tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85762485433721081352024-02-21T09:44:02.416-08:00The 70th WeekThis is a site created by two friends who for the past 6 years have been seriously studying the details of the 70th week of Daniel as described in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 9. Of course this prophesy is also referenced in many other scriptures within God's Word.
We are delighted that you have chosen to visit our site. You will find a mix of conversations and ideas being shared here as well as current events that have caught our eye for various reasons.the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-67568687337381713072022-01-01T11:35:00.001-08:002022-01-01T11:35:51.849-08:00Happy New Year 2022<p>Happy New Year everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates on this website, however we are still very active on our Twitter account, so please feel free to join in discussion with us there. We have not completely abandoned this platform, and of course if world events or the Lord leads we have this space available to us to report the news or write down our thoughts.</p><p>Hope you have a blessed new year.</p><p>the70thweek</p><p><br /></p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-83799405131796036772015-05-06T14:57:00.002-07:002016-12-06T17:09:26.896-08:00Obama to back Palestinian state at Security CouncilIf this report turns out to be true, then we are truly close to seeing the fulfillment of Bible prophecy in our lifetime.<br />
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If the formation of a Palestinian State is forced on the nation of Israel via U.N. Security Council Mandate as the article below describes, and then after a period of time (maybe 3 1/2 years?) this Mandate is enforced militarily by the international community, this would then create in my very humble opinion the exact scenario that the Prophet Joel wrote about and that Jesus spoke of in the books of Matthew and Luke. This UN Mandate would require the division of Israel to allow for the new State of Palestine, and this would be a perfect setup for the fulfillment of end time events that are described in the Bible.<br />
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Please consider.<br />
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1. "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,<br />
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2. I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land.<br />
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Luke 21:20-22<br />
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Mathew 24:15-16<br />
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<b>Obama to back Palestinian state at Security Council – payback for Israel’s right-wing cabinet.</b></div>
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DEBKAfile reports exclusively from Washington: US President Barack Obama did not wait for Binyamin Netanyahu to finish building his new government coalition by its deadline at midnight Wednesday, May 6, before going into action to pay him back for forming a right-wing cabinet minus any moderate figure for resuming negotiations with the Palestinians.</div>
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Banking on Netanyahu’s assertion while campaigning for re-election that there would be no Palestinian state during his term in office, Obama is reported exclusively by our sources to have given the hitherto withheld green light to European governments to file a UN Security Council motion proclaiming an independent Palestinian state. Although Netanyahu left the foreign affairs portfolio in his charge and available to be filled by a suitably moderate figure as per the White House’s expectations did not satisfy the US President.<br />
The White House is confident that, with the US voting in favor, the motion will be passed by an overwhelming majority and therefore be binding on the Israeli government......</div>
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....<span style="font-family: "franklin gothic book"; font-size: 14px;">To show the administration was in earnest, senior US officials sat down with their French counterparts in Paris last week to sketch out the general outline of this motion. According to our sources, they began addressing such questions as the area of the Palestinian state, its borders, security arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians and whether or not to set a hard-and-fast timeline for implementation, or phrase the resolution as a general declaration of intent.</span></div>
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For more go.<a href="http://www.debka.com/article/24582/Exclusive-Obama-to-back-Palestinian-state-at-Security-Council-%E2%80%93-payback-for-Israel%E2%80%99s-right-wing-cabinet">here</a>.</div>
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Curt</div>
the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-11756729837595025922015-02-10T14:33:00.001-08:002015-02-10T14:33:28.590-08:00Nebuchadnezzar's dream image in a new light...<!--[if !mso]>
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A Stone cut without hands destroys all stones that were
fashioned to form the image of a Man…</div>
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Acts 4:10-12 - <span class="text"><sup>10 </sup>let it be known to all of
you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the
Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this <i>name</i>
this man stands here before you in good health.</span> <span id="en-NASB-27034"><span class="text"><sup>11 </sup>He is the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">stone which was</span></span><span class="text"> </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">rejected</span></span><span class="text"> by you, </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">the builders</span></span><span class="text">, <i>but</i> </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">which became the chief
corner</span></span><span class="text"> <i>stone</i>.</span></span> <span id="en-NASB-27035"><span class="text"><sup>12 </sup>And there is salvation in no
one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men
by which we must be saved.”</span></span><br />
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Daniel 2:34 – A stone was cut out without hands, and it
struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.</div>
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There are some who are trying to convince you that the way to God and the way
to please God is by going back and keeping all of the Old Testament
commandments…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or they say…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try as best as you can to keep the Old
Testament commandments… That honors and pleases God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all sounds good…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I shouldn’t commit adultery, maybe I
shouldn’t lie, maybe I shouldn’t covet, maybe I should keep the Passover, maybe
I should do all the feast days, maybe I should do that…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they are telling you that pleases God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in some cases they hint at…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Actually God loves you better then all these
“Grace People”…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is the problem…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the scriptures…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you break 1 law…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are guilty of breaking all the laws…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve broken the whole law…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The law of the Old Covenant has approximately
618 laws…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s say for good measure…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You keep 617 of the laws and 1 of them you
break…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you know that you are under
the same curse as the guy who breaks all of them???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t matter…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So by thinking that well…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m keeping some of these laws I’m actually
pleasing God better then all you people over there…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a lie…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God requires strict obedience to every law that He gave… And there was
only 1 that did that…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was only
ever 1 who pleased God by keeping the law and that was His son Jesus Christ…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what does that leave us with?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The New Covenant of Grace”…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to make a connection here in the
Bible… I think the Bible is teaching that there is a connection… between these
10 toes… and the 10 commandments…<br />
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Daniel 2:42 <span class="text"><i>as</i> the toes of the feet <i>were</i>
partly of iron and partly of pottery, <i>so</i> some of the kingdom will be
strong and part of it will be brittle.</span><br />
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<span class="text">Specifically mentions the toes…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many toes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span>
I’m going to make the connection between the 10 toes, 10 horns on the beast,
the 10 horns on the dragon, and the 10 commandments…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that I’m saying that the law is bad…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romans 7:16 -<span class="text"><sup> </sup>But
if I do the very thing I do not want <i>to do</i>, I agree with the Law, <i>confessing</i>
that the Law is good</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
you can’t do it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t be perfect
and obey the 10 commandments…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll
never measure up…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And since I can’t do
it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I can’t keep all the 10
commandments, I must rely on the grace of God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trying to obey the 10 commandments as a means to attain salvation…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is nothing more than a works salvation
system…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And most, if not all, of the religions
of the world are tied to it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a system
that says, “I will do and please God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a lie…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a set-up…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do this, and if you do that … Then God
will bless you… If you keep the 10 commandments God will be pleased with you,
and if you break 1 of them… then you’re not going to heaven… It’s all about how
you can do righteousness, and the problem is we can’t do it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So according to the scriptures… The 10 toes
of the image in Daniel of this final kingdom coincide with the 10 Horns which
are 10 Kings and they represent something that has dominion over mankind…<br />
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<span class="text">Daniel 7:7-8 after this I kept looking in the night
visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely
strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down
the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were
before it, and it had ten horns.</span> <span class="text"><sup><span id="en-NASB-21942">8 </span></sup>While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another
horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were
pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like
the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great <i>boasts</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="text">Notice the Iron teeth… 4<sup>th</sup> Kingdom… 10 horns,
feet, 10 toes… related to 4<sup>th</sup> Kingdom of the Image.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diverse… Now let’s look at:</span><br />
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<span class="text">Revelation 17:12-14 The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ten</b> horns which you saw are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ten</b>
kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings
with the beast for one hour.</span> <span class="text"><sup><span id="en-NASB-30990">13 </span></sup>These have one purpose, and they give their
power and authority to the beast.</span> <sup>14 </sup><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">These will wage war against the Lamb, and
the Lamb will overcome them</b>, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings,
and those who are with Him <i>are the</i> called and chosen and faithful.”<br />
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<span class="text">Okay…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here are
the 10 toes, they are represented by the 10 horns, and 10 kings… Now, Kings
have dominion… anything that wears a crown signifies having a dominion over
people… These 10 kings, have dominion over mankind… They have 1 mind… Now, it
is the 10 kings, the 10 horns, the 10 toes that give their power and their
strength to the beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is it that
is the strength of “SIN”???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These 10
kings give their strength to the beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Think about this…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This entire
image that Nebuchadnezzar had, the Gold, the Silver, the Bronze and the Iron is
being held up and sustained by 10 toes… That’s it!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So where did the stone that was cut without
hands attack it at?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep you guessed it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 10 toes…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And when it removed the strength of this image… They all fell… So verse
14 again above (These will wage war against the Lamb…) Think about what Jesus
said… The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak… You know what is
wrong with the flesh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s under the
bondage and curse of the 10 commandments… which we can not keep… and our body
our mind is constantly fighting us coveting and wanting to do the things which we
are commanded not to do… we are constantly at war… and so these 10 kings, the 10
commandments, the law are enmity against Christ, and these shall make war with
the Lamb… and the Lamb will overcome them!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grace conquers the curse of the Law… For He is Lord of Lords and King of
Kings… He destroys the power of the 10… The Lamb, the stone cut without hands
overcomes the 10 toes, the 10 horns, the 10 kings…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nebuchadnezzar’s image is of the “Man of Sin”,
the Lawless one…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stands on the 10
toes which gives him stability dominion over mankind…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 10 toes, 10 commandments are known as the
“Law of Sin”…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Man of Sin is held up
by the Law of Sin and death…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there
you have it… Christ came to restore life, not to bring death, but conquer death…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ’s resurrection is what conquered death
and sin, and by believing in Jesus we have life… The life that Adam and Eve had
before they sinned – Life Eternal!!!</span><br />
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<span class="text">BerryBlueBerry </span><br />
the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-57563281185553960372014-02-12T10:46:00.001-08:002014-10-14T09:31:29.780-07:00Did the Israeli Government Surrender to the EU?Curt Here<br />
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Has the Israeli government already surrendered to the EU? In an article from the Jerusalem post, this question is asked in reference to the latest financial agreement that Israel has agreed to with the EU. This agreement is called Event Horizon 2020. <br />
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From the Jerusalem Post article...<i>Lawmakers on Monday debated whether or not Israel gave in to the European Union’s guidelines on settlements during a celebratory meeting in honor of joining Horizon 2020, the EU’s Framework Program for Research and Innovation.</i><br />
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<i>“The debate with the EU puts Israel at a critical juncture in relation to diplomatic plans, and a decision has to be made about priorities: Judea and Samaria or joining the world economy,” Knesset Science and Technology Committee chairman Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) said.</i><br />
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For more go here..<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Did-the-Israeli-govt-surrender-to-the-EU-341042">http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Did-the-Israeli-govt-surrender-to-the-EU-341042</a></div>
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So what is Event Horizon 2020? From their website.<span style="background-color: white;">.<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><i>Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.</i></span></span><br />
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For more go here..<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020">http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020</a></div>
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So this new research and innovation program started in January of this year and lasts until 2020, or for seven years. It turns out that Israel, after long negotiations with the EU finally agreed to sign up. The major hangup in the negotiations was that the EU demanded that Israel not allow any money or loans from Event Horizon 2020 to find its way into Judea, Samaria or East Jerusalem. Hmmmm. Link below from an article on the day the agreement went public, with a couple of highlights from the article below.<br />
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...<i>What this seems to mean is that Israeli companies or organizations that do business in the territories and want loans from the EU would have to set up a system to ensure that any money it gets from the EU would be invested solely within the Green Line.</i><br />
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<i>The European Commission's guidelines regarding EU funding of entities in the West Bank settlements prohibit funds and agencies from giving grants, scholarships or prizes to Israeli entities in the settlements or to activities in the settlements. In some cases, the guidelines forbid giving loans to Israeli entities that operate directly or indirectly beyond the 1967 lines.</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.560501">http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.560501</a><br />
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One more thing, would you be surprised if Event Horizon 2020 is just an extension of latest ENP agreement 2014-2020? Well you shouldn't. Guess what showed up on the official EU ENP website on the day the agreement was announced. <br />
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From the ENP website..<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 14px;">The EU and Israel have reached an agreement on</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 14px;">“outstanding issues related to Israel's participation in EU Horizon 2020 Programme”</i><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 14px;">, according to a joint statement issued yesterday by EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Israeli Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni.</span><br />
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<i>“The agreement fully respects the EU's legal and financial requirements while at the same time respecting Israel's political sensitivities and preserving its principled positions,”</i> says the statement, emphasising that the agreement takes full account of these constraints.</div>
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The agreement will allow Israel's scientific community to benefit from one of the most important EU programmes and facilitate its further integration into the European space of research and innovation. This agreement will pave the way for Israel's participation in other EU programmes to be launched from 1 January 2014. (<a href="http://www.enpi-info.eu/" style="color: #ad966a;" target="_blank">EU Neighbourhood Info</a>)</div>
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You can view it here..<a href="http://www.enpi-info.eu/medportal/news/latest/35328/EU-and-Israel-reach-agreement-on-Israel%E2%80%99s-participation-in-Horizon-2020">http://www.enpi-info.eu/medportal/news/latest/35328/EU-and-Israel-reach-agreement-on-Israel%E2%80%99s-participation-in-Horizon-2020</a><br />
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As it turns out the latest renewed ENP (2014-2020) is the funding and guiding source for Event Horizon 2020. From the Event Horizon website...<span style="background-color: white; color: #858586; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">The ENPI Horizon 2020 Capacity Building/Mediterranean Environment Programme (H2020 CB/MEP) aims to support the implementation of the Horizon 2020 Initiative Road Map and Work Plan through capacity building and awareness raising activities, and to promote integration/mainstreaming of environment issues into other sector policies.</span><br />
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It is also responsible for the proper coordination of the H2020 Steering Group and the three Sub-Groups and the overall enhanced visibility of Horizon 2020.</div>
You can view it here..<a href="https://www.blogger.com/.http://www.h2020.net/en/capacity-building/the-project-enpi-cb-mep.html">.http://www.h2020.net/en/capacity-building/the-project-enpi-cb-mep.html</a><br />
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With these agreements now in place has Israel sold out the areas of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem? Could this in combination with the current US led peace process lead to the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy?<br />
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Stay Tuned<br />
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<br />the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-29341376986807000112013-12-13T14:46:00.001-08:002013-12-13T14:46:39.026-08:00Lift up your heads... Your Redemption is near...Something to consider on upcoming events... Keep Watch - Mark 13:37<br />
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<span class="text Luke-21-25" id="en-ASV-25852"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>And
there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth
distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the
billows;</span><br />
<span class="text Luke-21-26" id="en-ASV-25853"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>men
fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming
on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.</span><br />
<span class="text Luke-21-27" id="en-ASV-25854"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.</span><br />
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<span class="text Luke-21-28" id="en-ASV-25855"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.</span><br />
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<br />the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-62834185966162417712013-11-14T09:21:00.000-08:002013-11-14T09:21:24.056-08:00God's Word gives Encouragement<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Jesus is our encourager...</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 2 Timothy 3</span><br />
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-1" id="en-ASV-29855"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative; text-indent: 0px;">3 </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-2" id="en-ASV-29856"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-3" id="en-ASV-29857"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-4" id="en-ASV-29858"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-5" id="en-ASV-29859"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power therefore. From these also turn away.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-6" id="en-ASV-29860"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive gullible women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-7" id="en-ASV-29861"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-8" id="en-ASV-29862"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-9" id="en-ASV-29863"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-10" id="en-ASV-29864"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, patience,</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-11" id="en-ASV-29865"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-12" id="en-ASV-29866"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-13" id="en-ASV-29867"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">13 </sup>But evil men and impostors shall go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-14" id="en-ASV-29868"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">14 </sup>But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-15" id="en-ASV-29869"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">15 </sup>And that from a babe in Christ thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-16" id="en-ASV-29870"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">16 </sup>Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.</span></div>
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-17" id="en-ASV-29871"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">17 </sup>That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Matthew 24:42-51</span><br />
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<span class="text Matt-24-42" id="en-ASV-24000"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">42 </sup>Watch therefore: for you know not on what day your Lord comes.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-43" id="en-ASV-24001"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">43 </sup>But know this, that if the owner of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken into.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-44" id="en-ASV-24002"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">44 </sup>Therefore be ready; because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-45" id="en-ASV-24003"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">45 </sup>Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-46" id="en-ASV-24004"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">46 </sup>Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find him doing so when he returns.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-47" id="en-ASV-24005"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">47 </sup>Truly I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he has.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-48" id="en-ASV-24006"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">48 </sup>But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord is staying away a long time;</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-49" id="en-ASV-24007"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">49 </sup>and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-50" id="en-ASV-24008"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">50 </sup>the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he least expecteth not, and in an hour when he is not aware of,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-24-51" id="en-ASV-24009"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: top;">51 </sup>and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: where there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-24-51" id="en-ASV-24009"> </span></span><span class="text Luke-21-34" id="en-NIV-25861"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-35" id="en-NIV-25862"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Luke-21-35" id="en-NIV-25862"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.</span></span> <span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NIV-25863"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum"> </sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Luke-21-36" id="en-NIV-25863"><span class="woj">The Word became Jesus. John 1:14</span></span></div>
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the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-54697419105021561732013-07-16T00:14:00.001-07:002013-07-16T08:41:49.747-07:00EU Deals Will Force Israel to Admit West Bank Outside State<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;"><b>Curt Here...</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;"><b>A new EU directive with Israel that goes into effect Friday, will require that all contracts between EU member states and Israel will carry a clause stating that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are not part of the State Of Israel.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">This new directive goes into effect Friday and lasts until 2020. This directive will run for the next 7 years. I am convinced that this "clause" is tied to previously signed agreements between the EU and Israel, most notably the ENP. The ENP is a 7 year agreement between the EU and Israel that started in 2006 and ends in December of 2013. One of its requirements is that Israel must make progress towards peace with the Palestinians. The next ENP is scheduled to begin in 2014 and runs through 2020. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;"><b>I think the EU is forcing Israel's hand and is tired of waiting on Israel to agree to a two state solution. This should be watched very closely, as this could turn out to be very significant.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;"><b>Stay Tuned</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New directive, to go into effect Friday, will put areas over Green Line outside EU agreements, Haaretz reports; Jerusalem source calls move ‘earthquake’</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">A new directive published by the European Union will require contracts between EU member countries and Israel to include a clause stating that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are not part of the State of Israel, it was reported on Tuesday.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">The directive, to go into effect on Friday, would leave any the West Bank and East Jerusalem outside any agreement signed between Israel and the EU and forces the Israeli government to acknowledge in writing that its settlements in the territories are not part of the state, a senior Israeli official told Haaretz, which first reported on the story Tuesday morning.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">The anonymous official described the ruling as an “earthquake” which turned “understandings and quiet agreements that the Union does not work beyond the Green Line” into “formal, binding policy.” One Israeli official told Haaretz that “we are not ready to sign on this clause” in future agreements with the EU, and said that pushing back could cause a “halt to all cooperation in economics, science, culture, sports and academia” with Europe, which “would cause severe damage to Israel.”.......</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">The new directive, initiated in December by the EU foreign ministers, is “in conformity with the EU’s longstanding position that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and with the non-recognition by the EU of Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied territories, irrespective of their legal status under domestic Israeli law,” the EU said in a statement.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">The directive, to be in effect until 2020, are designed in part to stave-off a general boycott of Israel and to ensure that Israel’s participation in EU projects is “not put in question,” the EU told Haaretz. Reportedly, the cause is already affecting negotiations over a proposed Israeli-EU youth project.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ebeadd; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.1875px;">For more go here...<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/future-eu-deals-will-force-israel-to-admit-west-bank-outside-state/#comments">http://www.timesofisrael.com/future-eu-deals-will-force-israel-to-admit-west-bank-outside-state/#comments</a></span>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-55360143209201274562013-06-18T17:58:00.000-07:002013-06-18T18:15:49.081-07:00Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old BossCurt Here...<br />
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Hello again everyone, it has been awhile since I posted, so it is good to be back.<br />
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If you have been following the news lately in Iran, than you would know that Iran has elected a new president. His name is Hasan Rowhani, and he has been labeled by the international community as a moderate who may be willing to negotiate on Iran's nuclear weapon program, but is this true? From my perspective I believe there is good reason to seriously question just how moderate this man is. Here are a few facts about this situation that support my questioning.<br />
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First, the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khamenei is really the man in charge in the country of Iran. This is the man that is driving Iran towards nuclear weapons.<br />
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Second, even though the people of Iran cast their vote for Rowhani, he was simply one of several candidates that was hand picked and allowed to run by the Ayatollah. Therefore, it is not hard to see that Rowhani is very loyal to the Ayatollah and to his nuclear ambitions.<br />
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Third, Hasan Rowhani is a radical Shia cleric, but unlike his predecessor <span style="color: black;"> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who consistently spoke radical inflammatory language towards Israel and the US, Rowhani's language is much more moderate and cooperative.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">From my point of view it is not hard to figure out what is going on here. The approach of Ahmandinejad was not working, when it came to smooth international relations with the west. His consistent inflammatory language made it very easy for Israel and the west to garner international support towards halting Iran's nuclear ambitions. Of course, stopping Iran has never really happened as they have continued their march towards a nuclear weapon, but the leadership of Iran is viewed internationally as radical because of Ahmandinejad. However, Rowhani has an opportunity to smooth relations between Iran and the west with the appearance that progress is being made towards halting Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, all the while casting Israel as uncooperative and radical. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Of course Iran has absolutely no intention of stopping it's nuclear weapon program and I believe their goal is to continue making weapons and isolate Israel at the same time. So, do we really have a new moderate Iranian President that is willing to actually negotiate towards the end of Iran's nuclear weapons program or do we have two sides to the same coin?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">As the famous line from that famous song goes "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Stay Tuned</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Curt</span><br />
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Netanyahu: New Iranian leader won’t stop nuclear program</h1>
<h2 class="underline" itemprop="description">
Prime minister cautions against ‘wishful thinking,’ says incoming president Rowhani has a ‘talk and enrich’ policy</h2>
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned
Tuesday that the new Iranian president has been very clear about Iran’s
nuclear policy, and that neither Israel nor the world should delude
themselves into thinking that policy will change under his tenure. </div>
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“Wishful thinking is not a substitute for
policy. The new Iranian president has been very clear. He is the author
of a doctrine. You could call it ‘talk and enrich’ — that is, ‘talk and
continue to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.’ He said that that by
calming the international community, Iran is able to steadily move
forward in its nuclear weapons program,” said Netanyahu........<br />
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To read the rest of this story <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-new-iranian-leader-wont-stop-nuclear-program/">Go Here</a><br />
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the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-33507793589118505322013-04-12T12:57:00.000-07:002013-04-12T12:59:07.428-07:00Catastrophe of the 21st Century<br /><h3>
<span class="text Isa-17-1" id="en-NIV-17985">Isaiah 17 </span></h3>
<h3>
<span class="text Isa-17-1" id="en-NIV-17985">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></h3>
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<span class="text Isa-17-1"><span class="chapternum">17 </span>A prophecy against Damascus:</span></div>
<div class="poetry top-05">
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<span class="text Isa-17-1">“See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-17-1">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-17-2" id="en-NIV-17986"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-17-2">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-17-2">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-17-3" id="en-NIV-17987"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-17-3">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-17-3">the remnant of Aram will be</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-17-3">like the glory of the Israelites,”</span></span><br />
<span class="right"><span class="text Isa-17-3">declares the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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<h1>
The Telegraph:</h1>
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<span class="right"><span class="text Isa-17-3"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">At the foreign ministers G8 summit, William Hague warns that Syria is "on
track to be the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century". </span></span></div>
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<div class="firstPar">
Hosting a meeting of the G8 foreign ministers in London, Mr Hague declared the
outside world must mount a much stronger intervention to curtail the crisis.
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Britain invited four leaders of the <b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria">Syrian</a></b>
Opposition Coalition to be present on the sidelines of the meeting in an
effort to increase support for the regime's opponents.
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<div class="thirdPar">
"I will be joining and convening some of those meetings to discuss the
urgent humanitarian needs and the urgent need for a political and diplomatic
breakthrough," said Mr Hague. "This is turning into the greatest
humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century so far and we cannot watch this
happen."<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>View article with video: </b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9987774/William-Hague-Syria-on-track-to-be-catastrophe-of-the-21st-century.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9987774/William-Hague-Syria-on-track-to-be-catastrophe-of-the-21st-century.html</a><br />
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<br />
Could this be the destruction of Damascus?????? <br />
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BerryBlueBerry</div>
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the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-75078254880438910472012-11-29T15:44:00.000-08:002012-12-04T15:11:52.792-08:00UN General Assembly Votes in Favor of Palestinian StatehoodCurt Here...<br />
<br />
Today the U.N. General Assembly voted to upgrade the status of the Palestinians to a nonmember observer state at the United Nations. This essentially gives the Palestinians much more credibility in the international world and gains them access to U.N. agencies and international bodies, which they can now utilize to heap more international pressure on Israel. However, this did not unilaterally declare a state of Palestine, but it has very craftily laid the groundwork for future prophetic events. <br />
<br />
This website along with many other prophecy websites have speculated for many years that a State of Palestine could be created via U.N. Mandate, which in turn could then be enforced militarily by the international community. In my very humble opinion this could create exactly the scenario that the Prophet Joel wrote about and that Jesus spoke of in the books of Mathew and Luke.<br />
<br />
Please consider.<br />
<br />
<bdo dir="ltr"><tt>Joel 3:1-2</tt> </bdo><br />
<bdo dir="ltr">1</bdo>.
<tt> "For behold, in those days and at that time, </tt><tt>When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,</tt><br />
<br />
<bdo dir="ltr">2</bdo>.
<tt>I will gather all the nations </tt><tt>And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there </tt><tt>On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, </tt><tt>Whom they have scattered among the nations; </tt><tt>And they have divided up My land.</tt><br />
<br />
Luke 21:20-22<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">20</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">21</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">"Then those who are in Judea must
flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must
leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">22</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.</td><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
Mathew 24:15-16<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">15</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">"Therefore when you see the
ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the
prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">16</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.</td><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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By giving the Palestinians observer status today, it has legitimized their claim for statehood on lands that Israel currently claims. These areas are East Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, Judea and Samaria. It is just a matter of time until the International Community decides to force Israel to give these lands to the Palestinians.<br />
<br />
I personally don't know how quickly the above scenario could play out. Will it be a few weeks, months or years? But it is clear that things are not as they should be and it is only a matter of time until our Savior returns to set things right.<br />
<br />
Stay Tuned.<br />
<br />
Curt <br />
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JERUSALEM –The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday in favor of Palestinian statehood, after the Palestinians asked it to recognize a non-member state of Palestine in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.<br />
<br />
The resolution upgrading the Palestinians' status to a nonmember observer state at the United Nations was approved by a more than two-thirds majority of the 193-member world body -- a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions.<br />
<br />
Real independence, however, remains an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis, who warned that the General Assembly action will only delay a lasting solution. Israel still controls the West Bank, east Jerusalem and access to Gaza, and it accused the Palestinians of bypassing negotiations with the campaign to upgrade their U.N. status.<br />
<br />
The United States immediately criticized the historic vote. "Today's unfortunate and counterproductive resolution places further obstacles in the path peace," U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said.<br />
<br />
And U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the vote "unfortunate" and "counterproductive."<br />
<br />
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the General Assembly shortly before the vote "defamatory and venomous," saying it was "full of mendacious propaganda" against Israel.<br />
<br />
Abbas had told the General Assembly that it was "being asked today to issue the birth certificate of Palestine." Abbas said the vote is the last chance to save the two-state solution.<br />
<br />
After the vote, Netanyahu said the UN move violated past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians and that Israel would act accordingly, without elaborating what steps it might take.<br />
<br />
Just before the vote, Israel's U.N. ambassador, Ron Prosor, warned the General Assembly that "the Palestinians are turning their backs on peace" and that the U.N. can't break the 4,000-year-old bond between the people of Israel and the land of Israel.<br />
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For More .....<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/29/israeli-official-downplays-palestinian-statehood-bid-ahead-un-vote/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/29/israeli-official-downplays-palestinian-statehood-bid-ahead-un-vote/ </a>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-50208648604575958652012-10-12T08:07:00.001-07:002012-10-12T08:10:51.838-07:00The System - Babylon<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The United Nations on the Brink of becoming a world government...</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong>Revelation 17: 10 - 11</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>There are 7 Kings:</strong><br />
<br />
7) Little Horn/UN - Revived Babylon/Revived Roman Empire<br />
6) America/Canada - Babylon (Daughters)<br />
5) Nazi Germany - Leopard<br />
4) Russia - Bear<br />
3) England/Britain - Lion<br />
2) Rome - Band of Iron (Daniel 4 - Dream of a Tree)<br />
1) Greece - Band of Brass (Daniel 4 - Dream of a Tree)<br />
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<strong>5 Are Fallen:</strong><br />
<br />
1) Greece<br />
2) Rome<br />
3) Lion/England<br />
4) Bear/Russia<br />
5) Leopard/Nazi Germany<br />
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<strong>One Is:</strong><br />
<br />
6) America/Canada/Daughters Babylon<br />
<br />
<strong>The "Other" is not yet come:</strong><br />
<br />
7) Little Horn/UN/Revived Babylon/Revived Roman Empire<br />
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Read Article:<br />
<a href="http://thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/13126-the-united-nations-on-the-brink-of-becoming-a-world-government">http://thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/13126-the-united-nations-on-the-brink-of-becoming-a-world-government</a><br />
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Obviously I'm not dogmatic about this, however in my humble opinion I see things lining up more with a revised Babylon rather than a revised Roman Empire, however could also be 1 in the same as I've listed...<br />
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BerryBlueBerrythe70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-82241452375881710892012-09-26T17:37:00.001-07:002012-09-26T17:50:07.785-07:00Where I BelongCurt Here,<br />
<br />
With all that is going on in the world it is clear that things are just not right, and everyday the evidence mounts that we are getting closer to the season of His return. With this realization, I have a mixture of feelings from excitement to sadness. Excitement, because our redemption draws near and sadness for the mess this world has become and for those whom seem to be hopelessly lost. We must continue the work of Christ while there is still light.<br />
<br />
I have also come to the realization that this world is not my home and I long to be where I belong, with Christ my Savior. I recently came across a song that really struck a cord with me. I encourage you to listen and lift your head up as He is coming soon.<br />
<br />
Curt<br />
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<br />
Feeling like a refugee<br />
Like it don't belong to me<br />
The colors flash across the sky<br />
<br />
This air feels strange to me<br />
Feeling like a tragedy<br />
Take a deep breath and close my eyes<br />
One last time<br />
<br />
Storms on the wasteland<br />
Dark clouds on the plains again<br />
We were born into the fight<br />
<br />
But I'm not sentimental<br />
This skin and bones is a rental<br />
And no one makes it out alive<br />
<br />
Until I die I'll sing these songs<br />
On the shores of Babylon<br />
Still looking for a home<br />
In a world where I belong<br />
<br />
Where the weak are finally strong<br />
Where the righteous right the wrongs<br />
Still looking for a home<br />
In a world where I belong<br />
<br />
Feels like we're just waiting, waiting<br />
While our hearts are just breaking, breaking<br />
Feels like we're fighting against the tide<br />
<br />
I wanna see the earth shaking<br />
I wanna see a generation<br />
Finally waking up inside<br />
<br />
Until I die I'll sing these songs<br />
On the shores of Babylon<br />
Still looking for a home<br />
In a world where I belong<br />
<br />
Where the weak are finally strong<br />
Where the righteous right the wrongs<br />
Still looking for a home<br />
In a world where I belong<br />
<br />
In a world where I belong<br />
<br />
This body's not my own<br />
This world is not my own<br />
But I can still hear the sound<br />
Of my heart beating out<br />
So let's go boys, play it loud<br />
<br />
On the final day I die<br />
I want to hold my head up high<br />
I want to tell you that I tried<br />
To live it like a song<br />
<br />
And when I reach the other side<br />
I want to look you in the eye<br />
And know that I've arrived<br />
In a world where I belong<br />
<br />
Where I belong<br />
<br />
I still believe we can live forever<br />
You and I we begin forever now<br />
Forever now<br />
Forever<br />
I still believe in us together<br />
You and I we're here together now<br />
Together now<br />
Together now<br />
Forever now<br />
Forever nowthe70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-85792386257798038662012-06-22T15:06:00.001-07:002012-06-22T15:06:18.309-07:00What if America is the end times Babylon the Great?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The following is a summation using scriptural references listed below: America & Babylon can be substituted for one another at any time in this Summary...</div>
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America
is the most powerful nation in the world, the youngest and greatest Queen
amongst all nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a lady of
stature and the praise of the whole earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is the richest nation in the world: All nations grow rich from her world
trade system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a huge nation with
lands, cities, and great wealth timbered with buildings; a land of open fields
quartered by mighty rivers measured out and populated through and throughout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is also polluted and a waste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nation is filled with warm water
sea-ports, a coastal nation that sits upon many waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a nation filled with mingled people,
diversity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a singular nation
founded upon out of the many, one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
has a mother nation that remains in existence from its birth to its death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mother of America has the symbol of the
lion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mother of America will
rule over her daughter her entire life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The mother of America
will be in a state of major decline as the end nears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America is called a lion’s whelp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has the symbol of the eagle with diverse
colors, and builds her nest among the stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is a treaty power and is an end-time great nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was and is instrumental in the setting up
of Israel and protecting in
the Middle East, and is home of God’s people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the center of a one world religious
movement.</div>
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America’s
merchants are considered great men of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They trade with all who have ships in the
sea, year round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America is rich in minerals: Her
imports/exports are of the many resources, agriculture, cattle, sheep, horses
and other livestock as well as spices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She has fine flour & mill operations equipped with granaries and
warehouses, farmers and harvesters of huge crops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is also the most industrial nation of the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skilled craftsman produce the
automobile, jewelry, gold, silver, marble, iron, and steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have established corporations throughout
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also leads in musicians
& entertainment around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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America
is the hammer of the whole earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
has a huge space industry, equipped with aircraft and a highly sought after
aviation program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her skies are filled
with the sound of aircraft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Military
might, high-tech weapons and abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
is a military arsenal and war machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
military power rules the world; however she is a virgin nation as she has not
been touched by war on her lands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Her people have the highest standard of living in the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They think they are God’s elect
and eternal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a nation that
dwells carelessly before the Lord lounging in their security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will be a people who will not know their
true identity “Mystery Babylon”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
a missionary nation for Jesus Christ, and home to multitudes of Jews who
eventually leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Christian leaders
are considered strangers in the house of the Lord, and they lead the flock
astray in prophecy and salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
people of America
fall into the deepest, darkest sins of all kinds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will be deeply involved in the occult
and spiritualism as well as drugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America becomes
the home of all antichrist religions in the world and becomes a nation of
religious confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a people
consumed by their idols.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America’s
people are proud and haughty and will not consider her end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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America
has higher education and learning, they are a great voice in world
affairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their world government is
established throughout the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
a democracy that is ruled by many counsels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is bogged down with deliberations, and cannot govern herself
properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her leaders use astrology,
seers, and mystics for guidance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America’s
government system eventually breaks down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was born a Christian nation, but also labored in the occult from her
inception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turns against her
heritage, and destroys herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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America
will have a major enemy to her north her enemy will lie on the opposite side of
the world, over the poles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enemy
will be a federation of nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
enemy will be largely Muslim in make-up and will have inter-continental nuclear
missile capabilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enemy will be
noted for its cruelty and will also have a huge aviation military machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enemy will come into America
un-noticed, and will fill her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will
be brought in under the guise of peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the end America’s
borders will be cut off, leaving no way for escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Babylon
will be destroyed by nuclear holocaust (Fire).</div>
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America
falls to the occult, just before her end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She turns upon her own people imprisoning and killing them by the
millions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She will turn totally
antichrist at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The king of Babylon is called
Lucifer, the Antichrist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The King will
rule from the great city called Babylon.</div>
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(Jer. 50-51, Isa. 47, Rev. 17-19, Isa. 18, Isa. 13-14, Hab.
1-2, Dan. 7, Eze. 38, Psa. 17, Rev. 13, Dan. 11, Psa. 83, Eze. 17, Oba. 1, Psa.
64, Zech. 5).</div>
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BerryBlueBerry </div>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-27165639379185752872012-06-01T10:52:00.002-07:002012-06-01T10:56:19.231-07:00The End GameCurt Here...<br />
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I have posted within this post a presentation, that explains very quickly our current global financial situation. The presenter then tries to explain what that means to our current system. Thanks to Jackie for sending this to me and to the many others who are talking about this presentation. I have no idea if the dire prediction detailed below will turn out to be true, but it is obvious that the global financial world is sick, very sick. The EU is clearly farther along in this process and in my humble opinion will be the first to have major financial problems. Can this present financial existence and reality continue on forever? The scriptures clearly says no. Are we near the "reset" as the presenter suggests below? I don't know the answer to this, but we should be paying very close attention over the next several months.<br />
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My final questions that I believe we must ask ourselves are, is the fatal head wound that the beast receives in Revelation 13 financial? Are we getting close to this prophecy being fulfilled? Here is the scripture for your reference.<br />
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Revelation 13:3-4<br />
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<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">3</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><i>I saw</i> one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed <i>and followed</i> after the beast;</td>
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<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">4</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">they worshiped the dragon because
he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast,
saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?"</td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
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Keep in mind that once the fatal wound is healed the Anti-Christ rises to power, begins his 42 month reign and the mark of the beast is implemented. More scripture for your reference.<br />
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Revelation 13:5-9 <br />
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<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">5</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">There was given to him a mouth
speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for
forty-two months was given to him.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">6</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, <i>that is</i>, those who dwell in heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">7</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">It was also given to him to make
war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe
and people and tongue and nation was given to him.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">8</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">All who dwell on the earth will worship him, <i>everyone</i> whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">9</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">If anyone has an ear, let him hear.</td></tr>
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Revelation 13:16-18 <br />
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<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">16</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">And he causes all, the small and
the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves,
to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">17</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">and <i>he provides</i> that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, <i>either</i> the name of the beast or the number of his name.</td>
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<tr><td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"><bdo dir="ltr">18</bdo>. </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Here is wisdom. Let him who has
understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that
of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six. </td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
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It would seem to me, that the healing of this fatal head wound allows the rise of the Anti-Christ and for the mark of the beast to be implemented soon after, which you must have to buy or sell. So the idea of the fatal head wound being financially related seems to have some merit. I would argue a lot of merit. <br />
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Here is the presentation, it is very short and easy to understand. I don't post this to scare you, but to try and inform you. Please consider and pray about the contents.<br />
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Stay Tuned<br />
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Curt <br />
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<br />the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-25983063292288056262012-05-09T11:25:00.002-07:002012-05-09T11:25:59.909-07:00Nigel Farage - There Will Be an Attempt to Install a DictatorshipCurt Here...<br />
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Nigel Farage is a current Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and represents the UK. Today he gave an astounding interview that reaffirms what many have been saying lately about the current financial and political chaos that is griping the EU. Here are a couple of quotes from the interview...<br />
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<span class="style_2"> </span>“Frankly, the whole thing is falling apart. And in the middle of all of
this, Mrs Merkel came out and said, ‘The fiscal treaty cannot be
renegotiated, and it must hold.’ So, I suppose, for once, we’ve got the
Germans providing the humor, because this thing isn’t going to hold.”</blockquote>
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“I now believe the euro and the whole euro
system are now in, by far, the deepest crisis that we’ve seen. We are
in totally uncharted, chaotic territory. In some ways the ball is very
much on the German side of the court. If they are unable to impose the
discipline they thought this new Compact Treaty would give them, then
maybe it’s the Germans that say, ‘Right, Greece you’ve got to leave.’
We know once Greece leaves, the domino's start to fall.</div>
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What these guys in the EU are going to try
to do is, as this crisis gets worse and descends, there will be an
attempt at some point in the next few months for them to set up
something that will be very like a dictatorship. I’m not sure now, with
the public mood, that they will get away with it ... the similarities
(to the 30s) are really rather chilling.”</div>
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To read the rest of the article go <a href="http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/5/8_Nigel_Farage_-_There_Will_Be_an_Attempt_to_Install_a_Dictatorship.html">here</a>. To hear the entire interview, which I would definitely recommend go <a href="http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2012/5/9_MEP_Nigel_Farage.html">here.</a><br />
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Things are getting very interesting, so please stay tuned.<br />
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Curt<br />
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<br />the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-25808248422985431892012-05-04T13:37:00.002-07:002012-05-04T13:58:25.563-07:00Supreme Chancellor<br />
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<img height="266" id="il_fi" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdxJrX6ehuuMNi2g-dbF0xkMXBzYryznL_REPvlMO4XYu3BIJeikTL15_KzltAacSEO24EuB6R3qHmeZCh2PPsWGy8F_Zppw9GjeUeaDEHAnK0Db1SvblvvJjZefQGwvjzw5vPsD0nKs/s400/pheonix.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="400" /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Out of the Ashes
Rises the Phoenix,
the Little Horn and the answer to the Euro-zone and the rest of the World…</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Senior Eurocrats are
secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realize their
dream of abolishing Britain, we can reveal. (Express.co.uk).</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A covert group of EU foreign ministers has
drawn up plans for merging the jobs currently done by Herman Van Rompuy,
president of the European Council, and Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the
European Commission.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The new bureaucrat, who would not be
directly elected by voters, is set to get sweeping control over the entire EU
and force member countries into ever-greater political and economic union. </b></div>
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<b>Read more here: </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/318045/EU-plot-to-scrap-Britain">http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/318045/EU-plot-to-scrap-Britain</a></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt;">Daniel 7:8</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> (KJV)</span></i></h1>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt; font-weight: normal;">I considered the horns, and, behold, <span style="color: blue;">there came up among them</span> <span style="color: #c00000;">another
little horn</span>, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up
by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a
mouth speaking great things.</span></i></h1>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt;">Daniel 11:23</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> (KJV) </span></i></h1>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt; font-weight: normal;">And after the league made with him he
shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and <span style="color: #c00000;">shall
become strong</span> <span style="color: blue;">with a small people</span>.</span></i></h1>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></h1>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This is just a thought… but what if the three to be subdued are the following:</span></i></h1>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">José Manuel Barroso – Portugal</span></h1>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Herman Van Rompuy – Belgium</span></h1>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Catherine Ashton - UK</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></h1>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">These 3 are apart of
the 10…</b></div>
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<br />the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-84434507800465434662012-04-25T08:56:00.005-07:002012-04-25T08:59:02.488-07:0022 Red Flags<img alt="" 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If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite
likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012. Right now, red flags are popping
up all over the place. Corporate insiders are selling off stock like
there is no tomorrow, major economies all over Europe continue to implode, the
IMF is warning that the Euro-Zone could actually break up and there are signs
of trouble at major banks all over the planet. Unfortunately, it looks
like the period of relative stability that global financial markets have been
enjoying is about to come to an end. A whole host of problems that have
been festering just below the surface are starting to manifest, and we are
beginning to see the ingredients for a "perfect storm" start to come
together. The greatest global debt bubble in human history is showing
signs that it is getting ready to burst, and when that happens the consequences
are going to be absolutely horrific. Hopefully we still have at least a
little bit more time before the global financial system implodes, but at this
point it doesn't look like anything is going to be able to stop the chaos that
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<a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-red-flags-that-indicate-that-very-serious-doom-is-coming-for-global-financial-markets">http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-red-flags-that-indicate-that-very-serious-doom-is-coming-for-global-financial-markets</a></div>
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<i>I hate to say it… But
couple this with an article where the Government is buying up Hollow Point
Bullets, Hardened Checkpoint Booths, and Radiation Pills, and it looks like the
Governments are preparing for chaos as well.</i></div>
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/035607_government_checkpoints_Martial_Law.html#ixzz1t3SYhOyG">http://www.naturalnews.com/035607_government_checkpoints_Martial_Law.html#ixzz1t3SYhOyG</a></div>
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<i>Please do what you can to store a few items for yourself and
your family… Don’t be caught up in the
panic when everyone will rush to the stores to buy up the inventory. God can use what ever you store up… </i></div>
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<i>In John 6:9 Andrew finds a boy who had come prepared to hear
Jesus speak, the boy had five small barley loaves and two small fish. God multiplied the food to feed five thousand
people that day with a tuna fish sandwich.
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BerryBlueBerry</div>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-51629753152509937302012-02-25T07:15:00.000-08:002012-02-25T07:16:33.504-08:00Is the False Prophet the Antichrist?<!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif][if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif][if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <h2><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">I’m going to repost this…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>One of the Members over at Unsealed Prophecy brought up this question, and then was able to find an answer by Britt Gillette.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></h2> <h2><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Thank-you Mr. Baldy</span></h2> <h2 style="text-align:center" align="center">Is the False Prophet the Antichrist?</h2> <p style="text-align:center" align="center">by Britt Gillette </p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> <p>In the nearly 2,000 years since the Book of Revelation was written, many have perceived the false prophet of Revelation 13 to be an ally of the Antichrist rather than the Antichrist himself. But is this the correct biblical view? Let’s study what the bible says<span class="grame">:</span> </p> <p><b>The Two Beasts of Revelation 13</b> </p> <p>Revelation 13 identifies two beasts who will emerge in the last days during the period known as the tribulation. The first of these beasts appears at the beginning of Chapter 13:<br /><br />“And now in my vision I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns. And written on each head were names that blasphemed God. This beast looked like a leopard, but it had bear’s feet and a lion’s mouth! And the dragon gave him his own power and throne and great authority.” Revelation 13:1-2 (NLT)<br /><br />This beast (described in verses 1-8) is traditionally viewed as representing the Antichrist, while the second beast (described in verses 11-18) is traditionally viewed as representing the “false prophet,” a man distinct from the Antichrist who assists in forcing the world to worship the Antichrist:<br /><br />“Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, and he spoke with the voice of a dragon.” Revelation 13:11 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />However, neither of these views is compatible with what the bible really teaches. According to the bible, the false prophet is the Antichrist, and he doesn’t need a sinister sidekick to carry out his evil plans.</p> <p><b>Why the First Beast is the Revived Roman Empire</b> </p> <p>Much confusion arises from the fact that although the first beast is the Antichrist’s empire, many of its attributes can be used to describe the Antichrist himself. Biblically speaking, this is not a unique concept. This also occurs in the Book of Daniel, when Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar he is the head of gold, even though the head of gold is clearly stated as representing the kingdom of Babylon<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Your Majesty, you are a king over many kings. The God of heaven has given you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor. He has made you the ruler over <span class="grame">all the</span> inhabited world and has put even the animals and birds under your control. You are the head of gold.” Daniel 2:37-38 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />In much the same way, the beast of Revelation 13:1 should be viewed as the kingdom of the Antichrist. However, since the Antichrist is the ultimate ruler of this empire, it will take on many characteristics traditionally associated with his personality.</p> <p><b>The Revived Roman Empire</b> </p> <p>The Bible reveals that in the last days, the world will be ruled by a global government. This will be the first truly global government since the fall of Adam and Eve, and it will be responsible for a terrible amount of destruction and murder before being destroyed by the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ who “will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed” Daniel 2:44 (NLT).<br /><br />In Chapter 2 of the Book of Daniel, the prophet Daniel (with the guidance of God Himself) properly interprets the dream of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar. The king dreamed of a beautiful statue of a man with a head of gold, a chest and arms of silver, a belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet made from a combination of iron and clay. The statue was crushed by a rock cut from a mountain by supernatural means, and the rock became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.<br /><br />Daniel explains that the statue is a series of kingdoms, beginning with Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonia<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“You are the head of gold. But after your kingdom comes to an end, another great kingdom, inferior to yours, will rise to take your place. After that kingdom has fallen, yet a third great kingdom, represented by the bronze belly and thighs, will rise to rule the world. Following that kingdom, there will be a fourth great kingdom, as strong as iron. That kingdom will smash and crush all previous empires, just as iron smashes and crushes everything it strikes. The feet and toes you saw that were a combination of iron and clay show that this kingdom will be divided. Some parts of it will be as strong as iron, and others as weak as clay. This mixture of iron and clay also shows that these kingdoms will try to strengthen themselves by forming alliances with each other through intermarriage. But this will not succeed, just as iron and clay do not mix.” Daniel 2:38-43 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />In the course of human events since Daniel first interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, all but one of these human kingdoms (the last) has appeared and disappeared just as predicted. In order, they are:<br /><br />1) Babylonia<br />2) Medo-Persia<br />3) Greece<br />4) Rome<br />5) The Revived Roman Empire</p> <p><b>Attributes of the Last World Empire</b> </p> <p>This last empire, symbolized by the feet and toes of iron and clay, will one day constitute the first dictatorship that is truly global in nature. This revived Roman Empire will rule the world in the following ways<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />1) Politically<br />“And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation.” Revelation 13:7 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />2) Religiously<br />“And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast.” Revelation 13:8 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />“They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they worshiped the beast.” Revelation 13:4 (NLT)<br /><br />and<br /><br />3) Economically<br />“He required everyone – great and small, rich and poor, slave and free – to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.” Revelation 13:16-17 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Every facet of the human experience will be utterly dominated by this global government.<br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The Ten Kings</b><br /><br />“And now in my vision I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns.” Revelation 13:1 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />In its second incarnation, the Roman Empire will be ruled by ten kings. Another king will arise from among them. They will grant their authority to him, but he will soon turn on three of these kings, acquiring permanent control over the empire. This passage also underscores how God views the world versus how humans view the world. These same kingdoms as dreamed of by Nebuchadnezzar represented a beautiful statue; As viewed by God they represent horrible beasts.<br /><br />We learn more about the characteristics of the coming world government in the Book of Revelation, where an angel reveals to the apostle John the true meaning of his vision of a woman sitting on a scarlet beast with 7 heads and 10 horns<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“And now understand this: The seven heads of the beast represent seven hills of the city where this woman rules. They also represent seven kings. Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief. The scarlet beast that was alive and then died is the eighth king. He is like the other seven, and he, too, will go to his doom. His ten horns are ten kings who have not yet risen to power; they will be appointed to their kingdoms for one brief moment to reign with the beast. They will all agree to give their power and authority to him.” Revelation 17:9-13 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Throughout history “seven hills” has often been erroneously interpreted as a reference to Rome, the city of seven hills. However, the original Greek is literally interpreted as “seven mountains.” From Daniel 2:35, we know that a mountain can represent a kingdom, and given the context of the verses, it is proper to interpret these seven mountains as seven kingdoms. The seven heads of the beast represent seven world empires, five of which were referenced earlier by the prophet Daniel. They are, in order of their rule, the following<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />1) Egypt<br />2) Assyria<br />3) Babylonia<br />4) Medo-Persia<br />5) Greece<br />6) Rome<br />7) The Revived Roman Empire<br /><br />As the passage explains, the 10 horns represent 10 kings who, as we learned earlier from Daniel, will grant their power and authority to this final kingdom – the revived Roman Empire. Daniel concurs with the vision of the 10 kings, the appearance of an eleventh king, and the defeat of 3 of the 10 kings<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Then in my vision that night, I saw a fourth beast, terrifying, dreadful, and very strong. It devoured and crushed its victims with huge iron teeth and trampled what was left beneath its feet. It was different from any of the other beasts, and it had ten horns. As I was looking at the horns, suddenly another small horn appeared among them. Three of the first horns were wrenched out, roots and all, to make room for it. This little horn had eyes like human eyes and a mouth that was boasting arrogantly.” Daniel 7:7-8 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Ten kings will give their power and national sovereignty to the revived Roman Empire. From among them, the Antichrist will appear, and he will become the preeminent ruler among them.<br /><br />Furthermore, we learn earlier in the Book of Revelation that the final world empire will be the seventh successive world empire and will be formed by 10 kings<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“And now in my vision I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns. And written on each head were names that blasphemed God.” Revelation 13:1 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The Resurrection of One of the Heads of the Beast</b><br /><br />We also learn from the Book of Revelation that the seventh head of the beast will seem wounded beyond recovery, but the wound will be healed. The following verses reference this recovery<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“I saw that one of the heads of the beast seemed wounded beyond recovery – but the fatal wound was healed! <span class="grame">All the</span> world marveled at this miracle and followed the beast in awe.” Revelation 13:3 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />“He exercised all the authority of the first beast. And he required all the earth and those who belong in this world to worship the first beast, <span class="grame">whose</span> death-wound had been healed.” Revelation 13:12 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />“He ordered the people of the world to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life.” Revelation 13:14 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Many commentators have applied this attribute to the human head of this global government, the Antichrist. They believe the Antichrist will be resurrected in a satanic attempt to counterfeit the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, this is a misinterpretation of scripture. The wounded head is the kingdom of the Antichrist, not the person himself.<br /><br />Although the word “beast” is used to describe the person of the Antichrist, it’s also used in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 to describe his kingdom as well as previous world empires. Heads are symbols of kingdoms, while horns are symbols of kings. Therefore, a wounded head represents a wounded kingdom, not a wounded king. The wounded beast described in these verses is the world empire of ancient Rome, which was never completely destroyed like its predecessors. In the last days, the Roman Empire will appear once again, and the world will marvel at its appearance. The following verse reiterates this concept<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief.” Revelation 17:10 (NLT)<br /><br />The angel reveals to John that 5 of the kingdoms have fallen:<br /><br />1) Egypt<br />2) Assyria<br />3) Babylonia<br />4) Medo-Persia<br />5) Greece<br /><br />The sixth kingdom “now reigns”:<br /><br />6) Rome (John’s vision occurred in the 1st Century, when Rome still ruled the known world)<br /><br />And the seventh “is yet to come”:<br /><br />7) The Revived Roman Empire<br /><br />In the last days, this resurrected Roman Empire will rule all of humanity. Its reign will be brief, but it will be like no other kingdom before it. It will play the role of beast in a satanic trinity of Satan, Antichrist, and Beast.<br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The Book of Daniel</b><br /><br />Further insight into the identity of the beast in Revelation 13:1 is provided to Daniel following his vision of four beasts<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“I, Daniel, was troubled by all I had seen, and my visions terrified me. So I approached one of those standing beside the throne and asked him what it all meant. He explained it to me like this: “These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth.” Daniel 7:15-17 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />In this verse, a heavenly being explains to Daniel that the beasts in his vision represent kingdoms or world empires. These are the same empires foreseen in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, with the fourth empire representing Rome<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, the one so different from the others and so terrifying. It devoured and crushed its victims with iron teeth and bronze claws, and it trampled what was left beneath its feet. I also asked about the ten horns on the fourth beast’s head and the little horn that came up afterward and destroyed three of the other horns. This was the horn that seemed greater than the others and had human eyes and mouth that was boasting arrogantly.” Daniel 7:19-20 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Notice the distinct similarities between this beast and the beast of Revelation 13:1. Both crush everything in their path, and both have ten horns. The similarities continue<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Then he said to me, ‘This fourth beast is the fourth world power that will rule the earth. It will be different from all the others. It will devour the whole world, trampling everything in its path. Its ten horns are ten kings that will rule that empire.” Daniel 7:23-24 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />In this verse, it’s clearly stated that the beast in Daniel’s vision is a world empire that will rule the earth. It will be different in that it will devour the whole world, providing it with dominion over “every tribe and people and language and nation” Revelation 13:7 (NLT). It will also have ten horns that are ten kings, just as the beast of Revelation 13:1 has “ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns.”<br /><br />From these kings, another king will rise, and He will cause a shocking amount of destruction. This king is the Antichrist, and he will rise out of the revived Roman Empire<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Then another king will arise, different from the other ten, who will subdue three of them. He will defy the Most High and wear down the holy people of the Most High.’” Daniel 7:24-25 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Why the Second Beast is the Antichrist</b><br /><br />In addition to the similarities between the Book of Daniel’s description of the revived Roman Empire and the beast of Revelation 13:1, a number of notable similarities exist between the second beast of Revelation 13 and other biblical descriptions of the Antichrist. <br /><b>He Speaks with the Voice of a Dragon</b><br />Knowing that the Antichrist is the human embodiment of Satan, the bible gives us a clear identification of the second beast<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, and he spoke with the voice of a dragon.” Revelation 13:11 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />It’s not by mere coincidence that this beast speaks with the voice of a dragon. The same dragon appears in Chapter 12, and there is no mistaking his identity<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“This great dragon – the ancient serpent called the Devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world – was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.” Revelation 12:9 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Following a great war in heaven, Satan is thrown to the earth in defeat where he knows that he has little time before Christ returns to establish his Millennial Kingdom. This event occurs at the mid-point of the tribulation<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“Rejoice, O heavens! And <span class="grame">you</span> who live in the heavens, rejoice! But terror will come on the earth and the sea. For the Devil has come down to you in great anger, and he knows that he has little time.” Revelation 12:12 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />The mid-point of the tribulation, when Satan comes to reside on earth, is also when the Antichrist commits the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Jesus and the prophet Daniel.<br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Astounding Miracles</b><br /><br />The second beast of Revelation 13 is also described as performing astounding miracles, so as to deceive the people of this world<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“He did astounding miracles, such as making fire flash down to earth from heaven while everyone was watching. And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on behalf of the first beast, he deceived all the people who belong to this world.” Revelation 13:13-14 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />Paul clearly identifies this same beast as a man, the Antichrist, who he describes in his letter to the Thessalonians:<br /><br />“This evil man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles. He will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on their way to destruction because they refuse to believe the truth that would save them.” 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">He Exercises All Authority</b><br /><br />Throughout the scriptures, the Antichrist is described as a man of unprecedented power, who answers to no one. If the false prophet is merely an associate of the Antichrist, then how could he “exercise all the authority” of the Antichrist without being at least the equal of the Antichrist himself? He doesn’t, because the false prophet is the Antichrist.<br /><br />The Antichrist exercises all the authority of the revived Roman empire, which is the seat of global authority<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“He exercised all the authority of the first beast. And he required all the earth and those who belong to this world to worship the first beast, <span class="grame">whose</span> death-wound had been healed.” Revelation 13:12 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />The Antichrist will exercise all the authority of the first beast, which is the revived Roman Empire. He will require the world to worship and give allegiance to this empire, which will be resurrected from the dustbin of history (thus, healing its deadly wound).<br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Immense Power</b><br /><br />The Antichrist will be consumed with power, and power alone will be his object of worship<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“He will have no regard for the god of his ancestors, or for the god beloved of women, or for any other god, for he will boast that he is greater than them all. Instead of these, he will worship the god of fortresses – a god his ancestors never knew – and lavish on him gold, silver, precious stones, and costly gifts.” Daniel 11:37-38 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />The Antichrist’s god is a god of fortresses, and fortresses are the exclusive domain of kingdoms and empires. The Antichrist will wield immense power, a power unknown to previous generations, and this power will make his kingdom invincible to human enemies<span class="grame">:</span><br /><br />“They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they worshiped the beast. ‘Is there anyone as great as the beast?’ they exclaimed. ‘Who is able to fight against him?’” Revelation 13:4 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />The Antichrist will only acknowledge one power, a military power he possesses. His power will be so <span class="grame">great,</span> the people of the world will marvel in wonder and worship it, asking the rhetorical question of who among them is able to fight against his mighty kingdom.<br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The Lake of Fire</b><br /><br />Yet another way to distinguish the Antichrist from his kingdom is by studying their final destination. The lake of fire is a punishment reserved for the beast and his false prophet:<br /><br />“Both the beast and his false prophet were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.” Revelation 19:20 (NLT<span class="grame">)</span><br /><br />However, the book of Daniel clearly reveals that the beast is a kingdom, not a man:<br /><br />“I kept watching until the fourth beast was killed and its body was destroyed by fire.” Daniel 7:11 (NLT)<br /><br />This is the same beast described in Daniel 7 and identified by Jesus Christ as a fourth world empire, and the reign of this oppressive government will be put to an end by the King of Kings Himself. When Christ returns to earth, He will destroy this kingdom as well as the Antichrist, throwing both into the lake of fire where they will experience everlasting torment.<br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Conclusion</b><br /><br />It’s easy to see how the beast of Revelation 13:1 can be confused with the person of the Antichrist. As the Antichrist’s kingdom and primary vehicle for world domination, it shares a number of common attributes with the man of perdition. However, this has also led to confusion over the identity of the beast described in Revelation 13:11. Traditionally, this false prophet has been viewed as a contemporary and an ally of the Antichrist, rather than the Antichrist himself. However, a careful examination of the scriptures uncovers an undeniable similarity between the career of the false prophet and the career of the Antichrist.<br /><br />For the tribulation saints, a firm understanding of the distinction between these two beasts is of paramount importance. It will aid them in the proper identification of the Antichrist, as well as provide them with an invaluable tool for evangelism as they point out the similarities between the events of Revelation 13 and the events of their time. As such, we should do everything in our power to insure that their interpretation of the Word of God is based solely on truth and not on doctrines invented by man.</p> <p>Britt Gillette is founder of BrittGillette.Com, a website examining the relationship between bible prophecy and emerging trends in technology. For more information or to sign up for his email alerts, please visit <a href="http://www.brittgillette.com/">http://www.brittgillette.com</a> </p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-72414369066961550752012-02-02T07:42:00.000-08:002012-02-02T07:47:18.866-08:00God is calling... Please pray....<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif][if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif][if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <h4><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">I believe God is trying to get our attention as the war drums beat in the Middle East.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The alarm needs to be heard through out God’s people.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was reading through Haggai the other night: I discovered something interesting. It was a call to build the house of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This is what the Lord Almighty says:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“These people say, “The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s House.””<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Do you think it is a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while the Lord’s house remains in ruin?</span></h4> <h4>Haggai 1</h4> <p class="MsoNormal"><sup>5</sup> Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. <sup>6</sup> You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">This, sounds like life today…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A chasing after the wind…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And an endless toil…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">You can read the book of Ecclesiastes for this….</span></p> <h4>Haggai 2</h4> <p class="MsoNormal"><sup>15</sup> “‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on<sup> </sup>consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the LORD’s temple. <sup>16</sup> When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty. <sup>17</sup> I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:red">yet you did not return to me</span></b>,’ declares the LORD.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"> God is attempting to get our attention…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We see Floods, Droughts, Famine, Fires, Volcano’s, Earth Quakes, Cyclone’s, etc… All around us there is hardship: the Economies are failing…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Do you think that God is trying to get our attention?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I think he wants us to turn to Him…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He needs us to be the Prayer Warriors…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue">Ephesians 6:10-17</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue">We need to make sure we are wearing the armor of God at all times…</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Think about armor for a second…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What do we know about it?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Armor is heavy, cumbersome, can be awkward at first not being easy to move around in, it’s not comfortable to wear, however it protects you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Warriors trained all the time with their full armor on.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It built strength, taught them how to be agile in it, and how to use it affectively in battle.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Warriors relied upon it to keep them safe, and as a defense from their attacker.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;">In the same way, we need to train and live in the armor of God at all times.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How else can we take a stand against the devil’s schemes?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Use God’s word to charge your spirit, and to give you strength.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But here is a key in using the armor…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>vs. 18 of Ephesians 6 – Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests, with this in mind be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Because God wants to be involved, he wants us to turn to him, he wants to be used by us, and in turn God will use you in a way that will impact many...<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="">BerryBlueBerry -<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">(I'm trying to keep these shorter... There could be a lot more said on this as you can imagine, and maybe that is where it needs to be left... It is up to you to fill in the blanks with what God would have you to do...)<br /></span></span></p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-6516770785264348642012-01-03T12:40:00.000-08:002012-01-03T12:47:59.092-08:002012<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <h4><sup><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">Continue to prepare yourselves spiritually. Make the most of the opportunities given to you by God. This will be a year of great turmoil and crisis. I believe you will see more volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, economic turmoil and war. Everyone will be looking at 12/21/2012 the end of the Mayan calendar. It will be on the hearts of everyone that doom and gloom is coming, and possibly the end of the world as we know it. Luke 21:26 says that people will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. Luke 21:34-35 warns us to be careful, or our hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. It will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. </span></h4><sup><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span></sup> <h4><sup><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:130%;">David Wilkerson in a message on the knowledge of the ways of God</span> </span></sup><a href="http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/16007?src=devo-email">http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/16007?src=devo-email</a><span style="font-size:130%;"><sup><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> stated: that we the ordinary Christian will need to be the calm ones when everything else around us is falling apart.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We need to be in prayer and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, so that the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard our hearts and minds, and we will be at peace and not appear to be going crazy.</span></sup></span> </h4><h4><span style="font-size:130%;"><sup><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">We need to be ready to give an answer to the hope that is inside of us to those who are searching.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let us be witnesses to those around us through speech and actions.</span></sup></span></h4> <h4><span style="font-size:130%;"><sup><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">BerryBlueBerry</span></sup></span></h4> <h4>Luke 21</h4> <p> <sup>9</sup> When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.” </p> <p> <sup>10</sup> Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. <sup>11</sup> There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. </p> <p> <sup>12</sup> “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. <sup>13</sup> And so you will bear testimony to me. <sup>14</sup> But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. <sup>15</sup> For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. <sup>16</sup> You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. <sup>17</sup> Everyone will hate you because of me. <sup>18</sup> But not a hair of your head will perish. <sup>19</sup> Stand firm, and you will win life. </p> <p> <sup>20</sup> “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. <sup>21</sup> Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. <sup>22</sup> For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. <sup>23</sup> How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. <sup>24</sup> They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. </p> <p> <sup>25</sup> “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. <sup>26</sup> People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. <sup>27</sup> At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. <sup>28</sup> When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” </p> <p> <sup>29</sup> He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. <sup>30</sup> When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. <sup>31</sup> Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near. </p> <p> <sup>32</sup> “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. <sup>33</sup> Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. </p> <p> <sup>34</sup> “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. <sup>35</sup> For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. <sup>36</sup> Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” </p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]-->the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-4158422671123757372011-12-23T09:39:00.000-08:002011-12-23T09:42:42.870-08:00Carol of the Drum<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">Come they told me,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A new born King to see,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Our finest gifts we bring,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To lay before the King,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To honor Him when we come.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Little Baby,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am a poor boy too,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I have no gift to bring,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">That is fit to give a King</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Shall I play for you on my drum?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mary nodded,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The ox and the lamb kept time,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I played my drum for him,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I played my best for him,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Then he smiled at me, me and my drum.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">These lyrics put you at the scene of the birth of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is easy to imagine you are the drummer.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hesitant, unsure, excited, wondering if it is appropriate to play an instrument instead of presenting a gift, in which you have no gift, except yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The drummer offers himself to Jesus, all that he is and all that he has.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The song’s lyrics brings tears to my eyes: The thought of having nothing to bring of value fit for a King except offering up yourself and the talent of playing an instrument touches my heart and soul.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All he receives back is a smile and that is all that is needed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I think of what I have to bring before a King.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Magi:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">On coming to the house, saw the child with his mother Mary and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">God’s gift</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Birth of Jesus, the birth of a Savior.</p> <p>And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” </p> <p> Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, </p> <p> “Glory to God in the highest heaven,<br /> and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” </p> <p> When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” </p> <p> So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen which were just as they had been told. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Just as the drummer offered himself up to the baby Jesus, Jesus has offered himself to you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Accept Jesus into your heart:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Come just as you are.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Hear the spirit call.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Come and see, come receive, come and live forever.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Life everlasting, and strength for today, taste the living water and never thirst again.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Merry Christmas!!!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">BerryBlueBerry</p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-67416271962996607362011-10-12T08:58:00.001-07:002011-10-12T08:58:46.280-07:00Why doesn't God just tell us when he will come?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p>I was praying and asking God, “Lord why don’t you just tell us when you will be coming back.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You could at least tell a few of us.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>As I sat in silence waiting to get an answer this morning the following section of verses came to mind.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Matthew 24:42-44:</p> <p> <sup id="en-NIV-24000">42</sup> “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. <sup id="en-NIV-24001">43</sup> But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. <sup id="en-NIV-24002">44</sup> So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. </p> <p>I went back and read the section from Matthew 24:36-51.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>As I was reading I was astonished at what God was telling me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p>Like many of you I want to know when, but I also know the bible says that no man knows the day or hour.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What would I do if I knew?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Also what would it hurt if I knew?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Most likely I would attempt to tell people and I would make myself out to be fool or kook…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p>But God doesn’t want us to know… Why?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Well, I think it is because of verses 45-47 of Matthew 24:</p> <p> <sup id="en-NIV-24003">45</sup> “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? <sup id="en-NIV-24004">46</sup> It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. <sup id="en-NIV-24005">47</sup> Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.</p> <p>God wants us to continue in doing what we are doing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He wants us to do the things he has already planned and told us to do from his word (Ephesians 2:10).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Be ready, keep watch, you know hard times are coming so prepare while you still can, don’t be caught by surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is no need for you to be in the dark or to be caught by surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Keep being a light to the world, share your faith, tell people about Jesus, and be an example to those around you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We need to be wise and faithful.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Be responsible for your family and loved ones, read God’s word… Draw closer to Jesus and the enemy will flee from you. (James 4:7-8)</p> <p>God doesn’t tell us when, because he wants us to be faithful and wise servants, doing the things he has already told us to do through his word.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are the salt of the earth, and the light of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let your light shine and don’t lose your saltiness.</p> <p>Love in Christ </p> <p>BerryBlueBerry</p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-69452431428784831652011-09-29T07:57:00.000-07:002011-09-29T12:33:55.090-07:00It's easy to follow the beaten path<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">As I was preparing for the Obedient Preparation Precedes Blessings, I came to a point where I felt like I needed to do a little more praying, reading, and research.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Upon doing the research I found an article by Peter Bregman dated April 21, 2010 that I want to re-post a portion of, and then elaborate and add to it.</p> <h3><a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/">Peter Bregman</a></h3> <p><em>Wait a minute</em>, I thought, as I looked up from the trail we had been hiking for several hours. <em>Where are we?</em></p> <p>I knew I was lost. Unfortunately, I wasn't alone. I was leading a thirty-day wilderness expedition for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Which, in this case, meant there were eight 16- to 24-year-old students following me.</p> <p>For most of an expedition, NOLS groups travel off trail. We use topographic maps that reflect the physical features of an area — mountains, streams, valleys, ridges — and we navigate through the wilderness by comparing what we see around us with what's on the map. </p> <p>Each morning we agree on our goal — where we plan to camp at the end of the day — and then choose a rough path through the wilderness. We know the general direction we're moving and maintain our course by paying attention to the environment — keep that mountain to the left, that small river to the right, and that craggy peak in front.</p> <p>Every once in a while there happens to be a trail that travels in the same direction we're traveling so we follow it. It makes for easy walking.</p> <p><span style="color:red;">But a dangerous thing happens when we follow a trail: we stop paying attention to the environment. Since the trail is so easy to follow, we allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are. </span></p> <p><span style="color:red;">Then we forge ahead, moving with speed and purpose, right to the point where we look up and realize, like I did that day that the environment around us is no longer recognizable. Our focus blinded us.</span></p> <p>This is not just a hiking thing.</p> <p>In business and in life we set all kinds of goals — build a company, meet sales objectives, be a supportive manager — and then we define a strategy for achieving that goal. The goal is the destination; the strategy is our trail to get there.</p> <p>Only sometimes we get so absorbed in the trail — in how we're going to achieve the goal, in our method or process — that we lose sight of the destination, of where we were going in the first place. And we walk right by the opportunities that would have propelled us forward toward our planned destination.</p> <p>Which is what happened to Sammy, a religious man, who was caught in his house during a flood. He climbed up to his roof and prayed, asking God to save him. </p> <p>Sammy saw a wood plank in the water and let it float by. "God will rescue me," he said to himself. After some time, a man came by in a boat and offered him a lift but Sammy declined. "God will rescue me," he told the man. The water continued to rise; it was up to his neck when a helicopter flew overhead. Sammy waved it off saying "God will rescue me." Finally, Sammy drowned.</p> <p>Next thing he knew, Sammy was in heaven, where he was greeted by God. "Why didn't you rescue me?" Sammy asked. "I tried!" God answered, "I sent a wood plank, I sent a boat, I sent a helicopter..."</p> <p>OK, so it's not a true story, but the point is still useful. Sammy was so committed to his strategy of God saving him that he missed the rescue.</p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">End of re-post.</b></p> <p>What are we as Christians missing?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Are we too missing the boat or the ark?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Are we on the easy path?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Are we thinking that God will rapture us or will save us and therefore we will not have to do anything in preparation?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When it happens it happens right…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Who cares God is in control.</p> <p>I think we are following the beaten path, and it’s the wrong path.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The pre-conceived notions we had about the 7 year tribulation period are wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But men of old taught that we would be raptured and gone from the Earth and we would not be here…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We wouldn’t see the 7 years…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Cool… that’s easy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Now back to not paying attention to the environment and since the trail is so easy to follow we can allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are and where we are heading.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let’s forge ahead in our materialism.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Move ahead, “I must attain the American Dream”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Happiness and Bliss… I don’t want to know about the bad things that are going on all over the world.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why is everything so negative?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p>Our focus is on stuff, and we are not paying attention to the circumstances, the opportunities, wise counsel or God’s word.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p>Here are a couple of truths we should consider:</p> <p><strong>(1) It is Satan who wants us to be confused, directionless, and ineffective. </strong></p> <p><strong>(2) It is God who has a preordained plan for us, who has given us specific steps, and who wants to see our lives matter. </strong></p> <p>So how can we know?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What does God want us to do?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>First let’s look at how God speaks to us:</p> <h3>1. God speaks through circumstances</h3> <p>Its funny, Christians routinely blast atheists and atheism, but we often act as if there is no God or that our God is not big enough. We complain about the uncontrollable events in our lives as if we’re just here by chance, left to sort live life out on our own. We don’t really include God except when something bad happens or is about to happen.</p> <p>But life isn’t dog-eat-dog. God is in charge of this world. God is in charge of our little world. And the events that He allows—getting fired from a job, meeting a future mate, the family we were born into, the town in which we live, the skill sets, talents, and gifts we possess—are all part of God’s divine blueprint for our success. 1 Corinthians 1:7 Therefore, you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.</p> <p>Also, stop and look around you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Back to the path example above.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Look at your surroundings!!!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What do you see?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How is the Economy doing?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How is your Government doing?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What are people with money doing?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why is the Government printing money and creating inflation?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why is our debt so high?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Oh I see the government is printing money to pay for the high debt.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What is happening in the Middle East?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why are they fighting?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How about Europe?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Wow they sure are coming together…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I wonder why?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There have been a few earth quakes, tornados, and tsunamis lately, but they didn’t take out too many people only farm land…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Gee I wonder what kind of an effect this will have on me?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And the final road map sign to keep your eye on is Israel…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What is happening in Israel?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why are the Palestinians wanting state hood?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Why doesn’t Israel just let them have the land at pre 1967 borders?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You get my point?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There are a ton of things going on in your surroundings…</p> <p>None of this happens by chance. God is not up in Heaven pounding his fist against his head saying, “Whoops, I really messed up this time.” No, God didn’t mess up. God didn’t’ make a mistake. God isn’t ever caught by surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Read God’s word.</p> <p>You can do one of two things. You can continue to live as the world lives. You can stick to the motto, “Life is random, you get out of it what you make of it, I can’t help the way I am.” Stick your head in the sand and say spiritual things like, “God will provide”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Or you can embrace your life—your life right now—as God’s will. Romans 12 says, to not be conformed to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of you mind. </p> <p>Things happen to you that are out of your control, and it is God’s will for your life.</p> <h3>2. God speaks through opportunities</h3> <p>Remember Sammy in the example above? God presented to him opportunities and he refused them. I have friends who constantly agonized over every decision or every opportunity and wonder, “Is this God’s will?” “What should I do”?</p> <p>God provides us with opportunity after opportunity. Say an opportunity comes available, but we’re unsure whether it is good enough and or even the right time. We go back and forth and say really good spiritual things like, “It’s not God’s will, or I don’t feel lead, or I see the signs but is this really want God wants me to do?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Do you talk to anybody about it? Do you pray about it? Are you reading your bible on a daily basis?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Do you ever consider that this could be an opportunity to explore?</p> <p>And on and on we go. A dozen opportunities can be presented, but we never pursue any of them. We hem, haw, and quote a lot of scripture verses, but we never make a move. </p> <p>I fear that at the end of our life we’ll be like Sammy and God will say, “I brought along this opportunity and that opportunity and you refused to take any one of them.” </p> <p>God works through open doors and opportunities. It’s that simple. These are not just “lucky” occurrences. If you want to do God’s will, do as one wise man used to say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">“Go. Do something and God will direct you.”</span></b></p> <p>Right now there are opportunities for you to respond to how God is speaking through circumstances and opportunities…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“LOOK AT YOUR SURROUNDINGS”.</p> <h3>3. God Speaks Through Wise Counselors</h3> <p>Most Christians live a lone-ranger Christianity and refuse to listen to wise counselors<strong>. </strong></p> <p>The Bible talks over and over about the value of wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to make good decisions, spiritual decisions, and God-honoring decisions. </p> <p>Every major decision I have ever made in my life I have done with the approval and consent of someone I find to be wiser than I. Why?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Because over and over in God’s word he says to seek out wise counsel.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <h3><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;color:black;" ><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+18:15&version=31"><span style="color:black;">Proverbs 18:15</span></a></span></strong><br /><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:12.0pt;" >the heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;" >wise</span><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:12.0pt;" > </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;" >seek</span><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:12.0pt;" > it out.</span></h3> <h3>Ecclesiastes 9:13-18</h3> <h5>Wisdom Better Than Folly</h5> <p class="MsoNormal"> <sup>13</sup> I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: <sup>14</sup> there was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. <sup>15</sup> Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. <sup>16</sup> So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded. </p> <p> <sup>17</sup> The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded<br /> than the shouts of a ruler of fools.<br /><sup>18</sup> Wisdom is better than weapons of war,<br /> but one sinner destroys much good. </p> <p>There have been many moments when I have had what I thought was a really good idea. But people I trust, who have wisdom raised questions. They said, “Hmm, I’m not sure this is a good idea and here is why...” </p> <p>You too have wise counselors in your life—if you don’t, find some in your church. Seek their wisdom. Seek their accountability. Seek their unbiased opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But also you should check their wise counsel against what God’s word says. </p> <p>A wise person will take such advice as God speaking to them. That is God’s will. </p> <h3>4. God's Will is revealed in God's Word.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(The Map to Eternal Life) </h3> <p>In Psalm 119:105 – God’s word is a lamp unto our feet and light unto our path.</p> <p>How basic: but how true. The fact of the matter is this: 99 percent of what God wants to you to do in your life is spelled out in His Word. Also God is not going to mysteriously lead you to do something that contradicts His Word.</p> <p>Ask yourself these questions. How much of God’s revealed Word are you following now? </p> <p><em><span style="font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Are you faithfully seeking Him on a daily basis through Bible study and prayer? </span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><br /></i><em><span style="font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Are you sharing your faith? </span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><br /></i><em><span style="font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Are you doing your best to live apart from sin? </span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><br /></i><em><span style="font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Are you faithful to your spouse? </span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><br /></i><em><span style="font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Are you seeking satisfaction in Christ instead of the world? </span></em></p> <p>These are just a few of many areas where the Bible touches our lives, where God’s Word is revealed to us in simple, concrete, direct language. And you and I can’t escape it. </p> <p>Quite often, Christians try to blend their own sinful lifestyles with the teachings of scripture and then they wonder why they can’t ever seem to discover “God’s will for their lives.” </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">In conclusion:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></b></p> <p>Let me ask you this:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you knew there was going to be some sort of natural disaster heading your way or that was going to occur in your area; that would knock out power, shut down grocery stores, banks and all commerce would you prepare or would you be like Sammy?</p> <p>It is dangerous to stop paying attention to the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In fact I would venture to say that now the environment around you is no longer recognizable and your current focus on materialism, and following the dream has blinded you.</p> <p>So how do you get back on track?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Look at the Eternal Map and take a hard look at your surroundings.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then, “Go do something and God will direct you”.</p> <p>God wants us to be instruments that can be used by him, however if we are merely sitting around doing nothing to prepare either spiritually or physically then what use are we?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Most are not sharing their faith about Christ right now…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Don’t you think if you prepare not only physically but spiritually that when a hard time comes God can use you?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m not saying that God will not perform miracles during that time.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But what if you are apart of that miracle that God wants to perform?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Will you stand and raise your hand and say here I am Lord?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I can help!!!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>God has a plan and you are apart of that plan…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Be obedient to God’s plan and his word.</p> <p>Last point:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I think it is wise to prepare.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My reasons are:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>You will be in a better mind set than most.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You can be spiritually prepared.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>You will not have to rush around and scramble to get necessary things putting yourself and your family in danger.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>You can be at home with your family praying, reading God’s word and comforting those you love.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>After the disaster you are more likely to be available to help others, obviously unless the disaster hit you directly, then it really doesn’t matter…</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>(As an example) - Joseph prepared Egypt and Israel for the disaster of famine… </p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>The Bible tells us that troubles will be coming, so we have no excuse to not prepare…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We should not be like Sammy…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That is putting God to the test in my opinion.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>God will use what you have prepared.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If that means you can use the supply, then great, if that means someone else that stumbles across you place can use them, then so be it…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Either way God will direct.</p> <p style="margin-left:.25in">There is not really a strong answer to why you should not prepare.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m not saying prepare for end times through being selfish…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m saying be prepared in the event there is a disaster, even if no disaster has never hit your area.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But a disaster can also include an economic disaster, and I believe that is on its way.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p style="margin-left:.25in">Stop pretending to be ignorant, you are without excuse.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Instead be wise…</p> <p><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p>BerryBlueBerry</p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-44508904929920580312011-09-28T10:31:00.000-07:002011-09-28T10:37:44.782-07:00Obedient Preparation Precedes Blessings:<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to take this from the word, so here is a collection of what I found to be Obedient Preparation which then precedes a blessing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Straight from the Word of God:</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No water for many until ditches were dug</span></b></p> <h3>2 Kings 3:16-17</h3> <p><sup>16</sup> and he said, “This is what the LORD says: I will fill this valley with pools of water. <sup>17</sup> For this is what the LORD says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink. </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Oil until vessels were gathered</span></b><span style="color:blue;"></span></p> <h3>2 Kings 4:3-4</h3> <p> <sup>3</sup> Elisha said: “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. <sup>4</sup> Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.” </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Healing until the leper had dipped seven times</span></b></p> <h3>2 Kings 5:10</h3> <p><sup>10</sup> Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Messiah until the way had been prepared</span></b></p> <h3>Isaiah 40:3</h3> <p> <sup>3</sup> A voice of one calling:<br />“In the wilderness prepare<br /> the way for the LORD:<br />make straight in the desert<br /> a highway for our God.</p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Harvest until the ground had been broken up</span></b></p> <h3>Hosea 10:12</h3> <p><sup>12</sup> Sow righteousness for yourselves,<br /> reap the fruit of unfailing love,<br />and break up your unplowed ground;<br /> for it is time to seek the LORD,<br />until he comes<br /> and showers his righteousness on you. </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Reconciliation without repentance</span></b></p> <h3>Joel 2:12-13</h3> <p class="MsoNormal"> <sup>12</sup> “Even now,” declares the LORD,<br /> “return to me with all your heart,<br /> with fasting and weeping and mourning.” </p> <p> <sup>13</sup> Rend your heart<br /> and not your garments.<br />Return to the LORD your God,<br /> for he is gracious and compassionate,<br />slow to anger and abounding in love,<br /> and he relents from sending calamity. </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Vision without obedience</span></b></p> <h3>John 9:7</h3> <p><sup>7</sup> “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Resurrection until the stone is removed</span></b></p> <h3>John 11:39</h3> <p><sup>39</sup> “Take away the stone,” he said. </p> <p> “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">No Entrance into heaven without cleansing</span></b></p> <h3>Revelation 7:13-14</h3> <div class="result-text-style-normal"> <p> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-30824">13</sup> Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?” </p><p> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-30825">14</sup> I answered, “Sir, you know.” </p><p> And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </p></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <h3> </h3> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Conclusion:</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not what you thought…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Me neither…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I know this is confusing…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In fact I was hoping for something a little more concrete, which lead me to do further research which will be in the next posting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Don’t you hate to be continues?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I do…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So I’ll try and be speedy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">So what is all this saying or what does it mean?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I will further put this together again in the next posting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But for now:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is God who has a preordained plan for us, who has given us specific steps, and who wants to see our lives matter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In each of the above examples God spoke through Circumstances, Opportunities, Wise Counsel and His Words.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>God’s directions or will is spelled out in His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We need to stop, take a look around ourselves, pray, and be in His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Consider the circumstances, and the opportunities that you have been given and or that you have been observing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h3>Ephesians 2:10</h3> <p><sup>10</sup> For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. </p> <p> </p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:blue;">Please Stay Alert:</span></b></p> <h3>Matthew 24:42-44</h3> <p> <sup>42</sup> “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. <sup>43</sup> But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. <sup>44</sup> So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. </p> <h3>Luke 12:35-36</h3> <p class="MsoNormal"> <sup>35</sup> “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, <sup>36</sup> like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.</p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">To be continued…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’ll try and get it out by this Friday if not sooner.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">BerryBlueBerry</p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-33806544990238749212011-09-23T09:39:00.000-07:002011-09-23T09:42:23.702-07:00Its time to put your house in order...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">September 23, 2011</p><p class="MsoNormal">2Ki 20:1 in those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Our economy is failing, and unless we repent and change our ways I believe that our economy will not recover.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Stop and look around you…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Men are losing their jobs, their homes, their self worth, and more and more individuals are turning to our government for aid, support, and answers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Materialism has taken root, and like a weed it has consumed us all!!!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are too caught up in what we have and what we want and how are we going to get this or that, that we don’t have time for our family, our kids, our husbands or wives, our friends, or what is most important: God.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Materialism has consumed most of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We have too much stuff…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That stuff consumes our time, and our money.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It takes away our relationships with others and God.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Men’s hearts are failing… They are being weighted down by fear, anxiety, and distress from materialism.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A man can not cope with all the responsibilities that he has taken on through materialism.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We have too much going on and there are too many things happening around us.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We have in essence become consumed by our own stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Are we coping?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Most men just go to their man made “man caves” flip on the big screen plasma and get lost with a beverage of their choice.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Their kids are out doing their own things, and their wives are on the computer blogging on face-book.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Obviously there are men and women who are doing other things besides what I mentioned above, but the point is that there is no togetherness and no time for God.)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So how does one put his or her house in order?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’m not going to claim to be an expert in this, and one thing I will say for sure is, “That it is easier said then done”.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I believe we need to first start by Spiritual Preparation:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Those steps as per the bible are:</p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Abandonment of idols</b>: 1Sa 7:3</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><sup>3</sup> So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” <sup id="en-NIV-7357">4</sup> So the Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the LORD only.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue">(We need to rid ourselves of materialism).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Cleansing of God’s temple</b>: 2Ch 29:15</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <sup id="en-NIV-11807">15</sup> When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the LORD, as the king had ordered, following the word of the LORD. <span style="color:blue">(Repent, turn back to the Lord you can cleanse yourself by washing with water through the word.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="3" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Return to the Lord</b>: Lk 1:17</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><sup>17</sup> And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue">(John prepared the way for Christ, we have that example…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We need to turn our hearts to God so that we can love unconditionally and are able to be wise and understand the things that God is revealing to us through his word, circumstances, and things happening in our world today.) Romans 12:2 - Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="4" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Personal Purification</b>: 2Ti 2:20-21</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><sup>20</sup> In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. <sup id="en-NIV-29849">21</sup> Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="color:blue">(Let us become instruments of God for his use.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We can not do this if we are consumed by materialism.)</span></p> <h4>Psalm 127</h4> <p> <sup id="en-NIV-16123">1</sup> Unless the LORD builds the house,<br /> the builders labor in vain.<br />Unless the LORD watches over the city,<br /> the guards stand watch in vain.<br /><sup id="en-NIV-16124">2</sup> In vain you rise early<br /> and stay up late,<br />toiling for food to eat—<br /> for he grants sleep to those he loves. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <sup id="en-NIV-16125">3</sup> Children are a heritage from the LORD,<br /> offspring a reward from him.<br /><sup id="en-NIV-16126">4</sup> Like arrows in the hands of a warrior<br /> are children born in one’s youth.<br /><sup id="en-NIV-16127">5</sup> Blessed is the man<br /> whose quiver is full of them.<br />They will not be put to shame<br /> when they contend with their opponents in court.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Like I said easier said then done… However it is a must.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We all need to make the spiritual preparations, and prepare our house.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Put you house in order!!!! <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Give your house to God. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I have to say that I think that Joshua put it best with this verse from Joshua 24…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>15 </span>But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">But as for <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">me</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">and</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">my</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">house</span>hold, we will serve the LORD.”</b><span style="color:black"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Also if you know hard times are coming…<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then what do you think you should do?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’ll try and look at Obedient Preparation that precedes Blessings next time.</span></p> <p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">One more Note:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hebrews 10:24-25</b></p> <p class="txt-sm">New International Version (NIV)</p> <p><sup id="en-NIV-30158">24</sup> And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, <sup id="en-NIV-30159">25</sup> not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. </p> <p>Stay tuned for now...<span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-char-type:symbol; mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"></span></span></p> <p>BerryBlueBerry</p>the70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com4