Eat Some Bacon and the Holy Ghost is Toast!

Oh, and you'll stink, too!

The apostle is having a snit fest today about the sacred and profane.  Can you imagine sharing a cave in Petra with this guy?  You wont even be able to blow your nose without being told it is a sin.

God commands us not to consume or even to touch the unclean thing.  This is an object lesson and a TEST. Will we obey God, or will we do what we or some man decides is right?

We may consume or use ONLY the dead bodies of creatures that have been sanctified by the word of God.
1 Ti 4:4   For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: ⁵ For [if] it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.  Anything that is contrary to the word of God [adultery, murder, consuming the unclean thing, observing Sunday or any other day instead of God's commanded Sabbath (sunset Fri to sunset Sat) etc etc]  is sin.

I remember dingy comments like this years ago when part of WCG as a child.  Hush Puppy shoes were sometimes made with pig skin and it was considered a sin to wear them.

We spend a lot of time avoiding pork, other unclean creatures, furs, and the skins of unclean creatures, and that is good; yet we have failed to learn the spiritual lesson of this physical command. The New Covenant is a spiritual Covenant involving the presence of the Holy Spirit of Almighty God.
One major lesson of the clean and the unclean is that God will not tolerate even the slightest presence of sin.

The apostle is not allowing any of his women to wear mink or chinchilla furs or for that matter any fur!  Maybe this is another reason his wife left him after he threw out all her furs and unclean leather shoes.

We are not to consume or even to touch the dead body of any unclean creature.  That includes skins and furs.

The hair or wool sheared from LIVING animals may be used, as the operative concept is DEATH, with the dead unclean creature picturing the person who dies in wickedness remaining polluted by sin.
The clean creature picture the righteous godly person and the unclean pictures the person who is spiritually unclean before God through rebellion and compromise with the law and commandments of God.  The dead bodies of the clean animals picture those persons clean from sin, through their faithfulness to God and awaiting their resurrection to eternal life as Christ the Lamb of God was resurrected to eternal life; the dead bodies of the unclean picture persons who are polluted by sin.

Get thee behind me Starbucks!  I rebuke you McDonald's!  In the name of Jesus, I command you Baskin and Robbins BE GONE!  Damn, no more treats on that long drive home after a mind numbingly boring church service.

To tolerate sin without rebuking it is to tolerate spiritual uncleanness among us! To compromise with the Sabbath and pay others to work for us in restaurants is to not only tolerate sin, it encourages the sin of polluting the Sabbath and it is active participation in other men’s sins.

Did you know  that when you have that pork hotdog you automatically start to stink and smell like a sewer?

When we eat we internalize what we eat, and when we touch filth we become polluted with that filth.
If you put your hand in sewage; would you not then wash it to cleanse it?
The lesson is the same, and God used certain animals to teach us about eating and internalizing evil. He used the very touching of the unclean dead body to teach us that dipping our hand in the wickedness of spiritual sewage will make us unclean and detestable to God.
If we have been exposed and touched evil we are contaminated with that evil and need to be cleansed; just like a person handling sewage begins to stink of that sewage. And if we actually eat the physical unclean thing which is representative of internalizing spiritual sewage; how much more do we stink of sin before our God?

That BLT sandwich you had today is going to cause the Holy Ghost to high tail it out of you!  Swoosh!  Did you feel it just leave?

Lets get this clear: Almighty God will NOT tolerate anyone who compromises with HIS commandments or who breaks his laws; they will be rejected from being his Spiritual Temple!
Let’s make this even clearer: Almighty God will NOT dwell in a filthy sinful environment!
God’s spirit will NOT remain in a willfully sinful person! And we become willfully sinful the minute we begin to make excuses for sin; when we say that we are only weak flesh and that he will forgive, and then use that as an excuse to avoid any serious effort to overcome.
If we justify working on Sabbath [sunset Friday to sunset Saturday] by saying that God is love and he would not want us to lose our jobs: WE ARE SINNERS and God’s spirit will leave us if we do not quickly and sincerely REPENT!

Is Your Salvation At Risk If You Use Gel Caps?

I should have known it would only be a matter of time before the apostle would stick his nose into members medicine cabinets.  The medicine cabinets of COG members are always in the leaderships domain as are kitchens.

Beware you heathens that use gel caps or take Condriton. Your salvation is at risk if you dare consume these things!

The Malm writes:

Gel caps and geletine based capsuls are not acceptable unelss they are agar or beef hide based. You can internet and email such questions to the manufacturer.

Discuss the matter with your physician or pharmacist, most medications are chemically produced and it is the caps that are the problem.

There are some things like Condriton that are made from shellfish which should be totally avoided. Beware of iron suppliments that are made from hemoglobin. Also clearly unclean things like shark oil.

List of common medications. http://www.savealife.org/kosher.htm

Remember that acceptabe medications are widely available, to the billion or so Muslims and jews demanding acceptable medication.

Apparently insulin is also can be a sin.

Re unclean pharmaceuticals, I think that some thyroid medications are made from pigs. Anyone on this kind of med might like to ask for an alternative to the “porcine” derived thryoid medication.

Years ago I opted for synthetic insuline for this reason. James

Abomination of Desolation To Be Set Up In 2-3 Weeks

Guess which one of our favorite legalistic Armstrongite crackpots said this:

Right now we are almost ending Aug and are at a critical time for these signs to appear or not.

In the following few weeks one of  three events will happen:

1)   Pope Benedict dies and is replaced, with the abomination being set up in the Papacy.

2)   Pope Benedict is strengthened and empowered to do miracles being set up as the abomination.
 Remember that Benedict does number 666 in the Koine Greek of Revelation.  This would allow him to start at the run, already having his organizational support set up, as he has ordained most of the Cardinals in the RC church based on their loyalty to him and his positions.

3)   Nothing of this nature happens and we have more time to make ourselves ready.

I expect that we will have enough time to know for sure by the Feast of Tabernacles.

I want to make it very clear that it is the biblical signs that are the key; and that the most important thing in the universe is:  Thy Will Be Done!

For these next few weeks it is most important that we are Wide Awake and Watching Closely for these biblical signs, of the abomination being set up and a genuine dialogue on peace and safety in the Middle East.

and this:

Benedict through his Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone has been working hard behind the scenes to set up the New Europe and the Pope is now openly intervening to help facilitate a New Order in Europe.

Benedict is now openly intervening in the European situationn and since he follows the traditions of men and the Catholic church instead of the word of God, and since the name Benedict numbers out to 666 in the Koine Greek of Revelation, it is quite possible that  Pope Benedict may be strengthened and empowered to do miracles, being set up as the abomination in mid September.

and this:

News is fast coming that strongly indicates that Pope Benedict will be empowered to become the abomination in mid Sep!!!

and this:

I have speculated that the tribulation could begin this year saying that there was as much as an 80% possibility.  I said this based on the fact that the days of Daniel 12 fit exactly into the period of the  1,290th day on the sixth day of ULB, and then adding another 45 days to the 1,335th day on the day before Pentecost.

Of course this means nothing unless the biblical signs including the setting up of the abomination at the beginning of the days [mid Sep] are seen.

The keys are God’s declared and revealed signs, NOT our speculations.

It's our buddy Apostle Malm!  No shocker there though.  Same old nonsense.

UCG Members Pray To Be Protected From "...these unsavory elements." i.e. COGWA Members

Here is more from the story about the Zambian cattle rustling episode with UCG  members and COGWA members.  Apparently the prayers of the UCG members to be saved and protected from the unsavory COGWA's inspired a cow to return home three times after a COGWA member supposedly stole it. Three times! There must be some prophetic interpretation as to that number.

We would like to update you about what happened with cattle stolen by leaders of a dissident break-off group in Zambia. Four oxen were stolen. One ox, called "Avilo" walked back to its rightful owner three times. The deacon of the break off group who took the animal finally gave up going after it. 

People have asked, "what's the big deal with just a few cows?"  What many don't realize is that a four year old ox is a very valuable asset worth about two years income or more. The oxen were taken only from members of the United Church of God using the name LifeNets at a critical time of planting.  This was a warning to others who had been given cattle by LifeNets what happens when they stay with the United Church of God. We have asked the rogue director of LifeNets to cease and desist using the name LifeNets per an agreement we came to in 2004. He has refused.  For a while he changed the name LifeNets to "Life Shine" for an unknown reason, but has since changed it back to LifeNets. 

This behavior is deplorable, but we are not surprised at the ethics of an organization that calls theft "growth" and  is seriously challenged by telling the truth. We know that in the end God will not be mocked. We thank all who have prayed for the safety of our people and for protection from these unsavory elements. 

We are greatly saddened that what relationships we have built, what humanitarian work was done and funding we provided has been turned against us because of becoming embroiled in someone else's selfish controversy far way. We are happy to report a thriving church of 400 in Zambia that has survived nobly through God's Spirit and discerning brethren who have  become stronger than ever.  Again, we thank you for your concern and prayers.