Category: prophecy

Posted in bp, end time, kalamazoo, oil, prophecy

Major oil leak causes state of emergency: 800,000 gallons spilled UPDATED

Posted on by elizabethprata

Sad news today from Lake Michigan/Kalamazoo River

Oil spill update: State of emergency declared as 800,000 gallons of leaked oil begins flowing through Kalamazoo County
Kalamazoo County officials declared a state of emergency Tuesday afternoon as more than 800,000 gallons of oil released into a creek began making its way downstream in the Kalamazoo River “I just came from Fort Custer and you can smell it now,” Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Pali Matyas said. “… It’s all rolling downhill and there are a lot of complications.”

This article reports, “U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Mich., said he discussed the spill Tuesday with President Barack Obama at the White House. He called the spill a “public health crisis,” and said he plans to hold hearings to examine the response. “The company was originally slow to respond and it is now clear that this is an emergency,” Schauer told reporters on a conference call.” Caption “A worker lifts oil-covered debris from the Kalamazoo River in Battle Creek Tuesday. A pungent odor is hanging over the Battle Creek area and the Kalamazoo River valley a day after 840,000 gallons of oil leaked into a creek that feeds into the river. The oil leaked Monday from a 30-inch pipeline that carries about 8 million gallons of oil per day from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario, in Canada. AP credit”

This MI situation is not minor. And of course the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill isn’t minor either. In addition to these large and visible spills, there has been a spate of pipe breaks, leaks, and explosions spilling gas and oil onto land and water lately, from the upper Midwest to PA to TX to the Gulf. You can do a search on this blog for “explosions” and many results will come up, if you want to see the previous articles.

I have been thinking about today’s bible reading. He had led me to Obadiah. This is another of those chapters that have prophetic proclamations, then historical fulfillment of the events described, and are also waiting for its double fulfillment in the future. Here, Edom (Jordan) was a thorn in the side of Judah and Israel, often cheering on armies like the Assyrians when they battled the Israelites. More often, Edom allied with them, and worst, would pick and plunder the stuff that was left behind from previous plunderers. Edom laughed at Israel, and shouted self-confidently from their clefts in the rock (the great city of Petra). God saw this and made some promises in passages that not only spoke of retribution but exact retribution for exact deeds.

In verses 5-9 it describes thieves and pickers and robbers cleaning out Edom just as Edom had picked and robbed and stole from Judah. Even more clearly, God spelled it out in verse 12:

The Day of the LORD and the Future
“For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.” (NASB)

These verses are cross-referenced to Habakkuk 2:8, “Because you have looted many nations, All the remainder of the peoples will loot you.” There is no escaping divine and exact retribution, It is repeated again in Jeremiah:

“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.” (Jer 50:29) Perfect justice. Like-judgment for like-sin.

I was musing all day about what would be America’s fitting justice. Though we are not under judgment yet, because His wrath (judgment) has not begun and will not until the rapture and later Rev 6, we are still approaching that Day. The Day of the Lord is spoken of or referenced in almost every New Testament book. It is a time that most of the bible points to. That Day will come and America will be one of the nations to have perfect justice fall on her, as long-promised and as long-deserved. As we peek around the prophetic corner to that Day, perhaps we can already see some of the precursors and signs of what kind of judgment awaits the unbelieving left behind.

Would it not be fitting for a gluttonous and wasteful oil gobbling nation to be awash in oil that cannot be used? Would it not be fitting for us, who are so polluted by perversity and garbage, to have our lands become corrupted and trashed? I don’t know what the LORD has in mind for America nor any nation in particular in terms of exact judgment, but we KNOW that we will be repaid as we have done. And that is scary enough.

UPDATE

At 5:57 an update was posted regarding another spewing well…

Tug vessel hits abandoned gas well in Barataria Waterway
JEFFERSON, La. — The Coast Guard and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are maintaining a two mile safety perimeter around a damaged wellhead in the Barataria Waterway south of New Orleans.
A mix of natural gas, contaminated water and light crude oil is spewing 100 feet in the air. According to the Coast Guard, the tug vessel Pere Ana C while pushing a dredge barge struck the abandoned wellhead around one Tuesday morning. “The issue for the region right now is we have gas coming out of an uncontrolled well head,” said Coast Guard Captain John Arenstam. “We don’t want to introduce into the region is an ignition source.”

Posted in end time, magnetosphere, prophecy, signs in the sun

Signs in the sun, moon, and stars: God’s powerful witness

Posted on by elizabethprata

The Sun has been acting strangely over the last two years. When it was supposed to have been active, it wasn’t. When it was supposed to have been quiet, it isn’t. Sunspots and solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are massive, or missing, but then produce flops for flares, or are small but produce unexpected ejections. It has zapped a satellite into a zombie, grown coronal holes so large it seems the sun itself would collapse, and the earth’s upper atmosphere (magnetosphere) itself is unexpectedly collapsing.

A Puzzling Collapse of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called “the thermosphere” recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. “This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years,” says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). “It’s a Space Age record.” The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain. “Something is going on that we do not understand,” says Emmert.”

Well, today spaceweather.com reports on the sun. Again.

“Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth. Magnetic loops towering over the eastern limb herald its approach:”

“NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of July 26th. The bright glow revealed by SDO’s extreme ultraviolet camera comes from million-degree plasma trapped by overlying magnetic fields. A sunspot is likely at the bottom of it all. Or maybe two sunspots… NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft is stationed over the sun’s eastern limb, and it sees a pair of active regions approaching single file. The one peeking over the limb now is actually the smaller of the two. Readers with solar telescopes should train their optics here.”

We are told that there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars. (Luke 21:25).  We have seen strange and puzzling sun behavior, and that is according to the solar scientists. We have seen signs in the stars in the form of unusual meteors, comets, and planetary action in our galaxy and beyond. I mean, Jupiter lost a belt! And a flash so large appeared it stunned scientists, who do not know what it was! And just this weekend, we read, “NASA’s Deep Space Camera Locates Host of ‘Earths‘”. 700 new planets were discovered. Amazing!

Just about the only sign we have not seen is in the moon. But the other signs are there. We also know that in Revelation one of the plagues will be a sun so hot it causes men to combust with fire. Perhaps the magnetosphere will be burned off by then. Or perhaps God will simply cause it to happen instantly and supernaturally!

The age of Science has become a false god whom too many worship to the exclusion of the supernatural: an indwelling Holy Spirit ministry, a risen-from-the-dead, living Jesus, and a God who exists outside of time. These Three are supernatural, science cannot explain them. Science will never and cannot explain the Trinity. Soon, even today, events are occurring that science does not know how to deal with. A spate of deep-focus quakes? A sun that should be active but isn’t? Comets that appear out of nowhere? Soon the supposed scientific orderliness will disappear. Supernatural realms will become more visible and as they do, humans will be less and less able to cope with the lack of scientific evidence to give them answers. They will not find their answers because they looked to their god Science instead of Holy God.

He will extinguish the sun in a moment! He will create 100 pound hailstones! He will turn the sun back on, and turn it up to scorching heat! He will make the very stars fall! He will turn the sea to blood! These events are God pouring out His wrath and authority on an unbelieving world. He has the power of the universe in His hand, and science will fail men, along with economies, finances, food, infrastructure, (have you read about three dam failures lately?) all the things men put their trust in for insulation against sinful lives. Now is the time for God to show His power in stripping away that insulation and showing men their puniness in the face of a wrathful God who exerts authority over the sun and moon, and stars, and universes and men. Trust Jesus, and escape all these things.

Posted in end time, pre-tribulation rapture, prophecy, tu'b'av

Dating the rapture is unwise and unbliblical

Posted on by elizabethprata
Remember, the date of the rapture is not known because it is not a date, it’s a number

It is wonderful to be eager for His call to us, and look forward to His coming. He said to be eager, and to look up when we see these signs begin to come to pass. (Luke 21:28)

Romans 11:25 Paul wrote that the church has a “full number”, and when that number is reached the Call will come for us to go up. “I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.” The word ‘full number’ is from pleroo in the Greek, meaning ‘finish (a period or task)’. The moment when we go is when the number has been reached.

So today is Tu’B’Av, a day some are looking to see as the rapture day. Tu’B’Av, of the 15th of July in the Jewish calendar was during the Second Temple period a popular holiday. It was and today still is a sort of Jewish Valentine’s day. In olden days it matched up with the end of the grape harvest and the beginning of the  wheat harvest. Many are looking for the rapture Monday because of this festival day. It is well to hope that Tu’B’Av is the day, and no one more than me wants to go. So while it is worthy to research the festivals, to try and match our possible rapture to this festival or that one is fruitless, because the day is not what God is basing the rapture on, it is the number, a number no one knows.

Some thought Pentecost would be the date. It came and went and we are still here. Some thought it would be Tisha’B’Av, the Jewish date of catastrophes and lamentations. That date came and went and we are still here. 1988 came and went and we are still here. Every other date came and went and we are still here. One day will be the day, but because the number has been reached.

Now, it is true that many, including me, feel a pressure, an undeniable and almost unbearable stretching like an elastic band pulled to its limit. This earth really feels that way to us, like the tension before the climax of the movie at a drawn-out moment. I feel the rapture is close. I sometimes think I can hear the indrawn breath of the Trumpet Blower! Today, tomorrow, next month. Soon. But I do not know what day it will be, and it is un-biblical to date it. The Lord has said repeatedly not to do that. When the Jews asked Him if this was the moment for their long-promised kingdom, He replied, “So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority.” (Acts 1:7) “For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. (I Thessalonians 5:4).  “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.” (Matthew 24:42)

So could the rapture be tomorrow? Yes. But it may be Thursday. Or Christmas. Or any other day THE NUMBER has been reached. Don’t date the rapture, because Jesus said not to. And on a human level, it causes a build-up and then the inevitable let-down. He did not intend for the rapture to be a let-down, but to look for the Blessed Hope with all eagerness. So just say:

Posted in dengue, earthquake, end time, moro bay, prophecy

Dengue fever rears its head in FL, deep-focus quakes in Moro Bay

Posted on by elizabethprata

Jesus said that, “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.” (Luke 21:11).

As I’ve said before, plague’s existence isn’t indicative of an end-time sign. Its spread, type, and location are. We look for patterns that are out of the ordinary in any or all cases. In my prophecy newsletter I sent out yesterday I reported that dengue fever has been popping up all over the Caribbean over the last several weeks.  Dengue fever is common, in season, in some of the Third World Caribbean nations, but not so much in Florida. However the pestilence’s incidences are reaching epidemic proportions rapidly and early. In addition, Floridians are experience it too. It was reported that 5% of the population in Key West and environs came down with it. Now this becomes an unusual pestilence.

1000 exposed to dengue in FL
Five percent of the population of Key West, Florida — more than 1,000 people — have been infected at some point with the dengue virus, government researchers reported on Tuesday.

Dengue fever turns epidemic in Caribbean
Mosquito-borne dengue fever is reaching epidemic stages across the Caribbean, with dozens of deaths reported and health authorities concerned it could get much worse as the rainy season advances.

Dengue cases double over last year
Thousands of health workers and soldiers will destroy mosquito breeding areas across the country this weekend, worried dengue cases are on track to nearly doubled from last year, officials said Friday. At least 27 deaths have been reported, and health officials say more than 5,000 people have been diagnosed so far in 2010 with the virus that causes fever, headaches and extreme joint and muscle pain.

Dengue upsurge, failing health care system blamed
The failure of local health care systems is mostly to blame for the annual rise of dengue cases, Dr Colin Furlong, Head of the Medical Practitioners Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MPATT), said yesterday. With the advent of the rainy season, the country has again begun to see a flood of possible dengue cases, with one confirmed death two weeks ago, that of a 14-year-old boy. In Puerto Rico: Dengue running above epidemic threshold. Now, dengue fever is showing up in Central Florida.

On another topic, earthquakes, the Philippines experienced three deep-focus quakes of high magnitude tonight.

7.4 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
7.6 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
5.4 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
7.3 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
5.3 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
4.9 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

Deep-focus quakes stump scientists because according to seismology, they are not supposed to be able to happen that deep. The Moro Bay quakes were 600 km deep. Scientists call these rare, deep quakes “seismic anomalies”.

Most earthquakes are shallow. They are concentrated no deeper than 20-25 kilometers down. However, a few extremely deep quakes rumble at depths of about 600 kilometers. Geophysicists are really not certain what causes the very deep quakes, because at 640 kilometers rocks are so hot that they flow rather than snap under geological stresses. The more common, shallow earthquakes are generally created when rocks snap and fracture. Since the deep quakes seem to be concentrated in subducted slabs of terrestrial crust that plunge down deep into the earth’s mantle, geophysicists suppose that the increasing heat and pressure applied to the descending slabs may cause “explosive” phase changes in minerals contained in the slabs. Phase changes often involve volume changes that, if sudden, might generate seismic waves. Too, water of hydration in minerals may be explosively turned into vapor. But this is all surmise at present. source

# Lower mantle: 49.2% of Earth’s mass; depth of 650-2,890 kilometers (406 -1,806 miles)
# Transition region: 7.5% of Earth’s mass; depth of 400-650 kilometers (250-406 miles)
# Upper mantle: 10.3% of Earth’s mass; depth of 10-400 kilometers (6 – 250 miles)
# Oceanic crust: 0.099% of Earth’s mass; depth of 0-10 kilometers (0 – 6 miles)
# Continental crust: 0.374% of Earth’s mass; depth of 0-50 kilometers (0 – 31 miles).

Earthquakes with depths greater than 300 km between 1906 and 2004.

1907 Sea of Okhotsk 548km mag 7.7
1922 North Peru 664km mag 7.9
1932 Fiji 560 4.0km mag 7.7
1950 Sea of Okhotsk 339km mag 7.7
1954 Spain 630km mag 7.9
1956 Fiji 436km mag 7.6
1958 Peru–Bolivia 592km mag 7.6
1961 Peru–Bolivia 620km mag 7.7
1963 Peru–Bolivia 573km mag 7.7 
1963 Peru–Bolivia 573km mag 7.7
1970 Colombia 623km mag 8.1
1972 Celebes Sea 332km mag 7.7
1973 North Korea 593km mag 7.8
1994 Bolivia 647km mag 8.3
1994 Fiji 563km mag 7.6
1996 Flores Sea 589km mag 7.9
2002 Fiji 699km mag 7.7
2002 Fiji 631km mag 7.7

So you can see these kind of quakes are rare. To have three such in one night is highly irregular. May He come soon!

Posted in end time, gray whale Israel coast, prophecy

Leviathan: against him, who can stand?

Posted on by elizabethprata

I recently reported on an amazing find in Peru: an animal that matches the biblical description of Leviathan in Job 41. The chapter of Job 41 is quite interesting in itself. God is describing an animal that seems to be familiar to people, Leviathan, with huge and sharp teeth, scales so tight air cannot pass through, (nor a spear), with power so great none dare attempt to catch it. He spends a page and a half describing all the amazing and powerful attributes of this animal, and ends the chapter saying this:

Nothing on earth is his equal—
a creature without fear.
He looks down on all that are haughty
he is king over all that are proud.

God is saying that if man dares not stand against Leviathan, how much less would he stand against a Mighty God? Click here for commentary on the chapter.

Above, the Leviathan well in the Eastern Med. 

I was re-reading Job 41 today and thinking about Israel … and their recent huge natural gas find less than 100 miles off their coast. They named the find “Leviathan.” Lebanon immediately claimed part of the find, and said that Israel was stealing it out from under them. This is typical behavior, but rather than chalk it up to Middle East tensions, here is a wonderful essay that brings the situation to another level, especially in light of prophecy. We know that a series of devastating battles occur at the end time just prior to the 7-year tribulation: Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17), a coalition attacks Israel (Psalm 83) and another coalition attacks Israel (Ezekiel 38-39). The result of all these battles and also unnamed others (Matthew 24:6) is that finally, a peace treaty is signed. It will be a false treaty though, confirmed by the then-unknown Antichrist, who will reveal himself 3.5 years later when He desecrates the newly re-built Third Temple.

In the run-up to these battles and wars, we assume the catalytic event will be on land. After all, Lebanon and Syria have thousands of missiles pointing at Israel now. Israel is rumored to be preparing a strike against Ian’s nuclear facilities. Air space for strike fly-overs has been cleared or denied. Iran has sworn to annihilate Israel. Materiel in the form of missiles and tanks has been constantly in the news in terms of swaps, sales, and technological expertise between and among the Gog-Magog players. However, this essay points out something obvious. Obvious that is, the moment after you read it. The catalyst could start by sea.

In this excellent analysis of the naval situation in the Eastern Med, it is reported,

“Speaking last month on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah focused for the first time on the maritime rather than the ground capabilities of his group, boasting that Hezbollah is ready to ‘wipe out Israel’s navy.’ Hezbollah’s growing interest in developing maritime capabilities should not be taken lightly. It would not be surprising if in the coming months Hezbollah would improve its tactical sophistication at sea through acquisition of new weapons and occasional encounters with Israel’s navy. Upcoming flotillas under the Free Gaza banner would enable Hezbollah fighters to closely observe the Israeli Navy at work and identify its weak spots. Later, as the eastern Mediterranean becomes home to drilling rigs, pipelines and other infrastructure related to Israel’s gas operation Hezbollah could find multiple soft targets to attack. Such attacks could easily escalate into a regional war involving neighboring countries like Syria, Turkey and Iran.

How about that. Makes sense, doesn’t it? As a matter of fact, when the BP well exploded then sank, the internet rumor on that day was that a North Korean sub had fired a missile at it. Oil rigs are soft targets…the pull of natural gas an incredible lure, and the analysis above immediately brings a new front into focus.

We know the end because God in His sovereignty showed us in His Word: there will be a series of wars in the Middle East started by Israel’s ancient enemies that cause the final countdown to this epoch on earth. These enemies have never taken God seriously nor have they taken how seriously He takes attacks on Israel. Hearkening back to Job 41:8-10,

Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle; you will not do it again!
“Behold, your expectation is false;
Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
“No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him;
Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
“No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him;
Who then is he that can stand before Me?

These enemies’ expectations are false. They will dare lay a hand on Israel, and in doing so, they lay a hand on Leviathan. And before Leviathan, who can stand?

Scientists examine the skull of Leviathan, found in the high Peruvian desert.

Posted in end time, pakistan, prophecy

Karachi beaches swamped with dying mulloscs. Every night.

Posted on by elizabethprata

File this one under: weird. Millions of seashells are being deposited nightly on beaches in Pakistan, and there are a myriad of reasons given. One report said that it was a late-reaction to the stirred waters of Cyclone Phet … over a month ago … and though no other cyclone has ever caused this kind of massive tidal deposit before. This report said that it started occurring before Cyclone Phet, and speculated that a toxic chemical has been dumped offshore. This report says that in addition to millions of live seashells washed ashore, a giant sea turtle now numbers among the decaying corpses. Another report states that the situation is getting dire, the shells on the beach are causing an extremely malodorous situation, and are causing injuries to beachgoers. In addition, the trucked-away shells and sand is heavy and an environmental concern

That the shells are washing up is a fact. That no one knows why is also fact. Could be nothing. Could just another one of those unexplained things that are happening in an increasingly strange world.

Residents have repeatedly complained about the smell. “We have tried to keep our doors and windows open,” said Fahad, a neighbourhood resident. “But the smell simply made our lives miserable.”

Posted in end time, prophecy, temple

After 2000 years, FRESH SHOWBREAD is being baked in Israel Today

Posted on by elizabethprata

Also, a major poll shows that more than half the public wants the temple rebuilt. Scroll down for that one

From the Temple Institute NEWS FLASH:
After 2000 years, FRESH SHOWBREAD is being baked in Israel Today

“And you shall take fine flour and bake it [into] twelve loaves. Each loaf shall be [made from] two tenths [of an ephah of flour]. And you place them in two stacks, six in each stack, upon the pure table, before the HaShem. And you shall place pure frankincense alongside each stack, and it shall be a reminder for the bread, a fire offering to the Lord. Each and every Sabbath day, he shall set it up before HaShem [to be there] continuously, from the children of Israel an eternal covenant. And it shall belong to Aharon and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is holy of holies for him, among the fire offerings of the HaShem, an eternal statute.” (Leviticus 24:5-9)

“Following intensive experimentation and in-depth research based on traditional Jewish texts, as well as other ancient sources, experts have succeeded in recreating the showbread that was placed by the priests on the golden showbread table inside the sanctuary of the Holy Temple, bringing Israel and the world one step closer to the renewal of the Divine service. For the first time since the Holy Temple was destroyed by the Romans 1,940 years ago, (in 70 CE), showbread, (lechem panim), has again been baked in the land of Israel. Following intensive experimentation and in-depth research based on traditional Jewish texts, as well as other ancient sources, experts have succeeded in recreating the showbread that was placed by the priests on the golden showbread table inside the sanctuary of the Holy Temple, bringing Israel and the world one step closer to the renewal of the Divine service.”

Much more at link.

The Jews have not clamored for their temple, nor have kept the Laws of sacrifice since the day the temple was destroyed in Jerusalem in 70AD. Jesus said He would not return until the Jewish people acknowledge Him as Savior. That is an event that will occur just after the Abomination of Desolation. Though initially thrilled that the peace treaty the Antichrist makes strong (Dan 9:24-27) included allowing for a Temple and sacrifices, they realize their mistake in thinking him the Messiah when he stands in the Holy Place (temple) and desecrates it by declaring himself God. Then the persecutions begin, and they make the WWII Holocaust look like a picnic. It is in the wilderness, the rose red city of Petra, that the Jews flee to and finally, blessedly, realize that Jesus is the One and praise and accept Him as their Long-Promised Redeemer and Deliverer.

Just as the LORD is lifting His hand of protection in preparation for the closing of one phase of the Age of Man, (Church Age Dispensation) He is also lifting the hardening from the Jews and they are beginning to stir and hunger and thirst for the privilege of worship under the old laws. In the last few years, the Levite priests have been gathered, a school for training has been established, a practice sacrifice has been conducted, and altar built and consecrated, priestly robes and Temple implements made, and now the showbread baked. All they need is a Temple, though the Old Testament states that if they have their altar they can sacrifice anywhere. These heartbeats of the Old Law have been gathering steam over the last two years, and for the first time in centuries now More than half the public wants to see the Temple rebuilt!

“Half the Israeli public wants the Holy Temple to be rebuilt. This is the main finding of a poll commissioned by the Knesset Television Channel and carried out by the Panels Institute. The poll was taken in advance of this Tuesday’s national day of mourning, known as Tisha B’Av, on which the two Holy Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed, 2,000 and 2,500 years ago, respectively.”

Lord is coming soon, it seems!

Posted in atneism, end time, prophecy

De-baptism all the rage, complete with hair dryer

Posted on by elizabethprata

U.S. Atheists Reportedly Using Hair Dryers to ‘De-Baptize’
“American atheists lined up to be “de-baptized” in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program “Nightline.” Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned with a label reading “Reason and Truth.” Kagin believes parents are wrong to baptize their children before they are able to make their own choices, even slamming some religious education as “child abuse.” He said the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents had done.”

Well, this is just so rife with opportunities to share the truth and also to clear up some misconceptions. First, I agree with Mr Kagin that parents are wrong to baptize their children when they are too young to decide for themselves. Infant baptism, sprinkling, is a corruption of the ordinance of baptism. Baptism is what a person does after they have come to believe in Jesus as the Sacrifice for their sins, and after they have repented of their sins and asked Jesus to forgive them. Believing on Jesus is a free choice for all, but no one who is an infant can consciously and purposefully make that choice.

Baptism is an outward expression of the changed life in a person, a change that begins immediately after believing. That’s because the Holy Spirit is sent as a deposit of the guarantee of the eternal life to come, and the person is then sealed. From that moment on, no one can snatch them from God’s hand, they are His forever.

Infant sprinkling is more of a dedication, an outward expression of the parents to demonstrate their intent to live Godly lives for their children and to raise them in the faith. It has no direct bearing on the child as far as salvation goes. You are only saved when you are born again, (John 3:3).

Further, before we all get our backs up, some religious education IS child abuse. No one can say that what happened in Jonestown Guyana, the feeding of cyanide to children in a mass suicide, wasn’t child abuse. There are other cults that also force children into emotional, sexual, or psychological servitude. Islam comes to mind here, here, here, and so on. That last link was a report on Muslim child suicide bombers. Adults inculcate their children into hate, strap an explosive flak jacket on a 9-year-old, and blow him up, and American atheists are worried about some water sprinkled on them 20 years ago? I would hope that mature Americans would have a greater perspective on the world’s real problems.

Left, de-baptism ceremony in 2008.

This report from July 18, 2010 asks, “What if you were baptized when you were an infant and decided to leave the faith later? According to the laws of many Christian religions, your baptism can never be reversed. That doesn’t sit well with many who have left Christianity.” Here’s a newsflash: most people who are baptised were never saved to begin with, including every baby that was ever baptised. If you aren’t saved, you can’t get UN-saved. Why? There is no such thing as an ex-Christian.

This gentleman who runs a blog called “Goosing The Antithesis”, attended a “Freethought Convention: in 2008, and got de-baptised there. He wrote:

“I predict that my “de-baptism” (walking under a hair-dryer) will have precisely the same effect as my actual baptism.”

I predict he is absolutely right. See, the problem is what he wrote here, “I have debated the issue of god-belief for a long time but honestly it was mostly an intellectual exercise for me. … The best proof of that is that no one really believes in God. How could you? It’s impossible to even conceptualize the idea of God, and you can’t believe in what you can’t conceptualize.” He’s right. But you don’t come to faith by understanding God, he is beyond understanding. The mistake many make is denying God because they can’t understand Him.

But do we believe in aerodynamics even though we don’t understand it? That the lumbering, heavier than air jet, will lift off prior to the end of the runway? Yes. Gravity? Yes. Space-time, fourth dimensions? Yes. We can’t conceptualize hyperdimensions but we still believe in them. Therefore this attitude of ‘God is unknowable therefore he doesn’t exist” is backward and tragic.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) And besides, His attributes do exist and can be conceptualized, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Rom 1:20)

You cannot intellectualize God. But you can conceptualize sin. Sin is what keeps us from heaven and is exactly the thing that we need to recognize before coming to a saving relationship with Jesus and subsequent baptism. Sin is something that we see, hear, feel, smell, and touch. It is present, evident, and real. It not only can be conceptualized, it is personal and is the biggest problem in a person’s life. Until and unless a person recognizes his own sin as a rebellion against a Holy God, no amount of water will save them, and no amount of hair drying will either.

Do these people actually think that a hair dryer would reverse the promises of eternal life made by God upon submission to Him in baptism? Really? They must be out of their free thinking minds if they think one iota of an act they perform could or would neutralize anything God has done. But that’s exactly why they go for de-baptism, because to them, baptism is an act of man, it’s man telling God what to do with their gift to Him of being baptized. Instead, to a saved Christian, it is a sacred ordinance and a demonstration of obedient submission to a sovereign and powerful God. But to atheists, baptism centers around themselves, therefore de-baptism centers around themselves. Therefore both acts are null.

The tragedy is that their actions will have a devastating effect on their lives, and I am talking about their lives for all eternity. Life doesn’t end at death. Rejecting God in this outward fashion only pushes these misguided and deceived people further into the lying arms of satan. Satan loves to get people to believe that God does not exist. He loves to tell people that baptism is not anything important. He loves to let people think that when you die, your life ends. It doesn’t. God is real, and He loves each and every person on the earth and every person whoever lived. If you are not with God, you are against him, meaning, with satan. There is no middle ground. Every person going under the hair dryer is actually deluded by the greatest liar that ever lived. Fortunately, since the hair dryer is only a hair dryer, there is always a chance for every person to come out from under the lying influence of satan and walk in the Light with Jesus. As long as you draw breath there is a chance for you to be saved. Stop conceptualizing, and start believing! And if or when they get saved and become born again, the baptism pool will be filled for them, and joy at their submission to Jesus will be sung from one end of heaven to another.

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Guy photographs end of the rainbow

Posted on by elizabethprata

The UK Mirror published this one earlier in July, and made me laugh with delight:

There have been a lot of rainbows lately at the Arctic Circle. Spaceweather.com reports today, “For the past couple of months, sky watchers above the Arctic Circle say they’ve had trouble seeing the Northern Lights. What’s the problem? Apparently, rainbows are getting in the way:

“This bright and beautiful rainbow appeared last night around 00:15 am,” says photographer Therese van Nieuwenhoven of Laukvik, Norway. “It was caused by the midnight sun shining into a rain shower.” Normally, midnight is the time for the aurora borealis, but with the Arctic summer sun on one side of the sky and rainbows on the other, Northern Lights don’t stand a chance. This is how it will be until the sun sets in August.”

Beautiful, aren’t they!? The rainbow is a covenant and a promise from God to His people. In Genesis 9, God said to Noah after the Flood,

“God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. “It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.” (Genesis 9:12-15)

When you see beautiful things like these rainbows and other natural delights, remember that God created all the world and He will renew it for His people after the Tribulation. It will be beautiful beyond imagining. Also remember that His promises are true and perfect. He will return for us, that promise is also sure … He is sitting inside a rainbow right now: “And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.” (Rev 4:3)

“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20) His wonders to behold!

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We are NOT the ones we have been waiting for…

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Christians are waiting for the return of Jesus. The unsaved are waiting for … themselves?

You might remember a famous line in one of Obama’s thousands of speeches. This one was from February of 2008 in Chicago during the 2008 Presidential campaign.

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person…or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

Kind of takes on new meaning now doesn’t it? But did you know that the famous line he delivered was really a Hopi proverb?

This is the last few lines from a Hopi Prophecy and Message from ‘The Elders Oraibi Arizona Hopi Nation‘:
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Obama ripped the line off. So two years on, now that the waiting is over, are we all we’re cracked up to be? Was the wait worth it? No? Lol. Well, these New Age folks are still waiting. They are hoping that the arrival of themselves will occur at the Conscious Convergence beginning today:

“We are, like the Hopi have said, the ones we have been waiting for! We are it.”
Or this person:
“It is time to wake up to the realization that something outside of ourselves is not going to take care of or make something happen. We are the ones.”

Well they are wrong. Something (someONE, rather) is going to make something happen. And that something is judgment, punishment for refusing Him, His Word, His Son, His truth that He is supreme. Christians who are waiting for Him will receive a crown. Unbelievers who are waiting for themselves to arrive will discover that eternity of waiting is a very long time. It is written:

“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 them.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
“Converge” away, but you do so in unconsciousness of what you are doing and allowing into our mind! And at risk of our soul, forever. Turn from the self to look upon the Holy One who forgives, Who is patient! Who loves with a depth that no man can understand! He is Holy and Just, and for the saved, He is Mercy and Grace! As long as you are alive and drawing breath you can still accept that Jesus is the One you have been waiting for!