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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – "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:
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Did
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Did
you bring them to some comprehension of His redeeming love?
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Did
you make it plain to them that He alone can pay their way to heaven throughout
His atoning death on the cross?"- Bob Pierce
INTERESTING ARTICLES SUMMARY
· Christians
are accountable to God’s Law
· How
the Democratic Party divorced God and the America of 1776
· Is
America experiencing God’s judgment?
· Professional
Pollsters: Media polls “Intentionally slewed” against Trump
· THE
JUDGMENT OF BELIEVERS
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CHRISTIANS ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD’S LAWS
Oct. 8, 2020 -- As we lead up to this November Election,
many of those who call themselves Christians are struggling to support
President Trump, giving in to those who, over the last four years, have
actively deceived, created false narrative’s in an effort to remove from
Office, a duly elected President. All these narratives and accusations have
been determined to be false as they open up Government records which have been
redacted in order to hide the truth. Unfortunately, some of the major News
Networks have been complicit in this effort to deceive and hide that truth.
One of the problems is that some of those who call
themselves Christians do not hold to a Christian World View, meaning that they
have determined their own truth as opposed to Biblical Truth. We see headline daily that call out the falling
away from the Biblical Truth. The Barna Group and other survey Groups have recently reported
that: “52% of Evangelicals reject absolute Moral truth”; 22% of evangelical
believe in “Gender Fluidity”; “40% of
evangelical and born-again Christian agreed that life is not sacred.” Romans 1:25 says “They exchanged the
truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.”
Here are the Biblical Truths that all who call
themselves Christians must believe in and lead their lives accordingly.
THE BASIC TRUTHS OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL
·
The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of
God (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1: 20,21)
·
There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: God the Father,
God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-17; Luke
3:21-22; Luke 1:35).
·
Mankind has fully and individually transgressed God's revealed Will and
is lost, and under the just condemnation for sin ( (Romans 3:23)
·
Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, is God: was born of a Virgin, lived a sinless life,
shed His blood in substitutionary and atoning death, was bodily resurrected
from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and shall return to
earth in Person (Isaiah 53:1-12; Hebrews 4:14-15; Romans 5:8-9; I Corinthians
15:1-8; Acts 1:10-11).
·
The only means of being forgiven and saved from sin and its penalty is
through repentance, faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ, and the
receiving of Jesus Christ personally into our life as our Savior, and the Lord
of our life (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 1:12).
·
The saved shall be resurrected to everlasting life and blessedness in
heaven and the lost shall be resurrected to everlasting punishment (Matthew
25:46; John 3-16).
·
The Christian life is not lived by self-effort, it is lived in the
strength and guidance that Christ and the Holy Spirit provide as they dwell
within us and enable us to do the Father's Will (Galations.
3: 11; Philippians 2:13-15).
·
ONLY TWO GENDERS:
MALE AND FEMALE: “So, God created man in
his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created
them”. (Gen. 1:27)
·
MARRIAGE
BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMEN: "Therefore a man shall leave
his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one
flesh." (Genesis 2:24): “Let marriage be held in honor among
all…..” (Hebrews 13:4): “What therefore God has joined together, let not man
separate.” (Mark
10:9)
·
HOMOSEXUALITY:
Do not have sexual relations with
a man as one does with a woman; that is an abomination. Leviticus
18:22): “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even
their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same
way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with
lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received
in themselves the due penalty for their error”. (Rom. 1:26, 27)
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MURDER AND THE
SHEDDING OF INNOCENT BLOOD: “You shall not murder.” (Deut. 5:17): “But your
eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain and on
shedding innocent blood (Abortion) and on practicing oppression and extortion.”
(Jeremiah 22:17): “For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery,
sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.” (Matthew 15:19)
·
ADULTRY:
“Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God
will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.”
(Hebrews 13:4): “But as for the cowardly, the
faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers,
idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with
fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” (Revelation 21:8)
·
FORNACATION: “For
this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain
from fornication: (1 Thessalonians 4:3-4): “Let marriage be
held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will
judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. (Hebrews 13:4)
So as
Christians, how do we vote this November? It is imperative as a Christian,
whether you like the candidate or not, that you vote for the candidate and
party that best represents and honors God’s Moral Law. Your vote in this election is critical! Make no mistake, you will be held accountable
to God for your vote, even if you choose not to vote.
HOW THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY DIVORCED GOD AND THE AMERICA OF 1776 (Excerpt)
Charisma News – Oct.9, 2020 -- The Democrat Party's divorce from
God has become final. In 2019, the Democrat National Committee (DNC)
unanimously passed a resolution affirming atheism and declaring that neither
Christianity nor any religion is necessary for morality or patriotism. In other
words, "We don't need God!"
On Aug. 24 of this year, the DNC doubled down on its rejection
of God by passing another resolution praising the values of the
"religiously unaffiliated." The fact that this resolution affirmed
atheism is confirmed by the fact that it was championed by the Secular
Coalition of America, an organization that lobbies on behalf of atheists, agnostics
and humanists on public policy.
The Democrat Party's divorce of God should come as no surprise.
At the 2012 Democrat National Convention, a majority of the delegates wanted to
remove a reference to God from the party platform. When the leaders decided to
leave it, the audience loudly booed. They did not want even a superficial
reference to God.
Individual politicians may continue to refer to their faith or
their prayers, but the actions and official policy statements of their party
tell the real story.
In rejecting God, the Democrat Party has rejected the America of
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln and King. They have rejected the
America of "In God We Trust." They have rejected the America that is
"one nation under God." They have rejected the America of 1776.
God and America Were Married in the Minds of the Founders
For the first 150 years of America's existence, no one
questioned the axiom "America is a Christian nation." This
did not mean that everyone was a Christian or that the nation officially sanctioned
any denomination or religious sect.
It meant, instead, that the majority of citizens professed to be
Christians and that the nation's laws and institutions were founded on
Christian principles and values.
This fact was stated by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1892 in the
case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. The United States. After examining
thousands of historical documents, the nation's highest court declared,
"There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a
universal language pervading them all, having one meaning. They affirm and
reaffirm that this is a religious nation. ... From the discovery of this
continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.
These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of
unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a
Christian nation" (Hyatt, 1726: The Year That Defined America, 6-7).
In rejecting God, the modern Democratic Party has rejected the
America of her founders. Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Franklin all agreed
with James Madison, the nation's 4th president and chief architect of the U.S.
Constitution, who said,
"The belief in a God All Powerful, wise and good, is so
essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that
arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted
with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed
with it" (Hyatt, 1726: The Year That Defined America, 111).
It was their faith in God that gave them hope that America could
get through her challenges and rise above her sins. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
understood this, and in his "I Have a Dream Speech," he praised
America's founding documents and declared that he dreamed of a day when
Americans of every race would sing together the words of that patriotic hymn,
"My country 'tis of Thee, sweet land of liberty, of Thee I sing/ Land where
my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride/ From every mountainside, let
freedom ring!"
Ben Franklin Would Vehemently Reject the DNC
The Democrat Party's rejection of God has drawn no criticism
from party stalwarts such as Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or Joe Biden. They
apparently have accepted the statement of the DNC that God and Christianity are
unnecessary for the nation's success.
IS AMERICA EXPERIENCING GOD’S JUDGMENT? (Excerpt)
While the future
is unknowable, there is a crucial way we can choose it today.
Christian
Headline News – Oct. 6, 2020 -- In light of the pandemic and other crises, I am
often asked if our country is experiencing God’s judgment. I always respond by
explaining that judgment in the Bible takes two forms: permissive and
proactive.
If people reject
the word and will of God, he often withdraws his favor and permits them to
experience the consequences of their rebellion. In Romans 1, for instance, we read that people “exchanged the truth about
God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator”
(v. 25). Does this sound familiar?
As a
consequence, “God gave them up to dishonorable passions” of homosexual
immorality (vv. 26–27). In addition, “since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They
were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless” (vv. 28–31).
What’s more, “they not only do them but give approval to those who practice
them” (v. 32).
Does this list
describe American culture today?
God’s purpose in
responding to our sin is to bring us to repentance. If we respond to his
permissive judgment by turning to him with contrite and repentant hearts, his
word assures us that he is “faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
If we refuse,
his judgment escalates from permissive to proactive. We see this on a national
scale with the plagues in Egypt (Exodus 7-12) and on a personal level with the
idolatry of Herod (Acts 12:20-23) and the unrepented sin of Ananias and
Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11).
The reason God
delays proactive judgment is not because he is less holy, diligent, or
sovereign. It is because he is “patient with you, not wishing that any should
perish, but that all should reach repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
The pattern of
Scripture is clear: God deals with us as gently as he can or as harshly as he
must. As a result, we have a hand in predicting our national and personal
future.
If you were the
only believer in the world, but you led me to Christ today, there would be two
of us. If each of us led someone to Christ tomorrow, there would be four of us.
If all four of us won someone to Christ the next day, there would be eight of
us.
Multiplying in
this way, how long would it take to reach the entire world? Thirty-three days.
In that time, 8,589,934,592 people would follow Christ, exceeding our
population by nearly one billion people.
In other words,
by a week after the election, the entire world would have elected to make Jesus
their Lord.
In light
of Romans 1, I am convinced that America is experiencing God’s permissive
judgment. Will his judgment continue and even escalate, or will our nation turn
to his forgiving grace and experience his transforming hope?
What if the
answer were up to you and me?
PROFESSIONAL POLLSTERS: MEDIA POLLS 'INTENTIONALLY SKEWED' AGAINST
TRUMP (Excerpt)
'Bias
seems to be a strategy' to suppress president's support
In 2016, most
polls showed Hillary Clinton with a solid lead among voters nationally over
Donald Trump, even up to the morning of the election.
As the 2020 vote
approaches, the Trump campaign is challenging the accuracy of the leading polls
by hiring a firm to analyze them, McLaughlin & Associates.
Trump wrote on
Twitter he has retained the polling company to "analyze todays CNN poll
(and others), which I felt were FAKE based on the incredible enthusiasm we are
receiving."
In an
initial "memo" to Trump, McLaughlin finds "skewed"
polling it concludes is "intentional."
"It's clear
that NBC, ABC and CNN who have Democrat operatives like Chuck Todd, George
Stephanopoulos and other Democrats in their news operations are consistently
under-polling Republicans and therefore, reporting biased polls," the memo
says.
"They
continue to poll adults or registered voters that skew away from likely voters.
So instead of the 33% Republican turnout which actually happened … they are reporting
polls on only 26%, 25% or even 24% Republicans. Since you get over 90% of the
Republican vote, for every point fewer Republicans that they do not poll, they
reduce your vote total by a point. In contract CBS polled likely voters. CBS
had 32% Republicans and a close national race."
A CNN
poll reported Monday finds presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden
opening up his biggest lead, 14 points, over Trump amid a drop in the
president's approval rating to 38%.
But McLaughlin
writes to Trump that the "bias seems to be an intentional strategy to
suppress your vote."
"The latest
media spin is that it's too late to define Joe Biden and it's too late for
President Trump to win. We can hardly wait until they start spinning a 'Biden
electoral lock'. It has to be a strategy to counter the enthusiasm of Trump
voters."
Another problem
is the recent polls were conducted before Friday's stunning jobs report.
Instead of the expected loss of 8 million jobs, the nation actually added 2.5
million.
"The
refusal to screen for actual likely voters is creating an under-polling of
Republicans and therefore Trump voters. It seems intentional. It's exactly what
the media did in 2016."
THE JUDGMENT OF BELIEVERS
What do you feel when you think about
standing before the judgment seat of Christ—fear or dread? The apostle John
says that if we abide in Christ, then when the Lord appears, we can have
confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame (1 John 2:28). The reason is that we belong to
Jesus, who went to on the cross to bear our sins and take the penalty we
deserved.
Our future judgment has nothing to do
with determining our eternal destiny; that has already been settled. Instead,
this judgment is Christ’s evaluation of our deeds—to evaluate “whether [they
are] good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10). The word bad refers
not to evil acts but to those that are of zero value. 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 likens Christ’s judgment to a fire
that consumes every worthless deed but leaves untouched those worthy of eternal
reward. Although our life may look impressive by worldly standards, God alone
knows the heart’s motives and which deeds are truly good (1 Corinthians 4:5).
Our actions don’t determine whether we
spend eternity with God, but He is gracious to consider them for the purpose of
reward. Together, let’s seek to live for Him and His glory each day. And let us
also rest, knowing that His righteousness makes us worthy of heaven.
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URL - WHAT GOSPEL DOES YOUR LIFE PREACH?
Greg Laurie
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https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/gospel-life-preach/
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WINERY FEATURED IN BIBLE
EARTH TO GOD
John Rich
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – “If you want your influence to last, put
Christ first” – Our
Daily Bread
INTERESTING ARTICLES SUMMARY
· President
Trump shares Biblical message with America: Fear Not
· Why
(and how) Christians should vote
· Why
Abortion is a Gospel issue
· Can
there be design without a designer?
· BEING
A GODLY INFLUENCE
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PRESIDENT TRUMP SHARES
BIBLICAL MESSAGE WITH AMERICA: FEAR NOT
Charisma News – Oct. 8, 2020 -- As President Donald J.
Trump arrived safely home to the White House Monday evening, the prayers
of hundreds of supporters gathered outside the gates of Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center and the millions of people around the world were
answered.
The message the president shared
via Twitter and Facebook is one of courage and hope: Fear
not.
"Feeling really good!
"Don't be afraid of Covid.
"Don't let it dominate your life. We have developed, under
the Trump administration, some really great drugs & knowledge.
"I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"
After returning home, Trump tweeted a video in which he repeated
his message of "no fear":
"One thing that's for certain: Don't let it dominate you.
Don't be afraid of it. You're going to beat it. We have the best medical
equipment. We have the best medicines, all developed recently.
"And you're going to beat it."
Most people are unaware that one of the most popular phrases in
the Bible, in fact, is the phrase, "fear not," which
is mentioned in the Bible 365 times—one for every day, reinforcing one of
the most important messages of the Gospel: God is not the author of fear. He
gives hope to those that believe.
Bestselling author Stephen Strang says, "The attacks are,
in my opinion, from the pit of hell. As a Christian, I believe that Satan is
behind this. He is trying to steal, kill and destroy."
"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am
your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with
my righteous right hand" (Isa. 41:10, NKJV).
Returning to the White House in triumph, not just for himself,
but for those living in fear and afraid of the future, the president gave a
message of hope. And in just 27 days, the decision of hope rests with the
nearly 59 million believers who failed to vote in 2016 and must do so.
WHY (AND HOW) CHRISTIANS SHOULD VOTE
Christian Headline News – Sep. 22,
2020c-- In the 2016 election, only about 61 percent of voting-age Americans
cast a ballot. The percentage of self-identifying Christians who voted, both
evangelical and non-evangelical, was pretty similar. In other words, though
faith does seem to greatly influence the voting decisions of American
Christians who vote, it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference in whether
or not American Christians vote.
Of course, if our faith should make
a difference in every aspect of our lives (and it should), it should shape how
we think about and live out citizenship, too. To put it bluntly, Christians
have both a civic and a Christian responsibility to vote. As my friend Tim Goeglin, vice-president of external and governmental
relations for Focus on the Family, put it recently, to vote is the beginning of
our civic duty of Christians.
Here are three reasons why:
First, voting is an act of obedience.
Both Jesus and St. Paul described our responsibility to defer to the governing
authorities, and to “render to Caesar” what is due to Caesar. Both Jesus and
Paul navigated the realities of the various political authorities they faced
differently, depending on the nature of their political authority and their
rights as citizens. For example, Jesus never went to Rome, but He often confronted
Jewish political powers and structures. Paul claimed and appealed to Roman
citizenship when he was arrested.
In our context, the people are
the political authorities. We don’t submit to political authority; we grant political
authority to the representatives we elect. So, in our context, voting is the
most fundamental way there is to “render to Caesar what is Caesar’s.”
Second, Scripture describes sin not only
as doing wrong, but also failing to do the good we can. Voting is an
opportunity to do some good. Christians should see voting as an opportunity to
steward what is good.
Finally, voting is a way to fulfill both
what Jesus called the greatest commandment, and “the
second one like unto it.” To love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and
strength means, to some degree, loving what God loves: justice, righteousness,
truth, and hospitality are all things that God loves, and they can be reflected
in law and policy.
And, to love our neighbors as ourselves
means more than person-to-person niceness. Voting in ways that will limit or
end abortion is a way to love our preborn neighbors. Voting in ways that will
uphold the family and stop sexual experimentation on children is a way to love
kids. Voting for policies that provide real opportunities for the poor and
needy is a way to love them.
Of course, fulfilling our civic and
Christian duty involves not only voting, but voting in a right way. While I
don’t think there’s just one right way to vote in every
election, on every race, about every issue, there are certainly wrong decisions
to be made.
Because voting between candidates,
whether for President or for dog catcher, will always involve choosing between
the better of imperfect options, the best we can do is make comparisons. First,
we should compare their worldview, because that is the basis of
both their personal character and their public policy.
A candidate’s worldview, by the way, is
not the same as their professed faith. For too many candidates, faith is not
only personal, it’s private. A candidate’s worldview, on the other hand,
reveals those beliefs fundamental to how they will govern, specifically, what
they think needs to be fixed and whose job they think it is to fix it.
Second, we should compare their company, because
every candidate comes with others. In particular, every President comes
with a few thousand others: appointees who run departments, advisors who
offer counsel, and judicial nominees who will be on the bench for decades. And
just about every candidate comes with a political party, which has its own set
of rules and expectations not to mention a platform that party intends to
advance.
Finally, we should compare candidates’
stated policies, because policy matters. Policies are based on
ideas. Ideas have consequences. Bad policies built on bad ideas have
victims.
Of course, most Americans will not just
choose who will be President. We won’t just be choosing between Congressional
candidates. Choosing on ballot initiatives is every bit as important is
choosing between candidates. In Colorado, we’ll be choosing whether to end the
over 200 later-term abortions that occur in this state every year.
Finally, while it is critical and
necessary, Christian involvement in the public square cannot stop at voting.
The issues we face, such as abortion, assisted suicide, religious freedom,
loneliness, and so many others, cannot be solved by government alone. The
Church has plenty of work to do upstream from politics, in communities and
families, not to mention plenty of praying to do too.
Though our responsibilities certainly
include more than voting, they certainly do not include less.
WHY ABORTION IS
A GOSPEL ISSUE
Charisma News – Oct. 8, 2020 -- I find it interesting that a
pro-choice person, like the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam,
was quoted saying that he approved abortion up until the time of
birth. This same governor had pictures of himself, in his college
yearbook, depicted in blackface and another of him wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood.
Not coincidentally, Planned Parenthood founder's Margaret Sanger
was an avowed white eugenicist. She started abortion clinics in Black
communities and openly said that she wanted to exterminate the Jewish and Black
races. Margaret Sanger said, "We don't want the word to go out that we
want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can
straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Planned Parenthood, through the years, was also caught in
recorded telephone conversations admitting their racist tendencies
against minorities.
Anti-racism and the pro-life cause go hand in hand. A true and
consistent sanctity of life position has to include both the values of
pre-birth and post-birth (respect, dignity and protection for all people) if it
will be legitimate.
Galatians 3:28 makes it clear that as believers, there is no
such thing as class or gender discrimination since we are all one in Christ.
Also, since humankind is made in the image of God as His crown
jewel of creation, God forbids the murder of another human being (Gen. 1:27,
9:5-6; Ps. 8).
Scripture says God hates the shedding of innocent blood. What
can be more innocent than a pre-birth human? He even forbids the murder of a
human being in His top 10 list of commandments (Prov. 6:17, Ex. 20:13).
Hence, to devalue human life with ideologies and activities that
promulgate racism, sex trafficking, slavery, abuse or abortion is contrary to
the gospel since Jesus took upon Himself human flesh (not the flesh of an
animal or nature of an angel) to save us (John 1:14, Heb. 2:14). Consequently,
it is impossible to have a true gospel without Jesus adorning a flesh and blood
human body.
This means if there was no incarnation (Jesus becoming human),
there could be no cross. Without the cross, we have no gospel! It is also not a
coincidence that the first act of worship concerning Jesus' advent came from a
babe in the womb (Luke 1: 41-44).
It is also interesting that Elizabeth blessed the fruit in
Mary's womb. She referred to Mary as "the mother of my Lord" while
Jesus was still in the pre-birth stage. She viewed a pre-birth baby, Jesus, as
her Lord.
I contend that we cannot separate abortion and the pro-life
position from the gospel. God made humans in His image and likeness, and Jesus'
innocent blood was shed to redeem believers (Gen. 1:28). This is why the
shedding of innocent human blood is an affront to God. His Son's precious blood
was spilled to save the life of fallen humanity.
In light of the above, it is a gross misapprehension of the
nature of the gospel when someone considers abortion a political issue and not
a gospel issue. Those with this view fail to understand that when we objectify
a post-birth human with sex trafficking, slavery, abuse, racism or when we
treat an unborn human baby as a mere blob of flesh or fetus, we devalue Jesus'
humanity. We treat the blood of the Covenant as a common thing as well as
undervalue the price He paid to save us.
Truly, both abortion and racism are gospel issues that should
obligate all believers to stand up for the sacredness of human life and blood.
In conclusion, the implications of this "pro-life"
gospel should profoundly affect both our internal convictions and public
positions, or else the gospel has no practical application, and the church
cannot function as the salt and light of the world. Indeed, abortion is both a
gospel issue and a policy issue, which then incontrovertibly connects both faith
and politics.
SUDDENLY - IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE!
“For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord will come just
like a thief in the night. While they are saying, ‘Peace and safety!’, then
sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a woman with
child, and they will not escape.” I Thessalonians 5:2-3Last days’ events happen quickly. Even
suddenly. The word "quickly" (Greek word: tachos) is used eight times in Revelation. Think of an
automobile tachometer which measures the working speed of an engine
typically in revolutions per minute. And it revs up.
Koenig’s Int’l News – Oct. 8, 2020 -- We often see sudden
destruction falling upon the wicked in the Bible. The unrepentant
living during Noah’s time, experienced a sudden and catastrophic flood
(Gen. 6-9). They had 120 years to repent as Noah preached to them, but they
chose to ignore him and judgment suddenly fell (Gen. 6:3-7).
Have you noticed that in 2020, everything has happened
suddenly?
·
Our
fairly ordinary world suddenly vanished.
·
Stores
sold out suddenly.
·
Fear
gripped America—and the world—suddenly
·
People
were ordered to suddenly totally change their lifestyles.
·
People
lost businesses of a lifetime suddenly.
·
A
U.S. President went from popular to “the cause of it all” suddenly.
·
Reality
became surreal suddenly.
·
Cities
turned into ghost towns suddenly.
·
Mankind
became lovers of self, treacherous, and without self-control suddenly.
·
Cries
for global government transpired suddenly, as only a one-world
system could slow down the wreckage.
·
Virtual
became the new way of doing all things suddenly.
·
The
U.S. economy went from best ever to horrible suddenly.
·
Church
went from essential to irrelevant in the eyes of the world suddenly.
·
Hollywood suddenly stopped
making sick movies as theaters suddenly closed.
·
Order
turned to chaos suddenly with racial tension.
·
That
tension suddenly turned to lawlessness.
·
Lawlessness
turned to anarchy suddenly.
·
The
cry for police protection suddenly turned to “abolish the
police.”
·
Common
sense simply turned suddenly to strong delusion.
Is there a message in all of this? Something else will happen
suddenly—the Rapture of the Church. It will take place in the twinkling
of an eye. That is so fast it can hardly even be measured.
When God begins to move, He doesn’t waste a moment. But He does
take time to warn before He judges. And He seems to be telling us that
things are going to change for Eternity suddenly via the
Rapture of the Church.
CAN THERE BE DESIGN WITHOUT A DESIGNER?
Romans 1:20a “For the invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and
Godhead…”
Creation
Moments – Oct. 5, 2020 -- A new science called biomimetics is making news. In the
past we have talked about how some of man’s designs are often similar to God’s
which do the same job. However, in biomimetics, researchers actively seek to
study the creation to learn of designs that will solve engineering problems.
We are
all familiar with the story of how thistle seeds inspired Velcro. Engineers
have used the design of the owl’s wing to make the structures that carry
electrical current to trains. The result is a much quieter ride. The moth’s
eyes’ ability not to reflect light helps make it harder to be spotted by birds.
The same design has now been used to make a nonreflective film. The result is a
film that can be used to help prevent windows from reflecting light. This film
will soon be available commercially. Many dyes are toxic, yet many creatures
manage to show off bright colors without using toxic substances. Materials
engineers studied how the jewel beetle produces its color. The result is a film
that seems to change color depending on the angle from which you view it.
No
scientist can offer a rational explanation for how so many thoughtful and
efficient designs could be generated in a mindless universe. These designs are
fingerprints God left all over the creation so that man might seek Him out.
BEING A GODLY INFLUENCE
You don’t have to be prominent in the
world’s eyes to be an influential person. Through your example and testimony,
you can help others understand who Jesus Christ is and what it looks like to
live for Him.
Scripture includes many examples of
righteous men and women who were influential in their generation. One of them
was Daniel, who was a godly influence not only on his friends but also on
kings. Even as a youth, he was committed to obeying God’s law. Consequently,
when Daniel was offered food from the Babylonian king’s table, he requested
vegetarian meals instead, to comply with Jewish dietary restrictions. His
commitment to the Lord outweighed any fear of reprisal for rejecting the royal
provisions. And God protected Daniel by giving him favor with his overseer.
Although most of us won’t have an
opportunity to influence global leaders, our example can impact a workplace,
neighborhood, home, or future generations. As was true of Daniel, a godly
example is rooted in obedience to Scripture because it’s the source of wisdom.
In a world that is tossed about by upheaval, fear, and uncertainty, our
confidence in the Lord stands out and influences those around us.
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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----------------------THE
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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