Truth On The Web
E-CLIPZ An E-zine For The Church Of God
Issue Date: 01/08/05
Informing and edifying the people of God on topics of interest such as the United Nations, the NWO, the ecumenical movement, the feminizing of God, the apostate church(es), notable quotations, historical events and other relevant and sometimes irrelevant subjects which otherwise "eclipse" the truth. Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. -- Electronic Clipz, Everything Clipz, Edifying Clipz, Evangelizing Clipz, El Clipz, Etcetera Clipz ... but you can call it E-Clipz ...Bringing light to those in darkness. Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death ... For a free subscription to Truth On The Web Ministries E-Clipz send an email to: totw@truthontheweb.org
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UN-President
On the January 4th edition of The O'Reilly Factor Bill O'Reilly, endorsed Bill Clinton to replace Kofi Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations. The host of the highest-rated program on No. 1 Fox News Channel was interviewing Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, O'Reilly told Holbrooke,"I'd like to see Annan out of there. I'd like to see Bill Clinton take the job. The world loves him. He'd do a good job. It would be good for the United States. Hillary would love it."
WorldNetDaily reported that "the idea of Clinton as secretary-general has been talked about in U.N. circles and among the former president's insiders for more than two years."
On The Net: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42247
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Newdow: No Prayer
Michael Newdow, the athiest who has been fighting to remove the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, has now filed a lawsuit attempting to ban George Bush from allowing prayer at his January 20th 2005 inauguration.Newdow's case claims that the use of a prayer is unconstitutional. The case is tentatively scheduled Jan. 14. Two Christian ministers delivered prayers at Bush's 2001 inaugural ceremony.
Daniel 6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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Expulsion Threat for Feast Keepers
According to Ruth Scheidt, a member of the United Church of God's Munster congregation, Lowell Middle School officials forced her 12-year-old son to sign a letter last month, unbeknowst to the parents, stating he understood if he missed another day of school for any reason before the end of the semester in January, he could be expelled. The family had just returned from the [out-of-state] Feast of Tabernacles - an seven-day religious observance followed by The Last Great Day both commanded by God in Leviticus 23 and later kept by Jesus and the disciples.
Scheidt said she presented a letter from the church explaining the holy day observation well in advance of their departure. Superintendent Alice Neal told reporters: "The school corporation will accept one day off per semester for religious observance. We already did that for this particular family." [referring to the earlier one day Feast of Trumpets observance] Neal continued, "At some point somebody may take this to court and there may be a decision. That has happened in other states."
Due to this religious discrimination, Scheidt told nwitimes.com: "Now my son does not even want to go to the Feast next year," she said. "He was intimidated. I did everything possible to avoid this."
nwitimes.com wrote: "This was a very important thing to that family and I respect that," Neal said. "That's why I was very careful to explore the law and consult our attorney. Parents may not agree with it, but we are trying to do what is expected of us by the mandates placed on us."
On The Net: [The original story ran on nwitimes.com on Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:13 AM CST]
http://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2004/11/21/news/lake_county/2e51bae417129d4486256f52007f530f.txt
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Historical Happenings
January 02
0069 - Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
0533 - John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1235 - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.'
1909 - Future Foursquare Gospel church founder Aimee Elizabeth [ne Kennedy] Semple [later McPherson], 19, along with her husband Robert Semple, was ordained to the ministry in Chicago by evangelist William H. Durham.
1921 - The first religious program heard over the radio was broadcast from Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh over local radio station KDKA. (The first licensed radio station in the US, KDKA had been on the air only two months.)
1968 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.'
1971 - A team of Israeli scholars announced the discovery in Jerusalem of a 2,000-year-old skeleton of a crucified male. Found in a cave-tomb, it was the first direct physical evidence of the well-documented Roman method of execution.
1985 - Egyptian President Mubarak re-appoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
January 03
0236 - Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0269 - Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0936 - Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
1521 - German Reformer Martin Luther, 38, was excommunicated by Pope Leo X for challenging Catholic Church doctrine. Luther soon after began translating of the Bible into the German language.
1785 - The famed Methodist "Christmas Conference" concluded in Baltimore, MD. Having opened on Christmas Eve, 1784, this body brought into being the Methodist Episcopal Church (in America), and elected Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke the first two American "general superintendents."
1924 - British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1934 - At Barmen-Gemarke, in Germany, 320 pastors of the German Confessing Church met to draw up a theological statement opposing the Nazi German Nationalist Church. Led by Karl Barth and Martin Niemoeller, the gathering led to the formula afterward known as the Barmen Declaration.
1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870, officially changed its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination is headquartered today in Memphis, TN, and comprises a membership of nearly 500,000.
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba after Fidel Castro announced he was a communist.
1962- Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
2002 - Astrologer and Numerologist Sydney Omarr (76), born Sidney Kimmelman, whose horoscopes appear in more than 200 newspapers across the nation, died of a heart attack ... that he never saw coming. Omarr lived many years stricken by blindness and paralyzed from the neck down by multiple sclerosis.
January 04
0041 - Emporer Caligula murdered
0274 - Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0838 - Babak Persian social/religious reformer, martyred
1528 - Ferdinand of Austria, younger brother to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, issued the first secular mandate forbidding the Anabaptist religious movement. Anabaptists believed in "re-baptizing" by immersion those who were 'sprinkled' in (unbiblical) infant baptism.
1893 - US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamists
1896 - Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy - and the presence of the US Army - Utah admitted as 45th state
1939 - Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
1953 - "The Catholic Hour" first aired over NBC-television. This long-running series was produced in cooperation with the National Council of Catholic Men and aired through August 1970.
1985 - Israel govt confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
January 05
1527 - Swiss Anabaptist reformer Felix Manz, 29, was drowned in punishment for preaching adult (re-)baptism. Manz's death made him the first Protestant in history to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants.
1531 - Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
1589 - Catherine de Medici, widow of King Henry II of France, died. Daughter of Lorenzo de Medici, she ruled France as queen regent after the death of her husband in 1559.
1911 - Portuguese expel Jesuits
1964 - Following an unprecedented pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI met with Greek Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem. It was the first such meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches in over 500 years (since 1439).
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Time is on God's side ...and Ours.
"Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his word, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him." -- Matthew Henry; bible commentator
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Notable Quotes and Quotable Notes
TRUTH
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. ~ Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart. ~ Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ~ Winston Churchill
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ~ W. Clement Stone
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ~ William Penn (1644 - 1718)
UNTRUTH (LIE)
We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides. ~ St. Ignatius Loyola (1500)
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. ~ Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. ~ Mein Kampf
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ~ Lenin (1870 - 1924) Soviet Jew
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. ~ Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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Comic's Corner
Bible Puns
Q: What excuse did Adam give to his children as to why he no longer lived in Eden?
A: Your mother ate us out of house and home.
Q. Who is the fastest man in the Bible?
A. Adam because he was first in the human race.
Q: How did Delilah get into Samson’s house?
A: She picked his locks.
Q: Why didn’t Pharaoh let the Israelites go into the wilderness after the first nine plagues?
A: He was in de Nile.
Q: Why did Samson try to avoid arguing with Delilah?
A: He didn’t want to split hairs.
Q: What kind of man was Boaz before he married?
A: Ruthless
Q: What do they call pastors in Germany?
A: German Shepherds
Q: Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
A: Noah: He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation
Q: Who was the greatest female financier in the Bible?
A: Pharaoh's daughter: She went down to the bank of the Nile and drew out a little prophet.
Q: What kind of motor vehicles are in the Bible?
A: Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden in a Fury. David's
Triumph was heard throughout the land. Honda...because the apostles "were all in one Accord."
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More Historic Happenings
January 06
0548 - This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on December 25th began in the late 300s in the Western Church.)
1352 - French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
1494 - The first mass in America was celebrated in the Roman Catholic church on Isabella Island in Haiti. This was the first church established in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus.
1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1924 - In England, the first worship service heard over over radio was aired by the BBC. The service was conducted by H. R. L. Sheppard at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, in London.
2000 - China's state-backed Catholic church defied Pope John Paul by ordaining five new bishops in a setback for efforts to normalise ties between the Vatican and China.
January 07
1451 - Amadeus VIII last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1537 - Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1566 - Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1655 - Innocentius X [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at 80
1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1948 - US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1977 - Human Rights Charter '77 established in Prague
January 08
1198 - Coelestinus III [Giacinto Bobo], pope (1191-98), dies
1198 - Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
1598 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, Hounded by Inquisition, dies at 77 in Italy. In 1612 he began to encounter serious opposition to his theory of the motion of the earth that he taught after Copernicus (theories that the sun was the center of our universe rather than the earth). In 1614, Father Tommaso Caccini denounced the opinions of Galileo on the motion of the Earth from the pulpit of Santa Maria Novella, judging them to be erroneous. Galileo went to Rome and defended himself against charges that had been made against him. In 1616, he was admonished by Cardinal Bellarmino and told that he could not defend Copernican astronomy because it went against the doctrine of the Church. Later, in 1632 he was summoned by the Holy Office to Rome. The tribunal passed a sentence condemning him and compelled Galileo to solemnly abjure his theory. He was sent to exile in Siena. Galileo spent his last years almost totally blind and poor.
1800 - In London, the first soup kitchens were opened for the relief of the poor
1878 - Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley
1904 - Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
1954 - The State Convention of Baptists in Ohio was formed, representing 39 Southern Baptist churches in that state.
1966 - Stephen Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland, was barred by the Polish government from attending the Vatican celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
1998 - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life.
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Weather Control
Last issue we provided some UN and US governmental evidence of the capability and reality of weather modification for warfare. As a follow-up we add these quotations:
"Others are engaging even in an eco type of terrorism, whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes or volcanos remotely, through the use of electromagnetic waves." American Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April 1997.
Richard Williams, a physicist and consultant to the David Sarnoff laboratory in Princeton said that HAARP constitutes "an irresponsible act of global vandalism."
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."[ former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book "Between Two Ages" -1970s]
"Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally... It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, ... and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power." (US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ emphasis added)
"US aerospace forces [will] 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications... From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels."(US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ )
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Bit-O-History : Sabbathkeepers
7th Day Baptist- Francis Bampfield
Francis Bampfield was one of the early English Sabbatarian Baptists. The excerpt from his writing (below) does not have the spelling and punctuation that we are accustomed to but with careful reading it is easy to understand his timeless message.
Baptist Life and Thought: 1600-1980- Francis Bampfield: "Six days thou shalt labor, but the seventh-day is the Sabbath: In it thou shalt not do any work: For six days Jehovah made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh-day: Wherefore Jehovah blessed that day, that Sabbath, the blessing is gone forth for this Seventh-day-Sabbath irreversibly from the Mouth of Jehovah Mashiach himself: it has his Applaud and approve for its due estimation and deserved renown, its noble majestickness and Royal imperialness. How many are the Prerogatives and Priviliges which he hath Conferred upon it!
Christ is the Seventh-daies-benedictor and benefactor. This is the day which he hath Dedicated to the Instituted worship and service of Jehovah Aelohim; a day greatly to be desired and delighted in by his Children, Friends and Servants, as a day of holy rest, and of Heavenly joy; a day of sweet converse between him and his Saints; A day that calleth upon them for a singing-shouting-triumphing-rejoycing-frame!
And therefore there is a peculiar Psalm fitted for this purpose, to this end: Thus is the Crown of special Benediction put upon the head of the Seventh-day, and no other foregoing day of the week is to share with it in this princely honour. Isaiah, that evangelical Prophecier and Preacher, has from Jehovah Pronounced those Blessed even to admiration, (O the happy Progresses, O the happy goings on of such!) that do keep this Sabbath, and not prophane it! They shall enjoy many a covenant-favour!
O how choice Spiritual blessings are there that do visit the Hearts of Holy observers of this Seventh-day-Sabbath! under the New-Testament Administration, O what a Blessed day did Christ make it to be unto some, whose sick bodies he healed, whose sinful Souls he pardoned, whose sadned Spirits he comforted; unto whom his Gracious words were converting and restoring, teaching and enlightning, quickning and strengthning, whom he met in Sabbath ordinances, and gave them the Blessing of this separated day! and how many a Soul had cause to bless the LORD forever, who so prospered Pauls labours on the Seventh-day-Sabbath, for blessing, for good to them! Christ taught daily in the Temple, and Paul was often in the Synagogues on the foregoing daies of the Week, and much good was done thereby, but the whole Scripture doth take peculiar notice of this, That, the Seventh-day as the weekly Sabbath-day, carried away the Sabbath-blessings, which no other day in the week did, though the Lord do bless his People every day, yet not with Sabbath-blessings, but only on the seventh day."
[William H. Brackney, Baptist Life and Thought: 1600-1980. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press. 1983; Source: Francis Bampfield, Septima Dies, Dies Desirabilis, Sabbatum Jehovae. The Seventh Day Sabbath, the Desirable Day London: n.p., 1677, p.9.]
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TOTW Web Updates
The transfer of our files to the new truthontheweb.org server is coming along well; albeit slowly. Many more pages will be transferred in the coming months. Several updates are also tentatively scheduled. We thank you for your patience. On the bright side and to God's Glory, the month of December gave us over 900 new [unique] visitors to the truthontheweb.org website.
Brian just completed a Bible Reading Schedule to read through the bible in one year. The schedule is set up in the original canonical order of the bible before the Catholic Church rearranged it to its present format. Won't you read along with us?
On The Net: http://www.truthontheweb.org/1yrbible.htm
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Other News
Timothy Youngblood recently launched the Partners in Prayer Website. Tim tell us that "The purpose of this page is to bring together those that would like to post and read prayers so we can urgently implore God's intervention for those in need." Anyone can post but only members will receive e-mail. James wrote...The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. [James 5:16]
On The Net: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PartnersinPrayer
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Prayer Request
[sent from Rosy Halley's Prayer List] STAMPER, SAM, 797 Dunreath, Walled Lake MI 48390 was recently diagnosed with a heart condition known as "Atrial Fibrillation." Sam has been to the hospital to see the doctor three times within the past two weeks. He has had very bad reactions to the medication given to help the condition, and has been taken off the medication. Thursday, while he was having an "Echogram", his heart began missing beats again. He is still having problems this morning. Please pray for Sam's condition, that they will be able to help him and also remember his wife, Faye, in your prayers.
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