Earthquakes in divers[e] places AND UPON THE SEA DISTRESS OF NATIONS

My original illustration for this story

And this just in after I published -- an update!

Quoting from the King James Bible, Jesus warned when his disciples asked what should be the signs of his coming and of the end of the world that there would be, inter alia, "earthquakes in divers (many) places AND UPON THE SEA DISTRESS OF NATIONS."

Certainly, we have seen a great deal of "distress of nations" along the various world seas, including but not limited to the 2003 tsunami that violently struck many Asian nations, many Florida hurricanes;  Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast and nearly destroying New Orleans in 2005.

Now our prayers need to be with the  projected one third of the United States that is said to be at potential risk from the lethal combination of Hurricane Sandy colliding with a cold front that could bring extreme rain, snow, and flooding to the eastern 1/3 of our country, even posing a potential threat to the Great Lakes region of which my part of the country is classified.

The storms are expected to threaten Massachusetts starting tonight, Sunday, October 27, 2012.  One of our most diligent contributors to our discussion board is Springfield, Massachusetts resident Susanna.  She and her husband faced tornado hazards a year or two ago.  Now they are probably occupied with preparations for this potential regional disaster.

We need to pray, be prepared to extend necessary support and relief supplies for those in this affected area. We also must soberly consider it as a grave "sign of the time."  Just maybe, atheist scoffing not withstanding, God is trying to send us a message -- e.g,  'WAKE UP'!

May the Lord help us all, especially those in these gravely affected areas.  I pray that the storm will turn back to sea or lose intensity.  However, we must always remember that God has the big picture and we the little ones and our most constant prayers should be "Come quickly, Lord Jesus" and "thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done . . ."

Stay tuned!

P.S.  AND THIS JUST IN:  TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN ALASKA -- VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES OFF THE WESTERN CANADA COAST -- TSUNAMI WARNING EXTENDS TO WASHINGTON AND OREGON COASTS!

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Texas school forces students to wear tracking cards - punishes dissenters

Texas school punishes microchip tracking dissenters


Here it comes -- just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water!

The evening news had interesting leads -- somebody made a successful free fall jump to New Mexico desert country from outer space, discussion of the upcoming second Presidential debates, etc.  Then one caught my very disturbed attention.  Did a Texas school go too far?  This time it appeared ACLU was coming out on the side of the angels -- it vehemently said the school had crossed the line.

Interestingly and characteristically, however, the ACLU decided that Christians protesting being forced to wear the badge did not qualify for their legal advocacy -- that group did not meet their criteria!

Kirsten Bokenkamp of the ACLU told the San Antonio Express-News earlier this year that her organization expected to challenge the board’s decision to use the tracking system, but the school went ahead with the program undeterred. Steve Hernandez told WND that he approached the ACLU abour representing his daughter’s case, but Rebecca Robertson of a local branch of the organization said that, “the ACLU of Texas will not be able to represent you or your daughter in this matter,” saying the case did not meet the group's criteria.{1}

What happened?  The school gave every student a required microchip tracking badge that they were required to wear on their person at all times -- at least during school hours and school related activities.

The school was delighted with the results.  They knew where every single student was at every single moment.

The more discerning students were somewhat less enthusiastic.  They saw no reason why they should be treated as criminals with every move under surveillance.  Students refusing to wear the badge faced severe retaliation   You can read about it by clicking the link at the top of this story.

The NBC news I watched that was carrying the story showed one brave Hispanic father clutching his well worn Bible obviously at or near the location of the back of the Bible -- just about where one would find Revelation 13.  The press explained that he had "religious objections" to the program.

The network news prime time story (Sunday, October 14, 2012, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time) concluded by saying that like it or not, it appears the microchip identifiers were here to stay.

Query:  how long until somebody decides something needs to be done about the dissenters who won't voluntarily wear the badge as a condition of buying student textbooks, attending classes, attending football games, buying lunch in the cafeteria, etc., etc.????  Well, if the information you can read in the two stories attached to this link is accurate, I think we can all guess.

Stay in prayer!  Stay tuned!

Constance

Story Links:

1.  http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/
2.  http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?tag=microchips

PLEASE WATCH THIS: REV. E. W. JACKSON!!!

Please, please watch this amazing Press Club delivery by the Rev. E. W. Jackson!

Stay tuned!

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Global 2000 and Before - New Age Population Planners with USA governmental blessings

To my friends and readers:  I have been "holed up" lately with renewed research.  I am now seriously working on another book.  I have also had some time consuming legal work for clients which has "kept me off the streets."  I have been wading through some of the earlier works in my library and exploring roots and political implementation of some of the more disturbing aspects of the New Age planning, including but not limited to "population control" issues.

Global 2000 Report to the President - 1980 Pergamon Books version of 1977 President Carter commissioned report.

Excerpted page from New Age Journal - Earth Day 1990 issue where former President Carter writes for magazine and discusses his creation of the Global 2000 report mandate.

Earth Day 1990 NEW AGE JOURNAL cover.

Those who don't wade through lengthy governmental tomes sometimes miss important segments of the New Age playbook.  My dusty old copy of The Global 2000 Report to the President contains a treasure trove of incriminating New Age Movement goals.  The report was released during the Carter Administration.{1}  However, it contained much of interest as to his predecessors Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.  The anti-people goals were being put firmly in place.

Important action for the global / population reduction planners took place during the Nixon administration.  The Global 2000 Report was chartered and commissioned in 1977.{2}   However, preliminary developments had taken place starting with pressures being placed on the Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon presidencies.  Major New Age idological players included Willis  Harman and Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) chairman Robert O. Anderson.  It was then that President Nixon cooperated with those bringing pressures to immediately address "population issues."  Nixon in 1969 sent Congress a "blue-ribbon" message on population control.  He and his predecessors (Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson) had long been pressured to do so by members of the Rockefeller family:

In July 1969 President Nixon sent to Congress a historic first population message, recommending the establishment by legislation of a blue-ribbon commission to examine the growth of the nation's population and the impact it will have on the American future. John D. Rockefeller Ill, who had started the Population Council, had been urging since the early days of the Eisenhower Administration that such a commission be established.    Lyndon Johnson had refused to see Rockefeller in 1964, but by 1968, he was ready to yield to pressure and established the President's Committee on Population and Family Planning, co-chaired by Rockefeller and HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen.

President Lyndon Johnson satisfied the demands with partial action.  He authorized the formation of a Committee.  That group near the end of his administration entitled "

The Committee established by President Johnson

was not a full-blown commission . Its report,

sent to the President at the end of 1968, "Population

and Family Planning: The Transition from

Concern to Action, " suggested the establishment

of a presidential commission to give the problem

further study. It recommended that family planning

services be extended to every American

woman unable to afford them. It also recommended

an increase in the budgets of HEW and

the Office of Economic Opportunity for the purpose

of population research. The report was

released without publicity in January 1969 . . ."

There were certainly "items of interest" along with this person of interest (Willis Harman) who played such an important role in this relatively early stage of New Age planning for the last quarter of the 20th century.  He called for the possibility of "radical societal change."  Big money and big players including Robert O. Anderson the president of ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company) were involved.  Robert O. Anderson's name was later to become familiar to me in the context of Planetary Citizens and Planetary Initiative organizations founded by Lucis Trust activist Donald Keys.

The population planners moved on aided and abetted by Nixon Presidential advisor Moynihan.  That was a man who truly "got around."  According to the Wikipedia article:

Moynihan [Daniel Patrick]
(March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through that of Gerald Ford.

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The family planners still mourn their setbacks in promoting a drastically reduced population.  Three years before Roe vs. Wade they were legislatively mandating promotion of the following:

CHILD CARE - 

The Commission recommends that both public and private forces join together to assure that adequate child-care services, including health, nutritional, and educational components, are available to families who wish to make use of them.

Because child-care programs represent a major innovation in child-rearing in this country, we recommend that continuing research and evaluation be undertaken to determine the benefits and costs to children, parents, and the public of alternative child-care arrangements.

CONTRACEPTION AND THE LAW - 

The Commission recommends that: (1) states eliminate existing legal inhibitions and restrictions on access to contraceptive information, procedures, and supplies; and (2) states develop statutes affirming the desirability that all persons have ready and practicable access to contraceptive information, procedures, and supplies.

CONTRACEPTION AND MINORS -

The Commission recommends that states adopt affirmative legislation which will permit minors to receive contraceptive and prophylactic information and services in appropriate settings sensitive to their needs and concerns.  

To implement this policy, the commission urges that organizations, such as the Council on State governments, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association, formulate appropriate model statutes.

VOLUNTARY STERILIZATION - 

In order to permit freedom of choice, the Commission recommends that all administration restrictions on access to voluntary contraceptive sterilization be eliminated so that the decision be made solely by physician and patient.

To implement this policy, we recommend that national hospital and medical associations, and their state chapters, promote the removal of existing restrictions.

ABORTION - 

With the admonition that abortion not be considered a primary means of fertility control, the Commission recommends that present state laws restricting abortion be liberalized along the lines of the New York statute, such abortion to be performed on request by duly licensed physicians under conditions of medical safety. In carrying out this policy, the Commission recommends:

That federal, state, and local governments make funds available to support abortion services in states with liberalized statutes.  That abortion be specifically included in comprehensive health insurance benefits, both public and private. 

METHODS OF FERTILITY CONTROL -

 The Commission recommends that this nation give the highest priority to research on reproductive biology and to the search for improved methods by which individuals can control their own fertility.  

In order to carry out this research, the Commission recommends that the full $93 million authorized for this purpose in fiscal year 1973 be appropriated and allocated; that federal expenditures for these purposes rise to a minimum of $150 million by 1975; and that private organizations continue and expand their work in this field.

FERTILITY-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES -

The Commission recommends a national policy and voluntary program to reduce unwanted fertility, to improve the outcome of pregnancy, and to improve the health of children.  

In order to carry out such a program, public and private health financing mechanisms should begin paying the full cost of all health services related to fertility, including contraceptive, prenatal, delivery, and postpartum services; pediatric care for the first year of life; voluntary sterilization; safe termination of unwanted pregnancy; and medical treatment of infertility.

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POPULATION STABILIZATION -

Recognizing that our population cannot grow indefinitely, and appreciating the advantages of moving now toward the stabilization of population, the Commission recommends that the nation welcome and plan for a stabilized population.

The Nixon era hearings were held.  President Nixon named John D. Rockefeller III chairman of the 24-member group.  They held hearings in many cities and they released volumes of materials.  Their not-surprising, people-hating conclusions?

POPULATION STABILIZATION -Recognizing that our population cannot grow indefinitely, and appreciating the advantages of moving now toward the stabilization of population, the Commission recommends that the nation welcome and plan for a stabilized population.

The Commission's conclusion was that no substantial benefits would result from continued growth of the nation ' s population:  The population problem, and the growth ethic with which it is intimately connected, reflect deeper external conditions and more fundamental political, economic, and philosophical values.  Consequently, to improve the quality of our existence while slowing growth, will require nothing less than a basic recasting of American values.

The anti-people component of what would later be called "The New Age Movement" was on its way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  It had clear Presidential blessings at that.   They would continue to ride high through early 1982, confident in their expectation that they had "no backlash."  Those "deeper external conditions" and "philosophical values" to be targeted for change clearly included our religious outlooks favoring "choose life that ye may live."

Stay tuned and to be continued

Footnotes

{1} Interestingly, there is an article by Former President Jimmy Carter in a 1990 New Age Journal (April 1990, page 54,  In it he proudly acknowledges his role in commissioning the Global 2000 Report.  I do not know if he is a self-conscious New Ager; however, I have received credible information that his sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton may have been.  She was a speaker for one of Leland Stewart's Unity and Diversity Council Congresses, according to information given me by Rev. Gary Randall in Portland, Oregon in 1982.  He had the information, he said, first hand for her.  She departed from speaking at his church to go to that conference.  Once he learned what the New Age Movement was really about, he made great efforts to get the word out on its "Hidden Dangers."

 {2}The 1977 Global Report to the President [Jimmy Carter] included extensive references to Willis Harman (Future president of Institute for Noetic Sciences, author of "An Incomplete Guide to the Future.", World Watch Institute, E. F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful Author)

Kofi Annan headed "Global Commission" includes Javier Solana - Criticizes USA

 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE COMMISSION "Global Commission on Elections and Democracy" is now speaking to USA elections as well as others!

Today's Breaking News!

It looks like world government, ooops, "global governance" is being advanced in the immediate wake of the 2011 "Arab Spring" and 2012 current events.  The United States just came in for severe criticism from this panel of wannabe global governors:  The following is from the Voice of America story by Selah Hennessy

LONDON — A commission headed by  former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan charges that the soaring cost of U.S. elections is a major hindrance to democracy.  The charge appears in a report published Friday by the Global Commission on Elections and Democracy, which says its goal is to promote the integrity of elections.

Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan spoke to VOA at the launch of the report in London.

He says each nation must develop an election framework that suits its needs.

The commission members include Javier Solana and former USA Secretary of State Madeline Albright.

When the Commission was launched last spring, this then came from its own website:

"As pro-democracy campaigners take to the streets across the Arab world, and as 19 African countries prepare to hold national elections this year, an international initiative to promote the integrity of elections was launched on 4 March 2011 in Pretoria, South Africa.
"Recent events in Côte d’Ivoire and elsewhere have highlighted more clearly than ever that elections are vital to democratic government, but they are not sufficient. Too often, we see incumbents rig the elections, illicit funding or media bias distort the electoral process, and losing candidates refuse to accept the results. Where elections are marred in these ways, people lose faith in democracy and the political process, and human rights and security are put at risk.
"The Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, jointly created by the International Institute for Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Kofi Annan Foundation, is made up of 12 eminent individuals from around the world, including Kofi Annan, Ernesto Zedillo, Martti Ahtisaari, Madeleine Albright and Amartya Sen. It aims to highlight the importance of the integrity of elections to achieving a more secure, prosperous and stable world.

The Commission's full report may be downloaded from this link:  More later and stay tuned!

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2011 "Arab Spring" cum 2012 "Arab October" -- Agents Provocateur at work?

The news is coming so fast and furious in this year of 2012, the year the New Agers thought would be their own, that it is hard to digest.  The riots in the Middle East are spreading to the entire region.  Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Jordan, and others areas are affected.

It looks like a real moment of "Crisis = Opportunity" for the Alliance of Civilizations.  Hearing what I have gleaned from scanty news accounts of the film trailer on the life of Mohamed, I have my own suspicions that this is an incited thing that is designed to set the three Alice Bailey delineated fundamentalist target groups of Jews, Christians, and Moslems off against each other.  I have even uglier feelings that it was cynically produced and put in circulation with just that sort of "kill-off Monotheism" war.

My biggest alarm bell is that the film came from "Hemet, California."  That is what the New York Times carried on its front page story this morning.  Right now, I will say nothing further about that aspect, but I have my deep suspicions about who might have been involved and what their cynical motives might have been.

Jesus said there would be deception enough to deceive the elect.  I am suspecting this may well be a part of it.  Looking again at the Alice Bailey book THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS (Lucis Press / (formerly Lucifer Press) and Peter LeMesurier's THE ARMAGEDDON SCRIPT, I suspect this may be a deliberate and well-financed move to incite the target groups against each other.  As such it will also give Alliance of Civilizations grist for its mill, and hasten the end of First Amendment Protections.

Enough said for now, but I am thinking . . . deeply.  Still in court a lot and busy archiving much of my critical material.  If Rich of Medford is still out there, please ask him to call me.

Stay tuned!

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Rev. Moon is dead -- squabbles expected among his heirs

Rev. Moon, the would be self-proclaimed "Lord of the Second Advent" is dead.  He who corrupted so many in the Evangelical and even "fundamentalist unregistered church" worlds with his financial largesse has gone on to his "reward", whatever it may be. From Jerry Falwell to Tim LaHaye, Richard Viguerie, Pastor Sileven and so many sorry others, biblical and theology integrity was  compromised for the sake of dollars -- many dollars.  I will be posting a detailed article on this later today.

Stay tuned!

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I'm not dead, I'm not kidnapped -- I am in trial!

Just about every iron I have in the various legal fires has come to a head in the months of July and August 2012.  That is why I haven't been as active as I want to be.  Additionally, I have been working on digitizing many important parts of my library so I can research and write with greater accuracy and speed.  That too has taken valuable time, but will pay valuable dividends.

I spoke with Dorothy Margraf tonight who told me many are worried.  I'm sleep deprived, overworked and under-rested, but apart from that, I'm just fine.

Pray for me.  I'll be back in business on this blogspot -- very soon and with very substantial material.

Thanks!

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If you've been on the fence on "same sex marriage" -- consider the horrible fate of those who later repent

The "Gay Movement" is now revealing its true anti-Christian agenda.  I've thought and expressed my views for sometime that as it continues to advance, Sodom and Gomorrah may start to look somewhat tame by comparison -- or is it contrast?

Having met at a Virginia  AA meeting in 1997, two women fell in what they thought was "love," entered in to a "civil union" and then decided to "start a family."   One has to wonder if the AA philosophy of "your higher power can be a rock, a tree, or 'the group [AA] itself" had anything to do with the attraction of woman to woman,  One certainly is reminded of the Paul's societal analysis of the Romans of his day who evidently had a somewhat similar culture to what we are now witnessing here.  I quote from the King James Version.  Other translations are equally affirmative of the problem:

16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.¹⁷ For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;¹⁹ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,²³ And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.²⁶ For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:²⁷ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Well, the miracle occurred and God evidently rescued one of the participants, Lisa Miller" from this unholy union.  She became a born again Christian, renounced her former lesbian addiction (her words).

Lisa Miller is the woman who gave birth to the child of the union conceived by in vitro fertizilization (i.e. from what had to be a male sperm donor fertilizing her egg -- to the best of my present knowledge 'cloning' has not reached a point of perfection to explain it nor do newspaper accounts indicate that it was her partner's egg fertilized and implanted in her.

Lisa Miller had a right and a sacred duty to be concerned about her daughter's soul and eternal destiny.  All of us who are parents have such a burden.  She gave her daughter visitation with her former partner in the 'civil union' she renounced.  However, her partner attempted continued corruption of the child by reading her pro-lesbian literature such as "Heather has two mommies."  She also reportedly took baths with the child.  A bath with a child may not be so startling normally with a woman bathing a child; however, when we have an admittedly sexual attraction to females, it takes on a new connotation entirely.

From Virginia originally, Lisa Miller and her "partner" lived in Vermont.  Vermont has long since legalized same sex marriage.  

The Commonwealth of Virginia does not recognize same sex marriages.  Lisa fled there and went to work for Liberty Baptist Academy, a school affiliated with Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell).

Lisa fled Vermont to return to Virginia.  Her former "civil partner" fought for increased visitation and custody in the Vermont courts.  The Virginia courts ruled that the Vermont court had jurisdiction, something probably legally correct.

The Vermont court certain had very different ideas than I hold about the "best interest of a child."  Because her birth mother was now teaching her traditional views of marriage and family and eternal consequences of violating very plain biblical teachings on same, the court ruled that this was grounds to strip her of  custody and give sole custody to the "other mommy" who would affirm the "gay lifestyle" in which the child was originally conceived.  

No room for conversion here, so the Vermont court evidently opined.

Mother did what we may all have to do before this battle is over -- she fled.  Those who helped her in what is appearing to becoming an "underground railroad" for Christians are hunted by the FBI, USA agents and Interpol.

Personally, I never thought I would live long enough to see those who believed marriage should be between a man and a woman characterized as "radical."  Theosophist, League of Nations' leader Salvador de Madariage (Javier Solana's grandfather / cousin / great uncle, whatever) referred to homosexual practices as "buggery" and condemned it.  Even L. Ronald Hubbard (founder of Dianetics / Scientology) claimed his methods could "cure homosexuality".  

Suddenly, so many prominent views from the President on down "are evolving" and thousands of years of traditional belief are scrapped.  Suddenly we have a society where morality is turned upside down on its very head -- or is it "bottom."

Pray for Lisa Miller.  Pray for her daughter.  Pray for the conversion of all caught in this dreadful, unhealthy trap of "same sex marriage" and "civil unions."  Pray for the conversion of Lisa Miller's former partner who has now "remarried" still another apparent female victim.

Pray that those attending AA meetings to receive help for substance abuse issues not take so literally their belief that their "higher power" can be "a rock, a tree, the group, -- 'God however we conceive him to be."  

So many times as I researched the New Age issues over the years, this is how lesbian addictions developed.  The gals attended meetings on legitimate issues (equal pay for equal work), then explored 'root causes,' then decided the root cause was "patriarchy" (short hand for "God the Father).  They then obviously scrapped "The Lord's Prayer" of "Our Father which art in Heaven" and went for 'matriarchal religions,' such as Wicca and/or (as did Lisa Miller and her former partner) Unitarianism, Unity.  Reading those accounts, the woman would recount that they were at those meetings and for the first time in their lives, the woman across the room started "looking good to them."  

Extremely perilous and dangerous times are here.  Jesus warned us that when we saw these things come upon the earth to know that our redemption was near --- even at the door.  I frankly don't know how much worse it can get, but I thought before it couldn't get much worse but it has.  How much longer until the Scriptures are condemned as "hate literature" for warnings such as those given by the Apostle Paul?

May the Lord help us all!

Stay tuned.

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London New Age -- 33 years ago

As we approach London, the New Agers have memories of 33 years ago.  This was the 1979 Mind Body Spirit Festival where Benjamin Creme, Sir George Trevelyan, USA New Age leaders (Leland Steward, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Willis Harman et al) played a major role.  The "Mind - Body - Spirit" festivals were major coming out parties for the New age Movement.  They were expecting it might culminate in 1982 and similar to 1929 they had a major disappointment.  This was given me by a client who was once active in the New Age Movement on an international scale.  He has shared many other interesting materials as well which I will be putting out here.
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Sleepless in Michigan -- I wonder what Herb Peters would say about this: "Damascus shall be a heap . . ."

Prophetic incitement?

I'm sleepless in Michigan this early Sunday monring.  This is yet another one of those many days when I'm missing being able to pick up the phone and chat at length with Herb Peters (1947-1967) about our respective prophecy interpretation perspectives.   Here was Herb's take on Isaiah 17:1-3 back in 2004:

Bye Bye Damascus? — What Herb Thinks — Fulfilled Prophecy Sep 3, 2004 ... Bye Bye Damascus? — What Herb Thinks. It's a mistake to make Israel too mad. And, I think Syria may have made that mistake. What caught ... www.fulfilledprophecy.com/.../bye-bye-damascus-what-herb-thinks/

Well, it now appears that Syria may have made many countries very angry.  Interestingly, also, is that Syria helped defeat a pro-population control initiative in Rio de Janeiro at the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit.  Dorothy Margraf sent me links to that interesting story the other day. Author Lee Penn and I had an interesting discussion about same on my internet radio program, MY PERSPECTIVE.

If Syria was on the side of the angels for the anti-abortion forces, it has been on the other side as of late with Christian as well as Israel interests.   The Pope recently condemned Syrian violence.  However, the violence to the Christian communities has generally been coming from rebel forces.  In Syria, as was the case in Iraq, the pre-war government was more tolerant to the Christian communities than were the incoming rebel aspirants.  That has also been happening in Egypt.  Christians were expelled in a Syrian community by rebel forces, according to Vatican sources.

Now, we see serious news reports of a Turkish plane having been shot down by Syria over Syrian coastal waters.  To my estimation this is an action which may well entail an escalated reaction.

I have to wonder if the entire "Arab Spring" was not a hoped for Christian exodus.  At any rate, I think that the "Damascus shall be a heap" prophecy no longer looks so remote.

Disturbingly interesting.  As both Herb Peters and I often put it,

STAY TUNED!


Constance

How much worse can things get? View this!

Denmark:  "Church bells to ring for gays and lesbians" [weddings]

This I just found.  How much worse can things get??!!  I repeat my recent editorial on the subject below:

Worse than Sodom and Gomorrah?!

It appears to me that here in the USA in this so-called "New Age," we may be as a nation even worse in our immorality than even Sodom and Gomorrah.   Ditto for Canada and far too many countries in Europe.

Abraham's cousin, Lot, lived there.  He "sat in the gate", meaning he was a JUDGE. 

His opposition and disapproval of the lifestyles around him was well known to the Sodomites. 

Well, they had their faults, but they had the good sense to put somebody as their judge who did not bless their lifestyles. 

These days in the USA and Canada, should you hold opinions of the immorality of the plainly Biblically condemned lifestyle of homosexuality, you have little chance of "sitting in the gate."

Moreover, our chief "sitter in the Gate," (President Obama) together with his Vice-President and Secretary of State (next in line for succession to the Presidency after the Vice-President) have applauded same sex marriage.

Our president has long since declared that he will not uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

 Like others who have been involved in politics, I have known people I suspected to be involved in a homosexual life style.  I will say this for them.  They did not flaunt it, they did not rub our noses in it, they did not put it "in our face."  In a word, they had an old fashioned virtue we call "discretion."

The scriptures plainly warned that a day would come when people would not even cover their sins.

The GLBT (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered) crowd not only wants our tolerance.  They want our blessings!  They want our innocent children to be given to them by Christian adoption agencies.  They want to confuse high school children who are still sorting through their personal insecurities and highly susceptible to suggestion with inferences that perhaps they are "gay"  and offer them "gay proms" and school sponsored clubs.  They can be in our faces about their revision of several thousand years of moral codes.  We must be silent about our disapproval of same or risk being labeled with that newly discovered "sin of all sins -- homophobia."

Sorry guys, sorry gals.  It was "ADAM AND EVE."  It was NOT "Adam and Steve."  Nor was it "Madame and Eve."

I never thought I would live long enough to see the public immorality spectacle we now witness.  With millions of abortions over the past 39 years (since Roe v Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court) and now a president who refuses to enforce the Congressionally enacted DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, how much longer can it be until serious Judgment comes from on high on the United States of America?  Ditto for Canada which has threatened Catholic and Protestant clergy with legal sanctions for preaching long standing moral tenets?

Am I for bullying gays?  NO.  Am I for allowing "gays" to bully and intimidate us into abandoning our God given moral code?  DEFINITELY AND DEFIANTLY NOT!

Here I stand!

May God help us all!

Constance

A very important movie - THE GREATER GLORY

Trailer provided by Video Detective

I just came back from watching this movie on its first day of viewing in the USA.  It is about the Cristero War in Mexico, the response to the government ordered persecutions of Christians starting with Catholics.  The film is disturbing, but it understates the case.  It looked like it had a happy ending when US Ambassador Dwight Morrow "negotiated a peace" with the Mexican government that would insure religious freedom.  It ends with a proclamation that in 1929 the Church bells were able to ring again.  What really happened and you can read an excellent account of it in MEXICAN MARTYRDOM was that when Catholics resurfaced from underground and resumed public worship, they were identified and then the persecutions began again with even greater vigor.  Other inaccuracies included that the persecution started with Mexican President Calles.  In reality, it began with Obregon but was continued and enlarged under Calles.   Cardenas was not exactly the saint that Cameron Townsend and Wycliffe Bible Translators sometimes make him out to be.  He was in on the persecution too, albeit at more subtle but still dangerous levels.

THE GREATER GLORY movies probably a good pre-vision of what could well happen in the prophesied Great Tribulation.

Go see it!

Constance

A good summary from a long time fellow researcher

My dear friend Dorothy Margraf just sent this to me.  I thought it would be valuable to all and so I am posting it here:

"I wrote this to explain to others what the New Age movement is for those who may have forgotten what it is.  Names, dates, places and ideas that are pushed can be filled in, but here I wanted a short overview.  If you have questions, email me.

The New Age movement is an offshoot of other movements, only it is well 

organized. Occult/pagan practices probably go back to the beginning of time. The 

New Age movement is a deliberate joining of occult organizations with political 

organizations by well connected individuals with power. The organizations 

supporting it have been growing for over a 100 years. That's the difference.

Do not underestimate the intelligence of those involved in growing that movement. Many people follow Judaism and Christianity without examination. A 

much smaller group sees the flaws in organized religion but not its value. It 

takes wisdom to move beyond that and few have developed that. A portion of those 

in the middle believe they have developed a better system to make the world a 

better place. This they wish to do by eliminating organized Judaism and 

Christianity and forming a united government to organize the world.  They are filled with pride 

and lack wisdom.

Because so little information has been shared about the organized concrete 

aspects of the New Age movement, it has become very easy to turn the heads of 

people.

Cumbey put the pieces together in one book that was easy to understand which 

is why it sold so well. Few who read the book were willing to go further in 

knowing what it is. Her research goes into much greater depth. Those who can't 

go past what appeared in her first book are not ready to pursue further 

information. For example information on the Alliance of Civilizations was

presented here, at the blog.  I remember only a few people picking up on that 

information,examining it further and letting others know what they found. Most 

people just want to sit on their heinies, give opinions and let others do the 

hard work of research.

Infiltration into churches, synagogues and political movements by those who 

have absorbed New Age ideas is quite easy because so very few have any ideas 

what the are the concrete aspects of New Age. Little tidbits of information 

presented in an unorganized manner won't make any difference.

Saying that New Age is complex and then going off and attacking religions is 

a tactic used by propagandists for New Age. Telling others follow this or that 

religion is useless in saving people from being seduced by New Age ideas if you 

can't tell them what New Age is.

Well said, Dorothy Margraf, and thanks!

To all the rest, STAY TUNED!

CONSTANCE