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“God's
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
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Judgment will happen
with all mouths “stopped”
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SHILOH: MESSIAH
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How Hebrew reveals deep
hidden meanings if Biblical names
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The Red Heifer progress
report
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Hostility to Christian
sexuality beliefs up 114%
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Muslim man chops off
wife’s fingers to stop her studying for a degree
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A not-so-hard saying of
Jesus
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GOD’S TWO-EDGED SWORD
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JUDGMENT WILL HAPPEN WITH ALL MOUTHS
'STOPPED' (Excerpt)
The Christian
Post – Oct. 3, 2016 -- People wrong each other every day. Some are sorry for
their misdeeds while others are content to "get away with it." But
during the End Times there will come a day of reckoning when all will be held
accountable and will not be able to rebut the charges leveled against them.
Their words of dissent will be "stopped."
"No one
on the Last Day will legitimately be able to shake their fist to God and say,
'How you're treating me is unfair,'"
God will set
all wrongs right. [We’ve all] been the
victim of crime before and the perpetrator was never discovered and you feel
that injustice. All of us long for the
Final Days when the scales will be set right. When God will judge … Because
nobody escapes God."
When Moses was
going to kill the Egyptian, he looked left, he looked right, and thought nobody
was going to know that he'd murdered this Egyptian. But he forgot to look up.
God knows.
People who
take advantage of us, or defraud us, or hurt us — we think they get away with
it in this world. Ultimately [they] will not. The day will come when justice
will be administered.
However, that
justice comes with a caveat. All of us
secretly long for that justice — except in our own lives. Because
[we] don't want to be judged for our own sin.
We've all
sinned. We've all messed up and that's where the grace of God comes in… To cover us with His forgiveness.
Did you know
that every Hebrew letter corresponds to a different number? By studying the
numerical values of words through a system called "gematria,"
we find certain diverse words and ideas are secretly connected when their numerical
values match. Amazingly, the numerical value of the words ‘yavo Shiloh’ (Shiloh
comes) adds up to 358 which is exactly the same numerical value as the word 'mashiach', Hebrew for Messiah. With prophetic foresight,
Jacob blesses Judah with not only the monarchy, but the emergence of the
messianic line through his lineage. The city of Shiloh holds a special place in
ancient Jewish tradition and in modern Jewish life.
HOW HEBREW REVEALS DEEP HIDDEN MEANINGS OF BIBLICAL NAMES (Excerpt)
Israel365 –
Jun. 4, 2017 -- Many people have either a Biblical Hebrew name or a name which
connects to the Bible. In Jewish tradition, one’s name contains a spiritual
dimension. Naming a child is not just a random happening that parents impose
upon their children. The Bible is actually replete with stories which reflect
the importance of a name.
“There are
generally three ways in which a Hebrew name expresses something important about
a person,” explained Roni Segal, academic adviser to Breaking Israel News.
“Sometimes the name represents the essence of a person. Sometimes it reflects
an aspect from the birth the child and sometime it shows the purpose of the
person in this world.”
The essence of
the first man is reflected in his name. Called Adam, we know that he was created
from the earth – adama (אדמה)
in Hebrew.
Biblical
Father Jacob’s name is Yaakov in Hebrew. This name is used to record the
unusual circumstances of his birth. Jacob emerged from his mother’s womb
holding the heel of his twin brother, Esau.
Heel in Hebrew
is akev (עָקֵב)
the same root as Yaakov. Already from the womb, Jacob was on the heels
of Esau, chasing the rights of the first-born child. The Bible records that
Esau received his name because he emerged hairy, as if he were “completely
made”. In Hebrew, asah means to “make”
(עשה).
Similarly,
although Biblical commentators state that Moses – Moshe (משה) in Hebrew – had no less than ten
names, he is generally referred to only by his Egyptian name, Moshe.
Exodus 2:10 explains that Pharaoh’s daughter saw a child in a basket floating
down the Nile River. She drew him out and became his step-mother, a dangerous
act as it was decreed that all Jewish males be killed. She named him Moshe,
which literally means “to draw out”. This is the name used throughout the Bible
to give honor to this act of great self-sacrifice.
There are
several times in the Bible when God changes a person’s name to better reflect
their purpose in this world. For instance, Abraham’s original name was Abram (אַבְרָם֙). Abram
means “high father.” By changing his name to Abraham (אַבְרָהָם),
his future mission is reflected; Abraham means the “father of
multitudes”. He becomes the father to all who believe in one God.
God also
changed the name of Abraham’s wife. In order for Abraham to fulfill his
mission, he needed his wife by his side in a similarly lofty spiritual level.
Therefore, God changed her name from Sarai (שָׂרי), which means “princess”, to Sarah
(שָׂרה) meaning the
“mother of nations”. Together they become the parents of innumerable disciples.
Lastly, we
have Biblical Leah naming her children to represent her feelings and desires at
the time of their births. We know that Jacob’s first choice for a wife was
Leah’s sister Rachel. But Leah’s father tricked him into marrying her first. In
order to provide Leah with appeasement for being the second-choice wife, God
opened Leah’s womb and she merited to give birth to four sons.
Each of their
names tells of Leah’s emotional state at the time. Her first son, Reuven (רְאוּבֵן)
is named from the Hebrew word ra’a (רָאָה) to which means
“see”. The Bible states, “God saw my pain at being the less-desired wife and my
husband will see that I deserve to be married to him.”
Leah’s second
son is Shimon (שִׁמְעוֹן).
Shimon comes from the Hebrew word shema (שָׁמַע) which means “hear”. Leah expresses
that God heard her cries and blessed her with a second son.
Levy (לֵוִי) is related to the
Hebrew word for attach, y’lavey (יִלָּוֶה).
Jacob named him Levy to express that he will be more attached to Leah through
this child.
Most telling
is the fourth son’s name, Yehuda (יְהוּדָה).
Yehuda comes from the Hebrew word for praise, oh-deh
(אוֹדֶה). With
this birth, Leah publicly praises God for giving her a great portion in the
creation of the tribes of the Jewish people. Additionally, it also represents
her essence. She is known for praising God both in challenging and good times.
THE RED HEIFER PROGRESS REPORT
Weekend News Today – Jun. 30, 2017 -- This week the Torah
portion of Chukat, Numbers 19:1 to 22:1,
will be read in synagogues around the world. Chukat,
(which means statute), opens with the laws concerning the preparation for and
application of the ashes of the Para Aduma which is
the red heifer.
The ashes of the red heifer which are able to eradicate the
ritual impurity of death when applied by a Temple priest is an essential
element in the preparations for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple and the
renewal of the Divine service. Only those who have been purified of the tuma, the impurity of death, via the application of the
ashes of the red heifer, are permitted to enter into the inner courtyards of
the Holy Temple.
After many years of research into the halachic requirements
needed for a young male cow to be declared a red heifer, the Temple Institute
initiated a program two years ago to raise a red heifer in the land of Israel.
Once a candidate for red heifer is born it must be examined to
ascertain that it meets all the requirements to be called a red heifer.
Once a red heifer has been declared it must be cared for in a
way that will keep it from receiving even the slightest of wounds, which would
immediately disqualify it, as Torah states, it must be a perfectly red
unblemished cow (Numbers 19:2).
The red heifer must not be allowed to perform any tasks of labor
or to be handled in any way that would contradict Torah requirement that it be
an animal upon which no yoke was laid.
The red heifer must be periodically inspected to insure that it
does not grow hairs that are not red, which would disqualify it immediately.
Two years ago the Temple Institute initiated a fund raising
program to raise seed money for the project of raising a red heifer in Israel.
Today, working with cattle raisers in different locations throughout Israel, we
have a number of red angus females who are currently
carrying potential red heifer candidates. The cows seen in the photo will, God
willing, be giving birth in the spring of 2018. From
their offspring we hope to have one or more potential red heifer candidates.
HOSTILITY TO CHRISTIAN SEXUALITY BELIEFS
UP 114 PERCENT IN 3 YEARS (Excerpt)
Koenig’s Int’l News – Jul. 7, 2017 -- A new report
produced by one of the nation's leading social conservative activist
organization claims that there has been 76 percent increase in religious
freedom violations and a 114 percent surge in documented hostility toward
Christian views on marriage and sexuality in the last three years.
In a June 2017
report titled "Hostility to Religion: The Growing Threat to Religious
Liberty in the United States," the Washington, D.C.-based Family
Research Council highlighted various instances in which Americans' First
Amendment rights have been infringed upon or instances in which they faced
hostility over their religious views on sexuality that are in disagreement with
those of the political left.
Keegan O'Brien of Worcester, Mass., leads chants as members of
the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)
community protest the Defense of Marriage Act outside a Democratic National
Committee fundraiser at which Vice President Joe Biden was expected to attend
at Fenway Park in Boston Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The report
divided the reported instances into four different categories: "Attacks on
Religious Expression in the Public Square," "Attacks on Religious
Expression in Schools and Universities," "Censure of Religious
Viewpoints Regarding Sexuality," and "Suppression of Religious
Viewpoints on Sexuality Using Nondiscrimination Laws."
"When the
first edition of this report was released in July 2014, religious freedom
violations across the United States were already significantly high. Since that date, the number of incidents has only increased,"
a summary of the report states. "The first edition — spanning over
a decade — contained 90 incidents. Yet 69 new incidents have been added in the
short time since the last report. That is a 76 percent increase in just under
three years."
MUSLIM MAN CHOPS OFF WIFE’S FINGERS TO
STOP HER STUDYING FOR A DEGREE
WND – Jul. 12,
2017 -- A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his
wife's fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission.
Rafiqul
Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and
taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present.
Instead he
made her hold out her hand and cut off all five fingers. One of his relatives
then threw Ms. Akhter's fingers in the dustbin to ensure doctors could not
reattach them.
Hawa
Akhter has said she will continue her studies, despite the horrific attack.
Mr. Islam, who
is a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates, had warned his wife there
would 'severe consequences' if she did not give up her studies.
'After he came
back to Bangladesh, he wanted to have a discussion with me,' Ms. Akhter told
The Times.
'Suddenly, he
blindfolded me and tied my hand. He also taped my mouth saying that he would
give me some surprise gifts. But, instead he cut off my fingers.'
Mohammed Saluddin, the Bangladesh police chief said that Mr. Islam
had confessed after he was arrested in the capital, Dhaka, and will face
charges of permanent disfiguration.
Human rights
groups are demanding life imprisonment.
'He was
enraged. He was jealous because while he only had a grade eight standard
education, she was off to college to pursue higher studies,' said Mr. Saluddin.
Ms. Akhter
says she is learning to write with her left hand and is determined to resume
her studies. She is now back at her parent's house.
The attack is
the latest in a series of acts targeting educated women in the Muslim-majority
company.
In June, an
unemployed man gouged out the eyes of his wife, an assistant professor at Dhaka
University, apparently because he could not stand her pursuing higher studies
at a Canadian University.
A NOT-SO-HARD
SAYING OF JESUS
Matthew 8:22 “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me;
and let the dead bury their dead.”
Creation
Moments – Jul. 10, 2017 -- Twice in the Gospels, Jesus is asked by a disciple
for a leave of absence to bury his father. In each case, Jesus tells the
disciple to let the dead bury their own dead.
This
has been described as one of Jesus’ hard sayings, since it suggests that a son
should follow Jesus rather than honor his father. The passage is usually
explained as meaning that the spiritually dead - that is, those not following
Jesus - should bury the physically dead. This explanation still doesn’t explain
the apparent advice to break the commandment
about honoring our parents.
A
better explanation is offered in an article in Archaeology and Biblical
Research. Archaeologist Gordon Franz explains Jewish burial practices at
the time of Jesus. At death, the body would be placed in the family burial
cave. After about a year, the body would have decomposed. Then the final act of
mourning would take place. The bones were placed in a chest in what was called
a secondary burial. According to the rabbis, the decomposition of the flesh was
a person’s final atonement for sin. Once this atonement was made, the bones
could finally be laid to rest.
Franz
says it is this secondary burial for which the disciples wanted leave time.
Jesus’ reference to the dead burying the dead was a reference to the other
corpses in the burial cave. He was teaching that the rabbis’ teaching about
atonement was wrong. Atonement is found only in the saving work of Jesus Christ
– the very message that the disciples should have been proclaiming.
GOD’S TWO-EDGED
SWORD
"For the word of God is living and active and sharper than
any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of
both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the
heart.” – Hebrews 4:12
Spiritual discernment is the
ability to see life from God’s perspective. It requires that we know how He
thinks and acts. The Bible is His unchanging, infallible revelation of Himself.
However, the Lord doesn’t simply give us a list of facts about His character
and ways. All throughout the pages of Scripture, He illustrates who He is and
how He operates.
Although an ancient book, the
Bible is in no way obsolete. Its stories may have taken place centuries ago,
but its principles and applications are still relevant, offering discernment
about situations and guidance for decisions.
God’s Word—which Ephesians 6:17 refers to as “the sword of the Spirit”—
is active and piercing, like a surgeon’s scalpel. The words don’t simply sit on
the page; rather, they penetrate our heart and judge our thoughts and motives.
This convicting quality is why some Christians avoid reading the Bible. They
prefer to live on a surface level but never understand why they react to
situations the way they do. If we don’t want to keep making the same mistakes,
it’s essential that we become discerning about ourselves. The way to do that is
by approaching the Word of God with an open spirit. Then God will bring to
light our hidden motives and unrecognized sins.
Spiritual discernment involves seeing not just circumstances but
also ourselves from God’s perspective. Have you learned to embrace the piercing
sword of Scripture, or have you avoided doing so because it makes you
uncomfortable? Remember, whenever the Lord uses a surgical knife, His purpose
is always to make us healthier.
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: “Our
work is not simply means of livelihood, it is part of our witness to the world”
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
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Being tempted isn’t sin
– surrendering to it is
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How Bible verses match
Hebrew years in prophetic countdown
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no longer use sex to procreate
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BEING TEMPTED ISN'T SIN—SURRENDERING TO
IT IS (Excerpt)
"When the
devil had ended all the temptations, he departed from Him until another
time" (Luke 4:13).
Weekend News
Today – May 23, 2017 -- One simple story illustrates an example of an opportune
time, "Alexander was trying to save all the pennies that he could in order
to buy a baseball bat. But he had a hard struggle. One night when he was saying
his prayers, his mother heard him say fervently, 'O Lord, please help me save
my money for a baseball bat. And, God, don't let the ice cream man come down
this street anymore!'"
Isn't that
true of temptation? It takes from us, while at the same time, it looks so
appealing.
Commentator Klyne Snodgrass states it well, "Mention of the
'schemes' of the devil reminds us of the trickery by which evil and temptation
present themselves in our lives. Evil rarely looks evil until it accomplishes
its goal; it gains entrance by appearing attractive, desirable and perfectly
legitimate. It is a baited and camouflaged trap."
That's
important to note: We can miss evil for what it really is until after it has
accomplished its purpose. Only by comparing thoughts and actions to God's Word
can we have the insight to see beyond the circumstances.
Being tempted
isn't sin—surrendering to it is. Temptation is also an opportunity to do what
is right by turning from it. First Corinthians 10:13 states, "No
temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He
will not permit you to be tempted above what you can endure, but will with the
temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it."
The door of temptation swings both ways—you can enter or exit. If we choose to enter, once inside, we may not see the exit sign so
clearly again.
The flesh is in rebellion against God. Puritan author, John
Owen, writes, "Secret lusts lie lurking in your own heart which will never
give up until they are either destroyed or satisfied." The
flesh—although it feels comfortable and natural at times—is not a friend to be
trusted: "The carnal mind is hostile toward God" (Rom. 8:7a). Enmity
is not just an enemy, as an enemy can be reconciled. Enmity is in direct
opposition to the will of God.
In short, the
flesh says, "Feed me so I can destroy you—destroy your health, your
relationships, your soul." C.H. Spurgeon warned,
"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within
us."
The devil doesn't make us do anything; he simply presents the bait. For example, the devil doesn't show a
young couple the pain and anguish and the years of regret that premarital sex
brings; he deceives them with temporary enjoyment and a false sense of freedom
from responsibility. He has been deceiving since the beginning of time.
In Genesis
3:6, when Eve "saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasing
to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise" she succumbed to
temptation (took the bait) and rejected God's Word. She also gave some to her
husband, and he ate it. Nothing has changed. The devil still presents the bait,
but instead of taking responsibility for actions, many blame the devil for
their poor choices. "The devil is coming after my finances," they
say; yet they fail to budget, give to those in need and spend wisely. "The
devil is trying to destroy my marriage," is another common statement; yet
spouses fail to truly love and serve one another.
Although the
enemy will come against our families and our finances, we cannot blame him. We
must take responsibility for our own poor choices when warranted. According to 1 John 2:16, the devil entices through the lust
of the flesh (unbridled passions), the lust of the eyes (covetousness) and the
pride of life (boasting of what we have and/or do). Another step toward
victory is to take responsibility for our actions, submit them to God, and
resist the devil: "Therefore submit yourselves to
God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" (James 4:7).
When you truly
seek God's help, you can control temptation instead of allowing temptation to
control you. The key is to pray for strength and wisdom, and to be mindful of
the warfare and the weapons of warfare (see Ephesians 6). When we yield to
temptation, we walk willingly into the enemy's camp. An immediate exit at the
first sign of temptation will encourage victory.
YOU WON’T BELIEVE HOW BIBLE VERSES MATCH
HEBREW YEARS IN ASTONISHING PROPHETIC COUNTDOWN
Israel365 –
Jun 15, 2017 -- A numeric method of matching Bible verses to Hebrew years has
led a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem to the discovery that there is a direct
correlation between the two which could pinpoint the deadline for the messiah.
Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher, Dean of Students at the Diaspora Yeshiva and a
noted lecturer, recently revealed an amazing method of prophecy that can be
accessed by simply reading the Bible. Every year has a corresponding verse in
the Torah. According to Rabbi Sprecher, all that is
required to find the verse that describes a particular year, whether it is in
the past or the future, is to count verses from the beginning of Genesis until
the number of verses equals the Hebrew calendar year.
Rabbi Sprecher explained that this is one of the reasons scribes
who write Torah scrolls are called ‘Soferim’, which
literally means ‘counters’. Handwriting the sacred scrolls, Torah scribes
count the letters and the spaces. With remarkable precision, Rabbi Sprecher noted that there are 304,805 letters in the Torah,
79,847 words, and 5,845 verses. He believes that the year correlating to the
final verse in the Bible will signal the End-of-Days, quite literally.
“What that
means is that the Moshiach (messiah)
must come by the year 5845, since that is the year we run out of verses,” he
explained. “All we have to do is hang on for another 68 years.”
The rabbi gave
an incredible example of how this system works. World War II began in 1939,
which was the Hebrew year 5699. The corresponding 5,699th verse in the Torah is
disturbingly appropriate.
“And that the whole land thereof is
brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth
therein…” Deuteronomy 29:22
Rabbi Sprecher warned that the verses do not always reveal the
entire truth. He explained that six years later, after
World War II ended in 1945, people tried to understand the horrors they had
just experienced. The war-torn world searched for the reasons behind the war
and the Holocaust.
“The secret things belong unto Hashem our God; but the things that
are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all
the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:28
“The Holocaust
was too great, too enormous, for man to understand and ascribe a reason,” the
rabbi explained.
The rabbi
jumped ahead to 1948, the year Israel became a state. The Hebrew year was 5708
and the verse is fitting indeed.
“That then Hashem thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon
thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither Hashem thy God hath scattered thee.” Deuteronomy 30:3
In 1950,
Israel was inundated with massive immigration. Over 150,000 Jews made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in 24 months, the most
intensive period ever of Jews returning to their homeland. The verse clearly
reflects this.
“And Hashem thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers
possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply
thee above thy fathers.” Deuteronomy 30:5
Another
powerful example is the verse that correlates to 1968, the year after Israel’s
miraculous victory in the Six Day War. The verse corresponding to the year 5727
describes the aftereffects of the Six Day War in 1967, the reality Israel was
presented that year.
“Hashem
thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before
thee, and thou shalt dispossess them.” Deuteronomy 31:3
The verse
describing to this year, 5777, is ominous indeed, written in language that does
not bode well.
“For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burneth unto the
depths of the nether-world, and devoureth the earth
with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations
of the mountains.” Deuteronomy 32:22
This may
describe the moment, in April, when for the first time the US military dropped
its largest non-nuclear explosive device on Islamic State (ISIS) troops
entrenched in tunnels dug into a mountain in Afghanistan. The Massive Ordnance
Air Blast bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the Mother-of-All-Bombs, succeeded in
“setting ablaze the foundation of the mountain”, killing all ISIS personnel.
Skeptics of
Rabbi Sprecher’s method of understanding the Bible, need only wait a little more time. Whether or not the
technique is accurate will become clear on September 30, 2084, when the verses
run out.
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS BECOMING LESS
OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE
Newsmax – Jun. 27, 2017 -- U.S. groups who traditionally have opposed same-sex marriage,
including Republicans and white evangelical Christians, have become much less
steadfast in their objections, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.
Sixty-two
percent of U.S. respondents now approve of same-sex marriage, up from 57
percent when the Supreme Court legalized it in all 50 states two years ago and
from 37 percent in 2007, according to the survey, which was released on Monday.
The survey
found rising support for same-sex marriage across affiliations with political
parties, race and religion, with support strongest among younger Americans born
after 1980 and Democrats. The survey of 2,504 people was conducted June 8
through 18.
Republicans
were split on whether they approved or opposed same-sex marriage, with 48
percent against and 47 percent for, within the study's 3.5 percentage point
margin of error for the group. That is a major shift from the 73 percent
opposition a decade ago.
White
evangelical Christians were the most opposed to same-sex marriage, with 35
percent approving it, but the support more than doubled from 14 percent a
decade ago. Younger evangelicals were far more supportive, with 47 percent of
those born since 1964 approving gay marriages, compared with 26 percent of
their older counterparts.
"The
generational divide among white evangelicals is especially interesting, with
nearly half of the younger folk approving of gay marriage," said Nancy Ammerman, a professor of the sociology of religion at
Boston University, who was not involved in the poll. "When their parents
were that age, there was barely a visible white evangelical gay person to be
found."
WITHIN 30 YEARS WE WILL NO LONGER USE
SEX TO PROCREATE
Hank Greely
believes the reproductive process will commence with parents choosing from a
range of embryos created in a lab with their DNA
Prophecy
eNewsletter Update – Jul. 5, 2017 -- Within three
decades people will no longer be having sex to procreate, a professor from Stanford University has said.
Hank
Greely, the director of Stanford’s Law School’s Center for Law and the
Biosciences, believes the reproductive process will begin with parents choosing from a range of embryos created in a lab
with their DNA.
Although
this can already take place, Mr. Greely believes it will become far cheaper to
do so and couples will opt for this method to prevent diseases.
The
process involves taking a female skin sample to create stem cells, which is
then used to create eggs.
These
eggs are then fertilized with sperm cells, resulting in a selection of embryos.
Screening
of the embryos would highlight any potential diseases and the Stanford
professor believes the process will get to a point where parents can also
potentially have the ability to choose eye or hair
color.
“I think
one of the hardest things about this will be all the divorces that come about
when she wants embryo number 15 and he wants embryo number 64,” Mr. Greely said
at Aspen Ideas Festive, Tribune reported.
“I
think the decision making will be a real challenge for people. How do you weigh
a slightly higher chance of diabetes with slightly lower risk of schizophrenia
against better musical ability and a much lower risk of colon cancer? Good
luck.”
Mr.
Greely argues that this method of procreation would be cost efficient due to
the savings that would be made on healthcare.
He
argues that if certain diseases can be avoided any expenditure on this method
would be offset by reduced costs on potential treatments.
DID APES EVOLVE TO EAT MORE FRUIT?
Genesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
Creation
Moments – Jul. 5, 2017 -- Britain’s Telegraph newspaper carried a
fascinating article, recently, with a new spin on the myth of the evolution of
human beings: that apes evolved into humans, by eating lots of fruit.
The NYU
scientists’ report, published in Nature, is entitled “Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality”. Previous
evolutionary models suggested that development of apes’ brains was caused by
their social interaction. As they picked fleas off one another, they needed to
think more deeply about abstract concepts. However, the NYU researchers have
noticed that there is a correlation between the amount of fruit eaten, and the
sizes of the brains of non-human primates.
The team have studied over 140 species, and were careful to
study any correlation between social behavior and brain size—but no such
correlation was apparent. Yet, when they compared brain size to diet, it was
found that the primates that eat fruit had brains 25% larger than those that
ate other plant material.
The problem
with such reports is the attempt to fit observations into a mythological
evolutionary paradigm. There is no justification from the research to suggest
that primates evolved into humans, by eating a few more apples. Yet the Telegraph
cannot resist jumping on this factor, with this headline: “Would you Adam &
Eve it? Fruit may have been the making of mankind”. Mankind did indeed become
what he is today, by eating a fruit, which God had commanded them not to eat.
But that was not evolution. That was sin!
WORK IS A MINISTRY
Christians
sometimes make the mistake of mentally separating their work life from their
spiritual life. This mindset says, “Sunday is the Lord’s day,
but the rest of the week belongs to me.” That is an unbiblical way to live.
God’s Holy Spirit should be involved in everything we do, and we ought to
recognize Him as our guide, comforter, and intercessor no matter where we are.
Why would we want to exclude Him from something that takes up a large part of
our week?
The apostle
Paul clearly teaches that work is to be done as for the Lord (Col. 3:23). Other people may do a job better
because of greater skill or experience, but believers should be known for doing
quality work in a timely, wise, and respectful manner. And we can trust the
Holy Spirit to equip us to do just that.
Serving the
Lord on the job means that our workplace is also our ministry site. A job
provides money to support the family, but when done faithfully, it becomes far
more than simply a means to make a living. One’s work also develops character,
builds a sense of self-worth, and develops skills. Moreover, while we are
around coworkers for a number of hours each day, we have opportunity to build
relationships, bear testimony, and glorify our heavenly Father.
Work shouldn’t
be seen as drudgery; it is an opportunity to show love for the Lord. The reward
for those who serve God and love others on the job is greater than a paycheck.
They are blessed with a ministry—a harvest field for the kingdom, right inside
the factory, office building, or construction site.
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
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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."
What follows is what most of the human race
would find hard to believe. It
unfathomable to think that the Hebrew Bible, containing 304,805 Hebrew letters,
written by 40 individuals could contain hidden messages that if one letter was
taken out of the text, one word was removed, the hidden message could not be
revealed......yet the message has been sustained for over 2,000 years and has
been revealed to man just as Jesus said it would be. Jesus has actually placed His name and other
messages about Himself into text which proves he is the creator of all; King of
Kings and Lord of Lords.
GOD'S
SIGNATURE
God has personally signed scriptures
throughout the Old and New Testaments in various ways. For example in the Old Testament, he has
encoded his name, Jesus, in the following scripture:
God has also encoded unbelievable detail
about many of the things we read about and which touch our lives daily. For example, he outlines:
PLACES
AND THINGS
·
Gen. 2: 4-10 - The key word "Eden" was
spelled out sixteen (16) times in the span of 379 Hebrew letters. The letters were all equidistant from each other.
·Gen. 2
- In this chapter which deals with the garden of Eden, scientists found
encoded in the Hebrew text, Twenty-five (25) names of trees that were in the
Garden
of Eden.
·
Gen. 1:1 - Starting with the first appearance of the
Hebrew letter "Tav", the word
"Torah" was found every 50th letter.
·
Ex. 1: 1 - Again, starting with the first appearance of
the letter "Tav" and counting every 50th
letter, the word "Torah" was spelled. Num./Deut.
- In the book of Numbers the word "Torah" was found spelled backwards
every 50th letter. In the book of
Deuteronomy, "Torah" was found again spelled backwards, but this time
every forty-ninth (49) letter.
NAMES
AND EVENTS
·
Holocaust
·
Deut. 10: 17-22 - Beginning with the second to last
appearance of the Hebrew letter "bet" in this passage, they found
every Thirteenth (13) letter, the phrase "b'yam marah Auschwitz" which means "in the bitter sea
of Auschwitz." Also encoded in
this passage were the names of the other Nazi Concentration camp, "Belsen".
·
Deut. 33:21 - Beginning with the letter (resh) that appeared in the Hebrew word "Yisreal," and counting every twenty-second (22) letter
from the left to right they found the phrase "re'tzach
alm" discribing the
Holocaust, which when translated, means "a people cry murder, slaughter."
·
Adolph Hitler
·
Deut. 10: 17-22 - The word "Hitler" spelled
out in Hebrew was found every twenty-second (22) letter.
·
Deut. 33:16 - Beginning with the first appearance of the
Hebrew letter "mem" and every two hundred and forty-sixth (246)
letter from left to right you find that the coded letters spelled out the
phrase, "Melek Natzim,"
which translates as the "king of the Nazis."
·
Eichmann
·
Deut. 32:52 - Beginning with the appearance of the first
letter (aleph) and counting from left to right every six hundred and seventy
(670) letters, the name "Aik'man" is
spelled, which is the Hebrew form of the name "Eichmann."
·
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
·
"Sadat occurred together with the name of the
leader of the Moslem Brotherhood
assassinating team that killed him.......it contained the year of his
assassination, 1981, and the words
"president," "gunfire," "shot'" and
'Murder".
·
Desert Storm
·
Beginning in Gen. 1:7 and continuing through the rest of
Genesis, Grant Jeffrey indicated at the Prophesy Conference in Irvine,Ca. on 27 Sept. 1996 that
they had recently found information in hidden code in scripture relating to
Desert Storm. I believe more details
will be available in Grant's next book.
·
The French Revolution
·
Gen. 39,41 - "Another
passage in the Book of Genesis revealed a cluster of encoded words that deals
with the French Revolution. The
following words are clustered ogether" "Mapecha HaSarfatit" which
spells "the French Revolution" in Hebrew, "Louis," the name
of the French king, and the word "Beit (house of Bourbon,") his royal
dynasty. In the same cluster were the
following words: "Hamarseilles" (the name of the French anthem) and the
word "Bastillia" (the infamous French
prison for political prisoners........"
OTHER
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
·
Word pairs - "In their initial experiment,
.......the scientists arbitrarily chose three hundred (300) Hebrew
word-pairs that were logically related in meaning, such as hammer and anvil, or
tree and leaf, or man and woman." ".....the researchers were
astonished to find that every single word-pair had been located in Genesis in
close proximity to each other."
·
King David's Ancestors
·
Gen. 28 - " Every one of the five Hebrew names of
these ancestor of King
David (Pharez, Zerah,
Boaz, Obed, Jesse) were found encoded at forty-nine (49) letter intervals,
hidden within the text of Genesis 38".
·
Famous Jewish Rabbi - "The Jewish people celebrate the
memory of their famous sages by commemorating their date of death. Incredibly, the computer program found every
single one of the sixty-six names of these famous rabbis embedded in the text
of Genesis paired at significantly close proximity with their actual date of
birth or their date of death."
IS
THE HEBREW BIBLE UNIQUE TO GOD' S INSPIRED EMBEDDED CODES?
Grant points out that "The researchers
attempted to reproduce these results by running the computer program on other
religious Hebrew texts outside the Bible, including the Samaritan Pentateuch.
.......the researchers could not detect word pairs in the Samaritan Pentateuch or
any other Hebrew text outside the Bible.
In fact, an exhaustive analysis reveals that no other Hebrew text
outside the Old testament contains these mysterious
codes, not even the Hebrew apocryphal books written during the four hundred
years before the birth of Christ"
A
WORD OF CAUTION
"No one can search the Torah using these
codes to foretell future events. The
reason is that it is impossible to extract the encoded information unless you
already know what the future facts are."
"The prophet Isaiah warned against false prophets and declared that
only God can Prophesy
future events accurately
(Isa. 46: 9,10).
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"Computer tapes are now available so
that anyone with a computer can personally verify the existence of these codes
beneath the text of the Scriptures.
As Christians, we can stand firm in the word and shout for joy. God has given us "the words and the wisdom that none of our adversaries will be able to refute or contradict", no matter how much they try!
PRAISE
THE LORD!
SIGNS OF THE TIME
References: Grant
R. Jeffrey - "The Signature of God"- RECOMMENDED READING
Prepared by D. E. Davis
June 10, 1997
Prelude
How do we know that Jesus is the one true God when there
are so many religions, cultures and cults that claim that they serve the one
true god? How about Buddha, Allah?
Scripture says that God alone knows the beginning from the
end. The way that God establishes His
authority is through Biblical Prophesy. There are over 500 prophesies that were
prophesied over 2,000 years ago that have all come to pass. There are still some Old Testament that have
yet have to be fulfilled (Daniel Ezekiel), but there has never been an event
prophesied that has not come to pass in it’s time.
100% accuracy tells us that the God of the Bible is the only true God. No one else in the history of the world,
living or dead, can make this claim.
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In Matthew 24:3, just before Jesus' ascension
into heaven, the disciples of Jesus ask Him what would be the sign of His
second coming. Over the centuries
various groups have attempted to guess when Christ would return to the earth to
claim His inheritance as promised throughout scripture. As we know, no one has been right yet!. God clearly states
in Matthew 24:36 that no man, not even the angels, know the day or the time
when Christ will return. Only God the Father knows.
This summary is
clearly not another attempt to forecast this event. This summary does, however, attempt to
provide an awareness of what is happening around you so that you will not be
caught unaware. (Ref. Luke 21:34 and Matthew. 24:42).
ACT
17:11- Exhorts you to daily review the scriptures to see if what is being said
is true.
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----------------------THE
SIGNS OF THE TIME-------------------
Grant Jeffrey has done a wonderful job of
providing critical information about events that are happening in this
generation that all Christians need to know;
Events that were prophesied over 2,500 years ago. Approximately 90% of the material contained
herein was extracted and summarized from Grant's book. I highly recommend reading this book as it
contains so much more that you will want to know.
THE
REBIRTH OF ISRAEL
The rebirth of Israel was prophesied in
several scriptures throughout the Bible.
Isaiah 66: 8 predicted that Israel would be born again in
"one" day. Ezekiel 4:3-6 and Levitcus
26:18 foretold the exact number of days that it would take Israel to
re-establish themselves as a nation in the last days. ( The
exact calculation can be found in Grant Jeffrey's book referenced above). On
May 14, 1948, the Jews proclaimed their independence of the reborn state of
Israel.....The exact day that was predicted over twenty-five (25) centuries
ago.......No other ancient nation ever ceased to exist for a period of
centuries and then returned to take its place on the stage of world
history."
PRESENT
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
In Psalms 83:2-8, God inspired King David to
predict that upon Israel's rebirth as a nation it would be immediately
surrounded by their enemies. The modern
names of those nations named in scripture include Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
and Syria....the nations that have now joined the Palestinians in their attempt
to destroy Israel.
In Gen. 12: 3, God has promised to punish those
nations that come against Israel.
"I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed."
RESTORATION
OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
When Israel was captured by Nebuchadnezzar in
approx. 562 B.C., Israel was no longer allowed to speak the Hebrew language,
but had to learn the language of the Chaldeans.
The Lord predicted, however, through Zephaniah 3:9, that he would
restore a pure language to Israel so that they may "serve him with one consent".
It was in the early part of this Century that the Hebrew language was
revived from the dead language. Today,
Hebrew is a living language to over 5 million Israelis.
THE
FERTILITY OF ISRAEL
In Isaiah 27:6; 35:7 and Joel 2:23, the Lord
prophesied through these prophets that the deserted, unproductive, barren land
of Israel would once again become productive in the last days and that Israel
would experience tremendous increases of rain.
Ever since Israel has returned to the land, they have flourished in the
land and now supply over 90 percent of the citrus fruit consumed in
Europe. Rainfall has increased by more
than "10 percent every decade for the last century and Israel has planted
in excess of two hundred (200) million trees and transformed the complete
environment of the Promised Land."
According to the United Nations, Israel is now "the most
agriculturally efficient land on earth."
THE
UNWALLED CITY
Ezekiel 38:11 speaks of the future invasion
of Gog and Magog (Russia) saying "And thou shalt say, I will go up to the
land of un-walled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell
safely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor
gates". Grant explains that "even army bases and Israel's settlements
in the West Bank and Gaza have no walls today.........How could Ezekiel have known
twenty-five centuries ago that the development of modern weapons such as bombs,
airplanes and missiles, would have made walls and gates irrelevant for
defensive purposes in the last days. In
the ancient past even small villages as well as cities depended on walls for
defense against invading armies."
PLANS
FOR REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE
Revelations 11:1, 2 foretells of Israel
rebuilding the Temple in the last days.
There is much controversy between the Israelis and the Muslim's because
the Dome of the Rock (Al-Aqsa Mosque) it is believed, sits on the very spot
where the Temple is suppose to be built. In recent years, however, aerial Infra-red
photography shows that this may not be the case. Ezekiel 44:14-18, tell about the sacred
vessels and linen robes that must be used in the Temple. "The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has
already prepared over 75 of the objects, vessels, and linen garments required
for future Temple service.......over 500 men from the tribe of Levi have
already been trained to fulfill the duties of Temple worship and
sacrifice."
Update:
Just recently in the Washington Post on May
28, 1997, it was reported that a 10 month old heifer named "Melody" is the
first red heifer to be born in Israel in over 2,000 years. "In ancient times, the ashes of a red
heifer were mixed with spring water to purify high priests before they entered
the Temple."
THE
REBUILDING OF BABYLON
We know that the old city of Babylon (now
called Iraq) will be built again in the end times because Isaiah 13:6, 19 foretells
of its destruction. In Isaiah 34:8-10 it
is prophesied that the rebuilt City of Babylon will burn for
ever.
"As unlikely as it seems, the Iraqi
government of Saddam Hussein has spent over one billion dollars rebuilding the
ancient city of Babylon and intends that it will become the center of their
future renewed Babylonian Empire.
Interestingly, the whole city of Babylon was built over an underground
lake of asphalt and oil."
THE
ANOINTING OIL
The prophet Daniel prophesied in Dan. 9:24
that the when Jesus returns, that the most Holy of Holies will be anointed with
the anointing oil. "One of the five
ingredients, afars' mon, was
thought lost forever, when the Temple was destroyed in A.D. 70 and the only two
groves of afars'mon trees in existence were burned
to the ground. Incredibly, several years ago, archeologists
in Israel found a clay flask buried near the Dead Sea caves filled with the
ancient oil of anointing. Scientists
confirmed that the oil is two thousand years old and is composed of the precise
ingredients described in Exodus 30:25,26."
PESTILENCE/FAMINES/EARTHQUAKES
Matthew 24:7 prophesied that in the last days
"For nation shall rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilence, and earthquakes, in divers (various)
places." Grand Jeffrey writes
regarding these matters:
·
Pestilence - In 1991, the Central Intelligence Agency
produced a report which "concluded that up to 75% of the population of
Africa living in the area south of the Sahara Desert may become infected with
AIDS over the next 12 years. This will
mean the death by AIDS of over three hundred million people in Africa alone. In July 1991, the South African Medical
Journal reported that a staggering 47% of black male and female blood donors
tested positive for AIDS during 1989."
In Nov. 1996, the
Associated Press reported that "Sexually transmitted diseases are
diagnosed 12 million times a year in the United States - including a staggering
3 million cases among teen-agers".
·
Famine - The
United Nations today "claim that over thirty million in Africa are now at
risk of dying from the most devastating famine in this century. The UN estimates that one billion people are
in danger of starvation while another billion lack proper nutrition. North American food reserves (grain and corn)
are at the lowest level in sixty years."
·
Major killer earthquakes – “Major Killer earthquakes
(7.2 or greater on the Richter scale) occurred
only once per decade throughout history until our century. However, since A. D. 1900, the growth in
major earthquakes has been
relentless. From 1900 to
1949 it averaged three major quakes per decade.
From 1949 the increase became awesome with 9 killer quakes in the
1950's; 13 in the 1960's; 56 in the 1970's and an amazing 74 major quakes in
the 1980's. Finally, in the 1990's, at
the present rate, we will experience 125 major killer quakes in this
decade."
WORLD
WIDE COMMUNICATION
In Revelation 11:9,10,
it is prophesied that during the tribulation period, the antichrist will have
the two witnesses that God sent killed and their bodies will lay in the street
for three and a half days while the whole world watches.
Did not the whole world watch Desert Storm on
CNN television? With all the
technological advances in telecommunications, including the recent opening of
the World Wide Net to our computer industry, any event happening in any part of
the world can now be viewed while it is happening. The prophesy of the two witnesses could literally be fulfilled
today. This could not have happened just
10 or 15 years ago.
INCREASED
KNOWLEDGE AND TRAVEL
Daniel 12:4 prophesies how much knowledge and
travel will increase in the end time. "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the
words, and seal the Book, even to the time of the end: Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall
be increased."
Today, it is estimated that "Human
knowledge is growing so quickly that it literally doubles every twenty-four
months." With the discovery
through the use of modern "Super" computers by Grant Jeffrey and
other researchers of the hidden codes that God supernaturally designed into the
original Hebrew text of the Torah describing not only the history of the world
in advance, but also verifying his Authority through His personal signature throughout
his scripture, we realize that God chose this generation to reveal this unique
aspect about himself.
It is also amazing that in this century, we
have gone from horses to cars, from cars to supersonic spacecraft; not only can
we now travel the world in a matter of hours, but in the case of the U.S. Space
Shuttle Discovery, we can now travel at speeds in excess of eighteen thousand
miles per hour.
REVIVAL
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Daniel 2:40-44 predicts that the old Roman
Empire will be revived in the end times into a ten Nation alliance. We currently see the foundation being laid
today through the European Economic Community. "In 1957, six (6) Countries
signed the Treaty of Rome laying the foundation for the future United States of
Europe.............Since then the Maastricht Treaty consolidated the fifteen
(15) Nations of the European Union into the worlds
first superstate." All it will take is the re-shuffling and/or
the consolidation of Nations to bring this prophesy to
a literal fulfillment.
ODDS
THAT THESE PROPHECIES WERE FULFILLED BY CHANCE IN THIS GENERATION
"In the Bible there are several types of
generations. One generation is defined
as the length of life of the average person - seventy or eighty years. However, a generation of governing is usually
defined as forty years,...........During the last two
thousand years since the days of Christ, there were fifty such forty-year
generations. Therefore, the odds are one
chance in fifty that any one of these specific prophecies happened by chance in
our generation rather than some other generation."
"The odds that more than one event
happening in our life time are:
"Another way of looking at this is that
the chance that the prophets of the Bible correctly guessed these prophecies is
also one in 97,500 trillion............in other words, it is simply impossible
that men alone could
have written the Bible
without the supernatural assistance and inspiration of God."
Matthew 24:32-35 - "Now learn a parable
of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth
forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see
all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
words shall not pass away."
Luke 21:28 - "And when these things
begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your
redemption draweth nigh."
ANTI-CHRIST
TO BE REVEALED
As of today, no one knows who the Anti-Christ
is, but we do know what God has told us about him:
Many people try to spiritualize or say the
events prophesied in the Bible are just symbolic. Any doubt about how God handles these
prophetic events should have been erased on May 14,1948. God is literally fulfilling scriptural prophesy
before our very eyes. Can we expect
anything less for those few remaining prophesies for which He has promised the
world; 1) the removal of the one who restrains the man of lawlessness/Sin (the
rapture of the Church), 2) His second coming to take possession of His
inheritance, 3) The millennial kingdom
and 4) the new heaven and new earth.
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Ezekiel 33:6 - "But if the watchman see
the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the
sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand."
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