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Watchers Lamp 2010 May 15
Watchers Lamp 2010 May 15
"You can buy a lot of gaudy religious trinkets at shrines around the world,
but the sanctuary of Fatima, in Portugal, offers some of the weirdest: body
parts.
But there they are, hanging outside the tourist shops: legs, arms, ears,
heads, hips, intestines and even breasts (1.50 Euros for one; 2.50 for a full
set). The stores also sell wax models of small children.
People looking for relief from their ailments try to chuck the figures into a
bonfire, even though sanctuary officials say the fire is for candles only.
Officially, the sanctuary doesn’t want people bringing the body parts, but
there’s not much it can do as long as the souvenir shops keep selling
them."
It may be shocking to learn that a similar rituals were practiced 1000 years
before the Christendom era. Miranda Aldhouse Green reports at British
Archaelogy:
...My recent study of the finds from Fontes Sequanae, a remote sanctuary
in Burgundy at the source of the River Seine, has produced overwhelming
evidence that it was a healing centre and pilgrimage destination between
the 1st-3rd centuries AD.
This Roman healing shrine was dedicated to the Celtic goddess Sequena.
Metal body parts, and whole body shapes were placed in a pot that was
inscribed with the name of the goddess in hopes of healing.
Mary of Rome is called The Queen of Heaven. That title, found in the
Bible, referred to a pagan goddess.
Travel back in time and to the west and find another example of a pagan
feminine diety co-opted by Roman Catholicism.
Mexico City- The shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe venerates the appartion
of Mary to a humble Indian peasant.
Ever since the 16th century the tilma or cloak of Juan Diego displaying the
image of the Virgin has been the focus of veneration by generations of
devout Mexican Catholics as an actual physical artifact of a divine
occurrence. Numerous claims are made in favor of its authenticity.
The hill where the event occured was the same location where the ancient
temple to the Aztec goddess Tonantzin (Our Revered Mother) stood. It
was later destroyed by the Spanairds.
See also The Marian Apparitions: Are they biblical and should you submit
to them?
If you are Roman Catholic, please hear what a former 22 year priest wants
you to know at The Berean Beacon.
Such a papal declaration would act as a Marian remedy for the current
crises facing the pope and the Church.
"We believe the fifth Marian Dogma will help protect us from disasters,"
said Ambassador Mercedes Tuason, the ambassador from the Philippines
to the Holy See."
The forum noted multi-religious acceptance of Mary of Rome around the
world "because of the comfort they receive from the concept and the actual
intercession of a mother."
See related articles, Mary of Rome, The Queen of All , and Is Mary the
'Coredemptrix' of Humanity?
The meetings occurred on the 13th of the month for six successive months
in a natural amphitheater called the Cova da Iria near the town of Fatima.
Revelations were made to the three children in the presence of a large
throng of onlookers, which increased greatly from month to month as news
spread. The actual visions of the beautiful lady could be seen only by the
three children, and so our knowledge of these visions is limited to their
testimony. However, during the revelations there occurred related
phenomena that were witnessed by large numbers of people.
Police said they were swamped with phone calls after a flurry of callers
reported to radio station NJ 101.5 that a UFO was flying above the area.
Residents then began calling the Somerville Police Department to report
the object.
“I first noticed when all our mechanics started looking up at the sky,” said
Terry Weil, a sales associate at Honda Autosport in Bridgewater. “It looked
like a big black strip fluttering in the air. Maybe a cylinder.”
Somerville Police Lt. Donna Young said authorities were not sure what the
object was, but said it caused no problems other than tying up police
phone lines shortly before noon.
“We have no idea what it was but it did not cause any problems here in
Somerville,” she said. “We are under the impression that it might be a
weather balloon or something like that, but regardless, it did not cause any
problems whatsoever.”
Editor's note: Author / Researcher L..A Marzulli connects the dots on what
really is behind alien phenonema:
Marzulli is also the author of the non fiction work, Politics, Prophecy & the
Supernatural. The book packs a hard hitting expose of how the current
political landscape may bring about ancient Biblical prophecies, which then
may trigger supernatural events that are foretold in the book of Daniel and
Revelation.
From Haaretz.com
After several welcome weeks of calm, chatter about the northern border
and the eastern front has resumed.
A conflagration in the north sometime in the near future could result from
one of three developments: escalation between Israel and Iran over the
latter's nuclear program; Hezbollah's efforts to exact revenge for the 2008
killing of senior operative Imad Mughniyeh; or an Israeli attack on an arms
convoy from Syria to Hezbollah.
Please see former 22-year Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett's video,
The ABC's of Catholicism.
Visit Richard Bennett's What Every Catholic Should Know.Click here and
see why the Mary of Rome is not the Mary of the Bible.
Van Steenwyk makes strong points about the "Empire". Van Steenwyk
also makes valid points regarding the geo-political manipulation of
missionaries. The Protestant Reformation was the repentance from the
Mother of all manipulation systems...Roman Catholicism. Yet, evangelical
dominion theology strives to build its own version of the Vatican. Van
Steenwyk shares a video that drives that point home.
Regrettably Van Steenwyk feels that Christ has not been building His
church since Pentecost:
"It is no easy thing to try to follow Jesus with the weight of 2000 years of
imperialism in the name of Jesus bearing upon one’s soul."
Progressive Evangelicals who cry out for social justice while forming
alliances with such immoral organizations is nothing short of fatal
hypocrisy.
Perhaps Van Steenwyk could make such a call for repentance among his
fellow Progressives.
"This capability can be used for a war on terror in Gaza, for a war in the
face of rockets from Lebanon, for war on the conventional Syrian army,
and also for war on a peripheral state like Iran," said Yaalon, a former
armed forces chief.
Editor's note: Debka file reported last month that if Iran is attacked,
nuclear devices will go off in American cities.
During his four day visit, Benedict XVI will pray at the shrine of Fatima, one
of the best known centres of Catholic pilgrimage in the world and the focus
of endless conspiracy theories and Doomsday predictions.
Its cult is founded on the belief that three shepherd children witnessed a
series of apparitions and prophecies of the Virgin Mary in 1917.
Three secrets were supposedly disclosed to them, with the first and
second relating to a vision of Hell and predicting the end of World War I,
the outbreak of World War II, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russia's
return to Christianity.
The third secret was only disclosed by the Vatican in 2000 and was said to
have foretold the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by a Turkish
gunman in 1981.
There has been intense speculation ever since that the Vatican withheld
part of the secret, which is said to have concerned the Satanic infiltration of
the Catholic Church, the rise of an anti-Pope or even nuclear Armageddon.
The Holy See claims that it has released the full text of the secret and that
it is holding nothing back, but many Catholics are not convinced.
Father Charles Fiore, in a taped interview, made the following remarks with
regard to Cardinal Ratzinger's various statements about the Third Secret:
"We have two different Cardinal Ratzingers; we have two different
messages. But Malachi [Martin] was consistent all the way through; he
believed that the Third Secret of Fatima had to do [...] with the internal
problems of the Catholic Church."[29] On a syndicated radio broadcast,
Father Malachi Martin was asked the following question by a caller: "I had
a Jesuit priest tell me more of the Third Secret of Fatima years ago, in
Perth. He said, among other things, the last pope would be under control
of Satan... Any comment on that?" Fr. Martin responded, "Yes, it sounds
as if they were reading, or being told, the text of the Third Secret. But it's
sufficiently vague to make one hesitate— it sounds like it."[28]
In a taped interview with Bernard Janzen, Fr. Martin was asked the
following question: "Who are the people who are working so hard to
suppress Fatima?" Fr. Martin responded, "A bunch, a whole bunch, of
Catholic prelates in Rome, who belong to Satan. They're servants of
Satan. And the servants of Satan outside the Church, in various
organizations; they want to destroy the Catholicism of the Church, and
keep it as a stabilizing factor in human affairs. It's an alliance. A dirty
alliance, a filthy alliance, but a very good alliance."[44] In the same
interview, Fr. Martin also said with respect to Lucia that, "They've (The
Vatican) published forged letters in her name; they've made her say things
she didn't want to say. They put statements on her lips she never made."
Listen to 30 year exorcist Malachi Martin discuss the third secret here.
See related articles: Satanism, Murder and The Vatican , Chief exorcist
says Devil is in the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI holds open air masses for capacity crowds in Lisbon
and Porto, and visits the Marian shrine of Fatima to celebrate the
anniversary of the day in 1917 when the Virgin Mary is said to have
appeared to three shepherd children there. While in Portugal he could
announce plans to canonize Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three
children, who died in 2005 at the age of 97. He could scold the Socialist
government for legalizing abortion and gay marriage.
On the 13th of each month from May to Oct 1917, the Virgin Mary is said
to have appeared to Lúcia,10, and to her cousins Jacinta, 7, and Francisco
Marto, 9, in the fields outside the village of Aljustrel near Fatima. Jacinta
and Francisco died in 1919, victims of the Spanish flu. All three have been
beatified, the first step to sainthood.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the afternoon quake hit 135 miles
southeast of Banda Aceh at a depth of 38 miles. Indonesia and the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu issued a tsunami watch for the area,
but both canceled their warnings less than 90 minutes later.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center watch said there was no threat of a
widespread tsunami, but "there is the possibility of a local tsunami that
could affect coasts located usually no more than a hundred kilometers
from the earthquake epicenter."
"Slowly but surely we’re noticing that more and more progressive
Christians, as well as their organizations, are also taking notice as well of
the new big tent progressive Christian theology that McLaren’s such a seer
of. Take for example something called The Beatitudes Society:
Strengthening the Progression Christian Network for justice, compassion,
and peace (TBS) of a “Rev.” Anne Sutherland Howard, which gives us the
typical progressive/liberal party line..."
The Beatitude Society is a project of the Tides Center. From the Tides
center website:
Project Description:
The Tides Center and The Tides Foundation have given millions to pro-
abortion groups, pro-homosexual ( GLBT ) groups and radical
environmental groups.
(How about social justice for the most vulnerable citizens...the 50,000,000+
aborted / murdered babies in America?)
The Tides Foundation has also received grants from the radical left Ford
Foundation. The Tides Foundation has made grants to grants to the
Ruckus Society, which trained the rioters who tore up Seattle during the
1999 World Trade Organization conference.
Really?
Here’s the problem: If you start with a faulty premise, you will end in error.
Southerland believes that the church does not exist for the saints, but
rather for the “unchurched” (his euphemism for sinners) in a target
community. His vision is to make the church a place where those in the
grips of the surrounding pagan culture would be comfortable comfortable
going—an idea he got from Rick Warren, who wrote the foreword to his
book. If that is not God’s intention for the church—if indeed it is a faulty
premise—then Southerland’s process is in error no matter how successful
he is in filling the building.
...The problem is that those who imagine what God is doing base their
subsequent actions on their own premises. For example, Southerland’s
premise is that any large, growing church is what God is doing, without
reference to their doctrines. I heard him speak glowingly of Paul Yonggi
Cho’s church as a prime example to follow. Yet Cho is heretical.8 How
does one find out what God is doing by observing heretics?
...I do not exaggerate when I say that since I first wrote an article about this
in 2004, I have heard from hundreds of people who were pushed out of
their churches by the Purpose Driven program. Some of the stories reveal
hardhearted pastors who care more about advancing their careers than the
well being of the Lord’s flock.
...In 2010 I am still getting calls and emails from people whose churches
have become Purpose Driven, and they are being marginalized or pushed
out of them. Southerland’s book and his seminars label such persons as
“resisters” who have placed themselves in opposition to God’s vision for
the church.
...He likens them to Sanballat (an opponent of Nehemiah) who like them,
was a “leader from hell.”14 Having met more of these people than I can
recall, I have yet to meet one with hellish ideas. Southerland’s terminology
abuses faithful saints who want the Bible to be faithfully preached from the
pulpit. In his seminar he calls them “mean and ornery.” In his book he calls
pastors like me (traditional pastors) who criticize Purpose Driven, the
“meaner ones.”15 Could it be that we value gospel preaching and Bible
teaching? Does that make us “mean”?
In the six years since I first wrote about this, I have always given the same
advice to those who write, e-mail, or call. I tell them to go to their pastor
and plead with him to clearly preach the gospel, and purely teach the
Bible. Tell him that you long for such preaching and teaching. What is
astounding is that nearly universally they are rebuffed.