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Issue Date: 01/31/04

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Infanticide

John Harris, a professor of bioethics at Manchester University and a member
of the Human Genetics Commission, told a meeting of the HGC at Westminster
he did not see any distinction between aborting a fully grown unborn baby
with "defects" at 40 weeks and killing a child after it had been born and
the same defects noticed.

The Pro-Life lobby group spokeswoman, Julia Millington, said: "It is frightening
to think that university students are being educated by somebody who endorses
the killing of new-born babies, and equally worrying to discover that such
a person is the establishment’s ‘preferred’ bioethicist."

However, Michael Wilkes, the chairman of the BMA’s ethics committee, claimed
that Harris was simply trying to encourage debate and consistent thinking.
He said: "There are many who might concur that there is no difference between
a full-term foetus and a new-born baby, although the majority would see there
is a substantial difference. Abortion is legal, but termination after birth
is killing." [Scotsman.com News 01-25-04] On The
Net:  http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=93982004

Matthew 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation,
and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would
not be comforted, because they are not.

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U.N./NGO Watch

It seems there may have been a couple "watchman on the wall" at the Conservative
Political Action Conference in Virginia this week. Defenders of U.S. sovereignty
and Anti-world-governance stood up to be counted - warning of the United
Nations, NGO's, and self-proclaimed Human Rights agencies.

Tom Kilgannon of Oliver North’s Freedom Alliance assured the panel that U.N.
Secretary General "Kofi Anan is no friend of the American people, and the
U.N. is no ally of the Untied States."

Jeff Gayner, Americans for Sovereignty, said "The World Court and the
International Criminal Court are building blocks to the control of the American
people."

Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, said the marriage between
the U.N. and the NGOs was to sneak in to "erase national boundaries" and
make us all "global citizens." DeWeese said, "If you love liberty - sustainable
development is your enemy." He correctly deduced, “Few Americans are aware
of what is going on.”

Probably the most significant address was when President Bush's Labor Secretary
Elaine Chao declared that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should "be
at the top of every conservative's watch list." Chao said, "NGO and multi-lateral
organizations are becoming key players in global public opinion and global
standard setting. They are patiently laying the groundwork in international
law, standards and practices that the United States will one day be pressured
to adopt." She added, "We must constructively engage these organizations
if we are to win the worldwide battle of ideas." "Conservatives who ignore
the U.N. do so at their peril," Chao declared.

On The Net: NewsMax.com at
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/23/103603.shtml

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Notable Quotes

"The question of how and why the United Nations is the crux of the great
conspiracy to destroy the sovereignty of the United States and the enslavement
of the American people within a U.N. one-world dictatorship is a complete
and unknown mystery to the vast majority of the American people. The
reason for this unawareness of the frightening danger to our country and
to the entire free world is simple. The masterminds behind this great
conspiracy have absolute control of all of our mass communications media,
especially television, the radio, the press, and Hollywood. We all know
that our State Department, the Pentagon, and the White House have brazenly
proclaimed that they have the right and the power to manage the news, to
tell us not the truth but what they want us to believe. They have seized
that power on orders from their masters of the great conspiracy and the
objective is to brainwash the people into accepting the phony peace bait
to transform the United States into an enslaved unit of the United Nations'
one-world government." ~Myron ****** Illuminati/CFR Recordings, 1967

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Demons That Go Bump In The Night

Why do we call a bad dream a nightmare?

The Answer: Most people when asked to guess about its origins figure that
the "mare" in nightmare has something to do with horses. But that's not the
actual etymology .... It comes from the Old English word "maere," which
means an incubus, a tiny demon that stands on your chest during the night,
suffocating you. ~ Source: THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY
Backed up by these Webster's Dictionary Definitions

mare
in*cu*bus (noun), [Middle English,
from Old English; akin to Old High German mara incubus, Serbo-Croatian mora
nightmare] First appeared before 12th Century. obsolete : an evil
preternatural being causing nightmares [Middle English, from Late
Latin, from Latin incubare]

Incubus: First appeared 13th Century
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1 : an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep; especially
: one that has sexual intercourse with women while they are sleeping -- compare
SUCCUBUS

2 : NIGHTMARE         

3 : one that oppresses or burdens like a nightmare

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Historic Happenings

January 25

0844 - Gregory IV begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1138 - Anacletus II [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-3 , dies

1532 - Pope Clement VII rebukes Henry VIII of England over his divorce from
Catherine of Aragorn.

1534 - German Reformer Martin Luther gave his understanding of "conversion"
in a sermon: 'To be converted to God means to believe in Christ, to believe
that He is our Mediator and that we have eternal life through Him.'

1841 - The Oxford Movement in England reached its apex with the appearance
of John Henry Newman's Tract No. 90. The storm of controversy which ensued
brought the series (begun in 1833) to an end. Later, Newman resigned his
Anglican parish and in 1845 converted to Roman Catholicism. hmm, ... Do you
smell a Jesuit?

1861 - Missouri Synod Lutheran founder C.F.W. Walther wrote in a letter:
'The church, as a fellowship...of those who are born again... corresponds
to the nature of living Christianity, whereas...the church as a fellowship
of the orthodox, whether converted or unconverted, will necessarily lead
to a dead Christianity.'

1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later

1959 - Pope John XXIII, 90 days after his election, announced his intention
to hold an ecumenical church council. (The Vatican II Council officially
opened October 11, 1962 and closed December 8, 1965.)

1985 - "We are the World" is recorded. This global-idea advancing ecumenical
work enlisted the aide of modern musics 'stars'.

1997 - Jeanne Dixon psychic (Gift of Prophecy), dies of a heart attack at
79 (She never saw it coming!)

January 26

1564 - Following the closing of the Council of Trent, Pius IV ratified its
enactments by the bull "Benedictus Deus." Included among the Tridentine decisions
were decrees concerning the creation of an Index of Prohibited Books (a list
of condemned authors and their works ...which would later include ...the
bible itself).

1779 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal:
'We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on
Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.'

1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America's symbol
(preferred the Wild Turkey ... the bird not the booze)

1871 - US income tax repealed

1906 - The first General Assembly of the Church of God convened. Headquartered
today in Cleveland, TN, the Church of God is the oldest Pentecostal Church
denomination in the U.S., with roots going back to 1886.

1951 - The Temple Beth Israel of Meridian, Miss. became the first Jewish
congregation to allow women to perform the functions of a rabbi.

1967 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'What God
has done is well done.'

January 27

0098 - Marius Cocceius Nerva Emperor of Rome (96-9 , dies at about 67

0672 - Vitalianus pope (657-72), dies

0847 - Sergius II pope (844-47), dies

1343 - Clement VI's bull "Unigenitus" officially ratified the belief that
Indulgences owed their potency to the Pope's dispensation of the accumulated
merit of the Church. (In 1518 Cardinal Thomas Cajetan accused German reformer
Martin Luther, 32, of challenging the validity of this Catholic doctrine.)

1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno

1842 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Call
upon the name of the Lord. Your time may be short... The longest lifetime
is short enough. It is all that is given you to be converted in. They are
the happiest who are brought soonest to the bosom of Jesus."

1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court

1951 - Polish Communist government declares the church is secretly violating
an April 14 1950 agreement between the church and state.

1972 - In Columbia, the white and black United Methodist conferences of South
Carolina -- separated since the Civil War -- voted in their respective meetings
to adopt a plan of union.

1982 - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 perfs

January 28

1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV

1099 - 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria

1495 - Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France

1561 - By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended

1581 - Scotland's King James VI, who in 1603 would become England's James
I, signed the Second Scottish Confession of Faith

1935 - Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion

1947 - In NY City, a copy of the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was purchased at an
auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $150,000 --the highest price ever paid
to date for a single volume. (The original title of the book was: "The Whole
Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.")

1977 - The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith published an 18-page
document ruling out the admission of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood
because women lacked a "natural resemblance which must exist between Christ
and his ministers."

1988 - Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional

1998 - Michelangelo's "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4
million

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Truth On Lent

Lent is the time directly following Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) a time of gross
debauchery when people 'get in all their sinning' in preparation of fasting
for Lent. It is clearly a pagan practice to observe Lent. Below is a commentary
and a few quotes to show why.

Lent leads into Easter and this is how that came about: Queen Ishtar's son,
Tammuz, was killed by a wild boar. Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz
was now ascended to his father, Baal (also known as Nimrod), and that the
two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame
as Father, Son and Spirit. Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother
of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion. The
queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some
of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into
a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood
of Tammuz. She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each
year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz. During this time, no
meat was to be eaten. Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries
of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "+" in front of their hearts
as they worshipped. They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "+"
or cross on the top.

"The word Lent is of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning spring." (Marguerite Ickis,
The Book of Religious Holidays and Celebrations, New York: Dodd, Mead &
Company, 1966, p.114)

"The celebration of Lent has no basis in Scripture, but rather developed
from the pagan celebration of Semiramis's mourning for 40 days over the death
of Tammuz (cf. Ezek 8:14) before his alleged resurrection---another of Satan's
mythical counterfeits." (John MacArthur, Jr., The MacArthur New Testament
Commentary: 1 Corinthians, Chicago: Moody, 1984)

"'It ought to be known,' said Cassianus, the monk of Marseilles, writing
in the fifth century, and contrasting the primitive Church with the Church
in his day, 'that the observance of forty days had no existence, so long
as the perfection of that primitive Church remained inviolate.' Whence, then,
came this observance? The forty days abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed
from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess." [The Two Babylons (Or The
Papal Worship), Alexander Hislop, 1916, Neptune, NJ, Loizeaux Brothers, Inc.,
p.104]

So according to Catholics, Lent is derived from the 40 days Jesus spent fasting
in the wilderness, but it is admitted that the observance of Lent was unknown
to the disciples and it did not find its way into the church until several
centuries after the time of Christ. It should be noted that the 40 days of
fasting in the wilderness preceded the earthly ministry of Jesus, which lasted
some three and a half years, and was not connected in any way to His crucifixion
or the Passover.

Note that Lent is a moveable observance, connected to and preceding the festival
of Easter. Easter is celebrated on a day specified only by the Roman Catholic
Church, and not the Bible, and is fixed based on the sun and the Spring or
Vernal equinox. ~ Schiefler's BibleLight

The reasons for celebrating our [Catholic]major feasts when we do are many
and varied. In general, however, it is true that many of them have at least
an indirect connection with the pre-Christian [pagan] feasts celebrated about
the same time of year — feasts centering around the harvest, the rebirth
of the sun at the winter solstice (now Dec. 21, but Dec. 25 in the old Julian
calendar), the renewal of nature in spring, and so on.~Source: The New Question
Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen,
M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0-940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers,
Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554.

Imbolc, February 2- Has its origins in a calving festival celebrated throughout
northern Europe. In many cultures of the northern hemisphere, February was
a purifactory month, so the rituals of Imbolc also incorporate purifactory
elements (most notably bonfires). In the xian calendar this festival was
converted to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Mary), marking
the end of the traditional 40 day period of ritual impurity following the
birth of a child for Jewish women. It was on this day that the candles for
the following year were purified (along with the Virgin!) in the western
church - thus the name Candlemas. It is probable that the backward extension
of Lent as a penitential (therefore purifactory) period had something to
do with a survival of the pre-xian Imbolc. ~ Pagan Holidays
www.sympatico.ca/morgaine/holiday.html ( A witchcraft site)

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More Historical Happenings

January 29

0993 - Ulrich, who lived c.890-973, and was Bishop of Augsburg from 923,
was canonized at a Lateran Synod. With this action by Pope John XV, St. Ulrich
became the first individual in Roman Catholic history formally elevated to
sainthood.

1780 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal:
'My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.'

1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX

1921 - The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following
a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered
today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.

1967 - Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the
Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff
and the head of a Communist state.

1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop

January 30

0435 - Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as "federati,"
in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully
postponed for 20 years.)

1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV

1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

1536 - Menno Simons reputedly renounces his Roman Catholic priesthood. He
becomes a level-headed leader of the Anabaptists, he helps preserve them.
His name becomes attached to the Mennonites.

1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII

1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'God
feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man....
So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly
falling dew of his Spirit.'

1867 - The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the
Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president.

1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen

1934 - Hitler proclamation on German unified states

1939 - Hitler, born of a Jewish mother, calls for the extermination of Jews

1951 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

1972 - Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry,
13 die

1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

January 31

0314 - Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1538 - French reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'I pray the Lord to
keep you in His holy protection, and so to direct you that you may not go
astray in that slippery path whereon you are, until He shall have manifested
to you His complete deliverance.'

1561 - Death of Menno Simons. This gentle Anabaptist leaders gave his name
to the Mennonites. Surprisingly, considering the rewards on his head, he
died a natural death.

1596 - Catholic League disjoins

1606 - Guy Fawkes convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35

1686 - King Louis XIV of France issues edict to burn Waldensian churches
to the ground.

1892 - Death of Charles Spurgeon, a Baptist minister considered one of the
greatest preachers of all time. His books of sermons continue to exert a
powerful influence.

1911 - In Falcon, NC, the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (FBHC) and the
Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) officially merged. In 1915, the Tabernacle
Pentecostal Church (TPC) joined the merger. In 1975, the name of this body
officially became the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC).

1952 - Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries

1971 - "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart

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Kabbalah: Old Occult-New Fad

The Los Angeles Kabbalah Centre is thriving with all the new attention generated
by the embrace of Jewish mysticism by Hollywood's pop celebrities. Books,
bracelets, water, candles, oils, incense, jewelry, charms, stones, cds, even
'protective' baby blankets and crib sets - the Kabbalah store sells it all.
Traditional kabbala study involves hundreds of texts and more esoteric pursuits
like numerology. In contrast, students at the Kabbalah Centre are taught
that keeping a copy of the Zohar - which the center conveniently sells on
its Web site for $415, down from $494 - under their pillows will provide
them with basic spiritual enlightenment.

Pop idol Madonna spent more than $6 million to build a 10,000-square-foot
home for the Kabbalah Centre's London branch, three blocks from her home,
according to a British newspaper. And she has made the kabbala the focus
of "The English Roses," her children's book which is available for sale on
the center's Web site. Proceeds from the book's sales go to Spirituality
for Kids, an organization that oversees programs for adults and children,
including the Kabbalah Children's Academy. Though Madonna is undoubtedly
the kabbala's most vocal disciple, there are many others.

Jerri Hall [Mick Jagger's ex] has steeped herself in Kabbalah for years.
Although her interest lies more in Vedic religion, Demi Moore recently told
Vogue the kabbala helps her learn "the value of her worth." Paris Hilton
has taken up Kabbalah as well. Other reputed devotees include: Mick Jagger,
Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, Sandra Bernhard, Roseanne Barr, Jeff Goldblum,
Barbra Streisand, Gwyneth Paltrow, and fashion designer Stella McCartney
among others.

Madonna chants the 72 names of God in Hebrew that are believed to "eliminate
chaos from the world and your life." She has been promoting Kabbalah bottled
water (which has supposedly absorbed the energy of the Torah by osmosis from
being in the same room with it and which "changes you on a molecular level,"
said a Centre employee). The water sells for $2.50-$3.50, a bottle and $26.00
a box. Maybe Madonna can interest you in a Kabbalah Centre's Red String bracelet
to "ward off the Evil Eye" for a mere $26-36.00? After their well-publicized
atrocious kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna and Britney Spears
worked together on a song for the latter's upcoming album - and Spears emerged
from the studio wearing the red string bracelet. Winona Ryder wore a red
string kabbala bracelet during her trial for shoplifting.

Concerning the Red String the Centre's website states: "...according to Kabbalah,
envious stares and looks of ill will can prevent us from realizing our potential.
Kabbalists attribute much of everyday misfortunes to the evil eye - the negative
glances and resentful looks we receive from people harboring destructive
feeling towards us. The three-letter sequence of the Aleph Lamed Daled is
one of several safeguards which, according to Kabbalah, used in conjunction
with the red string offers protection from looks of envy and the mean-spirited
intentions of others. Used for centuries by the Kabbalists, The Red String
connects us to Rachel the Matriarch, who represents the aspect of protection
in the physical realm. Her greatest desire and purpose in life was to protect
and defend all of her children from evil. That is why she evokes the element
of protection from the universe. Each piece of Red String produced by The
Kabbalah Centre is taken to Rachel's tomb in Israel, and with power of the
Aleph Lamed Daled it is imbued with the essence of protection. The Red String
is worn on the left wrist - the receiving side of the body and soul –
sealing protective energy within while intercepting negative influences that
exist."

There are many Christians of a variety of flavors, Messianics, and others
that are being sucked into Judaism through the Kabbalah and its cohort The
Talmud. Many dabble with the numerology, the Gematria, the psychology [levels
of Jewish thought], and other cabalistic concepts thinking they can "extract
the good from Kabbalah and leave the bad behind." There is a great danger
and foolishness in this thinking. We are told in Exodus 23:2 "Thou shalt
not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to
decline after many to wrest judgment:" We are also admonished not to learn
the occultic religions of the world. Judaism has its roots in Babylon and
is not from the True Living God. The mystic traditions of the Talmud and
the Kabbalah are poison to any true believer and should be so shunned.

The following are excerpts from Elizabeth Dilling's The Jewish Religion:
Its Influence Today.

The Jewish Cabala: The existence of a spirit world, of evil spirits, is mentioned
throughout the Bible. Christ drove out possessing spirits. There is one hard
and fast rule taught on the subject, however: namely, to leave them alone,
do no invoking or communicating with them. It is clear that spirit elements
could deceive the finite powers of human beings.  "Thou shalt have no
other gods before me," is the First Commandment. "And that you shall do no
bowing to, or serving them," is the Second Commandment. (Exodus 20:3-5). 

Whereas the Bible represents God as the Supreme Intelligence, Creator and
Ruler, the pagan and atheist Judaistic concept is pantheism. In other words,
there is a great nature essence, out of which individual lives percolate
blindly without direction. "Pan" (nature) "theism" (god-ism) holds that the
sum of nature is god. Man becomes the all powerful Luciferian "god." 
It is foretold in Biblical prophecy that the Anti-Christ will personify that
concept (Isaiah 14:12-19; Daniel 11:36-38; Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14). 

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (1943), as to the "Cabala," states: 
"Although Palestine was the birthplace of Jewish mysticism, the land where
the Cabala was conceived, it was in Babylonia that it attained its greatest
importance." It cites "the mystic speculations of the Talmud and the system
of the Cabala, originating in the one and reaching its completion in the
other." The Jewish Cabala is a library of literature, all on magic, spiritism,
and based on sheer pantheism. "Aaron ben Samuel is credited with bringing
the mysterious doctrine from Babylonia to Italy about the middle of the Ninth
Century; thence it spread to almost all the Christian countries of Europe."
(same Jewish Encyclopedia, page 616) Cabala, also spelled Kabbalah, means
"tradition," and it is the tradition of the paganisms of Babylon, Egypt,
and the pagan philosophers, enshrined in the Jewish religion. 

The Cabala and God: The Cabala is the bone and blood of Talmudic Judaism,
which is itself pagan from start to finish. It uses the "whited sepulchre"
of the Old Testament to cover its negation of every moral law in the Old
Testament as it promotes practice of all the occult demonistic abominations
excoriated by the Old Testament.

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TWISTED SCRIPTURE -  A Bible Version Comparison
By Brian Hoeck

Something's Missing. Ever wonder why many 'Christian' denominations seem
lacking true repentence? Maybe its the version of the bible they are using
that is not teaching them properly.

King James Version Matthew 9:13) But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth,
I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.

Tynedales Translation Matthew 9:13) Go and learn, what that means: I have
pleasure in mercy, and not in offering. For I am not come to call the righteous,
but the sinners to repentance.

The New King James Version  : (Matthew 9:13) But go and learn what
this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call
the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

Young's Literal Translation    Matthew 9:13) but having gone,
learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come
to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

Now look at these others:

New International Version Matthew 9:13) But go and learn what this means:
'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous,
but sinners.

American Standard Version Matthew 9:13) But go ye and learn what [this]
meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners.

The Douay-Rheims Bible  Matthew 9:13) Go then and learn what this
meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the
just, but sinners.

Wesley's New Testament  :  (Matthew 9:13) But go and learn what
this means, `It is mercy that I desire, not sacrifice'; for I did not come
to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."

The New Living Translation  :  (Matthew 9:13) Then he added, "Now
go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: 'I want you to be merciful; I
don't want your sacrifices.' For I have come to call sinners, not
those who think they are already good enough."

I think we found what is missing ..... a call to
repentance.

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Gold Fever

The truths of the Bible are like gold in the soil. Whole generations walk
over it, and know not what treasures are hidden beneath. So centuries of
men pass over the Scriptures, and know not what riches lie under the feet
of their interpretation. Sometimes when they discover them, they call them
new truths. One might as well call gold, newly dug, new gold.

The Bible, without a spiritual life to interpret it, is like a trellis on
which no vine grows-bare, angular, and in the way. The Bible with a spiritual
life, is like a trellis covered with a luxuriant vine-beautiful, odorous
and heavy, with purple clusters shining through the leaves. ~ Henry
Ward Beecher

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Love to you all in Christ Jesus ~ Kenneth M. Hoeck

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