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Arokya
14 September 2010 at 1:01 pm

அடிப்படையிலேயே பல குளறுகளை கொண்ட ஒரு கதை பற்றி எந்த சந்தேகமும் கொள்ளாமல் அதைப் பின் பற்றுபவர்களைப் பற்றி ஆச்சரியப் பட வேண்டிஉள்ளது.

1. உலகத்தைப் படைத்த தெய்வம் சாத்தானையும் படைத்ததா?

ஆம் என்றால் எதற்காகப் படைத்தது? இல்லை என்றால் பின் அது எங்கிருந்து வந்தது? யாரால் படைக்கப் பட்டது?

2 . உலகத்தைப் படைத்த தெய்வம்தான் சிறப்பானது என்றால், தெய்வத்தால் படைக்கப் பட்ட முதல் மனிதர்கள் ஏன், அதன் சொல்படி கேட்காமல் சாத்தானின் சொல்படி கேட்டு நடந்தார்கள்? அப்படி நடந்தால் அது யார் செய்த தவறு?

3.தன்னால் படைக்கப் பட்டவர்கள் சாத்தானின் சொல்படிதான் கேட்பார்கள் என்பதை அறிய இயலாத ஒன்று, தெய்வம் என்ற தகுதிடையதா?

அறிந்திருந்தால் பின் ஏன் சாத்தானை அங்கே உலவ விட்டது?

4.நல்லது கெட்டதை அறிய உதவும் அறிவை ஏன் அது முதல் மனிதற்கு கொடுக்கவில்லை? முட்டாளைப் படைத்த அது வணங்குதற்கு உரியதா?

இதிலுள்ள பல சந்தேகங்களுக்கு விடை இல்லை.
இனி ஒருபடி மேலே போய், அடுத்த கட்டத்தைப் பார்த்தால் அது மஹா கேவலமாக உள்ளது.

5.முதல் மனிதர்களான இருவர் மூலம் எப்படி ஒரு சந்ததி, நாட்டு மக்கள், உலக மக்கள் உருவானார்கள்?

குழப்பங்களின் ஒட்டு மொத்தமான ஒரு கதையை நம்பி, கூச்சலிட்டுக் கொண்டு திரிவது மூடத்தனமில்லையா?? ஒரு கணம் சிந்தித்துப் பாருங்கள்!

சிலர் தான் செய்வது இன்னதென்று அறியாமல் செய்கிறார்கள்.அறிவை மழுங்கடிக்க முயலும் கூட்டத்தை அடையாளம் கண்டு அவர்களை மீட்க முயற்சிப்போம்.

அன்புடன்,
ஆரோக்யசாமி

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Ancient culture and revelry revealed in new finds

By ZUZANA BARAK AND BEN HARTMAN
09/17/2010 01:42

Archaeological dig in Gush Etzion reveals Herod’s private theater, restored at Herodion.

The box, situated at the center of the theater’s upper section, used to be fully open to the stage and offered the best seats in the building, reserved for the king and his guests.

The excavation of the box was conducted by Prof. Ehud Netzer, under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology.

Netzer was immediately struck by an intricate pattern of wall paintings and plaster moldings in a style unusual for Israeli art at that time.

“There should be no doubt whatsoever that the box was decorated by Italian artists, sent to Herod probably by Marcus Agrippa who, before he visited the region in 15-10 BCE, had met with Herod on the famous Greek island of Lesbos; 15 BCE is also our dating of the theater, which, of course, is not coincidental,” Netzer told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Herod’s fascination with Italian art went hand in hand with his love for the lavish lifestyle it symbolized, Netzer said.

Though Herod was born a Jew, he came from the tribe of Edomites, who were forced to convert under the Maccabees around 130 BCE.

“Herod therefore was kosher, but not too kosher,” Netzer laughed, adding that “Herod’s compromise of the Jewish Law can be seen in his decoration of the royal box, which contains scenes of the countryside, the Nile River, a large boat with sails, but also trees, animals and human beings. Since Herodion was built in the countryside, I presume that Herod’s guests were of the liberal sort.”

The data accumulated during the excavations indicate that the theater was used for less than 10 years.

“It surprised us to discover that the glory of this impressive building, which must have cost Herod a fortune, was in the end short-lived,” Netzer said. “It seems to have been deliberately destroyed shortly before Herod’s death [in 4 BCE] in order to preserve the conic shape of the artificial hill that surrounds it. It is also quite possible that Herod did not want anyone to enjoy the theater after his death, but that remains a pure speculation.”

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is restoring the site, which should be reopened to the public next year.

Netzer revealed to the Post that the royal box was actually discovered in 2008 together with the theater, but that the Hebrew University needed to find a sponsor who would make sure that a special protective structure is put around the room to ensure its preservation for future generations.

The Tyche fresco find announced by the University of Haifa is believed to date to the beginning of the Byzantine period, between the 3rd and 4th centuries CE.

According to Greek mythology, maenads were “groupies” who followed Dionysus while dancing furiously and carrying a thyrsus, a phallic device that symbolizes sexuality and fertility.

Prof. Arthur Segal and Dr.

Michael Eisenberg of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa said that although the private residence where the finds were dug up existed during the Byzantine period, when Christianity was adopted and wiped out idol worship, remnants of such beliefs remained.

The residence is believed to have belonged to one of the city’s elites. Excavators came across an inner courtyard with a fountain inside, and next to the fountain they found the fresco of Tyche, who they believe was revered by the city as their goddess of fortune.

Shortly thereafter, they uncovered the maenad nearby.

The Sussita excavations have been carried out for the past 11 years within the Sussita National Park, and are being assisted by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority

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Excavation uncovers evidence supporting mosaic Jerusalem map

BY MARK REBACZ
02/11/2010 04:42

The map, from the Byzantine period, is the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Land of Israel.

For the first time the main road of Jerusalem, dated 1,500 years ago, has been discovered. An Israel Antiquities Authority archeological excavation in the heart of Jerusalem’s old city confirms a description of the road on the Madaba Map – an ancient mosaic map from the sixth century CE, measuring eight by 16 meters, and located in a church in Madaba, Jordan.

The map, from the Byzantine period, is the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Land of Israel. What is notable on the map is the illustration of the entrance to Jerusalem from the west via a very large gate that led to a single, central thoroughfare on that side of the city.

Various evidence of the important buildings in Jerusalem that appear on the map has been uncovered over the years, but the large bustling street from the period when Jerusalem became a Christian city has not been discovered until now. The reason is that no archeological excavations have taken place in the region due to its centrality and the general busyness of the area.

But now, because of the need for a thorough treatment of the infrastructure at the location, the Jerusalem Development Authority has initiated rehabilitation work and is renewing the area’s infrastructure.

Dr. Ofer Sion, excavation director of the site, recalls, “After removing a number of archeological strata, at a depth of 4.5 meters below today’s street level, much to our excitement we discovered the large flagstones that paved the street.”

The flagstones, more than a meter long each, bear cracks from the burden of centuries.

According to Dr. Sion, “It is wonderful to see that David Street, which is teeming with so much life today, actually preserved the route of the noisy street from 1,500 years ago

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The Exodus story is fictitious

The other day I decided to read about the plagues that the biblical God allegedly inflicted upon Egypt as told in the Bible. I have always had some big problems with this tale so I will touch on some of the most pressing ones in this post. I will break down the plagues and their aftermath and also point out the many discrepancies with this story both within the text, and the lack of historical and archeological evidence to corroborate this story.

The exodus of Israel (the name given to the Jews by God)out of Egypt can be found in your bible in the book of Exodus chapters seven through fourteen. According to the tale Israel had been enslaved in Egypt for a period of four hundred years. God commissions Moses to go and speak to the Pharaoh and demand that he let his people go. Because Pharaoh did not comply his nation was afflicted with a series of plagues brought on by the biblical deity.

Here is where I have my first problem with this story. In Exodus 7:3,13 and 14:4 and in other places it states that God had hardened the heart of Pharaoh so that he would not comply. Whatever happened to free will, and why did God do this to Pharaoh? Well, the bible is very clear on why. He was introducing himself to his "chosen" people and wanted to demonstrate his power through signs and wonders. The most disgusting and disturbing statement in the scriptures is that God say's that for this very purpose he rose up Egypt to show his power. In short he used Egypt to make an example of them and to strike fear into the hearts of other nations.

The first thing he did was to turn the rod of Moses into a serpent but I did not want to go into that since it was not something that was harming the people of Egypt in general. So we will move on to the next one. According to the story he turned all the waters of the rivers in Egypt into blood. In fact any water they had in their homes in jugs were also turned to blood. As a result of this all the fish of these waters died and the stink and contamination made the water undrinkable. The fact that it was blood should have made it undrinkable in the first place.

The next thing was a plague of frogs that happened to come out of those same rivers in which all the fish died. When the frogs literally blanketed the land, after some pleading from Pharaoh, they all die and were set in a humungous pile. The next thing he did was to turn the dust of the land into lice. Of course more pleading and a promise to comply to Gods demands led to the removal of the plague.

After the lice he then sent a plague of flies which pretty much drove everyone crazy they were more of a nuisance I think. Next, God starts getting down and dirty and what he does is kill all of the cattle and livestock in Egypt. What fault did the cattle have? Here is where the story begins to disintegrate even more. The next thing he does is afflict men and beast with boils. But wait a minute! Didn't he previously kill all the livestock in Egypt? He must've resurrected them and the authors of the book of Exodus forgot to mention it.

He then sent plagues and pestilence and vowed to wipe Egypt off the face of the earth as a nation. Of course, after the plagues that did not happen he took away the plagues and the pestilence and everything was alright again. Next he hit Egypt with a storm of fire and hail or fiery hail and according to this story it killed every man, beast,herbs, and trees in the field. Note this is the second time he killed all the livestock of Egypt.

The plague that followed was that he sent a swarm of Locust upon Egypt. It was so bad that they ate every tree, herb, and fruit in the fields. Another fumble! Didn't the fiery hail already do this? The next plague was three days of darkness all over Egypt. Could this be a solar eclipse that only affected Egypt? What a miracle!!

The next plague came in the form of God sending the angel of death to Egypt to kill every firstborn son of every Egyptian household. And not just the sons but also those firstborn of the beast of the field as well. So for a third time he is killing beast in this tale. Finally, Pharaoh tells Moses go and worship your God and he frees the Hebrews. But wait once again God hardens his heart and he decides to go after them to get them back. He supposedly chases them down with his army which included 600 chariots.

Pharaoh manages to pin them down at the Red Sea or Sea of Reeds depending on which theologian you speak to. And God parts the waters so that the Hebrews can cross it on dry land, but when Pharaoh attempts to pursue them the water closes upon him and his entire army. According to this tale Egypt should have been wiped off the face of the Earth, but as we all know it was not.

First of all this story has so many contradictions which I have pointed out that it is obviously a fabrication. Second there is no archeological evidence or historical records that corroborate this story. There has never been found a single sign of Hebrews enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, or evidence of their 40 year sojourn in the Sinai desert, no sign of the Pharaoh's army which is hard to believe. Those chariots were made of gold yet we have not managed to find a single chariot wheel or remnants of chariots which the tale states there were 600 of them. I find this hard to believe! And finally, the bible conveniently does not mention which Pharaoh endured all of this calamity. In fact there are no Egyptian records that allude to a Pharaoh and his entire army drowning at sea.

Also, it was customary that the firstborn son of Pharaoh would normally be the heir to the throne. But as this tale states all the men of Egypt were killed and all the firstborn sons were killed as well. If this had ever occurred then it would have ended the dynasty of the Pharaohs altogether. As you have seen through this post I have proven that the bible is nothing more than fabricated history. I once heard in a documentary that all of these tales were made up to aggrandize the God of Israel and to lift them up as a nation as well. I firmly believe that there might be some truth to this theory.

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உலகத்தின் முடிவு

“End of the World” .

மத்.28:20; உலகத்தின் முடிவு பரியந்தம் .. நான் உங்களுடனே இருக்கிறேன். உலகத்தின் முடிவு என்றால் எரிந்து அழிந்துபோகும் என்று சாதாரணமாக அனைவரும் கூறுவர்.

முதல் உலகம் ஜலப்பிரளயம்:
ஆதி.6:11-13;  பூமி கொடுமையினால் நிறைந்திருந்தது. நான் அவர்களை பூமியோடுங்    கூட அழித்துப்போடுவேன்.
ஆதி.6:17 ;  பூமியிலுள்ள யாவும் மாண்டுபோம்.
2பேது.2:5;  பூர்வ உலகத்தையும் தப்பவிடாமல் தேவன் அதை ஜலப்பிரளயத்தில் அழித்தார்.
2பேது.3:6; துன்மார்க்க மனிதர்களும், அவர்களுடைய பொல்லாத ஏற்பாடுகளும் அழிக்கப்பட்டது. சொல்லர்த்தமான பூமி அழிக்கப்படவில்லை.

ஏனெனில்,
ஆதி.8:13-17 ஜலப்பிரளயத்திற்கு பிறகு நோவாவின் குடும்பமும்,சகலஜுவஜந்துக்களும் ,
இப்பூமியில், அரராத் என்னும் மலையின் மேல் இறங்கி பிறகு இப்பூமியில் ஜூவராசிகள் பெறுகினது. வேதாகம பாஷையின் படி “இவ்வுலக முடிவு” என்பது ஒரு சந்ததியோட அழிவு. (or) யுக ஏற்பாட்டின் முடிவைக் குறிக்கிறது.

பூமி
ஏசா.45:18; வானங்களைச் சிருஷ்டித்து பூமியையும் வெறுமையாயிருக்கச் சிருஷ்டியாமல் அதைக் குடியிருப்புக்காக செய்து படைத்து ….
சங் 115:16; வானங்கள் கர்த்தருடையவைகள், பூமியையோ மறுப்புத்திரருக்குக் கொடுத்தார்.
பிர.1:4; ஒரு சந்ததி போகிறது; மறுசந்ததி வருகிறது. பூமியோ என்றென்றைக்கும் நிலைத்திருக்கிறது. (சாலமேன் ஞானி)
சங்.104:5;  பூமி ஒரு போதும் நிலைபேறாதபடி அதின் ஆதாரங்கள் மேல் அதை ஸ்தாபித்தார்.
சங்.119:90 ;  பூமியை உறுதிப்படுத்தினீர். அது நிலைத்திருக்கிறது.

2வது உலகம்

துன்மார்க்க மனிதர்களும், அவர்களுடைய பொல்லாத ஏற்பாடுகளும் அழிக்கப்படும். சொல்லர்த்தமான பூமி அழிக்கப்படாது.

எபி.1:10-12; கர்த்தாவே, நீர் ஆதியிலே பூமியை அஸ்திபாரப்படுத்தினீர். வானங்கள் உமது கரத்தின் கிரியைகளாயிருக்கிறது. அவைகள் அழிந்துபோம். நீரோ நிலைத்திருப்பீர். அவைகளெல்லாம் வஸ்திரம் போல் பழைமையாய்ப்போம். ஒரு சால்வையைப் போல் அவைகளை சுருட்டுவீர் . அப்பொழுது மாறிப்போம்.
சங்.102:25-27; அவைகளை ஒரு சால்வையைப்போல் மாற்றுவீர்.
2பேது.3:10; கர்த்தருடைய நாள் இரவிலே திருடன் வருகிறவிதமாய் வரும்.அப்பொழுது வானங்கள் மடமட என்று அகன்றுபோம். பூதங்கள் வெந்து உருகிப்போம்.பூமியும் அதில் உள்ள கிரியைகளும் எரிந்து அழிந்துபோம்.
வெளி .7:14; வானமும் சுருட்டப்பட்ட புஸ்தகம் போலாகி விலகிப்போயிற்று. மலைகள் தீவுகள் யாவும் தங்கள் இடங்களைவ விட்டு அகன்று போயிற்று.
வெளி.7:17; இவைகள் எல்லாம் அவருடைய கோபாக்கினையின் நாளில் நடக்கும்.

அப்பொழுது இருந்த இப்பொழுது இருக்கிற புதிய வானமும்
வானமும் பூமியும் வானமும் பூமியும் புதிய பூமியும்

முதல் உலகம் 2வது உலகம் 3வது உலகம்

ஜலம் அக்கினி அழியாதபூமி

----------------6000 வருடங்கள்------------------------------ 1000 வருடங்கள்........

வானம் - வானத்தில் உள்ள ஏற்பாடுகள்; பூமி – பூமியிலுள்ள ஏற்பாடுகள்;
முதல் உலகத்தில் இருந்த வானமும் பூமியும் அழிந்தது போல, இப்பொழுது இருக்கிற வானமும் பூமியும் அழியும்.

உலக முடிவின் போது ( அதாவது இப்போதுள்ள சாத்தானின் யுகம் முடிவடையும்போது) என்ன நடக்கும்?
“மகா உபத்திரவம்”
மத்.24:6 ; முடிவு உடனே வராது.
மத்.24:8 ; வேதனைகளுக்கு ஆரம்பம்.

மத்.24:21,22 ; உலகம் உண்டானது முதல் இதுவரைக்கும் சம்பவித்திராததும் இனிமேல் சம்பவியாததுமான மிகுந்த உபத்திரவம் அப்பொழுது உண்டாயிருக்கும். (மாற் 13:19;)
அந்நாட்கள் குறைக்கப்படாதிருந்தால், ஒருவனாகிலும் தப்பிப் போவதில்லை.
தெரிந்து கொள்ளப்பட்டவர்களின் நிமித்தமோ அந்நாட்கள் குறைக்கப்படும். (மாற் 13:20)

லூக்.21:26; வானத்தின் சத்துவங்கள் அசைக்கப்படும். ஆதலால் பூமியின் மேல் ஆபத்துக்குப் பயந்து எதிர்பார்த்து இருக்கிறதினால் மனுஷருடைய இருதயம் சோர்ந்துபோம். (ஏசா.34:1-3,4)

லூக். 21:35; பூமியிலெங்கும் குடியிருக்கிற அனைவர் மேலும் அது ஒரு கண்ணியைப் போல வரும். (ஏசா 24:17)

7வது கலசம்.

சத்தங்களும்,இடிமுழக்கங்களும் மின்னல்களும் உண்டாயின. பூமி மகவும் அதிர்ந்தது. “பூமியின் மேல் மனுஷர்கள் உண்டான நாள் முதற்கொண்டு அப்படிப்பட்ட பெரிய அதிர்ச்சி உண்டானதில்லை.” வெளி.16:17,18;
வெளி.16:21; அந்த கல் மழையினால் உண்டான வாதையின் நிமித்தம் மனுஷர்கள் தேவனைத் தூஷித்தார்கள். அந்த வாதை மகா கொடியதாயிருந்தது.

ஏசாயா.24-ஆம் அதிகாரம்; ஏசாயா.34-ஆம் அதிகாரம்
எரே.25:31-38; 33- பூமியின் மேல் எருவாவார்கள்.
தானி.12:1 ; ஆபத்துக்காலம் வரும்
செப்.1:18 . தேசமெல்லாம் அழியும்
(செப்.1:15-18.) தேசத்தின் குடிகளெல்லாம் சடிதியாய் நிர்மூலம் பண்ணுவார்.
இவைகளிலிருந்து,யுத்த ஆயுதங்களாலும், அணு குண்டுகளினாலும்,அக்கினியினாலும்
விஷவாயுவினாலும் பட்டணங்களெல்லாம் சுட்டெரிக்கப்பட்டு நாசமாக்கப்படும். தேசங்கள் பிரேதங்களால் நிறைந்து எருவாக்கப்படும்.

ராஜாக்கள்

சங்கீதம்.2:10; ராஜாக்களை அழிப்பார். ராஜ்யங்களையம் அழிப்பார்.

மதத் தலைவர்கள்

ஏரே 25:34-38 மதத் தலைவர்கள் . மத ஸ்தாபனங்கள் அழிப்பார்.

ஜசுவரியவான்கள்

யாக்கோப்பு 5:1-5 ; ஜசுவரியவான்கள் . அவர்கள் ஆஸ்தியும் அழியும்.

சாட்சியாகப் பிரசங்கிக்கப்பட வேண்டும்

மத் 24:14 ; ராஜ்யத்தினுடைய இந்த சுவிசேஷம் பூலோகமெங்குமுள்ள
சகல ஜாதிகளுக்கும் சாட்சியாகப் பிரசங்கிக்கப்படும். அப்பொழுது முடிவு வரும். ( முந்தி பிரசங்கிக்கப்பட வேண்டும். மாற் 13:10)

பாழாக்குகிற அருவருப்பு

மத் 24:15;பாழாக்குகிற அருவருப்பைக் குறித்து தானியேல் தீர்க்கதரிசி சொல்லியிருக்கிறானே.

தானி 9:27; அருவருப்பானவன் செட்டைகளோடே பாழாக்குகிறவன் வந்து இறங்குவான். தானி 12:6 ஆச்சரியமானவைகளின் முடிவு வர எவ்வளவு காலம் செல்லும்?
தானி 12:7 ஒரு காலமும்------------------ 1 வருஷம்       =    360 நாள்கள்
                           காலங்களும்------------ 2 வருஷம்       =    760 நாள்கள்
                           அரைக் காலமும்----  3 ½ வருஷம்   = 1260 நாள்கள்
                                                             360 × 3 ½         = 1260 வருஷங்கள்.             பாழாக்குகிற அருவருப்பு கி.பி.539-ல் தொடங்குவதாக வைத்து கொண்டால்  கி.பி.539 +கி.பி. 1260=கி.பி.1799  பரிசுத்த ஜனங்களின் வல்லமையைச் சிதறடித்தல் முடிவு பெறும்போதே இவைகளெல்லாம் நிறைவேறி தீரும் .
தானி 12:9 ; முத்தரிக்கப்பட்ட இந்த தீர்க்கதரிசன வார்த்தைகளை முடிவு காலமாகிய கடைசி காலத்தில் உணர்ந்து கொள்ள கூடிய காலம்.
(தானி 12:10 ) ........வரைக்கும் காத்துயிருந்து சேருகிறவன் பாக்கியவான். (12:12)பாக்கியமான காலம்.

மகா வேசியாகிய R.C சபையை எப்பொழுது பழி வாங்குவார்?
வெளி 19:2 …. தம்முடைய ஊழியக்காரரின் இரத்தத்திற்காக அவளிடத்தில் பழிவாங்கினாரே. …
வெளி.17 ,18 அதிகாரத்தில் சொல்லப்பட்ட மகா வேசியாகிய R.C சபையை எப்பொழுது பழி வாங்குவார்.வெளி.6:9-10 ; எது வரைக்கும் பழி வாங்காமலும் இருப்பார்?
வெளி 6:11 ; அன்றியும் அவர்கள் தங்களைப்போலக் கொலை செய்யப்படப் போகிறவர்களாகிய தங்கள் உடன்பணிவிடைக்காரரும் தங்கள் சகோதருமானவர்களின் தொகை 1,44,000 நிறவாகுமளவும் இன்னும் கொஞ்ச காலம் இளைப்பாற வேண்டும்.
இந்த வார்த்தைகளை உற்றுப் பார்க்கும் போது, கி.பி.1799-ல் பாப்பு பயஸ் VI-ஐ நெப்போலியன் சிறை பிடித்த போது R.C சபையை தேவன் தம்முடைய ஊழியக்காரருக்காக பழி வாங்கி விட்டார் என்று கூறுவோமாகில்,
வெளி.6:11ன் படி 1,44,000 தொகை கி.பி. 1799 ல் நிறைவு பெற்றுயிருக்குமே.

இதே கருத்தை தானி 7:21,22 .
      1. நீண்ட ஆயுசுள்ளவர் வருமட்டாகவும்
      2. நியாவிசாரிப்பு உன்னதமானவருடைய பரிசுத்தவான்களுக்கு கொடுக்கப்பட்டு, பரிசுத்தவான்கள் ராஜ்யத்தை சுதந்தரித்து கொள்ளுமட்டுமாகவும்,
தானி 7:22. (இந்த கொம்பு பரிசுத்தவான்களோடே யுத்தம் பண்ணி, அவர்களை மேற்கொண்டது.)
கி.பி.1799 ல் இந்த கொம்பு (R.C சபை ) அழிக்கப்பட்டது எனில்
1. நீண்ட ஆயுசுள்ளவர் வந்துவிட்டார்.
2. நியாய விசாரிப்பு செய்யும் அதிகாரம் பரிசுத்தவான்களுக்கு கொடுக்கப்பட்டது.
3. பரிசுத்தவான்கள் ராஜ்யத்தை சுதந்தரித்து கொண்டார்கள்.
என்று பொருள்படும்.
இதை வெளி 20:4 ; கி.பி 1799-ல் நியாய விசாரிக்க அதிகாரம் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது என்றால்,அவர்கள் உயிர்த்து கிறிஸ்துவுடனே 1000 வருஷம் அரசாண்டார்கள் என்ற வார்த்தை படி 1000 வருட அரசாட்சி ஆரம்பமாயிருக்குமே! மேலும் புதியவானமும் புதிய பூமியும் உண்டாகி மூன்றாம் உலகம் ஆரம்பமாயிருக்குமே!

மகா பாபிலோனுக்கு எப்படிப்பட்ட அழிவு ஏற்படவேண்டும்?

மகா பாபிலோனுக்கு கி.பி. 1799 ல் அழிவு ஏற்பட்டது எனில் எப்படிப்பட்ட அழிவு ஏற்பட்டது ! எப்படிப்பட்ட அழிவு ஏற்படவேண்டும்? என்று சிந்திப்போமாகில்
வெளி 18:21 இந்த மகா பாபிலோன், இனி ஒரு போதும் காணப்படாமற்போகும்.
வெளி 17:16 அவளை நெருப்பினால் சுட்டெரித்து போடுவார்கள்.
வெளி 18:8 அவள் அக்கினியாலே சுட்டெரிக்கப்படுவாள்.
வெளி 18:6 அவளுடைய கிரியைகளுக்கு தக்கதாய் அவளுக்கு இரட்டிப்பாய் கொடுத்து தீருங்கள்.”
இப்படி அழிவு வந்த பின்,
வெளி 18:22,23 எக்காளக்காரருமானவர்களுடைய சத்தம் இனி உன்னிடத்தில் கேட்கப்படுவதில்லை. மகா பாபிலோனுடைய சத்தமும், அவளுடைய குமாரத்திகளுடைய சத்தமும் இன்னும் முன்னிருந்ததைப் பார்க்கிலும் அதிகமாய் கேட்கப்படுகிறதே! இவர்கள் இருவரையும் இன்னும் காணுகிறோமே! மத் 24:24 ல் சொல்லப்பட்ட தீர்க்கதரிசனத்தை நிறைவேற்ற பாபிலோனின் குமாரத்தின் ஆதிக்கத்தை அதிகமாக காணுகிறோமே!

சகரி. 2:7 ல் சொல்லப்பட்டபடியே பாபிலோன் குமாரத்திகள் இன்னும் இருக்கும் வரையில் சியோனும் இன்னும் இருக்கும் என்று அறிகிறதினாலே.
வெளிப்படுதலில் 18:21 ல் சொல்லப்பட்ட “ காணப்படாமற் போகும்” என்ற அழிவு இன்னும் ஏற்படவில்லை என அறியலாம்.
இன்னும் ஒரு சாட்சி :
தானி 7:21 -ல் சொன்னபடி நீண்ட ஆயுசுள்ளவர் வருமட்டுமாக, பரிசுத்தவான்களோடே யுத்தம்பண்ணி அவர்களை மேற்கொண்டது.

அத்திமரம் உவமை (லூக்.21:29-31)

29. அன்றியும் அவர்களுக்கு ஒரு உவமையைச் சொன்னார்: அத்திமரத்தையும் மற்றெல்லா மரங்களையும் பாருங்கள்.
30. அவைகள் துளிர்க்கிறதை நீங்கள் காணும்போது வசந்தகாலம் சமீபமாயிற்றென்று அறிகிறீர்கள்.
31. அப்படியே இவைகள் சம்பவிக்கிறதை நீங்கள் காணும்போது, தேவனுடைய ராஜ்யம் சமீபமாயிற்றென்று அறியுங்கள்.
32. இவையெல்லாம் சம்பவிக்குமுன் இந்தச் சந்ததி ஒழிந்துபோகாதென்று மெய்யாகவே உங்களுக்குச் சொல்லுகிறேன். மத்.24:32-33, என்றபடி

(அத்திமரம்--இஸ்ரயேல் வம்சத்தார் ; அத்திமரம் துளிர்த்தது--கி.பி. 1948)
கி.பி. 1948-ல் தேவனுடைய ராஜ்யம் சமீபமாயிருக்கிறது என்பதிலே எந்த மாற்றமும் இல்லை.

அர்மகெதோன் - 6வது கலசம் வெளி.16:16
அர்மகெதோன் என்னப்பட்ட இடத்திலே அவர்களை கூட்டிச் சோர்த்தான்.
(எசேக்கியேல் 38-39 அதிகாரங்களில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது. )
38:18-23; கோகு, மாகோகு (ரஷ்யா) அவர்களோடு கூட (38: 5-6) திரளான சேனைகள் எருசலேமுக்கு விரோதமாக வரும்காலத்தில் (எருசலேமானது
• சுகமாய் குடியிருக்கும்
• மதில்கள் அற்ற கிராமங்கள்
• தாழ்பாள்கள் இல்லை
• 38:12 கதவுகள் இல்லை )
சத்துருக்களை மகா பயங்கரமான தண்டனையோடு கூட தேவனே அழித்துப் போடுவார். இஸ்ரயேலருக்கு தேவனே பாதுகாப்பாக இருப்பார்.
சகரியா.14:12-15; 14:1-3எருசலேமுக்கு விரோதமாய் யுத்தம் பண்ணுகிறவர்களுக்கு வரும் அழிவு.சகரியா.12:1-6 சகரியா 12:5. தேவன் துணையால் பெலனானோம் யூதாவின் தலைவர் தங்கள் இருதயத்திலே சொல்வார்கள்.
அநேகம் ஜாதிகள் …
எசே 38:23 .. அப்பொழுது நான் கர்த்தர் என்று அறிந்து கொள்வார்கள்.
எசே 39:21 என் மகிமையை நான் புறஜாதிகளுக்குள்ளே விளங்கப் பண்ணுவேன். …. எல்லா ஜாதிகளும் காண்பார்கள்.
39:22 ; இஸ்ரயேல் வம்சத்தாரும் அறிந்து கொள்வார்கள். இப்படி இஸ்ரயேலர் நிமித்தமாக நடக்கப்போகும் அர்மகெதோன் என்னும் யுத்தமே, உலகிலுள்ள சகல ராஜ்யங்களையும் அழிக்கப்போகும். மகா உபத்திரகாலமாய் தொடர்ந்து சாத்தானுடைய யுகமாகிய இந்த 2ஆம் உலகம் முடிவடையும்.

2ஆம் உலகமுடிவு.

1. மாம்ச இஸ்ரயேலர் -------------விரோதமான ஜனங்களின் அழிவு.
2. ஆவிக்குரிய இஸ்ரயேலர்-----விரோதமான மகா பாபிலோன் அழிவு.
1 +2 = அழிவு உலக முடிவு.

மாமிச சரீரத்தில் ஆளுகை             ஆவிக்குரிய சரீரத்தில் ஆளுகை
செய்கிறவர்கள்                      +        செய்கிறவர்கள்                                =  உலக முடிவு
தெரிந்து கொள்ளபடுதல்                  தெரிந்து கொள்ளபடுதல்
முடிவடைதல்                               முடிவடைதல்

                                        2ஆம் உலகம் அக்கினியால் அழியுமா?

முதல் உலகம் சொல்லர்த்தமான ஜலத்தினாலே அழிந்தது போல இரண்டாவது உலகம் சொல்லர்த்தமான அக்கினியால் அழியுமா?
மத் 24:36 “ நோவாவின் காலத்தில் எப்படி நடந்ததோ, அப்படியே மனுஷகுமாரன் வரும் காலத்திலும் நடக்கும். “
2பேது,3:5-6 பூர்வ காலத்தில் தேவனுடைய வார்த்தையினாலே உலகம் ஜலப்பிரளயத்தினாலே அழிந்ததென்பதையும்…
3:7 இப்பொழுது இருக்கிற வானங்களும் பூமியும் அந்த வார்த்தையினாலேயே அக்கினிக்கு இரையாக வைக்கப்பட்டு ….
  முதல் உலகத்தில் சொல்லப்பட்ட ஜலம் என்ற வார்த்தை சொல்லர்த்தமானது போல அந்த சொல்லர்த்தமான வார்த்தையினாலேயே அக்கினிக்கு இரையாக வைக்கப்பட்டு ….
                                      சோதோம் கொமோரா திருஷ்டாந்தம்

2பேது.2:6 சோதோம் கொமோரா என்னும் பட்டணங்களையும் சாம்பலாக்கிக் கவிழ்த்து போட்டு, ஆக்கினைக்குள்ளாக தீர்த்து பிற்காலத்திலே அவபக்தியாய் நடப்பவர்களுக்கு அவைகளை திருஷ்டாந்தமாய் வைத்து. …
2பேது.3:10 பூமியும் அதிலுள்ள கிரியைகளும் எரிந்து அழிந்துபோம்.
3:11 . இப்படி இவைகளெல்லாம் அழிந்து போகிறதாயிருக்கிறபடியால் நீங்கள் எப்படிப்பட்ட பரிசுத்த நடக்கையும் தேவ பக்தியும் உள்ளவர்களாய் இருக்க வேண்டும்.
3:17 … இவைகளை முன்னமே நீங்கள் அறிந்திருக்கிறபடியால் அக்கிரமக்காரருடைய வஞ்சகத்திலே நீங்கள் இழுப்புண்டு உங்கள் உறுதியிலிருந்து விலகி, விழுந்து போகாத படிக்கு எச்சரிக்கையாய் இருந்து … அவரை அறிகிற அறிவிலே வளருங்கள்.

லூக்.17:29 ; லோத்து சோதோமை விட்டுப் புறப்பட்டநாளிலே வானத்திலிருந்து அக்கினியும், கந்தகமும் வருஷித்து எல்லாரையும் அழித்துப் போட்டது.
லூக்.17:30 ; மனுஷகுமாரன் வெளிப்படும் நாளிலும் அப்படியே நடக்கும்.

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1. யாக்கோபுடன் கர்த்தர் சண்டை போட்டு தொடைச்சந்துக்குள் கையைவிட்டு யாக்கோபின் மர்ம உறுப்பை கர்த்தர் பிடித்தது நியாயமா?
2. தந்தையே தான் பெற்ற மகளை திருமணம் முடிக்கலாம் என்ற கேவலத்தை சட்டமாக பைபிள் சொல்லலாமா?
3. உடலுறவு கொண்ட பின்பு தனது மனைவி கன்னிதானா என்பதை சோதிக்க பாதிரியாரிடம் கூட்டிக்கொண்டு போகச் சொல்லி பைபிள் சொல்லும் சட்டம் சரிதானா?
4. அடிமைப்பெண்களுடன் உடலுறவு வைக்கலாம் என்று அல்லாஹ் கூறும் சட்டத்தை விமர்சிக்கும் நீங்கள் உங்களது வேதத்தில் அண்ணன் பொண்டாட்டியை தம்பி அனுபவிக்கலாம் என்று எழுதி வைத்துள்ளீர்களே இது நியாயமா?
5. உங்களது பைபிளில் புருஷசம்யோகத்தை அறியாத இளசுகளாகப் பார்த்து உங்களுக்காக வைத்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள் என்று கர்த்தர் சொல்லுகிறார். இது சரியா?
6. ஒருவன் செய்த தவறுக்காக அவன் பொண்டாட்டியை அடுத்தவன் அனுபவிக்க வேண்டும் என்று சொல்லி சாபம் போடும் கர்த்தரின் சாபம் சரிதானா?
7. ஊனமுற்றவனும், கூனனும், குருடனும், ஆணுறுப்பு அறுக்கப்பட்டவனும், விதை நசுங்கியவனும் கர்த்தருடைய சபைக்குள் வரக்கூடாது என்று சொல்லி அநீதியிழைக்கும் கர்த்தரின் சட்டம் சரியா?
8. இறந்த சிங்கத்தின் உடலுக்குள் தேனீ கூடுகட்டுவதாக பைபிளில் சொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளதே! இது நடக்குமா?
9. இராஜாக்களின் முலைப்பாலை குடிக்கச் சொல்லி பைபிள் போடும் கட்டளையை எப்படி நிறைவேற்றுவீர்கள்?
10. சிம்சோன் என்ற நல்லவர்(?) செய்த சில்மிஷங்களின் பட்டியல்களுக்கு பதில் என்ன?
11. ஒரு வயது போன தாத்தாவை வளைத்துப் போட தனது மருமகளுக்கு வழிகாட்டிய மாமியாரின் மன்மத லீலைகளுக்கு பதில் என்ன?
12. வீட்டுக்கு குஷ்டரோகம், ஆடைக்கு குஷ்டரோகம் என்று பைபிள் சொல்லும் அதிசய குஷ்டரோகத்திற்கு உங்களது பதில் என்ன?
13. மாதவிடாய்ப் பெண்களைத் தொட்டால் தீட்டு, அவள் உட்கார்ந்த இடத்தைத் தொட்டால் தீட்டு, தொட்டவனைத் தொட்டால் தீட்டு என்று கொடுமையான சட்டத்தை பைபிள் சொல்லக் காரணம் என்ன?
14. சபையில் பெண்கள் பேசக்கூடாது என்று சொல்லி பெண்ணுரிமையை(?) பைபிள் பேணக்கூடிய லட்சணம் என்ன?
15. ஸ்தீரியிடத்தில் பிறந்தவன் சுத்தமாவதில்லை என்ற பைபிள் கூற்றுப்படி ஏசு அசுத்தமானவரா?
16. விருத்தசேதனம் செய்யாதவன் ஜெருசலத்திற்குள் வரமாட்டான் என்று பைபிள் சொல்லும் முன்னறிவிப்பு பொய்யாகி விட்டதே!
17. சிரங்கு வந்த மொட்டைத்தலையனோ அரை மொட்டையனோ தீட்டு, தீட்டு என்று கத்தினால் சொறி, சிரங்கு போய்விடும் என்று பைபிள் சொல்லும் அற்புதச் சட்டத்தின் விளக்கம் என்ன?
18. பைபிளில் சொல்லிக் காட்டியுள்ளபடி கர்த்தர் அம்மணமாகத்தான் ஓடுவாரா?
19. பைபிளில் சொல்வது போல கர்த்தர் ஆந்தையைப் போல அலறி, நரியைப் போல ஊளையிடுவாரா?
20. கர்த்தர் மனஸ்தாபப்பட்டு இளைத்துப் போவாரா?
21. நான் ஒரு லூசு என்று பவுல் பைபிளில் தன்னைப்பற்றி சுய அறிமுகம் செய்கிறாரே! அந்த பைத்தியம் எழுதி வைத்தவை எப்படி வேதமாக முடியும்?
22. இது எனது அபிப்பிராயம் என்று பவுல் சொல்லுவதெல்லாம் வேதமா?
23. நான் விசாரித்து அறிந்ததை சொல்லுகின்றேன் என்று லூக்கா சொல்லுவது உங்களுக்கு வேதமா?
24. ஏசுவுக்கு முத்தம் கொடுத்து அதுவும் ஓயாது முத்தம் கொடுத்துக் கொண்டே இருந்து காலில் தைலம் பூசிவிட்டாளே! அந்தப் பெண்ணை ஏசு தடுக்காமல் காலைக் காட்டிக் கொண்டிருந்ததேன்?
25. விதவையையும், விவாகரத்தான பெண்ணையும் திருமணம் முடிக்கக்கூடாது என்பதுதான் கர்த்தர் சொல்லும் அற்புதச் சட்டமா?
26. ஓணான் என்பவன் தனது விந்தை தனது அண்ணன் பொண்டாட்டியோடு உடலுறவு கொள்ளும் போது தரையில் விட்டதற்காக அவனை தண்டித்த கர்த்தர், அவளோடு விபச்சாரம் செய்ததைக் கண்டிக்காதது ஏன்?
27. ஏசுவை கெட்ட நட்த்தை உள்ளவர் என்று பைபிளை ஆங்கிலத்தில் வெளியிட்ட கிங் ஜேம்ஸ் என்ற மன்னர் சொல்லியுள்ளாரே! அதுக்கு உங்கள் பதில் என்ன?
28. திருக்குர்ஆன் மறுமையில் கிடைக்கும் பேறுகளைக் குறிப்பிட்டு சொல்லும் வசனங்களைக் கொச்சையாகச் சொல்லுகின்றீர்களே, ஒரு மனைவியை விட்டவனுக்கு அது போல நூறு மனைவி கிடைக்கும் என்று சொல்லித்தானே ஏசு உங்களையும் ஊழியம் செய்யக் கூப்பிடுகின்றார். உங்களுக்கு மட்டும் அது நியாயமா?
29. ஒருவனை சபிக்கின்றோம் என்ற பெயரில் கூறுகெட்டதனமாக கர்த்தர் சபிப்பதாக பைபிளில் உள்ளதே! அது சரியா?
30. கடவுளைத் துதிப்பதாக வரும் இடங்களில் கூட மச்சங்களே! ஆழங்களே! கிழவிகளே! குமரிகளே! பெரியோர்களே! தாய்மார்களே! என்ற ரீதியில் பைபிள் வழ வழா என்று பேசுகின்றதே! இதுதான் இறைவேதமா?

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How many has God killed? (Complete list and estimated total)

I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42

The table shows two numbers: the number given by the Bible, if any, and an estimate, when no biblical number is available.

Grand totals are shown below.

Biblical number	2,552,451
Estimate	25 million

6 July 2012 Note: Since a billion or so Christians (Catholics and Eastern Orthodox) accept the deuterocanonical books as canonical, I'm revising the list to include God's killings as told in these books. When I finish with that, I'll revise the DWB book accordingly. And I suppose I'll eventually have to separate God's killings into two lists: one for the Catholics and one for the Protestants.

	Killing Event	Scriptural Reference	Biblical number	Estimate
1	The Flood of Noah	Gen 7:23	-	20,000,000
2	Abraham's war to rescue Lot	Gen 14:17-19	-	1000
3	Sodom and Gomorrah	Gen 19:24	-	2,000
4	Lot's wife	Gen 19:26	1	1
5	The Shechem/Dinah love story/massacre	Gen 34:1-31 Judith 9:2-3	2	1000
6	Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord	Gen 38:7	1	1
7	Onan for spilling his seed	Gen 38:10	1	1
8	God's seven year, world-wide famine	Gen 41:25-54	-	70,000
9	The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail	Ex 9:25	-	300,000
10	God killed all first born Egyptian children	Ex 12:29-30	-	500,000
11	God drowned the Egyptian army	Ex 14:8-26	600	5,000
12	Amalekites	Ex 17:13	-	1,000
13	Who is on the Lord's side?	Ex 32:27-28	3,000	3,000
14	God plagued the people because of Aaron's calf	Ex 32:35	-	1,000
15	God burns Aaron's sons to death	Lev 10:1-3	2	2
16	A blasphemer is stoned to death	Lev 24:10-23	1	1
17	God burned people to death for complaining	Num 11:1	-	100
18	God plagued the people for complaining about the food	Num 11:33	-	10,000
19	Ten scouts are killed for their honest report	Num 14:35-36	10	10
20	A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day	Num 15:32-35	1	1
21	The opposing party is buried alive (with their families)	Num 16:27	3	9
22	250 burned to death for burning incense	Num 16:35	250	250
23	For complaining about God's killings	Num 16:49	14,700	14,700
24	The massacre of the Aradites	Num 21:1-3	-	3,000
25	God sent snakes to bite people for complaining	Num 21:6	-	100
26	Phinehas' double murder: A killing to end God's killings	Num 25:1-11	24,002	24,002
27	The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women alive?	Num 31:1-35	6	200,000
28	God slowly kills the Israelite army	Dt 2:14-16	-	500,000
29	God the giant killer	Dt 2:21-22	-	5,000
30	God hardens King Sihon's heart so he can kill him and all his people	Dt 2:33-34	1	5,000
31	Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites	Dt 3:3-6	1	60,000
32	The Jericho Massacre	Jos 6:21	-	1,000
33	Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death	Jos 7:10-12,24-26	1	5
34	The Ai massacre	Jos 8:1-25	12,000	12,000
35	God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the daylight	Jos 10:10-11	-	5,000
36	Five kings killed and hung on trees	Jos 10:26	5	10,000
37	Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God commanded	Jos 10:28-42	7	7,000
38	Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities	Jos 11:8-12	2	20,000
39	The Anakim: More giant killing	Jos 11:20-21	-	5,000
40	The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites	Jg 1:4	10,000	10,000
41	The Jerusalem Massacre	Jg 1:8	-	1,000
42	Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots	Jg 1:9-25	-	5,000
43	The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim	Jg 3:7-10	1	1,000
44	Ehud delivers a message from God	Jg 3:15-22	1	1
45	God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites	Jg 3:28-29	10,000	10,000
46	Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad	Jg 3.31	600	600
47	Barak and God massacre the Canaanites	Jg 4:15-16	-	1,000
48	Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull	Jg 4:18-22	1	1
49	Gideon's story: The Lord set every man's sword against his fellow	Jg 7:22	120,000	120,000
50	A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of God's evil spirit	Jg 9:23-57	1,001	2,000
51	The Ammonite Massacre	Jg 11:32-33	-	20,000
52	Jephthah's Daughter	Jg 11:39	1	1
53	42,000 killed for failing the "shibboleth" test	Jg 12.4-7,Heb 11.32	42,000	42,000
54	Samson murders 30 men for their clothes	Jg 14:19	30	30
55	Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass	Jg 15:14-15	1,000	1,000
56	Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack	Jg 16:27-30	3,000	3,000
57	A holy civil war (called by rotting concubine body part messages)	Jg 20:35-37	65,100	65,100
58	The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen virgins	Jg 21.10-14	-	4,000
59	God kills Eli's sons along with 34,000 Israelite soldiers	1Sam 2:25,1Sam 4:11	34,002	34,002
60	God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret parts	1Sam 5:1-12	-	3,000
61	God killed 50,070 for looking into the ark of the Lord	1Sam 6:19	50,070	50,070
62	The Lord thundered great thunder upon the Philistines	1Sam 7:10-11	-	1,000
63	Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired body-part message)	1Sam 11:6-13	-	1,000
64	Jonathan's very fist slaughter (not counting the one before)	1Sam 14:12-14	20	20
65	God forces the Philistines to kill each other	1Sam 14:20	-	1,000
66	The Amalekite genocide	1Sam 15:2-3	-	10,000
67	Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord	1Sam 15:32-33	1	1
68	David or Elhanan killed Goliath	1Sam 17.51,2Sam 21.19	1	1
69	David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to buy his first wife)	1Sam 18.27	200	200
70	The Lord said to David, Go and smite the Philistines	1Sam 23:2-5	-	10,000
71	God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other stuff)	1Sam 25:38	1	1
72	David committed genocides for the Philistines	1Sam 27.8-11	-	60,000
73	David spends the day killing Amalekites	1Sam 30:17	-	1,000
74	God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul didn't kill all the Amalekites	1Sam 31:2,1Chr 10:6	4	100
75	David killed the messenger	2Sam 1.15	1	1
76	David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and feet, and hung up their dead bodies	2Sam 4.12	2	2
77	God helps David smite Philistines from the front and the rear	2Sam 5:19-25	-	2,000
78	God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling	2Sam 6:6-7,1Chr 13:9-10	1	1
79	David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest	2Sam 8.2	-	667
80	The Lord gave David victory wherever he went	2Sam 8.5,10.18	65,850	66,850
81	David killed every male in Edom	2Sam 8.13,1Kg 11.15-16, 1Chr 18.12, Psalm 60:1	15,000	65,000
82	Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon	2Sam 11.1,1Chr 20.1	-	1,000
83	God slowly kills a baby	2Sam 12:14-18	1	1
84	Famine and human sacrfice: Seven sons of Saul are hung up before the Lord	2Sam 21:1-9	7	3,000
85	David's mighty men and their amazing killings	2Sam 23,1Chr 11	1,403	3,400
86	A couple hundred thousand die because David had a census	2Sam 24:15,1Chr 21:14	70,000	200,000
87	Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by having Joab and Shimei murdered	1Kg 2:29-34,2:44-46	2	2
88	A tale of two prophets	1Kg 13:11-24	1	1
89	Jeroboam's son: God kills another child	1Kg 14:17	1	1
90	Jeroboam's family	1Kg 15:29	-	10
91	Baasha's family and friends	1Kg 16:11-12	-	20
92	Zimri burns to death	1Kg 16.18-19	1	1
93	The drought of Elijah	1Kg 17.1, Lk 4.25, James 5.17-18	-	3,000
94	Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest	1Kg 18.22-40	450	450
95	The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians	1Kg 20:20-21	-	10,000
96	God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the hills	1Kg 20:28-29	100,000	100,000
97	God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on them	1Kg 20:30	27,000	27,000
98	God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet	1Kg 20:35-36	1	1
99	God kills Ahab for not killing a captured king	1Kg 20:42,22:35	1	1
100	God burned to death 102 men for asking Elijah to come down from his hill	2Kg 1:10-12	102	102
101	God killed King Ahaziah for asking the wrong God	2Kg 1:16-17;2Chr 22:7-9	1	1
102	God sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of a prophet's bald head	2Kg 2:23-24	42	42
103	The Lord delivered the Moabites	2Kg 3:18-25	-	5,000
104	A skeptic is trampled to death	2Kg 7.2-20	1	1
105	Another seven year famine	2Kg 8:1	-	7,000
106	Jehoram of Israel	2Kg 9:24	1	1
107	Jezebel	2Kg 9:33-37	1	1
108	Ahab's sons: Seventy heads in two heaps	2Kg 10:6-10	70	70
109	Ahab's hometown family, friends, and priests	2Kg 10:11	-	20
110	Jehu killed Ahaziah's family	2Kg 10.12-13, 2Chr 22.7-9	42	42
111	Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab's family	2Kg 10:17	-	20
112	Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then slaughters them all	2Kg 10.18-25	-	1,000
113	Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah	2Kg 11.17-20	2	2
114	God sends lions to eat those that don't fear him enough	2Kg 17:25-26	-	10
115	An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers	2Kg 19:34, Is 37:36	185,000	185,000
116	God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons	2Kg 19:37	1	1
117	Josiah killed all the priests of the high places	2Kg 23.20	-	100
118	Another holy war	1Chr 5:18-22	-	50,000
119	God killed a half million Israelite soldiers	2Chr 13:17-18	500,000	500,000
120	Jeroboam	2Chr 13:20	1	1
121	God killed a million Ethiopians	2Chr 14:9-14	1,000,000	1,000,000
122	Friendly Fire: God forced "a great multitude" to kill each other	2Chr 20:22-25	-	30,000
123	God made Jehoram's bowels fall out	2Chr 21:14-19	1	1
124	God killed Jehoram's sons	2Chr 22:1	-	3
125	Ahaziah (of Judah)	2Chr 22.7-9	1	1
126	Joash, the princes, and army of Judah	2Chr 24:20-25	1	10,000
127	God destroyed Amaziah	2Chr 25:15-27	1	1000
128	God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria	2Chr 28:1-5	-	10,000
129	God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him	2Chr 28:6	120,000	120,000
130	The fall of Jerusalem	2Chr 36:16-17	-	10,000
131	The Purim killings God hath done these things	Esther 2-9(KJV), Esther 10:4 (Douay-Reims)	75,813	75,813
132	God and Satan kill Job's children and slaves	Job 1:18-19	10	60
133	Hananiah	Jeremiah 28:15-16	1	1
134	Ezekiel's wife	Ezek 24:15-18	1	1
135	Annanias and Sapphira	Acts 5:1-10	2	2
136	Herod	Acts 12:23	1	1
137	Jesus	Rom 8:32,1Pet 1.18-20	1	1
Total			2,552,451	24,711,018

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The Incredible PAGAN Origin

of a Sunday "Pentecost"!

Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church counts the

day of Pentecost as 50 days after the pagan Easter, and observe

the SAME DAY as the Worldwide Church of God? Did you

know that the Sunday Pentecost of the Catholic Church is

derived from the sacred festival of the ancient pagan goddess

Flora?

Furthermore, did you know that a clear but obscure command

given in the book of Leviticus, concerning the counting of

Pentecost, PROVES beyond the shadow of a doubt that the

counting MUST begin the day after PASSOVER? Here is

some serious new truth Sunday "Pentecost" observers should

carefully consider!

William F. Dankenbring

God Almighty commands in His Word, "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen" (Jer.10:2). God says, further, "After the doings of the landof Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye NOT do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye NOT do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do MY judgments, and keep MINE ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God" (Lev.18:3-4).

Among those things condemned by God was the worship of all pagan gods and goddesses. God warned His people, as they were about to enter the Promised Land, "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. Your eyes have seen that which the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. But ye that did CLEAVE unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day" (Deut.4:2-4).

Baalpeor was the "god of the opening," a Moabite deity worshiped on the summit of Mount Peor with immoral, licentious rites. Many of the Israelites were seduced into the sensuous rites of his worship in the plains of Moab (Num.25:1-9; Psa.106:28; Hos.9:10). Baal was a common Canaanite word meaning "lord, master." The chief male deity of the Canaanite pantheon, he was associated with agriculture, and was worshipped as the god who gave increase to family, fields, herds and flocks. He was also identified with Hadad the storm god, whose voice thundered with the advent of rain, so necessary for good crops. The inhabitants of Canaan were addicted to Baal worship. The cult included animal sacrifices, ritual meals, and licentious dances. Near the altar was a sacred pillar or massebah, and close by the symbol of the ashera, both of which symbolized human fertility -- the male and female sex organs. The temples and high places of Baal had chambers for sacred prostitution where both male and female prostitutes plied their religious "trade" in behalf of the god.

Baal's consort was Ashtoreth, also called Ishtar, or "Easter," the goddess of sex, sensual love, maternity and fertility. Solomon himself succumbed to her voluptuous worship (I Kings 11:5; II Kings 23:13).

This pagan worship was abhorrent to the God of Israel, who condemned it wholly and utterly. The Pharisees called "Baalzebub" -- the form of Baal worshipped at Ekron by the Philistines, who was viewed as the producer of flies and hence a god of medicine -- the "prince of demons" (Matt.12:24) -- that is, Satan the devil himself! Thus "Baal," in the pagan worship, was actually Satan the devil, the "god of this world" (II Cor.4:4; Eph.2:2).

Worshiping According to Pagan Customs Is DEMONISM!

Worshiping pagan idols is nothing less than demonism -- the worship of demons. As the apostle Paul wrote, "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to DEMONS, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with demons. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons" (I Cor.10:20-21). The Jews of the time of Christ knew that the heathen deities were actually nothing less than demon worship. Their gods were fallen angels, or demons, the chief one being Azazel, or Satan, the prince of darkness.

That same pagan worship has continued down to our day, today -- only today, it is commonly called "Christian" -- but it observes and worships on the SAME OLD PAGAN FESTIVAL DAYS THAT THE PAGANS DID!

The first Sunday of the spring of the year after the new moon following the vernal equinox, the pagans celebrated by worshipping "Ishtar" or "Easter." Admits Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons:

"Then look at Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a

Christian name. It bears the CHALDEAN ORIGIN on its very forehead.

Easter is nothing else than ASTARTE, one of the titles of Beltis, the

queen of heaven, whose name , as pronounced by the people of Nineveh,

was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country.

That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar"

(The Two Babylons, p.103).

The pagan origin of Easter is well known. Writes Ralph Woodrow in Babylon Mystery Religion:

"The word itself, as the dictionaries and encyclopedias explain, comes from

the name of a Pagan Goddess -- the goddess of Spring. Easter is but a more

modern form of Ishtar, Eostre, Ostera, or Astarte. Ishtar, another name for

Semiramis of Babylon, was pronounced as we pronounce 'Easter' today! And

so the name of the Spring Festival, 'Easter,' is definitely paganistic, the name

being taken from the name of the Goddess" (p.152).

How did this pagan festival creep into the professing Christian Church? Says Hislop:

"To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual

policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated,

and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no

difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity -- now far sunk

in IDOLATRY -- in this as in so many other things, to shake hands" (The Two

Babylons, p.104-105).

In the spring, about a month after the festival of Easter, the pagans celebrated another festival, called the festival of Floralia, in honor of Flora, the goddess of spring and flowers!

Writes Will Durant in The Story of Civilization, Volume 3, "Caesar and Christ":

"April alone had six festivals, culminating in the Floralia; the Feast of Flora,

goddess of flowers and springs, continued for six days of bibulous and pro-

miscuous revelry" (p.65).

Says the Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons:

"Flora -- Roman goddess of growing corn and blossoming flowers, originally

worshiped by the Oscans and Sabines. In Rome, her feast (Floralia) was

celebrated from 28 April to the beginning of May. It was an uninhibited

and somewhat immoral popular revel; Flora herself was known as meretrix

= WHORE, but the lasciviousness was probably intended to promote fecun-

dity . . ." (p.119, Manfred Lurker, 1987).

The cult of Flora was introduced in ancient Rome during the age of Romulus. She was also worshiped as a goddess of love, like Venus. The name "Flora" means "The Flourishing One," and is merely another form of that ancient deity Semiramis, who herself was the goddess of love, fecundity, and spring. Writes Barbara G. Walker in The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:

"Annually honored at the May Day festival called Floralia. Lactantius noted

with distaste that Flora was 'a Lady of Pleasure,' but she was prominent and

important in Roman religion. Some said her name was the SECRET-SOUL

NAME OF ROME ITSELF. Her festival was 'a licentious orgy of NUDE

DANCING and promiscuous behavior" (p.316).

The fact that she was "a Lady of Pleasure" and extremely licentious also identifies her with that ancient prostitute and "lady of pleasure," Semiramis, wife and consort of Nimrod, shortly after the Flood. Hislop tells us of Semiramis:

"The Chaldean Mysteries can be traced up to the days of Semiramis, who lived

only a few centuries after the flood, and who is known to have impressed upon

them the image of her own depraved and polluted mind. That beautiful but

abandoned queen of Babylon was not only herself a paragon of unbridled lust

and licentiousness, but in the Mysteries which she had a chief hand in forming,

she was worshiped as Rhea, the great 'MOTHER' of the gods, with such

atrocious rites as identified her with VENUS, the mother of all impurity, and

raised the very city where she had reigned to a bad eminence among the

nations, as the grand seat at once of idolatry and consecrated PROSTITUTION" (The Two Babylons, p.5).

Flora, "the Flourishing One," the "WHORE," can be none other than a Roman version of Semiramis, the Babylonian queen and goddess of fecundity! Says the News Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology:

"In primitive central Italy, Flora was the goddess of budding springtime,

of cereals, fruit trees, the vine and flowers . . . Her festivals, the Floralia,

lasted from the twenty-eighth of April to the third of May and were rather

licentious. ON THE TWENTY-THIRD OF MAY there was ANOTHER

FESTIVAL IN HER HONOR, a rose festival" (p.210).

Notice carefully, now. The festival of this ancient ROMAN GODDESS, widely worshiped in ROME during the time of the early Church, fell before and at the very time of PENTECOST! The Biblical feast of Pentecost occurs 50 days after Passover, and varies in date from about the middle of May till early June. In 1977, Pentecost fell exactly on MAY 23, the date of the rose festival of Flora! Thus the festival honoring Flora, the heathen goddess of licentious behavior -- the WHORE -- of springtime and flowers, fertility and whose rites included nude dancing and promiscuous behavior, fell RIGHT AT THE TIME SURROUNDING PENTECOST!

So what does this mean?

In volume 4 of his epic work, "The Age of Faith," Will Durant explains what happened to the Festival of Flora, as with so many other pagan festivals. Notice!

"Paganism survived in the moral sense, as a joyous indulgence of natural

appetites; as a religion it remained only in the FORM OF ANCIENT

RITES AND CUSTOMS CONDONED, OR ACCEPTED AND TRANS-

FORMED, BY AN OFTEN INDULGENT CHURCH. An intimate and

trustful worship of saints replaced the cult of the pagan gods, and satisfied

the congenial polytheism of simple but poetic minds. Statues of Isis and

Horus were RENAMED MARY AND JESUS; the Roman Lupercalia and

the feast of the purification of Isis became the Feast of the Nativity; the

Saturnalia were replaced by CHRISTMAS celebrations, THE FLORALIA

BY PENTECOST, an ancient festival of the dead by All Souls' Day, the

resurrection of Attis by the resurrection of Christ. PAGAN ALTARS

were dedicated to Christian heroes; incense, lights, flowers, processions,

vestments, hymns, which had pleased the people in older cults, were domes-

ticated and cleansed in the ritual of the Church . . ." (p.75).

The Roman Catholic Church thus "baptized" the pagan Floralia, called it "Pentecost," a Biblical-sounding name, and observed it seven weeks after Easter Sunday!

God condemns pagan worship and idolatry. But the Roman Catholic Church substituted PAGAN holidays and festivals for the Feasts of God as outlined in the Bible! And notice! They converted the spring festival of Flora into a Sunday "Pentecost"!

How did pagan festivals become engrafted into the Church, and how were the true days of God eliminated? This is one of the most shocking, incredible stories of all history. To understand exactly what happened, and how a PAGAN day replaced God's true Holy Day of Pentecost, let us notice, now, the TRUE origin and commandment of God concerning "Pentecost"!

The Feast of "Weeks"

The Hebrew calendar tells us that Passover is celebrated at the full moon, with the sacrifice on Nisan 14 and the meal on Nisan 15, after the new moon following the vernal equinox -- and that fifty days later the festival of "weeks" or Shavuot (Deut.16:9-10) -- called Pentecost in the New Testament, meaning in Greek "The Fiftieth Day" (Acts 2:1) -- is to be observed. Notice! God said:

"In the fourteenth day of the first month AT EVEN [meaning, afternoon, toward

the END of the day] is the LORD's passover. And on the fifteenth day of the

same month is the FEAST of unleavened bread unto the LORD: SEVEN DAYS

YE MUST EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD. In the first day ye shall have an holy

convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. . . .

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and

say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I gave unto you, and shall

reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a SHEAF of the firstfruits of your

harvest unto the priest: And he shall WAVE THE SHEAF before the LORD, to

be accepted for you: ON THE MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH the priest

shall wave it . . . . And ye shall EAT NEITHER BREAD, nor parched corn, nor

green ears, UNTIL THE SELFSAME DAY THAT YE HAVE BROUGHT AN

OFFERING UNTO YOUR GOD: it shall be a statute FOR EVER throughout

your generations in all your dwellings.

"And YE SHALL COUNT unto you FROM THE MORROW AFTER THE

SABBATH, from the day that ye brought the SHEAF of the wave offering;

seven sabbaths [weeks] shall be COMPLETE: Even unto the morrow after

the seventh sabbath [week] shall ye number FIFTY DAYS . . ." (Lev.23:5-16).

Many translations show that the word for "sabbaths" in verse 15 and "sabbath" in verse 16 can be rendered "weeks" and "week." In fact, the Jewish translation, the Tanakh, says:

"And from the day on which you bring the sheaf of elevation offering -- the

day after the sabbath -- you shall COUNT OFF SEVEN WEEKS. They must

be COMPLETE: you must count until the day after the SEVENTH WEEK

-- fifty days . . ."

This is obviously talking about "weeks," not sabbath days. We often use the expression, "a complete week," meaning a week of seven days, as opposed to a "partial week." However, to use this expression to refer to "complete sabbath days" doesn't make any sense. This is referring to complete WEEKS, not "sabbaths." A Dictionary of the Bible by James Hastings makes this truth obvious. He wrote:

". . . the use of the [shabat] in the general sense of WEEKS may be justified

by the analogy of the Aramaic and Syriac, the interpretation of the LXX

[Septuagint], and the use of [sabbaton an sabbata] in NT, eg. Matt.28:1,

Lk.18:12 . . . It is at any rate certain that the Jews celebrated the sheaf-waving

on Nisan 16, and Pentecost on the fiftieth day after (usually Sivan 6), without

regard in either case to the day of the week" ("Pentecost," vol.3, p.741).

The Aramaic language is closely related to Hebrew, and is the language commonly spoken in the days of Jesus. "Sabbath," in that language, can mean "week." The same is true in Syriac and in Greek. Obviously, it must be true in the Hebrew language as well.

Further proof of this fact is in the Bible itself. Whereas in Leviticus 23:15-16, the word "sabbath" is used in regard to counting "seven sabbaths" to the "seventh sabbath," Deuteronomy 16:9 plainly says, "Seven WEEKS shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the SEVEN WEEKS . . . And thou shalt keep the FEAST OF WEEKS." Here the word is shabua and means "seven," "week." Thus the Bible itself interprets the meaning of "sabbaths" as used in Leviticus 23 as "weeks"! How PLAIN! That's why this festival is called "the feast of WEEKS."

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Origin of a Sunday Pentecost

The Jews since time immemorial have celebrated Pentecost, by counting seven weeks from the first High Holy Day of Passover. But the pagan Samaritans, and the hellenizing Sadducees, a quasi-religi-political sect among the Jews, counted their "Pentecost" differently. According to them, the wave sheaf offering was to be done on the day following -- not the High Day Sabbath of Passover -- but the WEEKLY sabbath day that occurs DURING the feast of unleavened bread.

By so reckoning, they automatically place the day of the wave sheaf offering on none other than EASTER SUNDAY -- because that is the Sunday which occurs the day after the weekly Sabbath during unleavened bread! By so reckoning, therefore, they have adopted EASTER SUNDAY AS THE DAY OF THE WAVE SHEAF OFFERING!

How insidiously clever! How ingeniously diabolical! Thus the Catholic "Pentecost" corresponds to the Sadducean and Samaritan "Pentecost" in ancient times! This brings up the question: These Samaritans were PAGANS from Babylon (II Kings

17:23-24). From where did they get their "Sunday" Pentecost? Since they were originally worshipers of the pagan deities, and then combined or amalgamated paganism with the Old Testament, undoubtedly their interpretation was influenced by their original PAGAN practice and observance of the Festival of Flora!

The Sadducees, in following the teaching of the Samaritans in this regard, were actually also influenced by HELLENISTIC PAGANISM! In the light of these facts, do you really believe that God Almighty commanded His people Israel to count off seven weeks from the WEEKLY Sabbath day which falls during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, to determine the date for Pentecost?

The Official Jewish Teaching

The official Jewish practice has always been to count the fifty days beginning with the day after the FIRST HIGH HOLY DAY of Unleavened Bread. The Pharisees, who were the religious leaders of the Jews during the time of Christ, endorsed this practice. Josephus the Jewish historian of the first century attests that this was the Pharisaical practice. He wrote:

"But on the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of

the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that they

do not touch them. . . They also at this participation of the first fruits of

the earth, sacrifice a lamb, as a burnt-offering to God.

"When a WEEK OF WEEKS has passed over after this sacrifice (which week

contains forty and nine days), ON THE FIFTIETH DAY, WHICH IS PENTE-

COST . . . they bring to God a loaf, made of wheat flour . . ." (Antiquities

of the Jews, Bk.III, X, 5-6).

Josephus himself was a Pharisee all his life, and this is the way the Pharisees counted Pentecost. Was it the correct way? Were the Pharisees right in how they reckoned Pentecost, by counting from the day after the First High Holy Day, or from Nisan 16?

Jesus Christ Himself also endorsed this method. It is clear, from the gospel of Matthew, that He recognized the authority of the Pharisees in matters of the Law. Even though the Pharisees were wrong in many of their customs and teachings, concerning washings of hands, and the like, yet they were the custodians of God's Law, and Jesus said that they sat in "Moses' seat." Notice!

"The scribes and the Pharisees sit in MOSES' SEAT: ALL THEREFORE

WHATSOEVER THEY BID YOU OBSERVE, THAT OBSERVE AND DO

. . . ." (Matt.23:2-3).

Clearly, Jesus here admitted that the Pharisees calculated the holy days of God, including Pentecost, CORRECTLY! He ENDORSED their commandments concerning God's LAW. He nowhere in the gospels EVER disagreed with or contradicted the Pharisees in the way they calculated and reckoned Pentecost! Surely, if they had been in error on such a vital point, Christ would have clearly pointed it out and the apostles would have recorded it! But the silence of the Messiah on this point proves that the Pharisees did indeed figure Pentecost correctly!

The Apostle Paul's Example

Furthermore, the apostle Paul, who had been a Pharisee, taught at the feet of Gamaliel, says that he was "taught according to the PERFECT MANNER OF THE LAW of the fathers" (Acts 22:3). This would have been impossible, if Paul had been taught incorrectly by Gamaliel, one of the chief rabbis of the Pharisees!

In A.D. 60 Paul addressed the Jewish Sanhedrin, saying, "I am a Pharisee, and the son of a Pharisee" (Acts 23:6). The Pharisees would have disowned him, and pounced on him, for saying this, if he had been teaching a contrary method of calculating Pentecost! But instead, they were the ones who interceded for him at this point, and defended him, from the wrath of the Hellenizing Sadducees, who calculated their version of Pentecost from the weekly Sabbath that fell during the Feast of Unleavened Bread -- just like the PAGANS calculated their festival of Flora!

If Paul had kept Pentecost like the Sadducees did, they THEY would have not been so angry with him, and the Pharisees would have disowned him. But Paul was as he claimed, a devout Pharisee. Therefore he observed Pentecost just like they did, and on the same day!

As a final proof of this fact, notice that in his letter to the Philippians, Paul said that he was

"Circumcized the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,

an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law [which included Pentecost],

A PHARISEE; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the RIGHT-

EOUSNESS WHICH IS IN THE LAW, BLAMELESS" (Phil.3:5-6).

If Paul, as a Pharisee, had been observing Pentecost on the wrong day, he could never have made this statement! It would have been a LIE! But, as a true apostle of Jesus Christ, Paul did not lie -- he bore witness and testified that as a Pharisee he observed God's LAW -- including the right day for Pentecost, counting from the First High Holy Day -- 'BLAMELESSLY"!!! And, according to most historians, Paul made this statement in 64 A.D. -- not many years before his final martyrdom

Should we not therefore follow his example, which he set, for the whole Church? Paul commanded the Corinthian Church, "Be ye FOLLOWERS OF ME, even as I also am of Christ" (I Cor.11:1). If we follow Paul, then we, too, will observe Pentecost on Sivan 6 -- not like the Sadducees did, on the seventh Sunday following Easter Sunday!

The Words That Will JUDGE Us!

Paul and Jesus Christ, the Messiah, both upheld the teaching of the Pharisees on this issue. To reject their teaching is tantamount to rejecting the gospel and words of Jesus Christ -- to reject Him as Saviour and Redeemer! And to reject Christ's teaching, and example, is to mean that you LOSE YOUR SALVATION! Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63). If you reject His words, you quench the Spirit, and reject LIFE!

Jesus further said, "My doctrine [teaching] is not mine, but HIS THAT SENT ME" (John 7:16). To reject Jesus' plain words about Pentecost, then, is to reject the FATHER Himself! Jesus declared,

"He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not MY WORDS, hath one that

judgeth him: the WORD that I have spoken, the SAME SHALL JUDGE

HIM in the last day. For I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF; but the

Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and

what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:

whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak"

(John 12:48-50).

These are surely serious matters, not mere curiosities to be taken lightly. Salvation itself is at stake! To hide one's eyes from the truth, to cower in sheer cowardice and refuse to face the facts, the truth, is tantamount to REJECTING truth and incurring the penalty for breaking the LAWS of God -- the reward for disobedience -- DEATH (Romans 6:23).

But there is even further proof.

Rather than just argue over this question endlessly, as some are wont to do, to justify their PAGAN practice of observing a PAGAN SUNDAY "PENTECOST," derived from the festival of the pagan goddess of flowers, FLORA, let us notice a fact which has apparently hitherto gone unnoticed among most of the rhetoric and heat of debate over this issue.

An Insolvable Paradox and Dilemma

Those who count Pentecost from the Sunday which falls within the Feast of Unleavened Bread, put themselves right on the horns of an insolvable dilemma. Notice! According to the commandments of God, we are COMMANDED TO EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR SEVEN DAYS, during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. In Leviticus 23:6, God says,

"And on the fifteen day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread

unto the LORD: seven days ye MUST east unleavened bread" (Lev.23:6).

"And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast

to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an

ordinance FOR EVER. SEVEN DAYS shall ye EAT unleavened bread;

even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses . . . .

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month AT EVEN, ye

shall EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD, UNTIL THE ONE AND TWENT-

IETH DAY OF THE MONTH AT EVEN" (Exodus 12:14-18).

"SEVEN DAYS THOU SHALT EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD, and in the

seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. UNLEAVENED BREAD SHALL

BE EATEN SEVEN DAYS; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with

thee, neither shall there by leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters" (Exo.

13:6-7).

Isn't this command perfectly clear? We are COMMANDED TO EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD for all seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread -- that is why it is literally called, "The Feast of Unleavened Bread"! Get the point?

Now, Joseph Tkach of the Worldwide Church of God says we don't have to eat unleavened bread all seven days. Who is he kidding? Who is he deceiving? Whom will you believe -- him? Or the Word of GOD? If you believe him, and follow him, then HE becomes your "god" -- and you become an IDOLATER!

But now notice something very interesting! God commands us to EAT unleavened bread EVERY DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD! Yet, God also commands, with absolute DIVINE AUTHORITY --

"And ye shall EAT NEITHER BREAD, NOR PARCHED CORN, NOR

GREEN EARS, UNTIL THE SELFSAME DAY that ye have brought

an offering unto your God: it is a STATUTE FOR EVER throughout

your generations in all your dwellings" (Lev.23:14).

Let's understand this! They could not eat unleavened bread, after the First High Sabbath of the Feast, UNTIL they had offered the wave sheaf offering!

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins with the High Holy Day, Nisan 15, at sunset, and the holy day is observed until the following sunset (compare Lev.23:32). Just after sunset, at the beginning of Nisan 16, according to the Pharisees, the wave sheaf offering was brought and waved before the LORD. Therefore, from that point on, the people were able to EAT bread -- unleavened bread, of course -- for ALL the remaining six days of the Festival!

No problem.

But consider this! IF you claim the wave sheaf offering wasn't offered UNTIL THE DAY AFTER THE WEEKLY SABBATH, you have a serious problem. Why is this? According to the Hebrew sacred calendar, Passover can occur on DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE WEEK! For example, some years Nisan 14 can occur on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, etc. If it occurs on Sunday, then the Holy Day would be Monday, and the wave sheaf offering would be offered Monday night, after sunset (if there were still a tabernacle or Temple). The people of God would continue eating unleavened bread, after the wave sheaf offering on Monday night, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, till the end of the Festival.

No problem!

But IF the wave sheaf offering was offered on the Sunday following the WEEKLY SABBATH, as the Sadducees claimed, then we surely do have a problem! Because since the First Holy Day was a Monday, the weekly Sabbath would actually be the SIXTH DAY of

the Feast of Unleavened Bread! Yet, God plainly commanded, saying NO BREAD WAS TO BE EATEN until the wave sheaf offering! Therefore, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sabbath -- FIVE DAYS during the very FEAST of UNLEAVENED BREAD -- BREAD WOULD HAVE BEEN FORBIDDEN TO BE EATEN!!!

God does not contradict Himself! The Sadducean Pentecost leads to a direct and unsolvable CONTRADICTION OF THE SCRIPTURES!

What a paradox! What a humungous PROBLEM for a Sunday Pentecost!

Truly, those who profess to follow the Sadducean reckoning are poised on the sharp horns of an excruciating dilemma!

If Passover were a Monday, then the First Holy Day would be Tuesday. The days of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sabbath would come before the "Sunday" the Sadducees said the wave sheaf offering was to be performed. FOUR DAYS of the Feast would pass during which NO unleavened BREAD COULD BE EATEN during the FEAST of Unleavened Bread!

Yet God ALSO commands unleavened bread to be eaten ALL SEVEN DAYS!

Did God contradict Himself? Of course not!

Does the Sadducean Pentecost then make any sense at all? Of course NOT!

Absolutely NOT! It forces a direct contradiction in the Scriptures, if we follow it! God plainly commands, in Leviticus 23, "SEVEN DAYS YE MUST EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD" (Leviticus 23:6). The only way for this to be possible, is for the wave sheaf offering to be performed IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FIRST HOLY DAY!

To postpone the wave sheaf offering for four or five days, until the WEEKLY SABBATH is past, would WRECK AND DESTROY THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, and would also BREAK THE DIRECT COMMANDMENT OF GOD!

God surely does not contradict Himself. "The Scripture cannot be broken" (John 10:35). "Thy word is truth," Jesus said (John 17:17). Therefore, since bread was plainly forbidden until the wave sheaf offering was performed (Lev.23:14), as a statute forever, the WAVE SHEAF HAD TO BE PERFORMED RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST HOLY DAY -- AND NOT THREE, FOUR, FIVE, OR SIX DAYS LATER!

WHOM WILL YOU BELIEVE AND OBEY?

How about it? Whom will you believe? Will you now follow the Word of God, and the example of Jesus Christ, and the apostle Paul, and the early Church, and observe Pentecost on the fiftieth day after the First High Holy Day of Unleavened Bread -- which happens to be Sivan 6, according to the Jewish calendar?

Or will you follow modern churches run by men which persist in perverting the truth of God, and follow the erroneous Sadducean Pentecost, the Roman Catholic Sunday Pentecost, patterned after the ancient pagan festival of the Floralia?

Will you persist in observing a PAGAN counterfeit Pentecost, which really celebrates the festival of the pagan goddess Flora, the day adopted by the Roman Catholic Church as their "Whitsunday"?

Or will you obey the Word of GOD?

A Pagan Roman Emperor

The substitution of pagan holidays for God's holy days began after the death of the original apostles, and was codified and enforced by the Roman Emperor Constantine, at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.

At the behest of Constantine, who sought to enforce "unity" upon the different factions of the Christian Church, the Biblical Passover was rejected in favor of Easter Sunday. In fixing the date for Easter, the Pagan Church also fixed the date for Pentecost 50 days after Easter Sunday, in place of the pagan Floralia festival!

In Constantine's immortal words:

"It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy

feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously

defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore deservedly

afflicted with blindness of soul . . . Let us then have NOTHING IN

COMMON WITH THE DETESTABLE JEWISH CROWD . . . Strive

and pray continually that the purity of your souls may not seem in any-

thing to be sullied by fellowship with the customs of these most wicked

men . . . All should unite in desiring that which sound reason appear

to demand, and in AVOIDING ALL PARTICIPATION IN THE PER-

JURED CONDUCT OF THE JEWS" (Eusebius, Life of Constantine,

3:18-19, NPNF, 2nd, I, pp.524-525).

The renown scholar J. B. Lightfoot asserts that Rome and Alexandria adopted Easter-Sunday to avoid "EVEN THE SEMBLANCE OF JUDAISM" (J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers, 1885, II, part I, p.88). The same would apply, of course, to the pagan Pentecost, counted fifty days from Easter Sunday! When Constantine convened the Council of Nicea, it was not to return to the faith of the Bible, the "faith once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3) -- it was to COMPEL THE WORLD TO ADOPT CHRISTIANIZED PAGANISM!

Thus the Roman Catholic Church and all western professing Christendom departed from the true festivals of God as set forth in the Scriptures, and embraced pagan days and celebrations, now calling them "Christian." Says Samuel Bacchiocchi, in From Sabbath to Sunday:

"In a document attributed to Irenaeus it is specifically enjoined not to

kneel down on Sunday nor on Pentecost, that is, THE SEVEN WEEKS

OF THE EASTER PERIOD, 'because it is of equal significance with the

Lord's day.' The reason given is that both feasts are 'a symbol of the

resurrection.' Tertullian confirms that custom but adds the prohibition

of fasting as well: 'On Sunday it is unlawful to fast or to kneel while

worshiping. We enjoy the same liberty from Easter to Pentecost.' F.A.

Regan comments on the text, saying: 'In the season extending from

EASTER TO PENTECOST, the same custom was followed, thus show-

ing the RELATION between the ANNUAL and WEEKLY FEASTS'"

(From Sabbath to Sunday, p.204-205).

The pagan Easter Sunday-pagan Pentecost Sunday tradition is tied together, and goes together like ham and eggs, or vodka and caviar. The Sunday Easter replaces the Passover, and the Sunday Pentecost, counted from Easter Sunday, replaces the true Sivan 6 Pentecost, counted from Passover!

Do you see? Do you understand?

Satan the devil has very cleverly, adroitly, substituted the days that WORSHIP HIM and his demonic empire of fallen spirits, for the worship of the True God of the Bible!

It is not just Easter itself which is pagan to the core, but the whole pagan complex of holidays -- the Pagan Easter AND the Pagan Pentecost! They are tied together. If you observe either one, you are following a PAGAN custom which Almighty God condemns!

In other words, NOT JUST EASTER ITSELF, BUT THE WHOLE EASTER SUNDAY-PENTECOST SUNDAY TRADITION IS UTTERLYPAGAN -- A RELIGIOUS FRAUD PERPETRATED UPON THE NAIVE, GULLIBLE, AND UNSUSPECTING CHRISTIAN WORLD IN THE DAYS OF THE PAGAN ROMAN EMPEROR CONSTANTINE!

Truly, the devil has deceived the "whole world" (Revelation 12:9).

Obviously, therefore, a TRUE Christian, who seeks to obey GOD in all things, and to live by "every word that proceeds from the mouth of GOD" (Matt.4:4; Luke 4:4), will follow Christ and Paul and the TRUTH of the Bible, and will avoid at all costs any compromise with paganism, and any festivals adulterated with pagan DEMON WORSHIP DISGUISED AS CHRISTIANITY!

What about you?

Will you continue to follow PAGAN WORSHIP, which the devil has palmed off on an unsuspecting Christianity? Will you thereby partake of the table of DEMONS?

Or will you clean up your act, and get right with God, and REPENT of ERROR, and HATE the evil (Proverbs 8:13), and do what God commands?

When Job saw his sin and error, he confessed to God and declared, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I ABHOR MYSELF, and REPENT in dust and ashes" (Job 42:5-6).

What about you and your family?

Will you also repent? Jesus Christ thunders, to all who hear Him,

"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:

REPENT YE, and BELIEVE the gospel" (Mark 1:15).

Jesus also said, to the Jews of His day, and to all of us, today:

"Suppose ye that these Galileans [whose blood Pilate had

mingled with their sacrifices] were sinners above all the

Galileans, because they suffered such things?

"I tell you, Nay: but, EXCEPT YE REPENT, ye shall

all LIKEWISE PERISH.

"Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell,

and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all

men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

"I tell you, Nay: but EXCEPT YE REPENT, ye shall all

likewise PERISH!" (Luke 13:2-5).

May God help you to "see the light," and to set your heart to follow the truth, and to obey God, and to put His Kingdom FIRST in your life (Matt.6:33). For only those who obey God, and keep His commandments, will have a right to partake of the "tree of life" and to live forever more!

"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city" -- "the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven" (Revelation 22:14; 21:2).