The Secret Service is looking into a sign posted in Victoria, TX. The sign says “Pray for Obama”, but it’s the scripture quoted below those words that is raising eyebrows: Psalms 109:8. That is: “Let his days be few, and let another take his office.”
Bible Verse On “Pray For Obama” Billboard Draws Secret Service Investigation
September 1, 2012 by 29 Comments
An Interview With Western Journalism Co-Founder Joseph Farah On “Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment”
May 16, 2012 by 4 Comments
Bresciani – This is Rev Michael Bresciani of the American Prophet.org website, and I’m interviewing Mr. Joseph Farah, the Chief Executive Officer of World Net Daily on his production of the movie ‘Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment.’ Welcome.
Farah – Before you get started, I just want to say that World Net Daily is the name of the website that most people are familiar with; on January 1st, we changed it to WND, and officially we don’t use World Net Daily anymore.
Bresciani – You know I should know that because I have a link to your site and a little logo on ours and it does say, simply, WND.
Farah – Old habits are hard to break.
Bresciani – The nine ‘harbingers’ are broken down into these categories, if I could say them quickly. 1. The Breach, 2.The Terrorist, 3.The Bricks, 4.The Tower, 5.The Gazit Stone, 6.The Sycamore, 7.The Erez Tree, 8.The Utterance, 9.The Prophecy. The first question I have is – it was the Rabbi, Jonathan Cahn who seems to be the person best versed in these harbingers; was he the one that discovered these or did somebody else find them with him. Was there a collaboration or did he just come upon them – how did he discover them?
Farah – It is my understanding, although I never specifically asked that question of Jonathan, is that these were things he discovered, and I think I would be accurate in saying that he was led to these discoveries, by the Holy Spirit. He is a great student of the Bible, and he is a student of the Bible in original languages, and he sees a lot of deeper meanings, much more than the average English speaking Bible student, and I think that certainly helps, for instance, knowing the difference between when you read in the King James Version of the bible that the sycamores were replaced by cedars. Well, cedar is not actually the word in Hebrew; it’s erez tree. Erez is something; it includes the cedar, but it can be something. It’s more generic than cedar, and so when you see the sycamore tree in New York City being replaced by an erez tree, then you see the fulfillment of what appears to be prophecy repeating itself. So I think Jonathan is uniquely gifted and studied to be able to have made these discoveries.
The movie itself is a different kind of telling of the book he wrote, The Harbinger, and The Harbinger is a terrific book, but it is actually classified as fiction because it involves fictional characters. It’s the telling of a real historical story. He does it in a way, a narrative form, that when I read it as a journalist, I said to myself, wait a minute, I’m afraid people are going to read this and think it’s a nice book, but not get the fact that – its real, that its true.
I felt compelled to make this into a video documentary where we could actually show these events that took place because – seeing- is believing – for people. We increasingly live in a world where the visual is much more powerful for some people than the written word. So that was the genesis of the Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment. I knew the ‘Harbinger’ was going to be an incredibly successful book, which it has been and continues to be the number one Christian book in America this year.
Bresciani – That leads me into the second question I was going to ask you. How is it (The Harbinger) doing in the marketplace? I understand its rising again?
Farah – Yes, it’s been consistently on the New York Times best seller list, and it’s really just a question of whether it’s in the top ten or the top twenty five, and that sort of depends on the exposure he (Jonathan Cahn) he is able to give it in media.
Bresciani – I had the feeling as I watched the documentary that it wasn’t trying to be a ‘prophecy’; it was being shown as a parallel, that we (America) are repeating a pattern, and no one could argue with that.
Farah – Well no, and if your familiar with the bible, you know that the bible is a book of patterns. And so it only makes sense that those patterns would continue into the future ,and to me this story, whether you read it in book form or watch the video, I have yet to see anybody come away with, well that’s all coincidence.
Bresciani – Another question that came up is, I wondered if anyone involved like Sen. Daschle, Jon Edwards, Mayor Bloomberg, and the Governor of New York or anyone that’s part of the documentary has been exposed to the video, and have they made any statements or thrown back any reflections?
Farah – No, not to my knowledge; however, I will say this because this is the journalist in me, I have asked my team, my staff, to make every effort to try to reach out, particularly to Daschle and Edwards. I want to find out from Tom Daschle, who gave the first speech on September 12 and cited Isaiah 9: 10. I wanted to get somebody to talk to him or the aide or the speech writer that came up with that verse as the inspiration for his talk that day.
SUMMARY – The full length audio of the interview with Joseph Farah is 43 minutes in length, and a great deal of depth and detail can be found in it. I strongly advise anyone considering the purchase of this video to listen to the entire presentation. It is totally free.
http://www.americanprophet.org has since 2005 featured the articles of columnist Rev Michael Bresciani along with news and reviews that have earned this site the title of The Website for Insight. Millions have read his timely reports and articles in online journals and print publications across the nation and the globe.
How Bad Is Public Education In America?
May 5, 2012 by 7 Comments
It was Pliny the Elder, a naturalist and good friend to the Roman Emperor Vespasian, who is probably most responsible for the idea that ostriches hide their heads in the sand when they are confronted by an unavoidable danger. It is all mythical. Ostriches don’t actually do this, but people do. Are the parents who send their children to one of 99,000 American public schools sticking their heads in the sand? Are they unaware of what is going on in the public schools, or are they in denial? Are Americans getting the best bang from their buck, or are they flushing when they pay taxes totaling an average of $10,500 per student?
Here, in the state of Georgia, the high school graduation rates hovered near 80% until a new formula was introduced that revealed a more accurate assessment. The new formula divides the number of graduates in a given year by the number of students who enrolled four years earlier. Georgia’s graduation rate dropped to 67.4%. In Columbus, Georgia’s second largest city by population, the graduation rate computed below 50% in two of the city’s eight high schools. Graduation rates in the Atlanta area also plummeted under the new formula. Gwinnett County dropped from 83.7% to 67.5%. Fulton County dropped from 85.9% to 70.1%, and Atlanta City Schools dropped from 68.2% to 51.9%. Can you imagine any company operating at a 50% production rate? Can you imagine the U.S. government investing billions of dollars in a company whose success rate is only 50% to 60%? If you needed a heart surgeon, would you choose one with a 50% success rate? Do we value our youth? We need to pull our heads from the sand. The 67% Georgia graduation rate is unacceptable.
Academia is only half the problem. Recent statistics released through the Indicators of School Crime and Safety Report reveal that there were 1,183,700 violent crimes in the 2009-2010 school year. Some of the violent crimes measured were physical attack with or without weapons, robbery with or without weapons, and rape. 74% of public schools were the scene of a violent crime in 2009-2010. Amazingly, while the school systems reported 1.2 million violent crimes, there were only 905,000 violent crimes committed on the streets of America. Many large city public schools report an arrest daily. If the parents of public school children would pull their heads from the sand, they would be shocked to realize that some public schools are more dangerous than the streets of our nation’s cities.
A University of Michigan study reported that the big issues in school discipline in the 1940′s included chewing gum, cutting in line, running in the hall, noisy disruption, violations in dress code, and littering. The study compared the decade of the ’40′s with the 1990′s when school administrators found themselves dealing with drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, and assault. Many shrug at these alarming facts by saying that schools have always had these problems and that they just weren’t publicized. Not true; things are worse, much worse.
Some parents make an excuse for sending their children into such violent environments by saying, “Well, they need to get out there in the real world. Better now than later.” How can exposing our children to a little assault, a little rape, or a little molestation be justified? It is heartbreaking to see parents who badly want to remove their children from such an environment, but circumstances prevent them from doing so. Some have no choice but to send their children where they will be indoctrinated to believe that fathers are unimportant, and homosexuality should be accepted as a normal lifestyle, and killing the unborn is a legitimate way to avoid the consequences of the sin of fornication.
The 2005 University of Michigan study revealed that 26% of all school children are victims of violent threats, 4% have been threatened with an actual weapon, and 24% have been struck with a fist. It seems we’ve lost our way, big time, in public education. We are being told that it is all about the kids. Are parents too gullible when they believe administrators of their local systems when they say that they are committed to providing our children with the best opportunity to excel academically? They strongly proclaim that protecting our children and creating an environment conducive to learning is a top priority. Are we being sold a bill of goods? Some prisons, where Bibles have not yet been listed as contraband, are safer than some public schools where Bibles are prohibited.
School systems effectively teach us (but certainly not our students) the failure of socialism. Competition has been removed. Compulsory attendance laws give the teachers a captive audience and help to destroy incentive to be the best at what they do. What if teachers had to compete for students? What if parents could choose their schools and their children’s teachers based on past performance? Unions make it impossible to fire an incompetent teacher, and child predators prey on our children, like picking ripe fruit in an orchard. Charol Shakeshaft, a researcher and author of a 2004 study that was prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, revealed the astonishing prevalence of child abuse in public schools. She said, “…the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.” The report stated that nearly 10% of all students were victims of sexual misconduct. It’s time to pull our heads out of the sand. Would parents send their children off to a summer camp if they were told there was a 10% chance their child would suffer sexual abuse?
It may be unfair to blame public education for all the ills of our society. Our slide toward Gomorrah is due to many factors. Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar addressed the problem of protecting our children from a depraved culture: “If I were to stand in front of an audience of virtually any kind in America and advocate drunken orgies, getting high on cocaine, pot or any other drug, they would look at me in stunned astonishment. If I gave a sales talk on incest, adultery, homosexuality, necrophilia, bestiality, and even suicide, while generously sprinkling four-letter words throughout the presentation, there isn’t one group in a thousand that would sit still and listen. But the very group(s) that would assail such topics are the very ones who do it every day when they allow their children to listen to ‘popular’ music.”
Parents must also share much of the blame for failing to build a hedge around their own children. Our children are not just being exposed to pornography, violence, and immoral behavior; they are overdosing on it. Fathers are commanded in Ephesians 6:4 not to “exasperate our children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Parents dare not send their kids into public schools without providing them an interpretation of morality based on a Christian worldview. We cannot isolate our children in a monastic lifestyle, but we can prepare them to live clean lives in a filthy culture.
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A Must-See Documentary For Christians: ‘Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment’
In 1970, even the churches were not regularly taught the doctrine of the second coming of Christ more commonly known as premillennial prophecy. Then along came Hal Lindsey’s block buster best seller, “The Late Great Planet Earth.”
The nation and the world were catapulted into a revival of knowledge that even the Prophet Daniel proclaimed would not be well known or revealed until the last days. A few great works have been added to Lindsey’s book, and those who had only Clarence Larkin’s 1918 version of “Dispensational Truth” were reinvigorated to begin again to start studying the subject of eschatology (The last things.)
Certain signs have been fulfilled in this generation that make it impossible to miss that the generation Jesus spoke of as the one sure to precede the second coming of Christ is as the Bible says, “at hand.”
Of all the latest signs and the greatest teachings and discoveries about Christ’s imminent return in power that have graced this generation, none is more specific to America than the parallel Israel and America share in the passages of Isaiah 9: 10 and following.
Since online journalism often falls prey to the speed of surfing and the new lightning speed of digital browsers, I will state both early and emphatically; the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy/parallel is, without doubt, the most important and impressive discovery in this decade. It is a wake-up call that we can only ignore at our own peril.
It was apparent from the beginning that reviewing this documentary would not be easy and that the standard review techniques would need to be suspended in lieu of some other means of elucidation. Joseph Farah (co-founder of the Western Center for Journalism) is an articulate man who in this interview manages to touch on many of the questions anyone may think to ask, but to begin, we will use the four P’s to introduce the production.
PRIMARY – In both Old and New Testament days, the Lord made it clear to his apostles and prophets and servants that if they went unheard and subsequently unheeded that it was God that was being rejected, not the servant. Under inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, God, his message, and the messenger stand as one. That being said, the primary here is Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. Jonathan is what is known as a Messianic Rabbi (Christian), whose message is heard daily on hundreds of radio stations across the nation.
President of the ‘Hope of the World Ministries,’ Cahn is also the Senior Pastor of the ‘Jerusalem Center/ Beth Israel’ located in Wayne, New Jersey. Cahn has ministered to thousands across the globe. He is the author of the bestselling book ‘The Harbinger,’ subtitled “The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America’s Future”
In a normal review, we would hail the long list of accomplishments and roles that the principle has played to accent his career. In God’s economy, he was only looking for someone to be obedient to what they saw or heard, and in that vein, Jonathan Cahn is best described.
What was spoken of about Cahn’s ancient Father Abraham may also be said about him. Little more needs to be said for those whose pleasure it is to serve the living God. To Wit: “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” (Gal 3: 6)
PRODUCER-Joseph Farah is the producer of the documentary “Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment“, and he is a man who hardly needs an introduction. As the founder and CEO of WND.com (Formerly World Net Daily) a website that has recently been ranked among the top 500 sites in the world (as well as the co-founder of the Western Center for Journalism), he is well known for his journalism and his untiring pursuit of the truth.
Like many Christians, Farah knows that Jesus said “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Jn 8: 32) When Farah decided that he would not hoard the truth to himself, but make it known to the entire world, he became a servant like Jonathan Cahn. Nothing speaks more about him than that. In the perspective of the Biblical worldview, that title is the greatest he has ever been granted.
PREMISE – The documentary is used to show the parallel between ancient Israel and America. We are without a doubt producing the same behaviors that Israel did before it began to fall under the judgment of God. Since both Israel and America were chosen to represent God’s works and his message in our world, it might seem appropriate that we should both choose a similar path, but since it is a path to our own demise, it is anything but desirable.
In the last 24 hours before Christ’s life leading up to and including his crucifixion, he fulfilled some 25 major Messianic prophecies (related to the first coming of Christ) against the odds of approximately 53,000,000 to one. The parallels between Israel’s behaviors and America’s reactions to the events of 9/11 have not yet been calculated in the math of compound probabilities, but if it were, the odds would also be astronomical.
In the simplest terms, we are repeating the same behaviors as ancient Israel. The video fully explains these parallels, but much more than that, it indicates what we can do as individuals and as a nation to avoid the product of our behavior.
PRODUCT – All great portents are pretty much useless if all they do is entertain. The curiosity of the prophecies of Nostradamus, the sighting of UFOs, the pursuit of missing gospels, and ‘doomsday’ predictions all have entertainment value, but they cannot be used to edify, guide, or redeem anyone; thus, they begin and end on the lower echelon of human influence we know as entertainment.
When signs or burning bushes are granted by God, they have a much higher value. They are known as ‘revelation,’ meaning that they are God’s way of speaking to man. God doesn’t just want to be heard like someone shouting over the crowd; He has no opinions or viewpoints. He is the author and finisher of all things, but He does want to make it clear that we play a role in the outcome of all that happens in our lives as individuals and collectively as a nation. This, then, is the very heart of this documentary. It is a view of the terrible event we call 9/11 that when seen correctly will serve to awaken us to our role, subsequent to that event.
It is God’s way of saying ‘Now, what are you going to do about it!’
Everybody who watches this video will be impacted. Whether you are just curious about prophecies and how America fits into the biblical scheme of things, or if you are a solid student of prophecy, you will be moved and enlightened and challenged by the obviously important message Jonathan Cahn is making in this powerful video presentation.
As a person with both a prophetic calling on my life and as a journalist, I feel that our nation is sliding fast toward the place of no return; anything that serves to alert the nation to this misguided race to our own demise rates high on my list as important enough to declare and make known to other Americans.
I like to rate every film or production I review on a scale of 1 to 10. In all three categories, message, production, and prophetic value, I would be remiss if I did not give Joseph Farah’s production of ‘Isaiah 9: 10 Judgment,’ a very strong – ten.
Good Watching.
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http://www.americanprophet.org has since 2005 featured the articles of columnist Rev Michael Bresciani along with news and reviews that have earned this site the title of The Website for Insight. Millions have read his timely reports and articles in online journals and print publications across the nation and the globe.