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Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today January 14, 2023 for our Anniversary program, celebrating  29 years from the founding of the church Bible class that became our ministry. We will see you at 10AM PT on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.

A Blast from the Past~ Today is January 13, 2023, and this is The Bible on Trial, brought to you by Spirit of Truth Ministry. Rick is on a jury today, fulfilling his civic duty, so I thought I would change things up a little bit and play for you the 5th program ever published by our ministry on Blog Talk Radio, on November 5, 2007. You will hear two voices on this show, the first is my voice, and the second is the voice of Rich Humpal Esq. who was the actual founder of our radio program, who made it possible for us to be 'on air' today. He was the principal instigator of what has now become (literally) the only radio forum on any medium that tests what is called 'truth' against the words and teachings of Jesus. What you will hear today is one of our first forays into radio broadcasting. You will notice that our format has changed a bit since then, but what has not changed is our commitment to discovering, explaining, and learning the Truth about the world and all that is in it through the words of Jesus. Rich is no longer with us, but it was his dream to have a radio program that brought the meaning to the events happening in the world into a clearer focus based on Biblical truth, prophecy, and the words Jesus spoke to His own eyewitness disciples while He was here on earth.  Much has changed since these halcyon days of yore (15 years ago), but what has not changed is the commitment that Rich Humpal brought to this radio forum in showing TRUTH for what it is, and what it isn't.  I hope you enjoy our program that is a 'blast from the past'.

Truth or Death? ~ "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775 at the Virginia Convention. This is one of the great quotes to come out of the prelude to the war that is today named the War of the Revolution. If you read the entire speech you will see that we are nearly in the same situation today as were our founders when faced with the tyranny from the British Crown. The base line issue now as then is that people are still hiding from 'facts in evidence' that we have been lied too continually for a long time, in our political, social, medical, and spiritual lives. And the primary issue in all of this is Truth vs. Lies.  The world is now seeing that we have all been taught lies as if they are the truth. Eveyone believes lies in some form or other as if they are truth. So if you believe a lie as if it is the truth, and have decided that what you have is all you need, you are making it impossible for God to open your intellect enough to see your peril. When the time comes for you to make a stand against tyranny, make sure to include the Truth in the list of things you would be willing to die for. Without Truth there is nothing. So in the world of today maybe the quote from above should read, "Give me Truth, or give me death", because life without truth Is death!

Contract Law~ When my brother Don was alive he was a graduate of USC Law school, an became an Attorney-at-law (Bar certified in California) with a specialty in Contract Law. He started in Commercial contracts, and then became an assistant city attorney for Pasadena Ca., and then moved to Fresno and became THE Assistant City Attorney. Following 8 years in Civic law, he then became a partner in one of the largest Law Firms in Fresno, and worked as the defacto city attorney under contract to a dozen or so municipalities surrounding Fresno. There was not a single thing that I know of that he didn't know about Contract Law. He also taught Constitutional Law (Con-law) and Contract Law as a local private University in Fresno. He knew his stuff. He had a particular perspective on the 'law' and his understanding as to why Jesus had to come to the earth. We talked about this on a number of occasions, and it became a 'bone-of-contention between us. Eventually, I had to back off, and let him go with his own understanding. His belief was that God had two contracts with mankind; one in force up until his 'sacrifice on the cross', the other that was put in place AFTER his resurrection, and negated the first contract. This first contract was under the Law of God, and was defined (as do we now at STM) in the Contract stated in the 10 Commandments. His understanding was that this contract was basically 'Obey or die'! His view of God was that God loved humans so much that He had to change the first Contract to take this 'love' into account, and make it possible for all humans to be saved through the 'contract law of Grace'. No amount of 'proof' on my part could convince him otherwise. He never saw the apostle Paul as a threat to salvation. This is where we are today; all humanily will soon have to decide whether to abide by the original Contract for salvation, or the second.

Join Spirit of Truth Ministry today December 31, 2022 for our New Year's Eve program, The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling, where we will do a 'year in review' about what we have learned about prophecy, the process of sanctificaion that leads to righteousness, salvation, and the Kingdom of God, and how this will affect what we do ahd what it means going forward into 2023.  There is much distress in the world today, what with the war in the Eukrane, the 'pandemic' and the lies surrounding it, the Governments of the world colluding with Big Tech in censoring and preventing Truth from getting to the people about nearly everything, and thereby controlling what people must do and must think in order to exist in the world. All or that stems from what Satan has been doing for millenia in trying to exert his control over humanity using the lie that he was the God of Creation, and has the right to own this world forever. And even though the was is won, the battle is not over for the hearts, minds, and souls of humans that believe lies as if they are truth.. Spirit of Truth Ministry was founded on the principle that God wants everyone to Know the Truth, and that interference from the evil one has changed lies to truth in their minds. In order to change this we (as individuals) must set aside EVERYTHING we have learn as truth, and look at the world with new eyes that are not covered with the scales of the Ancient Serpent. We must all be willing to humble ourselves and say that 'we don't know what we don't know', and admit what we know know IS NOT truth. Only then can we learn the Truth that God has for us. THIS is what we do at Spirit of Truth Ministry.

The Calm Before the Storm~ A while ago I wrote one of these 'episode info' pieces titled "Are We There Yet?", and compared what those that are looking for the 'big change' in the world with a child riding in a car asking this question to his parents. The answer in terms of visible action to bring in the  Peace and Prosperity that we have been taliking about here at STM into this world would have to be 'apparently not'. The Master has certainly NOT appeared to His Kingdom, the Wars and rumors of Wars have not ceased, the Wickedness in diverse places is still rampant, and the bringing in of Everlasting Righteousness has not certainly not occurred (Dan.9:24). WHY are we not THERE yet, and  why have we not experienced a 'calm before the storm' that would give those of us that are looking for relief and rescue a hint as to where we are in time? While there is (truly) a rescue in the works that will bring Peace and Prosperity to this world torn by physical war and strife, what Jesus came to do was to show His people (the people of His righteous Kingdom) that the spiritual always comes before the physical, the prosperity of Truth will first bring the Peace of Righteousness to the Intellect (heart and mind) before it will manifest itself into the physical world. The calming of the heart and mind will happen even in the midst of the storms of life when we have discovered the Peace that comes from knowing and practicing the Truth of the words of Jesus. Doing this allows us to become righteous IN FACT, anc brings properity to the soul. When we only look at the outward signs of His coming we miss the beauty and assurance of the inward signs in our intellect that He has already come to us and changed us into righteous being, as is He.

Christmas Eve Lessons~ At 7 AM Pacific time this morning a live broadcast was heard throughout the world, attended by over 1 Billion people that came together to celebrate the birth of the Savior, Christ the Lord.  This Service was presented as Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambriige, England. and has been a tradition since 1918, begun as a thankful celebration for the end of WW1. If you are interested you can listen to an encore performance this evening at 7PM Central time at the following link: https://www.yourclassical.org/story/2022/12/01/a-festival-of-nine-lessons-and-carols?fbclid=IwAR2LXkDGytZzKGg686ifyGJRkUpAZJfqB8x4sUfnCCHO6-mzQ5SWa5CpQDE I bring this up as way to show that the world is not in the spiritual state that it must be in for the Death Road prophecies that are seen in much of book of Revelation to be accomplished in the world before the Coming of Jesus. If the world was actually in the desperate state that is described in these prophecies there would not be the billion plus people that bather around their listening devices, all at the same time, to listen to these Lessons and carols that describe the birth on earth of the King of the Kingdom of God. Satan would have already shut this service down, and it would not be possible to have this gathering of worshippers to this singular location, for this unique act of worship. The time for the fulfillment of the prophecies of Death and Destruction, and instigation of an evil one world government has come, and gone, and will never, indeed Can never, happen. What is left is for the world to come together with one voice and reject the overt evil that is causing havoc and mayhem; this will happen very soon. So on the Christmas Eve, we at Spirit of Truth ministry wish you peace, and the prosperity of the Words of the Way, the Truth and the Light, that came to earth from the Father, through Jesus His Son.

The Program you will hear today is a Past Program that will encourage you in your search for truth. Spirit of Truth Ministry wishes you a wonderful Christmas time. During this time remember that Jesus came to Bring the Truth through the words that He brough to earth from the Father. We will be offering a Best Of program today, December 23, 2022, at 11AM on: blogtalkradio.com/sot.

Prophetic Fulfillment~ 2. In order for a prophetic fulfillment to occur, ALL elements of the prophecy must occur as stated within the prophecy.  (This precludes partial or multiple fulfillments, or types of fulfillments.) From the Seven Rules for Prophetic Interpretation -  (http://spiritoftruthministry.net/STM/Must_Read/Entries/2007/4/27_Seven_Rules_of_Prophetic_Interpretation_by_Dennis_Neufeld_-_Staff_Writer.html). Prophecy is just about to be fulfilled in our sight, just not the prophecies that we have been expecting, and that we have been told to look for by our cherished authorities for ofer 2,000 years. Rick Sterling at Spirit of Truth Ministry has been speaking of this on our programs since August 14, 2021, when he first made a presentation that showed that the prophecies of the end that the church and others have been touting as a 'sure thing' will not, and now can never happen, because the order of those prophecies are 'out of order', and the time for them to have occuredhas already past (No. 6).  We (STM) have known for years that because of the deliniation of the Seven Rules (ref. above) that unless all of the elements of a prophecy have occured in the order listed, that prophecy has not happened. We also know that Time and Timing in prophecy is critical to the fulfillment, and that when the time for that specific prophecy has come and gone, then that specific prophecy will never happen. That is why we are 'where we are' right now, today. The world has changed, and prophecy has changed with it, and is seen is as a potential for fulfillment in specific prophecies in both the Old and the New Testaments. It is for this reason that you need to listen to our program today, because Rick is going to 'wrap up' the understanding of this situation as a Christmas Present of unimaginable importance, for those of you that want to know both Where and When you are in time.