Thursday, December 27, 2012
If you’re a Christian, your name is written in the Book of Life. The
names of those who said, ‘I didn’t buy into that Christian stuff they
were always trying to cram down my throat,’ or ‘I needed my space,’ or
‘I had to explore various aspects of spirituality,’ aren’t.
‘But I lived a pretty good life,’ they’ll protest.
Yet the books wherein are recorded the reasons for everything they ever did will prove otherwise ...
‘I was an outstanding member of Rotary.’
Yes — but the books indicate it was to make some business contacts.
‘Oh, but I gave blood.’
Perhaps — but the books indicate you were paid $25 in return.
‘But I saved the whales, marched for peace, built homes for the homeless.’
All well and good — but you did so to hear the applause of men.
You see, God made us in such a way that we are spared from remembering the sins we have committed. He let us remember enough sin to make us aware of our need for salvation — but not every motive, every word of gossip, every cutting comment, every angry feeling. When the books are opened, the utter weight of all one’s sin will come to light. God sends no one to hell. By the time Volume 167 of one’s sins is opened, it’s as if he cries, ‘Depart from me for I am a sinful man,’ and sends himself to the lake of fire.
That’s why I am so glad I’m saved. The Bible says the ‘handwriting of ordinances that was against us’ — all of our mistakes, sins, failures — were blotted out by the blood of Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:14). In other words, the pages and pages containing my sin are all illegible because they’re covered with the red blood of Jesus.
‘But I lived a pretty good life,’ they’ll protest.
Yet the books wherein are recorded the reasons for everything they ever did will prove otherwise ...
‘I was an outstanding member of Rotary.’
Yes — but the books indicate it was to make some business contacts.
‘Oh, but I gave blood.’
Perhaps — but the books indicate you were paid $25 in return.
‘But I saved the whales, marched for peace, built homes for the homeless.’
All well and good — but you did so to hear the applause of men.
You see, God made us in such a way that we are spared from remembering the sins we have committed. He let us remember enough sin to make us aware of our need for salvation — but not every motive, every word of gossip, every cutting comment, every angry feeling. When the books are opened, the utter weight of all one’s sin will come to light. God sends no one to hell. By the time Volume 167 of one’s sins is opened, it’s as if he cries, ‘Depart from me for I am a sinful man,’ and sends himself to the lake of fire.
That’s why I am so glad I’m saved. The Bible says the ‘handwriting of ordinances that was against us’ — all of our mistakes, sins, failures — were blotted out by the blood of Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:14). In other words, the pages and pages containing my sin are all illegible because they’re covered with the red blood of Jesus.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Numbering Our Days
J. R. Miller, 1912
"Teach us to number our days aright—that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Psalm 90:12
"They are slipping away—
these sweet, swift years;
Like a leaf on the current cast,
With never a break in the rapid flow;
We watch them as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past."
What have we put upon the little white pages of the days of another year—as one by one they were opened for us to write "our word or two" on them? What has the past year brought to us? What have we given it to keep? If we had it to live over again—would we live it differently? What would we do—that we have not done? What would we not do—that we have done? What has our past year taught us? What lessons are we going to carry over into our next year's life?
This ninetieth Psalm is called a prayer of Moses. It is the oldest of the Psalms. Remember the wilderness wanderings. Forty years the Israelites tarried in the wilderness, before they entered the Promised Land. It was because of their unbelief. They were at the gate—and were about to be led into possession. But spies were sent, and their fearful story frightened the people. They dreaded to meet the giants, and refused to go over the border. History was set back forty years. Unbelief is costly.
Moses looked back over these forty lost years. He saw six thousand graves strewn along the path. No wonder a sad tone runs through his Psalm. He was one of the last survivors of the generation that had left Egypt. He thought of the disappointment that had broken so many brave men's hearts. On himself, too, part of the curse had fallen. He must die outside of the land of promise. You remember how he pleaded to be permitted to cross over Jordan.
But the saddest thing of all—was that the people themselves were to blame for their disappointment. Those graves in the wilderness, sin had dug. It seemed but a little sin that Moses had committed. He was terribly tried by the people's rebelliousness, lost his patience and self-control, and spoke unadvisedly. And his slip—cost him his entrance into the Promised Land. We cannot tell what a moment's loss of self-control may cost us. In this Psalm, Moses looks back and everywhere he sees sin's ruin and hurt. "We are consumed by your anger." "By your wrath are we troubled." "You have set our iniquities before you." "All our days are passed away in your wrath."
What has been the effect on you—of the experiences of the past year's life? Have they hurt you? Have they left wounds on your soul? The problem of true living—is to get good and blessing out of every experience.
You had sorrow. Did your sorrow leave your heart sweeter and purer? Did it make you gentler, more patient, more compassionate, more mindful of others? Did it bring you nearer to God? Or did the sorrow hurt you, leaving your peace broken, your trust in God impaired, your spirit vexed and troubled?
Or you had temptation. Did your temptation make you stronger as you resisted it, and overcame the tempter? That is the way we may make our temptations blessings, to make even Satan help to build up our spiritual life. An evil thought resisted and mastered, leaves us not only unhurt—but stronger in the fiber of our being. But temptations parleyed with, and yielded to—hurt our life. What has been the effect of the year's temptations on your life? Have you come out of them unhurt, with no smell of fire on your garments?
Or take the year's business or occupation. How has it affected your spiritual life? Business is not sinful, unless it be a sinful business. A right occupation ought always to be a means of grace. What has been the effect of your secular business—on your spiritual life? Has it been helpful, strengthening, enabling?
Or take your companionships and friendships; what have they done for you in the year that is gone? Have you been helped Godward and heavenward by them? Have they been full of sweet and good inspirations for you? Have they made a summer atmosphere for your heart, a weather in which all spiritual fruits and all beautiful things have grown and flourished?
What marks has the old year left on your life? Are you carrying hurts and scars from its experiences? Or have they helped to build up a truer, stronger, holier manhood or womanhood in you? We ought to be ever growing in whatever things are lovely. That is what life is meant to do for us.
"Teach us to number our days." What is it to number our days? One way is to keep a careful record of them. That is a mathematical numbering. Some people keep diaries and put down everything they do—where they go, what they see, whom they meet, the books they read. But mere adding of days is not the numbering that was in the thought of the Psalmist.
There are days in some lives—that add nothing to life's treasures, and that leave nothing in the world which will make it better or richer. There are people who live year after year—and might as well never have lived at all! Simply adding days—is not living! If that is all you are going to do with the new year—you will only pile up an added burden of guilt.
Why do people not think of the sin of wasting life?
If you saw a man standing by the sea—and flinging diamonds into the water—you would say he was insane. Yet some of us are standing by the sea—and flinging the diamond days, one by one, into its dark floods! Mere eating and sleeping, and reading the papers, and going about the streets, and putting in the time—is not living!
Another way of numbering our days, is illustrated by the story of a prisoner who when he entered his cell, put a mark on the wall, for each of the days he would be incarcerated. Then each evening he would rub off one of these marks—he had one day less to stay in prison.
Some people seem to live much in this way. Each evening—they have on day less to live. Another day is gone, with its opportunities, its privileges, its responsibilities and its tasks—gone beyond recall.
Now, if the day has been filled with duty and love and service—its page written all over with pure, white thoughts and records of gentle deeds—then it is well; its passing need not be mourned over. But merely to have to rub it off at the setting of the sun, leaving in it nothing but a story of idleness, uselessness, selfishness, and lost opportunities, is a sad numbering!
What is the true way of numbering our days? The prayer tells us, "Teach us to number our days aright—that we may gain a heart of wisdom." That is, we are so to live—that we shall get some new wisdom out of each day to carry on with us.
Life's lessons cannot all be learned from books. The lessons may be set down in books—but it is only in actual living—that we can really learn them.
For example, patience. You may learn all about patience from a sermon, from a teacher, or from a book, even from the Bible. But that will not make you patient. You can get the patience—only by long practice of the lesson, in life's experiences.
Or take gentleness. You can read in a few paragraphs what gentleness is, how it lives. But that will not make you gentle.
Take thoughtfulness. You can learn in a short lesson what it is and how beautiful it is. But you will not be thoughtful, the moment you have learned the definition. It will probably take you several years—to get the beautiful lesson learned.
We talk of learning from the experience of others. It would seem that we ought to learn much in this way. An old man who has passed through many years can tell you, a young man, what he has learned in living—but you cannot really learn from his experience. You may think that you can learn, too, from books. But after all, the great lessons of life—we must learn for ourselves, by our own failings, stumblings, tryings, sufferings; by our own mistakes and the enduring of their consequences.
The thought in the prayer is—that out of the experience of our days—we may gain a heart of wisdom. Some people never do. Solomon said, "Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him." There are plenty of such fools still! They make the same mistake over and over, suffering always from it, in the same way—yet never learning wisdom from the experience. Why should we not learn? We should put our experiences to the test. What has been the effect upon us—of this habit, of this kind of reading, of this amusement, of this friendship, of this method of business?
There is another way of getting a heart of wisdom, from the passing days. Paul taught us the lesson of moving forward and onward—by oblivion of the past. A great truth lies in his words. We are not to stay in our past as one would stay in a prison—but should be ever leaving it and going into new fields. We are not to stay by our past—as if it held all that is precious for us of life, sitting down by its graves and weeping inconsolably there. We are to turn our faces ever to the future, because there new things wait for us—new duties, new joys, new hopes. Our past should be to us a seed-plot in which grow a thousand beautiful things planted in the experience of by-gone days. Our today—is always the harvest of all our yesterdays. We never can cut off our past and leave it behind us; its consequences will always follow us and cling to us and live in us.
We are not to forget the things that are past, in any but a wise and good sense. Progress is the law of true living. Everything beautiful in our past—we are to keep and carry forward with us. We leave childhood behind us when we go forward to manhood or womanhood; but all that is lovely and good in childhood and all its lessons and impressions and visions—we keep in our maturer life.
We cannot forget the sorrow which the year brought, nor leave it behind—it is too sacred and too much a part of our life—ever to be outgrown; but the memory of the sorrow should stay in our heart as a blessing, sweetening our life—no longer bitter—but accepted in love and trust—and enriching us by its holy influence.
So nothing beautiful that faded or vanished in our past year—is really lost to us. If we have numbered our days aright, the old year's experiences will manifest themselves on all our future years—and will make them all richer, sweeter, truer; fuller of life and holiness.
The cartoons are wrong, and Hollywood is terribly mistaken when they
present hell as a hot place where people play poker and talk to each
other amidst flickering flames and an occasional jab by Satan’s
pitchfork. You see, in addition to being called a lake of fire, hell is
called a place of outer darkness (Matthew 8:12). Consequently, the
torment in a place so dark even the flames of the lake of fire don’t
shed any light is exceeded only by the inner torment people feel
throughout eternity as they recall the sermons they heard, and the
invitations to salvation they ignored.
Jesus said specifically that hell was not created for people but for the devil and demons (Matthew 25:41). Peter said God is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9) — but —
God, being Light, if man says, 'I don’t want God,' he will be consigned to darkness;
God, being health, if man says, 'I don’t want God,' he will be relinquished to a place of pain;
God, being a Father, if man says, 'I don’t want God,' he will spend eternity in isolation.
God, on the other hand, says, ‘I would rather die than live without you.’ And He did just that when He died on the Cross in order that, forgiven of our sins, we might live with Him forever.
Jesus said specifically that hell was not created for people but for the devil and demons (Matthew 25:41). Peter said God is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9) — but —
God, being Light, if man says, 'I don’t want God,' he will be consigned to darkness;
God, being health, if man says, 'I don’t want God,' he will be relinquished to a place of pain;
God, being a Father, if man says, 'I don’t want God,' he will spend eternity in isolation.
God, on the other hand, says, ‘I would rather die than live without you.’ And He did just that when He died on the Cross in order that, forgiven of our sins, we might live with Him forever.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
100 truths about Jesus
1. Jesus claimed to be God - John 8:24; 8:56-59 (see
Exodus 3:14); John 10:30-33
2. Jesus is called God - John 1:1,14; 20:28; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8
3. Jesus is the image of the invisible God - Heb. 1:3
4. Jesus abides forever - Heb. 7:24
5. Jesus created all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17
6. Jesus is before all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:17;
7. Jesus is eternal - John 1:1,14; 8:58; Micah 5:1-2
8. Jesus is honored the same as the Father - John 5:23
9. Jesus is prayed to - Acts 7:55-60; 1 Cor. 1:2 with Psalm 116:41; (John 14:14)
10. Jesus is worshipped - Matt. 2:2,11; 14:33; John 9:35-38; Heb. 1:6
11. Jesus is omnipresent - Matt. 18:20; 28:20
12. Jesus is with us always - Matt. 28:20
13. Jesus is our only mediator between God and ourselves - 1 Tim. 2:5
14. Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant - Heb. 7:22; 8:6
15. Jesus said, "I AM the Bread of Life" - John 6:35,41,48,51
16. Jesus said, "I AM the Door" - John 10:7,9
17. Jesus said, "I AM the Good Shepherd" - John 10:11,14
18. Jesus said, "I AM the Way the Truth and The Life" - John 14:6
19. Jesus said, "I AM the Light of the world" - John 8:12; 9:5; 12:46; Luke 2:32
20. Jesus said, "I AM the True Vine" - John 15:1,5
21. Jesus said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" - John 11:25
22. Jesus said, "I AM the First and the Last" - Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13
23. Jesus always lives to make intercession for us - Heb. 7:25
24. Jesus cleanses from sin - 1 John 1:9
25. Jesus cleanses us from our sins by His blood - Rev. 1:5; Rom. 5:9
26. Jesus forgives sins - Matt. 9:1-7; Luke 5:20; 7:48
27. Jesus saves forever - Matt. 18:11; John 10:28; Heb. 7:25
28. Jesus discloses Himself to us - John 14:21
29. Jesus draws all men to Himself - John 12:32
30. Jesus gives eternal life - John 10:28; 5:40
31. Jesus resurrects - John 5:39; 6:40,44,54; 11:25-26
32. Jesus gives joy - John 15:11
33. Jesus gives peace - John 14:27
34. Jesus has all authority - Matt. 28:18; John 5:26-27; 17:2; 3:35
35. Jesus judges - John 5:22,27
36. Jesus knows all men - John 16:30; John 21:17
37. Jesus opens the mind to understand scripture - Luke 24:45
38. Jesus received honor and glory from the Father - 1 Pet. 1:17
39. Jesus reveals grace and truth - John 1:17 see John 6:45
40. Jesus reveals the Father - Matt. 11:27; Luke 10:22
41. Jesus bears witness of Himself - John 8:18; 14:6
42. Jesus' works bear witness of Himself - John 5:36; 10:25
43. The Father bears witness of Jesus - John 5:37; 8:18; 1 John 5:9
44. The Holy Spirit bears witness of Jesus - John 15:26
45. The multitudes bear witness of Jesus - John 12:17
46. The Prophets bear witness of Jesus - Acts 10:43
47. The Scriptures bear witness of Jesus - John 5:39
48. The Father will honor us if we serve Jesus - John 12:26 see Col. 3:24
49. The Father wants us to fellowship with Jesus - 1 Cor. 1:9
50. The Father tells us to listen to Jesus - Luke 9:35; Matt. 17:5
51. Everyone who's heard & learned from the Father comes to Jesus - John 6:45
52. We come to Jesus - John 5:50; 6:35,37,45,65; 7:37;
53. The Father draws us to Jesus - John 6:44
54. The Law leads us to Christ - Gal. 3:24
55. Jesus is the Rock - 1 Cor. 10:4
56. Jesus is the Savior - John 4:42; 1 John 4:14
57. Jesus is the King - Matt. 2:1-6; Luke 23:3
58. In Jesus are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge - Col. 2:2-3
59. In Jesus we have been made complete Col. 2:10
60. Jesus indwells us - Col. 1:27
61. Jesus sanctifies - Heb. 2:11
62. Jesus loves - Eph. 5:25
63. We sin against Jesus - 1 Cor. 8:12
64. We receive Jesus - John 1:12; Col. 2:6
65. Jesus makes many righteous - Rom. 5:19
66. Jesus sends the Holy Spirit - John 15:26
67. Jesus offered up Himself - Heb. 7:27; 9:14
68. Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for all time - Heb. 10:12
69. The Son of God has given us understanding - 1 John 5:20
70. Jesus is the author and perfector of our faith - Heb. 12:2
71. Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession - Heb. 1:3
72. Jesus is preparing a place for us in heaven - John 14:1-4
73. Jesus is the Light of the world - Rom. 9:5
74. Jesus has explained the Father - John 1:18
75. Jesus was crucified because of weakness - 2 Cor. 13:4
76. Jesus has overcome the world - John 16:33
77. Truth is in Jesus - Eph. 4:21
78. The fruit of righteousness comes through Jesus Christ - Phil. 1:11
79. Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come - 1 Thess. 1:10
80. Disciples bear witness of Jesus Christ - John 15:27
81. Jesus died for us - 1 Thess. 5:10
82. Jesus died and rose again - 1 Thess. 4:14
83. Jesus was a ransom for many - Matt. 20:28
84. The Christian dead have fallen asleep in Jesus - 1 Thess. 4:15
85. Jesus rendered the devil powerless - Heb. 2:14
86. Jesus is able to save completely - Heb. 7:25
87. Jesus came to serve - Matt. 20:28
88. Jesus came to be a high priest - Heb. 2:17
89. Jesus came to save - John 3:17; Luke 19:10
90. Jesus came to preach the kingdom of God - Luke 4:43
91. Jesus came to bring division - Luke 12:51
92. Jesus came to do the will of the Father - John 6:38
93. Jesus came to give the Father's words - John 17:8
94. Jesus came to testify to the truth - John 18:37
95. Jesus came to set us free from the Law - Rom. 8:2
96. Jesus came to die and destroy Satan's power - Heb. 2:14
97. Jesus came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets - Matt. 5:17
98. Jesus came to give life - John 10:10,28
99. Jesus came to taste death for everyone - Heb. 2:9
100. Jesus came to proclaim freedom for believers - Luke 4:18
2. Jesus is called God - John 1:1,14; 20:28; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8
3. Jesus is the image of the invisible God - Heb. 1:3
4. Jesus abides forever - Heb. 7:24
5. Jesus created all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17
6. Jesus is before all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:17;
7. Jesus is eternal - John 1:1,14; 8:58; Micah 5:1-2
8. Jesus is honored the same as the Father - John 5:23
9. Jesus is prayed to - Acts 7:55-60; 1 Cor. 1:2 with Psalm 116:41; (John 14:14)
10. Jesus is worshipped - Matt. 2:2,11; 14:33; John 9:35-38; Heb. 1:6
11. Jesus is omnipresent - Matt. 18:20; 28:20
12. Jesus is with us always - Matt. 28:20
13. Jesus is our only mediator between God and ourselves - 1 Tim. 2:5
14. Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant - Heb. 7:22; 8:6
15. Jesus said, "I AM the Bread of Life" - John 6:35,41,48,51
16. Jesus said, "I AM the Door" - John 10:7,9
17. Jesus said, "I AM the Good Shepherd" - John 10:11,14
18. Jesus said, "I AM the Way the Truth and The Life" - John 14:6
19. Jesus said, "I AM the Light of the world" - John 8:12; 9:5; 12:46; Luke 2:32
20. Jesus said, "I AM the True Vine" - John 15:1,5
21. Jesus said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" - John 11:25
22. Jesus said, "I AM the First and the Last" - Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13
23. Jesus always lives to make intercession for us - Heb. 7:25
24. Jesus cleanses from sin - 1 John 1:9
25. Jesus cleanses us from our sins by His blood - Rev. 1:5; Rom. 5:9
26. Jesus forgives sins - Matt. 9:1-7; Luke 5:20; 7:48
27. Jesus saves forever - Matt. 18:11; John 10:28; Heb. 7:25
28. Jesus discloses Himself to us - John 14:21
29. Jesus draws all men to Himself - John 12:32
30. Jesus gives eternal life - John 10:28; 5:40
31. Jesus resurrects - John 5:39; 6:40,44,54; 11:25-26
32. Jesus gives joy - John 15:11
33. Jesus gives peace - John 14:27
34. Jesus has all authority - Matt. 28:18; John 5:26-27; 17:2; 3:35
35. Jesus judges - John 5:22,27
36. Jesus knows all men - John 16:30; John 21:17
37. Jesus opens the mind to understand scripture - Luke 24:45
38. Jesus received honor and glory from the Father - 1 Pet. 1:17
39. Jesus reveals grace and truth - John 1:17 see John 6:45
40. Jesus reveals the Father - Matt. 11:27; Luke 10:22
41. Jesus bears witness of Himself - John 8:18; 14:6
42. Jesus' works bear witness of Himself - John 5:36; 10:25
43. The Father bears witness of Jesus - John 5:37; 8:18; 1 John 5:9
44. The Holy Spirit bears witness of Jesus - John 15:26
45. The multitudes bear witness of Jesus - John 12:17
46. The Prophets bear witness of Jesus - Acts 10:43
47. The Scriptures bear witness of Jesus - John 5:39
48. The Father will honor us if we serve Jesus - John 12:26 see Col. 3:24
49. The Father wants us to fellowship with Jesus - 1 Cor. 1:9
50. The Father tells us to listen to Jesus - Luke 9:35; Matt. 17:5
51. Everyone who's heard & learned from the Father comes to Jesus - John 6:45
52. We come to Jesus - John 5:50; 6:35,37,45,65; 7:37;
53. The Father draws us to Jesus - John 6:44
54. The Law leads us to Christ - Gal. 3:24
55. Jesus is the Rock - 1 Cor. 10:4
56. Jesus is the Savior - John 4:42; 1 John 4:14
57. Jesus is the King - Matt. 2:1-6; Luke 23:3
58. In Jesus are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge - Col. 2:2-3
59. In Jesus we have been made complete Col. 2:10
60. Jesus indwells us - Col. 1:27
61. Jesus sanctifies - Heb. 2:11
62. Jesus loves - Eph. 5:25
63. We sin against Jesus - 1 Cor. 8:12
64. We receive Jesus - John 1:12; Col. 2:6
65. Jesus makes many righteous - Rom. 5:19
66. Jesus sends the Holy Spirit - John 15:26
67. Jesus offered up Himself - Heb. 7:27; 9:14
68. Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for all time - Heb. 10:12
69. The Son of God has given us understanding - 1 John 5:20
70. Jesus is the author and perfector of our faith - Heb. 12:2
71. Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession - Heb. 1:3
72. Jesus is preparing a place for us in heaven - John 14:1-4
73. Jesus is the Light of the world - Rom. 9:5
74. Jesus has explained the Father - John 1:18
75. Jesus was crucified because of weakness - 2 Cor. 13:4
76. Jesus has overcome the world - John 16:33
77. Truth is in Jesus - Eph. 4:21
78. The fruit of righteousness comes through Jesus Christ - Phil. 1:11
79. Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come - 1 Thess. 1:10
80. Disciples bear witness of Jesus Christ - John 15:27
81. Jesus died for us - 1 Thess. 5:10
82. Jesus died and rose again - 1 Thess. 4:14
83. Jesus was a ransom for many - Matt. 20:28
84. The Christian dead have fallen asleep in Jesus - 1 Thess. 4:15
85. Jesus rendered the devil powerless - Heb. 2:14
86. Jesus is able to save completely - Heb. 7:25
87. Jesus came to serve - Matt. 20:28
88. Jesus came to be a high priest - Heb. 2:17
89. Jesus came to save - John 3:17; Luke 19:10
90. Jesus came to preach the kingdom of God - Luke 4:43
91. Jesus came to bring division - Luke 12:51
92. Jesus came to do the will of the Father - John 6:38
93. Jesus came to give the Father's words - John 17:8
94. Jesus came to testify to the truth - John 18:37
95. Jesus came to set us free from the Law - Rom. 8:2
96. Jesus came to die and destroy Satan's power - Heb. 2:14
97. Jesus came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets - Matt. 5:17
98. Jesus came to give life - John 10:10,28
99. Jesus came to taste death for everyone - Heb. 2:9
100. Jesus came to proclaim freedom for believers - Luke 4:18
THE
HIDDEN EMPIRE
1. City States.
Did the world wars, revolutions & big events of
human history happen naturally or coincidentally, or were they calculated
& pre-planned? If they were pre planned, who planned them?
The answer to this question can be found within the
boundaries of 3 of the worlds most powerful cities. Those 3 cities
belong to no nation & pay no taxes. They are Washington's District
of Columbia, which is not part of the City of Washington or the US.
The inner city of London, which is not part of London or England &
Vatican City, which is not part of Rome or Italy.
These cities, called City States, have their own independent
flag, their own separate laws & their own separate identity.
2. Vatican City
Gracing the walls of St Peter's Basilica is the Vatican-approved
image of God. An angry bearded man in the sky, painted by Michael
Angelo. Cruel/violent images of God's tortured son, suffering, bleeding
& dying with thorns gouged through his skull/nails pounded through
his feet & hands are on display throughout the Vatican. These
images serve as reminders that God allowed his son to be tortured
& killed to save the souls of human beings who are all born sinners.
The Vatican rules over approximately 2bn of the worlds
6.2bn people. The colossal wealth of the Vatican includes enormous
investments with the Rothschilds in Britain, France, USA, with giant
oil & weapons corporations like Shell & General Electric.
The Vatican solid gold bullion, worth billions is stored with the
Rothschild controlled Bank of England & the US Federal Reserve
Bank.
The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power,
wealth accumulator and property owner in existence, possessing more
material wealth than any bank, corporation, giant trust or government
anywhere on the globe.
While 2/3 of the world earns less than $2 a day &
1/5 of the world is underfed or starving to death, the Vatican hoards
the world's wealth, profits from it on the stock market & at the
same time preaches about giving.
So how did the Vatican accumulate all that wealth over
the millennium? One method was to put a price-tag on sin. Many bishops
& popes actively marketed gilt, sin & fear for profit, by
selling indulgences. Worshippers were encouraged to pre-pay for sins
they hadn't yet committed & get pardoned ahead of time. Those
who didn't pay-up risked eternal damnation. Another method was to
get wealthy land owners to hand-over their land/fortune to the church
on their death bed, in exchange for a blessing which would supposedly
enable them to go to heaven.
Pope Leo the fifth rebuilt St Peter's Basilica, by selling
tickets out of hell & tickets to heaven.
During the dark ages, the Catholic Church not only hoarded
the wealth they collected from the poor, but they hoarded knowledge.
They kept the masses ignorant & in the dark by denying them a
basic education. They also prohibited anyone from reading or even
possessing a Bible, under pain of death.
Between 1095-1291 AD the Pope launched 7 blood baths
called the Christian Crusaides, torturing, murdering, beheading &
mass murdering hundreds of thousands of Muslims & Jews in the
name of God. The Pope's brutal solders were called Knights Templar
or Knights of the Temple of Solomon & evolved into today's secretive
brotherhood called the Freemasons.
Between 1450-1700 AD the Catholic Church followed up
their holy terror with the inquisition. Based on rumours of practicing
witchcraft, the Catholic Church hunted down, tortured & burned-alive
10's of 1000's of innocent women at the stake.
During WWII the Vatican was criticized for supporting
Hitler & his Nazi regime. To this day, the Vatican is still under
investigation for plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts
of Jewish holocaust victims.
Over the past 5 decades more than 1,500 priests &
bishops have been identified in the sexual assault of tens of thousands
of boys & girls in their trusting congregations & orphanages.
Why is the filthy rich institution preaching spiritual
values of poverty & chastity while cardinals, bishops & priests
cover-up their crimes of sexual abuse? Why has the church fought &
resisted the compensation claims of their sexually, emotionally &
spiritually traumatised victims?
Like Vatican city, London's inner city is also a privately
owned corporation or city state, located right in the middle of greater
London. It became a sovereign state in 1694 when King William III
of Orange privatised & turned the Bank of England over to the
bankers. Today, the City State of London is the world's financial
power centre & the wealthiest square mile on the face of the Earth.
It houses the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, Lloyds of London,
the London stock exchange, all British banks, the branch offices of
385 foreign banks & 70 US banks. It has its own courts, its own
laws, its own flag & its own police force. It is not part of greater
London, or England, or the British Commonwealth & pays no taxes.
The City State of London houses Fleet Street's newspaper & publishing
monopolies. It is also the headquarters for world wide English Freemasonry
& headquarters for the world wide money cartel known as The Crown.
Contrary to popular belief, The Crown is not the Royal
Family or the British Monarch. The Crown is the private corporate
City State of London. It has a council of 12 members who rule the
corporation under a mayor, called the Lord Mayor. The Lord mayor &
his 12 member council serves as proxies or representatives who sit-in
for13 of the worlds wealthiest, most powerful banking families, including
the Rothschild family, the Warburg family, the Oppenheimer family
& the Schiff family. These families and their descendants run
the Crown Corporation of London.
The Crown Corporation holds the title to world wide
Crown land in Crown colonies like Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
British parliament & the British prime minister serve as a public
front for the hidden power of these ruling crown families.
4. The District of Columbia.
Like the City States of London & the Vatican, a
third city state was officially created in 1982. That city state is
called the District of Columbia & is located on 10sq miles of
land in the heart of Washington. The District of Columbia flies its
own flag & has its own independent constitution.
The constitution for the District of Columbia operates
under a tyrannical Roman law known as Lex Fori, which bares no resemblance
to the US Constitution. When Congress passed the act of 1871 it created
a separate corporation known as THE UNITED STATES & corporate
government for the District of Columbia. This treasonous act allowed
the District of Columbia to operate as a corporation outside the original
constitution of the United States & outside of the best interests
of American Citizens.
Although geographically separate, the city states of
London, the Vatican & the District of Columbia are one interlocking
empire called Empire of the City.
The flag of Washington's district of Columbia has 3
red stars. One for each city state in the 3 city empire. This corporate
empire of 3 city states controls the world economically, through London's
inner city, militarily through the District of Columbia & spiritually
through the Vatican.
5. The U.S.A. - A Crown Colony.
A sobering study of the signed treaties & charters
between Britain & the US exposes a shocking truth. The US has
always been & still is a British Crown colony.
King James I was famous not for just translating the
Bible into the King James version. But for signing the first charter
of Virginia in 1606. That charter granted America's British forefathers
a licence to settle & colonise America. The charter also guaranteed
that future Kings/Queens of England would have sovereign authority
over all citizens & colonised land in America, stolen from the
Indians.
After America declared its independence from Great Britain,
the Treaty of 1783 was signed. That treaty specifically identifies
the King of England as the Prince of the United States & contradicts
the belief that America won the War of Independence.
Although King George III of England gave up most of
his claims over American colonies, he kept his right to continue receiving
payment for his business venture of colonising America.
If America had really won the War of Independence, they
would never have agreed to pay debts & reparations to the King
of England.
America's blood soaked War of Independence against the
British bankrupted America & turned its citizens into permanent
debt slaves of the King. In the War of 1812, the British torched &
burned to the ground the Whitehouse & all US government buildings.
Destroying ratification records of the US constitution.
Most US citizens believe that the US is a country &
the President is the most powerful man on earth. The US is not a country.
It is a corporation. And the president is President of the Corporation
of the United States. He & his elected officials work for the
corporation, not for the American people. Since the US is a corporation,
who owns the corporation of the United States?
Like Canada & Australia whose leaders are Prime
Ministers of the Queen & whose land is called Crown Land, the
US is just another crown colony. Crown colonies are controlled by
the Empire of the 3 City States.
6. Obelisks
At the centre of each city state is a towering phallic
shaped stone monument called an obelisk that points skyward. In DC
city state, the obelisk known as the Washington monument was dedicated
to the Freemason George Washington by the Freemason Grand Lodge of
the District of Columbia. 250 Masonic lodges financed the Washington
obelisk monument, including the Knights Templar Masonic order.
At the heart of London City State, is a 187 ton 69 foot
tall Egyptian obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. It was transported
from Egypt & erected on the banks of the river Thames.
In Vatican city, another Egyptian obelisk towers high
above St Peter's square.
Obelisks are phallic shaped monuments honouring the
pagan sun god of ancient Egypt called Amen Ra. The spirit of this
pagan god is said to reside within the obelisk.
12 root strongholds
A spirit of infirmity
The spirit of fear fear of man
The spirit of occult
The spirit of harlotry immorality
An enslaving spirit a pattern
A spirit of pride
A spirit of perversion
The spirit of Anti Christ
The spirit of depression/heaviness
The spirit of error
The spirit of jealousy
The spirit of stupor
Romans 11:18
"God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they shall not see and ears that they shall not hear, to this very day."
Monday, December 24, 2012
The people on earth wail following the destruction of Babylon. But
Heaven rejoices. Why? Because, although the natural tendency of people
is to say, ‘Wasn’t that a bit brutal, Lord? Did You really have to drop
one hundred pound hailstones? Wouldn’t thirty pounders have done the
job? What are You doing, Lord? Why do You allow such difficulty,
tragedy, pain?’ — Chapter 19 shows us there is no such questioning in
Heaven. It’s not because there’s a No Questioning Allowed sign in Heaven
— but rather in Heaven, the full picture becomes clear. And what seemed
to be so terrible, painful, unnecessary on earth will seem brilliant
and perfect and righteous from the vantage of Heaven.
The same is true regarding trials in our lives presently. Why doesn’t the Lord just show us the whole story now? Because He is teaching you, forcing me to learn to walk by faith and not by sight. Why? Because He knows that developing faith in you and me is absolutely necessary in light of what we will be doing throughout eternity.
The same is true regarding trials in our lives presently. Why doesn’t the Lord just show us the whole story now? Because He is teaching you, forcing me to learn to walk by faith and not by sight. Why? Because He knows that developing faith in you and me is absolutely necessary in light of what we will be doing throughout eternity.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
| ... And in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap: for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. | ||
| Revelation 14:14-16 | ||
| According to this
passage, it would seem that there comes a point in the Tribulation when
salvation is no longer possible. The 144,000 have been called to Heaven;
the angels have made their proclamation; and now there will be a
separation between those who become Christians in the Tribulation and
those who don’t. So too, in your own tribulation you need to understand there comes a time when your own heart — even as a believer — can become hardened. The Bible speaks of a root of bitterness which can take hold in the soil of a man’s soul (Hebrews 12:15). I’ve seen believers go through tribulation and, rather than allow the Lord’s work of grace to take place in their hearts, choose instead to be bitter and unforgiving. Don’t let that happen. Don’t be unforgiving. Don’t be cynical. Don’t be bitter. Don’t play that game because if you let bitterness and unforgiveness continue, there will come a point in your own tribulation when it will become an irreversible part of who you are. | ||
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
| December 18 | ||
| And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. | ||
| Revelation 14:2-3 | ||
| Why could no one
else sing the song of the 144,000? Because they alone went through
testing and tribulation — yet maintained their integrity. Thus, they
alone could sing of what they were able to observe the Father do on
their behalf in the time of Tribulation. Every one of us goes through
times of tribulation. God’s intention is that they might produce in us
‘as it were, a new song’ — a symphony ... There they were — in a damp, dark dungeon — without even a crust of bread to eat or the ACLU to plead their case. Yet what were they doing? They were singing. At midnight — in the darkest hour — Paul and Silas sang. They weren’t singing to try and get God to do something. They sang simply because the Lord was with them, and they were happy (Acts 16:25). ‘Well, that hasn’t been my experience,’ you might be saying. ‘My marriage’, or ‘my job’, or ‘my health is a dungeon to me, and I’m not happy.’ Precious brother, dear sister — God’s intent is to give you a new song. But there’s one thing which will stand in the way: sympathy. You see, I can either go through challenges and hard times with a symphony in my heart because the Lord has promised not only to strengthen me in them (Isaiah 41:10), but to walk with me through them (Matthew 28:20) — or I can choose to get sympathy from people. If I choose to tap into sympathy, it will always be at God’s expense because the underlying though unspoken implication is that what is happening in my life is out of God’s control. God is totally, absolutely, completely faithful to meet us in every trial, in every difficulty. Don’t let His plan get short-circuited by those who say, ‘I feel sorry for you.’ Instead say, ‘God is good. Sure, what I’m dealing with right now is a challenge — but I am discovering the Father is exactly Who He claimed to be — a God Who comforts me completely.’ It’s tempting to let people feel sorry for us, but we mustn’t, because it puts God in a bad light. Don’t settle for sympathy, gang. Go for the symphony. | ||
Monday, December 17, 2012
| Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. | ||
| Revelation 13:10 | ||
| Do you realize how
blessed we are tonight because we know the end of the story? You may be
in a difficult marriage, persecuted on the job, fighting illness,
undergoing severe pressures financially, or weary of your flesh which
rears its ugly head constantly. But we know one day it will all be
solved. That’s what John told his people. And that’s what the Spirit
would say to us tonight. We who have been saved awhile take this for
granted — but what if this was the first time you understood that all
which plagues you presently will be gone in a heartbeat; that you’re
going to Heaven where everything will be wonderful forever and ever? ‘If any man have an ear, let him hear. Listen up,’ says Pastor John. ‘I don’t care if you miss everything else, get this: The forces against you are soon going to be done away with: The beast, persecution, problems, will undo themselves.’ That’s why I need to read the Book of Revelation over and over again. It’s not about getting the 'mark of the Beast' rap down. It’s not written to help us figure out who the false prophet or anti-Christ is. It’s written to give us hope and to bring us back constantly to the fact that life is short and we’ll be in Heaven soon. The person who doesn’t understand the book of Revelation will go through life in his own personal 'tribulation.' The person who grabs hold of Revelation, on the other hand, will live in a state of anticipation and celebration. Every one of us will either go through this week in tribulation or celebration. Life is short. The Lord is in control. We’re going to Heaven. That’s what this Book is about. | ||
Thursday, December 13, 2012
| And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. | ||
| Revelation 9:7-10 | ||
| Even this
description of bizarre and horrific demons would remind John’s
congregation of God's promise. You see, in Joel 2, we find a parallel
passage to Revelation 9 ... Historically, the prophecy of Joel 2 was fulfilled in Joel’s day when Israel was besieged with locusts. Symbolically, the prophecy was fulfilled in 722 B.C. when the Assyrians marched south and carried the ten northern tribes into captivity. Prophetically, the locusts speak of the demons which will be released from the abussos (bottomless pit) in Revelation 9. But nestled among the dire warnings of this terrible invasion is a wonderful promise ... And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. Joel 2:25-26 Gang, whenever we obey Scripture — when we listen to the trumpet, repent, and seek the Lord with sincerity — the Lord not only forgives us, but makes up to us what was lost. Amazing! I would have thought it would be enough for God to forgive us. But He says, ‘No, I’m going to do more than that. I will restore to you what the locusts ate.’ You might be fifty years old — or sixty, seventy or eighty — and you might be saying, ‘There’s a big chunk of my life eaten away by grasshoppers.’ Good news for you: Whenever you choose to humble yourself and call out to the Lord, He’ll make up for lost time. | ||
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
| And I behold, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain ... | ||
| Revelation 5:6 | ||
| According to Isaiah
52, Jesus’ visage is marred more than that of any other man. Marred
more than a man in a train wreck, a plane crash, Hiroshima? Yes. You
see, it’s not only that Jesus’ beard was plucked out, that His back was
beaten, that His side was pierced, that His wrists were nailed. It’s the
psychological and spiritual stress He experienced in the Garden of
Gethsemane which caused the blood vessels in His face to burst. Jesus
experienced marring and scarring in ways we’ll never understand until
we see Him. But here is the interesting thing: The terror which would mar Him psychologically and physiologically was not due to the physical suffering He would endure, nor to the blood He would shed. The one thing which terrorized our Hero was that He knew He would, for a time, lose contact with His Father as He who knew no sin became sin for us. We shudder at the thought of hearing our boss say, ‘You’re through,’ or of our girlfriend saying, ‘Goodbye.’ But if someone were to say, ‘You’re going to lose fellowship with the Father for a day,’ we wouldn’t care. Why is it that we are nonchalant about that which terrified Jesus — and we are fearful about that which He said ‘Let not your hearts be troubled’? Jesus was close to His Father, drew His life from His Father, was in love with His Father. That’s why He bled from His face at the thought of being out of fellowship with His Father for even a short period of time. That’s why He asked that this particular cup be taken from Him. That’s why He was marred more than any other man in history. Truly, when we see Jesus, we’ll be awed, amazed, and broken by what He did to get us to Heaven. | ||
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Scott Shaubel (816) Friday July 18, 2008, 6:42 am
Jacob Rothschild, the current head of the Rothschild dynasty, has intermarried with the Sinclair family, forging an important alliance between the head family of the Illuminati, and the supposed descendants of the Grail family.
As has been popularized recently by Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code, or before him by the Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the Stuarts of Scotland are supposedly descended from King Arthur and Jesus Christ. These families are of course not descended from Jesus. The idea is preposterous. But they are related to the Holy Grail, and they are not Christians, but Kabbalists.
In reality, they, like all the aristocratic bloodlines that form the core of the Illuminati, are descended from Guillaume de Gellone of the eighth century AD. Guillaume's father was Rabbi Makhir, among the Exilarchs who ruled the Jews in Baghdad, who was sent West after a dispute over the successorship. In France, he took the name Theodoric, married Alda, the aunt of Charlemagne, and was appointed “King of the Jews” in the region of the Languedoc, with his capital the city of Narbonne.
Narbonne then became the heartland of the Medieval Kabbalah. The Kabbalists of Narbonne seem to have been responsible for instigating the Crusades, in order to retrieve sacred texts that had been buried there, but which had been unaccessible because of first the rule of the Romans, and then the Muslims. Once Jerusalem was conquered, a Kabbalistic order of knights known as the Templars conducted excavations, and discovered the text of the Sepher ha Bahir, which revived the lost mystical tradition, and set off the cultural revolution of the Medieval Kabbalah.
Another aspect of the penetration of these Kabbalistic ideas was the heresy of the Cathars. The Cathar foothold was in the region of Tolouse, the bastion of the descendants of Guillaume, also known as the family of the Guilhemids, several of whom were ardent defenders of the heresy. However, the Cathars have been idealized by numerous Illuminati propagandists as having been innocent victims of Church persecutions, but the Cathars rejected the God of the Bible, in favour of the worship of Lucifer and practiced witchcraft. It was the Cathars who influenced the heretical aspects of the Templars, for which the order was disbanded in 1307.
Part of this Kabbalistic revolution was the legends of the Holy Grail, which included Cathar and Templar themes, and formulated in the region of Aquitaine, another stronghold of the Guilhemids. The Holy Grail, or San Greal, should have been translated as Sang Real, or Royal Blood, because it referred to the sacred bloodline that supposedly issued from Guillaume de Gellone, and ultimately King David, but which in reality, was understood to represent the descendants of the Fallen Angels, and their leader, Lucifer.
The Sinclairs were descendants of Guillaume de Gellone, through his great-great-granddaughter, Poppa of Bavaria, who married the Viking leader, Rollo Ragnvaldsson. Among Rollo's descendants was William the Conqueror of Normandy. The Sinclairs, or St. Clair, were given various other castles around France. However, they all went to England with the Conqueror. One Sinclair, though, named William, did not like the Conqueror, so with some other discontented barons, he went to Scotland and placed himself in the service of King Malcolm III of Scotland.
Malcolm III King of Scotland was the father of David I "the Saint" King of Scotland. In 1128, soon after the Council of Troyes, Hugh de Payens, the Templars' first Grand Master, met with King David I of Scotland. King David later surrounded himself with Templars, and appointed them as "the Guardians of his morals by day and night".
David married the grand-daughter of Lambert II, the brother of Godefroi de Bouillon, leader of the first crusade, and the sister of sister of William the Conqueror. Godefroi's younger brother, Eustace III, married David's sister, Mary Scots. Their daughter married Stephen I King of England, the son Adela de Normandie, the daughter of William the Conqueror. Adela's brother, Henry I King of England, married David's sister, Editha of Scotland. Their daughter, Mathilda Empress of England, married Geoffrey V, Comte d'Anjou, whose son Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine.
King David granted Hugues and his knights the lands of Balantrodoch, by the Firth of Forth, but now renamed Temple, near the site of Rosslyn. And, legend has it that, when the Templars came under trial, their leader de Molay arranged for the Templar to return to Scotland, where they assisted Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn.
Robert the Bruce claimed the Scottish throne as a great-great-great-great grandson of David. Walter Stewart, the sixth High Steward of Scotland, also played an important part in the Battle of Bannockburn. Walter Stewart then married Majory, daughter of Robert the Bruce, and their son Robert II of Scotland was heir to the House of Bruce; he eventually inherited the Scottish throne after his uncle David II of Scotland died.
In Scotland, the Templars served Robert the Bruce as members of the Scots Guard, of which two prominent families were those of the Stuarts and the Sinclairs. Henry Sinclair was a supporter of Robert the Bruce, and one of his descendants, William Sinclair, designed Rosslyn Chapel, a church in the village of Roslin, replete with occult symbolism, and believed to be one of the sites where the Grail might be buried. Finally, the Sinclairs became the Hereditary Grand Masters of the Masons of Scotland.
After Queen Elizabeth died without an heir, she was succeeded by the son of Mary Queen of Scots, James Stewart I of England, also known as King James. It is for this reason that the Freemasons of the eighteenth century conspired to back the Stuart cause, after their last monarch, James II Stuart, King of England, was deposed, and replaced by William of Orange. The Stuart cause then became the essence of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, which regarded the Stuarts as the inheritors of the Templars, who had rescued the secret tradition of the East, otherwise known as the Kabbalah.
Since the late eighteenth century, however, the Illuminati have come under the leadership of the Rothschild family. The founder of the dynasty, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, ordered his sons to marry only their first cousins, continuing the careful intermarrying practiced by their predecessors.
However, the first exception was Hannah, the daughter of Amschel Mayer's son, the notorious Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who married the Rt. Hon. Henry Fitzroy, a direct descendant of Charles II Stuart King of England, the father of James II.
More recently, however, is the great-great-great grandson of Nathan Mayer, Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, who married Mary Serena Dunn. The mother of Mary Serena was Lady Mary Sybil St. Clair-Erskine, who was the daughter of James Francis Harry St. Clair-Erskine, 5th Earl of Rosslyn.
Jacob Rothschild is the current head of the UK Rothschild family, having inherited the fourth baronetcy from his father, Victor, an eminent zoologist, and sometime MI5 agent and friend of KGB agents Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess. Jacob resigned from the family's bank NM Rothschilds in 1980, run by his cousin Evelyn, and started RIT Capital Partners.
Jacob Rothschild resigned from the family's bank NM Rothschilds in 1980, run by his cousin Evelyn, and started RIT Capital Partners. He is chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild foundation, which built and gave the Knesset government buildings and the Supreme Court to Israel, and chairs the Jewish Policy Research, dedicated to promoting issues affecting Jews worldwide.
Jacob Rothschild is chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild foundation, which chairs the Jewish Policy Research, dedicated to promoting issues affecting Jews worldwide. Yad Hanadiv was also responsible for building and granting the Knesset government buildings, and the Supreme Court of Israel, which prominently features Masonic symbolism and the pyramid and all-seeing eye of the Illuminati.
Jacob Rothschild was a close personal friend of the Princess Diana, and maintains strong personal and business links with Henry Kissinger. He knows Rupert Murdoch well, having been friends since the Australian newspaper proprietor first came to the UK in the 1960s. His country estate has been a regular venue for visiting heads of state including Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Margaret Thatcher received French President François Mitterrand there at a summit in 1990. He hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002, attended by such figures
as James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, Nicky Oppenheimer,
Warren Buffet and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Monday, December 3, 2012
More Than Love
When my wife and I felt called to adopt, I remember thinking,
All kids need is a little love. Now, as I reflect on our experience of
adopting six children from foster care, I realize that those are some of
the most naïve words we ever allowed ourselves to believe.
As so many well-meaning parents do, we approached adoption and
foster care thinking that our love could somehow erase our children's
past hurts. Reality hit our expectations head on — and reality
inevitably gets the last word.
We learned this lesson early when we adopted two boys, loved them
and treated them as we would our biological children — and then
wondered why they behaved in such a disruptive manner.
My wife and I asked ourselves, What can we do differently? How can we help our children?
There were no easy answers. What we did learn is that when
adopting a child who comes from a difficult situation, we must expect
some form of hidden pain to emerge. You can't always predict when, where
or how, but you can be certain that pain will surface.
Several years after joining our family, one of my sons was going
through a dark time in his young life. As we talked, he confessed that
he had always believed it was his fault that he and his brother had been
placed in foster care. He couldn't shake this belief.
When my son confessed this to me, I desperately wanted to ease
his pain, as I did when he cut his finger or scraped his knee. But I
came to realize that it's almost arrogant to believe that my love alone
will heal my child's wounds. Just as only Jesus can heal me, I now
recognize that He alone can heal my child.
Over the years, I've learned a lot about my role as a dad. It is
my job to protect my children and provide them with structure and
guidance. It is my job to give them a safe and loving home and to
support them with professional help when needed. But perhaps my most
important role is to model for my children a humble recognition of human
limitations and, in turn, our utter dependence on Jesus. When I entrust
my children, and all of their pain, to His transformational love, I
admit that alone I cannot heal them. Instead, I point them to the One
who can.
This article appeared in the October/November 2012 issue of Thriving Family magazine. Copyright © 2012 by John Moore. Used by permission. ThrivingFamily.com.
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