VOICE OF ISRAEL-IDENTITY BELIEVERS IN ULSTER
DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN
DARE TO BE A DANIEL
Standing by a purpose true,
Heeding God's command,
Honour them the faithful few!
All hail to Daniel's band!
Dare to be a Daniel!
Dare to stand alone!
Dare to have a purpose firm!
Dare to make it known.
Many mighty men are lost,
Daring not to stand,
Who for God had been a host
By joining Daniel's band.
Many giants, great and tall,
Stalking through the land,
Headlong to the earth would fall
If met by Daniel's band.
Hold the Gospel banner high!
On to victory grand!
Satan and his host defy
And shout for Daniel's band!
THE DESOLATE HERITAGES
It is not the objective of this treatise to seek out Israel in Britain only; we seek the Israel that was in Britain as a place of intermediate sojourn on its way to America; widening the territorial bounds of the "appointed place" (II Samuel 7:10) to include the desolate heritages, as foretold (Isaiah 49:8). American Israel can be traced in British Israel long before the Pilgrims crossed the sea. The first slender tendrils stretching over the wall (Genesis 49:22) were the explorers and adventurers in their restless search of the Western Ocean. They were led by a way they knew not to find a land they had never known. God was making paths in the sea against the time when Israel would be ready to come. As it had happened many times before in the life of Israel, priestly and kingly power in England became oppressive. The Lollards arose; then came the Brownists, Separatists and Puritans, and with them a host that was friendly to liberty of conscience.
The University of Cambridge was a centre that fed the intellect of this new-forming branch of Israel which, all unaware of its destiny, was growing in the midst of Israel in the Isles. A state of mind was forming that not only led to the flight of the Pilgrims but to Cromwell's Revolution which interrupted the kingly succession for twelve years. These divisions were implicit in the steady formation of the root of American Israel in the very midst of British Israel.
Divinely permitted advance preparations at one side of the main stream of events were not lacking. Spaniards opened up the coast lands of the South and founded in Mexico a flourishing civilisation with universities, cathedrals and great wealth of gold long before the Pilgrims came - but the land was not for them. Frenchmen fired by religious zeal for Indian souls, pushed through to the Upper Lakes and far down the Father of Waters, the Mississippi River - but the land was not for them. Dutchmen founded New Amsterdam, a goodly people and a blessing to these shores - but the land was not for them. The cavaliers of England came to Virginia, with state religion and high degree of birth, British power behind them and AngloSaxon ideals within them - but not yet was the land ready for them.
These were all instruments of a Preparatory Providence, opening the way for the smallest, the weakest and the least ambitious of all the invasions, which, because it was the strongest spiritually, was to define the character of America. There were other Providences, unknown at the time, but immensely important later.
How assiduously God works when His own purposes are on foot! Not a minute detail is overlooked. There was a perfidious Englishman who betrayed the confidence of some Indians of Massachusetts and seized them, carrying them off to sell as slaves in Spain. One of them, by the name of Squanto, escaped, made his way to England, learned the language and was afterward, by the kindness of an English merchant, returned to his native shore. Keep in mind this instrument of the Divine Providence - Squanto the Indian.
There were other Providences at work. As this growing branch of Israel in the English shires grew more and more interested in spiritual religion, a religion that would be free of the stultifying appendages of a worldly ecclesiasticism, they more and more incurred the displeasure of the authorities in Church and State. They would never have been able to undergo the period of incubation necessary to develop them into a loyal fellowship if they had not been given special protection from harassment and arrest. It happened that where these like-minded seeds of American Israel lived, at Scrooby Manor, which belonged to the See of York, one William Brewster was bailiff and postmaster, a man who was not willing to hunt down his neighbours who were called Puritans because they sought a purer worship of God. So the seed grew unmolested.
This man was succeeded by his son, also William Brewster, who, thirty years later, became the famous Elder Brewster of Plymouth Colony, New England. In his turn he too used his office, his wealth and his social position to protect his worshipping neighbours from trouble. As a young man he had been secretary to William Davison who was Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, and had accompanied Davison to Holland where he observed the brave Hollanders in arms for the freedom of religion which they won. Doubtless here was the seed of the later flight of the Puritans to Holland.
On his return to Scrooby, Brewster would tell of Holland. The little Puritan church met in his barn. Thither came Reverend John Robinson, a name immortal in the spiritual annals of America, and William Bradford, afterwards Governor of Plymouth Colony. Thus, the quiet incubation of the leaders of Israel to the farther West went on, and when the force of persecution could no longer be evaded, they were not like frightened, scattered sheep, but a strong federation of Christian families gathered in a church that was also an economic unit, with a pastor like John Robinson and leaders like Brewster and Bradford.
We must never forget that the real beginning of America was a little believing church. We should marvel at the guiding and defending Hand of Providence that, in spite of kings and prelates, allowed that little church to be gathered. Eventually they sought religious freedorn in Holland. They were not rude, unlettered peasants. Many of thern were graduates of the ancient English universities and able to read their Bibles in the original Greek and Hebrew. However, being gentlemen scholars, men of peace, they lacked one element necessary for the rude work of the pioneer on a barbarous shore.
FLIGHT TO THE NEW WORLD
Behold another wonder of Divine Providence. There was a man of Lancashire - the same country from which George Washington's forebears came - by name: Miles Standish. Disinherited because of his Puritan syrnpathies, left without property, although sprung of a wealthy family, Miles Standish had gone io Holland to offer his sword against the Spaniards in the fight for a free Christian faith. There he rose to the rank of Captain. When finally the truce came, Captain Miles Standish wandered to Leyden, the very city where the little Puritan church of Scrooby had settled a year before. Whether he joined the little church we do not know. My opinion is that he did not; he was a soldier, not a theologian. That little church had enough theologians. God was giving them a soldier who could arrange their self defence in the new wilderness, a Joshua for their Moses.
When that little church had found to its sorrow, after ten years of life in Holland, that the work of getting a living among a strange people can take too much out of the life of the soul; when they found that religious liberty in a free country can exist side by side with an appalling amount of religious indifference; when they found the Dutch disregard for the Sabbath too heavy for their consciences to bear; and when they had become thoroughly alarmed by the elect, of Continental life, even at that early day, upon the minds and morals of Puritan boys and girls - for all these reasons, as written down in their records, they decided to go away to the wilderness of America. There they would rear an exterior community life more representative of their interior spiritual life - and Captain Miles Standish went with them. Every American schoolboy knows this gallant captain's exploits in behalf of the little beleaguered garrison of God at Plymouth Rock.
These are Providences as marked as any that attended Israel in the flight from Egypt. And there were more. When they sailed west, they carried a patent for lands in Virginia. They would not have been happy in Virginia - they would have found many of the same conditions that irked them in England and Holland. Winter and storm drove them on Cape Cod; their Master Mariner would take them neither to the Dutch at New York nor to the English at Virginia - they were compelled to settle on the bleak shore of the north. They came ill-equipped for strife and they found this land they had not sought had been denuded of Indians by a plague several years before, so that the immediate territory was uninhabited.
Then, not long afterward, ignorant of almost all the ways to preserve their lives in the new country, losing nearly half their scanty number by death in a few tragic weeks, who should come into their settlement one day but the Indian Squanto! It was his old home (he had found all his people slain by the plague) and remembering the kindness he had received at English hands across the sea, hands that had rescued him from slavery and returned him to his native coast, he paid the debt of kindness and taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn. He showed them how to fertilise the rows with dead fish, how to do a score of necessary things, and became their potent ambassador of peace to the powerful Indian chiefs round about.
Truly God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. Our American history is in reality a continued Bible, with God's miracles never absent.
STRIKING PARALLELS
Who were these Pilgrim Fathers? They called themselves "the seed of Abraham, God's servant, and the children of Jacob, His chosen." It is so written in their own records. They called themselves "a vine out of Egypt into this wilderness." These are their words. They used the old Israel word "led," not "driven," denying that either England or Holland had "driven" them out. Their passage hither was speeded by the great Israel texts. They braced themselves in trouble with the great Israel promises. They allotted their land as Israel did. They purged their settlement of blood and crime by following the counsel of Moses, the lawgiver of Israel. The Israel blessing of long life was vouchsafed many of their number: of 51 deaths recorded of persons who came to the colony during the first ten years of its settlement, only four were under 80 years of age, the youngest being 73 years. Fifteen of them were over 90 years old; four of these over, 95.
When Israel was brought out of Egypt, Moses was tremendously impressed by the mighty character of the event. He challenged the people:
"For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? " (Deuteronomy 4:32).
Moses went on with his questions:
"Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?" (Deuteronomy 4:3 4).
However, the same mighty acts of God occurred when this American nation was taken out of the midst of another nation. The canon of the Bible is closed, but the work of the God of the Bible goes on.
Being of Israel our forefathers proceeded in all their plans after the pattern of their forebears. Let us always remember that the planting of the United States of America, the hereditary strain that determined our countrys character, was a spiritual planting. The fathers who planted this nation were Christians. They came on a specifically Christian venture.
Get it fixed in your mind, beyond the power of any false history to erase, that the planting that determined the genius of this nation was a church - not a town, not a colony, not a trading or exploring venture, not a gold rush, but a church. A little Pilgrim Church crossed the sea for the sake of its church life that is the true origin of our United States.
We have reprinted this extract frorn W. J. Cameron's book "The Covenant People" in honour of 4th July - The National Day of our Fellow Israelites in the U. S.A.
"EURO QUOTES"
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"The common currency's the greatest relinquishment of sovereignty since the Treaty of Rome"- Felipe Gonzalez, former Spanish Prime Minister, Speaking in June 1998. |
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"Monetary union is a path of no return. No revision or withdrawal of any kind is either legally or politically provided for. Such withdrawal would cause considerable economic cost and,above all, great political damage"- Hans Tietmeyer, head of the German Bundesbank, speaking in Brussels, February 1998 |
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William Hague, MP, current leader of the Conservative party, replying to a letter from one of his worried Yorkshire constituents (a This England reader) during the run-up to a parliamentary vote on the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, stated: "I have read the Maastricht Treaty. I have concluded that its ratification is best for the future of this country. It does give us many of the things we have always asked for ... and it is crucial to enforcing the Single Market. Failure to ratify the Treaty would start a process of this country's political and economic disengagement from Europe which would leave us poorer and unable to influence political decisions which would greatly affect us anyway." |
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"We would never have constructed the European Union by democratic means" - Claude Cheysson, former French Foreign Minister. |
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"Those who take a position aqainst the Maastricht Treaty will no longer have the right to engage in politics." - Jacques Delors, ex-President of the EU. |
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"I have never understood why public opinion about European affairs should be taken into account" - Raymond Barre, former Prime Minister of France. |
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"Might is right - in politics and war!" - Helmut Kohl, former German Chancellor. |
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"It is important to establish the Euro - to stand firm against Anglo-Saxon values. " - Phillipe Maystadt, Finance Minister of Belgium. |
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"The House of Commons has never had power over European laws. When Ministers go to Brussels they leave their democratic baggage behind them." - Bill Newton Dunn, ex Conservative MEP |
SCRIPTURES WHEN FACING PERSECUTION |
| "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake." - MATTHEW 24: 9 |
| "Yea, and all that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." - II TIMOTHY 3: 12 |
| "Thou, therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." - II TIMOTHY 2: 3 |
| "We must through much tribulation enter the Kingdom of God." - ACTS 14: 22 |
| "And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." - MATTHEW 10: 22 |
| "They shall put you out of the synagogues (churches) yea,the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God's service." - JOHN 16: 2 |
| "Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you ... rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings .... if ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye." - I PETER 4: 12-14 |
| "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;" - II CORINTHIANS 4: 8-9 |
| "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake, rejoice and be exceeding glad for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you." - MA'ITHEW 5: 11-12 |
HOLY MOLARS!
(OR ARE REPORTS OF DIVINE DENTISTRY JUST FOOL'S GOLD?)
By
Glenys Roberts
BELIEVERS say there is a perfectly acceptable explanation for the new phenomenon that is sweeping Britain's charismatic churches. 'Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it,' says the Lord (Psalm 81, verse 10). And filling mouths He is - with gleaming gold molars.
Why the Lord should choose expensive dentistry as a means of communicating with his flock is not known. But from the Staffordshire Potteries to Surrey's stockbroker suburbs, there are scores of Christian men and women claiming they have received the Midas touch.
Amanda Williams, the wife of a millionaire businessman from Weybridge, is proof of another Biblical saying: 'And to those who have shall more be given.' Mrs Williams, 38, and a mother of two, says a steel pin in one of her teeth has turned to gold.
'It happened about three weeks ago,' she relates. 'My husband Paul and I had been to a service where the speaker was talking about all the things going on in the church at the moment, like people receiving gold fillings and gold teeth. When we got home Paul was messing around and said: "Let's see if you have got one." He looked in my mouth and said: "Oh my goodness!"
'I said: "What are you talking about?" I'm having a lot of restructuring done and one of the steel pins in my tooth had turned gold.'
Lest anyone think Mrs Williams is the type of happy-clappy worshipper to whom such things happen regularly, she is quick to defend herself. 'I am not into this sort of thing but it is very obviously gold. I think it is God presencing himself. He is a God of miracles, after all.
'When Jesus was at the wedding in Cana He turned water into wine. It wasn't as if they had run out of wine - He is just an extravagant God. Gold fillings are a symbol of his extravagance.'
Christian gold fever has its origins in the early Seventies but first came to wider notice some ten years ago in Mexico and Latin America, South Africa - and, of course, in Canada where the famous 'Toronto Blessing', the last charismatic craze, began.
THE BLESSING, a less attractive manifestation of the power of God, caused people to writhe on the floor, speak in tongues and, according to some reports, bark like dogs after a special 'laying on of hands' ceremony.The holy fillings were first reported in Britain in late March and early April and initially dismissed as an April Fool joke.
But last month in Norfolk, no fewer than 50 reformed sinners claimed to have been subject to a complete dental overhaul at a four-day conference held by the Pioneer Church, the 'new' Church founded in Surrey - the county dubbed Britain's Bible belt - some 20 vears ago by Gerald Coates, a former postman and friend of Cliff Richard.
He began with just five worshippers in his Cobham terrace house but now lives in considerable splendour in a mansion that once belonged to Clive of India.
In a slight variation on the gold theme, last Sunday 18 people came forward in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, to claim that while worshipping at Abbot Beyne School they, too, had been touched with gold. Their shoulders and hands were covered with bright specks of a yellow metallic dust.
Leanne Wright, an 18-year-old student, had been sitting at the front of the church when she noticed her hands had changed colour. 'They were covered in a fine gold dust,' she said. 'It seemed to appear out of nowhere and my fingertips were coated in a gold oil. It was amazing.' She immediately told church elder Nick Pettingale and he asked other churchgoers if they'd experienced anything similar.
'About 15 people put their hands up and, on inspection, it became clear that they too had been covered with the gold. We had everyone from kids and parents to company managers and a solicitor's wife who had been showered with the substance. There was even a graphic design manager who discovered his feet were covered in the gold.'
Pettingale says he cannot come up with a rational explanation and can only conclude it is a sign from God. He too draws a comparison with Jesus's first miracle: 'If you remember the fact that He turned water into wine, then it may just be that he is giving us a sign to make us wonder and believe.' The Rt Rev David Pytches, former Bishop of Chile, Bolivia and Peru, and former vicar of St Andrew's, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, is something of an expert on religious alchemy. He first witnessed it in Chile in 1974. 'One girl in the congregation complained of pain in her tooth,' he said. 'She put a scarf around her face and when she got home she found that some of her teeth had been filled. It looked like gold, but then how can one tell without testing it? '
'I saw many other cases like this. I don't know what to make of it, but God is God and He can do what He wants. One is always sceptical, but when it's a friend telling you that it's happened to them, why should they lie to you?'
No one has been more successful at recording mass miracles - including dental work - than the Transatlantic evangelist John Arnott. He is pastor of the Arnerican Vineyard Church at Toronto Airport and originator of the famous Toronto Blessing.
Two American Christians who watched one of Arnott's services on TV describe on an internet website the improbable scene of Arnott in the middle of a church service shining a torch into the mouths of the congregation to show those who had been blessed by the miracle of gold teeth.
In rational Britain it seems that holy molars are the latest symptom of a millennium fever that has prompted a religious revival resulting in mass conversions in British prisons, and even among the hard-bitten officers of the Metropolitan Police. Seventy-five were at a recent meeting of the Pioneer church in Westminster in which 200 souls twitched, shook, spoke in tongues and invited the Second Coming.
Gerald Coates who incidentally is a believer in the 'Diana Prophecy' - the idea that the princess's death was a sure sign that the end of the world was nigh - attracts thousands of worshippers to his services and rallies. His own dental history remains confidential but he has said that God is always looking for new manifestations of the truth to shake us out of our lethargy. 'He won't be tied to 17th-century language, 18th-century hymns, 19th-century buildings and 20th-century religious inflexibility. No way.' He says God has cured his own hands of warts and sees no reason why He shouldn't turn his hand to dentistry too.
AT BRITAIN'S best-known and ultra-fashionable venue of charismatic worship, Holy Trinity Brompton, the Knightsbridge church where Camilla Parker Bowles held a memorial service for her mother, they remain sceptical. So far, according to spokesman Mark Eldon-Dew, no one in Knightsbridge has sighted any transmogrified fillings - only gold crowns belonging to visiting Royals. 'We've never come across anything like that here,' he says.So does anyone in the established Church believe in this new phenomenon? The new Bishop of Liverpool, the Rev. James Jones, who witnessed his own miracle when a patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital defied all medical opinion and got up and walked, says he has not seen any miracle dentistry on Merseyside: 'I shall need to reflect on this. I've no idea what's causing it. I'm not a dental expert.'
Dr Jimmy Steele is a dental expert. A lecturer in restorative dentistry at Newcastle University, he says he is delighted that God has endorsed his profession in this way: 'I'm flattered but I can't think of any good reason why He would want to. Anyone who wants to gain financially would have to have the teeth extracted anyway.'
DAILY MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1999
Additional.reporting by Natalie Clarke.
SATURDAY 26 JUNE '99 - BBC CEEFAX
UK AND FRANCE PLEDGE TROOPS TO UN FORCE.
Britain and France have signed an understanding with he UN to make peacekeeping troops available to go anywhere in the world at short notice.
The two are the first Security Council members to sign the memorandum.
The move means the UN will be able to choose units from a pool of up to 8,000 soldiers, subject to Cabinet approval.
A British diplomatic spokesman said the aim was to help prevent situations such as the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
And if you believe that, you'll believe anything! I wonder if the 'diplomatic spokesman' has any children of military age or who are currently serving in the Armed Forces - don't seem to remember any 'Kennedy siblings' conscripted for military service in Vietnam - of course, maybe it's only my kids and your kids - the 'Joe Publics' and the 'Fred Bloggses' of this world who get the 'honour' of dying thousands of miles away from home and family for whatever 'noble cause' the super rich/banking/internationalist/one-world cartel deem worthy!
AN URGENT CALL TO PRAYER Following a five week press campaign to demonise this ministry and to attack our books, tapes and website, Pastor Campbell received a death threat on 7th June containing ammunition and ordering him to leave the country in 72 hours.
PRACTISE WHAT IS PREACHED
EVERY YEAR, since Drumcree hit the head-lines, all we hear from the nationalist politicians and church leaders is that we should obey the law of the land and the Parades Commission.
Yet I wonder when was the last time the following, which is taken word for word from a catechism of Catholic doctrine first published in 1951 and approved by the Archbishop and Bishops of Ireland, was preached to their own flock.
Question: "What are our chief duties as citizens?"
Answer: "Our chief duties as citizens are to love and serve our country and to respect and obey the lawful government."
Question: "How do we love and serve our country?"
Answer: "We love and serve our country principally by observing its laws, defending its rights, voting honestly, and paying just taxes."
Question: "Why should we respect and obey the lawful government?"
Answer: "We should respect and obey the lawful government because its authority comes from God."
Question: "Is it sinful to join a society that plots against the lawful government."
Answer: "Yes it is a mortal sin to join a society that plots to overthrow by force or other sinful measures the lawful government."
One wonders when this was last preached from a Roman Catholic pulpit in Ulster?
W. Wallace, Magherafelt
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