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February 24,
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INTERESTING
ARTICLES SUMMARY
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Jesus said by this the World would know we
are his disciples
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Spiritual warfare and End-Time prophecy
collide
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Planned Parenthood: “We need” to kill
more babies in Abortion, “Build more volume”
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Democrats “New war on Domestic terror”
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Bullet-proof spiders
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OUR EYES ARE ON GOD
INTERESTING
ARTICLES
JESUS SAID BY THIS THE WORLD WOULD KNOW WE ARE HIS
DISCIPLES
Charisma News – Feb. 19, 2021 -- When
God sent Moses to the children of Israel in the book of Exodus, He gave him
miraculous signs to perform so that the people would believe that God truly sent
him. In the same way, when Elijah the prophet spoke to his unbelieving nation,
he called down fire from heaven to prove that God had really spoken through
him. Yet Jesus said to His disciples that it was by our love one for another,
not by our miracles, that the world would know that we are His disciples. Isn't
that striking?
To be sure, signs, wonders and miracles
were and are important. When they are performed in Jesus' name, they point to
the fact that He has risen from the dead. They demonstrate that He is still
alive and working in power. They vindicate the message we are preaching.
But those miracles, in and of
themselves, do not demonstrate that we are the disciples of Jesus. Instead, it
is our love for one another that demonstrates this. Why is that so?
Simply stated, it's because God can work
miracles through anyone. Supernatural gifts can work through us whenever God
desires, even if our own lives are not right with Him. But to have real love
one for another speaks of a changed life. It speaks of having been with Jesus.
As Matthew Henry explained,
"Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples. By this he knows them,
by this they may know themselves (1 John 2:14), and by this, others may know
them. This is the livery of his family, the distinguishing character of his
disciples; this he would have them noted for, as that wherein they excelled all
others—their loving one another. This was what their Master was famous for; all
that ever heard of him have heard of his love, his great love; and therefore,
if you see any people more affectionate one to another than what is common,
say, 'Certainly these are the followers of Christ, they have been with
Jesus.'"
This really is the heart of the matter.
Jesus has a certain reputation in the world. Even unbelievers know the story of
His great love. Many of them have heard that He died for the sins of the world
and that He taught us to love our enemies. And many understand that He
practiced what He preached.
That is how Jesus is known to the world.
And that means that the world expects those who claim to be His followers to be
different than others, even faulting us for falling short of the mark. In
the words of
the Indian philosopher Bara Dada, "Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you
Christians, you are not like him."
The world expects us to have His traits.
Consequently, when we demonstrate that extraordinary quality of love that He
demonstrated toward us, when we love each other as He loved us, the world
recognizes that we are His disciples. We remind people of Him.
"There is something different about
those Christians," people think to themselves. And that's why they are
drawn to our message. As the Christian apologist Tertullian noted in the second
century, "The heathen were wont to exclaim with astonishment: 'Behold how
these Christians love one another, and how they are ready to die for one
another.'"
In the words of Bruce Milne, "A
loving community, says Jesus, is the visible authentication of the gospel. Love
is the 'final apologetic' (Francis Schaeffer) ... To love like Jesus is to love
inclusively, indiscriminately and universally. When that kind of love flows
within a congregation the world will take note that 'they have been with Jesus'
[see Acts 4:13]." And, Milne notes, in the early church, "Their
mutual love was the magnet which drew the pagan multitudes to Christ. It has
the potential to do so still."
This magnet will still draw people
today. Even mockers, skeptics and people of different faiths are attracted to
authentic love. Conversely, as G. Campbell Morgan put it, "The measure in
which Christian people fail in love to each other is the measure in which the
world does not believe in them, or their Christianity. It is the final test of
discipleship, according to Jesus."
That's why Jerome tells us that when
John the apostle was asked in his old age why he constantly said, "Little
children, love one another," John replied, "Because this is the
precept of the Lord, and if only this is done it is enough."
Jesus prayed to His Father on our
behalf, saying, "I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfect in
unity, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them
as You have loved Me" (John 17:23).
In ourselves, this kind of love is
completely unattainable. But empowered by grace and birthed out of intimate
fellowship with God, it can become a reality.
Let the whole world see Jesus—in us.
SPIRITUAL
WARFARE AND END-TIME PROPHECY COLLIDE (Excerpt)
Weekend
News Today – Feb. 18, 2021 -- I must say that right now as I study the Bible
and watch world events unfold--particularly as related to Israel, the United
States, and the out-in-the-open plans of the elite globalists--I sense that we
are absolutely NOT going to return to anything close to
"normal."
And
I don't think our country will be saved by a new election in 2 and/or 4
years.
The
ONLY thing that can possibly save our country would be a large-scale national
revival. As much as I long for that--I don't see it in Scripture. I do, however
see a great falling away in the end-times. I do see a weakening of America (no
country will come to Israel's aid militarily in the future war of Ezekiel 38).
I
think we (the Church) need to wake up from our slumber and realize the night is
nearly over. We don't know the day or the hour--or the year. But, we can
"see the day approaching (Hebrews 10:25)" and all indicators that
this world is currently in the final phases of Romans 1, 2 Timothy 3, and 2
Peter 3, etc.
The
gloves are off. The spiritual warfare is palpable. The low-level persecution of
true Christians has begun and will intensify. The falling away is accelerating.
Deception and great delusion are oozing their way through every open crack. The
tidal wave of evil builds just beyond the event horizon. The rapture of the
Church will remove the 2 Thessalonians 2 restrainer. Until then the salt still
delays the decay--at least as much as it is still salty.
Those
of us who have been watching and studying have seen this coming, but to many it
has snuck up on them.
In
Scripture, we learn a lot about spiritual warfare as we study the roughly 7000
verses of fulfilled Bible prophecy. We can read and study a few thousand more
verses about future prophecy. The 100% accuracy rate of detailed prophecies
which were literally fulfilled assure us that the remaining prophecies will
also be fulfilled literally.
Here's
the first kicker--end-time Bible prophecy is directly connected to spiritual
warfare. More scripture is dedicated to the future 7-year tribulation period
than any other time period of history. Think about that for a moment. This
period is known as The Day of the Lord, Daniel's 70th Week, The Time of Jacob's
Trouble, tribulation, the time of travail, and a few other terms.
This
intense future period is the culmination of thousands of years of spiritual
warfare. It will be a period of time when the seen and unseen realms collide
like never before. The battle lines are drawn, and the roots of spiritual
warfare will culminate in a final crescendo of final-day events.
Here's
the second kicker--all of the sign indicators described in Scripture point to
the fact that we are very close to this prophesied period. Many Bible prophecy
experts agree that you and I are living in the closing moments of the church
age.
Beginning
with the super-sign of Israel's rebirth as a nation (a prerequisite for all
other end-time events), and ending with the convergence of specific end-time
signs and conditions taking place right now--we can be quite confident that we
are living in the season of the Lord's return and the soon fulfillment of key
end-time Bible prophecies.
Prophecies
which believers have studied for almost 2000 years have snuck up on us, but
many are not aware of this reality. The church at large is asleep to the fact
that the paranormal is about to become the new normal. Covert spiritual battle
tactics will soon give way to overt spiritual warfare unlike anything the world
has ever seen. Are you ready? It's time to polish our armor and suit up. Things
are about to change. In fact, they already are!
With
the unprecedented events of 2020, when spiritual warfare--with all of its’
lawlessness, deception, and violence would impact our physical world from the
battles taking place in the unseen realm.
But
here we are. Observing the very clear stage-setting for the future tribulation
period from a front row seat. The global puppet masters plan a "Great
Reset." The Ezekiel 38 players dig their heels in. America's
Judeo-Christian roots are being doused with toxic plant killers. Wrong is right
and right is wrong. Everything is being twisted by systems of deception.
Now,
let's pivot to something positive. You and I were called to this time. God
sovereignly placed us here (read Psalm 139). He loves us. Generations of
believers have longed to see what we see. We must rise to the occasion. We
literally have nothing to fear (read Psalm 37, Matthew 6, and Romans 8). Even
as we watch our beloved country begin its slow implosion, we must remind
ourselves that this is not our home. We are citizens of another country.
We
can also take comfort in the fact that the most likely candidate that will
collapse our beloved country (and with it, the world economy) is the rapture of
the Church! Therefore, let's take the time we would have spent worrying and
fretting and use it to share the Gospel like never before!
While
the great global revival many long for will come AFTER the rapture and during
the tribulation period--it will be during the most difficult time earth has
ever seen--and that is an understatement. Let's reach as many as possible today
while we have time. Let's not waste time rearranging the furniture on the
Titanic.
As
we see the spiritual warfare become more intense, let's focus on rejecting fear
and filling up the lifeboats so people will be secure now and for eternity!
The
hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our
salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over;
the day is almost here. So, let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on
the armor of light. -- Romans 13:11-12
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEWSLETTER- “WE NEED”
TO KILL MORE BABIES IN ABORTIONS, “BUILD MORE VOLUME”
Prophecy
eNews Letter Update – Feb. 16, 2021 00 A recent
revelation from inside the walls of an abortion facility demonstrates that
abortion is not “health care” (as the Abortion Industry likes to describe its
actions) but big business.
In a newsletter released last week, a Planned Parenthood
affiliate in Pennsylvania spoke of “building volume” in abortion. This raises a
number of questions, beginning with this.
If, as abortion advocates claim, abortion is an answer to a
health care crisis, how on earth could you work to build volume in abortion?
Abortion is not a health care solution but the taking of an innocent human
life. And each abortion boosts the revenue of Planned Parenthood facilities.
The Planned Parenthood newsletter went on to enumerate a quota,
saying “we need to get to…over 8,000 abortion visits.” But if Planned
Parenthood is not interested in profit, why must it perform a certain number of
abortions?
This revelation brings up additional questions:
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Are
women being pushed into abortion in order to fulfill quotas?
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Is
the drive to increase abortion totals compromising the health and safety of
women.
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What
efforts are being made to reach out to women after abortion, to address
physical and psychological complications?
The abortion industry giant goes on to talk about expanding
access to abortion through “medicated abortion services,” otherwise known as
chemical abortions. Chemical abortions are on the rise in Pennsylvania and
nationwide, leaving women to suffer the aftermath of abortions alone, in their
own homes.
So much for the old slogan, “safe, legal, and rare.” Planned
Parenthood wants abortions to rise—its own statements say so. This philosophy
is directly opposed to the viewpoint of most Americans, who oppose the majority
of abortions.
When you think Planned Parenthood, think skyrocketing abortions.
Why?
Because that’s the way Planned Parenthood thinks.
DEMOCRATS' NEW
“WAR ON DOMESTIC TERROR”
How normal, patriotic, center-right Americans
have become 'the enemy'
WND – Feb. 15, 2021 -- Joe Biden’s
administration has declared a bold new “war on terror,” one focused not on
conventional terror targets like ISIS or al-Qaida, but instead on homegrown
“violent extremists” within the U.S.
However, this new crusade is not aimed
at known, ultra-violent anarchist/Marxist revolutionary groups like Antifa and
Black Lives Matter, which spent much of 2020 rioting, burning, vandalizing,
looting, assaulting and killing throughout America’s major cities.
Instead, the new war on terror is
focused squarely on the millions of American citizens who enthusiastically
supported Donald Trump’s re-election, attended his rallies, exercise their
constitutional rights, believe the election was rife with fraud, and are
critical of the radical policies being implemented rapid-fire by the new
Biden-Harris administration.
That’s right. The "comprehensive
threat assessment" of "domestic violent extremism" Biden ordered
shortly after being sworn in as president – conducted jointly by the FBI, DHS
and Director of National Intelligence – targets Trump conservatives, who are
lumped in with the January 6 rioters, and even likened to terror groups like
al-Qaida. Consider:
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former
commander of American troops in Afghanistan, and who supported Biden for
president, sees terrifying parallels between the birth of al-Qaida and the
people who swarmed the Capitol building in January: “I did see a similar
dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry
Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to
take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an
ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America.”
Robert Grenier,
former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism program, compared Donald Trump to
Saddam Hussein and his supporters to al-Qaida and the Taliban, adding darkly:
“We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within
our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen.”
Biden's new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd
Austin, insisted during his confirmation hearing that the military must rid
itself of "racists and extremists" in its ranks. To that end, Austin,
America’s first black Defense secretary, has ordered an unprecedented
"60-day service-wide stand down" – a pause in military activity in
all services – to root out "white supremacism" and “extremism.”
Obama-Biden era CIA Director John
Brennan previewed the new "threat assessment" order on MSNBC,
revealing that Team Biden is “now moving in laser-light fashion to try to
uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency
movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of
the country and they gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance
frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists,
nativists, even libertarians."
BULLET-PROOF SPIDERS
Colossians 1:15-16 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and
that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and
for him.”
Creation Moments – Dec. 4, 2020 -- The silk
produced by spiders is very different from the silk produced by silkworms in
some very important ways. While silkworm silk is strong yet not prone to
stretching, spiders make silk that is both strong and stretchy. They also make
several different kinds of silk, each with its own purpose.
In fact, spider silk is stronger than an
equal amount of steel and yet it stretches. Spider silk is made of nothing more
than proteins. However, scientists are finding it extremely difficult to study
the chemical structure of spider silk because it resists most of their efforts
to break it down into its chemical parts. Scientists have finally resorted to
hot, concentrated acids to break down the silk. They are learning that one type
of spider silk is made up of lengths of very stiff amino acids, separated by
segments of amino acids that form a springy helix. Together they contribute to
the strength and stretchiness of spider silk.
Scientists are exploring how spider silk is
made because this wonderful material promises new methods for creating stronger
and lighter materials for human use. One possible use would be making cloth
that is both comfortable and bulletproof.
God has done all things well. The fact that
we can learn to design better things by learning how He designed things is a
witness for His wisdom as well as a witness against claims that the creation
designed itself by trial and error. However, there is much more to God’s plans
for us, as you can learn from the Bible.
OUR EYES ARE ON
GOD
How
do you respond in times of crisis? If you’re like most people, it’s probable
that your attention is immediately focused on the situation rather than on God.
But by forgetting the Lord and relying on your own resources to solve the
problem, you’ll miss the opportunity for trust in Him to grow.
If
King Jehoshaphat had wrung his hands in fear instead of concentrating on God’s
greatness and past provision, Jerusalem might have been captured by the
invading armies. But he turned to the Lord, knowing that no problem was bigger
than the God of heaven. In his prayer, Jehoshaphat magnified the Lord’s
greatness, recalled His mighty works, and asked for divine protection. Trusting
God with the dire situation, the king said, “Our eyes are on You” (2 Chronicles
20:12).
When
you encounter trouble and distress and don’t know what to do, remember this
moment in Jehoshaphat’s life, and fix your eyes on your mighty God. Read a
passage of Scripture that describes His greatness, recount all the ways He has
led and protected you, and ask Him to accomplish His good will in this
situation. Then rest in His faithfulness, trusting Him to guide you.
In
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THE GRACE THAT WE STAND IN IS MORE THAN WE DESERVE
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.
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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
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THE
ABILITY TO REASON - Luke 16:30
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THE
ABILITY TO CRY (even though there will be no more crying in Heaven) - Rev.
5:4,5; Luke 16:24
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THE
ABILITY TO SPEAK - Rev. 5:13; 10:9; 21:6,15; Luke 16:24, 29,30,31
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THE
ABILITY TO FEEL/TOUCH - Luke 16:23, 24,25
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THE
ABILITY TO REMEMBER - Luke 16:25
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THE
ABILITY TO WONDER - Rev. 17:6
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THE
ABILITY TO WRITE - Rev. 1:11; 10:4; 19:9
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THE
ABILITY TO QUESTION - Rev. 7:13
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THE
ABILITY TO TAKE (THE BOOK/ROD) - Rev. 10:8,9,10
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THE
ABILITY TO FALL (ON KNEES) - Rev. 19:10; 22:8
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THE
ABILITY TO STAND - Rev. 13:1
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THE
ABILITY TO WORSHIP - Rev. 19:10; 22:8
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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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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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