In Leviticus 23 the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob gave instructions for celebrating His feasts. It is important to realize that the LORD calls these feasts, My feasts. While God gave His feasts to the Jewish people, they are not exclusive to them. Of course, this is a new thought for both Jews and Christians and challenges centuries of tradition. But the feasts of the LORD are for all people who worship the One True God of the Bible.

Unfortunately for Christians, in the fourth century, Constantine replaced these biblical feasts with his pagan Greco-Roman holidays. Since he ruled with the sword, he was very successful in his efforts.

When we hear the word “feast” we think of an elaborate meal or banquet. After teaching and writing on this subject for forty years, I am still shocked when Christians tell me they thought these biblical holy days had something to do with Jews and eating.

The Hebrew word for feasts is Moedim. In Greek we would use the word Kairos. These words mean a fixed appointed time or season or place where God would meet with His people. It specifically refers to God’s appointed holy days. They are His holy festivals or feast days when the people would go to Jerusalem for a holy encounter with the Living God.

While God’s people can encounter God anywhere, anytime, the LORD did tell us to set aside these special feasts days specifically for meeting with Him.

There are three fall feasts which are:

1. Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets,
2. Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and
3. Succot (the Feast of Tabernacles).

I want to share three words to help you remember the basic purpose of each feast. Keeping it simple, the three words to remember are:

1) Renew, 2) Repent, and 3) Relax (rest)

Yom Teruah (Renew)

The Feast of Trumpets is also called Rosh Hashanah meaning “Head of the Year” because it is the first day of the Jewish New year. Since this feast days falls on the New Year, Trumpets calls us to renew our commitment to God. This is not the same as making New Years Eve resolutions where we try to do better than we did the previous year. Instead, it is seeking God for a divine encounter to renew us spiritually. In 2015, Yom Teruah is September 14.

Yom Kippur (Repent)

The Day of Atonement is the one day of the year when the High Priest would go into the holy of holies and seek atonement and forgiveness for the sins of the nation and the people (Leviticus 16). This feast calls us to repent of our sins and seek God for a divine encounter of forgiveness. It is not lamenting the consequences of our sins but a genuine repenting, a turning away, teshuva in Hebrew. In 2015, Yom Kippur is September 23.

Succot (The Feast of Tabernacles)

Feast of Tabernacles calls us to relax or rest and celebrate the goodness of God.  It is at the end of the agricultural season and at the end of God prophetic seasons. It is the time to rejoice over the blessings God has given us. It is not a time to boast in ourselves but to recognize that we only have what we have because of the goodness of God. It is a time to have a divine encounter of rest, thanksgiving and gratitude. It is a celebration.

The Feast of Tabernacles is the Feast for all the nations to come up to Jerusalem and worship the King the Lord of Hosts in His holy city (Zechariah 14:16). In 2015, Succot is September 28-October 4 followed by a special celebration on the eight day called Simchat Torah – rejoicing in the Torah.

Since 1980, thousands of Christians from one hundred nations have joined with their fellow Jews and celebrated Succot in Jerusalem. Dr. Booker was blessed to be one of the lead teachers at this wonderful event for eighteen years. He and Peggy have taken groups for twenty-six years. They are leaving on Yom Kippur this year with their tour group.

Since Jerusalem is the spiritual center of the world and the hub of spiritual warfare between heaven and earth, they ask for your prayers for a safe journey and that each person will have their own moedim with the LORD.

God says that if we will seek Him with our whole heart we fill find Him (Jeremiah 29:13). For all who love the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, may you have a personal moedim in these Fall Feasts. May your encounter cause you to renew your walk with Him, repent and receive the assurance of forgiveness and relax and rest in His goodness.

“Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound [understand and internalize the spiritual realities of the feasts]! They walk O, LORD in the light of Your countenance” (Psalm 89:15).

Did You Know You Are Building

A Palace in Israel?

That’s right. The photo below shows your hard-earned tax money at work. Only this palace is not for you. It is for the “President” of the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas is building himself a $13 million palace in Ramallah with your hard-earned tax money.

Yasser Arafat was an evil monster but he was also one of the richest men in the world. Of course he also has a Nobel Peace Prize.

It is believed that his successor and terrorist pal, Mahmoud Abbas, is worth over $100 million. Where does he get such money? From you and me!

You see, in the wisdom of our State Department, it is necessary for the American taxpayer to send the Palestinian Authority about $500 million every year to help the poverty-stricken “Palestinians” build hospitals, schools, factories, roads, etc. to improve their quality of life.

Americans are the most generous people on the earth. We are always ready to help those who are less fortunate. The problem here is that your hard-earned tax money doesn’t help those less fortunate.

The leaders of the Palestinian Authority steal the money and send it to their secret Swiss bank accounts, or in this case, build themselves a palace. What they don’t steal for themselves, they use to pay the families of terrorists who blow themselves up killing Israelis or who are in Israeli prisons for trying to kill Israelis.

Perhaps, in protest, we should boycott products made by the Palestinian Authority. That would be difficult because the Palestinian Authority doesn’t make anything except explosives.

I suppose there is a bright side to this. The next time you are in Ramallah, you will have a nice place to stay—a palace built with your hard-earn taxes.

Have a great day!

“Thank you, Planned Parenthood, God Bless you.”

Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013

In 1859, Charles Darwin published his book, On the Origin of Species in which he espoused evolution and “the survival of the fittest.” He believed that only the fittest of creatures survive over time and that the “less capable to adapt” die.

Darwin had a half-cousin named Sir Francis Galton. Sir Francis was a scientist and social progressive (liberal) who embraced Darwin’s message of survival of the fittest. He sought to apply this idea to humans. He explained that if proper British nobility only married other proper British nobility, they would produce a superior offspring that would make the world a better place. Hitler called it “the master race.”

Eugenics – Selective Breeding of the Fittest

In 1883, Galton invented a word to define his idea. The word was eugenics, pronounced yoo jeniks. Eugenics comes from a Greek word, eugenes which means “well-born,” “well-bred,” “of good stock.”

I think you can already figure out where this is leading. Eugenics was a social philosophy of “survival of the fittest” among humans. The proponents of eugenics taught that the human race could be improved by encouraging sexual reproduction of people who had desired traits (positive eugenics) while reducing sexual reproduction of people who had less-desired traits (negative eugenics).

Of course those who had the desired traits would decide who had the less-desired traits. Who was considered to be in the unfortunate less-desired category? People deemed unfit to reproduce included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges of different IQ tests, criminals and deviants, people without skills, the poor, the sickly, people with too many children, and members of disfavored minority groups.

Those with the desired traits would reduce the population of those with less-desired traits through marriage prohibitions, sterilization, euthanasia, and any other means acceptable by society. Showing compassion and mercy to those with negative eugenics was considered counterproductive as this would only keep them living longer and reproducing.

A growing eugenics movement emerged in Britain in the 20th century and spread to many countries, including the United States and Europe. Eugenics became very popular in the United States. The Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Institute and the Harriman railroad foundation funded eugenics research by some of the leading scientists at Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. The Rockefeller Foundation even gave money to German scientists to start their own eugenics research. Unfortunately some of this money funded the research of Dr. Joseph Mengele before he went to Auschwitz.

Hitler studied the eugenics programs in the United States and successfully applied it to his extermination policy of anyone he did not consider part of the Master Aryan race. Hitler established a sex complex called Lebensborn where he bred strong German women to SS officers to produce children for his “master race.” An old movie called Of Pure Blood staring Lee Remick was a Hollywood presentation of Lebensborn.

Hitler murdered anyone he thought had negative eugenics. Hitler’s fanaticism and hatred of the Jews was the pinnacle of his obsession with eugenics. He murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust including one and half million Jewish children as he considered the Jews to be the least desired.

After the Nazi defeat, most countries and organizations severely limited or disguised their practice of eugenics because of its association with Hitler and the Nazis. There is one organization in the United States that has continued to practice the most evil method of eugenics on the most helpless of human beings. That is the subject of this article.

Margaret Sanger—the Mother of Planned Parenthood

One of the most zealous proponents of eugenics in the United States was Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). Margaret’s views on eugenics and birth control were shaped by her youth. Her mother had eleven children and seven miscarriages. She died at 50 years of age from tuberculosis. Margaret contributed her mother’s death to her repeated pregnancies which weakened her body. This led Margaret to believe that birth control was the way to contribute to women’s health and alleviate poverty which she determined was caused by women having too many children. In-other-words, she took her own personal experience and projected it on to the whole world.

Margaret opened her first birth control center in 1916 in Brownsville, New York. The “clinic” was closed one month later as the Comstock laws at that time made it illegal to practice or disseminate birth control devices. Margaret was driven by her vision and in 1917 published the first issue of her journal, The Birth Control Review. In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League which eventually became Planned Parenthood.

While we understand Margaret’s grief seeing her mother struggle with so many pregnancies, Margaret saw children as a burden rather than a blessing. When we evaluate our own life and the lives of others, we must look at the fruit of the life. What is the fruit of Margaret Sanger’s life?

While Margaret may have had good intentions at the beginning, and we certainly appreciate her interest in women’s health, she merged her zeal for birth control with eugenics. She was no different than Hitler in that she wanted to depopulate those she considered to be unwanted (less desirable). To Margaret, the feeble, the weak, the poor, those mentally and physically challenged, those who couldn’t contribute, minority groups and anyone else she thought had negative eugenics were to be exterminated through whatever means society would accept.

To Margaret, the greatest sin one could commit was giving birth to unproductive children. In an interview with Mike Wallace in 1957, Margaret said, “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they are born. That to me is the greatest sin – that people can – can commit.”

Regarding large families, Margaret said, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it” (Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race, Eugenics Publishers, 1920, 1923).

Regarding helping the poor and disadvantaged, Margaret wrote,
“Organized charity is itself the symptom of a malignant social disease. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks [of people] that are most detrimental to the future and the race of the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant” (Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization).

“Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free some day of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism” (Margaret Sanger, Killer Angel: Margaret Sanger in Her Own Words).

Margaret Sanger was a white supremacist racist who was well received by the Ku Klux Klan. No wonder, she saw poor southern black people as a huge negative eugenics group that needed to be exterminated. In 1939 she proposed what was known as the “Negro Project.” She wrote, “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Margaret Sanger was a prolific writer. The comments above are just a few of the many things she said and wrote expressing her views on population control. Sadly, she did not value human life. She wanted to exterminate anyone she considered a burden to society. The crowning fruit of her life is the abortion of 60 million innocent unwanted infants in their mother’s womb. Her legacy is the Holocaust of the womb led by her Planned Parenthood, the most barbaric death-cult in the history of mankind.

Ironically, Planned Parenthood is successfully continuing the “Negro Project” as a large percent of their abortions is performed on black women, in black communities, all with the financial support of $500 million dollars annually from the American taxpayer. It is sad that black women make up only about 13% of the population but have 37% of the abortions. Planned Parenthood sets up shop in their neighborhoods because that is where they make their money. Do black lives matter? Not to Planned Parenthood.

Oh, by-the-way, the richest man in the world today is a devoted eugenics. His father, Bill Gates Sr. served on the board of Planned Parenthood and is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Have a great day.

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence

The Cost of Freedom – What Price Will We Pay to Keep It?

I hope you enjoyed your July 4^th holiday. Here are the people who made it possible. Take a few minutes while enjoying our freedoms and thank God for these patriots. Freedom is never free! We have to fight to get it and fight to keep it. As we see our freedoms being taken away from us, what price are we willing to pay?

The 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence

What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants.
Nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated.
But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton , Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill
were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

Meet Your New Neighbors

In a further effort to destroy America, the US Government is in the process of importing thousands of Syrian refugees to a city near you. Over 90 percent of these refugees are Muslims with the vast majority being Sunni.

These people don’t speak English, have no skills, no understanding of our Constitution, culture, Judeo-Christians values and way of life. They have never seen a John Wayne movie or an American reality TV show.

Unlike European immigrants in the 1800-1900’s, these folk are not going to assimilate, become Americans and pledge allegiance to the Flag. We, the American taxpayers, will be responsible for their food, clothing and shelter…. Forever! How many of these are jihadist, only the Lord knows!

See the chart below to meet your new neighbors.

Dear Friends:

I wanted to let you know about our important work in South Korea. Not only do I have three books translated and distributed in South Korea, but we also have a significant television ministry there.

With anti-Semitism spreading unchecked around the world, it is most significant that I recently did two television programs for the South Koreans on anti-Semitism.

One of my books is, How the Cross Became a Sword. Written in easy-to-understand language, it is a concise history of “Christian” anti-Semitism and the origins of Replacement Theology.

This is a most important book, about 50 pages, that is an absolute must read for both Christians and Jews. If you do not have a copy, please go to my web site to order it at www.rbooker.com.

 The Korean television company is BradTV, a pro-Israel Christian organization. They showed up at my farm the other day to interview me for two programs from the book. They had a copy of How the Cross Became a Sword in Korean which they brought for me to sign.

The interesting thing about this is that I did not know this book had been translated and was being distributed in S. Korea. In other-words, it is a pirated copy that I did not authorize. I learned also that someone else hadtranslated the book and was distributing it in S. Korea. So there are two pirated copies of How the Cross Became a Sword being distributed in S. Korea.

I hope you will take the time to watch these two important interviews. You can watch them at the link below. The first interview starts about 8 minutes and 10 seconds into the video. The second starts at the beginning of the program. Please share these programs with your friends.

http://shop.soundsofthetrumpet.com/?page_id=741

It was most remarkable to see the video of four S. Korean TV people driving down the little one lane dirt road to my farm and then turning onto my property through the gate, past the horses, and then finally coming to my front door where I greeted them. Only one of them spoke English.

HOW ISLAM CONSOLIDATED ITS POWER

AND SPREAD ITS MESSAGE

PART 4 OF 4

            ISIS and radical Islam are the main issues in our world but Westerners know so little about Islam. I encourage everyone to read my book, Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West. For those who are interested, I am available to teach on “ISIS, the Islamic Caliphate and the End Times.” This is really, really important. So please call our office to discuss your interest.

To help you understand how Islam established itself as a regional power and threat to the West, I am posting a blog of four articles entitled, “How Islam Consolidated its Power and Spread its Message.” The information presented focuses on the four leaders who succeeded Mohammed. This article is about Ali bin Abu Taleb.

Ali bin Abu Taleb (656-661)

            The fourth and last of the Arabian Caliphs or successors was Ali bin Abu Taleb. Ali was a cousin of Mohammed. Shiite Islamic leaders believed he was the true successor because he was blood kin to Mohammed. Others wanted to revenge the murder of Uthman. In a bitter rivalry, Ali was murdered in 661. His son, Hussain, was Mohammed’s grandson. He was murdered in 680. This caused a great split in Islam which still exists today. The followers of Ali are the Shiites and the followers of “the majority rule” are the Sunnis. About 85% of the one billion Muslims are Sunni. Iran and Iraq are Shiite.

Damascus Caliphs

With Ali died, the center of the Islamic world moved from Arabia to Damascus, Syria. Islamic leaders from Damascus further extended Islam conquering more territory including all of North Africa and Spain as well as lands stretching to the western border of China and the southern borders of France. In 691, the Dome of the Rock was built in Jerusalem to show Muslim superiority over Judaism. In 715, the Great Mosque of Damascus was built to replace the Great Cathedral of St. John to show the superiority of Islam over Christianity.

Battle of Tours

Islam was now eager and convinced it could conquer the West. One of the most important battles of history took place in France at the Battle of Tours. Muslims were poised to bring “Christian Europe” under the rule of Islam. With their superior numbers, fanaticism, and successful conquest in battle, Islamic leaders and warriors thought they could easily defeat the French. Yet they were miraculously stopped by Charles Martel in 732. They were only 100 miles from Paris. The defeat was a shock to what had been an unstoppable army. After this defeat, Islam moved its capital from Damascus to Baghdad.

On two occasions Islam attacked Vienna. Again with superior numbers, the armies of Islam were convinced that victory was certain. But on both occasions, they failed. Finally, in 1453, the Muslim Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople thus bringing an end to the Christian Byzantine Empire. They changed the name to Istanbul.

An Islamic Turkey ruled the Middle East from 1517 to 1917 when the Western powers defeated them in World War I. When turkey was defeated, the land of Israel, which the world called Palestine, was a barren wasteland waiting for its rightful owners, the Jews, to return home and claim it for themselves. Turkey was reconstituted as a secular state an aligned itself with the West until recently when the new Turkish leaders turned Turkey into an Islamic state. Their desire is to once again make Turkey the leader of a unified Islamic caliphate.

HOW ISLAM CONSOLIDATED ITS POWER

AND SPREAD ITS MESSAGE

PART 3 OF 4

            ISIS and radical Islam are the main issues in our world but Westerners know so little about Islam. I encourage everyone to read my book, Radical Islam’s War Against Israel, Christianity and the West. For those who are interested, I am available to teach on “ISIS, the Islamic Caliphate and the End Times.” This is really, really important. So please call our office to discuss your interest.

To help you understand how Islam established itself as a regional power and threat to the West, I am posting a blog of four articles entitled, “How Islam Consolidated its Power and Spread its Message.” The information presented focuses on the four leaders who succeeded Mohammed. This article is about Uthman ibn Affan.

Uthman ibn Affan (644-656)

The third Caliph or successor to Mohammed was Uthman ibn Affan. He ruled for 644-656. Under his rule, Uthman’s followers, eager for more conquests and taxes, greatly expanded the empire of Islam. As they conquered more territory with the Sword of Islam, they subjected the conquered to the same harsh subjection instituted by Omar.

            But Uthman’s greatest accomplishment was to codify the Koran in its final form. He revised the earlier work done by Zayd and produced the version of the Koran he personally wanted by tampering with the text and leaving out what he didn’t like.

Uthman’s enemies claimed that his version of the Koran was a “monstrous falsification.” Uthman responded by publicly burning all the existing copies of the Koran so that his version was the only one to survive. It is the basis for all later copies of the Koran including modern ones. This is ironic since Islam teaches that the Jews and Christians corrupted the Bible. Yet, it was the Koran that was corrupted. Uthman had many enemies who succeeded in assassinating him on June 17, 656. He was 83.