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Let’s see where you have come to!
“[Y]ou have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” (Hebrews 12:22-24).
Pretty far! Keep walking. “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.’ (Colossians 2:6-7). We have much to be thankful for. As the verse says, we can be thankful for His city, for His angels, for His church, for His Justice, for His Spirit, for His mediation, for His blood. And as we know, soon we will be thanking Him in person. We will see His face. What a day that will be!
Here are some good blogs that I recommend. These folks are good writers, thoughtful in their approach to Godly living, and sensitive to the Spirit:
Michael at Last Trumpet Living
A fool says in his heart there is no God. A bigger fool declines faith in Jesus.
Ma at Ma’s Blog
A wife, homemaker, homeschooler, mother of six and a sinner saved by God’s sovereign grace.
Kim at Mystery of the Ages
Come along with me and discover what the mystery of the ages is, the mystery put in place prior to the foundation of time, that, had the rulers of this world known about it, they would not have crucified Christ….the mystery of Christ in You.
Michael T. Snyder’s blog at The Economic Collapse
An attorney, a blogger, a Christian, a writer, a speaker and an activist.
The snowstorm of Christmas 2010 will go down in the books as a monster. Pouring out snow at the rate of 2-3 inches per hour at its height, covering a third of the nation with snow inside of 2 days, and stranding thousands and tens of thousands of people at mass transit points, is definitely a monster by any definition. News reports used words to describe the mood as irate, outraged or vexed. But it didn’t take long for headlines to start using words like chaos, fury, and anarchy. It took a day, actually.
US snow travel chaos
Fury as city is paralyzed by blizzard
Lord of the Fliers: Will Anarchy Break Out Among Throngs of Stranded Air Travelers?
The fun wasn’t limited to the US, either. Moscow had its own travel chaos this week, too. Fights broke out. In Moscow, air travel clerks were beat up. Aeroflot personnel were now scared of dealing with agitated passengers, saying the airport did not have enough security guards.
Soon there was no food. 400 people were stranded on a train overnight with no water and nothing to eat. At JFK, the thousands of people languishing inside the airport soon ate up all the food at the restaurants, and no replenishment trucks arrived to bring more. There was a fracas at McDonald’s when they ran out of food. Video here.
Daniel 12:4 records that the angel told him in the days of the end, many will go to and fro. So many people today boast that we can go here and there in a heartbeat, such is our advancement in technology. We think nothing of taking jobs that are located so far away from where we live, relying on trains, buses, and highways to get there. But what all that means is that we rely heavily on infrastructure. On any given day, a high percentage of the world’s population is commuting or voluntarily traveling far away from their home. The lines supporting all this going to and fro are thin. In the case at JFK, the airport is not far from one of the largest cities of the world but still, the snow prevented thousands from reaching food and hotels.
It only took a day for the support lines to break down. One day. And by a day after that, people were reverting to hunter-killer mode of the jungle days. People who cut in line at the airport were beaten back. People angling for food in front of Sbarro’s were fought off. Moscow airline Clerks were too afraid even to appear behind the desk. Even people safe at home in NYC were furious that the snow hadn’t been cleared yet and resorted to obscenities and anger. Even worse, there were casualties because of the storm: ambulances could not reach a woman’s newborn, who died in a hotel lobby. A grandmother in NYC also died due to delays in paramedics getting there. Trash hasn’t been picked up in days and it’s piling up.
It is not just New York and Moscow struggling to handle masses of people who are angry and stranded, Northern Ireland’s cold is popping water pipes all over the place. Many families have been without water for 8 days, and now there are public health fears. 40,000 homes and businesses in Belfast and 80 surrounding towns are dealing with raw sewage and/or lack of water as septic systems overflow and water pipes don’t. Scotland Yard is attempting to bring enough bottled water and showering facilities to the stricken people.
The truth is that we are so dependent on invisible supply lines, (water pipes, plow trucks, ambulances, grocery re-supply trucks) we begin to think they will always be there to provide for us in emergencies. This is not an essay about the fact that infrastructure crumbles almost immediately when pressured. It is about man’s reaction to what happens when the supplies and transport we have counted on break down. Going to and fro suddenly seems like not such a good idea.
The 2010 break-down occurred after only two days, which resulted in anger, fighting, fury, and anarchy. Craven humanity resorts to anger and fighting in such a short time…with the Restrainer STILL ON EARTH. (2 Thess 2:7). The Lord will take Him out of the way at the rapture. Imagine what will happen when the world is subjected to peace being withdrawn from the earth, men slaying each other, no food, wild beasts attack and devour people all over the globe, the stars fall from the sky, and every mountain and island are moved from their places in a giant earthquake?
I just gave the highlights of the first set of judgments on the earth in Revelation 6. If people fight over a Happy Meal, if they punch the airline clerk because they haven’t been home in a day, if they get furious over lack of plowing, with the Restrainer on earth, imagine the reaction in the Tribulation!
It is not a time that you want even your worst enemy on earth. Does this motivate you to be more patient with your annoying co-worker? Does this fact implore you to show the peace of Jesus in all you say and do? Does this knowledge help you strengthen your resolve to have that difficult conversation with the unsaved family member? I hope so! Time is running out.
“A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky above parts of New Mexico and Texas this week in a fiery display recorded by a skywatching camera. The fireball, thought to be created by a small space rock, occurred Tuesday night (Sept. 21) at about 11:01 p.m. EDT (0301 GMT) and was captured in a video camera as the meteor carved its fiery trail across the sky. It lasted 23 seconds and covered parts of New Mexico and west Texas, according to the website Spaceweather.com. [Video of the Sept. 21 fireball below.] “I was inside at the time, but heard and felt the sonic boom,” said radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft, who operates the all-sky camera 20 miles (32 km) outside of Santa Fe, NM that recorded the fireball as it flew overhead. At first, Ashcraft thought the sound was thunder, but no storms were expected. Then a phone call inquiry led him to check his camera’s data, where he saw “a spectacular meteor occurrence.”
This verse from Luke is a promise of something to occur in the Tribulation, but we can see activity in the sun, moon, and stars rising as we near the Day. Or, alternatively, fireballs such as these could be satan and one of his lying wonders.
“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea…” Luke 21:25.
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, (2 Thess 2:9)
Here is Mr Ashcrafts’s video. The fireball begins at about 8:00 position 9 seconds into the 30 second clip.
Hi folks! Thank you readers for your interest! I feel bad not not to have done an entry in two days. I have so much of end time interest queued up on a range of fabulous subjects! I am simply busting at the seams. But I started a second job Wednesday and I now work 11 hour days. I’ll have time at night to write for the blog, but it will take me a couple of days to acclimate to my new routine and the additional work hours. I also have bronchitis.
It generally takes me several hours of prayer and writing and editing to get the entries the way they need to be. And it’s not the time it takes, but the deep thought. After 11 hours with five year olds, I am wiped out physically and mentally! LOL. I’ll need a short while to adjust. Only a couple of days though! There’s too much happening to wait more than that. Look for some new entries this weekend!
Praise the Lord He found me work in this economy, and GOOD work too. He provides. Anybody in dire straits now economically, just hang on! Pray, fast, and repent so that you can clear your spiritual plate and tune in to what He may be telling you. Listen. Then, wait. He WILL provide!!!!!!!!!!
A guy on Twitter sent me a tweet. He wrote: “The Rapture can’t get here soon enough and get rid of the annoying asses that preach about it.”
He thinks he is annoyed now, I shudder to think what his, and others’, lives will be like when the Restrainer is removed. See, The Holy Spirit was only given two titles directly, Comforter and Restrainer. He comforts and He restrains.
“But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)
“While indwelling believers, the Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment.” (John 16:8)
It is that conviction that the Twitter guy writhes under.
“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.” (2 Thessalonians 2:7) So, when He is taken out of the way the restraint will be gone. The opposite of restraint is unleashed. Hell unleashed. What a world that will be! Let’s ponder what such a world would be like by looking at the world now.
Mexican Soldiers Open Fire on Family in Car at Checkpoint, Killing Boy, 15, and Father
MONTERREY, Mexico — Soldiers opened fire on a family’s car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday
Bosnian police find girl who tossed puppies into river
Bosnian police on Friday said they had tracked down a Bosnian girl who sparked worldwide outrage when she was seen on video throwing half a dozen puppies (one by one) into a river.
Gunman Kills 1, Injures 3 In Apparent Random Attack
A man is dead and three others are injured after a man walked up to them and began firing late Tuesday night, according to Suffolk County Police. The incident occurred on the front stoop of a home located at 165 Railroad Street in Huntington Station, where the four men were walking. Police say an unknown gunman walked up to the group and began firing…
U.N. puts Congo sex attacks at more than 500
“U.N. officials on Tuesday put the number of rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo since late July at more than 500, more than double the previous estimate.”
Eight human heads found in Mexico
Eight human heads were found early Tuesday in four separate places near roadsides outside the northern Mexico city of Durango, the local prosecutor’s office said.
Life is cheap. Women are raped, people killed randomly at close range, girl calmly and cold-bloodedly tossed little puppies into a freezing Bosnian river. Heartless at age 13. Mexico is simply out of control. Murders, arsons, rapes, killings, massacres, abortions…all happening while the Restrainer is HERE. What would the world be like when He who restrains evil is gone??
This is not to say that God will leave people without a witness. The Holy Spirit will still be present on earth but He will not be indwelling Christians. He will revert to the Old Testament style of conviction by ‘coming upon’ them. God will supernaturally seal the 144,000 and they will witness throughout the Tribulation. The Two Witnesses will witness. An angel will witness to the world while flying around it repeatedly. New born-again Christians will witness. But for the first moments, days, weeks or months after the rapture, before the 144,000, before the Two Witnesses, before the Angel, before new Christians convert, there will be NO RESTRAINT to evil in the world. Do you want to be here? I sure don’t. And I won’t be. You don’t have to be here either.
Jesus is extending His hand to one and all. He took the punishment for sin by dying on the cross for you. He was actually thinking about you and me while He hung there. All you need to do is ask Him to forgive your sins (believing sincerely that you sin and that you need forgiveness, of course.) And believing that Jesus is the only One who CAN forgive. You will be gone with us in the rapture!
For all those really believe life will be better post Christianity, and that “The Rapture can’t get here soon enough and get rid of the annoying asses that preach about it,” know this: just when you really WANT to hear the word preached, just when you NEED it, “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land–not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.” Remember, in John 14:26 above, “But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things…” they will need a teacher but the teacher will not be indwelling Christians. Who will teach them?
Get the Word while you can. Do not be so quick to get rid of us. And…be careful what you wish for!
A new round of peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis began today. In advance of the opening day of talks, This headline is hugely important as far as God’s timetable goes:
Barak: Israel ready to divide Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Sept. 1 (UPI) — In the framework of a peace deal with the Palestinians, Israel is willing to partition Jerusalem, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. In an interview with Haaretz newspaper Wednesday, Barak said while the gaps remain wide and are of a “fundamental nature,” he believes there is a real chance to achieve peace with the Palestinians, based on a two-state solution and the division of Jerusalem.
Arutz Sheva reports
Barak: Israel May Divide Jerusalem, Internationalize Holy Basin
Defense Minister Ehud Barak says it is likely that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will agree to divide Jerusalem with the Palestinian Authority. Barak told the Hebrew-language newspaper Haaretz in an interview published Wednesday that he believes the best chance for peace lies in a peace deal in which all the Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem would be handed over to the PA in order to create a capital for a new Arab country.
Two sources confirm that the unthinkable is being thought. God takes dividing Jerusalem VERY SERIOUSLY. He said:
I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land (Joel 3:2)
In Revelation 12:1-2 Jesus tells John not to measure the outer courts,
“I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.”
The fact that God judges the nations (and Israel) that forced Israel to divide her land is a fact. It will come to pass. Whether it’s the time now when Jerusalem is divided or not remains to be seen. But just the fact that the Israeli Leaders are so specific about the dividing it bodes ill. Two years ago, Netanyahu said he would NEVER divide Jerusalem, and today they are discussing which neighborhoods would go to the Arabs. Christians, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. It is a command and it is the right thing to do. (Psalm 122:6) Keep looking up! Our Redemption draws nigh!
Our world is complex and interbalanced. Soon, God will overtly interrupt that balance. We see the beginning of that upset now. In Revelation 7:1, we read “After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.” Wikipedia explains sea breezes, for example, “The sea has a greater specific heat than land and therefore has a greater capacity for absorbing heat than the land, so the surface of the sea warms up slower than the land’s surface. As the temperature of the surface of the land rises, the land heats the air above it. The warm air is less dense and so it rises. This rising air over the land lowers the sea level pressure by about 0.2%. The cooler air above the sea, now with higher sea level pressure, flows towards the land into the lower pressure, creating a cooler breeze near the coast. The strength of the sea breeze is directly proportional to the temperature difference between the land and the sea.” No breeze means a still earth. And it will be HOT.
Now imagine no breeze. Heat. Drought, Smells, Dead animals… In an end time precursor to the strange weather non-believers will endure in the tribulation, we see that the northern hemisphere is experiencing an excessively hot summer and the southern hemisphere enduring an excessively cold winter- with deadly and unexpected consequences.
1 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster
“Over 1 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija. [now updated to 6 million] The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures.”
“Nothing like this has ever been seen in this magnitude in Bolivia. Inhabitants of riverside communities report the smell is nauseating and can be detected as far as a kilometer away from river banks. River communities, whose livelihoods depend on fishing, fear they’ll run out of food and will have nothing to sell. Authorities are concerned there will be a shortage of fish in markets and are more concerned by possible threats to public health, especially in communities that also use river water for bathing and drinking, but also fear contaminated or decaying fish may end up in market stalls.”
I read a news article this morning that is extremely disquieting. It portends much. As if anything else in the Middle East and Israel doesn’t portend much these days, but this one stood out from the rest. And read to the end. There’s a kick to it.
The U.S. announced this week that it would upgrade its diplomatic relations with the PA by granting its mission in Washington – which is actually a PLO mission – the same status it enjoys in most European countries: that of a PLO “general delegation.” This is still a lower status than an embassy – a status the PA mission does have in many African and Asian countries, as well as some European and South American states. But it is a major step above what the PA has had until now. Prior to this decision, the PA mission in Washington was at a very low level from the point of view of protocol: Its diplomats did not have diplomatic immunity, and it was not even allowed to fly the PLO flag at the entrance to its offices. Now, its diplomats will enjoy diplomatic immunity and its offices will be able to display the PLO flag.
I’m going to give a little background, and it’s important, because the end result is that news article which states that America is doing business with a Terrorist Organization, openly and notoriously.
The PA is the Palestinian Authority. It is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The West Bank and Gaza Strip is territory inside the borders of Israel that are not part of Israel but are under Palestinian Authority.
The article continues-
“This decision reflects our confidence that through direct negotiations, we can help achieve a two-state solution with an independent and viable Palestine living side by side with Israel,” said White House spokesman Thomas Vietor. “We should begin preparing for that outcome now, as we continue to work with the Palestinian people on behalf of a better future.”
When you hear two-state solution, it means splitting Jerusalem, carving off East Jerusalem and giving it to the “Palestinians.” The “Palestinians” already have territory in Israel, so the two-state solution is really a misnomer. The territory known as the “West Bank” was originally part of the proposed Arab territories, but following the Arab-Israeli War this area was captured by Trans-Jordan (renamed Jordan in 1949). The West Bank was taken control of by Israel, during the Six-Day War in June, 1967 but never annexed by Israel. In 1988, Jordan ceded its claims to the West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organization, as “the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
The PA took the Gaza Strip back in 2007 at the Battle of Gaza and since then, most of the Gaza Strip is in control of Hamas with the Palestinian Authority stating it is officially no longer in control of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is an Arabic acronym meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement.” In the past, Ariel Sharon and the George W. Bush administration refused to negotiate with Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and then president of the PA, whom they asserted formed “part of the problem” (concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and not of its solution. In 2005 United States classified Hamas as a terrorist organization. PLO of course is all about Palestinian Liberation (from the Jews). Both are terrorist organizations the United States of America is legitimizing by elevating their status diplomatically. Today’s news about the wooing of the leader of Hamas is discouraging to say the least.
The PA has been seeking an upgrade in diplomatic relations ever since U.S. President Barack Obama took office last year. But after 18 months without progress, it was surprised to suddenly receive a letter from the State Department on Tuesday announcing that the U.S. had agreed. The letter was sent to Maen Areikat, who heads the PLO mission in Washington.
It certainly is not about peace. The PLO, Hamas, and even the Palestinian flag are all about war, terror, liberation, and revolt. Their flag is named revolt. “On October 18, 1948, the flag of the Arab Revolt was adopted by the All-Palestine Government, and was recognised subsequently by the Arab League as the flag of Palestine.” (Wikipedia)
Oh say does that flag of Arab revolt still wave…over the land of Sharia, and the home of the unsaved?
The Americans began seriously considering the upgrade two weeks ago as one of several steps it intends to take in an effort to entice Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas into direct talks with Israel. … A senior Palestinian official confirmed the upgrade, and stressed that this is more than a symbolic step. “This move will enable PLO officials and Palestinian diplomats to operate in Washington in an official and orderly manner,” he said.
PLO officials operating in our nation’s capitol in an orderly manner? Terrorists do not operate in orderly fashion. It is counter intuitive. However, this diplomatic success is part of a greater plan by the Palestinians, whose total focus, remember, is to destroy Israel. Compare the news article excerpted above to this one below, also out today:
Abbas: American Jews on My Side Now
American Jewish lobbyists have been convinced to take a pro-Palestinian Authority position, and to ask US President Barack Obama to turn up the pressure on Israel, according to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas made the claims while speaking at a meeting of the Fatah organization’s central committee. “They promised they would go to Netanyahu and tell him to disassemble his coalition or announce that he agrees to a two-state solution,” he added.
The two-state solution would be to establish an Arab nation. Remember, Gaza and the West Bank are already given to the Arabs. Two-state solution would divide Israel in two and also divide her capital, Jerusalem. The two-state solution would also give Judea to the Arabs. Last year Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, “He [Israeli PM Netanyahu] knows very much that there will never be peace between Palestinians and Israelis without East Jerusalem being the capital of the Palestinian state.”
Here is what God says about monkeying with Israel’s borders and giving away land:
“I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land.” (Joel 3:2)
The blood of the nations He assembles at Jehoshaphat will run as high as the bridles of horses for 180 miles, from Jehoshaphat to Petra. It is called The Harvest of the Earth:
“Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. (Rev 14)
Beware the “two-state solution.” DO NOT DIVIDE ISRAEL!
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