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And history also demonstrates that the Jew -- primarily through usury-based banking -- long has wielded great influence within America.

It is no accident or coincidence that these two cities were targeted by the US with atomic weapons.

The Ancient Hebrew Canon of the patriarchs disappeared with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. But a century or more prior to the Incarnation, the Jews embraced the Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Ancient Hebrew Canon.

Jesus and the apostles authenticated the Septuagint by quoting from it. Thus, the Septuagint is a faithful representation of the Ancient Hebrew, whereas the Masoretic Text is not.

Jerry should have paid heed to Matthew 16:26: "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

Setting aside the matter of treachery (Falwell was a wolf in sheep's clothing), a LearJet hardly is to be compared with resurrection to life everlasting.

(1) The news article has to do with kidnapping, which is nothing other than "stealing" a person.

(2) The only passage in the Scripture which has directly to do with kidnapping is Exodus 21:16.

(3) Exodus 21:16 has in view specifically stealing for the purpose of selling -- that is, selling into slavery, even as Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers.

(4) You asked regarding the mention in Exodus 21:16 of "the children of Israel", and I explained that the Scripture does not prohibit the Israelite from buying and selling slaves, so long as the slaves are not Israelites.

While, in the long run, slaves almost invariably turn out to be a curse rather than an asset, the Scripture nonetheless does not condemn the variety of slavery which was practiced in the United States just prior to the War Between the States.

The reading of the passage reflects the fact that the Scripture does not prohibit slavery in general.

Israelites were permitted to take captives in warfare and to make slaves of them. Israelites also were permitted to purchase foreigners as slaves, and to pass them on to their children as property. Leviticus 25:45-46.

However, Israelites were not permitted to enslave fellow Israelites or to hold them as slaves.

Of course, the teaching of the Scripture regarding slavery is contrary to the teaching which almost universally is heard from the contemporary Christian Pulpit.

The archive of your comments provides quite an insight, not only into your bankrupt theology, but also into your depraved inner nature.

For example, you wrote, "Let's have some fun with this and really beat up on this heretic."

No love, no concern for anything other than your own gratification. Hopefully Christians have enough sense not to associate with you.

Why do you twist the things I say?

Christ Jesus was raised from the dead a spirit being, in accordance with the teaching of Paul in I Corinthians 15.

The resurrection from the dead is a transformation in which the mortal, fleshly being is changed into an immortal spiritual being.

The resurrection is the spiritual birth -- the birth from above (GENNAO ANOTHEN).

Apart from this birth of the resurrection, no one can see or inherit the Kingdom of God, John 3:3, I Corinthians 15:50.

But, then as now, the King of Israel is the invisible Lord God of Israel, who reigns from Heaven. And in demanding an earthly king, these rebels reject their heavenly king and refuse to bow the knee to him.

Like the wicked Jews who, two millennia ago, disavowed their sovereign and demanded that he be put to death, John 19:15, Christians of this day cry, "We have no king but Caesar!" And they do so to their own shame, their own hurt, and their own destruction.

The events of the Olivet Discourse took place -- all of them -- in A.D. 70. There never again shall be a physical, earthly nation Israel.

The "Israel of God" exists today and forevermore as a synonym of the Kingdom of God. Israel already has been regathered and reunited -- in the Church, the figurative body of Christ Jesus.

For all practical purposes, Satan fell from Heaven when the disciples went forth proclaiming that implementation of the Kingdom of God was imminent.

However, the actual victory of Christ over Satan did not take place until the death of Jesus as covenant sacrifice (KJV "testator") implemented the New Covenant.

The declaration, "Another is King -- Jesus" (KJV "there is another king -- Jesus"), Acts 17:5-8, is an essential element of the Gospel message; this is the understanding which is able to turn the world upside down.

Do you not realize that truth remains truth, irrespective of those by whom it is embraced? And do you not realize that your ability to read, and your vocabulary, by which you are able to think, have been imparted to you by "the World"?

Find an old edition (the 11th is best) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and read what it has to say regarding the book of Revelation. The articles are objective, reporting the findings of competent and devout Christian scholars.

You can go to numerous other sources to educate yourself regarding this matter, but the Britannica is scholarly and readily available, and thus likely is the best place to begin your investigation. Prove all things, I Thessalonians 5:21.

How many Christians are aware of this verse?

Do what the Bereans did, Acts 17:11; search the Scriptures (Old Covenant) to see whether there is agreement or conflict.

You demand "proof beyond what the world says"? You perhaps wish a sign from Heaven?

With respect to the book of Revelation, the linguistic style (in the Greek, which is not apparent in the KJV) is not a sufficient proof? or conflict with the Gospel accounts regarding the time of the reign of Christ? or the setting aside of the New Covenant? or the setting aside of the prophecies of the Olivet Discourse for a fantastic tale in which Israel continues to exist as a physical, earthly nation?

You strain out the gnat while swallowing the camel.

Angels do not sin; angels do not rebel. The entire concept of angelic rebellion is nothing other than Jewish myth, and the books that teach it -- Revelation, II Peter, and Jude -- are forgeries which have no rightful place in the Canon of Scripture.

The basis for that which you are seeing in the article is explained in Romans 1:18-32.

You must understand that the hand of the Lord is behind the destruction of the traditional American way of life. This is because the Lord God is not mocked. America is experiencing the judgment of God, in every realm of life.

But how can it be possible for someone with only a primitive vocabulary (and thus, only a primitive capacity for thought) to "follow" a Faith in which it is crucial to understand and distinguish between matters such as imputation, atonement, justification, redemption, justice, mercy, propitiation, forgiveness, etc.?

To boast that the Bible with its essential nuances of meaning has been translated accurately into the language of the Aborigines is like claiming that a dollar bill with its detailed engraving can be replicated in crayola. But perhaps there is no claim of ACCURATE translation.