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Sacred Geography The Ebstorf Map and the Tibetan Sand Mandala

December 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Over breakfast this morning, while reading “Mapmaking in the World” in a History of World Societies, my attention was riveted on the Ebstorf Map which was drawn in the thirteenth century. Originally, it was drawn on thirty sheets of vellum and measured about 12 feet in diameter. The original did not survive a bombing of Hanover, Germany in 1943 during WWII. Fortunately, extensive photographs had been taken of it prior to that. What caught my attention was the shape of this map and its orientation. It immediately reminded me of Elaine Robson’s artist Gurme’s rendition of the Christian wheel of existence which was held by Yamantaka, the Tibetan god of death, whose grasp was broken by the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The Ebstorf Map is drawn as a circle. Earlier, when I was looking at one of the oldest examples of map making in existence, I was reminded of the Cyrus Cylinder (587 B.C.), because the map was stamped in clay and surrounded by cuneiform inscriptions. The map was dated about 600 A.D. and so was probably made around the same time. The Babylonian world map was drawn in a circular form with an outer band which looked much like the cremation fields (the world) in the Tibetan sand mandala which were made in the 7th century AD.
The Ebstorf Map while not drawn to scale, represents a Christian view of the known world at the time. Outside the circle at the top which faces East is the face of Jesus Christ, on the bottom of the circle, facing West, are the feet of Jesus, on the north and south are His hands stretched out. In the center of the map is Jerusalem with a faceless Jesus sitting on the throne, which must represent His yet revealed triumphal resurrected self. “Jerusalem occupies the center of the map to represent the place of Jesus’s death as the center of the Christian world. The Ebstorf Map..was intended to convey a religious message, a declaration of faith.”
As I looked at it, all the images of the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala kept popping up in my mind. Satan, disguised as an angel of light, always attempting to dethrone, the King of kings, the LORD of lords, taking center stage. The Tibetan Buddhist religious blueprint, complete with gods and goddesses, palaces, and cremation fields.  The Ebstorf Map on the other hand tells the story of Jesus Christ, the one True God, shows Adam and Eve being tempted in the garden by the serpent, the serpent finally defeated by the Messiah. It shows the world surrounded by the ocean.
It will take more time to digest the implications, but what I found encouraging, was the fact that the earliest attempts at map making focused upon making Jesus the center of everything and that the mandala seems to be nothing more than one more counterfeit in an attempt to usurp the glory that belongs to no other than the Messiah, Yeshua, who came to destroy the works of the Devil and will not share His glory with another.

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Remembering Wally Tope A Martyr on American Soil

November 21, 2013 by

November 21, 2013

Remembering Wally Tope: A Martyr on American Soil

Martyred for his faith during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. In Remembrance of his passing into glory twenty years ago on November 24, 1993 after suffering eighteen months in a coma.

by James C. Stephens

“He knows the way I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.”

~Job 23:10

In May 1992, a friend of ours, Wally Tope was dramatically struck down in the prime of his life by two looters he was preaching to in the L.A. Riots. For three days no one knew of his whereabouts and then one Sunday afternoon, I received a call from hospital officials who had found my business card in his personal effects.

They asked, “Are you James Stephens?”

“Do you know Wally Tope?”

“Yes,” I replied. “Why?”

“He’s been hurt badly. Would you mind coming down and identifying him?”

“Certainly.” I was in shock. It seemed that just days before we had been talking about his latest research project on Tibetan Buddhism and the apologetic he was working on.

The next 48 hours were among the most difficult hours I recall in my life. Awaking at 2:00am, I began chronicling the damage in my journal, “For the last two days in Los Angeles there have been over 42 people killed, 1700 people injured; 300 on the critical list, over 3,000 separate fires set to structures, and over $500,000,000 worth of damage to property, not including the tremendous shame of looting, taking of innocent blood, and political opportunism. God has allowed judgment of this City of Los Angeles & County and country rightly.”

The streets of Los Angeles had been deserted because of martial law and the curfew. As I drove, it was through mostly deserted eerie smoke filled streets passing barricades to the hospital where he lay.  I took the elevator up to intensive care, not knowing what I would find.  The bright flourescent lights of the room strangely illuminated the partially shrouded body of what appeared to be Wally Tope who laid in an unfamiliar stone silence on the narrow hospital bed. “Yes. It is Wally.”  I provided a positive identification of his body. From that first moment when I knew it was Wally, I felt I was standing in the presence of one of the first martyrs on American soil. I witnessed firsthand the price of preaching the Gospel and the graphic and brutal hostility of the world to the redeeming truth of Jesus.

Unconscious, black and blue from the blows he received on his head, swollen almost beyond recognition, his brother now arrived and tearfully pulled back the sheets to look at his legs where more bruises were applied by his attackers after being struck on the head and falling to the ground at a Sav’ On Drug in Hollywood. As we spent time in the room before Wally’s body his brother wrestled with his grief attempting to make sense of this tragedy. The old hymn raced through my mind, “By the blood of burning martyrs, Jesus’ bloody feet I track.”  Was this Wally, or was it the light of Jesus now in this man I saw? A witness fulfilling the sufferings of Jesus. Eighteen months later never having regained consciousness, he left this world into the presence of Jesus, where he will receive a martyr’s crown.

The footprint of the legacy that Wally left behind is immense. Well-researched, incisive, accurate, and Biblical characterized each piece of literature that he crafted to convey the Gospel to Mormon’s and Jehovah Witnesses whom he desired would know the Savior Jesus Christ. Often accompanied by one tract, “Hell, Suppose It’s True After All?” evoked a solemn warning about the price of rejecting the message of the Messiah.

There are lessons here for us. One couple realized that the pursuit of the America dream was not along the “King’s highway.” They choose instead to dedicate their lives to service in Asia. Wally had given up a lucrative career as a brilliant engineer and lived a frugal life operating out of  a small studio apartment in Pasadena. Saving money to do the LORD’s work wherever it took him around the world.  Tragedies inspire deep reflection in those who have known the afflicted or have since heard his testimony around the world. I have one of his bookshelves near my desk, a quiet monument reminding me of the cost of discipleship.

His memorial service on November 24, 1993, some twenty years ago­­ was attended by several hundred people who had been touched by his ministry to the LORD. It can be said that he finished well and heard from His Master, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

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Journal of a Young Buddhist Radical Part II

April 19, 2013 by

In April 1981, I journeyed to Japan on a study tour with UCLA Extension on the Gardens of Japan meeting various architects and landscape architects, some who were in the process of restoring historic gardens. We also visited many historic sites ranging from Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, to the Ise Shrine, Todaiji Temple in Nara, Nijyo Castle, the Golden Temple and Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto to name a few. (For an audio file follow the highlighted link   ~approximately 15 minutes). Journal of a Young Buddhist Radical Part II

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Journal of Young Buddhist Radical

April 18, 2013 by

My Spiritual Autobiography

(Click the highlighted link to hear a brief spiritual autobiography. Approximately 3 minutes.)

Photo: In 1970, the General Director George M. Williams, aka Masayasu Sadanaga of Nichiren Shoshu Academy, now known as SGI (Soka Gakkai International), visited California State University Northridge and gave a talk on Buddhism which I and several other members attended, among them Russ Dilando, Carol Dell, Jim Jay, Lance Stromsoe, and Mike Maeda. Steve Gore leaning over in the background was one of General Director Williams’ special assistants who accompanied him to his speaking engagements.

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The Buddhist Next Door

February 19, 2013 by

The Buddhist Next Door

By James C. Stephens

Little Lisa on The Simpsons Christmas special, tired of the hypocrisy and commercialism of the Springfield church, decides to become a Tibetan Buddhist and is mentored by Richard Gere on prime-time television.

About the same time, John Altschuler, the producer and writer for King of the Hill, is given a book on the Buddha by his wife. He ends up writing a satire for an episode he nicknames, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Buddha.” In this episode, the Hills’ only child, Bobby, is recognized as an American reincarnation of the Lama Sanglug by immigrant monks, putting his father, Hank, through great angst as he unsuccessfully attempts to explain his Methodist worldview to his son. Ever so subtly, and, sometimes blatantly, Buddhism slips in uninvited to comfortable living rooms across America via mainstream media.

This influx of popular Buddhism began in 1960, when Masayasu Sadanaga (George M. Williams), a young student from Japan, stepped onto the UCLA campus with the resolve to introduce “true Buddhism” to America.

In 1970, I was swept up into the excitement of their movement to establish world peace through human revolution while studying political science on the campus of Cal State University Northridge. Thus began my 14-year journey into Buddhism, complete with many practices similar to evangelical Christianity-street witnessing, late-night discussion meetings and the singing of Buddhist sutras set to tunes such as “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.”

My Buddhist worldview was challenged, however, while visiting Japan on an architecture tour. As I leaned over to put some postcards in my travel bag, someone yelled a warning at me in Japanese. Unfortunately, I didn’t speak Japanese, nor did I have time to move as a 200-pound sign blew over on my back. In shock, I was whisked away in a taxi to the hospital, suffering from a sharp blow to my spinal chord and a partially paralyzed arm. Ironically, the accident report read, “Act of God.”

While lying on several hospital beds in Japan, I struggled with troubling questions about the power of the Buddhist gods to save. After returning to the states, I joined Amway and became consistently exposed to the testimonies of Christians, and observed the importance faith played in their business and marriages. Initially, my wife and I just became more committed to becoming the first successful Buddhist distributors. Evidently, God had other plans.

The following three years were spent aggressively pursuing my business goals, while rubbing shoulders with godly friends who prayed for me, asked me convicting questions and gave me books that answered many of mine. After a month of frightening dreams, weighing the numerous prophecies of Christ with those of the Buddha and wrestling with 2 Peter 3:10 that spoke of the day of the Lord coming like a thief, I sought out a pastor who led me to Christ one hot July afternoon in 1984.

I began to thirst for more than fellowship. Weekly, I searched the church library looking for answers on issues that were of importance to me as a former Buddhist. I searched for books on Christian meditation, but found only those suggesting that Zen meditation made them better Christians. (I knew Zen from my studies and practice, and even as a new Christian saw it as incompatible with the Christian faith.)

This ideology is not confined to books alone. One friend claims that he was healed by his Zen priest’s treatments. Now at his doctor’s advice, he’s practicing Buddhist meditation at home-albeit with a twist: He uses the Lord’s prayer instead of praying to the Buddha. Although claiming to have a love of Christ, he has a very limited understanding of the theological underpinnings of his faith.

This confusion may be traced to the fact that a high percentage of evangelicals no longer believe in the exclusivity of the Christian faith. Instead, according to an August 2005 Beliefnet.com poll, “Eight in 10 Americans-including 68 percent of evangelicals-believe that more than one faith can be a path to salvation, which is most likely not what they were taught in Sunday school.”

Buddhist theology and practice is antithetical to biblical Christianity. For instance, the Buddhist objective in meditation is to empty one’s mind while seeking union with the cosmos, ultimately buying into the Serpent’s ancient lie, “You shall become as gods.”

Since we have already been saved through His grace, we don’t meditate to accumulate merit as would a Buddhist. Through contemplation, we focus our minds on His Word and His works, waiting upon Him and actively listening. Christian meditation takes discipline, but is only fruitful by the grace of God (see 2 Cor. 3:5; 9:8).

So, why do so many Christians neglect to share their faith with Buddhists? Many have willfully chosen to follow the latest popular religious fashions and put their theological mind on hold. According to research by Robert Wuthnow and Wendy Cadge published in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (September 2004), “Fifty-six percent of the American public thinks of Buddhists as tolerant, while 63 percent believe them to be peace-loving.”

In its August 2005 survey, Beliefnet.com posed the question, “Can a good person who isn’t of your religious faith go to heaven or attain salvation, or not?” Brace yourself for a shock. While 91 percent of Catholics said yes and 83 percent of non-evangelical Christians said yes, 68 percent of evangelicals said yes as well. Consider how elements of Buddhist ideology have become entwined in our thinking:

A youth pastor at a prominent evangelical church recently rose to the pulpit and gave a report on the success of their recent summer camp. He exclaimed, “It was so great, I thought I died and gone to nirvana.”

Another day, our children-keenly tuned to sniff out Buddhism’s subtle invasion into our culture-shared that their favorite history teacher who was teaching on world religions passed around a little fat Buddha statue and jokingly taught them to rub it for good luck. All this in a preppy private Christian high school in Southern California.

Another friend of mine occasionally travels to India and relayed a story about the many Pentecostals and charismatics he met there who were practicing Tibetan Buddhism. When I asked why, he said, “Most were seeking spiritual experiences, and while they loved Jesus as a teacher, they were not firmly grounded in the Scriptures and went astray as they sought the supernatural.”

We’ve also seen Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Congregationalists slide into Buddhism. One pastor of a local church joined his wife in taking vows at the local Buddhist temple-while retaining his position as senior pastor of the church.

The primary struggle for every generation that is dedicated to missions and evangelism is coming to terms with how does the true gospel get translated into mainstream culture without compromise? How do we keep our faith and maintain our moral and theological standards while still living in the midst of an increasingly pluralistic society?

When an invasive pop culture and its terminology has become the norm, and millions are spent on conveying that message through the media, one cannot passively sit back and live in a 1950s religious cocoon. Daniel and his followers in Babylon faced similar tests of their faith. We are told that the godly will be persecuted. The question is, “Will we remain faithful?”

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Dragonboat Race on the Sea of Galilee Israel

May 16, 2012 by

URGENT Gatekeepers Alert: Immediate Need for Prayer in Israel

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Dragon Boat Races will be taking place on the Sea of Galilee which is at the intersection of three borders, Israel, Syria, and Jordan. Nearby on September 3, 1260 the invading Mongolian Empire suffered a crushing defeat from the forces of the Sultan of Egypt that stopped their westward expansion and conquest of Jerusalem less than 100 miles away. The Mongolian conquest rivaled that of Alexander and Napoleon.

Over 70 Syrians were reportedly killed at the Syrian Israeli border as the civil war in Syria is heightened by proxy troops from Iran. Intercessors on the Israeli side of the border physically smelled death over the area.

They are there to intercede against the Dragon Boat Races being held on the Sea of Galilee from May 17-18, 2012 which are being held for the first time in its history.  Already officials have publicly welcomed the races and Buddhist priests have painted in the spiritual eyes of the Dragon Deity. Although it seems like a harmless tourist attraction, according to an intercessor from New York City who has been an eyewitness to the races in Flushing Meadows, it is anything but. Rather it is an act of provocation against God, as they make incantations to bring in the Dragon Deity.

The following three issues which build upon one another need immediate prayer as our team is now engaged on the ground in fierce spiritual warfare.

  • Dragon Boat Race on the Sea of Galilee Israel.
  • Buddhist Tantric Vases (“Peace Vases”) buried in Israel.
  • Buddhist Blood Relics Displayed in Old Jerusalem.
     
 
 
Intercession for the Dragon Boat Race on the Sea of Galilee  
 
Submitted by an Intercessor in New York City

Dragon Boat Racing is the fastest growing water sport, if not the largest in the world. Dragon Boat Races originated in China over 2,000 years ago to honor the memory of Qu Yuan, the famous Chinese statesman and poet who drowned himself in the Mi Lo River in protest of government corruption.

Dragon boat races are now occurring in an increasing number of cities around the world every year.  Few believers are aware of dragon boat races in their community or know of its global popularity. Even fewer know of its spiritual significance and the dark forces promoting it.

 

 

Dragon Boat Race Concerns

Spiritually astute observers have been lead to conclude that dragon boat races are not as benign as they seem. The religious rituals to “awaken the dragon spirit” conducted during the opening ceremonies of dragon boat festivals may even have “end time” significance. The participation of leaders in these rituals ranging from government agencies,  banks, corporations, and community organizations appear to be creating a global ceremonial platform which inadvertently acknowledge the Dragon from the book of Revelation. 

This year, in the Chinese “Year of the Dragon,” the first Dragon Boat Race will be conducted in Israel on the southern shores of the Sea of Galilee, May 17-18. The area of the event is known as a stronghold of occult practices. 

 Israeli and American believers interceding in advance of the Dragon Boat Race have been reporting the “smell of death.” As the site is situated where the borders of Israel, Syria, and Jordan converge, it is believed that the Dragon, Satan may be seeking to ignite a war that would engulf all three nations. 

An additional note: In 1996, the Dragon Boat Races were reinstituted at the same site where it all began in China. Stories abound of human sacrifices to the Dragon Deity in which no one was allowed to help other teams whose boat happened to capsize as their lives were an offering to the Dragon. In recent years, there have been tragic accidents in Malaysia and Singapore that have claimed the lives of over ten young men and one coach. Kate Middleton and Prince William were both on Dragon Boat teams. Presently, a large statue of the Red Dragon is being built in Wales which is taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York City’s Harbor.

 

Requested Intercession

  •  Please pray that the church becomes more aware of the dragon boat race phenomena and its spiritual significance.
  • Pray that the forces of darkness associated with Dragon Boat Races are resisted globally and specifically in Israel.
  • Pray against the Dragon’s strategy to unleash regional war against Israel.
  • Pray protection for the intercessors from Israel, Asia, and the US who are praying on site.
  • Pray that the LORD of Hosts imparts strategies that are victorious over the dragon according to Isaiah 27:1 and Revelation 12:11.

 Fifteen Buddhist “Peace Vases” Planted in Israel

Submitted by an intercessor in Los Angeles.

“Watch, stand fast in the belief, be men, be strong.” 1 Cor 16:13

In 1991 , six thousand earthen vessels were constructed by Tantric Buddhist Lamas in Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon and were filled according to occult instructions with ocean water, ground precious stones, and “nectar”  bound together in balls according to ancient ritual practices. In Los Angeles, tantric substances used in skull mandalas were publicly said to contain human feces, seminal fluids, Ox fluids and other defiling substances disgraceful to mention. Vases and lotus flowers in Buddhism represent the vagina, and their goddess Kannon, or Kwan Yin, the female counterpart of Avalokitsevara, the patron deity of Tibet which is said to inhabit the Dalai Lama. The express purpose of these vases which are identified by GPS coordinates, is to establish a spiritual grid across the globe to bring peace and healing to the environment bringing it under the dominion of the Adi Buddha, the universal religious emperor. However, this idolatrous practice is an act of defilement as they have been planted all around the globe including in Indonesia to establish Buddhist dominion. They have already placed them over all the designated sites in Indonesia and the USA, including all the state capitols, all the major rivers, sacred sites, Great Lakes, Washington, DC, and on major mountain peaks as their high places. You can see the map and vase locations by googling Siddhartha’s Intent Peace Vases.

In Israel, they have buried them on two points of the Sea of Galilee, Jordan River, the Dome of the Rock, the Wailing Wall, Bethlehem, Dead Sea, Golan Heights, Haifa, Jericho at Hishams Palace, Mt. Meron, Mt. Precipice, Nazareth, Tel Aviv Yafo, West Jerusalem.

Prayer Points:

Awaken Gatekeepers in Israel to the serious consequences of allowing modern sophisticated idolatry into Israel in the guise of tourism, “peace vases”, sand mandalas and seemingly harmless rituals of the Dragon Boat Races dedicated to the Dragon deity.

Ask YHWH to pour out a spirit of intercession over Israel. Sound the shofar and warn them not to imitate the detestable practices of the nations.”  And the consequence. “New gods were chosen and then the enemy was in the gates.”  Prayerfully read Isaiah 28-29.

“Do not imitate the detestable practices of the nations.”  (Psalm 2)

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and Israel (Psalm 122:6-9). Long ago, during Nehemiah’s day, there were over 172 Gatekeepers raised up from Akkab, Talmon and brothers to protect Jerusalem. “They took upon themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandment of God our LORD, and His ordinances and His statues” (Neh. 10:29). Pray for national repentance for all the idolatry that is being allowed into the land through the disobedience of their spiritual gatekeepers and for a new generation of gatekeepers zealous for the glory of YHWH.

Ask God for forgiveness for the defilement that has been allowed into Israel and for a cleansing of the land where these items have been placed. “Howl, you shepherds, and cry! And roll yourselves in the ashes, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and scattering are completed, and you shall fall like a choice vessel (Jeremiah 25:34). “Yisra’el has been swallowed up. They have now become among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure” (Hosea 8:8). Why do you displease YHWH? “Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value (Romans 9:21)?” Beseech the LORD to be merciful in His chastening.

Pray for a Psalm 91 covering over all those who are interceding on the behalf of Israel during the Dragon Boat Races and for those in the Covenant Community who are called out ones who follow the Lamb of God. “Praise Him, O servants of the LORD” (Psalm 135).

O LORD God, YHWH, God of Hosts, who is like Thee, O Mighty LORD? Who are we to approach You, for You are HOLY, HOLY, HOLY. Only by the blood sacrifice of Yeshua our Messiah, who purchased us by His death on the cross. “Thy faithfulness surrounds Thee.” We confess with grief the shame of Israel and the false bride of Christ, who have allowed their defenses down so far as to even consider and now to invite the Dragon Boat races to Israel which opens the gate to the worship of false gods & for serving Mammon & not God. 

“Thou dost rule the swelling of the sea” sadly, horrifically some are praying to a false god, who is not god, but a Dragon Deity who sits on the sea proudly usurping the glory that is due to no one but YOU. YOU who “when the waves rise, Thou dost still them. Thou Thyself didst crush Rahab like one who is slain.” “Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced the Dragon? (Is. 51:9).  It is You YHWH “who stirs up the sea and its waves roar.” (Is. 51:15). The LORD of Hosts is His Name! They have forgotten their Maker. They are ignorant and willful. Chasten them unto repentance. Your Word has not changed.

Do not despise the Warnings of the LORD. While there are many participants who are simply involved in this event to raise money for noteable charities, we believe that the event itself is a poor choice as the underlying deity it honors is displeasing to the LORD as the Dragon as perceived by Holy Scripture is considered to be equivalent to Satan and in a Holy War against YHWH, the Torah and all that Christians and Jews stand for.

To the Israeli’s “Did not your fathers do the same so that our God brought on us and on this city, all this trouble? Yet you are adding to the wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath” (Nehemiah 13:18). By going against the commandments of the LORD GOD of Israel. Do not make a covenant with death. Follow Yeshua Ha’Moshiach who resisted the temptations of Satan in the desert who had promised all the kingdoms of the world if Yeshua would only bow down and worship him. Resist the Devil and he will flee. All the earth is YHWH’s and all it contains, not Satan’s. He is a dispossessed deity.

“And I saw an angel coming down from heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old who is the devil.” Revelation 20

Pray for strength for those who repel the onslaught at the gate” (Isaiah 28:6) and for the protection of the remnant of His people for whom YHWH is a glorious diadem.

Heart Shrine Relic Tour Hosted in the Old Jerusalem Quarter January 2012

In January 2012, the Old Jerusalem quarter was host to a collection of Buddhist relics collected over the last 2500 years which were displayed and worshipped by visitors. It has been touring the globe to raise funds for the construction of a 500’statue of the Maitreya Buddha in India housing over 2,000,000 idols. The exhibit in Jerusalem was specially renamed“Pearls of Compassion” although around the world it has been called “Heart Shrine Relic Tour.”  These supposed “pearls” are remains sifted out of the ash left behind after the cremation of Buddhist monks which form mineral deposits which they consider holy. As Christians we are not to worship any relics, but are to worship the LORD GOD and Him alone.  In a video of the ceremony in Old Jerusalem, they are held to the heads of participant’s and those who are arranging the relics to receive the deceased energy. It is forbidden by Holy Scripture to touch these defiled objects or to worship them. “You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God” (Leviticus 26:1).

Pray that the eyes of the priests in Jerusalem and others hosting these objects be opened to the liberating truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the only Messiah that can save us from our sin. “For they are a nation lacking in counsel, and there is no understanding in them. Would that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would discern their future” (Deuteronomy 32:28-29).

Pray against the influence of this defilement. “Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. For the land had become defiled, therefore I have visited its punishment upon it, so that the land has spewed out its inhabitants.” (Leviticus 18:24,25; Deuteronomy Chapter 28).

“Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the LORD your God.” (Lev. 19:4). “I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols; for My soul shall abhor you” (Leviticus 26:30).

Pray that Christians, Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, New Agers and Moslems repent for their idolatry as representatives from all these groups have attended these ceremonies. “All that is hidden shall be revealed.”  (Deuteronomy 32:15-22).

Repentance from spiritism: “As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 20:6-7).

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The Cross & Lotus~

March 14, 2012 by

 

The Cross and Lotus 

A History of Christianity in a Buddhist Context 

By James Carlton Stephens 

Tempers ran high along the Silk Road for generations between merchants, mercenaries and monks, who spent weeks trekking alongside camels through the desert sands at night avoiding marauders and the blistering mid day sun. Refreshing stops at a desert Oasis for several days to a week at a time provided ample opportunity for a religious debate for these road scholars who traded social gossip as readily as silk and gold. 

At times the raging wind blew the swirling sand across the great dunes until the normal trail was no longer visible. Hamid, the experienced Bedouin trader sensing the futility of further travel erected his two room gutba effortlessly in what seemed but a moment. It was an inbred ritual of survival that generations’ had carried out. Once the tent was secured, he placed an interior light on the tent’s center pole signifying his tribe’s belief that ‘Allah is the light of the heavens and earth’ (Surah 24, Ayah 35). Kneeling towards Mecca he intently rolled out the niche carpet in the alcove of the gutba designed for Muslim prayers, bowed and thanked Allah for refuge from the storm.  The incessant pelting sand bred a drowsy rest among the remaining exhausted pilgrims. 

As early evening approached, the winds died down and the camp arose to a sweet aroma of black coffee, served as a symbol of the Bedouin belief that any guest is a guest of God.  After Hamid drank  the El Heif (first cup),  to assure the guests of its’ purity, Hamid’s guests each poured a small portion into each of their cups from the briki into the second cup, the El Keif on cue. After their meal, some stale dates were passed around the circle for dessert. Hamid was not only a capable cook, but a skillful captain on the sea of sand who had mastered the art of survival, stellar navigation and out of necessity several trade languages. It wasn’t long until, the Nestorian and Buddhist merchant were having an intense one-on-one discussion about their faith.  

“It’s just a myth, a legend. Think about it. Giant hooded snakes shielding the Prince from the rain! Ridiculous.”   

The Buddhist merchant retorted, “No. It really happened. He was alive and born in Nepal.” 

“Okay, so he lived, but where’s the historical evidence?” the Nestorian challenged. 

“It’s obvious you don’t have a clue about India’s culture and how religious teachings are passed on.  What does it matter what your books say! Your Jesus never wrote any books. He just talked like our beloved Buddha. Some of his disciples memorized many of his talks they were so brilliant,” proudly retorted the Merchant from Ladakh. 

After listening to the discourse for an hour, the dark skinned Indian merchant sitting in the shadows sarcastically said, “Why resuscitate from a well-deserved oblivion the pestilent views of the Buddha? Buddhism is but a stray dog of our high religion of Brahmanism. Buddha broke ranks and brought shame to his royal family and left his father like a spoiled goat! Now Ganesh, Krishna, and Shiva they are gods worth worshipping!” 

Hamid, recognizing his authority on the desert piped in with his own opinion, hoping to keep the debate somewhat civil. “Out in the desert, we fight the elements of wind, and sand, and the blazing sun by day and the freezing temperatures at night. I don’t much care for worshipping a carved stone of an elephant to save me from the perils of a sand storm. He skillfully turned the discussion back to the Nestorian.  “I don’t think that Jesu was crucified. In fact, his name here is Mani and he is said to have appeared and preached to many in Ladakh and Kashmir. He is a great prophet, may Allah be praised.”  

His Ahmadiyyan Muslim friend broke in, “No Hamid. Mani was a disciple of Jesu.  Jesu spent his years studying magic in our mountains and returned to the Holy Land to call his disciples. The Romans didn’t kill him. He was taken off the cross after a few hours and survived. I heard he was seen in Kashmir where he finally died after many years.” 

A Chinese merchant trading in herbal medicines, thinking about the Hindu’s attack said, “You have in your tradition many avatars. Some say Buddha was but a reincarnation of Krishna.  We believe that the Buddha was a reincarnation of our great philosopher Lao Tse. So, you see it doesn’t much matter does it? See how you argue over vain disputes that are but a vapor? What does heaven matter when we can not even get along among ourselves?” 

Hamid’s presence had a way of making itself known as he rose to his feet, the primitive fire in his eyes dancing to a different tune knowing the way of the desert’s Silk Road. “Without heaven’s stars to guide us, we would burn in the hell of the deserts’ dunes. Allah be praised. It is now time for rest. When the moon rises over the dunes, we mount our camels in the cool of the night.” Stone silence replaced the intense debate overheard by the ancient audience of stars lighting the Silk Road.

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DAY 40 “What if you only have one life?

July 18, 2011 by

Open Shame

Monday, July 18, 2011

by James C. Stephens

“Let now the astrologers, those who prophesy by the stars, those who predict by the new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you. Behold, they have become like stubble, fire burns them; they can not deliver themselves from the power of the flame.”  ~Isaiah 47:13-14

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit? Behold all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsman are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame..He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he can not deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” Isaiah44:9-11,20.

In one of the opening scenes of The LORD of the Rings when Gandalf, the Wise seeks wisdom from his master about a great invisible battle, he discovers that Saruman has cast his lot in with the powers of Mordor. At one point his master calls him to join the dark forces as his “friend.” 

Gandalf replies, “Tell me friend, when did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?”  He then engages in a spiritual battle with Saruman that he loses temporarily. Likewise, at times it seems that the Church has forgotten her Master Yeshua and sold itself into captivity. A blindness has overtaken her. Few, few, very few engaged in battle though they were warned. There is a judgment reserved for those who in time of moral crisis do not take up their cross and engage in battle.

Not one jot or tittle will pass away from YHWH’s WORD.  YHWH warns those who participated in the Kalachakra in WDC, “In spite of your many sorceries,…in spite of the great power of your spells..evil will come upon you which you wil not know how to charm away.” Isaiah 47:8-15. 

There is a war raging, invisible as it may be. People will one day look back and ask, “How did it come to this? Were there not warnings along the way?” Then they will remember the warnings, but it will be too late. It was a major battle.  I see now with more clarity.  The Tibetan Buddhist shamans and company are doing exactly as they have been programmed to do. To them, we issue warning, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” (Jeremiah 10:11).  You are simply pawns in an ancient battle which few of you have any clue you’re involved in. “And YHWH said to the serpent, “Because you have done this (caused mankind to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, to commit the original sin which set the fall in motion), cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life (he will be cast into the everlasting lake of fire reserved for Satan and his rebellious angels). And I will put enmity beween you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise (crush) you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heal.”  Genesis 3:14.

When I read your public Tweets during the Kalachakra speaking of Americans as barbarians and that Vajrayana Buddhism was here to conquer”  I realized that your minds are being held captive by the lies of the evil one.  “And the dragon was enraged with the woman and went of to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.”  You are being used in a great battle, but do you know the score?  I think not. You are religious, zealous, but zeal does not always mean we are walking in truth. This world is passing away.

Yeshua is engaged in a battle for your soul. I think of the many Tibetan Christian brothers and sisters that I have had over the years, many persecuted by other Tibetan lamas. They had forgiven them even when they marched around their home in Leh for days chanting “Death to the Christian pastor!”  Dear Brother Stephen has now gone to his reward, no doubt talking to HIS MASTER YESHUA on your behalf. Fearless brothers and sisters.  You are like sheep gone astray and living on the edge of eternity’s cliff. You think, and are lied to that you have many lives to figure it all out. May I just ask you to consider, “What if you only have one life? Who shall you serve? What is your life if not in service to your Creator?

“I YHWH am the Maker of all things,

Stretching out the heavens by Myself,

And spreading out the earth all alone,

Causing the omens of boasters to fail,

Making fools out of diviners,

Causing wise men to draw back,

And turning their knowledge into foolishness.

Confirming the word of His servant,

And performing the purpose of His messengers.

It is I who says of Jerusalem,

‘She shall be inhabited.’

Isaiah 44:24b-26a

You have been purchased with a great price. He knows you by name and will redeem you from the ashes of your vain past and create in you a new heart.

“Listen! Your watchman lift up their voices,

They shout joyfully together;

For they will see with their own eyes

When YHWH restores ZION.

Break forth, shout joyfully together,

You waste places of Jerusalem,

For the LORD has comforted His people

He has redeemed Jerusalem.

The LORD has bared his Holy arem

In the sight of all the nations,

That all the ends of the earth may

see the Salvation of our ELOHIM.”

Isaiah 52:7-10

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The Foolish Man Who Built His House on the Sand

July 17, 2011 by

“But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with YHWH, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

 YHWH is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient over all history.

 Two Tibetan lamas who were studying the Bible approached David at one point and said, “We now know why our curses don’t work against you.”  David, was a bit troubled to say the least.

“You curse me?”

“Yes. We are taught to curse missionaries. But what we’ve discovered is that our curses don’t work.”

“Why?”

“We were reading the Book of Matthew and at the end your Master Jesus Christ says, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you even until the end of the age.’ Your God is more powerful than ours.”

The tragedy of the Kalachakra Ceremony is that Tibetans are worshipping Kalachakra, a time god, who is in reality, not THE TIME GOD. The reality is that there is a DAY coming which no one can escape. It is called, The DAY of the LORD.  No man, woman, or child. No powerful shaman, no Dalai Lama, not even Lucifer can hasten the coming of that DAY. There is no one who can control time, with the exception of I AM WHO is the CREATOR. All others beings are created. I AM is the UNCREATED. He is the PERFECT ONE.

 It was this Scripture that the LORD gave me when I was coming to the close of my days as a devout Buddhist. I was so convicted and not being one who would gamble his life for eternity, sought out a pastor, a businessman, and others asking how I might give my life to Jesus Christ whose fulfilled prophecies were far more numerous than any Buddhist prophecies that I’d studied as a scholar for fourteen years.  Now, I think how man in Lucerne who’s built the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever, may be creating his own demise as he toys with the elements, potentially opening a  Pandora’s Box it can not close.

“But the day of YHWH shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up. Seeing all these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart behavior and reverence, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of Elohim, through which the heavens shall be destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we wait for a renewed heavens and a renewed earth in which righteousness dwells.

 So then, beloved ones, looking forward to this, do your utmost to be found by Him in peace, spotless, and blameless, and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance…” 

 2 Kepha 3:10-15 (2 Peter).

 

 

 Yesterday, the Kalachakra closing ceremony in Washington, DC was preceded by a closed door meeting in the White House Map Room between the President of the United States and the Kalachakra Master, the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet. Shortly following their meeting, the Kalachakra Master joined his shamans and dismantled the Kalachakra magic circle and took up all the energies into himself creating the Adi Buddha, the Universal Religious Emperor.

Begin in humility and confession. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3) including us. Without the LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, we too would be lost.  “Are we better than they? Not at all.”  Without Christ, we deserve judgment as well. We first confess our Nation’s betrayal of the godly remnant in Israel, openly confess and repent for our Nation’s abuse of Native Americans as the host people, for the sins of Freemasonry, Skull and Bones, and abuse  and betrayal of strangers, neighbors, ministers and family that has opened the door to the darkness of Tibetan Buddhism.

Meditation: Psalm 77 “The Consoling Memory of God’s Redemptive Works.”

 

PRAISE: “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water” (Revelation 14:7). “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There will be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21) Ascribe greatness to our God. (Deut. 32:4). He is the Rock. His work is perfect. Praise God.  Psalm 75; 76:11, 12; 69:5-15;106:6,35,36,39-43;101:2.

Intercession to the timeless GREAT I AM. “There are giants in the land—great evil spirits of deception plan to reap a harvest” during this visit of the Dalai Lama to Washington, D.C. and Chicago.  “As Christian believers, we (If “self” is crucified) are seated with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 1:18-22; 2:5-7)    “F—A—R above all principalities and powers. In that position He wants us to use HIS AUTHORITY to “bind” and “loose” in HIS NAME, the NAME above all names, YESHUA HA’MOSHIACH, JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH WHO CAME IN THE FLESH, WAS CRUCIFIED AND ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY(Mt.18:18;28:18;Lk.10:18-19,Rom.16:20, 1Pet.3:22) 

First, Bind the principality Avalokitsevara, the Patron Deity of Tibet Lama  and Kalachakra, the “time god”  and his retinue of 722 demons.  Second, bind White Tara. Again bind those hidden deities such Red Tara Avalokitsevara’s empowering Consort goddess released on September 21, 2005 at the International Campaign for Tibet headquarters at a ritual mandala whose design is to seduce kings, ministers, and leaders, and thirdly bind the Principalities Vajrayogini, Chakrasamvara, and the false spirit of Maitreya.

PROCLAMATION. Psalm 7:3-16. We come to you as priests before His throne for Mercy and that the eyes of Buddhists, humanists, Hindus, secularists, scientists, atheists, backslidden Christians would be enlightened to the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that they not be led astray by syncretistic spiritual practices and the enchantment of false messiahs of peace. CALL FORTH SALVATION for the Peoples of the Buddhist world!!. LORD, SET THE CAPTIVES FREE! We ASK for total protection under YOUR BLOOD JESUS and the SHIELD of FAITH to protect us from the Evil one (Isaiah 54:17). We believe, agree, and doubt not that “this mountain shall be MOVED! (Mk. 11:23)

We loose the Holy Spirit of God to do His convicting and redeeming work through His yielded saints and through providential occurrences and encounters, through dreams, visions, and HOLY SPIRIT visitations of those lost in darkness. 

We ask for a release of GOD’s WORD to set the captives free and HIS Merciful chastening NOW, that these wicked designs, the defiled sands given to initiates and emptied into the  Anacostia River in Washington, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 will not bear any fruit and that GOD would in HIS MERCY awaken many of the lost to the GRACIOUS GIFT of HIS SON JESUS CHRIST and to their unredeemed condition.

That they will recognize the vanity and futility of building their spiritual foundations on sand.  That they would come to realize that the only secure foundation for their soul is to build their house upon the ROCK, YESHUA HA’MOSHIACH, JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH. 

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens. Many shall say to Me in that day, “Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?

And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!”

Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not do them, shall be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.” Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:21-27.

I’ve read many statements from Christians who have called the Dalai Lama a godly man. In this you greatly error.  “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes are they, nor figs from thistles are they?”  Matthew 7:15-16. 

Cursed is he who places his trust in mankind, but blessed is he whose trust is in the LORD.

 

District of Columbia:  We hold to the fact that this is a nation, although with many fault founded under GOD. Remember the covenants of our forefathers who committed themselves to serve our LORD JESUS CHRIST. Deu. 32:15-17,19-24,35;5:7;6:14-15. 

Meditate DC: A series of meditative and contemplative-based events are being staged predominately by Buddhist and Hindu groups during the Dalai Lama’s visit to Washington, DC, the week of November 7 – 13, 2005. They tout Meditate DC as “being designed to introduce the Washington area population to the benefits of meditation, as well as provide direct training for those seeking to explore these transformational practices.”   Jeremiah 17:10;Deu.18:9;Isaiah 55:8-9; 57:11-13 

 

Battle for the Mind.   Isaiah 59:8; Jeremiah 17:10;Acts 1:24;15:8, Job chapters 38 & 39. Pray for Christian believers in the scientific community to understand the difference and avoid syncreticism.

 Remember to pray for our nations’ children. During the Awake and Buddhism Project Art Shows financed by Rockefeller and other foundations, over 60 Buddhist art exhibits at universities and art museums introduced Buddhist idolatry through the arts. “Museum educators for three west coast museums worked on preparing a “curriculum guide entitled Visual Arts for Meditation to be used by school teachers in lessons about what meditation is, how it is done and why. The vehicle for the lessons will be the arts in service of, or influenced by, a variety of Buddhist contemplative practices.” It will “be geared to ninth-grade students and packaged for humanities educators with a resource book providing further information.” Consortium for the Arts, University of CA Berkeley.  Pray that these projects are not accepted into our public schools.

 

…”Not since the Beatles went to India has meditation had such a moment to bask in the public spotlight-and now it is with the backing of science, the buzz of corporate America and the inclusion of ancient Christian contemplative practices.”  

The Word for Christians participating in Buddhist meditation: Deu. 32:6; Jer. 13:15-27; “Do not be proud” (‘Pride precedes captivity). Jer.16:10; Discernment for Christians not be pulled in by syncretism in religious praxis or doctrine.

Dalai Lama has delivered talks about “Neuroscience and Society” basically introducing more Buddhism into the field of neuroscience through Tibetan forms of meditation. Pray that GOD would raise up intelligent voices within the Christian community that will begin a serious dialogue between knowledgeable Christians in the sciences and Buddhists which exposes Tibetan Buddhism for what it is.   Deuteronomy 15:1-12; Romans 1:18-24.

 It was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi that planned to establish Hinduism in America through Transcendental Meditation.  Along comes a new/old religion marketing it again albeit in a different package, Tibetan meditation (Vipassana). It’s all part of the plan to bring Tibetan Buddhism into the West. Beware the leaven.

The Buddhist objective in meditation is to empty one’s mind while seeking union with the cosmos, ultimately buying into the Serpent’s ancient lie, “you shall become as gods.”  As Christians, we recognize that we as creatures are never to be confused with becoming the Creator. Rather, we seek communion with God, fellowship, sanctification and a greater understanding of His will for us in this lifetime as it were as we meditate on His Word which is living, active and sharper than a two edged sword. Since we have already been saved through His grace, we don’t meditate to accumulate merit as would a Buddhist.  Through contemplation, we focus our mind on His Word and His Works, waiting upon Him and actively listening.  Christian meditation takes discipline, but is only fruitful by the grace of God (II Cor.3:5; 9:8). We are not to be like the heathen who practice vain repetitions thinking that we in ourselves can become like God or earn our way to enlightenment.

GOD promised through the seed of Abraham, the line of the Messiah that all the people groups of the earth would be blessed. The Dalai Lama is here to shield the aforementioned peoples from the Gospel of Jesus Christ by settling them in Tibetan enclaves to preserve their culture and religion. GOD has other plans and has brought them to America to hear the Gospel. May we be faithful to proclaim the Good News. Deu.5:7, 18:9. Christians in other countries are beaten for sharing their faith. Thank God for Freedom of Religion in America. Ephesians 1:20-23; Colossians 2:15

Let us hold fast to the promises of God on behalf of these people as priests before our KING JESUS CHRIST that Tibetans, Mongolians, Bhutanese, Buddhists from the Himalayan regions of India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim, would be brought to faith in Jesus and would be worship God in spirit and in truth.

Pray that those individuals and families who have come to faith in Jesus Christ from these groups  will be a strong witness for the LORD Jesus Christ in the midst of the gatherings in Washington, DC and Chicago and  that they will be on fire for GOD and unmoved by the message of the Dalai Lama. Exodus 4:12; II Chronicles 20:17.

 One Tibetan monk from San Francisco fired off a letter to Tricycle, a Buddhist magazine in 1997 called “Dalaiwood” on Hollywood’s mythification of Tibet echoing the new age orientalist’s projection of the superhuman perfect leader while warning others about their blind faith in the Dalai Lama. He basically said, “The Real Tibet is gone, its too late for Hollywood to save Tibet, the Chinese devastation is irreversible..the movies about Tibet are not honest…they purposely create a make-believe reality. We are going to be disappointed in the end, sooner or later.” 

 Jesus is the Truth, the Light.

 

Psalm 119:165: Great peace have those who love Your law. And nothing causes them to stumble.”

A word for the Dalai Lama: Psalm 7:3-16; Psalm 2:10-12.

Remember that we are not seeking to build our own kingdom, but seeking that City whose Architect and builder is YHWH. Jeremiah 17:10; Acts 1:24, 15:8. That we are called to seek the welfare of the city we have been called into exile. That we are to pray for our neighbors who may be Buddhists, Moslems, Sikhs, agnostics, atheists, etc.

Pray with understanding: John 7:24

Links for further study: “The Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism”  online gives an overview of Tibetan Buddhism, its attraction, and a Christian response http://www.worldviews101.com.

“Pray that Tibetan Buddhism be exposed for what it is.” John 8:44. http://www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Index.htm

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RED ALERT WDC ~ The Fear of the LORD

July 15, 2011 by

The Fear of the LORD

by James Stephens

Friday, July 15, 2011

A nation drinks a cup it has filled with  its own sin and iniquity. We are all guilty. None of us is innocent. Why do the nations conspire against YHWH and against YESHUA His Anointed One? Nationalism aside. Patriotism aside. Partisanship aside. Kiss the Son, less you perish.

Today, ask yourselves, whom do we serve? This day you must choose. Friday, July 15, a full moon is the half way mark of 2011. The Nation is divided as the President and Congress claim time is running out and face a potential  “economic Armageddon.”  While nearby at the Verizon Center the XIV Dalai Lama, the Kalachakra Master,  sits as the “time god” on the Shambhala Kingdom’s Throne empowering over 10,000 initiates from around the globe, including oracles, shamans,  lamas, an American judge, a former Catholic Bishop. The pluralist pope of peace  invokes over 722 deities, we would call demons, and conducts the Kalachakra (time god) Tantra for the thirty first time (1,500,000  initiates),  ritual rites of possession over the land,  to empower the Adi Buddha, the universal religious emperor, aka the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Where are the consecrated prayer warriors of old engaging the purveyors of idolatry on our soil in Washington, DC? They cry out from their brittle bones,

“There are giants in the land! BUT FAR GREATER IS HE WHO SITS ON HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN. We are seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus our LORD and ask for a release the FEAR OF YHWH UPON WASHINGTON, DC.

Please pray for us in these hours. I need my arms lifted up. I am weary in this battle. 10,000 initiates, including oracles, shamans, and  lamas wage a dark ritual of devilish design in Washington,  DC. Release wisdom and the FEAR of YHWH.

“Standing with you. YHWH raises up a standard against the enemy.”

“Where are the young warriors?

Where two or three are gathered before Your Throne Yeshua, You are there. We agree whatever is bound on earth it shall be done in heaven. Bind these imposters, these principalities and powers who are keeping Your Tibetan, Mongolian, Bhutanese, Nepalese, Sinhalese, Indian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean in bondage. Set the captives free!

“Jesus is LORD. Fear not and fret not. Though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.”

“I see Mt. Carmel. I see the thundering rivers of living water that come from His mouth, sweeping and cleansing that which the enemy would seek to flood the nation with. Father we release the Living Waters from Your Throne. We and the atmospheres of the earth reject what the enemy would seek to release. LORD we release Your mighty warrior/binding angels to seal and hold and lock shut every demonic portal open and that they’d seek to open. We loose Your light and salvation over every human soul trapped by the lies of Buddhism.”

“Remember Eagle Rock. Proclaim that He is mightier. “Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Behold all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored; Those who contend with you will be as nothing, and will perish.”  Isaiah 41:10-11

“Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” Jeremiah 10:11.”

“Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; For his molten images are deceitful, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.”

I don’t have many visions, am conservative, but the LORD does give me assignments and at times reveals great things. I had a vision sometime back. I was out on a ledge laying out prostrate on a high place.  On my left from below there were all sorts of foul demons, dragons coming at me. All of the sudden, I looked before me and saw a supernatural, transparent cross and from on high heard amazing thunder from the heavens. And then I was filled with the awesome FEAR OF THE LORD. It flooded my being and I was in absolute AWE of HIS MAJESTY and in Esctasy. The demons fled His PRESENCE immediately. They could not behold HIM. There is NOTHING to Fear, EXCEPT YHWH. He then opened my eyes to the Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica, West Los Angeles, the Miracle Mile, Downtown Los Angeles, Glendale, Universal City. Immediately a remarkable shimmering cloud of glory was over the entire area. I then awoke, trembling and full of His awesome Presence. I will never forget the vision.

“There is much prayer being lifted along with the binding here on earth of the demons that have already been bound in heaven. I’m standing beside you.”

“EL ELYON, EL CHAY, we stand with You. You and Your desire to release the Living Waters of Your Creative Voice on the earth and as those to whom You have given authority over creation, we reject which Satan would desire to release unto the earth. We say, NO! But as we are seated with You now in heavenly places in Christ, we come into agreement here on the planet with Your desire in Him and we say, COME! COME! COME! Have Your Way. Have Your Rule.

“And we step by the Spirit into Him and lay hold of DC and the Nation and those moving in the power of darkness. We lay hold of Your Light, Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Holiness, and Love. And we wrap it around them. We invite it in and about them.  We release the vibration of the sound of Your Voice and we welcome You, Ruach Ha’Kodesh at a HOLY higher level to come and brood over that gathering and all its global participants. We release the testimony of the blood of Jesus.”

On Wednesday night there were 1304 lightning strikes on Washington, DC after the National Gatekeepers asked for a release from HIS storehouses, an open display of His displeasure that many Buddhists would be convicted of their sin and be brought to repentance.

Be not be partakers of her plagues. They drink a cup, not His cup. A cup filled with their own designs, greed, avarice, and lust for power. They do not have an ear to hear. They play to crowds saying whatever pleases them. A Golden cup.  A golden calf.

Moses descends with two stone  tablets engraved by the Finger of YHWH to offer  Torah to the people.  In his absence, they instead choose to worship a god of their own making.

15And  Mosheh  turned  and  went  down from  the  mountain,  and  in  his  hand  were the   two   tablets   of   the   Witness,   tablets written on both their sides, written on the one and on the other. 16And   the   tablets   were   the   work   of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim engraved on the tablets.

19And it came to be, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Mosheh’s displeasure burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands  and  broke  them  at  the  foot  of  the mountain.

“And  he  took  the  calf  which  they  had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it into powder, and scattered it on the face of  the  water  and  made  the  children  of Yisra’el drink it.”

If you will not have communion with the LORD, you have chosen to take the cup of wrath filled with the abominations of your own choosing.

In 2003, I attended the International Buddhist Film Festival at the LA County Museum of Art.  Most of the festival had seemed to be fairly typical as far as film festivals went, except the films and cartoons were built around Buddhist themes. That was until the showing of the documentary film on the Kalachakra directed and produced by Werner Herzog. The crowd that turned out that night was seriously dark. I had arrived later than I anticipated and as I was walking towards the back of the line had occasion to pass by those who were attending that evening. Well dressed, many in black, it seemed that I had stepped into another dimension of darkness. What was it? It was as if I was experiencing, not in myself, but sensing the total absence of the Holy Spirit.  Many in the crowd had already attended the Kalachakra Ceremony in various places around the globe and were gathering to watch one of their own. I was alone.

BUT, what will it be like for them who worship Tibet’s Golden Calf and are partakers of the vile tantric cup of demons, when they stand before the THRONE of the LION of the TRIBE of JUDAH?

Satan, Principalities, Powers, and Demons flee before the PRESENCE OF THE HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, SET APART ONE, BY THE PERFECT SACRIFICE OF  YESHUA HA’MOSHIACH, JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH. BY HIS BLOOD WE ARE SAVED.

…YHWH…

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