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First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People--Feb. 18
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First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People

Did you know an earthquake struck one area that is the most politically sensitive place on earth? Or is this partly propaganda? Muslim authorities report that the tremor, centered in southern Lebanon and measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, opened a crater on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, adjacent to the Dome of the Rock. Officials from the Wakf blamed Israel for the 6-foot by 5-foot hole, about 3 feet deep, accusing the Jewish State of tunneling beneath the Temple Mount. The Wakf demanded an end to all Israeli excavations in the area. You can view the "holy hole" here.

Hold on! It's Muslims doing most of the excavating in an attempt to destroy the history of Israel found on that Mount. The Wakf's position is that there was never a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, and they have gone to great efforts to erase archaeological evidence of Judaism's historical ties to the site. There was no independent confirmation that the quake caused the hole, in fact. The photograph was provided by the Wakf, and it is conceivable that the hole was "created" for propaganda purposes rather than as the natural result of the earthquake.

In another story unrelated to this, where is the outrage as to the destruction of the Christians in Gaza? Some 3,000 Christians live among some 1.4 million Muslims who are intent on ridding Gaza of all Christians.

Last week the YMCA in Gaza was destroyed. On October 6 last year, Muslims abducted Rami Ayyad, the manager of Gaza's only Christian bookstore that had been bombed by masked Muslims six months earlier. He died after being repeatedly shot and stabbed.

This is called ethnic-cleansing but in many parts of the world, if it is Christians being "cleansed," there isn't much outrage! Yet these Muslims are the celebrated "peace partners" of today. This is the great weakness of Palestinian nationalism. Golda Meir captured it decades ago with her observation that has become a truism: "There will not be peace until the Arabs love their children more than they hate our children." And there can be no peace until Arab textbooks are "cleansed" from the bitter anti-Israel rhetoric that races across every page of every book.

As journalist Stan Goodenough rightly states, "For Gaza's Muslims, ridding themselves of any active Christian presence would be a cherry on top after successfully forcing Israel to remove every single Jew from Gaza in 2005.

And it's not just Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians have been killed or driven out of Israel by Palestinian thugs in other areas such as Bethlehem.

But Gaza is the hot bed. While Christians are persecuted, over 8,000 deadly rockets have reigned down on Israel from Gaza causing death and misery for Israelis. Have you seen these stories coverered extensively anywhere but on the Internet? And where are the "religious Left" and National/World Council of Churches--traditional defenders of the oppressed? It would seem they have a full-time job bashing Israel or urging divestment of all stock in Israel to weaken her economy.

Palestinian crowds have often been heard to chant: "First we'll fight on Saturday and then on Sunday" -- meaning after they rid the world of Jews, they'll move on to the Christians.

Westerners who feel they don't want to get involved with "Israel's problems" need to realize that if they are Christians they are a moving target as well. It would make far more sense for Christians around the world to come to Israel's aid because we share the same enemy. At the same time and perhaps more importantly, we share the same Bible, the same God, and the same writers of the Bible. We even share the same Messiah although many Jews have yet to recognize Him.

RADIO: I have posted one of Joel Rosenberg's messages at "Understanding the Times 2007" on "radio archives." Listening is easy! You just click on an icon. We have three years of radio programming there as well as podcasting information. Now and then we post a "Web bonus special" and this time it is Rosenberg's part one message at our conference October 19-20, 2007. For further information, visit "Our Products." This Saturday, Feb. 23, for LIVE programming, Sen. Charles Grassley reports on the investigation of some televangelists alleged to be misusing contributor's dollars.

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Kingdom Now: We're Not Returning to Eden---March 7
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March 7 - Kingdom Now: We're Not Returning to Eden

One of the fastest-growing false teachings in the church today is called by various names: Kingdom Now, Dominion Theology, Reconstructionism, and the Restoration Movement. It is also known as "liberation theology." It is an effort to use the church to make the world perfect for our Lord's return. It is embraced and taught in part or whole by the National and World Council of Churches, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Earl Paulk, Bob Weiner, John Wimber, James Robison (who is called "the President's pastor").
There are many other names that are focusing on the Leftist social gospel in hopes that this will clean up the world and make it perfect for Christ's return. No more disease, war, poverty, AIDS, global warming, etc. Jesus will return when the church is unified, vibrant, forceful, spotless, and wrinkle-free. This is delusional and keeping people out of Heaven.

There is no Biblical support for this belief, for the Bible teaches just the opposite. In the end of days, bad things will wax worse and worse until the world calls out for a savior. They first pick the wrong one. And are the likely billions of saints in Heaven now there because they attained perfection or were a part of a movement to make the world perfect? The Bible says our works qualify us for rewards but not for Heaven itself. There is nothing we can do to hasten Heaven except preach the gospel and save the lost spiritually speaking.

This theology is borne out of the Manifest Sons of God movement and Latter Rain movement in about 1948. It also has ties to the positive confession movement. Major points of the theologies teach:

* Prophetic scriptures are denied or fulfilled in 70AD (as is also the belief of Preterism).

* The church is the new Israel.

* Armageddon is the ongoing battle between the forces of light and darkness.

* The Antichrist is a spirit, not a person.

* We are already in the Tribulation, but at the same time, we are in the Millennium. It doesn't get any stranger! It's one or the other.

* Rather than following traditional Bible prophecy, they follow "new revelations."

* Modern-day prophets must be obeyed and not judged for their inaccuracy.

* They want to restore the Edenic nature even though Eden is where sin began.

To add to the tragedy of this false doctrine is the fact that many churches who had this accurate are now switching to these false teachings.

This is not unique to just the Protestant world. Mother Teresa, who selflessly took care of 40,000 derelicts in Calcutta, basically stopped her ministry to them by providing them a clean bed and comfort. She did not share the gospel. She believed many faiths would get to Heaven so she only saw to the physical needs of the body--admittedly, no small task in India. The Buddhist Dali Lama believes the same. In other words, feed the body but not the soul just as today's social gospel "save the world" leaders are doing.

And unfortunately, those who hold to correct theology in this realm are deemed to be "fundamentalist-millennial-apocalyptic-crackpots."

The church is not in the business of taking anything away from Satan but the souls of men. The world is a sinking Titanic ripe for judgment, not Garden of Eden perfection. Jesus will take dominion of the cleansed earth. For men to speak of doing that before the judgment of this earth is spiritually arrogant. I encourage you to flee such false teachers.

God says in Isaiah 66:3-5, "I will choose their delusions." I believe that is the reason for so much confusion, false theology, and apostasy today. For some reason, likely with an end-time purpose, God is sending delusion. There is no other way to interpret those verses.

Find more information on Dominion Theology/Kingdom Now at my Web site at the link Prophecy Watch: http://www.olivetreeviews.org/topics/prophecy.shtml and/or Spiritual Deception at http://www.olivetreeviews.org/topics/spiritual_deception.shtml

RADIO THIS WEEKEND: Dr. David Reagan and I will consider this topic first hour. We carry his book at "Our Products" for further study. Second hour I am joined by World Net Daily's David Kupelian, discussing his book, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom." We air live Saturdays, 9 to 11 AM CST out of AM980 KKMS, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN with a rebroadcast Sunday, 12 to 2 PM. You can listen live at the home station's Web site, http://www.kkms.com/ See the "Radio Show" page for the cities in which we air. All programming is posted to our "radio archives" two days after the weekend programming.

Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell

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The Fallacy of Appeasement
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The Fallacy of Appeasement

The British should send a note to the Spanish Embassy for encouraging the terror attack in London July 7. When the terrorists attacked a Spanish train on March 11, 2004, Spain immediately withdrew from the war in Iraq. Terror paid off, although appeasing terror never works.
Al-Qaida issued a press release stating that the attacks in London were in retaliation for British support of Israel as well as for the British/U.S. efforts in Iraq. Ironically, there is little to no support by the British for the state of Israel. And the British actually have some glowing things to say about Islam, particularly the BBC. They think groups like Hezbollah and Hamas are Middle East Boy Scouts and write glowing reports. But bottom line message: Withdraw from Iraq and crush Israel.

We have met the enemy and it is not us even though the Leftist media, particularly in America, likes to pin the blame on America for just about everything including the global warming being discussed at the G8 in Scotland. And until kings, presidents, prime ministers, and editors stop appeasing terrorists, the carnage will continue. None want to discuss the depraved nature of radical Islam.

We call our current war the "war on terror." Let's be honest: It's the war with Islam. We are not fighting the Irish Republican Army. We are fighting a ruthless bunch of men (and women) who have been brainwashed from age two to fight the infidel--you and me. And until their mosques tell them they will go to hell for this and not Heaven, it is a steam engine out of control. Islam cannot be appeased, rewarded, or treated in a "kinder, gentler manner." The game plan requires the free world to fight to the finish, abandon political correctness, stamp out the radicals, and urge--in fact, plead--with the more moderate Muslims to be vocal and not cowards. To report strange things going on the in the mosques.

As I mentioned, the U.K.'s BBC has been a friend and ally of radical Islam. They will spin just about every story to give sympathy to the devil. It will never work and the snake bit them today.

Israel suffers attacks on a regular basis, some even more brutal than today's assault in London, and that is not to diminish the tragedy of the day. But when hundreds of Israelis are wiped out in Israel, do Fox and CNN have six hours of uninterrupted broadcasting to cover the carnage? When Israelis get blown up, the perpetrators are offered more land. If Israel wants to retaliate, aid to them is threatened. Israel is forever forced to make concessions to terrorists. The media ignores all the violations of the Palestinians and other radicals such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Fatah. You would think such violations are but minor aberations and not a deliberate, systematic plan perpetrated by Islam against the Jewish state.

In August, 2001, Colin Powell was drafting a plan and a speech to hasten the creation of a Palestinian state. His speech was to be made on or near September 11, 2001. America was struck and the plan was put on hold. More recently, no one has put more pressure on President Bush to push for that Palestinian state than England's Tony Blair. You can bet that the G8 Summit in Scotland isn't just analyzing global warming. They are also discussing how to get this "independent, free, democratic nation of Palestine" created sooner rather than later. Like it says in Zechariah 12, Israel is the obsession of the world in these latter years.

Global warming will be irrelevant (and I believe it already is) if mushroom-shaped clouds hover over our cities because radical Islam has gotten their hands on WMD from rogue nations. Tough talk? This isn't a generation to beat around the bush. Still, the greatest weapons in the universe are the promises God has inspired in His book. Take up the sword of the spirit and embrace the fight of faith!

To learn more about Islam, visit my Web site, www.olivetreeviews.org, then visit the category of "Islam & the Arabs." You will find thirty articles there to help you understand the mindset, their goals, history, and more. Visit my "radio archives" for June 25 and hear Brigitte Gabriel bring the struggle home to America in her articulate way. And remember, worry looks around but faith looks up.

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