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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu Fights to Form a Majority
Coalition
Israeli Ambassador Prosor Compares Radical Islamists to
Nazis on Anniversary of WWII Ending
US Condemns Israeli Singer for Comparing Obama to Hitler
French judges end probe into Arafat's death
Netanyahu: Alliance with the US is foundation of our
national security
Next round of violence will be harder on Gaza, ex-IDF chief
says
Hezbollah clashes with al-Qaida-linked gunmen on LebanonSyria border
Hezbollah says will attack Nusra Front inside Syria
Nasrallah: If Assad falls, Hezbollah falls
Diplomats: US wants a UN team to determine blame for
Syria gas attacks
More than 50 massacres took place in Syria in the month of
April: report
ISIS Crucifies Three Brothers in Libya
Syria conflict: Fresh UN-backed talks begin in Geneva
Saudi Arabia to host meeting of Syrian opposition groupsstatement
The Mufti Of Saudi Arabia Passes A Fatwa That A Muslim
Can Cannibalize And Eat His Wife
Obama expected to push for Gulf missile defense at US
summit
Sudanese military sources report 'foreign air raid' on
Khartoum
UN: Peacekeepers ambushed in Congo; 2 dead, 13 wounded
Troops kill 28 suspected militants in central Nigeria: military
'You are a target': Muslim extremists terrorize Egypt's
Coptic Christians
Iran's allies, not atoms, preoccupy Israeli generals
Obama under pressure to calm Arab fears over Iran deal, US
officials say
Iran, world powers struggle to overcome divisions in
nuclear talks
France, Saudi Arabia unite in vision for region, say Iran deal
must be verifiable
Bipartisan Iran oversight bill heading to Senate floor
U.S. aims to make Iran nuclear deal immune to Russian,
Chinese veto
EU to stand by Ukraine trade deal at summit despite Russiadraft
Russia shows off new high-tech tank
North Korea diplomats storm out of UN rights meeting
Germanwings co-pilot practiced descent on outbound flight
before crash, report claims
Dutch pol who spoke at Muhammad cartoon contest warns
of more attacks on US soil
White House says 'too early to tell' if Texas shooters tied to
ISIS
How ISIS Capitalizes on Lone Wolves to Spread Terror 'At
No Cost'
Louie Gohmert Sounds The Alarm About Possible Military
Takeover Of Texas
Pentagon: Texas has nothing to fear from upcoming military
exercise
Clinton calls for path to 'full and equal citizenship' for illegal
immigrants
United States approves first ferry service to Cuba in
decades
Liquidity drought could spark market bloodbath, warns IIF
Greeks bring in tax on cash withdrawals to stem crisis
The Return Of Peak Oil - Worrying Signs From U.S. And
Russia
French parliament approves new surveillance rules
The World's First Self-Driving Semi-Truck Hits the Road
Mysterious 'X-Files' sounds heard miles above the Earth
Strong Solar X-Ray Radiation Hits Earth, Impacting Some
Radio Communication For Entire Hemisphere
Cinco de Mayo Meteor Shower Rains Halley's Comet Bits on
Earth
5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Taron, Papua New
Guinea
5.3 magnitude earthquake hits the Mid-Indian Ridge
5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kandrian, Papua New
Guinea
5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kashmar, Iran
100 volcanic quakes at popular Japanese resort prompt
tourist warning
3rd Dallas-Area Earthquake In Just Over A Day!
Michigan earthquake: 'Big deal' for a couple reasons, U.S.
Geological Survey scientist says
Nepal quake-ravaged temple faces threat from looters
Nepal Christians Return to Worship after Earthquake Turns
Churches into Tombs
Turrialba volcano in Costa Rica erupts to 15,000ft
'Tornado' hits Germany, leaving extensive damage
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan offers solution to
global warming
Coal-state officials blast Obama climate change plan
'Man-made disaster': Critics say California drought caused
by misguided environment policies
California board approves emergency water rules
US gives farmers approval to spray crops from drones
U.S. boosts bird flu emergency funds as Hormel cuts jobs
Bird flu may take bite out of Thanksgiving's turkey supply
Dengue cases soar in Brazil, as death toll climbs
Cancer Drug Spending Tops $100 Billion, Up 10% in a Year
Abstinence-Only Texas High School Has Severe Chlamydia
Outbreak
Princeton ethicist: it's 'reasonable' to kill disabled newborn
babies
Former Lesbian to President Obama: Why Won't You Listen
to Voices of Ex-Homosexuals Jesus Set Free?
'It's better than cheating on my wife': Sex dolls fulfil the
needs of China's lonely men
Pastor Saeed Abedini Marks 35th Birthday in Iranian Jail,
Says He Is 'Crying Out to God' for America's Revival
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Anti-Christ and the Assyrian Connection (Updated!)
The Texas ISIS attack was not averted owing to US
"human intelligence" deficit
Disaster Plan
Self-willed Despisers of Authority
The Big Business of Cancer: 100 BILLION Dollars
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Anti-Christ and the Assyrian Connection (Updated!) - A.
V. Rauf - http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/05/06/anti-christ-and-the-assyrianconnection/
Since early 2011 a major shift has begun which is ultimately reshaping the
political, geographical and religious climate of the Middle East. I will honestly
suggest that this shift is actually a spiritual one. The Arab Spring was a series
of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across
the Middle East in about four years ago.
Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and most recently Yemen have all entered an uncertain
transition period. Leadership has been replaced. However, there remains one
leader who still remains in power despite the loss of hundreds of thousands of
lives. He is Bashar Assad, president of Assyria. Remember Assyria.
With a plethora of daily news regarding Syria in lately, one has to ask if Syria
is the same "Assyria" that is mentioned in the Bible. The answer is no from a
political perspective. The modern state of Syria was formed after World War I
and became independent after World War II.
However, there are historical connections to ancient Assyria, including some
similar territory. Historically, speaking Assyria was one of the Great
Mesopotamian powers along with the Babylonians and the nearby Persians.
The areas they occupied are roughly close to the borders of modern day Syria
(Assyria), Iraq (Babylon) and Iran (Persia).
Assyria in particular, was located to the east and Northeast of the Northern
Kingdom of Israel stretching into Mesopotamia (the broad plain between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers).
Just a few weeks ago, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, have been actively engaged
in high-level talks with the goal of possibly creating a joint military alliance to
oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. Today the prime minister of Turkey is
Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Today the Turkish army is on the Syrian border. Syria,
however, apparently seems to be supported by Iran. Again keep in mind that
BOTH opposing countries also have differing religious beliefs. There is
speculation that Turkey may want to ultimately re-establish the Ottoman
Empire. However, it is very possible that a major war between Shi'ite and
Sunnis may be on the horizon with the victor claiming superiority in Islam. That
being said, who will be the leader?
Now you have Turkey rising up in what is transpiring in the Middle East. Thus,
the famed War of Gog and Magog as mentioned in Ezekiel 38-39 is not too far
off. (I strongly recommend you read the four part series on the War of Gog and
Magog.)
It is painfully obvious now that the final days of the Ba'athist al-Assad regime,
and of Syria are upon her. It is being reported that currently, there is significant
military pressure being placed upon the faltering Syrian Ba'athist regime of
Bashar al-Assad and the city of Damascus by an array of Sunni Jihadist
militias.
Thus, a military disaster of grave magnitude appears to be in the near future
for Damascus:
Jeremiah 49:23-27-Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad:
for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea; it cannot be quiet. Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee,
and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman
in travail. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! Therefore her
young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in
that day, saith the Lord of hosts.And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
Isaiah 17:1-3a-The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are
forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make
them afraid. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus, and the remnant of Syria;
Damascus is the capital of Syria and its second largest city, with about 2.6
million people in the metropolitan area. Today Syria is in the midst of a civil
war. As a continuation of Arab Spring, as leaders are being ousted and
replaced, there is also a movement to oust Syrian President Bashar
Assad. Damascus has already suffered a great deal of damage, but according
the above mentioned Scriptures, Damascus will be taken away from being a
city. Today, fighting in Damascus is on the rise.
It is being reported that The United Nations and United States leadership want
Syrian President Assad gone. It also appears as if Russia and Iraq want Assad
to stay. The United States have pushing for Middle Eastern led military action.
The US, UN, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other world powers
are pushing for an escalation of force to oust the Syrian President.
Talk of a military conflict between Israel and Iran is also on the rise. In Ezekiel
38 a Russian led invasion into Israel is described. Russia is Joined by Iran,
Turkey, Ethiopia/Sudan (Cush), and Libya.
Ezekiel 38:1-10-And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man,
set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and
Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I
am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn
thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine
army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even
a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all
his bands: and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for
thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a
guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou
shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered
out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always
waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of
them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to
cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
This war may occur shortly after the destruction of Damascus. Perhaps Turkey
may destroy Damascus. Turkey may then join Russia in launching a Middle
Eastern invasion into Israel. Thus, after Syria is destroyed, a Middle East
invasion into Israel will occur.
It is worth noticing to see who may be the next leader in Assyria. There are
several allusions to the Anti-Christ mentioned in the Bible and according to the
Bible, in the following passages, he is referred to as the "Assyrian":
Isaiah 10:5 :O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is
mine indignation.
Isaiah 10:24 : Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod,
and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 14:25 : That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and
his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Isaiah 30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
down, which smote with a rod.
Micah 5:5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into
our land;
Micah 5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the
land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the
Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our
borders.
Many of the Shi'ite leaders in Iran hold fast to the notion that the Syrian
revolution could be the catalyst for sparking a worldwide conflagration that will
usher in the arrival of the Mahdi. They also believe that the Mahdi will lead a
global revolution and establish a worldwide Islamic empire and rule the earth
as the final Caliph of Islam.
The Turkish army is amassed along the Syrian border today. If Turkey attacks
Syria will it then turn south to invade Israel? Who will be the next leader of
Syria?
Regardless of what the outcome may be, it is important to develop a
knowledgeable perspective when viewing current events unfolding in the
Middle East. I have stated before that it seems as if there has been an
acceleration of prophetic events and even more so in the Middle East. Where
it all began is where it all will come to a conclusion with the Return of Jesus
Christ which day by day seems to be getting closer and closer and closer.....
The Texas ISIS attack was not averted owing to US
"human intelligence" deficit - www.debka.com
The two American gunmen who Sunday, May 3, tried - and failed - to shoot up
an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad at the Curtis Culwell
Center in Garland, northeast of Dallas, sounded a wakeup call for US
intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies - even before the Islamic State
warned that this first attack on US soil would not be its last. The two
homegrown terrorists, Elton Simpson, a Christian who converted to Islam, and
Nadir Soofi, son of a Pakistani father and American mother, carried
submachine guns and explosives and wore body armor - attesting to the
existence of an organization behind the attack.
That organization is believed to be made up of small sleeper cells of two to
three terrorists each, ready to spring into action on orders from distant
controllers.
Both were young men in their mid-twenties. The half-Pakistani Muslim Soofi
scraped a living from cleaning carpets, while Simpson was out of work. They
failed to perpetrate mass murder because they made every possible mistake.
And so after inflicting a scratch on one of the unarmed guards, both were shot
dead by local police officers securing the "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest"
at the Curtis Culwell Center, which offered a $10,000 prize for the best artwork
or cartoon depicting the Prophet.
For the past two years, Simpson and Soofi have been running posts and
images on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram extolling the Islamic State in Iraq
and the Levant (ISIS) and all its works, threatening American Christians with
revenge and declaring that terrorist attacks were coming.
Shortly before the Dallas event opened, an explicit threat to mete out
punishment to those insulting the Prophet Mohammad in Texas, like in
Denmark and Paris, appeared on a Twitter account (since de-activated)
belonging to AbuHussainAlBritani, known to security services as an ISIS
platform.
Simpson had been known as an FBI target since 2010. Then, he made no
secret of his plans to travel to Somalia, take advanced studies in Islam and die
as a martyr. He was arrested , convicted only of making a false statement to
the forces of the law and released on probation. After that, a double agent
persuaded him to talk for hundreds of hours on tape, candidly admitting that he
intended one day in the future to take part in a deadly terrorist operation.
Yet Simpson was not detained, or even placed under extra surveillance.
Data flowing from Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is critical in the war on
terror: social networks like Twitter and Facebook serve terrorists around the
world widely for passing information, arranging rendezvous, filling in the gaps
of operational directives and, above all, disseminating their messages.
The US National Security Agency, as well as European and other agencies,
maintain blanket surveillance of the social networks, transferring their content
in almost real time to giant computers at agency headquarters for filtering and
analysis. It is hard to understand how the radical online messages and
outspoken tweets by Soofi and Simpson, which left no room to doubt their
intentions, escaped interface by those computers with their past records and
views.
The pair was therefore free to drive from Arizona to Texas in late April, in a car
registered in one of their names, and armed with machine guns.
They pulled up at the Curtis Culwelll center, where the Mohammed cartoon
exhibit opened in the presence of Pamela Geller, president of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which has sponsored anti-Islamic
advertising campaigns across the country, and Geert Wilders, a Dutch
politician and anti-Islamic campaigner who is on an al Qaeda hit list. When
they reached their destination, they were not stopped until they actually started
shooting - and only then thanks to the fast reflexes of a police guard on the
spot.
That Simpson and Soofi were permitted to get so far is best explained by a
certain weakness in the human intelligence capabilities of US and Western
intelligence, the shortage of undercover agents able to mingle in communities
and populations with the potential for producing radical elements capable of
committing terrorist murder and suicide in the name of their faith. These
agents must be able to pass unnoticed in mosques, bazaars and cafes, and
have an ear for local dialects, street talk and inflections, so as to catch onto
dangers through innuendo.
Digital intelligence, however extensive, is no substitute for human intelligence.
It takes an undercover human agent on the ground to pick up on terrorist
threats in time to thwart attacks.
Disaster Plan - By Daymond Duck http://www.raptureready.com/featured/duck/dd173.html
Normally, when I think of a disaster I think of natural disasters: Floods,
droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, ice storms, forest
fires, volcanic eruptions or something like that. But the subject of disasters can
cover much more; a business failure, a terrible accident, a plane crash, a sunk
ship, a marital failure, the death of someone, etc.
Normally, when I think of a disaster plan I think of two things: 1) a plan to avert
an anticipated disaster, or 2) a plan to overcome the effects of a disaster that
has already happened. The first plan focuses on disaster prevention and the
second plan focuses on disaster recovery.
But this article is about a different kind of disaster plan. It is a man-made
disaster plan that our president and others call the TPP (Trans-Pacific
Partnership).
In the past, I have written about Pres. Obama's request for fast track authority
to negotiate and sign this agreement. Some reports say the TPP will surrender
the sovereignty of the U.S. to an international tribunal with authority exceeding
that of the U.S. Supreme Court, speed up Agenda 21, turn large areas of
America over to the UN for World Bank Administration, and make Congress
irrelevant.
It would integrate some of the politics and policies of the nations that sign it
create a trading block of nations patterned after the EU and send American
jobs out of the country, speed up the development of the North American
Union-a major step toward world government.
If these reports are true this really is a planned disaster for the people of this
world and especially the U.S. The Bible clearly predicts that a satanic world
government and unprecedented wars and disasters are coming and this
scenario would be setting the stage for that.
Most of the TPP negotiations have been done in secret which is a bad sign for
everyone that will have to live under the effects of what they do. It already has
more than 2,000 pages of regulations and only a few people know what is in
all of them (but there are enough people in the 11 countries involved who
know what is in them to allow for information leaks).
Also, enough information has leaked out to cause opposition in Hollywood, the
Gay Lobby, Labor Unions, Environmental groups, Hispanic groups, some faithbased groups and many influential Democrats. One would think this would be
enough to stop it, but it hasn't up to this point.
As late as March 2015, it was being reported that the TPP will require
America's Constitution and laws to be changed to conform to the TPP and
Congress will never be allowed to change them back. I have even read that
America's policies on things like Common Core, immigration, gay issues,
Globalization, environmental issues and more will be dictated by the TPP (run
mostly by foreigners) and our elected representatives will be powerless to
change what is in it.
In mid-April 2015, Congress voted on a deal between mostly Republicans and
a few Democrats to let Pres. Obama complete the negotiations of this manmade disaster plan. They gave Pres. Obama fast track authority to finish the
negotiations on the condition that they are allowed to see the final bill at least
four months and the public is allowed to see it at least 60 days before Pres.
Obama signs it.
The report said if this does not happen our Senators can kill the TPP with 60
votes in the U.S. Senate. Congress can vote it up or down, but Congress
cannot change it.
In late April 2015, Pres. Obama's request for fast track authority cleared the
U.S. Senate Finance Committee with the support of all, but one Republican
and only a few Democrats. The next day, this 11-nation created catastrophe
cleared the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee with Republicans
overriding the votes of several Democrats who opposed the issue.
Many powerful Democrats rightly opposed this Republican blunder. But oddly,
Pres. Obama and his Republican allies teamed up against them and he even
chastised those Democrats for being wrong. Some of those Democrats want
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to seek the Democratic nomination for
President of the U.S. and Pres. Obama even said she is wrong.
What did U.S. Senator Warren say that Pres. Obama thinks is wrong? I don't
know what she said in the U.S. Senate, but she answered Pres. Obama's
accusation with a blog in The Washington Post that said the TPP would
undermine U.S. sovereignty.
On April 24, 2015, Pres. Obama accused Elizabeth Warren and the
Democrats that agreed with her of being dishonest. She fired back that what
he said was "both untrue and unlikely to serve the best interests of the
American people."
The public needs to know that Pres. Obama thinks he can complete this
diplomatic disaster plan in the next four months. Concerning the surrender of
U.S. sovereignty, either Pres. Obama is right or Sen. Warren is right, but both
can't be right. If Sen. Warren is right, America's legal system will be turned
upside down and made subject to pretend courts with judges who are not
impartial.
According to her, Americans should be outraged, offended and join the
opposition. I think she is right and there is no time to waste. The deliberate
destruction of America's Constitution, courts and legal system; the loss of
American freedoms and the ability to change things; and the loss of many
American jobs and the impact it will have on our entire nation is a disaster plan
that demands prevention.
Prophecy Plus Ministries
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Self-willed Despisers of Authority - By Sandra T. Lloyd s_tlloyd@verizon.net
2 Peter 2:10 promises that a day of punishment awaits those that walk after
the flesh in the lust of uncleanness. The phrase evokes images of a pigs love
of filth and a dogs propensity to consume things his own body has expelled.
The authority in our lives, is that which rules us, whatever it is. Whatever has
mastery over us. In civil matters, our government has a certain amount of
authority, whether we like it or not. The police have some degree of authority
in municipal government. The IRS has way too much authority. Parents (still)
have (a little) authority. Your boss has authority. Authority is a fact of life.
Despisers of authority have a certain end.
To despise means to disdain. The word "despisers" refers to those who reject
utterly, and also carries the flavor of resentment and disdain.
Why do we have laws? What does morality stem from? It has to be based on
something. Why would the majority of people "know" that it is wrong to kill
someone, if there was not some universal determiner of what is wrong?
It is simple. Kids are constrained to obey because there are parents/teachers/
others who have very real authority over them. Authority is only as legitimate
as the power which it has to enforce itself. The fact that the human race has a
conscience, itself is evidence there is Someone in ultimate authority over us.
But as a people, we the human race, choose to disregard this. Verse 9 of this
passage says that the Lord knows how to reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished. That's just a parent telling his child, whom he loves
and cares about, that there are consequences and they will be delivered. God
gave us His Word for that purpose, to warn us. But many will have none of it.
They will ignore the warnings.
We have a natural tendency to rebel and if we will not submit to God's
authority, we will then be a slave to the flesh. It is one or the other. There are
no other choices. Submit to the God of the Universe, or be given over to the
natural ends that accompany the following of your baser impulses.
The despising of authority in any form, is definitely a clear indication of the
hour in which we are living. Look around. Corrupt leaders have even made a
mockery out of the concept of authority, since authority also entails
responsibilities. People have good reason to disdain corrupt authority, and that
indignation also springs from an inner knowing that authority has a
corresponding accountability that comes with it. Human authority is subject to
corruption, but Godly authority is not.
There was a time in this nation when even those who were not believers, still
knew the truth of the Bible, and had some respect of it. But little by little, as
choices were made, to reject the authority of God, and spend life catering to
the flesh and fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, the nation itself began to change.
And the rebellion became bolder and more defiant unto arrogance. The
arrogance has now progressed to that point of despising authority and scoffing
at it. A false confidence, I might add, assumed on the part of humans who fail
to grasp the grace of God and HIs forbearance for the sake of mercy, they
assume that because He has withheld His wrath thus far, it is not forthcoming.
All I can say is, you should have read the whole Book, because it is coming.
We are in fact living in an age of Grace, a certain level of permissive-ness, that
ultimately will prove that no matter what God had done to facilitate obedience,
we would tend toward self-will.
Seventy years ago in this nation, there was no such thing as a "Comedy Club".
Comedians are now regarded much like the proverbial (and literal) "rock star".
They became legends. Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Freddie Murphy. They
pushed the envelope, joking in their time, about things a person , at one time
simply did not make light of. Now, nothing is off-limits, even death, hell and
religion. When everything became "fair game" as a joke people moved beyond
being making light of sin, to blatant and serious and open rebellion in their
disdain of Godly authority.
When the stigma upon homosexuality began to be lifted in this nation, was
back when the night-time Soap Opera spoof called "Soap" came on television.
As a kid, I and many others thirty and forty years ago, were ignorant of
homosexuality. So lightly was it treated, that my earliest impression of a gay
man, was just one who was effeminate, and funny. Of course as a youngster
in my generation, most "kids" hadn't the early introduction to the sexual aspect
of opposite-sex relationships, much less the nature of that other kind. And I
didn't even know there were also women whose affection was toward other
women. It was all still "in the closet". Why? Because those who practiced it at
that time still knew it was wrong. But as more and more persisted in what was
known to be wrong, they were given over to it. As it is practiced openly, and
begins to permeate the fabric of our society it serves to sear the consciences
of the next generation. This is a harm to others, to little ones, which God will
not hold sinners blameless of either, mind you. So, when a son or daughter in
this current time announces their "coming out" I do believe that some of the
blame (and therefore wrath) lies not on the shoulders of the young person, but
those before them who rebelled. That includes Christians and especially
pastors, who stopped preaching the truth about sin. Having said that, however,
there are plenty today who did grow up having been taught that it was wrong
and unacceptable, like Katy Perry. for instance, and they are what they are by
personal choice to reject God's authority and all Godly counsel.
Ones own rebellion and embracing sin, lead to a searing of the individual
conscience, while there also is a "national conscience" and "societal
conscience". God put the conscience in us, "writing His law upon our hearts"
(Romans 2:15). Con means "with", science means "knowledge".
God will, and MUST punish sin! He is offended by rebellious hearts, because
His law is designed to keep us from harm.
False teachers crept into the church, who despised authority, and methodically
have worked to undermine and eradicate it within the church, until we are left
with guys like Osteen who lie and tell you that all God is about is goodness
and light and helping you fulfill every lust desire your stinking flesh can think
up.
When we look around today at what is happening in this nation, America is
now fully characterized by this rejection of authority. The following of the flesh
and all its dark desires, is foolishly viewed as enlightenment. When in reality it
is darkening. ( Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
for bitter, Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight!....Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! Therefore as the fire devoureth the
stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast
away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of
Israel. And if you want to know more about those "woes" and what they
portend, just see Revelation 9 thru 16! ). It is darkening to a society, and it is
personally darkening, placing scales over the eyes. Eventually making the
rebellious one blind to truth entirely. They are then utterly susceptible to
delusion. Literally a form of madness. This is why we often scratch our heads
at how stupid some of the "smart people in charge of things" can seem to be.
Power can corrupt. Lucifer being our prime example.
Terrible rebellious nature leads to a reprobate mind if followed. When we take
the law lightly, and when we take the Bible lightly, it opens the door for all our
fleshly passions to rule us.
2 Peter enumerates perverse things that God's people should never
participate in.
Defiance grows bold over time, and builds up all the more of God's wrath
against the rebel. The first and smallest rebellion begins a process that sears
the conscience, renders it scarred and hard and non-functional.
Show me someone who refuses to yield to authority, and I will show you a
person who is miserable indeed. Gays are not miserable because people
"discriminate" against them. They are miserable because they persist in
rebellion. Against God's authority, and try as they might to throw off
condemnation, the Scriptures say they will die in their corruption which they
have chosen.
When the pathway of self-will is followed to its natural end, it results in humans
who have become like brute beasts, driven solely by their baser instincts and
passions, lusts and urges. God gives them over to depravity, to work in
themselves that which is unseemly. (Thayer defines unseemly as being "of
one's nakedness or shame, Webster, as gross, vulgar, obscene, impure,
corrupt, unrefined, as well as dull, or stupid).
The progression from rebellion to making light of sin, set the stage for the
conditions we find our nation in where homosexuality is becoming rampant.
Refusal to be ruled by God, the only alternative left is to be ruled by sinful
flesh, and reap the ends thereof. Having cast off all restraint, they become like
animals, no rational thought. We as a nation have reached the point in the
progression where we approve the evil and openly rebellious life. Spiritual laws
are like natural laws, whether you believe them or not, they remain true
nonetheless. The nation's lawlessness is now so systemic that entire
generations are being born to a society that promotes this condition of being
ruled by the flesh as a good and desirable thing, being promoted from their
earliest days, and this animal-like living is all they know. Many don't even know
there is a better way to live. Except that God also put eternity in our hearts,
and so each is born with an intrinsic sense that "I was born for more than this".
Which is why our young people are so angry. In my humble opinion. But lest
young people use that as an excuse, we are all a product of the generations
before us, however, we are also going to give an account of what we did. So
one can recognize the problem of the previous generations, and choose to
submit to Godly authority and not follow in the example set before them.
When a homosexual person says "I was born this way" they are right, only in
that we all are born with a sin nature. Homosexuality is one of the
consequences of giving sin nature free rein.
Brute beasts, animals, those in open rebellion, given over to what they prefer,
to reject God and live according to the flesh, they will live and die for no
purpose. Is there any wonder of the high incidence of suicide among those
who have lived their whole life in defiance of God?
God is a consuming fire. But He is also a God of mercy.
2 Peter 2:13. promises them to be back with harm for the harm they have
done. They will suffer wrong as the reward of wrongdoing. Cheated out of the
(Satanically whispered) "reward" of their wrongdoing (that is to say, the
fulfillment of being able to say "I did it my way"). The fulfillment of worldly lust
without fear of the wrath to come, will leave you bankrupt and empty, this
fulfillment of the flesh, it will not result in the satisfaction that you seek. It
simply. Can. Not. Because you were made for something more. We fell out of
God's grace, and lost the perfection our race was born to. (There is only one
race, and that is the human race). The natural desire to yearn for some elusive
"Nirvana" is residual from the state we were created for and lost. All God
wants for you, is to restore that. But the prerequisite is that you have to yield
and submit to His authority. He is God, not you. HE has the power to put your
soul in hell. He doesn't want to, though. He so much doesn't want to, that even
before He created man, knowing that if he gave man free will, man would rebel
from His authority, He also planned for Messiah to come and lay down His
own sinless life to pay the ransom to free us from our sinful fallen condition
and flesh. When you remain in rebellion, and die in your sinful state, instead of
gladly accepting the remedy God offered at so great a personal price, what an
insult that is to His grace and mercy and love toward you. Christ submitted to
death, which had no rightful "jurisdiction" over Him. He said, Himself, no man
taketh my life from me, but I lay it down willingly, and have the power to take it
up again. And He did so, he raised himself up, alive once again. We Christians
serve a loving and merciful God, and we tell you about Him not to condemn
you but to free you from the condemnation that you already live under.
Those who "did it their own way", will find out that there is a reality about a life
of sin. The end of it will be eternal suffering. To humble oneself is all that is
required to avoid this, to simply be willing to turn from your sin nature, and
allow God to restore you and make you into a new person, but it is too much
for some They have embraced their pride instead. They see God's authority as
slavery to be thrown off, but they are deceived. The slavery is in the flesh and
the end result of a life lived according to the impulses of the flesh, is eternal
separation from all that is good.
It is all really rather elementary. And all you have to do is accept truth, in order
to be set free from your false paradigm that is keeping you enslaved to the
flesh, with plenty of support from your enemy Satan, I might add.
But you know, even as I say these things, I realize that the sheer number of
those who have been given over to their own determination to sin, has become
so high now, and has filled such a majority of the ranks and positions of civil
authority, and they have so taken pleasure in all others who have rejected
God, that they are actually shaping our law and policy now in America, and
have been for some time. I've been awake a good while now, but it is
unfortunate how long I was slumbering. It is also unfortunate how many are
still slumbering. But that is why I and others do what we do here, and it's why I
am fasting this week. Because I know that we are going to reap what has been
sown. We have no right to ask for mercy, and yet God tells us that we can
anyway, and He would rather have mercy than sacrifice, but we make the
sacrifice necessary by our rebellion. Without the shedding of blood, the e is no
remission of sins. What kind of God would be that way? The God whose world
you live in, and who is currently letting you live and enjoy the blessings He
generously bestows on both the just and the unjust. Its His world, and He
actually is, letting you live in it. It's his right to do anything with you that He
darn-well pleases. The only reason you or I or anyone even have any concept
of how God is calls Himself a loving God, is because He loved us enough to
write that "obscure old relic" called the Holy Bible, that is so despised by the
unbelieving world. His grace is going to expire, though.
Consider yourself warned.
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The Big Business of Cancer: 100 BILLION Dollars Was
Spent On Cancer Drugs Last Year Alone - By Michael Snyder http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-big-business-of-cancer-100billion-dollars-was-spent-on-cancer-drugs-last-year-alone
If you are an American, there is a 1 in 3 chance that you will get cancer during
your lifetime. If you are a man, the odds are closer to 1 in 2. And almost
everyone in America either knows someone who currently has cancer or who
has already died from cancer. But it wasn't always this way. Back in the
1940s, only one out of every sixteen Americans would develop
cancer. Something has happened that has caused the cancer rate in this
nation to absolutely explode, and it is being projected that cancer will soon
surpass heart disease and become the leading cause of death in the United
States. Overall, the World Health Organization says that approximately 14
million new cases of cancer are diagnosed around the globe each year, and
the number of new cases is expected to increase by about 70 percent over the
next 2 decades. There are very few words in the English language that cause
more fear than the word "cancer", but despite billions spent on research and
all of the technological progress we have made over the years this plague just
continues to spiral wildly out of control. Why is that?
In America today, more money is spent to treat cancer than to treat any other
disease by far. In fact, according to NBC News, 100 BILLION dollars was
spent on cancer drugs just last year alone...
As drug prices continue to fall under ever-increasing scrutiny, spending on
cancer medicines has hit a new milestone: $100 billion in 2014.
That's up more than 10 percent from 2013, and up from $75 billion five years
earlier, according to a report published Tuesday from the IMS Institute for
Healthcare Informatics.
100 million dollars would be an astounding amount of money to spend on
these drugs. But 100 billion dollars is 1,000 times as much money as 100
million dollars. And the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics is projecting
that the amount of money spent on cancer drugs will continue to grow at a rate
of 6 to 8 percent a year.
Needless to say, there are a lot of people out there that are becoming
exceedingly wealthy treating this disease.
And the cost of some these drugs is absolutely absurd. According to NBC
News, two of the latest cancer drugs to be developed "are priced at $12,500 a
month"...
Forty-five new drugs for cancer hit the market between 2010 and 2014,
including 10 last year alone, IMS said. Two of those are so-called
immunotherapies, a hot new class that harnesses the immune system to fight
cancer. They are Opdivo from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Keytruda from Merck.
Both are priced at $12,500 a month.
Yes, I understand that drug companies are in business to make a profit.
But how can anyone possibly justify charging cancer patients that much for
their medicine?
If you are diagnosed with cancer in America today and you choose to trust the
medical system with your treatment, you can say goodbye to your financial
future. Even if you have health insurance, you will probably end up flat broke
one way or the other. Either you will survive and be flat broke, or you will die
flat broke.
And despite all of our ultra-expensive treatments, the survival rate for cancer is
still not very good. At this point, the five year survival rate for those diagnosed
with cancer is just 65 percent. That means that 35 percent of those diagnosed
with cancer are going to end up dead within five years, and for certain forms of
cancer that percentage is much, much higher.
Sadly, as I mentioned at the top of this article, the percentage of the population
getting cancer just continues to go up...
We have lost the war on cancer. At the beginning of the last century, one
person in twenty would get cancer. In the 1940s it was one out of every
sixteen people. In the 1970s it was one person out of ten. Today one person
out of three gets cancer in the course of their life.
We live in a society that is highly toxic, and it is getting worse with each
passing day.
And once you do develop cancer, doctors are not allowed to prescribe any
"alternative treatments" for you. They are only permitted to offer you the
treatments that the system tells them that they must offer.
One of these is chemotherapy. It is an absolutely nightmarish treatment that
often kills the patient before it kills the cancer. The following is how one
woman described her experience with chemo...
This highly toxic fluid was being injected into my veins. The nurse
administering it was wearing protective gloves because it would burn her skin
if just a tiny drip came into contact with it. I couldn't help asking myself "If such
precautions are needed to be taken on the outside, what is it doing to me on
the inside?" From 7 pm that evening, I vomited solidly for two and a half days.
During my treatment, I lost my hair by the handful, I lost my appetite, my skin
colour, my zest for life. I was death on legs.
Many patients go through round after hellish round, hoping that it will do
something about their cancer. Have you ever known someone who has gone
through this ordeal? It can be absolutely heartbreaking.
But in the end, there is a tremendous amount of doubt regarding whether
chemo does much good at all. Just consider the words of Dr. Ralph Moss, the
author of a book entitled "The Cancer Industry"...
In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually extends life in the vast
majority of cases, and this is the great lie about chemotherapy, that somehow
there is a correlation between shrinking a tumour and extending the life of a
patient.
So why do oncologists push chemo so hard?
Well, it is because they make a tremendous amount of money doing it...
According to the research of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner of
Freakonomics fame, "Oncologists are some of the highest paid doctors, their
average income is increasing faster than any other specialist in the medical
field, and more than half their income comes from selling and administering
chemotherapy."
Yes you read that right. Oncologists make a huge profit, as much as twothirds of their income in some cases, from chemotherapy drugs.
Their business model is very different from other doctors because you can't
buy chemotherapy drugs at your local pharmacy.
Oncologists buy these drugs direct at wholesale prices, then they mark them
up and bill the insurance companies. This legal profiting on drugs by doctors is
unique to the cancer treatment world. They're making money off the drugs that
they insist you take to save your life. That's a HUGE conflict of interest.
They're selling you the drugs, and charging you for the privilege of putting
them in your body. No other doctor can do that.
Our system is deeply corrupt and deeply broken.
But nothing is going to change any time soon because hundreds of billions of
dollars are being made.
Jade Helm: Training or prophetic demise? - Bill Wilson www.dailyjot.com
The Jade Helm 15 special forces "training" is scheduled to take place between
July 15 and September 15 spanning across Arizona, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. It is considered among the largest
peacetime domestic military exercises in sixty years. Conspiracy theorists are
predicting the exercise is a possible preparation for martial law. The liberal
news media ridicules their worries, reporting that it is a training exercise
merely to give military special operations an edge in the Middle East theater
where civilian infiltration is necessary. The debate was elevated this week
when the Pentagon denied conspiracy claims, and when a Congressman
issued a statement.
The Defense Department pulled a Wizard of Oz move, telling Americans to not
pay attention to the operations behind the curtain; there is nothing to see.
Pentagon Spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters Monday,
"Operation Jade Helm poses no threat to any American's civil liberties.
Operation Jade Helm is being conducted by Americans--by, specifically,
American special forces personnel. In every case, extensive coordination has
been completed with whoever's responsible for that land. In the case of private
land, we've spoken and made detailed coordination with the patriotic
Americans who have volunteered their land for the use of this important
training."
Citing a 2009 White House directed Pentagon report depicting conservatives
and Christians as "extremists" and a map of the Jade Helm operation that
looks amazingly similar to the red state-blue state final of the 2012 presidential
election, Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert said in a statement:
"Once I observed the map depicting 'hostile,' 'permissive,' and 'uncertain'
states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly
have a Republican majority, 'cling to their guns and religion,' and believe in the
sanctity of the United States Constitution. When the federal government
begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any US city or state
in 'hostile' control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely
calloused and suspicious."
2 Timothy prophesies of the latter days. Verse 3:13 says, "But evil men and
seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."
Throughout history, totalitarian regimes have used military exercises to
demonstrate strength. Ruthless communists have used infiltration of citizens to
identify potential opposition and silence them. When a Pentagon spokesman
says the exercise is being conducted by Americans and the military has
coordinated with private citizens in conjunction with a map labeling states that
didn't vote for the current "president" as hostile, alarm bells should be
sounding. Is this a deceptive template for a future action? Suspend your
disbelief. Take heed and be prepared to follow God not man.
Daily Devotion: It's Just Our Nature - Greg Laurie - www.harvest.org
For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for
everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are
not from the Father, but are from this world. -1 John 2:16
I read a news story awhile ago about a man who was hitchhiking across the
county to write a memoir he planned to call The Kindness of America. He
wanted to write about his adventures and the wonderful strangers who had
reached out to him along the way. But while he was eating his lunch alongside
U.S. Highway 2 in Montana, he was shot in the arm during a random drive-by
attack. So much for the kindness of America.
It just goes to show that people are not basically good, as some would assert.
If you believe that people are basically good, then you have more faith than I
do. Because if history shows us nothing else, it shows us that people are
basically bad.
Why is mankind the way it is? Why do we do the things we do? Why are we
always fighting and warring and having conflict after conflict?
We read in 1 John 2:15-16, "Do not love this world nor the things it offers you,
for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For
the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything
we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from
the Father, but are from this world."
We like to blame the Devil for everything and say, "The Devil made me do it."
Yes, the Devil can tempt you, but he needs cooperation. He needs to work
with you, and you need to work with him.
The sinful things we do have nothing to do with logic; it's just our nature to do
them. It comes from within. And the faster we recognize we have a sinful
nature, the better equipped we'll be to fight temptation.
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Featured Article: The Coming World War 3 is now - By
Pastor Mike Taylor - http://www.churchofgod-usa.org/1/post/2015/05/thecoming-world-war-3-is-now.html
Ezekiel 32:24 "There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all
of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the
nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet
have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword:
though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne
their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them
that be slain."
If you start reading Ezekiel and understand that all the people around Israel
are being prophesied to being slain with the sword. In the above verses, God
speaks through Ezekiel about a country called "Elam".. Where is the land
called Elam? This was the name of the land east of Mesopotamia and
southwest, which is modern day Iran. Continue reading and as you come to
chapter 31 and beyond, it appears to be a chronological order of disaster for
all the people who surround Israel. These chapters lead up to the well known
prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39.
Many bible scholars believe that a lot of these prophecies were fulfilled in time
that Ezekiel actually wrote these chapters through Holy Spirit directives. Since
we know that Ezekiel 38-39 has not been fulfilled as of yet, then logically, we
can assume that the passages are a duality of prophecy that will be fulfilled in
the last days.
As Ezekiel names each country that will receive judgment from God, we see
that they are the same countries that are modern day enemies of Israel since
her foundation as a sovereign country in 1948. God names Egypt in chapters
30-31 along with the nations that comprise northern Africa such as Ethiopia,
Libya and others in confederation with Egypt called Chub. As you progress
though chapters leading to chapter 38, judgment is pronounced on modern
day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and those countries that are touching the land of
Israel then and today. Each will fall by the sword "which are gone down
uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in
the land of the living." Maybe a clear reference to Muslim terrorism we deal
with today?
You'll notice that in chapter 34, God pronounces judgment on ancient Israel
for their lack of being a shepherd to the flock of their people, which historically
we know that Israel was taken to Babylonia for 70 years for not following the
laws of God and His judgments. But notice that these chapters cover roughly
2500 years up to and including our modern era. God is telling Ezekiel what will
happen in the very days that we live in and the judgment of those who come
against His people Israel. Israel is back in her promised land, given to them by
covenant by Almighty God for a perpetual and eternal inheritance that no one
can annul. Israel is still surrounded by her ancient enemies, many of them
came from their same ancestor, the patriarch Abraham. It has been a feud
between a family of nations for nigh 4000 years, and is about to come to a
climax. I believe sooner than later.
ARE WE IN WORLD WAR III?
Considering the news from the Middle East about ISIS, the Iranians which are
Shiite, and Saudi Arabia, which is Sunni, we are in what I believe is a regional
war between two sects of Islam and both are jockeying for political power
based on their interpretation of what the Quran says, and who they follow as
their perceived leader of their so called "religion". Personally, it's not a religion,
but a theocracy of political, moral, and spiritual governance based on Sharia
Law. But let us focus on what may be coming to the people who surround the
one country that is in the center of all this political conflict, Israel.
Right now, our "usurper" in chief has been pushing for a nuclear deal with one
portion of the Islamic religion Iran, that is attempting to become the dominant
power in the region by developing nuclear weapons, thus threatening all who
live in this area of our planet and extending to the entire world. My question
has always been "How long will Israel allow this threat to continue from Iran?" I
have pondered this question now for nigh 15 years. Prime Minister Bibi
Netanyahu gave an impassioned plea to our US Congress in March warning of
the "Iran Deal" as a bad deal. We could spend several commentaries focusing
on the conflict between Israel's PM and the present POTUS to include
shenanigans to influence the Israeli elections, but thank God, Netanyahu was
re-elected, as he is the only leader in Israel who will stand up to this looming
threat of Iran. But my focus in this message, is what could be next in the
unrest of an "Arab Spring" and the regional war that is brewing in a cauldron
that is about to explode all over the news.
WHEN WILL ISRAEL ACT?
It has been reported that Israel looked for a green light from Washington DC
in 2014 to take our Iran's nuclear ambitions, but was threatened by the
POTUS, as reported in Israeli News outlets:
"The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma'an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper
report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military
attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down
Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.
Following Obama's threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly
forced to abort the planned Iran attack.
According to Al-Jarida, the Netanyahu government took the decision to strike
Iran some time in 2014 soon after Israel had discovered the United States and
Iran had been involved in secret talks over Iran's nuclear program and were
about to sign an agreement in that regard behind Israel's back."
Is it any wonder that Netanyahu came to the US Congress to present his case
to the American people and to warn of the danger, to them, and to the world?
This is speaking of our only ally in the Middle East, as Israel has been our
friend since its birth in 1948 and has been a partner in providing intelligence to
the USA about the dangers that abound in the area. Let's not forget the
technological advances that have benefited this country, because of our inherit
friendship. But that friendship is over, as long as this present administration
threatens the only real ally in the region. Oh, I forget, now we have Iran that is
considered a partner in insuring peace in the region according to the
administration through their major mouthpiece, Susan Rice. YEAH, RIGHT!!
When I heard that stupid remark, my mouth had to be picked up off the floor.
Has this POTUS gone totally nuts? Are we to trust the major exporter of
terrorism in the region as a partner in peace? This is insane, you say? I totally
agree with you. The man is a kindergartener in foreign policy or a closet
Muslim. Take your pick.
Israel is now pretty much on her own. Israel looks for regional players who will
stop the spread of Iranian power in the region and has found an unlikely
partnership in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Yes, you heard right. Two of the past
enemies of the state of Israel, and still are, helping each other to defeat Iranian
power spreading to Yemen and the Houthi rebels that are being financed by
Iran. For now, they put aside their differences to attack what the region fears
more than their mutual hatred of Israel, the conquering of the Middle East by
Iran. These countries can no longer rely on the USA to be their protector
anymore. They have taken on mounting an attack on Iranian power, by
themselves. Not only is that contradiction in terms of Israel, Egypt and Saudi
Arabia in a regional alliance, but something was reported that tells me that the
countdown to an Iranian strike on their nuclear facilities is imminent.
HAS ISRAEL DEVELOPED THEIR OWN BUNKER BUSTER BOMBS?
I read a report of a military depot being bombed and the blast was so large,
that only a bunker buster bomb could have penetrated the storage facilities
that were buried. Arutz Sheva in Israel reports the following quote:
"Israel has developed and tested its own bunker buster bomb, that has been
described as "a very credible military option," to use against Iran.
The 500-pound "MP-500" bomb is laser-guided, and has been shown
penetrating four reinforced concrete walls. Iran has buried several of its
nuclear facilities, including a uranium enrichment plant, under concrete
bunkers in mountainous areas.
The government-owned Israel Military Industries (IMI) developed the bomb,
an upgrade of the U.S. Mk82 bunker buster.
'The lethality, precision ... and relatively low weight enables its use against
multiple targets in a single pass; an element that increases the operational
effectiveness of attack,' according to IMI."
"Israel is preparing to improve its capabilities to attack Iran's nuclear facilities
by enlarging its aerial refueling aircraft to carry enough fuel for F-15 and F-16
warplanes that would be used in an attack on Iran.
The Obama administration reportedly has offered to help Israel improve its
bunker-busting capabilities on condition that the Netanyahu government does
not stage an attack on Iran before the American elections in November. The
White House has denied the report, and Israeli officials have said there is no
connection between the elections and Israel's timing of an attack."(end quote)
Israel used 707 airplanes as flying bombing platforms to attack Yemen and a
signal to Iran that they are capable of bombing their nuclear facilities. Knowing
the advanced military planning that is a hallmark of the IDF, I see them using
both platforms of F-35 jets to deliver these bombs (planned for delivery this
next year), along with laser guided bombs from high altitude 707's, plus Saudi
Arabia has given them the green light to fly over their airspace to provide the
pathway to destroying Iran's nuclear facilities that Saudi Arabia fears and has
cleared the way for an Israeli approach. This could be a long campaign, as
Iranian nuclear facilities are wide-spread and in hardened underground
facilities. I have read that Israel knows that they cannot destroy everything in
their nuclear program, but can set the program back many years by hitting
bottle neck attack points (a kind of choke point) that would virtually cripple the
program using precision laser guided strikes. I've often wondered if this strike
would be anything but conventional weapons. Israel could resort to nuclear
weapons to make the devastation widespread and total in its destruction if they
felt conventional bombs would not complete their objective of destroying Iran's
nuclear ambitions. Of course, this would raise the loud protest of the
international community no matter what weapon is used, but the howling would
be even louder if it were nuclear. So, I believe this will begin the assault on
Israel from her neighbors of Psalm 83 and their eventual defeat and conquest.
I believe the entire world will be against Israel no matter the outcome and no
one coming to help her, when the Iranian/Russian coalition decides to attack.
(Gog-Magog). It is ordained in prophecy that the true God of Israel will be their
protector by destroying this invading army on the mountains of Israel and
revealing Himself as alive and well to His people of Israel. So ushers in a
relative peaceful existence for Israel as they clamor to rebuild their planned
third temple and animal sacrifices are again initiated. Peace, but a false peace
based on guarantees of "one man" who makes a deal that Israel will embrace
and sign a contract with the devil and death.
WANT ANOTHER REASON THAT AN ATTACK IS IMMINENT?
As has been reported, our good friend in Russia, Vladimir Putin (of course, I
jest) has agreed to deliver the S-300 missiles to Iran after years of holding
them up.
Wall Street Journal- "The Kremlin lifted its self-imposed ban on the delivery of
a powerful missile air-defense system to Iran on Monday, stoking sharp
criticism from the White House and Israel and casting fresh doubt on the
international effort to curb Tehran's nuclear program.
Any delivery of an air-defense system would complicate airstrikes on Iranian
nuclear facilities by Israel or the U.S. should the diplomatic track fail.
Iran thinks that Russia will deliver the missile system this year. Ali
Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told the
Interfax news agency in Moscow on Tuesday."
Any delay by Israel to allow Iran to receive the S-300 missile that would be
capable of knocking out Israeli planes in any attack, so they can use Israeli
bunker buster bombs by Israeli jets would require mounting an attack THIS
YEAR.
All who have been watching the signs of the times, have wondered what could
be the meaning of the Blood Moons that have already had three pass in the
last year and the present year? We still have one more Blood Moon this fall
during Tabernacles and have been linked in history with "something"
significant happening to Israel. Could this be what will be happening this year?
And what will be the result of such an attack? I believe you will see
condemnation from the POTUS against Israel and withdrawing support from
the tiny Jewish state. I see UN sanctions coming upon Israel and Israel's
enemies smelling blood and vulnerability and mounting an ill-conceived attack
to fulfill the Psalm 83 prophecy. Can you see how quickly we are moving in
Bible prophecy that leads up to Ezekiel 38-39? One will lead directly to the
next. How long between the two? I don't believe it will be very long, but I
believe long enough for Israel to finally feel safe. Ezekiel chapter 38:
38:10 "Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go
to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls,
and having neither bars nor gates,
38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the
desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered
out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst
of the land."
WHAT COULD BE COMING?
Please, this is only my wondering about what could be coming, based on
scripture. I am no prophet, but God is moving this along rather quickly from the
perspective of any bible believing Christian, that is awake and watching. The
events are coming fast and furious as we move along in these last few years
and I fully expect will move at "warp speed" as the coming of our Lord draws
even closer. All could be done within this year and 2016. Next year could very
well be a dramatic year for Bible Prophecy. Let's makes some possible
scenarios and assumptions that very well could develop.
1.
Israel attacks Iranian nuclear facilities and putting the country years
back in their quest for the bomb by destroying essential "choke points" of their
program.
2.
Iran, if not decimated, will quickly instruct their proxies of Hezbollah,
Syria, and Gaza to mount an attack against Israel from the west, north and
east.
3.
If this is the fulfillment of Psalm 83, then I see Jordan, Egypt and
possibly Saudi Arabia, even though they have partnered with Israel in the
Yemen war, they still hate Israel.
4.
Israel, with Almighty God's help will destroy all attackers who come
against her, thus neutering the threat from its neighbors and blunting the effect
from their most feared nemesis, Iran. This perceived calm will last for a very
short time.
5.
Israel will effectively own all gas and oil of the Middle East. They will be
the direct competitor of the Russian Bear, who with their dictator found in
Vladimir Putin, could be the leader spoken of in the Gog-Magog coalition that
comes against Israel found in Ezekiel 38-39 as he desires what is not his...gas
and oil.
6.
How long after this devastating defeat of this coalition by Almighty God
Himself, destroying 80% of this invading army, will a man arise and propose a
7 year peace plan to allow Israel to live in "peace and security"? Thus the rise
of the Anti-Christ could be within the next few years or sooner.
All the above scenarios has been believed to be right around the corner for
years, but one ingredient was needed to propel this into a imminent possibility,
and that is the attack on Iran. We have been watching this for all of the 21st
century, which we are in year 15. I believe WW3 has formed right now, and
unless Islam is defeated in near total, then this war will continue as ISIS, Iran,
and Saudi Arabia jockey for complete control of the region and will only spread
further into neighboring countries. The only thing that stands in their way is
Israel and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
There is one last element that should make you long for the coming of our
Lord, being very close at hand. If this above scenario play out along, or near
what I have hypothesized, then when this ruler who proclaims peace and
safety for Israel arises out of obscurity, then another prophecy will be fulfilled
beforehand. 2nd Thessalonians:
2:7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will
let, until he be taken out of the way.
2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders,
2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."
As scripture has spoken, iniquity has been at work since the time of Jesus
and has been held back by One Person. There are many interpretations of
who this restrainer is and what he is restraining. Many deny that it has to do
with a removal of the church, before the man of sin can be revealed. But is that
true? I don't believe it is that there is anybody but God who is holding back the
full sway of lawlessness driven by Satan in his attempt to destroy mankind. So
who is this restrainer that 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 mentions that is holding back
sin and lawlessness? What or who that restraining force is, Paul does not say
specifically in this letter. I have preached that it is the Holy Spirit for years, but I
went to the internet to see what the consensus was. Many have speculated as
to the identity of the restrainer, naming the restraining force as 1) human
government; 2) gospel preaching; 3) the binding of Satan; 4) the providence of
God; 5) the Jewish state; 6) the church; 7) the Holy Spirit; and 8) Michael.
Whatever now restrains the Antichrist of vv. 3, 4, 8-10 from being revealed in
the fullness of his apostasy and evil must be more than human or even angelic
power.
The power that holds back Satan from bringing the final apostasy and
unveiling of his Satan-possessed false Christ (the Antichrist) must be
supernatural. It must be God's power in operation that holds back Satan, so
that the "man of sin," "the son of destruction" (v. 3) won't be able to come until
God permits it by removing the restraining power. The reason for the restraint
was so that the Antichrist would be revealed at God's appointed time and no
sooner, just as was Christ (Gal. 4:4), because God controls Satan.
The Holy Spirit of God is the only Person with sufficient (supernatural) power
to do this restraining. How does He do it? Through Christians, He works in
society to hold back the swelling tide of lawless living. At some point, though,
He will be removed from the earth, allowing sin to have dominion over
mankind. This can only happen when the Church-all true believers in Jesus
Christ-are removed. This is because the Holy Spirit lives within each believer.
When the church leaves the earth, the Holy Spirit will be taken out of the way
in the sense that His unique lawlessness-restraining ministry-through God's
people- will be removed .
The removal of the Restrainer at the time of the removal of the church from
planet earth must obviously precede the "day of the Lord." But as soon as
individuals again start placing their faith in Christ during the tribulation, the
Holy Spirit will again be "present" in the world. His ministry of restraining,
though, seems limited to the time before the tribulation.
Those who read this message know that the time of the end of days is upon
us. Even if they are not a Christian now, they know that the world cannot
continue in its downward slide. Something has got to give, and what will give is
the removal of the Bride of Christ and the beginning of a period that last 7
years with a one world ruler, known as the Anti-Christ. The signs of this
imminent event are screaming at the world. Do you feel it? Have you fear in
your heart what is coming upon the earth? If you don't now, you most certainly
will. Jesus spoke of such unbridled fear coming upon all who live into what is
called the Tribulation. Luke chapter 21:
21:25 "And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and
on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring;
21:26 men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things
which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and
great glory.
21:28 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your
heads, because your redemption draws near."
What I have spoken of here in this message gives you fair warning of what is
coming upon the earth and sooner than what you may even think or imagine. I
do not consider myself a "watchman on the wall" of the caliber that Ezekiel
was, but God has impressed me to warn you in the words of Ezekiel chapter
33:
33:2 "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them:
"When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man
from their territory and make him their watchman,
33:3 when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet
and warns the people,
33:4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take
warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own
head.
33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood
shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.
33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the
trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any
person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will
require at the watchman"s hand."
I have blown the trumpet of alarm more times than I can imagine. Now some
may continue to scoff and mock as the Apostle Peter spoke of in 2nd Peter
chapter 3:
3:3 " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking
after their own lusts,
3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens
were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men."
So my question to you is, where will you be found? Will you be those who
scoff and mock and say it's not as bad as it seems. "Things will get better", you
say. With all the evidence around you, are you so secure in those statements?
If Jesus would come tonight, and He could, will you be found in Him, or found
blind and naked in your unrighteous condition? Or will you fall on your knees,
or say in your heart. "Lord, save me." John 3:15-18:
3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that
the world through him might be saved.
3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God."
This is Pastor Mike Taylor, praying God reveals Himself to you in His only
Begotten Son, Jesus Christ for the salvation of your soul. If you have need for
prayer, counseling, or just a listening ear, email me at
realteam1999@sbcglobal.net, . God bless you all in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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