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John MacArthur routinely preaches a sermon more than once on the same date, during different worship services at Grace Community Church. Normally, for a given sermon title, our website features the audio and video that were recorded during the same worship service. Very occasionally, though, we will post the audio from one service and the video from another. Such was the case for the sermon titled "I and the Father Are One, Part 2," the transcript of which follows below. The transcript is of the audio version.
We come tonight to the study of the destruction of the nations, part 3, in our study of prophecy for this particular theme. And the particular subject in the destruction of the nations that we want to zero in on is the subject, the final forms of false religion.
We are discussing a period of time known as the Tribulation. The Bible tells us that the church is going to be taken out of the world at the end of the age and we believe that to be very soon. And then once the church is taken out of the world, there's going to begin a terrible, fearful time known as the Tribulation. We have discussed, concerning the Tribulation, some of the things that are going to be happening. We have discussed, particularly, Israel's place during that Tribulation time. And we are now discussing the place of the nations during that same seven-year period known as the Tribulation.
Now, there are many aspects of the nations in that particular Tribulation period. One of them is the religion of the Tribulation. What kind of religion will exist among the nations in the Tribulation? That is what we want to talk about tonight, the final forms of false religion that are going to exist in the Tribulation. Now, obviously, the church, having gone out, all true religion has left. God, then, will begin to redeem some from Israel and the great multitude from the Gentiles, but aside from that true work that is going on, there will rise a great worldwide false religious system, Satan's final great phase of false religion. And we want to see what that is, what's going to happen to it and if there are any signs right now that we can look at that indicate that this is fast coming.
By way of introduction, let me just begin at the beginning. When God (laughter)...when God created men at the very start, He created them with an anticipation and an anxiety toward deity. Men were created for fellowship with God. And so there is innate in every man from the very start, a desire to know and be known by the supernatural. Along came the fall of man as recorded in the book of Genesis. And since the fall, man's nature has been dominated by sin and perverted. But even in the perversion of man's nature, there is still a religious bent. There is still a desire to know the supernatural. There is still the haunting thought that there must be somewhere a God. Witness, for example, the myriad of religions around the world. You say, well, I don't know about that because I know a man who's not religious, who's atheistic. Well, that doesn't disprove the law any more than a blind man disproves the general statement that men see. There may be an exception to that. There may be someone who has reasoned himself logically out of the possibility of God. But perhaps he's not really honest, like the atheist who got himself in a terrible situation and said, if there isn't a God, there ought to be one for times like this and began to pray (laughter). But legitimately, men have a religious bent. They create religions to accommodate this bent. And since the beginning, since God made man, He made him with a religious nature, a capacity to step outside of himself and find spiritual fulfillment within the framework of the supernatural world. Men, then, continue to be religious. And Romans, chapter 1 says that even though they reject the truth, they then manufacture their own religions. And, really, they all boil down to the worship of Satan, demons and self. They worship the creature more than the Creator. When they rejected the true God, they began to worship four-footed things and birds and snakes and everything else, Romans 1 says. Man will always turn to religion because he has a drive built in him from the creation to know the supernatural. Now, friends, Satan knows this. And Satan knows that this supernatural bent is so powerful that it can actually dominate the patterns of a man's life. And so Satan is very busy all the time creating false systems of religion. Man is already bent that way; Satan simply accommodates the bent. And Satan comes along as an angel of light, manufactures all the false systems and men dive right in. When the fall occurred, immediately after the fall, God set about to redeem man, didn't He. He said in Genesis 3:15 that there's coming the seed of a woman who will bruise the serpent's head. And He went right into a redemptive process immediately even to the point of sacrifice. And immediately, Satan began a counter campaign. God began a move to propagate the world with His truth, and Satan began a move to propagate the world with error. In fact, in II Corinthians 4:4[this is 4:3,4] it says that "if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world has"...what?..."blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel...should shine unto them." Satan, then, has moved in to blind man to truth and has filled him up with error. Now, the reason there are religions around the world is because of man's bent toward religion and Satan's desire to capture him in false systems. And it's very, very successful.
Now, all of this began, if you take your Bibles, back in Genesis, chapter 11. All of this organized, systematic kind of religion began back here in Genesis 11. And it's a very interesting passage to consider because it has ramifications that go on clear till the end of man's day. Religion has become the enslaver of men. People get locked into religious systems, Satan does enough miracles to hold them captive, and, really, the whole, kind of, systematic, false religion thing began here on the plain of Shinar in Genesis 11. Verse 1: "The whole earth was of one language and one speech. It came to pass as they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there. They said one to another, 'Come, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly.' They had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar. And they said, 'Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto Heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" Now, you notice something very interesting here. They said in verse 3, "let us," in verse 4, "let us," in verse 4, again, "let us." Now, this was the desire of self-will to frame religion. And they were gonna build a tower. Now, it's very simplistic to say they were gonna try to build a tower to reach Heaven. If they were gonna do that, they never would have built it in the plain of Shinar; they would have built on top of a mountain and short-cutted it. They were not trying to build a tower that they could climb into Heaven on. They were building what is commonly known as a ziggurat. They were building a tower or a monument to their own religion. A ziggurat had on the top of it a zodiac. And the priests of this particular system hoped to gain the information they needed from the stars. This was the beginning of the zodiac. In fact, this right here was the beginning of all systematized false religion. They began actual devil worship. They began actual demon worship. Now, the man behind this whole mess was named Nimrod and he's mentioned in Genesis 10:9. And verse 8 says "Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel..." Now, Nimrod was the brains and the motivation behind the whole formation of Babel. It was open defiant turning toward Satan and false religion and from the true religion and the true God. In fact, Nimrod's name means "rebel." He was well named. And, incidentally, he is really a very vivid foreshadowing of the Antichrist. His name means "rebel." Antichrist's name, according to Paul, is "the lawless one." And his particular approach, it says in verse 9, "he was a mighty hunter before the Lord." And that's a little bit misleading. What it literally means is "presumptuous in the presence of God." He set himself against God...again, a picture of Antichrist who does the same thing according to Daniel 11:36,37. And like Antichrist, Nimrod was mighty. You read II Thessalonians, you'll find so was Antichrist, who was able to do signs and wonders. Nimrod, as the Antichrist will be, was also a king. And notice this; Nimrod began his headquarters in Babel. The Antichrist will manufacture a system that the New Testament calls "Babylon." And so you have a full cycle in the history of man. False religion will begin at Babel. It will wrap up in a concept the New Testament calls Babylon.
Now, Nimrod was Satan's man to set up the first system of idolatrous religion. They built their own tower. They invented their own system. God didn't allow it to last. Indicated in verse 5, "the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded. The Lord said, 'Behold, the people are one, they have all one language and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do.'" They're in unison. "'Come, let us go down,'"...interesting, there's communication within the Trinity..."'Come, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech.' So, the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth and they ceased building the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel..." which originally meant"Gate of God," and then became synonymous with "confusion." When we think of Babel, we think of confusion. "Now, there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth and there did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth." Now, watch. Here was the real beginning of false systems of religion and everybody was one. The whole world, in a sense, was gathered there. When God scattered them all over the place, they took what was left in their minds of this religion and they formulated it culturally wherever they happened to go and in whatever language they happened to speak. This is fantastically important because all the major religions that you find throughout the world have basically the very same ingredients. Why?...because they all came originally from Babel to begin with. And when God scattered them, they all took on cultural aspects according to the language of the people and the place in which they lived and, of course, that was changed through a period of years. The scattering, then, gave rise to world religions, but all of them go back to Babel. They all will again be reunited in the Babylon of the Tribulation, which is the name of the false religious system. And notice something very interesting. Here at Babel they all spoke the same language. And you know what I think is an interesting thing is that the whole big ecumenical church movement that's coming together to become the Babylon of the Tribulation seems to be finding the greatest catalyst for their unity to be the gift of tongues, which is almost as if we were reversing the disorder of languages and amalgamating people on the basis of that particular kind of ecstatic language. Interesting. There may be an effort on Satan to form another Babel, as it were, bring the thing full cycle. I think we'll get into that in just a minute and make it more clear to you. All false religions, then, stem from Babel, and really, they were all worship of demons. In Deuteronomy there are several passages of note, but one that I would read to you is Deuteronomy 32:17. Speaking here of typical false religion, the Word says: "They sacrificed unto demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not; to new gods who came up newly, whom your fathers feared not." False religion is a sacrifice to demons...sacrifice to gods that rise out of Hell as it were. In Psalms 106, again another indication of a similar nature...106, verse 37, I think it is...yes. In describing here, false worship, he says "they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons." Now, Satan inspired Babel, and the residue of Babel became the core of all the false religions when Babel was scattered. So, whether you're talking about the Babylonian god Marduk or the Assyrian god Ashur or the Greek god Zeus or the Roman god Jupiter or Apollo or whether you're talking about a nature god like Ra, the Egyptian sun god, it was all the same format and it all stemmed from the same satanic source at Babel. And, really, it's all satanic today, whether you talk about paganism or something as sophisticated as Hinduism or something as American as cults; it's all satanic.
Now, satanic religion, then, has been around a long time, but it's getting worse. And that's Biblical, that is Biblical. Paul said to the Thessalonians, "the mystery of iniquity is already at work." There is going to be an unfolding of worse and worse things. Paul said to Timothy, evil men shall grow worse and worse. False religion is moving toward an apex. And Paul says in I Timothy, for example, 4:1, that there's going to be a particular emphasis at the latter times. "Some shall depart from the faith in the latter times, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." And he goes on to describe something of it. In II Timothy, chapter 2, verse 16, "But shun profane and vain babblings, for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as a gangrene." And you can look in II Peter, chapter 2 and find the same thing. "As there were false prophets, so shall there be, bringing in destructive heresies, denying the Lord," etc., etc. Then in chapter 3, he says essentially the same thing, "in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts..." and teaching error. Now, the Bible then says, now, mark this in your mind, that there's gonna be a worsening of religion...that it is going to grow and grow and grow into a kind of system that is totally satanic. We wonder whether some things could ever get worse, whether satanic worship at this point now isn't as bad as it could be.
Now, as we look at this particular subject in reference to the Tribulation, I want to just pinpoint one subject, one topic tonight and that is the religion of the nations in the Tribulation. What is this system gonna be like? We've talked about the times of the nations. We've talked about the rulers of the nations or the ruler of the nations - Antichrist. Now, I want to talk for a moment about the religion of the nations. Turn in your Bible to Revelation 17. And we're gonna be there awhile, so you can relax (laughter). Incidentally, we're gonna consider some more things about the nations in the Tribulation in weeks to come: the alignment of the nations, the kings of the east, the north, the south and all that and that's fascinating. Have you been reading the paper today about Egyptians and Arabs allying against Israel and then the news came on today that Russia has sided with Egypt. What did we expect? Daniel 11 predicted it. So we'll be talking about the alignment of the nations, the collapse of the nations, the war of the nations, the judgment of the nations.
Now, Revelation 17 is a fascinating chapter. It predicts the doom of this worldwide system of religion. This is a preview, if you will, of the religion of the Tribulation. Now, let me begin by saying something that I think I need to say as a kind of a check-off point. What I'm going to say tonight is in no way meant to be unkind to any individual. I think you know me better than that. I don't make issues over individuals. But I do believe Satan operates in systems and I may make comments about certain systems and that does not mean that I don't believe that there are wonderful people in those systems, some of them trapped and caught in ignorance. And it does not mean that I don't believe that God is, perhaps, working in the lives of many of those people. But nevertheless, the system itself needs to be brought to the test of the light of Scripture.
To begin with, then, we come to chapter 17 and we're introduced to a system of religion. It comes under an interesting title. Verse 5: It is called "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth." Now whatever this system is in Revelation 17, it has an interesting name. It's called Mystery, Babylon, the Mother of Harlots, or the Mother of whores or prostitutes, and Abominations of the Earth. That's a pretty strong name. You say, well, what is this? What is the true church called? What is the true church called?... the Bride. What would the false church then be?...the prostitute. Why is it called Babylon? Where did all false religion begin?...Babel. And when all false religion then comes together and accumulates into one final system, it is gonna draw, then, the very same name that it had at its very beginning because that's what it is. You see, at Babel, it was scattered. In the Tribulation it all comes back together again in a final system. It's called, then, Mystery, Babylon because it's Babel gone full cycle. And it's called the Mother of Harlots, or the Harlot or the Prostitute because it is the false church. The true church, the Bride, is already with Christ. Now, I believe that what we're seeing today needs to be taken into account. There is the building of the false church going on all over the world. All kinds of churches are getting together on everything but the truth of the Bible, right. All kinds of overtures from one religion to another religion and all kinds of activity together trying to accomplish some kind of a worldwide united church, a great, huge ecumenical church. This is really a part of what we see as the Babylon of the book of Revelation. You say, well, what are they uniting under? Well, it's interesting. They're not uniting under the Bible and Biblical doctrine are they? One thing that all these people are uniting under is social action, community involvement, civil rights, you know, education, welfare, housing, psychological services, women's lib, all those things. And some of those things are good things. But when the church has lost its identity and gotten lost in social action...you see, doctrine has long ago faded away and so there's an ease about getting together, and that's what's happening.
The second thing that churches are getting together on...and denominations and religions...is experience. And we're living in the existential day when it's almost shameful to be one who talks about a spiritual experience with definition. You would ask the average liberal theologian who doesn't really believe God wrote the Bible and doesn't really believe Jesus was God or virgin born or resurrected...he's a little shaky on it. You ask him, have you ever had a religious experience and he would say, oh, yes, I've had the leap of faith, or I've had my particular otherworldly experience. And you say to him, well, could you define that and he'll say, wait a minute; that's not fair. It's my experience. See. It's indefinable. And he doesn't even want to define it. It's his thing. That's existentialism. Now, you can have a whole lot of people having content-less experiences getting together, because they don't ever have to define their experience.
The third thing that I think is significant about what people are getting together on is emotion. And this is another dimension of experience. I keep reading, with very much interest, about the movement that we call today, the charismatic movement. And I believe that there are some wonderful people in that. There are some people that love the Lord Jesus Christ and we're gonna spend eternity with, and some people that I love dearly, personally. But I see within that movement, a getting together that crosses all the lines without any thought for doctrine or truth... bypassing those things. For example, new bridges are being built from the historic church to the Mormons because they also speak in tongues. New bridges are being built to the Roman Catholic Church and these are most interesting, most interesting. You say, well, are you against the Catholics? No, I'm not at all. I'm against the system because I think it's satanic. You say, what do you mean by that? Let me read you an interesting article. If you think the theology has changed in all these overtures...say, oh, isn't it great that more of the Catholic Church is getting involved in all of this. Let me just read you, basically, a doctrinal statement by a priest in June of 1973 setting down where the Catholic Church stands today. And this he wrote to an evangelical Christian. Quote, "It might interest you to know that I was brought up as a Baptist. I rejected that teaching as heretical, erroneous and hazardous to my mental, spiritual and emotional health. My prayer for all is that they might come at last through Christ's mercy into the ark of salvation, the holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, of which I have the honor to be a priest through the orthodox and apostolic laying on of hands, by the Bishop in the historic Catholic succession. As a result, I have the power to absolve sins, to consecrate bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ and to pronounce God's blessing upon man." Then he closes by saying, "May the blessed Mother bring you to the truth." Now, the interesting thing about that is this, that that doctrine is erroneous. It is not Biblical. But we make all of these overtures to this. We say, oh, but they've had the experience. Don't you see how subtle that is? An unqualified experience doesn't mean anything. At Notre Dame there were some 11,000 Catholics recently at a charismatic clinic there...11,000! And a Benedictine monk from Notre Dame by the name of Father Edward O'Conner, reflecting on what's happening in the Catholic Church in regard to this Pentecostal movement said this...listen...quote "Catholics who have accepted Pentecostal spirituality have found it to be fully in harmony with their traditional faith and life." Listen. "Similarly, the traditions of the church have been taking on more meaning. Some people have been brought back to a frequent use of the sacrament of penance..." That's buying forgiveness..."through the baptism of the Spirit. Others have discovered a place for devotion to Mary in their lives. One of the most striking effects of the Holy Spirit's action has been to stir up devotion to the real presence in the Eucharist"...that is that Christ is actually in that piece of bread. Beloved, we know these to be false doctrines. How can we say that's the work of the Spirit? It cannot be the work of the Spirit; can it? No. Does the Spirit ever contradict the Word of God? No. Do we really believe that's the Spirit's work? What we're seeing today is the building of a great massive coalition of all of these systems, and on the basis of social action, undefined religious experience and an ecstatic emotional experience, they're crossing all the lines. It's amazing to me that the false church has so much...in just the last 50 years, it has so much more possibility of existing. Let me give you an interesting statistic. Glock and Stark ran a survey in 1970 and the question they asked of all the major denominations in America was this: Are the Scriptures, the Bible, the inspired and inerrant Word of God? That's an important question. Are the Scriptures the inspired and inerrant Word of God? Here's the answer. Seventy-seven percent of the American Lutherans said no. Sixty-seven percent of the American Baptists said no. Eighty-seven percent of the Methodists said no. Eighty-eight percent of the Presbyterians said no. And ninety-five percent of the Episcopalians said no. Now, if all of those people have agreed that this is not the Word of God, then what is? And if this isn't the Word of God, then there are no rules to the game of religion; you might as well get together on social action; right? And you might as well have an experience and get together on that basis. It's a fearful thing.
You say, well, how far does all this go, John? Well, it's building toward this church that is called Mystery, Babylon, the false church. Look at verse 5 again. "Upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." This is the final form of false religion. It's interesting that in the time that John lived when he penned this and had this vision, prostitutes were branded on their heads with certain figures in order that everyone might know that they were prostitutes. And you'll notice on the forehead is the name. You say, well, John, do you think this is the Catholic Church? Do you think the Catholic Church is going...there are some who think that is going to be the great apostate church. There are some reasons that people think that. Verse 4, for example. The woman is...and the woman here is a figure of this system...the woman is arrayed in purple, scarlet, with gold, precious stones and pearls, has a golden cup and some say that's all the display of the Roman Catholic Church. Verse 6: "I saw a woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs..." Some say that's The Inquisition, the persecution, how the Catholic Church is persecuted and so forth. Sir Robert Anderson of Scotland Yard once assumed that there must have been 50 million people die at the hands of persecution under the Roman system. Verse 9: "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits." And everybody knows that Rome is the city with seven hills. And so some of them say this has to be Rome. It even says in verse 18 that it's a "great city that reigns over the kings of the earth." And this could indicate the power of Rome.
Well, let me say that I don't think this is just the Roman Catholic Church. If this is truly Babylon, then what must it include?...everything. I think it's a coming together of the whole world system of religion...all that's false. I think it's too narrow just to be the Roman Catholic Church. I think the term"Babylon" is too broad a term to refer just to Catholicism. And not only that, but in the book of Revelation, I don't expect just to focus on one religion, but to see the culmination of all; right? So, I think this. I think it is talking about a worldwide religious system, but I believe it'll be centered in Rome. I believe it'll be centered in Rome.
Now, I want to show you three things in this chapter. That's the introduction. I'll show you three things: a final union with Satan, a final deception of the world, and a final victory for the Lamb. A final union with Satan, a final deception of the world and a final victory for the Lamb. First of all, a final union with Satan. Look at verse 1 and let's go.
"There came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls..." I always hate to jump in in the middle in the book of Revelation because everybody's out in left field somewhere (laughter). You say, what angels with what bowls? (Laughter) Yeah, right.(Laughter) In chapter 16, and we won't go back any further...promise. In chapter 16, you have the pouring out of bowls as if wrath was being poured out. And during the Tribulation there's gonna be great judgment. And it's as if angels poured out bowls of judgment, dumping out vials on the earth or bowls. Well, one of these angels, who was one of the ones who was used to pour the bowls out in the Tribulation appears. And he talks with John..."talked with me, saying..." come here. Come over here, John, I want to show you something. I want to "show you the judgment of the great harlot that sits on many waters." Now, remember that in Revelation you have figurative language. Now, the great harlot is the false religious system. We have that; right? John says, I'm gonna show you the system and it sits on many waters. You say, well, what are the many waters? Well, verse 15 tells you this. It explains what they are. Verse 15 says, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues." Now, notice, whatever this system is, it is a worldwide system; right? It sits on the whole system of tongues and peoples and nations and everything. It encompasses the world. So it is the false church that encompasses the world. It's a massive system that Satan has brought together in one big ecumenical hash. Verse 2:"With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication..." Now, remember the symbolism is, the system is like a woman and the kings of the earth have been involved with this woman. "...and the inhabitants of the earth have been drunk with the wine of her fornication." What is that saying? It's saying, whatever this religious system is, it's in connection with the world political system. It's the church and state together. It's interesting that if you study the history of the Roman Catholic Church, you find that continually was a mingling...that the Roman Catholic Church, the papacy itself even was a political football for centuries and centuries and centuries. The church and state were very often wed. And the guy who first started it all was Constantine. But nevertheless, this particular system is going to be a worldwide system of religion, but all the kings of the earth are gonna get involved in it. And the whole world is gonna get drunk on the wine of its fornication. In other words, the whole world is gonna be seduced by the system. This religious system is gonna dominate the world. The political rulers of the world are gonna be sucked in on the system as well. And everybody else is gonna be sucked in also.
Now, here you have this false system. It is the whore of the political economic system in the end times. Boy, you know that any...and mark this...anybody who ever conquered the world politically had wed to that political system a religious system; right? Religion is definitely the opiate of the people; believe me. Even if it's a Communist system, it's a religion of atheism and, boy, you better buy that atheism...right? Because any political machine knows that men are controlled by their attitudes that are spiritual. And so every dominant power seeks to capture men's minds with a religious system that goes along with its political aspects. And so, Satan isn't stupid. Chapter 18 describes the political system, 17, the religious system that's wed to it. Well, John sees this woman that is the system sitting on these waters and the Spirit says, I'll tell you about it. Verse 3: "So he carried me away in the spirit of the wilderness and I saw a woman..." and notice this...a woman was sitting upon a scarlet colored beast! Um, that's interesting. "...full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." Now, here's this woman sitting on a scarlet colored beast. Do we know anything about the beast? Who's the beast?...Antichrist. We've already met the beast in our last study. Now, watch. The false church sits on the beast. Guess who supports the false religion?...Antichrist. Why? He knows that if he's ever gonna conquer the world politically, he's gonna do it through a system of religion because that is the opiate of the people. That's what conquers them. Now, this particular beast is scarlet colored. Scarlet is a royal color. Scarlet was the color of imperial Rome and the beast sits there in royalty as the leader of this revived Roman Empire. But you know what's interesting? Almost all of those nations are Catholic in religion. The cohesion for all these years in the absence of imperial Romanism has been religious Romanism. It's kept the thing together. And now it's all getting back together in this 10-nation confederacy. The beast is gonna support the religious system. Notice something about him. It says he was"full of names of blasphemy." He blasphemes God, sets himself up as God. He has seven heads and ten horns. Here you see that the beast's empire is gonna be a ten-king confederacy...ten-king confederacy. And we know that to be the revived Roman Empire. Verse 4: "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and bedecked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication." Now, here's a description of the woman that is most interesting and it's one of the reasons we kind of feel this whole system will be centered in Rome. It says that the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color. Scarlet is reserved for Popes and Cardinals. Paul II made it illegal for anyone but Cardinals to wear scarlet hats. A Roman Church ceremony book compiled over 300 years ago by Marcellus, a Roman Archbishop, enumerated five articles of dress for the Cardinal and the Pope. All of them were scarlet. The book also cited a vest that was to be worn studded with pearls and a miter of gold and precious stones. Notice that is all included in verse 4. You can find it all 300 years ago in the church ceremony book written by Marcellus, a Roman Archbishop, exactly paralleling verse 4.
Now, the false church will also be very wealthy. A gold cup in her hand and all these other things indicate something of the wealth. Notice one interesting thing. It's a gold cup. It's a single cup, only one cup. All the varied systems are gonna come together and drink out of the same old cup. What old cup is it? It's just Babel all over again...false religion unified. Verse 5:"Upon her forehead was the name..." and then we saw the name and we indicated that on the forehead was the way prostitutes were branded and the system is branded clearly right there.
Let me just digress. This is interesting. In Babel...it's called MYSTERY, BABYLON and mystery means something that was hidden, right. This form was hidden. The Old Testament never saw this form of this world religion. It's now revealed. But Babylon...you go back to Babylon...remember I mentioned Nimrod. Nimrod was the brains behind the first system of false religion. But Nimrod had a wife and his wife was a real winner. Her name was Semiramis...Semiramis. She was the Queen of Babel. Now, watch this. When Babel got scattered by God, the whole system revolving around Semiramis went with it. And here's an interesting thing. When Babylon, later on was destroyed by the Medes and the Persians...the system had become very, very, oh, what should I say, very highly detailed...but when the Medes and the Persians came and destroyed Babylon, all the high priests and priestesses left there, who were still hanging on to the old Semiramis bit, fled and they went to Pergamos and they stayed in Pergamos for a little while. But later on, when Rome moved into power, Julius Caesar had all the priestesses and priests of Semiramis move from Pergamos to Rome. That's history. You can read that yourself. Julius Caesar had a great idea about having more power if he could combine a false religion with his system. You see, he knew what every good conqueror knows; you've got to get the people religiously. Now, watch. When the worship of Semiramis arrived in Rome, the chief priest in Rome took the title Pontifex Maximum and it was imprinted on his miter. The title had to do with the worship of a god called Dagon the Fish-god. From then on, every emperor in Rome wore the title Pontifex Maximum. It had nothing to do with Christianity; it meant you were the chief priest of the worship of Semiramis. Do you know who wears that title today?...the Pope. The Pope is not the direct successor of Peter; he is the direct successor of the Babylonian mystery religions and the servant of Dagon the Fish-god. Now, another interesting note is the fact that Semiramis became so well known around the world that every system of religion goes back to her. For example, in Assyria and Nineveh, they worship a woman called Ishtar. That's just Semiramis in their language. In Phoenicia, it was Ashteroth. In Egypt, it was Isis. In Greece it was Aphrodite and in Rome it was Venus. But it's all Semiramis. It's the same basic thing that got scattered and culturized a little bit.
Now, the story of Semiramis went like this. Semiramis gave birth to a son. Now, watch. She said her son was conceived, not by a man, no; she had a wild one. It was conceived by a sunbeam (laughter). That's what she said (laughter). And she offered this son as a promised deliverer. You know what was the...the son's name was Tammuz. Semiramis and the son, Tammuz. He was born not of _________ father, but by a sunbeam. What do you think Satan was counterfeiting there?...the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, wasn't he. He's subtle. When Tammuz grew up, a wild boar killed him. But do you know what happened? After 40 days of his mother's crying, he arose. Do you know, for a long time, the Roman church has celebrated a period of time known as "lent." How long is it?...forty days. Do you find anywhere in the Bible a 40-day period between the death and resurrection of Christ?...absolutely not. You know where that comes from? It comes from the worship of Semiramis and Tammuz. It has nothing to do with Christianity at all.
Now, in the story of Semiramis and Tammuz was born the mother-child cult. For example, if you were to go to Phoenicia, you would find that the child in Phoenicia is called Baal. In Greece, the child is Eros. In Rome the child is that little cutie with the diapers and the bow...Cupid (laughter). But it is all the same thing. It is all the mother-child cult that Satan began. Now, why do you think he began that?...to provide in the midst of the world a counterfeit to Christianity to confuse the issue. And not only that, but when we talk about Christianity and we talk about Christ and virgin birth, then the critics say, oh, yeah, you just picked that up; that's what every religion says. You see the subtlety of it? You know how they used to worship Semiramis? They worshiped her by offering a wafer to her and her name was Semiramis, Queen of Heaven. And there were always 40 days of lent, weeping for Tammuz before the feast, which celebrated his resurrection. The worship of Semiramis also involved priests, sacramental rites, dedication of virgins and purgatory. You say, where did Catholicism come from? Pretty clear, isn't it.
Now, lest you think I'm pulling that out of the air, I want to show you something of very good interest in Jeremiah 44, verse 15. Now, here, Jeremiah is describing the worship of Semiramis. It's interesting. Watch. "Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 'As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.'" Now, they weren't gonna buy...they weren't gonna worship the true God. "'But we will certainly do whatever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, our princes in the cities of Judah...'" etc., etc., etc. Verse 18: "'Since we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings unto her, we have lacked all things and been consumed by the sword and famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven..." etc., etc., etc. Now, it's obvious that clear back there in the Old Testament they were worshipping the queen of heaven. Now, when you hear that Mary is the queen of heaven, where does that come from?... certainly not the New Testament. You see, what happened was, in the process of Babylonian religion migrating to Rome, Catholicism became amalgamation of Christianity and paganism. And really, it's fitting that the whole false system in the end center in that place. Incidentally, in Ezekiel, chapter 8, you'll find women weeping for Tammuz in that 40-day period. It's defined right there, Ezekiel 8:13, 14. You can look it up for yourself.
All right, verse 6, Revelation 17. Now, going on to describe this union with Satan, the final union with Satan, "I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder." You know, pagan religions all through the ages have been responsible for the slaughter of true believers haven't they? Sure, they have. And he says, this woman, this false system of religion is drunk with the blood of the saints. In the Tribulation you know what happens to people who truly are saved? There's gonna be salvation in the Tribulation, isn't there? God's gonna do a wonderful work in Israel and a wonderful work among the nations and the people are gonna get saved, but what's gonna happen to them? They're gonna...most of them are gonna die, aren't they. And this system is gonna be drunk with the blood of the saints. And not only in the past, but I believe in that time...and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And John says, "when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder." It was a lot to handle...a lot to handle. Now, there is a picture of a final union with Satan in this false system.
Now, the second thing I want you to notice is the final deception of the world...the final deception of the world. And I mean, Satan is gonna deceive. Verse 8: "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit"...this is a description of the Antichrist...he's gonna come out of the pit...he's gonna be Satan's man..."and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder..." This one is gonna deceive the world. The world is gonna be amazed and astounded at him except for those whose names are written in the Book of Life...except for the believers. This is the terrible deception. The world is gonna be sucked into this false system. Now, notice verse 9. He says, "The seven heads"...and you remember, there were seven heads on this beast in verse 3..."the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits." Now, notice, friends. The beast is gonna rule a revived Roman Empire. We saw that very clearly, didn't we, last week and the week before. The beast is gonna rule a revived Roman Empire. Where would be the likely place for him to rule then?...Rome. And if the system sits on the beast, where is it gonna be centered?...in Rome. You say, well, wait a minute. How do you know the seven mountains mean Rome? Well, what else could they mean? We know that's the place of seven hills. Interestingly enough, 1963 edition of Confraternity Bible, page 337, footnotes this verse by saying Rome is the city in view here. And that's the Catholic Bible. It's inescapable that it's talking about Rome.
Well, this ten-nation confederacy sitting on the false system, deceiving the whole world, isn't gonna last long. Immediately following the final deception of the world comes the final victory for the Lamb. Look at verse 14. "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them for He is Lord of lords and King of kings and they that are with Him are called and chosen and faithful." This whole false system is going to endeavor to fight against Christ. You notice something exciting there? He's not only going to overcome them...but I like this..."and they that are"...what?..."with Him..." Do you know that the whole world system is going to try to fight Christ? But He's going to overcome them and we're going to be eyewitnesses. We're going to with Him. In Revelation 19 it tells us that. Verse 11: "I saw Heaven opened"...Christ is gonna come back now and wipe out this world system. He says, and here came the one who is called Faithful and True...verse 11...and it goes on to describe Him. And then you go down to verse 14. "And the armies that were in Heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." Who do you think are the armies that have been in Heaven?...the church! People say, oh, will I get to be there? You'll be there (laughter); believe me...front row seat.
But before that final victory unfolds...that verse 14...John's always throwing in those sneak previews in his revelation here. That's a sneak preview strictly because there's more yet to come concerning the beast before the final victory of the Lamb. Look at verse 15. Here he says, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are the peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues." And watch!"And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast..." Now, watch. You got the beast there and the ten horns represent the ten different kings of the revived Roman Empire. And the woman's on top. The whole system's there. But watch what happens. "The ten horns which you saw upon the beast shall hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked and eat her flesh and burn her with fire." You know what's gonna happen? The political system lets the religious system exist for awhile and then it consumes it. The beast knows, the Antichrist knows that he's got to use religion, but once religion has served its purpose, he gobbles up the false church. And what does he replace it with?...the worship of himself. He puts up a statue that is himself and makes the whole world worship him. The political system then devours the religious system and the beast sets up the worship of himself. Chapter 13, verse 8: "And all ______"...this is the beast described here, the Antichrist..."all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him"..."shall worship him." Now, stay there in 13 for a minute. So what happens? We had one phase of Gentile world religion in the Tribulation...the false church. It gets gobbled up and it gets replaced with phase 2. Phase 2 is the worship of this man himself. Well, you know, every guy that really wants to be worshipped has to have a good P.R. man. I mean, if the whole world's gonna worship you, you gotta get the word out. So he's got a super agent. Verse 11...he's a second beast...comes up out of the earth, he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. Those are the sneaky ones. You know, looks good but speaks like Satan. Nice gentle fellow...two horns like a lamb...two little soft looking things and opens his mouth...aarrcchhh, you know(laughter)...Satan's subtlety. He has all the power of the first beast, that is he can do wonders and signs. He causes everybody on the earth to worship whom?...the first beast. He's the P.R. man for the Antichrist. He "does great wonders," 13 says, "so that he makes fire come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men." That's a good trick; believe me. "And he deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and did live." So he sets up a big statue, a big image. And he even goes further than this. He has power to give life to the image of the beast. He's got some kind of device to make that big statue actually talk. "And cause that as many as don't worship the beast should be killed."
Now, beloved, there you have the picture of false religion when it reaches its absolute apex. Do you think there are some signs of that happening right now? You better believe it. Signs of the world coming together in one great religion as we see theology going down the drain and we can count on two hands the seminaries in America that really teach the Bible and we're producing all kinds of men in ministries and all kinds of churches where God is not honored and the truth is not preached. And people in the world who struggle to know the truth and wander, maybe, from place to place seeking reality, stumble into churches where they're propagating error and are confirmed in their lostness and the tragic things that are going on. Then all this getting together that's going on on false bases. This system will come together in the Tribulation. It will be destroyed itself by the political system. The worship of Antichrist will be set up. And that doesn't last long. Revelation 19 says God takes care of that. He takes care of the Antichrist and his P.R. man in one shot. Revelation 19:20...Christ comes back...verse 19...here comes Christ out of Heaven and the Antichrist and all of them try to fight Him. "...gathered to make war against Him that sat on the horse and against His army"...verse 19. They're gonna try to fight us when we come back in that great day. "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet..." That's the guy who was his P.R. man. "...that wrought miracles before them, with which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image. And these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." Now, here you see the beast and the false prophet cast into Hell. That's how God destroys the false system.
So, we see a picture of religion in the end time. A final union with Satan of all world religions, a final deception of the whole world as they're sucked into the worship of this beast, and a final victory of the Lamb as He comes and conquers. And then, glorious thought, when Christ comes and conquers this system, He sets Himself up on His throne to be worshipped by all the world forever and ever and ever. And that means that false religion has run its cycle from Babel to Babylon and Christ conquers it all.
There's coming a world like the world has never seen...a world of terrible, terrible tragedy. And we have reason to believe, I think, as we look at the horizon, that it may be very soon. But you need not be a part of that world for Jesus Christ promises to give you life and He promises that if you belong to Him, He'll come and take you out of this world before that ever happens and take you to be with Him forever. That's not just all Christianity is. It's not just all pie in the sky. That's part of it...that's part of it. Let's pray.
Father, thank you for our time tonight. We just really rejoice in it. Bless us even as we close. In Jesus' name. Amen.


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I have my therapy appointment tomorrow. I was going to write down what I wanted to work on but as I sit here with a blank page in front of me, I am at a loss of what exactly I want to work on. Probably because I don't really have anything I am struggling with right now.
Thank God, I do have some good coping skills. I am not perfect and I do blow up at times, but I am rather good at figuring out what it is that really bothers me in a situation and then doing something to take care of it.
Michael wants me to discuss how I can rebuild trust in him. He wants that so bad and well, I don't really feel compelled to rush that along. I mean, I know that it's going to take a long long time for trust to seep back into the relationship, so I don't really think I need to "work at it". I think trust comes with time and with trial. I bought a new car with him, right? SO it's a start...
He also says that I need to deal with my habit of always referring to the past. Now, see, he thinks the past is last week. What he did wrong last week, shouldn't be brought up today. Nor should yesterday be brought up today because he is not doing what he was doing yesterday today. Huh? Yeah, I know. Oh he just hates that he is a cheater and that he has treated me so badly these past oh 7 years. Honestly, I just need him to suck it up and really swallow how horrible he was as a husband - because maybe then I would start to feel less compelled to throw it in his face.
You know what I really want - I want to stop feeling like I have to take care of him. You know, all throughout the time that his grandfather was dying, I desperately tried to take care of him and be there for him. I worried day and night and I just wanted him to be home with me so I could take care of him. I sent him emails, I went and visited his grandparents, I begged him to come home ... I followed him around like a puppy dog and did everything for him. Only to be slapped in the face over and over again. Told that I was useless and not good enough...
And now...still... whenever I know something is wrong with him, he continues to tell me he is fine and that he doesn't need help and that he is some different person now. ONLY to find out a couple weeks later that I was right when he finally admits he really wasn't doing well.
You know, I am just over all of this. I take care of two children and I am just about fed up taking care of a grown up. Of course, I would be there for him if something tragic happens or if he really needed me but I am just done worrying about how he is before something bad happens - I am done foretelling the future. Done looking at him and thinking, "uh oh he's not doing well, how can i save him?" Because as we all can see, I can't save him. He makes his own decisions on how he wants to handle his emotional pain...
It's time that I start to look at myself and see what lies ahead for me rather than what lies ahead for him. I need to learn to pay more attention to myself and just be available when someone else needs me. Instead of looking outward all the time, it's time to look inward. See the problem with the whole affair is that instead of looking inward - I kept looking outward - analyzing everything around me... instead of analyzing me and the great pain I was in. I knew I was in pain...But I kept trying to solve my pain by solving his pain. The only problem is that his pain was fueling my pain and I didn't know how to stop his...
I have no clue how to do this though... I am not a selfish person ...and I always think of other people before myself. But maybe the reason why I don't think of myself first is because it hurts too much to deal with myself ...and I derive pleasure from cultivating the pleasure of others. Hhhmmm...It's like I can't make myself happy unless I am making someone else happy. But what else makes ME happy? Only me happy? Honestly, my work makes me happy...going back to school would make ME happy. It's really all that has ever made ME happy. It's funny because going to school used to be about my parents and making them happy (probably where all of this originated from) but now, it's really what I enjoy. I love learning...and exploring myself. I need to explore myself to find out what makes me happy - and what I need to do to make me happy.....
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Therapy Tomorrow...
I have my therapy appointment tomorrow. I was going to write down what I wanted to work on but as I sit here with a blank page in front of me, I am at a loss of what exactly I want to work on. Probably because I don't really have anything I am struggling with right now.
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This was a really good post. You expressed some really good things.ReplyDelete
I still hold with my belief that your H needs to work on developing proper self esteem. I think if he were able to take care of himself better, maybe you would feel less compelled to try to take care of him.
And I think you are totally on the right track with focusing on YOU and what makes YOU happy. I hope you keep up with it :)
I also think that you should print out this entry and read it to your therapist.ReplyDelete
Hi Alice,ReplyDelete
Thank you! Yes, as I was writing it, I realized that this was what I had to do to get a better understanding of what I needed to work on in therapy. Instead of sitting down and just writing out goals or issues. :-) Thanks for encouraging words! Have a great day!
- AnonymousMay 31, 2013 at 5:31 AM
Thank you for this post I needed itReplyDelete

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Reuniting Taiwan with mainland China vs.Taiwan an independent nation.
I honestly dont know but I feel its getting to be past time to form an opinion.
During WW2 the US agreed that reuniting the two would be the thing to do. That was before the PRC took over. The PRC has never ruled in Taiwan.
President Carter recognized Beijing as the true government of China and broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan (over intense republican objection). The UN recognizes Beijing.
Taiwan is a democracy and the people there dont seem to want Chinas rule.
If Taiwan declares its independence China will invade. The US has sworn to protect Taiwan and will go to war with China.
Does the very act of declaring it's independence acknowledge that they are in fact a part of China.


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From Humble Beginnings, Hendrick Built Empire
The town of Bennettsville, S.C., is a place known for its soil. It was so fertile, legend once held, that it was sold not by the acre, but by the pound. Victorian and Greek revival homes still stand as testament to the era when the place got rich off king cotton, and gins gave rise to millionaires. That time has long passed now, but soybean, corn and cotton are still cultivated in and around the town roughly 30 miles from Darlington Raceway, and Bennettsville still makes much of its living from the earth.
So perhaps there was no better place for an empire to take root. The former manager of an import division at a dealership in Raleigh, N.C., Rick Hendrick was all of 27 when he moved to Bennettsville to take over his first store, a failing General Motors franchise housed in a tiny facility that would occasionally get buzzed by crop dusters working an adjacent cotton field. In less than two years he went from selling just six cars a month to over 100, and from one of GM's smallest outlets he was promoted to one of its largest -- City Chevrolet in Charlotte, which also supplied parts to manufacturer-affiliated NASCAR teams.
Success is often a product of opportunity and circumstance, and there is no question Hendrick took advantage of both. Although his father had fostered his son's interest in race cars and Hendrick owned a dragster that he later sold to raise cash to buy the Bennettsville dealership, he didn't start out with the goal of becoming a NASCAR team owner, much less the most successful one of the sport's modern era. No, it all happened because Hendrick found himself in the right place at the right time, made the right connections like car owner Raymond Beadle and sports-marketing guru Max Muhleman, and was willing to put up the cash to back an outfit called All-Star Racing that debuted in 1984.
And behold, the results. What started with 18 employees at a dealership so small it didn't even have a showroom has ballooned into an automotive kingdom, the centerpiece of which is literally a shining motorsports complex on a hill. All-Star Racing became Hendrick Motorsports, which claimed 10 championships (and counting) in NASCAR's premier division, and Saturday night claimed its 200th race victory courtesy ofJimmie Johnson. Inside one building on the Hendrick campus is an entire wall made of etched glass cubes, each of them inscribed with the track, winning car number, and date of every individual victory, all of them featuring that slanted H logo which in today's NASCAR has become as recognizable as the sanctioning body's color bar.
So it seemed appropriate Saturday night that the landmark would come at Darlington, a track so close to the town where it all began. Hendrick thought the milestone would occur at Martinsville Speedway, where three of his cars were in the running in the final laps at a place that holds great personal significance to the car owner, because of the 2004 airplane crash that occurred near there and claimed the lives of 10 people, including his son and brother. But a wreck got in the way, and instead the victory arrived at Darlington, and the proximity to Hendrick's starting point was almost poetic.
"When I think about Darlington and how special this place is ... in 1976 I had a little Chevy dealership over here in Bennettsville," Hendrick said early Sunday morning. "My wife and I, about a third of the way through the race, drove into the track, pulled up behind the stands, didn't buy a ticket, parked the car and walked up into the stands and watched the race. I don't know how we did that. And to think, it's been a lot of years since then."
And 200 victories are a lot of wins. It's an impressive summation of the man's life work, and yet another example of how Hendrick sets the standard in NASCAR ownership. Although there have been times when other organizations have been better -- Joe Gibbs Racing (early 2000s) and Roush Racing (mid-2000s) each claimed the title of best team in NASCAR for brief periods -- Hendrick isn't kept down for very long. Its valleys aren't as deep or as sharp as those experiences by other organizations, and its peaks are significantly more pronounced. The 2010 season was enough of a struggle to precipitate major personnel shakeups in the offseason, and yet behind Jimmie Johnson the team still added yet another title. But because only one team won races, at Hendrick it qualified as a down year.
His influence is everywhere, it seems. WhenKurt Busch needed clarity on where to go after his exile from Penske Racing, Rick Hendrick played a part.Tony Stewart won last year's Sprint Cup title for a Stewart-Haas organization that was given a huge boost by Hendrick cars and engines. After Stewart won at Texas last fall to take another bold step toward his third championship, he talked to Hendrick -- who was recovering from the crash-landing of an airplane in Key West -- on the telephone in Victory Lane. Hendrick didn't win the championship in 2011, but a Hendrick-made engine carried Stewart to the title, so the team's director of engine development, Jeff Andrews, sat at the head table during the postseason banquet for a sixth consecutive year.
Although a long winless streak (by Hendrick standards) preceded victory No. 200, andJeff Gordon is mired in the worst slump of his illustrious career, his cars were still so good they are still in the mix every week.Dale Earnhardt Jr. andKasey Kahne are in the midst of revivals, even if they haven't won. Johnson lurks in the points. Gordon is fast and in contention almost every race, despite the weekly misfortune that seems to follow him around. In every case, the potential is still there. At Hendrick, it's always there.
Why does Hendrick succeed? There are likely more reasons than there are events on the Sprint Cup schedule, and so much of it begins with relationships and loyalty. There are many people at Hendrick who have been there a very long time, some since the beginning, and wouldn't think about working anywhere else. Hendrick has proven adept at not just finding driving talent, but locking it down. The relationships he built even outside his own organization were evident in his associations with drivers like Dale Earnhardt -- who once won a race in the then-Busch Series in a Hendrick car --Mark Martin, and Earnhardt Jr., the latter of whom felt close enough with Hendrick to drive for him after he separated from his late father's team.
No question, Hendrick can shake hands, cultivate relationships, and close deals with the best of them -- just ask the folks as Lowe's, who bought completely into the then-unknown Johnson because Hendrick and Gordon convinced the sponsor he could win. But Hendrick has also fostered a culture of reliability and quality control that's as buttoned-down as the white dress shirts his employees often wear. Hendrick Motorsports seems less a race shop than a laboratory built on scientific exactitude. Engines are put through two 800-mile tests on Hendrick's in-house dynamometer before they're put under the hood. After races, components are measured, eyeballed for cracks, put through a Magnaflux machine to check for flaws. In 2006, a part called a wire lock failed inside Gordon's car at Michigan, and the engine failed as a result. Since then, every wire lock has been inspected by hand.
Other teams have similar procedures in place, of course, but not every team has Hendrick's track record to show for them. Gordon's engine failure in this year's Daytona 500 was notable precisely because that kind of thing happens so infrequently to Hendrick equipment. According to Johnson's crew chief, Chad Knaus, quality control at Hendrick is at such a level that everyone feels the pressure. No one wants to be the person who lets something slip through.
That attention to detail is evident every weekend, in parts that usually last, in drivers that usually contend for championships. Johnson, an unheralded former off-road racer with a middling Nationwide career before he moved to the Sprint Cup level in Hendrick equipment, may one day prove the greatest find in NASCAR history. But it's not just Johnson -- only twice in the Chase era has Hendrick gone to the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway without a dog in the hunt, and its unprecedented 1-2-3 finish with Johnson, Martin, and Gordon in 2009 remains an organizational high-water mark. From its driver stable to its sponsor lineup to its quality control procedures, Hendrick simply presents a depth other teams have struggled to match.
It won't always be like this, of course. Hendrick brought Kahne on board this season because its driver lineup was beginning to get a little gray in the temples. As recent events at Kansas and Talladega showed, Hendrick parts do occasionally break. NASCAR is cyclical, and no team can stay on top forever, and not even Hendrick is immune to the ebbs and flows of the sport. Gordon is in the autumn of his career, Johnson's title streak has been snapped, and last year no Hendrick driver finished in the top five in final points. But the name on the front of those buttoned-down shirts will remain the same, as will the processes set in motion inside those glass and steel race shops, all of them opening the possibility that one day another Gordon or another Johnson will be unearthed.
More than any championship or race win, Hendrick's greatest achievement is an organization that seems able to sustain itself, even in an era of contraction and economic duress. No wonder the soil in Bennettsville was once believed to be so valuable. It's amazing what can spring out of it.


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Israeli activists are in violation of Israeli law that bans citizens from visiting countries that are at war with Israel. Their work is also forbidden by Syria, which means these activists are risking their lives, because capture by the Syrian authorities would mean certain death.
The recent announcement of Israel's President Shimon Peres that the state will respond "with force" to any violent attempts by Syrians to cross the border deepened divisions on the issue of the influx of refugees escaping their war-torn country. But some Israelis have determined to help no matter the cost.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Syria's neighboring states are currently hosting some 120,000 people, with the number expected to reach 185,000 by December 2012. The conflict, which is entering its 17th month, has also left some 1.55 million people displaced within Syria (IDPs), but many experts believe that the actual numbers are much higher.
In a bid to tackle the acute issue, some Muslim countries have already opened their doors to those fleeing the Assad regime. Turkey, for example, is currently hosting some 43,387 Syrians. Many are also registered in Jordan (36,824), Lebanon (31,596), Algeria (20,000), Egypt (10-12,000) and Iraq (8,445).
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An Israeli organization, whose name cannot be disclosed, infiltrates enemy lines in an attempt to provide people with everything from food, clothes, hygiene, and other essentials, to medical help and psychological assistance. Such activists are in technical violation of an Israeli law that bans citizens from visiting countries like Syria that are at war with Israel. Their work is also forbidden by the Syrian authorities, which effectively means that these humanitarian relief activists are risking their lives to help, because capture by the Syrian authorities or army will mean certain death.
"We have some 200 Israelis – both Jews and Muslims – currently working on the project along with a network of local contacts," said the architect of the organization. "These people – comprised of highly trained doctors, trauma personnel, aid convoy and other professions, most of whom speak Arabic – are ready to risk their lives, even though some of them are not even trade-able," she continued, referring to swap deals between various terrorist organizations and the Jewish state.
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Recently I received the paperback cover below in the mail. The owner had contacted me to see if I would like to have it, because he was going to throw the book away.
What could I say? I hated the thought of such a beautiful Sandy Kossin illustration going in the trash. Of course I said yes - please send it.
Sandy Kossin must have done a lot of paperback covers. The ones I've seen have always been uniquely creative in their style and execution - like so much of Sandy Kossin's other work.
And the reason I've had the opportunity to see some examples of Kossin's paperback cover art is because of the hard work and generosity of a fellow Flickr archivist, Kyle Katz. Kyle has an astounding archive of paperback covers organized by artist names. You could literally spend hours looking through this collection.
So thanks today to Eric Bernard for sending the Kossin paperback cover at the top of this post... and thanks to Kyle for sharing what must surely be the most comprehensive paperback cover collection anywhere online.
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Sandy Kossin told me that he has done so many paperback covers that even he can't remember all of them!ReplyDelete
Thanks for that, Mike! I should also have mentioned that Sandy wrote to me a while ago that ... "My influences were in part: Kathe Kollwitz, German expressionist, David Stone Martin, Ben Shahn" - which I think is evident in his work here. Great inspiration we could all learn something from!ReplyDelete
My dad, Harry Bennett, knew Kossin back in the day always loved his work.ReplyDelete
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No conversation in the ER that begins with "Hey, remember that guy from the other night?" is going to turn out well. It's an absolute law.
The case that the charge nurse was reminding me of was a young man whom I had admitted with a head injury. It was typical high-schooler foolishness: he was screwing around with his friends and managed to fall out of a moving car. The car was going pretty slowly when he exited the vehicle, maybe ten miles per hour, but he managed to hit hit head on the pavement on his way out. Concrete and asphalt are very unforgiving surfaces when they come into contact with a skull, and this case was no exception. He had a nondisplaced occipital skull fracture, and a tiny subdural hematoma.
Those injuries looked nonsurgical, but the bigger problem initially seemed to be the frontal lobe contrecoup contusion -- literally a bruise in the tissue of the brain. The frontal lobe of the brain is responsible for many of the higher functions, and the injury to this area causes a lot of functional impairment. In this case, the patient was showing signs of frontal release. He was agitated, confused, rambling incoherently, and (most disturbingly to his family) inappropriately hypersexual. He was, they reported, exceedingly well-mannered, ordinarily, and never even swore. But he was quite disinhibited by his injury.
His family was one of the nicest I have encountered in a long time. They really struck me by how great they were, even under substantial stress. They were warm and kind people, even taking time to thank all the nurses who cared for their son. I reassured them that his injuries, while serious, did not appear to be life-threatening. We had a long conversation about traumatic brain injuries and the potential complications and rehabilitation, and I felt that it really helped them get their heads around what had happened. They went up to the ICU, under the care of our neurosurgeon.
So it was with utter shock, five days later, that I heard the charge nurse finish her sentence: "You remember that guy the other night with the head injury? He just died upstairs!"
Apparently, his brain had swelled, and young people have tight heads -- not a lot of room in there for swelling. When the brain grows bigger, it displaces the cerebrospinal fluid from the skull, then can even cut off the blood flow as the pressures increase. A nuclear medicine scan had confirmed brain death.
It was terrible, but to me it was also incomprehensible. He had had a GCS of 14 when I took care of him, and just didn't have the hallmarks of someone at high risk for mortality. Should I have sent him to the regional trauma center? There was nothing really on initial presentation that implied he needed it. Other than getting a bolt -- an intracranial pressure monitor -- he never had developed lesion that could be addressed with surgery. Neurosurgery can be frustratingly futile, sometimes.
And I felt (and feel) terrible for his poor family. I bonded with them more than usual, and their suffering must be terrible. I went upstairs to the ICU after my shift, but they weren't around, and the transplant team was getting ready for harvest. The ICU nurses had a very grim satisfaction that it would be a "full harvest" -- all the organs were in great shape.
I don't really have a take-home point for this post. If I did, it might be: shitty things happen to nice people who don't deserve it. Or perhaps: this job will surprise you again and again, and you need to dispel that false sense of certitude when prognosticating. But whatever. Mostly, this was just a crappy case and I wanted to vent. Thanks for reading.
04 December 2008
A kick in the gut
No conversation in the ER that begins with "Hey, remember that guy from the other night?" is going to turn out well. It's an absolute law.
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the one part of this field we hope we never grow indifferent too :/
- Anonymous12/04/2008 9:34 AM
Sorry, Shadowfax... that's rough.ReplyDelete
Wow... that utterly sucks. Commiserations here, with you and with the family!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/05/2008 3:45 AM
Please don't second-guess yourself too much. You did what you felt was appropriate, which is all any of us can do. Sympathies and hugs....ReplyDelete
- Gingerale12/05/2008 4:51 AM
I'm sorry for you and for the boy's family.ReplyDelete
I think it needs to be said that few people could do what you do. Sure, there are highly intelligent people, and there are highly trained, highly organized and wickedly talented people, but being able to handle a tragic case like that and not turn on your heels and just pack it all in...well, I could never be that strong and compassionate at the same time, even if I had the brains to make it through med school (which I don't).ReplyDelete
I guess what I'm trying to say is, while the brains requirement in your profession is a given, having a heart like yours will always be both curse and blessing, pain and jubilation--each a part of the other.
I had my heartbreak today over something kind of similar. I am do my social work (MSW) internship in acute rehab of the regional trauma center. We get all of the TBIs and Spinal cord patients from everywhere. Anyways, we have this little pumpkin.... We don't do kids in our hospital, but there was a tiny 10-12 year old transfered from the children's hospital for a TBI rehab.ReplyDelete
He is trached (put plugged) and can only communicate by shaking his head (from the injury). But he makes eye contact all the time. Today he was having a bad day, you can just tell.
I got down to his level and we "talked."
Even now I am kind of teary eyed. He is just so young...
I cannot imagine working in PICU.
- Anonymous12/07/2008 3:28 PM
So sad. It sounds like you did your best for him and his family.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/07/2008 8:21 PM
I wonder why they didn't take out bone to give the brain some room? They often do w/young guys for the very reasons you mention. Caminos are, in my limited experience, not very accurate w/ICPs; they often get shoved up against something and don't read right.ReplyDelete
Still stinks. I hope his family gets through it okay.
- Anonymous12/09/2008 8:11 PM
So sorry to read this. You did your best.ReplyDelete
I agree with anonymous, I thought you could relieve increased ICP.ReplyDelete
That's terribly sad.ReplyDelete
I join the chorus -- likely, Greek -- could not the neurosurgeon have performed a trepanation? I am guessing not, as it wasn't done... and youse medicos are a smart lot.
I hope you will not stop becoming "involved" on occasion. Even given this bad outcome, his family has comfort remembering how people cared.
The full harvest comment got me. I chose not to be an organ donor after seeing the state of a body (and the operating room) after a number of organs were harvested. Cripes. There was blood on the ceiling and flesh on the walls. Talk about disrespect for the dead.ReplyDelete


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The World Trade Organization arbitration report on the infamous Brazilian cotton case says the U.S. will have to forfeit $300 million in export trade to the South American country.
Jordan Lea, South Carolina cotton merchant and first vice president of the American Cotton Shippers Association, told cotton merchants and growers that the award may not have been a victory, but "I can't really say that we lost."
Lea reminded the annual meeting of the Western Cotton Shippers Association that Brazil had requested $3 billion in retaliatory authority for alleged damage to its own cotton economy from the U.S. federal cotton program yet came away with only $300 million.
Oddly enough, it was a California entertainment group, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) headed by a former secretary of agriculture Dan Glickman, which may have played the biggest lobbying role in reducing the award.
The "real threat" from the WTO case was to U.S. intellectual property. "Had the amount been equal or more than what Brazil requested, the country could have copied films, CDs or even violated pharmaceutical property rights" for compensation in winning its WTO case.
Lea expects the money award to be appealed "without approaching the legal issues." Nevertheless, the arbitration decision, according to Lea, puts the U.S. cotton industry in a "manageable situation." However, it has been costly reaching this point.
The case was filed four years ago when the U.S. produced 23 million bales. Since then it has dropped by 45 percent while combined production in Brazil, India and China – where cotton production, textile industries and exports are subsidized – is up 20 percent.
"It is hard to imagine that U.S. cotton is depressing prices now," he chided.
While the award may have been whittled down, the U.S. cotton and textile industries have suffered mightily from the Brazil WTO action.
"This attack on our cotton program was the death of Step 2 for upland cotton. I was wrong about Step 2 at the time. We needed it (then) and we could probably use it now," Lea commented.
While things like cap and trade and getting rid of Step 2 seem like good ideas in Washington, "they are only good ideas if the entire world plays by the rules.
"We are currently trading away the edge and quality of life we worked hard to create.
"We cannot continue to shut down or give away the most productive parts of our economy until the world shares our sense of urgency and will operate under the same guidelines," he said.
The WTO ruling was the one of a one-two punch the cotton industry has had to endure recently.
Unregulated speculation in the cotton futures market about a year ago wreaked havoc on not only the U.S., but world cotton traders.
"While we are not an industry on the ropes, we are dramatically changed and likely not entirely for the better," Lea remarked.
"Speculative binge and unregulated investment vehicles" literally destroyed the cotton merchandising industry overnight and hurt players in every segment of the industry."
He expects legislation to be introduced soon to give additional oversight from the Security and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to regulate unregulated derivatives and OTC markets.
Lea has good news for the California cotton industry in the form of praise for Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson, chairman of the House Ag Committee and new chairman of the Senate Ag Committee, Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln. He specifically cited Peterson for moving the climate change bill to the Senate where "it will almost certainly die as it is currently written or at the very least be put off for now."
"Cotton could very well have one of its strongest voices at the helm of the Senate ag committee" as Lincoln takes the chair post Lea says.
Lincoln ascended to the seat through the shifting of committee chairs caused by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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Saturday, 8 December 2012
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This makes me want to go to my favourite Mancunian tea shop. Its called Teacup and its fabulous. I love your red lipstick. Are you going to start seeling your handmade make-up at any point?ReplyDelete
I love tea shops, there aren't really any near me though :(Delete
At the moment I'm still learning and trying to perfect my makeup just for myself but in the future I would really love to sell it. However I'm not sure how practical it is, in the US where the majority of the indie sellers live you don't really need to do anything to set up shop but here to legally sell you need to do all sorts of safety assessments that cost money :/ Still I wouldn't rule it out, I just need to get my recipes perfect first! :)
Lovely! I so badly want to go to The Mock Turtle now, it looks amazing.ReplyDelete
And I wish you would sell your makeup! Fingers crossed!
Ahh sugarxube eating (I like the futuristic x typo) that takes me way back used to do that when I was little- you hav such a sweet tooth! All the cakes look amazing but too sweet for me, how cute is it tho.ReplyDelete
Nevr knew they made other bubbles- I need to experiance those strawberry bubbles yum- did you guys like the teas?
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Richard Fisher, Class of 1975, accounting, was recognized at this month's banquet for Beta Alpha Psi — an international honors organization for accounting students and professionals — as the Penn State Smeal College of Business Accounting Department Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.
"We're delighted to honor Rick this year as our Accounting Alumnus of the Year for his outstanding career success as well as his service to the college," said Steven Huddart, chair of the Department of Accounting. "This award is a way for us to show our pride in our many accomplished alumni and to recognize those who remain deeply involved with Smeal students."
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Fisher credits his early interest and academic success in accounting to a teaching assistant who was able to explain the mechanics of debits and credits during his early days at Penn State. A recorded version of this story is used to help new teaching assistants learn how important and useful their work is to today's students.
Rick Fisher's connections to Penn State are deep. His father graduated from Penn State, his nephew is a current student and his daughter Lauren is a 2013 graduate of the Integrated MAcc (master of accounting) program.