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Antichrist Opposition To The Only True Messiah
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
"Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: We ask you, brothers, 2 not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has come. 3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God's sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God."
The following article puts the 'Interfaith Movement' and 'Christian Zionism' ambitions and motivations into Biblical and historical context. As you read, reflect on what opposition the Lord Jesus and his first century disciples encountered.
What Is Antichrist?
Antichrist is that which is opposed to the complete acceptance of Jesus Christ as the only Messiah sent by God and the Kingdom of Heaven. Antichrist pose an 'alternative' means of salvation contrary to complete faith and obedience to Jesus Christ.
Christian Zionism and the Interfaith Movement is the modern-day antichrist.
The Interfaith Movement and Christian Zionism
It's one of the most successful, and in some ways unlikely, interfaith movements in the modern world
On 23 June 1969, at the Midtown Manhattan headquarters of the American Jewish Committee, the evangelist Billy Graham met with two dozen rabbis and Jewish leaders. According to one rabbi, the meeting was to allow Graham to convey 'the need for dialogue and communication' between American evangelicals and American Jews, and to find common ground by explaining 'his relationship with Israel'. It was a pivotal moment in the American Jewish and evangelical Protestant interfaith relationship.
Though some of the Jewish leaders were wary of the 'wild raving fundamentalist', Graham won them over. He cited the Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament, to describe his understanding of God's covenant with the Jewish people, and explained his support for Israel as recompense for past Christian anti-Judaism. 'All Christians are guilty as far as Jewish experience was concerned,' he said. Graham also spoke of his conversations with the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, and assured American Jewish leaders that the United States' president Richard Nixon was 'extremely sympathetic' to Israel.
Today, for many evangelicals, Christian Zionism is no mere side issue. They believe that they are not only correcting the ancient injustice of anti-Semitism, but contributing to the salvation of the world and the completion of God's redemptive plans. It is, for many, the metanarrative that makes sense of the biblical drama and current events, and provides a road map for the future.
That 1969 meeting contained all the essential elements characterising the exceptional support that evangelical Protestants in the US give to the state of Israel. The spirit of this meeting has since been replicated dozens of times. Graham weaved an evangelical reading of the Bible, a deep-seated longing to aid Israel, and the self-interested power calculations of both communities into a language of interfaith rapprochement and shared Jewish-Christian interests. His Jewish colleagues, concerned about the future of Israel, and cognizant of the evangelicals' influence, were eager to create new lines of cooperation.
Pressed on theology, Graham would have affirmed his commitment to the exclusive truth claims of Christianity, while the American Jewish leaders undoubtedly retained their own theological exclusivity. Still, their peculiar set of shared interests led to a powerful and lasting partnership. Their alliance is one of the most notable instances of interfaith cooperation in recent history.
In the wake of Europe's religious wars, exclusive claims to religious truth – 'theological intolerance', as Jean-Jacques Rousseau called them in The Social Contract (1762) – grew to be seen as an impediment to civil relations. 'It is impossible to live at peace with those we regard as damned,' wrote Rousseau, 'to love them would be to hate God who punishes them: we positively must either reclaim or torment them.' But the alliance of American evangelicals and American Jews proves that Rousseau's dictum is not necessarily true.
Close to 50 years after that meeting, evangelicals and Jews remain at loggerheads on most theological and cultural issues. In the face of these vast differences, they have managed to unite – in ever closer cooperation – over support for Israel. No individual has inherited Graham's stature atop American evangelicalism, and his multiple successors do not share uniform attitudes toward Israel. But many of them lead influential Christian Zionist organisations that constitute one of the most successful single-issue movements in modern US politics.
Christian Zionists have achieved exceptional unity and influence on support for Israel, using a sophisticated combination of religious, historical and political components. They emphasise a potent type of interfaith engagement that elevates biblical covenantal language, and offer a sanitized version of the Jewish-Christian past, yet also orient their work toward the pragmatic goal of increasing political influence.
Interfaith cooperation is a liberal ideal: the world can be a better place if different religions work together.
Understanding Christian Zionism as an important instance of interfaith cooperation helps us understand the powerful ways in which it has shaped not only relationships between Jews and Christians but the identity of American evangelicals.
Interfaith cooperation is at least as old as Moses' flight to Midian, when he took refuge from his Egyptian pursuers with Jethro, a priest of an unknown religion, who became his father-in-law. Yet the mere fact of people of different religions working together is not the essence of interfaith cooperation. The term is a modern one, and its meaning is found in the 20th century.
Liberal ideas of interfaith cooperation lionize progressive values, expand tolerance, and help to build more democratic civil societies. And interfaith cooperation is a liberal ideal. From the British writer Karen Armstrong to the American campaigner Eboo Patel, its proponents claim that individuals and communities of different religious backgrounds will make the world a better place if they cooperate and work together.
Nonprofits such as Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago and the World Faiths Development Dialogue in Washington, DC offer many historical examples of interfaith cooperation, and they're always progressive. These include the civil rights partnership between Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and the collaboration between Mohandas Gandhi and Bacha Khan in the movement for Indian independence. Sometimes, proponents reach back further, to the cooperative culture of Al-Andalus in medieval Spain and the enlightened reign of Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire. These examples stand for more peaceful cohabitation, more equality, more happiness, more justice, and more civilisation.
But Christian Zionism rejects progressive ideals and embraces a very different understanding of the world. That's why it's seen – by mostly liberal social scientists and journalists – not as a pioneer in interfaith cooperation but as an apocalyptic movement, a Right-wing political grouping, or even a neocolonial venture. To be sure, these analyses offer useful insights, but as a movement of Christians seeking cooperation with Jews, Christian Zionism also represents one of recent history's most important interfaith cases.
Christian Zionists are seeking to enact what they consider the values of Jewish-Christian cooperation in political and religious terms. Starting with a specific political issue – the wellbeing of Israel – Christian Zionism structures the interfaith relationship in its service. The movement is built to make the case that this goal is vital to evangelical Christians and their identity.
Christian Zionism projects a specific vision of God's covenantal guarantees and their eschatological fulfilment. In short, it makes God's promises and their scope more certain, more selective, more exclusive in understanding God's dealings with humanity. This specificity sets Christian Zionism apart from other interfaith movements, and goes far in explaining its affinity to a certain understanding of Jewish identity.
The issue in which this specificity pays interfaith dividends is in securing Jewish possession of Israel's covenanted land. The 'land' consists of the sites of biblical history and the biblically mandated borders that God in Genesis grants to Israel's patriarchs. For Christian Zionists, these make up the ideal borders of the state of Israel and include the contested West Bank.
It's key that US evangelicals' political Zionism took shape after the Arab-Israeli War of June 1967. This timing meant that, post-1967, evangelical understandings of Israel became preoccupied with its sovereignty over the covenanted land. In the wake of that war, which saw Israel take control of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, Jews themselves were undecided on Israel's significance. The trend, more obvious and expected in Israel, was to emphasise the centrality of land to Jewish identity. The entirety of Judaism could be distilled, in the words of the Israeli official Yona Malachy, to 'the tripartite union of religion-people-land'. 'The recognition of the tie between the Jewish people and their country must become the central theme of any future dialogue between Christianity and Jewry,' he warned in 1969.
Among American Jews, there was less consensus on the preeminence of land to the meaning of Israel, though certainly many came to see the success of Israel as core to their own identity. One of the leading US conservative rabbis, Arthur Hertzberg, claimed in 1971 that 'the state of Israel … is necessary for the continuity of Judaism and Jews'. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, the American Jewish Committee's director of interreligious affairs and an organiser of Graham's 1969 meeting, insisted that 'Christians face and accept the profound historical, religious, cultural and liturgical meaning of the land of Israel and of Jerusalem to the Jewish people'.
American Protestant evangelicals found these demands compelling, mostly for reasons related to their own ideas about the 'end times' and Christ's second coming. For some evangelicals, Israel represented 'God's timepiece' and the centre of the fulfilment of biblical prophecy. For others, it was a testament to God's fidelity to his chosen people. Many of these eschatological interests also emphasised the central role of Israel in the end times.
Each step that Christian Zionists take toward Jews in practice means a step away from Muslims.
Post-1967, Christian Zionists adopted the emerging Jewish emphasis on Israel as their own. For the US evangelical educator and activist G Douglas Young, the tragedy was that 'Christians in the US did not, nor do they, understand the Jews' self-understanding of themselves and their interest in the land of Israel'. Young headed an evangelical graduate school in Jerusalem dedicated to the mission of helping students 'com[e] to grips with the problem of the Jew's self-evaluation and his interest in the land'. His selectivity of who defined the Jewish interpretation of Israel (largely Israeli Zionists) should not detract from his explicitly interfaith understanding of his mission.
Other evangelicals soon followed. Along with Graham, the presidents of the National Association of Evangelicals and the Southern Baptist Convention in the late-1960s indicated an openness to adopting what they called a 'Jewish self-understanding' of Israel. It was basically a ceding of what Israel meant and should mean in the world today, while holding fast to an eschatology that forecast a bad ending for all non-Christians, including the vast majority of Jews.
After 1967, from the narrow starting point of overlapping concern for the security of Israel, Christian Zionists and their Jewish partners developed a shared set of values. Christian Zionists soon extended their thinking to related issues of anti-Semitism, religious persecution and secularism. Today, they are the most active partisans for Israel on US university campuses. They oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and lobby governments around the world to favour Israel.
A shared fixation on those deemed Israel's enemies has been integral to this worldview. Arab Palestinians (both Christian and Muslim) hardly receive a hearing by Christian Zionists – a justification often voiced on grounds of interfaith solidarity with Israel. Each step that Christian Zionists take toward Jews, however, in practice means a step away from Muslims. The promise of an 'Abrahamic' dialogue or a tri-faith cooperative is nowhere dimmer than in Christian Zionism. In the name of interfaith cooperation, Christian Zionists find theological justifications for most Israeli policies.
Regardless of these political choices, Christian Zionists understand their support for Israel as participation in the redeeming work of God. At the dawn of US evangelical organisation for Israel, Young called for action as a necessary extension of Christian faith. 'Are you helping the new nation of Israel?' he asked in The Bride and the Wife (1960). 'Are you helping them in material and physical ways? Are you expressing real friendship always?' Assuming the burden of Israel's security, Young argued, was a Christian duty and a tangible expression of interfaith solidarity between God's two chosen people, the Church and Israel.
The influence of Zionism also led to recasting interfaith cooperation with Jews as a realisation, rather than a deviation, of evangelical identity. This is evident in the area of evangelical missions to the Jews – long the most contentious barrier to any type of Jewish-Christian rapprochement. Largely as a result of Christian Zionist activism, evangelical leaders – from John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel (the largest Christian Zionist organisation in the US) to the European leadership of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (the largest Christian Zionist organisation in the world) – have disavowed missions.
Hagee's book In Defense of Israel (2007) sought to curb the evangelical obligation of Jewish missions by claiming that Jesus never really meant to save the Jews. 'The Jews did not reject Jesus as Messiah; it was Jesus who rejected the Jewish desire for him to be their Messiah,' he wrote, seemingly opening the way for Jews to be saved through their own covenant with God. Outcry by fellow evangelicals led Hagee to revise this specific language, but not his organisation's refrain from missions.
Men like Hagee would make reocognizing Jesus as the only Messiah optional, opening the way for Jews to be saved through their own covenant with God.
Rather than endorse missions, Hagee and other Christian Zionists recast support for Israel as necessary Christian penance for the Church's past mistreatment of Jews. The guilt felt by Christian Zionists is often palpable. 'Anti-Semitism,' Hagee wrote, 'has its origin and its complete root structure in Christianity, dating from the early days of the Christian Church.' This language is an echo of post-Holocaust Christian theologians – including Father Edward Flannery, whose book The Anguish of the Jews (1965) Hagee cites as formative to his understanding of Jewish-Christian history.
Support for Israel is just one side of the recent evangelical revaluation of Judaism. Once maligned as the religion of 'Christ-killers' and 'Pharisees', Judaism is now seen by evangelicals in a better light. The reasons for the change include a decline, following the Holocaust, in anti-Semitic views among all Americans, the pluralism of postwar 'Judeo-Christian' civil religion, and, less well-known, a revolution in biblical studies and related fields that emphasise 'Hebraic' over 'Hellenistic' influences on the Bible. Yet it was not principled commitment to pluralism that raised the change in evangelical views of Jews and Judaism, but rather a confluence of politicised eschatology with new intellectual authority urging closer Jewish-Christian cooperation.
Even outside the Christian Zionist movement, evangelical scholars of early Christianity and Judaism have changed their understanding of Jewish-Christian relations. In evangelical colleges and seminaries across the US, instead of Judaism as the negative mirror image of Christianity (the 'law' to Christianity's 'grace'; the 'particularism' to Christianity's 'universalism'), scholars now emphasise the Jewish heritage of Christianity and the mutually reinforcing values of the two traditions.
They managed to link academic insights and political organising as two sides of evangelical identity
In the past couple of generations, many evangelical scholars propelling this trend have studied at Jewish institutions: Marvin Wilson, whose book Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of Christian Faith (1989) earned a PhD from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, which is sponsored by the Jewish community; the aforementioned Young, founder of Bridges for Peace, the oldest Christian Zionist organisation, earned a PhD from what was then Dropsie College in Pennsylvania and is now the Herbert D Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. A later generation of evangelical scholars studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, including Brad Young (no relation to G Douglas Young), now a professor of Judaic-Christian studies at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma who recently graduated his first Orthodox Israeli student in the same field. These scholars have, to varying degrees, personally supported Christian Zionist causes, all arguing that partnering with Jews on Israel is a moral and theological good.
Jewish voices have encouraged this change of attitude. David Brog, the director of Christians United for Israel, calls Jews and evangelicals 'blood brothers'. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a founder of the West Bank settlement of Efrat, heads the Center for Jewish-Christian Cooperation and Understanding, organising joint Jewish-evangelical prayer groups, Bible reading groups and pro-Israel rallies.
The constituent parts of Christian Zionist thinking arise from this milieu of shifting and interacting evangelical and Jewish thought. Less acknowledged but no less important, other Christian work has also informed the transformation of evangelical attitudes. The pioneering scholarship of E P Sanders on Paul's Hebrew background, the biblical archaeology of William Foxwell Albright, the New Testament research of the Israeli scholar David Flusser provided the foundations for the remarkable Jewish-Christian dialogues that have emerged across North America and Europe, from the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration of 1965 to the World Council of Churches' denunciations of anti-Semitism.
Unlike most interfaith encounters in the 20th century, Christian Zionists managed to bundle these insights and claims with an argument that cooperation was meaningful only if realised through political action. They managed, in essence, to link academic insights and political organising as two sides of evangelical identity. Few if any activists or special-interest groups have more effectively brought scholarship and political action into concert.
Like most American Jews, Israeli Jews differ with American evangelicals on a host of religious, cultural and political issues, from the economy to abortion to women in combat service. The cultural differences between evangelicals and Israelis are vast. Yet Christian Zionism shows that shared values need not be the basis of interfaith cooperation. The evangelical-Zionist bond has faced great challenges and has lasted by clinging to a very narrow set of shared interests. Yet the ideas underpinning Christian Zionism shape both evangelical identity and Israeli understandings of the US.
This is far from an endorsement of Christian Zionism. Criticisms of the movement's politics, theology, tendency toward apocalypticism, ignoring and ignorance of the Palestinian experience and interests, anti-Muslim stereotyping, and near-unquestioning allegiance to Israel are all worthy of discussion. But Christian Zionism should not be misrepresented. A fundamentally interfaith alliance has informed and propelled Christian Zionists into the very halls of power. They have succeeded, in a way few interfaith movements have.
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'Spiritual Warfare' or 'Spiritual Terrorism' ?
Posted by Brother John Jones on August 14, 2013
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Spiritual Warfare of Pure Christianity
The Apostle Paul told the congregations of the Ephesians (ostensibly all Christians) that we are at War. In his Letter to the Ephesians, in chapter 6 and verse 12 we read:
New World Translation
12 "because we have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places."
12 "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
12 "For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age."
In the verse just before this one, Paul had given the exhortation to put on the armor of God as the only means by which to stand against the Devil's evil tricks.
What did this armor consist of? The answer to that question is important in identifying whether or not a person or a group of people is using God-given equipment to wage war against Satan and his seed. The answer also makes it clear when there has been some deviation and one has taken up some other armor and cause.
If you examine Ephesians 6:14-17, you will notice that all the articles of Christian armament are both noble and virtuous. For convenience sake, here are verses 10-20 as quoted from the New International Version, Good News Translation, and the Bible that the Watchtower Society has published The New World Translation.
Eph. 6:10-20
10 "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should."
10 "Finally, build up your strength in union with the Lord and by means of his mighty power. 11 Put on all the armor that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the Devil's evil tricks. 12 For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age. 13 So put on God's armor now! Then when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist the enemy's attacks; and after fighting to the end, you will still hold your ground. 14 So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate, 15 and as your shoes the readiness to announce the Good News of peace. At all times carry faith as a shield; for with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the Evil One. 17 And accept salvation as a helmet, and the word of God as the sword which the Spirit gives you. 18 Do all this in prayer, asking for God's help. Pray on every occasion, as the Spirit leads. For this reason keep alert and never give up; pray always for all God's people. 19 And pray also for me, that God will give me a message when I am ready to speak, so that I may speak boldly and make known the gospel's secret. 20 For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador, though now I am in prison. Pray that I may be bold in speaking about the gospel as I should."
NWT Eph 6:10-20
10 "Finally, go on acquiring power in the Lord and in the mightiness of his strength. 11 Put on the complete suit of armor from God that You may be able to stand firm against the machinations of the Devil; 12 because we have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places. 13 On this account take up the complete suit of armor from God, that You may be able to resist in the wicked day and, after You have done all things thoroughly, to stand firm.
14 Stand firm, therefore, with Your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 ad with Your feet shod with the equipment of the good news of peace. 16 Above all things, take up the large shield of faith, with which You will be able to quench all the wicked one's burning missiles. 17 Also, accept the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, that is, God's word, 18 while with every form of prayer and supplication You carry on prayer at every occasion in spirit. And to that end keep awake with all constancy and with supplication in behalf of all the holy ones, 19 also for me, that ability to speak may be given me with an opening of my mouth, with freeness of speech to make known the sacred secret of the good news, 20 or which I am acting as an ambassador in chains; that I may speak in connection with it with boldness as I ought to speak."
Notice that in verse 14, Paul first states, "So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate",… Obviously, it is essential for a true Christian soldier to be a Truth bearer. Stated another way, a person must tell the truth and not be a liar.
Almighty God Jehovah hates liars. The Scriptures are full of evidence that this is so.
16 "There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes,a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies and
a person who stirs up conflict in the community."
22 "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
But those who deal truthfully are His delight."
American Standard Version (ASV)
29 "Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear."
Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 "But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)—[all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death."
These Biblical quotations make it clear that lying is not a legitimate component of the Christian arsenal. To the contrary, lying is an indication that one originates with the father of the lie, Satan the devil.
The Apostle goes on to the next article of Christian armor saying, "and having on the breastplate of righteousness".
Righteousness has been defined as the state of moral perfection required by God to enter the Kingdom. To be deemed so by our Lord means that for our part, we must think and behave in such a moral upright manner. Again, this would preclude a course of lying. What liar doesn't invent a mental justification (excuse) for doing so? Many will say, "the end justifies the mean". That has never been the message of God's Holy Bible. The connotation of Paul's words here is of purity and cleanness. How could deliberate falsehood be considered virtuous? Note Paul's words recorded at Philippians 4:8:
8 "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
A wicked person, not righteous, would consider lying as admirable and acceptable.
Is lying an appropriate "Theocratic strategy" as implied by the teachings of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (WTBS)?
As far back as 1957 (see Watchtower magazine, May 1, 1957, page 285), the WTBS has taught this to be true. Citing the experience of one Witness in Communist East Germany in which a sister misled government authorities, the magazine asked, "Was she lying?" The writer goes on to say, "No, she did not. She was not a liar. Rather, she was using theocratic war strategy, hiding the truth by action and word for the sake of the ministry." Apparently they feel it's okay to lie to keep out of trouble/danger. Or perhaps they believe that whether something is the truth or a lie depends upon the situation. Such duplicity is not founded on Scripture. Such thoughts belong to the theory of Moral Relativism.
How does Lord Jesus, the Head of the Christian congregation feel about that? Well, the Apostle Peter lied three times out of fear of what would happen if he told the truth. This all occurred just after Jesus' arrest and he had been taken before the Sanhedrin. By the context of what is recorded in Luke 22:61,62, Jesus' reaction to what Peter's lies was not one of approval. The text of these verses states, "The Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered what the Lord has said to him 'Before the rooster crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me.' Peter went out and wept bitterly." (GNT)
Peter was not proud of what he had done and remorsefully went away. Remember, Peter had previously asserted that he would always be loyal to the Lord Jesus. That is when the Lord prophesied of Peter's lying, indicating a weakness in him.
When Stephen was seized and brought before the Sanhedrin on the charge that he spoke against the Law and the Temple, he did not resort to lying. They had heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple in Jerusalem and change the customs handed down by Moses. Rather than lie to protect himself, he gave what is arguably the most elegant witness recorded in the Bible. He stood behind the "large shield of faith" and not lies. (Acts 6:8-7:60).
Some have pointed to Rahab the harlot's actions when she hid the two spies sent out by Joshua in the land east of the Jordan River (Joshua 2) as justification for their lying strategy. Are the circumstances the same? The writer of the Book of Hebrews lauds Rahab for, not lying, but her act of faith in God.
Note the warning given in Proverbs 19:9:
(GNT) "No one who tells lies in court can escape punishment; he is doomed."
(NIV) "A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will perish."
(NWT) "The false witness will not be free from punishment, and he that launches forth lies will perish."
(New English Translation) " A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who sprouts lies will perish".
With these Biblical verses and those quoted earlier, it should be clear what Almighty God's view is about lying. The Holy Scriptures is not a book of contradictions. It is the Devil and his demons that resort to lying; but he, as is his manner is, wants to project his wickedness on the Holy One. In teaching lying is a part of pure Christian warfare, the Society helps in his cause.
The Watchtower's teachers have told lies in their own self-interest. Their officials and lawyers have unabashedly gone into to Court and lied under oath. Proverbs 19:9 states to do so brings condemnation and it is not excusable. Under the pressure of a collapsing scaffold of treacherous failed prophecy predictions, lies, and deceit, for WBTS it's open LYING SEASON.
The Watchtower Society has in earnest over the last three decades have been expelled from the congregation those who will not in lockstep bow to its more than questionable doctrines. Anyone acquainted with the Organization that is truthful will admit that those who are disfellowshipped are shunned by the congregation. The Watchtower's own words condemn them for doing so. At one time, the Watchtower Magazine warned that Congregation members should shun people who exhibit the behaviors the Governing Body is encouraging the Congregation to adopt today!
Watchtower Magazine July 15, 1966 page 422
PRESENT-DAY DANGERS OF TOGETHERNESS
"As in the past so today the cry all too often is for unity without regard to the motive or the objective—peace at any price. 'Come and be one of us regardless of what you believe, as long as you keep your beliefs to yourself,' is frequently the alluring invitation. But whether it is a religious association or simply a small social group, you do well first to investigate their thinking and their objectives.
It so often turns out that a group is dominated by a few who lack respect for God and his written Word. In their circle the open expression of your Bible-based beliefs will be frowned upon. They will tell you that religious discussion divides people instead of uniting them. Yet the same group may be heard hotly discussing some controversial political point. Can it be that their real fear is that discussion of God's Word may bring their habits and practices into judgment?
A definite danger in such association is that you may incur guilt by silence. When the time arrives for open discussion and some of the members lie about God and his Word and speak blasphemously, it takes a person of strong faith to speak out in support of truth. Usually the timorous sort just keep quiet to avoid a collision of ideas and the risk of losing the esteem of associates. Of course, there is "a time to keep quiet and a time to speak," but we cannot consistently keep quiet if we would avoid being classified with liars and blasphemers.—Eccl. 3:7.
By reason of shunning selfish and godless associates King David of the tribe of Judah could approach his God confidently in prayer, saying: "I have not sat with men of untruth; and with those who hide what they are I do not come in. I have hated the congregation of evildoers, and with the wicked ones I do not sit." (Ps. 26:4, 5) "Those who hide what they are" surely includes those who discourage any and all Bible discussion for fear that their taking a clear stand on some principle may cost them "friends" or bring upon them responsibility to act in harmony with their words.
Even if you find yourself in association with persons who are law-abiding, but who have little faith in God and his Word, their influence could prove to be detrimental. You may find yourself gradually deteriorating to the point where you have more concern about man's approval than you have about God's. Nor can you expect to bring about the reformation of such a group. Is it not more likely that their godless attitudes will rub off on you? The apostle Paul perceived this danger and sounded the warning: "Do not be misled. Bad associations spoil useful habits."
The above is the truth to the WBTS as long as it doesn't include them. They have disfellowshipped and shunned in the inverted, backward way of Satan the Devil. They have been "throwing" true Christians out of the congregation on this basis of the stance they once commend as quoted above.
There are of course other reasons regarding morality upon which one may be disfellowshipped. Regardless of that being the case, shunning is applied to all excommunicated this way. So, why would the WBTS and its representatives lie by denying their course of action and how they direct their followers to treat disfellowshipped individual?
Yet that is what they do under the guise of "spiritual war strategy". Vincent Toole, a solicitor on behalf of the WBTS stated, "Shunning is a myth!". That was an outright lie. If they believed what they have been doing is correct in God's eyes, why would they lie about it?
The Watchtower Society is not involved in Christian spiritual warfare at all; but rather, something quite the opposite.
The Governing Body Uses Spiritual Terrorism to instill fear
Spiritual Terror Attack!
The tactics presently being employed by the leaders and teachers of the Watchtower resembles the same psychological techniques used by terrorist who would use fear, intimidation, and division to coerce into submission.
The next portion is an analysis of the current symposium talk being given at the 2013 District convention of Jehovah's Witnesses. Before the transcript, there is a brief commentary on the clever tactics employed by the Watchtower in its verbal assault. The following is a work of and the contribution of a fellow slave of Christ Jesus. By instilling the thoughts conveyed in this message into the minds of their listeners they are as good as throwing a bomb into families and blowing them away. They have effectively created hostility and altered intimacies amongst the closest relationships. The threat of seeing these is enough to coerce obedience.
2013 District Convention Talk
(The full transcript of the second part of the Symposium: "Beware of Apostates")
This convention part illustrates examples of how the society manipulates truth and hides its own sins by accusing others it considers enemies of the very sins it is guilty of. An analysis of this transcript shows that the organization manipulates truth in "feeding their flock" by means of a number of different techniques practiced by propaganda experts. Those found in this transcript include fallacious reasoning, misuse and distortion of scripture and the following lesser-known techniques employed by those who engage as professionals in the practice of deception.
Reversal Of Reality:
In this technique one must have the nerve to completely reverse reality, and say the exact opposite of the truth.
Projection is a psychological technique where someone accuses other people of the sins and crimes of which he himself is guilty. Projection is also a kind of reversal of reality. The facts are really just unimportant, trivial details, not worth mentioning.
Lying By Omission and by Half-Truths: Which is also known as Suppressed Evidence. This one is more subtle. It has the advantage that you can't get caught in a lie, because everything that you say is true. You just happily fail to mention all of those bothersome little facts that do not support your point of view. Should a critic point out one of those annoying undesired facts, you can at least feign innocent ignorance, or claim that the fact was unknown. A half-truth can take the form of a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth. The statement might be partially true, the statement may be totally true but only part of the whole truth, or it may utilize some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent the truth. Half-truths are also defined as those things that may be true in some instances, but not necessarily in the context they are being stated. Many argue, there is no such thing as a "half" truth any more than there are "White Lies' or women who are "partially" pregnant.
Applying Labels: Apply labels to things or people — especially derogatory labels that demonize the subject in the audiences' mind. This is also known as name-calling. . . If someone raises a question about beliefs, scream "That's Apostasy!" Or if someone disagrees with official doctrine, they are an "An Apostate."
Also, there is the technique of surrounding a lie with the truth: A lie that is packaged inside of a box wrapped with attractive paper and the ribbon of truth is the most likely to be well received. This is also true when a lie is presented as a sandwich with two pieces of truth acting as the outer covering to an inside spread which is a lie. In describing how truth can be used to promote a lie William Blake in one of his poems is quoted as saying; "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent".
A line by line analysis of the above transcript indicates that the society used these techniques in the talk entitled " Beware of Apostates" it presented to the audience at the 21013 District assembly.
In this analysis explanations are italicized.
The Talk, Part 2. of a symposium: "Beware of Apostates")
[An overall distortion begins with the pre-assumption of a previously established unscriptural and unproven premise, which is: that anyone who voice complaint over or who questions either a policy or doctrine formulated by the Governing body is an apostate. This constitutes "applying labels"]
THE TRANSCRIPT:
(With added commentary italicized and referenced verses inserted for convenience of the reader)
"You cannot be partaking at the table of Jehovah and the table of demons. These inspired words of the apostle Paul found at 1 Corinthians 10:21 show that two figurative tables are set before us. For the last day-and-a-half, you have been partaking at the table of Truth of Jehovah and haven't you found it to be good? [Clapping]. Jehovah uses human representatives, the faithful and appointed elders to dispense truths for those eating at his table. The apostate Satan disseminates falsehoods in a similar way. He mimics Jehovah by using human representatives. Who are they? If Satan and his demons are chefs in his evil kitchen then human apostates are his helpers."
[This is an example of surrounding a lie with the truth. Also, while most of the paragraph may be essentially true, it becomes less than true by virtue of the fact that it refers to apostates as helpers while failing to mention false teachers within the congregation who Satan uses as helpers as well. This demonstrates the technique known as lying by omission.]
"Wicked humans imitate the original apostate Satan. Like Satan, human apostates are unruly men who cook up wicked reasoning and season their brew with poisonous lies that deceive minds. Human apostates have sat at the table of Jehovah. At Jehovah's table they enjoyed a table of well-oiled dishes, a banquet of wine kept on the grapes; they were domestics, part of the household of faith and partook of Bible truth, prepared and dispensed by the faithful steward, the Governing Body."
[In this statement a basic truth is altered by seasoning it with a lie. The lie is in crediting the Governing body for Bible truth, rather than Jehovah]
"But they pushed away from the table of Jehovah."
[This is a distortion of fact based on a false premise that "apostates" D.F. themselves. The reality is that even if the organization was a source of truth as it claims, it was they who pushed a disfellowshiped one away from the table of Jehovah]
"Their preference is to partake of falsehoods at the table of demons."
[This alludes that the disfellowshiped ones preference for falsehood is the reason for apostasy and the subsequent disfellowshiping action, when the truth is that most disfellowshiped ones may have seen and exposed falsehood within the Governing Body. The true reason for the Governing Body taking action more likely is to isolate the dissenter from sharing doubts or questions with rest of the brotherhood and to intimidate others who may find reasons to disagree with official policy. This is an example of lying by omission. A lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions. When the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly but does not say that a fault was reported at the last service, the seller lies by omission.]
"This action of pushing themselves away from the table of Jehovah is described for us in 1 John 2: 19 (They went out of us, for they were not of our sort…). In 1 John 2:19, scripture speaks of those
Apostates do not drift away from the truth. They deliberately decide to go out from among God's people because they are not our sort."
[Here it uses and applies a passage to apostates which in context (1 Joh 2: 18, 19 and 2:22,26) is only applicable specifically to those who exhibit an "Anti Christ" attitude as not being "our sort". There is no scriptural justification to apply it to those who may disagree with what they see as unscriptural teachings and doctrines. This is an example of promoting falsehood by means of fallacious reasoning called "The Fallacy of Argument By Exploiting The Ignorance Of Listeners"]
"Human apostates are part of the seed of the serpent spoken of in Genesis 3:15. If we wish to please Jehovah we cannot sit at his table and at the same time be nibbling at the table of demons, eating from the hands of Satan's helpers, human apostates. So, for the next few minutes we are going to discuss how to identify human apostates and what you must do to protect yourself from the poison of apostasy."
[This should raise questions in honest hearted ones who love truth. They are; By whose standards do we determine what constitutes an apostate? For example, is an apostate from a religious institution like the Catholic Church, Mormon Church or any other church organization even such as the (W.T.) necessarily an apostate from Jehovah himself? A truth seeker would want to know what constitutes apostasy in Jehovah's eyes, then how this applies to the subject at hand, and then decide whether the information fits or not]
"Let's first discuss how to identify human apostates. Apostasy often starts with the prideful rejection of counsel and escalates into bitterness and jealousy – James 3:14. Because apostates allow bitterness to take root in their heart, they become defiant of and false to the truth."
[This is at best a mere generalization based on opinion and nothing else. It does not take into consideration the wide variety of other reasons why apostates may become bitter nor does it justify the charge of jealousy with any evidence or proof.]
"How does this defiance to the truth manifest itself?"
With this statement it presumes all apostates to be defiant of truth simply because it has said so. It has not made as case that this is actually the fact. This demonstrates another form of fallacious reasoning called the "fallacy of circular reasoning".]
"The actions of apostates bear three characteristics. [[To imply the actions of apostates are limited to three characteristics, is in the least an incomplete characterization and at worst misleading by virtue of omitting important information] These characteristics help us identify human apostates. The first identifying mark of human apostates is commented on at Luke 6: 46 (Why call me Lord, but not do the things I say). Apostates profess to be followers of Jesus, but are not obedient to his commands."
[This is an example of "Projection" with the finger being pointed at the one who is pointing the finger. Many of the "alleged " apostates cite Luk. 6:46 as the very reason for their contention with the organization. To not disclose this as a counter- charge against the accuser by accusing "apostates" is also an example of "lying by omission".]
"A recent example of when this happened was in the mid-70's when some prominent elders, some who even served at Bethel felt it was below their dignity to witness from house to house, proclaiming the message as commanded by Jesus. They urged others to take it easy because the humble work of witnessing from house to house work was not necessary or unscriptural."
[While this may be using an actual experience or not, an unbiased truth-seeking person would ask themselves why anyone who dedicated their lives to serving Jehovah would come to think of any of their work as unscriptural or unnecessary. Withholding these reasons from hearers constitutes an example of a Fallacy by hasty generalization].
"The Governing Body expelled the unrepentant apostates from the organization. The faithful slave did not allow the efforts of these apostates to distract it from the primary work of Jehovah's witnesses, proclaiming God's word of truth."
[There is a red herring fallacy here; somehow one who disagrees with something they may see as unscriptural and has been labeled an Apostate as a consequence, is now painted to be distracting ones from proclaiming God's word of truth]
"So the first characteristic we can use to identify human apostates is that they reject God's service. Many balk at Jesus' command to go and make disciples."
[This an un-substantiated generalization; "The fact that they reject one aspect which does not comply scripturally in their mind does not mean they reject God's service in its entirety. This is an example of faulty reasoning called "fallacy by generalization" The Awake! 2000 June 22 p.4, under an article entitled"The Manipulation of Information" had this to say about making generalizations; "Another very successful tactic of propaganda is generalization. Generalizations tend to obscure important facts about the real issues in question, and they are frequently used to demean entire groups of people".]
"A second characteristic that identifies human apostates is commented on at Acts 20:30 (men will rise and speak twisted things to draw away the disciples for themselves). What is it that apostates want? Most are not content to simply leave the faith they once viewed as true. They want to take others with them. Rather than going out and making their own disciples, many apostates seek to draw away Christ's disciples after themselves. Like a kidnapper who carries an unsuspecting victim away from his family, apostates prey upon trusting members of the congregation, seeking to carry them away from the flock. In addition they seek to cause divisions in the congregation – 2 Peter 2:1 (false teachers who quietly bring in destructive sects). To accomplish their goal of drawing away disciples after themselves or dividing the congregation, apostates may use smooth talk on the internet, on television or through letters to loyal witnesses of Jehovah."
[All three of the highlighted statements constitute generalizations and possibly outright falsehood. While they may be true in some individual instances, to apply these reasons in such a universal sense without justification constitutes in the least dis-ingenuousness if not outright deception.]
"So a second characteristic that identifies human apostates is that they seek to draw away Christ's disciples after themselves and cause divisions."
[A conclusion cited as fact without any credible evidence whatsoever]
"A third characteristic manifested by human apostates is they claim to serve Jehovah, yet they reject his representatives – 3 John 9-10 (does not receive anything from us with respect, using wicked words).
3 John 9, 10. 9 "I wrote something to the congregation, but Di-ot're-phes, who likes to have the first place among them, does not receive anything from us with respect.10 That is why, if I come, I will call to remembrance his works which he goes on doing, chattering about us with wicked words. Also, not being content with these things, neither does he himself receive the brothers with respect, and those who are wanting to receive them he tries to hinder and to throw out of the congregation.""
[Here we have an example of a scriptural passage being twisted to support ones contention. While Di-ot're-phes who was apparently a leading member of the congregation and in a position to "throw" someone "out" of the congregation was wrong in not receiving the anointed ones with the due respect he should have, this was not matter of "apostasy" from God. It may have been a bad attitude that he had or even a false viewpoint. Still, while the apostle speaks of exposing him before the congregation, nowhere does he mention throwing him out, disfellowshipping him or shunning him.]
"Apostates claim to serve God, but reject his representatives. They lie to authorities."
[Again, here we have a gross generalization that may apply to an individual, even a number of individuals, but to apply such a statement to an entire group is nothing short of dishonesty]
"Through the media they seek to discredit Jehovah's people and incite bans on our work. For instance, in one country a news report instigated by apostates falsely stated that Jehovah's witnesses supported Hitler's regime during world war two."
[What the speaker leaves out is that these "falsely stated" charges were documented by a number of sources and that direct facsimile evidence proving the charges were supplied. He is being less than honest. Accusing sources of "falsely stating" when there is incontrovertible evidence to the contrary constitutes lying. (See"Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses") by James Penton and other sources for proof and to view the documents behind the charges.]
"In other countries apostates used the media to accuse Jehovah's witnesses of refusing to give medical treatment to their children and of deliberately condoning serious sins committed by fellow believers."
[Again, while this may be true in some given individual instances it is not true as the generalization in which it is framed. In many cases, if not most, the media reported based on the facts as they saw them. Argument by the use of Generalization is considered an insult to some listeners as it betrays a general lack of respect for a listener's innate intelligence or implies that the arguer using generalization regards his listener to be ignorant and unable to see through his fallacious reasoning.]
"So a third characteristic that identifies human apostates is that they reject and try to discredit Jehovah's representatives here on earth."
[Failure to insert the word "some" between "identifies" and "human apostates" makes this statement just one more gross generalization]
"Now that we know how to identify human apostates, what must we do to protect ourselves from the poison of apostasy? Romans 16:17 (keep your eye on those causing stumble and avoid them).
Suppose a doctor told you to avoid contact with someone who was infected with a contagious deadly disease. Would you reason that limited contact is okay? Similarly human apostates are mentally diseased and they try to infect others with their disloyal teachings."
[" mentally diseased" ? An irresponsible label imposed as a personal attack; (a Fallacy of Argument by Accusation) and an example of "Applying demeaning labels"]
"Jehovah, the great physician tells us to avoid contact with them. What is involved in avoiding apostates? 2 John 10-11 (never receive him into your home or say a greeting, not to become sharers in their wickedness).
First of all, 2 John 2:and 11 refers specifically to "Everyone that pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of the Christ"."
[The issue that remains, aside from unfounded generalizations and broad accusations is; Is everyone who is labeled an "apostate" promoting teachings that are out of harmony with the Christ? Or is it possible that the word "apostate" is being used as a "Red Herring" fallacy to paint anyone who dares disagree with the man-made doctrine of the Watchtower organization with the same brush, whether it is appropriate or not? The real topics which seem to be obscured by all these generalizations and accusations are; a). Exactly what constitutes an apostate in God's eyes and b). Who actually fits that definition? When these two questions are answered truthfully and honestly, it becomes apparent that the accuser may be the real apostate and the accused may be the one who more closely fits God's idea of a loyal supporter.]
"Avoiding apostates means we will not allow them in our homes, reading their literature, watching TV programs that feature them, examining their websites or adding our comments to their blogs. Why do we take such a firm stand? We do not want to become sharers in their wicked works. We love the God of Truth. We are not interested in twisted teachings that contradict God's word of truth. We love Jehovah's organization, the organization that taught us thrilling truths. Truths about Jehovah's name and its meaning. God's purpose for the earth. The condition of the dead and the hope of the resurrection."
[We used bold text to highlight the one sentence for the following reason; If you believe it was the organization that revealed these "thrilling truths" and that those truths did not or do not exist apart from the organization, then this statement appears true to you. If on the other hand, you believe that it was God himself, through his Holy Spirit who revealed and taught you these things and that they do exist apart from the organization, then claiming" the organization taught us these truths may be only partially true or even untrue and actually border on blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.]
"Can you recall how you felt when you first learned these and other precious truths. Why then allow yourself to be sour? Poisoned by anyone who would belittle the organization through which you learned these truths. Does avoiding apostates imply that our faith is not strong enough to discern truth from falsehood? That our faith is not strong enough to discuss different views? Not at all. In our ministry we discuss with those who have different views."
[This starts off with a fallacy known as "Appeal to Emotion" and ends with a distortion of truth where we see a bit of a stretch. The reality is we lecture those who have different views and refuse to even consider their views. That Is not exactly what discussing actually means.]
"Apostates differ from those we meet in our ministry. Apostates are not sincere in their expressions.[(Fallacy of Argument by Accusation)] Their aim is to manipulate your mind and undermine your faith [(The Fallacy of Argument by Accusation, unsubstantiated)] – Psalm 12:2 (untruth they keep speaking).[(Fallacy of Argument by Accusation)] With good reason the Bible then tells us to avoid apostates, just as we would avoid a person who was infected with a deadly contagious disease– 1 John 2:18-19
[Does the Bible in the verse cited tell us to avoid apostates, abandon apostates or does it relate that those of an "Anti Christ" nature "went out from" (left) the congregation? There is a vast difference between quoting scripture accurately and twisting scriptural meaning.](many Anti-Christ's that went out from us). Because they oppose the truth, apostates are part of the Anti-Christ. They are liars and deceivers, out to destroy your relationship with Jehovah God and his son Christ Jesus."
[To make this broad and general accusation without offering a logical argument or sound reason for it either indicates ignorance or betrays the existence of a hidden agenda of some sort.]
"Deuteronomy 32:46-47 (apply your hearts to all the words I am speaking and warning; it means your life)."
[These may be the truest words spoken by the speaker as they apply equally well to the accuser and the accused. Perhaps as a means of emphasis, we should underline the fact that this verse refers to "all" the words of God. We should not let human doctrine and fallacious reasoning obscure real Bible truth.]
"Heeding his inspired warnings means our very life. How thankful we are for divine warnings against apostasy."
[Since when are organizational warnings considered divine? Did this talk outline emphasize the thinking of Jehovah God or the thinking of men presuming divine authority?]
"May we show our appreciation by walking in God's word of Truth. May we stay busy in the work Jesus assigned us to do; Sharing God's word of Truth with others. By doing so, you will forever enjoy Jehovah's divine seal of approval."
[The talk ends as it began, with a slice of the bread of truth covering the cold cuts of deception between slices, which it has offered as delectable sandwiches for the flock in its care.]
When most people think of "terrorism", they generally think in terms of the activities that have been defined as acts of terrorism. But the term is actually defined by the intent of the perpetrator(s). The primary intention is to unnerve and destabilize a people's psychological well-being and state of mind.
Terrorism is not limited to overt acts like those that lead the news almost every day. It can also be accomplished in seemingly almost benign ways that are often ignored. Use of fear-inspiring tactics can begin very early life. The bully on the playground terrorizes by intimidation. And its effects in the form of psychological disorders have often taken its toll almost from the beginning of life. As a residual effect, it can leave the victim(s) with life-long timidity and impulses to panic.
There is a difference between "spiritual warfare" and "psychological warfare". We have discussed spiritual warfare and it is not based on efforts to create fear. It's interesting that one reader of an article on psychological terror wrote, "The worst psychological terrorism that I believe exists in the world today, is what is professed to be Christian, or "the Bible", but really is not." Many so-called Christian religions and ministers have regularly used fear to control their followers. Many can remember Jim Jones, the leader of a group called the Peoples Temple. If you view videos of his speeches, you will note that he too used fear mongering as a tactic. He instilled in his congregation a "siege mentality". Near the end he had resorted to using armed guards to keep his congregation in line. But, most of the time, such overt means cannot be employed. Others who wish to control as he did use more insidious tactics; instilling unjust fear as is accomplished in the talk critiqued above is one of them. Like the Watchtower Society, they have chosen to use strategic psychological warfare that is aimed at discouraging and altering the opinions of large groups of people by fear.
If the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses actually believed that they were being attacked with falsehoods (and I believe they do not), you would expect that they would follow the example of Lord Jesus Christ under the circumstances. 1 Peter 2:21-23 tells us:
21 "In fact, to this [course] YOU were called, because even Christ suffered for YOU, leaving YOU a model for YOU to follow his steps closely. 22 He committed no sin, nor was deception found in his mouth. 23 When he was being reviled, he did not go reviling in return. When he was suffering, he did not go threatening, but kept on committing himself to the one who judges righteously.:
As you look at the photo below, think about what these men are doing and whether or not their actions really reflect the spiritual warfare the Apostle Paul spoke of as recorded Ephesians 6:10-17:
10 "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." (NIV)


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Family of electrocuted man sees hardship ahead
Mother of the late Krishna Chand, Gaitree Persaud
By Davina Ramdass
The family of 32-year-old Oliver Anthon, a father of five who was electrocuted on Tuesday while installing metal poles at the Guyana National Stadium, foresees difficult times ahead as he was the sole breadwinner.
Also dying in the tragic accident was 17-year-old Krishna Chand of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.
Anthon's mother-in-law, Denise Adams, said she is not sure how the children will be taken care of as Anthon was the sole breadwinner in the family. With a teary eye, she told Guyana Times that this will be the first year his children will be spending Father's Day without him.
The woman noted that the family members are now forced to make alternative plans to sustain themselves. Her daughter, she noted, recently completed a beautician course and will now have to seek employment to maintain her five children.
However, Adams recalled the moment they received the dreaded news and broke it to the children.
"When the news came to them when their mother come back and say y'all father, we not getting him back anymore, they all was crying, they faint and we just trying to get them to calm down."
The woman added that the company has not yet reached out to the family although they are looking forward to some sort of compensation, owing to the fact that they are not financially stable at this time.
"Anthon's mother died when he was young and he don't have no father neither and from de time me know she and he so much years now since they married is just the two of them. Family don't really come around so," the mother-in-law cried.
Nevertheless, she noted that Anthon was a jolly person for the time she knew him and was always nice to be around.
She recalled when he left for work on Tuesday, he called his wife complaining of feeling unwell and a few hours later they received the call, informing them that he was electrocuted and had died.
Meanwhile, over in Lusignan, ECD, family members of Krishna Chand, also known as "Sanjay", were preparing for the wake.
His inconsolable mother, Gaitree Persaud, explained that she was about to run an errand when she received the news of her son's demise.
"I went and buy three jeans for my other son and the jeans was tight and I was getting ready to go and exchange it Tuesday. After I finish bathing I went upstairs and the phone was ringing…my son called, the other one and he said mommy why you don't answer the phone…and he say Sanjay get in accident. Me say bad? He deh hospital? He say no mommy, he dead".
As tears trickled down her face, Persaud explained that her other son works with the same company but was not at the site at the time of the horrific incident.
The now dead teen had worked with the company for about eight months, but relatives were not sure whether or not management offered any assistance.
She recalled that her son was very loving. He leaves to mourn his two siblings. The mother cried, "He was a very good child. He was very friendly to people. Everybody liked him for the fun that he makes".
It was reported that on the day in question, Chand and Anthon were part of two separate teams that were contracted by the Public Security Ministry to erect poles to facilitate CCTV cameras.
However, at about 13:20h while erecting one of the poles, tragedy struck. Guyana Times reported that Chand had the wire to do the job wrapped around his neck, while Anthon and another worker were holding the metal pole which was attached to a lift on the canter.
The top of the pole reportedly came into contact with the high voltage GPL wire, causing Krishna and Anthon to be electrocuted. Altaf Amroa, 24, of Lot 96 West Half, Lusignan, ECD, who is also a technician of Smart Teck Solutions, and Brian Culley, 53, a porter of Lot 9 Vigilance, ECD, also received injuries but were treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Mother-in-law of the late Oliver Anthon, Denise Adams
Dead: Oliver Anthon
Dead: Krishna Chand
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I've never gotten autographs from characters...I always thought it'd be awkward since I'm older, and when I was little I was too scared to talk to them. Next time I go though, I'm def getting pix.
That job would be AMAZING.
I LOVE the soundtrack to Pirates!! Been trying to learn "He's a Pirate" for a while on the piano now. So much fun!
You got it. That first one is it.
And what is this? Sara at the Disney Den has NEVER gotten an autograph from a character???!!! What is this world coming to!!!
I KNOW!!! I've had pictures with them...I might have gotten an autograph from Mickey when I was super little...but I've moved houses quite a few times and I'm sure it was lost in the mix if it happened. :/ It's so sad!


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It's hard enough to keep three or four musicians adhering to one schedule. How does the name partner in Rich Restaino & The Obits deal with a roster double that size? There's no single secret to it. "It's pretty easy considering there are eight people," Rich says. "We're all around 33, none of encumbered by kids... [Drummer] Dave's wife is pregnant, it's going to be a test."
At full strength Rich & The Obits field two guitarists, drums, bass, keyboard, and a three-piece female trio of backing singers that's the secret to their sound. Just the band's lineup is ambitious but Restaino keeps low-key about the band that grew out of a desire to keep working on his songwriting after his old group The Late Fees called it quits. "I had really low expectations because I'm that kind of person," says the singer, who doubles as a schoolteacher when he's not leading a big band. "My uncle was in a band signed to Capitol in the 70's. He ended up being a mailman.... Now he's playing with buddies, writing again." This helps lend some perspective. Rich is realistic about his band but still speaks of role models like Bukowski who weren't able to fully realize their visions until later in life. He's modest to a point, but there's still something driving him to deal with the logistical hassles of that eight-piece lineup... he's still a musician at heart!
So how is it done? It takes the right kind of personalities, and the right level of experience, in the band. "So many of us have done music in many different ways," Rich says. Gratitude counts: "Show appreciation at every opportunity. 'It's so great that you still want to play with me!'" The band tries to be productive in smaller combinations, when necessary... so long as the drummer's available they'll "go with a quorum," and if no drummer, they'll do vocal rehearsal. And every member is encouraged to bring in their own song ideas.
After finishing their recently-released We're in This Thing Together Restaino figured no one would be up to that level of hassle again. Recording for the CD had to be done "piecemeal" and took seven months. But it only took a few weeks after its completion for band members to start asking about the next album. "Really?" says Rich, incredulous. "You want to do this again?"
New challenges await. "I still feel like I haven't made a record that's cohesive," says Rich. "I've gotten three or four songs in but get stuck." The band is moving from new wave towards soul, thanks to the 45's of Rich's friend and former bandmate. "Every good record that's come into my house came from him. His record collection is the ninth member of the band." Things in Austin didn't turn out exactly as planned: "I moved here because I wanted to be in Uncle Tupelo."
Being at the center of the hurricane for Rich Restaino & The Obits isn't a bad fallback option. One last shred of wisdom from the education world might apply: "As a teacher, always have a backup plan."
Rich & The Obits play this Saturday at Rockin' Tomato, with World Racketeering Squad... WRS's CD release show.
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Measurement uncertainty arising from sampling: a guide to methods and approaches
Unset (2007) Measurement uncertainty arising from sampling: a guide to methods and approaches. Manual. Eurachem, Citac.
This Guide aims to describe various methods that can be used to estimate the uncertainty of measurement, particularly that arising from the processes of sampling and the physical preparation of samples. It takes a holistic view of the measurement process to include all of these steps as well as the analytical process, in the case where the measurand is defined in term of the value of the analyte concentration in the sampling target, rather than in just the sample delivered to the laboratory. The Guide begins by explaining the importance of knowing the total uncertainty in a measurement for making reliable interpretation of measurements, and judging their fitness for purpose. It covers the whole measurement process, defining each of the component steps, and describing the effects and errors that cause uncertainty in the final measurement. Two main approaches to the estimation of uncertainty from sampling are described. The empirical approach uses repeated sampling and analysis, under various conditions, to quantify the effects caused by factors such as the heterogeneity of the analyte in the sampling target and variations in the application of one or more sampling protocols, to quantify uncertainty (and usually some of its component parts). The modelling approach uses a predefined model that identifies each of the component parts of the uncertainty, making estimates of each component, and sums them in order to make an overall estimate. Models from sampling theory can sometimes be used in this approach to estimate some of the components from a knowledge of the characteristics of particulate constituents. Worked examples are given of each of these approaches, across a range of different application areas. These include investigations of the environment (of soil and water), of food (at growing and processing) and of animal feed. The estimates of the total uncertainty of measurement range from a few per cent up to 84% relative to the measurand. The contribution of the sampling is occasionally small but is often dominant (>90% of the total measurement variance). This suggests an increased proportion of the expenditure needs to be aimed at the sampling, rather than the chemical analysis, if the total uncertainty needs to be reduced in order to achieve fitness for purpose. Management issues addressed include the responsibility of the quality of the whole measurement process, which needs to include the sampling procedure. Guidance is given on the selection of the most appropriate approach for any application, and whether one initial validation of the system is sufficient, or whether there is a need for ongoing monitoring of the uncertainty from sampling using quality control of sampling. The extra cost of estimating uncertainty is also considered in relation to the cost savings that can be made by knowing the uncertainty of measurement more reliably. Such a Guide can never be fully comprehensive, and although there are appendices with details of some of the statistical techniques employed and sources of more detailed advice, there will often be a need for expert advice in more complex situations. This Guide aims to be a useful introduction to this subject, but we hope it will also stimulate further research into improved methods of uncertainty estimation
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The Golazo 50 returns! For a third consecutive year, we take a look at the best talents Argentina has to offer and try to assemble something close to a top 50.
2018 was a disastrous year in many ways for Argentinian football but shoots of optimism began to come through post-World Cup and many of those new faces in the Albiceleste squad appear in this year's countdown.
To be eligible for the list, you simply need to be born on or after January 1st 1995.
Cutting to 50 was an almost impossible task and if there is someone you think is missing then be sure that they would have been on the initial list of 150.
As some means of explanation – obviously potential is a key factor but so too is experience and so credit is given to those players who have stepped up and made an impact at first team level. Further points are awarded for those that have perhaps performed well for the national team at youth level and then obviously if a player has moved to abroad or been selected for the Argentina squad then that too helps the cause.
It isn't an exact science. You may not agree and if so please feel free to comment below.
Otherwise, enjoy. This is the Golazo 50….
It seems Andrés Cubas has been around forever but such was the hype around the teenager when he was impressing the likes of Juan Román Riquelme and Chicho Serna as part of Boca Juniors' academy it was expected by the age of 22, Cubitas would be a household name.
Chances were hard to come by at La Bombonera and a failed loan in Italy with Pescara threatened to derail Cubas' career before it had barely begun. However, Defensa y Justicia have proved the ideal club for youngsters without chances at the grandes to rediscover their confidence and the Misiones-born midfielder did just that in Florencio Varela.
Now at Talleres as part of the deal that took Emanuel Reynoso to Boca, Cubas is thriving once more. Full of energy the 22-year-old is still that buzzing, ball winner but passes well enough to contribute to La T's attack too.
Despite being one of three teenage players from the class of 2001, Gastón Verón has already made his mark in the Superliga and it would be easy to mistake the powerful centre forward as someone of more advanced years given his physique.
Strong, hard working and not afraid to battle with burly central defenders, Verón made his Argentinos Juniors debut this season and his first senior goal soon followed, a fine strike to give the struggling Bichos a rare victory over Lanús. In doing so, the Chaqueño became the club's fourth youngest ever scorer and when one of the guys that just pipped you is Diego Maradona then you're in good company.
With all that being said Argentinos have had a tough six months and as the Superliga's lowest scorers the club have switched coaches and been dragged into the relegation battle. It has been far from ideal for a 17-year-old striker but Verón's time will surely come.
There has been little shortage of talent out of Rosario Central in recent years and with past graduates Giovani Lo Celso and Franco Cervi now vying for roles in Lionel Scaloni's Argentina, El Canalla are bringing through a new generation. One of those looks to be Maxi Lovera and while the diminutive playmaker is yet to make the type of impact at first team level that the pair mentioned made prior to their European moves, the 19-year-old could be on the cusp.
Having made his senior debut in 2016, Lovera is still occupying a squad role and has been limited for the most part to substitute appearances but is still considered one of the brightest talents in the country.
Short, quick and skilful, Lovera is in many ways the archetypal Argentinian player – a wonderful dribbler with an eye for a pass. A lack of end product may be why Central are yet to trust the youngster with greater responsibility and why the forward missed out on a place in the Argentina Under-20 Sudamericano squad but Lovera remains one to keep an eye on.
Running at the back-peddling opposition defence and thrashing a shot into the top corner from outside the penalty area in one of Argentinian football's most fierce derbies is a good way of really announcing yourself to a wider audience. Nahuel Bustos did just that as Talleres defeated local rivals Belgrano this season and so it something of a shame that the 20-year-old now finds himself on loan at Liga MX club Pachuca.
Quick, direct and able to play out wide Bustos has scored five goals in ten appearances this season prior to that transfer and will be missed at Talleres in 2019.
What impact Bustos may have in Mexico will certainly be of interest after a terrific youth career in a talented Talleres side. Awarded by the AFA as the outstanding player of the year when scoring 23 league goals for the under-17s, a hat-trick on his under-20 Copa Libertadores debut and a reserve league winners medal to his name, Bustos could prove a terrific addition to Pachuca.
Many may be familiar with the name but far less will have seen Nehuén Pérez in action, However there is a reason that Diego Simeone was so keen to have Atletico Madrid sign the 18-year-old when Pérez had yet made any impact on the Argentinos Juniors first team.
Minutes have still been limited since his senior despite the Argentina under-20 international remaining in La Paternal for the season and while Los Bichos'form has meant things haven't been easy, Pérez remains a genuine talent.
Strong, a good reader of the game and technically proficient on the ball, there have been swift comparisons to the manner in which Atleti snatched up José Gimenez from Uruguayan club Danubio. Under Simeone the hope would be that Pérez could develop like Gimenez into one of the finest young defenders in world football but for now the under-20 Sudamericano should provide a decent measuring stick.


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Q: Saving data for a colossal maze I want to build a labyrinth in which players can interact with others through leaving messages for one another, so in its most basic form each "tile" of the map is a forum thread or chat room.
However, I intend to have the maze continue to be generated for a very long time (the process is deterministic and will eventually terminate, but only if the 50% chance of each branch continuing fails for every single branch simultaneously. Interestingly a seed value of 42 results in a maze of size "3 tiles", so clearly 42 is not the answer here :D) and each room will have some data, such as which directions are open and which one points to the origin (can be useful for pathfinding later - find the path to the origin and they'll meet somewhere, thus you find the path between the two; this works because there are no loops, only branches).
Anyway, here's the table structure I have in mind for saving rooms:
CREATE TABLE `rooms` (
    `x` INT NOT NULL,
    `y` INT NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`x`,`y`),
    `open_left` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
    `open_right` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
    `open_up` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
    `open_down` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
    `origin_direction` ENUM('isorigin','left','right','up','down') NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

Then, the chat messages can be saved like so:
CREATE TABLE `messages` (
    `id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    `x` INT NOT NULL,
    `y` INT NOT NULL,
    FOREIGN KEY (`x`,`y`) REFERENCES `rooms` (`x`,`y`)
        ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
    `timestamp` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    ...
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

This seems fine, but there's one problem I can forsee:
The maze will be absolutely massive if given enough time to be generated. Based on how it is generated, its size will be exponential and could easily reach millions, perhaps billions of rooms. And past experience has taught me, tables with millions of rows are trouble.
I imagine I will probably need to break the world down into chunks. Say, each chunk can be 1000x1000 tiles in size, giving a maximum capacity of 1,000,000 rooms (assuming somehow the maze generation fills every tile in the area). This seems simple enough, and I can procedurally create tables or even whole databases of the form zone_X_Y with X and Y being the respective coordinates of that sector.
I guess mostly this question is to voice my thought process and see if anyone has any suggestions to make for better alternatives. My DB experience is pretty much just picking up what I can as I go along and learning from past mistakes.

A: Use UNSIGNED to squeeze out an extra bit.  A 3-byte MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED gives you 0..16M; a 4-byte INT UNSIGNED gives you 0..4 billion.  Since we are talking about X and Y, what is the max width/height of the maze?  16M or 64K seems more realistic than 4B.
Consider using a TINYINT UNSIGNED or SET to handle the 4 "open" flags.  That would take 1 byte instead of 4.  Don't you want to go for 3 dimensions?  Why not 4?  Or string-theory with 10 or 11.  (That would take 2 bytes for all the possible openings.)
Smaller --> faster, especially since this may become I/O bound.
Do you really need FOREIGN KEY and cascading delete?
I don't think MySQL needs for you to break it into 'chunks', but if you do, use suitably sized ints, such as the 2-byte SMALLINT UNSIGNED (0..65535).
Perhaps you are optimistic to think there will be more than 4 billion "messages"?  Do you have a terabyte-sized disk?
I can't really advise on the structure, nor the indexes, without seeing the queries.  I would "guess" that you always say WHERE x=... AND y=...; that is, specifying both?
Is someone (a human, that is) going to wander through this maze?  Even at one 'step' per second, a human cannot realistically touch more than 10M rooms in a year.  And such a person would probably need a padded cell after that.

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The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills RECAP 2/11/13: Season 3 Episode 13
BY Cate Meighan on February 11, 2013 | Comments: 3 comments
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THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS returns to Bravo tonight with a whole new episode called, "Game of Scones." On this week's show Adrienne and Brandi come face-to-face (and to blows) at Lisa's tea party. Did you watch last week's show? We did and we recapped it here for you.
On last week's show in Las Vegas, Brandi entices all the women (except Adrienne, who stayed back in LA) to try pole dancing, with varied success. Upon learning Kim is about to go under the knife for her nose job, the women wondered if going under anesthesia and taking pain killers is wise for a woman just out of rehab. The final dinner in Vegas started pleasantly, but the moment Adrienne's name is mentioned, it devolved into a feud in which new issues were raised, and old wounds were opened.
On tonight's show Kyle pays a visit to Lisa's to discuss the mutual hurt in their relationship: Lisa is upset Kyle doesn't defend her, and Kyle says Lisa holds a grudge. A truce is reached, but it's not exactly resolved. More unresolved issues are addressed when Lisa throws a tea party in her beautiful olive grove, and it's the first time Adrienne and Brandi have faced each other since their big blow-up. It's civil at first, but denials and accusations fly when a tipsy Taylor asks whether or not Adrienne is suing Brandi.
Tonight's episode is going to be filled with the usual Housewife drama and you won't want to miss it, so be sure to tune in for our live coverage of the show tonight at 9 PM EST! While you wait for our recap hit the comments and let us know what you think of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" season 3, so far! Also we have a sneak peek video of tonight's show below!
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Tonight's episode begins with Kyle deciding to head over to Lisa's house to mend fences, as usual. The last time we saw these ladies Camille accused Lisa of not owning her restaurants and Lisa was pissed that Kyle didn't stand up for her. Kyle didn't feel like Lisa needed her to save her and apologizes for letting Lisa down. Kyle believes at the root of every fight is ultimately Brandi but Lisa isn't buying it. Apparently Lisa is extremely hurt that Kyle didn't have her back and she believes that Kyle's behavior has hurt their friendship.
Yolanda likes an honest girl and so she has become fast friends with Brandi. Yolanda invites her out to the horse farm and they discuss all of the drama that is swirling, especially the crap with Adrienne. Brandi is worried about the letter that Adrienne's attorney sent to hers, basically telling her to shut her mouth or else. Yolanda is not a fan of Adrienne's already and totally pep talks Brandi through the idea of surviving Lisa's tea party with all of the girls.
The tea party is basically going to be a test spot to see if Adrienne can be welcomed back into the group without an all out war starting. Adrienne shows up with Faye Resnick and Brandi is about to lose her mind. She knows that at some point the crap will all hit the fan and it'll be two against one. Kim was supposed to attend but in true Kim fashion, dreams up an excuse to blow off the party. This time around her new puppy hit her new nose and she's hurting too much to attend!
The girls seem to be having a good time for awhile but as always, at some point things always turn a bit ugly. Lisa calls Brandi into the kitchen and checks to see how Brandi is holding up. Lots of innuendos have flown but Brandi is keeping her cool. Adrienne's attorney sent her attorney a letter threatening a lawsuit and while sitting at the table Adrienne is in complete denial of the entire situation. She swears that none of it is true but Brandi calmly informs Adrienne that she has the letter with her. She is fed up with feeling like she constantly has to prove herself to all of the ladies and it looks like things will come to a head on next week's episode!
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