can also help get us past the problem of the traditionalism and dispensationalist interpretation of Revelation 17: 18 - that city which rules over the kings of the earth - as being only Roman Catholicism. Metaphorically, the great city that rules oiver the kings of the earth in Revelation 17: 18 can be seen as that Jerusalem which is in bondage with her children to the law given at Mount Sinai. But in the traditional interpretation of Revelation 17: 18 the conclusion can be that the problem of departing from Christ's doctrines (II John 9-11) is found only in the Catholic Church and not in the Protestant Church. This interpretation does not go back to verses 1,3 and 5, about the great whore, the woman and Mystery Babylon the Great which define who the woman of Revelation 17: 18 is. How convenient the literalist interpretation of metaphoric Scripture is for the contemporary dispensationalists who teach that every Bible verse must be interpreted literally. They don't want the Protestant Church to be judged for false doctrine, Their literalist system of interpretation leads to a view of Revelation 17 as saying that only the Catholic Church is in apostasy. They jump to the conclusion that the woman is only Roman Catholicism and not also as Babylonian religion the sects of the Jews, the secret societies and Protestantism. The traditionalists like John Gill did not have our view of Protestant apostasy and wrote from their limited perspective. |
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Salvation and Love of the Truth - 3:36 PM, 2/5/2009 |
| Salvation and Love of the Truth Bernard Pyron What does II Thessalonians 2: 10-11 say? "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" A person may be saved according to John 3: 16 and Romans 10: 13. But then when he goes into false doctrines he loses his salvation as implied by II Thessalonians 2: 10-11. Salvation can be lost, but the Holy Spirit may nudge a person who is about to lose his salvation and he responds in brokeness and asking for forgiveness and in this sense salvation can be a process. As time goes by the Holy Spirit may remind a Christian again and again that he or she is engaging in behavior that is sin, and/or that he or she is following a false doctrine. Again, the person repents of sinful behavior and of following false doctrines. Over time the Christian who has undergone this process has had the opportunity to learn not to engage in sinful behavior and has come to accept more and more truth. In accepting more truth and in having a love of the truth the person is then far less likely to lose his salvation. II John 1: 9-10 says "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrineof Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10.If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:" Being in Christ means abiding in Christ's doctrines. You have to decide if dispensationalism is one of Christ's doctrines. Christ warns in Luke 13: 25 "When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" Christ does not mean by "I know you not whence ye are" that he doesnot know this person where he is geographically, like what state helives in. He means he does not know him in his beliefs, in hisdoctrines. The implication of the three part division of the Church in Zechariah 13: 8-9 and Ezekiel 5: 1-12 is that all three parts of the Church are under God's judgment for something. II Thessalonians 2:10-11 suggests its because the Church has not held on to the love ofthe truth and is being judged for that reason. While under judgment,even the one third of the Church which is to become saved can be considered to be unsaved. Before the one third who are to go through the fire and who call on the Lord do so they also are in false doctrines and are unsaved. But God loves them and is going to turn them around and make them his elect.
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