Israel Wary of Vatican Synod (Bishop Claims God’s Promise To Israel Is “Cancelled”)

A recent Vatican synod of bishops, called to discuss the situation in the Middle East, has stirred Israel’s fears. Although recent popes have attempted to reach out to the Jews, they are still wary. Centuries of persecution by dozens of popes are not easily forgotten. One writer in the Israel National News of October 24 focused on a statement in the final document of the synod: “Recourse to theological and biblical positions which use the Word of God to wrongly justify injustices is not acceptable.”

This was in the context of admonishing Israel to commit “to a sincere, just and permanent peace.” Elsewhere in the document the synod expresses “hope that the two-State-solution might become a reality and not a dream only,” and, that the UN would take “the necessary legal steps to put an end to the occupation of the different Arab territories.” The Israel National News reporter comments: “The Catholic church in recent years has been trying to overcome centuries of anti-Semitism and proof that it exploited the Holocaust to try to convert Jews who were saved.” He is referring to recent revelations that, while the Vatican claimed to have intervened and saved many Jews from Hitler’s gas chambers, in reality, it did so to convert them to Catholicism. Babies, in particular, who were saved, were baptized and placed with Roman Catholic families and never told of their Jewish heritage.

The tenor of the final document is clearly in favor of the Palestinians as victims of “occupation” and denied “justice.” Little mention is made of the relentless Palestinian attacks on Israel and their constant demand that the only “just” solution that they will accept is the elimination of Israel.

At the conclusion of the synod, one archbishop, Cyril Salim Bustros, restated the pope’s long held belief that God’s promise of an eternal homeland for the Jews, was cancelled when Jewish leaders rejected Jesus as the Messiah: “For Christians, one can no longer talk of the land promised to the Jewish people… There is no longer a favored people, a chosen people; all men and women of every country have become the chosen people.”

This belief is the spark that has ignited centuries of persecution of the Jews. “Christ killers” was the cry of the crusaders who slaughtered thousands of Jews on their way to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslim infidels. Hitler’s “final solution” to the “Jewish problem” was partly inspired by this attitude.

The sordid history of the Vatican’s persecution of the Jews has been all but eliminated from modern history books. But modern Israel remembers and is not about to let the recent sweet talk from the Vatican fool them. They know that millions of Jews have died at the hands of popes and tyrants motivated by Satan’s determination to eliminate them.

They also know that the pope is an additional enemy with eyes fixed on Jerusalem. Not only is it holy to Judaism and Islam, the Vatican is also maneuvering behind the scenes to gain control of it. Rome’s expressed solution to the problem of Jerusalem is to internationalize it under UN jurisdiction. The popes’ cozy position with the UN would, presumably, give them a part in ruling the city. Many details of this history of the Vatican against the Jews have been preserved in the accounts given by ex-Jesuit Alberto Rivera. The Alberto series of Crusader Comics by Chick Publications pulls together some of the facts behind Roman Catholicism’s historic attempts to eliminate the Jews and substitute itself as the “people of God.”

The Jesuits have been the Vatican’s “special forces” over the centuries in the attempt to solve the “Jewish problem.” Edmund Paris’s book, The Secret History of the Jesuits, also contains a detailed account of their maneuverings over the years.

The Attack Against The Family

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Christian families are under attack in America! It is as Communist Soviet Russia today in the U.S., just as Brother Lester Roloff warned us about. Parents who homeschool their kids are increasingly being attacked by the State. The United Nation’s UNCRC program is intended to take your children away. Parents are having their children stolen by criminal State workers! It is unconstitutional and criminal (MP3) what the State is doing to parents. Public Schools are unconstitutional and Communist in every way.

The battle wasn’t over a mere license for the Roloff Homes, it was over Christianity itself. One of the State’s requirements was: “You should not threaten a child with the displeasure of a deity.”^[1] Literally, to obtain a State license means no Bible-preaching! You are forbidden in a State-licensed home from telling a child they are a sinner.

A classic example of the unrestrained use of government force against a child care facility occurred in 1984, when the State of Texas attempted to completely shut down three children’s homes run by Pastor Lester Roloff. He, like Pastor Silevin before him, refused to allow the state to license his homes for the children who had been voluntarily placed there by their parents. The state of Texas went to court, but in 1981 a state district judge denied its request for an injunction against the Pastor’s homes, concluding that the licensing procedure as applied to the church running them would violate the constitutions of both the United States and Texas. The federal Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision.

However, the state Supreme Court rejected the churches’ contention that licensing would interfere with religious freedom. The Chief Justice did not object to the quality of the care provided by the Roloff homes; his concern was the simple fact they would not submit to licensing. He noted that the homes have “a good record of high quality service,” and that they could “easily satisfy licensing requirements, but had chosen not to do so.”

So the state wanted certain restrictions on the care provided children in Pastor Roloff’s homes. Several of those restrictions were so incredible that they show that the majority reason the state went after the child care facilities was simply that they were too successful.

The first of these restrictions was (not a complete list):

1. “You should not threaten a child with the displeasure of a deity.”

In other words, you couldn’t tell a child that he was a sinner. Remember that these children had been placed in these homes because they had become disciplinary problems to their parents. The parents, who had seen their children become involved in prostitution, drugs and criminal activity, had turned to the Pastor for help in turning their child around. They turned to him because he was a Christian Pastor, and because he had demonstrated success in hundreds of similar cases before. These parents loved their children and wanted them to stop their criminal and anti-social behavior. They cared for them enough to voluntarily place them in a program that had proven successful. Only a very small percentage of these children had been placed in these homes by the court system.

One of the reasons the Pastor was successful was because he turned the children to religion. But the state told him he could not use that as a method of correcting the child.

The second restriction was:

1. “The institution shall see that each child is provided with personal clothing suitable to the child’s age and size. It shall be comparable to the clothing of other children in the community.”

The Pastor and his staff felt that much of the clothing the children were wearing was too suggestive and improper. So they attempted to provide the children with modest clothing less stimulating and provocative. They felt that this restriction would place the children back into the clothing that in many cases had caused them to have problems before their arrival at the Roloff homes.

The third restriction was:

1. “Children should be encouraged to form friendships with persons outside the institution.”

It would be fair to observe that such friendships were frequently what brought the children to the homes in the first place.

The fourth restriction was:

1. “The opinions and recommendations of the children in care shall be considered in the development and evaluation of the program and activities. The procedure for this shall be documented.”

Letting the inmates run the prison sounds like an excellent idea until the prisoners suggest that the restraining bars should be removed.  Many of these children had become discipline problems mainly because they had decided that they could best run their own lives.  When this determination had failed, the parents placed them into Pastor Roloff’s homes so that they would learn some discipline.  But the state wanted them to learn how to run their own lives again.

The purpose of all this incredible pressure on the Roloff homes appeared to be the desire of the state to weaken the ability of the Roloff homes to be successful with these troubled children.  A secondary purpose appeared to be the desire to weaken the family, and encourage the state to devise methods that would remove the control of the children from the parents and to give them over to the state.

Perhaps the role model that the family destroyers want to emulate is the Soviet Union, where enormous pressures are intentionally placed upon the Russian family.

SOURCE: The New World Order, pg. 247-249, by Ralph A. Epperson; 1990; ISBN: 0-9614135-1-4; publisher: PUBLIUS PRESS, Tucson, Arizona.

Thank God for Pastor Lester Roloff, a true American hero!

We live in a morally toxic society in America. Young girls and boys today, they just want to have fun and party. Young girls wanna go to a nightclub and have open sex on the floor of the nightclub, and then put it on YouTube, and if they should get pregnant they want to throw the baby into a dumpster. That’s the new America! No morals. No self-respect. No nation. No borders. No language. No culture. No responsibility. Now that’s America today!

Pastor Lester Roloff’s caring ministry was very successful in helping reach such troubled teens for God, tuning their lives around through Bible-preaching and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Roloff homes openly welcomed problematic youths that State-licensed facilities turned away. Brother Roloff taught troubled teens the truth about sin and the precious Savior, which transformed hundreds of young people’s lives into something meaningful and respectable. The evil people behind the Communist moral subversion of America wouldn’t permit that. The wicked State didn’t care if the teenagers lived on the street; they just weren’t allowed to remain at the Roloff ministries.

The attack against American families was planned long ago. The first leader of the United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO), George Brock Chisholm openly stated their evil intentions in 1954 in California…

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”

—George Brock Chisholm, in a Speech given at the, Conference on Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954

These are not just the words of some heathen university professor; but the words of the people who control the world. Everything that we see happening today to destroy America didn’t just happen by accident; it was all engineered and carefully planned.

The humanistic State are the law breakers! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family.

Glenn Beck and Oprah Winfrey Launch New Age Programming for 2011

By Brannon S. Howse

I tried to warn Americans in 2010 that I believe Glenn Beck is guilty of performing a bait and switch on millions of Americans. Beck went from being a TV and radio talk show host that discussed public policy, history, and current news to preaching the same Universalism and New Age theology that Oprah Winfrey has being been preaching for years. In fact, On Saturday, January 1, 2011, Oprah launched her New Age programming for the year with the Oprah Winfrey Network. Oprah drew more than 1 million viewers for its first night on the air.

Glenn Beck has clearly become the Oprah Winfrey of the right and many Christian authors and pastors are eager to appear on his radio and television program despite his heresy because, like Oprah, Beck has taken little known authors and made them a lot of money by promoting their books.

Many Christians continue to defend Beck despite the fact he is becoming more and more blatant in his New Age preaching. I expect Beck will continue to gather around him a huge audience that is looking for a spiritual experience that tickles the ears.

On his TV program on January 4, 2011 Glenn unveiled what he calls the “E4 Experiences” that he will be promoting for 2011. Part of the theme he will be promoting is nothing short of New Age heresy and blasphemy. Beck proclaimed:

Over the next 12 months, all Mercury divisions, radio, television, books, digital and stage will focus on what I call The E4 Solution. The four Es consist of: Enlightenment, Education, Empowerment and Entrepreneurship. We will challenge ourselves and those who choose to chart this course with us, to find what we as individuals really believe, challenge what we think we know and dig deep to find out what we are each capable of.

The “E4 Experiences” include Enlightenment, Education, Empowerment and Entrepreneurship. The two that are the most disturbing were described by Beck on a giant poster that included the following wording. Enlightenment: God “I AM That I Am” Miracles, faith and Divine Providence. Empowerment: Yes I AM! Yes I Can!

On the January 4 program Beck preached:

I choose to ReFound this amazing nation by rediscovering within myself, and my own circle of influence, the principles and ethics that defined American exceptionalism.

So Glenn thinks the answers for America’s spiritual, moral, political, economic, and cultural problems can be found by “rediscovering within myself” some kind of New Age enlightenment or that man is really the “I AM”?

I AM is a title that is to be reserved for God Himself. In Exodus 3:13 God told Moses that when the people of Israel ask for My name tell them, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” In John 8:58 we read, “Jesus said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.’”

Oprah has promoted the “I AM” theme when she pushed the book The Secret that teaches the law of attraction.

In Luke 21:7-8, Jesus foretold that when people say they are god by using the title “I AM” it is a sign that we are living in the end times. We are also told to run away from the people saying “I AM”. Many of our nation’s pastor’s and Christian leaders did not run from Glenn Beck but ran to join him in a spiritual service and enterprise.

It is going to be an interesting 2011 and we will be watching and writing on the religious trends that will continue to reveal that a one world religion based on pagan spirituality is being accepted on both the right and the left.

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Confusion Growing over Tolerance of Homosexuals

The signing of the Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell repeal by President Obama is yet another advance to the mass confusion caused by the sodomite “abomination.” It is a victory for homosexual activists, but military officials plan to use caution in implementing it.

Foot soldiers wonder how they will feel when ogled in the common showers and chaplains fear restrictions on preaching from certain scriptures where God expresses His opinion on the subject.

We are just beginning to see some of the early consequences of legalizing this sin. David Epstein, a Columbia University professor arrested for felony incest with his consenting 24-year-old daughter, is pointing to the 2003 Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws.

The court found that the government cannot prohibit “private, consensual, sexual or intimate conduct that does not involve minors or coercion.” Epstein argues that this makes incest legal between any consenting adults.

In Maine, a middle school is being charged with discrimination against a sixth-grade child who is a boy, biologically, but has chosen the “gender identity” of a girl. Instead of allowing him/her access to the girls’ bathroom and showers as she/he requested, they provided personal separate facilities and sensitivity training for the staff and other students.

The parents sued because this arrangement “isolated and alienated” her/him from other students. They then moved the child to another school to escape the “hostile environment.”

Another front of attack by the sodomite lobby is called ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. If  passed by the legislature it would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the list of protected categories that an employer cannot consider when hiring, firing or promoting someone. The bill supposedly contains a “church exemption,” thus not forcing churches to hire someone who does not hold the church’s biblical values. But what about Christian publishers, gospel bookstores, missions organizations, etc.?

If  ENDA passes into law, it would be administered by the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. President Obama’s nominee to sit on the EOEC is Chai Feldblum, an open lesbian and Georgetown law professor. When asked about employers considering religious beliefs when hiring, she replied, “Gays win; Christians lose!”

Another goal of the homosexual lobby is the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This law, enacted in the mid 1990s, states that marriage must only be between a man and a woman. This is the main block against legal acceptance of same-sex marriage nationwide. If it falls, all states will have to honor such marriages performed in other states.

As mentioned in a previous Battle Cry about the judge’s ruling against the Christian Legal Society at Hastings Law School, other universities are pressuring Christian clubs on campus to stop “discriminating” against homosexuals by refusing to allow them to be leaders in their clubs.  Also, other states are following California’s lead in mandating the teaching that same-sex marriage is just an alternate life style.

Until the last quarter century, our laws agreed with the Bible that sodomy was a “preferred” behavior that people chose to do. Now, they have succeeded in selling the lie that they were born with a same-sex “orientation.” This makes them eligible for special “civil rights,” just like people who were born black. Using the anti-discrimination laws, they are claiming all kinds of benefits and protections for their sinful lifestyle.

Chick Publications has tried to warn against this abomination with tracts and books exposing these lies and stressing God’s viewpoint. Our newest tract, Uninvited, shows how Satan uses his devils to seduce people into this sinful lifestyle. But Jesus has power even over this demonic spirit.

Another Chick publication, Hot Topics, deals with homosexuality and pornography, among other politically incorrect subjects.

Pornography? or Just a Catalog!

“In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety;”
–1 Timothy 2:9a

by K. Crider

Another catalog? Father, I’m discouraged! An ordinary clothes catalog is becoming a real detriment to obedience to Philippians 4:8–whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, think on those things. These were my thoughts as I hurriedly stashed the catalog into the closet when I saw my husband walking toward the house.