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Bible Verse on Quarantine

Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by -- Isaiah 26:20

Trump Administration Aggressively Interferes with Health Care Billing

U.S. officials offering emergency funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors' practices during the coronavirus pandemic have included this stipulation: They are not permitted to foist surprise medical bills on COVID-19 patients.But buried in the Department of Health and Human Services' terms and conditions for eligibility is language that could carry much broader implications. "HHS broadly views every patient as a possible case of COVID-19," the guidance states.Continue to original article

Black Robe Regiment--Preacher Patriots

The Black Robe Regiment is a resource and networking entity where church leaders and laypeople can network and educate themselves as to our biblical responsibility to stand up for our Lord and Savior and to protect the freedoms and liberties granted to a moral people in the divinely inspired US Constitution.  The Regiment had its historical beginnings during the Revolutionary War when Pastors from across the colonies arose and lead their congregations into the battle for freedom.  Unlike today, the church during this time served as the center-point for  political debate and discussion on the relevant news of the day.  Today's church leaders have all but lost that concept of leading their congregations in a Godly manner in all aspects of their worldly existence and are afraid to speak out against the progressive agenda that has dominated our political system for the past century.  Through this time the church and God himself has been under assault, marginalized, and diminished by the progressives and secularists.  The false wall of separation of church and state has been constructed in such a manner that most are unaware of its limited boundaries.  The church and the body of Christ has been attacked on all fronts and challenged by the progressive courts and groups such as the ACLU while we have sat idle in consent.  GO TO SITE.

Germany, the Nazis, and the cost of health care

Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly.Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects. In addition, the increasing involvement of the German government in medical care and funding medical research established the government-medical complex that the National Socialists later used to execute their extermination policies. Continue to full article here.

Isaiah, Egypt and End Times

Avoiding Babylon At All Costs

Hanging outside the library at the Jesuit Gonzaga University in Spokane, WashingtonIf Rome be indeed the Babylon of the Apocalypse, and the Madonna enshrined in her sanctuaries be the very queen of heaven, for the worshipping of whom the fierce anger of God was provoked against the Jews in the days of Jeremiah, it is of the last consequence that the fact should be established, beyond all possibility of doubt; for that being once established, every one who trembles at the Word of God must shudder at the very thought of giving such a system, either individually or nationally, the least countenance or support--Alexander Hislop, from The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship.

The Ray Comfort Question

Ray Comfort (on the right)

It seems this entire controversy between what some have called lordship salvation, which is really works based or legalism, and free grace, which is really antinomianism is (surprise) nothing new under the sun, and like all vain disputations, Paul has already dealt with them thoroughly in his epistles. But I'll get back to that in a minute. The big dialogue in this debate has been between Comfort and John MacArthur, who are both muddled in their thinking to a certain degree with respect to a totality of hermeneutics. MacArthur is a total cessasionist with a pre-millennial eschatology but Comfort mixes philosophy with his teachings and evangelism and "post-decision for Christ legalism". I know, I know. Who am I to attack these two great giants on the Christian scene today? I'm nobody and I'm thankful for that in many ways because I seek not the attention of men (or try not to), but the praise of God which is far greater as I'm sure you'll agree. 
In my research, I kept seeing references to Colossians, which was my gut instinct first of all, so I went and re-read that great book and it simply clears up a lot in this matter. As Paul writes there: 
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, and not according to Christ.9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities[b] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.[c]


Bible Gateway passage: Colossians 2 - English Standard VersionFor I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not se...

Luther called reason a 'sorceress'. The minute we rely on it in preaching, we deny the revelation power of God's Word and lean upon human thinking which, you know, is sinful and fallible. I'm not talking about apologetics--there is a place for Christian philosophy and that might even be your calling, I don't know, but apologetics never convicted anyone of sin. Only Spirit empowered preaching does that. God may use it, of course he uses everything, but why not stick true to the power source itself--the Holy Spirit--and PROCLAIM the gospel instead of putting yourself on the argumentative defensive and merely defending it. The Bible calls the Word of God a sword, a weapon to be used, not a shield. Faith is our shield. Isn't that what Ephesians 6 says?
Anyhow, there's a good book that's called, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel by C.F.W. Walther that I'm sure Comfort didn't read, or if he did, didn't get its meaning. I highly recommend it in this matter. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' preaching inherently abides by it because, if you look at all the sermons in the New Testament, that's what's done there--first the law is applied, then the gospel. But Comfort then goes back to the law afterwards and mucks the whole thing up, creating confusion. As far as that goes, Paul also addresses that in Colossians:
16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,[d]

Bible Gateway passage: Colossians 2 - English Standard VersionFor I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not se...


 puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
You see, Comfort does exactly that in his evangelism. The danger here, of course, is a tendency towards antinomianism which Paul further goes on to address in this short but sharp epistle and in many other places in his writings which I don't want to insult your intelligence with. I just want to explain myself in terms of my critique of Ray Comfort. That is all. Plus his associating with Kirk Cameron speaks volumes in this matter. (Why do these kind always come in twos?) They get involved in 'culture wars', attacking gays, atheism, science, etc. when a true evangelist, as is apparent in Scripture, focuses exclusively on our sinful condition and Christ's work upon the cross to redeem us to God. Too many rabbit holes in their position, I say.
Well, I could write a book about this but who will read it? I really don't mean to condemn, but to encourage and, hopefully, to enlighten. There are some hard choices we all have to make in our walk with the Lord but Christ warned of this, didn't he, when he said: For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?--Luke 14:28.
Hopefully, I have expressed Scripture truth and not just my opinion. When Christ said, "When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith on earth?" (Luke 18:8) If you look at this last part of the sentence in the original Greek (and I just double checked it), the actual translation is: Will he find THE faith, not just faith. That's a very important definite article here and as, I'm sure you can guess, it means that there is only one faith, not many or many ways of interpreting it. God has given the grace to a few men throughout church history to rediscover this one faith and to defend it and explain it again to His people, i.e., Augustine, John Owen, Martin Luther and Martyn Lloyd-Jones being the latest and the greatest just to name a few. The truth sounds strange when you've been fed fiction all your life. I know this experimentally but praise God for His exceeding patience and mercy toward His elect!  
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected--2 Timothy 3:8






Ray Comfort with the magician, Penn from Penn and Teller

Proof that covid19 is an engineered bioweapon?

The top picture is an underwater amphibious mine. The bottom one is a covid19 cell.

Who is the Whore of Babylon?

The Old Testament prophets knew it. Luther saw it. The Puritans and Covenanters fought a civil war over it and the Reformers elaborated on it. But today, only orthodox Lutherans teach it in their catechisms. The rest of the church is pretty much blind to the Whore of Babylon as John described in Revelation. Hislop does an excellent job in tracing the teachings of the original, pagan Babylon cults through history and to the current Catholic Church of Rome. He who has eyes to see, read on for free...

Hislop and The Two Babylons PDF

Latest Findings From U of W Research Team on covid19

SEATTLE — Last Tuesday, a scientist working in a secure upper-floor laboratory in the University of Washington Medical Center’s South Lake Union campus cracked open a vial containing one of the first samples of live SARS-CoV-2 virus, with a goal of better understanding how and why it kills.

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