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Andproclaim
liberty throughout all the land… —Leviticus25:10 TheLiberator July-August2003:
Volume XII, Number 4 ©2003 Published
by With One Accord Ministries a
corporationsole P.O. Box 457, Dubuque, IA 52004-0457 563.583.5473 www.withoneaccord.org email: schnoebelen2@msn.com Published bi-monthly in the USA ASpecial
Letter from Sharon Beloved Friends, I am writing this to thank all of you who
havebeen praying for me. Your prayers have made the difference. I feel their
effectespecially in the most painful and difficult times. There have been many
timeswhen I have been close to despair and begging for God’s mercy. He has
alwayscome through; always been there to comfort and console. Your prayers
areanswered. This latest battle has been going on
since lateFebruary. I have learned the term for what is technically being used
againstus. It is called Radionics and is used with evil intentions like black
magicdone with machines. It helps
toknow what we are fighting. It helps us know better how to pray to overcome
it.So I pass it on to you prayer warriors. God is greater! He has
overcome! My application for disability was refused
on thegrounds that I was not doing all I could to help my condition. This
conclusionwas based on the fact that I was using natural healing and herbs
instead ofdrugs. Even though my echocardiogram showed that I improved my
ejection fractionfrom 6-13% in Aug of 2000 to 33% in Oct 2002, they want me on
their drugs.Drugs that often have side effects of killing those taking them. Because I was refused disability that
means I haveno insurance. With a diagnosis of heart trouble the only insurance
I can get issky high and out of reach. This means that all the trips to the
emergency roomand my stay in the hospital are not covered. It puts a great burden on Bill. I have reapplied and now I am taking
their drugs.Please pray I am approved speedily and that God will remove all the
sideeffects of the drugs. I mentioned the latest battle has been
going onsince late February. The heart just couldn’t circulate the fluids and I
swelledup with edema, lost my appetite, and my colon and kidneys shut down for
awhile. It was touch and go for weeks. There was a point I thought I was going home to Jesus and I admit, I was
afraid Iwas going to die.
Bill and I hadto talk about funeral arrangements etc. and that had to be so
stressful forhim. He was giving me treatments and praying
with mealmost constantly for several weeks that put all the ministry
obligations waybehind. The newsletter was late, the orders backed up - the
devil wants to shutdown everything of God he can. Because of the economy our
donations had beenlow anyway but now they had dropped to rock bottom, partially
due to the“summer slump.” We are trying desperately to catch up. Some of you have phoned wanting to know
how longit would be before you receive your orders. We are doing our best.
There areonly the two of us though we have prayed for some volunteers. I am not
supposedto be working and Bill just can NOT do it all by himself. We need to
replace meif there is anyone out there who can contribute some work time and
not get paid.It could be data entry on the computer or packing up orders or
running to getstuff printed. PLEASE pray for the ministry. Both for time, for
finances but especially thatBill will continue to be so filled with the Holy
Spirit that he can he can keepup with all he is trying to do. I personally am
praying for his protection aswell. He is so courageous to write on some the
topics he researches. No wonderthe devil is after us. But God (Romans 5:8)! It doesn’t matter what you put in front
of that.No matter what…But God isgreater! He will overcome, He will
provide, He will heal, He will deliver usout of the hand of our enemies. Wehave
grown so much from allthis! Praying about a heart condition or
spiritualwarfare is one thing. But do you know how humbling it is to pray for a
simplething like a bowel movement? Leaning on God for the basest of functions?
It’sjust like having to pray for money for the ministry. Sometimes we have to
payoff the mailer before the next newsletter can go out and its just not
there.Right now the reason this newsletter “skipped” the June-July issue was
thatfrankly we did not have the funds to pay for it. But I have learned God doesn’t mind how
base itseems to me. In fact, I think he drove us to this level just so we would
learnto depend on Him for EVERYTHING!It has brought us terribly close to
The Lord. I think He may be teaching us “tobecome as little children.” I praise
His Name: The Name of Jesus. I just wanted to explain to you good
friends whyyou have had to wait for your orders and what God is doing in our
lives. Thankyou every one for your patience, your prayers, and your donations.
Thank youfor every good thought you send our way. Know that we are praying for
you aswell. Last, we are interceding for America.
Never beforehas she been under such a demonic assault. We must pray that the
worship of thetrue God becomes stronger in every way in America. He must come
into us moreand come into our leaders stronger. He must influence our legal
system, ourmedical system, our government, etc. for we are doomed without Him. Pray,pray,
pray dear friends, let uspray for one another. Godbless you, SharonSchnoebelen The Road to Hell? by
WilliamSchnoebelen Thereis no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.— Isaiah 48:22
olitics, it is said, makes strange bedfellows. This
iscertainly true today, with our complex world of war, terrorism, and
various peace processes around the world. The US government, for the sake of
fightingterrorism, finds itself allied with all sorts of unlikely groups -
notably, the Saudis, which have one of the most anti-Christian nations! With the possible exception of North Korea, the Saudi
Kingdom is one of the hardest places on earth to be a Believer in Jesus. Some
believers there are put to death for converting from Islam to Christ. Yet we are
yoked with them (It doesn’t hurt that the Saudis have OIL and that the Bush
andCheney families are big into oil)! This is true even though the 9/11
hijackers all appeared to be Arabs. Of course,all
of this is being done to fight terrorism. But the question needs asking, will God
bless our nation and protect us if we ally ourselves with nations that persecute
Christians and Jews - however influential those nations might be? We
understandthat diplomacy and Biblical behavior are often at odds. But this is
getting outof hand. Diplomacy is the art of compromise, but there can be no
compromisewith Biblical truth. President Bush claims to be a Born Again
Christian. Thereis evidence both pro and con about that. Ultimately, his status
is between himand the Lord. But, is Bush making some deals with the devil to
protect our nation from future terrorist attacks? Coming Home?
owhere is this more evident than in the supposed peaceprocess
in the Middle East and President Bush’s much vaunted Roadmap toPeace.
It is a cliché to say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but in
this case,it is also accurate. Upfront
itmust be acknowledged that there are doubtless thousands of
decent Palestinians living in the Middle East. There are many of them who are
not Muslims, but either genuine Born Again believers or else nominal Christians.
I am careful to put the word Palestinian in italics because actually in
terms of history, there really is no such thing as a Palestinian prior to the
1967 war over there. In fact,
ifthere is a Palestinian homeland in the Middle East, it would be in
Jordan, which was deliberately carved out to be an Arab state after World War
II. While the Hebrews have had a continual presence in the Holy Land since
before the time of Jesus, these Palestinians are refugees from various Arab
states who decided they wanted to come in and take over Israel. It would
belike a large group of Americans suddenly claiming that we were Canadians
and moving up north to Ontario and demanding that the Canadian government give
them Ontario because they were Canadians who have been sadly dispossessed of
their lands. Ontario would then become the occupied territories. If I move into a
garage, it does not make me a Cadillac and just because thousands
of miscellaneous Arab refugees moved into the Holy Land does not make
them Palestinians! For example, the premier Palestinian, Yassar Arafat,
was born in Egypt.1 In fact, itis
a little known fact that, in a bit of legal trickery, the official
UN definition of what constituted a Palestinian was changed to say that anyone
who had lived in the Holy Land for only two years could claim the right
to be Palestinian.2 The Philistines
areUpon Us!
s I document in our video, Israel, Islam
andBiochemical/Nuclear Terror,there are not only historical reasons why the
Palestinians are not entitled to Israel, there are Biblical reasons as
well. God gave a vast
amount of land to Abraham and hisheirs through the line of Isaac, not Ishmael
(Gen. 15:18). This land grant runs from the Mediterranean on the west to Nile on
the southwest to the Euphrates River onthe east. This land includes, of course,
the entire current state of Israel, plus the occupied territories, and
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and most of Iraq. Currently, the
Palestinians are demanding that Israel return even more land to them,
even though Arabs already have 75% of the land promised to Isaac. It is as if
they have already mugged Israel and taken everything but its underwear, and
now they want thesocks too! In the
1978 Camp David accords, Israel gave back more than 90% of the land it acquired
in self-defense against the Arab world that had sworn her destruction. Yet
the Palestinians are not satisfied and want more. In fact, they want
it all, because according to Islamic law (shari'a), once land has
been conquered by Muslims (as the Holy Land was during the Crusades), the
faithful Muslim can neverrest until all that land is once again returned to
Islamic suzerainty. Additionally,of
course the Islamic/Palestinian position is that the Torah (Old Testament)has
been edited to disguise the fact that the true heir of Abraham is Ishmael.
But there is a problem there,historically and Biblically. There is not
much evidence for the Palestinians beingdescended from Ishmael, but rather they
are descended from the Philistines(note the similarity of the names!). The
name Palestine was created by the Romans as an insult to the Hebrew people
back in135 a.d. It would replace
theformer name of their country, Judea. This was a punishment for their
revolts against Roman occupation. The term is a Latinization of the name,
Philistine. Some Palestinians
actually boast about being descended from the Philistines. While it is
true that there were Philistines in the Holy Land before Joshua came in and
claimed the land for Yahweh, they have no entitlement to the birthright of Isaac
(orIshmael for that matter). The second and
even more important issue is that God was very clear that He would notallow His
Word to be tampered with – either the Tenach (Old Testament) or the New
Testament.Some Bible verses which state this would include Ps. 12:6-7, Matt.
5:18, Luke16:17, 1 Peter 2:23-25, etc.). This means that just like every other
deluded religion, these Palestinians are attacking the word of God. As Paul says
in Romans, let God be true, but every man a liar! W.M.D. or W.W.M.D.?
here is another Biblical reason why this Roadmap to Peace is a
bad idea. We must speak carefully here, but it needs to be said that
the principle people with whom the Israelis are expected to negotiate are not nice
people! Without wishing to stereotype all Arabs, the particular people who
are behind these terrorist attacks in Israel and elsewhere are nothing short of
demonic monsters! These
terror groups like Hamas are perfectly willing to blow up hundreds of innocent
people- including women and children - to achieve their ends. Make no mistake
about it. These people do not want peace, they want Israel driven into the sea! Unlike
the current media party line which says that Islam is a religion of peace, it
is important to realize that jihad (holy war) is at the core of
Islamic doctrine. Though there are doubtless many liberal Muslims who are
peaceful and nonviolent, they are acting in direct contradictionto
their own Quran(holy book). They are like liberal Christians who believe in
abortion or “gay rights.” Both are disobeying their own scriptural mandate! True
Islam without jihad isas unthinkable as Christianity without Calvary. As
we document in our video[mentioned above], many Suras (verses) in the
Quran mandate violence against infidels. In Islam, an infidel is simply any
person who do not submit3 to Allah (who is in
fact an idol). Interestingly enough, the Arabic word for peace is salam,
which is rooted in the word submit, (as in submitting to Allah) while the
Hebrew word for peace is shalom, which means genuine peace
without submission. Thus,
when Islamic Palestinian leaders like Arafat say they want peace, they define
peace as submission to Allah – something they know devout Jews will never
do. Nothing much has changed from a thousand years ago when Islamic armies
surgedacross the Middle East and North Africa and stated, essentially, convert
to Islam or we will cut your head off. When
mostWestern people – Jews, Christians or secularists – hear the word peace,
theythink in the Judeo-Christian sense. But this is not what the
fundamentalist Muslim thinks. Muhammad himself
led raids all over the desert and pillaged to his heart’s content, all for the
glory of Allah. Unlike the Bible-believing Christian who asks, Whatwould
Jesus do? and ends up living a life of peace and compassion,4 a Muslim who
asks What would Mohammed do? might well killsomeone. He would be perfectly in harmony with the
teachings of the Quran. Here two
examples: Let not the unbelievers think that they will ever getaway.
They have not the power to do so. Muster against them all the men and cavalry at
your command, so that you might strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your
enemy, and others besides them who are unknown to you but knownto Allah. – Sura
8:59 When the sacred months are over slay the idolaterswherever
you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywherefor them.
– Sura 9:5 W.W.J.D. produces
soup kitchens. W.W.M.D. produces homicide bombers. Perhaps could W.W.M.D. stand
for We’re Weapons of Mass Destruction? Training Kids to Kill!
ou can see why the Roadmap to Peace is therefore a highway
tofolly and destruction. The extermination of Israel is required by
Islamic doctrine. A modern Islamic theologian, Ahmad Hasan az-Zayat teaches in Al-Azhar
that “Holy war is... a divine obligation. The Muslim's... religion is
a Quran and a sword...”5 Islamic
law states that there can never be peace with infidels (any non-Muslim). There
can only be a temporary truce for strategic reasons.6 There can be no peace between dar
al-Islam (the Arabic term for the house of Islamic peace – anywhere where
the full Islamic law is in effect) and dar al-Harb (the house of war -
non-Islamic societies). It is
alsopermitted for Muslim leaders to lie for the furtherance of Islamic
destiny. Thus, Palestinian leaders like Arafat can promise to pursue
peace but keep their fingers crossed, so to speak. That is why we have this
continuing cycle of bombings and terror, even though we are in a peace
process. Islam will be peaceful when it suits it diplomatically. Yet it will
rise up and break treaties or accords at will when it is to the strategic
advantage of the faithful. The
best example of this is the fact that for years, Palestinians and other Muslims
have been brainwashing and training their young children to kill and to hate
Jews through every possible medium. Please check out our new video offer
thisissue for more on this (THE NEW BARBARIANS: TEACHING CHILDREN TO KILL).
You
cannot make true peace with liars who are committed to genocidal killing of as
many Jewish people as possible! As the Bible verse from Isaiah used in the
epigraphof this article reminds us: There is no peace, saith theLORD,
unto the wicked.— Isaiah 48:22 The PLO
under Arafat has killed far more Israelis than UBL killed on 9/11. We felt
justified indropping a bazillion tons of bombs on Afghanistan to try and get Al
Qaeda and the Taliban. Yet we lecture Israel because it sends rockets to kill
Hamas terrorist leaders. It seems to be a double standard we are playing to try
and keep the Arab world happy. I do
not believe the Lord is pleased about us putting the squeeze on Israel while
we cozy up to Islamic nations that allow no freedom to preach the gospel! To
be sure, there are secular Jews and Godless Jews and even Jews who are
Kabbalists and New Agers, etc. in Israel. They need to receive Jesus as their
Messiah. But they still deserve our
support and our prayers. We
especially need to pray for President Bush that he make the right choices on
Israel! To quote Jan Markell, a noted expert on Middle East prophecy issues, “If
the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the
Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”7 Endnotes: 1. This is obviously a complex subject and I would highly recommend the excellent book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL by Joan Peters (JKAP Pub.,1984) 2. Peters, p. 4. 3. The actual word, Islam means submission, and a Muslim isone who submits. True Christians will never bow the knee to Allah, and thus are targets of jihad. 4. Oftentimes non-Christians cite the Crusades or the burning of witches at the stake assigns of this same violent, warlike tendency. However, it must be pointed outthat over 95% of this sort of activity was either carried out by the Vatican or those like Luther and Calvin who were just “escaped” from Vatican bondage and still carried vestiges of the Roman belief systems. It is true that the Puritans hanged people accused of witchcraft at Salem, but – again – they wereCalvinist in theology. True Christians do not believe in persecuting or punishing people for their religious differences, because Jesus cautioned against any such activity. 5. Cited in The Berean Call, June 2003 article by Dave Hunt, p. 1. 6. Professor Majid Khadduri, WAR AND PEACE IN THE LAW OFISLAM, cited in Hunt, op.cit. 7. PROPHETIC VIEWS BEHIND THE NEWS, Sept./Oct. 2003, p. 4 –available from Olive Tree Ministries, www.olivetreeviews.org BattleStations!
t times, I am sure it seems like we tend to harp on the
importance of Christians praying. Perhaps we do, but it is because we sense that
this is where the heart of the Lord is. We know that if Believers were praying
as they should, this nation would probably not be in the dire spiritual
condition in which it finds itself. As this
issue is going to press, we have learned that the Ten Commandments memorial has
just been removed from the Alabama courthouse where it been enthroned. Brothers
and sisters, this is just the latest in a series of appalling incidents in
this nation that show how far we have wandered from God. I will not take the
space to enumerate all of them. But recently we have seen: 1)Anti-Sodomy
laws struck down by the Supreme Court 2)The
Catholic priesthood pedophilia tragedy 3)The
phrase “under God” under attack in the Pledge of Allegiance 4)The
Episcopal church has ordained its first openly gay bishop These
first two especially are sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance. In the
firstcase, aside from homosexuality being a deep sin, we need to acknowledge
that the state has a significant public health interest here. This abominable
practice causes the spread of many diseases, of which HIV is only the best
known. Additionally, gay men are much more likely to have violent, sadistic
types of sexual “play” that cause one or both partners to end up in emergency
rooms. Finally, such people have much higher risk of depression, anxiety, and
suicide.What a gay life! Our
public health dollars are funding these detestable practices. If states can pass
laws requiring seat belts in cars and helmets on motorcyclists (which evidently
they can) in the interest of public safety and keeping insurance costs down,
theycan certainly pass laws against sodomy when it causes so many diseases
(both mental and physical)! Yet the Supreme Court has chosen to thumb its nose
at the Lord God Almighty. People say,
“Well,you cannot legislate morality.” What utter nonsense! Every state in the
Union has codified the morality of several of the Ten Commandments into law.
Murder is a crime and so is theft. Those are moral judgments! Earlier judges in
our nation were frank to write that homosexuality was an abomination and a
crime against nature. Today, few judges have the courage to speak out, even if
they believe such things in private. Additionally,of
course, sodomy is a major conduit for demonic infestation. Some of the darkest
magical practices in the world involve such practices and decency forbids me
from saying more. Is it any wonder that so many of the homosexuals we see on TV act
as if they had more demons per cubic centimeter than a square mile ofhell? Certainly,
we must let homosexuals know that Jesus loves them and that He died for them.
But He did not die for them that they might remain in their sins! Christians
must never attack homosexuals physically or treat them shamefully, but we
are commanded to let them know that their lifestyle is NOT pleasing to God and
that unless they repent they are on their way to hell. The above-mentioned
bishop, Gene Robinson, of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire, has been
quoted as saying that even if the Bible says homosexualityit wrong, it is still
fine to be gay. Where is the sense in that? This man deserted his family and
two children to run off with another man, and now he is being elevated to the
highest office in his church. He is basically telling God that he, a mere human,
knows best. What effrontery! Frankly, I
am amazed that God has not struck this nation down for the way it has treated
Him recently. I know it is because there are Christians crying out and praying
forrepentance and revival. But there are obviously not enough believers
on their knees. I honestly do not believe this sort of thing would be happening
if there were truly millions of Christians in serious prayer! It is
evident that the enemy is doing an end-run around us and working more and more
through the courts of the US to chip away at our religious freedom. These men are frequently Masons and
even more frequently liberals who have nothing but hatred for the commandments
of the Torah in their hearts. They are black-robed servants of Satan, whether
or not they realize it. Brethren,
weneed to pray like never before. We are in the center of a spiritual Civil
War for this nation’s soul. We need to pray for our president, pray for the
courts,and pray for God to bring holiness back to the land. This IS a
Call to Arms! Is there not a cause? (1Sam. 17:29) What’s New! Asmentioned
above, there is a vital new video documentary, THE NEW BARBARIANS by Caryl
Matrisciana. This video combines the experience of Caryl, an internationally
recognized authority on world religions and the mind-warping techniques of the
cults and the talents of courageous French cameraman, Pierre Rehov, who has been
arrested by Palestinian Police for his undercover filming. This tape must beseen
by every Christian who cares about what goes on in the Middle East. (Item #188 - suggested donation
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