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"Operation Assyrian Province" floods WH and Politician's phones

Source:  assistnews.net

 

WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) -- “Operation Assyria” volunteers from throughout the United States and overseas have been flooding American Congressman and Senators and The White House with calls demanding the passage of a Congressional Resolution supporting the “Formal Request For An Assyrian Province” presented to the Iraqi Government on September 19.

 

Comment:  This article grabbed my attention.  In Micah Chapter 5, you will find the prophecy of the first and second coming Christ.  It is the verse quoted to Herod by the chief priests and scribes when he asked where the messiah was supposed to come from.  It foretells that He would come out of Bethlehem and that He was “from everlasting”, an eternal being.  Continuing on in this chapter, at verse 5, it foretells of His victorious return and His bringing real peace to Israel.  It foretells the victory that will be gained over Israel’s enemies.   Israel’s enemies in this chapter are depicted as being led by the “Assyrian”, which many expositors have taken to be a symbolic description.  Could the leader of Israel’s enemies be a literal Assyrian?  Interesting days in which we live, for sure.

 

Micah 5:5-6  “And this man (Jesus) shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him 7 shepherds, and 8 principal men.  6:  And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: Nimrod (remember Nimrod’s land was of Babylon…located in today’s Iraq) thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

 

 

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'Act of unity': Festival of prayer begins with ecumenical service

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

 

January 22, 2007 -- Christians who pray together, stay together. That's the hope behind a citywide festival of prayer which begins today and continues for seven evenings.

 

"It's a corporate act of unity that can speak loudly to what can be," explains Rev. Luis Melo, director of ecumenical and inter-religious affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Boniface. "We look at what unites us more than what divides."

 

The week begins with an ecumenical service involving church leaders of several denominations. A different denomination hosts the prayer service each night.

 

The services are based on materials prepared by Christians in South Africa and distributed jointly by the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches, which together represent 1.5 billion Christians.

 

Ecumenism is broadly defined as Christians working together for visible unity, which can mean co-operation between churches at a local, denominational, or international level, explains Rev. Paul Johnson, who works in ecumenical relations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

 

"What you can do is invite people to be part of a wider vision, that we're all part of the body of Christ, and there's only one body."

 

Working together formally and informally is crucial for the Christian church to be effective in a pluralistic, diverse world, says the Winnipeg-based president of the Canadian Council of Churches.

 

"I am pretty much convince in this third millennium of Christianity there won't be effective evangelism without ecumenism, there won't be effective interfaith dialogue without ecumenism, there won't be effect social justice without ecumenism," explains James Christie, whose day job is dean of theology at the University of Winnipeg.

 

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Winnipeg priest catches 'eye of the Vatican'

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

 

January 22, 2007 -- A Winnipeg priest and university professor has been appointed to an international group promoting relationships between the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian denominations.

 

Rev. Luis Melo, director of ecumenical and inter-religious affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Boniface, is beginning a six-year term to the Joint Working Group between the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.

 

Thought to be the first Winnipegger appointed to this position, Melo is co‑chair of several interdenominational dialogues in Winnipeg, and was instrumental last year in launching a twinning program between four Catholic parishes and four Mennonite churches in the city.

 

"The work I've done here for the last five years has caught the eye of the Vatican and they think I could make a contribution," explains Melo, 47. "Hopefully it works the other way as well."

 

Melo's appointment is significant in setting the stage for the Roman Catholic Church to join the World Council of Churches, which represents 240 Christian churches and denominations, says James Christie, president of the Canadian Council of Churches.

 

Comments:  In commenting on the above two articles, I want to emphasize that neither the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) nor the World Council of Churches (WCC) can be considered ‘Christian’ in the true sense of the meaning of Christian.  Neither are the WCC’s offsprings: America’s National Council of Churches and Canada’s Council of Churches. The RCC’s teaching is that salvation can only be obtained by being a RC and consists of faith plus good works and the WCC is a liberal humanistic “don’t take the Bible literally” Protestant organization comprised mainly of mainline denominations.  They may boast of 1.5 billion members, but a small minority of them are actual born again Christians.

 

Ecumenism is of the Devil, plain and simple.  The Lord Jesus would not want professing believers to come together as one if people are holding to false teachings and doctrines.  It’s better to be a member of the small remnant of God than to belong to a behemoth entity which is running head long into forming the One World Religion for ecumenism won’t just stop at uniting all professing Christian denominations, but all faiths and religions (e.g. Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Native Spirituality, etc.) as well.

 

It must surely make the Lord sad that a few of the Protestant evangelical denominations, e.g. the Mennonites, have kowtow to the RCC for the sake of unity, the advancing of the social gospel, and the forsaking of true evangelism.  Being yoked to Roman Catholicism can do nothing but spiritual harm, but many pastors and congregants are oblivious to Satan’s deception.  In a day in which post‑millennialism envelopes Christendom, ecumenism and the social gospel rule the roost.  Revelation 18:[4] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her (RRC’s) sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

 

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Saddam lieutenant pleads to Pope 

Source: telegraph.co.uk

 

January 22, 2007 -- Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, has thrown himself on the mercy of the Pope in an attempt to secure his release from US custody.

 

Aziz faces a possible death penalty after being charged on Friday with ordering the deaths of tens of thousands of Shia Muslims who rebelled in 1991.

 

Last week he sent a handwritten plea to the Vatican, asking Pope Benedict XVI to act as a guarantor for him to be released on bail. The 70‑year-old, a Catholic who has been in custody since his arrest by American forces in April 2003, asked that he be allowed to live in Italy while awaiting trial.

 

Comments:  An Iraqi Catholic?  Now, that’s something I’ve never heard of until today. Anyone born in a Muslim country of Muslim parents usually adheres to Islam.  Mr. Aziz is a scared rabbit so he ought to be.  He saw what the gallows did to his former boss Saddam Hussein and Saddam’s half‑brother who were both convicted of mass genocide.  There’s something about a hangman’s noose around a human neck that causes a man charged with a serious crime to squirm.  Mr. Aziz is a career politician; he’s not a butcher who has ever wielded a knife in anger, Mr. Aziz thinks in his mind.

 

Pope Benedict XVI may have worldwide power and influence, but even he will be unable to sway Iraq’s justice system from sending Mr. Aziz to the gallows.  His fate is, in all intents and purposes, sealed.  He needs to think about having his soul saved to escape the second death rather than his physical well being.  He will have to stand before a much Greater Judge Jesus than his earthly prosecutors.  The Pope cannot save souls; only Jesus can, but Mr. Aziz’s decades of dedication to Roman Catholic doctrines and teachings won’t tell him that. If he does know the way of salvation but refuses to accept Jesus as his Savior, well, he better hire a cosmetician to do his face up really good so that at least his facial profile will look presentable to worldwide viewers when a cellphone snapshot of him is taken. Matthew 15:[14] Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.  Revelation 21:[8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

 

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Encyclopaedia Judaica casts doubt on existence of Moses  

Source: sun-sentinel.com

 

January 22, 2007 -- No figure in Jewish annals compares with Moses.  He "changed the course of human history all by himself," Rabbi Norman J. Cohen writes enthusiastically in Moses and the Journey to Leadership, one of those inspirational books built around biblical personalities.

 

"He is the founder of the nation, a revolutionary, a lawgiver, a priest, a judge, a politician, a teacher, a prophet, a comforter and a guide -- all rolled up into one. He is the paradigm for all subsequent leaders, for all of us."

 

But a Cohen colleague at Reform Judaism's New York City seminary, Rabbi S. David Sperling, isn't certain that Moses even existed or, if he did, whether the Bible provides much reliable information about him.

 

Sperling contends that if traditional accounts of the origins of Judaism had not recorded a founder, "analogy would have required postulating him; and that is probably what happened" when ancients wrote the Bible.

 

That's one of the more important assertions in the newly issued second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Macmillan Reference, 22 volumes, $1,995). Of the monumental work's 21,000-plus articles, 2,600 are new and nearly half were updated from the 1972 original.

 

Comments:  Romans 1:[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.  God’s Word says Rabbi Sperling is a fool.  He may possess a doctorate degree from a prestigious institution of higher learning, but his doubts about Moses make him an unbeliever and a dupe of the Devil.  The Devil loves to trash the Bible and there is no lack of human volunteers to carry out his insidious agenda.  Every person who has studied Judaism has been taught that Moses (as led by the Holy Spirit) wrote the first five books of the Old Testament.  That being the case, Moses was a real person and not a myth like Zeus and Athena.  Yes, Charlton Heston would tell Rabbi Sperling that he did indeed portrayed Moses in the epic film “The 10 Commandments” and would be more than willing to give the rabbi a DVD copy for his viewing.

 

Rabbi Sperling is among a growing number of religious skeptics who relish upsetting the apple cart.  People like him who once subscribed to the truth are now not only rejecting it but are propagating lies for all to assimilate as plausible alternative viewpoints.  One wonders if they ever believed the truth from Day 1 or if it was all a facade/sham and now their rebellious anti-God nature has come to the forefront.  Their latent animosity toward God is now manifested for all to see.  Their pretense is now being exposed to God’s light.

 

 

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