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September Newsletter Update Report
A Special Note From Ed
As many of you know, I have been recovering from knee replacement surgery and a doing quite well. In fact, even with the present discomfort, the pain level is a small fraction of what I was experiencing before the surgery. I am becoming a bionic man.
I am nearing the end of a major project, converting all my files from our old website to the new one. The work involves reading every article posted in the last ten years or more, updating, revising, expanding each one and then converting it to a newer data base system. Sounds easy, but it has been a real test of endurance. There are times I am astounded at the how much smarter I was ten years ago.
I have also agreed to do an audio of my classic book The God Makers, written with co-author, Dave Hunt. That project will lead into doing all my books on audio. Remember that The God Makers and Fast Facts on False Teachings are now on Kindle.
Also, you can find my encyclopedic work, Decker’s Complete Handbook on Mormonism, as an e-book on Logos Bible Software at: http://www.logos.com/products/details/4889
We will also be placing a number of my other books on our website as e-books.
All that aside, I have been very concerned over some of the things taking place on the National and International level.
You will find a number of news articles I have attached to the Report this month and if you read through them, you will see that my prophetic words of late; that we are entering a post Christian era in America.. are coming true faster than we even expected.
I want to preface what I am about to say that it has absolutely nothing to do with politics or people in elected office, the color of anyone’s skin or their nationality or religious backgrounds. As a Christian non-profit, we are not allowed to make political comment and I respect that. I do want to discuss a few issues that are effecting our Christina faith.
What I do want to say has to do with what is happening to the America that was founded on Christian principles, with freedom OF religion and not freedom from religion. We are a nation that drew immigrants from every nation on earth, people coming here because of the freedoms we offered that were rare elsewhere in the world. Now, it is almost a curse to be a Christian, to act as a Christian and even to meet in our homes with other Christians.
Yet Islam has all but been given the status of our state religion and anyone who dares to speak against it is treated as a fanatic.
Do not be misled by fools or those who conspire against the Christian faith. The God of Islam is Not the God of the Bible, the Christian or the Jew and the Koran makes that clearer than any other document on earth.
Let me share a few examples.
The President of the United Sates recently declined to observe the National Day of Prayer at the White House, yet within days, observed Ramadan there.
We must remember that for much of his youth, he was a Muslim and studied and worshipped as a Muslim. Forget about his birthplace, there is no record of his departure from Islam and his conversion to Christianity in any of his writings or speeches.
When concerned Christians and other citizens gathered recently in DC, by the many tens of thousands to show their concern over significant issues, they were treated with scorn and mocked.
Yet, the White House is welcoming 50,000 Muslims who are arriving on September 25th to pray to the Muslim false god, Allah; the same deity our President has bowed down to so many times over his life including a few weeks ago when he celebrated Ramadan at the White House.
A young high School Student was suspended from school for refusing to go home and replace his T-shirt that read “Jesus is the Way, the Truth and The Light.” Yet, the same school had students sporting every kind of demonic, satanic T-shirts, some that were extremely sexual in content.
And Muslims girls at the school were allowed to wear religious head coverings.
In other schools, Christian clubs are forbidden. Yet, Dungeons and Dragons clubs are OK. At many schools, time is allotted for Muslims to study the Koran or pray and for Mormons to leave to go to nearby LDS religious training centers. Christian kids are under attack like never before.
This summer, in Boise, ID at an annual Patriotic day program, the White House cancelled the local Air Force Fly over, the first time in 42 years, because the President objected to a Christian element in parts of the program.
Your brother in Christ,
Ed Decker
pray for one another, that you may be healed.
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. James 5:16 b
I just found the following article interesting.
I wonder if it is in King James Spanish?
And then there are all the LDS comments about Bible Translator mistakes.
LDS Church publishes new Spanish-language Bible
Translation praised for adding clarity and depth
By Scott Taylor
Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009
"Una obra maravillosa … un milagro … inspirado … unificar y facilitar."
Those are the Spanish words — English translations are in the subheads below — some Mormons are using to describe the groundbreaking new Spanish-language edition of the Holy Bible prepared by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"Santa Biblia: Reina Valera 2009" represents the first time the church has published an edition of the Bible in a language other than English, but it is also a natural progression in a pedigree of LDS editions of the scriptures — the English King James Version in 1979, the English-language LDS "triple combination" (Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) in 1981 and the subsequent printing of triple combinations in some three-dozen other languages.
Spanish speakers make up a major percentage of the church's worldwide membership and are an increasing portion of its numbers in Utah, where 70,000 Hispanic Mormons lived at the beginning of the year. The state is home to more than 120 Spanish-language LDS wards and branches. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705329933,00.html
And an article about the Book of Mormon, The book Joseph Smith said was the most perfect book o earth 4,000 errors and still counting
BYU prof finds truth and error(s) in Book of Mormon 2009 edition »
In new volume from Yale, linguist details hundreds of changes that could be made to match earliest text.
By Jeremiah Stettler The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 09/11/2009
Spanish Fork » Joseph Smith may have called The Book of Mormon the "most correct of any book on Earth," but that doesn't mean it couldn't use some correcting -- even now, 179 years after it first came off the press.
Regarded by a worldwide faith of nearly 14 million members as Holy Writ, the book is not wholly without errors -- typos, omissions, grammatical goofs and altogether wrong words. Mistakes have crept into the text since LDS Church founder Joseph Smith dictated the original manuscript, which he says he translated with God's help from gold plates.
Based on more than two decades of research, Skousen's new volume (due out Sept. 22) features a reconstruction of The Book of Mormon's original text, complete with an appendix that highlights more than 700 significant textual changes since Smith's dictation. http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13310067
50,000 American Muslims to attend prayer meeting on Washington Mall on Sep.25
by Sahil Nagpal
13 September 2009
From … http://www.topnews.in/50000-american-muslims-attend-prayer-meeting-washington-mall-sep25-2213436
Washington, Sep. 13 : At least 50,000 American Muslims will participate in a national prayer gathering for September 25 in Washington, D. C.
According to a report filed by The Star-Ledger, the gathering is taking place in the city''s National Mall area and is being organised by representatives of a mosque in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The paper quoted Hassen Abdellah, president of the Dar-ul-Islam mosque and an event organizer, as saying: "Most of the time, when Muslims go to Washington, D. C., they go there to protest some type of event... This is not a protest. Never has the Islamic community prayed on Capitol Hill for the soul of America. We''re Americans. We need to change the face of Islam so people don''t feel every Muslim believes America is ''the great Satan,'' because we love America."
Abdellah said he expects 50,000 people to attend, from mosques around the country, though non-Muslims are welcome, too."
Abdellah stated the idea germinated after President Obama''s inaugural speech, and was reinforced by this summer''s Cairo address: "For the first time in my lifetime,"
Abdellah said, "I heard someone of his stature speaking about Islam and Muslims not in an adversarial sense, but in the sense of being welcome and acknowledging we are integral citizens in the society -- that we''re gainfully employed, we''re educated."(ANI)
Are church leaders affirming Allah?
Posted: August 28, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
By Joe Schimmel
© 2009
Has anyone noticed how hundreds of professing Christian leaders are compromising their faith by uniting with Muslims? Could it be that we are witnessing the formation of the prophesied one-world religion under the Antichrist? (Revelation 13:1-18)
For example, Brian McLaren, a prominent Emerging Church leader, announced plans to celebrate the Islamic holiday Ramadan, commemorating Muhammad's reception of the Quran. On the Fourth of July, when most Americans were celebrating the birth of our nation, Rick Warren, "America's Pastor," addressed the Islamic Society of North America, which, the Department of Justice categorized two years ago as a co-conspirator in financing a foreign terrorist group!
Another Emerging Church leader, Tony Campolo, a proponent of the so-called "evangelical left" claimed that "even if" Muslims "don't convert, they are God's people." Campolo further declared, "A theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam." ("Speaking My Mind," page 149). Campolo, like McLaren and Warren, has a habit of compromising biblical truth to forge unholy alliances with sworn enemies of the Gospel. Campolo admitted, "Consequently, anyone who accuses me of violating the biblical message is correct!" ("A Reasonable Faith," page 190)
Even more chilling is the fact that over 300 prominent Christian leaders signed a letter issued by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture claiming that world peace is dependent on Muslims and Christians recognizing "Allah" and "Yahweh" as the same God. This letter, titled "Loving God and Neighbor Together," was written in response to a signed document by 138 Muslim leaders titled "A Common Word Between Us and You." McLaren, Warren, Robert Schuller and Bill Hybels were just several of the signatories to this outright betrayal of Christ!
The Islamic "Common Word" document, in effect, calls on Christians to affirm the Islamic understanding of the unity of God as a precondition to achieving world peace. Part and parcel of implementing Shariah law around the world is the imposition of the worship of Allah worldwide:
Believe in Allah and say not "Trinity." Cease! It is better for you! Allah is only One God. Far is it removed from his transcendent majesty that he should have a son. (Quran, Sura 4:171)
Incredibly, the very title of the Muslim document, "A Common Word Between Us and You," is actually taken from a Quranic verse that calls for Christian's ("people of the book") to deny the Trinity (so-called "partners") and to submit to Allah as the one true God:
O People of the Book! Come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than Allah. (Quran, Sura 3:64)
Tell Us it Ain’t So, Glenn Beck!
DAILY DEVOTIONAL TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
(Galatians 1:6-12)
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Exposing Glenn Beck's deception. For years on his syndicated radio program, on his TV program that aired on CNN Headline News that is now seen on FOX News, Glenn Beck asks people to be honest and has positioned himself as the one to hold the powerful accountable and expose their lies and deception.
Perhaps there is no more deceptive person in the media today other than Oprah, than Glenn Beck. He has a large following due to his radio and TV programs that espouse his conservative political ideology. It is time to expose Glenn Beck and hold him accountable for his lies and deception.
You see, Glenn Beck is a Mormon. Now, I could care less if Beck wants to believes the fairy tales and false theology of that satanic cults murdering, pedophile, and racist found Joey Smith. Beck can believe in the tooth fairy if he wants. The problem lies in the fact that like all members of his satanic cult, Beck promotes himself as and calls himself a Christian. The fact is Mormon doctrine is totally inconsistent with Biblical Christianity and a Mormon is no more a Christian than a Muslim is! The Mormon cult spends tens of millions each year in public relations to deceive people and portray themselves as "just another Christian church," when they are no more a Christian church than your local mosque is!
Freemasons await Dan Brown novel `The Lost Symbol'
AP – FILE - In this May 3, 2009 file photo, writer Dan Brown poses during the photo call for the World Premiere …
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer – Tue Sep 15, 4:14 pm ET
WASHINGTON – The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colorful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered floor in the center and high ceiling painted with gold stars.
Countless secrets supposedly have been shared in this and thousands of similar rooms of the Masons around the world. Facts of life have been debated, honors bestowed, rituals enacted. You would need to belong to a lodge to learn what really goes on.
In "The Lost Symbol," symbolist Robert Langdon is on a mission to find a Masonic pyramid containing a code that unlocks an ancient secret to "unfathomable power." It's a story of hidden history in the nation's capital, with Masons the greatest puzzle of all.
Brown's book moves quickly among such Washington landmarks as the Library of Congress and the Washington Monument and draws upon the Masons' very public presence in Washington, dating back more than 200 years.
George Washington used a Masonic gavel and trowel in 1793 as he lay the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. The same trowel would be included 55 years later when President James K. Polk, a Mason, presided over the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument, and again in 1907 when President Theodore Roosevelt, also a Mason, laid a cornerstone for a Masonic temple
The number dropped in the 1960s, when the Masons seemed hopelessly antiquated to a rebellious generation, and dropped again in the late 1980s as older members died. Hodapp, himself a Mason based in Indianapolis, says there are now around 1.5 million in the U.S. and 3 million worldwide.
Ed: over One Million copies sold in first day.
Criminal Contempt Case Over a Meal Prayer Goes to Trial on National Constitution Day
SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FL, Sept. 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- Tomorrow, Liberty Counsel will be in federal District Court in Pensacola representing the Principal of Pace High School, Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman as they face criminal contempt charges for a prayer over a meal. Ironically, tomorrow is National Constitution Day.
During a luncheon to honor those who contributed toward the school's athletic Field House, Principal Lay asked Mr. Freeman to offer a blessing for the meal. Students were not present at the time of the blessing. Lay and Freeman thought nothing of the matter nor did those being honored. But the ACLU ran to court, claiming both men should be held in criminal contempt. Lay and Freeman have a combined 70 years of public school service. If convicted, they face up to $5,000 in fines, six months in jail, and they may lose their retirement benefits.
Tomorrow's trial comes on the heels of the trial of Michelle Winkler, a receptionist, who asked her husband, who is not a school employee, to bless the evening meal at a separate, privately sponsored event held off campus after school to honor non- instructional staff. The ACLU urged the court to hold Winkler in contempt, but after a 7 ½ hour trial, the judge sided with Liberty Counsel.
Your brother in Christ, Ed Decker
pray for one another, that you may be healed.
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. James 5:16 b
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