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More Historical Happenings

January 15

0069 - Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69)in succession to
Nero, was assassinated by the Praetorian guard in the Roman Forum, at 70

0708 - Sisinnius begins his reign as Catholic Pope (dies 20 days later)

1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church (Act of Supremacy.)

1552 - France signs secret treaty with German Protestants

1562 - 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens

1697 - The citizens of Massachusetts spent a day of fasting and repentance
for their roles in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Judge Samuel Sewall, who
had presided over many of those 20 capital judgments, published a written
confession acknowledging his own "blame and shame."

1844 - The University of Notre Dame was chartered under Roman Catholic auspices
in Indiana.

1852 - Mt. Sinai Hospital was incorporated by Sampson Simson and eight associates
in NY City. It was the first Jewish hospital in the U.S.

1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed

1970 - Israeli archaeologists reported uncovering the first evidence supporting
the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by military forces of the ancient
Roman Empire. [Arch of Titus]

1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

January 16

0308 - Marcellus I Catholic Pope (-30 , dies

1531 - English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting

1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Russia

1581 - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism

1740 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'If I see
a man who loves the Lord Jesus in sincerity, I am not very solicitous to
what...communion he belongs. The Kingdom of God, I think, does not consist
in any such thing.'

1786 - The Virginia Legislature adopted the Ordinance of Religious Freedom,
which guaranteed that no man would be forced to attend or support any church.
This mandate later became the model for the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution

1899 - Death of Charles P. Chiniquy. While a Catholic priest, he was
excommunicated by his bishop. Abe Lincoln defended him at his church trial.
Dismissed from the Catholic church, he was converted to Protestantism and
became a notable evangelist

1920 - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)

1941 - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor

1952 - New Dutch bible translation finished

1982 - Great Britain established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

January 17

0395 - Theodosius I the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49. With
the death of Emperor Theodosius I (the Great), this became the last day the
('Christian') Roman Empire was controlled by a single leader. Theodosius
had divided the empire into western and eastern portions.

1377 - The Papal See was moved back to Rome by Gregory XI. Located in France
for 72 years, it had been moved to Avignon by French pope Clement V in 1305,
originally to escape the political turmoil rampant within Italy at the time

1501 - Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna

1530 - The first book of William Tyndale's Old Testament comes off the press.

1536 - Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III

1562 - Edict of St Germain recognizes the French Protestantism [Huguenots]
in France

1604 - Translation of what would become the Authorized King James Version
is authorized to begin. 47 bible "scholars" (mostly Anglican but also included
Puritans and other sects) and charged them to stick as close to the earlier
Bishop’s Bible as accuracy would allow, but to take into account several
earlier versions. In the end truth won out as about seventy percent of the
wording was actually borrowed from William Tyndale’s translation as used
in the Geneva Bible that the King detested - albeit without the Puritan margin
notes.

1775 - 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland

1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands
of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

1946 - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting

1963 - The Baptist World Mission was incorporated in Chicago.

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Orthodox in Cuba

Cuba Brief: Orthodox leader Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is headed to
Cuba at the invitation of President Fidel Castro to consecrate a cathedral
on January 25th.

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BSE Case

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture rule requires meat-processors to use
synthetic casings or pork casings on many sausages that have, traditionally,
used natural beef casings. There also has been a decision made that casings
made from the small intestine of all beef animals slaughtered on or after
January 12 cannot be used for human consumption. The legislation was enacted
to curb the alleged spread of mad cow disease. Keep reading those labels.
In the last month only 1 case of BSE was found in the US and the victim arrived
from England to this country.

On the Net:
http://www.aamp.com/BSECasings.htm

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PETA Ad Nixed

CBS-TV has refused to play a certain tv commercial created by the People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The commercial is suggestive and immoral.
Two very scantilly-clad women have a playful pillowfight just before the
doorbell rings. Its the pizza guy from "Big Meat" pizza who brags about "extra
sausage." The three go down behind the couch only to find the pizzaman "can't
deliver" to fulfill their lustful desires. The allusion is that meat consumption
caused the man to be impotent. The next scene has the two floozies coming
in with a vegetarian man, identified by the veg-slogan on his t-shirt, carrying
a grocery sack that declares"We know good mellons." The three disappear behind
the couch in an extremely strong suggestion of fornication. PETA reputedly
offered CBS $2 million to have the commercial aired during the Super Bowl
broadcast. CBS spokesman Dana McClintock told reporters that the network
rejected the ad because of its "general policy against airing advocacy
advertisements" rather than because of the sinful innuendos. PETA has disputed
the denial and may be seeking legal counsel. Maybe they should change their
name to Perverts against Ethical Television Ads.

Romans 1:22-25 Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

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Man Smashes Idols

Rogelio Rodriguez walked into San Fernando Cathedral and told the people
that he was trying to save them from being idol-worrshippers. He then began
smashing church idols. Six of seven damaged statues dated back to the early
1900s and repairs costs could be substantial. A parishioner waved down a
police officer who apprehended Rodriguez and booked him. Bond on a charge
of felony criminal mischief was set at $100,000 for the 38 yr-old Rodriguez.
Deacon Pat Rodgers, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio,
told reporters, "He was yelling about saving people here from idol worship,
and then he went on a rampage knocking statues over." The police report alledges
that Rodriguez called himself both God and "Emmanuel, the Prince of Peace"
during the vandalism spree. A woman called the church and said she was Rodriguez'
wife. The woman said her husband had mental problems that required medication
but "did not have the medication that he needed."

The bible has numerous verses that warn about idols and command their destruction
albeit in a certain contextual setting. The instruction to destroy idols
was for Israelites when God brought them in to dispossess the pagan inhabitants
of a land. For example: Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not
bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou
shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

The apostle Paul did not brake the statues at Mars Hill but preached Jesus
to them that they might repent of their idolatry. This method seems to work
as the idol makers testified in Acts 19:26 Moreover
ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia,
this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they
be no gods, which are made with hands:

2 Timothy 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must
not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give
them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover
themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at
his will.

The bible will convict those whom God grants repentence by its many verse
rejecting idols such as:

Deuteronomy 4:15-19 Take ye therefore good heed unto
yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves,
and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of
male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness
of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, The likeness of any thing that
creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath
the earth: And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest
the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest
be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided
unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Exodus 20:4-6 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not
bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Amen.

The statues in Catholic churches are indeed idols and should be rejected.
Although idols are forbidden by God, the actions of this man are not sanctioned
by the bible but are criminal. 1 Peter 4:14-15 If ye
be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory
and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your
part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief,
or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

In this case, we pray that some in attendance heard the man's words, forgive
his violent outburst, and will look into idol worship from their bible and
repent of their idolatry. We are to follow peace with all men until our Savior
reappears to rule with a rod of iron. The idols are nothing and will be soon
be no more. Love God, love thy neighbor - against such there is no law.

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