12/03/2014

TRUNEWS 12/3/14: Arthur Blessitt "Bearing the Cross Worldwide!"





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GUEST:  Arthur Blessitt






















The man who carried the cross around
the world
in every nation and is listed in the Guinness
World Records
for the world's longest walk over 41,002 miles in '323
countries, islands, groups & territories' for 46 years. He first carried
the cross 1968, and t
he very first day of the world crosswalk was December
25th, 1969 from Hollywood, California.
Arthur Blessitt is still walking and
carrying the Cross around the world in 2014!

“The Cross” movie detailing the first
forty years of Blessitt’s journey

Brother Blessitt
originally appeared on TRUNEWS on November 20, 2012.

From Arthur Blessitt:

“I want to ask a
profound question. Who is controlling and regulating the world today: God, the
Devil or human beings?

God must either rule or
be ruled; sway or be swayed; accomplish His own will or be thwarted by his
creation.

Who is governing this
world of ours?

God rules or He is
ruled. Either God has His way or people have their way.

Should you believe
anything else other than that God is in control then you have no security or
certainty in this life.

To do full justice to
this question and subject would take a book or many books to discuss. I will
not go there. My columns are a discussion of my personal beliefs and concepts
for the Word of God to my life in this world today. It is my journey of
following Jesus and sharing what He has and is teaching me about Himself.

One of the most
fundamental beliefs of my life is that “God is in control'. That is what sets
me free to go anywhere He leads and live in freedom and joy in a world gone
mad. I do not trust in the wisdom of people but in the Truths of God revealed
in His Word'¦ the Holy Bible.

In this word of almost
total insecurity there is a message almost lost among many people. The concept
that somehow we as humans are in control and making a mess of things is common.
Many have reduced God to some sideline coach or co-pilot. We feel that the
entire world of problems from our health to world wars rests on our own
shoulders. The Kingdoms of God is viewed as something to come and not as a
Kingdom already here and operating.

All I know is that as I
study the Bible I see clearly that nothing is a surprise to God. God knows all
things and rules over all people and kingdoms and nations and the heavenly
hosts. He rises up people and nations and casts them down. Hundreds of times in
the Old Testament of the Bible God is referred to as “The Lord of Hosts'! Host
means multitude and it means that God is Lord or Ruler over all the earth and
the heavens! Lord over all beings on earth or in the heavens, over humans and
angels and any other beings He created.

This Glorious and Mighty
and All powerful God is 'In Charge'! He is ruling over all the heavens and
earth and over all beings seen or unseen. God loves you and me and cares for
us. He is at work in the world through His witnesses and His church.

Just consider the many
prophesies in the Holy Bible that have been fulfilled. All because God knows
and is in charge and brings to pass His will and way.
I want you to relax and
worship God and follow Jesus and live in the power of the Holy Spirit. Go into
the world in the sure knowledge that Jesus “Is' with you. Fear not! Not one
bird falls to the ground without the knowledge of God. Trust the Lord in all things.
Even in the things you do not understand. Praise God He understands all and
knows the reasons 'why'.

In this confusing and
uncertain world you can be sure and certain in Jesus Christ our Lord and in
knowing that God is ruling and reigning over all the earth. Glory! Glory!
Glory!”


Fascinating Facts and
Figures from Arthur Blessitt’s Travels

This is the first cross
to be carried around the world on foot and the longest journey in the history
of the world.
 
Length - 12 feet
Width - 6 feet
Thickness - 4" x 4"
Weight - 45 pounds
Tire - 12" inflatable
Average tire life - 2,000 miles
Miles carried the cross
on foot
 - (Actual) Over
40,698 miles (65,497 Km.) 
Cross taken by
boat 
- Estimated 20,000 miles
Air miles cross
flown 
- Estimated 2,200,000
Miles cross carried on
automobile(s)
 - Estimated
400,000 miles
Number of continents
cross carried
 - Seven (North
America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, Australia and Antarctica)
Average shoe life - 500 miles until getting a resole. 
Longest walk in a day - 72 miles in 24 hours (with help); 47
miles (alone)
Longest walk (time wise) - Africa west to east; Mexico to Colombia
(almost two years each) 
Number of different
countries, island groups and territories cross carried
 -321
Times arrested or in
jail 
- 24
Most apt country to be
arrested in
 - USA
Most apt city to be
arrested in 
- Hollywood, CA
Most beautiful countries - Norway, Switzerland, Greenland,
Antarctica
Most peaceful
places 
- American Samoa and
Manos Island (both in the Pacific), Maldives
Most modern city - Perth, Australia and Hiroshima, Japan
Worst traffic - Lagos, Nigeria; Istanbul, Turkey; India
and Bangkok, Thailand
Most angry toward the
cross 
- Amsterdam, Holland and
Tetouan, Morocco
Greatest welcome to the
cross 
- Papua New Guinea,
Poland, Spain, India, Lithuania, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Guatemala
& West Africa
Friendliest Armies - Israel and the Palestinian Liberation
Army
Coldest city (reception) to the cross - New York, USA; Montreal,
Canada and Sydney, Australia
Hardest road to
walk 
- Pan-American Highway.
Mexico City to Panama
Toughest jungle to
walk 
- The Darien Jungle,
Panama to Columbia
Best road to walk - Holland
Worst auto accident - Turkey, Guam
Worst poverty - Chad; Mozambique, Djibouti, Ethiopia, India
and Bangladesh
Worst war - Lebanon and Mozambique
Murder Capital of the
World in 2010
- Juarez, Mexico 
Most beautiful
views 
- Mount Kilimanjaro,
Kenya/Tanzania; Mount Cameroon, Africa; Mount of Olives facing Jerusalem; Sea
of Galilee, looking toward Mount Hermon; Mount Sinai; Norwegian Coastline;
Antigua; Guatemala; a Swiss valley with lake and mountains beyond Tierra del
Fuego (Chile); Penguins nesting in Antarctica; Icebergs in Greenland, and
Bronzal Pass in the Hindu Kush - Pakistan-Afghanistan.
Most beautiful
City 
- The city of Jerusalem
Smallest country (in
size)
 cross carried -
The Vatican City in Rome and Sovereign Knights of Malta
First step with cross - Hollywood, California early 1968
A few historical places
and moments with the cross 
- Washington, D.C. 1970, 1980; Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany;
the Coliseum in Rome; The Pantheon in Athens, Greece; the pyramids of Egypt;
Cebu City in the Philippines at Magellan's Cross; carrying the cross across the
Panama and Suez Canals; the cross at the top of the world's biggest pyramid in
Cholula, Mexico; October 31, 1987 Hollywood, CA completed the distance around
the world at the equator 24,901.55 miles; China Wall and Red Square, Moscow;
Cross above the walls of Babylon; North Korea; Completed every nation and major
island group June 13, 2008 Zanzibar in Indian Ocean; Cross carried back to
Hollywood to Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the premiere of the movie "The
Cross"; Lifting the cross up at second base at Yankee Stadium, New York in
front of 40,000 people. Crossed 40,000 miles on foot at Whitehorse, Canada,
June 25, 2012.
Highest mountain climbed
with the cross
 - Mount Fuji,
Japan (12,388 ft) Bronzal Pass, Pakistan-Afghanistan border (18,200 ft - 5,547
M.)
Deepest into the earth
cross carried
 - Carlsbad New
Mexico (850 feet)
Lowest point below sea
level cross carried
 - Dead Sea (1,200
feet)
Worst cold weather - Golan Heights, Syria-Israel; Rome to Assisi,
Italy; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Antarctica and Baltic Republics
Hottest
temperature 
- Jordan Valley; Chad;
Yemen, Iraq & Djibouti (135 degrees plus)
Coldest
temperature 
- 20 degrees below in
Nova Scotia, Canada
World's largest tree
cross-carried to
 – 3,000 year old
tree in Mexico (163' high, 163' around)
Worst food - Squid in ink in Spain, monkey leg in
Africa, Rat Soup in Belize and Pork Soup for breakfast in USSR
Best food - Freshwater shrimp in El Salvador and
fresh salmon in Finland
Longest fast - 40 days Washington D.C. 1970
Worst dog - Israeli Army dog in the Sinai Desert
Worst mosquitoes - The Amazon River and Greenland
Worst fast food - McDonald's, Yellowknife, N.W.
Territories, while we ate, manager ran out front, grabbed my cross & rushed
to the garbage container to throw it away as trash! July 3, 2012. No happy meal
if you brought your cross :)
Best beds - St. James Club, London England;
Livingstonia Beach Hotel, Malawi
Friendliest airline to
the cross
 - Swiss Air
Highest cross has ever
been 
- 60,000' on Concorde
Fastest the cross has
ever flown
 - Mach II (1240
mph - twice the speed of sound on Concorde)
Longest time cross lost - one month (Alitalia Airlines)
Cross stolen - Christmas Day 1979, Assisi, Italy
Cross wheel stolen - Bordeaux, France
Cross overboard ship - Philippines
Cross in Space- A small cross cut from my cross was launched
into space August 2, 2008 from the Marshall Islands reaching 134 miles (217km).
May 22 - June 26, 2012 another cross from the cross orbited the earth by
SpaceX.
Cross broken - Joplin, Missouri; Nigeria; Guam, Turkey
Worst storm at sea - Philippines and Papua New Guinea and The Drake
Passage to Antarctica
Best road pets - El Salvador del Mundo (parrot), Central
America; Basco (rabbit), Spain; Belfast (dog), Northern Ireland; Loretta
(parrot) South Africa - USA; HRH Windsor (dog) U.S.
Biggest animal scares - Green Mamba snake in Ghana; baboon
attack in Kenya; elephant chase in Tanzania; crocodile attack in Zimbabwe
Number of people prayed
for, blessed or saved at the Cross 
- Many Millions but only God knows
Worst jail - Concord, New Hampshire
My Wife- Denise has been with the cross and me in 294
nations, island groups and territories 
A few memorable scares - Firing squad in Nicaragua: stoning and
beating in Morocco; Civil Guardia attack in Spain; LAPD choking, Hollywood,
California; pistol attack, Orlando, Florida; "to burn the cross,"
Birdseye, Indiana; man broke the cross, Nigeria; War in Lebanon crossing
minefield, Belfast, Northern Ireland bomb blast.
Worst bed - The "Pig Hilton" (a pigpen in
Columbia); a single narrow board at a blown up bus stop in the Golan Heights,
Syria- Israel border area.
Biggest crowd preached
to: 
Half a million, Atlanta
Rock Festival, 1970; Washington for Jesus Rally, half a million-1980
Wars - Carried the cross in 54 countries at war

The cross has been
turned away from being left overnight at more than half the churches requested,
but has never been turned away from spending the night at a bar or nightclub in
45 years around the world.


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Like David vs. Goliath, Rick
Wiles
is a citizen reporter who decided
to take on the Big News Media. Starting with a $7,500 donation in May 1999 to
launch the first radio program, Rick’s faith in God and steadfast determination
has overseen the growth and development of TRUNEWS into an internationally
recognized source of credible news and information in a world where nothing
seems to make sense anymore. Rick’s professional career was in media marketing
and advertising sales. Throughout his early years, God’s hand silently guided
him to be in employed in the latest new media. While in his early 20’s, Rick’s
first media job was with a new FM radio station in the days when AM was still
king.

In 1980, he blazed a path as a pioneer in local cable
television advertising when CNN and ESPN were new start-up channels on cable
TV.  As a sales manager, he launched one of the first cable advertising
interconnects in the nation.  He was hired in 1984 by the Christian
Broadcasting Network as the first National Cable Marketing Manager for the new
CBN Cable Network which later became the Family Channel.  In 1995, Paul
F. Crouch hired Rick as the Marketing Director for
Trinity Broadcasting Network where Rick repositioned the TBN brand inside the cable
industry – and played an important role in negotiating the early contracts to
launch TBN on DirecTV, DISH, and the former PrimeStar DBS systems.  Rick
resigned from TBN in September 1998 after receiving a dramatic call from God to
fulltime ministry.



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