Category: end time

Posted in end of days. prophecy, end time, middle east peace

Palestinian State push is a snowball turning into avalanche

Posted on by elizabethprata

I mentioned a week or so ago that Obama has been working on a new peace plan for resolution to the Middle East conflict between Everyone Else and Israel. I also mentioned that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is coming to the US to speak to a joint session of Congress in the first week of May, something that hasn’t happened since the early 1990s when Clinton was President and Netanyahu was in his first term.

I noted that both men, Obama and Netanyahu, were separately working on a framework to a revived peace plan, and conditions were unclear at that time on who would unveil whose first. Well, it’s Obama. Preempting the Israeli Prime Minister, Obama shared the framework of his new plan yesterday:

Obama’s plan
“The White House has been working on a new peace initiative for the past three months, one that revolves around a few key principles. According to the article, if Obama does, in fact, present a peace initiative, it will discuss four terms of reference: Israel’s acceptance of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders; Palestinian acceptance that there would be no right to return to Israeli land; Jerusalem as the capital of both states; and the protection of Israel’s security needs.”

Obama said three years ago that he would like to split Jerusalem. That the notion resurfaces now should not surprise us. Really, messing with Israel and splitting Jerusalem have been the ONLY concepts Obama has stuck to unswervingly since taking office. Here are the 2008 links to Gateway Pundit and Times of London and the quote:

“Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to America’s president-elect.”

Pre-1967 borders means that Israel gives up the land that they won in the Six-Day war, Sinai Peninsula (which they already returned to Egypt), Gaza Strip (which they already handed to Egypt for Egypt to administer), the West Bank which is also known as Judea and Samaria and includes East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights bordering Syria.

Even some Israelis are calling for a Palestinian State with pre-1967 borders…
“Dozens of prominent Israeli artists and intellectuals declared their support for a Palestinian state on the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday and quickly found themselves confronted by rightist opponents calling them “traitors” and, according to one report, “Jewish Nazis.” While angry confrontations between protesters on opposite sides of Israel’s gaping ideological divide are not unknown here, this one came at a delicate time, with international pressure growing on Israel to find a way back to peace talks with the Palestinians.”

Clinton. Who will save peace process? (Photo: AFP)

Christians know the answer to that question. The antichrist will APPEAR to save the peace process by flatteries and deceit. (Daniel 7:20; Daniel 8:12; Daniel 8:23-25)… It will be a time when truth will be thrown to the ground, but he will fail, and it will not be human power that defeats him! (Daniel 8:25)

“And finally Jesus who is peace will institute His kingdom. Jesus will save the peace process! “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together…” (Isaiah 11:6)

“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, ever forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this…” (Isaiah 9:6-7)

Hallelujah!
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The digital agenda for Europe includes a single European payment area. Mark of the beast infrastructure formed now

Posted on by elizabethprata

Let’s start from the end and work backward. The near future: “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Rev 13:16-17) This is the famous Mark of the Beast verse. Many people refer to it as the “one world currency” or the “New World Order.”

Though the verse does not explicitly say, the concept of a global economy is inherent in the verse. If the Beast has been granted power over all the people, tribes, tongues and nations (Rev 13:7b) and causes all to engage in a certain action, i.e. to worship him, (Rev 13:8) then it stands to reason that he has power over the global economy, also. If you have the Mark, you can participate in the economy. If you don’t have the mark, you can’t participate in the economy – in any way.

Let’s skip back now to the past generation. Prior to the microchip’s invention in 1960 it seemed impossible that these verses could come about. People in prior generations could not conceive of how one man could have economic power over all the people in the world. Remember, these were the days before computers, satellite television, the internet, global positioning systems, and cell phones. The world was still a big place then, and many of the globe’s nations were little known to a non-traveling public.

In 1950 Europe had just finished a devastating world war and sovereignty was rampant. People loved their countries, having come so close to losing them, thanks to Hitler. And they wanted it to stay that way. But they also wanted economic prosperity. WWII had wiped them out.

The European Union was born in 1950 when an economic partnership between 6 nations over coal and steel was formed. Coal and steel were necessary components of the continent’s re-build of the continent’s WWII bombed-out infrastructure. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were those partners, and it went so well that  by 1957 the European Economic Community, or “Common Market” was born.

Between the birth of the microchip born 1960 and the solidification of the Common Market in the same decade, the groundwork for Revelation 13’s oppression through economic means was laid. In the 1970’s the Common Market was expanded to nine with the inclusion of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom. By the end of the 1970s the European Parliament was created and member states could directly elect their representative.

In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and the European Union bloomed as East and West Germany were unified. No more Iron Curtain separated vibrant economies of the same continent, and the EU grew in stature and membership. 1993 was the seminal year, when the Single Market was completed with the ‘four freedoms’ of: movement of goods, services, people and money.

In the millennium 2000 decade, the euro was introduced, and the EU membership swelled to 27 nations. They adopted a constitution. With the collapse of communism and its doctrine of suppression of information, the internet became widely available to the lay-person.

But wait, there’s more. Here’s where it gets closer to the end point that we saw in Revelation 13. The EU has a plan, and it has been lately debated and this week it was legislated and accepted. The next plan includes ‘pillars’ named “Single Market Act,” “Digital Single Market” and “European Stability Mechanism” – with implementation by 2012.

Thanks to some of the European nations that are not as deeply in debt as others, the EU is surviving the current fiscal crisis. However, they note that they were still impacted, notably by a large unemployed segment of the population – almost 10%. The Single Market Act was proposed and adopted by the European Commission this week. The Single Market Act proposes 12 key actions to boost European competitiveness and to unlock economic growth and jobs which, considering the crisis, we want to see adopted by the end of 2012. The 12 action items all of relate in some way to the free-flow of money, venture capital, and employees with payroll in and among member nations.

But HOW is the money, capital, and payroll to flow freely, you might wonder? The Digital Single Market, one of the founding pillars of the Digital Agenda for Europe.

“Transport, energy and electronic-communications networks are the backbone of the single market. Indeed, efficient infrastructures foster rapid free movement of people, goods and various types of energy and data (with the allocation of a sufficient radio spectrum) at a reasonable cost. Efficient economic integration relies on the integration of efficient infrastructure networks … networks need to become smarter in order to improve energy transmission. New legislation must facilitate the establishment of a unified smart network…”

The infrastructure mentioned is no longer the coal and steel, quaint commodities of the old days of the burgeoning EU in 1950, but data networks, fast internet, and single European payment area.

The problem is that a French guy’s credit card may not work in Bulgaria. A venture capitalist from Finland might want to start an annex to his business in the Czech Republic, and the data-transfer infrastructure as it stands now is too cumbersome. Hence, the ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’: in a nutshell, streamline the whole thing, NOW.

Single European Payment Area (SEPA) “will improve the efficiency of cross border payments and turn the fragmented national markets for euro payments into a single domestic one: SEPA will enable customers to make cashless euro payments to anyone located anywhere in the area using only a single bank account and a single set of payment instruments.” Wikipedia, map at link. Timetable is completion by end of 2011. 1st meeting is in June 2011.

I gave you the short history so you could see how far and how fast the economic unification has come in one generation. Fifty years ago, a Christian reading the Revelation 13 verse could not conceive, nor comprehend how it would all work. This week, the European Single Market Act was passed. The Single European Payment Area is on the horizon, and once the ‘infrastructure’ is created, it would not take much for a smooth talker who was killed and resurrected to wow the world and slyly take over the whole shebang. Which, since we know the end from the beginning, he will do. And it looks like it won’t be long.

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Mysterious rumblings unnerve residents

Posted on by elizabethprata

Out of Canada:

Windsor-Essex being hit by mysterious rumblings
“Ontario’s Environment Ministry is investigating reports of mysterious rumblings in parts of Windsor and Essex County. Nine formal complaints have been registered to the local ministry office and there have been numerous telephone inquiries, officials say. “I feel like I’m going mental,” said Sonya Skillings, a resident in the 3800 block of Poplar Avenue, just east of Windsor Regional Hospital’s Western Campus. “It’s in the ground and it feels like there is a subway under the house. It happens at all different times — in the middle of the night, as well.” The ministry has investigated underground blasting by at the Windsor Salt mine, but the company blasts only once a day Monday to Friday in mid-afternoon.”

“We just want to know what the noise is,” said Skillings, a married mom to six-year-old and five-month-old boys. “It’s just weird that nobody knows. If it’s not the salt mines, then what is it?” Ministry of Environment officers have asked homeowners to keep a log in order to help find the source of the rumbling. The calls about the noise have come from nearly every corner in Windsor and the surrounding area, said Teri Gilbert, issues project co-ordinator for the local Environment Ministry office. “We have received a number of complaints and it seems widespread,” she said. “Most are from west Windsor, but also Amherstburg, South Windsor and Lakeshore. “In response we are working with a number of partners — the City of Windsor, federal government and Michigan state government — to determine the source. We have not been able to nail it down.” The ministry’s goal is to eliminate any possibility the vibrations are being caused by an industrial source on either side of the border.”

“Mining activities by salt companies on either side of the border have been ruled out because “their operations are not coinciding with the times people are feeling these (vibrations),” Gilbert said. Homeowners and any neighbours they can enlist will log the noises and vibrations for at least the next month, she said. Another possibility could be overhead jets circling, landing and taking off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, but Skillings believes that’s not the case. “The vibrations definitely are more underground,” she said. “All I hear is the rumbling.” Gilbert indicated federal aviation authorities may be contacted once the Environment Ministry can rule out all industrial sources.”

“It’s a mystery,” she said. “There appears to be no rhyme or reason to it.”

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Posted in earthquakes, end of days. prophecy, end time, pre-tribulation rapture, shakeout drill

Quakes are picking up steam; FEMA plans central US Great ShakeOut drill

Posted on by elizabethprata

Jesus said that in the end time there will be earthquakes in diverse places. (Luke 21:11; Mt 24:7; Mark 13:8). There have always been earthquakes. But the entire context of the conversation in which He’d warned about the signs of the time when He would be coming (Mt 24:3) was likened to labor pains. Labor begins slow and increase in frequency and intensity, just as the signs and symptoms of His imminent return to judge the world will indicate. He said that these signs will be famines, plagues, deceptions, false messiahs, and earthquakes to name a few. These are the various things that will increase in intensity and frequency just before He arrives at the end of the Tribulation.

He also said “in various places” or “in diverse places.” The Greek word for “various” used in this case is kata. Usually, various when it means various is the word poikilos- as in Mt 4:24 wen they brought to Jesus people suffering from “various diseases”. But in Matthew 24:7 kata is used for various, and it means “through out, according to, against”. Kata is is translated 52 times as against, which definitely has a judgment tinge to it.

I look at the USGS 7-day earthquake list every day. Earthquakes around the world are listed as they happen. I noticed the last day or so that there are a number of earthquakes in Nevada. Nevada? Yes, Nevada.

Today I find this article:
Swarm of Quakes have Experts Concerned
“Nevada Seismologists are keeping a close eye on an area southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada where hundreds of earthquakes have been detected since Sunday. “It’s a little bit concerning in a sense.. The largest earthquakes in these sequences are pretty large in size.” Graham Kent is Director of Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada Reno. He says there have been hundreds of earthquakes southwest of Hawthorne over the past few days. The largest– recorded at a 4.4 in size. “These are the biggest in a sequence we’ve seen at least in the last couple of years.” Kent says unlike the 2008 quakes in Somersett that damaged so many homes, these earthquakes are fortunately not underneath a community. Size is not the only reason Kent says they are watching the swarm of quakes closely. The location of these quakes is on top of a fault that has until now remained unknown or has not been active. Kent then made an eerie comparison, “Whats really interesting about most of these earthquakes we’ve experienced. Short of the Chilean and Japanese quakes; Haiti, Baja, even Christchurch… Were on unknown faults.” [emphasis mine]

Unknown faults??? Very interesting. Even more interesting is that the swarm ongoing in Guy Arkansas. I wrote about it in October 2010 just after the swarm began, here. I wrote about it again a couple months later, here. Scientists don’t know why there is a swarm there, either, but of concern is that Guy Ark. is kind of near the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The NMSZ is home to one of the country’s worst quakes ever.

The New Madrid quakes of 1811-12 “were an intense intraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on December 16, 1811. These earthquakes remain the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit the eastern United States. These events, as well as the seismic zone of their occurrence, were named for the Mississippi River town of New Madrid, Louisiana Territory, now Missouri. There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over roughly 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square miles), and moderately across nearly 3 million square kilometers (1 million square miles).” [Wikipedia] 

This map shows areas damaged by the Dec. 16, 1811, magnitude 7.2 earthquake. That earthquake was the first of three major temblors along the New Madrid fault in 1811 and 1812. Credit: Seth Stein, based on results by Susan Hough

Because not many people were living in structures west of the Mississippi at that time, there was not a lot of structural damage, but it certainly was a tremendously impactful quake. It shifted rivers, downed trees, belched a sulphurous vapor, caused the sun to black out temporarily (reminiscent of the effects of the great quake in Rev 6:12 when the sun will be dark as sackcloth), and produced such a shock it went through bedrock and was felt intensely in Norfolk and Philly. The quake even toppled chimneys in Maine and rang church bells in Boston.

If a 7.1 quake of that shallowness and duration happened today, it would be devastating. Emergency Management officials are taking notice of the Arkansas quake swarm, noting the rise in earthquakes around the world, and have gotten ready the Great Central US Shakeout. It is a first of its kind earthquake drill taking place in eleven central US states. So far, 2.2 million people are signed up for the drill. 1.9 million of those are school districts. Participants listed so far on their website are:

Alabama 19,752
Arkansas 103,590
Georgia 205,804
Illinois 100,966
Indiana 569,036
Kentucky 256,197
Mississippi 112,256
Missouri 383,235
Oklahoma 5,020
South Carolina 173,969
Tennessee 256,555

“ShakeOut is linked with the 2011 National Level Exercise (NLE 2011). ShakeOut, the drill will be a prelude to a weeklong national earthquake preparedness exercise starting on May 16. NLE 2011 will simulate the catastrophic nature of a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). The year 2011 is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named. NLE 2011 will be the first NLE to simulate a natural hazard.”

We received the following email at school and a similar email is also on the Georgia Shakeout website:

“At precisely 10:15 a.m. on April 28, more than two million people across 10 states will participate in the “Great Central U.S. Shakeout,” the largest earthquake drill ever organized in the region. The Georgia Emergency Management Agency’s (GEMA) Ready Georgia campaign, along with the Georgia Department of Education encourages all Georgia schools to participate in this important event, which will help students and teachers rehearse proper safety procedures should an earthquake strike.”

“The recent earthquakes in Japan have taught us that earthquakes can strike without warning and with disastrous consequences. All of Georgia is vulnerable to earthquakes, both from within the state and from sources outside the state.”

“So far, more than 147,000 students and administrators from across Georgia have signed up to simultaneously “Drop, Cover and Hold On” – drop to the ground, take cover under a sturdy desk or table and hold on until the shaking stops. They will be alerted to begin by a public service message broadcast by the NOAA Weather Radio. The event is designed to remind people what actions to take before, during, and after an earthquake, as well as to help government agencies, local organizations and schools plan their response to potential damage and injuries.”

Jesus said “there will be earthquakes in various places.” The places are getting more various by the minute! Isn’t He amazing? Plopping down an earthquake in the spots where there are no known faults? Perplexing the scientists and riling up the people? He is so far above our ways it is incredible!

For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
         Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
         So are My ways higher than your ways
         And My thoughts than your thoughts.(Isaiah 55:8-9)

Look up, the Lord has the earth in His hands, and He is shaking us out of our sinful slumber. Turn to Him, shelter under His wing, and be prepared to meet Him when He calls His bride! No amount of ‘drop, cover, and hold on’ will protect the Tribulation people when the earthquakes really get going. Instead, because I asked Him to forgive my sins and in His grace includes me in His church, I will ‘look up, sigh, and fly!’
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Posted in california, end of days, end time, homosexuality, raptre

Gay history now a required course in CA elementary schools

Posted on by elizabethprata

Today, this news from California. A bill passed the assembly mandating that public schools teach gay history.

“Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people would be added to the lengthy list of social and ethnic groups that public schools must include in social studies lessons under a landmark bill passed Thursday by the California Senate. If the bill is adopted by the state Assembly and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, California would become the first state to require the teaching of gay history. … [S]tarting in the 2013-14 school year, it would prohibit districts and the California Board of Education from using textbooks or other instructional materials that reflect adversely on gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.”

This isn’t good.

God always judges sin, and individual sinners who have not repented and asked forgiveness will spend eternity away from Him, in hell. This is a reality. No matter how often and with how many books the lost and the Christians in Name Only publish and which try to twist the scriptures to say something different, it is the unalterable truth. Unforgiven sin = hell. Repentance = forgiveness.

God hates all sins, but He mentions a few in particular more often than others. One of the sins that God hates is homosexuality. Leviticus 18:22-25, Jude 1:7-8; 1 Corinthians 6:9 are just a few of the verses that say God promises homosexuals will not inherit eternal life.

More than the individual, though, God also judges peoples and nations. Is American due for judgment? Yes, and not just because of this particular bill in CA. We have banned prayer in public schools, legalized abortion, accepted a gender re-definement and promoted homosexuality. We have become greedy (The Fed, Wall Street) and we fail to care for the poor. Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim were judged for these things. Four cities were smited that day, a day when God deemed He had had enough of all of those sins.

“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50). Pride, greediness, laziness, non-compassion for the poor, and homosexuality were their crimes, and one fine day those cities were no more.

When a nation’s people individually wallow in sin, it is offensive to God. But when a nation collectively and AS a nation legalizes, promotes, codifies into law, and worse, perverts the minds of the young with its sins, then it is a higher plane of offense to the Almighty. We have been blessed, but since the mid 1960s we have been on a national downward slide as a nation. Our only reason for continued blessing and the only reason for a stay of deserved execution, in my opinion, has come from Genesis 12:3. God said He would bless the nations that bless Abraham’s people, and curse the nations that curse Abraham’s people. Abraham’s people are the Jews and their nation is Israel. For many years, throughout our moral decline, we have still received blessing due to the fact that we have always staunchly defended Israel.

But watch out, things may soon change.

Clinton: Obama to reveal peace plan soon
“The United States plans a new push to promote comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday, suggesting a stronger US hand in trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
‘US will have hard time standing alone in UN’
“On Tuesday night Israeli officials estimated that efforts to prevent UN support of a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood would prove futile ahead of a September vote on the matter. An Israeli official said: “Obama wants a Palestinian state and although the US is not interested in a unilateral declaration, it would be hard for it to stand alone in the General Assembly and vote against it.”

The Middle East peace talks are going nowhere and there is a massive push in front of the scenes and behind the scenes for the UN to just get it over with and declare a Palestinian State whether Israel likes it or not. Declaring it would divide Israel and Jerusalem, something the LORD said He will never tolerate. (Joel 3:2; Gen 12:3). If the US decides to side with the UN, and not with Israel, in my opinion it would be the last straw. We would be moved from the (barely) blessed side to the cursed side of the conditional promise in Genesis 12. We would incur God’s anger in ways that the world has never seen before and no, will never see again. (Mt 24:21).

And why should we not? Teaching young minds that homosexuality is normal, has a valued history, and should be seen as equal to real history offends me to the core. Imagine how much MORE it offends God. Add to that our greedy, lazy, non-compassionate, selfish, baby-killing ways and our abandonment of Israel, and we are ripe for brimstone. Check the bible, and see that He has judged for far less. Once our support for Israel goes, we go. And please pray that the rapture comes before more youth are killed in the womb or before innocent children would be exposed to homosexual perversity from the abominable state of California.

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Posted in easter, end of days, end of days. prophecy, end time, pre-tribulation rapture

Seattle school insists on calling Easter eggs ‘spring spheres’

Posted on by elizabethprata

Names mean something. Words are important. An entire book was devoted to how minds are brainwashed by language in George Orwell’s 1984. That book was written in 1949 and is about a dystopian world that Orwell foresaw by the year 1984. “Newspeak” was the centerpiece of how the invasive and excessively totalitarian government leaders wanted the people to think. The aim is to make any alternative thinking (thinking in ways the government did not want you to think) impossible by removing any words or constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. Dictionaries were supposed to get thinner and thinner. One character, Syme, says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

Christians have been struggling against the world’s deliberate dismantling of the concepts behind Christmas by denouncing the removal of the word when and where we come across that practice. Happy Holidays is NOT the same as “Merry Christmas.”

Now we have the removal of Easter from mention in a Seattle elementary school, and from mention by Seattle Parks and Recreation advertisements for the Easter Egg Hunt. Nowadays kids are supposed to call the eggs ‘Spring Spheres” and the hunt a “Spring Egg Scramble.”

It’s a terrible thing, the destruction of words. When those words contain the mention of the Savior, removing them from our language is worse than destructive, it is heinous. Christianity is unique among all the world’s religions. It is the truth, quite simply. Beyond that, all other religions have a doctrine of works: in other words, the person has to do this or that, accomplish this or that to get into heaven. Jesus said that there is nothing man can do to earn salvation, it is His gift alone to give.

Uniquely, Christianity is not a system of beliefs, it is a relationship with God. It is a close relationship: He actually sends part of Himself to dwell inside the believer, the Holy Spirit.

Christianity is unique because though other religions have sacred sayings or important books, none other book makes the claims about itself that the Bible does: it is written by God, and has been proved over and over by fulfilled prophesies.

The most amazing element of the uniqueness of Christianity is that it centers around the resurrection of Jesus Christ!! As GotQuestions.org puts it, “No other religious leader has died in full view of trained executioners, had a guarded tomb, and then rose three days later to appear to many people. The resurrection is proof of who Jesus is and that He did accomplish what He set out to do: provide the only means of redemption for mankind. Buddha did not rise from the dead. Muhammad did not rise from the dead. Confucius did not rise from the dead. Krishna did not rise from the dead. Only Jesus has physically risen from the dead, walked on water, claimed to be God, and raised others from the dead. He has conquered death. Only in Christianity do we have the person of Christ who claimed to be God, performed many miracles to prove His claim of divinity, died and rose from the dead, and claimed that He alone is “the way the truth and the life” (John 14:6) and that no one comes to the Father except through Him.”

“Easter” is the pinnacle of the triumph of Jesus Christ over all evil. It is the moment where He proves Himself to be Who He is. It is the time when all sinners have the permanent opportunity to receive salvation, in a glorious moment for all humankind, forever. No wonder “the rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers” (Titus 1:9-11) want to remove the concept from our language. DO NOT LET THEM DO IT! “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said!” Mt 28:6

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Japanese officials finally rate Fukushima a 7 on the disaster scale

Posted on by elizabethprata

The Japanese finally capitulated to reality and rated the Fukushima nuclear disaster an official 7 on the nuclear disaster scale. 7 is the highest level of this kind of disaster. Only one nuclear plant ever experienced a rating of 7 in its disaster assessment, and that was Chernobyl. Below is a headline link to the Japanese article, in a Google translation, and the first paragraph is Google translated from Japanese.

Japanese officials finally raise level of Fukushima disaster to 7
“As an assessment based on international standards of the accident, the worst “level seven” decided to raise. “Level 7″ is the same as the evaluation occurred in the Soviet Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear Safety Agency, 12, held a press conference with the Nuclear Safety Commission has decided to publish the contents of the evaluation.”

Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates How Fukushima’s Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered

In this bit of not so good news,
Radiation risks from Fukushima ‘no longer negligible’
“The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against “risky behaviour,” such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. In response to thousands of inquiries from citizens concerned about fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Europe, CRIIRAD has compiled an information package on the risks of radioactive iodine-131 contamination in Europe.”

But the Japanese agency also said that even though the ratings of radiation over Japan are risky for some demographic populations, “the institute underlines that there is absolutely no need to lock oneself indoors or take iodine tablets.” Hmmm.

The Environmental Protection Agency says that their network of radiation monitors (RadNet) detects negligible amounts of radiation in the US from Fukushima. But on the other hand, it is stated by the “EPA that new radiation highs are found in Little Rock Milk, Philadelphia Drinking Water.” “Milk from Little Rock and drinking water from Philadelphia contained the highest levels of Iodine-131 from Japan yet detected by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to data released by EPA Saturday.” In reading the article and doing the math, Arkansas milk was 300% above EPA’s maximum contaminant level for radioactive iodine-131 and that was 11 days ago.

That doesn’t sound negligible to me. So what the governments are saying is that radiation exists, they need to evacuate, some populations are at higher risk, and in Japan AND the US, don’t drink the water or eat the food. But it’s negligible and nothing to worry about.

I would really love to be able to trust my government again, but unfortunately I cannot. However, I offer a trade that is even better: we can trust Jesus. He will never lie. He will never hide data that is important to our well-being. He will always keep us safe (spiritually). He will always be trustworthy.

“The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.” (2 Samuel 22:3) You can’t do better than that! In these troubled times, with everything either falling down or prices going sky high, Jesus is attainable. He is within reach. As a matter of fact, He is reaching for you now. If you have let yourself become distant from Him, hasten back to His side, He will cover you with His wing and shield you from hopelessness. If you do not know Him, once you confess your sins and trust in Him, you will feel peace and understand that no matter what is happening in external circumstances, you will remain solidly under the watchful eye of our God of the universe. That is the best place to be!

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The Copper Scroll & its possible relation to Gog-Magog battle of Ezekiel 38-39

Posted on by elizabethprata

Certain conditions will be in existence at the end of days when certain other things happen. In this way, we can look at the end and work backward to the present. For example, Ezekiel tells us that when the Gog-Magog battle occurs, Israel will be dwelling securely with no walls or gates, she will be at peace, she will be seen to have an exceedingly great army, she will dwell in the midst of the land, and she will be extremely wealthy. (Ezekiel 38:11-12b). Many people believe that for this to be in place it means that the Psalm 83 battle will have already taken place, and Israel will have defeated the Palestinians, Jordanians, Sinai Egyptians, Lebanese, and Saudi Arabians. She will not need borders because she will have defeated all her neighboring enemies.

An interesting note is that the verse describing Israel dwelling in the midst of the land means they would be dwelling in land with borders that God outlined to Abraham in Genesis 15:18. It would mean that in Israel’s defeat of the enemy confederacy that Israel would reclaim all that land as originally intended for her to have. (Read Obadiah 1 for context). (Note- map below outlines the Land given to Abraham and to Abraham’s descendants, known as the Abrahamic Covenant) The map below that is the same map using modern nations as a reference. It’s almost completely aligned correctly with the borders given in Genesis, except the actual red line on the eastern border should go all the way over to the Euphrates. But otherwise it’s pretty close.)

In Ezekiel 38:12  God is talking and speaking out loud the dastardly plot that Israel’s enemies are fomenting in secret thoughts. He says they will say, “I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.” The Hebrew words in the verse for cattle and goods actually say “have acquired cattle and goods” or “which have gotten cattle and goods.” The verse speaks of spoils and plunder and booty, typically things that are acquired in war. The verse doesn’t say “Israel has goods and cattle,” it says they have acquired it. It is logical to think that after the Psalm 83 war Israel reclaims the land God originally gave her, along with all the things in and on that land, like livestock and goods.

Taking this a step further, Israel would indeed be extremely wealthy if she has not only the wealth she recently produced herself, not only has the wealth that she is soon to enjoy due to the discovery of the huge natural gas and enormous oil reserves in her land and just off shore, not only wealthy beyond imagining from having acquired all of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan’s and Egypt’s wealth, but there is another possible wealth just off the horizon.

The Copper Scroll.

“The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran, but differs significantly from the others. Whereas the other scrolls are written on parchment or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal: copper mixed with about 1 percent tin. Unlike the others, it is not a literary work, but a list of locations at which various items of gold and silver are buried or hidden.” [Wikipedia] It is thought that the silver and gold mentioned in the Copper Scroll ‘treasure map’ were from the Temple before the Romans came to destroy it.

“Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”’(Ez 38:13b)

A recent CBN article reports: “In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd wandered the hills of Qumran in search of a missing sheep. He threw a stone into a cave, hoping to drive the lost animal outside. Instead, the sound of shattered pottery drew the shepherd inside the cave. There he stumbled on the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century: the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the years that followed, archaeologists found eleven caves and more than 900 documents here at Qumran. But one scroll was different from all the rest. Instead of leather or parchment, it was made entirely of copper, and it could be the greatest treasure map in history.”

Hmmm. With paper currencies declining like they are and silver and gold values reaching record highs, it wouldn’t take much for a greedy and desperate army to gather and lick their lips, salivating over all that ‘silver and gold.’ Silver and gold are finite assets. Unlike paper currency that we print more of when we need it, silver and gold can’t be manufactured. It remains steady in value or increases. The monetary value of the gold and silver mentioned in the Scroll is estimated at 3 billion dollars- and that was an estimate given years ago. Gold and silver are now reaching record highs with no end in sight.

The only problem is, since the discovery, no one has been able to understand what the Scroll says. From the Copper Scroll Project: “So begins the most intriguing and baffling of the scrolls to be found among the collection known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the metal document called the Copper Scroll. Baffling because it has never before been understood and intriguing because of the vast amount of buried treasures listed in the incredible text.”

“Possibilities are high that the Copper Scroll could lead to a discovery that would make any other archaeological find seem insignificant in scale. If the book of II Maccabbees is considered accurate, then the odds of such an unprecedented find tilt the scales of history even further to the side of a magnificent archaeological discovery, a recognizable possibility that stirs the juices of the imagination well beyond the scope of wishful thinking into the realm of tangible possibility.”

That language, ‘stirs the imagination’ echoes the language in Ezekiel, ‘thoughts arise in your mind…I will make an evil plan”…

The bible says, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind,(Gog-Magog enemies of Israel) and you will make an evil plan: You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’(Ez 38:10-13)

Yes, having livestock is a boon but armies don’t go to war over cows, hungry as they may be. They would be interested in the oil and gas but it takes time to re-route gas lines and get refineries going to match the grade of Israel’s. But silver and gold, 3 billion-plus dollars’ worth? Now, THAT is a booty they can exploit immediately.

I can imagine the thoughts that the Gog-Magog confederacy are brought to mind. Turkey, Iran, Russia, Armenia, Libya, Northern Africa will all be gnashing their teeth at Israel’s success in the Psalm 83 war. They will be looking longingly at the gas, the oil, the livestock, the wealth of land Israel possesses in that near-future moment. Their ancient hatred of Israel will inflame their passions. IF (and I say IF, because I don’t know if it will ever be discovered) the Copper Scroll does reveal caches of gold and silver beyond description, it would be (and I say would be, because I don’t know) the last straw.

Wouldn’t it be just like the LORD to allow translation and interpretation of the Copper Scroll and recovery of the silver and gold just at a time when the other prophetic pieces for Psalm 83 and Gog-Magog are coming together in such alignment? The LORD is great. This season of watching prophecy unfold leaves me nothing but breathless at His ways.

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Charlie Sheen vs. integrity

Posted on by elizabethprata

Something happened with Charlie Sheen recently. I don’t know what it was, because I don’t watch celebrity news. I don’t want to discuss it at this point because whatever he did was likely stupid and continuing to discuss it would be stupid on my part. Suffice it to say that the brouhaha is winding down and I don’t want to add to it, except for one blip that remains on the radar for many people. It is that blip I want to talk about.

After Sheen’s debacle concluded, he went on tour. This is something to remark on in itself. The word “shame” seems to be absent from our vocabularies, as people who live immorally are lifted up while Jesus’ name is trampled. More people than not waste good money in support of immoral stupidity by choosing to spend time watching  terrible movies or television shows that are nothing more than debauchery. Why spend your time honoring immorality? Isaiah said “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter”. Isaiah 5:20.

Anyway, Sheen went on tour. Detroit was the first stop, and apparently there were plenty of people who chose to spend their hard-earned money to watch and listen to what Sheen had to say.

“It didn’t take long for the goodwill to fade, though, as audience members at the Fox Theatre began yelling at the former “Two and a Half Men” star for refunds and walking out in droves. Sheen quipped after an audience member booed: “I’ve already got your money, dude.“

Can you remember a time when a business deal was healthy? When a man’s word was his bond? When work was done and done right? When people cared about the product they were putting out?  If you don’t remember such a time it wasn’t all that long ago that people cared about the kind of job they did. People took pride in putting out a good product. If someone came back and said that the product was not good, there would be shame in their heart and a refund given right away.

It is not so anymore. Sheen boasted that he already had the guy’s money and there wasn’t a thing he could do about it. Not only did Sheen feel that way, not only did he comment out loud, but he boasted.

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” –Douglas Adams. That is something the Charlie Sheens of the world lack, but they lack it because they know not Jesus.

Paul wrote to Timothy the following warning:

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

The timing Paul was referring to was to be all of the end time, including Paul’s day until our day. But that is not even the worst of it. Paul reminded 2 Thessalonians 2:6 about the antichrist. In the verses in 2 Thessalonians, Paul explained what the antichrist will be like. He then reminded them that the antichrist will be restrained until we are taken out of the way. Which means that after we are taken out of the way, there will be no restraint on any of the sinful conditions that plague us now. Like a fungus under cover of darkness, the sinful conditions Paul described above will mushroom exponentially.

Our blessing is that if we have confessed our sins and asked Him forgiveness of them, He is faithful to save. And in that salvation we are told we are not appointed to wrath, (1 Thessalonians 5:9) and when the wrath begins in the Seal Judgments, (Rev 6:17) we will  have been removed from the earth.

Eventually, all sin will be removed! (Dan 9:24; Rev 21:26-27). Won’t that be a relief and a glory to Jesus’ power! Praise Him in all ways!
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PE teacher and pupils left gobsmacked as it starts raining worms

Posted on by elizabethprata

This out of Scotland (ht to Anonymous)

PE teacher and pupils left gobsmacked as it starts raining worms
“STUNNED schoolkids had to run for cover as WORMS rained down on their football pitch. PE teacher David Crichton told yesterday of the bizarre shower, which happened as he led a lesson for secondyear boys. The boys heard a “soft thudding” on the artificial pitch – then looked up to see dozens of worms plummeting from the sky. David, 26, said he and other teachers at Galashiels Academy were baffled by the incident. …”I spoke with the science department here but none of them had any explanation for it. One of them thought maybe it was a freak weather thing. “But it was such a clear, calm day. And we are quite a bit away from any of the buildings so it’s not like anyone could have been throwing them.”

One explanation for the weird event was “believed to have been caused by freak weather over a nearby river lifting water and worms and dumping it over the road.” Yeah, sure. That’s what they said about the frogs falling from the sky in Japan. And the perch that fell in Australia…

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