GOD AND THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

Written by Irvin L. Rozier


GOD AND THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

Jeremiah 33.3 "Call unto me, and I will answer thee and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

It was late Saturday evening on that hot and humid August day in 1987. The Lord had saved me in January 1987, and He had already used me greatly. That evening, I had readrepparttar above scripture, andrepparttar 126684 Lord began to reveal unto me great and mighty things. One ofrepparttar 126685 first spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians, Chapter 12 verses 1-10) had imparted unto me wasrepparttar 126686 gift of faith. Another wasrepparttar 126687 gift of discernment of spirits. He had also been teaching me how to pray, and I had already seen glorious answers to many prayers. The Lord had also been teaching me how to come against evil supernatural forces.

Earlier,repparttar 126688 Lord had used me to rebuke evil spirits. The first time this happened to me was at an old house in south Georgia. I was sitting in my office at Fort Stewart (I was inrepparttar 126689 Army at that time), whenrepparttar 126690 Lord spoke to me and told me to go to Ludowici, a small town nearby. I immediately left my office, and drove torepparttar 126691 town. When I arrived, I askedrepparttar 126692 Lord where to go, and He directed me to an old two story house down a side street. I parked my car, took my Bible in my hand, and went and knocked onrepparttar 126693 door. A woman openedrepparttar 126694 door, and I asked her if she had been experiencing any abnormal problems. With a look of amazement, she replied, "Yes, there is a room upstairs that has all kind of noises. We have nailedrepparttar 126695 door shut and it still has come open. My son tried to stay in that room but is was cold, and he was afraid ofrepparttar 126696 noises." When she spoke these words, I sensedrepparttar 126697 presence of great evil. The hair of my flesh stood up (Job 4 verse 15 "Then a spirit passed before my face;repparttar 126698 hair of my flesh stood up:"). With Bible in hand, I toldrepparttar 126699 womanrepparttar 126700 Lord had sent me there to get rid of that evil presence. As I began to walk uprepparttar 126701 stairs, I started calling onrepparttar 126702 name of Jesus and pleadingrepparttar 126703 power ofrepparttar 126704 shed blood. The great darkness and sense of evil almost overwhelmed me. I enteredrepparttar 126705 room and began to come againstrepparttar 126706 evil, saying "Atrepparttar 126707 name of Jesus, devils have to flee. Atrepparttar 126708 name of Jesus, we haverepparttar 126709 victory." My skin was crawling and my hair was sticking straight up. After several minutes of intense prayer and agony of soul,repparttar 126710 evil fled, and I experienced a great peace that passes all understanding. The Lord spoke to me and said, "Mission accomplished." As I leftrepparttar 126711 house, I toldrepparttar 126712 woman that things were now okay. Several weeks later, I was reading aboutrepparttar 126713 history ofrepparttar 126714 town of Ludowici. I read where two women were murdered in that room in that very same house where I had went earlier!

The Lord used me in other ways, also...He was training me for greater things.

In mid May, 1987,repparttar 126715 Lord spoke to me and told me to go to Jekyll Island, Georgia. He showed me which motel to stay at but told me not to check in until later. The island is beautiful and has a storied history. Originally, it was owned byrepparttar 126716 very wealthy and they used it as a winter retreat. Some ofrepparttar 126717 original houses are still there, restored to their former glory. Now,repparttar 126718 state of Georgia ownedrepparttar 126719 island.

I drove aroundrepparttar 126720 island and then went torepparttar 126721 north end, nearrepparttar 126722 pier. I saw a van fromrepparttar 126723 motel whererepparttar 126724 Lord wanted me to stay, and askedrepparttar 126725 driver if there were any vacancies. He said, "No, we have a convention staying there. All of our rooms are filled." About 4:00 PM,repparttar 126726 Lord spoke to me and told me to go on over torepparttar 126727 motel. I did, went inside and stood in line. As I approachedrepparttar 126728 motel desk,repparttar 126729 telephone rang, andrepparttar 126730 desk clerk said, "Excuse me while I take this call." I waited, and then she came and asked me what could she do for me. I asked, "Do you have any vacancies?" She looked up at me and said, "We didn't but that phone call was a cancellation. We have one room. It isrepparttar 126731 Presidential suite. You can have it at regular room price." So, I paid herrepparttar 126732 $75 and stayed atrepparttar 126733 motel whererepparttar 126734 Lord showed me I would be staying.

The Black Pope - Part One

Written by Robert Bruce Baird


I have seen halfrepparttar earth desolated. Were there but an Adam & Eve left in every country, & left free, it would be better than it now is... The liberty ofrepparttar 126683 whole earth was depending onrepparttar 126684 issue ofrepparttar 126685 contest.’ - Thomas Jefferson” (4)

COUNT PETER-HANS KOLVENBACH: - Also known asrepparttar 126686 ‘Black Pope’, he headsrepparttar 126687 army of technocratic and theocratic Jesuits which some people think isrepparttar 126688 top rung onrepparttar 126689 power structure which controlsrepparttar 126690 New World Order. I do not buy that in its entirety but they are an important second tier group and he may well be part ofrepparttar 126691 group aboverepparttar 126692 Jesuits like Weishaupt, orrepparttar 126693 current Pope. Here is his first formal message torepparttar 126694 world; I think it speaks volumes, if you like double talk.

“Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., has been Superior General ofrepparttar 126695 Society of Jesus since 1983. This is his first letter to all Jesuits world-wide in this new millennium. It is also his first to have been distributed onrepparttar 126696 WWW.

Onrepparttar 126697 Social Apostolate 2000/02 TO THE WHOLE SOCIETY Dear Fathers and Brothers,repparttar 126698 peace of Christ!

1. A few weeks afterrepparttar 126699 opening ofrepparttar 126700 Holy Door, I would like to recall thatrepparttar 126701 Great Jubilee of 2000, like every jubilee, is a summons onrepparttar 126702 part of our Creator and Saviour to re-establish lost harmony and to advance in social justice. The loud trumpet -repparttar 126703 yōbel - which sounded to openrepparttar 126704 holy year, called every injustice into question and gave hope torepparttar 126705 poor! When Jesus begins to preachrepparttar 126706 good news, his anointing and mission are ‘to proclaim release torepparttar 126707 captives and recovery of sight torepparttar 126708 blind, to letrepparttar 126709 oppressed go free, to proclaimrepparttar 126710 year ofrepparttar 126711 Lord's favour.’ Now Pope John Paul II has reactivatedrepparttar 126712 age-old purpose ofrepparttar 126713 jubilee to restore this social justice. ‘The social doctrine ofrepparttar 126714 Church, which has always been a part of Church teaching and which has developed greatly inrepparttar 126715 last century, particularly afterrepparttar 126716 Encyclical Rerum Novarum, is rooted inrepparttar 126717 tradition ofrepparttar 126718 jubilee year.’

2. To be converted to this social dimension of faith, which pervadesrepparttar 126719 biblical tradition andrepparttar 126720 Gospels,repparttar 126721 Father also callsrepparttar 126722 Society of Jesus anew. From its very earliest origins,repparttar 126723 preferential option forrepparttar 126724 poor, assuming various forms according to times and places, has markedrepparttar 126725 whole history ofrepparttar 126726 Society. With his powerful Instruction of fifty years ago, Father Jean-Baptiste Janssens orientedrepparttar 126727 Jesuit social apostolate ‘to procure for as many men as possible, or rather, in so far as conditions permit for all men, an abundance of both temporal and spiritual goods even inrepparttar 126728 natural order, or at least that sufficiency which man of his very nature needs that he may not feel depressed or looked down upon.’

Father Pedro Arrupe took up this apostolic orientation passionately and based it solidly uponrepparttar 126729 thoroughly evangelical relationship between social justice, as well defined by his predecessor, andrepparttar 126730 new commandment of love - so new as to need a new word, namely, agape. A social justice integrated withrepparttar 126731 great commandment of love is always intended byrepparttar 126732 General Congregations. ‘The social justice we are called to is part of that justice ofrepparttar 126733 Gospel which isrepparttar 126734 embodiment of God's love and saving mercy.’

Pope John Paul II, also asking if justice sufficed by itself, gave this response: ‘The experience ofrepparttar 126735 past and of our own time demonstrates that justice alone is not enough, that it can even lead torepparttar 126736 negation and destruction of itself, if that deeper power, which is love, is not allowed to shape human life in its various dimensions.’ Father Arrupe andrepparttar 126737 recent General Congregations, echoingrepparttar 126738 Holy Father's concern, acknowledge, onrepparttar 126739 one hand, how charity can be abused when it is a mere cloak or subterfuge for injustice but that, onrepparttar 126740 other hand, ‘one cannot act justly without love. Even when we resist injustice we cannot prescind from love, sincerepparttar 126741 universality of love is, byrepparttar 126742 express desire of Christ, a commandment that admits of no exceptions.’

3. Authoritatively synthesisingrepparttar 126743 progress ofrepparttar 126744 four General Congregations after Vatican II,repparttar 126745 Complementary Norms affirm: ‘the contemporary Jesuit mission isrepparttar 126746 service of faith andrepparttar 126747 promotion in society of that justice ofrepparttar 126748 Gospel which isrepparttar 126749 embodiment of God's love and saving mercy ... This mission is 'a single but complex reality, which develops in a variety of ways'’ inrepparttar 126750 very varied fields and works and activities in which Jesuits are engaged throughoutrepparttar 126751 world. Despiterepparttar 126752 considerable difficulties and our many failures, we look back with gratitude torepparttar 126753 Lord forrepparttar 126754 gifts received on this ‘journey of faith as we committed ourselves torepparttar 126755 promotion of justice as an integral part of our mission.’ The Society has evolved torepparttar 126756 point where GC34 voted unanimously in favour ofrepparttar 126757 decree Our Mission and Justice, andrepparttar 126758 vast majority of Jesuits have integratedrepparttar 126759 social dimension into our Jesuit identity and intorepparttar 126760 awareness of our mission in education, formation and social communications, in pastoral and retreat work. In many placesrepparttar 126761 concern for justice is an essential part of our public image in both Church and society, thanks to those ministries of ours which are characterised by love forrepparttar 126762 poor andrepparttar 126763 marginalised, defending human rights and ecology, and promoting non-violence and reconciliation.

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