The film is narrated by devout Muslim
American Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser and opens with
the following statement: "This is not a film
about Islam. It is about the threat of
radical Islam. Only a small percentage of
the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are radical.
This film is about them."
I have to say I hesitate to highlight this
video, but I feel it is too
important to pass by. It is about the absolute
Epidemic of “Prosperity”
teaching that is so damaging the church in Third
World countries -
particularly in the bigger cities. In the case
of this video it is Nigeria
that is highlighted. But this disease has
already spread through
much of African Christianity, South America, and
Asia as well
(Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Phiippines, and
on and on). I
have seen this for myself in visiting these
continents. It is a
disease that has now spread through Charismatic
Christianity
worldwide to such a degree that I personally
despair of what can
ever be done to arrest it.
The video
was not made by Christians, and clearly they are
struggling a little to understand what they are
seeing. But the
saddest thing of all is that the presenter seems
to know more
about the “true Jesus” in the end than the
‘Prosperity’ preacher
does. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The Book of Revelation consists of 404 verses that contain over 800 allusions to the Old Testament. These are detailed, along with Chuck's analysis of the design and structure of this fascinating book. Learn about the past, present and future of the Church and our ultimate destiny. This is an ideal "first study" and foundational for every Christian.
DVD
Introduction - Some general comments about the Book of Revelation and its uniqueness. Why this book contains a special blessing.
Revelation 1 - "The things which thou hast seen." The vision which opens the book and the verse that organizes it.
Revelation 2:1-7 - The letter to the church at Ephesus.
The Kingdom Parables/Matthew 13 - A comparison of the Kingdom Parables in Matthew 13 and Jesus' letters to the seven churches.
Revelation 4 - John is caught up into Heaven. A vision of the Throne of God; the Cherubim. The mysterious 24 Elders.
Revelation 5 - The seven-sealed scroll and the Kinsman-Redeemer.
Revelation 6 - The Seven Seals are opened. The Four Horseman.
Revelation 7 - The 144,000 from the Twelve Tribes are sealed.
Revelation 8 - The Seven Trumpets begin. The first four Trumpets sound: the "Judgments of the Thirds."
Revelation 9 & 10 - The next two Trumpets sound. Opening the Abousso. The 200 million Demon Riders. The Scroll is "eaten" and the Seven Thunders sound.
Revelation 11 - The Coming Temple is measured. The Two Witnesses minister.
The Coming Temple - An update on the preparations to rebuild the "Third Temple" in Jerusalem.
Revelation 12 - One of the most important chapters in the Bible: an overview of the enigma of Israel, without which the Bible cannot be fully understood.
Revelation 13 - The Seventh Trumpet introduces seven personages: the Woman, the Man-Child, the Red Dragon, Michael, the remnant of Israel, and two more - the two beasts.
Revelation 14 - The Lamb on Mt. Zion and the Fall of Babylon.
Revelation 15 & 16 - The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath.
Revelation 17 & 18 - The Harlot, "Mystery Babylon," and Babylon the Great.
The
dispute in the Church of England
over welfare reform intensified
last night as the former
Archbishop of Canterbury was
dismissed as a "Thatcherite
yesterday's man" by a prominent
cleric.
A Muslim
teenager was kidnapped, beaten
and threatened with hammers and
knives by her brother and
sisters after kissing a white
man, a court heard yesterday.
Muslim
teenager Shamima Akhtar was
kidnapped, imprisoned and had
her hair cut off after her
family saw her kiss a white man
on her 18th birthday, a court
has heard.
Leading
church
figures
including
the
former
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
have
sparked
controversy
by
championing
a
psychotherapist
who
believes
gay
men
can
be
'cured'
of
their
homosexuality.
Nationalists
were
fixated
on
the
idea
that
there
was
a
conspiracy
against
Catholicism
-
and
the
most
obvious
culprits
were
the
Jews,
says
Piers
Paul
Read.
David
Cameron
will
be
acting
like
a
"dictator"
if
he
allows
homosexual
couples
to
wed,
Archbishop
of
York
Dr
John
Sentamu
says
in
an
interview
with
The
Telegraph.
The
first
time
Dr
John
Sentamu
visited
Jamaica,
it
was
to
accompany
Neville
Lawrence,
who
was
visiting
the
grave
of
his
son
Stephen,
thousands
of
miles
away
from
the
racist
gang
that
murdered
him
and
the
incompetent
police
who
failed
to
catch
them.
On
Holocaust
Memorial
Day
we
should
honour
those
who
have
suffered
to
ensure
that
the
lessons
of
the
20th
century
are
not
forgotten,
writes
David
Richards.
An
Anglican
clergyman
who
advised
the
Church
of
England
on
how
to
handle
sham
marriages
has
been
jailed
for
two
and
a
half
years
for
conducting
dozens
of
the
illegal
ceremonies
himself.
Lord
Carey,
the
fomer
Archbishop
of
Canterbury,
has
been
criticised
for
defending
the
government's
controverisal
welfare
reforms
despite
missing
a
crucial
debate
and
vote
in
the
House
of
Lords.
An
integrity
study
conducted
by
Essex
University
has
suggested
that
an
erosion
of
trust
between
people
can
have
economic
as
well
as
social
consequences.
Two
Roman
Catholic
midwives
are
taking
a
health
board
to
court
for
allegedly
failing
to
recognise
their
conscientious
objection
to
supervising
staff
involved
in
abortions.
The
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
of
Latter-day
Saints
(LDS)
-
the
central
church
for
Mormons
such
as
Mitt
Romney
-
requires
its
members
to
give
10
per
cent
of
their
income
as a
tithe.
More
than
3
million
Roman
Catholic
worshippers
paraded
with
a
charred
Christ
statue
through
the
Philippine
capital
in
an
annual
procession
Monday
despite
a
warning
from
the
president
that
terrorists
might
target
the
gathering.
The
resignation
of a
Los
Angeles
bishop
who
fathered
two
children
has
shocked
the
nation's
most
populous
Roman
Catholic
archdiocese,
where
Auxiliary
Bishop
Gabino
Zavala
grew
up.
From
Thursday,
only
female
staff
will
be
able
to
sell
women's
lingerie
in
Saudi
Arabia,
ending
decades
of
awkwardness
in
the
ultraconservative
Muslim
kingdom
where
women
are
expected
to
don
black
cloaks
at
all
times
out
of
the
home.
The
Church
of
Scientology
has
been
rocked
by
accusations
from
one
of
its
former
senior
executives
that
the
religion
is
becoming
a
hollow
moneymaking
machine
run
by
an
autocratic
ruler.
The
Church
of
Scientology
has
been
rocked
by
accusations
from
one
of
its
senior
executives
that
the
religion
is
becoming
a
hollow
moneymaking
machine
run
by
an
autocrat.
AP
-
NATO's
top
official
joined
the
U.S.
and
France
on
Thursday
in
calling
for
Afghan
forces
to
take
the
lead
in
all
combat
operations
by
mid-2013,
while
continuing
to
assist
them
in
fighting
the
Taliban.
Reuters
-
Iraq's
highest
court
ratified
death
sentences
on
Thursday
for
three
men
convicted
of a
2010
attack
on a
Syrian
Catholic
cathedral
in
Baghdad,
the
bloodiest
attack
on
Iraqi
Christians
after
the
2003
invasion.
AP -
Unions
and
employers
are
to
resume
talks
in
Greece
as
the
country
scrambles
to
push
through
more
cost-cutting
reforms
and
conclude
massive
debt
deals
with
private
and
rescue
creditors.
AP
-
Church
leaders
called
on
parishioners
Wednesday
to
pray
for
the
soul
of
retired
Cardinal
Anthony
Bevilacqua,
who
led
them
for
more
than
15
years
but
was
also
an
uncharged
central
figure
in a
child
sex-abuse
case
that
involves
the
alleged
shuffling
of
predator
priests.
AP -
Five
years
after
an
animal
rights
group
complained
about
the
treatment
of
chickens
at
an
egg
farm
run
by a
Roman
Catholic
abbey
in
South
Carolina,
the
monks
are
now
earning
their
daily
bread
by
growing
mushrooms.
It
hasn't
been
easy
or
without
frustration.
AP -
Members
of a
small
Brazilian
church
outside
Atlanta
are
trying
to
find
ways
to
pay
for
bringing
the
bodies
of
members
killed
in a
deadly
Florida
interstate
pileup
back
to
Georgia
and
then,
hopefully,
on
to
their
native
country
to
bury
them.
AP
- An
American
Muslim
group
appealed
Tuesday
to
Iran's
supreme
leader
to
show
clemency
for
an
ex-U.S.
military
translator
with
dual
citizenship
condemned
to
death
on
accusations
of
being
a
CIA
spy.
AP -
Lawyers
for
the
16-year-old
Rhode
Island
atheist
who
sued
over
a
prayer
banner
displayed
at a
public
high
school
are
asking
a
court
to
order
the
city
of
Cranston
to
pay
$173,000
in
attorneys'
fees.
AP
- An
Orthodox
Christian
church
famed
for
its
valuable
icons
was
set
alight
in
southern
Macedonia
overnight,
authorities
said
Tuesday,
as
religious
tension
between
Christians
and
minority
Muslims
grew
over
a
carnival
in
which
men
dressed
as
women
in
burqas
and
mocked
the
Quran.
AP -
A
retired
U.S.
lieutenant
general
who
made
comments
denigrating
Islam
withdrew
Monday
from
speaking
at a
West
Point
prayer
breakfast
after
a
veterans'
advocacy
group
asked
the
Army
chief
of
staff
to
rescind
the
invitation.
The
Christian
Science
Monitor
-
The
Obama
administration
has
stirred
up
new
and
vocal
opposition
to
its
health-care
law,
as
Roman
Catholic
institutions
confront
a
rule
that
in
their
view
violates
religious
liberty.
AP -
Muslim
leaders
in
Macedonia
appealed
for
calm
on
Monday
among
community
members
outraged
over
a
carnival
in
which
Orthodox
Christian
men
mocked
Muslims
by
dressing
as
Burqa-clad
women.
Reuters
-
U.S.
Catholic
bishops
and
priests
across
the
country
read
out
letters
at
Mass
on
Sunday
protesting
plans
by
President
Barack
Obama's
administration
to
force
religiously-affiliated
nonprofit
groups
to
offer
birth-control
coverage
to
women
employees.
Reuters
-
The
son
of
late
Penn
State
football
coach
Joe
Paterno
told
10,000
mourners
on
Thursday
his
father
died
"with
a
clear
conscience,"
and
former
players
shared
why
they
worshipped
the
man
in a
final
goodbye
to
the
legendary
"JoePa."
AP
-
Muslim
groups
are
calling
for
New
York's
police
commissioner
to
step
down
because
of
his
appearance
in a
film
they
say
puts
their
religion
and
its
adherents
in a
bad
light.
AP -
The
Vienna
archdiocese
has
apologized
for
the
publication
of a
list
of
people
who
have
formally
left
the
Roman
Catholic
church.
Thu Jan 26, 9:07 am ET
VIENNA – The Vienna archdiocese has apologized for the publication of a list of people who have formally left the Roman Catholic church.
A statement says those affected have been asked "for forgiveness," noting making the names public "is not allowed by state or church rules."
The statement was issued Thursday after a priest in a village north of Vienna listed local church-leavers in the diocese newspaper. The archdiocese says the priest has since "apologized in the form of a Mass and has written those affected a letter" of apology.
The rash of sex abuse scandals hitting the Catholic church has led to an increased number of people formally renouncing their affiliation. That also frees them from paying a mandatory church tax.
The
Christian
Science
Monitor
- As
Republican
candidate
Mitt
Romney’s
voluminous
tax
returns
sink
into
the
American
psyche,
some
line
items
stand
out
for
sheer
size,
most
notably
his contributions
to
the
Mormon
church.
Reuters
-
Alaska
Airlines,
America's
seventh-largest
carrier
in
terms
of
passenger
traffic,
said
on
Wednesday
that
it
would
end
a
decades-old
tradition
of
handing
out
prayer
cards
with
its
in-flight
meals.
Reuters
-
U.S.
Muslim
civil
rights
groups
demanded
the
resignation
of
New
York
Police
Commissioner
Ray
Kelly
on
Wednesday
amid
a
controversy
over
the
repeated
screening
of
an
offensive
video.
AP -
An
Italian
news
program
has
obtained
letters
from
a
top
Vatican
official
to
the
pope
in
which
he
begs
not
to
be
transferred
after
exposing
corruption
in
the
awarding
of
Vatican
contracts
that
cost
the
Holy
See
millions
of
euros
(dollars).
AP
-
Alaska
Airlines
is
ending
decades
of
giving
passengers
prayer
cards
with
their
meals,
saying
Wednesday
the
decision
was
made
out
of
respect
for
all
passengers.
Reuters
-
Police
mishandling
of a
controversy
surrounding
a
video
offensive
to
Muslims
has
enveloped
New
York
Police
Commissioner
Ray
Kelly
just
as
he
was
restoring
the
department's
strained
relations
with
the
religious
minority.
AP -
A
prominent
businessman
pleaded
guilty
Wednesday
to
fraud
in a
$135
million
real
estate
scheme
that
fleeced
hundreds
of
investors,
including
the
Roman
Catholic
prep
school
he
once
attended.
MIAMI – A prominent businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud in a $135 million real estate scheme that fleeced hundreds of investors, including the Roman Catholic prep school he once attended.
Gaston Cantens, 73, faces up to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to a single count of wire and mail fraud conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams set sentencing for April 4.
Cantens also lured investors from Miami's close-knit Cuban-American community, many of them elderly and some Roman Catholic priests.
One victim, 80-year-old Eduardo Arango, said he lost about $800,000 investing with Cantens. He called the plea agreement "a sweet deal" because Cantens could have faced more charges and a longer prison sentence.
"Most of the victims were people who are very aged. They lost whatever their resources were. They have suffered," Arango said.
Federal prosecutors said Cantens operated his company, Royal West Properties Inc., like a Ponzi scheme in which he paid older investors with money raised from newer ones. The company sold real estate investments in southwest Florida since 1993 but fell on hard times beginning in 2002 and was eventually forced into bankruptcy in 2009, according to court documents.
Before it crashed, Royal West promised rates of return as high as 16 percent for investors who bought properties, which were marketed nationally on Spanish-language networks and through offices in Florida, New York, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
One investor was the Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, which traces its roots to Cuba and from which Cantens graduated when it was still located in Havana. Fidel Castro also is an alumnus from those days.
Eric Bustillo, chief of the SEC field office in Miami, called it a typical "affinity" scam in which the perpetrator uses a position of trust to prey on members of a specific group, in this case people connected to Belen and members of the larger Cuban-American community.
"The Cantens used their prominent standing in a close-knit Cuban-American community to ruthlessly exploit vulnerable elderly investors who trusted them with their life savings," Bustillo said.
Cantens' wife, 75-year-old Teresita Cantens, was named in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint but was not charged in the criminal case.
Their son, former state Rep. Gaston I. Cantens, was also not implicated in the scheme, but he did co-sign documents allowing his father to remain free until sentencing on $100,000 bail. The younger Cantens is vice president at the Florida Crystals Corp. sugar company.
In all, prosecutors said more than 150 investors lost about $47 million between 2003 and 2008. Of the total, investigators said Cantens and his wife skimmed about $20 million for other business ventures, to pay themselves more than $5 million in salaries and to pay children and grandchildren $1 million in "consulting fees" even though they did no work for Royal West.
Cantens could be ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution, but it's doubtful that he has any means to do so. Royal West is being liquidated in the bankruptcy case and Cantens has been unable to pay a $5.3 million judgment in the SEC case.
Arango said most investors have gotten only about 3 cents on the dollar from the bankruptcy proceeding.
"The anguish, pain and suffering here has been immense," he said.
AP -
Police
are
searching
a
highly
conservative
Bosnian
Muslim
village
looking
for
evidence
related
to
an
attack
on
the
U.S.
embassy
in
Sarajevo
last
October.
AP
-
Mitt
Romney's
newly
released
tax
returns
provide
more
than
an
accounting
of
the
Republican
presidential
candidate's
remarkable
personal
wealth.
The
documents
also
give
a
rare
glimpse
into
tithing
to
the
Mormon
church
by
one
its
most
prominent
members.
The
Christian
Science
Monitor
-
Mitt
Romney
makes
a
lot
of
money.
But
he
and
his
wife,
Ann,
also
give
away
a
significant
amount
of
their
wealth
to
charity
and
especially
their
church.
AP -
The
House
on
Tuesday
passed
two
bills
endorsing
the
use
of
religious
symbols
at
military
memorials.
One
writes
into
law
the
propriety
of
displaying
religious
markers
at
war
memorials
while
the
other
orders
that
the
Interior
Department
add
to
the
World
War
II
Memorial
in
Washington
a
plaque
with
Franklin
Roosevelt's
prayer
to
the
nation
on
D-Day.
Reuters
-
Greece's
private
creditors
pleaded
on
Tuesday
with
European
officials
who
rejected
their
bond
swap
offer
to
hammer
together
a
deal
before
Athens
tumbles
into
a
chaotic
default.
AP -
Fifteen
Muslims
on
Tuesday
won
conditional
dismissals
of
charges
stemming
from
an
amusement
park
disturbance
that
started
when
women
were
told
they
couldn't
wear
religious
headscarves
on
some
rides.
Reuters
-
Germany
and
France
pressed
Monday
for
a
rapid
deal
between
Greece
and
its
private
creditors
that
cuts
its
soaring
debt
to
sustainable
levels
and
said
they
were
committed
to a
sealing
a
new
bailout
for
Athens
by
March
to
avert
a
disastrous
default.
Reuters
- A
cache
of
ancient
Jewish
scrolls
from
northern
Afghanistan
that
has
only
recently
come
to
light
is
creating
a
storm
among
scholars
who
say
the
landmark
find
could
reveal
an
undiscovered
side
of
medieval
Jewry.
Reuters
-
Euro
zone
finance
ministers
will
decide
on
Monday
what
terms
of a
Greek
debt
restructuring
they
are
ready
to
accept
as
part
of a
second
bailout
package
for
Athens
after
negotiators
for
private
creditors
said
they
could
not
improve
their
offer.
AP -
Many
church-affiliated
institutions
will
have
to
cover
free
birth
control
for
employees,
the
Obama
administration
announced
Friday
in
an
election-year
move
that
outraged
religious
groups,
fueling
a
national
debate
about
the
reach
of
government.
Reuters
-
The
Obama
administration
on
Friday
ruled
that
religiously
affiliated
nonprofit
organizations,
including
hospitals
and
universities,
will
have
to
offer
birth-control
coverage
to
women
employees
but
gave
the
organizations
an
extra
year
to
comply.
Reuters
-
Three
British
Muslim
men
were
found
guilty
on
Friday
of
stirring
up
hatred
by
distributing
leaflets
calling
for
the
death
of
homosexuals
in
what
prosecutors
said
was
a
landmark
case.
AP
-
Aleeza
Adelman
teaches
Jewish
studies
at a
Jewish
school,
yet
she
considers
herself
a
teacher
whose
subject
is
religion,
not
a
religious
teacher.
She's
rethinking
how
to
define
her
job
after
a
recent
U.S.
Supreme
Court
ruling
left
her
wondering
what
could
happen
if
she
ever
needed
to
defend
her
right
to
keep
it.
Reuters
-
Presbyterians
opposed
to
gay
clergy
split
from
the
church
on
Thursday,
announcing
in
Orlando
a
new
denomination
called
the
Evangelical
Covenant
Order
of
Presbyterians.
AP
-
Pope
Benedict
XVI
says
Roman
Catholics
in
the
U.S.
need
to
understand
the
"grave
threats"
to
their
faith
posed
by
what
he
calls
radical
secularism
in
the
political
and
cultural
arenas.
AP -
A
Muslim
death
row
inmate
has
settled
a
lawsuit
that
accused
the
Ohio
prison
system
of
denying
him
meals
prepared
according
to
Islamic
law
while
providing
kosher
meals
to
Jewish
prisoners.
Reuters
- A
newly
installed
Roman
Catholic
priest
has
been
removed
from
his
suburban
New
York
parish
after
church
officials
on
Thursday
said
he
secretly
fathered
a
child
while
attending
seminary.
AP
-
The
Greenville-Spartanburg
area,
home
to
many
of
South
Carolina's
evangelical
voters,
should
be
prime
political
ground
for
Rick
Santorum,
a
longtime
anti-abortion
crusader
who
was
embraced
by a
group
of
Christian
leaders
meeting
last
weekend
in
Texas.
Reuters
-
Using
a
practice
that
made
him
eligible
for
large
tax
deductions,
Mitt
Romney
gave
the
Mormon
church
substantial
stock
holdings
that
he
obtained
through
his
private
equity
firm,
according
to
documents
filed
with
the
government
and
to
Romney
associates.
Reuters
- A
white
man
who
admitted
to
helping
burn
down
a
mostly
black
church
to
protest
against
Barack
Obama's
election
as
the
nation's
first
black
president
was
sentenced
on
Wednesday
to
four-and-a-half
years
in
prison.
Reuters
-
Using
a
practice
that
made
him
eligible
for
large
tax
deductions,
Mitt
Romney
gave
the
Mormon
church
substantial
stock
holdings
that
he
obtained
through
his
private
equity
firm,
according
to
documents
filed
with
the
government
and
to
Romney
associates.
Reuters
-
The
main
suspect
in a
Christmas
Day
bomb
attack
on a
church
just
outside
Nigeria's
capital
escaped
within
24
hours
of
his
arrest,
and
the
police
officers
involved
in
the
case
have
been
detained
pending
an
investigation,
the
government
said
on
Wednesday.
AP
-
Republican
presidential
candidate
Newt
Gingrich
says
a
Muslim-American
seeking
office
in
the
U.S.
would
have
to
publicly
renounce
Islamic
law
to
receive
his
backing.
Reuters
-
The
Supreme
Court
passed
up
the
chance
on
Tuesday
to
hear
controversial
new
cases
about
prayers
before
public
government
meetings
and
punishing
students
for
Internet
parodies
or
attacks
made
on
computers
at
home.
AP -
The
Supreme
Court
has
rejected
an
appeal
from
a
North
Carolina
county
commission
over
the
mostly
Christian
prayers
offered
at
the
beginning
of
its
public
meetings.
Time.com
- A
group
of
125
evangelical
leaders
met
in
Texas
this
weekend
and
after
eight
hours
of
conversation
and
a
final
ballot
taken
on 3
x 5
cards
named
Rick
Santorum
as
their
preferred
GOP
candidate
Time.com
- A
group
of
125
evangelical
leaders
met
in
Texas
this
weekend
and
after
eight
hours
of
conversation
and
a
final
ballot
taken
on 3
x 5
cards
named
Rick
Santorum
as
their
preferred
GOP
candidate
Reuters
- A
Jewish
man
was
under
arrest
on
hate-crime
charges
on
Monday,
accused
of
making
anti-Semitic
telephone
calls
to
his
mother
and
other
elderly
women
and
putting
swastikas
on
apartment
doors,
police
said.
Reuters
-
The
Virgin
of
Charity
of
El
Cobre
is a
gold-clothed,
doll-like
figurine
which,
according
to
Cuban
legend,
three
fishermen
found
floating
in a
bay
as
Spain
colonized
the
region
with
the
sword
and
the
cross.
Reuters
-
North
Korea's
new
leadership
under
the
inexperienced
Kim
Jong-un
appears
to
be
functioning
"relatively
smoothly,"
but
he
has
to
look
beyond
key
ally
China
to
rebuild
its
shattered
economy,
South
Korea's
senior
most
official
on
the
North
said
on
Monday.
AP
-
Parents
upset
by
the
admission
policy
at a
parochial
school.
Clergy
and
parishioners
at
odds
over
use
of
their
building.
A
priest
resisting
a
transfer
to
another
parish.
Reuters
-
Republican
presidential
candidate
Rick
Santorum
took
aim
at
front-runner
Mitt
Romney
on
Sunday
as
he
sought
to
build
on a
late
endorsement
from
evangelical
leaders
and
narrow
the
crucial
South
Carolina
contest
to a
two-man
race.
AP
-
Parents
upset
by
the
admission
policy
at a
parochial
school.
Clergy
and
parishioners
at
odds
over
use
of
their
building.
A
priest
resisting
a
transfer
to
another
parish.