G.K. Chesterton Quotes

I am going through 400+ emails and have this one I sent to myself that was a collection of G.K. Chesterton quotes:

G.K. Chesterton Quotes:

"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for
all religions." - ILN, 1/13/06

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult
and left untried." - Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910

"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - Introduction to the
Book of Job, 1907

"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
- ILN 8-11-28

"All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set
to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive." - The Thing. CW.
III 191

"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false
devils;

# "Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." - Christendom in Dublin,
1933

# "America is the only country ever founded on a creed." - What I Saw In America, 1922

# "The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God
created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were
certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the
divine origin of man." - Chapter 19, What I Saw In America, 1922

"When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You
get the small laws." - Daily News, 7/29/05

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." -
Everlasting Man, 1925

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - ILN, 4/19/30

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism."
- Sidelights on New London and Newer New York

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - A
Short History of England, Ch.10

"The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and
stuck in a block of traffic." - ILN, 5/29/26

"War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their
being settled for you." - ILN, 7/24/15

"In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all
is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn." - The Speaker 2-2-01

"Scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary.
Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of
trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough."
(ILN 2-6-09)


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Will the Stones Still Fall?

A thought just came to me while I was editing some photos I took in Jerusalem this summer. Lately, I have been investigating the Preterist view of eschatology in response to some ridiculous comments made by certain individuals concerning my eschatological views. (By the way, this has led me to a Hank Hanegraaff book called "The Apocalypse Code" which is an illogical explanation of eschatology built on a random misalignment of facts and unassociated points. The book disappointed me and convinced me that Hank Hanegraaff is indeed the Bible Answer Man and nothing more. He may know some facts, but demonstrates his inability to construct a rational argument with his scattered collection of information. Although, that may be more the fault of the failed eschatological position that is being defended, then Hank himself. I have ordered several other Preterist books including RC Sproul's. I have been promised Sproul is less angry than Hank and much more logical and exegetical.)

My thought concerned Jesus' words:

Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down. Matthew 24:2

Jesus was referring to the Temple Mount complex that Herod had built beginning in 19 BC and was in a state of continuous construction up until Jesus' ministry and after. Most eschatological views (including both Hank and myself) consider this to have been fulfilled in 70 AD when the Romans broke through the walls of Jerusalem to burn the city and the temple. In the months that followed the Tenth Roman Legion systematically tore down everything on the Temple Mount including most of the Temple Mount walls. This is my point. A lot of Herod's ashlar stones used to build the Temple Mount walls and gates are still in position. I saw and photographed stones that Jesus walked by in the south wall including one stone with the door jamb of the Beautiful Gate. In the Rabbinic Tunnels along the north section of the west wall we saw several courses of the same Herodian ashlars in near perfect condition still in place. One particularly large stone was too large for the Romans to dislodge. Their efforts to break it one piece at a time can still be seen in the upper right corner of the stone. Yet, this stone still sets as the master course stone holding the wall together with its enormous weight. The Western Wall Prayer Plaza has seven Herodian courses above ground and seventeen untouched below ground. I could mention many more including the lintel above the Double Gate.

If Jesus was talking about buildings on the Temple Mount being totally removed then this was accomplished in 70 AD and the events that followed. But, if Jesus was talking about every stone associated with the Temple Mount then there is still some work left to be done. My point is this: Are we still waiting for a more complete and greater destruction of this Temple Mount that will result in literally saying "there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down?"

This could be part of Jesus' words that may have a double meaning:

Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. John 2:19

There will be a Temple built on this very Temple Mount someday that is not built be human hands. (Ezekiel 40-48)

I am not making a doctrinal statement, nor am I even saying I believe anything less than Jesus' words were completely fulfilled in 70 AD. But, I am wondering if Jesus is going to finish the removing of all these stones before the next phase of eschatology begins?

Jerusalem: History, Archaeology and Apologetic Proof of Scripture

Here are a few of the 500 photos and diagrams from the "Jerusalem" book coming in out in December.

"The People of the Ruler WHO WILL COME . . . "

I touched on this briefly today in my introduction during church in order to get some focus on this topic. We will be following up with more and more details as time allows, possibly during the Sunday night Bible study after a few weeks in "The Political Platform" book. We will be addressing these exact verses on Tuesday night over the next few weeks since we are covering Daniel 9 right now.

Daniel 9:26 – The coming anti-Christ is described as being a descendant of the people who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 AD. The people who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 AD were the Tenth Roman Legion (Legion X or Leg X in the photo). History records that the Tenth Roman Legion broke through the city wall, dismantled the Temple, tore down Jerusalem’s walls and were stationed in Jerusalem for the next 200 years. Indeed, they were Roman citizens who were commissioned as Roman soldiers, but the people in the Tenth Roman Legion were not from the city of Rome or from Italy. The people who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 AD were from the land that is today Turkey and Syria.

POINT: Here is another definition of the religion, the region and the person of the anti-Christ. If the anti-Christ were to arise today and this verse were fulfilled in our time he would most likely be a Muslim leader who rose to become a Caliph and the Twelfth Imam. If this is correct then Islam would be the religion of the anti-Christ. According to Scripture the religion of the anti-Christ will desire to occupy the Temple Mount, radically deny the Christian God and destroy the Jews. Oh, and by the way, the religion of the anti-Christ executes their opposition by decapitation. At this point in history it is not a stretch to see the connection between Islam and the anti-Christ. Only time will tell. . .

The photo is of a Roman column just inside the Joppa Gate in Jerusalem where the Tenth Roman Legion was stationed for 200 years after destroying the Temple and the city in 70 AD. Walid Shoebat gives great references to people through church history who suggested this same connection of Islam and the anti-Christ. Below are just three examples (it was refreshing to finally get to quote from John Calvin.):

John Wesley (1703-1791):

Indeed, the iron teeth closely match Islam. Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it . . . have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth . . . that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth. Such was, and is at this day, the rage, their fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind.

Martin Luther (1483-1546):

The Turk (Ottoman Muslims from what is today Turkey, or the descendants of Tenth Roman Legion) is the flesh of antichrist. They help each other in their murderous work. The latter slaughters bodily by the sword; and the former spiritually by doctrine.

John Calvin (1509-1564):

It does seem that the fourth iron kingdom was in fact both the pre-Papal and the pre-Islamic undivided Pagan Roman Empire, as well as the later Western-Roman Papal and the contemporaneous Eastern-Roman Islamic Empire into which it then subdivided. . . Thus they correspond to the two legs of the later Roman Empire - Islam and the Papacy. . . The defection has indeed spread more widely! For, since Mohammad was an apostate, he turned his followers, the Turks, from Christ. . . The sect of Mohammad was like a raging overflow, which in its violence tore away about half of the Church. . . In Daniel 11:37, that Prophet predicted the coming of a terrible tyrant. This is how he described that tyrant: 'neither shall he pay regard to the God of his fathers, nor to the desire of women.' Applied to the Unitarian Muslims, this might well mean that they would ignore the Trinitarian God of their forefathers.

If nothing else it is interesting to see how the writers from the 1500-1700's describe Islam. They are definitely not calling it a religion of peace, but instead see it clearly as a religion of war that destroys the societies that it infests. It would be nice if we understood world history and the Scriptures. Our blindness and ignorance will be our curse and our judgment. At least our fall will be just and self-inflicted.

Like I said above, we will need to continue this discussion.

New Sunday Night Bible Study

Beginning on Sunday night, September 12 at 7:00 Galyn Wiemers will begin teaching through his new book The Political Platform of the Lord and King. This will be an eight week class and will be held in the ICN room at Valley High School on 35th Street (Valley West Drive) in West Des Moines, Iowa. Some details and maps are below:

Final Words of "Jerusalem 101"

The book "Jerusalem 101" is finished. The unedited version fills three 3-ring binders and has somewhere around 700 pages made up of 400 photos, maps and diagrams. Tim Vaniman has the first 2 sections edited already. I have just finished the final chapter which opens with these words:

"Israel lost their temple in 586 BC and were taken into Babylonian captivity by Nebuchadnezzar just as Jeremiah prophesied. In 539 BC Cyrus of the Persians sent them back to Jerusalem to rebuild their Temple just like Isaiah had prophesied. In 168 BC Antiochus Epiphanies of the Grecian Empire in Syria (Seleucids) desecrated the temple to end the Jewish sacrifices, but was resisted by Judas Maccabeus who cleansed the Temple to restore the daily sacrifice in 164 BC just like Daniel had prophesied. In 70 AD Titus and the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, dismantled the Temple and scattered the Jewish people just like Jesus had prophesied. Since then, history has watched almost 2,000 years of Gentile (Roman, Byzantine, Muslim, Crusader, Ottoman, British) domination of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the people of Israel which, of course, Jesus told us would happen:

This is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. - Jesus in Luke 21:22-24

This verse sums up well what the photos, images and descriptions in this book testifies to have been the situation in Jerusalem from 70 AD until now. Even the Temple Mount today continues to be “trampled on by the Gentiles” and their pagan religion. Today we watch Jerusalem, waiting for the Age of the Gentiles to be fulfilled.

Even though many of the words and the set times spoken of by men like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Jesus and others concerning Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple have come to pass, many of their words spoke of days yet in the future. They spoke of events that have yet to be fulfilled, a Temple that has not yet been built, sacrifices that have not been restored and a generation of people who has not yet lived their lives. There is yet a future Jerusalem that includes a Temple to the Lord on the Temple Mount and a Jerusalem filled with Jews who are the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Even prophets of the New Testament and members of the church age attest to this fact in scripture.

The Apostle Paul writes to the Romans concerning the future of Israel:

I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! . . . Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring! . . . For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? – Romans 11:1, 11, 12, 15

Why do we watch? Why do we wait? Because, according to Paul's words, the “fullness” of Israel and their “acceptance” of God’s plan in Jesus, the Messiah, will result in “greater riches” and “life from the dead” (the resurrection into the kingdom of God).

The photo of the Golden Candle Stand shows one piece of the Temple furniture prepared by the Jews for use in the Temple they plan to build on the Temple Mount. The caption under the photo in the book reads:

This is a photo of the Golden Candle Stand prepared by The Temple Institute specifically for use on the Temple Mount in the next Temple. All the furniture, utensils and clothing required for the operation of the Jewish Temple have been prepared by The Temple Institute and are ready to be moved to the Temple Mount when the time comes. This includes the recently built stone altar that sets in the collection waiting to be moved to the Temple Mount even before the Temple is built so that sacrifices may begin as soon as possible.

IDF General Ashkenazi at Arch of Titus in Rome Today

The General of Staff for the Israeli Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, gave a short speech at the Arch of Titus in Rome this evening (today, Iowa time), on the eve of Tisha B’av, the day marking the destruction of the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem by Babylon in 586 BC and by Rome in 70 AD.



The Arch of Titus was built in 70 AD with engravings of the Temple treasures being taken from Jerusalem into Rome. Ezekiel 37 and the vision of the dry bones coming back to life is reaching full swing.


The General says in the above video clip,

"It is touching to come here as the head of the Israel Defense Forces and to say here . . . "Am Yisrael Hai" ("The Nation of Israel is Alive.")

Public support from Israel for the rebuilding of the Temple is growing. See article here

"Framework" Book in Ghana Bible Schools

I just received this photo from a Bible school in Ghana. Notice the "Framework" book on their desks. These students are the core teachers trained with the "Framework" book and sent out to teach pastors. They distribute the "Framework" book throughout Ghana, including lead pastors in Tamale, the capital town of Ghana's Muslim North. They just emailed and want more books.

Nea Church of Justinian, 543 AD

Remains of the southeast corner of the Justinian's 543 Nea Church. The above photo shows the back right corner of the Nea Church in the illustration below.

Emperor Justinian (527-565) had the Nea Church (“nea” is Greek for “new”) built on the east side of the Cardo Street in the south part of Jerusalem. The Nea Church can be clearly seen on the Madaba Map. This 375 foot by 185 foot basilica, the largest church in Israel, was dedicated in 543. Justinian’s Roman court historian, Procopius, describes this massive church as not being built over a traditional holy site. It was built for some other purpose. It included a library, a monastery, a hospital and a hospice. Procopius says the structure was built with enormous cut stones on a huge platform which was supported by large underground vaults. The roof was built of very tall cedars and many large pillars filled the Nea Church, or basilica. For several reasons it appears Justinian believed he was building a new Temple to replace Solomon’s and Herod's. Every year on August 3 the whole Book of Kings was read. It is considered highly probably that the Nea Church was built to hold the Temple treasures taken from Herod’s Temple by the Romans in 70 AD. It is clear from the images on the Arch of Titus built in Rome after the 70 AD Roman victory to commemorate the Roman victory over Jerusalem that the candle stand and the trumpets from the Temple were carried into Rome. Josephus himself testifies to this fact in his book Wars of the Jews, book 7, chapter 5:

After these triumphs were over, and after the affairs of the Romans were settled on the surest foundations, Vespasian resolved to build a Temple to Peace, which was finished in so short a time, and in so glorious a manner, as was beyond all human expectation and opinion: for he having now by Providence a vast quantity of wealth, besides what he had formerly gained in his other exploits, he had this temple adorned with pictures and statues; for in this temple were collected and deposited all such rarities as men aforetime used to wander all over the habitable world to see, when they had a desire to see one of them after another; he also laid up therein those golden vessels and instruments that were taken out of the Jewish temple, as ensigns of his glory. But still he gave order that they should lay up their Law, and the purple veils of the holy place, in the royal palace itself, and keep them there.

They were kept in Rome until Rome fell to the Vandals. The Vandals were in turn defeated by the Byzantine Empire which recovered the Temple treasures and brought them to Constantinople. At this time, during Byzantine’s triumphal procession through Constantinople with the captives and booty taken from the Vandals, the Jewish Temple treasures where seen among the booty. Procopius, the Roman court historian for Justinian, records these events of his own day in History of the Wars, book IV, chapter 9:6-9:

. . . among these were the treasures of the Jews, which Titus, the son of Vespasian, together with certain others, had brought to Rome after the capture of Jerusalem. And one of the Jews, seeing these things, approached one of those known to the emperor and said: "These treasures I think it inexpedient to carry into the palace in Byzantium. Indeed, it is not possible for them to be elsewhere than in the place where Solomon, the king of the Jews, formerly placed them. For it is because of these that Gizeric captured the palace of the Romans, and that now the Roman army has captured that the Vandals." When this had been brought to the ears of the Emperor (Justinian), he became afraid and quickly sent everything to the sanctuaries of the Christians in Jerusalem.

This is a photo of the southern apse of the Nea Church. The location of this apse can be seen in the floor plan of the church below.

Forty-nine years after the death of Justinian and seventy years after the dedication of the Nea Church the Persians captured Jerusalem help from their Jewish allies. The Nea Church was plundered in 614 by the Jews and Persians. History records that all churches in Israel at this time, with the exception of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, were burnt by the Persian invaders and their Jewish allies. The fact that these churches were plundered is confirmed by the fact that the Persians captured from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher what the Christians thought was the “True Cross.” It would appear then that the Temple treasures taken to Rome by Titus in 70 AD and returned to Jerusalem by Justinian in 534 would have been taken by the Jews in 614 from the Nea Church. After the fall of Jerusalem to the Persians in 614 we lose track of the Temple treasures. What happened to them? Were the Jews silent about their re-discovered Temple treasure? Were the Temple treasures carried away by the Persians? Maybe melted down? Or, were the Temple treasures never located nor removed from their hidden compartments in the lower regions of the Nea Church? Are they still here today? By 617, only three years after their victory, the Persians betrayed their Jewish allies by expelling them from Jerusalem and returning Jerusalem to Christian control under the Byzantine Empire. Although plundered and burnt, the remains of the Nea Church continued to stand for several centuries since it is mentioned by pilgrim writers as still being in use in 634 and 808. In 870 a monk stayed there in what is called Charlemagne’s rebuilt Nea Church. (Realize the Persian invasion of 614 was not associated with Islam since it was in 622 Mohammed began to spread his new religion and had just entered Medina to convert the Jews. By 626 Mohammed began slaughtering the Jews and the Muslim “faith” was beginning to spread. Muslim war and conquest would arrive in Jerusalem in 638, a mere 21 years after the Persians restored Jerusalem to the Christians.)
There are six huge vaulted halls over 30 feet high under the remains of this church. Charles Warren entered and drew these vaults in 1867. Today an inscription has been found that reads:

And this is the work which was carried out by the generosity of our most gracious Emperor Flavius Justinian, under the care and devotion of the most holy Constatinos, priest and in the year 534/35.

Today's Old City wall is found built over the top of the remains of the southeast corner of what once was the enormous Nea Church.