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The Ark Of The Covenant Has Been Discovered Two Millenia Ago And Is Found In Bethlehem And With Its Discovery Expect A Coming War And Heavy Persecution

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ark4.jpeg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-111041" height="394" sizes="(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ark4.jpeg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ark4.jpeg 787w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ark4-300x150.jpeg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ark4-768x384.jpeg 768w" width="787" /></a>By Walid Shoebat (Shoebat Sunday Special)Many labored in finding the lost Ark when this whole time it was placed right in front of them in Bethlehem two millennia ago. One secret that is rarely understood to finding this Ark was hidden in Psalm 132 and in plain view. In what is probably the least read verses in Scripture we find it:<blockquote><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-1.htm">1</a> Lord Jehovah, remember David and all his affliction! <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-2.htm">2</a> For he swore to Lord Jehovah and vowed to the God of Jacob: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-3.htm">3</a> "I shall not enter to the roof of my house; I shall not ascend to the mattress of my bed," <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-4.htm">4</a> "I shall not give sleep to my eyes, neither slumber to my eyebrows" <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-5.htm">5</a> "Until I find a place for Lord Jehovah and a tent for the God of Jacob". <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-6.htm">6</a> Behold, we heard it in Ephrata and we found it in the fields.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-7.htm">7</a> We shall enter his tabernacle and we shall worship at the stool of his feet. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-8.htm">8</a> Arise, Lord Jehovah, to your rest, you and the ark of your might! <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-9.htm">9</a> Your priests will wear righteousness and your righteous ones -glory. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-10.htm">10</a> Because of David your Servant, do not turn away the face of your Anointed. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-11.htm">11</a> Lord Jehovah has sworn to David in truth and he will not turn from it: "One from the fruits of your loins I shall set upon your throne". <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-12.htm">12</a> "If your sons will keep my covenant -this testimony that I teach them, some also of their children will dwell to the eternity of eternities upon your throne" <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-13.htm">13</a> "Because Lord Jehovah is pleased in Zion and he chose it a dwelling place." <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-14.htm">14</a> "This is my rest to an eternity of eternities; here I shall sit because I desired it." <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-15.htm">15</a> "And I shall bless her game and her poor ones I shall satisfy with bread". <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-16.htm">16</a> "I shall clothe her priests with salvation and her righteous ones in glory". <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-17.htm">17</a> "There I shall make the trumpet of David shine and I will shine a lamp for his Anointed." <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/132-18.htm">18</a> "And I shall clothe his enemies in shame, and upon him my holiness will flourish." (Psalm 132, Aramaic Bible)</blockquote>Wow! This <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=21&ch=131&l=8#x">packs some heavy clues</a>. Today few pay attention to, especially when the text speaks of the Ark resting in Ephrata (Bethlehem).Even the best of Protestant commentaries, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/psalms/132-6.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a> is confused on how to interpret these verses since historically the Ark if the Covenant never rested in Bethlehem Ephratah:<blockquote> Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah - Most probably this is the language of the contemporaries of David; or this is what they might be supposed to say; or this is what tradition reports that they did say. David's purpose, as referred to in the previous verses, is not recorded in the history, and the memory of the whole transaction may have been handed down by tradition. Or, this may be merely poetic language, expressing the feelings of those who, when sent out by David, or accompanying him, found the ark. Much difficulty has been felt in regard to this verse. There is no mention in the history of the fact that the ark was "heard of" at Ephrata, or that it was ever there. The name Ephrata - אפרתה 'ephrâthâh - is applied</blockquote>He jotted several presumptions and concluded that the verse is difficult to interpret.But the Bible is perfectly accurate. If the Ark rested in Bethlehem then it did.You might quickly and prematurely say that the Ark here is Christ Who rested in Bethlehem. But this interpretation presents a major problem for Bible scholars. Take the same Albert Barnes (1798-1870) who wrote Barnes Notes, he knows that such an interpretation sets a major trap; how could this Ark in Psalm 132 be Christ when it accompanied Christ Himself in heaven?Pay close attention: “Rise up, Lord [Christ], come to Your resting place, You and Your powerful ark".We do not have two Messiahs. There is only one.And what is this ark all about? Here:<blockquote>"Lord Jehovah, remember David and all his affliction! ... I shall not enter to the roof of my house; I shall not ascend to the mattress of my bed. I shall not give sleep to my eyes, neither slumber to my eyebrows Until I find a place for Lord Jehovah and a tent for the God of Jacob."</blockquote>God remembers the suffering of David "Lord Jehovah, remember David and all his affliction". He vows He will not ascend until He first descends and finds an earthly vessel, a tabernacle for a dwelling "for the God of Jacob" Who is Christ. And this dwelling houses is for the God of Jacob (Christ) which is specifically announced to be in Bethlehem: "Behold, we heard it in Ephrata and we found it in the fields." This is the Angelic Proclamation to the Shepherds where the shepherds heard of it (the Ark) in the Shepherd's Fields in Bethlehem "Behold, we heard it in Ephrata and we found it in the fields."  Therefore, this Ark pertains to the one Who housed Christ. This would be Mary when She arrived in Bethlehem Ephratah. God even had angels proclaim to shepherds to "go up to Bethlehem Ephratah" from the Shepherds Fields when she gave birth to the Messiah.As the text so clearly reveals, there was only one "dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob” that is "the ark in Ephrathah [Bethlehem]" where God commanded "do not reject Your anointed one" Who can only be the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the living God housed in His Mother's womb.The rarely read Psalm 132 has a typological meaning that the “LORD” (Christ) who “arises” in the resurrection and ascends to the right hand of the Father will not rest until He dwells in the “ark” which is later taken up after He completes His mission fulfilling the suffering of David "Lord Jehovah, remember David and all his affliction."This ark was what held the Word of the New Covenant which is Christ Himself Whom was found for Him a tabernacle (Mary) and was heard of in Bethlehem's Shepherd's Fields.So He ascends and this tabernacle, the tent that housed Him (Mary) will also be assumed to heaven which is His house: "I shall not enter to the roof [top] of my house; I shall not ascend to the mattress of my bed ..."  And may I remind, throughout the Psalms, David's contemplations are Christ's.From this there is no escape; this prophecy is as powerful as Micah 5. But it also speaks of Mother Mary. This is why many of the later scholars like Albert Barnes and other interpreters finagle the meaning claiming "Much difficulty has been felt in regard to this verse"; but all Bible scholars knew that the apostolic succession church believed the Ark was Mary and they did everything in their power to cover it up.Unless we have the right piece of the puzzle we cannot interpret or even find the true Christ. To find Him, you must also find the Ark. Yet many interpret this Ark to be either a box or Jesus. But the box never rested in Bethlehem. Jesus is not the Ark as Psalm 132 clearly reveals for we would have two Messiahs.However, Jesus did reside in Mary's womb. Can any Christian deny that? But God forbid we examine this one because this became a major controversial topic only in the 19th century onwards and when many were deceived, they finagled the meaning and the Ark was strictly interpreted as Jesus.But the Bible is a puzzle where any wrong piece will distort the entire image.<div id="attachment_111039" style="width: 441px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles.jpg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-111039" height="431" sizes="(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles.jpg 1440w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles-150x150.jpg 150w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles-300x300.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles-768x768.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25-puzzles-1024x1024.jpg 1024w" width="431" /></a>The world is filled with millions of babies who do not know how to put a simple puzzle together</div>By missing this crucial piece no one can put the prophetic puzzle together.So lets find other pieces many miss and get back to this hotly debated topic, keeping in mind that the first hotly debated topic ended up with only Noah winning while the earth with its entire population drowned to death (truth is not a majority vote).ONLY THE TRUE CHURCH SUFFERS "Remember David and all his affliction." Psalm 132 speaks of David's afflictions where the text swings from heaven towards earth and then earth towards heaven. This type of expression has a purpose. Christ asked Paul: "why do you persecute me?” Paul asked, “Who are you, Lord?” And Christ responded: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting".Paul was abusing Jesus yet he was not, directly that is, but here we have Jesus from Heaven itself is now on earth and is speaking to Paul, on earth, and is saying that He is being actively persecuted by Paul!No one can fathom this unless the church on earth is linked to heaven and this access is the continuation of the Incarnation of Christ on Earth and is why scripture seems to jump between heaven and earth as we see in Psalm 132 as well as in Revelation 11-12.This corporate unity between heaven and earth is well etched throughout scripture and involves much persecution:<blockquote>“When the dragon [serpent] saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.” (Revelation 12:13)</blockquote>So here we have a woman also being persecuted just as Jesus was persecuted. Is she in heaven or on earth? Scripture usually combines the earthy saints with the saints in heaven as one sphere.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maryqueenofheaven.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-111050" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maryqueenofheaven.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maryqueenofheaven.jpg 700w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/maryqueenofheaven-300x171.jpg 300w" width="700" /></a>Yet so crucial is this prophecy in Revelation 11-12. It is the fulfillment of the most ancient of prophecies in Genesis 3:15:<blockquote>“I will put enmities between thee [Lucifer] and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.”</blockquote>Here, I will instantly get an objection; 'stop teaching Mariology, this is a Catholic translation, all the other translations including the Hebrew says "His seed"'.True. But such a comment is repeated millions of times by people who lack wisdom. Does the translation by St. Jerome make any difference? In Revelation 12, the devil persecutes her seed:<blockquote>And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 12:14,17)</blockquote>Here she is a single individual with multiple individuals (seed) being persecuted and in all translations it is 'her seed'.And so by persecuting her seed, she too is being persecuted just as described in Revelation 11-12. But it is also Christ Who is being persecuted just as He told Paul "why do you persecute Me". Persecuting the saints or the Woman is just as persecuting Christ Himself as He so clearly described in Matthew 25.This should establish the final peace treaty between Protestants and Catholics and so 'blessed are the peace makers'; in this case this would be me. Success at last.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/success_baby2.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-111040" height="339" sizes="(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/success_baby2.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/success_baby2.jpg 513w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/success_baby2-300x198.jpg 300w" width="513" /></a>Therefore, Genesis 3:15 speaks of the “seed of the woman” as well as the seed of Christ. This would be Mary's seed (plural seed) in a corporate way and is also Christ's seed. Any doubts about this just read Isaiah 53:<blockquote>“he [Messiah] will see his seed [offspring] and prolong his days” (Isaiah 53:10).</blockquote>We also find Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2017/04/29/the-mass-crucifixions-of-christians-the-holy-bible-reveals-the-most-fascinating-hidden-prophecy-predicting-muslims-becoming-evolutionists-will-genocide-christians-worldwide/">explained fully in Wisdom 2</a>. He will see His seed and all this is in the context of a suffering servant who suffers, and by extension His seed also suffers; the Church that does not suffer is not the true Church.  Unless one understands that the church is corporate and it collaborates with the church in heaven above, while it suffers on earth below, they are not of Christ's Church. Unless one accepts that Genesis 3:15 speaks of Isaiah 53 and of the Ark of Revelation 11-12, and of Psalm 132, it is impossible to join His Kingdom.But where do we find that Ark in Revelation 11-12? It is in plain view for all who seek:<blockquote>“Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple.” (Revelation 11:19)</blockquote>And to interpret the context regarding this Ark as if it is strictly the box, Christ or Israel presents the same dilemma as in Psalm 132.At this point chapter 11 ends and chapter 12 begins. But the Bible was not written with chapter divisions—they were added in the 12th century. When John penned these words, there was no division between chapters 11 and 12; it was a continuing narrative. And what did John say immediately after seeing the Ark of the Covenant in heaven? Here it is:<blockquote>“And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child” (Revelation 12:1-2).</blockquote>This 'Ark' that was seen in the heavenly Temple was a 'woman' who "brought forth a man child" (v.5); these are two separate individuals and she too is persecuted just as the man child is.But this same Ark (the Woman) in Psalm 132 accompanies Christ Himself: “Arise, O Lord [God], and go to your resting place, you [Christ/God] and the ark of your might [that housed God on earth]… For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it [Zion] for his [God's] dwelling place: This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.”"Arise O Lord and go" Him and His ark. This Ark where God dwelt was assumed up in heaven and is resting with Messiah after His ressurection “go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might” in “Zion”.  Did God assume a box into heaven? And how is this "Zion" on earth, in Jerusalem, especially when it says that Christ ascended to Zion and that this Zion is His “resting place forever.” He has His ark with Him. This “Zion” is the very “Mount Zion” in Hebrews 12 where we approach "Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect [saints], and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant...”One cannot be of the Kingdom and ignore the connect to the heavenly Mount Zion. It is impossible.One can never interpret the New Testament or the Old Testament without having both testaments shed light on each other.On the road to Emmaus even the two of the disciples were conversing when Jesus joined them He opened up the Scriptures (this would be the Old Testament) and interpreted all “the things concerning himself”. Christ, Himself, sets up the rules on how to do exegesis by looking back to the Old Testament to understand what is happening in the New. One can never isolate Psalm 132 regarding the Ark from the Ark of Revelation 11-12. It is impossible to ignore. St. Augustine said, “the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.” This is known as typology.Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, even the Church from its inception laid the foundation by using typology in their biblical exegesis. This is what the first Christians did when searching for a defense against the Jews and heretics to show the truths about this woman, and thereby about Christ. Asking for direct quotes and direct references without typology is the way of the heretic who demands certain words be present to satisfy his scoffing.So who is this woman? The catch 22 Jesus-style question is this; if this suffering woman being chased by Lucifer is "Israel" these must then contend with Isaiah 53 in which "the suffering servant" must also be "Israel".Answering this completely debunks any anti-Catholic argument since this is exactly what the Jews argue till this day for they too emphatically contend that Isaiah 53 is regarding Israel and not Jesus. This interpretation renders Jesus as Messiah to be obsolete.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/seed.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-111022" height="509" sizes="(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/seed.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/seed.jpg 480w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/seed-300x225.jpg 300w" width="679" /></a>To strictly apply the woman as "Israel" will also render Christ's seed (His church) also obsolete. This will force all objectors to convert to Judaism. Even the Jews cannot easily interpret Psalm 132 unless they assume that a box was assumed to heaven.One cannot have it both ways. And with such faulty interpretation one can easily twist the verses where we have no virgin birth  arguing over the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://outreachjudaism.org/alma-virgin/">Almah versus Bethula </a>which the Jews love to make such arguments.Clicking to read modern <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://outreachjudaism.org/alma-virgin/">Jewish arguments</a> against Christianity are no different from clicking and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Revelation-chapter-12.html">reading modern Protestant arguments</a> against Catholicism; both use the same methods. They both apply the same approach in order to avoid the obvious.HOW TO GET IMMUNE FROM FAULTY INTERPRETATIONS But why doesn’t God just make Himself plain!? Why would the Holy Spirit simply not instruct one of the biblical writers just jot: "the Ark is the Woman Mary, the Mother of Jesus"? After all this virgin birth is the salvation of the Jews and the gentiles!This question in itself solves a mystery. Nowhere are any of these mysteries made clear in the Old Testament. But strangely, the Jews translated Alma (young maiden) to “Virgin” in the Greek Septuagint centuries before Christ. Why? It is because these translators had the Holy Spirit guiding them. They knew something we didn’t. Perhaps they knew that God will choose the unusual meaning over the usual expectations of man.This is why I would rather trust the great men of God over any modern Bible translator. This is why I'd rather trust St. Jerome who translated the Bible from the Septuagint which has been the major source for Jesus and the Apostles.If it was good for Jesus it should be good for us.Jesus was aided by the wealthy Joseph of Arimathea just as St. Jerome was aided by a wealthy Roman aristocrat, Paula and he stayed in a monastery in Bethlehem and he completed his translation there. He used the <a title="Septuagint" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint">Septuagint</a> which the Jews translated in Alexandria, yet the mainstream Rabbinical Judaism rejected the Septuagint as invalid because of what were ascertained as mistranslations since it supported Christian theology. They insisted that Almah can never pertain to a virgin and they denounced the Septuagint even though they all used it before and during Christ. Today many evangelicals reject the Septuagint.Even after the Jews had such division over Mary which came way later on when Protestant Christians in the nineteenth century became divided between two spheres arguing over the perpetual virginity of Mary. One side still argues that the perpetual virginity of Mary is an invention of human tradition while the ancient side argues that it is in the Bible. They began questioning; did Mary have relations with Joseph after the birth of Jesus? Is it usual that a husband and wife live together without sex?As it seems, we should never discount the unusual choice. But instead of speaking plainly God tells us that:<blockquote>“Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:18).</blockquote>The Greek word ‘sunerchomai’, translated as “came together” by the naked eye seems to refer to sexual relations until we find that ‘sunerchomai’ occurs 33 times in the New Testament, and only once (1 Cor. 7:5) is a sexual interpretation even possible. This becomes as unusual as the “alma” (maiden) and “bethulah” (virgin) controversy.Today's Evangelical would definitely go for 'bethulah' (maiden) to imply 'virgin' just as the Catholic would.So why didn’t God plainly say whether Joseph “knew her” or “didn’t know her” and had His children live in relative peace and harmony? Why would God rather watch us from above split, squabble, bicker and even kill each other?But this is how God divides sheep from goats, tares from wheat. Even if God gave all the answers, the tares will find a way to cause division no matter how plain the text is. The tares are known for their divisive approach to everything holy.Even in Matthew 1:24-25, which says that Joseph “had no relations with her until she bore a son, and he named him Jesus,” the word “until” seems to indicate that after the birth of Jesus there were normal marital relations. However, the Greek word heos which is translated as until, does not imply that anything happened after Jesus‘ birth, nor does it exclude it. In Luke 1:80, in reference to John the Baptist it states: “The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the desert until the day of his manifestation to Israel.” Does this mean that once he appeared publicly he left the desert? No. The Baptist as we know from Scripture was a monastic who still lived in the desert after that. Therefore, Joseph, they say, had no relations with Mary even after she bore a Son. The Greek heôs, “until,” does not necessarily contrast “before” to “after.” It means that up to a certain moment, something happened or not, without considering what happened after that moment. For instance, the Greek text of the Septuagint says in 2 Samuel 6:23, that “Mikal, daughter of Saul, had no children until (heôs) the days of her death.” This obviously does not suggest that she had children after her death.Matthew is interested in underlining that Jesus’ birth and conception were carried out without the intervention of any man. So says one side of the argument. The other side says that Mary had her “firstborn son” must imply that she had a “second” or even a “third” son. But the term prôtotokos, “firstborn,” as applied to males is recognized to have a unique legal  meaning. In Exodus 13:2, the Lord says: “Consecrate to me all the firstborn; whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.” Moses, in Exodus 13:12, adds: “You shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb.” Firstborn does not necessitate there is, or there is not, a second born.The lazy servant would read: “And She brought forth Her first-born Son" (Lk. 2:7) and conclude that she must have had others while the wise understands that the “firstborn” does not refer to Jesus’ birth order, the word 'protokos' would be better translated as “firstborn of God” describing the supreme importance of his birth.And scriptures validate this: "He is “the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature” (Col. 1:15) and “The faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead” (Apoc. 1:5) Who was the first to rise to immortal life “the first born into the world” (Heb 1:6); “the firstborn of the dead” (Col 1:18) ... the one who has primacy over all.Therefore, God's church is a structure and Christ has primacy over all since He is the first born of all creation.But the lazy servant would counter and say that God Himself said, “Israel is my son, my firstborn” (Ex 4:22) yet the wise replies that Jesus is the New Israel, while salvation came through the Chosen People Israel, now salvation comes through the newborn Jesus, the firstborn of Israel.God just did not want to be plain in order to divide wise from lazy which is exactly what Christ proclaimed: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 26:52)If Joseph and Mary never had sexual relations, why didn’t Matthew simply write, “He knew her not until the day of his death”? This way everyone will turn Catholic. Or why didn’t He say “He knew her after she bore a son”? This way two billion Catholics will turn Evangelical.So the text isn’t that cut and dry. On such issues He does not speak plainly and nor does He accept phone calls for an interview to ask Him. Instead, He has us debate these issues ad nauseam while He watches from above at the wrong foolish side that didn’t get it and the wise who did.As it seems, in Gods ways, even amongst his institution, there is always two sides, one is right while the other is wrong, Cain got it wrong and Abel got it right.But how does one know who got it right or who got it wrong?The answer to this is simple; the one who got it right is always hated by the side that got it wrong. Finding the hatred is key. Finding out who attacks and who defends reveals tare from wheat.Even Galatians 4:29 confirms: “the sons born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit”.This in itself is prophetic for the whole of scripture is prophetic; the one that attacks is the tare and the one that is attacked is the wheat for the tares saps the wheat and wares it downSo which interpretation attacked the other? The Church from its inception believed in the apostolic tradition regarding Mary until the 19th century. Historically, who attacked who?The wise sees clearly that the text is not so clear while the unwise demands clear text and he mocks and attacks the wise for failing to do so always asking 'chapter and verse'.In Matthew 13, Scripture said: “Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us”.And from the plain English it seems that Mary did know Joseph. After all where did these “brothers” and “sisters” come from? So we think that finally God made Himself plain.But He didn't. He later on throws in a monkey wrench. The text was written in the socio-cultural milieu of the authors of the New Testament. In Judaism the use of the word “brother” (adelphos) could be referring to actual siblings or to non-siblings. And then we find in Mark 15:40, where they are said to be the sons of some Mary, one of the women watching the crucifixion who was never identified as the mother of Jesus.Nowhere in the New Testament are these “brothers” of Jesus also identified as “sons of Mary”. James and Joses are two of the “brethren” of Jesus mentioned in Matthew 13:55, so this woman is clearly their mother, not the Mother of Jesus. This “other Mary” (Mt 28:1) is mentioned in John 19:25 as “Mary the wife of Cleophas”, the “sister” of Jesus’ mother Mary (“sister” here probably refers to a sister-in-law, since they are both called Mary).Why couldn’t God make Himself plain and say “His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas, the sons of Mary mother of Jesus“?In Mark 6:3, the people of Nazareth identified Jesus as “the son of Mary.” Some argue that this is not necessarily to allude to Jesus’ virginal conception, but to possibly deny Jesus since people in Nazareth suspected or knew that Jesus was not Joseph’s child alluding he was illegitimate. Christian history argues that “the Son of Mary” in Mark 6:3 is a phrase which in that culture denoted the only child of a widow. And Mary is always called simply “the mother of Jesus”, never “the mother of Jesus, James, Joses, Simon, Judas and their sisters”.What we do know is that the vast majority of the Fathers of the Church believed that Mary’s virginity remained post partum and the few who denied the perpetual virginity was considered a heretic like Helvidian and Hegesippus and these became extinct. So if these two were the true Church, Jesus then failed to 'build His church' until the 19th century arrived. Yet the closer we get to the end, scripture states that the church will become more heretical. How is it then that the most heretical generation is now most holy accurate?Christians did not find it an obstacle to consider Jesus’ adelphoi as his cousins, step-brothers or half-brothers. All churches adopted that point of view–be it the Catholic one, the Orthodox one, or even the Reformation one (with Luther and Calvin).What would shock most is that it was only until the nineteenth century, when people thought that they were smarter and so biblical scholars began to question the consensus in the name of the historical-critical method of interpretation.Sounds surprising? It isn’t. But this is the truth. And here we are told to believe that the Church has always got it wrong for 20 centuries.But more important than all this diatribe. We are of the seed of Christ, but we are also of the seed of Mary for we call her "our Mother".The Bible itself seems to leave many issues open for speculation. But the question is why? Why didn’t God make it so plainly conclusive in the Bible?The answer to this again is simple. Typology and allegory are at times the only weapon we have to thwart the heretic and is why Christ Himself alluded to this when He was asked: "Why do You speak to them in parables?" (<a id="yui-gen28" class="nowrap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/matthew/13/10/s_942010">Matthew 13:10</a>) and Christ responded clearly:<blockquote>"Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given . . . . And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive, for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart and turn, so that I should heal them' (<a class="nowrap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/matthew/13/11/s_942011">Matthew 13:11</a>,<a class="nowrap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/matthew/13/14/s_942014">14</a>,<a class="nowrap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/matthew/13/15/s_942015">15</a>).</blockquote>This is how wheat and tares are divided.In fact, scripture is clear that without a "mother" or an "altar of sacrifice" there is no church. John allegorically describes (as Ezekiel described) the measuring rod to measure the temple:<blockquote>“And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein [around an altar]. But the court which is without the temple [without an altar of sacrifice] leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles [pagans]: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.” (Revelation 11:1-2).</blockquote>This "Altar" and "woman" in Revelation 11-12 is a major clue. If this "altar" was in a rebuilt Jewish temple, Hebrews 13:10 makes a compelling argument:<blockquote>We [the true church] have an altar from which the [Jewish] priests in the [temple] Tabernacle have no right to eat."</blockquote>This is clearly no altar for the Jews who reject Christ and without a literal altar there is no church.If such an altar was spiritual to signify Christ or the Cross, why would the Jews have no right to spiritually feed on Jesus or the old rugged cross? Therefore, you either have "an altar" and a "mother" or you don't. And if you don't; you are left out of the temple of God.John is very clear on this and in fact he ties this whole story of Revelation 12 to the Ark of the Covenant in Revelation 11. If this "ark" is a literal ark to be placed in a Jewish temple, how could this verse fit:<blockquote>"Return [repent], faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever ... I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion. Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord."</blockquote>He brings them to the Mount Zion of God where Jerusalem is finally redeemed and there will be no talk of a literal Ark. Unless one has the correct piece of the puzzle, no matter what one does to gymnastically twist it, the puzzle will not fit and the whole structure would look awkward.That piece is the corporate responsibility where heaven and earth cooperate and where the Church has an altar, a mother and a presence of Christ on earth to be with us in the Eucharist until the close of the age. After all "His name shall be called Emanuel" which is "God with us". This presence is not just the first coming or some pie in the sky, but an actual presence. It is either God is always with us or He is not. He said: "I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world". (Matthew 28:20) How is Christ with us until the end of the world? One cannot argue "the Holy Spirit".But the puzzle was already put together a thousand times over from the first century onwards. The Church are the Christians who see the woman, Mary, as the crowned queen;<blockquote>“Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars ... the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent … And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 12:1, 14,17)</blockquote>The dragon was wroth with the Queen woman (thats one part of this equation) and went to make war with the remnant of her seed (this is the other part of this equation) and these have "the testimony of Jesus Christ".This alone completely abolishes the argument that the woman is the earthly Israel but is Mary with her seed, the Israel of God.As John clearly stated, “the court outside the temple” "outside the altar" who do not have an altar, are the Christians that were not tested (measured), but will be left out as lazy servants.The Church Christ founded as soon as He departed is a structured, visible Church where deacons and priests were approved and blessed, where Mary was honored and where an Altar was clearly used from New Testament times until now. A Christian in the first century cannot choose to accept Christ but not join this visible Church at the time. This is impossible and no scholar has ever proven that churches were independent from one another; they all were part of a hierarchy.To reject that church in the first century meant you rejected Christ Himself. It meant that you are left out. You cannot divide between the two. Had a self-appointed pastor started a denomination then, this would go against what Christ said "I will build my church" which is a single universal church that encompass the whole earth.How it started was simple: "He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach" (Mark 3:14). Do you see this "He appointed"? Was anyone in the entire Bible self-appointed? Never. You would never find such a thing in the entire scriptures.One might argue that it was Christ Who appointed these and not some church hierarchy. Really?From Christ "the first born" (He is the head) Jesus appointed others: <blockquote>"So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.” This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them. So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith." (Acts 6:2-7)</blockquote>So what if some follower of these men decided to start his own church purchasing some real estate downtown Jerusalem, would this suffice? Never. This renegade would be the church-rebellion. Every ordained minister had to be "presented" "to the apostles" for approval and the laying of hands to bless them. Without the hierarchical blessing they are out of the temple of God. Barnabas and Paul went to Derbe, a city in the Roman province of Galatia in Asia Minor where:<blockquote> "They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said." (Acts 14:21-22)</blockquote>Without hardship, they would not enter the Kingdom of God. Then "Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust." (Acts 14:23)Do we find anywhere in scripture where the converts in Lystra, Iconium and Antioch on their own accord 'appointed elders' (priests)? They had to be "appointed" as scripture states.To self-appoint oneself would have been unthinkable. Everyone who was appointed was appointed through a hierarchy where Christ is the head. Therefore, any renegade or self-appointed priest would not be part of the Church or the Kingdom of God.The Church then, and just like it is in the apostolic-succession churches today did not practice liberal independent capitalism. They shared and were part of a communal structure just as we see today in the apostolic succession:<blockquote>“There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need.” (Acts 4:34)</blockquote>And there are even many clues in scripture as to who the renegades (the tares) were and how they believed and thought. During the time of Jesus, the protesters of the day were the Sadducees who protested much. Their main difference was that they rejected the Oral Law (Holy Tradition) which was set throughout the ages and was passed down and taught by the Pharisees just as Paul taught "brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle." (2 These 2:15) "Whether by word" was not a written scripture. But besides oral tradition, even the Church, stemmed out of the Pharisees and not the Sadducees. Converts from the Sadducees are never found in scripture. From Genesis to Revelation, the whole story of God's people is always a divide between Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, wheat and tares, sheep and goat, trustworthy servants who aided in Christ's suffering and unworthy servants who said "Lord Lord" yet He rejected them ... Today's self-appointed pastors are no different than the Sadducees. But even the story of the Sadducees is in itself prophetic. Everything in Scripture is prophetic. These had lesser books than the Pharisees and were strict sola-scripturists and they saw the written Torah as the sole source of divine authority. In Acts 4 it was the "Sadducees [who] came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead." (Acts 4:1-2) Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. And today self-proclaimed pastors are running roundabout with seven missing books claiming to fully accept the resurrection of the dead, yet these offer one caveat; when it comes to the saints in heaven, they deny they are living and claiming that these are "dead". The saints become 'dead' when it comes to the intercession of the saints. So the saints are 'dead' when scripture itself proclaimed that they are truly 'living' "to be absent of the body is to be present with the Lord".This is a major contradiction which reveals that to miss one piece of the puzzle is a disaster.They only speak of substance when it comes to the corps when Christians ask for the intercession of saints. Then they speak of the spirit yet they ignore the substance in the Eucharist.But the testing is on its way. In fact, we have seen it already and recent history proves the apostolic succession's interpretation. We see globally from Egypt to Poland, that it is the Apostolic Succession churches that are persecuted by the millions. What is the number of persecuted Protestants in the last century? Again, John describes this by taking a measuring rod to measure (test) the temple:<blockquote>“And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure [test] the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple (the true church) leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.” (Revelation 11:1-2).</blockquote>Notice the theme of Revelation 11-12, the seed of the woman is the one chased by Lucifer for persecution. The temple is being trodden for 42 months. Notice the "altar and them that worship therein" are the only ones 'measured' (tested by fire of persecution) while the tares who have no altar are left without.But this is in itself prophetic; it is amazing to see that John through the Holy Spirit foreknew that such a divide will exist in the last days where a huge portion of what constitutes the church (temple) would have no altar of sacrifice and in fact such an altar is mocked daily by protesters calling it sun disk and accusing it to be pagan while they completely ignore that in Revelation 11-12 the true seed (the true church) are of the Queen Woman.That should be astounding to any true seeker of Christ. No wonder why Christ demanded we search with all of our hearts, strength and mind.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3408aa147b82ed713ae646c6015d1c51.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-111033" height="1104" sizes="(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3408aa147b82ed713ae646c6015d1c51.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3408aa147b82ed713ae646c6015d1c51.jpg 736w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3408aa147b82ed713ae646c6015d1c51-200x300.jpg 200w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3408aa147b82ed713ae646c6015d1c51-683x1024.jpg 683w" width="736" /></a>And how could such mockery of Christ, His Altar, His Presence and His Mother be included in the Kingdom? John makes perfect sense. These are not brethren unless they repent. Yet Revelation 11-12 is clearly and primarily the Church (who see the woman, Mary, as the crowned queen) since “the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent … And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 12:14,17)“The court outside the temple” are the Christians that were not protected and are taken away by the serpent and not destined for persecution and will be subject to Satan's deception during that same time (Revelation 12:17).One cannot put the pieces of the puzzle without understanding that the Ark is Mary, the Woman is Mary and the Altar is the Eucharistic sacrificial altar and that both Jesus and Mary have the Church as the seed of both Christ and Mary and that Antichrist comes to stop the "grain offering" and that the priests in Joel 2 weep since "The grain offering [Bread] and the drink offering [wine]. Have been cut off from the house of the Lord [the Temple]; The priests mourn, who minister to the Lord … Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty” and in  Daniel “he will stop the sacrifice and grain offering” involves the desecration or the prohibition of the Eucharist for if we knowingly consume what is desecrated or reject to consume the Body of Christ then we have desecrated the very Temple of God.Today we see countless of renegades demean Christ's mother, Altar, Incense and all. Cain mocks the pleasant smoke to God's nostrils. So would the King Who was born in Bethlehem, and Who declared that the one without proper garments to enter hell, all of the sudden He allows someone to treat His mother as an incubator and give her a lesser status from a queen?Impossible. One must put on their best attire in Christ's wedding and have ample oil in their lamps. We are dealing here with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I weep writing these words and I tremble as I contemplate God's mysteries and His awesome Wisdom. I witnessed His very footsteps and I denied Him more than thrice. Have mercy on my soul O Son of David a sinner.St. Jerome who dwelt in Bethlehem learned Hebrew and defended the honor Queen and Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. In his The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, Against Helvidius, St. Jerome replied to that Helvidius the heretic, who had denied the Perpetual Virginity:<blockquote>"You have set on fire the temple of the Lord’s body; you have defiled the sanctuary of the Holy Ghost from which you are determined to make a team of four brethren and a heap of sisters come forth. In a word, joining in the chorus of the Jews, you say, ‘Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us? The word  would not be used if there were not a crowd of them.’ Pray tell me, who, before you appeared, was acquainted with this blasphemy? Who thought the theory worth two-pence? You have gained your desire, and are become notorious by crime.”</blockquote>Even the existence and the ending of Helvidius is prophetic for in the end of days these will arise who completely lack knowledge and would hate knowledge claiming that 'it is not about knowledge' while God Himself said that "my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6).One cannot dare today tell any woman, unless they are a fanatic Muslim, that she is nothing more than a “functionary,” used by her husband to bear a son destined to die as a Muslim martyr. But the Divine Son of God? With Christ we have all the multitudes of heretics are daily daring to say this of only one woman; the marvelous Woman, the Immaculate Conception!These would make a web of confusion which takes the wise ample work to reveal their deception.<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZTVyptxPQ04?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>Scripture is written in a way that the scoffer will choose the faulty comprehension. Scripture is no biography or a historic record but is a teaching. The lost would read Christ and His disciples picking a few kernels of wheat, the lost would see this and say 'Jesus was hungry' while the prudent and the wise would see a much grandeur event regarding the Bread of the Presence.Christ revealed the big picture in that very event:<blockquote>“Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” (Mark 2:25-26)</blockquote>Notice that our Lord mentions here, this bread is not just any bread, but was “the bread of the Presence”.The presence of what? The presence of God. God is with us. This bread was also in the Ark of the Covenant just as Christ was in the Ark of Mary, where God was present. The Disciples were picking grain, which would be the ingredient for the “grain offering,” the Sacrifice in the Last Supper. It is this same Sacrifice of which Christ said, “This is my body, which is given for you.” (Luke 22:19) Had this not been such a crucial event and had this been strictly as a memorial, why would God Himself shake the heavens and the earth when this sacrificial offering is hindered by Antichrist? Both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church declare that the Real “Presence” of the Christ-God is in the Eucharist, which is that grain sacrifice prophesied by the prophet Malachi; and this Real Presence, this is what Christ foretold when He referenced “the bread of the Presence” which David had eaten.   The lazy understands that the world was condemned by the participation of a man (Adam) a woman (Eve) and a tree (of the knowledge of good and evil) and a snake (Lucifer); but the wise will look further to see that it is also redeemed by the participation of a man (Christ the New Adam), a woman (Mary the New Eve), and a tree (the Cross) where the seed of the woman would finally crush the serpent's head. This crushing is also in the very theme of Revelation 11, 12 and 13 which continue to tell the same story: "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast" (Revelation 13:3) and this theme is in Judges 8:21 where Gideon as a type of Christ crushes the “crescent ornaments” while the Woman crushes the moon under her feet which is the crushing of Satan’s kingdom which is indeed through Christ but also includes His body, the Church (Zechariah 14) “and all the saints [the church] with You”. “All the saints” must then also include St. Mary, a woman.The lazy servant would read when Christ told His mother "Woman, behold your son" as if Jesus was simply minimizing His Mother as a last will and testament he passed her to John to simply care for her.The wise looks at this and sees the “Spiritual” Motherhood proclaimed by Christ Himself from the Cross: “Behold thy Mother” (Jn. 19:27) as a momentous declaration which St. John recorded:<blockquote>“Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus, His Mother, and His Mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus, therefore, saw His Mother, and the disciple standing, whom He loved, He saith to His Mother; Woman, Behold thy Son. After that, He saith to the disciple; Behold thy Mother. And that hour the disciple took Her to his own. Afterwards  Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, said; I thirst” (Jn. 19:25-28).</blockquote>"After that, He saith to the disciple; Behold thy Mother." This ends all arguments.Mary is now the mother of John. So important was this that in the midst of His Passion, Jesus gave Mary to the Church, represented by St. John. It was only then that all things were accomplished.Mary consented not just to become the Mother of the Redeemer of mankind, but implicitly to become the Mother of the Redeemed and is why the church on earth are "the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 12:14,17)Why "remnant"? Because her seed are mostly in heaven and are partially on earth from whatever remnant serving the last three and a half years. The devil persecutes her seed (the Ark's seed)  the seed promised in Genesis 3:15 “seed of the woman” and the "seed of Messiah" as declared in Isaiah 53: “he [Messiah] will see his seed [offspring] and prolong his days” (Isaiah 53:10) and even Abraham's promise "I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore" (Genesis 22:17). The Jews isolate chapters to argue that the suffering g servant in Isaiah 53 is Israel yet the theme stems from Isaiah 49:<blockquote>Listen, O coastlands, unto me [God]; and hearken, you people, from afar; The LORD has called me [The Son] from the womb; from the body of my mother [Mother of God] has he made mention of my name.” (Isaiah 49:1).</blockquote>So far, we have kept it purely scriptural. This is so clear “the body of my mother [God's mother]”. Even Luke mentions Elizabeth's womb housing John: <blockquote>“and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb” (Lk 1:15)”. </blockquote>God, the Holy Spirit, was using Mary as His physical temple to carry Messiah symbolized in the Ark in Hebrews 9:4, as the “little urn,” which “held the manna” (bread of life/Christ). Therefore, one cannot isolate saying that this is one thing while it is completely another somewhere else. Isaiah 49:1, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Wisdom 2, Zechariah 12, Revelation 11,12,13 all have the same theme that is: these verses are mainly regarding the Messiah and by extension His seed and Mary's seed in a church that is orchestrated in heaven emulated on earth with hierarchy and order so that the two (church militant on earth and the church triumphant in heaven) are connected where we access heaven by approaching the men made perfect, the spirits of the first born, the angels and the head; Jesus Christ our mediator as clearly described in Hebrews 12.Everything in scripture must tightly fit like a glove and without interpreting all the pieces through typology nothing will ever fit.St. Ambrose (+397), Father and Doctor of the Church stated:<blockquote>“But Mary did not fail, the mistress of virginity did not fail; nor was it possible that She who had borne God, should be regarded as bearing a man. And Joseph, the just man, assuredly did not so completely lose his mind as to seek carnal intercourse with the Mother of God.” (De Inst. Virg., VI, 44)</blockquote>So the Church wasn't like we see today as if some can decide to start their own churches, yet all these were considered throughout history as outside the Altar of God. The Ebionites in the second century, sort of like the Messianics of today adhered to the observance of the Jewish Law where as result some rejected, the virginal birth of Christ, though all rejected His pre-existence and Divinity and denied Mary’s Perpetual Virginity.Eusebius (+ 341) wrote against them as well as St. Epiphanius (+403), Father of the Church (Adversus haereses):<blockquote>“Was there ever anyone who dared pronounce the name of holy Mary without immediately adding the title Virgin?”</blockquote>The church is a single church, a lighthouse that while it falls away, God always preserves a remnant:<blockquote>"You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."</blockquote><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/cSaGjZKmEag?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war The Ark Of The Covenant Has Been Discovered Two Millenia Ago And Is Found In Bethlehem And With Its Discovery Expect A Coming War And Heavy Persecution

By Walid Shoebat (Shoebat Sunday Special) Many labored in finding the lost Ark when this whole time it was placed right in front of the...

Major American Christian Leader Calls Out America's 'Sins' Yet Fails To Mention How America Loves What God Hates

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anne_Graham_Lotz.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111073" height="192" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anne_Graham_Lotz-300x192.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anne_Graham_Lotz-300x192.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Anne_Graham_Lotz.jpg 390w" width="300" /></a>Recently the National Day of Prayer was held, and Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of famed Protestant Evangelist Billy Graham concluded with a prayer for 12 of "America's national sins.":<blockquote>Anne Graham Lotz, a renowned evangelist and Billy Graham's daughter, concluded the 2017 National Day of Prayer by leading those gathered for the observance at the United States Capitol Thursday night and those watching at home in a repentance of "national sins.Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on "religious liberty" and a proclamation for the National Day of Prayer, the 68-year-old Lotz, who chaired the National Day of Prayer Task Force, gave the keynote message at the annual National Day of Prayer observance on Capitol Hill."Our nation is in trouble and we had some wonderful things [happen] today," Lotz said early in her remarks, adding that she was in attendance at the White House when the president signed the executive order. "I praise God for the liberty that we have. In fact, I was telling Sammy Rodriguez before this that it's almost mind blowing that America has to have an executive order to guarantee religious liberty in America, which shows how far we have fallen from our foundation of faith in the living God."Lotz continued by asserting that the United States has fallen so far from grace and warned that "if we forsake Him, He will forsake us.""I believe we are going through a time in our nation that I would describe a spiritual drought," Lotz said. "If this is so and if the problems in our nation are coming because God is missing, then issuing an executive order will not fix that, and politics will not fix that, and immigration reform, and health reform, and some of these other things will not fix that.""The only thing that will fix that is if God's people, who are called by God's name, will humble themselves and pray and seek His face and turn from our wicked ways."Toward the end of the observance, the evangelist provided time for people in the audience to pray and repent for their own personal sins. Following the time for personal repentance, she led a time of "national repentance."Included in the observance program was a list of 12 "national sins.""I thought maybe we would read this together. We will just read it together. I read it and you can read along," Lotz told the audience gathered in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. "But if you are not sure you want to do that because you are not sure what it is going to say, I understand that. I will just go ahead and read it anyway."Lotz, followed by the audience, stated:"We confess our foolishness of denying You as the one true living God, our Creator to whom we are accountable, living as though our lives are a cosmic accident with no eternal significance, purpose or meaning.We confess we no longer fear You, and thus we have not even the beginning of wisdom with which to handle the vast knowledge we possess.We confess to believing that the prosperity of our nation is because we are great, while refusing to acknowledge that all blessings come from your hands.We confess that we depend upon our military might and our weapons systems to defend us from harm and danger while denying, defying and ignoring You.We confess that we have succumbed to the pressure of pluralism and our desire to be inclusive so that we honor other gods as though You are just one of many.We confess that we have allowed the material blessings You have given us to deceive us into thinking we don't need You.We confess that we feel entitled to what someone else has earned instead of taking responsibility for ourselves and our families as we trust in You.We confess that we live as though material wealth and prosperity will bring happiness.We confess our greed that has run up trillions of dollars of national debt. We confess our arrogance and pride that has led us to think we are sufficient in ourselves.We confess national addiction to sex, to money, to pleasure, to entertainment, to pornorgraphy, to technology, to drugs, to alcohol, to food, to television, to popularity, to ourselves.We confess that we have marginalized truth and mainstreamed lies.We confess that we have become one nation under many gods divided and polarized, with license to sin and justice that often does not follow the rules of law."Following the confession of national sins, Lotz gave the audience a couple minutes to pray in groups for God to forgive the country and for others in America to turn toward God.Followed by the intercessory prayer time, former Southern Baptist Convention president and pastor of Cross Church in Northwestern Arkansas, Ronnie Floyd, offered an invocation in which he listed a couple more sins of the nation — racism and abortion."Lord, when we look across our country, we think about things that still breaks our heart. And forgive us of the deplorable, the wicked sin of killing the unborn and justifying it and rationalizing it," Floyd prayed. "Oh God, in Jesus name, please forgive us. A generation has been lost that You created and man has destroyed. God, please forgive us. Change our ways. Change our mindset in this nation.""We pray tonight against the injustice toward people, against the wicked sin of racism, that is completely opposite of the Gospel of Jesus Christ," he continued. "We stand against it and we proclaim, Oh God, would You raise up the Church to model racial unity, racial reconciliation and racial love."</blockquote>What a joke- and I do not say that condescendingly. I say that because it is a comical farce, as these twelve sins which she lists are minor and comparison to the many more and much larger sins that America loves and promotes but will not address because she does not want to repent.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Daniele_Crespi_-_Cain_Killing_Abel_-_WGA5743.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111053" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Daniele_Crespi_-_Cain_Killing_Abel_-_WGA5743-206x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Daniele_Crespi_-_Cain_Killing_Abel_-_WGA5743-206x300.jpg 206w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Daniele_Crespi_-_Cain_Killing_Abel_-_WGA5743-768x1117.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Daniele_Crespi_-_Cain_Killing_Abel_-_WGA5743-704x1024.jpg 704w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Daniele_Crespi_-_Cain_Killing_Abel_-_WGA5743.jpg 850w" width="206" /></a>Cain murdering Abel by Daniele Crespi. This is where the phrase "sins which cry out to Heaven for vengeance" comes from, as in Genesis 4:10 the blood of Abel cried out to the Lord from the Earth.While there are many sins, I would like to focus on four which the Bible speaks of with particular seriousness and which the Catechism of the Catholic Church takes note of. These are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a8.htm#1867">the four sins which "cry out to heaven for vengeance"</a> in the Bible. They are:-Willful murder (Genesis 4:10) -Homosexuality (Genesis 18:20 and 19:13) -Depriving the widow and orphan (Exodus 3:7-10, 20:20-22) -Depriving a laborer of just wages (Deuteronomy 24:14-15)A good way to start by looking at these sins, all of which America is madly in love with, is to start with a little history surrounding the<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States"> eugenics movement in America</a>, as it has it philosophical roots in Protestant ideas that came with the settlers and deeply embedded itself into the culture from the nation's earliest days.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Eugenics-Fitter-Families-Contest-Winners-Topeka-Kansas.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111054" height="237" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Eugenics-Fitter-Families-Contest-Winners-Topeka-Kansas-300x237.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Eugenics-Fitter-Families-Contest-Winners-Topeka-Kansas-300x237.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Eugenics-Fitter-Families-Contest-Winners-Topeka-Kansas.jpg 355w" width="300" /></a>No, this photo is not a joke. It comes from Topeka, KS and you can read the back history <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States">here</a>. Eugenics and America have a long and passionate love affair with each other, and the history of American cannot be told without a detailed history of the eugenics movement.American history as understood through the arrival of the English settlers has a long history with eugenics. It might be more accurately described as a love affair just like how we have a love affair with fantasies of being invaded by foreign enemies and with the idea of radical individualism whereby one man singlehandedly conquers the unconquerable.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jhkellogg.jpeg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-111055" height="181" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jhkellogg.jpeg" width="278" /></a>John Harvey Kellogg, Seventh-Day Adventist "Christian," founder of Kellogg's Cereal. In addition to creating Corn Flakes cereal, he was also a major proponent of eugenics who believed that "inferior" races and people should be exterminated just like animals on a farm or at least "prevent from breeding." He used his wealth to found the "<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma03/holmgren/ppie/eug.html">Race Betterment Foundation</a>" to propagate his ideas.Eugenics has existed in various forms in every culture, as the ideas for it are simply the leftovers from the sin of Eden that will only meet their final and necessary death when Christ returns. But as far as modern history is concerned, some trace the modern day American Eugenics movement to the Englishman <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton">Sir Francis Galton</a>, who in the 1880's declared that the reason for the difference in the attitudes and social structures of the upper versus lower classes in the UK was because of their superior genetic makeup. Thus by taking Darwinian models of philosophy as applies to human biomechanics, the natural conclusion of this was that it one wants to create the idea society, all that one has to do is kill off the 'weak humans' just like how one may cull weak animals on a farm. Others will trace it, as I just alluded to, the Darwinian models of "evolution" as a means of philosophy instead of as solely a biomechanical speculation. Some will trace it even earlier to the animosity of the English hatred of non-Englishmen (specifically non-Protestant Englishmen), with their<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.historyireland.com/volume-24/the-irish-in-the-anglo-caribbean-servants-or-slaves/"> enslavement of both Irishmen</a> and Africans, which even continued in America through major Protestant Christians such as <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg">J. H. Kellogg of the Seventh Day Adventists</a>, who advocated for the biological destruction of inferior peoples and the "purification" of the "Germanic" races.However, the reality is that as far at the West is concerned, the philosophical groundwork for modern eugenics was laid with the Protestant Revolution and Martin Luther. As we have pointed out extensively on Shoebat.com, the Protestant Revolution was not so much about religion and faith as it was about politics and power in which various men, whose lust for power was insatiable and their greed unquenchable, saw the Catholic Church as the major obstacle to their ends. At the same time, as we and others have pointed out such as Peter Wiener in his groundbreaking work, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Luther-Hitlers-Spiritual-Ancestor/dp/1578849543">Martin Luther: Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor</a>, that National Socialism can trace its beginnings to the nationalism which pervades Martin Luther's philosophy and religious ideas, as he wanted a theology that allowed for creating a 'German god for a German people' in order to justify ideas about Germanic 'greatness' over and to the derogation of non-Germanic peoples, namely the Slavs.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/luther.jpeg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-111056" height="283" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/luther.jpeg" width="178" /></a>Hitler was not really that unique. He was just the logical conclusion of Martin Luther's heresies.Luther's Revolutionary ideas about nationalism and religion naturally pervaded all of the Protestant movement and took various forms not the same as but at their root connected to the same origins. In the case of the revolution in England, Wales, and Scotland, this manifested in the brutal and systematic persecutions of all people connected to the Catholic Church to the point that Catholicism was, save for a few crypto-Catholics and immigrants from Ireland, wiped out from Albion through forced conversion, expulsions, or extermination. This attitude did not die with one generation, but traveled to America and simply perpetuated itself through the descendants of the settlers that manifested through mainstream religious sects (such as the Episcopalians and later, Baptists) and cults (like the Puritans, Shakers, Mormons, and many more). Just like with the Protestant Revolution on the continent, the ideas which came from Europe to America simply re-manifested the old evil under new forms, one of which was in the form of the anti-immigrant laws.Make no mistake, I am not saying that as is discussed today, that "illegal immigration"- the intentional violation of legitimate immigration laws for selfish gain- is morally licit or socially tolerable.  However, from the earliest days of American history as marked by the English settlements of the original 13 colonies, immigration from various nations has always been used as a tool by the government and its controllers in business, finance, and industry as a pressure point to leverage social change. This change happens by two forms of pressure applied at the same time- one which advocates for massive, almost unrestricted immigration from a particular group or groups, which is then at the same times counterbalanced by a radical "nativist" opposition to said immigration. What makes this immigration particular notable is that for most of America's history, the majority of these immigrants even through today have come from Catholic nations, which given the Protestant background of American society, provides and additional leverage to use along with the immigration.While the politics of immigration is complicated, the simplest way to summarize it without going into details is that immigration provides a source of cheap labor for business and industry because since many immigrants come from nations which are poorer and with more difficult social climates, those who come to the USA are happy with lower wages and less favorable conditions than the "average American" would be. This is also exacerbated by the fact that, owing to the ethno-nationalist heresies inherent to Protestantism whose philosophical fruits are the heresies that God favors certain races over others because they are "superior" to other races, a Protestant will be inclined by his religious and philosophical conclusions to see wealth and luxury as things that are signs of God's favor over other men, which in turn feeds the idea that the "lesser" men have to "serve" them. This works until these same people realize that those who they view as "inferior" due to their financial or social status are in greater number than they are, at which point they begin to see them as a threat to their power base. However, they also do not want to get rid of these people because they benefit from them economically because they are too lazy to work and many times, too selfish to reproduce, preferring to indulge luxury and sloth while cursing the fruits that come from embracing these sins and blaming them on the very people they encouraged or even brought in at their own hands for their personal gain. I emphasize that not all Protestants think this way, but that such thoughts are the one of the natural fruits of Protestant philosophy and theology when taken to its logical conclusions.This is not a new or unique pattern, but it is a consistent pattern throughout American history. The first slaves of Anglo-American society were the Irish, who were looked at as inferior because of ethnic as well as religious differences. Even during the Irish migrations beginning during the late 18th century and particularly after the infamous Potato Famine of the 1840s- which was a genocide that was caused by the English intentionally expropriating food from the Irish during a nationwide blight which hit the Irish Lumper potato crop because they wanted a way to wipe them out due to the fact they saw them as inferior- they were viewed by their national and religious differences to be biologically inferior to the "pure Albion stock" of many other Americans.The African slaves are an obvious example of this. Now it is interesting to note that while slavery in the Civil War was a tangential issue used for the most part as a sociopolitical lever by both the Union and the Confederacy, nobody can deny that among many people, it was a real issue (for an excellent study of this, see Paul Finkelman's <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Slavery-Proslavery-Thought-Documents/dp/0312133278">Defending Slavery</a>) especially in areas which benefitted economically from slavery, the most significant of which was the state of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_in_the_American_Civil_War">South Carolina</a>, which was not only the state where the Civil War began but was also the only state which placed the institution of slavery as its reason for secession higher than that of personal freedom from the government, which was the overriding reason for the secession of the rest of the states of the confederacy.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/westward-slaverymap.gif"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111058" height="254" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/westward-slaverymap-300x254.gif" width="300" /></a>There are several maps like this online, but all of them show the same concentrations. Take particular notices of South Carolina. While the economic benefits which slave owners derived was certainly a motivating factors, it was not the primary motivator for the rebellion of the states of the Confederacy except for South Carolina.South Carolina at the time of the Civil War was not only a majority slaveholder state, but the majority of its residents- approximately 60%- were enslaved people of African descent. The slaves actually outnumbered the primarily English and Scot-Irish Protestant peoples who made up the wealthy and ruling classes who in addition to many times their refusal to have more than 1 to 2 children literally caused them to become minorities in their own state. They wanted others to do their work for them while at the same time refusing to work themselves, yet then complained when the people they had do their work began to replace them.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4sscp42b.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111059" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4sscp42b-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4sscp42b-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4sscp42b.jpg 640w" width="300" /></a><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1565b.html">Slaves </a>on a South Carolina plantation prior to the Civil War. While the slave owners of South Carolina were concerned about their becoming minorities in their own state, the fact is that the European peoples were not having children but the slaves were. This is just like with Europe today and the Muslim populations. The reason for the rise is not merely invasion, but that the Muslims are being invited in and are having children while the Europeans refuse to and yet then complain about the consequences of their actions.A few months ago, we did a story here on Shoebat.com about <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2017/02/16/american-farmers-make-this-declaration-to-all-americans-if-you-get-rid-of-mexican-illegal-aliens-then-we-are-going-to-go-out-of-business-because-american-dont-want-to-do-the-work/">illegal immigration from Mexico and the agricultural industry</a>. As we noted, citing multiple documentaries, the American agricultural sector could not exist without illegal immigrant labor because given the nature of the work and the prices paid for labor against the reality of what the market will pay for food commodities in combination with the scale of the work that must be done, the only people who are willing to do this are almost entirely immigrants from central America. This is not an insult to anybody, but the statement of a simple fact that farm owners, farm lobbyists, government, industry, illegal immigrants, and even many Americans themselves know but will not admit publicly.A video that Ted did in February 2017 about illegal immigration. As he pointed out, it is only true to call it "illegal immigration" in part because the reality is that people are being allowed and encouraged to cross into America illegally to do work that would otherwise not get done. It is an open secret that nobody wants to discuss because it would force our society to re-evaluate how we look at ourselves and the world as value as people and our economic structures.It is not so much that there are just "HORDES OF ILLEGALS RUNNING OVER THE BORDER" and the government is "powerless" to stop them, but that people are allowed to cross over in large numbers because it benefits the "native" (and by this I refer to persons born in American society) population by providing cheap food prices that benefits the masses while the industrialists and the government benefit from a limitless supply of low-cost, expendable labor for a hard and difficult job. If food prices were adjusted to what they would be without the cheap labor that the illegals provide, then it would crush not just the agricultural industry, but it would destroy the American restaurant industry and force the majority of the population not only to spend more money on food but also to spend what money they have available on cheaper foods because of the price increases.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bacon_Portfolio_6.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111063" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bacon_Portfolio_6-300x200.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bacon_Portfolio_6-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bacon_Portfolio_6.jpg 600w" width="300" /></a>A Mexican farm worker. He's probably here illegally, but if it weren't for him food prices of popular commodities such as tomatoes, berries, and other fruits and vegetables would be so expensive they would not be affordable for most people.But this is not just limited to food. Whether it is the garment industry (such as the sweatshops in major cities), the trucking industry (where wages have significantly decreased even while the need for truckers has rapidly increased as there currently is a nationwide trucker shortage), or the hordes of people from the Indian subcontinent and east Asia who get office jobs after being sponsored in mass by major American businesses on H1B visas (even as the need for office work declines), or even with shopping at Wal-Mart or another major American retail chain (where the cheap labor is foreign as opposed to domestic), the fact is that America benefits a lot from cheap labor to the point that we are addicted to it.At the same time, as I alluded to above, there is also the issue of the quality of the American worker. Now I am NOT saying that Americans are "just lazy," or that people should simply settle for a low-paying job and not seek to better themselves in any way- both are untrue, as there are many Americans who do work hard and if one is offered or can find a better paying job for less work, unless there was a exceptional reason (such as moral issues or one just really likes his job), then to refuse to accept it would be stupid or insane. Likewise, I understand that American life is expensive, and that one needs to earn enough money to care for ones needs and even wants (emphasis on needs, not wants). What I am saying is that at the same time there are many people who come from foreign nations who are willing to work hard for success there are at the same time a lot of people in America who do not want to work difficult labor because they are lazy, selfish, or just do not care, and those Americans who do work in general require- demand- much higher wages and benefits than most foreigners, who are just happy to have a job.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1473884383770.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111064" height="190" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1473884383770-300x190.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1473884383770-300x190.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1473884383770-768x487.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1473884383770.jpg 880w" width="300" /></a>Nobody who honestly looks at this debate is going to deny there are a lot of illegal immigrants who are criminals. For as much as the above photo of men are criminals and must be dealt with accordingly, they are looked at as proverbial "collateral damage"- a small price to pay for a larger economic benefit that American society relies on in order to maintain its current lifestyle. Just like the slaveowners of South Carolina, we are upset by problems such as above but do not want to address the conditions that allowed them to arise.I say these things not to "put down" Americans or to ignore the realities of illegal immigration. There are a lot of good, honest, hard-working Americans who are being viciously exploited by the system because of the current trends. There are many immigrants who come solely for benefits and do exploit the system, even going so far as to commit vicious crimes and tear down the very society who allowed them entrance. There is a problem with illegal immigration, labors laws, and the exploitation of workers. These are realities which, like the above points, hold equal importance and must also be included because to ignore them would be as imbalanced and unjust as it would be to focus on them alone while ignoring the other realities above.What has grown up around this one issue- the manipulation and exploitation of the common man's labor as a social and political lever by a group of people who view themselves as inherently superior either by class, genetics, or both for privatized gain at socialized losses, which is one of four sins in the Bible that 'cry out to Heaven for vengeance'- is an entire social worldview that is deeply embedded into American culture. It is a sin that is socially acceptable because a majority of people deem it not to be a sin by social consensus which uses religion as a means to justify their sins instead of against which to measure the value of their actions or not, following in the tradition of many of the Protestant Revolutionaries who wanted to create a "national church" suited to magnify their own greatness while suppressing or justifying their sins. While the same problems manifest in Catholic societies, because the deposit of faith and the revealed dogma contained within Her comes from God and not from men, no matter how evil men become they can only at worst attempt to give the impression that divinely revealed truth has changed because it cannot, thus making it far easier to identify and uproot these same issues when they arise.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Europe-Migrant-Crisis-640x480.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111065" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Europe-Migrant-Crisis-640x480-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Europe-Migrant-Crisis-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Europe-Migrant-Crisis-640x480.jpg 640w" width="300" /></a>People coming to Europe. These people are being brought in intentionally for political reasons.This one particular sin is not uniquely American- it just appears different ways in different cultures. A case in point today is in Germany. As we have documented extensively here on Shoebat.com, Middle Eastern and African people are literally being shipped to Western Europe and Germany by the boatful in a 24-hour-a-day operation that has been going on since at least 2015. These people are then given immediate welfare and veritable license to commit any and all crimes without any fear of legal prosecution, and within a short period have rapidly drained Germany's national treasury and turned large parts of it into the same third-world cesspools from which these people emerged. However, the reason for this taking place is because as we have been incessantly talking about is the same reason that America allows for Mexicans, Guatemalans, and other central American peoples to cross the border by the truckful- for political and social manipulation.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bund-turk-copy.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111069" height="163" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bund-turk-copy-300x163.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bund-turk-copy-300x163.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bund-turk-copy.jpg 640w" width="300" /></a>Don't be deceived, Germany and Turkey are friends. They are working together and just as they did beginning with the fall of the Byzantine Empire when a Hungarian engineer of German extraction named Orban sold cannons to the Ottomans to destroy Constantinople, so does the alliance between the Teuton and the Turk continue. The alliances of the First and Second World Wars are drawing together again as the clouds of a Third World War gather in what may become <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2017/04/23/germany-and-turkey-are-creating-the-migration-crises-in-europe-to-bring-back-nazism-and-to-destroy-christendom-in-the-end-the-muslim-ottoman-empire-will-unite-with-protestants-to-butcher-catholics-an/">the greatest slaughter of Christians</a> ever seen.In the case of Germany, the reason for bringing in people who are unable to be assimilated, employed, or inculturated into German society is to cause a social rift which will then be blamed on the "European Union"- the other states of Europe, and in particular the Latins and the Slavs- after which the "solution" will be proposed (as it is already being outright promoted now) that the problem is a racial issue and that it is only by Germany returning to its imperial past and "GETTING RID OF THESE (expletive) IMMIGRANTS" that she will be able to "save herself." Germany is being "invaded" by Muslims and other non-European foreigners the sense that foreign peoples are being allowed to replace the parent culture with their way of life, but it is more accurate to say that she is being intentionally destroyed by her leadership so these same people can then present the "solution" of bringing back National Socialism, at which they will do to "THOSE IMMIGRANTS" what they did to the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe. The philosophy which Germany used to justify its revitalization of National Socialism is, as I mentioned earlier, tied to the philosophy rooted in Luther's heresy that has persisted to this day.So returning to the earlier issue with America, we have a national sin- the sin of eugenics- deeply embedded into our culture that manifests itself through our labor practices, which exploit both citizens and foreigners, undermining the stability of the law and society for private gains for a few at the loss of many.Notice how I did not even bother to bring up the issue of abortion in the discussion about eugenics.I did not mention abortion because abortion is outright eugenics. The entire movement is well-known for its evil roots, and there are many people who talk about it and who have done much good work to show how the wicked fruits which it has born in society. One such person in modern times in David Daleiden, a Catholic who did a series of investigative research in which he proved through voluntary admission as part of its leadership that not only is abortion the main business of Planned Parenthood, but that they are involved in an elaborate, international human body part trafficking scheme in which major businesses, universities, hospitals, and people are promoting women to murder their own babies so they can sell the parts for a limitless number of for profit applications. What he exposed was a massive, billion dollar network and a RICO-statue case that would ideally be the dream of any ambitious prosecutor looking to make a career name for himself.<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLj9CPx8LnlqqytWFwUeXo7naj0oRae8dC&hl=en_US' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>David Daleiden's groundbreaking investigative research exposing how Planned Parenthood is itself a business trafficking in murdered babies.Look what has happened to David Daleiden. Instead of getting the necessary accolaid he deserves for his groudnbreaking work, he has been thrown in jail, charged with numerous felonies, and persecuted by both the government and private industries. When he notes that he followed all the laws of both the federal and state governments where he operated, the judges overseeing his case literally ignored them and have been incessantly harassing him to such a point that even if by some miracle he does avoid jail time he will likely never be able to get a job that pays more than a minimum wage or even be able to show his face in most parts of society. His life in the USA is over in terms of his ability to lead even a semblance of a normal life here.One might be tempted to believe that David Daleiden's case is an isolated example, but it really is not. What is happening to him right now is simply American society showing what they really think about the evils they have exposed, and the fact is that it shows how as I mentioned with regard to our exploitation of the laboring man, that American society loves both willful murder and the oppression of women and children (as abortion affects both the mother and her unborn child)- the first and third of the four sins that the Bible states "cry out to Heaven for vengeance."Then there is the issue of homosexuality.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/njtqwrewasd.jpeg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-111067" height="186" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/njtqwrewasd.jpeg" width="271" /></a>The photo says it allWe at Shoebat.com have been zealous in our discussion of the vile sin of Sodom, a sin which the Bible states in both the Old and New Testament is "worthy of death" and which brought down the wrath of God upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, where the Lord rained down fire from Heaven upon them as a sign for all times to all peoples who fear the Lord. God has made it clear and the Church has repeated throughout the centuries that homosexuality is a horrible evil which must be purged from society because of its very nature, and that the fruit of homosexuality is found in the fact that homosexuals are disproportionately involved in the most horrible of other crimes including pedophilia, rape, cannibalism, satanism, human sacrifice, blood drinking, and bestiality. We have tirelessly exposed the hypocrisy of the homosexuals, for while they cry out "tolerance" and "justice" they are nothing less than perverts with an inability to control their passions by which they abase their dignity to that of wild animals and hide their sickness through a veneer of social respectability.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nintchdbpict000248345656-300x300.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-111068" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nintchdbpict000248345656-300x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nintchdbpict000248345656-300x300.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nintchdbpict000248345656-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w" width="300" /></a>Stefano Brizzi. We did a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2016/10/21/satan-worshipping-and-crystal-meth-addicted-homosexual-meets-up-with-other-homosexual-satanist-via-hookup-app-for-dirty-sleazy-sex-session-after-he-murders-him-shaves-his-flesh-with-a-cheese-gr/">whole</a> story about how this man, who is an open homosexual, crystal meth addict, and satanist met up with another homosexual for a 'dirty, sleazy sex session' during which he murdered the man and ate his flesh with chopsticks before dissolving the remains in acid. Heinous crimes such as these often times have an element of homosexuality it in them, and we have documented this for years now.Yet the louder we speak about homosexuality and the more evidence we present to show how our points are actually not our own but that of orthodox Christian teaching throughout the centuries, the more we are confronted with opposition. Indeed, to oppose homosexuality today in greater society will put anybody at the very least into a minority, and most of the times it will make a person into a social pariah that may cause him to lose friend, social connections, his job, and even may result in him being subjected to legal prosecution over "hate speech." While Americans fuss about the Ten Commandments and prayer having even a mere presence in public life, we are as a people at large- Christian and non-Christian alike- comfortable with allowing homosexuals to flaunt their perversity and oppose those who say otherwise.As a reminder, homosexuality is the second sin on the list of sins which cry out to Heaven for vengeance.Anybody with eyes can see American society and read the Bible can conclude that America is absolutely in love with not just many sins, but the four sins which the Bible says cry out to Heaven for vengeance. We love those four sins so much that we are willing not just to indulge them, but to aggressively fight against and destroy without mercy anybody who would tell us that we are wrong for indulging them. We will not even given them even a mere consideration that 'they might me right and I might be wrong'- it is complete, vocal opposition meant to choke out even a whisper of what conscience we have left that may try to speak to us as a people.So returning to Anne Graham Lotz's speech about "America's national sins," I find the speech to be a complete, sick joke that is an exercise in Protestant nationalist narcissism masquerading as "Biblical Christianity." These "sins," while they have merit in so far as they are sins, are very minor in comparison to the huge issue that are so ingrained into society now they have come to define our culture. Her speech is akin to arguing with a waiter about the cleanliness of the silverware at her table spot while the restaurant is on fire and her table is almost engulfed in flames. Really, there are bigger sins to worry about.But the refusal to address these sins is also not a surprise either, for as I mentioned earlier that Luther's Revolution was about redefining Christianity to justify the cultural tendencies of a people for reasons of concentrating power among the rulers of a society so they can use them against the ruled. If Luther's idea of "a German god for a German people" held true in his age and that same philosophy persists today, then what Anne Graham Lotz is expressing is "an American god for and American people," and has been addressed by many popes as the heresy of "Americanism."At least the Baptist pastor from the article had the sense to mention abortion.America is a nation who is love with her sins. I do not say this as a matter of pride but as a matter of grave concern, because while God is very patient and merciful, because God is Love, He is also perfectly just, and if we do not accept His mercy and amend our lives, He will dispense His justice which, just as perfect as His mercy, is perfect and final. I have already discussed how right now the world stands on the edge of a Third World War, and how at the same time that America is spreading her many sins across the globe and in particular the sodomite filth that cause God to rain down fire and brimstone from Heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah so are there <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2017/05/03/pope-francis-cites-major-catholic-prophecy-that-god-is-going-to-destroy-the-world-by-fire-from-heaven/">major Catholic prophecies about our times that speak of God causing fire to fall from Heaven that will wipe out a great part of the human race</a>. Again, I do not say this to scare people- I say this because there seems to be a parallel here that is at the very least worth looking into because of the seriousness of the matter.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/6e5cd78038e85ccb6df17cabb3bd95e5.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111070" height="210" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/6e5cd78038e85ccb6df17cabb3bd95e5-300x210.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/6e5cd78038e85ccb6df17cabb3bd95e5-300x210.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/6e5cd78038e85ccb6df17cabb3bd95e5.jpg 312w" width="300" /></a>The three children of Fatima <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fatima.org/essentials/facts/hell.asp">after being shown a terrible vision of hell</a>. Everybody has their sins and problems, but right now it is only a matter of time before something major and terrible happens.So keep your lanterns full and have an extra flask of oil on hand. The darkness is rolling towards us on the horizon, and if America does not turn from her wickedness quickly, then when the time of mercy ends there will follow a time of justice...<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/the-wise-and-foolish-virgins.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111071" height="210" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/the-wise-and-foolish-virgins-300x210.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/the-wise-and-foolish-virgins-300x210.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/the-wise-and-foolish-virgins.jpg 429w" width="300" /></a>Be a wise virgin. Don't be a fool.

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