Prophe-Zine, Issue # 13 Feb 15, 1996 Credits.......... Statement of Faith......... & Other stuff......... Raymond Gano..........Welcome to Issue # 13 Zola Levitt............Craziness and the End Times David W. Cloud.........Laughing Revivals The Christian Research Journal........"Fulfilled Prophecy as an Apologetic" Rob Smith....The Fed And The New World Order James Norman......The Still Before The Storm Jack Van Impe ...The European Superstate and the Coming New World Order Rudy Hulstrom.......New Age News Update Prophe-Zine News Bites..... Assorted Authors and News Services Special Thanks to:To my good friend Rob Smith. Rob and I have been sending email to each other for over a year now. He has in the past, sent me a news articles, video tapes and taped seminars that he has gone to. He keeps me up on many things that are happening here in the states and in the world. He has been a true and good friend, and VERY helpful in the production of Prophe-Zine. --- Thanks Rob--- Publication Cycle Notice: Prophe-Zine will be published (up loaded), on the 1st and the15th of each month. (bi-weelkly) Prophe-Zine is freely distributed to the major on-line services, BBSs, and to the Internet. You can also get back issues at Prophe-Zine's web site. Address: http://www.best.com/~ray673/pzhome.html The Editor of Prophe-Zine can be reached by sending e-mail to: ray673@best.com. Please write the Editor if you are interested in receiving guidelines for submission to Prophe-Zine Statement of Faith THE PURPOSE of Prophe-Zine is to carry out the command of the Lord Christ Jesus, recorded in Matthew 28:19: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations" Prophe-Zine is a Christian publication grounded in the deity of Christ and the inerrancy of Scripture. The major intent of the editors is first, the giving out the message of the Gospel, "For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures," 1 Cor. 15:3-4. The Editor of Prophe-Zine holds to a strictly literal and inerrant Bible interpretation, salvation through Christ alone, a soon pre-tribulation Rapture of all believers and the establishment of a thousand-year kingdom on earth. The evangelism of the unbelievers and the exhortation of the believers take precedence over all other activities of this ministry. Prophe-Zine may not agree with some of the authors and their beliefs, but Prophe-Zine believes that we must endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit (In other words agree to disagree), so Prophe-Zine feels that it must give equal time to other biblically based doctrines in all fairness. 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Programs include: MacWrite, MacDraw Pro, Color-It, JPEGview, Popcorn, OnLine Bible KJV 2.1, plus any other freeware that I can get my hands on to fill up the hard drive and use up even MORE RAM The Editor is currently looking for submissions, artists, writers, fiction, reviews, columnists and other help for Prophe-Zine articles. If interested, please write the Editor to receive a guideline for submissions. Feedback and suggestions from the Prophe-Zine readers are ALWAYS WELCOME! Don't just tell me that you actually liked reading Prophe-Zine, tell me what YOU would like to see in future issues! ***************************** Welcome to Issue # 13 Hello everyone, In this issue we are going to be looking at the issue of "end times" and further pushing towards Golobal Government. Also I reposted a article from Media Bypass which has been a VERY hot topic on the radio talk shows recently. At this time I would like to come out and officially endorse Pat Buchanon for President. It is in my opinion that he will do the best for our country. He is a man of God and his morals have never strayed. He believes in the sovereignty of our nation and wants to return God to our nation. He is pro-family, pro-life, wants to see that children can once again say prayers in school if they want and take their bible to class if they wish. America has forgotten that it is God who is our cornerstone and Pat wants to return our nation to a God fearing nation, instead of the secular humanist police state that it has grown into. Please keep Pat in your prayers and please get involved this year in the elections. It is my opinion that we are at a cross roads and we are truly battling for the moral soul of our nation. We as Christians have not been good stewards of the great land of ours. Now is the time to pull our heads out of the sand and stand once again for what is the right thing to do. (Matthew 25:14-30...Ephesians 6:10-13...Romans 13:1-7) Many secular people and Christians raise the church and state issue and our founding fathers. I have added a few of my favorite quotes from some of our founding fathers regarding being a Christian and government. ( I got a new book a few weeks ago reagrding famous quotes about God and country) "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!" - Patrick Henry "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their dispising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." - Noah Webster "Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?" - U.S. Supreme Court, 1844 "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington OK now I am geting off my soap box. I want to thank some of you for sending me your articles, but I need so many more to keep this pace up..so once again I am asking (begging) for articles from you the reader. I really need more article dealing with Christian issues. I have been drawing from the more politicical articles, because that is what readers are sending me... Please send me more articles dealing with Bible Prohecy, Messiah, anything regarding any christian issue you want to share with the other readers. I wish to remain balenced and to spread the gospel, but I really need your help. One last thing... If any of you visited my www in a little while ago, you would have noticed that it was blackened. I did this in protest of the Telcom reform bill and what it does to censor us (Christians). Many people think that this is a "great victory" but it is actually VERY scary. Now I think that there is a lot of bad stuff that you can get off the net, (Yes, I have checked it out) and you may ask " why do I think this is a bad bill"? Isn't the bill a great victory for the Family? And in a sense you are correct. Here are some things I would like to point out. It is of my opinion that this bill is going to be used against us, more than in favor of us (Right wing wackos) A couple of things that make the flags go up in my mind.... 1. This bill is against " indecency" (sp) the word is VERY loosely stated and VERY open to interpretation. For example you ask one of us what this is and means. We would talk about the family, and the harmful things that are out there in C-space, ie porn, violence, nazis, ect. However, say you ask Madalen O'Hair-Murrray (the famous atheist) and she will say religion, In God we Trust on our money, the 10 Commandments, ect. 2. Did you know after all, the Telecom "Reform" Act, makes it unlawful, and punishable by a $250,000 to say "sh%t" on-line. Or, for that matter, to say any of the other 7 dirty words prohibited in broadcast media. Or to talk about any bodily function in any but the most clinical terms. Or to discuss abortion openly. The thing that bothers me the most is the abortion issue. The FACE bill signed by Bill Clinton took away First amendment rights of MANY Christians who believe in life and not death. Look at how that has affected the Christian community. Like I stated before, it is in my opinion that we have just given the left another tool to silence us even more. What about if people start talking about guns, militias, the Bible, Prayer, will this be indecent someday too? I guess we will see. In His service, Ray Prophe-Zine ********************************* Craziness and the End Times By Zola Levitt People have always said that those who cry out "the End is near!" are crazy. How many cartoons have we seen of the nut with the sign board trying to preach repentance to the mocking crowd? Certain prophets (Ezekiel and Jeremiah, to name two) were regarded as crazy in their times when they warned of impending disaster. Well, I have the honor of receiving much the same criticism when I try to discuss events of the world we live in. Whenever I cover items in the news, selecting out craziness that seems to herald the End Times, I get a lot of criticism. Some believers have been taught all their lives that Christians must be meek and humble and try to get along with everybody, good or bad. We are supposed to be uncomplaining sheep just waiting around for our Lord to take us to a better place. Frankly, I didn't grow up like that. In the Jewish community, people make their feelings known and there are few pretenses. Israel is a refreshing place to our pilgrims because they discover people who say what they mean. At any rate, I am not just trying to please an audience but to teach Scripture and the plan of God as I understand it. For example, the constant maligning of Israel and the ridiculous respect shown for Arab dictators, including Arafat, is the sort of upside-down thinking one would expect as a sign of the End Times. The Lord Himself warned us, œAnd then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many (Matt. 24:10,11). His point was that we should not be misled. We are not the children of darkness, but œare all the children of light, and the children of the day . . . Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober (I Thess. 5:5,6). That being so, let us consider what is happening in the world. France has been in the news lately. President Jacques Chirac has taken a step that has been long-awaited by Holocaust survivors and Jewish leaders: admitting France's guilt in sending 76,000 Jews to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. French leaders have long maintained that France wasn't truly responsible for this since it was done by the Vichy regime, the provisional World War II French government that collaborated with Germany. But President Chirac, in office only a few months, has finally exposed this whitewash. A recent New York Times column, using a report from Paris dated July 16, stated: Mr. Chirac said today that on July 16, 1942, French police helped to round up some 13,000 Jewish men, women and children. They were crammed into the Vel d'Hiv, an indoor cycling stadium, before being interned in the Paris suburb of Drancy and then deported to death camps. Speaking at a memorial to these victims before a small crowd that included Jewish leaders as well as some Jewish death camp survivors, Mr. Chirac admitted France's collective error. As welcome as this 50-years-late admission is, France has still not completely removed the stain of its involvement with Nazi Germany. As further stated in the article mentioned above: Serge Klarsfeld, a French lawyer and renowned Nazi-hunter, said . . . [that] the French state confiscated money, property and valuables from Jews being deported from France and then failed to return these assets or pay reparations to surviving children of deportees. The families of the deported never got anything back, he said in an interview with the newspaper LibÈration. The Fourth Republic simply took their property, jewelry and objects. They stole money from parents and then did not pay it back to the children. And not repaying the children was perhaps the least crime that France committed against the young. A New York Times article dated July 19, writing about the roundup of the 13,000 Jews mentioned above, reports: The Nazis had specifically excluded young children from the deportation order, yet the French separated them from their parents and transferred them to a camp near Paris. There, 4,000 babies, toddlers and older children were pushed, dragged or carried by French officials into dark cattle cars for shipment to Auschwitz. Not one of them survived. Perhaps it is easy to understand why France would not want to admit to such horrendous crimes. The article continues: Vichy was dismissed as the work of a few senile Fascists. No one looked closely at what had happened during the Occupation, perhaps because very few intellectuals of any political stripe could claim to have had a good war . . . No one stood up to cry J'accuse! at high functionaires, as Emile Zola did during the Dreyfus affair. The lessons of history escaped the French. Emile Zola, for whom I am named, a century ago published a treatise that shamed French officials into admitting their anti-Semitism. Only decades later, they were again using their power to betray the Jews. France still leans toward a police state. One example of this is their insistence on conducting nuclear tests which endanger the South Pacific area (and possibly endanger us all). When an outcry was made in the new European Parliament, President Chirac stated that the resolution could not be changed. And when the nuclear tests were opposed by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, France sent its Navy against this unarmed vessel and boarded it, shooting tear gas at civilians. I have had personal experience with French anti-Semitism and their police state mentality. Two years ago, a young French policeman, with whom I had a few words, accused me of spitting on him and I was detained by the Orly airport police for some two hours while my Israel tour group waited. After making a lengthy statement through an interpreter to deny that ludicrous accusation, I was released but ordered to appear in court in the small town where the airport is located. I had to retain a lawyer to represent me there! I was exonerated, of course, and the charge was dismissed. On the face of it, a minister with a grey beard accosting a six-foot-tall young policeman in such a manner was unbelievable to the judges. Amazingly, my accuser appealed the case! I was served at my front door in Dallas with papers from this small town near Paris to reappear! I thought about sending them a psychiatrist instead of a lawyer. After more legal fees, I was pronounced innocent a second time. I literally lost thousands of dollars defending myself for being Jewish. My attorney pronounced the matter a case of genuine anti- Semitism, since the tour badge I had been wearing bore Hebrew characters and it seemed to be my Jewishness that offended the policeman. We will never again visit or spend one more penny on this nation, where the police have power over everyone: the courts, their own government, and even visitors doing business with their country. If you want a travel advisory, avoid this hostile country at all costs. I have traveled through Russia, a number of Moslem nations, and Germany on numerous occasions, but in my experience, France is the worst country to visit. Speaking of malevolent countries, Iraq is at or near the top of the list. Iraq, like all other Arab nations, is basically owned by one lunatic. While Arab governments put on various shows of democracy rubber stamp parliaments, very dangerous elections they are dictatorships all, certainly including the new Palestine. Like the French police, Saddam Hussein has total power over his courts and can dictate set them free (as he did in the recent case of the two American trespassers) just as easily as he dictates life or death over his own citizens. (Hussein has largely slaughtered the Kurds with poison gas and the like.) Israel has 17,000 policeman for its 4.5 million people. You, American taxpayer, have contributed to a force of 20,000 Palestinian police for 1.6 million people. In other words, Americans have been duped into creating a new Arab police force for a new Arab police state. The newspapers are full of our objections to human rights abuses in China, while we benignly ignore the 200 million people trapped behind the Arab Curtain. While China utilizes slave labor and certainly mistreats many people, they cannot begin to match President Assad of Syria, who slaughtered 20,000 of his own citizens at Hamah when they objected to his leadership. Our Secretary of State has recently been bowing in the throne room of this killer in order to give him part of Israel (the Golan Heights). The Middle Eastern Moslems in turn benignly ignore some 250,000 Moslem deaths in Bosnia because they are too busy with their Israel bashing. Meanwhile, the Arabs enjoy suspiciously good press. Geraldine Harris recently said on CNN's World Report, The West Bank has been weakened by 28 years of Israeli occupation. In reality, what the Israelis brought to the West Bank (a backward territory that was primitive even by Arab standards) was clean water, public health, public schools, universities, safety, and an average life span extension from 42 to 67. Notice, too, the total blackout of the trial of Sheik Rahman and the gang that bombed the World Trade Center. While you are being informed about Susan Smith (two dead, zero injured) and totally educated on O.J. Simpson (two dead, zero injured), you hear hardly a breath about the largest foreign terrorist event in American history (six dead, one thousand injured). Our Arab masters must be served. Arabs produce oil. Oil makes gasoline, plastics, paint, and a thousand other popular products used daily in America. The folks who make those buy lots of TV time and lots of newspaper advertising space. Get the picture? And so the newspapers, television stations, and even our own leaders kowtow to the desires of these dictators and call for Israeli compliance to the peace process, which is ultimately designed to bring about the annihilation of the State of Israel. Satan seeks to establish the conditions that will usher in the Antichrist, who will lead the ultimate police state, where people cannot buy or sell or even live unless they deny God. The End Times are coming. We can read about them every day, if we have the discernment that God provides. Forgive me if I tell the truth as I see it. Sometimes the truth about our world and about ourselves hurts, but as our Lord also observed, the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). Let us continue in His Word so that we can be free of the world's (and the media's) deception. Write for Zola'a Newsletter, Send Mail to: Zola Levitt Ministries Box 12268 Dallas, TX 75225 For speaking engagements, write to the address above or send a FAX to: 214-669-8640 Tell them that you read it in Prophe-Zine. ********************************* Laughing Revivals By David W. Cloud Last year we began reporting on the so-called revivals being conducted by South African charismatic evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne. The August 1993, issue of Charisma contained an article entitled "Laughter in Lakeland," which described Howard-Browne's May 1993, meetings at Assemblies of God-associated Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland, Florida. "Most people who attended the unusual series of meetings in Lakeland, Fla., laughed uncontrollably while the South African preacher told stories about modern-day miracles. ... The infectious laughter, he said, was a sign of the Holy Spirit's presence. ... It wasn't long before a few folks were rolling in the aisles--literally. ... Most of them, when asked to testify, bowed over in laughter and couldn't say a word. ... A Hispanic pastor from Tampa, after he approached the microphone, began laughing so hard he fell on the floor. He was still lying there when the morning session ended at 2:30 p.m. Falling on the floor was a common occurrence that afternoon. More than a thousand people formed a line in the church's expansive circular lobby so that Howard-Browne could touch them and impart a dose of Pentecostal joy. Few were left standing after the evangelist passed by. "Thousands more people arrived for an evening service, nearly filling the main floor of the 10,000-seat facility. ... As in the morning session, the audience laughed so loud during Howard-Browne's sermon that he finally put down his Bible and joined in the fun. "Dale Brooks, an Assemblies of God minister from Tampa who canceled his own worship services so his parishioners could attend the meetings, told the Tampa Tribune that he hoped folks wouldn't find fault with the Lakeland experience. He said he tells people, `Don't fight it. Enjoy it. Walk in it. Don't try to figure it out.'" This laughing phenomenon is occurring worldwide in radical charismatic circles. The February 1993, issue of Kenneth Copeland's paper, Believer's Voice of Victory, contained a report on a laughing revival which occurred in Bournemouth, England: "What began as a humorous chuckle, soon overcame Bro. Copeland. As he laughed and laughed trying to regain composure, waves of joy and laughter washed over him and the congregation. Lasting half an hour, the spirit of laughter ministered deeply to the people who had come from 43 nations, including Great Britain." The June 1994, issue of Charisma contained an article describing the so- called "holy laughter" which has infected a charismatic church in Massachusetts: In cold New England ... it isn't typical to find a church where worshipers break out in raucous laughter during Sunday services. But that's exactly what's been happening at the Christian Teaching and Worship Center (CTWC) in the Boston suburb of Woburn, Mass., since last November. "Mona Johnian, who has pastored the 450-member church with her husband, Paul, since 1982 ... believes a fresh manifestation of the Holy Spirit began to sweep through the congregation after she and her husband attended revival meetings in Jekyll Island, Ga., last November. The meetings were led by South African evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne ... We've seen healings, deliverance, salvation, baptisms in the Holy Spirit and evangelism. ... "The Johnians weren't ready to embrace the experience when they first saw pastors laughing uncontrollably after a banquet at the Georgia conference. ... What finally got her attention, she said, was seeing how her own pastor, Bill Ligon of Burnswick, Ga., responded to Howard-Browne's message. `Bill is the epitome of dignity, a man totally under control,' she said. When the evangelist laid his hands on Ligon, the pastor `fell on the stage' as if overcome by the Holy Spirit's power. ... `I thought, there's something to this--the Spirit had to be in control,' Mona reflected. ... she decided to embrace it, too. `I knew that if this was of God and I didn't enter in, our church would dry up,' she said." These experiences are being multiplied around the world. In a videoentitled The Laugh Heard 'round the World, Ken and Nancy Curtis of Carpenter's Home Church record this strange phenomenon occurring in meetings they have conducted in East Europe, Africa, and Asia. The Curtises claim this laughter is the joy of the Holy Spirit. The video depicts people being "slain with the Spirit" and falling on the floor where they writhe in uncontrollable laughter. When many of those so overcome attempt to speak, they are unable to do so. The people line up, and the Curtises move down the lines and touch them on the foreheads or throw their arms at them and shout, "Receive the Spirit, Receive the Spirit, Receive the Spirit..." When the people have fallen to the floor, the Curtises move among them and touch many of them on their bellies. The common response is an increase in the laughter. The Curtises are sent out from the Carpenter's Home Church to minister the laughing revivals worldwide. Advertising copy on the video cover says, "When South African Evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne came to Carpenters Home Church in Lakeland, Florida, for a Revival in March, 1993, he imparted the anointing for other believers to be able to spread the joy of the Holy Spirit. Soon after, Ken & Nancy Curtis became the first missionaries sent out from that church to take the Holy Spirit's joy around the world!" LAUGHTER AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE Uncontrollable laughter is not only popping up in charismatic meetings, it is being embraced as a weapon in spiritual warfare. Ken and Nancy Curtis of Carpenter's Home Church call their outreach Spiritual Warfare Ministries "which is focused on restoration of health to both the soul and body." By the way, the Curtises introduced themselves on the video as "elders" in the Carpenter's Home Church. Nancy Curtis is an elder. An article in the August 1993, issue of Charisma was condensed from a book by Cindy Jacobs, Possessing the Gates of the Enemy. Jacobs is the president of Generals of Intercession. In the article, entitled "Tearing Down Strong Holds Through Praise," Jacobs made these comments about the supposed power of laughter in warring against the devil: "The weapon of laughter is extremely powerful and even necessary as an intercessory manifestation. As intercessors, we often hear many serious problems and needs during a day that can wear us down. But laughter is an important safeguard against heaviness in intercession. As Proverbs 15:13 says, `A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.' "What does laughter have to do with intercessory praise? It breaks Satan's power to depress you and oppress you in the midst of battle. ... "Laughter also can be a form of direct warfare against Satan and his forces because it mocks the enemy. Psalm 37:12-13 says: `The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, for He sees that his day is coming.'" Some might be thinking, Well, it sounds reasonable enough to me; the Bible does say that a merry heart doeth good like a medicine, and the fruit of the Spirit is joy. True enough. The joy of the Lord IS our strength. The problem is that this charismatic laughter is a perversion of what the Bible says about revival and spiritual warfare. 1. THE CONFUSION PROVES IT IS ERROR. In watching the video of the laughing revivals, I was struck with the confusion which characterizes these meetings. This is not of God. When we attempt to point out error such as this, there is the protest that we should not attempt to put the Holy Spirit in a box. "Who are we to say how the Holy Spirit will act?" My friends, the Bible has already told us how the Holy Spirit will act! He will NOT act contrary to the Word of God He has inspired. The Christian is instructed to "prove all things" (1 Thess. 5:21). We must take the Bible and test every spirit and every teaching and every teacher and every religious phenomenon. The Corinthians were reveling in supposed spiritual gifts and experiences, but the Apostle Paul had to rebuke them for their error. One thing he plainly said was that "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints" (1 Cor. 14:33). Note that the Apostle tells us that God is going to act the same in ALL CHURCHES OF THE SAINTS. He will act the same in North America and in Africa and in Asia and in Europe. Paul warned the church of Corinth that the confusion which was manifest in their meetings was driving visitors away from the Lord. "If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, WILL THEY NOT SAY THAT YE ARE MAD?" (1 Cor. 14:23). This is exactly what I thought as I watched the video of the laughing revivals. THESE PEOPLE ARE MAD! 2. THE REJECTION OF BIBLICAL ORDER PROVES IT IS ERROR. It is not surprising that many of those who are involved in "ministering the joy" are women who have usurped positions of authority over men. The Bible sternly forbids this. The Apostle Paul instructed, "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression" (1 Timothy 2:12-14). That which the Apostle refused, most charismatics allow. This is not of God. God would not forbid women to teach men and to take positions of authority over men, then call women to do exactly that! It is confusion and gross error. 3. THE LACK OF CONTROL PROVES IT IS ERROR. The laughing revivals are characterized by lack of control on the part of those who "receive the joy." The opening scene in The Laugh Heard 'round the World shows Pastor Karl Strader of Carpenter's Home Church laughing uncontrollably. He tries to speak but is unable to do so. Finally he falls limply into the arms of "the catchers" who are standing behind him. Contrast this with the instructions given by the Apostle Paul pertaining to the ministry of spiritual gifts: "And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints" (1 Cor. 14:32-33). The Holy Spirit's ministry does not overthrow the person's control of himself. For a person to be rendered unconscious, or to lose control of his tongue, or of his limbs, is evidence of the ministration of foreign spirits, not of the Holy Spirit. 4. THE LACK OF DECENCY PROVES IT IS ERROR. Paul instructed, "Let all things be done decently and in order" (1 Cor. 14:40). This is exactly what the laughing revivals ARE NOT. They are not orderly, and they are not decent. Most of the video footage of the laughing meetings depicted WOMEN lying on the floor. Often they had items of clothing thrown over the lower portions of their bodies BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT DECENT. The Holy Spirit has instructed women to be modest and chaste at all times. He would never do something to women to render them indecent. Further, for men to move around in this type of scene and touch the bellies of these women IS NOT DECENT. 5. THE FACT THAT IT IS CONTRARY TO THE BIBLICAL PATTERN PROVES IT IS ERROR. Where in the Scriptures do we see anything like a laughing revival? Where do we see the prophets of old rolling around in fits of laughter? Where do we see Jesus Christ "ministering laughter" to the multitudes? Where do we see the Apostles tossing the Holy Spirit upon people and touching the bellies of their church members to encourage more "holy" giggles? Where do we see the Apostles chuckling in the face of demonic oppression? It is unscriptural nonsense, folks. The ones who are deceived by it are those who reject the plain teaching of the Word of God and who open themselves up to foreign spirits. 6. THE DOCTRINAL CARELESSNESS PROVES IT IS ERROR. The Bible says the Holy Spirit is the SPIRIT OF TRUTH (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13), but the fruit of the charismatic laughter is not truth but doctrinal error. The spirit of the charismatic laughing revival is utterly unconcerned about doctrinal error. He pours himself upon Catholics and modernists alike without imparting to them a love for the truth and a repentance toward apostasy. [Way of Life Literature, 1219 N. Harns Rd., Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Phone--(360) 675-8311 [The following material is from O Timothy magazine, Volume 11, Issue 7, 1994. Permission is given to duplicate this material for free distribution, but not for resale. All rights are reserved by the author. O Timothy is a monthly magazine. Annual subscription is US$20 FOR THE UNITED STATES. Send to Way of Life Literature, Bible Baptist Church, 1219 N. Harns Road, Oak Harbor, Washington 98277. FOR CANADA the subscription is $20 Canadian. Send to Bethel Baptist Church, P.O. Box 9075, London, Ontario N6E 1V0.] ********************************* "Fulfilled Prophecy as an Apologetic" By: The Christian Research Journal Perhaps the most significant question posed to believers in our "post-Christian" culture revolves around the inspiration of Scripture. Is the Bible in fact divinely inspired or merely human in origin? Oftentimes when quoting Scripture in witnessing situations, I've been challenged with the words: "Who says the Bible is true or accurate in the first place?" Although this objection often strikes terror in the heart of the average Christian, it is not really as difficult to deal with as one might think. I have found fulfilled prophecy to be an extremely effective resource in responding to this challenge. The prophetic evidences for the Bible's trustworthiness are so overwhelming that anyone with a truly open mind will be compelled to consider the Bible's central message: redemption in Jesus Christ. Begin by pointing out that the Bible contains almost 500 specific prophecies concerning the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ -- some of which were made well over two thousand years prior to His birth. For example, it was not only prophesied that Christ would be a descendant of Abraham (Gen. 12:1-3), but that He would be from the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10) and the house of David (Ps. 110:1); that He would be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2), born of a virgin (Isa. 7:14), betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zech. 11:12f.), and also that His hands and feet would be pierced (Ps. 22:16). It is noteworthy that this last prediction was made long before crucifixion was invented as a form of capital punishment by the Persians and a thousand years before it was made common by the Romans. It was also prophesied that Christ would be crucified with transgressors (Isa. 53:9,12); that none of His bones would be broken (Ex. 12:46; Ps. 34:20); and that He would cry out from the cross, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" (Ps. 22:1). Moreover, Christ's resurrection (Ps. 16:8-11), His ascension (Ps. 68:18), and hundreds of other details were predicted in minute detail. These prophecies do not deal with vague generalities (as is so often the case with modern-day "prophets" and psychics); they are specific and verifiable. Each was literally fulfilled _down to the smallest detail_ in the person of Jesus Christ. In addition to Messianic prophecies, the Bible contains nearly 2,000 prophecies concerning almost every nation within a thousand miles of Jerusalem. I strongly suggest researching and internalizing some of these prophecies for use in witnessing situations. As an illustration let me detail the prophecy about the city of Tyre in Ezekiel 26 and its fulfillment. Tyre was no small, obscure village. It was a great Phoenician city and a world capital for over 2,000 years. It was to the sea what mighty Babylon was to the land. Yet, in the heyday of its power, the prophet Ezekiel had the audacity to predict for it a violent future and ultimate destruction. This downfall would be due to Tyre's flagrant wickedness and arrogance, traits that were personified in its ruler, Ittobal II, who claimed to be God. Ezekiel predicted that many nations would come up against Tyre (Ezek. 26:3); that Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar would be the first to attack it (v. 7); that Tyre's walls and towers would be broken down (vv. 4,9); that the stones, timbers, and debris of that great city would be thrown into the sea (v. 12); that its location would become a bare rock and a place for the drying of fishermens' nets (vv. 4-5,14); and finally, that the city of Tyre would never be rebuilt (v. 14). History bears eloquent testimony to the fact that all this is _precisely_ what happened. Many nations did come up against Tyre -- the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Muslims, and the Crusaders, to name a few. And Nebuchadnezzar was indeed the first of these invaders, who -- after a thirteen year siege -- broke down the walls and towers of mainland Tyre, thus fulfilling the first of Ezekiel's prophecies. Nebuchadnezzar massacred all of Tyre's inhabitants except for those who escaped to an island fortress a half mile out in the Mediterranean Sea. Centuries after Ezekiel's body had decomposed in his grave, Alexander the Great fulfilled a major portion of the prophecy. In order to conquer the island fortress of Tyre (without the luxury of a navy), he and his celebrated architect Diades devised one of the most brilliant engineering feats of ancient warfare. They built a causeway from Tyre's mainland to the island fortress, using the millions of cubic feet of rubble left over on mainland Tyre. Thus Tyre was scraped bare as a rock, just as Ezekiel predicted. The most astonishing of Ezekiel's predictions was that Tyre would never be rebuilt. This is singularly incredible because Tyre is strategically located on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It also contains the Springs of Reselain, which pump ten million gallons of fresh water daily -- enough to take care of the needs of a modern city. Yet, history records that after a succession of invasions, Tyre finally and irrevocably fell in A.D. 1291 -- never to be rebuilt again. Today Tyre has been humbled to the point of becoming a place for the drying of fishermens' nets -- just as Ezekiel prophesied two-and-one-half millennia ago. This prophecy of Tyre is but one among many examples of meticulously detailed and fulfilled prophecies, any one of which is sufficient to demonstrate the truth and accuracy of Scripture. "I have spoken," says the Lord of Hosts. The Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35). If it can be shown that the Bible really is the Word of God, then a host of other objections can be answered by simply referring to Scripture itself. Having demonstrated the _trustworthiness_ of God's Word, you can then proceed to share its _central message:_ redemption in Jesus Christ. Remember, our goal is not to demonstrate that we are intellectually superior, but rather to use our answers as springboards or opportunities for communicating the gospel. (an article from the Witnessing Tips column of the Christian Research Journal, Fall 1989, Volume 12, Number 2, page 7) by Hank Hanegraaff. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller. ------------- End of document, CRJ0030A.TXT (original CRI file name), "Fulfilled Prophecy as an Apologetic" release A, February 7, 1994R. 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Box 500-TC San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693 (714) 855-9926 ********************************* The Fed And The New World Order By Rob Smith (MrnMrsRob@aol.com) The New World Order Justice Felix Frankfurter, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, had this to say: "The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York (1918-1925) said: "The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation." What were these men talking about? They were talking about the formation of the New World Order (NWO). Many of you have heard this term, especially from the lips of George Bush. On February 1, 1992, Bush stated: My vision of a New World Order foresees a U.N. with a revitalized peacekeeping function. It is the sacred principles enshrine in the U.N. charter to which we henceforth pledge our allegiance. The New World Order means global government - one government ruled by the United Nations. It means one banking system - the Federal Reserve. It means one religion shall be foisted upon Americans. It means the end of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It means socialism John E. Rankin, U.S. Congressman stated: "The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. It's purpose is to destroy the United States." According to the U.N. World Constitution: The age of nations must end. The government of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they will surrender their arms. Zbigniew Brzeninski, National Security Advisor to Carter and four other presidents, Executive Director of the Trilateral Commission speaks of the New World Order): The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Peter Hoagland, Nebraska State Senator on radio in 1983: Fundamental, Bible-believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world order society and their children will not fit in. The late Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor), Professor of History at GeorgeTown University, member of the CFR), stated in his book, Tragedy & Hope: The CFR is the American Branch of a society which originated in England and believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established. In other words, the CFR's activities are treasonous to our U.S. Constitu- tion. They mean to put an end to the United States of America and make our nation part of their global government scheme. One only has to read their own publication, Foreign Affairs, to get a first hand lesson in their treachery. Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation in 1954: We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House....The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the U.S. so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union. James Paul Warburg, foreign agent of the Rothschild Dynasty, major player in the Federal Reserve Act scam, boasted confidently on February 17, 1950 before the U.S. Senate: We shall have World government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent. In order to implement these plans financed by revenues stolen from the American people via the IRS and the Fed, there are other organizations besides the CFR that represent a clear and urgent danger to carrying out this one world government, banking and monetary system, and uniform code of religion. In 1848, Karl Marx stated: "Free trade breaks up old nationalities...in a word, the free trade system hastens social revolution [socialism]." In 1958, Senator George Malone of Nevada: The global theory of free trade is siphoning off America's wealth and bringing her economy to the level of others. The theory is displacing American workers who otherwise would be employed. So you see, America, the real truth about what is going on behind your back does not even resemble the pablum being spoon-fed to you by the CFR-controlled establishment media. THE UNITED NATIONS On September 24, 1993, commentator Paul Harvey, during his daily dose of common sense and intellectual opinions, laid out the real truth about the group of communist thugs who rule and control the United Nations. Mr. Harvey pulled no punches about exposing the candy-coated myth of the United Nations. One would think by listening to all the propaganda about the United Nations that they are some sort of benevolent, peaceful organization. Never in the history of the United Nations has it stood for anything but killing and violence. They have never kept peace anywhere on this globe. Their sole function is to replace the U.S. Military - dissolve all four branches of our armed forces. Their allegiance is only to the United Nations Charter which does not recognize the U.S. Constitution. This body is made up almost exclusively of communists and leaders of the bloodiest regimes on this globe. Their history and operating agenda is apparent to anyone who takes the time to sincerely and with an open mind, research the facts of this organization, separating truth from myth. Bilderberger participants (an- other group committed to one-world domination) in 1992 called for "con- ditioning the public to accept the idea of a U.N. army that could, by force, impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation." Mikhail Gorbachev stated to the Politiburo in November of 1987: Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. there will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. Norman Thomas, for many years the U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate, proclaimed: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under thename of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." In 1958, Cleon Skoussen, former FBI agent, revealed in his book, The Naked communist, the long-term goals of the communist agenda. This information is also contained not only in the Congressional Record (August, 1963), but also in the communist Manifesto itself. For the sake of brevity, only a few of those goals are listed here: 1. U.S> acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of moral strength. 3. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items would be used for war. 4. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of communist domination. 5. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khruschev's promise in 1955 to settle the German questions by free elections under supervision of the United Nations. 6. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the United Nations. 7. Promote the United Nations as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set as a one-world government with its won independent armed forces. 8. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 9. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 10. Capture one or both of the political parties of the U.S> 11. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 12. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Get control of the teachers associations. 13. Gain control of all student newspapers. 14. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 15. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures. 16. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press. 17. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures and TV. 18. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy. 19. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch. 20. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principles of separation of church and state. 21. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 22. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part in the big picture. 23. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the communist apparatus. 24. Eliminate the House committee on Un-American Activities. 25. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 26. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. 27. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political and social problems. Each American can evaluate individually just how far these goals have been achieved since this information was revealed in 1958. As a matter of fact, another mechanism currently being pushed by the NWO people is to convene a constitutional Convention (Con-Con). At this meeting, the U.S. Constitution is to be nullified, the Republic of the United States abolished and We the People will then go under the authority of the United Nations Charter and the One World Order. Currently, thousandsof dedicated Americans are making enormous sacrifices to stop this move. The fraudulent excuse for a Con-Con is a balanced budget amendment. The last con-Con was in 1787. We the People have passed the amendments to our Constitution for 207 years without a Constitutional convention. Why, all of a sudden, do we need to convene one to pass a new amendment? We do not! Look out America -- The New World Order godfathers are going to destroy the United States Consitution and replace it with the already completed New States Constitution, courtesy of David Rockefeller --- godfather of the NWO. Walt Rostow, CFR member and United Nations spokesman stated: It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive. THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS The next entity which represents a clear threat and danger to our freedom is the Council on Foreign Relations. We commented on this earlier in this booklet. The CFR has almost total control over the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Banking System. Barry Goldwater states in his book, With No Apologies, on page 231: Does it not seem strange to you that these men just happened to be CFR and just happened to be on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, that absolutely controls the money and interest rates of this great country without benefit of congress? A privately owned organization, the Federal Reserve which has absolutely nothing to do with the United States of America! Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international moneylenders. the bankers want it that way. We recognize in a hazy sort of way that the Rothchilds and the Warburgs of Europe and the House of J.P. Morgan, Kuhn, Loeb and company, Schiff, Lehman, and Rockefeller posses and control vast wealth. How they acquired their vast financial power and employ it is a mystery to most of us. International bankers make money by extending credit to governments. the greater the debt of the political state, the larger the interest returned to the lenders. The national banks of Europe are actually owned and controlled by these private interests. The CFR is one of the stepping stones to global government. This organi- zation is the American branch of a society which originated in England and believes national boundaries would be obliterated and one-rule established. Rear Admiral Chester Ward, a former member of the CFR for 16 years warned the American people of the organization's intentions: The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objec- tive in common -- they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty of the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government. Dan Smoot, a former member of the FBI Headquarters staff in Washington, D.C., summarized the organizaton's purpose as follows: The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system and make the U.S. an official part of it. Congressman John R. Rarick warns: The CFR, dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax-exempt foundations, and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education and mass communication- media, should be familiar to every American concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the U.S> Consti- tution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation's right-to- know machinery, the news media, usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain conspicuously silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the US from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship. THE TRILATERAL ANGLE The twin monster to the Council of Foreign Relations is the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission's roots stem from the book Between Two Ages, written by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970. Barry Goldwater said, "The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power -- political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical." Who are these people trying to promote world government by encouraging economic interdependence among the superpowers? We can't list them all here, but the list are included in the information packet described on the inside back cover of this booklet. Everyone needs to order this packet. Armed with the facts and documentation, members of Congress aren't going to be able to fool We the People much longer. THE BILDERBERGERS What is a "Bilderberger"? Individuals. they are some of the wealthiest and most power hungry individuals from around the glove who lust for power by creating a New World Order for the rest of us. In 1991, some of the Bilderberger participants from the United States were: Paul Allaire, chairman of Xerox Corporation, Dwayne Andreas, chairman of Archer, Daniels & Midland Corporation, John Chafee, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, Richard Furland, Director of Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Karen Elliot House, International Vice President of Dow-Jones, Inc., Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, David Rockefeller, Jack Skeinkman, President of the AFL-CIO, and Lynn Williams, President of the United Steelworkers of America. If these individuals represent you in any organization, it is strongly urged that you find out the truth about their Bilderberger meetings. The meetings are held in iron-fisted secrecy, with armed guards carrying sophisticated assault weapons. No one conducting honest and forthright business should need the aforementioned scenario to keep the world out. WHAT IT ALL MEANS Let us summarize the situation we have been describing: * Starting with Jimmy Carter, all past presidents including President Clinton, have promptly filled their administrations with members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission; * The Council on Foreign Relations was conceived by a Marxist, Edward Mandell House, for the purpose of creating a One World Government by destroying the freedom and independence of all nations, especially including our own. Its Chairman of the Board is David Rockefeller, and its members have immense control over our government and much of American life; * The Trilateral Commission was conceived by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who praise Marxism, who think the United States is obsolete, and who also wants to create a one-world government. Its founder and driving force is also David Rockefeller. And it, too, exercises extraordinary control over the government of the United States. * The effect of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission on the affairs of our nation is easy to see. Our own government no longer acts in its own interest, but is the best money can buy. We constantly tie ourselves to international agreement, pacts and conventions. these two organizations are designed to bring an end to our free republic. Our leaders have developed blatant preferences for communist Russia (aka the Soviet Union, aka the Commonwealth) and communist China, while they continue to work for world government, which has always been the goal of communism. * In order to fund these grandiose global plans, the personal Federal income tax, collected by the IRS was created in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to provide the architects of the NWO with billions and billions of dollars earned with the sweat of Americans. * Did you know that in 1972, President Richard Nixon executed Executive Order # 11647 that redivided the 50 states into 10 new regions, with appointments instead of elected officials over each region? * When you hear the insiders say, "W did this to ourselves, now we have to make all these sacrifices to correct it..."you know this statement is a lie. We the People did not do this to ourselves. We were never told the truth about the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, how it came into being, and that the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified. We did not do this to ourselves but We the People have the power to stop it. The domestic policies of administrations over the past fifty years could hardly be worse. But the domestic policies of our government also fit into the scheme to weaken the United States and destroy the freedom of our people. Government caused inflation continues to weaken our currency and destroy the economy of our nation. Federal controls continue to hamstring America's productive might. The real goal of our own government's leaders is to make the United States into a carbon copy of a communist state, and then to merge all nations into a one-world system run by a powerful few --- funded by the privately owned Federal Reserve Banks. When We the People are informed of the reasons for this global government, the pieces fall together and things being to make sense. How would a one-world global government affect you as an individual in this country? Do you think that such a development will be beneficial to the world or agreeable to yourself? Let us list four certain consequences of world government: * One: Rather than improve the standard of living for other nations, world government will mean a forced redistribution of all wealth and a sharp reduction in the standard of living for Americans. Henry Kissinger stated recently that NAFTA was the "most creative step towards the New World Order." * Two: Strict regimentation will become commonplace. There will no longer be any freedom of movement, freedom of worship, private property rights, free speech, or the right to publish. * Three: World government will mean that this once glorious land of opportunity will become another socialistic nightmare where no amount of effort will produce just reward. * Four: World order will be enforced by agents of the world Government in the same way that agents of the Kremlin used to enforce their rule throughout the former Soviet Union. Rob Smith MrnMrsRob@aol.com ********************************* THE STILL BEFORE THE STORM by James Norman This is the entire text of the James Norman article for the December 1995 issue of Media Bypass magazine. By all appearances, things are business as usual in Washington. There is the traditional budget bickering this time of the year, the partisan sniping and the backstabbing among Republican presidential hopefuls angling for pole position next year. Meanwhile, President Clinton and his ambitious wife manage to hold a comfortable approval rating in the polls, enjoy favorable press and seemingly have managed to shrug off persistent "Whitewater" allegations that have dogged his presidency. But don't be lulled by the mainstream media, which has been hard at work pooh-poohing these corruption charges and doubts about the official "suicide" of former White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster. This is just the eerie still before a storm. A hurricane lurks just over the horizon. Thunderheads are gathering and looming darker. Distant lightning can be seen but not yet heard. Straws are starting to blow in the wind. This government may be on the threshold of upheaval unprecedented since the Civil War. That is the cryptic message coming from multiple well-connected sources close to the intelligence community, who say big things are quietly afoot that could fundamentally shuffle this country's political deck. And that may be just fine with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who sources say is quietly maneuvering to use this impending turmoil not just to "re-engineer government" but to purge both political parties and effect what amounts to a bloodless coupe d'etat. Swept away will be not only a raft of big-name Democratic senators and congressmen, but also many prominent, oldline Republicans who have been feeding at the trough of corruption for years. It won't stop with politicians, either. Prominent Wall Streeters, bureaucrats, military officers and a slew of intelligence bigshots are also said to be about to take a fall. Well over 300 names are said to be involved in the scandal. "Apocalypse soon!" predicts P.P. Willie. P.P. Willie is actually a dog. But it is also the pen name for a legendary World War II military intelligence veteran, now living in St. Petersburg, Fla., who writes for a semi-weekly newsletter called WASHINGTON REPORT. It is a pithy, irreverent Capitol gossip sheet with a penchant for pink paper. But it is read with considerable interest by its 5,000 subscribers - mostly in Washington and overseas - because Willie is known to be well-connected within the intelligent community. In the past he has been uncannily accurate about goings-on in the spook world. And times there now are very troubled. Willie's latest: "Remember reading about TEA POT DOME? How about WATERGATE? Then came IRAN-CONTRA. Not bad. All the past WASHINGTON political SCANDALS are ITTY BITTY compared to one that should surface next year, about early spring. "You don't suppose a few GOOD GUYS in the CIA, FBI, IRS, and NSA (they are not many, but they exist) are fed up with tucking their tails and running in the face of WHITE HOUSE pressure? What if they went public with TRUE DOCUMENTED stories of ESPIONAGE, MURDER, TAX EVASION, DRUG DEALING, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS STASHED IN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNTS AND OTHER BIG TIME HANKY PANKY at the very TIP TOP of the WASHINGTON manure pile? The MAJOR MEDIA would not want to embarrass the LIBERAL DARLINGS. But WHAT IF A LONDON newspaper and PINK newsletter broke the story? Talk RADIO would then spread the word across the nation...The odds are this scandal will break. We hear it's a DONE DEAL." Whispers of such a spilling of the beans are being heard from multiple, separate intelligence sources. Specifically, as reported in the August and October editions of MEDIA BYPASS, a small, vigilante team of CIA computer hackers dubbed the Fifth Column has managed to penetrate Swiss and other foreign banks to quietly withdraw what is now an astounding $2.5 billion in illicit money from coded accounts they have identified as belonging to government figures. Starting in 1991, this five-man Fifth Column team has been using its own Cray supercomputer to break into foreign bank computers, download vast libraries of data and trace this money to a wide range of illegal activities, from kickbacks on drug and arms deals to insider trading profits, software piracy and the sale of state secrets. Oh yes, don't forget tax evasion. The money has been moved to a U.S. Treasury holding account at several Federal Reserve Banks, escrowed for use by the CIA if and only if the CIA gets rid of its own bad apples. How could the government hide that much money, denying under Freedom of Information Act requests that it even exists? Just ask the National Reconnaissance Office, the government's spy satellite agency, which recently fessed up to having $1.7 billion stashed in secret accounts. More important then the money, however, are the NAMES. Who had these accounts? Are they still in office? Who has the list and the proof? Are they using this information to extort political blackmail? Will the bad guys be able to buy their way out of exposure? One thing is certain: Whoever controls this phantom roster of corrupt politicians and money men has this government's private parts in a tightening vise. One man who may know is Charles S. Hayes, an irascible Kentucky computer salvage dealer and recently-retired CIA contractor believed to be part of, or closely involved with, this Fifth Column. Hayes, corroborating P.P. Willie's report, does declare that all the names will come out. Eventually. "When we get good and ready," Hayes says. The Powers That Be can do little to stop him. Any move against the three remaining Fifth Column compatriots (one has died and another is disabled) would be certain to unleash the information in a flood. At least one big name has already been revealed: Vince Foster. Multiple sources say one of Foster's several Swiss accounts was raided just before his death of $2.73 million in proceeds from the sale of sensitive codes and other secrets to Israel's Mossad. Which may explain why the government is so anxious to portray Foster's death as a simple suicide. In reality, it could be the loose thread that unravels a massive tapestry of corruption. That suicide cover story is rapidly fraying, despite intense efforts by the White House and Washington establishment to hold it together. For instance, credible independent handwriting analysts concluded in late October that Foster's supposed suicide note is a forgery. Indeed, there are a number of recent tell-tale events that suggest that something very big is at hand. Among them: - CIA briefings. Beginning in late October, high-level CIA officials began sensitive one-on-one briefings with key members of Congress and those with intelligence committee assignments. No staff members are allowed. All parties are sworn to secrecy. Less than a dozen lawmakers are involved. The subject, according to two sources: Espionage activities of Vincent Foster and his alleged partner - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - on behalf of Israel's Mossad and perhaps other foreign governments. The purpose of these briefings appears to be to prep key leaders for cataclysmic political events ahead, including the likely indictment and possible flight to a foreign country of the First Lady and what would surely be the inevitable removal of Bill Clinton from office. - Resignations. There has been an unusually large number of veteran congressmen and senators announcing their resignations, retirements or switching parties. Among them, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), former chairman and now ranking minority member of the powerful Armed Services Committee. Another is Rep. Norman Minetta (D-Calif.), former chairman of the pork-laden House Transportation Committee. The official explanation: It's no fun now that the Republicans control Congress. But sources claim the real reason is that some of these departees have been quietly confronted with evidence that they took bribes or payoffs through Swiss or other offshore bank accounts. Rumor has it that about 30 current members of the House and Senate have been identified as having such foreign slush-fund accounts and that Gingrich is trying to weed them out before the names become public. [Since this article was written, three more senators have announced their retirements. Schroeder of Colorado; Hatfield of Oregon; and Simpson of Wyoming. This is now the most retirements in Congress since 1896. Jim Norman was on several radio talk shows recently stating that Schroeder and Hatfield have been presented with evidence of these secret Swiss accounts. The Simpson retirement was announced after these radio appearances- krc] - Curious denials. Multiple good sources have confirmed a report by veteran Washington correspondent Sarah McClendon that over the Labor Day weekend, Gingrich attended a "party" at the home of Vice President Al Gore that included Sen. Bill Bradley, Attorney General Janet Reno and some other prominent Democrats, after which Gore and Clinton had a shouting match. But everyone said to be involved in the meeting claims it never took place. Is it because Gingrich was there to deliver the bad news: a mountain of hard evidence of high-level corruption? Gingrich declines to be interviewed by MEDIA BYPASS. This Fifth Column team apparently began its work in the late 1980s. Their primary assignment was to break into foreign intelligence agency databases by a variety of physical and electronic means. But the main means of entry was via secret "back doors" programmed into the modified "PROMIS" tracking software which our government, under the direction of CIA spymaster William Casey, managed to market all over the globe, even to our enemies. This initial phase of the computer spy effort succeeded in downloading data from more than 50 foreign intelligence services, including the KGB, the Mossad and most of Europe's spy agencies, according to various CIA-related sources. Contrary to boastful claims by the FBI, this is apparently how Russian mole Aldrich Ames was identified as a double agent more than two years before his dramatic arrest in February 1994. Is is also how the CIA found out Foster was working for the Mossad, after learning that someone in our government was delivering highly sensitive computer codes to the Israelis; Foster had been a long-time handler of sensitive computer spy deals and covert money-laundering for the NSA (MEDIA BYPASS, Aug. 1995). Found along with Foster's name in the Mossad data base was that of Hillary Clinton, whose name also cropped up as an operative for at least two other European intelligence services, as yet unidentified. At the time of his death, MEDIA BYPASS has previously reported, Foster was under close counter-espionage surveillance involving members of the CIA, FBI, Secret Service as well as an IRS team. Two good sources say they have heard that Saudi Arabia also had agents surveilling Foster. He knew he was being investigated and was apparently under pressure to cop a plea to prevent the probe from bringing down others in the White House. The FBI apparently also knew that Foster's life was in danger: According to two reliable intelligence sources, on the day of his death, FBI agents used a pair of bomb-sniffing dogs to inspect Foster's Honda in the White House parking lot - and probably planted a transponder on the car so they could track the movements. White House videotapes of the parking lot, which would have shown that inspection, have allegedly disappeared, according to this intelligence source. But sources say the surveillance teams have still photos and videotapes of Foster's activities on the afternoon he died, July 20, 1993, showing him entering an apartment. It is here that Foster was apparently killed, after a sexual encounter with a brownish-blond woman photographed leaving the apartment afterwards. Also photographed, these sources say, was the hit squad, apparently "assets" contracted by the Mossad but not including any agents of the Mossad itself. Foster's body was apparently rolled up in a rug and deposited at Fort Marcy Park - which is still closed to visitors as the FBI supposedly searches for the bullet that killed him. Doggedly, the White House and offical Washington, aided by a blinded mainstream press, continue to claim it was just a suicide, despite the seriously flawed and widely discredited report to that effect by original Whitewater Special Counsel Robert Fiske, and a cursory Senate inquiry. Sources say it is the continuing coverup, now more than two years after Foster's death, and the brazen nature of Foster's assassination, that has soured CIA professionals and has prompted them to consider going public with what they know. Adding to their frustration was the resignation of reform-minded CIA director James Woollsey last year and his replacement by John Deutch. Deutch's job appears to be to keep a lid on things and to protect the Clintons and the massive, ongoing illegal drug and arms trade that provides the agency with billions of dollars in revenue completely out of view of Congress and government watchdogs. Deutch's recent attempt to use the Aldrich Ames case as a club to attack the CIA and its past directors has brought the agency's simmering revolt to a boil. "Deutch had better watch his altitude and attitude," said one veteran CIA man. "He'd better get off his soapbox before he gets indicted himself." Rumors of CIA involvement in drug trafficking go back to before the Vietnam war, with heroin trade from Laos' Golden Triangle. But in the late '70s or early '80s, the agency virtually took over and nationalized the wholesale importation of cocaine into this country through obscure airfields like the one at Mena, Ark., on the grounds that it was the only way to control the drug trade. In other words: "If you can't lick them, join them." The operation was soon generating vastly more money than ever imagined - which has come back to line the pockets of top government officials from the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations. The money-laundering operations have likewise drawn in major banks and brokerage houses. By some accounts, the revenues still run upwards of $7 billion a year. Details of government involvement in this society-wrecking drug trade are now emerging from various sources. Bits and pieces emerged during the Iran-Contra and Iraqgate hearings of the 1980s, which produced a million pages of documents but only a handful of indictments, and fewer convictions. Perhaps the biggest fish caught was Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, charged with lying to Congress. He was pardoned by President George Bush just as Bush was leaving office in 1992. Curiously, Weinberger's right-hand-man through most of that period was would-be presidential contender Gen. Colin Powell, who Weinberger had brought up to be a top military advisor, out of Casey's intelligence empire where he is said to have served with the NSA and to have been intimately familiar with the drug and arms flow. There is also a growing court record of sworn testimony in the wrongful prosecution case of former CIA contract pilot Terry Reed. Reed claims in his book, "Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA," that Bill Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, was well aware of the drug trafficking there but played along with the game to earn himself the status of an "approved" candidate for the presidency. With that would come plenty of financing. Another source now openly discussing the massive drug business is retired Navy Lt. Commander Alexander Martin. Martin was, in effect, the chief accountant for the Reagan/Bush drug operations run by Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, through an obscure arm of the White House National Security Council called the Natinal Programs Office. In a radio interview with talk show host Tom Valentine last July, Martin spoke not only of drugs and money, but death. "Out of roughly 5,000 of us who were originally involved in Iran-Contra, approximately 400, since 1986, have committed suicide, died accidently or died of natural causes. In over half those deaths, official death certificates were never issued. In 187 circumstances, the bodies were cremated before the families were notified." Martin then said he was lying low. Not low enough. In late October, Martin was arrested and jailed without bond in Broward County, Fla., for supposed violation of his probation on a 1990 bad-check charge. Such small-time charges are a common device used to squelch and discredit former players in this government-run drug and arms racket. Corruption. Most Americans like to think their government is somehow immune to the kinds of bribery and abuse of public power rampant in "Third World" countries. The emerging reality is that the exact opposite is true. The more wealth and power at stake, the greater the incentive to subvert and corrupt. Sources say the dark truths predicted to be unveiled by P.P. Willie will be utterly damning. END OF JAMES NORMAN ARTICLE FOR DEC 1995 MEDIA BYPASS To Subscribe to Media Bypass call 1-800-4-BYPASS One years subscription in the US, it is $29.95. ********************************* The European Superstate and the Coming New World Order By Dr. Jack Van Impe In Daniel Chapter 2, King Nebuchadnezzar was haunted by a disturbing dream that he could neither remember nor decipher. He called in his best magicians, astrologers and soothsayers to help. "I'm going to call you into my presence," he warned, "and if you cannot tell me what my dream was I'mgoing to put you to death." Talk about pressure! Think of it. Well, all the king's wise men were unable to give him the answers he was looking for and they were killed. But Nebuchadnezzar didn't give up trying to recall his dream. Someone mentioned to the king that an inspired Jewish man named Daniel might be able to find a solution. Daniel prayerfully considered the king's request. When he appeared before Nebuchadnezzar he told him that the Lord God had chosen him to reveal, to his majesty, prophetical secrets that would happen in the latter days. "I'll tell you what your dream was," said Daniel. "You saw a great image. It had a head of gold, a chest and arms of silver, a stomach and thighs of brass, legs of iron and 10 toes of iron mixed with clay." Nebuchadnezzar was tremendously impressed with the detail and accuracy of Daniel's interpretation. Daniel didn't take credit for solving the dream but instead gave God the glory. He explained that it was the Almighty who had revealed this secret to him. He then added that there was more to the message, but feared the king would put him to death if the full truth were told. Nebuchadnezzar assured Daniel that he wanted to hear the whole truth - no matter how disappointing it might be. Only then Daniel explained that Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonian empire, was represented by that head of gold. But the chest and arms - the Medes and Persians - would defeat him in battle. Later, long after Nebuchadnezzar was gone, another empire, the Grecian [Greek - pictured by the stomach and thighs of brass] would destroy the Medes and Persians. And then there would be two legs of iron representing Rome - to defeat the Greeks. Daniel also explained that there would be a long lull between this first Roman Empire and a revived second one as depicted by the 10 toes of iron mixed with clay emerging in the latter times. Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, the Muslim Caliphs, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin had one thing in common. They all attempted to build a world empire. But, in each case, the timing wasn't right. While every one of these men wielded great power for a period of time, they never achieved the kind of world domination they envisioned because it wasn't in God's script not yet, anyway. All that has changed today. We are living in a time in which it is not only possible for a world dictator of unprecedented authority to emerge, it is also inevitable. God's Word states that only seven empires will exist in world history before Christ returns. The key verse proving this statement is Revelation 17:10: "There are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space." The five fallen empires referred to by John in this verse are Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece. The one that ruled at the time John wrote the book of Revelation was Rome. One more final empire would arise, but there would first be a long delay. That global power would be the "Revived Roman Empire." Out of this final group of nations the figure known as the Antichrist would emerge and reign for a brief period - just 84 months. Is this period way off in the distant future? No! It is right around the corner. The world is on the very brink of submission to this latter day power. This Revived Roman Empire is presently assembling and organizing itself under the aegis of the European Union - a federal Superstate that will form the basis for the last one-world government. This dictatorship under Antichrist rules with supernatural power, advanced 21st-century technological police-state know-how, and unimaginable terror and ruthlessness. Is it in the making? * The European Community created the European Monetary institute in January 1994. The institute is scheduled to become a central bank issuing a single currency no later than 1999. * The European Union is formulating common foreign and security policies with defense issues handled by the Western European Union. By 1996, all defense policies are to be made jointly. * The European Union is rapidly dissolving the ideas of national sovereignty in a giant step toward globalism and one-world government. * The Superstate is preparing the way for a more powerful central government - one that will eventually be headed by a world dictator. In Daniel 9:27, we see this future fuhrer making a peace contract with the nations of the earth for seven years. During the first three-and-half, the Antichrist is controlled by Satanic powers (Revelation 13:4). But during the second 42 months, Satan is cast out of heaven (Revelation 12:7-11) and incarnates the body of this world dictator (Revelation 13:12). When Satan takes over the body of the Antichrist, he begins calling himself God, and even magnifies himself above every God, Daniel 11:36. How do we know we are so close to this period today? The whole prophetic scenario began in the miraculous year of 1948, when three major world events occurred simultaneously. The first was the rebirth of the land of Israel. Jesus Himself predicted this event would precede His return in Matthew 24:32-33 when He told His disciples to learn the parable of the fig tree, which always represents Israel in the Bible. Jesus said, "When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Nothing of significance prophetically, therefore, could happen until Israel became a nation again. That happened in 1948. In addition, that year witnessed the first meeting that would lead to the establishment of the Revived Roman Empire - the European Union. This last day entity would form the political and military basis for the coming one-world government - the apparatus by which the Antichrist would rule. The third important event of 1948 was the formation of the World Council of Churches, which would help lay the groundwork for the one-world religious system of the Antichrist described in Revelation 13:11 and 17:9. For more than 45 years now, the stage has been set for a world dictator to emerge - one with powers and authority far beyond the scope of Nebuchadnezzar or any of his successors. Anxiously, the world awaits his appearance. I have no doubt he's alive and waiting in the wings. * "We are in a leaderless world," explains Walter Cronkite. * "We have a rendezvous with a world dictator and his appearance may be soon," says economist Julian Snyder. * Dr. Spaak stated: "Europe is looking for a man so powerful that he will hold the allegiance of all the people. Be he man or devil we are ready to receive him." It's not just a political leader for which the world is looking. All the major religions discuss the emergence, in the last days, of a powerful and terrifying spiritual figure - someone who will ultimately proclaim himself to be God. In addition, today's New Age philosophy is laying the groundwork for the Antichrist's global religious system. Did you know, for instance, that John Randolph Price, one of the world's principal New Age gurus, says his spirit guide revealed to him that 2.5 billion people may need to be wiped off the face of the earth for their utopian spiritual dreams to be realized (Revelation 6:8, 9:18, 13:15, 20:4). Could such an organization claiming a billion followers produce the Antichrist? Definitely! The New Age movement teaches that we are all "little gods." I believe the Antichrist will ride the crest of that belief and give it credence. But then he will suffer a mortal head wound and come to his end in a battle with Russia (Daniel 11:45). After being inhabited by Satan, he rises from the dead and declares himself as the god of gods (Revelation 13:3). He then demands that every human being worship him under penalty of death (Revelation 13:15). How fitting that today's New Age leaders are already beginning to justify the mass slaughter that will follow. The Antichrist will have more help, too, from someone known as "the false prophet." We read in scripture often about the 10 toes or 10 horns representing the nations or political regions that form the basis for the final one-world government. But we also read about seven heads in Revelation 12:3 and 13:1. Revelation 17:9 interprets the seven heads as seven mountains on which this woman - the one world religion - sits. That's clearly the Vatican, built on the seven hills of Rome. There is a long tradition in the Catholic Church that holds that the last pope would defect from the faith. Pope John Paul II has acknowledged his own fears that the next pope might well be the last one - the Anti-Pope, as Catholicism calls him. Bishop John J. Dougherty has been teaching this truth to Catholic seminarians. Leading Catholic scholars believe that moment is very near. It is from this Revived European Empire that all such latter day prophecies emerge. Rome will once again be the center of the world economically, politically, militarily and spiritually. Those currently moving Europe in this direction seem inexplicably drawn to their fate. In 1987, the Belgians minted the first ECU silver coins. Imprinted on them is the bust of Emperor Charles the Fifth, crowned head of the Holy Roman Empire in 1519. Why was Charles chosen to be immortalized on the first ever European coin? Because of the striking geographical similarity between the European Community and the Holy Roman Empire. But what about the 10 toes and the 10 nations? Hasn't the European Union evolved past this stage? Yes it has. But that is to be expected. Remember, we're talking about an eventual world government, not a regional one. The European Union began as 10 nations. In fact, Daniel 7:24 shows us that a very significant eleventh nation shall arise. That was Spain. Now we have 15, and Poland and others may come aboard by the year 2000 for the formation of the one world government or New world order. The European Superstate, I believe, will provide the platform - the structure - for this world dictatorship (Daniel 7:23, Revelation 13:7). When Christ returns to set up His earthly kingdom, a grouping of ten kings or nations remains (Daniel 2:44). Interestingly, all of the prime movers behind the globalist dream have divided the world into 10 spheres. The Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers, the Club of Rome and others that promote a one-world federation eventually break up the globe into 10 regions. One way or another God's word will come to pass. Only now, after two great European wars have been fought and reunification has occurred, could the promises of the Bible about a world government centered in Rome be possible. Likewise, only now, as we prepare to enter the 21st century computer age could such a government hope to keep track of the commercial activities of every human being on the planet (Revelation 13:16-17). The University of Edinborough claims to have a computer that does 40 billion arithmetic transactions per second. But that is only one of the 10 fastest computers in the world! Newsweek reported recently that by 1997, we will have a computer that processes one trillion pieces of information per second. The European Union headquarters in Brussels, as I have reported before, calls the impending system "the Beast," with obvious parallels to the Beast of Revelation. This stands for the: Belgian Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal, What an up-to-date book the Bible is! Soon the Rapture will occur and a time of terror will engulf the globe. "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it" (Jeremiah 30:7). Daniel 12:1 describes it as "a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation." Jesus said almost the exact words in Matthew 24:21; "For then shall be a great tribulation such as never was since there was a nation." Nothing like this time has ever happened in the past, nor will anything like it ever happen again in the future. These things must come to pass. They are right around the corner. But we should have no fear about them - not as believers, anyway. "When these things come to pass, be not terrified" (Luke 21:9). Why? Because Jesus said that when these things come to pass, "... know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand" (Luke 21:31). We believers who are prepared will miss this horrendous hour. We will be gone before any of the seven-year tribulation period begins. We will be caught up in the air to meet Jesus in the twinkling of an eye, according to 1 Corinthians 15:51-54. Then we shall return, with the King, seven years later to "rule and reign" (Revelation 20:4). Soon we'll hear the shout "COME UP HITHER!" (Revelation 4:1). Then 84 months later, the Lord returns with His heavenly entourage for the millennial honeymoon (Jude 14, Revelation 19:7,8,14; 20:4). Maranatha. ******************************** New Age News Update By Rudy Hulstrom NASA X-RAY satellite begins 2 year mission NASA's X-Ray Timing Explorer was considered essential enough to be launched in spite of the federal government shutdown. The $195 million satellite,the size of a small bus,is designed to study for at least two years collapsed stars,possible black holes and other hot,compact objects in the universe. Here's Looking at YOU KID!! Is this just another way to put a spy satellite in orbit to keep watch on the people of Earth? What other hot, compact objects would be worth using such high tech equipment on? I submit to you that this satellite will be used to further control the population of this planet! ++++++++++++++++++++++++ E.T.The Welcome Mat Is Out Again Aliens,pack your bags and prepare your spaceship.Sixteen Columbia College art students have invited you to Chicago.To welcome the creatures they made an"alien friendly"design by sifting 40 5 pound bags of flour onto the grass in Grant Park. The 200 pound flour message swirled in two big loops with an extended squiggly tail to let aliens know they are welcome to come hang out with Columbia students. And you thought our college students were learning something useful! Their teacher said"I hope they see this as more than an exercize but as a creative attempt at communication".They don't know if the aliens can read this but it gets the message out there". Talk about wasting education money!! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Solar Temple members found burned The burned bodies of 16 people thought to be connected with the doomsday cult Order of the Solar temple,were found in a hilltop forest in southeastern France. The dead,13 adults and 3 small children,were found in a circle around the remains of a campfire,laid out in a sunburst pattern.Some had been shot. The adults were believed to be members of the Order of The Soalr Temple, a sect that preached the coming end of the world and told its adherents that death for them was"pure illusion". "The next big voyage will be on the night of the solstice,"cult literature warned.Notes were found in the homes of the victims that expressed a desire "to see another world". Christian view of life 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. No where does the word of God ask anyone to destroy themselves for any reason. We are simply to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. ++++++++++++++++++++ Disney Ignores Christianity The Walt Disney company has done it again. Producing a so-called Christmas video tape titled Christmas Around the World. In it,Santa Claus escorts Mickey Mouse around the world and he learns the customs of various lands,such as"Santa Lucia in Sweden and the tradition of Las Posadas in Mexico. At the end, Santa explains to Mickey that the Christmas spirit means keeping the gifts of peace, joy and friendship in one's heart. He reminds him that we are all the same big family with the same hopes and dreams, and pronounces a benediction of peace on earth-all year long. The Basis for the Celebration Ignored. As Christians we celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ,who brings hope to a humanity that can never save itself from its destructive nature by its own attempts to create peace, joy and unity. One may well reject the truth of God and find nothing significant in this miraculous birth that we celebrate. But simple accuracy and integrity should prevent any explanation of Christmas that, like the Disney tape, fails to even mention Jesus or God. One does not capture the essence of Christmas by placing the proclamation of "Peace on Earth" in the mouth of Santa Claus rather than God. ++++++++++++++++++ Disney Comapny Truly Liberal Globalist It is obvious now that the Walt Disney company that I knew as a child is not the same. In distancing itself from its founders vision of traditional values and a place where people could go and simply have fun, they have drawn a line in the sand and said this far and no farther to people of faith. The ever growing acceptance of "alternative lifestyles" within the corporate offices of Disney makes me shudder to think what the future holds for "Theme" parks. Oh mommy, can I go see the Leather, Whips and Chains Pavillion? The possibilities are staggering. +++++++++++++++++++++ Another Step for Cashless Society The Palatine, Il. Public Library became the first in Illinois and one of a handful in the country to switch to a pre-paid library card. It is an innovative attempt to generate money for cash strapped libraries. The cards are the latest in a national trend that includes pre-paid phone cards, tollway cards and mass transit cards. "You're just going to see more and more of this kind of card popping up, "said james Daly, editor of the Chicago based Credit Card Management newsletter that tracks the new development. Each patron at the library is issued a plastic card that looks like a credit card and can be used to check out books. But, in addition , patrons can insert the card and $1,$5,,$10 or$20 bills into a machine and charge up the new library card.The card can then be used for printing copies from a book or magazine, for printouts from a computer search, for video rentals or book fees. ++++++++++++++++++ Truth of Bible Attacked from the Religion section of the Chicago tribune 12/15/95 James Vanderkam and Eugene Ulrich, two Notre Dame professors of Hebrew Scriptures have this to say concerning the Bible. "The popular notion that the Bible was composed by a small number of divinely inspired holy men, Moses, David, Isaiah, John, Matthew, Paul and the others is contradicted by centuries of painstaking scholarship that shows much of Scripture was comopsed over long stages by many people other than the named authors. "The believing community handed down its traditions faithfully, but numerous individuals adapted and reshaped those traditions in the light of changing cultural and historical developments. Eventually those insights were woven into the text and transmitted to the next generation." What did Jesus say about the word of God? 17:1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. 6 "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name--the name you gave me--so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13 "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. +++++++++++++++++ Is Mind Control Being Tested Here? a report taken from the internet What is the EMR mind machine? A Global Weapon to control the population? The EMR mind machine is a machine which use the electromagnetic waves to influence and read other person's mind (or thoughts) in order to achieve the goal of mind control. INFLUENCE. The CIA has been researching on electromagnetic mind control technologies since 1960. According to 1985, Dr. Robert Becker reported in his book -"The Body Electric" and the findings of Senate Sub-committees in the hearing of CIA's MKULTRA programs in 1970s. DEFENSE ELECTRONICS reported that a Richmond, Virginia firm Psychotechnologies (believed to be closely tied to the CIA and the FBI has purchased the American rights to the Soviet mind-control devices (New World Order & ELF Tyranny-C.B. Baker) Once the US have purchased the Russian mind-control devices, the US will also have the Russian technologies. So, the information concerning Russian technologies can be used to clarify the capabilities of some of the mind control technologies current in the hands of the US. The functions of EMR mind machine include : 1. deliver microwaves voices (message) to victims to drive victims Mad: Does the victim agree with the function? Yes, almost every one of victims that I have interviewed agree that this is one of the popular harasssment. US Scientists Research Report: This technology had been reported by Dr. Allen Frey in 1959 ( See Cornell University expereiment report.), and in 1973, Dr. Sharp (of the Walter Reed Army Institue of Research) had served as the subject of the experiment in this technology. He confirmed that he had heard & understand the spoken words deliver to him by microwave frequency. PRESENT DAY, the use of electromagnetic weapons by US government was described in the Oct-Nov., 94 NEXUS MAGAZINE: "Directed-energy weapons currently being deployed include, for example, a micro-wave weapon manufactured by Lockheed-Sanders and used for a process known as 'Voice Synthesis' which is REMOTE BEAMING OF AUDIO (i.e., VOICES OR OTHER AUDIBLE SIGNALS) DIRECTLY INTO THE BRAIN OF ANY SELECTED HUMAN TARGET. This process is also known within the U.S. Government as "Synthetic Telepathy." This psychotronic weapon was demonstrated by Dr. Dave Morgan at the November, 1993 Non-Lethal weapons conference ("New World Order & ELF Tyranny" by C.B. Baker). 2. Cause the victims to experience dizziness and fall alseep with radio energy (or radio beam). Does this machine have this ability? Yes, abousolutly. The Russian or US scientists have all agreed with that the electromagnetic frequency can induce dizziness and sleep. So, while a victim is driving on the highway, the mindcontrol group can easily kill victims with car accidents by using the emitters that have been already installed on automobiles. Declassified US Intelligence Report: In 1977, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) declassified a report & Shows that the Soviets discovered that secret microwave radiation can be used to induce the following symptoms in unsuspecting victims: "headache, fatigue, perspiring, dizziness, menstrual disorders irritability, agitation, tension, drowsiness, sleeplessness, depression, anxiety, forgetfulness, and the lack of concentration. ("New World Order & ELF Tryanny"- C.B. Baker) Research results of Russian Scientists: The head of Dept. of Physiology in University of Leningrad, professor Vasilliev reported in a publicatin " Vasiliev and his colleagues were among the first to show that even very low-level radiation can effect living organisms and cause dizziness, loss of appetite, emotional instability, and hallucinations. (New World Order & ELF Tyranny-- C.B. Baker) 3. Hypotize the victims: Can the EMR Mind machine be used to hypotize humans? Yes, absolutaly Our American society have covered up too many secrets in this area. So, we better find the answer from the original inventor--Russia. Research Result of Russian Scientists: In the 1950's, Nikolia Khokhlov, a Soviet KGB agent defected to the West In 1976, Khokhlov was asked by the U.S. Government to prepare a report of secret Soviet parapsychology centers. He interviewed a number of scientists who had recently left the Soviet Union. The 2\5\83 issue o THE SPECTATOR, it reported that Khokhlov stated: Soviet psychotronic weapons "ARE ABLE TO JAM SOMEONE'S THINKING IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU CAN JAM THE SIGNALS COMING IN FROM A RADIO TRANSMITTER. In simple terms, it means that YOU CAN SCRAMBLE ANYONE'S THINKING PROCESS AND CAN PLANT FEAR AND CONFUSION AT WILL IN THAT PERSON." KGB defector Khokhlov reported that by using these psychotronic weapons "you can make an enemy to do something TOTALLY CONTRARY TO HIS TRAINING AND HIS LOYALTY TO HIS OWN COUNTRY." Khokhlov reported that these KGB devices could turn a senior officer "into a traitor" to his own country (New world Order & ELF Tyranny- C.B. Baker) Research results of Scientists in the US: In 1974, the scientists of CIA are very strongly interested in the hypnosis-EMR. The experimenter of this research, J.F. Schapitz recorded : The spoken word of the hypnosis may also be conveyed by modulate electromagnetic energy directly into the subconscious parts of the human brain--i.e., without employing any technical device for receiving or transcoding the messages, and the person who expose in such influenc has no chance to control the information input ( " The Body Electric" - Dr. Robert Becker, p. 320-321). Transcript from the Congressional Hearing on the MKULTRA program: On September 21, 1977, the Senate's Sub-Committee on Health and Scientific Research asked the director of "MKULTRA" -- Dr. Sydney Gottlieb to testify. Dr. Gottlieb said: "There was a running interest in what effects people's standing in the field of radio energy have, and it could easily have been that somewhere in the many projects someone was trying to see if you could hypnotize somebody easier if he was standing in a radio beam." The above information have proven that the US mindcontrol organization can use the electromagnetic waves to hypnotize target & send the subliminal message (suggestion-microwave voices) to subject. The CIA might have tried to keep these mind control technologies and EMR mind machine as secret forever. However, enough information has surfaced in the past twenty years to prove this EMR mind machine indeed exists. Also, the declassified information and news reports have already proven the US EMR mind machine has the same capabilities as that of the Russian infrasound mind machine, except US was able to accomplish this much earlier and using EMR instead of infrasound (in the 1970s). Furthermore, since the US has already purchased infrasound mind machine and psychological, & "nonlethal" weapons from Russia after the Cold War, the US has at the very least the same equipments as the Russian in mind control technologies. ++++++++++++++++++++ Church Panel: Take brimstone from idea of hell A Church of England commission has rejected the idea of hell as a place of fire, pitchforks and screams of unending agony, describing it instead an annihilation for all who reject the love of God. Rejecting the medievil vision of the underworld, the report said "Christians have professed appalling theologies which made God into a sadistic monster and left searing psychological scars on many." The report, released last spring, said belief in everlasting punishment has steadily faded. "There are many reasons for this change, but amongst them have been the moral protest from both within and without the Christian faith against a religion of fear, and a growing sense that the picture of a God who consigned millions to eternal torment was far removed from the revelation of God's love in Christ, "the report said. "Hell is not eternal torment, but it is the final and irrevocable choosing of that which is opposed to God so completely and so absolutely that the only end is total non-being." That is much like the definition of hell in the catechism of the U.S.Episcopal Church:"eternal death inour rejection of God" That is Not What Jesus Christ said!! Read the following and then make up your own mind!! Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Then read these words of Jesus Christ from Luke 12 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. 4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. The word hell is used 54 times in 54 verses. Please take the time to look them up. New Age News Update......A Christian perspective on the New Age and New World Order Written,edited and published by: Rudy Hulstrom 1504 Cardinal.Melrose Park,IL.60160 E-Mail : 102551,1063@Compuserve.Com On the Web at: http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rudyhulstrom ******************************** Prophe-Zine News Bites A Call To Pantheism By: Ray Gano While reading the news groups, I once again, stumbled across the "Great Invocation". Every New Year's Eve, millions of New Agers and other Occultists sit and meditate and chant the following chant to bring about World Peace and other warm fuzzy stuff. Once you read this over, you will see it's flaws. First of all, the people who partake in this ceremony are not calling for world peace but calling for a world without God and a world without our Lord and savior Jesus. Where they are looking is to themselves for their salvation and a better world. This is the oldest and also the first sin reported in the Bible. They want to be like God, to the point of calling themselves God. This "Great Invocation" was given originally to Alice Bailey by her spirit / demon guide Djwhal Khul. Bailey calls for the extermination of all Christians and Jews by the way. The reason given is so that man can make his quantum leak into his next evolutional plane. It is we Christians and Jews and our "lack of tolerance for all" is the reason given for this willingness to terminate our existence. Read some of Alice Bailey's work and you will see. ** ** ** ** ** This invocation was first given out in 1945 as an aid in bringing about certain great events. These are: 1. An outpouring of love and light upon mankind, from Shamballa. 2. An invocatory appeal to the Christ, the Head of the Hierarchy, to reappear. 3. The establishing on earth of the divine Plan, to be accomplished willingly by humanity itself. (Taken from Ponder on This, a compilation of the writings of Alice A. Bailey and The Tibetian Master, Djwhal Khul) The Great Invocation From the point of light within the Mind of God Let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Earth. From the point of Love within the Heart of God Let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. From the centre where the Will of God is known Let purpose guide the little wills of men--- The purpose which the Masters know and serve. From the centre which we call the race of men Let the Plan of Love and Light work out. And may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth. For further information about the Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, please contact: Tara Center P.O.Box 6001 N Hollywood, Ca. 91603 To learn more about the coming age and how we (humanity) are already experiencing these great changes in our everyday life because of the Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, you may wish to subscribe to Share International Magazine. Please contact Tara Center. ** Editors note: Both Share International and the Tara Center can be reached via Prophe-Zine's WWW site. The Christ they are waitng for is a man named Maitreya. JFYI, they also have close ties to the UN.** +++++++++++++++++++++++++ People Turning To Psychics Not Jesus By: VJA, Syracuse, New York The Post Standard September 11, 1995 article entitled "Psychics Shine Light on Lives" highlights the tremendous interest in psychic and paranormal activity that is sweeping the world. Infomercials are flooding the air-waves, and the "Psychics Friends Network" has become the most aired commercial on television. Psychic fairs, palm readers, channellers, "Magic" card games (tarot cards in disguise), ouija boards and involvement with other "New Age" phenomena are becoming commonplace. Society is basically unfulfilled, searching for answers. But why are people contacting psychics? "The Shattered Crystal Ball" was a study that analyzed the accuracy of the top ten psychics whose predictions were published over a three-year period. Their combined failure rate was 98%; six out of ten psychics were wrong 100% of the time. But despite their extremely poor record, millions of people spend millions of dollars on psychics and channellers looking for guidance. With a 98% failure rate, the best one should expect is to be deceived and separated from their money. However, there is a much greater danger. Sid Roth, stockbroker-turned-radio interviewer (7:45 A.M., 96.5 & 105.1 F.M.), in his autobiographical book entitled There Must be Something More, tells of his experiences with New Age phenomena. He began by consulting psychics and taking mind-control courses. The power he encountered was real. He eventually achieved a level of consciousness where he got his own "spirit guide", to consult. He no longer needed a psychic; he had a "spirit guide" inside of him. He didn't question the source of this power--at least not at first. Sid got involved deeper and deeper. One day after "lowering his brain waves" to a new level, he had an out-of-body experience. He found out that this was called "astral projection." He also found out that this was dangerous and was warned not to go too far or his spirit might not find its way back and be hopelessly lost. He eventually found that he had no real control over his "spirit body", which could leave his corporal body at night while he was asleep. He began to suspect that he had opened a door to a supernatural that was not as benevolent as he had thought. His spirit guide--a perfect gentleman as long as he was doing what the spirit guide approved of--was suddenly not so gentlemanly. It began to torture him. The power that Sid had tapped into now wanted him dead.He reached the point where death didn't look bad. What was the source of this power? It's been around since biblical times. The Apostles Paul and Silas once encountered a fortuneteller and channeller (spirit of divination). Acts 16:16-18 records: "Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortunetelling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out saying, 'These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.' She did this for many days. But Paul, greatly distressed, turned and said to the spirit, 'I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.' And he came out that very hour." For this slave girl, as for Sid Roth, the power that was operating inside was demonic, an evil spirit. In desperation, Sid did what even most atheists and agnostics do when confronted with death--he cried out to God for deliverance and found out that God was not only real, but is a greater power than that which was inside of him. Sid turned to God for help before it was too late. Many people, whether through ignorance or a thirst for power, have gotten involved with the occult (today called the New Age) and have found themselves in desperate trouble. Instead of finding answers, these people have lost control of their own minds and bodies. This is the reason that God warns us to stay away from spiritists and mediums. The psychic in your article who feels his powers are from God has been deceived. If he continues in this activity, the Bible (Leviticus 20:27) says his blood will be upon his own head. He will be responsible for his own death at the hand of these occul- tic powers. Do not get involved with these dangerous occultic activities. Find fulfillment where millions have found them for almost two thousand years--through Jesus Christ. VJA, Syracuse, New York +++++++++++++++++++++++ Person-Locator System Based on Wristband Radio Transponders From *NASA Tech Briefs*, December 1995 Abstract: Person-Locator System Based on Wristband Radio Transponders A computerized system using wristband transponders can track and identify people in prisons, mental hospitals, and other high- security or busy places. The transponders would be very inexpensive and would not require battery power. Individuals could be located in a timely fashion at relatively low cost. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA A computerized system based on wristband radio-frequency (RF), passive transponders is being developed for use in real-time tracking of individuals in custodial institutions like prisons and mental hospitals. In comparison with other, similar systems now on the market or undergoing development, this system would offer the advantages of equal or better tracking capabilities and relatively low cost: the wristband transponders are estimated to cost less than $1.50 apiece (1993 prices) and would not require battery power. The system would include a monitoring system that would contain a central computer connected to a low-power, high-frequency central transciever. The transciever would be connected to miniature transceiver nodes mounted unobtrusively at known locations throughout the institution. Some or all of the transciever nodes could be connected to the central transciever by incorporating them into a coaxial cable connected to the central transciever. Alternatively, some or all of the transceiver nodes could be set up as stand-alone units with antennas for radio communication with the central transciever. The wristband transponders would be embedded in common hospital wristbands. A unique digital code would be assigned to each wristband to identify the wearer and to each transceiver node to identify its location. The computer would cause the central transceiver to broadcast the digital code or codes of one or many wristbands to the transceiver nodes, which would rebroadcast the wristband codes in their local areas. Each wristband circuit would be powered by the signal radiated by the transciever node(s) in its immediate vicinity. Upon reception of a signal modulated with its unique digital code, a wristband would become excited to rebroadcast that code for reception by the nearest transceiver node. In turn, the transceiver node would transmit both the wristband code and its location code back to the central transceiver. The central computer would process these codes to produce a video display showing the location of the wristband as deduced from the location of the transceiver node that received the response from the wristband. Produced by a graphical-display software module, this display would be in the form of a two-dimensional floor or terrain map or a three-dimensional layout of the entire institution or the affected building or outside area. The computer-display module would also provide ancillary still images from file photographs, plus real-time video and sound. The data for these ancillary displays would be provided by a data base software module, which would contain a record on each prisoner and, optionally, on each guard and/or other supervisory person. This record could include multiple photographs, voiceprints, fingerprints, and archival vidio displays to show distinctive gaits and other distinctive characteristics. Each such record would be labeled with the same distinct digital code assigned to that individual's wristband. The wristbands would be tamperproof in the following sense: Each would contain an embedded wire loop which, when broken or torn off and discarded, would cause the wristband to disappear from the system, thus causing an alarm. If a wristband were to be shielded with aluminum foil or otherwise rendered inoperable and its unique digital code were transmitted in the system, the softare would similarly alert the central computer operator that the wristband was missing in the system. Similarly, every wristband in the system would contain circuitry responsive to a uniform code that would be transmitted repeatedly by transceiver nodes at the perimeter of the institution. Thus if a prisoner approached the perimeter, a warning would be sounded at the monitoring station. This work was done by Frederick W. Mintz, Brent R. Blaes, and Charles W. Chandler of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Russian official threatens revenge if NATO enlarged February 4, 1996 MUNICH, Germany (CNN) -- A top Russian defense official Saturday informed European security officials that NATO's plans for enlargement to include former Warsaw Pact nations could provoke Russia into revenge against the West. Andrei Kokoshin, Russia's First Deputy Defense Minister, delivered a frosty written statement reminiscent of the Cold War era to a conference of security officials in Munich. In the statement, Kokoshin wrote that adding Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to NATO would "cause a negative, if not a painful, reaction in Russian society." Kokoshin accused the West of trying to "deliver the final blow" of the Cold War ... against Russia. Western officials sharply criticized the statement, calling attention to it after Kokoshin declined to read it publicly at the security conference in Munich. They noted that Kokoshin's verbal remarks were much less antagonistic than the written statement, which he acknowledged writing. +++++++++++++++++++ Smart Card Update Smart Cards Poised For Take-Off In 1996 - Report 01/29/96 SOMERTON, SOMERSET, ENGLAND, 1996 JAN 29 (NB) -- A report in the December/January issue of Card Technology Today, which claims to be the smart card industry's leading journal, forecasts dynamic growth for the industry in 1996. According to David Jones, the magazine's editor, last year was marked by four leading developments: widespread trials of electronic purse schemes; major progress in the Europay/MasterCard/Visa (EMV) standard for international bank cards; a breakthrough for contactless card technology; and the explosive growth of the Internet. "These developments will all bear fruit in the year ahead. In particular, we believe that 1996 will be the year of the electronic purse. One industry leader, Gemplus, expects growth over the next 12 months to be in the order of 45 percent," he explained. Jones also notes that Gemplus, Verifine, and a group of major banks and financial institutions in the US have teamed up with the SmartCash program to promote the electronic purse across the whole of the country. Jones claims that EMV standards are now virtually complete and widely accept. "Even such skeptics as the UK banking community are not firmly committed to implementing smart card technology -- the principal outstanding subject is the completion of standards for terminals," he said. Card Technology Today claims that, despite the acceptance of EMV standards, the introduction of chip cards into national bank payment systems and markets will be a slow one, because national banking associations have to carry their members with them. Also, the magazine notes, credit and debit cards have a two-year lifespan and the issue of new cards has to be tied to the replacement cycle. According to Jones, 1996 is expected by industry leaders to be the year of take-off for contactless card technology, with many programs coming to fruition and beginning to generate significant activity. A pointer to this, he notes, was the contract won last summer to supply three million contactless cards for the Hong Kong mass ticketing system. The magazine forecasts new initiatives from IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft, Netscape, and Visa for handling payments via the Internet, with schemes designed to provide security for payments made with credit cards. While the need for immediate "solutions" will dictate that the first systems are software based, all these organizations, the magazine claims, will have firmly in their sights the introduction of chip- carrying bank cards as a vehicle for Internet payments during the next two to three years. Further details of Card Technology Today can be found on the publishers' home page at http://www.sjb.co.uk . (Sylvia Dennis/19960129/Press & Reader Contact: Card Technology Today, tel +44-1458-274444, fax +44-1458-274495) Source: Newsbytes news service 1/29/96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Killer Quake in China Sunday Febuary 4 7:22 AM EST Killer quake hit China and killed 228 people, injured 14,000 and left tens of thousands of survivors huddled in freezing weather and jolted by dozens of aftershocks. The epicenter of the tremor in the remote and scenic region of Lijiang, about 1,300 miles southwest of Beijing. The quake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale and struck on Saturday evening when most people were at home for supper or watching television officials said. Christ has told us watch out and beprepared when we see these things, like this earthquake, for our moment is nigh. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Possible allies with Gog ? Polish president chooses premier By: Ray Gano President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland's new President, asked former communist Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz to form a new government. Mr Cimoszewicz said that he would immediately begin negotiations to form a government next week. He expected most ministers would maintain their posts but said that he would replace unpopular officials with "someone more competent". I find this interesting because somewhere in eastern Europe someone will allie themself to Russia inthe attack on Isreal. Check out Ez. 38-39. Is it possibly Poland? +++++++++++++++++++ Allies with Gog? Part 2...? Iran Deploys Anti-Ship Missile Tuesday January 30 4:50 PM EST Iran this month tested and is deploying a Chinese-made anti-ship cruise missile that represents a potential new threat to oil shipping in the Gulf, the U.S. Navy commander in the region said Tuesday. Vice Adm. Scott Redd, chief of U.S. Navy forces in the Gulf, said Iran test-fired a Chinese C-802 anti-ship missile on Jan. 6 from a ship in the Arabian Sea just outside the Gulf. He said it could be mounted on Iran's Chinese-made Houdong fast patrol boats. ``This is a new dimension " Redd said, noting that the mobile, radar-guided missile had a range of 60 miles. He said the missile was ``in the deployment stage.'' The admiral, speaking at a breakfast with reporters, called the C-802 a major advance over older Chinese-made ``Silkworm'' anti-ship cruise missiles used by Iran in its Gulf war with Iraq nearly a decade ago. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Subversive' UN Calendar Torn Down By Teachers By Robert Guest in Tokyo Japanese headteachers were horrified when posters urging pupils to "misbehave" were pasted up in schools all over the country. They tracked down the culprits, delivered a firm reprimand, and made them promise not to do it again. The poster in question was a calendar with quotes from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its treatment has thrown fresh light on the ultra-authoritarian regime in many Japanese schools. To Western eyes, the calendar's message seems inoffensive. It states that children have the right "to say what they think", "to express themselves", "to rest, to play and to experience beautiful things". Japan's parliament signed the convention last year, but for many schools, the document's assertion that children have rights goes too far. "Many headmasters and boards of governors thought the poster encouraged students to disobey their teachers" "We received a lot of complaints," said Toshio Sano, a spokesman for Nikkyoso, the Leftist teachers' union which printed and distributed 45,000 copies of the calendar to 40,000 primary and middle schools. "Many headmasters and boards of governors thought the poster encouraged students to disobey their teachers." Clause 16, ascribing to children "the right to keep secrets from other people", was thought to be a licence to cheat at exams. The idea of a "right to play" was thought to bode ill for exam results. "It's a great shame, but many teachers don't like to think of their pupils as individuals with rights," said Mr Sano. "In some schools they binned the calendar, in others they stuck it up in the staff room where the children couldn't read it." At most schools, hair and skirt length are stipulated to the nearest half inch. Pupils with questions must raise their hands to a set height and angle, and the order in which school meals may be eaten is often prescribed. Girls with naturally curly hair need notes from their mothers verifying that they have not permed it. United Nations homepage (http://www.un.org/) ++++++++++++++++++++++++ One step closer to the One World Government By: Archibald E Roberts, LtCol, AUS, ret, Director COMMITTEE TO RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION, Inc Evidence filed with Committee to Restore the Constitution reveals that Army reserve units are now directed to comply with Presidential Decision Directive #25, 3 May 1994 "The Clinton Administration's Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations", a `secret' document ordering transfer of US military to UN command. Case: Patrick John Cloutier, E-4, 337th MI Company (INTIG), 11 Eagle Road Danbury CT 06810. Spc Cloutier was subjected to censor and revocation of security clearance for "...publically displaying disgust and refusal to participate in a training exercise that involved national United Nations participation", allegedly a violation of AR 530-1. Specialist Cloutier incident parallels the case of Spc Michael New, court martialed and discharged for refusal to don UN gear and serve in United Nations Army under foreign command. Instant provision of PDD #25, applicable to Spc Cloutier and Spc New, is Chapter IV "Strengthening the UN", paragraph C. "Finally, the UN should establish a professional Peace Operations Training Program for commanders and other military and civilian personnel". Intimidation and punitive action against military personnel who adhere to the Constitution and Army Regulations is suggestive of a dictatorship. Complicity of Congress in subversion of United States military is revealed in Senate Joint Resolution #65, 16 March 1993, "Establishing a commission to study the creation of a standing international military force under the United Nations Charter". Americans in uniform are betrayed in `bait and switch' tactic by the Chain of Command under oath to protect them. Cited documents available. Ask for "Spc-4 Patrick Cloutier file". Include $2.00 for reproduction and postage. Archibald E Roberts, LtCol, AUS, ret, Director COMMITTEE TO RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION, Inc PO Box 986 Fort Collins CO 80522 (970) 484 2575 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biometrics Update Liberty Check Printing just introduced a means of adding your photo to your check as a means if ID. What they do is take you photo and digitize it. Then they convert it into a bar code and print the bar code on your check. When you check is run through the scanner at the store a EPS or line drawing comes up of you that the store attendant can see and verify that it is you. This technology was introduced at the National Credit Union Convention in San Jose CA, Feb. 5 -9, 1996. ++++++++++++++++++++ Smart Card Update: "SMART CARD" HERE WITHIN ONE YEAR 5 Forms Of Ontario I.D. To Fold Into One By KELLY TOUGHILL Queen's Park Bureau Front-page headline, TORONTO STAR, Feb. 13th 1996: The Ontario government will launch a province-wide identification card within the year to keep track of everything from mammograms to speeding tickets. Health Minister Jim Wilson said yesterday that the government has settled on a so-called "smart card" to replace the existing health card, driver's licence, social assistance identification, drug card and senior identification. The card will link up to several government computers, including a completely revamped health care data base that will be able to track the most detailed information about patient health and doctors' billings. "If we could bring it up to the level of a credit card, where they can tell you where you were an hour ago and what you spent, that would be a great step forward for the health-care system in Ontario," Wilson told reporters yesterday. "For example, when you are discharged from hospital, your patient record doesn't follow you [so] you may go to your family doctor back in your hometown and and have all the tests and x-rays duplicated. That sort of information can be available in a central database. Of course we have to have all the discussions about privacy of information." Wilson dismissed estimates that a province-wide smart- card would cost the government $1 billion or more, saying he hopes to drastically lower the cost through a "partnership" with the private sector. "Basically, our request for proposal will be an ad that says, 'Ministry of Health needs an information centre system, has no money.'" Former NDP health minister Ruth Grier also explored a smart card, but rejected the idea because she said it posed to great a risk to patient privacy. Wison said privacy protection will be a key part of the new card, ensuring that only appropriate health- care workers and OHIP [Ontario Health Insurance Plan] officials can access sensitive patient information. The card would carry basic "tombstone data", such as date of birth and gender that Wilson said is now collected by 200 different government programs. Wilson said the government has not yet decided whether the card would carry a resident's fingerprints, photo or other form of identification. He said it could take two years or more for the cards to be issued. [Note: Ontario, Canada's most populous and industrialized province, has a population of 10 million] 41