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CHRISTMAS IS REMINDER CHRIST WILL RETURN
TO FULFILL PROMISE IN ISAIAH (Excerpt)
The Christian
Post -- Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship church, has
said that what Christmas is really about is recognizing that Jesus Christ will
return one day to fulfill the promise that remains in Isaiah in the Bible.
Laurie quoted
from Isaiah 9:7 which reads: "Of the increase of His government and peace
there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His Kingdom, to order
it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even
forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."
Laurie
commented that part of that promise has not yet been fulfilled, however.
"The Son
has been given. The Child has been born. But He has not yet taken the
government upon His shoulders. We do not yet have peace with judgment and
justice," the megachurch pastor wrote.
"But the
good news is that there will come a day when Christ will return. He will
establish His Kingdom on this Earth. And it will be the righteous rule of God
Himself."
He noted that
while when Jesus was born, a star marked His arrival, the next time He arrives,
"the Heavens will roll back like a scroll, all of the stars will fall from
the sky, and He Himself will light it."
Laurie
continued: "Christmas is not about tinsel or shopping or presents.
Christmas is not about the gifts under the tree. Rather, Christmas is about the
gift that was given on the tree when Christ died there for our sins and gave us
the gift of eternal life."
The pastor has
preached about the return of Jesus and the Final Judgment in the End Times
focused on the book of Revelation.
He said that
according to the Bible, there are two deaths, one physical, and one spiritual. "Jesus
warned that we should fear the second death more than the first death. It is
spiritual separation from God," Laurie said.
"Eternity
to the godly is a day that has no sunset. Eternity to the wicked is a night
that has no sunrise."
The
Harvest Christian Fellowship church leader has also commented on how some
people may be failing to grasp what the Christmas story is really about, and
are instead choosing to romanticize it.
"In
reality, the story of Jesus is not a rags-to-riches story; it is a
riches-to-rags story. It is a story of leaving the glory of Heaven for this
planet. Jesus could have been born in the most elegant mansion on the ritziest
boulevard in Rome," Laurie wrote in a previous Facebook post. He
could have had aristocratic parents who boasted of their pedigree. He could
have had the finest clothes from the most exclusive shops. He could have had
legions of angels as an army of servants to respond to His every whim.”
He
had none of that. Instead, Jesus humbled Himself.
THE ROOM
Author: Unknown
In that place between wakefulness and
dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features save
for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that
list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order.
But these files, which stretched from
floor to ceiling and seemingly endlessly in either direction, had very
different headings. As I drew near the
wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read "Girls I
Have Liked". I opened it and began
flipping through the cards. I quickly
shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one.
And then without being told, I knew
exactly where I was. This lifeless room
with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every
moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn't match.
A sense of wonder and curiosity, coupled
with horror, stirred within me as I began randomly opening files and exploring
their content. Some brought joy and
sweet memories; others a sense of shame and regret so intense that I would look
over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching.
A file named
"Friends" was next to one marked "Friends I Have
Betrayed".
The titles ranged from the mundane to the
outright weird. "Books I Have
Read", "Lies I Have Told", "Comfort I Have Given",
"Jokes I Have Laughed At".
Some were almost hilarious in their exactness: "Things I've Yelled
at My Brothers." Others I couldn't
laugh at: "Things I Have Done in My
Anger", "Things I Have Muttered under My Breath at My
Parents". I never ceased to be
surprised by the contents. Often there
were many more cards than I expected.
Sometimes fewer than I hoped. I was over-whelmed by the sheer volume of
the life I had lived.
Could it be possible that I had the time
in my 20 years to write each of these thousands or even millions of cards? But each card confirmed this truth. Each was written in my own handwriting. Each signed with my signature. When I pulled out the file marked "Songs
I Have Listened To", I realized the files grew to contain their contents. The cards were packed tightly,
and yet after two or three yards, I hadn't found the end of the file.
I shut it, shamed, not so much by the
quality of music, but more by the vast amount of time I knew that file
represented. When I came to a file marked "Lustful Thoughts", I felt
a chill run through my body. I pulled
the file out only an inch, not willing to test its size, and drew out a
card. I shuddered at its detailed
content. I felt sick to think that such
a moment had been recorded.
An almost animal rage broke on me. One thought dominated my mind: "No one
must ever see these cards! No one must
ever see this room! I have to destroy
them!" In an insane frenzy I
yanked the file out. Its size didn't
matter now. I had to empty it and burn
the cards. But as I took it at one end
and began pounding it on the floor, I could not dislodge a single card. I
became desperate and pulled out a card, only to find it as strong as steel when
I tried to tear it.
Defeated and utterly helpless, I returned
the file to its slot. Leaning my forehead against the wall, I let out a long,
self-pitying sigh. And then I saw
it. The title bore "People I Have
Shared the Gospel With". The handle was brighter than those around it,
newer, almost unused. I pulled on its
handle and a small box not more than three inches long fell into my hands. I
could count the cards it contained on one hand.
And then the tears came. I began to
weep. Sobs so deep
that the hurt started in my stomach and shook through me. I fell on my knees and cried. I cried out of
shame, from the over-whelming shame of it all.
The rows of file shelves swirled in my tear-filled eyes. No one must ever, ever know of this
room. I must lock it up and hide the
key. But then as I pushed away the tears, I saw Him. No, please not Him. Not here, Oh, anyone but Jesus. I watched helplessly as He began to open the
files and read the cards. I couldn't
bear to watch His response. And in the
moments I could bring myself to look at His face, I saw a sorrow deeper than my
own. He seemed to intuitively go to the
worst boxes. Why did He have to read every
one?
Finally He turned and looked at me from
across the room. He looked at me with
pity in His eyes. But this was a pity
that didn't anger me. I dropped my head,
covered my face with my hands and began to cry again. He walked over and put His arm around me. He could have said so many things. But He didn't say a word. He just cried with me. Then He got up and walked back to the wall of
files. Starting at one end of the room,
He took out a file and, one by one, began to sign His name over mine on each
card. "No!" I shouted rushing to Him.
All I could find to say was "No, no," as I pulled the card
from Him. His name shouldn't be on these
cards. But there it was, written in red
so rich, so dark, so alive. The name of Jesus covered mine. It was written with His blood.
He gently took the card back. He smiled a sad smile and began to sign the
cards. I don't think I'll ever
understand how He did it so quickly, but the next instant it seemed I heard Him
close the last file and walk back to my side.
He placed His hand on my shoulder and said, "It is finished."
I stood up, and He led me out of the
room. There was no lock on its door.
There were still cards to be written.
MUSLIM FAMILY SAYS JESUS APPEARED TO
THEM WITH A SPECIFIC MESSAGE
Weekend news
Today – Feb. 16, 2016 -- Tyler Connell with the Ekballo
Project has been touring college campuses around the U.S., sharing stories and
video from his most recent trip to Middle East, where he documented a dramatic
move of God among Muslims, particularly with refugees.
In the last
few months, he and his team visited Harvard, MIT, Iowa State, Clemson, and
the University of Georgia, among other campuses. "In every stop we saw the
presence of Jesus break in to these college campuses and touch students, with
bodies healed, people saved, and people giving their lives to serve in the
mission field," Connell exclaims.
College
students are amazed to learn what God is doing in Iraq and the surrounding
region. "Jesus is moving in these Middle East nations," he says. "Many
there are disillusioned and broken and just want to know the truth. Now more
than ever there is a harvest among Muslims that has not been seen in
history."
His first film
chronicles a young missionary named Daniel (whose name has been changed
for security reasons), 24, originally from Vermont. Two years ago
Daniel moved to the Middle East to work with Syrian refugees.
"They go
house to house and visit these Muslim families and sit with them and talk with
them and find out their names, their stories, and love them. As trust is built,
they begin to open up about the Gospel."
One afternoon
Daniel walked into a white tent with a family of eight people inside. "Hi
I'm Daniel and I'm here to tell you about Jesus," he announced.
He wasn't
quite prepared for their reaction. "The family freaked out, they looked at
each other, almost turned white. The father was excited, yelling."
What's
going on? Daniel
wondered.
The
interpreter explained that the night before Daniel's visit the whole family was
sitting in their tent having tea together and a man in white opened the door to
their tent and stood at the entrance. The man was glowing.
"Hello, My name is Jesus and I am sending a man tomorrow named
Daniel to tell you more about me." Then he disappeared.
So when Daniel
arrived at their doorway and told them his name, they were completely undone.
"They asked him to tell them more about Jesus and he gave then the Gospel
and the whole family gave their lives to Jesus," Connell reports.
The father had
been a part of the Free Syrian Army. "He had known bloodshed. He was a
devout Muslim. This man and his family are now planting underground churches
and are seeing a harvest among Muslims."
Recently the
father was dismayed by a large cell phone bill and he asked his 15-year-old
daughter about it.
"It's
because I'm telling all our relatives in Saudi Arabia about Jesus," she
said.
"We felt
God told us to go to these places, the dark places, and capture what He is
doing thru the lives of missionaries that have given their lives, left
everything they had here to live overseas. We follow them with our camera and
capture what God does and show it on college campuses to ignite students to
live for something bigger than themselves."
In May 2015
his team spent eight days in the Middle East, going house to house among the
refugees. "They were all Muslims but they all said they were disillusioned
with Islam and they didn't know what they believed anymore," he observes.
"They
asked, 'What is the truth?' There was a perfect cocktail of circumstances that
caused them to be open to the preaching of the Gospel."
Going to the
Middle East his team had to confront their fears. "We
realized that intimidation and fear was only a smokescreen. On the other side
of that fear was our greatest breakthrough of joy and laying down our lives and
seeing Jesus move like we never imagined."
In another
Syrian refugee family, Connell felt God's presence break through in a powerful
way. "The joy that broke out among these people was incredible," he
notes. "Jesus' presence was stronger than I have ever felt, in that little
dirty room, with cat pee everywhere."
"There was about 25 people in there and Jesus' presence was
stronger than any conference, any prayer room, any camp-high moment. Jesus was
there in the middle of the desert, in the dirt, with Muslims. He is attracted
to the broken hearted, the contrite, the desperate. The King of Heaven was
right there with the poor in spirit."
Over the last
three years, Connell and his team have responded to an assignment from
God to capture what He is doing in the most unreached parts of the world, the
10-40 window. "This window has the three giants of Islam, Buddhism, and
Hinduism. Currently there are 2.9 billion unreached, who have yet to hear that
Jesus is the way to the Father."
But
continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of,
knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise
unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (II Timothy 3:14-15)
Creation
Moments – Nov. 20, 2008 -- Did you know that the Bible never tries to convince
the reader that there is a God? As surprising as that sounds, it's absolutely
true. The Bible's very first words begin by identifying God - but nowhere does
the Bible try to prove there is a God.
The
first verse of Genesis reads, "In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth." Here we learn that the God of the Bible is our Creator. We
also see here, although less clearly until we look at the next two verses, the
Prime Actor in creation - the Father.
In
the second half of verse 2 we read, "And the Spirit of God was hovering
over the surface of the waters." Now it is clear that the Trinity is being
presented. Here is the Holy Spirit, moving over the as yet unformed Earth,
anticipating the people yet to be made who would serve as His temples.
Verse
3 opens with, "And God said." That simple phrase introduces the very
heart of Scripture, the Word of God Himself. This is the very Word of God who
would come and take upon Himself our earthly form in order to accomplish our
salvation.
So
even here in Genesis, we have the beginning of God's revelation of the Person
and work of the Son of God - our Savior. Truly all Scripture has been given to
make us wise unto salvation.
THE GREATNESS OF GOD
When you think
of God, what comes to mind? Often, people view Him in the way that best fits
their particular need or situation. For example, a person who struggles with
guilt might focus on the Lord’s forgiveness or holiness. And someone with a
thirst for justice might dwell on the Almighty’s righteousness.
The truth is, His character encompasses far more than we could ever
comprehend or even try to explain. I would never attempt to summarize such an
awesome God in this devotion, but it’s important to look at Scripture in order
to gain an accurate picture of the One we worship.
Today we will
focus on one attribute: the Lord’s greatness. The passage from Isaiah 40 tells
us that God is greater than creation (Isa. 40:12), for
it was by His hands that everything we see came into being. He is higher than
the nations or any idol fashioned by the finest craftsman (Isa. 40:17-20). In fact, He is above the world and
all mankind (Isa. 40:22-23), surpassing even the heavens and
galaxies.
Our Father’s
thoughts and ways are far grander than our own (Isa. 55:9)—and lofty compared with what we can
understand. Psalm 93:1 states, “The Lord reigns, He is
clothed with majesty; the Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength.”
Consider the
awesome God we serve. He truly is worthy of our praise. As we grasp even a
fraction of His greatness, our response should be one of humble worship. After
all, who are we that a God like this would desire our friendship—so much so
that He sent His Son to die for our sins.
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lost everything.” - Apples of Gold- Julian Café, Julian, Ca. (Prov.
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YES, YOU GO TO CHURCH BUT ARE YOU REALLY
SEEKING GOD?
The
Christian Post – Nov. 15, 2018 -- Before I became a believer, I dated a young
lady who asked me if she could pray for me to be able to "feel God's
peace." I said "Sure." Before she prayed she explained a few
things about this experience and said "Nolan, I am going to ask God to put
His peace on you for three days." All I can say is that I felt like I was
floating in invisible water. God's peace came and stayed three days to the
minute.
Years
later, as I was street witnessing, a guy pulled up in his car. I started
sharing the reality of the Holy Spirit with him. I told him about my very first
experience with God, when my girlfriend prayed for me. As I was talking to this
young man God's Spirit came rushing in. The guy in the car said "holy
&*!?%! He is here!" I laughed I was not offended by his language
because he was a sinner and that was all he knew! God's Holy Spirit continued
to touch him that night as I sowed lasting seeds of salvation with him from
God's Word. I have learned that in these last days God wants to pour out His
Spirit on all flesh; all we have to do is just get the message out there.
The
scriptures say that when the Spirit of God came on Azariah
the prophet, he declared these words to Asa the King. "The Lord is with
you while you be with Him; and if ye seek Him, He will
be found of you; but if ye forsake Him He will forsake you!" (2nd Chronicles
15:2b. KJV)
Far too many of us we live in what I call crisis mode. We live
our everyday lives, go to church, sometimes to every service, but we really do
not seek God. We seek our own lives, our own financial security, and from there
the list continues on. Most of us seek a career, a spouse, a house, a nice car
etc. However, we do not seek the Lord diligently. It is true that perhaps we
once did when we first were saved out of a very sinful life. "He who is
forgiven much loves much." (Luke 7:47 KJV) However, now we only seek the
Lord when the next crisis hits our lives. Unfortunately this leaves us
spiritually weak and vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy. That is why Peter
admonishes us; "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil
walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour!" (1st Peter
5:8 KJV) In Africa the lions always seek to pick off the weak of the herd.
Satan uses the same strategy! First he seeks to weaken you! He is a patient
devil! Then he seeks to devour you!
Whether we adhere to the Catholicism or not, our fleshly nature
sure prefers the basic footprint of the priesthood. We just love to make our pastors our
priests. We want them to go to God for us and to do our praying for us. We want
him to be right there in a crisis that we may or may not have self-orchestrated.
We want him to hear from God for us and tell us on Sunday morning what God is
saying.
God
actually calls us all out of that under the New Covenant. "...and has made
us kings and priests unto God and His Father: To Him be
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:6 KJV) We are all
called to be God seekers and if you could sum up every effort of every
revivalist that ever lived it would be this, "Seek the Lord again with all
of your heart!"
Why
did Azariah start with the admonition to King Asa to
seek the Lord? Because He knew it was the bedrock of all right relationship
with God. It's the foundation of communication between us, and the Heavenly
Father. When that's right, everything else will eventually fall in place in our
spiritual lives.
The
writer of Chronicles goes on to say in verse three; "Now for a long season
Israel had been
without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law." It
is my deep conviction that this follows a tight parallel to where we are in
America right now. Often as I pray for God to send revival to our nation I
pray, "Heavenly Father, I ask you to send revival to our nation from sea
to shining sea, every city, every town, every village, and every hamlet. Father
God show forth Your mercy on this sinful land. Our
people have been miss-taught, misinformed, and miss- instructed about who You really are. So please Father God send revival by your
abundant grace and mercy in Jesus name amen!"
Overall,
I believe that the United States of America has been without the true God for a
long time. As our nation grew more self-focused and people pleasers
increasingly occupied our pulpits, a greatly watered down message began to be
preached, and it has just gotten worse and worse as time has gone by. We have
created a grandpa God. People are wondering why we are not seeing the answers
to prayer and great miracles of other generations. Sin is rampant, and morality
has been thrown out the door. I'm not sure which is worse in the eyes of God;
the way some women dress today to draw attention to the sexual parts of their
bodies, or the way that we as men encourage them to do it more by lusting after
them.
We
have been without a true teaching priest because all of our hearts have sought
the easier way. Our collective doctrines, formed for the convenience of man,
all are designed to serve our fleshly indulgences. Most churches today would
fire Jesus if He were their pastor after His first sermon. Shockingly we have
now most conveniently managed to make non-applicable Gods law!
Israel365 -
Oct. 26, 2018 -- Once the entire Nation of Israel united behind
King David, he was able to conquer the holy city of Jerusalem from the
pagan Jebusites,
and to rule there for thirty-three years. His palace was located in the City of
David, just outside the present walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
After fifteen years of archaeological excavations at this site, a Canaanite
fortress dating back to the eighteenth century BCE was uncovered. This
impressive structure is the largest fortress to have been discovered in Israel
from before the time of King Herod. It protects the Gichon
spring where Solomon was anointed king (I Kings 1:38), making it
possible to access the spring only from within the city of Jerusalem. As this
verse describes, when King David entered the city he conquered the
“stronghold of Zion” from the Jebusites,
quite possibly referring to this very fortress discovered thousands of years
later.
“Palestine” must be retaken by Muslims even if
it costs “millions” of lives.
WND
– Nov. 18, 2018 -- The Oct. 12, 2018, message was from Hasan Sabri of the Islamic Center of South Florida in Pompano
Beach.
He
said a “believing Muslim’s” position is that Palestine is “Islamic waqf land that was occupied by force” – and that it should
be liberated “even if this leads to the martyrdom of tens of millions of
Muslims.”
MEMRI
reported Sabri also said, “Allah wants each and every
one of you to be a man with a cause … for which he lives and dies,” noting that
the Palestinian cause “is being plotted against” with “the Deal of the
Century.”
The
research organization explained, “According to Pompano Beach elected officials,
Sabri has recited invocations annually at Pompano
Beach city meetings since 2005, and the ICOSF has had a peaceful, 25-year
presence in the city, even serving as a polling station. In September 2017,
Imam Sabri was a panelist at ‘Interfaith and Race
Relations Peace and Acceptance Conference’ at Palm Beach State College in Lake
Worth, Florida.”
But
the building that is listed as the address of the ICOSF is owned by the North
American Islamic Trust, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the
largest terrorist financing case in America history. The case, U.S. v. Holy
Land Foundation, resulted in convictions and imprisonment of several U.S.-based
Hamas leaders.
Sabri
said: “Take the Palestinian cause, for example. It is now being plotted against
with a deal they call the ‘Deal of the Century.’ Why
do they call it a ‘deal?’ Because whoever is involved in this
treason is not a man of principles. These are peddlers, not men with a
cause. All they want are positions and jobs. That is why for them, the cause is
nothing but a deal, a matter of give and take. For them, it is nothing but a
deal.”
He continued:
“But what is the position of a believing Muslim about the Palestinian cause?
That Palestine in its entirety is Islamic land, and there is no difference
between what was occupied in 1948 and 1967. There is no difference between this
village or that village, this city or that city. All of it is Islamic waqf land that was occupied by force. The
responsibility for it lies with the entire Islamic nation, and the
[Palestinians] should benefit from this land. If a land is occupied or
plundered, it should be liberated from the occupiers and plunderers, even if
this leads to the martyrdom of tens of millions of Muslims.”
He added,
“This is the ruling, and there is no room for discussion or concessions.”
He also said:
“[Atheists] always belong to minorities – national minorities, religious sects
or minorities, and they have an agenda of destroying this Islamic nation, so
they adopt atheism, not because it makes sense, but because it serves their
approach. That is why you find most of these people, like I said, calling for
goals that are opposite from the general goals of this nation. Our goal is to
unite people, to unite Muslims. Their goal is to fragment Muslims even more.
Wherever there is an opportunity to split a Muslim country into two, or three,
or 10 parts, you will find that they are for it. What does that have to do with
atheism? It has to do with an agenda. That’s all.”
He continued:
“But what is the position of a believing Muslim about the Palestinian cause?
That Palestine in its entirety is Islamic land, and there is no difference
between what was occupied in 1948 and 1967. There is no difference between this
village or that village, this city or that city. All of it is Islamic waqf land that was occupied by force. The responsibility
for it lies with the entire Islamic nation, and the [Palestinians] should
benefit from this land. If a land is occupied or plundered, it should be
liberated from the occupiers and plunderers, even if this leads to the
martyrdom of tens of millions of Muslims.”
He added,
“This is the ruling, and there is no room for discussion or concessions.”
He also said:
“[Atheists] always belong to minorities – national minorities, religious sects
or minorities, and they have an agenda of destroying this Islamic nation, so
they adopt atheism, not because it makes sense, but because it serves their
approach. That is why you find most of these people, like I said, calling for
goals that are opposite from the general goals of this nation. Our goal is to
unite people, to unite Muslims. Their goal is to fragment Muslims even more.
Wherever there is an opportunity to split a Muslim country into two, or three,
or 10 parts, you will find that they are for it. What does that have to do with
atheism? It has to do with an agenda. That’s all.”
ANCIENT RING
BELONGED TO PONTIUS PILATE, THE MAN WHO CRUCIFIED JESUS
Newsmax
– Nov. 29, 2018 -- An ancient ring found in Bethlehem about 50 years ago has
been linked to Pontius Pilate, the Roman who ordered that Jesus be
crucified, Haaretz
reports.
Professor
Gideon Forster of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found the bronze ring
while digging at Herodion, a fortress constructed by
King Herod, near Bethlehem in the West Bank not long after the Six-Day War in
1969. Recently, the findings from the dig were given to Hebrew University’s Dr.
Roee Porath, whose team is currently working the
site.
After
cleansing the ring and using a special camera from the Israel Antiquities
Authority labs, researchers discovered it had an inscription showing a wine
ship with Greek writing, which translated to “Platus,”
which is a name used to refer to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of
Jerusalem from the years 26 to 36, who was referred to in the New Testament as
the person who ordered Jesus’ execution.
“I don’t know
of any other Pilatus from the period and the ring shows he was a person of
stature and wealth,” said Professor Danny Schwartz.
In the 1960’s,
Forster also found a stone inscribed with the name “Pilatus,” which was
attributed to the Roman Pontius Pilate, who likely used Herodion
as his administrative headquarters.
“You can see
he had a natural link to the Herodion,” Porath told Haaretz. “Even for
Herod it was more than just a tomb site with a palace. It was also a
significant site of government. You can see the unusual significance this site
had. “
TEACHING CHILDREN TO DELAY HAVING SEX IS
‘ANTI-SCIENCE’ (Excerpt)
The New York Times editorial board says the Trump
administration is “quietly advancing an anti-science” agenda by supporting teen
pregnancy prevention programs that encourage young people to refrain from sex
to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
Prophecy eNewsletter Update – May 9, 2018 -- In an editorial Sunday,
the board condemns the promotion of abstinence among teens
by the current Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The reproach is
delivered without one word about the scientific fact that the only certain way
young teens can avoid having to deal with the unfortunate situations of an
unplanned pregnancy or being infected with an STD is to not have sex.
“The
administration is promoting a ‘just say no’ approach” and is ‘poised to shift
Title X family planning dollars … toward programs that advocate abstinence
outside of marriage,” says the editorial board, sure that only horrific
outcomes will ensue from encouraging young people to delay sex until they are
older, have completed school, and have met someone special.
“The
administration’s approach defies all common sense,” the editors write, claiming
there is no evidence that teaching young people to make healthy decisions about
sex will reduce teen pregnancies or STDs.
The Times continues
that comprehensive sex education (CSE) programs of the sort promoted by the
Obama administration are the reason why teen pregnancy has declined in the
United States in recent years.
A senior HHS
official, however, recently told Breitbart News that this narrative is not
supported by research data from the federal government itself.
A 2016 report from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows nearly 60 percent of
high school students today have never had sex, an increase of 28 percent since
1991. This data complements research that also shows a historic drop
in teen pregnancy rates since 1991.
NOAH FOUND GRACE
Ephesians 2:8-9 “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.”
Creation
Moments – Nov. 30, 2018 -- As creationists, we spend a lot of time working on
our models about how we think the Flood could have happened, developing new
models. The old vapor canopy model has long since been superseded by more
biblical and more scientific models, such as Catastrophic Plate Tectonics or
the newer Vertical Impact Tectonics.
What we should
not lose sight of is the reason why God sent the Flood. The reason for the
coming of the Flood is given in Genesis 6:5. “The Lord saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.” If God had chosen to destroy everyone and
everything, He would have been just to do so. But God also had a plan of
salvation, which we read about in Genesis 6:8, which, in my opinion, is the
most beautiful verse of the early chapters of Genesis.
Noah found
grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Hebrews 11
tells us: “By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen,
in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he
condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by
faith.” It follows, then, that Noah was saved by grace through faith. And
Ephesians 2:8 reminds Christians: “By grace you have been saved through faith”.
There has only ever been one method of salvation – by grace, through faith. We
just have that little bit more knowledge than Noah, so that we know Who bought that salvation, and how.
THE DANGER OF DRIFTING
One fine
afternoon, my best friend and I came upon an abandoned boat floating in the
river. The paddles were broken, but that wasn’t a deterrent for a pair of
teenage boys. We shoved off and drifted downstream talking, joking, and
carrying on. I’m not sure how much time passed as we floated aimlessly along,
but we knew we were in trouble when a loud roar reached our ears. Up ahead,
water was rushing over the dam. Panicked, we grabbed the broken paddles and
pulled hard against the current. We managed to get close enough to the shore to
safely jump out into shallow water, but the boat went over the edge. What
started out as pure fun nearly ended in disaster.
That’s happens
to many people today. What begins as fun and pleasure ends in shipwreck because
people drift along, neglecting to think ahead or notice how fast they’re moving
away from the safety of the Lord’s plan. According to the prevailing attitude
of modern society, God isn’t needed as long as the stream runs smoothly. In
other words, when income is good, the family is safe, and health is stable,
going with the flow seems fine. But in reality, a drifting man is being swept
along by the world’s currents, which are dangerous without Christ.
Today’s
passage reveals that the wise look to the future to avoid ruin. Let me put it
another way: Drifting is foolish. In countless arenas of life—including
marriage, family, vocation, and finances—we need to have a goal and navigation plan if we expect to be successful. Thankfully, God provides
both in His Word. (See Prov. 3:6.)
In Touch
Ministry
SECTION II - SPECIAL ARTICLES/ BOOK
REVIEWS
IN THIS
SECTION:
· WHAT HAPPENS
AFTER WE DIE? (WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS)
· WHAT’S IN A
NAME?
· "BOB
PIERCE - THIS ONE THING I DO" - A
BOOKREVIEW/SUMMARY
· "THE
HIDDEN CODES OF THE BIBLE" - A BOOK REVIEW/SUMMARY
· "SIGNS
OF THE TIME” - A BOOK REVIEW/SUMMARY
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE DIE?
By D.E. Davis
For Christians, we are told in Scripture in 2Cr 5:8 that to be
absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. For those who turn away
from God, we are told that they are eternally separated from God and go to a
place called Hell. Rev 14:11 says that
the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and
ever.
The question that everyone ponders is: What really happens after we
die? Do we just lay dormant until the Lord takes us to be with him or until
judgement is handed out at the Great White Throne as called out in Rev. 20:11?
Are we conscience? Do we feel, touch, think, recognize loved ones, know what is happening around us? All questions that we have
ask ourselves, no doubt, at some time in our life.
My own personal review of the Scriptures has led me to believe that
after we die, even though our body may be dead and buried, our Spirit is alive
and fully conscience. Chuck Missler likens this state
of conscienceness to the software that runs the
Computer; once the hardware goes, the software remains intact and available for
further applications.
There are two illustrations in the Bible that makes it clear as to
what happens after death, when we're in the spirit.
The first one is illustrated in the Luke account of Lazarus and the
rich man in Chapter 16. After death, Lazarus, a man of God, is escorted into
Abraham’s Bosom, a holding compartment in Hell for the Believers prior to the
Cross. The non-believing rich man was "buried" and went into a
separate compartment in Hell (Hades), apart from Abraham’s Bosom, where he was
in Torment according to Scripture. Both were in a Spirit state; yet by the
account, they could see each other and speak to each other.
The second account is in Revelation, where John is taken (in the
Spirit) to Heaven to see those things that shall come to pass prior to the
return of Jesus Christ to the Earth, or Second Coming (not the Rapture).
I had to conclude from the study, based on the following Scripture,
that all of the senses we have here on earth will be with us throughout
eternity, even unto death.
·
THE
ABILITY TO LOOK/SEE - Luke 16:23;Rev. 1:12;4:1,4; 5:1,2; 6:1,2,8,9; 7:1,2; 8:2;
9:1,17; 10:1,5; 13:1,2,3;14:1,6; 15:1,2; 16:13; 17:3,6; 18:1; 19:11,17,19;
20:1,4,11,12; 21:1,2,22; 22:8
·
THE
ABILITY TO HEAR - Rev. 1:10; 4:1; 5:11; 6:1,3,5,6,7; 7:4; 9:13,16; 10:4,8;
12:10; 14:2,13; 16:1,5,7; 18:4; 19:1,6; 21: 3; 22:8
·
THE
ABILITY TO BEHOLD ( to obtain knowledge of: understand: perceive) - Rev.
5:6,11; 6:5,8,12; 7:9; 8:13; 13:11
·
THE
ABILITY TO REASON - Luke 16:30
·
THE
ABILITY TO CRY (even though there will be no more crying in Heaven) - Rev.
5:4,5; Luke 16:24
·
THE
ABILITY TO SPEAK - Rev. 5:13; 10:9; 21:6,15; Luke 16:24, 29,30,31
·
THE
ABILITY TO FEEL/TOUCH - Luke 16:23, 24,25
·
THE
ABILITY TO REMEMBER - Luke 16:25
·
THE
ABILITY TO WONDER - Rev. 17:6
·
THE
ABILITY TO WRITE - Rev. 1:11; 10:4; 19:9
·
THE
ABILITY TO QUESTION - Rev. 7:13
·
THE
ABILITY TO TAKE (THE BOOK/ROD) - Rev. 10:8,9,10
·
THE
ABILITY TO FALL (ON KNEES) - Rev. 19:10; 22:8
·
THE
ABILITY TO STAND - Rev. 13:1
·
THE
ABILITY TO WORSHIP - Rev. 19:10; 22:8
·
THE
ABILITY TO PERFORM TASKS - Rev. 11:1
God has promised in 1 Thess 4:16 and 1
Cor. 15:52,53 that one day, we shall be reunited with Him in body and will be
transformed and conformed to Him - in the twinkling of an eye. We are also told
in Scripture that we shall see Him face to face- see the Lamb that was slain
for you and me. We know by His Word, that we will Praise Him, Worship Him and
Rule with Him.
One thing in the study that I found extremely fascinating was the
difference in treatment between Lazarus and the non-believing rich man.
Scripture says that Lazarus was escorted to Heaven by an Angel, but there is no
indication in Scripture about how the rich man arrived at Hell. Could it be
that God had a specific purpose why He chose not to tell us in Scripture?
Finally, knowing that others may have varying interpretations of
these Scriptures, I strongly urge you to review the Scriptures yourselves to determine
what you find as the truth according to God’s Word.
WHAT’S IN
A NAME?
For those who
wish you had some other name because you don't like the name you were given,
you had better think twice. It is most
likely that the name your parents picked out for you was not their choice but
God's choice. Let’ s
face it, the word of the Lord is true.
That's why in Eph. 1:4, God proclaimed that He had chosen us from before
the very beginning of the world.
If you follow
the Genealogy of Adam in Genesis, Chapter 5 (*) you will receive an insight
into what importance God put in names - It's an exciting message:
Genealogy Meaning
Adam Man
Seth Appointed
Enosh Mortal
Kenan Sorrow
Mahalalel The
blessed God
Jared Shall
come down
Enoch Teaching
Methuselah His
Death shall bring
Lamech The Despairing
Noah Rest,
Comfort
Now let us look
at God’s Plan for Redemption:
"Man (is)
appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that)
His death shall bring (the) despairing rest."
Let us now look
at the Genealogy of Abraham (*):
Genealogy Meaning
Abraham Predestination
Isaac Called
Jacob Justified
Joseph Glorified
(*) Source:
Chuck Missler’s Briefing package: “A Walk Thru the Bible”
WELL YOU SAY!
BUT THAT WAS ALL OLD TESTAMENT AND WOULDN'T BE APPLICABLE FOR TODAY - WOULD IT?
Well, let us see.................. As a Christian, did God not choose you by name at the same time he chose Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph - before the very foundation of the world? If God had a purpose for their name, would you expect anything less for your name since He chose you at the same time?
As a Christian,
You ought to thank God daily that you, by your given name, was written in the
Lamb's book of life before the very foundation of the world and that you will
be a partaker in all the promises of Rev
21:27.
Within the last
couple of years, researchers have found many startling discoveries through the
use of super computers, specifically, hidden codes that God supernaturally
placed within the Hebrew text of the Bible.
Over 2000 years ago, the names of historical and current leader’s names
were placed in the Bible. Such names as Adolph Hitler, Eichmann, Arafat, Peres,
Rabin, Rabin's murderer Amir, Ben-Zion Netanyahu, Saddan
Hussein, George Bush, Schwarzkoph, Peter Arnet (CNN), Timithy McVeigh,
Bill Clinton.
Do you think
that God would limit His calling out to just those who had a highly visible
historical impact on this world? There
is no doubt that He had a purpose in doing this, if nothing else, just to get
your attention that He is the Creator; that He alone knows the beginning from
the end.
It is my firm
belief that as we advance further with our computer technology and peel back
the layers of the Hebrew text of the scriptures, we will make many more
startling and exciting discoveries. One
being that God has written each and every one of our names in His Word.
HERE IS WHAT GOD
SAID: Isaiah 66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so
shall your seed and your name remain."
BOOK REVIEW by D. E. Davis (September 1997)
BOB
PIERCE -"THIS ONE THING I DO"
By Franklin Graham with Jeanette Lockerbie
It is amazing the worlds that open up to an individual, once the
Power of the Holy Spirit comes upon him. Just three years ago, where once I was
blind to Missions, to all the inspired men and women God has called to service
and the multitude of people all over the world who have been saved,
new worlds are ever opening to me to see how awesome the power of God is in our
Christian lives.
Such was the power and strength of faith Bob Pierce had in our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ. It is
difficult for me to even attempt to assess where God has put Bob along
with other past great men of the faith, but from what I read about his life
with Christ, he certainly had his eyes focused on Jesus! I personally feel inadequate and humbled to
even put in words, my thoughts about this man.
Bob was a man Blessed by God. I feel sad that I never had an opportunity to
know him, but look forward to meeting him one day in heaven.
If ever there was a verse of scripture that represented Bob Pierce,
it had to be the title of this book as taken from Philippians 3:13,14
".......this one thing I do,....I press toward the mark for the prize of
the high calling of God in Jesus Christ."
Bob was raised in Los Angeles and at the age of 12, gave his life
to Christ and was baptized in the Nazarene Church. "God simply called me
to give my heart to Jesus, and I followed Him." He died in 1978 of leukemia but lived his
life for Christ in between in between those dates as if Christ was coming
tomorrow and he still had to witness to the whole world before dawn broke. Throughout his career, he dedicated his life
mainly to Missions and over the years was responsible for founding such World
re-noun programs as "World Vision", an organization dedicated to
meeting the emergency needs in crisis areas such as Korea after the Korean war. During that time
of need, he established
a Korean Orphanage, serving over 30 thousand Korean war
orphans. Bob was also responsible for
starting the World re-noun Korean Orphan's Choir. As an outgrowth of "World Vision"
he founded "World Medical Mission" which covered all emergency
medical needs in countries all over the world which had no medical
facilities. He was also founder of
"Samaritan's Purse" and organization dedicated to funding World
emergency need, no matter where they were.
These organizations are still meeting the needs of those in crisis
today.
If his work through these organizations was not enough, he became a
United Nations War Correspondent during World War II; was Co-founder for
"Youth for Christ"; and became a Motion Picture producer/Radio
program host, author and a lecturer, but first and last, he always considered
himself an evangelist! Even though Bob knew that he was "extraordinarily
gifted by God, he was never impressed with himself - he considered himself just
an earthly vessel, available at all times for the exclusive use of the
Lord".
In his own words, he had "many flaws, failings but had
abundant faith in God who lives and cares about people."
If I had to pick four areas of the Christian life that I feel truly
represented Bob Pierce, they would be 1) Unwavering Faith, 2) Compassion for
others, 3) Obedience to God and 4) Commitment to accomplish the Will of God in
his life.
From the Beginning, Bob knew his calling was for Missions to the
Asian Countries. His first mission led
him through Hawaii to Hong Kong and eventually to China. Getting to China was his first big test of
faith - he had no money, even for the first leg to Hawaii. Bob held the opinion that God knows ones
needs already and if He has called you to a task, He will provide and enable
you - just move out! He did just that and went to the L.A. airport that day
without any money in his pocket. His
faith paid off as God provided the funding for each leg of his trip just at the
moment he needed it. This was the norm rather than the
exception throughout his career as an evangelist. What ever
it was, where ever it was, if God called, Bob would act no matter what the
circumstance......he knew that God would always provide.....and He did!
Bob had a compassion for the spiritually and physically suffering
of the world. "He was the friend of
the little people, the forgotten, the hurting, the maimed, the unheard and the
unsung". Bob's theme was "Let
my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God". It was
Bob's personal belief that "wherever you find men and women who really
love Jesus Christ, you find the compassion of Christ spilling out of them to
meet human need." Over the years World Vision, Samaritan's Purse and other
organizations like them; one in particular, Mission Aviation Fellowship Pilots
(MAF), who flew Missionaries around the world in crisis situations, helped so
many helpless and needy men, women and children. They knew first hand the
healing power of God.
Bob dared it all to be obedient to the Lord's call. Once he had in focus the mission that God
wanted him to accomplish, he followed in Faith to bring the unsaved to
Christ. It was his opinion that " If you are an ambassador, act like one!"- no matter where you are. Bob would bring to memory how other
great men of Faith were obedient even in the face of death. During World War II, a young South Korean
Pastor, Mr. Im was mistaken for a North Korean
Communist and imprisoned. During his
internment, he would go around camp singing "Jesus Loves Me" and
other Christian songs. He not only
uplifted and inspired other fellow Christian prisoners to come together, he brought many more to Christ. Together he and another prisoner, Chaplain Voelkel, established a Bible Study where over 6,000
prisoners finished a six month Bible Study.
Six Hundred (600) of those finishing the Bible Study became pastors and came back to Korea
to preach the Gospel. In another
instance, he related how a Korean school teacher was put to death in front of
his students because of his faith and obedience to the Lord.
To be an ambassador for the Lord "is one of the greatest
things that could ever have happened to anyone - to let God put a fish hook
into you so deep that there is no way of ever getting off the hook."
"Bob did one thing all
of his life, and that was to lead people to the foot of the Cross where they
would put their faith in a risen Lord Jesus Christ. He lived every minute completely amazed that
God could use him. No matter how much he
was able to do in how many places, it was never enough." This was the kind of commitment Bob made to
Jesus; "to commit yourself, give yourself away to God irrevocably, forever. Say to Him, go ahead and burn me up. Spend
me. Eat me up. Use me for you
Glory." And that's exactly what he did.
Being a man of God was not always easy for Bob and he paid a high
price. In one measure or another he had
to forsake his wife, his family, his Mother and Father, his brothers and
sisters and other worldly possessions to follow Jesus. He not only lost his health, he lost his
Daughter, Sharon, to death.
Committing your life to Christ in a Godless society is never easy;
many times you feel like you may be the only one putting your life, your self image, your social acceptance on the line. As Bob came to realize, ". Someone has to go and pay that humiliating
price of literally letting your ego be stomped on- not just pushed in and
suppressed, but laid out there for people to stomp on. We need to do this by the grace of God with
love and patience: sow the seed on rocky soil, nurture it, and maybe never be
applauded."
Committing your life to Christ really comes down to this; What really matters
to you in Life?
On his death bed in the City of Hope, Bob left us this one message
- "I don't care what you have attempted. What you have succeeded at, or
what has been your work in Christ's name while you are here on earth - only one
thing matters when you have reached the last step before you go to stand before
Christ:
- Did you tell men and women who Jesus is?
- Did you bring them to some comprehension of His redeeming love?
- Did you make it plain to them that He alone can pay their way to
heaven throughout His atoning death on the cross?"
Such was the life of a man of God, Bob Pierce.
HIDDEN CODES OF THE BIBLE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ACT 17:11 - Exhorts you to daily review the scriptures
to see if what is being said is true
References: Grant
R. Jeffrey - "The Signature of God"- RECOMMENDED READING
Other reading: "The Hebrew Factor" by Yacov
Rambsel
Prepared
by D. E. Davis
Daniel 12: 4 - "But thou, O Daniel, shut
up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
Here is undeniable proof, the third in the
series, that every word, every letter and every punctuation in Bible text was
put their by the inspiration of God. It gives new meaning to the words "increase
knowledge". It's just one of the
many signs, and without a doubt, the most exciting revelation that God said he
would reveal to man in the "end time". As you will see, God has put his signature
throughout the Bible, has revealed History before it ever happened, all through
hidden codes that were supernaturally placed into text which was written over
2,000 years ago; which could only be found with today's computer technological
advances. The codes are found in what
scholars call "Equidistant Letter Sequences" or ESL. That is, each sequential letter in an encoded
word or phrase was found the same distance apart numerically; The exact interval designed by God.
Actually, the discovery of hidden codes in
scripture dates back to before WWI and it was not until 1988 that the use of computers were able to detect a significant amount of
coding in scripture. Since then, the
research that Grant Jeffrey and others have done has just exploded and new
discoveries are happening every day.
Here is a summary of what has been found and
outlined in Grant's book, referenced above.
It is my understanding that he is in the process of writing another book
to tell what he has found subsequent to "The Signature of God".
Luke 21:15 - " For I will give you a
mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay
(refute) nor resist."
Proverbs 25:2 - "It is the glory of God
to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."
What follows is what most of the human race
would find hard to believe. It
unfathomable to think that the Hebrew Bible, containing 304,805 Hebrew letters,
written by 40 individuals could contain hidden messages that if one letter was
taken out of the text, one word was removed, the hidden message could not be
revealed......yet the message has been sustained for over 2,000 years and has
been revealed to man just as Jesus said it would be. Jesus has actually placed His name and other
messages about Himself into text which proves he is the creator of all; King of
Kings and Lord of Lords.
GOD'S
SIGNATURE
God has personally signed scriptures
throughout the Old and New Testaments in various ways. For example in the Old Testament, he has
encoded his name, Jesus, in the following scripture:
God has also encoded unbelievable detail
about many of the things we read about and which touch our lives daily. For example, he outlines:
PLACES
AND THINGS
·
Gen. 2: 4-10 - The key word "Eden" was
spelled out sixteen (16) times in the span of 379 Hebrew letters. The letters were all equidistant from each
other.
·Gen. 2
- In this chapter which deals with the garden of Eden, scientists found
encoded in the Hebrew text, Twenty-five (25) names of trees that were in the
Garden
of Eden.
·
Gen. 1:1 - Starting with the first appearance of the
Hebrew letter "Tav", the word
"Torah" was found every 50th letter.
·
Ex. 1: 1 - Again, starting with the first appearance of
the letter "Tav" and counting every 50th
letter, the word "Torah" was spelled. Num./Deut.
- In the book of Numbers the word "Torah" was found spelled backwards
every 50th letter. In the book of Deuteronomy,
"Torah" was found again spelled backwards, but this time every
forty-ninth (49) letter.
NAMES
AND EVENTS
·
Holocaust
·
Deut. 10: 17-22 - Beginning with the second to last
appearance of the Hebrew letter "bet" in this passage, they found
every Thirteenth (13) letter, the phrase "b'yam marah Auschwitz" which means "in the bitter sea
of Auschwitz." Also encoded in
this passage were the names of the other Nazi Concentration camp, "Belsen".
·
Deut. 33:21 - Beginning with the letter (resh) that appeared in the Hebrew word "Yisreal," and counting every twenty-second (22) letter
from the left to right they found the phrase "re'tzach
alm" discribing the
Holocaust, which when translated, means "a people cry murder,
slaughter."
·
Adolph Hitler
·
Deut. 10: 17-22 - The word "Hitler" spelled
out in Hebrew was found every twenty-second (22) letter.
·
Deut. 33:16 - Beginning with the first appearance of the
Hebrew letter "mem" and every two hundred and forty-sixth (246)
letter from left to right you find that the coded letters spelled out the
phrase, "Melek Natzim,"
which translates as the "king of the Nazis."
·
Eichmann
·
Deut. 32:52 - Beginning with the appearance of the first
letter (aleph) and counting from left to right every six hundred and seventy
(670) letters, the name "Aik'man" is
spelled, which is the Hebrew form of the name "Eichmann."
·
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
·
"Sadat occurred together with the name of the
leader of the Moslem Brotherhood
assassinating team that killed him.......it contained the year of his
assassination, 1981, and the words
"president," "gunfire," "shot'" and
'Murder".
·
Desert Storm
·
Beginning in Gen. 1:7 and continuing through the rest of
Genesis, Grant Jeffrey indicated at the Prophesy Conference in Irvine,Ca. on 27 Sept. 1996 that
they had recently found information in hidden code in scripture relating to
Desert Storm. I believe more details
will be available in Grant's next book.
·
The French Revolution
·
Gen. 39,41 - "Another
passage in the Book of Genesis revealed a cluster of encoded words that deals
with the French Revolution. The
following words are clustered ogether" "Mapecha HaSarfatit" which
spells "the French Revolution" in Hebrew, "Louis," the name
of the French king, and the word "Beit (house of Bourbon,") his royal
dynasty. In the same cluster were the
following words: "Hamarseilles" (the name of the French anthem) and the
word "Bastillia" (the infamous French
prison for political prisoners........"
OTHER
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
·
Word pairs - "In their initial experiment,
.......the scientists arbitrarily chose three hundred (300) Hebrew
word-pairs that were logically related in meaning, such as hammer and anvil, or
tree and leaf, or man and woman." ".....the researchers were
astonished to find that every single word-pair had been located in Genesis in
close proximity to each other."
·
King David's Ancestors
·
Gen. 28 - " Every one of the five Hebrew names of
these ancestor of King
David (Pharez, Zerah,
Boaz, Obed, Jesse) were found encoded at forty-nine (49) letter intervals,
hidden within the text of Genesis 38".
·
Famous Jewish Rabbi - "The Jewish people celebrate the
memory of their famous sages by commemorating their date of death. Incredibly, the computer program found every
single one of the sixty-six names of these famous rabbis embedded in the text
of Genesis paired at significantly close proximity with their actual date of
birth or their date of death."
IS
THE HEBREW BIBLE UNIQUE TO GOD' S INSPIRED EMBEDDED CODES?
Grant points out that "The researchers
attempted to reproduce these results by running the computer program on other
religious Hebrew texts outside the Bible, including the Samaritan Pentateuch.
.......the researchers could not detect word pairs in the Samaritan Pentateuch
or any other Hebrew text outside the Bible.
In fact, an exhaustive analysis reveals that no other Hebrew text
outside the Old testament contains these mysterious
codes, not even the Hebrew apocryphal books written during the four hundred
years before the birth of Christ"
A
WORD OF CAUTION
"No one can search the Torah using these
codes to foretell future events. The
reason is that it is impossible to extract the encoded information unless you
already know what the future facts are."
"The prophet Isaiah warned against false prophets and declared that
only God can Prophesy
future events accurately
(Isa. 46: 9,10).
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"Computer tapes are now available so
that anyone with a computer can personally verify the existence of these codes
beneath the text of the Scriptures.
As Christians, we can stand firm in the word and shout for joy. God has given us "the words and the wisdom that none of our adversaries will be able to refute or contradict", no matter how much they try!
PRAISE
THE LORD!
SIGNS OF THE TIME
References: Grant
R. Jeffrey - "The Signature of God"- RECOMMENDED READING
Prepared by D. E. Davis
June 10, 1997
Prelude
How do we know that Jesus is the one true God when there
are so many religions, cultures and cults that claim that they serve the one true
god? How about Buddha, Allah?
Scripture says that God alone knows the beginning from the
end. The way that God establishes His
authority is through Biblical Prophesy. There are over 500 prophesies that were
prophesied over 2,000 years ago that have all come to pass. There are still some Old Testament that have
yet have to be fulfilled (Daniel Ezekiel), but there has never been an event
prophesied that has not come to pass in it’s time.
100% accuracy tells us that the God of the Bible is the only true God. No one else in the history of the world,
living or dead, can make this claim.
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In Matthew 24:3, just before Jesus' ascension
into heaven, the disciples of Jesus ask Him what would be the sign of His
second coming. Over the centuries
various groups have attempted to guess when Christ would return to the earth to
claim His inheritance as promised throughout scripture. As we know, no one has been right yet!. God clearly states
in Matthew 24:36 that no man, not even the angels, know the day or the time
when Christ will return. Only God the Father knows.
This summary is
clearly not another attempt to forecast this event. This summary does, however, attempt to provide
an awareness of what is happening around you so that you will not be caught
unaware. (Ref. Luke 21:34 and Matthew. 24:42).
ACT
17:11- Exhorts you to daily review the scriptures to see if what is being said is
true.
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SIGNS OF THE TIME-------------------
Grant Jeffrey has done a wonderful job of
providing critical information about events that are happening in this
generation that all Christians need to know;
Events that were prophesied over 2,500 years ago. Approximately 90% of the material contained
herein was extracted and summarized from Grant's book. I highly recommend reading this book as it
contains so much more that you will want to know.
THE
REBIRTH OF ISRAEL
The rebirth of Israel was prophesied in
several scriptures throughout the Bible.
Isaiah 66: 8 predicted that Israel would be born again in
"one" day. Ezekiel 4:3-6 and Levitcus
26:18 foretold the exact number of days that it would take Israel to
re-establish themselves as a nation in the last days. ( The
exact calculation can be found in Grant Jeffrey's book referenced above). On
May 14, 1948, the Jews proclaimed their independence of the reborn state of
Israel.....The exact day that was predicted over twenty-five (25) centuries
ago.......No other ancient nation ever ceased to exist for a period of
centuries and then returned to take its place on the stage of world
history."
PRESENT
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
In Psalms 83:2-8, God inspired King David to
predict that upon Israel's rebirth as a nation it would be immediately
surrounded by their enemies. The modern
names of those nations named in scripture include Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
and Syria....the nations that have now joined the Palestinians in their attempt
to destroy Israel.
In Gen. 12: 3, God has promised to punish those
nations that come against Israel.
"I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed."
RESTORATION
OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
When Israel was captured by Nebuchadnezzar in
approx. 562 B.C., Israel was no longer allowed to speak the Hebrew language,
but had to learn the language of the Chaldeans.
The Lord predicted, however, through Zephaniah 3:9, that he would
restore a pure language to Israel so that they may "serve him with one consent".
It was in the early part of this Century that the Hebrew language was
revived from the dead language. Today,
Hebrew is a living language to over 5 million Israelis.
THE
FERTILITY OF ISRAEL
In Isaiah 27:6; 35:7 and Joel 2:23, the Lord
prophesied through these prophets that the deserted, unproductive, barren land
of Israel would once again become productive in the last days and that Israel
would experience tremendous increases of rain.
Ever since Israel has returned to the land, they have flourished in the
land and now supply over 90 percent of the citrus fruit consumed in
Europe. Rainfall has increased by more
than "10 percent every decade for the last century and Israel has planted
in excess of two hundred (200) million trees and transformed the complete
environment of the Promised Land."
According to the United Nations, Israel is now "the most
agriculturally efficient land on earth."
THE
UNWALLED CITY
Ezekiel 38:11 speaks of the future invasion
of Gog and Magog (Russia) saying "And thou shalt say, I will go up to the
land of un-walled 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". Grant explains that "even army bases and Israel's settlements
in the West Bank and Gaza have no walls today.........How could Ezekiel have
known twenty-five centuries ago that the development of modern weapons such as
bombs, airplanes and missiles, would have made walls and gates irrelevant for
defensive purposes in the last days. In
the ancient past even small villages as well as cities depended on walls for
defense against invading armies."
PLANS
FOR REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE
Revelations 11:1, 2 foretells of Israel
rebuilding the Temple in the last days.
There is much controversy between the Israelis and the Muslim's because
the Dome of the Rock (Al-Aqsa Mosque) it is believed, sits on the very spot
where the Temple is suppose to be built. In recent years, however, aerial Infra-red
photography shows that this may not be the case. Ezekiel 44:14-18, tell about the sacred
vessels and linen robes that must be used in the Temple. "The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has
already prepared over 75 of the objects, vessels, and linen garments required
for future Temple service.......over 500 men from the tribe of Levi have
already been trained to fulfill the duties of Temple worship and
sacrifice."
Update:
Just recently in the Washington Post on May
28, 1997, it was reported that a 10 month old heifer named "Melody" is the
first red heifer to be born in Israel in over 2,000 years. "In ancient times, the ashes of a red
heifer were mixed with spring water to purify high priests before they entered
the Temple."
THE
REBUILDING OF BABYLON
We know that the old city of Babylon (now
called Iraq) will be built again in the end times because Isaiah 13:6, 19
foretells of its destruction. In Isaiah
34:8-10 it is prophesied that the rebuilt City of Babylon will burn for ever.
"As unlikely as it seems, the Iraqi
government of Saddam Hussein has spent over one billion dollars rebuilding the
ancient city of Babylon and intends that it will become the center of their future
renewed Babylonian Empire.
Interestingly, the whole city of Babylon was built over an underground
lake of asphalt and oil."
THE
ANOINTING OIL
The prophet Daniel prophesied in Dan. 9:24
that the when Jesus returns, that the most Holy of Holies will be anointed with
the anointing oil. "One of the five
ingredients, afars' mon, was
thought lost forever, when the Temple was destroyed in A.D. 70 and the only two
groves of afars'mon trees in existence were burned
to the ground. Incredibly, several years ago, archeologists
in Israel found a clay flask buried near the Dead Sea caves filled with the
ancient oil of anointing. Scientists
confirmed that the oil is two thousand years old and is composed of the precise
ingredients described in Exodus 30:25,26."
PESTILENCE/FAMINES/EARTHQUAKES
Matthew 24:7 prophesied that in the last days
"For nation shall rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilence, and earthquakes, in divers (various)
places." Grand Jeffrey writes
regarding these matters:
·
Pestilence - In 1991, the Central Intelligence Agency
produced a report which "concluded that up to 75% of the population of
Africa living in the area south of the Sahara Desert may become infected with
AIDS over the next 12 years. This will
mean the death by AIDS of over three hundred million people in Africa alone. In July 1991, the South African Medical
Journal reported that a staggering 47% of black male and female blood donors
tested positive for AIDS during 1989."
In Nov. 1996, the
Associated Press reported that "Sexually transmitted diseases are
diagnosed 12 million times a year in the United States - including a staggering
3 million cases among teen-agers".
·
Famine - The
United Nations today "claim that over thirty million in Africa are now at
risk of dying from the most devastating famine in this century. The UN estimates that one billion people are
in danger of starvation while another billion lack proper nutrition. North American food reserves (grain and corn)
are at the lowest level in sixty years."
·
Major killer earthquakes – “Major Killer earthquakes
(7.2 or greater on the Richter scale) occurred
only once per decade throughout history until our century. However, since A. D. 1900, the growth in
major earthquakes has been
relentless. From 1900 to
1949 it averaged three major quakes per decade.
From 1949 the increase became awesome with 9 killer quakes in the
1950's; 13 in the 1960's; 56 in the 1970's and an amazing 74 major quakes in
the 1980's. Finally, in the 1990's, at
the present rate, we will experience 125 major killer quakes in this
decade."
WORLD
WIDE COMMUNICATION
In Revelation 11:9,10,
it is prophesied that during the tribulation period, the antichrist will have
the two witnesses that God sent killed and their bodies will lay in the street
for three and a half days while the whole world watches.
Did not the whole world watch Desert Storm on
CNN television? With all the
technological advances in telecommunications, including the recent opening of
the World Wide Net to our computer industry, any event happening in any part of
the world can now be viewed while it is happening. The prophesy of the two witnesses could literally be fulfilled
today. This could not have happened just
10 or 15 years ago.
INCREASED
KNOWLEDGE AND TRAVEL
Daniel 12:4 prophesies how much knowledge and
travel will increase in the end time. "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the
words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the end: Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall
be increased."
Today, it is estimated that "Human
knowledge is growing so quickly that it literally doubles every twenty-four
months." With the discovery
through the use of modern "Super" computers by Grant Jeffrey and
other researchers of the hidden codes that God supernaturally designed into the
original Hebrew text of the Torah describing not only the history of the world
in advance, but also verifying his Authority through His personal signature
throughout his scripture, we realize that God chose this generation to reveal
this unique aspect about himself.
It is also amazing that in this century, we
have gone from horses to cars, from cars to supersonic spacecraft; not only can
we now travel the world in a matter of hours, but in the case of the U.S. Space
Shuttle Discovery, we can now travel at speeds in excess of eighteen thousand
miles per hour.
REVIVAL
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Daniel 2:40-44 predicts that the old Roman
Empire will be revived in the end times into a ten Nation alliance. We currently see the foundation being laid
today through the European Economic Community. "In 1957, six (6) Countries
signed the Treaty of Rome laying the foundation for the future United States of
Europe.............Since then the Maastricht Treaty consolidated the fifteen (15)
Nations of the European Union into the worlds first superstate."
All it will take is the re-shuffling and/or the consolidation
of Nations to bring this prophesy to a literal fulfillment.
ODDS
THAT THESE PROPHECIES WERE FULFILLED BY CHANCE IN THIS GENERATION
"In the Bible there are several types of
generations. One generation is defined
as the length of life of the average person - seventy or eighty years. However, a generation of governing is usually
defined as forty years,...........During the last two
thousand years since the days of Christ, there were fifty such forty-year
generations. Therefore, the odds are one
chance in fifty that any one of these specific prophecies happened by chance in
our generation rather than some other generation."
"The odds that more than one event
happening in our life time are:
"Another way of looking at this is that
the chance that the prophets of the Bible correctly guessed these prophecies is
also one in 97,500 trillion............in other words, it is simply impossible
that men alone could
have written the Bible
without the supernatural assistance and inspiration of God."
Matthew 24:32-35 - "Now learn a parable
of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth
forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see
all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
words shall not pass away."
Luke 21:28 - "And when these things
begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your
redemption draweth nigh."
ANTI-CHRIST
TO BE REVEALED
As of today, no one knows who the Anti-Christ
is, but we do know what God has told us about him:
Many people try to spiritualize or say the events
prophesied in the Bible are just symbolic.
Any doubt about how God handles these prophetic events should have been
erased on May 14,1948.
God is literally fulfilling scriptural prophesy before our very
eyes. Can we expect anything less for
those few remaining prophesies for which He has promised the world; 1) the
removal of the one who restrains the man of lawlessness/Sin (the rapture of the
Church), 2) His second coming to take possession of His inheritance, 3) The
millennial kingdom and 4) the new heaven
and new earth.
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Ezekiel 33:6 - "But if the watchman see
the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the
sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand."
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