HAMAS Legalizes the Crucifixion of Christians and other Enemies

December 28, 2008
Right Side News Reports
Reading the Jewish World Review today, Christians better wake-up as Hamas is bringing back the "crucifixion" of Christians. Hamas want to kill Christians by nailing them to crosses and call Jesus Christ the "slave of Allah" Hamas and other Islamists have Christians on the "hit" list.

By Caroline B. Glick
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
Both Iran and its Hamas proxy in Gaza have been busy this Christmas week showing Christendom just what they think of it. But no one seemed to have noticed. On Tuesday Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Sharia criminal code for the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, the code legalizes crucifixion.

Hamas's endorsement of nailing enemies of Islam to crosses came at the same time as it renewed its jihad. Here too, Hamas wanted to make sure that Christians didn't neglected as its fighters launched missiles at Jewish day care centers and schools. So on Wednesday Hamas lobbed a mortar at Erez crossing point into Israel just as a group of Gazan Christians were standing on line waiting to travel to Bethlehem for Christmas.

While Hamas joyously renewed its jihad against Jews and Christians, its overlords in Iran also basked in jihadist triumphalism. The source of Iran's sense of ascendancy this week was Britain's state-owned Channel 4 network's decision to request that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad give a special Christmas Day address to the British people. Ahmadinejad's speech was supposed to be a response to Queen Elizabeth II's traditional Christmas Day address to her subjects. That is, Channel 4 presented his message as a reasonable counterpoint to the Christmas greetings of the head of the Church of England.

Channel 4 justified its move by proclaiming that it was providing a public service. As a Channel 4 spokesman told the Jerusalem Post, "We're offering [Ahmadinejad] the chance to speak for himself, which people in the West don't often get the chance to see."

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Yes, Fundamentaly.

RG kindly gave me permission to use this subject that she wrote about on her Blog. (Taken from my friends Blog Page 'Raspberry Grace') please leave a comment at the bottom of the page.

Us Christians aren't daft you know.. we expect you to have a go at us now and again and we do understand why you do.

It's not a meaningless platitude to say that we care about you, because Jesus cares SO much more and asks that we do too, and so we try really hard to take it on the chin if you laugh at us, even though it can and does hurt.

I'm not saying we don't fail, and sometimes allow ourselves to become offended, because we do - I do - but ultimately we know that it's wrong and we are sorry (we ask Jesus and you to forgive us), and we get right back up and try again.

Why am I saying all this? because I came across this a while back:

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

I'm not offended by this, I feel a bit hurt I guess, because Jesus is getting a bad press, and I believe that it misrepresents the truth about Him, and I desperately want you to know that truth because I believe that it (the truth) is what we all really need, He is what we need, in short.

So, in the spirit of the preceding paragraph I am going to try and answer some of the points raised in these anonymous 10 observations.

This may well be incredibly foolish of me, and I may totally lack the ability to do so well, for this I apologise now, but my intention is to make you think, and I hope that perhaps you will do so, and even more than this I hope that perhaps your eyes will be opened and you will see that God is not your enemy, but your deliverer and the lover of your soul.

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10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

No, I honestly don't feel outraged, I just feel very sad.

The thing about my God (who, yes, I do believe is THE God, the one and only), revealed to me in Jesus Christ, is that He makes some very exclusive claims. Jesus said that He was the way, the truth and the life, and that no man came to the Father (God), except by Him.

That's about as exclusive as it gets, don't you think?

Now, either Jesus spoke the truth when He said that, or He lied, it can only be one or the other. As C.S Lewis put it, Jesus is either a madman, a liar, or He really is who He claimed to be.

If He lied, well, you know, those thousands of other gods are in with a chance. If He didn't then those gods are false and He is true.

If He is true, then it's hurting you to pursue those other gods (who are incidentally lying to you via their claims, please think about that), and if I really care about you, and everyone else, then I must speak up and talk with you about it.

I'm not outraged, I'm hurting for you, I'm trying to help you.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

I don't feel in the slightest bit dehumanized, trust me. Again, I'm concerned, I care.

If we were created, by a Creator, which I believe we were because God tells us we were in His word, then we have a responsibility to that Creator, we are accountable to Him, that means me, and you.

I want you to know that so that you can come to know Him, it is my responsibility to try and share that with you as Gods witness.

As to the dirt, well I believe we were formed from that because I believe Him, which kind of goes back to no 10 and all the implications of that..think about it.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

Hmm, this is tricky for me, I'm no theologian, but I'll do my best to honestly explain. I believe in one God, but He is one God who exists simultaneously and eternally in 3 persons who are part of one indivisible whole.

God the Father (Our Father in Heaven), God the Son (the Lord Jesus Christ, who lived, died on the cross, rose from the dead and is now seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven, but soon to return to this earth to Judge us all), and the Holy Spirit = GOD.

It sounds like gobbledygook I know, and to my shame I am unable to explain it any more clearly than the above, you'll have to trust me on this..no, hang on, you don't need to trust me, you need to trust Him.

I don't laugh at polytheists, but I do want them to know the one true God as outlined above.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees

My face does turn purple sometimes, this is true, but at my age it's usually after running up 3 flights of stairs.

God never promised me that I would understand or like everything that He does. And the truth is I don't, I don't understand everything, and I certainly don't like it all, not just in the accounts referred to above, nor in my own life. But He did promise me that He is Holy and true, and that He is to be trusted, that He is faithful and wise, Just and loving, and I have found Him to be utterly so in my short time with Him.

Inadequate as it is I can only say to you that one day both you and I will know, and we will understand why the above happened.

Now to allah, one thing is clear here, if Jesus is true, if the Bible is true, if God is true, then allah is most certainly a false god.

This I believe utterly.

I have no allegiance to allah, but Muslims I love, very much.

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

I don't laugh at Hindus or Greeks.

Honest.

The Holy Spirit did not impregnate Mary in the sense of physically having sex with her a la tales of Greek gods, God performed a miracle and she conceived, a very different thing.

As to Jesus, well, again we come back to the points raised in no10.. Jesus said that He existed eternally as a member of the triune Godhead before he was born as a man, the Jewish people present when He said this understood that this was what He was claiming, and indeed they sought to stone Him for it because they considered it blasphemy, a very serious crime in their eyes, and even more so in Gods eyes..so, the issue, again is, was He lying or speaking the truth?

On this you and I make our decisions on Him.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

I'm not spending any time looking for loopholes, I don't even think about them or Bronze age tribesmen (unless I need to knit one or maybe make a themed birthday cake). Honestly, all I do is read the creation account in Genesis and believe it.

That definitively settles it for me.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

I do believe in Hell, yes, and in its eternity, yes, and yes I also believe that those who die without trusting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour will go there.

Bear in mind that if my faith is not genuine, or I die having fallen away from the faith then this will include me.

It's a hard thing to consider, but yes, I do believe it to be true. I also, as you say consider my faith to be loving.

Why?

Because the sad truth is folks that our destiny is a choice, if I go to hell, then I go there because I have chosen to reject Jesus, just as we, as a world, have been doing from the beginning of time.

Short of making us robots and denying us the choice to be masters of our own destiny, God has done everything He possibly can for us, though we ignored Him and disobeyed Him and defied Him He still sent His Son to die for us, to pay for those (and all the other) sins, so that IF WE WOULD, we could be forgiven and set free.

We are drowning in the sea of life friends, slowly being suffocated by our sin and separation from God..if He puts before us the lifeboat which will speed us to freedom and we CHOOSE to turn Him down does this make Him unloving?

No, I don't believe it does.

God weeps for each and every one of us, He loves us and longs for us to be reunited with Him, but He isn't going to force us to love Him (by trusting Him) in return. No, we have choices, and there are consequence to those choices.

Tolerant? it depends what you mean by that, tolerant as in loving everybody? yes, certainly. Tolerant as in allowing people to make their free choices on Jesus? Yes, absolutely.

Tolerant as in not defending or sharing what I believe to be the truth of Jesus in case I offend you or your beliefs? Certainly not! I would rather take the risk of offending you than leave you having never heard the Gospel of Jesus, it's that important.

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

I don't do rolling on the floor, and to date I have never been blessed with the gift of tongues.

I don't do rolling on the floor, and to date I have never been blessed with the gift of tongues.

I can promise you that I would not use either activity to try and authenticate Christianity for you.

I might try and use the evidence of changed lives and hearts to make you think though.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

I don't define anything as a high success rate, I don't even think in those terms. I know that God, my Father, is the perfect parent and has my best interests at heart. This means that when I ask Him about things in prayer, like any loving parent sometimes He says yes, sometimes He says no, and sometimes He says not right now RG. His answer varies because He knows whats best for me. If my child petitions me for a 3rd ice cream and I say no because I can see that it will make them violently ill does that mean that their petition was a failure, or simply that they got the right answer, though it wasn't the answer they wanted? Yes, sometimes the will of God is not what we want it to be, sometimes it looks like failure. Look more closely.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

You know, this really is true. I've met a lot of people who devoted their life to studying Church History, and performing textual criticism on the Bible. Mystifyingly I've known (and known of) people who made their living from God, and yet couldn't stand Him. They knew and know much more than I ever will. But, with all that knowledge they still in their hearts rejected Him and His sacrifice for their sins. I couldn't write a 4 page thesis on it, but I believed what He said about my sin and I asked Him to forgive me because He said that if I asked He would. Thats the only thing the entitles me to call myself a christian.

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After reading all this it is entirely, indeed very possible that you hate everything I have said, it was a chance I felt I had to take.

I do believe in miracles though, and more than that I believe in the one who performs them, I hope I've given you some cause to think on Him.

Let me know, wether your thoughts are positive or negative, I'd like to hear from you.

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'And there was no more sea' Revelation21;1

Thought from Charles Spurgeon

"And there was no more sea."
-- Revelation 21:1

Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old
ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our
imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide
sea, with its gleaming waves and shelly shores. Is not the text to be
read as a metaphor, tinged with the prejudice with which the Oriental
mind universally regarded the sea in the olden times? A real physical
world without a sea it is mournful to imagine, it would be an iron ring
without the sapphire which made it precious. There must be a spiritual
meaning here. In the new dispensation there will be no division-the sea
separates nations and sunders peoples from each other. To John in
Patmos the deep waters were like prison walls, shutting him out from
his brethren and his work: there shall be no such barriers in the world
to come. Leagues of rolling billows lie between us and many a kinsman
whom to-night we prayerfully remember, but in the bright world to which
we go there shall be unbroken fellowship for all the redeemed family.
In this sense there shall be no more sea. The sea is the emblem of
change; with its ebbs and flows, its glassy smoothness and its
mountainous billows, its gentle murmurs and its tumultuous roarings, it
is never long the same. Slave of the fickle winds and the changeful
moon, its instability is proverbial. In this mortal state we have too
much of this; earth is constant only in her inconstancy, but in the
heavenly state all mournful change shall be unknown, and with it all
fear of storm to wreck our hopes and drown our joys. The sea of glass
glows with a glory unbroken by a wave. No tempest howls along the
peaceful shores of paradise. Soon shall we reach that happy land where
partings, and changes, and storms shall be ended! Jesus will waft us
there. Are we in him or not? This is the grand question.

Chart of Gods covenants (CLICK to enlarge)

The Jews are making ready..The coming of Messiah!

Jungreis urges Jews to prepare for the coming of Messiah

Written by Chris Perver

Thursday, 30 October 2008

HTML clipboard Jewish inspirational speaker Rebbetzin Jungreis is warning the world is now experiencing the birth pangs that are to herald the coming of the Messiah, and there is just a limited amount of time in which to avert the cataclysmic events that have been foretold to take place during the tribulation period. In a recent interview for Arutz 7, Jungreis said that God is bringing the world closer to redemption, through a process called 'chevlei Mashiach' - the labour pains of the arrival of the Messiah. Citing several ancient Jewish sages and scholars, Jungreis points to a number of signs which indicate that we are now living in the last days, including the global financial collapse, the rise of Islamic extremism, increased lawlessness and the break-up of families. Jungreis also believes that the Messiah must come before 6000 years of human history have run their course, and that the world must mend its ways in order to 'hasten' the arrival of the Messiah and usher in the Messianic era, without having to pass through the time of trouble that has been foretold in the Scriptures. Quote: "In order to reverse negative prophecies which warn of pain, suffering, famine, and death during the end of days, Rebbetzin Jungreis says one must first understand the imminence of the arrival of the Messiah. This world, as we know it today, cannot last beyond 6,000 years. "Listen carefully, friends, to what I'm telling you. Hashem, Elokei Yisrael, created this world that we are living in today in six days. Every day was a thousand years. This world, as we know it today, cannot last beyond 6,000 years. Right now, we are in the year 5769, which means it's Erev Shabbos of the world. By the year 6,000, Mashiach has to be here. He could come much earlier. But by the year 6,000, he has to be here... the Vilna Gaon said that the last war, Milchemet Gog uMagog, is going to last only 12 minutes because they are going to have such weapons...We know that the final redemption, the final Geula, it's going to be like when you left Egypt – only one-fifth of our people left Egypt. Four-fifths perished... during the plague of darkness. "So I'm appealing to every Jew. Every negative prophecy can be changed. We can bring Mashiach today. Right now, we are living in a period called Erev Shabbat. It's Erev Shabbat, because when Mashiach will come, it will be the day that will be all Shabbat, the seventh day... Let's bring Shabbos early, and let us to bring Shabbos with menucha [ease], with shalom [peace], with simchah [happiness] – Is it possible? Absolutely?! Every negative prophecy can be changed." Unfortunately many Orthodox Jews have this wrong concept, that the Messiah's coming is dependant on the nation of Israel reforming their ways. The Bible knows nothing of the concept of self-reformation. The Lord Jesus Christ said there was only one thing that would prevent His return. Only when the nation that rejected the King of Jews is willing to say, "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord", would He be willing to come to them (Matthew 23:39). Sadly many Orthodox Jews are also ignorant of their own Scriptures, which prophesied that the Messiah would be born in the town of Beit Lehem (Micah 5:2). When the Jewish sages were asked where the promised Messiah was to be born, the reply was given to King Herod, "in Bethlehem of Judea", Matthew 2:5. Today the town of Bethlehem forms part of the Palestinian territories. If the messiah the Orthodox Jews are expecting arrives any time soon, he would most likely be born a Palestinian Arab. Even if Israel were to recapture Bethlehem from the Arabs, the Messiah could still not now come out of Bethlehem. For the book of Daniel foretold the exact day that the Messiah would enter into Jerusalem, and how He would ultimately be rejected by the nation of Israel (Daniel 9:25-26). As we can see, the messiah the Orthodox Jews are looking for is not the Messiah of the Bible. The Messiah of the Bible will not return until the nation of Israel is willing to look unto the One Whom they pierced (Zechariah 12:10). What about you? Have you looked unto the One Who was pierced for your sins? Jesus Christ died for you. He bore God's punishment for your sins, so that you could be forgiven, and have everlasting life in heaven. Why don't you trust in Him for salvation today. Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Source Arutz 7

REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE

FT columnist foresees EU expansion to global government

Revived Roman Empire

Written by Chris Perver

Thursday, 11 December 2008

HTML clipboard A columnist for the Financial Times newspaper is predicting that not only is the formation of a one world government now achievable, but that it is becoming increasingly likely that such an institution will be created within the not too distant future. Gideon Rachman believes that the European model, of individual states being governed by a supranational entity, could easily be expanded on a global level. Citing a number of global threats the world now faces, such as international terrorism, climate change and financial turmoil, Rachman says that individual states are being pressured into co-operating with each other on an expanding basis. Developments in mass-transit and communications have also served to increase the interconnectedness of the world. Add to this volatile mixture a change in the political atmosphere, with the election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency, and you have a recipe for the creation of a one world government. Quote: "So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might. First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a "global war on terror". Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: "For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible." Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column. But – the third point – a change in the political atmosphere suggests that "global governance" could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty. Some will debate whether these global issues the world is facing today are genuine or not, or whether they may have been purposely 'engineered' to bring about a desired outcome. I don't know the answer to that. The Scriptures don't go into the reasons why this world's weather will get increasingly destructive (Revelation 16), or why a third of the world's population will be wiped out in war (Revelation 9:14), or why a world government will eventually be set up (Revelation 13:3). But we are told these things will come to pass. While there is no doubt that these are Divine judgements for man's sin, sometimes man is author of his own punishment. Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. The more men try to remove God from all their thoughts, the more God removes His protecting influence from their lives. There is a day coming in which God will give mankind what they have always really wanted, a world without any form of moral restraint. In essence, a world without God. And God will stand by and watch as mankind brings itself to the brink of destruction. And only when man comes to the end of himself and has nobody else to turn to, will God intervene. The same can be said of you and me. God will not force His way into your life. He created you, and as your Creator He knows what is best for you. God does not want to restrict your freedom, He wants to maximize your enjoyment of it. He wants to be part of your life. But He will not come in uninvited (Revelation 3:20). Will you leave the Lord outside of your life, and in turn face the consequence of your sins, which is eternal separation from God? Or will you invite Him into your life, and know the forgiveness of sins, and everlasting life in Heaven? The Bible says that unless you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, then you haven't even begun to live (John 10:10). Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation today.