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‘Chaos’ at WikiLeaks Follows Assange Arrest
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‘Chaos’ at WikiLeaks Follows Assange Arrest
The arrest without bail of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday has left the organization in a state of uncertainty, despite transition plans laid out prior to his surrender to British police, according to one dispirited WikiLeaks activist who spoke to Threat Level on condition of anonymity.
Assange left Icelandic television journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson in charge of the group in his absence, the activist said. But now the embattled organization’s secrecy and compartmentalization are apparently hindering its operations.
Specifically, midlevel WikiLeaks staffers have been mostly cut off from communicating with hundreds of volunteers whose contact information was stored in Assange’s private online-messaging accounts, and never shared with others.
“There is an ongoing plan, but that plan was only introduced to a few staffers — key staffers,” explained the source. “We are experiencing chaos.”
WikiLeaks was scrambling to produce a statement in a dozen languages Tuesday to address Assange’s arrest.
Assange appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London Tuesday. The judge cited Assange’s itinerant lifestyle and denied him bail, despite the fact that he turned himself in.
The arrest came nine days after WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of more than 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, which are trickling out at a rate of about a hundred a day.
That publication schedule will continue uninterrupted, according to a tweet on WikiLeaks’ Twitter feed following Assange’s detention. “Today’s actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won’t affect our operations: We will release more cables tonight as normal,” read one message. A second tweet added: “Let down by the UK justice system’s bizarre decision to refuse bail to Julian Assange. But #cablegate releases continue as planned.”
Assange “is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010,” British police said.
Assange indicated in court that he would fight extradition to Sweden, according to reports. He is set to appear in court again Dec. 14.
Charismatic and driven, Assange has been WikiLeaks’ public face and prime mover for four years. It was Assange who personally managed the site’s most important leaker — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, according to Manning’s conversations with the ex-hacker who turned him in.
And when Assange’s autocratic leadership style was challenged by some staffers last year, he described his importance to the organization in no uncertain terms. “I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest.”
His absence, says the source, is being felt acutely. “The organization will most likely start to fall apart now.”
Photo: Kristinn Hrafnsson of Wikileaks
Lennart Preiss/AP
Kevin Poulsen is a senior editor at Wired.com and editor of the award-winning Threat Level blog. His new book on cybercrime, KINGPIN, comes out February 22, 2011 from Crown.
Follow @kpoulsen on Twitter.
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Tubeify Turns YouTube Into Slick Video Jukebox
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Tubeify Turns YouTube Into Slick Video Jukebox
A new streaming music service called Tubeify turns YouTube into an easy-to-use video jukebox.
“I tried to make it feel more like a traditional desktop music player, think iTunes or Spotify, but still web-based so you can use it anywhere,” said Tubeify creator Tomas Isdal in an interview with TorrentFreak. “Then I fixed the annoying parts of YouTube and added stuff that I always wanted in a music player.”
Isdal’s wish list resulted in a free music player with a user-friendly interface. Since Tubeify subjects users to YouTube’s hit-and-miss audio quality, it might feel a little like a poor-man’s Spotify. But it’s addictive enough to waste a few hours exploring.
With search functionality handled by the Last.fm API, Tubeify allows for quick assembly of playlists, which can be shared. The web-based service also taps into Billboard.com’s API to serve up lists from the current music charts; a cool “time travel” feature lets you explore chart-topping songs from any particular week since 1964. (Wired.com has a particular fondness for the sixth week in 1981.)
Get a Tubeify invite now and give the service a try.
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Righthaven Expands Troll Operation With Newspaper Giant
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Righthaven Expands Troll Operation With Newspaper Giant
Copyright troll Righthaven, which sues blogs and websites for posting newspaper content without permission, is making good on its promise to expand its reach, and is now working on behalf of the nation’s second-biggest news chain.
Las Vegas–based Righthaven was formed this spring for the sole purpose of acquiring copyrights and suing to financially benefit from allegedly misappropriated intellectual property. It has filed more than 180 suits on behalf of Stephens Media’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, and has now begun suing on behalf of Denver-based MediaNews Group, which owns the San Jose Mercury News, the Denver Post and about two dozen other outlets.
Righthaven’s initial lawsuit on behalf of the Denver Post, first reported by the Las Vegas Sun, came three weeks after the paper published online a “notice to readers about Denver Post copyright protections.” The five-paragraph notice said the newspaper’s work “is illegally reproduced everyday on websites across the country.” The company wrote it was acceptable for blogs to “reproduce no more than a headline and up to a couple of paragraphs or summary of the story.”
MediaNews chief Dean Singleton, also chairman of the Associated Press, did not immediately respond for comment. Sara Glines, a MediaNews vice president, likewise did not return a telephone call.
Steve Gibson, Righthaven’s chief executive, said in a brief telephone interview that “We have a substantial number of clients and business relationships that you’ll be seeing additional activity with.” He said he believes his business model will help the media capitalize on their content.
Its suit on behalf of MediaNews targets lowcountry912.com, a blog on national and local politics. The site did not immediately respond for comment. The blog is accused of running (.pdf) an entire Denver Post column in September, titled “Rosen: A Letter to the Tea Partyers.”
In some of its previous lawsuits, Righthaven sued over the reposting of a few paragraphs from a news article, even when the post was done by a user on a discussion board. Righthaven changed the tactic after suffering a courtroom defeat in a Review-Journal lawsuit last month.
Righthaven has settled more than 70 of its cases out of court. Terms have not been not made public.
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Microsoft Builds Online Tracking Blocking Feature Into IE9
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Microsoft Builds Online Tracking Blocking Feature Into IE9
By Ryan Singel
The new feature, called “Tracking Protection,” will be bundled into IE9’s next beta release early next year, and is intended to give users control over what widgets and scripts display — and pull in data — when they visit a given website.
The announcement comes just a week after the Federal Trade Commission castigated the online-ad industry for not regulating itself and dragging its feet on being transparent with users about the data they collect and how they use it.
The FTC also called for browser makers to build a “do not track” feature that, when turned on, would send a “no tracking, please” message to every website you visit. While the FTC lacks the authority to force companies to obey the flag, it called on advertisers to comply, with the veiled threat that it could get the power from Congress, if need be.
IE9’s Tracking Protection feature would work differently, by blocking websites and third-party plug-ins outright. People who wanted the blocks could subscribe to a “tracking protection list.” So, for instance, if the blocking list you subscribe to bans Google’s Analytics tracking service or Facebook’s Like button when you visit a webpage using those features, your browser will simply not load them and pass no information to those companies.
“These are complementary approaches, and different ways to get to the same goal of helping consumers block tracking,” said Dean Hachamovitch, the company’s vice president in charge of IE development. “This path is different in that it actually blocks the tracking now.”
Hachamovitch, along with the company’s top privacy strategist Peter Cullen, announced the feature in a webcast for reporters at the same time Google was unveiling the Chrome web store and Chrome OS. Microsoft has tried to portray itself as better on privacy than Google, which many fear knows too much about them.
Tracking protection lists can be created by anyone and published on the web, using a format that Microsoft is publishing under a Creative Commons license. So, anyone is free to make a list and other browser makers could use the lists as well, without infringing on Microsoft’s intellectual property.
The service will be turned off by default in the browser, but once it is on, users can choose to subscribe to a list, and when the creator updates the list, the browser will automatically sync with it. Lists can include both approved and verboten sites.
Microsoft said it will not ship IE9 with any lists built-in, and hopes to see a wide swath of groups and individuals create lists.
The feature is likely to be controversial for ad and tracking firms, which argue that much of the internet’s free services are dependent upon targeted advertising. Third-party advertising and tracking systems use cookies and JavaScript to watch what users do and read around the web in order to build a profile of interests about you, with the hopes of showing sports fans and knitting fanatics different ads.
Plug-ins from third parties have become increasingly popular in the last few years, and when you visit a news story on Wired.com or the Wall Street Journal your browser will load in ads, cookies, tracking beacons, content, commenting systems and scripts from sometimes dozens of third-parties.
For the most part, these tracking systems don’t know who you are, and simply create a unique ID, such as ADT187423, which it associates with that browser. Data collected over time is used to build up profiles by making guesses about you, to prevent you from seeing the same ad over and over, and to let websites understand how much traffic they get and how loyal their visitors are.
Current tools for preventing such tracking include using opt-out cookies for third-party advertising networks, browser plug-ins and, for hard-core geeks, using the computer’s host list to explicitly block sites they do not want their computer to connect to.
IE9’s new feature is most like the latter, but simplifies the process by making it easy to subscribe to other people’s lists and keep them updated over time.
One other key difference, however, is that when you visit a website, IE9 will pass along the information that you are using a “tracking protection list” to that site, which can then prompt you to unblock certain features, or even decide not to show you a news story until you do.
It’s unclear yet if the new feature will be so easy to use and widely adopted that it creates an arms race between advertisers and users.
History suggests not. Google, for instance, puts links on its display ads that take users to a page that lets them see their advertising profile, edit it and opt out if they like. But Google says that the small percentage of its massive user base who visit the page generally don’t opt out.
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X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time
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X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time
A new hypothetical particle could solve two cosmic mysteries at once: what dark matter is made of, and why there’s enough matter for us to exist at all.
“We know you have to have these two ingredients to the universe, both atoms and dark matter,” said physicist Kris Sigurdson of the University of British Columbia, coauthor of a paper describing the new particle. “Since you know you need those ingredients anyway, it seems like a natural thing to try to explain them from the same mechanism.”
Cosmologists think the same amount of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang, and particles and antiparticles immediately started colliding and extinguishing each other. But the fact that stars, planets and physicists exist now is proof that that’s not what happened.
“If matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the early universe, they would all have annihilated [each other],” said theoretical physicist Sean Tulin of the Canadian physics institute TRIUMF. “There has to be some asymmetry that was left over.”
Together with physicists Hooman Davoudiasl at Brookhaven National Lab and David Morrissey of TRIUMF, Tulin and Sigurdson suggest a way to solve the problem of missing antimatter: Hide it away as dark matter. The details are published in the Nov. 19 Physical Review Letters.
“If our theory is right, it would tell you what dark matter is,” Tulin said.
Most of what we know about dark matter is that it is mysterious stuff that makes up a quarter of the energy density of the universe, but refuses to interact with regular matter except through gravity.
The most popular candidate for dark matter is a theoretical weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP, that connects only with the weak nuclear force and gravity, making it undetectable by eyes, radios and telescopes at all wavelengths. Based on current theories, WIMPs are expected to be about 100 times as massive as a proton, and to be their own antiparticle — whenever two WIMPs meet up in space, they annihilate each other.
The new theoretical particle “is completely different from the WIMP idea,” Tulin said. The proposed particle, named simply “X,” has a separate antiparticle called “anti-X.” Equal amounts of X and anti-X were created in the Big Bang, and then decayed to lighter particles. Each X decayed into either a neutron or two dark-matter particles, called Y and Φ. Every anti-X converted to an anti-neutron or some anti-dark matter.
But the hypothetical X particle would rather decay into ordinary matter than dark matter, so it produced more neutrons than dark matter. Anti-X preferred decaying into anti-dark matter, and so produced more of it.
After all the particles and anti-particles that could find each other collided and eliminated each other, the universe was left with some extra neutrons and a corresponding number of extra anti-dark matter particles.
“The protons and neutrons can’t annihilate completely with their antiparticles, because there’s not enough to annihilate with,” Tulin said. “The same story happens in the hidden sector as well…. Some dark matter can’t annihilate with anything. So you’re left with some extra dark matter in the universe.”
Conveniently, this picture could explain another particle-physics puzzle: why there is only five times more dark matter than regular matter in the universe. To physicists, five is a really small number. If dark matter and regular matter didn’t spring from similar origins, there’s no reason why there should be roughly the same amount of both of them.
But in the new model, there should be the same absolute number of regular-matter particles and dark-matter particles left after all the particles that can destroy each other are gone. If the dark-matter particles each have a mass between two and three times the proton’s mass, then the universe ends up with five times more dark matter than regular matter.
“That’s why the light stuff, the visible matter that we all know and love and are used to, is in exact balance with the excess in the dark matter,” Sigurdson said. He compares the balance to a yin-yang: “You end up with a little bit more matter and a little bit more antimatter, but they’re in exact compensation with each other.”
The signatures of this new form of dark matter could be detected by existing experiments. In this model, dark matter doesn’t interact with regular matter very often — but it can happen. A dark-matter particle can sometimes smack into a proton or a neutron and destroy it, creating a signature similar to a proton decaying.
Proton decay isn’t allowed by the standard model of particle physics, but some theories that go beyond the standard model allow it. An enormous underground tank of water in Japan, called SuperKamiokande, was designed to look for the decaying protons, but has so far found nothing. If physicists at SuperKamiokande went back through their data and looked at slightly different energies, they may be able to find traces of dark matter.
“It’s a pretty novel idea,” said astroparticle physicist Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford, who has suggested detecting a different possible form of dark matter by observing its buildup in the sun. The signature of dark matter destroying protons “can be easily tested by the even bigger proposed underground detectors” planned to be built somewhere in Europe.
“This is only the beginning,” Sigurdson said. “There’s other puzzles out there in particle physics, and we’d like to connect as many of those as possible.”
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Arrested in London, Denied Bail
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Arrested in London, Denied Bail
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks leader, was arrested Tuesday in London on Swedish rape accusations after agreeing to meet with the police.
Hours later, he appeared in Magistrates Court in Westminster, where he was denied bail, CNN reported.
The arrest came nine days after WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of more than 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, which are trickling out at a rate of about 100 a day.
That publication will continue uninterrupted, according to a tweet on the WikiLeaks twitter feed following Assange’s detention. “Today’s actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won’t affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal,” read one message. A second tweet added: “Let down by the UK justice system’s bizarre decision to refuse bail to Julian Assange. But #cablegate releases continue as planned.”
Metropolitan police said in a statement that Assange volunteered to surrender at a London police station.
“He is acused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August, 2010,” the police said.
Assange indicated in court that he would fight extradition to Sweden, according to reports. He is set to appear in court again on December 14.
Update 13:00 EST: The Guardian has the first detailed breakdown of the allegations under investigation in the case.
Gemma Lindfield, for the Swedish authorities, told the court Assange was wanted in connection with four allegations.
She said the first complainant, Miss A, said she was victim of “unlawful coercion” on the night of 14 August in Stockholm.
The court heard Assange is accused of using his body weight to hold her down in a sexual manner.
The second charge alleged Assange “sexually molested” Miss A by having sex with her without a condom when it was her “express wish” one should be used.
The third charge claimed Assange “deliberately molested” Miss A on 18 August “in a way designed to violate her sexual integrity”.
The fourth charge accused Assange of having sex with a second woman, Miss W, on 17 August without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home.
Update 14:00 EST Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny commented on the arrest in a statement. “Apart from the arrest, nothing new has happened in the investigation, but the arrest is a prerequisite for continuing the investigation. I cannot give information on the next step, as the matter at the moment is handled by British authorities,” she said.
“I would like to clarify that there have by no means been any political pressure on my decision making. I act as a prosecutor due to suspicions of sexual crimes in Sweden in August. Swedish prosecutors are completely independent in their decision making,” she added..
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- Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- WikiLeaks’ Assange To Meet With U.K. Police Over Swedish Warrant
- WikiLeaks Founder ‘Detained in Absentia’ in Swedish Rape Probe
- U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
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Would you stand on the firm platform of truth or converted to error by signs and lying wonders?
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Despite what you think the human mind is affected and lured by signs and wonders ,it happen in the past and this will hold fast till the close of probation.
See the following..
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
A Statement : “With clearness and power Peter bore witness of the death and resurrection of Christ: "Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him . . . ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it."
{Acts of the Apostles 41.2}
Many were converted in these times not only by the presentation of Holy Spirit directed and convicting truth, but by the Holy Spirit empowered working of miracles.
Now this moving of the mind in one direction based on truth and the Holy Spirit is one thing. Sadly the Opposite is true.
We need not be deceived
"We need not be deceived. Wonderful scenes, with which Satan will be closely connected, will soon take place. God's Word declares that Satan will work miracles. He will make people sick, and then will suddenly remove from them his satanic power. They will then be regarded as healed. These works of apparent healing will bring Seventh-day Adventists to the test. Many who have had great light will fail to walk in the light, because they have not become one with Christ."
-2Selected Messages page53
Lying signs and miraculous wonders is also the tool utilized by Satan the Chief of all deceivers. Make no mistake Satan will utilize this very influence to lead many to destruction. Now remember Lucifer wants to be like Christ Isa 14:14
Marvelous Signs and Great wonders beyond the imagination is coming.
Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
2 Thess2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Why Signs and Lying wonders even if we know they are coming will be so powerful an influence on even people of God?
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
The Scenario painted via Holy writ gives us a compelling picture that the end will no be regular days/weeks/months/years. The time here brought to view speaks of tumultuous times, apocalyptic in magnitude. These times if I can sum up in events we have already witness will be like the combination of 911 and The French revolution on steroids. We have not included all the natural disasters that we have seen put together just yet but to include these is evening frightening. Added to these things the scripture above talks of the unexplainable occurrences involving the celestial bodies (the sun moon and stars) ,these will be affected and manipulated in ways we have not yet witness.
Added to all this, let me summaries by saying we cannot imagine the state of affairs. The distress that will be experience at this time will be second to none, we have not seen anything yet. These things will be enough to give any healthy man a cardiac arrest and many loins will be loosen at the site of these things.
Under these foreboding circumstances will the satanic powers, Lucifer himself and all his demonic agents those of angels and those of the wicked human race will work great signs and lying wonders. It is under these conditions that miracles with the intent to deceive will have there detrimental effects. Spiritualism has already educated the mind to receive these errors unchecked.
It is only biblical truth known and engrained in the mind can provide a way of escape.
Who would be susceptible to these great miracles, who would be deceived?
1 Cor 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
Those who would be seduced by signs and lying wonders are:
- Those who follow after the wisdom of the world.
- Those who think the preaching of Christ is foolishness.
- They will even be among those residing within the precincts of bible truth “THE JEWS” Spiritual Israel even Seventh Day Adventist.
Note even among those who are spiritual JEWS, Those of Spiritual Israel will be deceive.
How would this be accomplished? Watch carefully!
One of the common things among the Jews and the Greeks is that of Unbelief.
Seventh Day Adventist NOT ALL, CERTAINLY NOT A FEW will be overcome by lying signs and wonders?
How can this happen?
Luke 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Who is Moses and who is the Prophets.
The books of Moses are known as law. What do the prophets represent?
These two classes of people are represented here.
1. One who disobey the law the Ten Commandments. The world.
2. One who listens not to the Prophets represented as a group of “Christians” They have obey or follow the rudiments of the law but this group refuses to receive counsels from the prophets. We can include Apostate protestants as this group and this will prove true but is there among us those who claim to believe the law but not the prophets .What about us who have bee severed from the quarry of the world by the great cleaver of truth?
I am convinced even among Adventist that these delusions will have a negative effect.
There are among us a large number who do not really believe the prophets.
Who or what is represented as the prophets
2 Tim 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Note the books of the prophets belong to category of Holy Scriptures, so we could deduced safely that the Books of the prophets are also designed
- By inspiration.
- Is profitable for doctrine.
- For reproof.
- For correction.
- For instruction in righteousness.
- So that we may be perfect.
- Thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Pay attention to and keep in mind the super 7s mentioned above as characteristics of The Books of the prophets.
What other Characteristics can we get from the Prophets?
Remember we want to confirm who are the people that will be deceived by lying wonders and signs that are even within the Spiritual Israel.
Other characteristics of the prophets
2 Peter1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
From the above we can glean the following.
- Prophecy testify of Jesus Christ (This is my beloved Son).
- It’s a sure word meaning it is solid as the ROCK Christ Jesus. This suggests that what is illustrated in the prophets as future events will come to past.
- The prophets bring Light on issues or events obscure or unknown to us.
- The moral purpose of prophecy is to bring the Day Star (Christ the SUN of Righteousness Malachi 4:2) in our hearts. This is sanctification in verity.
- The prophet’s information came not by man’s wisdom but by the Holy Spirit speaking to them.
As Adventist we know that the Spirit of Prophecy is the gift that has always been with God’s people . The above scripture along with Rev 12:17 Rev 19:10 tells us plainly that the testimony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of prophecy.
- Those who would be deceived by Signs and Lying wonders are the same ones who did not and will not listen to the prophets.
- These are the same who not want admonitions and fearful warnings of the SPIRIT OF PRPOPHECY.
- They do not recognize or are indifferent to Inspiration (Ellen G white), the do not believe that her writings or that of any prophets are profitable for Instruction; they have turn a blind eye to reproofs, correction, instruction in righteousness. They say perfection in Christ is unattainable; they do not believe they can be thoroughly furnished unto all good works. In other words 2 Tim 3:15-21 is of none effect.
- They choose which truths they want to believe as if they were at a buffet lunch.
- Those who are seduced by signs lying wonders may reside in the church but are overtaken by unbelief the same as the Jews and the Greeks.
- They rather listen to mans wisdom instead of Gods counsel.
- Those who would be moved my miracles are those who have not set their feet on the firm platform of the sure word of prophecy. They would rather listen to all the Conspiracy theories and mysteries.
- These are those who have neglected or even shun the invitation of the feast (feasting of the word). They are the very ones who was invited to the wedding feast but did not come..they are even among those who came with their own garments ( righteousness)but have not on the garments of Christ . Isaiah 4:1 describes such a class.
- Those seduced by signs and lying wonders would as 2Thesalonians 2 says: “love not the truth” they would have been “step by step yielding to worldly demands and conforming to worldly customs”. Prophets and Kings 148.
- The selfsame individuals would say of our faith “We have believed cunningly devised fables.” They would believe that they were hoodwinked into a delusion call Adventism.
Those seduce would have had a history of worshiping as they want and not as God requires.
Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Brethren and friends many will stand in this time and testify that “we would not take the mark of the beast”. But its not that easy. Just like the process of sanctification takes time and effort and the working of Christ in the Life, similarly the process that will lead you and I into believing and being convince by these amazing miracles signs and lying wonders before us would have been working in us long in advance. We would have been building characters ready to receive error with gladness.
If we have not let go the things of the world and the worldly custom, If we are not living up to the light given us, darkness proportion to the light will overtake us.
We will be deceived if we have not shunned the world and love truth.
May God help us to put away many things?
There are many things to learn and many, many things to unlearn.
May God help us as we grow closer to Christ.
May we overcome by the indwelling daily feeding on Christ and Christ alone not a mixture of Christ and the world.
Final statement :
“The enemy is preparing to deceive the whole world by his miracle-working power. He will assume to personate the angels of light, to personate Jesus Christ So far as his power extends, he will perform actual miracles. Says the Scripture: "He . . . deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do," not merely those which he pretends to do. Something more than mere impostures is brought to view in this scripture. But there is a limit beyond which Satan cannot go, and here he calls deception to his aid and counterfeits the work which he has not power actually to perform. In the last days he will appear in such a manner as to make men believe him to be Christ come the second time into the world. He will indeed transform himself into an angel of light. He will come personating Jesus Christ, working mighty miracles; and men will fall down and worship him as Jesus Christ. We shall be commanded to worship this being, whom the world will glorify as Christ. Just before us is "the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Revelation 3:10. All whose faith is not firmly established upon the word of God will be deceived and overcome. Satan works "with all deceivableness of unrighteousness" to gain control of the children of men, and his deceptions will continually increase. But he can gain his object only as men voluntarily yield to his temptations. Those who are earnestly seeking a knowledge of the truth and are striving to purify their souls through obedience, thus doing what they can to prepare for the conflict, will find, in the God of truth, a sure defense. "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee" (verse 10), is the Saviour's promise. He would sooner send every angel out of heaven to protect His people than leave one soul that trusts in Him to be overcome by Satan.
{Maranatha 207.5}
Perfect peas and at such a time.
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