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εξέλθετε εξ αυτης ο λαος μου

To the Greater Glory of God

Fifth Edition -- Sunday August 9, 2009 Copyright ©

Michael J. Ranck (Editor)

Featured Greek Word:

διαφθειρω (diaphtheiro dee-af-thi'-ro)

from 1225 and 5351; to rot thoroughly, i.e. (by impl.) to ruin (pass. Decay utterly, fig. Pervert):-corrupt, destroy, perish.

(Lu 12:33, II Co 4:16, I Ti 6:5, Re 8:9, 11:18)

Featured Verse:

And Jesus answering them began to say, “Take heed lest any man deceive you:...” -- Mk 13:5

(ο δε Ιησους αποκριθεις ηρξατο λεγειν αυτοις· βλεπετε μη τις υμας πλανηση.)

The aorist subjunctive active of πλανηση indicates that there would those who would stand in the place of Messiah and attempt to lead his followers astray. This is supported by the following verse. The deception is not restricted to mere words but instead the subjunctive indicates an entire attempt to usurp Christ authority as an artificial stand-in. The us of the aorist “splash” tense indicates that this can happen at any time but will not be allowed to be continuous.



Sweet Little Lies

by Michael J. Ranck

Back when I was in college, a psychology student went around taking a survey as part of an “experiment” that she was conducting for class. The survey was one simple question. She inquired, “Do you believe in Santa Claus?” Oddly enough, no one could give a simple answer to this basic question. They skirted around it with jokes. They rationalized about how they believed in the “Spirit of Santa Claus” or the “Spirit of Christmas.” They went on about how they believed in the joy it brought on children's faces. The fact that flying reindeer, jolly elves, and a fat man deluging the entire world in presents within a single night, is a greater hoax than 911, never seemed to register with any of them. I also responded with some ridiculous response about the “Spirit of Santa.”


This affinity for “the lie” does not begin and end with Santa Claus. It is the whole of the attraction for television and the movies. Through this media, our imaginations are perverted with accelerated efficacy. We imagine murders and rapes and crimes. We not only delight in them, but race home to see them and in our imaginations we tie them together with the most noble of causes. Our media programs are as perverse and degenerate as any Roman Circus and then some.

Though one might reason that it is not real, this is not the point. The point is that our society “loves the lie” and despises “the Truth.” In fact we are not content to believe that media is simply a lie. Instead we develop conspiracies about actors and actresses murdered on a set or who later go crazy and commit suicide. Therefore we try to make this macabreic nightmare of phantasmagoric tales into reality.

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Pastor Martin Niemöller looks to us to remember, “First they came...”, as America is over-run by the Information Awareness Office's spin-off programs.

Although organizations like these may seem harmless, the fearful truth is illuminated by the finding made by Robert Gellately of Florida State University. The fact is that tyrannical governments do not control people via the police force. Instead they divide and conquer their own citizens through programs like these. In Gellately's book, entitled, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, he enlightens us, “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”


Even out and about on the road, Homeland Security is expanding their influence. In fact the Transportation Security Administration, American Trucking Association and Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, is making it a goal to have 14,000 highway professionals watching the roads for suspicious activity. They are to watch for anything from missing trailer loads to suspicious people taking photos of key points of infrastructure. This initiative began in 2004, so there is no telling how far it has gotten in the last five years.

Jim Daulerio, Safety Manager of Jevic Transportation in New Jersey expounded on the virtues of having, “... six million eyes out there watching what is going on.”


This may be comforting to some but the fact is that many Americans died together with our allies to prevent a world government where six million eyes were watching. I lost my own great-uncle to defend against the tyrannical forces evoking such programs as Hitler's “Brown Shirts.” It is offensive to begin programs like these in America. It is downright insulting to name a program like this “Bright Eyes.” Has the world already forgotten Niemöller's plea?

Bright Eyes? What's the Bright Idea?

by Michael J. Ranck

In Seminole County, FL, beginning July 23, 2009, Bright House Networks is launching another crime watch initiative. The name of this project is of all things “Bright Eyes.” The name alone should cause alarm and conjure up images of tyranny and eugenic terror. For I believe most have heard the pathetically weak and fallacious racially discriminate arguments from out of I Samuel concerning David's “Bright Eyes”. None the less Bright House is training their three thousand employees to be the eyes and the ears of Homeland Security. As these workers go about the country, installing and maintaining cable television, they will also be watching for suspicious terrorists. Of course the Missouri state Police MIAC report has already described to us who those people are. One may be forced to exclaim, “Quick son, hide daddy's, Run Rand Run, campaign poster. The cable guy is coming over.” Currently the coverage area of Bright House Networks includes: Tampa Bay and Orlando, Florida; Bakersfield, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan; and Birmingham, Alabama.


Sadly this is not the only such effort of its kind. WeTip, which has been in existence since February, 1972 began as a reporting system to stop drug dealers. Now it has expanded to include reporting on such vague terms as “child abuse”, “gang activity”, “threats and intimidation”, and “weapons”. To make matters worse the organization offers cash incentives for this rather un-neighborly circus.

Already the organization known as Child Protective Services makes an entire industry out of those who turn in estranged spouses and boyfriends for imagined offenses of child abuse. Already they make a fortune every time a “neighbor” calls in a false claim because the neighbor's kids played in the flower garden one too many times. Now this most “successful” endeavor is being expanded to report fellow Americans for anything and everything.


Sweet Little Lies Continued...

The faint hearted among us turn our attentions toward the noble imaginings of fairy tales, rags to riches stories, stories of human spirit, light comedies, and other such dribble. It's not as though they were all bad, after all they make one feel good about oneself, like crack. They make one able to feel in control of ones life, like soma. Likewise, people turn to religion, in a gnostic sense, of “name-it-claim-it” ego-maniacs or imagine themselves to legalistically walk in God's favor. Ultimately none have received the Love of the Truth.


No wonder Paul wrote in II Thessalonians 2:11, “...And for this cause YHWH shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:...” He that has ears to hear let him hear.

Kinsey Comes Home to Roost

by Michael J. Ranck

Beginning in 1948, with what some have called the “K-Bomb”, was the catalyst for such social ills as pornography, same sex marriage (a contradiction in terms), and the abortion industry. This “K-Bomb” was the Kinsey Report. The report touted ludicrous statistics that at the time shocked the world and sparked the sexual revolution. Among those shocking statistics were that 90% of single women and 27% of married women had abortions. It eschewed that “most” women including grandma were promiscuous. It further expounded that 10% to 37% of men had at one point in their lives participated in homo-sexual behavior. Of course the king of all of his preposterous claims was that babies were orgasmic. How was this discovery made? Not through the course or morally correct or legal experimentation, to be sure.


Now the statistics are viewed as normal and even comprise the basis for most of our nation's sexual education programs within the public school system. This has set the stage for a chicken and egg debate. Though I am sure that we will all come to agree that Kinsey laid an egg. For those in the sex industries and the abortion industries that was a golden egg. For those of us wanting to simply raise our children as the Bible teaches and have healthy loving families it was a rotten egg.


For example Hugh Hefner was among the first to capitalize on the “golden egg”, Kinsey Report. He described himself as “Kinsey's pamphleteer”, where of course his magazines were the pamphlets spreading the message of the “sexual freedom” ushered in by the Kinsey Report. Following this were the abortion industry and the child protective services industries.

These industries would come to demonize sexual deviance out of one side of their mouth, while promoting it out of the other. In a problem-reaction-solution fashion they would cause the problems of sexually deviant people through widespread sexual “mis-education” leading to the deviance in American youths. Then triumphantly, put on their “white hats” and rescue these same youths by taking their children away or talking them into abortions.

The mass hysteria and “witch hunt” for child abuse that has also been caused by these same sexual “mis-education” classes meant that no crimes had to be committed in order for children to be removed from their loving homes. These “kidnapped” children were not always given the best of home situations. There is a reason why the Bush era fiasco involving a child pedophile ring reaching to the highest state levels was discovered in the Nebraska Child Protective Services and earned the organization the famed title of: “Child Pedophile Services.”

In fact the human service industries seem to be ripe with these debase individuals. This is apparent due to the plethora of disgusting quotations that I have procured from their own mouths. For example in 1991 the New York City Department of Health distributed a pamphlet to teenagers entitled, “A Teen-agers Bill of Rights” that stated, “"I have the right to decide whether to have sex and who to have it with..." The pamphlet gave no moral guidance or even discussed social or psychological considerations for their actions. It did go on to describe in details too graphic for this publication how to perform various forms of sexual activities.


Likewise the University of Minnesota Press, published a work by Judith Levine, entitled, “Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex.” In this work the author enlightened us by informing we, poor, misguided, right-wing, extremists that no proof exists that, “it’s always harmful for kids to have sexual relationships with adults . . . a boy’s sexual experience with a priest could be positive."


Furthermore “educators” from the Massachusetts Department of Education were reported as, “describing the pleasures of homosexual sex to a group of high school students at a state-sponsored workshop, March 25, 2000." Specifically, they described the procedure to perform the act of “fisting” which is also too graphic to repeat in this publication. This “act” poses by virtue of common sense alone the possibility of physiological harm. Yet this was laughable to these “experts” in the well being of our children.


Perhaps this is why the American Psychological Society bounces back and forth in the verbiage of the definition of what pedophilia is. The reports seem to vacillate between whether or not a pedophile is one who “acts on these urges” or “causes significant... impairment.” Such absurdity is reminiscent of the Clinton era question of what the meaning of “is” is. Word games such as these are the earmarks of a liar trying to cover up for debased degeneracy.


Where do people like this come from? They are grown by organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation who funded the Kinsey report to begin with. When one owns the publishing houses and controls the text books being produced, it becomes very easy to influence the minds of social workers and educators. Likewise, when one controls the unions, one controls what is taught by our teachers. I wish I had the proverbial nickel for every teacher and social worker who has told me over the years that he refrains from allowing his conservative values from coming into the workplace lest he should lose his job.


This issue of “encouraging” the pedophile is not the will of the political left nor the right in America. It is not the will of the American people at all. It is instead an insanity. It is the product of moral degeneracy beginning with the “K-Bomb” in 1948 and reaching its culmination with the inclusion of wording affording the pedophile “protection” under the current hate-crimes legislation (H.R. 1913).


Realizing the danger Rep. Steve King requested that the bill be amended to state, “The term sexual orientation as used in this act or any amendments to this act does not include pedophilia.”


Rep. Alcee Hastings countered him, “This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these "philias" and fetishes and "isms" that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule.”

In fact violent crime against homosexuals is statistically insignificant. There have only been 242 recorded assaults that fit this category. Far more seniors and children are assaulted yet they are not protected under this extremely asymmetrical bill. Likewise, neither are pro-life advocates such as Janet Porter, whose car went up in a car bombing in 1994 when she was campaigning for a ban on partial birth abortion. The common thread here is that anything that reduces the population and speeds entropy such as, homosexuality, paraphillias, or abortion is being given protected status under law. The Kinsey report has come home to roost and the egg that Kinsey lays just might be the end of America as we know it.

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Jewish Extremist Terrorism?

by Michael J. Ranck

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” This is Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's not a bad goal and it has long been the expression of equality eschewed by the Nation of Israel.

That it is. Unless you are a member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremist organization known as Yad L'Achim, then your stated goal is, “fighting Christian missionaries.” The best way to express that of course seems to be fire bombing cars and terrorizing little girls at school. We have come to expect terrorism and hatred in the middle east. We have come to expect bodies floating in the Jordan but this is not Muslim against Jew or Jew against Muslim. Instead this attack was Jewish brother against Jewish brother. It was the ultra-Orthodox Jew against the Messianic Jew.

It all began when eleven year old Rivka was called to her principal's office. When she arrived there three men questioned the sixth grader concerning her father who is a Messianic Jewish pastor. They also had questions about the church and congregation. Rivka was informed not to tell her parents about the meeting.

Two weeks later the family car was firebombed in the driveway. Thanks be to Yahushua HaMashiach no one was harmed. The Jewish Institute of Justice filed a complaint and the primary suspects are a prominent local rabbi and two activist connected with Yad L'Achim. Yad L'Achim is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping new Jewish immigrants yet their website contain expressions of fearful sentiments towards Christianity such as, “...It is vitally important to remember that any assistance provided by missionary organizations, as innocent as it might appear, ultimately lead to one thing; Jews joining up with Christianity.”

Sadly this is not an isolated incident in Israel. On May 15, 2008 locals from Or Yehuda set new testaments ablaze before a synagogue. The students danced around the flaming Bibles. Before that on the first of May in the same year two Chief Rabbis canceled an entire International Jewish Bible Quiz rather than allow a fifteen year old Messianic Jew to participate as a finalist. On March 20, 2008 Ami Ortiz was seriously injured by a bomb inside his home at the West Bank settlement of Ariel. He was the son of a messianic pastor and a dual American-Israeli citizen.

Let us pray for the peace of Jerusalem and that more members of the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faiths remember their common command in Leviticus 19:18. Yahushua summed it up nicely in that one four letter word, “LOVE.”

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