Imagine if you took this commonly known oath, written in 1843, to confirm your religious society allegiance:
I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.
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In a study on what to expect from the future, preacher Alex Kurz started, “I’m going to say this, and I’m going to offend a lot of…well, you know, the father of all organized religion is Cain and Luke 11:51 says, ‘From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation’ . . . . from this untoward generation that follows in the footsteps of Cain with the attitude of religion that destroys those who are really righteous.
“Balak (Numbers 22:5) represents this institution of religion that has its genesis with Cain and is opposed to those who are righteous.
“As a hired gun, the religious system is now seeking to institutionalize the persecution against the righteous—against the people of God.
“So it isn’t just enough to be self-righteous—religion is a sophisticated, systematic, organized institution devised by Satan himself to seek to destroy God’s people, and there are hired guns, and I say that because we certainly know . . .
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Kurz continued, “I like reading history and there’s a great book out called ‘Founding Faith’ about this argument about whether our Founding Fathers were religious or not religious. It’s a very good read. Very balanced. You have the two extremes.
“You have the one side that says our Founding Fathers were a-religious—they were anti-God—which is absolutely ridiculous, and then you have the other extreme that says the Founding Fathers saw Christianity in every decision, and that just isn’t accurate as well.
“My point is, many of our forefathers, they believed that religion is good for society. But be very careful! Is religion good? You know what religion means, right? To bind.
“Is religion good for society, and if you really examine the question, and examine the answer, the reason religion exists isn’t just to promote . . . on the surface it appears that religion promotes moral values and ethics, and so on and so forth, right?
“But deep down, the very core of religion is to oppose God and His people. So we want to be very careful in just assuming that religion quote ‘is a good thing.’ and I know, we’re living in a day and age where . . . are there some religions you think are a threat?
“I mean, there are some religions I don’t want operating in my neighborhood because they’ll cut your head off and they’ll put it on You Tube and they’ll show you how they’ll cut your head off.
“Oh, yeah, those are just the ‘radical fundamental extremists.’ Okay, yeah, yeah. Anyway, what we have in Balaam, now . . . It isn’t just enough to establish religion and to persecute the righteous. ‘We got to justify this!’ And didn’t Israel justify the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and did they not use political arguments to kill God’s Son?
“Be careful. See, this whole amalgamation between religion and politics—the instituted religious system--they had political arguments to kill the guy who never harmed a fly! What did Jesus do? And it was the political machinery paid off by the institution of religion that put Him to death.
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“Remember when Paul appealed to Rome? At first it sounded like a pretty good deal, right? What did Rome ultimately do to Paul? He writes in II Timothy, ‘For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.’
“The same government that gave to Paul some rights to defend himself is the same government that put him to death. You appeal to Caesar, then you’re going to follow the law, and they killed him!
“So, my point is, Balaam is hired by a KING! I believe in separation of church and state. I don’t want to get into politics. What business does a prophet of God have to do with a political leader?!
“Listen, didn’t God say to Israel, ‘You’re going to be a kingdom of priests’?! Balaam represents this attempt to institutionalize religion and to be under the authority of politics and this is what I’m getting at . . .
“Guess who this Antichrist is? He’s a political figure, isn’t he? There will be laws enacted to justify the slaughter of the righteous. Remember what the Lord Jesus Christ said—‘They’re going to bring you before magistrates.’
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In Israel’s “national anthem,” written in song by Moses in Deuteronomy 32, the last verse takes the reader over to the Book of Revelation with its prophetic context being about the Second Coming of Christ, when He comes to ‘avenge the blood of his servants.’
Jordan explains, “The ending (of the national anthem) brings up a strangely fascinating issue in Rev. 17:9. John’s going to identify for you what the woman represents—who she is and what she’s doing.
“The seven heads are the seven mountains upon which the woman sitteth. Notice in verse 16 the issue about eating her flesh--those ten kings that reign with the Antichrist are demonic kings who are cannibals.”
“Verses 16-17 say, ‘And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
[17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.’
[17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.’
“What we’re talking about here is the Antichrist. He’s going to be in the land of Palestine. He’s going to be raised up ‘in the land.’ That’s where he comes from. This is an issue that takes place in the Middle East. It takes place ‘in the land’ God’s interested in reclaiming.
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“In Psalm 53, a psalm associated with the ‘last days’ and the tribulation and with the Antichrist, verse 4 says, ‘Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.’
“It’s like they’re eating the bread, but when they’re eating the bread, they’re eating ‘my people.’ It’s like the bread turns into his people!
Deuteronomy 28 and 29, the chapters leading up to Israel’s national anthem, rehearse the Five Courses of Judgment Israel goes under.
Verse 53 reads, “And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:thou shalt eat the flesh of thy own body.”
Jordan says, “What he’s talking about here is in that 5th course of judgment things are going to be so bad in Israel that ‘thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body.’
“Somebody says, ‘Well, Brother Rick, nobody’s ever going to do that!’ But if you go to II Kings 6, you’ll see records of people doing it! Starvation got that bad!
“Lamentations says that a mother will ‘eat her baby a span long.’ A span is 18 inches. Things are going to be so bad that parents, even mothers, will wind up eating their own children in order to survive!
“Specifically, Lamentations 2:20 reads, ‘Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?’
“When the siege came up, Nebuchadnezzar carried them away; he didn’t just come up. I mean, you read that and say, ‘Did things ever get THAT bad?!’ ”
It’s interesting to note that Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf means “My Struggle,” the same meaning of the word “Jihad.”
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In an article by John Perazzo, author of the book “The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations,” he writes about the famine engineered by Josef Stalin that artificially induced death in peacetime on a scale unsurpassed in the recorded history of mankind (affecting 40 million people).
“ . . . In general, the areas that were the richest agriculturally suffered most from the famine - quite simply because it was not a natural disaster but rather a calamity carefully engineered by Stalin himself.”
Perazzo reports that while “thousands were succumbing to starvation each day, the Soviet government continued to export huge quantities of grain abroad ‘in the interests of industrialization’—taking the official position that all was well in the USSR.
Perazzo reports that while “thousands were succumbing to starvation each day, the Soviet government continued to export huge quantities of grain abroad ‘in the interests of industrialization’—taking the official position that all was well in the USSR.
“When foreign dignitaries visited the country, the GPU led them exclusively to areas where the appalling stench of death did not fill the air, and where all signs of the human misery that permeated the land had been hidden from view.”
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Now that we are seeing how potent the media is in deceiving the populace by cleverly propagating lies and bias, conveniently leaving out/disregarding facts, it’s not so hard to believe, as Perazzo writes, “Apart from those who were deceived, there were also many willing accomplices - particularly in the press - who were willing to ignore, or even to falsify their accounts of, the horrors they saw firsthand throughout Stalin's empire.
“Most notable was Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow correspondent in the 1930s, who concealed his knowledge of the great famine and Stalin's mass murders.
“In 1933, for instance, when the famine was at its height, Duranty wrote that ‘village markets [were] flowing with eggs, fruit, poultry, vegetables, milk and butter. . . . A child can see this is not famine but abundance.’
“Duranty's various dispatches during this period included also the following: ‘There is no famine or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be’ (New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931); ‘Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda’ (New York Times, August 23, 1933); ‘There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition’ (New York Times, March 31, 1933).
“Duranty's reports were not founded in ignorance; he knew very well that they were utterly false. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.”
“Duranty's reports were not founded in ignorance; he knew very well that they were utterly false. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.”
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As a succinct overall assessment of Stalin’s lasting influence, Perazzo summarizes, “The great famine had an enormous effect on Soviet society and the character of the Soviet people. It fostered a proliferation of tyrants and local despots who, eager to please their superiors and ultimately Stalin himself, were prepared to resort to any measures to strip the starving peasants of every last morsel of food. It also led to the desperate abandonment of countless children and the rise of cannibalism.
As a succinct overall assessment of Stalin’s lasting influence, Perazzo summarizes, “The great famine had an enormous effect on Soviet society and the character of the Soviet people. It fostered a proliferation of tyrants and local despots who, eager to please their superiors and ultimately Stalin himself, were prepared to resort to any measures to strip the starving peasants of every last morsel of food. It also led to the desperate abandonment of countless children and the rise of cannibalism.
“Coupled with these developments were the establishment of death camps and the unpredictable atrocities of Stalin's secret police. Barbarism and corruption became the defining characteristics of Soviet life.”
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