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One World Banking System – End Time Prophecy

18 Jun

For the last two weeks we have been talking about the one world currency.  Is that the same as the one world banking system?  They are very closely linked but technically no.

You could have the whole world agreeing to use coconuts only as the currency of the world and still have no banks.  However, going digital on currency allows the banks and the main financial computer systems to be all linked.

Why is this important in light of the last days?  Ah yes, let’s see the scripture that implies it again.

Revelation 13:16-17 –16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Now you got to realize that the book of Revelation is packed full of mind boggling, wowing, kinds of things.  The judgments are huge and devastating.  It says that one guy will be a dictator, and it indicates he will have the power to look over and keep an eye on the world as a whole.  There will be one economic system that everyone will use and accept and if you don’t accept the mark of this ruler, you can’t use the system.  No problem right, you’re a free creature.

Wrong.

You try to buy and sell and you don’t have this mark, he’ll have his followers hunt you down and have you executed.  Why?  Sorry that’s for when we talk about the Antichrist, Satan, and the Mark of the Beast in the weeks to come. 

So the one world banking system will be more than just banking, it will be part of the whole linked financial institution.  Certain countries won’t be allowed to just keep printing money as they please like one we are familiar with today.

Do politicians like this idea?  Oh yeah, very much so.  Your politicians live to create laws and tax.  If all your resources are linked to a visible system and there is no more underground, taxing and controlling will be much easier.  Fraud will be harder to pull off and easier to trace.

So let’s recap just three of the many End Time Prophecies that we have gone over so far.  Israel has to be back in their land.  There is an indication that the generation that sees them get back into their land won’t pass.   There has to be a one world banking system along with a reason of why the nations would want to go to or have to go to a one world currency.  The biggest reason is the ones who have no money at all, technically still have more than those who are in serious debt.

To see all the End Time Prophecies I have written on so far, just go over to the category “End Time Prophecies” and click on it.  It should then start from the most recent and work its way down to the oldest post on the subject.  You can do this with any category as well.

If someone had told you just 20 years ago that it would be possible for what we are seeing today in the financial world they would have laughed at you and said the world will never want it or go for it.  Cash was still king and people liked that they couldn’t be tracked, but we have been conditioned now.

Just three prophecies have been gone over so far and don’t take them lightly.  The Jews have the whole world against them and yet just a tiny nation is a burdensome stone (whoops there’s number four we already touched on) to the rest of the world.  How did they get back there and how are they still there?  God’s promise and covenant with Abraham, that’s how!  The world will come together economically and use the same system to buy and sell.  So four end time prophecies that have either have happened or only make sense that they are going to happen so far.   I will be writing on many more in the weeks to come.  God has given many of them for us to see, just in case we want to ignore a few end time prophecies as pure chance.

 

I Had A Dream – 1 Corinthians 2:9

17 Jun

Not to be confused with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

One night back 1994-95, or sometime around then, I asked God to give me some encouragement.  I had been studying quite a bit back then and just needed something to fill up my tank.

That night I had a dream.  You know what it was about?

Neither do I!  I have quite a post going here so far here, huh?

Actually it was an incredible, unforgetable event for me.

I actually only remember the last 3 seconds of what I kind of remember being a pretty long and in-depth dream.  The words that came from my own mouth were,” Thank you Jesus, You have shown me more than I could have ever asked for!”  The only little bit I remember at the end was a brilliant color of blue and it was like I was in the air travelling.  That was it.  The sensation of how I felt about what I had seen was still with me.  What I had seen was not allowed to be remembered.

I knew from the time that I woke, had those feelings, that the Lord had just answered my prayer for encouragement.  I didn’t for two seconds think to myself, that stinks,  I can’t remember what I just went through.  I knew that the reason I couldn’t remember is because I wasn’t allowed to.

1 Corinthians 2:9 –   9However, as it is written:  “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.”

The greatest moment on earth will not even begin to compare to the normal everyday of Heaven.

So why are we trying to build Heaven here on earth?  We are warned repeatedly by scriptures in the New Testament not to do this.

It takes faith to take what God has entrusted to us and invest it into the Kingdom of Heaven instead of ourselves.  Jesus and God love that kind of faith.

 

My How Time Flies

16 Jun

A day whisks by, you blink, and it’s over.

A year isn’t very long, when one looks back at life.

A decade flies by, where does the time go?

A half a century elapses; your time on earth is on the down slope.

If you have managed to do quite well based on worldly standards, was it really that great?  If you did it all for yourself and have nothing to present to the Lord when the rewards are due, how will you feel?    

We’re not taking any of physical comforts with us.  It all stays behind.  The only thing that continues forward is what you have done for Him.

If you’re reading this, you’re never too old and it’s a great day to serve Jesus.  It’s even a better one to make that service an everyday habit.

 

Lampstands In Reveleation Chapter 4 – Rapture – Pre-Trib

15 Jun

So far we have talked about the Church being mentioned all through the first three chapters of Revelation.

Then we spoke about Revelation 4:1 when Jesus says, “Come up here” and the word church isn’t used again.

So let’s this week concentrate on those lampstands back in Revelation 1 again.

Revelation 1:20 –  20The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

The seven lampstands are the seven churches.

They are present in Chapter 1 with Jesus amongst them in verse 1:13. 

Revelation 1:13 – 13and among the lampstands was someone “like a son of man,”dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.

So the fact they are present in chapter 4 doesn’t make a big persuasion that the church is all the sudden present with the Lord in a rapture fashion.  There is something though that has changed.

Revelation 4:5 – 5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there was seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

The lamps are now burning before the throne.  Is this significant?  Before there are lampstands and they are not burning.  The lampstands do signify the church so something has changed. 

Since the church is not mentioned again after 4:1 it makes one look at the scriptures a little closer and I did notice the difference concerning the lamps and lampstands. 

Next week we’ll look at another group in Chapter 4.

 

Run The Race Until It’s Time To Pass Off The Baton

14 Jun

Paul let’s us know to run the race.

Acts 20:24 – 24However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

We all have a duty to run the best race that we are capable of running.  By running the race the best you can, you’re going to affect others on their race as well.

The race for most is not a sprint, but a long endurance run.  But you need to be running.  We don’t need to be running to the left and to the right or backwards.  Run towards the prize.  The prize is in front of you.  The Devil will tempt you will all sorts of distractions and will have you running ragged. 

Hebrews 12:1-3 – 1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Keeping our eyes on Jesus as you run will keep you running straight.

We have a duty to keep running up to the time of our departure.  Rapture or Death you need to run the best race you can.

When the race is complete for you, it will be time to pass off the baton to another.  Make it a goal to build those up around you to make them strong loving Christian people so you may pass the baton off and begin your new life with your Savior in Heaven.

 

Feed My Sheep

12 Jun

John 21:15-17 – 15When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?”
      “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
      Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”

 16Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me?”
      He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
      Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”

 17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
      Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”

    Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.

When God and Jesus repeat themselves you need to take extra note to the importance.  Each and everyone one of us has a duty to try and reach others for the Kingdom of God.  With the Power of God all you have to do is seek him and he will work through you.

Matthew 9:37 – 37Then he (Jesus) said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

You don’t have to look too far to realize that this scripture comes to life.  There are plenty of people who need to be saved from destruction and need to reunite with the Lord.  Will you be one of those?  As I will always say, each one of us has a gift or gifts.  Use them for the Kingdom of God, not temporary gain that you can’t take with you.

Is it important when someone gets saved from death and hell?

Luke 15:3-7 –   3Then Jesus told them this parable: 4“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ 7I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. 

Now that last scripture hits on someone new coming to the Lord.  However, your obedience of encouraging others is also feeding His sheep.  Just one little thing you say can revive or rejuvenate someone to get back on the path of serving the Lord.

Jesus makes it pretty clear that if you love Him, feed His sheep.

Put your name here if you love Me, Feed My Sheep.

 

Closing In On A One World Currency –End Time Prophecy

11 Jun

We spoke last week that the Bible speaks about a one world currency in Revelation 13:16-17.

Revelation 13:16-17 – 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

This week I just wanted to give everyone a reminder.  For the last 18 months we have had learned just how tied together the world economic markets are.  When either the US Dollar, Yen, or Euro, starts to reveal weakness, the other markets begin to fall.

The US is willing to admit it is 13 Trillion Dollars debt right now.  We know that it if the government is willing to admit 13 Trillion of debt, then like the Gulf Oil spill information, you know it’s a lot worse than what it is.  We’re throwing just under a trillion at every problem that has come along most recently. 

The Euro has taken a huge hit lately.  They found out that they have to balance out over 25 countries with different economies.  No easy task.

The Yen is making a comeback, but now there is a danger of it becoming too strong, because that affects the exporting business.

The Chinese are already asking for another currency other than the dollar to be used for the oil standard.  Why?  They have tons invested into us and don’t want our economy to fail, but the reality is they know we won’t be able to pull ourselves out of the debt were in.

If the economies of the world aren’t fragile enough already, the only ones that are producing profit are the ones who hate democracy.   The profit is mainly because of oil.

Where are they putting those profits?  Into armaments and bulding their war machine.  That’s a peaceful thought isn’t it?

So how close are we to a one linked currency system?  It could be a necessity within months.  When the nations are unable to stop the bleeding of the collapsing economies it will be one of the only solutions.  A solution that elite groups around the world have been pushing for a long time now.

Why would there be groups who want or care about this?  These groups have been working towards a one world order so we don’t blow each other up, overpopulate, don’t have some living in luxury and others starving to death, etc.

So why is this a bad thing?  Because they are trying to do it without God.  Do we have another story where everybody was trying to come together and build something without God in the Bible?  Yep, the Tower of Babel.

God didn’t like it when man was trying to bring everything together without Him at the Tower of Babel.  When I read Revelation and the Wrath of God in the last days, I don’t think He’s excited about it now either.

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The Law And Jesus Christ

10 Jun

Galatians 5:4 – 4You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

Paul was talking to the Jews who were trying to still live by the law to get to God.  However, God’s Son had already come and fulfilled the real path back to God.

What he is saying is if you accept Jesus and obey Him, you are still going to obey the law.  Jesus had this to say in:

Matthew 5:17 –  17“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

If you try to obey the law without accepting Christ, however, you have fallen away from grace.

This is just more information for the human race.  You can try and be the best person in the world, but even if you try to obey the Ten Commandments and don’t know the Son, you are still going to die in your sins.

Once you have Jesus, your heart should want to obey the commandments.  Actually you should understand them better than ever.  I am going to write a whole separate post on resting on the Sabbath, but as a Christian we should all realize the need to do so especially in this day and age.

Jesus didn’t come to change the law but to fulfill it.  Let’s all make an extra effort to live for Jesus and obey the law-commandments.

 

Remember He Was Spirit Filled, But He Was Still A Man

09 Jun

The purpose of this post is to remind people that we can’t be putting others on a pedestal.

Great men of God are still men.  That’s what I love about the Bible.

God is infallible, man is a mess.

The more hooked into to God we are and the more we die to ourselves, the less of a mess we become.  Even under those circumstances, we are still humans.

My example today is John the Baptist.  What a great man of God.  Dedicated his whole life when he was called from what we believe was from his birth.

Here is what Jesus had to say about John the Baptist.

Matthew 11:  – 10This is the one about whom it is written:  “‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’ 11I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

John prepared the way for the coming Messiah.  He was fully committed to God.

After John was arrested and was in prison, he wondered if Jesus was indeed the Messiah.  I believe John like many of the Jewish leaders of the day, thought the Messiah was coming to take over and rule the Jews over the other nations.  So when that wasn’t happening, he was second guessing his baptism.

Matthew 11:1-3 – 1After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee. 2When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples 3to ask him, “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?”

Why did John ever doubt?  Because he was a man.

He was in prison after giving his life to God.  He was hearing about Jesus preaching the Good News, but I can’t help to think, and this is my opinion, he was waiting for Jesus to make his Kingship and then get John out of that prison.

Don’t get me wrong.  I don’t believe that for two seconds that if John knew that if he was going to be in prison or beheaded and that was God’s plan for his life, that he would have changed a thing.  He was a souled out believer.

John was a great man of God.  Like all great men of God, he had his moment or moments.

I am so grateful that the Lord had all those things recorded in his Word.  If all the great men of God were perfect, who would attempt to follow and present the Gospel after them?  Certainly not I.

However, since all men are fallible, we can all know that perfection isn’t a necessity to spread the Good News.

A heart for Truth is.  To spread around the correct Gospel is.  Perfection however, is not a prerequisite.  Time for all of us to spread the Good News.

 

Revelation 4:1 – Pre-Trib Rapture

08 Jun

Last week we talked about how the first three chapters of Revelation speak a lot about the church.  It talks about the sevens churches in chapters 2 &3.  In fact that’s the church is the only thing talked about in those two chapters.

Then Revelation chapter 4 comes into play.  The word church isn’t used again and yet we couldn’t get enough of it in the first three chapters.

Revelation 4:1 – 1After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

Wow, what a verse.  It would be easy for one to say that John was getting a vision and now he’s in Heaven.  However, the words he used are familiar.  Let’s break them down.

The voice I had first heard speaking to me.  That was Jesus, or was it God?  Right on both.  That’s part of another series of posts, back to the rapture.

So Jesus is speaking to John.  What’s he saying?  First more importantly how’s he saying it?  He is speaking to me like a trumpet John says.  He uses the words, “Come up here…” 

Why is this so familiar?  Wait?

1 Thessolonians 4:16-17 – 16For 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. 17After 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.

The Lord Himself….check.  The trumpet call of God….check.  People going up to be with him ….check.

Not only is the church not mentioned again after Revelation 4:1, but what a great verse that appears to all the makings of a rapture verse.

Next week, lets get back to those Lampstands.