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Vol 10 No 4: July - August, 2007	   	  	   Promoting a Christian Agenda for the End Times

Kano Compels All Students To Put On Islamic Garb
Sharia forces are studiously but boldly attempting to put their stamp on every segment of life, particularly in the Northern states of Nigeria.  Soon after the widely reported (but later renounced) pronouncements by the Sultan of Sokoto that Islam must make major moves to checkmate the perceived growing influence of evangelical Christianity in the North, the government of Kano state has ordered that every student in the public school system MUST put on Sharia –compliant clothing. Will this issue ever go away!  In a swift reaction, the Northern States Christian Elders Forum (NOSCEF), representing the Christian community in the 19 Northern states of Nigeria, has issued a communiqué calling on the Kano state government to rescind the order “in the interest of peace and harmony in the Northern states.” 

Pastor Zhang’s health in jeopardy
      We reported last year (Vol 9 No 4) that as China prepares to host the 2008 Olympics, it has begun a systematic sweeping of Christians in the country.  We highlighted in particular the sentencing of Pastor Zhang Rongliang  to 7 years prison for traveling outside of China with illegal traveling papers after authorities had repeatedly refused to authorize his trip to preach the gospel outside China.  Pastor Zhang leads one of the largest house church networks in the country with an estimated 10 million members.  Latest reports indicate that his health has been rapidly deteriorating - the 53 year old Pastor is kept with 19 other prisoners in a 100 ft square room with no bed or toilet!  His wife, Chen Hongxian, is under severe emotional pressure as well, and both their 2 sons have had to go into hiding as government agencies mount up pressure on them as well.  Intense prayers are needed, especially that an on-going campaign to get Pastor Zhang released on medical parole should be successful.  Amen.
       In a similar vein, in North Korea, Son Jong Nam, a convert from communism to Christianity is being held in a bleak, death row basement cell for more than a year now. He has been sentenced to die by "public execution," charged with being a "national traitor" and
"receiving Christianity." Brother. Son has already spent 3 years in prison and has gone through brutal tortures.  The US based Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) has recently launched a worldwide campaign to free Mr. Son with thousands of letters being written on his behalf.  To join this effort, please visit the website of the VOM.
Moslems burn the Quran in Sokoto, Nigeria
       Christians have been killed and maimed for failing to give due respect to the Quran.  Still fresh in memory is Christianah Oluwaseesin, gruesomely killed on March 21, 2007 by an Islamic mob in Gombe, for the sin of throwing down carelessly a bag which (unknown to her!) contained a Quran  (see CA! vol 10 no 2); or the on-going saga at Pace University, in the US, where there has been much hallowering concerning a young man who was alleged to have used portions of the Quran in the toilet.  The AP, reporting on that incident, commented: “Treatment of the Quran is a sensitive issue for Muslims, who view the book as a sacred object and mistreating it as an offense against God. The religion teaches that the Quran is the direct word of God.”(AP, July 27).
       Now, in Sokoto, the Islamic bastion of Nigeria, an Islamic group attacks the home of a rival Islamic teacher, and the first thing they do is to burn the Quran!  But for the newspaper article written by the anguished son of the Islamic teacher mentioning the event, there is apparently no big deal about the case.  According to Ahmad Rufai Khalid: “Precisely at 2:45pm on Thursday, 19th July, 2007, a gang of men numbering over thirty stormed our family home situated at Gangaren Faqon Idi, Tudun Wada area of Sokoto...” and “... my father’s Islamic books comprising the Quran, tafsir (exegesis of Quran), Fiqh (analogy),Tarih (Islamic history), etc. were the first to be set ablaze….My grandfather’s handwritten Holy Quran was also set ablaze by the gang” (see http://dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1220&Itemid=49 )

“Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus Christ is the son of God?” (1 Jhn 5:4-5)
 – According to the clear teaching of the Bible, it is only faith in Jesus as the Son of God that can give ANYONE victory in this confusing and perilous world system 

       Apparently, it is only “infidels” who are prohibited from “mishandling” the holy book, in which case, the Islamic justice of public mob lynching is speedily administered.  It seems reasonable then to conclude that much of the usual observed agitated response to incidents of “desecration” of the Quran is merely conditioned response, rather than genuine personal conviction in most Moslems on the sanctity of the Quran as an infallible Holy Book.  At the end of the day, the value of a book will be gauged by how much the instructions contained therein (particularly those pertaining to self discipline and sacrifice) are adhered to!
    Islam seems to be facing considerable internal crisis in Nigeria at the present time, really.  Apart from the incident referred to above, highly revered Sunni Islamic cleric, Umaru Dan Maleshiyya was shot by gunmen on Wed 18^th July in the same Sokoto city – seat of the Caliphate in Nigeria.  His death the next day in hospital has led to the on-going apparently official onslaught on Shi’ite Moslems in the city.  As at Press time, security operatives are demolishing the headquarters of the sect, including a school, a clinic and several residential quarters. (www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=26925) Earlier, on April 12, another Sunni Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ja'afaru Mahmud Adam, was shot dead right in the mosque. www.news24.com:80/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2149611,00.html 

Perilous days for Missionaries
     The on-going saga of 23 South Korean missionaries kidnapped in Afghanistan is another glaring reminder of the perilous nature of our days.  On Thursday July 19, the church workers (18 of whom were women) were seized by the Islamic extremist group known as the Talibans while traveling on a public bus along the Kabul_Kandahar highway.  A week later,  leader of the group, Pastor Bae Hyung-kyu, was shot dead by the abductors, while 29 year old Shim Sung-min was killed (also in cold blood) on Monday July 30. As at Press time, the fate of the remaining 21 still hangs in the balance, as it were.  The Taliban commanders have threatened to kill more of the hostages, unless their soldiers captured by the Afghan government are immediately released and all foreign troops backing up the government is withdrawn.  Both requests have very slim chances of being granted.  Nevertheless, prayer is being mobilized in the Church worldwide for the safety of these children of God.  The devil is really making no further efforts to hide his unappeasable hatred for soul-winning and evangelical efforts.  The stakes must be really high!
      Meanwhile, in Cambodia, an outright ban has been placed on door-to-door evangelism.  According to a government spokesman, such an activity “disrupts society” and “also causes other insecurities”.  Even the distribution of tracts and religious literature must now be restricted to the premises of officially designated church buildings.

CREATION SCIENCE
What are the bases for, and significance of belief in a Young Earth?
        Many people have often wondered how an increasing number of credentialed scientists could be assigning an age of only a few thousand years to the planet Earth, rather than the “billion of years” that is continually touted by official evolution-based establishment?  It’s almost like saying the earth is flat!
         First, to address the significance of the issue.  The theory of evolution is actually better described as a “naturalism theory” rather than a “scientific theory.”  This is because the most important and central point the theory tries to defend is that everything MUST be described without any recourse to anything supernatural or preternatural!  By thus a priori ruling out some options (even when those options might as well end up being the truth), the theory of evolution has shown itself as more of a dogma than a scientific proposition, where science is rightly defined as the search for the truth - rather than the dogmatic defence of some points by all means, irrespective of the empirical data.
       Having said that much, it might be added that there are indeed several hurdles that the evolution theory cannot scientifically cross, but which were dogmatically (religiously, if you wish) waved aside.  For instance, in the relatively easier issue of evolution of biological life, the official position is that life spontaneously arose from previously existing non-living things, just like that.  This is referred to as spontaneous generation!  Now, there is nothing scientifically superior in this kind of reasoning than the so-called “religious” view that an intelligent omnipotent and omniscient Designer created everything by fiat.  And really, if the most primitive life-form could have spontaneously come forth beginning from absolute nothing, Man, the highest design in creation might as well have simply popped up by the same unknown and unexplainable mechanism!  As a matter of fact, concerning the theory of “spontaneous generation” Harvad’s Nobel laureate in Biology, Dr George Wald in 1954 declared:
“One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are – as a result, I believe of spontaneous generation” (Scientific American, August, 1954, Emphases added.).  He later explained why he has chosen to believe what he knew to be impossible:
“The only alternative to some form of spontaneous generation is a belief in supernatural creation”                 [ “Innovation in Biology,” Scientific American, vol 199 (September 1958), p. 100]
       Back to the issue of age/time, Evolution theory, so far, is propped by the dogma of the so-called “deep time”.  Simply put, there has been so much time elapsed since the universe began that there is simply nothing that could not have happened, even if it makes no sense to us right now, and we have no way of explaining it!  It is in this light that the massive amount of evidences showing that the earth (for instance) came into existence only thousands of years ago (100% consistent with the historical time frames in the Bible) rather than the billions of years that generated the concept of “deep time”; are death-knells for the theory of evolution.
    And what are these facts? Due to space constraints, the reader is referred to the results of the RATE project, 🡺  the 8-year long scientific investigations carried out by some of the best brains in various scientific disciplines, using scientific facilities in reputable secular establishments, and jointly sponsored by the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org) and the Creation Research Society (www.creationresearch.org).
      Some of these incredible results, for instance, show that diamond dug from deep core of the earth (several kilometers down) as well as from surface locations still contain significant amounts of C-14 as determined by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry.  Now C-14 has a half-life of only 5,700 years, and no measurable amount is supposed to remain in any material that is even a few hundred thousand years old.  Hitherto, it is assumed that the considerable amount of C-14 ubiquitously measured in supposedly old materials represent some form of external contamination by other C-14 sources.  But diamond, being the hardest material known on earth could not have been so externally contaminated!  There are also the careful series of experiments documenting that zircons still contain massive amount of radiogenic helium that clearly shows that those helium (produced when the rocks were formed) could simply not have been there for more than a few thousand years!  There are also physical evidences to back up the theory through the physically observable radio halos from polonium..
       In presenting their works, the RATE scientists not only provided sound scientific interpretations for their results, but also helped to clear the well-known existing difficulties with current evolution-based scientific methods of dating.  Not only do different methods regularly give highly conflicting results, events known to have happened in recent years (such as recent volcanic activities) are routinely proclaimed by these existing dating methods as having happened millions/billions of years ago!  Results from RATE have now explained the reasons for these inconsistencies.
       CA! has some materials on the results of the RATE Projects – both technical (for the science professionals) and non-technical for the layman on the street.  One of the non-technical materials in our kitty is the excellently-produced DVD (including some drama) titled Thousands Not Billions.  It is the God-given anti-dote to the many on-going barrages upon mankind from the evolution establishment in these end-times. If you would like to have the video Thousands Not Billions shown to your group (especially students in institutions of higher learning/church groups – minimum of 15 people please) please contact us immediately at 0805 710 6482.  CA! does not charge for any of her services to the Body of Christ as the LORD is faithful in meeting our costs.

Another Coelacanth-find in the Zanzibar
Meanwhile, another coelacanth, a type of fish once proclaimed by evolutionists to have gone extinct some 80 million years ago, has been caught by fishermen in Zanzibar (Reuters, July 15, 2007).  By the conventional, evolution-dictated way of interpreting the fossil record, fossils of coelacanth were last seen in fossil beds dated to be 80 million years old.  Supposedly later fossil strata do not contain any remain of the fish, leading to the con-clusion that the fish went extinct 80 million years ago.
      But then the first living coelancanth was caught off the eastern coast of South Africa in 1938, and since then some 30 others have been caught in recent years off Tanzania.  And the recent catch in the Zanzibar confirms the coelacanth tribe is well and alive on planet earth.
       Of course it is far more reasonable and simpler to question the 80 million years ascribed to the fossil stratum where coelacanths were found, rather than take it that the fish staged a dramatic comeback after such a “deep time”!   About two years ago, intact red blood cells were discovered in the bones of a dinosaur, but rather than take that to mean that the animal died only recently, evolution scientists prefer to marvel at the possibility of blood and soft tissues remaining intact for the million of years they chose to insist the animal must have died! (see Science, 2005,307:1952;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/ or CA! Vol 8 No 4).  No one dared suggest that the dating technique that assigned 70 million years to the sandstone deposit in which the bones were found could be questionable.  That would totally erode the sole foundation on which the evolution theory is standing – anything can happen in the unimaginable long time period known as “deep time”!  If only modern-day Christians were able to muster even a fraction of the faith evolutionists have in their chosen religion, the impact of Christianity in our world would certainly be much more profound and evident!

But, Pope Insists God created the world through Evolution!
Meanwhile, despite the clear and undisputable recognition by scientists that evolution theory and creationism are mutually exclusive, and that between them exhaust all possibilities to explain the origin of our Universe (e.g. refer to Dr George Wald cited in previous article), it is consistent with the spirit of the New Age that its adherents would seek to find common ground between the two incompatible concepts.  It is therefore not surprising hearing the Pope recently declare as an “absurdity” any clash between evolution and creation(MSNBC News Services, July 25, 2007).  Why, Pope Benedict reasons, God must have used the process of evolution to create the world!  The truth however is that evolution being a blind process of trial and error and an accumulation of stupendous amounts of good lucks, is totally inconsistent with the nature of a benevolent omnipotent and omniscient God, who could get whatsoever He desires out from nothing by fiat! 

US Judge supports sex-change demand by prisoner – at taxpayers expense
     After spending about three years (from 2000 to 2003) in prison for being in possession of a stolen car, Randall Gammett suddenly had a brain wave and announced he believed he is actually “a woman trapped in a man’s body”.  He demanded a name change to Jenniffer Spencer and requested for various treatments including oestrogen that would enable her develop feminine features.  State officials however refused to provide the drugs since, according to them, he had not been diagnosed by prison physicians to have any gender identity disorder.  Mr Gammett ‘s response was to castrate himself using a disposable razor blade after which he filed a lawsuit against the Idaho Department of Correction, alleging a violation of constitutional rights for that refusal.  WND reported on August 1 2007 that now, Judge Mikel Williams of U.S. District Court, has ordered that the state must indeed provide Randall Gammett with psychotherapy and estrogen, pending a trial. 
     According to Bryan Fischer, the executive director of the Idaho Values Alliance the Judge’s decision is  judicial activism "at its worst."   "This inmate is obviously severely conflicted, but he is a male in every single cell of his body. If any taxpayer dollars are going to be spent on his therapy, they should be spent helping him to embrace the sexual identity he was assigned at birth," Fischer fumed.  Several advocacy groups for homosexuality and lesbianism could however not hide their excitement over the judge’s ruling!  http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56951    In the last edition of CA! we reported that even so-called ministers of the Gospel are accepting sex change as normal.  This craze is evidently a peculiar demonic manifestation of this age, and is probably at the root of the current cross-dressing fad where women craved to put on men’s dresses; and men, weaving their hair and decking their pierced bodies with various rings attempt to blur any distinction between themselves and the womenfolk!

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Secular advocacy groups ignore proven deadly environmental impact of birth-control pills     
     The hypocrisy of die-hard secular environmental advocacy groups is being exposed in the current reports confirming that oestrogen and other steroid hormones from birth-control pills and patches are causing significant damages to the ecosystem and pose considerable direct danger to humans as well.  These chemicals are excreted in urine, and they eventually find their way into some water body nearby.   In an EPA-funded research at the University of Colorado, 123 trout and other fishes captured in a mountain stream near Boulder, Colorado, downstream from the city’s sewer were found to comprise of a preponderance of female (101), some male (12), and 10 “intersex” fish having both male and female features!  It’s  "the first thing that I've seen as a scientist that really scared me, university biologist John Woodling told the Denver Post, which published the report in October 2004. 
        Similarly in Washington State, wetlands and habitat specialist Doug Myers, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that in frogs, river otters and fish, scientists are "finding the presence of female hormones making the male species less male."  Also in New Jersey, the issue of the impact on the human body of the traces of birth-control hormones and other prescription drugs first found in municipal tap water in 2003 is being discussed among scientists.
     But the scientists involved in the various situations above are making another shocking finding: people and organizations which normally should shout down the skies on such issues are strangely, very apathetic!  A confused professor of physiology from University of Colorado stuttered: "Nobody is getting passionately concerned about it,….It makes no sense to me at all..”  
      But the Professor shouldn’t have been surprised!  To New World Order advocates, the environment of Planet Earth is only an issue to be exploited to arrive at their desired  religious end of establishing a new anti-Christ world order – and no one really cares a hoot even if the planet goes to the blazes.  For instance, contrary to everything known in nature, these advocates have insistently postulated the existence of a continuum of genders – at which ends stood the Male and Female genders; and this wishful postulate has remained the standard model used to justify the demon-inspired acts of homosexuality.(see our previous articles “Does hermaphroditism not justify homosexuality? And Homosexual Advocacy in Nigeria – A response to Dr Anele http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2006/feb/072.html)
.  Now that some chemical agents are actually helping to confuse the genders, and provide “valuable data” that can be used out of context some time in the future, only the naïve would expect these green people to bat an eyelid! 
       Dave Georgis is the director of the Colorado Genetic Engineering Action Network, When challenged to comment on the pollution of Boulder Creek with oestrogen from birth-control pills, he calmly declared that we just have to close our eyes to some issues which are simply inevitable!  In his words: "You can't have a zero impact, and this is one of the many, many impacts we have on the environment in everyday life.  Nobody is to blame for this, and I don't have a solution." 
     Another environmental activist, Betty Ball is equally blunt, declaring the topic a no-go area.  When confronted with the issue Ball bawled: "I'm not going there….This involves people's personal lives, child bearing issues, sex lives and personal choices.” 
       A frustrated concerned social scientist lamented: "If you're killing mosquitoes to save people from the West Nile virus, you can count on secular environmentalists to lay down in front of the vapor truck, claiming some potential side effect that might result from the spray, but if birth control deforms fish – backed by the proof of an EPA study – and threatens the drinking supply, mum will be the word." 
      Writing in the online blog, ThePolitic.com, Shane Edwards touches the raw issues: "To give this publicity would pit nature against consequence-free sex, and that just won't happen. But what disturbs me about this even more than the environmental impact (and the reality that this will NEVER be dealt with because of its political ramifications) is what this is doing to us. I mean, if these effects are happening with fish and frogs, what is happening to us?" 
This story is based on the report posted at WorldNetDaily.com on July 12, 2007.  To check the details and references, visit www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56951

SOCIETY STEADILY APPROACHING MANDATORY MICROCHIPPING FOR ALL
       As we have been pointing out for nearly a decade, advocates of the new world order understand that the mandatory microchipping of all humans is vital to their goal of establishing a One World government, where all current moral and godly ‘restraints’ are cast away and Satan is enthroned as supreme ruler.  This farce and the predicted outcome are clearly stated in the Scriptures, notably Psalms 2 and 110.
     We have consistently pointed out, even when the facts seemed far-fetched at the time, that all the variously hyped benefit of chip-based technology (security, health, incredible speed, knowledge, ‘convenience’, etc) are mere baits to lure the undiscerning into accepting the chip into their central nervous system.  Once in place, as has already been adequately demonstrated in various scenarios and products, the mind of the person so-chipped is totally accessible to the controllers of the technology 24/7 – not only to monitor, but to be controlled as well.  Given that the advantages being touted are not necessarily wrong, the price to be paid is certainly way too unreasonable!
    Two stories below from Papua and the USA provide an update on the topic and they confirm that the age of coercing people into accepting an implant into their bodies is fast approaching, see Rev 13:16ff.  

Papua’s Lawmakers mull mandatory microchip implant for monitoring AIDS patients
	Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua are considering the selective use of chip implants in HIV carriers so as to “monitor their behaviour” in a bid to keep them from infecting others. 
       Defending this strange proposition, Dr John Manangsang  insisted that unusual measures were needed by the ‘hard-thinking’ government to combat the virus and prevent its spread. "Some of the infected people experience a change of behaviour and can turn more aggressive and would not think twice of infecting others," he told the AFP.  The head of the Papua chapter of the National AIDS Commission, Constant Karma, seriously disagreed. "People with HIV/AIDS are not like sharks under observation so that they have to be implanted with microchips to monitor their movements," he told the Jakarta Post
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070724075657.4w2f978g&show_article=1

US Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers brains:     The US Department of Defense has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable “biochip”. The Department plans to implant the chips in the brains of soldiers to help monitor their health information.
    Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, C3B director and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bio-engineering is excited about the project and he already foresees “other long-term potential applications, such as monitoring astronauts' vital signs during long-duration space flights and reading blood-sugar levels for diabetics.  The biochip also may be injected as a precaution to future traumas.”  Logically enough, soldiers fear that the biochip, can be used to put them under surveillance even when they are off duty – and of course nobody seems to be thinking of the need to remove the chips should a soldier eventually retires from the military service.
     Currently the CIA reportedly implants ‘hearing aids’ in agents to communicate with them without anyone around them knowing it. With a listening device the CIA can listen to what's being said then have the agent say what the CIA wants. www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/300707_b_microchips\.htm

Preparing for the true Mother of all Wars: World War III
While new envoy for the Quartet, Tony Blair resumes his diplomacy work in the Middle East, preparations for war are going on simultaneously by the major actors.  If issues are left to Ahmadenijhad of Iran and Bush of the US then an all-out conflict in the Middle East is inevitable by September.
      US officials are virtually unanimous in declaring that a summer terrorist attack in September is de facto,  a certainty.  On the one hand, for al-Qaeda, it will be a worthy celebration of the attacks of  September 11 2001.  On the other hand, given Iran’s Ahmadinejhad often repeated boast of a “very hot summer” for Israel, the possibilities of a simultaneous attack on both Israel and the US cannot be ruled out.  Both George Bush and Ahmadinejhad seemingly very badly want a war.  Bush  seemingly need to shore up his badly fallen approval rating in the US, and conspiracy theorists within the US are convinced Bush will fabricate any needed excuse, including sinking US ships himself, to justify an attack on Iran. (Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief  www.worldaffairsbrief.com). Ahmadinejhad on the other hand, the Shiite zealot that he is, is intent to hasten the return of the Islamic messiah, the 12^th Mahdi, which he believes will not happen until the world is so dangerously positioned that no human solution would exist!
    ‘Juicy’ dates for an Arab attack on Israel in September will include September 13, marking Rosh Hashanah and September 22, the day for Atonement/Yom Kippur.  The last great war of 1973, exactly 33 years ago, occurred on the exact Yom Kippur day. www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1262
www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/100707moreterror.htm
      While the eventual timing remains under the direct control of the LORD alone, it is pretty obvious that the Third World War is imminent.  It could be that the antichrist might be able to stave off this war for his 7 year reign; with the war finally breaking out at Armageddon!  These events are at the corner. 

Pope’s Pronouncements point at both past and predicted coming Inquisition
      Within a period of one week three quick pronoun-cements from the Vatican sent shockwave to the discernment community, underscoring the reality that props that will support the predicted persecution in the days of the Anti-Christ are being put in place.
        First, despite Pope John Paul having pronounced in 2001 that salvation is possible without Jesus Christ (see CA! Vol 4 No 1); the Roman Catholic Church has now declared that as far as the Christian faith goes, non-catholic churches are really either defective or not true, and salvation for the Christian is impossible outside Catholicism!  In a statement approved by the Pontiff, the Church declares that  “'It is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to [Protestant communities], given that they do not accept the theological notion of the Church in the Catholic sense and that they lack elements considered essential to the Catholic Church'."  Several Protestant Churches, particularly those deeply involved in ecumenical talks with the Roman Catholic Church have expressed their “dismay and anger” over the statement <www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,2123195,00.html> .  "It makes us question whether we are indeed praying together for Christian unity," says the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.  Students of Bible prophecies however see in the statement, a theoretical framework which the predicted False Prophet (the antichrist’s right hand man, according to Rev 13) will use to justify the forced closure of any non-catholic affiliated Christian organization in the future.  Such de-recognition is already happening in states dominated by Communist, Moslem, Buddhist and Hindi states (see previous editions of CA! for specific reports), and will become full-blown in the days prior to the rapture of the true Church.
         The view that Protestants cannot have churches was first set out by Pope Benedict six years ago when, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the newly revived ''Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" which he headed, published the document “Dominus IESUS”, but then Pope, John Paul, had intervened to “correct the incorrect reading” of the document. (See CA! Vol 4 No 1 for details). 
       Actually, the office which Cardinal Ratzinger headed in 2001 is officially known (according to Wikipedia Encyclopedia) as the 'Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition' or simply “the Inquisition office.”  This was the office in charge of forcing ‘heretics’ to recant in the middle ages; and it is equipped with sophisticated facilities and brutal personnel to ensure the success of the work.  The office of the Inquisition had been closed for over 100 years, until Pope John Paul II reinstated it and appointed Cardinal Ratzinger as its director! (see <http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1676.cfm>).
        That is why the second pronouncement from the Vatican a few days after the declaration that protestants are unqualified to ‘operate Churches’ is equally important and intriguing.  It was to the effect that the notorious torture chamber in the Vatican, known as the “Pope’s Dungeon” is now to be opened to the public after a 10-year closure for restoration work. (The Guardian (London), July 13, 2007.  <http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6776389,00.html> ) “Why would the Vatican spend 10 years and undoubtedly a lot of money, to resurrect a relic of the infamous Roman Inquisition? “ queries the Cutting Edge ministries?
      Finally, to complete the trio of intriguing news from the Vatican within the same week, the Pope announced the revival of the old "Tridentine Mass". This Mass, said in Latin and replete with hair-splitting specifics on “ which vestments can be used, what material they must be made of, where the candles should be placed on the altar, and the precise position of the priest's hands at various points in the liturgy,” etc is a triumph for conservative catholics, and a reversal of the purported gains of the 2^nd Vatican Council (1962-1965.)  However, most protestant end-time commentators are more struck with the fact that the Tridentine Mass, originally created in 1560 was the standard Mass used all during the infamous Inquisition Period, during which over 70 million people were murdered and tortured simply because they would not accept the Catholic's "Salvation by Works", chief of which was the systems of Indulgence and Purgatory. <http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1763.cfm>
      For one thing, the old Latin Mass specifically included a prayer for the conversion of Jews (another shift of the gears with respect to the Church’s interfaith agenda,) and thus predictably has provoked strident protests from Jewish groups. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3422621,00.html      More significantly however, David Bay of Cutting Edge, strongly supported by former Satanist Doc Marquis, believe that the Mass, when said in Latin, possess very powerful “mind control elements”, which when implanted daily over the years, could suddenly be triggered to provoke ordinary easy-going catholics into committing unimaginable atrocities.  David (www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=740) believes that this might be responsible for the amazing instances, repeated in various parts of Europe, when large group of Catholic adherents “would suddenly become frenzied and start attacking Protestants in very large number” as detailed in the  "Foxes' Book of the Martyrs"*  This thinking is certainly not far-fetched as evident in similar situations when Moslems in northern Nigeria suddenly turn against their Christian neigbours once certain Arabic quotations from the routine prayer-lines are pronounced.[See for instance, Vol 10 No 2 for details of the gruesome lynching of Christianah Oluwaseesin.]
      Linking the three stories together, CuttingEdge (a Baptist end-time commentary website) concludes that  “these three stories all have one common factor: they point to the Inquisition, both to the future Inquisition in fulfillment of Revelation 13:11-18, and to the past Inquisition. In the first story, Pope Benedict XVI stated the core reason that the office of the future False Prophet will close Protestant churches and begin killing its adherents, i.e., he recognizes only Catholic Church as a genuine church, and all others are pre-tenders.  In the two [other] stories, the past Inquisition is clearly in view.”  Concluding, he remarked,  “ As the world teeters on the brink of the planned World War III which will produce Antichrist, we should not be surprised that the Vatican is steering the Catholic faithful toward the tools of the Inquisition.”
END TIME DECEPTION – continued from back page
     The above incident is fuelled by exactly the same major factor – wrong end-time doctrine -  that led to the similar situation in the UK where several medical doctors have ended up in security custody over attempted terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow.  Another group of 45 Muslim doctors have also been discovered by the British Police to have signed up for suicidal attacks in the U.S. with car bombs and rocket grenades. A few years back, we reported, as did the national media, the sad story of several undergraduates and children of affluent Moslem parents in Northern Nigeria, who went to join what is called the Nigerian Taliban group and who engaged in deadly armed insurrection against the government till the army had to be called in.
        What is the big lesson in all these stories?  End-time deception is an equal opportunity issue and there are currently innumerable individuals and groups who have deep but unhealthy and unbiblical interests in end-time issues.  We wish to stridently sound this warning that it is not every group that discusses the kind of issues we raise in Church Arise! that is worth having our attention.  Apart from those deliberately set up by the devil to confuse issues, there are many who have themselves been deceived and are innocently propagating the deceptions.  End-time discussion groups exist across a very wide spectrum: from cults, new agers, conspiracy theorists, Roman Catholic groups, to several Protestant groups.  The big doctrinal issues to always put in mind (as advised by 1 Jhn 4:1-3, 15) are what the group says about the deity and humanity of Jesus Christ; and the centrality of an undiluted faith in Him for victory over the world (1 Jhn 5:4-5)?  On the practical side (probably the ‘undoing’ of the OAU 11), the question of the expected response to whatever information is being dished out is also vital.
        At Church Arise!, our mission and message is encapsulated in our name.  Our mission is mainly directed at the Church of Jesus Christ; and the message is that the Church has a lot of opportunities for fruitfulness and glory as She arises to meet the unique challenges of these end times (Isa. 61).  It is time that EVERY element in the Body of Christ arise to play their own part in establishing the counsel of the LORD in these  days we are priviledged to be living in (Luke 10:23-24).  Failing to do this, we may continue to witness not only the ungodly and riff-raffs increasing in number uncontrolled; even those who wish to live godly lives may end up being confused with disastrous consequences – enslavement to cultic teachings, living an extremely limited/ inhibited deluded lives, etc, as clearly demonstrated by the OAU 11.
Truth:Jesus is coming back, soon (Rev 22:12,Acts 1:11).  Truth: Believers will be raptured to join Him in the skies (as promised in John 14, 1Thess.4:16-17; 1Cor 15:51-52) . But it is equally true that we are to occupy today till the Lord Jesus comes (Luke 19:13ff, Luke 12:43). Waiting for the Lord is the most active and fulfilling endeavour an informed person can ever engage in.

EXHORTATION: 
"Art thou become like unto us?" Isaiah 14:10 
       What must be the apostate professor's doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, "Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me: I also have banished thee for ever from my presence, and will not have mercy upon thee."
        What will be this wretch's shame at the last great day when, before assembled multitudes, the apostate shall be unmasked? See the profane, and sinners who never professed religion, lifting themselves up from their beds of fire to point at him. "There he is," says one, "will he preach the gospel in hell?" "There he is," says another, "he rebuked me for cursing, and was a hypocrite himself!" "Aha!" says another, "here comes a psalm-singing Methodist --one who was always at his meeting; he is the man who boasted of his being sure of everlasting life; and here he is!" 
          No greater eagerness will ever be seen among Satanic tormentors, than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite's soul down to perdition. Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful grandeur of poetry when he speaks of the back-way to hell. Seven devils bound the wretch with nine cords, and dragged him from the road to heaven, in which he had professed to walk, and thrust him through the back-door into hell. Mind that back-way to hell, professors! "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith." Look well to your state; see whether you be in Christ or not. It is the easiest thing in the world to give a lenient verdict when oneself is to be tried; but O, be just and true here. Be just to all, but be rigorous to yourself. Remember if it be not a rock on which you build, when the house shall fall, great will be the fall of it. O may the Lord give you sincerity, constancy, and firmness; and in no day, however evil, may you be led to turn aside. 
C.H.Spurgeon, 
"Morning and Evening Devotions" June 26, morning.

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TOPICAL ISSUE: End-time Deception, an equal opportunity issue
       The above expression is borrowed from an essay by Jan Markell of Olive Tree Ministries, warning that no individual or organization is too big to be deceived in the raging end-time deception.  ALL must watch (be informed) and pray.  Two recent events, one of them happening at the backyard of Church Arise!, very clearly illustrate this important point.  This was the amazing reports of eleven students of the Obafemi Awolowo University who took into the wilderness in expectation of the imminent occurrence of the Rapture.  It wasn’t until about five days later that a determined search by the University authorities located the much famished and haggard looking young fellows – including two ladies, who had been feared to have fallen prey to kidnappers! 
      Not surprisingly, the newspapers and local bloggers had a field day deriding this act of fanaticism.  But it is easy to miss the frightening issues behind this event.  The first obvious fact is that these were not just some riff-raff youth somewhere.  In a country where hundreds of thousands of youths are roaming the street, desperate to have some semblance of University education, these ones are enrolled in one of the very best Universities in the country, and with probably the lowest fees structure as well.  One of the rapture-seekers has actually successfully completed his 7 years of  medical education, but he refused to go for the housemanship training.  Similarly, according to Seun Adeoye, writing for the Guardian newspaper, “Three of the students, were graduating students, with one studying Law.  The graduating students reportedly claimed that they were not interested in the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC), saying "life is worthless".  In fact the re-scheduled semester exams were going on at the time these students took into the wild!
       So we have healthy, educated, probably morally-sound youths, so deluded to have concluded they have nothing more to receive from or give to life; and deciding that the biblical but often-derided Rapture will be the vehicle for their escapist desire!  Not only was the devil going to waste the lives of these youths, foul up the lives of their families and loved ones, the devil was also going to further turn the glorious Biblical hope of the coming of the Lord Jesus for His people (John 14:1ff) into a by-word in society.  Talk of killing several birds with one stone! 🡺 continued on page 7

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