From the desk of
Bill Ramey
A SERIOUS LOOK AT SCRIPTURE
“The spirit of the LORD GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; Isaiah 61:1
Verse 2: “To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
This was the introduction to Christ’s first recorded sermon (Luke 4) --- although He left off the line which says “the day of the vengeance of our God”. Why? Because that was not the time of God’s vengeance. That was the time Satan’s replacement was qualifying to take the throne as king of Planet Earth, which is the event to take place right after the “…time of God’s vengeance”. (See Revelation 19) My message is that we are right now moving into that “time”. Have you noticed the wild weather around the world as we enter 2011? Have you noticed the world economic crisis? Have you noticed that the worlds’ seismic activities have picked up? Yellowstone (as a super caldera), Canary Islands (another super caldera), Etna erupting, a volcano in Japan erupting and a 9 point earthquake in Chile? Add to this the end of the Mayan calendar on 12/21/12 and a dwarf star headed in our direction that NASA is pulling all stops to keep the public from knowing about. It has in tow a planet the ancients called Nibiru. Its last appearance in our solar system was some 3500-3600 years ago--- during the Israelite exodus from Egypt.
Are we aware of these things or are we being “…destroyed for lack of knowledge” as it says in Hosea 4:6?
Let’s take a serious look at religion today:
ORDAINED MINISTERS
Did Christ command that ministers be ordained and partnered with the Roman Government in that office? Wouldn’t that constitute a pact with the devil? The devil told Christ he owned all the governments of the world and gave them to whomever he chose --- see Luke 4.
Why does the American Government demand that all ministers be ordained and therefore registered? Because America is the Image of the Beast mentioned in Revelation 13 and exercises all the control of the Roman Government in the world today. They do it for control! An ordained minister has divided loyalties between the divine and the state or federal government. Can this be so?
As evidence I offer the wedding ceremonies performed by ordained ministers. The closing line goes something like this: “By the authority invested in me by God and the state of _______, I now pronounce you man and wife.” Now the state (or gov’t) is a party to the marriage as evidenced by the marriage license and contractually has jurisdiction over the children of this marriage. They are within their jurisdiction in telling you how to raise these children!
Ordained ministers in America are now, by decree of George Bush as president of the nation, (Executive Order #13397), answerable to the head of Homeland Security and as such are agents of the federal government! And, by that “law”, are required to report any activities in their membership which is not commensurate with government ideals.
Do we need to go into what constitutes “government ideals”? Legalized murder in the form of abortions. Legalized marriage of homosexuals. Bailouts from the federal coffers for non performers. Our government has already been weighed in the balances and found wanting (my opinion), and we are merely waiting for the hammer to fall on us as a nation.
Have we lost our mind and our national conscience (if we ever had one)?
Today, we in America, are every bit as much slaves as were the Israelites in Egypt and like them it will take a miracle for our deliverance. And, yes, I am familiar with the old saw, “Home of the brave and land of the free.” This myth was promoted by the jesuits that hammered out America as a nation. The point man in that endeavor was named Americ. Go figure.
ORDINATION --- A CATHOLIC RITUAL
The following is taken from the ’91 edition of Colliers Encyclopedia --- article HOLY ORDERS.
Ordo (“order,” “rank”) and ordinatios (“ordination,” “appointment to office”) were technical terms of Roman officialdom. The term “order,” used in ecclesiastical language since Tertullian (second century), denotes: 1) one of the ranks in the ministry, 2) the office of a minister, and 3) the act whereby such rank or office is conferred. In the second or third meaning, the term is usually plural (“orders,” often “holy orders”); “ordination” applies only to the third meaning.
The number of orders (ranks or grades) has varied, but since the third century seven (or eight) have usually been enumerated: 1) doorkeeper, 2) reader, 3) exorcist, 4) acolyte, 5) subdeacon, 6) deacon, 7) priest, and 8) bishop, which is often coupled with priest. The Latin and Armenian Churches have all eight; the Eastern Churches generally have 2,5,6,7, and 8; the Anglican Church has 6,7, and 8; Calvin retained 7 and 6 (presbyters, elders); Luther held no rigid system, and lutherans consider all clergy equal in order, using the titles of bishop, pastor, elder and deacon; other churches use various terms.
That order is a sacrament or sensible sign instituted by Christ to confer grace for the ministry is the traditional teaching of the Church, defined by the Council of Trent (1563), and held by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Churches and by the Anglican Communion. There is but one sacrament of order: to it, as parts, belong the priesthood and diaconate; the Scholastics held the episcopate to be merely “the fullness of the priesthood,” while it is regarded by most modern theologians as a special order. Theologians commonly teach that the minor orders (doorkeeper, reader, exorcist, acolyte) are not a sacrament, but sacramentals instituted by the Church. The Protestant Reformers affirmed the universality of the Christian priesthood and abolished the essential distinction between orders and laity. Although the Church of England once debated the validity of order as a sacrament, the rite of ordination was always maintained. Protestants generally hold that order is not a sacrament.
In 1947 Pope Pius XII defined, for future ordinations, that the essential rite of the sacrament consists in the laying on of hands and the accompanying words which determine the office (diaconate, priesthood, episcopate) being conferred, without settling for the past whether the “giving of the instruments” (book, chalice, pater) was also an essential. Since this sacrament confers a “character,” a valid ordination can never be repeated.
I am well aware that ministers were ordained in the days of the apostles but what did this consist of? Did they sell them a license, give them a certificate and register them at the nearest courthouse? Not at all. It was a quiet ceremony giving witness to the ekklesia (called out ones) that this person was being set aside for an active work of teaching and spreading the gospel. Most ministers today do not even know what “that gospel” consists of. Was it a gospel of love/peace/compassion and forgiveness? See Mark 1:14.
Have our ordained ministers of America signed a pact with the devil? Did our leaders like George Washington (and all presidents since) sign a pact with the devil? This is heavy stuff. I know that --- but if we have been raised on Roman myths, have we the intestinal fortitude to receive the truth “…with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures whether these things be so”? Or would we prefer to proceed blindly (lemming like) over the cliff to our destruction? “…my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
IRATE MINISTERS
This is a follow-up just in case my last few pages entitled “ORDAINED MINISTERS” are read by some ordained ministers and they become very upset. Isn’t this precisely what one would expect?
Weren’t the ministerial authorities in Christ’s day very upset when their turf was threatened? Here was a man who wore no “turned around collar” and claimed no titles such as the “Right Reverend” or “His Emminence” and yet spoke as one with authority. His authority came with the weight of the words He spoke and He did not hesitate to call the religionists of His day hypocrites and the Pharisees He called “…sons of the Devil.” It was not His practice to use hyperbole or metaphors devoid of truth.
How could they know that their wickedness was exactly what He was here to expose and that their action was playing into the plan of Yahveh the Father?
They were the acknowledged religious leaders of their day and who was this young upstart who was about to upset the status quo and bring the Romans down on them? Were they any more arrogant than the religious leaders of today? Were they any more authoritative or hypocritical?
So do today’s religious leaders believe in God? Or perhaps we should ask if they believe God. If so, I should think they would tremble when they read Malachi 2:1-2. Jeremiah 23 and Ezekiel 34 are also directed to ministers and should scare hell out of those who appropriate His name and teach the commandments of men --- i.e. that the “churches” are, and of a right should be, under the authority of the most corrupt government ever devised by Satan. The ekklesia (called out ones) went underground even before the diaspora and has remained so since. Those who belong to Yahveh and survive the coming months and years will continue that practice.
We are under the curses of today and in the process of being destroyed as a nation because of idolatry. Do you suppose it is coincidental that Israel and Judah of old were both destroyed for the same reason?
Given this setting, I feel compelled to convey the following message to today’s ministers. It has been in the Bible for millennia but we tend to read over it and say that was to ancient Israel. But was it???? Ezekiel wrote his message to Israel some 130 years after Israel had gone into captivity. He was told to take a message to Israel, however, he was a captive of the captivity of the nation of Judah and was not allowed to go. Could it be his message is for Israel today? Is America part of Israel today? Could it be a part of those being “…destroyed for lack of knowledge”?
“Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:” Ezekiel 33:24: “Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for an inheritance’”.
Verse 25 “Wherefore say unto them, ‘Thus says the LORD GOD; ‘You eat the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?’’”
26 ‘You stand upon your sword, you work abomination and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife: shall you possess the land?’
27 “Say you unto them, ‘Thus says the LORD GOD; ‘As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence’’”.
28 ‘For I will lay the land most desolate and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through’.
29 ‘Then shall they know that I am the LORD when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.’
Is America about to be “…laid most desolate”? Now, of course, we don’t want to believe that, and we won’t believe it until it happens. At that time it will be somewhat late to philosophize about “what might have been.”
Do we need to seriously reconsider our roots, our religions, our history (true history and not the Roman myths we have been taught all our lives) and our place in prophecy? Do Americans even know where to find America in prophecy? If you take a look in Revelation 13, and run out the “Image of the beast” to a logical conclusion, I believe you will see this is talking about America. For a more in depth study on this, see “The Image of the Beast” by Bill Ramey.
Have our “watchmen” been asleep at the switch? Perhaps we should look at what God says about them. Isaiah 56:10 “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.” Verse 11 goes on, “Yea they are greedy dogs which can never have enough and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.” Perhaps the reason they cannot bark is because they are wearing 501-C3 muzzles.
If Christ called the Pharisees of his day “sons of the Devil”, (John 8:44), what do you suppose He would call the world’s religious leaders today? Do you suppose He heard the prayers at the “prayer breakfast” in DC yesterday? Are you aware that He told Jeremiah three times not to pray for the nation of Judah (Jeremiah 7:16, 11:14 and 14:11) and added, “…for I will not hear you”. Why? Because of their idolatry. Is the world less steeped in idolatry today?
We, in America, need to understand, that abortion is murder. We are not excused because our supreme court justices do not understand this. (Isaiah 3:12 says, “…they which lead you cause you to err.”) Our esteemed justices, by their own admission, “Cannot tell when life begins” (Roe v/s Wade), but they could have known had they been reading the book all in positions of authority are commanded to read from daily. In the 17th chapter of Leviticus, verse 11, it says, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood…” If it bleeds, it’s a life! For those who missed it in verse 11, it’s repeated in verse 14.
Now we come to the sobering part of this communiqué and it’s found in Numbers 35:33. “So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
Can we even begin to see how many Americans’ blood must be spilled just to cleanse the land? I realize full well that these scriptures have been long forgotten, however, just because we have forgotten them doesn’t mean they are no longer in force. I am well aware of the lie invented by Jesuits and parroted by protestant ministers, that the law was done away at Christ’s death. How many have looked to see what Christ had to say about this? Its found in Matthew 5, beginning in verse 17: “Think not that I am come to destroy (do away with) the law or the prophets: I am come not to destroy but to fulfill.” At this point those of the protestant churches, eager to justify themselves in their iniquity, chime in with, “Of course --- Christ fulfilled the law so we don’t have to.” Have any of them read the next verse??? “For verily I say unto you, ‘Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle (smallest punctuation marks) shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.’” Have heaven and earth passed?
This entire world is on the eve of the biggest planetary change since the days of Noah. You have been notified.