J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Instead of veterans getting the medical attention they deserve when in need of same, B. H. Obama is forcing private insurance companies to pay up for med expenses.


He will not budge. He will not tolerate open discussion regarding the pros and cons on the issue. He is determined to get money for his own channeling via this unpatriotic and unkind move.


Per EXCERPT: WASHINGTON, March 16/PRNewswire-USNewswire/:


“The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is ‘deeply disappointed and concerned’ after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.


“The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.


“’It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,’ said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion.


“’He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.’”


Note: “. . .refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.’”


Wall Street robs us. DC robs us.


Read COMRADE MAOBAMA's DISAPPROVAL RATE CLIMBS! at http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/17/comrade_maobamas_disapproval_rate_climbs!.thtml

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“A number of cases in which young (Muslim) women have died or disappeared have raised concerns that violent families have been able to put their own concepts of discipline and retribution above the law, and that such families are regularly protected by their friends, neighbors and communities.


“There have also been concerns that police and prosecutors have been reluctant to investigate and act in such cases, possibly through unwillingness to provoke political or (Muslim) community trouble.


“One notable murder was that of 20-year-old (Muslim) Banaz Mahmod, who was raped, tortured and strangled at her South London home in 2006. Her body was later discovered in a suitcase in Birmingham.


“Her (Muslim) father and uncle were later convicted of murdering her because she wished to marry a man who was not approved by the family - and had thus brought shame on them.


“Miss Mahmod appealed to police for help before her death but was not taken seriously by officers” per MailOnline’s Steve Doughty.


The more Muslims move into Britain, the more their areas are seeing increase in so-called ‘honor killing.’ Many times these murders go unnoticed and unreported. Yet with the increase, British civility weakens.


Therefore, a British judge has stated emphatically that ‘honor killing’ and other Islamic violence will not be tolerated there. He says that such is not compatible with the British way of life.


“A senior judge yesterday condemned the notion of honor killings as an affront to English law.


“Lord Justice Wall declared that 'they are acts of simply sordid criminal behavior' and 'had nothing to do with any concept of honor known to English law'.


“In an Appeal Court test case he ruled that the welfare of children should not be put at risk because of the 'honor' idea held in some Muslim families.


“The judge added: ‘Arson, domestic violence and potential revenge likely to result in abduction or death are criminal acts which will be treated as such.’”


Read “'There's no honour in killing,' top judge tells Muslim family in test case” at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162409/Theres-honour-killing-judge-tells-Muslim-family-test-case.html

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


Do you believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God—divine revelation that needs neither adding to nor subtracting from?


If you do, then take seriously God’s statements regarding the tithe—one tenth of your income. It is God’s, not yours.


God calls you “robber” if you take His tithe for your own use.


Hebrews in Old Testament times brought down God’s unbridled anger upon themselves for various reasons. One chief reason was that they stole God’s tithe.


If every believer tithed to the local church, there would be no financial problems in Christendom. Then there would be no need for bean suppers and fairs and raffles.


The church is not the place for making money by such methods. Jesus cast out the merchandisers from the place of prayer because that kind of business was not to be tolerated in God’s House.


I shudder when I pass church buildings advertising Saturday night money-raising suppers. I ask myself: “Is that what the church is for? Is that what the church has come to?”


I would like to see those buildings posting signs that read: “Prayer Meets Here Weekly At Tuesday at 7 PM” or something of that sort.


It would be in place for those buildings to post signs reading: “Worship Gathers on the Lord’s Day Morning and Evening Here. All Welcome.”


The church is to be concentrating on saving souls. If souls are not saved, they are damned. What is the main thrust of any church? It is to see that souls escape hell and go to heaven.


Therefore, whatever the church can do to get souls under the preaching of salvation is what the church should be up to.


Again: if every believer gave God His tithe faithfully, the church could concentrate all its energies on worship, prayer, fellowship in Christ and Bible research.


God has an economic plan for His church. It is the tithes and offerings put into the local church—“the storehouse.” How can mortals sideline God’s economic plan? How can they be so stupid or brash to substitute the divine agenda for their own—many times a worldly-based gimmick?


God instituted the tithe with Abraham when Abraham gave the tithe to the priest. Then Abraham’s lineage continued the tithe. So it was to continue down through sacred history.


But Hebrews rewrote their own religion on numerous levels, one being absenting God’s tithe for mortals’ own take. God did not appreciate that at all.


Christ brought the tithe into the New Testament Church Age. He pointed to hypocrites who were tithing, thereby instructing His disciples that they were to do the same by being more righteous than even the tithing hypocrites.


Tithing then is not an Old Testament expectation alone. God brought that workable system into our present time.


I have tithed all my life because my parents were tithers. We children were taught to tithe with our weekly allowances. I never thought of robbing God when I was a child.


As a teen and young adult I tithed and never quarreled with God about it. I met a young girl at college who was reared the same way. We married and never fought over the tithe.


The firstfruits of our financial intake was God’s tithe. It was so because God said it was so. How could we disobey God? We could not and we would not.


Therefore, we gave God His tithe as the first item to set aside. All other bills came later. We did not say, “Well, we will tithe if we have it when we pay all the other bills.”


Never. We knew better than that.


Because we as a couple have tithed for nearly half a century we have never been forsaken. We have been through many trials and difficulties. But God has never forsaken us. We have never lost a night’s sleep over money. We have never questioned whether or not God was adequate to see through our financial obligations.


God is faithful. We have been faithful. The match-up has been glorious and a testimony to the fact that being honest with God is not only healthy for the wallet, but the heart as well.


I have had people try to argue with me about the Old Testament tithe and the New Testament Church Age, trying to twist my arm to admit that Christ really did not mean for that system to be brought into the Church Age.


I have not spent much time in that debate. I have been so convinced of the Scripture making sense and my own personal experience proving it out that I have little time with the arguers.


Instead, I think to myself: How can a person saved by grace ever argue with God when He spilled His holy blood to redeem a soul? How can a person even think of stealing from God who poured out His young body on such a bloody tree?


How groveling and low-life can a person be to try to steal God’s tithe when God has promised eternal life—blissful heaven—for the saved by grace?


Yet they argue. And they debate. I don’t think then that they really get the message of God’s love and care.


Do you?


FOOTNOTE: TITHING SCRIPTURE


Malachi 3:8-10: “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.


“You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.


“Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.”


Matthew 23:23: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.”


Matthew 5:20: "For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


“Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after” (I Timothy 5:24).


"I am actually grateful for this opportunity to publicly comment about my crimes, for which I am deeply sorry and ashamed," he said.


Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty.


"As the years went by, I realized my risk, and this day would inevitably come. I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for my crimes."


He could face a maximum sentence of 150 years in prison at sentencing.


“The scheme evaporated life fortunes, wiped out charities and apparently pushed at least two investors to commit suicide. Victims big and small were swindled by Madoff, from elderly Florida retirees to actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel”
per AP’s Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays.


It is so interesting how morals and immorals are topping the news these days. It is also intriguing how Scripture is played out day after day in one country and then another.


This is a fascinating age in which to live. There are all sorts of malpractices lopped against the unsuspecting public so as to push us into the arms of God or wipe out our own lives.


If a person does not literally take his life, he may decide to commit psycho suicide and then snuff out his mental frequency. There are others who simply pull the trigger or jump.


Will Madoff burn in hell? Maybe. He will if he does not repent sincerely to Christ. And then he must make restitution to all he sinned against.


There is no sin but the unpardonable sin that cannot find divine grace. The unpardonable sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit, that is, so turning one’s heart against God that the heart turns to stone.


In the meantime, Madoff should experience hell of soul right this moment and in the days and months that follow. Maybe he will figure out means by which to take his life. If he does not, his conscience will burn to a crisp and then turn around to burn into another crisp and then turn around again to burn into still another crisp ad infinitum.


The conscience that God planted in every mortal at birth does not just simply wisp away.


By looking into this wretched face of Madoff we all then look into our own hearts. These hearts are all seen by the God Judge before whom we likewise will stand.


For some of us, our sins will confront us in this life before death as well as at the Judgment Seat of Christ. But it is certain that every mortal breathing will at the last breath give an account of life’s journey before the Great White Light.


Oh, and what about Demjanijuk?


“German prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.


“Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and September 1943” per AP.


FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY


Hebrews 9:27:


It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.


Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:


Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:


But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.


Romans 2:6-11:


God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.


Romans 14:10-12:


For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.


I Corinthians 4:5:


Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


II Corinthians 5:10:


For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.


Numbers 32:23:


Be sure your sin will find you out.