On the Streets of Babylon: Wizard Staffs & Incantations seen & heard on the Streets

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to have been "a Wizard's Staff and Incantations" spotted on the Streets of Babylon...

"Listeners of Bethel Church’s Transformation Now series were treated with a sight not usually seen when prophetess Marlene Barrett, in a bid to end racism within Bethel and the Ekklesia movement, whipped out a wizard staff- a sure sign that some tomfoolery was afoot.

There, on stage, she led Bill Johnson and others through a ritual incantation to cast out the demon of racism by prophetically reenacting a scene from Lord of The Rings. No joke.
Apostle Ed Silvoso, the architect of “transformational Christianity” told the audience that “faith without works is dead” and lead them in a “work” to demonstrate their faith.
She speaks of her vision of Gandalf and the Hobbits (their own fellowship on stage) deep in the heart of Moria on the eastern side of the Misty Mountains, with Gandalf sensing the presence of Durin’s Bane. (i.e., the Spirit of racism) As the Fellowship flees to the Bridge of Khazad-dûm (Bethel Church), Gandalf stops and confronts the demon that was holding court. This is the same thing this band of misfits is doing as they employ “the authority of Gandalf.”
Stating that the authority can “only be released by an apostolic decree” they decree and declare that racism will end. Then, as one fellowship, they all take hold together and lift up the wizard’s staff and bang it on the podium, shouting “thou shall not pass” to the demons."
P&P

SDA Issues: How BLM makes a Shipwreck of the Faith of the Black Brethren

Mr. Polite is an example of the spiritual abuse that the black brethren face from the movement. Polite has gone completely off the deep end of his faith by embracing the ancestral mysticism of BLM. It has made a shipwreck of his faith.

"Sandrew King Jr. hosted a Zoom meeting that was live-streamed on Facebook. 
The eight —seven black, and one hispanic—participants in the meeting were Seventh-day Adventist proponents of racial social justice.  


The meeting opened with the two sisters complaining that church members say they should leave politics out of their life.  They objected to that suggestion.  What captivated our attention in this meeting were statements by Michael Polite that he had been called to rediscover the mystical spirituality of his [black] ancestors, thereby “tapping into the cosmic power” that resides within himself.

Mike polite “Our ancestors, when they came onto American shores, they were mystics.  They were spiritualists.  As we have disconnected ourselves from the mystic journey of transcendence, we have robbed ourselves of the great truth of the universe which is interconnectedness (oneism).  It is the mysticism of our religion that we have lost.. 

I have personally been called back to visit the spirituality of my ancestors, recognizing that my ancestors are of the lineage of Abraham.  We have separated ourselves from the mysterious spirituality of Yeshua.  As we connect with that spiritualist root – that many were taught to demonize -- our slave masters taught us to demonize our spiritualism.
What am I missing?  I had to revisit the spiritualism of our ancestors.  One thing that the medicine man of the Congo understood was that you cannot defeat darkness without until you defeat darkness within. 
What the medicine man was telling us is that you cannot have authority over things outside of you, until you master what is underneath you skin.  This is a spiritual principle that all of our [black] ancestors understood.  [Apostle] Paul had the secrets of the African mystics, a lot of people don’t recognize that.
Where do you think Apollos came from?  Alexandria. These brothers aren’t just talking about Western Christianity—which has been drained of its spiritualism roots.  No, Paul understood spiritualism, that’s why he said “I pour out myself.  Like a libation” [a drink poured out as an offering to a deity.]  Where did he get that from?  Where did this whole idea of libations come from?  That brother studied in Arabia for three years.  Arabia back then was where my ancestors lived.  Paul went to study with my ancestors, the spiritual mystics of his day, and that’s where he found transcendence and that where he came back talking about “the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, lives inside of me.”
Why is it during Jesus first sermon in Mark 1, they say this man teaches with authority.  Where did He get this authority?  Because the transcendent mystic Yeshua tapped into  some type of

knowledge to where he was not just preaching about insight but He was preaching about His own internal universe.
You see, the liberator Harriet Tubman prayed for her master’s death—and it happened.  That is what we call manifestation.  Harriet Tubman prayed to the God of Abraham for this manifestation.  So yahweh honors the mystic journey, just as much as you think some other entity does.  Some say this is paganism.  But who taught you that these things were pagan?  I’ve had to go on my own personal journey to unlearn some of these things.
The very things I have been told, are trying to keep me from things that will liberate me and allow me to tap into the cosmic power that resides within me.  And then use that power for the healing of the nations.  Could it be that my slave masters knew there was more in me than I thought?"

Some of this stuff is right out of Patrisse Cullors’ Black Lives Matter, friends.  The remainder is a mixture of raw spiritualism and pantheism.
In 2014 Michael Polite was chosen to be Andrews University’s associate chaplain.  He is currently listed as Youth Director of the South-Central Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.  He also writes for Message SDA youth magazine.  He has been promoted to positions of influence in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
2 Corinthians 11: 14-16"Fulcrum7/Newshound

Creation Moment 6/10/2020 - Opening of Gen.1:1 tells us...

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

"Creative power is the distinguishing mark of Divinity.
Christ is Redeemer by virtue of His power as Creator.
We read, "We have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins," because that "by Him were all things created.” Colossians 1.14,16.
If He were not Creator, He could not be Redeemer.

.....let us consider who it was that created the heaven and the earth. "God created." But Christ is God, the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of His person. Hebrews 1.3. He Himself said, "I and My Father are one." John 10.30.

He it was who, representing the Father, created the heaven and the earth. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” John 1.1-3."
E.J.Waggoner

IN the NEWS - When it comes to taking a knee....

"President Trump pledged in a pair of speeches over Independence

Day weekend to defend America’s history and ideals and warned against a left-wing campaign that seeks to wipe out the “very blessing our ancestors fought so hard for.”....Trump also criticized the cancel culture, which he blamed for “driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.”
“.... we only kneel to Almighty God,” Trump said."
P&P
When it comes to taking a knee....the only knee to take--
O come, let us worship and bow down:
let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Psalm 95:6

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia stalks Serbia

The world is coming unhinged under The Prince of Persia (name for Lucifer in Daniel 10).
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Matthew 7:18

"Thousands of people gathered in Belgrade and other major cities to protest the Serbian government’s intent to reimpose coronavirus lockdowns. Stones and teargas flew as they clashed with riot police long into the night.

Police in Belgrade have reportedly dispersed the bulk of the demonstrators by midnight local time on Wednesday, after nearly five hours of standoffs and clashes with a crowd of mostly young men and women.

What started on Tuesday as a protest against the announced second round of Covid-19 lockdowns quickly turned into an attempt to storm the parliament and fights with the police.
Demonstrators used garbage bins and planters to set up barricades and blocked streetcar and vehicle traffic in downtown Belgrade for several hours, local media reported. The government responded

with riot police, armored vehicles of the Gendarmerie, and horse cavalry sent to push back and disperse the crowd. 

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said 10 officers were injured on Wednesday, including one who broke both legs after being pushed down a flight of stairs. He added that police only used force when the protesters tried to “lynch” them, using fence posts, clubs, shovels, rocks, teargas canisters and even Molotov cocktails to attack the officers. 
Meanwhile, videos shared by protesters on social media showed a group of riot police beating up a demonstrator curled up on the ground."
RT

IN the NEWS - When Politicians Bear False Witness

Thou shalt not raise a false report... Exodus 23:1
The State of American Society---when a Politician mails himself a hateful letter in order to blame it on those he despises....which happen to be Christians, supporters of the 2nd Amendment and whites.

"A man who claimed he received a hate-filled, racist letter from an anonymous person allegedly wrote the letter himself, Hermiston Police say.
Chief Jason Edmiston tells KEPR-TV News that the criminal investigation for second-degree intimidation due to the racist, hate-filled letter received by Jonathan Lopez on June 23 has been closed. The matter will be referred this week to the Umatilla County District Attorney’s Office for initiating a false report – a Class A misdemeanor in Oregon.
Edmiston says the investigation has shown that Jonathan Lopez wrote the letter himself and made false statements to the police and on social media. The end result is a verbal and written admission by Lopez that the letter was fabricated.
Additionally, the Hermiston Police are sending the Office of the District Attorney verifiable information of potential election fraud as it pertains to the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 and other false credentials presented by Mr. Lopez during his run for county commissioner. This in conjunction with a lengthy criminal history record may result in the filing of additional charges.
Lopez is also being accused of lying about having served in the US Coast Guard in violation of the 2013 Stolen Valor Act."
NW

IN the NEWS - When Evil Prevails

For men shall be lovers of their own selves... disobedient to parents... 2 Timothy 3:2

There is NO OTHER WAY than to Label those who support children getting Gender Transitional Surgery--without PARENTAL CONSENT--as EVIL....allowing surgeons to mutilate the bodies a God who loves them gave them...these are children you sick twisted freaks...

"Republican Senator Mike Lee has criticized state laws allowing

so-called “gender transition” operations for children without parental consent in a blistering speech prompted by the refusal of Democrat senators to sign a resolution condemning mob violence.
Lee lamented that Democrats had objected to his resolution."
LifesiteNews

IN the NEWS - a Titanic PR Disaster

"Only Satan celebrates death, not God. The Bible says, “All those who hate me love death” (Proverbs 8:36).

The Vatican has established a temporary summer camp for children inside the Pope Paul VI Hall so that the kids can have fun. The playground is called “Estate Ragazzi in Vaticano” (Summer Children in the Vatican) and includes swimming, tennis, games and inflatable slides.

Unfortunately, the Vatican decided to erect the world’s most offensive slide: the sinking Titanic. The children would actually be reenacting the death of hundreds of screaming people who actually did slide down the deck of the Titanic to their untimely death, including children.

The Jesuits themselves have said that there is a popular belief that accuses them of participating in the sinking of the Titanic. Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador Strauss and John Jacob Astor died on the Titanic.
These men opposed the establishment of the Federal Reserve, which was conveniently established after the sinking of the Titanic.

Well, what is not a conspiracy theory is the fact that the Vatican has set up an inflatable sinking ship in one of their famous buildings to celebrate this terrible tragedy. Why? It makes no sense. Something is wrong with the minds of those in charge of the Vatican."
AdventMessenger

Purpose of Old Testament

"In the fifteenth chapter of Romans and the fourth verse the Spirit of God, through the Apostle Paul, sets the seal of approval upon the whole of the Old Testament, in giving the object for which it was written.

He says, "For

---whatsoever things were written before

---were written for our learning,

*that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope."
E.J.Waggoner

IN the NEWS - Another Reason a "Christian" shouldn't be allied with the Mobs in the Streets

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD,

whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Exodus 34:14

 

"On Sunday, hundreds of pro-Yemeni and Black Lives Matter protesters joined forces in London to demonstrate against “white” capitalism, systemic racism, and the war in Yemen.

In a Breitbart London exclusive video, protesters are seen shouting the Islamic phrase “Allah hu Akbar” (Allah is greater [than your god])....

A white male activist — who said that he will never truly understand the plight of minorities because he does not “live in a black body” — pointed to the capitalist system as the reason for the world’s ills."
Breitbart

uhmm...as for Yemen--that is a civil war between Sunni & Shi'ite Muslims fighting a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran....take that up with the Muslim clerics in Tehran or Imams in Mecca.

Creation Moment 7/9/2020 - Making Sigmund Freud Blush

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 53:1

"The relationship between Darwinism and real science is parasitic. The theory’s main use is for Darwinists to claim credit for whatever biology discovers.

If research shows that humans are selfish, Darwinism can explain that. If science shows we are unselfish, why, it can explain that too.

If we are a combination of both — no problem. If cells are simple or complex, if sexual reproduction is common or rare, if embryos are similar or different, Darwinism will explain it all for you.
The elasticity of the theory would make Sigmund Freud blush."
  Michael Behe, First Things (Nov 2000)

Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES PAGE

Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES PAGE

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exodus 20:18

Altar of Sacrifice
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series-altar.html
Brazen Laver
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series-brazen.html
Table of Bread
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series-table.html
7 Branch Candlestick
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series-7.html
Altar of Incense
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series-altar_4.html
Law in the Ark of the Covenant
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series-law-in.html
Judgment Seat
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2020/07/exodus-through-sanctuary-series.html

The two Tables

"Sometimes we are told that the first table points out our duty to God and constitutes religion, and that the last table defines our duty to our neighbor and constitutes morality.

 

But the last table contains duties to

God just as much as the first one.

---David, after he had broken two of the commandments contained in the last table, when making his confession, said, Against thee and thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. (Ps. 51:4)"
E.J.Waggoner

IN the NEWS - First Time in a Century

...and pestilences... Luke 21:11

"ABC News reports that Australia is having issues with its system

allowing certain people to cross the closed border between NSW and Victoria. The border is expected to close tomorrow.
Victoria has also been sealed off from the rest of the country, in addition to closing its border with NSW.
The decision marks the first time the border with neighboring New South Wales has been shut in 100 years – officials last blocked movement between the two states in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic"
ZeroHedge

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Stalking...well, Persia

 ....and pestilences,... in divers places. Matthew 24:7

"Iran recorded its highest daily number of new COVID-19 deaths with 200 fatalities reported in the past 24 hours. Iran

reported 200 new deaths from the coronavirus, the most in a single day since the Middle East's deadliest outbreak began in February. 
The previous record was Sunday's 163 deaths.
"Unfortunately in the past 24 hours we have lost 200 of our compatriots, bringing the total number of victims to 11,931," health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said on state television.
Another 2,637 people have tested positive for the virus, taking the total official number of cases in Iran to 245,688."
ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 7/8/2020 - Lyell's Influence on Darwin

"Evidence from private correspondence shows that Lyell included Charles Darwin in the deceitful plan of action to undermine biblical faith in Britain. While in early years Lyell did not openly accept

evolution, he encouraged Darwin to write his work over a couple of decades and was only one of a few who knew of Darwin’s plans initially. In a letter in 1836, the young Darwin seemed flattered that “Lyell entered in the most good natured manner, and almost without being asked, into my plans.”

Like Voltaire, Lyell, and perhaps Darwin, were Unitarian deists, and hostile to the authority of the Anglican establishment in matters of science as well as faith. They wished to remove this influence from science. Darwin confesses his part in the plan in private correspondence in 1873:

“Lyell is most firmly convinced that he has shaken the faith in the Deluge … far more efficiently by never having said a word against the Bible, than if he had acted otherwise. P.S. … . I have lately read Morley’s Life of Voltaire & he insists strongly that direct attacks on Christianity (even when written with the wonderful force & vigor of Voltaire) produce little permanent effect: real good seems only to follow from slow & silent side attacks.” CMI 

Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES: Judgment Seat

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Exodus 20:18-20
***read the above verses and picture God's people before the Judgment seat of God with Moses in place of Christ pleading their cause and telling them what God wants from them***

God on the Mount = Judgment Seat of God

 

IN the NEWS - If Pandemic, Locusts, Mobs, Quakes & Recession wasn't enough....

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:
Luke 21:26
If Pandemic, Locusts, Mobs, Quakes & Recession wasn't enough....add Radiation. Sure this isn't much for the moment--but what IF in the near future it gets worse? Where is this coming from? Is there a meltdown on the horizon? A much bigger Chernobyl?...Guess we'll wait and see...

"A mysterious increase in radiation levels over northern Europe was detected this month by authorities from several countries, although no nation has yet come forward to claim responsibility for the anomaly.

Later in the week, Lassina Zerbo, the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation, tweeted a map outlining the possible source region of the anomaly, most of which was territory inside Russia, but also parts of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

22 /23 June 2020, RN #IMS station SEP63 #Sweden🇸🇪 detected 3isotopes; Cs–134, Cs–137 & Ru–103 associated w/Nuclear fission @ higher[ ] than usual levels (but not harmful for human health). The possible source region in the 72h preceding detection is shown in orange on the map.

— Lassina Zerbo (@SinaZerbo) June 26, 2020

"These isotopes are most likely from a civil source," Zerbo tweeted, suggesting a source related to nuclear power production, not nuclear weapons.
"We are able to indicate the likely region of the source, but it's outside the CTBTO's [Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization] mandate to identify the exact origin."

In response to online speculation that Russia was behind the radiation spike, a spokesperson for Rosenergoatom, part of Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation, said the nation's two nuclear power plants in the region were operating normally, with normal radiation levels being reported."
ScienceAlert

SDA Issues: Questions for SDA's to Ponder

"The Remnant Church will develop a unique character and experience:
 “And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.” Revelation 19:8.

Q: Are we desiring this linen every day?
Q: Are we praying about it?
--Q:--Are we washing and ironing our garments through the blood of Christ (And from Jesus Christ,...the first begotten of the dead, .... Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,.... Revelation 1:5)
--Q:--and the word of God (That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,... Ephesians 5:26)?"
AdventMessenger
 

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia's Influenced Movements Wreak Violence on Streets of America

Prince of Persia's influenced movements on the streets wreak violence....killing an 8 year old child because the mother tried to drive around their idiotic barricade they set up blocking a public road....the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. Psalm 5:6

 

"Sunday night, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued a full-throated call for citizens to stop "shooting each other up on our streets," after an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed on the Fourth of July near a Wendy's that has become a flashpoint of anti-police Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the city.

"It has to stop," Bottoms added, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. "You can't blame this on police officers. It's about people who shot a baby in a car. We're doing each other more harm than any officer on this force."

Sixty-three people were injured and 17 killed in Chicago, including two children, over the weekend; and in New York City, 44 were hurt and at least six killed."
FOX

"Georgia governor Brian Kemp (R) has declared a state of emergency and authorized the deployment of 1,000 National

Guard troops due to a sharp increase in violent crime and property destruction in the city of Atlanta.
The National Guard troops will be dispatched to three locations in the city:
The state Capitol, which has been the focus of protests over statues of segregationists and Civil War leaders; the Governor’s Mansion in Buckhead; and the recently-vandalized Department of Public Safety building in southeast Atlanta.
Georgia has seen violent protests, looting and violence ...In late May, rioters vandalized CNN's headquarters, broke into the College Football Hall of Fame and looted it, and started fires throughout the city." ZeroHedge

IN the NEWS - POX on Both their Houses (KKK & BLM)

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 59:2

a pox on — used to express anger or intense irritation with someone or something.

"a pox on both their houses!"
 

The NFAC is an offshoot of Black Lives Matter. I've said these groups are the Democrat's

Paramilitary units flooding the streets of America...well turns out that's correct....Literally....

POX on both houses-both the racists of Black Lives Matter & NFAC as well as those of the KKK and White Supremacists.

Dirty little secret to those not from America--despite what you hear the Klan and White Supremacists are a very, very tiny fringe group in the U.S. and have no actual power. ...but some do exist and this kind of nonsense by NFAC is what could trigger a real senseless, bloodshed.

 

"We're In Your House. Let's Go."

 - Black Armed Protesters Challenge White Militia At Confederate Monument

"Listen to Not F**king Around Coalition's (NFAC) leader Grand Master Jay describing his group's overall mission: 

NFAC's leader Grand Master Jay describing how he will build his black ethnostate inside the United States.
boasting they are all ex-military extremely disciplined & experts shooters..gonna end really bad for these guys..

— Veritas News Feed (@veritasnewsfeed)

*  *  * 

The group, known as Not F**king Around Coalition (NFAC),

marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta on Independence Day, calling out white militias, along with protesting one of the largest Confederate monuments in the country.

Hundreds of heavily armed NFAC members, predominantly African Americans, were seen dressed in black combat gear with military-style rifles - marched up a road in the park in two columns.

Another video shows the group coming to a stop on the road with an unidentified man shouting into a loudspeaker challenging white militias.

"I don't see no white militia," he declared. "We're here.

Where ... you at? We're in your house. Let's go."

The Not F****** Around Coalition (NFAC) militia in Stone Mountain, Georgia called out all rednecks and white supremacist militias "We here, where the f*** you at?".

— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral)."

ZeroHedge 

Creation Moment 7/7/2020 - Schlitzie

"One of the most popular “Darwin’s missing links” was Schlitzie, a microcephalic featured in freak shows throughout much of the Western world.

The circus for most of its history regularly featured numerous displays of diseased or deformed humans purported to document Darwin’s theory of human evolution (Bogdan 1988; Cook 1996).
In the annals of sideshow performance, one of the most famous exhibits to “prove” evolution was Schlitzie (1901–1971) a microcephalic.

Schlitzie “was one of the top draws in [that] imitators, some even using his name, began to crop up here and there.” (Griffith 2019, 77, 165).

Sometimes people with microcephalism were called pejorative names such as “pinheads” or “coneheads.”
They had abnormally small brains, were usually intellectually disabled, and displayed many superficial purported ape-like features that made them candidates for the Darwin’s “missing link” label (Snigurowicz 1999).

Schlitzie billed as "The Last of the Aztecs" circa 1930s.

Schlitzie was also billed “the missing link between Ape and Human” and as “Darwin’s missing link” or even a “Half Monkey, Half Human” man, but mostly “the Missing Link scientists have been seeking since Darwin . . . the Missing Link sought by scientists the world over” (Griffith 2019, 5, 10, 52, 61, 167).
He also was for a time billed as Schlitzie “The Monkey Girl” and “The Last of the Incas” (Hartzman 2005, 210).

Schlitzie even had a major appearance in the very successful but controversial 1932 film Freaks, directed by Tod Browning, the director of Dracula. He also appeared in the 1941 film Meet Boston Blackie (Hunter 2014, 40).

Among the many microcephalics featured in sideshow acts were also Bartola and Maximo, Godino and Apexia, Hettie and Tain, and Zip (born William Henry Johnson): Barnum & Bailey’s claimed “missing links” between man and monkeys (Hunter 2014, 40–41).

These were openly depicted on advertising posters as “nothing less than the ‘missing link’” predicted by Darwin (Kunhardt 1995, 149). Barnum, along with other purveyors, even dishonestly misled visitors to conclude his displays were examples of valid scientific evidence for Darwinism.

Many of the advertisements for these exhibits were specifically designed to satisfy the public’s curiosity about Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Historians have concluded that the validity of Barnum’s missing links was “strengthened by an unwitting Barnum ally, the English scientist Charles Darwin” (Kunhardt 1995, 149). In addition to Schlitzie, Barnum displayed several other “missing links,” who also suffered from an abnormally small brain associated with microcephalism (Homberger 2005).

Throughout Schlitzie's life, he was traded, sold, and lent to various circus owners.

Schlitzie's head was shaved to emphasize his small skull, and his hair was cut specifically to form a ponytail to exaggerate the point at the top of his skull (Hartzman 2005, 211).
Those physicians who recognized the true nature of his deformity used Darwinian eugenics to conclude “in the future, mark my

words, defectives like this will be weeded out by eugenics before they can be born,” a prediction that turned out to be true in some countries such as Iceland (Griffith 2019, 115). Iceland encourages evaluation of Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) in fetuses and abortion if so diagnosed. As a result, very few children with Down Syndrome are born. This is another sad Darwinian legacy wherein humans are viewed as inferior for various reasons and deemed unworthy of proper human dignity or even life.

Schlitzie was only about four feet tall and his cognitive skills were about those of a three- to four-year-old child, so he seemed much younger than he really was.
One report of Schlitzie’s behavior was by an 18-year-old, Wolf Krakowski, then working for the Conklin and Garrett Shows at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in the summer of 1965, where he “first came to know Schlitzie, who was billed as ‘The Missing Link.’” Krakowski recalled, “Schlitzie, like all children, craved tenderness and affection. He would snuggle up to me and I would put my arms around him. This simple contact and warmth caused him to moan and to weep” (Krakowski 2019). This reminds one of the scriptural admonition: “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:1–4).

Accounts differ, but one claims he was born to a wealthy family in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Hartzman 2005, 210). As was once common in the early 1900s, the family sold Schlitzie to a traveling circus.

Microcephaly can result from several causes including genetics, even extreme fetal alcohol syndrome. Some sources claim Schlitzie was born a microcephalic, others claim he developed the condition when his body grew but his head did not. His hands and feet appear to be proportionate to his small body. Aside from accounts written up in books on the circus, we do not have a family medical history or other background information.

 Although Schlitzie's few medical records list him as male, circus promoters often advertised him as female, with names like “The Monkey Girl.” Because Schlitzie was incontinent and wore diapers, dresses made it easier for his caregivers to change him."
AIG
 

Sabbath Lessons from Isaiah 56

 "About fifty years after this, at the close of the reign of Ahaz, another allusion to the Sabbath is found.
In the days of Hezekiah, about B.C. 712, the prophet Isaiah uses the following language in enforcing the Sabbath:

 Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment and do justice; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and

the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold I am a dry tree. For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant, even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls, a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people. The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. Isaiah 56:1-8

This prophecy presents several features of peculiar interest.
1. It pertains to a time when the salvation of God is near at hand.
2. It most distinctly shows that the Sabbath is not a Jewish institution; for it pronounces a blessing upon that man without respect of nationality who shall keep the Sabbath; and it then particularizes the son of the stranger, that is, the Gentile,  and makes a peculiar promise to him if he will keep the Sabbath.
3. And this prophecy relates to Israel when they are outcasts, that is, when they are in their dispersion, promising to gather them, and others, that is, the Gentiles, with them. Of course the condition of being gathered to God's holy mountain must be complied with, namely, to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, and to keep the Sabbath from polluting it.
4. And hence it follows that the Sabbath is not a local institution, susceptible of being observed in the promised land alone, like the annual sabbaths,  but one made for mankind and capable of being observed by the outcasts of Israel when scattered in every land under heaven."
J.N.Andrews