The Warning
The Warning
Commentary
by Roger Oakland
www.understandthetimes.org
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There is a pattern we
find throughout the Word of God. God always warns before He brings
judgment on sinful man. God is merciful and never reacts quickly without
giving sinners a chance to repent. While He hates sin, He has often
allowed men to carry on even if they do not respond. However there are
always consequences of sin. The Bible states that the wages of sin is
death. Often sin is exposed publically, and others are reminded to get
right with God.
As we read through the
Bible, we see how God has always raised up men and women to warn the
people of coming judgments. The first time this occurred in history was
before the great flood of Noah. Very few listened to Noah. God used Noah
to warn, and then the judgment came. For the majority who refused to
listen, they were wiped out in a global catastrophe.
Of all the prophets,
Jeremiah is the one who seemed to have the toughest job. Virtually no
one would listen to him as he was trying to warn the leaders of Israel
about the judgment they were going to face. They had turned away from
God and were following their forefathers who had turned to the gods. God
used Jeremiah to warn the people and then judged the children of Israel
by sending them into exile where they were forced to live in a society
that was totally pagan.
If history repeats
itself as the Bible states, then it would be reasonable to predict the
same pattern would be repeated today. People who profess to be
followers of God end up following men who follow the devil who then
become Satan’s pawns. As Solomon said, there is nothing new under the
sun.
A brief overview of
what we call the “new” evangelical movement provides a good example of
what is happening today. According to Bible prophecy, the Last Days will
see the implementation of a global One World Religion that prepares the
way for the antichrist. This would mean that we will see all religions
coming together for the cause of peace. Not only will the religions of
the world join up in an ecumenical unity, but so will the majority of
those who call themselves Christian.
We have been watching
this trend happen for over two decades. Without knowing it “Protestant
evangelicals” have been seduced so that they are neither Protestant nor
evangelical. Many churches and denominations have been led astray by the
pied pipers of the Purpose Driven emerging church movement, which
clearly embraces a false hope centered on a P.E.A.C.E. Plan that is
supposed to unite all religions of the world to do good. This plan is
fueled by the belief that we can get closer to God through various
contemplative eastern practices like Yoga and contemplative prayer.
Christ is mentioned in name, but the “Jesus” and the “gospel” is not the
Jesus Christ and the gospel that is supported by the Scriptures.
While I have only been
a born-again Christian for just over three decades, it has been long
enough to see a paradigm shift taking place with regards to what it
means today to be a Christian. Many churches and denominations have
joined hands with pagans. Once Bible-based and Jesus-centered, many
evangelical churches have moved away from messengers of the gospel
towards church-growth programs driven by corporate politics that leaves
biblical Christianity behind. Rather than looking to the Good Shepherd,
Jesus Christ, the sheep are conditioned or brainwashed to look to some
man whom they believe is the answer to all their problems. This cult
style of Christian leadership is not only dangerous, it provides the
backbone that leads towards a One World Religion with an ecumenical
headquarters headed by the pope in Rome.
These pseudo churches
have departed from the faith in such a way that many have not even
noticed. When someone points out the deception that is happening they
are considered to be the heretics. Those with discernment are scoffed at
and told to shut up. Worse yet those who are persistent in shining the
light on apostasy are marginalized, shunned, or declared crazy.
The bottom line is
this: the leaders of the Last Days apostasy are most often too proud to
receive correction from anyone. They call those who stand up and warn
them as unbalanced, out of touch, “haters,” or even psychotic misfits
who are on the lunatic fringe.
The Final, Final,
Final Warning
Just before sitting
down to write this commentary, I was at the John Wayne Airport in
southern Californian waiting for a flight to San Francisco. As I had
time to spare before my flight, I took out a notepad from my pocket and
started to jot down an outline dealing with the subject matter of this
commentary. Unexpectedly, I heard an announcement made over the
intercom: “This is the final – final – final call for United Airlines
Flight 322 to San Francisco.” I looked at my watch and realized I had
nearly missed my flight. The call was for me.
We are living at a
period in Church history when the final-final-final call is being made
to warn the Church to wake up. The apostasy that is underway is greater
every day. Worse yet, fewer and fewer professing Christians realize what
is happening. They have gone to sleep it seems. More and more pastors
are concerned about property, power, and prestige than they are about
people. While many should be repenting from their sins, they are
spending the time they have left here on earth covering up their sin in
order to protect what they believe is their legacy. Others have poured
their energies and focus into trying to “return” America to a Christian
nation, claiming that we need to get back to our Christian roots and
take over our country for Jesus. While there have certainly been many
Christians in the history of America who have served Him faithfully over
the past two hundred years, the fact is that no country is “Christian.”
The Bible refers to those of the faith as “strangers and pilgrims of the
earth” (Hebrews 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11). The only solution to our
problem with sin is salvation through Jesus Christ and the finished work
of the cross. Our home is not on earth but in heaven. So while the
majority of Christians are distracted by their worldly carnal ambitions,
they are missing the final call.
Recently we sent out a
general open letter to all pastors attempting to wake up those who
should know better. The letter was written to all pastors even though
the majority of the churches I have spoken at in the past were
fellowships belonging to the Calvary Chapel movement. In my view, the
time we have before God’s judgment comes is short. When the church is
more interested in man-made agenda’s than God’s, the church is no longer
useful. God will simply raise up others to do the job. In fact, I
believe we are fast approaching a time when the apostate “church” will
join up with the One World Religion, and the body of true believers in
Jesus Christ will be forced to the sidelines and even underground
because of persecution.
For those who have
followed the ministry of Understand The Times, you will know we have
been trying to warn the church for the last two decades about the
judgment that is coming. Books and commentaries have been written.
Presentations have been made since about 1990. Some of these books that
were written include: New Wine Or Old Deception, When New Wine Makes
a Man Divine, New Wine and the Babylonian Vine, When
Marian Apparitions Plan to United the World Religions, Another
Jesus: The Eucharistic Christ and the New Evangelization and
Faith Undone.
Not only did I express my concerns about the direction
the church was headed in a public way, I wrote personal letters to the
leaders of Calvary Chapel that we are now making public so the world can
see. You can read some of these letters by going to the following link:
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=5258.
Why am I doing this? The answer is very
simple. Over the past year, I have been accused by some of my colleagues
as being mentally unbalanced and vindictive because I have simply
expressed the facts. I have even been told that I have blasphemed the
Holy Spirit because I have questioned the roots of the Calvary Chapel
movement. Apparently, up until now, no one has dared to do this.
While I have heard the rumors and seen some
of the e-mails regarding what has been said, I will make the statement
again: The Lord has led me to warn what is happening. No one is
listening. I have done this according the Scriptures. When you see
brothers heading into apostasy, you need to warn them, and then if the
warning isn’t heeded, wash your hands.
Finally, I fear no man. I reverence and fear
Jesus Christ and His Word.
The rejection and
ridicule that we have received from many of my former colleagues would
provide the contents for a book, which we will likely write at a later
time. While I refuse to read the blogs and even the threating e-mails
that come to me from pastors and church leaders that I once shared a
common platform with, the time has come for me to speak up. Understand
The Times will not be silenced; we will tell the facts whatever the
cost. Sin cannot be covered up.
Just like Jeremiah, we
have been told that we are crazy and to shut up. Read Jeremiah chapter
21.
Prediction
The truth always wins
out. As someone said, the truth will always chase a lie through the back
door. While I have no personal vendetta against those who conjure up
lies and rumors about me, I will make one final appeal to the
consciences of those who know better.
It is time to fear God
and get things right. You cannot continue to let on that everything is
all right. It is time to warn the body of Christ about the days in which
we live. Your camp is full of leaven. Your sin will find you out.
Be not deceived; God
is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(Galatians 6:7-8)
Read more at www.understandthetimes.org
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Police Violently Beat ‘Gentle’ Homeless and Mentally-Ill Man…to Death
Crime Police Violently Beat ‘Gentle’ Homeless and Mentally-Ill Man…to Death (Warning: Graphic Image)
Thomas caught the attention of police offers after someone reported that a burglar was breaking into cars that were parked at the local bus station. When cops then approached Thomas and attempted to arrest him, he resisted. This is where the story takes a bizarre turn and the facts get murky. According to Gawker, Mark Turgeon, a witness to the police beating, claims that Thomas wasn’t at all resisting arrest:
“They kept beating him and Tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn’t even moving. He had one arm in front of him like this, he wasn’t resisting. And they kept telling him, ‘He’s resisting, quit resisting,‘ and he wasn’t resisting.”
While the following video does not show the actual beating, Thomas’ screams can be heard as the beating unfolds. Pay particular attention to witness commentary, as it does seem to corroborate Turgeon’s statements:
Then, there is this image (see left) that shows just how battered and beaten Thomas was left after the incident. It should be noted that, while some are claiming that he was not resisting arrest, two police officers did, indeed, have broken bones. This seems to indicate that there was a violent struggle of some sort.
Since the incident, Thomas‘ family has held protests outside of the police department’s headquarters, but has yet to receive any substantial answers. His father, a former sheriff’s deputy, is distraught and has even stated that he is ashamed for every having ever been a law enforcement officer. The family, in their grief, claim that the man, though mentally ill, was not violent; others corroborate the notion that Thomas was “gentle.” Below, find some reaction from his family members (from to KABC):
“It was gang-involved, the way I see it, a gang of rogue officers who brutally beat my son to death.” – Ron Thomas (father)
“Very loving, very kind. He cared about family. I mean, his sister and brother in Nevada state, he would ask me constantly how they were…Can’t even begin to explain the loss of a son. I just want to see him again. I want to hold him. It’s just not fair.” - Cathy Thomas (mother)
Pape (stepmother)
And, here is an interview with Thomas’ father, Ron:
The six Fullerton police officers involved in the incident have remained silent, but they welcome an investigation by the local district attorney. Others, though, are weighing in. On July 17, Fullerton City council member Bruce Whitaker issued an open letter to local residents. In it, Whitaker pushed for “a clear, factual and complete explanation of events.” Below, you can read the letter for yourself:
Read more at www.theblaze.comThe police department will likely need to release details at some juncture in the near future. Considering the video and the graphic image that have already leaked to the public, this scenario is not likely to disappear. Hopefully, the public — and Thomas’ family — will be given adequate information to make a final determination about the merits of the officers’ actions that evening.
The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (Brussels-London) www.itccs.org
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Let Them Go, then, to the Garbage Bin of History: Ireland’s Golden Chance
By Kevin D. Annett
With The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (Brussels-London)
By withdrawing its papal “ambassador” to Ireland this week in response to that government’s just efforts to make the Catholic church answerable under the law for its crimes against children, the Vatican has given the Irish a rare opportunity to end the reign of terror of an oppressive medieval institution.
Ironically, this moment also provides Catholics themselves the chance to return their church to what it should be: an actual religious body freed from the special immunities and privileges of a political power, and the corruption such power brings.
There has never been a valid argument for Rome’s fictitious status as a “state”, enjoying all of the privileges but none of the obligations of a nation. But now, the repeated use of that power to commit horrible crimes against children, and others, and then absolve itself and the rapists and killers it shields within its ranks, has made the Vatican a criminal, rogue body under every international standard of law and morality.
Unfortunately, most of the world’s nations are aiding and abetting that rogue body by funding it, and affording it special rights and privileges, in particular that “diplomatic recognition” that effectively places Rome above and beyond the law: “a boys-only club where the members can rape and torture the innocent with impunity”, to quote one American lawyer.
It is for this reason that the Vatican’s petulant severing of diplomatic relations with Ireland yesterday is such a ray of light, and should encourage that nation’s leaders to accept this ending of the special privileges of Rome, and bring about the free and secular society that alone can protect children from gangsters in clerical robes.
Apparently, the scuttlebutt around Dublin is that more than one senior politician is considering precisely such a course of action, following Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s clear declaration in the Dail last week that priests could face prison time if they fail to report the violation and rape of children in their parish.
Unfortunately, as Kenny knows, as long as the Church of Rome retains its legal and diplomatic privileges, enforcing such a law will be difficult, if not impossible. Bringing child-raping priests to justice is frankly unattainable without a fundamental change in the relationship of church and state.
Historically, the Catholic church’s special privileges in Ireland were part of that culture’s defense against the British Empire. But that era is long since past. And many Catholics in Ireland are in fact looking to a national church of their own, free of Rome’s dictates, to recover the traditions and beliefs that were crushed when Roman Christianity imposed itself on the island more than eight centuries ago.
I heard precisely such sentiments when I spoke at University College in Cork last October, and engaged in a public debate with a Vatican spin doctor named Jack Bolero.
There in the traditional heartland of Irish Catholicism, the campus students’ society had organized the debate around a single question: Should the Pope be Arrested? Jack was asked to argue No, and I, delightedly, was given the Yes side.
I won the debate. Nearly two-thirds of the several hundred students gathered for the debate voted at the end of it that yes, Joseph Ratzinger should be detained for questioning about his protecting of rapists in his church.
“That wouldn’t have happened a few years ago, but people are fed up with the Catholic church now” one of the organizers said to me later over a pint in the local pub.
“We can have our faith without having a pope. That’s what even the old people are saying around town.”
The papacy, of course, is not one man, but an enormous global corporation with annual revenue in the hundreds of billions of dollars, thanks in part to the special financial “concordats” that nations, including Ireland, still maintain with Rome.
The real test of the sincerity of Enda Kenny’s words, and the resolve of the Irish people for spiritual sovereignty, will be whether these concordats are ended, and the vast wealth and lands stolen by the Vatican from people around the world are returned to them.
The Vatican is the source of some of the bloodiest conquests and wars in human history, and not just against children. Within the ranks of our International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) are members of indigenous nations in Canada, America, Australia and elsewhere whose children were massacred in Jesuit-established Indian “boarding schools”. And growing evidence indicates that the Vatican is deeply involved in present day baby trafficking networks through lucrative child adoption agencies run with church subsidies.
All of these victims have the same interest to see the Vatican de-fanged and brought under the rule of law as do the people of Ireland. That is why what the Irish and their government do now to end forever papal immunity and Rome's control over the life of their nation is of vital importance to the entire world.
Taoiseach Kenny can stay true to the hopes of his people by ending the diplomatic status of the Vatican in Ireland; licensing all clergy as public servants answerable to the people and not the church; and canceling the tax exempt status of the church along with Dublin's financial concordat with Rome.
At the end of the Cork debate, an elderly woman came up to me with a deep scowl on her face, and barked,
“Every one of them damned priests should be castrated!”
I’ll settle for emasculating the chief rapist: Rome.
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Read the truth of genocide in Canada and globally at:
www.itccs.org
www.hiddennolonger.com
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
This email is hosted by Jeremiah Jourdain on behalf of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) and Kevin Annett - Eagle Strong Voice (adopted May 2004 into the Anishinabe nation by Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind).
Kevin can be reached at hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com or kevin_annett@hotmail.com .
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For so long as there shall be but one hundred of us who remain alive, we will never give consent to being subject to the English Crown. For in truth, it is not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we fight, but for liberty, for that alone, which no honest man surrenders but with life itself.
The Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland, 1320
See the evidence of Genocide in Canada at www.hiddennolonger.com and at the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org .
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Obamageddon update
Barack Obama is threatening to do the following if Republicans don’t approve raising the record debt limit, allowing him to spend trillions more on the backs of Americans not yet born:
- He won’t pay active-duty military personnel overseas fighting for their country and risking their lives and limbs;
- He won’t send out Social Security checks;
- He won’t make Medicare payments;
- He won’t pay interest on the debt he has already accumulated, deliberately prompting a default and destroying America’s credit rating;
Why?
He’ll do this not because there isn’t money to make all of these payments in the treasury, but because he wants to blackmail and bully Republicans and ordinary Americans who have made themselves dependent on government and to keep borrowing so he can do all of the following:
- subsidize Planned Parenthood’s abortion mills;
- subsidize the political propaganda of PBS and NPR;
- provide the monetary support for his Obamacare death panels and the complete federal takeover of the most personal and private medical decisions Americans make on a daily basis;
- pay alms to radical Islamists around the world by rebuilding and repairing mosques in some of the wealthiest countries in the world – including countries that forbid worship by Christians and Jews and other non-Muslims;
- conduct more pseudo-scientific research into aberrant sexual behavior;
- continue the existence of unwanted and unconstitutional agencies and departments of the federal government such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy;
- continue to pay "entitlements" directly to Americans to buy their votes for future Democratic candidacies including his own;
- fund radical activist groups like ACORN;
- send money overseas in the form of foreign aid;
In other words, Obama threatens to use his power in a premeditated way to harm the country if he doesn’t get his way.
Make your voice heard by participating in the "No More Red Ink" campaign before it's too late.
And what do the Republicans who were elected last year for the express purpose of holding Obama in check do about it?
Speaker of the House John Boehner |
No, they bargain.
They negotiate.
They try to make deals.
They compromise.
They don’t even alert the American people to the hideous, anti-American, spiteful, shameful game Obama is playing.
I’ve been warning you about what was coming since January of this year, when I told you the Republicans you elected in 2010 had only one option for stopping Obama this year – only one option to shut him down, only one option to begin turning America around from the precipice Obama the destroyer has the nation racing toward.
That option is simply saying no to raising the debt limit.
I commend the Americans who took part in the program I launched to persuade Republicans to man up – the "No More Red Ink" campaign that has buried members of the House GOP majority in more than 1 million red letters this year to date. There’s still time to participate, but it’s getting late.
Sadly, I know of no other program with the potential of persuading Republicans against giving up the power they have by caving in to Obama’s outrageous, dictatorial demands.
You can pray.
You can make phone calls until you’re blue in the face.
You can write letters to all 240 Republicans in the House yourself, which will take a lot of time and much more money.
Or you can make your voice heard most effectively, economically and efficiently by participating in the "No More Red Ink" campaign before it’s too late.
It’s your choice.
And, tragically, -- and I don’t know how to say this any more bluntly and truthfully -- it’s literally America’s funeral we’re trying to avoid.
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Editor and Chief Executive Officer
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Mexico judge sentences teenage assassin to 3 years
They should have executed him regardless of age for a crime such as that. When he is released he will just come back to the US and do something else.
Mexico judge sentences teenage assassin to 3 years
By Antonio Sierra, AP
Mexican soldiers present Edgar "El Ponchis" Jimenez Lugo to the media in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, in 2010.
(AP) A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old U.S. citizen to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession. Authorities say the teen confessed to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were found hanging from a bridge.
Edgar Jimenez Lugo, known as "El Ponchis," was given the maximum sentenced allowed for a minor in the central state of Morelos, said state prosecutor Jose Manuel Serrano Falmerol. Jimenez was tried in a state court because Mexico does not have a justice system to try minors at the federal level.
Authorities say the teenager confessed to working for the South Pacific drug cartel, led by reputed drug lord Hector Beltran Leyva.
When he was handed over to federal prosecutors, the boy calmly said in front of cameras that he participated in four killings while drugged and under threat. The bodies were found in the tourist city of Cuernavaca.
In November, stories of a hit boy, maybe as young as 12, spread after a YouTube video appeared with teens mugging for the camera next to corpses and guns. One boy on the video alleged that "El Ponchis" was his accomplice.
Jimenez was born in San Diego, California. He and a sister were arrested in December as they tried to board a plane to Tijuana, where they planned to cross the border and reunite with their mother in San Diego.
The teenager has been in a juvenile detention center in Morelos since his arrest and will serve his time there, Serrano said.
The two siblings allegedly worked for Julio "El Negro" Padilla, a reputed drug trafficker who authorities say has been fighting for control of the drug trade in Morelos.
Morelos was formerly under the control of the Beltran Leyva gang, which broke up after alleged leader Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a shootout with Mexican marines a year ago. The battle among remnants of the gang has caused an unprecedented spike in violence in Morelos and in neighboring Guerrero state, where the resort city of Acapulco is located.
Read more at www.usatoday.comA relative has said Jimenez was nicknamed "Ponchis" by his family because he was a pudgy child.