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On this date February 16th

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On this date 2/16/600 - Pope Gregory the Great decreed that the phrase "God bless You" is an appropriate response to a sneeze. This was begun by the people due to the widespread presence of the plague in society at the time.

2/16/1536 - John of Leyden, leader of the Anabaptists who had taken control of Munster before it was captured by German forces, is executed.

The Münster Rebellion was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster.

Jan Matthys identified Münster as the "New Jerusalem", and on January 5, 1534, a number of his disciples entered the city and introduced adult baptism. Rothmann apparently accepted "rebaptism" that day, and well over 1000 adults were soon baptised. Vigorous preparations were made, not only to hold what had been gained, but to proceed from Münster toward the conquest of the world. The city was being besieged by Franz von Waldeck, its expelled bishop. In April 1534 on Easter Sunday, Matthys, who had prophesied God's judgment to come on the wicked on that day, made a sally with only thirty followers, believing that he was a second Gideon, and was cut off with his entire band. He was killed, his head severed and placed on a pole for all in the city to see, and his genitals nailed to the city gate. Bockelson, better known in history as John of Leiden, was subsequently installed as "king".

Claiming to be the successor of David, he claimed royal honours and absolute power in the new "Zion". He justified his actions by the authority of visions from heaven, as others have done in similar circumstances. He legalized polygamy, and himself took sixteen wives.

2/16/1559 - Pope Paul IV called for the deposition of any sovereign who supported heresy and, hence, opposed papal authority.

As pope his nationalism was a driving force; he used the office to preserve some liberties in the face of fourfold foreign occupation. The Habsburgs disliked Paul IV and he allied with France, possibly against the true interests of the Papacy. He used the Holy Office to suppress the Spirituali, a Catholic group that was deemed heretical. Among his first acts as Pope was to cut off Michelangelo's pension, and he ordered the nudes of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel be painted more modestly (a request that Michelangelo promptly ignored). He also alienated Protestants in England and rejected the claim of Elizabeth I of England to the Crown.

Paul IV strongly affirmed the Catholic dogma of extra ecclesiam nulla salus ("Outside the Church there is no salvation"). The strengthening of the Inquisition continued under Paul IV, and few could consider themselves safe by virtue of position in his drive to reform the Church; even cardinals he disliked could be imprisoned.

In 1555 he issued a canon (papal law), Cum Nimis Absurdum, by which the Roman Ghetto was created. Jews were then forced to live in seclusion in a specified area of the rione Sant'Angelo, locked in at night, and he decreed that Jews should wear a distinctive sign, yellow hats for men and veils or shawls for women. Jewish ghettos existed in Europe for the next 315 years.

Paul IV introduced the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or "Index of Prohibited Books" to Venice, then an independent and prosperous trading state, in order to crack down on the growing threat of Protestantism. Under his authority, all books written by Protestants were banned, together with Italian and German translations of the Latin Bible.

2/16/1771 Charles Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy. The final compilation of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters came to 110.

2/16/1777 Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)

Its discoverer Johann Elert Bode, who found it on February 3, 1775, described it as a "rather vivid and round" nebula. Charles Messier, independently rediscovered and cataloged it two years later.

Shadows of Messiah - Astronomy

2/16/1878 Silver dollar became US legal tender

The Morgan dollar was authorized by the Bland–Allison Act. The Bland–Allison Act was an 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.

The five-year depression following the Panic of 1873 caused cheap-money advocates (led by U.S. Representative Richard P. Bland, a Democrat of Missouri), to join with silver-producing interests in urging a return to bimetallism, the use of both silver and gold as a monetary standard. After the crisis of 1873, in 1877, Congressman Richard P. Bland and Senator William B. Allison proposed the Act of Bland-Allison, in which they wanted to return to silver coinage. This Act reintroduced the bimetallic monetary policy of the U.S., but it led to greater disruption in the economy. The price of gold was more stable than that of silver, largely due to silver discoveries in Nevada and other places in the West, and the price of silver to gold declined from 16-to-1 in 1873 to nearly 30-to-1 by 1893.

The Morgan dollar was replaced by the Peace dollar in 1921 to commemorate the resulting peace after World War I.

Money

2/16/1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Was Tutankhamon the first born son of Pharaoh that died during the first Passover?

Mystery Solved - Boy-King Tut's Magnificent Tomb - Exodus Miracles Affirmed!

His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun".

2/16/1941 - Kim Jong-il born. His birthday is a national holiday in North Korea. In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was amended and now implicitly refers to him as the "Supreme Leader". He is also referred to as the "Dear Leader", "our Father", "the General" and "Generalissimo"

On 8 July 1994, Kim Il-sung died, at the age of 82 from a heart attack. However, it took three years for Kim Jong-il to consolidate his power. He officially took the titles of General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defense Commission on 8 October 1997. In 1998, his Defense Commission chairmanship was declared to be "the highest post of the state", so Kim may be regarded as North Korea's head of state from that date. Also in 1998, the Supreme People's Assembly wrote the president's post out of the constitution in memory of Kim Il-Sung, who was designated the country's "Eternal President".

Kim Jong-il is the centre of an elaborate personality cult inherited from his father and founder of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung. Defectors have been quoted as saying that North Korean schools deify both father and son. Many North Koreans believe that he has the "magical" ability to "control the weather" based on his mood.

2/16/1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

Castro has proclaimed himself to be "a Socialist, a Marxist, and a Leninist". As a socialist, Castro believes strongly in converting Cuba, and the wider world, from a capitalist system in which business and industry is owned by private individuals and organisations, into a socialist system in which all business and industry are owned by the state on behalf of the populace.

According to Washington Post, Fidel Castro's letters from prison suggest that he " was a man of unusual spiritual depth – and a fervent believer in God. Addressing the father of a fallen comrade, he writes: " I will not speak of him as if he were absent, he has not been and he will never be. These are not mere words of consolation. Only those of us who feel it truly and permanently in the depths of our souls can comprehend this. Physical life is ephemeral, it passes inexorably. . . . This truth should be taught to every human being – that the immortal values of the spirit are above physical life. What sense does life have without these values? What then is it to live? Those who understand this and generously sacrifice their physical life for the sake of good and justice – how can they die? God is the supreme idea of goodness and justice.""

Castro was baptized and raised a Roman Catholic as a child but did not practice as one. In Oliver Stone's documentary Comandante, Castro states "I have never been a believer", and has total conviction that there is only one life. Pope John XXIII excommunicated Castro in 1962 after Castro suppressed Catholic institutions in Cuba. Castro has publicly criticized what he sees as elements of the Bible that have been used to justify the oppression of both women and people of African descent throughout history.

In 1992, Castro agreed to loosen restrictions on religion and even permitted church-going Catholics to join the Cuban Communist Party. He began describing his country as "secular" rather than "atheist". Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, the first visit by a reigning pontiff to the island. Castro and the Pope appeared side by side in public on several occasions during the visit. Castro wore a dark blue business suit rather than fatigues in his public meetings with the Pope and treated him with reverence and respect. In December 1998, Castro formally re-instated Christmas Day as the official celebration for the first time since its abolition by the Communist Party in 1969. Cubans were again allowed to mark Christmas as a holiday and to openly hold religious processions. The Pope sent a telegram to Castro thanking him for restoring Christmas as a public holiday.

After Pope John Paul II's death in April 2005, an emotional Castro attended a mass in his honor in Havana's cathedral and signed the Pope's condolence book at the Vatican Embassy.

In his 2009 spoken autobiography, Castro went so far as to say that Christianity exhibited "a group of very humane precepts" which gave the world "ethical values" and a "sense of social justice", before relating that "If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian."

Some say Casto was a puppet for the Jesuit order.

Castro & Jesuits

Castro & Jesuit connection

2/16/1985 – Hezbollah is founded. Hezbollah is from the Arabic حزب الله‎ ḥizbu-llāh, literally "Party of God". It is a Shi'a Muslim militant group and political party based in Lebanon.

Hezbollah first emerged in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during the Lebanese civil war. Its leaders were inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its four main goals as "Israel's final departure from Lebanon as a prelude to its final obliteration," ending "any imperialist power in Lebanon," submission of the Phalangists to "just rule" and bringing them to trial for their crimes, and giving the people the chance to choose "with full freedom the system of government they want," while not hiding its commitment to the rule of Islam. The Phalangists are a right wing Lebanese political party supported mainly by Maronite Christians.

Hezbollah leaders have also made numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel, which they refer to as a "Zionist entity... built on lands wrested from their owners."

Ending Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon was the primary focus of Hezbollah's early activities. Israel had become militarily involved in Lebanon in combat with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which had been invited into Lebanon after Black September in Jordan. Israel had been attacking the PLO in Southern Lebanon in the lead-up to the 1982 Lebanon War, and Israel had invaded and occupied Southern Lebanon and besieged Beirut.

Hezbollah waged an asymmetrical guerrilla war against Israel using suicide attacks against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and against Israeli targets outside of Lebanon. Hezbollah is reputed to have been among the first Islamic resistance groups to use tactical suicide bombing, assassination, and capturing foreign soldiers in the Middle East. Hezbollah turned into a paramilitary organization and used missiles, Katyusha, and other type of rocket launchers and detonations of explosive charges instead of capturing, murders, and hijackings.

The ideology of Hezbollah has been summarized as Shi'i radicalism. Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers in the early 1980s in order to spread Islamic revolution and follows a distinct version of Islamic Shi'a ideology (Valiyat al-faqih or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists) developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the "Islamic Revolution" in Iran. Although Hezbollah originally aimed to transform Lebanon into a formal Faqihi Islamic republic, this goal has been abandoned in favor of a more inclusive approach.

The followers of Shia Islam are called Shi'ites or Shias. "Shia" is the short form of the historic phrase Shīʻatu ʻAlī (شيعة علي), meaning "followers of Ali", "faction of Ali", or "party of Ali". Shī'ah Muslims believe that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet. They believe that God chose 'Alī to be the successor, infallible and divinely chosen. Thus they say that Muhammad, before his death, appointed Ali as his successor.

The Twelve Imams are the spiritual and political successors to Muhammad for the Twelvers. According to the theology of Twelvers, the successor of Muhammad is an infallible human individual who not only rules over the community with justice, but also is able to keep and interpret the Divine Law and its esoteric meaning. Muhammad and imams' words and deeds are a guide and model for the community to follow; as a result, they must be free from error and sin, and must be chosen by divine decree, or nass, through Muhammad. Each Imam was the son of the previous Imam, with the exception of Husayn ibn Ali, who was the brother of Hasan ibn Ali. The twelfth and final Imam is Muhammad al-Mahdi, who is believed by the Twelvers to be currently alive, and in occultation.

The Occultation in Shi'a Islam refers to a belief that the messianic figure, the Mahdi, is an Imam who has disappeared and will one day return alongside Jesus Christ and fill the world with justice.

Islam

2/16/2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving the "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."

Global Warming Hoax

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 16: Num 11-13

On this date February 15th

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On this date 2/15/590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. Khrosrau II was the twenty-second Sassanid King of Persia, reigning from 590 to 628.

The Sassanid Empire was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, ruled by the Sasanian Dynasty from 224 to 651. The Sassanid Empire, which succeeded the Parthian Empire, was recognized as one of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe, alongside the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, for a period of more than 400 years.

Khrosrau II was called Parvez, "the Ever Victorious"

Historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari describes him as:

Excelling most of the other Persian kings in bravery, wisdom and forethought, and none matching him in military might and triumph, hoarding of treasures and good fortunes, hence the epithet Parviz, meaning victorious.

Towards the beginning of his reign, Khosrau II favoured the Christians. His wife Shirin was a Christian. However, when in 602 Maurice was murdered by his General Phocas (602–610), who usurped the Roman (Byzantine) throne, Khosrau launched an offensive against Constantinople, ostensibly to avenge Maurice's death, but clearly his aim included the annexation of as much Byzantine territory as was feasible. His armies invaded and plundered Syria and Asia Minor, and in 608 advanced into Chalcedon.

In 613 and 614, Damascus and Jerusalem were besieged and captured by General Shahrbaraz, and the True Cross was carried away in triumph. Soon afterwards, General Shahin marched through Anatolia, defeating the Byzantines numerous times, and then conquered Egypt in 618.

Ultimately, in 622, the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (who had succeeded Phocas in 610 and ruled until 641) was able to take the field with a powerful force. In 624, he advanced into northern Media, where he destroyed the great fire-temple of Ganzhak. Following the Khazar invasion of Transcaucasia in 627, Heraclius defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Nineveh and advanced towards Ctesiphon. Khosrau II fled from his favourite residence, Dastgerd (near Baghdad), without offering resistance.

Meanwhile, some of the Persian grandees freed his eldest son Kavadh II (he ruled briefly in 628), whom Khosrau II had imprisoned, and proclaimed him King on the night of 23–4 February, 628.

Four days afterwards, Khosrau II was murdered in his palace. Meanwhile, Heraclius returned in triumph to Constantinople and in 629 the True Cross was returned to him and Egypt evacuated, while the Sassanid Empire, from the apparent greatness which it had reached ten years ago, sank into hopeless anarchy. It was overtaken by the armies of the first Islamic Caliphs beginning in 634.

2/15/1113 – Pope Paschal II issued a bull sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.

The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the First Crusade by the Blessed Gerard, whose role as founder was confirmed by a Papal bull of Pope Paschal II in 1113. Gerard acquired territory and revenues for his order throughout the Kingdom of Jerusalem and beyond. His successor, Raymond du Puy de Provence, established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Initially the group cared for pilgrims in Jerusalem, but the order soon extended to providing pilgrims with an armed escort, which soon grew into a substantial force.

The rising power of Islam eventually expelled the Knights from Jerusalem. After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291 (Jerusalem itself fell in 1187), the Knights were confined to the County of Tripoli and, when Acre was captured in 1291, the order sought refuge in the Kingdom of Cyprus.

The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 and much of their property was given to the Hospitallers.

On Rhodes the Hospitallers, then also referred to as the Knights of Rhodes, were forced to become a more militarised force, fighting especially with the Barbary pirates. They withstood two invasions in the 15th century, one by the Sultan of Egypt in 1444 and another by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1480 who, after capturing Constantinople and defeating the Byzantine Empire in 1453, made the Knights a priority target.

In 1522 an entirely new sort of force arrived: 400 ships under the command of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms and their fortifications. The siege lasted six months, at the end of which the surviving defeated Hospitallers were allowed to withdraw to Sicily.

After seven years of moving from place to place in Europe the Knights became established in 1530 when Charles V of Spain, as King of Sicily, gave them Malta.

The Hospitallers continued their actions against the Muslims and especially the Barbary pirates. Although they had only a few ships they quickly drew the ire of the Ottomans, who were unhappy to see the order resettled. In 1565 Suleiman sent an invasion force of about 40,000 men to besiege the 700 knights and 8,000 soldiers and expel them from Malta and gain a new base from which to possibly launch another assault on Europe.

The Hospitallers eventually defeated the Ottomans. The Great Siege of Malta may have been the last action in which a force of knights won a decisive victory.

In 1607 the Grand Master of the Hospitallers was granted the status of Reichsfürst (Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, even though the Order's territory was always south of the Holy Roman Empire). In 1630 the Grand Master was awarded ecclesiastic equality with cardinals, and the unique hybrid style His Most Eminent Highness, reflecting both qualities qualifying him as a true Prince of the Church.

Their Mediterranean stronghold of Malta was captured by Napoleon in 1798 during his expedition to Egypt. The knights were dispersed, though the order continued to exist in a diminished form and negotiated with European governments for a return to power. The Russian Emperor, Paul I, gave the largest number of knights shelter in St. Petersburg, an action which gave rise to the Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitallers and the Order's recognition among the Russian Imperial Orders.

In 1834, the Order established a new headquarters in Rome. Hospital work, the original work of the order, became once again its main concern.

The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, better known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), is a Roman Catholic religious order and the world's oldest surviving order of chivalry. Its sovereign status is recognised by membership in numerous international bodies and observer status at the United Nations and others.

Knights of Malta

Knights of Malta & the Black Pope

Knights of Malta & Rick Warren

Rick Warren:
"Just as the knights of the OSJ had to fight the hordes of Islam by day, and then battle fires within their fortress at night, what was coming would be a two front battle, both within and without. I believe if we are going to win this battle against the extremists from Islam, and the moral meltdown that is going on within, Christians will have to become true knights of the cross, and fight like them. There is going to be a revival of a true order of knights that will restore honor, nobility, and morality, to the nations. On both fronts, within and without, we are fighting for our very existence."

The New Age, Rick Warren, Glenn Beck, Aleister Crowley, and the Great Falling Away

The "Illuminati" is a general name for a secret organization that is believed to rule the world behind the scenes. In 2006, an Italian aristocrat/Freemason named Leo Zagami defected from the Illuminati and provided essential information to reveal its structure. Leo claimed that the Illuminati is composed of three major parts: Jesuits as the intelligence wing, Zionists as the financial wing, and Knights of Malta as the military wing. The following video exposes the Illuminati based on this information.

Illuminati Exposed part 1

Illuminati Exposed part 2

Illuminati Exposed part 3

Illuminati Exposed part 4

Illuminati Exposed part 5

2/15/1145 - Eugene III was elected pope.

Under the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux he entered the Cistercian Order in monastery of Clairvaux in 1138. A year later he returned to Italy as leader of the Cistercian community in Scandriglia. In Autumn 1140 Pope Innocent II named him abbot of the monastery of S. Anastasio alle Tre Fontane outside Rome.

Bernardo was elected pope in February 1145 and took the name Eugene III. He owed his elevation partly to the fact that none were eager to accept an office the duties of which were at the time so difficult and dangerous, but chiefly to his being the friend and pupil of Bernard of Clairvaux, the most influential ecclesiastic of the Western Church, and a strong assertor of the pope's temporal authority. The choice had not, however, the approval of Bernard, who remonstrated against the election on account of the "innocence and simplicity" of Eugene III; but after the choice was made he took advantage of the qualities in Eugene III which he objected to, so as to virtually rule in his name.

2/15/1497 - Philipp Melanchthon was born in Bretten, Germany. Melanchthon was a friend and one of the most important supporters of Martin Luther.

He stands next to Luther and Calvin as a reformer, theologian, and molder of Protestantism. As much as Luther, he is the primary founder of Lutheranism.

Melanchthon made the distinction between law and gospel the central formula for Lutheran evangelical insight. By the "law" he meant God's requirements both in Old and New Testament; the "gospel" meant the free gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

2/15/1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

Educated by the Jesuits, he became King of Hungary in 1625, King of Bohemia in 1627 and Archduke of Austria in 1621. In 1634, he was made titular head of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years' War. Having been elected King of the Romans in 1636, he succeeded his father as Holy Roman Emperor in 1637. He hoped to be able to make peace soon with France and Sweden, but the war dragged on for another 11 years, finally coming to an end with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

During the last period of the war, in 1644 Ferdinand III gave to all rulers of German states the right to conduct their own foreign policy (ius belli ac pacis). This way the emperor was trying to gain more allies in the negotiations with France and Sweden. This very edict contributed to the gradual erosion of the imperial authority in the Holy Roman Empire.

2/15/1775 - Pius VI was elected pope.

The Compromise candidate: The circumstances of Pius VI's election as a compromise candidate, involved him in difficulties from the outset of his pontificate. He had received the support of the ministers of the Catholic crowns and the anti-Jesuit party upon a tacit understanding that he would continue the action of Clement XIV, by whose brief Dominus ac Redemptor (1773), the Society of Jesus had been pronounced dissolved. On the other hand, the zelanti – the pro-Jesuit party among the cardinals – believed him secretly sympathetic towards the Jesuits, and expected some reparation for the alleged wrongs they suffered under the previous reign. As a result of these complications Pius VI was led into a series of half measures which gave little satisfaction to either party: although it is perhaps largely due to him that the Order was able to escape dissolution in White Russia and Silesia; at only one juncture did he ever seriously consider its universal re-establishment, namely in 1792, as a bulwark against the ideas of the French Revolution (1789).

In 1796 French Republican troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeated the papal troops and occupied Ancona and Loreto. Pius VI sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on 19 February 1797; but on 28 December of that year, in a riot blamed by papal forces on some Italian and French revolutionists, the popular brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, who had gone to Rome with Joseph Bonaparte as part of the French embassy, was killed and a new pretext was furnished for invasion. General Berthier marched to Rome, entered it unopposed on 10 February 1798, and, proclaiming a Roman Republic, demanded of the Pope the renunciation of his temporal authority.

Upon his refusal he was taken prisoner, and on 20 February was escorted from the Vatican to Siena, and thence to the Certosa near Florence. The French declaration of war against Tuscany led to his removal (he was escorted by the Spaniard Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador) by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the citadel of Valence, the chief town of Drôme where he died six weeks after his arrival, on 29 August 1799, having then reigned longer than any Pope.

2/15/1804 – The Serbian revolution begins. The Serbian revolution lasted until 1835 during which this territory evolved from an Ottoman province into a constitutional monarchy and a modern nation-state.

The History of Serbia, as a country, begins with the Slavic settlements on the Balkans, established in the 6th century, on territories governed by the Byzantine Empire. Through centuries, the Serbian realm evolved into a Kingdom (1217), then an Empire (1345), before being annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1540.

The revolutionary leaders stressed the Christian, as opposed to Muslim identity of their national heritage.

This appeal focused on the historic battle that took place at Kosovo on June 15, 1389, when the Turks killed the Serbian Prince Lazar, whom myth represents a Christ-like or Christ-type figure.

The average Serb had no notion of "nationality" in the modern sense, but despite 400 years of Turkish rule, Serbian society was still alive and distinct from Ottoman Turkish society. In part this was due to Ottoman toleration: conquered Slavs were not required to convert to Islam (although some did, notably in Bosnia). However, this fact alone does not explain the cohesion in Serbian life that made the Serbian national revival possible during the next generation. There were powerful elements holding the society together.

First, we can cite the Turkish policy of religious separatism that accompanied religious toleration. Under the millet system, Christian Orthodox Serbs were clearly not Muslim Ottoman Turks, as evidenced by their subservient status in matters of law, taxes and privileges. No Serb could have failed to notice this difference.

The second pillar of the Serbian community was the Serbian Orthodox Church. It harked back to the pre conquest kingdom of Serbia. The Turks lumped all Orthodox believers together, both Slavic and Greek, into a single millet.

After several centuries of being ruled by the Turks who occupied the Serbian lands, beginning with the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs, with their successful uprisings against the Moslem Ottomans, were on their way to establishing their modern Serbian statehood and winning back their independence. This excellent video with English subtitles presents the history of the Christian Serbians' revolution against their Moslem occupiers.

Serbian Warriors II - Serbian Revolution

2/15/1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.

2/15/1898 – Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. American naval power proved decisive, the result was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the U.S., which allowed temporary American control of Cuba and, following their purchase from Spain, indefinite colonial authority over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.

The war marked American entry into world affairs. Since then, the U.S. has had a significant hand in various conflicts around the world, and entered many treaties and agreements. The war also effectively ended the Spanish Empire.

False Flag Operations

The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor was immediately pinned on the Spanish and the rallying call became, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain.” William Randolph-Hearst enflamed anti-Spanish sentiment in his papers by claiming definitively that it was a Spanish plot. No reliable evidence was ever produced linking Spain to the event. It is now widely believed that the event was a mechanical failure or false flag operation.

The Sinking of the Maine - False Flag Like Pearl Harbour 9/11

2/15/1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

2/15/1976 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.

This constitution called for a centralized control of the market, and committed the State to providing its citizens with access to free education and health care. It also required that parents, regardless of their own beliefs, inculcate their children with socialist values. The state had the power to regulate the activities of religious institutions on the island, and the private ownership of media companies was forbidden. In 2002, the Cuban Constitution was again amended to stipulate that its socialistic system was permanent and irrevocable.

2/15/1989 – Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.

The first official deployment of the Soviet army into the Kingdom of Afghanistan began Dec. 25, 1979, and marked the beginning of a decade-long Soviet rule in the country.

The Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty signed in December 1978 by Amin permitted military assistance and advice to Afghanistan if requested.

Citing the treaty and with the aim of solidifying an ally in Asia, Soviet ground forces took control of Afghanistan in December 1979 and appointed as head of state, former deputy prime minister and leader of the Parcham faction of the PDPA, Kamal Barbak.

Afghan refugees in PakistanIn an effort to resist the Soviet occupation and the spread of Marxist ideology to Afghanistan, the United States -- then at the height of a nuclear arms race with the Soviets and fearing a southward movement toward the oil-rich Persian Gulf -- soon partnered with Pakistani intelligence to recruit and train guerilla fighters, known as the Mujahadeen, who could put up a resistance against the Soviet army.

By November 1986, amid continuing hostilities between the Mujahadeen and Soviet forces, Barbak was ousted as prime minister by the Soviets for ineffectiveness and replaced by the former chief of the Afghan Secret Police, Mohammad Najibullah.

But Najibullah also was unable to control the Mujahadeen, and when the Geneva Accords, overseen by the United Nations and guaranteed by the United States and the Soviet Union, were signed in April 1988, they effectively ended the war.

The treaty, signed by the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, outlined a policy of non-interference and contained a timeline for the withdrawal of Soviet troops.

The Soviets began withdrawing from Afghanistan in May 1988 and were gone by February 1989.

Soviet Union War With Afghanistan

The BBC, in an article published shortly after the 9/11 attacks, stated that bin Laden "received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian."

In a 2003 article, Michael Powelson of the Russian journal Demokratizatsiya wrote:

It is difficult to believe that the United States played no role in the operations of the son of one of the wealthiest men in Saudi Arabia. Indeed, it is much more likely that the United States knew full-well of bin Laden's operation and gave it all the support they could.

In a 2004 BBC article entitled "Al-Qaeda's origins and links", the BBC wrote:

During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.

In a 2006 InDepth piece on Osama Bin Laden, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published that,

Bin Laden apparently received training from the CIA, which was backing the Afghan holy warriors – the mujahedeen – who were tying down Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

An article in Der Spiegel, in 2007, entitled "Arming the Middle East", Siegesmund von Ilsemann called Bin Laden "one of the CIA's best weapons customers."

OSAMA BIN LADEN Was A BUSH PARTNER & A CIA ASSET Using The Name TIM OSMAN

2/14/2001 – First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.

DNA
Human Genome Project

February 15th is Parinirvana Day, or Nirvana Day.

Parinirvana Day, or Nirvana Day is a Mahayana Buddhist holiday celebrated in East Asia. It celebrates the day when the Buddha is said to have achieved Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body.

Buddhists celebrate the death of the Buddha because they believe that since he was Enlightened, he was free from the pain of physical existence.

Passages from the Nirvana Sutra describing the Buddha's last days of life are often read on Parinirvana Day. Other observances include meditation and visits to Buddhist temples and monasteries. Also, the day is a time to think about one's own future death and on the deaths of loved ones. This thought process reflects the Buddhist teachings on impermanence.

Parinirvana

"The Buddha's death came when he was eighty years old, and had spent forty years teaching after his Enlightenment. He died in a state of meditation, and attained nirvana, a release from the cycle of death and rebirth."

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 15: Num 8-10

On this date February 14th

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Valentine's Day

Daily Tidbits 2/14 – Shadow of Messiah – Valentine’s Day

On this date 2/14/842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.

In addition to their promised allegiance to the other, Louis and Charles pledged their solidarity to oppose their eldest brother Lothair, ruler of Middle Francia and, nominally, emperor of all the Carolingian Empire Frankish kingdoms as well as Holy Roman Emperor.

Charles and Louis defeated Lothair. Charles took the Western part of the Carolingian Empire (France), while Louis took the Eastern part (Germany).

The struggles between the brothers lead directly to the breakup of the Frankish Empire assembled by their grandfather Charlemagne, and laid the foundation for the development of modern France and Germany.

2/14/1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.

Henry's most significant contributions as emperor came in the realm of church-state relations and ecclesiastic administration within the Empire. He supported the bishops against the monastic clergy and aided them in establishing their temporal rule over broad territories. He strongly enforced clerical celibacy in order that the public land and offices he granted the church would not be passed on to heirs. This ensured that the bishops remained loyal to him, from whom they received their power, and provided a powerful bulwark against rebellious nobles and ambitious family members. Henry founded the Diocese of Bamberg, which quickly became a center of scholarship and art, in 1007.

Henry and his wife, Cunigunde of Luxemburg, had no children, because they had taken a mutual vow of chastity.

He became an oblate of the Benedictine Order, and today is venerated within the Order as the patron saint of all oblates, along with St. Frances of Rome.

2/14/1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

On 1/22/1076 Synod of Worms German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII. It was intended to agree a condemnation of Pope Gregory VII, and Henry's success in achieving this outcome marked the beginning of the Investiture Controversy.

On 1/21/1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness.

On 1/28/1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.

Although Henry was restored to the Church, any expectations that the Pope would restore support of Henry's right to the throne were soon dashed...His deposition still in effect, Henry was forced into civil war with Duke Rudolph of Swabia. Gregory levied a second excommunication against Henry, who ultimately won the civil war, invaded Rome, and forced Gregory to flee, replacing him with Antipope Clement III. Henry IV's abasement at Canossa can be regarded as a move of policy to weaken the pope's position at the cost of a personal humiliation to himself.

The meaning in the greater history of Germany and Europe, however, was much more significant. During the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, Henry was exalted as a defender of the rights of both Germans and opponents of the Pope. Many German Lutherans considered him the "first Protestant" and looked to his example for guidance in their struggle against what they saw as a tyrannical and unjust institution.

2/14/1130 - Cardinal Pietro Pierleone was elected as anti-pope Anacletus II.

In 1130, as Pope Honorius II lay dying, the cardinals decided to entrust the election to a commission of eight men, led by papal chancellor Haimeric, who had his candidate Cardinal Gregory Papareschi hastily elected as Pope Innocent II. He was consecrated on February 14, the day after Honorius' death. The other cardinals announced that Innocent had not been canonically elected and chose Cardinal Pietro Pierleoni, a Roman whose family were the enemy of Haimeric's supporters, the Frangipani; Pierleoni took the name Pope Anacletus II. Anacletus' mixed group of supporters were powerful enough to take control of Rome while Innocent was forced to flee north. Based on a simple majority of the entire college of cardinals, Anacletus was the canonically elected pope, and Innocent was the anti-Pope.

Anacletus had control of Rome, so Innocent II took ship for Pisa, and thence sailed by way of Genoa to France, where the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux readily secured his cordial recognition by the clergy and the court. In October of the same year he was duly acknowledged by Lothar III of Germany and his bishops at the synod of Würzburg. In January 1131, he had also a favourable interview with Henry I of England (1100–35); and in August 1132 Lothar III undertook an expedition to Italy for the double purpose of setting aside Anacletus as antipope and of being crowned by Innocent. Anacletus and his supporters being in secure control of the St. Peter's Basilica, the coronation ultimately took place in the Lateran Church (June 4, 1133), but otherwise the expedition proved abortive. At the investiture of Lothair as Emperor he gained the territories belonging to Matilda of Tuscany, in return for an annuity to be paid to the pope, in consequence of which the curial party based the contention that the Emperor was a vassal of the Papal see.

By 1135 Anacletus' position was weak despite their aid, but the schism only ended with his death in 1138, after which Innocent returned to Rome and ruled without opposition.

2/14/1349 – Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.

About The Great Plague And The Burning Of The Jews

In the year 1349 there occurred the greatest epidemic that ever happened. Death went from one end of the earth to the other, on that side and this side of the sea, and it was greater among the Saracens than among the Christians.

In the matter of this plague the Jews throughout the world were reviled and accused in all lands of having caused it through the poison which they are said to have put into the water and the wells-that is what they were accused of-and for this reason the Jews were burnt all the way from the Mediterranean into Germany, but not in Avignon, for the pope protected them there.

Nevertheless they tortured a number of Jews in Berne and Zofingen [Switzerland] who then admitted that they had put poison into many wells, and they also found the poison in the wells. Thereupon they burnt the Jews in many towns and wrote of this affair to Strasbourg, Freiburg, and Basel in order that they too should burn their Jews. But the leaders in these three cities in whose hands the government lay did not believe that anything ought to be done to the Jews. However in Basel the citizens marched to the city-hall and compelled the council to take an oath that they would burn the Jews, and that they would allow no Jew to enter the city for the next two hundred years. Thereupon the Jews were arrested in all these places and a conference was arranged to meet at Benfeld rAlsace, February 8, 13491. The Bishop of Strasbourg [Berthold II], all the feudal lords of Alsace, and representatives of the three above mentioned cities came there. The deputies of the city of Strasbourg were asked what they were going to do with their Jews. Thev answered and said that they knew no evil of them. Then they asked the Strasbourgers why they had closed the wells and put away the buckets, and there was a great indignation and clamor against the deputies from Strasbourg. So finally the Bishop and the lords and the Imperial Cities agreed to do away with the Jews. The result was that they were burnt in many cities, and wherever they were expelled they were caught by the peasants and stabbed to death or drowned. . . .

On Saturday – that was St. Valentine’s Day-they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery. There were about two thousand people of them. Those who wanted to baptize themselves were spared. [Some say that about a thousand accepted baptism.] Many small children were taken out of the fire and baptized against the will of their fathers and mothers. And everything that was owed to the Jews was cancelled, and the Jews had to surrender all pledges and notes that they had taken for debts. The council, however, took the cash that the Jews possessed and divided it among the working-men proportionately. The money was indeed the thing that killed the Jews. If they had been poor and if the feudal lords had not been in debt to them, they would not have been burnt. After this wealth was divided among the artisans some gave their share to the Cathedral or to the Church on the advice of their confessors.

2/14/1556 – Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.

Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and for a short time, Mary I.

Along with Thomas Cromwell, he supported the principle of Royal Supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm.

During Cranmer's tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, he was responsible for establishing the first doctrinal and liturgical structures of the reformed Church of England.

When Edward came to the throne, Cranmer was able to promote major reforms. He wrote and compiled the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, a complete liturgy for the English Church. With the assistance of several Continental reformers to whom he gave refuge, he developed new doctrinal standards in areas such as the eucharist, clerical celibacy, the role of images in places of worship, and the veneration of saints. Cranmer promulgated the new doctrines through the Prayer Book, the Homilies and other publications.

Cranmer was tried for treason and heresy after Mary I, a member of the Catholic Church, came to the throne. Imprisoned for over two years and under pressure from the Church authorities, he made several recantations and apparently reconciled himself with the Roman Catholic faith. However, on the day of his execution, he dramatically withdrew his recantations, to die a heretic to Catholics and a martyr to Protestants. His legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.

THOMAS CRANMER - Foxes Book of Martyrs

2/24/1760 - Richard Allen, the first black ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, was born a slave in Philadelphia.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a unique history as it is the first major religious denomination in the western world that developed because of sociological rather than theological differences. It was the first African-American denomination organized and incorporated in the US. The church was born in protest against racial discrimination and slavery. This was in keeping with the Methodist Church's philosophy, whose founder John Wesley had once called the slave-trade "that execrable sum of all villainies".

2/14/1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.

In 1835, the Three Witnesses (Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer) were asked by Joseph Smith, Jr. to select the original twelve members of the church's Quorum of the Twelve. They announced their choices at a meeting on February 14, 1835. The Three Witnesses also ordained the twelve chosen men to the priesthood office of apostle by the laying on of hands.

    Thomas B. Marsh (April 26, 1835) – excommunicated 1838, later rejoined LDS in 1857
    David W. Patten (February 15, 1835) – killed 1838
    Brigham Young (February 14, 1835) - LDS after 1844
    Heber C. Kimball (February 14, 1835) - LDS after 1844
    Orson Hyde (February 15, 1835) - LDS after 1844
    William E. M'Lellin (February 15, 1835) - excommunicated 1838, Rigdonite, Strangite, Whitmerite and Hedrickite after 1844
    Parley P. Pratt (February 21, 1835) – LDS after 1844
    Luke S. Johnson (February 15, 1835) – excommunicated 1838, later rejoined LDS in 1846
    William Smith (February 15, 1835) – Strangite and Williamite after 1844
    Orson Pratt (April 26, 1835) – LDS after 1844
    John F. Boynton (February 15, 1835) – excommunicated 1838, joined Parrishites
    Lyman E. Johnson (February 14, 1835) - withdrew from LDS in 1838
    John E. Page (December 19, 1838) – Strangite, Brewsterite and Hedrickite after 1844
    John Taylor (December 19, 1838) – LDS after 1844
    Wilford Woodruff (April 26, 1839) – LDS after 1844
    George A. Smith (April 26, 1839) – LDS after 1844
    Willard Richards (April 14, 1840) – LDS after 1844
    Lyman Wight (April 8, 1841) - Wightite after 1844
    Amasa M. Lyman (August 1842) - LDS after 1844 and Godbeite after 1870

Membership in the Quorum of the Twelve is typically a lifetime calling. The current Quorum consists of:

Boyd K. Packer, President; L. Tom Perry, Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, M. Russell Ballard, Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, Jeffrey R. Holland, David A. Bednar, Quentin L. Cook, D. Todd Christofferson, and Neil L. Andersen.

2/14/1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

The Alex Jones Show: IBM to Produce MARK of The BEAST Chip!

IBM, NAZI’s & The Mark of the Beast – Crazy? Prove it.
http://binarydissent.com/?p=40

One Mainframe To Rule Them All part 1

One Mainframe To Rule Them All part 2

One Mainframe To Rule Them All part 3

One Mainframe To Rule Them All part 4

IBM Builds ‘Bar Code Reader’ for DNA

“The DNA Transistor is a project from IBM Research that aims to advance personalized medicine, by making it simpler (and much cheaper) to read an individual’s unique DNA sequence — the special combination of proteins that makes you unlike anyone else. The technology isn’t finished yet, but its potential is tantalizin enough that IBM wanted to share it with the world. And the company claims researchers are making progress. Essentially a bar code reader for genes, the DNA Transistor is part technique and part device. It consists of a 3-nanometer wide hole, known as a nanopore, in a silicon microchip. A sensor in the pore can read DNA and determine its unique makeup.”

Mark of the Beast 14 - DNA

2/14/1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.

Meyer Rothschild had five sons, Amschel, Salomon, Nathan, Karl and Jakob. Meyer spent the rest of his life instructing them all in the secret techniques of money creation and manipulation. As they came of age, he sent them to the major capitals of Europe to open branch offices of the family banking business. Amschel, stayed in Frankfurt, Salomon was sent to Vienna. Nathan was sent to London. Karl went to Naples, and Jakob went to Paris.

Although all the sons became astute branch managers, Nathan exhibited a superior affinity for the banking business. When he got to London, he became a merchant banker and began to cement ties between the House of Rothschild and the Bank of England.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who, by 1820, had established a firm grip on the Bank of England stated:

“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”

The Rothschilds operate out of an area in the heart of London, England, the financial district, which is known as ‘The City’, or the ‘Square Mile.’ All major British banks have their main offices here, along with branch offices for 385 foreign banks, including 70 from the United States. It is here that you will find the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange, Lloyd’s of London, the Baltic Exchange (shipping contracts), Fleet Street (home of publishing and newspaper interests), the London Commodity Exchange (to trade coffee, rubber, sugar and wool), and the London Metal Exchange. It is virtually the financial hub of the world.

Children of the Matrix – David Icke pg 432

“Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were created and funded by the Rothschild’s…It was they who arranged for Hitler to come to power through the Illuminati secret societies in Germany like the Thule Society and the Vril Society which they created through their German networks; it was the Rothschild’s who funded Hitler through the Bank of England and other British and American sources like the Rothschild’s Kuhn, Loeb, bank which also funded the Russian Revolution.

Mark of the Beast 11 - Zionism

Money & the Cross

The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill pg 7
“One of the symbolic forms, which was linked with the idea of healing, was represented as follows:”
Is the caduceus the origin of the dollar symbol?
Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill – David Ovason pg 3
“The word dollar is derived from the German taler. The name taler was first given to silver coins made in 1519. This metal was mined in Joachimsthal (Joachim’s valley, or thaler), in what was Bohemia.
The obverse of one thaler showed the crucified Christ. On the reverse was the image of a serpent, hanging from a cross.”
Pg 4
Near the serpent’s head are the two letters NU, and on the other side of the cross the number 21. This is a reference to Numbers 21.
IBID pg 5
“It is this origin that has led some historians to claim that the thaler image of the serpent-cross is the origin for the dollar sign.

Connection to Saturn, hexagram

Goddess Columbia presiding over Federal Reserve building

Bank of England

“SATURN was also…connected with…the minting of COINS: he was the guardian of the TREASURY.” (Cavendish, p. 479-80)
What was the symbol of Saturn? The hexagram. The cross and the hexagramclick here are linked together. Ivyclick here, the cross and the hexagram are linked together as well. It is not the images themselves that are as important as what they stand for. Transformation. Evolution of man. ‘Ye shall be as gods’.
Notice the hexagram above the head of the ‘eagle’ inside the sun image. It is also important to note that the eagle pictured is actually a phoenixclick here which represents resurrection or being reborn/transformed.
Notice on the head of the eagle the little ‘tuft’ of feathers on the back of the head…this is not on an eagle but was placed there to allude to the phoenix.

Gold & Godhood

Gold is linked to 666
1Ki 10:14 And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty six talents of gold,
Laurence Gardner in his book, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, brings forth evidence that gold was used by the ancients in their temples in an alchemical type process towards ’godhood.’
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 15
“Elias Ashmole, and other of his day, produced a work in 1667 entitled Secrets Revealed. In this treatise he discussed the nature of the Philosopher’s Stone, which was commonly thought to transmute base metal into gold. Setting the record straight, Philalethes made the point that the Stone was itself made of gold, and that the alchemical art was in perfecting this process. He stated: ‘Our Stone is nothing but gold digested to the highest degree of purity and subtle fixation…Our gold, no longer vulgar, is the ultimate goal of Nature’.”
Gardner believes that the ancients ground the gold into powder to become a type of bread/manna.
This is linked to the golden calf.
Exo 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire and ground it until it was fine, then he scattered it on the face of the water. And he made the sons of Israel to drink it.
Gardner describes this golden bread as the mfkzt of the Egyptians. This substance was described as a ‘Precious Stone’ which was presented to the Pharaohs to ‘give them life.’ The ‘white powder bread’ was perceived as a giver of life and was made from gold.
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 19
“…the mfkzt plainly enhanced their lives in some way, and very likely extended their potential life spans beyond the norm. In this respect, it was akin to the enigmatic Fountain of Youth in popular Middle Ages romance.”
“It was from the milk of Hathor that the pharaohs were reckoned to gain their divinity, becoming gods in their own right. They were said to feed on the milk of Hathor just as the Babylonian kings had fed on the milk of Ishtar. It would appear that since natural mothers’ milk contains the enzyme telomerase, the mfkzt (the symbolic milk of Hathor) must somehow have enhanced production of this enzyme. Indeed, modern scientists have now described telomerase as being the ‘fountain of youth.’”
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark Pg 19-20 Gardner describes these telomeres as ‘caps’ at the end of DNA strands.
“As reported in the journal of Science, along with reports from corporate studies and those of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, it has been determined that telomerase has unique anti-ageing properties. Healthy body cells are programmed to divide many times during a lifetime, but this process of division and replication is finite, so that a non-dividing state is ultimately achieved. The division potential is controlled by caps at the end of DNA strands, and these caps are the telomeres. As each cell divides, a piece of telomere is lost, and the dividing process ceases when the telomeres have shortened to an optimum and critical length. There is then no new cell replication and all that follows is deterioration – ageing.
Laboratory experiments with tissue samples have shown that the application of the genetic enzyme telomerase can prevent the shortening of the telomeres upon cell division replication…It seem, then, that somewhere within our DNA structure (presumably in what is commonly termed ‘junk DNA’) is the genetic ability to produce this anti-ageing enzyme, but the potential has somehow been switched off.”
Manna
Rev 2:17 The one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one overcoming, I will give him to eat from the hidden manna. And I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name having been written, which no one knows except the one receiving it.
The Lord Yahshua said that this manna refers to Himself. He calls it the bread of LIFE. He associates this manna with eternal life and the Word.
Messiah is the bread from Heaven that gives Life
Joh 6:30 Then they said to Him, Then what miraculous sign do You do that we may see and may believe You? What do You work?
Joh 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written “He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat.” LXX-Psa. 77:24; MT-Psa. 78:24
Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of Heaven.
Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is He coming down out of Heaven and giving life to the world.
Joh 6:34 Then they said to Him, Lord, always give us this bread.
Joh 6:35 Jesus said to them, I am the Bread of life; the one coming to Me will not at all hunger, and the one believing into Me will not thirst, never!
Joh 6:36 But I said to you that you also have seen Me and did not believe.
Joh 6:37 All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me, and the one coming to Me I will in no way cast out.
Joh 6:38 For I have come down out of Heaven, not that I should do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Joh 6:39 And this is the will of the Father sending Me, that of all that He has given Me, I shall not lose any of it, but shall raise it up in the last day.
Joh 6:40 And this is the will of the One sending Me, that everyone seeing the Son and believing into Him should have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:41 Then the Jews murmured about Him, because He said, I am the Bread coming down out of Heaven.
Joh 6:42 And they said, Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph, of whom we know the father and the mother? How does this One now say, I have come down out of Heaven?
Joh 6:43 Then Jesus answered and said to them, Do not murmur with one another.
Joh 6:44 No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
Joh 6:45 It has been written in the Prophets, They “shall” all “be taught of God.” So then everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me; Isa. 54:13
Joh 6:46 not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from God, He has seen the Father.
Joh 6:47 Truly, truly, I say to you, The one believing into Me has everlasting life.
Joh 6:48 I am the Bread of life.
Joh 6:49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
Joh 6:50 This is the Bread coming down out of Heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Joh 6:51 I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:52 Then the Jews argued with one another, saying, How can this One give us his flesh to eat?
Joh 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
Joh 6:54 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood has everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55 For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.
Joh 6:56 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57 Even as the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father; also the one partaking Me, even that one will live through Me.
Joh 6:58 This is the Bread which came down out of Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died; the one partaking of this Bread will live forever.
Joh 6:59 He said these things teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.
Joh 6:60 Then many of His disciples having heard, they said, This Word is hard; who is able to hear it?
Joh 6:61 But knowing in Himself that His disciples were murmuring about this, Jesus said to them, Does this offend you?
Joh 6:62 Then what if you see the Son of Man going up where He was at first?
Joh 6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not profit, nothing! The Words which I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Psa 34:8 Taste and see that YHWH is good; blessed is the man seeking refuge in Him.
Kepha (Peter) applies this verse in Tehillim (Psalms) speaking of YHWH to the Word.
1Pe 2:2 as newborn babes desire the pure soul-nourishing milk, that you may grow by it;
1Pe 2:3 if indeed you “tasted” “that the Lord is good;”
Aramaic
1Pe 2:2 And become like newborn babes, and long for the word, as for pure and spiritual milk, that you may grow to salvation by it:
1Pe 2:3 If so be you have tasted and found out that the LORD is good.
That which angels seek
1Pe 1:10 About which salvation the prophets sought out and searched out, prophesying concerning the grace for you,
1Pe 1:11 searching for what, or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ made clear within them; testifying beforehand of the sufferings belonging to Christ, and the glories after these.
1Pe 1:12 To whom it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they ministered the same things, which now were announced to you by those having preached the gospel to you in the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; into which things angels long* to look into
*G1937
ἐπιθυμέω
epithumeō
Thayer Definition:
1) to turn upon a thing
2) to have a desire for, long for, to desire
3) to lust after, covet
3a) of those who seek things forbidden (hidden)
What is the Hebrew word for hidden?

The word matza (unleavened bread) comes from the root word matza meaning something hidden or squeezed. Salvation (yeshua) is connected to matza (unleavened bread).
Unleavened Bread is a picture of Messiah. Matsa is pierced, bruised and striped which points back to Isaiah 53, where the Right Arm of YHWH is revealed. The Right Arm of YHWH = the Light of His Face (lechem paniym)
Psa 44:3 For they did not inherit the land with their own sword; yea, their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
As seen in part 1click here, part of the mark of YHWH is keeping the feast of Unleavened Bread.
Exo 13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Exo 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
Exo 13:8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Exo 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD’S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
Mar 8:15 And He charged them, saying, See! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
Leavened breadclick here = hypocrisy = being clothed in the filthy garments of man…ie the man of sin. Leaven also comes from the word:

This is what Shaul refers to in his letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 5:7) where he says to get rid of the leaven of wickedness. Shaul used the word:
G4189
πονηρία
ponēria
Thayer Definition:
1) depravity, iniquity, wickedness
2) malice
3) evil purposes and desires
Webster’s dictionary
Wicked
WICKED, a. [The primary sense is to wind and turn, or to depart, to fall away.]
Here wickedness is connected with leavened bread that is twisted and turned in a kneading bowl.
A related word in Hebrew is:

Twisting of the Scriptures
2Pe 3:15 And think of the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him;
2Pe 3:16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unsettled pervert*, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
*G4761
στρεβλόω
strebloō
Thayer Definition:
1) to twist, turn awry
This word is used in the LXX to translate the following Hebrew word:

This word comes from the root:

1Co 5:8 So let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice* and of evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
G2549
κακία
kakia
Thayer Definition:
1) malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure
2) wickedness, depravity
2a) wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws
3) evil, trouble
This concept of wickedness being equated with lawlessness is seen in how the following verse in translated into the English.
2Th 2:8 And then “the Lawless One” will be revealed, “whom” “the Lord” “will consume” “by the spirit of His mouth,” and will bring to nought by the brightness of His presence. Isa. 11:4
Notice that the lawless one, the man of sin, is pictured by a twisted cord. This is another link to the changing of DNA being the mark of the beast.
Unleavened Bread & Passover are all about the blood of the lamb that brings salvation (John 1:36).
Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be a sign to you, on the houses where you are. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you*. And the plague shall not be on you to destroy, when I strike in the land of Egypt.
*This is connected to the book of Ezekiel and the mark of the righteous
Eze 9:4 And YHWH said to him, Pass through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning over all the abominations that are done in her midst.
Eze 9:5 And He said to those in my hearing, Pass over in the city after him and strike. Do not let your eye spare, and do not have pity.
It is the blood of Messiah that marks us as His own
Rev 1:5 even from Jesus Christ the Faithful Witness, the First-born out of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him loving us and washing us from our sins by His blood,
Rev 1:6 and made us kings and priests to God, even His Father. To Him is the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.
What is the counterfeit? Salvation through bloodlinesclick here.

Table of Showbread (Lechem Paniym)

Yahshua is His paniym (presence, face)
Psa 42:5 O my soul, why are you cast down and moan within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet thank Him for the salvation of His presence.

Psa 44:3 For they did not inherit the land with their own sword; yea, their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand (Messiah Exo 15) and Your arm (Messiah Isa 53) and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
Heb 1:3 who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, Psa. 110:1
The bread of the Presence sat upon a table. The Hebrew word for table is Shulchan. Coming from the root shalach meaning to send out. It is the word that is translated as Apostle.
Apostles take for the Bread of Life to the world
Isa 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him proclaiming good news, making peace heard, bearing tidings of good, making heard salvation (Heb. yeshua), saying to Zion, Your God reigns.
Joh 4:32 But He said to them, I have food to eat which you do not know.
Joh 4:33 Then the disciples said to one another, No one brought Him food to eat?
Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, My food is that I should do the will of Him who sent Me, and that I may finish His work.
Joh 6:51 I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Bread=His flesh=Basar=Gospel

Man was made in the image of Elohim (Genesis1:26)…Messiah is the Image of Elohim (Hebrews 1:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4), hence when we look at the human body it points to Messiah. The body as a whole, and each individual body part speaks the Gospel.
The Gospel is connected w/flesh. Where is the first reference to flesh? The union of Adam and Eve…a picture of Yahshua and His Bride becoming one the fulfillment of the Good News.
Gen 2:21 And YHWH God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh underneath.
Gen 2:22 And YHWH God formed the rib which He had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23 And the man said, This now at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. For this shall be called Woman, because this has been taken out of man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh
Eph 5:30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
Eph 5:31 “For this, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:24
Eph 5:32 The mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly.
The word for bride is:

This comes from the root ‘kol’ which is related to the belly (chay-life):

The Hebrew word for food comes from this same root:

The English word cell comes from this Hebrew root. The human cell is designed just as the Tabernacle/Temple. DNA, in the nucleus of the cell is the blueprint for life & the flesh. It corresponds to the 10 commandments and the Torah in the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle.

Cell -early 12c., “small room,” from L. cella “small room, store room, hut,” related to L. celare “to hide, conceal,” from PIE base *kel- “conceal”
This corresponds perfectly to the Temple/Tabernacle of Elohim which was overlaid with gold.
Eze 7:22 I also will turn My face from them, and they shall defile My hidden place. And violent ones shall enter into it and defile it.
The Temple & the Body
In His Shadow/Image
Gen 1:26 And God said, let Us make man in Our image*, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
Gen 1:27 And God created the man in His own image*; in the image* of God He created him. He created them male and female.

*H6754
צלם
tselem

Psa 61:4 I will dwell in Your tabernacle* forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings. Selah.
*The Tabernacle/His House = the abiding in His Wings
Zion = His habitation…Zion = His people (Isaiah 51:16)
Psa 132:13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Omer
The manna in the wilderness was measured by omers
Exo 16:15 And the sons of Israel looked. And they said, each one to his brother, What is that? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, That is the bread which YHWH has given to you for food.
Exo 16:16 This is the thing which YHWH commanded. Gather from it, each one according to the mouth of his eating; an omer for a head. By the number of your souls you shall take for each man who is in your tent.
Verse 16 contains all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet which further links manna to the Word.
Exo 16:14 And the layer of dew went up, and, behold, something small was on the face of the wilderness, scalelike, small like the hoarfrost on the earth.
The word for ‘hoarfrost’ in verse 14 is ‘kaphor’ which is also translated as ‘ransom’ in reference to money.

In Revelation it is spoken of a famine type situation where must pay a day’s wages in order to obtain food.
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.
A choenix measures about one quart. Compare that with what an Omer measures (3.75 quarts) and it is seen that the woman in the wilderness spoken of in Revelation 12 is going to be satisfied.
As in most things pertaining to the Word, the adversary has a counterfeit.
Laurence Gardner describes this mfkzt as the Phoenix/Philosopher’s stone.

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 28

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 120
Gardner states that the converts gold into mfkzt/Paradise Stone is through the high spin state of certain elements.
“When perfectly correlated, the electrons turn to pure white light and it becomes impossible for the individual atoms in the high-spin substance to hold together. On that account, they cannot retain the metallic state, and he substance falls apart to become a white monatomic powder.”

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 122

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 122
“When a DNA state is altered, as in the case of a cancer, the application of a platinum compound will resonate with the deformed cell, causing the DNA to relax and become corrected.”
“Bristol-Myers Squib announced that ruthenium atoms interact with DNA, correcting the malformations in cancer cells. What the new science determined was that monatomic ruthenium resonates with the DNA, dismantles the short-length helix, and rebuilds it again correctly- just as on might demolish and resurrect a dilapidated building.”
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 123-124
“Likewise, the monatomic powder of iridium has a similar effect on the serotonin production of the pituitary gland, and would appear to reactivate the body’s ‘junk DNA,’ along with underused parts of the brain.”
“Melatonin is manufactured by the pineal gland through an activated chemical messenger called serotonin…It [the pineal gland] is the body’s most potent and effective antioxidant, and it has positive mental and physical anti-ageing properties.”
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 124
“They [the ancients] knew there were superconductors inherent in the human body; they were the elemtns of individual consciousness which they called the ‘light body’ (the Ka). They knew that both the physical body and the light body had to be fed to increas hormonal production, and the ultimate food for the latter was called shem-an-na. This was manufactured by the priestly Master Craftsmen of the temples (the guardians of the House of Gold) for the express purpose of deifying the kings.”
This is why images of Sumerian priest kings held wands with pine cones on top which represented the pineal gland.

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 125

These ‘genies’ carried with them receptacles ‘pollen’ from the Plant of Birth.
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 125-126
“The Plant of Birth was a purely symbolic tree (like the Tree of Life) from which, in accordance with the Sumerian King List, the kings were said to have been fed. Its representation was directly concerned with the Mesopotamian Gra-al: the ‘nectar of supreme excellence’ called the Gold of the Gods which was a designation of the goddess Hathor in Egypt. By virtue of this, and given that the kings were fed with the highward fire-stone of the shem-an-na, it seems beyond doubt that the substance carried by the Genies was not pollen, but the mfkzt powder of gold.”
The Mesopotamian Graal is seen in the Holy Grail stories. This is interesting to note as the Knights Templars, who are the supposed finders of the Grail & the treasures hidden under the Temple, are known as the first ‘bankers.’
Guardians of the Grail pg 24
“…the Priory of Sion organized the Knights Templar to excavate the Temple site in hopes of finding the fabulous treasure of the Temple. Evidently they were successful, for they instituted an international banking system across Europe and had the resources to loan gold to kings and governments…The secret purpose for the Knights Templar, however, was to preserve the Merovingian bloodline in hopes of one day establishing a world government and putting their king upon the throne – a king who could claim to be the offspring of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.”
Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge – Tracy Twyman
http://www.quintessentialpublications.com/tracyrtwyman/?p=2895
“There is plenty of evidence that the Templars did practice Gnosticism, including a coin that has been found with the words “Templi Secreti” or “Secret of the Temple” written upon it. On one side there is an unmistakable depiction of the Gnostic deity Abraxas. He was viewed as the “Great Archon”, the union of good and evil, masculine and feminine. Like Baphomet, he is a chimera, with a hawk’s head, a man’s body, and serpents for legs. On the other side of the coin was a serpent with a lion’s head, a common Gnostic depiction of Ialdaboath.”

Nicholas Flamel called the ‘shem-an-na’ a ‘gift from Paradise’, the Philosopher’s stone.

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 125

White Powder Gold, Monatomic Gold
http://coupmedia.org/alchemy/white-powder-gold-monatomic-gold-0612
“The Chemistry and Physics of Monoatomic Elements, describes the characteristics of those elements which have come to be known as the “Precious Metals”. These eight metals include: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, and silver (known as the “light platinum group”), osmium, iridium, platinum, and gold (known as the “heavy platinum group”).
These eight Transition Group elements, can in a monoatomic, superdeformed, high spin, and low energy state, lose their chemical reactivity and metallic nature — thereby resulting in a state of Superconductivity — a resonant condition complete with Meissner magnetic field(s), Cooper Pairs, and electrons which have literally changed into light (i.e. photons). These precious metals have the unique ability to remain stable in the monoatomic form, which can then lead to effects ranging from Levitation (weight losses) to Zero-Point Energy applications to fundamental biological and/or human physiological effects.
Of particular importance is the fact that all of these precious metals have a strong affinity for and are almost always found in their natural state in combination with gold. Gold, in turn, has a history of being the most precious of all commodities — a “spiritual tradition” which has survived countless generations!
For example, the second chapter of the Book of Genesis (King James version), describes the creation of the heavens and the earth, its population with plants, animals, and herbs, the creation and installation of man in the Garden of Eden, and the appearance from out of the ground of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Bible then quickly informs us that thar’s gold in them thar hills! “And the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.” [Genesis 2-12]
On the scale of creating heaven, earth, Eden, mankind, and so forth, why is gold suddenly such a priority? If the science of the ORME is correct, gold, along with Rhodium and Iridium (and potentially the other precious metals) may in fact be the Tree of Life. [Note that in this connection Genesis 2:5 - 2:25 is considered to be from an earlier source than Genesis 1:1 - 2:4, and thus may be alluding to a deeper meaning.]
Hudson has also connected the ORME {Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Element} with the Hebrew tradition of the Ma-Na or Manna — also thought to be the White Powder of Gold. Curiously, manna means literally: “What is it?” This phrase is found repeated over and over again in The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Papyrus of Ani. The historical and philosophical implications thus include the ORME as part of the Melchizedek priesthood and the metallurgical foundry at Qumrun, where the Essenes were located.
Other references include the mixture of the white powder of gold in water as being “that which issues from the mouth of the creator”, “the semen of the father in heaven”, and The Golden Tear from the Eye of Horus. Hudson believes that Moses knew the secrets of making the ORME, and that the Ark of the Covenant was merely a container for the ORME. As a volatile, superconducting, electrical device, the ORME’s presence within would explain the incredible properties of the Ark; from levitation to “blasts of heavenly displeasure.” Later in the Essene tradition, the white powder of gold began being referred to as the “teacher of righteousness”, something which was swallowed and taken internally.
With respect to the Ark, Laurence Gardner ’s book, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark is a brilliant expositon about the “amazing revelations of the incredible power of gold”, and gold’s inimate association with the Ark of the Covenant. Combined with his earlier book, Genesis of the Grail Kings, a great deal of information can be obtained.
The astounding result of combining the theories of the Anunnaki and the ORME lead to the almost inescapable conclusion that the Anunnaki’s purpose on arriving on Earth was to acquire the monoatomic elements for the purpose of ingesting them and thus being able to lead long lives. It is noteworthy that the first attempt by the Anunnaki to obtain gold was extracting it from sea water, specifically the upper reaches of the Persian Gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet. According to Hudson, the primary form in which gold occurs in sea water is in its monoatomic state.”
Kabbalah connection:
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark pg 90
“According to Qabalistic doctrine, the whole mystery of the cherubim rests upon understanding the alchemical principles as described in the hermetic text of Job 28:5-6. This brings all that we have discussed (the fire, bread, stone, sapphire, and gold) together in one equation: ‘As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; and under it is turned up as it were fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphires; and it hath dust of gold’.”
Gene Gun

Wikipedia.org
“A gene gun or a biolistic particle delivery system, originally designed for plant transformation, is a device for injecting cells with genetic information. The payload is an elemental particle of a heavy metal coated with plasmid DNA. This technique is often simply referred to as bioballistics or biolistics.”
In short, the gene gun inserts gold into cells in order to manipulate the DNA and keep the cell from rejecting foreign DNA.
Gene guns have also been used to deliver ‘DNA vaccines’. More on this below…
“Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information…a technotronic era, a dictatorship,… Finally, looking ahead to the end of the century, the possibility of biochemical mind control, and genetic tinkering with man, including beings which will function like men, and reason like them as well, could give rise to some difficult questions.” (Zbigniew Brzezinski – The Technotronic Era)
IBM Builds ‘Bar Code Reader’ for DNA
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/10/05/ibm-builds-bar-code-reader-dna/?test=latestnews
“The DNA Transistor is a project from IBM Research that aims to advance personalized medicine, by making it simpler (and much cheaper) to read an individual’s unique DNA sequence — the special combination of proteins that makes you unlike anyone else. The technology isn’t finished yet, but its potential is tantalizin enough that IBM wanted to share it with the world. And the company claims researchers are making progress. Essentially a bar code reader for genes, the DNA Transistor is part technique and part device. It consists of a 3-nanometer wide hole, known as a nanopore, in a silicon microchip. A sensor in the pore can read DNA and determine its unique makeup.”

2 Tables

Laurence Gardner attempts to show that the gold of the mystery religions is one and the same with the bread offered by Melchizedek and then Yahshua as a symbol of His Body & the New Covenant. This is a perfect picture of the mark of the beast. A counterfeit of the Truth and an attempt to change the Word to fit the schemes of the adversary..‘Yea, hath God said.’ We must choose between the Table of YHWH or the table of the adversary (Mammon).
Interestingly, in Isaiah we read of a Table prepared for Meni which in Hebrew means a number (as in number of the beast.)
Number – Meni
Isa 65:11 But you are those who forsake YHWH, who forget My holy mountain; who array a table for Fortune, and who fill mixed wine for Fate (Hebrew – meni).
H4507
מני
menı̂y
BDB Definition:
Meni = “fate” or “fortune”
1) god of fate who the Jews worshipped in Babylonia
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H4487
H4487
מנה
mânâh
BDB Definition:
1) to count, reckon, number, assign, tell, appoint, prepare
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to count, number
1a2) reckon, assign, appoint
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be counted, be numbered
1b2) to be reckoned, be assigned
1c) (Piel) to appoint, ordain
1d) (Pual) appointed (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1213
Manah comes from the Hebrew root word מן ‘man’ which refers back to a seed, the blood (DNA) a type or kind. A tree only brings forth fruit from the seed which is within itself (Genesis 1:12). A good tree can’t bring forth corrupt fruit and a corrupt tree can’t bring forth good fruit (Matthew 7:18).

Notice that the word ‘manna’ comes from this same word. The word for likeness, ‘temunah’, also comes from this root for the above reasons. The image of the beast comes forth from the tree of knowledge, its kind (man). The Image of YHWH comes forth from the Tree of Life, His kind (man).
Preparing a table for Meni links to Paul’s warning that we cannot partake of the table of Elohim & the table of the adversary.
1Co 10:20 But the things the nations sacrifice, “they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.” Deut. 32:17 But I do not want you to become sharers of demons;
1Co 10:21 you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and a cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and a table of demons.
This chapter has fascinating connections to the above mentioned information on gold.
1Co 10:6 But these things became examples for us, so that we may not be lusters after evil, even as those indeed lusted.
1Co 10:7 Neither be idolaters, even as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.” Ex. 32:6
This is a reference back to the golden calf which is linked to monatomic gold, as seen above. Paul then goes on to speak of the bread that we partake which is the Body of Messiah. This speaks of the New Covenant meal at the Table of Elohim. This is the manna that was sent down from heaven and corresponds to the Tree of Life. The table of demons is where Meni is worshipped, where the false manna/mfkzt is eaten which corresponds to the tree of knowledge.
1Co 10:11 And all these things happened to those as examples, and it was written for our warning, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
1Co 10:12 So that he that thinks to stand, let him be careful that he not fall.
1Co 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is human; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able. But with the temptation, He will also make the way out, so that you may be able to bear it.
1Co 10:14 On account of this, flee from idolatry, my beloved.
1Co 10:15 I speak as to prudent ones; you judge what I say.
1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a partaking of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a partaking of the body of Christ?
1Co 10:17 Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1Co 10:18 Look at Israel according to flesh; are not those eating the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
1Co 10:19 What then do I say, that an idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?
1Co 10:20 But the things the nations sacrifice, “they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.” Deut. 32:17 But I do not want you to become sharers of demons;
Mammon
Luk 16:13 No servant is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or he will cling to one, and he will despise the other. You are unable to serve God and mammon.
Luk 16:14 And being lovers of money, the Pharisees also heard all these things; and they derided Him.
Luk 16:15 And He said to them, You are those justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is a hateful thing before God.
Mat 6:19 Do not treasure up for you treasures on the earth, where moth and rust cause to perish, and where thieves dig through and steal.
Mat 6:20 But treasure up for you treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust cause to perish, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye. Then if your eye is sound, all your body is light.
Mat 6:23 But if your eye is evil, all your body is dark. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mat 6:24 No one is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or he will cleave to the one, and he will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth.
Bloodlines of the Illuminati pg 116
“THE ROTHSCHILDS AS “PROPHETS”
One item stands out as a person listens to the International Bankers and reads their books. They believe money is what makes the world go round. If you have money, you can do anything. Money is “God”, and it is worshipped and served. Even after these families accumulate more than can be spent, these devotees continue selling their souls for this false but powerful god. The great poet-philosopher Heinrich Heine (a Banker’s son) said, “Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.”
Much of the Protocols of Sion is about economics and money and how it is used to bring about the plans of the Elite.
Protocol 22
“IN OUR HANDS IS THE GREATEST POWER OF OUR DAY – GOLD: IN TWO DAYS WE CAN PROCURE FROM OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY PLEASE…Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule is predestined by God?
Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all that evil which for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at the end of ends the cause of true wellbeing – the bringing of everything into order? Though it be even by the exercise of some violence, yet all the same it will be established. We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled earth the true good and also freedom of the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in
peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict observance of the laws established by us.”
The handwriting on the wall which was revealed to Belshazzar as he drank from the vessels of the Temple at his table (of demons) further links Meni to money.
Dan 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles. And he drank wine before the thousand.
Dan 5:2 When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded the golden and silver vessels brought, those his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink with them.
Dan 5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank with them.
Dan 5:4 They drank wine and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, wood, and stone.
Dan 5:5 At that moment fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Dan 5:25 And this is the writing that was written: A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF MINAS.
Dan 5:26 This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA: God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.
Dan 5:27 A SHEKEL: You are weighed in the balances and found lacking.
Dan 5:28 HALF MINAS: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
Temple at the Center of Time – David Flynn pg 42
“MENE MENE TEKEL UPARSIN, were actually monetary values. These are described as the standards of weight for use in Ezekiel’s future temple in Jerusalem {Ezekiel 45:12}: ‘And the shekel (TEKEL) shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh (MINAH).’ The numeric quantity represented were units of ancient Chaldean weights and measures.
The gerah was the smallest proportion of weight used in Babylonian commerce at the time. Mene (1,000 gerahs), Mene (1,000 gerahs, Tekel (20 gerahs), and Peres, to divide the Mene (500 gerahs) equals 2,520.”
This then also links money back to the temple. Notice that money (buying and selling) keeps linking to the Temple.
Money Changers
Joh 2:14 And He found those selling oxen and sheep and doves in the temple, and the money changers (kermatistēs) sitting.
Joh 2:15 And making a whip out of ropes, He threw all out of the temple, both the sheep, and the oxen, and the money changers, pouring out the money and overturning the tables.
Joh 2:16 And to the ones selling the doves, He said, Take these things from here! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise.
Joh 2:17 And His disciples remembered that it was written, “The zeal of Your house has consumed Me.” Psa. 69:9
G2773
κερματιστής
kermatistēs
Thayer Definition:
1) a money changer, money broker
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a derivative of G2772
Kermatistes comes from kerma which comes from the root keiro which means to shear sheep.
G2772
κέρμα
kerma
Thayer Definition:
1) small pieces of money, small coin, change, money
Part of Speech: noun neuter
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G2751
G2751
κείρω
keirō
Thayer Definition:
1) to sheer: a sheep
2) to get or let be shorn
3) of shearing or cutting short the hair of the head
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a primary verb
This word would trace back to the Hebrew word ‘geza.’

In connection with the current study, this word ‘geza’ is used for the concept of race.
Biblically, race is not defined by color or bloodlines. Race is defined by what nature you are. You are either in Messiah or you are not (Romans 8:9). You are either for Him or against Him (Luke 11:23). You are either the seed of the woman or the seed of the serpent. The word for color in Hebrew, צבע, has the same meaning as being baptised and becoming anew. You are either sprinkled by the blood of Messiah (Isaiah 52:15; Hebrew 10:22) or you are still covered in the garments of sinful flesh. Interestingly, one of the words for money in Hebrew (Exodus 21:30) is ‘kopher’ which has the meaning of atonement/covering.
Those who are of the ‘race’ of Messiah are those who abide in Him, the Olive tree.
1Pe 2:9 But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may openly speak of the virtues” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6
In Hebrew the word for race is גזע, which means the stock/root of a tree.
H1503
גּזע
geza‛
BDB Definition:
1) stem, trunk, stock (of trees)
Who is the root of Yisrael? Messiah Yahshua
Rom 11:16 For if the firstfruit (1Cor 15:52 -Messiah) be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root (Isa 6:13; Gal 3:16 – Messiah) be holy, so are the branches (Joh 15:5).
Isa 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem (H1503 גּזע geza‛)of Jesse, and a Branch{H5342 נצר netser*} shall grow (parah -bear fruit) out of his roots:
The other root spoken of in Scripture is the root of the serpent

Isa 14:29 Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, for the rod of your striking is broken, because a viper comes forth from the root of a snake, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Notice that from the root of a snake comes for the fruit of a serpent. Above, from the root of Jesse comes forth the fruit of the Spirit. This is the true meaning of race. The seed of the woman or the seed of the serpent. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Mat 7:14 For narrow is the gate, and constricted is the way that leads away into life, and few are the ones finding it.
Mat 7:15 But beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside they are plundering wolves.
Mat 7:16 From their fruits you shall know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Mat 7:17 So every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruits.
Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.
Mat 7:19 Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire.
Mat 7:20 Then surely from their fruits you shall know them.
Mat 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power?
Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; “depart from Me, those working lawlessness!” Psa. 6:8
Notice the link between sheep & fruit.
Back to the money changers
Mat 21:12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God and threw out all those selling and buying in the temple. And He overthrew the tables of the money changers (kollubistēs) and the seats of those selling the doves.
Mat 21:13 And He said to them, It has been written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you have “made it a den of plunderers.” Isa. 56:7; Jer. 7:11
G2855
κολλυβιστής
kollubistēs
Thayer Definition:
1) a money-changer, banker
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a presumed derivative of kollubos (a small coin – probably akin to G2854)
G2854
κολλούριον
kollourion
Thayer Definition:
1) a preparation composed of various materials and used as a remedy for tender eyelids
Part of Speech: noun neuter
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a presumed derivative of kollura (a cake – prob akin to the base of G2853)
G2853
κολλάω
kollaō
Thayer Definition:
1) to glue, to glue together, cement, fasten together
2) to join or fasten firmly together
3) to join one’s self to, cleave to
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from kolla (“glue”)
This word ‘kolla’ is used to translate the Hebrew word ‘natsar’ in the Septuagint. Natsar is the word from whence ‘Christian’ comes. Again we see the two seeds, two tree, two tables…
Isa 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem (H1503 גּזע geza‛)of Jesse, and a Branch{H5342 נצר netser*} shall grow (parah -bear fruit) out of his roots:
*Netser is the origin of the name ‘Christian’.Netsarim
Messiah’s assault on the moneychangers is linked to Jeremiah 7 & Isaiah 56. Isaiah 56 speaks of those who are considered ‘strangers’ cleaving to YHWH and are given a better place than literal descendants of Jacob. Jeremiah 7 speaks of those who are worshipping in the Temple of YHWH but at the same time worshipping Baal…ie mixed worship, the tree of knowledge.
Another link to the garden and money is the camel.
Mat 19:23 And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Mat 19:24 And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
As seen above in the section on the oroboros, in Kabbalalistic thought, the adversary in the garden was said to have been a camel.
The camel (gimel) is related to the golem in Rabbinic thought. The golem is a creature created from Kabbalistic magic, a perfect picture of the Image spoken of in Revelation 13. The deeper connection to the camel and the letter gimel is seen in Gnostic Kabbalistic thought.
http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/alphabet-of-kabbalah/03-gimel
“Gnosis gives the “gnana” of God: the Gimel (ג ), the letter G in the English alphabet.
The third letter of the sacred alphabet of Kabbalah is the letter Gimel. If you observe its shape, you see that it is made by a letter Vav (ו) and a letter Iod (י). This encloses the mystery of the sound “ggh,” which is guttural, meaning, in the throat. If you observe the Tree of Life you will see that – in the human being – the Sephirah Da’ath is precisely located at the level of the throat. This Sephirah Da’ath is Gnosis. Gnosis is written with g.
Gnosis is knowledge, which in Sanskrit is “gnana” with ‘g,’ yet sometimes they write this “Jnana.” In Hebrew, the letter Gimel has these two (ja and ga) sounds which are associated with many words.
The sound of gimel is located at the level of the throat.
This letter Iod – as you see in the letter gimel – is nothing but the letter Vav, which is an extended letter Iod. Vav or Zayin forms the straight line of the letter gimel, which indicates that the letter gimel extends from the letter Iod. Remember, the letter Iod represents the Sephirah Kether.
We explained in the letter Aleph that Kether is always represented by the letter Iod. Aleph is called the holy trinity, the unity formed by three Iods: Kether, Chokmah, and Binah. In Aleph we also find the symbol of the extended letter Iod expressed as Vav, which in the human organism is the spinal column, because the letter Vav represents the spinal medulla, the spinal column, which is the basis of our studies of Daath, Gnosis.
Remember that amongst the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is Binah, the third Sephirah in the Tree of Life. Binah is Hebrew for “intelligence, understanding.” It is pointing at the human being, which among all the animals is the one that has the capacity for understanding and intelligence. The intellectual animal is at the top of earthly evolution.
The letter gimel as the number three is represented by the mercury* of philosophy. Mercury is the Holy Spirit, which is an emanation of the holy tri-unity. This force always works in the central nervous system as El-Shaddai. Remember that it is stated that the central nervous system is the throne of God. That is why – in Christianity – those beings that are related with the Sephirah Binah at that level are called Thrones. It is because the throne of God is always made by the creative force of the Holy Spirit as El-Shaddai represented in the letter gimel.
Moreover, the Zohar also talks about a flying camel. If you associate the camel with gimel, it is easy to see that the energy of the Kundalini, the Holy Spirit, rises in the Vav, the spinal column, in the spine of the gimel, the gamal, the camel.
“When Samael tempted Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, he descended from heaven riding on this camel-like serpent at that time, all the creatures saw his image and fled from him.”
If you imagine that literally, you would see the master or Angel Samael riding a flying camel. But no, this is talking about the spinal column. The angel that rides in the spinal column is Samael Aun Weor.
‘Aun’ relates to the lower Iod of the letter gimel. ‘Aun’ is sexual strength in Hebrew. Weor means “and light” in Hebrew.
“And the life (of Aun, sexual strength) was the light (Aur / eor) of men (Gimel)”. {This is in reference to John 1:9 which speaks of Messiah…notice how this Kabbalistic author links Messiah with the serpent.}
“Weor”—”and the light”—rises in the Vav, the spinal column. Therefore, to ride in a camel (a Gimel) means to be somebody who has developed all the forces of the Kundalini, the Holy Spirit incarnated in the spinal column.”
*Remember that Mercury is associated with money, as mentioned above. This should be a strong warning for those who preach the prosperity gospel. {For more on the prosperity gospel and its connections to the markClick Here}
Notice that the Kabbalistic teaching on the letter gimel/camel is associated with the power of speech and links to money. Above, Messiah chastises the money changers and quotes a portion of Isaiah 56. It is interesting to note that the end of Isaiah chapter 56 speaks of pastors who are dumb dogs that are greedy and can never get enough wealth (Isaiah 56:10-12). It is significant to note that many of those who preach the prosperity gospel are a part of the ‘tongues’ movementClick Here which amazingly also is connected to the Kundalini Spirit.

Buying & Selling & the 4th Kingdom of Daniel

Dan 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly (min qetsah) strong* and partly (min) fragile**.
The word translated as ‘partly’ in the above verse comes from the Hebrew ‘min.’ This word is a direct reference to DNA. Those of iron will have the DNA of the strong (taqaph) which means those in authority. As seen in the section on the satanic kingdom, this is referring to angelic beings (Ephesians 6:12). The clay will have the DNA of the fragile (shabar) which is a word which means to ‘buy or sell.’ Here it is seen that humans that mix with angels will be the same as those that are buying and selling. This further links the mark of the beast to the corruption of human DNA through the mixture of the seed.
Min – DNA

Shabar – Buy & Sell

The next verse in Daniel 2 further illustrates this connection.
Dan 2:43 And as you saw the iron mixed with the clay of the clay, they shall be mixed with the seed of men. But they shall not adhere to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
The word for ‘mixed’ here is from the Hebrew ‘arav’ which also traces back to buying and selling.

Manly Hall links DNA (seed) with gold.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
“…in the sunlight or spiritual gold is concealed the first sperm of all life.”
Hall links this seed with the purpose of alchemy, the Philosopher’s Stone.
“When the alchemists stated that every animate and inanimate thing in the universe contained the seeds of gold, they meant that even the grains of sand possessed a spiritual nature, for gold was the spirit of all things…The purpose of alchemy was not to make something out of nothing but rather to fertilize and nurture the seed which was already present. Its processes did nor actually create gold but rather made the everpresent seed of gold grow and flourish. Everything which exists has a spirit–the seed of Divinity within itself–and regeneration is not the process of attempting to place something where it previously had not
existed. Regeneration actually means the unfoldment of the omnipresent Divinity in man, that this Divinity may shine forth as a sun and illumine all with whom it comes in contact.”
Manly Hall reveals that this golden seed/philosopher’s stone is represented by the hexagram. “Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom believed that if a physician could establish harmony among the elements of
earth, fire, air, and water, and unite them into a stone (the Philosopher’s Stone) symbolized by the sixpointed star or two interlaced triangles, he would possess the means of healing all disease.”
Back to the word ‘arav.’
On a deeper level, the word ‘arav’ is translated as ‘woof’, which is the mixing of cords when weaving. This links the buying and selling back to the Garden as Adam and Eve realized they were naked after eating from the tree of knowledge and made themselves aprons/girdles to wear.

‘Arav’ also has an interesting connection to the plagues in Exodus. ‘Arov’ is generally translated as flies but in reality means swarms.
Psa 78:45 He sent swarms of flies against them, and they devoured them; also frogs, and they destroyed them.
The Psalmist defines these swarms as ‘angels of evil.’
Psa 78:49 He sent the heat of His anger on them, fury and indignation and distress, a sending of angels of evils.
It is interesting to note that the Nephilim are linked to money & taxes in Scripture.
The phrase man/men of stature refers to the giants/nephilim in the Scriptures. The word is ‘ish/anashim middah’ in the Hebrew. The word middah means a measurement. It is connected to the measurement of the Tabernacle, Nephilim, tax and tribute as well as the measurement of the Temple in Zechariah 2 and Ezekiel 40 c&c.
Num 13:33 And we saw the giants there, the sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.
Num 13:32 And they sent out an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land into which we passed, to spy it out, is a land eating up the ones living in it. And all the people we saw in its midst were men of stature (middah)

Mark of the Beast 14 - DNA

2/14/1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.

Mark of the Beast 11 - Zionism

2/14/1949 - Russian-born chemist and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann was elected first president of modern Israel.

The head of the Jewish Zionist Movement was replaced with a German educator called Chaim Weizman. Chamish exclaims, “Words do not describe the damage this man has done to the world. Now, what we were told is that Chaim Weizmann took on the Zionist movement. During World War I, he developed a way to make acetone from dried paint …and that process ‘saved the war.’ Now, I want you to know, I checked… There was a little factory built. He was a chemist. Not one bomb in World War I used his method, not a one. And even so, the story we are told is: ‘The British were so (impressed about) this wonderful new way to make explosives, they gave him ‘Palestine’… This is the myth… you know. This is the myth that we have been raised with.”

Chaim Weizmann – 1st president of the State of Israel
It was in the year 1915 that the Zionist leader, Chaim Weizmann met British Prime Minister Lord Balfour. An interesting conversation took place at that meeting, when Lord Balfour inquired of Chaim Weizmann as to the reasons why the Zionists had refused Great Britain’s offer of refuge for the Jewish people to live in Uganda. Chaim responded: “Suppose I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?” Balfour responded, “Dr. Weizmann, we have London.” And Weizmann responded, “That is true, but we had Jerusalem when London was still a marsh.” This event was two years before the official British proclamation, called the “Balfour Accord” that expressed the British Empire’s intent to seek international approval for an Israeli homeland in the land of “Roman Palestine”.
Now, Weizmann, according to a secondary document on the life of Albert Einstein becoming a supporter to the Zionist cause, Chaim Weizmann that affirmed the earlier remarks by Barry Chamish as to the pride of the leading spokesman for Zionism, Russian born professor of Biochemistry in Manchester, England, when it reported in “Albert Einstein’s Zionism”:
Albert Einstein’s Zionism – “Having made a crucial contribution to the British war effort (devising a way to synthesize acetone, a TNT ingredient, from cereals and horse chestnuts) Weizmann uses his good graces to lobby for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.”

The Jewish Sabbateans and the German Holocaust

The divine fate as destined by the “Young Turks” would start a domino effect. It started with the Sabbatean Turkish holocaust of the Armenians that eventually led to the Sabbatian Nazi holocaust of the Jews in Germany. In spite of the many offers and warnings, the Jews would not move to the land of “Roman Palestine”. Their former homeland that had been taken from them by the Lord of hosts and given to the hated Edom (Rome) was not, they felt in their right to take by force or deception.
Yet, when the “Land” was given to the Jews, and war after war allowed the Jews to enlarge their borders, they did not take possession of them in their entirety. The Temple Mount was given back to the custody of the Mufti of Jerusalem. This agency hated the Jewish people more then any other and collaborated with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regimen to eliminate the Jewish presence from the globe.
In spite of all the accolades and praise to the brave few Jews who went to live in the socialistic kibbutzs in Israel, the Sabbatean Jewish Zionist Movement could not gain any respect by the Jewish orthodoxy. In the year of 1932, there were 250 Jewish agencies that represented the interests of the German Jews. Two years later, there was only one Jewish agency left to represent European Jews; the “Jewish Agency” for Labor Zionism.
It was the “Jewish Agency” that was presided over by Chaim Weizmann that “cut a deal” with Hitler and the Nazi Germans, called the “Transfer Agreement”. The entire world’s Jewry was protesting with massive boycotts against the Nazis at the same time, it was the “Jewish Agency of Jerusalem” that was supported by the Nazi which as Barry Chamish commented;
Barry Chamish – “In 1937 Levi Eshkol played a central role in the establishment of the Mekorot Water Company and in this role was instrumental in convincing the German government to allow Jews emigrating to Palestine to take with them some of their assets – mostly in the form of German-made equipment. While world Jewry was boycotting the Nazi regime in the ’30s, the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem was propping up Hitler. A deal, called The Transfer Agreement, was cut whereby the Nazis would chase Germany’s Jews to Palestine, and the Labor Zionists would force the immigrants to use their assets to buy only German goods. Once the Jewish Agency got the German Jews it wanted, those they secretly indoctrinated in the anti-Judaism of Shabtai Tzvi and Jacob Frank, they let the Nazis take care of the rest of European Jewry. The Holocaust was a eugenics program and Levi Eshkol played a major role in it.”

[Weizmann, the 'Young Turks' and the 'Transfer Agreement']
But, he was [Herzl] replaced by the German-educated Chaim Weizmann. Words do not describe the damage this man has done to the world!… Now, what we were told is that Chaim Weizmann took on the Zionist movement. And during World War I, he developed a way to make acetone from dried paint – peeling paint, and that process ‘saved the war.’ Now, I want you to know, I checked… There was a little factory built – he was a chemist. Not one bomb in World War I used his method – not a one. And even so, the story we are told is: ‘The British were so for this wonderful new way to make explosives, they gave him ‘Palestine’.’ … [said with sarcasm ] Yeah, sure…. that’s the way things work. ‘Uh, thanks for the acetone – have a state.’ This is the myth… you know. This is the myth that we have been raised with.
Poor Turkey. If they had just acquiesced. If they had just acquiesced… But, they didn’t. And then the Donmeh. The Sabbateans of Turkey – they formed a little movement called the ‘Young Turks’. And the ‘Young Turks’ got rid of that sultan. But far worse, the ‘Young Turks’ prepared for our holocaust [of the Jews] with the holocaust of the Armenians. The Armenian holocaust was a Sabbatean holocaust. And shortly, I’m going to prove this – this I can prove. And you now have a situation where there is nowhere for the Jews to go except ‘Palestine’, but they still won’t go. Who would want to? It’s a miserable place to go – they’re still staying in Poland. They’re still staying throughout Europe. They [Sabbatean] can’t get this movement off the ground. In 1932, do you know how many Jewish agencies represented German Jewry? Over 250. In 1934, just 1 ~ Labor Zionism. ‘The Jewish agency’, run by Chaim Weizmann, cut a deal with the German Nazis – it was called the ‘Transfer Agreement’. While all the rest of the world Jewry were fighting to boycott the Nazis, to put an end to this regime, the ‘Jewish Agency of Jerusalem’ was propping them up. The ‘Transfer Agreement’ worked like this ~ ‘We want your Jews to come to ‘Palestine’. You have no money – your regime is going to fall. So, you get them to ‘Palestine’ our way, and we’ll make sure they buy all their goods only from you – it will be enough to keep you going. That was the ‘Transfer Agreement’. There was a great, great Zionist – Vladimir Jabotinsky… There was another side to Zionism – there was an honest side to it. And, by the way, that is what the Israelis have been choosing year after year, since 1977. That’s what the Israelis want – they want the honest side of it. Back then, it was called ‘Revisionist Zionism’.
In 1933, there was a conference in Basel [France] and the revisionists were fighting this ‘Transfer Agreement’ and all its immorality, and Chaim Weizmann and [David] Ben-Gurion had Jabotinsky thrown out of the Zionist movement through a phony murder of someone named Chaim Arlozorov. Chaim Arlozorov was the mediator between the Nazis and the Jewish agency for the ‘Transfer Agreement’. He was murdered on the beach in Tel Aviv. The revisionists were blamed for it and thrown out of the Zionist movement. Exactly the same thing they [Sabbateans] did with Rabin. Exactly – no difference. They [Revisionist Zionist Jews] didn’t do the murder – the murder was used against them. The good Zionists fought throughout World War II to save the Jews – those are the books out there.

Weizman and Rothschild
Edmond de Rothschild first became involved in Jewish affairs after the pogroms in Russia in the 1880s. Almost immediately, he also became interested in settlers in Eretz Yisrael. When early settlements faced financial ruin, Rothschild was approached by Rabbi Samuel Mohilever and the leaders of Rishon LeZion. He lent his assistance to both Rishon LeZion and Zikhron Ya’akov and then helped found Ekron. An early supporter of quiet settlement initiatives, after World War I, he joined the political activity of the Zionist Organization by aiding Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow.

Baron Edmond James (Avrahim Binyamin) de Rothschild (1845-1934) is the known as the “Father of the Settlement” (Avi ha-Yishuv). The Independence Day coin 1982/5742 is dedicated to the memory of Edmond de Rothschild and marks the centenary of his first projects in Israel.
Baron Rothschild, the head of the house, is the true king of Judah, the prince of the captivity, the Messiah so long looked for by this extraordinary people… .The lion of the tribe of Judah, Baron Rothschild, possesses more real force than David–more wisdom than Solomon.”

The Rothschild’s have always been the true force behind the Zionist Movement. Zionism is in fact SIONism, Sion = the Sun, hence the name of the elite secret society behind the Merovingian bloodline, the Priory of Sion. Contrary to most people’s understanding, Zionism is not the Jewish people. Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people.
Now, having manipulated their puppet-governments to support their plan for a personal fiefdom in the Middle East, the Rothschild’s began the process of settling Jewish people in Palestine. As always they treated their own people with contempt. Enter Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the “Father of Israel”, who died in 1934, the man who hosted the Versailles “peace” delegations. Edmond was from the French House, like Guy de Rothschild. Edmond, in fact, began to settle Jews in Palestine as far back as the 1880s.
He financed Russian Jews to establish settlements in Palestine, but it was nothing to do with their freedom or birthright, it was to advance the Rothschild-Illuminati agenda. Edmond financed the creation of farms and factories and ran the whole operation with a rod of iron. The Jewish farmers were told what to grow and they soon found out who was in charge if they questioned his orders. In 1901, these Jewish people complained to Rothschild about this dictatorship over their settlement or “Yishuv”. They asked him:
“..if you wish to save the Yishuv, first take your hands from it, and for once permit the colonists to have the possibility of correcting for themselves whatever needs correcting..”

Baron Rothschild replied:
“I created the Yishuv, I alone. Therefore no men, neither colonists nor organizations, have the right to interfere in my plans..”
Edmond de Rothschild worked closely with Theodore Herzl, who just happened to be the founder of Zionism, the political movement created to ensure a “Jewish” homeland in Palestine. Rothschild was also the power behind Chaim Weizmann, another leader of Zionism. As Rothschild told Weizmann:
“Without me Zionism would not have succeeded, but without Zionism my work would have been stuck to death.”

Zionism
Zionism part 2: Sabateans, Rothschilds & Zionism
Mark of the Beast 11 - Zionism
Zionism, Ahmadinejad, Iran

2/14/1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.

On 2/25/1956, the last day of the Congress: Khrushchev's morning speech began with vague references to the harmful consequences of elevating a single individual so high that he took on the "supernatural characteristics akin to those of a god." Khrushchev went on to say that such a mistake had been made about Stalin. He himself had been guilty of what was, in essence, a distortion of the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism.

While denouncing Stalin, Khrushchev carefully praised the Communist Party, which had the strength to withstand all the negative effects of imaginary crimes and false accusations. The Party, in other words, had been a victim of Stalin, not an accessory to his crimes. He finished by calling on the Party to eradicate the cult of personality and return to "the revolutionary fight for the transformation of society."

The speech shocked delegates to the Congress, as it flew in the face of years of Soviet propaganda, which had claimed that Stalin was a wise, peaceful, and fair leader. After long deliberations, in a month the speech was reported to the general public, but the full text was published only in 1989.

2/14/2001 - In a 7-3 vote, the Kansas State Board of Education restored evolution and the origin of the earth to the state's science education standards. In a controversial 1999 vote, the board had de-emphasized evolution and removed the Big Bang Theory from teaching requirements.

Creation

2/14/2003 - Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.

DNA

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 14: Num 7

On this date February 13th

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On this date 2/13/1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.

Prior to ascending the throne, he was a leader of the royal army in the French Wars of Religion against the Huguenots, and took part in the victories over them at Battle of Jarnac and Battle of Moncontour. While still Duke, he was involved in the plot for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (but did not participate), in which thousands of Huguenots were killed; his reign as King, like the ones of his elder brothers Francis II and Charles IX, would see France in constant turmoil over religion.

Henry continued to take an active role in the French Wars of Religion, and in 1572–1573 led the Siege of La Rochelle, a massive military assault on the Huguenot-held city of La Rochelle by Catholic troops during the fourth phase of the French Wars of Religion. At the end of May 1573, Henry learned that he had been elected King of Poland, a country with a large Protestant minority, and political considerations forced him to negotiate an end to the assault. An agreement was reached on 24 June 1573 and Catholic troops ended the siege on 6 July 1573.

On 16 May 1573 Polish nobles elected Henry, as the first elected monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. However, the Lithuanian nobles boycotted this election, and it was left to the Lithuanian ducal council to confirm his election. Thus the Commonwealth elected Henry, rather than Habsburg candidates, partly in order to be more agreeable to the Ottoman Empire (a traditional ally of France through the Franco-Ottoman alliance), and thereby strengthening a Polish-Ottoman alliance which was also in effect.

It was not until January 1574 that Henry was to reach the borders of Poland. On 21 February, Henry's coronation was held. It was in mid June 1574 that Henry would take leave of Poland and head back to France, upon hearing of his brother, Charles IX's death. Henry's absence 'provoked a constitutional crisis' which Parliament attempted to resolve by notifiying Henry that his throne would be lost if he did not return from France by 12 May 1575. His failure to return caused Parliament to declare his throne vacant.

Henry was crowned king of France on 13 February 1575, at Reims Cathedral.

Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Rheims) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Reims, where the kings of France were once crowned.[1] It replaces an older church, destroyed by a fire in 1211, which was built on the site of the basilica where Clovis was baptized by Saint Remi, bishop of Reims, in AD 496.

In 496 A.D., the Bishop of Rome made a pact with Clovis, the grandson of Merovee, and king of the Franks, calling him the ‘New Constantine,’ giving him authority to preside over a ‘Christianized’ Roman empire…Childeric III, son of Dagobert I, was desposed in 751 A.D. He was the last known Merovingian to sit upon the throne of France. Dagobert’s other son, Sigisbert III, fathered Godfroi de Bouillon, and was the progenitor of various royal families – Blanchefort, Gisors, Saint-Clair (Sinclair), Montesquiou, Monpezat, Phoer, Luisignan, Plantard, and Habsburg-Lorraine.

Guardians of the Grail pg 23
“From the Merovingian bloodline has come most, if not all, the ruling families of Europe and, believe it or not, has even included some of the popes of the Roman Catholic Church.” {Mark of the Beast 10 - The Holy Grail}

Although he was expected to produce an heir after he married Louise of Lorraine (14 February 1575), they were unable to conceive a child.

In 1576, Henry signed the Edict of Beaulieu, granting many concessions to the Huguenots. His action resulted in the Catholic activist, Henry I, Duke of Guise, forming the Catholic League. After much posturing and negotiations, Henry was forced to rescind most of the concessions that had been made to the Protestants in the edict.

In 1578 Henry created the Order of the Holy Spirit to commemorate his becoming first King of Poland and later King of France on the Feast of Pentecost and gave it precedence over the earlier Order of St. Michael, which had lost much of its original prestige through its having been awarded too frequently and too readily. The Order would retain its prestige as the premier order of France until the end of the French monarchy.

In 1584, the King's youngest brother and heir presumptive, Francis, Duke of Anjou, died. Under Salic Law, the next heir to the throne was Protestant Henry III of Navarre, a descendant of St. Louis IX. Under pressure from the Duke of Guise, Henry III issued an edict suppressing Protestantism and annulling Henry III of Navarre's right to the throne.

Henry III of Navarre (Henry IV) did eventually take the throne after 'converting' to Catholicism. In 1589, he enacted the Edict of Nantes, which guaranteed religious liberties to the Protestants, thereby effectively ending the civil war. One of the most popular French kings, both during and after his reign, Henry showed great care for the welfare of his subjects and displayed an unusual religious tolerance for the time. He was assassinated by a fanatical Catholic, François Ravaillac.

On 1 August 1589, Henry III lodged with his army at Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris, when a young fanatical Dominican friar, Jacques Clément, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King. The monk gave the King a bundle of papers and stated that he had a secret message to deliver. The King signaled for his attendants to step back for privacy, and Clément whispered in his ear while plunging a knife into his abdomen. Clément was killed on the spot by the guards.

At first the King's wound did not appear fatal, but he enjoined all the officers around him, in the event that he did not survive, to be loyal to Henry of Navarre as their new king. The following morning—the day that he was to have launched his assault to retake Paris—Henry III died.

Chaos swept the attacking army, most of it quickly melting away; the proposed attack on Paris was postponed. Inside the city, joy at the news of Henry III's death was near delirium; some hailed the assassination as an act of God.

Henry III was interred at the Saint Denis Basilica. Childless, he was the last of the Valois kings. Henry III of Navarre succeeded him as Henry IV, the first of the Bourbon kings.

2/13/1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

The sentence of the Inquisition was in three essential parts:

    Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.

    He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition. On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life.

    His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.

It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he dedicated his time to one of his finest works, Two New Sciences. Here he summarized work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials. This book has received high praise from Albert Einstein. As a result of this work, Galileo is often called the "father of modern physics".

The Trial of Galileo

Galileo Galilei

Shadows of Messiah - Astronomy

2/13/1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.

In what became known as the "Glorious Revolution", on 5 November 1688 William invaded England in an action that ultimately deposed King James II & VII and won him the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland. In the British Isles, William ruled jointly with his wife, Mary II, until her death on 28 December 1694. The period of their joint reign is often referred to as "William and Mary".

A Protestant, William participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic king of France, Louis XIV, in coalition with Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe. Many Protestants heralded him as a champion of their faith. Largely because of that reputation, William was able to take the British crowns when many were fearful of a revival of Catholicism under James. William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is commemorated by the Orange Institution in Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland to this day. His reign marked the beginning of the transition from the personal rule of the Stuarts to the more-Parliament-centred rule of the House of Hanover.

To end the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights and began a new co-operation between the Parliament and the monarchs, leading to a greater measure of personal liberty and democracy in Britain. This action both signalled the end of several centuries of tension and conflict between the English crown and Parliament, and the end of the idea that England would be restored to Roman Catholicism, King William being a Protestant leader.

Most of William and Mary's reign was purely controlled by the Parliament. For example, they were not allowed to raise an army without the permission of parliament, change any laws, change the country's religion to anything other than protestant or make any important decisions. These rules of monarchy are still present today.

2/13/1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

Glen Coe Massacre

At the start of the 17th century, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 should have heralded a period of peace after centuries of war between Scotland and England. At last, without any further fighting, the two countries were united under one monarch, King James VI of Scotland. But as the century wore on, the Stewart kings failed to recognise the changes taking place in their country. King Charles I was convinced of the "Divine Right of Kings" at a time when parliamentary democracy was becoming stronger and he also pushed the cause of Catholicism as many of his subjects, both in Scotland and England, were adopting forms of the Protestant faith. The result was the Civil War of 1642-46, (in which large numbers of Scots supported the king), the beheading of Charles I and the "Commonwealth" of Oliver Cromwell.

The monarchy was later restored under Charles II but when he died in 1685, the Catholic faith of his brother, King James VII, was a factor in the uprising by the Duke of Monmouth (assisted by the Earl of Argyll in Scotland). While that was unsuccessful, the arrival in 1688 of King James' nephew, the Calvinist William of Orange, forced James to flee to France. But, as was shown by the Jacobite Uprisings in 1689 under John Graham of Claverhouse (Viscount Dundee with a force mainly drawn from the Highland clans) and the deposed King James' defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, there was an ever present threat.

In August, 1691, King William III offered a pardon to all the Highland clans who had risen against him in earlier years but only if they took an oath of allegiance before 1 January, 1692. Alastair MacIan, 12th Chief of Glen Coe (who had joined Claverhouse in 1689), despite the four months notice, left it to the last minute to take the oath. This was because, like many other Highland chiefs, he waited for the approval of the deposed King James VII - which was late in coming. But he compounded this by going to the wrong place to take the oath and arrived at Inveraray (pictured here), after a dreadful journey through the snow, too late to take the oath by the deadline. The government had been waiting for just such an the opportunity to "make an example" of anyone who stepped out of line. The fact that it was this section of the clan Donald, was considered a bonus. Over the years in the "Wild West" atmosphere of the Highlands, they had done more than their fair share of raiding and thieving. In the famous Atholl Raid of 1685 (after two successive Earls of Argyll had been executed and the Campbells, for once, were weakened) the Glen Coe men, with others, took advantage of the situation to pillage huge tracts of Campbell territory.

Plans were drawn up by the Lord Advocate, John Dalrymple, although others were involved, including John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane. Dalrymple's orders to the commander of the force sent to carry out the atrocity were chilling. Here is an abstract (in the original spelling) -

"You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the M'Donalds, of Glencoe and putt all to the sword under seventy. You are to have special care that the old fox and his sons doe upon no account escape your hands. You are to secure all the avenues, that no man may escape.... This is by the King's special command, for the good of the country, that these miscreants be cutt off root and branch. See that this be putt in execution without feud or favour, else you may expect to be treated as not true to the king's government, nor a man fitt to carry a commission in the king's service. Expecting you will not faill in the fulfilling hereof as you love yourself, I subscribe these with my hand. Master of the Stair (John Dalyrmple)."

The Glencoe massacre became a propaganda piece for Jacobite sympathies, which were to come to a head in the next generation in the Rising of 1745.

For several decades,the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement have held a commemoration on the Sunday closest to the anniversary which is often attended by members of other groups including Siol nan Gaidheal, Na Fir Dileas etc.

2/13/1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

The phenomenon was initially reported in 1873 by Frederick Guthrie in Britain. While doing work on charged objects, Guthrie discovered that a red-hot iron sphere with a positive charge would lose its charge (by somehow discharging it into air). He also found that this did not happen if the sphere had a negative charge.

THE VACUUM TUBE

The "Edison effect" was the name given to a phenomenon that Edison observed in 1875 and refined later, in 1883, while he was trying to improve his new incandescent lamp. The effect was that, in a vacuum, electrons flow from a heated element -- like an incandescent lamp filament -- to a cooler metal plate. Edison saw no special value in the effect, but he patented it anyway. Edison patented everything in sight. Today we call the effect by the more descriptive term, "thermionic emission."

2/13/1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

Although the initial campaign successfully desegregated downtown lunch counters, sit-ins, pickets, and protests against other segregated facilities continued in Nashville until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended overt, legally sanctioned segregation nationwide. Many of the organizers of the Nashville sit-ins went on to become important leaders in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

2/13/1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.

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Evil Music

2/13/1982 – Río Negro massacre in Guatemala.

In 1978, in the face of civil war, the Guatemalan government proceeded with its economic development program, including the construction of the Chixoy hydroelectric dam. Financed in large part by the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, the Chixoy Dam was built in Rabinal, a region of the department of Baja Verapaz historically populated by the Maya Achi. To complete construction, the government completed voluntary and forcible relocations of dam-affected communities from the fertile agricultural valleys to the much harsher surrounding highlands. When hundreds of residents refused to relocate, or returned after finding the conditions of resettlement villages were not what the government had promised, these men, women, and children were kidnapped, raped, and massacred by paramilitary and military officials. More than 440 Maya Achi were killed in the village of Río Negro alone, and the string of extra-judicial killings that claimed up to 5,000 lives between 1980 and 1982 became known as the Río Negro Massacres. The government officially declared the acts to be counterinsurgency activities - although local church workers, journalists and the survivors of Rio Negro deny that the town ever saw any organized guerilla activity.

In February 1982 a group of armed men, possibly guerrillas, burned the market of Xococ, killing five persons. As a result of the fact that the Army identified the peasants of Río Negro with the guerrillas, residents of Xococ broke trade relations with Río Negro and declared them their enemies. Says an inhabitant of Xococ: "When the war began, friendship was lost" .

On February 13, 1982, 74 people from Río Negro(55 men and 19 women) went to Xococ to recover the identity cards. Once there, they were executed by the patrollers.

WITNESS Media Archive: Footage from Rio Negro Massacre

2/13/1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die Wende (The Turning Point). The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity celebrated on 3 October.

In 1945, the Third Reich ended in defeat and Germany was divided into two separate countries, with the east controlled as part of the Communist Soviet Bloc and the west aligned to Capitalist Europe (which formed into the European Community), including a division in military alliance that formed into the Warsaw Pact and NATO, respectively. The capital city of Berlin got divided into four occupied sectors of control, under the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Germans lived under such imposed divisions throughout the ensuing Cold War.

Into the 1980s, the Soviet Union experienced a period of economic and political stagnation, and they correspondingly decreased intervention in Eastern Bloc politics. In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at Brandenburg Gate challenging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" that had separated Berlin. The wall had stood as an icon for the political and economic division between East and West, a division that Churchill had referred to as the "Iron Curtain".

In May 1989, Hungary removed their border fence and thousands of East Germans escaped to the West. The turning point in Germany, called "Die Wende", was marked by the "Peaceful Revolution" leading to the removal of the Berlin Wall with East and West Germany subsequently entering into negotiations toward eliminating the division that had been imposed upon Germans more than four decades earlier.

2/13/2004 South Korean scientists announced that they had successfully cloned 30 human embryos, grown them for a week in the laboratory. and extracted stem cells from them for further research. The embryos were not implanted into a woman, but the techniques used here will probably make it easier to eventually clone a human. Currently cloning in South Korea is only permitted for research and medical therapies, not for reproduction.

Parentalia
In ancient Rome, the Parentalia or dies parentales ("ancestral days") was a nine-day festival held in honor of family ancestors, beginning February 13.

Parentalia

The Parentalia is the Roman festival for honoring one's dead parents. Families gathered amongst the tombs of loved ones and made offerings or sacrifices of grain and wine to their souls. Although the Parentalia always began with the performance of ceremonies in honor of dead parents by a Vestal Virgin, Romans basically celebrated the Parentalia at the family level. Families walked outside the city to visit the family tombs and performed private sacrifices in honor of dead kin (especially parents). The sacrifices were simple, a little wine, a little corn or bread, perhaps some votive garlands. It was a quiet, personal, reflective day, followed by a quiet reflective week or so to think about loved ones and the importance of the family. The Parentalia was the first of three Roman festivals in February for appeasing the dead which started on the Ides and lasted until the 22nd. During this time all temples were closed, marriages were forbidden, and public officials suspended business for the duration of the festivals.

William Warde Fowler describes the Parentalia as "practically a yearly renewal of the rite of burial".

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On this date 2/12/881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor. He united the entire Kingdom of the East Franks, later to become Germany. Upon the death of his cousin Carloman II, he inherited all of West Francia (later France) also, thus reviving, if only briefly, the entire Carolingian Empire, effectively recreating the Empire of Charlemagne.

An incident of demonic possession is recorded in his youth, in which he was said to have been foaming at the mouth before he was taken to the altar of the church. This greatly affected his father and himself. He was described as "a very Christian prince, fearing God, with all his heart keeping His commandments, very devoutly obeying the orders of the Church, generous in alms-giving, practising unceasingly prayer and song, always intent upon celebrating the praises of God."

Charles, suffering what is believed to be epilepsy, could not secure the kingdom against Viking raiders, and after buying their withdrawal from Paris in 886 was perceived by the court as being cowardly and incompetent. The following year his nephew Arnulf of Carinthia, the illegitimate son of King Carloman of Bavaria, raised the standard of rebellion. Instead of fighting the insurrection, Charles fled to Neidingen and died the following year in 888, leaving a divided entity and a succession mess.

After his death in 888, the Empire fell apart, never to be restored. The Carolingian Empire permanently split into West Francia from which emerged the Kingdom of France and East Francia, the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire.

According to Regino of Prüm, each part of the realm elected a "kinglet" from its own "bowels." After the death of Charles the Fat those crowned Emperor by the Pope controlled only territories in Italy. The last such Emperor was Berengar I of Italy who died in 924.

In 955, Otto won a decisive victory over the Magyars in the Battle of Lechfeld. In 951, Otto came to the aid of Adelaide, the widowed queen of Italy, defeated her enemies. He then married her and took control over Italy. In 962, Otto was crowned Emperor by the Pope. From then on, the affairs of the German kingdom were intertwined with that of Italy and the Papacy. Otto's coronation as Emperor made the German kings successors to the Empire of Charlemagne, which through translatio imperii also made them successors to Ancient Rome.

2/12/1049 Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX

Leo IX is widely considered the most historically significant German Pope of the Middle Ages.

He became widely known as an earnest and reforming ecclesiastic by the zeal he showed in spreading the rule of the order of Cluny. Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. The Abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict and the place where the Benedictine Order was formed, whereby Cluny became acknowledged as the leader of western monasticism. The establishment of the Benedictine order was a keystone to the stability of European society that was achieved in the 11th century.

The early Cluniac establishments had offered refuges from a disordered world but by the late 11th century, Cluniac piety permeated society. This is the period that achieved the final Christianization of the heartland of Europe.

In Germany, the penetration of Cluniac ideals was effected in concert with Henry III of the Salian dynasty, who had married a daughter of the duke of Aquitaine. Henry was infused with a sense of his sacramental role as a delegate of Christ in the temporal sphere. He had a spiritual and intellectual grounding for his leadership of the German church, which culminated in the pontificate of his kinsman, Pope Leo IX. The new pious outlook of lay leaders enabled the enforcement of the Truce of God movement to curb aristocratic violence.

Leo IX favored traditional morality in his reformation of the Catholic Church. One of his first public acts was to hold the well-known Easter synod of 1049, at which celibacy of the clergy (down to the rank of subdeacon) was required anew. Also, the Easter synod was where the Pope at least succeeded in making clear his own convictions against every kind of simony.

In constant fear of attack from the Normans in the south of Italy, the Byzantines turned in desperation to the Normans own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX and, according to William of Apulia, they begged him " to liberate Italy that now lacks its freedom and to force that wicked people, who are pressing Apulia under their yoke, to leave." After a fourth Easter synod in 1053 Leo IX set out against the Normans in the south with an army of Italians and Swabian mercenaries. "As fervent Christians the Normans were reluctant to fight their spiritual leader and tried to sue for peace but the Swabians mocked them - battle was inevitable." Leo IX led the army himself but his forces suffered total defeat at the Battle of Civitate on June 15, 1053; on going out, however, from the city to meet the victorious enemy he was received with every token of submission, pleas for forgiveness and oaths of fidelity and homage. From June 1053 to March 1054 the Pope was nevertheless held hostage at Benevento, in honourable captivity, until he acknowledged the Normans conquests in Calabria and Apulia. He did not long survive his return to Rome, where he died on April 19, 1054.

Leo IX sent a letter to Michael Cærularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in 1054, that cited a large portion of the Donation of Constantine believing it genuine. Leo IX assured the Patriarch that the donation was completely genuine, not a fable or old wives tale, so only the apostolic successor to Peter possessed that primacy and was the rightful head of all the Church. The Patriarch rejected the claims of papal primacy, and subsequently the One Church was split in two in the Great East-West Schism of 1054.

2/12/1111 German King Henry V arrives at St Peter, Rome.

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The main interest of Henry's reign was the settling of the controversy over lay investiture, which had caused a serious dispute during the previous reign. The papal party who had supported Henry in his resistance to his father hoped he would assent to the papal decrees, which had been renewed by Paschal II at the synod of Guastalla in 1106. The king, however, continued to invest the bishops, but wished the pope to hold a council in Germany to settle the question.

After some hesitation, Paschal preferred France to Germany, and, after holding a council at Troyes, renewed his prohibition of lay investiture. The matter slumbered until 1110, when, negotiations between king and pope having failed, Paschal renewed his decrees and Henry invaded Italy with a large army.

The strength of his forces helped him to secure general recognition in Lombardy where archbishop Grossolano crown him with Iron Crown of Lombardy, and at Sutri he concluded an arrangement with Paschal by which he renounced the rite of investiture in return for a promise of coronation, and the restoration to the Empire of all Christendom, which had been in the hands of the German state and church since the time of Charlemagne. It was a treaty impossible to execute, and Henry, whose consent to it is said to have been conditional on its acceptance by the princes and bishops of Germany, probably foresaw that it would occasion a breach between the German clergy and the pope.

Having entered Rome and sworn the usual oaths, the king presented himself at St Peter's Basilica on 12 February 1111 for his coronation and the ratification of the treaty. The words commanding the clergy to restore the fiefs of the crown to Henry were read amid a tumult of indignation, whereupon the pope refused to crown the king, who in return declined to hand over his renunciation of the right of investiture. Paschal, along with sixteen cardinals, were seized by Henry's soldiers and, in the general disorder which followed, an attempt to liberate the pontiff was thwarted in a struggle during which the king himself was wounded.

Henry left Rome carrying the pope with him; and Paschal's failure to obtain assistance drew from him a confirmation of the king's right of investiture and a promise to crown him emperor.

In January 1118, Paschal died and was succeeded by Gelasius II. The emperor immediately returned from northern Italy to Rome. But as the new pope escaped from the city, Henry, despairing of making a treaty, secured the election of the Antipope Gregory VIII, who was left in possession of Rome when the emperor returned across the Alps that same year.

After the second Italian expedition, the opposition in Germany was gradually crushed and a general peace declared at Tribur, while the desire for a settlement of the investiture dispute was growing. Negotiations, begun at Würzburg, were continued at Worms, where the new pope, Callistus II, was represented by Cardinal Lambert, Bishop of Ostia.

In the Concordat of Worms, signed in September 1122, Henry renounced the right of investiture with ring and crozier, recognized the freedom of election of the clergy, and promised to restore all church property. The pope agreed to allow elections to take place in presence of the imperial envoys, and the investiture with the sceptre to be granted by the emperor as a symbol that the estates of the church were held under the crown. Henry, who had been solemnly excommunicated at Reims by Callistus in October 1119, was received again into the communion of the church, after he had abandoned his nominee, Gregory, to defeat and banishment.

2/12/1130 Pope Innocent II elected.

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Pope Paschal II (1099–1118) made him a cardinal deacon. In this capacity, he accompanied Pope Gelasius II (1118–19) when he was driven into France. By Pope Calixtus II (1119–24) he was selected for various important and difficult missions, such as the one to Worms for concluding the Concordat of Worms, the peace accord with the emperor, in 1122, and the one to France in 1123.

The Concordat of Worms, sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum by papal historians, was an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V on September 23, 1122 near the city of Worms. It brought to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors and has been interpreted as containing within itself the germ of nation-based sovereignty that would one day be confirmed in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648); in part this was an unforeseen result of strategic maneuvering between the Church and the European sovereigns over political control within their domains. The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority ("by the lance") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority ("by ring and staff"); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty. Previous Holy Roman Emperors had thought it their right, granted by God, to name the Pope, as well as other Church officials, such as bishops. One long-delayed result was an end to the belief in the divine right of kings. A more immediate result of the Investiture struggle identified a proprietary right that adhered to sovereign territory, recognizing the right of kings to income from the territory of a vacant diocese and a basis for justifiable taxation. These rights lay outside feudalism, which defined authority in a hierarchy of personal relations, with only a loose relation to territory. The Pope emerged as a figure above and out of the direct control of the Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1130, as Pope Honorius II lay dying, the cardinals decided to entrust the election to a commission of eight men, led by papal chancellor Haimeric, who had his candidate Cardinal Gregory Papareschi hastily elected as Pope Innocent II. He was consecrated on February 14, the day after Honorius' death. The other cardinals announced that Innocent had not been canonically elected and chose Cardinal Pietro Pierleoni, a Roman whose family were the enemy of Haimeric's supporters, the Frangipani; Pierleoni took the name Pope Anacletus II. Anacletus' mixed group of supporters were powerful enough to take control of Rome while Innocent was forced to flee north. Based on a simple majority of the entire college of cardinals, Anacletus was the canonically elected pope, and Innocent was the anti-Pope.

Anacletus had control of Rome, so Innocent II took ship for Pisa, and thence sailed by way of Genoa to France, where the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux readily secured his cordial recognition by the clergy and the court. In October of the same year he was duly acknowledged by Lothar III of Germany and his bishops at the synod of Würzburg. In January 1131, he had also a favourable interview with Henry I of England (1100–35); and in August 1132 Lothar III undertook an expedition to Italy for the double purpose of setting aside Anacletus as antipope and of being crowned by Innocent. Anacletus and his supporters being in secure control of the St. Peter's Basilica, the coronation ultimately took place in the Lateran Church (June 4, 1133), but otherwise the expedition proved abortive. At the investiture of Lothair as Emperor he gained the territories belonging to Matilda of Tuscany, in return for an annuity to be paid to the pope, in consequence of which the curial party based the contention that the Emperor was a vassal of the Papal see.

By the Second Lateran council of 1139, at which Roger II of Sicily (1130–54), Innocent II's most uncompromising foe, was excommunicated, peace was at last restored to the Church.

2/12/1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.

Jane Grey was a great-granddaughter of Henry VII by his younger daughter Mary, Jane was a first-cousin-once-removed of Edward VI. In May 1553 Jane was married to Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. When the 15-year-old King Edward VI lay dying in June 1553, he nominated Jane as successor to the Crown in his will, thus subverting the claims of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth under the Third Succession Act.

Wyatt's rebellion in January and February 1554 against Queen Mary's plans of a Spanish match led to her execution at the age of 16 or 17, and that of her husband.

Lady Jane Grey had an excellent humanist education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day. A committed Protestant, she was posthumously regarded as not only a political victim but also a martyr.

Jane received a first-rate humanist education, studying Latin, Greek and Hebrew with John Aylmer, and Italian with Michelangelo Florio. Through the influence of her father and her tutors, she became a committed Protestant and also corresponded with the Zürich reformer, Heinrich Bullinger.

The Third Succession Act of 1544 restored Henry VIII's daughters Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession, although the law regarded them as illegitimate. Furthermore, this Act authorised Henry VIII to alter the succession by his will.

Henry's will excluded the descendants of his elder sister Margaret Tudor, owing in part to Henry's desire to keep the English throne out of the hands of the Scots monarchs, and in part to a previous Act of Parliament of 1431 that barred foreign-born persons, including royalty, from inheriting property in England.

When the 15-year-old Edward VI lay dying in the early summer of 1553, his Catholic half-sister Mary was still the heiress presumptive to the throne. However, Edward, in a draft will composed earlier in 1553, had first restricted the succession to (non-existent) male descendants of Frances Brandon and her daughters, before he named his Protestant cousin Jane Grey as his successor on his deathbed.

Edward also announced to have his "declaration" passed in parliament in September, and the necessary writs were prepared.

Many contemporary legal theorists believed the monarch could not contravene an Act of Parliament without passing a new one that would have established the altered succession;[citation needed] Jane's claim to the throne therefore remained weak.

The King died on 6 July 1553. On 9 July Jane was informed that she was now queen, and according to her own later claims accepted the crown only with reluctance.

In September, Parliament declared Mary the rightful queen and denounced and revoked Jane's proclamation as that of a usurper.

Jane and Lord Guilford Dudley were both charged with high treason, together with two of Dudley's brothers and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer. Their trial, by a special commission, took place on 13 November 1553, at the Guildhall in the City of London.

According to the account of her execution given in the anonymous Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, which formed the basis for Raphael Holinshed's depiction, Jane gave a speech upon ascending the scaffold:

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact, indeed, against the Queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me: but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency, before God, and the face of you, good Christian people, this day.

She then recited Psalm 51 (Have mercy upon me, O God) in English, and handed her gloves and handkerchief to her maid. She then blindfolded herself. Jane had resolved to go to her death with dignity, but once blindfolded, failing to find the block with her hands, began to panic and cried, "What shall I do? Where is it?" An unknown hand, possibly Sir Thomas Brydges', then helped her find her way and retain her dignity at the end. With her head on the block, Jane spoke the last words of Jesus as recounted by Luke: "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" She was then beheaded.

Jane became viewed as a Protestant martyr for centuries, featuring prominently in the several editions of the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs : LADY JANE GREY

Jane Grey was succeeded by Mary I remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her brother. During her five year reign, she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions. Her Protestant opponents gave her the sobriquet of "Bloody Mary". Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed after her death in 1558 by her successor and younger half-sister, Elizabeth I.

2/12/1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.

He was replaced by William of Orange who became king as William III, ruling jointly with his wife (James's daughter) Mary II. Thus William and Mary, both Protestants, became joint rulers in 1689. James made one serious attempt to recover his crowns, when he landed in Ireland in 1689 but, after the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne in the summer of 1690, James returned to France. He lived out the rest of his life as a pretender at a court sponsored by his cousin and ally, King Louis XIV.

2/12/1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).

As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prisons, in the New World.

It was Oglethorpe's idea that British debtors should be released from prison and sent to Georgia. Although it is often repeated that this would theoretically rid Britain of its so-called undesirable elements, in fact it was Britain's "worthy poor" whom Oglethorpe wanted in Georgia. Ultimately, few debtors ended up in Georgia. The colonists included many Scots whose pioneering skills greatly assisted the colony, and many of Georgia's new settlers consisted of poor English tradesmen and artisans and religious refugees from Switzerland, France and Germany, as well as a number of Jewish refugees. The colony's charter provided for acceptance of all religions except Roman Catholicism. The ban on Roman Catholic settlers was based on the colony's proximity to the hostile settlements in Spanish Florida.

On 21 February 1734, Oglethorpe established the first Masonic Lodge within the British Colony of Georgia. Now known as Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. it is the "Oldest Continuously Operating English Constituted Lodge of Freemasons in the Western Hemisphere". For a period in 1736, Oglethorpe's secretary was Charles Wesley, later well known as a hymnwriter of Methodism.

2/12/1809 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States born.

Abraham Lincoln's religious beliefs are a matter of controversy. Lincoln frequently referenced God and quoted the Bible; he accompanied his wife and children to services, yet never formally joined any church. He was private about his beliefs and respected the beliefs of others.

Lincoln's widow claimed he had become increasingly religious:

"A man, who never took the name of the Maker in vain, who always read his Bible diligently, who never failed to rely on God's promises & looked upon Him for protection, surely such a man as this, could not have been a disbeliever, or any other than what he was, a true Christian gentleman....From the time of the death of our little Edward, I believe my husband's heart was directed towards religion & as time passed on - when Mr. Lincoln became elevated to Office...then indeed to my knowledge - did his great heart go up daily, hourly, in prayer to God - for his sustaining power. When too - the overwhelming sorrow came upon us, our beautiful bright angelic boy, Willie was called away from us, to his Heavenly Home, with God's chastising hand upon us - he turned his heart to Christ —" {Mary Todd Lincoln letter to Rev. James Smith, June 8, 1870. As reported in Mary Todd Lincoln by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, pp 567-568}

Religious Quotations by Abraham Lincoln
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/faithquotes.htm
Lincoln's Birthday (United States)

In 1864, some former slaves in Maryland presented Lincoln with a gift of a Bible. Lincoln replied:
"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it." {Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible on September 7, 1864}

“It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in Holy Scripture, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisement in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” {3/30/1863}

The speeches that Lincoln gave were very Biblical in form. "Lincoln’s rhetoric is, instead, deliberately Biblical. Lincoln had mastered the sound of the King James Bible so completely that he could recast abstract issues of constitutional law in Biblical terms, making the proposition that Texas and New Hampshire should be forever bound by a single post office sound like something right out of Genesis." {Angels and Ages: Lincoln's language and its legacy}

Lincoln said regarding the framers of the Declaration of Independence: "These communities, by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to His creatures. Yes, gentlemen, to all His creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children and their children's children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages. Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began -- so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built." {Speech at Lewistown, Illinois, on August 17, 1858}

"And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts." {Message to Congress in Special Session on July 4, 1861}

"Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right." {Remarks to Baltimore Presbyterian Synod on October 24, 1863}

Responding to accusations that he was an "infidel", Lincoln defended himself, without denying that specific charge, by publishing a hand-bill in which he stated:
"That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.... I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, or scoffer at, religion."

According to Salmon Chase, as he was preparing to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln said, "I made a solemn vow before God, that if General Lee was driven back from Maryland I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the slaves."

Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian? - D. James Kennedy

Daily Tidbits 2/12 – Abraham Lincoln

2/12/1809 - Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England.

His evolutionary theories, propounded chiefly in two works--On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)--have had a profound influence on subsequent scientific thought.

In a letter to FitzRoy accepting the post Darwin explained that he expected the voyage to be a "second birth."

Charles Darwin & the Mark of the Beast

Charles Darwin was not the founder of Evolutionary thought. His book “On the Origin of Species” led to the widespread acceptance of this doctrine, hence, evolutionary thought is equated with him.
“Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity, in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science” (Wikipedia.org). Evolutionary thought has been passed down through the Mysteries as the evolution of man into godhood is at the core of the Mystery religions.

Just as the doctrine in the Mysteries traces back to the tree of knowledge, and in many cases portrays it as the ‘tree of life,’ so too does Darwin’s doctrine trace to the tree of knowledge. Ye shall be as gods…evolving from apes to homo sapien to gods. It is no surprise then that Darwin would use the tree of Life figure in his book.

The Tree of Life image that appeared in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, 1859.

The Tree of Life image that appeared in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, 1859.
There is only one figure in On the Origin of Species, and that is a tree diagram. Darwin used the ‘Tree of Life’ to display the ‘interrelatedness’ of all living things.
Origin of Species pg 63
“From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and genera which have now no living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosiren, which in some small degree connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from fatal competition by having inhabited a protected station. As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

2/12/1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.

2/12/1912 – The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates marking the end of the Qing Dynasty. His abdication was a symbol of the end of a long era in China, and he is widely known as The Last Emperor (末代皇帝). The Qing dynasty was followed by the Republic of china.

Chosen by Dowager Empress Cixi while on her deathbed, Puyi ascended the throne aged 2 years and 10 months in December 1908 following his uncle's death on 14 November.

Puyi's father, the 2nd Prince Chun, served as a regent until 6 December 1911 when Empress Dowager Longyu took over in the face of the Xinhai Revolution.

Empress Dowager Longyu signed the "Act of Abdication of the Emperor of the Great Qing" (《清帝退位詔書》) on 12 February 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution, under a deal brokered by Yuan Shikai (the great general of the army Beiyang) with the imperial court in Beijing (formerly Peking) and the republicans in southern China. Signed with the new Republic of China, Puyi was to retain his imperial title and be treated by the government of the Republic with the protocol attached to a foreign monarch.

On 1 March 1932, Puyi was installed by the Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo, considered by most historians as a puppet state of Imperial Japan, under the reign title Datong (大同). In 1934, he was officially crowned the emperor of Manchukuo under the reign title Kangde (康德).

At his enthronement he clashed with Japan over dress; they wanted him to wear a Manchukuoan uniform whereas he considered it an insult to wear anything but traditional Qing Dynasty robes. In a typical compromise, he wore a Western military uniform to his enthronement(the only Chinese emperor ever to do so) and dragon robes to the announcement of his accession at the Altar of Heaven.

Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and the youth militia known as the Red Guards saw Puyi, who symbolized Imperial China, as an easy target of attack. Puyi was placed under protection by the local public security bureau, although his food rations, salary, and various luxuries, including his sofa and desk, were removed. Puyi became affected physically and emotionally. He died in Beijing of complications arising from kidney cancer and heart disease on 17 October 1967.

2/12/1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

The Washington Monument, Lincoln & Jefferson’s memorials as well as countless other structures in Washington D.C. were designed with the idea of bringing heaven to earth, as above so below…

Lincoln Memorial

The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln. Above the statue the words: “In this Temple, as in the hearts of the people, for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever”.

The uniting of the North and South was a replay of the uniting of the two lands of Egypt by Horus. This uniting of the two lands was a picture of the joining of heaven and earth.

Message of the Sphinx pg 273
“…Spell 17 of the Book of the Dead, which is drawn from extremely ancient sources, alludes in cosmic terms to the ‘unification’ or joining of the ‘Two Lands’: ‘Horus, son of Osiris and Isis…was made ruler in the place of his father, Osiris, on that day the Two Lands were united…She [Egyptologist Virginia Lee Davis] adds: ‘ I have contended that the joining of the two lands is a joining of sky to earth.’

This is a picture of the beast who seeks to sit in the Temple of the Most High as savior of mankind (2 Thessalonians 2:4). Our bodies are the Temple of YHWH with our hearts being the throne.

In the book of Revelation (Chapter 4) John is shown a vision of the Throne of Elohim. Around the throne and the 4 living creatures are 24 elders (Revelation 4:4) representing the 24 ribs surrounding the human heart. From the heart blood is pumped to the Lungs. As seen in Genesis 1:2-5click here , the etymology of the English word ‘Lung’ traces back to the meaning of Light. In our bodies our lungs have 7 vascular bundles called nodes. These represent the 7 Spirits of Elohim (Revelation 4:5; Isaiah 11:1-3). These 7 Spirits/Ruach/Breathe are pictured in the earthly Tabernacle/Temple by the Menorah. The Menorah is a picture of the Tree of Life. The Light of the world.

Lincoln Memorial pillars:
There are a total of 46 pillars at the Lincoln Memorial. 36 on the outside and 10 in the inside. This again connects to the Temple & the human body as there are 46 chromosomes in each cell of our bodies. The Temple/Tabernacle was a picture of the human cell. As seen above, the word for cell traces back to the same root as ‘bride’ and ‘temple.’
The 36 exterior columns have a height of 44 feet. In Hebrew this would convert to דד (dalet dalet). In Paleo Hebrew this would be rendered:

: Gesenius’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon

Combined these form the hexagram
In Gematria 44 has some interesting connections to the current study.

44 (dalet dalet/hexagram) links the birth of the child from the union of father and mother (above/heaven below/earth) and the blood/DNA that the child carries. In connection to Lincoln’s memorial it is showing the picture of the antichrist who is born from his father (devil/angel from above) and his mother (human from below) who seeks to sit in the Temple proclaim to be God.
44 ft = 528 inches = 26 cubits
26 = יהוה YHWH
528 inches…The gematria of 528 also has interesting connections to the current study.
http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_528.asp

Secret Teachings of All Ages pg 227
“Sufficient similarity exists between the Masonic CHiram and the Kundalini of Hindu mysticism to warrant the assumption that CHiram may be considered a symbol also of the Spirit Fire moving through the sixth ventricle of the spinal column. The exact science of human regeneration is the Lost Key of Masonry, for when the Spirit Fire is lifted up through the thirty-three degrees, or segments of the spinal column, and enters into the domed chamber of the human skull, it finally passes into the pituitary body (Isis), where it invokes Ra (the pineal gland) and demands the Sacred Name.
The Integratron and the Tabernacle of Moses

The interior columns of Lincoln’s Memorial 50 feet high and 5 feet 6 inches in diameter at the base.
50 feet high and 5 feet 6 inches in diameter at the base.
50 feet = 600 inches
5 feet 6 inches at base = 66 inches
Hence the interior columns are linked to the number 666.
Not only are there 46 columns at Lincoln’s Memorial there are also 45 steps from the reflecting pool to the edifice itself. Lincoln’s Memorial was based upon Greek design which is interesting because the Parthenon contained 46 pillars.

Mark of the Beast 12 - As Above So Below

2/12/1948 The Pentecostal awakening known as the "Latter Rain Movement" traces its origin to this date, when students at the Sharon Orphanage and Schools in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada began experiencing a mass spiritual awakening.

Wikipedia.org
“A major feature of the expected latter rain would be the “manifestation of the Sons of God” or “Joel’s Army”. The Latter Rain movement taught that as the end of the age approached, the “overcomers” would arise within the Church. There was debate among various branches as to the nature and extent of this manifestation. These Manifest Sons of God, ones who have come into the full stature of Jesus Christ, would receive the Spirit without measure. They would be as Jesus was when he was on earth and would receive a number of divine gifts, including the ability to change their physical location, to speak any language through the Holy Spirit, and would be able to perform divine healings and other miracles. They would complete the work of God, restoring man’s rightful position as was originally mandated in Genesis and by coming into the full stature of Christ would usher in his millennial reign. Extreme versions of this spoke of Jesus as a “pattern” Son and applied “ye are gods” (Psalms 82:6) to this coming company of believers.” (New Thresholds of Faith – Kenneth Hagin)

THE LATTER RAIN REVIVAL – Barbara Aho
http://watch.pair.com/rain.html
“Over 50 years ago, William Branham, George Warnock, Paul Cain and others attempted to introduce Latter Rain/Manifest Sons of God teachings into the Pentecostal movement. In 1949, however, the Assemblies of God officially rejected the Latter Rain/ Manifest Sons of God doctrine as “heresy.” The cult went underground but surfaced again in the 1960’s as the Manchild Company. Disregarding the Assemblies of God decision, Paul Cain, the Kansas City Prophets and Vineyard Ministries have subsequently reintroduced and successfully established this false doctrine in the Pentecostal churches.
The Latter Rain/Manifest Sons of God doctrine “involved a man-child elite group of Overcomers taking dominion over all nations and reigning in the heavenlies while overseeing drastic judgment on all who remained in the ‘old generation’ — i.e., the denominational churches! The Latter-Rain teachings promised a Second Pentecost outpouring to empower this elite group, and to incarnate the Christ within them to the degree that they will become perfect and invincible, even to the overthrow of heavenly powers.”
(Looking Beyond Toronto, “The Source and Goal of the Second Pentecost,” Banner Ministries.)
Latter Rain doctrine is a modern version of the classic heresy of Gnosticism, which taught that a spiritual elite possessed “hidden knowledge” of the divine realm which placed their personal revelations, spiritual experiences, and private interpretation of Scripture above the ordinary revelation of God’s Word. In Latter Rain doctrine, Pentecost was the “former rain” or outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the Church must yet receive a second Holy Spirit visitation. At this time, the Sons of God will be glorified and manifested to all as they establish the Kingdom on earth before Jesus Christ returns bodily. Latter Rain prophets are now preparing multitudes for this transformation. In a 1991 program entitled “Manifested Sons of God,” Morris Cerullo flattered his audience with the following blasphemy,
“You represent all that God is and all that God has…Jesus was the visible expression of God. Jesus was the Son of the Living God. Now, who are you? Sons of God…everyone say it. What is working inside of us is the manifestation. When you look at me, you are looking at Jesus…To see Jesus was to see God. To see me is to see Jesus. Jesus knew who He was. Don’t you think it is about time we know who we are?” (“Joel’s Army,” Discernment Ministries.)
Benny Hinn fills convention centers worldwide preaching a similar message, which exalts the creature rather than the Creator, and induces spiritual pride:
“This spirit-man within me is a God-man. Say after me, he’s born of heaven, he’s a super-being…Say I’m born of heaven – God-man. I’m a God-man. I’m a sample of Jesus. I’m a super being. Say it! Say it! Who’s a super being? I walk in the realm of the supernatural. Get the spirit-man renewed…when he’s strong, he’ll hold off sickness…you want to prosper? Money will be falling on you from left, right and center. God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness…Say after me, I hold my destiny.” (“Joel’s Army,” Discernment Ministries)
NEW AGE PARALLELS
However inconsistent it may be with the Word of God, Latter Rain/Manifest Sons of God eschatology agrees on every point with the New Age Movement’s anticipation of the exaltation of mankind to godhood and the establishment of a New World Order. The following appraisal of Latter Rain theology by New Age Unity pastor, Rev. Earnest Ramsey was cited in Constance Cumbey’s book, A Planned Deception, The Staging of a New Age Messiah,
“Rev. Ernest Ramsey, an associate pastor at Unity’s Kansas City’s Founder’s Church, Unity on the Plaza, is an enthusiastic follower of the Alice Bailey and Benjamin Creme teachings. In his Research Report #2, he tells of something he was led to by a spirit guide – what he terms ‘Neo-Pentecostalism.’ An aberrant branch of Pentecostalism, this is more commonly known as the ‘Manifest Sons of God.’ That movement is also referred to as ‘Sonship’ or ‘Overcomers.’ Ramsey concludes based on even less evidence than I have personally collected that this is part of the New Age Movement.
“Ramsey’s work for his organization, ‘Synthesis Fellowship,’ first came to my attention in early 1983. His major report, entitled “An Evolutionary Basis For The Reappearance of the Christ and his Executives, the Masters of Wisdom” was inspired by Benjamin Creme’s appearance and speech at Unity on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. . . The most interesting section of Ramsey’s report dealt with ‘Neo-Pentecostalism.’ Ramsey spent a semester at one of the Neo-Pentecostal or Manifest Sons of God seminaries (in upstate New York). . . Already familiar with the Alice Bailey writings, he was amazed to see that there was a branch of Pentecostalism that embraced the same teachings — albeit using sometimes different terminology.
“Like those seeking the ‘Age of Aquarius’ these people too were seeking a ‘New Age.’ Like the other New Agers, these people taught that ‘The Christ’ was an anointing – not necessarily one man. They taught that Jesus was a pattern son who was to be a sign of something even greater to come – the ‘Manifestation of the Sons of God.’ They too believed the earth was to be cleansed of evil. And chillingly like the other New Agers, they believed they were to be ‘God’s’ instruments to do such cleansing. The New Agers believed they were gods. The Manifest Sons of God likewise taught that if one accepted their ‘new revelation’ that they themselves would actually become Christ at the time of the unveiling or manifestation of the Sons of God.” (A Planned Deception – Constance Cumbey)
In Latter Rain doctrine, paramount emphasis is placed on the proposed Year of Jubilee A.D. 2000, when all nations and a “united” Church will celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. The prophetic fulfillment of this Feast is said to occur prior to the return of Christ. Latter Rain prophets claim that this will also be a “Second Pentecost,” since the first was ‘incomplete.’ Christ will then appear in the midst of His people and be incarnated in his Body, filling the Corporate “Christ” with His glory, which will then be poured out on all flesh.
“There is another realm of spiritual experience typified in scripture by the Feast of Tabernacles. Until we understand and partake of this feast, as we have both Passover and Pentecost, we will never fulfill our destiny and calling. We must discover the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles and ‘celebrate’ it along with Passover and Pentecost…What God did among Jews in Jerusalem, He is going to do among humanity and worldwide. Pentecost will come to maturity in the feast of Tabernacles.” (Beyond Pentecost – Robin McMilland and Steve Thompson in the Morning Star Journal Vol. 4 No. 3 pg 42-44, 48)
This Latter Rain “Second Pentecost” during Tabernacles is suggestive of the “Planetary Pentecost” preached by Barbara Marx Hubbard as the peaceful “alternative to Armageddon.” At this time, a “quantum leap” in the evolution of mankind will occur as revealed to her by “the Christ”: “At the moment of cosmic contact, I will appear to you both through inner experience and through external communication on your mass media.” Says Ms. Hubbard, it will be a time when “the divisions of the religions would be over…We would each know that God is within us…If all who feel we are connected to each other, to nature and to God join in a planetary Pentecost, we shall be transformed in this lifetime. I believe in the peaceful second Coming.” (“National Catholic Reporter,” Oct. 19, 1990)
New Agers have studied Bible prophecy carefully, especially Matthew 24, and have documented plans to technically stage a “Second Coming,” which would be acceptable to Christians, New Agers, et al. David Bay, Director of Old Paths Ministries, says that these plans have been published in a book entitled, The Armageddon Script, by New Age leader Peter LeMesurier. However, before that event, there will be another supernatural, psychic occurrence:
“Pope John Paul II is anxiously awaiting a potent world-wide Marian Vision. (World) chaos is to precede this vision. This vision will validate the global reign of Pope John Paul II and will establish him as the ultimate spiritual Judge of the Planet… the purpose of this super-natural vision is to validate the Roman Catholic church as the only true church and this Pope as God’s ordained leader.’…According to Vatican official, Malachi Martin, author of The Keys of This Blood, this event will be most powerfully psychic. The force accompanying this vision will be so powerful it will literally bring the normal activity of the world to a standstill. Men will be so moved that their ‘consciences will cry out with fear.’ This vision will produce an ‘engulfing chaos, along with misdirection, and disequilibruim in human affairs. In other words, the entire population of the world will experience a simultaneous changing of their minds…The vision will be preceded by either a loud sound, a bright light…
“These effects are identical to those which New Age writers have predicted during the appearance of Anti-Christ… (1) A loud sound will be heard world-wide which will herald the coming of Maitreya, the Christ. Prompted by this sound, people will be aware of his coming on three distinct levels: Spiritual, physical, and emotional. (Alice Bailey’s The Externalisation Of The Hierarchy, p. 173.) (2) ‘…When Lord Maitreya appears, he will appear as different beings to different people… Thus, he will show that he is all things to all people.’ (Bill Lambert, speaking at Seminar, ‘Possible and Probable Events In The Future,’ Theosophical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, August 8, 1991). (3) His three-dimensional image will appear over all nations of the earth simultaneously. He will speak to each ethnic group in their own language. We know this is technologically possible with computer images via telecommunication satellite. (Constance Cumbey, Hidden Dangers Of The Rainbow, p. 24-25).
“We also know that Satan could produce this phenomenon by his Super-Natural power alone. New Age writers clearly state, however, there will be a mixing of super-natural phenomena and advanced technology when the staging of the Anti-Christ occurs… New Age Leaders boldly state in their Plan to use the special effects of modern TV and movies to persuade the people of the world that Maitreya is who he claims to be. ‘…the use of such special effects should not be ruled out on this occasion. The world’s news-media can be counted upon to do the rest.’ (The Armageddon Script, Peter Lemesurier, St. Martin’s Press, 1981, p. 236) The New Age book, The Messianic Legacy, states that the only way the Messiah could be super-naturally staged in all aspects that Christians are expecting would be through the use of “Hollywood.”(“Staged Appearance of Anti-Christ,” David Bay, Old Path Ministries)
True believers will meet the Lord “in the air” (not on earth) and He will return with them to earth, not as a “peacemaker,” but to destroy the nations gathered at Armageddon. The unthinkable will become “religiously correct” when Evangelical and Charismatic shepherds lead an apostate Church in the worship of a false Christ. Revelation 13:15 further states that, “as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

Mark of the Beast 13 - Ye Shall Be As Gods

2/12/1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances

Reasons Jesus Christ Superstar is against our faith

Lyrics and music for “Jesus Christ Superstar” was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. They do not believe that Jesus Christ was God.

The writers of “Jesus Christ Superstar” present Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas. In a recorded interview they said, ” . . . the idea of the whole opera Is to have Christ seen through the eyes of Judas, and Christ as a man, not as a God. And the fact that Christ himself is just as mixed up and unaware of exactly what he is, as Judas is.”
The writers seem to have a very high regard for Judas, the one who betrayed our Lord. Rice said, “In the Gospels, Judas is a cardboard figure. Every time he is mentioned there is a snide remark. I believe that Judas was the most intelligent of the Apostles and that is why he got into such a dilemma.” Quoted from Life Magazine, May 28, 1971.

This is what the opera aims to teach -- a mixed-up Christ as described through the eyes of Judas. Such a description of Christ is simply Satan's description of Him. Jesus said of Judas, "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?" (John 6:70).

Some Things to Consider Before You Attend Jesus Christ Superstar

Occult meaning of 96
Number of petals of the Ajna Chakra located between the two eyebrows - 2 x 48. This is linked to the pineal gland, a major theme in the 'ye shall be as gods' mark of the beast scenario.

Pineal Gland

2/12/1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

2/12/1999 - Scientists highlight hazards of GM food: A group of international scientists reinforces warnings that genetically modified food may be damaging to health.

Scientists highlight hazards of GM food

BBC
A group of international scientists has reinforced warnings genetically modified food may be damaging to health.

The 20 independent scientists have signed a memorandum in support of Arpad Pusztai who was forced to retire last year over his revelations about the effects of biologically altered potatoes on laboratory rats.

"You can imagine a doomsday scenario"

An expert on plant toxins, Dr Pusztai was suspended by the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen and did not have his annual contract renewed after he publicised his findings on British television.

Former president of the British Society of Allergy and Environmental Medicine Ronald Finn said: "Dr Pusztai's results at the very least raise the suspicion that genetically modified potatoes may damage the immune system."

He continued: "You can imagine a doomsday scenario. If the immune system of the population was weakened, then the mortality would be increased many, many times."

Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected calls for a moratorium on GM food saying there is a rigorous regulatory process before they reach supermarket shelves in the UK.

Genetic Armageddon: Humanity's Greatest Threat

2/12/2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.

As the leader of Serbia, was arrested and put before the International Criminal Tribunal for conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnia and Croatia which left a quarter of a million people dead.

Killing Gaddafi Spares ICC Embarrassment For US & Britain

"In the case of Milosevic, his outbursts became so damaging that the UN decided it would be better to poison him to death rather than let him continue to expose the fact that western war crimes dwarfed anything he was accused of.

Milosevic had made several speeches in which he discussed how a group of shadowy internationalists had caused the chaos in the Balkans because it was the next step on the road to a “new world order.”

During his trial, Milosevic presented the Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia.

Before the trial concluded, Milosevic was found dead in his cell a day after he had wrote a letter stating, “They would like to poison me. I’m seriously concerned and worried.”

The Real Butchers Of Serbia: Clinton, Clark, NATO

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 12: Num 3-4

On this date February 11th

2012-02-11T00:33:00.000-08:00

On this date 2/11/660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.

According to Shinto belief, Jimmu is regarded as a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasu. Amaterasu had a son called Ame no Oshihomimi no Mikoto and through him a grandson named Ninigi-no-Mikoto. She sent her grandson to the Japanese islands where he eventually married Konohana-Sakuya-hime. Among their three sons was Hikohohodemi no Mikoto, also called Yamasachi-hiko, who married Toyotama-hime. She was the daughter of Ryūjin, the Japanese sea god. They had a single son called Hikonagisa Takeugaya Fukiaezu no Mikoto. The boy was abandoned by his parents at birth and consequently raised by Tamayori-hime, his mother's younger sister. They eventually married and had a total of four sons. The last of these sons, Kamuyamato Iwarebiko, became Emperor Jimmu.

New Year's Day in the Japanese lunisolar calendar was traditionally celebrated as the regnal day of Emperor Jimmu. In 1872, the Meiji government proclaimed February 11, 660 BC, in the Gregorian calendar the foundation day of Japan, which was then commemorated as the holiday Kigensetsu ("Era Day") until 1948. Suspended after World War II, the celebration was reinstated in 1966 as the national holiday Kenkoku Kinen no hi ("National Foundation Day").

Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom - the national emblem of Japan. There a 32 petals...

Freemason Symbols Revealed - Mike Hoggard

2/11/385 Siricius-bishop of Tarragona becomes Pope. Tradition suggests that Siricius left his wife and children in order to become pope. He was the author of two decrees concerning clerical celibacy. The decree of 385 stated that priests should stop cohabiting with their wives.

The website Religion Facts, says that Pope Siricius was the first Bishop of Rome to style himself Pope.

Pope Marcellinus (d. 304) is the first Bishop of Rome shown in sources to have had the title "Pope" used of him. From the 6th century, the imperial chancery of Constantinople normally reserved this designation for the Bishop of Rome. From the early 6th century, it began to be confined in the West to the Bishop of Rome, a practice that was firmly in place by the 11th century, when Pope Gregory VII declared it reserved for the Bishop of Rome.

Siricius, again, is one of the Popes presented in various sources as having been the first to bear the title Pontifex Maximus. Others that are said to have been the first to bear the title are Pope Callistus I, Pope Damasus I, Pope Leo I, Pope Gregory I.

2/11/1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.

2/11/1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin. It is also home to the first surgical amphitheatre and first medical library in America

The seal of the hospital, chosen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, incorporates the story of the Good Samaritan; the phrase "Take Care of Him and I will repay Thee" is used on it.

2/11/1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

The campaign to end the slave trade can be traced back to a handful of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Friends) in the late 1600s, at a time when very few questioned the rightness of slavery. Quakers saw the trade as a violation of a fundamental belief that everyone is equal in the sight of God. No person has the right to own another.

The beginnings of the Quakers' opposition came in 1657, when their founder, George Fox, wrote "To Friends beyond sea, that have Blacks and Indian slaves" to remind them of Quaker belief in equality. He later visited Barbados and his preaching, which urged for better treatment of enslaved people, was published in London in 1676 under the title Gospel Family-Order. He said:

'... now I say, if this should be the condition of you and yours, you would think it hard measure, yea, and very great Bondage and Cruelty. And therefore consider seriously of this, and do you for and to them, as you would willingly have them or any other to do unto you...were you in the like slavish condition.'

From the 1750s, a number of Quakers in the American colonies began to oppose enslavement. They visited the slaveholders and lobbied the English Headquarters for action. By 1761, Quakers had come to view abolition as a Christian duty and all Quakers, on both sides of the Atlantic, were barred from owning slaves. Any members that did not conform were disowned.

Quaker protests against slavery in the 17th century

2/11/1810 Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria. Marie-Louise was Napoleon's second wife after he divorced his first wife Josephine due to her not bearing children.

Napoleon abolished the throne of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, but his second marriage was to a Habsburg princess, Marie Louise of Austria…

The Habsburgs descend back to the Merovingians.

Merovee was the first of the Merovingian Kings. His son was King Childeric. Merovee’s tomb has not been found, but the tomb of his son King Childeric revealed a deep interest into magic and the occult. 300 beautiful miniture solid gold bees were found his tomb. The bee symbol has continued in various forms to represent the descendents of Merovee. The fleur-de-lies developed from it, and has been a prominent french logo, due to the heavy influence of the Merovingian descendants. Napoleon and his second wife Marie Louise Habsburg (a Merovingian descendent) took the 300 gold bees and had them sown onto their coronation robes.
Mark of the Beast 10 - Holy Blood Holy Grail

2/11/1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.

He was born Kassa Haile Giorgis, but was more regularly referred to as Kassa Hailu (Ge'ez ካሳ ኃይሉ — meaning "restitution" and "His [or the] power"). His rule is often placed as the beginning of modern Ethiopia, ending the decentralized Zemene Mesafint (Era of the Princes). He took the throne name of Tewodros II, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that a man named Tewodros would restore the Ethiopian Empire to greatness and rule for 40 years.

Kassa was the son of a Christian nobleman of the Qwara district of the province of Dembiya named Haile Giorgis Wolde Giorgis. His baptized paternal grandfather, Dejazmatch Wolde Giorgis, was a widely-respected figure of his time.

Tewodros wrote to Queen Victoria of Britain asking for skilled workers to make firearms in order to defend Ethiopia from Muslim powers.

The British sent a mission under an Assyrian born British subject named Hormuzd Rassam, who bore a letter from the Queen, but brought with him no skilled workers as Tewodros had requested. Deeply insulted by the British failure to do exactly as they were told, Tewodros imprisoned the members of the Rassam mission as well. This last breach of diplomatic immunity led to the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia under Robert Napier,who came from India, the then colony of the British, with more than 30000 personnel which consisted of not only soldiers but also other personnels such as engineers.

When the two sides met at Arogye, in the plain facing Magdala, on April 10, 1868, the British defeated the Ethiopian army. Tewodros II furiously stated that he would never be taken prisoner. The British then proceeded to shell Magdala itself, killing most of Tewodros II's remaining loyal men. Emperor Tewodros II committed suicide on Easter Monday, April 13, 1868, as the British troops stormed the citadel of Magdala. Ironically he used a pistol that Queen Victoria had sent him as a gift.

The Emperor (Ge'ez: ንጉሠ ነገሥት, nəgusä nägäst, "King of Kings") of Ethiopia was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1974. The title of "King of Kings", often rendered imprecisely in English as "Emperor", dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, but was used in Axum by King Sembrouthes (c. 250 AD). However, Yuri Kobishchanov dates this usage to the period following the Persian victory over the Romans in 296-297.

The Emperors of Ethiopia derived their right to rule based on two dynastic claims: their descent from the kings of Axum, and their descent from Menelik I, the son of Solomon and Makeda, Queen of Sheba.

Ethiopia was one of the first Christian countries in the world, having officially adopted Christianity as the state religion in the 4th century.

Ethiopia is the oldest Christian state in the world, after Armenia. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church which is the largest Christian denomination in Ethiopia (it claims that 50% of the Ethiopian population are church members) and was part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959, is the only pre-colonial Orthodox church in Sub-Saharan Africa. The apostle St. Matthew is said to have died in Ethiopia.

The Kingdom of Aksum was one of the first nations to officially accept Christianity, when St. Frumentius of Tyre, called Fremnatos or Abba Selama ("Father of Peace") in Ethiopia, converted King Ezana during the 4th century AD. Many believe that the Gospel had entered Ethiopia even earlier, with the royal official described as being baptised by Philip the Evangelist in chapter eight of the Acts of the Apostles. (Acts 8:26–39) Orthodox Christianity has a long history in Ethiopia dating back to the 1st century, and is dominant in northern and central Ethiopia. Both Orthodox and Protestant Christianity have large representations in southern and western Ethiopia.

Act 8:26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go along south on the highway going down to Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a deserted place.
Act 8:27 And rising up he went. And, behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, a potentate with Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship!
Act 8:28 And he was returning. And sitting on his chariot he read the prophet Isaiah.
Act 8:29 And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join yourself to this chariot.
Act 8:30 And running near Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, Indeed, do you know what you are reading?
Act 8:31 But he said, How should I be able except someone shall guide me? And he called Philip near, to come up to sit with him.
Act 8:32 And the content of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb voiceless before the one shearing it, so He does not open His mouth.
Act 8:33 In His humiliation His judgment was taken away. And who will recount His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth." Isa. 53:7, 8
Act 8:34 And answering the eunuch said to Philip, I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this? About himself, or about some other one?
Act 8:35 And opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, Philip announced the gospel to him, Jesus.
Act 8:36 And as they were going along the highway they came on some water. And the eunuch said, Behold, water! What prevents me to be baptized?
Act 8:37 And Philip said, If you believe from all the heart, it is lawful. And answering he said, I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God.
Act 8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

Ethiopia = Cush in the Holy Scriptures
Psa 68:31 Let nobles be brought out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall run up her hands to God.

Isa 11:10 And it shall be in that day, the Root of Jesse stands as a banner of peoples; nations shall seek to Him; and His resting place shall be glory.
Isa 11:11 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall again set His hand, the second time, to recover the remnant of His people that remains, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the coasts of the sea. Isa 11:12 And He shall lift up a banner for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and gather those dispersed from Judah, from the four wings of the earth.
Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephraim shall turn off; and Judah's foes shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not trouble Ephraim.
Isa 11:14 But they shall fly onto the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they shall plunder the sons of the east, the stretching of the hand on Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon; they will obey them.
Isa 11:15 And YHWH shall utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and with His scorching wind He shall wave His hand over the River, and shall strike it into seven torrents, and make one tread it with shoes.
Isa 11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Assyria, as it was to Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.

International Standard Bible Encylopedia
The Falashas are a Jewish community living near Lake Tsana, of the same physical type and probably of the same race as other Abyssinians. Their religion is a “pure Mosaism” based upon the Ethiopic version of the Pentateuch, but modified by the fact that they are ignorant of the Hebrew language (Jewish Encyclopedia). It is uncertain when they became Jews. The older scholars thought of them as dating back to the Solomonic era, or at least to the Babylonian captivity. Since the researches of Joseph Halévy (1868), some date within the Christian era has seemed preferable, notwithstanding their ignorance of Talmudic rules. However, the newly discovered fact that a strong Jewish community was flourishing at Syene in the 6th century bc makes it clear that Jewish influence may have been felt in Ethiopia at least that early. Although Abyssinians are noted for their strict adherence to ancient custom, Jewish characteristics are prominent all over the entire country. The opening formula of the king in every official letter - “The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has Conquered!” - is no more Jewish than scores of ordinary phrases and customs. Although it is barely possible that some rites, like circumcision and observance of the Sabbath, may have been received from the ancient Egyptians or Christian Coptics (The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge) yet a strong Hebrew influence cannot be denied. All travelers speak of the “industry” of the Falashas and of the “kindliness and grave courtesy” of the Abyssinians.

2/11/1858 - Marian apparition in Lourdes, France. Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition said to have appeared before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France. The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began on 11 February 1858, when Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes, told her mother, after being asked, that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, while gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the "lady" were reported on seventeen further occasions that year.

Catholicism

2/11/1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

1861 House Resolution Guarantees Noninterference with Slavery

On Feb. 1 Texas became the seventh state to secede from the Union. On Feb. 4 the first six seceding states (in chronological order: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana) met in Montgomery, Alabama, for the Provisional Confederate Congress. Four days after the Congress opened, on Feb. 8, they adopted a provisional constitution to formalize their new country, the Confederate States of America. The next day, Feb. 9, they unanimously elected their provisional president: Jefferson Finis Davis.

With the goal of preserving the Union and mollifying the remaining eight slave states, the House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution on Feb. 11, 1861, which seems startling to us today: a solemn promise guaranteeing non-interference with slavery in any state of the Union.

2/11/1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. Occasioned by the French law of 1905 providing for the separation of church and state, it denounced the proposition that the state should be separated from the Church as "a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error".

He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology. His most important reform was to publish the first Code of Canon Law, which collected the laws of the Church into one volume for the first time.

Pius was particularly devoted to Mary; his encyclical Ad Diem Illum expresses his desire through Mary to renew all things in Christ, which he had defined as his motto in his first encyclical. Pius believed that there is no surer or more direct road than by the Virgin Mary to achieve this goal. Pius X promoted daily communion for all Catholics (this practice was criticized for introducing irreverence). In his 1904 encyclical Ad Diem Illum, he views Mary in context of "restoring everything in Christ". Spiritually we all are her children and she is the mother of us, therefore, she is to be revered like a mother. She did not conceive the Eternal Son of God merely that He might be made man taking His human nature from her, but also, by giving him her human nature, that He might be the Redeemer of men. Mary, carrying the Savior within her, also carried all those whose life was contained in the life of the Savior. Therefore all the faithful united to Christ, are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones from the womb of Mary like a body united to its head. Though a spiritual and mystical fashion, all are children of Mary, and she is their Mother. Mother, spiritually, but truly Mother of the members of Christ.(S. Aug. L. de S. Virginitate, c. 6).

2/11/1929 - Italy recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.

2/11/1945 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea

The Yalta Agreement led to the Constitution of Japan. It was enacted on 3 May, 1947 as a new constitution for postwar Japan.

The constitution provides for a parliamentary system of government and guarantees certain fundamental rights. Under its terms the Emperor of Japan is "the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people" and exercises a purely ceremonial role without the possession of sovereignty.

On 26 July 1945, Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, and Chiang Kai-Shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan's unconditional surrender. This declaration also defined the major goals of the postsurrender Allied occupation: "The Japanese government shall remove all obstacles to the revival and strengthening of democratic tendencies among the Japanese people. Freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be established" (Section 10). In addition, the document stated: "The occupying forces of the Allies shall be withdrawn from Japan as soon as these objectives have been accomplished and there has been established in accordance with the freely expressed will of the Japanese people a peacefully inclined and responsible government" (Section 12). The Allies sought not merely punishment or reparations from a militaristic foe, but fundamental changes in the nature of its political system. In the words of political scientist Robert E. Ward: "The occupation was perhaps the single most exhaustively planned operation of massive and externally directed political change in world history."

2/11/1979 – Islamic revolution of Iran establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation

According to at least one scholar, politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran "are largely defined by attempts to claim Khomeini's legacy" and that "staying faithful to his ideology has been the litmus test for all political activity" there. Throughout his many writings and speeches, Khomeini's views on governance evolved. Originally declaring rule by monarchs or others permissible so long as sharia law was followed Khomeini later adamantly opposed monarchy, arguing that only rule by a leading Islamic jurist (a marja'), would insure Sharia was properly followed (wilayat al-faqih), before finally insisting the ruling jurist need not be a leading one and Sharia rule could be overruled by that jurist if necessary to serve the interests of Islam and the "divine government" of the Islamic state. Khomeini offered himself as a "champion of Islamic revival" and unity, emphasizing issues Muslims agreed upon – the fight against Zionism and imperialism – and downplaying Shia issues that would divide Shia from Sunni.

Khomeini was noted by many for his mystique. Before the revolution he benefited from the widespread circulation of a Hadith attributed to the Imam Musa al-Kazim who is said to have prophesied shortly before his death in 799 that

'A man will come out from Qom and he will summon people to the right path. There will rally to him people resembling pieces of iron, not to be shaken by violent winds, unsparing and relying on God.'

Khomeini was the first and only Iranian cleric to be addressed as "Imam", a title hitherto reserved in Iran for the twelve infallible leaders of the early Shi'a. He was also associated with the Mahdi or 12th Imam of Shia belief in a number of ways. One of his titles was Na'eb-e Imam (Deputy to the Twelfth Imam). His enemies were often attacked as taghut and Mofsed-e-filarz (corrupters of the earth), religious terms used for enemies of the Twelfth Imam. Many of the officials of the overthrown Shah's government executed by Revolutionary Courts were convicted of "fighting against the Twelfth Imam". When a deputy in the majlis asked Khomeini if he was the 'promised Mahdi', Khomeini did not answer, "astutely" neither confirming nor denying the title.

Ayatollah Khomeini declared an Islamic republic on 1 April 1979.

2/11/1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

2/11/2011 – Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Resigns

After Mubarak's resignation, President Barack Obama said: "The people of Egypt have spoken. Their voices have been heard. And Egypt will never be the same." In brief remarks at the White House, the president noted that it was "not the end of Egypt's transition, it's a beginning."

There Never Was an Egyptian Revolution

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 11: Num 1-2

On this date February 10th

2012-02-10T03:39:00.000-08:00

On this date 2/10/60 Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta

Act 28:1 And being saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita.
Act 28:2 And the foreigners were showing not the common kindness to us, for having kindled a fire because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold, they welcomed us all.
Act 28:3 And Paul gathering a bunch of sticks, and putting them on the fire, a snake coming out from the heat fastened on his hand.
Act 28:4 And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, By all means this man is a murderer, whom being saved out of the sea, Justice did not permit to live.
Act 28:5 Then he indeed shaking the beast off into the fire, he suffered no harm.
Act 28:6 But they expected him to be about to become inflamed, or suddenly to fall down dead. But over much time, they expecting and seeing nothing amiss happening to him, changing their minds, they said him to be a god.
Act 28:7 And in the parts about that place were lands to the chief of the island, Publius by name. Welcoming us, he housed us three days in a friendly way.
Act 28:8 And it happened the father of Publius was lying down, suffering from fevers and dysentery; to whom Paul, entering and praying, laying on his hands, cured him.
Act 28:9 Then, this taking place, the ones in the island having infirmities also came up, and they were healed.
Act 28:10 They also honored us with many honors. And on our setting sail, they lay on us such things as were needed.
It is believed that Melita is the same as the Island of Malta.

The chief of the island was Publius. In tradition Publius is venerated as the first Bishop of Malta. Publius' conversion led to Malta being the first Christian nation in the West, and one of the first in the world. He was martyred c. 125, during the persecution of Emperor Hadrian.

2/10/1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. As a result Baghdad remained depopulated and in ruins for several centuries, and the event is conventionally regarded as the end of the Islamic Golden Age.

Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, an Islamic state whose heart became the modern state of Iraq. The Abbasid caliphs were the second of the Islamic dynasties, having in 751 toppled the Umayyads, who had ruled from the death of Ali in 661.

The year following the fall of Baghdad, Hulagu named the Persian Ata al-Mulk Juvayni governor of Baghdad, Lower Mesopotamia, and Khuzistan. At the intervention of the Mongol Hulagu's Nestorian Christian wife, Dokuz Khatun, the Christian inhabitants were spared. Hulagu offered the royal palace to the Nestorian Catholicos Mar Makikha, and ordered a cathedral to be built for him. Makkikha II was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1257 until his death in 1265.

2/10/1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Within six weeks Bishop Wishart gave him absolution and he was hurriedly crowned king at Scone on Easter day, March 25th 1306.

His early days as King did not go well and after a defeat at Perth he spent over a year in hiding. When Bruce reappeared he was determined to lead the cause for Scottish independence and on Mid-summer's Day 1314 he defeated the mighty army of Edward II at Bannockburn, near Stirling, and with that victory he marched into the history books.

Bruce reigned for 15 more years before passing away peacefully at his manor in Cardross, Dumbarton. His bones were taken and buried at the Abbey at Dunfermline and on his dying request, his heart was removed, placed in a casket and later taken into battle by his friend Sir James Douglas. His heart was later buried at Melrose Abbey. This is the origin of 'Braveheart.'

Robert the Bruce & the Merovingian bloodline

2/10/1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. The Treaty was made possible by the British victory over France and Spain, and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.

2/10/1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.

Many believe that Berthier's conquest of Rome was the end of a 1260 year reign of the papacy fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel.

If the fall of the Papacy occurred in 1798 then the beginning (1260 years earlier) would be the date 538. In 538AD Vigilius ascended the papal chair under the military protection of Belisarius (Philig Schaff History of the Christian Church vol 3 pg 327)

"With the conquest of Rome by Belisarius...commences the history of the Middle Ages" {George Finlay Greece under the Romans pg 295}

Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

"The Modern Paqpacy." Rev. Joseph Rickaby. S.J. p.1
"Berthier entered Rome on the tenth of February, 1798 and proclaimed a republic... Half Europe thought Napoleon's veto would be obeyed, and that with the Pope the papacy was dead."

In his book, DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH, the late Rev. Clarence Larkin includes the following interesting details of Mystery, Babylon.
Babel, or Babylon, was built by Nimrod-ref Gen 10:8-10. It was the seat of the first great apostasy. Here the "Babylonian cult" was invented, a system claiming to possess the highest wisdom and to reveal the divinest secrets. Before a member could be initiated he had to "confess" to the priest. The priest then had him in his power. This is the secret of the power of the priests of the Roman Catholic Church today.

Once admitted into this order, men were no longer Babylonians, Assyrians, or Egyptians, but members of a Mystical Brotherhood over whom was placed a Pontiff or "High Priest," whose word was law. The city of Babylon continued to be the seat of Satan until the fall of the Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empires, when he shifted his capital to Pergamos in Asia Minor, where it was in John’s day-ref Rev 2:12,13.

When Attalus, the Pontiff and King of Pergamos died, in B.C. 133, he bequeathed the headship of the "Babylonian Priesthood" to Rome. When the Etruscans came to Italy from Lydia, (the region of Pergamos), they brought with them the Babylonian religion and rites. They set up a Pontiff who was head of the priesthood. Later the Romans accepted this Pontiff as their civil ruler. Julius Caesar was made Pontiff of the Etruscan Order in B.C. 74. In B.C. 63, he was made "Supreme Pontiff" of the "Babylonian Order," thus becoming heir to the rights and title of Attalus, Pontiff of Pergamos, who made Rome his heir by will. Thus the first Roman Emperor became the head of the "Babylonian Priesthood," and Rome the successor of Babylon.

The Emperors of Rome continued to exercise the office of "Supreme Pontiff" until A.D. 376, when Emperor Gratian, for Christian reasons, refused it. The Bishop of the Church at Rome, Damasus, was elected to the position. He had been Bishop twelve years, having been made Bishop in A.D. 366 through the influence of the monks of Mt. Carmel, a college of Babylonian religion originally founded by the priests of Jezebel.
So in A.D. 378 the head of the "Babylonian Order" became the ruler of the "Roman Church." Thus Satan united Rome and Babylon in one religious system.

Soon after Damasus was made "Supreme Pontiff," the "rites" of Babylon began to come to the front. The worship of the Virgin Mary was set up in A.D. 381. All outstanding festivals of the Roman Catholic Church are of Babylonian origin. Easter is not a Christian name (in the sense that it is used today). It means "Ishtar", one of the titles of the Babylonian Queen of Heaven, whose worship by the children of Israel was such an abomination in the sight of God. The decree for the observance of Easter and Lent was given in A.D. 519. (Note-the day that is called Easter, should actually be called the "Feast of First Fruits"-ref Lev 23:9-15. Jesus became the first fruits of them that sleep in the earth. He rose from the dead.)

The "Rosary" is of pagan origin. There is no warrant in the Word of God for the use of the "sign of the cross". It had its origin in the mystic "Tau" of the Chaldeans and Egyptians. It came from the letter "T," the initial name of Tammuz. It was used in the "Babylonian Mysteries" for the same magic purposes as the Roman Church now employs it. Celibacy, the Tonsure, and the Order of Monks and Nuns, have no warrant or authority from Scripture. The Nuns are nothing more than an imitation of the "Vestal Virgins" (a virgin priestess of the Roman goddess Vesta) of pagan Rome.

A.D.
607 Boniface III made first Pope
709 Kissing the Pope’s foot
786 Worshipping images and relics
850 Use of "holy water" begun
995 Canonization of dead saints
998 Fasting on Fridays and during Lent
1079 Celibacy of the priesthood
1090 Prayer beads
1184 The Inquisition
1190 Sale of Indulgences
1215 Transubstantiation (The conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into that of Christ’s body and blood; a
doctrine of the Greek and Roman churches. A change of anything into something essentially different)
1220 Adoration of the wafer (Host) (the worshipping of a piece of bread that one has become convinced is the Lord Jesus
Christ)
1229 Bible forbidden to laymen
1414 Cup forbidden to people at communion
1439 Doctrine of purgatory decreed
1439 Doctrine of the Seven Sacraments affirmed
1508 The Ave Maria approved
1534 Jesuit Order founded
1545 Tradition granted equal authority with the Bible
1854 Immaculate Conception of Mary
1864 Syllabus of Errors proclaimed
1870 INFALLIBILITY OF THE POPE DECLARED
1950 Assumption of the Virgin Mary (the belief that the Virgin Mary ascended bodily into heaven without dying)
1965 Mary proclaimed "Mother of the Church"

Even according to Catholic theology, the final antichrist will be a pope.
The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin. They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143) and concluding with a later added pope described in the prophecy as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will end in the destruction of the city of Rome followed by the Last Judgement.

The current Pope, Benedict is the second to last pope in this "prophecy". The next one is the final Pope known as Peter the Roman.

PETER THE ROMAN. Malachy added this to his final prophecy: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city (The Vatican) will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End."

It is important to note that this "Little 'Horn" power of Papal Rome was an outgrowth of Pagan Rome. Revelation 1,2 and 13 make it clear that the Dragon who sought to destroy the babe Jesus in Bethlehem at the time of Herod (Pagan Rome) handed over his "power and seat and great authority" to the Papacy and so Papal Rome occupies the seat of government or capital city of old Pagan Rome. To requote a portion, the American Catholic Quarterly Review, April, 1911, said:

"And meekly stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ (one of the titles of the Pope) took up the sceptre to which emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many years."
Adolf Harnack in "What is Christianity," p. 251, says:

"The Roman Church pushed itself into the p ace of the Roman Empire, of which it is the actual continuation; the Empire has not perished but has only undergone a transformation. . . . The Pope who calls himself 'King' and 'Pontifex Maximus' is Caesar's successor."

1260 Years of Power
The "little horn" of Dan. 7 :8, 25, was to reign for a ---time and times and the dividing of time." This same period of time is mentioned in Revelation 12 :14, and in the sixth verse it is said to be 12~60 "days." In accordance with the well-known principle of interpreting Bible prophecy, where a day stands for a year (Ezekiel 4 :6), this period then is 1260 years. We have noticed that the temporal reign of the popes began in 538 AD. when Justinian subdued the last of the three "horns," or kingdoms, that opposed the rise of the Papacy. At this time Roman Catholicism was made the state religion and all other forms of worship were forbidden. Dr Summerbell says: "Justinian . . . enriched himself with the property of all 'heretics'-that is non-Catholics; published edicts in 538 compelling all to join the Catholic Church in ninety days or leave the empire, and confiscated all their goods."-History of the Christian Church, p. 310. Edward Gibbon states the same in "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " chapter 47, par. 24. The Papacy reigned with absolute power during the 1260 years of the Dark Ages. How did this period end? It was Napoleon who brought it about. In 1798 a French army led by General Berthier entered the city of Rome, proclaimed

Catholic Catechism 1997
882 "The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful." "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of th entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered."

891 "The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful- who confirms his brethren in the faith - he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals...The infallibility promised to the Church is also present in the body of bishops when, together with Peter's successor, they exercist the supreme Magisterium,' above all in an Ecumenical Council. When the Church through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine "for belief as being divinely related," and as the teaching of Christ, the definitions "must be adhered to with the obedience of faith." This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself."

"All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, implying His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to the Pope." Bellamin, "On the Authority of the Councils," Vol. XIV, col. 109.

"For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou are the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth. " Labbe and Cossart's "History of the Councils," Vol. XIV col 109.

Extravagantes Antwerp edition, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" ("Our Lord God the Pope") column 153
"Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven, and earth, and purgatory." Prompta Bibliotheca, Feraris, Vol. VI, pg 26, article "Papa."

Pope Innocent III in the Roman Catholic Canon Law "the vicegerent upon earth, not of a mere man, but of very God:" "very God and very man." Decretales Domini Gregorii Papae IX (Decretals of the Lord Pope Gregory IX) Liberi, de translacione Episcoporum (on the transference of Bishops) title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed, 1881) col 99 (Paris 1612) tom, 2, Decretales, col. 205.

"The Pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, interpret even divine law." The pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth." Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, art. Papa, II, Vol. VI, p.29

"The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who "takes the place" of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity."
John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p.3, 1994

Catholicism

2/10/1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

The British House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) began with Queen Victoria's marriage to the German Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha in 1840. Prince Albert (1819-1861) was also responsible for the introduction of German Christmas customs (including the Christmas tree) in England.

Victoria's son, King Edward VII (Albert Edward, "Bertie"), was the first and only British monarch who was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He ascended to the throne at the age of 59 when Victoria died in 1901. "Bertie" reigned for nine years until his death in 1910. His son George Frederick Ernest Albert (1865-1936) became King George V, the man who renamed his line Windsor.

Six British monarchs, including Queen Victoria and the infamous King George III during the American Revolution, were members of the German House of Hanover:

    George I (ruled 1714-1727)
    George II (ruled 1727-1760)
    George III (ruled 1760-1820)
    George IV (ruled 1820-1830)
    William IV (ruled 1830-1837)
    Victoria (ruled 1837-1901)

Queen Victoria herself remained a member of the House of Hanover.

The only British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was King Edward VII, who reigned for nine years at the beginning of the modern age in the early years of the twentieth century.

King George V replaced the German-sounding title with that of Windsor during the First World War. The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha survived in other European monarchies, including the current Belgian Royal Family and the former monarchies of Portugal and Bulgaria.

Bloodlines

2/10/1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India. The Sikhs were completely defeated, making this the decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War. The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company between 1845 and 1846. It resulted in partial subjugation of the Sikh kingdom.

The Sikh empire was until then one of the few remaining kingdoms in India after the rise of the company and the fall of the Mughal empire. Although the Khalsa was weakened by the war, resentment at British interference in the government led to the Second Anglo-Sikh War within three years.

2/10/1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – the Mormons – began an exodus west from Illinois.

According to church belief, God directed Brigham Young, Joseph Smith's successor as President of the Church, to call for the Saints (as church members call themselves) to organize and head west, beyond the western frontier of the United States (into what was then Mexico, though the U.S. Army had already captured New Mexico and California in late 1846). For his role in the migration, Brigham Young is sometimes referred to as the "American Moses."

Brigham Young personally reviewed all available information on the Salt Lake Valley and the Great Basin, consulting with mountain men and trappers who traveled through Winter Quarters, and meeting with Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit missionary familiar with the Great Basin. The wary Young insisted the Mormons should settle in a location no one else wanted, and felt the Salt Lake Valley met that requirement but would provide the Saints with many advantages as well.

2/10/1899 The Church of England first authorized use of the 1885 English Revised (RV or ERV) Version of the Bible in Anglican liturgy and worship.

The Revised Standard Version of the New Testament purported to be a revision of the American Standard Version, although very little of the ASV remains in the RSV. The Greek text usually followed was the 17th edition (1941) of the Nestle text (see Nestle 1927). The American Standard Version excelled in literal accuracy, but the RSV tended to be more free in its renderings. As F.F. Bruce puts it, the RSV translators "blurred some of the finer distinctions in New Testament wording which ... have some significance for those who are concerned with the more accurate interpretation of the text."

The RSV Old Testament was not well received outside of liberal circles, chiefly because the translators often deliberately rendered Old Testament passages in such a way that they were contrary to the interpretations given in the New Testament. This was done on the principle that the Old Testament ought to be interpreted only in reference to its own historical (Jewish) context. Christian interpretations, including those of the New Testament writers, are therefore deliberately excluded as "anachronistic." But this, as conservative critics perceived, practically amounted to a denial of the truth of the New Testament. As the conservative scholar R. Laird Harris wrote,

It is a curious study to check the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, a monument of higher critical scholarship, and note how every important Old Testament passage purporting to predict directly the coming of Christ has been altered so as to remove this possibility ... It is almost impossible to escape the conclusion that the admittedly higher critical bias of the translators has operated in all of these places. The translations given are by no means necessary from the Hebrew and in some cases ... are in clear violation of the Hebrew."

2/10/1929 In London, renowned Baptist clergyman and devotional author F. B. Meyer, 81, preached his last sermon. He soon entered a nursing home where his health failed rapidly, and he died March 28.

F. B. Meyer wrote over 40 books, including Christian biographies and devotional commentaries on the Bible. In 1918, Meyer, along with seven other clergymen, was also a signatory to the London Manifesto asserting that the Second Coming was imminent.

F. B. Meyer was part of the Higher Life movement and preached often at the Keswick Convention. He was known as a crusader against immorality. He preached against drunkenness and prostitution. He is said to have brought about the closing of hundreds of saloons and brothels.

The main idea of the Higher Life movement is that the Christian should move on from his initial conversion experience to also experience a second work of God in his life. This work of God is called “entire sanctification,” “the second blessing,” “the second touch,” “being filled with the Holy Spirit,” and various other terms. Higher Life teachers promoted the idea that Christians who had received this blessing from God could live a more holy, that is less sinful or even a sinless, life. The so-called Keswick approach seeks to provide a mediating and biblically balanced solution to the problem of subnormal Christian experience. The “official” teaching has been that every believer in this life is left with the natural proclivity to sin and will do so without the countervailing influence of the Holy Spirit.

2/10/2005 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.

"A hair-raising confrontation in Korea may, towards the end of the period, threaten man's very survival."

Peter Lemesurier, "The Armageddon Script", p. 223

"But then war will seldom be absent from the world-scene during the last twenty years of the century. There will be numerous local conflicts in the Far East, the Middle East, and Africa. A hair-raising nuclear confrontation in Korea may, towards the end of the period, threaten man's very survival."

2/10/2005: Prince Charles and Camilla Parker announce marriage to take place 8 April.
The Prince of Wales and long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles are engaged, Clarence House announces.

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 10: Lev 26-27

On this date February 9th

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On this date 2/9/474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

His reign saw the end of the Western Roman Empire under Julius Nepos and Romulus Augustus, but he contributed much to stabilizing the eastern Empire.

In religious matter, Zeno is famous for his Henotikon, "Act of Union", issued in 482 to mediate between Chalcedonian and Miaphysite opposing views about the nature of Christ. The Chalcedonians recognised two natures (physis) in Christ, the Miaphysites only one; the Council of Chalcedon (451) had issued the Chalcedonian Creed and condemned the Miaphysite position, but the Miaphysites were still strong, especially in the Eastern provinces of the Empire, and the Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter Mongus, was a Miaphysite. Supporting the Miaphysites was one of the mistakes made by Basiliscus, as the people of Constantinople was Chalcedonian, but Zeno needed the support of the Miaphysite provinces, Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Asia Minor; also the Patriarch of Constantinople, Acacius, was interested in reducing the distance among the two positions.

Therefore, in 482 he issued the Henotikon, a document he had elaborated with the support of Acacius and addressed to the factions in Egypt. The edict affirmed the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (i.e. the Creed of Nicaea completed at Constantinople) as affording a common, final and united symbol or expression of faith. All other symbola or mathemata were excluded; Eutyches and Nestorius were unmistakably condemned in an anathema, while the twelve chapters of Cyril of Alexandria were accepted. The teaching of Chalcedon was not so much repudiated as passed over in silence; Jesus Christ was described as the "only-begotten Son of God [...] one and not two" and there was no explicit reference to the two natures.

2/9/1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps

The badge, hat and clothing laws for Jews in the Middle Ages

Jewish Encyclopedia
"The Jews of Silesia suffered much during the reign of Duke Henry I., who undertook a crusade against the Prussians. About the same time (latter part of the 12th cent.) a conflagration destroyed part of Breslau; the Jews were charged with originating it, and were again made to suffer. Their condition became still worse when Bishop Lorenz imposed upon them not only the Leibzoll, but also tithes (1226). The general spread of German civilization brought prosperity to the country, and when this caused an increased demand for money, the Jews monopolized the business of money-lending. The growth of the communities of Silesia consequent upon the constant influx of German Jews aroused the displeasure of the ecclesiastical authorities. A provincial synod held in Breslau Feb. 9, 1267, accordingly issued strict enactments against the Jews, of which the following are especially noteworthy: (1) Jews and Christians were forbidden to associate at the dance-halls, in the inns, or at the baths; (2) Jews were enjoined to wear a special cap when appearing in public; (3) a ditch or a fence was to separate the dwelling of a Jew from that of his Christian neighbor; (4) Christian nurses or day-laborers were forbidden to stay at night with their Jewish employers; (5) Jews were prohibited from dealing in provisions, especially in meat, "in order that they might not poison their Christian customers"; (6) Jews were ordered to keep their doors and windows closed on the occasion of every Christian procession; (7) only one Jewish house of worship was allowed in each town.

These laws, however, were not long to remain valid, for when Duke Henry IV. succeeded to the rulership, he issued (1270) an order regulating the status of the Jews which closely followed one issued for Poland by Ladislaus—itself copied from the Austrian privilege of 1244—and which contained the following chief clauses: (1) in legal matters the Jews shall be under the sole jurisdiction of the duke; (2) their vocations shall include only the trade in money, and the lending of money on pledges, notes, deeds, and live stock; (3) they shall be assured of safety for their persons, and their movable property shall be secure to them; (4) they shall be accorded the same treatment as other subjects; (5) they shall not be accused of using human blood. These regulations were later confirmed by Duke Bolko I. of Schweidnitz (1295), and by Duke Henry III. of Glogau (1299)."

2/9/1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

Hooper became the principal champion of Swiss Calvinism against the Lutherans as well as the Roman Catholics, and was appointed chaplain to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector. Hooper then had a hand in the formation of the Zwinglian inspired Dutch and French Stranger churches in Glastonbury and London.

Foxes Book of Martyrs

"John Hooper, student and graduate in the University of Oxford, was stirred with such fervent desire to the love and knowledge of the Scriptures that he was compelled to move from thence, and was retained in the house of Sir Thomas Arundel, as his steward, until Sir Thomas had intelligence of his opinions and religion, which he in no case did favor, though he exceedingly favored his person and condition and wished to be his friend. Mr. Hooper now prudently left Sir Thomas' house and arrived at Paris, but in a short time returned to England, and was retained by Mr. Sentlow, until the time that he was again molested and sought for, when he passed through France to the higher parts of Germany; where, commencing acquaintance with learned men, he was by them free and lovingly entertained, both at Basel, and especially at Zurich, by Mr. Bullinger, who was his singular friend; here also he married his wife, who was a Burgonian, and applied very studiously to the Hebrew tongue."

"When Mr. Hooper had taken his farewell of Mr. Bullinger, and his friends in Zurich, he repaired again to England in the reign of King Edward VI, and coming to London, used continually to preach, most times twice, or at least once a day.

In his sermons, according to his accustomed manner, he corrected sin, and sharply inveighed against the iniquity of the world and the corrupt abuses of the Church. The people in great flocks and companies daily came to hear his voice, as the most melodious sound and tune of Orpheus' harp, insomuch, that oftentimes when he was preaching, the church would be so full that none could enter farther than the doors thereof. In his doctrine he was earnest, in tongue eloquent, in the Scriptures perfect, in pains indefatigable, in his life exemplary.

Dr. Hooper executed the office of a most careful and vigilant pastor, for the space of two years and more, as long as the state of religion in King Edward's time was sound and flourishing.

After he had been cited to appear before Bonner and Dr. Heath, he was led to the Council, accused falsely of owing the queen money, and in the next year, 1554, he wrote an account of his severe treatment during near eighteen months' confinement in the Fleet, and after his third examination, January 28, 1555, at St. Mary Overy's, he, with the Rev. Mr. Rogers, was conducted to the Compter in Southwark, there to remain until the next day at nine o'clock, to see whether they would recant. "Come, Brother Rogers," said Dr. Hooper, "must we two take this matter first in hand, and begin to fry in these fagots?" "Yes, Doctor," said Mr. Rogers, "by God's grace." "Doubt not," said Dr. Hooper, "but God will give us strength;" and the people so applauded their constancy that they had much ado to pass.

Sir Anthony Kingston, at one time Dr. Hooper's good friend, was appointed by the queen's letters to attend at his execution. As soon as he saw the bishop he burst into tears. WIth tender entreaties he exhorted him to live. "True it is," said the bishop, "that death is bitter, and life is sweet; but alas! consider that the death to come is more bitter, and the life to come is more sweet."

About eight o'clock, on February 9, 1555, he was led forth, and many thousand persons were collected, as it was market-day. All the way, being straitly charged not to speak, and beholding the people, who mourned bitterly for him, he would sometimes lift up his eyes towards heaven, and look very cheerfully upon such as he knew: and he was never known, during the time of his being among them, to look with so cheerful and ruddy a countenance as he did at that time. When he came to the place appointed where he should die, he smilingly beheld the stake and preparation made for him, which was near unto the great elm tree over against the college of priests, where he used to preach.

Now, after he had entered into prayer, a box was brought and laid before him upon a stool, with his pardon from the queen, if he would turn. At the sight whereof he cried, "If you love my soul, away with it!" The box being taken away, Lord Chandois said, "Seeing there is no remedy; despatch him quickly."

Command was now given that the fire should be kindled. But because there were not more green fagots than two horses could carry, it kindled not speedily, and was a pretty while also before it took the reeds upon the fagots. At length it burned about him, but the wind having full strength at that place, and being a lowering cold morning, it blew the flame from him, so that he was in a manner little more than touched by the fire.

Within a space after, a few dry fagots were brought, and a new fire kindled with fagots, (for there were no more reeds) and those burned at the nether parts, but had small power above, because of the wind, saving that it burnt his hair and scorched his skin a little. In the time of which fire, even as at the first flame, he prayed, saying mildly, and not very loud, but as one without pain, "O Jesus, Son of David, have mercy upon me, and receive my soul!" After the second fire was spent, he wiped both his eyes with his hands, and beholding the people, he said with an indifferent, loud voice, "For God's love, good people, let me have more fire!" and all this while his nether parts did burn; but the fagots were so few that the flame only singed his upper parts.

The third fire was kindled within a while after, which was more extreme than the other two. In this fire he prayed with a loud voice, "Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me! Lord Jesus receive my spirit!" And these were the last words he was heard to utter. But when he was black in the mouth, and his tongue so swollen that he could not speak, yet his lips went until they were shrunk to the gums: and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, and then knocked still with the other, while the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his fingers' ends, until by renewing the fire, his strength was gone, and his hand clave fast in knocking to the iron upon his breast. Then immediately bowing forwards, he yielded up his spirit.

Thus was he three quarters of an hour or more in the fire.

Even as a lamb, patiently he abode the extremity thereof, neither moving forwards, backwards, nor to any side; but he died as quietly as a child in his bed. And he now reigneth, I doubt not, as a blessed martyr in the joys of heaven, prepared for the faithful in Christ before the foundations of the world; for whose constancy all Christians are bound to praise God."

wikipedia.org
He would have reduced episcopacy to narrow limits; and his views had considerable influence on the Puritans of Elizabeth's reign, when many editions of Hooper's various works were published. He was notable for his belief that a bishop should observe a vow of poverty, and resigned the profits of the see of Gloucester to the Crown. He was also notable for his sense of social justice and spoke eloquently of the distress caused by the economic crisis of the early 1550s; he wrote to William Cecil pleading for the Council to take action on the price of essential goods for " all things here be so dear that the most part of the people lack....their little livings and poor cottages decay daily."

“He is a Christian man, that leaveth the word of man and keepeth the Word of God” – Early Writings of John Hooper – Parker Society

2/9/1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. Gregory XV assisted Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and the Catholic League against the Protestants, to the tune of a million gold ducats, and Sigismund III Vasa against the Turks.

His Constitution against magicians and witches (Omnipotentis Dei, 20 March 1623) was the last papal ordinance against witchcraft. Former punishments were lessened, and the death penalty was limited to those who were "proved to have entered into a compact with the devil, and to have committed homicide with his assistance"

2/9/1861 – Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

2/9/1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)

2/9/1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

2/9/1953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication

Superman, the antichrist, Mystery Babylon, 666 & Freemasonry:

Superman and Metropolis, the great merchant city

2/9/1964 GI Joe character created

How the Animated Series G.I. Joe Predicted Today’s Illuminati Agenda

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 9: Lev 24-25

On this date February 8th

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On this date 2/8/1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.

Kievan Russia and the Mongol Experience

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The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The state of Garðaríki ( "the realm of towns"), which was centered in Novgorod and included the entire areas inhabited by Ilmen Slavs, Veps and Votes, was established by the Varangian chieftain Rurik in 862 (the traditional beginning of Russian history).

Kievan Rus', the first united East Slavic state, was founded by Rurik's successor Oleg of Novgorod in 882. The state adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988.

Kievan Rus' ultimately disintegrated as a state because of the Mongol invasion of Rus' in 1237–1240. As it was undergoing fragmentation, Kievan Rus' faced the unexpected eruption of an irresistible foreign foe coming from the mysterious regions of the Far East. "For our sins", writes the Rus' chronicler of the time, "unknown nations arrived. No one knew their origin or whence they came, or what religion they practiced. That is known only to God, and perhaps to wise men learned in books".

In November 1237, Batu Khan sent his envoys to the court of Yuri II of Vladimir and demanded his submission. A month later, the hordes besieged Ryazan. After six days of bloody battle, the city was totally annihilated. Alarmed by the news, Yuri II sent his sons to detain the invaders, but they were soundly defeated. Having burnt down Kolomna and Moscow, the horde laid siege to Vladimir on February 4, 1238. Three days later, the capital of Vladimir-Suzdal was taken and burnt to the ground. The royal family perished in the fire, while the grand prince retreated northward. Crossing the Volga, he mustered a new army, which was totally annihilated by the Mongols in the Battle of the Sit River on March 4.

In the summer of 1238, Batu Khan devastated the Crimea and pacified Mordovia. In the winter of 1239, he sacked Chernigov and Pereyaslav. After many days of siege, the horde stormed Kiev in December 1240. Despite the resistance of Danylo of Halych, Batu Khan managed to take two of his principal cities, Halych and Volodymyr-Volynskyi. The Mongols then resolved to "reach the ultimate sea", where they could proceed no further, and invaded Hungary and Poland.

The term by which this subjection is commonly designated, the Mongol or Tatar yoke, suggests ideas of terrible oppression, but in reality these nomadic invaders from Mongolia were not such cruel, oppressive taskmasters as is generally supposed. In the first place, they never settled in the country, and they had little direct dealing with the inhabitants. In accordance with the admonitions of Genghis to his children and grandchildren, they retained their pastoral mode of life, so that the subject races, agriculturists, and dwellers in towns, were not disturbed in their ordinary avocations.

In religious matters they were extremely tolerant. When they first appeared in Europe, they were Shamanists, and as such they had naturally no religious fanaticism. Thus, after they adopted Islam they remained as tolerant as before, and the khan of the Golden Horde, who first became a Muslim, allowed the Rus to found a Christian bishopric in his capital. Nogai Khan, half a century later, married a daughter of the Byzantine emperor, and gave his own daughter in marriage to a Rus prince, Theodor the Black.

Although Russian forces defeated the Golden Horde at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of parts of Rus territories, with the requisite demands of tribute, continued until the Great stand on the Ugra river in 1480.

Certainly, it can be (and often is) argued that without the Mongol destruction of Kievan Rus' that Moscow, and subsequently the Russian Empire, would not have risen. Trade routes with the East came through the Rus lands, making them a center for trade from both worlds. In short, the Mongol influence, while destructive in the extreme to their enemies, had a significant long term effect on the rise of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

A significant number of historians consider the oppression of Rus' by the Mongols to be the major cause of what is sometimes called "the East-West gap" - approximately 200 years delay in introducing major social, political and economical reforms and scientific innovations in Russia compared to Western Europe. Specifically, the isolation from the West may have caused Russia's later non-involvement in the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and failure to develop a middle class.

The Mongolian Empire

The Mongolians ruled by 'Yassa' which was 'a secret written code of law created by Genghis Khan. It was the principal law under the Mongol Empire even though no copies were made available.'

The Mongol Empire was governed by a civilian and military code, called the Yassa, created by Genghis Khan.

There were tax exemptions for religious figures and, to some extent, teachers and doctors. The Mongol Empire practiced religious tolerance to a large degree because Mongol tradition had long held that religion was a very personal concept, and not subject to law or interference.

Sometime before the rise of Genghis Khan, Ong Khan, his mentor and eventual rival, had converted to Nestorian Christianity. Various Mongol tribes were Buddhist, Muslim, shamanist or Christian. Religious tolerance was thus a well established concept on the Asian steppe.

Between the 9th and 14th centuries it [Nestorian Church] was the world's largest Christian church in terms of geographical extent, with dioceses stretching from the Mediterranean to China and India. Several modern churches claim continuity with the historical Church of the East.

The Church of the East was headed by the Patriarch of the East, continuing a line that, according to tradition, stretched back to the time of the apostles.

The church grew rapidly under the Sassanids, and following the Islamic conquest of Persia, it was designated as a protected dhimmi community under Muslim rule. From the 6th century, it expanded greatly, establishing communities in India (the Saint Thomas Christians), Central Asia (where they had evangelical success among the Mongol tribes), and China, which was home to a thriving Nestorian community under the Tang Dynasty from the 7th to the 9th century. In the 13th and 14th century the church experienced a final period of expansion under the Mongol Empire, which had influential Nestorian Christians in the Mongol court.

From its peak of geographical extent, the church experienced a rapid period of decline starting in the 14th century, due in large part to outside influences. The Mongol Empire dissolved into civil war, the Chinese Ming Dynasty overthrew the Mongols and ejected Christians and other foreign influences from China (also including Manichaeism), and many Mongols in Central Asia converted to Islam.

Christianity reached China by 635, and its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xi'an. The Nestorian Stele, set up on 7 January 781 at the then-capital of Chang'an, attributes the introduction of Christianity to a mission under a Persian cleric named Alopen in 635, in the reign of Tang Taizong during the Tang Dynasty. The inscription on the Nestorian Stele, whose dating formula mentions the patriarch Hnanishoʿ II (773–80), gives the names of several prominent Christians in China, including the metropolitan Adam, the bishop Yohannan, the 'country-bishops' Yazdbuzid and Sargis and the archdeacons Gigoi of Khumdan (Chang'an) and Gabriel of Sarag (Loyang). The names of around seventy monks are also listed.

Nestorian Christianity thrived in China for approximately 200 years, but then faced persecution from Emperor Wuzong of Tang (reigned 840–846). He suppressed all foreign religions, including Buddhism and Christianity, causing it to decline sharply in China. A Syrian monk visiting China a few decades later described many churches in ruin. The Church disappeared from China in the early 10th century, coinciding with the collapse of the Tang Dynasty and the tumult of the next years (the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period).

Christianity in China experienced a significant revival during the Mongol-created Yuan Dynasty, established after the Mongols had conquered China in the 13th century. Marco Polo in the 13th century and other medieval Western writers described many Nestorian communities remaining in China and Mongolia; however, they clearly were not as vibrant as they had been during Tang times.

The Church of the East enjoyed a final period of expansion under the Mongols. Several Mongol tribes had already been converted by Nestorian missionaries in the 7th century, and Christianity was therefore a major influence in the Mongol Empire. Genghis Khan was a shamanist, but his sons took Christian wives from the powerful Kerait clan, as did their sons in turn. During the rule of Genghis's grandson, the Great Khan Mongke, Nestorian Christianity was the primary religious influence in the Empire, and this also carried over to Mongol-conquered China, during the Yuan Dynasty. It was at this point, in the late 13th century, that the Church of the East reached its greatest geographical extent. But Mongol power was already waning, as the Empire dissolved into civil war, and it reached a turning point in 1295, when Ghazan, the Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate, made a formal conversion to Islam when he took the throne.

The word Yassa translates into "order" or "decree". The Yassa was written on scrolls and bound into volumes that could only be seen by the Khan or his closest advisors, but the rules were widely known and followed.

The examples of the laws were translated by François Pétis de la Croix who was unable to come upon a complete list of the laws. He found these rulings from various sources such as Persian chroniclers, Fras Rubruquis, and Giovanni da Pian del Carpine:

    "It is ordered to believe that there is only one God, creator of heaven and earth, who alone gives life and death, riches and poverty as pleases Him-and who has over everything an absolute power
    Leaders of a religion, preachers, monks, persons who are dedicated to religious practice, the criers of mosques, physicians and those who bathe the bodies of the dead are to be freed from public charges.
    It is forbidden under penalty of death that any one, whoever he be, shall be proclaimed emperor unless he has been elected previously by the princes, khans, officers, and other Mongol nobles in a general council.
    It is forbidden chieftains of nations and clans subject to the Mongols to hold honorary tiles.
    Forbidden to ever make peace with a monarch, a prince or a people who have not submitted.
    The ruling that divides men of the army into tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands is to be maintained. This arrangement serves to raise an army in a short time, and to form the units of commands.
    The moment a campaign begins, each soldier must receive his arms from the hand of the officer who has them in charge. The soldier must keep them in good order, and have them inspected by his officer before a battle.
    Forbidden, under death penalty, to pillage the enemy before the general commanding gives permission; but after this permission is given the soldier must have the same opportunity as the officer, and must be allowed to keep what he has carried off, provided he has paid his share to the receiver for the emperor.
    To keep the men of the army exercised, a great hunt shall be held every winter. On this account, it is forbidden any man of the empire to kill from the month of March to October, deer, bucks, roe-bucks, hares, wild ass and some birds.
    Forbidden, to cut the throats of animals slain for food; they must be bound, the chest opened and the heart pulled out by the hand of the hunter.
    It is permitted to eat the blood and entrails of animals-though this was forbidden before now.
    (A list of privileges and immunities assured the chieftains and officers of the new empire.)
    Every man who does not go to war must work for the empire, without reward, for a certain time.
    Men guilty of the theft of a horse or steer or a thing of equal value will be punished by death and their bodies cut into two parts. For lesser thefts the punishment shall be, according to the value of the thing stolen, a number of blows of a staff-seven, seventeen, twenty-seven, up to seven hundred. But this bodily punishment may be avoided by paying nine times the worth of the thing stolen.
    No subject of the empire may take a Mongol for servant or slave. Every man, except in rare cases, must join the army.
    To prevent the flight of alien slaves, it is forbidden to give them asylum, food or clothing, under pain of death. Any man who meets an escaped slave and does not bring him back to his master will be punished in the same manner.
    The law of marriage orders that every man shall purchase his wife, and that marriage between the first and second degrees of kinship is forbidden. A man may marry two sisters, or have several concubines. The women should attend to the care of property, buying and selling at their pleasure. Men should occupy themselves only with hunting and war. Children born of slaves are legitimate as the children of wives. The offspring of the first woman shall be honored above other children and shall inherit everything.
    Adultery is to be punished by death, and those guilty of it may be slain out of hand.
    If two families wish to be united by marriage and have only young children, the marriage of these children is allowed, if one be a boy and the other a girl. If the children are dead, the marriage contract may still be drawn up.
    It is forbidden to bathe or wash garments in running water during thunder.
    Spies, false witnesses, all men given to infamous vices, and sorcerers are condemned to death.
    Officers and chieftains who fail in their duty, or do not come at the summons of the Khan are to be slain, especially in remote districts. If their offense be less grave, they must come in person before the Khan."

2/8/1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.

The Battle of Al Mansurah was fought from February 8 to February 11, 1250 between crusaders led by Louis IX, King of France, and Ayyubid forces led by Emir Fakhr-ad-Din Yussuf, Faris ad-Din Aktai and Baibars al-Bunduqdari.

The goals of the Seventh Crusade were to destroy the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt and Syria and capture Jerusalem. To achieve their goals, the crusaders tried to convince the Mongols to be their allies against the Muslims so that they would be able to encircle and attack the Islamic world from west and east at the same time. The answer of Güyük the great Khan of the Mongols to the pope's envoys was that the pope himself and the kings of Europe should submit to the Mongols.

According to medieval Muslim historians, between fifteen and thirty thousand of the French fell on the battlefield and thousands were taken prisoners. Louis IX of France was captured in the nearby village of Moniat Abdallah (now Meniat el Nasr), chained and confined in the house of Ibrahim Ibn Lokman, the royal chancellor, and under the guard of a eunuch named Sobih al-Moazami. The king's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Alphonse de Poitiers, were made prisoners at the same time, and carried to the same house with other French nobles.

The Seventh Crusade's defeat in Egypt in 1250 marked a turnpoint for all the existing regional parties. Egypt again proved to be the Islam's citadel and arsenal. Western kings, with exception of Louis IX, lost interest in launching new crusades. The Seventh Crusade was the last major crusade against Egypt and the crusaders never could recapture Jerusalem.

It is believed that one of the reasons for the disbanding of the Knights Templar by Philip IV is this battle and imprisonment of Louis IX his grandfather.

2/8/1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

2/8/1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.

2/8/1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London

Isaac Newton

Shadows of Messiah - Physics

2/8/1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.

After a heavy snowfall, trails of hoof-like marks appeared overnight in the snow covering a total distance of some 40 to 100 miles. The footprints were so called because some people believed that they were the tracks of Satan, as they were allegedly made by a cloven hoof.

There were also attendant rumours about sightings of a "devil-like figure" in the Devon area during the scare. Many townspeople armed themselves and attempted to track down the beast responsible, without success.

2/8/1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed

Disney's Occultic Secrets

2/8/1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (the New Testament), the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.

The translation panel used the 17th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek text for the New Testament , and the traditional Hebrew Masoretic Text for the Old Testament. In the Book of Isaiah, they sometimes followed readings found in the newly discovered Dead Sea Scrolls.

Bible History
Bible Versions & the Mark of the Beast

From Bible-Researcher.com
The Revised Standard Version of the New Testament purported to be a revision of the American Standard Version, although very little of the ASV remains in the RSV. The Greek text usually followed was the 17th edition (1941) of the Nestle text (see Nestle 1927). The American Standard Version excelled in literal accuracy, but the RSV tended to be more free in its renderings. As F.F. Bruce puts it, the RSV translators "blurred some of the finer distinctions in New Testament wording which ... have some significance for those who are concerned with the more accurate interpretation of the text."

2/8/1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.

2/8/1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

They are actually members of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Mountbatten-Windsor can as such be considered a cadet branch of that house.

They are female line descendants of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (actually the cadet branch using the name Windsor since 1917) and the House of Battenberg, among others.

2/8/1983 - Ariel Sharon quits after massacre inquiry.
Ariel Sharon is removed from office in the Israeli government following a tribunal into the 1982 killings of hundreds of people in two refugee camps.

2/8/2005 - Mid-East leaders announce truce. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have declared a truce to end four years of Middle East violence.

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 8: Lev 22-23

On this date February 7th

2012-02-07T00:38:00.000-08:00

On this date 2/7/1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

The Welsh purportedly asked the King to give them a prince who spoke Welsh, and, the story goes, he answered he would give them a prince that spoke no English at all. This was no great concession as the Plantagenets spoke Norman French rather than English.

He was the sixth Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II. Interspersed between the strong reigns of his father Edward I and son Edward III, the reign of Edward II was disastrous for England, marked by incompetence, political squabbling and military defeats.

It was Edward II who was devastatingly defeated at Bannockburn, freeing Scotland from English control.

In his book, Genesis of the Grail Kings, Laurence Gardner locates the Plantard bloodline within this Draconian Current:

“The Plantagenets were themselves a junior branch of the House of Anjou, whose senior branch was the House of Vere [whose] ancestry was jointly Pictish and Merovingian descending from the ancient Grail House of Scythia.” (In the Realm of the Ring Lords)

Knight and Lomas postulate (Second Messiah pg 111) that it was Rex Deus that planned the capture of Jerusalem and set up the Knights Templars as excavators of the Temple treasure. They state that the bloodline of the English Royal Family carries the Rex Deus bloodline through Henry II, the first king of the Plantagenet dynasty.

Mark of the Beast 10 - the Holy Grail

2/7/1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri. These earthquakes remain the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit the eastern United States in recorded history.

There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over roughly 130,000 square kilometres (50,000 sq mi), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles). The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 16,000 square kilometres (6,200 sq mi).

Some sections of the Mississippi River appeared to run backward for a short time. Sand blows were common throughout the area, and can still be seen from the air in cultivated fields. The shockwaves propagated efficiently through the firm midwestern bedrock, with residents as far away as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk, Virginia, awakened by intense shaking. Church bells were reported to ring as far as Boston, Massachusetts and York, Ontario (now Toronto), and sidewalks were reported to have been cracked and broken in Washington, D.C. There were also reports of toppled chimneys in Maine.

2/7/1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.

The Esoteric Interpretation of Pinocchio

2/7/1960 Paleo Hebrew handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea

History of Hebrew
Introduction to Ancient Hebrew

2/7/1964 - Beatlemania arrives in the US. Four members of the British hit band, the Beatles, arrive in New York at the start of their first tour of the United States.

Michael Mills on the Beatles and their hidden Satanic messages

2/7/1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union and the single European currency, the euro.

The EU is linked to the above mentioned mark of the beast- Holy Grail connection. Otto Von Habsburg, of the 'bloodlines' was instrumental in the founding of the European Union.

Otto von Habsburg; work spanned empire’s end, EU’s start

Dr. von Habsburg with the flag of the Pan-Europa Union. The EU adopted it with one conspicuous change.

Christian Statesman - Dr. Otto von Habsburg

"At 94, the "uncrowned emperor" and visionary architect of a reunified Europe carries on a thousand-year legacy of Catholic political leadership"

"Born to a 700-year-old imperial dynasty, the present-day head of the House of Habsburg has, in his own way, taken up the same mantle of responsibility borne by the Austrian emperors, and the Holy Roman Emperors before them, without benefit of any of the office's perks or powers.

Probably most identified with Dr. von Habsburg is the staggering achievement of European unity in our lifetime after a century of warfare and Cold War polarization. No one has done more to bring about the new Europe, or to manifest it in his own person."

"An early pioneer in the Pan-Europa movement, which he would one day head, he did as much as any man alive to lay the groundwork for the European Union."

2/7/1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. Hussein's family claims to descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his clan. They are known as Hashemites.

Modern Jordan was founded in 1921, and it was recognized by the League of Nations as a state under the British mandate in 1922 known as The Emirate of Transjordan. In 1946, Jordan joined the United Nations as an independent sovereign state officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

In antiquity, the present day Jordan was in the heart of the earlier civilizations which prospered in the Fertile Crescent including the Babylonian and the Canaanites. Later, Jordan became a home for several ancient kingdoms including: the kingdom of Edom, the kingdom of Moab, the kingdom of Ammon and the prominent Nabataean kingdom of Petra.

Furthermore, and due to its strategic location in the middle of the ancient world, Jordan was also controlled by the ancient empires of Greece, the Persians, the Romans and later by the Byzantine. Yet, the Nabataean managed to create their independent kingdom which covered most parts of modern Jordan and beyond, for some centuries, before it was taken by the still expanding Roman empire. However, apart from Petra, the Romans maintained the prosperity of most of the ancient cities in Jordan which enjoyed a sort of city-state autonomy under the umbrella of the alliance of the Decapolis. With the decline of the Roman Empire, Jordan came to be controlled by the Ghassanid Arab kingdom. In the seventh century, and due to its proximity to Damascus, Jordan became a heartland for the Arabic Islamic Empire and therefore secured several centuries of stability and prosperity, which allowed the coining of its current Arabic Islamic identity. In the 11th century, Jordan witnessed a phase of instability, as it became a battlefield for the Crusade wars which ended with defeat by the Ayyubids. Jordan suffered also from the Mongol attacks which were blocked by Mamluks. In 1516, It became part of the Ottoman Empire and it remained so until 1918, when the Army of the Great Arab Revolt took over, and secured the present day Jordan with the help and support of Jordan local tribes.

In September 1922 the Council of the League of Nations recognized Transjordan as a state under the British Mandate and Transjordan memorandum excluded the territories east of the River Jordan from all of the provisions of the mandate dealing with Jewish settlement. The country remained under British supervision until 1946.

On May 25, 1946 the United Nations approved the end of the British Mandate and recognized Jordan as an independent sovereign kingdom. The Parliament of Jordan proclaimed King Abdullah as the first King. Abdullah I continued to rule until he was assassinated in 1951 as he was leaving the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Jordan signed a military pact with Egypt in May 1967, and following an Israeli air attack on Egypt in June 1967, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq continued the Six Day War against Israel. During the war, Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the territory now occupied by Israel but its 1994 treaty with Israel allowed for a continuing Jordanian role in Muslim and Christian holy places in Jerusalem.

The period following the 1967 war saw an upsurge in the activity and numbers of Arab Palestinian paramilitary elements (fedayeen) within the state of Jordan. These distinct, armed militias were becoming a "state within a state", threatening Jordan's rule of law. King Hussein's armed forces targeted the fedayeen, and open fighting erupted in June 1970. The battle in which Palestinian fighters from various Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) groups were expelled from Jordan is commonly known as Black September.

Sporadic violence continued until Jordanian forces, led by Habis Al-Majali, with the help of Iraqi forces, won a decisive victory over the fedayeen on July 1971, expelling them, and ultimately the PLO's Yasser Arafat, from Jordan.

In 1991, Jordan agreed, along with Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to participate in direct peace negotiations with Israel at the Madrid Conference, sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It negotiated an end to hostilities with Israel and signed a declaration to that effect on 25 July 1994.

As a result, an Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty was concluded on 26 October 1994. King Hussein was later honored when his picture appeared on an Israeli postage stamp in recognition of the good relations he established with his neighbor.

On his return to Jordan, King Hussein changed the crown prince from his brother Prince Hasan to his eldest son Abdullah. He also released some political prisoners in Jordan. King Hussein died some time afterward in 1999. His son, King Abdullah II succeeded him.

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 7: Lev 19-21

On this date February 6th

2012-02-06T04:53:00.000-08:00

On this date 2/6/337 Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

He is chiefly known by the part he took in the Arian controversy. Julius is also credited with setting Jesus' birthday on December 25th.

2/6/1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.

2/6/1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. When he produced a Catholic heir, the tension exploded and leading nobles called on William III of Orange (his son-in-law and nephew) to land an invasion army from the Netherlands, which he did. James fled England (and thus was held to have abdicated) in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was replaced by William of Orange who became king as William III, ruling jointly with his wife (James's daughter) Mary II. Thus William and Mary, both Protestants, became joint rulers in 1689.

James is best known for his belief in the Divine Right of Kings and his attempts to create religious liberty for English Roman Catholics against the wishes of the English Parliament. Parliament, opposed to the growth of absolutism that was occurring in other European countries, as well as to the loss of legal supremacy for the Church of England, saw their opposition as a way to preserve what they regarded as traditional English liberties. This tension made James's four-year reign a struggle for supremacy between the English Parliament and the Crown, resulting in his deposition, the passage of the English Bill of Rights, and the Hanoverian succession.

2/6/1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

2/6/1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

The Treaty signaled the end of the Spanish Empire in America and the Pacific Ocean and marked the beginning of an age of United States colonial power.

2/6/1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.

2/6/1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

2/6/1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.

2/6/2001: The leader of the right-wing Likud party, Ariel Sharon, wins a landslide victory to become the new prime minister of Israel. He called for a government of national unity to bring peace to the Middle East.

He said: "Today the state of Israel has taken a new road, the road of peace, security and unity."

BBC
"Mr Sharon has a fearsome reputation as a ruthless and fearless soldier and politician. As defence minister he was the main architect of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

He was removed from office in 1983 by an Israeli tribunal that found him indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militiamen in two Beirut refugee camps under Israeli control.

But he made his political comeback just one year later as trade and industry minister in a Likud-Labour national unity government."

2/6/1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States was born.

2/6/1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

2/6/2011 - Ronald Reagan Day is a day of recognition that occurs every February 6, starting in 2011, in the state of California for Ronald Reagan, who was that state's Governor from 1967–1975 and President of the United States from 1981–1989.

It is interesting to note that on the day that the Poland Round Table talks began, which started the end of communism in Europe, Reagan was born. Reagan is well known for his anti-communist stance.

wikipedia.org
"The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. While the doctrine lasted less than a decade, it was the centerpiece of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991."

Reagan’s 40-Year War Against Communism

"The fall of the [Soviet] empire," former Czech president Vaclav Havel wrote, "is an event on the same scale of historical importance as the fall of the Roman Empire."

Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism

Reagan Denounces Communism

Ronald Reagan 1984 State of the Union Address

The Reagan Legacy: The End of the Cold War

"Berlin Wall" Speech - President Reagan's Address at the Brandenburg Gate - 6/12/87

Ronald Reagan - We will never abandon our belief in God

"A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan

"Evil Empire" Speech by President Reagan - Address to the National Association of Evangelicals

Ronald Reagan & the King James Bible

President Reagan and the Bible

President Ronald Reagan on The Bible

Proclamation 5018 -- Year of the Bible, 1983

Ronald Reagan and the Bible

Daily Bible Reading:
Feb 6: Lev 16-18