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URL - IN CHRIST, ALONE:
MOST BELIEVERS SAY THEY DON’T NEED OTHERS FOR DISCIPLESHIP
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URL- WHY PROPHECY IS FOR EVERYONE—INCLUDING YOU
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THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME
Jim Reeves
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: – “JESUS - "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other
name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." – Acts 4:12
INTERESTING ARTICLES
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Feasting on Scripture
brings true nourishment for the soul
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Scientific Facts in the
Bible – Part 1
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Native American
evangelist says prophecies are coming true
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Stemexpress CEO admits trafficking baby body parts including heads,
beating hearts
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God Stretches the
Heavens
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THE NAME OF JESUS
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FEASTING ON SCRIPTURE BRINGS TRUE NOURISHMENT
FOR THE SOUL (Excerpt)
The Christian
Post -- Snacks help nourish us in the midst of a busy day, quickly swallowing —
sometimes hardly even tasting — a quick bite as we rush from one obligation to
the next. It nourishes us temporarily: just enough to get us through between
more substantive meals. But when we busy ourselves so much that we forego meals
altogether and replace them with snacks, we soon become malnourished, in need
of more substantial food.
The physical
food we eat nourishes our body. But what nourishes our souls?
God has given
us spiritual food in abundance: He has revealed Himself to us through the
Scriptures, the Word of God which provides the spiritual food that our souls
crave. In the same way that we need a healthy diet of physical food to nourish
our bodies, we also need a healthy diet of spiritual food to nourish our souls.
Feasting is a
common theme throughout the Gospels — from the miraculous feeding of the 5,000
and the Last Supper to Jesus' parable of the Great Banquet and His declaration,
"I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and
whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." Through the gift of the
Holy Spirit, we have the Word of God recorded in the Bible and are invited to
feast on it for our nourishment.
But for many
Christians, the food that was designed for feasting has been reduced to snacks
– Bible verses absorbed through inspirational graphics on social media,
snippets of Scripture texted to our phones each morning and verse-a-day Bible
studies. While these spiritual snacks may have their purpose, they are nothing
close to the daily bread that can truly satisfy us. At best, these bite-size
snacks sustain us between meals; at worst, the snacks become the meal itself,
leaving us severely malnourished.
Reducing the
Bible to bite-size chunks is settling for a morsel when God offers us a
banquet. Feasting on Scripture is reading and studying the Bible as an
indispensable aspect of the day: just as we organize our day around our
physical meals, we find nourishment by reorienting our day around feasting on
Scripture — what the psalmist describes as meditating on it day and night —
instead of fitting Scripture in with the time that's left over.
SCIENTIFIC FACTS IN THE BIBLE
By Ray Comfort
The Christian Post – Sept. 15, 2019
This article
is about scientific statements contained in the Bible. I hope you have looked
at it with a good deal of skepticism. So you should. The world is filled with
simple folk who will make a shrine to a knot in a tree because it supposedly
has the features of a dead “saint.” You are wise to consider the evidence
before deciding whether something is true.
Before we look
at these “scientific facts” in the Bible, I must preface them with some
important information. To do this, I will quote the Bible. This is not
“circular reasoning”; I simply want to make a point that is relevant to what I
am going to present.
Many years
ago, I ran a children’s club. One day I told about one hundred kids to line up
for candy. There was an immediate rush, and the line sorted itself into what I
saw as being a line of greed. The bigger, selfish kids were at the front, and
the small and timid ones were at the back. I then did something that gave me
great satisfaction: I told the kids to turn about face. Everyone did. Then I told
them to stay where they were, and I took great delight in going to the other
end of the line and giving the candy to the smaller, timid kids first.
In a world
where the rich and powerful often take advantage of the poor and meek, we are
informed that God has gone to the other end of the line with the message of
everlasting life (you may not believe in the existence of God, but please bear
with me). Here is what we are told:
For the
message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing...For it is
written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent.”...But God has chosen the foolish things of the
world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world
to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world
and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not,
to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His
presence. (1 Corinthians 1:18,19,27–29)
How has God
gone to the other end of the line? Simply by choosing that which is foolish,
weak, base, and despised. Let me illustrate. Do you believe that the following
biblical accounts actually happened?
- Adam and Eve
- Noah’s ark
- Jonah and the whale
- Joshua and the walls of Jericho
- Samson and his long hair
- Daniel and the lion’s den
- Moses and the Red Sea
If you’re an
atheist, of course you don’t. To say that you believed such fantastic stories
would require that you surrender your intellectual dignity. Who in their right
mind would ever do that? The answer is simply those who understand that God
has chosen foolish, weak, base, and despised things of the world to confound
those who think they are wise.
Consider the
intellectual offense in the tone of this letter I received, prior to a debate I
had on the subject “Does God exist?”:
“How
sad for you to have so completely surrendered your intellect to an ignorant,
pre-scientific book.
I know about your upcoming debate...I won’t be there, but I’m sure the audience
will get some good belly laughs from your presentation. Biblical literalists
may not be very bright, but they are extremely funny.”
Where’s the Evidence?
Imagine that
you are viewing a luxury liner moving through calm waters. To your amazement
about a dozen people jump off the ship and cling to a lifeboat. You watch as
the rest of the passengers stand on the ship and laugh at them. You can
understand their reaction. What those few people did was foolish. It made no
sense.
Suddenly, the
ship hits an unseen iceberg and sinks, taking with it all who
stayed on board. Now you see that those who seemed like fools were wise, but
those who stayed on the ship and seemed to be wise were fools.
We have in the
Bible a command to jump off the luxury liner of this world. Before you laugh at
stupid Christians, ask yourself if there is any proof that its claims are true.
The following is compelling evidence that the Bible is no ordinary book.
NEXT WEEK: Earth’s Free Float in Space….and more –Part 2
NATIVE AMERICAN EVANGELIST SAYS
PROPHECIES ARE COMING TRUE, REVIVAL IS BREAKING OUT
Charisma News - Sep.16, 2019 -- Evangelist and Pastor Dr. Negiel Bigpond says he believes
that Billy Graham's 1975 prediction of Native Americans becoming a
"spiritual superpower" to change the world is coming true. On The
Jim Bakker Show, Bigpond referenced both Graham's
comments as well as an 1877 prophecy by Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala
Lakota Sioux from 1840-1877.
"He said,
'The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick
world,'" Bigpond says. "Now listen to this.
This is 1877. 'A sick world, a world filled with broken promises, selfishness
and separations, a world longing for light again.' I believe that that's where
we're at now."
Bigpond
says he has been preaching health, wealth and miracles on reservations across
the country, and that he is working to prepare the nation for revival and
healing.
"That's
what we're seeing on the reservations," Bigpond
says. "That's what we're trying to bring out, is that healing power, that
forgiveness, that unity, and also to bring forth the gifts so we can start
seeing great revival. There's great things happening on reservations.
As dim as it looks, God still shows up."
URL: https://youtu.be/uiWBN9wCNds
STEMEXPRESS CEO ADMITS TO TRAFFICKING
BABY BODY PARTS, INCLUDING INTACT HEADS, BEATING HEARTS
Koenig Int’l
News – Sep. 10, 2019 -- During several days of hearings, StemExpress
CEO admitted to harvesting fetal brains in heads that may still be attached to
the body after being pulled from the womb and selling baby’s beating hearts to
researchers.
The discovery
came when the CEO, named Doe 12 for privacy, was questioned during hearings for
undercover investigators David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt. The duo journalists, who represent the Center for Medical Progress,
recorded conversations with top executives and clinicians from Planned
Parenthood about selling aborted baby parts four years ago. StemExpress
was one of the alleged brokers.
Daleiden
and Merritt face 14 criminal felony counts of eavesdropping and one count of
conspiracy. According to the Federalist, this case is the first-time
eavesdropping charges have ever been made in the history of California.
Peter Breen of
the Thomas More Society, which is representing Daleiden
at the hearing, told Life Site News, “If you have a fetus with an intact head
and an intact body, and intact extremities, that is something that would
indicate that child was born alive, and then had their organs cut out of them,
or that their child was the victim of an illegal partial-birth abortion.
“That is an
especially gruesome admission, but it begs the question: how did they get these
fully intact human children?”
Doe 12 also
admitted on the stand that the company sold beating fetal hearts to Stanford
University. Researchers studied the hearts using the Langendorff
perfusion, a technique that requires a beating heart.
“One thing
we’ve observed throughout these proceedings is that these witnesses were much
more candid when they spoke to David and Sandra on the undercover video than
they are on the stand,” Breen said.
“However, we
have been able to establish certain facts that are important through their
testimony, and when they deviate from the video, we’ve been able to use the
video to show that they’re not telling the truth on the stand.”
During one
exchange, Doe 12 testified that her company requires a nondisclosure agreement
or NDA before discussing business. This point of contention was one example of Daleiden and Merritt’s alleged criminal activity. But Breen
produced the NDA in court, showing that while the duo met with StemExpress in May, the NDA was not sent until late June.
“After talking
about how important a[n] NDA is, the only evidence in the record is that the
NDA was not sent out until a month after this supposedly highly confidential
meeting,” Breen said.
Breen also
questioned Doe 12 on the Planned Parenthood consent form that StemExpress used. She claimed to not remember the form. But
Breen played a video recording of her admitting that she had memorized the
consent form down to the control numbers.
Her testimony
further revealed that patients are not told if their abortion procedures are
changed.
StemExpress and Planned Parenthood Northern California are also under
investigation “for selling fetal organs and tissue against the
law,” according to The Epoch Times.
GOD STRETCHES THE HEAVENS
Job 9:8
“Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.”
Creation Moments – Sep. 3,
2019 -- In a number of places in the Bible, we learn that God has stretched the
heavens. For example, in Isaiah 40:22, we read “[God] stretches out the heavens
like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in.” The word for heavens
is the same as that used in Genesis 1:1 – shamayim
– and suggests the whole of space in the universe. Therefore, the Bible seems
to be teaching that the fabric of space itself, for want of a better term, is
being stretched. The same phenomenon is being described in Isaiah 45:12, Job
9:8 and Psalm 104:2. Most significant of all, the very word for space,
firmament, or expanse, used in Genesis 1, is raqîa,
which seems to imply a stretching out, as with hammered metal.
We have
mentioned before in previous Creation Moments the concept of Red Shift. This
phenomenon was first studied by Edwin Hubble. The so-called Hubble’s Law notes
that the distance of an object from the Earth is proportional to its Red Shift.
The constant of proportionality is, therefore, known as Hubble’s
Constant. This suggests that the further away an object is, the faster space is stretching. If one thinks of space as
a stretchable sheet, then Hubble’s Law makes sense. We should note that for
Hubble’s Law to be true today, we do not have to assume that it was always
constant in the past. In fact, Hubble’s Law measurements are consistent with
the majority of the stretching of space having occurred on Day Two of Creation.
THE NAME OF JESUS
Jesus is a name that elicits all kinds of
reactions. Some people show indifference, others feel hatred, and many think of
it only in a profane sense. But to those of us who know Jesus as Lord and
Savior, His name is precious and higher than any other—and one day in heaven we
will eagerly bow before Him.
In biblical
times, names were given to represent the nature of the person, and this is
certainly true of the titles by which our Savior is known:
Lord
signifies His deity.
Jesus existed before time as the eternal Son of God, and His divinity was never
put on hold—not even when He humbled Himself to take the form of a man.
The name
Jesus shows His humanity and His mission. This was a very common name among the Jews and the one by
which our Savior was known as a man. Jesus means “Jehovah is salvation,”
and that’s exactly what He came to do—“save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21).
Christ
means “Messiah.” Jesus
perfectly fulfilled all the Old Testament prophecies that spoke of the
Messiah’s first coming. And the remaining messianic prophecies will be fully
realized when He returns to reign on the earth as King.
When
Pontius Pilate addressed the Jews, he uttered one of the most crucial questions
in the Bible: “What shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” (Matt. 27:22). We must each answer this same
question, and the way we do will determine our eternal destiny. You’ll bow
before Him one day, but will it be by choice and in grateful worship?
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URL-THAT
AMAZING THING CALLED GRACE
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URL - TRUMP AND THE POLITICS OF THE MESSIAH
https://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/explainer-trump-and-the-politics-of-the-messiah.html
URL - PEOPLE WITHOUT A PURPOSE: WHY YOUNG BRITS HAVE LOST HOPE
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
· What every Last-Days believer needs to know
· Emmaus: City where Jesus appeared after resurrection found?
· Democrats nix “So help me God” from swearing- in oath
· Teen Magazine brazenly promotes Abortion and Prostitution
· Is Alien abduction a thing?
· CAN GOD USE YOU?
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WHAT EVERY LAST-DAYS BELIEVER NEEDS TO
KNOW
By Greg Laurie
Weekend News
Today – June 25, 2019 – These are certainly days to watch the headlines. Yes,
it's informative to read the articles too. But even just scanning the headlines alone in your newspaper or
favorite news website can give you a good idea of the way our world is
drifting. You can almost hear our planet's groans and sighs as it awaits the
King who will redeem it.
An article I
read recently claimed that Al-Qaeda, the notorious terrorist group that claimed
responsibilities for the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, is now on the brink of acquiring nuclear deadly nuclear devices.
Quoting certain leaked diplomatic cables, the article said that Al-Qaeda was on
the verge of producing radioactive weapons—after sourcing nuclear material and
recruiting rogue scientists to build "dirty" bombs.
That's a
headline that makes you pause, shake your head a little and maybe whisper,
"Wow. What's next?"
What are we
supposed to do? How are we supposed to respond when we hear things like this? Panic? Give in to anxiety? Fill our garage up to the rafters
with emergency supplies?
No, that's not
what Jesus said. In Luke 21:28, He declared: "Now when these things begin
to happen, look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption is drawing
near."
Don't you like
that? We're not to look from side to side, like people who are anxious or
nervous, and we're not to look down, like people who are discouraged. We are to
look up, as people who know where their help and salvation are coming from.
So here's the
question: Now that we've established that we are likely living in the last
days, how are we supposed to live as believers? What sorts of qualities should
characterize our attitudes and our lives?
We should be
seeking to live godly lives as we await the coming of Jesus.
Thinking back
to some verses in the book of Exodus, Moses told the people to get rid of the
old leaven in their homes—every bit of it—in preparation for Passover, and in
preparation for a journey. The people were about to set out for new lives in
the promised land, and they needed to clean out their
cupboards before they left.
We too have a
journey up ahead. In just a few blinks of the eye, we will be stepping into
eternity, either through death or through the coming of the Lord. With that in
mind, it's time to get rid of some old things—old habits, old attitudes, old
prejudices, old patterns of life—so we'll be ready for the journey.
Scripture says
that Jesus will come in a moment. In the "twinkling of
an eye." And those who believe will be caught up to meet the Lord
in the air. But not everybody will go up in the rapture. Remember what Jesus
said in Matthew 24:
"Two men
will be working together in the field; one will be taken, the other left. Two
women will be grinding flour at the mill; one will be taken, the other left. So
be prepared because you don't know what day your Lord is coming" (Matt.
24:40-42, NLT).
So here is my
question to you. Will you be caught up or will you be left behind?
I hope you are
ready.
ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THEY'VE
FOUND THE CITY WHERE JESUS APPEARED AFTER RESURRECTION
Archaeologists
in Israel say they may have discovered the true location of Emmaus, the
biblical town where Jesus first appeared to two of his followers after being
crucified and resurrected.
Haaretz reports that researchers found the
massive 2,200-year-old walls of a Hellenistic fortification believed to have
been built by the Seleucid general who defeated Judah the Maccabee, the Jewish
leader spoken of in the Hanukkah story.
Since 2017, a
Franco-Israeli team has been excavating a hill overlooking Jerusalem known as Kiriath Yearim, an area believed
to be where the Ark of the Covenant was kept for 20 years before being taken to
Jerusalem by King David.
Tel Aviv
University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein and Thomas Römer,
a professor of biblical studies at the College de France, argue that the hill
of Kiriath Yearim and the
adjacent town of Abu Ghosh should be identified as Emmaus.
"The
importance of this site, its dominant position over Jerusalem, was felt again
and again through time: in the eighth century B.C.E., and then again in the
Hellenistic period and then again after the First Jewish Revolt and the sack of
Jerusalem in 70 C.E.," Finkelstein told Haaretz.
Judah the
Maccabee, a priest who led a Jewish revolt against the Seleucid empire, was
defeated and killed here in 160 BC by the Seleucid army led by general Bacchides. Bacchides fortified
the towns surrounding Jerusalem with large walls, including the biblical town
of Emmaus. Finkelstein and Römer believe they may
have found the walls built to fortify Emmaus.
Their
discovery has huge significance for Christians worldwide.
DEMOCRATS NIX ‘SO HELP ME
GOD’ FROM SWEARING-IN OATH; CONSERVATIVES RANKLED (Excerpt)
Democrats nix ‘So help me God’ from
swearing-in oath; conservatives rankled
KOENIG’S Int’l
News – May 15, 2019 -- Since taking control of the House, Democrat leaders of
several key committees have nixed the phrase “so help me God” from a
swearing-in oath for individuals testifying before them.
“I think God
belongs in religious institutions: in temple, in church, in cathedral, in
mosque — but not in Congress,” Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, the
chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
Rights and Civil Liberties told The New York Times. What Republicans are doing,
he continued, “is using God.”
“And God
doesn’t want to be used,” he said.
Rev. Franklin
Graham, who serves as president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
has blasted the move as backward.
“Why has the
Democratic Party turned its back on God? Cohen of TN said, ‘I think God belongs
in religious institutions: in temple, in church, in cathedral, in mosque—but
not in Congress,’” Graham said in a series of tweets Tuesday in response to the
report.
“We need more
of God, not less! What Cohen is suggesting is what Communism did in Eastern
Europe & is still doing in places around the world like Cuba. Communism
only allows worship inside approved churches,” he continued. “God is our
Creator & the maker of the universe. He is present everywhere; He is not
limited to churches or temples. The root of the issue is that many politicians
don’t want God in any part of their politics or our country’s business because
His standards condemn their sins.”
Republican
lawmakers, The New York Times reported, are also staging a form of protest, by
pointing out each time the phrase is omitted in real time.
“I am a
sinner, I make mistakes every single day, but I do think that we could use a
little more of God, not less,” Representative Garret Graves of Louisiana
reportedly told his colleagues seated around the dais of the House Natural
Resources Committee.
When Democrat
Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, who leads the House Energy and Commerce
oversight subcommittee, recently omitted the phrase to swear in a witness
earlier this year, Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, pointed out
that “the oath was incorrect and incomplete.”
“This is the
oath we use, and that’s the oath we’re going to use today,” DeGette insisted.
TEEN MAGAZINE BRAZENLY PROMOTES ABORTION
AND PROSTITUTION TO YOUNG WOMEN (Excerpt)(
Rather than
writing headlines, Teen Vogue magazine is making them.
Charisma News
– June 25, 2019 -- First, points out national radio host Dr. Michael Brown,
author of the soon-to-be-released book, Jezebel's War with America: The Plot
to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide, the magazine
geared toward girls, teens and young women published an article titled,
"Why Sex Work Is Real Work," comparing "selling your body for
cash to the practice of medicine—just another profession, just another
choice," according to USA Today.
Then, a June Teen
Vogue response to a letter in an advice column about "How to Get an
Abortion If You're a Teen" included these words: "(I)t's only logical
that if teens are mature enough to become parents, they are mature enough to
decide whether or not they want to give birth. Having access to abortion should
be your right, regardless of your parents' beliefs." The writer even went
on to "talk logistics."
"These
two brazen articles geared toward young women should serve as substantial
evidence that our culture has fallen so far that telling girls that working as
a prostitute or having an abortion without parental knowledge is not only
accepted—but should be celebrated!" Brown said. "If we don't think
there is an evil spirit after the hearts and minds of our young women, we are fooling
ourselves."
That evil
intention, Brown says, is a manifestation of the spirit of Jezebel—the most
wicked woman in the Bible. And even though she lived thousands of years ago,
her spirit is alive and well today.
"Promoting
sex work to teens and young women should be called what it truly is—human
trafficking," Brown asks. "Human traffickers lure young women into
sex work then trap them in horrible conditions. It is estimated that worldwide
roughly 1 million children are sold into sex slavery or forced labor every
year, including 40,000 per year in the U.S.—or 109 children per day. What makes
this even worse is that these estimates may be low. The sexual exploitation of
children is surely one of the vilest sins on the planet."
IS ALIEN ABDUCTION A THING?
John 8:44 “Ye are of your
father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Creation
Moments – Aug. 27, 2019 -- Most sightings of UFOs – Unidentified Flying Objects
– can be explained as natural or man-made phenomena. Objects that have been
mistaken for alien craft include airplanes, satellites, weather balloons,
lightning and the planet Venus. But there remains a hard minority of cases that
cannot so easily be explained away. Such sightings may sometimes include
abductions. Whatever you make of such things, it is clear that the subject has
experienced something. It may not be what they think they experienced, but they
have been affected in some way. And in most cases, such experiences of alien
abduction are traumatic. The experiencer has in no way enjoyed the experience
and is frequently afraid of the possibility of it happening again.
In his book Alien
Intrusion, creation speaker Gary Bates describes the attempted abduction of
a man named Bill. He was being levitated and taken away into a mist. In his
fear and pain, he cried out, “Jesus, Jesus, help me!” He then recounts:
“I felt like
it [the experience] was withdrawn, and I fell. I hit the bed, because it was
like I was thrown back in bed.”
What sort of
alien abduction can be halted by the name of Jesus? How can speaking the name
of Jesus send the alien UFO away?
The answer is
that these entities are not aliens from outer space. They are masquerading.
They are demonic forces and spirits, intent on deception. But they cannot stand
up to one whose Name is above every Name – Jesus Christ our Lord!
CAN GOD USE YOU?
Do you want to
be used by the Lord? I hope so because that’s His will for every believer. As
we saw last week, Ephesians 2:10 says God created us in Christ to do good works that He planned for us beforehand. If we are
going to become useful to Him, there are three questions we must consider.
Who is God?
In Exodus 3, the Lord
used a burning bush to get Moses’ attention (v. 2), and then He introduced
Himself as the God of Moses’ forefathers (v. 6). The future liberator of the
Hebrew slaves needed to know the identity of the One calling him into service.
In the same way, we, too, must be sure that we’re serving the only true God.
Otherwise, all our efforts and sacrifices will be in vain.
Who am I? Once Moses knew who God was, he was
overwhelmed with his own inadequacy and asked, “Who am I?” (v.
11). The Lord uses humble people who reverence Him. Although Moses knew
he was insufficient for the task, the Lord assured him by saying, “Certainly I
will be with you” (v. 12).
Why am I
here? God told Moses
his obedience to the assignment would culminate in worship (v. 12). Romans 12:1 says we worship God when we offer ourselves
as living sacrifices. In other words, we surrender totally to Him so that He
can use us for His glory. We exist to glorify Him by the way we live, speak,
and love.
Serving the
Lord isn’t something that we design and plan. It has nothing to do with our
will but instead requires that we know and submit to the Father, humbly relying
on His strength to do His will for His glory.
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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
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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
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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."
THE SIGNATURE OF GOD
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:
- Gen.
1: 1, - Beginnings with the fifth letter in the first word (B'raisheet) -"In the beginning"-
the 5th letter and each 521st letter there after spells out"Yeshua Yakhol"
which translates "Jesus is able".
- Isa.
53: 10 - Beginning with the second Hebrew letter "yod"
that appears in the phrase "He shall prolong" and counting every
20th letter, you find the phrase "Yeshua - Shmi" when translated means "Yeshua (Jesus) is my name".
- Gen.
3: 20 - Beginning with the last Hebrew letter "heh" and counting
every 9 letters, you will find the
word "Yoshiah" which means "He
will save" - (This is coded backwards)
- Gen.
3: 21 - Beginning with the letter "ayin"
in the Hebrew word for "coats of skin" and counting forward
every seventh (7) letter, you spell "Yeshua"
(Jesus).
- Zech.
12:10 - Beginning with the letter "chet"
found in the phrase, "an only son", and counting every 38th
letter, it spells the word "Messiah".
- Lev.
21: 10-12 - Beginning with the first Hebrew letter "Heh" and
counting every third (3rd) letter, it spelled out the phrase "hain dam Yeshua" which
means "Behold! The blood of Yeshua".
- Zech.
11:12 - In the story of Jesus's betrayal - Beginning with the letter
"yod" in the phrase that reads
"My price" and counting forward every 24th letter you find the
word "Yeshua".
- Ruth
1:1 - When counting every fifth (5th) letter from right to left it spells
the name of "Yeshua".
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM ANCIENT TIMES UNTIL TODAY
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:
- 2
events =50x50 (2 times) 1
in 2,500
- 4
events = 50x50 (4 times) 1 in 6.25
million
- 6 events = 50x50 (6 times) 1 in 15.6 billion
- 8 events = 50x50 (8 times) 1 in 39 trillion
- 10
events = 50x50 (10 times) 1
in 97,500 trillion
"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:
- He
will only be revealed after the "He who restrains the "man of lawlessness/Sin"
is taken out of the way. (i.e.
the Rapture of the Church) -(2 Thess. 2:6)
- He
will be revealed before Christ's second coming (2 Thess. 2:3)
- He
will rule over the ten Nations that make up the revived/revised Roman
Empire (Dan. 7:20)
- He
will rule for 7 years -(Dan.9:27)
- God
will destroy him at the end of the great Tribulation period when He
returns to claim His inheritance. (Rev. 19:20; Dan. 7:26)
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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