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 The Palace of Peace and Reconciliation
(also translated as the Pyramid of Peace and Accord) is a 77 m high building in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The structure was built by Sembol Construction at a cost of 8.74 billion Kazakh tenge (about $58 million) and opened in late 2006.
The word Astana in Kazakh literally means Capital but the word itself originates from Persian (Astana, from the verb Istadan (آستان) to stand (in respect)), and literally means “threshold” (royal or sacred, where people stand in respect or awe), implying where the court is seated (the capital city) or the body of a sacred person in interred (a shrine town) –Wikipedia
Bayterek (Kazakh: Бәйтерек, “tall poplar [tree]“). The monument is meant to embody a folktale about a mythical tree of life and a magic bird of happiness: the bird, named Samruk, had laid its egg in the crevice between two branches of a poplar tree. --Wikipedia
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What these pastors are doing is wrong! We know that Islam is a false religion. Burning the Koran will not convert a single soul. A Christians duty is to preach the Gospel – that is it!
We are to keep the Church in order on the inside – which has clearly not happened which is why we have pastors like Terry Jones, Bob Old and Dana Lightsey placing peoples lives at risk.
God says that HE WILL DEAL with those who sit outside the body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 5:11-13 (Amplified Bible)
11But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.
12What [business] of mine is it and what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside [the church] upon whom you are to pass disciplinary judgment [passing censuring sentence on them as the facts require]?
13God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Drive out that wicked one from among you [expel him from your church].
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 2 Peter 2:1 [Amp] – 1 BUT ALSO [in those days] there arose false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, who will subtly and stealthily introduce heretical doctrines (destructive heresies), even denying and disowning the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
This is how the sheep get slaughtered when a charismatic Pastor Xola Skosana gives this as a title to his sermon…
Jesus was HIV-positive, claims pastor
September 03 2010
Cape Town – A churchman in Cape Town has angered Christians in his community by preaching that Jesus Christ was HIV-positive, South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.
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Antichristian Globalism Approaches the Final Stage
Prof. Johan Malan, Middelburg, South Africa (February 2009)
Read Revelation 13:1-18.
Revelation 13 describes three power bases which will be used by the Antichrist in his world government during the coming tribulation period of seven years. These refer to political, religious and economic power.
First, political power. In Revelation 13:2 we read that Satan will give the Antichrist his power, his throne, and great authority. The throne refers to a world government through which great authority will be exercised over all nations. Throughout the entire New Testament dispensation the devil and his demons have from the spiritual realm constituted a reigning power in the world. Ephesians 6:12 says: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” John says that the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one (1 John 5:19). The Lord Jesus also refers to the devil as “the ruler of this world” (John 14:30), and Paul says he is “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2:2). That is why Christ has come to “deliver us from the present evil age” (Gal. 4:1).
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One World Youth Project …was founded in 2004 by then 18 year-old Jessica Rimington from Massachusetts, United States. She now attends Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington D.C. Her involvement in youth activism began when she was twelve and joined the Jane Goodall Institute’s global environmental and humanitarian program for youth, Roots & Shoots. In 2002 she was one of two U.S. students chosen to travel to South Africa to represent the Jane Goodall Institute and the U.S. at the Children’s Earth Summit (held in conjunction with the World Summit on Sustainable Development). As the Youth Correspondent for the Jane Goodall Institute she has also attended World Refugee Day where she interviewed UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, the Bioneers Conference in California, and the United Nation’s Peace Youth Summit. Jessica is a founding member of the Roots & Shoots Youth Leadership Council. And, in 2002, she founded a community organization called the Cape Youth Council on Sustainability, which now includes students from 11 different schools. Jessica was the recipient of the 2004 BRICK Award from Do Something as well as the Massachusetts Governor’s Points of Light Award. She is also a winner of the 2005 Brower Youth Awards and has spoken at various UN and activism events across the country.
 Uniting Religions for World Change:
The G8 World Religions Summit
By Carl Teichrib, www.forcingchange.org
A sacred fire was lit. Mother Earth, we were told, needs to hear that we love her, so give a “prayer of gratitude” to the Earth; “Because out of Mother Earth comes all we need to live…she gives us the food, the water, the medicines, and the teachings.”
We were asked to privately perform a water ritual, for this will give strength to Mother Earth. Everything that’s alive, “even the water” it was explained to the delegates and observers, has the spirit. We were told that religiously speaking, “there is not only one way, there is many ways” – and to go to the sacred fire and “invoke the spirits.”
Drummers summoned the power of the eagle spirit, because it brings “the spirit of love, it brings vision. The Eagle carries our wishes and our prayers.” And this eagle spirit will tell the Great Spirit of the wonderful things happening in this gathering.
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 If you have been following what has been happing in South Africa and the rest of Africa and the world for that matter as closely as I have for the last few years, you will get on your knees and start praying for your loved ones now.
For those who will dismiss this, can I never the less beg you to please if anything, pay closer attention to what is going on right in front of your own eyes?
The UN has set a whole horde of outcomes-based goals that need to be achieved by the year 2015. Titled the Millennium Declaration, one of the goals is that poverty must be eradicated by the 2015 deadline. That’s 4 years away. Ban Ki-Moon says:
“Our world possesses the knowledge and resources to achieve the MDGs,” Mr. Ban says in the report. Falling short of the Goals “would be an unacceptable failure, moral and practical.” [Emphasis added] — Read the Secretary-General’s report
The UN rode their way into South Africa on the backs of FIFA and brought with them their 1GOAL initiative that will miraculously provide education for 72 million children. But they have not once said how this will be done. What they have done is given the public a few measly adverts of Hollywood stars speaking their usual rubbish with a few select pictures of the few planned ’soccer centres’ that will be built in and around South Africa. Big deal.
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This is an interesting article on Xenophobia in South Africa.
Note: Permission received to publish this article in full. Thank you Prof. Malan www.bibleguidance.co.za [Picture added by DTW]
Xenophobia May Again Flare Up in South Africa
Prof. Johan Malan, Mossel Bay, South Africa (July 2010)
There are many rumours on threatening xenophobia (hatred of foreigners) which are circulating in South Africa. They are not completely unfounded because South Africa is becoming a place of convergence for the whole of Africa. Unemployed people and criminals from all over Africa are streaming into our country because it has a reasonably strong economy and also offers possibilities for crime syndicates to flourish here. There is strong competition among workers in their struggle for survival, and this gives rise to the hatred of foreigners. Illegal immigrants are prepared to work for less money, in some cases only for food, thereby depriving local blacks of their source of income.
It is necessary to consider a number of factors which all play a role in xenophobia, lest one runs the risk of only seeing one of its aspects and over-emphasising that out of proportion:
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 EXCELLENT ARTICLE!
Note: Permission received to publish this article in full. Thank you Prof. Malan www.bibleguidance.co.za [Picture added by DTW]
Final Preparations to Receive the New Age Christ
Prof. Johan Malan, Middelburg, South Africa (March 12, 2008)
All Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version, unless otherwise stated.
Christianity experiences unprecedented attacks on its foundational truths. These attacks are motivated and coordinated by evil forces that are intent on deceiving all people as a prelude to revealing the Antichrist and physically establishing Satan’s kingdom on earth. Their main obstacle is biblical beliefs in the deity, atoning death, resurrection and second coming of Jesus Christ. As a result, attacks against evangelical Christianity are on the increase, being aimed at discrediting the canonical books of the Bible, and thus also the God and Saviour of the Bible.
When the Lord Jesus was asked about the signs indicating the nearness of His second coming He first and foremost mentioned the widespread occurrence of spiritual deception: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many” (Matt. 24:4-5). The many people who will be deceived by many false teachers refers to the general occurrence of a changed mindset, or new paradigm, in terms of which people will perceive Christ in the end-time. That accounts for the disturbing phenomenon why the entire world will marvel and follow Satan’s false Christ (Rev. 13:3). The Amplified Bible says: “…and the whole earth went after the [Antichrist] in amazement and admiration.” That will be a united, multireligious form of worship.
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 Seeing as though I have been following the history of Cindy Jacobs for about 3 years now I thought I would do an expose on one of the falsest prophetesses currently roaming the streets today.
On the 23rd May South Africa is hosting the Global Day of Prayer in which Cindy has been invited to speak a long with a whole host of false-christian teachers and preachers.
At the GDOP all the little false christian movements are coming together, to hail the anti-Christ. Pushing their god’s plan, and their god’s dream of Communism for the World - Where everyone will be equal they say, where everyone will be one they say, and where you will love everyone who agrees with you and love those to death who disagree with you.
1 John 4:1. “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world”
Jackie Alnor from (www.apostasyalert.com) reports from a video, which was aired on Sky Angel TV, USA:
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 Sorry for the late advertising of this event. I don’t know what I was thinking not too advertise it sooner.
Please go! It will be worth it, I promise!
South African Christians are in for a rare treat this week. AntWoord apologetics ministry is facilitating the Faith and Reason Conference.
Most South Africans are unlikely to be familiar with the name William Lane Craig and so would not recognise how influential this world-renowned American speaker and author is. When it comes to things American, we are mostly over-stimulated by its entertainment culture and sometimes bemused by its political intricacies, but for the most part we are ignorant of great American and Christian thinkers such as Dr. Craig. It would be a momentous oversight, though, especially for Christians who realise the importance of both their intellectual life and their faith, not to take note of Dr. Craig’s upcoming visit to South Africa. You are therefore invited to attend several events as part of the annual Faith & Reason Conference in South Africa. Dr. Craig and others will address audiences and take part in debates in the Western Cape and Gauteng.
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This is becoming a habit Andrew and very irritating. Come now, stop it.
This email just came into my mailbox from REVIVAL List by Andrew Strom. Read and Laugh.
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REVIVAL in SOUTH AFRICA
ANDREW: A couple of years ago I was in South Africa and wrote when I got back how encouraged I was to see how God was moving in that nation – especially amongst the white Afrikaners – which was powerful and amazing. Below is another report of the great things happening in that country:
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Genuinely Saved, Always Saved!
A Believer is Eternally Secure!
Is there a true and false version of Eternal Security? Yes there is.
1) Was the person saved to start off with? If not then no he is not secure in anything. He can however be sure he is going to hell.
2) The other revolves solely around being saved/born again and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the believers’ life because:
God has given me eternal salvation as a free gift in Jesus Christ, and it is His will that I obey Him, not in order to save myself or in order to help God save me, but BECAUSE I am already saved. It is God who provides the complete salvation. Obedience, holy living is the evidence of salvation. The Christian life is a miracle of God that is wrought from within. The power of the Christian life is the indwelling Holy Spirit, but the Christian is not passive. He is to be controlled by the Spirit (Eph. 5:18), to be led by the Spirit (Rom. 8:14), to walk after the Spirit (Rom. 8:4; Gal. 6:25), to mind the things of the Spirit (Rom. 8:5). [Emphasis added] — Quoted from David Clouds article below
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Twelve Reasons for the Rapture
by Prof. Johan Malan
The rapture is a very important promise in the chronology of end-time events. It must be properly understood if we wish to be ready and worthy to escape the coming tribulation period.
During the rapture, true Christians will disappear from the earth in the twinkling of an eye: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thes. 4:16-18).
By way of the rapture the Lord will snatch away His disciples for whom He has gone to prepare a place in heaven. The harvest of souls for the kingdom of God will then be gathered in heaven. There are various biblical reasons why there must be, and consequently will be, a rapture of believers at the end of the church dispensation:
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by Thomas on March 26, 2010
The Greenpoint Stadium in Cape was packed with 50 000 “Jesus followers” to pray for Cape Town and our nation on 22 March 2010. Dignitaries of all sorts were in attendance while the hat-donned preacher Angus Buchan was the main man. Dr. Dion Forster seems to have played a major part as an organisational facilitator in the event.
Being a keen follower of Jesus Christ myself and an avid researcher who loves to read and study others’ books, I, with great expectations, clicked on the link which took me to Dr. Dion’s Forster’s website and his blog. The first thing that caught my eye was the books he had written, amongst others “An uncommon spiritual path – the quest to find Jesus beyond conventional Christianity.” “Now that’s very interesting” I thought to myself. “Isn’t that wonderful?” . . . some of our most esteemed religious leaders in South such as Graham Power, Angus Buchan and Dion Forster want to win the entire Cape Town for Jesus by virtue of an uncommon spiritual path, a path that sets Capetonians on a quest to find Jesus beyond conventional Christianity.
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