tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43928280251609749812024-03-05T09:54:27.829-08:00The Plain TruthThe Worldwide Church of God, under the dedicated biblical management of Herbert W. Armstrong, published the Plain Truth magazine as an excellent way to help preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. The Plain Truth blog hopes to help share world news in light of biblical prophecy in that same holy spirit.David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.comBlogger2497125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-18054797654830881052011-03-13T10:31:00.000-07:002011-03-13T10:31:06.117-07:00English Language Lecture and Conference Series<b>Root and Branch Association, Ltd.<br />
<br />
English Language Lecture and Conference Series<br />
<br />
R&B EVENT:<br />
<br />
</b>Monday, March 14th, 2011, 7:30 p.m.<br />
Orthodox Union Israel Center<br />
22 Keren HaYesod Street, Jerusalem<br />
<a href="http://www.ouisrael.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ouisrael.org/</a><br />
<br />
<b>"Torah Codes"<br />
<br />
</b>Illustrated Lecture by<br />
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<b>by Professor Eliyahu Rips<br />
<br />
</b><i>Professor of Mathematics,<br />
Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br />
<a href="http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/rips/" target="_blank">http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/rips/</a><br />
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</i>Master of Ceremonies<br />
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<b>Mr. Aryeh Yosef Gallin<br />
<br />
</b><i>Founder and President,<br />
Root and Branch Association, Ltd.<br />
<a href="http://lowellgallin.com/" target="_blank">http://lowellgallin.com</a><br />
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</i>Admission Fees:<br />
Israel Center Members NIS 25.00<br />
Non-Members NIS 30.00<br />
Israel Center Life Members NIS 5.00<br />
Journalists FreeDavid Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-62776951680872479382011-03-05T12:01:00.000-08:002011-03-05T12:01:02.090-08:00"Secret rapture? 144,000?"<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 25px; width: 550px;"> <div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1fFn8sLksbqwrj&b=.rGMS4VxcyqDTFrx9E5iKA" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: "Secret rapture? 144,000?"</a></div><div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Wyatt Ciesielka | Saturday, February 26, 2011</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">As we approach the end of this age and Christ's literal return, many Christians wonder what will happen to them. Many believe in a secret rapture. Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be part of the 144,000. Others wonder about the Great Multitude. What does the Bible really teach about God's saints at the end of this age? <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1fFn8sLksbqwrj&b=KDRGSBJ.SUlNFu6AzFJRVA" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" class="emptyExternalImage" height="12" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/images/grayfiller.gif" width="12" /></a></div></div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-3878810749146831782011-03-01T08:50:00.001-08:002011-03-01T08:50:57.093-08:00Wars and rumors of wars<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="" style="width: 600px;"><tbody>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2"><div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 25px; width: 550px;"> <div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1df2ejmqUbqwrj&b=yygJYpi0VAVJZ00qAsDIsA" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: Wars and rumors of wars</a></div><div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, February 22, 2011</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">War. It's an ugly word. It denotes death and destruction, pain and suffering, ruination and devastation. Every year it affects tens of millions of human beings. Will it ever end? <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1df2ejmqUbqwrj&b=7DGXAHcyGKlBXIfTw6U8dQ" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" class="emptyExternalImage" height="12" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/images/grayfiller.gif" width="12" /></a></div></div></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-67970312971614106882011-02-26T10:40:00.001-08:002011-02-26T10:40:09.643-08:00Return to Zion?<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Shalom Ilan, haveri! Thank you for thinking of me. We've had an ice and snow snow that came in last night and expect another tonight. <img height="20" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/ft/wm/content?uri=mimebody%3a%2f%2f%3fcontainer%3dstoredmessage%253a%252f%252f%253ffolder%253d%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522FolderHandle%252522%25252c%252522folderPath%252522%25253a%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522Path%252522%25252c%252522path%252522%25253a%252522%25255c%25252fINBOX%252522%25257d%25252c%252522boxHandle%252522%25253a%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522PersonalBoxHandle%252522%25252c%252522owner%252522%25253a52223185%25257d%25257d%2526docID%253d43362%2526name%253dRE%25253a%252520FW%25253a%252520Reunion%252520trip%252520-%252520Back%252520to%252520the%252520Kibbutz%2526contentType%253dMESSAGE%25252fRFC822%2526size%253d%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522ImmutableLong%252522%25252c%252522value%252522%25253a%25252217619L%252522%25257d%26partNum%3d5%26name%3dimage001.gif%26size%3d%257b%2522eonType%2522%253a%2522ImmutableLong%2522%252c%2522value%2522%253a%2522509L%2522%257d%26contentType%3dIMAGE%252fGIF" width="20" />My car door won't open. Frozen shut. <br />
I would love to visit my beloved Land but probably can't for many reasons: I'm a poor white boy (I'm a poor fellow getting ready to sell my home and move with Mom and her boyfriend Doug to a nice home with my own bedroom in the country). And my AIDS doctors said I'll probably be dead and are in shock I'm not already and haven't gotten sick with infectious diseases. Blessed be God!<img height="20" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/ft/wm/content?uri=mimebody%3a%2f%2f%3fcontainer%3dstoredmessage%253a%252f%252f%253ffolder%253d%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522FolderHandle%252522%25252c%252522folderPath%252522%25253a%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522Path%252522%25252c%252522path%252522%25253a%252522%25255c%25252fINBOX%252522%25257d%25252c%252522boxHandle%252522%25253a%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522PersonalBoxHandle%252522%25252c%252522owner%252522%25253a52223185%25257d%25257d%2526docID%253d43362%2526name%253dRE%25253a%252520FW%25253a%252520Reunion%252520trip%252520-%252520Back%252520to%252520the%252520Kibbutz%2526contentType%253dMESSAGE%25252fRFC822%2526size%253d%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522ImmutableLong%252522%25252c%252522value%252522%25253a%25252217619L%252522%25257d%26partNum%3d3%26name%3dimage002.gif%26size%3d%257b%2522eonType%2522%253a%2522ImmutableLong%2522%252c%2522value%2522%253a%2522505L%2522%257d%26contentType%3dIMAGE%252fGIF" width="20" /> What will be will be. I won't give up without a struggle.<br />
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Love ya Ilan,<img height="20" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/ft/wm/content?uri=mimebody%3a%2f%2f%3fcontainer%3dstoredmessage%253a%252f%252f%253ffolder%253d%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522FolderHandle%252522%25252c%252522folderPath%252522%25253a%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522Path%252522%25252c%252522path%252522%25253a%252522%25255c%25252fINBOX%252522%25257d%25252c%252522boxHandle%252522%25253a%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522PersonalBoxHandle%252522%25252c%252522owner%252522%25253a52223185%25257d%25257d%2526docID%253d43362%2526name%253dRE%25253a%252520FW%25253a%252520Reunion%252520trip%252520-%252520Back%252520to%252520the%252520Kibbutz%2526contentType%253dMESSAGE%25252fRFC822%2526size%253d%25257b%252522eonType%252522%25253a%252522ImmutableLong%252522%25252c%252522value%252522%25253a%25252217619L%252522%25257d%26partNum%3d2%26name%3dimage003.gif%26size%3d%257b%2522eonType%2522%253a%2522ImmutableLong%2522%252c%2522value%2522%253a%2522985L%2522%257d%26contentType%3dIMAGE%252fGIF" width="20" /><br />
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David</span>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-88191956066074620992011-02-21T12:54:00.001-08:002011-02-21T12:54:29.833-08:00Back to the Kibbutz<span lang="EN">Reunion trip - Back to the Kibbutz <br />
<br />
June 12-19, 2011<br />
<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
<br />
As part of the 100 year anniversary of the Israel kibbutz, the kibbutz movement has organized a special reunion trip to Israel for former volunteers. The trip will include many unique attractions, including staying at kibbutzim, traveling around the country and meeting old friends. <br />
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If you are one of the 350,000 former volunteers who stayed and worked at a Kibbutz in the past, you are invited to re-live that experience and to meet people from all over the world who share those special memories.<br />
<br />
Former volunteers and their families are welcome to join this unique reunion trip. <br />
For details, please see attached brochure or send an email to: volunteers@amsalem.com<br />
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If you are just interested in attending the reunion, please see the attached link: www.kibbutzvolunteers.org.il<br />
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You are welcome to join the Kibbutz Volunteers facebook page: www.facebook.com/kibbutzvol for more updates. </span>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-70579316794906529882011-02-18T06:52:00.000-08:002011-02-18T06:52:34.943-08:00The Vatican versus the Fourth Commandment<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 25px; width: 550px;"> <div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ax_SD21fbqwrj&b=OetS14P3H6oKmmM7_H20eg" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: The Vatican versus the Fourth Commandment</a></div><div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Wyatt Ciesielka | Saturday, February 12, 2011</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">On January 25, Pope Benedict XVI again proclaimed his desire "to ignite a fervent missionary movement in the Catholic Church," stating he wants to advance "the entire Catholic Church into a new missionary age" in 2011 (catholic.org, January 28, 2011). While this movement will ultimately contribute to fulfilling prophecies such as Isaiah 47:8-9 and Revelation 17:2-5, an aspect of this rejuvenated "fervent missionary movement" already affects billions. This is the growing emphasis on Sunday observance. <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ax_SD21fbqwrj&b=9UbETGcG.rEYHWz1YUubJA" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" class="emptyExternalImage" height="12" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/images/grayfiller.gif" width="12" /></a><h3><br />
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http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2009/11/ziggy-bear-posing-at-maumee-bay.html<br />
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http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2009/12/gladys-kravitz-ziggy-bear.html<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjFkURQ1g8</span></span>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-46151941621052029782011-02-10T17:23:00.001-08:002011-02-10T17:23:53.600-08:00Beyond Babylon<a href="http://www.publishamerica.com/greetingcardpro/createcard1.asp?PostCardID=7004" style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" src="http://www.publishamerica.com/shopping/images/1413750575.jpg" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1413750575?tag=beyondbabyl01-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1413750575&adid=1R300GWDHJRHJPZGSAP9&" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is destined to become a national debate and an international controversy because it dares to speak the plain truth in a world of lies!<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon</b><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Introduction</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_04.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 1</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_04.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Survival Guaranteed!</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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The DEVASTATION unleashed against America and her British allies was without precedent. Destruction was everywhere and a body count impossible. The catastrophe was beyond calculation.<br />
<br />
Europe - gripped with a messianic furor - justified this mass destruction of the body to "save the soul." Besides, they have the blessing of the pope. His white robes are stained with the blood of many martyrs.<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_06.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 2</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_06.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Why National Defeat?</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
<br />
Why are we in mortal danger? Why will the American, British and Jewish people SUFFER national defeat? How could Europe ever turn against us?<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_10.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 3</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/11/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_10.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Truth or Consequences</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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As global tensions increase, and threats of confrontation escalate, we might very well wonder whether humanity will survive. <i>Unless</i> there’s a GOD to intervene, we have a bleak future indeed: a DEAD PLANET! Will earth become a nuclear fireball? Will charred bones - aftermath of unleashed atomic fires - and the smoldering ruins of a suicidal civilization be all that’s left?<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/01/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 4</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/01/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Victims of Tradition</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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Whenever our behavior gets out of control, <i>God lets us loose control! </i>When we’re held hostage to bad habits, and refuse to let them go, we go into captivity! A national lack of discipline results in God sending corrective punishment! Then we wake up and get with it, and beg God to save us. The whole purpose is to bring us to our knees and senses.<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/03/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 5</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/03/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Europe's Fate</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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What’s going to happen to Europe? We know what’s going to happen to the American and British peoples, as well as to our Jewish brethren. The coming WORLD CRISIS is prophesied to fall especially hard on them. Why?<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/04/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 6</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/04/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Jesus and the Jews</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
<br />
Why don't the Jews accept Jesus?" I've been asked that so many times. My usual reply? "Why haven't the Christians?" At least the Jews are waiting for the proper imperial restoration. The Messiah's coming to sit on DAVID'S THRONE - not Caesar's or "St. Peter's." The Anointed One's going to rule from JERUSALEM - not Rome!<br />
<br />
<b>Beyond Babylon<br />
</b></span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/05/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_31.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Chapter 7</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2007/05/beyond-babylon-europes-rise-and-fall_31.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Elijah's Key Role</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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Israel's about to host the greatest showdown on earth! A spiritual conflict of interests will create such a scene in Jerusalem that the whole world will watch! Zion will be an arena of prophets and sorcerers, warriors and kings! The forces of good and evil are set to duel: the sons of light will battle the sons of darkness, and truth will confront error head-on!<br />
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</span><br />
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<span class="RA_Label">Source: </span><span class="RA_Data"> Beyond Babylon</span><br />
<span class="RA_Label">URL Source:</span> <span class="RA_Data"><a href="http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2011/02/honor-your-mother.html" target="_new">http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2011/02/honor-your-mother.html</a></span><br />
<span class="RA_Label">Published:</span> <span class="RA_Data">Feb 5, 2011</span><br />
<span class="RA_Label">Author:</span> <span class="RA_Data"><b>David Ben-Ariel</b></span><br />
<span class="RA_Label">Post Date:</span> <span class="RA_Data">2011-02-05 08:44:59</span> by <b><span class="RA_Label">David Ben-Ariel</span></b><br />
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<span class="RA_Article">I recently returned from Florida, a trip my mother opposed for many reasons. I told Mom it would me feel alive again, on the road again...Instead I'm depressed and have been forced to face my mortality, that I can't travel like I used, that I don't have the energy I once enjoyed. I have AIDS and told I have 1-5 months to live. I don't want to die... </span>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-50840465031507498782011-01-22T09:13:00.003-08:002011-01-22T09:13:33.379-08:00Bible study<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>BibleStudy.org handles 10,000th Bible question, has record year</strong></span> </div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan - In 2010 God blessed THE Bible Study Web Site at <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/" target="_blank">BibleStudy.org</a> with its best year in its fifteen-year history, reports full-time Webmaster and owner Alan Ruth.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">In 2010 the site attracted <strong>5,185,156 actual visitors</strong>, an increase of <strong>30%</strong> above the previous year. These visitors requested <strong>11,540,657 pages</strong> of Bible-based study materials, an incredible <strong>31%</strong> above the previous year and the largest raw jump in study materials viewed (+2.7 Million) ever.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Last year the site was also blessed with achieving a MAJOR milestone in reaching the whole world with the Gospel. BibleStudy.org's Personal Answers to Bible Questions service received its <strong>10,000th Bible question from the public</strong> during the year. Alan further reported:</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> "The site's Question and Answer service started in September 2002 and is staffed by several hard-working, mature Christian volunteers known collectively as the <em>Email Evangelists</em>. Their dedication to serving God by answering sometimes difficult and heart-rending personal questions makes the service possible. The Personal Answers to Questions outreach ended 2010 with a total of <strong>10,065</strong> questions handled since the service began.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> "BibleStudy.org's popularity, in terms of visitors, has increase an amazing <strong>428%</strong> compared to year 2004 totals. The total number of Bible articles viewed since 2004 has also dramatically increased by <strong>260%</strong>. </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> "The Bible teaches not to despise the day of small things (Zech. 4:10) and that with God involved anything is possible. God has used the less than $2,000 donated for the year to do some great things."</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">BibleStudy.org's goal for 2011 is to serve <strong>7 Million visitors</strong> who request <strong>15 Million</strong> of its Web pages.</span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>PERSONAL ANSWERS TO BIBLE QUESTIONS SERVICE FAST FACTS</strong></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">* In its first year the site handled 1,811 questions from the public!<br />
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* <strong>95%+</strong> of all questions are submitted by those with <strong>NO</strong> church of God background or exposure.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">* The current group of <em>Email Evangelists</em> answering Bible questions from the public are:</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> Rick and Eileen Beltz, Charlotte Grantham, Arnold Mendez Sr., Al and Debra Murrey, Eric Snow, Mike Summers, Les Turvey, Tommy West, Margaret Vidal and Clay Willis </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">* Seven of the ten current Email Evangelists have been faithfully answering Bible questions since the service started in 2002!</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">* Answers from the <em>Email Evangelists</em>, <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/answers.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/answers.html">posted on BibleStudy.org</a>, are collectively the MOST POPULAR part of the site. In 2010 <em>Email Evangelist</em> answers were read a total of <strong>2.4 MILLION</strong> times!</span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><u>The Five Most Read Answers to Bible Questions in 2010</u></strong></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">1. <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/sauldie.html" target="_blank">HOW and WHERE did the Apostle Paul die?</a></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">2. <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/smoking-marijuana-or-pot.html" target="_blank">Does the Bible APPROVE of smoking POT (marijuana)?</a></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">3. <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/when-was-satan-cast-out-of-heaven.html" target="_blank">When was Satan THROWN OUT of heaven?</a></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">4. <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/what-does-thou-shall-not-kill-mean.html" target="_blank">What does THOU SHALL NOT KILL in the Ten Commandments MEAN?</a></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;">5. <a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/question/meaning-of-eli-eli-lama-sabachthani-spoken-by-jesus.html" target="_blank">What is meaning of ELI ELI LAMA SABACHTHANI cried out by Jesus on the cross?</a></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> <div><span style="font-size: small;">To make a donation in support of BibleStudy.org's ministry please visit:</span><a href="http://www.biblestudy.org/donate.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.biblestudy.org/donate.html"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.biblestudy.org/donate.html</span></a></div><div> </div><div><br />
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The new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This number is called 300 sextillion in the United States, or 300 trilliard in Europe. Did you know that the Great God calls them all by name? <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1atUEj9MPrqwrj&b=9AyIQXayAZ6Wc1iF3IYyJg" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" class="emptyExternalImage" height="12" src="http://mail.buckeye-express.com/eonapps/images/grayfiller.gif" width="12" /></a></div></div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-82634063207003609122011-01-09T08:14:00.001-08:002011-01-09T08:14:29.594-08:00Catholic destruction of the Word of God<div>What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius'<wbr></wbr>, the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.</div>[John Adams, letter to John Taylor]David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-33865208463302947632011-01-04T12:41:00.001-08:002011-01-04T12:41:51.779-08:00The awesome mind of God<div style="margin: 25px; width: 550px;"><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1atUEj9MPrqwrj&b=xlSEHgcocyZAbEsETfCjhg" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: The awesome mind of God</a></span></div><div style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, January 04, 2011</span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Yale University astronomer recently suggested that the estimate of the number of stars could be as much as three times more than previously estimated. The new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This number is called 300 sextillion in the United States, or 300 trilliard in Europe. Did you know that the Great God calls them all by name? <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1atUEj9MPrqwrj&b=9AyIQXayAZ6Wc1iF3IYyJg" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" height="12" src="https://www.cogl.org/images/weekly_digest/next_button.gif" width="12" /></a></span></div></div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-90701854544053405342010-12-28T07:12:00.001-08:002010-12-28T07:12:25.235-08:00Is religious syncretism a good thing?<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 25px; width: 550px;"> <div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ZLqTRGkbrqwrj&b=pI1HWg9jC_GYNRO4k9QIBg" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: Is religious syncretism a good thing?</a></div><div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Roger Meyer (guest columnist) | Tuesday, December 28, 2010</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">Most people don't realize it, but their religion is a blend of paganism and Christianity. Is that a good thing? Does it make any difference to God that at least part of one's beliefs and practices came from a pagan religion? <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ZLqTRGkbrqwrj&b=fWEm6XCEepwYRtKdlxpgaQ" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" height="12" src="https://www.cogl.org/images/weekly_digest/next_button.gif" width="12" /></a></div></div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-77412910235209781092010-12-17T06:28:00.001-08:002010-12-17T06:28:23.010-08:00Hanukkah March of the Temple Mount Faithful<div style="margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;"> <div style="font-size: 80%; text-align: right;"> b'ezrat HaShem / with the help of G‑d</div><h1 style="color: #0b5c98; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: center;">Hanukkah March of the Temple Mount Faithful — 2010/5771</h1>The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will hold their traditional Hanukkah march on the first day of Tevet (Wednesday, December 8), beginning at 9:00 AM, Jerusalem time. Starting out in Modi'in, the ancient city of the Maccabees, the march will follow the route taken by the Maccabees as they defeated the mighty Greek army on their way to liberate the holy city of Jerusalem. Their main goal was to liberate Jerusalem, to purify the Temple from the pagan idols, and to once again make the city of Jerusalem the capital of the nation of Israel.<br />
It was in Modi'in where the high priest Mattityahu started a revolt, together with his five sons and many volunteers from the Jewish people. With the help and the strength of the G‑d of Israel, through battle after battle they defeated the Greek empire. They were a small minority fighting against what was at the time the world's greatest military force. When the Greek soldiers asked for Mattityahu's help in getting the Jewish people to make a sacrifice on a pagan altar, he cried out, "G‑d forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances. We will not obey the king's commands to turn away from our religion, either on the right hand or the left" (1 Maccabees 2.21-22). And with that, he killed one of the Jewish traitors who was getting ready to offer a pagan sacrifice, just as Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest did to Zimri the son of Salu (Numbers 25.6-15). As he went throughout the city, Mattityahu cried out to the people of Israel, "Whosoever is zealous of the law and maintains the covenant, let him follow me!" (1 Maccabees 2.27). As he fought on and on, more and more Israelis joined with him and his sons. But they all knew that the real reason for their victories and the complete removal of the Greek empire from the land of Israel was that the G‑d of Israel had become the General and the Commander of the Maccabee's forces, and He does today with Israel, so He did with the Maccabees and gave them their great victories in their time of need.<br />
By their bold actions, the Maccabees began a spiritual revolution within the Jewish community, spreading throughout the Land of Israel which was laid heavy under a strong influence of the Hellenistic pagan culture, placing it in grave danger of loosing its godly Jewish identity. By saving Israel's godly identity through this revolution, the Maccabees provided a lesson to all the coming generations of Israel that a small minority, even one person such as the high priest Mattityahu, can change the negative march of history so long as they trust in the G‑d of Israel, and follow the eternal Torah which He gave to Israel.<br />
Since the origin of our movement, the Temple Mount Faithful Movement has considered itself to be as the Maccabees, and as the Joshua's and the Caleb's of our time we swore to adopt this lesson of the Maccabees. We swore faithfulness to G‑d and to His Word and we trust Him absolutely. Like the Maccabees, we are struggling for the liberation and purification of the Temple Mount, the hill of G‑d in Jerusalem, to immediately remove the Arab Islamic pagan presence from the most holy place of Israel -- the location of the First, Second and soon-to-come Third Temple.<br />
On the seventh day of Hanukkah, Wednesday, 1 Tevet 5771 (December 8, 2010) the Temple Mount Faithful Movement will travel by bus to Modi'in, where we shall swear faithfulness to the godly heritage of the Maccabees. We will light the Hanukkah menorah and say for the ears of the whole world, "You will never take the land of Israel given by G‑d only to His people Israel and give it to foreigners and enemies of the G‑d and the people of Israel". We shall swear before G‑d to make the same Spiritual revolution that the Maccabees made in their time. It will be an exciting moment to stand on the same ground where the Maccabees stood, the ground of the ancient city of Modi'in. After lighting the torch of the Maccabees, we will run for part of the way following in the tracks of the Maccabees and their victories against the Greeks, on the mountains of Beit Horon. When we arrive at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem we will demonstrate for the immediate removal of the Arab Islamic enemy from the Temple Mount. We will tell the leaders of the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations that they will not pressure us to stop building homes for the Jewish people on their ancient Land. We will stand against any false anti-godly plan to create a foreign Islamic terrorist state in the midst of the Land of the G‑d and the people of Israel. We shall call to everyone in the world -- and to all the leaders in Israel -- to take their hands away from the Land which belongs to G‑d, that Land which He gave to the people of Israel in an ancient, eternal covenant.<br />
Our present era is reminiscent of the period of the ancient Maccabees, when Israel was controlled by the Greek Empire who prohibited Israel from attaining her divine mission of being a holy nation, a kingdom of priests and a light to the nations. Israel, who had sworn to commit herself to be faithful to the One True Living G‑d of Israel, immediately rejected the situation when the Greeks desecrated the Holy Temple of G‑d in Jerusalem and placed their own pagan idols inside the Holy of Holies of the Temple and forced the Israelites to accept a Hellenistic pagan faith and culture. The Israelites were determined to remain as servants 'only' to the G‑d of Israel and never to be slaves to pagan idolatries. The first book of the Maccabees reads as if it were written today. To all of those who devise evil plans to take Jerusalem from the G‑d and people of Israel, we answer today in the words of Nehemiah, the leader of Israel after the destruction of the First Temple and the redemption of Israel 2,526 years ago, who answered Geshem, the Arab and his companions:<br />
<blockquote> "<em>Then I answered them, and said to them, The G‑d of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build; but you have no portion, or right, or memorial, in Jerusalem.</em>" (Nehemiah 2:20)</blockquote>To those who have devised plans to divide the Land of Israel, to give it to her sworn enemies, listen to what G‑d said through the prophet Joel more than 2,500 years ago:<br />
<blockquote> "<em>For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will enter into judgment with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have divided up my land.</em>" (Joel 4:1-2/Christian Bible 3:1-2)</blockquote>Everyone who reads this message is called to participate in this exciting and important event of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement. You can ride with us with no cost -- just bring an open heart and be a part of an event that will be another stage in the godly end-time campaign of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement. For additional details, contact us by e-mail: <a href="mailto:gershon@templemountfaithful.org">gershon@templemountfaithful.org</a>, telephone: 02.625.1112 or FAX: 02.625.1113 (don't forget your country code).<br />
<strong>In G‑d we trust!!</strong><br />
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<a href="http://christmascondemned.blogspot.com/2009/12/jeremiah-10-condemns-christmas-trees.html" target="_blank"><strong><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial;">Jeremiah 10 condemns Christmas trees!</span></span></b></strong></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 10</span></b><br />
1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.<br />
2 Thus says the LORD: <br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do not learn the way of the Gentiles</span></b>; <br />
Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, <br />
For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. <br />
3 For the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">customs</span></b> of the peoples are futile; <br />
For one cuts a tree from the forest, <br />
The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. <br />
4 They decorate it with silver and gold; <br />
They fasten it with nails and hammers <br />
So that it will not topple. <br />
5 They are upright, like a palm tree, <br />
And they cannot speak; <br />
They must be carried, <br />
Because they cannot go by themselves.<br />
Do not be afraid of them, <br />
For they cannot do evil, <br />
Nor can they do any good. <br />
6 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD <br />
(You are great, and Your name is great in might), <br />
7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? <br />
For this is Your rightful due. <br />
For among all the wise men of the nations, <br />
And in all their kingdoms, <br />
There is none like You. <br />
8 But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; <br />
A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine. <br />
9 Silver is beaten into plates; <br />
It is brought from Tarshish, <br />
And gold from Uphaz, <br />
The work of the craftsman <br />
And of the hands of the metalsmith; <br />
Blue and purple are their clothing; <br />
They are all the work of skillful men.<br />
10 But the LORD is the true God; <br />
He is the living God and the everlasting King. <br />
At His wrath the earth will tremble, <br />
And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation. <br />
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Jeremiah 10 condemns idolatry, both in the letter and in the spirit, whether a physical idol or an idolatrous tradition based upon <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">HEATHEN CUSTOMS</span></b> like the "Christmas tree" that history clearly exposes as pagan in origin. Those who adorn their Christmas trees and remain in denial about its pagan origin, who play deaf, dumb and blind to the facts, who attempt to dismiss or downplay how it's a heathen custom, are <i><span style="font-style: italic;">living a lie</span></i> and shamefully reject the clear commandments of God that speak against such spiritual adultery, mixing and matching pagan error with biblical truth, and will suffer the consequences for being so dishonest and deceitful. <br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pagan holidays like Christmas and pagan customs like Christmas trees are both abominations to God.</span></b> True Christians shun both, we avoid them like the plague, because we love God more than idolatrous traditions of apostate men!<br />
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<a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/no-longer-celebrate-christmas.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas</span></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/christmas-giving.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Christmas is About Giving -- Says Who?</span></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/c-h-spurgeon-christmas-roman-catholicism.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;">C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas and Roman Catholicism</span></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/will-god-curse-countries-christmas.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Will God Curse Our Countries for Christmas?</span></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br />
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<a href="http://christmascondemned.blogspot.com/2006/11/plain-truth-about-christmas-by-herbert.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The Plain Truth about Christmas</span></span></a> </span></span></div></div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-31718185715544075752010-12-02T08:57:00.001-08:002010-12-02T08:57:38.266-08:00Nigel Farage insults Belgium and EU President<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DZ6rfxoEFI4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DZ6rfxoEFI4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-53124845582403716052010-12-01T06:13:00.001-08:002010-12-01T06:13:32.436-08:00A gracious song for healing from Jerusalem!May the Lord heal you from all your ailments! Refuah Sheleimah (a complete healing). Here is a song to help you get well:<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deafN_ZosKQ</a>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-41052012316330046942010-11-29T11:56:00.000-08:002010-11-29T11:58:52.988-08:00Eurabia: A Voice Cries Out in Defense of Europe's Heritage<h1>Eurabia: A Voice Cries Out in Defense of Europe's Heritage</h1><h2>With birthrates among traditional Europeans in decline while population growth in Europe's Muslim communities soars, one European voice asks whether Europe wants to preserve its cultural and religious identity. Will anyone listen before it's too late?</h2><h3>by Paul Kieffer</h3>Members of Western democratic parliaments are known to voice concerns on issues beyond their own national borders. Topics like human rights, poverty, AIDS in the developing world and other issues sometimes echo from the halls of Congress, the British Parliament, Germany's Bundestag and elsewhere.<br />
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Perhaps the most memorable example of a member of parliament (MP) speaking out on a perceived danger abroad was British MP Winston Churchill during the 1930s. On numerous occasions Churchill warned his country of the danger it faced from the ascent of German dictator Adolf Hitler. <br />
Though accused of "scaremongering," Churchill did not relent. When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was hailed as a hero on his return from his 1938 meeting in Munich with Hitler, proclaiming "peace in our time," Churchill predicted a future "day of reckoning." The rest of the story is history.<br />
Flash forward to the present. For the last six years one Western European politician in particular has made it his mission in life to warn his own countrymen—and anyone else in Europe who will listen—about a threat staring Europe in the face within its own continental borders. The threat he perceives is the demise of Europe's traditional cultural and religious identity as a result of the gradual Islamization of Europe.<br />
Who is he? He is Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament and a vocal opponent of "Eurabia."<br />
<h2>Who is Geert Wilders?</h2>Many people may not recognize Geert Wilders' name. After all, the Netherlands is not one of the world's larger countries, and most people—even in Europe—do not follow the Dutch domestic political scene closely. Wilders, 47, was born in the city of Venlo on the Dutch-German border. He was raised a Roman Catholic but left the church on reaching adulthood. Despite leaving the Catholic Church, Wilders supports traditional Judeo-Christian values.<br />
After completing his education, Wilders traveled to the Middle East, where he lived in Israel for a time and also visited some of the neighboring Arab countries. The impressions of Islam he took home from those visits have shaped his personal assessment, which he says is similar to the viewpoint of none other than Winston Churchill. As a young man, Churchill served as a soldier and war correspondent in the late 1890s in British India (in what is today Pakistan) and the Sudan.<br />
Churchill summed up his perception of Islam's effects on its adherents: "The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist ... Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities—but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it."<br />
He concluded: "No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" (<i>The River War,</i> 1899).<br />
Wilders, at the beginning of his political career, worked as a speechwriter for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He moved to Utrecht in 1996 and was elected to the city council and in 2002 to the lower house of the Dutch parliament. Wilders had problems with his party's position on admitting Turkey as a member of the European Union, leading him to form his own party in 2004, now called the Party for Freedom (PVV). <br />
EU membership for Turkey would eventually mean more Muslims living elsewhere in Europe, although Wilders already sees Europe's cultural and religious heritage threatened by the continent's current Muslim population. Wilders points out that 100 years ago there were fewer than 100 Muslims living in the Netherlands, compared to nearly 1 million today out of a total Dutch population of some 16 million.<br />
Wilders pulls no punches about his desire to see limits placed on the influence of Islam in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. He is against the use of any language but Dutch in mosques located in the Netherlands—so that others will know what is said in them and as a check against imams feigning peace and goodwill to the outside world while inciting hatred and violence among Muslim congregants. He also opposes the construction of new mosques in his country.<br />
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Speaking in the Dutch parliament, he once said that the Koran should be banned in the Netherlands, adding that if Islam's holy book were to be stripped of passages proclaiming violence, it would be reduced to the size of a comic book.<br />
With this opinion, Wilders is on the same page as Pope Benedict XVI. In a speech given in Regensburg in September 2006, Benedict quoted a medieval Christian emperor who equated Islam with violence: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."<br />
Accused of being a racist, Wilders counters by saying that he does not hate Muslims. Instead, he just hates Islam. On his own blog, Wilders summarizes that viewpoint: <br />
"The purpose of Islam is the total submission of oneself and others to the unknowable Allah, whom we must serve through total obedience to Muhammad as leader of the Islamic state (suras 3:31, 4:80, 24:62, 48:10, 57:28). And history has taught us that Muhammad was not at all a prophet of love and compassion, but a mass murderer, a tyrant and a pedophile. Muslims could not have a more deplorable role model."<br />
<h2>Growing popularity and power</h2>Geert Wilders is typically characterized by the mainstream media as being a right-wing populist, an anti-Muslim agitator or xenophobic. And yet twice in annual public opinion surveys he was rated the second-most popular politician in the Netherlands. <br />
In parliamentary elections of June 2010, Wilders' party won 24 of the 150 seats in the lower house, a remarkable increase over its previous result of nine seats in 2006. Wilders has agreed to support a minority coalition government formed by two other conservative parties, which will give him considerable leverage in the new government.<br />
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Wilders has had to pay a price for his stance on Islam, however. He has received numerous death threats and has been constantly accompanied by six bodyguards since a letter threatening his death was found in the apartment of the Islamic fanatic who assassinated Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in broad daylight on a street in Amsterdam in November 2004. The bodyguards "stand outside the door when I go to the bathroom," he once said.<br />
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Wilders never sleeps two nights in a row in the same location. Because of these security restrictions, he is able to see his wife only once every two weeks. He has described his life as "essentially living in a prison."<br />
<h2>Muslim population growth in Europe</h2>Wilders sees the increasing Muslim population in Europe as one of the most serious threats to the preservation of Europe's traditional cultural and religious heritage. It comes as no surprise that he opposes continued immigration from Islamic countries and Turkey's bid for full EU membership, which would eventually open Europe's gates to unrestricted Turkish immigration.<br />
Muslims currently account for about 5 percent of the European Union's population. If Turkey's bid for EU membership is successful, on the day Turkey becomes a member the percentage of Muslims living in the EU will increase to 20 percent. But current population numbers are only part of the story. Turkey would also soon be the EU's largest country. Based on current population trends, Turkey will surpass Germany's 82 million inhabitants by the year 2020 and may have as many as 100 million people by the year 2050.<br />
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However, even if Turkey does not become a full member of the European Union, the percentage of Muslims living in Europe will still double within 15 years. Europe's Islamic community is experiencing a population explosion. At the same time, the traditional non-Muslim population of Europe will decline by an estimated 3.5 percent. Europe's traditional non-Islamic population is slowly but surely dying out.<br />
Germany's birthrate is a prime example of the population decline among Europe's traditional nationalities. Statistically each woman in Germany currently has 1.36 live births during her childbearing years, far below the 2.1 average considered necessary to maintain a country's population. Given current trends, the research by the private Institute for Population and Development in Berlin indicates that the number of children born in Germany will drop 50 percent by the year 2050.<br />
The declining birthrate is most acute in the former East Germany, where the average birthrate since the reunification of Germany in 1990 is 0.77 live births. Reiner Klingholz, the director of the private Berlin Institute for Population and Development, summarized the situation with some humor: "With the Vatican as the exception, that's the lowest birthrate anywhere in the world."<br />
If this situation continues unhindered, it is only a matter of time before the Islamic community in Europe becomes a sizable minority and even a majority of Europe's total population. In 2005, for example, there were more children of Islamic parentage born in France than people of a traditional French background.<br />
Although not directly related to Europe's declining birthrate, it's also interesting to note that the number of Europeans who profess to be Christians has declined noticeably in the last 100 years. In 1900 approximately 95 percent of Europeans claimed to be Christian. At the beginning of the 21st century that percentage had dropped to 75 percent, with a sharp increase in the decline just in the last 25 years.<br />
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For example, since 1980 the population segment that identifies itself as Christian in Belgium declined by 20 percent; in the Netherlands, by 18 percent; and in France, by 16 percent. Today's Europe is also the only continent witnessing a decline in the number of Catholics. The annual number of infant baptisms in the Philippines is now more than the combined annual total for France, Italy, Poland and Spain.<br />
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If present trends continue, Europe will slowly become what Geert Wilders calls "Eurabia," a continent whose traditional heritage becomes drowned out by a fast-growing Muslim community—now a minority, but possibly a majority of Europe's population in the future.<br />
<h2>Europe's religious future</h2>Bible prophecy shows that Europe's traditional religious heritage will wield considerable influence in the future, but in a way not imagined by Dutch MP Geert Wilders. The book of Revelation contains a prophecy about 10 "kings" or leaders who collectively form a new geopolitical superpower called "the beast," which Jesus Christ will conquer and destroy at His return to the earth.<br />
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We read about them in Revelation 17:12-14: "The ten horns which you saw are <i>ten kings</i> who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour [a short time] as kings with the beast ... These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them" (emphasis added).<br />
Those 10 horns are part of a "beast" described in verse 3 as having "seven heads and ten horns," with the 10 horns—the final 10 leaders who will fight against Christ—apparently representing one of the seven heads. Each of the seven heads is a "mountain"—biblical symbolism for a kingdom or empire—with its king (verses 9-10). Verse 10 clarifies that the heads appear in chronological sequence, and the final "head," or king (verse 10), will appear as the 10 kings symbolized by 10 horns (verse 12).<br />
This sequence of rulers is dominated by a religious system called "Babylon the Great," which emanates from "the great harlot [city] who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication" (Revelation 17:1-2). The true Church of God, in contrast, is pictured in the Bible as a chaste bride waiting to be married to Christ. The harlot of Revelation 17 is a deceptive religious system masquerading as a true system of worship.<br />
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As the modern heir of ancient Babylon's mystery religion, it is the city of Rome that is described as being "drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus" (Revelation 17:6). It's a historical fact that Rome, more than any other city, under the influence of a great religious system, has orchestrated the persecution and martyrdom of "those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus" (Revelation 14:12).<br />
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Pictured as a harlot sitting astride the "beast" of which she is the cultural and spiritual center, this infamous city has exerted a vast influence over the earth's "peoples, multitudes, nations and languages" (Revelation 17:15, New International Version). For a while she has enjoyed the status and fame of being the city that "reigns over the kings of the earth" (verse 18).<br />
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In other words, it appears that the composite "beast" of Revelation 17 is the so-called Holy Roman Empire—the resurrected Roman Empire dominated by the modern descendant of the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. The final resurrection of that empire will be predominantly influenced not by Islam, but by the same religious system that has dominated it since Emperor Justinian I initiated his restoration of the Roman Empire in A.D. 554. <br />
<h2>Geert Wilders and Europe's future</h2>While no one can predict what course Geert Wilders' political future may take, it is interesting that his position on Muslim population growth in Europe is consistent with Bible prophecy. <br />
Islam has never been the religion of the Holy Roman Empire, nor will it be in the future. Since the "great harlot" of Revelation 17 is pictured as continually being the dominant influence on the "beast" system, the Islamic minority in Europe apparently will not grow to such an extent that it will prevent the traditional religious system of the Holy Roman Empire from exerting its influence in the end-time "beast" power. <br />
But the growth of this minority and a rise in Muslim terrorism could well set off a backlash among traditional Europeans, providing impetus for their returning to their Roman religious and cultural heritage.<br />
With the fast-growing Islamic minority in Europe, what are the implications for Europe's future when it comes to Europe's Islamic community and Islamic immigration?<br />
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There would appear to be several possibilities—all of which could be listed as action points for Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom. They include the following:<br />
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• Immigration from non-EU, Islamic countries may be restricted at some point in the future.<br />
• Residency for some—perhaps a majority of—non-EU Islamic people living in Europe may be revoked at some point in the future.<br />
In the current liberal atmosphere in Europe, restricting immigration for people of the Islamic faith, or even deporting some of those who are already here, seems unlikely. However, the violent reaction in the Netherlands to the murder in broad daylight of Dutch movie producer Theo van Gogh by a Moroccan in November 2004 shows what can happen in a tense confrontation. Any restrictions placed on immigration from Islamic countries would certainly strain relations between the European Union and the Islamic world.<br />
Meanwhile, Wilders continues his efforts to preserve Europe's heritage from Islamic influence. In July he announced an international "freedom alliance" to spread his anti-Islamist message across the West.<br />
He told the Associated Press in an interview that he will launch the international movement later this year, initially in five countries—the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Germany. This "is not just a Dutch problem..., it is a problem for the entire free West," he said.<br />
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With his effort to defend Europe's traditional heritage against growing Islamic influence, Geert Wilders is a man to watch. He would no doubt be surprised to learn what kind of resurgence of traditional religious fervor actually lies in Europe's future.<br />
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Despite the current demographic trends in Europe, Bible prophecy indicates that the dominant religious influence on the final resurrection of the Roman Empire will not be Islam. Instead, it will be the same one that has existed for centuries in previous revivals of the Holy Roman Empire—that of "Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth" (Revelation 17:5).<br />
With the Muslim population explosion in Europe, the final configuration of that last resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire may appear on the world scene sooner than some people think. For it seems it would need to come before Europeans of traditional heritage are reduced to a minority in Europe—a demographic change that, if trends continue as they are, would be on us in quite a short period of time. <i>GN</i>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-7262357001920864062010-11-29T05:57:00.001-08:002010-11-29T05:57:42.517-08:003 Missing Boys<div style="font-size: 18pt; padding: 4px 0pt 2px; text-align: left;"> Community Searches for 3 Missing Boys </div><div style="padding: 6px 2px 0pt; text-align: left; width: 90%;"> <div style="padding: 0pt 0pt 5px;">Planes, search dogs, and a behavioral science team have formed a search party for three missing boys from Morenci. Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner, 5, were reported missing Friday. </div><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Posted: </span><span class="title" style="font-weight: normal;">11:59 PM Nov 28, 2010</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Reporter: </span><span class="title" style="font-weight: normal;">Rachel Thomas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Email Address: </span><span class="title" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;"><a href="mailto:rachel.thomas@wilx.com?subject=Community%20Searches%20for%203%20Missing%20Boys">rachel.thomas@wilx.com</a></span> </div><div class="storyImage" id="mediaContainer" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="width:240 and height: 180 and picwidth: 240 and pciheight: 180" border="0" height="180" src="http://media.graytvinc.com/images/skelton+missing.jpg" width="240" /> </div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-21593710288817569072010-11-23T15:56:00.000-08:002010-11-23T15:56:02.960-08:00God and the Gays<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 25px; width: 550px;"><div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ZI7ztFJQrqwrj&b=YhQnM31I5IjspAL0MljYNg" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: The forgotten scourge</a></div><div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Davy Crockett | <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/remember-sabbath.htm">Sabbath</a>, November 20, 2010</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">What a mixed up age we live in today. Abnormal behavior is promoted as "normal" by special interest groups who aggressively press forward their agenda with public demonstrations, litigation, and organized pressure to accept what was, for millennia, considered taboo in society. <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ZI7ztFJQrqwrj&b=xCx6laxTCxbv6WsCiRG2Jw" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more</a><img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" height="12" src="https://www.cogl.org/images/weekly_digest/next_button.gif" width="12" /></div></div><big style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/god-gays/god-gays-to-be-or-not-to-be.htm">God and the Gays - To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)</a></big><br />
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</big>Homosexuality.... Is it a matter of choice? Are some born that way? And if so, then how could God condemn it? Or does He? Does it make a difference?<br />
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/god-gays/god-gays-all-glitters-isnt-gold.htm">God and the Gays - All That Glitters Isn't Gold (Part 2)</a></span></big><br />
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</span></big>The gay bar scene or high risk promiscuous sex... Is it so happy-go-lucky? Something so sweet and wonderful we'd "wish you were here?" Or is it actually something you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy?David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-17536034746660700182010-11-23T15:40:00.000-08:002010-11-23T15:41:03.075-08:00The forgotten scourge<div style="font-size: 14px; margin: 25px; width: 550px;"><div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ZI7ztFJQrqwrj&b=YhQnM31I5IjspAL0MljYNg" style="color: #000033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commentary: The forgotten scourge</a></div><div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Davy Crockett | <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/remember-sabbath.htm">Sabbath</a>, November 20, 2010</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">What a mixed up age we live in today. Abnormal behavior is promoted as "normal" by special interest groups who aggressively press forward their agenda with public demonstrations, litigation, and organized pressure to accept what was, for millennia, considered taboo in society. <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1ZI7ztFJQrqwrj&b=xCx6laxTCxbv6WsCiRG2Jw" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" height="12" src="https://www.cogl.org/images/weekly_digest/next_button.gif" width="12" /></a></div></div>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-45509400684141446662010-11-16T06:23:00.001-08:002010-11-16T06:23:20.432-08:00Will to live"Don't let the darkness destroy your will to live in the light."<br />
- a friend years agoDavid Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-49018400876918939432010-11-13T12:53:00.000-08:002010-11-13T13:05:12.449-08:00Heaven, Hell and Purgatory?Commentary: <a href="http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/commentary/tw-comm.cgi?category=Commentary1&item=1289578536#read_more">The <em>truth</em> about heaven, hell and purgatory</a><br />
<div style="color: #336699; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;">By Wyatt Ciesielka | <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/cog/remember-sabbath.htm">Sabbath</a>, November 13, 2010</div><br />
What of the false doctrines of heaven, hell and purgatory? And what of the Scriptures that supposedly support these fabrications of human reasoning? <a href="http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EO6o3&m=1c5KPJB2rrqwrj&b=s_VGGqPmgSUNFAEehIeMHQ" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read more <img align="middle" alt="Read More" border="0" height="12" src="https://www.cogl.org/images/weekly_digest/next_button.gif" width="12" /></a>David Ben-Arielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271443642557427428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4392828025160974981.post-79998925829381433912010-11-11T06:42:00.001-08:002010-11-11T06:42:48.831-08:00The End of America?The beginning of a U.S. currency crisis and hyperinflation. Become a member of NIA for free at http://inflation.us<br />
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