THE
CONSPIRACY WAS STRONG--
Tim and Barb Aho
Discernment Ministries and Other
Conspirators Move in for the Kill
The following report by the Ahos is in their classic style of deep deep on site research. I believe this article will show you just how close the One World system has come to entering the mind of Bible Believers.
| ONE WORLD INVASION
OF EVERY PERSONAL COMPUTER ON EARTH We have a report that the USA Feds are agitating software producers to allow a piggy back spy program to be included in new software. This is meant to circumvent efforts to curb government intrusion on Ameircans' privacy. We also have heard reports the Microsoft is not above snooping via their operating systems. Last October, Congress hastily passed the USA Patriot Act. This anti- terrorism bill greatly expands the use of surveillance technology and gives sweeping powers to law enforcement agencies. Soon after the president signed it, federal snoops began visiting libraries to scrutinize patrons' reading records. The new law also allows the government to examine the books we buy, the newspapers we read and the Web sites we visit. A gag order forbids employees at libraries or bookstores from mentioning the search to anyone except their lawyer, and the person spied on does not have to be suspected of a crime. "I hate to be in a position of telling people 'don't go online and speak' or 'watch what you say,' but you have to take from this that on an arbitrary basis, the FBI is going to be tagging people as terrorists based on what they say online," said Jim Dempsey, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. The average
Federal agent does not trust anyone. The things they are exposed to in the way
of subversive material and Fed based urban legend have made the vast majority
of all Federal employees turn in vengeance on the average citizen. Never mind
that we pay their wages. Federal investigative agents hate civilians. The most
ugly aspect is to see George Bush and John Ashcroft buy into this notion. They
started out trying to stop terrorists, and now they want into the computer of
every American. How this will stop Islamic terrorists is never considered, for
there is NO logic bridge to cross in the process. Don't panic. Put a page in your computer made in an HTML compiler. Do not load it to the Web. On this page, put up many buzz words which will catch the attention of scanning software. Use Middle Eastern names, and use names of big international banks and businesses, especially Japanese. These are the top buzz words the Feds look for. The more buzz words the better. In fact, two or three thousand buzz words would see to it that your page was found and read many times. On the page put up the Gospel, and offer to sponsor the agent and his wife to dinner who will admit he found the page. Enjoy See
what wimp Bush has done about To
show you that the righteous are TARGETED Read about Leaderless Resistance And other snoops abounding Delete all cookies every day. |
From: "Timothy
Aho" timbarbaho@msn.com
To: "Watch Unto Prayer" timbarbaho@msn.com
Subject:
The Conspiracy Was Strong
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:59:16 -0400
To: The Watchmen
From: Watch Unto Prayer
timbarbaho@msn.com
http://watch.pair.com/pray.html
Date: August 20, 1999
PART ONE: THE CONSPIRACY WAS
STRONG
by
Barbara Aho
And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. (II Sam.15:12a)
"Worrying Connections" was the subject of an article written by Andrew Gould to expose the improper connections between certain Hebrew Roots and Revival ministries. Mr. Gould's article and other anti-HRM material were removed some time ago from the websites of various Discernment ministries subsequent to a threat of litigation from Messengers of Messiah Ministries. Watch Unto Prayer was also named in this threat; however it was never our intention to issue a retraction nor to withdraw our material from the Internet, as demanded by Peter Michas.
That these Discernment ministries would so easily capitulate and then berate our attempt to expose this major heretical cult is unfortunate, but not altogether surprising. As I have interacted with these ministries, I have pondered many "worrying connections" within their own ranks. Having confronted those whom I knew personally, but to no avail, I believe that the Christians who follow them have a right to the following information.
"And we beseech you brethren, to know them which labour among you..." (I Th. 5:12)
THE DISCERNMENT CONFERENCE
In June of 1997, I attended a Discernment Conference in East Lansing, Michigan, which was organized by Jewel van der Merwe of Discernment Ministries and Sarah Leslie of the Christian Conscience. The speakers at this conference included Dean Gotcher, Nancy Flint, Russ Bellant, Berit Kjos, Cynthia Weatherly, Sarah Leslie and Jewel van der Merwe. Ed Tarkowski had been scheduled as a speaker but was unable to attend. Gary Kah, author of "En Route to Global Occupation" and other books on the New World Order, gave an informal talk after the conference.
Upon my return from East Lansing, I wrote and circulated a report titled "The Unitarian Creed." Being at a loss to explain why this experience occurred at a Discernment Conference, I simply described my encounter with a Unitarian minister who introduced himself and wished to persuade me to the Unitarian doctrines that the Holy Spirit is an emanation rather than a person and that Jesus was a human son of God in the same way believers are sons of God.
Sir Anthony F. Buzzard also explained that he had left the formerly Unitarian Worldwide Church of God after that denomination embraced orthodox doctrine in 1994 and affiliated with the Church of God General Conference which maintains the Unitarian doctrine. The CGGC headquarters and college, Atlanta Bible College, where Sir Anthony is on staff, are located in Morrow, GA, a suburb of Atlanta.
Sir Anthony had given me his card and contacted me via e-mail soon after the conference, wishing to discuss further reasons why the New Testament gives no clear statement of Jesus' divinity or of the person of the Holy Spirit. When I looked up the web page of Anthony Buzzard's Restoration Fellowship, I was astonished to discover that this British gentleman had been nominated in 1996 for the Templeton Prize. This $1,000,000 "Prize for Progress in Religion" is given annually by New Age financier John Templeton at the World Parliament of Religions, which has included among the distinguished recipients Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Chuck Colson, Mother Teresa, Cardinal Suenens and various Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim leaders. This honor is advertised in Anthony Buzzard's Profile.
I might have reasoned that Sir Anthony Buzzard was simply using the Discernment Ministries as a Christian cover for his globalist agenda, however this conference was "By Invitation Only" and no one could have been present without the approval of the organizers. I therefore spoke to Sarah Leslie thinking that there must have been some mistake in the process of selecting conferees. She replied that Jewel van der Merwe had invited him. When I expressed my alarm to Jewel that someone with Anthony's credentials had been invited to a Discernment Conference, she thanked me for being nice to him and explained that he is "confused." Still disturbed about this experience one year later, I wrote to Sarah via e-mail and received the following reply:
>From: Lynn D. Leslie
>Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 11:38 AM
>To: Timothy Aho
>Subject: Re: More Thoughts...
>I do not know Anthony Buzzard other than having been introduced to him via Jewel. At
>that time I firmly cautioned her that this man was an apostate and to stay away from
>him. I do not know if she heeded my warning.
Sir Anthony Buzzard's web page of referrals to Christian Resources includes the Christian Conscience, CROSS+WORD, Focus on the Family, and Jews for Jesus. Discernment Ministries was formerly listed but has been removed. I would learn also that Anthony Buzzard attended a pre-conference to the East Lansing seminar that had been held in Atlanta, Georgia and included only the leadership. Why Atlanta? Who was setting the agenda for the Discernment Conference? Do the Discernment Ministries have a larger agenda of which Christians are unaware?
Sir Anthony Farquhar Buzzard is the son of the late Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard (1902-72), who was the head of British Naval Intelligence. In 1955, Sir Anthony W. Buzzard collaborated with Bilderberger and Fabian leader, Denis Healey, later the British Minister of Defence, to divest Great Britain of its nuclear deterrent. Their partnership with two other prominent individuals led to the establishment of the Institute for Strategic Studies, now the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Originally financed by the Ford Foundation, the International Institute for Strategic Studies has been regularly represented at Bilderberger Conferences.
A main goal of the Bilderberg Group from its official formation at the Hotel Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Holland in May 1954, was to install a European superstate. The European Union has been designed from the very beginning by those who control the Bilderberg Group -- the House of Rothschild, the Rockefellers, and the "blue blood" families of Europe. The first president of the Bilderberg Group was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. In his book, The New Unhappy Lords, A.K. Chesterton disclosed the role of the elder Anthony Buzzard with the early Bilderbergers:
My friend and colleague Austen Brooks drew the attention of readers of Candour to another exceedingly curious extra-governmental body working along lines which would suggest its affiliation with the Bilderberg group. Early in 1962 a dozen "leading churchmen" (of whom, needless to say, one was Canon John Collins) published an "appeal to the British Government and people" urging that Britain should be prepared to renounce her independent nuclear deterrent. Commenting on this, the Observer wrote: "Behind the statement lies a strange and little-known relationship between Church leaders and some of Britain's best-known military pundits.The connection started back in 1955, when Richard Goold-Adams, foreign affairs commentator, Denis Healey, the Labour politician, Professor Blackett and Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Buzzard, former head of Naval Intelligence and an active Churchman, were worried about the lack of serious thinking about strategy in Britain and, in particular, the undue reliance on the strategic H-bomb." (Note the nuclear surrender hand in the "strategic" glove.) This quartet, according to the Observer, "raised the problem" with the then Bishop of Chichester, the late Dr. Bell, who in turn "interested" the chairman and secretary of the Churches' Commission on International Affairs, Sir Kenneth Grubb and the Rev. Alan Booth, and in January, 1957, a conference - described by the Observer as "a strange assembly, eighty-strong, hard-headed military men, journalists and politicians surrounded by clerical cloth" - was held at the Bedford Hotel in Brighton. A continuation committee was set up and the Brighton Conference Association came into being to work against "the undue reliance on the strategic Hbomb". (pp. 208-9)
Bilderburg ProtocolAccording to founder Prince Bernhard, each Bilderberg attendee is "magically stripped of his office" upon entering the meeting, becoming "a simple citizen of his country for the duration of the conference." When these representatives of the Western establishment leave a Bilderberg meeting, however, they carry the Group's consensus with them. The high-powered Bilderberg debates are intended to build unity by resolving differences, and therefore certainly have a significant influence on attendees.One also must note a significant overlap between the Bilderberg Group and other elitist think-tanks. Many members of the Group are also members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and other secretive supra-national planning forums. Topics on the Bilderberg's agenda have been smoothly integrated into discussions at G-8 meetings, at the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, and at other global policy venues. The seeds of consensus from these various meetings are then carried home to national governments and corporate boardrooms.The Bilderberg's advisory committee includes luminaries such as Chase-Manhattan chairman David Rockefeller; Henry Kissinger and Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., are listed among the Group's steering committee. Past attendees include President Clinton (who attended in 1991 just before entering the scene as a possible White House contender), World Bank president James Wolfensohn, U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, International Monetary Fund managing director Stanley Fischer, and Ford Motor Company president Alexander Trotman, to name just a few participants. |
Chesterton's account of the British "peace" team also reported the remarkable developments which followed the 1957 Brighton Conference.
It was at this point of the story that the Observer opened the bag and let the cat out. "After a year or so," it wrote, "the money they had collected was beginning to run out. But just at that moment, Denis Healey managed to interest the Ford Foundation in this enterprise. He asked for only 10,000 dollars. They offered ten times as much, and with this the Brighton Conference Association wound itself up and the Institute for Strategic Studies came into existence." (p. 209)
Thus, in 1958, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, known as the IISS and located on Tavistock Street in London, was formed as a result of decisions made at Bilderberg '57. E. H. van der Beugel, who chaired Bilderberg after the death of founder, Joseph Retinger in 1960, later became president of the IISS. Bertram Christoph, representative to Bilderberg for Germany and Bilderberg attendant in '95, '96, and '98, is a former director of the IISS. The Royal Institute of International Affairs web site maintains a link to the IISS -- brainchild of Healey, Buzzard, Blackett and Goold-Adams and funded by the Ford Foundation.
The persuasive Mr. Healey, who "managed to interest" the Ford Foundation in the "enterprise" which was working to get rid of Britain's Nuclear deterrent, was then the Labour Party's shadow Minister of Defence. He was also a leading member of the Fabian Society, a member of the Bilderberg group and, almost certainly, a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Small wonder that the policy of the Institute for Strategic Studies, which the American Ford Foundation had brought into being, was soon adopted as the official policy of the Labour Party. In October, 1964, the Fabian Bilderberger Denis Healey became Minister of Defence, an appointment which was the signal for the almost immediate abandonment of a number of British military aircraft projects. Then, early in April, 1965, came what was for all practical purposes the renunciation of the British independent nuclear deterrent - the abandonment of the magnificent British aircraft TSR2. The announcement of this abandonment was made, curiously, not by Mr. Healey but by his colleague Mr. James Callaghan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Budget speech. What Mr. Callaghan did not announce was that only a couple of months earlier the Ford Foundation had made a further grant to Mr. Healey's Institute for 100,000 dollars look parsimonious. This was a grant of 550,000 dollars over six years. (p. 209-10)
Two years later, the Ford Foundation, which funds and whose members serve as trustees on the Council of Foreign Relations, would also provide a grant to the London School of Economics for a Centre for International Studies. Established as a long-term investment to educate and train an elite workforce to carry out the schemes of socialist reform, the London School of Economics is now one of the largest schools of the University of London, having also an international reputation. The L.S.E. also provides consultants to many organizations, including the U.K. government, international bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. The European Institute of the LSE participates actively in the European Series conferences and hosted the 1996 conference which held discussions on European Union, i.e., EMU: How Would a Single European Currency be Managed? European Governance and Law, Europe in the World Economy.
Colleagues
of Anthony Wass Buzzard
Denis Healey
The European Spider's Web [ BA Ed.-- You must check out this and all links-- They are powerful stuff ] traces the development of support for the European Union within England to the very institution from which Denis Healey and Sir Anthony F. Buzzard received their education -- Oxford University, home of the Rhodes scholarships:
Labour Party support [for joining the European Economic Community] came from leading figures like the Bilderbergers - James Callaghan, who would later be Prime Minister; Denis Healey, who attended the first Bilderberg meeting in 1954 and a stream of those that followed... Appropriately, all of those people except for Callaghan were products of the Elite's UK production line, better known as Oxford University. This is a massive recruiting and conditioning centre, not just for British youngsters, but also for the overseas students, like Bill Clinton, who attend Oxford under the Rhodes Scholarship scheme set up by that arch manipulator of the Elite agenda, Cecil Rhodes.
Not only did Denis Healey become a regular attendee of the Bilderberger Conferences, but proudly explained in his book, The Time of My Life, that he recruited British members for the Bilderberg meetings:
"Of all these meetings, the most valuable to me while I was in opposition were the Bilderberg Conferences... They were the brainchild of Joseph Retinger... After the war he organized the Congress of the Hague, which launched the European Movement... I was invited to the first [Bilderberg] meeting and later acted as convenor of the British who attended." (pp. 195-96)
A.K. Chesterton also wrote in The New Unhappy Lords of the Bilderberg Group which met on two occasions off the Atlantic coast of Georgia - specifically Jekyl Island (1908) and St. Simon Island (1957). Of interest, the 45th Bilderberg Meeting was held near Atlanta, Georgia, from June 12-15 of 1997. The following rather lengthy excerpt from Chesterton's book identifies as participants in the 1957 St. Simon and 1958 Buxton meetings members of the international power elite, including Denis Healey, who collaborated toward world government.
If the facts concerning the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations be accepted, it will be seen that the proper study of political mankind is the study of power elites, without which nothing that happens can be understood. These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ. There are dozens of such agencies, and financial support received from one or other or all three big American foundations - Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford - provides an infallible means of recognizing them.One of the most blatant of these agencies, despite its adoption of a secret society technique, is the Bilderberg Group, which seems to have been inspired by an important event. In the year 1908, secret agents of the New York Money Power and their Washington fuglemen had themselves transported in the dead of night to Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. As the result of their plotting there was created, four years later, the means whereby the Money Trust was enabled to seize control of the entire American economy through the mechanism of the Federal Reserve Board. In February 1957, a similarly hush-hush conference took place at St. Simons Island in the same region. A "summary" of the proceedings was entered by Senator Wiley, champion of the Left-wing, in the appendix of the Congressional Record. It referred to "the preservation of peace" under the auspices of Nato, which revealed nothing. The composition of the gathering, however, was revealing. Nobody with Right-Wing views was permitted to attend. Wiley was accompanied by Fulbright, both of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee.
Sulzberger of the New York Times was there. So was the mysterious Gabriel Hauge, said by the Wall Street Journal to be "the expert who tells Ike what to think". So was the only less mysterious George Kennan, former Ambassador to Russia. So were the representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A Supreme Court Judge was reported to have been present, although he did not register. Westbrook Pegler, the courageous American columnist, believes that he was Felix Frankfurter, the patron of Dean Acheson and Alger Hiss among other dubious proteges. There was also Lord Kilmuir, who as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe figured among that of a more improbable looking Scot than could be imagined. What these agents...were plotting was nothing to the benefit of the sovereign independence of the nations of the Western World.
The following people were also present:-
J.H. Retinger, Polish Charge d'Affaires in Russia, 1941;
Joseph E. Johnson, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
Hon. F.D.L. Astor, Editor, The Observer, U.K.;
G.W. Ball, Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly and Ball, U.S.;
Fritz Berg, Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Germany;
M. Nuri Birgi, Secretary-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey;
Eugene R. Black, President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development;
Robert R. Bowie, Ass. Secretary of State for Policy Planning, U.S.;
McGeorge Bundy [Skull & Bones], Dean Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University;
Hakon Christianson, Chairman, East Asiatic Company, Denmark;
Walter Cisler, Presidedent, Atomic Industrial Forum, U.S.;
Pierre Commin, Secretary, French Socialist Party;
B.D. Cooke, Director, Dominion Insurance Company, U.S.;
Arthur H. Dean, Law partner of John Foster Dulles, formerly of Sullivan and Cromwell, U.S.;
Jean de la Garde, French Ambassador to Mexico;
Thomas E. Dewey, Attorney, former Governor of New York, U.S.;
Sir William Eddlitt, Air Chief Marshal, Royal Institute, U.K.;
Fritz Erler, Socialist M.P., Germany;
John Ferguson, Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly and Ball, U.S.;
Lincoln Gordon, Professor, Consultant to Nato's "Three Wise Men";
Sir Colin Gubbins, Industrialist, U.K.;
Lawrence R. Hafstead, Technical Adviser, Atomic Energy Commission;
Jens Christian Hauge, Socialist M.P., Norway;
Brooks Hays, House Foreign Affairs Committee;
Denis Healey, Labour M.P. (now Minister of Defence), U.K.;
Arnold D.P. Heeney, Ambassador to U.S.A., Canada;
Michael A. Heilperin, Economist, U.S.;
Henry J. Heinz, President, H.J. Heinz & Company, U.S.;
Leif Hoegh, Banker, Norway;
Paul G. Hoffman, Former Director, E.C.A., U.N. Delegate, U.S.;
C.D. Jackson, President, Time Inc., Former Special Assistant to the President, U.S.;
Wm. H. Jackson, Former Special Assistant to the President U.S.;
Per Jacobson, Man. Director, International Monetary Fund, Sweden;
Georg Kurt Keisinger, Director of Special Studies, Rockefeller Foundation;
Pieter Liefnick, Director, International Monetary Fund, Netherlands;
Imbriani Longo, Director-General, Banco Nazionale del lavoro, Italy;
Paul Martin, Minister Health and Welfare, Canada;
David J. Mcdonald, President United Steelworkers;
Geo. C. McGhee, Director, Middle East Institute;
Ralph E. McGill Editor, Atlanta Constitution;
Alex W. Menne, President, Association of German Chemical Industries, Germany;
Rudolf Mueller, Lawyer, Germany;
Robert Murphy, Deputy-Under-Secretary of State U.S.;
Frank C. Nash, Attorney former Assistant Secretary of Defence, U.S.;
Geo. Nebolsine, Attorney, Coudert Bros, U.S.;
Paul H. Nitze, Director, Policy Planning, State Department, U.S.;
Morehead Patterson, Deputy Commissioner of Disarmament, U.S.;
Don K. Price, Vice-President, Russian Institute, Columbia University;
David Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board, Chase National Bank;
J.H. Van Joijen, Ambassador to U.S., Netherlands;
Dean Rusk, President, Rockefeller Foundation;
Paul Rykans, Industrialist, Netherlands;
J.L.S. Steele, Chairman, British International Chamber of Commerce, U.K.;
Terkel M. Terkelson, Editor, Denmark;
John M. Vorys, Member, Foreign Affairs Committee;
Fraser B. Wilde, Comm. on Economic Development;
Otto von Amerongen Wollf, Partner, Otto Wollf, Germany;
W.T. Wren, Chairman Allied Iron Founders, U.D.;
Paul van Zeeland, Financier, former Prime Minister of Belgium.The Chairman was H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Strange, is it not, that the Prince should be the "front" for a powerful left-wing secret society?
Why were these people present: Who sent them? Who paid their fares? Who sponsored their meeting? What did they discuss? What did they decide? What orders were they given? Was there any common denominator of interest among them? Yes, they were all promoters of internationalism. Were they instructed in the next phase of the advance towards One World? The answer, beyond doubt, is Yes.
The Sunday Times reported during October 1957 that financiers and businessmen from Britain, the United States, Canada and thirteen other Western nations had begun private talks at Fiuggi, Italy, on the European free trade area and the Common Market projects. There were sixty delegates, Mr. Maudling, the Paymaster-General at the time and the Minister responsible for Britain's intended part in the proposed European free trade area, and Viscount Kilmuir, Lord Chancellor, attended...
There is no difficulty in recognising in this secret gathering the mysterious Bilderberg Group, of which Prince Bernhard is the official sponsor. As the author surmised after the St. Simons Island meeting, the purpose was to speed up the cause of internationalism and it is interesting to have confirmed the fact that these agents of the Money Power were directly concerned with the European free trade area. Am I right in thinking that the work undertaken by the Bilderberg Group was once undertaken by such bodies as Chatham House? It may even be that the remorseless light I shed on Chatham House activities in the pages of the old Truth may have led to its manipulators seeking new facades behind which to work. As Lord Kilmuir maintained that all the Bilderberg Group's members spoke as private individuals would he also have known whether they paid their own expenses when attending these meetings in different parts of the world? If they did not, who did?
In September 1958 another meeting of the Bilderberg Group took place in Buxton, Derbyshire... [The very highest agents of the arch-conspirators] came not in their official capacities but as private citizens. That fact was repeatedly stressed. Yet, according to rumour, there arrived for their use crates of official documents so secret that the crates had to be locked - together with a British officer as custodian - in a room at the Buxton police station. When asked about the authenticity of this rumour, the Conference's spokesman tried to laugh it off...
At least twenty-four of those who attended the Buxton meeting also attended that on St. Simons Island. Among these were John J. McCloy and David Rockefeller (both Chase Manhattan) and Paul Rykans, a Dutch banker and member of the Anglo-Dutch Trade Council and chairman of an "industrial development" organisation called MIDEC. One hundred and twenty European and six U.S. firms were in this organisation in 1960 for the purpose of "developing" the Middle East. One of the U.S. members of MIDEC was Rockefeller Centre Inc. Both David and Nelson Rockefeller have been and may still be members of the Council on Foreign Relations. James S. Rockefeller is or was the president of the First National City Bank of New York. Anybody who likes to get a Directory of Directors and a few dozen copies of the International Monetary Fund weekly will find plenty of evidence to indicate that a good deal of so-called "economic policy", whether in Washington or Indonesia, Australia or Sweden, emanates from a relatively small circle of interested parties.
The following is a list of the names of conspirators who attended the Buxton meeting. I use the word "conspirators" deliberately. Men pursuing purposes which will bear the light of day do not hold secret meetings in different parts of the world. The whole business could be treated as schoolboy silliness were it not for the fact that there emerged from such gatherings policies hostile to the traditional order of life...
J.H. Retinger (Hon. Secretary);
Jo. E. Johnson (Hon. Secretary in the U.S.);
Herman J. Abs, Germany;
Dean Acheson, United States;
Giovanni Agnelli, Italy;
G.W. Ball, U.S.;
Walworth Barbour, U.S.;
Wilfred Baumgartner, France;
Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens, U.K.;
Berthold Beitz, Germany;
Fritz Berg, Germany;
Muharrem Nuri Birgi, Turkey;
P.A. Blaisse, Netherlands;
James C. Boden, Germany;
Erik Boheman, Sweden;
Max Brauer, Germany;
Randolph W. Burgess,
U.S.; Lewis Camu, Belgium;
Guido Carli, Italy;
Clifford P. Case, U.S.;
Victor Cavendish-Bentick, U.K.;
Sir Ralph Cochrane, U.K.;
Erich Dethleffsen, Germany;
Fritz Erler, Germany;
John Ferguson, U.S.;
H.T.N. Gaitskell, U.K.;
Walter L. Gordon, Canada;
Joseph Grimond, U.K.;
Sir Colin Gubbins, U.K.;
Walther Hallstein (Chairman, European Common Market Commission);
Joseph C. Harsch, U.S.;
Gabriel Hauge, U.S.;
Denis Healey, U.K.;
Michael A. Heilperin,
U.S.; H. J. Heinz II, U.S.;
Leif Hoegh, Norway;
C.D. Jackson, U.S.;
Viscount Kilmuir, U.K.;
E.N. van Kleffens;
Viscount Knollys, U.K.;
Ole B. Kraft, Denmark;
Thorkil Kristensen, Denmark;
Giovanni F. Malagodi, Italy;
John J. McCloy, U.S.;
Geo. C. McGhee, U.S.;
Philip E. Mosley, U.S.;
Roger Motz, Belgium;
Rudolf Mueller, Germany;
Alfred C. Neal, U.S.;
Geo. Nebolsine, U.S.;
Paul H. Nitze, U.S.;
David Ormsby-Gore, U.K.;
P.F.S. Otten, Netherlands;
P.N. Pipinelis, Greece,
Alberto Pirelli, Italy;
Pietro Quaroni, Italy;
Sir Alfred Roberts, U.K.;
David Rockefeller, U.S.;
Michael Ross, U.S.;
Jacques Rueff;
Paul Rykans, Netherlands;
Carlo Schmid, Germany;
C.V.R. Schuyler;
J.L.S. Steele, U.K.;
Terkel M. Terkelson, Denmark;
Henry Tiarks, U.K.;
Every A. Vermeer, Netherlands;
Marc Wallenberg, Sweden;
Otto Von Amerongen, Germany;
Paul van Zeeland, Belgium;
J.D. Zellerbach, U.S.In 1961 an article in the Toronto Star Read as follows: "The Tenth Bilderberg Conference attended by seventy delegates from Europe and North America wound up yesterday after three days of discussion of common problems. Participants, whose names were not disclosed, included leaders of the political, industrial, labour and professional fields of both continents, an official statement said. Chairman of the meeting was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who left Quebec yesterday for home after making private visits to cities in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. The statement said although the conference "followed the original Bilderberg concept of not attempting to reach conclusions or to recommend policies, there was substantial agreement on the need to promote better understanding and more effective co-ordination among the Western nations. Points of particular concern included the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in world policy, the strengthening of both the nuclear and non-nuclear deterrent power of the alliance and the responsibility for control of atomic weapons inside Nato", the statement said. 'The implications for Western unity of the change in the relative economic strength of the U.S. and Western Europe also were discussed at some length.'" (pp. 197-205)
Patrick Blackett
Professor Patrick Blackett, an ex-naval officer and nuclear physicist, had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. In 1932, Blackett identified the electron with a positive charge, a discovery which built upon the former breakthroughs in physics, splitting of the atom and discovery of the neutron. These three discoveries laid the foundation for the development of nuclear weapons. In 1939, Blackett initiated the technique of Operational Research, which was discussed at length in Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope as Blackett's application of a British philosophical doctrine called "rationalization" to the unpleasant realities of war. The concept of "rationalization" had appeared at the end of the 19th Century, at the same time the Rhodes-Milner secret eugenics society was formed.
As in so many other innovations, the introduction of rationalization into war was begun by the British and then taken over on an enormous scale, by the Americans. Its origin is usually attributed to the efforts of Professor P. M. S. Blackett (Nobel Prize 1948) to apply radar to antiaircraft guns. From there Blackett took the technique into antisubmarine defense whence it spread, under the name 'Operational Research' into many aspects of the War effort. In its original form, the Anti-Aircraft Command Research Group, known as "Blackett's Circus,"...was a mixed-team approach to operational problems, emphasizing an objective, analytical, and quantitative method. As Blackett wrote in 1941, "The scientist can encourage numerical thinking on operational matters, and so can help to avoid running the war on gusts of emotion.". . .
Rationalization of behavior, as represented in Operations Research, and the application of science to new weapons, as practiced by the English-speaking countries, were in sharp contrast with the methods of waging war used by the Tripartite aggressors. Hitler fought the war by basing his hopes on inspiration (his own) and will power (usually, refusal to retreat an inch); Mussolini tried to fight his war on rhetoric and slogans; the Japanese tried to gain victory by self-sacrifice and willingness to die. All three irrational methods were obsolete as compared with the Anglo-American method of rationalization and science.
First news of the success of Operations Research in Britain was brought to the United States by President Conant in 1940 and was formally introduced by Vannevar Bush [Freemason, BA], as chairman of the New Weapons Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in 1942." (pp. 838, 842)
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To say that Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard had connections in high places would be an enormous understatement. Sir Anthony W. Buzzard was also a knight in Her Majesty, the Queen of England's empire. This distinction is also indicated by the title of "Sir" which precedes Anthony F. Buzzard, whose honors additionally include nomination for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1996. Sir John Marks Templeton, the founder of the Prize, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University and was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts, which included his endowment of Templeton College, Oxford. On the staff of the Templeton Foundation are a high percentage of Oxford University graduates, including Executive Director and Senior Vice President Dr. Charles L. Harper, Jr.
THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
Due to his involvement with the Discernment Ministries, which purport to expose the New World Order, Sir Anthony F. Buzzard seemed to warrant further investigation. A logical place to begin was the Worldwide Church of God in which he formerly held membership and employment for some time. The Worldwide Church of God was founded by Herbert W. Armstrong in 1934 as "The World Tomorrow" radio program with a magazine called The Plain Truth. The WCG was led by Herbert Armstrong and his son, Garner Ted Armstrong, prior to its transformation into an Evangelical denomination after highly publicized exposure of criminal and immoral activities.
Sir Anthony had informed me that he separated from the WCG when the denomination embraced orthodox doctrine and thereafter affiliated with the Church of God General Council, which maintained the Unitarian beliefs of the former WCG. A listing of the Worldwide Church of God - Organizational Splits states that Anthony Buzzard formed his Restoration Fellowship in 1972, the year he left his teaching post at WCG Ambassador College. A publication of the Church of God, The Journal, still promotes the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association and the Worldwide Church of God. [This COG website also interconnects a large network of Unitarian -- Nazarene, Sabbatarian, Hebrew Roots, Seventh Day Adventist and Jewish -- web sites.]
Anthony Buzzard wrote in The Journal: "I was in the WCG from 1960 to 1972 and taught music and biblical languages in Pasadena [Ambassador College at the WCG Headquarters] and Bricket Wood [College in England]." According to a 1978 BBC broadcast, Sir Anthony Buzzard was "a man who knew Herbert Armstrong well." In a publication titled the Ambassador Report, Sir Anthony explained Armstrong's "main ambition to meet top people around the world," such as the Queen of England, whom he considered to be the descendant of King David:
"He felt that if he could do that he would have preached the gospel to the nations through getting at their leaders and after that has been done it was his firm belief that the end of the world would come. I'm sure that to meet Her Majesty the Queen would be his ultimate ambition. He's always had a great love of England, and he would look upon the Queen as being a direct descendant of King David because he believes, or believed certainly when I knew him, that England and America are the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and therefore to meet the direct descendant of David would be the highest privilege he could think of." (Ambassador Report, 8/21/78)
An expose of the Worldwide Church of God, The Truth Shall Make You Free by John Tuit, describes a religious empire which extorted not one, but three, tithes (30% of income) from its members to support extravagant lifestyles for Herbert W. and Garner Ted Armstrong and a law firm of Jewish attorneys who controlled the WCG for twenty years. The most prominent of these was Stanley Rader, who with Herbert Armstrong "had gained access to the heads of state in at least a dozen world capitals." Former WCG member, John Tuit, who initiated the litigation and investigation of the denomination, wrote in 1981 of the power elites with whom Armstrong and Rader had connections, including members and even the founder of the Bilderberg Group:
"It is more than passing significance that Armstrong's original contacts were made through high-ranking members of the Japanese government. Perhaps the mysterious Osamu Gotoh's part in this will never be totally known. The Japanese, who have such a significant part in the Trilateral Commission, are also the very ones who have introduced Armstrong to many world leaders..."Through the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation, Rader has established an institute for political research in Tokyo as well as a Society for Near Eastern Studies in Tokyo. There is a close relationship with King Leopold III of Belgium, who is one of the members of Prince Bernhard's Bilderberg Group. And there has also been very close contact with Prince Bernhard. Doctor Singh of the World Court also figures prominently in the Armstrong-Rader contacts." (The Truth Shall Make You Free, p. 289)
The Ambassador Report, which is dedicated to exposing the Worldwide Church of God, explained in its May 1991 issue the close relationship between Herbert Armstrong and the King of Belgium, a Bilderberger and former Nazi collaborator:
"...it is interesting to note HWA's long friendship with Leopold III of Belgium. According to the WN (Feb. 10, 1986, p. 2) Leopold was instrumental in arranging many of HWA's meetings with heads of state...Leopold had surrendered Belgium to the Nazis in 1940 and had refused to flee the country to set up a Belgian government-in-exile in France or England. He spent most of the war in Germany. One international relations expert told AR, 'Deep down Leopold was really a... fascist.'"
According to an Authorized Biography of H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the founder of the Bilderbergers also enlisted in Adolf Hitler's SS and was employed by the notorious I.G. Farben which financed Hitler.
The December 31, 1981 Ambassador Report published Herbert Armstrong's Nov. 27 letter to Plain Truth, which included his recent schedule of meetings with Zionist leaders: "A week ago yesterday, Thursday, November 19, I had a personal meeting with President Yitzak Navon of Israel in Jerusalem, and the night before I was guest of honor at the banquet hosted by Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. Present also were former Mayor John Lindsay of New York City, and Jacob Rothschild of London." The May 30, 1983 Worldwide News reported that Armstrong's presence in Oxford, England. "While in England, HWA met with Leopold de Rothschild, Edmond de Rothschild, and other British royalty." [Ambassador Report, Sept. 1983]
Herbert Armstrong would occasionally boast that, following his visits with certain heads of state, their governments would mysteriously collapse:
"August 15, a man I knew--President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh--was shot and killed in a military coup. Sitting with us, when I visited President Rahman (then Prime Minister but actual head of state), was Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed, Commerce Minister. Ahmed led the military coup and took over as head of the government."August, 1973, I was in Santiago, Chile (South America) to visit President Allende. Three weeks later, he was assassinated--machine gunned in the back--in the very room where I had the conference. Three weeks after I had visited Prime Minister Kittikachorn of Thailand and spoken in Bangkok before an audience which included Doctor Sanya, Rector of the University, a riot of 200,000 students overthrew the military government, and Prime Minister Kittikachorn fled to the United States.
"I had become well acquainted with Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Twice when I visited him in Addis Ababa he placed one of his personal limousines with chauffeur at my disposal for my entire stay. But the military forces took him prisoner and took over the government.
"Last July a bloodless coup overthrew the government of General Yakubu Gowon in Nigeria (Africa)." (Tuit, p. 26)
It is commonly known and reported by publications such as the Covert Action Information Bulletin that the assassination of Salvador Allende of Chile was an operation of the CIA. However, the CAIB also implicates another organization, Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) with ties to the Christian Right in the U.S., namely Paul Weyrich and Morton Blackwell, principals of the Council for National Policy, and other CNP organizations such as Christian Voice, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens Committe for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
"In Chile and other Latin American countries, the CIA helped finance the right-wing Tradition, Family and Property which played a role in the overthrow of both Allende in Chile and Goulart in Brazil. In many instances it pitted one sector of the Church against another." (CAIB, Winter 1983, p. 17)
Although the FBI and CIA have files on Herbert Armstrong and Stanley Rader, for the most part these have been unavailable to inquirers, such as former WCG member, Gene Bailey. According to the May, 1991 Ambassador Report:
"...one CIA employee told Bailey that after each meeting with foreign leaders during the 1970s and early 1980s Herbert Armstrong and his Jewish attorney- accountant Stanley R. Rader had probably been debriefed by the CIA and that there would be files on those debriefings. But now, however -- months after being told by the government that the CIA had files on the WCG -- Bailey has been told by the CIA that no such files can be found!..."Over the years, many noticed that in a number of cases, after HWA visited a country, that country's government would fall or there would be a major change of leadership. Examples: Ethiopia after HWA visited Haile Selassie, the Philippines after HWA visited Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, India after HWA visited Indira Gandhi, and Egypt after HWA visited Anwar Sadat. (Some even recall how HWA was to have met with Allende of Chile but Allende was overthrown and killed -- CIA help many say -- shortly before HWA was to go to that country.)
"Because of the above coincidences (and perhaps because Rader was reported to have had friends in the White House during Republican administrations beginning with Nixon), some at WCG headquarters kidded that HWA or someone close to him was somehow being used by the CIA to bring down governments. While the idea sounds like something out of a spy novel, such a theory should not be dismissed out of hand." (Ambassador Report, May 1991)
Rockefeller, Internationalist by Emmanuel Josephson tells the story of Emperor Selassie's resistance years earlier to the Rockefeller oil racket, which prompted Rockefeller's agent, Mussolini to invade Ethiopia:
"The story of the Ethiopian War is that of another oily Rockefeller Crusade. It began on July 1, 1923, when the press announced that the Anglo-American Oil Co., a Standard Oil subsidiary, had obtained an exclusive oil concession in the northern half of the Harrar Province of Abyssinia. Nothing more was heard of this concession for more than a decade despite the urgent need of the Rockefeller interests for a source of oil for the Mediterranean basin that was close at hand and did not require costly haulage by tankers, from the far-off Gulf and Venezuelan ports, or from East India. Behind the scenes there raged a fierce diplomatic battle. For Ethiopia holds the source of the Nile and was regarded by the British Empire as one of its critical spheres of interest. It vigorously opposed permitting its deadly rival, the Rockefeller Empire, to gain a foothold there. Under pressure of the British, Haile Selassie denied permission to the Rockefeller interests to proceed with the development of the concession that had been given them."Following negotiations of Sir Francis Rickett, a director of Rockefeller's Socony Vacuum Oil So, with Mussolini, in which it is apparent that the Rockefeller interests assured Il Duce of supplies of oil for a war on Abyssinia in exchange for a thirty year monopoly of the Italian oil market and the ratification of their Ethiopian concession, as well as other considerations, border incidents on December 9, 1934, between Italian and Ethiopian troops, in connection with a dispute over the Italian Somalian frontier, served as a pretext for the waging by Italy of an undeclared war. In the midst of the war, on September 1, 1935, the press announced the text of an Ethiopian concession, negotiated by Sir Francis Rickett, to the African Exploration and Development Co., organized in 1933 as a subsidiary of the Socony Vacuum. The names of Mellon, Mitchell and Teagle were mentioned in connection with the deal, and in the following month, October 15, the press linked an Ethiopian arms order to the Rickett deal. This followed the traditional practise of the Rockefeller Empire, of playing all ends against the center. Shortly thereafter, the British, acting on behalf of the League of Nations, offered Haile Selassie a negotiated peace for surrender to the Italians of the oil-rich Fafan Valley in the Harrar Province---the original 1923 concession to the Rockefeller interests. This was rejected on December 12, 1935.
"In the meantime, belated economic sanctions were ordered by the League of Nations to go into effect November 18, 1935, and continued until July 15, 1936, after termination of the war. The Rockefeller empire, which had assured Mussolini in advance that no effective sanctions would be applied in respect to that absolute essential of modern war---oil---made good on its assurance. On December 4, 1935, the press announced that the Rockefeller interests would defy the League and supply Mussolini with oil from the Romanian fields; on December 12, Socony Vacuum announced the building of two refineries for Mussolini in Naples; and on January 8, 1936, it was announced that Italy might get oil from Germany. The Ethiopian oilfields are now controlled by the Rockefeller interests through the Sinclair Oil Corporation. The red that tints their end product, ethyl gasoline, might well be Italian and Ethiopian blood. " (Chedney Press, NY, 1952, pp. 202-3)
During the Italian invasion (1935-36) Haile Selassie personally led his troops against the enemy. He lived in exile in England until 1941, when he returned and claimed the throne. After World War II he instituted social and political reforms, such as establishing a national assembly in 1955. In September 1974, however, he was deposed by an army coup and arrested, and in August 1975, died under house arrest and questionable circumstances, and was secretly buried. It is noteworthy that the last monarch of this African nation, Haile Selassie, was a Coptic Christian who called himself the "Lion of Judah" and claimed direct descent from King Solomon of Israel. Rastafarians believe in the divinity of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, referred to as "the most High" and "Jah," or God. Salvator Allende, who was murdered in the coup which installed Pinochet, was a member of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge.
In 1979, Mr. John Tuit and other church officials brought a class action suit against the various WCG entities for "siphoning off the property and assets of the Church and appropriating them to their own personal use and benefit on a massive scale amounting to several million dollars per year." (Tuit, p. 186) A reporter with the Los Angeles Times, invited to write the story, was removed from the assignment due to the newspaper's (i.e., CFR) interest in protecting the WCG:
Ambassador College, in conjunction with the Kress Foundation, has been engaged in archeological expeditions in Syria. Franklin Murphy, the chairman of the Board of the Kress Foundation, was the former Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, and is now chairman of the Board of the Times Mirror Corporation, publishers of the Los Angeles Times. Franklin Murphy is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. The pieces fit very well here as this begins to explain why Bert Mann, the reporter for the Los Angeles Times, was pulled off the receivership story in January 1979. While the story was prominently featured in the Pasadena papers, it was buried in the back pages of the Times. (The Truth Shall Make You Free, p. 289)
What was left of the Worldwide Church of God after public exposure of massive corruption -- criminal fraud, obstruction of justice, bribery, abject immorality at the highest levels and cult-like control of church members -- changed its doctrinal statement to resemble the formerly-regarded "Satanic" Protestant churches. This superficial reform conveniently qualified WCG to join the apostate World Evangelical Fellowship. Joseph W. Tkach, who succeeded Herbert Armstrong in 1986, was Stanley Rader's lieutenant and had been ordained with Rader and his accomplice Ellis LaRavia in their 1979 emergency attempt to maintain control of the WCG.
There are references in sermons by WCG evangelist, Gerald Waterhouse, to Tkach having been "born of the right lineage" and "a physical Levite." Joseph Tkach, like his predecessor, "maintain[ed] contacts with the rich and powerful. [In 1988], for instance, Tkach and his entourage attended private receptions for the Duke and Duchess of York ('Andy and Fergy') at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles and aboard the royal yacht Britannia (WN, 3/28/88, p. 1) Joseph W. Tkach's son, Joseph Tkach, Jr., became president of the Worldwide Church of God in 1995. [Ambassador Report, March 1989]
An ally of the Worldwide Church of God throughout its demise was the Faith Center Church of W. Eugene Scott, who still preaches the doctrine of British-Israel that was popularized by Herbert W. Armstrong. It was the Los Angeles attorney general's investigation of Scott's misuse of funds in 1978 that prompted members of the Worldwide Church of God to request an investigation of their own church.
Rader's attempts to woo the public, though mostly futile, have resulted in at least one alliance. HWA has for years branded all churches other than his own as being "Satan's churches." However, Stanley Rader, along with Ralph Helge, recently appeared on the "Festival of Faith," a controversial religious television program hosted by media-minister Gene Scott. (In Los Angeles, "Festival of Faith" is telecast almost around the clock on Scott's own station, KHOF, channel 30.) Scott, a former financial consultant to Oral Roberts, is himself under investigation by both the attorney general and the FCC over financial dealings. Rader, of course, had nothing but kind words for Scott as both pledged their mutual support in fighting the attorney general. (Ambassador Report, 6/1/79)
PART TWO: British-Israel--
Part II: BRITISH-ISRAEL
THE JUDAIZERS
There have been approximately thirty recognized splinter organizations resulting from Worldwide Church of God - Organizational Splits, although other sources estimate that hundreds of groups have formed from the WCG. It is a common practice of conspiratorial organizations to subdivide and create new fronts with diverse names in order to diffuse public perception of the greater conspiracy which is still intact. This plan goes into action especially when the mother organization is exposed or discredited.
Today, numerous Sabbatarian, Restoration, British-Israel, Messianic and Sacred Name organizations, which have been spawned by the WCG, are carrying on the work of the late Herbert W. Armstrong, indoctrinating new disciples in his British-Israel teachings and worldview. In June 1998, an Israel Identity Conference held in the United States and Australia was promoted and attended by numerous Church of God affiliates and Sabbatarian organizations. These included the Worldwide Church of God, United Church of God, British-Israel World Federation, Global Church of God, Christian Educational Services, Servant's News magazine, Faith in Australia magazine, The Journal newspaper, The Independent Church of God, Perspectives magazine, Alert newsletter, Sabbath History newsletter, The Shofar newsletter, Origins of Nations magazine/History Research Projects. [Craig White, News of the Israel Identity Conference with Dr Rick Sherrod, The Journal, 8-24-98]
According to Personal Freedom Outreach, Christian Education Services is a splinter group of The Way International cult founded in 1985 by Victor Paul Wierwille who denied the Trinity and divinity of Jesus Christ, used only the Aramaic version of the Bible, rejected Sunday worship, denied the Holocaust and, during the late 1960s and 70s, recruited large numbers of young people from the Jesus Movement.
As well, the Israel Identity Conference was promoted by James Trimm of the Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism, which connects through the Messianic Friends Network with numerous Messianic organizations such as Jews for Jesus and Messengers of Messiah. Mention was made in a SANJ message dated 8/17/98 that an international conference is being planned in Jerusalem for several reasons, one being that "Jerusalem is destined to be the capital city of United Israel including both Judah and the Lost Ten Tribes." Another attraction in Jerusalem is the presence of rabbis such as Yair Davidy of Brit-Am Israel. The goal is recognition that the "Jews of Judah" and the Lost Tribes are brothers, to the end they will be reconciled and reunited. SANJ also hosts the Lost Tribes Forum -- "one of several Rabbinic organizations (including Yair Davidy of Brit-Am) which teach that the Lost Tribes migrated to Europe." (8/28/98) Yair Davidy, who denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, also teaches that present day Jews are from the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the tribe of Joseph is divided into Ephraim which is Great Britain, and Mannaseh, the United States.
Herbert Armstrong's global agenda is also being fulfilled through organizations like Sir Anthony Buzzard's Restoration Fellowship and the greater Church of God General Council whose publication, The Journal, promotes the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association and the Worldwide Church of God. The Journal also lists the Olive-Hebrew Roots CDRom Encyclopaedia promoted by HRM organizations and published by the Saltshakers Ltd in London. The Olive-Hebrew Roots CD-Rom carries articles written by Andrew Gould, Jacob Prasch, and admitted kabbalist, Avi ben Mordecai, among other Messianic teachers.
On his Restoration Fellowship web page, Sir Anthony Buzzard explains the Hebrew Roots Concept of Christianity. One issue of the COG Journal announced a Hebrew Roots conference to be held at the Atlanta Bible College where Sir Anthony serves on staff:
"The conferees will study the 'Hebrew roots of our faith' [and] our biblical unitarian heritage as expounded by such distinguished persons as Sir Isaac Newton and John Milton." [both famous English Rosicrucians-BA]
A pastor of a major Hebrew Roots organization, Messengers of Messiah, Peter Michas subscribes to the doctrines of the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research, a non-Christian Jesus Seminar-type think tank which denies the inspiration of the Greek New Testament. The JSSR is a "consortium of Jewish and Christian scholars" who, like the Unitarian Anthony Buzzard, deny the deity of Jesus Christ, identifying Him as being merely "like other Jewish sages of that time."
Having rejected the Greek New Testament, Peter Michas substitutes rabbinic literature (the Babylonian Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash) and other Judaic writings as the interpreter of New Testament doctrine. Notwithstanding this departure from Scripture, The Christian Conscience maintains a link promoting Messengers of Messiah. Also, published in their Jan/Feb '98 issue was a favorable review by Lynn Leslie of Peter Michas' book, The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan, which undermines the doctrines of the Substitutionary Atonement and the Trinity.
Watch Unto Prayer has posted our own research of Peter Michas' book, which consists of excerpts from The Rod of an Almond Tree categorized by doctrine, along with statements from heretical and occult sources which present identical doctrines. As I read this book and other writings of Peter Michas, I wondered at the strange assortment of doctrines expounded as "new revelations" that the reader is informed have been lost upon the Church for centuries due to religious tradition. It was upon reading Joseph Hopkins' critique, The Armstrong Empire, that I would recognize the Hebrew Roots' doctrines as nearly identical to Herbert Armstrong's teachings some 50 years previous:
"Among these were denial of the Trinity and the personality of the Holy Spirit, insistence on the seventh-day Sabbath and compliance with Jewish feasts and dietary laws, denunciation of Christmas and Easter as pagan holidays, and the belief that the "lost ten tribes" of Israel have survived to the present day, and that the Anglo-Saxon people of England and America are the lineal descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh. (The Armstrong Empire, p.18)
"Armstrong...purports to declare "the astounding, but little known facts" concerning "the True New Testament Church of Jesus Christ"...through subsequent centuries to the present day. With the congregation at Pella as headquarters and those at Antioch and Ephesus as secondary centers, the authentic Christian witness was preserved. "Rome," it is emphasized, "was never the parent or Headquarters church... What was the "Synagogue of Satan?" The Armstrong history identifies it as "the great apostate church" of Rome -- adding that Rome's "many Protestant daughters...are also Satan's churches. All the revered giants of Christendom -- Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Jonathan Edwards -- were, he would have us assume, either frauds or fools." (The Armstrong Empire, pp. 56, 57, 100)
"Armstrong argues at great length that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday and resurrected on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, largely in order to do away with the basic assumption behind Sunday observance -- that Jesus arose on the first day of the week. His objections to the Good Friday and Easter observances, almost universal throughout Christendom, provide added incentive to the effort to establish a different Holy Week calendar... A more sophisticated and complex version of this argument is developed by [WCG Ambassador College Dean] Herman Hoeh in a 47-page booklet published in 1959. Again the reasoning rests on interpretations that have been discredited by reputable scholars. During the week of the crucifixion, says Hoeh, there are two Sabbaths, one of which came on Thursday, the day after the crucifixion...Hoeh takes this as...proof of the Wednesday crucifixion." (The Armstrong Empire, pp.110-11)
Peter Michas postulates a "three Sabbaths" theory in his attempt to establish the fact that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday and arose on Saturday - a new revelation that is calculated to invalidate Western Christendom which assembles for worship on Sunday. Sabbatarian cults have missed the fact that the New Testament does not enjoin Christians to keep the Sabbath. Rather, they meet to worship on the Lord's Day, a different day of the week with a different observance altogether.
The problems regarding the Sabbath began when the Roman Catholic Church called Sunday the Sabbath. It is not the Sabbath -- it is the Lord's Day. Sabbatarian groups use this misnomer to call attention to the fact that Saturday is the true Sabbath -- which it is. However, they miss the point of the New Covenant that Christians are not bound to the Sabbath observance as were the Old Testament Jews. The Galatians were in bondage to observing days (Gal. 4:10), desiring to be under the law. Romans 14 deals with the issue of Christian liberty, condemning neither those who observe, nor those who do not observe, one day of the week above another.
The Old Testament Sabbath prefigured the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is Himself the believer's Sabbath (rest) every day of the week. The Judaizing heresy is based on rejection of the finished work of Jesus Christ in general and, specifically, the substitutionary aspect of Christ's atonement as symbolized by the scapegoat in Leviticus 16:10 "But the goat upon which the lot fell, to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive unto the Lord, to make an atonement with him..." Herbert Armstrong would have his followers believe that Satan is the atonement for sin. Peter Michas misses the point entirely.
Herbert Armstrong: "With the Seventh-Day Adventists, Herbert W. Armstrong identifies Satan -- not Christ -- as the scapegoat upon whose head 'the responsibility for sin will be placed.'" (Joseph Hopkins, The Armstrong Empire, p.143)
[(Armstrong's] Bible Story Vol. III, p. 32, states that the Scapegoat, as pictured in Leviticus 16th chapter, represented the Devil. However, Isaiah 53:10-12 and 1 Peter 2:24 state that the Son of God is the Sin-bearer or the Scapegoat. [WCG VS. COG (7th day)]
Peter Michas: "The fate of the unrepentant man, represented by the scapegoat, was to go to a place of desolation and separation from God." (Rod of an Almond Tree, p. 241)
Having misinterpreted Leviticus 16, Peter Michas contradicts II Corinthians 5:21:
Peter Michas: "Yeshua did not literally become sin, but the totality of humanity's sin (both past and future) was imputed to Him on the tree. Because Yeshua was sinless and could not retain sin, the authors belief the sin was sent back to Satan by means of the man who chose Satan as his master." (Rod of an Almond Tree, p. 240)
II Corinthians 5:21: "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
Other doctrines held in common by Peter Michas and the late Herbert Armstrong are the Oneness, Unitarian and British-Israel doctrines.
Herbert W. Armstrong taught: "...like the 'Oneness' people, that the Jehovah or Yahvah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New. With several exceptions, the YHVH of the Old Testament is the Father who created everything through His Son, however." [WCG VS. COG (7th day)]
Peter Michas teaches: ""To understand the true relationship of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, it is essential to preserve the concept of oneness . . . In the Old Testament Hebrew, the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) is translated LORD and refers to Yeshua. Therefore, 'the Lord your God' is a reference to 'YHVH/LORD your Elohim.' This shows that YHVH is a oneness with the plurality of Elohim." (The Rod of an Almond Tree, p. 256, 259)
Like Unitarians Herbert Armstrong and Sir Anthony Buzzard, Peter Michas denies the doctrine of the Trinity. Note the terms used by Peter to describe the Holy Spirit as other than a Person:
"The unity of Yeshua HaMashiach with God the Father and the Holy Spirit has never been clearly understood from the doctrine of the Trinity...""To understand the true relationship of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, it is essential to preserve the concept of oneness..."
"The aspect of the Father may be simply understood as the Will of God. The aspect of the Son may be understood as the Word of God. The aspect of the Spirit of the Holy One may be understood as the Power of God..."
"To say God is three 'persons' opens the door to misunderstanding God. God is Spirit and cannot be reduced to the concept of a person..."
"The Spirit of the Holy One is the very essence of the power of God the Father and not some separate entity." (The Rod of an Almond Tree, pp. 255-57)
BRITISH-ISRAEL DOCTRINE
The main doctrine of the Worldwide Church of God, however, was the false interpretation of Bible prophecy which maintains that the Anglo-Saxon races are the lost tribes of Israel. A brief history of WCG and its doctrine of British-Israelism may be found on the Religious Tolerance website: Anglo-Israelism; British-Israelism; Worldwide Church of God.
Other purveyors of British-Israelism, such as the Rosicrucian Prieuré de Sion, and its brotherhood of secret societies, have revealed a plan to place one of their bloodline on the throne of the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. This positioning of a false messiah, whom the world will worship as Christ, has been carefully planned and executed over many centuries. The grand scheme of the Rosicrucians will culminate, according to former Grand Master Sir Isaac Newton, when the secret societies "bring Jesus down" to earth.
"9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
"...The last missing week: 62+7+1=70 starts in 1996 and runs for 7 years. Half-way through - in 2000 we bring down Jesus causing the sacrifice to cease:
"9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Isaac Newton's interest in Hebraic studies is documented in The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by historian Frances Yates, who confirms Sir Anthony Buzzard's description of this most famous of the English Rosicrucians:
"Newton's historical attitudes, his intense preoccupation with apocalyptic prophecy, would have made him intensely aware of the apocalyptic interpretations of the near extinction of Protestantism in Europe ...The approach to Newton through Rosicrucian alchemy might help, not only to unify his physical and alchemical studies, but also to integrate with these the Hebraic piety behind his historical studies." (p. 205)
The Merovingian legend misrepresents Jesus Christ as a member of the Essene Community of Qumran (also called Nazarenes), whose messianic vision was to unite Jew and Gentile in order to deliver the world from the power of the evil Roman Empire. According to Merovingian lore, Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered children. When Jesus failed in his mission, Mary and Joseph of Arimethea fled from Israel to Europe. The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ, claim the Rosicrucians, continued in Great Britain as the Merovingian dynasty. Another version of the British-Israel doctrine maintains that the ten northern tribes of Israel migrated from their captivity in Assyria to the British Isles.
Hebrew Roots leader Michas plainly teaches the British-Israel doctrine of Yair Davidy and Herbert Armstrong in Chapter 6 of his Study of Revelation:
A look at several verses in Genesis and other related passages, will give further insight into the full meaning of verse 6. "Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies" (Genesis 22:17). The word translated "gate" means strategic sea gates, the sea lanes of world trade. The countries that have and do possess these lanes are the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.
"And the L-rd was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian" (Genesis 39:2). In Genesis 39:23, we read that "The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the L-rd was with him; and whatever he did, the L-rd made to prosper." The covenant blessing was given to Joseph and then to Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 48). This covenant blessing is also shown in Deuteronomy 33:13-17. In verse 17 of this passage, it speaks of an ox or wild ox. In Hebrew, the word is unicorn. It also speaks of the first-born, but it is actually talking about not just the first-born but includes the offspring of the future. Those who would come from Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh would be the head, not the tail, and would receive the choicest blessings under the sun from the sea and the world. Where on the face of this earth has more food produce, minerals, sea trade, and commerce? The free nations, the Gospel- preaching nations. Do any other nations fit the picture of receiving the blessings promised to Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh? China and the nations of South America and Africa do not fit this picture. NO!
As we mentioned, the word in Deuteronomy 33:17 translated "ox" is actually "unicorn." This is most important as the symbol of England is the unicorn. Verse 17 continues with "With them he shall push the peoples." Who will? The nations of the unicorn. Those are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. There are hundreds of Biblical references which show us the picture of these nations as the descendants of these three men.
There are stipulations to the blessing bestowed on these men and their seed. Leviticus 26:1-18 deals with Israel before the dispersion. In verse 19, we see the dispersion; this occurred around 700 B.C. when they were dispersed into Assyria. After the time of the Greek and Roman Empires during the middle ages, the entire Assyrian Empire moved to France, Germany, and northern Spain. They were scattered and made a part of these nations. The teachers and educated ones of ancient Babylon had been brought to Rome during their occupation by the Greeks. This explains why it can be read G-d calling certain places Assyria or Babylon in Revelation; He is referring to the places where these peoples settled. When hearing "Assyria," we think of where it used to be. G-d is referring to the places where these people are today or will be at the end time referred to in Revelation.
According to Peter Michas, the Unicorn, alluded to in Deuteronomy 13:13-17 by the patriarch Jacob, symbolizes the Anglo-Saxon nations which would descend from Joseph and become preachers of the Gospel:
"And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land... let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
If Peter Michas interpretation of Jacob's blessing sounds like Replacement Theology -- it is. Remember the Duck Rule? "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, even if they call it by another name, it is still a duck." Is it possible that Christians, believing they have escaped Dominionist and Replacement Theology, are being recycled into these very movements via the back door -- the Hebrew Roots Movement -- and that this door is held wide open by the Discernment ministries? Those who dare to critique the Hebrew Roots Movement are falsely accused of being anti-Semites; however, is not British-Israelism the ultimate anti-Semitism? British-Israelites, such as Gene Scott or Bible Restoration Ministries, ascribe Celtic emblems to the tribes of Israel and would thereby deprive the true descendants of Jacob -- the Jews -- of their God-given inheritance:
"Instead of trying to identify each tribe as a specific modern nation, we note that ancient Israel traveled in four brigades of three tribes each (see the on-line tract, "What Is The Gospel?" - listed under Bible Doctrines, and also the reference given there to Alfred Edersheim's "History of the Old Testament.") Each of these brigades had a dominant tribe; these were: Judah, Ephraim, Reuben, and Dan. These four tribes provided four chief emblems: Lion, Ox or Unicorn, Man, and Eagle or Serpent. To quote briefly from W.H. Bennett, "Of the twenty-two tribal emblems of ancient Israel, at least nineteen still are, or until very recently have been, emblems of one or another section of the Celto-Saxon people. We also noted that, of the four Brigade emblems, two, the lion and the Eagle, are the chief emblems of Britain and the United States; that another, the Man, is a prominent feature of the official Arms of Denmark, Iceland and Greece; and that the Ox is also common to the heraldry of several sections of the Celto-Saxons. So all four of Israel's Brigade emblems are in use among the Celto-Saxons today." (Symbols Of Our Celto-Saxon Heritage, page 89)
According to Bloodline of the Holy Grail, the unicorn is a mythological beast typifying the virile Christ. An entire chapter is devoted to "The House of the Unicorns," which is purported to be the Sang Raal or sacred bloodline of Jesus Christ, whose bride was claimed to be Mary Magdalene, here referred to as the Sacred Prostitute.
"We have already seen that the 'Horn' of the Unicorn was equivalent to the 'Blade' in Grail lore, and both were represented by the male symbol L . Along with the Davidic Lion of Judah and the Franco-Judaic fleur-de-lys, the Desposynic Unicorn was incorporated in the Royal Arms of Scotland. The Unicorn was considered to correspond to the virile Jesus, and was related to the anointing (Messianic) imagery of Psalm (sacred song) 92:10. The mystic beast was among the foremost symbols of the Albigensian Cathars, who were so hideously persecuted by the Inquisition. In medieval legend the Unicorn was always associated with fertility and healing, and Renaissance tapestries portray his head in the lap of the Bride. This alludes to the ancient ritual text for the Sacred Marriage (the Hieros Gamos), 'The king goes with lifted head to the holy lap,' as originally expressed in the poetic rite of old Sumerian Mesopotamia-the land of Noah and Abraham." (p. 315)
Predictably, we are given to understand that the House of the Unicorns are the chosen people of God to overthrow the antichrist Roman Church which, allied with the monarchies of Europe during the Middle Ages, dealt harshly with the Merovingian lords. That their crimes were heresy, occult practices, and subversion is not mentioned:
"The Cathars believed that only the Christine horn of the Unicorn could purify the false doctrines that flowed from the Roman Church, and in this regard the revered creature was often portrayed with his horn dipped into a stream or fountain. Other depictions show the Unicorn trapped within an enclosed garden - confined, but very much alive. The seven tapestry panels of la Dame a la Licorne at the Cluny Museum in Paris were originally from medieval Lyon. The seven Flemish Hunt of the Unicorn panels in the cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, come from 16th-century Languedoc, and show the Unicorn being chased and persecuted. When captured, he is sacrificed, but is then seen alive and well in the garden of the Bride. This is a direct replication of the story of Jesus.
"The mythological symbolism of the Unicorn was central to the so-called heresies of Provence that were so brutally condemned by the Church. It was by no chance that the fabulous beast of the Grail bloodline found in his place as guardian of the Lion in the Arms of Scotland, along with the early Christian sign of male and female unity (L +V=X) - the well- known Saltire, popularly identified as the cross of St Andrew." (pp. 315-16)
King David himself made reference to the lions and the unicorns in Psalm 22. This prophecy of Jesus Christ's most bitter and yet finest hour of shedding His precious blood for sin, records His petition of the Father for deliverance from their violence:
But you, O Lord, do not withdraw your help from me: look towards my defense. Rescue my soul, O Lord, from the spear, my only soul from the hand of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth, and my lowliness from the unicorn's horns. Psalm 22:19-21
The Pharisees who demanded the crucifixion of our Lord were the teachers whose oral traditions made the Word of God of none effect. As the Lions and Unicorns, these Kabbalists would have been the spiritual forefathers of the Merovingians. Considering their ancient heritage, it is no surprise to find favorable references to the Pharisees in Merovingian, Kabbalistic and Hebrew Roots literature.
THE HOUSE OF THE UNICORNS
The Scottish Stewarts claim to be the sacred Merovingian dynasty, rightful heirs of the thrones of Scotland, England and, therefore, of the lineage of Jesus Christ. The Stewart genealogy, however, is currently contested by other claimants to the dynastic line. The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland lists other "sacred families" which were related to Scotland's contender and king, Robert the Bruce.
"...Robert the Bruce succeeded not only as King, but also as a hereditary priest of the royal line. From the time of King Duncan I, son of Archpriest Crinan MacDonachadh, the concept of the monarch's dual priest-kingly role (both as sovereign and religious patriarch) had remained at the root of Scottish culture... Conventional history ignores the fact that Bruce was not only the Patriot King of his people, but was also Head of the Columban Kindred of their ancient Church. This inheritance was passed down to his Stewart grandson Robert II when he succeeded in 1371. At that time, others belonging to the sacred family included the McNabs, Rosses, Sinclairs, Robertsons, Dunbars, Dundasses, Wemysses, Abernethys, MacDuffs, Leslies, and Mackenzies, along with the Chiefs of Clan Chattan, the Cummings of Altyre, the Celtic Earls of Atholl, the Mackays of Strathnaver, and the Lindsays of Crawford." (Element Books, p. 79; also p. 35)
Recently, James Trimm of the Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism, posted the Scottish Declaration of Independence, which was Scotland's Written Constitution of 1320 established at the time of Robert the Bruce. According to the Declaration of Arbroath, posted also by the Constitution Society, the "sacred families" who were among its signatories believed that they were Israelites who were previously in bondage in Egypt. Several of the surnames of signatories are the sacred families mentioned in The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland:
"Written in fluent Latin, the Declaration of Arbroath reads in English as follows: To the Most Holy Father in Christ and Lord, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Macolm, Earl of Lennos, William, Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Stewart of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, guardian of the earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St. Clair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernathy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.
"Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.
"The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor would He have them confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles by calling, though second or third in rank, the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter's brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron for ever..."
Of the sacred families of Scotland, the Leslie Clan is of interest to our inquiry. The Clan Leslie Society presents the following Brief History Of Clan Leslie:
"All Leslies, regardless from where in Europe they came to America, descended from the same Scottish Clan and Great Family, one of the very oldest. It began in 1069 when the Saxon claimant to the throne of England, defeated by William the Conqueror, fled to Scotland. Edward, the Aetheling as he was called, arrived there with his mother, an Hungarian Princess, and his two sisters. They were cordially received by the King, Malcolm III Canmore. A year later the King married Margaret, one of the sisters, who became a great Queen of Scotland and a saint of the Christian Church. Her Chamberlain, Bartholomew, an Hungarian nobleman, an extremely capable and physically powerful man, had much impressed King Malcolm who made him commander of Edinburgh Castle. He married Beatrix, the King's sister in 1070 and thus the family and Clan of Leslie was founded. Granted lands in the Garioch, the Parish of Leslie not far from Aberdeen, became the first family seat and it is from there that Clan Leslie obtained its name. The present Leslie Castle, built on the site of the first stronghold, recently was completely rebuilt and restored by Baron David Leslie who lives there with his family.
Indeed, a genealogical chart of Edward The Exile Atheling on the Clan Macrae Online documents that the offspring of Edward included Margaret who married Malcolm III, King of Scots. They produced Mary of Scotland who married Eustace III of Boulogne, the brother of Godfrey de Bouillon who with the Knights Templar captured Jerusalem in 1099. Because Godfrey de Bouillon and his brother, King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, lacked children, the descendants of Eustache are considered rightful claimants of the throne of Jerusalem and the Davidic Bloodline.
Andrew Leslie, a signatory of the Scottish Declaration of Independence, was the great grandson of Bartholomew and Beatrix, the sister of Edward Atheling, and became the famous ancestor of the sacred Leslie clan:
"Bartholomew's son Malcolm was knighted by King David and had the Leslie lands confirmed to him by royal charter, the oldest personal land charter in Aberdeenshire. He also was appointed Commander of the Castle of Inverurie, a position held by several of his successors. His grandson, Sir Norman, was the first to have the family name recorded in a charter. He was one of the magnates of Scotland who sat in the parliament called by King Robert the Bruce in 1314. His son Andrew, the 6th Lord Leslie, was one of the great barons of Scotland who, in 1320, signed the Declaration of Arbroath, a call to freedom not to be equaled again anywhere until the American Declaration of Independence. With his sons begins the spread of the family through several branches."
We do not know if Sarah and Lynn Leslie subscribe to this sort of elitism based on sacred bloodlines, however, we do lack a better explanation for their affiliation with prominent individuals who advocate British-Israelism, such as Peter Michas and Sir Anthony Buzzard. Also a member of the "sacred bloodline" is Phyllis Schlafly, whose Eagle Forum Alerts are circulated throughout the Discernment network. Prior to her marriage to Fred Schlafly, Phyllis Schlafly was Phyllis Bruce Stewart, making her a blueblood of both the Bruce and Stewart lineages. This information is documented at the Parsons Technology Genealogy Online:
8703. Phyllis Bruce STEWART (15) was born on 15 Aug 1924 in ST. LOUIS, MO..(15) She resided Fairmount in ALTON, IL..(15) She received a degree in Bach. of Arts, Washington Univ in ST. LOUIS, MO.. (15) She received a degree in Master of Arts, Harvard Univ.. (15) Very active in all levels of political life and womens rights. Author of many books concerning National defense.
She was married to John Frederic SCHLAFLY II (son of John Frederic SCHLAFLY I and Eleanor LYONS) on 30 Oct 1949 in ST. LOUIS, MO..(15) John Frederic SCHLAFLY II was an Attorney in ST. LOUIS, MO.. (15) Phyllis Bruce STEWART and John Frederic SCHLAFLY II had the following children:...
Although there is no minor contention as to whether the Stewart bloodline later became the Stuart dynasty, it is well known that Robert the Bruce was in the royal bloodline of Scotland. After the death of William Wallace (Braveheart) in 1305, Robert Bruce contended for Scottish independence with King Edward I of England. Robert's son, Robert I Bruce, was crowned king of Scots in 1314 and he declared Scottish independence after defeating Edward II at Bannockburn.
Another prominent Evangelical leader of dual pedigree found among the sacred families of Scotland is Pat Robertson (see list of sacred families in Forgotten Monarchy, p. 79). Anton Chaitkin's outstanding article exposing the British Subversion of America: Militias and Pentecostalism mentions Pat Robertson's descent also from Winston Churchill, who was a member of the Ancient Order of Druids.
"Observe the Pat Robertson empire. Robertson writes that his family's aristocratic lineage, linking it to the British Churchill family, gave his mother, Gladys Churchill Robertson, confidence that Pat would succeed. His father, Sen. A. Willis Robertson, was London's and Wall Street's chairman of the Senate Finance Committee."
Pat Robertson's religious profiteering is legendary, from his use of Operation Blessing airplanes to transport equipment to his diamond mine in the Congo, to support for violent dictators such as President Mobuto of Zaire and Rios Montt of Guatemala, to the sale of his Family Channel to Rupert Murdoch for $1.9 billion. The latest capitalist venture on the money trail of Pat Robertson was the reinvestment of his profit from selling the Family Channel in an aborted deal with the Bank of Scotland to make use of his financial services company to enter the American market. Prior to his career as a televangelist, Pat Robertson worked for two years as financial analyst and management trainee at W.R. Grace Co., which employed emigre Nazis after WWII. Robertson was also godfather of the child of company president J. Peter Grace, who was head of the Knights of Malta in the United States and a key figure in the CIA's Operation Paperclip to remove classified information from dossiers on Nazi war criminals.
Pat Robertson's ancestor, Winston Churchill, known among European scholars as the Godfather of the United States of Europe (a term he is said to have coined), spoke of his vision for world government in an address to Zurich University in 1946:
"I have always believed, as I declared in the war, that a Council of Europe was a subordinate but necessary part of the world organization. I thought at that time, when I had great responsibility, that there should be several regional councils, august but subordinate, that these should form the massive pillars upon which the world organization would be founded in majesty and calm. This was the direction in which my hopes and thought lay three or four years ago. To take an example from the military sphere, with which our hard experiences have made us all familiar, the design for world government might have followed the system of three or more groups of armies--in this case armies of peace--under one supreme headquarters. Thus I saw the vast Soviet Union forming one of these great groups. The Council of Europe, including Great Britain linked with her Empire and Commonwealth, would be another. Thirdly, there was the United States and her sister republics in the Western Hemisphere with all their great spheres of interest and influence..."
The Ambassador Report which included the aforementioned excerpt commented upon the singular esteem of Winston Churchill by the Worldwide Church of God:
"...for so many years Churchill was not only portrayed by WCG ministers as the greatest of all twentieth century British leaders (which he probably was), but one who represented, not liberal Internationalist ideas, but the kind of British spirit that stood for God, country, empire--'Anglo-Israel' values to Worldwiders. Yet, it seems, the real Churchill was a far more complex man and a far greater visionary than he has been portrayed by the likes of Herbert Armstrong..." [Ambassador Report, Sept. 1977]
Great Britain's subversion of America depends upon the use of religion as a cover, and specifically the Pentecostal Movement of which Robertson is a leading figure and many Discernment leaders, such as Jewel van der Merwe who is an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God. It is noteworthy that Pat Robertson's diamond mine ventures have their precedent in Cecil Rhodes' exploitation of the diamond and gold fields of South Africa underwritten by Lord Rothschild. Of interest, Robertson studied for a time at the London School of Economics, founded by the Fabian Society and took his ordination at the Freemason Baptist Church in Norfolk, VA (1987 Current Biography Yearbook, p. 477; Sara Diamond, Spiritual Warfare, p. 13)
The London School of Economics was and is funded by the Ford Foundation, "...[for] the training of the superior manpower needed to carry out schemes of reform... [Founder and president Sidney] Webb who could not wait until a new race of supermen had been bred up to establish the millennium, felt that improved education and intelligent politics would at least start the necessary process of regeneration." (MacKenzie, The Fabians, Simon & Schuster, 1977, p. 291]
Under the LSE directorship of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, an elite group of Twelve Wise Men, which included Bertrand Russell and H.G. Wells, were selected as the "Co-Efficients" who met to discuss and formulate:
"Ideas about racial improvement by selecting out the efficient…and [George Bernard] Shaw was working on these 'eugenic' notions in his new play Man and Superman. Beatrice Webb called it 'the most important of all questions, the breeding of the right sort of man.'" (Ibid., p. 291)
Anton Chaitkin's groundbreaking article on the British Intelligence creation of Pentecostalism traces the current religious operation in the United States to the Rhodes eugenics operation through Oxford University's Rhodes Scholarship program. Yes, there is a fifth column of British elite in America who are still loyal to the dominionist and eugenics ambitions of Great Britain.
The Round Table group had been organized by South Africa's British governor, Lord Alfred Milner, to fulfill the strategy of British South Africa leader Cecil Rhodes for a new-style white racialist world empire, in which the annoying independence of the republican United States, in particular, was to be extinguished. The core of the Round Table group was assembled from among the aides to Lord Milner in South Africa. Lord Lothian was the first editor of the Round Table quarterly, and was the chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, administering the Rhodes Scholarships to bring Americans and other "colonial" students to Oxford University...The danger involved in this British initiative is not a matter of wrong or heretical religious beliefs. At issue is the buildup of a hostile. irrational, foreign-directed network within our military and civilian political life.
Two documents on our website present evidence of the continued work in our century of the Milner Round Table. Mystery Man: George Louis Beer served from 1915-18 as American correspondent for The Round Table and one of the originators of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and its American branch, The Council on Foreign Relations. The Belmont Brotherhood, an expose of the conspiratorial foundations of the John Birch Society, includes a section on the Pilgrim Society and English-Speaking Union from a speech presented to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Application of the Duck Rule would include in this British-Israel imperialist network such as Sir Anthony Buzzard, whose Oxford education, nomination for the Oxford-based Templeton Prize, not to mention his Restoration Fellowship based on Unitarian British-Israel Replacement Theology, connections with the Worldwide Church of God and family connections with the Bilderbergers, Fabian Society and RIIA, are credentials worthy of Cecil Rhodes' Society of the Elect!
PART THREE: REVIVED BRITISH EMPIRE
The megalomaniac ambition of the British-Israel movement is that of a Revived British Empire. However, this fact has been camouflaged by the deliberate misinterpretation of prophetic Scriptures to advance the notion that a Revived Roman Empire is the Antichrist system. Perhaps Christians ought to reconsider the popular doctrines of the modern prophecy teachers, and Discernment ministries such as Antipas, which teach the final Beast system as a Revived Roman Empire. This error is built upon a faulty exposition of the four empires represented in Nebuchadnezzar's image in Daniel 2 and the four beasts of Daniel 7, which are construed as references to the same world empires. A closer look at Daniel 2, 7 and Revelation 13 demonstrates otherwise.
Daniel 2:32-42 describes the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman empires. Daniel 2:38 states that the head of gold of Nebuchadnezzar's image was the existing Babylonian Empire. "O king…Thou art this head of gold."
All of the world empires described in Daniel 7 are future empires. According to verse 17: "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth."
Whereas Daniel 2 identifies 3 future and 1 existing empire (the Babylonian), Daniel 7:3-6 must refer to four future world empires:
"And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one another. The first was like a LION, and had EAGLE'S wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a BEAR, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a LEOPARD, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it."
Nazi Germany was known for its Panzer (panther or leopard) divisions in World War II, and the symbol of Communist Russia is the bear which, under Stalin, "devoured much flesh." The Royal Arms of England displays the Rampant Lion, "made to stand upon the feet as a man" and the Unicorn, symbolizing the union of England and Scotland, which is also the symbol of the British-Israel Movement. The eagle's wings which were plucked in Daniel 7:4 is an obvious reference to the United States, whose government from its inception was the vehicle through which the English Rosicrucians planned to establish the New World Order. Thus, a reasonable interpretation of the symbolic beasts or world empires of Daniel 7 places them in the period immediately preceding "the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces." (v.23)
The beasts of Daniel 7 are also found as the composite beast which John saw rising out of the sea in his vision described in Revelation 13:1,2. Please recall that the Bistea Neptunis or "beast of the sea" which is believed to be "ever incarnate in the dynasty of ancient kings" and whose symbol was a fish, clearly identifies the mystical Merovingian Fisher-Kings, who blasphemously claim to be of the bloodline of Jesus Christ:
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
"And the beast which I saw was like unto a LEOPARD, and his feet were as the feet of a BEAR, and his mouth as the mouth of a LION: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat and great authority."
Since Revelation 13 is identical to Daniel 7, future kingdoms are also symbolically represented. And like Daniel 7, Revelation 13 describes in symbols the British-Israel movement as the BEAST THAT RISES UP OUT OF THE SEA. However, modern prophecy teachers have prevented the identification of beast kingdom as British-Israel by erroneously correlating the empires of Daniel 7 with those in Daniel 2. This misinterpretation of Daniel 7 has been a primary factor in perpetuating a general ignorance of the British-Israel conspiracy, and has insured that its direction of world affairs behind the scenes will continue largely unnoticed.
In the place of the proper interpretation of these prophecies, the masses have been led to believe that a Revived Roman Empire controlled by the Roman Church, will be the final Antichrist system. Having established this deception and contrived to bring a false interpretation of Bible prophecy to fulfillment, the stage will be set for the Messiah of the Merovingian dynasty to vanquish the Pope and his Roman religious system (the Dragon), after which glorious triumph this false messiah will be crowned upon the throne of the Temple of Jerusalem as "the Christ."
THE SCEPTER OF AUTHORITY
Anthony Buzzard's "Gospel of the Kingdom" expounded in his online essay, The Christian Hope: Life in the Land of the Promise Made to Abraham, redefines the Abrahamic Covenant to include New Testament Christians as co-heirs with the Jews, and thereby chosen to administer a "New World Order" from Jerusalem.
...Central to Jewish self-understanding was the conviction that Israel was the Lord's inheritance.... Integral to the national faith was the conviction that God had given Israel the inheritance of Palestine, the promised land. It is this axiom, which Paul evokes and refers to the new Christian movement as a whole, Gentiles as well as Jews. They are the heirs of God...
Worldwide Inheritance
...It is essential that we do not add alien material to Paul's exposition of God's salvation plan. The promise to Abraham and to his offspring is that he and they are to be "heir of the world" (Rom. 4:13). Paul has not abandoned the account in Genesis from which he quotes explicitly (Rom. 4:3, Gal. 3:6 from Gen. 15:9). Since the promised land of Canaan would be the center of the Messianic government it was obvious that inheritance of the land implied inheritance of the world. But the promise remains geographical and territorial corresponding exactly with Jesus' promise to the meek that they would "inherit the land/earth" (Mat. 5:5), His belief that Jerusalem would be the city of the Great King (Mat. 5:35), and that believers would administer a New World Order with Him (Mat. 19:28; Luke 22:28-30; Rev. 2:26, 3:21, 5:10, 20:1-6). In short the promise of the land, which is fundamental to the Christian Gospel, is now the promise of the Kingdom of God - the renewed "inhabited earth of the future" (Heb. 2:5), which is not subject to angels but to the Messiah and the saints, the "Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16) who are heirs of the covenant...
"Heaven"
References in the New Testament to "heaven" are limited to contexts in which the future reward of believers is said to be preserved now as treasure with God in heaven. "Heaven" as a place removed from the earth is, however, never the destination of the believer in the Bible-neither at death nor at the resurrection. Christians must now identify with their reward, at present stored up in heaven for them, so that they may receive it when Jesus brings it to the earth at His Second Coming (Col. 1:5, I Pet. 1;4, 5). That reward was made known to the converts when the Christian Gospel of the Kingdom of God was preached to them (Mat. 1:14, 15; Luke 4:43; Acts 8:12, 19:8, 20:25, 28:23, 31). Belief in the Gospel in Apostolic times was not confined to belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but included the whole invitation to prepare for a place in Messiah's worldwide dominion to be realized on earth. The situation is very different today when little or nothing is preached about inheriting the earth with Jesus. There is an urgent need for believers to heed Paul's warning not to be "moved away from the hope held out in the Gospel" (Col. 1:23). The loss of the Kingdom in the Gospel is symptomatic of the loss the roots of Christianity in the Old Testament...
Faith in God's World Plan
...The repeated offer of "heaven" in popular preaching renders meaningless the whole hope of the prophets (based on the Abrahamic promise) that the world is going to enjoy an unparalleled era of blessing and peace under the just rule of the Messiah and the resurrected faithful - those who believe in "the Kingdom of God and the name [i.e., the Messiahship and all that this entails] of Jesus," and who are baptized in response to that early creed in Acts 8:12:
"When they believed Philip as he proclaimed the Gospel about the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized both men and women."
This text remains a model for evangelism and calls the contemporary church back to its roots in the Covenant made with "the father of the faithful" which can be fulfilled only in Messiah Jesus. For the fulfillment of that plan we are to pray, "Thy Kingdom come," and strive to conduct ourselves "worthy of God who is calling us into His Kingdom and glory" (I Thess. 2:12). The truth about our Christian destiny will be reinstated when we return to the biblical language about "entering the Kingdom," "inheriting the earth" (Mat. 5:5), and ruling on earth (Rev. 5:10) and abandon our cherished hopes for "heaven." The way will then be open for us to understand that Christianity is a call to Kingship and that a Saint is one appointed to rule on the earth in the coming Kingdom of the Messiah (Dan. 7:18, 22, 27).
A chapter in Joseph Hopkins' expose The Armstrong Empire titled "The United States and British Commonwealth in Prophecy" demonstrates that these are the identical doctrines of the Worldwide Church of God, where Anthony Buzzard taught for 12 years:
"'The one central master key to prophecies as a whole is the identity of the United States and the British nations in these prophecies for today!...the so-called 'Lost Ten Tribes' of Israel had migrated to northwestern Europe, the British Isles and later the U.S....our white, English-speaking peoples--not the Jews--have inherited the national and physical phases of [God's covenant] promises!'
"Armstrong believes that only the descendants of Judah are Jews. The sceptre, it is said, will not depart from Judah (Gen. 49:10), but the birthright is Joseph's (I Chron. 5:2). 'This knowledge about the birthright is the pivot of this entire truth which will prove the key to understanding all prophecy...'
"It is Armstrong's belief that no human being ever has gone, or ever will go to heaven. Heaven is reserved for the heavenly Father and his angels. Jesus came down from heaven...he will return to the earth to establish his divine government in Jerusalem, where he will reign throughout eternity...'Abraham will not inherit eternal life until he is brought back at the first resurrection to assist Christ in his millennial reign...Abraham will outrank David, as he is the 'father' of both the Gentile converts and Israelites...Only those who are faithful members of 'God's true Church [i.e., the Worldwide Church of God) will be translated from mortality to immortality at Christ's coming...Those who rebelliously won't keep God's Holy Days now--who sneer at them as 'Jewish,' in scathing contempt, will observe them when Christ returns...'' (The Armstrong Empire, pp. 66, 71, 96, 97)
Compare Herbert Armstrong's resurrection of Abraham to rule with Christ with Buzzard's Christian's Hope: Life in the Land of the Promise Made to Abraham:
"How then is the covenant grant of land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be fulfilled? The answer to the problem throws a flood of light on the Christianity of the New Testament. There is only one way in which the Covenant can be realized-by the future resurrection of Abraham, enabling him to inherit the promised land for ever. To Abraham and his descendants the land belongs for ever by covenant-oath. Abraham died. Abraham must therefore rise from the dead to receive the "land of the promise," which is Canaan, the land to which he ventured forth from Babylon and in which he lived as a foreigner."
Additionally, Armstrong shared with the Merovingian dynasty a belief in the mythical Stone of Destiny:
"On the basis of the flimsiest of evidence [the ancient annals of Ireland], Armstrong tries to prove that Jeremiah and Baruch escaped from Egypt with one of the daughters of Zedekiah (last king of Judah) and returned to Judah. There the royal princess married the 'son of the king of Ireland who had been in Jerusalem at the time of the siege.' Their son accompanied them -- including Jeremiah and Baruch -- to Ireland... Beside the royal family, Jeremiah brought with them some remarkable things, including a harp, an ark, and a wonderful stone called 'lia-fail' or stone of destiny...'" (The Armstrong Empire, pp. 76-79)
Author of The Armstrong Empire, Joseph Hopkins, debunks the authenticity of this stone as another Scottish ruse:
"...according to The New Century Dictionary, 'The Stone of Scone [is] a famous stone, formerly at Scone, Scotland, upon which the Scottish kings sat at coronation: now beneath the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey.' After examination of the stone in 1865, Professor A.C. Ramsey of the Geology Department of London University...judged it to be of Scottish origin. 'This report has been confirmed by every subsequent examination of the names of the British people." (p. 79)
Herein is the British-Israel plan in a nutshell, the gospel according to Herbert Armstrong: to portray the restored Roman Empire as the Antichrist system which will be defeated by "Christ" who miraculously appears to restore the Anglo-Saxon Empire in the Kingdom of God on Earth.
"The downfall of the American and British Commonwealth peoples, predicts Armstrong, is to come at the hands of a restored Holy Roman Empire in the form of an alliance of ten European nations, whose chief instigator will be the Roman Catholic Church. Scriptural foundation for this speculation is characteristically imaginative. The ten nations, of course, come from Revelation 17. Significance is attached to the phrase 'daughter of Babylon' in Isaiah 47:1:
"'Not the Babylon of ancient days. Not Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon of 600 years before Christ--but a daughter of that Babylon, now, in our 20th century. In prophecy a woman, or a daughter, means a church--a religious organization.'
"The 'lady of this prophecy is described in Revelation 17 as a 'great whore,' whose name 'is there given as 'mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.'
"The identity of Rome with Babylon is more than figurative, according to Armstrong. Simon the Sorcerer, rebuked by Peter for trying to buy the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:18-24), was in fact, Armstrong says, the 'leader of the Babylonian mystery religions, with the title of Peter, meaning Papa...not only did the ancient Babylonians migrate to Italy to launch the Roman Catholic Church, but Israel's ancient nemesis Assyria traveled northwestward and settled in Germany...'
"The British-American nations will go down to ignominious defeat at the hands of the German led confederacy because of their disobedience and apostasy. Chief among the manifestations of that apostasy is rejection of the Lord's appointed Sabbath...
"The horrors of the end-time are predicted in considerable detail, according to Armstrong's complicated and literal reading of the visions in Revelation. A war-making revived fascist power (the locusts of Rev. 9:7), a Communist Eurasian army of 200,000,000 men (the cavalry of Rev. (:16), and the revived Roman Empire with the false (Roman Catholic) church and her daughters (the Protestant churches of the Reformation) -- all figure in this apocalyptic drama... Christ will return at the same time as God's final judgments are being poured out on the fornicating ecclesiastical system. Overcoming his fascist foes, Christ will establish a throne in Jerusalem and reign forever, casting the beast and false prophet into a lake of fire.
"The invasion of Palestine from the north, described in Ezekiel 38 and 39, will occur after the return of Christ, 'after the Great Deliverer has come and rescued our people and restored us to Palestine...' By 'our people' Armstrong means the Anglo-Saxon survivors of the onslaught of the Revived Holy Roman Empire, who will have been brought to Palestine 'from a dispersion and captivity and slavery, gathered out of the nations where we had been scattered, now once again rich and increased with goods!" (The Armstrong Empire, pp. 86,87. 90-1)
The "Hebrew Roots of Christianity" takes on new meaning upon discovery that the Power-Elite of the Anglo-Saxon nations have their dominionist eye on Palestine. Is not this encroachment upon the land of Israel the most pernicious form of anti-Semitism? However, Sir Anthony is careful to distinguish between his brand of dominion theology and the other by quoting Psalms 10 and 37 with the qualifier:
"[Note carefully that the righteous should not expect to inherit the land before the wicked are cut off. There is a caution for dominion and reconstructionist theologies here!] There is a future for the man of peace."
It is not stated who the wicked are but the reader may surmise that they will oppose the "man of peace" who strikes a deal with Israel. In The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland, Prince Michael Stewart, proclaims the Hebrew Roots of Celtic Christianity precisely because he covets the future throne in the rebuilt temple of Jerusalem.
"Early Celtic Christianity was the closest of all religious teachings to the original doctrines of Jesus, and it had emerged within a few years of the Crucifixion as the foremost Church of the Christian world. Christians of the Celtic Church were recorded in Ireland in the latter reign of Emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), long before St Peter went to Rome. Given that Jesus own teachings formed the basis of the faith, the Mosaic structure of the Old Testament was duly incorporated. Judaic marriage laws were observed, together with the celebrations of the Sabbath and Passover, while Easter was correctly held as the traditional feast-day of the Spring goddess, Eoastre, long before the Roman Church foisted a new significance on the old Celtic festival at the Synod of Whitby in 664.
"Contrary to traditional belief, Emperor Constantine the Great (AD 274-337) did not embrace Christianity as the religion of Rome; he adapted Christianity into a new form which was implemented as the religion of Rome. Constantine's reign as Emperor was actually related to the Syrian Sol Invictus cult of sun worship, but he determined to create a purpose-built religion to divert Christianity from its Judaic origins..." (pp. 30-1)
"[In November 1985] the President of the International Parliament (Mediterranean Security), endorsed by the United Nations, ratified my legal rights as Head of the Royal House of Stewart and Head of the Celtic Church of the Sacred Kindred of Saint Columba. Under International Law, my titles were verified on 4 November 1985 as being Prince and Lord of Scotland, Duke of Kintyre, Prince of Ireland, France, Poland and Jerusalem, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Touraine, legitimate titular claimant to the Throne of Scots, and legal Pretender to the Throne of Britain." [p. 306]
Church history records the Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils which valiantly upheld the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith against the gnostic heresies which arose out of the Judaizing movements of the early Church era. Perhaps Constantine recognized God's intended division between the Old and New Covenants and was dealing with a movement of which Jesus Christ Himself had referred in Revelation 2:8,9 as the "synagogue of Satan":
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
The thesis of Peter Michas' book, The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan, is built upon the myth that a branch from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden was passed through generations of Israelites to David who planted it on the Mount of Olives. This rod, which possessed magical powers because it was engraved with the Ineffable Name, YHWH, would become the tree upon which Christ was crucified. Subsequently, it became a relic which will be returned by Elijah the prophet to validate the true Messiah, who will take his place upon the Throne (Mercy Seat) at the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem:
"The fate of the crucifixion tree is not known; however, it can be assumed that it was eventually cut down and destroyed... It is possible that a branch of this tree was preserved, for it is to be returned by the prophet Elijah to the Messiah when He returns to establish the Millennial kingdom." (p. 149)
"When Yeshua returns, He will set up His Throne in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 43:7). At this time, it is thought that the prophet Elijah will return the rod -- a branch from the Tree of Life -- to the Messiah... The Messiah will seat Himself on the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies on Mount Moriah. He will replace the Ark that had symbolized Him, in the place where God had first fellowshipped with Adam and Eve, the same place the Divine Presence dwelt among His People! Just as a branch from the Tree of Life was kept before the Ark, He will set the almond rod before Himself on the Throne of God, where the Tree of Life had grown in the Garden of Eden."
Peter Michas' teaching of the sacred branch is also found in Bloodline of the Holy Grail, by Laurence Gardner, where the sacred lineage of Jesus Christ through the Merovingian bloodline, is symbolized by the sprouting rod of Jesse:
"Following Pope Gregory IX's first Catholic Inquisition of 1231, Grail lore was condemned by the Church...As a result, the tradition moved towards underground symbolism - particularly that of the Tarot cards...The four suits of the Tarot's minor Arcana were the Swords, Cups, Pentacles and Batons or wands...These corresponded with the sword, cup, dish and lance of the Grail Hallows. Eventually they became redefined as the Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs that are used today. The Spade was originally a Blade (the male symbol); the Heart was the Chalice of the alternative Church (the female symbol V)' the Diamond was a valuable Pentacle disc..., and the Club (denoting the continuing Davidic lineage) was depicted as the sprouting Rod of Jesse. (Element Books, 1996, p. 250)
"...a new Glastonbury tradition [was] the enchanted thornbush. In 1520, local literature described a bush on Wearyall Hill that bore fresh leaves and blossoms at Christmastime as well as in May. The bush was destroyed during the Cromwellian Civil War (1642-1651), but shoots from it were replanted in the area, and each plant flowered again in the same way. Botanical experts discerned that the shrub was not native to England, and seemed to be of Levantine origin. And so a new Somerset mythology began.
"In 1716 a local innkeeper asserted that the unusual thorn plant sprang from the staff of Joseph of Arimethea, which he had planted to blossom at Christmas (not that the December festival had been relevant in Joseph's day. It was nearly 300 years later that Constantine adjusted the date of Jesus's birthday). The notion that Joseph's 'rod' should burst into flower in this way derived originally from a prophetic verse in Isaiah (11:1), which reads 'And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse [the father of David], and a Branch shall grow out of his roots'. In some Church artwork and apocryphal writings, the budding staff of the royal bloodline is depicted in the hand of Jesus's father, Joseph. (p. 242)
Prince Michael Stewart, who claims to be the heir of this royal bloodline, also mentions that in the medieval Celtic period the hereditary priest-king of the Merovingian bloodline received the Rod of Authority at his coronation:
"The installation procedure for a King of Scots from the time of Robert the Bruce was rather different from the ceremonies of England and France. Firstly, the King-to-be was passed through a ritual of purification to become an ordained people's priest. He would then appear at the Church Abbey of Scone, dressed in white as a symbol of integrity, to be conducted to the Fealty Stone (traditionally, the Stone of Destiny) by a Bishop, followed by seven priests. With his hand upon the Stone, the King would swear his Oath of Fealty as the people's champion. He was duly anointed, and then sat upon the separate and much larger Coronation Stone, following which an 'Assembly of Friends' ...would gather round and the McDuff Earl of Fife placed the crown upon the King's head...Once crowned, the King would receive the White Rod of Strength (the Sceptre) and the Sword of Justice. Having been invested with the Honours of the Realm (Crown, Sceptre and Sword), the Kings' Senachie (...the Lord Lyon, King of Arms) recited the pedigree of the new King, in reverse sequence." (The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland, p. 77-8)
The SAKINA REQUITAL: Epiphany 2000 JERUSALEM, which is purported to be the Coming of Age in the Millennium for the "Healing Judaism, Christianity and Islam through the cooperative vision of the Feminine," has scheduled the following pre-conference activities in preparation for the sprouting of the Rod of Authority:
And did those feet in ancient times walk up on England's mountains green? ... And was Jerusalem builded here, amongst those dark satanic mills?
- CONFERENCE: The Chalice and the sprouting Rod: Realizing the Feminine cup of the Grail.
- EMPOWERMENT: Reawakening the Goddess Albina: Empowering the Lady of the Alder.
- MUSIC FESTIVAL: Celebrating the Celtic roots of music and dance in British culture.
William Cooper's book, Behold a Pale Horse, contains information which may help to explain the outworking of Merovingian prophecy which, of course, has been planned well in advance by those who will profit by its fulfillment. We hasten to add a disclaimer to Mr. Cooper's book based on the fact that he states that the Grail story is true. Nevertheless, the connections between the Grail relic and Peter Michas' "Rod of Authority" -- which is said to be a branch of the "crucifixion tree" -- are obvious:
"One of the greatest secrets of the ages is the true story of the Holy Grail, the robe of Jesus, the remains of the Cross of Crucifixion, and whether Jesus actually died or if he survived and produced a child. Many myths surround the Knights Templar concerning these relics, and most myths throughout history always have at least some basis in fact. If my sources are correct, the Knights Templar survive today as a branch of the Illuminati and guard the relics, which are hidden in a location known only to them...
"According to many, the great pyramids were built to commemorate and observe a supernova explosion that occurred in the year 4000 B.C. Dr. Anthony Hewish, 1974 Nobel Prize winner in physics, discovered a rhythmic series of radio pulses which he proved were emissions from a star that had exploded around 4000 B.C. The Freemasons begin their calendar from A.L., 'In the Year of Light,' found by adding 4000 to the modern year. Thus 1990 + 4000 = 5990 A.L. George Michanowsky wrote in The Once and Future Star that 'The ancient Sumerian cuneiform... described a giant star exploding within a triangle formed by...Zeta Puppis, Gamma Velorum, and Lambda Velorum...located in the southern sky.... [An] accurate star catalogue now stated that the blazing star that had exploded within the triangle would again be seen by man in 6000 years.' According to the Freemason's calendar it will occur in the year 2000, and indeed it will...
"Simultaneously a vault containing the ancient records of the earth will be opened in Egypt. The opening of the vault will usher in the millennium. A great celebration has already been planned by the Millennium Society to take place at the pyramids in Egypt. According to the January 3, 1989, edition of the Arizona Daily Star, 'President-elect Bush is spending this New Year's holiday at Camp David, Maryland, but in 10 years he may be in Egypt. Organizers of the Millennium Society say he's already committed to ushering in the next century at the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza... [See Lambert Dolphin below]
Please notice that it is the intelligence organizations which have determined the appointed time at which the Rod of Authority shall be given to the World Ruler:
"According to members of the intelligence community, when the New World Order is solidified the relics will be taken out, will be united with the Spear of Destiny, and will, according to legend, give the world's ruler absolute power. This may confirm beliefs passed down through the ages that describe the significance of these relics when united in the hands one man. It explains Hitler's desperate search for their hiding place during World War II. (Gen. Patton had claimed it after defeat)
"The Knights Templar were founded sometime during the 11th cent. in Jerusalem by the Prieuré de Sion for the express purpose of guarding remaining relics of Jesus and to provide military protection for the religious travelers during their pilgrimage to the Holy City.
"The Prieuré de Sion was a religious order founded upon Mount Sion in Jerusalem. The Order set for itself the goal of preserving and recording the bloodline of Jesus and the House of David. Through every means available to them, the Prieuré de Sion had found and retrieved the remaining relics. These relics were entrusted to the Knights Templar for safekeeping. I am amazed at the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the information that they have unearthed. Most of all I am amazed at their inability to put the puzzle together. The treasure hidden in France is not the treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem. It is the Holy Grail itself, the robe of Jesus, the last remaining pieces of the Cross of Crucifixion, and, according to my sources, someone's bones. I can tell you that the reality of the bones will shake the world to its very foundations if I have been told the truth. The relics are hidden in France. I know the location and so do the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, but they do not know that they know-- or do they?"
THE HALL OF RECORDS
"Simultaneously a vault containing the ancient records of the earth will be opened in Egypt. The opening of the vault will usher in the millennium. A great celebration has already been planned by the Millennium Society to take place at the pyramids in Egypt..." - William Cooper
On the Cross + Word web site under Discernment Links, Tricia Tillin of Banner Ministries had listed Lambert Dolphin's Christian Resource Links and Lambert's Web Links. Following a Watch Unto Prayer expose of Lambert Dolphin, Banner Ministries discreetly removed the former link but retained the latter, with a disclaimer of sorts. Lambert's Web Links introduces visitors to a plethora of New Age and occult web sites. One of these is the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
On a page titled Remote Viewing, Channeling, ESP -- and the Power of God, Lambert Dolphin acknowledges his "wonderful and challenging career spanning some 30 years with a large and prestigious West Coast think tank [Stanford Research Institute]. Our projects at the lab were often multi-disciplinary and the climate was one where all sorts of diverse ideas could be exchanged freely. Our projects ranged over the broadest possible range."
Lambert Dolphin informs readers in his personal testimony that he became a Christian in 1962, but neglects to state that 15 years later he directed the Stanford Research Institute project at the Great Sphinx in Egypt. Neither does he mention that, for this project, he traveled to Virginia Beach to negotiate funding from the Edgar Cayce Foundation or that, in 1983, he helped to set up the Independent Mars Project’ as consultant to NASA.
However, the details of Mr. Dolphin's employment at SRI can be found elsewhere -- in a recently published Masonic book by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval titled The Message of the Sphinx:
"Back in Egypt in 1977, a year after the Viking images had first reached the Earth, Mark Lehner [A.R.E.’s ‘man’ at Giza] made contact with NASA’s Dr. Lambert T. Dolphin, leader of the Stanford Research Institute project at the Sphinx ...Later in 1977 Lambert Dolphin traveled to Virginia Beach to negotiate funding from the Edgar Cayce organization for a proposed new SRI project at Giza... In (1983) ‘The Independent Mars Project’ was set up in the United States by Richard Hoagland, a former NASA consultant, and Lambert Dolphin… " (pp. 313-14)
Chapter 5 of The Message of the Sphinx, "The Case of the Psychic, the Scholar and the Sphinx," opens with a statement from the Association for Research and Enlightenment of the Edgar Cayce Foundation as to the importance of the SRI project: "There has been one systematic search, a sort of direct shot at finding the Hall of Records, when the Edgar Cayce Foundation funded SRI International." (Venture Inward, 1985, p. 85)
Edgar Cayce, who was known as the "sleeping prophet," entered into deep trances during which he prophesied the existence of a Hall of Records in Egypt with identification as to its specific location:
"One of the most persistent accounts given by Edgar Cayce during his deep trances concerned:
"'References and clues [which] indicate Egypt as a repository for records - records of Atlantis and ancient Egypt during the time of Ra-Ta, which may some day be found... that a vast underground repository was established containing a library of wisdom from the lost civilization of Atlantis: 'This in position lies, as the sun rises from the waters, the line of shadow (or light) falls between the paws of the Sphinx...There is a chamber or passage from the right forepaw [of the Sphinx] to this entrance of the record chamber...'"
"According to the readings, the Hall of Records is to be discovered and re-entered when 'the time has been fulfilled' -- which, Cayce suggested, would be at or just before the close of the twentieth century, perhaps in 1998. The readings allude frequently to Old and New Testaments of the Bible, certain numerous references to Jesus, and depict the rediscovery of the Hall of Records as being linked in some way to a series of events that will prelude the 'Second Coming' of Christ." (p. 88)
Hancock and Bauval credit Lambert Dolphin's influence and expertise with determining the location of the hidden chambers in the project's early stages and in The Sphinx/Mars Connection, with finding proof on Mars of the ancient civilization of Atlantis. The full Watch Unto Prayer report on this false teacher is available at Lambert Dolphin & The Great Sphinx .
Those who follow the Banner Ministries' link to Lambert Dolphin's Web Links will also be introduced to the Kabbalist Chabad Lubavitch in Cyberspace among Lambert's other surprises. Part VI of the Hebrew Roots series documented Peter Michas' statement in his book that he received his education in the Hebrew Roots of Christianity through the Chabad-Lubavich organization:
"I ended up going into a place call Chabbad House which was run by the Lubavich, the ultra-orthodox rabbis. This was the beginning of my education in the Hebraic roots of the Bible. As my knowledge of the Hebraic context of Scripture grew, my God was being revealed to me in ways that cannot even be explained. I realize that if God had not preserved the Jewish people and their books (including the Bible), most spiritual truth and surely all of the culture of Scripture would have been lost to traditions of men." (Preface, Rod of an Almond Tree, p. 19)
Hebrew scholar, Dr. Eliezer Segal of the University of Calgary, describes Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism as a Kabbalist movement. The doctrines of the Lubavitch Movement are derived from the Kabbalah. In fact, the term "Chabad" is an acronym for two of the sefirot --Chokmah and Binah, in conduction with Da'at: "The name 'Chabad' is a Hebrew acronym for the expression 'Chokmah,' 'Binah" and 'Da'at' -- Wisdom, Intelligence and Knowledge. These Kabbalistic terms are central to the distinctive intellectual theology of the movement..."
Listed also among Tricia Tillin's recommendations are several articles on the Torah Codes, which are occult numerology or gematria, along with the web sites of CNP members, Grant Jeffrey and Chuck Missler, who promote the popular Bible Codes, the Christianized version of occult numerology. To learn the truth about occult numerology, which has been repackaged for Christian consumption, please read Vicky Dillen's reports on the Hebrew Roots Movement, specifically Part VIII: Gematria and Numerology .
DISCERNMENT GAULEITERS
Council for National Policy member, Howard Philips, once stated that young ex-members of Young Americans for Freedom, the youth organization of the John Birch Society, were strategically positioned as were the Gauleiters of Nazi Germany, officials of the Third Reich, placed in each district to enforce Hitler's policies. (God's Bullies, p. 111) We believe that the assignment of the Discernment Gauleiters is to apprehend the refugees who are fleeing the local churches (which their accomplices in the CNP are destroying) and to channel them into the same deception via the back door -- all the while assuring them that they are among the very elect who have escaped the apostasy!
It should be obvious that, while these ministries have exposed certain spiritual errors, they are promoting others of a far more sinister nature. They major in exposure of the New World Order, the Revival, Promise Keepers, and the Roman Catholic Church, which is singled out as the Whore of Babylon, but have we ever read an expose of the Merovingian conspiracy which works through the secret societies of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry and whose avowed purpose is to overthrow Christianity in revenge for the dissolution of the Knights Templar? Never.
To the contrary, they have created a milieu which prohibits writers from even citing Roman Catholic sources as evidence against the occult societies without being labeled pro-Catholic. All things Roman, including the early ecumenical councils and creeds which upheld and established orthodox doctrine, have been similarly maligned, robbing believers of their heritage of Church history. These are the very tactics and agenda of the Freemasons, who would suppress volumes of written records in Roman Catholic scholarship against themselves.
Likewise, the "anti-Semite" label is applied to those who dare to expose the Hebrew Roots Movement. Why do these organizations promote the Hebrew Roots Movement and take such pains to discredit anyone who dares to write about its connections with the Kabbalah, which is also the basis of Freemasonry and Rosicrucian doctrine? Is their agenda the British-Israel agenda of worldwide Freemasonry? If so, they are the true anti-Semites -- the synagogue of Satan -- who would supplant the Jews, robbing them of their land and birthright. We shall not comply with the Rosicrucian agenda, but will use every document that is available to us in order to expose their conspiracy.
In our research, we have often wondered why individuals and organizations which appear to be in opposition to one another, have secret connections. The case is solved upon understanding the Dialectical Process, which requires the dynamic of controversy to lead the masses to a synthesis of values. If there is a principle of social manipulation which Christians should learn to recognize, it is the Dialectical Process which has eclipsed the peaceful atmosphere that once characterized the Church of Jesus Christ. This phenomenon, well-understood by the elites, is the subject of our report The Third Way: Politics of the Radical Center.
Remember Joel's Army? We should recall the infamous words of Rick Joyner predicting a civil war within the Church that would involve the dismantling of traditional Christian organizations:
"What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening; it is a veritable revolution. The vision was given in order to begin to awaken those who are destined to radically change the course, and even the very definition of Christianity. The dismantling of organizations and disbanding of some works will be a positive and exhilarating experience for the Lord’s faithful servants. A great company of prophets, teachers, pastors and apostles will be raised up with the spirit of Phineas…"
Constance Cumbey first pointed out that the Body of Christ in general is a least one or 2 major movements behind the enemy at any given time. There is a good reason for this, if one truly understands the psychology involved in deception. The larger conspiracy has various operations in place early on to define the issues and to control any opposition that may arise, should someone suspect the real deception.
The strategy is to set up front organizations which instigate controversy and then control both sides of the issues. Appointed leaders are designated as authorities, although they have no legitimate authority derived from Scripture. These self-appointed shepherds operate as facilitators of discussions and debates in e-mail and other forums, but are in reality functioning as change agents. Should independent researchers begin to address issues which have been determined "off-limits" by the facilitators, they should expect that, without fail, a serious campaign will be launched to discredit them.
An enterprising journalist of the Revolutionary Era, Philip Freneau, also discerned the nature of the dialectical operation employed by the elites, and wrote an incisive article titled: "Rules for Changing a Republic into a Monarchy." His satire reveals the blueprint for the transformation of society by the would-be elites, who view themselves as superior to the vulgar masses and have only contempt for them. Power elites operate by the same rules today, having a contingency plan for those who are not deceived - and dare to expose - the true conspiracy:
As it is not to be expected that the change of a republic into a monarchy, with the rapidity desired, can be carried through without occasional suspicions and alarms, it will be necessary to be prepared for such events. The best general rule on the subject is to be taken from the example of crying "Stop thief" first -- neither lungs nor pens must be spared in charging every man who whispers, or even thinks, that the revolution on foot is meditated, with being himself an enemy of the established government and meaning to overturn it. Let the charge be reiterated and reverberated till at last such confusion and uncertainty be produced that the people, being not able to find out where the truth lies, withdraw their attention from the contest.
Those who follow the discernment ministries should be cautious in the extreme. Scripture does not authorize spiritual leaders who raise themselves up outside of the local churches and in opposition to them. Like the apostate leaders of the ubiquitous parachurch organizations, leaders of the discernment ministries carefully protect themselves from the close scrutiny that is possible only in the local church setting.
Believers who permit themselves to be shepherded by self-appointed leaders whom they neither know nor may observe on a personal basis are vulnerable to religious opportunists with hidden agendas. Although we are assailed from all sides by every manner of false prophet and teacher, there are churches in most cities which are pastored by faithful Christian ministers. These churches, which are usually found through prayer and patient seeking, are still God's appointed institution for the spiritual guidance and protection of His people.
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! And it was so, that when any man came nigh unto him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. And in this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came unto the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel... And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. II Sam.15:12a
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