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May of 2009 Iyar / Sivan 5769
Greetings everyone and let’s all bless Yahweh that we can enter the month of May this year. I think that as time progresses we’ll be thankful not only that we’re entering a new month, but that we have a new week to live for Yahweh and even thankfulness for each day as we live for Yahweh. Things are really progressing here in the U.S. where evil is concerned. The new president is marching along like Caesar during his conquests. The whole world loves this man and only Yahweh knows if this leader is the Anti-Christ or if he is just a precursor. Life will be getting forever more interesting as the days and weeks progress. As believers however, we have a higher authority that will vanquish all of the powers of darkness.
KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT "KNOWING"
I'm writing this article after seeing a movie the last Saturday in March or 2009. The name of the movie is "Knowing." My wife and I went to see the movie out of curiosity because so many discerning believers in Yeshua were telling us that we needed to see it. They told us that they saw the movie and found it quite interesting. That is really all that they told us because they didn't want to jade our opinion one way or the other. So, we caught a Saturday Matinee and settled in to watch it. We found the movie to be both fascinating and disturbing. I have always found special effects in a movie to be one of the earmarks of a good movie. Let's face it; if the special effects of a movie are good then you can surmise that the makers of the movie really wanted convey some sort of message. When we were kids back in the 50's and 60's special effects were an attraction, but aside from a few good films, most of the films had cheesy special effects that the discriminating eye could pick out pretty easily. This changed in the 1980's and special effects have continued to become more of a refined art. In the movie "Knowing," this was definitely the case. There are probably some of you who will disagree with my statement about the special effects in this movie, but maybe you're spoiled because you go to the movies all of the time. I really don't visit the movie theater too much because I don't like Hollywood nor do I like padding the pockets of actors who will funnel my hard earned money into causes that are trying to destroy my faith or traditional American society. Having done decades of research in the UFO, extraterrestrial and occult phenomenon (yes, they are all the same) I watched "Knowing" and saw it to be riddled with New Age philosophy and every bit of UFO phenomenal agenda that there is. There is one Christian book on the UFO phenomenon that I found the movie to parallel. Having read Jim Wilhelmsen's "Beyond Science Fiction," I found that the movie quite similar to his book and I wondered (and still do) if those who wrote the script for the movie might have borrowed from Jim's book. It was really scary how they are akin to each other. In all fairness, Jim's book is copyright dated a few years ago so the revelation that Jim presents in his book by far precedes this movie. The truth is that Jim's book is a revelation about the New Ages' conspiracy that was revealed to him by the Ruach Ha Kodesh whereas "Knowing" is a primer given from the New Age itself, shall we say from a source that is the antithesis of the Ruach Ha Kodesh. Let's Review: The movie starts out in a 1959 schoolroom where a little demonically harassed (probably possessed) girl is constantly hearing whispers in her ears. She looks very disturbed as she should because what she is experiencing is not normal. Her teacher gives the class an assignment where each child is to draw a picture and their pictures were to be placed in a time capsule that same week. The time capsule was to be opened fifty years later. I found this freaky because I was born in 1959 and I turned fifty this year. Not that there was any correlation, but it made me feel old. Anyway, our little schoolgirl, instead of drawing a picture, is found to be writing a series of numbers on both sides of the paper. The teacher looks a little disgusted and takes the paper away from the girl before she is finished. The papers are put into envelopes and stored in the time capsule. On the day of the internment of the capsule the little girl suddenly disappears only to be found later that day hiding in a closet. They find that her fingernails are all bloodied from writing with them in the door, although they never reveal the writing at that time in the movie. Evidently, the teacher had interrupted the writing of the little girl and the little girl wrote the final string of numbers on the door with her fingernails. So what does this have to do with the New Age? The first thing that is noticed is, like I said above, that the girl is somewhat disturbed. Having worked in a psychiatric hospital for a couple of years when I was younger I had seen that look many times. The girl was obviously demonized and her demeanor showed that of a girl that was confused and sad about her condition. Many today would call her schizophrenic. Another New Age indicator was that the girl was getting messages from unseen powers. The numbers that she was writing on the paper were not her own and she was writing as though someone else were writing through her hands. For many years the New Age has called that "automatic writing," and currently it is being called "channeled writing." There are many in the occult (New Age) who channels messages in this manner. Incidentally, many of those who channel messages from supposed extraterrestrials use this method of communication. The channeler goes into a trancelike state and when they are finished they regain their composure and their personality, sometime having written many pages of information from the spirit world. We are warned several times in scripture by Yahweh and told not to have anything to do with this sort of activity because it is information that is coming from evil sources. The movie jumps ahead fifty years to our present day and we meet the two main characters in the movie. The first is Nicholas Cage who plays the father of a young boy who attends the grade school that the little girl attended back in 1959. The little boy has an attitude problem and we find that he gets an attitude with his father several times in the movie. In the movie the boy is sort of characteristic of what the New Age refers to has Indio Children. According to New Age thought, there is a new race or people being born that are specially endowed and are evolutionary advanced over their parents. You can go to the Delusion Resistance website and read more about Indigo Children. The basic premise to the Indigo Children fallacy is that they are just children who are allowed to run amok. The New Age says that if parents believe that their child is an Indigo Child, that they are not to be corrected and that they should just be allowed to run their own direction without being taught proper rules and regulations about living in a society. In other words, the New Age is telling parents that they should let their kid grow up to be narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths. While this is not totally the case with the young kid in the movie, the picture does enforce that the child is special and that the adult is the child and the child is the adult. It is subtle, but the suggestion is there. Pretty soon we find ourselves back at the grade school that the little girl attended. It is the day that the school will disinter the time capsule and each student is given an envelope after the time capsule is opened. Yes, you guessed it; he gets the envelope with the little girl's number sequence. Our young hero steals the letter and brings it home. This shows kids that it is okay to steal if your larceny is for a higher purpose. The father tells the kid that his stealing is wrong, but keeps the letter because it interests him. There is something in the numbers that he sees. Nicholas Cage's character starts to reminisce about his deceased wife. Cage and his son get into a heated discussion; the son saying that he believes in God and Cage reaffirming that he doesn't believe in God. The son goes to sleep and Cage gets drunk. Of course this enforces to kids and adults alike that it is okay to hit the bottle to drown your sorrows; again subtle but evident. While inebriated, Cage starts to see that there is a pattern to the numbers and by the time that the night is over he has found that the numbers correspond to disasters that have happened between 1959 and our present day. The numbers also give the number of people who died and later Cage figures out that other numbers that he couldn't decipher the first night were actually coordinates of the disasters. In the movie Cage is employed as a physicist in a university. Because of this one is led to believe that Cage's ability to decipher most of the letter in one night is because of his education. There is however a subtle hint that he got the revelation through spiritual means. In essence, nobody is that smart on their own, especially when they are incapacitated by alcohol. In the mean time Cage's son starts to hear the same whispers that the little girl did back in 1959. He doesn't reveal what the whispers are telling him until near the end of the movie. At one point the boy walks out to the street as if he was told to go there by the "whispers" and he encounters two beings in a car. The beings have blond hair and they have Germanic features. Anyone who has studied UFOs and aliens with any seriousness knows that these beings are supposed to be what is known as Nordic Aliens. The Nordics have always been described with these features, blond, tall and looking Germanic, even with blue eyes. The only difference between the classic Nordic alien and these characters is that they have jet black eyes. One gets the idea that in the beginning of the movie that these Nordics are sinister, but the movie tries to change that assumption at the end. In one scene of the movie the boy starts to hear the "whispers" again and he wakes up to find one of the Nordics in his bedroom. The Nordic points at a window in the boy's room and the boy walks over to the window. When he looks out he beholds an apocalyptic scene of the whole landscape being on fire and the animals of the forest running out of the forest on fire. The boy screams and Cage finds him on the floor huddled and crying. Cage looks out of the window and everything had returned to normal, except for the fact that one of the Nordics was standing outside. Cage runs outside with a baseball bat but doesn't catch the alien. Later in the movie he does catch up with one of the Nordics only to be blinded by by a very bright light that emits from the Nordic's mouth. One gets that idea that perhaps this is a perversion of the scripture in Revelation of the two witnesses who have fire that comes out of their mouths that consumes people. The fact that the Nordic shows the boy and apocalyptic scene is another New Age idea. The New Age is fraught with people who bring to each other prophecies that they have obtained through channeling and/or automatic writing. This is also true with the messages that people bring back from their alien abduction encounters; where they say that the aliens showed them scenes of earth changing catastrophes but the messages always seem to have a writer attached to them, in that these things can be avoided if humans change, take on a New Age personae and let the ethereal powers take control of their lives. The only difference between the "Knowing" prophecies and those of other New Age prophets is that in the movie there is no hope for salvation of mankind as a whole. However in the prophecies that come from extraterrestrials in real life the message coveys that bad things can be averted if we allow the aliens to have control. It is all about control. As mentioned earlier Cage realizes that the numbers that he didn't initially decode were actually land coordinates of the disasters. He realizes that there are still three or four that haven't come to pass and they are dates that are approaching within days. He sees one of them play out on television which confirms to him that the dates are correct and after he figures out that the remaining numbers are coordinates he decides to be at the scene of the next disaster, but he doesn't know what it will be. While waiting in stopped traffic on a highway he is startled to see a jet liner coming in for a crash landing, the wingtip of the plane scraping the ground just feet from where he's standing. The plane crashes in a field just a couple hundred feet from him and he runs to the scene braving explosions and shrapnel that is flying all over the place. His good friend and astrophysicist; now a believer in the list tells Cage to stop his research and move on. Cage forsakes his friend's advice and travels to New York to stop the next disaster, having called the FBI the day before. He arrives in New York at the coordinates and after a bit of searching finds an Arab looking fellow who looks suspicious while standing on the subway platform. Cage chases the individual and both are chased by the NYPD. During the chase an oncoming subway train jumps the tracks and Cage narrowly escapes with his life. The man he chased, his only crime that he stole books and was hiding them under his coat, becomes a victim of the tragedy. Cage meets the daughter of the little girl we saw back in 1959 and finds out that her mother is dead. After freaking the woman out a little Cage gains her confidence when the woman sees that his New York prediction comes true and she joins in the research, along with her little daughter who we learn has been hearing the "whispers" too. Cage realizes that the last prediction in the string of numbers is really the final one for mankind and that the world is going to be destroyed. Later he goes into the closet at the school, removes the door, brings it home and scrapes the paint off of it, which reveals the coordinates where they need to go. As the picture goes on the Nordics continue to appear on the scene, even kidnapping the kids from a gas station while the girls mother pays for gas. The woman, who thinks that she is going to die soon because of her mother's predictions does die in an auto accident while pursuing the kidnappers. The Nordics tell the kids that the mother is in a better place now. Cage goes to the coordinates that he found on the door and finds the kids and a whole bunch of Nordics that are protecting the kids. The kids reveal that they have been receiving messages for the whole time and that they need to go with the Nordics. Cage, thinking that he is invited too is told that only the children can go. They are the ones who have been hearing the "whispers" and they are the only ones invited to escape the calamity that is coming upon the earth. Cage accepts his fate as though he receives some sort of divine revelation. The moment is an emotional one as Cage lets his son go, giving him his blessing. One gets the impression that this is akin to Elohim giving His Son a tearful goodbye before He came to earth to save mankind. Sort of the supreme sacrifice. While Cage watches, the Nordics shed their human form and become angels of light. One can see their wings as they enter the New Age representation of Ezekiel's Wheel and are brought up in a beam of light to a crystalline spaceship. The children leave and Cage goes home to be with his estranged born again Christian parents and sister. He makes amends with his father who has resigned himself that they will die soon. Cages' father makes a remark that their fate isn't the end. They all embrace before fire sweeps the earth and destroys it. The next thing the viewers are shown is a close-up of what appears to be some sort of grain plants, like some sort of wheat, and then the two children come into view. They start to run and as they do other crystalline space ships are seen leaving the planet. Those of us watching the film are supposed to assume that other children are being left there too. As the children run the camera follows them and it is revealed that they are running toward a tree that seems to glimmer, like it is illuminated by some sort of force. One is left to assume that the tree is the tree that was in the Garden of Eden. Thoughts: The only assumption that a Holy Spirit led Christian can draw from the end of the film is that the makers are trying to show people the New Age belief that humanity on Earth is an experiment. We are caused to assume that in the beginning the aliens brought life to Earth and that they are our makers. The new planet is symbolic of the Garden of Eden and the appearance is that mankind is being given another chance by the aliens who placed us on Earth to begin with. The Nordics never mention Yahweh and their only message concerning life after death is that some of the people who have departed are in a better place. The movie is a wonderful propaganda film for the New Age. It makes the Christians in the film look weak and defeated. Those of us who have always thought that the Nordic form of alien were actually fallen angels are shown in the film that we have been right in our belief in this matter. However, the fallen angels are made out to be saviors of mankind, which is another thing that we have thought that they will do in the last days. The way that they "raptured" the kids reaffirms what we have thought all along, that there will be a false rapture and that it will entail the taking away of New Age people. Of course this will cause quite a few Christians to lose heart and fall away. The insidious forces of evil have done people a favor by showing them this film. This is true especially for Christians who should see this film as a New Age primer of the plans of darkness. Evil uses the "same but opposite" way of bringing about their plans. It is the New Age Gospel presented in a movie form. The movie was overflowing with occult devices and symbology. For instance, just like the gift of prophecy is valid today in the believer in Yeshua through the Ruach Ha Kodesh, so the film portrays that the gift is valid in the prophets of the New Age. Just as angels of Yahweh operate in the lives of believers of Yeshua, the fallen angels (Nordics) were involved in the lives of those in the film. Written prophecy is given to us in the Bible and written prophecy was given to the characters in the film in the way of numbers that corresponded to dates of tragedies in the movie and also apocalyptic scenes. The Christian doctrine of "rapture," or the taking away of the saints before a time of world cataclysm was portrayed in the taking away of the children in the movie. One of the more interesting things that I picked up on in the movie was how the picture subtly corrupted the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel. In the prophetic book of Ezekiel the prophet sees something very unique. He describes cherubim and what many have mistaken to be a machine. People like Erich von Daniken equate Ezekiel's wheel as being some sort of alien spacecraft that visited Ezekiel and that Ezekiel mistook what he saw as the throne of Yahweh and Yahweh sitting on that throne. In the movie this first starts when Cage and his new found female friend visit the mobile home where this woman's mother (the child at the beginning of the film) lived her last days and died. They find an ancient artist's rendition of Ezekiel's Wheel, drawn more like Ezekiel described it, not in its current day perversion. A little later in the film one of the kids colors in the Shekinah glory that is behind Yahweh in the drawing and yells out "the sun." While this probably passed over the heads of most watching the movie there was a great New Age significance to this proclamation by the child. First, let's take a look at what the sun symbolizes in New Age thought. This can be summed up by looking at the "sun" tarot card and seeing what it means to the tarot reader. According to most sources, the sun card is: A bright, glowing card, the Sun casts a favorable aura over a reading. This card suggests that if there have been any problems or difficulties in the past, then they're about to be resolved. There will be happiness where there has been sadness, harmony where there has been discord and optimism where there has been failure. The child colored in the Shekinah Glory of Yahweh and proclaimed it to be the sun. Many in the New Age think that Ezekiel's Wheel was actually an extraterrestrial visitation that Ezekiel mistook for Yahweh. So what was being conveyed in this scene of the picture was that Ezekiel's wheel would come back soon and that its return would bring with it resolutions to past problems; that happiness would replace sadness, that harmony would replace discord and that humans should be optimistic because their failures would soon be restituted. In other words, it was saying that the aliens would come back and make things right. Interestingly enough, the "sun card" in tarot often has two naked children standing in a garden or a field of wheat or other plant foodstuff. It gets even better though and the perversion of Biblical truth is extended with more borrowed elements from Ezekiel's encounter with Yahweh. Ezekiel talks several times about part of Yahweh's throne looking like a wheel within a wheel. Lo and behold a round structure comes out of the alien spacecraft and the ball has somewhat the resemblance of a whiffle ball, although it looks metallic in the movie. As the ball came closer to earth it had another ball moving with it, hence a wheel within a wheel. It doesn't stop here though. The main part of the spacecraft looked like it was made of many elongated crystals which grew taller toward the middle, soft of like a very jagged spear point. When we look at Ezekiel we read: And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. Ezekiel 1:22 The makers of the movie had to have read about Ezekiel and his vision in order to parallel the descriptions so closely. Thus, the movie tries to take Ezekiel's vision and say that it was really an extraterrestrial visitation, the same lie that von Daniken has been spouting for many years. But if you think about it, it makes those without faith, and even those with a shallow faith in Yeshua think that if Ezekiel actually experienced an alien visitation, then perhaps the rest of the Bible is an account of alien visitations throughout the ages. A little leaven fills the whole loaf so to speak. Having visited several sites that had opinions by people who saw the movie I came across one review that proves that Christians with a shallow faith could see this movie as having a Christian theme. One such woman made the following comments:
I watched this movie and got a much different message than most. I
didn't go in with any expectations other than to be entertained and
the movie does do that. Yes, it does show man's doubt in God and
many things are far from Biblical, but I got a very distinct message
from it. The character played by Nicholas Cage was the son of a
minister, but had lost his faith. His son however was believing and
he told him it was ok to do so if that is what he wanted (believing
mother was in heaven). The woman who wrote this review is obviously schooled in the watered down teaching of Scriptural thought. Sure the spacemen had wings and they resembled angels. The thing however is that the writer obviously doesn't know that there are fallen angels as well as holy angels. She obviously doesn't know that we're warned to be aware that Satan and his ministers can come to people as angels of light, which these Nordics obviously were. She likens the people who were "left behind" as people who will be tested and will then believe. This doesn't suggest a rapture like the reviewer was portentously saying, but in fact it suggests a false rapture where Satan will counterfeit the real rapture before it actually happens and will cause many to lose their faith, thinking that they missed the boat. Besides, in the movie those left behind weren't tested, they were all incinerated. The reviewer obviously doesn't know that Yahweh's people aren't appointed to Yahweh's wrath, but she equates the preacher and his wife as being in a fallen state and receiving the same punishment as the unbelieving world. The movie portrayed the Christians as weak and impotent and as scripturally moronic, lacking any spiritual gifts whatsoever. The woman says that she thinks that the tree is the "Tree of Life" and that she saw the name of Jesus worked out in the root work of the tree. Since the movie is a New Age wonder, and knowing how the New Age works, the tree was probably the "Tree of The Knowledge of Good And Evil," and if Jesus' name was spelled out in the roots it would be the New Age equating Yeshua with all of the ills of the world. It would also mean that if one ate from the tree that they could be little gods themselves. It is really sad to see how the subtlety of the New Age has weaved itself so brilliantly into Christian theology that believers in Yeshua cannot even see it. Some of the very same people who know that Mormons aren't Christians nor are Jehovah's Witnesses and they will point out to the last letter that Nazi's weren't Christians cannot see the falsities and New Age innuendos of the movie "Knowing." Seeing that, it is no wonder why Yeshua's words that the great delusion will be so strong that it could deceive even the elect if that were allowed, can be borne out in modern day Christianity. The writers and producers of the New Age propaganda film "Knowing" have done a very good job at deceiving the masses, even a so called believer in Messiah Yeshua who could so blindly say that the movie had a Christian Message. Oy Vey!!
ARE WE SEEING THINGS THAT AREN’T THERE?
I was sitting in our living room the around the first week in April of this year watching television with my wife Lourdes. There are certain shows that we watch every day. It is our time to unwind from our day and to just be with each other. Everything was going just wonderful but then something happened that caused me to wonder. I hate commercials on television. The ads aren’t so bad themselves, but they play the same ads over and over again and it’s a real pain in the neck. Most of the ads on cable television are advertisements for upcoming programs for that channel and the programs are less than wholesome. A lot of times we hit the mute button during commercials. This particular night we came to a commercial time and a watched one commercial and as it segued into a second commercial there was, just for an instant, a picture of Barak Obama in his “thinking man” pose. It was there for a second and then it was gone and the second commercial ad started. As soon as this happened I felt strange, like something wrong had just happened and then it was that I heard the words of the Ruach Ha Kodesh speaking to me. The words that He said were, “subliminal messaging.” This type of subliminal messaging is nothing new. It was used quite a bit back in the 1950’s, particularly in movie theaters. The movie vendors would place one frame messages in the movies that suggested that the audience really needed a soda or some popcorn. This didn’t last many years because it became known to the public and then the lawmakers who made it illegal for such things to happen. It didn’t take long for subliminal messages to be placed in other mediums. In the 1960’s and 70’s this sort of thing was done in the music industry, specifically in the music of some Rock and Roll music. Groups like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin used something that came to be called back-masking. In back-masking the groups would take words and record them into the music backward. The human subconscious has the ability to hear those messages and to decode them into normal wordage. Messages were placed into the music that called for the listeners to disobey their parents, to smoke marijuana and yes, some of the messages were specifically satanic. There were Christian ministers who discovered back-masking in Rock music and they tried to reveal it to the public, but most of them were scorned and ridiculed for their efforts. In our recent era we have become digital. Our televisions are digital as are our cameras, our computers, and it seems that soon our lives will be completely digital. Recently the government enacted legislation that by June of 2009 all television will have to be digital. They tell us that the reason for this is that the picture quality will be better, and perhaps it will. We have to wonder if however there are other reasons why this is all coming about. Well, first there is the economic reason. In an age when free things are disappearing from our lives why would the government allow us to have free airwaves? When television finally goes digital later this year EVERYONE will have to pay in some way to watch television. After fifty years of free local broadcasts everyone will have to succumb to digital. Some are suggesting that there might be a more insidious reason for broadcasts going digital. Bear in mind that this is all hearsay but giving the sinister nature of our government, it is entirely possible. If this is all true, then this is how the conspiracy will play out. Most of us are old enough to remember the first gulf war way back in 1991. We also remember the images we saw on television (analog television) of droves of Iraqi soldiers giving up to American troops. They were smiling, waving their shirts and throwing down their weapons in what seemed like a blatant effort to tell the American troops that they didn’t want to fight. These were battle hardened troops who fought a long war against their Iranian neighbors for quite a few years. These were men who helped in the extermination of their Shiite countryman using poison gas or machine gunning them down and burying them in ditches. Most of these guys were not nice people and their prior deeds spoke loudly of that. The conspiracy theory of this story states that these men were bombarded not with explosives, but with digital television frequency waves that brainwashed them without them even knowing that anything was happening. If this is true then we then can then understand why the government is pushing so hard to implement digital television, and legislating it so that it has to be done; it’s the law. If this conspiracy theory is correct then the government will be able to control a large portion of the populace any time it wants with any idea that it wishes to suggest to them. Since most Americans watch television several hours a day then this method of manipulation will work better than any prior dictator or dictatorship would have ever imagined. Imagine if you will a possible scenario. Let’s just say that the government turns hostile toward Christians and/or anyone who holds to the Judeo/Christian ethic. They start broadcasting hidden messages over the digital airwaves, telling the majority of Americans that anyone who believes in Yeshua is a closed minded hater of the common good of society. As weeks and months go by they steadily increase their propaganda to an unsuspecting public. Soon they start to steathfully broadcast that the people should seek out their Christian or Jewish neighbors to so that they can be turned into the local police station. Worse yet, what if they receive instructions to kill their Christian or Jewish neighbor. I realize that this has a heavy sci-fi tone to it and that it might seem impossible, but does it really sound impossible? If the technology existed fifty years ago that caused many people in the theater to get up and buy popcorn then how much could the art of subliminal messaging have improved in over fifty years? Could the image of Obama that I saw earlier this month between the commercials be a warning of things to come? Did Yahweh allow that to happen so that I could be warned and so that I could warn others? Perhaps we need to start praying before we watch television. We pray over the food that we eat and one of the reasons for that prayer is that the food is good for consumption, or that Yahweh will make it that way; sort of a safety factor that rides along with the thankfulness that we express for the food. We pray over our travel and we pray when we are heading to areas that aren’t friendly. We should also start to pray over our television viewing. If the conspiracy theory is true and the government is trying to get to us via digital television then we need to have protection if the insidious forces of evil are using the television to condition the public. We have many more things that the ordinary person has; and more than those who casually refer to Yeshua as their Lord. We have the Ruach Ha Kodesh to lead us and to guide us. We have mighty angels that are commissioned to walk with us and watch over us. We have the Armor of Yahweh that we can wear, and we have prayer. We are fully equipped for battle, now all we have to do is to realize that we are equipped and we need to realize that we need to use what Yahweh has given us to enter into battle. Even if what the conspiracy theorists are saying is wrong and the government isn’t coercing us through hidden messages should we not pray? Of course we should still pray, we should always pray about everything. Television has been sending messages throughout its lifetime. We’re told what to wear, what to eat, how to love, how to hate and how to do everything that is contrary to Yahweh and His Kingdom. With this in mind, and with the hostile environment that comes from the television screen, it would be very unwise and incredibly stupid not to pray before turning on the power button on the television or the remote control. Finally, if you want to see what normal life is like again, just turn off your television set for a month or two. After you get over your detox period you will discover a whole other world and you will lose many of the distractions that keep you from following Yahweh like He really desires us to follow him.
REMNANT CALL NEWS
Our times at the Remnant Call chat-room meetings has been very rewarding. Making friends and meeting brothers and sisters all over the world who have the same calling is quite delightful. Sometimes we get the feeling that the things that Yahweh tells us we hear alone. However, when we get a forum like our Remnant Call we soon find out that the Ruach Ha Kodesh has been talking to many souls about the Remnant that He is preparing. During the last week of March we had a very interesting Remnant Call meeting. We started to talk about persecution and especially about the persecution that will come during the seven years of tribulation. I mentioned in the room how it is quite possible that the Muslim world might play into the persecution factor of the church. As you might or might not know, one of their favorite forms of capital punishment is beheading. However, they do have a different form of beheading than do the more compassionate French with their guillotines. The Muslims believe that it is far better, and more of a punishment to sever the head from the rest of the body by holding the head by the hair and sawing off the neck with a knife. Well, this sort of grossed out some of the people who were in the room, but one thing really blessed me. Everyone who participated in the talk said that they were prepared to be martyred and they agreed that it might happen to us in our lifetime. This showed me that our members truly are members of the Remnant that is being called by Yahweh to witness in these last days.
A FEW WORDS FROM YAHWEH
Here are a couple of words that Yahweh Yeshua gave me through the Ruach Ha Kodesh in April. We hope and pray that everyone will be edified by reading these words. This first word was given to me on April 02, 2009 and it stresses what Yahweh is trying to get through to His people that time is short and we need to get serious about our relationship with him and that serving Him isn’t just something that we speak, but something that we do:
A WORD FROM YAHWEH FOR HIS PEOPLE
Lourdes and I have been seeking Yahweh more than usual lately and
He’s been telling us things that He wants everyone who follows Him
to hear. This second word was given to me on April 13, 2009. It is a message to our nation (the U.S.) that he is fed up and he’s ultimately divorcing our nation from Himself. This is a very strong word that comes from Yahweh who has grown weary of trying to bring about repentance to a stiff necked people who want nothing to do with Him: O' REBELLIOUS NATION: O' Rebellious Nation why do you refuse to hear my voice? Why do you ignore the Lord God your maker? O' once proud and unconquered kingdom filled with pride and prominence, Do you think that you are greater than the one who made you? Do you think that your mortal souls can escape from my judgment? I raised you up an infant and you suckled from my word. It was me that allowed you to conquer an untamed land. It was me that brought you into the land filled with meat and timber. I was the one who gave you so many blessings. I was the one that made you the breadbasket of the world. I gave you blessing after blessing and what have you given me in return? You've walked away from me and have become the harlot. You've made money your god and you've made pleasure and comfort your idols. You whore around and you do not think that I see your wanton acts. The nation that once condemned whores has become a nation full of whores. You murder your unborn and you turn a blind eye when your young are taken by the enemy. When you loved me I gave you children by the bushelful, now I will make your wombs barren. Children are a gift from me and you have thrown them away. I gave you my Son and I have given you my word; things that other nations would covet, You spurn them and see them as teachings by them of old. You say, "but we live in a new time where God's words do not apply." Mark my Words says Yahweh, the days come when you will long for my words, Yet you will not find them either in Writing or by utterance. You embrace every culture, every word and every tradition by those who hate me, Yet you cast away Yahweh and My Word so now you will be cast off. You castigate those who call you Babylon; your pride will not allow you to listen to them. A day will soon come when ships will be near your shore and they will see your destruction. Be assured that they will cry for you on that day and they will wail and moan. But your enemies will shout for joy and they will celebrate in that day. Your enemy steathfully possesses your land already and you fail to see it. Those who seek your destruction walk your streets and they possess fortresses in the wilderness. However, you fail to see that there is another enemy that walks in your midst. Your enemy you know very well and you love your enemy as you love yourselves, because your enemy is you. It is you O' Rebellious Nation that has become your worst enemy. You are the one that has cast me away and have taken false idols unto yourselves. It is you that has said, "Go Away Yahweh, We Do Not Need You Anymore!" It is you that has remained silent and has not fought the stealthful enemy in your land. You have seen their fruit but each of you has said, "let another fight the battle." It is you that has said, "surely others are willing to fight." Slothfulness will overcome you and your apathy will be the sword that slays you. Throw your tea parties and dare to raise you voices against your enemy, it will not work. You struggle like weakened prey in the grasp of the lion. You squirm like a great fish in the tentacles of a greater octopus. Soon your struggle will end because you have no strength. Soon you will fail because you do not recognize the principalities that you fight. You have demanded that I leave and I am the only one that can fight for you. I am the only one that can save you from the savage beast that devours you. Had you turned back to me I would have helped. Had you cried to me I would have come to your aid. Since you deny me I deny you; since you disown me I disown you. I will save a few who have not been corrupted by your whoring ways. I will rescue those who have seen you for what you are and have served My Kingdom. They will move to another land where they will serve me. They will be sent to the multitudes of others who are my remnant. They will bring a revival to this world such as it has never seen before, nor will it see again. So Rebellious Nation, prepare yourselves because the day of my wrath comes upon you. Grow even more wicked and prosper in your wickedness. Set up even more idols, serve more gods and fill up your cup with iniquity. I will come to judge you soon and my judgment will be righteous and true. On that day the jaws of Hell will open and receive many and will overflow with the prideful ones. The ones that I have called to repentance will come to me in great joy. They will be snatched from the jaws of Hell before it opens, and those ones will serve me with gladness. Do not think that I judge you with gladness, that it makes me merry to put you to the sword. I have called you each and every day to repent. I have allowed disasters to occur so that you would cry out to me. In every increasing frequency these things have occurred, yet you do not listen. I have cried to you and pleaded with you, yet you turn the deaf ear. What more can I do Rebellious Nation? I can do no more; I have done everything that I require of myself to do. Therefore judgment comes to you; war, pestilence and plague. Therefore United States of America, My decree is to divorce you and not take you unto myself again. Mine is the Kingdom, and the Power and The Glory forever, and my servants will serve my kingdom.
THERE HAVE BEEN MAJOR CHANGES AT THE COUNSELING SITE!!
Back in July of 2005 I met with Jim Wilhelmsen and Joe Jordan in Roswell. We had all gone there for the Ancient of Days conference that Alien Resistance was putting on. There were a lot of good speakers at the conference. Joe spoke and gave his testimony and Jim was a speaker at the round table discussion that happened at the end of the conference. Sometime toward the end of our time in Roswell the three of us got together and we discovered that Yahweh was talking to each of us and that He was telling us that something was missing from Christian research realm in regard to the whole UFO and alien abduction thing. Up until that time there were several people who were Christian who were talking about the insidious nature of UFOs and alien abduction. There was a lot of good evidence that these beings were not of extraterrestrial origin, but that they were of a fallen angel origin. The one thing that was not being approached was how to help people who wanted to be freed from alien abduction. So, before we all left we decided that we were being called to fill in the gap that existed in the realm. The filling in of the gap was embodied by what came to be known as AACCOA, or Alien Abduction Crisis Centers of America. This name in itself was a great idea and it served its purpose for four years but there were two problems with the name. One of the problems was that some of those who wrote to us wrote about other things in addition to alien abduction. We got letters from people who were interested in how to stop hauntings and harassment from poltergeists and other such things. What was happening in this regard is that these people were drawing the connection between alien abduction and other aspects of the paranormal. Whether by their own deduction or by some divine leading they were seeing that the entities were involved in both alien abduction and other paranormal occurrences were one and the same. In this alone our name was becoming obsolete. We needed to expand out scope of ministry, but this wasn’t enough to make us change our name. The second factor that came into play, and had for quite some time, was that not long after our conception we went international. Late in 2005 I wrote to Resistance member Eric who lived in South Africa at the time. When asked to be a counselor for our ministry he quickly responded that he felt called to join with us. The next year I was contacted by the Ditto family who expressed a desire to become counselors. The Ditto’s live in Canada. Early in 2008 I was contacted by Mannie Nsofwa from Zambia, Africa; who when asked about becoming a counselor also responded with a definite “yes.” So the “America” in our name became obsolete quite early in our ministry. For a long time I toyed with the notion that most of the geographical areas of the world would fit in under the “A” at the end of the acronym. Areas like Africa, Australia, Asia, Antarctica and even both of the America’s and Anglia (for England) worked, but the fly in the ointment, as is usually the case was Europe. We had to be either all inclusive or all exclusive and of course the second option would not work; so we had to make a name change. I was talking on the phone with Jim one day and he suggested that we needed to make a change in the name, referring to the paranormal aspect that I mentioned above. We both agreed about the name change and I wrote to Joe about our changing the name. I wrote to him and told him about all of the challenges that we faced by having such a limited name and how our ministry had come to mean so much more than just alien abduction. Joe agreed right away. We toyed with quite a few names; juggling around alien abduction, paranormal and also that we were problem solvers more than we are counselors. Counseling denotes a long process of very complicated procedures whereas Yahweh’s formula for solving the problem is simple and direct.
Taking all of this into account we came up with a name that includes the alien abduction aspect of the ministry but also adds the related paranormal aspect. Our new name also includes all of the world instead of one area. We’re not hemispherical, we are global. The new name that we came up with is: Paranormal and Alien Abduction Problem Solvers International. The URL for the website is simple: www.paapsi.org . Of all of the names that we toyed with this one has the best ring to it. The fact that it sounds like Pepsi is deliberate for sure. Since Pepsi is a worldwide refreshment it will make our website very easy to remember. We’ve even played on words a bit on the website using the fact that we sound like Pepsi. It didn’t take long to get the site up and going. Basically, all I did was to take the header graphics and change them to the new name with new graphics. The new ministry logo was easy to make, but I personally think that it is sort of cheesy and that it lacks imagination. If any of you can make a better logo then please submit it. Do me a favor however and let me know what you are thinking before you create something. If it doesn’t sound like something that we’d approve we wouldn’t want you to do all of the work and be turned down. Anyway, please visit the site and look around. It isn’t done by any means but the basic stuff is there for the ministry to help people. Hope you enjoy it.
HE IS YAHWEH YIREH
This year I will celebrate my 30th birthday in Yeshua. It was on a very chaotic July 21st 1979 that I have my life to Yeshua. Every day since that day has been a blessing. I won’t lie; some days, weeks and even months were hard as Yahweh refined me and Satan tested me, but even with all of those things considered I would never have recanted my faith. Yeshua has always been all that I have had and all that I need. Recently He blessed me with Lourdes which has made my life even better than the happy life that I never deserved but still was given. In the last newsletters for 2009 I have related how Yahweh Yeshua provided for Lourdes and I as we went through the trial of my Achilles heel injury and especially the financial things that went along with that. I related how my church paid for our April rent and how some people sent a hundred dollars each at the leading of the Ruach Ha Kodesh. But there was an event that almost crushed me which I will now relate. Back in March of 2008 I went to visit Lourdes in Mexico City. We already knew that we would be married and I went there to meet her and her family and to ask for her hand in marriage. When I came back to California I went into planning mode. Those who know me know that I am in constant planning mode all of the time. Let’s just say that it is something that Yeshua is fixing in me. I started to think about how all of the moving of Lourdes would be paid for and how we could fix up the apartment. Bear in mind that I don’t make a lot of money and most of the time we live from paycheck to paycheck. I did have one thing that I could use for all of this. It was an IRA that I started back in 2000 that I didn’t pay into for many years. It was just sitting there, gaining when things were good and losing when things were bad. At or around August of 2008 I felt led of the Ruach Ha Kodesh to cash out the IRA so that we could have the money that we needed. I told the administrator of the IRA that I wanted him to keep out enough tax so that not only would the penalty be paid for early withdrawal, but so that taxes would be paid to the IRS and the State of California. I didn’t want to owe either of the entities when I did my taxes for 2008 in 2009. They complied with my wishes, or so I thought. When all of the finagling of the moneys was done I ended up with roughly eight thousand dollars in my banking account. That money went for plane tickets for Lourdes and I, moving expenses for her stuff from Mexico and for the fees for the immigration lawyers that we retained so that Lourdes could be here legally. By January of 2009 that money had been exhausted. So, when tax time came up I thought that things would be okay, right; wrong. When I was disabled I thought it would be a good time to do my taxes. I could assemble all of the paperwork and do my taxes like I had done yearly for the past twenty or so years. I got all of the forms and the instruction booklets and I did everything by the book and when I was finished with the IRS 1040 I was going to own around $1200.00 and only Yahweh knew how much the State of California would sock it to me. I pushed the 1040 away from me, went into our bedroom and cried. It looked really impossible and I started to plan selling stuff that I didn’t want to part with but knew I would have to sell so that the government leeches wouldn’t take us to the cleaners. Lourdes sold some of her jewelry and I sold my coin collection, but what we got went to food and to pay bills. It looked bleak. After a lot of prayer we started to see thing come about in our favor. State Disability was paying me more than I thought they would. As a matter of fact we were getting only twenty dollars less than my paycheck, which really blew me away. As I mentioned before our church blessed us and so did a couple of brothers. I felt led by Yeshua to enlist the aid of H.R. Block for my tax needs. I figured that if they saved me at least what they charged me to do the taxes it would be worth the bother. The day I went to Block I was prepared for the worse. When we were done they had worked it so that instead of owing the IRS that 1200 dollars, the IRA had to pay me 340 dollars. I did owe California close to five hundred dollars, but after the case scenario that I had previously imagined, that would be easy. On April 14th I was actually able to write out a check to California and pay them off and we still had money in the bank to eat and pay bills. All in all, Yeshua met all of our needs and even gave us extra money. We were able to go out for ice cream a few times and I took Lourdes out for meals a few times too. I was reminded of that old song we have sung in church all of these years, and reflect on how it was so true in our lives:
Jehovah Jireh, my provider, The best thing is that I didn’t get the blessings alone, but that my adorable wife was here to share them with me. Praise the name of Yeshua!!
THE END FINALLY
Well, this is the end of another Journal. We hope that you enjoyed it and that it blessed you. Each one of these Journals takes a lot of time to compose, but I get a lot of joy out of it because each one is a testimony of Yeshua’s love, grace and provision for us; His Remnant and His Desire. It is our prayer that you will have a blessed month of May and that Yeshua will endow you with riches of His Spirit that you had never imagined that you would get. He’s blessing us with more and more gifts of the Ruach Ha Kodesh because He’s getting us ready for the time to come. Each and every one of you are so very special to Yeshua. He saved us before the foundation of the world so that we could work His purpose and so that we could share eternity with Him and His Father. Reflect on how before the world began He had your whole life planned out. Each and every one of you are in our prayers and we love you very very much.
Dave and Lourdes. |
