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'THE RETURN'
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND REPENTANCE FOLLOWS 19TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11
When al-Qaida used
airliners on 9/11 in a deadly attack, Americans seemed poised to return to her
Christian roots, but in the 19 years since, repentance has cooled. Now,
thousands of pastors, congregations and individuals are preparing to attend
the "The Return: National and Global Day of Prayer and
Repentance"— an invitation to all Americans to turn from sin back to God
through prayer and repentance.
The image of hijacked
airliners becoming missiles combined with COVID-19, tumbling monuments and
nightly riots may serve to rekindle the desire of many to ask God difficult
questions about the future of a nation whose very currency proclaims, "In
God We Trust." "The Return" is designed for Americans to get
honest with themselves and the God of their forefathers.
Who: Co-Chaired by Pastor Kevin Jessip and New
York Times' bestselling author Jonathan Cahn.
What: "The Return" is a movement that calls on
para-church organizations, congregations and individuals to humble themselves
in repentance and anticipate God's redemption and restoration.
Where: Washington Mall, between the Washington Monument
and Capitol Hill (coordinated events throughout America's cities, towns, houses
of worship and homes).
When: Main Event: Sept. 26, 9 a.m.- 6 p.
m; Celebration Event: Sept. 26, 6-9 p.m.; Friday Night
Event: Sept. 25, 6-9 p.m.
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INTERESTING ARTICLES SUMMARY
·
The window for America to repent may be
closing
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Are Black Lives Matter leaders calling
on the spirit of the dead?
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3 major reason not to vote for the DNC
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Half of U.S. Christians: Casual sex between consenting adults is
acceptable
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The fastest flower in the forest
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FREEDOM’S RESPONSIBILITY
INTERESTING ARTICLES
THE WINDOW FOR
AMERICA TO REPENT MAY BE CLOSING (Excerpt)
Charisma News – Sep. 4, 2020 -- Rabbi Jonathan Cahn believes
that, despite its current state, there is still hope for America.
But if America is ever to return to the nation he believes God
ordained it to be, Cahn says, people must come to repentance, and they must do
it soon.
"If we want to see revival in America, we have to be
walking and living in revival now, my belief is that the shakings are not
finished. I believe that there are big things coming”.
"At the same time, and people have always asked me, 'Do you
believe that there is going to be judgment, calamity or revival?' And I have
said that there can be both," Cahn said. "Often, revival can come
through shaking. I only came to the Lord because I was hit by a train. That was
a shaking for me, and so it will be with nations. I believe it can be both, and
I believe for those who will stand—those who will take this seriously and come before
God and seek His face and pray and repent—whatever is in your life that
shouldn't be there get rid of it now.
"Whatever it could be in your life that you haven't risen
in God's calling, get to it now, today. Those who will stand will shine like
lights in the darkness. We know certain things have to happen, but we also know
there is an end-times revival, a harvest, a pouring out of the Spirit. I
believe that can happen. We can see that in our time," Cahn added.
"But we have to be the candles in the night. People have
said, 'I wish I could live in biblical times.' Well, congratulations, because
you are. These are the days of Jeremiah. He saw culture turn away from God, but
he stood. These are the days of Ezekiel; these are the days of Paul when the culture
was anti-Christian. But the lights of God shine brightest in the darkness.
We've got to be ready, because this could be the greatest hour if we rise as
never before."
ARE BLACK LIVES
MATTER LEADERS CALLING ON THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD? (Excerpt)
Charisma News – Sep. 2, 2020 -- Is it true that leaders of the
Black Lives Matter movement, including one of the co-founders, are calling on
the spirits of the dead? That they claim to receive spiritual power from the
deceased? That they talk with these spirits and even give them names?
The answer to all these questions is yes. This is now an open
secret.
Lest you think that this type of "spirituality" is
exceedingly rare, I remind you that in October 2019, The New
York Times ran a story titled, "When Did Everybody
Become a Witch?" The article claimed that, "We have reached peak
witch." Noting that, "Real witches are roaming among us, and they're
seemingly everywhere."
Yes, "Witches are influencers who use the hashtag
#witchesofinstagram to share horoscopes, spells and witchy memes, and they are
anti-Trump resistance activists carrying signs that say 'Hex the Patriarchy'
(also the title of a new book of spells) and 'We are the granddaughters of the
witches you weren't able to burn.'"
I documented this phenomenon that many of the major trends in
our society could be traced back to this "Jezebelic"
spirit. These include the rise of pornography, the "shout your
abortion" movement, radical feminism, the emasculating of men, the war on
gender, the rise of witchcraft and sorcery and the silencing of the prophetic
voice of the church.
With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, we have
further evidence of this Jezebelic influence, as
the co-founders are all radical feminists, with two of the three identifying as
queer. (Please note that I use "Black Lives Matter" to distinguish
this Marxist-based movement from the important affirmation that Black lives do
matter.)
We can now trace this demonic influence one step further, with
the open, unapologetic statements of two key Black Lives Matter leaders. I'm
speaking about Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors
and professor Melina Abdullah, chair of the department of Pan-African studies
at California State University, Los Angeles, and a co-founder of the Los
Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter.
Their relevant video discussion on Facebook was posted on June
13. But even before that, on June 9, Heba Farrag
posted an article on the Berkeley Center website
titled, "The Fight for Black Lives is a Spiritual Movement."
Farrag explained how professor Abdullah met with
a Black Lives Matter group in front of the house of Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti: "She led the group in a ritual: the reciting of names of those
taken by state violence before their time—ancestors now being called back to
animate their own justice:
'George Floyd. Asé. Philandro Castille. Asé. Andrew
Joseph. Asé. Michael Brown. Asé.
Erika Garner. Asé. Harriet Tubman. Asé. Malcom X. Asé. Martin Luther
King. Asé.'
"As each name is recited, Dr. Abdullah poured libations on
the ground as the group of over 100 chanted, 'Asé,' a
Yoruba term often used by practitioners of Ifa, a
faith and divination system that originated in West Africa, in return. This
ritual, Dr. Abdullah explained, is a form of worship."
For more reading, go to: https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/82445-are-black-lives-matter-leaders-calling-on-the-spirits-of-the-dead
3 MAJOR REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR THE DNC
Charisma News – Sep. 11, 2020 -- When Ronald Reagan left the
Democratic party in 1962 at the age of 51, he explained his departure, saying,
"I did not leave the Democrat party; the Democrat party left me."
If that was true for Reagan in 1962, how much more is it true
for millions today who see the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy lurching into
extreme left-wing positions that are contrary to their own morals and values?
Although I consider my myself an Independent with no party
affiliation, the following are three major reasons I cannot vote for a
Democrat.
- No respect for God: In
2019, the Democrat National Committee unanimously passed a resolution
affirming atheism and insisting that neither Christianity nor any religion
is necessary for morality and patriotism. In this same resolution, the DNC
made a point to single out and rebuke evangelical Christians for, in their
words, "loudly claiming that morals, values and patriotism must be
defined by their particular religious views."
This should not be surprising, for at the 2012 Democrat Party
Convention, there were loud boos when party leaders decided to put mention of
God back into the party platform after being roundly criticized for removing
it. And when Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives in 2018,
they chose to remove the phrase "so help me God" from the oath’s
witnesses would take before their committees.
The DNC's hostile attitude toward people of faith is showing
itself throughout the party. For example, in a Senate confirmation hearing for
Notre Dame professor Amy Barrett to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals, Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein questioned her fitness because of her
strong Christian faith. Feinstein expressed dismay that when she reads
Barrett's speeches, "The conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives
loudly in you."
The Democrat Party has supported the removal of Ten Commandment
displays, crosses and other Christian symbols from public property. When President
Obama spoke at Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, he demanded that
the Christian symbol behind the podium where he was to speak be removed.
The DNC flight from God is so out of character with the founders
of this nation, whose writings are filled with references to faith in God and
sprinkled with biblical quotations. In fact, a 10-year research project to
discover where America's founders got their ideas for the nation's founding
documents, found that they quoted the Bible far more than any other source
(Hyatt, 1726: The Year that Refined America, 167-68).
George Washington, after insisting that he take the first
presidential oath of office with his hand on a Bible, warned the new nation in
his first inaugural address, "The propitious smiles of heaven can never be
expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right,
which heaven itself has ordained."
John Adams sounded a similar tone in a 1798 address to the
officers of the Massachusetts Militia. He declared,
"We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious [Christian] people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other" (Hyatt, 1726:
The Year that Refined America, 168).
Psalm 33:12a says, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord." I cannot vote for a party or politician so long as disrespect
toward God and people of faith characterize their party.
2.
No
respect for life: Just a short distance from where I live,
a young woman gave birth to a baby in the bathroom of an Applebee's restaurant.
She then threw it in the garbage and left. According to a published report, the
newborn's lifeless body was found by employees who were cleaning the bathroom
about 30 minutes after the mother left the restaurant.
How could someone be so calloused and inhumane about a newborn
life? I do not know her situation, but perhaps she had heard of the Democrats
in the New York state legislature breaking into cheers after passing a bill
that allowed a mother to abort her baby right up to the time of birth.
Perhaps she had also heard of Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia
promoting his pro-abortion bill and saying that if a baby survives an abortion,
the infant will be made comfortable while the mother and her doctor decide if
the newborn baby should live or die.
That people would cheer the passage of a bill that allows the
taking of innocent human life is almost unimaginable. Yet not a single Democrat
party leader spoke against these "death bills" that devalue human
life and inculcate in our children a callousness toward life.
My Christian conviction that life is sacred, even in the womb,
will not allow me to vote for any candidate or party that holds human life in
such contempt.
3.
No
respect for liberty: As a Christian, I would never go to a
Muslim baker and demand that he bake a cake for my
church conference with the caption, "Jesus is God!" Nor would I ever
go to a gay baker and demand that he bake a cake for
my marriage seminar that says, "Marriage: One Man and One Woman." My
Christian values give room for people to hold views other than my own in the
public arena.
This was not the case under the previous Democrat
administration. Small business owners, such as florists and bakers,
were targeted and then sued when they politely declined to violate their
consciences by participating in same-sex weddings with their artistic gifts.
Continue
reading at: https://www.charismanews.com/politics/elections/82558-eddie-hyatt-3-major-reasons-i-cannot-vote-for-a-democrat
HALF OF U.S. CHRISTIANS: CASUAL SEX BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS IS
ACCEPTABLE
Many OK
with unmarried relations 'sometimes or always'
WND – Sep. 2,
2020 -- Many Christian traditions disapprove of premarital sex. And even though
Christians in the United States hold less permissive views than religiously
unaffiliated Americans about dating and sex, most say it’s acceptable in at
least some circumstances for consenting adults to have sex outside of marriage,
according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
Half of
Christians say casual sex – defined in the survey as sex between consenting
adults who are not in a committed romantic relationship – is sometimes or
always acceptable. Six-in-ten Catholics (62%) take this view, as do 56% of
Protestants in the historically Black tradition, 54% of mainline Protestants
and 36% of evangelical Protestants.
Among those who
are religiously unaffiliated, meanwhile, the vast majority (84%) say casual sex
is sometimes or always acceptable, including roughly nine-in-ten atheists (94%)
and agnostics (95%) who say this. The religiously unaffiliated, also known as “nones,” are those who describe themselves, religiously, as
atheist, agnostic or as “nothing in particular.”
THE FASTEST FLOWER IN THE FOREST
Matthew 6:28 “And why take ye
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil
not, neither do they spin…”
Creation Moments – Sep. 8, 2020 – The peace and serenity
of North America’s spruce forests is occasionally broken by little other than
the rustle of a deer passing by. At least that’s what most people think. In
truth, there are things going on which would cause us profound wonder.
The bunchberry dogwood flower stands only about one-tenth
of an inch tall. Scientists knew that the flowers opened explosively. The
flowers do this to propel their pollen further. The scientists decided to find
out precisely how fast the flowers really opened. So, they decided to tape a
flower opening with a high-speed camera that is capable of taking 1,000
pictures a second. But the camera proved to be too slow. It was only with a
camera that takes 10,000 pictures a second that they could clearly see what was
going on. They saw that the petals opened, and in a separate action, the
stamens unfold so fast that they catapult pollen into the air. All of this
happens in four tenths of a thousandth of a second. That’s more than a hundred
times faster than a chameleon’s tongue captures lunch. The stamens unfold so
fast that they subject the pollen to 2,400 times the force of gravity.
There are no limits to the wonders God can conceive and
create. His greatest wonder is His mercy which resulted in forgiveness and
salvation.
FREEDOM’S RESPONSIBILITY
Our rights are among the most difficult
things for us to relinquish, and that’s because letting go of them often feels
unjust. After all, they are by definition a claim that we are morally or
legally entitled to have something or to act in a certain way. Yet in order to
serve Christ more effectively, the apostle Paul chose not to insist on certain
rights and privileges.
Godly freedom carries responsibility and
therefore shouldn’t be a selfish means of making others treat us as we desire.
As 1 Peter 2:16 says, our freedom is not to be a
covering for evil, but we’re to “use it as bond slaves of God.” Jesus set us
free from the power of sin so we could obey the Lord, and part of obedience is
serving one another unselfishly. God also wants His followers to share the good
news of salvation and forgiveness of sins through faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
If we believe that God has liberated us
only for ourselves, then we have missed the point and are abusing our freedom.
Paul likened the Christian life to competition at Olympic-style games. In the
world’s system, a person wins by demanding his or her rights. But in God’s
race, we’re victorious when we discipline ourselves to obey Him and fulfill His
purpose.
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – “A
person who has no fire in his heart cannot warm others” – Our Daily Bread
INTERESTING ARTICLES SUMMARY
· There
is another in the fire with you
· Will
antisemitic Christians miss the Rapture?
· In
the blink of an eye
· GOD’S
PERSPECTIVE ON OUR WORK
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THERE IS
ANOTHER IN THE FIRE WITH YOU
Christian
Headline News – Sep. 4, 2020 -- In a recent sermon I said that there is no
hindrance too great, no battle too hard, and no power too strong to overpower
God. Nothing can thwart His plans. We can take great comfort in that, but what
do you do when you’re going through the fire—through the trial?
We can actually
learn a lot from the historical account of King Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 3, who made an image of gold and told the people to bow down to
it. Whoever disobeyed was cast into the midst of a fiery furnace. Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego were accused of insurrection when they refused to follow
the king’s orders.
The first lesson
here is that we must prepare for accusations. An accusation is a charge that
you did something illegal or wrong. But the key question is always “What does
God’s Word say?” because legal is not always lawful.
In other words, something can be legal according to the laws of a particular
nation but in no way lawful according to God’s Word. For example, we are
starting to see headlines such as, “Scholars now say pedophilia is a sexual
orientation that should be embraced.” This is pure wickedness and
evil that cannot be embraced: “Woe be to those who call evil good, and good
evil” (Isaiah 5:20).
TRUTH AND
TEMPER TANTRUMS
As a result of
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego’s disobedience, Nebuchadnezzar became furious
and gave the command to throw them into the fire. A second lesson from this
narrative is that rage is often a demonic response when some don’t get their
way. No one can debate against the truth, so those who oppose you will get
upset and throw a temper tantrum. Don’t respond to them in anger, but
gentleness: “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger”
(Proverbs 15:1 NIV).
We need to stop
trying to hide in a bubble and avoid controversy. Our faith will often be
tested. You may not have chosen this battle, but this battle chose you. The
direction of America today reminds us that we need to make a choice: Do
I submit and capitulate (take a knee, so to speak), or do I firmly stand for
what is right?
GOD WILL
DELIVER US
When the three
young men decided to rebel, they backed it with a powerful declaration: “Our
God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He
will deliver us from your hand, O king.” But they didn't stop
there; they had true faith by adding that even if God didn’t deliver them, they
would not obey the king (v. 17). We must have the same mindset: God can
deliver me, but even if He doesn’t I will not bow to evil agendas. My following
God is not contingent on what’s happening to me; it’s based on who He is. Sometimes
God removes you from the fire, and sometimes He walks through it with you—even
to death. Trust God regardless of the outcome.
Then we read
that “Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed
toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat
the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated” (vv. 19–20). Another
key lesson: The heat is often turned up to break you down. However, heat can be
good if it removes impurities. When we pray, “Lord, help me develop patience
and trust” (or whatever the struggle may be), often the heat is turned up so
that a greater degree of brokenness occurs. Humble yourself, trust God, and
move forward.
As these Hebrews
surrendered to the will of God and trusted Him, God delivered them: “Then King
Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, ‘Did we not cast
three men bound into the midst of the fire?’ They answered and said to the
king, ‘True, O king.’ ‘Look!’ he answered, ‘I see four men loose, walking in
the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is
like the Son of God’” (vv. 24–25).
WHY YOU’RE
STILL STANDING
Don’t miss this.
I’m still standing—as are many of you—because there is another in the fire!
People will ask, “How are you still standing in the midst of a divorce, in the
midst of unemployment, in the midst of financial collapse, health issues, or
persecution?” and we can answer, “Because there is another in the fire with
me—the Son of God.” But keep in mind that the enemy of our souls will taunt us
just like the king taunted the Hebrews: “And who is the god who will deliver
you from my hands?” (v. 15). When this happens, first remind yourself of God’s
promise in Isaiah 43:2, “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you,” and
then pray, “My heart will not fear what God has defeated.”
Again, we must
get to the point that we say, like Daniel’s friends, “My God will deliver me,
but even if He doesn’t, I will not bow to the world's system or succumb to fear
and false narratives." And then turn to Paul's reminder: "I have been
crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me"
(Galatians 2:20).
If you do not
have assurance, let me share a few key Scriptures for you: Romans 5:8 declares, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Jesus came to seek and
to save that which was lost. He died for us, took our spot, and paid the price
of our sin. Romans 10:9: “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in
your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” You can take
this promise to the bank: For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be
saved” (Romans 10:13).
WILL ANTISEMITIC
CHRISTIANS MISS THE RAPTURE?
Koenig Int’l News – Aug. 23, 2020 -- The Rapture of believers
has long been a controversial topic. Some believe that it is a myth and that it
will never happen. They usually belong to a group of people that shies away
from studying and/or teaching Bible prophecy for various reasons, and that
would mean that we ignore about 25% of the Bible. Others believe in the Rapture
happening, but simply place it at different times in the prophetic future, and
some others would like to alter the way it will take place and who it will
include. This has led to a lot of faulty views that are not doing justice to
the doctrine of the Rapture. One of these views, circulating in some circles,
claims that some Christians WILL NOT be included in the Rapture. This view is
also known as the “Partial Rapture” view. Is there validity to that view at
all, and who would be excluded?
The word “Rapture” is not found in the Hebrew or Greek
Scriptures, but this doesn’t mean that the concept is not real. The word
“Trinity” also doesn’t appear anywhere in Scripture, and yet, Orthodox
Christianity has the monotheistic belief in a triune Godhead including the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Rapture comes from the latin raptus, meaning
“to snatch up or seize.” It is found 14 times in the New Testament as the
word harpazo. While the Rapture itself
isn’t spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), there are some
examples of individuals being snatched up or raptured by God such as Enoch (Genesis 5:24
) or Elijah (2 Kings 2.) There are also several instances
of individuals being taken-up in the New Testament, but we need to concentrate
on the events surrounding the future Rapture of the Body of Messiah (all
believers in Yeshua of Nazareth.)
The most common view of the Rapture is that of a descending of the
Lord Yeshua in the sky (without touching down to
earth) and a snatching up of all the believers on earth–dead or alive. It is
based on two key passages of the Bible: 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. People see that event happening at various times around
the events of the Great Tribulation (prior, during or after, being the three
main views.) I adhere to a view of the last days that places the Rapture first,
then the seven-year Tribulation (also known as the seventieth week of Daniel),
followed by the Second Coming of Yeshua and the
1000-year Millennial Kingdom of Messiah on earth from Jerusalem.
In this view, believers are taken up to be with Yeshua prior to any other event of the end times. They are
protected by God from any harm that will be inflicted upon unbelievers during
the Great Tribulation also known as the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” Such an
event is imminent, it could happen at any moment, and yet, nobody knows the
exact time of the event. Even though many have speculated and written a myriad
of books dating the Rapture, nobody knows the day or the hour. We are assured
of the imminency of the event by passages such as John 14:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 1 Corinthians 1:7 and Titus 2:13. Author Renald Showers said it
best in Maranatha, Our Lord Comes:” Other events may happen before
the imminent return, but nothing else must take place before
it happens.” I could continue to substantiate the pre-Tribulational,
pre-Millennial view of the Rapture, but I am more interested in looking at who
will be included and who will be excluded in that future event.
It should be obvious that the Rapture is seen as a reward for
believers who will be protected from God’s wrath. That should never mean that
because believers know that they will be snatched up before things get really
bad, that we shouldn’t care. The opposite couldn’t be truer! Because we will be
taken, and the unbelievers will be left behind, we should double up our efforts
to share the Good News with the lost, so that many more can join in this epic
upcoming event and be sheltered from the Great Tribulation. It should also
be clear that those included in the Rapture–and this being whenever it takes
place–are believers only. By this we mean those who have placed their trust in
the death and resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah for
their sins.
In spite of all the biblical evidence, there are people who
believe that the Rapture will only include some Christians but not all. I have
a serious problem with that view. It was recently brought to my attention while
I was listening to a very popular teacher on prophecy who was speaking about
Israel, gentiles and end-times. At some point in the message, it was said that:
“Christians who hate Israel will not be included in the Rapture.” While I
philosophically would agree with the exclusion of some believers in the
Rapture, biblically, I simply cannot. Let me explain.
I have been a student of and teacher against antisemitism in all
of its forms over the last several thousand years. As a result, I am painfully
aware of Christian antisemitism over the centuries. By definition, Christian
antisemitism means that one can be a follower of Messiah or a Christian and
have resentment or hatred against the Jewish people. Their maturity as believers
might be put in question, but their salvation shouldn’t. We come to Messiah by
believing in the power of Yeshua’s atoning death and
His blood shed on the cross on our behalf. That process is known as
justification. Next comes a process that will take place for the rest of the
life of the believer, and that is known as sanctification, when we are
progressively made in the image of Messiah, until we are in our perfect
glorified body, in God’s presence. Sanctification takes time and its
progressive work is different in everyone. An antisemitic Christian is toxic to
the Jewish community and negatively influential to the Christian community, and
yet, they remain a Christian, saved by grace through the blood of Yeshua.
If the Nazi officer who pushed my grandfather to his death in
Auschwitz was led to Yeshua moments before his death,
he will be in heaven with me for all of eternity. In my still fallen human
nature, I despise him, and I hate the possibility of his salvation, but
biblically, I cannot avoid the reality of his inclusion in the family of God if
he had indeed come to faith in Yeshua. Similarly,
in Luke 23:42-43, the thief on the cross didn’t have any time to review
his deeds and hang-ups when he placed his trust in Yeshua
for his salvation. He simply turned his head, looked at Yeshua
and asked Him to remember him: “And he was saying, “Yeshua, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!” And He
said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in
Paradise.” The thief had no time to revisit his life in detail or
denounce and reject any hatred or prejudice he might have had. In his case,
there was not time for earthly sanctification, but he was in God’s family
nonetheless.
When I became a believer in the 1980s, it took me several years
of maturing in the Lord and reading the Word to change my view on abortion. I
used to be 100% pro-choice, but I am now convinced that the Bible teaches 100%
pro-life. I was not less of a believer then, I was just a baby believer and had
the Rapture occurred at that time, I would have been included, just the same
way that the potential “saved Nazi officer” would have been included, had he
become a follower of Yeshua.
So, when I hear someone saying that “Christians who hate Israel
will not be included in the Rapture”, I cringe. I agree that Christian
antisemitism is a real problem, but the only way these people will be excluded
is if they are Christians in name only and have not given their lives to Yeshua, but that is a very different group of people.
To say that there will be a partial Rapture, is not new. It is a
view from the mid-1800s, based on the idea of obedience and watching for
Messiah’s return. It is built on verses such as Matthew 24:40-51 and 25:1-13, to name just a couple. But it is a faulty view that
according to Richard Mayhue in Christ’s
Prophetic Plan,
would also necessitate a partial resurrection and require an earthly
purgatory–two concepts found nowhere in Scripture.
Alongside the concept of a partial Rapture, another passage is
often cited to prove that hating the Jews will exclude Christians from the
Millennial Kingdom. That passage is found in Matthew 25:31-46 and is known as the Judgement of the sheep and the
goats. In it, Yeshua says that those who helped Jews
(the sheep) during the Great Tribulation are akin to having helped Him, “The
King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you
did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to
Me.” Additionally, Yeshua speaks of those
who didn’t help (the goats), as receiving eternal punishment in verse 46.
Two things need to be understood from this passage. First, this
is taking place during the Tribulation and has no connection to the Rapture,
and secondly, the people who will help the Jews during the Tribulation will be
doing it because they themselves have become believers after being left behind,
thus after the Rapture. They will not help in an effort to gain acceptance from
God unto salvation, but as a result of their late salvation and understanding
of the need to help and bless Jewish people, otherwise, this would mean that we
can work for our salvation, another doctrine not found in the Bible.
There is simply no validity to the statement that “Christians
who hate Israel will not be included in the Rapture”. We can go as far as
saying that hating Israel is akin to hating God, and we get that idea
from Psalm 83:3-5, “They make shrewd plans against Your
people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones. They have
said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel
be remembered no more.” For they have conspired together with one
mind; Against You they make a covenant.”
It is clear that when one conspires against Israel, one
conspires against the God of Israel Who is our God. As much as I wish it were,
Christian antisemitism is not an oxymoron. It is the unfortunate result of our
fallen nature, lack of maturity and ignorance. It can and should be fought with
prayer and education.
https://www.newantisemitism.com/antisemitism/will-antisemitic-christians-miss-the-rapture
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Psalm 6:6 “I am weary with my
groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water
my couch with my tears.”
Creation
Moment – Sep. 4, 2020 -- The miracle takes place in the blink of an eye.
Literally.
Every
time you blink, you bathe the surface of your eye with a miraculous fluid
called tears. Tears are not simply a salty water solution. They are made of
water, but also have oils, electrolytes and sticky carbohydrates called mucins.
In addition, they contain antibacterial and antiviral substances. One of these substances
is called lysozyme. Any bacteria or virus that finds itself in tear fluid has a
95 percent chance of being dead within ten minutes. That blink of an eye keeps
the surface of the eye properly moisturized so that our vision remains clear.
Without this moisturization, your eyes would become red and painful, and, if
untreated, you would probably go blind. Tear fluid also provides needed oxygen
to the surface of your eyes.
But
perhaps the most amazing property of tears is even more unexpected. Humans are
the only creatures that cry emotional tears. Studies have shown that the
ability to produce tears and cry actually helps us cope with emotional
situations. There are some inherited diseases which make people unable to cry
tears. Studies have shown that people with this disease cannot deal well with
stress.
Tears
are a blessing in many ways. But we also remember that God has promised to wipe
away all our tears when we reach heaven.
GOD’S PERSPECTIVE OF OUR WORK
Workplace conversations often revolve
around achievements, recognition and advancement—as well as the energy people
put into reaching these goals. Although the culture values a spirit of
competition and the drive it takes to win accolades, these are not the
qualities by which the Lord evaluates our work.
God calls His children to a different
way of thinking and working—one that marks us as belonging to Him. It is
called servanthood, and it is the Lord Jesus Christ whom we serve.
However, we do so by selflessly serving others, whether they appreciate us or
not.
Christ Himself is our model. He left the
glories of heaven, took on human flesh, and humbled Himself to become an
obedient bond-servant to His heavenly Father, even to the point of dying on the
cross. As those who belong to Him, we are to imitate His humble obedience to
the Father (Phil. 2:3-8).
Whatever job we may have, we should
remember that we’re accountable to the Father for our attitude and diligence.
He is pleased when our focus is to “work heartily, as for the Lord” (Col. 3:23) and to benefit others. With that
servant-like approach, we’ll place less importance on ourselves and more on the
people around us, who are likely to sense a reflection of Christ in our
actions.
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."
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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----------------------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:
- 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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