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Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, April 12, 2017 A9 Vision of Peace I watched a speaker on 3ABN talking about Islam and he made some statements that need to be cleared up if we hope to have peace ever again. For one, he said that Islam denies Jesus. That statement is misleading. In A. J. Arberry’s “The Koran Interpreted” he begins with a brief history of various translations of The Koran. As it happens, he also presents a half dozen different examples of translations of the Koran’s account of the ‘Immaculate Conception”. As to how Mary “Conceives” her child, they all state something similar to this one by Marmaduke Pickhall: “And make mention of Mary in the scripture, when she had withdrawn from her people to a chamber looking East. And had chosen seclusion from them. Then We sent unto her Our spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man. She said: Lo! I seek refuge in the Beneficent One from thee, if thou are God-fearing. He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on thee a faultless son.” Even more importantly, when Mary is confronted about her conception it is after the birth of Jesus and it is the Baby Jesus Himself who defends her in this interpretation by Richard Bell: ‘”O daughter of Aaron, thy father was not a bad man nor was thy mother a harlot.” Then she referred (them) to him; they said: “How shall we speak to one who is in the cradle, a child?” He said: “Lo. I am the servant of Allah; He hath bestowed on me the book, and hath made me a prophet; And hath made me blessed wherever I am, and hath charged me with the prayer and the Almsgiving as long as I live; And dutiful towards my mother, nor hath He made me a tyrant, wretched. And peace is upon me in the day of my birth, and the day of my death, and the day of my being raised up alive”’ It is fair, I believe, to say that Jesus is not viewed as “The Christ” in Islam. But I believe that has more to do with how Catholicism defined “The Christ”, than with the Koran’s depiction of Jesus. It must be remembered that Catholicism incorporated the Greece Mythological notion of “The Son of God” to mean something akin to the sons of Greek gods conceived of gods having sexual intercourse with mortal women. Jesus made it clear that we are ALL of us sons and daughters of The One True God. He also said that we could be one with Him even as He would go to be one with The Father: The One True God. So unless you believe, as the Mormons do, that you will one day become a god in your own right, this “Holy Trinity” created by Caesar Constantine should be as much of an anathema to you as it is to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and to Islam (No God but God). After all, Jesus’ “Faith” and “Sacrifice” and “Suffering” and ultimate “Conquest Over Death” are a much more compelling example if they come from a fellow mortal than they are if they come from God Himself to God Himself. Nor was Judaism’s Messiah understood to be God The Father made flesh. Like Job, Jesus finds Himself tormented. He is upon the cross as anticipated from prophecy, yet He cries out to The Father “Why have you forsaken me?” Does God not know His own Mind? Or is it the doubt of a Son of Man (as He referred to Himself), concerning His own understanding? After all, Jesus does not lose His Faith that God exists even in His moment of pain and confusion. This is our example. This is our “Way” to eternal life. God The Father is the “Rock”, Who “Created” the immutable unchanging LAWS of Physics and of Human behavior: the underpinning of everything in Creation. Jesus IS the Christ, and the “Hewn Stone” (the “Corner Stone”, not the Rock Foundation) perfected in his adherence to that LAW. Christians are, by extension, the hewn stones aligned to the Corner Stone that make up The House, The Temple of God (cut stones which are jewels). So why Islam? When we read The Old Testament, which includes the Jewish history of its wars, we see a pattern in which those who go to war when God justifies it do well and those who lead the Hebrews to war without God’s approval fail. With the coming of The New Testament based on the “Law” as delivered by Jesus “The True Christ of Prophecy”, we see that we are instructed to “turn the other cheek”. To, “Love thy enemy”. To, “Treat others as you would be treated”, as well as Love God heart and soul. This is “The New Thing”, and to “Believe” in Jesus as Christ is to receive this New “Holy” Spirit as the model for one’s life: as Law. These New precepts were delivered to the World by The Christ at the cost of His life, and almost immediately thereafter proven as the “Law of God” with the “Resurrection” of Jesus in the flesh: which incidentally planted the seeds of confusion when calling the “Second Resurrection” in history the “First Resurrection” (as Jesus was the 1st of the flesh, and the 2nd, called the 1st is the 1st resurrection of the Spirit), as there are “Three Stories” in God’s House. With the “Resurrection” comes the “Christian Construct” that will endure for three hundred years. It flourishes under the whip of merciless Pagan Rome, until it is usurped and corrupted with Roman Pagan rituals and “Idles” (carvings and statuaries) and the rejection of Its very “Scriptures” even as those scriptures are collated into The Holy Bible that Catholicism gave birth to in its usurpation of Christianity in order to claim “Its Authority”. Authority used to decree Jesus to have been God in order to create a space in their theology in which to place a Pope. The entire process was foretold in parable in the true account of the beheading of John The Baptist: as Jesus Christ becomes separated as head of Christ’s Church in the takeover of Christianity under Rome. Moreover, the “Traditions” of that State Religion would give rise to the notion of a “Just War”, that would ultimately lead to the “Blood Baths” that revealed and played out the prophecies of The Book of Revelation in the wake of the development modern weaponry, beginning in America’s own Civil War (four hours of “Tribulation” ago in God’s Time). That notion of a “Just War” was used to expand the Roman State and Catholicism, cloaked in the mischaracterization of Christianity, all the way to the British Isles: and having built up that “Church” in the wake of the fall of the Roman State, that Church sought to expand its power wherever it could. Had it had no check on that power, The Word of God we know as The Holy Bible would have disappeared from the face of the earth; which brings up another misunderstanding from the lecture I watched on 3ABN. The speaker spoke of the Catholics and their Bible, when “Catholics” were “NEVER” allowed to possess Bibles, under threat of being burned at the stake, until after the “Reformation” and the ascent of Protestant England and America. For nearly 900 years Europe was in The Dark Ages thanks to The Roman Catholic Church, while Islam (which begins around 600 AD) made all sorts of advancements in mathematics and other “Scientific” areas. A PBS special on Leonardo De Vinci explains how much of the “Light” of knowledge that lead to The Renaissance itself had its origins in ancient Greece and Rome. This knowledge was cut off from Europe until Islam invaded Constantinople and drove the Byzantine Scholars and their ancient books west to Europe where the rich Italian merchants and the invention of the printing press allowed that knowledge to be re-purposed by people like Leonardo. What PBS left out, was that even as Italy became the haven for “The Enlightenment” which gave rise to “Humanism” and “Scientific Method”, England became to new home of other Byzantine Scholars who brought with them the original Greek Manuscripts of The New Testament along with the knowledge of that ancient Greek Language that would eventually give rise to The King James Version of The Bible. It was a different, though parallel, “Enlightenment”, also brought about as a result of the aggression of Islam. After the Reformation, Rome was forced to allow its followers to own and study (without Church assistance), the Word of God, because that Church competed with Protestant Churches for patrons. Today that Roman Enterprise is busy reinterpreting its “revised” printed version of the Bible to conform with Catholic Doctrine in order to turn back the clock and unwitting Protestants are using them as the source material of their study. That would include Catholics who “Believe” in The Bible: which, in reality, makes them Christians rather than “Universalists” (Catholic means Universal). Given this aggressive nature of the Roman Church and its total disregard for, and disbelief in, The God Of Abraham, how is it that Rome has failed? They haven’t. Not yet. They have however been held in check in their aggression by Islam, which God raised up (as promised) another three hundred years after Christianity’s usurpation under Rome, until that Papist Military Enterprise was given a “mortal wound” by Napoleon, just as God foretold. The “Promise” of Islam was demonstrated in the story of Hagar the Egyptian wailing in the desert, her son Ishmael and herself dying in the desert as outcasts. It was there that God the Father, The God of Abraham, promised “A Great Nation” that would arise from the line of Ishmael, Abraham’s “First” born son. If anyone can show me another way that God’s Promise to Hagar will be fulfilled other than Islam, then I know nothing and I retire, begging your forgiveness. Should it be so, however, that Islam is the fulfillment of God’s Promise, then let us “Reason Together” as children of God. Is it not possible that God’s plan has indeed been fulfilled? Have we not suffered the “Division” promised by Jesus? Have we not watched as MAN has acted as god, just as Adam and Eve did and caused the suffering that God warned MANKIND would come from MAN’S stubbornness? Is it hard to imagine that God gave Muhammad one simple “audible” instruction to “READ”, and repeated it “Three Times”, at a time when the only Holy Words of God in the World were those of The Holy Bible? Then having set His Law in “Those Words” (The Bible), might God have given His Prophet Muhammad sanction to make war on the infidel Church of Rome just as He had given authorization through Prophets in the past to make war? But we must also ask, “Does that mean that we are to abandon the “Law” delivered by The Christ, Jesus” and “Submit” (Islam means submission) to Sharia Law? Let us reason together. Let us consider the nature of Mankind in its pursuit of “Power”. If one tries to present “a new thing” to a Jehovah’s Witness, they will decline your offer even though they are well know and even reviled for delivering their message to anyone who will listen: a non-reciprocal practice which breaks the commandment, “do unto others”. I have been more or less run out of town by Missouri Baptists for speaking to fellow college students who were being indoctrinated into that church. We all know the lessons of trying to challenge the Roman Catholic Church in the Dark Ages. But even today, if there is a conference of clergy from different “Faiths”, they will simply agree to disagree in order to move forward the agendas of their individual churches. In other words, they are all defending what they are “Selling” rather than reasoning together to find the Truth. Simple “Logic” dictates that it is IMPOSIBLE for more than one of any such “Franchises” to be correct in their doctrine. This is an undeniable “FACT” that, at best, all but one must be wrong. Moreover, in any reasonable forum, the doctrines of each and every one of the Worlds “Christian Religions” can be disproved with Scriptural References by a forum that includes all the other self-professed Christian Religions. So far as I know none has correctly identified the location of Heaven as between the “Waters Above’ and the “Waters Below”, or the time of Satan’s expulsion from Heaven as in the future. Still members of these groups remain loyal to the heads of these sects and as such the systems of MAN usurp the system of God. It is hard to believe that Islam should be any different, given that it has come under the control of MAN. So let us compare The Holy Koran and The Holy Bible. The Holy Bible consists of The Old Testament, which is the Jewish “Record” encompassing both what was given to Man by God through Moses and what was recorded by Jewish Historians, King David and The Prophets in written form. It also includes The New Testament, or The Gospels relating to the Life and the Teachings of The Christ of God, Jesus, as written down by those who knew Him and explained by the writings of the Apostle Paul, who began as Saul, and others; and the Spirit of Jesus Who appeared to John to deliver the book of “Revelation”, which John, likewise, wrote down. The Koran began as what Islam refers to as a “Standing Miracle”: an epic poem from Muhammad, inspired by God. It is an Arabic poem that is so beautiful in that ancient Arabic “Tongue” that its Holiness speaks for itself to all those who believe it to be “From God”. Within its many words are found the justification of war (EI. “The Cow” & “Repentance” 3-7 of The Koran); but while when read today, five hundred years after the Protestant Reformation, it is easy to interpret those justifications as an assault on “Christianity” and “Judaism”, it is more accurately a justification of war against those who worship idles carved or sculpted in Catholic Churches; against what God referred to as the Bi-Word (the verb similar to the verb “Gypped”, but which has become “Politically Incorrect” and potentially, eventually, “Illegal” to utter) “To Jew” and against those who preach that God Himself became flesh in the form of Jesus, and was then reunited to become God along with a third “Being” called “The Holy Spirit” to form the Catholic “Holy Trinity”. “Trinity”: a word that does not appear in The Holy Bible. The difference, however, between the Holy Bible and The Holy Koran is most stark in the arena of “Translation”. The Bible begins in ancient Hebrew, but it ends in the Greek language that the Apostles, including Paul, used to spread The Gospel to the Gentiles who ultimately gave rise to Christianity, though it was a Jewish Religion at its inception. All the WORDS of The Bible would be translated into Latin by the Catholics who sought to deny God’s Word to Mankind in order to control the message and use God’s Word to their own end: “CONTROL” (The opiate of the Masses). But it wasn’t until The Bible was translated into English that the “Unsealing” began in conjunction with the proliferation (Imperial Britton) of “The Word”: IE. “God’s House has three ‘Stories’”. Conversely, The Koran is a written account of an epic poem originally recited in an oral tradition, in Arabic. Moreover, as proclaimed by Muslims and explained in great detail in the preface of Arberry’s translation; the “Standing Miracle”, which is the Arabic Poem written down in “The Holy Koran”, loses its Miraculous Nature when translated out of Ancient Arabic. The question then becomes, “Why”. The logical answer is that the war justification, which is the single most tenant at odds with The Holy Bible, was put in place for a limited time and for a limited purpose. That time being until the end of the age, when “Revelation”, not war, would bring the world to “Submission” (the meaning of the Word Islam) and disavow the notion of “Just Wars”, thereby eliminating the need for the “War Powers” of The Koran to complete God’s plan in the “Struggle” (Arabic: “Jihad”), in the final battle for Heaven on Earth. Of course its far more complicated that that. Those who pull the strings of the World have incited war between Protestants (including Bible believing “Catholics”) who should know better, with Muslims who have been framed for 9/11 and who took the bait of vengeance when tested by God. In the end, it’s about evolution. Not the evolution of biology, which is evident in nature but falls short of answering “Creation”. It is about the evolution of “Thought”. When Jesus said you must be “Born Again of a New Spirit”, He was using the only WORDS at His disposal in those days. To be “Born Anew” is to become a “Blank Slate”: a “Hard-Drive” “Wiped” clean. Unless you receive “Truth” “like a child” (without defending what you “Believe” to be the truth at the expense of admitting you were wrong), you will never enter The Kingdom of God. You must be “Reprogrammed”. Given a New Spirit on a hard-drive wiped clean of your old misconceptions implanted in your computing by selfish men seeking to rule the world by usurping God’s Word to their own ends. There are those who say that the Koran was never supposed to be written down, but was to be chanted around the Bedouin campfires in an oral tradition that would by now (after the proliferation of The Bible) be all but extinct were it not for those who gain power by laying claim to the Power of God as they did when the Koran was first put to paper. It is the same model men used to usurp the Word of God from The Bible and to the same end: the brink of destruction. The programming of the Host of Heaven is currently a corrupted file. If you seek the plan laid out and accomplished by God Our Father in Heaven, you can find much of it explained in “An Overarching Tale”, in “Fight Club 2.0”. In the “Freedom” file of “The Book of Answers”. We have been confounded by unscrupulous people, toward an end foretold from the beginning. The possibility exists to have nearly free, unlimited, clean energy and yet to seize that opportunity would not only bankrupt the pyramid schemes of the world prematurely (because they are designed to fail when the trap is set), but it would remove any Western Interest from the Middle East, which would undo all the work the forces of division have done to embroil the world in wars aimed at taking over the spoils. It would also lead to a complete collapse of the Deep State. When looking around your Churches you find a conspicuous absence of young people. The message of the “Rapture” and of the “End of the World” that is so intoxicating to those who have already lived most of their lives and who have come to hate the world as it is, holds no promise for the young who would rather live their lives than fixate on waiting for the “END”. Juxtaposed we find young Muslims living in such despair that they are ready to end their lives, violently seeking revenge in the false hope of waking up in “Heaven”, when they have instead made Heaven into Hell and died Spiritually, as well as physically, in the process. Their hatred is mirrored in those who call themselves Christians while waiting impatiently for God’s retribution to be visited upon those who disagree with them, or who have wronged them in some way: even though we are to forgive our trespassers. But the world does not end on the “Seventh Day”. It is “The Sabbath” when the Spirit of Christ Jesus reigns for a thousand years in Peace. It is marked by the “End of the Age”, not the end of the planet. It is not about the “Lifting Up” of the bodies of men and women, but of the Body of Christ (Christians: The Host of Heaven) in His Spirit: The Holy Spirit, which is found in treating others as we ourselves would be treated in all things. It is the Spirit in opposition to the Spirit Satan: both of which exist in all of us, and that conflict gives rise to “Free Will”. The Holy Spirit is an “operating system”, not some guy who comes to us to share secrets when we pray; nor is it to be confused with the promised “Comforter”. John Meachum wrote a biography on Andrew Jackson that won him a Pulitzer Prize: which is to say, his work was ordained by “Power”. Years ago I watched him talk about Jackson with “Charlie Rose” for an hour without mentioning that Jackson ended the charter of America’s third “Central Bank”: the predecessor of The Federal Reserve. Despite the fact that Jackson called that act the one he was most proud of, on April 2nd 2017, Meachum was trotted out on “Meet the Press” to compare Trump with Jackson, and failed, once again, to mention “Central Banks” in that ten minute interview. I have pleaded repeatedly for you to watch “The Money Master” @ Google video, in an effort to bring light to the world, as I attempt to serve Jesus, who is the Way and the Light. Unfortunately, most of the folks reading this are doing all right and are content to have others worry about such things. Their Holy Men (and Women) tell them that they are saved by “Grace”, so why bother risking financial security or reputation by doing “Works”, which will not save. But that is the rationale of Catholicism and its “Indulgences”: of the “Old Jewish Covenant”, which says that a sacrifice made to the Temple or a “Contribution” to the Catholic Church absolves one of sin. The only difference is that these offer up nothing, pointing instead to Jesus’ Sacrifice and their “Faith” in Him to deliver, as all that is required, as the world burns and they turn away. Such teachings risk that upon “The Judgment” parishioners will be asked, “Were you shown a way to become blessed as a Peacemaker? Were you shown a way to free the Children from bondage? Were you shown a way to provide all the energy required to sustain the lifestyle My Father raised you up to, while saving the planet He Created for you? Were you given “Revelation” of The Mysteries as proof of the path you should follow? And what did you do? Did you seek the truth? Did you share the Truths revealed?” To those who answer, “My clergy told me that all I was required to do was have Faith in You Jesus”: What do you think He will say? That you are good servants who said the magic words, which allow one to ignore the suffering of others and take care only of one’s own? Or will He say, “I Am the Truth and the Light. I sent you light and you put it under a basket. You have forgotten Malachi; that Israel means, “Who prevails with God” and Jerusalem means “Vision of Peace”. My Father requires “Faith”, and as My Apostle James taught you, faith without works is useless and dead. I know you not. You were luke warm and I spew you out of My mouth. You had the reputation of being alive, but were dead and so your name is not found in the Book of Life.” If Jesus is, as He proclaimed, The Way, The Resurrection and The Truth and The Light, how can one turn away from seeking “Truth”, ALL TRUTH, and hope to be changed into a Spirit compatible with The Host of Heaven? If God dwells with the humble and the contrite as The Bible teaches, how can one hold stubbornly to untruth so as not to admit they are wrong, and be born again? How can one who is dead in the corruption of their Spirit be resurrected if they are not first reborn of a more “Holy Spirit”? The harsh truth is that we in the West abandoned our Christian teachings by adopting the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive defense: which is New Speak for “Wars of Aggression”: Crusades. I have circulated the proof concerning 9/11 around town in the form of a “Research Paper” for anyone who is open to see the truth. You have been offered “Fight Club 2.0. You can go to the Internet and “Hunt the Boeing” on Google for yourself. As Christians, its falls to us to explain, to reason, and to ask to be forgiven; even as we forgive. We Christians must lead by example. We must open our eyes to the Truth that Judaism and Christianity have both been “Radicalized” by unscrupulous people and we have been mislead, misdirected, misused and corrupted. We must make the argument for The Christ, Jesus, as Christ and not as God, in order to reconcile the nations, bring light to truth and peace to the Earth. Years ago I watched a history show about an ancient Pharaoh’s conquest over a place, that on that old map, looked to be somewhere in today’s Syria. I can’t tell you what he renamed it, but I thought I heard that the old name was Armageddon.If you want to put an end to the “Radicalization” of all religion, pass this on. Put it in an E-Mail and send it hop-scotching from friend to friend until it fills “the clouds”. Who knows, perhaps the world will see The Body of Christ begin Rising this Easter: not here, not there, but throughout Heaven. Paid for by Russ Denton 05505