A Theorem On The Coming Chaos - Are You Scared Yet?

I enjoy watching Glenn Beck. My reasoning is, that he is a researcher like me. He educates himself, and then shares what he has learned with others. What he has learned is all fact, which most of the Communist and Fascist seeking to destroy this nation fear being told. They fear people, like Glenn, myself and others whose minds are awakened to seek truth, rather than the fiction thrown at us every day by the spin doctors.
I have held to a theory for sometime now, there is a "most secret plot" by people in high places to destroy everything America ever stood for. Kruschev promised that the Communist would take us over from within, not without. We are seeing those days in their beginnings.
Now as a Christian, I am not saying that everything we did was or has been righteous or perfect. Sure enough America and it's people have been as guilty of sin in politics, economics, and how we treat other people's as any nation on earth. However, ultimately, our forefathers, whether Christian or not, understood the principle of the equality of men. This principle is clearly laid out by Paul in the book of Roman's. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God", and all of us, not just a few, need something spectacular to change that nature of men, bent on sin. "Christ is that answer", Paul makes that perfectly clear!
All men are born equal - that is a truth, as God created us all, and with that we do have inalienable rights. Each men as a fallen creature can seek life, liberty and happiness. The nature of fallen men, is however too often centered in his own pursuit of these things without regard for that of others.
In Christ we can truly find, that we can live in a balance of finding that God provides, true life, true liberty and true happiness- I prefer to call it everlasting internal joy. Happiness is a word I associate with the fact that we only seem to be happy when our happenings, (our circumstances) seem not to do us personal evil. So Christians are enamored with Joy, not just happiness, we can keep that joy in the worst of circumstances by staying centered in Christ and His revealed love for us.
Happiness alone as a goal can be self centered.
Joy is centered in the Christ life in you.

All the same, I do believe that governments historically because of the perversity of men, those in power, seek more power, and are motivated to ultimate power, that is power over others, and to obtain that power will use any means necessary to obtain it. War, deception, economics, religion, etc.
I believe there are some things going on, that we have been tricked like the illusionist using card tricks to make us stand amazed at what seems impossible.
The Illusionist works his trick to draw our attention from the hand that is making the moves, to make the trick work, to look at the innocent hand, that is doing all the movement as if there is power in that hand to perform true magic, while all along the magicians other hand is busy making it all look like something real when it is not. He is manipulating the objects that will soon appear magically.
This is illusion utilizing deception and diversion.

I see the immigration issue has been well plotted to draw our attention away from the real culprits coming into this country illegally. They (whoever these secret evil power workers are) have created a deception, a diversion, an illusion, utilizing division given us two sides to keep us from power in unity.
One side is based on human selfishness for their personal well being of jobs, from crime, etc. while on the other hand, in doing this, they create the issue of compassion for people, a care for the immigrant, who is suppose to only be seeking better jobs, a better life, etc. This side, who try to seem humane, but in truth often have their own evil self centered objectives in mind, seek to pay continual lower wages, provide less than safe and healthy housing, and pay a lot less overhead to maintain their business.
They like to use arguments like: our forefathers came over here, the same way, seeking a better life, so why shouldnt these people be able to do so, after all we wouldnt be here, if someone would have been here that believed the same way we do - hatred of illegal immigrants. Let's be honest, the American Indian only reacted the same way, most people are. "Don't come here and force your way in, to steal my natural resources, ability to live, and feed my family, I'll fight back.
Hmm.. seems we have been on the opposite of the border ourselves!
They are both right in their own minds, and what happens the shift of focus of the people is to get us to be locked in battle with one another.
I wrote about this in an email recently on the old technique of Divide and Conquer, historically used time after time when government or those seeking to become the power, sneak in their real agenda their real goal while the division is in place, it always keeps the people in check less they become the power, and the elitist lose theirs.
So, while all this is going on, the illegals still cross the borders.
Fox News tonight revealed videos of men carrying hundreds of pounds of drugs into this country, along with high powered rifles. Of course here is where my theorem comes in.
Interesting enough I went on the Internet to look up Securebordersinfo.org from whence the video came and was suppose to be on and the site was not accessible for some strange reason...hmm...

Before, I tell you what I am thinking, let me say, I love all people of all races, creeds, color and religion, even as Christ did and does.
I have no dislike of any particular group of any people, I only hate sin, and evil.
When I see it, I point it out, make people think, for themselves.
I do not hate the people of countries simply because they are Muslim or look Muslim. I do not hate the "Mexican's or those that look "Mexican". Some of my dearest friends are of Hispanic origin, and I have a niece married to man who has both Hispanic and Asian origin, and a daughter married to a man who is half Hispanic, and I love all of them, with all my heart.

I believe they are as worthy of the preaching of the Gospel and the living of the Gospel towards them as I was and am, Christs love makes us worthy, we have no worthiness in ourselves.
We are to love our enemies. Our kingdom to which we live in, is Christ Kingdom an everlasting one, and it is a spiritual kingdom not of "this world".
Most Christians if a few even understand these words of our Lord.
They and all people are worthy because in Christ, the love He expressed for all men at the cross was for them as well as "Americans".
It would behoove many Christians to read, The Myth of the Christian Nation", written by a Christian friend of mine, you can find his link on this blog site located to the right of my articles, further down the page.

Now to my theorem on the coming chaos -
Here is what I see going on with the border situation, but first I want to share an email I received the other day that a friend of mine forwarded to me from someone that sent it to him. It may be true, it may not, but in retrospect, if there is truth to it, it gives credibility to my "theorem of the coming chaos".
The email I received is here as follows:
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{Events similar to this have also been reported in the Washington DC area, by the Washington Times.}

Interesting, And Darn Scary ! ! So, listen up people!
I remember when Hussein's daughter was interviewed when she was living in the US a couple of years ago---she plainly said at that time that terrorists had infiltrated the US and walked among us everyday......
Happenings in Fresno ... FYI
We now live about 30 miles from Fresno . We are up in the Sierras and Fresno
is the first big town we encounter when we leave the mountains. We shop there
often. I received this from my ex-homicide partner who is still active
in law enforcement circles in the Fresno area.

Excuse the language, but don't excuse the facts. Don't give up
your guns, and buy necessary ammunition if you can find it. Be cautious and
alert. Be ready if, God forbid, we need to protect our families and loved
ones.

If You weren't at Rotary Friday. You missed the only decent speaker we've had in more than a year. LTC John Cotter is the 144th Fighter Wing's anti-terrorism officer. John had a two-part presentation. First part was describing his job as the units anti-terrorism officer. Pretty standard stuff.

The second part was information that will curl your hair. A part-time air guardsman works as a checker at a local Von's. Two women in full burkas buy every prepaid cellphone in the store. Clerk/airman gets to thinking about it. Goes to Cotter and reports incident. Cotter asks store for surveillance video. It's scary enough that he contacts Fresno FBI.

FBI investigates, determines these women have been doing this all over the Valley. Cell phones shipped through Canada to Iraq/Afghanistan where they become triggers for roadside bombs.
The Shell station at Peach and Shaw. Every time a local GI goes there in fatigues they are asked specific questions. What is your unit? When are you deploying? How many aircraft are you taking?

The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast. As such they are the first line of defense so they have the US 's most sophisticated air-to-air missiles. Foreign governments would like to get their hands on those missiles or at least learn how to build them. Also how many we have, etc. Two spy groups are working on it, one based at Fashion Fair Mall (the F-16s take-off pattern) and one based at Sierra Vista Mall (the F-16s landing pattern).

Cotter said the ragheads (But we don't profile.) are always probing the base. Two dorks in a pickup show up at the front gate wanting to deliver a package marked Air National Guard, Fresno . No postage, no UPS, no FedEx, no DHL, no nothing. Just a probe.

I asked Cotter why we haven't seen anything about this in The Bee, on KMJ, on local TV news. He said they're not interested. Since Friday I've learned of two other things. My brother-in-law Frank, (management at Avaya) had a Muslim tech who took a leave-of-absence for 6 weeks in Afghanistan . After the 6 weeks were up he called from New York requesting an extension. Frank (who does profile) said, you're fired, and called the Fresno FBI who were very interested. Don't know the outcome.

A Muslim who owns a liquor store in my former hometown of Kingsburg was constantly bugging customers to buy guns for him. Finally one of the guys I grew up with called the FBI.

We are a country at war and the enemy is among us. I don't care what Janet Napolitano says, it's a fight to the death and we should be prepared as possible. Brother-in-law Frank has a theory and I think it may be closer to the truth than Homeland Security wants to admit. There are a certain number (probably a large number) of Muslims among us who are awaiting the trigger date and will begin randomly killing as many of us as they can, sort of a Fort Hood on steroids. I know I'm getting prepared to shoot back.

Two items of interest. Sheriff Margaret Mims wants to grant concealed carry permits to all who are qualified. Columnist Jim Boren, among the most bleeding of the bleeding heart liberals, says it's time for Fresno residents to arm themselves.
LOAD up, you can bet this is happening in places other than Fresno .

David Rayburn
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End of email

I know there is a lot of slanderous speech in it, and proposed conspiracy, and the idea that guns and bullets are needed, etc. I don't agree with the viewpoints necessarily, I just ponder over the facts, if true.
However, let me tell you some facts, I have noted there are Pakistanians, and some others of nation's where supposedly the Taliban and Alqaeda are recruited, funded and trained, who fit "the profile"..blah blah, that speak Spanish very well, that do live among us.
We talk to them often, without paying attention to the details. We often run into them in our stores, gas stations, hotels, and more.
I also know from some former work I did by the names of individuals I spoke with, there is a large population of people especially in the El Paso, Texas region who have "the typical" first and last names, we are all so familiar in hearing associated with alleged Islamic leaders. This much provided information comes to per television news. Names like Mohammed, Furak,and, etc.
Names that send a signal to our brains and we think, Aha!, "he must be from Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.
Oh, yes and they are drawing benefits from our benevolent services provided by Federal and State governments.
Many to most are not U.S. citizens, they may or may not have Visas, which really means little in this day of identity theft and our present laws that provide certain social services to individuals who do not have to be U.S. citizens.
I know I spent 2 years serving and working in Social Services, providing these services to the people.
Now, based on the features of the men, dark hair, dark eye color- most often, and over all physical appearances of the people we meet, who often tell us what countries they are from, I can tell you it would be more than easy for thousands if not at least several hundred "Islamic fanatics "to disquise themselves as " Mexicans". All they have to do, is learn the language, the culture, the mannerism, and fit in.
We as Americans often used this deception in former wars, "blonde men, with blue eyes", to infiltrate German troops. I am sure even now we may have some Hispanic true blood Americans who have been trained to infiltrate the Taliban or others in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. I am sure of it. Men don't change in tactics, just governments.
It only makes sense.
Language often in many places in the world is the only thing that divides us.
I don't speak British, French, Irish Gaelic or Scottish, or New Zealander, yet my heritage and physical appearance fits all these "profiles" if trained to talk like them, I could decieve someone into thinking I was a natural citizen of that country.

While working private investigations you learn to dress and act like the people in the area you are working in, especially while doing surveillance, or undercover work.
The last thing you want to do is stand out like a sore thumb.
The old adage that is often told on television and movies is that the FBI are always picked out by their "3 piece suits and ties".
That isn't always the case, my friend. They know the rules of subterfuge as well and practice it as well as any old P.I. does.

Now here is my theory which does follow along with some of what you read in the email.
Just what if the poor Hispanics are taking the brunt of our hatred, which creates this division of the people in America over personal selfish economics versus human compassion and the ideal of all people deserve a better life at no matter what cost to American indivudals or sovereignty.
What if this is the division being caused simply to keep us looking at the wrong hand of the magician, while he works his magic with the other hand.

An invasion within America of Muslim fanatics to create the great chaos, which will turn America into a Police State much like Israel has or even worse, and is.
Before you quit reading this, let me say, I am not anti-semitic either, though accused of being so because I don't agree with present day eschatology of Darby and Scofield.
I believe they, the people of Israel, Hebrews, "Jews" as anyone- Christ died for them as well and especially came to deliver the Gospel to them first.
The term Jew is really an inappropriate term but even used by me at times, because we have become accustomed to the use of it, describing people in Israel and those we believe who are members of the Jewish religion. We even say Christ was a Jew, which is a slang word, and really that can only apply to those born of the tribe of JUDAH as He was.
We forget that Israel, the old Hebrew nation had 10 tribes to which Paul the Apostle was from one of them, the tribe of Benjamin. So this word really can't be used to apply to all the people living in Israel, they are from many origins, Germany, Poland and even America, and claim heritage as a Jew. We can't even tell if that is true or not after the dispersion in 70 a.d when Jerusalem fell to Rome, most if not all tribes were enslaved by the Romans, and eventually mixed with the Romans and other people of many nations.
Matter of fact, not all of the old Hebrew nation may have even lived in the Holy Land, during the time of Christ, many were dispersed among nations all over the world under the Old Dispersion by Babylonians and the Ayssrians, and only a few returned to the Holy Land and lived there in the times of Jesus. Though the population was more centralized in the area directly around Jerusalem at the time, it was made up of many more tribes then the present political nation Israel can lay claim to. I doubt if many of them could illustrate and prove their genealogy, as is given in the Bible for the one's mentioned in the Old Testament, right up to Christ, that could trace their heritage back to the beginning of time.
I am sorry, but I don't belive they are God's chosen people living and trying to take over all the land there in Israel.
These people are Zionist, and have some extreme political views, with little regard to God or His commandments, or even Christ or Christians, other than desiring to continue the income they recieve from tourism from Christians that travel to visit the sights of the Bible times. Those that call themselves, Orthodox Jews here in America, say the same thing about the formulation of the nation of Israel, it isn't Torah. They are against it and have some excellent material to read, if you care to at least open your mind to truth, once and awhile.
The only people that the New Testament teaches that are the TRUE ISRAEL - are the one's circumcized of the heart, Christians! Paul makes this very clear in the book of Romans.
Christ is the true Israel (see the book of Hebrews) and all those that belong to Him, regardless of race they are one in Him. This is the "mystery of God", that was revealed and completed in Christ. This is explained in Ephesians Chapter Two very well, if you ever bother or care to read it, and rid yourself of the Zionist theology and eschatology.
I don't prefer Palestinians eithers, unless they too are my Christian brothers and sisters and they suffer as much or more than all the people over there.

Now to leave my digression I want to return to the subject at hand, though I do believe there are some Zionist behind the plans to see us become like them, and they will use any method to do so.
The last several spies caught in major spying in this nation were Zionist from Israel. Study and you will find I am not lying about this, it can be Googled as well.

I am sorry, but when chaos breaks out, then someone has to come along to still the chaos, bring in new organization and instill new government, even martial law, to insure "domestic tranquility, even at the cost of your personal liberties!
These are the people that are seeking to rule over us, who want nothing more but ultimate sweet power as elitist to rule every part of your life- to own you, per se.
They not only want charge of your money, your education, you jobs, private business, your health, but every aspect of your life. In government, this is called Totalitarism. A Police State - Communism or Fascism, either one, removes you from the equation and puts a few in rule over all the rest. Elitism, is what I call it. They are the elite, and we are the sheep that need not only to be dumbed down, but corralled and held in check. To be led like dumb sheep to the slaughter.

Internal conflicts in Russia insured that Lenin and then Stalin would soon rule Russia.
The wars between the bourgeois and the proletariats helped to bring about the change that Lenin sought.
All the while leading to less freedom and more enslavement under the elitist rule of Communism. Stalin's rule was supreme Police State, totalitarian to the maximum, where the government was your purest benefactor, as long as you went along with that. Less you speak out, and end up dead, tortured or disappearing in the night to the Siberian Gulag. The best plans of dictators, include silencing, name calling and criminal accusation of those who oppose them.
Gee, have we heard that lately from the left and even the right..?
The facts leading up to Hitler's rule were as follows.
Hitlers blamed the burning of the Reischtag on the Russians, this only diverted the attention of the people from the real culprit- Hitler his SS troops were the one's that did the actual deed)but it was enough to make the people fear the Russians and Hitler was only waiting in the wings to become their Supreme Commander, Dictator, Master.
Right after this is when Hilter was provided complete rule, and then he initiated the "Emergency Powers Act", it read like a version of the "Patriot Act", it didnt really insure the people's security so much as it removed their liberties, privacy, etc, and insured his ruling supreme without interference from rebels. Stalin came and remained in rule for years and East Germany used the Stazi- the East German Secret Police, to have everybody spying on everybody, as enemies of the State.
How many Americans have read the Patriot Act, or the Health Plan, etc. I guarantee, you haven't you rely on the "experts" for what they say... read them..you will be surprised what you learn!
How many even know the little bit of history I just presented you above? Not many of you I am sure, because you have become apathetic, and don't care to know, as long as you can drive a new car, have a job.
They can do that in Russia and China as well. Who want's to live there, not me!

What if this email is true?
What if the real reason behind the borders not having been locked down, is because the division in this country created by the spin doctors, the trained propagandist, is to keep us all shouting at one another, blaming the "Mexicans" for our troubles, and all the while, "the real enemy" (Islamic fanatics)are the one's coming across the borders by the droves, with guns, and drugs to raise more money for more guns and their ultimate plan of chaos in the streets of America?
Somebody knows these things, I can promise you! There are those that are working this plan right now, reading this, and shocked that I know their plans!
I am not the first, there are thousands of us who are awake and not asleep, examining, searching, researching, looking for these facts every day, and finding them. There are too many of us yet, for the plan to work perfectly, we must be silenced, we must be dumbed down, like they are doing our children in their public brain washing institutions they call schools, where history is no longer taught. Where little of anything is taught to be factual then things about "my two mommies, or "how to text too your friends", or "how to create an Internet Social page".
This generation, my generation, we are getting old, and soon shall pass from this world, what will be left?
I am sorry to say, but our poor children are being dumbed down, so they can easily be transitioned into the land of the FREE DUMB!
Oh, they will have jobs, healthcare, money, lives, all provided by their benefactors - the NEW WORLD ODOR...order, but I think it stinks so bad I can smell it from here, kind of like the oil rolling up on the beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
Let me provide another example of dumb down - if you accept 911 on the official story, then someone still needs to cry foul, we have the greatest surveillance and spying weapons and technology in the world, we have spent trillions on National Defense since the Cold War, and yet we are to accept and swallow the story that these guys came to America (the 14 terrorist) and took flying lessons, made plans to high-jack planes and nobody in the intelligence community knew about it! If that is the case, I would say their name "intelligence" is a misnomer..!
Come on, to me that is a more absurd story then what they say about us who believe otherwise about the facts of 911.
Conspiracy nuts, yes you know it, and how often has conspiracy proved the rule of the day? How many time has it been the true facts behind, changes of rule, and governments in history. The killing of Caesar in Rome by the Senate, the killing of Jesus was a conspiracy. Luke says the Pharisees, begin right after Lazarus was raised to form a conspiracy to kill the both of them. "Can't have a former dead guy walking around town"- the truth would draw the people after Jesus, so let's kill them both!
The harrassment of Paul was a conspiracy of 40 Jews who swore they would put an end to Paul, the Apostle.
The conspiracy of the first leader of China, who brought that nation to Communism. The conspiracy of CEO's and others in the corporate world, like Enron.
Get real folks, conspiracy is real, and it goes on everyday, even in the workplace where workers conspire against other workers because they dislike an individual. Wake up, conspiracy is a fact of life!
Here is the definition:
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con·spir·a·cy (kn-spîr-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
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Anyone of these can apply to the word, "CONSPIRACY".

When I was a young man in my early 20's, I practiced doing illusions and got pretty good at it, I might say. I did a few birthday parties doing magic for people.
I know how it works, nothing ever is as it seems to the onlooker, it is all about the patter (your talk) and making the right practiced moves, with one hand and your talk draws your attention away from the hand that is really doing the concealing or revealing of an object.
It is deception in it's purest form, some call it magic, but it is deception, making you believe something is true while the real truth is concealed. You never know the truth, until someone and in some cases the magician shows you how he did it.
Oh you wonder at times, but you just can't put your finger on it.
"How did he do that"?

What if, all that you listen to on the news, all the rhetoric is a diversion, a deception meant for you from seeing what is really going on.
I believe it is, most of the time.I research, and study and discover truth.
The truth is often more bizarre than the illusion that the news media puts out there. Even some conspiracy sites, often get real bizarre with their theories, aliens, reptilians, etc.
I don't buy those, they are absurd.
However, there are others, who have the credibility and the inside info and do tell truth.
You have to always seek to verify facts. As a former Private Investigator, there are many observations and theories, but in the end you must deduct the facts and then report them.
I sign all my emails with a favorite quote of mine from the Sherlock Holmes books, it reads:
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)

Now back to Glenn Beck, he wrote a book called "The Overton Window".
The Overton Window is an interesting political thereom, however I think there is more going on then just trying to get us to accept some things, by making minor and sometime radical shifts of the window on popular thought or acceptance of things.
I think that whoever is the power behind the BIG CARD TRICK is using a marked deck that you can only see with special glasses on.

Christ told us, to "Be As Wise as Serpents, and as harmless as Doves".
We must educate ourselves, to not be blinded by the deceptions in life.
The Bible states that Christians are to discern good from evil, hold onto that which is good and to abstain from evil.
The Bible also teaches us that as part of our spiritual heritage of becoming a Christian, we have been given the "mind of Christ".
This very same mind that could see beyond the Pharisees, and Sadducees, he exposed their self -righteousness for where it actually came from.
He told them "your father is the "diabolos", the evil".
"THE DEVIL"- is how the Catholics, and Protestant traditionalist changed it to read. The Word in the Greek is Diabolos- from which we get the word Diabolical... it means evil, not a person, but a system or life of evil....religion is definitely that!

Jesus could see right through their phalacteries, their bell ringing, their long cloaks of self rightousness,all their religious hooplah. He saw them for who they were and what they were up to, every step of the way.
Thus because he knew them and their thoughts, in the very best sense who they were, he often escaped them. He alluded them for years, he was able to throw questions and parables at them, yet they were too blind to see their own illusion would no longer work, because "He was the light that had come into the world.
He revealed their deceptions, and their self centeredness, their EVIL for what it was.
I believe as Christians we need to wake up more to what is really going on.
Now I don't believe in creating fear or hatred, and as I said, I have met some wonderful people of all races, creeds, colors and religions, that all need Christ, just like I did.
I love them, but what I am saying to you, we need as God's people to be more observant of the facts, and aware of our surroundings and more apt to discover evil, and expose it then most.
Not for the purpose of scaring people, are you scared?
Perfect love- Christ love, removes all fear.
We should have the very discernment Christ had while here in the flesh for now we have His very life inside of us.
To summarize, what would be the purpose of those who would allow all this deception, these Overton Window shifts and deceptions along with prevalent illusions of making us focus on the wrong issues and the wrong things, and in this case even the wrong people in what is taking place. Eventually Chaos- that's what..
While we are busy focusing on the oil spill it has distracted us from the illegal immigrant issue that was so prevalent just days before, all the news was the Arizona Law that was passed. It seems as long as new NEWS BREAKING items come along, and they run it day after day, our attention is completely drawn away or diverted from the truth or finding the truth or resolving problems in America.
They don't want the illegal immigration issue resolved right now, it doesn't serve their evil purposes, the invasion of the nation by the real enemy who seeks not just your jobs but to take over the entire nation. It won't happen of course, our troops are trained, very well trained to disperse the enemy, but who will really come into power then? Will we then have a militarized, police state, in union with the elitist corporate and political machine behind it all. A new government not unlike Stalin's reign as dictator.
Let's think for a bit. Let's look at some facts on the Gulf Oil Spill issue.
For example, why did a "blowout preventing valve" fail that is made by the Cameron Company. This valve is still not working right?
A valve that had already been shown to have some 250 possible weaknesses and possible failure points. Who is the Cameron Company that makes these?
Why did this one fail and still failing when they have been used more than in this one case? Is there or was their a plot to make this whole scenario? Is it possible, there is some conspiracy here?
Why is BP catching hell, when TransOceanic owned the rig, and Cameron's valve is supposedly the cause?
Did anyone think that this is an Overton Window to move the public opinion to lean a little more to becoming Al Gore's green, to cut back on drilling our own oil, to lessen our national strength once more,our National Security, in using our own natural resources and become less dependent upon the Islamic countries for our oil?
We would become less dependent on the Muslim Oil Cartel, why they don't want that.!
Why don't we think these things out, why are we blinded by all the false rhetoric?
Let's investigate as a people, the connections, the facts, and when found, let's confront those responsible and quit leaving everything to the Fox guarding the Henhouse to tell us how the chickens all got killed and ate!

Why, because you have been taught just like you have in Orthodox religion
(Churchianity). "Don't ask questions".
You are to just believe whatever the EXPERTS tell you.
Church Leaders, Politicians, and Journalist, are notorious for telling lies. for spin doctoring, utilizing every known deception known to mankind to keep you under their power, mesmerized by their charismatic answers to all of life's problems. You worship them and idolize them, and that is just what they want. It serves their better purposes - themselves!

When will you as a Christian listen to the Lord, when he says,
"come let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, I shall make you as white as snow....
Why, because you have been blinded by the god of this world - EVIL!
Are you scared yet?
I hope that I haven't instilled fear but faith, to trust the one person, that is always true, the truth Himself. He who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life."
Here is my hard fact theorem, I don't like it anymore than you do.
America as we know it, is undergoing the greatest evil changes it has ever experienced and ever will, and unless God Himself intervenes, we may face challenges along with our children that we never dreamed possible could take place in this country. Challenges, that will make and break us as a people that once called themselves, the United States of America. We are about to see what history has proven time after time, all kingdoms of men, may fail and do fail.
I pray not, I pray that our eyes, will be opened, and we will not seek hatred and bitterness toward any one people, even the most evil of enemies, but that we will be driven to our knees in prayer and supplications. I pray that we will for once wake up to truth, Christian truth and be a people united in heart as Christians, not driven apart, divided over trivial and ignorant issues of men, and that we will as the first thirteen colonies did be brave enough to say, we stand united against any enemy that threatens our peace, our liberty and our pursuit to live. However, I don't believe violence, or revolution by force is the answer. I believe it is by love in Christ that we can conquer our enemies. I pray that we will see the way, is not politics, wars, religion, economics, nor even eschatologies, theologies, etc, but the answer is LOVE toward one another and but mostly toward God our Creator, and the one that we all must answer to.
Are you scared yet?
Then it is time to replace that fear with knowing Christ, and His love.
Though we may end up seeing in our lifetime the fall of America, we still have and live in the everlasting Kingdom of Christ, as brothers and sisters in Christ.
You know, love can change the world and it did.. It is happening every day, as people discover the truth and love of Christ for the first time.
Let us be that light, and salt to this world, less we hide our lights, and the salt loses it's flavor and be good for nothing but to be trampled underfoot.
May God bless us as Americans, yes, but God please bless our enemies, by allowing them to see the glorious light of Jesus Christ, which when one is exposed to the light, all darkness is driven out. If we claim to be Christian, then Christ love should be the predominant character of behavior exemplified in our lives, toward ALL MEN!
Let us as Christians, bend our knees before God, our Father, in unity in Christ, and pray not just for this country but one another, regardless of creed, color, race or religion, and let us no longer be blinded by the darkness of this world and man's kingdom's but let us know and realize everyday what the Kingdom of God is: it is Joy, Peace and Righteousness in the Holy Spirit.

Chaos may come, but the peace of Christ is everlasting for those of us who know Him and that peace that passes all understanding.
Let us not be a part to the impending evil, but let us know it, abstain from it, and allow the Spirit wroking through you, to change others about you, to see truth and know it, and live in it and by it.
Let us know the enemy, yes, but let us love them as Christ taught us, and love can change the world for the better.
Teach us O Lord not to fear, teach us Lord not to allow our fears to produce hatred, and defensiveness, but teach us Lord always to be on the offense with the life of Christ in us, and the Gospel preached from us, and not just in words, but by the deeds of your Spirit within us working those works of righteousness toward ALL people that we encounter in this life.
Let us be courageous to speak truth, to be wise, yet harmless, and to exercise the minds for which you gave us individually each of us, not just a few, or just the special,but all of us, if born of His Spirit, we can seek, and know truth without the necessity of anyone, including myself, in telling us what truth is, Christ is the Truth...don't be fooled or scared.
Jesus said these words, "you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". Therein lies how we keep our liberty, true liberty, by abiding in Him who is truth.

Dr J. Black
with love in Christ always.

Israel, Dispensationalism, Truth and the News

It seems the news always contains something about Israel and the Middle East. As an independent news writer and editor, sometimes, it becomes necesssary to let your readers know where you stand on issues, and what you believe. It is especially important because my viewpoint of History and what Christ means to me, as a believer and my bias in reporting or commenting on news will often be subjective and opinionated, then one needs to understand my theology and more. I believe absolutely that Christ died for my sins, was raised from the grave and ascended to the Father to give us, the Holy Spirit, who trust in Him, and to live His resurrected life within the believer by grace through faith, and that it is His work alone that saves, sanctifiies and glorifies the believer. We are to trust him and in this trust comes obedience by His Spirit.

A little history of the Hebrews from 597 until today on their belief structure and more.

The Chaldeans, following standard Mesopotamian practice, deported the Jews after they had conquered Jerusalem in 597 BC. The deportations were large, but certainly didn't involve the entire nation. Somewhere around 10,000 people were forced to relocate to the city of Babylon, the capital of the Chaldean empire. In 586 BC, Judah itself ceased to be an independent kingdom (which they were), and the earlier deportees found themselves without a homeland, without a state, and without a nation. This period, which actually begins in 597 but is traditionally dated at 586, is called the Exile in Jewish history; it ends with an accident in 538 when the Persians overthrow the Chaldeans.

Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, only deported the most prominent citizens of Judah: professionals, priests, craftsmen, and the wealthy. The "people of the land" (am-hares ) were allowed to stay. So Jewish history, then, has two poles during the exile: the Jew in Babylon and the Jews who remain in Judah. We know almost nothing of the Jews in Judah after 586. Judah seems to have been wracked by famine, according to the biblical book, Lamentations , which was written in Jerusalem during the exile. The entire situation seemed to be one of infinite despair. Some people were better off; when Nebuchadnezzar deported the wealthy citizens, he redistributed the land among the poor. So some people were better off. In addition, there were rivalries between the two groups of Jews. It is clear that the wealthy and professional Jews in Babylon regarded themselves as the true Jewish people.These are the same people today who call themselves - Jews

The salient feature of the exile, however, was that the Jews were settled in a single place by Nebuchadnezzar. While the Assyrian deportation of Israelites in 722 BC resulted in the complete disappearance of the Israelites, the deported Jews formed their own community in Babylon and retained their religion, practices, and philosophies. Some, it would seem, adopted the Chaldean religion (for they name their offspring after Chaldean gods), but for the most part, the community remained united in its common faith in Yahweh.

They called themselves the "gola," ("exiles"), or the "bene gola" ("the children
of the exiles"), and within the crucible of despair and hopelessness, they forged a new national identity and a new religion. The exile was unexplainable; Hebrew history was built on the promise of Yahweh to protect the Hebrews and use them for his purposes in human history. Their defeat and the loss of the land promised to them by Yahweh seemed to imply that their faith in this promise was misplaced. This crisis, a form of cognitive dissonance (when your view of reality and reality itself do not match one another), can precipitate the most profound despair or the most profound reworking of a world view. For the Jews in Babylon, it did both.

From texts such as Lamentations , which was probably written in Jerusalem, and Job , written after the exile, as well as many of the Psalms , Hebrew literature takes on a despairing quality. The subject of Job is human suffering itself. Undeserving of suffering, Job, an upright man, is made to suffer the worst series of calamities possible because of an arbitrary test. When he finally despairs that there is no cosmic justice, the only answer he receives is that humans shouldn't question God's will. That God is sovereign. Many of the psalms written in this period betray an equal hopelessness.
But the Jews in Babylon also creatively remade themselves and their world view. In particular, they blamed the disaster of the Exile on their own impurity, their forgetting of the Law and breaking the Torah and it's 613 commandments. They were sure they had betrayed Yahweh and allowed the Mosaic laws and cultic practices to become corrupt; the Babylonian Exile was proof of Yahweh's displeasure.

During this period, Jewish leaders no longer spoke about a theology of judgement, but a theology of salvation. In texts such as Ezekiel and Isaiah ,there is talk that the Israelites would be gathered together once more, their society and religion purified, and the unified Davidic kingdom be re-established. However, what they missed was God was going to establish a "spiritual" kingdom and not a physical kingdom and not the nation of Israel.

These scriptures misunderstood then, and when they crucified Christ because he didnt fulfill these things physically, are still misinterpreted and misunderstood even more today, but now not only by those who call themselves Israel but the true Jew or (Israel, the church) today.
It wasn't until the 1800's with the advent of the Scofield Bible and it's pro Zionist (separating Jews from Christians)commentary and premillenial doctrines did the church believe that Israel was to re-establish a physical nation in the "promised land, once again to usher the coming of Christ"
The prophets, that Israel misundersood then, when they crucified Christ and even today with the re-establishment of an aparthied government known as the State of Israel still persist due to poor interpretation and pro-Zionistic leading by pro Zionism even within the Christian Church.

Yes, it was to the Jews he gave the promises and the law, but they rejected it and as a result only a remnant was saved when the church began and even unto today only a remnant is being saved. Paul and the earliest Christians, the Apostles and the beleivers at Jerusalem- who were all Jewish were and are part of this remnant even until today.Along with those who claim to be Hebrew or believe in the Torah alone come to know Christ since then. What most Christians don't realize is the Torah is not the Jewish authority today nor was it when Christ was here. The Talmud and the rabbincal teachings have replaced the Torah (the first five books of the Bible which includes the 613 commandments of God).
So this period is marked by a resurgence in Jewish tradition, as the exiles looked back to their Mosaic origins in an effort to revive their original religion. It is during this time that the Jews began to develop the Mishnah, the Gemara and what is finally known as the Talmud which is what the Jews beleive in and practice today. The Torah by the time Christ came was lost to thousands of interpretations and new (fence) laws made by the Sophraim and the Tannah and thus Christ told them- "You nullify the Commandments of God for the traditions of men".

The Talmud has become the central text of the Jewish faith. The one thing that allowed Israel to rediscover itself at this time was the fervent revival of religious tradition it was aided by another incident in history: when Cyrus the Persian conquered Mesopotamia, he allowed the Jews to return home. This was no ordinary event, though. Cyrus sent them home specifically to worship Yahweh—what was once only a kingdom would become a nation of Yahweh.
The so called nation of Israel if based that they are to return to their homeland has been fulfilled many times before 1949. It may be that never before was a particular area called Israel since the Babylonian captivity but it is not the land that God promises those of Hebrew origin but Himself, if but they would return to him.
One of the main reasons the Law has not made the Hebrew or those claiming to be Jewish, lead them as "the school master to Christ" as it did us, who claim to be Christian, is the purity of the original 613 commandments made by God to Israel has been turned into ridiculous and long discourse of the law which in themselve have become the law for Jews.
Judaism, regardless of what you may mistakenly beleive has nothing to do with the honor of the Torah as the Supreme law of God as the pre-Babylonian Jews trusted in and broke it's laws but the traditions of these men who wrote the Misnah, the Gemara, now known as the Talmud and all the rabbinic discussions since. The Talmud and it's writings are anti-Christ in nature and anti-Christian. One must study to discover these things as I have, and read the Talmud and the Jewish writings of today to discover this truth. Israel- the nation of Israel is made up of Zionist and those who hold to the supremacy of themselves over all races, including American Gentiles ( Gentile, here, having the meaning - all of us who do not accept the Talmud and their Jewish supremacy over all other races in the world). Most Americans and even most preachers in America have simply accepted what has been handed down to them as interpretation of the majority of Paul's writings in Romans on this subject, and the most predominant teaching since the 1800's has been Darby's and Scofield's popularizing this DISPENSATIONAL interpretation of Biblical prophecy, all of scripture, and the book of Revelation.

However, they weren't alone in this non-biblical interpretation of scripture. Here is the story behind DISPENSATIONALISM, from whence most of the premillenial doctrine is taken. It will surprise you, it may even anger you at me for telling you, but what I hope is it will anger you that you have been so mislead to believe in DISPENSATIONALISM. It will anger you to find that the foreign policies and the War against Terrorism and much of the Police State, that is already in effect in Israel is driven by Pro-Zionist and those in the church who proscribe to these cultic theories of DISPENSATIONALISM.

The Origins of Dispensationalism

Most people assume that Dispensationalism started with J N Darby, one of the originators of the Brethren movement. Certainly Darby popularised this doctrine and, with the spread Scofield’s reference Bible, the teaching went world wide. However, Darby was not the first to develop these ideas. In fact, there is now conclusive evidence that there was a plan by William Kelly (another key Brethren leader, and follower of Darby) to discredit the real origins, because of their dubious pedigree, and inflate the place of Darby.

I should be very clear that Dispensationalism finds no place in the entire history of the church before 1830. No one has yet found any credible evidence that anybody believed or taught such a thing. This alone should cause alarm bells to ring in our spiritual ears. When we learn the true origin of the error, we can see even more reason to steer clear.

Key Distinctives of Dispensationalism

Before we proceed, we need to clarify exactly what this teaching is in connection with other eschatological theories.
Dispensationalism is a variant of
Historic Premillennialism,that is the teaching that Christ will return after the Great Tribulation and establish a 1000 year reign on the earth (millennium) before the final battle with Satan (Armageddon), which issues in final judgment and a new earth.
Postmillennialism
teaches that Christ returns after a golden age of 1000 years where the church rules the earth in righteousness;
Amillennialism
believes that there is no Biblical teaching about a literal millennium and that the only passage which mentions is (Rev 20) is symbolically speaking of the age of grace in which we now live.

Dispensationalism is very different and has become the predominant belief in America and versions of it are growing rapidly in Britain. One problem is that it has very many variations, so to simplify our approach we will keep to essential distinctives. These are:
• Two comings of Christ. One an appearing for the saints in the air, the other a return with the saints. A period of 7 years separates these comings. In this time of tribulation, the Gospel is preached by a remnant of believing Jews and Christians not spiritual enough to be raptured.

• A secret rapture of some saints before the period of tribulation when the
antichrist will arise. This is the key distinctive called the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, (henceforth: pretribulation). This is imminent and could happen at any time.

• A dichotomy between the church and Israel. Jews are God’s true covenant people who will inherit the literal covenant promises, the church is God’s stop-gap
operation which benefits from Jewish promises. This distinction is seen as the most important Dispensational tenet by Dispensationalists Charles Ryrie and John Walvoord.

• A rigid literal approach to interpretation, especially of prophetic books.
This divides the Bible into that which refers to the Kingdom (Israel) and that which speaks of the Church.

• History is divided into specific dispensations where God deals with men in a
certain way. Each of these time periods ends in failure and judgment.

The most important aspects in evaluating the origin are: the pretribulation rapture and the dichotomy of Israel/Church.


The Origins
Pre 19th century

Some isolated superficial ‘dispensational’ statements have appeared throughout history. Some 18th century writers began to systematise some of these ideas e.g: Pierre Poiret and Isaac Watts. No one, however, taught a pretribulation rapture.
Everyone believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation. Claims, of
some, to find it in the early church fathers are false. There is some amillennialism
there, but none of the key distinctives of Dispensationalism:there is no separation of the church and Israel and no idea of Christians escaping the tribulation or antichrist by a rapture.

The earliest form of a ‘secret’ rapture was the idea of a partial rapture which
separated some saints from others after the tribulation. This really was about
prioritisation at the second coming, spiritual believers being given priority over less worthy ones. No one saw a place for Jews until the very end and there was no form of Church/Israel dichotomy.

19th century prophetic conferences

During the 18th century there was very little teaching on the Lord’s return. As a result, a reaction began in the 1820’s and 30’s. Prophetic periodicals and references abounded. Most important were the Albury conferences established by Henry Drummond in 1826-30, but the Powerscourt Conferences, instituted by Lady Powerscourt, were also significant. Anglican S.R Maitland began to teach a future rise of Antichrist and a 3½ year great tribulation in 1826. His follower,James Todd, also wrote extensively on the subject. William Burgh converted to this ‘futurist’ view of Revelation and wrote systematically upon it in 1835.

Edward Irving

Before we continue, we must explain the person of Edward Irving. Originally a Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) minister, he moved to London in 1822 and became a very famous preacher. He was such a powerful and stimulating speaker, who attracted great
crowds, that in 1827 the large Regent Square church was erected for him. This was the first to adopt modern charismatic practices (including tongues) following Irving’s belief that the gifts of the Spirit were about to be given again. Tongues first appeared in the west of Scotland in Spring 1830 but were soon present in Irving’s church. Being expelled by the Church of Scotland in 1833 he established
the Catholic Apostolic Church which was fully charismatic, including a belief in the vital role of prophets and apostles. Events soon took a turn for the worse with the gifts being abused and overruling common sense. Irving himself was ousted by men with gifts of supposed greater (apostolic) authority, and many serious doctrinal and ethical aberrations resulted. Irving himself taught a false Christology. As a result, Irving died a demoralised man and the whole movement was vilified.

In 1830, however, Irving was at the height of his fame, and spoke at the Albury
conferences. His journal "The Morning Watch", which had a high eschatological content, was widely distributed. We should note that this journal was susceptible to many weird teachings in its desire to undergird a new wave of spiritual gifts.
Some examples follow.

• Human pre-existence, author: ‘WL’. March 1830.

• The church will give birth to generations of new people in heaven to inhabit
other worlds, author: ‘C’. Sept 1830.

• The Jewish occult Cabbala rested on a ‘stable’ foundation, author not named. Sept 1830.

• Christ will multiply human beings, from the church in heaven, not by creation, but by mysterious generation in the same way that Christ was generated, author: Irving, March 1833.

• The Zodiac will bring out from secular science a conclusive demonstration of
scripture chronology, author not named. March 1833.

These sorts of doctrinal aberrations were felt to be: ‘mysteries heretofore unknown’ (Morning Watch June 1833). The same issue derided great theologians of the past, denigrated Christians that studied their writings as ‘idolaters’ and called the Evangelical World: ‘modern Moabites’.

Like many other cults, it was deemed necessary that one must join them and be
initiated to be safe. Irvingite historian Edward Miller explains that it was necessary to be sealed by the apostles of the Catholic Apostolic Church in order to escape the Imminent Great Tribulation. Each of the Irvingite apostles had to seal 12,000 before he died, but failed to do so in time (and insufficient volunteers). A helpful prophet declared that the sealing would thus be carried on in Paradise.

Roman Catholic influence

The Irvingite church journal (The Morning Watch) carried an article in September 1830 that posited a two phased coming of Christ. This critical idea is originated from a Roman Catholic Jesuit Spanish writer, called Manuel Lacunza. His book, The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty, was translated by Irving in 1827 and studied at the Albury conference, and especially at the later Powerscourt meetings. This is important - one of the key spurs to the foundations of Dispensationalism was the study of the imaginations of a Roman Jesuit, the ideas of another Jesuit, Ribera, were also considered.

So, by about 1830 we have a high degree of eschatological speculation in conferences, books and journals; a futurist view of Revelation; a growing acceptance of extreme ideas including charismania; a Jesuit view of two second comings of Christ; ideas about the separation of the church and Israel; a parenthesis of the Jewish kingdom (see later); and the expected rise of antichrist and the Great tribulation. It is also interesting to note that Joseph Smith published the Book of
Mormon, teaching a regathering of Israel, in 1830. In 1831 William Miller (the founder of Adventism) began teaching his ‘findings’. Jehovah’s Witnesses also started soon afterwards. Chiliasm (millennialism) was in the air in the mid 19th century. The missing ingredient, however, is a secret rapture.

Margaret Macdonald

The first person to speak about a pretribulation rapture was a young girl named
Margaret Macdonald from Port Glasgow (15 miles from Glasgow) who was familiar with The Morning Watch and Edward Irving. The vehicle of this idea was a vision which was written down and read by Irving. In the early 1800’s, some people were beginning to think of a future tribulation and Antichrist. Earlier, most had been historicists who saw the 1260 days of Revelation as years, viewing tribulation as present or past and seeing the Antichrist in the pope, or Napoleon, and the beast as Jews, pagans, Arians, Saracens etc.

In 1829 The Morning Watch represented the most advanced prophetical ideas, including:
• a future tribulation and Antichrist.
• a literal rapture
• a partial rapture (only those filled with the Spirit)
• however, the man-child of Rev 12 was not seen as a church symbol
• an emphasis upon the witnesses of Zecharia tied in to the witnesses of Revelations 11.

[Historically, these witnesses had been seen as the Old and New Testaments, or alternatively as Enoch and Elijah (who had been raptured)].

Margaret saw these witnesses as a symbol of the church which introduced a completely new eschatological idea. Irving (as a historicist) had come close to this in seeing the Rev 11 witnesses as a succession of chosen men faithful to God. This is found in his introduction to the translation of Lacunza’s: The Coming of the Messiah’. (Although he later in the same work states that they are a symbol of the scriptures.) Lacunza also saw them as 78utwo congregations of faithful ministers, but neither saw them as being secretly raptured before the Tribulation. Irving, like many others, believed he was already in the 1260 year Tribulation.

Young Margaret Macdonald, who had such a critical influence in the formation of
pretribulation was a poor foundation on which to rest. Her insight came in a lengthy vision after prolonged sickness which required bed-rest for 18 months. This was written down and passed to ministers, including Irving at a time when he was very susceptible to such charismatic revelation. Margaret had also only been a Christian for a year and was uneducated. It was probably these facts which led to the origin being obscured and publicised by more educated men.

Margaret was also particularly open to the occult. Robert Norton wrote of her and a friend, ‘I have seen both her and Miss Margaret Macdonald stand like statues scarcely touching the ground, evidently supernaturally’. Andrew Drummond tells us that Margaret’s close friend Mary Campbell practised automatic writing and had intense psychical power and was a medium. Margaret also predicted that socialist Robert Owen was the Antichrist at the time she had her pretribulation vision. Margaret herself began to speak in tongues about four months after her vision in August 1830.

"The Morning Watch"

The Morning Watch did not credit Margaret Macdonald as its inspiration, although it does mention ‘several young women’ having given deep revelation in a few broken sentences.

Robert Baxter, a lawyer who became disillusioned with the Irvingites and left
them wrote about Margaret in his Narrative of Facts. He states that: ‘the delusion first appeared in Scotland’ but ‘it was not until adopted and upheld by Mr Irving, that it began to challenge much attention.’ Margaret’s (uncredited) vision appeared in 1840 in the Memoirs of James & George Macdonald of Port Glasgow written by Robert Norton. In 1861 he told her vision and named her specifically, identifying her as the source of the new doctrine. The fact that the Irvingites initiated the teaching of pretribulation is also asserted by several contemporaries,including eminent Brethren writers, such as: S. P. Tregelles, J. P. Lange, Thomas Croskery,
Edward Miller (Irvingite historian), William Reid, George Stokes and J. S. Teulon.

Subsequent to receiving a copy of Margaret’s vision, The Morning Watch went into overdrive in explaining their modification of eschatology. The caught up of 1 Thess 4 is now separated from the gathering of Matt 24. An article by ‘Fidus’ in June 1830 clearly states that ‘Philadelphia’ (spiritual believers) will be raptured and ‘Laodicea’ (non-spiritual Christians, and Jews who follow Antichrist) will be left on earth to endure the Great tribulation. Margaret had rested on the ‘two
witnesses’ symbol, Fidus on the 7 churches.

Later, others (especially Darby) would rest upon the ‘man-child’ symbol. Pretribulation must lean upon these symbols from Revelation because there is absolutely no clear, non-symbolic statement in the Bible to defend it.

The pretribulation rapture became known as ‘the secret rapture’. This has tendencies of developing an elitist, arcane society of adherents, those who are privileged to know about the secret or are especially spiritual in order to take part in it. In June 1832, it was stated that the Lord’s coming was only a joy for those prepared and looking for it. Only they would see the Lord, the rest of the church would only see this first appearance as a meteor or cloud.

Other ideas began to emerge. In June 1832 an article on the feast of Tabernacles saw the seven days of the feast as seven years, the thirteen bullocks slain indicated a confederacy of thirteen hostile powers, during the rise of Antichrist, Gog and Magog etc. This appears to be the first mention of a seven year tribulation period. Out of interest, Darby was teaching a tribulation of three and a half years as late as 1868.

Because the symbolism of types can be interpreted according to other influences, once sound Biblical hermeneutics are ignored,the interpretation of the feasts varied significantly from year to year. Irvingites shifted the rapture from feast 6 (of Lev 23’s 7 feasts) to feast 5, then feast 4 and even feast 3 within the first few years. Modern Dispensationalists have the same problems.

Scofield based his pretribulation rapture on feast 3 (firstfruits). Hal Lindsey has a rapture somewhere between feast 3 and 7. Edgar Whisenant based it upon feast 5, stating that it would occur in 1988. Another recent author stated that it would occur in May 1997.

Irving’s man-child ideas began to emerge in June 1831; repeated by Darby in 1839. He took Paul’s teaching on the union of believers with Christ and transferred it to the the interpretation of OT prophecy and Revelation symbolism. References to ‘Christ’ became corporate, especially the veiled reference of the man-child in Rev 12. With appalling exegesis he sees a first company gathered (rapture of the singular child) before the others of the church who suffer in the Great Tribulation (a remnant of the woman’s seed).

Questions raised by this nonsense include:

• Part of the symbol is literal (‘caught up’),and part is taken spiritually (‘man-child’).

• If the man-child literally referred to Christ as claimed, why did the disciples not accompany Christ into heaven at his ascension?

• If the man-child symbolises a pretribulation rapture at Rev 12:5, the head
needs to be on earth for the whole body and members to be caught up together.

• If the church is already mysteriously (spiritually) joined to the head, why does the church need to be with him in person at Rev 12:5?

Development by Darby

Dave MacPherson has catalogued Darby’s main eschatological beliefs in 21 tenets. He then demonstrates that all of these are present, using the same wording, in Edward Irving’s preliminary discourse to Lacunza’s work published in 1827. In 1829, Darby himself was only voicing 6 of the 21 items. For instance, in 1829 Darby had a Post-tribulation outlook and only saw a distinction, not a dichotomy (separation) between Israel and the church. Darby also quoted Irving, Lacunza and
The Morning Watch in 1830.

Furthermore, Darby’s idea of the parenthesis (where the Jewish kingdom is put
on hold while the Gentile church is developed) appeared in 1830; but the same thought in very similar wording appeared in The Millennium by W C Davis of South Carolina in 1811. Lacunza also frequently mentioned this word in explaining prophetic scripture. It was only in 1870 that Darby’s development led to the position now held by modern dispensationalists. He ceased to emphasise the man-child symbol in favour of the Philadelphia symbol, or even the apostle John who heard ‘Come up hither’. All these had been previously stated by Irvingites, even
using John as a church symbol.

Darby’s later reminiscences show signs of misrepresentation and plagiarism. For example, his observations of an 1830’s Scottish prayer meeting conducted by the Macdonalds, and which included tongue speaking,is almost identical to the report given by John B. Cardale printed in The Morning Watch, Dec 1830, except for one item. Darby omits Margaret’s utterances regarding a pretribulation deliverance. Other writers noted this. F. Roy Coad called it, ‘disingenuous tactics’ and ‘descended to the disreputable’. Benjamin Newton wrote that Darby was most subtle (i.e. sly). Darby can be claimed as a populariser of other’s thoughts on pretribulation predispensationalism, but not the originator - as is everywhere claimed.

Earlier historians and theologians were not in the dark on this. George Stokes wrote: ‘Darby ... imbibed the Irvingite theories about prophecy, which coincided with his natural turn of mind.' Samuel Tregelles, one of the ablest 19th century scholars and a Brethren leader, said that the Secret Rapture doctrine was developed by Irvingites, that Darbyites wrote heterodox tracts, misrepresented historic writings to suit their ideas, and added unsound thoughts to quotes of existing writers, all excused as being done for the honour of God. In editing Darby’s
works, William Kelly deliberately revised them to give the impression that Darby originated the key doctrines and used editing techniques to misrepresent the Irvingite position. Modern Dispensationalists have continued this error, by accident or design.
After being taken on board by the Brethren leader, John Darby, some Brethren
leaders (like B. W. Newton, George Muller) rejected it. S. P. Tregelles added that the idea came from a false spirit prompting a vision in Irving’s church. Other contemporary leaders, like Charles Spurgeon and William Booth also condemned the teaching.
The ideas were exported by several visits of Darby to the USA (between 1859-74) and a series of prophetic conferences (1878-1901) presenting Dispensationalism to Americans. Delegates included Hudson Taylor, A.T. Pierson. A.J. Gordon, S.H. Kellog and W.J. Erdman.

The Scofield Bible and other writings

Dispensationalism was Internationally popularised by the Scofield Reference Bible (arising out of these conferences and published in 1909 with over 3 million sold by 1960), J.N. Darby’s writings, William Kelly’s books, E.W. Bullinger’s The Companion Bible, W.E. Blackstone’s Jesus is Coming (hundreds of thousands sent free to Christian workers in USA) and many other Brethren writings. Many of these works denigrated existing commentaries, and even the church Fathers and the Reformers, and boasted a special revelation, only their works truly understood God’s mysteries.

This gave these ideas an attractive and popular ‘novelty’ to the Christian public. It should also be noted that there was widespread corruption in the church at large in this period with a poor level of teaching (despite some notable exceptions). As a result, many people jumped on to Darby’s bandwagon which
promoted a return to exegetical teaching of the Bible. ‘He (Darby) was able to do what he did because there was a great need ... the church was corrupt, the clergy unlearned.

Liberalism had all but taken over. Prophetic teachings ... were almost unheard of.
Multitudes were spiritually starved’.

The current situation

Today, the most popular systematic defenders are Americans (live & dead) like:
Charles Ryrie, John Walvoord, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Arno Gaebelein, J. Dwight Pentecost and Ernest Pickering. At a popular level, there are numerous melodramatic paperbacks (like Hal Lindsey’s: The Late Great Planet Earth and Bruce Larson, Armaggedon) or like films.

We can identify the following varieties:
· Classical Dispensationalism -
(Scofield, Chafer), Israel is on the earth, the church is in heaven and the two never meeting the new world. There are two ways of salvation: works in the OT and faith in the NT. Chafer holds to two covenants. This view dominated 1900-1950’s.
· Hyper Dispensationalism - Instead of finding the usual Dispensationalist origin of the church in Acts 2, these see it in Acts 13 (as Charles Baker, author of A Disp. Theology and associated with Grand Rapids Grace Bible College!).
· Ultra Dispensationalism - The church begins in Acts 28 (as E.W. Bullinger, hence sometimes called Bullingerism). Therefore, only a few of Paul’s letters apply to the church, the rest of the NT is Jewish.
· Neo Dispensationalism - (Ryrie, Walvoord, Dwight Pentecost). Israel and the
church will be together after the millennium; there is only one way to salvation in both testaments (faith); there is only one new covenant. Dallas seminary promotes this view.
· Progressive Dispensationalism - In recent years some have realised that even some of the Neo Dispensational views are untenable and have sought to further ameliorate its teaching (e.g: Robert Saucy, Craig Blaising, Darrell Bock).
They state that:
o The church is not a parenthesis but the first step towards establishing the kingdom of God.
o God does not have two purposes (i.e. Israel and the church), there is only one purpose, but both of them share in it.
o There is no distinction between Israel and the church in the future state.
o The church will reign (with Jews) in glorified bodies on earth during the
millennium.
o But - they still insist that OT prophecies regarding Israel will be fulfilled
in the millennium by ethnic Jews. They do not see the church as the new Israel or believe that OT prophecies are fulfilled in the church.

One can begin to see how complex and varied this scheme is. There is, also,
hopeless disagreement among its teachers. Is it really conceivable that the greatest saints in the history of the church could have not known of this ‘vital’ truth for 1900 years?

Also consider that the foundation was laid by: a Roman Catholic Jesuit, a discredited, charismatic heretic and a young girl influenced by hallucinations and connected with occult practices.

Go figure how this belief system has so influenced American politics and the preaching of this in America, to create Christian Nationalism, the greatest lie told to the church, so that is has become proactive in this idolatry to the point we have become a nation of war mongering and blood shedding of any others that would disagree with us, all except the present nation of Israel, who not only is
allowed to have WMD's but continue it's persecution of all those that in anyway would oppose their authority over all of the Middle East. We have somehow come to beleive that as long as we support this Zionist nation, we too are some how the nation, with the promised land and the physical promises that can never be removed.
Wrong, as history and time will tell. If we continue, on the same path as Israel, to put ourselves, above God and others, and not promote the Kingdom of God over the earthly kingdoms of men, we will soon find the destruction of America just as Israel found itself under the destruction by Rome in 70 AD. It is our call to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ alone, to bring forth the true Jew, as Paul so elogantly put it - those not circumcised in the flesh but in the heart. The true Israel, the organized church is unable to realize is the unseen "universal church" (EKKLESIA) "the called out one's" of Christ who no longer look for an earthly kingdom, but live by the Lord's prayer. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven". Remember it is Paul who said that "there is neither, Jew nor Greek, nor male or female, all are one in Christ".
How easy it is to be decieved, even with the very first letter Paul wrote sometime in 51 AD, to the church of Galatia, the Judaizers were then trying to destroy Christianity with a return to the Old Covenant and circumcision of believers as they have so subtley done so today to convince us that God has any kingdom on this earth.

"The Kingdom of God is within you", Christ said. This is the rulership of our Father in our lives over all things and all purposes, all desires of this world (Cosmos) which the Bible says very clearly, "they are blinded by the god of this world"- Satan. I am not anti-Semitic nor do I hate the people in Israel or any race called the Hebrews, but the truth is they are blind and as long as any Hebrew continues to reject Christ he as all others including Americans, Chinese or whoever, they are under the power of Satan and blinded by him.

I refer you to a scripture now, 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 "For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that "all" will be condemned "who have not believed" the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

It is time the church rejects these ideas of dichtomy (seperation) of the Jews and the Church and realize, there is only one true Israel it will all be saved, as it is made up of men and women, of all races, creeds and color, who given their lives to Christ and recognize him as King now, and the Promised Land as the dwelling place we have with him now in the Spirit.