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Issue Date: 01/03/04

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Witch Grant?

Lena Skarning, a 33 yr old Norwegian woman who is a self-proclaimed witch,
has been awarded a government business grant worth 53,000 kroner or crowns
[equivalent of US $7,400]. Forest Witch Magic Consulting will tell "fortunes,
teach magic tricks at corporate seminars, and offer potions and creams to
cure for problems ranging from sleeplessness to bad habits." A condition
of the grant is that she had to promise "not to cast spells that might hurt
someone."

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Priest Pleads Guilty

Another testimony to the character of priests of certain large religious
cults. Moises B. Palaroan, a 53 yr old [now-former] Catholic priest, pleaded
guilty to swindling at least 400,000 dollars from St. William Catholic Church
in Keystone Heights, Florida. Palaroan plea-bargained to a one-year jail
sentence (with 17 years of probation) as well as paying back the money which
he had sent to ... his mistress and children in the Philippines.

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Pope Pushes NWO

On January 1st, Pope John Paul II celebrated morning Mass inside St. Peter's
Basilica to mark the World Day of Peace and the [pagan] new year. His homily
was dedicated to "the solemnity of the Mother of God" and called for a "new
international order". He reiterated his encyclical published earlier this
month marking the Catholic-originated World Day of Peace in which he called
for a reform of the United Nations and international law to combat terrorism.
He claimed that to get peace everybody must gain a new "respect for international
law" and embrace the creation of a "new world order" based on the goals,
experience, and results of the United Nations. He called for such an
international "order that will be capable of giving solutions that are
appropriate to the problems of today, based on the dignity of the human person,
the integral development of society, solidarity between rich and poor countries,
and the capacity to share the resources and extraordinary results of scientific
and technological progress."

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Historical Happenings

December 28

0418 - Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1384 -John Wycliffe, "Morningstar of the Reformation," suffers a paralyzing
stroke.

1446 - Clemens VIII, [Aegyd Mu¤oz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies
( A second Pope also named Clement VIII reigned 1592-1605- It was not uncommon
for the Papacy to do this to cause confusion and cover the misdeeds of a
previous Pope. I could not dig up any background on this Aegyd Mu'oz~ kh
)

1832 - St. Louis University is chartered as a Roman Catholic institution
in St. Louis, Missouri

1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)

1937 - Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism

1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr 1st American test tube baby born

1983 - US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984. (they did but returned)

1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

December 29

1170 - Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry
II

1223 - Pope Honorius III formally approved the Franciscan religious order.
Properly called the Order of the Friars Minor, this Catholic order was founded
in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi.

1539 - St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning

1841 - King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon

1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)

1852 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants

1876 - Popular American hymnwriter Philip P. Bliss, 38, died when the train
in which he and his wife were riding plunged off a bridge into a ravine 60
feet below. Bliss had penned such enduring hymns as: "Wonderful Words of
Life, "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning," "I Will Sing of My Redeemer" and
"I Gave My Life for Thee."

1920 - Yugoslav government bans communist party

1948 - US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit

1948 - Canada recognizes Israel

1983 - US announces withdrawal from UNESCO - later makes amends in 2002

1997 - Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China

December 30

0274 - Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'O how little
do I for Jesus, who has done so much for me!'

1838 - Hanover College was chartered by the Presbyterian General Assembly
of Indiana. The school had been founded as a seminary "in the wilderness"
for training ministers.

1875 - Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms

1916 - Grigory Rasputin, Siberian peasant, mystic, and favourite of Tsar
Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, was shot, poisoned and eventually drowned
at the house of Prince Feliks Yusupov.

1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established through the
confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation.

1927 - The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was incorporated
in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 1923 by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson,
the denomination recognizes the significant role that women in ministry.
Today, over 40% of its ministers are women.

1971 - The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission announced that
an ecumenical agreement had been made between the two Christian traditions
on the essential teachings about the Eucharist.

1993 - Israel and the Vatican signed an ecumenical agreement on mutual
recognition, striving to put behind them 2,000 years of often bitter
Jewish-Christian relations.

December 31

0192 - Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31

0335 - Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0406 - 80,000 Vandals attack the Rhine at Mainz. Godagisel, king of the Vandals,
dies in battle. 1384 - John Wycliffe English religious reformer, bible
translator, dies

1492 - 100,000 Jews are expelled from Sicily

1502 - Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino

1564 - Willem of Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion

1600 - British East India Company chartered

1687 - The first shipload of emigrating Huguenots (French Protestants) left
France for South Africa.

1781 - Bank of North America. 1st US bank opens as brainchild of Robert Morris,
a wealthy merchant and financial wizard. He proposed a new idea to Congress
to start a commercial bank that would act as fiscal agent for the government,
and help to correct the problems with issuing paper money that was rapidly
depreciating. Heavy loans from France made it a reality.

1930 - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubial against mixed marriages

1945 - Ratification of UN Charter completed

1961 - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion

1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama

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Notable Quotes and Quotable Notes

TRUTH

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and
the investigation of truth. ~ Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

All truth passes through three stages: First, it
is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted
as self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ~ Winston Churchill  

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the
truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point
is to bring them the real facts. ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief
or ignorance. ~ W. Clement Stone

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders,
than from the arguments of its opposers. ~ William Penn (1644
- 171

UNTRUTH

We should always be disposed to believe that which
appears to us to be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church
so decides. ~ St. Ignatius Loyola (1500)

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated,
it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven.
The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. ~ Adolph
Hitler, Mein Kampf

The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than
to a small one. ~ Mein Kampf

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
~ Lenin (1870 - 1924)

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~ Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

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Terror in the Skies

American liberties are "up in the air." The world 'terrorism threat' has
been doing its work around the world. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi warned
of the alleged threat of a "hijacked plane into the Vatican. ... An attack
from the sky ... The threat of terrorism is very high in this instant." Elsewhere
in Europe, the FBI provided six names, which later proved to be cases of
'mistaken identity', to the French government causing Air France to cancel
six flights between Paris and Los Angeles. More mistaken identities led Britain
to ground certain flights to Washington and also to Saudia Arabia. An Aeromexico
flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles was canceled at US warnings of a
'terrorism risk.'

US Homeland Security Secretary [SS?] Tom Ridge says international air carriers
will be required to place armed trained government law enforcement officers
on designated flights where necessary. Australia maybe required to post armed
guards on certain flights to or over US territories. The British government
has already agreed to put 'air marshals' on certain transatlantic flights.
South Korea's national police agency also said it would add armed officers
if terrorist suspicion warranted.

Where does this terror threat information come from one may ask? Sen. John
D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, D-West Va., senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
Committee, who is the son of John D. Rockefeller III (who was the eldest
son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., founder of the Rockefeller Foundation, whose
legendary father was the founder of Standard Oil Company) said officials
are getting "an enormous amount of much more than single-source reporting
that is very specific." An AP story quoted Rockefeller as saying the information
can come from "computerized watch lists, interception of communications and
intelligence agents."

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman,
and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic
security and protect our homeland." ~  Proposal of the creation
of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany.

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More Historic Happenings

January 01

46 B.C. - the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, first established January 1st
as "New Year's Day". Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and had
two faces, one looking forward, and one back. Caesar felt that the month
named after this god ("January") would be the appropriate "door" to the year.
Caesar celebrated the first January 1st New Year by ordering the violent,
and reputedly quite bloody, routing of "revolutionary Jewish forces" in the
Galilee. In later years, Roman pagans observed the New Year by engaging in
drunken orgies -- a ritual they believed constituted a personal re-enacting
of the chaotic world that existed before the cosmos was ordered by the gods.

0001 - Traditional Origin of the so-called Christian Era according to Usher

0069 - Roman garrison of Mainz uprising

0089 - Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome

0313 - Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction

0404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome

0404 - Telemachus Roman monk, murdered

0990 - Russia adopts Julian calendar

1430 - Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services

1502 - Gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies

1515 - Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria

1622 - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25).
The bible declares the beginning of the year to be in the springtime when
the Judea-area barley is in the stage called 'abib' (green ears).

1700 - Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar

1701 - Great Britain & Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom

1788 - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves

1798 - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books

1801 - The Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland took effect, creating
the United Kingdom.

1802 - Thomas Jefferson, in a letter written to the Danbury [CT] Baptist
Association, coined the metaphor, "a wall of separation between Church and
State." From 1947, the "wall of separation" concept gained acceptance as
a constitutional guideline.

1832 - In Lexington, KY, 12,000 followers of Alexander Campbell, (called
"Campbellites") merged with 10,000 followers of Barton W. Stone (known as
"Christians") to form the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church.

1871 - The Church of Ireland was formally disestablished. Aligned with
Anglicanism from 1537, the Irish Church represented the faith of only 12%
of the populace by the mid-19th century.

1893 - Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar

1899 - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day) (US occupies till 1902)
1915 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled

1918 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland

1923 - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established (USSR)

1942 - In Washington 26 nations signed the "Declaration of the United Nations,"
affirming opposition to Axis powers and confirming that no co-signatory would
make a separate peace

1945 - France joins the UN

1958 - The European Economic Community (EEC), "the Common Market," came into
being.

1973 - Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market

1977 - 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)

1982 - Javier Pérez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN

1995 - The World Trade Organisation came into effect, succeeding GATT.

1998 - US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733

1999 - The euro was introduced giving 11 European countries a shared currency
for the first time since the Roman Empire.

January 02

0069 - Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor

0533 - John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1235 - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names

1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in
his journal: 'We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation
is in God.'

1909 - Future Foursquare Gospel church founder Aimee Elizabeth [ne Kennedy]
Semple [later McPherson], 19, along with her husband Robert Semple, was ordained
to the ministry in Chicago by evangelist William H. Durham.

1921 - The first religious program heard over the radio was broadcast from
Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh over local radio station KDKA. (The
first licensed radio station in the US, KDKA had been on the air only two
months.)

1968 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In the Church
of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.'

1971 - A team of Israeli scholars announced the discovery in Jerusalem of
a 2,000-year-old skeleton of a crucified male. Found in a cave-tomb, it was
the first direct physical evidence of the well-documented Roman method of
execution.

1985 - Egyptian President Mubarak re-appoints Coptic pope Shenuda III

January 03

0236 - Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0269 - Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0936 - Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII

1521 - German Reformer Martin Luther, 38, was excommunicated by Pope Leo
X for challenging Catholic Church doctrine. Luther soon after began translating
of the Bible into the German language.

1785 - The famed Methodist "Christmas Conference" concluded in Baltimore,
MD. Having opened on Christmas Eve,

1784, this body brought into being the Methodist Episcopal Church (in America),
and elected Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke the first two American "general
superintendents."

1924 - British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun

1934 - At Barmen-Gemarke, in Germany, 320 pastors of the German Confessing
Church met to draw up a theological statement opposing the Nazi German
Nationalist Church. Led by Karl Barth and Martin Niemoeller, the gathering
led to the formula afterward known as the Barmen Declaration.

1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870, officially
changed its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination
is headquartered today in Memphis, TN, and comprises a membership of nearly
500,000.

1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba after Fidel Castro announced
he was a communist.

1962- Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro

2002 - Astrologer and Numerologist Sydney Omarr (76), born Sidney Kimmelman,
whose horoscopes appear in more than 200 newspapers across the nation, died
of a heart attack ... that he never saw coming. Omarr lived many years stricken
by blindness and paralyzed from the neck down by multiple sclerosis.

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Sabbath Morning Companion 
   Date: 1/2/2004 By: Lenny Cacchio [used
by permission]

Question the Assumptions

Now we have a presidential candidate saying that he doesn't want to talk
about such hot issues as "God, guns, and gays."  So let's see what this
means.

"God":  That's a First Amendment issue.

"Guns":  That's a Second Amendment issue.

"Gays":  That's a Fourteenth Amendment issue.

Mr. Candidate, is there any other part of the Constitution that is unworthy
of presidential discussion?  Whoever is elected to the highest office
is sworn to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign
and domestic.  Would it not behoove the electorate to know how the
candidates view such matters? To declare them out of bounds is an attempt
to remove them from discussion and thereby avoid embarrassing questions.

With all due deference to this particular candidate, such tactics are common
anywhere humans congregate.  It even happens in the world of
religion.  All of our belief systems have their own untouchable holy
places.  These are areas for one reason or another that no one is allowed
to question, let alone leave open for public debate.

Jesus had no qualms about challenging the conventional wisdom of his day,
and it nearly got him lynched in the early days of his ministry.  He
had gone back home to his synagogue in Nazareth and stood up to read from
the book of the prophet Isaiah.  The particular passage he cited referred
to the Messiah, which of course referred to himself.

He gained their attention, and at that point  put on the table an issue
that for them was untouchable.  But it was something that the Messiah
was obliged to discuss:

"Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 
But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when
the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great
famine throughout all the land; but to none of them was Elijah sent except
to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And many
lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them
was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." (Luke 4:23-27 NKJV)

This was the opening salvo in the revealing of a mystery of the kingdom of
heaven, and his fellow townspeople didn't like it.  The Jews of the
day believed that they were God's chosen people (and they were), but it was
impossible for them to believe that God would call the Gentiles to be fellow
heirs with them.  The Apostle Paul wrote:

"By revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written
already, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the
mystery of Christ), which in other ages was not made known to the sons of
men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:
that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers
of His promise in Christ through the gospel." (Ephesians 3:3-7)NKJV

This mystery was something they couldn't grasp because they had placed the
"chosenhood" of themselves off limits to discussion, and even to question
this assumption was reason in their minds to throw their neighbor over a
cliff! (Luke  4:28-30)

Unfortunate for us that the world of politics is alive and well in the
church.  Different churches have their own holy places, just as the
worldly political factions do, and that is one reason why the world of
Christianity is divided into hundreds and perhaps thousands of
denominations.  Some believe that they are God's only true church on
earth, and if you dare to question them, you are considered a poor, deceived
dupe of the devil, or perhaps even a heretic.  Some believe that their
particular spiritual guru is God's only anointed, and that God works only
through him (or her, as the case may be).

Some believe that God is a hanging judge who will condemn billions to an
eternal torture chamber because they just didn't understand, while others
believe that God will save everybody regardless of what they were in this
life because, after all, isn't God love?

What we believe and why we believe it should be held to some sort of
yardstick.  In presidential politics that yardstick should be the
Constitution, and in Christianity it should be Word of God.  Interestingly,
both are faced with the same challenges today:  those who believe in
a literal, strict constructionist approach versus those who believe their
founding documents are living, breathing, and subject to interpretation based
on the culture of the day.  The latter approach is the dangerous one,
for it places our own prejudices above the original intent.  But that's
a story for a different day.  LC

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Church Humor: Church Restoration Project

There was a tradesman, a painter named Jack, who was very interested in making
a dollar wherever and however he could. So he often would "thin down" his
paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this
for some time.

Eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration project. Jack
put in a painting bid and, because his price was so competitive, he got the
job. And so he started, erecting the trestles and putting up the planks,
and buying the paint and thinning it down with turpentine. Jack was up on
the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly done, when suddenly there
was a horrendous clap of thunder. The sky opened and the rain poured down,
washing the thin paint from all over the church and knocking Jack off the
scaffold to land on the lawn.

Jack was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he fell
on his knees and cried, "Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?"

And from the thunder, a mighty Voice spoke, "Repaint! Repaint! And thin no
more!"

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Prayer Requests

[The following email was forwarded by our brother Steve Bruns in Moses Lake
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004  Hello again, Steve.  I am not sure
how to go about requesting prayers perhaps thru Truth on the Web. Maybe this
time you could do this? We are having a trememdous snow storm here with 12"
expected; power outages occuring and expected so want to get this out now.
....... Our daughter is 8 months pregnant and has been suffering for a couple
of weeks with this hard flu. It has now gone into pneumonia and she is very
ill. She is also suffering from a horrific sinus infection which has caused
swelling in her face and pain radiation from forehead, to jaw. She has cracked
ribs from the coughing and her defences are down from the previous weeks
of her body fighting this flu. Her name is Aileen Walker. Her husband,Kelly,
and 2 yr. old son, Kyle have had the flu and recovered. This is a dangerous
and difficult time for this family and we would appreciate your prayers on
her behalf. Thank you. Bill & Marsha Hastings

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