The following two newspaper articles, both from a Republic of Ireland newspaper, indicate the corruption, deceit and downright iniquity of the Sinn Fein/IRA party and its leaders. There is no lie, no act of hypocrisy and no deed too despicable or treacherous for them to use to further their evil cause.
Chief amongst their victims have been their own Roman Catholic community. They have used them, abused them, robbed them and murdered them all in the name of ‘defending’ them!
Just when will the Roman Catholic supporters of Sinn Fein waken up??
Just ten months after her supreme triumph, Arlene Foster is at voters’ mercy
It is just three months ago that Mrs Arlene Foster and the DUP supported and encouraged the decision in the Northern Ireland Assembly to grant a posthumous pardon to sodomites of violations of the law in the past (See articles in our December 2016 edition). There is a price to be paid for defying God and His Law. No greater insult could be directed toward the Lord than for public representatives to pass a motion declaring God’s view of sodomy as wrong!
That is THE explanation for the difficulties that have befallen the DUP!
Murdered Garda’s son calls for ‘arms collusion’ inquiry
It is refreshing and gratifying to see the efforts of this man to expose the wicked complicity of the Dublin government, long denied and hushed up, in the arming of the IRA early in the ‘Troubles’ which led to the murder of his own policeman father.
Church of England’s rejection of gay marriage report welcomed
Truly, we are seeing the ‘days of Sodom’ re-emerging throughout ‘Christendom’ as governments, institutions and churches embrace and legalise the evil philosophy that damned Sodom.
Christian, take note of the warnings of Scripture and obey them!
Luke 17:26-32; 2 Peter 2:3-22; Jude 5-7; 2 Timothy 3:1-9, 4:1-4.
DUP MP meets campaigners on same-sex marriage… but party remains opposed to any change in law
The DUP continues to seek to strengthen its links with sodomy as this “Valentine’s Day” picture and exchange between DUP MP, Gavin Robinson and “same-sex marriage campaigners” illustrates.
SHAME ON THE DUP – Just when will Christians in the DUP obey God and separate from what has become an ungodly and compromising political organisation?
Failure to do so can only result in the judgment of God. Does the record of Sodom’s destruction in Genesis 19 and Jude 7 and the Saviour’s words in Luke 17:28-30 mean nothing to Christians any more?
Report of the special service in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church marking the 50th anniversary of the first Free Presbyterian services in Lisbellaw on 12th February 1967.
On the past Lord’s Day, February 12th, the church building in Kilskeery was filled with an overflow into the school assembly hall.
Rev Larry Power, former minister of Coragarry Free Presbyterian Church welcomed everyone to the meeting before handing the conducting of the service over to Rev. Ivan Foster. Rev Power is the minister in charge of Kilskeery congregation which is presently vacant.
Rev Foster was in charge of the congregation while it met in Lisbellaw and later at Chanterhill, Enniskillen, until he left to become the minister in charge of the fledgling congregations in Kilskeery and Kesh at the end of 1976. Read more…or listen to a recording using the player below.
Right or wrong, it is interesting to note the LACK of uproar over Ireland’s actions in comparison to that which followed the USA ban!!
Ireland last year refused entry to 226 individuals from the predominantly Muslim countries that are the subject of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to the US to individuals from those countries. Read more…
The devilishly crafty scheme that Sinn Fein and its allies in government is pursuing with its pursuit of prosecutions of security force members.
On a trip to Lebanon a lovely lady who runs a local NGO told me of Hezbollah’s 100-year strategy to take over the place. They have no real interest in making the nation work until this happens and are quite open about it.
There is no rush. They have milestones. This loosely mirrors Sinn Féin’s strategy. Read more…
The moral malaise has its roots in ecumenism.
In a letter to the Editor of the Belfast Newsletter, Rev Foster points to the source of the “moral collapse” in Northern Ireland! He wrote:
I enjoyed Ben Lowry’s article ‘There has been a moral collapse – there is no will to confront IRA terror, past or present (February 4)’.
I totally agree with the analysis set forth.
The question that remains is: “Why has there been a moral collapse?” Read more…
Anger on peace nomination for SF’s McGuinness
Here is abundant evidence of the ‘moral collapse’ referred to in the previous article! – Editor
There has been widespread anger after former deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness was nominated for an international Peace Prize which has previously been given to Nelson Mandela. The former Sinn Fein chief negotiator joins five other contenders for the 2016 Tipperary International Peace Award, including human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who has represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.
There has been a moral collapse – there is no will to confront IRA terror, past or present
This article from the Belfast Newsletter touches upon the harvest our country has reaped from the witness and influence of modernistic and ecumenical theology taking over the pulpits of the so-called Protestant denominations. The article does not give this explanation for the moral collapse, more’s the pity, but it does touch upon the evidences of the dreadful decline in standards! – Editor
An appeal by alleged former IRA “chief of staff”, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy, against his jail term for tax evasion has been dismissed.
Murphy was sentenced to 18 months for tax evasion last February after he was convicted of nine charges at the Republic of Ireland’s non-jury Special Criminal Court. – Editor
An appeal by alleged former IRA “chief of staff”, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy, against his jail term for tax evasion has been dismissed.
Murphy was sentenced to 18 months for tax evasion last February after he was convicted of nine charges at the Republic of Ireland’s non-jury Special Criminal Court.
The 67-year-old had denied the charges.
He launched a legal challenge at the Court of Appeal to overturn the verdict in November.
Murphy, who has an address at Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, County Louth, was prosecuted after a Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) investigation. Read more…
Sammy Wilson: The BBC suddenly loses interest in RHI when SF have questions to answer
Very often at football matches when the game turns against a team its supporters go silent and the opponents supporters burst into a song of “Oh its all gone quiet over there”. It is a song which could be directed at the BBC.
The following article, published in the Belfast Telegraph is not without fault but it does highlight aspects of the Sinn Fein/IRA – Dissident IRA scene that needs to be noted.
Nationalists complain of lack of respect in Northern Ireland
Seamus Mallon
Sinn Fein is making much of the allegation that little respect is paid to them and their culture in Northern Ireland. That, like most of their utterances, is a lie.
They have received support for their propaganda from the former deputy leader of the SDLP, Seamus Mallon. He is quoted in the Irish News of 21st January 2017.
“Martin McGuinness is not the only nationalist deputy first minister to have experienced a lack of respect from their unionist counterpart in office, as Seamus Mallon can testify. Mallon, who went into the first partnership devolved government with former Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble in July 1998 as DFM, says he received almost daily snubs from the then first minister and his office.”
Respect works both ways! The Bible says: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly,” Proverbs 18:24. A commentator said of these words: “Friendship ought to be mutual and reciprocal, as between David and Jonathan; a man that receives friendship ought to return it, or otherwise he is guilty of great ingratitude.” Read more…
The Retirement of Martin McGuinness
A chance to re-write history and white-wash a villain!
It has long been the ambition and the goal of Sinn Fein/IRA to rewrite the history of Northern Ireland as far as the activities of the IRA are concerned.
They have ever tried to exonerate themselves by seeking to justify their terrorist war by alleging that such was the treatment of Roman Catholics in the years between 1921 and the beginning of their terrorism in 1968, that Irish Republicans had no option but to engage in the war of terror that they inflicted on the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Roman Catholic.
Unfortunately for them, the majority of Roman Catholics did not see things their way. It was only after they ceased their overt terrorism that political support for Sinn Fein grew and they nudged out the more democratic Nationalist party that is the Social Democratic and Labour Party, from being the biggest nationalist party. Read more…
No answers on Teebane 25 years on
Vandalized Teebane memorial
(An article which appeared in “The Belfast Newsletter”, January 16th, 2017)
In introducing the ‘Newsletter’ article let me state some truths I have often set forth over the last 40-odd years.
The party constantly calling for inquiries into the shooting of IRA men by the army and police is itself most guilty of covering up multiple murders and other acts of terrorism in which its members were involved.
One of those acts is the Teebane massacre of eight Protestant workmen at a crossroads on the main Omagh to Cookstown road. It happened 25 years ago on 17th January 1992.
No one has ever been prosecuted for the crime and yet without a shadow of a doubt Sinn Fein leaders know who was involved and equally without a doubt is that those involved in the murders were Sinn Fein party members!
Yet the party screaming for “justice” for IRA men shot while engaged in terrorism remain resolutely tight-lipped about those involved in this massacre from within their own membership! Read more…
Family’s fury that Conor Murphy may replace McGuinness
The anger of the parents of a young Roman Catholic from the IRA stronghold of Cullyhanna in South Armagh is understandable.
But so too should be the anger of the many Unionists who have had loved ones murdered by the IRA, during the many years of that evil organisation’s terrorist campaign at the prospect of ANY MEMBER OF SINN FEIN HOLDING HIGH OFFICE IN OUR PROVINCE!
Sympathy is rightly shown to this one family, but there is less of a hearing given to the many hundreds of families who have to suffer the same shameful exacerbation of their grief by having to listen to the almost daily pontifications of representatives of the organisation which has the blood of their loved one on its garments. The Quinn family complain justifiably about Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy “not doing more to help identify their son’s killers.” What of those whose complaint is that the Sinn Fein spokesman IS THEIR LOVED ONE’S KILLER!!!
There is TRUE comfort for the Christian in the doctrine of the judgment of God. In a comment on the Third Commandment, the Shorter Catechism states: “However the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape His righteous judgment.” That is true of all breaches of God’s commandments, especially the 6th which says: “Thou shalt not kill.” (Exodus 20).
There really is no hope of the many murders, irrespective of who committed them, ever being addressed here in Ulster.
But those who believe the Bible know with assurance that they will be addressed and that most terribly in that day “of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries,” Hebrews 10:27! Read more…
It’s now time to confront the lies told for years about RUC’s intrepid Special Branch
The following article from “The Belfast telegraph” makes interesting reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the evil terrorist war waged by the IRA and the brave men, much maligned, who confronted the terorists and provided our society with security in the midst of the years of murder and mayhem.
– The Editor.
Brilliant propagandists demonised the true heroes of the Troubles, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards
I’ve just finished reading Secret Victory: the Intelligence War that Beat the IRA, a fascinating book that left me very angry. Not that I haven’t frequently been angry about the appalling treatment of the RUC, but Dr William Matchett’s account of the exceptional contribution of Special Branch throughout “an irregular war” to saving lives, defeating the IRA and making a political settlement possible brought so much back to the forefront of my memory. Read more…
A WALK DOWN THE PATH OF DUP BETRAYAL
The following article, taken from the “Belfast Newsletter” of 3rd January 2017, headlined: “SF man shut out in 1990 would become key part of the NI establishment”, highlights the reversal of the political standing of Irish Republicans from 1990 to the present date.
The key to this elevating, this ‘bringing in from the cold’ of those deemed enemies of the State within a short period is of course the DUP’s acceptance of Power-sharing with the terrorist-murder-supporting Sinn Fein! Read more…
A very happy 2017 to all our readers.
As has already been announced, “The Burning Bush” website is being reformatted with fewer new articles being added from now on.
Up until now, the site was updated daily with news links, audio sermons and articles but that will cease.
The archive articles will remain for readers to search but new material will be added only occasionally as circumstances demand.
We would like to thank all our readers for their faithful support and trust that all will know God’s richest blessing in the incoming year.
The following is a report of an incident which took place while our brother, Pastor David Carson was recently preaching in the open-air in Chester, England.
It highlights not only the ongoing opposition to the gospel that we may expect from men but also the growing readiness of the State to side with the ungodly and use its powers to hinder God’s Word.
This illustrates the gathering storm clouds in a land where once the gospel sunshine brightly shown.
Christian take heed! Prayer for bother Carson and all who endeavour to preach God’s truth in the highways of the United Kingdom.
“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry,” 2 Timothy 4:2-5.
– Ivan Foster.
Pastor Carson and friends preaching in the open air
“I was preaching in Chester city centre on Saturday on the subject of the rich young ruler who approached Christ asking what good thing should he do to inherit eternal life. I was coming near the end of my address, urging all to trust in Christ as He is the only Saviour, when I saw a Young Jew approaching with an angry look on his face. He stood for a while reading the banner and then he moved to his left and stood in front of me.
I continued preaching and said that Christ was the Messiah who came to save his people from their sin, though I doubt this young man, looking at the Jew would agree. With that he started shouting that I was an antisemite. I said since Jesus was a Jew and he was my Messiah, how could I be anti-semitic? Anyway, to cut a long story short, he complained to the police who, after abour ten minutes, came over to me and said that there had been a complaint and he was issuing me with a dispersal order. I asked by what authority. He said by a law passed in 2014. He wrote out a form banning me from the city centre for forty eight hours under the heading “Racially aggravated public order”.
He never asked me what had occured. In other words this was a clearly biased decision. It was only when I got home I realised the area I was banned from included the church, which ban I ignored.
I said to the police sgt, “Are you telling me that you have the right to deny me my civil and religious liberties.” He said that he did.
I don’t know where this will go as to whether I well be charged or not. I went to the police station this morning and made an official complaint about the behaviour of the police Sgt concerning the fact that he had not asked me for my side of the story which showed that he was biased against me. I will demand an apology for describing preaching the Gospel as anti social behaviour. The fact is that that policemen hadn’t heard me preaching so he didn’t know what I had said.
The Jew concerned was not dressed in the Orthodox garb but he was a nasty piece of work. The Pharisee is still around. The way it happened makes me think it was a put up job. I certainly did not expect it from that quarter.
Anyway, I will fight this tooth and nail and well not rest until I get an apology for the bias displayed and for daring to describe Gospel preaching as anti-social behaviour. Last year, when we witnessed at the satanic Winter Watch Parade the councillor responsible for the city centre described our witness as anti-social behaviour. He was given short shrift in the letters section of the following week’s edition but it does show the attitude of those in authority.
Please pray that this will turn out for the furtherance of the Gospel.
We have decided to bring our online publication – “The Burning Bush” to a close – well almost!
“The Burning Bush” first appeared in March 1970, though it had been preceded by other publications which I periodically produced in order to warn of the dangers of the ecumenical apostasy.
It was delineated as “A witness of protest in a day of apostasy”, because ‘protest’ was born in my soul as a result of my joining Dr Ian Paisley’s congregation on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast, within a short time of beginning to attend his church the Sabbath after my conversion, April 12th, 1964.
Dr. Paisley was a master at setting forth God’s protest in the Bible and I can still recall the first time I heard him defend his own ministry of protest from Jeremiah 11:7: “For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.”
Newspaper columns were closed in those days (as they are to a large degree still) to any Bible-based admonitions about the spiritually deviant paths upon which the mainline churches were leading their people. The only alternative was to print the warnings and seek to distribute them as best one could. In truth, such a course of action was born of the burden of heart that God’s servants felt regarding the betrayal of the truth of the gospel back then. Read more…
I read the following article and was much impressed by the clear exposition of the errors of Rome regarding Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus, and also by the setting forth of the Bible’s teaching about this blessed and dear saint of God.
I always remember the words of a young Roman Catholic with whom I worked in the woodwork shop while in jail in 1966. I had the joyful privilege of witnessing to him and his companion for three months and I often spoke of Mary and what the Bible said about her, knowing he would listen to any kind and admiring comments made about her. As I was ending the last day of my sentence he came over to me just before we were all marched back to our cells and said how surprised he was that I had spoken in such loving terms about Mary as he had understood that all Protestants hated Mary. How dreadful that such an impression should be made on our Roman Catholic neighbours!
Be it known: none loves the Mary of the Bible like those who are true Protestants. We honour her to the full extent of the honour given her of God in the Scriptures.
This article will set forth very clearly just what that honour is. Read more…
THE SAD AND SINFUL UTTERANCES OF A FOOL OR A KNAVE!
In keeping with his anti-Bible predilection, ‘Belfast Telegraph’ scribbler and Irish Presbyterian Church elder, Alf McCreary, launched an attack upon the Free Presbyterian Church in response to those within our ranks who voiced opposition to the Pope’s proposed visit to Northern Ireland.
Under the headline: “How news of Papal visit to Northern Ireland sees rise of religious intolerance again” he criticised the stand and witness of the Free Presbyterian Church. His article may be read here.
He makes two statements within his article which I particularly wish to comment on briefly.
The Lord’s question for those Christians in Stormont who assisted in the approving of posthumous pardons for those guilty of sodomy in the past.
Yesterday, as I sat amongst the congregation listening to the preaching of God’s Word, the minister turned us to Job chapter 40. My eye fell upon verses 6-8.
“Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?”
The book of Job deals with the trial of Job by Satan which was permitted by the Lord for His glory, and the reactions of Job to those trials and his responses to the harsh criticisms of his friends who totally misunderstood what was happening. They believed Job to be guilty of some sin for which he was now being punished.
Job, though he bore the initial trials most patiently (Job 1 & 2) gave way to impatience and some anger with his accusers and even challenged God’s justice. Read more…
Jim Allister’s speech and lonely stand against pardon for sodomites
The two videos below show Mr Jim Allister, MLA’s speech in the debate in the Stormont Assembly on Monday 28th November on the legislative consent motion brought forward by the Northern Ireland Justice Minister to grant a posthumous pardon to sodomites of violations of the law in the past. Mr Jim Allister moved an amendment removing the reference to a pardon for sodomy and the videos show him speaking in support of his amendment.
Then the Assembly moved to what should have been a vote. The only person to support the amendment was its proposer, Mr Allister. He was left on his own at the front of the Assembly. Opportunity was given by the Speaker for a second person to come forward and oppose the pardon but none was forthcoming so Mr Allister’s amendment was rejected.
A Free Presbyterian seated in the public gallery was able to observe Free Presbyterian DUP MLAs Edwin Poots, Carla Lockhart and Gordon Dunne stay rooted to their seats. The Free Presbyterian also noted that MLA members of the Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church, Mervyn Storey, Lord Morrow and Thomas Buchanan, were not in the chamber.
It is tragic that there has not been the reaction one would expect from God’s people following such an outrageous betrayal of the gospel. Even the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, deemed apostate by the Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church, acted against former Alliance Party leader, David Ford, when he publicly supported sodomite marriage. He was removed as a ruling elder by his church.
“In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them,” Obadiah 1:11. – The Editor.
Near the beginning of this article I stated: “In the past he has shared platforms with pro-sodomite speakers and sold books extolling the sodomite life-style.”
I was challenged regarding the very last phrase of this statement. It was pointed out that the internet link I gave in support of this statement revealed that in the library of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary there was a book by Wesley Hill, a man who would term himself a “Christian Gay”!!!
Of course, theological libraries contain books by authors that it may not endorse.
That was the wrong link for me to use to show that Dr Beeke endorses sodomy-promoting writers. It was said that this ‘error’ detracted from the effectiveness of my article.
However, that mistake on my part does not invalidate my allegation regarding Dr Beeke’s endorsement of pro-sodomite writers.
This I will demonstrate by asking readers to check out this link. Read more…
This will be the final mounting of news articles of interest to Christians in Ulster in particular and of course to believers generally.
There will be occasions in the future when attention will be drawn to some event which we believe that Christians should note but this will not be done on a regular basis.
Peers approve ‘Turing’s Law’ gay pardons for NI – (DUP MLAs must bear responsibility for this vile bill becoming law: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin,” James 4:17!!!)
It is just three months ago that Mrs Arlene Foster and the DUP supported and encouraged the decision in the Northern Ireland Assembly to grant a posthumous pardon to sodomites of violations of the law in the past (See articles in our December 2016 edition).
Truly, we are seeing the ‘days of Sodom’ re-emerging throughout ‘Christendom’ as governments, institutions and churches embrace and legalise the evil philosophy that damned Sodom.
The DUP continues to seek to strengthen its links with sodomy as this “Valentine’s Day” picture and exchange between DUP MP, Gavin Robinson and “same-sex marriage campaigners” illustrates.
Report of the special service in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church marking the 50th anniversary of the first Free Presbyterian services in Lisbellaw on 12th February 1967.
In a letter to the Editor of the Belfast Newsletter, Rev Foster points to the source of the “moral collapse” in Northern Ireland! He wrote:
Here is abundant evidence of the ‘moral collapse’ referred to in the previous article! – Editor
This article from the Belfast Newsletter touches upon the harvest our country has reaped from the witness and influence of modernistic and ecumenical theology taking over the pulpits of the so-called Protestant denominations. The article does not give this explanation for the moral collapse, more’s the pity, but it does touch upon the evidences of the dreadful decline in standards! – Editor
Murphy was sentenced to 18 months for tax evasion last February after he was convicted of nine charges at the Republic of Ireland’s non-jury Special Criminal Court. – Editor
A chance to re-write history and white-wash a villain!
The anger of the parents of a young Roman Catholic from the IRA stronghold of Cullyhanna in South Armagh is understandable.
The following article from “The Belfast telegraph” makes interesting reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the evil terrorist war waged by the IRA and the brave men, much maligned, who confronted the terorists and provided our society with security in the midst of the years of murder and mayhem.
We have decided to bring our online publication – “The Burning Bush” to a close – well almost!
In keeping with his anti-Bible predilection, ‘Belfast Telegraph’ scribbler and Irish Presbyterian Church elder, Alf McCreary, launched an attack upon the Free Presbyterian Church in response to those within our ranks who voiced opposition to the Pope’s proposed visit to Northern Ireland.
Yesterday, as I sat amongst the congregation listening to the preaching of God’s Word, the minister turned us to Job chapter 40. My eye fell upon verses 6-8.