Sunday, 11 March 2018
Why the Experts Don’t Know the Way to Peace | The Trumpet Daily
There is a true way to peace that mankind has never known. At a recent global security conference, the world’s best diplomats and ambassadors for peace left without any concrete steps to bring this world back from the brink of catastrophe! The Bible talks about the way to peace, but 6,000 years of human history have proved time and again that man refuses to go that way. Isaiah the prophet wrote that mankind simply does not know the true way to peace. On this program, we’ll examine some lessons we can take from this recent security conference, and we’ll look at what God has to say about the way of man and the way to peace.
Saturday, 10 March 2018
American Men Are Failing in Body, Mind and Spirit
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What is happening to America’s men? It’s something ominous, says Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. On his program earlier this week, Carlson presented the uncomfortable facts about the American male. The major media and government, however, ignore these tragic facts and focus almost entirely on women’s rights. Meanwhile, men have abdicated their God-given role in the home—and because of this, the family suffers. So does the nation. On today’s program, I discuss the critical role of men in the family and society.
Friday, 9 March 2018
The Day David Beat Goliath
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When the fledgling Philadelphia Church of God printed Herbert W. Armstrong’s crowning achievement, Mystery of the Ages, the book’s copyright owners said it was their “Christian duty” to keep that book out of print. A six-year legal battle ensued. From 1997 to 2003, the Philadelphia Church of God relentlessly fought against the Worldwide Church of God for the right to print Mystery of the Ages. On this episode of the Trumpet Daily Radio Show, I review this exciting history and explain how David beat Goliath.
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
How Satan Uses Hollywood to Twist and Warp the Human Mind
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Hollywood is working hard to make the abnormal seem normal. Just look at some of the award-winning movies from this past weekend: Best Original Screenplay went to a horror movie about an interracial relationship and racial tensions; Best Adapted Screenplay was a romance movie involving bisexuality, homosexuality and pedophilia; and Best Picture went to a romance movie about a mute woman falling in love with a fish monster and involved scenes of bestiality. What is behind the gross immorality Hollywood is broadcasting with all of these movies? We discuss this and more on today’s Trumpet Daily Radio Show.
Surveillance State: A Preview of Your Future?
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‘The Mark of the Beast’
History and an understanding of human nature tell us that these techniques could be used anywhere. But biblical prophecy gives a more specific warning.
It tells of a time coming when no man can “buy or sell” without the approval of a central government (Revelation 13:17).
The Bible calls this stamp of approval “the mark of the beast.” It is a mark of religious observance—compliance with the state-approved religion.
It is easy to see how a China-style surveillance state could enforce such a policy. Refuse this mark, and you appear on the list of people not permitted to hold a job and unable to buy goods or food at the shops.
Man has never invented a surveillance technique that governments have not used.
Herbert W. Armstrong wrote, “In this scriptural usage, the expression ‘buy or sell’ more literally indicates being able to buy—not that stores or those from whom one might make purchases of the necessities of life would refuse to accept the money, but that the one refusing the ‘mark’ would not be able to buy, would not be able to earn a living, to earn a wage or salary, or to engage himself in business” (Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast?). So this prophecy could be fulfilled without a surveillance state. But mass surveillance would make it much easier. And when you see how European powers have acted throughout history, a surveillance state is likely.
History is full of religions using surveillance to enforce their beliefs. The bbc even noted in its history of government spying, “In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church was more powerful than most governments—and it had a powerful surveillance network to match” (Nov. 1, 2013).
Nothing brings out a government’s passion to control what people say and think like religion does.
In A History of Christianity, Paul Johnson describes the Catholic Church’s dogged pursuit of “thought crimes”—another term popularized by Orwell. In this pursuit, the church violated “town charters, written and customary laws, and virtually every aspect of established jurisprudence,” he writes.
What would such an organization do with modern surveillance technology?
Mr. Armstrong proved in his booklet Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast?that this “mark” refers to Sunday observance. The religious power in Europe will require everyone to keep Sunday.
Imagine, then, this scenario. Cameras outside of churches record all who attend. Miss a service and you can expect to explain yourself to the authorities. The government monitors mobile phone signals: Too many in an office could mean that some are breaking the law and working on Sunday. Dashcams automatically record anyone spotted working outside.
Get caught, and your bank account is nullified. You lose your job. You cannot buy or sell. Try to get around this and the police will track you down. With cameras everywhere, there is nowhere to hide.
Phone signals are monitored every other day of the week. At large gatherings, the police can remotely turn on the microphone and listen to all that is said. If it’s an illegal religious service, the police are there within minutes.
Does all this sound like a dystopian nightmare? Again, today’s technology makes all of this possible already.
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