The Elijah Prophecy
 Modern Manna Ministries                 Issue 5        November 4, 2008
 
Danny Vierra's
Personal Message
 
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     Friends, I need to say something that is burning in my bones and I cannot keep silent any longer. I am sickened by the muffled leaders of the church and their failure to teach true lifestyle and health principles, as if God has no standards on how we should eat and drink, especially as we prepare to meet Him.                         
     Instead of upholding the diet God originally gave to His people as recorded in Genesis 1:29, one pastor in my church came to my daughter's math class at the SDA elementary school and threw candy to the children dressed in a Twinkie costume. On the other hand, health is rarely addressed in the church at a time when the leaders should be holding up the message of health reform.
     It is becoming more apparent that entertainment and junk food are on the menu, which is somehow supposed to help our children grow physically and spiritually, instead of the original, whole plant food diet God gave in Genesis 1:29! Beware...the drums, dancing, and noise are coming and are in some of the churches already!
     I remember the time I was invited to speak in a large church in Loma Linda and I brought  with me Dr. Francisco Contreras from the Oasis of Hope Hospital in Mexico as my guest. Dr. Contreras is an oncologist and surgeon whose father was responsible for saving the lives of many cancer patients using natural modalities like laetrile.
     Dr. Contreras is a Methodist and devout Christian. His message, that afternoon rocked the building like a 9-point earthquake on the Richter scale. He provoked the Laodicean Church to jealousy with his words, "You used to be the head and you have become the tail. You have been given great light, but you are, like every other orthodox hospital, practicing the Babylonian system of medicine."     
     You could have heard an organic almond drop to the ground as he continued to outline the true, God-given health and healing principles once  practiced and recognized by Loma Linda hospital before they yielded to the pharmaceutical drug cartels of the world and the American Medical Association!
     Americans are suffering from so many diseases because they are gorging on fiberless feasts of dead flesh, high fructose corn syrup, and refined junk foods filled with additives and chemicals. Without a doubt, we have become eating machines as evidenced  by the two-thirds of Americans who are now FAT!!
      "The gospel of health has able advocates, but their work has been made very hard because so many ministers, presidents of conferences, and others in positions of influence, have failed to give the question of health reform its proper attention. They have not recognized it in its relation to the work of the message as the right arm of the body. While very little respect has been shown to this department by many of the people, and by some of the ministers, the Lord has shown His regard for it by giving it abundant prosperity." CD 73
     Yes, I am sickened by the lethargy of the pastors who are obese themselves and refuse to lift the standard of health, and it is getting worse. In an effort to attract new customers to the church, junk food and entertainment is the prescription. My 10 year old daughter, Talia, told me the pastor said he will be bringing junk food, candy, and pizzas to Bible class. She said at worship the other night, "Dad, he doesn't teach anything deep, and he came dressed as a Twinkie the other day."  Pathetic!
     It is sad that so many in the church,  people that were given such special light on health reform for the purpose of preparing souls for the coming of Christ, have forsaken their sacred calling and have joined forces with Hostess serving Twinkies!
     What's next, Little Debbie's Devil Creams?
 
 

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In This Issue
SDA Pastor Dresses in Twinkie Costume
A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
Demon Possession - A Real Phenomena - Part 2
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     Have you ever read the book A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education? I believe a call to medical evangelism is desperately needed at this time, because tens of thousands of people are sound asleep and not preparing themselves physically or spiritually for the end times. The sad thing is they do not sense their peril. Now is the time for faithful watchmen to take up their torches and to point the way to health and holiness.  
     "The torch of truth must shine to willing as well as unwilling eyes. When Christ ascended on high, the church was to be the agent, or medium, through which light was to be communicated to the world. "Ye are the light of the world." Every individual Christian is required of God to be a living,
shining light in the world. He must wrestle with God in secret prayer; then he will go forth in the spirit of Christ to hold converse with men. Anointed for the mission, he bears with him the atmosphere of paradise. His words will be well-chosen, and his face will reflect the image of his Master. He will be the light of the world, a living epistle known and read by all men." RH Mar. 8, 1887.
     Dear friends, the message again is to STABILIZE AND SPIRITUALIZE your lives! The Holy Spirit is impressing me to draw very close to God through increased daily prayer, Bible study, and worship. There is no time to lose! The church needs to act, and every member must take up his torch and go forward while there is yet time. 
A Call to Medical Evangelism
 
     The call to medical evangelism is exemplified in the life of Christ and His commission to His church. He "Who went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil," showed that true evangelism comprehends ministry to physical needs as well as spiritual.  
      Few, if any, religions incorporate health with the gospel in their evangelistic efforts. I believe Christ had a dual ministry - to heal those that were sick and those that were in sin. Most Christians acknowledge that we are to obey God's Ten Commandments, but the same Christians fail to recognize that we should be obeying God's laws of health also. There is a great need for God's elect to go out into "the highways and byways" that God's house may be filled.
     "A forward step is imperative; a new note must be struck. Thousands of laymen must now hear and repeat the call to medical missionary evangelism. Nurses should engage in medical missionary evangelism. Scores of young men should qualify to be lecturers. Physicians should sense fully their responsibility of imparting the message of health and temperance in talks and lectures in churches in the larger cities. Ministers should lead out as organizers and teachers of bands of young evangelists." A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education, Foreword, General Conference Medical Department, penned in 1950.
     I am sorry that the church has failed to fulfill her God-given obligation in presenting to the world the true medical missionary work. Instead, the church is in a terrible backslidden condition and the physicians are teaching for doctrines the Babylonian method of healing - the use of drug therapy, chemotherapy, radiation, etc. Instead of educating people in the natural remedies like good nutrition, drinking pure water, exercise, fresh air, sunshine, self-control, rest and trusting in Divine power, doctors are writing prescriptions for drugs that produce side effects and rarely cure the patient. Drugs do not cure, they only relieve symptoms.
      Instead of educating people in the use of hydrotherapy, the rational use of herbs, how to cleanse the elimination organs of the body, and so forth, we have become like all the other doctors and hospitals practicing orthodox medicine. On the other hand, we should be teaching prevention and the simple remedies that can be used to reverse chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and even cancers! 
     May we all respond to the call to Medical Evangelism and each of us do our part. "As we approach the close of this earth's history, we will find that the whole world is becoming a lazar house of disease, and transgression of the law of God is bringing the sure result." 18MR 353

Demon Possession
A Real Phenomena - Part 2
 
 
     In Demon Possession - A Real Phenomena - Part 2, I want to begin with discussing forms of demon control. "Not only does the degree of demon control or possession vary, but also the form in which it is manifested. At times Satan can accomplish his sinister purposes more effectively by letting his victim retain his mental and physical faculties quite intact and simulate piety." At other times the devil perverts mind and body and leads the victim to obviously unholy and evil ways." 5BC 576.
     While the former victim maintains a degree of piety, and thus can be used by the devil to do a work for evil in the church, the latter, with obvious unholy and evil ways may be like "Mary called Magdeline, out of whom went seven devils."
     I once witnessed contortions in the face of someone very close to me whom  I believe  was possessed by a demon. While I was  staring into her face, her countenance appeared to change into the resemblance of her mother, then to her father, and back to her own face. It happened in seconds and I couldn't believe my eyes. I remember asking myself, "Did I see what I thought I saw?" It was bizarre! I have witnessed several people who were demon possessed, but this was the strangest phenomena I had ever seen. I remember thinking of Mary Magdeline, and knew that this person had chosen a similar life and was living in sin. It was as if seven demons had taken control of her, for she had turned her back on God and the truth and was steeped into sexual sins.
     "The same evil spirit that possessed the maniac of Capernaum also controlled the unbelieving Jews (see John 8:44; DA 256). Judas was 'possessed' in a similar sense (Luke 22:3; John 6:70, 71). In cases such as these the difference is primarily one of the form in which the demons manifest their presence and their power." Ibid.
     The next issue I want to discuss is demon possession and the human nervous system. I once witnessed a young man who was possessed with a demon. He was acting very strange at home and then at church, as reported by his wife. I received a call from the head elder who reported that the man was acting very strange at church and he suspected demon possession. He said, "I have witnessed demon possession when I was doing missionary work in third-world countries, and I believe the young man is possessed.
      When the young man showed up an hour later at my house, I knew it  wasn't him. The words, the looks, the manner were completely different from the man I knew. I took him into my bedroom with two other Christian brothers and started praying over him. I quoted scripture after scripture and through the authority of Jesus Christ commanded the demon to leave. The young man started gyrating and vibrating and sweating profusely. He then started heaving repeatedly, and I smelled an awful smell. I kept quoting the Word,until he finally collapsed and slept the rest of the day.
     "To whatever degree or in whatever form demons gain control of a human being, they do so through the sensory nervous system.  Through the higher powers of the mind - the conscience, the power of choice, and the will - Satan possesess the person. Through the motor nervous system the evil one exercises control over his subjects. Demon possession cannot occur except through the nervous system, for through it Satan gains access to the mind, and in turn controls the body (cf. Luke 8:2; DA 568).
     "Inasmuch as the nervous system itself is the first part of the being to be affected, various nervous system disorders are often the result of yielding, in one way or another, to the influence and suggestions of Satan. However, these disorders do not necessarily accompany demon possession, nor are they necessarily a mark of demon possession any more than deafness and dumbness, which also, at times, accompanied demon possession." Ibid.

TO BE CONTINUED.

One Final Note
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I would greatly appreciate your prayers. Time is short and Jesus will be coming soon. The signs are all around us.
 
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In His Service,
Danny Vierra
Modern Manna

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