Scattershooting about the Antichrist and Sammy Ben Latino

2/18/08 - 2nd Day - After Breakfast. The ground is starting to dry around here after our welcome and pleasant rains over the weekend. We also had a welcome and pleasant sabbath and Lord's Day. This was our first Lord's Day since we have added Joseph and Larry in the fellowship, so we had 25 for fellowship yesterday. Ok, scattershooting...

The Pope is Still The Antichrist

Preterism is still a doctrine of Antichrist! Here is a great quote from Rand Winburn:

Preterism has its origins with the Jesuit Alcazar, circa A. D. 1609. Cardinal Bousset carried the Preterist torch into the 18th century, where the German school of apostate Higher Criticism embraced it as their own. Alleged Protestants who hold to their false theory are holding to Jesuitical lies.

Jesus promises that despite the unprecedented deception perpetrated by the false Christs [read: Antichrist officeholders] and false prophets, it is virtually impossible for the Elect to remain deceived, (Matt. 24:24). Ergo, those who remain deceived are not Elect.

To not recognize the Man of Sin, whose coming is after the working of Satan --- (notice the Man of Sin is differentiated from Satan. They are not one and the same persons) --- is to manifest a spirit of strong delusion sent by the Lord God Himself to the purpose that such unbelievers might be eternally damned.

Thus, the subject of the Man of Sin, aka the Antichrist, aka the Beast, is not a side or peripheral biblical issue. Indeed, it is so essential a doctrine that those who rise in the first resurrection are deemed holy and blessed for not obeying the Beast, aka the Antichrist. These martyrs knew his identity, they exposed him to the world, they were believed by the Elect, they were killed for their witness.

To summarily dismiss the teachings of the Reformers, as well as the united testimony of the martyrs is to show no love for the brethren, another sign of reprobation, (1 John 2:10.) To disbelieve the brethren in so key a point is to call them liars, or deluded or deceived. It also exhibits a spirit of pride --- your wisdom is greater than all who came before you --- is no fruit of the Spirit.

The Ballad of Sammy Ben Latino

The UN and US takeover of the formerly Christian Kosovo on behalf of "Ethnic Albanians" (read - MUSLIMS) is now complete, and will likely lead to another war. This time, the Russians are firmly on the side of the Serbians (and God bless them for it), and they are spoiling for a confrontation with the US. Let's not forget the first two world wars started over this region. For you ignorant "amerikans", here is what happened in language and geography you can understand:

Let's say there is a Nicaraguan terrorist named "Sammy Ben Latino" who was raised and trained by the great global superpower "Egypt" which was all the way on the other side of the world. Egypt wanted to use this Nicaraguan terrorist to harass and fight its great enemy and only other world superpower "Algeria". Sammy fought and defeated Algeria and then went around terrorizing other people with the money and weapons he gained from Egypt. Sammy went into Mexico to stir up trouble, and since he was a Muslim and hated the Christians in Southern Texas, he encouraged the "ethnic Mexicans" in northern Mexico to cross the border illegally into Texas and start trouble by killing and raping and stealing there. Then Sammy's old bosses in Egypt went around decrying all of the "atrocities" done by the police who were trying to stop the "ethnic Mexicans" from killing the indigenous Texans. Finally, the Governor of Texas had had enough, and he sent in the Texas guard to restore order and to push the now well armed Mexican militias back over the border. During the fighting, many on both side were killed. Egypt, incensed that they are not being able to take over Texas by their proxies, goes to the United Nations and gets the Governor of Texas declared a "brutal dictator" and the law enforcement attempts in Texas declared as "genocide" against "ethnic Mexicans". Some people begin to wonder what "ethnic Mexicans" are doing in Texas illegally, so the UN and the Egyptians create an imaginary zone in South Texas and call it "Kosoxico" and get the formerly "ethnic Mexicans" renamed as "Kosoxivars". Then they get the world media and CNN to endless run video of the bodies of the poor dead "Kosoxivars" who were killed defending their homeland. A great war starts in which the Egyptians (who portray themselves as saviors trying to save the poor muslim Kosoxivars) bomb Christian churches and kill thousands of innocent Christian men, women, and children. The governor of Texas is arrested and sent to Chile to be put on trial for genocide, and he mysteriously dies of poisoning while in custody. The Texans, weary of being lied about and in having to fight Egypt and the whole world over their own territory, finally cede a small portion of territory to the "Kosoxicars" providing that they behave themselves and don't try to declare independence. A few years later, they declare themselves as an independent Muslim state and celebrate their "victory" over Texas. What we didn't mention, is that while all of this is going on, the Egyptians blew up a few of their own buildings and blamed it on their own boy - "Sammy Ben Latino", and decide to go around the world blowing up folks and killing people in order to stop the spread of "militant islam", the kind they used to defeat Algeria and to install a puppet regime in South Texas which they now control. An Egyptian movie is made called "Behind Enemy Lines" about a heroic Egyptian pilot who is shot down over Texas and is chased and hunted by angry, genocidal, Christian Texans. A heroic Egyptian officer on an Egyptian aircraft carrier breaks about a dozen international laws in order to save the Egyptian pilot. Meanwhile, Egypt sends its young men to die fighting militant fundamentalist muslims who are now called "islamofascists" while simultaneously celebrating the independence of the militant fundamentalist muslim state of Kosoxivar that they created and financed and killed for. Meanwhile, Algeria, a bit pissed over Egypt's "Sammy Ben Latino" and all the havoc he has caused around the world, and miffed that Egypt's ham-fisted foreign policy has them smashing buildings and killing folks all over the world, has decided that they would like to kick Egypt's teeth in if they can get the opportunity. They declare that if Egypt gets involved in another war in Texas, they will be glad to pay Egypt back for all of her sins. Whose side are you on?

Michael Bunker