Visual Job

Many people end up at a time where they simply don’t know what to do next. You might be a student who has recently graduated, or maybe you are in your 60s and just retired from work. Maybe you’ve recently been laid off from work and are discouraged at being unemployed, but equally discouraged by the sort of work placements out there. During these times, we often seek a different course of action. An organization called DNA (dna-uk.org) are proffering a “third way” – an opportunity to make great use of your gap year by enrolling on a discipleship christian course.

DNA provide placements in Christian churches, ranging from October to August. This is seen as a “year in with God, not a year out.”, involving the participant to live within a Christian surrounding – either in your own church if you currently belong to one, or a specified church if you are not currently a member of a church. Your typical day will involve assisting with the day-to-day projects of the church, and to be trained by its fellow members in bible studies. The course promises faith in action, so those who enroll can anticipate a rather pragmatic experience of Christian faith, and not simply the study of it.

More selling points of the placements include:-

• being challenging, refreshing and life changing
• preparing you for church based leading
• training you for work
• your development in character, skills and understanding
• dependence on the person and force of the Holy Spirit in and through you
• offering an accredited programme through the National Open College Network

There are 3 types of course available : Track 1 is the most common entry point to DNA – it is the most complete DNA expereince. The over-whelming majority of individuals decide that this is the best pick for them. Track 2 is more suited to you if taking a complete “year-out” is not practically achievable. This could be for reasons like your workplace or family commitments. Track 2 therefore proffers some tractability. Track 3 offers people the opportunity of joining us for as many particular training sessions or days as they wish.

We don’t have control of the events outside of us. We may think we have control over them, but we really don’t. What we do have control over is the frame of reference with which I view the events of life. And as I open my frame of reference into vastness, into possibility, and into God’s love, I can begin to see God manifesting in naturein everything that’s happening, as a child, as my child playing.

We’re way out of conceptualization at this point. I mean, we’re not talking about this intellectually, because we’re not in an ivory tower. We’re in life. And we’re experiencing this happening, because we’re not bound. What makes freedom? This is a very, very important thing for us to face: What really makes freedom? It’s not lacking things; that doesn’t make you free. It’s not necessarily having things, either. What makes you free is that you are directing yourself. You’re not controlling the circumstance outside of you, you’re utilizing it. If you’re free, everything happening is a vehicle of enlightenment. So, let’s say I wake up in the middle of the night and I’m filled with anxiety. I realize that I’ve been tossing and turning, so I think, “Hmm, this is a drag. Okay, what can I do?” You know what? I can remember what helps my being to flow. I can remember the feeling of flowing in my life. I lay my head back down remembering that, and it changes the whole experience.

We talked about what happens in that situation in our last conversation. Because of my orientation, over time I end up creating eventsstringing together circumstances that actually become my reason for feeling anxiety. I’m actually a Co-Creator in my own response patterns, which are fixed, in this case, in anxiety.

Let’s say I have a super-structure of being upset, worried, afraid, and anxious. In that situation, I’m actually going to let anxiety select what I focus on over time in my life, so that I can find something to focus on and say, “That’s why I’m anxious! I knew I was anxious because of something, for some reason.”

Well, in my super-structure, there’s a relationship between that anxiety and the inimical universe. Obviously, if you live in an inimical universe, you’re going to be very anxious because it’s pretty frightful.

You’re a little boy who’s afraid. I mean, you have a frightened little boy inside of you. And you have developed, as I did, a tremendous intellect to be able to work with, to insulate, and to protect that little boy. That intellect thinks it is controlling circumstances of your life. You’re maneuvering, and you’re a very swift computer, and so you can rationalize all kinds of things. Yet, in the middle of the night, you wake up anxious.

Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation, The Everyday Sanyasin, and Experiments in Awareness, a workbook for yogis.

Missional living is definitely a buzz-phrase that is all over the place these days. The fact that we need to label church buildings, missional, has since the beginning of creation been a tiny bit weird to me. come on, shouldnt all bodies of Christ be missional in their very core? why cant a church, at its very essence, yearn to connect their culture and area with the story of Christ as a missionary would in a different country? Isnt it what the church buildings is encouraged to do in the final charge of Christ in Matthew 28:19? Our own city deserves this brand of church. Austin church is slowly going to what our Creator instructed in the Bible.

Christ gives the command in Acts 1:8 saying, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 personifies this idea as, right before Jesus Christ ascends to Heaven, He directs the disciples on a exploration that would begin right in their local community. He begins with their origin of Jerusalem, and then broadens the call to the uttermost parts of the creation.

As Christians, we are not motivated to isolation, but to be missional followers of Jesus who are anxiously going out and going to areas right where they are with the gospel. We have gazed at this throughout history: God urges Abraham on a mission to leave his city and his people and go to the city that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God motivated Moses on a journey to restore an enslaved people and lead them to freedom (Exodus 3:8-10), God moved Jesus on a journey to world to pull all things to Himself through the crucifixion (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending people on a journey to engage homes, cities, tribes, and even nations with the story of Christ(Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we resist this call and continue to perceive the bodies of Christ like a private country club ” requesting that people resolve their performance, pay their fees, and walk to our sanctuary God will continue His story without us.

Being a single Christian is not a disease, it is an opportunity. Far too may singles think ill of themselves due to naked-left-ring-finger-itis. Far too many in the church treat singles as if they were incomplete. Name 3 singles over the age of 25 that have not had Christian friends trying to play Cupid for them. The church should value her singles as highly as she values those that marry, perhaps more so. Paul clearly prefers the single life in 1 Corinthians 7. He claims it is a great opportunity. Why?

Singles can give more time and attention to the needs of God’s kingdom. Paul argued that marriage entangles the Christian with many necessary responsibilities from which the unmarried are free. If marriage takes time, being single saves time. Therefore, Paul could wish that all were single as he was. (1 Corinthians 7:7) Paul also more highly recommend not marrying or giving in marriage so that the single Christian could build the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 7:36-38)

The single’s great opportunity is the availability to do ministry. (1 Corinthians 7:32) Unfortunately, most singles spend their “extra time” on themselves. If you are single and are not giving your extra time and energy to serving God in the ministry of the church, you are not doing it right. You are wasting the opportunity that God has given you.

Let me ask you quite frankly, single Christian, what is your ministry in the church? Do you have one? Are you wasting your time and opportunity on merely selfish interests and nursing your neuroses? Are you killing time in merely trivial pursuits? Compared to your married brothers and sisters in Christ, you have fewer worldly concerns and are liberated from many anxieties. (1 Corinthians 7:28, 32) I write this not to add to your anxieties but rather to clarify your opportunity. Your brothers and sisters in Christ need you! The life and ministry of the church needs you! Your gifts, your time, your talents are worth their weight in gold in the kingdom of God.

You can only play the hand that you have been dealt, but you can play it well. Dear single Christian, I plead with you now; invest yourself in the ministry of the church. Make the most of the opportunity that God has given you. Why? Serve because that is what God has called you to do. Serve because being active in the service of the King is the best way to meet eligible sons and daughters of the King. Cupid reappears, but I will write more on finding that special someone next time

Pastor Mark A. Scholten is the Senior Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Manchester (PCA) 394 Lydall St., Manchester, CT 06042 http://www.manchesterpca.org
Mark has been single for half his life, and married the other half.

Jesus Christ will marry the church when he returns to set up the Kingdom of God. He loved the church and gave himself for it as recorded in Ephesians 5:25-27:

“25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (KJV)

Yes, Jesus Christ wants his church to be a glorious church without any spots, wrinkles, or blemishes. He will marry the church. He wants his bride the Church of God to be holy.

Spots

What are spots? Spots are our sins. Sin is the transgression of the law of God (I John 3:4). We must ask God to remove our spots and do our part to prevent any future spots.

Linen does not come with spots. However, sin easily besets us. We must strive with God’s help to become blameless and without spot.

Wrinkles

What do wrinkles represent? Wrinkles represent our character flaws. The wrinkles must be removed from our garment if we are to attend the marriage supper of the Lamb.

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Revelation 19:6-9 describes how the wife of Jesus Christ, which is the Church of God, has made herself ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb:

“6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” (KJV)

All of our righteousness is like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). We must put on the righteousness of Jesus Christ, which is typified by linen.

What are the three properties of the linen we should put on for the marriage supper of the Lamb? The linen is fine, it is clean, and it is white.

The Linen Is Fine Linen

Linen is made from the flax plant. Fine linen has always been considered a fabric of luxury. Luxury items are expensive, and we were bought with a great price through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. God is seeking excellence in quality and beauty of character.

Fine linen can be produced only through the carefully controlled use of moisture and heat. Our own efforts alone are not sufficient. Without God’s help, we can do nothing. Linen is strong and highly durable. Strength and endurance are important character traits to God

Linen wrinkles easily. Likewise, sin can so easily beset us. One must set an iron at the hottest setting to remove the wrinkles. The heat symbolizes the trials that we must endure that help refine our character. However, linen absorbs water readily. Likewise, we are to absorb the Holy Spirit. The water used in the ironing process is symbolic of God’s Holy Spirit, which we need to endure our trials. Just as water helps to remove wrinkles from linen, likewise the Holy Spirit helps us remove our spiritual wrinkles.

Linen is lustrous, which means that it reflects light. We are to reflect God’s light to the world.

The Linen Is Clean

Fine linen soils less quickly than cotton, and it gives up stains readily. However, any stains on linen should be removed by laundering the stains when fresh. If allowed to set, stains may be impossible to remove at a later date.

We must resist sin, and quickly repent when we do sin. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin upon our confession and repentance (I John 1:9). We have to have faith that all means all. We have to forgive ourselves and let go of the guilt because Jesus Christ’s blood is the precious bride price. Jesus Christ wants the linen we will wear to the marriage supper of the Lamb to be clean because Jesus Christ is clean.

The Linen Is White

Fine linen must be bleached to bring out its potential pure white beauty. The finest results are produced by grass bleaching, in which the linen is spread out in the fields to be gradually bleached by the sun. Chemical bleaching is more commonly used, as it is less time consuming, but it can injure the fabric and adversely affect its durability.

God says in Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (KJV)

High quality linens improve with age and become whiter, smoother, and more lustrous. Likewise, we are to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ (II Peter 3:18).

Conclusion

As we await the return of Jesus Christ and the marriage supper of the Lamb, we should prepare our garments. The marriage supper of the Lamb will be a great wedding feast. We must seek the forgiveness of Jesus Christ to remove our stains and strive diligently with the help of the Holy Spirit to remove all of our wrinkles. We should let our light shine as we reflect the luster of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ will return to the earth, marry his bride the Church of God, and set up the Kingdom of God. That is good news.

Alan D. Campbell lives in Brandon, Florida. For more good news, please see his blog The Good News of the Kingdom of God at http://goodnewsofthekingdomofgod.blogspot.com

The word Rhema comes from the ancient Greek word meaning “living, breathing word”.
It is distinguished from the written Word of God which is logos. The spoken Word of God is considered Rhema. Jesus said, “The Words I speak to you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63)

Most of you are probably asking yourself, “What on earth is Rhema Therapy?”

Basically, it is a therapy based on words (no kidding).

You see, Words produce thoughts, and thoughts affect our actions and emotions, even our health.

Words are more powerful than you might imagine. Words can make us laugh, or words make us cry. There are even words that can bring on aggression. Have you ever heard the term, “those are fighting words”?

Yes, words are very powerful things. They are much more than just letters bunched together to help us communicate,
Words can affect your very life!!!!

Think of the word “Circus” for example. When you think the word, a picture automatically forms in your mind. Now think of the words below. What pictures are you creating in your mind? How do you feel? Put yourself in the picture and visualize yourself as confident etc.

Abundance
Achievement
Confidence

Creativity

Freedom
Grace

Guidance

Happiness

Harmony
Health

Honesty

Inspiration

Intelligence

Kindness
Life
Love

Memory
Peace

Persistence

Power

Purpose

Resourcefulness
Serenity
Strength

Success

Wisdom

Similarly, if you were to think of words that may make you think negatively you will get negative pictures in your mind. For example think of these words.

Anger
Deception
Pain
Adultery

Do you see how these negative words affect you? How do you feel right now? Go back now and go through the previous list so you can get your good feelings back again.

This little example illustrates that words do invoke thoughts and feelings. The three are so inter-related it is hard to differentiate which comes first, the word, the thought or the feeling. When we are feeling negative we must look to our subconscious mind and find out what happened just prior to our feeling negative. Were you thinking of words, someone may have said or that you read, or were there thoughts which caused the negative feeling. To remedy this simply change the thought and you will change your feelings.

Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28

So we see that just thinking is as if we are actually doing it in our mind. The mind cannot discriminate between imagination and reality. This is why it is so important to think positive thoughts. This is why Paul admonishes us to think right thoughts.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8

The New Living Translation of the Bible says: A cheerful look brings joy to the heart; good news makes for good health Proverbs 15:30
Be careful what you think about and what you hear, read and say. Words are not just a bunch of letters joined together to form a language. Words convey thoughts, images and feelings.

Matthew 12:
34 … How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. 35 A good person produces good words from a good heart, and an evil person produces evil words from an evil heart. 36 And I tell you this, that you must give an account on judgment day of every idle word you speak. 37 The words you say now reflect your fate then; either you will be justified by them or you will be condemned.”

1 Peter 3:10,11
For the one who wants to love life and to see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit, and he must turn away from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it,

Matthew 15:10-11
10 Then Jesus called to the crowds and said, “Listen to what I say and try to understand. 11 You are not defiled by what you eat; you are defiled by what you say and do.

“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
–Frank Outlaw

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Humans pray to God for many and various outcomes good and bad but among the most frequent petitionary prayers are surely those for the recovery of someone else from illness.

But, as everyone knows, most illnesses follow a largely predictable course, apparently independently of this stream of prayer. Theodicy provides good explanations of why God sometimes for some or all of the short period of our earthly lives allows us to suffer pain and disability.

Although intrinsically bad states, these difficult times often serve good purposes for the sufferers and for others. My suffering provides me with the opportunity to show courage and patience. It provides you with the opportunity to show sympathy and to help alleviate my suffering. And it provides society with the opportunity to choose whether or not to invest a lot of money in trying to find a cure for this or that particular kind of suffering.

A good God gives us a deep responsibility for ourselves, each other and the world, for whether and how we flourish, and for the free choice of how to exercise that responsibility. And it is good for us to have this responsibility. Although a good God regrets our suffering, his greatest concern is surely that each of us shall show patience, sympathy and generosity and, thereby, form a holy character. Some people badly need to be ill for their own sake, and some people badly need to be ill to provide important choices for others. Only in that way can some people be encouraged to make serious choices about the sort of person they are to be. For other people, illness is not so valuable.

A Christian view of intercessory prayer

In Christian doctrine God hears our prayers and answers them if it is good for us in a way that is best for us. Yet when we pray for another person, God knows far better than we do whether it will be best for that person and others affected by him that he should recover immediately or later or not at all.

Many Christians are aware of this when they pray for those in need that God would answer the prayer “as may be most expedient.” A well-known prayer adds to this the clause “granting them in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting.” No sign of all that in the secular orientation of the prayer in the STEP research project, which states verbatim “for a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications.”

God seeks better goals for all of us, and he may well provide them for those prayed for, despite the poverty of the petitionary prayer. After all, Christians believe that the salvation of the world was brought about partly by God’s failure to answer the prayer of his Son in the Garden of Gethsemane.

But, the point about Jesus having been made, a quick healthy recovery without complications is clearly a good thing, even if there are better things. If the former can be provided without loss of the latter, God would surely provide it anyway, whether we pray or not.

So what is the point of petitionary prayer? The answer must be that sometimes, perhaps often, it is equally good that what we should pray for should occur as it should not occur, and that God wants to interact with us by answering our requests so long as we ask for right reasons. Of course God wants to do for the person praying what that person wants just because that person wants it for a right reason.

One right reason is that he prays for a particular sufferer out of love and compassion. In the STEP prayer study, the people praying were not praying out of love and compassion for the particular sufferer. Although the form of their prayer might dishonestly suggest that they wanted the well-being of the patient for its own sake, that was not why they were praying. They were praying to test a scientific hypothesis.

Why should a good God pay any attention to these prayers? One might say: “In order to show us more evidentially that he exists.” But if there is a God, he does not need to answer such prayers to do this. If he wanted to do that, he could fill the world with “super miracles.”

There is quite a lot of evidence anyway of God’s existence, and too much might not be good for us. The negative result of the STEP study is entirely predictable based on the hypothesis of a loving God who sometimes answers prayers of genuine compassion.

Why should I care?

An analogy will show that what I have written is not an ad hoc hypothesis postulated to save theism from disconfirmation.

Suppose that I am a rich man who sometimes gives sums of money to worthy causes and that I know just how useful or not different gifts would be. I receive many letters asking me to give such gifts. Some research organization wants to know if there is any point in people writing such letters to me. Do they make any difference to whether I give money to this cause or that?

So the research organization commissions a study. Many people write letters to me on behalf of several causes to see whether I will give more to those causes than to the other causes. In fact, let us suppose, I am normally moved by such letters because the writers took the trouble to write to me on behalf of some cause about which they care a lot.

But I now discover why I am suddenly bombarded with a stream of letters on behalf of certain causes, and I realize that on this occasion, unlike on other occasions, the letter writers have no deep concern for the causes for which they write. Therefore, I pay no attention to their letters.

Richard Swinburne is Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford and author of The Existence of God, Is There a God? and The Resurrection of God Incarnate. This article was written for Science & Theology News.

When the Bible speak of circumcision, what does it really mean? Some say it’s the cutting of one’s private part of the body, some say it’s the matter of the heart. We must first understand that there are two very important facts surrounding this subject. One is that in the Old Testament men were under the law, and now in the New Testament men are under the Grace of God. Lets see what the Bible say about being circumcised. Let’s start with the book of Genesis 17:9 it says Then God said to Abraham, As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your
descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep; Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Look at what the book of Romans 4:11 tell us it says And he (Abraham) received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised , so then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Now look at Galatians 3:6 it says Consider Abraham; He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. Look at Galatians 3:10 it says All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written; Curse is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law. Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, The righteous will live by faith. The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, The man who does these things will live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Look at 1Corinthians 7:19 it says Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him.

Now look at Romans 2:29 it says No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise is not from men, but from God.

Look at Colossians 3:9 it says Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircmcised, or barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

In closing look at Galatians 2:15 it says We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

Now look at Hebrews 10:35 it says So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will received what he has promised. For in just a very little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

Love Always,
Your Sister in Christ,
Mellody Davis

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Please read the passage carefully and note all the pejorative words and ways they demean without fair reportage. Do some research and study hard or you will continue to be made more of a sheep for the paradigm. Ask yourself what role the Masons had in all of this on both sides of the issue including the Mormons, Hitler and other real mind control cults like Scientology.

THE MORMONS:

The good Christian oversight of Mormons is quite ‘loving’ they think. I often laugh as I see the interdenominational fighting and squabbling of all these cults seeking sheep and maintaining their current hold or demographic constituency.

“Who is the One Mormons Call Elohim?
By Bill McKeever

For centuries Christians have professed their belief in a God who is God alone (Is. 44:8), self-existent (Is. 43:10; 48:12), transcendent (Num. 23:19; Ps. 50:21), immutable (Ps. 102:27; Is. 46:10; Mal. 3:6), eternal (Ps. 90:2; 93:2), omnipresent (1 Kings 8:27; Prov. 15:3; Is. 66:1; Jer. 23: 23, 24), and incorporeal (John 4:24; Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17). He is also a God who dwells in the believer (Eph. 3:17; 4:6; Rom. 8:9) and is omnipotent (Job 42:2; Ps. 115:3; Matt. 19:26). Mormons insist that their God, the one they call Elohim, is the Christian God. Why then are his attributes so different from the God who is declared in the Bible? {Is the alien God EL in the Bible? Yes. Is it a myth made by colonizing forces called Anunnaki? Yes. Are there many Christian Mystery Schools like the Dragons of Rosicrucianity in books like Genesis of the Grail Kings saying they are descended from these aliens? Yes. Is this author taking pieces of the Bible and not addressing the Mormon explanation? Yes. Is this fair? NO!}

THE GOD OF MORMONISM IS ONE OF MANY GODS {The Holy Trinity and the heavenly host of Saints angels and the rest is the largest Pantheon of gods or demi-gods ever constructed.}

Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, stated, ‘I wish to declare I have always and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of the Deity, it has been the plurality of Gods’ (History of the Church 6:474).

Brigham Young, the second prophet and president of the LDS Church, said, ‘How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods…’ (Journal of Discourses 7:333).

THE GOD OF MORMONISM IS NOT SELF-EXISTENT

Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt taught, ‘We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by a still more ancient Father, and so one, from one generation to generation’ (The Seer, pg. 132).

THE GOD OF MORMONISM IS NOT TRANSCENDENT

While the God of the Bible makes it clear that He is not like man, {Adept beyond man yes, but that does not mean man does not have the qualities of the Biblical God when in his body of light. And to state that the Bible makes it clear that God is not like man is false. God therein made man in his image and this is ego or what is called anthropomorphing.} Mormon leaders have insisted that their God is an exalted human being.

Joseph Smith declared, ‘God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!’ (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 345).

Mormon Apostle John Widtsoe stated, ‘God and man are of the same race, differing only in their degrees of advancement’ (Gospel Through the Ages, pg. 107). {Very much a proper or valid interpretation of Biblical myths.}

This concurs with Mormon Apostle Parley P. Pratt’s comment which states, ‘God, angels, and men are all of the same species, one race, one great family…’ (Key to the Science of Theology, 1978 ed., pg. 21).

THE GOD OF MORMONISM IS NOT IMMUTABLE

Whereas God’s perfection makes it never necessary for Him to change, the God of Mormonism changes both in his physical person and moral attributes. This is demonstrated by the fact that he evolved from a man into a God and that he has changed decrees which are theoretically “unalterable.” Examples of this would include the abandonment of polygamy in 1890, the reversal of the ban which withheld the LDS Priesthood from Blacks in 1978, and the changes in the LDS temple ceremony in 1980. {Reasoning and change is necessary if God’s purpose or Divine Providence is to continue.}

THE GOD OF MORMONISM IS NOT ETERNALLY GOD

Joseph Smith taught that God was not always God when he stated, ‘We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see’ (Teachings, pg. 345).” (3)

Both Brigham Young and Joseph Smith were high Masons and Joseph Smith has many similarities with Blavatsky.

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

WHAT AN ABOMINATION WORHSIPING ” THE ACCIENT OF DAYS!”

The big name, “ACCIENT OF DAYS” has confused lot of bible scholars from around the world since from the ancient times as there is no detailed information about who Prophet Daniel described as the ‘THE ACCIENT OF DAYS”. Lot of song books had been composed praising the “ACCIENT OF DAYS” with the believe that he is the “ALMIGHTY FATHER IN HEAVEN” worthy to be worshipped.

Worshipping a prophet of God is an abomination before the Lord except where it is commanded by God from the scripture like in the case of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who gave his precious life to save the whole world as was predicted in the books of the prophets( Isa 9:6-7 and Revelation chapter 5:1-end). Therefore God concealed the grave of Moses from the people of Israel during his death so that he is not worshipped as GOD (Deut. Chapter 34).

WHO IS THE ACCIENT OF DAYS?

Prophet Daniel described prophet Elijah as the Accient of Days one who must come first to restore all things including the kingdom of God to be ruled by the sons of Abraham whose government will be overthrow later by the antichrist (see Daniel 7:1-25). Daniel disclosed that thrones were cast to the earth and one that was ancient of days took his seat(representing Christ; Rev. 1:12-14). Note that Daniel did not call him by his real name instead he described him as an aged man full of many years. Use King James version and the Revise Standard version and read Isaiah chapter 24:23 describing “Ancient” as Elders.

Prophet Elijah who appeared to Daniel looking very elderly like Moses his collogue who ascended into heaven in a Chariot of fire made of two wheels (2 Kings 2:11-12) also saw his second coming just as he ascended into heaven sitting on a throne made of fiery wheels and fire was streaming out from before him(being a prophet who destroyed his enemies by fire; see 2kings 1:9-18 also described as one the two witnesses who shall destroy his enemies by fire streaming out of his mouth; Rev: 11:3-7).

Prophet Daniel revealed that as a GREAT RESTORER he shall be the first to restore God’s kingdom on earth with thousands of the saints and more than ten thousands stood before him for judgment he was referring to the books of the law as a Chief Judge and one who will execute judgment on beast which is the antichrist(in the battle of Armageddon)and who will cast the beast into the furnace of fire during his military regime before the second coming of Jesus Christ follows.

Daniel now revealed the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven to meet the accident of days here on earth immediately the beast had been defeated and cast into the furnace of fire by the end-time biblical prophet whom Daniel described as the “ACCIENT OF DAYS” NOT GOD THE ALMIGHTY PLEASE..

Daniel said, ” I saw in the night vision and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven(which is Jesus coming with the clouds of heaven) and he came to the “Ancient of Days”(who was already on earth after he had cast the beast into the furnace of fire during the great tribulation) and (JESUS) was presented to him (the “ACCIENT OF DAYS” JUST AS THE WAY JESUS PRESENTED HIMSELF TO JOHN THE BAPTIST WHO CAME IN THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF ELIJAH WHO BAPTIZED HIM AND DECLEARED HIM FIRST AS THE MESSIAH AND WAS CONFIRMED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE LIKENESS OF A DOVE; see Dan. 7:9-28 and Mat 3:1-17). THIS IS GOING TO RE-OCCUR IN THE END-TIMES

Similarly, Prophet Malachi predicted the coming of the prophet Elijah before the coming and dreadful day of the Lord who shall put the holy laws into force giving through Moses in collogue as the Lord commanded him at Mount Horeb for all Israel (Mal. 4:4-6). However the second coming of Elijah was first manifested through John the Baptist who came in the spirit and power of Elijah (Luke 1:3-17) and Jesus indicted that there shall a further fulfillment of the coming of Elijah in the end-times who shall come first to restore all things just as it was revealed to Prophet Daniel.

I hereby advice song writers and gospel song publishers to please retrieve and stop using that name “ACCIENT OF DAYS” from those publications since it is an abomination before the Lord to take a prophet as the ALMIGHTY FATHER IN HEAVEN including the angels as the prophet Elijah is still the very Archangel Michael the great Prince who shall re-appear and fight the beast in the great tribulation as revealed in the books of the prophets as indicated in my past articles.

May the Lord forgive all of us now that we have come to know the truth of the matter which he revealed to us from the angel’s scroll in this end-times; lot of mistakes and beliefs has to be corrected so as to avoid the wrath of God descend on us.

You are warned!