I am a wide-eyed, sanctified, blood-bought, Spirit-taught, Bible-totin', Scripture-quotin', Satan-blastin', sin-trashin', Christ-followin' Pride-swallowin', hard-praying', truth-conveyin', faith-walking, gospel-talkin', bonafide big-time believer! And proud of it
A British Christian convert who said he suffered “seven years of persecution” from Muslims has been forced to flee his home under armed guard amid fears for his safety. Nissar Hussain was with his family when police arrived and moved him to a safe place.
The Telegraph and Argus Mr Hussain said the culmination of the “extreme persecution” had devastated his family and the dramatic arrival of armed police was a complete surprise. “My family are distraught and extremely traumatised to be leaving,” said Mr Hussain. “But when your life is at stake there is no other choice.”
Mr Hussain converted to Christianity 20 years ago, but says in recent years he has been subjected to harassment and violence by sections of the Islamic community. “This extreme persecution by certain people in the Muslim community because we are converts has broken us as a family,” he said.
From left to right, Leena, Anniesa, Nissar, Sarah, Kubra, Issar, and Miriam Hussain, a Christian family who have been threatened with death for converting from Islam in West Yorkshire, England.
“We are fragmented and I do not know how we will recover from this. We haven’t functioned properly for years.” He said “serious questions” needed to be answered.
Last year, Mr Hussain was hospitalized after his kneecap was smashed and his hand broken during an attack outside his home in St Paul’s Road, Manningham. Two hooded men, one armed with a pick-axe handle, assaulted him in a vicious attack caught on CCTV. (See video below)
Heinz-Christian Strache (right), chairman of the anti-Islamization Freedom Party roasted the German Chancellor for allowing an unlimited amount of Muslim illegal aliens which he claims has left Europe on the verge of civil war. Talking to supporters, Strache argued “the uncontrolled influx of migrants alien to our culture who seep into our social welfare system… makes civil war in the medium-term not unlikely.”
Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) party leader Heinz-Christian Strache (L) and Freedom Party’s presidential candidate Norbert Hofer
UK Express(h/t Terry D) Strache added that his party’s presidential candidate, Norbert Hofer, “will be there for all Austrians” in a rallying speech to drum up support ahead of the general election. Hofer has attempted to keep a neutral tone in a bid to broaden the typical appeal of the Freedom Party from an anti-immigration stance to the wider Austrian population ahead of a re-run of the earlier election.
Yet the 45-year-old’s recent election posters carry the phrase “so help me God” – a term which has been slammed by both Islamic and Christian officials who say introducing God into the campaign is not appropriate.
“Vienna must not become Istanbul” He says what Vienna thinks
Three branches of the Protestant church in Austria released a joint statement denouncing the slogan. It reads: “God cannot be instrumentalised for one’s own intentions or for political purposes. “We consider that mentioning God… to attack other religions and cultures indirectly amounts to an abuse of his name and religion in general.”
The Freedom Party claim Hoferused the rallying phrase as it came “directly from the heart” and “is strongly anchored in Christian and Western values” which the party holds. Two-thirds of Austrians identify as Catholic while just four per cent are Protestant.
The Freedom Party narrowly lost the election by just 31,000 votes to Alexander Van der Bellen’s left-leaning Green party, but the result was ruled void after voting irregularities were discovered. The initial re-run of the election was due to take place in October but has been pushed back to December after defects were found in the postal vote envelopes.
So, let me get this straight. The Dead Sea Scrolls are demonstrably written in Hebrew. But the Palestinians are now saying these ancient documents are, like Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, Arab Muslim in origin.That is how ridiculous the campaign to delegitimize Israel has become.
Israel Today Carmel Shama-Hacohen – Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – said the Palestinians raised the matter informally during a recent meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin.
JERUSALEM POST The dead Sea Scrolls are about 900 documents and Biblical texts, discovered in one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century in the 1940’s and 50’s in caves in and around Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The texts include some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 B.C.E., and preserve evidence of Jewish life during the Second Temple period.
According to the ambassador and to representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority who were present at the meeting, the Palestinians intend to make a formal claim to the Dead Sea Scrolls when the committee next convenes in 2017.
“This is another provocative and audacious attempt by the Palestinians to rewrite history and to erase our connection to our land,” Shama-Hacohen told The Jerusalem Post. “The Dead Sea Scrolls are factual and weighty archeological evidence of the presence of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.”
“[The accusation is] part of an ongoing effort to deny the continuous Jewish presence in Israel. The Dead Sea Scrolls provide incontrovertible proof of the historical facts that underpin the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state,” David Koschitzky, chairman of the UJA Federation in Toronto. “As such, they pose a threat to the ongoing attempts to obscure the unique relationship of the Jewish people with the land of Israel.
Word has it that your generous welfare system for illegal alien Muslim freeloaders will allow me to live a better life than working-class Germans, who are footing the bill for these massive handouts. And the best part? I will never have to work again.
It isn’t that the Saudis are upset that their $25 million donation to the Clinton Foundation isn’t worth the paper the check was written on, it’s that they no longer will be able to influence Washington’s foreign policy, nor spread Islam into American schools by financing (along with Qatar) Common Core and giving schools free history textbooks filled with Islamic propaganda.
WHAT DOES THE WORD OF GOD SAY ABOUT THE SABBATH? (PART FOURTEEN)
After learning that Adam and Eve were not given the Law or the commandment to keep the seventh day, let us now look at the meaning of keeping the Sabbath.
WHAT ARE THE COMMANDMENTS IN THE LAW? Keeping the Sabbath, food and drink prohibitions, and judgments are among the commandments in the Law of Moses. But these commandments were not carried into the New Covenant by the Lord Jesus, as we have already seen in earlier chapters. Therefore, these commandments are not among the laws of Christ (Galatians 6:2).
Essentially, when you teach or observe the Law of Moses, you blind people from seeing the work of the cross. Such people may call themselves Christians, but in reality, they live by the desires of the flesh. Likewise, when you teach and practice commands that oppose the Lord Jesus Christ, the owner of heaven, you are clearly placing yourself—and others—close to the pit of hellfire.
Normally, a person who approaches the Law of Moses (keeping the Sabbath, food and drink prohibitions) seeks after sinful desires, and eventually such a person produces death. In Romans 7:5 we read: “For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.”
KEEPERS OF THE LAW IN THE NEW COVENANT OR THIS CENTURY ARE DISCIPLES OF MOSES, NOT DISCIPLES OF JESUS: A person who keeps the Law of Moses in these times of the New Covenant—that is, keeping the Sabbath and food or drink prohibitions, etc.—is a disciple of Moses and not a disciple of Jesus. For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Christ (John 1:17). Even if such a person mentions the Lord Jesus, if they are still holding to the laws of Moses (keeping the Sabbath, food and drink prohibitions, etc.), they remain consumed by the power of the Law.
The following are signs of a person who mentions Jesus but is still consumed by the Law:
FIRST EVIDENCE: Such a person is hypocritical (appears holy outwardly but is sinful inwardly) – Matthew 6:2; Matthew 23:25–28. The Pharisees had this character, and so will anyone who clings to the Law.
SECOND EVIDENCE: Such a person loves arguments, because the Law makes them unspiritual. They rely on persuasive human wisdom rather than demonstrations of the Spirit and power (1 Corinthians 2:4–5).
THIRD EVIDENCE: Such a person is self-righteous, always believing they are right even when lost, because the power of the Law blinds them from the truth (Matthew 7:1–2).
FOURTH EVIDENCE: This person promotes one law that they can keep. For example, they may strongly hold to the Sabbath, promoting it above Christ. Even if they see someone committing fornication, as long as they keep the Sabbath, they regard that person as holy.
FIFTH EVIDENCE: Such a person persecutes those born of the Spirit, that is, the saved. Galatians 4:29 says: “But, as it was then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.”
SIXTH EVIDENCE: This person has zeal to serve God, but not in Spirit and truth. Thus, they make converts into children of hell twice as much (Matthew 23:15).
SEVENTH EVIDENCE: Such a person displays goodness before people but not true goodness (Matthew 6:1).
EIGHTH EVIDENCE: It is difficult for such a person to overcome sin because the power of the Law keeps pushing them into sin.
AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE FOUNDERS OF THE ADVENTIST “SABBATH” RELIGION: If you investigate deeply, you will discover that the founders of the Sabbath-keeping denomination were not theologians or people well-versed in Scripture. Nor did they sit under the teaching of their pastors.
The first founder was an American named William Miller, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1782 and died in 1849. He abandoned Christianity but later returned in 1816. He brought false revelations of Christ’s return in 1844, which caused massive disappointment and confusion among his followers (the Adventists).
The second was Hiram Edson, a follower of Miller, who introduced the false doctrine of investigative judgment into the denomination after their prophecy of Christ’s return failed.
The third was John Bates, a former sailor, who pushed hard for the return of Old Covenant Sabbath observance. He was the first to falsely teach that Sunday is the mark of the beast and that the Sabbath is the seal of God upon His faithful people.
The fourth founders were James White and his wife Ellen Gould White. They promoted Sabbath-keeping more than anyone else. James and Ellen joined Miller in 1840–1842, which led to their expulsion from their Methodist church. Ellen later strengthened Sabbath-keeping by claiming she was taken to heaven and saw the fourth commandment (Sabbath) shining brighter than the others.
Ellen White emphasized that the fourth commandment among the Ten was supreme, encircled with glory, and set apart to honor God’s name. She claimed that if the Sabbath could be broken or abolished, then all the commandments could be broken! (Ellen G. White, Early Writings, pp. 32, 35).
This explains why many Adventists argue that if we do not keep the Sabbath, it is like saying we can commit other sins such as adultery. They fail to understand the New Covenant. Their minds are blinded by this spirit of deception.
Thus, Adventists interpret Scripture according to Ellen White’s visions, giving the Law first place instead of Jesus Christ. In doing so, they distort the Scriptures.
In truth, these founders were not Biblically grounded. Their influence spread largely due to financial power, especially across Africa.
Children of God, we must recognize that we are all saved by grace and not by works of the Law (Ephesians 2:8–9). If we live according to the flesh, we will die. But if by the Spirit we put to death the deeds of the body, we will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God (Romans 8:13–14).
Dear reader, we have reached the end of this online article. In our book “WHAT DOES THE WORD OF GOD SAY ABOUT THE SABBATH” there are more than 20 sections, most of which are not published online. The book is being printed, and we will inform you once it is ready.
God bless you, and continue studying the Bible for yourself with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Taifa la Israeli pamoja na mji wake mtakatifu wa Yerusalemu, kimsingi ndio unaoshika funguo za maisha ya baadaye na kuratibu kila hitimisho la kidunia kulingana na unabii katika Maandiko matakatifu. Patanisho la wanadamu na Mungu hata kuwaletea wanadamu neema ya kuwa na amani na Mungu lilifanyika Israeli. Kwa upande mwingine, ningeweza kusema kwamba; kutimilika kwa unabii wa maandiko matakatifu, kunahusianishwa moja kwa moja na taifa la Israeli.
Ni kwa sababu hiyo basi, chochote kinachotokea katika nchi ya Israeli kinaathiri kwa namna moja au nyingine kile Mungu anachokwenda kufanya kwa mataifa yote ya ulimwengu. Kama kungekuwa na uwezekano wa kulitowesha taifa la Israeli pamoja na nchi yao, basi Biblia ingekuwa haina maana na wala utimilifu wa maandiko usingewezekana. Kumbuka kwamba, uwanja wa matukio yote ya nyakati za mwisho yaliyoandikwa kwenye Biblia ni Israeli. Mfano;
§ Vita vya Harmagedon vitapiganwa kwenye bonde la Megido lililoko Israeli UFUNUO 16:14-16, “Hizo ndizo roho za mashetani, zifanyazo ishara, zitokazo na kuwaendea wafalme wa ulimwengu wote; kuwakusanya kwa vita ya siku ile kuu ya Mungu mwenyezi. Tazama naja kama mwivi. Heri akeshaye, na kuyatunza mavazi yake, asiende uchi hata watu wakaione aibu yake. Wakawakusanya hata mahali paitwapo kwa Kiebrania, Har-Magedoni.” ZEKARIA 12:11 Biblia inasema” Siku hiyo kutakuwa na maombolezo makuu huko Yerusalemu kama maombolezo ya Hadadrimoni katika bonde la MEGIDO”
§ Bwana Yesu atakaporudi mara ya pili, ni lazima ashukie kwenye mlima wa Mizeituni nchini Israeli, ZEKARIA 14:4 Biblia inasema, “Na siku hiyo miguu yake itasimama juu ya mlima wa Mizeituni unaoelekea Yerusalemu upande wa mashariki, nao mlima wa Mizeituni utapasuka katikati yake upande wa mashariki na upande wa magharibi, litakuwapo huko bonde kubwa sana na nusu ya mlima ule utaondoka kwenda upande wa kaskazini na nusu yake utaondoka kwenda upande wa kusini”
§ Wakati wa utawala wa miaka 1000 wa Bwana wetu Yesu Kristo hapa duniani, maskani yake yatakuwa katika mji wa Yerusalemu ulioko Israeli (UFUNUO 20:7-10).
§ Mpinga Kristo na nabii wa uongo watakaojiinua katika kipindi cha dhiki kuu, ni lazima waukanyage mji mtakatifu wa Yerusalemu, UFUNUO 11:2, “Na behewa iliyo nje ya hekalu uiache nje wala usiipime, kwa maana Mataifa wamepewa hiyo, nao wataukanyaga mji mtakatifu miezi arobaini na miwili.”
Kwa hiyo, kwa kadri tunavyolielewa taifa hili la Mungu kwa mapana na marefu, na ndivyo uelewa wetu wa mambo ya sasa na yajayo unavyozidi kuwa mpana sana.
Baada ya kujifunza kuwa Adam na Hawa hawakupewa torati au sheria ya kutunza siku ya saba. Sasa tuangalie maana ya kushika Sabato.
JE, AMRI KATIKA TORATI NI ZIPI? Kushika sabato, makatazo ya vyakula au vinywaji na hukumu, ni miongoni mwa amri katika torati ya Musa. Na amri hizi, Bwana Yesu, hakuzipitisha katika Agano la jipya kama tulivyokwisha kuona katika sura zilizopita. Kwa hiyo, amri hizo, si miongoni mwa sheria za Kristo (Wagalatia 6:2).
Kimsingi, unapofundisha au kuishika torati ya Musa, unawapofusha watu wasione kazi ya msalaba, hivyo watu hao watajiita wakristo, lakini ni watu wenye tabia za mwilini. Kadhalika unapofundisha na kuyashika maagizo ambayo yapo kinyume na mmiliki wa mbingu, ambaye ni Bwana Yesu Kristo, ni wazi kabisa huko ni kujiweka au kuwaweka watu karibu na shimo la jehanamu ya moto.
Kwa kawaida mtu anayeisogelea torati ya Musa (kushika sabato, makatazo ya vyakula na vinywaji), hutafuta tamaa za dhambi na hatimaye mtu huyo huzalia mauti; Warumi 7:5 tunasoma, “Kwa maana tulipokuwa katika hali ya mwili, tamaa za dhambi, zilizokuwapo kwa sababu ya torati, zilitenda kazi katika viungo vyetu hata tukaizalia mauti mazao.”
WASHIKA TORATI KATIKA AGANO JIPYA AU KARNE HII NI WANAFUNZI WA MUSA NA WALA SI WANAFUNZI WA YESU:
Lakini pia, mtu anayeshika torati ya Musa katika nyakati hizi za Agano jipya yaani kushika sabato na makatazo ya vyakula au vinywaji n.k, mtu huyo huitwa mwanafunzi wa Musa na wala si mwanafunzi wa Yesu, kwa kuwa torati ilikuja kwa mkono wa Musa na neema na kweli kwa mkono wa Kristo (Yohana 1:17). Hata kama mtu anamtaja Bwana Yesu, na mtu huyo akawa anashika sheria za Musa yaani kushika sabato makatazo ya vyakula au vinywaji n.k, bado mtu huyo ataendelea kutafunwa na nguvu ya torati. Na zifuatazo ni dalili za mtu anayemtaja Yesu lakini bado nguvu ya torati inamtafuna;
UTHIBITISHO WA KWANZA: Mtu huyu huwa na tabia ya unafiki (nje huonekana ni mtakatifu lakini rohoni ni mdhambi)-Mathayo 6:2; Mathayo 23:25-28. Mafarisayo walikuwa na tabia hii, hivyo na mtu anayeshika torati atakuwa na tabia hii.
UTHIBITISHO WA PILI: Mtu huyu huwa na tabia ya kupenda kubishana, kwa kuwa torati inamfanya asiwe rohoni. Hushawishika kwa hekima yenye kushawishi akili na si kwa dalili za roho na nguvu (1 Wakorintho 2:4-5).
1. Je, Israeli walipokuwa jangwani kwani hawakuwa wakitunza sabato kama siku? 2. Kama basi waliitunza sabato, iweje tena Mungu aseme, ‘Hawataingia rahani mwangu’?
Ndugu msomaji,
Upo ushahidi wa kutosha katika Biblia unaoonyesha kwamba sabato si siku katika juma. Bwana anapoongelea kuhusu safari ya wana wa Israeli anasema:
Kwa hiyo nalichukizwa na kizazi hiki, nikasema, Siku zote ni watu waliopotoka mioyo hawa ... hawataingia rahani mwangu. (Waebrania 3:10-11).
Pia imeandikwa: Maana ameinena siku ya saba mahali fulani hivi, Mungu alistarehe siku ya saba, akaziacha kazi zake zote; na hapa napo, Hawataingia rahani mwangu. (Waebrania 4:4-5).
Katika maandiko haya Mungu anasema kwamba, kutokana na kukasirishwa na uasi wa wana wa Israeli kule jangwani, alimua kwamba hawataingia kwenye raha aliyokuwa amewaandalia. Neno rahani hapa, au kwa Kiingereza rest, ndilo hilohilo sabato. Ndiyo maana hapo juu katika Waebrania. 4:4-5, anahusisha siku ya saba na kuingia rahani.
Lakini hebu tujiulize maswali yafuatayo ili tuweze kupiga hatua zaidi.
1. Je, Israeli walipokuwa jangwani kwani hawakuwa wakitunza sabato kama siku? Jibu ni ndiyo, waliitunza. Biblia inasema: Basi ikawa siku ya sita wakaokota kile chakula sehemu mara dufu, kila mtu pishi mbili; na wazee wote wa mkutano wakaenda na kumwambia Musa. Akawaambia, Ndilo neno alilonena BWANA,Kesho ni starehe takatifu, Sabato takatifu kwa BWANA ... (Kutoka 16:22-23).
2. Kama basi waliitunza sabato, iweje tena Mungu aseme, ‘Hawataingia rahani mwangu’? Kama ingekuwa ni kumwuliza Mungu, mtu ungesema, “Bwana, unasemaje hawataingia rahani mwako wakati kila siku ya saba wanapumzika?” Hii ni ishara ya wazi kwamba sabato hasa si kupumzika au kutofanya kazi kimwili katika siku ya saba. Sabato ni jambo jingine tofauti na siku ya saba. Iko sabato halisi ambayo siku ya saba na kupumzika kwake vilikuwa ni kivuli chake tu.
Jambo jingine la kujiuliza ni kwamba, japo ni kweli kwamba wale ambao Mungu alisema hawataingia rahani mwake walifia wote jangwani, lakini walikuwapo wengine wengi walioingia, yaani watoto wao. Sasa je, hao walioingia waliipata hiyo raha (sabato)?
Mtu anaweza kujibu, Ndiyo, maana sote tunajua kuwa hata wakati alipokuja Bwana Yesu, alikuwa akifundisha mara nyingi kwenye masinagogi 'siku ya sabato'. Kwa hiyo, mtu anaweza kusema, ‘Ndiyo, waliingia kwenye raha au kwenye sabato.’
