EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD /YOUTUBE

 EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD /YOUTUBE Howcan an absolute nothingness produce a something? OK!!!People think they are smarter then God. If their was absolutely nothing, then their can not be absolutely something. God has always existed, therefore ABSOLUTELY something always existed. Einstein even admitted that his reasoning was flawd. His son was givena letter to him upon his death bed that then realized that their was and is a creator. Creation shows the complexity of everything made. It was created to sustain life on our planet. I challenge everyone to explore creation through the lense of the Biblicaland Historical narrative. God has shown himself in creation. Evolution cannot. Man may think that he has figured it out and it is simply not possible. We can see many things in creation and in space, but not in Gods realm. We will see that soon enough. ----------------------------------------- EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD https://www.google.com/search?q=proof+of+god&rlz=1C1CHZO_enUS997US997&oq=proof+of+god&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTczOTFqMGoxNagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:93416cbb,vid:vmLmFe8eh-Y,st:0 -------------------------- EVIDENCE FOR JESUS OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RebKd23Aaho --------------------------- THE CASE FOR TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSHVAKrH7CM --------------------------- WHO WROTE THE BIBLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vYLSBCAF8 --------------------------- WHY THE BIBLE CAN BE TRUSTED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGHAZAZiSGM ---------------------------- DID JESUS DIE AND COME BACK TO LIFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajOYym3IuRk ----------------------------- IS GOD THE BEST EXPLANATION OF CREATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjaJFm1QYlU ----------------------------- EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD https://www.google.com/search?q=proof+of+god&rlz=1C1CHZO_enUS997US997&oq=proof+of+god&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTczOTFqMGoxNagCALACAA ---------------------------- https://coldcasechristianity.com/ EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: J.WARNER https://www.google.com/search?q=proof+of+god&rlz=1C1CHZO_enUS997US997&oq=proof+of+god&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTczOTFqMGoxNagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:93416cbb,vid:vmLmFe8eh-Y,st:0 ------------------ EVIDENCE FOR JESUS: J.WARNER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RebKd23Aaho

Rapture Delayed?

 Rapture Delayed? – Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/04/29/rapture-delayed-3/ Author’s note: This article was posted originally on Raptureready.comon March 7, 2016. It is re-posted here because some of the same concerns as back then are being expressed through emails and in other ways. My response remains the same because God’s Plan in regard to the Rapture hasn’t changed. We have looked a number of times in this column at those who mock the end-times message and the Rapture in particular. Because those who scoff have been of the abrasive, unbelievingvariety for the most part, there is a standard Bible verse reply I’ve usually employed in response. The scriptural reply has most often been intended to let those mocking know that they are, in actuality, fulfilling Bible prophecy. “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathersfell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” (2 Peter 3:3-4). As of late, however, such a reply doesn’t quite fit that which should compose an appropriate response. That is because the questions are coming weekly from genuine believersin the Pre-Trib Rapture of the Church. These Christians are worried–some very worried. These look around them, and on every side they see and feel the satanic pressures from this fallen sphere closing in. Issues and events –the very ambience in which they findtheir lives engulfed–generate thoughts that their circumstance is beginning to look much like the Bible’s description of the Tribulation itself. To illustrate the growing angst, I’ve chosen the email of one such Christian brother who wrote this past week. His words pretty much get right to the point of the many otheremails expressing like emotion. Here it is in its entirety: Why is the Lord delaying the rapture? It should have happened years ago. We would be in the millennium now enjoying true peace and prosperity without the suffering. I don’tget it. It’s God’s call, of course, but 58 million aborted babies in the US since 1973, Christians tortured and murdered worldwide, people who believe in Jesus longing for his return suffering immensely. I don’t get it. Where is our Lord and Savior? The emailer didn’t use any soft nuances of greetings or any other niceties. He just laid his spirit-distressed emotions right out there. You don’t answer such gut-wrenching concern with the apostle Peter’s prophecy, as given above. This child of God is worried. He is puzzled; he is perplexed. It’s the kindof questioning I’ve heard in my own kids’ anxieties when they were young and felt disappointed for one of my failures or the other to keep a promise. “Dad should never let me down like that” is the tone. Only this perceived unkept promise isn’t from an imperfect human father. I say “perceived unkept promise” because the promise isn’t unbroken whatsoever. The error is in thequestion of the imperfect child asking it. His Perfect Father will, as always, be one hundred percent faithful to keep every promise made. The Lord Jesus, Himself, in His ascended position, said the following to John the Revelator: “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10). Jesus said it, and that means the Heavenly Father said it–promised it! Jesus said that He and the Father are One. They are inseparable–one and the same–the first and secondPersons of the Godhead–the Trinity. God cannot lie, the Scripture tells us. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. God keeps His promises. So, this brother in Christ, like all the other believers who lookto the “blessed hope” of Titus 2:13, who are in fear and worry while watching this fallen world closing in, need an answer from the Word of God. The Heavenly Father gave the answer to Peter to pass along to us, just a bit farther on in Scripture. The answer to why the Rapture hasn’t occurred as soon as almost all ofus wish it would occur is, at least in part, wrapped up in the following: “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come torepentance” (2 Peter 3:9). The Tribulation that will follow this Age of Grace will be filled with horrors that even John, under divine inspiration, had trouble describing. The Lord wants to provideevery moment possible during this present dispensation for those lost in their sin to come safely into the shelter who is His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. God wants this for the lost because, following the Rapture, making the decision to accept Christ for salvationwill be more difficult by a multiple of factors. Facing beheading is but one of those factors! That is the reason–or at least a primary reason–the Rapture hasn’t yet occurred in this generation, according to God’s Word. That said, I must take notable exception with the emailer’s contention that God is “delaying” the Rapture. You can take this to the bank–well, to the banks the way they usedto be–God is not delaying the Rapture. It will happen precisely in the twinkling of the eye at the moment the Father has determined. Jesus said: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only” (Matthew 24:36). God knows exactly the instant He will send His Son to get His Bride, make no mistake. There is no delay. On that note, issues and events closing in on us show that we are almost certainly very near that exhilarating moment of instantaneously finding ourselves face to face withthe Lord Jesus. Just how near we are to the Rapture–if we could indeed know–would likely allay all fears. I’m excited to tell you that my new book, Rapture Ready … Or Not: 15 Reasons This Is the Generation That Will Be Left Behind, is at present being prepared within the publishingprocess. Because of the lateness of the prophetic hour, I sense to a degree never experienced before that this is a book I’ve been commissioned to write. We will be able to tell you more soon, Lord willing.

God’s plan of redemption

 In God’s amazing love and kindness He always remembers that He made a promise to Abraham to create a special nation out of his descendants (Israel). He promised these descendantsthe land of Canaan as an everlasting possession. Through Abraham and his descendants God promised, “In you all the familiesof the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis12:3). This promise would eventually be fulfilled through one of Abraham’s descendants. The broad definition of God’s plan of redemption in Genesis 12 becomes even more elucidated as He continues revealing His plan to Israel. By the end of the Old Testament we understandthat God is sending a future king to the Israelites (2Samuel 7:13), who is also God’s Son (2Samuel 7:14). We know where the future king of Israel would be born (Micah5:2); we know He’s divine (Isaiah 9:6–7; Daniel 7:13–14); and we alsoknow, according to Scripture, that He had to suffer on our behalf in order to accomplish the ultimate plan of redemption God has predestined (Isaiah 53). This descendant of Abraham who would fulfill these prophecies from the Old Testament and accomplish redemption is King Jesus, the Messiah! Jesus was born in Bethlehem (Luke 2:4–7), Hemanifested His divine power through miracles He performed when He was on earth, He suffered on the cross on our behalf, enduring the wrath of God (Matthew27:32–6), and was gloriouslyresurrected to prove He had accomplished redemption (Matthew28:6). So now that Jesus has accomplished redemption through His shed blood, has God’s plan been fulfilled? Did Israel fulfill its role by bringing forth the Messiah, or is there moreleft for the nation of Israel to accomplish? God’s ultimate plan of redemption for His creation has not seen its culmination just yet. For us as believers, the blood of Jesus provides redemption now, but we are also waitinganxiously for the completion of our redemption when Jesus returns and our bodies are resurrected. Paul says, "Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits [believers] of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption [resurrection] ofour body (Romans 8:23). HerePaul is looking prophetically into the future, highlighting the zenith of God’s plan of redemption. An amazing verse in Romans 11 shows that the climax of God’s plan of redemption comes when Israel repents and believes that Jesus is their Messiah. Paul says, Forif their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? (v. 15). In this passage Paul is proclaiming that even thoughIsrael rejected Jesus, God’s plan of redemption was not thwarted. Instead, it was spread to the nations, and the once-severed relationship between God and His creation was reconciled in Jesus. That’s really good news. However, the news gets even better. Paul looks ahead prophetically to that day when Jesus will return, and on that day Israel will believe and a resurrection (life from the dead)will take place as God’s divine plan is fulfilled with Israel as the centerpiece of the kingdom and Christ as ruler. So is Israel still a part of God’s ultimate plan of redemption? According to the Scriptures, yes! Let’s continue praying for Israel, and may the Lord accomplish His redemption plan for the world! - Tania Koenig

Eternity Is a Choice

 Eternity Is a Choice - By Nathele Graham - twotug@embarqmail.com We make choices every day. Some are easy, but some take study. For instance, do you get up in the morning and go to work, or do you choose to stay in bed and lose your job?That’s one of the easy choices… go to work! A choice that takes a little more study is buying a car. Which is the most gas-efficient and which is safer? Some choices aren’t all that important, like which color shirt do you buy. Some choices are life-changing,such as who do you marry. The most important choice of all is where do you want to spend eternity. It is your choice. Many people think that when you die, that’s it; there’s no afterlife. They are wrong. Others think that if you’re a good person and if you’re kind to others, then you’ll goto Heaven. They are also wrong. So, is there an answer? Absolutely. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me” (John 14:6). Everybody will live eternally, but each individual makes their own choice as to where eternity will be spent. Let’s look at some facts so you can make a wise choice. Sin separates us from God. We are born sinners, and we have Adam to thank for that. God doesn’t want anybody to be separated from Him, and at the very beginning, He did allHe could to keep Adam and Eve near to Him. Like us, they had a choice. “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in theday that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17). God had provided everything Adam needed to survive in the Garden of Eden. The only thing missing from Adam’s life was a mate… a woman. God understood and cared enough to providea mate for Adam. Adam was put into a deep sleep, and God took Eve from Adam’s side. The Garden was a perfect place to live; it had food, water, animals, a man and a woman. God had given Adam the command not to eat the fruit of knowledge prior to Eve beingbrought into being, and Adam had the responsibility to be sure Eve understood the rule. Unfortunately, she chose to talk to that evil liar who was in the form of a serpent, and he convinced her that God was afraid that if she and Adam ate the fruit, they wouldbe like Him. “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowinggood and evil” (Genesis 3:4-5). Not much has changed over time. God gives us rules to protect us, but Satan makes sin look like fun. It might be fun until you wake up in the morning with a pounding hangover,wondering what you did the night before, or when the doctor tells you that you have AIDS because you chose to live a lifestyle that is in opposition to God. Maybe you just found out that you’re going to have a baby, and your lover won’t leave his wife. Whenconsequences of sin mess up your life, remember that you chose to sin and cannot blame God. “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression” (1 Timothy 2:14). Eve chose to listen to Satan instead of God, and Adam chose to join herin sin, and Paradise was lost. God had a plan. An amazing plan that seems just too easy. Easy for us, but it cost God dearly. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Sonto be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). That is perfect love. There was no other way for sin to be forgiven but through the blood of Jesus. Because Adam chose to defy God and eat the forbidden fruit, we have inheritedsin. When a baby is born, that infant only knows to cry for help… change my diaper, feed me, love me. As they grow, they have to learn to share and be kind to others. A good parentwill teach their child to respect others. More importantly, an excellent parent will teach their child about God. “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). God understands that a child cannot be accountable for their choices because they don’t know right from wrong. Parents need to take the responsibility to teach their childrenabout God. Don’t trust public school to teach morality. There comes a time in life when we become accountable for our own choices. What age is that? It’s hard to say. Some never reach it. If a child is mentally unable to understand right from wrong, they cannotmake a choice. I have a granddaughter who is 22 years old and is not mentally able to make a choice. It’s sad that she cannot walk or carry on a conversation, but she also cannot make achoice to sin or not to sin. Her sisters and brother have a choice, and I’m very thankful they have all chosen wisely to accept Christ. We are responsible for our own choices, and the choice to follow Christ must be made while living on this side of eternity. Let’s take a look at our options. If we choose to live sinful lives and reject Christ, this life will be filled with trouble. No matter what your thought on eternal life is,if you have rejected Christ, then you have chosen Hell. The Old Testament talks of the grave or the abode of the dead (Hebrew term is Sheol), which was where souls went to await their future judgment. It had two compartments. Oneside was known as Abraham’s Bosom. This was a place of comfort where people went who died knowing there was a coming Redeemer. Job looked forward to his Redeemer: “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” (Job 19:25-26). The other side of Sheol was a place of torments. This is where those who had no faith in the coming Redeemer and cared nothing for God went to await the final judgment. WhenJesus, the Redeemer, died on the cross for our salvation, He released those in Abraham’s Bosom to go with Him to Heaven. Today, anybody who has truly accepted Christ for salvation will go to Heaven upon death. When writing to Christians, the Apostle Paul wrote, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians5:8). Those who reject Christ go to torments and will be judged at the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the Millennium. “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, smalland great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Revelation 20:11-12). That judgment will be very sad. It will be dependent upon your works, and works cannot bring salvation. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Amazing grace! How sweet the sound. You can’t earn salvation. Jesus gave us a very clear view of the afterlife when He told of a rich man who didn’t live a life that honored God, and a poor man who had nothing but lived a life of faith: “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom; the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes beingin torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, and he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented., andbeside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence” (Luke 16:22-26). The rich man made a choice while living in the world, and his choice was to reject God. He received the wages for his sin. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift ofGod is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). On the other hand, Lazarus was a poor beggar, but he honored God. His reward was to be carried by angels after death to a place of comfort. The rich man told Abraham to sendLazarus to his family to tell them how to live so they would be saved from torments. Abraham told the rich man that his family had Moses and the prophets. Scripture is still our guide today for us to make a wise choice for eternity. This account reveals quite a few facts. First, Scripture is our guide. Next, our choice has to be made on this side of the grave. Third, we learn that there is no purgatorywhere you can work your way to Paradise. It also tells us that the dead remember loved ones and recognize acquaintances, but the dead cannot return to warn the living. If you think that a loved one has come back with a message for you, don’t be fooled. Theycannot return. How can we avoid the place of torment? We all have a choice. This is the most important choice you’ll ever make. None of us are “good enough” to spend eternity in Heaven. “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10). We cannot do enough “good works” to earn a right to enter Heaven. Faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the choice we must make. There is no otherway. Your faith must be real and not just an intellectual “I believe” mumbled at an altar. Jesus told Nicodemus he had to be born again to see God. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). When Nicodemus asked about being “born again,” Jesus told him he had to be born a first time from the womb (born of water), but the second time is being born of the Spirit. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6). Jesus Christ was God incarnate. He stepped into His creation and gave His life for our salvation. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoeverbelieveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). We must make the choice of faith for ourself in order to find salvation. We must admit that we are sinners with no chance of eternal life by our own merit. Only true faithin Jesus can take our sin away. When we truly believe, we are born again. The choice must be honest and true, not brain knowledge but life-changing heart knowledge, which includes repentance. That means you’ve changed your mind about sin, and your life ischanged. A very important point to understand is that God does not send anybody to Hell. We make a choice. If we accept Christ for salvation, our eternity is bright. If we reject Him,then we will spend eternity in the burning lake of fire with the rich man. There are only two choices, so choose wisely. This life is temporary, and we need to look at the “big picture.” Sin may look inviting, and you may think that living a Christian life is boring, but you’re wrong. Eve believedSatan’s lies, and Adam joined in her sin. Sin wasn’t a pleasure at all. It still isn’t. When you realize that you’re a sinner and that your sin separates you from God, repent. Repent means that you’ve changed your mind about sin, and it no longer controlsyou. The questionable pleasure you got from drinking alcohol until you’re in a stupor no longer is appealing. Hangovers are no longer a problem. Scripture is our guide to living a life that honors God. Read it, study it, apply it. Don’t put off making your choice. Death is just one heartbeat away. The Rapture is also drawing near. All Christians will be taken Home to Heaven in the twinkling of an eye.You don’t want to be left on earth to face the Great Tribulation. There is an urgency for you to give your life to Christ. God has given plenty of warning and instructions for eternal life. God doesn’t send anybody to Hell. It’s our choice. God bless you all, Nathele Graham twotug@embarqmail.com Recommended prophecy sites: www.raptureready.com www.prophecyupdate.com www.raptureforums.com All original scripture is “theopneustos,” God breathed. If you would like to be on my mailing list to receive the commentaries, just drop me an email and let me know.

What are the events that happen in the Last Days?

 What are the events that happen in the Last Days? In this series of PodCasts we will be looking into the scriptural references to the Last Days. What are they and are they happening now? Subjects covered include: Episode27: •The Overall Latter Days •The Wounded Beast of Revelation 13 •The Book of Life •The Tried of God •The Judgement Episode28: •Refined By Fire •Who is Israel •The Second Beast of Revelation 13 •The Second Exodus Episode29: •A New Year and April Fools •Origins of Annunciation Day •Palm Sunday •Easter Holy Day or Holiday •The Wicked Episode30: •Is Esther connected to Ishtar? •Signs in the Heavens - The Solar Eclipse •The Final Exodus •The Third Day •The Murder of Jesus - Why? Episode31: •The Light of Knowledge •The Menorah - Light of Seven Days •Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse •Kingdom of Heaven in the Heavens Episode32: •The Passover Lamb •The Passover Meal •Who Unseals the Books •The Passover Moon 'How-to' Learn from The Firmament Podcast The Firmament podcasts may be a bit overwhelming with the sheer amount of information that is presented in each episode. So how can you get the most out of these podcasts? Here is a 'how-to' recommendationfor 'chewing the cud' or digesting the most from each podcast! Each episode contains four or five different presentations followed by a short discussion. You can watch the entire episode at once or you can start by just watching one segment a day, a 15 to 20 minute dive into the weekly subject. Stop the video and look up the verses for yourself. Do this for five days! On the sixth day, watch the whole episode at once including the discussion at the end. You will be amazed how much more you will learn after taking the previous five days to really dig into the versesand contemplating what they are teaching. To assist you on your learning journey, most books referenced that are outside of the Bible are available on thefirmament.org.Consider adding these books to your own personal library so you can read them off-line. Many can be found at used book stores or even library sales. As always, if you have a specific question, comment or recommended podcast topic, feel free to contactus! "Who has ears to hear, let them hear." or Who has eyes to see, let them read... The Firmament

Signs Of the Times: War, Famine, Pestilences And Natural Disasters

 Signs Of the Times: War, Famine, Pestilences And Natural Disasters - by Michael Snyder - https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/signs-of-the-times-war-famine-pestilences-and-natural-disasters/ People keep acting as if we are living in “normal” times, but the truth is that these are not “normal” times at all. We are in the midst of a “perfect storm”, but most peoplein the general population don’t seem to realize this. While the mainstream media is endlessly focused on political drama, our world is being deeply troubled by war, economic problems, food shortages, nightmarish pestilences and terrifying natural disasters. Butas bad as things are at this moment, I am entirely convinced that they are about to get a whole lot worse. I would like to start by talking about war. The IDF is preparing to conduct an operation in Rafah, and that could cause the entire Middle East to erupt in flames. IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pledging that his forces will eventually move in no matter how negotiations for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas go. Meanwhile, we just learned that Israel has just conducted airstrikes on the outskirts of Damascus… Israeli aircraft have reportedly attacked a location on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus late Thursday (local), a security source told Reuters. While there has been no immediate confirmation via Syrian state media, widely circulating images have emerged on social media showing plumes of smoke rising high over buildingswhich were struck. It is just a matter of time before all-out war erupts in the region. Speaking of all-out war, French President Emmanuel Macron is warning that French troops could be sent to Ukraine if Russian forces break through the Ukrainian front lines… Emmanuel Macron has said he would be prepared to send troops to Ukraine if Vladimir Putin’s forces break through the front lines – further raising the risk of NATO forcesclashing with Russia’s armies. In an interview published today, the French president said the issue of sending troops would ‘legitimately’ arise if Kyiv and president Volodymyr Zelensky made such a request. The Economist said Macron gave the interview after delivering a keynote speech last week where he declared that Europe is ‘mortal’ and could ‘die’ partly due to the threatposed by Russian aggression after its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Those that have been following the war closely know that the Russians are already breaking through the front lines in several areas along the eastern front. So will Macron make good on his threat? If so, that will put us literally one step away from nuclear conflict. All throughout history, large scale wars have been accompanied by famine. For now, we still have plenty of food to eat in the western world, but it is a far different story in the poorest areas of the planet. For example, the famine in Sudan has become so severe that some people are literally eating dirt… There is so little food in some areas of Sudan that people are taking extreme measures to survive. In the Al Lait refugee camp, they are eating dirt. I was stunned when I read that. If you were hungry enough, would you fill your stomach with dirt? Apparently, some desperately hungry people are rolling dirt into a ball and swallowing it with water… Akok, 41, reached Al Lait in December, but has no work and can’t feed the family. At times, they go two or three days without eating. When that happens, Akok said, he watcheshelplessly as his wife and children dig holes in the ground with a stick, slide their hands in and grab some soil. Then they roll the soil into a ball, put it in their mouths and swallow it with water. “I keep telling them not to do it, but it’s hunger,” he said. “There is nothing I can do.” In my latest book I have an entire chapter about the emerging global famine. What we are witnessing now is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what is eventually coming. I have also been warning that frightening pestilences will break out all over the globe, and right now we are witnessing an unprecedented outbreak of dengue fever in SouthAmerica. At this point, more than four million cases of dengue fever have been registered in Brazil alone so far this year… Brazil surpassed 4 million cases of dengue fever registered this year, according to an update from the Ministry of Health’s Arbovirus Monitoring Panel this Monday. In total,4,127,571 probable cases of the disease were reported across the country in the first four months of 2024. As for dengue deaths, 1,937 have been confirmed and 2,345 are under investigation. The incidence rate of the disease in the country is 2,032.7 cases for each group of 100,000population. And Peru has just declared a nationwide health emergency because cases of dengue fever are rising so rapidly in that nation… The Peruvian government’s cabinet approved the motion to declare a health emergency on Monday, Vasquez told journalists, hours after he said a dengue outbreak was “imminent.” “There are 20 regions (out of 25) that will be declared in a health emergency due to dengue,” Vasquez said in an earlier interview on local radio station RPP. Here in North America, H5N1 has been killing cows, cats, chickens and turkeys. Now authorities are desperately hoping that it does not make the jump to humans. For much more on this, please see my recent article entitled “The Strain Of The Bird Flu ThatIs Killing Cats In Texas Is Causing ‘Brain Hemorrhaging’ And ‘Blindness'”. Lastly, I would like to talk about the unusual natural disasters that we have been experiencing lately. In 2024, southern California has been getting shaken on a regular basis. Yesterday, it was hit by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake… An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1 has struck near Corona in Riverside County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS says the quake struck at 1:49 p.m. just 5.3 miles from Corona. It was originally reported as a 4.5 magnitude but was ultimately reduced to a 4.1. Overall, there have been 748 earthquakes in California and Nevada within the past seven days. It is just a matter of time before “the Big One” strikes, but at this stage most of those living in the region have stopped listening to such warnings. The east coast has also been experiencing unusual seismic activity. On the first day of this month, New Jersey was shaken by a magnitude 2.6 earthquake… A magnitude 2.6 aftershock has rattled New Jersey on the first day of May after a dramatic earthquake shook parts of the east coast in early April. The Garden State has been rocked by more than 150 aftershocks since the initial 4.8 magnitude earthquake which centered near Lebanon on the morning of April 5. More than 42 million people from New York to Connecticut and Philadelphia felt the first quake, and New Jersey residents have been plagued by tremors ever since. Normally, the east coast if very, very quiet. So what we are seeing right now is definitely quite unusual. The middle of the nation has not been left out either. In recent days we have seen tornado after tornado rock the center of the country. For example, one area of Nebraska was just hit by a tornado that had wind speeds of up to 165 miles per hour… Nebraska brothers tell a terrifying tale of feeling a tornado pull their home apart, sucking them out and tossing them with debris. “Ok, I’m cool to leave for work,” Roger Slatten thought to himself Saturday afternoon after Elkhorn, Nebraska’s tornado sirens went silent. But they sounded again. A strongEF-3 tornado was bearing down on the Omaha suburb with 165 mph winds. His friend called him in the car and said, “Get back home, It’s going crazy.” Roger called his brother Royce and told him to rush home. They planned to get the two dogs andall shelter in the basement. When will people finally start waking up? What we are experiencing is not even close to normal. It seems like almost every new day brings us yet another new crisis or disaster to deal with, and I have a feeling that the pace of events is only going to escalate as thisyear continues to roll along.

The stones of hate crying out

 The stones of hate crying out - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com How can institutions of higher learning, across America be subjected to and tolerant of the demonstrations supporting Palestinian terrorism against Jews? This hatred is spreadingacross the country under the false notion and mindset of human rights violations by the so-called “Jewish occupation.” It is the irrational moral equivalency of “Palestinian” terrorism justified by “Jewish” occupation. Israel is a legitimate nation. Palestineis a movement to end Israel and commit genocide of the Jewish people. The Palestinian movement is accusing Israel of what the Islamic terrorists are actually doing and intend to do. Their mantra “From the river to the sea” can be interpreted no other way thanpromoting genocide. Persian scholar al-Bukkhari compiled some 7,563 hadith narrations, or prophetic traditions, of the prophet Muhammad. It is considered the foremost authority on the hadithof Muhammad. In it Bukkhari 52:177 states, The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, “Oh Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.” The Quran contains at least 109verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. The root of Palestinian terror and hatred against Jews is not found in the land they claim is “occupied” by Jews, but rather it is foundational to the Islamic faith. This hatredis carried in the Quran. It is here in America. The demonstrations supporting Palestinian terrorism on college campuses are not spontaneous uprisings from the grassroots. They are organized and paid for by various non-profitsstanding against Israel and Jews. Case in point is the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), founded in 2006 to unite the Palestinian community in the US demanding self-determination of the “Palestinian” people “from the river to the sea.” USPCN organizes “protests and direct actions against Zionist institutions and individuals.” USPCN works with Black Lives Matter groups, Students for a Democratic Society and other radical, socialist and communist organizations. Other groups, reportedly funded by leftist GeorgeSoros, are paying protestors up to $7,800 for eight hours of protest organizing work, according to the New York Post. Isaiah 5:20 says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!.” This ready-made pipeline of radicals fomented over the years by Barack Obama’s and Joe Biden’s open immigration of people from extremist Islamic countries has marshalled into an antisemitism, anti-American, pro-genocide mob. They say they stand for human rights,but want to eliminate Israel. They embrace the allusion of stones crying out against the Jewish people. They are violent and unreasonable. They define the right of self-defense as genocide, unless they are the ones doing it. They stand on the podium of hate.This is the type of hate that can be neither appeased nor tolerated. They practice hate speech, and it falls in the streets. Our nation is in jeopardy. Sources: https://uspcn.org

The GOAT of GOATs

 The GOAT of GOATs - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com There is much debate among sports enthusiasts of who is the GOAT, the Greatest Of All Time. In football, some say it’s Tom Brady with seven Super Bowl wins as quarterback.In basketball, we hear names like Bill Russell who led the Celtics to 11 NBA championships to Michael Jordan’s six championships at Chicago. Baseball’s Willie Mays and Babe Ruth are among the GOATS. One of my personal favorites is track star Jesse Owens, wholeft Adolph Hitler’s race theories in the dust by winning gold at the 1936 Olympics. All these athletes were extremely gifted by God, and worked countless hours at their craft to be deserving of inclusion in the GOAT discussion. Being the GOAT is the resultof great sacrifice. On the sacred day of Yom Kippur, Aaron was instructed by the LORD to enter the Holy of Holies and offer very specific sacrifices. Among the sacrifices were two goats selectedby lot. One goat was designated for the LORD as the sin offering for the people, and his blood was sprinkled on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant. The fat of the offering was burned on the Copper Altar in the courtyard of the Tabernacle. The fleshand hide were burned outside the camp. The other goat, designated for Azazel (a name of an accusing angel), was called the scape goat. It was not slaughtered, but sent away carrying all of the sin and iniquity of the people to a “place uninhabited.” The phrasescape goat was translated by William Tindale from the Hebrew word seir mishtale’ach—“scape goat.” The two goats are considered to be a single sacrifice for Yom Kippur, but with two aspects—the blood of the first goat was given for atonement, the second goat was given forbanishment of sin from the Devine Presence. Jesus is both our atoning sacrifice (Isaiah 53:4-5; 1 Peter 2:24), and our “scape goat.” Psalm 103:12 says, “He has removed our sins from us, as far as the east is from the west.” There is a difference between atonement—forgivenessof sin–and removing the shame of that sin. And that is what Christ accomplished for us on the cross! The fulfillment of this most solemn day of the year—Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur–will be complete upon Christ’s return to atone for Israel, and all the nations’ sins, and then establish His Kingdom on the earth. Yom Kippur is the prophetic picture of the Day of the LORD spoken about by the prophets of Israel, revealing the coming judgement in the last days associated with the “rapture” of the believers in Christ, when National Israel will be restored to the LORD, and their sins purged (Matthew 24). Kippur is taken from the Hebrew word Kapporah meaning—“covering,” “protection,” “purification,” ”cleansing,” “forgiveness.” It is God’s heartfor you. Jesus is not only our High Priest, but also our Passover Lamb of God—and Goat of God, whose blood was sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat on Yom Kippur (Hebrews 9:11-12, 24), to cleanse us from sin and give us everlasting atonement, restoring our rightrelationship with the Father. So when we are talking GOATs, Jesus our Messiah is no doubt the Greatest Of All Time.

I Am Not Ashamed

 I Am Not Ashamed - By Howard Green - https://www.raptureready.com/2024/05/02/i-am-not-ashamed-by-howard-green/ Almost everyone likes to make a good first impression. God made us highly sociable beings, and most of us don’t leave our homes wondering, “How many people can I offend today?” In an effort to be seen as kind and loving, many Christians refrain from going into all the world to preach the gospel because they fear it will offend people. Some believers seem to value their standing in the community and reputation more than the name ofJesus. As we near the close of the age, the Bible says our faith will cost us more than our reputation. It might bring the loss of friends, family, finances, and even our life. Therealistic possibility of losing everything for what you believe begs the question, Are you ashamed of Jesus? (Luke 9:26). A disturbing trend has emerged recently in places that weren’t overtly hostile to the gospel. It is the trend of enacting legislation to silence a Christian’s right to freespeech if their words are deemed hateful or offensive. Recent examples include a street preacher in London who was threatened with arrest for simply saying, “God gave his only son, that whatever person, a homosexual, liar, drunk,or prostitute, believes in him, shall not perish and have everlasting life.” A young Christian lady was singing gospel songs recently on a London street. She was approached by five police officers and told that she couldn’t sing church songs outside of church.These are just two examples of many attempts to squelch the gospel under the guise of hate speech laws. A newly proposed Canadian law, Bill C-367, would end free speech protection for faith-based groups, and they float the bill under the pretense of antisemitism and hate speech.Governments that were at least tolerant of free speech in years past are increasingly proposing and passing laws meant to silence Christians. As the world turns increasingly against the gospel, I wonder who can stand as our faith begins to cost us something tangible. This becomes more evident in America and Europewhen living for Jesus, for the most part, only costs us our reputation, and for many, that’s too much of a cost to bear. It appears that sharing the gospel without the lure of a trunk full of Halloween candy, free lunch, spreading mulch, or a free Christmas show is deemed ineffective. Yes, weare saved unto good works, and Christians should be the kindest, most giving people in the world, but nowhere in the Bible will you find preachers earning the right to share the gospel. This is a spiritual bait-and-switch and the sort of charade that leaveswould-be disciples distrustful of churches and Christians. “If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on, and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawnfrom the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.” – A.W. Tozer When you take a look at a large segment of Christianity today, many so-called leaders have traded the convicting power of the Holy Spirit to reach lost souls for the convincingpower of our own goodness. Here’s one example out of many I could give: A fellow minister told me I wasn’t permitted to pass out gospel tracts or pray for people at our community ‘outreach’ function on the church property because there is a deepmistrust of churches and church leaders nationwide. The stated goal was to provide an opportunity for us to ‘know’ our neighbors, provide a safe space, and build bridges so we can eventually engage them with the gospel (Galatians 1:10). This sentiment isn’t unique to that particular church because the sin of self-congratulation and promotion to the world is in many of our local churches. In an effort to beunique and relevant, they have become irrelevant to the Kingdom. This unbiblical approach to the great commission is virtually everywhere you look in many so-called evangelical churches. Why is this? Simply put, by its very nature, thegospel is offensive and a matter of eternal life and death (2 Corinthians 2:15-15). In reality, many so-called ‘Christians’ would rather ingratiate themselves to the community by becoming more like the world to reach the world. We are told things like we haveto earn the right, build bridges of grace, get them to trust us, and seek to know them before we share the gospel. This pseudo-evangelism is spiritual deception from the pit of hell. If we wait to ‘eventually’ engage people with the gospel, it rarely happens, and most people we view as projects eventually go into eternity unsaved and unwarned. Here’s whatA.W. Tozer said about our worldly efforts to win public opinion instead of lost souls: “Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society’s own level,and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.” – A.W. Tozer I love the Church of Jesus and other believers. There is a true remnant church, authentic individual Christians in many churches worldwide that make up the body of Christ.How is it, then, that so many other professing Christians are afraid of the name of Jesus both inside and outside of church? Jesus explains why in Luke 9:25-26. The people who are preoccupied with religion and standing in the world will be ashamed of Him. Jesus makes an interesting point because He knows many people say, “Lord, Lord.” So they might identify with Jesus on a surface, religious, church affiliation level, but not in public with what the Bible says because it might offend someone. We esteem the praise of people more than pleasing God. Jesus says not only are you ashamed of me but “ashamed of my words.” This is why, in the context of His warning aboutbeing ashamed of Him, He tells us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and lose our lives for Him. Perhaps it’s time for personal and collective introspection among believers to ask the question: Are we ashamed of Jesus and His words? Dear friends, we aren’t the first generation to witness nominal worldly Christianity, as if there is such a thing. True believers are marked by boldness and love. We shouldboldly proclaim the gospel, and our love for the Lord and lost people compel us forward to share it with gentleness and respect (1 Peter 3:15). You would think that with the gift of hindsight and discernment, the tepid approach of groveling for the world to like and accept us, Christians would see that it doesn’twin disciples but makes false converts. Jesus said this world will hate you because it hates Him. Our job isn’t to reinvent the great commission with a supernatural version of Dale Carnegie’s Winning Friends and Influencing People. Instead, we must do whatJesus says and compel them to come in (Matthew 22:9). We must love people in word and deed, and a tangible way to do this is by sharing the gospel. It’s the most loving thing you can do for others, knowing they will spend eternity in heaven or hell. I am notashamed (Romans 1:16). All for Him, Howard Link to our ministry YouTube channel: (Here) Link to our ministry podcast: (Here)

Power to Deceive

 Power to Deceive - By Jack Kinsella - https://www.raptureready.com/2024/05/02/power-to-deceive-by-jack-kinsella/ One of the hallmark signs of the last days before the return of Christ is that of deception on a global scale. The Bible says that the antichrist’s entire platform is builton deception. “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, thatthey should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live” (Revelation 13:14). When asked, “What will be the sign of Thy coming?” Jesus’ reply began with the words, “Take heed that no man deceive you” (Matthew 24:4). The Apostle Paul, in his 2nd letter to Timothy, speaking specifically of the last days, warned, “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2nd Timothy 3:13). The prophet Isaiah, also writing of the Tribulation Period, prophesied, “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil beforemine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not” (Isaiah 66:3). Contrariwise, Paul says of the Church of the last days, “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (1st Thessalonians 5:4). The ‘day’ to which Paul is referring is the day of the Rapture of the Church, a secret event that Jesus said would remain secret because, “…if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through” (Luke 12:39). Suppose that it became common knowledge that the Rapture was definitely going to take place on January 1, 2016. Recall the ‘Millennium fever’ period just before the turn of the century. The lyrics to a popular song of the time makes my point; “Two thousand, zero zero / party over / out of time / So tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999.” That pretty much sums it up. If we knew when the Lord was coming back for sure, you can bet that the day before, there’d be a whole lotta repentin’ goin’ on. But up until then… well, human nature is what it is. Christians are only human, after all. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come” (Matthew 24:42). Assessment In this generation, deception has taken on a new dimension. A lie isn’t a lie; it is ‘spin.’ Truth is relative — one man’s ‘truth’ is another man’s lie — it all depends onwhat the meaning of the word ‘is’ is, and so forth. “And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemyagainst God, to blaspheme His Name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven” (Revelation 13:5-6). The Bible says that during the seven-year Tribulation Period, a political leader will emerge from the ashes of the Roman Empire, seize control of the reigns of global power,and then use that power to unleash a worldwide persecution of Christians and Jews that will result in the deaths of millions. For most of my lifetime, the whole idea sounded preposterous. The world, at the time I entered it, had just emerged victorious from having vanquished just such a foe. Indeed, during the Second World War, there were plenty of books sold naming Adolph Hitler as the antichrist and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as his false prophet, soclosely did the Axis resemble Revelation’s picture of the unholy alliance. But Hitler wasn’t the antichrist. He persecuted the Jews, but the Bible says that, under the real antichrist, he will persecute the Jews of Israel, who will inhabit Jerusalem. And Hitler tried to seize control of the whole world. The Bible says that the antichrist will have it handed to him, just as Germany handed control of itself over to Hitler. Hitler didn’t control the global propaganda machine, just the one in Germany. Still, propaganda proved its power. In a single generation, Hitler was able to transform themost cultured nation in Europe into a nation of bloodthirsty murderers. In a single generation, German Jews went from being treasured members of the German population to subhumans deemed fit only for fertilizer. The German propaganda machine was directly responsible for the murders of at least twelve million Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, mental patients, and others deemed unfit to live. Next door, Josef Stalin’s propaganda machine convinced the Russian people to murder some fifty million of their own for one reason or another. Russian propaganda was, to Western ears, laughable. But until the Berlin Wall collapsed, the average Russian believed that Russia invented everything worth having, and whateverthe West had, we stole the designs from them. The Bible says that one day, someone will seize control of the spin machine and make it his own. It says that he will deceive a willing public only too happy to hear whatthey want to hear, even if it is obvious deception, because they WANT to believe it. The Apostle Paul, writing of the events leading up to the revelation of the antichrist, told the church at Thessalonica, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2nd Thessalonians 2:11-12). This generation has been conditioned for the past fifty years to accept lies as truth, and to disparage truth as lies, if it tickles their ears and suits their bias. “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth will let, until He be taken out of the way. And THEN shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shallconsume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.” The only thing standing in ‘that Wicked’s’ way is the Church. For now.

Debunking Popular Lies About the Pre-Tribulation Rapture

 Debunking Popular Lies About the Pre-Tribulation Rapture – ByJonathan Brentner - https://harbingersdaily.com/debunking-popular-lies-about-the-pre-tribulation-rapture/ One of the most unpopular beliefs among Christians today is that of the pre-Tribulation Rapture. Many not only scoff at our expectation of meeting Jesus in the air, but alsoridicule those of us who believe it could happen at any moment. The resulting silence in most pulpits today regarding our “blessed hope” has opened the door for a great many misconceptions about it to flourish. For many, social media andInternet searches have replaced sound biblical teaching regarding our “blessed hope.” Below are five popular lies about the Rapture. 1. Belief in The Rapture Began With John Darby Despite clear and overwhelming evidence to the contrary, most Christians remain convinced that belief in the pre-Tribulation Rapture began with John Darby. They claim thatsince no one in the church held this viewpoint prior to the nineteenth century, we shouldn’t ascribe to something no one believed before the time of Darby. This assertion is blatantly false. In AD 180, Irenaeus wrote Against Heresies to refute the errors of Gnosticism. In Book 5, Chapter 29, of Against Heresies he wrote these words: And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, “There shall be Tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neithershall be.” In the above quote, this early prominent early church theologian used the same Greek word for “caught up,” harpazo, that Paul used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, a favorite Raptureverse of many. He clearly had this passage in mind. While his words don’t specify a pre-Tribulation Rapture, they do reveal Irenaeus’ belief that the event portrayed in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, the harpazo, would come before atime of extended Tribulation on the earth as presented in Matthew 24:21ff during which time the church would be absent from the earth. His words also confirm an early belief in Jesus’ appearance for His church that’s separate from the Second Coming. He didn’t combine the two events as most do today. In my book, The Triumph of the Redeemed, I document beliefs similar to that of Irenaeus in the following documents or writers: The Shepherd of Hermas (about AD 140) Cyprian (AD 200–258) The Apocalypse of Elijah (Third Century AD) Ephraim the Syrian (AD 306–373) Morgan Edwards (1722–1795) Each of the above examples, which predate John Darby by an exceptionally long time, express the belief that Jesus would remove His church from the earth before a period ofextended judgment upon it. Ephraim clearly believed in a pre-Tribulation Rapture although Morgan Edwards placed it at the midpoint of the Tribulation. Ongoing research into the history of the church continues to uncover more occurrences of a belief in the removal of the church from the world followed by a time of tribulationand after that, the Second Coming. In his book, Dispensationalism Before Darby, Dr. William C. Watson devoted an entire chapter to instances of belief in the Rapture during seventeenth century England. In afew of the cases, writers used the word “Rapture” while others referred to some who would be “left behind.” Church history is full of references, long before the time of Darby, that place Jesus’ appearing for His church before a time of tribulation that precedesthe Second Coming. 2. There’s No Mention of It In Scripture Many scoffers of our hope like to point out that the Bible doesn’t contain the word “Rapture.” Such an assertion deceptively implies that there’s no such event described inScripture, which again is totally false. The late Dr. Ed Hindson, former professor at Liberty University, acclaimed Bible scholar, and author, put it this way: If you disagree on the timing of the rapture, please don’t tell people, “There’s never going to be a rapture.” No, there must be a rapture or the Bible is not true. Theremust be a time when the archangel shouts, when the trumpet sounds, and the dead in Christ are raised and the living are caught up (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18). We may differ on the timing of the rapture but not the fact of the rapture. It’s true that John Darby helped popularize the application of the word “Rapture” to the event that Paul describes in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, I Corinthians 15:50-55, Philippians3:20-21, and Titus 2:11-14. However, giving it a name is far different than creating it. The event we refer to as the “Rapture” occurs in the Bible; it’s just not labelled as such that in our English translations of Scripture. 3. Belief in The Rapture Is Escapism Another falsehood used to discredit the Rapture is that its proponents just want to escape tumultuous times on the earth. In other words, we are just seeking to avoid thetribulation that Jesus said would be the experience of His followers. First, there’s a significance difference between the persecution and affliction that we experience because of our faith and the outpouring of God’s wrath during the Day ofthe Lord. Second, our belief stems from what Paul wrote about Jesus coming for us before this awful period of Tribulation begins (1 Thessalonians 5:1-10). I love the response of John Walvoord to such criticism: Is it an unworthy motive to desire to escape the Great Tribulation? Actually, it is no more so than the desire to escape hell. The point in either case is not our desire orwishes but the question as to what the Scriptures promise. Pretribulationists hope to escape the Great Tribulation because it is expressly a time of divine judgment on a world that has rejected Christ. But the Scriptures also reveal the Great Tribulation asa time of satanic wrath against Israel and believers in Christ who are living at the time. The Great Tribulation is a time of both divine wrath and satanic wrath. Our hope for missing the Tribulation period rests on the words or Scripture rather than our desire to escape trouble. And as Walvoord points out, how is our desire to escapeGod’s wrath on earth any different than that of wanting to avoid it in the lake of fire? 4. Those Who Believe in The Rapture Don’t Care About The Current World This falsehood is more of an attack on us who believe in the Rapture than against the teaching itself. Again, the idea that we don’t care about this world or its inhabitantsis simply not true of the majority of those who daily watch for Jesus’ appearing. Scholar and author, Dr. Grant R. Jeffrey, wrote the following concerning the myth-based assertion that belief in the Rapture causes us to cease caring about this world andits people: For the past two centuries, churches that enthusiastically taught the literal premillennial and pretribulation return of Jesus have been at the forefront of the worldwidemedical missions as well as missionary efforts to reach the lost. Of course there will be exceptions, but from what I see, there’s no lack of compassion for the hurting and lost among those that wait expectancy for Jesus’ appearing. Beliefin the Rapture, if anything, accelerates the desire of most to give generously to help the poor and support the spread of Gospel. 5. Jesus Doesn’t Intervene in Our World Until The End Of The Age Those that believe the preceding falsehoods pertaining to the Rapture say the next event on God’s prophetic calendar is an end-of-the-age return of Jesus to initiate the eternalstate. Many pastors convey such a scenario by preaching that all believers today will someday die. I have heard this proclaimed several times from the pulpit in churches that I haveattended in the past. Such teaching directly contradicts the New Testament; Paul tells us there will be saints alive at the time of Jesus’ appearing (1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Thessalonians 4:17). The New Testament belief in Jesus’ imminent appearing doesn’t place an end date on this expectancy, but asserts that it could happen at any moment. The abundance of signspointing to the soon arrival of the Tribulation period tell us that it’s likely that most believers today will meet Jesus in the air before they die. Though not a certainty, it’s a viable expectation for the day in which we live. A careful study of the words in the texts describing Jesus’ appearing and the Second Coming reveal that they cannot be the same event. At the time of the Rapture, Jesus raisesthe dead saints immediately; it’s the very first thing He does (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). When He returns to the earth, several major events take place before He raises His followers (Revelation 19:17-20:4); it’s likely that the resurrection doesn’t happenthe same day because of the many intervening events. A careful study reveals an abundance of other stark differences between the two events that make it impossible for one to say they happen at the same time. Prominent earlychurch theologians such as Irenaeus and Cyprian wrote that Jesus would come for His church before a time of Tribulation on the earth, Jesus’ Second Coming after that. Some “post-Tribulationists” such as Robert Gundry place the bowl judgments in-between theRapture and Jesus’ return to the earth. Why do so many Christians cling to falsehoods about the Rapture? It’s because they start with beliefs regarding the end times that make such an occurrence impossible. The most popular views regarding Bible prophecy claim that most of the book of Revelation is symbolism, code exclusively for first century AD saints, or past history (fulfilledprophecy). These widely accepted viewpoints presuppose that there cannot be a Rapture, which explains its unpopularity in most churches.

If You’re Going to Stand, Now Is the Time

 If You’re Going to Stand, Now Is the Time - By Paul J. Scharf - https://www.raptureready.com/2024/04/30/if-youre-going-to-stand-now-is-the-time-by-paul-j-scharf/ The United States was attacked in unprecedented waves of terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001. What followed was an immediate, passionate surge of patriotism mingled with religiousfervor. Many of us remember those days very clearly. Our patriotism ran only so deep, however, and the spiritual connection was extremely shallow. After six months, the enthusiasm had largely faded away. When Israel was attacked by Hamas in unprecedented waves of terrorism on Oct. 7, 2023, we would have expected a passionate surge of support for Israel grounded in Biblicalunderstanding. But that support never came—at least not from society as a whole. What happened instead was near-instant handwringing driven by concern that Israel would respond with a heavyhand—far beyond that which such barbaric acts, including the taking of at least 250 Israeli (and American) hostages, might deserve. Now, more than six months later, the enthusiasm is just beginning to build—against Israel—with no signs of slowing down. We are moving into an era of unprecedented, irrational,demonic antisemitism, causing fear in the hearts of many Jewish people. Those spouting the toxic rhetoric run within the highest levels of our government and apparently fill the hallways and faculty lounges of historically prestigious academic institutions. The themes of the chanting crowds are as pompous as they are poison. The most gracious interpretation I can offer is that these young people simply have no earthly idea whatthey are caught up in. So, for the sake of clarity, let me provide a few explanations: When you identify with Hamas, you are admitting to be part of an international terrorist organization—declared to be so by the United States Department of State. When you cry out “From the River to the Sea,” you are referring to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The phrase is shorthand for the eradication of Israel and, ultimately,all Jewish people. If you call out “Death to America,” I can only understand you to mean that you wish for the violent and gruesome annihilation of the United States—its system and her citizens. We watch with horror as these demonstrations unfold. Perhaps more stunning than the acts of the protesters is the lack of a dignified response from those in charge at alllevels of our society. We may indeed be sickened by what we see, but we should not be surprised and need not be fearful or frustrated. The prophet Zechariah warned us twice that, just before Christ’sreturn, the entire world would be drawn inexplicably toward Israel—and all would come to oppose her. “For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem” (Zech. 14:2; see also 12:3). This will certainly include the United States—in whatever conditionshe exists following the rapture of the church. As we witness the spiritual status of many of our allegedly best and brightest—our nation’s future leaders—on our college campuses, it does not take much to imagine our impending demise. None of this is shocking if we understand the prophetic Scriptures. What really ought to haunt us is this question: What has your church had to say regarding these happenings?If the answer is nothing, you have cause for deep concern. May I ask, dear pastors, what you are teaching about these issues? Certainly, the people in your pews are looking for answers, and they are looking to you for leadership.What have you been offering them? Have you devoted even one message to this timely topic? I would say to all Americans, but especially to all Christians, if ever you are going to stand for the people of Israel, now is the time. If you keep silent now, you may nothave another opportunity. As Nazi-era Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller famously stated: … Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. My friend Dr. Tim Sigler puts it this way: Do you wonder what you would have done if you had been alive during the Holocaust? Watch what you are doing right now. You willlikely find the answer to your question in the response you are offering at the present. Finally, to anyone reading these words with a sigh and a shrug, still unconvinced about the whole issue of Israel’s importance, I would simply challenge you to consider God’sHoly Word through, again, the prophet Zechariah: “It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem” (12:9). I know where I stand. How about you?

A Silence That Will Have to Be Answered For

 A Silence That Will Have to Be Answered For – By Amir Tsarfati - https://harbingersdaily.com/amir-tsarfati-a-silence-that-will-have-to-be-answer-for/ (Galilee, Israel) — Shalom from Israel! This Sunday night will begin Yom HaShoah, and the remembrance will run through Monday afternoon. Translated literally as “Day of theCatastrophe”, this is Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the 1930s and 1940s, more than six million Jews lost their lives under the Nazi regime. Of those victims, greater than 1.5 million were children. At 10:00 on Monday morning, sirens will sound throughout the nation of Israel. At that moment, all people will stop what they are doing and stand in silence for two minutesto honor and remember those who were slaughtered during that horrific time. Places of business will halt their activities. Cars will pull over and their passengers will get out. School classes will pause their instruction. As a nation and as a people, we aredetermined that we will never forget what took place during those dark times. Why is it so important to intentionally remember tragedy? To answer that, all you need to do is look at what is currently happening in national and international governmentbuildings and on university campuses around the world. On October 7, a slaughter took place that was so vile, so vicious, so demonic that it seemed the world had to pause to catch its breath. Torture, systematic rape, kidnapping, murder, and mutilation wereperpetrated by gleeful terrorists against an unsuspecting and wholly innocent civilian population. Israel was forever changed, and a huge majority of nations around the world commiserated with us. But that was then, and this is now. Before we get to what is different today, let’s talk about what led to this change of attitude. It’s really very simple – Israel fought back, and it did so with a vengeance.That’s not what is supposed to happen. The world likes it much better when its Jews are victims. During the Holocaust, apart from some amazing acts of bravery, like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, most all of the Jews went quietly to their deaths. During the pogromsin Russia, the Jews fled from the violence. Over the centuries, when Jews were forced to leave their homes and their countries, they went. What else could they do? They were part of a diaspora. They were strangers in a strange land. But now the Jews have a home, and that home has allowed us to become strong. No longer are we forced to take the shots. When the chanters cry out, “From the River to the Sea”, we respond, “Yeah, just try to take our land.” And when the terrorists invade, Israel will make sure that they can never, ever do it again. How do we do that? We kill all of Hamas’s leadership, and, if there are any of their rank-and-file members that survivethe onslaught, we will bring them to justice. It’s harsh, it’s violent, and it’s bloody. But it is what it will take for Israel to once again be safe within its own borders. The International Pushback The United Nations hates anything it can’t control. For decades it’s been unsuccessfully trying to control Israel. Resolution after resolution condemning Israel and demandingthe government change its ways have all fallen on deaf ears. This is especially frustrating for them, because Israel is filled with those same Jews that for so many centuries were under the thumb of many of the United Nations’ nations. After October 7, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the Hamas attack, although the body itself never did so. But what goodwill might have beencontained within the UN soon started to fade once Israel began to fight back against Hamas in Gaza. In January, Guterres condemned Israel for the killing of Gazan civilians, despite the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) taking unprecedented care to avoid innocentdeaths. Then, in March, the UN Security Council demanded a ceasefire in Gaza for Ramadan. Since those tactics didn’t work, they’ve now concocted a new scheme to use the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and other top government officials. The United States’ president and congress have threatened retaliation if the ICC goes through with this hair-brained scheme, but it goes to show how desperate theinternational community is to get those renegade Jews back under control. As wonderful as it is to have this support from the United States, Israel recognizes that America is getting frustrated at the fact that they, too, are losing control of theirclosest Middle Eastern ally. From its inception, Israel has been the beneficiary of U.S. goodwill, sometimes military, sometimes financial. The extent of this goodwill has varied from time to time, often based on who is in the White House. In return for thatsupport, the United States could typically count on Israel to acquiesce when Washington felt strongly enough to insist on a matter. Currently, that is not the case. The Biden administration needs peace in Gaza. The election is coming, and he desperately needs an international win. Unfortunately, Netanyahu is saying, “Yeah, I get it. Butwe’ve got to see this thing through, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.” This puts the Washington administration in a tough situation. The majority of American public opinion is still with Israel, so if the U.S. pulls an Afghanistan and totally abandonstheir Jewish allies, Biden will get walloped in the polls. But if he does nothing and the war in Israel expands up into Lebanon, as planned, he’ll also get walloped in the polls. So, the administration is resorting to arm-twisting using the normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia as leverage. While in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, just prior to visitingIsrael, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “In order to move forward with normalization, two things will be required – calm in Gaza and a credible pathway to a Palestinian state.” Bringing to a close Israel’s battle for safety and passing some sortof two-state solution would go a long way to showing Biden as an international leader. But there is no way that Netanyahu is going to allow either of those to take place. That is why the White House is working to oust the prime minister using the hostage situation. Factions are arising in Israel surrounding the hostages. It’s understandable,because people want their family members home. Rumblings are coming out of the White House talking about a ceasefire in return for a limited release of hostages. If Netanyahu were to cave to the pressure to take such a deal, his government would fall apartalmost instantly. Some members of the left in Washington are hoping that the emotions surrounding the hostages will overwhelm the big picture wisdom surrounding the war to such an extent that Netanyahu’s coalition will break and a more pliable option likeYair Lapid or Yoav Gallant will be given the prime minister position. For now, Netanyahu is doing what most of Israel is wanting him to do. We have not forgotten October 7. The IDF is using aerial attacks to soften up Rafah, in preparation fora ground invasion to put the final nails in the coffin of Hamas. They are also continuing the battle in the West Bank against Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Up in the north, key Hezbollah infrastructure is being destroyed and terrorist leadersare being killed in Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah and the proxy militias are fighting back. Regular barrages of rockets are flying over the Syrian and Lebanese border into Israel, and terrorist attacks in the streets and at military checkpoints are becomingall too familiar. Israel’s fight against the terrorist groups will continue, and we will not at all be surprised if the day will soon come when we will be prosecuting the war standing by ourselves. Radical Pushback It is certainly more sensational to focus on the crazy antics that are taking place on college campuses in the U.S. However, I don’t think that is the important story. Thisis not a “what” question, but a “why”. And to understand the “why”, we must identify the “who”. It’s impossible to turn on the network media or to go onto your favorite online news sources without seeing a bunch of black-and-white keffiyeh wearing college students chantingridiculous slogans, setting up “Palestinian Liberation Zones” on campus, breaking into and taking over university buildings, and wrestling with the police. According to AP News, more than 1,000 protesters have been arrested on university campuses over thepast two weeks. But despite the location of the arrests, many of those taken into custody were not students. The protests taking place are neither spontaneous nor organic. They have been carefully planned and were simply awaiting a catalyst to launch. Those behind the college riotsare outside professionals funded by radical leftists like George Soros and organizations like the American Muslims for Palestine, which is a Hamas-financing arm in the U.S. These skilled agitators know the right words to say to whip up emotion. They are socialmedia savvy and know how to glamorize the idea of “sticking it to the man.” They are also masters at escalation, and when protests turn violent it is typically their hands behind the intensification. The greatest tools these agitators have are the liberal nature of secondary and university education, the susceptibility and geopolitical ignorance of the majority of Americanyoung adults, and the desperate craving of this generation for deeper meaning in their lives. So, when a passionate activist comes along and reaffirms the lies of their leftist teachers and professors, they are ready to believe it. Because they are susceptibleand ignorant, logic and truth are easily discounted in favor of emotion and feelings. Thus, when they take over a university building and throw a water bottle at a policeman, they feel they are doing something righteous in the name of justice for the oppressed.Little do they know that their entire belief system is a house of cards built on a foundation of lies. This is why you can find college students who two years ago were nervously posing for prom pictures now employing Nazi SA brown shirt tactics blocking Jewish students fromentering college buildings and beating them up because of their race. It is the lies of these agitators that turn the high school valedictorian who went to Columbia for a law degree into a keffiyeh wrapped banshee screaming and spitting at the cops. Meanwhile,at many universities, the administration and faculty that parents are trusting to educate and lead their children are allowing this insanity to take place without recrimination. This is why we must constantly be reminded of October 7. This is why you regularly find brutal reminders on my Telegram channel of what took place that tragic day. Already,the rapes and torture are being branded as lies or exaggerations. Or, worse yet, they’re being given a pass as an understandable acting out of an oppressed people. That is disgusting, it is appalling, and it is heartbreaking to think of what that kind of moralequivalency is doing to the hearts of those who are being taught that brand of evil. But the ever-worsening antisemitic rhetoric being spouted on streets and on campuses is not just limited to October 7. It is directed at Israel in general and at the Jewishpeople in particular. That is why it is unfathomable to me that so many pastors and political figures remain mute on the subject. It is a silence that I believe they will have to answer for. God is looking for church pulpits and political rostrums from whichHis chosen people are prayed for and antisemitism is harshly condemned. Yom HaShoah ensures that we will never forget the Holocaust and the millions who were brutally murdered. But even though we Jews didn’t forget that there were people who oncewanted to wipe us all out, we did get complacent. October 7 was a different kind of “Day of Catastrophe”. It was a wake-up call. Rather than stand in remembrance of the slaughtered innocents for two minutes, we grabbed our guns to take revenge on the guilty.We will not be caught off-guard again. We will never forget.

Nearing Orwell’s Nightmare

 Nearing Orwell’s Nightmare – Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/04/28/nearing-orwells-nightmare/ Back to when I could see to read –now more than 30 years ago—I had 3 versions of George Orwell’s 1984 in my library. As a matter of fact, I believe those volumes are stillhere in the book shelves — somewhere. I had read all three versions years before, during college years and afterward in subsequent re-readings. I believe I reread the book even during the actual year of 1984. Of course, my interest in Orwell’s work involved more than merely an interest in dystopian literature. The book smacked of the Tribulation era described in the Bible. Itschief character, not the protagonist Winston Smith, but Big Brother, reminded of how Antichrist will control most of the world during that 7-year period known as Daniel’s seventieth week. Now, because of blindness, I must have everything read to me through a computer voice synthesis program called Jobs Accessible Word System or JAWS as is its acronym. Books –or any other text—must be presented in a text document form for JAWS to read them. So I now must have books in computer text to read books like Orwell’s novel. If Ihad such a document, I would certainly be reading 1984 at the present time. It seems that Mr. Orwell’s fictional cogitations were almost prescient – thus, the title of the commentary: Nearing Orwell’s Nightmare. Orwell’s book sparked my interest in writing a novel along the lines of 1984 but Bible-centered in its scope. The novel’s title is Jacob’s Trouble – 666, which is inclusiveof Jeremiah 30:7, the entirety of the books of Revelation, and some of the book of Daniel. I believe my own effort at such a work of fiction was prompted by the Holy Spirit, but being the fallible human writer I am, I fell far short of capturing the nuance of developmentsthat have now eventuated in movement toward the seven-year era that will constitute the Tribulation. And what a ride it has been upon the heaving waves of satanic tumult toward that horrendous time of which the ascended Lord Jesus forewarned through His beloveddisciple John. News of the hour the past week caught my attention with regard to indicating just how near this generation is to the dystopian world John foretold, Orwell described, and thatI tried to capture in my fiction. And such news has been compiling day by day –sometimes hour by hour, as I indicate. Mostly, in mainstream venues, the words are, in most every case, constructed in such a way as to push into the reader’s mind the leftist ideologicalrants of the moment. Orwell’s novel presented a completely changed way of covering news –and every other kind of communication. It was called News Speak. A governmental organization devoted everyworking moment to changing the way people heard news and even how they were influenced to think about what they heard. This brainwashing was called Double Think. Here is an excerpt from 1984: “Just the man I was looking for,” said a voice at Winston’s back. He turned round. It was his friend Syme, who worked in the Research Department. Perhaps ‘friend’ was not exactly the right word. You did not have friends nowadays; you hadcomrades, but there were some comrades whose society was pleasanter than that of others. Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak… “How is the Dictionary getting on?” said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise. “Slowly,” said Syme. “I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.” […] “The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,” he said. “We’re getting the language into its final shape – the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words – scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.”… It was B. B.’s idea originally, of course,” he added as an afterthought. A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston’s face at the mention of Big Brother… “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no wordsin which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point.But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a questionof self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. [Source: 1984 by George Orwell, Part 1, Chapter 5, 1949] So, Thoughtcrime” was prosecuted in Orwell’s 1984. They were in the process of doing away with this form of crime. They were simply in the process of changing everything inthe way of communication so no one could go against the state –the governmental dictates. Reminds of wokeness and cancel Culture, doesn’t it? The Tribulation’s Big Brother will no doubt use every satanically-inspired technology to do exactly what Orwell’s B.B. was doing during that fictional dystopian era. Antichrist will doubtless use the most highly advanced AI to institute Satan’s drive to enslave every human on earth. Certainly, we are witnessing efforts to bring that enslavementinto being even at this moment, just prior to the Rapture. Speaking of which, you don’t want to be here when Big Brother of the Tribulation comes on the scene. Rather, you want to go to Jesus when He Calls from the Clouds of Glory,where there will be Great Joy and Grand Reunion at the same time Antichrist turns the planet into something worse than portrayed in 1984. Here is how to go to Christ when the Rapture happens. “That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believesunto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

Fueling Antisemitism

 Fueling Antisemitism: Hamas’ Demonic Lies Are Being Perpetuated By The Media – By Robert Gottselig - https://harbingersdaily.com/fueling-antisemitism-hamas-demonic-lies-are-being-perpetuated-by-the-media/ Last week, the Jerusalem Post reported that the spokesperson for Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, called for an escalation across all fronts. “In a video aired by Al Jazeera TV, Abu Ubaida praised Iran’s attack on Israel on April 13…” JPost explained. “He also called for an escalation in the West Bank and Jordancalling it ‘one of the most important Arab fronts.'” The Hamas spokesman further stated: “We call on the Jordanian people to step up their actions and raise their voices. The government of the occupation is stalling in reachinga hostages swap deal and is trying to obstruct efforts by the mediators to reach a ceasefire agreement.” I can assure you that it’s not Israel that’s stalling or obstructing efforts to reach a ceasefire. There already was a ceasefire on October 6th of last year, and Hamas brokeit. Stop with the lies! Qatar also expressed its concern that all part parties should “show seriousness” to allow such efforts to succeed. Again, it’s not Israel that is to blame. It’s those whohate Israel are to blame. Hamas is a terrorist organization whose goal in its Charter is to “obliterate” the Jewish State. The same is true with Iran. They openly call for Israel to be wiped off the face of the map, and they are determined to develop a nuclear weapon to carry that out. As for Qatar, they, too, show what they think of Israel. “We do not surrender, but rather we win, or we die. This is not the end. Rather, you will have to fight the next generation, yes, the next generation,” Essa Bin Ahmad Al-Nassr,a member of the Qatari legislative Shura council, said, paraphrasing a quote from Omar Mukhtar, an Islamic revolutionary hailed by Muslims as a “symbol of resistance.” “The Al-Aqsa flood operation [October 7th massacre] that began is only a prelude to the elimination of the Jews,” he continued. “The second is in the land and the beginning,Allah willing, of the end of their state after their gathering in the land of Palestine.” “As Allah almighty said, and we said after him to the children on Israel, ‘Inhabit the land, so when the promise of the hereafter [death] comes, we brought you as a group,'” the council member said referencing a verse in the Quran. “Here they are coming and gathering in the land of Mahshar, in the land of Palestine, the battlefield of the next generation.” Seriously? The Al-Aqsa flood, that is, the October 7th Massacre, was only the prelude to the elimination of the Jews and Israel? That’s demonic, and in their warped, sick minds, they try to convince the world that Israel is the one obstructing efforts to reach a ceasefire. This evil that is being perpetratedin the media has fueled antisemitism worldwide. Antisemitism is running rampant in US college campuses and here in our Canadian universities. Yet, our political leaders in our countries are virtually silent on the matter.They refuse to shut down this demonic hate towards the Jewish people, and it’s getting worse and worse. In fact, it’s starting to look an awful lot like Nazi Germany did in the 1930s. What in the world is going on? I’ll tell you. If I didn’t have God’s Word to bring clarity to the days in which we live, I wouldn’t be able to make any sense of it. It should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brainthat this is a battle between good and evil, right and dead wrong. There are no two sides here, friends. I believe we’re living in a Romans 1 world. Verses 16 to 32 of this chapter speak of God giving people over to a “reprobate mind.” They don’t have the ability to think clearly.They don’t have the ability to use common sense. Romans 1:28 – “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;” We are living in the last days, as Paul wrote to Timothy (2 Tim 3:1-5). There is a real spiritual battle going on, and Satan is the “prince of the power of the air,” workingover time in the “sons of disobedience” (Eph. 2:1-3, 6:12). Therefore, we need to be praying hard for our countries and for our leaders to wake up and restore our land to what we once knew as normal only a few years ago. We need tobe praying that our leaders will put an end to this violence that is being carried out against Israel and the Jewish people. I’m afraid that if we don’t turn this around quickly, God, true to His Word in Genesis 12:3, will not bring blessings to our countries.Rather, God will bring a curse with His judgment and some seriously hard times for this world. As Bible-believing Christians, I implore you to stand, love, and support Israel and the Jewish people in their darkest hour since the Holocaust. I want to remind you thatGod is taking note, and we will all have to give an account one day as we see Jesus, the king of Kings, the king of the Jews, face to face. May the words of Asaf in Psalm 83 be a warning to the world and to those who hate God’s chosen people: Psalm 83:13-18 – “O my God, make them like the whirling dust,Like the chaff before the wind! As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire, So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord. Let them be confoundedand dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.”

It can happen to you, too

 It can happen to you, too - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com Call it what you will—communism, socialism, fascism, democratic socialism, liberal democrat, whatever—these are all different shades of tyranny, cousins of the same family.And there is no evidence greater that it is alive and well in America than these so-call “trials” conjured up the Democratic Party against former president Donald Trump. A hallmark of communism, or tyranny in general, is the destruction of political opposition.This is what is happening to Trump. And, if we are not careful, it will happen to any of us who disagree with the Democratic Party bosses. They are using the full measure of their party appointments, elected officials and operatives to persecute Trump in theseshow trials. While the Democratic Party, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton conspired to, but unsuccessfully, implicate candidate Trump in 2016 and Russia in an election interference scheme(and spending millions in taxpayer dollars to prove nothing), there is even a bigger election interference occurring today. It is obvious that the Democrats have weaponized their court appointments and elected Democrat prosecutors to try to put Trump behindbars. This smacks of the communist show trials we saw during the Cold War as well as what we see today in China, Nicaragua, and Cuba. Stalin’s longstanding secret police chief Laverntiy Beria bragged “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” as he wasresponsible for the execution of millions during the Stalin era. Any opposition for any crime committed or not. In his controversial book “The New Persecuted, Inquiries into Anti-Christian Intolerance in the New Century of Martyrs” written in 2001, Antonio Socci wrote that 45 millionChristians were martyred in the last century–mostly at the hands of communist and Islamic regimes. From 1900 to 1999, over 100 million deaths occurred because of communism. The Miami Herald reported on April 23, 2006 that Fidel Castro was responsible for 31,173executions and prison deaths since he took power in 1959. Some 5,728 were killed by firing squads. He refused medical attention to those trying to escape the island by boat, resulting in another estimated 77,000 deaths. Nearly all the sources indicate an exactnumber of deaths caused by Castro’s regime is unattainable, with some estimating the death toll over 1.5 million. From January 6 defendants rotting in jail without trials, to those found guilty using laws that were not remotely associated with Capitol Hill protests to the twisted prosecutionof Trump and most anybody associated with him, we are witnessing the exclusive Marxist handiwork of the Democratic Party. Can you see the pattern? Even Hillary Clinton is now saying that if he is elected, Trump will seek to kill his political opposition. Fromher heart her mouth speaks because that is what she and her party did and is doing to Trump, figuratively killing the opposition. It’s far more than election interference. Isaiah 59:14 says, “Justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance.For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.” This is how it is. What crime have you committed? Allowing this to continue is, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.

Behavior Matters

 Behavior Matters For many years, every weekday at 8:50 AM, Charlotte's WBT played "A Moment of Hope," an attempt by a prominent local preacher to inspire, encourage, and benefit the citizens of Charlotte. I would listen to it most days as I prepared for work.Many of these two-minute offerings dripped with Protestant saccharin, requiring some effort to endure them. One morning, however, I could listen for only the first fifteen seconds before turning the radio off in disgust. The preacher began (my paraphrase): I've really noticed lately how external our society is. We care so much about how we look and how we dress. It matters too much how much our house costs and what model car we drive. That's really quite dismaying because how we look and how webehave have no eternal value . . .. (This is when I cut him off.) It was hard to believe this outright lie coming from a respected member of the clergy! How we behave has no eternal value? It made me question the man's education, and then I remembered he graduated from a mainstream Protestant seminary. Everythingfell into place. Core Protestant theology, especially the mainstream variety, decrees that grace by faith alone is the only thing of eternal value, and behavior—which Protestant theologians consider to be "works"—has no part to play in our eternal life. This Charlotte preacher would likely find a way to defend his statement while maintaining that God wants us to be good people. If pressed, he would probably fall back on the deceptive Protestant line that all one has to do is believe in Jesus, and he will be saved. What we do, as long as we are committed Christians, does not matter in the end. BillyGraham spread and popularized this concept through his crusades, where the song, "Just As I Am, Lord," was a centerpiece. Such Protestants, known to the media culture as the "religious right," are the ones who lead the charge during presidential elections, crying, "Character matters!" One might get the impression that, to them, behavior and character count whenhigh office is on the line but make little difference when eternal life is at risk. Put another way, it appears men have tougher standards than God. Or, it is easier to "get into heaven" than it is to lead others here on earth. This idea has not been thought through. If "heaven" were populated with immortal spirit beings with character and behavior like that seen in people who consider themselves Christians on earth, what would "heaven" be like? Earth—but worse! Theproblems of this world would merely be transported to "heaven" with the added monumental and insurmountable factors of endless life and godlike powers in each being! And we thought we had problems. . . . However, the last two chapters of Revelation do not paint such a picture. The time of the new heaven and the new earth is one in which "there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former thingshave passed away" (Revelation21:4). The "former things" are the sins and their consequences that have caused so much death, sorrow, crying, and pain on earth! JesusChrist suggests that behavior and character matter when He says in verse 7, "He who overcomes shall inherit all things." What does a Christian overcome but his own sin, this present evil world, and the Adversary, Satan the Devil? Who will be in God's Kingdom, and who will not? These two chapters make it quite plain: "Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city [of New Jerusalem]. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie" (Revelation22:14-15; cf. 21:8; emphasis ours). This passage makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to deny that those who live upright lives will enter God's Kingdom and those who live sinful lives will not. Righteous behavior and character certainly do matter to God! We can go to no higher source to receive the answer to "Does our behavior have eternal value?" than to Jesus Christ Himself. A man came to Him and asked him this very question: "Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternallife?" His answer is unambiguous: "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matthew19:17). The commandments are a code of behavior that builds godly character in those who keep them, and God wants only those with godly character—character like His Son's—in His Kingdom. Behavior matters. Character matters. God's commandments matter. They will not "pay our way" into God's Kingdom, since God's salvation is a free gift and it is humanly impossible to purchase or earn it (Romans6:23; Ephesians 2:8). Nonetheless, when God judges us "according to [our] deeds" (Romans2:5-11; cf. I John 2:28-29), the record of our behavior—displaying what we truly are—will make the difference between eternal life and eternal death. - Richard T. Ritenbaugh