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The Battle of Blood River

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December 16, 1838

by Pastor Mark Downey

There are those who would reduce Blood River to secular history, but the Holy Spirit will not permit me to ignore the divine ramifications and the miraculous destiny that our Lord has planned for His people, Israel. This is the extraordinary story of God delivering the Boers of South Africa in a one day battle against the fierce and unrelenting Zulu's in 1838.

The Battle of Blood River

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December 16, 1838

by Pastor Mark Downey

I get frequent inquiries from believers as well as mockers and doubters as to where God is these days.  Where is He?  They ask, “Why isn’t He performing supernatural miracles like the ones we read about in the Bible?”  And of course I answer with the affirmation that He is the same yesterday, today and forever; that where two or more are gathered in His name, there He is in the midst of them. 

There are some phenomenon’s that defy explanation, unless you’re a Bible-believing Christian and pray in faith knowing that that prayer will be answered and that everything will be well.  In spite of all the terrible things that surround us, there is still hope and proof of deliverance.  Our God delivers.

It's the Betrayal, Stupid

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Scripure Reading:  Luke 21:15-19

The assassination of the Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, and a betrayal by an entrusted friend.Et tu, Brute?” from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Just seconds before the assassination of the Roman emperor and being stabbed to death, Caesar sees one of the young Senators with knife in hand and exclaims “you also?” Imagine the last words out of your mouth is the surprising question to someone you thought was a loyal friend, but instead your executioner. To live by the sword is to die by the sword has become a common refrain for pacifism, but Jesus' admonition to Peter lobbing off the ear of the high priest's SWAT team member was not anti-sword; it was protecting Peter from being arrested himself, even though Peter was just trying to protect his Master. After Jesus was betrayed by Judas, the cops moved in to make the arrest. In hindsight, Peter should have aimed his sword at Judas, but this was a perfect moment of predestination as Jesus told him, “Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?" John 18:11. The metaphor of a cup often signifies a measure of divine affliction, possibly derived from the custom of some nations putting someone to death with a cup of poison. Jesus had come to die as a sacrifice for sin and betrayal was a necessary ingredient to teach us many lessons which we'll explore today.

The Friction Christian

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Scripture Reading: James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you"

An unknown cowboy, who, judging by his saddle, side arm and rifle was riding the trails circa 1870 or 1880. On the back of this early photograph is simply inscribed “Indian fighter.”They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I'm going to talk about this unknown cowboy, who, judging by his saddle, side arm and rifle was riding the trails circa 1870 or 1880. On the back of this early photograph is simply inscribed “Indian fighter.” The more I look at this young man, the more I can see the disappearing manhood from our heritage of the Aryan warrior, the rugged individual or even the Phinehas priest. His boyish look of a young King David should not be confused with youthful indiscretions. To the contrary, I see a determined lad living a fearless life of Joshua, with faith in his bloodline, boldly running through his veins. He was fighting the Canaanites of his day, in a wilderness-turning Promised Land. We don't know if he was a Christian, but there's no denying that the New Covenant/Law was written in his heart and mind as it is with every White person. You can tell by looking at him that he feared no evil, even though he may have walked through the valley of Comanches. My grandpa was a cowboy in Montana and my uncles looked up to him and always admired his true grit, living in a sod house and punching cattle in the waning years of open range in a wild west America. My grandpa's father was a captain in the Confederacy and after the war became a Texas Ranger, whose motto was 'The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” Orwellian historians now deny this expression, being entirely politically incorrect, flushed down the memory hole. In fact, the rewriting of history by Chicano lawyers and academics describe the Rangers in the 1979 book 'Gunpowder Justice' with the utmost calumny and contempt, stating their purpose: “to expose the popular image... to scholarly scrutiny and to analyse the reasons why the Texas Rangers have secured a tenaciously favorable reputation in the minds of the American public.” Let me tell you, the American cowboy is admired throughout the world and made its mark in history and we are exposing the modern Canaanite that would take away our heritage.

Make America Hate Again

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Scripture Reading:  Proverbs 8:13 - “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.”

You might agree with today's message and that would be alright. It's about time. Coming to the truth is sometimes on borrowed time after a lifetime of lies and that's called grace. It's coming to an understanding of unmerited favor. But, better late than never. God created time and there is “A time to love, and a time to hate” Eccl. 3:8. You either believe that as a Christian or you might as well be an atheist. Love without hate or vice versa is a nullification of the Gospels of Jesus Christ. America used to hate what most people today love. This is somewhat of an election sermon leading up to my open letter to Donald Trump (if he doesn't get killed). I must give credit where credit is due for today’s sermon title. Thank you Hillary Clinton for your hatred of us Americans who you consider “deplorable.” It's not just Trump supporters, but anyone who does not genuflect to the libertard agenda of anti-White and pro-global elitists is a stunning witness to mind control run amuck. For so much noose-worthy current events of a Jezebel anti-type (a New Testament parallel to the Old) having so much enigmatic health concerns, her mouth seems to be functioning like a high performance Denny Crane (that's a jewish lawyer with a messianic complex). Not only are those not voting for Hillary a basket of deplorables, which had to be a premeditated jingoism, but the same comedy writers side-swiped us with the jingo 'make America hate again.'

Dallas Malice

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Revelation 18:23-24 - “And the light of a lamp shall not shine in you hereafter! And the bridegroom and a bride shall not be heard in you hereafter! Because your merchants were the great men of the earth! Because by your pharmaceuticals have all the nations been deceived!” And in her is found the blood of the prophets and saints and all those having been slaughtered upon the earth” CNT.

It's become rather self evident lately that Babylon is spiking the frequency of headline violence. By spiking I mean the addition of intoxicants into adult beverages. They are serving spiked drinks and drinks are on the house... of cards. 'House of cards' is an idiom going back to 1645 and means a tiered structure, plan, organization or argument built on a weak foundation or precarious balancing act with the slightest wrong move putting it in a constant state of imminent collapse if a necessary element is removed, which is often overlooked or unappreciated. What has been removed from our society? It is God. Have public and private schools fallen apart because of forced integration and the removal of prayer and our Bible? Only a blind fool could not see the spike in teen violence, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, illicit pregnancy and divorce. Even America's first dictator, Abe Lincoln, knew the consequences: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will become the philosophy of government in the next.” it has. K-12 years of Marxist indoctrination has created a state-of-mind communist wrapped in red, white and blue mobocracy.

The religion of secular humanism is taught in the schools today whereby right and wrong, moral and immoral behavior, is a matter of a so called free will. Children are thus allowed to self-approve their lifestyle of sin. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” said an occult Satanist. But, the God of the White race said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6. Our children have been taught the philosophy to love all races and religions contrary to the Word of God. If a child today deviates from what the government deems correct, they are labeled with the 'hate' tag. They are nurtured to fear the government. But, the Bible says, "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil” Prov. 8:13. Conversely, the fear of today's government is to love evil. The flip-flop of calling good evil and evil good is a clear and present danger.

Positive Christianity - Part 4

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Scripture Reading:  I Thessalonians 5:19-22 “Do not quench the spirit.  Do not despise teachings.  Prove all things, hold on to what is good.  Abstain from every form of evil.”

First, let me make clear a few things.  I knew that when I revised and expanded this series that it would be wrought with controversy.  I have several reasons for doing so.  One is to take a stand against the jewish propaganda machine and the other is to chastise the secular White Nationalist movement that naively emulates the National Socialist without Christ, in Hollywood movies, books and sordid media, and thinks that wearing a costume will awaken White people to the perils we face in the world today.  Both do a disservice to the historical record and truth.  It is not my intent to recreate the imagery of the past, but to capitalize on the principles of what worked in the past and will work in the future.   And especially not to repeat the mistakes of the past, of which we should have a 20/20 vision.  Even in the Christian Identity community there is consternation about the status of Christianity during the Third Reich.  So, in this final installment we are going to deal with some things that are rarely discussed.  Hopefully, we will put a new perspective in your heart about the heroes of our race, who have been painted with the brush of villainy.  However, the idea for Christians, is not to lay our hope in man per se, but our hope and enthusiasm in men of God whose role model is Jesus Christ.  He is our example and His student, Adolf Hitler, exemplified the Master.  The prostitute-historian cannot stand that truth and can't portray a person any better than the Picasso shown in Part 3.

The one truth that cannot be denied is that Jacob-Israel and Esau-Edom clashed in a crescendo of opposite values in 1933.  It was really a clash between judaism and the last vestige of Christianity in Europe; talmudic law vs. God's Law.  It is imperative that Identity Christians understand the history of Germany fighting for their lives against a satanic force;  a force that was abducting the Kingdom of God through the violence and immorality of mammon.  A similar situation exists in America today, although I would venture to say much worse.  All the more reason to honor the heroes of faith, than to dishonor them.  For if we disdain those who shed their blood for us, we are still under the antichrist yoke of dialectics; a mind control to hate your own kind; to hate yourself for being White.  Take away the heritage of heroism and you have no resistance to tyranny.  And one of the biggest taboos for showing respect for the sacrifices Germany made is the swastika.  Not to fly it as some fools do, but to understand what it meant. 

Positive Christianity - Part 3

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Scripture Reading: Isaiah 2:2-4

A lot of money goes into winning hearts and minds for either good or evil intentions.  Propaganda was historically an unbiased term for the art of persuasion.  I've quoted the one statement of Karl Marx so many times, because it drives home the point that if one doesn't play fair with the facts, one can produce an emotional rather than rational response to the evidence presented.  Marx said, “Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded.”  It's like selling an ice cube to an eskimo.  The jews got so good at stealing the heritage of the White race, that they assumed their biblical identity as “Israel.”  In our divine quest to reawaken our people with the Christian Identity message, it is incumbent upon us to rectify the monster lies of jewish disinformation if we are to have any heritage at all.  In George Orwell's book '1984,' the deception became a fait accompli and all that was left for the totalitarian hierarchy was to maintain it.  A good example of something that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept it, is 9/11.  And the same modus operandi has been at work reinventing Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler, because of theology and race.  The churches are complicit.  The method of persuasion was turned into high gear, lest the adversaries of God fail to maintain their facade and subsequently lose their grip; a death grip, on the society they've enslaved.

Hitler understood that German culture was being transformed by an ugly and perverse movement that would take away their heritage and replace it with an alien idolatry that would ruin Germany.  And it almost did.  White Christians do best among their own kind, provided their Christianity is positive and not universalist.  It encourages the servant race of God to not only hear the Word, but to do the work in spite of possible suffering.  In times of adversity, our worry shouldn't turn to fear, because our faith gives us the courage of our convictions.  Our alien enemies are without a prayer if we cannot be diverted from our divine calling.  “

Positive Christianity - Part 2

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Scripture Reading:  John 21:15-17

Last time, we started an investigation into the relationship between Christianity and Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Germany.  We discovered that from 1920, the Party Platform stood for Positive Christianity. They called it positive because the nominal churches of that era were influenced by judaism, the opposite of Christianity in many respects, and therefore had mutated into a negative representation of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven that our Savior preached. The primary element that promoted a negative Christianity as it related to government and everyday life was what we call 'liberalism'.  And we exposed what liberal theology does to a society.  It creates a schizophrenic race mixing mentality and destroys the genetic integrity of the White race, the true Israel people of the Bible.  Without a jew-free Christian Israel, God's plan for the ages is neutralized.  Even though Positive Christianity was not Christian Identity, it nevertheless had the moral Law of God in their hearts and mind.  They believed that the mixing of races would bring down any society, as history clearly demonstrates.  Therefore, many Germans came to the conclusion that their German heritage could not be sustained under the immoral influence of jewish communism that was destroying their nation and for that matter, all of Europe. 

True Israel is to administrate the Laws of God and to be the guardians of the Word.  If the enemies of God affect this divine appointment, they effectively change the law of the land, making God's Word of none effect. This negative influence on religious issues is operating successfully in our country today. It's what Adolf Hitler put a stop to, defeating jewish communism with Christian nationalism. It's the positive action of biblical teachings that we need today to turn things around: to give our children a future, devoid of mongrelization, perversions and violence. It's standing on the promises of God like National Socialist Germany did, taking to heart II Chron. 7:14.

Positive Christianity

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by Pastor Mark Downey

This was a term used by Germans during the Third Reich, which was synonymous with National Socialism. Much disinformation has caused wholesale slander against Germany during this era, which is corrected in this article.

Part 1: The real story behind the relationship between National Socialist Germany and Christianity.

Part 2: A closer examination of bringing church and state, government and God together through righteous leadership and a nation turning to the Word of God.

Part 3: How God empowered Positive Christianity to rout the jew from the body of Christ and how this might be a precursor to the daughter of Zion.

Part 4: An explanation of the Swastika; Hans Schmidt recounts living in Hitler's Germany; the Pax Judaica coming to an end.

Positive Christianity - Part 1

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May 1, 2016

Scripture Reading: Nehemiah 9:24-28

Good morning.  Today's message is entitled 'Positive Christianity; the other PC,' referring to political correctness, and I guarantee that today's message is not politically correct.  Whenever someone speaks of Christians awakening to the vicious cycle just recited in Nehemiah, whoever the symbolic Canaanites at the time may be, and identifies the solution in a positive light, we get a negative backlash, because the adversary to Israel does not want to give up control over us to the God of Israel.  So they try to get us in a perpetual state of sin through immorality, miscegenation, materialism etc.    

One of the reasons why I stand behind this pulpit and preach is to help you, my racial kinsmen, understand that you've been lied to, and are being lied to, on a daily basis.  You might ask, "What are you talking about?"  Well, I'm talking about race, politics, religion, law and history; those things that determine the kind of world we live in.  I, for one, am not happy with the direction in which our once great nation is going.  I see racial aliens and bureaucratic commissars telling me how to live my life.  My God given liberties are at risk and your God given responsibilities are stymied.  We have non-Whites in government, who want the White middle class to pay for their multicultural utopia.  The original commitment to secure the blessings of liberty for our posterity has been abandoned.  How many days do you have to work to pay taxes for your own destruction?  Why do we have this politically correct guilt thrust upon us?  Why don't we just tell the controlled jewish news media to go to hell?!  Why don't we just get rid of all this rampant immorality and corruption in our society?  The word 'Krystalnacht' comes to mind.  What happened to the militia movement after the Waco massacre?  Well, that story is not over, no matter how hard the demonizers try to rationalize mass murder of American citizens and murder a Congressmen who sympathized with the Branch Davidians.  

White Genocide - Christogenea Saturdays Part 3

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William Finck’s
Christogenea Talkshoe Program

with William Finck and Pastor Mark Downey

Subject:  White Genocide Part 3, No Silver Bullet Week2

Part 3: Pastor Mark Downey concludes his explanation that there is no silver bullet for which to cure what White Nationalists are calling White Genocide. This is a judgement from God, and the White man must return to his God and repent of his sin. The original sermon is found here: White Genocide: No Silver Bullet.

White Genocide - Christogenea Saturdays Part 2

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Subject:  White Genocide Part 2, No Silver Bullet Week1

Part 2: Pastor Mark Downey explains that there is no silver bullet for which to cure what White Nationalists are calling White Genocide. This is a judgement from God, and the White man must return to his God and repent of his sin. The original sermon is found here: White Genocide Part 2: No Silver Bullet.  Pastor Mark and Bill will take 2 weeks to cover this material.

White Genocide - Christogenea Saturdays Part 1

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William Finck’s
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with William Finck and Pastor Mark Downey

Subject:  White Genocide Part 1, The Ultimate Curse

Part 1: Pastor Mark Downey explains that the mantras of White Genocide are actually a curse to Whites, because Whites have a promise that there will never be such a thing. The cries of White Genocide actually instill in Whites a victim mentality which demotes them to the status of the lesser races.

White Genocide

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Subject:  White Genocide

Genocide is a contrived jewish word concocted for the purpose of generating sympathy for a fictional holocaust.  The same kind of psychology of victimhood is being poised against the rank and file of White Nationalism, undermining the warrior spirit of our race.

June 20, 2015 Part 1:  Pastor Mark Downey explains that the mantras of White Genocide are actually a curse to Whites, because Whites have a promise that there will never be such a thing. The cries of White Genocide actually instill in Whites a victim mentality which demotes them to the status of the lesser races.

June 27, 2015 Part 2:  Pastor Mark Downey explains that there is no silver bullet for which to cure what White Nationalists are calling White Genocide. This is a judgement from God, and the White man must return to his God and repent of his sin. Mark and Bill take 2 weeks to cover this material

July 4, 2015 Part 3: Pastor Mark Downey concludes his explanation that there is no silver bullet for which to cure what White Nationalists are calling White Genocide. This is a judgement from God, and the White man must return to his God and repent of his sin.

White Genocide Part 2: No Silver Bullet

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Scripture Reading:  Isaiah 9:1-7

Genocide is not a word Christians should desire in their nomenclature as a mantra, because we are told in Mt. 6:7, “use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do” and because Christ came  so that we might have life (John 10:10).  Therefore, genocide is all about death, whereas Christianity is all about life.  The religious practice of repeating a phrase or prayer is oriental and alien to our race.  This is why we cannot afford or have the luxury to echo a constant threat that looms over us like 'White Genocide,' having the expectation that a slogan will save us from destruction.   The thieves and robbers of Israel “comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10).  What we have here are competing memes, which are concepts having the capacity to expand exponentially and affect any given culture.  The alleged jewish genocide has gone under the guise of “the Holocaust” and has pumped billions of dollars into the coffers of antichrist jews.  The love of money is the life blood of the jew.  We are not jews, so we do not have to resort to the ways and means of jews.  Make no mistake about it, jews are destroyers and we are at the top of their hit list.  Pastor Elmore said in his last sermon, “Jews, mostly Zionist in nature, have spearheaded every movement or cause that now threatens our destruction and brings us to the edge of extinction and annihilation.”  But, I John 3:8 states, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”  Is it too much of a stretch to say the destroyer jew is going to be destroyed?  No, we have ample prophecy that pinpoints the Edomite jew as the one being annihilated.  Christ made an important declaration in Hebrews 2:14-15, “Therefore, since the children [of God] have flesh and blood in common, He [Christ] also in like manner took part in the same, that through death He would annul the one having the power of death, that is, the devil [false accuser]; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”  We have to go back to the original cause of death.  Indeed, the cause of death or genocide right up to this point in time.  And there we will find the culprit.

White Genocide Part 1: The Ultimate Curse

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Scripture Reading:  II Peter 1:2-11

This book we call the Bible begins with Genesis, but it does not end with the book of Genocide.  What does genocide mean?  What does being White mean?  What does the combination of these two words 'White Genocide' mean?  Race and racism is the most important thing in the Bible.  Every Law of God, biblical principle, contractual covenant and promise is predicated on the premise that God discriminates.  All of the lofty and noble doctrines of Scripture cannot be understood without the element of racial interpretation.  The removal of race from the Word of God began centuries ago in earnest.  Color blindness, a euphemism for racial equality, is still being blind and “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch” Mt. 15:14.  It's just like voting for the lesser of two evils, it is still evil.  Knowing your identity is knowing your God.  Knowing people of color is knowing the strange gods of racial aliens.  Having a knowledge of racial differences is having a racial consciousness and puts the White man on the side of God.  Having an ignorance of racial differences is having a color consciousness and actually foments the mentality of mongrelization and puts the White man on the side of false gods.  The term 'White Genocide' as we shall see, does not help White people understand the meaning of life.  Quite the contrary, the expression can inculcate the ultimate curse.

White Genocide

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Genocide is a contrived jewish word concocted for the purpose of generating sympathy for a fictional holocaust.  The same kind of psychology of victimhood is being poised against the rank and file of White Nationalism, undermining the warrior spirit of our race.

Part 1 'The Ultimate Curse':  The cultural intricacies involved in racial warfare contrasting secular humanism to Christian Identity and showing how reverse psychology causes our race to behave in such a way that brings God's judgment against us, the ultimate curse.

Part 2 'No Silver Bullet':  The greatest enemy bringing us to the edge of extinction is not what you might think.  The truth is that the greatest threat to our survival is a self inflicted Suicide of Israelite Nations.

The Ungodliness of Being a Coward

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Revised February 10, 2012

Scripture Reading: Numbers 13:30-33

Let me begin by recollecting a scene from the movie, "Patton", in which George C. Scott reenacts the encounter General Patton has with a soldier at a field hospital. The General is honoring his wounded men until he comes to this one guy shaking like a leaf and he asks a nurse, "What's wrong with the man?"  She said something like, "Oh, sir, he's suffering from the emotional stress of the battlefield."  At that point, Patton takes off his gloves and starts smacking the soldier in the face, calling him a coward; telling him there's nothing wrong with him and running him out of that hospital where other soldiers were bleeding, bandaged and dying on their deathbeds.

Do you think Patton understood the implications of cowardice among his troops if gone unchecked?  For one thing, you're not going to win a war, if your men lose the will to fight.  By the same token, do you think our God understands the ramifications of a coward in and among His people, Israel?  When the Lord declares in Jeremiah 51:20 that our race is His battle axe and weapons of war, the thought of a coward doesn't even enter the picture.  In fact, the word coward is not even in the Bible, although, as we'll see, there are cases of cowardice.  God's Word is more focused on the godliness of victory and the means in which to achieve it than having a preoccupation with defeat.  The enemy works very hard to instill a mindset of doom and futility, which leads to our surrender to the world.   

I'm going to show you why the politics of surrender is ungodly and what constitutes the ungodliness of being a coward.

The Godliness of Courage

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January 27, 2013

Scripture Reading: Acts 27:1, 9-11, 21-26, 30-32 and 44

Perhaps one of the best examples of Christian courage is the story of Paul facing a trial in Rome, standing before Caesar.  Paul was in the custody of a Roman centurion who would escort him back to Rome and was treated favorably, because he most likely heard the story of Cornelius 25 years earlier and how the Christians had broken past the barriers of Judaism treating Romans as their racial kindred.  And now on the trip to Rome, Julius the centurion would witness the power of the Gospel in real life.

Navigation in the Mediterranean was dangerous at this time of the year in late September and Paul, an experienced traveler, warned the captain and crew that he perceived disaster if they attempted to go any further.  Paul already had been in three shipwrecks and wasn’t too excited about a fourth (II Cor. 11:25).  But, the majority decided to put out to sea.  There’s a subtle metaphor of the captain and pilot of the ship representing a denominational church leadership, as their cargo was wheat (lost sheep of the house of Israel planted in the world with mongrels) and other prisoners (sinners) as well as the centurion representing the world system of the day.  The winds were blowing against them and a sudden hurricane struck them, wrecking the ship on the shores of Malta

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