James 5:1-8:

1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you. 7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

8/18/06, From God the Father. A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.
Desolations Are Determined and Great Want for My Beloved Children.

To all My beloved little flocks, seated firmly at My Right Hand, soon gathered into His arms.

Great times of tribulation are coming and shall surely reach around the world, even into your own lives. Be strong, yea, be strong...I am with you to deliver you.

Great hurt is coming and great want, a dark and widening valley where the cliffs are sheer...and in the midst of it, the pit.

Parents, call out to your children...the vipers gather, the jackals have begun their attack. Little ones, I am with you...do not forsake Me. Call on Me in your time of need, which approaches very quickly. Do not be alarmed or overtaken, as an unarmed man in sudden travail by a band of thieves.

See, I have told you in advance. Rest easy, let not your hearts be troubled...I am with you to deliver you...rest easy, and know I Am The Lord.

A bishop described as "one of the most formidable figures in the world of Christian thought" is now challenging the widely held belief that Christians go to heaven when they die.

N.T. "Tom" Wright, the fourth most senior cleric in the Church of England who has been praised for his staunch defense of the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ, has published a new book in which he says people do not ascend to God's dwelling place. Instead, deceased believers are in a sleep-like state until God comes back to Earth.

"Never at any point do the Gospels or Paul say Jesus has been raised, therefore we are we are all going to heaven," Wright told Time Magazine. "I've often heard people say, 'I'm going to heaven soon, and I won't need this stupid body there, thank goodness.' That's a very damaging distortion, all the more so for being unintentional."

When asked to explain why he rejects that typical sentiment, he said, "There are several important respects in which it's unsupported by the New Testament. First, the timing. In the Bible we are told that you die, and enter an intermediate state. [The Apostle] Paul is very clear that Jesus Christ has been raised from the dead already, but that nobody else has yet. Secondly, our physical state. The New Testament says that when Christ does return, the dead will experience a whole new life: not just our soul, but our bodies. And finally, the location. At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation."

In the Gospel of John, Jesus himself is quoted as saying, "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." (John 3:13)
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All people, both good and evil, sleep in death...they are in no way among the living, for they know nothing; all their thoughts have perished with them. And so they wait until the great and glorious day of the Lord, unto which it is appointed to raise all who sleep...first, all who belong to Him...and then later, those who remain unto the seat of judgment.

I say, to be absent from the body is to indeed be with the Lord, for all those who die in Christ will see Him in the blink of an eye, for those of death and sleeping know not the passage of time. They do not even know they have died, for they only know the end of life is near, then the beginning of their new life with Christ. So I tell you, there is indeed life after death, but during death there is most certainly not. If there was life during death and sleeping, then Christ would not be the First Fruits from death. And if He is not the first to be raised from death, then Christ did not die. Then sin and death have the victory, and all is lost. If all have victory over death as living spirits, then all are like Christ, and Christ's penalty and victory is for not, and all are forsaken; and all will forever be part of the dead and dying, for the penalty of sin is death.

on December 19, police say Silk Littlejohn was attacked by her soon-to-be neighbor, *Grace Head*. The 66-year-old was arrested for assault and charged with a hate crime. She was also arrested for jumping on the couple's car and throwing trash in their yard.

The war is now as it was in 1995 for Javier Solana and company on all ‘religious fundamentalism’ – worldwide.

A crisis was needed to shape the battlelines against religious fundamentalism. The cartoon crisis presents a very dandy one!

One is allowed to have a religion in the New World Order.

One is not, however, allowed to believe it is true.

One is now allowed to tell others it is true, unless one is into something New Agey and exotic, i.e., Rev. Moon is the Messiah, Sai Baba is a savior, Osho is a spiritual teacher. If you are into those pursuits and want to talk about it, that is called DIALOGUE. If one believes that Jesus is the Christ and wants to talk about it, that is called PROSELYTIZING. As Gina Cerminara bragged in her 1980s books and correspondence, it is basically a game of general semantics.