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November
the 5th, I wrote a release titled,"Give us a King!" as the
LORD gave me the verses
1 Sam
8:6-8
6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to
judge us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD said to
Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for
they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not
reign over them. 8
NKJV
As I told
my wife of this, she spoke the LORD had given her the same
scripture a couple of days earlier but she did not understand why at the
time. I knew that to be affirmation of the newsletter.
When
reading 1 Sam. 8:6, it refers to the first king of Israel who of course was
Saul. As I reflected upon the significance of this, the LORD told me
the king HE was referring to in reference to Barack Obama was not Saul but
rather to Herod. I prayed for several days about what this meant for I did
not see.
With
prayer and fasting to the LORD, I continued
to ask "what do YOU mean he is as Herod and not as Saul?"
As we stood in worship service that weekend, the LORD says to me,
" The people of Israel demanded a king from Samuel and I gave
them Saul. I, the LORD, allowed Herod and his descendents
to be king to fulfill my plans for Israel and to fulfill
prophesy but Herod was selected by the Romans and the Pharisee. As with
Herod, I did not select Barack Obama as President of the United States, the
modern day Romans and the pharisee did."
Furthermore
the LORD spoke to me, " As the Romans showed favor to Herod
and the pharisee accepted Herod as their 'king of the Jews', so
the secular humanist, the atheists and GOD haters chose Obama. They
were joined by the apostate church leadership and those who follow
their false gospels on the broad path to hell who clamored to elect Obama
president."
These
apostates are the modern day Pharisee, declaring Obama to be Christian and
even some calling him their "messiah."
As GOD
allowed Herod and his descendants to rule for HIS purposes, so HE is
allowing "that One" of the antichrist to rule in America to
fulfill end time prophesy.
In
researching some of the history of Herod, I found this in Fausset's Bible
Dictionary reference.
HEROD was
Of Idumean descent (Josephus, Ant. 14:1, section 3). The Idumeans were
conquered and brought to Judaism by John Hyrcanus, 130 BC Thus the Herods,
though aliens by birth, were Jews in faith. They made religion an engine of
state policy. Eschewing Antiochus Epiphanes' design to Graecize Jerusalem
by substituting the Greek worship and customs for the Jewish law, the
Herod's, while professing to maintain the law, as effectively set at nought
its spirit by making it a lever for elevating themselves and their secular
kingdom.
Barack
Obama is not Christian by birth or even of birth to Christian
parents. He is born to an islamic father and an atheist
mother. He only professed to have come to CHRIST as an adult in a racist
church preaching black liberation theology. Obama publicly professes
that, "I am committed to CHRIST but that there are many ways to
heaven." . Herod rose to the position of king of the Jews due to
favor with the pagan Romans. Barack Obama was elected due to
favor of those of the antichrist of the United States. Herod was
considered a Jew because of conversion of the Idumeans though he in no way
was a devout Jewish follower of GOD. Obama in similar manner converted
to Christianity only to follow the broad-path of liberal and progressive
apostasy and not the narrow path of a man devoted to JESUS the CHRIST.
Just as
Herod sacrificed thousands of Jewish boys to try to retain his crown as
king of the Jew, so Barack Obama has promised the left to sacrifice
millions of children to the abomination of abortion to attain "his
crown". This promise will be fulfilled through his promise to
immediately sign the Freedom of Choice Act overthrowing all
restraints on abortion including the wicked partial-birth abortion
procedure. This promise was made to garner the votes of the millions
of liberals/moderates who continue live and promote sexual
immorality sacrificing their unborn to the god of Molech.
As the
Roman empire was destroyed through child sacrifice, decadence, sexual
immorality and homosexual lewdness so goes America along with the rest of
the Western societies. As the Romans, some of the apostate
leaders of the church of mainstream denominations of America condone
and participate in sodomy, even glorifying sodomy as a gift of GOD. As the
ancient religious leaders sank to sodomizing boys, so have we in modern
day. As they had temple prostitutes in times of old and in Rome, so do we
this day. The abomination of so-called Bishop Gene Robinson of the
apostate Episcopalian USA denomination has been in frequent conference with
Obama. All of the homosexual perversion organizations are now coming to
demand their price for wholly supporting the Democratic party.
Again from
Faucett's Bible Dictionary;
. The
Jewish religion thus degraded into a tool of ambition lost its spiritual
power, and the theocracy becoming a lifeless carcass was the ready prey for
the Roman eagles to pounce upon and destroy.
(from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1998 by
Biblesoft
HEROD
Herod's keenness to establish his dynasty, jealousy of any rival, craft,
hypocrisy, cruelty, recklessness of any sacrifice to gain his object,
appear as vividly in the Scripture narrative as in Josephus. The wise men's
question, "Where is he that is born king of the Jews?" was
precisely one to excite Herod's jealousy. For Herod was not a born Jew,
much les
s born king of the Jews, but an Idumean alien, made king by the anti-Jewish
world power, Rome. Unimportant as the event seemed to the world, the murder
of the innocents was the consummation of his guilt before God, and places
him among the foremost of Satan's and the world's foretold (Jer 31:15)
representative adversaries of the Lord and His church, answering to the
Pharaoh who oppressed Christ's type, Israel,
(from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1998 by
Biblesoft)
HEROD
Ambition was his ruling passion. For its sake he compromised the Jewish
religion which he professed, in order to conciliate Rome,
(from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1998 by
Biblesoft)
HEROD
But Herod when reproved for his sin by John preferred keeping his sin to
gaining God's favor and the approval of God's minister.
A slight breath of temptation, regard for the world's opinion, and
dislike of reproof, were enough to dry up his shallow religion.
(from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1998 by
Biblesoft)
The above
commentary by Faucett of Herod brought into comparison
of Obama and his practice of Christianity fits like a glove. Barack
Obama made the statement that John McCain had called him everything in the
book but a "child of GOD." This would be biblically justifiable
in that, all of us are creations of GOD, but all of us are not children of
GOD, only those who truly turn their hearts to the ONE and TRUE GOD of
ISRAEL. Therefore according to this Barack Obama is not a child of GOD but
that one whose father is the devil.
John
8:42-47
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me,
for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He
sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not
able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and
the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a
liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do
not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the
truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God's
words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."
NKJV
Lastly,
Valerie Jarret, confidante extraordinaire of Barack Obama and his campaign
declared last week to Tom Brokaw.
"President-elect
Obama will be ready to rule from day one. "
Acts
12:1-4
Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some
from the church. 2 Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
3 And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to
seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread. 4 So when
he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads
of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after
Passover.
NKJV
There
comes quickly under the Obama presidency:
Freedom of
Choice Act,
Hate
Speech legislation -which will be used to eliminate all criticizm of
homosexual perversion, prolife/anti-abortion lobbying, any criticizm of
Islam or preaching that JESUS is the only WAY to the FATHER.
Legalization
of Homosexual union laws nationwide
As the
above scripture reads, the true church will be soon be demonized by the
apostate and the "Romans" as they collude to persecute the church
as we stand and preach the GOSPEL of CHRIST.
Acts 12:21-24
21 So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and
gave an oration to them. 22 And the people kept shouting, "The voice
of a god and not of a man!" 23 Then immediately an angel of the Lord
struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms
and died.
24 But the
word of God grew and multiplied.
NKJV
HALLELUJAH
to the LAMB of GOD!
Michael
Payne
Take A
Stand Media Ministries
P.O.1721
Winchester,
Virginia 22604
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