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Posted in china, end time, prophecy, Russia quit dollar

Russia, China quit dollar

Posted on by elizabethprata

The China People’s Daily published a major announcement yesterday late afternoon: China and Russia agreed to quit using the dollar for bilateral trade. Bilateral Trade Agreements are between on two nations at a time. They are fairly easy to negotiate, and give those two nations favored trading status between each other. I waited until today to find a source other than the State Newspaper of China, and the financial news markets are rife with articles about this important event in world trade and economy. I don’t know all the implications of this, but it can’t be good —

China, Russia quit dollar on bilateral trade
China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday in St. Petersburg Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies “About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies,” Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg.

The Russian ruble already trading on the Chinese exchange, and China’s yuan trade in Moscow is expected to begin in early December. Which is only a week away. The bilateral trade between the two countries is estimated to reach above $50 billion by the end of 2010, according to the Russian government. A major chunk of the trade is transacted in US dollars currently. So again…this cannot be good.

I wonder how this will affect the next biggest economies, the up-and-coming economic powerhouses, India and Brazil.
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Posted in end time, north korea, prophecy

NKorea fires on SKorea in fierce artillery attack; jets scrambled

Posted on by elizabethprata

Closed-circuit television images broadcast on Korean television show the impacts of several artillery shells fired by North Korea Tuesday afternoon.

N. Korea fires artillery towards S. Korean island, official says 
North Korea on Tuesday fired several rounds of artillery towards South Korean waters and an island near the tense west sea border, the South’s military said. The North’s artillery shells fell at 2:34 p.m. in the South’s waters off the island of Yeonpyeong, some of them landing directly on the island, said Col. Lee Bung-woo, spokesman at the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The South’s military responded with its artillery firing.

Island #3 is the one NK fired upon

“North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing two soldiers, in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbor since the Korean War ended in 1953.  North Korea shells South in fiercest barrage in decades:  The barrage — the South fired back and sent a fighter jet to the area — was close to a disputed maritime border on the west of the divided peninsula and the scene of deadly clashes in the past. South Korea was conducting military drills in the area at the time but said it had not been firing at the North. The attack came as the reclusive North, and its ally China, presses regional powers to return to negotiations on its nuclear weapons program and revelations at the weekend Pyongyang is fast developing another source of material to make atomic bombs.”

Still is from S Korean news footage

AF chief Schwartz: Latest North Korea “provocation” means that the US government should discuss reintroduction of nukes to Korean peninsula. However, “The United States says it is not moving additional military power into South Korea following artillery attack by North Korea.” Obama said it is “too soon to tell.” I really would like to know what the Pentagon recommended, though.

Other nations are spooked by the sudden attack. “Indonesia has expressed deep concern over the armed clash between North Korea and South Korea on Yeonpyeong island that has claimed lives. The term “WWIII” has come up more than once this morning from many quarters on various forums. It is indicative of the tensions we feel these days. As Bonnie Tyler said in her 80’s song, “We’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks.”
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The Goodness of the Lord

Posted on by elizabethprata

“The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?” (Ps 27:1)

There’s nothing like the Psalms for comfort. I first met the Lord as Light, and I gravitate to all the metaphors of Him as Light. Though to be sure, He IS the Light, and not just metaphorically on this side of earth. He will soon literally provide the only illumination: “The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.” (Rev 21:23)

In Psalm 27, David’s unwavering confidence in the LORD in times of trouble or fear is a good example to us today. I awoke this morning to news that heavy fighting in occurring at the border of North and South Korea, and this on the heels of unexpected and unwelcome news this week that NK has an advanced nuke facility. Jesus told us that the run-up to the Tribulation would be fraught with wars and rumors of wars, and nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom. (Mt 24:6-7). These signs are even prior to the Second Seal judgment being unleashed which will take peace from the earth. (Rev 6:3-4)

I awoke to unwelcome news that food inflation is practically runaway. I didn’t make this headline up from Yahoo Finance or rewrite it: “Why You Should Be “Extremely Scared” by China’s Food Price Inflation“. In the US, food stamp usage has climbed 60% since 2007. And this is even prior to the unleashing of the Third Seal Judgment which depicts food inflation (and currency devaluing) (Rev 6:5-6). There is plenty of news to worry about, I post enough of it here and on my emailed prophecy newsletter. But I do not worry.

“For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.” (Ps 27:5). We will be hidden in His tabernacle, when the Day of Trouble arises, we will be with Him in heaven. David was possibly referring to the incident in 2 Ki. 11:3 when Athaliah killed all the members of the royal family but Joash was hidden for six years. Even if the mention is David’s literal recollection of how the LORD protects His own, it also has a future meaning. We will be in His tabernacle when the Day of Trouble comes. The Tribulation as it is known to Gentiles is known as The Time of Jacob’s Trouble to the Jews, in Jeremiah 30:7. “Alas! for that Day is Great, so that none is like it: it is even the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, but he shall be Saved out of it.”

I do not worry.

“I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” (Ps 27:13-14).

I am confident. I’m confident of His promises that we are not reserved for wrath (1 Thess 5:9) but are cleansed and righteous in His eyes. (Heb 10:14). I see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, in His creation:

 

 

I see the goodness of the Lord in the quiet companionship of men:

I see the goodness of the Lord in one helping a child:

I see the goodness of the Lord in His warnings to us, because through them, sometimes repentance comes, and salvation:

He is my Light! And because I am in His Light, I can see where I am going. He responds to our cry, “Teach me your way, LORD; lead me in a straight path.” Walk in His ways, and you will see the path made straight. You will be lifted up on the Day of Trouble. You will be above and away from your enemies, including that old enemy: sin. The news is dire and the world is ending, yet “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” He soon comes!
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The Shadow Scholar speaks: term paper mills are flourishing

Posted on by elizabethprata

You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’ ” (Mark 10:19)

Jesus was speaking to the Rich Young Man who had fallen at Jesus feet and had asked “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” The answer in short is to have faith in Jesus’ work on the cross, and repent of your sins, including cheating, lying, and defrauding. However, today’s ethical climate is one rife with cheating, lying, and defrauding. Here is one example: cheating in the education business.

Above photo from an actual Academic Writing Service ad

The Chronicle Review of Higher education received a query from and then executed an extensive email interview with someone only named The Shadow Scholar. The Chronicle opened their article thus: “Ed Dante is a pseudonym for a writer who lives on the East Coast. Through a literary agent, he approached The Chronicle wanting to tell the story of how he makes a living writing papers for a custom-essay company and to describe the extent of student cheating he has observed. In the course of editing his article, The Chronicle reviewed correspondence Dante had with clients and some of the papers he had been paid to write.”

The Shadow Scholar “Ed Dante” wrote: “I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students. I’ve worked there full time since 2004. On any day of the academic year, I am working on upward of 20 assignments. In the midst of this great recession, business is booming. At busy times, during midterms and finals, my company’s staff of roughly 50 writers is not large enough to satisfy the demands of students who will pay for our work and claim it as their own. … I will make roughly $66,000 this year. Not a king’s ransom, but higher than what many actual educators are paid. … Of course, I know you are aware that cheating occurs. But you have no idea how deeply this kind of cheating penetrates the academic system, much less how to stop it. Last summer The New York Times reported that 61 percent of undergraduates have admitted to some form of cheating on assignments and exams. … [P]art of my job is to be whatever my clients want me to be. I say yes when I am asked if I have a Ph.D. in sociology. I say yes when I am asked if I have professional training in industrial/organizational psychology. I say yes when asked if I have ever designed a perpetual-motion-powered time machine and documented my efforts in a peer-reviewed journal.”

This industry of hiring others to complete your work and passing it off as your own, is not limited to higher education. A recent roman a clef titled “Schooled” was written by a NYC upper crust teacher/tutor named Anisha Lakhani. Until 2006 Anisha Lakhani taught English at the Dalton School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she also chaired the Middle School English Department. Ms. Lakhani received both her B.A. and her M.A. degrees from Columbia University. In other words she walked the walk and she knew the ropes. In 2006 she quit to write her book, fictionalized, but thinly. The Amazon.com summary states:

Schooled “takes yet another peek into the gilded lives of Manhattan’s über-rich. Schooled is about recent Ivy League graduate Anna Taggert, who lands her dream job teaching at Langdon Hall School, an oh-so-exclusive Upper East Side private school (Ms. Lakhani taught English at Dalton). Anna is disturbed to find out that the majority of her students get by through the use of expensive private tutors—who basically do the work for them—until she’s lured into taking advantage of the lucrative benefits herself.”

In the higher education cheating mill article, The Shadow Scholar said not only that he made his money by defrauding colleges and universities, but that eventually he realized that he had to become a liar himself in order to lure and retain clients, by presenting himself with credentials that he had not earned. He rationalized this by saying at least his work environment was not a cubicle, and that he made decent money.

In the Schooled novel, the author was tempted beyond her ability and unable to withstand the money lure, and eventually succumbed to writing papers for clients herself. She knew it was wrong, but she did it anyway, rationalizing all the way. The interesting thing about this book is the incremental way the author showed her sliding further and further into the evil pit of the sin of defrauding.

As for the educational system, in The Shadow Scholar article, he includes snippets of correspondence with his clients. “did u get the sorce I send please where you are now? Desprit to pass spring projict.”” “where u are can you get my messages? Please I pay a lot and dont have ao to faile I strated to get very worry.”

Note, that this correspondence is from a college business student in which English is her first language.

Paul wrote that in the last days “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:1-7)

Always learning, yet never able to come to knowledge of the truth. In one regard, these students are always in the cycle of learning yet never end up knowing anything – because they refuse to be ethical and mentally apply themselves. In other regard, they are always seeking the truth but in failing to acknowledge Jesus, will not find it.

The students who cheat and the tutors/ writers who defraud are part of a vicious cycle of end time sinful behavior. Their lives are not profitable for the Kingdom. They pile up treasure but are losing their lives.

And on a personal note, if you have recently been wondering why America is becoming a nation of childish know-nothings, whiners, and lazy butts, now you know.
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Devil attack at Trinidad & Tobago, follow up

Posted on by elizabethprata

On November 16 I reported (HERE) that an incident had occurred in an elementary school the previous week, in Trinidad & Tobago. Seventeen girls from the upper grades seemed to become suddenly demon-possessed. They exhibited behaviors such as the Gadarene demoniac had, and were en masse rushed to the hospital. Please read at the link for the initial story and background. But the first reporting is never the whole story. Stories unfold, as new details emerge. And new details have emerged as this incident becomes more fully known.

Here is one follow up to the original story-

Pupils collapse; parents want exorcist
“More than two dozen secondary school pupils were being treated at hospital last night, after they collapsed in their classrooms. And their parents are convinced that the teenagers, all girls, are possessed by demons and are pleading for an exorcist to intervene. The pupils were taken to the San Fernando General Hospital and Princes Town District Hospital but medical experts were unable to say what caused their children to scream and then collapse. “The children came in here, screaming. They shouting that a fireman running them down and they running around the wards. We are trying do simple tests, like blood pressure readings, and the machines are going crazy. I don’t know what is happening,” a nurse said.”

Hmmm. The school was in a panic. When transported to the hospital, the hospital went crazy. The machines used to test the girls were going crazy. Empirical data. However, psychiatrists are not convinced:

Mass hysteria, not demon attack, say mental health experts
“Mental health experts have dismissed claims of supernatural activity at the Moruga Secondary School where pupils reported being “attacked” by an unseen force yesterday and on Wednesday. Psychiatrist Dr Hari Maharajh said the “demon attack” appeared to be a case of mass hysteria. A similar opinion was given by consultant psychiatrist at the St Ann’s Mental Hospital Dr Iqbal Ghany.”

That prompted a reader to send a letter stating his opinion:

Hysteria or demons, Trinidad and Tobago wants to know
“Many faiths (Christianity, Islam and others) teach as doctrine the existence of unseen beings, albeit by differing names (ie jinn in Islam, spirits in Christianity). What is disappointing but not surprising, however, is that some intellectuals (self-proclaimed or degree-qualified, it doesn’t really matter) in our society seek to explain these strange occurrences from a psychological/scientific perspective. Their idea is what cannot be proven through the basic human senses cannot exist. There’s no denial this may be the case sometimes, but when there’s overwhelming opposing factors, one has to think twice. Qualified psychiatrists are dismissing the event as merely episodes of hysteria and copycat behaviour (psychological illnesses, not demons). We ask however, how will they explain to the many eyewitnesses (students, teachers, even MTS security guards) who saw unimaginable feats of strength (confirmed report), gravity defying leaps, speech in tongues and suicidal whispers (reported by a victim)?”

Which in turn prompted another reader to send in his opinion:

Demon possession? get real, people
“The report of female students at a high school in south Trinidad simultaneously stricken by a mysterious illness, which had them fainting and flailing on the ground screaming, is rightfully a cause of great concern and fright for many. Given that T&T is a land ruled by the organised superstition we call religion, there is now the typical talk of demon possession, pagan devilry and spiritual forces at work in the school. Similar events like this have been recorded throughout history but it is only now they can be observed and scrutinised with the light of science and reason…”

People who believe and people who do not believe will go on back and forth ad nauseum. However, in researching the follow-up, one sentence in one of the articles alerted me to the true status of this incident. It convinced me it is a true case of demonic possession. Aside from the men in authority at the school observing that the girls were not faking and called EMTs, aside from the hospital workers trained to observe symptoms and deciding how to act accordingly, aside from the fact that the machines were “going crazy”, there is something embedded in the statement one parent made that prompted me to search further:

It turns out that Hindu Pandit Bramdeo Maharaj, former president of the Inter-Religious Organisation, had conducted a Hindu celebration at the class. One parent believes the demons were released during the Divali pooja (Hindu prayer) at the school. “I think the man (pundit) did something wrong and released bad spirits. I think the spirits are looking for souls, but I know what to do and they not getting my child,” he said.” His daughter, age 16, was being treated at the San Fernando General Hospital. “She is conscious and looks good. I heard that she had to be strapped down because she was uncontrollable. [italics mine].

Divali, or Diwali, is short for Deepawali, a pagan Hindi festival celebrating false deities. A pandit is a scholar, a teacher, particularly one skilled in Sanskrit and Hindu law, religion, music or philosophy. The English loan word pundit is derived from it. The background to the festival is that Narakasura, a demon, ruled the kingdom of Pradyoshapuram. Under his rule, the villagers suffered much hardship as the demon tortured the people and kidnapped the women to be imprisoned in his palace. Seeing his wickedness, Lord Khrishna set out to destroy the demon and the day Narakasura died was celebrated as Deepavali, the triumph of good over evil. Diwali commemorates the return of Lord Rama, along with Sita and Lakshman, from his fourteen-year-long exile and vanquishing the demon-king Ravana. In joyous celebration of the return of their king, the people of Ayodhya, the Capital of Rama, illuminated the kingdom with earthen diyas (oil lamps) and burst crackers.

The class was doing a pooja (puja) which is the act of showing reverence to a god, a spirit, or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals. An essential part of puja for the Hindu devotee is making a spiritual connection with the divine. Most often that contact is facilitated through an object. Shortly afterward the prayer, the girl called her father and mentioned that the classmates were “acting strangely.” When the father called his daughter back a little later, he was told she had been or was being transported to the hospital.

So! All becomes clear! We know that there is NO “connection with the divine” aside from walking in faith with the One True God. If people were making connections with the divine, invoking gods, or otherwise worshiping something other than Lord Christ, they were in fact consorting with demons.

If you ask a demon to come, he will. They seek lives. In the story from Mark, many of them possessed the man from Gesara. He lived in torment for years as the demons wrought havoc and violence with impunity. It got so bad that no one would even pass that way any more. When Jesus arrived, the demons begged Him not to send them from the area, but instead, at least, allow them to inhabit a body, any body, such as begging to be sent into the herd of pigs nearby. They want lives, as the parent said, and this is true. Satan comes to steal and destroy.

MARK 1:39 – “And He went through all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and expelling the demons.”

If you are a Christian reading this who disbelieves that demonic possession can occur today, ask yourself why you disbelieve. Prior to the bible’s recording of Jesus expelling demons, no record exists of such expelling. That is because ONLY JESUS has that power. Then Jesus came and He demonstrated His power over them by casting them from bodies and locations. In Matthew 10:7-8 He gave the Apostles the power to cast out demons, again as a sign of who He is and that His power has now come to earth. (For the record, I believe only the Apostles had the power to expel demons, a sign that expired upon their death. My interpretation.) We are repeatedly told in the bible that the kingdom of satan is on the earth and its near environs (Eph 2:2; Job 1:7; Mt 4:8-9). Demons exist and they want you. Inviting them in through false gods is one easy way to enter. “When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first.” (Luke 11:24-26). The are aware, have intent, and will return, if your house is not filled with the Holy Spirit!

Those girls need prayer. They would not have been entered if they had been filled with the Spirit. Pray that they are convicted of their deeds (worshiping false gods for one) and that they will allow the Spirit of the One True God to fill their house, so that no spirit may ever enter again!
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Posted in don't touch my junk, end time, mark of the beast, prophecy

The coming oppression (it’s HERE)

Posted on by elizabethprata

“Don’t tase me, bro.” You might remember that colorful and oft-repeated phrase. Wikipedia describes:

“On September 17, 2007, U.S. Senator John Kerry addressed a Constitution Day forum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which was organized by the ACCENT Speakers Bureau, an agency of the university’s student government. Initially allowed to ask questions after the close of the question period, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate mass communication student, was subsequently removed from the forum by university police. During the struggle to arrest Meyer, one of the officers drive stunned him with a Taser.” Several videos of the episode were then posted on the Internet. The most viewed version of the video, shot by Kyle Mitchell of The Gainesville Sun, has more than 5.1 million views on YouTube as of October 2010.[1] The New Oxford American Dictionary listed “tase/taze” as one of the words of the year for 2007, popularized by the widespread use of the phrase “Don’t tase me, bro!” The Yale Book of Quotations designated the same quote as the most memorable quote of 2007.”

Though there are always sides to take in any one incident, Myers’ arrest did spark a national debate, ignited because of the demonstrably increased use by police of tasers. Tasers are an elecro-shock device designed to override the normal control of muscles. They hurt. Recipients often scream. They immediately render the victim immobile. They are used by police to subdue fleeing, belligerent, or potentially dangerous subjects. Or in theory, at least. Unarmed citizens such as the 86-year-old bedridden grandmother have been tased. Or the 56-year-old mentally ill woman who was tasered for refusing to move. Or Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr., 24, who died after being jolted with a Taser by police when they responded to a call that he was causing a disturbance outside his family’s home on April 18. The first Taser shot was used to deliver 50,000 volts of electricity for 49 seconds, which is substantially longer than the standard five seconds. After the extended shock, Jacobs was shocked a second time for five more seconds.

After incidents like these (and many others) the nation has become increasingly upset at the police aggression, infringement on civil liberties, and brutality. (This is not an indictment of all police officers. Many are good and appropriately protective). A divide between regular citizenry and those in law authority having begun at Kent State…or Civil Rights marches, or at some point at the Revolutionary War…whenever it began, with the advent of tasers, the divide between those in authority with weapons and unarmed citizens widened.

Then came “Don’t touch my junk.”

A recent decision by the hired government agency Transportation Security Administration to fully pat-down all body areas of all fliers (who do not choose to endure a high-radiation naked body scanner, that is) has ignited the firestorm further.

John Tyner, on his way to So. Dakota to visit his father-in-law and do some pheasant hunting,  saw what was going on in the San Diego airport and turned on his cell phone video as he went through security. A supervisor is heard re-explaining the groin check process to Tyner then adding “If you’re not comfortable with that, we can escort you back out and you don’t have to fly today.” Tyner responded “OK, I don’t understand how a sexual assault can be made a condition of my flying.” “This is not considered a sexual assault,” replied the supervisor, calmly. “It would be if you were not the government,” said Tyner. He said, “”You touch my junk and I’m going to have you arrested.”

Full body pat-downs perpetrated by TSA at airports have occurred against a cancer survivor who was told to remove her prosthetic breast. Against a woman with two artificial knees. Against a screaming three-year old who yelled “STOP TOUCHING ME.”

The government’s intrusion on our lives has become intolerable. The government of the people, by the people, and for the people is now against the people. It dips its hands into private areas of our lives with such regularity that we have (almost) become inured to it. It touches our paychecks. It peeps into our streets with video, our workplaces. It spies on our civic lives, our computers, and our child rearing practices. Now it has its hands literally on our bodies. And on our children. The TSA agent responded to Tyner’s conversation thus:

“By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights.”

Flying is voluntary. It is not a necessity, it is a privilege and a convenience. I wrote about my own experience with pat-downs here. I opted out of the whole airport-security-government hands on my body thing in 2006. But the very idea that government has its hands ON our body in our private areas is revolting. It is something that many people are simply calling sexual assault.

But you ain’t seen nothing yet.

If you think government is intrusive now, the coming antichrist will be much worse. His global totalitarian regime will strip you of all you need to survive and not only put government’s hands on you, but IN you. On behalf of the antichrist, the False Prophet will “force everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.” (Rev 13:16-17). At the hands of the government, at some center or rehabilitation camp, or ‘re-education facility’, you will have to make the choice on whether to worship the beast (the antichrist) and in so choosing, will display that choice by an embedded mark on or in your body. Some have speculated that it will be a tattoo, or a bar code, or a chip like we actually have now that is embedded in the hand or the chest. In any case, you can take the mark. Or you can be beheaded. The False prophet will “cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.” (Rev 13:15b; Rev 20:4)

You will have a choice then, but so you have a choice today. You can accept Jesus today. In the case of choosing to accept Jesus as your Savior, the choice is infinitely better than the one in which the False Prophet forces you to worship the Beast. With Jesus you get an eternity of joy, peace, and good and fruitful work for Him. With the Beast you only receive death and an eternity apart from Jesus. But make the choice soon, because time is growing short.

Meanwhile, the government’s oppression of the people is so intrusive, so palpable, so repugnant, that it seems that the Mark may not be far behind. In any case, the prophesied totalitarian regime of the antichrist will come. It will make the days of TSA pat-downs seem like a pleasant picnic.
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Bill Nye collapses, audience tweets instead of helps

Posted on by elizabethprata

You won’t believe this. Or maybe you will:

“Last night in front of an audience of hundreds at a presentation at the University of Southern California, TV personality Bill Nye — popularly known as the “Science Guy” — collapsed midsentence as he walked toward a podium. Early indications are that Nye is OK, but what’s odd about the incident isn’t so much Nye’s slight health setback as the crowd’s reaction. Or, more precisely, its nonreaction, according to several accounts. It appears that the students in attendance, rather than getting up from their seats to rush to Nye’s aid, instead pulled out their mobile devices to post information about Nye’s loss of consciousness. Alastair Fairbanks, a USC senior in attendance for Nye’s presentation, told the Los Angeles Times that “nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed — that just perplexed me beyond reason.” The student added, “Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening.”

A man collapses in front of hundreds of people and NO ONE gets up to help. They just sit there, anxious to be the first to get it on their twitter status. UGH!

We are wicked. We are born wicked, we live wicked, and we die. Those that recognize their wickedness and repented before death will live with Jesus and those that didn’t, won’t. But the world is fallen and as the world grows older, it falls more and more into its wickedness with each passing day. All of time since Eden has been racing toward THIS moment, the imminence of His second coming. He comes because of the total depravity of man, and a world of cold-hearted people, the natural conclusion to our depravity. He will return to wipe out wickedness from the earth. Then He will wipe out the earth, and make a new one.

Until the moment He appears, the world will quickly descend into a deep wickedness that can barely be fathomed, let alone tolerated. Jesus said that the time right before His coming would be like the Days of Noah (Mt 24:37) and in the days of Noah, “The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.” That wickedness was why He sent the flood. And in the days right before the judgment coming soon upon all mockers and scoffers and unrepentant, will again be completely wicked. He said, “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.” (Mt 24:12)

Well, lawlessness is increased and people’s love has grown cold. That is the only way to state it, when a man lays moaning before hundreds, and they coldly text their friends that a man is moaning in front of them.

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‘Devil attack’ at school in Trinidad & Tobago

Posted on by elizabethprata

I did a follow up here, with some more information that proved to be very interesting.

Trinidad & Tobago:
Panic after ‘Devil attack’ at school
“Panic broke out at the Moruga Composite School yesterday as 17 female students fell mysteriously ill and began rolling on the ground, hissing and blabbering in a strange tongue, after suffering bouts of nausea and headaches. Two of the students reportedly tried to throw themselves off a railing and had to be physically restrained, triggering fears of a possible demon attack. The drama started during the lunch hour in the Form One block and quickly spread to other areas. Form Five student Kern Mollineau, who attends the Lighthouse Tabernacle Church, said he got worried when the girls’ eyes began rolling up in their heads and they began beating up on the ground. With the assistance of several other students and teachers, the pupils were taken to the multi-purpose hall where some of them fell into a semi-conscious state.”

“Mollineau recalled: “One girl was blabbering as if in a strange language. I could not understand what she was saying. “It was sounding like ‘shebbaberbebeb shhhhee.’ The girls were unusually strong. We had to hold them down so that they will not hurt themselves. “The teachers were right there. I get a kick in my face when one of the girls started beating up on the floor. Many of them had bruises.” Mollineau claimed he actually communicated with the “devil which had possessed the girl. “I asked the Devil what he wanted with the girls and the voice said he wanted a life. He kept saying to send the girls in the toilet and to leave them alone,” Mollineau claimed.”

“Roman Catholic priests, as well as pastors from nearby churches, including Josephine Charles, Deborah Charles and Pastor Gordon, visited the school and began showering the children with holy water and prayers. Six ambulances arrived at the school accompanied by police teams from the Moruga and St Mary’s Police Post. A party of fire officers from the Princes Town Fire Station, led by acting Assistant Divisional Fire Officer Ramdeo Boodoo visited the school and began conducting several tests on the surroundings to determine the cause of the problem. Boodoo said there was nothing in the environment to trigger fainting spells, nausea and headaches.”

“A source at the school confirmed that all 17 pupils were taken to the Princes Town Health Facility where they were medically examined. The other students were sent home at 2 pm. Responding yesterday, Minister in the Ministry of Education Clifton de Coteau said he was aware that pupils had to be taken for medical attention. De Coteau said Student Support Service officials were sent to the school and students were expected to receive counselling. A statement from the Ministry of Education said the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) made maxi taxis available to the school to assist the Office for Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) which provided additional ambulances.”

A similar incident occurred recently.  In France, west of Paris, a group jumped out of a window to escape the presence of the devil. The group had been holding a seance. A baby died in the fall from the window.

In July, the village of Edey in Barbados suffered what locals call a demonic attack. In an article titled,  ‘Demons’ step in, it is reported “RESIDENTS of Edey Village, Christ Church, called on church leaders to exorcise what they believe to be demonic forces that have invaded the small, close-knit neighbourhood. For the past two weeks, residents have witnessed uncanny and unexplained events which led them to believe that evil forces had invaded the community. While many could not describe what the woman actually saw, they said she immediately started speaking in a foreign tongue and became delirious. Her family, well- respected members of the community, quickly summoned two church leaders and a group of “prayer warriors” to their home. The church group spent two days praying around the young woman. A member of the church group told the SATURDAY SUN that the voice coming from her was not her own, but that of an old man. “We prayed for two days asking God to spread the blood of Jesus on the young woman and to strike out the demon. After much praying on the second day we heard her say ‘thank you Jesus’ and the demon came out of her body and she fell limp”. However, another young woman, who lived next door, also fell victim to the demonic forces. “She was sitting on a chair in her living room when all of a sudden she was lifted high into the air and thrown outside in her backyard. She fell hard on the ground and started speaking in a foreign tongue,” a source said. The church group also prayed fervently for this second woman. “By the time we were finished praying for her she had lost a considerable amount of weight and the demon left her body,” the source continued. But sources say at least four more people in the district were affected and, as a result, a street prayer session was organised for Edey Village last Tuesday night. The Saturday SUN visited the area and witnessed residents and members of the church walking through the small district singing and praying for almost three hours.”

The New Testament is full of instances of demonic possession. In Matthew 17:14-20 we read, “When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.” “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

The Gadarene demoniac was so strong he broke the chains the townspeople keep him in, and he was so loud his screaming could be heard for quite a distance. (Mark 5:2-20). As John MacArthur said in his most recent sermon, we read so often of demon possession in the NT because the presence of Jesus drew them out. Demons were always present on the earth, but they hate the light: “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.” So in Jesus’ day and the Apostles’ day they were seen because the light shone so brightly.

Those who were possessed in the article above demonstrated similar behaviors as some of the demonic possessions described in the bible. I am not saying that the Trinidad & Tobago demonic possessions were genuine or that they were not genuine, but demons exist, they possess, and their time is coming.
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