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WEEP FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAQDecember 18, 2011
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TAKING THE "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM" TO THE POOR
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WHAT HAPPENED AT UC DAVIS
WAS NO ABERRATION
November 28, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
Journalist Glenn Greenwald writes:
"The now-viral video of police officers in their Robocop costumes sadistically pepper-spraying peaceful, sitting protesters at UC-Davis shows a police state in its pure form. It's easy to be outraged by this incident as though it's some sort of shocking aberration, BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS NOT. The Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta adeptly demonstrates with an assemblage of video how common such excessive police force has been in response to the Occupy protests."
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ISRAEL:
Prostituting Herself out to the
American New World Order System
November 11, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
We have spoken often on the pages of this website of the apostasy (or "falling away" - 2 Thess. 2:3) of the church in these "Last Days" - a church that the Bible speaks of as a WHORE (one who sells her sexual favors for money) riding a Beast (i.e., the American New World Order System) [Rev. 17:3-6]. The Bible speaks of this as an "ABOMINATION" to the Lord. (Rev. 17:4-5)
But it's not just the church that the Scriptures picture as having sold herself out to the American New World Order System as a WHORE in the "End of Days;" the Bible also speaks of Israel doing the same thing:...
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CHRISTIANS: ONCE
AGAIN ON THE WRONG
SIDE OF HISTORY
October 28, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
The other day I received the following letter (email) from someone I consider to be a friend; the views she expresses are typical of the kind of response I have been receiving from many Christians regarding our trip to NYC to "partner" ourselves PHYSICALLY with the poor who are demonstrating there against the American New World Order System.
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LISTENING TO THE LORD
Many of you have written to us wondering why we have not as yet "gotten on the road." Well, I can tell you, it has not been for lack of trying. When we traded our car for our motor home, we knew that it would take a lot of work (and money) to get a twenty-year old motor home "road-ready" - but we simply had no idea of the difficulty we were facing.
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THE CANDIDACY OF RICK PERRY AND WHAT IT PORTENDS
September 26, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
On August 13, 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry jumped into the 2012 presidential race. He announced his candidacy at a RedState gathering of conservative bloggers in Charleston, South Carolina by saying,
"President Obama has been downgrading American jobs, downgrading our standing in the world, downgrading our financial stability, downgrading confidence and downgrading the hope of a better future for our children."
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THE GROUND IS GIVING AWAY UNDERNEATH
OUR FEET
September 13, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
We have spoken often on the pages of this website of the "SIGNS OF THE TIMES" about which the Bible warns us; for example, the Apostle Paul tells us,
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." (I Thess. 5:4-6)
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THE US IS PLAYING
WITH FIRE IN LIBYA
August 28, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
What's really happening in Libya has escaped most Americans — especially American Christians; the truth is, what's occurring in Libya has NOTHING to do with freedom and democracy, and everything to do with the American oil elite's lust for Libya's oil.
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LONDON IS BURNING
August 12, 2011
By: S.R. Shearer
There was a sense of panic on the streets of London as a spate of rioting and looting that had erupted in poorer parts of the city last weekend continued to spread to new neighborhoods and new cities throughout England. The unrest kicked off on Saturday, Aug. 6 after a protest over the Aug. 4 fatal shooting by police of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old from the Tottenham neighborhood of northern London.
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PRODUCE ACTION IS WORTHLESS
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
Very
obviously, Christians are facing a time of crisis,
one which all Christians - if they really are
Christians - have long expected, and one which
shouldn't come as a surprise - CHURCH APOSTASY:
the refusal of the church
to see itself any longer as a "citizen"
of a heavenly kingdom having nothing to do with
this world ["My kingdom is not of this world
... my kingdom ... (comes) not from hence."
(John 18:36)] to
seeing itself, rather, as a "citizen"
or "friend" of this present evil world
and all that such a thing portends - from the church's
involvement in the world's political affairs to
its involvement in death squad activity in the name
of God in South and Central America, the Middle
East, Asia, Africa, etc. ["...Ye adulterers
and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship
of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore
will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God"
( James 4:4)].
But, again, why should we as Christians be surprised
by all this? - isn't this what the Bible said would
happen? - "Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day (i.e., the day of the rapture
and the resurrection) shall not come, except there
come a falling away (i.e., apostasy) first ..."
(2 Thess. 2:3)
WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO?
What then should we do with regard to this crisis? Menachem Begin, the former Prime Minister of Israel, faced a similar crisis in his life and in the life of the Jewish People in the early 1940s. The crisis he faced had to do with whether or not he should wait for the end of World War II and the plodding negotiations of Jewish "mainline moderates" such as Dr. Chaim Weizmann and the World Zionist Organization to press the British Mandate Authority to facilitate Jewish immigration to Palestine (all this in addition to having to rely on the maddening timidity of the mainline Jewish defense organization - the Haganah - to secure their safety in Palestine), OR whether he should join up with the radicals, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and the Irgun Zvai Leumi - and hang the "niceties of diplomacy."
He finally chose Jabotinsky and the Irgun! - and he never looked back. Years later, in remarking on the single-mindedness of the organization he finally joined - i.e., the Irgun - he said: "In times like those, there is no greater force than people who (1) have the ability to see beyond the concerns of daily life, despite the sometimes very pressing nature of those concerns, (2) who possess the capacity for self-sacrifice, and (3) who are willing to get involved!" Begin believed that the rest didn't matter! And so it is with us today, the rest doesn't matter! - one's natural talent, one's standing within the church, one's ability to speak, one's wealth, one's education, one's personality, the number of mistakes one has made in his or her life, one's age, one's sex, etc. - all of that is inconsequential in comparison.
A CALL TO ACTION
This
website and the New Antipas Papers
are first and foremost a call to action;
a call to the kind of people who joined themselves
to Vladimir Jabotinsky and the Irgun; to
the kind of people who possess vision and the capacity
for self-sacrifice. It's a call for them to get
involved! And to do it NOW! - before
it's too late. To wait is to make prophecy of no
effect - after all, prophecy is meaningless to those
who refuse to do anything about it.
Prophecy is nothing more than a roadsign telling us of the danger that's ahead and warning us to take corrective action BEFORE we get to the danger. If we do nothing until we finally get there, it will be too late. Thus, if the only reaction this website and the NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS can elicit in you is "Wow! - what a wonderful website and what a wonderful book" - then we have utterly failed in what we set out to do, and you have missed the point of this website and the book altogether. Knowledge which does not produce action is worthless!
It
is to those persons who possess the willingness
to get involved that we now turn and to whom we
now direct the following remarks: first, there are
many things that will hinder you from getting involved
- and sadly, your greatest hindrance will probably
be those dear Christian brothers and sisters who
claim to see what you see, but who caution "moderation."
Those who do, however, are usually people who have
a stake in the status quo; in other words,
there's a reason behind their so-called "moderation"
- they probably have a lot more to lose than you
do. The fact of the matter is, not many rich, not
many successful, not many "high church officials"
will abandon "moderation" - they have
too much to lose. This is why Jesus said, "...
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of
a [sewing] needle, than for a rich man to enter
into the kingdom of God" (Matt. 19:24),
and why Paul said, "For ye see your calling,
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh,
not many mighty, not many noble, are called ..."
(1 Cor. 1:26)
SPIRITUAL COWARDS
Mostly, those who call for "moderation" are people who - while they might see objectively what you're talking about and who might even find it stimulating to sit in the safety of their living rooms for hours on end discussing this or that "end-times scenario" - will go ballistic if you actually suggest doing something about it; for instance, demonstrating against those churches that support the American New World Order System. [Please see that portion of our website, "Taking the Gospel of the Kingdom to the Poor."]
That's when the "moderates" panic! That's when people get labeled a "Jim Jones," a "Branch Davidian," a reckless and irresponsible radical, an "Unloving Person."
But
look beyond the labels and you might see something
else at work here! - a selfish effort by the "moderates"
to shame you into silence and inaction. Why? - because
if such thinking were to really catch on, they will
be shown to be what they really are - spiritual
cowards who have too much at stake in this
world and in the status quo of today's church
to get involved - whether it be pastors who have
their reputations and pay checks to guard, ministry
leaders who depend on "compromised" sources
of income, wives who have their "nests"
to protect from the "irresponsibility"
of a husband who has hit the "nut circuit,"
Christian business people and professionals who
have their "reputations" to protect, etc.
- and in order to hide that fact, they are willing
to stop at nothing to put the "radicals"
to an open shame.
"Moderates" are the people who are given to writing time-consuming memoranda, holding "bigwig" conferences, "reasoning" with the opposition, discussing things endlessly, and not for the purpose of finding out the truth, but of "buying time" and "confusing the issue" - "Did so and so really say such and such? - I don't care whether a thousand witnesses heard him - let's find out what really happened." The object here, of course, is not to get to the bottom of what happened - after all, if a thousand witnesses won't suffice, nothing will. The real object is to get everything so tied up in red tape that by the time it's "sorted out," everyone is gone.
TO THE "MODERATES," WE
WOULD SIMPLY SAY THIS ...
To the "moderates," we would simply say this: What does one do with people who purposefully are leading the church into apostasy and into an alliance with Christians who believe that they can become equal with Christ in the Godhead (such as Bennie Hinn, James Robison, etc.)? - Reason with them? What's there to reason about? These people know what they're doing! - and you are not the first to question them on these matters. They've heard all the arguments before. [Please see our articles, "Luciferic Christianity" and "The God-Men of the American New World Order System."]
What value is there in meeting with such people? What does one say to a Paul Crouch, for example, when he says that those who are standing against the church's alliance with the kind of leaders who involve themselves in the great wickedness of "Luciferic Christianity?" should be shot? Discuss with him the kind of gun that is best for such a purpose? Negotiate with him over the ammunition that should be used?
What utter nonsense!" - after all, what's at stake here is the church's soul! There is nothing to negotiate about! And if those you love in the church refuse to go along, and you think to stay for their sake, be assured, you'll accomplish nothing - you're "going" will accomplish more than your "staying" ever could by showing them by deeds rather than words how serious matters really are. Remember, what's at stake here is eternity! - your eternity!
AN UNFORTUNATE REALITY
At the heart of the confusion that exists today within Christendom is the presence on this earth at this time in history of an entity - the American New World Order System - that falsely claims to represent Christ on earth. [Please see our article, "The Rich Have Seized Control of the Church."]
It is exactly the presence of this entity that is the cause of such confusion among the unsaved poor today - precisely those to whom Jesus came to save. It is no accident that Jesus said:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised ..."
Naturally
enough - and notwithstanding this verse and countless
others like it - the claim of most American evangelical
leaders that the American New World Order System
represents Christ's kingdom on earth can only be
a source of great confusion to the
poor of the earth; a "turn-off" to the
destitute of this world who see the American New
World Order System and the church that justifies
it as frauds.
The poor cannot be blamed for seeing the Christianity of today being preached by America's evangelical leaders as a rich, white man's religion having NOTHING to do with them. What do the poor of the world want to do with a religion that justifies the very system - i.e., the American New World Order System - that oppresses and brutalizes them? [We urge you to read our article, "A Woman Riding A Beast Going Forth Conquering and to Conquer" for insight as to how this partnership between the rich of the world and Christianity works.]
GOD'S ANSWER TO THIS DECEPTION
The
"Gospel of the Kingdom" is God's answer
to this deception. It has been calculated to rip
away the mask of piety that the religious FRAUDS
who wickedly justify this system hide behind - for
example, Christian leaders such as the late D. James
Kennedy, Charles Stanley, C. Peter Wagner and John
Hagee - while at the same time revealing the evil,
avaricious "money-grubbing" that's really
at the heart of the American Empire, and that animates
ALL those associated with it. [Please
see "The
Superman Theology of the International Christian
Embassy's Feast of Tabernacles" for
a discussion of the theology and eschatology that
animates people such as John Hagee.]
Once these frauds - and the system they excuse - are exposed for what they actually are, then the poor can see Christianity for what it really is: God's way of salvation for them, and see Christ for whom He really was (is) - a POOR carpenter who said of Himself:
"... Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." (Luke 9:58) -
A Man who rather than placating the rich (as the leaders of today's church so shamefully do), said of them,
"... Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
"And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a [sewing] needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:23-24) [Please see our article, "The Rich Have Seized Control of the Church."]
It is precisely about the "Gospel of the Kingdom" that Jesus said:
"This GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." (Matt. 24:14) [We urge you to see our articles, "The Kingdom of God Is at Hand," "The Good News of the Coming Kingdom," "The Principles of the Kingdom" and "The American new World Order System Must Give Way to the Kingdom of Heaven."]
The "end," thus, is tied to the preaching of the "Gospel of the Kingdom" to all nations.
And He went on in the very same discourse to say:
"Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
"Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods." (Matt. 24:46-47)
Of course, the work will be dangerous! - there is no doubt about that. Jesus said:
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
"But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues [in today's parlance, 'church meeting halls'];
"And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles [i.e., unbelievers]." (Matthew 10:16-18)
Pretty
frightening - especially for the poor and inarticulate;
but Jesus said:
"... when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." (Matthew 10:19-20)
YOUR PREACHING WILL
ACCOMPLISH TWO THINGS
Jesus said:
"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)
You are not called to be subtle about the "Gospel of the Kingdom." Your preaching will accomplish two things:
It will draw some to you - those whose hearts God has prepared for such a day, and you will be surprised to find out who these people are.
It will drive others away from you, and so much so that the Bible says, "And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake ..." (Matthew 10:21-22)
Your
job is to take the first group and become a shepherd
to them. Begin meeting with them, and let your meetings
be seen of all men. Jesus said:
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
"Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:14-16)
Insofar as the second group is concerned, Jesus said:
"When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." (Matthew 10:23)
And He went on to say:
"The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
"It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?" (Matthew 10:16-25)
Finally, Jesus said to His disciples to whom He had committed the "Gospel of the Kingdom:"
"TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
"And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
"And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
"Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
"(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWETH THAT YE HAVE NEED OF ALL THESE THINGS." (Matthew 6:25-32)
And
so I now earnestly pray for you, just as Paul prayed
so many years ago, that -
"... the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto YOU the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
"The eyes of YOUR understanding being enlightened; that YE may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS,
"And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to US-WARD who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
"Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
"Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
"AND HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE HIM TO BE THE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH,
"Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." (Ephesians 3:10, 17-23)
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO FELLOWSHIP ON HOW TO GO ON IN THESE DANGEROUS AND TROUBLED TIMES, WE URGE YOU TO CONTACT FRED PALMQUIST; HE IS A CO-FOUNDER WITH ME OF ANTIPAS MINISTRIES. YOU MAY EMAIL HIM AT: fredpalmquist@sbcglobal.net OR PHONE HIM AT 916-730-7099 OR 916-451-1719.
God bless you all,
S.R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries.