I'm Back...Well, Kind Of, Anyways...

Wow! After taking a 6 months unannounced hiatus from blogs, for whatever reason, my blog has a page rank of 4, which I think is really decent for doing absolutely nothing for an extended period of time.

For those of you who may have been offended by the unannounced hiatus...my apologies. I admit that there's not a whole lot I can add, as far as comments, at this time, to the current fiasco called the United States, or the soon to be, the United States of Socialist Republic(USSR), under Mr. Obama.

As far as Israel is concerned, it's perfect timing in the selection of their new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. As long as the United States has Barack Obama as the U.S. President, Israel is going to need Mr. Netanyahu; In my opinion, with Mr. Obama in office, Israel has pretty much lost United States as an ally and with no one else to back them up, Netanyahu is really going to be tested, but I believe that Benjamin Netanyahu will weather the storms of ostracism from the rest of the world and keep Israel safe. Whatever it takes, Israel needs to do whatever means to protect herself, because no one else will, with the exception of the all-mighty Lord. Because Israel is the apple of God's eye (Zechariah 2:8), I know for a fact that God will protect Israel from those who go against Her.

The Miracle of the State of Israel by Amy J.

If anyone actually took the time to understand how the country of Israel, once again, became a nation after her people were exiled for about 2,000 years, they would not dare dispute who the land belongs to. If you truly understood their story, you would not dispute the fact that Israel is standing strong as a nation today is truly a divine act. Based on the odds that the Israelis were facing against during the wars/battles in 1948, 1967 and 1973, there is no way that the Israelis could have won these battles apart from the divine protection from God. If you believe the Bible/Torah, then you know that God does not break promises. As current events demonstrate, God still follows through with His word:

Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
-Genesis 12:1-3 (New King James Version)

During the times that the Israelis had to defend their land, many of the Israeli soldiers specifically cited what appeared to be unexplainable supernatural victories against their Arab enemies during certain battles. Others have legitimately stated they saw what can only be explained as angels from the Lord defeating their enemies. You might think this sounds crazy. But, whether you're a skeptic or not, you've got to see the documentary, Against all Odds, to see where I'm coming from.

On a side note, what is ironic is that Israel is one of the smaller countries in the world, yet there is no piece of land that is so highly disputed or inspires terrorism from a group of people, specifically the Arabs (The so-called Palestinians are Arabs; there are no such thing as a Palestinian people and I will cover that on a later post). According to the historical Biblical account, the Arabs descended from Ishmael. Ishmael's younger half-brother, Isaac, is where the Jewish/Israelis descended from; both were sons of Abraham. Now in this post, I am not going to go into the circumstances of the Biblical accounts of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac. The only reason I mentioned this is to point out that the conflict between the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac stemmed from this Biblical account and is well over 3,000 years old. And of course, these conflicts are documented in secular historical accounts, as well. The following link has the video clip of the entire interview between John Hagee and Bill McKay, the film producer of Against All Odds:

Pastor Hagee & Bill McKay: Against All Odds


Amy J.

The “Intelligent” Migration Within Our Solar System-NOT! by Stephen Yulish

With all due respect to journalist Tony R. Elliot, his article “Intelligent Migration Within Our Solar System”, UFO Digest 9/24/08, actually serves to prove that intelligent life may not even exist here on Earth. The article was not only poorly written but was ill conceived and not well thought out in the first place. Elliot took recent “discoveries” on the planet Mars including those mysterious “faces” and “giant pyramids” as well as the discovery of underground water to raise the question of how did the human race come into existence here on Earth in the first place.

He then conjectured without any proof or even an intelligent argument that intelligent life began on Mars and eventually migrated to Earth. In order to try and do this, he had to add that “we thus find ourselves simply unable to accept previously concrete religious ideas of creation.” He thus had to add the obligatory attack on the Biblical view of creation to try and make his argument.

He then unfortunately continued to dig himself a bigger hole when he then wrote that if God was the almighty being that we are told than why would He have created such an “imperfect being” as we humans only to find to His displeasure that we are so individualistic and into a rebellious nature that He eventually was so disgusted that He decided to kill of most of us by a flood and threatened the survivors with torture and death if they did not refrain from disobeying His laws.

Elliot then muddied the waters of this supposed “intelligent migration” even further by stating that evolution has not been proved and humans in the past had been assisted in their development by so called extraterrestrial “teachers” who appeared to the people as gods because of their advanced technological development. His argument that intelligent life migrated from Mars to Earth and eventually would move to Venus was thus truncated by the mandatory attack on the Biblical concept of creation mixed together with an extraterrestrial Martian teacher who guided our development. While there are some compelling arguments on this point elsewhere, this is unfortunately not one of them.

Just for the record, the Bible states that man was not created imperfect but was created for God’s glory (Isaiah 43:7), that man was created in the image of God and that He blessed them (Genesis 1:26-28), that man was wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14), that man was given free will to be disobedient and so called “individualistic’ and “rebellious’ if he so desired (Genesis 2:16, 3:6), but that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son to redeem a fallen mankind with His precious blood (John 3:16. 1 Peter 1:19, Titus 2:11).

Thus, the story of human existence is a love story as simple as that and does not need to be needlessly convoluted by migrations of intelligent life from other planets or need extraterrestrial Martian teachers to assist our development. We are all God’s creation. Sure God is just and sovereign and wants us to obey the moral laws that He has given us, but He is also loving and forgiving and His grace covers a multitude of sins.

In my estimation, it takes more faith to believe this cockamamie “intelligent migration theory” nonsense than to believe the Bible.

Stephen Yulish PhD
September 25, 2008