All Religion's Salvation Plans are Performance Based

Mormonism (a.k.a. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) today sparks up the image of clean living and strong family people who oppose abortion when just twenty-five years ago it would have conjured up completely different mental images of an ultra-conservative person who had three wives and lived in Utah. The Mormon Church is one of the wealthiest west of the Mississippi collecting in excess of $5 billion annual revenue with 16.7 million members. It has spent tens of millions of dollars in order to change its public perception. It’s goal has been to present itself as just another Christian denomination. Mormonism theology includes mainstream Christian beliefs with modifications stemming from revelations of Joseph Smith and other religious leaders. Mormons have a completely different plan of salvation than biblical Christianity. 

Background

The doctrines of Mormonism (LDS) began in 1820 with Joseph Smith forming the basis for The Book of Mormon when he had a vision in the woods while praying at age fifteen because he was confused about what church to join. In the vision God appeared to him and told him not to join any established church because they were all a corrupt, abomination to God ever since the demise of the apostles occurring 18 centuries ago. God was calling on Joseph Smith to restore the true, pure, authentic church which had been absent for the past 18 centuries. His followers saw Smith as a modern-day prophet. Brigham Young, now considered their modern day prophet, who constantly receives direct revelation from God to guide the Church that become unchallenged truth for members. Joseph Smith was involved in the occult and adopted the demonic practice of glass looking (crystal ball) which is the method he used to write the Book of Mormon. In 1826 in NYC Joseph was convicted of fraud and lying for milking people out of huge sums of money. He would have them pay money upfront before using his glass ball to make false "hidden treasure" predictions about their lives. He died in jail in 1844 from a mob killing in cartage, Illinois. A mob came to get him in jail and In the process, Joseph Smith killed a number of the mob persons before he and his brother were shot to death.

God was a Man
Mormon's believe that God was once a man who achieved godhood by his deeds on earth; "As man now is God once was: As God now is, man may be." which is in direct contrast to the Bible. Mormon's believe humans can achieve godhood too. This heavenly God has many wives which he procreates with producing "spirit babies" that are dispatched from heaven to enter the bodies in the wombs of pregnant females in order to take up residence on the earth. There are two goals in life for the "spirit babies"; (1) to join the Mormon church and (2) to begin earning your way to godhood. Mormon's believe that Jesus Christ was the very first  spirit baby God spawned and was a result of sexual union between Mary and God. The second spirit baby was Lucifer, the third was the Holy Spirit. 

Salvation Performance Plan

Mormon's system for salvation is based primarily on good works. First, you must join the Mormon church following all it's rules and regulations and second, believe in Jesus Christ. You must earn your way to being a God. There is also a mandatory missionary for men to serve two years cycling around in suits recruiting new members. There are three heavens. The lesser Heaven is for non-Mormons like me, the middle heaven for unworthy Mormons and a third is a celestial heaven for worthy Mormons where each male Mormon with his "eternal" wife (although they can have multiple wives) is given a planet like earth to spend eternity populating with spirit babies. The wife basically spends eternity pregnant. There is a tribunal made up of father God, Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith who decide if you make it into the third Heaven. You can also be baptize for any dead person on their behalf so they too can enter Heaven. 

The Book of Mormon Inaccuracies

They believe the Bible is the Word of God which has been corrupted for centuries and is impossible to translated it accurately. The truth sources are the other three books; Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants (J.S. revelations from God), Pearl of Great Price (constitution). The truth is that The Book of Mormon is historically and archeologically inaccurate whereas the Bible has thousands of examples of it's accuracy and inerrancy. There hasn't been one city, river or mountain named in the Book of Mormon that supposedly existed in America has been found to be true. The Smithsonian Institution put out a research letter stating that categorically, nothing has been found that would substantiate the historical accuracy of The Book of Mormon.

Mormon's & Islam's Commonalities

The Mormon faith seems to change with the times previously having practices of polygamy, racial purity (blacks couldn't become Mormon until June of 1978 because of pressure from civil rights movement), etc. Joseph Smith's Jewish related prophesy's have all been wrong. Of the 50 explicit predications in the book of Mormon sampled, not one had come true. Both Islam and Mormonism both originate in the Abrahamic traditions. Each religion sees its founder (Muhammad, Joseph Smith) as being a true prophet of God. Listed below are a few eerily similarities.

• Both religions prophets were visited by an angel (fallen) who gives them a revelation to write down.
• Neither religion can produce the original documents that date around the time the angel visited them. The Koran manuscript evidence shows up hundreds of years later and the Mormon golden scripture tablets were never found.
• Both religions have the same doctrine of woman. Women a demeaned relative to men in ways that are identical in both. 
• Both have a doctrine of Heaven that is easy to imagine if there's nothing beyond our universe.
• Both books mention a latter day prophet for the latter day revelation.

Both religions share a high emphasis on family life, charitable giving, chastity, abstention from alcohol, and a special reverence for, though not worship of, their founding prophet. Before the 1890 Manifesto against plural marriage (a prophets new revelation), Mormonism and Islam also shared in the belief in and practice of plural marriage, a practice now held in common by Islam and various branches of Mormon fundamentalism. Mormonism is a sect, a mystery cult with a new religion, church, people and nation (America). Mormon's are not preaching the true gospel and even though most Mormons are nice people and good Americans, they will go straight to hell teaching a false doctrine that is contrary to the gospel.

• "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!" Galatians 1:8

Background

Jehovah Witnesses are quite common in America. I'm sure at some point two of them have come knocking on your door or mailed you some of their Watchtower literature. The Jehovah's Witnesses are an outgrowth of the International Bible Students Association, which was founded in 1872 in Pittsburgh by Charles Taze Russell who dropped out of school at age fifteen to work in his fathers clothing business. Charles had no formal, religious doctrinal or theological training. While he was attending a congregational Church, he started to have serious doubts about (1) the existence of Hell and (2) the truthfulness about eternal torment, which is completely contrary to sound Biblical Doctrine. At age seventeen, he left that church and gave up on the Bible. Soon after he heard a seventh-day advent preach that there was no Hell or eternal torment for the unsaved, so he adopted it as his own. Over next few years he started a Bible group as "Pastor" teaching false doctrine and called it the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society which later became the Jehovah Witnesses (1931) based on Isaiah 43:10. 

• "You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord (Jehovah), and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me." Isaiah 43:10

Witnesses Obsession

Exactly who are they witnesses for? Jehovah Witnesses (JW's) are obsessed with the return of Jesus Christ. Russell became obsessed with trying to target the date of His return. After years of study he came up with the date of 1914 as the year of His return from measuring the great Egyptian Pyramids and the Bible. This is what sparked the publication of the Watchtower magazine with his prediction the same year. It basically recruited new members because on that date when Jesus returns, only Watchtower Society members would survive Armageddon. As 1914 approached thousands of members joined based on fear. 1914 came and went, and Jesus never showed. Russell went back to the drawing board and came up with a new date of 1915. 1915 came and went, and still no Jesus. Russell died in 1916, but the organization continued under Judge Rutherford. His predictions gave a date of 1925 and wrote a book called "Millions will never die" which became the rallying cry in the 1920's for the JW's recruitment, if you don't join you will perish. 1925 came and went, and still no Jesus. The JW leaders went back and had to alter their prophesy's. Just as recent as 1978 JW's predicted this date to be the Return. You know the end story. If you are not a JW when Christ returns you will not go to Hell to be tormented, you will be annihilated for all eternity at the battle of Armageddon which is always right around the corner.

JW's firmly deny the Trinity, especially the deity of Christ. They believe in one God the creator and he is the only person in the Godhead. This too is contrary to sound Biblical doctrine. They also believe that God created the Archangel Michael (incarnation) who was sent to live inside the body of Jesus Christ to redeem mankind and pay for our sins. Afterwards, Jesus Christ ceased to exist after His death on the cross and Michael went back to his duties as Archangel in Heaven. Therefore, Jesus is not Jehovah God and the Holy Sprit is an energy force that does the bidding for God, but is not part of the Godhead. They accept the Bible as the word of God and accept the Bible on their own terms much like the Mormons. They reinterpret the Bible based on the means of the bi-weekly Watchtower magazine publishing's. They believe they are the only organization on earth that speak for God, expanding on the Bible through the Watchtower magazine (primary truth source).

• "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form," Also see Isaiah 9:6, Luke 1:35, 1 John 5:7

• "Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood (Jesus Christ)." Acts 20:28 Also see Titus 2:13, Hebrews 1:3

Jehovah Witnesses will also claim the Jesus Christ himself never claimed to be God. Not so fast...

• "Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I AM!” John 8:58

• "For this reason, they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God." John 5:18

• "I and the father are one.” John 10:30

Salvation Performance Plan  

As a JW's, your performance based, salvation plan, is a lot different than what the Bible teaches. It includes the following.

1. JW's must believe in Jesus Christ's (Archangel Michaels) death as payment for sins to go to Heaven, but sinners must "prove themselves worthy" or Christ's ransom.
2. JW's must obey everything God wrote in the Bible beginning with baptism.
3. JW's must pledge absolute fidelity to the Watchtower Organization. Including door to door visiting, literature distribution, kingdom hall meetings, etc.

Will every JW's member go to Heaven when Jesus returns? Nope. If a JW truly proves his worthiness to receive the ransom of Jesus Christ by fulfilling the Watchtower demands, you get to survive Armageddon! That doesn't mean you go to Heaven though. There are only a select few that get to go directly to Heaven, the anointed ones, the count being 144,000 (taken from Revelation 7:4). Everyone else gets to stay here on paradise earth forever. JW's spend much of their time in anguish proving themselves worthy of Christs ransom. When do you ever know if you've done enough? You don't. If you try to leave the JW's it's extremely difficult because they practice a tactic called "shunning". If you become a ex-witness, you are basically on your own because exiting the cult means that you will surely lose both your family and friends. It's a small price to pay for eternal salvation. 

The scripture clearly says that the 144,000 are from the twelve tribes of Israel so they have to be Jewish! They are sealed by God as evangelists and the seal protects them from being killed during the Tribulation.

• "Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel." Revelation 7:4

There are a few primary questions one can ask to test other faith-based religions for heresy: 

a) What does their faith teach about the person of Jesus Christ and the Trinity? All cults deny Christ's deity and the Triune God!

• “And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.” 1 John 4:3

b) What does their faith say about their plan salvation?

• “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!” Galatians 1:8

c) What result does their faith produce?

• “Holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.” 2 Timothy 3:5

d) What does their faith say about eternal torment in Hell? All cults deny it!

• "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Matthew 25:46

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil."

― Eric Hoffer

Philosopher & Author (1902-1983) 

Artificial Hierarchical Structure

Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.345 billion members and the Catholic Church is the largest among Church denominations. Catholicism injects a nonbiblical, a man-made hierarchy structure where the pope is pontiff supreme and the cardinals, bishops, and dioceses primarily maintain Church order. The pope, also known as the Roman pontiff who is head of the worldwide Catholic Church and head of state or sovereign of the Vatican City State.

Salvation Performance Plan 

Followers are required to perform three "acts" on the part of the penitent: 

1. Contrition (sorrow of the soul for the sins committed)
2. Disclosure of the sins (the 'confession')
3. Satisfaction (the 'penance', i.e. doing something to make amends for the sins). 

There are also rules when confessing to a priest. No where in the Bible does it state that we need to confess our sins to a priest (man). Christ died on the cross in order to restore our spirit so that we have a direct communication with God through prayer. 

Elevated Virgin Mary Coequal to Jesus

Catholic followers pray to the Virgin Mary, evaluate appearances of Mary, and carefully approves ones believed to be true. Popular devotions include earing the Miraculous Medal, praying novenas (a nine-day set of prayers for a specific intention), Consecrating themselves to Jesus through Mary, praying the Rosary. In other words Jesus and Mary are of equal importance where you must go through Mary to get to Jesus. None of this is in sound Biblical doctrine and there are no Bible verses to back it up. This is all manufacture by man so they can control the congregation and elevate their importance. 

Accepted Replacement Theology

Catholics  also believe in replacement theology  which basically says that when the Israelites rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah in 33 A.D., they forfeited their covenants (which are promises from God) so they are no longer God's chosen people. When this happened the Christian Church (primary Catholics) became the new Israel. Replacement Theology is also called Supersessionism where the Christian Church has succeeded the Israelites as the definitive people of God. It holds the view that the New Covenant has replaced or superseded the Mosaic covenant. From a supersessionist's "point of view, just by continuing to exist [outside the Church], the Jews dissent". This view directly contrasts with dual-covenant theology which holds that the Mosaic covenant remains valid for Jews.

More than one-fifth of adults in the West give credence to astrology; an equal number have practiced some form of meditation. Three to five million Americans identified themselves as New Agers or as accepting the beliefs and practices of the New Age movement of the late 1980s. There is no membership, leader, single organization, set of beliefs or cohesive doctrine to this movement. It’s made up of thousands of independent, local groups of “channelers” and faith healers. These channelers try to reach deceased people from the past for a fee. Some New Age American’s self-identify as Christians and also hold what are sometimes characterized as “New Age” beliefs including belief in reincarnation, astrology, psychics and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees. The Ouija board games in consistently in the top ten in sales and popularity. New Agers believe that God is an impersonal force or energy. He is a cosmic power or consciousness that can be tapped into only if you know how. God is like “the force” in the movie Star Wars. They are overtly pantheistic and believe that all human beings are in fact God. A major theme is that most human beings are not aware of their "Godness" and when their awareness finally occurs, unlimited power is unleashed for that person. Christian’s truth source is the Bible, but for a New Ager that answer is excessively narrow. Each New Ager has their own truth, which differs from person to person so there is no such thing as “the truth”. This is a recipe for moral and behavioral anarchy like back in the Old Testament when everyone did as they pleased.

• “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.” Judges 21:25

They believe in a unique type of reincarnation that always improves each time you are reincarnation, you will have an upward evolution until you become free and one with the universal spirit form for eternity. For example, you cannot “go down” and become an animal as you can with traditional Hinduism. This is a no lose reincarnation condition. There is also no reason to fear death because there is no hell, no judgement or day of reckoning with a holy God. Sin is merely a failure to be enlightened to your godhood. 

Some New Agers believe that Jesus Christ was a reincarnation of either Buddha or Hare Krishna; a belief that is more common is that he was a good person who was enlightened. He was not born from the Virgin Mary, he is not God in the flesh or the savior of the world, instead between the ages of twelve and thirty where the Bible is silent, Jesus went to India and studied under the great guru’s and he became so enlightened that this Christ consciousness descended upon him. In addition, at the age of thirty, he returns from Indian to John the Baptist at the Jordan with this this Christ consciousness just like Buddha and Krishna. Moreover, if we can get enlightened enough we too can experience the same Christ consciousness as they did. They believe there is a new Christ living on earth today in seclusion somewhere outside of London and in a few years he will make himself known to the entire world so he can take everyone into the New Age.

The belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or divinity) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. More specifically, the thought and practice especially of various Christian based cults distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that the process of being truly free comes through or is intended to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation. Jesus is identified by some as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring knowledge of spiritual mysteries to the earth, while others adamantly denied that the supreme being came in the flesh, claiming Jesus to be merely a human who attained enlightenment through gnosis and taught his disciples to do the same. 

What salvation plan are you on? The "Jesus Plus Something" plan...where your good deeds won't save you. The human performance treadmill won't work. The only plan God will honor is the Biblical "Jesus Plus Nothing" plan.  Human beings are ultimately responsible for saving their own soul."

• "However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness." Romans 4:5

Lon Solomon 

McLean Bible Church, June 4, 2003

"There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie."

― Cornel West

Author & Philosopher

There is another thing you can perform to get to paradise and that is to be part of a holy war or "jihad". Jihads don't happen often, but when there is an opportunity to fight in a holy war, male Muslims must go to fight in the war. There are only two reasons to have a jihad, to spread Islam or defend Islam from infidels (non-Muslims). The Koran teaches that any Muslim man who dies in a jihad will automatically enters paradise. It's a great recruiting tool. This is the only guaranteed way to get to paradise even if you didn't perform any of the five pillars. This is why parents are excited to send their boy off to wars and why these Muslims were so willing to commit suicide by crashing into the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. Islam is also the state religion of all the Arab countries, so their religion, culture and government are one. No separation of Church and State. This is why it is so difficult to reach them for Christ and why Muslim's tend not to assimilate very well in foreign countries. Islam goal is to convert the entire world to Islam. Their belief is that non-Islamic governments are wicked, infidel, Satan filled and either need to convert to Islam, be conquered or killed. Those born into Islam find it impossible to leave because it's so intertwined in the culture and there is no honorable way to leave. They would be traitors to their faith, family and country. Also, In Saudi Arabia if a Muslim converts to Christianity their relative is obligated to kill them.

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks made headlines around the world after his 2007 cartoon caused outrage, leading then Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to meet ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries in an attempt to defuse the situation. Vilks, most famous for his sketch of Muhammad as a dog, was an artist and activist who often worked with paint or created installations. Shortly afterwards, al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a $100,000 (£73,692) reward for his murder. 

In 2015, Vilks attended a debate on free speech that was targeted in a gun attack in Copenhagen. He said he was probably the target of the attack, which killed a film director. The 75-year-old artist had been living under police protection after receiving death threats over the cartoon. On October 3, 2021 Lars Vilks died in a mysterious high-speed crash. The crash is still being investigated as to the reason why the bodyguard car was on the wrong side of the road before the car exploded.

The Satanic Verses, first published September 26, 1988 was inspired in part by the life of prophet Muhammad. The novel exposed the evils of fundamental Islam and provoked great controversy in the Muslim community for what some Muslims believed were blasphemous references. They accused the author, Salman Rushdie, of misusing freedom of speech. Pakistan banned the book in November 1988. On February 12, 1989, a 10,000-strong protest against Rushdie and the book took place in Islamabad, Pakistan. Six protesters were killed in an attack on the American Cultural Center, and an American Express office was ransacked. As the controversy spread, the importing of the book was banned in India and it was burned in demonstrations in the United Kingdom. 

In mid-February 1989, following a violent riot against the book in Pakistan, the Ayatollah Khomeini (Shiite), then Supreme Leader of Iran and a Shi'a Muslim scholar, issued a fatwa calling for the death of Rushdie and his publishers (Issued a $1 Million Reward), and called for Muslims to point him out to those who can kill him if they cannot themselves. Although the British Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher gave Rushdie round-the-clock police protection, many politicians on both sides were hostile to the author. Out of fear for his life, he converted to Islam, but that didn't stop the hit put on his life. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States near union Square in Washington, D.C. 

Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses, 1988

1988 Booker Prize finalist, 1988 Whitbread Award novel of the year 

In Chautauqua, New York on Friday, August 12, 2022, Salmon Rushdie was attacked by Islamic extremist Hadi Matar. Matar praised Iran’s ayatollah in an exclusive jailhouse interview with The NY Post on Wednesday and admitted he didn’t think the author would survive. He went on to admit he had not actually read Rushdie's book at the source of the controversy, "The Satanic Verses." He stated in the interview “I don’t like the person. I don’t think he’s a very good person,” he said about Rushdie. “I don’t like him. I don’t like him very much. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.”. Matar pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault.  Rushdie was stabbed ten times, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, according to his agent.

"Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.”

― Corrie ten Boom

Dutch Christian Watchmaker & Writer

There is only one piece of property on this planet that God has deeded to a people while the rest of the land has been obtained by conquest. The Land of Palestine, renamed Israel in 1948, was deeded to the Abraham and his descendants, the Israelites over four thousand years ago formally known as ancient Canaan, located on the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea.

• "The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him." Genesis 12:7

Moses prophesized in Deuteronomy 30 (before entering the Promise Land) that the God would have their land (Canaan) destroyed twice because of their unbelief. The first time was during the Neo-Babylonian Empire under King  Nebuchadnezzar and the second time was in 70 A.D. by the Romans under Titus. It's still God's land that He deeded it to the Israelites and no one else. It wasn't until 635 A.D. when the Muslims Nations took possession of Palestine that it truly became a desolate ruins. The prophet Ezekiel prophesized in 570 B.C.E. that those nations surrounding Israel would face Gods wrath for destroying His land. Below God speaks to the land or mountains of Israel which is talking about those surrounding nations of Israel.

• "therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around (Muslim nations), 5 therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom (Arab nations), who gave My Land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach." Ezekiel 36:3-7

God will cause the Muslim Nations to do irrational things as if they were drunk. The will rush into making decisions that are not in their best interests because they are messing with His land and the people he deeded it to. So for all nations who are involved in trying to reset Israel's boundaries and divide up the land to get a peace treaty between Jews and Palestinians will be destroyed. The only reason the U.S. and other countries insert themselves into this dispute over God's land is that the Muslim nations have their hand on the oil spigot, so whatever troubles them, they  trouble the world by using this as political leverage. The irony here is that the Western Nations are the ones who developed the technology that discovered oil for these Muslim countries and now it's used against them. Muslims already have Mecca and Medina as their holy sites and now they want Jerusalem too because they hate the idea of Jews (and Christians) being in control of what they claim is their 3rd most holy site (Dome of the Rock). Muslims didn't discover that passion for Jerusalem as a one of their holy sites for a long, long time after the death of Mohammad. When they saw it was important to the Christians is when they had to claim it was their holy site too. Most Muslims don't even know the name "Jerusalem", they call it "Al-Quds" which means the farthest mosque. 

• "Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples (Muslim Nations). The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. 3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. 4 On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness."  Zechariah 12:2-4

"Half the truth is often a great lie." 

― Benjamin Franklin

Statesman, Author, and Inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790)  

During biblical times, Gaza was part of the land promised to the Jews by God. In 2005 President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon evacuated the Gaza Strip containing 21 civilian Israeli settlements and 4 in the West Bank. Sharon said that his plan was designed to improve Israel's security and international status in the absence of political negotiations to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. About 9,000 Israeli residents within Gaza were instructed to leave the area or face eviction by the night of Tuesday August 16, 2005.

God's Response to the U.S. Endorsement of the Gaza Evacuation

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina a category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage made landfall near New Orleans (Sin City), Louisiana. Less than a month later, making landfall in Cameron Parish in Louisiana on September 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita was the fourth most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. You can call this a coincidence, but we feel that these events were God's immediate response to the U.S. for supporting the purge of Jews from His land in Gaza.

At first you may think that God targeted NOLA because it's a sinful place like Las Vegas, but we don't believe that's the primary reason it was targeted with Hurricane Katrina & Rita. Synonymous with New Orleans, voodoo first came to Louisiana with enslaved West Africans, who merged their religious rituals and practices with those of the local Catholic population. New Orleans Voodoo is also known as Voodoo-Catholicism. It is a false religion connected to the occult. Voodoo was bolstered when followers fleeing Haiti after the 1791 slave revolt moved to New Orleans and grew as many freed blacks made its practice an important part of their culture. We believe is not a coincidence that the Island of Haiti is constantly experiencing devastating earthquakes, the place where Haitian Vodou originated and is currently practiced, whereas all the Islands surrounding Haiti experience minimal seismic activity.

The core belief of New Orleans Voodoo is that one God does not interfere in daily lives, but that spirits do. Connection with these spirits can be obtained through various rituals such as dance, music, chanting, and snakes.

Today gris-gris dolls, potions and talismans are still found in stores and homes throughout the city as a reminder of the New Orleans fascination with spirits, magic and mystery. Voodoo practices include readings, spiritual baths, prayer and personal ceremony.

Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7., 2023.  The conflict was touched off a month ago by the sneak attack, which included thousands of armed Hamas terrorists breaching a border security fence separating Gaza from Israel, and indiscriminately torturing and gunning down Israeli civilians in their homes, also attacking soldiers, caught off guard, on military bases. Other militants stormed beaches in Israel on motorboats. And some brought death from the sky, paragliding into Israel, to launch a barbaric attack at an open-air music festival that had been billed as a celebration of "unity and love."

In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which also included thousands of missiles launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip, the IDF began its campaign of retaliation, bombarding Gaza with airstrikes. Israel soon vowed to eradicate Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza and is believed to operate with the backing of Iran.

God has a way of taking a tragic event like a massacre to fulfill His promises. As of 01/2024 we are in the middle of the Israel-Hamas war which will eventually place the Gaza Strip land back into the control of Israel. 

 "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." 

― John Lennon

British Singer, Songwriter, Musician and Peace Activist  

You've probably heard the statement “We are all God’s children”. Many Hollywood celebrities love to use this quote at the award ceremonies as if it were truth. It's true that we are all God’s creation and that He loves us. The Bible clearly says that God's children only applies to the followers of Jesus Christ. God's ultimate goal is for all of us to be called His children.

• "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure."  1 John 3:1-3

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” 

― Winston Churchill