Rush Limbaugh - The True Meaning of Thanksgiving

 

Nota Bene - Which in English Means - "Notice, Ben!"

 

The corporate managers of the ELCA-ELS-WELS-LCMS sects are delighted to deny Christ and embrace Donald McGavran.

Several matters have come up in the last few weeks.

I.

One is the obvious collapse of the LCMS-ELS-WELS higher education apparatus. Long ago the synods decided to throw the cost of college and seminary onto the students, unlike those grey beards who took advantage of their own dirt-cheap tuition.  One Augustana Seminary student brought in potatoes from his farm as payment for tuition - truly dirt cheap. I paid $75 per semester at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in 1970, which it was LCA and not ELCiC, eh. At some point the pain became unbearable and students rushed for the exits - or simply avoided the ghastly entry fees. Martin Luther College (WELS) charges huge fees for providing professors with nothing more than a MDiv from Mequon, and the seminary is no better. A DMin is not a doctorate but a joke. Five hundred years ago, a real doctorate was expected of Luther, Chemnitz, and the rest. Mel earned it but was not given the title because he looked so young. 

The worst of all worlds is a series of "Lutheran" schools teaching nonsense, mocking the Lutheran Reformation, rejecting the Apostolic text of the Bible,  and attacking Justification by Faith. The toxic Jesuits - who did their best to counter the Reformation - are now teaching in the Lutheran chimera of higher education.

II.

 The Little Red Schoolhouse on the Prairie is overbuilt for its needs.
"We built this synod on Marvin Schwan!"

The synods are falling apart, like the tofu buildings of China, where building materials are so corrupted that structures fall apart within a few years. Because they are crumbling and bumbling, they have no recourse except to work together (ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS) in extracting money from Thrivent's pro-abortion and multi-sexual goals.

Two students per class year at Bethany Seminary! Are they aware of the real Marvin Schwan story? Not likely. I sent the Forbes magazine to Herman Otten, so it was my fault that Marvin dumped his wife for his manager's! Does anyone have a conscience today?

III.

If the sect managers only exalted the Scriptures as much as ice cream money!

KJV Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I am encouraged to hear that there is a network of Lutherans who know their sects have been slowly destroyed by promoting false Bibles, bad hymnals, and predatory managers of mammon. They look forward to Ichabod posts and they love the idea of the Reformation Seminary. Compare our tuition fee - $0 - to the seminaries.  Do not forget their book fees, chapel fees, intern charges, parking fees, overpriced meals, and debt.

One long-time friend told me he looked for articles three times a day, and I used to check that - he was right.

The nickname for Mequon is The Sausage Factory.

ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS-ELDONUTs-CLC: they share one great hatred - the King James Version.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 25 - "Notice therefore that Matthew unites the two and at the same time conceives the end, both of the Jewish nation and of the world. He therefore cooks both into one soup."

 

Complete Luther Sermon ->Matthew 24:15-28. 

Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Trinity

Text: Matthew 24:15-28. When therefore, ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains: let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house: and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak. But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath: for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you beforehand. If therefore they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the inner chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.


1. In this chapter there is a description of the end of two kingdoms; of the kingdom of the Jews, and also of the kingdom of the world. But the two Evangelists, Matthew and Mark, unite the two and do not follow the order as Luke did, for they have nothing more in view than to relate and give the words of Christ, and are not concerned about what was said either before or after. But Luke takes special pains to write clearly and in the true order, and relates this discourse twice; first briefly in the 19th chapter, where he speaks of the destruction of the Jews at Jerusalem; afterwards in the 21st chapter he speaks of both, one following the other.

2. Notice therefore that Matthew unites the two and at the same time conceives the end, both of the Jewish nation and of the world. He therefore cooks both into one soup. But if you want to understand it, you must separate and put each by itself, that which really treats of the Jews, and that which relates to the whole world. This we wish to do now.

3. Notice, first, how Christ prophecies in this chapter concerning the final destruction of the Jewish nation, which the Jews did not at all believe, even though they had been dearly told through great signs and words, the promises of God which he made to the fathers, like unto which had happened to no other people upon the earth. For this reason they strongly insisted and depended upon it, thought it will continue forever, as they think even at the present time; that their kingdom is not destroyed but has only disbanded a little and shall be re-established. They cannot get it out of their minds that they are not completely ruined.

4. For this reason God announced besides his miracles with clear and plain prophesies that their kingdom shall have an end and that God had abolished the external reign of the law, meats, offerings, etc., and would establish another which shall endure forever, as the angel announced to the virgin concerning Christ, as recorded in Luke 1:33. “And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”

5. Among the various passages which treat of the end of Judaism there is especially one that is introduced by Christ, namely: the prophet Daniel, 9:25f, speaks of the terrible abomination, standing where he ought not, when he says concerning the Jewish nation, “Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and three-score and two weeks,” that makes together seventy weeks or years, “And after the three-score and two weeks, shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined. And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.”

6. The Prophet Daniel desired to know the definite time when this should come to pass, but he could not learn it, and although the angel pointed out a definite time, it was nevertheless too dark for the prophet to understand, hence he said before: But at last, at the last time, you shall see everything, that is, your prophecy, that is to be revealed to you, shall transpire at the end of time. For when Christ sent out the Gospel through the ministry of himself and of the Apostles, it lasted three or three and a half years, that it almost amounts to the calculation of Daniel, namely the 490 years. Hence he also says, Christ shall take a half a week, in which the daily offerings shall cease; that is, the priesthood and reign of the Jews shall have an end; which all took place in the three and a half years in which Christ preached, and was almost completed in four years after Christ, in which the Gospel prospered the most, especially in Palestine through the Apostles (that when they opened their mouth, the Holy Ghost fell as it were, from heaven, as we see in the Acts of the Apostles), so that a whole week, or seven years, established the covenant, as Daniel says; that is, the Gospel was preached to the Jews, of which we spoke before. Now, when the time came that a new message or sermon began, there must also begin a new kingdom, that is, where Christ rules spiritually in our hearts through the Word and faith.

If this is now to continue, then the other must be set aside and has no more authority and must cease. This is the part of the prophecy of the prophets, which Christ is explaining.

7. The other treats of the abomination of desolation. Here Christ now says, When ye shall see this one standing in the temple, then take heed (he wants to say) for that is a sure sign from Daniel’s prophecy that his kingdom is now at an end; and do not let yourselves be deceived because the Jews and weak Christians think that it shall never be destroyed.