Posted in china ufo, el paso lights, end time, prophecy

This UFO thing is really getting out of hand: Now it’s El Paso

Posted on by elizabethprata

On the heels of the UN appointing an Alien Ambassador, and of military types forging ET First Contact rules, and of the UFO (or was it a hoax? Or balloons?) over NYC this week, we have another vivid sighting of weird lights, this time in a night sky in East El Paso. They could be planes at a night air show. Or not. You decide:

I’ve reported on ET/UFO events here, here, here, here, here, but most importantly in my three-part series The Great UFO Deception in Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. As you can see, I am serious about the UFO/Alien issue. No, I am not looking forward to greeting ET and turning on his heart light. I do not believe in the traditional representation of aliens as either benign botanists from pleasant planets, nor are they Mother Aliens hunting and killing Sigourney Weaver types. They are fallen angels and they work for satan. I believe that fallen angels are now deluding the world with their anti-gravity defying lights and false wonders, and will be masquerading as aliens who will swoop in and appear to us in a time of chaos to be a superior race in whom we should trust and cooperate. They will point to their leader as the one with the answers and that one will be the antichrist. Read the above links for scriptures and further explanations as to my stance. That they are increasing in appearance and in frequency and in duration is a sign, perhaps, that their irruption is imminent. Which could mean that the rapture is also imminent. For now, the people of El Paso are scratching their heads. And if those are planes in an air show, I’m a monkey’s uncle.

Posted in earthquakes in diverse places, end time. prophecy, quake swarm

Earthquake swarm in … Arkansas?

Posted on by elizabethprata

There is an UPDATE to this story, here. Thanks for reading 🙂

Nothing much happens in Guy Arkansas, pop. 549. That is, until last Monday, when the ground began shaking under the residents’ feet. The town, just 50 miles north of Little Rock, has been enduring an earthquake swarm and the dozens of constant earthquakes have been more than unsettling to the people who live there. “People don’t like the ground to move under their feet,” he said. “And I don’t blame them,” said Gary Ausbrooks of the Arkansas Geological Survey.

“Earthquake swarms are events where a local area experiences sequences of many striking in a relatively short period of time. The length of time used to define the swarm itself varies, but the points out that an event may be on the order of days, weeks, or months. They are differentiated from earthquakes succeeded by a series of by the observation that no single earthquake in the sequence is obviously the main shock. Earthquake swarms are one of the events typically preceding eruptions of volcanoes.” (Source)

It reminds me of the story of the only volcano to be born in the modern era. Paricutin, the Hill of Fire volcano was born in a Mexican farmer’s field as he was plowing corn, and in just a few short days the volcano had grown to many hundreds of feet and was constantly spewing lava. The whole town was soon covered with ash and lava, and the locals were relocated.

In this case, the swarm is reminding people of the nearby New Madrid Fault. “The New Madrid fault system was responsible for the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes and may have the potential to produce large earthquakes in the future. At New Madrid, trees were knocked down and riverbanks collapsed. This event shook windows and furniture in Washington, D.C., rang bells in Richmond, Virginia, sloshed well water and shook houses in Charleston, South Carolina, and knocked plaster off of houses in Columbia, South Carolina. In Jefferson, Indiana, furniture moved and in Lebanon, Ohio, residents fled their homes. Observers in Herculaneum, Missouri, called it “severe” and claimed it had a duration of 10–12 minutes.” Earthquakes that occur there potentially threaten parts of seven U.S. states: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The map below shows Damage-range comparison between a moderate New Madrid zone earthquake (1895, magnitude 6.8), and a similar Los Angeles event (1994, magnitude 6.7). And the 1811-12 quake shook Memphis at a level NINE.

Here are a few of the news clips about this swarm. Some of the clips were published a few days ago, so the news by now (Friday evening, 15th Oct) will be superseded by new numbers. There are a few statements I’d like to focus on below, for the end time context.

48 earthquakes rock Faulkner County
Faulkner County residents had a shaky start to their Monday morning as a 4.0-magnitude earthquake rattled throughout the county. The quake, which occurred at 8:33 a.m. and was centered two miles southeast of Guy, was just one of 48 earthquakes reported since Wednesday afternoon.  According to Shelia Maxwell with the Faulkner County Office of Emergency Management, the U.S. Geological Survey is looking into the recent earthquake activity in the area. “We’re having them (earthquakes) in places we’ve never had them before,” Maxwell said. “The USGS is looking into why we’re having them and why there have been so many.”

3 days ago, “Activity centered near Guy“
Coker says, “This is my home. And I feel like my home has been invaded. And not only that, but I feel that since we are taking advantage of mother Earth, she’s beginning to fight back. And I really don’t think we’ll like the consequences.”

Earthquake swarm rattled Guy Arkansas residents
“A string of small earthquakes has rattled people in Guy. The most recent hit Thursday, a 3.5 according to the Arkansas Geological Survey. But it started Monday with a 4.0 and the shaking hasn’t stopped since. “It’s unsettling. People don’t like the ground to move under their feet,” said Scott Ausbrooks, a geohazard supervisor with the state survey.”

The first news clip above quoted the Emergency Management Agency and USGS as saying that they had not had such activity in their area like this before. HMMM.

The woman whose property many of the  quakes are centered under says that ‘Mother Nature’ is “fighting back.” She is noticing something we are all noticing, that ‘natural disasters’ and like-events are increasing, and also that we are in a fight. She’s right, but it’s not Mother Nature that is doing the fighting. And that is the crux of the end time problem: a Godless society.

Last, the man quoted in the third clip said that it is unsettling. It certainly must be unsettling. Constant earthquakes are unsettling, the very ground under your feet that seems so solid…isn’t.

Jesus said that there will be earthquakes in diverse places in Matthew 24:7 as a sign of the end of the age. He was speaking about the Tribulation and answering a question from three of His closest disciples as to the signs of the end of days. Jesus’ response pointed to the Tribulation, which we will not be around to endure, since we are not appointed to wrath. (1 Thess 5:9; Rev 6:16)

However He said that the end of days will be like birth pangs (Mt 24:8) and that means the events start slow and build up. I call the events we are seeing now precursors to the judgments the world will experience during the tribulation (the 7 years set aside to judge an unbelieving world). I always take note of statements by credible officials such as  “We’re having them (earthquakes) in places we’ve never had them before,” and “The USGS is looking into why we’re having them and why there have been so many.” Which simply means the officials have never seen this kind of activity previously and they don’t know why it’s happening now.

We know why it is happening now. Jesus is coming soon. Nations that mock Him, turn away from His laws, and wallow in sin get judged. He said He would warn us, and He said then He would judge us. He sent an angel to Daniel to explain what was coming, and their conversation is recorded in Daniel 9: and in verse 24 the angel explains the length of time for the judgment, the reasons for it and what will happen: “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.”

Believers should be looking up pretty well constantly nowadays. You can almost hear the indrawn breath of the Trumpet blower

Posted in bed bugs, end time, prophecy

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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Christian compassion requires the truth about harms of homosexuality

Posted on by elizabethprata

I am reposting this essay by the Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, because it is good, well-written, and true. It was published yesterday on the Faith section of the Washington Post. Inevitably, it is getting a lot of attention and the Post is taking heat for having provided the platform for Mr Perkins’ unpopular stance. So the last reason I am re-posting it is ‘just because’. Long live free speech. Long live Christ’s love, His standards, and the hope that someone reading it will come out of a sinful lifestyle to know His saving grace.

Christian compassion requires the truth about harms of homosexuality
By Tony Perkins

The media has recently been filled with reports of several recent suicides by teenagers who are reported to have been victims of “anti-gay” bullying. Some homosexual activist groups lay blame at the feet of conservative Christians who teach that homosexual conduct is wrong, as well as pro-family groups such as Family Research Council which oppose elements of the homosexual political agenda, such as same-sex “marriage.”

The Christians and pro-family leaders I know are unanimous in believing that no person, especially a child, should be subjected to verbal or physical harassment or violence–whether because of their sexuality, their religious beliefs, or for any other reason. Such bullying violates the Christian’s obligation to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and receives no support from the pro-family political movement.

Where bullying has occurred, the blame should be placed on the bullies themselves–not on organizations within society who clearly oppose bullying. I suspect that few, if any, such bullies are people who regularly attend church, and I would not be surprised if most of the “bullies” did not have the positive benefit of both an active mom and dad in their lives. Religious faith and a return to traditional family values are more likely to be a solution to the problem of bullying than a cause.
However, homosexual activist groups like GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) are exploiting these tragedies to push their agenda of demanding not only tolerance of homosexual individuals, but active affirmation of homosexual conduct and their efforts to redefine the family.

There is an abundance of evidence that homosexuals experience higher rates of mental health problems in general, including depression. However, there is no empirical evidence to link this with society’s general disapproval of homosexual conduct. In fact, evidence from the Netherlands would seem to suggest the opposite, because even in that most “gay-friendly” country on earth, research has shown homosexuals to have much higher mental health problems.

Within the homosexual population, such mental health problems are higher among those who “come out of the closet” at an earlier age. Yet GLSEN’s approach is to encourage teens to “come out” when younger and younger–thus likely exacerbating the very problem they claim they want to solve.

Some homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions are abnormal–yet they have been told by the homosexual movement, and their allies in the media and the educational establishment, that they are “born gay” and can never change. This–and not society’s disapproval–may create a sense of despair that can lead to suicide.

The most important thing that Christians can offer to homosexuals is hope–hope that their sins, just like the sins of anyone else, can be forgiven and their lives transformed by the power of Jesus Christ. Jesus’ command to love our neighbor clearly embraces the homosexual as well. But love does not require affirming every behavior in which an individual engages. For a parent to encourage a child to indulge their every desire would not be love, but its very opposite. The same is true of self-destructive behaviors in which adults may engage–whether it is the excessive use of alcohol, drugs, reckless driving, or heterosexual activity outside of marriage.

Since homosexual conduct is associated with higher rates of sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, mental illness, substance abuse, and domestic violence, it too qualifies as a behavior that is harmful to the people who engage in it and to society at large. It is not loving to encourage someone to indulge in such activities, no matter how much sensual pleasure they may derive from them. It is more loving to help them overcome them. This is why, in the public policy arena, we will continue to oppose any policy or action that would celebrate or affirm homosexual conduct.

The model for a Christian response to homosexuals may be the story of the woman caught in adultery. When the crowd responded with violence, by gathering to stone her, Jesus said, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” Knowing that they were all sinners, the crowd melted away. But Jesus’ words to the woman he saved were crucial. He did not say, “Go, for you have not sinned.” Instead, he said, “Go and sin no more.”

There is no contradiction between Christian compassion and a call for holy living. But the life which is holy (from a spiritual perspective) or even healthy (from a secular perspective) requires abstinence from homosexual conduct. We would do no one a favor if we ceased to proclaim that truth.

Tony Perkins is President of the Family Research Council.

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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.

Posted in china ufo, end time, prophecy

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.”

Posted in end time, obama shoe throwing, prophecy

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

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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

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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.