Are you "Y2K- OK" (or occupying till He come):

We have less than four days until the 9/9/99 when certain computers are suppose to go down due to the impending Y2K crisis.  August the 21st has come and gone where the maritime GPS (Global Positioning System) used for navigational purposes, run out to reset it's clocking system back to zero (a mini Y2K type crisis?).  Was there a disaster? Certain ministers of the gospel have already made public their reluctance or refusal to fly on airlines after September '99 with the so-called threat of flight systems crashing pre 2000.  With only four months countdown to go before the next millennium, minus the forecasted panic and run on the banks that was predicted to commence last June, not to mention parts of the internet supposedly going down last January, it would be time to re-examine the spirit of overreaction some of us bible believers may have succumbed to over the last year or so?  Or is a major crisis still lurking over the world coinciding with this event?

It's official!!  New Zealanders have been informed nationally across the news media last July the 21st to prepare for up to three days without power or water (although this is expected to be a worst scenario) over the New Year period according to the Y2K Readiness Commission set-up by the Government.  Now we are being "encouraged" by government sponsored ads on the telly and mail drop (soon as radio competitions, supermarket displays, etc. ) featuring Ken the "loveable" cartoon cockroach teaching us how to prepare a "B ready kit".

Me thinks (as I have said previously in "The Mixture") the whole exercise is one of civil engineering, where society on a global level is being conditioned for major social change along with an excuse to bring in martial law.  We've had the Jupiter Effect of the early eighties, the Haley's Comet fizzer, always with warnings of the tribulation being triggered off.  At the end of the last millennium the same predictions were heralded, without the advanced technology or the global mass media of today.  Unfortunately, it has been Christendom expressing much of the panic and fear in society on these occasions.  Back in the cash of '87 Christian Bookrooms and ministries suffered as many "bible believers" were scarred to spend their money thinking it was "the big one".  But life went on as usual.  At the moment some Christian ministries are struggling as Christian investors are even withdrawing their finance due to the Y2K fiasco.

If Y2K does not prove to be the major calamity it has been "prophesied" to be, then what a "lovely" reason to smack the knuckles of the doomsday "cultist" fundamentalists.  What an "appropriate" way to discredit the Bible and add millions more to the Great Falling Away list.  The Bible speaks about sudden calamity sneaking up like a thief in the night.  Therefore, Y2K could be a bit too obvious to bring in a new global order over night.  This could be why we are now being informed of an array of danger times throughout the year, where there is a continuous chance of glitches occurring at any time, coupled with planned celebrant events throughout, into 2001.  Me thinks the whole idea is to keep the populace on tenterhooks!

This is why it is imperative we heed the command to be constantly ready, with our eyes fixed continually on Him, rather than on the things which are seen.  It also does not rule out exercising some prudence by heeding the newly released warning of Basil Logan from the Readiness Commission.  If we learned there was going to be a major petrol shortage next month, we would make sure we had a bit in storage.  The Civil Defence encourages all citizens to always be ready for disasters such as floods, earthquakes, Tsunamis, and other natural calamities. The early church in Acts prepared for famine when one was prophesied before hand.  Paul was a practical chap!  He helped prepare a fire for his shipwrecked colleagues on the island of Malta.  Then the Lord took care of the rest when he was bitten by a snake (Acts 28: 3- 5) in front of the over-reacting heathen.  Can you see a prophetic picture here?

Not to forget to mention the great psyche-up of millennium mania:  Ephesians 2:2 says:

"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience".

As bible believing Christians what spirit are we in?  Because this "sacred / special day" pump-up certainly needs to be 'kicked into touch!'  There's still sound thinking people around, from radio announcers to Mr. I.M.A. Wally in the street, who call it for what it is ...  hype!!  Folk will go to bed on the 31st of December just the same way as any other night, not understanding what all the fuss is about, coupled with the obsession to stay up all night celebrating a magical touch of an event, which will somehow transform mankind's attitude into blissful thinking.  Not forgetting to mention the fame of being first to see the sunrise on this grand historical occasion ...  viewed as an omen of better things to come.

In fact, well educated, decent civilized man cannot understand why the pagans of old would want to observe the sun the same way they did, and even sacrifice to it.  Yet, ironically, well educated, decent civilized citizens in NZ can find excuses to bring in a Wizard to invoke rain in desperate drought condition times.  Or having our slaughter houses facing Mecca when they kill sheep to appease our Islamic market.  Or make sacrifices to a volcano letting off steam (plus a few thousand boulders and a giant mantle of ash) when the tourist / skiing industry is faced with a second failed season in a row.  All in light-hearted fun of course ...  "Oh hail thou mighty Sun!!".

But what do you expect?  Man can justify anything when it suits the occasion!  Even changing the Babylonian sun disk into "Jesus" every Sunday morning by the magic of a priest. Which proves so-called civilized man is just as superstitious as he ever has been!  And in case you might think it is all just light-hearted entertainment about this sun observance stuff why would our local newspaper reveal the spiritual undertones of our own millennium celebration events ..."with a spiritual dawn ceremony" at it's core. (M.E. 30/7/99)

The aftermath of "Millennium" foolishness (12 March 2000):

It was less than five years ago at our soccer clubs fund raising quiz night one of the questions asked was, "what is a millennium?"  At the time it was not surprising to know no one else in our Quiz Team knew the answer to this unfamiliar word, soon to be added onto the vocabulary of many, in the very near future.  Ask the same question just one year ago and it would have been a give-away question in any quiz, even at a primary school level.

Now we have Millennium mania and Millennium madness.

Well over two months have now passed since the whole system was suppose to go down with a bang and the NWO ushered in over night following massive power failures, airline and transportation disasters, a global economic meltdown, and great political and social upheaval greater than the Second World War, with possible nuclear missiles firing at targets unchecked and at random.  This was according to prominent Watchmen and Prophecy teachers worldwide, along with large parts of the media running in parallel a big Y2K Bug preparation campaign, as a mere precautionary measure "of course".

Although we had previously picked up on bits and pieces of the Year 00 scenario, it wasn't until mid 1998 when renown evangelist, author, worldwide and local speaker Barry Smith (and a good friend of my family) ran a seminar in our town.  The main theme of the three meetings was based on the Y2K bug alert.  Although Barry (to his credit) has apparently made a public apology to this End Time prediction not coming to fruition; at the time I took the warning quite seriously as I started scouring the countryside for a piece of real-estate to sit out the "incoming storm" along with dropping hints to my workmates and those whose path I crossed from day to day.  However, it was only a matter of weeks before I started to realize the Lord was not in my panic mode as I also became suspicious there was an even more sinister (even Satanic) reason for this double edged psyche up of  'uncertainty' being played-off against pumped up 'excitement'.

Sadly, there are those other ministries who refuse to admit they were wrong in regards to the Y2K thing, and along with some secular fraternities who have kept the whole Y2K thing alive by various occurring "danger" points in time, where the whole escapade could kick-off.  F'instance we had certain dates in January when people would be back at work after holiday time booting up business computers simultaneously overloading the system, causing a crash.  Then there was the leap year fear, and nothing major happened.  Next, will be the new financial year commencing the 1st of April, on so on; keeping many on tenterhooks.  Not to mention certain dates last year which may have triggered the Y2K bug off prematurely.

However, despite a few questionable hitches on certain key dates, and always the finger pointing Japan's way with apparent minor upsets in Tokyo, very little actually happened.  Countries like Italy, who never spent money on compliance, had no hiccups.  Not to mention the new economic might of Asia who were supposedly unprepared and the plight of Russia and Eastern Europe.  Again, no blurps in the system; major anyway!

Over a year ago my oldest son took the clock on our PC forward and the words came up "Welcome to Year 2000".  No crash!  Consequently we never spent a single cent or downloaded a single programme for Y2K compliance.  My Brother In-law's outdated, un-updated PC never missed a beat.  Basically, as confirmed by the media about two weeks after January the 1st ...  nothing really happened!

What really happened?  Answer; a major discrediting of Biblical Christianity as various ministries became a public spectacle and fundamentals once again looked like unbalanced alarmists from the lunatic fringe.  Of course, hardly anyone is pointing the finger at large segments of the secular press who beefed up the event as an impending worldwide calamity, as names and personalities were well obscured from public scrutiny.  It was the evangelical so-called watchmen and religious profiteering hucksters who barked the loudest.  Obviously there were those who were sincerely and ignorantly mislead, along with those who were out to make a quick buck.  There was also a much added boost to the mind engineering programme of antichrist, as the world plunged closer under the soften-up and conditioning process, setting the stage for his coming arrival.

Some will still argue (to save face) ...   "it is not all over yet"!  But to get back to the real issue, the bottom line was the 00 "problem"!  In other words the whole crux of the apparent crisis was the clocks striking 00 instead of 2000.  If it didn't happen then ...  then it did not happen at all!  There may have been grounds for a disaster, but in the end there was no disaster!  Does this rule out some sort of money crash or computer glitch will not happen in the future?  No!  Nothing is certain in this life.  But if it did, it would be nothing to do with the Y2K problem.  The Y2K bug simply did not happen.  There was no major glitch in the computer system.  If there is any problem in the future it will be due to another reason, not the clocks striking year 2000.  The 00 scenario was only a oncer for our time, and has come and gone.  End of story!

To say I did nothing on New Years eve would be a lie as I went to bed making sure we had adequate spare food, lighting and water, just in case.  However, I also went to bed after my wife was already 'dead to the world' at 11:15 pm and was sound asleep when the clock ticked over to the new year.  I was also all snuggled up in the 'Land of Nod' when the sun broke the horizon in those few places in our land where the cloud cover was minimum.  When we got up that morning it was business as usual, and it was great receiving emails from all over the world confirming this to be so.

Is. 45:6.   "That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else."

The pattern (the course of this world) is set:

Rev. 17:17-18.  "For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled."

And who can change it?  Absolutely no one!!  Not even the most super "hyper faith'er" or the most ardent Kingdom Theology candidate, let alone the Devil!

"And the woman which thou sawest is that (!!??) great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."

In the religious scene (working hand in hand with the political scene) if one starts to go out of their way to dip into the facts, one can see clearly the Vatican as a keen player behind much of the framework being set up for the New Age.  The reason being ...  no other institution, who claims to be the One True Universal Christian Church on planet earth, has carried so much political clout over the centuries.  Some believe the Catholic Church traditionally has carried 'the goods' but has in recent times through occultic infiltration (Masonic / Illuminati led) wandered off the path to be a key player in the New World Order.

Although (since Vatican Two, and the murder of the 33 day reigning last Pope) the latter part of this argument is true, as the Illuminati Jesuit Order has taken control ...  the truth is the RCC has always been an impostor, built on falsified tradition and the lie Saint Peter was the first Pope.  The true scriptural remnant church is built on no other foundation ...  the truth Jesus Christ is the Rock of our faith.

In the book of Revelation their is chiefly two women:  One being the virgin church, the true bride of Christ, who doesn't fraternize with the world.  The other (who in fact claims the same Bridegroom) being the prostitute church who has sold herself to the world and has a major sway on the world's leaders.

If the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome is truly bonafide (which bible believers know is a fabrication) then it will need to be moved south, and soon, to the city of Jerusalem, the world's capital, for the final millennium.  Hence, the importance of the build-up to Dawn  Millennium Three:

"The future, insists the Pope, holds remarkable possibilities for those who open themselves to the Holy Spirit's intentions.  The year 2000 is actually a door of divine grace.  If we will cross this “threshold of hope” into God's purposes, he says, we can take part in a “new springtime” that heralds the transformation of ourselves, our Church, our nation, and our entire planet."
An Invitation to Celebrate

A major part of preparation for 2000 is the Vatican's Jubilee 2000 programme.  The object of the exercise is to celebrate 2000 years of Christianity taking Christianity into the 3rd millennium with a new attitude.  This is Rome's version of Christianity redefined to suit the New Age.  My Bible gives the following warning:

Proverbs 24:21.  My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

But if we have been brainwashed all our lifetime through the Gregorian New Year pose of  "turning over a new leaf" and making new resolutions at the beginning of the year, then we might be ready to receive the following:

"The year AD 2000 is surely a jubilee of jubilees!"   "Many may see the year AD 2000 as a chance to start again both in personal terms as well as within community and nation. "   "There have been times when Christians have actively persecuted those of other faiths, and in our present multifaith society any celebration of Christian heritage must be accompanied by repentance."
A chance to start again  (colour highlights mine)

The repentance Jubilee 2000 speaks about is nothing to do with, "the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."  But is to do with the great abandoning of fundamental bible believing Christianity through renouncing the last 2000 years of "proselytizing" other faiths, and for it's apparent guilt of not being compatible with, and for wrongly trying to convert others to a Kingdom which is not of this world.  Also, for the inhumane way "Christians" have treated others down through the centuries with religious suppression and forced conversion by the sword.

Really!!  How can an institution, namely the Roman Catholic Church, which is guilty of conversion by the sword and some of the worst atrocities in history, pass this blame onto Jesus' little flock who only want to hear and follow the voice of their Shepherd who said:

John 18:36.  My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Just the other day on National Radio World Report (12:50 pm, 31/8/99) an announcement was made that the Vatican will be making a public apology at the beginning of the New Millennium for it's wrongs over the last 2000 years (to Jews and those of other faiths) and the way it has "used truth with force".  In other words, what the Vatican statement will be meaning is that it has always had the truth, just that it's application was wrong.  And won't the pressure be put on ..."if they can do it (say sorry that is!) so should the Separated Brethren (Vatican ll term for Heretic or Protestant) who do not hold the truth."

Are you guilty my Brother, my Sister, because you believe completely what God says through His word, namely the Holy Bible, and are prepared to put your life on it?   

Triennial history and beyond the veil (Y3K ok):

2 Pet. 3:8.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Back in 1979 I wrote a little booklet called "Trilogy" based on the revelation of a believer living out of the third part (the born again part) of his being ...  the spirit (the inner most man), in conjunction with the third part of the tabernacle in the wilderness (the inner most sanctuary) when a person was reborn into the kingdom of God.  A privilege of this new beginning, under a better covenant, would be the reality of living under an unveiled open heaven in permanent relationship with our Maker, ungoverned by time or events, or an institution getting in the way.

Ps. 90:4.  For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Let's take an analogical look at the chronological/dispensation week in relation to the triune God, His tri-part creation - man, and the triennial history of man:

Man's day was Day Six (when he was created before the sabbath day rest - the seventh).  From Adam to Abraham was 2000 years (enters day three - stage one complete).  From Abraham to the cross was 2000 years (enters day five - stage two complete).  From the cross to the present is approximately 2000 years again (enters day seven - stage three - the sabbath millennium to come, ushered in by the Lord's second coming).  Was this just mere coincidence?  I think not.

Tradition or what God says?:

Hosea 6:2.  After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

After two days (Adam to Christ) he revives us.  Followed by John 20:22 (after the cross) ...  Receive ye the Holy Ghost.

(By the way ...  if you are 'born again' you have spiritually entered beyond 'stage three' now by faith!)

In the third day he will raise us up ...  to heaven.  This is what is referred to as the rapture when we shall live in his sight.  When scripture speaks of in / on the third day or in three days it is usually referring to the completion, not the beginning of the third day as would be understood in today's terminology.

John 2:19. Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Not after two days ...  but three consecutive complete days:

Matthew 27:63. Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver (Jesus) said, while he was yet alive, *After three days I will rise again.

Mark 8:31. And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and *after three days rise again.

Jesus couldn't have died on Good Friday as this would mean He would have spent only one night (Friday night) and one day (Saturday) in the grave.  Or if you believe in the traditional mid Sunday morning resurrection theory, it would've been two nights and one day (including Saturday night).  Still not three consecutive days!

So you still have a problem, where there is an omission of one night and two days.

But religion has a way getting around the facts (or logic) by window dressing events.  Forget what tradition says!  What does God's word say?:

Matthew 12:40. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Couldn't be any clearer or precise!:

Tuesday night Jesus shares the passover (a day earlier than the actual passover meal when He became the passover Lamb fulfilling the law when the passover was officially being observed) then:
Wednesday- preparation.  Jesus is crucified 9.oo am.  Dies at 3.oo pm.   Then placed in the tomb about 6.oo pm.  It is Wednesday night:

Thursday  (passover sabbath, Num. 28:18, 15th Nisan, John 19:31)

Friday  (Mary's decide to embalm Jesus.  Put on hold till after the sabbath )

Friday night   (6.oo pm on - the seventh day of week rest)

Saturday  (weekly sabbath)

Saturday night complete at 6.oo pm, as Jesus is about to rise from the tomb which is found empty by the ladies just before sunrise.  How can you argue with the word of God?:

Matt. 28:1.   In the end of the sabbath (6.00 pm Saturday evening), as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Therefore:

We Westerners tend to forget the chronological time events we are referring to are based on biblical/Jewish time when the first day of the week commenced in the evening after sundown (6.00 pm).  It is not uncommon for Pagan events to commence with the sunrise.  Hence, early Sunday and early "special" day and early Millennium observance.

John 14:19 tells us plainly the day on which Jesus was tried and crucified was the preparation of the passover.  Jesus was not tried and crucified before the weekly Sabbath (Friday), but the day before the Passover Sabbath, in that year falling on Thursday.

Conclusion ...  Jesus was crucified on Wednesday.

Mark 16:9. Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week ...

When Mary Magdalene and the other Mary arrived at the tomb it was very early in the morning (Mark 16:2) when it was yet dark (John 20:1), and obviously Jesus had not immediately risen as they found the giant stone to one side, there was no apparent sign of the Guards, and an angelic man was found inside waiting for them.  Also, there was the linen clothes laid by themselves.  Meaning, everything was done orderly and without haste.

Therefore, obviously the ladies had made a second visit to the empty tomb this time:

Mark 16:2.  And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

1 Corinthians 15:4.  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third *(completed) day according to the scriptures.

Conclusion:  Jesus rose on Saturday night beginning a new biblical week.  Also, a prophetic picture of when His Bride will be taken up at the commencement of the new millennium week.  

The Millennium Week:

Ex. 19:11. And be ready against the third day:

The following chronology supports the dispensational week with prophetic significance:

                                                                                                                                              revived >>>>>>>>>>>>>raised up>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       "            "        "        "
                                                                                                                                           (born again)                           then                                   (raptured - beyond time)

                                                                                                                                      (it is finished)                                                                                                 (Eternal Sabbath Rest)  

Numbers 19:12.  He shall purify himself with it on the third day (type: receiving the finished work after the cross - born again), and on the seventh day (completed - the rapture) he shall be clean (heaven- all things new): but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

God's timetable is not the Gregorian Calendar.  Was it the cross and not the birth that split history in half, contrary to our education, theology, or tradition?  Traditionally we have tended to believe this is proved by Matthew 1:18 carrying on from verse 17.  Does Luke 3:23 suggest the first millennium begun at the beginning of His Ministry after He was filled with the Holy Ghost, just as the Church Age began after receiving the infilling at Pentecost?

However, scripturally, bible believers celebrate the cross not the birth, which procures the pagan Christmas observance:

2 Corinthians 5:16.  Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

Therefore, the true millennium could still be approximately 30 years away.  Which means the Rapture will be sometime between now and the tribulation, Jacob's trouble ...  occurring sometime in the next 20 years approximately.

It may not be this year after all, according to some; or next year, according to "Jerusalem 2000".   But it won't be long!

The realization the Rapture was near (before the physical second coming) brought mixed feelings of fear, excitement and urgency at the time, I had to pen it down and warn others.  

The Millennium short-circuited:

Another truth which became revelation to me (and started to piece together over the following years) was the realization this occurrence had to be spiritually obscured from mankind, as Satan was the master counterfeiter substituting the reality with a spiritual parallel, that would be deceitfully close enough to the truth, but working as a smokescreen in order to draw mankind away from the truth, and into his lie.  With an impending seventh millennium fast approaching, and every sign we were at the end of the last days, it would be in the devil's interest to set up his own millennium, pre-empting the true one where Christ would rule the world from the world's capital Jerusalem.  This way he could also establish his own rule on earth, through hijacking or short cutting the Second Event and replacing the true Christ with himself.  In order for this to be achieved, the Devil would have to 'jump the gun' with his pseudo kingdom, before the true one arrived.

Living out of our spirit (in the kingdom):

1 Cor. 6:20.  "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

Four times in the New testament are we warned with these words ...   let no man deceive himself or let no man deceive you.

The New Age Movement has been so successful infiltrating and undermining the faith of the evangelical / fundamental mainstream by enticing many away from the word of God into fables and seductive heresies, that this mainstream is now becoming a main catalyst for the NAM (New Age movement).  It has also become responsible for aiding the RCC, the WCC, and the EM, with end time impetus.

The more the force (the Devil / Lucifer) behind the NAM could capture the minds of mankind (as he did with Adam and Eve) the greater the momentum for creating a NWO.  Therefore this war would be fought in the mind of man by subverting or by-passing the spirit:

Pr. 25:28.  "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."

The above scripture makes it clear the Lord has created mankind as independent creatures, unlike animals (Ecclesiastes 3:21) who live by instinct without personal responsibility and accountability to both God, man, and himself.  Therefore, the onus would be on the individual as he or she would be answerable to their own decision making, under Heaven.

Pr. 20:27.  "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."

If attention could be withdrawn away from this candle (the spirit) that was dependant on the Lord for life and vitality, then the Enemy could manufacture a substitute spiritual source.

The threfold witness typology:

Job 32:8.  "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding."

Question ...  ?  What does one do when a genuine move of God turns into unbridled mayhem because novices choose to follow ear tickling hucksters instead of pursuing the God of godliness?

Answer:  If one is discerning, he or she will withdraw themselves from it even if it means going back into obscurity.  Why put your minister, or priest, or church, or group, or tradition, above or on the same level as the word of God?

The issue of living out of your spirit is being dead to the world and the flesh, and made alive unto God:

Romans 7:6.  "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."

John 6:63.  "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing"

Rom. 1:9.  "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son"

For without our spirit we are dead (spiritually):

James 2:26.  "For as the body without the spirit is dead"

As 1 Cor. 6:17 says:  "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."  Which means, the spirit of man and the spirit of God are so interwenede in co operation of the soul that the two become one.

How did Adam become a living soul?

Genesis 2:7  tells us:

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground (body, 1), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit, 2); and man became a living soul (3)."

Notice how reference was made to a living soul; not living body.  Because man is a created tri-part being (in the image of God - the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost) ...  the body in conjunction with the physical world (the outer court); the soul the mental / emotional realm (the inner court); and the spirit, the part of man which is quickened by the Spirit of God to commune on this level, (in conjunction with the inner most sanctuary - the holiest of all) in intimacy with His maker.

Hebrews 4:12 (in relation to the effectiveness of the word of God) ...  piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul (1) and spirit (2), and of the joints and marrow (body, 3) ..

1 Thessalonians 5:23.  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit (1) and soul (2) and body (3) be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45.  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

As Jesus the Creator (the Father of spirits) breathed into Adam His spirit (life) and Adam became a born soul, so the Last Adam (Jesus) also breathed on His disciples (after the cross but before the ascension) and they became reborn souls; contrary to the teaching that they were born again at pentecost where they were actually filled (baptized) with the Spirit:

John 20:22.  "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost".

The Promise made:  Acts 1:5 ...  "but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" ...  The Promise fulfilled:  Acts 2:4 ... "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost".

When the Lord comes to us He is making contact with, responding to, our spirit first, in the reservoir of our soul.  That's why the spirit indeed is willing (the born again part surrendered to God), but the flesh is weak.  It's the flesh, the body, that needs to be brought into subjection to the spirit, therefore co-operating with the Spirit of God so the whole man (1 Thes. 5:23) can walk blameless, discerning between the counterfeit and the bonafide, religion and the kingdom of God.  Because when the natural man lives in the flesh he cannot receive the things of the Spirit.  Spiritual things are only spiritually discerned, as it is in the spirit where the Lord makes His abode. 1 Cor. 2: 12-14.

Ezekiel 37:5.  "Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones (the body); Behold, I will cause breath (spirit) to enter into you (the soul), and ye shall live".

Ezekiel 37:6.  "And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin (the outer man), and put breath in you (the inner man / spirit), and ye shall live (living soul); and ye shall know that I am the LORD."

Isaiah 63:11 ... "where is he that put his holy Spirit within him (the inner man Eph. 3:16)?"

If the Lord chooses to manifest Himself through by-passing our spirit, to our soul (mind) or body first, how could we get the witness or assurance it was God and not another spirit, as our spirit would be dormant.  Therefore, anything would go (hence; the Charismatic Movement, Toronto, the Weird and Wonderful, Cultural resurgence, and so forth) as our spirit would not be able to detect infiltrating counterfeiting influences functioning independently of the Spirit of truth.

The first Holy Ghost assurance, Romans 8:16:   "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God".

Hebrews 10:15;  the witness of the Holy Ghost of the New Covenant.

1 John 5:6 ...  "And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth."

What does the Spirit bear witness with?  The spirit according to Rom. 8:6!

1 John 5:10.  "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself (in the inner man)".

The Lord cannot deny Himself (or us) and act independently of our spirit in manifesting Himself or motivating us without our consent:

1 Cor. 14:32.  "And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets."

Satan and his deceiving / seducing spirits are the ones who try and intrude into our lives.  In undiscerning religious circles the carrot is nice happy feelings, uppers, and sensationalism, counterfeiting the presence of God.  This is why they entice the flesh with feelings, or the soul with emotions.  Music and "new and exciting" forms of worship are great devices in the hands of the Devil.  The Lord doesn't lure, entice, seduce or gatecrash.  He inspires, enlightens, reveals, leads, so that we will draw near to Him, whereas He will then respond to us.  This way we choose to follow, unlike a bound religionist who is compelled, and acts on impulse not guidance.

There are many scriptures in the Bible about our God given right over our own spirit to make independent / individual choices towards Him.  The Psalms are full of them for a start.  Here is just another couple:

Pr. 3:31.  "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."

Joshua 24:15 ...  "choose you this day whom ye will serve".

It's true; the Lord co-operates with us as we are actively co-operating with Him.  He cannot move where there is passivity as the choices we make can restrict or release Him in our lives.  A docile attitude gives the Devil an opening to suggest, arouse, enter and lead astray by persuasion of the mind (soul).  The object of the operation is to keep our spirit faculty active in Him (through the word) who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

2 Cor. 10:5.  "Casting down imaginations (fables, false dreams and visions), and every high thing (tradition, philosophy, dogma and religiosity) that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God (His word), and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ".

How does your spirit witness to this?  

Getting back to the Sun thing:

The new Holy Roman Empire had a problem when it started christianizing pagan gods and events to please both the Christians and the heathen so it could be acceptable to all, expand and justify her position as Mother over all the earth.  The problem:  The Jews!!  They blocked the way to the Eternal City, the capital of the world, Jerusalem.  And they believed in the seventh day rest.  Which was diametrically opposite to the pagan first day observance.  Hence; the Crusades, the Dark Ages, the Inquisition and the persecution of the Jews right up to "a defender of the (catholic) faith" Adolph Hitler.  With  Jerusalem ...  still out of Her clasp!

Something happened after WW2:  An alliance was forged between the Vatican and the Masonic influenced USA, and strengthened after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  The conditionele ...one would rule the world economically (although this could pass onto Europe after America is judged) while the other would rule the world spiritually. This would mean the end of Protestant dominion as we have known it.  It would be replaced with a  New World religion, to take us into the 21st century (the day of the Sun), where the new rising sun would be a symbol of a new horizon, a new beginning for planet earth ..."our new utopia of togetherness without the biblical Jesus Christ!"

With much of the Protestant and Orthodox world already buying into the Sunday / Lords Day, the pagan world already based on some form of sun veneration (with the Roman Church leading the modern way, due to her "authority" to change the fourth commandment), the Jewish world would also have to be won over.

But there is still a problem; and it is the issue of the Sabbath and Sunday scenario.

But what if an agreement was arranged where the two could be seen as one?  Of course ...  in Rome's favour:

Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D., a Seventh Day Minister who was the first non-Catholic to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 450 years, and awarded a gold medal from the Pope, has written a book bridging the gap between the Sabbath and the RCC Sunday.  In his book "The Sabbath Under Crossfire" he reflects on Pope John Paul ll's call for redefining the Sunday Sabbath, where he comments on how the Pope has departed from the traditional distinction the Church has made between Sabbath and Sunday, implying Sunday is no longer distinct from the seventh day but is a fulfilment of it.  The author also makes this remarkable statement:

"The Pope's reflections on the theological meaning of the Sabbath are most perceptive and should especially thrill Sabbatarians."

This comment, along with other statements being made, will help bridge the gap between Seventh Day Protestants and the Jewish community as well as Sunday adherent Christendom.

With this accommodation from both sides of sabbath spectrum being sought, we will see a more general acceptance of the Day of the Sun creeping in.  This mitigating effect was possible due to the RCC officially changing the Seventh Day to the so-called Eighth Day, as she claims this right as the Official representative of Jesus Christ on earth.

She also claims it to be the third commandment:

"The most recent Holy Spirit message I received has to do with the importance of keeping
God's Sabbath Commandment during the end times. (Being Catholic, I will refer to this as the Third
Commandment but I am aware that Protestants consider it the Fourth Commandment. The number is not important -- the Sabbath message is."

The Catholic Church believe the Popes have the authority to change the word of God, which incidentally, gives him more authority than God as God said he cannot deny himself, cannot lie, and that the scripture cannot be broken.

As you read on, and whether unbeknownly, or purposefully,  you will see this mitigating effect taking place.  This would allow for Israel to officially tie herself to the Mother of all religions along with a few other accommodating factors:

"The exchange between Rome and Jerusalem is more than a diplomatic document," said David H. Strassler, ADL National Chairman, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.  "It proclaims freedom of religion and a mutual commitment to fight racism, anti-Semitism and any form of intolerance.  It is an agreement marked by time, the Holocaust, Vatican II, and the implications of a sacred Jewish land."
HISTORIC DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE VATICAN / ADL (colour highlight mine)

The official agreement between Israel and the Vatican must be one of the most ironical manifestos of the last millennia, as the Vatican was behind most of the brutal anti-Semite campaigns in the past.  After the Vatican signing a concordat with Nazi Germany the holocaust was placed in full swing, and just recently the public has been made aware how Switzerland (the rich "neutral" nation whose guards guard the Vatican) had a big part to play when the doors were closed across Europe so the Jews could not escape, and how Jewish gold was being used through the Swiss banks to aid the Nazis war machine.

Read "A Woman Rides the Beast" by Dave Hunt and you will see much documented evidence of why the Vatican choose to remain silent during and after the Holocaust, why she helped thousands of  Nazis war criminals escape capture by the Allies through the Vatican 'Ratlines' to South America, not to mention Her systematic persecution of the Jews during the Dark Ages and Inquisition.

On the eve of the New Millennium is it imperative the Pope wins the hearts of the people of Israel despite Her history.  This is why a 'millennium' public apology is on the cards.  Over the last few years there has been a major PR campaign to whitewash history and to come out smelling like a rose.  The Millennium being the ideal smokescreen:

"Discussions between British rabbis and the Vatican have led to a breakthrough in Jewish-Catholic relations, promising a new era of friendly partnership, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.  It said they reached an agreement in Rome last week to end 2,000 years of antagonism by accepting each other's legitimacy and working together rather than against each other.
LONDON (January 20, 1999 8:48 p.m. EST   (colour highlight mine)

If the seventh day sabbath is the rest then the New Millennium (the seven-thousandth-rest) has to be changed to Sun Day, to fit Rome's criteria, pre-empting the biblical 1st day new heaven and new earth.  The Vatican is already bridging the Sabbath / Sunday /  Lord's Day debate:  

"The rediscovery of the Sabbath observance, the Holy Father continued, is "among the urgent priorities in the life of the Church today."  For many believers, he said,  Sunday has become simply the "end" of a "weekend." Rather, he insisted, it should be a day-long celebration of the Resurrection. "Sundays should be  sanctified, in obedience to the 3rd Commandment,"
VATICAN UPDATE FROM CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS FOR JULY 6, 1998  (colour highlight mine)

In order for the Sun to have prominence at the dawning of the New Millennium it would have major significance for Sunday's resurgence:

"In a new apostolic letter, to be released July 7, Pope John Paul II calls upon the faithful to preserve the Sunday Sabbath.  The new papal letter, entitled Dies Domini, will be introduced at a press conference on that date, chaired by Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medin Estevez, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.  During his recent trip to Austria, the Holy Father offered a preview of his thoughts on the topic, when he urged the Catholics of Vienna to "do everything possible to protect the Sabbath!  Show that that day cannot be a day of work, because it is celebrated as the Lord's Day."
5 Jul '98  Vatican Information Service   (colour highlight mine)

Is Sunday the Lord's Day?:

Lets start first by looking at the Lords day when John on the island of Patmos was granted revelation by the Spirit of God:

Rev. 1:10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day ...

By desperate measures people try to link this 'one only' verse to justify Sunday as the Lord's day.  However, they cannot come up with one shred of proof to prove this is so.  Therefore, we conclude this theology is assumption only, based entirely on hearsay.  At its worst is ...  Christianized Babylonianism.  By letting the Bible speak for itself we see the Lord's Day, or the Day of the Lord, is future ...  when the Lord will have His day, by pouring out His wrath upon the earth 's rebellious Christ- rejecting multitudes.

Today, is our day!  The believers day!  The day of grace:

John.  4:23.   But the hour cometh, and now is ...

2 Co 6:2 ... behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Heb. 3:7 ... as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice ...

Heb. 3:13.  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day ...

John was taken in the Spirit, by vision, into the future, where he witnessed many horrific things coming to pass when the Lord would have His day.

The sabbath, the seventh day principle, runs right through scripture.  By missing it we can unconsciously be dishonouring our Lord as Creator as the scriptures cannot be broken:

God's principle ...  work six days then rest, acknowledging our Maker created the world in six days, then rested and consecrated the seventh day.  This is long before Abraham, before Israel became a nation, before the ten commandments were inscribed.  If you can destroy this principle, then you would be able to destroy the whole bible.

Babylon's principle ...  pay homage first, then go out and work six days.  No personal Creator to acknowledge ...  only a "higher power" who demands unconditional allegiance first, along with formal acknowledgement.  In other words ...  blind submission.  No time to question.  To weigh things up.  To evaluate.  To draw your own conclusions.
 

God's way ...  Ecc.  7:8.  Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof...

Babylon's way ...  instant gratification.  The now generation.
 

God's way ...  honouring the God of Creation through received revelation.

Babylon's way ...  venerating the sun, the evolving earth, through 'cosmos consciousness'.
 

God's week ... sunset to sunset (the sun diminishing), Saturday evening to the following Saturday evening.  The word of God.

Babylon's week ...  sunrise to sunrise (the sun appearing), Sunday morning to the following Sunday morning. The traditions of man.  

Note:  Jesus rose early on the first day (God's time) of the week (after 6.00 am Saturday evening) when the sun was going down.  Metaphorically of the Sun of righteousness descending down into the Nether world, snatching the keys of death and hell from the Devil, and freeing Paradise and it's occupants from it's buried confinements in the bowels of the earth.

The Sun of righteousness rising with healing in his wings was first on the scene this day, beating the sun created, just as the true light arrived before the created sun in Genesis.  After all, He made it.  He controls it.  Three days earlier He blotted it out, when the Romans sacrificed Him to their sun god on the cross.  Then the earth was plunged into darkness as the Roman sun god had no control over the events.  Because this whole episode, from the anguish in the garden, to the cross, to Jesus' triumphant resurrection, was totally in God's plan and purpose, without one hiccup, or a hitch on His part.

As the seventh day was a divine principle, Israel (His people) were commanded to observe and consecrate it as unto the Lord, as a witness to the world of their great Creator.   Who will reinstitute it universally, by the way, during the millennium sabbath reign of King Jesus on earth, after both the rapture of the Church and the Great Tribulation.  Here Natural Israel will be a light unto the world, successfully this time, before the new heavens and the new earth come into being.

In regards to Sunday:  This is a Protestant hangover when they broke away from the Church of Rome during the Reformation.  It has been the main tie to Mother (along with communion and the clerical system) since they departed, and has always been the bridge for the return of her Daughters (the separated brethren); the Protestant denominations.

To be really free from her yoke, Christians need to renounce their spiritual association with this deeply entrenched day ...  Sunday.  For this day (spiritually speaking) has a strong hold and the Vatican is pulling every string to make it an international, universal, compulsive holy day.  Watch the UN!  It could be interesting?  Good old Uncle Sam will most likely "kick it off".

I am reminded when on occasions I take my family camping at a Christian holiday camp over the New Year period (booze free!).  On the Sunday morning, while I'm laid back on a deck chair soaking up the tranquil holiday atmosphere, the awesome surrounding native forest, the odd bell bird chanting in the background:  Here I observe the steady flow of men folk converging in the direction of the faint hymnal sound (where the hall is situated) for the Sunday morning "Communion Service".  Like they were programmed and responding to duty, and fulfilling their weekly obligation.  It seems to be more compelling, more entrenched in the men than the woman folk, whether they be from a Brethren or a "renewed" nominal type background.  Like they were pretending to be the leaders instead of 'being' leaders.

Pity these men weren't free to crowd round the camp fire at night and break bread (share scripture that is) out of personal experience in real New Testament fellowship (all right, Koinonia ... if you want the Greek!).  A real shame they couldn't get it together with their families, like building a relationship with their love starved rebellious teenage son, or wayward daughter, or even their unfulfilled wife.  Responding to their needs instead of the calls of their business cellular phone, or being absent "out fishing" with their mates (business associates).  But of course, this would mean taking the bull by the horns and stepping out of their cozy (religious) comfort zone.

By the way!!  Like religious schizophrenics, the youth turn it on for them in the ragey 'night club' type evening service.  Enough said!  Let's look at the two scriptures that are bent to New Testamentalize Sunday:

Acts  20:7. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

This was actually a Saturday evening, not morning, when they came together.  And the bread (supper) was not eaten till sometime after Paul's speech (after midnight, verse 11) the next morning.  Go on ...  check it out!?  When you consider the evening supper turned morning breakfast was unplanned, it changes everything eh!

Next:

1 Co r. 16:2.  Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

These were actually Jewish believers who were used to doing business on the first day of the week, the Jewish day of reckoning, after the sabbath.  The collectors went from house to house (not necessarily that evening) where the true remnant church was found (no gatherings that day), collecting for the brethren in another town who had been hit hard by a famine.  Nothing to do with collecting tithes and offerings in an auditorium.  Nothing to do with responding to a mellowed sustained note on an electronic keyboard, or crowd engineering.

Acts 11: 29-30.  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability (not 10%), determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:  Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Then how does the principle of the sabbath tie in under the New Covenant?

From the Old Testament we see that the sabbath and circumcision are related.  For instance, both were required with Abraham, the father of our faith, and later both incorporated into the law with Israel.

John. 7:22. Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

So circumcision and the sabbath went together.

From the book of Romans and Galatians we can see clearly that circumcision is not a requirement for salvation.  What was it then?:

Circumcision:  Rom.  4:11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Circumcision was a sign ...  first a natural sign for Israel in the flesh as they were geographically separated unto Him.  Now a spiritual one for the Body of Christ, as we are spiritually separated unto Him.

In other words, as our flesh is now spiritually cut-off by being in Christ, God recognizes us as being spiritually circumcised, set apart for Him.  No outward requirement necessary!  Okay for medical or health reasons only.

Sabbath:  Ex. 31:17.  It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Likewise, the Sabbath is also a sign ...  first a natural sign for Israel in the flesh as they were a ritualized worship unto Him.  Now a spiritual one for the Body of Christ, as we are a spiritual worship unto Him.

Again, no outward requirement necessary.  But okay if you want to put a day aside for a sleep-in and tell the Boss six days is enough!

To say as Christians living under the New Covenant the Sabbath is still a physical requirement would be the same as saying we were still under Circumcision as a physical requirement.  Of course, Abraham is our father according to the promise, not circumcision, tithing, or the sabbath.  He is our father according to faith, not legal formality.

Heb.  4:8.  For if Jesus had given them rest (the children of Israel in the wilderness), then would he not afterward have spoken of another day (Christ our rest, our sabbath).

Therefore Jesus is our rest, our sabbath, not a physical 24 hour day.  

A little (uncensored) history:

In order for Lucifer to be enthroned on earth instead of Jesus Christ he would have to neutralize the tiny little nation of Israel from whence came the seed.  Pharaoh's army did not succeed.  Neither did Nebuchadnezzar, Haman, Herod, the Inquisitions, then finally the Holocaust.  But a "new baby" has been hatched ...  ecumenicalism!  With the catch phrases of interfaith, religious tolerance, unity with diversity, reconciliation, building bridges, better understanding.  Deceitfully accommodating and wonderfully effective!

"A separate chapter will be the actual celebration of the Great Jubilee which will take place simultaneously in the Holy Land, and in the local Churches throughout the world. "
(Pope John Paul II, "Tertio Millennio Adveniente", November 10, 1994, No.55)

But is this also a universal acceptance by other religious groups and faiths?:

"Interreligious Dialogue Message on Jerusalem: City of Peace?  A group of Jews, Christians and Muslims from Israel/Palestine and from other parts of the world gathered together under the auspices of the World Council of Churches, the Holy Sea’s Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews, the Pontifical Council for Inter religious Dialogue and the Lutheran World Federation in Salonika, a city with a long history for Jews, Christians and Muslims."
From Origins, CNS documentary service October 3,1996 Vol. 26: No.16 (colour highlight mine)

Although the RCC is only one of many organizations which is instigating the NWO, it must also be recognized as a major player, as it is the main religious body (carrying more weight than Islam) in Internationalizing Jerusalem, and the main influence of anti-Semitism throughout history.  As a joint religious political body it also has the most influence over the UN than any other denomination, and will be the official religion of the new United Europe, just as it was with Fascist Spain, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the 30's.  

Jerusalem - Capital of the world:

According to the late Alberto Rivera, ex- Jesuit Priest, the Vatican has historically laid claim to the ownership of Jerusalem all along as it has always believed Jerusalem to be the world's eternal capital.  This status is now becoming more openly acknowledged as the day draws near:

"The Pope saw it in the past, he sees it now and warn the whole World over the issue of Jerusalem. When he speaks in different languages, he wants to say to every People, Government, State and Organizations, national and international that Jerusalem is the CAPITAL of everyone who believes in ONE GOD, and no one has the right to claim exclusive rights over JERUSALEM."
Jerusalem and the Vatican 2   (colour highlight mine)

And because the Vatican believes itself to be God's chosen institution on earth, it also has the right to the Holy City.  This view is no longer a secret but is openly expressed by Rome:

"Accordingly this Agreement did indeed have a profoundly positive impact upon Catholic-Jewish relations throughout the world.  It also meant much more than just a diplomatic normalization, but rather served as the basis for a special relationship between the Holy See, the Catholic Church and the State of Israel, in which the latter undertook to give "full legal effect" - that is to say, de jure recognition - to the Catholic Church's authority in the Holy Land."
(colour highlights mine)

Wow!!  What an incredible statement to make!!  Time is very short!  

The Vatican/Jerusalem connection:

Pr. 11:21.  Though hand join in hand (World Unity), the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous (The Remnant) shall be delivered (the Rapture).

As there was an unholy Roman (political) and Jewish (religious) alliance against God's Anointed at the commencement of our age, so shall there be a similar political / religious alliance at the conclusion of this age:

Ps. 2: 1-2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed ...

All parties guilty - both Jew and Gentile;  Hebrew and Roman:

Acts 4: 27-28.  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Jubilee 2000 (Roman apostasy) is out to redefine (or reinvent) Christ and present a neutral gospel through the New Evangelism of the New Millennium, as the Hebraic Roots Movement (Jewish apostasy) is out to rename Christ and deprive the world and the Believer of the Name above all names, the only name whereby man can be saved.  Which is beginning to fit the one world ecumenical package:

"The God that we believe in is the Same for all of us. He is God, Allah, Adonia, Yahweh, the MOST HOLY ONE, Hashem for all of us."
Jerusalem and the Vatican

This is why we can now see why Jesus warned the Jews they would fall for another name:

John 5:43. I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Does Rome still hold Jerusalem as important:

"The Vatican plans to establish Jerusalem as the capital of  the world.  According  to the will of the Vatican, Jerusalem could become the capital of the world. The one-sided claim by Israel does not justify the equality of Muslims and Christians and their claim to the Holy City, according to Secretary of the Cardinals, Angelo Sodano.  In a press release, the pope invited all people to create conditions in which Jerusalem should fulfill its calling as a city of peace to the honor of God. The Vatican is willing to supply finances for such an undertaking.  According  to Catholic dogma, Jerusalem is the most important city universally for the 900 million Catholics on planet Earth."
(Topic, 3.98, p.5, translated from the German, Postfach 1544, D57206, Kreuztal, Germany)  (colour highlight mine)

Because of Rome's justification of the three faiths claim to Jerusalem, it would take a third party to administer the unity between the three.  That third party being the Vatican.

This whole ordeal is happening under the noses of the Israeli people as they relinquish their land for guaranteed peace:

"Israeli analyst and author Victor Mordecai says the key to war and peace is in Washington, and that the top leadership in the U.S. has "sold out" to the Islamic agenda. "If they can take away Pristina in Kosovo, which is the 'Jerusalem' of the Christian Serbian Orthodox church, then they'll say, 'Well, we took the Christian 'Jerusalem' away from the Serbs, we can take the Jewish Jerusalem away from the Israelis. Fair is fair.' "
Lands for peace talks?

How can a nation survive when their very capital validates their existence?  Especially, when their land is being divided up and whittled away piece by piece, at the expense of their defence boundaries.  But of course Israel will never experience peace in their land until they accept the Prince of Peace, their true Messiah ...  the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Vatican denies Jewish claim to City of David:

Even with it's ecumenical change of stance towards Israel and the Jews, coupled with it's vocal concern for the future of the City, the Vatican, hand in hand with the UN, still does not recognize Israel's legitimate / biblical right to it:

"...The Holy See's (the Vatican) attitude with regard to the territorial situation of Jerusalem is necessarily the same as that of the international community. The latter could be summarized as follows: the part of the city militarily occupied in 1967 and annexed and declared the capital of the state of Israel, IS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, and all Israeli measures which exceed the power of a belligerent occupant under international law are therefore null and void.  In particular, this same position was expressed, and is still expressed, by Resolution 478 of the United Nations security Council, adopted on 20 August 1980, which declared the Israeli "basic law" concerning Jerusalem to be "null and void", and which invited countries with Embassies in Jerusalem to move them elsewhere."
Jerusalem and the Vatican (2) By Rev. Labib Kobti 3.9.1997

Also using the claim by the American archaeologist John Worrell at Jerusalem 6000:

"The area now called Jerusalem has hosted human residence for at least six thousand years. Two- thirds of that time it has been known to outsiders by a recognizable form of the modern name.  Archaeological and textual evidence indicate that it has probably always been a remarkably open, inter-ethnic city.  For only a little more than 1% of those six millennia did it serve as the recognized capital of a unified nation called Israel spanning the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea"

If the Jews claim to the world capital was sanctioned by the so-called International Community and initiated, Rome would be denied access to it's administration and eventual control.  This would also block the way to the soon coming world leader who the Jews will have no option but to receive as Messiah through his guarantee of security, who in the end betrays the Jews with drastic results.

People of Israel ...  Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, eternally your Messiah!!  

The Past written off:

Ecclesiastes 6:6. "Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told (2000), yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?"

President Clinton has called for the poor nations debt to be cancelled so as "to encourage prosperity in the New Millennium".  That's 41 nations mainly in Asia, Africa, and South America.  Under riding these good intentions the question that needs to be asked ...  "what conditions had to be signed to the IMF in order to secure this handout?"  This backs up what the Vatican has been calling for through Jubilee 2000.

We also have the agenda of the Treaty of Rome, now called the EU (European Union) and the clandestine Club of Rome, who have been a major catalyst in planning and interlocking the nations into a global economy.

In 1964 our country New Zealand (the NWO's chosen experiential nation) was debt free, until we borrowed with secret conditions attached.  It wasn't till 20 years later however, when a New Right government (masquerading as a left wing party) was elected were the Conditionalities effected in the form of the catch phrase word Restructuring  ...  to bring in efficiency and save money.  Which soon became known as Corporatization ...  so governmental departments would become more answerable.  Which soon became known as Privatization ...  so these departments could start making a profit to put back into the country.  Which was a gradual and stealthy way of selling off all our nations assets to offshore multi-nationals, with the money going out of the country and giving the multi-nationals more international clout than ever.  Now the for next catch phrase Globalization ...  "We now have no choice but to go global!"

Therefore, this exercise wasn't to pay off our debt so that we would no longer have this noose around our neck, but a deliberate hidden plan to make the noose tighter!

Our debt in 1984 was 14 billion with assets.  Now in 1999 our debt exceeds well over 101 billion with very few assets left.  We no longer own our country.  Did the government (and the successive government) get it wrong?  Nope!  It was all part of The Plan to weaken our government and eventually sell out our national sovereignty so it could be ruled from an international agenda.  This undercut plan has been executed with such precision it has now been packaged and sold to other nations under the guise of "economical viability".  It's results have been massive closedowns of factories, unemployment, increased welfare expenditure, increased fees and extra charges, social disruption and stress, confusion, despondency, increased crime, increased suicides, and so forth.  (If this is not happening to your country it soon will!)

The draw-card bribe ...  generous redundancy packages (a nice way to get the sack), access to cheaper electronic goods, the abundance of instant gratifying amusement technology, with tax cuts sometimes thrown in.  At a terrible and alarming cost!

Don't worry about 2000 to make a commitment.  Do it now?  Make sure it's the right one ...  breaking family or ancestral ties, patriotic or cultural ties, denominationalism, sectarianism, and holyday bondage.  With full surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ!

2 Corinthians 6:2 ... behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
 

  1999.  Updated last 30/10/06 NZ.