Even in the US the Bells are losing heavily to the Cable guys, who are bleeding them to death next too, and in desperations the Bells are looking for any other possible sources of revenues.. *** But had they not abused, screwed their customers so often, the customers would not have so readily transferred to the cable ISPs. When the past Bells customers do transfer to cable they take not just their internet services es but their phone lines and next they rarely come back to the Bells too.. and the Bells revenues go down seriously.Now “Baby Bells are in a race against time, trying to get their video services rolled out before they lose their grip over their core franchise: the voice customer. It is critical for the phone companies to keep people talking on their lines, if they want to sell them broadband and video services in the future, a point we had made earlier.UBS Research report shows that dark ominous clouds have gathered over the Bellville, and provides a statistical support for my thesis.
- In the fourth quarter 2006, the Bells lost 5.1% of homes served on an annual basis, driven by increasing cable voice net adds. Consumer revenues skidded as a result.
- Currently, in the US Bells pass roughly 97 million homes and serve 64 million on a retail basis, about 65% penetration of homes passed. That’s down from 68% penetration a year ago.
- Cable is eating their lunch. The top seven cable companies added 964,000 new telephony subscribers, getting to a total of about 8.3 million voice subscribers (estimated) or about 7.3% of U.S. households, up from 4.5% a year ago. The independent VoIP players have 2.6 million subscribers. The total cable & VoIP competition represents nearly 10% of the U.S. households, versus 6% of US households a year ago.
- The consumer ARPU could not completely offset volume declines. Broadband revenues are slowing as well, mostly due to increased penetration.
Bells got $34 in average DSL revenues in the fourth quarter, down 9% annually, and only added 1.138M new subscribers in 4Q, down 18% annually and 3% sequentially. The Bells now penetrate 33% of homes served with broadband, up from 31% in the 3 quarter 2006 and 25% a year ago. AT& T leads the group with 39% penetration, followed by BellSouth at 34%, and Verizon and Qwest at 29% each. DSL revenues are becoming a larger portion of the Bell revenues – about 20% of consumer ARPU, and any access line losses means that that the bells’ addressable market for DSL (and video) services declines quite a bit. Among the Bells, AT&T generated the highest contribution from DSL at 21% and Verizon the lowest at 18%. http://gigaom.com/2007/03/05/bell-accessline-losses-4q2006/
“Pike & Fisher calculate that the Bells — AT&T, Verizon and Qwest added 755,000 net broadband customers in the fourth quarter of 2007, the lowest level in five years. As we have noted earlier, broadband growth is slowing in the U.S., and we should expect more intense marketing battles.” http://gigaom.com/2008/02/22/bell-broadband-stalls/*** Bell Canada
Posted on March 24, 2008 by marksyWell here again I sit and write about a multi-billion dollar corporation screwing its’ customers any way and every way it can. This time it is the god of phones, Bell Canada.
After my move in early December 2007 I left Bell’s service for Phone and Internet to go with Rogers……yes I know from the sublime to the ridiculous. Anyway, Bell’s Internet Service sucked, so I took it along with my phone to Rogers (the phone went because I could not pass up 6 free months). The only reason I did not leave Bell for television was the fact that I have purchased over the last short while close to $1000 in equipment for High Definition TV.
I called Bell anyway, and told them that I was considering leaving. When they heard that, they pretty much fell over themselves to keep me a customer. It’s funny how places like this will do nothing for you until you threaten to, or really do leave.
***Side note: since leaving for Rogers with my phone and Internet, Bell has called me three times!
In any case, they (Bell) offered me 2 months completely free TV, 6 months at 30% off, and the kicker….. A new High Definition PVR (Personal Video Recorder) for one year, FREE! Needless to say, I stayed and this is where the fun began.
First, although Bell knew where to send my bill (because I got one at my new address they sent the installer to my old address. It was explained that the departments don’t always talk to one another (go figure)! So the refundable $100 installation charge went onto my account twice (because of their mistake), and only came off once. I hd to fight this for a few calls, and on March it was dealt with.
Second, getting my two free months of TV has been like trying to walk on water! Countless calls in January, February and yes indeed March I think I am finally going to get 2 free months.
Third, I noticed in January, and again in February that I was suddenly getting charged $20 a month for the PVR; remember the free PVR for one year? So a few calls in January and again in February I thought I had this cleared up. In March, they cleared the two months of charges to my bill (from January and February), but again charged me $20 for the rental. This then led me to what probably amounted to my 15th – 20th phone call in the last 2-3 months. As at March 24 / 2008 I m being told that my account is cleared up. We shall see…….
In the interest of Customer Service………..BAD! http://mypetpeeves.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/bell-canada-2/
All posts for the month April, 2008
Bells race against time
Posted by thenonconformer on April 30, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/bells-race-against-time/
Courts Turn Against Abusive Contracts
In the past month, however, two new US court rulings suggest that judges are developing a more sophisticated sense of how corporations conduct online and technology transactions with their customers that Bell Sympatico especially now needs to note.
“In Douglas v. U.S. District Court (Talk America) (.pdf), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that a service provider may not change contract terms by posting those changes on its website without notification to the customer. In this case, the plaintiff sought to invalidate an arbitration provision like the one in Gatton and a provision stating that New York law would apply to the agreement, because the terms were added to the service agreement after the customer had signed up. The court held that the customer could not be bound to new terms, even by continuing to use the service, if he is not given notification that the terms have changed.” http://www.wired.com/politics/law/commentary/circuitcourt/2007/08/circuitcourt_0801
We all seem to know the used car salesman joke, right? “You can tell he’s lying: his lips are moving.” Those of us who have experienced real life, especaily in a courtroom or at a deposition, divorce proceedings, also do know that the same joke can, far too often, be attached to politicians, lawyers, cops, accountants, many Business persons, corporations, real estate firms and the ISP providers too.
” The Consumerist had not one, but two articles about Verizon today. The best one contained an embedded video, in which a guy phoned up Verizon Wireless fifty-six times to ask two basic questions about their rates. Take a guess as to what percentage of the time he received the correct answer, then see how close you came to guessing right. ”
“David Lazarus of the The Los Angeles Times blasts Verizon today for withholding contract terms from customers until AFTER they have signed up for service – and some of the contract terms are ones that I sure wouldn’t agree to: they have signed up for service – and some of the contract terms are ones that I sure wouldn’t agree to:
Verizon not upfront on contract terms – Los Angeles Times
Excerpt:
For years, credit card issuers have gotten away with withholding contracts from customers until they actually have the plastic in their hands — a practice that denies many people a fair chance to look under the hood for onerous terms and conditions.Now it looks like Verizon has adopted the same technique.
What really struck [Torrance, California resident Sandy Lough] was the discovery that to receive the promised discount for her bundled plan, she’d have to go online and agree to a 2,000-word “bundle service agreement” and a 7,000-word terms of service for Internet access.
This was the first time she was being presented with the full contract for her new FiOS setup, and the service had already been installed and activated.
The LA Times article goes on to mention some of the more notable terms of the contract. The interesting thing is that it would appear that this is not simply an oversight – that perhaps Verizon deliberately withholds contract terms from customers until they’ve already committed to the service:
As for why the full contract is withheld until after FiOS has been installed in a person’s home, [Verizon spokesman Cliff Lee] said only that “this is the way we’ve found that works.”
What has happened to make large corporations think they can simply change the deal at their whim, after a customer has already signed on the dotted line, without giving the customer the same right? ” http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/verizon-not-upfront-on-contract-terms-los-angeles-times/#comment-417
No large corporation, with almost infinite legal resources and billions of dollars behind them, should be able to use their wealth to put real people at a disadvantage, because it would be presumed that only the corporations had any legal rights. Bell included now.
Posted by thenonconformer on April 30, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/courts-turn-against-abusive-contracts/
Newsmedia, Press
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/newsmedia-press/
Accountability
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A former health minister says the public would have remained in the dark about errors with breast cancer testing in Newfoundland if a class-action lawsuit hadn’t been filed over the matter. – The inquiry into faulty breast cancer tests was told Wednesday that a group of cancer patients can get their tissue samples retested, but only if they ask – and Eastern Health hasn’t publicly told them they have the option.
In reality now today how many other provinces, municipalities, federal government departments, Ministers, even the Police forces have now too often done similar bad things too, they wrongfully now have false obstructed justice, transparency, accountability and now what is being done that nothing like is is going to happen again as much as possible anywhere in Canada too?
Public exposure and enforced, real prosecution of the major guilty persons serves as the best solution, deterrent to all of this now still too, even of the bad Civil and public servants, bad professionals, bad politicians too.
Cancer patients misdiagnosed in Manitoba Canada.com – WINNIPEG – Seventeen cancer patients in Manitoba may have received the wrong prognosis or treatment, according to the latest findings into mistakes made by a senior pathologist.
Cancer patients missed treatment due to pathologist’s errors Globe and Mail
Cancer patients concerned about potential misdiagnoses CBC.ca
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/accountability/
RCMP
Firstly the Justice Ministers and the Solicitor general should investigate and deal with the useless, pretentious bad RCMP too.
BUT THE CLEARLY INCOMPETENT, PRETENTIOUS, IMMORAL, OVER PRICED RCMP, AND THAT IS JUST THE TIP OF THE BAD RCMP ICEBERG TOO, FOR DECADES TOO THE RCMP NOT BEEN ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY GET THEIR MAN IN REALITY, TO FULLY PROSECUTE THE MUCH TOO MANY BUY GUYS IN THE GOVERNMENTS, IN THE CIVIL AND PUBLIC SERVICES NOW TOO. THEY THE RCMP STILL DID NOT CATCH THOSE MURDEROUS TASER PERSONS AT THE VANCOUVER AIRPORT AS WELL? NOR BELL FOR THAT MATTER.
Not that child porn would be unique in this regard: police regularly overstate the value of drugs and cigarettes they seize.
Police ‘not on top of organized crime’: RCMP CBC.ca Organized crime goes green as criminals learn to exploit … The Canadian Press – 22 Aug 2008 MONTREAL – Organized criminals in Canada are going green, turning to environmental crime as an increasingly lucrative way of raising money.
Identity theft becoming cash cow for organized crime National PostCanada.com – CTV.ca – The Gazette (Montreal) – CJAD
all 97 news articles » http://news.google.ca/?ncl=1239122708&hl=en&topic=n
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/rcmp/
Why
It is also undeniable as well that the people driving and using the cell phone are part of bad drivers now too. Most car and truck accidents are caused by road rage, or really bad drivers, and/or alcoholics, bad drug users and not by the driving speed still, but the police like to collect mostly revenue generating speeding, traffic tickets still! Why?
In regard also to the The Quebec bill to amend the Highway Safety Code and the Regulation respecting demerit points whicj was adopted on December 19, 2007. The rules and measures adopted mainly concern drinking and driving, speeding, photo radars and red-light cameras, driving courses, the use of cell phones while driving, and over-speed governors for certain heavy vehicles. This legislation introduces more severe penalties for repeat offenders of impaired driving and excessive speeding. It allows for the implementation of a photo radar and red-light camera pilot project providing for three photo radar locations and the installation of red-light cameras at two intersections in each of the three pilot regions. These fifteen locations will be announced at a later date. The law also provides for the institution of mandatory driving courses for new drivers and imposes probationary driver’s licenses on all new drivers, including new drivers of 25+ years of age, as well as gradual access to demerit points for new drivers under 25. A driving course will also be mandatory for mopeds. it will henceforth be forbidden for drivers to use a hand-held cell phone while driving but the person can still do text messaging, and what an contradictory absurdity too.. The activation of over-speed governors is now mandatory for certain heavy vehicles, and the maximum speed for these vehicles must be set at 105 km/h. The law also provides for the obligation to equip vehicles with winter tires from November 15 to April 1, greater latitude for municipalities that regulate speed limits on their territory and the possibility to carry out pilot projects, in particular for new types of vehicles. New road safety measures come into force in Québec on April 1, 2008: The use of hand-held cell phones will be banned from then on .Tougher penalties will be imposed on drivers guilty of excessive speeding Some of the motives for the false, partial restive applications, implantation of these laws can certainly now still be questioned as well. Some of the motives for the false, partial restive applications, implantation of these laws can certainly now still be questioned as well.
Speaking of the false oppression by Sympatico bullies, one of my most popular posts on the internet and surprisingly to me too, besides the ones about Bell Sympatico, or the bad Christian Missionary Alliance church, was, is my page on Basic Contract laws.. http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=28
I KNOW FROM DECADES OF FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCES IN MY ENCOUNTERS WITH COPS, LAWYERS, PASTORS, SO CALLED PROFESSIONALS, OTHERS TOO, that most often now in reality the very same people who do tend to preach to others that we all must not steal, tell lies, drive drunk, that we must respect other person’s rights, all the laws… those very same persons who so readily tend to preach the rules to others, those very same persons who expect all of the others to falsely obey the rules even now all the while they most often tend to be the firstly the very same persons to break most of the rules themselves, they themselves they do not keep them, and they still also falsely believe they personally are exempt from living the rules cause they do preach them to others.
What you had never encountered crooked cops, crooked pastors, crooked lawyers, crooked managers, bad executives, lying no good politicians too? These same persons who too readily judge others, and who demand, want to enforce the rules upon the others, they cannot see the truth as to who they are firstly, they themselves are now the lying hypocrites. Even the Insurance companies do love excessive rules, and next have people break them so that way they can make more money next too. Seems you cannot trust anyone, any group, and yes they all have to regulated, reviewed, and that is why too many OF THE BAD PERSONS THERE they seem not to love our free speech and try falsely to oppress it.
When most a person tries to enforce any rule upon me I immediate rightfully do next often do ask them who they think they are that they think I now have to respect the man made rules firstly? What makes them think I have to be now their false slave too? And why do they think I am their false slave and that they are any kind of boss over me in these matters?
For just cause someone, a lawyer now too even, some one made up some set of rules it still does not mean they are all valid, or legitimately enforceable now too! I still have even my right of free speech and I still can say what I want, write what I want too.. even about them now too. Not all man made rules, regulations even in writing are rightfully valid still in reality, and just ask any decent judge on the court of the Queen’s judge and he or she can tell you the same thing too.
Here’s great example of bullying Hypocrisy now too. CALGARY – An employee with the Calgary Police Service has been arrested in a drug trafficking operation and a Calgary Policeman was arrested for drunk driving that caused an accident..
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/why/
Law and order
Recent discussions by both Bell and Rogers on their Corporate need to get more and more money, with even any excuse, still out of consumers, and to throttle the downloads, only all clearly confirms the reality as to how poorly managed these same companies in reality are still.. They too now have been wrongfully over subsidized by the CRTC, the Canadian federal governments now too… now it is rather time the citizens got the break, protection.
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/law-and-order/
Politicians, Political Parties
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/politicians-political-parties/
Life after death
World- Most people seem to believe in life after death, but they all clearly do not agree on how one attains, or assures eternal life in Heaven next too? An Eternal life or an eternal hell awaits many? Do many people now even care if it does or not? Can one know for sure if they are going to Heaven?
Most people firstly do not get this anointing because they have really not made a full commitment to serve God, they have have not made Jesus Christ lord of their life.
The anointing next personally sets aside the person for special servicee to God in fact, thus next receiving special gifts, gifted special duties in now next serving solely God, and not rather self serving or serving mere men and women.. sadly many professing Christians too do miss the boat here and thus they are not anointed.. foolish virgins..
How Jesus was anointed with the holy ghost and power and he went about doing good, and also miracles too..
Acts 10:38 How God anointed {and} consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength {and} ability {and} power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed {and} oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him.Acts 10:39 And we are [eye and ear] witnesses of everything that He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And [yet] they put Him out of the way (murdered Him) by hanging Him on a tree;
Ex 40:15 And you shall anoint them as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
Lev 7:36 The Lord commanded this to be given them of the Israelites on the day when they were anointed. It is their portion perpetually throughout their generations.
Lev 8:12 And he poured some of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Lev 16:32 And the priest who shall be anointed and consecrated to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments;
Num 7:10 And the princes {or} leaders offered sacrifices for the dedication of the altar [of burnt offering] on the day that it was anointed; and they offered their sacrifice before the altar.
1 Sam 2:10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them will He thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge [all peoples] to the ends of the earth; and He will give strength to His king (King) and exalt the power of His anointed (Anointed His Christ).
1 Sam 2:35 And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest (Priest), who shall do according to what is in My heart and mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed (Anointed) forever.
1 Sam 10:1 THEN SAMUEL took the vial of oil and poured it on Saul’s head and kissed him and said, Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over His heritage Israel?
1 Sam 24:6 He said to his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this to my master, the Lord’s anointed, to put my hand out against him, when he is the anointed of the Lord.
2 Sam 2:4 And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, The men of Jabesh-gilead buried Saul.
2 Sam 19:21 But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?
2 Sam 22:51 He is a Tower of salvation {and} great deliverance to His king, and shows loving-kindness to His anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
1 Chr 16:22 Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm.
Ps 2:2 The kings of the earth take their places; the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and His Anointed One (the Messiah, the Christ). {They say,}
Ps 2:6 Yet have I anointed (installed and placed) My King [firmly] on My holy hill of Zion.
Ps 18:50 Great deliverances {and} triumphs gives He to His king; and He shows mercy {and} steadfast love to His anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 20:6 Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.
Ps 28:8 The Lord is their [unyielding] Strength, and He is the Stronghold of salvation to [me] His anointed.
Ps 45:7 You love righteousness, uprightness, {and} right standing with God and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.
Ps 84:9 Behold our shield [the king as Your agent], O God, and look upon the face of Your anointed!
Ps 89:20 I have found David My servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him,
Is 61:1 THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed {and} qualified me to preach the Gospel {of} good tidings to the meek, the poor, {and} afflicted; He has sent me to bind up {and} heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison {and} of the eyes to those who are bound,
Ezek 28:14 You were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing [wings], and I set you so. You were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [like the paved work of gleaming sapphire stone upon which the God of Israel walked on Mount Sinai].
Hab 3:13 You went forth {and} have come for the salvation of Your people, for the deliverance {and} victory of Your anointed [people Israel]; You smote the head of the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Zech 4:14 Then said he, These are the two sons of oil [Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, the two anointed ones] who stand before the Lord of the whole earth [as His anointed instruments].Matt 1:1 THE BOOK of the ancestry (genealogy) of Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the son (descendant) of David, the son (descendant) of Abraham.
Luke 2:26 And it had been divinely revealed (communicated) to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity],
John 17:3 And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true {and} real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
John 20:31 But these are written (recorded) in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of God, and that through believing {and} cleaving to {and} trusting {and} relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His name [through Who He is].
Acts 26:23 That the Christ (the Anointed One) must suffer and that He, by being the first to rise from the dead, would declare {and} show light both to the [Jewish] people and to the Gentiles.
Like I have said most people do not get their anointing because they have really not made a full commitment to serve God, they have have not made Jesus Christ lord of their life.
The anointing next personally sets aside the person for receiving special God’s, Jesus, Holy Spirit’s gifts, gifted special duties in serving solely God, and not rather self serving or mere men and women.. All of the persons of the trinity do even give us us gifts now too.. study the Bible again..
Limited Christians, foolish virgins, so many professing Christians too do miss the boat here and thus they too are not anointed.. even if they would like to say they are.. and if you are anointed it will show itself too..
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. KJV
I Jn. 2:27 “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”
Acts 10:38 How God anointed {and} consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength {and} ability {and} power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed {and} oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him. ( the Amplified seems to add too much here to the word of God too..)
“But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth” (I Jn. 2:20-21).
I must say I was dismayed, troubled with the Amplified Bible’s limited reference to the anointed one(s) since clearly while Jesus Christ is the anointed one, we the Christian Believers now are also in Him, and so we also now are the anointed ones too, and anyone who rejects us, or rejects our anointing now also rejects God and his anointings in fact. The anointed references, is generally now understood often in the Bible as being plural and not solely or mainly a singular one.. many Bible translations seem to cause as many problems as they were meant to resolve still too… and is why I like the KJV Bible still too.
2 Cor 1:21 But it is God Who confirms {and} makes us steadfast {and} establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated {and} anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit];
Ps. 105:14-15 “He permitted no one to do them wrong; yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.”
The first thing one should notice is that the word “touch” actually still means do them no physical harm, under the penalty of death too, for God upholds their human rigths serioulsy too.. Do not touch does not mean do not judge them now., Funny how this passage too now gets desettled by the devil.. Rev. 6:9 John writes “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.” They were killed because they held to the Word against the opposition and so they became martyrs. Those who apostatize from the Word always hate those who keep it.
We are certainly not to judge unbelievers acts which is clearly now left up to God, but if we see their teachings as destructive we are to judge what they say, and the Bible tells us still to judge the acts of all believers, it is a command. So if you are telling people to become ostriches and also not to judge any pastor’s acts now as well by repeating the Scripture “touch not my anointed” you are wrongfully telling them to be disobedient to God’s command.
John 7:24 Jesus said: “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment”,
When someone insists for all Christian people not to say anything when they see a Christian believer doing wrong, it is THEY now that are coming against the anointed.
“He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD” (Proverbs 17:150
Rev 21:6 And He [further] said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I [Myself] will give water without price from the fountain (springs) of the water of Life.
Rev 21:7 He who is victorious shall inherit all these things, and I will be God to him and he shall be My son.Rev 21:8 But as for the cowards {and} the ignoble {and} the contemptible {and} the cravenly lacking in courage {and} the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd {and} adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)–[all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death
Rev 22:14 Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the authority {and} right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city.
- One as a prophet to ask bad evangelical pastors to repent,
- and as as a prophet to speak God’s truths to Canada’s elected representative, members of the the governments.
- another as an elder, prophet to pray for the sick Christians and they mostly were healed next gradually or instantaneously… except those who still wanted to live in sin..
- and a gift to tell the truth to the sincere persons..
- even the specific artistic abilities to create Christian, Bible versed wall papers, Paintings too now too..
- next even to see specific visions of what some people are really like too
- and other special abilities
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/life-after-death/
Israel
1: is Jesus the sole son of God, and is the Bible the sole word of God, was it all written by God alone.
2: Do also the gifts of the holy sprit, miracles, healing, tongues, apostles, prophets exist now today as well?
3: Is tithing, paying ten percent of one’s income today applicable now too? and other old testament laws, besides the ten commandments?
4: Can Christians consume Alcohol, Smoke or get divorced?
5: Does Israel have a right to the promise land today as well?
Why all the existing Christian different views, divisions? Well most people still do not firstly truly know what the Bible itself says on this, most people still wrongfully trust others to tell them what the Bible does says about any of this.
Israel – Can Israel even survive as a state another 60 years without the backing of the West, US? Does Israel now according solely the New Testament Bible even have a right to the promised Land these days even? CAN WE KNOW THE TRUTH When clearly even most evangelical Christians cannot agree on this point now too? Most of the popular, in the 1960s, revelation predictions by the fundamental dogmatic preachers with their gloom and doom prophecies about the end times, war with Russia and China now have not even come to pass? Who can you believe? Most people , even professing Christians still basically have never read the Bible , never mind studied the subject in detail! Not even many evangelical preachers now too. Did you now?
The Land of Canaan, renamed Israel by the Lord, was given by God to Abraham and his descendants as an everlasting possession conditional on them obeying, following after God, his commandment now continuing to follow after God, his Messiah Jesus and the Jews as a nation next chose not to do this on their own.. so they undeniably lost their right to live on this promised land and God himself evicted them from it. Now many Jews and many Evangelicals disagree and they tend to try to take isolated verses out of context in the Old Testament Bible to say otherwise. But yet they still next do not have one supporting verse on any of this in New Testament and why? Many rather almost all of the quoted verses taken from the Old Testament about a promised Jewish return to the promised land had been fulfilled prior to the arrival of Jesus now too and they are no longer applicable too.
Exactly what does the Bible say about this God’s parcel of land, and who has a right to it today? More Honestly what does the New Testament now rather specifically say about this? That this land belongs now, next neither to the Jews or Muslims but to Jesus Christ, and his bride.. Jesus is the heir of all things… and nothing else?
Does not God want the two sons of Abraham, the Jews and Muslim living together in Harmony in the same land as well anyway? “How good it is for the brethern to dwell in unity” Psalms
Does God have a separate plan to save the Jews or does he God have the same plan now for everyone rather per the Bible too? No, never. God has one plan of salvation alone and it is accepting Jesus definitely, personally as one’s personal Lord, and savior. Jews. gentiles, unbelievers, Christian are all saved only by Jesus Christ and now all are one body, have the same future heavenly and earthly promises too.
Jesus said that Israel was now cursed, the fig tree was cursed, and their house, the promised land was to be desolate, and the Jews would find no peace at all until they accept him Jesus as their Messiah. So why all of the problems there still too? The Flesh wants to have it’s own way again?
Yes it has bothered me for decades that evangelicals cannot significantly at all agree on this topic about Israel future, present firstly but it has also bothered me why all the pro Israel writers do not refer the New Testament to try to justify their arguments? or what Jesus had said about it? It will not agree with their distorted point of views?
see also http://postedat.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/messianic-judaism-today/
Posted by thenonconformer on April 29, 2008
https://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/israel/