THE BEACON

Teaching  True  Doctrine
and  Opposing  Error

No. 125

September 2008

Banks – The Screw Turns

Don’t you think it odd that we have so many financial disasters throughout the world, all arising suddenly?

And that environmental issues have reached fever-pitch, suddenly, without warning? What do you think is happening?

If you read my new book, ‘The Green Agenda’, you will discover facts that should make your hair stand on end!

Banking is not a ‘natural’ financial enterprise. It is, indeed, most unnatural in human affairs. Even until the early 1960s, if you didn’t have cash you couldn’t buy what you wanted. Hire Purchase was available but frowned upon by sensible people, who lived within their means. Credit was unheard of.

Once governments unleashed credit, people started to live far beyond their wages and the whole mucky business escalated, giving a very false picture of the wealth of a country. Banks were, from their start (and they haven’t been with us for that long, historically), only for the rich, who were able to manipulate funds to their advantage. This is still the case. Poorer people just have to put up with whatever the banks demand of them.

The only reason I had a bank account was that an employer insisted on paying us by bank transfer. I had no option but to have an account. Then followed cards, because your credit rating falls if you don’t have one!

When banks went worldwide, the problems inherent in such a system became global. Local banks, with local names, went out of business as they were taken over by huge concerns. Now we have banks in the UK owned and run from foreign countries.

At any time, these foreign owners can rule the roost and dictate both gains and losses. This is all inherent in the financial system of the world today.

The whole thing is false. Instead of basing the country’s wealth on what it actually produces or sells, we now base it all on the very unstable foundation of stocks and shares…. Which only benefit investors. It is all a delusion!

Heads of banks pay themselves massive salaries and obscene ‘bonuses’, in the millions, every year. Government officials and politicians follow in the same greedy fashion.

Just a year or two after paying off the last of the country’s loans that paid for the two world wars, what did the Prime Minister do? Instead of starting with a fresh slate, he paid out nearly all our funds to Northern Rock, saving the money of investors. The funds did not come from government, but from every single person in the country, poor or rich! And now the same Prime Minister wants to save investors by giving banks billions of pounds.

But, it is the lower-paid tax payers who must foot the bill! You might say that the investors also pay tax. That is true – but far less than you or I have to pay, because they have clever financial advisers who limit any tax they pay to a bare minimum. Some richer folks pay no tax at all.

I must remind you that government, whether local or national, has no money of its own. Every penny comes from our taxes (and there are dozens of them, many of which are not recognised as taxes). These taxes are increasing all the time, because the government spends them like water.

Meanwhile, poorer people are hit the most, as banks and government sternly rebuke them for their inability to pay! Easy to do when they steal most of the cash for their own benefits. Stealing? Yes. With expenses, most of which are not necessary, politicians earn around a quarter of a million a year! My own energy bill went up by one third, yet my income is fixed. I have no pot of money to use, and so my position gets worse and worse…but the wealthy, protected by our taxes thanks to government, carry on as normal! That’s exploitation. And it’s socialist policy.

Local politicians also earn large sums, as do those unwanted officials known as MEPs, whose devotion is to the EU and not to their own country.

So, what is going on? Why the sudden crashes and disasters? We have been warning of their coming for years. Why do you think we have warned against following Green schemes and ideas, and against Al Gore? All these movements are connected.

The aim of the Green movement is political, not environmental! It is a Marxist movement, and both USA and UK governments are Marxist. Their aim is publicly stated, but who is observing and watching? They want energy to be priced out of the market, so that we all turn to ‘alternatives’. This has nothing to do with low supply of energy, because there is plenty out there. But, it is being severely restricted. The reason? To make people rely totally on government, and so that they obey every governmental demand. It is a way of making people think only the government can help – when it is government who deliberately started the mess in the first place! Did you know that?

By restricting energy (electricity, coal, petrol, gas, etc) the government can control the people and what we can produce as a nation. It is a pure Marxist project, and it is being brought about by fascist means of control. We keep saying it, but who listens?

The bank crisis is false and led by governments and the very rich who are behind the banks. These faceless wealthy control whole countries by controlling finances. Even in Russia, Putin would often be photographed alongside the country’s wealthy men, because they, and not the government, controlled what happens in Russia. And these same men control the financial houses.

Do not think this is just a secret activity of the wealthy. It is predicted in scripture. What we are seeing is a fast race towards a one-world government and religion. Everything is pointing towards it! Even Christians have stashed their cash in banks, stock and shares, property, etc. If I had the money I probably would have done the same. As it is, even without the cash, my life has been hit hard by banks and the financiers who control all of life.

Just a few years back, none of us could spend or save or invest as we do now. We either had the cash, or not. If we did not, we could not buy. Simple. Now? Even local governments and councils invest our money in financial markets, without our knowledge or approval! Those who invested in the Icelandic banks have now come a cropper.

But, the main fact is that they have dealt with OUR MONEY! They tax us to the hilt, so as to invest in foreign banks and institutions! And whilst they tax locals severely, their executives (paid by us) have regularly increased high incomes and receive huge pay-offs when they leave, even if they have done a lousy job!

See what is now happening around the world? Governments are starting to take over the banks, and are talking of a global system to save ailing ones. What is this, my friends, but the start of a global financial system where government controls prices and money? They are controlling who eats and who does not, who has money and who does not. In short, they determine who lives and who dies.

Look at what Marxism is – and you will find that what you are seeing today is the rebirth of Marxism on a massive scale. It could well be that the one world government prophesied in scripture will be Marxian at root, though we cannot dismiss the idea of the involvement of the popes in the one world religion aspect of it all.

This is only a very brief introduction to what is going on, and it is all based on what is actually happening, not on speculation. Look to God, not to banks! Look to spiritual gain, not to personal financial increase. “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call” (Psalm 20:7-9)

Go on – Prove it!

Evolutionists have had such a clear run, issuing their unscientific statements and brainwashing children in schools, that they cannot cope with direct opposition!

An adversary of the evolutionist, Richard Dawkins, Adnan Oktar of Turkey (a Muslim creationist) has offered not just a reward, but £4.4 TRILLION to any evolutionist who can actually prove evolution to be true! (Source: The Telegraph, 26th Sept. 2008).

This is not as silly as it might sound – for no man can ever prove the existence of evolution! I can guarantee that. It does not matter what evidences they can muster… if they can’t produce the key to it all - the mechanism by which evolution must occur if it were true - then everything they say is worthless.

Unless they can show us exactly how one species changes into another species, they have no scientific proof of anything, except their own lack of intellectual integrity. Without the mechanism of change, there can be no change! And, nowhere in the fossil records can any such changes be shown anyway. Not one scrap of proof!

Mr Oktar has asked to be shown a “single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution”. As a Muslim, he has successfully banned Dawkins’ books in Turkey, and spends a fortune publishing books and DVD’s against Darwinian evolution, in order to keep Islam untainted.

It is not really how any religion should deal with opposite views. Far better to put both side by side and let them argue their cases.

Also, even if one could be found, no fossil can prove it is transitional, because it could not be falsified or tested! The most one could say is that it contained elements of preceding and proceeding fossils. In itself, this would prove nothing, apart from it being different in some ways from both!

This is why I maintain that the ONLY proof needed is the mechanism of change. But, evolutionists are fond of just saying that something changed into another species, without once offering an explanation!

Such an explanation would HAVE to show a direct and continuous line of change from the preceding to the proceeding species, without flaws or hitches of any kind whatever. To show such a change is totally impossible, given the supposed number of millennia required for evolution, because no man can ever observe it!

So, whilst I am not keen on Oktar’s way of keeping Dawkins out of Turkey, his reward is an excellent one, because no scientist can ever win it. In itself this should dismiss evolution out of hand. But, it won’t, because evolutionists have kept hold of the public for two hundred years or more, and don’t intend letting go.

For genuine Christians, there is no competition, for they should believe scripture, not Dawkins or any other scientist. The Bible is true. If scientists teach anything against it, then it is they who are false, not scripture. Also, Christian scientists prove them to be false, time and again.

So, bring it on, scientists! Show us the mechanism of change. Prove your case once and for all!

Note: British biologist, Prof Michael Reiss, was forced to resign from his post as Director of Education for the Royal Society, after he said school science teachers should tackle Creationism if the issue is raised by their pupils. The Royal Society is pro-evolution and pro-environmentalism, so his demise is not a surprise.

As I have said many times, enforcement and pressure is the province of all who have nothing substantial to say; they use force and pressure because their arguments just don’t hold water. Good for you, Prof Reiss!

Hugo Grotius

Not really the name on everyone’s lips, but an important one. His background is similar to that of Catholic Thomas Aquinas, in that he was extremely bright even as a child, attended university at a very young age and after a spell as a diplomat at age 17, went on to become a famous Dutch advocate, sought after by royalty and much revered by his people.

Grotius, who lived at the time of the reformers, was the first to draw up the idea that the seas should be free to all who wished to use them, and it matched the Dutch idea of free trade.

Interestingly, today, the UN wants to take all the seas in the world under its own jurisdiction, to give out and withdraw licences to use it. It’s called going backwards, and it is common to all Marxist groups.

But, the reason Grotius should be known to us, is that he, a Protestant, was the first to try building a bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Sadly, this was indicative of his general theological ideals, which were less than reformed.

He did it by saying the pope was not the antichrist mentioned in Revelation, and Matthew 24 prophecies were all fulfilled in the first century. This had a fatal effect on Christian teaching and caught the attention of a slowly growing number of Protestants, leading to ecumenism on all fronts.

His name can be found linked to the theory of Preterism (a recent article from BTM), which is itself a Romanist invention of the then newly-founded Jesuits, the ‘soldiers of Rome’. Most heresies are not new… Grotius is just one man amongst many who seemed to start right but ended in a poor spiritual state.

We could say that during the reformation years few Christians had a rounded view of their faith. Today, with hindsight and a remarkable growth in Christian thought on doctrine, Christians rarely understand just how hard it was for reformation-Christians to think along lines we do… bearing in mind that most of them were long-time Catholics to begin with.

We have the advantage of 400 years of extra thinking, whereas the reformation period was filled with danger, violence and counter-reformation from Rome. It was not easy to think rationally and systematically.

This does not excuse anyone having heretical views. It is just a matter of fact. Yes, Grotius was wrong. But, instead of just saying that, we should make sure we are right!

Very often, I obtain my best information on a truth by reading what the opposition says! That is how I arrived at a better understanding of the Romanist version of salvation, by researching what Thomas Aquinas said.

It is not a recommended way to study scripture for Christians who are unsure of their doctrine, but it is a help to those who already have an excellent grounding in God’s word, and know how to think systematically in theology.

It is a fact that studying our past is essential if we are to understand the present and the future.

Small Local Churches

We often give help to local churches in other parts of the world, who ask us how they can apply our teachings to their own condition. It is hoped that we will start to make this more systematic very soon, so that a kind of handbook can be supplied, that does not make us the ‘head’ of these churches, nor takes the glory from God. Essentially it must only pass on what God Himself says, and not our own ideas – because that would simply be the start of yet another denomination!

If you believe you need help in this matter, please contact us to show your interest. As always, Barry is available to speak at such churches or groups. For the moment he can also be joined by co-worker and founder-member, James, who is an excellent speaker and Biblical thinker.

But the first thing is that you understand what exactly we stand for, by reading the material we produce and asking questions.

New Book Published

“The Green Agenda” by Barry Napier is now available, after more than a year’s research. It can be ordered from Lulu publishers by internet only at the moment. We hope it will be sold on Amazon and through bookshops soon.

Because it contains so much, the book is in a large format (almost A4) and has 447 pages, including 10 chapters, 5 appendices, and many references. Cost is £13.31 in softback and £5 as an electronic download.

(There is also a ‘novel’ size version, 6 inches by 9 inches, which might be more convenient for some. However, because its format is smaller it contains more pages – 604. As it uses more pages the publisher charges more, so the cost is £15.35 for softback and £6.25 for electronic download).

Unlike other books on the subject, it examines the basis of environmentalism – Marxism and Fascism. The same foundation found in the gay and terrorist movements.

The first three chapters provide historical proofs for this. Other chapters deal with the deceptions of Al Gore, the wicked aims of the EU and UN, the true aims of the Green movement, and genuine scientific facts that blow the CO2 emissions claims out of the water! The Greens have nothing at all to do with ‘saving the planet’! The aim is totalitarian control of energy and taxes, loss of freedom, and genocide. People – you are being conned big-time!

Church denominations that cluster around Al Gore and Green claims should be ashamed of themselves! Please order a copy and urge others to do so – we must oppose what is happening, or lose to a regime that will equal Stalin’s Russia. No, we are not deluded – read the facts… they are all there!

Go to Lulu to order: http://lulu.com/content/4352796

We recently advised that we could not order on your behalf if you send us a cheque. However, we can now do so if you leave the payee’s line blank – we can then ask another person to use his credit or debit card, and put his name into the payee line, allowing him to cash the cheque. However, please add another £3 for postage (UK), as this is added by the publisher.

If you want to know what the Green movement is really doing, this is a vital book. It also explains why gas, petrol, electricity and other energy costs are being driven sky-high. We lose whilst Al Gore becomes obscenely rich and governments become totalitarian! Friends, it is all a scam, from start to finish.

The book has not been written particularly from a Christian point of view, because it is a specific comment on the bad politics and science that affects everyone in the world. We hope to publish a Christian version at a later date. Also, we are compiling many more scientific facts on the subject.

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A Roman Catholic Myth…

Many, including Catholics, are convinced that Roman Catholicism has always been the ‘mother church’. This is not true… follow the clues in history!

For example, the Gospel probably reached Britain in the lifetimes of the Apostles. And the churches thus formed were definitely not of Roman Catholic origin. We know this because the church at Rome was just one of many hundreds around the Mediterranean. We also know because Augustine says Christians were in Britain before he arrived.

Another factor is that of Peter. We know that Paul went to Rome, but this did not thereby make Rome the chief or ruling church. As for Peter, there is no historical or scriptural proof that he went to Rome. There is certainly no evidence that he became pastor of the church at Rome, or that he gave it some kind of ‘apostolic succession’, creating a perpetual papacy.

We do know that what we now call ‘Britain’ was divided into a number of kingships and separate countries with their own languages. For example, the country we now refer to as southern Ireland was inhabited by the Scots; Scotland was inhabited by the Picts; the regions above the river Humber had their own peoples – the British and the English being two distinct races. And so on. The names of people and places were very unfamiliar, bearing no resemblance to anything we have today.

That was in the 600s. Each region or country had its own religious system. The southern areas at this time were mainly Catholic, but northern areas and Ireland were independent of Rome. In particular, these northern churches and their bishops held their own views on Easter, then a very big issue for Rome, causing much debate.

In 664 AD there was a controversy between the Romish church bishops and the Scots bishops, and they met to argue their cases at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD. This shows that Rome did not have total control of what we now call Britain. It was not until about the mid-600s that Rome became predominant in the island. We know this from such sources as Bede. This means the true way was ongoing in parts of Britain, but that only the Catholic path was given publicity.

It took roughly until the mid 300s for Rome to gain ascendancy in lower Europe and the Mediterranean. As you can see, then, it took a further 350 years for it to gain the same status in the British and Irish isles.

McDonalds See Sense

Fast-food giant, McDonalds, have promised not to back the gay movement, after being boycotted by the American Family Association! It shows that concerted effort by Christians can change what appear to be big problems in our culture.

Also, its vice-president, Richard Ellis, has resigned from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. McDonalds have now issued a letter to all its franchisees, not to become involved in political and social issues. The company promises to remain neutral in the matter of gay ‘marriages’. It is about time ALL businesses withdrew support for gay issues, because they have nothing at all to do with commerce.

And what about…

Foul language in books and on TV? My wife and I looked forward to watching the new Jamie Oliver food programme (‘The Food Ministry’), but switched off almost immediately because he began to use a foul swear word. Just before the programme, we were warned that bad language could be heard throughout the programme. But that is not the point!

What Jamie has now done is alienate us and people like us, from his usually excellent programmes. For the same reason we never watch Gordon Ramsay’s programmes, though we like his recipes. Why do it? Why produce programmes that cause many people to switch off? What is the point of using not just bad, but foul, language? It is no good them saying, “oh, it’s just that religious lot!”, because a huge number of non-religious people hate bad language in any setting.

Along similar lines… my wife belongs to the local library, but finds that many books she chooses contain foul language, but she is annoyed to discover it only after getting home. Once she reads the first foul language occurrence, she closes the book and does not continue. Why do authors insist on inserting foul language? Especially in books that are biographical or autobiographical.

My wife complained to the library, advising that they ought to give an indication on the book that it contains bad language. The librarian said she is trying to get her bosses to do exactly that, because a number of people have brought books back with complaints.

It just does not make good writing sense, to alienate people over the matter of foul language, especially if the content is otherwise interesting! People might refuse to read my material, but they will certainly not be able to complain about bad language! We should complain strongly when we come across bad or foul language in any media. If we do not, it will only get much worse.

Muslims Get Preference

This is a typically socialist idea, but with an ironic twist. The government has given young Muslims direct access to Cabinet ministers, with a £1.3 million scheme! Christians and others don’t get indirect access, let alone direct access! (Daily Express, 8th Oct).

Prejudiced though that is, the twist is that one of the Muslim members of the ‘Advisory Group’ is also a member of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party, and this has caused a row in our Marxist government!

Tory cohesion spokeswoman, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi blasted the idea as another piece of the failed ‘multi-culturalism’ that divides Britain. Apart from that the Socialist Workers Party publicly supports Hezbollah terrorists in Palestine and links up with extremist Muslims in the UK.

That, friends, is how the official government advisory group lines up! The UN has a similar group, containing Muslims who are continually backing terrorism and ganging-up against Israel.

To have a Muslim advisory group is rather like having a gay advisory group – which the Cabinet does have. Both will be anti-common sense and equality, and promote just their own interests to the detriment of all others. Laughingly, the Socialist member says that her inclusion is ‘democracy in action’! It is a laugh because communistic groups have no idea what democracy is, especially in Palestine and amongst radical Muslims!

Next year the budget for this very biased group will reach £2 million. Yet, Christians are totally ignored in any governmental scheme that badly affects them – gay laws being just one example. Don’t expect support from a Marxist government.

Church Evil

The Church in Wales (‘Anglican’ by another name!) doesn’t know when it should quit, when it comes to sin. They are deciding who should go forward to fill the vacancy for Bishop of Bangor. (BBC, North Wales)

Sadly, reflecting its sinful reliance on votes and human thinking at the expense of God’s word, the name of the homosexual, Jeffrey John, is also in the running. That his name is even in the running is a shame upon all who appoint such people. He should never have been entered as a candidate in the first place. Nor should he hold any church office. No wonder the CofW and the CofE are sliding into a black pit of destruction and irrelevance!

Living Wills – Disguised Suicide

Like so many other inhuman and evil laws brought in by Labour, the law on ‘living wills’ is just as evil. It is certainly in keeping with Marxism, but it runs counter to God’s laws and purposes. A living will is nothing other than a decision to commit suicide.

As a nurse-manager I was caught right in the middle of a ‘living will’ case, and it was extremely difficult to deal with. The patient had a doctor-daughter, and the patient decided not to have a particular treatment, because she wanted to die. The trouble is, a ‘living will’ forces professional health personnel to be complicit in suicide, though it is not called that.

In the end, I typed out a statement to be signed by the mother, her GP, daughter, and myself. Basically, it said that the patient was refusing medication, treatment, food and drink. It said that this was her wish, but that the nursing staff were not in any way complicit or approving, so that I ‘covered my own neck’. It was fully discussed by all of us, and we stopped all intervention, even though it would have been successful.

The patient died, of course, and the doctor-daughter thanked me for handling the scenario sensitively, calmly and without fuss. In reality, I was very unhappy with what was going on, but the law ensured that I had to fulfil the patient’s wishes. It did not sit well with me, and I refused to take part in anything that caused me to help the woman to die. (I devised a plan of action that did not involve us personally in the woman’s decisions).

Like ‘pulling the plug’, a ‘living will’ is destructive of life and social responsibility, and puts health professionals in a very poor position. It is linked, too, to a relative’s decision to allow a person to just die, because they are considered mentally unable to make their own wishes plain. In the past I did battle with families on that one, too, because it can be construed as deliberate killing, especially where families can gain from the death of a mother or father. For that reason, I developed a tightly-written and complex set of rules, so that no family could take such advantage.

If you have an input to this kind of debate – never accept any law or idea that brings about death of a patient, even if he or she is mentally unable to decide, or if they have a serious physical illness. I can assure you that such new laws are ill conceived and usually fall on the distraught shoulders of health workers. And they cannot be considered godly in any way.

UN Muslim Hatred of Israel

The UN hates Israel. Anyone who is familiar with UN policies cannot help but come to this conclusion. ‘The Tehran Declaration’ accuses Israel of being ‘racist’ towards Palestinians, even though Israel merely reacts against Palestinian terrorism and defends its homeland, only after great provocation! But, this new charge of ‘racism’ is a ruse gaining ground in the UN, and is being used as a reason for all Muslim states in the UN to attack Israel and Jews.

A Godless Bible Version

The new ‘Green Bible’ is based on the RSV and highlights sections that supposedly teach environmentalism! Of course, it has a foreword by liberal Archbishop Tutu!

The ‘bible’ also contains quotes by spokesmen from cults and false religions, such as Ghandi and the Dalai Lama!

This shows how far ‘Green’ Christians are willing to go to force their nasty policies on others. The Bible contains NOTHING to do with Green claims and teachings. Animals, plants and the earth are for our use, not to be preserved as museum pieces!

If you are a Christian and belong to, or support, ‘Green’ ventures, then stop what you are doing. Read ‘The Green Agenda’ because it will clearly prove it is based solidly on Marxism and Fascism. Yes, you might say – but you said that about the gay and Muslim terrorist groups, too.

There is a good reason for that – they are all based on Marxism and Fascism! Please recognise the truck that is heading straight for you like a deadly weapon!

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