Christians called to martyrdom says Welby

Modern Christians are “called” to suffer and even die for the faith in a new era of ‘martyrdom’, says Archbishop of Canterbury.

A moment of truth for Archbishop of CanterburyRev Justin Welby — A moment of truth for Archbishop of Canterbury, Rev Justin Welby.

Christians are facing a new age of “martyrdom” across much of the world, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

Speaking in Istanbul, Turkey, the Most Rev Justin Welby singled out the persecution of believers across the Middle East and said Christians are still “called” to suffer and even die for the faith in the 21st Century.

But he insisted that religion is often just a “pretext” for violence and not the real cause.

He made his remarks at the end of a two-day visit with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholemew I, the most senior cleric in the eastern Orthodox church.

His comments in a city which has in the past been the capital of both the Christian and Muslim worlds underline the significance he attaches to the threat to Christians in the region, an issue the Prince of Wales also singled out last month.

Referring to the original Greek meaning of the word martyr, as a “witness”, he said: “Your history is more and more important in the increasing confrontations of the world in which religion is used as a pretext for violence that in reality comes from greed and the pride of human beings.

“You have demonstrated over the centuries the martyrdom to which we are called in scripture, the call to witness in word and life, a call more important than life itself”.

“The cost of that martyrdom is seen in so many places today.

“Closest to here we remember and seek the mercy of Christ and intercession of the Blessed Mother on Syria.” He then singled out the orthodox leaders in Aleppo and Antioch.

Source: The Telegraph.co.uk.

My comment:

I am not an Anglican, but are aware that Jesus the Messiah can use this Bishop to send us a message of truth. And even my self….

Prosperity teachers deceive the flock. They present to us an ideology of our guaranteed success in the flesh, in the name of “Jesus”. This is not correct.

The desire of the flesh, is at war with God. And the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.

Jesus of the Bible in bluntly demanding the willingness to give the ultimate sacrifice from all his followers. And today, the blood of the martyrs are flowing all over the World, less post-Christian America and Europe.

Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

The martyrs are alive. The lukewarm’s are walking dead, and deceive both them selves and those who are listening to them.

Those who listen to them, eventually falls into a pit.

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus told him, ‘Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.’

Written by Ivar

January 16, 2014 1

The Savior of the World was born by a Virgin!

In these days we will mark the day traditionally associated with the birth of Jesus Christ.

The question of whether or not Jesus’ mother Mary was actually a virgin, or if it even matters if she was, is causing tremendous controversy in many parts of what calls itself “The Christian World” today.

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Aaron in Jerusalem

Such controversies only serve to prove a point I’ve made many times, that despite labels like “Catholic” and “Lutheran” and “Orthodox” there are really only two kinds of Christians in the world, those who take the Bible seriously and those who don’t.

The story of Mary being visited by an Angel in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke makes it absolutely clear that Mary was in fact a virgin and that she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit. If you take the Bible seriously, you will accept this. If you don’t you won’t, and many who otherwise call themselves “Christians” don’t.

The disbelief in the Virgin Birth is not a fringe phenomenon either. If you believe polls, less than half of the students in seminaries training to be pastors believe in it, and I recently overheard a highly renowned Biblical scholar here in Jerusalem telling his students that “one of the theories we have is that Mary was raped and then suppressed the memory.”

Part of the doubt cast on the Virgin Birth has been quite deliberate. Some of this comes from atheists who hold the entire Bible in contempt and do all they can to discredit it.

But much of the doubt cast on the Virgin Birth goes back to ancient times and was done by Jewish religious authorities, who pointed to the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14;

“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.”

The New Testament says that Mary’s giving birth to Jesus while still a virgin was a fulfillment of that prophecy, but if you ask almost any Jewish Rabbi about it they will give you the stock answer, that in the original Hebrew Isaiah uses the word “almah” which can mean either “virgin” or “young (unmarried) maiden”

While being literally true, this stock answer, which has been picked up by others, is also a deliberate deception, and most of the people who give it know that it is.

It commits the classic error of taking a Bible passage out of context. When one commits this error on purpose, the motive for doing so should always be scrutinized.

In the context of the passage, Isaiah is telling King Ahaz about a miraculous sign from God. As I said before, there would be absolutely nothing special, much less miraculous, about a “young maiden” having a baby. In fact, if she wasn’t married, it would not only be not miraculous it would be shameful, and God would not be in it.

Additionally, the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures made by a team of 70 Jewish scholars in Alexandria Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, uses the word “virgin” in that passage (the Greek noun being more precise in its meaning than the Hebrew “almah”) and it was not until around the time of the Bar Kokbah Revolt in 135 AD, when the Rabbis were worried about Jews converting to what was then a new religion called “Christianity” that this stock answer about the word “almah” in Isaiah 7:14 started to be circulated.

The 70 Jewish scholars who translated the Septuagint had no reason to deliberately use the Greek term for “virgin” except that they all agreed that in the context of the passage, that was the correct noun to use.

The Jewish religious authorities who attempted to cast doubt on this use of the noun in 135 AD, and their antecedents, “christian,” jewish and atheist, who continue to do so to this day, have a very obvious reason to do so, and its not a benevolent one.

They are deliberately and unapologetically seeking to discredit the New Testament, using a rhetorical device they know to be deceitful.

The best defense against this kind of deceitful thinking is a thorough and constant study of the Word of God. Since Christmas is coming up and it’s a time of giving gifts, I suggest for all of you to give yourselves and your loved ones a One Year Bible, which is the best method I’ve ever found for daily Bible Study. You can find out all about the One Year Bible at this link, and if you’re old fashioned like me, you can buy yourself a paper version and have it delivered (probably) in time for Christmas.

Jesus the Messiah celebrated the festival of Hanukkah

The Messiah was in Jerusalem, celebrating the festival of Hanukkah. Why do most Christians have no clue about this?

The Messiah was in Jerusalem celebrating the festival of Hanukkah, found in the New Testament.

I can understand that Purim might be a little bit off screen, since it is mentioned in the book of Esther, only. Still Esther is a part of the Jewish Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament.

But Hanukkah is a New Testament feast, found in the gospel of John:

John 10:22:   

Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews who were there gathered round him, saying, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’

(end of scripture).

Please note “It was winter”. In Jerusalem the winters can be very could, and the animals would be in the mangers. Not out on the fields of Bethlehem.

Why is it not mentioned, that it was winter when Jesus was born?

There are neither signs, nor feasible facts in the Bible, linking the birth of Jesus to the winter season.

Could the Messiah have been born around the Feast of Tabernacles in October?

It would be easy for the Roman Occupiers of this land, to arrange for a census in Jerusalem when millions of Jews came home to their own native village. Most of the ancient Biblical villages were located around Mount Zion, the city of Jerusalem, a day walk away or so. Even Jesus the Messiah, was dedicated in the Temple, shortly after His birth.

It would be wise to arrange for a census when Jews celebrated a feast. It would be difficult to force Jews to travel around 25th of December, when there is no Jewish feast. And cold winds, and even snow are the normal climate, on the 700 meters high Mountains of Zion.

Catholicism is fraud. It was fraud in 325 A.D, and it is fraud today.

Celebrate the birth of Jesus the Messiah every day, and reject all kinds of paganism arranged for in his name. If you want to celebrate the birth of Messiah on 25th of December, at least be aware of who started this celebration. It was not the Jews who believed that Jesus was the Messiah, but rather the pagan papacy.

Written by Ivar

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Chapel with 24.000 skulls and skeletons

Hundreds of skulls have been put up around this alter with a crucifix. This place is a Vatican approved chapel.

Poland — This Roman Catholic chapel is full of bones and skulls.

The present Pope only adore one skeleton at the time. This picture was taken during the Pontiffs visit to the Church which has kept the bones of St. Augustine for “veneration”.

popebenedictxvibeforest-augustine — The Pope pray in front of a box full of a dead mans bones.

But in the Skull Chapel in Czermana in Poland, the Pontiff get a chance to adore 3.000 “Holy skulls” inside this Church property.

Hundreds of them has been put up for display around the alter, where a Roman Catholic Crucifix also has been put up for veneration.

The Papist priests in this city were surely solid bone collectors. Since the visual walls of the chapel could not contain all the skulls and bones they had collected, remains of another 21.000 people have been hidden in the cellar of the chapel. That is the almost mind blowing number of 24.000 headless people stored up in one “holy place”.

800px-kudowa_zdroj_kaplicaczaszek — This Catholic chapel in Poland holds a cruel and evil secret of thousands of skulls and bones.

Who are all these people, hanging around this crucifix.

The Catholic Church claim they died of cholera, epidemics and hunger.

The diseased bodies are remains from the Thirty Years war from 1618 to 1648. But the chapel was built in 1776 by the local parish priest Wacław Tomaszek. The official explanation behind this chapel, is more than bizarre: A Roman Catholic priest that used most of his life to collect bones from mass graves.

For a dozen years, the priest collected them, disinfected and stored. In 1804, the skull of the priest was also placed in the altar.

If you think this is a joke, please read from the website of the Government of Poland.

For people who have read European history, it might be striking that the grave yards that were opened in Poland, held the remains of people who died during the wars of the Reformation. In hundreds of thousands Christians who refused to call the Pope “Holy Father” were slaughtered by Papal sent butchers.

Poland_-_Czermna_-_Chapel_of_Skulls_-_cellar_with_skulls_01 — Skulls of 21.000 Christian protestant martyrs slaughtered by Rome might be hidden in this cellar.

This is a more likely explanation behind this extraordinary collection of skull and bones:

The blood of these Christians martyrs in Poland are gone, and their souls are with Father God and His Son in Heaven.

They lost their life when Papal butchers chopped their head off. These cruel men even denied these followers of Jesus a grave.

Why else, would anyone collect so many skulls and skeleton, put them up for display next to the Roman Catholic copy of the Messiah?

What is this crucifix all about. but a piece of stone or wood that can neither speak, nor will survive the flames that shall burn all falsehood on the Face of the Earth.

Unfortunately, for a billion Catholics or more, they have shared in the sins of this lawless and evil Church.

The final judgment for the city of Rome is mentioned in the book of revelation:

Revelation 18:17-22

In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’

“Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, ‘

Was there ever a city like this great city?’ They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out: ”

‘Woe! Woe, O great city,   where all who had ships on the sea   became rich through her wealth!   In one hour she has been brought to ruin!  Rejoice over her, O heaven!

Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets!   God has judged her for the way she treated you.’

Written by Ivar

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