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Those who pride themselves on  accepting Jesus Christ as a great man, perhaps
a god, a great teacher, or one of the prophets, expose themselves as fools. I
have been gratified to read many kind comments about my teaching. I thank God
for the privilege and pray I will always seek his guidance and expound his
truth with care. But imagine if
I announced to you that not only am I a believer, but that I am also God
himself.
Would that not negate every positive thing I have ever taught? It may be true
that we should love everyone and live in peace. Be kind to our neighbors. Do
unto others as we would have them do unto us. The principles are sound, but is
the teacher still admirable and acceptable if he also claims to be God?
Jesus was a man who was also God. Well, you say, that is where we differ. You
consider him simply a man. If that is all he was, he was an egomaniac or he
was
deranged or he was a liar. Can you say aloud without hearing the vapidness of
it that
Jesus was a great teacher except for that business about claiming to be the
Son of
God, the only way to the Father?
One argument against a deep, sincere commitment to faith used to be that
various religious beliefs were so similar that it did not seem to make much
difference which somebody chose. Living a moral, spiritual life was assumed to
entail doing the best you could, treating other people nicely, and hoping your
good deeds outweighed your bad.
Indeed, those tenets are common to many of the religions that came together to
form the One World Faith. As cooperating members they have cast aside all
other distinctions and enjoy the harmony of tolerance.
Frankly, this clarifies the matter. I no longer must compare faith in Christ
to every other belief system. They are all one now, and the difference between
Enigma
Babylon and the Way, the Truth, and the Life, is so clear that the choosing,
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if not the choice, has become easy.
Enigma Babylon, sanctioned by the Global Community itself, does not believe in
the one true God. It believes in any god, or no god, or god as a concept.
There is no right or wrong; there is only relativism. The self is the center
of this man-made religion, and devoting one's life to the glory of God stands
in stark relief.
My challenge to you today is to choose up sides. Join a team. If one side is
right, the other is wrong. We cannot both be right. Go to the page that walks
you through those Scriptures that clarify man's condition. Discover that you
are a sinner, separated from God, but that you can be reconciled to him by
accepting the gift of salvation he offers. As I have pointed out before, the
Bible foretells of an army of horsemen that numbers 200 million, but a crowd
of tribulation saints those who become believers during this period that
cannot be numbered.
Though that clearly indicates there will be hundreds of millions of us, I call
you not to a life of ease. During the next five years before the glorious
return of Christ to set up his kingdom on earth, three-fourths of the
population that was left after the
Rapture will die. In the meantime, we should invest our lives in the cause. A
great missionary martyr of the twentieth century named Jim Elliot is credited
with one of the most poignant summaries of commitment to Christ ever penned:
 He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep [this temporal life] to gain
what he cannot lose
[eternal life with Christ].
And now a word to my fellow converted Jews from each of the twelve tribes:
Plan on rallying in Jerusalem a month from today for fellowship and teaching
and unction to evangelize with the fervor of the apostle Paul and reap the
great soul harvest that is ours to gather.
And now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, to Christ, that great
shepherd of the sheep, be power and dominion and glory now and forever more,
world without end, Amen. Your servant, Tsion Ben-Judah.
Rayford and Amanda had loved reading such missives from Bruce Barnes and then
Tsion. Was it possible she was in hiding somewhere, able to access this very
thing?
Could it be they were reading it at the same time? Would a message from Amanda
someday appear on Rayford's screen? Each day with no news made it harder for
him to believe she was still alive, and yet he could not accept that she was
gone. He would not stop looking. He couldn't wait to get back to the equipment
that would allow him to dive and prove Amanda was not on that plane.
 Albie to Scuba, over.
 This is Scuba, go, Rayford said.
 ETA three minutes. Sit tight. Over and out.
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continued to call medical facilities in Denver. Buck got a taste of Chloe's
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