I can tell you that my day was made this morning when I opened up the World Net Daily News Site and read the article below. This is something all grassroots Americans can get involved with and we can win. Close your eyes for a minute!!!!!
Now think about this thought. There is no more IRS, no more withholding and no more H&R Block:). How did that feel. Well this article ought to fire everyone up. After reading this, if you agree, go to the website and sign up free for updates and sign the petitions to your elected officials in Congress. Get involved and help end the illegal theft of our pocket books. For the American family to survive financially, this has to end!

God Bless
Elaine





THE POWER TO DESTROY
Effort to dump income tax gains steam
Supporters look to have 100 House co-sponsors by July 4

An effort to do away with federal income tax and replace it with a national consumption tax is gaining steam, as activists strive to get at least 100 members of the House of Representatives on board by Independence Day.

"We think we'll be at 100 co-sponsors by July 4," Tom Wright, executive director of Americans for Fair Taxation, told WND.

Wright noted the House bill, H.R. 25, added its latest co-sponsor this week – Republican Rep. Barbara Cubin of Wyoming – bringing the total to 44.

"We're working with our grass-roots people across the country" to get to the goal, Wright said. H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act, is sponsored by Rep. John Linder, R-Ga., who has sponsored similar legislation for the last several years. The latest version of the bill was introduced Jan. 7, 2003.

"The current federal income tax system is broken. Patching up the existing code is pointless. It's time for a fresh approach, a fair approach. It's time for the FairTax," says the group's website.

"From its humble beginnings, the income tax has grown like a cancer by taxing our hard work and discouraging savings and investment."

H.R. 25 would eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with a 23 percent consumption tax paid by the end user. That means business-to-business purchases for the production of goods and services would not be taxed. The organization estimates consumer prices will drop by an estimated 20-30 percent as a result of the change.

The group's website describes how the bill's rebate function works. It assures that those living in poverty would not pay any tax.

"Under the FairTax, no American will pay taxes on necessities. The rebate will be equivalent to the tax paid on essential goods and services. The rebate will be mailed before the tax is actually paid [and] will be paid in equal installments at the beginning of the month. The size of the monthly rebate will be determined by the federal poverty level for a particular household size."

Wright touted the support of the American Farm Bureau. The organization has been educating its membership on the bill, and many state chapters have given the bill legislative priority.

Dumping the income tax has become a campaign issue in many political races this year, Wright says.

"All over Texas, House candidates are supporting it," he said, mentioning races in other states as well.

Wright noted the bill's cause is helped every time Social Security reform is discussed, since, under the plan, the entitlement program would be supported by the consumption tax instead of what he calls the "regressive" Social Security tax.

Americans for Fair Taxation says the first year the plan goes into effect, revenue to the federal government would remain the same. From there, the group claims, revenue will grow due to increased economic activity.

H.R. 25 is pending in the House Ways and Means Committee and has not had a hearing. Once the sponsorship level grows to 100, however, Wright thinks Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif., will take action on the bill.

The bill's Senate version is S.1493, sponsored by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., which was introduced in July.

WND columnist Neal Boortz is a supporter of the plan. In an August column, he addressed the issue of why the idea hasn't been enacted already.

"And just why hasn't it passed?" he wrote. "Because the idea is so bold that many politicians, while personally praising the concept, just assume it can't pass.

"It can pass, my friends. It can pass if the people of America learn the details and then let their elected officials know that they want some action."


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Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

John 20
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

When I hear about all the strife and arguments surrounding the movie "The Passion of The Christ" I am amazed at the lack of the knowledge of the truth about our Blessed Savior in this world. Also, I am quickly reminded that this world hates our Jesus.

I am eternally grateful for a Pastor who taught us to love Gods precious Word. If there was one thing we learned it was a genuine love and respect for the Bible. That blessed Book as quoted above tells us who killed our Lord. In fact, it was all of us from Adam til now that crucified the Lord. But you know what? The remarkable, the wonderful and the glorious truth is that he willingly came and died for us with pure love in his heart and he came and gave his life as our ransom. We could not cross that great gulf to a Holy God because sin from Adam on had separated us from Him. But when Jesus came, he made a way through His precious Blood that we could be born again and made alive as sons and daughters of the Living God and Creator of this beautiful universe. That should make every blood bought saint in this world shout!

Are you going to see the movie? I know I am. For some reason I feel that God is about to do some great things in this old world. Yes he still loves the world even though it has become so wicked. I believe that this film may just be a tool to lead many lost souls into His glorious kingdom. Our job will be to to tell them more about him and how to know Him as personal Saviour and Lord.

As I was writing this, an email came from a dear sister in the Lord, Chris Davis. It is the comments of one who has seen the new Movie. I pray that many will be saved as a result of the great film and I pray that it will begin a great ingathering of souls for the Lord Jesus. May God Bless you this week. Thanks Chris for the email.

Elaine

Copied from an email!
(Jody was working on KVIL Radio with Ron Chapman and is now a TV
anchor person on Channel 11-CBS in Dallas.)

From Jody Dean:

There've been a ton of emails and forwards floating around recently from those who've had the privilege of seeing Mel Gibson's "The Passion Of The Christ" prior to its actual release. I thought I'd give you my reaction after seeing it last night.

The screening was on the first night of "Elevate!", a weekend-long
seminar for young people at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano. There were about 2,000 people there, and the movie was shown after several speakers had taken the podium. It started around 9 and finished around 11...so I reckon the film is about two hours in length. Frankly, I lost complete track of time - so I can't be sure.

I want you to know that I started in broadcasting when I was
13-years-old. I've been in the business of writing, performing,
production, and broadcasting for a long time. I've been a part of movies, radio, television, stage and other productions - so I know how things are done. I know about soundtracks and special effects and make-up and screenplays.

I think I've seen just about every kind of movie or TV show ever
made - from extremely inspirational to extremely gory. I read a lot, too - and have covered stories and scenes that still make me wince. I also have a vivid imagination, and have the ability to picture things as they must have happened - or to anticipate things as they will be portrayed. I've also seen an enormous amount of footage from Gibson's film, so I thought I knew what was coming.

But there is nothing in my existence - nothing I could have read,
seen, heard, thought, or known - that could have prepared me for what I saw on screen last night. This is not a movie that anyone will "like". I don't think it's a movie anyone will "love". It certainly doesn't "entertain". There isn't even the sense that one has just watched a movie.

What it is, is an experience - on a level of primary emotion that
is scarcely comprehensible. Every shred of human preconception or
predisposition is utterly stripped away. No one will eat popcorn
during this film. Some may not eat for days after they've seen it. Quite honestly, I wanted to vomit. It hits that hard.

I can see why some people are worried about how the film portrays the Jews. They should be worried. No, it's not anti-Semitic. What
it is, is entirely shattering. There are no "winners". No one comes
off looking "good" - except Jesus. Even His own mother hesitates. As depicted, the Jewish leaders of Jesus' day merely do what any of us would have done - and still do.

They protected their perceived "place" - their sense of safety and
security, and the satisfaction of their own "rightness". But everyone falters. Caiphus judges. Peter denies. Judas betrays. Simon the Cyrene balks. Mark runs away. Pilate equivocates. The crowd mocks. The soldiers laugh. Longinus still stabs with his pilus. The cent urion still carries out his orders. And as Jesus fixes them all with a glance, they still turn away. The Jews, the Romans, Jesus' friends - they all fall. Everyone, except the Principal Figure. Heaven sheds a single, mighty tear - and as blood and water spew from His side, the complacency of all creation is eternally shattered.


The film grabs you in the first five seconds, and never lets go. The brutality, humiliation, and gore is almost inconceivable - and still probably doesn't go far enough. The scourging alone seems to never end, and you cringe at the sound and splatter of every blow - no matter how steely your nerves. Even those who have known combat or prison will have trouble, no matter their experience - because this Man was not conscripted. He went willingly, laying down His entirety for all. It is one thing for a soldier to die for his countrymen. It's something else entirely to think of even a common man dying for those who hate and wish to kill him. But this is no common man. This is t he King of the Universe. The idea that anyone could or would have gone through such punishment is unthinkable - but this Man was completely innocent, completely holy - and paying the price for others. He screams as He is laid upon the cross, "Father, they don't know. They don't know..."

What Gibson has done is to use all of his considerable skill to portray the most dramatic moment of the most dramatic events since the dawn of time. There is no escape. It's a punch to the gut that puts you on the canvas, and you don't get up. You are simply confronted by the horror of what was done - what had to be done - and why. Throughout the entire film, I found myself apologizing.

What you've heard about how audiences have reacted is true. There was no sound after the film's conclusion. No noise at all. No one got up. No one moved. The only sound one could hear was sobbing. In all my years of public life, I have never heard anything like that.

I told many of you that Gibson had reportedly re-shot the ending to include more "hope" through the Resurrection? That's not true. The Resurrection scene is perhaps the shortest in the entire movie - and yet it packs a punch that can't be quantified. It is perfect. There is no way to negotiate the meaning out of it. It simply asks, "Now, what will you do?"

I'll leave the details to you, in the hope that you will see the film - but one thing above all stands out, and I have to tell you
about it. It comes from the end of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness - where the Bible says Satan left him "until a more opportune time".
I imagine Satan never quit tempting Christ, but this film captures
beyond words the most opportune time.

At every step of the way, Satan is there at Jesus' side - imploring Him to quit, reasoning with Him to give up, and seducing Him to surrender.

For the first time, one gets a heart-stopping idea of the sense
of madness that must have enveloped Jesus - a sense of the evil
that was at His very elbow. The physical punishment is relentless - but it's the sense of psychological torture that is most overwhelming. He should have quit. He should have opened His mouth. He should have called 10,000 angels. No one would have blamed Him.

What we deserve is obvious. But He couldn't do that. He wouldn't do that. He didn't do that. He doesn't do that. It was not and is not His character. He was obedient, all the way to the cross - and you feel the real meaning of that phrase in a place the human heart usually doesn't dare to go. You understand that we are called to that same level of obedience. With Jesus' humanity so irresistibly on display, you understand that we have no excuse. There is no place to hide.

The truth is this: Is it just a "movie"? In a way, yes. But it goes far beyond that, in a fashion I've never felt - in any forum.
We may think we "know". We know nothing. We've gone 2,000 years - used to the idea of a pleasant story, and a sanitized Christ. We expect the ending, because we've heard it so many times. God forgive us. This film tears that all away. It's is as close as any of us will ever get to knowing, until we fully know.

Paul understood. "Be urgent, in and out of season."

Luke wrote that Jesus reveals Himself in the breaking of the bread.
Exactly. "The Passion Of The Christ" shows that Bread being
broken.









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I am so proud of Senator Zell Miller ! I just received this email to Zell's website and I am proud to post it here at Let Freedom Ring. This is good day for Georgian's. Now I do not expect this wonderful speech to change things in our nation but at least one more politician has had the guts to speak the truth. If this nation does not repent, we will all perish as a nation. I myself would not want to be living in San Francisco at this time. God's judgement could fall at anytime and it will fall without repentance for the grevious blasphemy going on there.


Genesis 19: 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.


God Bless
Elaine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 12, 2004

Miller Delivers Floor Speech on
‘Deficit of Decency’ in America

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today delivered the following statement on the floor of the United States Senate addressing several social issues facing the country:

“The Old Testament prophet Amos was a sheep herder who lived back in the Judean hills, away from the larger cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Compared to the intellectual urbanites like Isaiah and Jeremiah, he was just an unsophisticated country hick.

“But Amos had a unique grasp of political and social issues and his poetic literary skill was among the best of all the prophets. That familiar quote of Martin Luther King, Jr. about ‘Justice will rush down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream’ are Amos’s words.

“Amos was the first to propose the concept of a universal God and not just some tribal deity. He also wrote that God demanded moral purity, not rituals and sacrifices. This blunt speaking moral conscience of his time warns in Chapter 8, verse 11 of The Book of Amos, as if he were speaking to us today:

That ‘the days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
‘And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.’

‘A famine in the land’. Has anyone more accurately described the situation we face in America today? ‘A famine of hearing the words of the Lord.’

“But some will say, Amos was just an Old Testament prophet – a minor one at that – who lived 700 years before Christ. That is true, so how about one of the most influential historians of modern times?

“Arnold Toynbee who wrote the acclaimed 12 volume A Study of History, once declared, ‘Of the 22 civilizations that have appeared in history, 19 of them collapsed when they reached the moral state America is in today.’

“Toynbee died in 1975, before seeing the worst that was yet to come. Yes, Arnold Toynbee saw the famine. The ‘famine of hearing the words of the Lord.’ Whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square. Whether it is eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance. Whether it is making a mockery of the sacred institution of marriage between a man and woman or, yes, telecasting around the world made-in-the-USA filth masquerading as entertainment.

“The Culture of Far Left America was displayed in a startling way during the Super Bowl’s now infamous half-time show. A show brought to us courtesy of Value-Les Moonves and the pagan temple of Viacom-Babylon.

“I asked the question yesterday, how many of you have ever run over a skunk with your car? I have many times and I can tell you, the stink stays around for a long time. You can take the car through a car wash and it’s still there. So the scent of this event will long linger in the nostrils of America.

“I’m not talking just about an exposed mammary gland with a pull-tab attached to it. Really no one should have been too surprised at that. Wouldn’t one expect a bumping, humping, trashy routine entitled ‘I’m going to get you naked’ to end that way.

“Does any responsible adult ever listen to the words of this rap-crap? I’d quote you some of it, but the Sergeant of Arms would throw me out of here, as well he should. And then there was that prancing, dancing, strutting, rutting guy evidently suffering from jock itch because he kept yelling and grabbing his crotch. But then, maybe there’s a crotch grabbing culture I’ve unaware of.

“But as bad as all this was, the thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing that ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through a hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, screaming about having ‘a bottle of scotch and watching lots of crotch.’ Think about that.

“This is the same flag that we pledge allegiance to. This is the flag that is draped over coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crock’s bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered, and ridden out of this country on a rail. Talk about a good reality show, there’s one for you.

“The desire and will of this Congress to meaningfully do anything about any of these so-called social issues is non existent and embarrassingly disgraceful. The American people are waiting and growing impatient with us. They want something done.

“I am pleased to be a co-sponsor of S.J. Res. 26 along with Senator Allard and others, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. And S.1558, the Liberties Restoration Act, which declares religious liberty rights in several ways, including the Pledge of Allegiance and the display of the Ten Commandments. And today I join Senator Shelby and others with the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 that limits the jurisdiction of federal courts in certain ways.

“In doing so, I stand shoulder to shoulder not only with my Senate co-sponsors and Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama but, more importantly, with our Founding Fathers in the conception of religious liberty and the terribly wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us in.

"Everyone today seems to think that the U.S. Constitution expressly provides for separation of church and state. Ask any ten people if that’s not so. And I’ll bet you most of them will say ‘Well, sure.’ And some will point out, ‘it’s in the First Amendment.’

“Wrong! Read it! It says, ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.’ Where is the word ‘separate’? Where are the words ‘church’ or ‘state.’

“They are not there. Never have been. Never intended to be. Read the Congressional Records during that four-month period in 1789 when the amendment was being framed in Congress. Clearly their intent was to prohibit a single denomination in exclusion of all others, whether it was Anglican or Catholic or some other.

“I highly recommend a great book entitled Original Intent by David Barton. It really gets into how the actual members of Congress, who drafted the First Amendment, expected basic Biblical principles and values to be present throughout public life and society, not separate from it.

“It was Alexander Hamilton who pointed out that ‘judges should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty.’ Bound down! That is exactly what is needed to be done. There was not a single precedent cited when school prayer was struck down in 1962.

“These judges who legislate instead of adjudicate, do it without being responsible to one single solitary voter for their actions. Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence was a brilliant young physician from Pennsylvania named Benjamin Rush.

“When Rush was elected to that First Continental Congress, his close friend Benjamin Franklin told him ‘We need you. . . we have a great task before us, assigned to us by Providence.’ Today, 228 years later there is still a great task before us assigned to us by Providence. Our Founding Fathers did not shirk their duty and we can do no less.

“By the way, Benjamin Rush was once asked a question that has long interested this Senator from Georgia in particular. Dr. Rush was asked, are you a democrat or an aristocrat? And the good doctor answered, ‘I am neither’. ‘I am a Christocrat. I believe He, alone, who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him.’ That reply of Benjamin Rush is just as true today in the year of our Lord 2004 as it was in the year of our Lord 1776.

“So, if I am asked why – with all the pressing problems this nation faces today – why am I pushing these social issues and taking the Senate’s valuable time? I will answer: Because, it is of the highest importance. Yes, there’s a deficit to be concerned about in this country, a deficit of decency.

“So, as the sand empties through my hourglass at warp speed – and with my time running out in this Senate and on this earth, I feel compelled to speak out. For I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.”


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Hi everyone,

Today I am posting an article by Joan Veon posted at World Net Daily. This writer is an expert on the New World Order and reports on the meetings of those involved in the movement. Take a long look at this article. I believe it is truly one to think about. Most interesting is the report on those from the Bush Administration and Congressional leaders who participated in the meetings in Davos, Switzerland.

The one world government is going to be set up and the Anti-Christ will be its leader. Keep looking up! I believe the Lord could return for his church at any moment. Are you readY?

Daniel 2:41-44

41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Integrating the world
Posted: January 27, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joan Veon

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND ? Yearly, the powerbrokers of the world meet at the World Economic Forum in the little ski resort of Davos, Switzerland. There for one week among the breathtaking majesty of the Swiss Alps, they come to hear the world's foremost political and economic minds discuss how they see the state of the world.

In the last five years, there has been a new dimension to their deliberations as the CEOs of the world's leading corporations have undertaken to partner with the United Nations in helping to solve the world's problems of education, lack of clean water, HIV-AIDS and improving the lives of poor people around the world.

For the last 34 years, the World Economic Forum has sought to set the agenda and provide ideas for CEOs to ponder. Throughout its existence, the Forum has established itself and its reputation for bringing the right set of people at the right time to discuss the key issues of the day.

As a result, it is considered one of the most important meetings ? one that you don't want to miss. It should be noted that the World Economic Forum is a non-governmental organization with the United Nations and, as such, helps to spread the philosophy of the U.N. as the world's foremost powerbrokers.

Yearly, the WEF provides participants with a book that contains the biography of all those in attendance. I have found ? as I have tallied the various organizations and schools that the participants are part of and have graduated from ? that about 10 percent of those attending form an "inner core" of people who foster world government, which some describe as "an open society" or an "interdependent world."

They are members of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Tri-Lateral Commission and other organizations such as the Aspen Institute and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. Furthermore, most of them have been schooled at Oxford, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge and Princeton, as well as the London School of Economics, which upholds socialism and the tenets of communism ? open borders and world government through control.

This year, President Bill Clinton opened the 5-day conference that offers more than 190 workshops and sessions. Vice President Dick Cheney addressed the plenary on Saturday. Five members of the Bush administration, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, are here along with Sens. Saxby Chambliss, Gordon Smith, Orrin Hatch and Richard Shelby. Others include Securities Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson, Iraqi administrator L. Paul Bremer, four Democratic and five Republican congressmen. All total, they will participate 53 times.

What I have found, as I have covered the last six meetings, is that the ideas that flow on this level are totally different from those of Joe Average. On the local level, we are made to feel that the nation-states are divided and that the world is functioning as it did 100 years ago. However, that is not so. On this level, a corporation can be more powerful and have more income than Third World countries. Furthermore, over the last 55 years, the economic, political, trade and communication barriers between countries have been torn down, thus making it possible for the world to integrate.

During this time, international organizations were established: the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the International Criminal Court, to name a few. With the war on terrorism, cooperation between intelligence agencies and police forces worldwide has enhanced integration on that level. These CEOs think in terms of transnational because that is how they operate ? no borders. The concepts and ideas discussed here are not normally found in the local or even national newspapers. In fact, I am sure these concepts are foreign to those reading them.

Even our own government is global in their thinking and policies. When President Clinton addressed the Forum on Wednesday, he said:


All of human history is a story of increasing contact. We move from isolation to interdependence to integration to an environment of shared benefits and responsibilities and values. Right now, globally, we have interdependence. We are struggling to get the integration that most of you want to lead the world in that direction. Our job is to move the world from interdependence to an integrated environment with shared benefits and responsibilities.


In April 2003, Clinton told students at the University of Miami that the "challenge of the current generation would be to move from interdependence to integration" which is what he said in Davos. What is he talking about? He is saying that the walls are down and we are dependent on one another, but we are not yet one, which is integration.

I bumped into Congressman Barney Frank and asked what he wanted to accomplish in Davos, and he said he wanted to get the message to the world's top business leaders and bankers that he is prepared to cooperate with worldwide economic integration under the right terms of trade which includes banning child labor and the right of working people to bargain collectively." He was referring to the WTO trade negotiations that the Bush administration is involved in which call for the total elimination of all trade barriers and export subsidies.

In a workshop on China, led by Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, he pointed out President Bush has been to China twice and he fully supports China's integration into the global market. Corporations are able to make large profits by moving operations there. Several on the panel testified about those opportunities. One Asian businessman said, "Chinese assets in 2004 is good monkey business." This year is their Year of the Monkey.

Now why is China so profitable? It is no secret that their people are being paid slave-labor wages to work in factories. With 1.4 billion people, their slave-labor benefits all the countries of the world, thus undermining economies with higher paid employees that are forced to downsize, outsource, privatize and reduce wages. You see, in a world without borders you can do that. Currently there are 200 million Chinese who need to be absorbed into the global workforce. This equates to finding jobs for the entire U.S. or European workforce! In America, we are confronted with the loss of steel, manufacturing and textiles moving overseas. In January, Levi Strauss announced ? after 150 years of doing business in America ? they were moving their last U.S. plant to China.

Commerce Secretary Don Evans said with excitement that the "U.S. is simply trying to create conditions for long term monetary growth. Those conditions that have made the U.S. the most important economic engine in the world ? that is the key focus in China."

Wednesday U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft met in a closed-door session, and on Thursday he delivered his address to the plenary. He defined terrorism as a "global threat not limited by international or geographic borders." He went on to say, "None of the nations here can defeat terrorism alone. It was difficult for the U.S. to come to the realization that we could not do it alone. We are incapable of having the kind of success alone that we could have working together to preserve a format of exchange and freedom." Furthermore, Mr. Ashcroft said the United States was pleased to "reaffirm the U.S. commitment to the types of shared values the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, the Group of Eight and a variety of other institutions provide."

What does all of this point out? There is a "looking up," if you will, to international institutions for answers instead of the individual nation-state acting independently as they have in the past.

If we look at the United Nation's charter, it is not based on the U.S. Constitution that lays out what a republic is, but is based on the USSR constitution. As such, the underlying philosophy of a world dominated by international organizations is democracy. Democracy is where the majority rules vs. every individual having a voice.

Even Secretary-General Kofi Annan told CEOs, "Governments are collectively the custodians of our common life on this planet ? a life we all share." The message in Davos is clear: We are moving from interdependency to integration.


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The Rome Statute

Prophecy - Signs
Monday, January 19, 2004
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

On December 31, 2000, former president Bill Clinton issued the following official statement from Camp David. "The United States is today signing the 1998 Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court. In taking this action, we join more than 130 other countries that have signed by the 31 December, 2000 deadline established in the Treaty."


Clinton's action, taken in the final hours of his presidency, won praises from the international elitists and Ivory Tower editorialists for taking his 'bold' action.

Some background: A permanent international court has been on the globalists’ wish list since the end of World War II.

In December 1948, the UN General Assembly, after adopting the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, asked the International Law Commission (ILC) to conduct a study on the establishment of an "international judicial organ," which would try persons charged with genocide.

Under the terms of this treaty, "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members" of an identifiable group is genocide, punishable by the ICC. Christians believe that only those who are Christians can be made eligible for heaven. (I am the way and the truth and the life and no man comes to the Father but by Me")

If heaven is exclusive to Christians, then it means nobody else gets to go. The argument has already been advanced that Christian theology is hateful because it proscribes other religions, causing serious mental harm to those other religious groups. Interesting, no?

In the mid-1990s with violence erupting in the former Yugoslavia, the idea for an international court gained traction.

In July 1998 in Rome, the UN convened the "United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court," to establish a permanent international tribunal to try individuals for "the most serious offenses of global concern."

Apparently, the General Assembly wearied of trying to define crimes before prosecuting them so they created the ICC to prosecute the crime of "aggression," although, 50 years later, they still haven’t defined it.

Once established, the court will claim jurisdiction over every person in the world; grant the ICC prosecutor extraordinary powers; require maximum U.S. monetary support – but minimum U.S. influence – and grant ICC officials lifetime immunity.

It will also violate national sovereignty – as happened when Slovenia, which ratified the treaty on December 31, was forced to amend its constitution, change its penal code, alter its criminal procedure code, adjust various regulations, and conform its law on police forces to adhere to the ICC before it could ratify the treaty.

In the United States, we would have to forfeit protection against double jeopardy. The ICC retains the right to review U.S. court decisions and re-try individuals if the ICC determines decisions "were not conducted independently or impartially," or were for the purpose of "shielding the person concerned from criminal responsibility."

The ICC treaty also lacks the constitutional safeguards Americans cherish, like the right to confront one’s accusers; due process; trial by jury; a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury; and protection from cruel and unusual punishments.

On April 11, 2002, the ICC received the sixty ratifications that it needed to be established.

On Monday May 6, 2002 the Bush administration announced that the U.S. would 'unsign' the treaty signed by former President Clinton, angering those same international elitists and Ivory Tower editorialists who then made it their mission to convince America to get rid of George Bush and replace him with someone more like good ol' Bill.

It was the first time any President has ever revoked a former president's signature on a treaty or "unsigned" any kind of treaty. According to the UN Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs no one in the world has ever "unsigned" a UN treaty.

(Of course, America never had a former president like Bill Clinton, so Bush was just beginning to 'unsign' all kinds of agreements that, if allowed to stand, would have made America a UN colony.)

The globalist elite went ballistic, arguing that Bush 'damaged' the credibility of the president's signature on future treaties, saying it would lead other nations wondering if the next U.S. president would reverse the decision.

Furthermore, they argued, "Unsigning is an act of unilateral diplomatic disarmament that strips the U.S. of any ICC negotiating credibility and inhibits U.S. ability to use its seat on the U.N. Security Council to refer atrocities to the ICC." (So?)

Helps to explain why Al Gore got all the good press during Election 2000 while George Bush was pilloried as 'clueless' in foreign policy because he couldn't (at that time) name the president of Pakistan.

Of course, until Osama bin Laden and the Taliban thrust him into the limelight, there were probably only about six Americans in the whole country that had ever even heard of Pervez Musharraf.

In any case, the expansive jurisdiction claimed by the ICC would put every U.S. serviceman and woman, and even U.S. travelers especially if they are or have been public officials, at risk of being grabbed for trial by judges from Sierra Leone, Sudan, Iran, and other nations hostile to the rule of law, but make up the UN's cadre of 'international justices'.

The ICC is part and parcel of persistent plans to erase the borders of national sovereignty by globalizing governments, economies, judicial systems, peacekeeping, and so-called humanitarian escapades.

The ICC plans to prosecute charges of war crimes, genocide and other crimes that have not yet been defined, in procedures that violate every U.S. constitutional safeguard. The ICC is accountable to no one, not even to the United Nations, whose charter recognizes the sovereignty of nation-states and where we have our Security Council veto.

The prophet Daniel wrote of the rise and fall of four successive world empires with such breathtaking detail that some still argue, in spite of the historical evidence, that the Book of Daniel was a late forgery written sometime after BC 163.

Some Christians have even been persuaded by this unproven allegation, until it is pointed out to them that if it were true, then Jesus was either a liar or He wasn't really God, since He Himself made reference to Daniel as a prophet.

The four empires were those of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Alexander the Great's Greek Empire and the Roman Empire.

Daniel also detailed how each empire would fall. Except for Rome. Daniel said the Roman Empire would not fall, but would collapse from within and, in the last days, would be revived in a somewhat different form.

Daniel said that the revived Rome would not be ruled with an iron fist, but rather, with 'iron mixed with miry clay' -- partly strong and partly weak. (Like democracy? It is our free democracy here in America that is our greatest weakness to preventing terrorism against us. The EU is ALSO a democracy, albeit somewhat different than ours. Think about it.)

Each empire rose and fell as predicted and on cue and for sixteen hundred years, the only Roman Empire was spiritual -- still headquartered in Rome, but without a physical, material, political presence.

But both Daniel and John spoke of the antichrist and HIS empire, saying it WILL be headquartered in Rome and that it WILL be a literal, physical and political empire.

In 1948, (the year Israel was reborn) the political Roman empire began to twitch when six European states entered into the Benelux Treaty. That treaty was expanded and codified into law under the 1957 Treaty of Rome.

The original Treaty of Rome signatories (ten in all) remain to this day a power apart from the greater European Union, with special status unique to them, such status being one of the reasons the expanding EU can't agree on a constitution. The original ten refuse to give up their special status or acquiesce to demands new states be afforded full membership.

We've already looked at the ICC, which came into being under its official name of the 'Rome Statute' and we've looked at what the it aims to do.

Much of the tension that exists between Washington and our so-called European 'allies' stem from Bush's refusal to turn over the keys to our kingdom to the European-inspired International Criminal Court in Belgium.

So, what are the odds this all came together by happenstance? What are the odds that the Treaty of Rome that created what even the Europeans call a 'revived Roman Empire' which then created a global criminal court called the 'Rome Statute' with the authority to try individuals for hate crimes isn't laying the groundwork for the coming government of the antichrist?

What are the odds that we're reading this incorrectly and this isn't the real McCoy?

Then factor in what Jesus said about when these things BEGIN to come to pass, then Israel's national redemption draws nigh?

The Olivet Discourse was NOT referencing the Church or the Church Age. Christians are ALREADY redeemed. The purpose of the Tribulation Period (the Time of Jacob's Trouble) is to bring about the national redemption of Israel. (See Zechariah 12:10)

At some point BEFORE the Lord appears to put an end to the war of Armageddon in the Last Day, something else happens.

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18)

The King is coming! Maybe this year. Maybe today.

"Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18)

John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Good Morning All!

What an article! Do you realize that the temple has to be rebuilt in order for the Antichrist to desecrate it at the 31/2 year period of the tribulation. This is really one article to think about. Praise the Lord that we are seeing His Prophetic Word coming true daily. He is coming again soon! Are you ready?

God Bless
Elaine







MUCH ABOUT HISTORY
Israel seeks return
of Temple artifacts
Rabbis urge Vatican to permit search of storerooms for treasures


Posted: January 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern



2004 WorldNetDaily.com

When Israel's chief rabbis meet Pope John Paul II today, they will seek permission to search Vatican storerooms for artifacts such as the huge golden menorah that stood in the Temple in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

Vatican officials confirmed to the Associated Press the meeting would take place but declined comment on the rabbis' request.

Yehuda Metzger and Shlomo Amar are to have an audience with Pope John Paul, the first by Israel's chief rabbis in the Vatican. The pope met Israel's previous chief rabbis during his visit in 2000.

Amar, spiritual leader of Israel's Jews of North African origin, told Israeli army radio that when he received the invitation, he brought up the issue of the artifacts.

"The truth is I asked them, I could not resist," he said. "I asked them about the Temple vessels and the menorah."

When the Romans sacked Jerusalem in AD 70, they took Temple treasures with them. Legend has it that religious articles from the Temple, including the menorah, were among them. Amar said the Vatican has already denied the menorah is there.

The Arch of Titus in Rome depicts victorious Roman legions marching off with the seven-branch menorah in hand.

"My heart tells me this is not the truth, but that it is some kind of camouflage," Amar said.

An aide to the rabbi said the Vatican was not likely to permit a search. The Vatican will allow the rabbis to view rare Jewish manuscripts in its possession, Amar said. He said if the rabbis were to come across "other objects," they would be happy to bring them home.

The Maariv newspaper in Israel said the two rabbis could also seek to buy back a candelabrum that came from the Temple. It is believed to be held in the Vatican's vast treasure caves.

The menorah was the most important symbol of the Temple after the Ark of the Covenant. The image of the biblical menorah is the symbol of the modern state of Israel.

Some Orthodox Jews believe the restoration of the menorah and other holy vessels to Jerusalem would be the first step in rebuilding the Temple, whose site is now occupied by the Al Aqsa Mosque, a Muslim shrine.

According to other press reports, the pontiff could proclaim an annual day dedicated to Judaism, in a fresh effort to further reconcile Jews and Christians.

In 1996, in the face of criticism and skepticism, Israeli Religious Affairs Minister Shimon Shetreet requested of the pope that an official inquiry be conducted to determine if the legendary golden menorah from the Second Temple is hidden in the Vatican.

Shetreet claimed to have evidence the menorah was there, though he refused to disclose it. He did say he had statements of people who claimed to have had discussions with previous popes, who indicated that the Catholic Church indeed did have such objects.