Verbal Attack on Christians

I reckon some people are upset Christians condemning homosexual behavior, to the point of verbal attack. But it is God's attitude toward homosexuality that really matters. God puts homosexuality in some pretty wicked company. Let's take a look at them, shall we?

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

I am reminded of the prophet Amos. He lived in Bethel. The name Bethel, also written as Beth El or Beth-El, meaning "House of God" (in general), or "House of (the specific god named) El", was a town in ancient Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem It was the where Jeroboam, the King of Israel set up his golden calf cult. The priest of Bethel got plenty mad, and he wanted Amos out of town plenty fast. Well, let's let Amos tell it:

Amo 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

Amo 7:11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

Amo 7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

Amo 7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is] the king's chapel, and it [is] the king's court.

Amo 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

Amo 7:15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

Amo 7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not [thy word] against the house of Isaac.

Amo 7:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Well, I guess that settled it.


God is someone to be trifled with. And Amos was not the only one who had problems at Bethel.Consider Elisah, a great man of God. He was returning from escorting Elija to meet a chariot of fire, and horses of fire that to take Elija to heaven....

2Ki 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2Ki 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

2Ki 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

2Ki 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.

I don't think people have changed much in all these years. And God has not change at all. The time is short. I pray that people will turn to Jesus before it is too late.

World Wide Famine

While most of us in the U. S. are distracted by our sports, porn, the elections, Opera, and the soaps, or fretting about $4.00 gas, the falling dollar, drought, floods, and storms, here at home, the world goes on. And it goes on at a frenetic pace.

But as you read these words, keep in mind a promise Jesus made:

"But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

On June 4 Italian leaders at the Rome summit have proposed a sort of "global food bank'" to tackle the world food crisis.

''We will ask the European Union to help set up an international mechanism to create strategic resources to cope with emergencies,'' said Italian Foreign Minister Franco He also said Italy supported United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's planned task force on the crisis, calling for ''global governance'' of food needs. Frattini defended U.N. food agencies located in Rome, including the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Program and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, against criticisms that they didn't see the crisis coming and were slow to act.

Frattini pledged that Italy would make the food crisis a priority when it takes over the chair of the industrial Group of Eight at the start of 2009.

The Rome summit ends after three days on Thursday with leaders expected to announce an action plan for dealing with the food crisis.

On Jun 3, 2008, Fifty 50 leaders from around the world gathered at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Rome, to hear Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio,Bertine read a message from the Pope, which stressed that the world is more than capable of providing enough food for all.

Pope Benedict XVI wrote that, "hunger and malnutrition are unacceptable in a world which has, in fact, levels of production, resources and knowledge sufficient to put an end to such dramas and their consequences.” The solution, said the Pope is, “is to 'globalize,' not just economic and commercial interests, but also the call for solidarity, while respecting and taking advantage of the contribution of all components of society."

In BEIJING, Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, said recent manifestations of national food insecurity like export restrictions imposed by some grain-producing countries are the troublesome portents of an

"entirely new chapter in the book of food security. Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world. We are in the midst of the most severe food crisis in the world's history," Brown said. "This is not your mother's food shortage...but a chronically tight food situation, a serious and long-term problem.''

Politicians have been meeting in Rome to find global solutions to soaring food prices and civil unrest caused by food shortages, but in reality many countries are already acting unilaterally to secure supplies for the future.

Abdul,RIYADH, 1 May 2008 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdulyesterday called for a new global trade order to ensure food security and achieve sustained agricultural development.

U.S. Senators Barak Obama, Chuck Hagel and Maria Cantwel(D-WA) have introduced the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs

Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA) and Spencer Bachus(R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House in September.

The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) commits U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts.It requires the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States. The foreign aid budget now stands at $300 billion; the Act would add the additional expenditure to the already huge amount allocated to assist the world.

In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Children.

Martial Law Training?!?

A pitcher is worth a thousand word!

Marines to begin martial law training in Indianapolis

Under the guise of urban warfare training the 26th Expeditionary Unit an elite group of U.S. Marines will conduct a martial law training exercise at 26 “surrendered” locations in central Indiana from June 4th thru the 17th. While state officials and media are doing their best to assure the public that this military takeover of civilian property is somehow a good thing, ignoring the Posse Comitatus Act which fundamentally prohibits these types of exercises. These two weeks of training are also a contradiction of military tradition against deployments among the civilian population dating back to the end of the Civil War. Why then are the citizens of Indianapolis and six other Indiana towns being made to take part in two weeks of patrols and ambushes?

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