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From: Pastor Brian Tunstall Subject: FLIGHT 93 CRASH AND THE SHANK OF THE LAMB To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
FLIGHT 93 CRASH AND THE SHANK OF THE LAMB
Pastor Brian Tunstall Cross of Christ Believer's Fellowship Ebensburg, PA email: Bristall@aol.com
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Having been born and raised near Somerset, PA, where Flight 93 crashed on Tuesday, I took a particular interest in this event. My parent'= s home is located about 5 miles from the crash site. Though the major news networks have labeled this crash site near Pittsburgh, this is really not the case. By land, Somerset is about one and a half hours southeast of Pittsburgh.
The crash site was near a small town named Shanksville on a back road called Lambertsville road. I asked the Lord, "Why would this plane come down here?
Of all the places, why here?"
He dissected the names for me.
SHANKsville and LAMBerstville.
Immediately, I thought, "Hmmmm, coincidence?"
It is never a coincidence with God.
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THE SHANK OF THE LAMB
The SHANK of the LAMB was eaten during the Passover meal. The shank is where the most meat is at on the animal. The Lord showed me how He once again allowed the full destruction to Pass Over the people of the United States. With Flight 93 pointing its nose towards Washington, who knows what building it could have destroyed ... the White House, the Capitol, symbols of our freedom and democracy. I cannot imagine the devastating blow to this nation if the White House would have been destroyed. It's not the building but what it stands for ... all the history that is accumulated in this one building. It is the symbol of the very fabric of our nation. The Lord would not allow the very heart and fabric of the nation to be destroyed.
I truly believe there is a message in the crash of Flight 93. That plane could have crashed anywhere but it is the Lord's doing to show us Hi= s intervention by allowing it to crash in a barren place in SHANKsville on LAMBerstville Road. The Lamb took the fullness of the destruction and appropriated to us the deliverance. The Lord is showing us that His mercy through His Son has stopped the full intent of the judgment and it has passed over us.
His faithfulness is everlasting.
Blessings! Pastor Brian Tunstall Cross of Christ Believer's Fellowship Ebensburg, PA
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From: Fredrick Murphy To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org Subject: Rev 18 and the Twin Towers
REV 18 and the TWIN TOWERS
Also, I want you to read something that hasn't been pointed out by the folks who are comparing Revelation 18 to today! Read verse 2: And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, and is become the HABITATION OF DEVILS, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Notice it fell, then it fell. Remember the two towers? One fell, (is fallen) then the other fell after it (is fallen). Notice it says it "= is become the habitation of devils...foul spirit" next AFTER IT FELL THE SECOND TIME? Remember the photo of the face over the towers that fell? Interesting to say the least!!
Love in the God of Israel, <smile> Fredrick
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From: Bill Koenig To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org Subject: Infamy,-Tragedy,-and-Opportunities
Infamy, Tragedy, and Opportunities-Bill Koenig
September 24, 2001
President Bush is a very good man. He also has a very capable Cabinet and staff. However, unbeknown to many, the President and his staff recently have made decisions which have had an enormous impact on our nation and our future.
These decisions, in concert with the declining moral condition of our nation (which are in direct opposition to the Word of God), have appeared to have caused the Lord to lift His restraining hand of protection over this country. The resulting catastrophic events have been used by the Lord to bring many to Him through His Son Jesus Christ. Let me explain.
A Day of Infamy, The 9th of August
I wrote previously about "the day of infamy," the 9th of August, a day that could become the most defining day in United States history, especially recent history. This was the day that President George W. Bush publicly made his stand on two very crucial issues: one was stem cell research, and the other was God's covenant land (Israel) after a suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
My spirit jumped with trepidation as both these enormous public declarations were made within hours of one another. The potential impact of these decisions resonated in my spirit, and especially because both came on the same day.
President Bush's stem cell decision to allow limited federal funding was much more moderate than what Congress was prepared to fund, and they had even threatened to add more to legislation or to override his veto if necessary. He felt he had found a compromise that would satisfy all parties.
What the president did was to come against the Lord's seed and the Lord's covenant land, all in the same day.
The decisions were not a day apart, days apart, or months apart. They were within hours of each other. The timing of these decisions was very significant. It was a sign to the watchmen that tough days would likely lie ahead due to the significance of the decisions. And it made no difference whether that significance was known or unknown by the people who influenced the decision or by President Bush, who made the final decision.
President Bush's comments on Israel that day were as follows: "The United States remains committed to implementation, in all its elements, of the Mitchell Committee Report, which provides a path to return to peace negotiations based on United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242, 338, and the Madrid Conference. To get to Mitchell, the parties need to resume effective security cooperation and work together to stop terrorism and violence."
We have supplied numerous letters and materials to Bush Administration officials about the importance of Israel's covenant land. Unfortunately, the replacement theology advocates (including many mainline Christian denominations) and the reform and conservative Jews (85 percent of American Jewry), who are in favor of some land being given away, continue to have the President's ear. Thus, the Bush Administration continues to back the Mitchell Plan along with most of the world.
Many in the administration believe that they have stood with Israel. However, standing by Israel also requires honoring and protecting her covenant land and not leading her to the brink of war.
The Mitchell Plan is bound to bring God's wrath on those who participate in its implementation. Many of us believe we are already beginning to experience that wrath. Israel is standing at the brink of war, and the United States has declared war on terrorism.
The 9th of August: 45 Days Later
Not only have we, as Americans, recently experienced wrath and judgment in our own land from the events of September 11, 2001, but we have also been provided with one of the best opportunities in history to share Jesus Christ.
Putting current events into perspective, here is what has happened in the 45 days since the 9th of August:
* On September 7, it was reported that $12-15 billion would be
needed from the Social Security trust fund to cover the budget
shortfalls. The actual amount will now obviously be higher. There
was hot political debate on who was at fault.
* Israel has moved its troops to its highest state of alert in
preparation for war; Jane's Defense and the CIA stated that
Israel was prepared to attack her Arab neighbors within days.
* America had four tragic incidents within weeks where adults
killed multiple members of their families, including their
children, outside the womb.
* The Dow and NASDAQ lost over $1 trillion in market
capitalization before September 11. A majority of the trading
days from the 9th of August were to the downside over that 32-day
period.
* The National Council of Churches, the World Council of
Churches, the United Nations, the European Union, and other
nations publicly spoke out against Israel's covenant land.
The tragedy of September 11, 2001, became America's National (9-1-1) Day of Emergency
* President Bush's first nationally-televised address (August 9)
committed millions of federal dollars to stem cell research. His
next nationally televised address, 33 days later, declares war on
terrorism after the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. To
those ends, he commits $20 billion for New York City and $20
billion for beefing up national defenses and preparing for war.
There will be many more financial requests in the days ahead,
including the airline industry which is receiving a $5 billion
cash infusion and a commitment for $10 billion in loan
guarantees.
* On September 11, 2001, the death toll was estimated to be
5,500 at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On the same
day, an estimated 4,000 babies died in their mother's wombs.
* Israel is near war, and on September 11, President Bush
declares war on terrorism after the attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. (It has been said that "As goes Israel,
so goes the United States.")
* The Muslims claim that the attacks against the United States
have to do with the U.S.A, being on Muslim soil in the Middle
East and for America's supportive position of Israel.
* Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost, and many more
are at risk. The travel industry, in all phases, has been
dealt a major economic hit.
* Consumer confidence has been dramatically impacted and will
throw the nation into a deeper recession, possibly a severe
recession, or even worse. The key to the U.S. economy are
consumers which have accounted for 67 percent of the Nation's
$8.2 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The U.S. Consumer is
also crucial to world economies.
* Seven in ten Americans have experienced or will continue to
experience depression as a result of the "Attack on America."
* An additional $1.2 trillion in market capitalization was lost
in last week's trading (since the financial markets re-opened
after the tragedy), making a total of $2.2 trillion in market
capitalization that has been wiped out since the 9th of August.
-- Koenig's International News - http://watch.org
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September 24, 2001
US HOUSE VOTE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY ON DC DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP LAW
American taxpayers should not be forced to support counterfeit 'marriage' in D.C
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The House Appropriations Committee is proposing a dangerous change to the budget for the District of Columbia. Avowed homosexual Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) offered an amendment allowing "domestic partnerships" in Washington. The amendment passed on a voice vote. For many years, the D.C. budget bill has contained language that prohibits any of its budget (which comes from Congress) from being used to enforce a domestic partnership law that was passed by the District in 1992. Domestic partnership legislation (a.k.a. "DP benefits" policies) are a legal parallel to gay marriage. Similar to the Civil Union contracts available in Vermont, DP benefits laws allow live-in "partners" of homosexuals and unmarried heterosexual cohabitators to receive marriage benefits like health and life insurance thus far reserved only for employees' married spouses. Congressman Kolbe's amendment could strike the current ban--thus ALLOWING D.C. to start to implement the domestic partnership law. The full House will vote Tuesday on the dangerous measure. AFA agrees with Robert Knight of Concerned Women For America's Culture and Family Institute who observed, "While the nation mourns and prepares for war, homosexual activists and their allies are trying to capitalize by jamming through their agenda."
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"ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LAW DICTATES WE JOIN THE TALIBAN'S JIHAD"
Sheikh Yussuf Al-Qaradhawi, a leading Sunni Muslim religious authority and the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was among the Muslim clerics who established that martyrdom operations are permitted by Islamic law. After issuing a communiqu=E9 condemning the terror attacks on the US, he appeared on a religious program broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel that focused on the attacks. Following are excerpts from the discussion:(1)
Sheikh Qaradhawi: "My communiqu=E9 condemning these acts of terrorism, that killed many innocent civilians, is not my first communiqu=E9 [on this matter]... [My objection to terror] is a matter of principle; it is the position of Islamic religious law..."
"Perhaps they will attack Afghanistan. Perhaps they will attack Yemen, the Sudan, Lebanon... It is inconceivable that we, the Musli= ms, should enter into an alliance against an Islamic state that has not been proven to have done anything. Who says that Afghanistan, as a state, took part in [the attacks]? What is 'harboring terrorists' supposed to mean? Should Egypt be attacked just because Sheikh 'Omar Abd Al-Rahman is from Egypt? If a group of Algerians do something, should Algeria be attacked? [Such attacks] cannot be carried out only to appease popular sentiment..."
In answer to the question, What do you advise the Arab leaders to do now?: "It's not a matter of advice; there are religious rule= s that must be observed. A Muslim is forbidden from entering into an alliance with a non-Muslim against another Muslim... Allying with others to kill [Muslims] is collaborating in sin and aggression... It is also forbidden to hand over Muslims to others. Something like this is inconceivable. Islamic (Shari'ah) law says that if a Muslim country is attacked, the other Muslim countries must help it, with their souls and their money, until it is liberated. Islam treats Muslims everywhere as one nation, and it does not recognize geographical borders or [differences of] race, color, or language. It sees Muslims as one nation in Dar Al-Islam, united in Islamic belief and Muslim brotherhood. Co-religionists must not rise up against each other for other peoples' causes, particularly when it is not proven that the crime was carried out by one of those [Islamic] countries."
"How can Pakistan aid and abet invading its neighbor and co-religionist?... How can Pakistan's clerics remain silent? In my opinion, no Muslim cleric, Arab or otherwise, can in any instance allow a Muslim to support an invasion of his brother's house in another's cause."
"There is no doubt that the one who benefits from this crime is the Zionist entity, which has exploited it in the media, militarily, and politically..."
"We must differentiate between two types of terror: the terror of those defending their homeland and their rights... This kind of = terror is legitimate. The Palestinian factions defending their land, such as Fatah, Hamas, or Islamic Jihad, are not terrorists. [It is] a Jihad for the sake of Allah..."
"Even if the US is guilty, in that it supports this Israeli terror, I say that this does not mean that we may attack civilians in the US, because the civilians are not guilty. We should fight the American military if we can, and if we cannot, we should fight the US economically and politically. Let us boycott the US. This is a tremendous act. At the Durban conference, all the popular organizations stood against America, until it was forced to withdraw. This is a legitimate political struggle. [But] Islam does not allow us to attack and kill civilians..."
"It is absolutely forbidden for Arab and Islamic countries to allow their bases to be used to attack Afghanistan..."
A viewer sent a fax to the program, which read as follows: "I personally place the responsibility on the Islamic clerics and sheikhs, who continuously attacked the Christians with invalid claims, in the mosques and on the Arab satellite channels, including the Fatwa recently issued by the Sheikh Qaradhawi himself stating that suicide operations are not terror and that anyone perpetrating them is a shahid [martyr]. This has incited many youths to carry out such suicide attacks..."
Sheikh Qaradhawi responded: "I do not know where he gets these claims, and involves my name as well. I call for tolerance between religions, and dialogue even with the secularists... Regarding my Fatwa on the martyrs - whom he calls suicide attackers - I do not think that [the viewer] is a Muslim, because I do not think that a Muslim would let an Islamic homeland like Palestine, and Jerusalem, remain in the hands of the Zionists, who plunder it and damage its holy sites, without the owners of the land having the right to defend themselves. All I said is that this oppressed people that was expelled from its home has the right to defend itself, and that every man has the right to become a human bomb and blow himself up inside this military society."
"Israeli society is a military society: Anyone who is not currently a soldier is a soldier in the reserves. I issued this religious ruling, and all the Islamic clerics have ruled like me, except for a few (referring to the Mufti of Saudi Arabia). Hundreds of Muslim clerics have ruled that these martyrdom operations are one of the most sublime types of Jihad for the sake of Allah. Many have asked me whether it is permitted to carry out operations outside of Palestine, and I always say no. I support what Hamas says, that every martyrdom operation must be within the lands of Palestine..."
"[If the clerics in Afghanistan call Muslims to Jihad], Muslims must help as best they can, as they did during the Russian occupat= ion of Afghanistan... Must the situation be different from what it was during the Russian occupation only because it involves the Americans? No...the situation will not be different. We must support the oppressed against the oppressors." Endnote: (1) Al-Jazeera Television (Qatar), September 16, 2001. (Memri, September 27, 2001)
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Report: Calendar Showed Plane Crashing Near Manhattan
NewsMax Wires from newsmax.com
Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001
Islamic Calendar for Sept. 2001
Jet hitting lower Manhattan
A calendar which was printed in Egypt and for the month of September shows a crashing passenger plane with Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop -- and which was printed in May, a full three months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America -- has caused an uproar in the Dutch town of Almere, Netherlands, the newspaper De Telegraaf reported yesterday. The calendar was distributed at an Islamic school long before the World Trade Center attacks. Mayor Hans Ouwerkerk, who was alerted to the calendar's existence in the local Islamic school in the town of Almere, immediately notified the Dutch internal security service (BVD) about the strange coincidence. The BVD is reportedly investigating the matter. "I am supported by Allah, to die for Allah" was quoted on the calendar, the same words reportedly used by an EgyptAir pilot who allegedly crashed a jet in November of 1999. The Almere Town Council has "urgently advised" the management of the Islamic School Foundation to "cooperate with the Dutch authorities and help determine the calendar's origin." Deputy Mayor Henk Smeeman said the distribution of such controversial Islamic-extremist fundamentalist propaganda material "cannot be tolerated in Almere. The Town Council is a strong supporter of maintaining good intercultural relationships with one another," he said. Some of the calendar's other illustrations show a stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrator in front of the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem, an Egyptian military assault during the six-day war against Israel, and a futuristic image of a Palestinian "freeing" of Jerusalem. The head of the Islamic school, Mrs. Dekker, allegedly had a large number of calendars in her possession from the end of May to the beginning of June, well-informed sources informed De Telegraaf. When confronted with the calendar images, she responded in a shocked, startled manner, asking "How did you get this" before shrouding herself in silence when further questioned by journalists. De Telegraaf also reported today that Dutch authorities abruptly closed the major traffic arteries into Rotterdam and Amsterdam through four river tunnels -- in immediate response to a highly detailed letter to the Dutch news agency ANP that described the exact time (8:10 a.m.) and the colors and types of vehicles that would have been used in a closely timed wave of suicide attacks at the height of rush hour in two of the world's busiest harbor cities. Dutch police arrested a large number of individuals who had been identified by the anonymous tipster, who also warned that a great many other terrorist attacks would be carried out worldwide. Collapsing these riverine tunnels would have meant the immediate closure of these busy international harbors, seriously disrupting international trade.
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THE INVASION OF ISLAM
By Daniel Botkin
Friday September 14. Today I listened to the radio broadcast of the special services at the national cathedral in Washington, DC. A clergyman prayed a prayer that began with these words: "God of Abraham, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ..."
With all due respect, Allah, the "god" of Mohammed, is not the same God to whom Jews and Christians pray. Just because someone believes in only one god, we cannot assume t! hat the person believes in the true God.
Most Americans know very little about Islam. I am by no means an expert, but I do have a general knowledge of the basics of Islam, which is more than most Americans know. Americans need to get a general knowledge of the basics of Islam so they will know what they are up against spiritually.
I do not have space to share everything I know about Islam, but I want my readers - Jews, Christians, Messianic Jews, Messianic Israelites - to know enough about Islam to prevent them from making the mistake of thinking that Muslims worship and serve the same God that they do. Many Americans have the mistaken notion that Islam is compatible with Judaism and Christianity.
Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was born in A.D. 570. When he was 40 years old, he claimed that he had been visited by the angel Gabriel. Over the next 23 years of his life, he claimed to have received a series of visits and re! velations from Gabriel. These revelations were allegedly memorized by Mohammed, dictated to his companions, and written down by scribes. The Koran (sometimes written Quran) is the written record of these "revelations."
Islam's foundational statement of faith is expressed in the words La ilaha illallah, Muhammed-ur-Rasulullah -- "There is no God except Allah, and Mohammed is His prophet." Islam makes it clear that any idea of Jesus as the only begotten, divine Son of God is out of the question. Allah "has absolutely no associate with Him in His divinity."1 The Koran says, "Far be it from Him [God] that He should have a son!" (ch. 4:169-171) and "He [God] begetteth not" (ch. 112). Muslims claim to believe in Jesus as a prophet, but they do not believe in His divinity, His Sonship, or His Resurrection. To them, Jesus was "only a Messenger" (Sura 5, The Table).
Islam has five articles! of faith, called the five pillars of Islam. One source, an attractive, glossy brochure obviously designed to try to persuade American Christians to convert to Islam, lists the five pillars as: faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage to Mecca.2 Another source, written for the purpose of "satisfying the intellectual cravings of Muslim youth,"3 lists the five obligations of Islam as: prayer, fasting, charity, pilgrimage, and jihad (holy war). The Muslim author writes of jihad:
"[T]his word is used particularly for a war that is waged solely in the name of Allah against those who practise oppression as enemies of Islam. This supreme sacrifice of life devolves on all Muslims. If, however, a section of Muslims offer themselves for the Jihad, the community as a whole is absolved of its responsibility. But if none comes forward, everybody is guilty. This concession vanishes for the citizens of an Islamic State when it is attacked by a non-Mus! lim power. In that case everybody must come forward for the Jihad. If the country attacked has not enough strength to fight back, then it is the religious duty of the neighbouring Muslim countries to help her; if even they fail, then the Muslims of the whole world must fight the common enemy. In all such cases, Jihad is as much a primary duty of the Muslims concerned as are the daily prayers or fasting. One who shirks it is a sinner. His very claim to being a Muslim is doubtful. He is a hypocrite whose 'Ibadah [worship] and prayers are a sham, a worthless show of devotion."4
Islam was established by jihad. Defeated foes were given the choice of being killed or converting to Islam and living as Muslims. One reason Islam was able to spread so rapidly in Mohammed's own lifetime was because of Christianity's steady decline into deeper corruption. Robert J. Wieland writes:
"The Arab prophet [Mohammed] found a religious vacuum and rush! ed in to fill it with his strange, authoritarian teachings. Islam was born, and its roots fed on the decay of a vitiated Mediterranean Christianity. One of the great phenomena of history is the improbable, but lightning-like military success of early Islam. Within a few years of the Prohet's death, both the Byzantine Roman and Persian empires fell like overripe fruit into Muslim hands. Allah's untutored horsemen routed these proud rulers of the world in daring campaigns like nothing the world had seen since Alexander the Great ... Thousands of Christians in North Africa and the Middle East became Muslims almost overnight, and the once-orthodox land of Augustine mysteriously and disgracefully surrendered its Christian identity so completely, that the richest Roman province of Christ became fanatically devoted to the star and crescent. In North Africa, home of many of the church fathers, hardly a vestige remains of its once-brilliant Christian history."5
! Does Islam tolerate other beliefs? This question is asked in the ! slick brochure designed to appeal to American Christians. The brochure answers: "It is one function of Islamic law to protect the privileged status of minorities, and this is why non-Muslim places of worship have flourished all over the Islamic world. History provides many examples of Muslim tolerance towards other faiths."6
The above statement is, to put it bluntly, a damnable lie. Many Muslim nations have strict laws prohibiting the practice of any non-Islamic faith. Christians are routinely and brutally persecuted by Muslims in Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, and other Arab and African countries. If the Christian faith is flourishing in the Islamic world, it is flourishing in spite of (or perhaps because of) the persecution, not because Islam welcomes and tolerates other beliefs.
A few quotes from the Koran to show why Muslims who take the Koran seriously are intoleran! t of Jews and Christians:
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them" (Surah V 5:51).
"Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe [i.e., believe in Islam -DB] (to be) the Jews and idolators" (Surah V 5:82).
"Allah's messenger (may peace be upon him) said: 'You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Moslem, there is a Jew hiding himself behind me, kill him!'" (Sahih Moslem, English translation, Beirut, Dar al Arabia, Vol. 4, p. 1510).
Some years ago Sheik Abdel Aziz ibn Baaz, the mufti of Saudi Arabia, made it clear that peace with non-Muslims is only permissible if Muslims are weak.7 "Peace with the Jews would be unthinkable if the Moslems were strong," he said. "! ;In such an event reconciliation with the Jews would not be permissible; it would be our duty to fight them."8
Muslims have grown stronger in the past several years, and their aggression against Israel has increased. Now they feel bold enough and strong enough to attack America.
Let us remember in the difficult days ahead that this is primarily a spiritual battle, and more than a mere physical battle.
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