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Divided We Stand

By Pete Garcia - http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=8157 Our illustrative and sorely missed Jack once wrote an article entitled "Close Only Counts in Horseshoes (and Hand Grenades)".  I heard the phrase again the other day when listening to The Berean Call's, T.A. McMahon speaking on the rise of the abuses of prophetic scripture.  Namely, the "Blood Moon" and "Shemitah" crazes that recently came and went with all the power of a gentle breeze. Men like Jonathan Cahn, John Hagee, and Mark Biltz, and others, bilked all these supposed coincidences for all they were worth and are now doing their obligatory excuse tours on every media outlet that will allow them to explain why nothing of any apocalyptic consequence occurred last September. It got me thinking about all the errors (eschatological or otherwise) we tolerate here in the 21st century.  I mean, even sound teachers, broadcasters, and preachers were getting on bo...

The Fourth Apostasy

Globalism - Ecumenism http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=7857 Pete Garcia ''Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.'' (1 Timothy 4:1-4 NKJV) After having been released by the Medo-Persian King Cyrus, the Jews under Joshua and Zerrubabel began returning to Jerusalem around 538-37 BC.  By the time Jesus was born in Bethlehem, some 500 years later, the rebuilt Jewish temple and the whole city had been fully operational for centuries.  Aside from a three year period in which Antiochus Epiphanes terrorized Jerusalem, each successive Gentile Empire (Persian, Greek, Roman) allowed the Jews to keep their templ...