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Saturday, July 27, 2024
"Faith Under Siege: Russians Destroyed All Protestant Churches in Melitopol, Ukraine" (video)
Friday, August 30, 2024
Malwarebytes blocks website exposing Russia as anti-Christian nation.
Monday, August 26, 2024
REMAINDER - 1 the United Nations, the "Palestinian nation" and the starving masses of the world
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Well, why UN is very friendly with the Islamic world? For example with the Muslims of Gaza? But simply because UN is the already in Zephaniah 3:8
8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
....gather the NATIONS, ASSEMBLE the kingdoms, the UNITED NATIONS.
ISLAM is the greatest religious opponent to the SON of God. The worst sin in Islamic creed is to believe that God has a Son. Therefore the UN will coordinate nations and the One World Religion under the control of the Whore (Rome, Rev. ch.17) in order to try to oppose the Second Advent of Christ and the enthronement of Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, and to slaughter messianic Jews and Christians.
This was the religious core of the United Nations.
Then there's the strategy used to gather most of the poorest nations. Many agencies to "fight hunger and poverty" has been created by the UN and governments. Their aim is to create a countless army of Christian haters, especially in Africa. From a side Satan using his right hand, through the world he controls, keeps in extreme poverty these people, in order to fed them with his left hand, the UN and similar sub-organizations which will indoctrinate the starving but now physically saved people in to hate MESSIANIC Jews and Christians.
It is not a mystery that the UN not only is polluted by atheism and anti-Christian sentiments, but also with many organizations and churches which are the DAUGHTERS of Babylon the Great, Rome, who are anti-messianic in their nature.
The poor starving children of Sahel of today has to become tomorrow the bloody murderer of Jews and Christians, and during the seven years of Tribulation the murderer of Jews. Also these "charitable" organizations, even if they hide themselves behind an firewall of "good works" "good intentions" "good sentiments", are more or less indirectly or directly addressed by the soon to become King of kings and Lord of Lords:
42And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Jesus mentioned 70 X 7 times in the odd books NT and 70 X 7 in the even books NT - EXACTLY. Jesus + Christ mentioned 777 + 777 times. AV 1611 KJV is the BOOK OF THE LORD (Isaiah 34)
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Jesus + Christ + Moses =
2401 = 7 X 7 X 7 X 7 times
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the title page I noticed they have uh the law was given by Moses on the left side representing the Old Testament but
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Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ on the right side representing the New Testament so just historically that
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verse has been used so we have Moses Jesus and Christ showing up 7 time 7
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time 7 time seven times in the Bible and what's really interesting is that the exact middle mention out of
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those 2,41 mentions which would be 1,21
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there would be 1,200 mentions on one side and 1,200 mentions mentions on the
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other side the middle mention is Moses right here in this verse John 117 this is the only verse to
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mention Moses and Jesus and Christ and it just so happens representing the the
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Old and New Testament the middle mention shows up in the middle of those 7 time 7 time 7 * 7
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mentions which is completely just mindblowing okay so here's the
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proof the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of Earth
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Bible just by accident how the most printed Bible in
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history reaching the most people in history is it has this this is how the
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Bible ended up in its complete form forget about the originals because
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God knows all things he knew his Bible would end up like this so did it end up
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like this by his Sovereign will by his omnipotence or was it just an accident
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that his the most important person in the Bible so perfectly ended up in this
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Try, Russian, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish Bibles, NIV, NKJV, ASV, NASV, ESV, TLB, XYZ, ABCDU, etc. etc., if they have such patterns as discovered in the AV 1611, the true word of God.
One day you will be judged by the AV 1611:
Video above - How many times "Jesus" shows up in the Bible... MIRACULOUS!
https://youtu.be/Ag5U7kxcXCo?si=v25IC4ZBoBP0kSZC
Monday, August 19, 2024
Calvi-nuts - 1
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"....My Calvinistic professor in Theology at BJU
told us that we had no business asking any sinner
“when” he was saved, because if he was lost he
couldn’t tell you, and if he were one of the “elect,”
he was saved before Genesis chapter 1 (Unconditional
Election, second point in TULIP). Strangely
enough, the same joker told us that out in eternity,
before Genesis chapter 1, there were “DAYS” on
which someone could be “begotten ” of God because
Christ was begotten of God on “THIS DAY”
(Psa. 2:7), and that was in eternity, before Genesis
chapter 1. Do you reckon the Lord Jesus Christ
knew what day “THIS DAY” was?
My Calvinistic professor in Biblical Archaeology
said the Judgment Seat of Christ (Rom.
14:10) and the White Throne Judgment (Rev. 20)
were the same judgment. Then he claimed the Judgment
of the Nations (Matt. 25) was ALSO the same
judgment. He didn’t have a brain in his head. His
name was Barton Payne. He graduated from Princeton
and the University of Southern California with
a grade average of 98.5, and served on the NASV
and NIV committees. I never met a bigger Bible
blockhead in forty-seven years in the ministry. You
couldn’t have found a more dishonest, naive, inexperienced,
bungling perverter of Scripture if you
had searched the Sahara Desert, the Arctic Tundra,
the Russian Steppes, and the Okeefenokee Swamp.
My Calvinist Language professor (Dr. Brokenshire)
said that Luke chapter 16 was a parable and
the name of the rich man was “Dives.” Brokenshire
was a five-point, Presbyterian Calvinist who
believed in sprinkling babies to regenerate them.
His church creeds gave Acts 2:38 as the means for
regeneration, along with John 3:5. Dr. Charles Brokenshire
willed me his Kittel’s Hebrew Old Testament
before he died. I have had it for more than
thirty-three years. It is right here on my bookshelf.
Now, the problem that none of the “Hardshells”
like to talk about is, “How did ‘Ruckman’ endure
six school years at BJU under a solidly Calvinistic-
ASV-Hort-Nestle-NASV-Schaff faculty, and
come out believing the AV was the Scriptures and
that John Calvin was as blind a spiritual guide as
ever led 100,000 dead orthodox theologians into a
ditch?” They all know this happened, but how on
earth did it happen? WHO WAS PRESENT WITH
PETER S. RUCKMAN FOR SIX SCHOOL
YEARS EVEN TO SHOW HIM THE OPPOSITE
SIDE OF THE COIN? Remarkable phenomenon,
wouldn’t you say?
Now, I will show you why I am a “one-point
Calvinist.” I subscribe only to the “Perseverance
of the Saints” (Point 5 in TULIP), with the clear
understanding that if you convert this to “Predestination”
you are talking about the predestination of
a SAVED Christian who has already voluntarily
received Jesus Christ (John 1:12-13) as his Saviour.
No new birth (“the irresistible force”) comes
to any “dead” man (Eph. 2:1-5) until the “dead”
man does something (John 1:12). Note those verses
carefully. If a dead man can be held responsible
for rejecting Jesus Christ (and thousands of them
do), then he can be held responsible for receiving
Jesus Christ: the “will of God” does not automatically
regenerate any “elect.” Note: “He came unto
his own a n d .....” And “his own” (“the children
of the kingdom,” Matt. 8:12), and “his own” (see
Heb. 10:30) wind up in Hell (Matt. 8:29).
The rich man in Hell says: “FATHER Abraham,”
and Father Abraham replies “SON” (Luke
16:25). An elect (John 8:39) son of Abraham in
Hell!...."
By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman on "Calvinism", see:
Sunday, August 4, 2024
"Calvinistic predestiantionism" is another vomit from Hell emerged in Eurasia and aimed to overwhelm the New World. Thanks God it was repelled but the conspicuous traces are still boiling in the lost souls and are gaining momentum especially among the spiritual corpses of decaying American society. A spiritual parasitic disease?
https://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/2024/08/calvinistic-predestiantionism-is.html
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Very interesting Bible study of Dr. Ruckman about "demon" possession and America as a country more and more "demon" possessed.
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Above video - Peter S. Ruckman - Dead men, Mad men, and Pigs (1996)
URL: https://youtu.be/mbi4l-joZDM?si=GQeGoM6IzLTx59Dd
Even deeper the reasons of the Russia's war on Ukraine: even more biblical than you could think or imagine (think for example "BORN AGAIN"...)
> Warning: previously in a post I praised (even if saturated with heresies and apostasies of the daughters of Rome) the slavic soul of many rural areas of Eurasia for being really Chrstian and "...targeted openly by both anti-Christian West (pro-LGBTQ) and secretly anti-Christian Russia (with the doctrine of Rome)". WRONG. I retake back that my thought, because I share it no more.
Always overlooked history of Ukraine, I remember only from Continuing Counter Reformation (D. Willinger's blog) about the "poles" among founder of Kyiv etc., still fleshy worldly arguments i.e. "nation against nation", "ethnic against ethnic", also "religion against religion" (for example the P.L. Commonwealth and its too strong Protestant parts who were an obstacle to the Catho-Orthodox reunification).
In short: I read the Cossacks' history, and how they are the founders of today's Ukraine, even more than Russia's empire. They were a melting pot of various groups, they began with the Tatars, and ended to be filled with Russians (also Poles, etc.). A sort of "foreign legion".
A feature of them I stumble upon was (is?) a typical cup of Devils: to join them you had to be willing to defend the Orthodox faith, a religion coming from Rome. At the same time they were dedicated also to magic arts ("Kharakternyks").
All this kind of mixing the meal of the Devil with the bread of God is perfectly represented today by the Alexander Dugin's theology of the "blut und boden" of Slavic flavor, where the "blut" is more spiritual than material, as did the Nazis (for this reason Russia is more Fascist than Nazi, because Italian Fascism always resented the "biologicity" of Nazism, putting at the core the "spirituality").
In short as promised: Ukraine, in being "infected" by the Western world, wants to be emancipated from this evil spiritual heritage, to which Russia still praises herself. The lovers of supernaturalism, that crossing over between ethno nationalism and folk culture made by myths and occultism, hates the lack of spiritualism of the Western world (because this lack of spititualism deride them in their devilish practices and heart beliefs), and want you to think that they are attacked by the West when they defend the "tradition of the church". This is why they are simply occultists and shamans of the Devil, who needs to be disguised as "Christians" (typical example: Alexander Dugin). This is the reason of the obsession of Russia for the "family" and defense against the "LGBTQ": they are two very cheap baits to buy the gullible average Christian of the West, in his turn brainwashed by the sophistication of phylosophy, critique and science (three pillars of Evolutionism and especially of the Bible denial). And being so deceived, our poor "Christian" western soul, searches someone in whom to believe (of course no Christ, substituted by an academic textual critic in the West), falling in the mouth of the "new prophets" of the new "spiritual races" who are "destined" to free the world from "Americanism and Western liberal culture"!.... Guess where they find it? You know why Russia is so widely spread in the hearts and mouths of the lost damned souls of the Western world.
Therefore Ukraine, in becoming the "Bible belt of the USSR", is DEAD from her fleshy body of being part of that "slavic spiritual soul" who loves fornication and adultery with the Devil. God later used even the liberal Western culture to kill the old body of "Cossack multiface culture", that cup of Devils keeping Ukraine part of the Russian world. LGBTQ and other liberal issues were not an "attack" deliberately brought by the Devil, BUT A CONSEQUENCE OF THAT OBSCURE, HIDDEN DARK SATANISM OF THE "SLAVIC SOUL", THAT PRIDE TO BE CONSIDERED "UNIQUE", THAT FILTHY MIXING BETWEEN THINGS OF THE LORD AND EARTHLY THINGS OF THE DEVIL.
You pay for that, this is sure. Russians are still slaves of the cup of Devils. Russia surely will soon or later win, because is the Bible AV 1611 to tell it so. Jerusalem must be surrounded and an independent Ukrain must go to let this planned prophecy. But we know that the Lord will come back and show the fasity of all the ones who believe their soul is special because they are born from a particular race:
9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
This is also the reason of the hatred against "free-willism", for example from the author of Jesus Partisans in the Balkans. A reaction which exhalt Calvinistic poison or another Rome's poison, the tradition of the "church", Orthodox one.
Ukraine is a picture of the born again Christian soul. The nation's biological and physical body dies ("we don't want to be Russians!"), and the soul of it is inhabited by the Spirit. But after an individual is being born again there's no guarantee that the new creature mantains himself a perfect one free from sin. The body remain with its fleshy devilish pulsions, and the newly born soul must fight regularly against three: his flesh, the world, Satan.
In separating from Russia, Ukraine pictured another great picture of the Bible (AV 1611): the separation of the soul from the old body of flesh of sin, and the separation from the world and Satan. Exactly the same picture of the Hebrews who separated themselves from Egypt (= the world and the lust of the flesh and mind).
You know why independent, separated Ukraine (and "Baptist" is synonim of "independency", even if the adjective has been added to the name because of the backsliding of many baptists...), is hated, both from the East as well from the spoiled, hungry of false (coming from east) spiritualism West.
https://www.grunge.com/865302/the-untold-truth-of-the-cossacks/
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
The Harlot of Rome protects one of her daughters, Iran, from destruction coming from Israel (Iran + Russia + China are the main candidates to be the pillars of the Antichrist's army surrounding Jerusalem - don't let antichrists disturb you with their idiotic historicist/allegorical/hermeneutical dementia born in Alexandria III AD by self-castrated Origin ).
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Ezekiel 38:1-6 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Zechariah 12:1-4 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
Between Russia & Turkey/Iran: Ukraine as the last obstacle to prepare the encircling of Jerusalem?....
"....Iran has a large diplomatic corps at the Vatican, with only the Dominican Republic having more diplomats accredited to the Holy See.[2]".
Above image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93Iran_relations#:~:text=History,maintained%20during%20the%20Iranian%20Revolution.
Notice: have you ever heard someone blaming Iran for a false flag assassination of one of her servants????.....
Conspiracy theories are a pot boiling half truth in the water of pure dementia, I call it not "conspiracy studies" but Harry Pottology. A magic able to make you see UFOs from your brain flying in a void blue sky.
The end of "conspiracy obsession" is to exhalt man and his pride in his intelligence.... This is why among conspiracy researchers Job 41:34 is the most approppriate:
Job 41:34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
The king being Leviathan, aka Satan.
Test everything with the words of God, and let the children of wrath meet their destruction
I place these articles here,for no other purpose than to give glory to God, because they confirm the word of God, the End Time war on Israel, with the Rapture, the second coming of our Lord Christ Jesus and His Millennial kingdom on earth!
Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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“Bomb on Haniyeh, Biden sells the traitorous Pasdaran to Iran” / Mancini (former 007): “they were Mossad spies for years”
Niccolò Magnani - Published August 6, 2024
THE UNUSUAL DELIVERY OF SOURCES TO THE ENEMY: BIDEN WOULD HAVE SOLD OUT THE MOSSA SPIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACK ON HANIYEH
Most likely in future history books, the death of Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the bloodthirsty terrorist group Hamas, will be one of those crossroads from which the subsequent dramatic events will be marked: on the eve of a potential escalation of war between Iran and Israel right after the killing of the Palestinian leader in his home in Tehran, a possible geopolitical truth emerges that is quite unusual. In essence, Joe Biden's American CIA would have sold the names of 22 spies from the Mossad (Israel's intelligence service) to Iran as they were suspected of having planted the bomb that killed the Hamas leader on July 31, 2024.
Explaining this today in “L’Unità” is the former Italian 007 Marco Mancini, who cites his personal sources and underlines how the American move was not at all appreciated by his ally Bibi Netanyahu: in one fell swoop in fact, if this intelligence information were to be verified, Biden’s USA would have provided sources to the Iranian enemy, effectively betraying those who have acted in the shadows for years in the service of Israel and the United States themselves. These are 22 Iranian citizens, and not just any ones, given that at least 5 of them were Pasdaran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards under the Ayatollah Khamenei: recruited for years, writes Mancini, in a completely undercover manner they passed information to the Mossad from within the nerve center of power in Iran. The Pasdaran are historically chosen precisely for their extreme trust and confidentiality, such as to be able to physically reach the apartment - considered hyper-secure - where Haniyeh went last July 31st at the end of the inauguration ceremony of the new Pezeshkian Government.
This would confirm the thesis relaunched by the New York Times a few days ago regarding the real origin of the attack against Haniyeh: killed not by a targeted raid by Israel but by internal spies who would have physically placed a bomb inside the house of the Hamas leader. The 5 Pasdaran and the remaining 17 Iranians considered Mossad spies were not arrested after an investigation by Tehran, nor at the end of a blitz by the Ayatollah's security forces: according to Mancini, «The list with the names was given to them by the CIA, authorized by President Joe Biden: the twenty-two are human sources operating in the field, that the American intelligence agency had recruited and shared with the Mossad».
THE VERSION OF THE EX 007 MARCO MANCINI: "BIDEN WANTS TO SLOW DOWN THE ESCALATION AND REAFFIRM THE CENTRALITY OF THE WHITE HOUSE"
The version of the rocket launched from Israel was not convincing from the beginning as there was no evidence or confirmation from Netanyahu's military forces: the bomb instead placed by traitorous spies of Iran is convincing the international intelligence services, but what is surprising is precisely the fact that this information has "leaked" and that above all after just a few days the 22 suspects have already been thrown into the not very reassuring Iranian prisons.
According to former 007 Marco Mancini, also in “L’Unità”, the White House’s move is aimed at slowing down Iran’s dangerous response after Haniyeh’s death in Tehran, but it is also a sort of “reward” to Hamas after having obtained «the ransom of the commando of US special forces captured by Palestinian militants during a failed operation to exfiltrate Israeli hostages held in Gaza since October 7». The version of the former secret agent, based on sources from the Middle East, is the “simplest” thing in geopolitical terms: stop Iran, keep Israel at bay and show that they are capable of managing the delicate role of “dialogue force”, much more than Republican enemy Donald Trump. "These are moves intended to indicate his full leadership and at the same time be fundamental in the election of Kamala Harris, regaining a prominent place in the democratic elite", concludes Mancini explaining how in Tel Aviv and also in Washington not everyone would have been satisfied with Biden's choice to sell precious Mossad spies to the enemy in the midst of war in the Middle East. The decision to give sources to those who are not allies, clarifies the former 007, "is a behavior that contradicts every rule of the game, even those not exactly from Franciscan tertiaries practiced by the CIA and Mossad". [END OF QUOTE]
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ilsussidiario.net/news/bomba-su-haniyeh-biden-vende-alliran-i-pasdaran-traditori-mancini-ex-007-erano-spie-mossad-da-anni/2739081/amp/
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Russia (and Turkey) as part of the Antichrist's army seeking to destroy Jerusalem
https://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/2024/08/russia-and-turkey-as-part-of.html?m=0
Russia (and Turkey) as part of the Antichrist's army seeking to destroy Jerusalem
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In Ezekiel 38:2 there are some hints to Russia: Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Many think that Meshech and Tubal are Moscow and Tobolsk. And Togarmah is Turkey.
3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
If you cannot say 100% sure that Moscow and Ankara are exactly described in this prophesy, BUT for sure this prophecy is the one which is the most fitted to represent the situation around Israel today.
Israel is everyday more encircled by a global wide rebuke, and Russia is every day more in cohort with the country which made an oath to Satan to destroy Israel, this is Iran.
It is clear that Russia will have an important if not pivotal role in the attempt of the Devil to destroy Jerusalem and the Jews, for this reason "mom" Russia is busy in to clean all form of Messianic Christianity from inside:
Source: https://releaseinternational.org/russian-preacher-faces-trial/
In Russia, an outspoken Christian preacher is facing trial for posting a question on social media. And in occupied Ukraine, a Christian woman could be jailed for up to ten years for remarks made in a prayer meeting.
‘Both cases reflect the rising persecution of Christians in Russia and in Russian-occupied Ukraine,’ says Paul Robinson, the CEO of Release International, which supports persecuted Christians around the world.
‘Christian leaders have been tortured, disappeared, and murdered for taking a Christian stand, in what looks worryingly like a return to the bad old days of Christian persecution under the Soviet Union.’
‘Would Jesus kill?’
Eduard Charov, a Russian preacher with Orthodox and Pentecostal roots, posted online the question: ‘Would Jesus Christ have gone to kill in Ukraine?’
He is set to stand trial on charges of discrediting the Russian armed forces and is expecting a prison term. In the meantime, he has been forbidden from leaving his home district or from using the phone or the Internet.
Charov and his wife, Inna, run a shelter for the homeless. He posted his comment on social media in spring of 2023, according to Norway-based NGO Forum 18. Charov also faces other charges for comments on social media. He reportedly called President Putin the Antichrist.
He could face imprisonment of between five and seven years, or a fine of up to 1 million roubles. Charov, who is 53, is expected to appear in court later this month.
‘Fear only God’
His wife, Inna, told the media: “You can sit it out, keep quiet, without attracting the attention of the authorities, but you will still answer to God. You should not fear the judgment of people, but of God.”
Eduard Charov told the Russian media outlet Takiye Dela: ‘Most likely, it will all end with a prison term for me. I already have a suitcase packed at home. My wife will look after the [homeless] shelter in the meantime. And I will continue to help people in prison. There are people in need everywhere.’
Another church leader, Ioann Kurmoyarov, has just been released from jail after completing a sentence for denouncing Russia’s war in the Ukraine from a Christian perspective.
The 56-year-old was jailed for making YouTube videos criticising the ‘demonic spirituality’ of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in its support for the invasion of Ukraine. Kurmoyarov stated: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers… those who have unleashed aggression will not be in heaven.’
Ioann Kurmoyarov was imprisoned for more than four months for ‘disseminating false information about the Russian armed forces’. He has been banned for two years from publishing further comments.
Church demolition
Elsewhere, in the Krasnodar region of Russia, the city administration has sought a court order to demolish an Orthodox Church whose Archbishop opposed the war in his sermons. The court refused.
In April this year, Archbishop Viktor Pivovarov was convicted and fined for repeatedly ‘discrediting’ the Russian armed forces.
‘The use of the legal system to intimidate Christians reflects the growing pressure being brought to bear on church leaders in Russia considered to be rocking the boat,’ says Paul Robinson of Release International.
Russia tightened its laws after its invasion of Ukraine, to try to prevent all opposition against the war, including on religious grounds. Since then, church leaders have faced intimidation in the form of warnings, prosecution, and fines for any who publicly opposed Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Occupied Ukraine
Even harsher measures have been taken against Christians who speak out in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine. Some church leaders have been tortured, killed, and disappeared.
In February, the body of a Ukrainian Orthodox priest was found in the streets of Kalanchak in Russian-occupied Kherson. He was 59-yr-old Stepan Podolchak. According to his bishop, Russian military forces had ‘tortured Fr Stephan to death’.
And in November 2023, Pentecostal deacon Anatoly Prokopchuk and his 19-yr-old son Aleksandr were kidnapped and shot in Kherson. Their mutilated bodies were found four days later in woodland.
On August 2, the Russian-controlled Crimean Supreme Court in Simferopol jailed a 41-year-old Ukrainian church leader for espionage charges.
Father Kostintyn Maksimov was sentenced to 14-years in a labour camp. It’s believed he was opposed to moves to force his Ukrainian Orthodox Church to come under the umbrella of the pro-Moscow Russian Orthodox Church.
And on August 15, a Protestant woman from occupied Melitopol is due to stand trial for unpublished remarks made in a prayer meeting. The woman, known only as Olena, is currently being held in a prison in Donetsk. She faces up to ten years for spreading ‘knowingly false information’ about Russia’s armed forces.
Persecution
Christianity has a long history in Ukraine. The church suffered extensive persecution under communism in the Soviet era. Orthodox Christianity is the largest religion in the country, while Protestants make up less than five per cent of the population.
Since independence, Ukraine enjoyed freedom of religion, but that is being eroded by conflict. The two separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk have seen a marked erosion of religious freedom since 2014.
The Norway-based human rights and religious freedom organisation Forum 18 has reported that Protestant churches have been made illegal and have been forced to close in those areas, along with any churches that are not part of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Ukraine has retaliated by putting pressure, including legal restrictions, on some churches in the country linked to the Moscow Orthodox Church, which has supported the war.
‘State retaliation’
According to the latest report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: ‘…state retaliation against those who spoke out against Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine using religious language or on moral grounds [has] continued at startling heights.
‘In Russian-occupied territories [of Ukraine], de facto authorities banned religious groups, raided houses of worship, and disappeared religious leaders.
‘In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian authorities banned the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and closed Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Roman Catholic, and Baptist churches. At the end of the year, the whereabouts of several priests whom Russian forces had detained… remained unknown.’
Forum 18 reports that in February 2018 the Luhansk People’s Republic passed a Religion Law that required every religious community to re-register with authorities. Since the passing of that law, registration has been refused for every Protestant, Baptist, and Pentecostal community.
According to Forum 18, secret police in those regions have raided places of worship, cutting off gas, water and electricity from all unregistered religious buildings.
Along with the enforced closure of churches, the Russian-backed authorities have also banned a number of Christian books.
UK-based Release International is supporting Christian workers in occupied and disputed areas of Ukraine following the Russian invasion. RI funding is being used to support vulnerable families and to help provide trauma healing retreats.
Release International is active in some 30 countries. It works through partners to prayerfully, pastorally, and practically support the families of Christian martyrs, prisoners of faith and their families. It also supports Christians suffering oppression and violence, and those forced to flee.
Saturday, August 3, 2024
"tortured for several days until he agreed to admit to being an American spy.": In the name of preservation of the "Russian slavic soul"!
https://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/2024/08/tortured-for-several-days-until-he.html
Monday, August 12, 2024
Jeremiah 49 and the current events in the Middle East
Monday, August 12, 2024
Jeremiah 49 and the current events in the Middle East
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I am not yet certain if the prophecy in Jeremiah 49:35 refers to the seven years of the Great Tribulation or to the period of time near its beginning. In this last case it could be that the destruction of Elam, in a radioactive cloud, could be a sign to warn at the last moment the lost souls, that the time to be saved with the blood of Christ is expiring and the age of grace aka church age is nearly off.
Indeed the classical "covenant theology" poison from Calvinism, that "faith-alone-salvation-through-all-the-bible" which polluted many denominations especially the Baptist ones, is blinding the eyes of the ones who believe to read the Bible (AV 1611) but are only dreaming their dream on it.
When God takes the church away from earth it means that the church age or the age of GRACE-alone-salvation is ended and begins the FAITH & WORKS salvation age of the wrath of God. You have to very hardly work out your salvation. You have NOT to take the mark of the Beast and this implies a LOT of works.... Covenanters, even if anti-Calvinists, insists with the silly game of declaring that "after born again a saint will have the Spirit stenghtening him in order to refuse the mark".
See? Isn't this a contradiction? First they say that Eternal Security seals you to heaven, no matter how much you sin after being born again. BUT then they contradict themselves and says that there's a sin you will never do. Does it mean that if you have to avoid that sin absolutely, it is a sin that can ruin your eternal security?.... I could care the less if I am helped by the Spirit to refuse the mark....the only thing I see is that God CANNOT assure your salvation if you do that sin, and in order to save you He have to stop you from doing that particular sin.... It is interesting that also the free-willers, accepting this absurd doctrine, become crypto-predestinationists: the believer is COMPELLED to do something by God, even against his will.... even if he is starving to death and wish to eat accepting the mark of the beast, and this he wants with his whole will, no, God doesn't allow him, and the Spirit in him (we assume like them that he is a born again Christian) prevent him from accepting the mark.... (historical context is the near future, the seven years of Tribulation with the Beast).
All this comes from the blind reading of James chapter 2.... Catholic interpretation is the mainstream among 99% of Christianity.... The solution: James 2 is referred to the Tribulation period, ANOTHER dispensation, not for our church age.
But let's forget these considerations, and see how Jeremiah 49. is very friendly with contemporary events in the Middle East:
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Missiles cloud Mideast skies over the Persian Gulf. Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz. Arab oil is choked off to world markets. Hezbollah and Hamas launch scores of missiles into Israel. Terror cells initiate cycles of violence in America. Global economies begin to collapse.
Radioactivity permeates the skies over Bushehr’s nuclear reactor. Countless Iranian’s hastily seek refuge into neighboring nations. The Arabian Gulf becomes a cesspool of contamination. Desalinization plants can’t process the polluted waters. A humanitarian crisis burgeons out of control. A disaster of epic biblical proportion has finally arrived in the Middle East!
About 2600 years ago the Hebrew prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel issued parallel end times prophecies concerning modern-day Iran. Today the rogue country is becoming a nuclear nation and aggressively advancing its hegemony throughout the greater Middle East.
https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Showdown-Iran-Revealing-Prophecy-ebook/dp/B00L7F1EUC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
The content of this book has been summoned in this webpage:
The Destruction of Iran: Jeremiah 49
“Behold, I will break
the bow of Elam, the chief of their might” (Jeremiah 49:35)
There is another prophecy concerning Iran that possibly precedes the Gog and Magog scenario outlined by Ezekiel. In Jeremiah 49:34-39, we are told that Elam will come under the judgement of God for conspiring to launch an attack against Israel in the “latter days”. Modern day Iran is comprised of ancient Elam (about one-tenth) and Persia. This prophecy concerning Iran has not yet been fulfilled but seems to align with Iran’s current nuclear aspirations! Let's see the prophecy in Jeremiah 49:35-39...
35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
Jeremiah predicts that Elam will be struck at the foremost place of its strength. Today, this could infer an attack upon Iran's growing nuclear program. One of Iran’s most strategic and vulnerable nuclear targets is the Bushehr nuclear reactor, located in the heart of ancient Elam (see map on right).
Jeremiah also predicts that Iran will suffer the fate of a broken bow. When your bow is broken, you cannot load the arrows from out of your quiver, or in a modern sense, the missiles out of your silo. This might imply that the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) will be unable to launch scores of its missiles (arrows in modern warfare are missiles) at its enemies.
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Follow on: https://www.christianevidence.net/2018/06/the-destruction-of-iran-jeremiah-49.html?m=1
Well, I don't know for sure. It can happen in the last days of the church age, or in the Tribulation.
Operation Opera (Hebrew: מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה),[1] also known as Operation Babylon,[2] was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.[3][4][5] The Israeli operation came a year after the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force had caused minor damage to the same nuclear facility in Operation Scorch Sword, with the damage having been subsequently repaired by French technicians. Operation Opera, and related Israeli government statements following it, established the Begin Doctrine, which explicitly stated the strike was not an anomaly, but instead "a precedent for every future government in Israel". Israel's counter-proliferation preventive strike added another dimension to its existing policy of deliberate ambiguity, as it related to the nuclear weapons capability of other states in the region.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera#
34The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
38And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
39But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
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