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Adult psychiatric drug OK'd for kids Associated Press (August 22, 2007) - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a widely used adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The action permits use of Risperdal for schizophrenia in youths aged 13 to 17 and for bipolar disorder in those aged 10 to 17, FDA said. It was approved last fall for treatment of irritability in autism. Risperdal, manufactured by Janssen, L.P. of Titusville, N.J., is the No. 3 anti-psychotic drug, with $2.3 billion in sales in 2005, according to the pharmaceutical data company IMS Health. Janssen is a unit of Johnson & Johnson. Risperdal was approved for use in adults in 1993. Until now, FDA said, there has been no approved drug for the treatment of schizophrenia in youths and only lithium is approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder in adolescents. The dose approved for youths is slightly lower than the adult dose, FDA said. Drowsiness, fatigue, increase in appetite, anxiety, nausea, dizziness, dry mouth, tremor, and rash were among the most common side effects reported, the agency said. more...
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I bring you this story to point out something important that most Christians do not know or realize. The understanding of this begins to reveal how the pharmaceutical companies are assisting in the fall of America and the world. Many may not realize it, but through the attempts to adjust body chemistry through foreign drugs put into the system, we only cover up what is there to tell us something. And beyond that, it affects our minds and attitudes assisting in the lulling to complacency. The same works for vaccinations too, trust God for protection from disease and remain in Christ. Have you seen how vaccinations are produced? Do you really want to put that in your temple? 

Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

That's pretty serious, but what does it have to do with the drug companies of today? Did you know that the word "witchcraft" used above is actually the Greek word pharmakeia G5331? It means, "the use or the administering of drugs, poisoning, sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it." In researching the problems of today, much of it stems from the widespread use of drugs made by pharmaceutical companies who make billions of dollars selling these drugs, many of which are abused to dull the senses and mind. AP: Pain medicine use has nearly doubled This works perfectly with the New World Order, who want an ignorant population so they can go about their business of creating the global governance for their future leader of the world. Minn. law sheds light on drug companies This story is a perfect example, "A groundbreaking Minnesota law is shining a rare light into the big money that drug companies spend on members of state advisory panels who help select which drugs are used in Medicaid programs for the poor and disabled." This plague is working on children as well as adults as the parents who are ignorant to reality are feeding their children drugs that are probably the cause of much of the problems that stem from negative spiritual influences manifesting in the body. In researching the New Testament and the healing miracles that Yeshua did, much of the psychological diseases people had were resolved by the casting out of demons. But man has his own methods of "solving problems" medically. That's the main thrust of psychology today. If something's out of whack, drug up. That didn't work? Try this. And we tend to put our faith in man before turning to God. That's what I did for most of my life. I trusted the establishment because I figured they were working for the best interest of man. But the sooner that deceptive veil is lifted from your eyes, however difficult it may be to deal with, the better off you will be. Trust only in God. He alone has your best interest in mind and He can heal all illness. Maybe you have demonic influence from your past experiences that is still clinging to you and affecting you. Cry out to Yeshua, He is able and willing to save those who love and obey Him. I recommend reading Thought: Voice of the Spirit Realm to better begin to understand the spiritual battles we fight. Often we don't understand how things work so we have no idea how to approach things. I pray it helps. For more information about vaccine history and how that possibly plays into the future plans of the New World Order, watch Avian Flu: Killer of Millions? by Dr. Scott Johnson. You can listen to clips of it at the Prophecy Club podcast.

Roman Catholic Bishop Wants Everyone to Call God 'Allah' Fox News (August 16, 2007) - A proposal by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands that people of all faiths refer to God as "Allah" is not sitting well with the Catholic community. Tiny Muskens, an outgoing bishop who is retiring in a few weeks from the southern diocese of Breda, said God doesn't care what he is called. "Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah? ... What does God care what we call him? It is our problem," Muskens told Dutch television. "I'm sure his intentions are good but his theology needs a little fine-tuning," said Father Jonathan Morris, a Roman Catholic priest based in Rome. Morris, a news analyst for FOX News Channel, also called the idea impractical. "Words and names mean things," Morris said. "Referring to God as Allah means something." Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic civil liberties and advocacy group, backs the idea as a way to help interfaith understanding. "It reinforces the fact that Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God," Hooper told FOXNews.com. "I don't think the name is as important as the belief in God and following God's moral principles. I think that's true for all faiths." Christians who are Arabic speakers speak of Allah when they speak of God, Hooper added. "There's not a theological leap to make on the part of Christians," Hooper said. The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago supports the idea. “I think it will open up doors,” said Janaan Hashim, a spokeswoman for the group representing more than 400,000 Muslim Americans in the Chicago area. “Language is a man-made limitation. I think what God cares about is how we fulfill our purpose in life.” The nation’s largest Catholic civil rights group says Catholics won't get behind the proposal. “Bishop Martinus “Tiny” Muskens can pray to “Allah” all he wants, but only addlepated Catholics will follow his lead,” Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said in a statement. “It is not a good sign when members of the Catholic hierarchy indulge in a fawning exchange with Muslims, or those of any other religion.” more...
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'Conversion Code' Fulfilled Prophecy (August 8, 2007) - The World of Council of Churches and the Vatican have teamed up to create a code of conduct for Christians who seek to win converts from other religions and faiths. About 30 Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant theologians will attend a meeting in Toulouse, France -- today through Friday -- to draft a "rule-book." Read the WCC's press release here. The WCC said proselytizing is a "cause of friction and conflict between religions and among different branches of individual faiths." The reason for the Vatican's participation in the meeting becomes clear in this Washington Post article, which reports that evangelicals and Pentecostals -- "two strongly proselytizing sects" -- have won many converts from Catholicism in Latin America, Africa and Asia. So, the Roman Catholic Church is losing people to Protestantism. And it's found a way to stop this -- by getting evangelicals and Pentecostals to agree to a set of rules that, no doubt, will include a rule against sharing the gospel. This is the second meeting in the three-year study project -- and the first one attended by evangelical and Pentecostal representatives. The first meeting -- held in May 2006 -- concluded that the "obsession of converting others" needs to be cured. Read the full report here. The rule-book is scheduled to be completed by 2010. And if you've been following the news reported on FP, then you know that's just in time for the war against the saints to be launched -- if we're, indeed, in Daniel's 70th week. Coincidence? Staying tuned! | Apostasy |

Family Feud Fulfilled Prophecy (August 8, 2007) - An old friend called me two days ago. He's in a pickle. The problem he and his family are facing is, ashamedly, not rare: their church is on the brink of splitting. What do you do when you've invested years into relationships and ministry? Do you stick it out or do you cut loose and start anew? In this particular case, the rift that has opened up in my friend's non-denominational church is between two specific groups. To use common labels, one group is conservative and one group is charismatic. My friend, who is one of the church elders, comes from the conservative end of the spectrum. He's become concerned because in the leadership prayer meetings a growing number of the church leaders are relying less upon God's written Word and more upon spontaneous prophetic utterances and visions--all allegedly from the Holy Spirit--to shape the direction of the church. While some of the spoken prophecies seemed harmless, "God is going to bless our church," others seemed downright ludicrous to my friend, "I'm seeing a picture of a sofa--therefore, God is telling us to stay where we are and not do anything." One prophecy particularly disturbed him. During one of the meetings, someone brought the prophetic word that "Many great signs and wonders will be done here (at this church) and they will divide the church." If you were my friend, what would you do? My friend and I turned to the Bible and, at one point, came to 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22: "Do not put out the Spirit's fire; do not treat prophecies with contempt. Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil." In short: Paul's answer was not to place an outright ban on the prophetic in the Thessalonian church, but rather to have the church sort through what was spoken. The good stuff was to be kept, the bad stuff was to be thrown out. Was my friend's church testing the words that came out? No. But how the heck do you do something like that? You line things up with Scripture. Consider when the church in Berea had the apostle Paul teaching on their doorstep. They checked him out by Scripture to make sure his teaching was the real deal: "The Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians for . . .they . . . examined the scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true" (Acts 17:11). The Berean church was commended for testing his teaching. Beware of any teacher/leader or church who takes Psalm 105:15 out of context. The verse reads, "Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm." This verse, in context, is speaking of God's protection over the Jewish people in the time of the Patriarchs. It's not a carte blanche for a leader to be held above the authority of Scripture. The apostle Paul himself was held under the authority of Scripture--and those little, nameless, "insignificant" Bereans were commended for double-checking to make sure his facts lined up. How does that last prophetic utterance at my friend's church (about the signs/miracles and impending church split) line up with Scripture? It doesn't pass the test. Here's why: the problem with that prophecy is not that it predicts signs and wonders (God can do signs and wonders whenever He chooses to), but that God would be sending signs and wonders to separate believers. (I'm working under the dual assumption that (1) God is allegedly the agent of the signs and miracles that will be done, and (2) that the division to be caused is within the church between believers--not between the saved and the unsaved.) Why would the Holy Spirit deliberately work in marvelous ways to divide brothers? In the Bible, there are places where signs separate people. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, that miracle divided the people. Many people put their faith in Jesus (John 11:45). Others plotted to murder Him (John 11:53). But the signs from God separated believers from unbelievers--not "Class-A Super Christians" from "Class-B Lesser Christians." There is only one body of Christ (Ephesians 4:4). You're either in or out. Is unity in the body of Christ important to God? Yes. In Jesus' prayer for the believers just prior to his crucifixion, He prays "May they (all future believers, per verse 20) be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you love me" (John 17:23). Unity is a bit more important to God than I'm comfortable with. If I were faced with my friend's situation, I'd rather just cut and run. But if unity is so important, how do we as a church get there? How does my friend work for unity in the very tangible situation in which he and his family stand? One wrong way to achieve unity is the "Burn, Baby, Burn!" approach. In this method, you come up with such a strict and overly precise statement of faith that it goes down even to the point of taking a position on whether dipping a corn dog in mustard is to be preferred over dipping it in ketchup. You'll get unity, but the problem is that no one will be left in your church to be unified with. There are a lot of minor issues of belief we are free to disagree on. "Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters" (Romans 14:1). "Burn, Baby, Burn!" excludes true believers in Christ. A second wrong way to achieve unity is the "Love Bomb" approach (a.k.a. The Lowest Common Denominator approach).  In this method, you give up any attempt of discernment. This will bring in harmful teachings and perhaps even allow unbelievers in the position of leading God's people. There is a dividing line between true and false doctrine. Some doctrines are so essential to our faith that we cannot abandon them, like salvation by grace alone or the authority of the Bible. There is a difference between biblical Christianity and the other world religions. Islam is not the same religion as Christianity. Mormonism is not the same religion. We need to discern the fruit of our leaders' lives (Matthew 7:15-20), and we need to test the spirits (1 John 4:1; 1 Corinthians 12:10). May God praise our generation like the church in Ephesus and say, "I know you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false" (Revelation 2:2). (Sidenote: It's true that Jesus says in Matthew 7:1, "Do not judge, or you too will be judged." Jesus is not saying to throw away all discernment, though. In the same chapter, he tells us to discern false prophets by their fruit (v. 15-20). He is not saying to avoid correcting a brother or sister in Christ because, in verse 5, we see that Jesus does expect us to correct our brothers and sisters, after we have examined ourselves. I believe that what Jesus means in 7:1 (considering the context) is to not be hypocritical or look down on your brothers when you see something wrong in their walk. Romans 14 is a great lens to make sense of what Jesus is talking about in Matthew 7:1.) So what's the answer? How do we achieve unity in the church? Paul gives the answer in Ephesians chapter 4. In short: recognize the unity in the body of Christ (verses 1-6), recognize that everyone has a different part to play (verses 7-13) and then "Speak the truth in love" (verse 15). In the context, speaking the truth means to hold on to biblical teaching (consider verse 14). Love means to do it in a kind and patient manner. We get church unity by lovingly correcting each other. That can be a hard row to hoe. It's a lot easier to run and start over. Some of us need to be more loving in how we deal with our Christian brothers and sisters. Some of us need to open up more to allowing our beliefs to be scrutinized by what the Bible actually says. We all need to be worked on, and we all have our role to play in helping our brothers and sisters. I don't know what my friend is going to do in his situation, but I hope he doesn't give up on the people of God. He's a godly man who knows the Bible well--they need what he's got. Though it will, no doubt, be hard to bring in loving correction, Christ's church is worth it.
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This is why understanding what the Bible actually says about the future, Bible prophecy, is so important. Many people claim understanding of the future, but how many of them really understand what the Bible says before opening their mouths? I know I've learned myself in the past that just a scripture here or there doesn't cover the full understanding of God's plans written for our understanding. That is why the whole council of God must be taken into account. This is beneficial for us because it requires study of all of God's Word, not just cherry-picking the verses or using someone else's template of scripture references. We must each have an intimate understanding of God's Word revealed through the Holy Spirit in you. If these leaders understood what God's Word said about the future and Israel's place in it, they would not go against God's design of Israel being in the land in the name of peace and security. But the world today is ignorant of the Satanic influences manipulating and causing this chaos. They're trying to figure out what's going on and solve it politically. In reality, all that is happening is the consolidation of global governance in the name of peace and security, removing national sovereignty and personal freedom to bring the world under the bondage of Lucifer and separated from the One True God who created and loves us. As Christians, we should all understand what is coming because God promised we wouldn't be in darkness. Darkness brings confusion, confusion brings fear and errors in judgment. Let us dispel fear of the unknown with the knowledge of it given to us by God in His Word, that is what the Watchman Bible Study is about, shining the light of the Word in the darkness to encourage and lift up the bride of Christ in these last days. We need to stick to God's Word and follow His plans, not make errors in judgment based on our own plans.

US "Evangelicals"—Divide the Land of Israel Jerusalem Newswire (July 30, 2007) - The issue of where to take a stand concerning the Land and People of Israel continues to split Christians who choose to reinterpret the scriptures through liberal and socialist lenses from those who insist that the Bible is the unchanging Word of God. In a letter published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, 34 self-described "evangelical leaders" wrote to US President George W. Bush, urging him to forge ahead with his plan to implement a "two state solution" to the "Palestinian"-Israeli conflict. The document appears to have been drawn up in reaction to the statements of high-profile evangelicals like John Hagee who have recently asserted anew that tens of millions of American evangelicals identify themselves as Christian Zionists and oppose the globally-supported effort to establish an Arab state on the biblical heartland and national cradle of the Jewish people. Twisting both the meaning of scripture and historic fact to support their position, the signatories to the letter - who claimed to speak on behalf of "large numbers of evangelicals throughout the US" - sought to "encourage" Bush with the assertion that not "all American evangelicals are opposed to a two-state solution and creation of a new Palestinian state that includes the vast majority of the West Bank [sic]." They had written "to thank [Bush] for [his] efforts (including the major address on July 16) to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to achieve a lasting peace in the region. "We affirm your clear call for a two-state solution. We urge that your administration not grow weary in the time it has left in office to utilize the vast influence of America to demonstrate creative, consistent and determined US leadership to create a new future for Israelis and Palestinians [sic]." more...
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Lack of understanding Bible prophecy is a main issue with this I believe. For those who don't believe Israel's right to the land, they come up against the Word of God. For those who think Israel isn't part of God's plan for the end-times, it shows a deep lack of understanding of the Hebrew Bible. It is the historical record of the children of Israel through which our Messiah was born. Romans 11 explains how God has not cast them off completely. And it is our Lord Yeshua Himself who connects Israel's existence to the end-times. On the mount of Olives, the disciples asked Yeshua, "when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" According to Yeshua, "the end" comes at the abomination of desolation. Matthew 24:14-22 That is when the great tribulation begins, which is the antichrist's 3 1/2 year reign on the earth. Daniel 7:25 It begins with the time of Jacob's trouble in Judea, which is why Christ said for those in Judea to run to the mountains at the abomination of desolation. But I digress. Christ referred to Daniel, an Old Testament prophet, regarding what time was being referred to. Daniel 9:27 places that event in the middle of the final week of years (7 years) of the prophecy given to Daniel about the future of Israel! That means that Israel is the absolute center of Yeshua coming again! Here's what the prophecy began by stating, "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." If the 70 weeks are for Israel and the last one has "the end" in the middle of it, that must mean Israel is significant to end-time Bible prophecy. For those who don't believe there is any future aspect to Bible prophecy, you have a big surprise coming. The Bible lays out the future, trust in God's Word and it will be a light to your path leading straight to Christ. Psalm 119:105 The church needs to wake up to God's plans so their own don't counter His Will. Those who don't believe God has a plan don't know His Word or don't take Him at His Word. And if you don't believe in the Bible, you have bigger problems coming. Certainly not from me, but God is just and without believing in Christ and obeying God's Word, we show we have no love for Him (John 14:15-21) and He respects our desires. To be separated from God is hell, beyond the wildest imaginations. Nobody is tough enough to deal with it and it's forever. I don't want anyone to get their wish to be separated from God. Eventually reality will always overcome vain imaginings. May God reveal His Word in greater detail as you get to know Him better. Get alone in your prayer closet and just speak to Him. He is worthy of our praise! 2 Timothy 4:1-4

Survey: Christians Worldwide Too Busy for God The Christian Post (July 30, 2007) - Christians worldwide are simply becoming too busy for God, a newly released five-year study revealed. In data collected from over 20,000 Christians with ages ranging from 15 to 88 across 139 countries, The Obstacles to Growth Survey found that on average, more than 4 in 10 Christians around the world say they "often" or "always" rush from task to task. Busyness proved to be the greatest challenges in Japan, the Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Indonesia. Christians in Uganda, Nigeria, Malaysia and Kenya were least likely to rush from task to task. But even in the less-hurried cultures, about one in three Christians report that they rush from task to task. In Japan, 57 percent agreed. The busy life was found to be a distraction from God among Christians around the globe. About 6 in 10 Christians say that it's "often" or "always" true that "the busyness of life gets in the way of developing my relationship with God." Christians most likely to agree were from North America, Africa and Europe. By country, Christians in South Africa, Nigeria, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, Philippines, the United States, and the United Kingdom, are more distracted from God, respectively, than those in other countries. While across gender lines, busyness afflicts both men and women, the distraction from God was more likely to afflict men than women in every surveyed continent except North America, where 62 percent of women reported busyness interfering with their relationship with God compared to 61 percent of men. By profession, pastors were most likely to say they rush from task to task (54 percent) which adversely also gets in the way of developing their relationship with God (65 percent). "It's tragic. And ironic. The very people who could best help us escape the bondage of busyness are themselves in chains," said Dr. Michael Zigarelli, associate professor of Management at the Charleston Southern University School of Business who conducted the study. Managers, business owners, teachers and salespeople were among Christians most likely to say they rush from task to task. And professionals whose busyness interferes with developing their relationship with God include lawyers (72 percent), managers (67 percent), nurses (66 percent), pastors (65 percent), teachers (64 percent), salespeople (61 percent), business owners (61 percent), and housewives (57 percent). "The accelerated pace and activity level of the modern day distracts us from God and separates us from the abundant, joyful, victorious life He desires for us," said Zigarelli. While the study does not explain why Christians are so busy and distracted, Zigarelli described the problem among Christians as "a vicious cycle" prompted by cultural conformity. more...
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UMC ripped for partnership with Muslim Aid One News Now (July 30, 2007) - The United Methodist Church is being blasted for partnering with a Muslim group that is blatant about its mission. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, or UMCOR, recently announced a partnership with Muslim Aid, a British-based relief organization. The Muslim group is very clear about its Islamic mission -- and on its website there are numerous references to the Koran and to Allah, says Mark Tooley with the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD). "In its materials and on its website, it talks about the need to serve Allah," he continues, "and one of its programs is to help Muslims around the world fulfill their Islamic obligations, which include an annual animal sacrifice, which Muslim Aid will assist them with." Tooley expects the denomination to spend more than the $15 million dollars already proposed on joint relief projects worldwide. "Even prior to this recently announced partnership, they had been working together in Sri Lanka in relation to tsunami victims there," the IRD spokesman observes. Tooley points out that while Muslim Aid is vocal in its beliefs, UMCOR has virtually no mention of God, Jesus Christ, or the Bible on its website. "No wonder there is such easy agreement between them," he comments. UMCOR's operating budget last year was nearly $90 million, according to Tooley. He suggests that United Methodists and others might want to "ponder" why one of its denominational agencies appears hesitant to mention Jesus Christ, but seems to have no problem affiliating with a Muslim group that freely professes its service to Allah.
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Dominionism and the rise of Christian Imperialism Discernment-Ministries Inc. (July 26, 2007) - "Conspiracy theorizing about the Christian Right’s supposedly “secret” agenda involves highlighting the hate-mongering and bizarre ideas of a handful of Christian Right players while neglecting the broad popularity of dominion theology. - Sara Diamond, “Dominion Theology: The Truth About the Christian Right’s Bid for Power,”
American churches are to a large degree defined by what they choose to rebel against. The Christian right has set itself in opposition to liberal, secular government and, as a political consequence, declared itself a buddy of big business.” - Russ Rymer, Mother Jones, Dec. 2005
The ambassador's words seemed prophetic a couple of weeks later, when a Dream for Africa draft plan found its way into Swazi newspapers, turning public opinion sharply against Mr. Wilkinson. Under the headline “British Colony or Dr Bruce Colony?” one op-ed writer in the Swazi News wrote, “Why can't he simply tell us that he wants to be given the whole country so that he can gloat to his friends overseas that he owns a modern day colony in Africa called Swaziland?” - Michael M. Phillips, “Mr. Wilkinson Hits Wall Trying To Push 'Orphan Village'”, Wall Street Journal, 12/19/05
For the past several decades the political Left has focused attention on the Christian Right’s political activism in America. Particularly, the Left has been highly critical of a select group of dominionists called Reconstructionists, whose aggressive verbiage, extreme Calvinist theologies, and religious political agendas have made it an ideal target for outrage. But, as Leftist researcher Sara Diamond has astutely observed, “the Reconstructionists’ religion of Calvinism. . . makes them unlikely to appeal to most evangelicals.”⁴ Indeed, few Reconstructionists would consider themselves to be evangelicals. Nevertheless, their influence has been considerable over the much larger group of patriotic evangelicals. There are two other dominionist sects within evangelicalism that have escaped in-depth scrutiny from the Left. These dominionists have been able to function virtually incognito for several reasons: 1) They have been deeply embedded within the evangelical subculture; 2) They cloaked their dominionism with new terminologies and doctrines over a period of thirty years; and 3) They figured out how to package dominionism using sophisticated mass marketing techniques. Also noteworthy: these two other dominionist camps have been operating in a dialectical fashion – while one group appealed to the TBN charismatics with all of its emotional excesses, the other group carefully managed its more intellectual public image to conform to traditional evangelical standards. This paper is a brief overview of the three main dominionist movements operating inside evangelicaldom and examines how all three of these sects are now converging around a global “kingdom” agenda. This paper is not a treatise on doctrine, nor is it an historical record, nor is it a thorough analysis of the multifarious streams of evangelical dominionism. This paper does not cover the broader issue of dominionist sects within other world religions, except for a few brief noteworthy mentions. To examine the totality of the individuals, the organizations, and their cross-linkages would require an exhaustive study which is beyond the scope of this brief synopsis. Even so, every point made in this paper could be validated by dozens, sometimes hundreds, of pieces of documentation. The inquiring reader may check out the footnotes and references. Only a small handful of Christian discernment and apologetics ministries, of which this writer is a part, have been paying attention to the intersection of the dominionist streams. The apologetic ministries fulfill a Scriptural role to examine and expose false doctrines and teachers, and to warn other believers of heresies (Jude 3, 2 Peter 2:1). Increasingly, over the past two decades, many apologists have become seduced by dominionism, blunting their ability to critically examine the roots and fruits of this rapidly rising new church era. more...
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Breakdown Britain The Washington Times (July 25, 2007) - The release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final book in the series, has momentarily diverted the public's attention from certain realities: The weather, which normally depresses during winter months when there is less sunlight, has been crying unmercifully on Britain, bringing what the Daily Telegraph calls "chaos and misery" as homes are flooded, flights are canceled or delayed, and train and subway service is disrupted. A government document obtained by the media reveals Britain has nearly "run out of troops" to defend the country or fight abroad. The Conservative Party, under leader David Cameron, failed to win the first by-election since Gordon Brown assumed the premiership, coming in third. The Tories appear to have gotten the message not to mimic the Labor Party. A Tory supplement recently published in the Daily Telegraph titled "Breakdown Britain: A Guide to Our Broken Society and How to Fix It" mainly emphasizes those issues — family breakdown, economic independence, personal responsibility, education choice — the Tories had downplayed in a failed attempt to cross-dress as "compassionate conservatives." Nowhere does Britain's breakdown and loss of direction appear clearer than in the inconsistent ways the courts treat faith. A nation that has had its ups and down with religion throughout its long history — and is now challenged over how to accommodate its growing Muslim population — appears openly hostile to anything that resembles Christianity and the dwindling number of churchgoers who still practice that faith. Three recent legal cases highlight the British establishment's growing anti-Christian animosity and spiritual confusion. An employment tribunal ruled that a Church of England bishop, the Right Rev. Anthony Priddis, discriminated against a homosexual man who applied for a position as a youth worker when Bishop Priddis questioned him about his sexual practices and a previous same-sex relationship. The bishop said he asked the man about his lifestyle because it "has the potential to impact on the spiritual, moral and ethical leadership within the diocese." The tribunal ruled the youth worker position falls outside the religious exemptions allowed in the country's Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003. The British media are full of stories about pedophiles, as they have been about Catholic priests, who have preyed upon young boys. In rational times, the sexual behavior of one applying for a youth worker position might seem a plausible line of questioning, but these are not rational times. The court is considering what damages to award the 42-year-old applicant. Another case adding to the sense of societal breakdown involves 16-year-old Lydia Playfoot. A court ruled Miss Playfoot's school was within its rights in prohibiting her from wearing a small "chastity ring" to demonstrate her commitment to remain a virgin until she marries. The court ruled the ring is not a "proper manifestation" of her faith. The Playfoot family must pay $24,699 in court costs for bringing the case against the school. The girl's father, the Rev. Phil Playfoot, said, "This country is tolerant of any views except those of Christians." more...
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"I am both Muslim and Christian" The Seattle Times (June 12, 2007) - Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill. On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest. She does both, she says, because she's Christian and Muslim. Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years. Now she's ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she's also been a Muslim — drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved. Her announcement has provoked surprise and bewilderment in many, raising an obvious question: How can someone be both a Christian and a Muslim? But it has drawn other reactions too. Friends generally say they support her, while religious scholars are mixed: Some say that, depending on how one interprets the tenets of the two faiths, it is, indeed, possible to be both. Others consider the two faiths mutually exclusive. "There are tenets of the faiths that are very, very different," said Kurt Fredrickson, director of the doctor of ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. "The most basic would be: What do you do with Jesus?" Christianity has historically regarded Jesus as the son of God and God incarnate, both fully human and fully divine. Muslims, though they regard Jesus as a great prophet, do not see him as divine and do not consider him the son of God. more...
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The New Age Movement is Huge and Growing Constance Cumbey (July 9, 2007) - WATCH PAUL HAWKEN'S BRAGGING VIDEO HERE "In The Magic of Findhorn, the story of the community by Paul Hawken, the author relates how Robert Ogilvie Crombie (Roc), an associate of the Findhorn Community met a spirit being whom he recognized as 'Pan'. This being, during the course of the ensuing conversation, asked him, 'Do you love my subjects?' "Yes'. In that case do you love me?' 'Why not?' 'DO YOU LOVE ME? "Yes' ...'You know of course that I am the Devil? You have just said that you love the devil.' 'No you are not the devil. You are the god of the woodlands and countryside. There is no evil in you' There are many other references in the book to contact with spirit beings. . . . "David Spangler, one of the leaders of the New Age movement states in Reflections on the Christ (p. 40-44), published by the Findhorn Foundation, 'Christ is the same force as Lucifer, .(who) is an agent of God's love acting through evolution - . . Lucifer prepares man . . for the experience of Christhood . . . The light that reveals to us the path to Christ comes from Lucifer . . . the great initiator . . . Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness as we move into the new age . . . each of us is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic initiation , . Lucifer comes to give us the final Luciferic initiation . . that many people in the days ahead will be facing, for it is an initiation into the New Age"* In Biblical times, there was never any shortage of false prophets to reassure Israel and its kings that "good times" were coming as God's judgment and disaster instead loomed. Today's times so painfully parallel those ones. I started sounding alarms about the New Age Movement in 1981. In 1982, my work was publicized by a converted Detroit Free Press reporter. Full page newspaper advertisements appeared on April 25, 1982. The proclaimed "THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE." The ads had been no surprise to me. The Detroit Free Press had authorized its reporter to begin working on the story that appeared on May 5, 1982 after learning in April 1982 that "Tara Center" would be spending upwards of half a million dollars to run such ads globally. Obviously, the spending of half a million dollars -- worth much more in that economy than now -- had a very serious purpose. Somebody was not doing it on a whim or a prank. The delusion to the New Age proponents of the scheme was that they were safe from premature detection. They honestly believed what Alice Bailey and other doctrinal adherents of the New Age Movement in its multitude of forms expressed: that nobody could understand their teachings but "an initiate." Planetary Citizens founder Donald Keys happily wrote in his 1982 EARTH AT OMEGA: PASSAGE TO PLANETIZATION that so far the New Age Movement had eluded detection "by alarmed forces and defenders of the status quo ante." Keys was in for a surprise as was his much wealthier and influential sponsoring mentor, Norman Cousins. They had been detected and alarms were sounded. The alarms were somewhat muted, however, by "Christian experts" who rushed in to say nothing was happening. There was no "New Age Movement," and if there was, which was doubtful, "they certainly were not networked politically." It has occurred to me more than once that the New Age Movement may have created its own "opposition." Spiritual Counterfeits Project is listed in many New Age directories from the early 1970's under its original name of "World Christian Liberation Front." The Spiritual Community Guide listed it as "a Community where people live together to get on with the aims listed under Center." In the key to New Age Centers, they cited that the purpose of the "New Age Centers" was to advance the spreading "New Age." more...
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Hindu appointed to run Christian religion studies WorldNetDaily (June 8, 2007) - A college affiliated with a Christian denomination has appointed to head its religion department a practicing Hindu who believes that some forms of Christian ministry produce violence. Anantanand Rambachan, who has taught religion and philosophy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., since 1985, now will become the first non-Christian to head the religion department in the school's 133-year history. "It's a great honor," Rambachan, a leading figure in Minnesota's Hindu community, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. But in an interview with Hinduism Today, he wrote of participating in the Pontifical Council in Rome in 2006. "Last year we met in Rome in a joint consultation with the World Council of Churches to discuss conversion. This was the first meeting of a three-year project to study the issue and to develop an acceptable code of conduct. Certain forms of Christian proselytization have given rise to tension and even violence between some religious communities," he said. "We gathered to share our perspectives on this matter and to consider acceptable and unacceptable ways of sharing our faiths in communities. "Our discussion was frank and at times difficult, but we agreed that while everyone has a right to invite others to an understanding of their faith, no one has the right to violate others' rights and religious sensibilities. At the same time, all should heal themselves from the obsession of converting others," he wrote. His writings also have been featured on the website of the Hindu-American Foundation, which earlier launched a diatribe against a variety of Christian organizations. As WND reported, the report from the Hindu American Foundation accused a long list of Christian organizations, including some providing aid in India, of promoting hatred. "The proliferation of websites promoting religious hatred is an unfortunate consequence of the universality of access to the Internet," said Vinay Vallabh, the lead author of the report. Among those criticized were the Southern Baptists' missions board, Gospel for Asia and Olive Tree Ministries, just down the road from St. Olaf, a ministry that aims at teaching Christians about their beliefs. "We must vigorously identify, condemn and counter those who use the Internet to espouse chauvinism and bigotry over the principles of pluralism and tolerance," Vallabh said. Jan Markell, who has been with the Olive Tree Ministries since 1977, has written eight books and hundreds of articles about Christians and their beliefs, at first wondered why she would be listed among ministries hated by a Hindu organization. Then she remembered a series of articles warning Christians against participating in yoga, a Hindu form of worship. "I'm big on [opposing yoga for Christians]," she told WND. "I talk about it on the radio, and I write about it. And the irony of it all is, like Hindus, we don't want Christians practicing yoga either. more...
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I find it interesting that the Christian is blamed for promoting violence when it is they who are attacked for sharing their beliefs. My how people are offended today...like the Bible said it would be. Matthew 24:9,10, "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another."

As the "Alliance Of Civilizations" Advances . . . Older New Age Alliances Join and Come to the Forefront of its Battle Constance Cumbey (June 1, 2007) - This blogspot article is prompted by some of my later disturbing discoveries of the Alliance of Civilizations. It is also fed by my intense research beginning in 1981 on the New Age Movement. Clearly, those involved sincerely believed something BIG would happen in 1982. They started much earlier in collaboration with many elements including but not limited to Lucis Trust, Rosicrucian, and Theosophical interests to put the pieces in place and build momentum for what they thought was coming. Alice Bailey had written that preparation for the “Reappearance of the Reappearance of the Christ” (one at least per the Alice Bailey writings neither Jesus nor Jewish) should go public on radio and television starting in 1975.1 Its been a little while since I have written about the Alliance of Civilizations, known to our British and Canadian friends as “Alliance of Civilisations.” Readers "Rich of Medford" and Dorothy Margraf have been valiantly keeping up with the subject as well. Lately, I started wondering about its connections with older efforts that started in the 60's. A bold New Age initiative was started by New York socialite Judith Hollister in 1960, 47 years ago.2 Rolland Gammon, a gossipy New Ager active in the days I was originally researching the New Age Movement in the early 1980s fortunately shared his then 20 year recollections in his 1980 book Nirvana Now: “In fact, the 20-year-old Temple of Understanding is such a bold New Age concept and its founder Judith Hollister is such an Aquarian enchantress that these interfaith gatherings of world religion leaders cannot fail to be peace-making and faith-heartening to the hundreds who attend and the millions who read, see and hear about them in international media. As I attended the first one in Calcutta, India in 1968 . . . missed the second one in Geneva Switzerland in 1970 . . . it was assured that I would participate in the third one in October, 1971 at Harvard University . . . All living religions today are trying to function as an integrated spiritual grid . . .”3 Back to today's Alliance of Civilizations, it has long than we have suspected been in a phase of not just planning, but indeed of “implementation.” It further seems that since these statements were made in early 2006, that the process was much further along than their public “christening” which happened in December 2006 would indicate. This is very typical of my experience of the New Agers over the years: they never brag, they never show all their cards. If they tell you they've got something, they've got all that and much more! Fortunately for us, they don't hold all the cards. That's their Achilles heel and one that frustrated their earlier efforts to advance their agenda starting in the 1960s for what they hoped would grandly culminate in a 1982 “Reappearance of the Christ.” If anybody thinks that the 1982 worldwide half a million dollar ad campaign featuring ads reading “The Christ is now here” was done for a mere prank, I have a bridge to sell them --Brooklyn or Chappaquiddick, take your pick! Obviously there were very serious purposes behind them. I remember experiencing cold chills in mid 1982 upon hearing Benjamin Creme publicly blame me on San Antonio, Texas “The Allen Dale Show” back in 1982 for “interfering with the Christ's Reappearance.” I have now donated those tapes to the University of Michigan for archival in their Bentley Historical Library, but I remember hearing those threats which then seemed to me very imminent of threats of ultimate evil coming to be directed my way. I heard Creme say “Constance Cumbey will pay for her interference with the Christ's reappearance.” I quipped to my friends, I suppose I might, but I suppose I'm going to get paid, too!” Looking at an aging Benjamin Creme these days, it doesn't appear that his “messiah” or the Lucifer that Creme has publicly espoused, has been particularly effective in maintaining his own New Age claimed “eternal youth.” But then, I suppose he expects "reincarnation" will rescue that. I would rather trust in "resurrection"! more...
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Chief rabbis, EU president discuss 'interfaith UN' Jerusalem Post (May 30, 2007) - European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering said Wednesday in a meeting with Israel's chief rabbis that he would support the establishment of an "interfaith United Nations" that would bring together religious leaders from all over the world to promote peace. Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger first proposed the idea at an interfaith meeting several months ago. But Metzger said that Wednesday's meeting with Pottering marked the first time a political figure had shown interest in concrete steps towards achieving that idea. "After our meeting, the president sent an envoy to discuss in more detail the creation of an international body made up of religious leaders who could foster peace," said Metzger. "I envision the body being based in the holy city of Jerusalem, which is sacred to the three monotheistic religious. But disputes over its location should not delay the establishment of the interfaith UN," Metzger added. In a press release, the Chief Rabbinate said an interfaith UN could help combat anti-Semitism. Metzger said that the controversy sparked by the Mughrabi bridge excavations near the Temple Mount was a perfect example of how dialogue between religious leaders assuaged religious extremist rancor sparked by misinformation. "After explaining in the international media that construction of the bridge did not endanger Al-Aksa Mosque, people calmed down," said Metzger. more...

Pentecost 2007 ... A Step Closer to Global Unity ... A Step Further From Gospel Truth Lighthouse Trails Research (May 28, 2007) - This year's Pentecost 2007 will take place on June 3rd - 6th in Washington DC. Invited speakers include emerging church leader, Brian McLaren, Bill Hybel's wife--Lynne Hybels (Willow Creek), and liberal mystic-proponent Jim Wallis. Last fall, we reported on Pentecost 2006, stating: This summer's Pentecost 2006 conference, titled "Building a Covenant for a New America," is another example of how a move towards interspirituality (the coming together of all religions) is quickly taking place.... According to a Wall Street Journal editorial article on the event, Pentecost speaker Howard Dean said, "We're about to enter into the '60s again ... Into the age of enlightenment, led by religious figures who want to greet Americans with a moral, uplifting vision." While the emphasis of the Pentecost 2006 event was said to be helping the poor, one cannot help wonder about the implications and the results of such a coming together of religious and political ideas, especially when we stop and realize that here too, mysticism plays a significant role. Pentecost 2006 speaker Tony Campolo states his views on the role of mysticism and uniting all together in his book, Speaking My Mind: Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God ... I do not know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystical experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism? (pp. 149-150) Well, according to New Agers, there is indeed a common ground between Christianity and Islam, in fact between all religions. Mysticism is the glue that binds them all together. In Ron Miller's book, As Above, So Below, he states (quoting Aldous Huxley): "a highest common factor" links the world's religious traditions. He [Huxley] calls this unifying factor the Perennial Philosophy: "the metaphysical [mystical] that recognizes a divine reality ... each religion [provides] meditative disciplines that help us ... experience our rootedness in the divine ... the spiritual dimension of culture is ... a spectrum of contemplative practices, equivalent in essence, which lead toward experience rather than towards doctrinal assertion." (pp. 2-3) Will this expected "age of enlightenment" that Howard Dean spoke of at Pentecost 2006 intersect at some point with the evangelical's (e.g., Rick Warren) hoped for "great awakening" or "second reformation"? The gap between the two is narrowing, and mysticism is the bridge that will bring about the ultimate unity. Now this year, Pentecost will be more of the same agenda. Pentecost 2007 speakers will include Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and three presidential candidates: Hilary Clinton, Obama Barack, and former Senator John Edwards.

American Christianity -- Laodicean church in the making, says Barna OneNewsNow (May 23, 2007) - More than 20 years of research, says The Barna Group, has revealed a disturbing trend among Americans' spiritual beliefs and behavior: their commitment to orthodox biblical perspectives is "slipping." The director of a recent Barna study says the findings reflect a "spiritual profile" among Americans similar to that of the early church at Laodicea -- a church which Jesus admonished for being "neither hot nor cold" and called to repentance. Every year, The Barna Group explores the "state of America's faith," examining such factors as people's spiritual activity, faith identity, commitment, and religious perspective. This year's poll of more than 1,000 adults (conducted in January) indicates that while Americans are remaining spiritually active, the percentage of those who hold orthodox biblical views has fallen to its lowest level in decades. "They've actually become less orthodox, less traditional," Barna's David Kinnaman tells Associated Press. "[M]any of their core biblical perspectives have changed." A report released by Barna summarizes this year's findings. Among them -- two-thirds (66%) of Americans believe that God is best described as "the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe who rules the world today." That is down five percent from one year ago and represents the lowest percentage in more than 20 years of similar surveys, notes the report. In addition, says Kinnaman, "they are less likely to reject the notion that Jesus sinned (37%), and they're less likely to believe that Satan is a real spiritual entity (24%)." Both of those percentages are lower than last year and are among the lowest during the two decades Barna has tracked Americans' views in those areas. The research organization observes that such revelations call into question the sincerity of people's commitment to orthodox biblical perspectives. Kinnaman puts it this way: while millions of Americans feel personally committed to God, they are apparently "renegotiating" the definition of God. "They lack a consistent and holistic understanding of their faith," he says in the Barna report. "[They] say they are personally committed to Jesus Christ, but they believe he sinned while on Earth. Many believers claim to trust what the Bible teaches, but they reject the notion of a real spiritual adversary ...." The survey director says most Americans seem to have one foot in the "biblical camp" and one foot outside it -- placing themselves in what Kinnaman refers to as a "squishy middle." "They say they are committed, but to what?" he asks. "They are spiritually active, but to what end? The spiritual profile of American Christianity is not unlike a lukewarm church that the Bible warns about." (Revelation 3:14-22) more...
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That they may be One Catholic.net (April 25, 2007) - The efforts of Pope Benedict XVI to restore Church unity in his two years as Vicar of Christ. From the first moments of his pontificate Pope Benedict XVI perceived God’s plans clearly. “The current Successor (of Peter) assumes as his primary commitment that of working tirelessly towards the reconstitution of the full and visible unity of all Christ's followers. This is his ambition, this is his compelling duty.” Now, on his second anniversary as Pope, his track record shows us the seriousness of his commitment. Few people expected Pope Benedict, now 80, to keep up the pace of world travel that the young Pope John Paul II had set. The consequent drop in worldwide media coverage of the Pope’s activities is understandable. However, the quiet insistence of the current Vicar of Christ merits more attention. His various apostolic visitations, numerous ecumenical gatherings and even his weekly Wednesday audiences demonstrate his focused goal of achieving unity. This mission takes place on three levels. First, there is the difficult task of achieving full Christian unity. Second, there is unity within and among increasingly secular societies that needs to be considered. Third, and this is something the Pope has particularly stressed, there is the issue of the unity between faith and reason. On his first apostolic visit to Germany for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict met with Christians of all denominations to express with clarity his great hope. “What does it mean to restore the unity of all Christians? … This unity subsists, we are convinced, in the Catholic Church, without the possibility of ever being lost. This does not, however, mean uniformity in all expressions of theology and spirituality, in liturgical forms and in discipline.” For some that may sound a bit too ambitious, but as Pope Benedict has repeated on various occasions, “We can only obtain unity as a gift of the Holy Spirit.” In that same World Youth Day address he stressed that “spiritual ecumenism -- prayer, conversion and the sanctification of life -- constitute the heart of the ecumenical movement. It could be said that the best form of ecumenism consists in living in accordance with the Gospel.” Given this firm interior preparation, the Pope expressed his sincere hope in the fulfilment of this mission given to him from on high. “I am convinced,” he said, “that if more and more people unite themselves to the Lord’s prayer ‘that all may be one’, then this prayer, made in the name of Jesus, will not go unheard.” The papal visit to Valencia, Spain, gave the Pontiff an opportunity to expound his deep concerns for the unity in secular society. He especially addressed the secularist trend causing Europe’s demographic suicide. This ongoing theme of the unity of faith and reason at the service of humanity also motivated his speech at the University of Regensburg. There, in his visit to Bavaria the Pope argued that reason without faith threatens the unity of Christians as well as unity among societies. “Secularized reason is unable to enter into a true dialogue with the religions. It remains closed to the question of God, and this will end by leading to the clash of cultures,” he recalled in his address to the Curia. Pope Benedict does not suggest that the clash of civilizations is inevitable, but sees a clear connection between this threat and Christian unity. He stressed that “religions must encounter one another in the common task of putting themselves at the service of the truth and thus, of the human being.” Contrary to the misinterpretations of his speech in Regensburg, the Pope’s visit to Turkey showed the world his respect for the Islamic religion. In the Blue Mosque in Istanbul he prayed “that all believers might recognize themselves as creatures and give witness of authentic fraternity.” Amidst a crowd of 400,000 gathered in the celebration of Pentecost, he called upon the various ecclesial movements present to “accept the active directives of the Successor of Peter, but also of the bishops of the various local Churches who, with the Pope, are custodians of truth and charity in unity.” He encouraged the enthusiasm and initiative of these new lay groups in the Church reminding them that their various activities should converge in a common end. “He wants your diversity and he wants you for the one body.” more...
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The desire for peace among those in the world is not lost on me, but not at the loss of Truth. The inter-religious connections do not attempt to share Truth, but fall under the false belief that we all just have different names for God and that all roads lead to God. This is not Truth according to the only Holy Book that tells the future from the beginning. Pandering to destructive belief systems in the name of compromise and peace is heading toward the Babylonian mixing of belief that dilutes the Truth and introduces lies that deceive. Kissing the Koran and having all the religious leaders from the world unite in prayer to their gods does not bring peace, it gives the false impression of it without changing reality.

 

I believe that the bride of Christ should be united as one mind and one body as God intended. However, that should be according to God's Word alone and not a modified version of it. The NIV and other modern translations, has over 200 verses missing with the verse numbers left printed and many changing of scripture also found in the Catholic Bible! Examples Then there's the subtle elimination of the 2nd commandment regarding idols in Catholic displays of the Commandments and the division of the 9th and 10th Commandments to make it 10 again. Also, something I missed on Rosh Hashanah, 2005 is the following story: Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible 

John 15:16-21
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

 

1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

 

John 17:20-23
I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word[Bible]; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, {are} in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

2006

THE FEAR OF GOD REVEALS LOVE Apprising Ministries (November 2006) - Tim Brown over at Reformed Gadfly has weighed in on the sad situation with Ted Haggard. In his insightful post Ted Haggard: The Symptom Tim makes an excellent point and is telling tragic truth when he says that, “I’m sick and tired of being associated with a ‘Christianity’ that does not seem to care one whit about holiness or obedience to God's Word. Let me say this as perfectly clear as I can: I believe that ‘Christianity’ in America is nearly totally apostate. Why? We have abandoned the vision of the Holiness and Fear of God.” With this in mind I repost an earlier work of mine on the critical forgotten subject: the fear of God. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only… [but] “there is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Deuteronomy 6:13, Romans 3:18) Enemies of God In The Falling Away Of The Evangelical Church I covered the subject of self-esteem in quite some depth. For those who may have seen that article, it should now be much more evident to you why the wrong idea of mankind’s true condition before God is so eternally fatal. Years ago a grossly misguided “theology” was injected as a spiritual poison into the evangelical community through heretical teachers like the twin saints of sappy sentimentality – “positive thinkers” Norman Vincent Peale and his placid protégé Robert Schuller. And here we find the root of just how Satan was able to penetrate his puppet pulpiteers into the evangelical camp of our Lord's Church in the first place. For the enemy of men’s souls himself, has held such men as these as his very syringes. And sadly, the evangelical community is now beginning to fill with sallow preachers of weak-kneed stature who are all too willing to defend the so-called honor and “dignity” of man in order to win favor with the world. Now, whether they themselves realize this is absolutely irrelevant. The question professing Christians today must begin asking themselves is: Why aren’t these so-called “ministers” of Jesus Christ as ready to defend God’s honor and to protect the glory that is due to His Christ alone? You may recall that the Bible does say – For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:10). In the above verse of Holy Scripture we learn the incredible truth that all the time it has not been that God considers mankind as His enemies–but rather it is actually us–who in our basic unregenerate sinful human nature believe that the Creator is our enemy! We turn now to Paul’s letter originally written to the churches in Rome (there was not only one church there) and let us look further at this critical subject, the growing absence of the fear of our Lord in His Church, from the Bible. As a matter of fact the verses prior to the one I just quoted couldn’t be any clearer as to why the fear of God, which is so glaringly missing in our so-called postmodern churches, is proving to be such a tragic and ominous reality for this generation. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:6-10) I draw your attention again to verse 6 – You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. It readily becomes obvious to everyone with eyes to see that mankind didn’t do anything for this to happen. And, if the truth be told, we actually did everything we could in our power as creatures to give our loving God every reason not to come in the Person of Christ to die for us. You’ll also notice in the b part of verse 6 – [that] Christ died for the – “preservation of the dignity of mankind–who actually have many ‘redeeming’ qualities.” No! – Christ died for the ungodly. How could God the Holy Spirit have made this point any more lucid? The late Dr. Walter Wessel–who taught New Testament at Bethel Seminary–puts it very well when he says about this verse of Romans 5 – “God’s free grace…is not the result of any inherent worthiness found in [mankind]. In fact, it is lavished on us in spite of our undesirable character” (NIV Study Bible, 1985 ed., p.1712)... As you read on, and as you think about what we have already seen, you should come to see that the world-loving “worship” in these sinner-friendly PDL/CGM churches (see–2 Timothy 4:3-4) does bear an alarmingly striking resemblance to this very description from the lips of our Lord, Christ Jesus Himself. [Jesus] replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’ 8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” 9 And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!” It sure would seem as if this is relatively self-explanatory. For if Jesus said these kinds of things to people who perverted God’s Word, and worshipped Him in a centered on self way, in order to hold to their on to their own traditions while He was still physically present upon His earth–then would He not then continue to hold this same view today? Remember now–it is written: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). As such then, what else could these verses of Holy Scripture here possibly mean to us today? After all, we do say that we believe that God still speaks to us today in the Bible–do we not? By the way, this is Hebrews 13:8 from the English Standard Version of the Bible. But you know what? I have also searched out this verse in a number of different translations of the Bible–and they all say the very same thing! I have examined this Scripture in the literal Greek of the Nestle text, and even in the Textus Receptus as well–for our friends in the KJV Only camp. And this Scripture always reads the very same way! Which forces us now to a crucial question: If Jesus Christ is the same today–and–if unregenerate mankind is also the same–as he has always been since the fall–then why are we now attempting to change Christ’s Gospel? To the one who has been given a love for the Holy Scriptures the answer is as obvious as light and night. The Christian Church in America has gradually and steadily been succumbing to the Devil’s clarion call to compromise through relentless indoctrination of liberal humanistic man-centered “philoso-theolog-ophies” as championed by Satan’s own hypocritical liars (1 Timothy 4:2). Sadly, these sell-out pulpiteers are but pawns for the Devil–who willingly do their master’s evil bidding and faithfully preach their heretical doctrines of demons and tolerance in order to protect themselves from conflict with the world. more...
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This article mentions Dispensationalism and associates it with Darby/Schofield/Chafer, "leading many into a dead letterism" which is misdirected in my opinion. Dispensation as related to theology is the recognition of the divine ordering of earthly affairs. This clear fact is implied throughout scripture in that Israel was the nation chosen from the earth through which to bring the Messiah and document Israel's history and her future. One need look no further than the 70 Weeks of Daniel to realize that those 70 weeks are determined for Israel and Jerusalem, Daniel 9:24. If that isn't God ordering earthly affairs through the nation of Israel and dictating the earth's future through that nation, I don't know what is. Not only that, but God chooses the nation of Israel and the writings through Jewish prophets led by the Holy Spirit to document Israel's future in the world and so too all of our futures leading up to the coming of the Lord. The beginning of the great tribulation, focused on Israel initially, is centered around the midst of the 70th week of Daniel. Israel is God's prophetic time-piece. Just because some people holding the dispensational view also believe other false ideas, doesn't mean Dispensationalism is wrong, it's clearly written in the Bible. The fact that the Bible is of Jewish origins and promises were made to that nation as opposed to the Gentile nations shows that God sees a distinction between Jews and Gentiles in His prophetic plans and this plays directly to our understanding Bible prophecy and our immediate future. Without recognition of the reality of Dispensationalism, Bible prophecy doesn't make sense.

World Peace Religion Lambastes U.N. Report of Alliance of Civilizations TransWorldNews (November 13, 2006) - The Alliance of Civilizations was formed 1 year ago by Koffi Annan to ease tensions between Western and Muslim societies. The Secretary Generalof the United Nations appointed a group of world leaders called the High-level Group to prepare a report which was released today, November 13, 2006. The U.N. Report states, “Notwithstanding the critical state of relations between Muslim and Western societies described in the report, the High-level group firmly asserts that there is nothing inevitable or insurmountable in these conditions. Indeed because the causes of current tensions are political – and not religious or cultural – they are also solvable.” The report concludes with a list of recommendations. Here is the response of Karen Fish of The Temple of Love – The World Peace Religion: “To put it mildly, I am stunned. Jesus Christ was the Jewish born Rabbi and Messiah of Christianity and Islam. Jesus said to the leaders of his day, ‘Blind guides! You blind fools! Hypocrites! You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to burn alive on the fire altars of Gehenna?!’ (Matt. 23). It is clear that our world leaders today are leading us all into the real live fire of Nuclear World War 3, the Apocalypse, the sudden violent extinction of life on Earth forever. It boggles the mind that the top minds on Earth have concluded that the problems between the Jews, Muslims and Christians do not have a religious cause. Surely they cannot believe that. They must be so frightened to offend anyone involved in these religions that they have washed these religions’ hands of all blame, even if it leads us all into the Apocalypse. The Temple of Love – The World Peace Religion has a 10 page website. On these 10 pages we tie every religion together with their common threads. Then we shine the light on our differences, with Biblical citations, and resolve them once and for all through the mouth of God of Mount Sinai aka Jesus Christ, God the Father, The Holy Spirit, Allah, Yehovah, Elohim, etc. through every Biblical Prophet in the Old Testament, New Testament and Koran. Here is our letter to the authors of the report:
 ‘Dear Alliance of Civilizations, Only The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion makes peace among and unites Christianity Islam Judaism and Everyone else and the Countries they all live in as the first step towards World Peace. Only The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion stands between mankind and the Apocalypse. Search "unites Christianity Islam Judaism". There are 1000 results all ours. Please promote The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion by placing our link on every website, in every newspaper, on every TV station, in every classroom, and to all of your contacts in every Country on Earth by forwarding to them this email. Yours truly, John Fish’ We also recommend that today every Church, every Mosque, and every Synagogue replace their sign with “The Temple of Love – The World Peace Religion.” This is the exit strategy of our God of Mount Sinai from the Middle East Crisis, Iraq, and the coming Apocalypse. It is time that we use our own minds, our own common sense, to save ourselves from the onrushing flames of Armageddon. Staying the course and listening to reports like the report of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations will soon result in the end of life on Earth forever, at our hands. Nuclear World War 3 will be the ultimate murder suicide. Run for your lives and the lives of your children to The Temple of Love – The World Peace Religion while there is still time. Many people believe that we have already passed the point of no return. Let’s prove them wrong. The continued existence of life on Earth is in our hands. Don’t drop the crystal ball onto the concrete floor like the Alliance of Civilizations just did.”
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The Temple of Love concept is exactly what the one world religion movement is about. They think that by dropping what the religions actually say, we can prevent the inevitable fulfillment of prophecy. Many people are scared because they see it coming and don't want it. As they will see however, what will happen must be. It is the result of the sins of man catching up with them. There always has been consequences to doing things apart from God. He gave us rules because it is the best way to live in peace and love. Going counter to and ignoring them results in the opposite of peace and love. It is important to obey God's ways to attain His salvation from our sins. We all fall short, but grace is unmerited favor given to us by faith in Christ. There is only one reality, one Truth. Ignoring that to create an all-inclusive belief system that removes the central nature of Christ to eternal salvation is a direct attack on the fundamental foundation of what the Bible says is reality in favor of a fable. Many people have itching ears for a man-made faith, believing that by accepting all beliefs, all conflict is removed. Ultimately, this seed of an idea destroys the fabric of the original in the mind of the believer. Ultimately, when the antichrist rises with signs and lying wonders, they will more easily wonder at the beast because in order to accept the all-inclusive doctrine, the Bible cannot be part of the research as it directly counters the all-inclusive beliefs. The Bible is what tells us our future and those without an understanding of what is coming will be more susceptible to the coming deceptions that are part of the future. God didn't leave us in the dark about the future, but it requires taking Him at His Word, the Bible. And not just the little pieces we like, but the whole thing in its entirety. Less and less people today are willing to accept that, hence the falling away from the Truth, apostasy.

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible Times Online (October 5, 2005) - The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true. The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible. “We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,” they say in The Gift of Scripture. The document is timely, coming as it does amid the rise of the religious Right, in particular in the US. Some Christians want a literal interpretation of the story of creation, as told in Genesis, taught alongside Darwin’s theory of evolution in schools, believing “intelligent design” to be an equally plausible theory of how the world began. But the first 11 chapters of Genesis, in which two different and at times conflicting stories of creation are told, are among those that this country’s Catholic bishops insist cannot be “historical”. At most, they say, they may contain “historical traces”. The document shows how far the Catholic Church has come since the 17th century, when Galileo was condemned as a heretic for flouting a near-universal belief in the divine inspiration of the Bible by advocating the Copernican view of the solar system. Only a century ago, Pope Pius X condemned Modernist Catholic scholars who adapted historical-critical methods of analysing ancient literature to the Bible. In the document, the bishops acknowledge their debt to biblical scholars. They say the Bible must be approached in the knowledge that it is “God’s word expressed in human language” and that proper acknowledgement should be given both to the word of God and its human dimensions. They say the Church must offer the gospel in ways “appropriate to changing times, intelligible and attractive to our contemporaries”. The Bible is true in passages relating to human salvation, they say, but continue: “We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters.” They go on to condemn fundamentalism for its “intransigent intolerance” and to warn of “significant dangers” involved in a fundamentalist approach. “Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.” more...
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From Tradition To Truth: A Priest’s Story .pdf by Richard Peter Bennett

"The Inquisition"

Because of the continued interest and requests for our Inquisition video, we again post it as our main streaming video. We have had constant questions regarding the number of people who suffered under the Inquisition, so we give here some historical sources. Firstly, from John Dowling's The History of Romanism, Book 8, Ch. 1, pp. 542, 543, "From the birth of Popery in 600, to the present time, it is estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than FIFTY MILLION of the human family have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors, an average of more than forty thousand religious murders for every year of the existence of Popery." The main credible historians on the Inquisition, besides Dowling himself are Lea, Vancandard, Maycock, Coulton, and Turberville. Secondly, Scott's Church History gives a few sets of numbers, with the qualification, "No computation can reach the numbers who have been put to death, in different ways, on account of their maintaining the profession of the Gospel, and opposing the corruption of the Church of Rome. A MILLION of poor Waldenses perished in France; NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND orthodox Christians were slain in less than thirty years after the institution of the order of the Jesuits. The Duke of Alva boasted of having put to death in the Netherlands, THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND by the hand of the common executioner during the space of a few years. The Inquisition destroyed, by various tortures, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND within thirty years. These are a few specimens, and but a few, of those which history has recorded; but the total amount will never be known till the earth shall disclose her blood, and no more cover her slain." The torture chambers of the Inquisition lasted 605 years and were found throughout the nations controlled by Rome. They had their beginning under Pope Innocent III in 1203 until the Inquisition's final dissolution in Spain and Portugal in 1808. As we repost our video, we do so linked to a site where you may post your own comments. Please, feel free to do so. On this same site, we have had 12,150 viewings to date.

Falling Away of the Church

As I'm kind of new to looking at the different churches and schemes out there, but this is the beginning of the information I'm beginning to track. If you have anything you feel is important for this page, please e-mail it to me.

• Spirit of Error Blog - This blog examines the apostolic-prophetic movement (also known as the “New Apostolic Reformation”) — a fast-growing, evangelical movement that promotes modern-day apostles and prophets with great authority, supernatural powers, and the ability to give new doctrinal revelation. Advocates of this movement believe that all people, nations, and demonic principalities must submit to these apostles and prophets, who will lead God’s end-times army in establishing His kingdom on earth. This once-fringe movement has entered many charismatic churches (which are the fastest-growing churches in nearly every region of the world, according to church growth experts, like David B. Barrett), and the movement is being promoted by prominent evangelical leaders, like C. Peter Wagner and Jack Hayford. Amazingly, many Christians aren’t aware that this movement exists. Even many Christians who attend apostolic-prophetic churches are unaware of the movement’s aberrant teachings, which are often introduced through the “back door” of churches that claim to have standard evangelical statements of faith. My goal is to provide information about this movement, so Christians won’t be misled into its unbiblical teachings and practices.

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Publishing companies like the one Joel Osteen writes for are ultimately owned by the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company and the MoD, the EU minister of defense ultimately pulls the purse strings.

You may find this part very interesting. The Āgā Khān IV, I just learned is the 49th Imam of a main stream Shiite line and considered a descendent of Fatima Muhammad’s wife. This guy is very rich and very powerful and he lives I France. As we know Fatima is also the place in Portugal where the Virgin Mary appeared to the three young girls. Mary has a different title to fit every situation, religion or aberration. In short I think the RCC and Islam are being meld together in this way. Note also the Wikipedia link I showed you was another Mary, that is the Mary of the Jesuits. I linked the Jesuits to John Eldredge, they share the same type of bogus theology.

OKAY Here is a biggy, I found documents for a strategic Trans-Atlantic military partnership. I found an Annual Review of the EADS , the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company. It’s All Connected the Apostasy and the Beast. The apostasy or the falling away is something that I never particularly paid much attention too. That was until recently when I visited a neighboring town’s church, Vineyard a Pentecostal Church. Now I never held any reservations to this church prior to my visit, but OH MAN what an eye opener! The picture of the apostate church is much worse today than I ever imagined. I have discovered connections from the heart mainstream Christianity all the way to the realm of the EU beast. If you heard information about Joel Osteen from others and think you know where I’m going with this; well I’ll bet you don’t. So please stay tuned in to what I’m saying.

If you’re like me you never paid much attention to how a global religion could ever take root; I could never imagine how this could be possible given all the different religions cultures and politics. I figured that some how prophecy would be fulfilled in some way I just was not sure how. Have you ever followed a path starting on what you think will be a quick walk but you keep going because you keep discovering new things as you go. And then by the end of your adventure you discovered you traveled a very long distance having seen some very cool things. And then you wonder if you will ever get back before it gets dark. Well it’s kind of like that for me right now as I wrote this.

Now back to my church visit/encounter:

We visited this church because my daughter once went there a few years back. She needs to come back into a relationship with Christ and we went to help support her. There were partial truths spoken quoting the Word to support a book written by Joel Osteen. Now I never knew much about Joel that was until I got home and researched him. I am composing a letter to this church to confront them, please pray it will be received as truth.

The main point of the speakers message was “there is power in your words”’ that by your words you can control your present environment to have an abundant life hear and now. The speaker also combined this message along with visual overhead images from a new age following of “The project of love and thanks to water”. Images of ice crystals where used to illustrate positive or negative effects of sound via, words, prayer or music subjected to water, before its frozen. The claim is positive words or prayers spoken even by non-believers can have a positive influence on water and our environment.

Here are some of my findings about DR EMOTO:

1. Scientifically these claims are false.
     a. The same results can be produced using magnets or other sources for structure water.
     b. His results were biased.
2. Dr. Emoto performs collective prayer to water ceremonies with people that participate all over the world at the same time in Liechtenstein just north of Italy, in the heart of the EU beast.
3. This is New Age Apostasy being mixed with the Word of God in our churches.

Supporting Links
http://www.thank-water.net/english
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm
http://www.thank-water.net/english/index.htm

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Publishing connection to Europe From David at FulfilledProphecy:

As for Joel Osteen I found some alarming connections by following the money trail via the publishers. Joel can tell you how to have an abundant life now ; but I show you how to get from Joel to Mr. Europe in six steps.

1. Joel signed with Faithwords, for an estimated 13 million for “Your Best Life Now”. (Note: Faithwords was formerly owned by Warner Publishing)
2. Hachette Book Group USA owns Faithwords.
3. Lagardère owns Hachette Book Group USA. 
4. Lagardère is owned by the French government and is a military contract company.
5. Lagardère is a major share holder in the European Defense Agency (EDA). The EDA appears to be a hi-breed of corporate parts that supply military services primarily to the EU and across the globe. Between Daimler-Chrysler a German company and Lagardère a French company they own controlling shares of stock at 52%. Note: The Lagardère family apparently sold their famous horse racing operation to very special person the Āgā Khān IV. But I’ll save this part about the Aga Khan and Fatima for another time.
6. European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) is now a large global military contractor primarily serving the EDA, European Defense Agency. 
7. The EADS is connected to the hip of the EDA.
8. The EDA reports to Solana. Here is a quote from a report written in 2005 by Solana concerning the EDA.

A little About the EADS controversy from Cluster bombs to Nuclear missiles:

This from Wikipedia: As a result of criticisms, the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global’s Advisory Council on Ethics recommended, in 2005, that the Ministry of Finance should exclude this company from the Pension Fund, arguing that EADS manufactures “key components for cluster bombs.” As a result, since 2 September 2005, EADS and its sister company EADS Finance BV have been excluded from the investment portfolios of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund.[9]Although frequently clarified by EADS, some groupings continue to claim that EADS is engaged in the production of antipersonnel mines or other internationally outlawed weapons or munitions. This was the case.

EADS owned the company TDA in a joint venture with the company Thales S.A. and TDA produced the mortar ammunition PR Cargo, which can be considered cluster ammunition. Even though EADS no longer owns TDA, it still owns MBDA, which is involved in the development of the nuclear missile M51. Because of this the Norwegian policy towards EADS hasn't changed. [10]

Mr. Europe (aka Javier Solana) reported his thoughts on the support for the EDA.

“In the end, this transformation can only be done by national governments,” said Solana. “The EDA will do everything it can to help, but the Agency does not deliver capabilities itself. Its participating Member States will have to. But they can now use the EDA instrument to support their efforts to improve Europe’s defense performance.”

Solana made his comments back in 2005, and today I suspect the EDA is getting the support from its member states via the corporations that resided in each member states. Just as Solana asked for. Companies such as Daimler-Chrysler the German company and Lagardère are the source of capitol to help make it happen. And of coarse those insightful books written by Joel Osteen. Solana’s Report commenting on the strategic needs to support the European Defense Agency (pdf).

Many analysts believe that the politicians who control EADS are more interested in securing jobs in their country than operating the company at maximum efficiency. Lord Drayson echoed those concerns yesterday: “We do see a real need for a global aerospace and defence company with its heart in Europe, but it needs to develop normal corporate governance. This is the challenge EADS faces. As a customer we see a need for change.”