Have a happy and successfull new year in 2008. Don’t let the political infighting get you down. There’s only four more years to go till the new millennium!

     Keep your chin up and always take the higher, moral, ethical high ground. Just because the rest of your department, agency, or company chooses to crawl in the mud by acting like thugs is not a sign that you should do so, too.

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     The Albertaclipper Blog does not aspire to take either a Right or Left political stance. I, Albert, actually walk a line that is pretty much in between the two extremes. So whether you’re a Rightist, a Leftist, or a Middle-Of-The-Roadist, I welcome your opinion–so let’s talk!

     Happy New Year!

     Your’s, Albert

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I know a man who claims to have had out of body experiences (OBEs). As a Christian this thought is somewhat perplexing to me as it’s difficult for me, as it is most average Christians, to understand not only how but why it can happen.

Perhaps the most important questions of all are 1) how can such a thing happen to someone that you don’t think of as being especially spiritual, 2) what’s the purpose, and 3) who’s behind it–heaven or hell?

It’s easy for us as Christians to simply dismiss people like this with a wave of the hand. Well, I decided to do some exploring and I found an interesting passage in 2nd Corinthians, verses 1 through 10 in Chapter 12 and here are the first four:

2 Corinthians

• 12.1 - It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
• 12.2 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
• 12.3 - And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
• 12.4 - How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

The writer of 2nd Corinthians, Paul the apostle, came along after the other 11 (by then Judas, the betrayer of Christ Jesus, had committed suicide over what he had done). You can imagine how this would have caused quite a stir amongst the others. And as an organisation, it’s easy to see how Paul would be ignored due to feelings of resentment, assuming that he is the only one who had these things.

Then again, if we take a short step back and we take another look at all of this it’s clear that the other 11 apostles had the luxury of first hand instruction by Jesus Christ himself. Because Paul came along later, it may have been necessary to school him in this manner.

My friend says that during some of his OBEs he was schooled on an assortment of things by men dressed in white robes. Only problem is, consciously he doesn’t recall what these lessons were about.

Let’s step back and take still another look at another Bible character that seemed to have an OBE: John

Revelation

• 4:1 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
• 4:2 - And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

If you read the first Chapter of St. John’s writings in the Book of Revelation (The Apocalypse) and compare it to the passages above, you can see that a shift took place after Jesus gave his message to the seven churches. In Chapter 1 John says he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day on the Island of Patmos when this event took place. In Chapter four, when he was taken in the spirit, he was whisked away out of body, or so it would appear. You should read it for yourself:

Revelation

• 1:9 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• 1:10 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
• 1:11 - Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

In Chapter 1, John says he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day. In Revelation 4, he says he was taken in the spirit to see events yet to come. Clearly there’s a difference between the two experiences–the early one where he had a vision and the second where he was actually removed from his location and taken to another.

Do I understand it? No. Without a doubt, I do not understand it. But, we must at least admit to ourselves that there are things that God makes happen to his servants, sometimes average Christians at that, which cannot be easily explained in everyday Christian terms. Does that mean it did not or could not happen today and to someone like my friend, an average Christian?

According to my friend, in the early years of his experiencing these things he took his situation to several ministers to get their opinion on things. Most of them were not at all on board with it. Most of them told him they thought it was satanic. One even went so far as to ask him, “Why would God give you such a spiritual experience and not someone of the church, like myself?” My friend told me that his reply was simple, “That’s a question you need to ask God, not me.”

I bring all of this up today, Sunday, because it seems to me that some of us as Christians have come to the point where we go through the motions but when it really comes down to it, we don’t beleive most of what we’re told in church. I say that because I’m sure my good friend with the OBEs has had his share of chastisement by Christian brothers and sisters. And yet the apostles themselves told of similar experiences. And then you join this with Jesus’ own instruction that Christians can do greater things than he did if they have faith, and you begin to see that maybe we do have a problem en masse.

Your’s, Albert

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     On Wednesday, December 19th, Congress completed debate on the Omnibus Appropriations bill and double-crossed the country. They withdrew many of their earlier border guarantees promised in the Secure Fence Act. This means the fence cannot be built!

     Pulling back from the double-fence mandate is a prescription for failure that will only allow more smugglers, criminals and illegal aliens to enter the United States through our borders. This will severely undermine our national security.

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     If there were any doubts about Congress’ lack of commitment where it involves stopping illegal immigration I think that it’s gone now. What will it take for the Congress to enforce current immigration laws? What will it take for them to act on this issue?

     The Federal Gov’t has only one serious Constitutional mandate expected of them and that is to protect our border. There’s nothing in the Constitution that calls for the Federal Gov’t to create social institutions of learning, nothing in the Constitution about them providing foreign aide to ungrateful foreign nations, and nothing in the Constitution about making deals behind closed doors creating a regional gov’t without even as much as a vote in Congress, but yet all of this is happening and more.

     You had better take a few minutes out of your time to find out what’s up with this. In fact, if you think this is bad, look again: Click Here

     Your’s, Albert

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Canadian Health Agency admits to Major Hack

     Database disasters are not just confined to UK government agencies, after sensitive patient information has been accessed by persons unknown on a Canadian health agency computer.

     According to Health Minister Ross Wiseman, the data, including lab test results for infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis along with patient names and health numbers, was stored on a government desktop computer, which was taken to the home of a consultant working for the Provincial Public Health Laboratory.

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     Here’s another example of how placing critical information on the Internet for all to hack often results in the compromise of valuable personal data. I have to agree with those who disagree with this practice–this makes absolutely no sense. If you know that hacking is a possibility, why on earth would you place critical data on the Internet?

     Are we stupid or what?

     Yours, Albert

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As I sit here this Christmas Day, I am reminded of the reason why God came to Earth in the form of a man named Jesus. The story of Jesus actually represents one of the most paranormal events of the New Age possible. It involves God, the Most High, microforming a man named Jesus by way of a virgin birth via Mary, Jesus’ mother. And yet so many disbelieve.

By nature, God is so big that He had to send his spirit, the Holy Spirit, to man’s level in order to communicate and work with his creation at the societal level. Like a father seperated by indifference and intellectual space from his children, God was forced to endure a signifigant gap in connection with his children, mankind.

It was necessary to launch a search and rescue mission on Earth, the mission which is to search for acceptable men and women and to educate them as to God’s true and rightful will for mankind. The initial event that kicked off this effort was the birth of Jesus.

The Christmas story, like the Christian story, is actually a paranormal one. There is nothing man-made in the making of this story. It was handed down by God through events that took place more than 2,000 years ago, or nearly 2,000 years ago. It’s a supernatural story that includes many new-age implications, but without all the hocuspocus. It’s an in-your-face story that tells of the entry of God in the form of a man named Jesus.

For this reason, I’m somewhat amazed at the disbelief exhibited by so many of this new age. How can those who profess the existence of spiritual creatures and the channeling of their messages to mankind disbelieve in what is probably the grandaddy of new-age stories: the entrance of God at the level of man through the creation of and habitation of a man named Jesus?

Jesus was one of three coggs in a large wheel called the Godhead. The Godhead is comprised of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which is God’s immediate Sprity on Earth and throughout creation.

I am so grateful that I was given the privelage of knowing Jesus by acceptance of the Holy Spirit. Without this indwelling of the Holy Spirit one cannot know Jesus. I have seen many wonderful mysteries throughout my own life, some that include the actual changing of natural laws to alter what could have been terrible outcomes for me as well as for others. I’ve seen events suddenly turned around to remove myself from harm’s way.

No one can tell me there is no God as I know there is with ever fiber of this body as well as every spec of thought within me. He continues to guide and protect me to this very day and He will do that for you if you but repent and ask Him to come into your heart. Don’t delay, as the time is growing short. Don’t wait another day to turn your eyes toward the sky–toward your Maker, the Creator of all we see.

As we celebrate Jesus’ birthday, Christians and non-Christians alike, may we know that there is a God and that whether we know it or not, Christmas is an acknowledgement of His coming to Earth.

Your’s, Albert

P.S.
     There are those who will tell you that a virgin birth is impossible. Remember one thing, they can only speak for mankind. NOTHING is impossible with a Creator who is powerful enough to speak what we now see into existence.

     The laws of nature are so complicated and indepth that the smartest of our scientists are still trying to figure them out… and so many have the nerve to say a supreme, supernatural intelligence smarter them themselves is not possible. That has to be the ultimate VANITY!

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Merry Christmas from

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Just remember, Jesus is the reason for the season!

Yours, Albert

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A friend sent me the following YouTube URL for a series of short videos of a lecture by Lindsey Williams , author of “The Energy Non-Crisis”…

Part 1 of 8, starts automatically - the others can be found from the list of videos on the right. They may not be in exact order.

Lindsey Williams - The Energy Non-Crisis: You have got to SEE THIS!!

Each segment is 10-min. or less, and you need to see them all, but here are
some highlights to listen for…

(part 4):
Iraq and Iran did not sign on to Henry Kissinger’s oil plan… guess who we are warring against and planning to attack?

(part 5): “The standard currency of the world is OIL!”

(part 6): “The IMF and the World Bank…”

(part 7): World Bank rips off Brazil - Iran would flood world with cheap oil based on the Euro - Washington cannot allow this! - The Greenspan factor in our national debt!

(part 8): Why Bush cannot not allow Alaskan oil to be refined!

Just thought this all to be quite interesting.

Keith

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Approaching Hoofbeats, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

     The four horses are described in Revelation 6. They are almost an exact repeat of the first four signs of the end of the age that Jesus gave in Matthew 24. The first horse has to do with counterfeit religion. The second deals with war and peace. The third has to do with famine and pestilence. And the fourth represents the trauma of death and the sufferings of Hades.

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     The third, fourth, and the sixth seals as spoken of by John in the Book of Revelation largely include nature while the others involve the violence of war. Just how natural will all of this seem to people at the time it occurs do you think? (Click to Read: Revelation 6)

     Do you believe that we’re going to have someone warn us when these things begin to happen that Revelation is being fulfilled? Do you think that there will be articles in the newspaper and productions on television written and paid for by God or His Son, Jesus, that explain it all as it happens?

     Just how much of this will we see as normal, natural, and simply part of everyday business?

     It’s my personal belief that all of it will appear natural. This is the part of current events that non-Christians simply do not understand. It runs counter to their nature and so they find it nearly impossible to think outside their small, self-imposed box.

     I’ve heard it time after time, “God is a loving God, so He would never do that.” God has told us time and again that He’s a jealous God where it comes to who or what men worship. So, if you hold more in government and in what science says and not so what God has told us, then you are a candidate for the school of hard knocks.

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     Yours, Albert

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British Citizens and the European Union

     What do British citizens think about Europe — James Graham presents some insight into this very complex issue based on a series of citizen juries comprising of people across the UK. The major consensus was the governance of EU is of concern to us.

     With the debate raging over the past week about whether or not Gordon Brown will be signing the Reform Treaty in Lisbon, we have yet again allowed discussion over the UK’s place in Europe descend into trivia. Even when the substance of the Reform Treaty is discussed, all too often the debate is presented in black and white terms, with elites arguing the toss in a language that the wider public does not understand while claiming to speak on its behalf. Politicians from across the political spectrum are calling for a referendum on the Treaty and even membership of the EU itself, but like any ratification process whatever the merits of referendums - and I write as a supporter of one - like any ratification process they are ultimately closed questions that leave very little room for nuance.

     
You Gotta Read This!!.

     We can banter back and forth about the pros and cons of joining the European Union (EU) but the proof in the pudding is contained in the simple, but effective phrase: Too much of anything is bad for you!.

     Too much government can be bad for anyone and any people. Too much legislative process, too much enforcement, too much liberalism, too much conservatism–too much of anything is bad.

     Yours, Albert

As to the big fuss between the White House and Congress over “water boarding” and the general treatment of enemy combatants held in custody by the U.S., I could care less what methods we must resort to to gain vital information to prevent another attack on our homeland or eliminate a specific threat to our American troops.

So, call me narrow-minded if you want, but I am much more concerned about our modern-day police officers committing acts of torture on U.S. citizens with their indiscriminate use of STUN GUNS and TASERS on everyone from incapacitated senior citizens and  pregnant women, to school children.

The Bush administration apparently acknowledges the severe pain and potential dangers from these high-voltage weapons because he will NOT allow their use on ILLEGAL ALIENS in custody. But it’s OK for the cops to zap you or your wife or your children with those potentially lethal weapons if you so much as look cross-eyed at them these days. All civilian police forces are trained in specific hand-to-hand combat methods which can control even the most violent offender. There may be a place for these tasers and stun guns, but their use has become the primary weapon, when it should be reserved for very specific circumstances.  As a matter of fact, what ever happened to the legislation enacted during the 1960’s civil rights protest marches that outlawed the use of electric cattle prods on humans? As I have read, the cattle prods are much less likely to be lethal or cause injury than the extreme high-voltage tasers and stun guns being used on our present-day population.

I’d like to see our general U.S. population treated with the same or greater respect and mercy than we are demanding from our feds and U.S. Troops in dealing with the enemy in time of war.

     Keith