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Subject: [BPR] - The Lamb´s wife, the Church and the New Jerusalem
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Charlie")
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:08:56 -0500

The Lamb´s wife, the Church and the New Jerusalem

Most ‘born again´ Christians, I think, accept the fact that, as part of the ‘Church´, they will be given incorruptible bodies, at some point in the future, and will be the Lamb´s wife during His 1,000 year reign on the earth. At the end of that time Satan will be released from the bottomless pit and, shortly thereafter, he will be cast into the lake of fire. There will be the ‘White Throne Judgment´ then, the new heaven and new earth will appear, complete with the holy city, the New Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

However, Revelation 21:9-10 tells us of an angel showing John ‘the bride, the Lamb´s wife´ and John is carried away in the spirit to a ‘great high mountain´. He then sees ‘that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.´ How can the Church be both the Lamb´s wife and, later, be ‘the bride, the Lamb´s wife´ and be represented by a city, the New Jerusalem? The answer, I think, lies in the fact that the Church is to be the ‘wife´ of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, during His 1,000 year reign on the earth. However, at the end of the 1,000 years, Revelation 21:5 tells us: "And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." This tells us that everything that is in existence, at that time, will cease to exist. ALL will become new! At that time, I think, the Church will no longer be the Lamb´s wife. Each person, who is part of the Church, will become something new. We are not sure what we will be but we are told, in I Corinthians 2:9: "…Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." We do not know what we will be but we know we are unable to even imagine how ‘out-of-the-world´ our ‘life´ will be. Praise the Lord!

The New Jerusalem, which is referred to as ‘the bride, the Lamb´s wife´, will have twelve doors, each with a name of one of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel and its twelve foundation stones which will each bear the name of one of the 12 apostles. I think it will be built with stones which will each bear the name of member of the Church. This New Jerusalem, will not only be the Tabernacle of God it will also be an everlasting memorial! Think about it!! What a privilege to be a born again Christian!! Mind boggling! Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord!! I think, too, the names of the twelve tribes on the twelve doors will be a memorial to the fact that it was through the twelve tribes the door to salvation was opened for ‘whosoever will´. Jesus tells us: ‘I am the door´ -- ‘no man cometh unto the Father except by me.´ PRAISE THE LORD!

Charles Baker September, 2000

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Subject: [BPR] - Israel Ambassador Security Suspended
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:22:35 -0400

Saturday September 23 1:08 AM ET
 Israel Ambassador Security Suspended

 By OWEN S. GOOD, Associated Press Writer

 WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department has suspended the security
 clearance of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin S. Indyk pending an
 investigation into alleged security violations, a State Department official said
 Saturday.

 The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was ``no
 indication of espionage in this matter,'' and that Indyk has ``cooperated fully''
 with investigators from the State Department and FBI (news - web sites).

 ``At this time there has been no indication that any intelligence information
has
 been compromised,'' the official said. ``This is a question of security
 procedures that have not been followed.''

 Indyk, 49, is barred from handling classified materials and must be escorted
 inside the State Department building.

 State Department officials told The Washington Post the investigation
 involves ``sloppy handling of information'' over ``a longer period of time''
 before Indyk took his position in Israel. Indyk, who became a U.S. citizen in
 1993, has been ambassador to Israel from April 1995 to OCtober 1997 and
 again since last year, the Post said in its Saturday editions.

 The Post also reported a source outside the State Department familiar with
 the investigation as saying it relates to Indyk's use of unclassified,
 government-owned laptop computers to prepare memorandums about
 discussions with foreign leaders while in transit.

 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright approved the suspension, State
 Department spokesman Richard Boucher told the Post. ``She holds
 Ambassador Indyk in very high regard and values his contributions greatly,''
 the spokesman said. But, he said, ``she has been absolutely clear on the
need
 for everyone to follow security procedures.''

 In a statement Friday, Indyk said: ``I regret that my trying to do best possible
 job under very difficult conditions has led to the temporary suspension of my
 security clearances while it is determined whether correct security
procedures
 were followed.''

 Security officials at State decided to pull Indyk's clearance on Sept. 12,
 although no action was taken until Thursday. Members of the Senate Foreign
 Relations Committee requested a briefing on Indyk on Tuesday after an
 anonymous phone caller told a committee aide the department was going to
 ignore security concerns about Indyk, the Post said.

 State Department officials have been extremely sensitive to security issues
 since the April disclosure that a laptop computer containing top- secret
 information about arms proliferation had vanished.

 The suspension makes it virtually impossible for Indyk to do his job at a
 critical juncture in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

 The Australian-born Indyk was named the senior Middle East specialist on
 the National Security Council in January 1993. In his first ambassadorship,
he
 was an important conduit between the Clinton administration and the late
 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000923/wl/ambassador_suspended_3.ht
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Subject: [BPR] - Scientist 'killed Amazon indians to test race theory'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:48:40 -0400

Scientist 'killed Amazon indians to test race theory'

Geneticist accused of letting thousands die in rainforest

Paul Brown, Environment correspondent
Saturday September 23, 2000

Thousands of South American indians were infected with measles, killing
hundreds, in order to for US scientists to study the effects on primitive
societies of natural selection, according to a book out next month.

The astonishing story of genetic research on humans, which took 10 years to
uncover, is likely to shake the world of anthropology to its core, according to
Professor Terry Turner of Cornell University, who has read the proofs.

"In its scale, ramifications, and sheer criminality and corruption it is
unparalleled in the history of anthropology," Prof Turner says in a warning
letter to Louise Lamphere, the president of the American Anthropology
Association (AAA).

The book accuses James Neel, the geneticist who headed a long-term
project
to study the Yanomami people of Venezuela in the mid-60s, of using a
virulent measles vaccine to spark off an epidemic which killed hundreds and
probably thousands.

Once the epidemic was under way, according to the book, the research team
"refused to provide any medical assistance to the sick and dying Yanomami,
on explicit order from Neel. He insisted to his colleagues that they were
only there to observe and record the epidemic, and that they must stick
strictly to their roles as scientists, not provide medical help".

The book, Darkness in El Dorado by the investigative journalist Patrick
Tierney, is due to be published on October 1. Prof Turner, whose letter was
co-signed by fellow anthropologist Leslie Sponsel of the University of Hawaii,
was trying to warn the AAA of the impending scandal so the profession could
defend itself.

Although Neel died last February, many of his associates, some of them
authors of classic anthropology texts, are still alive.

The accusations will be the main focus of the AAA's AGM in November, when
the surviving scientists have been invited to defend their work. None have
commented publicly, but they are asking colleagues to come to their
defence.

One of the most controversial aspects of the research which allegedly
culminated in the epidemic is that it was funded by the US atomic energy
commission, which was anxious to discover what might happen to
communities
when large numbers were wiped out by nuclear war.

While there is no "smoking gun" in the form of texts or recorded speeches by
Neel explaining his conduct, Prof Turner believes the only explanation is that
he was trying to test controversial eugenic theories like the Nazi scientist
Josef Mengele.

He quotes another anthropologist who read the manuscript as saying: "Mr.
Tierney's analysis is a case study of the dangers in science of the
uncontrolled ego, of lack of respect for life, and of greed and
self-indulgence. It is a further extraordinary revelation of malicious and
perverted work conducted under the aegis of the atomic energy commission."

Prof Turner says Neel and his group used a virulent vaccine called
Edmonson B on
the Yanomani, which was known to produce symptoms virtually
indistinguishable
from cases of measles.

"Medical experts, when informed that Neel and his group used the vaccine in
question on the Yanomami, typically refuse to believe it at first, then say that
it is incredible that they could have done it, and are at a loss to explain why
they would have chosen such an inappropriate and dangerous vaccine," he
writes.

"There is no record that Neel sought any medical advice before applying the
vaccine. He never informed the appropriate organs of the Venezuelan
government
that his group was planning to carry out a vaccination campaign, as he was
legally required to do.

Fatalities

"Neither he nor any other member of the expedition has ever explained why
that vaccine was used, despite the evidence that it actually caused or, at a
minimum, greatly exacerbated the fatal epidemic."

Prof Turner says that Neel held the view that "natural" human society, as
seen before the advent of large-scale agriculture, consists of small,
genetically isolated groups in which dominant genes - specifically a gene he
believed existed for "leadership" or "innate ability" - have a selective
advantage.

In such an environment, male carriers of this gene would gain access to a
disproportionate number of females, reproducing their genes more frequently
than
less "innately able" males. The result would supposedly be a continual
upgrading
of the human genetic stock.

He says Neel believed that in modern societies "superior leadership genes
would be swamped by mass genetic mediocrity".

"The political implication of this fascistic eugenics is clearly that
society should be reorganised into small breeding isolates in which
genetically superior males could emerge into dominance, eliminating or
subordinating the male losers in the competition for leadership and women,
and amassing harems of brood females." Prof Turner adds.

In the memo he says: "One of Tierney's more startling revelations is that
the whole Yanomami project was an outgrowth and continuation of the atomic
energy commission's secret programme of experiments on human subjects.

"Neel, the originator of the project, was part of the medical and genetic
research team attached to the atomic energy commission since the days of
the
Manhattan Project."

James Neel was well-known for his research into the effects of radiation on
human subjects and personally headed the team that investigated the effects
of
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs on survivors and their children.

According to Prof Turner, the same group also secretly carried out
experiments on human subjects in the US. These included injecting people
with radioactive plutonium without their knowledge or permission.

Nightmarish

"This nightmarish story - a real anthropological heart of darkness beyond
the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad (though not, perhaps, a Josef
Mengele) - will be seen (rightly in our view) by the public, as well as most
anthropologists, as putting the whole discipline on trial," he says.

"This book should... cause the field to understand how the corrupt and
depraved protagonists could have spread their poison for so long while they
were
accorded great respect throughout the western world... This should never be
allowed to happen again."

Yesterday Professor Turner told the Guardian it was unfortunate that the
confidential memo had been leaked, but it had accomplished its original
purpose in getting a full response from the AAA.

A public forum would be held at its AGM in November to discuss the book its
revelations and courses of action.

In a statement yesterday the association said "The AAA is extremely
concerned about these allegations. If proven true they would constitute a
serious violation of Yanomami human rights and our code of ethics. Until
there is a full and impartial review and discussion of the issues raised in the
book, it would be unfair to express a judgment about the specific allegations
against individuals that are contained in it.

"The association is anticipating conducting an open forum during our annual
meeting to provide an opportunity for our members to review and discuss the
issues and allegations raised in the book."

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,372067,00.html

via: isml@egroups.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Archdiocese gets exorcist
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:07:13 -0400

Archdiocese gets exorcist

               September 19, 2000

               BY ERNEST TUCKER RELIGION REPORTER

For the first time in its 160-year history, the Archdiocese of Chicago has
appointed a full-time exorcist, who said his task is to "heal those afflicted by
the Evil One."

The archdiocesan priest, whose identity was withheld by the Roman Catholic
archdiocese to protect his privacy, was appointed without fanfare nearly a
year ago by Cardinal Francis George at the encouragement of a French
cardinal.

In confirming the appointment recently, George said he did so because he
felt it was needed.

The priest, speaking through an archdiocese representative, said he is
reluctant to appear publicly because, "I collaborate with a number of health
care professionals, as well as officials of the archdiocese. Confidentiality is
of utmost importance in my work, so I prefer to be low-key and quiet about
it."

The veteran Chicago priest has not performed any public exorcisms here,
although he participated in at least nine while in Rome, according to an
archdiocese representative. He is currently meeting with a dozen people who
have sought his help.

Whether any of them could qualify for the ritual is unclear. For now, there is
no documented record of any exorcisms taking place here, according to
Chris Spoons, an archdiocesan spokesman, possibly because they would
be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Exorcisms, which are centuries old in the Catholic church, are rituals
involving prayer, blessings and the command for the devil to leave the
possessed person in the name of Jesus.

Public interest in exorcism is almost certain to be revived with the re-release
Friday of "The Exorcist," a 1973 blockbuster about a priest's battle for the
soul of a girl possessed by the devil. The re-release comes on the heels of a
reported "failed" exorcism by the pope recently.

"There will be an explosion of interest, yet the church retains a skepticism
about this," said the Rev. Robert Barron, an archdiocesan theologian and
spokesman on exorcisms. "I've heard that about 95 percent of those who
present themselves for exorcisms are not really subjects. They are very
rare."

Still, Barron said it was important to note that even though unusual, having
exorcisms is healthy because it acknowledges that there is a realm "of
reality beyond what we can see. A world of angels and devils, fallen angels."

However, the Rev. James LeBar, an exorcist for the Archdiocese of New
York who was appointed by the late Cardinal John O'Connor, said there has
been a "large explosion" of exorcisms over the last decade. He said he has
seen New York's number go from none in 1990 to a total of 300 in the last
decade.

"As people lose their respect and reverence for life, spirituality and human
beings, the devil can move in," LeBar said. "He can attack them by
possessing them, and rendering them helpless."

There are times when a victim can be overwhelmed by the devil, LeBar said.
More often, there are other lesser attacks by evil, the most common being
plain temptation to sin, he said.

An exorcism is a specific ritual for which exorcists are trained.

"They command demons . . . in the name of God that they should depart and
no longer injure human beings," the Chicago exorcist said.

There is no fixed duration of time for the healing, or any guarantee for
success. As such, the reported effort by Pope John Paul II last week was
not a "failure," LeBar said, because treatments can last decades.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/exor19.html

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Subject: [BPR] - U.S. Govt's "One-Stop" web site
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:30:57 -0500

* FEDS DEBUT ONE-STOP WEB SITE: A new U.S.
government Web site, firstgov.gov, went online today,
billed as a consolidation of 20,000 other government
Web sites into one. The idea is to allow government
information to be searched by topic instead of by
agency -- so it contains information on such widely
varied government programs as Social Security,
student loans, veterans benefits, national parks, and
patents. . . . Development of the site ("Your First
Click to the U.S. Government") was donated by a team
of Internet experts at the Inktomi Corp. software
company in Silicon Valley.

From Morrock News Digest
http://morrock.com

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Subject: [BPR] - ReligionToday News items: 09/22/00
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:34:15 -0500

Selected items from...

          C U R R E N T N E W S S U M M A R Y
              by the Editors of ReligionToday

September 22, 2000

A large Christian prayer rally has been followed by a small pagan
rally in Asheville, N.C. About 300 pagans and curious Christian
onlookers attended a "We Still Work Magic" rally at Reynolds High
School's football stadium this week. It came in response to a "We
Still Pray" rally Aug. 17 at which thousands of Christians converged
to protest a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning school-sponsored
prayers before high school football games.
..The pagans, who came from several states, called for the freedom
to practice what they said was their misunderstood religion,
emphasizing that the United States was founded on principles of
liberty. "We are not devil worshipers because we do not acknowledge a
devil," Thomas Pendragon Brice, a member of the Appalachian Pagan
Alliance, told the Asheville Citizen-Times (see link #1 below).
Speakers led ritual prayers to Isis, the ancient Egyptian fertility
goddess; the ancient Greek and Roman god Apollo; the Hindu god
Vishnu; and other gods and goddesses.
.."God loves every one of the people here," Steve Scroggs, pastor of
Mountain Vintage Fellowship, told the Citizen-Times at the rally.
"Many people who call themselves pagan have been hurt or offended by
the church at some point. We need to say we're sorry as a church for
the ways we've hurt them."
..Just across the stadium, the pagans were in the prayers of church
members during Bible classes at Covenant Community United Methodist
Church. "We just pray for them, not in a mean way, but just that they
would ultimately know God," said Sharon Strange, wife of pastor Mack
Strange.

Devil-worshiping music was played for five hours on the Wisconsin
Public Radio Sept. 16 after an unknown person pirated the station.
The Brown County Sheriff's Department and the FBI are trying to find
out who cut the station's power feed and spliced a CD player.
..Complaints began coming into Wisconsin Public Radio by 6:30
Saturday morning saying the Green Bay station was playing satanic
music, WBAY-TV Green Bay (see link #2 below) reported. WPR called a
reporter who rushed to the studio on the University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay campus; no one was there and she couldn't stop
the music. It wasn't until 11 a.m. that an engineer put an end to the
music.
..Police said the act goes far beyond a prank and an embarrassment,
calling it a dangerous act. "They could be hurt, even killed, fooling
around with that kind of electricity," Brown County investigator
Craig Kohlbeck told WBAY-TV.

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Subject: [BPR] - The Name
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:00:08 -0500

"One naked truth stands out across history--that the name of Christ
is often either praised or cursed the instant it is uttered. This is
unique with only one other name, the name of God. When men curse in
a gut reaction (apart from the long list of obscenities), they utter
either the name of God or Jesus Christ--not Buddha, Krishna, Moses,
Mahatma Gandhi, or any other messiah figure. None of these other
names draws blood in the mouth. And that in itself is a dead
giveaway. Those who do not believe in Christ will still utter His
name as a profanity as though unconsciously recognizing that He is
vested with powers they do not want to acknowledge or consider. It
is an emotion that parallels the angry child cursing his father.

"What is it that is hiding behind this concerted opposition to the
name of Christ? Does it not, in a subtle way, acknowledge the mystery
of who He is?..."

(Tal Brooke, The Conspiracy to Silence the Son of God, (c)1998, pg.
18.)

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