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  The Nazis accused the Jews of all the world's troubles, and required them to wear this symbol. Most of Europe was silently complicit in the Holocaust.   Roman Catholic Spain, and other countries, persecuted the Jews, just for being Jews, during the so-called "Holy" Inquisition. They hunted them and marked them with the Sambenito Tunic. Many died in torture chambers or burned at the stake. The Church was the "right hand" of the government, and both were complicit and guilty. BUT today, Spain, the rest of Europe, and the UK and North America, continue manifesting foolish and criminal antisemitism. The news media stokes the fires of antisemitism, like someone who throws a rock and then hides his hand. Multitudes distrust the Jews just because they are Jews. Without having done anything, they are criticized, attacked and killed.     Israel is criticized by hypocrites who would defend their own countries and families and rights, but who deny Israel the right to do ...

 Eric Parmenter The problems of the world today are greater than they have ever been in the past, yet all ate symptomatic of one basic disease: sin. A state of revolt is found in almost every sphere of society, and lawlessness abounds on every hand. REBELLION IN THE THEOLOGICAL REALM The hypothesis of evolution robs many of confidence in the Bible, and has stolen from others the sense of the reality and "personal characters of an eternal and almighty God. Professed teachers of religion question Jesus Christ as the Son of God. Ecclesiastics deny the virgin birth of Jesus, and His bodily resurrection. They pour scorn on the biblical account of the nativity. Creation is discounted as myth. No longer do they confess the deity of Christ, nor do they accept the truth of His atoning death. Any suggestion of eternal punishment and an eternal hell are vigorously resisted. REBELLION IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM Insidiously the allurements and deceptions of Eastern religions, psychic research, ast...

       Actually it won't! People today freely use the phrases: "on the right side of history," "on the wrong side of history," "the bar of history," and how "history will judge..." this or that person or country. Nelson Mandela is one of those who said, "History will judge us..." But, how can history think? It can't! They mean historians and what they will write. What does it even mean to be on the "right side" or "wrong side" of history? What is the standard used, and who decides or decrees which is which?     Truthfully, the whole concept is fundamentally flawed. History (especially that which is written by humans) does not, will not and cannot judge anyone! There is no "bar of history." It matters little what historians or societies say about people or movements. It has often been observed that history in large part is written by conquerors, and they put things as they wish.     There is also the...

"It is forgotten that our God is a consuming fire [cf. Deut. 4:24 and Heb. 12:29]. Many there are who, in the blindness of unbelief of the last days, proudly say, "We reject the Jehovah of the Old Testament." It is "the Jesus that loved little children," and "went about doing good," who "taught us to call God, Father": - this is the one in whom people say they believe. But will you remember that this same Jesus is called in the Old Testament Jehovah's Servant, and that under Jehovah's smiting hand of wrath He poured out His blood on Calvary and was laid in a tomb, dead, and that it is this Jesus, the Son of God, dead and risen, upon whom you are called to believe?" Newell,  Romans Verse by Verse , page 119, Moody Press

by Bruce Hulshizer from the August 2016 issue of Milk & Honey http://www.stw1982.com/2016.html 1. Read These Verses In Your Bible: Romans 1:18-2:16 Immoral people know God and will be judged for their evil lives (chapter 1 verse 18 to 32). Some people might want to say they do not know there is a God. But God has shown everyone that He is the powerful One who is greater than them. Everyone can look at the order and greatness of what God made. There is no possible way the universe just happened. They know there must be a mighty Creator!      The real problem is that people know there is a God, but they do not want to give God glory. They want to be their own boss. They do not want to have to listen to their Creator. They ignore God.      So, men have made “god” into something they make with their own hands. God is awesome, but men changed Him into someone little! They imagine a “god” that is not true.      They ...

NO LAUGHING MATTER Today, many people laugh when we tell them that the Lord Jesus is coming back—their mockery, a very sign of His soon return (2 Pet. 3:3). But His coming is not merely wishful thinking. There are several reasons why Christ MUST return. Here are three of them simply stated: HIS VOWS: God has made many promises, He has promised the nation of Israel that, through her, all nations of the world would be blessed (Gen. 22: 18) and that He would send a King who would rule forever, setting up Headquarters in Jerusalem (i.e. Jer. 23:5, 6). The tail of the nations will one day become the head of the nations! But Christ has also made promises to the Church. On the last night before He died, He promised to come again and receive His Church – all believing Jews and Gentiles – to dwell in the House of the Lord forever (Jn. 14: 13). So Christ must return because of the many promises God has made. "God is not man, that he should lie ... Has he said, and will he not ...

God...now commands all men everywhere to repent: because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness" (Acts 17:30-31). Paul continues in Athens describing the true God and exhorting the Athenians that their thoughts about God were wrong - the true God was not a benign God that smiled on their sin and lifestyle; He was a holy God who commanded repentance and warned of coming judgment to the unrepentant sinner. God Now We can almost hear the educated audience of Athens say, "it is not wise to create that sense of urgency Paul." "Do not use the world 'now.'" "There is plenty of time."  Today the response is no different. Paul was no salesman; his interest was not in mass hysteria on a sham message but real conversion before the truth of a holy God in the light of coming judgment. He could not promise tomorrow. The message is still, " Now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvatio...

The U.S. Supreme Court is hereby declared in contempt of the  Supreme Court of Heaven, and will be severely fined. The ruling that legalizes homosexual "marriage" is in defiance and contempt of God's established Law. God has declared that homosexuality is sin. Don't try to take the moral high ground against Him. He is not guilty of hate crimes. Those who deny and defy Him are guilty of hate crimes against God, the Bible and Christianity. This ruling is a shame and a dark stain on America. I am glad I have a better citizenship, in heaven.  "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" declares Proverbs 4:34. "Any people" includes the U.S.A. which apparently thinks it answers to no one. But the Supreme Court is not above God's law. It's judges are mere men, political appointees. That court is not supreme. God is. The fact people don't recognize His supremacy and authority is of no consequence to God, but o...

"So it will be at the end of the age; the angels shall come forth, and take out the wicked from among the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13:49-50).      The doctrine of hell is one of the most neglected doctrines in all of Scripture. When hell is mentioned today, it is generally ridiculed, as if the whole idea of hell were so old-fashioned that only the naive and ignorant would really believe that such a place actually exists. This is not hard to understand. Natural men hate the idea of being held accountable for their lives to a holy God, because they love sin and do not wish to part with it. The carnal mind throws up objection after objection to the idea of hell because it does not want to face the reality of it. Men live their lives thinking that maybe if they ignore a difficulty long enough, it will go away. Even conservative religious leaders are now attacking hell. Let men d...

by Norman Crawford It is no longer true that everyone knows the difference between right and wrong. All mankind has been equipped by the Creator with a moral conscience, but this inner sense of “right” has been sorely obscured by sin and human philosophy. The heart of man is unchanged. A heart that is full of sin cannot be made more full. However, restraints are gone, and the line of separation between good and evil has almost disappeared. Sin and evil are not new, but at least in the past, the wrong was correctly labeled. Today men “call evil good, and good evil.” They “put darkness for light, and light for darkness” (Isa. 5:20). This mixture of light and darkness is the masterpiece of Satan (2 Thess. 2:7).     Even genuine Christians are affected by this sad mixture of right and wrong. Almost anyone can identify as being evil such sins as “adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath...