Puritan Corner - Your Best Course

The best course to prevent falling into the pit — is
to keep at the greatest distance. 

by  Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing... 2 Corinthians 6:17

A Taste from All 3 Chapters

 "The 61st chapter of Isaiah testifies that Christ was to
do the very work He did.  

Chapter 53 sets forth His rejection and sufferings in the world, 

and chapter 59 describes the character of the priests and rabbis." 

E.G.W.

Is. 61:1-3-- The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; 

because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; 

he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 

to proclaim liberty to the captives, 

and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, 

and the day of vengeance of our God; 

to comfort all that mourn; 

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, 

to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 

the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; 

that they might be called trees of righteousness, 

the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

 

Is. 53:5-7--  But 

--he was wounded for our transgressions, 

--he was bruised for our iniquities: 

--the chastisement of our peace was upon him; 

--and with his stripes we are healed. 

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; 

and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: 

he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, 

and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

 

Is.59:2,3 --  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 

For your hands are defiled with blood, 

and your fingers with iniquity; 

your lips have spoken lies, 

your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

IN the NEWS - A World in Jeopardy: A World Upside Down

 The border of wickedness.... Malachi 4:1

"On Friday, Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider became, according to NBC News, “the highest-earning female contestant in the game show’s nearly 57-year run.”

There’s just one problem. Amy Schneider is a man.

Amy Schneider is a man who identifies as a woman. Some call that a transgender woman. Despite his identifying as a woman, he is biologically male.....Schneider being dubbed the highest-earning female in Jeopardy! history nevertheless erases the achievements of actual women who have competed in the show, like Larissa Kelly, the true highest-earning female in Jeopardy! history." PJMedia

Christianity: CAPITALISM Vs. Socialism

There's a lot of bashing of Capitalism and subtle Praise for socialism in both the public arena and even among some in the Church in recent years.

 

Well, Let's Take a Look at the Two:

CAPITALISM: Actually it's a good system.

It allows Freedom of Choice in the Economic Market Place.

People can move up and down the ladder by hard work, choices and yes, sometimes what people refer to as "luck".

Q: But when people talk about those of good fortune or "luck" where in society do you not see that ever being part of an equation--from people's health to everything else? 

Q: Why would expect anything different in the Economic Arena?

---Now as for "greed" being associated with the system---it isn't the system that's Flawed---it is the heart of man that is Flawed. And yes people do greedy things. 

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Proverbs 14:23/2 Thessalonians 3:11,12

SOCIALISM: It's very Premise is Flawed.

It is rooted in coveting what others have.

It is rooted in having the government intervene and give you other people's money or stuff.

It breeds Class Warfare and Animosity by it's very idea. 

It instills a sense of entitlement.

---The fact that we have in Christendom some who want to embrace Socialism and take swipes at Capitalism is a statement in and of itself on the staleness of Christendom today.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbor's.

Deuteronomy 5:21

IN the NEWS - When WOKE goes Full Matt. 24:12

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Matthew 24:12

 

"Hypocrisy is a terrible trait for anyone to have. When mixed with social justice causes, it screams out for intervention, but not in

today’s upside-down progressive cities.

 

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is directing hospitals to blatantly discriminate against white individuals when prioritizing which patients receive monoclonal antibodies. They have decided to give extra points for those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color. The more points you have, the higher on the priority list you go. 

 

Monoclonal antibodies are made in a laboratory and mimic natural antibodies a person’s body makes to fight diseases. They’ve been used to treat active COVID-19 cases and as a preventative for healthy individuals. 

 

With the increase in popularity of monoclonal antibodies in treating COVID-19, the extra demand has caused supply to run low across the country. Some patients have been turned away when attempting to access monoclonal antibodies.

 

An MDH document titled “Ethical Framework for Allocation of Monoclonal Antibodies during the COVID-19 Pandemic” states that “race and ethnicity alone, apart from other underlying health conditions, may be considered in determining eligibility for mAbs [monoclonal antibodies].”

 

Here are the factors and their associated values:

 

• Being BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) (2 points)
• Age 65+ (2 points)
• BMI 35 kg/m² and higher (2 points)
• Diabetes mellitus (2 points)
• Chronic kidney disease (3 points)
• Heart disease in patients ages 55+ (2 points)
• Chronic respiratory disease in patients ages 55+ (3 points)
• Hypertension in patients age 55+ (1 point)
• Immunocompromised (3 points)
• Pregnancy (4 points)

In the end, if all factors are the same, the hospitals are required to give the BIPOC people the treatment first, if some monoclonal antibodies inventory is remaining then the white patients can get treatment too." PJM

IN the NEWS - Luciferian Woke Thoughts on Display

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

 

Who put these WOKE ideas, of viewing life today, through the poison prism of CRT into his head?

This is why the social justice movement, CRT and WOKE is not compatible with Christianity. 

It is based on REVENGE POLITICS of perceived wrongs of the past fought out today.

It's about PICKING AT THE SCABS OF THE PAST.

It is--Luciferian in it's Inspiration.

btw, the queen wasn't even alive, nor was Chail, during Amristar.

"The crossbow-armed man who tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day said he was motivated by anger over colonialism and racial discrimination.

A video of Jaswant Singh Chail posted just 24 minutes before his assassination attempt shows the culprit ranting in a distorted voice.

The suspect, who is seen wearing a white mask and a black hoodie, states, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I will do. I will attempt to assassinate Elizabeth, queen of the Royal Family.”

He goes on to state that the attack is “revenge” for the 1919 Amritsar massacre, which took place 7 years before Queen Elizabeth was even born.

Chail got to within 500 meters of the Queen’s apartments at Windsor Castle before he was apprehended by armed officers.

The culprit had scaled a spiked outer wall using a rope ladder, immediately triggering alarms as he was spotted on surveillance cameras.

The Queen was having breakfast at the time of the incident and was immediately informed by police about the attempted attack."  SN

Creation Moment 12/31/2021 - Even Darwinians aren't Safe from WOKE

I have seen the foolish taking root: 

Job 5:3

 

"Evolutionary biologists are in a quandary. 

Their theory is entirely amoral; whatever is, is right. Whatever culture does, it evolved to do. Humans are no different than fruit flies or apes. Natural selection shapes everything, including language, culture and politics.

But a couple of evolutionary biologists have been aghast at their culture after suffering the wrath of today’s “Woke” mob—those anarchists who promote violence in support of “social justice” (SJ). Q: How can they say it is wrong? Their righteous indignation rings hollow when they rehearse the wrong that has been done to them, and then give advice on what should be done about it.

Colin Wright

A young evolutionary biologist (PhD, UC Santa Barbara) who did

postgraduate research at Penn State, Colin Wright specializes in behavioral ecology of social insects. 

Like most biologists, he is trained to identify and recognize biological sex in animals as a real thing. He knows that there are some unusual cases of sex in biology, such as hermaphrodites that can self-fertilize, male seahorses that perform the role of carrying the young, and members of one sex that act in ways characteristic of the opposite sex. There are also cases in humans of ambiguous genitalia and people suffering from gender dysphoria who deserve respect and understanding. These, however, do not imply that sex is a continuum of choices where anyone can self-identify as any spot on that spectrum. Sex is a biological reality, he argues.

 

Boy, was he in for a surprise. When he posted on Instagram a peer-reviewed paper that highlighted the advantages that men have in sports, his post was called “hate speech” and was promptly removed.

In a 52-minute interview called “Denying Biology” on “Tucker Carlson Today” (Fox Nation), Wright tells the details of the incident and explained why he still holds to the view that sex is a binary biological reality. 

---He also volunteered the fact that he got involved in debates against creation and intelligent design in college. He received kudos from his academic peers for his standing up for “science” against what they perceived as pseudoscience. 

 

A young PhD and a self-admitted leftist, he planned for a life in academia where he believed his work would be judged by evidence rather than ideology. 

When he started seeing ideas floating around that sex is a spectrum of only degrees of maleness or femaleness that can be altered by personal choice, he considered that notion pseudoscience. He even started writing about it. That’s when the Woke crowd in academia went after him big time. He wasn’t just criticized for being “wrong” about it. He was called a bigot, a transphobe and even a white supremacist!

Wright testifies that his scientific colleagues were comfortable writing about binary sexuality when it concerned flies or meadow voles, but they shielded off human beings in such a way that they were not allowed to speak of sex in the same realistic terms. When he tried to point out this inconsistency, he received responses that were “couched in social justice talk about these terms in vague ways” for fear of offending somebody. 

In 99.98% of cases, he says, the outcome of development leading to maleness or femaleness is non-controversial: it is binary, measurable by whether the body produces sperm or ova. 

For a time around 2010, he continues, he was willing to grant that

“gender identity” might differ from biological sex, but he maintained that sex itself remained a binary reality. In the last couple of years, he says, scientists have been asked to make “another concession” – to say that biological sex is the same thing as gender identity: that it is fluid and can change, too. The Woke mob began insisting that one’s identity choice determines what sex they are. “That’s when I got off that train,” he says. It was blurring the line completely.

---As for the agenda, he sees the social justice (SJ) movement responsible for the new irrationality and insanity in cancel culture. “It’s kind of a bizarre place we’re currently in,” he muses, where “you can’t make the most introductory Biology 101 claims about sex differences without these things being considered hate speech.” On Instagram, he had only posted a graph from a peer-reviewed paper in Sports Medicine, a premiere health journal. Their judgment of it as “hate speech” prompted him to ask for a review. After two rounds of review, Instagram maintained its judgment that it was hate speech.

As a result of this incident, a leftist campaign was mounted against him — so public that he can probably never be hired in his PhD specialty at any university. 

---Students at Penn State, where he did postgraduate work, complained of being triggered by seeing him on campus. Professors joined in the campaign of calling him a transphobe bigot. Even colleagues he had worked with and considered friends, whom he considered able to discuss anything, turned on him because of this issue. He noted that they didn’t read his writings, but made up their opinions based on rumors they had heard.

Wright is alarmed that these ideas are rampant now in science. So great is the pressure within academia, he says, that journals have to go outside academia to find people able to write about the reality of sex differences. To do so within most universities would be career suicide.

Q: Where did this pressure in universities come from? 

A: Wright attributes it to the focus on “diversity, equity and inclusion” statements that determine academic careers, promotions and tenure. He describes these required statements as confessions of social justice slogans. One is not allowed to disagree with the expected responses." CEH

Socialists & Social Reformers vs. the Sabbath

"But, as a matter of fact, the Sabbath is the laboring man’s friend. 

It comes to him, laden with God’s richest blessings, and brings him perfect rest from all weariness and oppression. 

 

All the hopes and aims of Socialists....The plans and efforts of the best of social reformers have not materially if at all lessened the amount of poverty and suffering, but have resulted simply in arousing and aug­menting discontent. 

 

The Sabbath of the Lord, on the other hand, makes known to men the power that will enable them patiently and contentedly to endure that which for a season must be borne,....The Sabbath keeps ever before our minds 

---the wondrous power manifested in creation, 

---that power by which all who believe are saved from sin, 

---and by which all men, whether they believe or not, are kept alive from day to day and from one moment to another. “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.” Acts 17.28." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 12/30/2021 - Killer Chimps & Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Romans 8:22

"Since evolutionists claim chimpanzees are our closest living

relatives, it’s not surprising that they would look at chimp behavior for clues to that of humans. So when the evidence started to come in that the common chimp (Pan troglodytes) routinely engaged in warfare and killing of its own kind, some were obviously tempted to see in it an explanation for aspects of human sin.

Intriguingly, though, 

---a more common evolutionist response has been to deny that chimps naturally do these things. When chimps were repeatedly reported to be killing their fellows, it was said to be due to human interference with their natural habitat.

 

----Several factors likely drive this for evolution-believers. 

One may be a simple reluctance to think that we have an inherited propensity for evil. The idea that mankind is ‘inherently good’, which defies real-world experience, is a persistent theme in denying humanity’s need for a Savior. 

----For evolutionists concerned with social harmony, there is also a fear that if we are seen to have ‘killer apes’ in our ancestry, we might give up trying to modify our behavior.

 

This is evident in the ‘deep green’ movement, with its overtones of nature worship. 

----Its adherents often romanticize ‘peaceful’ animals like dolphins, and find it hard to accept the evidence that these, too, engage in killing and torture of their own kind. 

----Applied to human society, such thinking is epitomized by the ‘noble savage’ concept of the French Romantic philosopher Rousseau (1712–1778), which still resonates with many. He idealized ‘primitive’ human societies, closer to nature, as unspoilt and harmonious; in this view, modern civilization is allegedly to blame for human problems and conflicts.

*Now a substantial research project, published as a letter in Nature, seems to have discredited such romantic views about why chimps

kill others. The study, by an international community of over 30 scientists, “gathers data from some 426 combined years of observation, across 18 different chimp communities.” It finds that human activity, such as feeding chimps or destroying their habitats, had “little effect on the number of killings”—a total of 152 all up. The kill rate, similar to that in hunter-gatherer societies, goes “up and down as a simple consequence of competition for scarce resources.”

Since the Bible indicates that both humans and nature are fallen, it shouldn’t surprise us to find that chimps kill other chimps, or that dolphins do nasty things to other dolphins." CMI

The Life

 The life which I now live in the flesh, 

I live by the faith of the Son of God.  

Galatians 2:20

"WHEN the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, He

first of all said, "Live"; and this He did first, 

---because life is one of the absolutely essential things in spiritual matters, 

---and until it be bestowed we are incapable of partaking in the things of the kingdom. 

*Now the life which grace confers upon the saints is none other than the life of Christ, which, like the sap from the stem, runs into us, the branches, and establishes a living connection between our souls and Jesus. 

Faith is the grace which perceives this union, having proceeded from it as its firstfruit. It is the neck which joins the body of the Church to its all-glorious Head." Charles Spurgeon

Free Will & God's Foreknowelge

"Open Theism is a modern theological term.... Open Theism teaches us that the future is open to various potentialities — beyond any definite knowledge of God — because it is yet to be fulfilled. It is a point of debate that has been waged for centuries — the apparent friction between man’s freewill and God’s omniscience (all-knowing capacity).

The late Pastor Bob Trefz refuted this heresy of Open Theism most convincingly:

“The theological problem of freedom versus foreknowledge is resolved immediately when one looks at it from the perspective of God, not man, and from the very name, I AM. God lives in a different dimension than man. God preserves man’s freedom, but because God sees the future like we see the present, He knows in advance the decisions that man, in his freedom, will make. Therefore God knows in minute detail what the future will be and, on that basis, God gave John on Patmos the accurate picture of what will transpire at the end of time.” Cherith Chronicle, March-April 2016, p. 17. Woodland, Washington.

As good as this rebuttal is, we need not rely on the words of a man to resolve this so-called enigma. Scripture and Inspiration can answer this challenge.

“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.” Isaiah 46:9, 10." AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 12/29/2021 - Books of Nature & Revelation

"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. Psalm 33:6.

Since the book of nature and the book of revelation bear the impress of the same master mind, they cannot but speak in harmony.... 

Inferences erroneously drawn from facts observed in nature have, however, led to supposed conflict between science and revelation.... Millions of years, it is claimed, were required for the evolution of the earth from chaos; and in order to accommodate the Bible to this supposed revelation of science, the days of creation are assumed to have been vast, indefinite periods.... 

Such a conclusion is wholly uncalled for. Of each successive day of creation, the Sacred Record declares that it consisted of the evening and the morning, like all other days that have followed." E.G.W.

The Judgment as it Relates to Probation

"But the closing work of Christ as priest pertains to 

--the acquittal of His people at His Father’s tribunal, 

    --the blotting out of their sins, 

       --and the decision accounting them worthy of that world and the resurrection to immortality. 

 

Our Lord cannot do this for people in a state of probation. 

 

--His first work must therefore relate to the righteous dead. 

--And while their cases are severally passing under examination and decision, the living righteous are being prepared for the close of their probation, and for the decision of the investigative judgment by the proclamation of the third angel. 

  

--The priesthood of Christ began when he presented himself before the Father at His ascension as our Advocate. 

--It cannot terminate till he has secured the acquittal of his people, and the blotting out of their sins in the investigative judgment. 

 

As a priest our Lord presents the merits of His blood in behalf of all who come to God through Him. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25. Even the cases of the people of God who lived during the period of the Old Testament, have to be acted upon by Christ as priest. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15. They can only have redemption through His blood; and the blotting out of their sins can only be effected through his priestly work. Hebrews 9,10.

  

The work of our High Priest in behalf of His people involves an immense number of individual cases." J.N. Andrews

Creation Moment 12/28/2021 - "Tall Order"

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalm 2:4

 

" ... another common misuse of evolutionary ideas: namely, the idea

that some trait must have evolved merely because we can imagine a scenario under which possession of that trait would have been advantageous to fitness... Such forays into evolutionary explanation amount ultimately to storytelling... it is not enough to construct a story about how the trait might have evolved in response to a given selection pressure; rather, one must provide some sort of evidence that it really did so evolve. This is a very tall order.... "

Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012

Trumpets: Those Referenced by John vs. Those Referenced by Paul

"The seventh trumpet is the last of a series, no one of which is  literally heard by the inhabitants of the earth. 

It is the accomplishment of certain events that indicates the transition from one of the seven angels to another. 

The seventh is like each of the preceding six in that it is the trumpet of an angel, and in that it is a symbolic and not a literal trumpet. Revelation 8, 9, 10, 11. 

 

But the trumpet which awakens the dead is not blown by an angel, but by the Son of God himself. 

It is not a symbolic trumpet, for it is literally heard by the inhabitants of the earth. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they

shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:31;  

And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. Zechariah 9:14; For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

It is called the last trump because when the Almighty descended upon Mount Sinai, in glory and majesty, like our Lord’s Second Advent the trump of God was heard, as it will be once more when the dead are raised. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51,52."  

J.N. Andrews

IN the NEWS - Human SACRIFICE 2021:The Ravening Wolf of Jamaica

Beware of false prophets, 

which come to you in sheep's clothing, 

but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  

Matthew 7:15

"A Jamaican cult leader whose followers killed two people in a

'human sacrifice' ritual has died in a police car crash while being taken to court to be charged. 

Kevin Smith, 39, was killed alongside a police officer when the car taking him from Montego Bay to Kingston crashed on Monday. 

Smith was arrested last week over an alleged human sacrifice ritual which left two people dead and three more injured and was waiting to be formally charged.  

The cult leader allegedly oversaw congregants slash the throat of a woman, kill another person, and stab at least three more as part of the ritual at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries on October 17. 

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash but pictures showed an apparently lifeless Smith being stretchered away from the scene.  

Two police officers involved in the crash were left in a critical condition while Smith and a third cop were killed. 

Smith was on his way to court in Kingston where he was set to be formally charged over the deaths of two people during an alleged human sacrifice ritual during a three-day convention on October 17. 

The preacher had told the congregation there would be a 'great flood' and asked his followers to gather at the church and leave their phones wrapped in tin foil at home. According to Ricketts, Smith would demand his followers to “take a knee,” when addressing him, asking them to refer to him as “Crown Bishop… at all times.”

At the church the attendees dressed in white robes, were allegedly instructed to take part in a bloodletting ritual which involved people getting 'stabbed' and 'slashed', witnesses told local media. 

'I was outside waiting to go in... when I saw the lady's throat being slashed,' a woman who did not want to be named told the Jamaica Observer.

'It was very intense. When I saw blood and the young lady fell, I said 'This is it for me,' and I walked away; I could not stay, I couldn't.' 

The victim who had her throat slashed was named locally as Tanecka Gardner, though this was not confirmed by police. Then a man was ordered to strip naked and died in the same way to get the 'impure' blood out of his body.

At least 14 minors were found at the scene and taken into custody. There were later allegations of abuse against the boys, police said.   

The source added: There is huge concern that influential people - including other local police officials - were involved and that this may have happened before and gone unreported.

The entire congregation had been called to the church and around 50 had arrived wearing white when the killing started. Scores could have died.

They had done two days of fasting on Friday and Saturday and the ritual began on Sunday, with people lining up to board "the Ark" after Smith warned a great flood was coming.

Before the ritual began on Sunday, Smith posted on Facebook: 'The Ark is loading now! Leave immediately dressed in white.

'I am His Excellency Dr Kevin O Smith D.Min, Crown Bishop and

End Time Nabi . . . Conqueror Lion of the Tribe of the Judah King of Kings and Lord of Lord Yesus Christos, the One True and living God.' 

He also told followers he was leading them on a 'Noah's Ark' journey to salvation and that there would be 'no survivors' from the 'Roman Catholic sacrifice'.  

Local media reported Smith swindled his congregation out of up to £7,000 a week which he then used to fund his lavish lifestyle - including designer clothes and jewellery, a £5000,000 hillside mansion with a private swimming pool, and a new BMW X6.

Management consultant Dr Henley Morgan has admitted opening doors for Pastor Kevin O. Smith to access the corridors of power locally. 

Morgan said during the early days, Smith showed “great charisma and great prophetic powers”.

According to Morgan, Smith was conscious about the “external show of success and influence” and wanted to establish himself in Jamaica as a prophet, healer and evangelist, who would use Christianity to plot prosperity for believers. “The one thing I really wonder about is this: Don’t end up saying these people who were in the pews were fooled. They were no more fools than those of us who were so impressed,” Morgan stated.

 

Recent Facebook posts took on an ominous posture with prophecies

of the imminent arrival of an ark to transport “cleansed” members of his congregation on a heavenly journey. There were also several photograph entries showing Smith in the social space, meeting well-known politicians, athletes, and entertainment personalities. In one of the pictures, the image showed him being kissed on his cheek by former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. He also has posted several videos to YouTube, showing him preaching at different places, including Nigeria in Africa. In one interesting posting, Smith posed for a photograph in Atlantic City, New Jersey – one of the United States’ premier gambling destinations – against a backdrop of casinos." 

DailyMail/Gleaner