Volume 7, Issue 2 – Mar-June 2006 “I have set a watchman upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. You that make mention of YHWH, keep not silence”. Isaiah 62:6
“The adversary has spread out his hand up on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen enter-ed into her sanctuary, whom you didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation”. Lamentations 1:10
he bible identifies a major influence on all human societies – an immensely powerful, invisible being who continues to lead mankind down a path of selfishness and self-destruction. The bible calls him Satan, the devil, named Lucifer. Yahshua described him as a “murderer” from the beginning in whom there is NO truth because when he speaks, he does so from his own resources. This is because he is a liar and the father of it (a lie). How great is his influence??? Paul described the state of most of mankind as ‘dead in their transgressions and sins while following the ways of this world and the Ruler of the Kingdom of The Air; the spirit who is at work in the disobedient’- Eph 2:1-2. Most think this describes someone other than themselves or those who do not attend church, when in actuality, he was speaking to the ‘early church’ of Ephesus not far from Antioch. Gentiles [who began to call Jews, ‘Christians’ at Antioch] were mingling their worship with pagan tradition. Under the “adversarial sway” they discarded the Law and scripture as the guide for worship and moral living, and today a new standard of multiculturalism and political correctness has taken its place. By this standard, all religions, cultures and creeds are morally equal with no absolute rights or wrongs. The most prestigious institutions reject the Word of YAH and perpetuate amoral values to the young and the world. Misunderstanding YHWH’s word leads to spiritual blindness, confusion, controversy, idolatry, and blasphemy. The world would be wise to make their ‘calling and election sure’ because YHWH now has a controversy with every nation!! The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
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The Tangled W eb (Poetry adaptation Jer 25) … … pg 2 pg 3 Hollywood ‘s D ivine Inspiration… … … … … … …
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Banks At Risk … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
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The Com ing W ater Crisis… … … … … … … … … … …
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Arom atherapy (H ealing Herbs)
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M orgellons (M ystery D isease) … …… … … … … …
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Healing Herbs … … … … … … … … … … … …………
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D efeating the Conspiracy … … … … … … … … …
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pg 19 pg 21 pg 25 pg 29 pg 29 pg 29 pg 33 pg 35 … .from Jeremiah 25:32-36
The Tangled Web Tangled web weaving… practiced in deceiving Pride is stalking, evil walking from nation to nation great fanners and tsunamis from coastal formations the slain strung from one end to the other Should have treated every man as your brother no mourning, no burial, none to be gathered dung upon the ground the script says, rather Howl, false shepherds, Pharisees on top His recompense, -- written, accomplished and locked a wallowing ash, dust sprinkled to taste Falling like a pleasant vessel from My grace.
grief shall be heard instead of laughter for the wrath of YHWH has spoiled their pasture O what a tangled web you weaved, Cause you practice to deceive. by: Lael Bhat Israel
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Grossed $77 mil in first 3 days th 19th19 ] Da Vinci Code
“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts…He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it”. Psalms 10:4-11
If you think there has been a sharp increase in the number of TV productions using themes and scripture from the bible, you would be right. Now, “Tinsel Town” has just joined the crowd. According to the April 14-16, 2006 USA Today News, ‘religion-based movies, once spurned, have studios now seeing ‘the light’. In a quote, the article indicated, “In God, Hollywood is trusting it will find big profits”. (And knowing that Satan is the Prince of this world and is all-too-willing to share his glitter and gold, he’ll be sure to get profits to them). Inspired by dollar signs brought in by box office smashes such as The Passion of the Christ (that racked up $370 million in North America) and the Chronicles of Narmia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, producers are not only making religious-based movies, but they’re making ‘sales pitches’ to ministers. Studio executives are screening films in church community rooms and one studio has even created a “faith-based division within the church” to market to the so-called devout. Always failing to depict the Jews in their true light—as a people of color [African Americans] and inconsistently portraying biblical stories that are true to scripture, their new strategy has two goals and neither one of them includes “telling the truth”. They plan to: use faith based hits to improve a 3-year box office slide; and • convert those with little faith in Hollywood (not faith in God) to permanent moviegoers. •
No fewer than 12 films with religious themes are on tap through 2007, but not all of them are spiritually or scripturally sound: Even TV’s movie-remake on the Anti-Christ, “The Omen” will open on 6-6-06. This is not the first time that Hollywood has found religion. In the ‘50s, studios churned out hits: The Robe, 1953; The 10 Commandments, 1956; and Ben-Hur, 1959. By the 1960s religious epics gave way to musicals. The literary world has been reaping benefits from religious epics for years. The novel Left Behind brought in $650 million and spawned 4 movies. The amount of money produced by the novel The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
and film which teaches The Rapture doctrine should make it clear that millions people have been falsely taught they will be raptured to heaven during The Great Tribulation. This means millions are being deceived and will be unprepared and without instruction during this time. But it was not until the Passion of Christ in 2004 that studios saw their stairway to heaven. 20th Century Fox has a new division called Fox Faith, which markets DVDs and feature films to Christian ministers nationwide. The studio offers church trailers, posters and bible study guides for its Christian-based home videos. Next month’s Da Vinci Code is based upon a novel by the same name that has infuriated Christians because the plot connects a real-life murder on Vatican grounds to the Vatican; and because of the “so-called Mary Magdalene doctrine”. But the movie right-fully questions Christianity’s origins and motives. Christians are out-raged with the subject of murder and lies being linked to Christianity because they don’t research the origins of their beliefs. Its history is the bloodiest of all religions except Islam!! It was the Roman Christians who martyred the Apostles; and hunted the true Saints of the early church [who kept the laws of YHWH]. The Roman Christians sold the true Jews to the Africans as slaves, organized Christian Crusades (and funded the Knights Templar with offers of clemency via indulgences for sins). Later, The Triangular Slave Trade would be their best Christian ‘Jewel’!!! Once in America, the Saints of Yahweh experienced the most cruel chattel slavery ever known to mankind!! Today, the Christians enjoy the fruits of this labor while trying to hide the ‘blood-money’ stains upon the hands of all of their generations. “And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.” Isa 1:15
“Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's services without wages, and gives him not for his work; That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is sealed with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Shall you reign, because you close yourself in cedar??” Jeremiah 22:13-15 The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
The city of Atlanta is just as guilty as all other cities in this country that amassed wealth and power by the unpaid wages they denied our people (even to this day). But YHWH’s justice does not sleep. Relative to capital, construction and development loans for Atlanta banks have increased steadily in recent years and now average more than 100 percent of capital - - a level regulators say is extremely risky. 87 of the 118 banks headquartered in Atlanta have a high concentration of construction and development (C&D) loans with the vast majority for residential housing projects, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Nearly 3 out of 4 banks are so heavily weighted in construction loans and could face trouble if the housing market continues to cool. The FDIC, along with three (3) other regulating agencies, has proposed new guidelines amid concerns over real estate lending nationally. They recommend robust management practices if more than 100% of capital is exposed to construction and development projects. Banks use deposits and borrowed money from other sources to make loans, allowing them to lend well in excess of their capital. Every loan in the world is based upon this “debtor system”. Real Estate The job market has been building on what appears to be a narrow, but so far sturdy foundation, according to the Chicago Tribune. Private sector payrolls have been rising steadily since the end of a two-year hiring drought in 2003, and a solid chunk of the new jobs are related to just one sector: real estate. All's well if that sector continues to grow. But, here's the deal: If housing crumbles, the job market and the overall economy could crumble even more. Across the spectrum, the housing boom has spurred hiring for jobs that range from swinging a hammer to shuffling papers. Appraisers, roofers, brokers, banks -- the building and the buying creates work for a host of occupations. Housing accounts for 10% of all American jobs, but more critically, it has been the dependable base for job growth in the private sector. In fact, housing has accounted for roughly 40% of new private jobs since the end of the recession, according to estimates by economist Asha Bangalore of Northern Trust. For more than a year, economists have been warning that housing is expanding beyond the fundamentals that support it. Hope for housing is often found on the same turf as the chief worry: mortgage rates. Rates are no longer at the four-decade lows that propelled the market to record highs, but they are still modest compared with the previous two decades. However, thousands of homeowners bought homes or refinanced using "teaser" rates that stay low for an introductory period--often three years--then reset upward. Roughly $2 trillion worth of mortgages debt is due to "reset" during the next two years, which translates to $15 billion in additional monthly mortgage payments, according to Barry Ritholtz, chief market strategist of the Maxim Group. More troubling than the monthly payment is the way higher payments and rates handcuff homeowners who have been using the equity in their homes as a cash machine, he said. Reports of trouble continue to come from stressed homeowners. More than 9,421 Georgia properties were in foreclosure in February, up roughly 1/3 from a year ago, said Rodney Dozier in the Atlanta office of Oakland, California.-based Entrust Retirement Services. Georgia has the nation's highest foreclosure rate, he said. Wait until America’s loans are called. The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
THE COMING WATER CRISIS “You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it. Job 22:7-8
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to The Environmental News Service, an international meeting on the future of the world's fresh water resources marked World Water Day on March 22, 2006 with a renewed effort to ensure that more clean drinking water reaches the 1.1 billion people who do not have access to safe water, but the crisis is complicated by the impacts of a warming climate, an world renowned atmospheric chemist told delegates. In addition to drinking water scarcity, about 2.6 billion people, four out of every 10, lack access to sanitation. This situation is a humanitarian crisis - dealing with it must move to the top of the global agenda say ministers and water experts meeting here for the 4th World Water Forum.
In his keynote speech to the Forum, Nobel Prize Winner in chemistry Mario Molina warned that climate change and inappropriate water management might intensify global warming by the end of this century, creating "an intolerable risk." Chemist Mario Molina told delegates that the complex relation-ships in the water cycle are still poorly understood. He predicted that the water cycle will intensify, causing extreme weather events such as hurricanes and increasing the frequency and severity of droughts and floods. If the current global warming trend is maintained, the temperature of the planet will rise eight degrees Celsius during this century, "an increase of historic proportions," said Molina, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the destruction of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons. Molina said intensifying rains and droughts are related to climate change and to the melting of glaciers. Climate change has exacerbated flooding and water scarcity, he said. In Mexico, public financing for basic water security has been and will remain essential, but the scale of needed investments cannot be provided by public funds alone so the private sector will have an important complementary role to play, said the World Bank report. "All investment, whether public or private, should be complemented by robust regulatory and monitoring frame works, designed with the active participation of water users and civil society." But privatization of water is just what many people fear, because the essential liquid could be priced out of their reach. Some 10,000 people marched in the streets of Mexico City on Saturday, demanding that water services not be privatized. “ I heard the angel of the waters say, You art righteous, O Adonai…because you have judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy”. Rev 16:5-6 The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
“All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad”. Psalm 45:8
Americans spend millions of dollars each year on candles, incense and oils in search of pleasing aromas to improve mood or to enhance physical and emotional well-being. Does it work? According to Dr. Alan R. Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Chicago, "The quickest way to change a mood state -- quicker than with any other sensual modality -- is with smell." Hirsch and his colleagues have studied aromatherapy for 15 years. They have concluded that specific odors can change your mood and behavior. This process depends on conveying odoriferous particles through air or in water, then a complex mental reaction. "We found that mixed floral smells effect the speed of learning," said Hirsch. "Green apples tend to reduce migraine headaches. Lavender tends to induce relaxation- -as does vanilla." As further evidence of the aroma-mood connection, Dr. Charles J. Wysocki of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, said, "There are other sorts of physiological changes one can measure -- blood pressure, for example, heart rate, body temperature. These things are all correlates of changes in mood and emotion." This trend has become so popular that a prison at Peterborough, United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS), wants to recruit two holistic therapists to offer prisoners reflexology, aromatherapy and Indian head massage which has caused the mood of many in the U.K. to become one of anger. Aromatherapy anyone??
Mystery disease doctors refuse to treat “And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months…And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them”. Rev 9:5-6
Anyone who does not believe that man’s lawless lifestyle will turn upon him has never read articles like this one. Imagine being so sick, you’re unable to work, but can’t find a doctor who will help you. News 11, Khou-TV (Texas) has discovered that is exactly what is happening to a growing number of people in Texas, Florida and California (all coastal states). Cheryall Spiller moves slower than she once did around her Rosharon farm. The 59-year old suffers from what she believes to be a mystery disease. Morgellons disease is an illness first documented more than 300 years ago, yet it’s still considered to be a mystery. So much so, that mainstream medical professionals (including doctors) don’t believe Morgellons is real, and refuse to treat it. And it’s all, hush-hush!!! Spillers explains, “small white worms come out of my ears, you can find them itching in there. The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
You can get a Q-tip and dig them out”!! And Spillers is not hardly alone. “Sores come up and these fuzzy things come out”, said Stephanie Bailey of Austin. “It’s almost like spores or something like that”. Lesions and scars cover Stephanie’s arms and legs. Travis Wilson is victim, too. It feels “like bugs are crawling all over you. You can’t sleep. It’s freaky. So he’d go days without sleep”, said Wilson’s mother. Nurse practitioner, Ginger Savely said when magnified 60 times, the sores take on a different look and you can see the black and white fibers. And the scars are more than skin deep. But Savely admitted the idea of creatures living inside our bodies seems more like science fiction than science. Dr. Adelaide Hebert, U.T. Health Science Center Houston said “these patients have delusions of parasitosis” who all describe their condition as something crawling on their skin. She confirmed that mainstream medicine does not have the means to substantiate Savely or the patients’ observations because mainstream medicine is a fact-based science. Well, PARASITOSIS IS A FACT of life, and we were given the facts in YHWH’s laws: “This is the Law of the Beasts, and of the Fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and …that creeps on the earth: To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten”. Lev 11:46-47
Many don’t understand that you cannot glorify Elohim by eating foods that he has already identified as harmful!! Why would you pray over food, expecting it to be blessed, when Yah told you in His laws what foods were acceptable for consumption? Christians have been deceived by their own disobedience! Thus, YHWH’s Laws are ‘the big mystery’ to man.
Oil (olive oil) and wine were luxury items in the ancient world and were highly favored by the nations in trade. Olive oil as well as petroleum is found in large quantities in the very volatile Middle East. And it is oil [petroleum] that will catapult The European Union into her place as the foretold giant Beast of Revelation, which will plummet The United States into its foretold place of utter destruction. This very scenario has caused a Petrodollar versus a Petro Euro War foretold in the prophecy of Revelation 6:6: The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
“A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine” – Revelation 6:6.
The dollar is the de facto world reserve currency: the US currency accounts for approximately 2/3 of all official exchange reserves. More than 4/5 of all foreign exchange transactions and half of all world exports are denominated in dollars. All International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans are denominated in dollars. But the more dollars there are circulating outside the US, or invested by foreign owners in American assets, the more the rest of the world has had to provide the US with goods and services in exchange for these dollars. The dollars cost the US next to nothing to produce, so when the world uses the currency in this way, it means that the US is importing vast quantities of goods and services virtually for free. Since these foreign-owned dollars are not spent on American goods and services, the US is able to run a huge trade deficit year after year without apparently any major economic consequences. The most recently published figures, for example, show that in November 2005, US imports were worth 48% more than US exports. No other country can run such a large trade deficit with impunity. America is getting a massive interest-free loan from the rest of the world!! And…the more you have, the more you have to lose and there is plenty evidence that since 9/11, the U.S. dollar has continued to lose.! According to CBS NEWS, May 5, 2006, the dollar has been hammered as foreign buyers shunned the U.S. currency for the past two weeks. The Canadian “Loonie” is at its highest point in 30 years. The British pound is at its upper-most level since Sept. 2005. Even the Yen is at a 6-month peak. But there can be only “fallout” from the falling dollar. If it continues to fall, it could have a global impact:
• It could imperil the economy next year causing
the U.S. to defend it with higher interest rates.
Inflation (TAX)
• A lower valued dollar makes imports more expensive
(edging up the inflation rate) but could stimulate the economy thus providing more jobs. (The Bush Administration is hoping for this one!).
• Americans traveling abroad will feel as if
everything is expensive, while foreigners coming to American would feel that the U.S. was a ‘giant Wally World’.
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to cash. This would plunge America into a deep recession. This is the one that fulfills prophecy!! Oil is not just, by far, the most important commodity traded internationally; it is the lifeblood of all modern industrialized economies. If you don't have oil, you have to buy it. And if you want to buy oil on the international markets, you usually have to have dollars. In past years, all OPEC countries agreed to sell their oil for dollars only. This arrangement meant that the US effectively partcontrolled the entire world oil market since you could only buy oil if you had dollars. The only country that had the right to print dollars was the US [not counting the printing plates that the U.S. gave to other countries]. But since 9/11, OPEC countries [dominated by the Middle East] have been making strategic moves toward converting their Petrodollars to Eurodollars. (Remember, The European Union is The Middle East’s main trading partner. ”And the 10 horns which you saw are 10 Kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as Kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast”. Rev 17:12-13 When the Euro was set up, its primary objective was to turn it into a reserve currency that would replace the dollar; then, Europe, too, could get something for nothing. If this happened, not only would the U.S. lose a large part of their annual subsidy of free goods and services, but also countries switching to euro reserves would further plummet the value of the U.S. currency dollars they were holding. The U.S. would have to start paying its debts by supplying goods and services to foreign countries, which would only reduce the American living standard. As countries and businesses convert to Euro assets, the US property and stock markets would, without doubt, burst like a bubble. The Federal Reserve would not be able to print more money to re-inflate it (like it’s currently considering) without jumping into a vicious cycle that would not stop until America dropped. This is because, without lots of foreigners eager to mop up the printed dollars, inflation would result making foreigners even more reluctant to hold the US currency, thus heightening the crisis. Not only would Europe not need as many dollars anymore, but also Japan (which imports over 80% of its oil from the Middle East) would think it wise to convert a large portion of its dollar assets to Euro assets. (Remember, Japan is the major subsidizer of the US because it holds so many dollar investments). The U.S. on the other hand, being the world's largest oil importer would have to run a trade surplus just to acquire Euros. The conversion from trade deficit to trade surplus would have to be achieved at a time when its property and stock market prices were The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
collapsing and its domestic supplies of oil and gas were shrinking. Converting Petrodollars to Petro Euros means American dominance would be over. One OPEC nation actually dared to begin selling its oil only in Euros in November 2000 immediately realizing huge profits: IRAQ. Fabricating any excuse (weapons of mass destruction), Bush marched into Iraq (incase anybody else had the same bright idea), and offered Iraq American “democracy” (Christianity, of course), giving him full rights to convert Iraq’s oil sales in Petro Euros back to Petrodollars in mid2003, thereby wiping 13% of Iraq’s oil profits (and the country’s leader) from the books. This accounts for the hostile attitude of France and Germany (the Euros’ chief backers) since Europe would benefit hugely from oil sales denominated in their own currency. Another nation also made that connection in 1999, before Iraq changed its oil currency: Venezuela (who has a strained relationship with the U.S.) According to the BBC News, Venezuela (the world’s 5th largest oil producer), believes they have the right to convert its oil currency to the Euro. In April, Venezuela signed a joint venture with Cuba (longtime enemy of the U.S.) to revamp a Cuban oil refinery and supply unrefined oil to the country. Venezuela has also established barter deals for trading its oil with 12 Latin American countries. The trend of this conversion is growing by leaps and bounds, and if it continues, there would be no more use for [or FEAR of] America!!!
The Telegraph reported, on Apr 23, 2006, that Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s Finance Minister, dropped a bombshell on Washington when he openly questioned the dollar’s currency reserve status at the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF. (The EU is also Russia’s main trading partner and more than 2/3 of Russia’s gas and oil are exported to the EU). This statement from Russia – a country of growing financial and strategic significance–-caused the dollar to slide and fueled speculation that Central Banks could increasingly diversify their holdings away from dollars. Kudrin’s statement came after the news that Sweden has already cut its dollar holdings from 37% to 20% with the Euro’s share rising to 50%. This brings us center stage to Iran. The Iranian government has finally developed the ultimate “nuclear” weapon that can swiftly destroy the financial system underpinning the American Empire. That weapon is the Iranian Oil Bourse (Exchange) to directly compete with the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) and the London IPE (International Petroleum Exchange) both of which are operated by an Atlanta-based U.S. conglomerate. Iran’s Exchange is slated to open this year (in late 2006/early 2007). Iran is allied with powerful nations that may trigger their involvement in war like China (who gets 13% of their oil from Iran), India, and Russia, known as the Shanghai Cooperative Group, a.k.a. Shanghai Coop; and a there is separate agreement with Syria. Syria is also a country to watch in the future. The only countries this leaves as an ally to the United States in this Petro War is Britain and Israel [whom Iran recently declared should be The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
wiped from the map. The Israelis responded by letting Iran know they have bigger nukes that are available now]. America is stalking Iran because Iran is close to putting nails in America’s coffin so she has to use all means necessary to protect the Petrodollar!! According to the Energy Bulletin, Jan. 17, 2006, a nation-state taxes its own citizens, but an Empire taxes other nation-states and the standard was usually in gold or silver. From Babylon and Persia, Greece and Rome, to Turkey (Ottoman) and Britain, the history of Empires teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations. The imperial ability to tax rests on a better and stronger economy, and a better and stronger military (the consequence). Part of the taxes went to improve the living standards of the empire and the other fortified the military for dominance to enforce the collection of those taxes. (Remember, both ancient Assyria and Babylon forced Israel to pay tribute). Early in the 20th century, the U.S. economy began to dominate the world economy when the dollar was tied to gold, so that the value of the dollar neither increased, nor decreased, but remained the same amount of gold. The Great Depression, 1921 to 1929 with, first inflation (a tax) and its subsequent ballooning government deficits, had substantially increased the amount of currency in circulation, thereby making it impossible to back such a quantity of U.S. dollars by gold. Thus, Roosevelt decoupled the dollar from gold in 1932. The U.S. dollar was not fully convertible to gold, but was made convertible to gold only to foreign governments. This established the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. It was possible, because during WWII, the United States had supplied its allies with provisions, demanding gold as payment, thus accumulating a significant portion of the world’s gold. However, the guns-andbutter policy of the 1960’s caused the dollar supply to be relentlessly increased to finance the Vietnam War. Most of those dollars were handed over to foreigners in exchange for economic goods, without the prospect of buying them back at the same value. The increase in dollar holdings of foreigners through persistent U.S. trade deficits was a tax—the classical inflation tax that a country imposes on its own citizens, but this was an inflation tax that the U.S. imposed on rest of the world. When in 1970-1971 foreigners demanded payment for their dollars in gold, The U.S. Government defaulted on its payment on August 15, 1971. While the popular story of “severing the link between the dollar and gold” is always told, in reality the DENIAL TO PAY BACK IN GOLD WAS AN ACT OF BANKRUPTCY BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN 1971!!. THE U.S. DECLARED ITSELF AN EMPIRE. It had extracted an enormous amount of economic goods from the rest of the world with no intention of or the ability to repay. America taxed the entire world and the world was powerless to respond!!
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From then on she taxed the rest of the world, forcing them to continue to accept everdepreciating dollars in exchange for economic goods; only to have the world hold more and more of those depreciating dollars. America had to give the world an economic reason to hold them, and that reason was oil. ”Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen that have not known You, and upon the Kingdoms [Empires] who have not called upon Your name”. Psalms 79:6 In 1971, it became exceptionally clear that the U.S Government would not be able to buy back its dollars in gold, so in 1972-73 they made an iron-clad arrangement with Saudi Arabia to support the power of the House of Saud in exchange for accepting only U.S. dollars for its oil. The rest of OPEC was to follow suit and also accept only dollars. Because the world had to buy oil from the Arab oil countries, it had the reason needed for them to hold dollars for oil. Because the world needed ever increasing quantities of oil at ever increasing oil prices, the demand for dollars could only increase. Even though they could no longer be exchanged for gold, they were exchangeable for oil. So, if someone demanded a different payment, he had to be convinced, either by political pressure or military means, to change his mind. Saddam Hussein was the man who challenged an Empire!!
”Let them give us pulse (vegetables) to eat, and water to drink. At the end of 10 days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat”. Daniel 1:12 & 15
For years, people have used Chamomile as an anti-inflammatory, a mild sedative and as an anti-ulcer remedy. It is believed to be good for aches and ills–fighting colds and banishing menstrual cramps. Five cups of chamomile tea a day for two weeks will boost these anti-inflammatory properties. According to the BBC News, the study (conducted by a team from London’s Imperial College) was made with German Chamomile flowers also known as manzanilla. It has anti-oxidant properties (that flush pollutants and toxins/poisons from the body) and the essential oil the flowers have antimicrobial properties making them an excellent astringent for acne problems. Drinking the tea causes level of both glycine (sedative-like properties that ease muscle spasms) and hippurate (anti-inflammatory) in the urine to rise. Researchers tested urine samples before and after drinking the tea to comprise this backup data. At the end of two weeks, when the volunteers stopped drinking the tea, levels of glycine and hippurate stayed elevated for another two weeks, According to USA Today, folate shows promise in preventing Alzheimers, a brain disease that affects The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
4.5 million Americans. Folate is a nutrient (type of B vitamin) found in leafy green vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, collards, mustards, and fruits such as strawberries, bananas, oranges, and whole wheat bread. Folate was added to the food supply (bread, cereals, pastas and grains) in 1998 to prevent the risk of certain birth defects). Older people who consumed lots of folate reduced their risk of developing Alzheimers by more than 55%. Epidemiologist Maria Maria Corrada of the University of California-Irvine and colleagues conducted a study by collecting dietary information from 579 people over age 60 who consumed over 400 micrograms of folate daily. Over this 10 year period, only 57 of 579 people developed Alzheimers. Folate reduces blood levels of homocysteine, a substance that when elevated can damage brain cells over time.
The Law: The Can Spam Act “The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment”. Proverbs 1:6-7
Eighteen (18) months after a sweeping federal antispam law went into effect (in Jan 2004), there is more junk mail on the Internet than ever before and Levon Gillespie, according to Microsoft, is one reason. In August 2004, Gillespie was served a summons and a lawsuit accusing him, his website and 50 other unnamed customers of violating state and federals laws, including The Can Spam Act, by flooding Microsoft’s networks with illegal spam, and other charges. The judge issued a default judgment against Gillespie (in King County, Washington in December 2004) for $1.4 million when Gillespie failed to appear in court. In a phone interview from his Los Angeles home on Jan. 31, 2005, Gillespie told The New York Times that he had not heard of the judgment and no one from the court or Microsoft had yet followed up. But he made it clear that he’d done no wrong and vowed that nothing (including lawsuits) would stop him and the other players in the very lucrative spam chain. “There is too much money in it”, he said [boasting that his service provides him with a of a six-figure income when at its peak]. Since the act was passed, unsolicited internet emails account for more than 80% of all emails sent; up by 60%. “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right”. Proverbs 16:8
The law, which was set up to bar spam and junk emails, actually legalized it as long as spammers follow certain rules. But there are also those who are intent on being outlaws who don’t hesitate to flaunt the loopholes in the law. This law [and numerous American laws like it] only supports the fact that any law made by man is flawed because it was created by amoral men who rely upon finding loopholes to circumvent it. YHWH does not tolerate such folly with his laws. Large Internet companies like America Online (AOL) and Yahoo are connected with lawsuits against out laws. The Federal Trade Commission oversees the administration of this spam law but most agree that they need some ‘nudging’ to make it effective. A growing number of services like Gillespie’s offer spam-friendly merchant access to stable offshore computer services – most of which are in CHINA – where they can park their Web sites
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without fear of being shut down. Some bulk remailers have teamed up with virus writers to steal lists of working email addresses and quietly “hijacks” the personal computers of millions of Internet users, creating “global zombie networks”, which according to some, is now the de facto circulatory system for spam. Spam email messages offering various products (including scams) are clogging the inboxes of employees in many industries. 14% of spam emails are scams and 16% are pornographic. The law requires solicitation s to be identified as such in the subject line and prohibits the use of fake return addresses. But this puts a burden on recipients to select the “opt out option” to be removed from an email list. But “outlaw spammers” who scoff at the law simply takes the ‘opt out’ request as a confirmation that the email address is a good one and that there is a live person behind it. (European and Australian law requires spammers to receive “opt in” messages from recipients). There are many effective filtering tools to control spam, but experts say the more effective the technology controlling spam, the more junk mails spammers have to send–which may be directly contributing to the flood of spam instead. A spammer can expect to receive 25-50% commission on any sales of a product that results from a Spam Campaign. Of 200 million spam mail sent, if only 2,000 recipients – a single day’s response rateactually go to a merchant’s web site to purchase a $50 product, spammers working at 25% commission would take in $25,000. Broadcasting spam messages from a virus-enslaved computer makes the likelihood of their being tracked very low, while giving them the ability to double their spam output and their money; ‘cause this IS ALL ABOUT MONEY!!!. “Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men… For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall”. Proverbs 4:14-16
Software companies are diversifying their products to make handling spam easier for customers. Microsoft’s Outlook 3 (above) has been designed with increased management features for spam and junk emails to “beat the Spam Scam at it’s own game”. But, as the Proverb said, evil does not sleep. Spammers are using viruses and worms more regularly because they will use any available channel to spread. Recipients of infected email attachments, visitors to websites loaded with malicious software and users of peer-to-peer networks can all testify. Instant messaging networks are not immune since most allow users to exchange files. The latest worm to infect AOL’s instant messaging community, Aim, A MALICIOUS WORM THAT TALKS BACK. It actually chats with the users it’s targeting in order to persuade them to download and run the infected file. Called: IM.Myspace04.AIM, it uses infected computers to send it-self to people on any Aim buddy list it finds. The first sign of attack is a message that appears, offering you a file to download. If you respond, it will tell you that it’s not a virus; deceiving you to believe that it’s a legitimate user. If opened, your security software is immediately disabled.
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“When he had spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said to him, Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing”. John 9:6-7
Excavation of the Pool of Siloam (left); graphic reconstruction of what the pool looked like during the time of Yahshua the Christ (top)
According to the Associated Press, Dec 23, 2004, and the Good News Magazine, Mar/Apr 2005, purely by accident, while installing sewerage pipe, the Israelis discovered the Pool of Siloam. In fact, water still flowed from a channel to this large 50-meter pool. Excavators are sure of this find because the also discovered pottery pieces, a stone bottle cork and biblical-era coins cemented to the pools structure, the earliest which dates back to 50 B.C. Having already excavated Hezekiah’s Tunnel, they know that the Gihon Spring was the source of water for this pool but they have not yet how the water reached this pool from the spring. Many modern scientists, scholars, and people in general, believe that the Old Testament is simply a mixture of folklore and “bad theology” assembled long after events supposedly took place. In other words, they believe the most “fantastical tales” and “theories” from modern philosophies about the bible, while denying the accuracy accuracy of scripture itself. But, their theories recently took yet another hit when archeologists from three countries found evidence supporting the existence of the Kingdom of Edom (right).
Excavation of King David’s Palace
Edom (in modern Jordan)
The dating of two copper Egyptian scarabs found at the site coincides with copper minting and smelting that occurred during the 11th century B.C. [Edomites are the descendants of Esau, Jacob’s fraternal twin brother to whom he sold his birthright and vowed revenge (by killing Jacob and reclaiming his birthright). Many Israelis are actually descendants of Edomites [see Obadiah]. The evidence unearthed clearly supports the fact that the protective
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fortress in Edom was built in the 10th Century B.C. around the time of King David’s rule. In Aug. 2005, just months after this find, Israeli archeologist, Eilat Mazar announced that he has found what clearly appears to be the stronghold surrounding the palace of King David (photo above) mentioned in 2 Sam 5:17. Another intriguing find was a seal bearing the name of Jehucal (also called Jucal), son of Shelemiah, a government official mentioned in Jeremiah 37:3 & 38:1. Privately owned homes are currently blocking further excavations of this site preventing further verification of the find. But one thing is clear – archeology continues to accurately verifying biblical scripture time after time. While uncovering ancient sites and buildings, there is no limit to the number of false gods, goddesses and lords the excavations are also uncovering. Sadly, there are so many gods and goddesses unearthed in the land of Palestine, without ‘the testimony’ of the holy scriptures, one would think the ancient Hebrew Israelites worshipped pagan deities. According to the Mail & Guardian’s article called The Goddess of the Israelites, several gods that the people of Israel worshipped were female, but many of the ones it lists are simply gods or goddess that morphed over time into the same god or goddess with a slightly different character and name; (i.e., Ishtar/Astarte/Asteroth/Asherah, etc). Un-fortunately for Christian believers, this is the same goddess of Easter. (Note: Easter is spelled slightly different from her counterparts above ). above).
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The author addresses the theory of many that believed the goddess Asherah was the principle diety of Israelites. Showing their a ‘lack of understanding’ on the Hebrew way of life (culture), those who believe such, ignore the fact that Israel’s true diety, and the ONLY TRUE DIETY WHO EXISTS IS YHWH ELOHIM who cautioned Israel ISHTAR-TAMMUZ repeatedly that they were to be surrounded by pagans who believed Canaanites such nonsense, but they would be wise not to follow their ways. Rebellious as usual, and as we still are to this day, Israel did what seemed right in her own eyes, displaying our forefather’s lack of understanding. The scripture lists many pagan deities: ASHTAROTH/ASHTORETH, goddess of the Phoenicians (Africans): Jdg 2:13, Jdg 10:6, 1 Sa 7:3, 1 Sa 31:10,1Ki 11:33, 2Ki 23:13. DAGON, fish-god of the Philistines (Africans): Jdg 16:23, 1 Jdg 16:23, 1 Sa 5:2, 1 Ch 10:10.
HAPI, Egyptian god of The Underworld, the Nile & Fertility found underwater
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MOLECH, Moloch/Milcom, a god of the Ammonites (Shemites-one of Lot’s son by one of his daughters): Lev 18:21, 2Ki 23:10, Jer 32:35, Amos 5:26, Acts 7:43. CHEMOSH, god of the Moabites (Shemites-Lot’s son by the other daughter): Num 21:29, Jdg 11:24, 2Ki 23:13, Jer 48:7. SHAMASH/ CHEMOSH Ur (Chaldeans) & Canaanites
ALLAH, Arab moon-god from all 4 sides (see crescent moon carved on the chest)
Diana
BAAL-PEOR, god of the Moabites (Shem- Moabites-Lot’s son): Hos 9:10, Num 25:3, Deut 4:3, Jos 22:17, Psa 106:28, Hos 9:10.
BAAL, god of Phoenicians and the Canaanites (Africans): Num 22:41, Jdg2:11, Jdg 8:33, 1Ki 16:32 1Ki 18:19, 1Ki 19:18, 2 Ki 10: 18, 2Ki 10:28, 2Ki 21:3, 2 Ch 24:7, Jer 2:8, Jer 7:9, Hos 2:8. BAAL means ‘Lord’ (for there are many false gods and lords), but YHWH has cautioned us with the following scripture:
“For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be `gods many, and lord many). But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, (YHWH) of whom are all things, and we in him and one Lord Yahshua the Christ, ‘by whom are all things, and we by him”. 1 Cor 8:5 The article indicated correctly that Asherah worshippers actually worshipped graven images or figurines. Asherah is described as a wooden or stone-carved nude female statue with large breasts and a graphically displayed pubic triangle (because she was a pagan fertility goddess). The bible refers to their shrines as “high places [pagan temples] and “the harlot’s house – Jer 5:7. The word “Ashe-rah” typically is translated as “groves” or “wooden poles” [columns and steeples] and was fully identified with “trees” – the embodiment of wisdom in ancient Canaanite religion.
(Many of their depictions show her growing from a tree). Asherah worship continued during the times of the early church. DIANA, goddess of the Ephesians (located in modern
ASHERAH (fertility) POLES
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Turkey) was popular throughout Asia according to the epistles (Acts 19: 24, 28 & 35). “For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; …and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no Diana gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians”. Act 19:24-28 DIANA is also “Asherah” as identified by her huge, multiple breasts covering her body). It cannot be denied that the high places, graven images, worship among groves of trees, and steeples of the pagan Roman Catholic church, are the same places of worship attended by millions of Christians today. “They that sanctify themselves… in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, Isaiah 66:17
Who Were The Samaritans??
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The land of Samaria is the land in Northern Israel where the House of Israel resided. They were 10 of the 12 Tribes of Israel who separated from the tribe of Judah and its Kingship. The Tribe of Judah (and parts Levi and Benjamin left in the South became known as the House of Judah, (and later, “The Jews”). After the Assyrian conquest of the North, and a city of Judah (called Lachish), those dwelling in the North became known as Samaritans (and Ephraim). The House Of Israel in the North were Hebrews who were apostate. They were in complete rebellion – [i.e., the prodigal son who left his Father’s house The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
(YHWH and the temple in Jerusalem)], refusing to follow his ancient customs, and demanded his inheritance (the birth-right of the first born) before departing. Remember Joseph [Yosef] had two sons, Ephraim and Manessah born to him by an Egyptian (African) woman while in Egypt. Among the 12 Tribes, Reuben was the 1st born, who LOST his birthright when he defiled his father’s bed by sleeping with (fornicating with) one of his father’s wives. Later when Yosef brought the boys to Jacob (renamed Israel) to receive his father’s blessings, Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn when Jacob crossed his arms over the 2 boys’ heads. (When there is uncleanness in the first born, and at times because it’s the will of YHWH, the second-born receives the blessing of the first [a double portion]. Thus, the northern 10 tribes of Samaria who were scattered are “spiritually” refer-red to as Ephraim who were prophesied to be scattered among the Gentiles – Amos 9:9. True to prophecy, they were scattered throughout Europe and Asia, and even sifted among the unclean in their own land. [Scripture tells us that once the 10 tribes were captured by the Assyrians, that the King of Assyria sent men from various countries all over the Assyrian Empire to live in the cities of Samaria in place of the captured Hebrews from the House of Israel (Samaritans): “The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and PLACED THEM IN THE CITIES OF SAMARIA INSTEAD OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THEY POSSESSED SAMARIA, AND DWELT IN THE CITIES THEREOF. And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not YHWH: so YHWH sent lions among them that slew some of them. 2 Kings 17:24-25
With the Samaritan way of life already apostate, and their remnant living among, pagans [Gentiles, Africans and other Shemites] the people were completely in the clutches of heathen influence [idolatry]. At the King of Assyria’s command, one of the priests taken captive was retrieved from Assyria and dwelled in Bethel in order to teach the immigrants and remnant Samaritans the manner of the Elohim of land [YHWH]. Unfortunately, the only practice they developed was to worship YHWH (be- cause of the wrath he displayed with the lions); and nothing more. In fact, their ““new worship” was to simply include YHWH as one of multiple gods the people already worshipped in their ‘so-called’ temples. “Howbeit
every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt; and the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth; the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to -Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim and made the lowest of themselves priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places…SO THEY FEARED YHWH AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE NATIONS WHOM THEY CARRIED AWAY FROM THERE”. 2 Kings 17:29-33
The rift began with Absalom, the son of King David, who slew his brother for forcing their sister sexually. Absalom was exiled and began gathering to himself all who were disgruntled or had any type of dispute with the King. The rebellion in the north grew until it involved all 10 tribes and even some of Levi and Benjamin. They became known as the House of Israel (and once scattered, the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel). Overtime, while looking to separate authorities, the issue became “the location where they should keep the commanded Feasts of YHWH”. This led to the establishment of an 11th commandment by Samaritan leaders; (the 614th Torah ordinance) recorded in the Samaritan Pentateuch:
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‘Thou shalt worship YHWH your Elohim in Mount Gerizim’.
Mount Gerizim [Shechem], SAMARIA
By the time of the Messiah, Judah’s elder sister, Samaria (the House of Israel (Eze 16:46) was totally estranged from the House of Judah (and later) YHWH as well This is supported by the question the Samaritan woman asked the Messiah at the well: “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans”–John 4:9.
The Samaritan woman continued her conversation by comparing her worship rituals with those of the Messiah, as an Israelite, who stated that worship for all Israelites should be at Jerusalem. She confirmed that her forefathers commanded worship in their mountains where they erected temples (high places), in all their cities. It is here that the Messiah made a prophetic statement con-cerning the Samaritans and their beliefs and while also making one of the most profound statements ever found in scripture concerning salvation: “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem, worship the Father. YOU WORSHIP YOU KNOW NOT WHAT: WE KNOW WHAT WE WORSHIP: FOR SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS”. John 4:22
True to his prophecy, by the time of the Apostles, after Yahshua’s resurrection, the Samaritans were totally in the clutches of witchcraft. Many were possessed by unclean spirits, many were lame and many had the palsies–Acts 8:5-7. “There was a man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria… living out that he himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries”. Acts 8:10-11
Joshua, Son of Nun and mighty son of YHWH, was from the tribe of Ephraim and was buried in the land of Samaria. So were the bones of Joseph and Eleazar, (grandson of Aaron the priest).
“The faith of African-American slaves was constantly sabotaged”
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no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one con-sent: they are confederate against you”. Psalms 83:4-5
Appearing in Christianity Today.com, an article entitled, ‘Defeating The Conspiracy’, compiled by Mark Gill, is based upon the actual life of Peter Randolph. A slave in Prince George County, Virginia, until he was freed in 1847, Randolph described the secret prayer meetings he had attended as a slave. “Not being allowed to hold meetings on the plantation”, he wrote, “the slaves assembled in the swamps, out of reach of the patrols. They had an understanding among themselves as to the time and place. This was often done by the first one arriving breaking boughs from the threes and bending them in the direction of the selected spot.” He described the slaves arriving and greeting one another as men and women sat in groups together. Then there was speaking [preaching] by the brethren [men], followed by praying and singing all around until they felt quite happy. Randolph summed it up; “The slave forgets all his suffering except to remind others of the trials during the past week, exclaiming, Thank God, I shall not live here always!!!” It’s remarkable that our forefathers were able to “steal away” [to Yahshua] not merely because of the risks they incurred (200 lashes by the whip, if caught) but because of all the hurdles our people had to overcome just to arrive at the meeting!! It is a TESTIMONY to the BACKBONE AND BRILLIANCE OF OUR PEOPLE. (REMEMBER, ADAM WAS A ‘GENIUS’ BECAUSE THE HOLY SEED WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF ELOHIM…THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF GENIUS)!!! “You art my hiding place; you shalt preserve me from trouble; YOU SHALL COM-PASS ME ABOUT WITH SONGS OF DELIVERANCE”. Psalms 32:7
The Plantation work regimen gave slaves little leisure time for worship [practicing our culture]. Some slave masters required slaves to work 7 days per week. Even with a day off, many needed to tend their own gardens to try to keep food on the table. Others opted to socialize, to dance and unfortunately, some opted to get drunk to ease the pain. Chapter 10: Religion and The Black Church, Intro to Afro-American Studies, http://eblackstudies.org/intro/chapter10.htm supports Randolph’s personal testimony: Resistance was a central aspect of the church during slavery. Slave Spirituals spoke of the fight against slavery. Since plantation owners did not allow slaves to congregate (for any reason) openly, what E. Frazier calls “THE INVISIBLE INSTUTUION” emerged and remained invisible to whites until recently. The song, The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, keeps the scripture alive that YHWH would (one day) lead us home. The song and the invisible institution itself would (secretly) also come to refer to The Underground Railroad (a clandestine escape route for slaves organized by Harriet Tubman, called Moses]. Whites believe these things to be “coincidence” while slave narrations and testimonials support that black worship by the slave was indeed secret and invisible. What is clear is that black worship was so different than whites, that they labeled our belief in an all-Powerful Supreme Being and his saving power, as ‘superstitious’ and our former [Old Testament] sacrificial system as “voodoo”. Of course, there were Africans among us who practiced witchcraft (and even some of our own people who have always clung to the pagan superstitions of the nations around us). Consequently, we were viewed as “heathens” compared to their newly found Caucasian (sweet) “Jesus” and were initially viewed as “unsaveable”. Initially everything, including Christianity was denied to the slave. Although the first Hebrews arrived around 1608 to 1610, almost 100 years later, (by 1701), Christianity was still foreign to slaves. Most thought the slave too brutish to comprehend their gospel while others thought conversion would make the slaves too “saucy” since they would (and did) begin to think of themselves as equal to whites; [simply because we are]. Then there was always the dreaded thought that if we were converted, we would no longer be brutes, but ‘civilized’ and thus, would have to be freed. According to Defeating The Conspiracy, Colonial legislatures sought to clear up this matter and by 1706, at least six states passed laws denying that baptism altered the condition of a slave as to his bondage or freedom. As Virginia’s law put it, with this issue and first step clear, they could get to the business of “religion” to begin mass conversions to Christianity to REINFORCE slavery. Second, the bible was used to teach slaves submissive orientation and a “divine God-given” reason for their condition as slaves. Slaves were “cursed children of Ham” and forever destined to be ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’. If slaves accepted their lot and were obedient and hardworking, they would go to heaven. [Cursed, yes but we are not the same nation of people as Africans, and go to heaven, NOT! Predestined to forever be slaves, NEVER, which is supported by bible scripture: “For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob… and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of YHWH for servants and handmaids: and they shall
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take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. Isaiah 14:12].
First, slaves masters used religion to create and maintain social distinctions between “house slaves” (who assimilated more easily into the religious practices and interest of master-so they thought), versus “field slaves” (who maintained more of their original Hebrew culture). In 1701, an arm of the Church of England formed the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to propagate Christianity. By the early 1800s, very few slaves embraced ‘white Christianity’. The gospel presented to slaves by whites was a partial gospel. House servants often sneered and laughed among themselves when summoned to family prayers because whites would read: “Servants obey your masters”, but by-passed passages that said, “Break every yoke and let the oppressed go free”. One white evangelist to slaves (John Dixon Long), admitted: “They hear ministers denouncing them for stealing the white man’s grain, but never hear the white man denounced for holding them in bondage, pocketing their wages or selling their wives and children to brutal slave traders”. According to Prof. Terry Matthew of Wake Forest University, in a lecture he entitled, The Religion of The Slaves, they saw white Christianity’s sermons on stealing as self-serving in that it was designed to hide a greater evil. This thinking is supported in one of the songs sung by slaves: We raise de wheat. Dey gib us de corn; We bade de bread, Dey gib us de crust; We sif de meal, Dey gib us de huss; We peel de meat, Dey gib us de skin; And dat’s de way Dey take is in’ We skim de pot, Dey gib us de liquor And say dat’s good enough for nigger”. Matthews indicated that there is much evidence to support the fact that the plantation slave refused to wholly abandon their culture for white Christianity in spite of white efforts to erase it. The Ashanti tribe had a saying, “No one shows a child the Supreme Being”. And in-spite of what is popularly believed, “most of the tribes of slaves” (from the West African coast) “believed in a Supreme Being who was viewed as the Creator, giver of rain, and sunshine, the all-seeing one, the one who exists by himself. More over their culture made no distinction between the sacred and secular. All life—not part—was sacred to them. Long before their contact with white, slaves were strongly religious, and deeply spiritual people who made a distinction between good and evil, in spiritual powers The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
and in creation as the handiwork of GOD which paralleled the Hebraic background of the early church”. According to Matthews, it was not until the Denmark Vessey Conspiracy in 1822, and the Nat Turner rebellion in 1831 spread that great fear among whites developed due to his speeches that ‘whites’ should be “cut off”. Thus, impressive efforts to promote “The Mission of The Slaves” by Christian conversion was intensified. Laws were passed to curtail slave assembly, worship, and to prevent slave literacy except under strictly controlled conditions.
NOTES FROM THE ELDER PRIEST YACHOV BEN ISRAEL (YHWH pronounced Yahweh; He is The Most High, The True and Living God of Israel)
“Behold, the days come, said YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers… which my covenant they broke…But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel…I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33
A covenant is a contract between two or more parties where the initiator describes himself and what he has done, then gives a list of obligations for the agreeing parties to follow. It includes a list of rewards and punishments regarding keeping or breaking that covenant. This is the way YHWH Elohim has chosen to deal with mankind. The bible is a historical account of this covenant document and surrounding events including its fulfillment in future times. Actually, the Old and New Testaments are really the Old and New Covenants because the word ‘Testament’ is Latin for Covenant. In fact, once the scripture on the covenants are read, it becomes glaringly apparent that the New Covenant is not really new at all, but is more like a “Renewed Covenant”. The Old and the New Covenants were both made with the House of Israel & Judah. The 10 Commandments are a ‘covenant agreement’. It’s amazing that people know exactly what a ‘covenant’ is in the secular world (in real estate terms regarding communities) but they somehow lose the concept and significance of the word when it comes to scripture. This is unfortunate because The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
YHWH is a Covenant GOD [Elohim]. Unfortunately, the masses can tell you more about Pandora’s Box than they can tell you about the box or ark that held the stone tables of the testimony. According to Greek myth, Pandora was the equivalent of Eve to whom the ‘gods’ had given a box in which each god put a little something. Although the ‘gods’ had previously warned Epimetheus, the equivalent of Adam, not to accept anything from Zeus (supposedly the equivalent of YHWH whom they obviously vilified here), Zeus gave Pandora to Epimetheus and he accepted her anyway. One day, out of curiosity, Pandora had to know what was in the box she was given, so she opened it. Plagues innumerable flew out with much sorrow and mischief (evil) for mankind. In terror, she clamped the lid down just in time to prevent the last thing from escaping the box, which was HOPE. While this ‘fable’ may be very colorful and fanciful for the masses, it’s simply a poor recreation of the creation story. The ark of the covenant was a central piece in Israel’s worship. And the writer of His 10 Commandments [called the stone tables of the “testimony or covenant” (Exo. 34:28)] were so important they were written with His own finger. It is from this ‘summary’ (the 10 ‘basic commandments’) that the 613 Laws/ Statutes and Judgments that YHWH gave to Moses was derived. The 10 commandments were so important that YHWH instructed that they be housed within an ark. The Ark (Hebrew -‘aron) was a chest or box. The same Hebrew word is also translated as ‘coffin’ as found in Genesis 50:26 so the meaning of the Ark of the Covenant becomes a little clearer here. The box or coffin was the embodiment of the messiah, Yahshua, who was the “Bread of Life” from heaven (manna) who would feed the souls of men. He came to uphold the law and the covenants, for all things written of him had to be fulfilled. He was the WORD and spoke of all things given to him by his Father, YHWH (“The Testimony”). It is through Him that Israel & Judah were redeemed to become (two) “witnesses” of Yahshua’s resurrection – (the Hope of Israel) and the redeemed Saints in Christ (Israel & Judah) who will walk as “Spiritual Israelites”. Yahshua is the Hope of both groups to one day attain that spiritual yet new type of fleshly body The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
in which Yahshua was the first to obtain (First Fruits). Whereas the scripture said ‘the life is in the blood” [Lev 17:11] referring to the natural man (first Adam), this new body that the Messiah had did not mention ‘blood’ only flesh and bones. This is because it’s the Spirit that quickens and gives life to the spiritual man (second Adam). Blood is no longer necessary. [Remember, the Messiah sat and ate food with the Apostles but was also able to walk through doors]. “Our sufficiency is of Elohim [GOD] who also had made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit for the letter kills, but the Spirit [of the WORD, They Testimony] gives life”. 2Cor 3:5-6
In all circles, secular as well as non-secular, everyone has news and ancient finds relating to the bible and bible prophecy. Those in religious circles are excited beyond words at the ongoing research and efforts to retrieve what most are certain is Noah’s Ark. The excitement is at an all-time high. The location of this find (the ark) is positioned on the Mountains of Ararat (Turkey); exactly where scripture said it rested (Gen 8:4). So, why do men more readily believe everything they hear or read pertaining to scripture except the scripture itself?? Scientists continue to search and dig in every part of the world for biblical artifacts. The photo (right) is an actual photo of men who are digging for the so-called “lost” Ark of The Covenant. Man’s search for the Ark knows no bounds because they simply don’t understand the ‘spiritual’ significance of the Ark and the fact that is was YHWH Elohim’s throne on earth. The lid of this ark was beaten out of one piece of gold forming the “covering” with two cherubim of glory (Heb 9:5); one on each side. It was from this covering or mercy seat that Moses heard the the voice of one speaking unto him from above the seat that was upon the ark (Num 7:89). A box or coffin from which the testator spoke; (remember, where a testament is, there must also be the death of the testator for the testament to be of force) – Heb 9:16-18. “There will I meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim’s which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment unto the children of Israel”. Num 25:22
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Word of Life manifested in the body of Christ. He activated the covenant in the box (which was sealed with his own blood) so that no longer will the law be upon tables of stone, but will be written in the “fleshly tables of the heart” (2 Cor 3:3). Later, like the rod of Aaron, it would bring forth fruit in those who believe in faith through the ‘blood-sprinkled’ mercy seat. Sin had to be condemned in the flesh so that the righteousness of YHWH’s law might be fulfilled in those who would walk after its essential spirit (Rom 8:3-4). Remember, Yahshua said all the law hangs upon the principle of love--love of GOD and love of neighbor, therefore LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW (Rom 13:10). Yahshua’s obedience was not blindly rigid or cold, nor was it a legal obligation but
out of LOVE for the Father, YHWH Elohim, he fulfilled the ceremonial portion of the law (the animal sacrifice), having condemned the sins of the world in his own SINLESS flesh. By this we prove that salvation is indeed of the Jews!! (Yahshua was from the tribe of Judah). And since the WORD is truth (John 17:17) we know that the Ark is now located in heaven (Rev 11:19) and will not be found on earth! With this understanding, the question is: Are we willing to die for that same LOVE of YHWH and neighbor even though the world teaches that the law was nailed to the cross?? Sin and flesh were nailed to the cross so the ‘spiritual man’ could come forth (resurrection). Christian instruction has caused most of the world to be unprepared for the time of deception that is already knocking at the door. 1 Thess 5:3 describe it as ‘overtaking them like a thief in the darkness’. And for those who have begun to walk in the Spirit of the Law and have the ‘testimony of Yahshua’, are we willing to crucify “the old man” (familiar habits, behavior, likes/desires and speech of the flesh) that consumes life in empty time spent, bringing pleasure only to ‘self’ with no fruit of the Spirit for the edification of the body (others). The question then becomes: are we truly obedient “in the The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
Spirit of the WORD”??
THE INCREDIBLE WEIGHT OF THE ARK Science.Archaeology.com indicated on Mar. 23, 2006, that from the written evidence of the ancient Torah and other ancient records at the Bar-llan Univ. in Israel, that the total weight of the Ark of the Covenant, (and the stone tablets of the Law), weighed in aggregate, several thousand kilos. Independent calculations correlated with this evidence has concluded that the total weight of the ark was an amazing 4,402.9 kilos or 4 tons. This is the first hard evidence that testifies that the ark could not have possibly been lifted or carried by humans alone. The evidence supports the fact that the ark could (so-called) levitate. But, the first hard evidence was in the scriptures (Eze 10 & 11 when the “glory” leaves the temple and Israel [the Ark ascends to heaven): “When they stood, these stood; when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING CREATURE WAS IN THEM. Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim”. Ezek 10:17-18
THE TESTIMONY To the law and testimony Liberty Bel’s religion is phony Cluttered logic of mortal men The Prophets told you ‘there’s no light in them’ The testimony’s light for the coming dark days Understanding prophecy protects the path of our ways Connecting the scriptures to events that we see Testimony of Yahshua The Christ: The Spirit of Prophecy The coming delusive spirits of wickedness a grand finale of supreme counterfeits designed for those who just won’t heed Even ‘the just’ are ALMOST DECEIVED Instead the WORD and the Law on stone tables Taught Hammurabi’s Law Pandora’s box and Aesop’s fables No golden manna for their box inside But corruption to feed their greed and lies The Ark’s Testimony The Bread of Life to feed men Yahshua came to SAVE you from the DECEPTION of sin Lael Bhat Israel
Are dark sinister forces controlling the world?
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their mouth they speak proudly. They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey… a young lion lurking in secret places. Arise, O YHWH, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, WHICH IS THY SWORD… From which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou filled with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes”. Psa17:10-14
On February 27, 2006 WorldNet Daily News.com featured a blockbuster expose written by Dr. Stanley Monteith which examines the issue on how powerful groups like the Trilateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Builderbergs and other “elitists” are seldom mentioned in the mainstream media (news). Is there a grand conspiracy at work to move the world toward a global government and a universal religion?? And who or what is actually behind these sinister forces??
GLOBAL SHADOWS© Global Shadows behind the curtains Fallen spirits actually lurkin’ cancelling freedom in all things to manipulate the masses like puppets on a string Imminent domain claims a homeless population Production and distribution through Big Brother’s corporations Fading countries and national names cause “The Global Identity” covets wealth and fame Shameful values in dictatorship Amoral instruction morphing lame relationships The capital “I” on an ego trip holes in their armor, unequipped for Slippery wages and working trends ‘Because men will break a vow while calling you friend’ Following mischief too rebellious to bend Profiles stylin’ in status quo As in Noah’s day the coming ‘WOES’ Taking off the Gentiles’ crown Disappearing nations and flooded towns Strong delusions of the “Global Village’ The Great Star falls first so the counterfeit is willin’ seeking prey, The Destroyer smirks 1/3 of angelic stars follow him to earth “Adversarial demonic spillage” The Shadows of The ‘Global Pillage’
Monteith, a medical doctor by profession, set out 40 years ago on a mission to answer questions just such as as the ones posed above. The results of his research is said to ne “an amazing expose that shines the light of the day on the secret societies, some which have been at work on the world stage for centuries”. This book is is said to be “hard-hitting” because it lists places, dates dates and some names; and it’s full of citations from primary sources. Monteith reveals the identity of the mysterious forces behind the men who rule the world and why some U.S. leaders have dedicated their lives to destroying their own nation. He uses the words and has actual documents of these individuals and groups Lael Baht Israel behind the plot to reveal their aims, goals and intents. Are they all working together? Who are they ultimately serving? Is there a grant architect? The book is a ‘fast read’ and while you may not accept everything Monteith offers, after reading it, he said “you will never see the world in quite the same way”. M ost people don’t realize they exist because their m inds have been conditioned to reject any thought of such organizations”.
Monteith has given World Daily Net exclusive sales rights to his book. It is available only online at customerservice@worlddaileynet.com or by calling 1-800-496-3266. If Monteith has truly done the research, it would not be a surprise to any Hebrew who knows who they are, that these societies are real and there has always been a working plan in place to take control of the earth and everything in it. For us, The Hews (with the revealed prophecies of YHWH engrained in our
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culture), we know that scripture fist warned men and did so in the very first book of the bible. “And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And YHWH said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language…and nothing will be re-strained from them that they have imagined to do”. Gen 11:4-6
Lucifer is behind it all, and we were told that, too. It’s become obvious when you really ex-amine the ‘spirit’ behind everyday-news stories of our times.
CHECKING ACCOUNT CHARGES GETTING NASTIER According to USA Today. on April 18, 2006, they advised that even as more banks are introducing checking accounts with no monthly service fees, they are making a killing raising other charges. They are also making it hard to avoid the other charges (according to a semi-annual Bankrate.com Survey) being levied at the same time. The average coast of bouncing a check is at near-record highs at $27.04. But charges can be as much as $35 per event. And those who do so more than once are being hit even harder as more banks impose tiered fee charges. Banks have also made up for no monthly service fee checking accounts when they raised the ATM fees for non-customers. The average is $2 per trans-action. The minimum to avoid fees is higher than ever while the average yield on the account is a puny 0.32%. This is while money market and savings accounts now yield more than 4.5%.
SEX IN THE SYLLABUS Time Magazine’s April 3, 2006 issue says, colleges are getting serious about pornographic studies, but should professors show or just tell?? With class work like this, who needs to play? [Undergraduates who take Cyberporn and Society at the State University of New York at Buffalo survey internet porn sites. At New York University, assignments for Anthropology of the Unconscious include discussing X-rated Japanese comic books. And in Cinema and The Sex Act at the University of California, Berkeley, undergrads are required to view clips from Hollywood NC-17 releases like Showgirls and
underground stag reels. It’s called the Porn Curriculum, and it’s (quietly) taking root in the ivory tower. Scholars and specialists argue that graphic sexual imagery has become ubiquitous in society, so it’s al-most irresponsible not to teach young people how to deal with it. (That rationale seems to come just short of-- if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em). Subtitled as Porn 101 on the Times Magazine title page, the article indicated that one Professor of porn studies specifically asked her students not to make a porn film until after they graduate. She believes teaching them about Porn is one thing, but training them for a career in the so-called ‘adult arts’ is quite another. But isn’t that what she’s doing anyway? The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
SMART MEDICINE According to the BBC News in 2004 the Israelis developed tiny computer de-vices that can detect sings of cell mutations or malformations in the body. Using computer programs they analyzed and tested the DNA process that led to the design of the bio-devices. These devices are so small, a trillion of them can fit onto a microitre. They’re made of biological molecules (DNA), synthetic DNA molecules (which are produced to their specifications) and a naturally occurring enzyme that cuts DNS production. According to the Science Daily, a paper produced in the May 2006 edition of Nature Biotechnology explains how this process works. They have manipulated the RNS-interference process and are using it as a diagnostic tool. Naturally occurring in the body, RNS can identify abnormal cell formations and blocks the growth and multiplication of these cells. Through the duplication of RNA with their modifications, they have created short interfering RNA (siRNA). In this process, in-stead of simply blocking new cell formations, the new interfering process activated as automatic injection of biotech medicine that will fight the mutating cell or kill it completely. And who said man will not create a man to worship him? GLOBAL WARMING By any measure, earth is at the tipping point. This was the caption of the feature story in the April 2006 edition of Time Magazine. No one knows what an ill planet must look like, but the article indicates it must look much like planet earth. Natural disasters are nothing new but intensifying natural disasters occurring all over the world at one time indicates the earth is out of control. Pollution and emissions reduce oxygen levels and increases famine and drought. More warming melts ice, raisin sea levels, and causes flooding. Glaciers are melting at the rate of 18 feet per year. It’s a vicious cycle that humans started, but can’t curtail. According to Vanity Fair Magazine 2006, scientists estimate that unless greenhouse gases are severely curbed, global temperatures could rise by 2 to 3 degrees. The last time the earth was that warm was thousands of years ago and sea levels were 80 feet higher!! If this occurred, it would leave little of Manhattan left, but the skyscrapers. But they also believe that it would take more than 100 years to get there; while having admitted that they have severely underestimated the power of global warming. As carbon dioxide levels increase, ragweed churns out more pollen; causing noticeable spikes in allergy and asthma attacks, and increases in molds and emissions that attach themselves to diesel particles, delivering them deeply into the lungs. Time Magazine says, “be worried, be very worried”. The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
THE BIBLE
“They covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage”. Micah 2:2 “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land”. Joel 3:2
The heritage of African Americans is “goodly” heritage. YHWH refers to Judah as ‘my heritage’ and Israel ‘his people’ reflecting the close relationship he had with us. Most of us, having been told that we were “descendants from a line of Kings”, don’t realize that we are the nation of people who bore the KING of Kings, Yahshua The Messiah (son of David), son of Elohim/Israel). This is be-cause our ‘heritage’ has been oppressed and suppressed over the centuries to the degree that we believe in ‘Jesus’ and other nations now believe that they are truly the Jews. Today some Protestant Gentile believers are beginning to understand the truth of YHWH’s Laws and the Everlasting Covenant (The 7th Sabbath). Although YHWH has begun to open some of their eyes, even then, they never quite receive a complete revelation to understand prophecy in these times. This includes understanding prophecy on the condition of true Jews in today’s society. With us [Israel] it is not so. We are the only nation to whom YHWH spoke directly (Amos 3:2). We were given the adoption [as Sons (and daughters)], the glory of his inheritance [as His Saints], the covenants [as the “married wife” of the husbandman], the giving of the Law [as his messengers to the nations], the service of Elohim [as his servants], and the promises [as descendants of the people of YHWH’s choosing – Rom 9:4]. Yes, we have a goodly “heritage” as descendants from a long line of ‘ancient Kings’ in which we should marvel and rejoice!! But our treatment of our own heritage by our forefathers, The Kings, is not a record of which we would be particularly proud. The King has the responsibility of being a ‘righteous’ example to the people with laws to following including those that pertained directly to his rulership. A King must: - not multiply horses or wives unto himself - Deut 17:16. (Scripture differentiates between multiplying and adding horses). - be just, walking in, keeping and teaching the law as a light in the midst of his people - (2 Sam 23:3-5) - not be wicked (a King’s wickedness is an abomination. Prov 20:28). - not receive bribes/gifts -Prov 29:4) - perform righteous judgment (particularly on behalf of the poor, needy, widows and orphans for it would establish his throne forever. Prov 29:14, 2 Chron 19:6). Rulership in the Land of the Kings would be successful sporadically, but mostly the Hebrew Israelite Kings did not relish our heritage by the fear of YHWH. Thus, they were “married to a strange god”, vanquished from the land and we, their children, bore the shackles of their shame [slavery]. But, YHWH has always had “a remnant”, even among our Kings, who took care in being ‘obedient sons’ [with their obvious strengths, and in spite of their individual struggles and The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
weaknesses]; and they were from the tribe of Judah, the Royal House: ASA = “Physician” Israel tried to invade Judah, so Asa asked help from Ben-Hadad of Aram Damascas, who attacked Israel. As soon as Israel withdrew, Asa fortified the border between them. Later he repelled an invasion by Zerah, the Ethiopian. Asa was a cultural reformer who tried to stamp out idolatry, but was accused of relying too heavily upon doctors instead of YHWH for curing his own ills. (1 Kings 15, 16:2; 2 Chron 14-17; Jer 41:9). JEHOSHAPHAT = “Elohim is Judge” He toured the kingdom to institute Judeo-cultural reform. [The remnant of Sodomites who lived in the land, during his father’s reign, were removed – 1 Kings 22:46. The Hebrew word for sodomites is rendered as a ‘male whore’]. He strengthened fortifications, the army, and revived commerce. He renewed friendship with Israel by marrying his son to their royal family and by joining in common wars. Ruling for 25 years, he defeated Moabites and Ammonites by sending the appointed singers in front of the army to praise YHWH-2 Chron 20:1-30. Alliance with Israel brought Elohim’s judgment. (1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings Chpt 22; 2 Kings 1:17, 3:18; 2 Chro Chpt 17-22). UZZIAH = “Elohim is Strong” King at 16, ruling for 52 years, Uzziah made Judah more prosperous than it had been since King Solomon. Repaired relations with Israel and reorganized Judah’s army to reconquer lost territory, built fortifications along highways and borders. Jerusalem became a busy commercial center. He developed leprosy and lived seclusion inside the palace, having his son, Jotham, carry out his orders. JOTHAM = “Elohim is Perfect” Well trained, he maintained the prosperity and military advantage during his 16-year rule. Scripture said, “he did right in the sight of YHWH, but the people continued their corruption”. (2 Kings 15:5, 7, 30-38; 2 Chron 26:21, 32, 27). HEZEKIAH = “Elohim is Strength” The kingdom of Judah was no more than on Assyrian vassal when Hezekiah was crowned at the age of 25. With Assyrian power declining, he risked restoring Israelite The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
worship in Jerusalem and invited Israel to participate, acts which gave him strong backing from the prophet Isaiah. Knowing was inevitable, he produced a large number of weapons, constructed storehouses for staples and improved the capacity for Jerusalem’s water supply against siege. Against Isaiah’s advice, he joined ‘an anti-Assyrian coalition’ that resulted in the destruction of Lachish and heavy tribute (taxation) being imposed on Jerusalem. (2 Kings 16:20; 18:20; 2 Chron 23:33; Chpt 33; Jer 26:18-19). JOSIAH = “Elohim Seized” Becoming King at 8, he ruled for 21 years, during which he instituted Judeo-cultural reform after finding the book of the Law. Listened to the Prophetess, Huldah. Celebrated Passover (although somewhat in-correctly). Killed in battle when he foolishly tried to prevent the Egyptians from crossing his lands to get to the Assyrians. (2 Kings 21:24-26; Chapt 22-23, 2 Chron 33:25-35). To be continued in next Watchman entitled: “Married to a Strange God”, Volume 7, Issue 3.
Be Ye Comforted…
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil [HOLY SPIRIT] with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Matt 25:3-4
As YHWH’s timepiece and spokesmen and women chosen to teach the nations of Him, The Children of Israel carry a great responsibility. YHWH’s laws and ways that were given to us as our ‘”custom” is the same “WORD”, the SPIRIT, that would feed our souls (like oil to a lamp) causing an inner glow that the world would or could not deny. That same light was also given to us to be a “light unto our own feet so as we walked the path of life, we would not ‘walk in darkness’. In spite of the fact that African Americans, en mass don’t know they are the descendants of ancient Jews, the responsibility of being a ‘light to the nations’ still lies at our feet none-the-less. Having gone through the worse chattel slavery ever written on the pages of history, we eventually found solace in tears, comfort in grief and strength in adversity. Even with lovely communities and thriving businesses, we still noticed that the grass as somewhat greener on the other side of the tracks. So, we left our communal lives (and brother/sister-hood) to gain equality [more ‘green’] from our captors. We took our eyes off of the Creator to follow the ‘created’ through the ways of mischief (marching in protest) for freedom while our Creator is the only one who can bring true freedom. The W atchm an – The U nited Congregation of Israel
“They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them forever”. Psalms 119:150-152
The world would never be quite the same!! Women began marching in protest and burning bras for equal rights with men. Soon after, the children marched in war protests around the globe that would soon turn into a ‘spirit’ of free love, free sex, drugs, and crime. Today, Latin Americans are marching for the rights to re-enter and live in this country that their forefathers once heavily populated, thereby replacing us in record numbers. Latin American music videos have even taken on a “hip-hop flavor” including skimpy female attire. Our world is almost unrecognizable regarding the simplicity and quality of life we once had as newly freed slaves. While America’s injustices were still rampantly alive during that period, we failed conduct ourselves based upon the wisdom and we’d gained as a people during slavery in handling their racism and inequalities. We failed to gather in the ‘hush arbors’ and ‘praying grounds’ as we once did knowing that prayer changes things. We allowed the nations to replace our Spirituals with ‘gospels music’ with our own story [that of Israel] obviously missing from the lyrics. Whereas the Spirituals we sang reminded us of our coming freedom and our soon-to-come return to our home-land so far away, we began singing of ‘going to heaven’ which cannot be found in scripture. The Spirituals kept us mindful of the miracles that our forefathers beheld and the exploits they performed that showed us that the GOD we serve had all-power in his hands. Yet we joined in song with our captors desiring the power YHWH placed into their hands instead. The Spirituals and scripture are the two most profound keys to our identity. But, knowing who we are has caused us to see our failures in spiritual leadership among the nations and each other. The lack of righteousness on earth has become a shame to us, although it was YHWH’s design to provoke Israel to jealousy. Jealousy is derived from the Hebrew word meaning trails, pain, adversity and sorrow – Our Story. “And others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned…sawn asunder, were tempted…slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth. Heb 11:36-38
His compassions fail not. While men fail to be true and the means on which to live seems to disappear for far too long, YWHW will not fail in comforting his people. He will comfort them Himself; getting some “Glory” for His name’s sake. Thus, he proves the stability of His appointments, the Sovereignty of His will, the Wisdom of his council, the Power of His hand and the Love that flows from His heart directly to us. “Sing,
O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for YHWH hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said, YHWH hath forsaken me, and my Adonai hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may for-get, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me”. Isaiah 49:13-16
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powerless to help and comfort His weak and weary, tried and tempted, and oppressed and suffering people. He appears as both Promiser and Performer in Isaiah chapters 5 and 12. “I, even I, am he that comforts you: who art thou, that thou should be afraid of a man that shall die??...And forget YHWH thy maker…and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? …I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people”. Isaiah 51:13-16
Therefore we cry, Heal me, O YHWH, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved…” Jeremiah 17:14 In the Spirit of YHWH, Zion my beloved people, be ye comforted.
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