SNIFFING OUT OBAMA

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


That’s what is major in the Great Summit now bowing and smiling in London.


Nothing earthshaking will come out of it. That’s a given.


Therefore, for those into analyzing drama, there is the Sniffing Out Obama Show going on whenever the major players meet.


After all, this is Obama’s first international stage. So he and wife will be at their smiling height.


That’s about it, people. That’s about it.


Sniffing Out Obama will be augmented with applause in the boulevards. Once again we have mob hysteria supplanting logic-in-real-life-real-time.


Obama’s ego is totally engaged when mob hysteria is at its screeching peak. It drives him all the more to consider the possibility of taking the World Crown upon his head. After all, Obama has “hope” in gear.


As far as this leader show doing anything to save the globe from its cliff-edge, it won’t happen. Therefore, once again days move into weeks and weeks into months with nothing actually solving anything.


Those who believe in the God of the Bible conclude that God is at work on His turf. God knows what history is up to. God is laying out His prophetic lines in the world drama, no matter what mortals do or say.


Consequently, Bible devotees know that any of these global shows amount to nothing more than world-think in contest with divine revelation.


These devotees hold that the Bible is absolutely true when it states that God’s ways and thoughts are far, very far above mortals’ ways and thoughts. Mortals outside God think otherwise; but that only adds to the mortals’ folly.


Bible devotees realize that they continually sideline the language and thought processes of mortals, particularly mortal so-called leadership, for that has no ongoing power for global unfolding.


The Bible’s God is unfolding global this-and-that per scriptural prophecy.


In the meantime, mortals outside God flail. The more they flail, the more circumstances become snarled. Therefore, the present drama going on in London will add to this twist and turn.


For the media cameras, however, the Sniffing Out Obama Show is all they’re going to get. And consequently so with the public.

FOR YOUR CHILDREN

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .weep for your children." Luke 23:28


When one carries the cross, others are looking on. Those closest to the cross carrier are family members. Therefore, it is the privilege before God to carry that cross nobly. Its reputation must be without blemish.


As Jesus was being hauled up Calvary's hill, there were those who cried out to Him, lamenting His plight. Jesus responded by stating: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."


So we still weep for our children. It is the parents' privilege to intercede on behalf of the souls brought into this spiritually fallen sphere.


As the church age climaxes and the foe become more fierce against the believing remnant, all the more the cross ambassadors must cry to heaven on behalf of their offspring. There are too many traps being set by Satan against our children. They are pulled every day in the direction of dark caves to ruin and damn.


Even when those children would mock the cross, the cross bearer continues consistently loyal to Jesus. There can be no room for compromising in order to "serve the family" ahead of God. Not husband nor wife nor children nor any other clan member can come first in our allegiances. God is God and therefore we seek "first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." All else must come after that priority.


So it is that our children will take note of where we place our priorities. Always keep the cross at the forefront of your heart, your day, your nighttime, your relationships.


To weep for our children is to yearn for their salvation. It is to carry a rightful concern that they come into the crosswalk as well. Eventually some of them will; others will not. Their free wills determine their destinies; however, the cross example set by parents will be paramount.


Carry the cross, yoked with Jesus, so that those under your roof can witness your steadiness in the climb. It is significant that they see that Christianity is real, especially since there is so much which is counterfeit on all sides.


Weep for your children, not neurotically, but prophetically. That is, the weeping before heaven's throne on behalf of others has a Spirit-inspired power behind it. There is a might in intercession which is not present in other prayers. The reason is because the one praying is not praying for self but for someone else.


Consequently, frequently bring those children's souls to God in intercession. Let the demons hear your pleas. Permit the angels the honor of approving your petitions. Let the indwelling Spirit lift from your heart your concern, placing it before your heavenly Advocate for Him to present to the Father.

PURGING

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." John l5:l2


When believers as branches continue to take in the daily life flow from trunk Jesus, then they bring forth fruitage to the Father's pleasing.


The more believers remain in close communication with Jesus, the more they are "purged." That is, they are refined in the way; they are matured in matters spiritual; they are tutored in the finer detail of the cross way.


Purging is not always pleasant. It is to bring forth a pleasant result; but the purging itself will be painful.


This is especially the case when purging focuses upon the egocentricity which forever seeks to return as center piece to the believers' very existence.


Jesus is a jealous God. He will not tolerate the human conceit to sit upon His throne. He is Lord God. The throne of the believer's inner room must be reserved only for the eternal royalty. Therefore, when Lord God Jesus insists that pride removes itself from the pivotal position, such will bring its own pain.


That pain will cause the sensitive soul to wince, even at times to cry out in excruciating agony. In that reaction is the telling of what choice believer will then make. Will believer give in to pride or oust pride on the spot? The former is extremely hurtful to King Jesus. The latter is most reassuring to King Jesus.


And so the purging must continue for the good of the branches, also for the producing of holy fruitage. In all situations, Father must be pleased. There is nothing which can detract from blessing Father God.


Consequently, indwelling Spirit of Jesus, having been true to Father's will while on earth, will continue to be true to Father's goal in believer's soul. There can be no compromise with deity. He must be true to His own integrity. His holy character demands it.


Therefore, cross carrier realizes from the start that when Jesus instructs to deny self-absorption, such commission is operative till the close of earthly sojourn. There can be no letting up for any reason. Self-surrender must be daily discipline in order to remain Christian.


In that course, cross bearer understands that on-going, in-depth purging will take place. Sometimes it will be extremely intense in order to see through the deeper works of purification.


When Paul wrote that he sought to live out Christ, he was confessing to coming under the personal purging. He was undergoing surgery of the human spirit. Paul, being particularly headstrong, ambitious, intelligent, and persistent, must have gone under the divine knife on numerous occasions in order to witness to the sanctification enjoyed. Through it all, Paul gave thanks to heaven for seeing through the severe work.


So it is with the cross carrier. The cross is meant to cut deeply, completing its surgery in order to lead to resurrection presence. It is the way of earth's travels when such are intersected by heavenly parenting. Father knows that we grace children must be governed in such a way of purification that nothing can deter the purging. Purging yields increased fruit, the most precious being the total obedience to the indwelling Christ King.

JESUS POWER

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." I Corinthians 4:l9


Those into showmanship focus this verse upon their marvelous exploits in the name of religion. They yearn for center stage. They set up for the next performance. Their audiences exclaim over what power is set loose in their coliseums.


When the disciples returned to Jesus to relate how marvelous were their village ministries, Jesus cautioned them not to concentrate on that kind of power. Instead, He told them to thank heaven that their names were written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. Now that's power. It's the power set loose at Calvary.


When Paul writes about power, he writes it in the context of those who have called too much attention to themselves. "I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power."


Paul was not impressed with marvelous power; he was impressed with marvelous integrity--the power of the interior.


"What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?"


In other words, Paul was ready to discipline those into their own egocentric power displays. He was determined that the church would know only the interior power--lowliness, meekness, humility.


When Jesus walks alongside the cross carrier, Jesus instructs him on the power sources of heaven. They produce "poor in spirit" evidences. In other words, Jesus teaches the disciple how to let Jesus servanthood work out through human personality.


When Jesus abides within the human spirit, there can be no display of conceit. Jesus is a jealous God. He will not stand alongside pride. Therefore, either pride must go or Jesus must go. If Jesus stays, then the power of poverty comes through.


It does not take much to work up an audience nor come upon carnal extravaganzas for attention. That can be seen through in a fleck of time. But it takes some doing to come upon Jesus' brochettes. It takes everything the disciple can muster to submit to the bent frame of Calvary, to live out that sacrifice in daily grind.


Do you evidence that kind of kingdom power? It is the only kind that God commends: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. . ."

NEWNESS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4


"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."


God has already proven Himself two thousand years ago. Death was followed with life. Jesus was there to reveal it. Disciples saw and handled it. They ate with Him, walked and talked with Him. Life! "I am the
. . .the Life."


Therefore, proved in its apex, it is now proven over and over again in each cross bearer's experience. Christian witness has given repeated testimony to the victorious life presence.


Buried with Christ, raised with Christ, walking in newness of life.


Again, we come upon the divine chronology. There is first the one component, then the next and then the next. Order, design.


We then have hope. It is the believing that makes the glory possible. Faith is power in that it propels component into component according to heaven's scheduling.


Yet we want to mix things up so as to be wiser than heaven. We have a plan and it should be thus and that. We also have a calendar on which to pin the plan. Therefore, we bring this blueprint to heaven for heaven's smile. We even beg for heaven's approval. Sometimes we ask other believers to engage their intercessions with yours in order to convince heaven by numbers.


All this is "of the flesh." God is patient with us; but He is not pleased with us. He wants us to learn how to yield to the divine chronology. It is the death, then the rising, then the newness of life. Yet how we yearn for the life first, second and last.


Indeed, the gracious God is kind in permitting certain snatches of life even in the baptism to death. Jesus saw the life even while dying. He saw the life come into the repentant thief's eyes, then his soul. That was encouraging to Jesus even while tied to the tree.


Jesus saw the life commitment in John when this man agreed to oversee the care of Jesus' mother. Such comradeship was comfort to Jesus even while suffering his last pangs.


Jesus saw the tearful allegiance of mother Mary, crumpled at the cross' hole in the earth. As Jesus, Son, looked on at mother's woe, yet mother not leaving her Son to desertion, Jesus was consoled even while in the last agonies of Golgotha.


Jesus saw the Roman soldier begin to move away from a callused empire-loyal heart toward a recognition that the hanging One might just in fact be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. In that Jesus was enlivened while in His final moments upon the timber.


There is the newness of life budding even now in your distress. See it. It is there. Then it vanishes. Why? For at least in this brief time frame, there is more for you to learn from the awful cross cut into your soul's shoulder. Nevertheless, the newness is birthed where you are now. It will come into full life in heaven's calendar.


Have faith. It is so just as it was so in the biography of Jesus Christ.

ALIVE POWER

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .power. . .by the resurrection from the dead. . ." Romans l:4


Paul combines empty tomb power with spiritual victorious living as he greets the Roman community.


It is the death on the cross that continues its weaving into the resurrection power. One can only arrive in the might of Christ's resurrection by first knowing the cross commitment.


Many want the resurrection glory but will not pay the price of the crucifixion. This is cheap religion at its most repulsive display.


However, since the world is spiritually fallen, its composition is first pain and then pleasure. There can be no divine pleasure without first experiencing the cross pain. It is come upon because of the betrayal handed Creator God by Adam and Eve. Eden has seen to that.


All the more then the disciple praises heaven's throne for the chronology provided. It is the cross, then the resurrection. It is resurrection only when one first goes under the timber. One cannot have the one without the other; one cannot experience the relief of the one without first undergoing the trial of the other. There is an order in all divine matters.


However, being on this side of the risen Christ, we know that each trial has its own resurrection glow. We look back to the Calvary event followed by the First Day radiance to know that our Savior is zenith power. He is overcoming victory. He is the ultimate statement.


So it is with each dedicated biography. The last segment of each consecration is written by the One who stood in the garden to welcome Mary. Then the last word of the eventual finality is penned by the same winning Amen.


Even now when going through the cross suffering, one believes in the depths that the power is at work.


At Calvary, the power was at work; it appeared as if there were no divine weight to that Friday afternoon. However, heaven was indeed prodding about the cross base, seeing through the burial detail, taking note of the Roman seal, watching over the young Man's corpse laid upon the stone.


God's power is always at work in the most minute detail of each surrendered cross. The world looking on calls you failure. Often weak-willed disciples looking on say the same, even with sincere sympathy, but nevertheless, in that humanness they reveal their lack of faith. Only the truly cross experienced have traveled far enough up the mount to know for sure that there is no cross without the divine power at work in everything.


Believe even this moment that what you are wrestling with is impregnated with divine might. It may seem just the opposite. That is fine; do not look to the outward appearance. Illusions abound. Temporary is tempting even the best of us to conclude that it is permanent.


Keep faith eyes upon the scene and you will eventually witness the resurrection power. It must be so for it is a primary postulate of deity. He has lived it. He has woven it into His scheming for good. He has proven this holy character repeatedly in all surrendered cross lives.

DIVINE DEMOCRACY

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." Romans l2:3


When God set forth His rescue mission called Redemption, it was meant to be available for "whosoever will." Therefore, the Calvary cross is the most democratic spot on the planet. It is where "whosoever" may come to receive the blood spilt. The Grace Gift Himself is stapled to that wood. "Whosoever" may then bow beneath that Gift to receive Him personally.


Faith makes that act possible. That faith in itself becomes the first gift provided in order for the mortal to receive the Grace Gift Himself. Faith is available to all who would receive it, then activate it toward the Calvary cross.


". . .God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."


Everyone has been offered by Creator God the chance to be saved from sins, guilt and the fear of eternal hell. There is no prejudice with deity. He is no "respecter of persons." He Himself became incarnate to deal with us all, to open His arms to us all. There is no teacher's pet in the eternal kingdom; anyone who repents of his wrongs and so embraces Jesus becomes one of the grace children. It is that simply put.


Therefore, take that faith provision and use it for your soul's health. It is there for that express purpose.


As you accept the faith provision, you then fall in love with the Faith Provider. Why? Because He Himself has acted out so much love toward you in order to rescue you from damnation that logic would say that you would return your entire love package to Him--that is, your whole earthly sojourn for His purpose.


And at that point comes the cross.


This Jesus, having loved you with an unfathomable love upon Calvary, then reasonably expects you to be anxious to take up His very symbol--the daily cross--to walk with it. You do. Then you yoke your life's neck to Him as He makes the trek with you.


Faith makes all this possible for faith starts the jaunt and so faith will conclude the jaunt. It is all a matter of faith in One whom you have never laid eyes on. That is, your physical eyes have never taken Him in; but you have seen Him with the eyes of the soul. And it is with those eyes that you are going to see glory in heaven. So those eyes are most the significant in that they will outlast your physical eyes.


Faith opens up the friendship with your Sinless Sacrifice. Faith reveals to you the necessity and reward of the daily cross. Faith will take you home to the eternities where your Love waits for you, having prepared the Father's mansions of holiness for you.


Keep then the faith intact, unmoved, loved for its Giver's sake and kept pure by His blood.

THE EMOTION OF SANCTIFICATION

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


When one is sanctified by the Holy Spirit, what is the primary emotion which the believer will experience?


First, the emotion is not of primary concern when being infilled with the Holy Spirit. Has too much emphasis been put upon the emotional experience? No doubt so.


With undue stress placed upon feelings in religious experience, many have had to deal with much unwarranted turmoil. Earnest seekers have sought then an emotion rather than the reality. They have at times parroted others' testimonies. Or they have doubted for years whether or not sanctification has become personal to them because they have gauged it all by a particular emotion.


This is extremely unfortunate. Yet it continues to be fostered in certain quarters of so-called "holiness circles" and various segments of the charismatic movement.


Reality check: whatever God does in the life of anyone is based, not on emotion, but on Calvary. Jesus died. That occurrence took place two thousand years ago. The work of redemption and sanctification was seen through perfectly by God in the event of the Cross. Period.


Therefore, when one is redeemed and sanctified, one is dealt with by the Holy Spirit on the basis of the Calvary work, not on what emotional experience may be testified to by the individual.


This biblical premise is the alpha and omega of salvation / sanctification truth. It cannot be overstated, especially in light of numerous emotional grids placed upon sincere seekers.


Therefore, when one is saved by the blood of Jesus, such takes place in the soul when one confesses his sins to Jesus and receives His forgiving grace. Whether there is any emotion to this occurrence is actually beside the point.


Further, when one is sanctified by the Spirit of Jesus, such takes place in the soul when one consecrates his all to God. Whether there is any emotion to the occurrence is actually beside the point.


Salvation and sanctification are based upon The Event of the first century--Jesus dying for us. The facts then are two thousands year old. The truth dates back to the Hill outside Jerusalem. Those historical realities work the personal truth upon the soul when the
seeker meets God's expectations set forth in the Word.


What, however, about emotion, considering that the seeker is not only a thinking and willful creature but also an emotional creature?


When one does take into consideration emotion, then one can understand that the primary emotion related to sanctification is PEACE. Why? Because the human will no longer wars against the divine will. The believer signs a peace treaty with God, permitting God to have total control over everything.


There of course may be other accompanying emotions to peace--contentment, happiness, relief--depending upon the circumstances and the individual. But the primary emotion is that deep-settled peace--no more warring, no more carnal battles of human ego versus divine Ego.


The sanctifying peace may be exuberant or quiet, subtle or extremely obvious. In the final analysis, what does it spiritually matter?


Again, the bottom line is that the cleansing of the soul has taken place due to the sacrifice provision of Jesus. The latter guarantees the sanctification fact, not whether one has a
certain feeling.

PERSONAL PENTECOST

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


A four-liner goes like this:
It's a very odd thing--
As odd as can be,
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.


Compare this now with the intake of the soul. It is one thing to know academically the doctrine of holiness; it is quite another thing to "eat in" the food of the Spirit.


It is necessary to make exact theology come to life. It is imperative that there be much more than orthodoxy; that orthodoxy must become a personal Pentecost.


If we eat only exact doctrine divorced from life, then we will be full in the head but empty in the heart. If we eat both biblical theology and daily infillings with the Spirit, then we will be whole, and satisfied.


The personal Pentecost comes when we surrender our self-centeredness to His will. It is the singing of the enlightened spirit: "Make me captive, Lord / And then I shall be free. / Force me to render up my sword / And I shall conq'ror be."


Even in the born again soul there is a fight. The war is waged between the human spirit and the divine spirit. The saved person wrestles with God before experiencing sanctified control by the Holy Spirit. But when that human will yields fully--daily--to the molding of the Creator, then the peace treaty is signed and personal Pentecost is realized.


It takes the giving over of self-centeredness into God-centeredness.


The crisis is the initial moment of surrender. The continuing then follows on a moment-by-moment fellowship in the Spirit. The harvest then comes in the lifetime of holiness till death brings forth the face-to-face, pure encounter with the presently invisible Companion.


Admiral Peary said about the north pole: "For more than a score of years that point on the earth's surface had been the object of my every effort. To attain it my whole being, physical, mental, and moral, had been dedicated."


It is with such zeal of consecration that the Christian enters into personal Pentecost. Having put self-centeredness out of the way by the fiery presence of the burning Spirit, the sanctified soul climbs to the heights gained from a lifetime of commitment to the divine plan.


The biblical truth of "without sin" (Romans 6) becomes personalized. The controlling companionship of the Holy Spirit is the key. It is what Paul meant when he stated forthrightly that he did not live, but Christ lived within him.


On one occasion, after an exceptionally moving rehearsal when the entire orchestra rose in applause for their conductor, Toscanini responded in embarrassment by stating, "You see, gentlemen, it is not me. . .It's Beethoven!"


Toscanini could not take the credit for the excellence; in fact, he had to point to the musical power that flowed through him.


Likewise the sanctified Christian knows that he deserves no praise for righteousness; all glory goes to the source, the Holy Spirit in control. The person of the Holy Ghost resides upon the yielded human spirit in Pentecost.


Samuel Shoemaker told his congregation that "sooner or later every Christian must choose between two pains: the pain of a divided mind or the pain of the crucified self."


Leighton Ford preached that "there is no detour to holiness. Jesus came to the Resurrection through the Cross, not around it." Implied is that the route is the same for us--the crucified self given over to the Easter morning pure light in Christ.


There is a price that must be paid for the personal Pentecost, but who would trade it for the reward of clean conscience and the power of purity? "The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the power of God," wrote Blaise Pascal.


Leonard Ravenhill said that "the greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into the unholy word and keep him holy in it."


Dr. Theodore Parker Ferris preached to his Trinity Church in Boston on "The Battle Against Sin"; then he concluded the message with this prayer: '"Help us, O God, as we fight against those things which hold us back from the goal. Purify our lives, clarify our thinking and strengthen our wills, that as we love Him who loved us we may grow to be more like Him. Amen."


Pentecost is more than a Sunday celebrated once a year. It is more than a reading in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter two. It is much more than the symbol of a dove tacked to one's lapel.


Pentecost is to be realized personally by the purging presence of the Spirit of Almighty God. Once and for all? No. Once entered into, yes. But then on a daily basis--moment-by-moment--it is the continuing: perfect, and yet ever being made perfect; sanctified, and yet ever being sanctified; yielded, and yet ever yielding; purged, and yet ever being purged, till death opens up the eternal holiness in the very dwelling of the divine.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 'HOLINESS' IN HOLY SPIRIT?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


That which makes Christianity unique in religious faith is its accent on holiness. God has said for His children to be holy as He is holy.


Further, God has made His Holy Spirit available as the resource by which a damaged mortal can live out the holy life.


In addition, God has provided ample counsel in His eternal Word regarding the practics of the holy witness.


Yet the Christian Church has been remiss in regard to this challenge of the holy life. Why? Chiefly because in our entertainment-crazed era the church has been enamored with its own pleasure.


However, according to the Bible, our chief pleasure as believers is to be about God's pleasure. It is to be whatever makes God happy. Obviously that which makes God most happy is His children being obedient to His moment-by-moment plan. That is, in simple definition, Christian holiness.


In the last several decades much has been made over the Holy Spirit. His name has been evoked for our own protection and pleasure, to bless us, to heal us, to encourage us. All that is fine. But with that emphasis on what God can do for us by way of His Spirit, there is an urgent need to balance out the matter. We need to ask ourselves daily what we can do to evoke indwelling power by which to live the holy life before God.


Of course, with the spiritually fallen human, it is most difficult to achieve balance in anything earthly. Our problem is continually tilting too much in one direction or another.


Once realizing this malady, the earnest believer then corrects the matter by retraining his allegiance. Instead of seeking self-pleasure from the Spirit, one
then seeks service-to-God empowered by the Spirit.


How can I do the work of Jesus today more effectively because of the Spirit's holiness upon my soul?


How can I be kinder and more sympathetic because of the Spirit's indwelling holy presence?


How can I become more humble, more meek and pliable to the Lord's will, because of the Spirit's housing within my spirit?


How can I experience the Spirit's baptism, not for self-anything, but for God-everything?


One can prostitute the baptism of the Holy Spirit just as surely as was sought by some in the Early Church. There were those who wanted the Spirit to further their own agendas. That can occur in any age. But the Spirit will not honor that motive.


Much of today's soft underbelly in the church is due to motives that are carnal while at the same time praying for the Spirit. Such a contradiction cannot stand up before God's eternal throne. God's integrity will not tolerate a tawdry motive that is basically self-centered.


The church will retrieve its Early Church gusto when it cleans its own motive house. That is accomplished when pulpits preach the balanced perspective regarding the Spirit's holiness. That is practiced when the pew puts into operation such a balance.


Whatever happened to "holiness" in the Holy Spirit?


The answer is to be found in motive--intention. The church has tended to "use" the Spirit of God for the church's own earthly purposes instead of the holy life inhabiting every believer.


When holiness returns as the ultimate goal of the believer's prayer, then the Spirit will gladly respond with His agenda--holiness lived out in an evil world. Then believers will become the saltiness God intended. Then believers will shine as heaven's light as God has wished.


Holiness is the chief purpose of our being here in this life. Holiness is the primary desire of the divine in equipping His offspring for gospel good. Then holiness preached and taught should be the continued accent when gathering for worship.

A VERY SPECIAL GIFT—THE HOLY DAY

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The good God said one day, "I want to give my children a very special gift. It will help them, refresh them, make them happy, lift their burdens and give them a new turn on life."


So the good God set about to craft it. He was thinking of His children's good. He always is.


Even when the good God set before His children a commandment or two, it was always for their good. They did not always get that message. Nevertheless, when they did get that truth, they were set free.


So it was with this very special gift from the good God.


"I want them to put down their weights. I want them to unwind. I want them to go run in the meadows, jump across streams, forget their toil. I want them to be holy, yes, but I want them to understand more than anything else how such holiness unfolds happiness."


This good God timed His gift so that it would keep returning over and over again, never stopping, as long as earth spun upon its axis. How good of the good God! How pouring-out in His fatherly love for The Precious.


"This gift will long be remembered. Oh, how it makes my own heart glad to offer this present to my redeemed ones.


"Those who have rejected me cannot understand the worth of this gift. But surely my own dear ones will treasure it, hold it delicately and never neglect it. Oh, how it makes my own heart glad!"


How grateful would be the children of the good God. They had such an insightful Parent--looking out for their every benefit.


"I want even their children to inherit this gift. I want all generations to revel in its joy and gladness. How I want the whole world to receive this present. But I know that the whole world will not take to its value.


"Therefore, I must count on my children. I simply must. They surely will hold this jewel to their hearts. Yes, they will will it to THEIR offspring. And so its meaning will bead itself down through centuries of laughter and thanksgiving."


With this, the good God planned it. Is it not always more blessed to give than to receive? So it is with the One who wrote that postulate into being's fabric. HE was almost beside Himself with such holy hilarity.


Recall how you, parents, prepare those dazzling prizes for your own children? You ponder. You purchase. You wrap. You tie the bows. Then you can hardly wait for The Moment!


So it was with the good God.


"This will calm their nerves in rest. My gift will bind their wounds. This present will return them to my love, to worship me fully, to adore my holiness, to share my gift with other redeemed sons and daughters. This gift will draw their families closer. This gift will show to the world that these offspring are different because of their beauty."


The good God, being Creator of His children, knew truly what they needed to make it through each rough-and-tumble week. He knew that they would need to drop everything--hear His music, paint the sky, romp the fields and take in lazy hills. How they would need it!


With that gift, they would enter the very holy of holies, lay their eyes upon His mercy seat, cleanse their souls afresh in shekinah glory, marvel at the cherubim's wings. They would light their lives from golden lampstands, nourish at the shewbread table and mix their thanksgivings with incense from His sanctified altar.


So it was that His smile filled up the all of heaven. Then it was that that smile dipped down to planet earth as the good God lifted high His holy gift for every angel to see!


Think of it: to be the child of such a benevolent Father! So sad for those who cared not for the Father, those twisted in their trenches, vagabonds of their own shriveled spheres, crippling through.


Yet to be the graced child of such a sensitive One! What utter security when leaning upon His sure shoulder.


This Father actually meant for His birthed to pace life in peace. Knowing that His planet had fallen into unbelievable tension, the good God gifted His children with His own unique respite from staccatoed stress.


That very special--holy--gift!


Ah, now was The Moment. Offer it, then, good God. Your offspring of mercy are waiting anxiously. They will surely take hold of it in cascading praise--forever!


As eternity held its breath and nary an angel whispered a sigh, into the hands of His own He gently laid that shining treasure--His Day of Rest.

US YOUTH = OBAMA’S MILITARY CORPS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“Obama threw civil liberties to the wind when he proposed ‘a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded
as the regular military” per DCExaminer.com


There you have it.


Are we imagining the next generation under the thumb of the present-Oval Office celeb pushed there via mob hysteria?


Are we bonkers when concluding that Hitler has returned in the guise of a “Christian” belonging to the United Church of Christ when all the while he is a Marxist Muslim?


Are we loyal members of the traditional American Republic unpatriotic by pointing out that what we have known as “America” is pushed aside for an authoritarian rule by none other than B. H. O. and cadre?


No.


We are the sane ones who see into the future a country that is alien to what we have grown up in. However, if the next generation continues to be brainwashed by B. H. O., they will know nothing different. Then their children surely will know nothing different.


What is going to make the change over from authoritarian to democracy recovered? It is God.


That is why biblical believers present-tense join with the original believing settlers to pray to the Almighty for His rule to spread throughout this nation.


It can be done. God is God. The planet is His. This
nation was founded on God and the Bible’s mortal base. It was not founded on Islam or atheism.


Therefore, all the more moralists must intercede on behalf of America—particularly the youth of this country who have been swept up in this hysteria. They are impressionable by “change” and “hope.” They by nature of their age are idealists. And so they are given to this charismatic horse in the White House.


Prayer is power. Prayer, other than the blood of Christ, is the most powerful force on this globe. It reaches to the very throne in eternity. It is delivered by the Holy Spirit to our Advocate Christ who hands it to the Father.


The entire Trinity is involved in our prayers for America. God will answer. God will install His plan. God is God. Then pray and have faith in God to do what God does on behalf of our Republic.


Read Expanded Americorps has an authoritarian feel at http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Expanded-Americorps-has-an-authoritarian-feel-41889742.html


CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS

Psalm 24:1
Psalm 33:6,9
Proverbs 3:19
John 1:1-3,14
I Corinthians 8:6
Ephesians 1:10; 3:9
Colossians 1:16
Hebrews 1:1-2

CHRIST CONTAINS ALL THINGS

I Corinthians 8:6
“through whom we exist”
Colossians 1:15-17
“in Him all things hold together”

CHRIST CLIMAXES ALL THINGS

Ephesians 1:10
“will unite all things in Christ”
Philippians 3:21
“subdue all things unto himself”
Matthew 28:18-20
“all power is given unto Me”

I LOST 40 LBS IN 40 DAYS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Bottom line: I lost weight due to cleansing the body of toxins, eating and drinking only organic / all natural, and the nasal spray HCG.


This wellness plan has nothing to do with discipline or will power. It has all to do with focusing on organic / all natural intakes and following the HCG-centered wellness plan via my naturopathic doctor.


HCG is human chorionic gonadotropin, a prescription via doctor.


There are 4 phases to this wellness plan.


Phase 1, 3 weeks duration, cleanses the body of its junk—toxins—all too familiar to North American unhealthy eating.


Phase 1 is based on organic / all natural intakes only. It is also drinking l/2 to 1 gallon of bottled water / day. The wellness plan food specifics are provided by the doctor (see 3rd to last paragraph). Phase 1 includes organic teas. It focuses on 6 small meals / day plus supplements via the doctor.


Take 2 half-hour walks / day throughout all phases.


Phase 1 accents cleansing toxins, not weight loss; however, I lost 7 pounds during that time frame. The doctor says most people lose 4-6 pounds in Phase 1.


After Phase 1, gorge for 2 days. This is not optional. Eat do-nuts, banana splits, pizza, that is, high calorie foods. Why? To fill up the body’s food pantries for the next 40 days of 500 calories intake / day.


Phase 2 starts the 40 days of losing a pound a day. First thing in the morning, empty bladder, weigh in naked, then use HCG nasal spray. Mark down each day’s date and weight. In Phase 2, HCG triggers the hypothalamus to reset body settings to good health.


Eat organic / all natural only, including bottled water. Eat 4-ounce lunch and supper intakes of chicken, turkey, haddock, flounder, halibut, sole, tilapia, cod, shrimp, grass-fed beef or veal. Eat salads. Eat for fruits apples, strawberries and grapefruits as mid-morning, mid-afternoon and evening snack meals. Drink organic teas, including Smooth Move Tea to facilitate regular bowel movements. Remember: all organic / all natural intakes only.


At the close of 40 days, no more HCG nasal spray.


Phase 3, 3 weeks duration, is “lock-in” when I locked in the weight loss and body settings reset by HCG during the 40 days. In Phase 2, HCG triggers the hypothalamus to reset body settings to good health. Phase 3 is putting into place that new good health.


Phase 4 is for the rest of my life—eating 80 % organic / all natural while eating 20% conventional, that is, “cheating” or allowing toxins.


This wellness plan has gifted me at age 69 with depression lifted, increased energy and clarity of thought.


I turned 70 on January 4, 2009, and feel super with the new weight loss and amazing health gifts. I now look forward to this next decade. It is an answer to pray, truly.


For more data, contact Dr. Ferderic Shotz, ND, Naturopathic Medicine, 222 Auburn Street, Portland ME 04103, 207 828 4299, drshotz@maineintegrativewellness.com


For more on HCG, check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chorionic_gonadotropin


This is my personal, non-professional account and I am not legally held responsible for any detail.

I LOVE IT ‘CAUSE JESUS IS IN CHARGE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Monday was hand surgery day for Priscilla, my wife.


Several days prior she had been sick with the flu. Fill in the blanks. But Monday she was well enough to have the cut-through.


However, waking up Monday for me was not fun. I now had the no-energy-at-all. Yet I was to drive her to and from the hospital. After all.


I literally dragged to the van, turned the key and hoped to stay put on the frost heaves of River Road.


By the time we got to the hospital, Priscilla went off to see the surgeon. I waited in the state-of-the-art reception solarium.


I was handed what appeared to be a type of remote which would wiggle and tickle when it was time for me to visit Priscilla through those awesome closed doors that signed AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL
ONLY.


I said to the receptionist: “I am sick. I really have no strength even to sit up in a chair.”


She pointed to another reception area off the main section. “Go in there. It’s quiet. Put some chairs together and lie down.”


I waddled right in there, laid the “remote” at the top of my head on a little table, and didn’t care what came next.


There were already four comfortable chairs lined up in a straight cot-like shape. I stretched out upon them all, my jacket thrown over me. In no time, lights out.


After a time frame I know nothing about, security fellow Charlie said, “Now, Mr. Swank, take your time. But your wife is waiting for you back in the surgery unit.”


Slowly, very slowly, I pried myself into vertical, handed Charlie the “remote,” then followed him through the ONLY doors.


At the end of the long, long hall was the cubicle housing Priscilla. Thankfully, the hospital with its most accommodating provisions, had a lazy-boy chair for the visitor-with-patient. I made swift use of the chair, tilted back and closed my eyes.


It took an hour for all the finals to be carried out by a couple of nurses and attendants, then
the surgeon—a young fellow, most kind and gracious—closed things out.


“You can bring your vehicle up to the side entrance,” the nurse instructed me.


I slowly walked down to those automated doors, walked across the parking lot, opened the van door and turned the key. Presently, Priscilla and nurse positioned her in the passenger’s side.


It was now mid-day. I dared not put anything in my stomach because of you-know-why. Yet the strength was not upping.


Nevertheless, I was the designated driver. So home we went, Priscilla talking about meds for pain and my head gradually focusing on what was really important.


I collapsed on the couch, losing contact with the world through the few hours beckoning. When awakening, Priscilla said, “You know, I’m going to have to go back to the hospital because the nurse left a needle in my arm.”


Sure enough. The nurse had forgotten to take the “port”—is that what it’s called; I have no idea about medical terminology? Anyhow, it’s the needle that’s
put into the flesh by which more whatevers can be added to the body for this and that.


Yes, it was there all right. And it could not stay. Infection and so forth.


“I don’t know if I can drive into the city. The hospital. It seems so far away,” I replied, unthinkingly, for who else was going to do it?


Back in the car. Night had fallen. I felt wretched. Priscilla was dealing with pain-after-hand-surgery.


We got to Mercy Hospital Emergency Room, checked in with the receptionist and so on and so on.


Priscilla disappeared into the inner sanctum where professionals could take care of the “port” that should have never been left in her arm.


To my right there sat a handsome young fellow who started to explain to me that my wife could have been taken to the local fire department where a medic would have extracted the object without us having to do what we did.


From that subject, we moved to his subject—which was that he suffers from diabetes, has an esophagus problem by which he cannot eat anything but apple sauce diluted with water.


“I’m losing weight. I have gone down from 225 to 155. The doctors don’t know what to do with me. I’ve been to the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. They don’t know what to do with me. I can’t keep losing weight. Yet when I eat anything, even jello or soup, it comes right up. I hope I don’t have to have a tube inserted in my side. I don’t want this to turn into cancer.”


More detail. And more detail.


Being a Christian, I listened and empathized. I genuinely cared and he knew it.


He told me about his parents who are divorced. “My mother has had one heart attack. I don’t want her to have another from worrying about me so I try to keep all this from her as much as possible.”


He spilled out specific after specific. In other words, he needed a listening ear. I was it.


Interestingly enough, I was not feeling weak any longer. I felt full strength and was wide-awake.


Then there came out this detail from Jeremy: “My mother is strict when it comes to religion.”


I asked him what church she goes to.


He replied with the name of the sanctuary. “I know where that is. And I believe what your mother believes. You don’t know it, but you have been talking with a minister.”


He looked startled—but pleased.


In short, I continued to talk to him about God, the biblical promises, and the power of prayers. The bottom line: I witnessed to him about Jesus. He was
most receptive and thankful.


“Be certain that we will continue to pray for you though we may never meet again.” With that, I handed him my pastor’s card with name, address, etc.


As Priscilla and I drove home at 10:30 PM, passing through a quiet city and then into our own village, I thought back over the belabored day.


Such joy filled my heart.


Jesus was in charge. And how many times has this same sequence played out in my life over and over again: problems, difficulties, barriers, slumps and then—surprise—the hand of God in-my-face?


“Thank you, Jesus, for overruling today. The nurse forgot the “port”? We had to go back to another hospital because it was merely a nuisance?


That’s life. It’s a damaged world.


Yet Jesus has promised in the consecrated life to use everything “according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28. Recall?


Pray for Jeremy, will you? Pray for Jeremy. It was such a privilege to have met him. He certainly is one hunk who could use a lot of saving grace and a healing miracle besides.


Thank you, Jesus. I know you know and are in charge.


Now as to the state of the present-tense world. . .

LIBERALS OUT TO BANKRUPT SARAH PALIN

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Per The American Thinker’s Bob Teter at The Campaign To Break Sarah Palin:


“A stellar example of why we need ‘loser pays’ in our court proceedings.


“From Michael A. Knight's blog at Red State:


“From just September till now, Sarah Palin has accumulated a personal dept of over $500,000 in legal fees defending herself against fake/false/frivolous ethics charges. That's Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.


“A group of Alaska liberals, with the apparent cooperation of members of the Alaska Democratic Party have been filing ethics charge after ethics charge against Sarah Palin.


“The aim? Not to get her impeached and booted from office, because every single one of the charges are frivolous, baseless and even fairly deranged - one was even filed in the name of a soap opera character - but something far more personal.


“These people want to bankrupt the Palins and leave them destitute. They want to empty their bank accounts so that they cannot afford the basics and necessities of life after Governor Palin leaves office.”


Need more be said?


Pray.


Read American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/the_campaign_to_break_sarah_pa.html


Read Red State at http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2009/03/24/the-campaign-to-bankrupt-the-palin-family/

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: KILL UR BABE AT HOME

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Surgical abortions decreased.


Now PP has given females drugs to kill their infants at home.


Some female deaths have resulted because of course PP doesn’t have it altogether.


So now the American home has become the real-life real-time abortuary. The mother is really the hands-on killer. So the Republic falls more quickly, more horrifically.


PP wiggles every demon in place to do whatever is necessary in order to further its death trade. Of course, death-bound Dems and death-vowed B. H. Obama, Marxist Muslim, up the ante.


The Bible reveals that God abhors killing womb infants. Repeatedly, God states that human life must be preserved.


The lesson of Abraham offering son Isaac, then that stayed by God’s angel, set aside Abraham’s line from killing their own. Surrounding heathen areas killed their children. Abraham, father of the faithful, was to set the example for the righteous evermore.


Christians are now the spiritual children of Abraham. Therefore, every Christian must abhor slaughtering the innocent womb babies.


Though Obama claims to be “Christian,” he is pagan murderer along with the other liberal pro-abortionists.


In his press conference, Obama stated the nation’s woes; however, he never once referred to the 24 / 7 country’s murdering of its own unborn children.


Biblical believers never give up their chant for life. They have been maligned and spat upon, ridiculed and derided, but they know that goes with the territory. They represent Christ who was hated,
warning His own they would likewise be hated.


Therefore, the campaign for life everywhere goes forward, regardless of the enemies who march their death banners far and wide.


Read “Planned Parenthood 'changing focus' to medical abortions” at http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=463438


FOORNOTE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION


It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."


There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.


But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.


The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.


“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).


"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).


"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).


"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).


In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.


"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).


"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).


Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:


"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."


All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:


"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).


Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):


"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).


Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.


Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."


If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.


John Adams said the following:


"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."


Andrew Jackson said the following:


"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."


Daniel Webster:


"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."


"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).

HO-HUM OBAMA PREZ CONF

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“At the same time, the rest of us can't afford to demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit. That drive is what has always fueled our prosperity, and it is what will ultimately get these banks lending and our economy moving once more,” B. H. Obama said.


So where’s that leave us? Between a rock and a hard place. You choose who’s the rock and who’s the hard place.


I personally don’t trust a one of them. Nix. Over and out. Got my mutual funds check last week, little that it was. Should have asked for it months ago.


Obama’s press confab was so utterly ho-hum that most of us begged to switch the channel. Many did. For those who stayed on, it was a rigorous ordeal.


Obama mentioned the Wall Street crooks. But did you note that when he said he was angry, he surely did not look it.


So goes the Obama mob hysteria mantra of “hope” and “change” with no substance in between the bread-slices-for-a-sandwich.


The Boy is there. And that’s it, people. The Boy.


No wonder in an interview recently he was asked if he was punch drunk. He laughed. The interview was dead serious. B. H. Obama, Marxist Muslim, laughed.


That’s what I mean. He not only laughs while America burns, he entertains “names” in the White House nights to after midnight parties. Michelle warns them not to mess up the property.


Now that’s leadership. Right?


When squeezed for presidential action, this is what he came up with: “Obama cited the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's handling of the IndyMac Bank as an example of government properly using its authority.


“The government did something right? That's news to most Americans,” per AP’s Ron Fournie.


And so forth.


The teleprompter didn’t do much to up the spiz.


Ho-hum. Another day in the pits.

IS GOD ANSWERING PRAYER FOR IRAQ?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“’I am just optimistic, and I think we are on the right path,’ said Hiba Aal-Jassin, a dental student.


“There are dramatic numbers to backup this sentiment. A new ABC News poll finds 65 percent of Iraqis feel positive about their lives. So much so, that from the port city of Basra in the south, to Karbala in the heartland, there are signs of new life everywhere.


“The streets, the markets, the restaurants, they are all bustling with people. some Iraqis in Baghdad have even taken up new hobbies like car racing.


“’It is all new,’ said Luay al-Ameer. ‘It is nice.’”


Many Americans prayed earnestly for a democracy build in Iraq after the fiendish despot was dethroned. Is democracy now blossoming where Islamic demonism once pitted?


Per George Thomas,CBN News Senior Reporter, there is real hope. Six years have passed since the US moved into Iraq to rid the place of Saddam Hussein.


Six years. Can one imagine that the years have flown by so quickly? Yet they have and change has moved in for the better.


Where once soccer stadiums were used primarily for Muslim males to shoot bullets into women’s heads to decree “honor killing,” soccer stadiums are now used mainly for legitimate sport.


“Tens of thousands of fans feel safe to gather for soccer matches. Security is a big factor in all this. 84 percent of Iraqis say the security conditions are good. The number is double what it was in 2007.


“’We feel safe and it is much better than last year,’ said one Iraqi.”


Instead of the sharia Islamic maddening so-called rule of justice and legality, locals praise democracy.


People are talking about planting their flower and vegetable gardens. Children are tossing balls in the streets. Markets are selling their produce.


Instead of Hussein’s lusty sons picking up pretty women on the streets at night, taking them to rape rooms, then killing them before dawn, Iraqis try to forget the raunchy Hussein who played righteous while slaughtering his own.


Even Hussein’s relatives feared for their daughters. Hussein would have lavish parties in his palaces. Relatives were invited. However, before daylight a young girl or two or three could be missing forever. Hussein and sons thought nothing of taking his own clan females for sex and then murder.


No more Hussein cages where Iraqi men were stashed in the village square.


No more Hussein police stealing fathers from their houses, hauling them into the night and then stashing them into death holes.


No more Hussein interviews with Dan Rather, Hussein talking like Billy Graham when referring to his religious holiness, his spiritual teaching provided his sons and his allegiance to the holy writ.


No more Hussein pushing mortals into shredding machines.


No more Hussein lauding Islam’s Koran while seeing through its most bloody verses.


No more Hussein chopping off hands and feet.


Will the next generation in Iraq know true freedoms
so as to never know the horror their ancestors endured?


CWN states: “Violence has significantly dropped in the region, and for the first time, Iraqis are more concerned about the economy than security.


“It is an unfamiliar sight in Baghdad as race fans watch race cars zoom by on a track. Meanwhile, a local market is packed with shoppers looking for good deals.


“Six years after the U.S. invasion, Iraqis across the country are for the first time, in a long time, hopeful about their future.


“’Democracy is the only solution for Iraq,’ said one Iraqi.”


Read “Change Marks Iraq War's Sixth Anniversary” at http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/563483.aspx

NOTRE DAME ‘NO’ TO OBAMA

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


There is no reason or moral base for Notre Dame to invite B. H. Obama to address any audience on that campus.


Those protesting are urging persons to contact Fr John Jenkins, President, Notre Dame, telling him to cancel the invitation. Obama does not belong on that campus in South Bend, Indiana.


Christians are urged to call him at 574.631.5000, fax him at 574.631.2770, write a personal email president@nd.edu, or mail your letter to 317 Main Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556


“Help Stop the Scandal at Our Lady’s Unviersity” is how the appeals goes forth at “Take Action Now” at
http://notredamescandal.com/


The petition reads:


“It is an outrage and a scandal that "Our Lady’s University," one of the premier Catholic universities in the United States, would bestow such an honor on President Obama given his clear support for policies and laws that directly contradict fundamental Catholic teachings on life and marriage.


“This nation has many thousands of accomplished leaders in the Catholic Church, in business, in law, in education, in politics, in medicine, in social services, and in many other fields who would be far more appropriate choices to receive such an honor from the University of Notre Dame.


“Instead Notre Dame has chosen prestige over principles, popularity over morality. Whatever may be President Obama’s admirable qualities, this honor comes on the heels of some of the most anti-life actions of any American president, including expanding federal funding for abortions and inviting taxpayer-funded research on stem cells from human embryos.”


Scores of Protestants would endorse this petition.


Obama who espouses killing womb babies and human stem cell research as well as sodomy blessed as “marriage” should never appear before any group upholding biblical ethics.


Obama, Marxist Muslim, should be shunned by all moralists throughout the world, not only in America.


He is ruining the United States with his immoral
stances as well as his future policies which will nullify the Christian heritage to America as well as mesh together all religions as one.


While proclaiming to be “Christian,” he is Muslim. There is much evidence to that conclusion.


In addition, no biblical believer who wears the label “Christian” goes against the Word of God which abhors sodomy and abortion.


Obama, the left of the left, was put into office via mob hysteria and an archliberal media. Now America, rather than being enlightened and enhanced, is being destroyed by Obama and the low-lifes he has gathered around him as “officials.”


Sign the Notre Dame petition here: http://notredamescandal.com/


Believers at Notre Dame are stating: “We prayerfully implore you, the President of Notre Dame, to halt this travesty immediately.


“We do so with the hope that Catholics nationwide will likewise call on you to uphold the sacred mission of your Catholic University. May God grant you the courage and wisdom to do what is right.”

THE CROSS. . .BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


". . .baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?" Romans 6:3


What does it mean to be baptized into Jesus, being baptized into his death?


Baptism and death. They are coupled together in holy writ. It is a mystery. It is also our hope.


As Jesus Christ gave Himself every minute to the Father agenda, so Jesus died out to His own zeal. He was human, as we are human; therefore, He was tempted in all areas like as we. But He did not sin. He did not yield to the allurements of self-governance.


Jesus made certain that at every turn--especially when applauded by the masses for miracle producing--that He did not permit Himself to be fooled. He refused the forbidden fruit. He would not bite into that which was hanging on the forever tree in the center of the world's garden. His mission instead was to reverse the disobedience of Adam and Eve by remaining obedient to the Father's directives.


Jesus was then baptized into the final breath by remaining true to Father's redemptive plan, not permitting this holy scheme to be compromised even
under the most grueling of circumstances.


Jesus allowed His very being to be baptized into a sanctified plot outside Himself. He would know nothing until it was revealed to Him. He would suspend His own knowledge of anything until He was signaled by the Father. Then He acted. He then did perform the Father's bidding--on time, just as directed.


This same Jesus has become our Model. He invites us to be baptized into the death to our own zeal.


How many within the courts of religion are overcome with their own zeal? Their energy drives are at fever pitch daily. For what? For the praises. They even hunger for audience approval in the name of Jesus Christ. They have become accustomed, even addicted, to this explosive feeling of ego achievement.


Such is anathema. It is heresy. It is sinful. It is like unto the Pharisees. The mature cross bearer cannot countenance it for a second.


The purpose of the cross is to teach this lesson of zeal submission.


It is the spiritual leadership in particular who must come upon this truth for they are responsible in great measure for the purity or impurity of instruction provided those under their tutelage.


Consequently, spiritual leadership must scour their motives to make certain that death to personal drive is real, that they have been baptized truly into the death of Christ in order to know His holiness in life.


"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."


“. . .newness of life”!


God has already proven Himself two thousand years ago. Death was followed with life. Jesus was there to reveal it. Disciples saw and handled it. They ate with Him, walked and talked with Him.


Life! "I am the. . .the Life."

I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES: GOD PROVISIONS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I had pastored a denominational church (Church of the Nazarene) since 1964 when in 1998 I was ousted by ecclesiastical political conniving.

In 1992, I attended a pastors’ and wives’ Christmas dinner sponsored by the district. Unbeknownst to me, another minister told the district superintendent that I had said we had to get rid of the superintendent. I never said that. But the superintendent believed the lie.

From that day onward, the superintendent tried to oust me from my Maine pastorate. That’s the power of a lie.

I had ministered from west to east over years in the denomination in which I had been born on January 4, 1939: Calgary, Alberta; Kansas City, Missouri; Manchester, Connecticut; Indianapolis, Indiana; Fishkill, New York; Akron, Ohio; Walpole, Massachusetts and then Maine.

I had pastored not only in the denomination in which I had been ordained in the ‘60s, but also in the Methodist Church, Nevada, Indiana; United Church of Christ (Congregational), Broad Brook, Connecticut; and St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, High Point, North Carolina.

Now I was without a congregation, parsonage, health coverage, and salary. On that August Sunday evening, the superintendent who followed the one who believed the lie walked into my house unannounced. He was accompanied by a district advisory board. I had been conducting a prayer meeting in our parsonage living room when the interruption came.

In any church, there are troublemakers. Ask any pastor of any denomination. Sometimes those troublemakers mass themselves into a political block to oust the pastor. That’s what happened in my case. The block went to the second superintendent who had believed the 1992 lie. That brought the superintendent to my home with his back-ups.

You see, the first superintendent, Clarence Hildreth, District Superintendent, Maine District, Church of the Nazarene, who believed the lie moved on to another position out of state. The one who followed him, Roland Dunlop, had it in for me because I would not support him in a mean move. A couple from my church planning their wedding ceremony wanted to use his city sanctuary for it was larger than our village sanctuary. The superintendent, then pastor of the city church, told me that he was going to charge the couple $400 for the use of his facility. He wanted me to endorse that.

I told him that I could not do that. It was unfair to the couple who had little money. He countered by stating in no uncertain terms that I would indeed back him up. I told him that I could not ethically do that. With that, we came to an impasse. With that, he held it against me till he became superintendent.

With the troublemakers in my local congregation going to him with their manufactured grievances, he then unreasonably concluded he had leverage by which to oust me. So he did, with the help of his advisory board — clones of the superintendent. Politics works its devilment not only among the ecclesiastical clergy but the laymen who side in with the dark political mode.

Ungodly politics also works its way from grassroots to headquarters levels. Prior to all this Maine district devilment, one of the five books I authored was entitled ONE CHRISTMAS I MET AN ANGEL, published by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, the denominational publishing house for the Church of the Nazarene. When Dunlop ousted me, the headquarters threw away 2000 remaining copies of my book. Just threw them away.

When my friends phoned Kansas City to get copies for that Christmas they were told that the book was no longer available. The man in charge, I have since forgotten his name, is probably still alive. May God have mercy on his soul.

On that Sunday evening of being ousted, with the enemy having left my living room, I and the parishioners there for a prayer meeting concluded by organizing our own independent, evangelical congregation. We would meet in our homes since our church building had just been taken away from us. We would dispense with annual elections, committees, boards, membership, newsletters, bulletins and all the trappings of the denominational organization.

However, I was in shock. Within 30 days, I had to vacate my home. I had no place to go. In 30 days, I would be absent my health coverage, salary and roof over my head.

My wife recalled a humble summer camp community not too far away. She phoned to discover that there was an old trailer there that we could move in to.

We stored our belongings in various parishioners’ homes — attics, basements, garages, sheds. In fact, one house ended up with our piano in the owners' living room. Other homes housed our rocking chairs, straight-back chairs and end tables. My pastor's study library is still stored in boxes in a friend's backyard shed.

My wife and I went to substitute teach. On that meager salary total we survived. But emotionally I crumbled.

The trailer interior was dark paneling. I dreaded evening and nighttime. The quarters were cramped. Winter snowstorms howled around our windows, sometimes creeping in around the edges. Our front door screen was broken down. We seemed to be out in the middle of Maine's nowhere. That went on for months.

I woke up mornings anxious to get into a classroom for in those environs there was light and movement and people and chatter and something to do with my brain. But in mid-afternoon when leaving the schools, I felt a suffocating, crawling dread crippling my body and soul. It was beyond description.

God seemed far far away.

One day my brother-in-law was visiting us. We walked down near the lake to come upon an aged, worn cabin. It had a simple porch. The only door was unlocked so we walked inside. There was a living room, kitchenette, two bedrooms and a bath. Though covered with cobwebs, that rickety cabin looked like a dream house to me. I said, “You know, if God would only provide the two of us with a dwelling like this, I could call it ‘home’.”

But that of course was impossible.

Several months later we were visiting with Christians in Standish, Maine. Our hostess said, “I think a couple we know has a rental available.” I asked for the number, got it, and called. The next evening we were walking into the rental. And we got it. Our landlords happened to be believers, now new friends to us.

The layout of the rental: a small porch, living room, kitchenette, two bedrooms and a bath.

Today I still walk around this cottage by Lake Sebago where we live. I call it a house with seven rooms, but four of them are invisible. I like the number “7” because it’s the divine number of perfection.

I look out my living room windows every day and night to see God’s nature wonder all around me. Three large windows make up one of the living room walls so that when you stand in that room it’s like standing outside.

All four seasons breathe inside as well as outside from that room. Now today I looked out to see the lake covered with ice — thick, so that ice shacks are planted atop it. I see snow mounded all over everywhere, sporting limbs laden with white coverlets.

I just love this place. It’s where we live. It’s where our house church meets three times every week for worship. It’s where I thank God for miracles.

Now if that’s not enough, we also have a beautiful, cozy country home in Kennetcook, Nova Scotia. Our neighbor there across the meadow calls our place “an estate.” I think that’s a bit overmuch, but I’ve never corrected her. You see, if I did, that would not be fair to my godly mother-in-law who willed the property to us. After all, she made it the “estate” that it is.

It has 9 rooms, a welcoming wrap-around-front porch, those tall old-fashioned windows, a sun porch and plenty of acreage — perfected-by-nature groomed land. There's even a creaky back screen door that makes its own off-key melody every time it's opened and shut. Plus: there's a barn with several sheds.

Down apiece, you can meander to the Kennetcook River. A tiny village of 400, a white steepled church in the middle, and a school nearby, plus a few scattered neighboring homes make up our "other home place." My in-laws called the property "Cedar Grove" because of the cedar trees all about.

That’s where I like to go when feeling “Canadian.” When “American USA” I enjoy my Windham cottage. In either cozy-down, it’s home. Besides, it’s another miracle.

Read GOD IS FAITHFUL at http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_19486.shtml

CALVARY LEADS US INTO THE DIVINE HEART

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." John l5:l9

Sensitive believers are taken aback by the hatred bestowed upon them for being kind, moral and loving God. It does not make sense.

Welcome, then, to a world that does not make sense. Why then, in heaven's name, does the Christian forever seek to find full-blown heaven here? It is not here. We are spinning upon a spiritually traumatized planet. It is not balanced. It is very much off-kilter.

What the world calls love, should be hated. What the world hates should be loved. The Old Testament prophet said as much.

Therefore, basic postulate for learning from the divine mind is to get with the fundamentals: the world will hate you if you love God.

Consequently, take such hatred as a sign that you are loved by God. Further, understand that the more you are despised, the more you must truly adore Jesus.

Jesus has been quite kind in warning His own grace children ahead of time about the world's disdain for them. He has cautioned us ahead of time. Therefore, take Jesus most seriously. Do not try to pollyanna Jesus' gospel thrust. It is deadly.

Supposedly when family hates the believer it hurts the most. That is why Jesus instructed that His own must hate their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters--family--in order to follow Him. Hatred is stated to shock the believer into realizing how seriously this whole package is to be taken. It is not a simple concept. It is a most serious concept, though not complex. Therefore, it is to be adopted personally and dealt with daily--head on.

No one can take Jesus' place--not even family. Jesus is God. God comes first or He does not fit in at all. Deity is a jealous presence; rightly so. Therefore, deity demands prime place. Give Him that and be done with it.

When that is a foundation block of your very existence, then you will wake up mornings to face the world's sneer. Live with it. Pray for that world. Go on your way rejoicing in all things. Thank Jesus that you are truly one of His or you would not be so mistreated. Later on you will have eternity to be treated rightly.

In the meantime, count yourself one of His, wearing His badge. Do you not want to be like Jesus? Then be like Him--stand up courageously and prayerfully to the hatred of those about you. He did. He prayed for them: "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing."

Now that is taking the planet's hatred seriously.

Further, Jesus spoke to Father, stating that Jesus had given the words from Father to the disciples. The disciples had received the words.

In other words, the disciples had come to realize that Jesus was more than mortal; He was deity as well. He received "the words" from outside Himself. And His Source was heaven.

What was left to discover was whether or not the disciples then acted properly on the words they had received from Jesus who had received the words from Father. That would be the crux of the cross.

Spiritual knowledge in itself can damn. Acted upon rightly such data can bring life.

It is one matter to receive information, it is quite another matter to put it into practice.

Peter had been a disciple who had received "the word." However, in the test of the courtyard, he did not act properly upon "the word." Nor did so many of the other disciples as they hid in the caves while Jesus was put to the wall.

It is the same in every generation. There are countless souls who have the nomenclature, doctrine, wherewithal regarding verbalizing religion. That in itself can damn. It is whether or not same souls live out that knowledge. "To whom much has been given, much is required."

We start each day with the choice to listen to "the word" and then follow up with surrender or hear the word while becoming too busy to put it into the plan.

Today you have the chance to hear from the awesome God who indwells you by way of His holy presence. Not all mortals spinning upon the planet are into all that. Most are not.

The crucial question then is this: Will you take this precious information and implant it into your breakfast thoughts, then do the same on-goingly until you rest in sleep this evening?

"I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me: and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me."

Fine. Now what?

The cross carrier is forever confronted with the dark side's attempt to get doubt into the journey.

Jesus informed His own of His identity--God. They accepted that declaration as eternal mystery. Jesus knew full well that within a short time these same men would have that premise challenged. The Calvary massacre would test their postulate.

However, at the time that they stated that they got His point, Jesus then affirmed that they believed rightly: However, He did so with a question: "Do ye now believe?" In other words, things are all set up properly now; but what will it be from here on out?

So it was with cousin John. Jesus and John had grown up together. Now they were young adults in their early thirties. John had spent his young adult energy in evangelism. Jesus had just begun His messianic ministry.

In such a brief time, John's calling was cut short by being jailed. There he sat in a cell, wondering about the actual identity of cousin Jesus. Was He or wasn't He? Had John been fooled? Had the whole messianic deal been nothing other than an illusion? With a knife close to the neck, there might be an allowance for mental confusion. So it was that John's certainty began to waver--doubt about Jesus' real self.

Likewise, Jesus knew that the disciples would have their faith in Him put to the pressing point. With heartache, Jesus must have told them what He responded to John: "Do not be embarrassed by knowing Who I am, believing in Me."

So it is with each cross carrier. There will come the moment when you will be so utterly burdened by the anguish of the timber that you will cry out your own doubt. At that point, do not despair. It is one thing to doubt; it is another to despair.

In other words, back there when life was fairly on keel, you knew Him as God. To the question: "Do you NOW believe?" you shouted: "YES!" But right NOW, the knife is close to your neck and you are wobbly. It is frightening. The demons are crawling all over your brain. Nothing is working; life is imploding. NOW do you still believe that Jesus is God Almighty, in charge of all dedications, working every tiny strand for your good and the gospel furtherance?

The cross jaunt does include certain portions in which the carrier is put to the bloody wall along with Jesus on that Thursday night.

"Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me."

And so the Father is with you, too. And the Son. And the Holy Spirit. Somehow find it within your doubt to at least hold onto all that for in due time you will come to hug all that to your heart with relish. In the meantime, know you are in John's jailhouse company--and good company it is.

Hear Jesus say to you as He said to John: "Please, don't be offended by being close to Me. Sometimes this trek can get quite dangerous and uncertain to the flesh."
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OBAMA LINKS UP WITH PASTORS?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


B. H. Obama is trying to tell evangelicals that he has hooked up with evangelical pastors for leadership counsel.


The main supposed evangelical person he noted is Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine.


Wallis is not evangelical. He was brought up in the biblical faith, that is, what is now known as “evangelical.”


However, Wallis has gone over to the other side while trying to mask himself as biblically sound, evangelical, conservative and whatever tag is convenient to further his own ego.


Wallis is not going to provide Obama with biblically based counsel. He is going to waffle, just as Wallis has been doing for years now. But when Wallis finishes his waffle, he falls left.


The more the decades roll, the more Wallis moves to the left. The more Sojourners gets involved in social issues, the more Wallis is aligned with liberals while still trying to convince conservatives that he represents their positions.


Not so.


Therefore, be wary when Obama tells church-going folk who love the ‘old, old story of Jesus and His love’ for he does not know what he’s talking about. That is obvious from his anti-Bible ethic, his disdain for God’s moral base and his aggressive enthusiasm for apostasy.


If Obama keeps to that course, he will be right in line with Wallis and vice versa.


Now if the President truly wants to learn from evangelical counsel he can call on the likes of Franklin Graham. He can listen to the music of Bill Gaither. And he can pray with James Dobson.


That would really bring Obama into the light of Christ, the truth of Scripture and perhaps even a personal conversion via the Holy Spirit.


After all, Obama said that he came to Christ in Trinity United Church of Christ when going forward at an “altar call.” Evidently, that was the devil’s altar for it certainly did not bring about a turn-about as the Bible defines in being born again.


Obama is excellent at playing up to evangelicals. He staged gospel concerts throughout the South during his campaign. He spoke from some Protestant pulpits, appearing to be God-fearing. He quotes Scripture when convenient. He even used the word “God” in his inaugural address, following shortly thereafter with pro-abortion signing and pro-sodomy
endorsements.


Here’s another name Obama mentioned as pastoral counsel: Otis Moss, Jr. When Moss was queried about Obama’s doctrinal position, Moss said: “I would simply say that he is a person of great faith, and I think that faith has sustained him.”


So there you have it, a clergyman who applauds Marxist Muslim Obama’s “faith.”


Fill in the blanks.

HOSPICE BY THE SEA, BOCA RATON: STILL MAKING NO SENSE IN UNDERCUTTING CHAPLAIN

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Trying to cover their bad image they set in place, Hospice by the Sea, Boca Raton Senior Chaplain Fred Mortensen stated the following after “Veteran chaplain Mirta Signorelli resigned last month.”


This Mortensen “explanation” does nothing to make sense. It only exposes him as a theological liberal who opposes believing Chaplains such as Signorelli.


Mortensen states via Sun Sentinel.com: “The only time the issue has risen among our hospice team has been concerning all-staff meetings that do not in any way include patients or families. Chaplains, who sometimes are asked to give inspirational talks at such meetings, have been told to keep the diversity of staff members' beliefs in mind. It was a ‘suggestion — not a policy, not a directive.’”


Now let’s get this straight. If a chaplain is working at hospice and is given a “suggestion” to go easy on mentioning “God” in staff meetings, that is in reality a “policy.”


Try defining it in any other way and you are canned. Ever been there? Done that? Then you know truth.


To quibble over “suggestion” and “policy” reveals the reality that Hospice administration is desperate in attempting to weave a cover over their misstep, in fact, their cruelty against a believing Chaplain.


Further, does not the administration know that when a believing Chaplain is hired—and becomes what they themselves refer to as a “Veteran” chaplain—that means that administration expects that individual
to be honest to that person’s ethic.


A believing chaplain, of all persons, is bound to a particular moral base that includes a particular theological terminology. The fundamental of fundamentals in that terminology is the word “God.”


Any questinos?


Moreover, if there is staff in staff meetings who are atheists or agnostics or whatever, let them be mannerly enough to live alongside a believing Chaplain who uses the word “God” and “Lord” and “Jesus” in inspirational messages to staff.


If they can’t live with that, then let them quit. They can get jobs at a humanistic hospice.


Don’t put pressure on the believing Chaplain to resign, making it so uncomfortable for her that she has no choice but to resign or compromise her believing convictions.


Instead, the administration defends the unbelieving staff members against a believing “Veteran” Chaplain. That is unethical. It is unkind. It is discourteous. It should then be broadcast to the world as a cruelty leveled against a believing Chaplain, hence these posts on various global websites.


In addition, everyone knows that there are believing Chaplains and unbelieving Chaplains. There are Chaplains who are humanists—that is, persons who don’t believe in any deity. Why they are “Chaplains,” only hell knows.


Now it is evident that the hospice head Chaplain is going to the press to say that Hospice by the Sea is reasonable in what it did. The believing Chaplain has been unreasonable, he states.


Who then is this head Chaplain? He is obviously a theological liberal who is an enemy to all believing Chaplains.


There are biblical clergy. There are unbiblical clergy.


They are both referred to as “clergy.” Now the unbiblical clergy head at Hospice by the Sea is lambasting the believing Chaplain in defense of the worldly Hospice by the Sea administration.


It’s an old fight—right against wrong, godly against ungodly, biblical believing personages against the opposite.

HOSPICE BY THE SEA, BOCA RATON: X-OUT ‘GOD’

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“The Rev. Mirta Signorelli said: ‘I can’t do chaplain’s work if I can’t say “God” — if I’m scripted.’”


There you have it.


This chaplain was told by the head of Hospice by the Sea, Boca Raton, that she cannot use the word “God” when delivering devotionals to staff. Can you imagine that?


Then what are devotions for? Inspirational messages and devotional messages from a Christian chaplain would assume that the word “God” is appropriate. Plus more.


Not so where Hospice CEO Paula Alderson is in charge. Now the CEO is trying to dance around the problem she created by saying this and that to make it appear as if the chaplain is out of bounds in her reasoning, per South Florida Sun-Sentinel.


Ever been there? Ever had to deal with that?


Then you know what’s going on now that it’s out in the media. In other words, the hospice center is getting a bad image. The CEO is appearing stupid and prejudicial against God, Christ, the Bible and any other term you want to associate with the Christian faith.


Sure there are people on staff who don’t believe in anything. So what?


If they deem to work there where a Christian chaplain is working, then let them keep quiet and show courtesy toward a chaplain who is bringing inspirational messages in staff meetings.


After all, people in the center are dying. They need God. They need salvation. They need hope. They need prayer in Jesus’ name. And that chaplain is willing to offer all those gifts.


Further, the staff needs all those gifts, particularly those who don’t believe in anything.


But the CEO obviously does not reason that way.


Ever been there? Ever had to deal with people like that? Then you know what’s going on.


Read “Chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton resigns over ban on word ‘God’” at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/bocaraton/sfl-flphospice0318pnmar18,0,2775865,print.story

GINGRICH ROUNDS UP US CHRISTIANS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Newt Gingrich harnesses evangelicals and Vatican-aligned Catholics for the good of America’s values, per US NEWS.


The former House speaker told media that he believes that hatred against Christians in particular has increased so that these biblical believers note this as their moment of truth.


This is the time for moralists to come to the fore for the good of this Christian-heritage nation. Therefore, Gingrich is doing all he can to up the believers’ voice in public forums.


“’In the last few years I've decided that we're in a crisis in which the secular state, if allowed, will fundamentally and radically change America against the wishes of most Americans,’ Gingrich said.


“’You've had such rising hostility to religious belief that I wanted to reach broadly into the country and dramatically raise public awareness of threats to religious liberty.’”


His thrust is called Renewing American Leadership. It’s got some of the most astute biblically based thinkers working alongside Gingrich. It is a professional cadre about to bring together those of like conviction at the grassroots.


“This spring, Gingrich will speak to a handful of large gatherings for politically conservative clergy that have been organized by David Barton, an influential evangelical activist who spearheaded the Republican National Committee's rigorous outreach to pastors in 2004.”


American believers know that their nation is in trouble largely due to B. H. Obama’s Marxist Muslim base. He has gathered around him low-lifes with whom he associated in Illinois. He has championed death to womb babies, death to Christian ethics, death to America’s Christian heritage, death to the biblical definition of sex, family and marriage and more.


Therefore, if biblical values are to be The American Way, leaders such as Gingrich are going to bring it about under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.


God has much at stake in America. Our original settlers were Bible-aligned. They preached and taught Bible. They held to scriptural lifestyles. They prayed to the Bible’s God.


Today their spiritual children continue to intercede before heaven’s throne.


Gingrich will gather about him these believers with a new force for good.


“A 2002 court decision that found the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional shifted Gingrich's attention more seriously to the debate over religion in the public square.


“The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the pledge's ‘under God’ violated the First Amendment's ban on government-established religion.


“’That was the last straw,’ Gingrich said. ‘And I said, “It's time to challenge head-on secular domination in the West.”’”


“The crusade led Gingrich to publish Rediscovering God in America in 2006.


“Since then, Gingrich has appeared before large gatherings of pastors, joining a circuit that had been the province of politicians like Huckabee, an ordained Baptist preacher.


“’The response was overwhelmingly positive,’ says Tyler. ‘We realized there was a large segment out there that we were not reaching because a lot of Christians are just tuned out of the secular media.’”


Read “Newt Gingrich Steps Up Efforts to Mobilize Religious Conservatives” at http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/religion/2009/03/20/newt-gingrich-steps-up-efforts-to-mobilize-religious-conservatives.html

50 NATIONS VS. US PRO-HOMOSEXUAL

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Fifty nations oppose decriminalizing homosexual activity.


That’s why they voted against the UN declaration calling for a global decriminalization of homosexual practice, per AP.


However, B. H. Obama signed on to the UN blessing homosexual alliances.


Fifty nations are attempting to hold back the increase of AIDS while America ups the disease and death spread.


Homosexual license does not only disobey God’s moral base. It also spreads aggressively the horrific disease.


Now in Washington DC there is a 3% population carrying AIDS. That’s not good.


Will anyone in DC declare that unbridled homosexual activity jams that statistic upward? No. All is quiet on the DC front, except for those applauding more homosexual activity throughout the metro.


God wants people healthy. He wants families healthy. He does not want illness. The Fall via our First Parents’ sin brought about illness and death. God did not originally create mortal to suffer sickness and dying.


Therefore, God is on the side of wellness when He states that homosexual activity is abhorrent. He is on our happy side.


Yet B. H. Obama and like ilk praise freedom of choice for homosexual activity as a commendable move, a democratic right and that which should be encouraged globally.


Thank God for the 50 nations that do not agree with such evil as the President of the United States espouses. Many of these countries are wrestling with untold AIDS cases and in fact are imploding because of the disease.


Consequently, the example of the American President does nothing to assist these disease-ridden countries. B. H. Hussein who proclaims “hope” is in fact declaring unbelievable despair increased via his pro-homosexual allegiance.


“U.S. President Barack Obama will endorse a UN declaration calling for a worldwide decriminalization of homosexuals, according to the Associated Press.


“The French-sponsored UN General Assembly declaration would ban countries from making homosexuality illegal.



“Former President Bush refused to sign the declaration when he was in office, making the U.S. the only western country to not sign it.


“More than 50 nations opposed the declaration,” per CWN.com.

DONAHUE: NO JESUS AT OBAMA’S INAUGURATION

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Sean Hannity’s interview with Phil Donahue brought out the latter’s disgust with Jesus.


It’s bald conviction. It’s in-your-face anti-Jesus.


Hannity was asking Donahue what he thought of B. H. Obama, to which Donahue said that he adores Obama, cannot get enough of his lovely children, thinks the Obama family is a gift to the nation and so forth.


In other words, Donahue does take Obama as a kind of messianic leader for the United States. There is no doubt about that.


Then it came to Donahue referring to the inauguration. That’s when Dnoahue let loose on his anti-Jesus, his disdain for the Son of God, his outrage that Obama would invite a pastor to pray who would include the name “Jesus”
in his petition.


There is no doubt that Donahue has gone way over the line in his apostasy. He is one of the arch-examples of those who simply turn green when Jesus or anything related to Jesus is brought up in this Republic.


With that Donahue represents those destroying the nation. He’s the secularization example. He’s the Obama league member who will do everything he can to wipe out the Christian heritage.


Donahue has without doubt been swept up in the mob hysteria that drove the Marxist Muslim into the White House.


However, Christians must keep in mind that the Bible informs believers that the Holy Spirit within them is greater than the unholy spirits in such personages as Donahue.


Donahue and his ilk will pay severely for their madness against Jesus, against Scripture and against God’s moral base. Christians know that. They know that there is a judgment day for all of us, including the likes of Donahue. And for the likes of Donahue, that day will be horrific for it will spell their everlasting.


Here is part of the interview:


“DONAHUE: Oh I did. Yes. I think this was a moment. And what a gorgeous family. I mean I can't take my eyes off these children. His smile may save us all. I mean the guy is a very compelling political figure.


“I wish he hadn't invited Rick Warren to call Jesus down for his blessing on the inauguration.”


I often ask myself, “What has Jesus done to bring such outrage from mortals? What did He say? What did He perform? How was His life so mean that he spikes the spewing forth from individuals like Donahue?”


Jesus did good. He saved souls. He lifted the dead from their graves. He fed the hungry. He offered hope to the discouraged. He promised eternal life to those who followed Him.


What is so awful about Jesus that the Donahues of the world want to squash Him into the dirt?


For more, read “Hannity and Phil Donahue Square Off” at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509796,00.html

OBAMA WILL KEEP STEALER GEITHNER

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The now head of the Department of Treasury kept back tax moneys owed to you and me. But that did not keep B. H. Obama from putting him in charge of your dough.


Crooked? You bet. But fact, sadly.


Now this same Timmy the Tiller has stated to media that he takes “full responsibility” for the not-able-to-fix-the-AIG-bailout mess.


Nevertheless, Tim Geithner will stay put. Obama would lose too much face to fire him, per Dick Morris of NewsMax.


However, Geithner, morally and logically speaking, should be canned—yesterday.


In addition, CT Dem Chris Dodd double-tongued us on this whole issue. He “altered language in the Trouble Assets Relief Program legislation,” per NewsMax’s David A. Patten.


However, to complicate the brew a bit more, if that is possible—but all things are possible in politics—Dodd did that at the suggestion of Timmy the Tiller per Timmy’s own statement to CNN.


Now get this: “Changes Dodd made at the behest of Geithner’s department may legally compromise efforts to recover the bonus money, legal experts say.”


Time for a riot, America. Time for a riot. Clog the boulevards. Wave the banners. Yell to high heaven. Get out there and let ‘em know who’s boss.


“Dodd initially was a voice of outrage protesting the bonuses handed out by AIG at taxpayers’ expense.”


Now watch this slight-of-hand: “He changed his story, however, after Newsmax and other media outlets reported he had inserted key language -- known as the Dodd amendment -- into the $787 billion stimulus bill. The modification allowed payment of bonuses contracted for prior to Feb. 11, 2009.”


Now swallow hard on this one: “That very amendment, which is now law, is expected to be the primary legal hurdle for government officials who want to recover the AIG bonuses.”


What a web we weave when scheming to deceive. Thank God America is more than DC.


“Initially Dodd insisted he had nothing to do with the new provision. He later said that he had inserted the key language because the administration asked him to.”


Ah, Tough Guy Dodd pushed around by the despotic reign from the Oval Office, Timmy all the while down the hall waiting for the next Obama signal.


“’The administration had expressed reservations,’ Dodd told CNN on Wednesday. ‘They asked for modifications. The alternative was losing the amendment entirely.’


“The Dodd amendment was intended to restrict executive pay for bailed-out banks. The exception requested by the Treasury Department granted an exception for ‘contractually obligated bonuses agreed on or before Feb. 11, 2009.’”


The plot thickens.


Geithner “confirmed that the request for Dodd to change his amendment came from his department.”


We’re ruled by crooks. Time for riot, America. Time for riot.


By the way, if Dems and Obama push through the Fairness Doctrine, all this reality revelation via the conservative newsfeeds would be blanked out and you would be left groping in the underground caverns. Something like the old Russian gulags. Got it?


Read AMERICA: RIOT! at http://grantswank.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/18/america_riot!.thtml


Read “AIG Scandal Widens: Probe Launched Into Geithner's Role” at http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/aig_geithner_interview/2009/03/19/194060.html

VETS ‘RIOT’ VS. OBAMA. ‘RIOT’ WORKS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


B. H. Obama told vets they would have to pay via private insurance companies for medical help.


That was it—stark and cruel.


Obama actually was going to stick it to the veterans of this nation. He was going to force them into it. He wanted the money now going to vet meds to be siphoned off elsewhere.


Wave the flag, people. Wave that flag.


Is this imaginable? Yet it was going to be fact per despotism royal from the Oval Office. That’s the sensitivity or lack thereof of our new Head.


However, “riot” works. Thank God there are really some Americans who know how to riot for patriotism before we lose it down the proverbial drain.


Vet groups and Congresspersons with a genuine flag waving heart got hold of Obama. They told him in no uncertain terms to lay off the vets or else.


That’s called ‘riot’ in some quarters. This time Obama backed down and played nice. Hard to do, but he did it.


“President Barack Obama has decided to drop any consideration of billing veterans' private insurance companies for the treatment of combat-related injuries, the White House said Wednesday,” per Newsmax.


Now onto the next riot, folks. Onto the next riot.


Read AMERICA: RIOT! at http://grantswank.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/18/america_riot!.thtml


Read ” Obama Nixes Charging Combat Wounded for Healthcare” at http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_drops_vet_billing/2009/03/19/193706.html

MUSLIM OBAMA ZAPS PILOTS WITH GUNS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


So if you are on the plane and another 9/11 Muslim killer takes over the pilot’s cube, watch the pilot yank his arms up in surrender as you drop quickly to the pits.


That’s right.


B. H. Obama is hoisting guns from the commercial pilots in jetliners. Heretofore, pilots were qualified to carry such arms, per NewsMax.com’s David A. Patten.


Obama is making America safe. Obama is squelching terrorism by playing “in denial.” Obama is kissing up to Muslim killers but not calling them “terrorists” for fear of offending them.


So where’s the money going previously used to train pilots with guns? It’s going to discipline pilots on how to be courteous to killers. The program is “to help discipline pilots who step out of line.”


And what do these pilots think of this new tutorial? Of course, they know it is demeaning.


A Washington Times editorial called Obama’s slap-em-on-the-wrists seminars “completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots.”


DC has gone sweetness in favor of Muslims out to set in place Islam World Rule. Now these Allah devotees can start with hammering our pilots into the cockpits. That should bring the nation to a quick halt in the dirt.


“Pilots are afraid to speak out about the behind-the-scenes maneuverings, for fear of retaliation, according to the newspaper. No cases have been reported in which pilots have brandished a weapon inappropriately or otherwise abused their eligibility to carry firearms.”


So there’s another public segment laden with unnecessary fear due to Obama’s dictatorial regime gripping our country from one level to another. It has not taken long for the new despot to set up shop, has it?


Is it not time for Americans to riot?


Read AMERICA: RIOT! at
http://grantswank.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/18/america_riot!.thtml


Read “Obama Wants to Disarm U.S. Pilots” at http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_airline_pilots/2009/03/18/193314.html?s=al&promo_code=7C69-1

IT’S A GOOD THING AMERICA IS MORE THAN DC

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Nancy Pelosi applauds illegals. Those calling them “illegals” and trying to get legality as a baseline to those breathing free air don’t fit Pelosi’s definition of “nice American.”


B. H. Obama applauds US signing on to UN’s homosexual rights platform. Obama, Marxist Muslim, obviously has no regard for God’s Word concerning homosexuality.


ACORN signs on with B. H. Obama’s regime for assisting with the 2010 census. Evidently ACORN has redeemed its scurrilous past.


When I read these three headlines alone this morning I could not help but thank God for the fact that this nation is more than DC.


This country continues to continue because it has a foundation of efficient citizens who get out of bed, brush their teeth and drive off to work. If they have been laid off, they don’t burn down the neighborhood.


These citizens clog the roads leading to offices and factories but they don’t torch their town halls.


The Americans who pay their bills, keep within driving limits and try to teach their children how to behave are the heroes of present-tense sanity.


There are countries where women are raped as a matter of lust course, children are left parentless, and whole villages are scorched to the ground.


There are places where it’s not safe to be called “female.” It’s not safe to speak your mind. It’s not wise to be called “Christian.”


Yes, we are still here as America. We still have interstates and forests and canyons and gasoline. We still have Fox News. We still have DVDs for brain relief on occasion.


We have Bill Gaither and the Gospel Channel. We have some Hallmark movies that are suitable. We have community concerts in village gazebos.


We have lakes and beaches and coastal beauties such as are mere miles from my Maine cottage.


We have the Bible, prayer and worship. We have a Christian history. We have God upon His throne. We have faith in Christ the Savior.


DC may have abdicated most of these gifts; but there are hosts of commendable, reasonable citizens who still enjoy the goodness God offers every dawn.


Read “Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are Un-American” at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/18/pelosi-tells-illegal-immigrants-work-site-raids-american/


Read “ACORN to Partner With Government for 2010 Census” at http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/acorn_census_partner/2009/03/18/193218.html?utm_medium=RSS


Read “In turnaround, U.S. signs U.N. gay rights document” at http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52H5CK20090318

POPE RIGHT ON RE CONDOMS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Throwing condoms all over Africa won’t stop AIDS.


Throwing condoms around the planet won’t stop AIDS.


Isn’t it silly to think that condoms tossed right and left will rid the world of AIDS? Just another evidence of world-think gone berserk.


Pope Benedict said to media on his African tour that the continent needs Christ. It needs the gospel. It needs God’s light to shine in soul darkness.


The Pope rejected the cry that condom campaigns will stave off AIDS increase. Liberals hate that kind of talk. They despise anyone championing biblical morality.


All the more proof that that is the right answer. The more the AIDS demons scream for attention and acceptance, the more the gospel message riles them to the lowest nerve.


Therefore, in these difficult times, biblical moral bases must be recited repeatedly far and wide, never compromising the specific thrust of God’s Word.


Though worldlings celebrate unbridled sex on TV sitcoms, movies, magazines and whatevers, such only increases disease and death.


The same with B. H. Obama endorsing sodomy. He wails over AIDS increase while at the same time blessing homosexual alliances that spread the mortals’ last hour.


Moralists know this quagmire all too much. We deal with it every day. It’s an old fight.


Per AP: “The pope told reporters that distributing condoms to fight AIDS actually ‘increases the problem.’


“He said a responsible and moral attitude toward sex would be more effective. Benedict said, ‘The saving message of the Gospel needs to be proclaimed loud and clear so that the light of Christ can shine into the
darkness of people's lives.’”


Get it? It’s the “saving message of the Gospel” that will overcome evil. It redeems the soul. It implants hope. It provides a right living style. It prepares the spirit for heaven. It pushes back devils that would damn.


“. . .the light of Christ. . .”


It is that light that can bring about a personal
conversion experience. In the ministry for half a century, I have been privileged to witness these conversions over and over again, some of them dealing with most difficult, twisted lives.


The light of Christ is that power that can cancel sin when the truly repentant confesses all to the Savior, vows to serve this Christ till death, and then marches forth empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit.


“On a continent largely ruled by dictators, the pope declared that ‘a Christian can never remain silent’ in the face of violence, poverty, hunger, corruption or abuse of power.”

‘AMERICAN IDOL’ GOSPEL

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


That’s right.


“American Idol” sports a lot of singers who have church ties. In fact, over half of the 11 finalists appear in worship regularly, per AP.


That’s something quite encouraging in a time of crying the blues. And anything we can find that reveals the work of the Holy Spirit in rough going is something to trumpet about.


Therefore, let’s hear it for “American Idol” Christian performers who hopefully will continue to live for Jesus while refining their abilities, depending on Him for their future niches.


“After ‘American Idol’ finalist Kris Allen first stepped onto the stage of the Fox singing competition, the 23-year-old college student told his pastor that the stage lights and eager audience reminded him of being in church” per AP.


Further, it is evident that further praise lifted heavenward is in order for the age frames these finalists represent. Not all is lost, people. Not all is lost when American youth live for Jesus while expressing such talent for the nation to take in.


Yes, the Lord works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. I think these finalists are one of the divine wonders present-tense.


“Two weeks into the finals, religion is playing a big role on the popular show. More than half of the remaining 11 finalists have regularly performed at places of worship.


“Three of those six contestants -- Allen, Danny Gokey and Michael Sarver -- have worked as worship leaders in their respective churches.


“Scott MacIntyre, Matt Giraud and Lil Rounds also have strong church connections.”

HOSPICE BY THE SEA, BOCA RATON: X-OUT ‘GOD’

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“The Rev. Mirta Signorelli said: ‘I can't do chaplain's work if I can't say “God” — if I'm scripted.’”


There you have it.


This chaplain was told by the head of Hospice by the Sea, Boca Raton, that she cannot use the word “God” when delivering devotionals to staff. Can you imagine that?


Then what are devotions for? Inspirational messages and devotional messages from a Christian chaplain would assume that the word “God” is appropriate. Plus more.


Not so where Hospice CEO Paula Alderson is in charge. Now the CEO is trying to dance around the problem she created by saying this and that to make it appear as if the chaplain is out of bounds in her reasoning, per South Florida Sun-Sentinel.


Ever been there? Ever had to deal with that?


Then you know what’s going on now that it’s out in the media. In other words, the hospice center is getting a bad image. The CEO is appearing stupid and prejudicial against God, Christ, the Bible and any other term you want to associate with the Christian faith.


Sure there are people on staff who don’t believe in anything. So what?


If they deem to work there where a Christian chaplain is working, then let them keep quiet and show courtesy toward a chaplain who is bringing inspirational messages in staff meetings.


After all, people in the center are dying. They need God. They need salvation. They need hope. They need prayer in Jesus’ name. And that chaplain is willing to offer all those gifts.


Further, the staff needs all those gifts, particularly those who don’t believe in anything.


But the CEO obviously does not reason that way.


Ever been there? Ever had to deal with people like that? Then you know what’s going on.


Read “Chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton resigns over ban on word 'God'” at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/bocaraton/sfl-flphospice0318pnmar18,0,2775865,print.story

KOREAN TAXI DRIVERS DRIVE JESUS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


If you take a cab in South Korea, your driver may present the salvation message while you are riding along.


That’s part of the taxi drivers’ missionary conclave out to gospel their nation. Consider this good news in bad times.


Per Heather Sells of CBN News, one example of gospel tell is the following:


“When Hyun-sook Han of Busan, South Korea, caught a taxi home from grocery shopping last year, she had no idea just how far that decision would take her.


“Her driver was a Christian who shared the gospel with her and invited her to church. Moon-ja Kang, the private taxi missionary who made the invite, said she was happy Han accepted.


“’And I prayed, “God, guide her to the church,”’ Kang said. Because of that taxi ride, Han accepted Christ into her life. And it was no accident that it was her taxi driver that brought Han to Christ.”


There are over 450 born again taxi drivers who witness through Missionary Taxi Club in Busan. When a person enters the taxi, the driver prays for divine direction as well as has playing Christian radio for the rider to hear.


If the Lord directs for an open testimony regarding salvation, it’s given. The rest is up to the Holy Spirit.


“’From the morning till evening, we spread the gospel on the road,’ said the group's president, Myeong-Woong Ban. ‘If you turn in the list of people to the Missionary office, we'll pray for them, embrace them in our heart, and have them connected to a close church so they could get to know Jesus.’”


Secular media does not report this. However, conservative newsfeeds are making this detail possible.


It is cause for believers everywhere to thank God for His faithfulness. It is also cause for further intercessory prayer to be offered for these drivers and those who ride in their cabs.


“’I consider serving God as my primary job, and the rest of what I do in this world, secondary,’ explained driver Gil-hong Jin. ‘One lost soul means more than life to God, and to fulfill His will, until I get to His Kingdom, my heart will always be fixed on the same purpose.’”

AMERICA: RIOT!

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Why are Americans still sitting on their hands while DC rots our nation?


Where are the boulevards clogged with clamoring citizens demanding justice and reason?


It’s time for Americans to go to the streets. What has happened to our conscience? Have we lost the nerve?


DC demented power rolls over us with spikes and we permit it. We go on each day, moaning and complaining.


When will we wise up to hit the avenues, bang the pots and pans and let Obama and Congress know that we are not going to tolerate the ruination of our Republic?


We are Americans. Americans don’t bow and scrape before crooks in DC. Yet that’s what is happening right now. Time is of the essence.


Our valiant history supports more than what is taking place today. Our unrivaled history is aggressive, courageous and admirable. It is a mighty history.


Yet today weakness blankets our houses and offices. How long will we just lie down, asking the liars in Washington to destroy everything we believe in? Everything a democracy represents?


It’s time to riot. It’s time for a revolution.


Every blogger should write truth and conviction. Every blogger should call on fellow citizens to topple the present untoward, unpatriotic socialists.


Every conservative American who knows how to write a letter to the newspaper should write it. Then call the talk shows. Then hit the streets.


Whip the ill-equipped Congress brats to rap them with what’s what. Let them know that you are not tolerating their devilment another minute.


Watch this to jet off your buff. Riot!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA&feature=channel_page

GOD SPOKE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Closing out today, after listening to Fox News, I asked God to lead me to a Scripture passage.


This is where He pointed. How appropriate for what’s going on.


Proverbs 11 (New International Version):


The LORD detests dishonest scales,
but accurate weights find favor with him.


When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.


The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.


Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.


The righteousness of the blameless makes their
paths straight, but the wicked are brought down
by their own wickedness.


The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.


Hopes placed in mortals die with them;
all the promise of their power comes to nothing.


The righteous are rescued from trouble,
and it falls on the wicked instead.


With their mouths the godless destroy their
neighbor but through knowledge the righteous escape.


When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;
when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

YOU TELL ‘EM, BISHOP

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


May his tribe increase.


Bishop Jopseh Martino won’t tolerate Misericordia University’s homosexual-rights lean.


It’s about time more Catholic leaders kept to their moral bases and let the world know about it, starting with home bases like congregations and universities.


Per AP, the bishop refuses to meet with university officialdom. It is going against the Catholic scriptural position on homosexuality.


The bishop wants a print out of the university’s stand on sexuality.


Now of course the thinking person is going to conclude that the bishop is right on if he then goes further to applaud those within his own church who fought valiantly for cleansing of homosexually active priests molesting youngsters.


I am assuming that the bishop is incensed about any unbiblical sexual allowances throughout his church—clergy and laity alike—past and present.


“Bishop Joseph Martino says Misericordia University must first heed his request to publicly show how it teaches Catholic morality on sexuality.


“Martino has demanded that Misericordia shut down its multicultural center because it hosted a Feb. 17 visit by author Keith Boykin.”


The bishop refuses to meet with university heads until his demands are met.


Thank God!


By the way, the bishop might also check on what the university permits regarding abortion. Pro-choice? Pro-life? What’s going on on campus? What’s taught? Who’s speaking what?


FOOTNOTE: ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE


Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."


Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."


Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .


"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .


"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.


"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."


I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

AIG, OBAMA, CONGRESS, ETC.: ACCOUNTABILITY LEAN

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The bottom line with Wall Street, American execs and DC hoodlums in political office is that there is little if any sense of accountability.


So it goes in our Republic.


One can listen to the newscasts all day long to get details. The more specifics one tallies the more accountability raises its moral head in judgment upon mortals who play god.


Yes, the innocent suffer because of the lack of integrity on the part of money grubbers.


However, the money lusters will not go unnoticed. Not at all. They are risking their skins here in this life. But what is terribly significant is that they have no concern for the Judgment Seat of Christ.


In fact, I would wager these worldlings have never heard of that phrase. If they have, they surely don’t know the definition.


Yet it is there. In the next twenty-four hours, thousands upon thousands of souls will pass before the Judgment Seat of Christ. There they will give an account of their earthly stay. There their eternal destinies will be concluded. Eternal is a long, long timeless.


Christ will not conclude those destinies. He will simply look on as these free will agents consign themselves to the lake of fire and brimstone or the everlasting life promised to God’s grace children.



We make our own forevers. Christ is the Judge, yes. But Christ as Judge in reality passes the gavel to the free moral agents who have decided how to act, what to say and finally where to send their souls.


These headlines right now that are skimming chills up our spines and unnerving our anger quotients are laden with spiritual definition. It all hangs on morality. Really.


The secular newsfeeds don’t impress on the morality dimension. But it is there. Those into scriptural research see it, they feel it, they know it is true. It is very much true.


All these lessons in the news broadcast the folly of grabbing for the dollar—“the love of money is the root of all evil,” per the Bible. This love of money has led to such carnage, such heartache, such despair and confusion.


It always does. Sinners bring immense calamity finally upon themselves while inflicting untold pain upon the innocent. That is because we are all interlocked. We are all community of mortals on God’s Earth. We intersect and influence one another, whether we want to or not.


For the grace child, he has the faith that God works through the troubles to bring eventual good. “All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.” God’s promise is there—and throughout the Good Book.


God being God cannot renege on His promises. That is why the grace children wait upon the Lord. They stay the course of faith. They know that past answers to prayer are guarantee of present and future answers to prayer.


The grace children are the victors in any age, though pressed against by pain on occasion. The final outcome is left with the Almighty. “God is still on the throne,” grace children comfort one another.


It is not just a happy phrase. It is eternal truth, far more than we can grasp.


Read CRISIS TIMES ‘PROVE’ GOD at http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/swank/090316


FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY


Hebrews 9:27:


It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.


Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:


Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:


But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.


Romans 2:6-11:


God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.


Romans 14:10-12:


For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.


I Corinthians 4:5:


Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


II Corinthians 5:10:


For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.


Numbers 32:23:


Be sure your sin will find you out.

OBAMA TO AX VETS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Instead of veterans getting the medical attention they deserve when in need of same, B. H. Obama is forcing private insurance companies to pay up for med expenses.


He will not budge. He will not tolerate open discussion regarding the pros and cons on the issue. He is determined to get money for his own channeling via this unpatriotic and unkind move.


Per EXCERPT: WASHINGTON, March 16/PRNewswire-USNewswire/:


“The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is ‘deeply disappointed and concerned’ after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.


“The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.


“’It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,’ said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion.


“’He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.’”


Note: “. . .refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.’”


Wall Street robs us. DC robs us.


Read COMRADE MAOBAMA's DISAPPROVAL RATE CLIMBS! at http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/17/comrade_maobamas_disapproval_rate_climbs!.thtml

BRIT JUDGE: NO HONOR KILLING

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“A number of cases in which young (Muslim) women have died or disappeared have raised concerns that violent families have been able to put their own concepts of discipline and retribution above the law, and that such families are regularly protected by their friends, neighbors and communities.


“There have also been concerns that police and prosecutors have been reluctant to investigate and act in such cases, possibly through unwillingness to provoke political or (Muslim) community trouble.


“One notable murder was that of 20-year-old (Muslim) Banaz Mahmod, who was raped, tortured and strangled at her South London home in 2006. Her body was later discovered in a suitcase in Birmingham.


“Her (Muslim) father and uncle were later convicted of murdering her because she wished to marry a man who was not approved by the family - and had thus brought shame on them.


“Miss Mahmod appealed to police for help before her death but was not taken seriously by officers” per MailOnline’s Steve Doughty.


The more Muslims move into Britain, the more their areas are seeing increase in so-called ‘honor killing.’ Many times these murders go unnoticed and unreported. Yet with the increase, British civility weakens.


Therefore, a British judge has stated emphatically that ‘honor killing’ and other Islamic violence will not be tolerated there. He says that such is not compatible with the British way of life.


“A senior judge yesterday condemned the notion of honor killings as an affront to English law.


“Lord Justice Wall declared that 'they are acts of simply sordid criminal behavior' and 'had nothing to do with any concept of honor known to English law'.


“In an Appeal Court test case he ruled that the welfare of children should not be put at risk because of the 'honor' idea held in some Muslim families.


“The judge added: ‘Arson, domestic violence and potential revenge likely to result in abduction or death are criminal acts which will be treated as such.’”


Read “'There's no honour in killing,' top judge tells Muslim family in test case” at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162409/Theres-honour-killing-judge-tells-Muslim-family-test-case.html

A NATION-BUILD IS MORE THAN ENTERTAINMENT

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The last election was mushed on entertainment. The mob hysteriacs voted for a celebrity, hence the groping thousands showing up for his inauguration.


Unbridled mob hysteria plus crass liberal media shoved B. H. Obama into the office.


How tragic. America is far better than that tawdry base. America must achieve much more than American Idol and Dancing with the Stars to remain a first-rate country.


Countless educators are bewailing today’s students not able to spell, compose an essay and produce a speech worth grading. Classrooms are run by the antic-propped know-nothings.


Americans are glued to Who Wants to be a Millionaire and such cash-win whatevers. That’s sad for it reveals a raw lust for money money money. Money has become a huge idol for many citizens, not only the young.


Too many households are babysat 24/7 by TV rather than actual fleshed mothers and fathers. Too many houses are not homes. They are shelters where worn mothers strain to hold together offspring.


Is this really the America we want? I don’t think so. However, obviously a number of citizens are content with that.


As I watched the inauguration, I wondered what kind of people were out there in The Mall. I knew there were some sincere fellow Americans. I also considered that there were no-read no-heed hysteria driven voters who had not done their homework.


The mob-led elected as President of the United States a hot ticket. But a hot ticket is not what America needs in the Oval Office.


B. H. Obama was wept into the White House. He was applauded, danced around, fawned, and smooched onto Pennsylvania Avenue. But in-depth thought did not go into it.


So now we have an entertainment-based nation caught with a celebrity who has never been properly vetted. He has no real administrative skills, apparent by the losers he chose to fill his cabinet. He has been surrounded by low-lifes and criminals who are now sitting in executive chairs close to the Oval Office.


Yet the facts are that the United States has slipped to this frightening level?


Can America recoup?


It is up to each American. It is up to the citizenry to take inventory of where we are and where we ought to be. It is up to every American household to do a double-check on what is important and what is trivia.


Is it quality to build our house on an entertainment sand dune? Is it safe to construct a future on a celebrity-based officialdom? Is it prudent to have in governmental leadership criminals and liars?


Let’s face it. That’s where we are now. We have some of the worst personages named by celebrity President to hold sway over entire departments. We have individuals who know basically nothing about what their assignments are.


Yet all the while Michelle and B. H. party the nights away in the White House, entertaining, of course. Entertainment got them there. Entertainment, they conclude, will keep them there.


And if the Republican Party does not wise up its own house, the party nights for the Dems might just continue for quite some awful time.

GOD OWNS ONE TENTH OF YOUR INCOME

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Do you believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God—divine revelation that needs neither adding to nor subtracting from?


If you do, then take seriously God’s statements regarding the tithe—one tenth of your income. It is God’s, not yours.


God calls you “robber” if you take His tithe for your own use.


Hebrews in Old Testament times brought down God’s unbridled anger upon themselves for various reasons. One chief reason was that they stole God’s tithe.


If every believer tithed to the local church, there would be no financial problems in Christendom. Then there would be no need for bean suppers and fairs and raffles.


The church is not the place for making money by such methods. Jesus cast out the merchandisers from the place of prayer because that kind of business was not to be tolerated in God’s House.


I shudder when I pass church buildings advertising Saturday night money-raising suppers. I ask myself: “Is that what the church is for? Is that what the church has come to?”


I would like to see those buildings posting signs that read: “Prayer Meets Here Weekly At Tuesday at 7 PM” or something of that sort.


It would be in place for those buildings to post signs reading: “Worship Gathers on the Lord’s Day Morning and Evening Here. All Welcome.”


The church is to be concentrating on saving souls. If souls are not saved, they are damned. What is the main thrust of any church? It is to see that souls escape hell and go to heaven.


Therefore, whatever the church can do to get souls under the preaching of salvation is what the church should be up to.


Again: if every believer gave God His tithe faithfully, the church could concentrate all its energies on worship, prayer, fellowship in Christ and Bible research.


God has an economic plan for His church. It is the tithes and offerings put into the local church—“the storehouse.” How can mortals sideline God’s economic plan? How can they be so stupid or brash to substitute the divine agenda for their own—many times a worldly-based gimmick?


God instituted the tithe with Abraham when Abraham gave the tithe to the priest. Then Abraham’s lineage continued the tithe. So it was to continue down through sacred history.


But Hebrews rewrote their own religion on numerous levels, one being absenting God’s tithe for mortals’ own take. God did not appreciate that at all.


Christ brought the tithe into the New Testament Church Age. He pointed to hypocrites who were tithing, thereby instructing His disciples that they were to do the same by being more righteous than even the tithing hypocrites.


Tithing then is not an Old Testament expectation alone. God brought that workable system into our present time.


I have tithed all my life because my parents were tithers. We children were taught to tithe with our weekly allowances. I never thought of robbing God when I was a child.


As a teen and young adult I tithed and never quarreled with God about it. I met a young girl at college who was reared the same way. We married and never fought over the tithe.


The firstfruits of our financial intake was God’s tithe. It was so because God said it was so. How could we disobey God? We could not and we would not.


Therefore, we gave God His tithe as the first item to set aside. All other bills came later. We did not say, “Well, we will tithe if we have it when we pay all the other bills.”


Never. We knew better than that.


Because we as a couple have tithed for nearly half a century we have never been forsaken. We have been through many trials and difficulties. But God has never forsaken us. We have never lost a night’s sleep over money. We have never questioned whether or not God was adequate to see through our financial obligations.


God is faithful. We have been faithful. The match-up has been glorious and a testimony to the fact that being honest with God is not only healthy for the wallet, but the heart as well.


I have had people try to argue with me about the Old Testament tithe and the New Testament Church Age, trying to twist my arm to admit that Christ really did not mean for that system to be brought into the Church Age.


I have not spent much time in that debate. I have been so convinced of the Scripture making sense and my own personal experience proving it out that I have little time with the arguers.


Instead, I think to myself: How can a person saved by grace ever argue with God when He spilled His holy blood to redeem a soul? How can a person even think of stealing from God who poured out His young body on such a bloody tree?


How groveling and low-life can a person be to try to steal God’s tithe when God has promised eternal life—blissful heaven—for the saved by grace?


Yet they argue. And they debate. I don’t think then that they really get the message of God’s love and care.


Do you?


FOOTNOTE: TITHING SCRIPTURE


Malachi 3:8-10: “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?’ In your tithes and offerings.


“You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.


“Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.”


Matthew 23:23: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.”


Matthew 5:20: “For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

‘SO HELP ME GOD’ STANDS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Michael Newdow and the American Humanist Association told the judge to X-out “. . .so help me, God” from government lips, pointing particularly to the President’s inauguration pledge. The judge said NO.


Newdow, atheist, makes his life’s goal forming an atheist America. It won’t work.


America will not turn totally against God. There are segments that do. So what’s new? The fight has been going on since time’s start.


America will continue to be blessed by God, disciplined to be certain, but blessed by God. Why? Because of two particular prayer blocks.


One prayer pantry is the full shelves of founding parents who sincerely beseeched the God of the Bible constantly—in and out of government. They never apologized for it. They just did it.


A second prayer pantry that is full are the present-day Christians who genuinely ask God to bless this country from shore to shore. They fight atheists and agnostics who oppose the prayers. They know the baseline of the battle. And they know that prayer works.


Therefore, “. . .so help me, God” will continue to continue.


By the way, there is prayer in schools every school day. Every time a believer prays within his and her heart on school grounds, there is prayer in public schools. That will never end.


There is prayer at town meetings. There is prayer at state conclaves. Those who are present with Christ in their hearts bring with them the power of prayer.


“The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.” How much? Only God knows but since God wrote it, that prayer must count for more than any mortal could imagine.


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CRISIS TIMES ‘PROVE’ GOD

J. Grant Swank, Jr.



“It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.” (Lamentations 3:22)


The globe is in major crises. Why are we then still here?


God.


God’s mercies are indeed unfailing toward the ungodly and the godly.


God is merciful toward the ungodly, providing them more time to come to their senses in acknowledging Him as God Creator.


God is merciful toward the godly, unfolding His promises to care for them.


God’s mercies are far beyond our imaginations; however, a wise measuring stick is found in the Old Testament history. Generation after generation balked against God; yet God continued to discipline them while providing for them.


Nevertheless, there did come the moments when the Hebrews pushed divine mercies over the line. Then it is that God’s severe discipline had to be leveled against them in a variety of ways.


Today’s divine mercies are keeping the globe spinning upon its axis. God loves this globe. “For God so loved the world. . .”


God the Son, Christ, created this globe, gave Himself on the cross to redeem this globe and will one day rule upon this globe.


“Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will never pass away,” Christ stated.


This globe and its surrounding atmospheric layer will
one day dissolve at the close of the millennial reign of Christ. However, prior to that the globe will continue to spin.


Right now we are in grave danger due to sin enveloping multitudes. Countless mortals are worshiping their favorite idols, turning their souls away from the God of the Bible.


One could go on and on listing the evils of the planet; however, suffice it to state that the globe’s population in the main has turned its back on Christ.


To this point, Christ’s mercies continue to maintain the globe. It is by way of His common grace. That common grace covers both the saved and the unsaved.


Hopefully, common grace will wake up the unsaved to realize saving grace. When that occurs, the soul realizes its need for salvation through Christ.


The saved now are interceding before Christ in heaven for greater conviction to fall upon the unsaved in order for them to turn to saving grace.


If Christ’s common grace were not upon us, we would all be consumed.


“It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.” (Lamentations 3:22)

WILL BERNARD MADOFF BURN IN HELL?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after” (I Timothy 5:24).


"I am actually grateful for this opportunity to publicly comment about my crimes, for which I am deeply sorry and ashamed," he said.


Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty.


"As the years went by, I realized my risk, and this day would inevitably come. I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for my crimes."


He could face a maximum sentence of 150 years in prison at sentencing.


“The scheme evaporated life fortunes, wiped out charities and apparently pushed at least two investors to commit suicide. Victims big and small were swindled by Madoff, from elderly Florida retirees to actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel”
per AP’s Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays.


It is so interesting how morals and immorals are topping the news these days. It is also intriguing how Scripture is played out day after day in one country and then another.


This is a fascinating age in which to live. There are all sorts
of malpractices lopped against the unsuspecting public so as to push us into the arms of God or wipe out our own lives.


If a person does not literally take his life, he may decide to commit psycho suicide and then snuff out his mental frequency. There are others who simply pull the trigger or jump.


Will Madoff burn in hell? Maybe. He will if he does not repent sincerely to Christ. And then he must make restitution to all he sinned against.


There is no sin but the unpardonable sin that cannot find divine grace. The unpardonable sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit, that is, so turning one’s heart against God that the heart turns to stone.


In the meantime, Madoff should experience hell of soul right this moment and in the days and months that follow. Maybe he will figure out means by which to take his life. If he does not, his conscience will burn to a crisp and then turn around to burn into another crisp and then turn around again to burn into still another crisp ad infinitum.


The conscience that God planted in every mortal at birth does not just simply wisp away.


By looking into this wretched face of Madoff we all then look into our own hearts. These hearts are all seen by the God Judge before whom we likewise will stand.


For some of us, our sins will confront us in this life before
death as well as at the Judgment Seat of Christ. But it is certain that every mortal breathing will at the last breath give an account of life’s journey before the Great White Light.


Oh, and what about Demjanijuk?


“German prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.


“Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and September 1943” per AP.


FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY


Hebrews 9:27:


It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.


Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:


Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:


But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.


Romans 2:6-11:


God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.


Romans 14:10-12:


For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.


I Corinthians 4:5:


Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


II Corinthians 5:10:


For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.


Numbers 32:23:


Be sure your sin will find you out.

B. HUSSEIN VS. MEXI-DRUGGIES KILLING US. ABORTUARIES NEXT?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Here is what B. Hussein said:


“We're going to examine whether and if National Guard deployments would make sense and under what circumstances they would make sense.


“I think it's unacceptable if you've got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing U.S. citizens.”


Substitute “drug gangs. . .killing U. S. citizens” with “abortuaries. . .killing U. S. womb babies.”


Got it?


We have a killer in the Oval Office, being supported by killers in Congress.


This killer wants to put an end to Mexican gangsters killing Americans.


Yet this killer legislates abortuaries killing defenseless womb boys and girls.


It doesn’t add up, does it? No.


Not unless you’re skewered on the devil’s pit stick.

DON’T TRUST REP PARTY CHM MICHAEL STEELE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


We are becoming a non-trust public. Makes sense.


Now Michael Steele, Republic Party Chairman, having been praised by pro-lifers as on their side, has played hypocrite.


In his Gentleman’s Quarterly interview, this is what goes:


GQ: “Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?”


Steele: “Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.”


GQ: “You do?”


Steele: “Yeah. Absolutely.”


Now for waffling:


GQ: “Are you saying you don’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade?”


Steele: “I think Roe v. Wade—as a legal matter, Roe v. Wade was a wrongly decided matter.”


GQ: “Okay, but if you overturn Roe v. Wade, how do women have the choice you just said they should have?”


Steele: “The states should make that choice. That’s what the choice is. The individual choice rests in the states. Let them decide.”


GQ: “Do pro-choicers have a place in the Republican Party?”


Steele: “Absolutely!”


So much for Steele’s integrity. He’s no better than the other double-tongued wagglers.


No better.


None.


Read “The Reconstructionist” at http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2009/03/the-reconstruct.html

B. HUSSEIN HIDES, SIGNS CRAZY MONEY MANIA SPEND

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


B. Hussein should have hid his face. And that he did when signing the horrific spend mania bill that will trap future generations into the poverty pit.


But what else? Is not B. Hussein a product of his generation—over spending, maxing out, breathing ‘denial air’ till they drop?


Christ said that it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. It is not money. It is the love of money.


B. Hussein and lawmakers lust for money. We have lost leadership in DC. We have been crooked by Wall Street. Suck in America down the tubes, people. Such in America down the tubes.


It’s usually carnal desire that gets people in trouble. But currently it’s the love of money—greed.


Republicans are to blame as Dems are to blame. They have planted their earmarks everywhere. They are grubbing for the take, members of both parties.


This is the lowest moral base. Yet it stares us thrifty citizens in the face. How can we frugal ones expect to instruct our next generation on how to pinch the penny?


Well, reality-in-your-face seems to be the most adept teacher of that lesson. The next generation all of a sudden has found itself slapped without jobs and pay checks, without cash and savings. So that in itself presses the frugal curriculum, ready or not.


Is this is a good thing? Yes it is, though painful. Nevertheless, it is a soul healthy tonic.


America has overspent itself into rot. Now’s the time to settle accounts—for soul as well as body. It’s the moment of truth when people realize they can’t grab it all in a minute.


B. Hussein sets the tawdry example of how not to do it. May all those mob hysteriacs who pushed him into office suffer. May they suffer suffer suffer. Then may they learn how not to do it as hiding B. Hussein may be learning.


B. Hussein and madhouse overspending Congresspersons are the shame of the nation. We have little integrity in DC. Where, pray tell, is it?


Christ said he had nowhere to lay His head. He went about doing Father’s will, leaning on heaven for His next meal, obedient to the next assignment. He told His disciples to follow His example.


Instead, for the past two thousand years, many of Christ’s so-called leading disciples have overspent on themselves, decked their mansions with chandeliers, sucked in pension checks from the elderly in order to underwrite their own summer get-away and so forth and so forth.


Read “Evangelists who betray Jesus” at http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/swank/071030


How then could those money-loving “Christian” leaders discipline politicians overspending tax moneys? No wonder the silence from the leading pulpiteers.


Therefore, while B. Hussein, Marxist Muslim, slaps the nation’s wallet into confetti, he has no reputable spiritual disciplinarian to call him to judgment.


However, God is watching and God is meticulously tallying. That is why genuine believers await the fall of B. Hussein. “Pride goes before a fall.” B. Hussein is the egomaniac of the egomaniacs. He leads the pack. He will fall.


The more bloated his conceit, the heavier he will hit the turf. It could be soon. God knows the day and hour. B. Hussein will crease and fold, blowing away in disgrace.


The Word states that judgment comes to some before the Final Day and some after death. I believe B. Hussein’s judgment of divine condemnation will come before he breathes his last as well as at the Judgment Seat of Christ.


Hebrews 9:27: “It is appointed unto us once to die, but after that the judgment.”


Numbers 32:23: “Be sure your sin will find you out.”


Now B. Hussein hides out while signing the dastardly bill to jailhouse our children and us. But the time will come when God will drag him flailing from his corner to the center stage for the entire planet to witness B. Hussein’s folly.


Romans 14:10-12: “For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”


“Every knee shall bow. . .” B. Hussein’s knees are wobbly. One day they’ll twist and wrinkle, weaken and fold.

GUN CONTROL? NOT!

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Per NewsMax.com’s Jim Meyers, “Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder for attorney general will not sit well with advocates of Second Amendment rights — Holder has consistently championed stronger gun-control measures.”


The Second Amendment must never be tampered with.


Note this wisdom:


'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.' ~ Thomas Jefferson


An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.


A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.


Colt: The original point and click interface.


Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.


If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.


Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.


If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.


Those who trade liberty for security have neither.


The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.


What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?


The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.


64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.


Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.


Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.


You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.


911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.


Assault is a behavior, not a device.


Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.


If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.


Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.


You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.


Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.


When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.


The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.


Read “Eric Holder Was a Gun Control Nightmare” at http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/holder_gun_control/2008/11/21/153808.html

WHOSE TURF IS THE EARTH?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


NOTE: Pastor Swank authored MOMENTS TO GO, A STUDY OF THE SECOND COMING, Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1974, the book now out of print. However, a few copies are available via such venues as Amazon books.


B. Hussein concludes he owns America. He said, “I
won.” He acts as if he is the nation’s property owner. “I won.”


All the while he loses. America loses. The world loses.


Countless similar secularists agree with B. Hussein’s ownership of Earth. They have boasted this for decades as they wipe God off the Earth.


However, facts are that mortals don’t own this property. The Earth was created, not by God the Father. It was created not by God the Holy Spirit.


The Earth was created by God the Son with the others within the triune godhead agreeing with the Son.


There is perfect unity within the Trinity. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three-in-one—the absolute union. Throughout Scripture’s research one realizes that there is no conflict in the triune godhead.


Christ prayed in his High Priestly Prayer that His disciples would be one as the triune godhead is one.


Specifically, Christ was appointed prior to Earth’s creation as Earth’s creator. That is why Christ came to Earth as the incarnate One to redeem His own property. (See footnote).


That is why Christ will return to Earth as King of kings and Lord of lords. He will rightly rule on Earth for one thousand years. Earth is His property though Satan rules it temporarily as the Prince of the Power of the Air. However, the Prince is not the King. Christ is. King tops Prince.


After the one thousand years, then Christ will see that the Earth is dissolved. The damned will be consigned to the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. The righteous will be escorted into the New Heaven and the New Earth.


Christ holds the deed to this Earth. Right now God in His anger is disciplining unsaved earthlings for their thievery. They have sought to grasp Earth from Christ’s hands.


One dare not do that. But because mortal hubris has wrenched the impossible, God is responding right now with such a divine press against worldwide population that everyone is squeezed against life’s wall.


However, note this: Christ not only owns the Earth’s property deed. Christ owns His own redeemed children. He owns the saved. He owns the repentant mortals who have committed to service Christ. These mortals will this to be so.


That ownership gives to His children the biblical promises that cannot fail. God being God cannot break His promises. God is eternal integrity.


This God in Christ has said that He will never leave us or forsake us, that is, His grace children. He will order the steps of the godly disciples. He will be their salvation.


The Bible is replete with incident after incident of God delivering His own from the enemy’s grasp. He is doing that today as well. Those disciples pressed against the wall are discovering openings in the wall they had never envisioned. God is in the openings.


God’s grace children do not live in the same sphere as the unsaved. We redeemed ones live in the Christ sphere, that invisible world overseen by Christ. That is why grace children continually speak to Christ day and night in order to be covered with His comfort.


That is why grace children remain calm. “Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord which He will show you today. The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace” (Exodus 14:13-14).


“Stand still.” Calm. Wait upon Christ.


Grace children come out from among the ungodly. They keep their robes washed in the blood of the Lamb. They witness to victory before visible victory is realized.


Grace children continue because they know that “this is the day the Lord has made and we will rejoice in it.”


Grace children do not lose their joy for they experience miracles from Christ. They are directed daily to particular Scripture passages just for that specific moment. The Spirit of Christ speaks to them within their inner spirits.


Christ owns this Earth. He will see to it that the ungodly seeking to wrestle Earth out of His holy grasp are brought to naught. Zero. Crumbled.


Christ also owns His grace children’s existence. They will it to be so for they know that outside of Christ’s sphere is damnation. Therefore, grace children insist that they remain as love slaves inside the Christ covering.


“Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord which He will show you today. The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace” (Exodus 14:13-14).


FOOTNOTE:


CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS


Psalm 24:1
Psalm 33:6,9
Proverbs 3:19
John 1:1-3,14
I Corinthians 8:6
Ephesians 1:10; 3:9
Colossians 1:16
Hebrews 1:1-2


CHRIST CONTAINS ALL THINGS


I Corinthians 8:6
“through whom we exist”
Colossians 1:15-17
“in Him all things hold together”


CHRIST CLIMAXES ALL THINGS


Ephesians 1:10
“will unite all things in Christ”
Philippians 3:21
“subdue all things unto himself”
Matthew 28:18-20
“all power is given unto Me”


Read DIRE TIMES: GOD WILL FIGHT FOR CHRISTIANS at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P2998


Read GOD DESTROYS WICKED ANTI-USA CLOT at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=12


Read WHY THE LIGHT WON'T GO OUT at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P2984

DON’T TRUST SNOPES

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


One would think an entire think-tank university staff is behind Snopes.


Not so. It’s a couple—husband and wife.


Their opinions are considered bible by countless who check out “the facts” by going to Snopes.com. These countless include college profs, Congresspersons, the National Review writers, and masses climbing all over the grassroots.


Stop it. You are being duped on many occasion by two political and theological liberals. That’s right. Liberals.


Their names are David and Barbara Mikkelson of Los Angeles.


After all, does any person write on issues without some bias? And then put one-plus-one as husband and wife into the equation and you do not have a pure sheet of paper. Add to those two their ego proportions, given mortal’s tendency to yield to the power hungry nature. Got it?


Eight million check in with the couple daily to see if what the public is reading wherever is reality or fancy. How odd of us so-called thinking populates to trust such an entity because it simply tells us to trust it.


The same with Wall Street. The same with the Episcopal Church. The same with B. Hussein.


Yet now we know these components are laden with crooks or liars or worse.


One issue that particularly riles conservatives who know what’s up with Snopes is that Snopes states that B. Hussein’s birth certificate is legal—signed, sealed and delivered. Countless persons point to Snopes for the bottom line on that one topic alone.


Yet why should the Los Angeles twosome have the last word on that? They should not for there is much, much evidence pointing to B. Hussein hoodwinking us on that basic.


Read “Is Snopes.com infallible?” at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91196


“Rumors pertaining to [Obama's] citizenship status have been circulating on the Internet,” wrote Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., to a constituent, “and this information has been debunked by Snopes.com, which investigates the truth behind Internet rumors.”


Oh, really. Not so, say the truly informed.


Joseph Farah without hesitation calls in question the Snopes couple. He regards them as “inexperienced and unprofessional ‘researchers.’” And that they are.


Any conservative husband and wife team out there that wants to start washing public brains on all sorts of themes? Go to it.


Now as for Wikipedia. Well, that’s another questionable site. Really? Really.


For more, check out Farah here: “Beware the Internet!” at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=41537

GOD KNOWS HOW TO AFFLICT YOUR FOES

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“It is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you. . .” (II Thessalonians 1:6).


Jesus tells us to pray for our enemies.


For instance, B. Hussein is my enemy. He is the enemy of our democratic Republic. Therefore, I pray for him to be saved via the grace of Jesus Christ in a personal conversion.


The Holy Spirit is dealing with B. Hussein, Marxist Muslim, for many are praying that same intercession. Therefore, God is working on his heart for conversion to Christ, away from Allah.


If B. Hussein disobeys God, he will spend an eternity in hell, just as all others who disobey God spend their everlasting in hell.


So B. Hussein is my enemy. I pray for him. I leave the afflicting up to God.


In the ministry for half a century, the devil has put many foes in the middle of my righteous path. I have seen them. I have tried to bring them around to biblical values. Some have come around. Others have persisted in sin, thwarting the work of my pastorate.


Now I have seen God afflict those enemies with His own anger. One man, Jim, was so mean that God brought him an early death. His son found him on his bed one morning, no warning that he had been sick.


Another man, Mike, and his wife, Jean, were obstructing God’s work in the church. They were chiefly gossips and malcontents. I prayed that their souls would mellow into the goodness of God. But they persisted in ruining the work. One day Mike died, fell to the floor. A few years later Jean died.


Now these three—Jim, Mike, Jean—are dead. They have no more influence on this Earth. I have lived to see my enemies come upon God inflicting His own judgment upon them.


It was not up to me to bring that upon their souls. God took care of it far more precisely than I could. Further, it is not my prerogative to do what God has promised to do for the kingdom’s sake.


Barbara was a gossip and nasty agent for the dark side. She plotted against my gospel preaching by planting a tape recorder in the sanctuary. She hoped to record something heretical I would state in a sermon.


I don’t preach heresy. I preach the Word of God.


Barbara and her spite-spirited husband continued that shenanigan over time, hoping to snare me and report me to the higher echelon. But it did not work. One day Barbara dropped dead.


A young woman in the church warred against my preaching the holy life. Therefore, she posted beer bottles at my parsonage front door. She snipped the telephone wires to my home. She phoned us in the middle of the night, threatening us with death and hell. She spray painted SINNERS across the parking lot.


Now today she is dead.


One woman declared that I had the spirit of Satan in me; therefore, she could not get near my shadow. However, she was the church custodian.


Therefore, when she was on church property, she made certain to stay far away from my presence. I looked out the study window one morning to see her running from the church to the fellowship hall, not wanting to be near my frame. She ran.


Today she lives physically; but she has frizzled into a spiritual mannequin, giving forth the language of being born again but hollow all the while. Her husband has joined her in death of soul.


A fellow turned against the ministry for money had become his deity. His 401-K became his security. He put on a pretence of being a Christian; but he worshiped other than Christ.


When that happens, the first figure to be attacked by the backslidden is the gospel preacher for he represents the God that the backslider is betraying.
With that, the man left the church, shriveling in his soul to a fear-stalked mortal in search of a base upon which to plant his feet.


A woman in her 70s who was once the picture of a smiling saint let her grousing get to her spirit. She changed from that happy Christian to a faultfinding snit.


In short order she lost her house, her gardens, her worldly goods except for a token to take with her to the elderly persons’ residence. No more fancy dinnerware, accommodating bedrooms, lush kitchen and living room, sunporch and two-car garage. All gone within weeks of her turning against God and His witness.


There are countless enemies in America networking every day to undercut our values, the Christian heritage and God Himself. These ones will come under divine affliction.


God will see to it.


Christians, remain faithful. God will honor your obedience by caring for you and afflicting your foes.


“It is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you. . .” (II Thessalonians 1:6).

OBAMA’S MISSING LINK IN US EDUCATION

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


B. Hussein Obama has set forth his ambitions for our educational system.


One can get an overview here: “Obama Lays Out Education Priorities” at http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/03/10/obama-lays-out-education-priorities/


What is missing is how to control classrooms’ misbehavior.


I have taught in public schools. I worked particularly in an alternative learning school where the so-called troubled high schoolers were placed.


I have experienced unruly student behavior first-hand. At one vocational school, substitute teaching that day, I left after ten minutes. The ones seated in front of me were so obstinate that I decided the sub pay was not worth the aggravation.


I could go on and on with numerous like examples but conclude that most readers already know what is going on in our nation’s schools. It is mayhem. It is lack of regard for teachers. It is madness in some quarters, so much so that police walk the hallways.


Now B. Hussein is trying to fix this.


What is missing in B. Hussein’s overview is God. God was ousted from our public school system over time. When I was a youth in public school, we began the day with the pledge to the American flag, prayer and Bible reading over the public address system.


Of course, today that is considered politically incorrect.


However, that is the missing link that could have kept our
educational system sanely balanced. Now that link has been hoisted. That leaves our classrooms in the horrific state that they are in.


When God was ousted, biblical morality was ousted as well. Now today we have lesbian/homosexual clubs, their posters pasted all over the school building, their agenda defended by school systems’ heads.


We have prohibitions against Christian anything—clubs, prayers, Bible reading and so forth. When these prohibitions come to the attention of legal defense teams willing to go to court on behalf of Christians, sometimes these situations change for the better.


Today the classroom is basically a pagan settlement void of biblical values and the recognized presence of God.


Yet these are the youth who are going to be our national
leaders. These are the young people who are going to teach, police, operate and manage our country in years ahead. However, they are taught in an environment neutral or hostile toward the Creator God.


Unless B. Hussein, Marxist Muslim, turns to the biblical God and endorses his divine revelation as the moral base for society, his educational plan, as with his other plans, will come to naught.

DIRE TIMES: GOD WILL FIGHT FOR CHRISTIANS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Genuine biblical believers must keep faith mighty.


World-think whispers to believers to give up, cave in and throw in the towel. But those into Scripture know that true believers were often tossed against life’s wall. Yet their faith brought God’s hand down upon the situation.


Escaping Hebrews were thrown against the formidable Red Sea. God’s hand reached down to scoop up the waters, pushing them to right and left to make a roadway through.


Three Hebrews were thrown into the enemy’s fiery furnace. God’s hand reached down to insulate them against the flames.


Jesus was thrown against the devil’s grip and the grave’s gaping mouth. God’s hand reached down to bring Him back from the dead.


Today’s believers are confronted with the Marxist Muslim B. Hussein’s ungodly regime. God’s hand will reach down in some way to cause the righteous remnant to rejoice over their enemies.


Faith is a gift. One cannot manufacture faith. It is presented by God to those who call upon Him, even those who are weak in faith. If that faith is but the size of a mustard seed, God honors that faith with His mighty response.


“And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show you today. . .The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace” (Exodus 14:13-14).


The righteous remnant must fear not, stand still and see the “salvation of the Lord.” God is faithful. He rewards His children’s faith.


We have on the other hand charlatans of false faith. Oprah Winfrey is a prime example. She uses the biblical terms such as “God” but she has no biblical definition at work in her prophetess’ New Age shenanigans.


Oprah tells her disciples to listen to the inner voice for direction. Her inner voice is not the Holy Spirit. It is the unholy spirit to whom she has yielded. It will one day damn her.


The righteous remnant’s faith is pure in that it is cleansed by the Word of God, not the philosophical weavings of false teachers such as Oprah. The Scriptures keep the remnant’s faith informed properly.


Fear not. Stand still. See the salvation of the Lord. All of this is workable. It is honored by the indwelling Holy Spirit’s directives moment by moment to the true Christians.

DAVID WILKERSON WARNS OF BLOW-UP CALAMITY PER GOD’S ANGER

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


New York pastor and author David Wilkerson prophesies without hesitation of a major catastrophe hitting America and spreading far and wide—soon.


He writes in his blog that it is going to occur due to America’s sin. God’s anger is going to sweep this country because it has handed its soul over to the devil.


Wilkerson, known particularly for his best seller, “The Cross and the Switchblade,” knows what it means to live in the mind of God. He also knows what it means to obey that God or else.


Wilkerson states that the United States has gone far astray from the divine expectations and therefore has pushed God’s mercy over the line.


“I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.”


Wilkerson’s ministry has majored in combating the demons in the power of the Holy Spirit. He has pastored in the midst of Manhattan’s sin district, finding salvation results because of his unapologetic biblical preaching.


Wilkerson states in capital letters on his blog: “AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.”


Read AN URGENT MESSAGE at http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/2009/03/urgent-message.html


Read MORTALS LOSE THEIR POWER. ONLY GOD IS LEFT at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/02/mortals-lose-their-power-only-god-is.html

DOUBLE-TONGUED B. HUSSEIN ADVISES AMERICA TO BE ‘TOUGH’

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


While the White House stages elaborate nightly parties after midnight at taxpayers’ expense, B. Hussein counsels Americans to be thrifty.


In his Saturday radio address, B. Hussein advised: “Of course, like every family going through hard times, our country must make tough choices.


“In order to pay for the things we need—we cannot waste money on the things we don’t.”


Now isn’t that just sweet? Isn’t that just the paternal counsel this country needs as B. Hussein appoints as Treasury Department head a first-class stealer, having lapsed in paying his taxes yet now watching over our moneys?


Read OBAMA THIEF GEITHNER FRISKS FELLOW THIEVES at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-thief-geithner-frisks-fellow.html


Now isn’t that just comfy? B. Hussein tells us to spend our intake wisely, not roughing up the wallet on unnecessaries but keeping to the frugal wire.


All the time, B. Hussein expands abortuary funds increasing. He applauds killing womb babies numbers slipping off the charts.


Read B. HUSSEIN: US HEALTHCARE TO HEAR ‘EVERY VOICE.’ PRO-LIFE? At http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/03/b-hussein-us-healthcare-to-hear-every.html


All the time, B. Hussein expands medical care costs for AIDS/HIV patients who have come upon their anguish due to active homosexual practice. His “Christian ethos” urges him to crown same-gender nups as “the American way.”


B. Hussein in the same radiocast reminded listeners that “tough choices” are ahead, as if we do not already feel them.


Further, B. Hussein prophesied that “difficult days (are) in the months ahead,” as if we had not already figured that out.


Yet B. Hussein ups the tough choices. He ups the difficult days. How? He leans the Republic further left-of-left, just as his Congressional records shows is his devilish bent.


In addition, B. Hussein makes our country all the more distant from traditional Israel goodwill by appointing an anti-Jew as head of the National Intelligence Council.


Read B. HUSSEIN NABS ANTI-JEW FOR NATL INTEL CNL at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P2992


But what is most troubling for shooting up the tough choices and difficult days is B. Hussein slapping the face of God. This hubris-laden creature seated in the White House has no respect for the Bible’s God.


Read “B. Hussein betrays Christ” at http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/swank/080916


He is a Marxist Muslim. In that, he wills America’s democracy to collapse in favor of a socialist, anti-god society. With that, he aligns himself with the Islamic Koran evil.


Read THE KORAN at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/02/koran_1380.html


It was B. Hussein in the campaign who scolded Americans to read their Bibles. This man does not read the Bible. He does not know the Bible.


What is the evidence? He told an inquirer who asked about his position on homosexuality to read the Sermon on the Mount. Of course, Matthew 5-7 says nothing about homosexuality.


He said concerning his position supporting sodomy that his “Christian ethos” made him do it. There is no such entity as “Christian ethos.”


Further, B. Hussein dared quote the Word of God in his inauguration speech, encouraging evangelicals to believe that he really does know his Bible. But, being the liar that as a good Muslim is, he does not know the Book at all, only to prostitute its message.


B. Hussein also espouses confessing all religions as the same, Christianity in particular being a negative component. He will work to his last nerve to wipe Christianity out of this nation, hence the National Religious Broadcasters informing him that they will communicate the Word regardless of what government says and does.


Read CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS SAY DEFINITE ‘YES’ TO GOSPEL PREACHED at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/385784.shtml



While B. Hussein endorses “diversity” in communication channels, thus satisfying “public interest,” he reveals code language equal to the Fairness Doctrine that would wipe out conservative communication nationwide. That includes evangelical give-forths.


B. Hussein gives all the evidences that he considers himself godlike. His ego is expansive enough to consider himself the wise of the wise, especially when millions of mob hysteriacs and a liberal, pagan press put him in office.


But B. Hussein’s day will come before Judge Jesus Christ, not only at the final judgment and his own personal judgment, but in this life. B. Hussein will continue his dictatorial role, supported by a godless Dem pressed Congress, for a time and then they will implode.


God will bring His wrath upon B. Hussein and like anti-God politicians, pressmen and women and celebrities. They will all fold up. It will happen in a short time. God knows the day and hour.


The righteous will reign with God. They will see the demise of the wicked. They will witness the sinful extinguished. God’s Word promises just that.


Our founding parents prayed over this nation in its embryonic stage. Their prayers are still working admiration before the eternal throne.


Today’s American prayer warriors continue to come to our Advocate, Jesus Christ, on behalf of America. Those prayers are indeed mighty. “The effectual prayers of the righteous avail much,” per Scripture.


Read WHY THE LIGHT WON’T GO OUT at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js29401.shtml


Count on it. B. Hussein will crumble. His colleagues will collapse. He will find himself confronted with “tough choices” and “difficult days” that his own devilish lifestyle spells out for his destiny—now and forever.


FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY


Hebrews 9:27:


It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.


Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:


Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:


But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.


Romans 2:6-11:


God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.


Romans 14:10-12:


For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.


I Corinthians 4:5:


Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


II Corinthians 5:10:


For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.


Numbers 32:23:


Be sure your sin will find you out.

KORAN

Many thanks to The Skeptic’s Annotated Quran site for making available this indispensable index of the Quran. This is all we need to combat the Islamic game of deception.


Quran Surah 2: The Cow


1. Don’t bother to warn the disbelievers. Allah has blinded them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 6
2. Allah has sickened their hearts. A painful doom is theirs because they lie. 10
3. A fire has been prepared for the disbelievers, whose fuel is men and stones. 24
4. Disbelievers will be burned with fire. 39, 90
5. For disbelievers is a painful doom. 104
6. For unbelievers: ignominy in this world, an awful doom in the next. 114
7. Allah will leave the disbelievers alone for a while, but then he will compel them to the doom of Fire. 126
8. The doom of the disbelievers will not be lightened. 162
9. They will not emerge from the Fire. 167
10. Those who hide the Scripture will have their bellies eaten with fire. Theirs will be a painful doom. 174
11. How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire! 175
12. Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. 191
13. War is ordained by Allah. 216
14. Those who die in their disbelief will burn forever in the Fire. 217
15. Disbelievers worship false gods. They will burn forever in the Fire. 257
16. Allah does not guide disbelievers. 264
17. “Give us victory over the disbelieving folk.” 286


Quran Surah 3: The Family Of ‘Imran


1. Those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah, theirs will be a heavy doom. 4
2. Those who disbelieve will be fuel for the Fire. 10
3. Those who disbelieve shall be overcome and gathered unto Hell. 12
4. Those who disbelieve, promise them a painful doom. 21
5. Theirs will be a painful doom. 77
6. All non-Muslims will be rejected by Allah after they die. 85
7. Disbelievers will have a painful doom. And they will have no helpers. 91
8. Disbelievers will have their faces blackened on the last day. They will face an awful doom. 105-6
9. Those who disbelieve will be burnt in the Fire. 116
10. The Fire is prepared for disbelievers. 131
11. We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Their habitation is the Fire 151
12. Theirs will be an awful doom. 176
13. Disbelievers do not harm Allah, but will have a painful doom. 177
14. Disbelievers will have a shamful doom. 178
15. Disbelievers will go to Hell. 196


Quran Surah 4: Women


1. Those who disobey Allah and his messenger will be burnt with fire and suffer a painful doom. 14
2. For the disbelievers, We have prepared a painful doom. 18
3. For disbelievers, We prepare a shameful doom. 37
4. Hell is sufficient for their burning. 55
5. Unbelievers will be tormented forever with fire. When their skin is burned off, a fresh skin will be provided. 56
6. Allah will bestow a vast reward on those who fight in religious wars. 74
7. Believers fight for Allah; disbelievers fight for the devil. So fight the minions of the devil. 76
8. Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. 89
9. If the unbelievers do not offer you peace, kill them wherever you find them. Against such you are given clear warrant. 91 ( Offering peace in Islam means surrendering. All 67 out of 68 wars of Muhammad were offensive. They are called qazwah (raid, ambush, sudden attack). That is how Muhammad waged his wars. He raided, massacred and looted civilians with no warning. The one defensive war, ‘ditch’ was not fought. That is why the Islamic terrorism ‘jihad’ will continue until the West “offers peace”. This was made clear by Bin Laden.)
10. Those who oppose the messenger and become unbelievers will go to hell. 115
11. Those who believe, then disbelieve, then believe and disbelieve again will never be forgiven by Allah. 137
12. For the hypocrites there will be a painful doom. 138
13. Allah will gather hypocrites and disbelievers into hell. 140
14. The hypocrites will be in the lowest part of hell and no one will help them there. 145
15. You must believe everything Allah and his messengers tell you. Those who don’t are disbelievers and will face a painful doom. 150-151
16. For the disbelievers, Allah has prepared a painful doom. 161
17. God will guide disbelievers down a road that leads to everlasting hell. 168-169


Quran Surah 5: The Table Spread


1. Those who deny Islam will be losers in the Hereafter. 5
2. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of Hell. 10
3. Those who make war with Allah and his messenger will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. That is how they will be treated in this world, and in the next they will have an awful doom. 33 (Anyone who resist Islam is deemed to be making war with Allah)
4. Disbelievers will have a painful doom. 36
5. Disbelievers will want to come out of the Fire, but will not. Their will be a lasting doom. 37
6. Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, and tooth for tooth. Non-muslims are wrong doers. 45
7. Christians will be burned in the Fire. 72
8. Christians are wrong about the Trinity. For that they will have a painful doom. 73
9. Disbelievers will be owners of hell-fire. 86


Quran Surah 6: The Cattle


1. Many generations have been destroyed by Allah. 6
2. Allah will torment those who deny his revelations. 49
3. Those who disbelieve will be forced to drink boiling water, and will face a painful doom. 70
4. When nonbelievers die, the angels will deliver to them doom and degradation. 93
5. Allah chooses to lead some astray, and he lays ignominy on those who disbelieve. 125
6. Allah will send everyone the Fire, except those he chooses to deliver. 128


Quran Surah 7: The Heights


1. How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them. 4-5
2. Allah has made devils the protecting friends of disbeliveers. 27
3. Disbelievers choose devils as protecting friends and believe they are rightly guided. 30
4. Only believers go to heaven. 32
5. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of the Fire. 36
6. Entire nations have entered the Fire. Some get a double torment. 38
7. Disbelievers will be excluded from heaven. Theirs will be a bed of hell. 40-41
8. Those in the Fire will cry out to those in heaven, saying: “Pour water on us.” But Allah has forbidden that to disbelievers. 50
9. Those who deny Muhammad’s revelation are evil. 177


Quran Surah 8: The Spoils of War


1. Allah will throw fear into the hearts of the disbelievers, and smite their necks and fingers. 12
2. Disbelievers will be tormented in the Fire. 14
3. When you fight with disbelievers, do not retreat. Those who do will go to hell. 15-16
4. Taste of the doom because ye disbelieve. 35
5. Those who disbelieve will be gathered into hell. 36
6. The angels smite the face and backs of disbelievers, saying: “Taste the punishment of burning!” 50
7. The worst beasts in Allah’s sight are the disbelievers. 55
8. Exhort the believers to fight. They will win easily, because disbelievers are without intelligence. 65
9. A prophet may not take captives until he has made a slaughter in the land. 67


Surah 9: Repentance


1. Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom to those who disbelieve. 3
2. Slay the idolaters wherever you find them. 5
3. Don’t let idolaters tend the sanctuaries. Their works are in vain and they will be burned in the Fire. 17
4. Give tiding of a painful doom to Christians and Jews. 34
5. If you refuse to fight, Allah will afflict you with a painful doom. 39
6. Disbelievers go to hell. 49
7. Those who vex the Prophet, for them there is a painful doom. 60
8. Those who oppose Allah and His messenger will burn in the fire of hell. 63
9. Allah promises hypocrites and disbelievers the fire of hell. Allah curses them. They will have a lasting torment. 68
10. Fight the disbelievers and hypocrites. Be harsh with them. They are all going to hell anyway. 73
11. Allah will afflict disbelievers with a painful doom in this world and the Hereafter. 74
12. For disbelievers there will be a painful doom. 90
13. Don’t pray for idolaters (not even for your family) after it is clear they are people of hell-fire. 113
14. Fight disbelievers who are near you, and let them see the harshness in you. 123


Quran Surah 10: Jonah


1. Disbelievers will have a boiling drink and a painful doom. 4
2. Those who neglect Allah’s revelations will make their home in the Fire. 7-8
3. Allah has destoyed entire generations. 13
4. Those who disbelieved will face a dreadful doom. 70
5. Allah drowned those who disbelieved his revelations. 73
6. Moses asked Allah to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they would not believe until they saw the painful doom. 88


Quran Surah 11: Hud


1. Disbelievers wil1 end up in the Fire. 17
2. Those who oppose Islam and disbelieve in the Hereafter are guilty of the greatest wrong. 18-19
3. Those in the Fire will suffer as long as the heavens and earth endure. 106-7
4. Allah will fill hell with humans and jinn. 119


Quran Surah 13: The Thunder


1. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of the Fire 5
2. Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers. 14
3. Those who do not answer Allah’s call will go to hell. 18
4. Disbelievers will be tormented in this life, and suffer even more pain in the Hereafter. 33-34
5. The reward for disbelievers is the Fire. 35


Quran Surah 14: Abraham
1. Woe unto the disbelievers. Theirs will be an awful doom. 2
2. Allah sends some people astray. 4
3. Those who are in hell will be forced to drink festering water which they can hardly swallow. They will want to die, but they will not be able to. Theirs is a harsh doom. 16-17
4. Allah sends wrong-doers astray. He does whatever he likes. 27
5. Those in hell will be chained together. Their clothing will be made of pitch and fire will cover their faces. 49-50


Quran Surah 15: The Rock


1. Let the disbelievers enjoy life and let false hope beguile them. They will come to know! 2-3
2. Iblis will lead humans astray. Only perfect Muslims will be safe from him. The rest will go to hell. 39-43
3. Allah’s doom is a dolorous doom. 50


Quran Surah 16: The Bee


1. Allah could have led everyone to the truth, but he chose not to. 9
2. Those who don’t believe in the Hearafter are proud. 22
3. Disbelievers are evil and will dwell in hell forever. 27-29
4. Disbelievers are liars. 39
5. Allah will add doom to doom for those who disbelieve. 88
6. Those who oppose Islam will face an awful doom. 94


Quran Surah 17: The Children of Israel


1. Allah made hell to be a dungeon for disbelievers. 8
2. Allah has prepared a painful doom for those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 10
3. Allah destroyed entire towns. 16
4. How many generations Allah has destroyed since Noah! 17
5. Allah intends to burn people in hell. 18
6. Allah makes it so that unbelievers cannot understand. 45-46
7. Allah will destroy every town before the Day of Resurrection. 58
8. Allah will send disbelievers astray. Then he’ll burn them in hell, increasing the flames from time to time. 97-98


Quran Surah 18: The Cave


1. Allah has prepared a Fire for the disbelievers. When they want a shower, Allah will give them a shower of molten lead to burn their faces. 29
2. Those who are condemned to the Fire know they will have no way to escape. 53
3. The worst wrong is to forget Allah’s revelations. Allah covers their hearts and makes them deaf so that they will never believe the truth. 57
4. There is an appointed time in which the doomed will find no escape. 58
5. Allah has destroyed many towns. 59
6. On a certain day, Allah will present hell, in plain view, to the disbelievers. 100
7. Allah will welcome the disbelievers into hell. 102
8. Hell is the reward for disbelievers because they made a jest of Allah’s revelations and messengers. 106


Quran Surah 19: Mary


1. Allah will pluck out from every sect those who should burn in hell. 69-70
2. Allah will record what disbelievers say and then prolong their torment. 77-79
3. Allah has sent the devils on the disbelievers to confuse them. 83
4. Allah has destroyed many generations. 98


Quran Surah 20: Ta Ha


1. Those who do not believe
2. Allah’s revelations will face doom in the Hereafter. 127
3. Allah has destroyed many generations. 128


Quran Surah 21: The Prophets


1. Allah destroyed entire towns, yet the people still disbelieved. 6
2. The people cried out for mercy, but Allah killed them anyway. 15
3. Disbelievers will not be able to put out the fire on their faces and backs. They will be stupefied and no one will help them. 39-40
4. Allah gave judgment and knowledge to Lot . He was a righteous man. (Genesis 19:7-38) 75
5. Every person alive at the time of the flood was evil. So Allah drowned them all. 77
6. The disbelievers will stare in terror at what Allah has in store for them. 97-99


Surah 22: The Pilgrimage


1. The devil will guide some to the punishment of the Flame. 3-4
2. Those who turn from the way of Allah will face ignominy in this world and burning in the next. 9
3. Whoever thinks that Allah will not give Muhammad victory should go hang himself. 15
4. Disbelievers will wear garments of fire, boiling fluid will be poured on their heads, their bellies and skin will be melted, they will be tormented with iron hooks, and when they try to escape they will be driven back with the taunt: Taste the doom of burning. 19-22
5. Allah will provide the disbelievers with a painful doom. 25
6. How many towns Allah has destroyed! 45
7. Those who disregard Allah’s revelations are the owners of the Fire. 51
8. Those who disbelieve Allah’s revelations will have a shameful doom. 57
9. Those who disbelieve Allah’s revelations will burn in the Fire. 72


Quran Surah 23: The Believers


1. Allah told Noah not to bother pleading for the people he was about to drown. 27
2. Those who don’t believe in the Hereafter will receive extreme punishment from Allah. 74-77
3. When fire burns their faces, they will be glum. 104
4. Disbelievers will not be successful. 117


Surah 24: The Light


1. Scourge adulterers and adulteresses with 100 stripes. Do not show them any pity. Have a party of believers watch the punishment. 2
2. Only adulterers can marry adulteresses. Believers are not to marry them. 3
3. Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. 26
4. Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. 31
5. Disbelievers are miscreants. 55
6. Disbelievers will never escape the Fire that will be their home. 57
7. It’s okay for believers to own slaves. 58
8. The only true believers are those who believe in Allah and his messenger. 62


Quran Surah 25: The Criterion


1. Those who deny the coming of the Hour will be chained together and burned with fire. They will pray for their own destruction. 11-13
2. Allah will force the evil-doers to taste great torment. 19
3. It will be a hard day for disbelievers and wrong-doers. They will gnaw on their hands and wish they had chosen Islam. 26-27
4. Those who deny Muhammad’s revelations will be destroyed. 36
5. Allah drowned everyone in the flood of Noah, and has prepared a painful doom for evil-doers. 37


Quran Surah 26: The Poets


1. Allah destroyed the people in Lot ‘s town with a dreadful rain. 172-3
2. Many will not believe until they see the painful doom. 201
3. Those who believe in another god are doomed. 213


Quran Surah 27: The Ant


1. Allah leads those who do not believe in the Hereafter astray by making things work out OK in this life, so that he can torment them forever in the next. They will get the worst punishment and will be the greatest losers. 4-5
2. “Allah destroyed them and their people, every one.” 51
3. But he “saved those who believed.” 53
4. Allah sent a dreadful rain on “those who stayed behind.” 58
5. Whoever does something wrong will be thrown into the Fire. 90


Quran Surah 28: The Narrative


1. Allah has completely destroyed many communities. 58
2. Allah will taunt Christians on the day of their doom, saying: Where are My partners whom ye imagined? 62-64
3. Allah caused the earth to swallow Korah. 79-81
4. Never help disbelievers. 86 (Can Muslims in countries ruled in by non-Muslims be loyal to their country?)


Quran Surah 29: The Spider


1. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah have no hope of mercy. For such there is a painful doom. 23
2. Only wrong-doers deny the revelations of Allah. 49
3. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah are the losers. 52
4. The doom of hell will come upon disbelievers suddenly, when they least expect it. 53-55


Quran Surah 30: The Romans


1. Allah will tear Christians apart for ascribing partners to him. 13-14
2. Disbelievers will be brought to doom. 16
3. It’s OK to own slaves. 28
4. Allah does not love disbelievers. 45
5. Allah seals the heart of disbelievers. (And then he burns them in the Fire.) 59


Quran Surah 31: Luqman


1. Those who mislead others from Allah’s way and mock Islam will have a painful doom. 6-7
2. Allah will give disbelievers a little comfort for a little while, and then he’ll torment them forever with a heavy doom. 23-24


Quran Surah 32: The Prostration


1. Allah will fill hell with the jinn and mankind together. 13
2. Allah: Taste the doom of immortality because of what ye used to do. 14
3. Those who used to deny the Fire will be tormented in it forever. 20
4. The worst thing you can do is to deny the revelations of Allah. 22


Quran Surah 33: The Clans


1. Don’t obey disbelievers. 1 (Can Muslims in countries ruled in by non-Muslims be loyal to their country?)
2. Allah makes the deeds of unbelievers fruitless. 19
3. Allah cast panic into the hearts of the disbelievers. He killed some, and enslaved others. 25-26
4. Allah gave Zeyd’s wife, his own daughter in law to Muhammad in marriage. This was so that all Muslims would know that it’s OK to marry your adopted son’s ex-wife. 37
5. Ignore disbelievers and their poisonous talk. 48
6. It’s OK to own slaves. 50
7. Allah says it is lawful for Muhammad to marry any women he wants. 50-51
8. It’s OK to own slaves. 55
9. Those who malign Allah, Muhammad, and Muslims will be cursed by Allah in this life and with doom in the Hereafter. 57
10. Those who oppose Islam will be slain with a fierce slaughter. 60-61
11. Allah has cursed the disbelievers, and has prepared for them a flaming fire, wherein they will abide forever. 64-65
12. The disbelievers will be burned in the Fire with a double torment. 66-68


Quran Surah 34: Saba


1. Those who challenge the revelations of Muhammad will have a painful doom. 5
2. Those who disbelieve in the Hereafter will be tormented. 8
3. But some of the jinn Allah burned with flaming Fire. 12
4. Those who strive against Allah’s revelations will be brought to the doom. 38
5. Those who worshipped the jinn will taste the doom of the Fire. 41
6. Allah hates those who ignore his messengers. 45
7. Those who are cast into hell be terrified when they see that they have no escape. Then they will believe. But it will be too late. 51-52


Quran Surah 35: The Angels


1. Those who disbelieve will have an awful doom. 7
2. Allah sends whoever he wants astray. 8
3. Allah hates disbelievers. 26
4. Disbelievers will burn forever in the fire of hell. Allah will keep them alive so that he can torture them forever. When they repent and ask for mercy, he will ignore them. 36-7
5. He who disbelieves, his disbelief will be on his own head. 39
6. Allah has blinded the disbelievers so that they cannot see the truth. So it don’t bother warning them.


Quran Surah 36: Ya Sin


1. They will go to hell anyway. 8-10
2. Allah has destroyed many entire generations. 31
3. If Allah feels like it, he will drown everyone. 43
4. Allah will burn the disbelievers in hell. 63-4


Quran Surah 37: Those Who Set The Ranks


1. Those who refuse to believe in Muhammad’s revelations will face a painful doom. 31-38
2. Those in hell must eat from a tree with the heads of devils, and then drink boiling water. After that they return to hell. 62-68
3. Allah drowned everyone except Noah and his family in the flood. 82
4. Allah tells Abraham in a dream to sacrifice his son. (But is the son Ishmael or Isaac?) 102
5. Allah killed everyone in Sodom except for Lot and his family. 136
6. No one is against Allah, except those who burn in hell. 162-3


Quran Surah 38: Sad


1. Allah has destroyed many generations. 3
2. Those who doubt will soon taste Allah’s doom. 8
3. Those who deny the messengers deserve doom. 14
4. Those who wander from the way of Allah will have an awful doom. 26
5. Those who disbelieve will burn in the Fire. 27
6. The transgressors will roast in the Fire and be forced to drink boiling liquids followed by ice cold drinks. 55-9
7. Iblis asks Allah to let him hang around and mislead humans. Allah allows him to do so, and Iblis leads all humans to hell except for the single-minded slaves. Allah agrees, and plans to fill hell with Iblis and his followers. 79-85


Quran Surah 39: The Troops


1. Tell the disbelievers to enjoy themselves now, because later they will be owners of the Fire. 8
2. The losers will be those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. They will be surrounded by fire. 15-16
3. No one will be able to help those that Allah torments in the Fire. 19
4. Woe unto those who forget Allah. They are in plain error. 22
5. Allah sends some people astray. For them there is no guide. 23
6. The worst thing you can do is tell a lie against Allah. The home of disbelievers is hell. 32
7. Allah sends some people astray. For them there is no guide. 36
8. Surrender to Allah before he sends the doom upon you suddenly. 54-55
9. Those who lie about Allah will be sent to hell and will have their faces blackened. 60
10. Losers are those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah. 63
11. Those ascribe a partner to Allah (like the Christians) will be among the losers. 65
12. Those who disbelieve will be driven into hell. 71-72


Quran Surah 40: The Believer


1. Allah sent an awful punishment at the time of Noah. 5
2. Those who disbelieve are the owners of the Fire. 6
3. Allah greatly abhors those who disbelieve. 10
4. When the doom comes, the hearts of the doomed will choke in their throats, and no one will help them. 18
5. Those who ignore Allah’s “clear proofs” will be seized and punished severely. 22
6. Those that Allah sends astray will have no helper or guide. 33
7. Allah deceives those who doubt. 34
8. The prodigals will be owners of the Fire. 43
9. The doomed will be exposed to the Fire morning and evening. 46
10. Those in hell will beg to be relieved from the Fire’s torment for just a day. But the prayer of a disbeliever is in vain. 49-50
11. Those who bicker about Allah’s revelations are filled with pride. 56
12. Those who scorn Allah will go to hell. 60
13. Those who deny the revelations of Allah are perverted. 63
14. Those who deny the Scripture and Allah’s messengers will be dragged through boiling water and thrust into the Fire. 70-72
15. Allah will taunt the Christians in hell, saying: Where are all my partners that you used to believe in? 73
16. Thus does Allah send astray the disbelievers (in his guidance). 74
17. Those who scorn will go to hell. 76
18. When they see Allah’s doom they will believe in Allah. But their faith will not save them. The disbelievers will be ruined. 84-85


Quran Surah 41: Fusilat


1. Woe unto the idolaters who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 6
2. Allah will make life miserable for those who deny his revelations and then he will torment them forever in the Hereafter. And they will not be helped. 15-16
3. The enemies of Allah will be gathered into the Fire where their skin, ears, and eyes will testify against them. 19-20
4. Allah will make those who disbelieve taste an awful doom. Their immortal home will be the Fire, since they denied Allah’s revelations. 27-28
5. Those who disbelieve will taste hard punishment. 50


Quran Surah 42: The Counsel


1. While some lounge in the Garden, others will roast in the Flame. 7
2. Those who argue about Allah will have his wrath upon them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 16
3. Allah sometimes kills people for misbehaving. 34
4. Allah sends some people astray and then punishes them for it by burning them in the Fire. 44-46
5. Allah makes some people barren. (Whenever he feels like it.) 50


Quran Surah 43: Ornaments of God


1. When the Egyptians angered Allah, he drowned them all. 55
2. Those who argue and do wrong will have a painful doom that will come upon them suddenly. 65-66
3. The guilty are tormented forever in hell. Allah will not relax their punishment. 74-75


Quran Surah 44: Smoke


1. Those in torment will claim to believe and ask Allah for relief. But he will refuse since they will return to their disbelief. 11-16
2. Those in hell must eat from a tree like molten brass that burns their bellies. Then boiling water will be poured on their heads. 43-48


Quran Surah 45: Crouching


1. Those who hear and reject Allah’s revelations are sinful liars. Give them tidings of a painful doom. 7-8
2. Those who joke about Allah’s revelations will go to hell. Theirs will be an awful doom. 9-10
3. Those who disbelieve in Allah’s revelations will have a painful doom of wrath. 11
4. Allah sends some people astray, making it impossible for them to hear or see. 23
5. Those who disbelieve are guilty folk. 31


Quran Surah 46: The Wind-Curved Sandals


1. Disbelievers will be rewarded with the ignominious doom of the Fire. 20
2. The guilty will face a wind with a painful torment. 25
3. Allah has destroyed entire towns. 27
4. Allah will taunt the disbelievers that he torments in the fire, saying: “Taste the doom for that ye disbelieved.” 34


Quran Surah 47: Muhammad


1. Allah makes the works of disbelievers vain. 1
2. Those who disbelieve follow falsehood. 3
3. Smite the necks of the disbelievers whenever you fight against them. Those who die fighting for Allah will be rewarded. 4
4. Allah will damn the disbelievers and make all their actions fruitless. 8-9
5. Disbelievers may eat and be happy now, but the Fire will be their final home. 12
6. Those in the Garden will drink delicious wine, while those in the Fire will drink boiling water that will tear apart their intestines. 15
7. Allah curses people by making them deaf and blind. 23
8. Angels will gather them together and smite their faces and backs. 27
9. Allah will make the actions those who disbelieve fruitless. 32
10. Those who disbelieve will never be pardoned by Allah. 34-35


Quran Surah 48: Victory


1. Those who think an evil thought concerning Allah will be cursed and sent to hell by him. 6
2. Allah has prepared a flame for the disbelievers. 13
3. If you refuse to fight for Allah, he will punish you with a painful doom. 16-17
4. But if you’re willing to fight for Allah, he will provide you with lots of booty. 19-20
5. Allah punished those who disbelieved with a painful punishment. 25
6. Those with Muhammad are ruthless toward disbelievers and merciful toward themselves. 29


Quran Surah 49: The Private Apartments


1. Do not lift your voice when in Muhammad’s presence. Those who subdue their voices are righteous and will receive an immense reward from Allah. 1-3


Quran Surah 50: Oaf


1. Allah has destroyed many entire generations. 36


Quran Surah 51: The Winnowing Winds


1. Accursed are the conjecturers who ask: When is the Day of Judgment? It is the day they will be tormented by the Fire. 10-14
2. Woe to the disbelievers. 60


Quran Surah 52: The Mount


1. Those who deny the existence of hell will be thrust into its Fire. 11-16
2. Those who disbelieve are trapped. 42


Quran Surah 54: The Moon


1. Allah sent a storm of stones on Lot’s folk, killing all but Lot ‘s family. 34
2. The suffering in hell will be more wretched and bitter than anything experienced on earth. 46-48
3. Allah destroyed many people, but does anyone remember anymore? 51


Quran Surah 55: The Beneficent


1. The guilty deny hell. But after they die they go circling between it and fierce, boiling water. 43-44


Quran Surah 56: The Event


1. But those on his left hand will face scorching wind, scalding water, and black smoke. 42-43
2. Those who deny Allah and the Hereafter will eat from the Zaqqum tree and drink boiling water. 51-54
3. Allah will welcome the rejecters and erring with boiling water and a roasting in the hell fire. 92-94


Quran Surah 57: Iron


1. The home of disbelievers is the Fire, a hapless journey’s end. 15
2. Those who disbelieve and deny Allah’s revelations are the owners of the fire. 19


Quran Surah 58: She That Disputeth


1. For disbelievers is a painful doom. 4
2. For disbelievers is a shameful doom. 5
3. Don’t make friends with Allah’s enemies. For those who do so, Allah has prepared a dreadful doom. 14-15
4. Those who turn others away from the way of Allah will have a shameful doom. They are rightful owners of the Fire. 16-17
5. Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be among the lowest. 20
6. On the Last Day good Muslims will not love their non-Muslim friends and family members, not even their fathers, sons, or brothers (or their mothers, daughters, or sisters). 22


Quran Surah 59: Exile


1. Allah cast fear into the hearts of the disbelieving People of the Scripture. Their home in the Hereafter will be the Fire. 2-3
2. The disbelieving people of the Scripture are liars. 11
3. The devil and disbelievers will be in the Fire. 16-17
4. The owners of the Garden and the owners of the Fire are not equal. 20


Quran Surah 60: She That is to be Examined


1. Don’t be friends with disbelievers. They are your (and Allah’s) enemy. 1
2. Don’t be friends with those who have warred against you because of religion. Whoever makes friends with them is a wrong-doer. 9
3. Don’t be friends with those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. They are Allah’s enemies. 13


Quran Surah 61: The Ranks


1. Allah loves those who fight for him. 4
2. Allah leads some people astray. 5
3. The worst thing you can do is tell a lie about Allah. 7


Quran Surah 62: The Congregation


1. A hypocritical Jew looks like an ass carrying books. Those who deny the revelations of Allah are ugly. 5


Quran Surah 63: The Hypocrites


1. Allah seals the hearts of those who believe and then disbelieve so that they can understand nothing. 3
2. Disbelievers are perverted. They are the enemy, confounded by Allah. 4
3. Don’t bother to ask Allah to forgive the disbelievers. He will never forgive them. 6


Quran Surah 64: Mutual Disillusion


1. Those who disbelieve will have a painful doom. 5
2. Those who disbelieve are the owners of the Fire. 10


Quran Surah 66: Banning


1. Muhammad’s wives need to be careful. If they criticize their husband, Allah will replace them with better ones. 5
2. The fuel of the Fire is men and stones. 6
3. Be stern with disbelievers. They are going to Hell anyway. 9
4. The wives of Noah and Lot (who were both righteous) betrayed their husbands and are now in the Fire. 10


Quran Surah67: The Sovereignty


1. Disbelievers will go to hell where they will hear its roaring and boiling. 6-7
2. Who will protect the disbelievers from a painful doom? (Nobody) 28


Quran Surah 69: The Reality


1. Those who do not believe in Allah will be chained up and cast into hell-fire where they will eat filth. 30-35


Quran Surah 71: Noah


1. Those that Allah drowned in Noah’s flood were then tortured forever in the Fire. 25
2. Noah asked Allah to drown all the disbelievers. 26


Quran Surah 72: The Jinn


1. The fires of hell will be fueled with the bodies of idolators and unbelievers. They will experience an ever-greater torment. 15-17
2. Those who disobey Allah and his messenger will dwell forever in the fire of hell. 23


Quran Surah 73: The Enshrouded One


1. Allah will take care of the deniers. He will tie them up, burn them in a raging fire, and feed them food that chokes them. 11-13


Quran Surah 74: The Cloaked One


1. The last day will be a day of anguish for disbelievers. 9-10
2. Those who are stubborn to Allah’s revelations will face a fearful doom. 16-17
3. The fire of hell shrivels humans and spares nothing. 27-29
4. Allah has appointed angels to tend the Fire and has prepared stumbling blocks for those who disbelieve. He sends some people (whoever he wants) astray. 31
5. Allah is the font of fear. 56


Quran Surah 76: “Time” or “Man”


1. Allah has prepared chains, manacles, and a raging fire for the disbelievers. 4
2. Don’t obey disbelievers. 24


Quran Surah 77: The Emissaries


1. Allah destroyed “the former folk.” 16
2. Woe unto the repudiators on that day! 19, 24, 28, 34, 40, 45, 49

CATHOLICS TO POPE: X-OUT PELOSI

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


It’s about time.


Roman Catholics long ago should have told the Vatican to do its job in disciplining America’s church leaders who wink at member politicians’ slaying womb children.


Now finally the Human Life International at Front Royal, Virginia has sent a letter to the Pope pleading with him to defend Canon Law regarding disobedient Catholics.


Nancy Pelosi is the token rep for the letter’s anguish. There are too many others in her train.


These so-called Catholics are not Christian or Catholic. They are heathen in need of God’s redemption and the Holy Spirit’s awakening. They are the devil’s agents in seeing that defenseless boys and girls in females’ bodies are slaughtered around the clock.


These hoax Catholics walk into sanctuaries, partake of the sacrament, then put their bloody hands to children’s bodies, squeezing the lives out of them. They are masks from hell. Their souls are in danger of eternal damnation, per Christ’s words.


This is Canon Law regarding those who desecrate the body and blood of Christ by slicing and dicing innocent children:


Canon Law Regarding Catholics and Abortion


"Canon Law 1398 Catholics who have obtained an abortion, or performed an abortion, have excommunicated themselves latae sententiae (automatically by their very action) from the Catholic Church. They remain outside the church until the reception of the sacrament of Penance through a good confession.


"Canon Law 1329 Catholics who are accomplices in enabling and permitting the crime of abortion to occur, who without their assistance the crime would not have been committed, incur the same penalty.


"Canon Law 915 (an exception to receiving Holy Communion) "Others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."


Why the Pope and American Catholic so-called spiritual leaders renege on their own law is beyond reason. This cowardliness too shall answer at the Judgment Seat of Christ:


FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY


Hebrews 9:27:


It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.


Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:


Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:


But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.


Romans 2:6-11:


God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.


Romans 14:10-12:


For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.


I Corinthians 4:5:


Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


II Corinthians 5:10:


For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.


Numbers 32:23:


Be sure your sin will find you out.


Read “Group Calls for Pelosi's Excommunication” at http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pelosi_excommunication/2009/03/06/189394.html

HUMAN STEM CELLS: B. HUSSEIN’S DEATH ROBE SWEEPS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


B. Hussein now opens wide human stem cell research equaling killing mortals.


This is not surprising. B. Hussein, Marxist Muslim, is all into death agendas, typical of Dems endorsing death to right and left.


With this B. Hussein move, he will have broadened his death robe sweep from applauding killing womb babies. Read MUSLIM B. HUSSEIN CONTINUES BABY MURDER MACHINE at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js7647.shtml


He will have extended death via AIDS/HIV due to his enthusiasm for active homosexuality, the latter mushrooming a buffet selection of sexually transmitted diseases. Read OBAMA’S ‘CHRISTIAN ETHOS’ SUPPORTS HOMOSEXUAL ‘MARRIAGE’ at http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2008/03/obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98christian-ethos%E2%80%99-supports-homosexual-%E2%80%98marriage%E2%80%99/


B. Hussein endorses ridding the Republic of the Christian ethic by elevating atheists to the Christian regard, doing same in his inauguration address. It is death to biblical morality. Read CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT IS CHRIST, NOT B. HUSSEIN at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/c59358.shtml


He is erasing America’s Christian heritage by submerging it in favor of present-tense accent on all religions meshed as one.


B. Hussein furthers death to pro-life hospitals and personnel by forcing on them the abortion trade. Many responded by saying they will resort to civil disobedience rather than kill womb defenseless children. Read BABY KILLER B. HUSSEIN BUCKS PRO-LIFERS WILLING TO GO TO PRISON at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js10948.shtml


B. Hussein brings death to freedom of speech with his claim for “diversity” in broadcasting. That means Xing out conservative programming that does not meet B. Hussein’s definition of being in the “public interest.” Read FCC CHM VS FREE SPEECH WITH ‘DIVERSITY’ MANTRA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js30208.shtml


Death death death is the litany of Dem politics and now personified in the death agent sitting in the Oval Office.


As death reigns throughout his policies, he and his fellows party on nightly in the White House. It is their celebrating America’s funeral. Read “White House nightlife under investigation” at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90945


Parties are lavish, per taxpayers’ moneys. They go after midnight and cannot be predictable regarding proprieties. Michelle warned those attending not to destroy White House property.


As to human stem cell research, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, states: “Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for experiments that require the destruction of human life. President Obama's policy change is especially troubling given the significant adult stem cell advances that are being used to treat patients now without harming or destroying human embryos.”


Read “Stem-cell policy change liberating to researchers” at http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090307/D96P5EI81.html

B. HUSSEIN NABS ANTI-JEW FOR NATL INTEL CNL

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Charles Freeman, anti-Jew voice, is named by B. Hussein Obama, Marxist Muslim, as the new head of the National Intelligence Council.


Freeman was US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 – 92. Presently he is president of the Middle East Policy Council. And who funds that? The Saudi government.


Per Jake Tapper of ABC News, Congresspersons on both sides of the aisles are alarmed, contacting B. Hussein about this alarming misstep.


“’Given his close ties to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia we request a comprehensive review of Amb. Freeman's past and current commercial, financial and contractual ties to the Kingdom to ensure no conflict of interest exists in his new position,’ the members of Congress wrote.


“‘As you may know, Amb. Freeman most recently served as president of the Middle East Policy Council, a think-tank funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The board of directors includes Dr. Fuad Rihani, a consultant to the Saudi Binladin Group -- a multinational construction conglomerate and holding company for the assets owned by the bind Laden family.’”


So goes B. Husseim’s Islamic bias. It will show more so in months ahead for he is aligned with his background—laden with Muslim alliances including the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, anti-Jew pro-Muslim anti-white Jeremiah Wright, as well as having on his Congressional and campaign staff numerous Muslims. After all, his political doings were entrenched in the Muslim population of his Illinois district.


“Other critics say Freeman is anti-Israel. Rep. Steve Israel, D-NY, recently asked the Inspector General for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to look into Freeman's ties to the Saudis, noting that Freeman in 2006 said:


“’For the past half decade, Israel has enjoyed carte blanche from the United States to experiment with any policy it favored to stabilize its relations with the Palestinians and its other Arab neighbors, including most recently its efforts to bomb Lebanon into peaceful coexistence with it and to smother Palestinian democracy in its cradle.


“’The suspension of the independent exercise of American judgment about what best serves our interests as well as those of Israelis and Arabs has caused the Arabs to lose confidence in the United States as a peace partner. ... left to its own devices, the Israeli establishment will make decisions that harm Israelis, threaten all associated with them, and enrage those who are not ...


“’Tragically, despite all the advantages and opportunities Israel has had over the fifty-nine years of its existence, it has failed to achieve concord and reconciliation with anyone in its region, still less to gain their admiration or affection.’”


In other tragic appointments to positions surrounding his presidency, B. Hussein has made horrendous intrusions that can destroy the Republic. Note:


B. Hussein’s newly installed stealer Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attacks fellow thieves.


In other words, DC controllers are crooks. We are governed from DC by those who should be serving time for Geithner is only one of B. Hussein’s suspects now collecting tax-payer moneys as salaries.


We law-abiding grassroots are now obliged to bow and scrape before the Marxist Muslim B. Hussein’s picks for power


Geithner did not pay $34,000 tax dollars. Now he informs media that his office is going to slip the handcuffs over stealers as himself. Takes one to frisk one.


Geithner evangelized for morality by telling the House Ways and Means Committee that B. Hussein is going to “'tackle tax shelters and other efforts to abuse our tax laws. . .'”


There you have it, another Jim and Tammy PTL Club scandal. The main difference however is that Jimmy served time while Timmy fondles our hard earned cash via his Treasury Secretary’s executive suite.


Geithner did not pay Medicare and Social Security taxes. He even employed an accountant for two years while forgetting to file the fellow.


Yet this same thief states with political sanctification: "'Over the next several months the President will propose a series of legislative and enforcement measures to reduce such U.S. tax evasion and avoidance.'"


Note: "'. . .legislative and enforcement measures. . .'"


Tom Daschle must be weeping for he had not the moxie by which to hang on to his Secretary of Health and Human Services cap while failing to pay up $128,000 taxes.


Nancy Kellefer had to slip away from the OMB office hold because of tax problems.


Further, B. Hussein’s pick for Trade Rep Ron Kirk ‘fessed up that he owed $10,000 in back taxes.


But what should we expect? Mob hysteria plus liberal press irrationally shoved into the Oval Office an Islamist who vows to Allah to lie in order to further Islam World Rule.


Having such ethic, B. Hussein has for years surrounded himself with low-lifes; therefore, when logged into PA Avenue , B. Hussein picks these scums to lead America .


“God bless America .” What else?


Read “White House Responds (Kind of) to Chas. Freeman Controversy” at http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/white-house-res.html

B. HUSSEIN: US HEALTHCARE TO HEAR ‘EVERY VOICE.’ PRO-LIFE?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


B. Hussein continues his blind eye in vision lack.


The Marxist Muslim who endorses killing womb babies and sodomy has stated boastfully that in his forum for overhauling US healthcare “every voice” will be heard.


Not so.


B. Hussein’s blind eye does not see the womb child. Therefore, he kills it.


He does not see the increase in AIDS/HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases due to active homosexuality. Therefore, he baptizes it as health wellness.


This is the unsaved brain at work on behalf of our nation. This is the head without divine revelation as President. This is the non-Christian working to establish a national ethic that is devil-based.


No wonder the times are crazy. They are overseen by the Oval Office gone decadent flip.


AP’s Liz Sidoti reports: “President Barack Obama pumped health care allies and skeptics alike for ways to overhaul the nation's costly and frustrating system Thursday and heard only applause and agreement when he told them there's ‘a clear consensus that the need for health care reform is here and now.’”


Those applauding are just a fraction of those who don’t heed, don’t read mob hysteriacs who shoved the inept Boy onto PA Avenue.


B. Hussein went on with not only blind eye madness but deaf ear plugs to screeching slain womb babies and anguishing adults suffering from AIDS because of sodomy license.


Listen to worldly wisdom from our White House: “’Every voice has to be heard. Every idea must be considered ... The status quo is the one option that is not on the table. Those who seek to block any reform at all, any reform at any cost, will not prevail this time around.’”


Let pro-lifers seek to broaden healthcare, not block it, by defending womb children and note what B. Hussein does to keep his word.


This Marxist Muslim is so bad. So bad.


Read “Obama: Every voice must be heard on health reform“ at http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090306/D96O71900.html

OBAMA THIEF GEITHNER FRISKS FELLOW THIEVES

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

B. Hussein’s newly installed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attacks fellow thieves.

In other words, DC controllers are crooks. We are governed from DC by those who should be serving time for Geithner is only one of B. Hussein’s suspects now collecting tax-payer moneys as salaries.

We law-abiding grassroots are now obliged to bow and scrape before the Marxist Muslim B. Hussein’s picks for power

Geithner did not pay $34,000 tax dollars. Now he informs media that his office is going to slip the handcuffs over stealers as himself. Takes one to frisk one.

Geithner evangelized for morality by telling the House Ways and Means Committee that B. Hussein is going to “'tackle tax shelters and other efforts to abuse our tax laws. . .'”

There you have it, another Jim and Tammy PTL Club scandal. The main difference however is that Jimmy served time while Timmy fondles our hard earned cash via his Treasury Secretary’s executive suite.

Geithner did not pay Medicare and Social Security taxes. He even employed an accountant for two years while forgetting to file the fellow.

Yet this same thief states with political sanctification: "'Over the next several months the President will propose a series of legislative and enforcement measures to reduce such U.S. tax evasion and avoidance.'"

Note: "'. . .legislative and enforcement measures. . .'"

Tom Daschle must be weeping for he had not the moxie by which to hang on to his Secretary of Health and Human Services cap while failing to pay up $128,000 taxes.

Nancy Kellefer had to slip away from the OMB office hold because of tax problems.

Further, B. Hussein’s pick for Trade Rep Ron Kirk ‘fessed up that he owed $10,000 in back taxes.

But what should we expect? Mob hysteria plus liberal press irrationally shoved into the Oval Office an Islamist who vows to Allah to lie in order to further Islam World Rule.

Having such ethic, B. Hussein has for years surrounded himself with low-lifes; therefore, when logged into PA Avenue , B. Hussein picks these scums to lead America .

“God bless America .” What else?

RE CA HOMOSEXUALS: GRASSROOTS VS. ANTI-GOD JUDGES

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


The people voted against homosexual “marriage.”


Now homosexuals in California coax the state Supreme Court to blast those votes to smithereens.


But this is the second time that California grassroots voted against legitimating sodomy.


Per Reuters: “Social conservatives and liberals both consider California a trend-setter that can shape the same-sex marriage agenda, even though an overwhelming majority of U.S. states have laws stopping gay couples from wedding.


“The same court last year overturned a voter-approved law banning gay marriage, opening the way to gay couples wedding in the most populous state. Some 18,000 couples married.”


This Republic is in grave danger of becoming a dictatorship with Marxist Muslim B. Hussein in the White House and an anti-biblical Dem controlled Congress.


In short order this America could be reshaped by the devil.


Last November California anti-sodomy voters passed a constitutional amendment stating that marriage is defined in the biblical way—one male and one female equals marriage.


Then leave that rightful move alone.


But no. Sodomites are at it again, that is, bashing down democracy’s door via the vote.


“Only a handful of countries, mostly European nations, allow gay marriage.


“Gay marriage opponents said overturning the California ban would change the nature of state government by gutting the people's right to make law.”


Will America be overrun by crooks on Wall Street, in Congress, on Pennsylvania Avenue and now reaching out into states such as California?


Seemingly so.


“The court would create ‘a sweeping power vested in the least-democratic branch that overrides the precious right of the people to determine how they will be governed,’ same-sex marriage opponents said.”


On the same day, we read via AP: “The White House says President Barack Obama has begun consulting his top defense advisers on how to lift a ban on gays serving openly in the military.”


FOOT NOTE: ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE


Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is
an abomination."


Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."


Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .


"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .


"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.


"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."


I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

B. HUSSEIN THREATENS CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe is on to B. Hussein’s anti-biblical nerve.


That is why Inhofe in a floor speech expressed his anxiety about possible laws controlling broadcasting.


The Senate put down the Fairness Doctrine. However, at the same time it put up the need for “diversity,” per AP.


The Senate has installed an amendment “saying federal regulators should promote diversity in media ownership and ensure that broadcasts operate in the public interest.”


When religious broadcasters speak Scripture and defend biblical doctrine and practice, in what way will that have to be balanced with anti-biblical morals?


In what way will evangelical communicators be faced with lawsuits saying that they have stepped over the line in favor of ethic baselines that liberals don’t believe are in the “public interest”?


The Senator is quite anxious. He has the right to be. Every biblical believer throughout America should be as well for our religious freedom of expression is at stake.


One cannot underestimate the anti-Christian bias B. Hussein and colleagues hold. B. Hussein, Marxist Muslim, claims the word “Christian.” He is, however, opposed to biblical moral baselines such as his endorsing abortion and sodomy.


Therefore, give B. Hussein time and he will see to it that biblical preaching and teaching is erased from communication frequencies throughout the Republic.


With that, the nation will forsake its biblical heritage by default, that is, as far as widespread broadcasting that is now in place and well appreciated by biblical disciples.


“A Republican senator says conservative and Christian broadcasters could still be threatened by proposed broadcast regulations.


“Inhofe warned (that) vague standards could be used by opponents of Christian stations' religious message or stands on moral and political issues.


“The Oklahoma senator said, ‘The chilling effect that the mere threat of a lawsuit will have on religious broadcasters could be substantial.’”


The war between right and wrong continues. Basically what is happening today in the United States is a spiritual battle between God and Satan.


It is sad that in most cases the Oval Office and Dem controlled Congress are on the dark side.

GOD DESTROYS WICKED ANTI-USA CLOT

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


God has a say in what goes in America.


This is a nation with the Christian backdrop. It also has the intercessions of our pilgrim mothers and fathers still before the heavenly throne. They count with God.


Further, there is the righteous remnant hard at prayer and living the life of holiness throughout this country. That remnant reads and lives out the Bible. It believes in the might of prayer. It worships faithfully. It witnesses to Christ as Savior.


God will not allow these components to go unnoticed. Instead, God will honor these garrisons by overthrowing enemies of right living.


The promise for all of this is in His divine Word. It is repeated over and over again. One of the most salient passages is Psalm 28:


“Do not take me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity who speak peace to their neighbors, but evil [is] in their hearts.


“Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them according to the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.


“Because they do not regard the works of the LORD nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.


“Blessed [be] the LORD, because He has heard the voice of my supplications! The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices and with my song I will praise Him.”


The Word states that God will destroy the wicked. Review past annals to find it so. The enemies of God boasted. They strutted across history’s pages. They despised Him and His truths. They pronounced themselves gods.


The same takes place via B. Hussein Obama in the White House. His cadre works night and day to enforce such evil as abortion increase, cutting through pro-life health centers and employees and furthering pro-homosexual lifestyles.


We have in power right now one of the arch-theological liberals acting as if he is deity. His pride is immense. He proclaims, “I won.” And in that twosome he means that he is going to instigate his left-of-left anti-God programs.


However his day will come when God will destroy him and his hubris. His colleagues likewise will come to ruin. Truth will out. The wicked do not control forever. They do have their demise.


The same with B. Hussein. He will have his finish and God knows now that day and that hour.


“He shall destroy them and not build them up.”


In the meantime, the righteous wait upon the Lord. They keep the faith strong. They believe that the God of history will plant His judgment in the evil cauldrons so as to squash their every scent.

FCC CHM VS FREE SPEECH WITH ‘DIVERSITY’ MANTRA

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps gives the liberal mantra. He informed media that he favors “diversity” in communication channels.


That means possible censorship. That means the head of FCC is on the side of liberals though not stating it in a war-like way.


That means that conservative Congresspersons and grassroots freedom-of-speech proponents must keep watch on the FCC to make certain the latter does not instigate some sort of weeding out the conservative message.


In other words, liberals still have a friend in Copps, very much so.


“As CNSNews.com reported earlier, Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps says he doesn’t support the return of the Fairness Doctrine, but he does think government has a role in enforcing media ‘diversity.’


“That role includes re-examining licensing and other regulations for radio stations -- including AM stations dominated by talk radio -- to make them ‘more reflective’ of public interests.”


Question: Who then is going to define the meaning of “’ more reflective’” and “public interests.” According to Copps and fellow liberals it will obviously favoring their slant.


What if conservatives define “public interest” according to their content? Will they have any sway? Time will tell. But with Copps at the head he is definitely a liberal prejudice at work at the FCC.


The Senate did vote against the Fairness Doctrine. However, at the same time, this “diversity” amendment passed.


That means that liberals can state they are in favor of freedom of speech while working to limit it via “diversity” and “public interest” definitions spelled out by Copps and cadre.


In every garden there is a snake. Copps fits the profile.


Read “Senate Rejects Fairness Doctrine, But Dems ‘Open Back Door to Censorship’” at http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44227

BABY KILLER B. HUSSEIN BUCKS PRO-LIFERS WILLING TO GO TO PRISON

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who is also an OB/GYN, told CNSNews.com on Friday that many medical practitioners, including himself, will go to prison before agreeing to engage in medical practices they morally oppose, such as abortion” per Josiah Ryan of CNSNEWS.COM.


B. Hussein plans on repealing the law that protects pro-life health care centers and pro-life employees there.


B. Hussein proposes forcing abortions on everyone in health care, regardless of their biblical convictions.


If that happens, womb baby defenders will go into full action. They will refuse to close anti-abortion hospitals. They will refuse to murder womb boys and girls, though B. Hussein enthusiastically goes the length to kill of these children.


Read MUSLIM B. HUSSEIN CONTINUES BABY MURDER MACHINE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P2980


Pro-lifers know that God abhors killing womb infants.


B. Hussein has professed himself to be “Christian” while undercutting the biblical ethic. B. Hussein is actually a Marxist Muslim; therefore, he can lie in order to further Allah’s Islam World Rule.


As B. Hussein hangs on to his demonic convictions, genuine believers test his wickedness by demanding life over death for little babies in female bodies.


This is the fundamental test facing America.


Read “U.S. Senator Says He Would Practice Civil Disobedience If Obama Repeals Abortion 'Conscience Clause'” at http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44269


FOOTNOTE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION


It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."


There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.


But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.


The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.


“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).


"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).


"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).


"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).


In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.


"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).


"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).


Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:


"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."


All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:


"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).


Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):


"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).


Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.


Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."


If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.


John Adams said the following:


"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."


Andrew Jackson said the following:


"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."


Daniel Webster:


"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."


"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).

BABY KILLER B. HUSSEIN BUCKS PRO-LIFERS WILLING TO GO TO PRISON

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who is also an OB/GYN, told CNSNews.com on Friday that many medical practitioners, including himself, will go to prison before agreeing to engage in medical practices they morally oppose, such as abortion” per Josiah Ryan of CNSNEWS.COM.


B. Hussein plans on repealing the law that protects pro-life health care centers and pro-life employees there.


B. Hussein proposes forcing abortions on everyone in health care, regardless of their biblical convictions.


If that happens, womb baby defenders will go into full action. They will refuse to close anti-abortion hospitals. They will refuse to murder womb boys and girls, though B. Hussein enthusiastically goes the length to kill of these children.


Read MUSLIM B. HUSSEIN CONTINUES BABY MURDER MACHINE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P2980


Pro-lifers know that God abhors killing womb infants.


B. Hussein has professed himself to be “Christian” while undercutting the biblical ethic. B. Hussein is actually a Marxist Muslim; therefore, he can lie in order to further Allah’s Islam World Rule.


As B. Hussein hangs on to his demonic convictions, genuine believers test his wickedness by demanding life over death for little babies in female bodies.


This is the fundamental test facing America.


Read “U.S. Senator Says He Would Practice Civil Disobedience If Obama Repeals Abortion 'Conscience Clause'” at http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44269


FOOTNOTE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION


It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."


There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.


But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.


The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.


“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).


"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).


"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).


"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).


In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.


"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).


"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).


Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:


"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."


All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:


"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).


Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):


"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).


Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.


Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."


If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.


John Adams said the following:


"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."


Andrew Jackson said the following:


"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."


Daniel Webster:


"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."


"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).

WHY THE LIGHT WON’T GO OUT

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Jesus states: “I am the light of the world.” (John 9:5)


That light outshines Iran’s and North Korea’s. It outshines Allah’s.


That light is so penetrating that it keeps the planet spinning on its axis though there already are enough nuclear pops to extinguish Earth.


That light will never lose its power to brighten every corner deity wills, to convert every soul repenting, to encourage every heart searching for hope.


That light is taken for granted by the human race. Yet it continues to glow due to God’s “common grace,” as the theologians call it.


Common grace is that divine favor granted every mortal, whether believing or not. It is that grace that spins out civility in an otherwise barbaric sphere.


Without common grace, our globe would be hell. With common grace, we still have the glimmer of Eden.


It is that light that keeps common grace existent, even though most humans have never thought of such grace or cared to know its definition.


That light will continue to show the way to the righteous, though threats will mount and demons will crawl. It will stay the course because that light is given to the creative purpose. It is at the core of God’s being.


When Jesus announced Himself to be the light, He meant it. Jesus spoke divine revelation—everlastingly true. Jesus was not sharing poetry. He was not into fanciful New Age verbal schemes.


Jesus speaks science when He states Himself as the light of the world. He speaks philosophy and politic. He speaks social base and environmental postulate.


Therefore, no matter how mangled the planet appears to be at times, Jesus will never forsake His planet—Earth. Jesus will shine and shine evermore.


Jesus will direct His beam upon His grace children so as to guide them, provide for them and spill out fresh wisdom upon their weary brains.


Jesus will shine His rays so penetratingly that His own will find nooks and crannies where they never explored prior.


Jesus will provide the light through canals and waterways, over peaks and under bridges, above the skyways and into ravines. That light will open up money doors. It will heal diseases. It will redeem wretched spoiled lives.


Jesus’ followers need to rely more upon His light and quit complaining about their lot. They need to testify to His morning shine, afternoon shine and evening shine. They need to witness to His lighting up the night.


Jesus’ children are too often given to the same whining as the worldly deaf and blind. It should never be. Jesus’ family should be lifting high the light claim, calling others to its beams for their own salvation come-upon.


The hope this world has is that Jesus made clear that it is He who is the light, none other. It is the same always, no matter the morning news. It will always be.

EU BEGS FOR LEADER. ANTICHRIST?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“With uncertain leadership and few powerful collective institutions, the union is struggling with the strains this economic crisis has inevitably produced among 27 different countries with different economic histories.


“The traditional concept of ‘solidarity,’ of one for all, is being undermined by protectionist pressures from political leaders with national constituencies and agendas” per International Herald Tribune’s Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle at http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/01/europe/union.php


Note the accent on uncertain leadership throughout Europe.


Is that the set-up for the entrance of the AntiChrist who will promise peace and solidarity? Could be.


Revelation 13:1-10 portrays the AntiChrist in the vision Jesus provided for John the apostle’s scribing as John was alone on the Isle of Patmos off Greece around AD 95.


Read IS THE ANTICHRIST ALIVE? at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/129753.shtml


At the same time, Brit PM Gordon Brown meets with B. Hussein Obama. Brown coaxes B. Hussein to blend in with the EU regarding the global money mash.


If America does that, that could be a move toward submitting to an AntiChrist European control.


The Western Hemisphere is not mentioned in biblical prophecy. Europe, Asia, northern Africa, Middle East, and Orient are.


Read ANTICHRIST RULES FROM EUROPE, OLD ROMAN EMPIRE at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/h497358.shtml


Read WESTERN HEMISPHERE NOT IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/466235.shtml

MAN’S WORK WEEK = 6000 YEARS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


A day is as a thousand years to God, per the Bible.


There are believers who hold that since Adam to Christ equals 4,000 years or 4 days of man’s workweek.


That leaves 2,000 years from Christ to us or 2 more days of man’s workweek.


Simple math equals man’s workweek having consumed 6 days.


Therefore, we are on the heels of the “Day of the Lord” millennial reign starting at the Second Coming Rapture (Matthew 24:29-31).


Six days shall we labor and the seventh day we shall rest. We are near the holy rest of Christ’s worldwide rule.


When therefore Paul wrote that he lived near the time of Christ’s return, he was not incorrect. He was correct. He was in the start of the last 2 days of man’s workweek; therefore, he indeed was nearer to Christ’s return than David or Isaiah, for instance.


Some point to Paul’s statements as showing that the Bible has inaccuracies. No. Paul was correct. The Bible is correct.


“Work for the night is coming,” sings the old-time gospel hymn.


This is the time for biblical believers to work the work of faith in the coming Christ, not to be caught up in worldliness or self-serving.


Listen to what Christ instructs you for this day alone. Then move into the instructions for the next day when it comes.


“Take no thought for tomorrow.” Jesus counseled that to His own. It stills holds.


Read CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT IS CHRIST, NOT B. HUSSEIN at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/c59358.shtml


Read SURRENDER YOUR THOUGHTS TO GOD at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/02/surrender-your-thoughts-to-god.html

ANTICHRIST RULE STARTS WITH MONEY GLOBAL

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Brit PM Gordon Brown meets with Marxist Muslim B. Hussein Obama.


Brown proposes US going in with Europe to save the world monies.


It is that basic.


The Western Hemisphere is not mentioned in biblical prophecy. Europe, Asia, northern Africa, Middle East and Orient are.


Once the Western Hemisphere becomes slave to Europe’s way of money, that will set the stage for the AntiChrist to move even more concertedly.


The AntiChrist will rule from the City of Seven Hills—Rome. The False Prophet will rule in that same metro.


The AntiChrist, possessed with demonic powers, will have a political alliance under him that will come from the old Roman Empire geography, namely, Europe.


America seems to be moving toward coming under the tutelage of European powers via Gordon Brown’s bridge building.


That will end capitalism and free enterprise as America has enjoyed them. That will close out American freedoms.


One by one. B. Hussein is doing his part to kill us off.


He’s aborted countless babies worldwide with his nod to abortuaries. Now he’s added his coda by prohibiting pro-life health centers and personnel to live by their biblical convictions. They must submit to killing womb babies or pay up.


Once B. Hussein entitles illegal aliens to social security, that will close out social security monies for the legal citizenry.


B. Hussein will continue to kiss up to Christians while killing them off. Just as he was undercutting the Roman Catholic pro-life position, he phoned a newly appointed archbishop to wish him well in his position.


That’s the Muslim move to appear friendly to infidels while plotting their demise. That’s also the Muslim ethic of lying in order to further Islam World Rule.


At the same time, B. Hussein says he’s against the Fairness Doctrine. However, while appearing benign toward conservative communication, he’ll let evil cronies do the dirty work of installing the Doctrine.


One by one we will be killed off. It hardly is a matter of time, considering how much morally good he has extinguished since late January.


One of these days, posts such as this one will not be permitted on the Internet or anywhere else. Even now, some sites refuse to post such material as this content.


There are sites that do post these articles that are no longer trafficked by Google.


Read IS THE ANTICHRIST ALIVE? at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/129753.shtml


Read ANTICHRIST RULES FROM EUROPE, OLD ROMAN EMPIRE at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/h497358.shtml


Read WESTERN HEMISPHERE NOT IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/466235.shtml

MUSLIM B. HUSSEIN CONTINUES BABY MURDER MACHINE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Muslims’ bottom line per the Koran is murder—slaying all non-Islamics as infidels.


Christianity lifts up human life because the Bible
teaches that Christ is the author of life.


Now Marxist Muslim B. Hussein enhances death machines via endorsing legislation that will make it impossible for health providers to refuse aborting womb babies.


That means that pro-life health centers will be forced to abort. That means that pro-life employees will be forced to disobey God’s Word for B. Hussein’s alliance to Muslim murder machines.


God’s wrath is brewing even hotter these days. B. Hussein and his godless Congressional colleagues are pushing the divine mercy over the line.


America is in major trouble. This nation is going to implode if it continues to slaughter the defenseless unborn.


Further, God will have to intervene to protect, not only these children, but the health care centers and workers who stand alongside such boys and girls.


America will never find healing until it halts its day-and-night killing of womb infants.


Read “Obama to Revoke Bush Abortion Rule Protecting Conscience Rights” at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09022712.html


FOOTNOTE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION


It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."


There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.


But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.


The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.


“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).


"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).


"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).


"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).


In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.


"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).


"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).


Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:


"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."


All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:


"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).


Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):


"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).


Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.


Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."


If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.


John Adams said the following:


"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."


Andrew Jackson said the following:


"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."


Daniel Webster:


"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."


"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).




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MAKING GOD LAUGH

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


A friend said to me the other day: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.”


I have thought about that comment over and over again.


Our main thought purpose in the morning is to decide our futures. We work hard at it.


Yet it is Jesus who said: “Take no thought for tomorrow.”


Jesus pointed to the birds, then comforted His followers by reminding them that heaven’s Father takes good care of them.


Jesus tried His best to instruct His grace children in how to live worry free; but our fallen natures are so bent on self-destruction, even if it is by slicing away a sliver at a time.


However, God has done His part. He has provided us with The Way. It is in Jesus’ life. It is in the Bible. It is in the indwelling Spirit of Jesus.


Therefore, when we return to those sources, we come upon the divine secret. It is planted in our hearts when we will it.


Let’s make God happy by trusting Him more—a minute at a time. That’s far better than baiting Him to laugh by toiling at planning our futures.


“Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding” Proverbs 3:5 counsels.


When we plan our futures, we lean on our own understanding. But God’s ways are far above our ways. His thoughts far above our thoughts. His plans far more precise than our plans.


Let Him do it—moment by moment, thought by thought.


Read SURRENDER YOUR THOUGHTS TO GOD at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/SURRENDER_YOUR_THOUGHTS_TO_GOD.shtml


Read JESUS, WHAT DO I DO WHEN MY THOUGHTS JAM? at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/467895.shtml

MUSLIM PRAYS IN SCHOOL. CHRISTIANS SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FREEDOM

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“All students are constitutionally guaranteed the right to pray during the school day as long as it doesn't interfere with learning.


“Muslims pray five times a day to reaffirm their faith and submit to follow divine commandments. The prayer is said during prescribed times; in the fall, when clocks roll back at the end of daylight savings time, the afternoon prayer must be said during the school day, Awwad explained.


“Federal guidelines say schools can't prevent students from praying during school, but they can't sponsor religious activities or lead students in prayer.


“For instance, those guidelines specifically mention a student's right to quietly read the Bible during lunch. But they are not clear on what action to take when the religious expression is more demonstrative, as it is in Adam's case.”


The focus was on elementary school student Adam, 10. He is now granted permission to pray in school time on school property.


That same permission is granted Christians. Therefore, Christian students should take advantage of this freedom of religious expression and not let it slip by.

Read “Muslim prayer-in-school controversy might be solved” at http://www.northjersey.com/news/aroundnj/Wayne_super_stands_his_ground_on_Muslim_prayers.html

RACIST ALLAH: BLACK = GROSSER HEART THAN DONKEY’S

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Allah dictated via the Koran that a black person’s heart is grosser than a donkey’s.


Consider the racist underpinnings of Islam and weep. Then compare Allah’s words with Christ’s words.


Christ told His disciples that love toward all is the second commandment. The first commandment is to love God with all one’s being.


The Koran reads: Ishaq: 243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!'


“He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks. . .


“Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful punishment.’


”[Surah 9:61] Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey's.’”


The Bible declares that with God there is no partiality. There is no prejudice toward one group and against another.


Certainly down through church history there have been those who have prostituted the Bible by quoting Scripture while acting out a mean bias against others. There have been those prejudicial “Christians” who have played the hypocrite.


However, one must get past those demented fabrications to the pure Word of God, particularly as incarnated in Christ. Christ died for all, regardless of color or any other description.


Christ confronted, for instance, the prejudice leveled against the females of His day by lifting the female into her rightful place.


When Christ met the woman from Samaria at Jacob’s well, He spoke to her, inviting her to drink the everlasting water, thus redeeming her soul. Jews at that time considered Samaritans half-breeds. There was also little regard for women.


Christ sliced through both prejudicial layers by talking to a woman who was Samaritan.


“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).


That “everyone” includes all colors, all languages and cultures—everyone, just as the Word proclaims it.


The apostle Paul wrote to the Early Church that all persons were welcome to God’s grace. In Christ, we are all one, he penned.


Islam is prejudicial, not only against blacks, but against all mortals who are not Muslim, so prejudicial that all non-Islamics are to be slain.


Islam is a killing cult by its own so-called “holy writ.” Allah is Satan, the Koran scribed by demons and mosques covens.


Christianity is the true faith, the Bible being the Word of the Eternal God, Christ being the only Savior for a repentant humanity.


Today’s globe is caught in the vice of a spiritual war between Allah and Christ, between the Bible and the Koran, between the Lie and the Truth. These are the pre-tribulation days in which the Lie will rise as the great power.


However, the Lie will be overthrown by the Truth for the Truth is the Person Christ who stated: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”