Atheolous: Opril's Book Club: January 2012 Selection

Friday, January 13, 2012

Opril's Book Club: January 2012 Selection

Since the world did not end on October 21st, 2011 as Harold Camping predicted, we must all carry on and bloom wherever God has planted us. The latest date prediction from Chris McCann of Ebiblefellowship for March 7th and 8th, 2012 also seems doubtful. However, our task to endure unto the end will be much more difficult if our freedom continues to turn into tyranny. This month's book selection is Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin. Ameritopia will be available on January 17th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon and Barnes and Noble here:

http://marklevinshow.com//Article.asp?id=2337584.

The name of the book says it all. As a frequent listener to the nightly Mark Levin show on WABC radio 770 A.M., and having read Mr. Levin's previous best-seller, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, I am eagerly awaiting the release of Ameritopia. Mr. Levin is a gifted writer who clearly presents the facts about the basic Conservative principles that America was built upon and which are currently under attack by Liberal, Utopian principles. America is not a mythical place for Utopian ideas. It is a real country inhabited by citizens who are free to succeed through hard work, risk, and sacrifice.

Do you think life here on earth is supposed to be Utopian? Or that America is Ameritopia? Life is hard, and it is also unfair. Utopian "equality" only makes everyone equally miserable, except for the leaders. Jesus told a story about a householder who hired laborers. When it came time to pay the laborers the wages of a penny they had all agreed upon, some of them murmured about being paid the same wages as those who worked fewer hours. The goodman of the house replied to one of them: "Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?" (Mt. 20:13-15). Of course there is a primary spiritual application to be gleaned here, but the literal application is also liberty: the liberty of the householder to hire laborers for a penny and the liberty of the laborers to accept the offer to work for a penny.

Excerpt from the back cover of Liberty and Tyranny:

"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny".

~ Abraham Lincoln, 1864

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The Truth About Early Church Fathers

QUOTE #1: "Why are the testimonies of the very early church fathers important? Because there is a direct link with them to the Apostles."

- Tom ("Lambsfury") Golda, FRL #11414, 11/6/2011

QUOTE #2: "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also OF YOUR OWN SELVES shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them."

- The Apostle Paul, Acts 20:29-30, regarding early church fathers who had a direct link to the Apostles and everyone else in the early churches.

A "Timeline" Deception

"Dear Time & Judgment, Many cannot wait to declare Christ is not coming."

- Chris McCann, T&J Msg. #10577, 10/21/2011

"Many" what? Many Atheists? The above unfinished statement (the crucial time factor, "on October 21st" was deliberately omitted by Mr. McCann) by Family Radio's Chris McCann to try and bolster his followers' faith in October 21st is a bold-faced, devilish lie that has helped to deceive those who having been deceived will be deceived. Many cannot wait to declare "Christ is coming" as often as we can. Many also cannot wait to once again delcare: "No man knows the day or hour".

I hereby declare: "Christ is coming."

What Family Radio Teachers Guaranteed BEFORE Oct. 21st, 2011:

“On May 21 Christ did come spiritually to put all of the unsaved throughout the world into judgment. But that universal judgment will not be physically seen until the last day of the five month judgment period, on October 21, 2011. …we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period.”

What the Bible has always guaranteed:

Mt 24:36: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Mt 24:44: Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Mt 25:13: Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

Harold Camping's Very Last Stand

“I do believe that we are getting very near the very end. We have not known...We’ve learned that there’s a lot of things that we didn’t have quite right...And that’s God’s good provision...If He had not kept us from knowing everything that we didn't know, we would not have been able to be used of Him to bring about the tremendous event that occurred on May 21 of this year...and which PROBABLY will be finished out on Oct 21...that’s coming very shortly. THAT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE...at this point...IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE the final end of everything.”

- From 9/23/2011 swan song to his soon-to-be deflated supporters who are still hanging in there.

Quote by Campingite Pastor and False Date Predictor Chris McCann of e-Biblefellowship:

"Let me say personally, that concerning all the effort, time, and focus I put into proclaiming May 21 as Judgment Day to the world I do not feel any twinge---that this was a wrong thing for me to have done. Not in the least bit. I know whole heartedly, that what was proclaimed regarding May 21 was precisely what God wanted to be proclaimed. I have zero doubt about this. I think what the people of God did in getting this message out to the world tremendously glorified Him. And, the reproach God's people are experiencing now----for those that continue to confess His truths---also tremendously glorifies Him." [T&J Group, Msg. #9423, June 3rd, 2011]