Monday, May 11, 2015

Churches embracing Islamic prayers



While Islamic foot soldiers continue to vex the Church of God in their personal capacities, and the Grand Muftis mobilize state powers against Christianity, it’s incredible seeing Christians and churches foolishly fall over themselves trying to befriend Islam - even at the cost of their own faith! This is most tragic indeed. In our 2011 article, Cooperation and Tolerance gone too far, we reported a number of examples, including the German Pastor who actually tried to raise money for the building of an imposing mosque in Germany!  Unfortunately there seems to be no end to this kind of saddening situation. We consider a few recent examples:

At the campus of Duke University in North Carolina, the moslem call to prayer, will now be broadcast from the Chapel tower.  The chant, known as the ‘adhan’, is usually made on the minaret of mosques to invite Moslem faithful to worship.  But for the past two years, the Muslim Students Association have been accommodated at the basement of the University Chapel, and they now have convinced the Chapel authority to allow them broadcast the ‘adhan’ from the Chapel tower. If the Chapel tower in a University set up by the Methodist and Quakers can be used to function as a Mosque  Minnaret, how then could anyone blame Recep Erdogan of Turkey who is converting one after the other the old grand churches in the land to mosques?  
 Church of England vicar Rev. Canon Giles Goddard certainly would not see any problem with the situation at Duke University in the US.  The Canon is happy to open up his own Church, the St John’s Church, Waterloo, as part of an “Inclusive Mosque” event where copious thanks were rendered to "the God that we love, Allah."   (Details at http://www.charismanews.com/world/48756-church-of-england-pastor-welcomes-muslim-prayer-service ).
In the US, “radically inclusive” churches actually do more than pray to Allah.  All religions, and all lifestyles are welcome.  You are not only welcome to come just as you are, you are encouraged to so remain.  According to this article, Church services that incorporate elements of Hinduism, Islam, native American religions and even Wicca are becoming increasingly common.

At the same time however, Christianity continues to be the object of unrelenting attacks by the world. For instance Victoria Wasteney, a senior occupational health therapist at a mental hospital in East London was relieved of her job simply because she prayed for a troubled colleague who had sought her assistance.  However, since that colleague was a Moslem, praying for her in the name of Jesus was deemed “harassment and bullying”, and sufficient ground for a sack!

(for details, see http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/christian-nurse-37-says-fired-harassment-bullying-praying-muslim-colleague). See also,  UK: Christian appeals suspension for inviting Muslim to church (http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/04/uk-christian-appeals-suspension-for-inviting-muslim-to-church)



The Church Today: PERSECUTION



yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service (John 16:2).”
The Church continues to face the end-time persecution the Lord told us to be prepared for.  Particularly severe is the wrath of the Islamic Mujahedeen – all over the world.  From Kaduna to Kenya, Florida to China, hundreds of people are being maimed, raped, cast overboard into the sea, beheaded, crucified, and burnt alive – all because they choose to serve Jesus, and not Allah.
  Detailed documentation of these atrocities are prepared periodically by people like Raymond Ibrahim (see http://www.raymondibrahim.com/category/muslim-persecution-of-christians/).  These serve to alert those who, being unaware, are dozing off and are liable to suffer the same fate if they don’t take the correct decisions and actions on time.  The reports as well encourage those at the receiving end of persecution, buoyed by the knowledge that their sufferings are not unnoted by the world, especially by their brethren. Thus, such sufferings are not in vain, and as the saying goes, become the fertilizer to take the Church to new levels of maturity and growth.
We begin our sample compilation from Kaduna State, Nigeria where the parish of the Living Faith church (Winners Chapel) in Giwa Local government was set ablaze in broad day light, around 2.30pm on Friday March 20th.  The perpetrators were two hoodlums who came and escaped on a motor bike.  According to a joint-statement by General Ishaku Ahmed Dikko, president of Tarayyar Masihiyawan Nigeria, comprising Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri christians, and Mr Sunny Oibe, Director of National Issues, CAN, “The Church was razed to the ground and nothing was saved from the Church.  The building burnt to the ground.” This incident came amidst the string of outstanding victories the LORD has been giving the nation in her fight against insurgency, and it was believed this particular attack was politically motivated.
Similarly, the New Shiloh Christian Church in Melbourne on Sarno Road. Central Florida was torched by vandals who spray-painted “Allahu Akbar” and drew the swastika as their signature.  At least this particular church-burning happened around 3 am in the night, and not broad daylight as in the case at Kaduna. About 1,500 members attend the church.  
From Pakistan came the sad news of at least 14 people killed and 70 others injured on Sunday March 15 when two bombs went off near the Catholic Church and the Christ Church in Lahore. Details here.
And while the West panders and apologizes to Islam, the Saudi grand mufti is insisting that the Islamic law that forbids non-moslem religions sites on the Arabian Peninsula must be effected.  Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah particularly wants all sites where Christianity is practiced on the “holy land” to be razed.
But Islamic Mujahedeen are not the only ones razing down Church buildings.  Following heart-warming news that Christianity is literally experiencing explosive growth in China, the Communist Party has stepped up her open antagonism. According to reports in the Telegraph, a recent “anti-church” demolition campaign has seen “hundreds of places of worship partially or completely destroyed.” A Chinese preacher, Huang Yizi who rose to oppose the campaign has found himself framed up, and charged with “gathering crowds to disturb social order.” Unless there is some special intervention, he will be spending the next one year in jail.
But all the above are like mere child-play compared to atrocities being committed by the Islamic State (IS) organization in the Middle East.  Hundreds of Christians are being abducted, week after week from their villages in Syria, and now outrageous ransoms ($100,000 per person)  are being demanded for their release. According to a Lebanese Member of Parliament, Samy Gemayel, unless something happens quick to halt the persecution of Christians caught between  the IS on one hand and Iran on the other, there would be no single Christian left in the Middle East within the next two years (http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/no-more-christians-in-mideast-within-2-years/)
No ransom however was requested for the 21 Egyptian Christians who were abducted by the IS in Libya.  A video footage released on the internet showed them donned in orange overalls being forced to the ground and then decapitated in cold blood.  Similar fate was meted to the group of  about 30 Ethiopian Christians, presumably intercepted on route to Europe seeking refuge. Even Christian refugees who managed to get aboard the Europe-bound dinghies are not safe from Islamists. Just for the “crime” of being Christians, twelve of them were cast overboard and drowned in the sea, by fellow refugees, who happened to be moslems.(see http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/april/muslim-migrants-throw-christians-overboard-mediterranean.html)
The mother of all Islam-inspired killings of Christians in recent times would however be the raid on the Garissa University in Kenya on Thursday April 2.    Four masked gunmen threw explosives at the main gate of the Campus, entered, and started shooting amidst shouts of “Allahu Akbar”.  In taking responsibility for the attack, spokesman for the Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab gloated: “We sorted people out and released the Muslims.  There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building.  We are also holding many Christians alive”.  Over 140 laid dead at the end of the horrible exercise. The insult upon the injury in the case was the initial efforts by the world to treat the terrible attack as “having nothing to do with religion”. This position was championed by President Obama of the United States, whose father, we should not forget, was a Kenyan moslem.
In all of these, the LORD remains sovereign on His throne.  Now and then the LORD reaches out with His interventions in the manner described in Heb 11:35.  A near-comical intervention occurred in Villejuif, France when a would-be assassin, Sid Ahmed Ghlam, having completed his detailed plans, ended up shooting himself accidentally in the car.  Afraid he would bleed to death, the 24 year old computer science student frantically called on medics, who after treating him, invited the police to investigate the “arsenal of live weapons in his car”. Police later found more weapons together with the details of proposed strike on one or two churches in the town. 

Barack Hussein Obama champions the New World Order



What the likes of Bill Gates in the business world are forcefully pushing and sponsoring, the likes of Barack Obama are actively championing and implementing in government.
At his ascendance to the US Presidency in 2008, we wrote  that while we do not believe Obama to be the coming antichrist, nevertheless, we expect him to play a major role in preparing the way of that coming charismatic world leader. (http://churcharise.blogspot.com/2009/03/re-is-obama-antichrist.html)  This is now clearly evident as Barack Obama enters the last half of his 2nd term.
Typical of lame-duck presidents, Obama knows he isn’t coming back seeking re-election.  But he seems to be taking his ”the-ring-is-already-in-the-finger” attitude to unprecedented levels. Ruling by executive orders, akin to decrees, Obama vetoes  the US Congress whenever he can, and stokes all manners of fires - including racial and immigration, in order to create tension and checkmate opposition. 
Considering the various actions of  Barack Obama within the United States, Rev Franklin Graham was forced to conclude that the mission of Obama in government is to force "a new morality" on the American people, a "morality that does not include God" and which is "an Anti-Christ movement"
 In an article titled ”the WHY of Obama”, Dave Macy concurred with Rev Graham, but warned that nobody should take Obama for a fool.  He may be cunning, devious, easily given to retribution, a monstrous ideologue, an Islamic terrorist denier, and a socialist at heart. But he is not stupid.”  Macy concludes that Obama is actually a tool in the hands of higher powers, “an accomplice” rather than a leader.
But Obama is bent on changing the entire world, not just the US.  Granted, the US must be brought down on her knees before the global governance agenda can succeed (see The Die Is Cast, The United States Versus The United Nations, CA! Vol 6 No 2),  As succinctly put by Michael Goodwin (in the New York Post of March 22, 2015)  Barack Obama’s promise to transform America was too modest.  He is transforming the whole world before our eyes.  Do you see it yet?”  (see The Whole World Needs to Beware of Barack Obama)
Mr Obama’s present pre-occupation, clearly, is to use the platform afforded him as the President of the United States to mould the world the way he and his globalist club members would have things be. He appears urgent to want to make the most of his remaining tenure, stomping all over the globe from Canada to Cuba, from Venezuela to Nigeria.  But his bitterest battle (and chiefest interest) is in the Middle East, where he struggled unsuccessfully to unseat Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu from Prime Ministerialship, as well as cut a crazy nuclear deal with Iran.  Obama makes no secret he is all out to prepare the way for his master, the antichrist to come.
Obama’s very desperate efforts to remove Benjamin Netanyahu’s from office during the last Israeli’s election was absolutely blatant and crude; but thankfully it ended up in utter humiliating failure.  These efforts have been well documented. (see http://churcharise.blogspot.com/2015/05/obama-fights-israel-and-allies-at.html  for our short compilation).
Obama’s One Voice International professional mass manipulation campaign team members were also very active during Nigeria’s elections, and they are known to also be currently active in Canada, ahead of the October 19 polls. (See http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/70660).
One obvious common factor linking Nigeria’s and Canada’s elections is the cozy relationships between the incumbent presidents of both Nations and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. This is how the above-cited article in Canada Free Press explains Obama’s interest in the Canadian election:
To the U.S., Canada is the country next door, to Obama it’s home of the architects of the maligned Keystone XL Pipeline and home to the world’s Number One elected defender of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
 As for Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, his close rapport with Israel is vividly demonstrated not only by his unprecedented two pilgrimages/working visits to Israel, but more importantly, by Nigeria’s ‘unimaginable’ refusal to rubberstamp the Palestinian’s call for criminalization of  Israel’s presence at the holy sites of Jerusalem  at the UN last December (see http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/174016-israels-netanyahu-hails-jonathan-nigeria-pulls-last-minute-surprise-block-palestinian-un-resolution.html )
Describing that particular action as “a pivotal foreign policy shift,” THISDAY newspaper went on to quote Palestinian officials as saying: “It is a shock for us, why they abstained, only Nigerian officials know, and you would have to ask them. We needed nine votes and eight countries ….voted for us. It is a sad day for us. Nigeria had recognised the state of Palestine since 1988…”
One does not have to be a psychologist to gauge how Obama received that decision by Goodluck Jonathan.
The unrelenting antagonism of Obama against Nigeria eventually led to Nigeria’s open declaration at the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that the US President was acting just short of openly jeopardizing Nigeria’s interest – at least with respect to the Boko Haram issue. (Which was virtually the number 1 campaign issue during the presidential elections.)   Weeks later, Benjamin Netanyahu also demonstrated utter desperation by appealing to the US Congress to checkmate President Obama and force US policy on the issue of nuclear Iran.  Obama was livid at both instances, but these traumatized leaders virtually had no choice other than damn the consequences and appeal directly to the American people.  It is crystal clear to all that Obama’s brigandage actions were not necessarily in the interest of his country, but in line with his greater personal agenda of preparing the grounds for a New World Order.
Even now, the battle is far from concluded.  But so far, it can be surmised that Obama has lost out “gallantly” in Israel. Not only did his “anyone else but Netanyahu” campaign fail, he has been badly exposed in a light he would have wished many don’t see him.
We believe Obama also lost out in Nigeria, though his candidate and ally of many years won the election.  Certainly Nigeria won, being spared the bloodbath that would have inevitably arisen had GMB not won.  While GEJ was able (thanks particularly to his pre-emptive actions) to appease the  threatened wraths of the likes of Asari Dokubo, it is clear GMB would not, even if he wanted, have been able to restrain his followers, who are not in formal organized groupings like the Niger Delta folks.
Why, even while celebrating their victory, over fifty  of them managed to get themselves killed, mostly smilimg their way out of the planet, having seen their ultimate desire come to pass!
However, GEJ was also a clear winner.  The story told during the April Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp by Pastor Damilare Adeboye of his childhood experience, probably is prophetic of GEJ.  Lost out locally to a moslem guy pitted against him in unfair circumstances, the then young Oluwadamilare Adeboye went on to attain by God’s grace, similar office in far more prestigious circumstances.  One does not have to be a prophet to see international recognitions as well as increased local relevance coming the way of GEJ after May 29.  Far more than he probably could have dreamt of, had he remained in office for another 4 years.
Of course General Buhari also won big time.  After four democratic attempts at the Presidency, he hopefully has learnt a few critical lessons.  We wish him good speed and success as he tries to etch his own name too in the golden book of history. Surely, whatever the Obamas of the world might have actually intended or calculated, the election result is a win-win-win situation for Nigeria. And we are not even considering here the little-mentioned but tremendous implications of having a spirit-filled child of God as the Vice President!
General Muhammadu Buhari’s strong, long-term partnership with Barack Obama is evident in the fact that he was one of the only two Africans invited to Obama’s inauguration in 2009, in their private personal capacity.  We can be sure however that Buhari, (at 72 for that matter!), is his own man, and will certainly not give in to Obama on issues like gay marriage or liberal abortion.  However, how he responds to Obama’s sure-to-come pressure requesting antagonism of Israel will depend on the counter-pressure from within the country.  And in this regard, the Church must stay fully alert.
Nigeria cannot afford to fall on the wrong side of God’s plan for Israel as the final countdown to the end of all things rolls along. Israel remains the apple of God’s eye and her place in end time schemes, especially as the Church prepares for the Rapture, is well secured in Scriptures (see Zech. 2:8, Gen 12:3, Rom 11:25-27, Rev 12:13-14, etc).   Patriots like Pastor Bosun Emmanuel had been warning that issues such as these might be more important considerations during the Nigeria’s election –  more than bread and butter issues.  And even now, post elections, they remain very crucial.
Postscript: Israel will be 67 years old as a nation come May 14, 2015. In actual fact, the 67th Anniversary of Israel on the Jewish calendar this year fell on April 24. On that date, Joel Rosenberg wrote a masterpiece article recounting some little-known details of Israel’s declaration of statehood, indicating clear hand of God at work.  The historical portion of the article, culled from Rosenberg’s 2012 book, Implosion,. is re-posted on our blog here.

Bill Gates openly and directly calls for One World Government



                                                          

In another clear evidence that the final countdown to the institution of a One World Government is imminent, One of the most influential men on the planet, Bill Gates, has come out with an open and direct call for the concept. In previous years, Bill Gates and many of his colleagues have restricted themselves to making such declaration only by way of deeds and donations.  Now the camouflages are off!

 

In making his call, Mr Gates argued that the creation of such a system would be needed to combat major issues such as “climate change”  and an array of issues ailing the planet.

In his interview with the German newspaper, “Süddeutsche Zeitung” which was translated into English by the Huffington Post, Gates argued that while the UN had been able to so far address the issue of physical war among nations, an actual, full-blown world government is “badly needed” in order to address the other array of issues ailing the planet.

 

In his words, “Take the UN, it has been created especially for the security in the world. We are ready for war, because we have taken every precaution. We have NATO, we have divisions, jeeps, trained people. But what is with epidemics? How many doctors do we have as much planes, tents, what scientists?” Thereafter Mr Gates came up with his big prescription: “If there were such a thing as a world government, we would be better prepared,”  he surmised.


The Huffington Post recalled that Bill Gates had made another call, a week earlier, for a plan to implement a cashless system in multiple third-world countries; and that that call is guaranteed to give financial elites total control over monetary systems on the planet.  As we have pointed out several times before, Mr Gates does not hide his interests in controlling the world’s population, food resources, Media, morality, etc.  This he does by his massive, so-called philanthropic gestures.

Quite atypical of mainstream media’s usual assessments of Mr Gates, the Huffington Post was down-to-earth in its conclusions:

“Despite the media’s constant glowing portrayal of Gates, which is rooted in his funding of major news outlets, a look at many of the so-called philanthropist’s pet projects reveals his true nature.

“Aside from his founding of computing giant Microsoft, a corporation which has worked hand in hand with the NSA to eviscerate privacy, Gates’ role in the destruction of health worldwide is made obvious by the companies he invests in.

“A breakdown of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2012 tax return by Mother Jones reveals billions in funding to groups involved in human trafficking, gun control, Common Core and geoengineering, the practice of spraying toxic particles into the stratosphere to block the sun’s rays, has received millions in funding from Gates.

“Gates has also taken heat for investing millions into biotech giant Monsanto, a corporation currently flooding foreign countries with genetically engineered crops.” That, of course, includes Nigeria.  Bill Gates major efforts at mainstreaming abortion as a legitimate medical practice was given special mention by us in 2010

The Huffington Post is not done with its analyses of the real intentions and actions of Mr Gates.  It writes:
“A major focus of the Gates Foundation has also been invested in vaccination campaigns, although Western media has completely ignored major ethical issues brought up by medical experts in countries such as India, where more than 47,500 children were paralyzed shortly after one of Gates’ campaigns. Just last year, India’s Supreme Court began investigating Gates involvement in a vaccine trial that resulted in the deaths of several young girls.

Finally, the Huffington Post concludes:

In reality, the call for global government by Gates and other wealthy elitists has nothing to do with lifting up impoverished nations. Such a government would instead guarantee global surveillance, global wealth inequality and a world run by the exact corrupt interests currently consolidating wealth and power worldwide.”

                                                                                                 

As Barry Smith warned in his  books (Warning (1980) and Final Notice (1989))  global elites have decided to  promote  a number of crises situations/hypes to be called “global problems,” which will then require a strong unified “global response,” necessitating the formation of a central global government.  Such global problems, which appeared utterly hypothetical and unrealistic when Smith first mentioned them, but that are now everyday reality include trans-national terrorism, the global warming hype, epidemics, etc.  The head of the resulting global government will necessarily promote anti-christian values. Actually, he is better known as the antichrist!

 

PS. Bill Gates dad was a Planned Parenthood czar, and Bill grew up embracing those values, see https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bill-gates-planned-parenthood-president-dad-inspired-pro-abort-funding)