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EAST COAST PROPHECY CONFERENCE - OCTOBER 18-20, 2012 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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EAST COAST PROPHECY CONFERENCE - OCTOBER 18-20, 2012

The Southwest Radio Ministries 2012 East Coast Prophecy Conference will be held in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the beautiful Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel and Resort in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at 95 Presidential Circle, Gettysburg, PA 17325 on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 18-20, 2012. These great speakers will encourage you during these difficult times in our nation and how events in our country and our world are fulfilling Bible end-times prophecy.

To Register - Call Southwest Radio Ministries at 1-800-652-1144 or (405) 789-1222. 

Join Rev. Noah Hutchings, Dr. Bob Glaze, Dr. Larry Spargimino, the staff of Southwest Radio Ministries, and our special speakers for three days of great biblical teachings and Christian fellowship!

SPEAKERS

 

We have a great list of speakers lined up for this year's East Coast Prophecy Conference. They promise to encourage you in the faith and equip you with the latest information about the fulfillment of Bible prophecy in order to witness to lost friends and loved ones of Jesus Christ's soon return. Don't miss this important time as we approach the soon Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Rev. Noah HutchingsRev. Noah Hutchings is the President of Southwest Radio Ministries and has been with the ministry since 1951. He has written over 100 books covering Bible commentary and prophetic topics. Rev. Hutchings has produced and hosted over 15,000 radio programs and has led mission tours to Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, Cuba, including 50 tours alone to the Israel and the Middle East. His latest book is Revelation For Today, a verse-by-verse study on the Book of Revelation.


Dr. Larry SpargiminoDr. Larry Spargimino has a doctorate from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas. He has served as pastor of several churches, including thirteen years at the River Bend Baptist Church in Bristol, Tennessee. Dr. Spargimino joined Southwest Radio Church Ministries in Oklahoma City in June 1998 as associate pastor, and now appears on half of the ministry’s radio programs. He has traveled extensively abroad on missions and Bible tours. His latest book is Digging Deeper.


Dr. Bob GlazeDr. Bob Glaze is general manager and missions administrator for Southwest Radio Church Ministries. He is a graduate of Baptist College, and received his Ph.D. from Louisiana Baptist University. Bob is the author of Angels: A Historical and Prophetic Study. He has conducted and led Bible mission tours to Turkey, Greece, Israel, Jordan, China, Mongolia, Syria, and Europe.


Ken HillDr. Kenneth C. Hill serves as general manager of WHCB, 91.5 FM, in Bristol, Tennessee. He also serves as vice president for the board of trustees of Southwest Radio Church Ministries. Dr. Hill has authored, or co-authored, several books on various Bible topics. His latest book is Assault on Liberty: Rebirth of the Fairness Doctrine.


Bill FedererBill Federer is a nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America's noble heritage. Bill has appeared on many television shows and networks including CSPAN, FOX, Hannity & Colmes, O'Reilly Factor, NPR, MSNBC, ABC-Time Warner Affiliates, CBN, TBN, INSP, TCT, FamilyNet, FamilyLand TV, Coral Ridge Hour, 700 Club, and AT&T Cable. His AMERICAN MINUTE radio feature is broadcast daily across America and on the Internet. Bill's first book, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations has sold over a half-million copies. Bill has written other books on historical topics including Endangered Speeches, George Washington Carver, The Interesting History of Income Tax, What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an, and Change to Chains.


Alan FranklinAlan Franklin is a British journalist and co-author of three books with his wife Pat, with whom he runs the Free Press Online website: www.thefreepressonline.co.uk. As an editor and publisher of newspapers and magazines his columnists included Members of the European Parliament and this, coupled with his study of Bible prophecy, especially the book of Daniel, led to his insights into the EU: the revived Roman Empire. Alan wrote the Conservative Party's communications handbook and gets updates on the latest political developments as Europe waits for the coming strong leader to emerge - Antichrist!


John McTernanJohn McTernan holds a B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and an honorary PhD in Biblical Studies from Calvary Christian College. He served 26 years as a Federal Treasury agent before retiring in 1998. He is author of the acclaimed book God's Final Warning to America, and co-author of the bestseller Israel: The Blessing or the Curse. From his experience debating, John wrote the Only Jesus of Nazareth series. Additionally, he has written several tracts, including Muhammad or Jesus: The Prophet Like Unto Moses, and The Koran vs. the Bible.


Eric BargerEric Barger is the founder of Take A Stand Ministries and is widely recognized in the area of Christian apologetics. Eric has been a featured guest on many Christian and secular programs, such as Christ in Prophecy, Understanding the Times, Point of View, Unraveling the New World Order, TCT Network's Rejoice, and Canada's 100 Huntley Street. He is the author of numerous books including The End-Time Occult Invasion with David Benoit and Disarming the Powers of Darkness, as well as producing and hosting numerous DVDs. His latest DVD is The Deception of Chrislam.


Michael HoggardMichael Hoggard serves as senior pastor of Bethel Church located in Festus, Missouri. He is the founder and director of Prophetic Research Ministry. He has spent many years researching the Scriptures and has discovered several biblical principles for understanding the Word of God as a prophetic voice. He has been called upon to lecture on college campuses, Bible conferences, and local churches. Dr. Hoggard's DVDs are very popular. His latest DVD is The Mystery of Contemplative Prayer.


James AustinJames Austin is a former intelligence officer in the United States Navy and has numerous theological degrees. While serving as pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church for 13 years, Rev. Austin established a youth choir, outreach ministries, and Bible study classes. Rev. Austin is the founder of Solid Rock Christian Church in Manassas, Virginia where he is currently serving as pastor.


Jerry TysonJerry Tyson was born in Pennsylvania. Jerry lives with Jody, his wife of 40-plus years, and daughter Karyn, in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia. His family is active in music, photography, and audio recording, as well as in their local Bible-believing independent Baptist church. Jerry serves on the Board of Trustees of SWRC. It is his desire to see the Lord glorified as we live in the times of the signs of Christ’s soon return. Jerry's latest book is God's One Liners which he co-authored with his wife, Jody.


Dianne PomonDianne Pomon is a registered nurse and worked initially as a paramedic providing pre-hospital care, then as an R.N. in a head trauma unit, and eventually in an emergency trauma room environment. She is now the director of Genesis Pregnancy Care Center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania where she has served as director for 20 years. This "Spiritual Trauma Center" outreach focuses on reaching the lost with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and helping teenagers and young women make life-affirming choices when faced with an unplanned pregnancy, as well as providing mentorship for them as mothers. Dianne is also a breast cancer survivor, having battled cancer three times in fifteen years. Dianne and her husband, Rich, have lived in Pennsylvania for 30 years and have five grown children.

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Heaven is real, says neurosurgeon who claims to have visited the afterlife



Dr. Eben Alexander claims to have visited the afterlife (Twitter)Dr. Eben Alexander has taught at Harvard Medical School and has earned a strong reputation as a neurosurgeon. And while Alexander says he's long called himself a Christian, he never held deeply religious beliefs or a pronounced faith in the afterlife.

But after a week in a coma during the fall of 2008, during which his neocortex ceased to function, Alexander claims he experienced a life-changing visit to the afterlife, specifically heaven.

"According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent," Alexander writes in the cover story of this week's edition of Newsweek.
So what exactly does heaven look like?

Alexander says he first found himself floating above clouds before witnessing, "transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamer like lines behind them."

He claims to have been escorted by an unknown female companion and says he communicated with these beings through a method of correspondence that transcended language. Alexander says the messages he received from those beings loosely translated as:

"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."

"You have nothing to fear."

"There is nothing you can do wrong."

From there, Alexander claims to have traveled to "an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting." He believes this void was the home of God.


After recovering from his meningitis-induced coma, Alexander says he was reluctant to share his experience with his colleagues but found comfort inside the walls of his church. He's chronicled his experience in a new book, "Proof of Heaven: A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife," which will be published in late October.

"I'm still a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as much as I was before I had my experience," Alexander writes. "But on a deep level I'm very different from the person I was before, because I've caught a glimpse of this emerging picture of reality. And you can believe me when I tell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those who come after us, to get it right."

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Fight for the Word: 2 West Tenn. religious leaders continue fight over church name: Creation 7th Day & Adventist Church

The Creation 7th Day & Adventist Church in Guys, shown in July. / Submitted photo
McGill
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For more information

To read Walter McGill’s post-release statement, visit www.pastorwalterchickmcgilllawsuit.net/PDF/MyOfficialPrisonReleaseStatement.pdf

To read McGill’s open letter to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, visit www.pastorwalterchickmcgilllawsuit.net/PDF/OpenLetter2TedWilson2.pdf

To read the petition, visit www.LibertyPetition.com
Luke Chartier
Luke Chartier / Submitted photo
 
Two West Tennessee church leaders have said they are not done with their fight for religious freedom — a fight they said is a “disgrace” for a country that was founded on religious liberty.

Luke Chartier and Walter McGill are members of a church in Guys, Tenn., called “The Creation 7th Day & Adventist Church.” The church was sued for trademark infringement by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Chartier said.


“We argued that our name has never caused confusion, and that our use of the name of our faith is divinely mandated and a key facet of our religion,” he said in an email to The Jackson Sun. “The court agreed with us on both points, but ruled against us on a technicality. Because our religion requires our use of the name, we have not been able to comply with court orders to stop doing so.”
He said the Seventh-day Adventist Church has “persistently” asked the court to jail Chartier and McGill in response to their actions.



“The court issued warrants for our arrest for ‘contempt of court,’” Chartier said. “And we were arrested on those charges and held without bail.”


McGill said their arrests and incarcerations were civil rather than criminal arrests. “We suffer no criminal record as the result of our arrests,” he said. “The law enforcement and courts would do nothing to us without the requests of the plaintiffs in this civil lawsuit. A few of the greatest names in history were made via ‘civil disobedience’ when faced with the need to satisfy conscience and stand for righteous principle.”



Both men were released from federal prison in late September after serving time in California, where McGill was arrested.


Representatives with the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists could not be reached for comment.


The Seventh-day Adventist Church has more than 17 million members worldwide and 1.2 million members in North America, according to the church’s official website. The “Seventh-day” refers to members’ adherence to the biblical Sabbath, while “Adventists” means they anticipate the return of Christ and identifies their “faith community and distinct value system.”

Chartier and McGill are traveling the country to raise awareness of their case and promoting a petition they’ve created through www.LibertyPetition.com to increase support. “Our goal is to make it clear to the Seventh-day Adventist Church that not only are people not confused by our name, but that their church is permanently harming its own reputation by putting Christians behind bars,” Chartier said. “With enough signatures, we hope that the public will send that message loud and clear.”

McGill said their trip is strictly about raising awareness, not funds. “We have never passed ‘a plate’ at a worship service or asked for money from anyone outside our membership,” he said. “When a soul seeks membership in our church, they learn the proper way of supporting the work of God, and all members contribute according to their several abilities from their personal income, but not during a divine meeting.”


The pastor and his associate spoke with The Jackson Sun via email as they traveled throughout the northeastern United States in early October.


Question: What’s next in your battle with the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Is there a next step for you?


Chartier: From the beginning, our battle has simply been for the right to freely practice our religion. This petition marks the next step for us, as all legal appeals have been exhausted; if the Seventh-day Adventist church will not stop asking the court to imprison us for the name of our faith, then our church members will inevitably either have to leave this country or face life behind bars. Surrendering our religious requirements is not an option, so what the court is demanding us to do here is really the impossible.


McGill: While the Liberty Petition is one “witness” in our effort to turn the tide, I have written an open letter to the General Conference Seventh-day Adventist President in order to appeal to his better judgment, hoping that he may take action in support of “liberty of conscience” for everyone, not only his own constituency.

Q: What are your thoughts on the court ruling and your subsequent arrests?

Chartier: I think it is a disgrace for a nation founded on religious liberty to acknowledge our beliefs as being sincere and causing no harm to anyone, then proceed to force us at legal gunpoint to deny them. It is a travesty for it to be done at the request of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which touts itself as a global defender of religious liberty and freedom of conscience.


Despite this, we are very thankful for the mercy of the judges in the case. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been asking for permanent incarceration, and neither of the judges wanted to give this to us. They actually had to bend the legal definition of “civil contempt” to do it, but instead of the lifetime sentences the Seventh-day Adventists were wanting, the judges gave us sentences of 30 days each. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to both Judge J. Daniel Breen and Magistrate Judge Edward Bryant for their relative mercy. As we have said from the beginning, we do not hold any grudges or contempt towards the court or its authority; we simply must obey God rather than man.


Q: Could you share some of your experience while you were incarcerated? How long were you in prison? Where? Was it a federal prison?


Chartier: We were jailed in the San Bernardino County Jail in San Bernardino, Calif. It is a county prison that contracts out to the federal government, so we were housed as federal inmates. I served 10 days, and Pastor McGill served 30; I think his experiences were far more worth sharing than mine, so I’ll defer to him for that.


McGill: I was incarcerated from July 13 (just before the beginning of Sabbath) through the morning of Aug. 11, 2012 (a Sabbath day). During my detention, I fasted from all solid food; consequently, they held me in the “I-Tank” (which is the infirmary) with 19 other inmates who were either being monitored for health-related issues or needing regular medications. There were gangsters housed in the I-Tank as well, and because I had no “criminal papers” to show them, and because they could not believe my story, they concluded I was covering up a detestable crime. Eventually, they decided I must have been a child molester, and in jail, that brings a heavy punishment from the inmates — even death in some cases. On two occasions, I was supernaturally delivered from the hands of those gangsters — two of them slipped and fell, hitting their heads so hard on the floor that they were taken to the hospital and not returned. Once I was required by another gangster to clean the toilet area on the Sabbath day. I had told the inmates I could clean every other day of the week, but not on the Sabbath. Because I refused to do work on the Sabbath day, I was beaten by one of the gangsters but suffered no noticeable damage to my body. At 66 years old, I was the oldest inmate in the infirmary.

Typically, the staff (guards and medical personnel) expressed their surprise that I was in jail. None of them thought I deserved to be there, but they had a job to do and could not offer me favors.

Consequently, I was treated as a felon just like all the other inmates.

Q: What has been the response of your church? The community? From the public?


Chartier: People are shocked to find out that this kind of thing can happen in America in this day and age. What we are aiming to do is make their response measurable and definite, by encouraging people to sign the petition at LibertyPetition.com and voice their displeasure with people being arrested for their faith. When we have enough signatures, the petition will be submitted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership as a demand for ourselves and others to be allowed the free practice of our beliefs.


McGill: Our church members have become aware of the danger to them, as eventually, all could be rounded up and incarcerated if they do not recant. It is my joy to say our members are resolved to stand their ground for liberty of conscience and to obey the righteous principles God has taught us.


Q: Anything else you think people should know?


Chartier: The lawsuit is not over. Because we will continue to use the name our religion requires, we will continue to be in violation of the court’s orders. We cannot stop practicing our faith, and the court cannot ignore us violating their order. The only way for this to be resolved is for the Seventh-day Adventist Church to stop asking the court to imprison us. Because this is a civil case, everything that happens is on them to request or not request; the court is simply a sword in their hands. If they do not stop, the court will eventually concede to their demand for permanent incarceration, and we will be faced with life behind bars if we will not deny our religious convictions. We appeal to the public to sign the petition at LibertyPetition.com and demand that the Seventh-day Adventist Church stop making this request and allow us to freely exercise our religion. If it is not stopped now, it will soon be too late.

Further, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has consistently tried to portray this as a case of impersonation, confusion and fraudulent activity bordering on theft. This is simply not the case, and the court outright denies all of these charges as being unfounded in fact. We have not, nor will we ever, impersonate the Seventh-day Adventist Church, nor can I imagine any sane man wanting to be confused with a church that jails innocent men and women for their religion. I will say it clearly: The Creation 7th Day & Adventist Church is not, nor has it ever been, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. Please do not do our reputation the grave disservice of confusing us with them. 

McGill: Often it is stated that we refuse to stop using the plaintiffs’ trademark, viz., the name “Seventh-day Adventist.” I take issue with that accusation. We were told by God to use the name “Creation 7th Day Adventist” or “Creation Seventh Day Adventist” (spelled either way). We made an effort to show good faith in compromising in our advertising. We changed to “The Creation 7th Day & Adventist Church” (for the world church) or, at Guys, “A Creation 7th Day & Adventist Church” for the single congregation. Neither the plaintiffs nor the court recognized our “good-faith compromise” to be adequate. The fact is this: We refuse to give up our “God-given name,” which is “Creation Seventh Day Adventist.” Until God tells us differently, we must adhere to his mandate.


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