Articles

The Truth About Halloween
By Robert McCurry

Excited children masquerading as witches, ghosts, goblins, demons, and other grotesque characters skipping through the neighborhood knocking on doors chanting "trick or treat" while holding out a sack in which one is to drop a piece of candy or other goodies ... the party at school, or church, or Sunday School where they bob for apples, tell fortunes, or go through "haunted houses"... decorations of jack-o'-lanterns, witches on brooms, and black cats with arched backs ... It's "Halloween"--one of the strangest days of the year.

Are Halloween activities really just the simple, innocent holiday fun most people believe them to be? Where did this holiday originate? Why is this holiday celebrated?

History provides the answers. Though it was the Roman Catholic Church who designated the October 31st date as All Hallows Eve, or "eve of the holy ones" day, in prelude to their November 1st All Saints' Day, it was earlier pagan peoples who gave the annual holiday the sinister meaning and traditions it still holds.

"The American celebration rests upon Scottish and Irish folk customs which can be traced in direct line from pre-Christian times. Although Halloween has become a night of rollicking fun, superstitious spells, and eerie games which people take only half seriously, its beginnings were quite otherwise. The earliest Halloween celebrations were held by the Druids in honor of Samhain, lord of the dead, whose festival fell on November 1st." 

"It was a Druidic belief that on the eve of this festival, Saman [Samhain], lord of death, called together the wicked souls [spirits] that within the past 12 months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals." 

by Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading:  Romans 8:28-31

October 20, 2013

I have used the phrase ‘God’s plan for the ages’ many times, but have not expounded upon it before.  So I thought today would be the perfect time to talk about it.  If we have a perfect God, then He must have a perfect plan.  Thus far, we have learned what it means for the White race to “Be ye perfect,” to be ‘White Supremacists’ and to believe in the perfect incarnation of God in Jesus Christ.  From today’s reading in Romans 8, we can surmise that there is a perfect orchestration of events as they unfold throughout history and our own lives, that give us a glimpse of Paradise, where God’s Kingdom was a done deal for the first man or Adam, which 6,000 years ago (more or less) did not include other races (they have never qualified as Adam-man).  So Paradise was basically an all-White society by Intelligent Design and it was not without a purpose.  Although since that time, it has been obscured and driven in all the wrong directions away from God’s intent.  That’s because Adam-man has not always loved God with all his heart or responded to a divine calling.  God is perfect by way of His promises, none of which have ever been broken.  Prophecy is another element to convince His people that He is the only entity in the universe that can perfectly predict the future.

by Pastor Mark Downey

October 14, 2013

Scripture Reading:  I John 5:7-8

I’ve never picked an interpolation, a spurious addition to the biblical text, for the Scripture reading before, but a combination of things warrants a review of what should have been learned in church kindergartens when we learned to count with our fingers.  We have had some dynamic guest speakers in the last few weeks.  Dr. Blanchard said that America, for all intents and purposes, is dissolved and we can thank the apostate church prostituting itself for the almighty state.  And then, Pastor Brian Jones gave us a sermon about ‘Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain,’ which was much more than just cussing.  That Sunday, we sang the old hymnal ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’ containing the 3 in 1 gods of the iconic dogma of the Trinity with the lyrics “God in three persons, blessed Trinity.”  It’s ironic that another stanza says, “there is none beside Thee [in reference to Isaiah 45:6], Perfect in power.”  This song has always bothered me, because it’s based on the catholic lie and manmade invention of the Trinity, a word and concept that is not to be found anywhere in the Bible.

by Pastor Don Elmore

October 6, 2013

Scripture Reading: Psalms 3:1-8

This Psalm was made when David was dethroned from being King of Israel by his own son--Absalom.  Absalom was David’s third son; so how did he get ahead of his brothers?  This story is all part of the bigger one—how David is different from all of the recent Presidents of our nation—the United States of America. 

Introduction

In the beginning of my ministry, I gave messages which covered the entire Biblical career of David, the King of Israel.  These sermons lasted for about four or five years; intermingled along with other sermons.  After I preached about David, I spent a couple of years on the biblical history of Elijah.  Then I spent another couple of years preaching on Genesis 1-11.

As I was about half-way through giving these messages concerning King David, I thought of the following question:  Who would like to trade places with David?   In other words, who would like to live their life as David?

by Pastor Brian Jones

September 29, 2013

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 5:1-8

A message detailing the consequences of attaching the Lord's name to false doctrine; pastors who teach that "God loves everyone" is taking God's name in vain.

by Pastor Don Elmore

Roman Catholics are taught that the Pope is the Vicar of Almighty God.  But that is 6000 years too late; for the real Vicar of God was Adam, the father of our race.  He was created fully grown to carry out God's Will on the earth.  He was to rule over the other races; but he failed in the Garden when he sinned and now the Roman Catholics have raised up substitute Vicars.

It is similar to Judeo-Christianity; for the hyphenated word is an oxymoron.  Let's look at what Judaism says about this new religion!

The London Jewish World, 15 March 1923, quoted in The Truth at Last, Issue 337:  "Fundamentally, Judaism is anti-Christian."  The Judeo-Christians would like that statement to be:  "Fundamentally, Judaism is pro-Christian"; but it is not.   Rabbi Moshe M. Maggal (President, national Jewish Information Service:  "You will notice the great difference between the Jewish and Christian religions.  We consider the two religions so different that one excludes the other...we emphasize that there is no such thing as a Judeo-Christian religion...There is not any similarity between the two concepts.  Too bad Christians don't believe what the jews say!

by Thomas A. Dooley

We are God's covenant people 
From Abraham we came 
Through Isaac and through Jacob 
God's promise is retained. 

For thou art holy people 
Unto our God above. 
The Lord chose you, oh Israel 
His only covenant love. 

*Refrain
From Jacob's seed, twelve nations came 
Given unto birth 

by Dr. Lawrence Blanchard

September 22, 2013

Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:26-28

1. The Reality: The USA, as a Nation, is Dissolved
2. Our Response
3. Do We Have a Defined Mission? (What are we doing and what is the point of it?)
4. Review of the Kingdom Plan and Purpose in the Bible
5. Kingdom Authority Illustrated (How God's Power is Manifested) - Luke 7:1-10
6. Dominion In and Through the Church
   1. God's Power Revealed - Ephesians 1: 15-19, 20-23
   2. God's Intended Purpose - Ephesians 3:8-12
   3. God's Necessary Order In The Church - Ephesians 4:10-13, 5:22- 33; 6:1-4

The Wake-up Herald

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Romans 13:11-14

by Pastor Don Elmore

September 15, 2013

Scripture Reading: Psalms 139:19-24

The Song My Mother Sang

I was born in 1942; my mother in 1913.  She would have turned 100 years old this year.  The Federal Reserve System went into effect in the last days of the year in which she came into this world.  What a sinful disaster this banking system has been!  But there was something else that happened the year that she was born and I want to tell you about it today.