Saturday, January 30, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Disater Preparedness Products
Disaster Preparedness Products
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AquaCheck - Reverse Osmosis filtration systems
http://www.sowest.net/aquacheck/%20
B & A Products - Alpine Aire Foods, water purifiers, books, videos, Earth changes maps and products, emergency preparedness articles, emergency heat, first aid kits, camping items, chemical light sticks, much more
http://www.baproducts.com/
Bass Pro Shops - camping, fishing, hunting, hiking gear, water sports, automotive, marine, footwear, and more. Shop on-line or in one of their nationwide stores.
http://www.basspro-shops.com/
C Crane Company - Radios, Transceivers, Books, Telephones and Accessories, Antennas, Computer Peripherals, Optics, Batteries and Chargers
http://www.ccrane.com/
Cabelas - fishing, hunting and outdoor gear. Top quality products
http://www.cabelas.com/
Campmor - Bicycling, Books and Toys, Camping items, Climbing Gear, Clothing, Communications, Compasses and Orienteering, First Aid, Food, Footwear, Insect Deterrents, Kitchenware, Knives, Lights and Lanterns, Packs, Personal Care, Sleeping Gear, Socks, Stoves, Summer Camp Supplies, Sunglasses, Ski Goggles and Binoculars, Survival, Tents, Watches, Water Bottles, Water Filtration/Purification, Watersports, Weather Gadgets, Web Bargains, Winter Travel
http://www.campmor.com/
CampCo - products for camping, sports, personal security and fishing
http://www.campco.com/
Centre.net.au - water storage, filtration, grains, cleaning & hygiene, portable generators and food prep
http://www.centre.net.au/
Coleman - lanterns, coolers, tents, stoves, battery lights, sleeping bags and canoes
http://www.colemanco.com/
COPE International-USA - Smoke and Gas Masks, Water Purification, Antibacterial Handwash, Go Kits, 72 Hour Kits, First Aid Kits, Pet First Aid Kits, Emergency Radios, Self-Inflating Mattress, Meals Ready-to-Eat (MRE), Lights, EcoFuel, Accessories. COPE-USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that sells MRE's at low price as part of their emergency preparedness program.
http://www.copeusa.org/
Cover-Yur-Basics - Sprouting Supplies & Seeds, Emergency Medical Supplies, Grinders, Radios - BayGen & Accessories, Aladdin Lamps - & Accessories, Hurricane Lanterns, Survival Books and Tapes, Emergency Candles and more
http://www.theofficenet.com/~covyrbas/
Dartmouth Co-op - outdoor clothing and equipment store and catalog, with online shopping.
http://www.dartmouthcoop.com/
Dry Store, The - dehydrators and accessories, jerky makings
http://www.drystore.com/
Earth Shakes - emergency food, water, survival supplies and equipment to support the aftermath of major earthquakes, natural disasters and earth changes.
http://www.earthshakes.com/%20
Emergency Essentials - Provident Pantry foods, one year supplies food storage, water purification and storage, MREs, books, videos, 72 hour kits, communication, shelter, tools, firestarters, backpacks. tents, outdoor cooking, plus much more, preparedness software
http://www.beprepared.com/
Emergency Preparedness Gear - Survival kits and gear, emergency food supplies, water storage, first aid kits, gas masks, potassium iodide, search and rescue equipment
http://www.emergencypreparednessgear.com/
Emergency Products Kits - American Red Cross and Coast Guard approved
products in their emergency kits, with 5 year shelf lives, disaster prep information
http://www.epks.com/
Emergency Resources - Storable foods, First Aid Kits, Disaster Supplies and Equipment, Israeli Gas Mask/Filter, Potassium Iodate, Water Storage Containers and Treatment, Camping items
http://www.emergencyresources.com/
Emergency Supply Center, The - Home and Office Equipment Fastening Systems, Earthquake Gas Shutoff Valves, 72 Hour Survival Kits, First Aid Kits, Disaster Supplies Equipment and Products
http://www.emergencysupply.com/
Epicenter - huge informational site featuring "Tip O The Day", emergency kits, tools and accessories, general safety items power related products, light related items, books and tapes, food and water supplies, fire prevention, backpacks, military surplus and more
http://theepicenter.com/kits.html
Essentials 2000 - new website geared to storable foods and water with more products coming on-line.
http://www.essentials2000.com/
Global Earthquake Response Center - home and office fasteners
http://www.earthquake.com/core.html
Gnome Domes - Simple and easy Geodesic dome and greenhouse kits for the "do it yourselfer" or the serious buider
http://www.gnomedome.com/
HomeSafetyOnline - High quality self defense products include Mace pepper spray, stun guns, personal alarms and more.
http://www.homesafetyonline.com/
Homestead Products - Grain Mills, Water Filters, Aladdin Lamps, other quality simple-lifestyle & outdoors products
http://www.homestead-products.com/
Hot Products, Inc. - AquaFire woodburning demand water heaters
http://www.csia.org/
Internet Grocer - MREs, books, many survival foods-dehydrated and dried, one year plans, canned cheese, organics, non-hybrid seeds, water filters, storage contains, grain grinders, bulk spices
http://standeyo.com/News_Files/INFO_Files/I
Josephs Storehouse - dehydrated food for emergencies and disaster preparedness. - 72 hours kits, water related and emergency equipment, tools, first aid, storable foods
http://www.josephs-storehouse.com/%20
Ke-Peg - Keeps Your Eggs Fresh For 3 years
http://www.wwmagic.com/haphov/Ke-Peg.html
Krill Lights - Cost effective alternative to chemical light sticks; an electronic waterproof lamp, get 120+ hours of light from 2 AA batteries, comes in 6 colors, 5" in length, 1" diam., on-off capabilities, rugged, indefinite shelf life, weighs 3 ounces.
http://www.kriana.com/
Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog
http://www.lehmans.com/
Lodge Mfg - manufacturer of Dutch Ovens
http://www.lodgemfg.com/
Natural Meals Publishing - Rita Bingham's books: Natural Meals In Minutes; Country Beans; 1-2-3 Smoothies; Food Combining; Passport To Survival; Quick Wholesome Foods
http://www.naturalmeals.com/
NITRO-PAK Preparedness Center - 72 Hr. Kits and Supplies, Mylar Bags, Emergency Blankets, Water Storage & Filters, Sanitation, Kitchen & Grain Mills First-Aid, Lighting, Fire & Heat , Solar Products, Security & Protection, Nite-Vision Gas Mask & Gear, Books
http://www.nitro-pak.com/
Oil Lamp Man, The - Aladdin Lamps and replacement parts, Kosmos French Brass Oil Lamps and parts, wicks, lanterns, electric converters, tripods, collars and shades, more
http://www.oillampman.com/
On-Line Health Products - grain mills, dehydrators, water purification, vacuum packaging machines, juicers
http://www.dhi.com/
Oxygen Absorbers - Military Logmars Plus, 1-800-922-1717
http://www.oxygenabsorber.com/
OZ Surplus - tents and camping gear, knives, torches, cookware, clothing, sleeping bags, and more
http://www.ozsurplus.com.au/index.html
Pioneer Emergency Preparedness - specialize in solar/dynamo-powered am/fm shortwave radios and flashlights
http://www.prepare-now.com/
Preparedness Mart - outdoor equipment, 72 hour kits, storable foods
http://www.preparednessmart.com/
Prepare and Survive - 72 hour kits, storable foods and water, emergency equipment, books.
http://www.prepareandsurvive.com/%20
Product Source International - survival bow, canoe, food items, misc. items
http://www.downtownweb.com/psi/
Professional Marketing Group - Vacuum Packers, Dehydrators and Accessories, Specialty Barbecue Grills, Turbo Convection Ovens, Juicers, Food Preparation Items, Vacuum Bags & Canisters, Jar Sealers, Kitchen Items, Yogurt Starter Kits, Jerky Press & Spices and more
http://www.profmarket.com/
Quake Gripple - offers fastening devices, tools, supplies and resources to help survive a major earthquake
http://versales.com/qsindex.htm
Quake Pro - offers a variety of safety products, fastening devices, water filtration and includes earthquake and natural disaster links and information.
http://www.quakepro.com/
Ready Made Resources - many food resources in addition to Electronic Equipment; Non-Electric Appliances; Cooking Equipment; Swiss Army Knives; Water Purifiers; Nuclear, Chem. & Bio. Protection Equipment ; Solar Energy Products
http://www.readymaderesources.com/
REI - camping and hiking equipment, dried foods, water purifying systems, maps, store locator, 8000 products on-line
http://www.rei.com/
Restop - portable and emergency sanitation - unique concept!
http://www.whennaturecalls.com/
Safe-T-Proof - equipment and appliance fasteners, emergency food and preparedness products, gun locks
http://www.safe-t-proof.com/%20
SafetyStore - One-Stop Safety and Preparedness Catalog - A one-stop resource for safety, first aid, preparedness, and rescue products. First Aid Kits, Medical Tools, Home Safety, Flood & Storm Safety Tips, Child Safety, Earthquake Safety Tips, Pet Safety, Earthquake Preparedness Kits, First Aid Kits & Supplies, Earthquake and Furniture Fasteners, Outdoor Survival Gear, Fire Safety Tips, Medical Tools and Gear, Outdoor Safety, Business Disaster Consulting, Search And Rescue Gear, Books & Videos, Business Safety and Preparedness Products
http://www.safetystore.com/
Safety Gear HQ - High quality self defense products including Stun Guns, Mace Pepper Spray.
http://www.safetygearhq.com/
Safe Water Anywhere - Just fill up the bottle with water and squeeze. Using breakthrough advances in microfiltration and ionic Adsorption
http://www.safewateranywhere.com/
Sam Andy - Survival Tools and Equipment, Camping Gear, Blankets, Ponchos, Stoves and Fuels, Cookware, Messkits, Water and Water Storage, Y2K Survival Kits, Food Paks and Specialty Foods
http://www.karinya.com/sandy.htm
Search Gear Catalog - full online catalog of Search and Rescue equipment and "Personal Adventure Equipment." Order online with secure ordering, 33 product categories.
http://www.searchgear.com/
Sierra Trading Post - mail order catalog selling products at 35-70% off
http://www.sierra-trading.com/
Sorbent Systems - oxygen absorbers, desiccants, mylar bags, heat sealers, self-packing kits
http://www.sorbentsystems.com/
SOS Food Labs, Inc. - manufacturers of emergency survival food, water, and thermal products.
http://www.sos-rations.com/%20
SOS Gear - emergency kits for home and business, very good on-line fault line maps for California
http://www.sosgear.com/
South Summit Corp - camping, backpacking, biking, hiking, mapping, stoves, backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, food, water filters, watches, safety items and much more! Good stuff!
http://www.southsummit.com/
Sportmans Dream, A - An index of outfitters and guides that offer hunting trips, and manufactures of sporting equipment.
http://onlinecol.com/sd/sportsb.html
Sportsman's Guide, The - selection of hunting, camping, military surplus gear and more.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/
Survival Center, The - 72 hours kits, food storage, freeze dried and air dried foods, books on prep and prophesy, grain mills, military surplus, underground shelters, water storage, medical kits, wilderness supplies
http://www.zyz.com/survivalcenter/
Survival Unlimited - radios, Baygen products, first aid kits, battery chargers, canned fuel, solar ovens, firestarters, bulk foods, nitro-pak food, buckets and supplies, lanterns, water filters and water storage, grain mills, mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, diatomaceous earth, heat sealers, military surplus, more
http://www.survivalunlimited.com/
Survivor Industries - 72-hour and first aid kits of varying sizes, Mainstay food rations
http://www.survivorind.com/
Tecfen Corporation manufacturer and master distributor of emergency preparedness, survival kits, and outdoors products.
http://www.tecfen.com/emergency.html
The Stickler - attaches to your car wheel for easy, quick, effortless log splitting. Clever idea! Movie on web site shows how it's done.
http://www.thestickler.com/
These Times - bulk dehydrated foods such as wheat and beans and emergency hardware for disaster preparedness.
http://www.these-times.com/%20
Turners Outdoormen - everything for fishing, camping and hunting including Baygens, lanterns, cooking items, knives, cameras, Foodsaver products and supplies
http://www.turners.com/
United States Plastic Corp. - water storage drum, food storage containers, bags, buckets, and much more.
http://www.usplastic.com/
Walton Feed - very large website with storable and organic foods, grain mills, water purifiers, and lots of information and preparedness articles, many preparedness products, non-hybrid seeds, books, on-line catalog of 1124 items
http://waltonfeed.com/
WaterTanks.com - Storage for 1 liter drinking water bottles to 55 gallon barrels, 200 gallon collapsible bag-in-a-box to 5,000 gallon, polyethylene water tanks, 50,000 gallon collapsible containers to everything in-between. Here you will also find everything there is to know about water and water storage, from articles and info to how to treat and store water to important facts on water to the best preparedness links on the net.
http://www.watertanks.com/main.html
Wildware Outfitters - backpacks, accessories, water purifiers, cooking supplies, tents, sleeping bags and outdoor sporting equipment
http://www.wildware.com/
Weather The Storm - various sizes and selections in Home, Personal, Travel and Evac kits
http://weatherthestorm.net/
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AquaCheck - Reverse Osmosis filtration systems
http://www.sowest.net/aquacheck/%20
B & A Products - Alpine Aire Foods, water purifiers, books, videos, Earth changes maps and products, emergency preparedness articles, emergency heat, first aid kits, camping items, chemical light sticks, much more
http://www.baproducts.com/
Bass Pro Shops - camping, fishing, hunting, hiking gear, water sports, automotive, marine, footwear, and more. Shop on-line or in one of their nationwide stores.
http://www.basspro-shops.com/
C Crane Company - Radios, Transceivers, Books, Telephones and Accessories, Antennas, Computer Peripherals, Optics, Batteries and Chargers
http://www.ccrane.com/
Cabelas - fishing, hunting and outdoor gear. Top quality products
http://www.cabelas.com/
Campmor - Bicycling, Books and Toys, Camping items, Climbing Gear, Clothing, Communications, Compasses and Orienteering, First Aid, Food, Footwear, Insect Deterrents, Kitchenware, Knives, Lights and Lanterns, Packs, Personal Care, Sleeping Gear, Socks, Stoves, Summer Camp Supplies, Sunglasses, Ski Goggles and Binoculars, Survival, Tents, Watches, Water Bottles, Water Filtration/Purification, Watersports, Weather Gadgets, Web Bargains, Winter Travel
http://www.campmor.com/
CampCo - products for camping, sports, personal security and fishing
http://www.campco.com/
Centre.net.au - water storage, filtration, grains, cleaning & hygiene, portable generators and food prep
http://www.centre.net.au/
Coleman - lanterns, coolers, tents, stoves, battery lights, sleeping bags and canoes
http://www.colemanco.com/
COPE International-USA - Smoke and Gas Masks, Water Purification, Antibacterial Handwash, Go Kits, 72 Hour Kits, First Aid Kits, Pet First Aid Kits, Emergency Radios, Self-Inflating Mattress, Meals Ready-to-Eat (MRE), Lights, EcoFuel, Accessories. COPE-USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that sells MRE's at low price as part of their emergency preparedness program.
http://www.copeusa.org/
Cover-Yur-Basics - Sprouting Supplies & Seeds, Emergency Medical Supplies, Grinders, Radios - BayGen & Accessories, Aladdin Lamps - & Accessories, Hurricane Lanterns, Survival Books and Tapes, Emergency Candles and more
http://www.theofficenet.com/~covyrbas/
Dartmouth Co-op - outdoor clothing and equipment store and catalog, with online shopping.
http://www.dartmouthcoop.com/
Dry Store, The - dehydrators and accessories, jerky makings
http://www.drystore.com/
Earth Shakes - emergency food, water, survival supplies and equipment to support the aftermath of major earthquakes, natural disasters and earth changes.
http://www.earthshakes.com/%20
Emergency Essentials - Provident Pantry foods, one year supplies food storage, water purification and storage, MREs, books, videos, 72 hour kits, communication, shelter, tools, firestarters, backpacks. tents, outdoor cooking, plus much more, preparedness software
http://www.beprepared.com/
Emergency Preparedness Gear - Survival kits and gear, emergency food supplies, water storage, first aid kits, gas masks, potassium iodide, search and rescue equipment
http://www.emergencypreparednessgear.com/
Emergency Products Kits - American Red Cross and Coast Guard approved
products in their emergency kits, with 5 year shelf lives, disaster prep information
http://www.epks.com/
Emergency Resources - Storable foods, First Aid Kits, Disaster Supplies and Equipment, Israeli Gas Mask/Filter, Potassium Iodate, Water Storage Containers and Treatment, Camping items
http://www.emergencyresources.com/
Emergency Supply Center, The - Home and Office Equipment Fastening Systems, Earthquake Gas Shutoff Valves, 72 Hour Survival Kits, First Aid Kits, Disaster Supplies Equipment and Products
http://www.emergencysupply.com/
Epicenter - huge informational site featuring "Tip O The Day", emergency kits, tools and accessories, general safety items power related products, light related items, books and tapes, food and water supplies, fire prevention, backpacks, military surplus and more
http://theepicenter.com/kits.html
Essentials 2000 - new website geared to storable foods and water with more products coming on-line.
http://www.essentials2000.com/
Global Earthquake Response Center - home and office fasteners
http://www.earthquake.com/core.html
Gnome Domes - Simple and easy Geodesic dome and greenhouse kits for the "do it yourselfer" or the serious buider
http://www.gnomedome.com/
HomeSafetyOnline - High quality self defense products include Mace pepper spray, stun guns, personal alarms and more.
http://www.homesafetyonline.com/
Homestead Products - Grain Mills, Water Filters, Aladdin Lamps, other quality simple-lifestyle & outdoors products
http://www.homestead-products.com/
Hot Products, Inc. - AquaFire woodburning demand water heaters
http://www.csia.org/
Internet Grocer - MREs, books, many survival foods-dehydrated and dried, one year plans, canned cheese, organics, non-hybrid seeds, water filters, storage contains, grain grinders, bulk spices
http://standeyo.com/News_Files/INFO_Files/I
Josephs Storehouse - dehydrated food for emergencies and disaster preparedness. - 72 hours kits, water related and emergency equipment, tools, first aid, storable foods
http://www.josephs-storehouse.com/%20
Ke-Peg - Keeps Your Eggs Fresh For 3 years
http://www.wwmagic.com/haphov/Ke-Peg.html
Krill Lights - Cost effective alternative to chemical light sticks; an electronic waterproof lamp, get 120+ hours of light from 2 AA batteries, comes in 6 colors, 5" in length, 1" diam., on-off capabilities, rugged, indefinite shelf life, weighs 3 ounces.
http://www.kriana.com/
Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog
http://www.lehmans.com/
Lodge Mfg - manufacturer of Dutch Ovens
http://www.lodgemfg.com/
Natural Meals Publishing - Rita Bingham's books: Natural Meals In Minutes; Country Beans; 1-2-3 Smoothies; Food Combining; Passport To Survival; Quick Wholesome Foods
http://www.naturalmeals.com/
NITRO-PAK Preparedness Center - 72 Hr. Kits and Supplies, Mylar Bags, Emergency Blankets, Water Storage & Filters, Sanitation, Kitchen & Grain Mills First-Aid, Lighting, Fire & Heat , Solar Products, Security & Protection, Nite-Vision Gas Mask & Gear, Books
http://www.nitro-pak.com/
Oil Lamp Man, The - Aladdin Lamps and replacement parts, Kosmos French Brass Oil Lamps and parts, wicks, lanterns, electric converters, tripods, collars and shades, more
http://www.oillampman.com/
On-Line Health Products - grain mills, dehydrators, water purification, vacuum packaging machines, juicers
http://www.dhi.com/
Oxygen Absorbers - Military Logmars Plus, 1-800-922-1717
http://www.oxygenabsorber.com/
OZ Surplus - tents and camping gear, knives, torches, cookware, clothing, sleeping bags, and more
http://www.ozsurplus.com.au/index.html
Pioneer Emergency Preparedness - specialize in solar/dynamo-powered am/fm shortwave radios and flashlights
http://www.prepare-now.com/
Preparedness Mart - outdoor equipment, 72 hour kits, storable foods
http://www.preparednessmart.com/
Prepare and Survive - 72 hour kits, storable foods and water, emergency equipment, books.
http://www.prepareandsurvive.com/%20
Product Source International - survival bow, canoe, food items, misc. items
http://www.downtownweb.com/psi/
Professional Marketing Group - Vacuum Packers, Dehydrators and Accessories, Specialty Barbecue Grills, Turbo Convection Ovens, Juicers, Food Preparation Items, Vacuum Bags & Canisters, Jar Sealers, Kitchen Items, Yogurt Starter Kits, Jerky Press & Spices and more
http://www.profmarket.com/
Quake Gripple - offers fastening devices, tools, supplies and resources to help survive a major earthquake
http://versales.com/qsindex.htm
Quake Pro - offers a variety of safety products, fastening devices, water filtration and includes earthquake and natural disaster links and information.
http://www.quakepro.com/
Ready Made Resources - many food resources in addition to Electronic Equipment; Non-Electric Appliances; Cooking Equipment; Swiss Army Knives; Water Purifiers; Nuclear, Chem. & Bio. Protection Equipment ; Solar Energy Products
http://www.readymaderesources.com/
REI - camping and hiking equipment, dried foods, water purifying systems, maps, store locator, 8000 products on-line
http://www.rei.com/
Restop - portable and emergency sanitation - unique concept!
http://www.whennaturecalls.com/
Safe-T-Proof - equipment and appliance fasteners, emergency food and preparedness products, gun locks
http://www.safe-t-proof.com/%20
SafetyStore - One-Stop Safety and Preparedness Catalog - A one-stop resource for safety, first aid, preparedness, and rescue products. First Aid Kits, Medical Tools, Home Safety, Flood & Storm Safety Tips, Child Safety, Earthquake Safety Tips, Pet Safety, Earthquake Preparedness Kits, First Aid Kits & Supplies, Earthquake and Furniture Fasteners, Outdoor Survival Gear, Fire Safety Tips, Medical Tools and Gear, Outdoor Safety, Business Disaster Consulting, Search And Rescue Gear, Books & Videos, Business Safety and Preparedness Products
http://www.safetystore.com/
Safety Gear HQ - High quality self defense products including Stun Guns, Mace Pepper Spray.
http://www.safetygearhq.com/
Safe Water Anywhere - Just fill up the bottle with water and squeeze. Using breakthrough advances in microfiltration and ionic Adsorption
http://www.safewateranywhere.com/
Sam Andy - Survival Tools and Equipment, Camping Gear, Blankets, Ponchos, Stoves and Fuels, Cookware, Messkits, Water and Water Storage, Y2K Survival Kits, Food Paks and Specialty Foods
http://www.karinya.com/sandy.htm
Search Gear Catalog - full online catalog of Search and Rescue equipment and "Personal Adventure Equipment." Order online with secure ordering, 33 product categories.
http://www.searchgear.com/
Sierra Trading Post - mail order catalog selling products at 35-70% off
http://www.sierra-trading.com/
Sorbent Systems - oxygen absorbers, desiccants, mylar bags, heat sealers, self-packing kits
http://www.sorbentsystems.com/
SOS Food Labs, Inc. - manufacturers of emergency survival food, water, and thermal products.
http://www.sos-rations.com/%20
SOS Gear - emergency kits for home and business, very good on-line fault line maps for California
http://www.sosgear.com/
South Summit Corp - camping, backpacking, biking, hiking, mapping, stoves, backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, food, water filters, watches, safety items and much more! Good stuff!
http://www.southsummit.com/
Sportmans Dream, A - An index of outfitters and guides that offer hunting trips, and manufactures of sporting equipment.
http://onlinecol.com/sd/sportsb.html
Sportsman's Guide, The - selection of hunting, camping, military surplus gear and more.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/
Survival Center, The - 72 hours kits, food storage, freeze dried and air dried foods, books on prep and prophesy, grain mills, military surplus, underground shelters, water storage, medical kits, wilderness supplies
http://www.zyz.com/survivalcenter/
Survival Unlimited - radios, Baygen products, first aid kits, battery chargers, canned fuel, solar ovens, firestarters, bulk foods, nitro-pak food, buckets and supplies, lanterns, water filters and water storage, grain mills, mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, diatomaceous earth, heat sealers, military surplus, more
http://www.survivalunlimited.com/
Survivor Industries - 72-hour and first aid kits of varying sizes, Mainstay food rations
http://www.survivorind.com/
Tecfen Corporation manufacturer and master distributor of emergency preparedness, survival kits, and outdoors products.
http://www.tecfen.com/emergency.html
The Stickler - attaches to your car wheel for easy, quick, effortless log splitting. Clever idea! Movie on web site shows how it's done.
http://www.thestickler.com/
These Times - bulk dehydrated foods such as wheat and beans and emergency hardware for disaster preparedness.
http://www.these-times.com/%20
Turners Outdoormen - everything for fishing, camping and hunting including Baygens, lanterns, cooking items, knives, cameras, Foodsaver products and supplies
http://www.turners.com/
United States Plastic Corp. - water storage drum, food storage containers, bags, buckets, and much more.
http://www.usplastic.com/
Walton Feed - very large website with storable and organic foods, grain mills, water purifiers, and lots of information and preparedness articles, many preparedness products, non-hybrid seeds, books, on-line catalog of 1124 items
http://waltonfeed.com/
WaterTanks.com - Storage for 1 liter drinking water bottles to 55 gallon barrels, 200 gallon collapsible bag-in-a-box to 5,000 gallon, polyethylene water tanks, 50,000 gallon collapsible containers to everything in-between. Here you will also find everything there is to know about water and water storage, from articles and info to how to treat and store water to important facts on water to the best preparedness links on the net.
http://www.watertanks.com/main.html
Wildware Outfitters - backpacks, accessories, water purifiers, cooking supplies, tents, sleeping bags and outdoor sporting equipment
http://www.wildware.com/
Weather The Storm - various sizes and selections in Home, Personal, Travel and Evac kits
http://weatherthestorm.net/
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
How to Survive Really Hard Times
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0011Lt
How to Survive Really Hard Times
In the old days, folks were accustomed to periodically having to live through hard times. They knew how to survive the hard times with the least amount of wear and tear on their families. Nowadays, most folks dont know what hard times really are. Even those folks who think they have it hard right now can usually still depend on some type of government handout or charity assistance, and therefore they dont truly know what hard times really are.
My definition of hard times is when things aint what they use to be and they dont look like they will return to normal anytime soon. This frequently happens in times of war, floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Which are also usually accompanied by power failures that last for days, weeks, or months.
Following are some suggestions for surviving these types of hard times.
Shelter:
Lets start by assuming you now live in some type of dwelling and your dwelling is not in the immediate path of a flood, hurricane, marching troops, etc.
First, stay inside unless you must absolutely go outdoors. In the old days, folks had enough sense to come in out of the rain. During hard times, you dont need to get wet, cold, or frost bitten. That just makes matters worse.
Heat:
During cold weather you need to stay warm. Nowadays most folks believe warm is having the thermostat set at 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Not so in the old days. Back then folks felt comfortable if their home was 40 degrees or warmer in the winter time. Now why was that? Because they wore warm clothes inside the house during the winter. They knew that several thin layers of clothing felt warmer than one or two thick garments. And they were right. There is a layer of air between each layer of clothing and that air forms a pocket of insulation to help retain your body heat. If a person got too warm, they would take off one layer of clothing and they would cool off and be comfortable again.
And they wore gloves inside the house to keep their hands warm.
They also wore their hats inside the house in the winter time. When a person is normally dressed, they lose 90% of their body heat through their head. Do you want to stay warm? Conserve your body heat. Put on a hat. Any hat. If you dont have a hat, make a turban by wrapping a thin towel (or a cut up sheet) around the top part of your head and secure it with a safety pin. You will feel warmer because you are conserving your body heat (and burning fewer calories). If your dwelling is still too cold for you (below 40 degrees), then you need to reduce the size of your living area. If you have a big closet, then move the family into it. If all your rooms are big, then partition off one corner of one room using mattresses to make temporary walls. In other words, build a small temporary room in the corner of a big room. Use all your extra sheets and blankets to insulate this smaller living area.
What does this accomplish? Humans dont generate enough extra body heat to warm up a large room (or house). However, their body heat can increase the temperature of a smaller area by 10 to 15 degrees. In addition, each time someone exhales, their breath will also contribute to an increase in the temperature of the small area. One word of caution. Under no circumstances should you build a fire (or smoke) inside your little area. The carbon monoxide (or smoke) will kill you all. Also remember, heat rises. Therefore, let fresh air into your living space somewhere down close to the floor.
Now some folks may laugh at the idea of heating a room with your body heat. But stop and think for a moment. The Eskimos live in a frozen wasteland and they survive year after year. How? Because they build small igloos that capture and conserve their body heat.
If you have a wood burning fireplace or wood stove, use it for heat if possible (save your propane or fuel oil for a real emergency). Bring in enough firewood once per day. Dont keep opening and closing the door all day long.
If you dont have a chimney, dont start a fire inside. The smoke will kill you. Even if you build the fire near a window, the smoke will gradually fill your dwelling. And you will lose any heat from the fire through the window.
If the water is off, then fire can be one of your worst enemies. Keep a fire extinguisher near any open flames (fireplace or propane stove). Or keep a bucket of water handy. If a cooking skillet accidentally catches fire, you should keep some baking soda nearby to throw on the flames. Some fires can be put out by smothering it with a heavy blanket. Without oxygen, the fire cant burn.
Toilet Facilities:
If the water is off and the toilets dont work, then you will have to manually deal with human waste. Take two trash cans and line each one with two plastic trash can liner bags. When possible, put urine and poop in separate containers. This allows the poop to dry out. Put something over the trash cans when they arent being used. You can urinate and defecate wherever it is comfortable for you, but pour the waste material into the trash cans. Periodically empty the trash cans. Dont just throw the waste outside. It will attract flies and other vermin that breed and spread disease. The best solution is to bury the waste underground.
A different type of waste problem is when the sewer works but you are short on water. That happens sometimes in the country with folks who have septic tanks but their water well goes dry (or almost dry). When that happens, you dont flush as often. You still use the stool all day long, but you only flush solid waste. To quote an old rhyme: If its yellow, let it mellow. If its brown, flush it down.
Water:
Without water, a person will dehydrate and start to die in about three days. This first step to survival in hard times is to inventory your water into two categories: drinking water and all other water. If the water is on, fill all the water containers you have in the house (anything that will hold water and not leak). If the water is off, be creative. Ice cubes in the freezer. Water inside the hot water heater. Both are safe to drink. Water that isnt safe to drink is toilet bowl water and water inside the mattress of a water bed.
Many canned foods are packed in water. When you open a can, serve the water in the can with the food (dont throw the canned water away if you are low on water).
The second step to survival in hard times is to ration your water. During normal times, one person needs one gallon of water per day. Nobody I know drinks a gallon of plain water each day. However, all of us drink some water, plus a variety of other fluids (coffee, tea, soda, juice, or whatever appeals to you). During hard times, a person can survive for a short period of time on two quarts of water per day (two quarts is one-half gallon). If water is really in short supply, then one quart per day will keep a person alive, but they will begin to slowly dehydrate.
Everyone knows better, but after a long period of little or no water, a person will drink all the water they can when it suddenly becomes available in quantity. If you do this, you will get sick. S l o w - - d o w n . Drink one cup of water every 15 minutes. Give your system a chance to absorb the water and send it where it is needed most. Dont overload your system and kill yourself.
When your water runs low, where can you get more? Collect rain water. If you have rain gutters on your dwelling, capture the rain at the end of the down spouts.
Be creative. Think about what you have available that you can put outside to catch and hold rain water, or channel rain water through a partially open window into a big pot. Remember that it usually rains 1 inch or less each time it rains. You need a large surface area to collect enough rain water to drink. A small cup or glass wont do. Even a 5 gallon cook pot is too small to just put outside by itself (it will only collect 1 inch of water in the bottom of the pot). Something like a childs plastic swimming pool would be ideal. You can always put clean bed sheets outside your windows, let them get drenched in rain, ring them out by hand inside the house into a pot, and stick them back out in the rain again.
If it doesnt rain, go outside at dawn and collect the morning dew. How? Take a clean thin dish cloth or thin wash cloth and wipe it gently over the damp grass (and non-poisonous shrubs). Periodically ring out the cloth into a bowl. Repeat. It is hard work, but without water you are dead.
Ground water is usually the most contaminated. Ground water is lake, pond, creek, stream, or river water if you live in the country. In the city, it is water flowing beside the sidewalks during a heavy rain. If no other source of water is available, then you may be forced to collect the only water you can find. But dont drink it until you purify it.
Even if the water looks crystal clear in a glass, it can still contain tiny organisms that will make you sick. You dont need a severe case of diarrhea or a high fever during hard times. Like the old saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry.
How to purify water:
First, pour the water through a standard paper coffee filter (or clean pillow case). This will trap and remove any large impurities. The same coffee filter can be used over and over again for a long time (unless the water is very muddy or dirty).
After you have pre-filtered your water, you can use one of the following three options to purify the water:
1. Boil the water at a hard boil for about 10 minutes. Wait for the water to cool. Then pour the water from one container into another container several times to add air back into the water to improve its taste.
2. Or put 2 drops of chlorine liquid bleach (Clorox or store brand, unscented) in each quart of water and wait one hour for the bleach to kill all the tiny organisms. (Or 8 drops per gallon.)
3. As a last result (not for pregnant women or nursing mothers), you can put 3 drops of iodine (2 % strength) into each quart of water and wait one hour. (Or 12 drops per gallon.)
If there is snow or ice on the ground, you can collect it and melt it inside your dwelling. A word of caution. Never melt the snow or ice inside your mouth. This consumes more water than you get back in return (water vapor lost through your mouth and nose while breathing). You dehydrate more quickly and end up worse off than when you started. If necessary, you can put the snow inside a small container and put the capped container inside your clothing (but not next to your skin) and your body heat will gradually melt the snow into water. If you are concerned about the cleanliness of the snow, then you can boil the resulting water 10 minutes before you drink it.
If you are short on water, dont waste it bathing or washing your clothes. I know cleanliness is important, but most of us overdo it in this country. Just wash your hands and face periodically. Dont discard the water until it is too dirty to use again. Wash your dishes in one pot of water with dish soap. Rinse the dishes in a second pot. Rinse the dishes again in a third pot. When the dish water in the first pot gets really nasty, discard it. Then put dish soap in the second pot and use it as the initial wash pot. Use the third pot as your first rinse. And add a new pot with clean water as the final rinse. If your sewer is still working properly, you can pour your waste water down your toilet stool to flush it.
Always brush your teeth at least once per day. It doesnt take much water, just a little in a small glass. (Only use a little toothpaste each time, not what you would normally use. Your toothpaste will last four to six times longer this way, with no compromise in dental hygiene.)
Food:
First rule, if you have no water to drink, then dont eat.
Second rule, remember the first rule when you get really hungry.
Your body uses water to digest food, and if you send food into your tummy without having had any water to drink recently, then your body will draw the water it needs to digest the food from your body tissues and you will dehydrate and die much faster. A person can go three weeks without any food and survive without any long term ill effects. But three days without water and you are dead. Never forget the first rule.
If you believe it may be some time before you can replenish your food supplies, such as during a severe snow storm, then inventory all the food in your dwelling and begin rationing on day one. Inventory your food based on the major food groups and on the number of calories listed on the label on each box or can. If you have food in the refrigerator, and the power is off, then eat it before you start on your canned foods. Eat refrigerator food first, then freezer food, and eat canned and boxed food last. Look at the expiration dates on snack foods (potato chips) and be sure to eat them before they go stale. After you have a list of all your food, plan a daily menu based on the order in which you intend to consume your food so you work all the major food groups strategically into your diet on a regular basis. Deviate from that plan if a particular food item looks like it might go bad if you save it any longer. Better to have the calories stored inside your body than to let them go to waste. Concerning waste, during hard times there is no excuse for throwing away any food that is edible. Save all uneaten food. If it cant be saved for the next meal, then someone should eat it while it is still edible.
If you have canned food, try to keep it from freezing (which will rupture the can and ruin the food). When you open a can, smell the food. If it smells funny, or if it has any fungus growing on it, then destroy the food by burning it. Dont put it in the trash. A stray animal (or person) may retrieve it and die of food poisoning. Most canned foods are still edible after two or three years. Canned meat will last even longer. Therefore, dont worry about your canned food going bad if you purchased it during the previous year. After two or three years, the food will still be edible, but the taste and nutritional value of the food will be less.
Drink the liquid inside canned food. It contains vitamins, fluids, and oils your body needs.
Folks here in our country eat over 2,500 calories every day. You dont need that many calories to stay alive, if you remain inactive. Read a good book. Play cards. Tell stories. Just dont exercise. A person can survive a long time on 1,000 calories per day if they remain relatively inactive. They will probably loose a little weight, but for most of us that would be a good thing. Plan your daily menus so each person will get about 1,000 calories each day. If your food supply starts to run low, and the hard times dont look like they are going to end soon, then cut back the calories to 750 per day. A person doesnt suffer any permanent damage just because he continuously feels hungry. Folks all over the world have felt real hunger before, and they have gone on to lead normal, healthy lives. (One exception to this is a nursing mother. Without the proper nutrition, her body cant make the milk to feed her baby.)
If you have any vitamins in the house, ration them out to your family members. Each person should get two vitamin pills each week (for example, one on Wednesday and one on Sunday). The vitamins will last a long time this way, and each person will have a much better chance of staying healthy and not getting sick.
Food from nature:
Squirrels: If you live near an area with trees, you may be able to get fresh squirrel meat with a 22 rifle, or a really good BB rifle at close range, or a trap or snare. However, if you fry or roast the squirrel, its meat it will be too tough to eat for most folks. Skin the squirrel, remove and discard the digestive organs (stomach and intestines), and cut the squirrel meat into small pieces (cut the heart and liver into pieces also), and boil all the meat in a little water with a dash of salt (dont forget the salt). Enjoy the meaty soup and drink the soup broth when the meat is all gone.
Thin Evergreen Needles (pine, spruce, etc.): Those thin green needles are edible and are an excellent source of vitamin C. If you eat them year round you will notice they taste different during the different seasons. Sometimes the taste is neutral and sometimes a little bitter. Regardless of how they taste, they are still an edible food source. Dont eat too many at one time unless your body is accustomed to them. Like any new food item, your body needs time to adjust to the new food source. Remember, they are very low in calories, so they wont provide the energy you need ... but they will provide some fresh natural vitamins. Pine needles may be eaten raw or cooked. Or you can dice the pine needles into very tiny pieces and boil them in some water to make a broth or tea.
Pine Cone Seeds: The seeds of a pine cone are located under the outer scales of the pine cone. Break off the scales to get to the seeds. There will be two winged seeds under each scale. The seeds may be eaten raw (the same way the squirrels do), or you may roast them. This is one of the most important wild food sources due to its high food value and availability.
Soft Inner Tree Bark (not the hard outer bark): In the spring when the sap is rising, the inner bark of most trees is edible (pine, birch, elm, maple, spruce, willow). It is low in calories but better than nothing. Peel the bark up near the bottom of the tree or from exposed roots to reveal the fresh inner bark. Do not peel the bark off a tree in a circle all the way around the tree. You will kill the tree. Dont overdo it on a single tree. Move on to the next tree. Inner tree bark may be eaten raw, or cooked, or dried and pounded into flour for future consumption.
Dandelions: Most folks think of them as pretty weeds. Did you know that every part of the dandelion plant is edible (flower, stems, leaves, and roots). The stems and flowers can be eaten raw or cooked. The leaves taste bitter if eaten raw so it is usually better to boil them first. Remove the tough center vein from the leaves before you boil them. Wash the roots and boil them like a potato. They have an agreeable taste. Or you can dry the roots in the sun, crush them and use them as a substitute for coffee. From a medicinal perspective, any and all the parts of the dandelion plant help to improve blood circulation in the body.
Clover: All types of clover are edible. Clover contains some vitamin E. Clover can be recognized by its small round flowers and its three small leaves. Sometimes four leaves (the proverbial four leaf clover). The clover leaves may be eaten raw or boiled (older leaves are better boiled). The tiny flowers can be boiled to make a tea. The roots can be scraped, washed, and boiled.
Bugs: The following bugs are edible: ants, grubs, slugs, and earthworms. They may be eaten raw (but not alive) or cooked. Nobody I know likes em raw, so the best solution is to dice them into small pieces and cook them in a soup with some other type of wild food. Grasshoppers can also be eaten if you first remove the legs. The legs contain tiny barbs that can get caught in your throat. Dont eat grasshoppers raw because they occasionally contain tiny parasites (which will be killed if you boil the grasshoppers in water). Never eat flies, mosquitoes, ticks, centipedes, or spiders.
Depending on where you live, other edible foods may grow wild. In much of the south, young poke sallet leaves (which no two people can agree on how to spell) are also nutritious if you first boil the leaves three times in clean water. Change the water between each boiling. Acorns (which set every other year) are also edible if you remove the cap (or crown) and boil them at least three times in clean water. Then let the acorns dry in the sun. (Acorns contain a small amount of tannic acid which will make you sick if you dont boil it away first. When our forefathers first arrived in this nation, the Indians showed them how to bury the acorns in mud for three months to make them fit to eat. This is an effective but very slow method for removing the tannic acid.) A handful of acorns is equivalent in nutrition to a pound of fresh hamburger.
If you try a new food source, dont eat too much of it the first time. Give your digestive system a chance to become acquainted with it. You dont need to make yourself sick with a fever or diarrhea by going overboard on a food you have never eaten before.
If you think a wild plant might be edible, there is three step test to go through before you eat it. If there is not enough of the wild plant growing nearby to serve as a regular food source, then you should ignore it. Its not worth the risk. If there is plenty of the plant available, then follow this test sequence. First, rub a little of the plant on the inside of your upper left arm (a sensitive body area but one that wont incapacitate you). Wait eight hours to see if the skin breaks out in a rash. If you pass the first test, rub a little of the plant on the outside of your lips, and wait eight hours to see if your lips break out in a rash. If you pass the second test, then put a very small quantity of the plant in your mouth, chew it up really good, and then spit it all out. Wait one day. If you dont get sick, then you can try swallowing a little bit of it the next day. Never eat too much of an unknown wild plant in a short period of time.
During hard times in the old days, folks didnt complain much. Everyone was in the same boat. They would just make causal comments about having to punch a new hole in their belt so their pants wouldnt fall off. Our forefathers lived through hard times on a regular basis. We can too. Dont let the loss of a little weight make you compromise your values. You do have values, dont you?
Self-Protection:
There is only one sure way to win a fight. Avoid it.
Avoid fights with other people, and stray dogs, and wild animals. How do you avoid fights? First, by staying inside your dwelling. If you must go outside, try to blend in with your environment (whatever it happens to be at the time), and dont attract attention to yourself. Speak softly. Move quietly and slowly. Most people wont attack a person who is visible armed (pistol in holster or hunting knife on waist belt). Dont carry a weapon in your hand. You would be advertising that you are either looking for trouble or that you are afraid. Neither is a good sign if you are trying to blend in.
On the other hand, if you are backed into a corner, and no option is left except to fight, then fight to win. Use whatever weapons are convenient at the time. Remember, with Gods help David whooped Goliath with a tiny stone.
Evacuating Your Present Dwelling:
The time may come when good judgment tells you it is time to leave your dwelling (the flood water is rising, or the enemy troops are on the outskirts of your town). For times like these, it is advisable to have a camping bag pre-packed for every member of your family. Each bag should contain clothes, personal care items, food, and one container of drinking water (12 ounces up to 32 ounces). Water is very heavy. You cant carry enough of it with you. You will have to trust that you can find more water along the way.
If you have these bags packed ahead of time, then you will be in much better shape than someone who waits until the last minute and then grabs items haphazardly to take with them. Pack the bags at the beginning of the hard times and have them ready to go on a moments notice. As time goes by, you will think of additional items to put in your bags. You will also have time to reflect and realize that some items should be left behind. The more time you ponder the contents of your bags, the more practical and useful the bags become.
When its time to leave, you may or may not be able to leave in your car. You may have no gas, or the roads may be blocked. If you have to leave on foot, make sure each member of the family has a bag that is no heavier than they can carry for a long distance.
If you take your car, you should have two sets of bags. One set of bags to carry with you if you have to later abandon the car, and another set of bags that you leave behind in the car (items that would have been nice to have but are not critical). A car offers the best protection for your family from the elements (rain, wind, snow). However, it restricts your movement to surface roads. The final decision on whether to take or leave the car may be a very tough one. Reflect on it ahead of time.
Temporary Government Shelters:
During severe hard times, the government usually sets up temporary shelters for the destitute. The folks who enter these shelters usually bring nothing with them but the clothes on their backs. The government will not let anyone bring a weapon into a shelter. Occasionally the living conditions in a shelter are okay, but most of the time the place is too crowded for the average person to relax in. There is absolutely no privacy.
If you have the knowledge, a little basic equipment, and a little food then you might try camping with your family in the woods instead of entering a shelter. Only the most highly trained individuals can live off the land. If you dont bring some food with you, then your chances of surviving in the wilderness by eating natures fare will be pretty slim. You will spend all your time searching for edible plants and wild game or fish. Most folks wont be able to find enough to keep their families alive. However, if you bring some food with you, then you can supplement that food with what you find in nature and you will have a pretty good chance of having a good camping experience. If the camping adventure doesnt work out for your family, then you can enter a shelter knowing it is your last option.
Camping:
You can camp outdoors in the spring, summer, or fall. Don't camp outdoors in the winter if it is avoidable. There is almost no food available, and the weather is so cold that you will probably freeze to death.
What camping equipment do you need? Every family member (age ten and older) should have a knife with a sharp edge. A knife is a campers most frequently used tool in the woods. It is also a weapon.
One or more rifles. Extra bullets. A small hand hatchet (or meat cleaver) and a small shovel (or big metal cooking spoon) are also nice (but not critical). Plus a waterproof tarp (or the plastic protector sheet off a bed, or anything that repeals water and is big enough to sleep under). A lightweight tent would be ideal, if you have one.
A bible for regular family devotions.
Soap. Small towels. String and rope. Duct tape. Toilet tissue. Matches and cigarette lighters. Plastic freezer bags to keep these items dry. Small cook pots that will survive an open fire. Forks and spoons. Unbreakable cups and plates. Aluminum foil. Lightweight high calorie food (pasta noodles, dry beans, Ramen soup). Precooked food (canned beef stew, chili with beans). Salt and pepper.
A deck of playing cards. First aid supplies. Headache pills. Diarrhea pills. Feminine hygiene items. A compass. A map. A Boy Scout Handbook (or any good camping book). Some fictional paperback books to read (after everyone has read each book, the individual pages make nice fire starter, or even better emergency toilet paper). More freezer bags for these items.
Blankets and a small pillow for each person. One complete change of clothes for each person. Three or four pair of socks for each person. (If you are walking, your socks will need changing more frequently than the rest of your clothes to avoid blisters and athlete's foot rash.) The best way to avoid foot blisters is to wear two pair of socks: a very thin inner pair next to your skin and another pair on top of that. Macho tough guys will laugh at this next suggestion, but panty hose make a good inner pair of socks for both men and women and they keep your legs warm. After the tough guys get a few bleeding blisters and cant keep up with the rest of the group, the panty hose idea wont seem so silly. Remember, the basic idea is survival - youre not trying to make a fashion statement.
Never camp on the very top or bottom of a hill. The best location is on the side of a hill about half way up the hill (avoids high winds and flooding waters). Look for firewood that is just off the ground (fallen branches caught in trees or shrubs). It is usually dry enough to burn even during a rain. Dry pine needles make excellent kindling. Keep campfires contained at all times. Make sure your fire is completely out when you leave. Bury human waste promptly.
Conclusion:
Hard times bring out either the best or the worst in each of us. (I often wonder if God planned it that way?) If you and your family face hard times together sometime during your life, what kind of example do you want to set for your loved ones? In future years, when your young'uns grow up and look back on the hard times, what do you want them to remember? What do you want to remember? Think about it.
May God Bless.
Grandpappy
-- Grandpappy (Grandpappy@old-timers.hom), June 30, 1999
Answers
The above are just a few of my thoughts about hard times and the way to get through them when they come upon you suddenly ... sometimes with a little advance warning and other times with none.
Lots of you folks have been reading the stuff on this forum for a long time but you aint shared any of your ideas yet. Now would be a good time to step in and share your gems of wisdom.
For example:
1. What plants grow wild in your neck of the woods that are widely available and easy to find? How do you identify the plant? What part of the plant do you eat? How to you prepare it (raw, roasted, boiled)?
2. If a person were going to stay indoors, what items do most of us already have around the house that can come in real handy during hard times (or have a second use that most people dont know about)?
3. If a person were to go camping, what should they take with them from the house and what would it be used for?
These are just a few suggestions. I know yall can think of lots of additional good ideas. Please share them with your friends here on this forum.
Thanks.
May God Bless.
Grandpappy
How to Survive Really Hard Times
In the old days, folks were accustomed to periodically having to live through hard times. They knew how to survive the hard times with the least amount of wear and tear on their families. Nowadays, most folks dont know what hard times really are. Even those folks who think they have it hard right now can usually still depend on some type of government handout or charity assistance, and therefore they dont truly know what hard times really are.
My definition of hard times is when things aint what they use to be and they dont look like they will return to normal anytime soon. This frequently happens in times of war, floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Which are also usually accompanied by power failures that last for days, weeks, or months.
Following are some suggestions for surviving these types of hard times.
Shelter:
Lets start by assuming you now live in some type of dwelling and your dwelling is not in the immediate path of a flood, hurricane, marching troops, etc.
First, stay inside unless you must absolutely go outdoors. In the old days, folks had enough sense to come in out of the rain. During hard times, you dont need to get wet, cold, or frost bitten. That just makes matters worse.
Heat:
During cold weather you need to stay warm. Nowadays most folks believe warm is having the thermostat set at 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Not so in the old days. Back then folks felt comfortable if their home was 40 degrees or warmer in the winter time. Now why was that? Because they wore warm clothes inside the house during the winter. They knew that several thin layers of clothing felt warmer than one or two thick garments. And they were right. There is a layer of air between each layer of clothing and that air forms a pocket of insulation to help retain your body heat. If a person got too warm, they would take off one layer of clothing and they would cool off and be comfortable again.
And they wore gloves inside the house to keep their hands warm.
They also wore their hats inside the house in the winter time. When a person is normally dressed, they lose 90% of their body heat through their head. Do you want to stay warm? Conserve your body heat. Put on a hat. Any hat. If you dont have a hat, make a turban by wrapping a thin towel (or a cut up sheet) around the top part of your head and secure it with a safety pin. You will feel warmer because you are conserving your body heat (and burning fewer calories). If your dwelling is still too cold for you (below 40 degrees), then you need to reduce the size of your living area. If you have a big closet, then move the family into it. If all your rooms are big, then partition off one corner of one room using mattresses to make temporary walls. In other words, build a small temporary room in the corner of a big room. Use all your extra sheets and blankets to insulate this smaller living area.
What does this accomplish? Humans dont generate enough extra body heat to warm up a large room (or house). However, their body heat can increase the temperature of a smaller area by 10 to 15 degrees. In addition, each time someone exhales, their breath will also contribute to an increase in the temperature of the small area. One word of caution. Under no circumstances should you build a fire (or smoke) inside your little area. The carbon monoxide (or smoke) will kill you all. Also remember, heat rises. Therefore, let fresh air into your living space somewhere down close to the floor.
Now some folks may laugh at the idea of heating a room with your body heat. But stop and think for a moment. The Eskimos live in a frozen wasteland and they survive year after year. How? Because they build small igloos that capture and conserve their body heat.
If you have a wood burning fireplace or wood stove, use it for heat if possible (save your propane or fuel oil for a real emergency). Bring in enough firewood once per day. Dont keep opening and closing the door all day long.
If you dont have a chimney, dont start a fire inside. The smoke will kill you. Even if you build the fire near a window, the smoke will gradually fill your dwelling. And you will lose any heat from the fire through the window.
If the water is off, then fire can be one of your worst enemies. Keep a fire extinguisher near any open flames (fireplace or propane stove). Or keep a bucket of water handy. If a cooking skillet accidentally catches fire, you should keep some baking soda nearby to throw on the flames. Some fires can be put out by smothering it with a heavy blanket. Without oxygen, the fire cant burn.
Toilet Facilities:
If the water is off and the toilets dont work, then you will have to manually deal with human waste. Take two trash cans and line each one with two plastic trash can liner bags. When possible, put urine and poop in separate containers. This allows the poop to dry out. Put something over the trash cans when they arent being used. You can urinate and defecate wherever it is comfortable for you, but pour the waste material into the trash cans. Periodically empty the trash cans. Dont just throw the waste outside. It will attract flies and other vermin that breed and spread disease. The best solution is to bury the waste underground.
A different type of waste problem is when the sewer works but you are short on water. That happens sometimes in the country with folks who have septic tanks but their water well goes dry (or almost dry). When that happens, you dont flush as often. You still use the stool all day long, but you only flush solid waste. To quote an old rhyme: If its yellow, let it mellow. If its brown, flush it down.
Water:
Without water, a person will dehydrate and start to die in about three days. This first step to survival in hard times is to inventory your water into two categories: drinking water and all other water. If the water is on, fill all the water containers you have in the house (anything that will hold water and not leak). If the water is off, be creative. Ice cubes in the freezer. Water inside the hot water heater. Both are safe to drink. Water that isnt safe to drink is toilet bowl water and water inside the mattress of a water bed.
Many canned foods are packed in water. When you open a can, serve the water in the can with the food (dont throw the canned water away if you are low on water).
The second step to survival in hard times is to ration your water. During normal times, one person needs one gallon of water per day. Nobody I know drinks a gallon of plain water each day. However, all of us drink some water, plus a variety of other fluids (coffee, tea, soda, juice, or whatever appeals to you). During hard times, a person can survive for a short period of time on two quarts of water per day (two quarts is one-half gallon). If water is really in short supply, then one quart per day will keep a person alive, but they will begin to slowly dehydrate.
Everyone knows better, but after a long period of little or no water, a person will drink all the water they can when it suddenly becomes available in quantity. If you do this, you will get sick. S l o w - - d o w n . Drink one cup of water every 15 minutes. Give your system a chance to absorb the water and send it where it is needed most. Dont overload your system and kill yourself.
When your water runs low, where can you get more? Collect rain water. If you have rain gutters on your dwelling, capture the rain at the end of the down spouts.
Be creative. Think about what you have available that you can put outside to catch and hold rain water, or channel rain water through a partially open window into a big pot. Remember that it usually rains 1 inch or less each time it rains. You need a large surface area to collect enough rain water to drink. A small cup or glass wont do. Even a 5 gallon cook pot is too small to just put outside by itself (it will only collect 1 inch of water in the bottom of the pot). Something like a childs plastic swimming pool would be ideal. You can always put clean bed sheets outside your windows, let them get drenched in rain, ring them out by hand inside the house into a pot, and stick them back out in the rain again.
If it doesnt rain, go outside at dawn and collect the morning dew. How? Take a clean thin dish cloth or thin wash cloth and wipe it gently over the damp grass (and non-poisonous shrubs). Periodically ring out the cloth into a bowl. Repeat. It is hard work, but without water you are dead.
Ground water is usually the most contaminated. Ground water is lake, pond, creek, stream, or river water if you live in the country. In the city, it is water flowing beside the sidewalks during a heavy rain. If no other source of water is available, then you may be forced to collect the only water you can find. But dont drink it until you purify it.
Even if the water looks crystal clear in a glass, it can still contain tiny organisms that will make you sick. You dont need a severe case of diarrhea or a high fever during hard times. Like the old saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry.
How to purify water:
First, pour the water through a standard paper coffee filter (or clean pillow case). This will trap and remove any large impurities. The same coffee filter can be used over and over again for a long time (unless the water is very muddy or dirty).
After you have pre-filtered your water, you can use one of the following three options to purify the water:
1. Boil the water at a hard boil for about 10 minutes. Wait for the water to cool. Then pour the water from one container into another container several times to add air back into the water to improve its taste.
2. Or put 2 drops of chlorine liquid bleach (Clorox or store brand, unscented) in each quart of water and wait one hour for the bleach to kill all the tiny organisms. (Or 8 drops per gallon.)
3. As a last result (not for pregnant women or nursing mothers), you can put 3 drops of iodine (2 % strength) into each quart of water and wait one hour. (Or 12 drops per gallon.)
If there is snow or ice on the ground, you can collect it and melt it inside your dwelling. A word of caution. Never melt the snow or ice inside your mouth. This consumes more water than you get back in return (water vapor lost through your mouth and nose while breathing). You dehydrate more quickly and end up worse off than when you started. If necessary, you can put the snow inside a small container and put the capped container inside your clothing (but not next to your skin) and your body heat will gradually melt the snow into water. If you are concerned about the cleanliness of the snow, then you can boil the resulting water 10 minutes before you drink it.
If you are short on water, dont waste it bathing or washing your clothes. I know cleanliness is important, but most of us overdo it in this country. Just wash your hands and face periodically. Dont discard the water until it is too dirty to use again. Wash your dishes in one pot of water with dish soap. Rinse the dishes in a second pot. Rinse the dishes again in a third pot. When the dish water in the first pot gets really nasty, discard it. Then put dish soap in the second pot and use it as the initial wash pot. Use the third pot as your first rinse. And add a new pot with clean water as the final rinse. If your sewer is still working properly, you can pour your waste water down your toilet stool to flush it.
Always brush your teeth at least once per day. It doesnt take much water, just a little in a small glass. (Only use a little toothpaste each time, not what you would normally use. Your toothpaste will last four to six times longer this way, with no compromise in dental hygiene.)
Food:
First rule, if you have no water to drink, then dont eat.
Second rule, remember the first rule when you get really hungry.
Your body uses water to digest food, and if you send food into your tummy without having had any water to drink recently, then your body will draw the water it needs to digest the food from your body tissues and you will dehydrate and die much faster. A person can go three weeks without any food and survive without any long term ill effects. But three days without water and you are dead. Never forget the first rule.
If you believe it may be some time before you can replenish your food supplies, such as during a severe snow storm, then inventory all the food in your dwelling and begin rationing on day one. Inventory your food based on the major food groups and on the number of calories listed on the label on each box or can. If you have food in the refrigerator, and the power is off, then eat it before you start on your canned foods. Eat refrigerator food first, then freezer food, and eat canned and boxed food last. Look at the expiration dates on snack foods (potato chips) and be sure to eat them before they go stale. After you have a list of all your food, plan a daily menu based on the order in which you intend to consume your food so you work all the major food groups strategically into your diet on a regular basis. Deviate from that plan if a particular food item looks like it might go bad if you save it any longer. Better to have the calories stored inside your body than to let them go to waste. Concerning waste, during hard times there is no excuse for throwing away any food that is edible. Save all uneaten food. If it cant be saved for the next meal, then someone should eat it while it is still edible.
If you have canned food, try to keep it from freezing (which will rupture the can and ruin the food). When you open a can, smell the food. If it smells funny, or if it has any fungus growing on it, then destroy the food by burning it. Dont put it in the trash. A stray animal (or person) may retrieve it and die of food poisoning. Most canned foods are still edible after two or three years. Canned meat will last even longer. Therefore, dont worry about your canned food going bad if you purchased it during the previous year. After two or three years, the food will still be edible, but the taste and nutritional value of the food will be less.
Drink the liquid inside canned food. It contains vitamins, fluids, and oils your body needs.
Folks here in our country eat over 2,500 calories every day. You dont need that many calories to stay alive, if you remain inactive. Read a good book. Play cards. Tell stories. Just dont exercise. A person can survive a long time on 1,000 calories per day if they remain relatively inactive. They will probably loose a little weight, but for most of us that would be a good thing. Plan your daily menus so each person will get about 1,000 calories each day. If your food supply starts to run low, and the hard times dont look like they are going to end soon, then cut back the calories to 750 per day. A person doesnt suffer any permanent damage just because he continuously feels hungry. Folks all over the world have felt real hunger before, and they have gone on to lead normal, healthy lives. (One exception to this is a nursing mother. Without the proper nutrition, her body cant make the milk to feed her baby.)
If you have any vitamins in the house, ration them out to your family members. Each person should get two vitamin pills each week (for example, one on Wednesday and one on Sunday). The vitamins will last a long time this way, and each person will have a much better chance of staying healthy and not getting sick.
Food from nature:
Squirrels: If you live near an area with trees, you may be able to get fresh squirrel meat with a 22 rifle, or a really good BB rifle at close range, or a trap or snare. However, if you fry or roast the squirrel, its meat it will be too tough to eat for most folks. Skin the squirrel, remove and discard the digestive organs (stomach and intestines), and cut the squirrel meat into small pieces (cut the heart and liver into pieces also), and boil all the meat in a little water with a dash of salt (dont forget the salt). Enjoy the meaty soup and drink the soup broth when the meat is all gone.
Thin Evergreen Needles (pine, spruce, etc.): Those thin green needles are edible and are an excellent source of vitamin C. If you eat them year round you will notice they taste different during the different seasons. Sometimes the taste is neutral and sometimes a little bitter. Regardless of how they taste, they are still an edible food source. Dont eat too many at one time unless your body is accustomed to them. Like any new food item, your body needs time to adjust to the new food source. Remember, they are very low in calories, so they wont provide the energy you need ... but they will provide some fresh natural vitamins. Pine needles may be eaten raw or cooked. Or you can dice the pine needles into very tiny pieces and boil them in some water to make a broth or tea.
Pine Cone Seeds: The seeds of a pine cone are located under the outer scales of the pine cone. Break off the scales to get to the seeds. There will be two winged seeds under each scale. The seeds may be eaten raw (the same way the squirrels do), or you may roast them. This is one of the most important wild food sources due to its high food value and availability.
Soft Inner Tree Bark (not the hard outer bark): In the spring when the sap is rising, the inner bark of most trees is edible (pine, birch, elm, maple, spruce, willow). It is low in calories but better than nothing. Peel the bark up near the bottom of the tree or from exposed roots to reveal the fresh inner bark. Do not peel the bark off a tree in a circle all the way around the tree. You will kill the tree. Dont overdo it on a single tree. Move on to the next tree. Inner tree bark may be eaten raw, or cooked, or dried and pounded into flour for future consumption.
Dandelions: Most folks think of them as pretty weeds. Did you know that every part of the dandelion plant is edible (flower, stems, leaves, and roots). The stems and flowers can be eaten raw or cooked. The leaves taste bitter if eaten raw so it is usually better to boil them first. Remove the tough center vein from the leaves before you boil them. Wash the roots and boil them like a potato. They have an agreeable taste. Or you can dry the roots in the sun, crush them and use them as a substitute for coffee. From a medicinal perspective, any and all the parts of the dandelion plant help to improve blood circulation in the body.
Clover: All types of clover are edible. Clover contains some vitamin E. Clover can be recognized by its small round flowers and its three small leaves. Sometimes four leaves (the proverbial four leaf clover). The clover leaves may be eaten raw or boiled (older leaves are better boiled). The tiny flowers can be boiled to make a tea. The roots can be scraped, washed, and boiled.
Bugs: The following bugs are edible: ants, grubs, slugs, and earthworms. They may be eaten raw (but not alive) or cooked. Nobody I know likes em raw, so the best solution is to dice them into small pieces and cook them in a soup with some other type of wild food. Grasshoppers can also be eaten if you first remove the legs. The legs contain tiny barbs that can get caught in your throat. Dont eat grasshoppers raw because they occasionally contain tiny parasites (which will be killed if you boil the grasshoppers in water). Never eat flies, mosquitoes, ticks, centipedes, or spiders.
Depending on where you live, other edible foods may grow wild. In much of the south, young poke sallet leaves (which no two people can agree on how to spell) are also nutritious if you first boil the leaves three times in clean water. Change the water between each boiling. Acorns (which set every other year) are also edible if you remove the cap (or crown) and boil them at least three times in clean water. Then let the acorns dry in the sun. (Acorns contain a small amount of tannic acid which will make you sick if you dont boil it away first. When our forefathers first arrived in this nation, the Indians showed them how to bury the acorns in mud for three months to make them fit to eat. This is an effective but very slow method for removing the tannic acid.) A handful of acorns is equivalent in nutrition to a pound of fresh hamburger.
If you try a new food source, dont eat too much of it the first time. Give your digestive system a chance to become acquainted with it. You dont need to make yourself sick with a fever or diarrhea by going overboard on a food you have never eaten before.
If you think a wild plant might be edible, there is three step test to go through before you eat it. If there is not enough of the wild plant growing nearby to serve as a regular food source, then you should ignore it. Its not worth the risk. If there is plenty of the plant available, then follow this test sequence. First, rub a little of the plant on the inside of your upper left arm (a sensitive body area but one that wont incapacitate you). Wait eight hours to see if the skin breaks out in a rash. If you pass the first test, rub a little of the plant on the outside of your lips, and wait eight hours to see if your lips break out in a rash. If you pass the second test, then put a very small quantity of the plant in your mouth, chew it up really good, and then spit it all out. Wait one day. If you dont get sick, then you can try swallowing a little bit of it the next day. Never eat too much of an unknown wild plant in a short period of time.
During hard times in the old days, folks didnt complain much. Everyone was in the same boat. They would just make causal comments about having to punch a new hole in their belt so their pants wouldnt fall off. Our forefathers lived through hard times on a regular basis. We can too. Dont let the loss of a little weight make you compromise your values. You do have values, dont you?
Self-Protection:
There is only one sure way to win a fight. Avoid it.
Avoid fights with other people, and stray dogs, and wild animals. How do you avoid fights? First, by staying inside your dwelling. If you must go outside, try to blend in with your environment (whatever it happens to be at the time), and dont attract attention to yourself. Speak softly. Move quietly and slowly. Most people wont attack a person who is visible armed (pistol in holster or hunting knife on waist belt). Dont carry a weapon in your hand. You would be advertising that you are either looking for trouble or that you are afraid. Neither is a good sign if you are trying to blend in.
On the other hand, if you are backed into a corner, and no option is left except to fight, then fight to win. Use whatever weapons are convenient at the time. Remember, with Gods help David whooped Goliath with a tiny stone.
Evacuating Your Present Dwelling:
The time may come when good judgment tells you it is time to leave your dwelling (the flood water is rising, or the enemy troops are on the outskirts of your town). For times like these, it is advisable to have a camping bag pre-packed for every member of your family. Each bag should contain clothes, personal care items, food, and one container of drinking water (12 ounces up to 32 ounces). Water is very heavy. You cant carry enough of it with you. You will have to trust that you can find more water along the way.
If you have these bags packed ahead of time, then you will be in much better shape than someone who waits until the last minute and then grabs items haphazardly to take with them. Pack the bags at the beginning of the hard times and have them ready to go on a moments notice. As time goes by, you will think of additional items to put in your bags. You will also have time to reflect and realize that some items should be left behind. The more time you ponder the contents of your bags, the more practical and useful the bags become.
When its time to leave, you may or may not be able to leave in your car. You may have no gas, or the roads may be blocked. If you have to leave on foot, make sure each member of the family has a bag that is no heavier than they can carry for a long distance.
If you take your car, you should have two sets of bags. One set of bags to carry with you if you have to later abandon the car, and another set of bags that you leave behind in the car (items that would have been nice to have but are not critical). A car offers the best protection for your family from the elements (rain, wind, snow). However, it restricts your movement to surface roads. The final decision on whether to take or leave the car may be a very tough one. Reflect on it ahead of time.
Temporary Government Shelters:
During severe hard times, the government usually sets up temporary shelters for the destitute. The folks who enter these shelters usually bring nothing with them but the clothes on their backs. The government will not let anyone bring a weapon into a shelter. Occasionally the living conditions in a shelter are okay, but most of the time the place is too crowded for the average person to relax in. There is absolutely no privacy.
If you have the knowledge, a little basic equipment, and a little food then you might try camping with your family in the woods instead of entering a shelter. Only the most highly trained individuals can live off the land. If you dont bring some food with you, then your chances of surviving in the wilderness by eating natures fare will be pretty slim. You will spend all your time searching for edible plants and wild game or fish. Most folks wont be able to find enough to keep their families alive. However, if you bring some food with you, then you can supplement that food with what you find in nature and you will have a pretty good chance of having a good camping experience. If the camping adventure doesnt work out for your family, then you can enter a shelter knowing it is your last option.
Camping:
You can camp outdoors in the spring, summer, or fall. Don't camp outdoors in the winter if it is avoidable. There is almost no food available, and the weather is so cold that you will probably freeze to death.
What camping equipment do you need? Every family member (age ten and older) should have a knife with a sharp edge. A knife is a campers most frequently used tool in the woods. It is also a weapon.
One or more rifles. Extra bullets. A small hand hatchet (or meat cleaver) and a small shovel (or big metal cooking spoon) are also nice (but not critical). Plus a waterproof tarp (or the plastic protector sheet off a bed, or anything that repeals water and is big enough to sleep under). A lightweight tent would be ideal, if you have one.
A bible for regular family devotions.
Soap. Small towels. String and rope. Duct tape. Toilet tissue. Matches and cigarette lighters. Plastic freezer bags to keep these items dry. Small cook pots that will survive an open fire. Forks and spoons. Unbreakable cups and plates. Aluminum foil. Lightweight high calorie food (pasta noodles, dry beans, Ramen soup). Precooked food (canned beef stew, chili with beans). Salt and pepper.
A deck of playing cards. First aid supplies. Headache pills. Diarrhea pills. Feminine hygiene items. A compass. A map. A Boy Scout Handbook (or any good camping book). Some fictional paperback books to read (after everyone has read each book, the individual pages make nice fire starter, or even better emergency toilet paper). More freezer bags for these items.
Blankets and a small pillow for each person. One complete change of clothes for each person. Three or four pair of socks for each person. (If you are walking, your socks will need changing more frequently than the rest of your clothes to avoid blisters and athlete's foot rash.) The best way to avoid foot blisters is to wear two pair of socks: a very thin inner pair next to your skin and another pair on top of that. Macho tough guys will laugh at this next suggestion, but panty hose make a good inner pair of socks for both men and women and they keep your legs warm. After the tough guys get a few bleeding blisters and cant keep up with the rest of the group, the panty hose idea wont seem so silly. Remember, the basic idea is survival - youre not trying to make a fashion statement.
Never camp on the very top or bottom of a hill. The best location is on the side of a hill about half way up the hill (avoids high winds and flooding waters). Look for firewood that is just off the ground (fallen branches caught in trees or shrubs). It is usually dry enough to burn even during a rain. Dry pine needles make excellent kindling. Keep campfires contained at all times. Make sure your fire is completely out when you leave. Bury human waste promptly.
Conclusion:
Hard times bring out either the best or the worst in each of us. (I often wonder if God planned it that way?) If you and your family face hard times together sometime during your life, what kind of example do you want to set for your loved ones? In future years, when your young'uns grow up and look back on the hard times, what do you want them to remember? What do you want to remember? Think about it.
May God Bless.
Grandpappy
-- Grandpappy (Grandpappy@old-timers.hom), June 30, 1999
Answers
The above are just a few of my thoughts about hard times and the way to get through them when they come upon you suddenly ... sometimes with a little advance warning and other times with none.
Lots of you folks have been reading the stuff on this forum for a long time but you aint shared any of your ideas yet. Now would be a good time to step in and share your gems of wisdom.
For example:
1. What plants grow wild in your neck of the woods that are widely available and easy to find? How do you identify the plant? What part of the plant do you eat? How to you prepare it (raw, roasted, boiled)?
2. If a person were going to stay indoors, what items do most of us already have around the house that can come in real handy during hard times (or have a second use that most people dont know about)?
3. If a person were to go camping, what should they take with them from the house and what would it be used for?
These are just a few suggestions. I know yall can think of lots of additional good ideas. Please share them with your friends here on this forum.
Thanks.
May God Bless.
Grandpappy
Constitutional Crisis in Argentina
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Constitutional Crisis in Argentina,
From http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Constitutional Crisis in Argentina, President Threatens to Take Over Central Bank; Potential Latin America "Cascade Effect"
Argentina President Cristina Kirchner has attempted to seize control of the central bank. Kirchner fired central banker MartÃn Redrado for his refusal to hand over $6.6 billion in bank reserves. The matter is now headed for the Argentinean courts.
Please consider the Constitutional Showdown in Argentina.
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's firing of the country's central bank president last Wednesday has provoked a constitutional crisis, not unlike the one that rocked Honduras last summer.
Mrs. Kirchner's insistence that the central bank's assets should be at her disposal is noteworthy. It reflects a primitive view, not unknown even in the U.S., that the role of a central bank is to print money for the government's use. Yet it is nonetheless surprising that even after the nation has suffered so much inflationary agony, it is still possible for an Argentine politician to pursue this line of reasoning without risk of being tarred and feathered.
Already unpopular for her authoritarian style, Mrs. Kirchner would seem to be skating on precariously thin ice. One opposition senator has pledged that if Mrs. Kirchner does not back down, he will begin impeachment proceedings.
The president says she wants the money to pay back foreign creditors. She could pay them with funds that are already at the treasury, but she has other ideas for that money.
Argentina Set For Inflationary Explosion
Argentina is already suffering from a 17% reported rate of inflation. Rest assured if 17% is the reported rate, the real rate is likely much higher.
Kirchner not only wants the $6.6 billion in bank reserves, she also wants "easy money", otherwise known as lower interest rates. If Kirchner gets her way, and perhaps even if she doesn't, Argentina is going to explode.
In South America, Venezuela is already in the process of blowing up. Please see Chavez Threatens to Seize Businesses, Devalues Currency by 50%; Chavez vs. Obama, Parallels Greater Than You Think! for details.
Cascade Effect
Regarding Venezuela, my friend "BC" writes ...
While the story got little press in the US (not sure about the EU), the action could be one that starts a cascading effect in Latin America where China is frantically acting to establish relations in order to secure energy and grain supplies.
And water shortages and rising energy costs risk a breakdown of internal distribution systems at the periphery, restrictions to transoceanic transport, increasing scale of mass migration and ethnic-racial conflict, and severe disruptions to trade flows and credits, as well as deteriorating trade and diplomatic relations across regions.
Textbook case.
Loans to two countries are now at huge risk. European banks have more exposure than US banks to emerging markets and Latin America.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Posted by FerFAL at 4:57 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Constitutional Crisis in Argentina,
From http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Constitutional Crisis in Argentina, President Threatens to Take Over Central Bank; Potential Latin America "Cascade Effect"
Argentina President Cristina Kirchner has attempted to seize control of the central bank. Kirchner fired central banker MartÃn Redrado for his refusal to hand over $6.6 billion in bank reserves. The matter is now headed for the Argentinean courts.
Please consider the Constitutional Showdown in Argentina.
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's firing of the country's central bank president last Wednesday has provoked a constitutional crisis, not unlike the one that rocked Honduras last summer.
Mrs. Kirchner's insistence that the central bank's assets should be at her disposal is noteworthy. It reflects a primitive view, not unknown even in the U.S., that the role of a central bank is to print money for the government's use. Yet it is nonetheless surprising that even after the nation has suffered so much inflationary agony, it is still possible for an Argentine politician to pursue this line of reasoning without risk of being tarred and feathered.
Already unpopular for her authoritarian style, Mrs. Kirchner would seem to be skating on precariously thin ice. One opposition senator has pledged that if Mrs. Kirchner does not back down, he will begin impeachment proceedings.
The president says she wants the money to pay back foreign creditors. She could pay them with funds that are already at the treasury, but she has other ideas for that money.
Argentina Set For Inflationary Explosion
Argentina is already suffering from a 17% reported rate of inflation. Rest assured if 17% is the reported rate, the real rate is likely much higher.
Kirchner not only wants the $6.6 billion in bank reserves, she also wants "easy money", otherwise known as lower interest rates. If Kirchner gets her way, and perhaps even if she doesn't, Argentina is going to explode.
In South America, Venezuela is already in the process of blowing up. Please see Chavez Threatens to Seize Businesses, Devalues Currency by 50%; Chavez vs. Obama, Parallels Greater Than You Think! for details.
Cascade Effect
Regarding Venezuela, my friend "BC" writes ...
While the story got little press in the US (not sure about the EU), the action could be one that starts a cascading effect in Latin America where China is frantically acting to establish relations in order to secure energy and grain supplies.
And water shortages and rising energy costs risk a breakdown of internal distribution systems at the periphery, restrictions to transoceanic transport, increasing scale of mass migration and ethnic-racial conflict, and severe disruptions to trade flows and credits, as well as deteriorating trade and diplomatic relations across regions.
Textbook case.
Loans to two countries are now at huge risk. European banks have more exposure than US banks to emerging markets and Latin America.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Posted by FerFAL at 4:57 AM 0 comments
David Wilkerson's Economic Vision
http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/?page=wilkerson
David Wilkerson's Economic Vision
Key points to remember about this vision:
From the time the first country goes down, you'll have two weeks to get your money out of the bank.
America will come through this crisis---there will be a restoration.
But the nation will never be like it was before...
God is saying: Get our lives straight...Get rid of the idols...Seek the face of God in holiness...
God will be a wall of fire about you...And the glory in the midst of you!
It's about to happen---very soon, one nation, and I'm speaking prophetically--if I've ever heard anything from God in my life, I heard it ... Very soon a European or North African or Eastern nation is going to default on its international loan and when that happens, within two weeks, Mexico is going to default. Mexico owes $100 billion ---80% of it to American banks---and here's what is going to happen: about two weeks after the first country goes bankrupt, (we're going to survive that, because most of that (money of the first country) is owed to European banks---German, Swiss and French banks) but a second country is going to go down, probably Argentina or Brazil, and we'll kind of live that down and say: "Well, maybe it's not going to hurt," but two weeks after the first country goes down, Mexico's going to default on $100 billion.
And when the banks open the next day at 9 in the morning, $15 billion an hour is going to be withdrawn from our American banks -they're going to be running our banks---the Arabs---all the Latin American countries, they're going to be running our banks--and before the day is over, the U.S.A is going to have to declare a "bank holiday."
SIX MONTHS OF HORROR:
And we're going into six months of the worst hell America has ever seen---there's going to be chaos---not even the National Guard's going to be able to quiet it down---we're going to have to call out the whole U.S. Army.
Now I've had visions recently, for I've been in New York City and I was in Macy's in a vision, and I saw people walking around stunned because they couldn't get their money out of the bank.
Now I'm going to give you a word of advice, the first country goes bankrupt---I've documented this and I've got it sealed in an envelope, and I'm going to call all my friends and I'm telling you---this is the first time I've said it in a public meeting like this---but the first country that bellies up, you go get every dime you have---church get your money out of the bank--because there's going to be a 'bank holiday' and you won't be able to get a dime for six months. Now, of course, there's going to be -restored, but the nation will never be like it is again.
There's going to be fear like we've never known---judgment at the door. When I was at Macy's Dept. store in a vision and I watched people walking around stunned, they didn't know what to do, they didn't know what was happening; then a bunch of people walked into Macy's and suddenly went wild and began to steal and within an hour everybody---I saw the spirit of everybody in the store---they were robbing and stealing---they raped Macy's and destroyed five floors---Macy's was raped and ruined in a period of an hour or two.
That's just the beginning. Folks it's all in this book (the bible) ---we've been warned and warned and warned---you can't tell me God hasn't warned us. You can't tell me God isn't saying something awesome here tonight in this church...we better get our prayer life straightened up, our lives straightened up, get rid of the idols, as Paul writes, and seeking the face of God in holiness or you're not going to be ready for what's coming. God's warning, get ready and you'll not fear these things that come onto you and you'll start rejoicing, you'll not be afraid because your hands will be clean. You've been praying and God's building a wall of fire around you to keep you."
We'd like to teach you a song about God's protection. It goes like this.: "There's a wall of fire around me...There's a wall of fire between my soul and the enemy. There's a wall of fire that you can't see...Between my soul and the enemy. There's a wall of fire around me. May it be so with us all..."
CNN - May 22, 2006
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped 4.03 percent Monday and the peso lost ground as a rout in commodities prices and fears about rising U.S. interest rates shook the confidence of emerging markets investors.
The IPC benchmark stock index retreated 812.85 points to close at 19,369.29 points. It was its steepest one-day drop since Sept. 19, 2002.
The peso weakened 0.77 percent to 11.27 per dollar, its lowest closing in around 14 months.
Stock markets around the world have fallen sharply in recent weeks, spooked by concerns that U.S. interest rate hikes could go further than previously expected and by a sell-off in record-high commodities.
Latin American equities have slid from recent record highs. Brazil's Bovespa has dropped over 12 per cent since May 10 and Mexico's IPC index has lost about 11 percent. Both countries currencies have also been hit hard.
"The critical question going forward for everyone is to what degree is this a correction or to what degree is this a change in tendency," said Felix Boni, head of analysis at Scotiabank's brokerage in Mexico City.
"I would also say the fact we didn't have that much of a rebound on Friday in the Dow and here in Mexico would suggest ... there is something more serious going on," Boni said.
Recent falling prices for copper, gold, oil and other commodities hurt Mexican mining stocks.
Grupo Mexico, one of the world's largest copper miners, dropped 4.07 percent to 31.80 pesos.
Cellphone operator America Movil, the most heavily weighted stock in the IPC index, plunged 6.10 percent to 19.10 pesos and its New York-traded shares weakened 6.15 percent to $34.01.
Yields on Mexico's long-term bonds rose to their highest since early April.
The yield on Mexico's peso bond maturing in 2015 rose 14 basis points to 8.83 percent and the peso bond maturing in 2024 saw its yield rise 7 basis points to 9.04 percent.
"There's a perception that emerging markets, above all Brazil and Turkey, are overvalued, and that's ... hitting us," said one bond trader in Mexico City.
David Wilkerson's Economic Vision
Key points to remember about this vision:
From the time the first country goes down, you'll have two weeks to get your money out of the bank.
America will come through this crisis---there will be a restoration.
But the nation will never be like it was before...
God is saying: Get our lives straight...Get rid of the idols...Seek the face of God in holiness...
God will be a wall of fire about you...And the glory in the midst of you!
It's about to happen---very soon, one nation, and I'm speaking prophetically--if I've ever heard anything from God in my life, I heard it ... Very soon a European or North African or Eastern nation is going to default on its international loan and when that happens, within two weeks, Mexico is going to default. Mexico owes $100 billion ---80% of it to American banks---and here's what is going to happen: about two weeks after the first country goes bankrupt, (we're going to survive that, because most of that (money of the first country) is owed to European banks---German, Swiss and French banks) but a second country is going to go down, probably Argentina or Brazil, and we'll kind of live that down and say: "Well, maybe it's not going to hurt," but two weeks after the first country goes down, Mexico's going to default on $100 billion.
And when the banks open the next day at 9 in the morning, $15 billion an hour is going to be withdrawn from our American banks -they're going to be running our banks---the Arabs---all the Latin American countries, they're going to be running our banks--and before the day is over, the U.S.A is going to have to declare a "bank holiday."
SIX MONTHS OF HORROR:
And we're going into six months of the worst hell America has ever seen---there's going to be chaos---not even the National Guard's going to be able to quiet it down---we're going to have to call out the whole U.S. Army.
Now I've had visions recently, for I've been in New York City and I was in Macy's in a vision, and I saw people walking around stunned because they couldn't get their money out of the bank.
Now I'm going to give you a word of advice, the first country goes bankrupt---I've documented this and I've got it sealed in an envelope, and I'm going to call all my friends and I'm telling you---this is the first time I've said it in a public meeting like this---but the first country that bellies up, you go get every dime you have---church get your money out of the bank--because there's going to be a 'bank holiday' and you won't be able to get a dime for six months. Now, of course, there's going to be -restored, but the nation will never be like it is again.
There's going to be fear like we've never known---judgment at the door. When I was at Macy's Dept. store in a vision and I watched people walking around stunned, they didn't know what to do, they didn't know what was happening; then a bunch of people walked into Macy's and suddenly went wild and began to steal and within an hour everybody---I saw the spirit of everybody in the store---they were robbing and stealing---they raped Macy's and destroyed five floors---Macy's was raped and ruined in a period of an hour or two.
That's just the beginning. Folks it's all in this book (the bible) ---we've been warned and warned and warned---you can't tell me God hasn't warned us. You can't tell me God isn't saying something awesome here tonight in this church...we better get our prayer life straightened up, our lives straightened up, get rid of the idols, as Paul writes, and seeking the face of God in holiness or you're not going to be ready for what's coming. God's warning, get ready and you'll not fear these things that come onto you and you'll start rejoicing, you'll not be afraid because your hands will be clean. You've been praying and God's building a wall of fire around you to keep you."
We'd like to teach you a song about God's protection. It goes like this.: "There's a wall of fire around me...There's a wall of fire between my soul and the enemy. There's a wall of fire that you can't see...Between my soul and the enemy. There's a wall of fire around me. May it be so with us all..."
CNN - May 22, 2006
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped 4.03 percent Monday and the peso lost ground as a rout in commodities prices and fears about rising U.S. interest rates shook the confidence of emerging markets investors.
The IPC benchmark stock index retreated 812.85 points to close at 19,369.29 points. It was its steepest one-day drop since Sept. 19, 2002.
The peso weakened 0.77 percent to 11.27 per dollar, its lowest closing in around 14 months.
Stock markets around the world have fallen sharply in recent weeks, spooked by concerns that U.S. interest rate hikes could go further than previously expected and by a sell-off in record-high commodities.
Latin American equities have slid from recent record highs. Brazil's Bovespa has dropped over 12 per cent since May 10 and Mexico's IPC index has lost about 11 percent. Both countries currencies have also been hit hard.
"The critical question going forward for everyone is to what degree is this a correction or to what degree is this a change in tendency," said Felix Boni, head of analysis at Scotiabank's brokerage in Mexico City.
"I would also say the fact we didn't have that much of a rebound on Friday in the Dow and here in Mexico would suggest ... there is something more serious going on," Boni said.
Recent falling prices for copper, gold, oil and other commodities hurt Mexican mining stocks.
Grupo Mexico, one of the world's largest copper miners, dropped 4.07 percent to 31.80 pesos.
Cellphone operator America Movil, the most heavily weighted stock in the IPC index, plunged 6.10 percent to 19.10 pesos and its New York-traded shares weakened 6.15 percent to $34.01.
Yields on Mexico's long-term bonds rose to their highest since early April.
The yield on Mexico's peso bond maturing in 2015 rose 14 basis points to 8.83 percent and the peso bond maturing in 2024 saw its yield rise 7 basis points to 9.04 percent.
"There's a perception that emerging markets, above all Brazil and Turkey, are overvalued, and that's ... hitting us," said one bond trader in Mexico City.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Mark of the Beast Be informed!
CONTENDING FOR FAITH
~ The Received Text ~
ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS
CHAPTER IX
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
PDF VERSION
http://watch-unto-prayer.org/TR-9-mark-beast.html
The following warning is given in Chapter 2 of In Awe of Thy Word, pp. 100-101.
The KJV warns of the mark of Antichrist, whereby many "receive a mark in the right hand." New versions miss the mark, pretending it will only be "on the right hand" (Rev. 13:16). This may be the most damaging twist of scripture in these perilous days. The NKJV, TNIV, NIV, NASB, ESV, HCSB and generally all new versions allow their readers to take the mark of the beast – simply by changing the letter `i' to `o.' (According to the OED (and even the new versions in some places), the Greek epi can be translated as "in," as in epicorolline, "inserted in," epicranidal [sic], "in the cerebellum," epistolary, "in letters," "epitomize, "contain in…into a small compass.") Applied Digital Solutions has a "Verichip" ready to market. Their spokesman appeared on the 700 Club to assure Christian viewers that their embedded (in-bedded) chip did not fit the new versions description about the mark of the Beast, because their chip goes "in" the hand," "inserted with a large needle device," not stamped "on" the hand. The Associated Press (Washington, Feb. 26, 2002) reports,
"GOOD OR EVIL?… Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the `700 Club' to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin hidden from view." (http://www.msnbc.com/news/716493.asp).
Over ten years ago the bestseller, New Age Bible Versions, warned of the one letter change from "in" to `on.' It used thousands of examples proving that new versions are a part of the counterfeit sheep's clothing by which the "beast" deceives and speaks "like a lamb," with "miracles," "worship," and "great wonders" (Rev. 13:11-14). The merchants of the `mark' can swear on a wobbly stack of NKJVs that `The Bible says its ok' to take the I.D. marker. No wonder few escape it.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand…And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark…" Rev. 13:16, 17
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, says Gail, "the Greek epi can be translated as `in'." To begin with, the Oxford English Dictionary should never be used as an authority on Greek usage. For the translation of Greek words depends on their grammatical relationships—their arrangement in phrases, clauses and sentences—and one thing the student of the Bible won't learn in the OED is the meaning of Greek words according to their syntax. To be properly translated, Greek words must be "parsed," that is analyzed in terms of their grammatical constituents; parts of speech must be identified and their syntactic relations ascertained. An English dictionary does not deal with the fine points involved in Greek translation.
Although epi may, in some instances, be translated as "in," this is not the normal definition of the word epi. We doubt the OED explains that epi "can be" translated as `in' only if it occurs in specific relationships to other words and identifies those grammatical relationships. Wesley Perschbacher's New Analytical Greek Lexicon, an invaluable tool which parses every word in the Greek New Testament, identifies the occasions on which epi "can be" translated as "in":
"epi...in, of locality, Mark 8:4, et al;...in the presence of, especially in a judicial sense, 2 Cor. 7:14, Acts 25:9;...in the case of, in respect of, John 6:2, Gal. 3:16; in the time of, at the time of, Acts 11:28; Rom. 1:10, et al...in the neighborhood or society of, Acts 28:14...in order to...Matt. 3:7..."
In Revelation 13:16, 14:9 and 20:4, the Greek article "the" before the noun "hand" in the prepositional phrase "in the hand" renders the word "hand" in the accusative case, which requires its translation to be "upon." Perschbacher's New Analytical Greek Lexicon (#1909) states "`epi',...with the acc., upon".
Confirming Perschbacher's Lexicon, Learn New Testament Greek by John H. Dobson, states that "epi" means "on, on top of" ("Prepositions followed by an accusative case", p. 186).
In other words, when the preposition `epi' is present with a noun in the accusative case, its meaning is "upon, on." Had God intended Revelation 13:16, 4:9 and 20:4 to be translated "in the hand" or "in the forehead," He would have used a different Greek word —"en" (See: Strong's Concordance #1909 and #1722).
It is noteworthy that the KJV Translators correctly translated the word "epi" as "upon" in Revelation 20:4, in the phrase pertaining to the mark on the forehead, however, they mistranslated the same Greek word as "in" pertaining to the hands in the next prepositional phrase:
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark UPON their foreheads, or IN their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." (Rev. 20:4)
In Revelation 13:16, 14:1 and 14:9, however, epi is mistranslated "in," with reference to the mark on the foreheads of the 144,000 and the mark of the Beast:
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark IN their right hand, or IN their foreheads:" (Rev. 13:16)
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written IN their foreheads." (Rev. 14:1)
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man do homage to the beast and his image, and receive his mark IN his forehead, or IN his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." (Rev. 14:9,10)
Why did the KJV translators vary the translation of "epi" in these identical prepositional phrases, when the syntax requires the translation to be "on" or "upon"? The answer is found in the Bishop's Bible and previous English translations, including the Wycliffe Bible which was based on the Latin Vulgate. (The reader can compare these Bible versions at: http://www.studylight.org/)
In Latin, the word "in" is used for both "in" and "on" regardless of syntax, and it appears that the translator(s) of the Wycliffe Bible chose to translate the Latin word "in" and all of the subsequent English translations followed suit. The point is that the Greek Textus Receptus was not the authority of the 1611 Translators in these verses; rather they followed the Bishop's Bible and previous English Bibles, all of which derived their readings from the Latin Vulgate! Although King James had commanded them to follow the Bishop's Bible, they were not to depart from the Greek Text, which they obviously did:
"FOR the better ordering of the proceedings of the translators, his Majesty recommended the following rules to them, to be very carefully observed:—
1. The ordinary bible, read in the church, commonly called the Bishop's Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the original will permit...
14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishop's Bible, viz. Tyndal's, Coverdale's, Matthews', Wilchurch's, Geneva." ("History of the King James Version")
In the excerpt quoted above from In Awe of Thy Word, Gail Riplinger stated: "Over ten years ago the bestseller, New Age Bible Versions, warned of the one letter change from "in" to `on.'" This is not true. In Awe of Thy Word was published in 2003 and the first printing of New Age Bible Versions in March 1993 did not warn about the letter change. Furthermore, in the first edition of NABV, Gail interpreted Rev. 13:16 in terms of a brand (charagma) "on" the hand or "on" the forehead. In so doing, she tacitly recognized the normal definition of the Greek word epi and its correct translation — on, upon.
We have reproduced below the relevant portion of New Age Bible Versions (pp. 99-103) as it appeared in two different editions in order to show that a significant revision occurred between the 1st printing in March 1993 and the 5th printing in August of 1994. Such reproduction is permitted for purposes of criticism, comment and research under the Fair Use Provision of the U.S. Copyright Law. (See Notes below)
In the parallel sections reprinted below, the first column contains the 1st printing with the original words that were removed highlighted in blue, and the 2nd column has the 5th printing with the words that were added highlighted in red. We have taken the liberty to underline certain prepositional phrases prefixed by "in" and "on" which reveal Gail Riplinger's choice of prepositions when referring to location of the mark (charagma) of the beast. In this chapter, Gail is making her case that modern versions will sanction receiving the "name" of the beast "on" their foreheads. In the process of critiquing new versions' addition of the words "and his name" to Rev. 14:1, she states (in the 1st printing) that the "number" and "mark" of the beast will be "on" the forehead.
Note as well in the 1st printing, especially the removed portions, that Gail referred to the name and the Mark of the Beast as a "brand" that idolaters "inscribe on" their hand or forehead. However, by the 5th printing, this very correct interpretation was edited out % and replaced by "news" about the microchip implant —with the caveat that "new versions will deceive many...into believing that the forbidden mark is on, not in, the hand or forehead."
New Age Bible Versions Copyright © by G.A. Riplinger, 1993.
Published by A.V. Publications, Box 388, Munroe Falls, Ohio 44162
First Printing, March 1993
Chapter 6
His Mark & Masquerade
(…)
99
The Mark: Christ or Antichrist
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. Rev. 14:1
This verse, along with Revelation 22:4, reveal that at some point in time, whether symbolically or literally, the Lamb will have "his Father's name" written in his servants' foreheads. Revelation 7:3 and 9:4 attest similarly to God's people being "sealed in their foreheads." In his typical counterfeit counterpoise, we see the deceiver afoot, working through the antichrist. Revelation 13:16 foresees his forgery.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…and his number is six hundred threescore and six [666].
All new versions, based on a tiny percentage of corrupt Greek manuscripts, make the fatefully frightening addition of three words in Revelation 14:1.
"…the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads." NIV
100
Will the unwary reading Revelation 14:1 in a recent version, be persuaded that the bible sanctions and encourages the taking of "his name" on their forehead before they receive his Father's name? (Already Rev. Sun Myung Moon [who spiritualist Arthur Ford calls, "the New Age voice of religious thought"] calls himself "the Lamb" and claims that Christ's "new name" mentioned in Revelation 3:12 is Sun Myung Moon.1)
NIV, NASB, et al.
KJV
The Name
3 John 1:7
name's
the name which thou has given me
John 17:11
Those whom thou has given me
his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads
Rev 14:1
his Father's name written in their foreheads
calling on His name
Acts 22:16
calling on the name of the Lord
I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus
Gal. 6:17
I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
New versions are mimicking `the Name' seen in the esoteric Dead Sea Scrolls; these tell of an Arabic Mahdi whose `Name' and initiation, if rejected, brings death and imprisonment during a 7 year period. (See Theodore Gaster, The Dead Sea Scriptures, (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976 pp. 29, 38, 57, 85, 121, 181, et al.) In the tribulation (and new versions) "his name" is in and "the Lord Jesus" is out. Will "another Jesus" (II Corinthians 11:4) brand his followers with the mark of the beast, after "his ministers" (II Corinthians 11:5) have prodded them with skewed bible verses? The smoke of Satan's branding iron ascends forever.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Revelation 14:11)
101
One bible commentator notes and Old Testament elusion [sic] to the distinction between the New Testament charagma, mark of the rebellious, and the graphomai of God.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot [Hebrew: mum] is not the spot of his children. Deut. 32:5
The comment reads:
This may refer to the marks of idolaters who inscribe on their arms or foreheads…[a] sign of their particular deity. The practice is very ancient…2
Recent versions completely obscure this clue translating that verse, not from the Jewish Masoretic text but from either the Peshitta or the Greek Septuagint, both of which contain numerous corruptions. (Sounding rather cruel, they read, in effect, that certain people aren't `his' because of their defect. Curiously though, most new versions translate `mum' as `spot', not as `defect', in Job 31:7; their inconsistency rears its head frequently.)
The number of "his name". . .is 666
There are two modes of communication: 1.) direct and explicit (i.e., the word of God and its doctrines) 2.) indirect and implicit (i.e., symbols and rituals). God uses the first method; Satan uses the second means. The number 666 in the form of a mobius symbol appears on the cover the New King James Version (NKJV), just as it does on the cover of The Aquarian Conspiracy, the most popular New Age book. Its meaning is mantled to NKJV readers, a maneuver set in motion by Vera Alger and others who call for the use of such "symbols…to conceal certain knowledge from the masses."3 Aquarian Conspiracy fans are privy to the `conspiracy'.
What makes it a symbol for people is this strange power to communicate to some and not to others.4
Luciferians say it is "recognizable by those who have received certain instructions."5 Alice Bailey adds:
102
[T]he number 666 has to do with…the Greater Initiation…the initiate is defined as one who has…expressed 666.6
The Keys of Enoch "instructs the reader to use the numerical sequence 6-6-6 as frequently as possible:"7
1. [T]o be an "outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality." [The NKJV denies the deity of Christ a half dozen times.]8
2. "[T]o invoke Lord Maitreya." 9
3. "[T]o attract higher intelligences from...other dimensions."10
New Agers heed the call and parade the 666 shaped mobius. The Mobius Group, based in Los Angeles, is a leader in investigating "psychic phenomena." They give much press to the spirits still lingering in Cambridge from Westcott's Ghostly Guild.11 While New Agers hang 666 over their door, new versions try to push its negative connotations out the back door. A note in the NASB and Living Bible nudges readers to believe the number to avoid is not 666, but 616. Their readers are not told that only two insignificant documents, manuscripts C and 11 record this error.
The Mark and Image of the Virgin
For thousands of years the mark has been looming in the world's cultural and religious scaffolding, ready to be unleashed at the advent of the antichrist. The 500 million Buddhists worldwide revere effigies of Gautama Buddha and Buddhist `saints' with a mark on their forehead and on their hand. The 800 million Roman Catholics sport spots on their forehead as a part of their yearly Ash Wednesday service. Daily doses of cow excrement don the foreheads of Hindu Krishna devotees. Surveying the meaning behind this ancient practice may forearm us as to the nature of the religious system of the antichrist. Scholars tell us the forehead mark represents, "the eternal Virgin. . .the One itself." New Agers disclose that this is Lucifer.
103
The point-bindu is a standard religious symbol throughout the world. . .bindi—the red spot that Hindu women wear on their forehead. It is nothing other than a form of the bindi of esoteric origin. . .and other mystical disciplines. . .[I]t is an affirmation that she is Shakti, the feminine power. . .The concept of supreme power as female. . .[arises] from submerged prehistoric mother cults of the earliest people of the subcontinent. The Goddess is he source of all, the universal creator, as eternal Virgin (Kumari). . .She is the One itself.12
Even though most of the world's religious systems are pantheistic, that is, worship of `the One',—the Virgin or Mother Goddess has perennially been the tangible icon through which that nature god has been addressed and venerated. An engraving on a goddess icon from ancient Egypt reads, "I am all that has been, or that is, or that shall be."13
The bible opens to expose this accomplice, a talking image, that takes victims by the hand to receive their mark.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead. Revelation 13:15,16
An image of `the Virgin' appearing in Marienfried, Germany to Barbara Reuss, speaks, calling for the taking of a mark on the forehead. This phantom pronounces to all:
I am the Sign of the living God. I place my sign on the forehead of my children.14
Just as the esoteric Virgin is the image or outward manifestation of `the One', so this apparition in Germany calls itself the `sign of God'. This commonality, among others, identifies this talking entity, not as Mary, but as `the Virgin', of esotericism. The scriptures identify `the Sign' as Satan himself.
Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. II Thessalonians 2:9
New Age Bible Versions Copyright © by G.A. Riplinger, 1993.
Published by A.V. Publications, Box 388, Munroe Falls, Ohio 44162
First Printing, March 1993
Fifth Printing, August 1994
Chapter 6
His Mark & Masquerade
(…)
99
The Mark: Christ or Antichrist
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. Rev. 14:1
This verse, along with Revelation 22:4, reveal that at some point in time, whether symbolically or literally, the Lamb will have "his Father's name" written in his servants' foreheads. Revelation 7:3 and 9:4 attest similarly to God's people being "sealed in their foreheads." In his typical counterfeit counterpoise, we see the deceiver afoot, working through the antichrist. Revelation 13:16 foresees his forgery.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…and his number is six hundred threescore and six [666].
All new versions, based on a tiny percentage of corrupt Greek manuscripts, make the fatefully frightening addition of three words in Revelation 14:1.
"…the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads." NIV
100
Will the unwary reading Revelation 14:1 in a recent version, be persuaded that the bible sanctions and encourages the taking of "his name" before they receive his Father's name? Dr. Carl Sanders, developer of the hypodermically inserted Positive Identification Microchip (pim I Samuel 13:21 NKJV), now warns Christian audiences that new versions will deceive many, as they did him, into believing that the forbidden mark is on, not in, the hand or forehead. Is the U.S. government's top secret laboratory at Los Alamos creating this microchip and digitizing the Rockefeller Foundation supported Dead Sea Scrolls because the scrolls prescribe all of the elements necessary to coerse [sic] people to conform to the one world political and religious system of the antichrist?1 With the microdensitometer "You can actually move letters around in the manuscript" allowing manipulation of "the evidence", warns one researcher. The scrolls, created by the esoteric Essenes already call for: 1) confiscation of personal property, 2) two messiahs, one political and one religious (Rev. 19:20), 3) the Sons of Light, "ruled by the angel of light" (II Cor. 11:14), 4) an Arabic Mahdi whose `Name' and initiation, if rejected bring death and imprisonment during a 7 year period.2 The NIV mimics this `Name' over 80 times and prescribes death for those who will not bear it. In the tribulation (and new versions) "his name" is in and "the Lord Jesus" is out. Will "another Jesus" (II Corinthians 11:4) brand his followers with the mark of the beast, after "his ministers" (II Corinthians 11:5) have prodded them with skewed bible verses? The smoke of Satan's branding iron ascends forever.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Revelation 14:11)
NIV, NASB, et al.
KJV
his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads
Rev 14:1
his Father's name written in their foreheads
his name
Acts 22:16
the name of the Lord
the Name
Lev. 24:11
the name of the LORD
When he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death (NIV)
Lev. 24:16
When he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death
I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus
Gal. 6:17
I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
tattoo upon the hand the name (LB)
Is. 44:5
subscribe with his hand unto the LORD
Your people bear your Name (NIV)
Dan. 9:19
Thy people are called by this name
I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus
Gal. 6:17
I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
the name which thou has given me
John 17:11
those whom thou has given me
Name
3 John 1:7
Acts 5:41
name
The number of "his name". . .is 666
There are two modes of communication: 1.) direct and explicit (i.e., the word of God and its doctrines) 2.) indirect and implicit (i.e., symbols and rituals). God uses the first method; Satan uses the second means. The number 666 in the form of a mobius symbol appears on the cover the New King James Version (NKJV), just as it does on the cover of The Aquarian Conspiracy, the most popular New Age book. Its meaning is mantled to NKJV readers, a maneuver set in motion by Vera Alger and others who call for the use of such "symbols…to conceal certain knowledge from the masses."3 Aquarian Conspiracy fans are privy to the `conspiracy'.
What makes it a symbol for people is this strange power to communicate to some and not to others.4
Luciferians say it is "recognizable by those who have received certain instructions."5 Alice Bailey adds:
102
[T]he number 666 has to do with…the Greater Initiation…the initiate is defined as one who has…expressed 666.6
The Keys of Enoch "instructs the reader to use the numerical sequence 6-6-6 as frequently as possible:"7
1. [T]o be an "outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality." [The NKJV denies the deity of Christ a half dozen times.]8
2. "[T]o invoke Lord Maitreya." 9
3. "[T]o attract higher intelligences from...other dimensions."10
New Agers heed the call and parade the 666 shaped mobius. The Mobius Group, based in Los Angeles, is a leader in investigating "psychic phenomena." They give much press to the spirits still lingering in Cambridge from Westcott's Ghostly Guild.11 While New Agers hang 666 over their door, new versions try to push its negative connotations out the back door. A note in the NASB and Living Bible nudges readers to believe the number to avoid is not 666, but 616. Their readers are not told that only two insignificant documents, manuscripts C and 11 record this error.
The Mark and Image of the Virgin
For thousands of years the mark has been looming in the world's cultural and religious scaffolding, ready to be unleashed at the advent of the antichrist. The 500 million Buddhists worldwide revere effigies of Gautama Buddha and Buddhist `saints' with a mark on their forehead and on their hand. The 800 million Roman Catholics sport spots on their forehead as a part of their yearly Ash Wednesday service. Daily doses of cow excrement don the foreheads of Hindu Krishna devotees. Surveying the meaning behind this ancient practice may forearm us as to the nature of the religious system of the antichrist. Scholars tell us the forehead mark represents, "the eternal Virgin. . .the One itself." New Agers disclose that this is Lucifer.
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The point-bindu is a standard religious symbol throughout the world. . .bindi—the red spot that Hindu women wear on their forehead. It is nothing other than a form of the bindi of esoteric origin. . .and other mystical disciplines. . .[I]t is an affirmation that she is Shakti, the feminine power. . .The concept of supreme power as female. . .[arises] from submerged prehistoric mother cults of the earliest people of the subcontinent. The Goddess is he source of all, the universal creator, as eternal Virgin (Kumari). . .She is the One itself.12
Even though most of the world's religious systems are pantheistic, that is, worship of `the One',—the Virgin or Mother Goddess has perennially been the tangible icon through which that nature god has been addressed and venerated. An engraving on a goddess icon from ancient Egypt reads, "I am all that has been, or that is, or that shall be."13
The bible opens to expose this accomplice, a talking image, that takes victims by the hand to receive their mark.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead. Revelation 13:15,16
An image of `the Virgin' appearing in Marienfried, Germany to Barbara Reuss, speaks, calling for the taking of a mark on the forehead. This phantom pronounces to all:
I am the Sign of the living God. I place my sign on the forehead of my children.14
Just as the esoteric Virgin is the image or outward manifestation of `the One', so this apparition in Germany calls itself the `sign of God'. This commonality, among others, identifies this talking entity, not as Mary, but as `the Virgin', of esotericism. The scriptures identify `the Sign' as Satan himself.
Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. II Thessalonians 2:9
How do we account for Gail Riplinger's sudden shift in the interpretation of Bible prophecy in New Age Bible Versions? Should Christians revise their interpretation of Bible prophecy as they hear the news, as Gail Riplinger has done, or "prove all things" according to the Greek Textus Receptus, which she has regrettably placed on the "KJV-Only Index of Forbidden Books"?
In the 1st printing of New Age Bible Versions, Gail revealed accurate information about the name, number and Mark of the Beast:
The Name of the Beast will be given "on" the forehead. "On their forehead" was removed by the 5th Printing;
"Will the unwary reading Revelation 14:1 in a recent version, be persuaded that the bible sanctions and encourages the taking of `his name' on their forehead before they receive his Father's name?" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 100; revised in 5th Printing)
The Name of the Beast will be associated with an initiation rite, i.e., the Luciferic Initiation.
"New versions are mimicking `the Name' seen in the esoteric Dead Sea Scrolls; these tell of an Arabic Mahdi whose `Name' and initiation, if rejected, brings death and imprisonment during a 7 year period. (See Theodore Gaster, The Dead Sea Scriptures, (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976 pp. 29, 38, 57, 85, 121, 181, et al.)" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 100; removed in 5th Printing)
The Mark of the Beast will be a "brand" and not an implant.
"Will `another Jesus' (II Corinthians 11:4) brand his followers with the mark of the beast?" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 100; removed in 5th Printing)
The Mark of the Beast will be a charagma, a "mark" which idolaters "inscribe on their arms or foreheads." Furthermore, these marks are symbols of the deities they worship.
"One bible commentator notes and Old Testament elusion [sic] to the distinction between the New Testament charagma, mark of the rebellious, and the graphomai of God. `They have corrupted themselves, their spot [Hebrew: mum] is not the spot of his children. Deut. 32:5' The comment reads: `This may refer to the marks of idolaters who inscribe on their arms or foreheads…[a] sign of their particular deity. The practice is very ancient…2'" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 101; removed in 5th Printing)
The Greek word for "mark" in all of the relevant verses is "charagma," that is, a "stamp" or "mark" that is branded, imprinted or engraved ON the forehead or hand (rather than implanted in the skin) of a follower of the Antichrist.
5480 charagma {khar'-ag-mah} from the same as 5482: TDNT - 9:416,1308; n n
AV - mark 8, graven 1; 9
1) a stamp, an imprinted mark
1a) of the mark stamped ON the forehead or the right hand as the badge of the followers of the Antichrist
1b) the mark branded UPON horses
2) thing carved, sculpture, graven work
2a) of idolatrous images
In the first printing of NABV, the Mark of the Beast was the symbol of Lucifer branded on the skin during an initiation rite. By the 5th printing the Mark of the Beast had become a surgically implanted device that was not associated with religious worship but having only commercial value. Whereas the "mark of Lucifer" will be branded on idolaters in places of worship during the Tribulation period, the RFID Microchip will be implanted on the masses in outpatient clinics. We can readily understand why a brand received by an idolater during the Luciferic Initiation will seal his/her eternal destiny in the Lake of Fire. However, it makes no sense that God would eternally condemn a man, woman or child for receiving an RFID microchip in a hospital or clinic or government facility. In fact, God even commands obedience to governing authorities, with the exception of obeying laws that compel the Christian to disobey His Word, for example, to commit murder. In contrast, God passionately forbids the worship of false gods and the practice of witchcraft, including tattoos, as abominations with eternal consequences:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" (Exod. 20:4-5)
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." (Exod. 22:18)
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh fOR THE DEAD, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." (Lev. 19:28)
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." (Deut. 18:10-12)
"And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." (Rev. 9:21)
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." (Rev. 9:21)
Another perhaps inadvertent disclosure in the first printing of New Age Bible Versions was Gail's blunt acknowledgement of the corrupt nature of the Syriac Peshitta: "...the Peshitta or the Greek Septuagint, both of which contain numerous corruptions." (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p.100) This presumably unintentional admission was hastily withdrawn and does not appear in the 5th printing. Elsewhere in New Age Bible Versions (5th Printing), Gail states the opposite: "the Sinaitic Version (third century), the Gothic Version (fourth century) and the Peshitta Syriac (now dated much earlier than the fifth century) agree with the KJV." (NABV, p. 488) (For the "numerous corruptions" in the Syriac Peshitta, which KJV-Only propaganda classifies with the Traditional Text, see: The Semitic New Testament)
Finally, Gail did not forget to misrepresent the New King James Version, even though the NKJV follows the Textus Receptus in all verses pertaining to the Mark of the Beast. Writes Gail:
"The merchants of the `mark' can swear on a wobbly stack of NKJVs that `The Bible says its ok' to take the I.D. marker." (Awe, p. 101)
"The NKJV denies the deity of Christ a half dozen times." (NABV, p. 102) / not true
"All new versions, based on a tiny percentage of corrupt Greek manuscripts, make the fatefully frightening addition of three words in Revelation 14:1. / NKJV does not add these words
"…the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads." NIV
"The number 666 in the form of a mobius symbol appears on the cover the New King James Version (NKJV)" (NABV, p. 101)
Concerning the symbol on the cover of the Thomas Nelson NKJV, let us remember the old axiom about judging a book by its cover. Just as we cannot judge the text of 1611 King James Version by pagan woodcuts, headpieces and tailpieces that were added by the printer, Robert Barker, so we cannot judge the text of the New King James Version by a book cover designed by the publisher Thomas Nelson, Inc. Many New King James Bibles do not have the Thomas Nelson cover, just as pagan woodcuts and headpieces vanished from King James Bibles.
Gail Riplinger makes much ado about the "mobius" being an occult symbol and a visual representation of 666. How much more significant in terms of historic and Biblical import is the number 666 in the form of the 6-pointed star (misnamed the Star of David) which occultists have for three millennia venerated as the Seal of Solomon, the apostate king who led Israel into idolatry. This pagan symbol was used by King Solomon as a powerful talisman for his idolatrous worship of the goddess, Ashtaroth, and the gods, Chemosh and Molech, and so is it used in the occult world today.
"II Kings 23:13 is explicit: `And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.'…King Solomon built an altar for Ashtoreth, worshipped her, and also practiced Moloch rituals. It was at this time that the hexagram or six-pointed star came to be called the Seal of Solomon... Solomon's Seal was accepted as occult by the occult world. King Solomon was deeply involved in witchcraft and occultism. According to The Sorcerer's Handbook, `King Solomon, traditionally known as an arch magician, used a spell to banish infernal beings sent by the king of demons to extract human hearts…'" (O.J. Graham, The Six-Pointed Star, pp. 24-5, 29, 32)
"Interestingly enough you will notice that the emblem is made up of three pairs of triangles with their apexes touching. Each pair collectively represents the number 6, which qualifies the whole symbol as a graphical representation of 666." ("Sects, Symbolism & the Mark of the Beast")
God has provided important clues in His Word which point to the Seal of Solomon as the Mark of the Beast:
"Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX talents of gold..." (1 Kings 10:14)
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX. "(Rev. 13:18)
For further evidence that the Seal of Solomon is the Mark of the Beast, please see:
THE REVELATION OF THE ANTICHRIST ~ As the Second Coming of King Solomon
The Six-Pointed Star: The Mark of the Beast ~ The Star of David or Star of Remphan?
Designer Marks of the Beast ~ Why the Mark of the Beast is NOT the Microchip Implant
Heeding Bible Prophecy: The Mark of the Beast
The New King James Version correctly and consistently translates the Greek word epi as "on" in all of the prophecies concerning the Mark of the Beast.
"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or ON their foreheads," (Rev. 13:16, NKJV)
"Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, `If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark ON his forehead or ON his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.'" (Rev. 14:9-10, NKJV)
"And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark ON their foreheads or ON their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." (Rev. 20:4, NKJV)
Can it be that the accurate translation of these crucial verses (which have end-time and eternal ramifications) accounts for the relentless campaign to discredit the New King James Version? We have little doubt. The fact that the NKJV reflects the Greek Textus Receptus in these verses alone would be sufficient reason for the Antichrist system to conspire against it and to promote in its place a translation that carries a false reading. For the endgame of the KJV-Only conspiracy is not only to eliminate the Textus Receptus—and along with it Greek resources which translate epi as "on"—but also Fundamental Christians who believe the Greek Textus Receptus must be the only basis for New Testament translation.
When the microchip implant becomes mandatory, many Fundamentalist Christians will rebel against the U.S. Government, while other Fundamental Christians will endure starvation rather than take the chip implant, having been deceived that it is the Mark of the Beast. Those who take up arms against the U.S. Government will provide legal justification for the persecution and elimination of all Fundamental Christians. Either way, whether through organized rebellion or starvation, Fundamental Christianity will be eliminated, with it, the Greek Textus Receptus.
CHAPTER X
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS
CHAPTER IX
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
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The following warning is given in Chapter 2 of In Awe of Thy Word, pp. 100-101.
The KJV warns of the mark of Antichrist, whereby many "receive a mark in the right hand." New versions miss the mark, pretending it will only be "on the right hand" (Rev. 13:16). This may be the most damaging twist of scripture in these perilous days. The NKJV, TNIV, NIV, NASB, ESV, HCSB and generally all new versions allow their readers to take the mark of the beast – simply by changing the letter `i' to `o.' (According to the OED (and even the new versions in some places), the Greek epi can be translated as "in," as in epicorolline, "inserted in," epicranidal [sic], "in the cerebellum," epistolary, "in letters," "epitomize, "contain in…into a small compass.") Applied Digital Solutions has a "Verichip" ready to market. Their spokesman appeared on the 700 Club to assure Christian viewers that their embedded (in-bedded) chip did not fit the new versions description about the mark of the Beast, because their chip goes "in" the hand," "inserted with a large needle device," not stamped "on" the hand. The Associated Press (Washington, Feb. 26, 2002) reports,
"GOOD OR EVIL?… Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the `700 Club' to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin hidden from view." (http://www.msnbc.com/news/716493.asp).
Over ten years ago the bestseller, New Age Bible Versions, warned of the one letter change from "in" to `on.' It used thousands of examples proving that new versions are a part of the counterfeit sheep's clothing by which the "beast" deceives and speaks "like a lamb," with "miracles," "worship," and "great wonders" (Rev. 13:11-14). The merchants of the `mark' can swear on a wobbly stack of NKJVs that `The Bible says its ok' to take the I.D. marker. No wonder few escape it.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand…And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark…" Rev. 13:16, 17
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, says Gail, "the Greek epi can be translated as `in'." To begin with, the Oxford English Dictionary should never be used as an authority on Greek usage. For the translation of Greek words depends on their grammatical relationships—their arrangement in phrases, clauses and sentences—and one thing the student of the Bible won't learn in the OED is the meaning of Greek words according to their syntax. To be properly translated, Greek words must be "parsed," that is analyzed in terms of their grammatical constituents; parts of speech must be identified and their syntactic relations ascertained. An English dictionary does not deal with the fine points involved in Greek translation.
Although epi may, in some instances, be translated as "in," this is not the normal definition of the word epi. We doubt the OED explains that epi "can be" translated as `in' only if it occurs in specific relationships to other words and identifies those grammatical relationships. Wesley Perschbacher's New Analytical Greek Lexicon, an invaluable tool which parses every word in the Greek New Testament, identifies the occasions on which epi "can be" translated as "in":
"epi...in, of locality, Mark 8:4, et al;...in the presence of, especially in a judicial sense, 2 Cor. 7:14, Acts 25:9;...in the case of, in respect of, John 6:2, Gal. 3:16; in the time of, at the time of, Acts 11:28; Rom. 1:10, et al...in the neighborhood or society of, Acts 28:14...in order to...Matt. 3:7..."
In Revelation 13:16, 14:9 and 20:4, the Greek article "the" before the noun "hand" in the prepositional phrase "in the hand" renders the word "hand" in the accusative case, which requires its translation to be "upon." Perschbacher's New Analytical Greek Lexicon (#1909) states "`epi',...with the acc., upon".
Confirming Perschbacher's Lexicon, Learn New Testament Greek by John H. Dobson, states that "epi" means "on, on top of" ("Prepositions followed by an accusative case", p. 186).
In other words, when the preposition `epi' is present with a noun in the accusative case, its meaning is "upon, on." Had God intended Revelation 13:16, 4:9 and 20:4 to be translated "in the hand" or "in the forehead," He would have used a different Greek word —"en" (See: Strong's Concordance #1909 and #1722).
It is noteworthy that the KJV Translators correctly translated the word "epi" as "upon" in Revelation 20:4, in the phrase pertaining to the mark on the forehead, however, they mistranslated the same Greek word as "in" pertaining to the hands in the next prepositional phrase:
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark UPON their foreheads, or IN their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." (Rev. 20:4)
In Revelation 13:16, 14:1 and 14:9, however, epi is mistranslated "in," with reference to the mark on the foreheads of the 144,000 and the mark of the Beast:
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark IN their right hand, or IN their foreheads:" (Rev. 13:16)
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written IN their foreheads." (Rev. 14:1)
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man do homage to the beast and his image, and receive his mark IN his forehead, or IN his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." (Rev. 14:9,10)
Why did the KJV translators vary the translation of "epi" in these identical prepositional phrases, when the syntax requires the translation to be "on" or "upon"? The answer is found in the Bishop's Bible and previous English translations, including the Wycliffe Bible which was based on the Latin Vulgate. (The reader can compare these Bible versions at: http://www.studylight.org/)
In Latin, the word "in" is used for both "in" and "on" regardless of syntax, and it appears that the translator(s) of the Wycliffe Bible chose to translate the Latin word "in" and all of the subsequent English translations followed suit. The point is that the Greek Textus Receptus was not the authority of the 1611 Translators in these verses; rather they followed the Bishop's Bible and previous English Bibles, all of which derived their readings from the Latin Vulgate! Although King James had commanded them to follow the Bishop's Bible, they were not to depart from the Greek Text, which they obviously did:
"FOR the better ordering of the proceedings of the translators, his Majesty recommended the following rules to them, to be very carefully observed:—
1. The ordinary bible, read in the church, commonly called the Bishop's Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the original will permit...
14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishop's Bible, viz. Tyndal's, Coverdale's, Matthews', Wilchurch's, Geneva." ("History of the King James Version")
In the excerpt quoted above from In Awe of Thy Word, Gail Riplinger stated: "Over ten years ago the bestseller, New Age Bible Versions, warned of the one letter change from "in" to `on.'" This is not true. In Awe of Thy Word was published in 2003 and the first printing of New Age Bible Versions in March 1993 did not warn about the letter change. Furthermore, in the first edition of NABV, Gail interpreted Rev. 13:16 in terms of a brand (charagma) "on" the hand or "on" the forehead. In so doing, she tacitly recognized the normal definition of the Greek word epi and its correct translation — on, upon.
We have reproduced below the relevant portion of New Age Bible Versions (pp. 99-103) as it appeared in two different editions in order to show that a significant revision occurred between the 1st printing in March 1993 and the 5th printing in August of 1994. Such reproduction is permitted for purposes of criticism, comment and research under the Fair Use Provision of the U.S. Copyright Law. (See Notes below)
In the parallel sections reprinted below, the first column contains the 1st printing with the original words that were removed highlighted in blue, and the 2nd column has the 5th printing with the words that were added highlighted in red. We have taken the liberty to underline certain prepositional phrases prefixed by "in" and "on" which reveal Gail Riplinger's choice of prepositions when referring to location of the mark (charagma) of the beast. In this chapter, Gail is making her case that modern versions will sanction receiving the "name" of the beast "on" their foreheads. In the process of critiquing new versions' addition of the words "and his name" to Rev. 14:1, she states (in the 1st printing) that the "number" and "mark" of the beast will be "on" the forehead.
Note as well in the 1st printing, especially the removed portions, that Gail referred to the name and the Mark of the Beast as a "brand" that idolaters "inscribe on" their hand or forehead. However, by the 5th printing, this very correct interpretation was edited out % and replaced by "news" about the microchip implant —with the caveat that "new versions will deceive many...into believing that the forbidden mark is on, not in, the hand or forehead."
New Age Bible Versions Copyright © by G.A. Riplinger, 1993.
Published by A.V. Publications, Box 388, Munroe Falls, Ohio 44162
First Printing, March 1993
Chapter 6
His Mark & Masquerade
(…)
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The Mark: Christ or Antichrist
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. Rev. 14:1
This verse, along with Revelation 22:4, reveal that at some point in time, whether symbolically or literally, the Lamb will have "his Father's name" written in his servants' foreheads. Revelation 7:3 and 9:4 attest similarly to God's people being "sealed in their foreheads." In his typical counterfeit counterpoise, we see the deceiver afoot, working through the antichrist. Revelation 13:16 foresees his forgery.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…and his number is six hundred threescore and six [666].
All new versions, based on a tiny percentage of corrupt Greek manuscripts, make the fatefully frightening addition of three words in Revelation 14:1.
"…the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads." NIV
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Will the unwary reading Revelation 14:1 in a recent version, be persuaded that the bible sanctions and encourages the taking of "his name" on their forehead before they receive his Father's name? (Already Rev. Sun Myung Moon [who spiritualist Arthur Ford calls, "the New Age voice of religious thought"] calls himself "the Lamb" and claims that Christ's "new name" mentioned in Revelation 3:12 is Sun Myung Moon.1)
NIV, NASB, et al.
KJV
The Name
3 John 1:7
name's
the name which thou has given me
John 17:11
Those whom thou has given me
his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads
Rev 14:1
his Father's name written in their foreheads
calling on His name
Acts 22:16
calling on the name of the Lord
I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus
Gal. 6:17
I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
New versions are mimicking `the Name' seen in the esoteric Dead Sea Scrolls; these tell of an Arabic Mahdi whose `Name' and initiation, if rejected, brings death and imprisonment during a 7 year period. (See Theodore Gaster, The Dead Sea Scriptures, (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976 pp. 29, 38, 57, 85, 121, 181, et al.) In the tribulation (and new versions) "his name" is in and "the Lord Jesus" is out. Will "another Jesus" (II Corinthians 11:4) brand his followers with the mark of the beast, after "his ministers" (II Corinthians 11:5) have prodded them with skewed bible verses? The smoke of Satan's branding iron ascends forever.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Revelation 14:11)
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One bible commentator notes and Old Testament elusion [sic] to the distinction between the New Testament charagma, mark of the rebellious, and the graphomai of God.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot [Hebrew: mum] is not the spot of his children. Deut. 32:5
The comment reads:
This may refer to the marks of idolaters who inscribe on their arms or foreheads…[a] sign of their particular deity. The practice is very ancient…2
Recent versions completely obscure this clue translating that verse, not from the Jewish Masoretic text but from either the Peshitta or the Greek Septuagint, both of which contain numerous corruptions. (Sounding rather cruel, they read, in effect, that certain people aren't `his' because of their defect. Curiously though, most new versions translate `mum' as `spot', not as `defect', in Job 31:7; their inconsistency rears its head frequently.)
The number of "his name". . .is 666
There are two modes of communication: 1.) direct and explicit (i.e., the word of God and its doctrines) 2.) indirect and implicit (i.e., symbols and rituals). God uses the first method; Satan uses the second means. The number 666 in the form of a mobius symbol appears on the cover the New King James Version (NKJV), just as it does on the cover of The Aquarian Conspiracy, the most popular New Age book. Its meaning is mantled to NKJV readers, a maneuver set in motion by Vera Alger and others who call for the use of such "symbols…to conceal certain knowledge from the masses."3 Aquarian Conspiracy fans are privy to the `conspiracy'.
What makes it a symbol for people is this strange power to communicate to some and not to others.4
Luciferians say it is "recognizable by those who have received certain instructions."5 Alice Bailey adds:
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[T]he number 666 has to do with…the Greater Initiation…the initiate is defined as one who has…expressed 666.6
The Keys of Enoch "instructs the reader to use the numerical sequence 6-6-6 as frequently as possible:"7
1. [T]o be an "outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality." [The NKJV denies the deity of Christ a half dozen times.]8
2. "[T]o invoke Lord Maitreya." 9
3. "[T]o attract higher intelligences from...other dimensions."10
New Agers heed the call and parade the 666 shaped mobius. The Mobius Group, based in Los Angeles, is a leader in investigating "psychic phenomena." They give much press to the spirits still lingering in Cambridge from Westcott's Ghostly Guild.11 While New Agers hang 666 over their door, new versions try to push its negative connotations out the back door. A note in the NASB and Living Bible nudges readers to believe the number to avoid is not 666, but 616. Their readers are not told that only two insignificant documents, manuscripts C and 11 record this error.
The Mark and Image of the Virgin
For thousands of years the mark has been looming in the world's cultural and religious scaffolding, ready to be unleashed at the advent of the antichrist. The 500 million Buddhists worldwide revere effigies of Gautama Buddha and Buddhist `saints' with a mark on their forehead and on their hand. The 800 million Roman Catholics sport spots on their forehead as a part of their yearly Ash Wednesday service. Daily doses of cow excrement don the foreheads of Hindu Krishna devotees. Surveying the meaning behind this ancient practice may forearm us as to the nature of the religious system of the antichrist. Scholars tell us the forehead mark represents, "the eternal Virgin. . .the One itself." New Agers disclose that this is Lucifer.
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The point-bindu is a standard religious symbol throughout the world. . .bindi—the red spot that Hindu women wear on their forehead. It is nothing other than a form of the bindi of esoteric origin. . .and other mystical disciplines. . .[I]t is an affirmation that she is Shakti, the feminine power. . .The concept of supreme power as female. . .[arises] from submerged prehistoric mother cults of the earliest people of the subcontinent. The Goddess is he source of all, the universal creator, as eternal Virgin (Kumari). . .She is the One itself.12
Even though most of the world's religious systems are pantheistic, that is, worship of `the One',—the Virgin or Mother Goddess has perennially been the tangible icon through which that nature god has been addressed and venerated. An engraving on a goddess icon from ancient Egypt reads, "I am all that has been, or that is, or that shall be."13
The bible opens to expose this accomplice, a talking image, that takes victims by the hand to receive their mark.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead. Revelation 13:15,16
An image of `the Virgin' appearing in Marienfried, Germany to Barbara Reuss, speaks, calling for the taking of a mark on the forehead. This phantom pronounces to all:
I am the Sign of the living God. I place my sign on the forehead of my children.14
Just as the esoteric Virgin is the image or outward manifestation of `the One', so this apparition in Germany calls itself the `sign of God'. This commonality, among others, identifies this talking entity, not as Mary, but as `the Virgin', of esotericism. The scriptures identify `the Sign' as Satan himself.
Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. II Thessalonians 2:9
New Age Bible Versions Copyright © by G.A. Riplinger, 1993.
Published by A.V. Publications, Box 388, Munroe Falls, Ohio 44162
First Printing, March 1993
Fifth Printing, August 1994
Chapter 6
His Mark & Masquerade
(…)
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The Mark: Christ or Antichrist
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. Rev. 14:1
This verse, along with Revelation 22:4, reveal that at some point in time, whether symbolically or literally, the Lamb will have "his Father's name" written in his servants' foreheads. Revelation 7:3 and 9:4 attest similarly to God's people being "sealed in their foreheads." In his typical counterfeit counterpoise, we see the deceiver afoot, working through the antichrist. Revelation 13:16 foresees his forgery.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…and his number is six hundred threescore and six [666].
All new versions, based on a tiny percentage of corrupt Greek manuscripts, make the fatefully frightening addition of three words in Revelation 14:1.
"…the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads." NIV
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Will the unwary reading Revelation 14:1 in a recent version, be persuaded that the bible sanctions and encourages the taking of "his name" before they receive his Father's name? Dr. Carl Sanders, developer of the hypodermically inserted Positive Identification Microchip (pim I Samuel 13:21 NKJV), now warns Christian audiences that new versions will deceive many, as they did him, into believing that the forbidden mark is on, not in, the hand or forehead. Is the U.S. government's top secret laboratory at Los Alamos creating this microchip and digitizing the Rockefeller Foundation supported Dead Sea Scrolls because the scrolls prescribe all of the elements necessary to coerse [sic] people to conform to the one world political and religious system of the antichrist?1 With the microdensitometer "You can actually move letters around in the manuscript" allowing manipulation of "the evidence", warns one researcher. The scrolls, created by the esoteric Essenes already call for: 1) confiscation of personal property, 2) two messiahs, one political and one religious (Rev. 19:20), 3) the Sons of Light, "ruled by the angel of light" (II Cor. 11:14), 4) an Arabic Mahdi whose `Name' and initiation, if rejected bring death and imprisonment during a 7 year period.2 The NIV mimics this `Name' over 80 times and prescribes death for those who will not bear it. In the tribulation (and new versions) "his name" is in and "the Lord Jesus" is out. Will "another Jesus" (II Corinthians 11:4) brand his followers with the mark of the beast, after "his ministers" (II Corinthians 11:5) have prodded them with skewed bible verses? The smoke of Satan's branding iron ascends forever.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Revelation 14:11)
NIV, NASB, et al.
KJV
his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads
Rev 14:1
his Father's name written in their foreheads
his name
Acts 22:16
the name of the Lord
the Name
Lev. 24:11
the name of the LORD
When he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death (NIV)
Lev. 24:16
When he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death
I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus
Gal. 6:17
I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
tattoo upon the hand the name (LB)
Is. 44:5
subscribe with his hand unto the LORD
Your people bear your Name (NIV)
Dan. 9:19
Thy people are called by this name
I bear on my body the brand marks of Jesus
Gal. 6:17
I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
the name which thou has given me
John 17:11
those whom thou has given me
Name
3 John 1:7
Acts 5:41
name
The number of "his name". . .is 666
There are two modes of communication: 1.) direct and explicit (i.e., the word of God and its doctrines) 2.) indirect and implicit (i.e., symbols and rituals). God uses the first method; Satan uses the second means. The number 666 in the form of a mobius symbol appears on the cover the New King James Version (NKJV), just as it does on the cover of The Aquarian Conspiracy, the most popular New Age book. Its meaning is mantled to NKJV readers, a maneuver set in motion by Vera Alger and others who call for the use of such "symbols…to conceal certain knowledge from the masses."3 Aquarian Conspiracy fans are privy to the `conspiracy'.
What makes it a symbol for people is this strange power to communicate to some and not to others.4
Luciferians say it is "recognizable by those who have received certain instructions."5 Alice Bailey adds:
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[T]he number 666 has to do with…the Greater Initiation…the initiate is defined as one who has…expressed 666.6
The Keys of Enoch "instructs the reader to use the numerical sequence 6-6-6 as frequently as possible:"7
1. [T]o be an "outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality." [The NKJV denies the deity of Christ a half dozen times.]8
2. "[T]o invoke Lord Maitreya." 9
3. "[T]o attract higher intelligences from...other dimensions."10
New Agers heed the call and parade the 666 shaped mobius. The Mobius Group, based in Los Angeles, is a leader in investigating "psychic phenomena." They give much press to the spirits still lingering in Cambridge from Westcott's Ghostly Guild.11 While New Agers hang 666 over their door, new versions try to push its negative connotations out the back door. A note in the NASB and Living Bible nudges readers to believe the number to avoid is not 666, but 616. Their readers are not told that only two insignificant documents, manuscripts C and 11 record this error.
The Mark and Image of the Virgin
For thousands of years the mark has been looming in the world's cultural and religious scaffolding, ready to be unleashed at the advent of the antichrist. The 500 million Buddhists worldwide revere effigies of Gautama Buddha and Buddhist `saints' with a mark on their forehead and on their hand. The 800 million Roman Catholics sport spots on their forehead as a part of their yearly Ash Wednesday service. Daily doses of cow excrement don the foreheads of Hindu Krishna devotees. Surveying the meaning behind this ancient practice may forearm us as to the nature of the religious system of the antichrist. Scholars tell us the forehead mark represents, "the eternal Virgin. . .the One itself." New Agers disclose that this is Lucifer.
103
The point-bindu is a standard religious symbol throughout the world. . .bindi—the red spot that Hindu women wear on their forehead. It is nothing other than a form of the bindi of esoteric origin. . .and other mystical disciplines. . .[I]t is an affirmation that she is Shakti, the feminine power. . .The concept of supreme power as female. . .[arises] from submerged prehistoric mother cults of the earliest people of the subcontinent. The Goddess is he source of all, the universal creator, as eternal Virgin (Kumari). . .She is the One itself.12
Even though most of the world's religious systems are pantheistic, that is, worship of `the One',—the Virgin or Mother Goddess has perennially been the tangible icon through which that nature god has been addressed and venerated. An engraving on a goddess icon from ancient Egypt reads, "I am all that has been, or that is, or that shall be."13
The bible opens to expose this accomplice, a talking image, that takes victims by the hand to receive their mark.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead. Revelation 13:15,16
An image of `the Virgin' appearing in Marienfried, Germany to Barbara Reuss, speaks, calling for the taking of a mark on the forehead. This phantom pronounces to all:
I am the Sign of the living God. I place my sign on the forehead of my children.14
Just as the esoteric Virgin is the image or outward manifestation of `the One', so this apparition in Germany calls itself the `sign of God'. This commonality, among others, identifies this talking entity, not as Mary, but as `the Virgin', of esotericism. The scriptures identify `the Sign' as Satan himself.
Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. II Thessalonians 2:9
How do we account for Gail Riplinger's sudden shift in the interpretation of Bible prophecy in New Age Bible Versions? Should Christians revise their interpretation of Bible prophecy as they hear the news, as Gail Riplinger has done, or "prove all things" according to the Greek Textus Receptus, which she has regrettably placed on the "KJV-Only Index of Forbidden Books"?
In the 1st printing of New Age Bible Versions, Gail revealed accurate information about the name, number and Mark of the Beast:
The Name of the Beast will be given "on" the forehead. "On their forehead" was removed by the 5th Printing;
"Will the unwary reading Revelation 14:1 in a recent version, be persuaded that the bible sanctions and encourages the taking of `his name' on their forehead before they receive his Father's name?" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 100; revised in 5th Printing)
The Name of the Beast will be associated with an initiation rite, i.e., the Luciferic Initiation.
"New versions are mimicking `the Name' seen in the esoteric Dead Sea Scrolls; these tell of an Arabic Mahdi whose `Name' and initiation, if rejected, brings death and imprisonment during a 7 year period. (See Theodore Gaster, The Dead Sea Scriptures, (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976 pp. 29, 38, 57, 85, 121, 181, et al.)" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 100; removed in 5th Printing)
The Mark of the Beast will be a "brand" and not an implant.
"Will `another Jesus' (II Corinthians 11:4) brand his followers with the mark of the beast?" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 100; removed in 5th Printing)
The Mark of the Beast will be a charagma, a "mark" which idolaters "inscribe on their arms or foreheads." Furthermore, these marks are symbols of the deities they worship.
"One bible commentator notes and Old Testament elusion [sic] to the distinction between the New Testament charagma, mark of the rebellious, and the graphomai of God. `They have corrupted themselves, their spot [Hebrew: mum] is not the spot of his children. Deut. 32:5' The comment reads: `This may refer to the marks of idolaters who inscribe on their arms or foreheads…[a] sign of their particular deity. The practice is very ancient…2'" (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p. 101; removed in 5th Printing)
The Greek word for "mark" in all of the relevant verses is "charagma," that is, a "stamp" or "mark" that is branded, imprinted or engraved ON the forehead or hand (rather than implanted in the skin) of a follower of the Antichrist.
5480 charagma {khar'-ag-mah} from the same as 5482: TDNT - 9:416,1308; n n
AV - mark 8, graven 1; 9
1) a stamp, an imprinted mark
1a) of the mark stamped ON the forehead or the right hand as the badge of the followers of the Antichrist
1b) the mark branded UPON horses
2) thing carved, sculpture, graven work
2a) of idolatrous images
In the first printing of NABV, the Mark of the Beast was the symbol of Lucifer branded on the skin during an initiation rite. By the 5th printing the Mark of the Beast had become a surgically implanted device that was not associated with religious worship but having only commercial value. Whereas the "mark of Lucifer" will be branded on idolaters in places of worship during the Tribulation period, the RFID Microchip will be implanted on the masses in outpatient clinics. We can readily understand why a brand received by an idolater during the Luciferic Initiation will seal his/her eternal destiny in the Lake of Fire. However, it makes no sense that God would eternally condemn a man, woman or child for receiving an RFID microchip in a hospital or clinic or government facility. In fact, God even commands obedience to governing authorities, with the exception of obeying laws that compel the Christian to disobey His Word, for example, to commit murder. In contrast, God passionately forbids the worship of false gods and the practice of witchcraft, including tattoos, as abominations with eternal consequences:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" (Exod. 20:4-5)
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." (Exod. 22:18)
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh fOR THE DEAD, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." (Lev. 19:28)
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." (Deut. 18:10-12)
"And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." (Rev. 9:21)
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." (Rev. 9:21)
Another perhaps inadvertent disclosure in the first printing of New Age Bible Versions was Gail's blunt acknowledgement of the corrupt nature of the Syriac Peshitta: "...the Peshitta or the Greek Septuagint, both of which contain numerous corruptions." (NABV, 1st Printing, March 1993, p.100) This presumably unintentional admission was hastily withdrawn and does not appear in the 5th printing. Elsewhere in New Age Bible Versions (5th Printing), Gail states the opposite: "the Sinaitic Version (third century), the Gothic Version (fourth century) and the Peshitta Syriac (now dated much earlier than the fifth century) agree with the KJV." (NABV, p. 488) (For the "numerous corruptions" in the Syriac Peshitta, which KJV-Only propaganda classifies with the Traditional Text, see: The Semitic New Testament)
Finally, Gail did not forget to misrepresent the New King James Version, even though the NKJV follows the Textus Receptus in all verses pertaining to the Mark of the Beast. Writes Gail:
"The merchants of the `mark' can swear on a wobbly stack of NKJVs that `The Bible says its ok' to take the I.D. marker." (Awe, p. 101)
"The NKJV denies the deity of Christ a half dozen times." (NABV, p. 102) / not true
"All new versions, based on a tiny percentage of corrupt Greek manuscripts, make the fatefully frightening addition of three words in Revelation 14:1. / NKJV does not add these words
"…the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads." NIV
"The number 666 in the form of a mobius symbol appears on the cover the New King James Version (NKJV)" (NABV, p. 101)
Concerning the symbol on the cover of the Thomas Nelson NKJV, let us remember the old axiom about judging a book by its cover. Just as we cannot judge the text of 1611 King James Version by pagan woodcuts, headpieces and tailpieces that were added by the printer, Robert Barker, so we cannot judge the text of the New King James Version by a book cover designed by the publisher Thomas Nelson, Inc. Many New King James Bibles do not have the Thomas Nelson cover, just as pagan woodcuts and headpieces vanished from King James Bibles.
Gail Riplinger makes much ado about the "mobius" being an occult symbol and a visual representation of 666. How much more significant in terms of historic and Biblical import is the number 666 in the form of the 6-pointed star (misnamed the Star of David) which occultists have for three millennia venerated as the Seal of Solomon, the apostate king who led Israel into idolatry. This pagan symbol was used by King Solomon as a powerful talisman for his idolatrous worship of the goddess, Ashtaroth, and the gods, Chemosh and Molech, and so is it used in the occult world today.
"II Kings 23:13 is explicit: `And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.'…King Solomon built an altar for Ashtoreth, worshipped her, and also practiced Moloch rituals. It was at this time that the hexagram or six-pointed star came to be called the Seal of Solomon... Solomon's Seal was accepted as occult by the occult world. King Solomon was deeply involved in witchcraft and occultism. According to The Sorcerer's Handbook, `King Solomon, traditionally known as an arch magician, used a spell to banish infernal beings sent by the king of demons to extract human hearts…'" (O.J. Graham, The Six-Pointed Star, pp. 24-5, 29, 32)
"Interestingly enough you will notice that the emblem is made up of three pairs of triangles with their apexes touching. Each pair collectively represents the number 6, which qualifies the whole symbol as a graphical representation of 666." ("Sects, Symbolism & the Mark of the Beast")
God has provided important clues in His Word which point to the Seal of Solomon as the Mark of the Beast:
"Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX talents of gold..." (1 Kings 10:14)
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX. "(Rev. 13:18)
For further evidence that the Seal of Solomon is the Mark of the Beast, please see:
THE REVELATION OF THE ANTICHRIST ~ As the Second Coming of King Solomon
The Six-Pointed Star: The Mark of the Beast ~ The Star of David or Star of Remphan?
Designer Marks of the Beast ~ Why the Mark of the Beast is NOT the Microchip Implant
Heeding Bible Prophecy: The Mark of the Beast
The New King James Version correctly and consistently translates the Greek word epi as "on" in all of the prophecies concerning the Mark of the Beast.
"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or ON their foreheads," (Rev. 13:16, NKJV)
"Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, `If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark ON his forehead or ON his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.'" (Rev. 14:9-10, NKJV)
"And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark ON their foreheads or ON their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." (Rev. 20:4, NKJV)
Can it be that the accurate translation of these crucial verses (which have end-time and eternal ramifications) accounts for the relentless campaign to discredit the New King James Version? We have little doubt. The fact that the NKJV reflects the Greek Textus Receptus in these verses alone would be sufficient reason for the Antichrist system to conspire against it and to promote in its place a translation that carries a false reading. For the endgame of the KJV-Only conspiracy is not only to eliminate the Textus Receptus—and along with it Greek resources which translate epi as "on"—but also Fundamental Christians who believe the Greek Textus Receptus must be the only basis for New Testament translation.
When the microchip implant becomes mandatory, many Fundamentalist Christians will rebel against the U.S. Government, while other Fundamental Christians will endure starvation rather than take the chip implant, having been deceived that it is the Mark of the Beast. Those who take up arms against the U.S. Government will provide legal justification for the persecution and elimination of all Fundamental Christians. Either way, whether through organized rebellion or starvation, Fundamental Christianity will be eliminated, with it, the Greek Textus Receptus.
CHAPTER X
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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CONTEND FOR THE FAITH:
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