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How Many Friends Does Israel Have in The Last Days?

04 Sep

Zechariah 14:2-4 –2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.  3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.

How many nations are friends of Israel today?  If you said the U.S., this current administration is not.  Currently Israel is hanging on that thread of nobody hardly being in their corner.  Because they are the only democracy over there and because there is still some good support from the people in the United States they get a little support.  Canada is still friendly but not as much of a worldly presence.

Not even Hitler used the open language of his plan and the annihilation of the Jews as clearly as the leadership of Iran today.  Hitler also didn’t have most of the Jews back in their land or nuclear capability.  The President and the Ayatollah of Iran have repeatedly said they will use their capabilities to try and end Israel.

What has the world done?  Basically nothing.

Why?  Because they have the support of Russia and that could lead to a world war.

Who are the main big players in the last days to go against Israel in Ezekiel 38 & 39?  Russia which is called Gog and the old Persia which is now the Iran/Iraq area.

We know that Iran’s wishes are religious and spiritual.  But what about an unspiritual Russia?  Russia for the last 70 years has always been about domination and growing.  There is a nice south port down in Israel amongst the oil.  Many also believe that Israel is on top of a major amount of oil or in drilling distance themselves.  If your Russia that seems like an opportunity to further your goal.

Will that happen successfully?  As we read above, it will not.  The Lord Himself comes down to fight against those nations.

Israel has the most important Friend at that time.  A Friend that will keep His promise which He made to Abraham long ago.

 
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Series Of Earthquakes In Southern CA

27 Aug

We we’re down in Anaheim and had gone to bed when the Yorba Linda 4.5 quake hit at about 11:23 PM on August 8th.  My wife hadn’t been through one before and it wasn’t very big, but it was only 5 miles away from the epicenter.  She said, “What should we do?”  I rolled over and told her to go back to bed.  I let her know that earthquakes come and go, they’re not warnings of something to soon hit that’s bigger.

Ironically I’m looking online and twice this last month another earthquake almost the same size did hit nearby.  They were bigger than an aftershock.  Yesterday Brawley, CA had a 5.3 followed up by a 5.5 only less than an hour a half later.  August 11th, there were two quakes in Ahar, Iran 11 minutes apart that we’re 6.4 and 6.2.  However, we only had a couple of aftershocks the next day we couldn’t even feel, so I didn’t have to eat my words that night.

There was also a large quake in El Salvador of 7.4 yesterday or even today by the UTC clock used to tell the time.

Almost everyone who knows bible prophecy knows it that earthquakes are one of the significant signs of his coming.  They are like birth pangs.  They will happen closer together and more intense as the time of His coming approaches.

Matthew 24:7 –7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

 
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Stiff Necked People

02 Aug

Acts 7:51-53 – 51 “You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52 Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him — 53 you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it.”

Stephen gave a great history lesson of the Jews to the upper tier of spiritual leadership.  This just how he finished and did they repent?  Did they feel shame for missing what they had been foretold and missed?

No, since they didn’t have the Holy Spirit, they were still blind.  So responding the same way demons do when they hear the Word, they picked up stones and killed him.  They didn’t want to hear it.

Today bible prophecy, which there is more written about Christ’s second return than His first, is in full bloom.  Ignorance is not an excuse because people like me are telling them about it.  They don’t want to hear it.

The bad thing though is the reason people don’t want to hear it is because they are not excited about the Lord coming back.  The reasons vary, but the reality is they are not interested in Him coming back.  If a Christian is not excited about the Lord coming back after they hear about it and the scriptures point to it, there is a Holy Spirit problem.

The lack of the Holy Spirit problem today is rapidly affecting the church.  Many denominations have turned away from the literal interpretation of the Word of God.

What are the results?  Even though God promised the Jews He was going to rule on David’s throne, apparently to many denominations, He’s not.  To other denominations he isn’t coming back, or not until man paves the way.  Apparently He doesn’t mind same sex couples as that one is rapidly sweeping through the pulpits.

However, we still have literal verses of prophecy that explain and predict those things above.

2 Peter 3:3-4- 3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

2 Timothy 3:3-4 – 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Don’t be part of the itching ear clan.  Seek Truth.

 
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A Spirit Playing A Harp?

04 Jun

A Spirit Playing A Harp?

Satan always has a way of making an impression on the church.

First of all, if being a spirit and playing a harp for an eternal church service was how Heaven was going to be, you would be ecstatic.  That’s how your new self would respond to your new destiny.

However, does that really make a lot of sense?

The devil has used this to try and persuade people that the world has got so much more interesting and better things to offer than boring old Heaven.  He has successfully done a pretty good job, because almost everyone I see isn’t chasing after Heaven but trying to get in a heaven on earth.

A spirit, playing harp, on a cloud?  Which part of this matches up?

God made a creation and creatures on a perfect and beautiful earth.  He then made man and his partner so they could help run this institution.  What does man and his wife do?  They sin and turn it over to Satan.  No it’s cursed.

Man however, was made perfect and he had a body.  They were made for relationship with each other, with the animals, and with the Lord.  They had tasks to do.  They weren’t floating ghosts that had nothing to do but sit around.

Let’s take a look at Jesus after he resurrected.

Luke 24: – 36 Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”

40 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, “Have you any food here?” 42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it and ate in their presence.   NKJV

He had flesh and bone.  He ate fish and honeycomb.  He intermingled back amongst His disciples.

We were created the way we were supposed to be created.  The fall cursed the current way we think and the reason we start dying from the time we’re born.

Jesus died and paid the penalty we were doomed to have had to face.  Now all we have to do is get back to making Him Lord just like it was before the fall in the garden.  Time to make Him Lord again and receive that resurrected body that happens at the rapture.

What purpose would a ghost have for a mansion?

John 14:2-4 –  2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Don’t let the devil deceive you.  Heaven is perfection.  Perfection on how you will view it.  How you will feel about being there.  It will be all that you could hope for, because the Lord made us and knows exactly what we like even more than we do.

Serve Him every day.  He’s worthy!

 
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A Continued Word Of Prophecy

01 Jun

Nehemiah 1:8-9 –8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.

It happened back in the day of Nehemiah and the promise is there to stay.  As we read more prophecy the Lord has brought Israel back in these last days.  He will sit on the throne of David and rule and reign for 1,000 years.  The devil doesn’t like it and feels that if he can get rid of the Jewish race there will be no throne to sit on.  He has a whole large religion trying to achieve that for him.

I’ve read the ending along with many of you.  He doesn’t get that done no matter how hard he tries.  Our God reigns!

 
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We’re Fortunate Noah Found Favor In The Eyes Of The Lord

18 May

Genesis 6:5-8 – 5 The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth —men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them. ”

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

God was so grieved at man’s wickedness that he was going to end mankind. 

I think it’s safe to say that God doesn’t like wickedness.  The hearts of men were evil all the time.  Not just man’s actions but just his thoughts were bent on evil. 

When does man’s heart get darker and more evil?  The further he gets from the truth of God.  The further he gets away from the Light.  Where are we at today?  Man is leaning on his own understanding more and more every day.  The Word of God, to many people, is nothing more than an advisement.  If it works for you go with it, if not don’t.  It’s like a customized insurance policy for some.  I’ll take a little of that, but see no need for that.  Exclude that, and we’ll add that endorsement.  Best of all it’s all kind of gray so we’ll interpret what’s left to say what we want it to say.

Wolves have stepped into the pulpit and the followers have no guide, because they don’t know the Word. 

Noah found favor in God’s eyes.  Why?  Was he perfect?  Not at all.

What did Noah have?  We know he had an obedient heart.  Anyone that takes that many years to build a giant ark when it hadn’t even rained yet, while being ridiculed by a generation so evil God was going to wipe them out, had an obedient heart.

David? Abraham?  Obedient hearts!

That’s what He wants from us.  Obedient hearts!  Why is there going to be a great tribulation on earth in these last days?  God is going to deal with disobedient hearts.  Some will soften them and some will never soften them.  I believe that is one (of many) reason when I study the timing of the rapture, I see the Church going before God’s wrath on mankind.

Find favor in the eyes of the Lord.  Work on having an obedient heart.

 
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Grant Jeffrey Dies

14 May

There is some sad news in the Bible Prophecy circle.  Grant Jeffrey passed away on Friday May 11th.

Grant was one of my favorite Bible Prophecy teachers and I will greatly miss him.  His website is one of the few links that I have on the side of my blog.  You can click on it to see the message and his website.

However, even though it is a sad day for us and we will miss him and his continued ministry, what a glorious day for him.  One of Grant’s books was on Heaven.

Keep his wife close in your prayers.  Both he and Kaye worked side by side in their ministry.

 
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What’s One Of The Signs Of The Last Days?

30 Apr

2 Peter 3:4 – 3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

If you’ve read much of my blog you’ll remember that I have written many times that there would be a great falling away from the true faith.  Those are believers that are doing that, not unbelievers.  This post is to point out the same issue regarding believers.

Peter is stating that scoffers will come in the last days mocking the idea that Christ is going to return.  They have a form of taunting in them.  They will say “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?”  Peter exposes their hearts though.  He indicates it’s because they are following their own evil desires.  Once again, SELF!

Seeing any of this today?

Here is my analogy.  A huge group of people are down in a valley partying it up.  They are surrounded by high hills all around them.  The hills easily climbable but the hike will take awhile and some work.  There are those who choose to climb the hills and “wow” they see signs of things that they have only heard about coming off in the distance.  They go back to the crowd and tell them what they saw.  A few find it fascinating and head for the hills.  They go up and see even more than the previous group and come down to tell others.

This keeps happening and what they see in the distance once they get up to the top of the hill just keeps getting closer.  However, many that have made the hike have gotten older and have died.  Others that come back to tells those partying in the valley about how they are seeing even more are not finding too many that are interested in disrupting their valley party.

This story is just an analogy in regarding that people refuse to look for the signs or even take any time to learn what they may be.  It isn’t going into the consequences of a heart that doesn’t want to look for or seek the Lord.

There are two things around us in these last days that are easily seen by a mere time consuming but simple study.  One, evolution is very flawed and for brilliant minds of scientist to put their complete faith in it reveals the true definition of “blind faith.”  Second if you study what the signs are for Christ’s Second Coming, you couldn’t come to any other conclusion except that it is right at the door.

So where is the problem with believers and the missteps?

If a believer doesn’t know the Word of God they are ripe for picking by the evil one.  Satan and his demons hang out in the darkness.  Jesus wants us in the sheep pen where he can guard us.  However, many believers stubbornly refuse to stay corralled in the pen.

A majority of Christians today don’t know the difference between Light and darkness.  They don’t know the difference between Truth and a lie.  It’s because they don’t know the Word of God.

To reach others we need to know the Word.  To protect our hearts and souls we need to know the Word.  There is a war going on for man’s heart and soul.  Are you going be Switzerland and be neutral?  God doesn’t want neutral.  He wants you to choose His side.

The signs are all around us and we are nearing the time Jesus is going to take His church and the group of the scoffers is getting bigger every day.

 
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Tower Of Babel

19 Mar

Genesis  11:1-9 –1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

The Tower of Babel was man trying to build a tower to reach Heaven without God.  Man that was on the earth had came together and was working towards this.  God confused the language so they all dispersed.

Today man is trying to bring the world back into a one world system.  There are many different reasons why they are trying to achieve this and most of them have to do with preserving the earth so we don’t destroy it and all the people on the planet.  However, there is one thing the Tower of Babel and the New World Order have in common.  They both have no regard for having our God that we read about in our Bible in charge of either of them.  The One World Order crowd may be trying to organize a One World religion, but that’s to try and please the differences, not to give God the lead.

God is not interested in man creating his own system so they may work together on their own.  One thing men in the dark don’t understand is that the devil was behind the Tower of Babel and he is behind the One World Order also.

For Satan to run the earth, he needs it to all be run under one system.  For him to be in authority on demanding worship, he has to be the One World leader.  That’s what Revelation writes about.  God isn’t happy about it and does more than disperse people and confuse their language on this go around.  If they want to serve Satan and reject Him, it’s bad times for them.

 
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Rapture Timing

05 Mar

It’s been awhile since I wrote on this topic.  I have a lot of posts on support for the pre-trib rapture.  There is a lot that I ended up writing on, because there is so much in God’s Word.  If you are curious to know what those are, just go over to the categories and select on Rapture.  You will need to go quite a ways back as I wrote on them in the first six months of my blog.  Also if you put a search for pre-trib most of them will come up that way too.

Today I want to talk on some of Paul’s verses to the Thessalonians.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 –  1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come.

If the Thessalonians were worried they missed the rapture and it was supposed to be at the end when Christ comes back during the second coming, does that make sense?  These guys studied and believed Jesus was the Messiah and that he is coming back to rule and reign like it says in Daniel, Zechariah and Isaiah as well as other prophets.  If they missed it, they were still over in the vicinity of where Jesus is coming to rule and reign, not on the other side of the earth.

So why were they worried that they missed it if none of the other signs of the second coming had happened yet.  Those are the things that Paul was reminding them about.

It appears to me that they had the idea that the Lord’s return was imminent.  They believed nothing had to proceed before the Lord could come back and take his own to be with Him.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18-16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.

One of the most important parts of these verses that get overlooked is the last verse.  Therefore encourage each other with these words.

I supposed lots of people can get encouraged about many different things.  If you told me I had to try to endure to the very end of the Tribulation before the rapture, I don’t know how encouraging that would be.

I find it more encouraging to hear these words.

1Thessalonians 5:9 – 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I’m encouraged by those words.

I’m not encouraged by these words though.

Revelations 13:5-8 –5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. 6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.

9 He who has an ear, let him hear.

10 If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity he will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword he will be killed.

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.

Now I believe the Tribulation saints are the ones who accept Jesus after the rapture, not the church.

I would not be encouraged if the Beast was given power to make war with the saints and conquer them (us).  I don’t know how 1 Thessalonians 5:9 works into this either.  Also we’re told the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church.

Matthew 16:  –  16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

If the Beast is allowed to prevail over the church, does this not cause some problems with words of Jesus above.  However, if the Church is gone and these are the saints after the rapture, that’s not the case.

There’s a lot of other things that support the pre-trib rapture as stated before. I just was motivated to write on this today.

 
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