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Bedbugs biting Americans from coast to coast

Posted on by elizabethprata

“Numbers of bed bugs are doubling each year in the US, UK, and Europe. Did you know that bed bugs Bite?”

Bedbugs are back?! Why are bedbugs back? What does it mean? More on that in a minute, but first, the news:

Bedbugs have been plaguing people all across the United States lately. Thought of as a quaint and bygone problem of the Middle Ages, bedbugs are an insect that has been around for centuries, and carry the stigma of an unclean house. Since the bedbug infestation has shown up in Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, in NYC fru-fru stores such as Bloomingdale’s, and in Fifth Avenue apartments and dorm rooms of Ivy League Colleges and private schools, the stigma is particularly hard on the social upper crust to get over.

For some reason, there has been a huge surge in bedbug problems all across America over the last year or so, but it has been only the last few months that the outcry has been significant. Pest control places can’t keep up. In a MyFox NY report we read that “Action Pest Control has been working night and day to rid clients of the pests. “The calls have just been out of control,” APC president John Russell said.”

The infestation has been reported in Maine, where one case closed a school, and businesses report a surge in frantic requests just as in New York City.

In the American Midwest, the Resurgence of an age-old pest is driving Chicago buggy. In the south, in Georgia, “Bedbugs, on a comeback, pester locals.” In Virginia, “hotel chains, private residences and at least one apartment building have had recent reports of the pests” and in Baltimore, MD  we are reminded us that bed bugs are “a pest once nearly eradicated in the United States. The recent comeback has left exterminators scratching their heads and Americans scratching everything else.”

I’ll be the first to say that I don’t know what a bedbug outbreak means. At least from an end time standpoint, the bedbug issue isn’t one that currently seems to be a precursor to Luke 21:11, “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. When we think of pestilences, or plagues, we normally think of the usual plagues: locusts, bubonic, or the flu. That’s what pestilences are. Definitions on the web range from a “usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague,” “any epidemic disease with a high death rate.” Bed bugs do not qualify as a pestilential plague, unless, of course, you are the person being bitten every night.

From a psychological point of view, the one being bitten experiences all sorts of reactions. We read of Dana Strong in Chicago, who “lies awake every night wondering if bedbugs are crawling up her bed and onto her sheets. She scratches imaginary bites and tosses and turns on her new mattress, which has a plastic cover to keep out the bloodsucking parasites. “It’s horrible,” Strong said. “I haven’t slept in weeks.” Or of Deirdre Strout in Portland Maine who “was about to inspect an apartment for bedbugs Monday afternoon when a woman who was passing by saw Strout’s Atlantic Pest Solutions van, stopped the car and jumped out. The woman, bags under her eyes from lack of sleep, pleaded with Strout to help her get rid of her own bedbug infestation. It’s like that all day long, Strout said. “Portland’s got a heck of a pocket going,”…

People jumping out of their cars to accost Pest Control workers and begging for help to rid their mattress of the bloodsucking bite-monger? Pretty severe. I imagine a nation of zombie-people plagued with no sleep, irritable, creeped out by blood sucking bugs crawling over them as they lay down on infested mattresses. The psychological effects of being crawled over and feasted upon are insidious, according to this article, based on a study by the Mayo Clinic:

“Bedbug victims can find the mental effects of infestation more insidious and longer-lasting than the physical ones. Along with her three college roommates, Megan McNeil of North Cambridge, Mass., went through the same arduous process Alyssa did to rid their four-bedroom apartment of bedbugs last month. “Our exterminator was great. He definitely talked me down from the ledge,” said McNeil, 23, who graduated from Emerson College, near Boston, last spring. “I think the worst damage bedbugs do is psychological. You will never look at hotel rooms or secondhand furniture the same way again.”

But God is creative and His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. He is 19 million steps ahead of us and some how, some way, the bedbug infestation will combine with something else down the road. Or not, maybe it is just something small but significantly aggravating enough to remind us that we do not control nature, nor are we separate from it, that He is in control. One other definition of pestilences is, “a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of” and in that case, bed bugs definitely qualify!

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College co-ed ranks her many lovers, her report escapes to the internet

Posted on by elizabethprata

The world is getting more immoral every day. We all know that. The generation that decried women beach-going in public at all in the 1900s thought that the immorality couldn’t get any worse. The generation that saw dresses rise above the knee in the 1920’s thought that the immorality couldn’t get any worse. The generation that saw bikinis arrive in the 1940s thought that the immorality couldn’t get any worse. The generation that saw free love and communes with various sex partners in the 1960s thought that the immorality couldn’t get any worse. The generation that saw homosexuality come out to public acceptance and gay high officials elected to represent us in the 1980s thought that the immorality couldn’t get any worse.

Well, it’s worse. A LOT worse. It is not only the actions of people getting more publicly immoral, but the lack of shame that is offensive. Some of these kind of acts are even celebrated.

I’m thinking of the unfortunate Duke University senior who slept her way through college and then made a comprehensive report ranking and describing her encounters. Though she only emailed it to three of her friends, it soon appeared on websites across the globe.

Sex list rating female university student’s lovers becomes internet sensation
List written in form of PowerPoint ranks 13 men she slept with
“Karen Owen made the ‘unofficial senior thesis’ on her sex life with athletes at Duke University in North Carolina and originally emailed it to three of her friends. But the project spread to the university’s entire 14,000 student body and from there on to websites across the globe. In the list, written in the form of a 42-slide PowerPoint presentation, Miss Owen rates 13 of the men she slept with – mainly from the university lacrosse team – out of 10 and created a bar graph charting their sexual prowess. The project leaves little to the imagination and describes her sexual encounters in the university library during finals week, showers, on a balcony, in cars and while drunk.In one of the entries, she said: ‘In my blackout state, still managed to crawl into bed with a Duke athlete.’ “

There are so many sad things to ponder in this one instance of immorality. Her promiscuity. Her drunkenness. Her self-absorption (making a 42-page power point slide based on comprehensive notes is a LOT of self-absorption pondering one’s pleasure). And instances like Ms Owen’s immoral lifestyle display are ongoing in every corner of the globe every minute of the day. How terrible are the times! They are terrible not only for us who have to watch the destruction of lives and hearts by this immoral behavior, but worse, we know that such actions hurt themselves. God said, “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. (1 Cor 6:18)”

God has a standard of morality to which He expects adherence. Sexual activity before marriage is a sin, sexual activity outside of marriage while married is a sin, sexual activity with same-sex partners is a sin at any time, and certainly drunkenness, lewdness, gossip, and impropriety are addressed in the bible also.

Some might say that those were ancient times that the bible was written and since culture has changed, we have to get with the program and allow that such standards and godly expectations are outdated. Not at all. Do you know why that argument holds NO water? Because God is unchanging. Since He is unchanging, therefore His standards for morality are unchanging. Cultures change, yes, but His standards do not. “I the Lord do not change.” (Mal.3:6). “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8).

Some might say that those were Old Testament times and when the New Testament came, things were different. On the contrary. The NT speaks of morality often, specifically sexual immorality. There were even times when the Apostles referred to Old Testament judgments for immorality that were going to be repeated in the future. Peter said in 2 Pet 2:6 “if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;”

In other places in the New Testament it is written of immorality:

  • For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person–such a man is an idolater–has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. (Ephesians 5:5)
  • See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. (Hebrews 12:16)
  • Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood…(Revelation 22:15). 
  • And also in 1 Cor 5:9; Prov 6:24;  1 Cor 6:9; 1 Thess 4:7; and so on.

It is clear that Ms Owen’s behavior (and others who are just as immoral) are far from striving to keep God’s standards. We have free will while on earth to do as we want, but God judges all behavior. He will judge Ms Owen and others for failure to keep His holy standards in mind or at least repent of their failures. “for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” (Hebrews 13:4b)

Folks these days do not like to think that they will be judged. They like to think that they can do what they want with no consequence. But there are consequences and there is judgment. How soon that judgment will  come only God knows, but it is coming. Though I opened this essay with a short history lesson on how each generation thinks theirs has sunk the lowest, I do believe ours is the generation that Jesus was speaking of when He said in Matthew 24:37, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” From Genesis 6:5 we know that the condition of the world in the days of Noah was evil and men’s thoughts were only of evil continually. Just imagine how evil and immoral the world will be after the Holy Spirit in His restraining ministry leaves the earth at the rapture. (2 Thess 2:7)

Ms Owen said, “Speaking after it was made public, she told The News Of Today: ‘I regret it with all my heart. I would never intentionally hurt the people that are mentioned on that.’ Well I’m glad she regrets it and I’m glad she recognized that people got hurt. I hope that someday she repents, not just regrets, and she comes to the realization that fleeing toward God’s standards will yield her the best of all things and most important, that she will no longer be hurting herself.

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UK primary school holds UFO drill…

Posted on by elizabethprata

Not five minutes after I post an essay about how the scientists, governments, and people are seeing more and more  UFO’s, I find that a primary school in the UK held a ‘UFO drill so the children could learn how to secure an alien crash scene and then ‘properly investigate.’ I am not making this up:

Sandford pupils investigate extra-terrestrial visit
Sandford Primary School pupils were amazed to discover that aliens had landed last Wednesday, and set out to investigate. As part of the school’s creative curriculum and “Big write” project, PC Steve Church and PCSO Emma Wright of Avon and Somerset Police were on hand to show the children how to properly investigate the UFO crash site. The imaginary invasion was planned to engage the pupils with a live situation and encourage creative writing Teacher and organiser Victoria Shepherd said: “The children didn’t know what was going on. “As they approached the crash site we could see how amazed and perplexed they were. It was a fantastic first reaction “PCSO Wright and PC Church were brilliant. They helped the children secure the scene and talked about what to do in an emergency, how they gathered evidence, how to interview witnesses etc.

Posted in china ufo, demons, end time, fallen angel, prophecy

UN appoints Alien Ambassador, astronomers forge ET contact rules

Posted on by elizabethprata

No longer is the topic of UFOs relegated to the fringe, nutjob, and the fruitcake. It is a subject that is taken seriously, discussed formally, and even remarked upon by luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, who recently and matter-of-factly said that it’s likely alien life exists but we should not attempt to make contact.

Even with that, however, there has been an uptick lately in the level of serious discussion- and action has even been taken. In July and again in September, a UFO appeared over On July 7, more than 20 flights were postponed at Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, because of a sighting. It is quite startling for an entire airport to cease flights because of an unidentified flying object, one that is seen by trained eyewitnesses (air traffic controllers) and also appear on radar. This is what I mean by an uptick: trained people in authority are seeing them, and the UFOs that are appearing are appearing more boldly and for longer periods of time, even hovering over population centers like Moscow, for hours. On Sept. 11 Baotou airport in Inner Mongolia was also closed because of sightings.

Aside from the change in length of time seen and being seen by more people in authority, the UFO issue is taken quite seriously by scientists now, too. Stephen Hawking weighed in on the issue, and now also Wang Sichao, a research fellow at the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Mr Wang has been studying for 40 years. Recently he stated in an interview in the Beijing Review that he “expects ‘great events’ concerning UFOs were going to come out in China in the next two years.”

He said, “Since 1971, I have been engaged in conducting in-depth investigations and quantitative and semi-quantitative scientific analysis to at least 20 spiral, fan and light-like UFO events. I found many strange flying objects appeared at a speed much lower than first cosmic velocity in the space between 130 km to 1,500 km from the Earth’s surface. Some even flew at a speed as low as 0.29 km a second, 4 percent of the first cosmic velocity at the flying height, and flew at the height of around 1,460 km for 25 minutes. The facts show those UFOs may possess anti-gravity ability, or they would have fallen to the Earth.” We’ll come back to that interesting scientific fact in a minute.

When aliens land and say “Take me to your leader,” there is now someone to take them to. The United Nations has recently delegated someone to be that person. According to the Australian News, “The United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting. Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.” The Telegraph UK also covered it, saying that the UN was to appoint a space ambassador to greet aliens.

Is the absurdity of any of this hitting you yet? It’s hitting me. But wait, there’s more. This week on AOL News we read, “Astronomers Worldwide Forge New Rules for ET Engagement.” The article stated, “Is alien disclosure just around the corner? I can’t say for sure, but lately there’s been a lot of news that, if looked at collectively, could be interpreted as pointing in that direction. It seems as if everyone from the Vatican to the military to scientists conducting the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, are getting on the ET bandwagon. Just last week, in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Permanent Study group created new guidelines for how earthlings should best handle official contact with extraterrestrials.”

There is a reason for all this substantive and credible activity. Aliens are coming.

After the rapture, the Holy Spirit’s restraining ministry will cease, and the world that is already in satan’s hands (2 Cor 4:4) (though not his control) will be given to him but this time, with all power, lying signs and wonders. (2 Thess 2:9). What do you think any of those lying signs and wonders will be, which according to the definition, are miracles? The lying sign and wonder may well be that the fallen angels, who really ARE extra-terrestrials, are here to help us. That it is easy to appear as a superior race, and pretend to have solutions and aid for the poor humans who are in such disarray.

Who else can appear and disappear in our dimension at will? Gravity-defying extra-terrestrial objects have been seen, reported, videotaped, and documented. It is a fact, and Dr Wang among others have the data. UFOs can’t be denied any longer. Who else has such powers such as defying gravity, except the angels? Fallen angels are our enemy, they have been for a long time. They are at war with us. They work for satan, and it is no small thing for them to appear to us as a superior race with all the answers. “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world…” (Revelation 16:14)

Jesus said that as it was in the Days of Noe so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man. Genesis 6 tells us that thanks to the fallen angels which includes satan, (Gen 6:4) they had already dwelled on earth and had been busy corrupting humanity so badly that only one righteous person was left, Noah (Gen 6:9). God was grieved at the evil that men thought continually and resolved to wipe out all humans except for the one righteous man that had not been corrupted (Gen 6:7).

So shall it be at the end of days during the Tribulation, Jesus said. I believe there will be a great irruption of fallen angels soon (irruption means bursting in, as opposed to eruption, which means exploding out). We already know that satan and his demonic angels will run rampant with evil all over the world at that time, unrestrained. It is my opinion that the surge in credible UFO sightings is a precursor to the moment when they come bursting in, and say “Take me to your leader. We’re he-re.”

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Jews to protest Obama pressure on Netanyahu by throwing shoes

Posted on by elizabethprata

This is pretty interesting:

From Israel’s Arutz Sheva:
Shoes to be Thrown at Obama Shoe Photo
“A protest will be held this at 7 PM evening outside the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv against the undue pressure being exerted by the Obama Administration upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Among the attention-arousing gimmicks scheduled for the protest will be the throwing of shoes – a common Moslem protest act – at a cardboard likeness of President Obama.  The specific target will be a large photo of Obama with his feet up on the table, speaking firmly to Netanyahu. “Obama shows us his shoes, we’ll show him our shoes,” the organizers say.” Caption:  Obama during phone call to Netanyahu in 2009  Israel news photo: White House

Who would have thought we would see the day when Israelites protest American actions? We are not her ally any longer. Woe to those who abuse His land and His people!

Posted in end time, Eyjafjallajokull, katla, prophecy

Sudden rise in harmonic tremors around Katla and Eyjafjallajökull

Posted on by elizabethprata

Where Eyjafjallajokull goes, so goeth Katla. This means that when Eyja gets active, Katla always erupts soon after. If you remember, Eyja was the Icelandic volcano that erupted last spring and caused worldwide airline traffic disruptions because of the amount of ash spewed at all altitudes. People have been watching Katla ever since. I don’t want to be an alarmist, but there is a very serious scientific discussion going on over at Jon Frimann, Icelandic blogger’s blog on volcanism. Jon Frimann wrote yesterday:

“There is a sudden and sharp rise in harmonic tremors around Katla and Eyjafjallajökull volcano. I currently do not know what volcano is responsible for the spike in harmonic tremor. But this does not look like is a noise from the weather. SIL stations where the harmonic tremor rise can be seen. Mið-Mörk, , Eystri-Skógar, Lágur Hvolar (Currently most rise here for some reason), Snæbýli, Saurbær, Ásmúli.” In his comments section, Frimann replied to a query: “Most stations at south of Iceland are showing this spike. But that is the interesting part. Currently I have not recorded a single earthquake, and there is not a bad weather in sight far as I can tell. So I don’t think this is the weather. But I wonder if this is something that is happening at great depth under Katla or Eyjafjallajökull. Because the source seems to be there, but it is quite hard to confirm at the moment as there are no earthquakes at all that can tell me what is going on.”

Ever since Eyja erupted in April and May of 2010,  a close watch has been kept on the larger sister volcano Katla, which has always erupted after Eyja.

Last May, Victoria Gill wrote for the BBC, “Could another Icelandic volcano erupt soon?“
As scientists and air travellers alike keep a close eye on Iceland’s ongoing volcanic eruption, some reports suggest that another, much bigger, volcano could stir in the near future. Katla is Eyjafjallajokull’s more active neighbour, and scientists believe that there may be a link between the two volcanoes. This link has not been physically proven, explains Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson a geophysicist from the University of Iceland. A circumstantial, historical connection “is putting people’s eyes on Katla,” he says. “We know of four Eyjafjallajokull eruptions in the past [dating back to AD 500] and in three out of these four cases, there has been a Katla eruption either at the same time or shortly after. “By shortly, I mean timescales of months to a year. “We consider that the probability of Katla erupting in the near future has increased since Eyjafjallajokull went.” Kathryn Goodenough from the British Geological Survey points out that, as yet, there is no physical explanation for this apparent link.” It seems that when Eyjafjallajokull goes off, Katla tends to follow. “Scientists don’t yet know what the connection is,” she says.

William Cormier wrote for OpEd News two days ago,

International Concern Over Iceland’s Katla Volcano Erupting Soon Is Justified
“It is obvious that many people, especially Europeans, are extremely interested in the status of Iceland’s Katla Volcano and are attempting to find whatever information they can in regard this extremely dangerous volcano. (I’ve noted that Britain is responsible for approximately 50% of these searches using internal site statistics.) Unfortunately, as dangerous as this volcano is and its history of erupting within months of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano is disturbing. I find it deplorable that the EU’s respective governments are not attempting to prepare their citizens for what I believe is an eventuality, not a probability. Speaking in terms of probability, history would seem to indicate that the Katla Volcano could erupt relatively soon, perhaps before the end of 2010. Again, attempting to find reputable information in regard the Katla Volcano isn’t easy, however some of it is out there, and to be frank, the future in regard Katla doesn’t look promising at all…” Geophysicists at Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences say Katla would be locally and globally damaging. Icelandic President Lafur Grímsson has warned Governments around Europe that a significant eruption at the volcano is “coming close”. He said: “We [Iceland] have prepared ” it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over Europe and the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption.”

Time will tell. In the period after the rapture when the Tribulation begins, there will be terrible signs and fearful instances of powerful things happening in the world. A climate-disrupting volcanic eruption is not out of  the realm of possibility. It’s not even out of the realm of possibility of happening before the rapture. It is definitely a time of abnormal events. We are to the point now where any moment we can see something tremendous occur. A volcano, an earthquake, who could forget 2 pound hail falling through roofs in the American Midwest last winter, the earth cracking in Michigan, the sinkhole in Guatemala, the list goes on. Pray for the lost and stay strong, Christian!

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Great News! Gideons reach 192nd country with bibles

Posted on by elizabethprata

There’s a scripture in Matthew 24 that states:

“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” (Mt 24:14)

Matthew 24 is entirely aimed at the Jews and it is entirely aimed at the Time of the Tribulation. While we are bound to fulfill Jesus’ command of the Great Commission (Mt 28:16-20), the end coming is not contingent on man’s efforts to share the Gospel. God does that. First He sends 144,000 supernaturally sealed Jews to evangelize (Rev 14:1-3), then He sends the Two Witnesses to preach in Jerusalem and all the world sees and hears them (Rev 11:1-14), and finally,

“And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this world—to every nation, tribe, language, and people. (Rev 14:6 NLT) THIS is the fulfillment of Matthew 24:14.

That said, I was thinking about the famine of the Word as I wrote the essay yesterday on Amos’ prophecy (here). There will be a famine of hearing the word of the Lord. (Amos 8:11)  After the rapture, there will be bibles around, but no one to explain the Good News, because all the real preachers will be gone as well as the believing Christians. But even worse, are there places that don’t have a real and trustworthy bible? Is there a nook or cranny of the world that is missing access to the printed Word? And there is the answer:

NO!

Praise Him! The Gideons have reached every nation with a bible. (Or almost all nations, depending on which nation-count you accept). There are variously counted 192, or 194 or 195 nations in the world. There are 192 nations in the UN. The Gideons International has just delivered bibles to the 192nd nation!

Gideon Country Number 192
“With thanks and praise to God we are excited to announce Gideon country number 192—the Republic of Kiribati (pronounced “KEER-ah-bhass”). The ministry was organized in Kiribati on September 1, 2010, with 7 new Gideons and 5 new members of the Auxiliary. Kiribati is a nation of 33 islands, scattered over an expanse of ocean equivalent to the size of the continental US. Tarawa is the capital, and is located roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Twenty-one of the 33 islands are inhabited. You might recognize the names “Christmas Island” (the largest coral atoll in the world), or “The Gilbert Islands,” which was the country’s name prior to attaining independence in 1979. Some of you might also know that during WWII, some of the islands were seized by Japan, and the island of Tarawa was the site of a major battle. Today, the country is free and self-governing with an economy based largely on tourism and marine agriculture. In fact, Kiribati is home to the South Pacific’s largest marine reserve. Kiribati is the newest addition to Region 7. The population of the country is about 112,000—of which 36% are Protestant. Per capita GDP is about $1,500, and the potential for Scripture distribution in this country is estimated to be 6,000 copies annually. Please keep the people of Kiribati, and especially our new Gideon camp, in your prayers. Please pray for open doors and open hearts as God’s Word is distributed and the news of Jesus Christ is shared.”

There is almost nothing as important as owning or having access to the printed word of God. For those needing salvation, it could be an important stepping stone on the path to the cross. For new believers who need to grow into meat and away from milk (1 Cor 3:1-3) the bible is that meat, and also their armor. For mature believers, a bible is the balm and encouragement we need during rough times. That there are people such as the Gideons dispersing bibles and being available to answer questions is a praise and a wonderful encouragement to me. That they have reached their 192 country is a huge praise to Him!

We can pray for the Gideons as they continue their ministry where, on average, more than two copies of God’s Word are distributed per second; and over one million Bibles and New Testaments are distributed every 4.5 days. Soon and very soon, the promised famine of hearing the Word of God will be upon the world, but at least there will be His Word available to read. And that could be the difference in eternal destiny for some.

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Foreclosure fraud update, Bank of America ceases foreclosures in all 50 states

Posted on by elizabethprata

On Saturday I wrote about the issue of the massive foreclosure fraud imminently cascading upon us and all its implications to the economy, here. At that time, foreclosures in 23 states had been halted by some of the biggest banks and lending institutions, such as Citi and Wells Fargo. Tonight, the Associated Press is reporting that Bank of America is halting foreclosures IN ALL 50 STATES! Indefinitely. “Bank of America could not say how many homes would be affected. Nationwide, it had 420,000 properties in some stage of foreclosure through the first half of the year, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac.”

Here is a great analysis and explanation of what foreclosuregate means:
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/foreclosuregate.php

In Tampa Bay Online’s article, “Why Bank of America stopped foreclosures and how it could impact you and others,”  they wrote, “Distressed properties, many of which are in foreclosure, make up about a third of all home sales. If those deals do not happen, the market could suffer its own freeze. Housing prices could fall even further. Distressed properties, many of which are in foreclosure, make up about a third of all home sales. If those deals do not happen, the market could suffer its own freeze. Housing prices could fall even further.”

Even worse, I had posted from Zero Hedge’s analysis on Saturday that a title company had ordered to stop selling title insurance. They had written, “Apparently alarmed about such a possibility, one of the major title insurance companies, Old Republic National Title, has sent a bulletin to agents saying that “until further notice” it would not insure title to properties foreclosed upon by GMAC Mortgage, the country’s fourth-largest home lender and one of the two big lenders at the center of the current controversy… this merely means that as the foreclosure pipeline gets clogged beyond repair, and as mortgage losses accumulate at an exponentially growing pace, stocks of financial companies will likely surge…”

Now, Stewart Title Company has ordered their agents to cease selling title to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, OneWest Bank or Ally Financial’s GMAC Mortgage unit.

How housing slowdowns impacts the economy was analyzed in Hispanic News a few months ago:  “Because housing is such an important engine of the economy, lower prices could dim the recovery. When home values fall and people have less equity, they tend to cut back on spending. And as prices decline, potential homebuyers stay on the sidelines, slowing sales even more.”

The LORD was clear to Ezekiel on the sinful man and included in the list of sins, usury, exploitation of the poor through excessive loans, and bad-faith acts in banking. What happens to the sinner? “The soul who sins is the one who will die.” (Ez 18:3). He told Ezekiel, “Suppose a certain man is righteous and does what is just and right. He does not feast in the mountains before Israel’s idols or worship them. He does not commit adultery or have intercourse with a woman during her menstrual period. He is a merciful creditor, not keeping the items given as security by poor debtors. He does not rob the poor but instead gives food to the hungry and provides clothes for the needy. He grants loans without interest, stays away from injustice, is honest and fair when judging others, and faithfully obeys my decrees and regulations. Anyone who does these things is just and will surely live, says the Sovereign Lord.” (Ez 18:5-9 NLT) [emphasis mine]

Alternatively, the LORD decreed sinful the following:
“But suppose that man has a son who grows up to be a robber or murderer and refuses to do what is right. And that son does all the evil things his father would never do—he worships idols on the mountains, commits adultery, oppresses the poor and helpless, steals from debtors by refusing to let them redeem their security, worships idols, commits detestable sins, and lends money at excessive interest. Should such a sinful person live? No! He must die and must take full blame.” (Ez 18:10-13, NLT) [emphasis mine]

The economy is crumbling and it is happening faster as the months go on. We are a nation that is perfectly described as full of the former sinful man, who shall surely die. A frozen and gasping economy in America is only one severe sign that the end is imminent. Pray hard, folks, and pray for the poor, homeless and oppressed. He soon comes!

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A famine not of bread, but of the Word

Posted on by elizabethprata

I witness on Twitter a lot. I also contact other Christians and we encourage each other and share verses, or just say “hi.” Tonight I responded to another friend’s enthusiasm for the website http://www.biblegateway.com. She said “it rocks. Seriously.” I agree. It is comprehensive and the search function is efficient. I replied to that effect, and also shared my even more favorite website, http://www.bible.cc. That site has commentaries, a Strong’s Concordance, and the translations in Greek and Hebrew. I use bible.cc every day, multiple times.

After our tweets subsided, I got to thinking about how blessed we are in America, to be able to access the Word like that at any moment.  Further, at the touch of a few keys we can access the greatest biblical minds of the current and past days and read their commentaries, or even instantly translate the bible into any language. I can click a button and any verse or chapter can be translated into Creole, or Danish or Bulgarian or Arabic or… anyway, the list goes on. How wonderful to access the Word like this!

Bible Gateway is only one of many such sites we can access here in America and people in other countries can too. I understand that there are places in the world where such unrestricted access to the word is not possible, but overall, the climate as it is now is that bibles are available, even those that have to be smuggled in to Jesus-unfriendly countries or places. Even better, there are mature Christians around and preachers around who understand and can explain it.

The Old Testament prophet Amos foretells of a time when
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.
“People will stagger from sea to sea
And from the north even to the east;
They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD,
But they will not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)

How terrible! Just when they need it the most, it will be gone! The rapture will occur soon, and the church will be gone, and with it, the people who embody the Word. These are the Christians, the people who understand the living waters contained in the flowing words of the bible. Immediately after the rapture, the many millions of fence-sitters will understand what had happened. These are people who have heard the Word, who perhaps have a believing spouse who disappeared, or who grew up in a Christian family but never got around to professing, they will know. They will look for the Word but they will not find it. Oh, bibles will still be immediately available, but how can they understand what they are reading, especially since the Holy Spirit will have withdrawn His indwelling ministry that in part is teacher of the Word? (2 Thess 2:6-7; John 16:13). The bible gives us a mini-picture of someone who is new to the Word and struggling to learn:

“Philip ran up and heard him [the Ethiopian eunuch] reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.” (Acts 8:30-31)

Praise Him that the Spirit had told Philip to go up to the Eunuch and interpret with the eunuch! There was no dearth of access to the Word in the days of Acts and no shortage of it in the time beyond. Anyone who wants to learn the Word can. And so it has been throughout the church age. All one needs to do is find a preacher, go to a library, borrow a bible, contact the Gideons who have been passing out the Word since 1899.

That is going to change abruptly. Amos foretells of that time when people will “go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.” Now, some interpret the Amos passages as limited to Israel only, with there being a famine of the Word through the prophets, and surely this was so. Malachi was the last prophet and it was over 400 years before the next one – John the Baptist- came along. Others interpret the verses as being the last days and there being a famine of access to the Word because the rapture had taken place and the Church, the body of believers who witness and interpret to unbelievers- is gone.

The phrase The LORD uses through Amos, “staggering to and fro” is reminiscent of another prophet’s phrase of the last days:

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” (Dan 12:4). This we know for sure means the time of the end. Many will go to and fro. Why? Perhaps they are looking for the Word! And knowledge of the Word shall increase throughout the Tribulation. Eventually, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists are sealed for their ministry. The Two Witnesses appear and proclaim and exhort. Then an angel flies around the world spreading the gospel. But initially after the rapture, there will be a famine. People will run about, looking for answers, looking for comfort, looking for truth. They will not find it. The next verse describes what will happen:

“In that day the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.” (Amos 8:13) They are thirsty because the Word is the living water. Jesus told us this fact in the scene with the woman at the well: “but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:14)

Drink up while you can!

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Earth cracked in MI, no one knows why

Posted on by elizabethprata

Earth crack a mystery
One day the land was flat and filled with trees shooting straight into the air. Twenty-four hours later there’s a 600-foot-long crack, 4-feet deep twisting its way through the woods – and those vertical trees are now pointed 30 degrees left and right where the earth has mounded 15 feet high. No, it’s not a disaster movie; it’s what happened Monday at the home of Eileen Heider on Bay de Noc Road in Birch Creek. Heider was sitting in her recliner watching TV at about 8:30 that morning. “The chair shook for a few seconds and I thought the spring in the chair went,” she said. … The next day Heider’s friend, Doug Salewski, found a hole in the ground and a 200-yard crevasse a short ways away which wasn’t there before. Heider went to investigate and said the crack was three-feet wide and about five-feet deep in spots.

Doug Salewsky and Eileen Heider look at a 200-yard long crack in the earth Tuesday on Birch Creek Road in Menominee County. The crack is 2 to 3 feet wide in some places. The trees in back are tipping about 30 degrees and the earth around the crack has rose about 5 feet with other little fissures spreading out from center.
EagleHerald/Rick Gebhard

The article I posted above coincides with something I’ve been reporting for a while: the earth is cracking up. I reported on it here, and followed up here. During the Tribulation, many earth-changes happen through ‘natural’ disasters, so by the end the earth looks nothing like itself. And that is good, because at the end of the Tribulation, the LORD remakes (renews) the earth.

During the flood that is described in Genesis 6, mountains were raised up and valleys were made deeper to hold the enormous quantities of water generated in the Great Flood. Earth’s land masses have been pushed apart to make the current continents and islands. The earth as it looks now is not how it looked in the beginning, and it is not how it will look after it is returned to its original condition. In the latter part of the Tribulation God uses the massive natural disasters to not only judge the inhabitants of the earth, but to begin the transformation process in returning the earth to its pre-flood condition. In one example:

And there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. … And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. (Rev 16:18b-19a, 20)

Rev 21:1 speaks of a new heavens and a new earth, as does 2 Peter 3:13. Prior to that moment, there is another promise, in Isaiah 24:

“See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth
and devastate it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter its inhabitants” (Is 24:1)
It has been my contention that the mysterious cracks appearing int he earth here and there (Mexico, Guatemala, China, and now Michigan) are part of this devastation promise.
“The earth is broken up,
the earth is split asunder,
the earth is thoroughly shaken.
The earth reels like a drunkard,
it sways like a hut in the wind;” (Is 24:19-20)
[emphasis mine]