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ADDENDUM TO THE NEWSLETTER TIMING PARALLEL WRATH OF GOD UPDATE on EVENTS In the January, 2008 Newsletter (headline: THE WRATH OF GOD) we brought events up to date with the date of October 28, 1985 which is parallel to our January 10, 2008 [plus or minus 4-5 days] and with added events allow us to complete the "projected dates" as follows: October 28, 198_5
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On January 8, 2008 Hillary Clinton and John McCain won the New Hampshire primary. *
November 12, 1985 Prophetic Mission to Mammoth Lakes, California
January 25 2008
Novemher 13, 1985 Columbian volcano explodes 26,000 dead.
January 26, 2008 TV Report of January 26 th revealed that a foreign student at a Utah University was diagnosed with TB - in checking students she came into contact with it was found that 70 tested positive' for TB - another 90 students were being sought for testing.***
November 23-25, 1985 Terrorist attack.
February 5-7, 2008 On February 5, 2008 extremely violent storms and 48 tornadoes swept a vast area from Texas to Ohio - leaving 54 dead, over one hundred injured with massive
On January 22, 2008 the U.S. and Global Stock markets shake world economic health along with bank troubles and dollar decline and gold rising - forces President Bush to call for emergency action - Fed reduces prime interest rate 3/4th of 1% and Bush calls fora $150 Billion stimulus package.**
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TIMING PARALLEL WRATH OF GOD - UPDATE (continued) February 5-7, 2008 (continued) destruction from wind velocity ranging from 80 to 210 mph. One tornado touched down for ONE HOUR , one wind ripped for 100 miles laying waste everything in its path - a reporter
on TV stated, "It was as if God took a brillo pad and wiped the earth clean." ****
*Note about January I0, 2008 - I discerned that this foretells that the next president will be governed by an antiChrist spirit and can be identified as a beastman of antiChrist. The church decision to reject Jesus Christ will result in GOD permitting them to receive what they "loose" - an antiChrist spirit which will slaughter them. No matter "who" is elected president in November, 2008, this person will be a vessel of the antiChrist spirit. **Note about January 25, 2008- The Wrath of God is seen in the events of this day - it foretells that when the WRATH OF GOD surfaces full force the U.S. economy will be brought to the ground - collapse, be wiped out. The world economies will also be shattered. No effort by Congress or the President to correct the problem will succeed.
***Note about January 26, 2008 - This foretells of coming plagues that will sweep through America unlike ever seen before. ****Note about February 5-7, 2008 - This horrific weather violence swept Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia; Ohio suffered heavy rain and flooding; to rn adoes ranging from Texas to Ohio. TV reports showed churches that were shredded, and a reporter in a helicopter said that it looked "Katrina-like " from the air. I noted that it took a repo rt er to make the connection when he said: "It was as if God took a brillo pad and wiped the earth clean." There is no discernment in the church, no recognition of what is happening all around them; however, the Governor of Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, stated after seeing the rampage of to rn adoes that tore thorough five Southern states (killing 58 people), The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it.". VISION of'1974 - (Quote from page 63 of The Staff and Sword book published in 1979) "...I saw a vision of corn fields; the corn stood about four feet high in the
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TIMING PARALLEL WRATH OF GOD — UPDATE (continued) The VISION OF 1974-(Quote continued baked dry earth under a scorching sun. The crop was dead. Farmers who had enough water to irrigate had no fuel to run their wale,- pumps. Another time, I saw masses of unemployed people in cities standing in soup-lines, four to f ve people wide and two blocks long. Vaguely I could see the bodies of the dead lying in the streets and left to rot. It was a dreary scene, dark and misery-ridden. Then the Lord's Angel told me something quite revealing about app r oaching judgment. It would come gradually, little by little, and then it would ease off for a while, returning later with greater force and then easing off again. Some will look for famine, but they will be lulled into afalse sense of security, for it will be dry, then rain will come at vital times and save the crop. Then suddenly
all will vanish; the wealth will be eroded and food will disappear, until those who do not trust in Jesus Christ will be in desperate need, with no one to help them, Again, I was shown a very hot sun and energy shortages, electrical failure and the collapse of the industrial system; dead people lying in the streets, starvation and immense suffering throughout large areas. The weather would become more and more violen t, yet there would be periods when all would be well. Many will think it is "over " - but it won 't be. We understood that this would be a world-wide problem;
however, the Lord had us concentrate on our own nation. "(Unquote page 63 from The Staff and Sword book) We are clearly seeing this "violent weather" which the Lord GOD revealed to me in 1974. I make the connection to this vision/revelation of 1974 because the heart of the Famine Message delivered by God's Archangel had to do with the consequences coming because this nationlpeopie had rejected JESUS CHRIST which would bring the WRATH OF GOD. What we have observed, recorded and reported from Hurricane Katrina (August, 2005) to the present are evidences that GOD's WRATH is emerging in this nation (and in this world as well) and these events give us a picture of what is coming: THE FLASH POINTS December 21, 1986 March 4, 2009 Married "In The Spirit' by R-D Februar y28 1987 Married before a Minister
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GETTING HIS WORD INTO FOCUS (Understand ing) Receiving JESUS' Word is one thing, coming to understand it in right light and in a right Spirit is another matter. Understanding His Word takes time, prayer and patience. It also requires that one wait on the Lord until He reveals the deeper meaning of His Word. What is often literally apparent in His Word is usually only a surface understanding of His Word, which is to say, it is an "incomplete understanding". Going deeper, again, takes time and patience and waiting on God's
ti me whereby the deeper understanding does come. I've learned, through hard knocks and trials, that one cannot force a deeper understanding of His Word. You can pray, fast, move deep `In The Spirit', pound on the doors of Heaven, and while you may receive some comfort by the HOLY SPIRIT, until it is God's time it will be of no avail. I've come to use the term "nuance" more and more, as with GOD'S WORD, a nuance or a slight variation in tone or shade in color can open a whole new meaning to something seen only in literal terms before.
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GETTING HIS WORD INTO FOCUS - Understanding continued For example, JESUS' WORD to me of October 21, 1989 - some 19 years ago, presented me with extensive detail about the coming accidental nuclear attack. JESUS plainly stated that RUSSIA* would accidentally launch twelve ICBM's at the U.S. and that a anti-ballistic missile defense system** would destroy f ve ofthe nine nuclear warheads that came through (the rest would be destroyed by the Russians). *Note - At this time there was NO Russia, which was only one of 15 Republics of the Communist Soviet Union. This was one "nuance" - JESUS was telling me that the Soviet Union would not exist when this accident happened - something that got by me at the time. *Note - JESUS was revealing that the U.S. would have an anti-ballistic missile defense system, something that would not come into being for another 16 years in the future.
In this October 21, 1989 Word JESUS mentioned "President George Bush" only once - asking me to write him (which I did in 1989). In a later Word in 1989 JESUS told me that President George Bush would build the anti-ballistic missile defense system. His dad, George H., who was President in 1989, did not do that; but his son, George W. did do that in 2005. Another "nuance" that got by me - JESUS was
speaking of a President George Bush who would not be the President for another 11 years. When, on January 8, 2008, the HOLY SPIRIT gave me to "know" that the next President would be a Beastman of antiChrist - that "knowing" came on the same day that the HOLY SPIRIT gave me to notice that when JESUS spoke of the accidental nuclear attack on October 21, 1989, that He never used George Bush's name, He only said "THE PRESIDENT" and did that five ti mes in His Word. He was NON SPECIFIC five times, a nuance that I did not see until January 8, 2008. The one time, in His October 21, 1989 Word, that JESUS mentioned "PRESIDENT BUSH" was in connection with a prophetess He wanted us to telephone that day (we did). It was this Word of October 21, 1989 that brought me to connect the accidental nuclear attack to President George Bush, however, I now see that as an assumption and recognize that it is far more likely that JESUS was speaking of someone else and not George Bush. Is it possible that it is George W. Bush? I suppose anything is possible; but the proof
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July 10 2007 8: 45PM Off to the dump with Gene today (12 noon) and on the way back JESUS' Angel tells me I will receive a Word later. I ask why not now? Angel tells me that I'd forget and that when I have some free time (very busy day) to take time to listen to the Lord. That opportunity came at about 8:45 PM that evening. Nancy-TONI and I prayed and abided at that time. This is the Word that I received: "JOHN EL, THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD." (I then pled the Blood of JESUS CHRIST.) "THE JUDGMENT WILL ACCELERATE FROM HERE ON NOW AND FOR THE NEXT TEN MONTHS. THERE WILL BE ERUPTIONS AND EXPLOSIONS, STORMS AND UPHEAVALS, SCREAMING PLAGUES AND SUDDEN DEATH; TERROR AND FEAR WILL GRIP THIS NATION AS NEVER BEFORE. BE NOT CONCERNED WITH THE TIMING; NOTHING SHALL FAIL THAT THE LORD OF HEAVEN HAST REVEALED TO YOU. BRING YOUR FOCUS NOW MORE TO PREPARING GOD'S PEOPLE IN EVERY WAY YOU CAN IMAGINE AND EVERY WAY THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADS YOU TO DO. ABIDE. July 10, 2007 to May 10, 2008 The ten months covers a period from July 10, 2007 to May 10, 2008. The "literal, obvious" is that this is a time `within which' judgments will accelerate, meaning things will happen faster and more frequently. However, we also understand that while we are in a time of "TROUBLES" and that this will end April 25, 2008 to September, 2008 (after which things can start to get much more serious, more deadly, more destructive). So what has been happening can be seen as an early forecast of more of the same to come later, only it will be much worse. Well, without giving a whole list of details - we have seen plants exploding, storms aplenty, upheavals (banking, money, economy, jobs, etc.), plagues (over a hundred
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to me right now. Nonetheless, JESUS has brought our focus away from "timing" and onto "preparation" as the more important matter to have our focus on. Does that mean the timing we had in view is incor ect? I don't know that, and more i mpo rt antly, that is not nay concern an more. I'm not indifferent and suspect that some of the timing may prove to right-on whereas the timing for the accidental nuclear attack may prove to be a bit further off time-wise (not a bad thing). This is also why JESUS may have had me write this new little book, "PROPHETIC WARNING SIGNS" since it gives specific events that are to come BEFORE certain major judgments. It is not "time related" but "event related." r
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FOOD PRICES AND AVAILABILITY (continued) In 1977 JESUS' Word came to me whereby He outlined in considerable detail the specifics of the coming judgment. This is what JESUS told me about a portion of the "first year of judgment.*" *Note - In 1977 JESUS revealed that the judgment would run three years from start to finish.
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"...DISEASE WILL START FROM CALIFORNIA AND MOVE EAST, MANY LEFT INCAPACITATED. FROM GEORGIA A PLAGUE TO KILL THOUSANDS AS IT SPREADS. PANIC AND FEAR WILL GRIP THE NATION. FOOD RIOTS WILL BREAK OUT IN AUGUST IN MANY MAJOR CITIES. FOOD COSTS TO SOAR, AVAILABILITY DECLINE, QUALITY POOR, HOARDING MAGNIFIES THE PROBLEMS. GOVERNMENT TRIES, BUT FAILS TO INSTILL CONFIDENCE . THOSE WHO REBEL AGAINST GOD WILL ALSO REBEL AGAINST GOVERNMENT AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WILL WANT FOR FOOD AND STARVATION BEGINS..," In 1977 JESUS revealed that food shortages would result from a variety of adverse factors - had weather, drought, severe fuel shortages and hoarding of the limited supplies of food available. (Glenn Beck TV show of February 21, 2008 )
"It will take 1.29 gallon of gasoline to produce 1 gallon of ethanol That is like saying I will pay you $1.29 for every $1.00 you give me." Due to a worldwide crop shortage of wheat, the price of wheat is already up
50% this year and that means higher prices for beef and food in general. As more fanners switch to growing corn (dropping grains) which yields the best price (corn for conversion ethanol), the price of food is going to begin rising sharply this year. The rise in the cost of oil has already impacted the price of food generally. For example: The cost of Bananas was .50 cent per pound in Dec. 2006 and .53 cents a pound in Dec. 07- an increase of 5.2%. The price per gallon of Milk was $3.00 in Dec. 2007 and $3.87 in Dec. 2007 - an increase of 28.8%
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INFLATION IS ANOTHER FACTOR
As the government continues to spend more than it takes in (taxation), they run the printing presses and print more paper money, which in itself leads directly to the decline of the U.S. Dollar and adds another spin to rising inflation. Inflation alone can destroy the average American's household budget, but add in bad weather, rising fuel prices, fuel shortages and the insane policy of encouraging ethanol production along with unsound fiscal governmental policy we have a recipe for disaster on a scale America has never seen before. All that JESUS revealed to me from 1970 to the present is not only at the door step, it is swallowing up this nation whole before our eyes. The spiritual and political leadership we have in America is so poor that the outcome is beyond bleak, it is hopeless. Remember that in 1977 JESUS skewed me a vision of America in the future where I saw masses of hungry people standing in long soup lines where they hoped for a plate of food and a cup of hot soup. These were not merely the homeless but the average American facing starvation in times so hard that no one had memory of any thing like it. The lack of effective spiritual leadership in the church was a key factor in this coming disaster; but it was not merely the pastors who were at fault, it was
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also the people led by those pastors.
FAVORING `TAR AND FEATHERS' When a cartoonist drew a humorous sketch of Mohammed the people of Islam rose up with such fury and passion and protested so loudly and with such unrestrained violence that many died as a result of street riots. I hardly endorse nor would I encourage that kind of violent behavior, but it seems that some kind of response ought be expected by Christians when something outrageous is done against our faith, especially JESUS CHRIST, This cartoon (below) published in February, 2008 portrays the decline of faith in America's Churches.
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FAVORING `TAR AND FEATHERS' (continued) The fact that neither ESPN nor ABC has taken any action against Jacobson indicates they have a bias against Christians, Catholic League president Bill Donohue said that Jacobson should be fired. This anti-Christian bias of the networks is becoming commonplace. Actress Kathy Griffin used her appearance on the Emmy Awards program to tell Jesus to "suck it," responding to athletes who thank Jesus when they achieve certain levels. No action was taken against Griffin. (This report was published by the American Family Association January 24, 2008 and came to us via Dee Fedor and Wilma Weaver, N. O.P. intercessors.}
"IF" these kind of comments had been made against Mohammed, Moslems would take to the streets and riot - ESPN and ABC would be under siege and both Jacobson and Griffin's lives would be at serious risk of lethal force by Moslems in general. Of course they know this and they would not do such a thing to Moslems. The lack of reaction by Christians (which is directly the result of a lack of leadership) only emboldens the enemy who keeps pushing the envelope. The hatred these people have for JESUS is matched by a growing contempt and hatred of all Christians. It will only be a matter of time before they begin rounding Christians up and feeding them into gas ovens as did the Nazis and Communists.
What should Christians do? My instincts are that of a soldier - I think in terms of retaliation, direct action against those who are a threat. But I'm also a soldier in Christ, so I first think of praying for HOLY SPIRIT guidance. The Church ought be called and led in prayer about these matters and other offences. As prayer is ongoing, Christians ought write places like ESPN, ABC and their sponsors making their displeasure plain and clear and asking for a response. Depending on the response - the next steps would be according to HOLY SPIRIT direction. Mass protests, calling thousands, tens of thousands of Christians out on the streets to protest the offences at the ESPN and ABC offices. If they fail to react properly, as the Lord directs they should, then I have an interesting option and suggestion. Seize the offending parties (business executives also), strip them to their underwear and then tar and feather them as done is days of old. Moslems would saw their heads off - but we would not do that, but tar and feathers seems appropriate to the offences. Just a thought! Now the Lord might lead otherwise, His Will be done.
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UNDER THE INFLUENCE Cathy-MARTHA sent me a copy of a book entitled: " UNDER THE INFLUENCE - How Christianity Transformed Civilization ", written by Alvin J. Schmidt, published by Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530. Excellent and informative! Tt tells in detail
how the barbaric pagan world was transformed into our civilization by JESUS CHRIST, His Gospel and Christianity. I really recommend this "eye opener. " This is quoting a small section on concerning "Science "from this book. (Quote Pages 218 to 222) "Alfred North Whitehead, the renowned philosopher of science, once said that "faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modem scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology." Similarly, Lynn White, the historian of medieval science, has stated that "the [medieval] monk was an intellectual ancestor of the scientist." And the German physicist Ernst Mach once remarked, "Every unbiased mind must admit that the age in which the chief development of the science of mechanics took place was an age of predominantly theological cast." Crediting Christianity with the arrival of science may sound surprising to many, including many scientists. Why is that? The answer seems to go back to Andrew Dickson White, who in 1896 published A Histor• of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. Ever since then, along with the growth of secularism, countless professors in colleges and universities have uncritically accepted White's argument that Christianity is an enemy of science, so it seems unthinkable to many that it could possibly have fostered the arrival of science. Given this widespread bias, the old adage comes to mind: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." CHRISTIAN PRESUPPOSITIONS UNDERLYING SCIENCE There are numerous pronounced differences between Christianity and pagan religions. One is that Christianity, with its Judaic heritage, has always taught and insisted that there is only one God, a rational being. Without this Christian presupposition, there would be no science. The origin of science, said Alfred North Whitehead, required Christianity's "insistence on the rationality of God." If God is a rational being, then may not human beings, who are made in his image, also employ rational processes to study and investigate the world in which they live? That question, of course, was answered in the affirmative when some Christian philosophers linked rationality with the empirical, inductive method. One such person was Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1 168 - I253), a Franciscan bishop and the first chancellor of Oxford University, who first proposed the inductive, experimental method, and approach to knowledge that was further advocated by his student Roger Bacon (1214 - 94), also a Franciscan monk, who asserted that "all things must be verified by experience." Bacon was a devout believer in the truthfulness of Scripture, and being empirically minded, he saw the Bible in the light of sound reason and as verifiable by experience. Another natural philosopher was William of Occam (or Ockham, 1285 - 1347), another Franciscan monk,
iviarcri 14, LUta rage iia I. ne taii ann niworu iviinisrr-y/Auuenaum who, like Bacon, argued that UNDER THE INFLUENCE ( Quote continued) knowledge needed to be derived inductively. Almost three hundred years later another Bacon, Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), gave further momentum to the inductive method by actually recording his experimental results. He has been called "the practical creator of scientific induction." In the context of rationality, he stressed careful observation of phenomena and collecting systematic information in order to understand nature's secrets. His scientific interests did not deter him from also devoting time to theology, for he also wrote treatises on the Psalms and on prayer. By introducing the inductive empirical method guided by rational procedures, Roger Bacon, William Gccarn, and Francis Bacon departed to a considerable degree from the ancient Greek perspective of Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.). Aristotelianism, which had a stranglehold on the world for fifteen hundred years, held that knowledge was only acquired through the deductive processes of the mind; the inductive method, which required manual activity, was taboo. As noted in chapter 7, physical activities were only for slaves, not for thinkers or freemen. Complete confidence in the deductive method as the only way of arriving at knowledge and understanding was also a view held by Christian monks, natural philosophers, and theologians until the arrival of Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon. William Occam, and Francis Bacon. Even after these empirically minded thinkers had introduced their ideas, the scholastic world, for the most part, continued to adhere to Aristotle's approach to knowledge. Another prominent presupposition of Christianity is that God, who created the world, is separate and distinct from it. Aristotelian philosophy, on the other hand, saw God (or the gods in Aristotle's pagan thinking) and the universe of nature intertwined. This posits a pantheistic, panemanationist conception of the world. Planets, for example, were seen as having an inner intelligence (anima) that induced them to move. This pantheistic view of planetary movement was first challenged by Jean Buridan (1300 -1358), a Christian philosopher at the University of Paris. Also contrary to Christian theology, which said that "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1), was Aristotle's theory that the world neither had a beginning nor was created by God (see his On the Heavens 279 - 84). Although Christianity very early in its existence condemned pantheism, its natural philosophers and scholastics for the longest time failed to see the pantheistic elements
embedded in the Aristotelian philosophy that they used to explain the world of nature.
Even after Roger Bacon and William Occam broke with Aristotle's perspective by advocating the inductive method, the natural philosophers and scholastics within Christendom clung to it contumaciously. Some—for example, the Franciscan order to which Bacon belonged—even saw Bacon's views as heretical, and in 1278 it imprisoned him for fourteen years. The photo (on page 19) is of Chuck-J NEL taken at Fort Riley, Kansas while there for heavy weapons training before being shipped to West Germany for two y ears in the U.S. Army.
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UNDER THE INFLUENCE ( Quote continue di Continued resistance tote inductive method together with the failure to see Aristotle's pantheistic view of the physical world delayed not only the arrival of science but also its progress, because pantheism, like the anti-inductive approach to knowledge, is antithetical to science. Pantheism implies that the scientific method, which manipulates various elements within the physical universe, is sacrilegious and an affront to the divine within nature. Thus, only in the Christian perspective, which sees God and nature as distinctively separate entities, is science possible. As has been rightly said, "Science could never have come into being among the animists of central or southern Africa or many other places in the world because they would never have begun to experiment on the natural world, since everything—whether stones or trees or animals or anything else—within it contained living spirits of various gods or ancestors." Had this major paradigm shift from Aristotle's pantheistic theory to a rationalinductive approach not occurred with men Iike Grosseteste, Buridan, the Bacons, William Occam, and Nicholas of Oresme, and later men like Copernicus, Vesalius, Kepler, and Galileo, who from their knowledge of Scripture knew they were not investigating the divine in nature, there would be no science today. They saw themselves as merely trying to understand the world that God had created and over which he told mankind to have "dominion" (Genesis 1:28 NKJV). This paradigm shift is another example of Christianity's wholesome impact on the world. Belief in the rationality of God not only led to the inductive method but also led to the conclusion that the universe is governed rationally by discoverable laws. This assumption is vitally important to scientific research, because in a pagan or polytheistic world, which saw its gods often engaged in jealous, irrational behavior in a world that was nonrational, any systematic investigation of such a world would seem futile. Only in Christian thought, which posits "the existence of a single God, the Creator and Governor of the universe, [one that] functions in an orderly and normally predictable manner," is it possible for science to exist and operate. CHRISTIANS, THE PIONEERS OF SCIENCE "From the thirteenth century onward into the eighteenth," says Lynn White, "every major scientist, in effect, explained his motivations in religious terms." But if one looks at current textbooks in science, one would never know this was true. Today virtually all references to the Christian beliefs of the early scientists are omitted. This is especially unfortunate because these convictions often played a dominant role in their scientific work. Hence, the remaining part of the present chapter cites many Christian scientists who were pioneers and who made lasting contributions in major areas of science. To cite all of them would be beyond the scope and purpose of this book. However, those cited were, for the most part, on the "cutting edge" of science. (Unquote)