You know the card says "Peace on Earth". But we are right now closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. You would realize that if you are paying attention to the REAL NEWS on the internet and not the stolen U.S. television media.
Everywhere I went yesterday I heard people arguing and fighting. Those "in the know" realize that the spirits of discord and lawlessness have been unleashed everywhere.
The Globalists want to bring every nation together, serving one religion and one man, under a false semblance of peace.
But we know that Jesus Christ/Yeshua Ha Meshiach, will bring the only true peace on Earth when He comes - THE SECOND TIME - His SECOND ADVENT.
Back when the angels sang and rejoiced in the skies above the shepherds, saying "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men", they must have been referring to His Second Coming.
For we know as a babe-in-the-manger, He only brought peace to the hearts of some - those who would welcome Him as Savior and Healer.
If you've ever seen the documentary "Star of Bethlehem" you will know that the particular planetary and constellational alignments that occurred December 25th, 2 B.C. have profound evidence for being that so-called "star".
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However, this past September 23rd, 2017, that same planetary alignment occurred again, in a most remarkable way, for the 1st time in 2000 years.
Jesus said, in Matthew 16: 2-3:
"He answered them and said, 'When it is evening you say, it will be fair weather for the sky is red, and in the morning you say 'It will be foul weather today for the sky is red and lowing'. Oh you hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky but can you not discern the signs of the times?"
If, as the majority of End Time Bible scholars believe, that Israel is God's "time-clock", and that "summer is nigh", when the "fig tree" puts forth her leaves, as she did in 1948...Some say 1967. Matthew 24:22 and Luke 21:30
But I believe 1948 has more significance to the rebirth of Israel as a nation...The Bible says that this generation which saw 1948 shall not pass (in Jesus' own words), before the Son of Man Returns.
This is reiterated in:
Matthew 24:31, Mark 13:30, and Luke 2:32
That means we are far closer to His SECOND COMING than to His first! I'm not referring to any STEALTH ARRIVAL.
I am talking about when Jesus arrives in the clouds, at the apex of mankind's history, where "every eye shall see Him". (Revelation 1:7):
"Behold He cometh with clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him." KJV
I have been waiting for this event ever since I was a toddler. My father read me Bible stories - especially from the Old Testament. He would tell me as he tucked me in at night, "JESUS IS COMING SOON!"
Even President Trump is playing a role causing end time events to fall into place as he recently declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
Common Usage - Ed. Purposes
Seeing how the Lord's return is so very near that we can almost reach out and touch Him, I'm starting a NEW CHRISTMAS TRADITION THIS YEAR. I am celebrating Christ's SECOND ADVENT with faith that He will bring TRUE PEACE ON EARTH WITH HIS RETURN.
Meanwhile I will think of Anna and Simeon, who sensing the nearness of Messiah, waited in the Temple until they saw Him with their very own eyes! Luke 2:26 and 34 and Luke 2:38
And, as people exchange gifts, its no longer the wise men I'll be thinking about. Rather, it's the TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATION whose deaths will cause the entire world to exchange gifts with joy - just like at Christmas! Revelation 11:8:
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."
Believers in Messiah won't be exchanging gifts but the unredeemed will be so relieved at the so-called "torment" the two witnesses dished out that the whole earth will rejoice at their demise. The really sad thing is that most Christians imagine they will be whisked away because of the recently popularized doctrine of a quick escape before all these things come to pass. If the martyrs of history had to patiently endure tribulation, why would we modern Christians be any more privileged to escape and not have the honor of laying down our lives for Him? The Bible says we are not "appointed to wrath" which is absolutely true. I Thess. 6:9 But the "trying of our faith" worketh patience. James 1:3 And the Bride must make herself ready for the Bridegroom's return. Revelation 18:7-18 Have you made yourself ready? Is your gown purged white? Or are you simply living a routine of mediocre Christianity without the power and presence of the Living Messiah, the comfort and constant awareness of the Holy Spirit? Don't you think that it is time, in faith, that we should NOW celebrate His Second Arrival? Seeing as how it is SO CLOSE! All the signs are there if you simply look. May His peace and joy fill your lives and family this season. In His Love, Faith
"We Shall Behold Him" Sandy Patty Common Usage-Ed. Purposes Only
If you sign your name to something,
what does it leave behind? Your signature
of course! We saw God’s signature this past week, but few even know it.
Across the United States people
traveled hundreds of miles to great viewing locations where the 70-mile wide
path of the solar eclipse would make its swathe clear across America, from one
end to the other. The solar event affected almost every state in the Union.
Twelve states received the shadow of
almost near-total darkness. Indeed.
America has a serious condition. That
condition is lack of awareness about what is happening in our culture and in
the world at large. We are “IN THE DARK”.
I can’t live carefree and happily as
I did when a child, being taught to look forward to the Return of Jesus Christ.
So many pictures filled my mind with joy when I thought about Him coming on the
clouds, arms stretched wide, with the sunlight of His glory streaming all
around Him.
At that age I had no clue about the
enormity and intensity of the events that have to occur before the Lord’s One
and Only Return.
But even reading my Bible as a young
girl I noticed that events described in church with regard to Christ’s Return
did not always line up with the Biblical account. Absorbing the prophecies with
a child’s mind I was able to pare away the man-made determinations from the
pure truth of what the Bible said.
Do you believe in signs? You should!
All the prophesied events appearing around us bear the SIGNature of God. The
enormous number of earthquakes and volcanoes, often simultaneously exploding
around the planet give huge evidence of massive Earth changes.
Romans8:22says, “All creation groans” in anticipation of His coming. He is the
Creator and King of the Universe. Would it not make sense that His nearing
arrival -this shift of energies -
influence the heavenly and earthly bodies? If one considers the inherent power
accompanying the One who created everything from nothing, and thinks that power
doesn’t somehow precede or surround Him or influence anything He touches – then
they are very wrong.
Creation longs for its original
pristine state…the one in which God looked happily upon His work, thinking that
it was very good. Man has come a long way in defiling this planet, not just its
ecology and environment, but spiritually as well. This planet’s ground has been
soaked by the remnants of wars, greed and lust.
Many say the “signs” are speeding up.
It certainly seems that way. Everything seems to be happening faster and faster
as though it is building to a crescendo.
Earth is suffering what the Lord says are
“Birth pangs”, just as a woman in labor suffers increasing pain and tremors,
knowing something is about to be birthed. She hopes that as the quickening
occurs, it will soon be over, and she will be able to see the magnificent
result of the suffering she endured.
Jesus Himself spoke about the signs
of His Return in Matthew 24 and Mark 21. I won’t go over them all, but He
mentioned earthquakes which have always captured my interest.
The increase in the number, frequency
and intensity of these events has become profound. As a child I remember
remarking when our TV announced an earthquake in some far off part of the
world. It didn’t happen very often.
Granted, our scientific community
didn’t always have the seismic measuring instruments then that we do now. We also
didn’t have the instantaneous methods of communication which we do now with the
Internet. However, I was careful to watch for these events as a child, being
interested in science, and also knowing the prophecies. So inwardly I watched
as over the years the number of earthquakes has increased such an amount as to
note radical changes in tectonic plate movement.
Dutch Sinse has an amazing earthquake
watch site, where he shows in three dimensions the number, location and depth
of all earthquakes around the globe on a daily basis. Based on years of
watching the patterns, he can often predict these events and where they will
occur, based on his knowledge of the tectonic plates, and how pressure under
them reacts.
Checking his site on August 18th,
three days before the eclipse, I heard him say that those next three days would
be rife with large earthquake activity. The quakes would include a swarm of
long dormant volcanic action, along with Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier showing
pressure from the West coast, along the California coast, as well as some
quakes on the New Madrid fault line.
The New Madrid fault line over Middle
America is not mentioned as often as the Cascadia region which starts around
Oregon and precedes down along California, nor the San Andreas line which
follows the Cali coast. But the New Madrid fault zone may play a greater role
in America’s future than we can possible know at this moment.
This large, solar eclipse we witnessed on
Monday, was the first of two complete solar eclipses which will occur within
seven years of each other. Seven years from now, on April 8, 2024, there will
be another total solar eclipse, again reaching across the entire U.S. but this
time, it will make a path that resembles an X mark over America. X marks a
spot right over the New Madrid Fault zone, right where the southern tip of
Illinois meetsTennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas,
Missouri and Indiana.
This is where the Missouri and Ohio
rivers join. If a huge earthquake would happen to occur there, it could easily
divide America into three sections, causing enormous flood devastation. That
possible event could even shape our coastlines far differently than we see them
now.
This last eclipse, which was the first
in ninety-nine years to cover the United States, happened on the Jewish
holiday, the 1st of Elul, which is 40 days from Yom Kippur, the Day
of Atonement.
(The 1918 solar eclipse was followed
by a “huge flu pandemic that killed 50-100 million people worldwide”, according
to Steve Ciccolanti.)
The first day of Elul ends the Jewish
year of 5777, the year of “completion”.
Jewish historians always associated
lunar eclipses with God’s judgements toward Israel. But they have always
associated solar eclipses with God’s judgement upon other nations. The fact
that the eclipse occurred on a Jewish holiday, and involved the entire United
States, points to the idea that God was saying something to America, in
particular.
Mark Biltz, on his Youtube video “The Coming Signs And The 40 Days” says
he feels this forty day time period is of extreme importance. He mentions that
“WW I started with a solar eclipse over both Eastern Europe and the Ottoman
Empire.”
“Mark Biltz – Blood Moons and Past Recent
Eclipses”
He also states that when the U.S.
lost their greatest war casualties was after a solar eclipse crossed the U.S.
in roughly the same path as last Monday’s event.
There is also a verse in scripture
where Jesus says,
“A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign but no sign
will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah”. (Matthew 16:4).
Long ago I always equated that verse
with Jesus being in the earth three days before the Resurrection, just as Jonah
was in the whale’s gullet for three days. However, during the research I did
for this article, one of the websites I visited mentioned that it was 40 days
from the time Jonah announced to Nineveh until the time that the city turned
around and repented to God for their wickedness. Basically they had 40 days to
decide. BUT THE MOST STUNNING THING HAPPENED!
History also records a solar eclipse accompanied Jonah’s dire
announcementacross Nineveh, (now
called Mosul), on June 15th, 763 BC. Called the Bur-Sagale eclipse,
Steve Ciccolanti describes it as one of the most famous events of ancient
history.
Steve Ciccolanti with brief Intro
IS THE USA IN THE BIBLE? - STEVE CICCOLANTI
So from the date of the solar eclipse
(1st of Elul), until Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, when the Hebrew
people historically acknowledge their sins and repent, is a period of forty
days.
DON'T BE LEFT IN THE DARK!
Michael Snyder on his Economic Collapse
blog says, “A day
of reckoning coming for America is fast approaching, and those that are wise
will recognize the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.”
Funny how this solar eclipse brings
us to September 23rd and another critical, monumental sign in the
heavenlies, one that only happens about every 2,000 years. And this time will
be the first time in human history that this constellational alignment will
occur exactly as described.
In Revelation chapter 12 it states:
“And
there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars”.
The verses go on to describe the
woman giving birth to a “manchild”, who is caught up to heaven, and the woman
being chased by a dragon into the desert, but a hole opening up in the desert,
swallows and protects her.
Traditionally, Bible scholars had
taken this symbolism to mean Mary the mother of Jesus, giving birth to Him, who
was caught up into heaven at the ascension. But the rest of the verses remain a
mystery.
However, in intervening years,
astronomers and sky-sign watchers have discovered that an almost identical
constellation alignment occurred immediately before the birth of Christ. Some
also speculate that this peculiar astral alignment gave the “Star of Bethlehem”
its brilliance. It could be what the shepherds saw and also what the “wise men”
from the East followed.
Immediately before the birth of
Christ, the constellation of Virgo, “the virgin” was right below the star
pattern of “Leo”, the Lion. The planetary body Jupiter moved into alignment
into the constellation’s so-called “womb”, and stayed there, over the same
period of time equivalent to a human gestational period.
Biblical Mysteries (The Star of Bethlehem)
This is happening again on September
23, 2017, with a small difference.
According to www.watchfortheday.org rumors
activated in 2014 that the eclipse between the blood moon tetrad of 2014/2015
would kick off the start of the Great Tribulation. According to that author,
the 1st eclipse occurred 1,260 days before Sept. 23, 2017. (1,260
days in the books of Revelation and Daniel refer to the 3 ½ year equivalent of
half of the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble”, or “Tribulation”…the latter half being
the worst time to endure.)
Some scholars surmised that perhaps
Sept. 23rd, 2017 was the halfway point suggesting it would fully
occur from April 2014 to April 2021. But according to “watchfortheday.org” that
wouldn’t line up correctly with the Jewish feast days.
The seventh trumpet, (considered the
very end of the Tribulation) occurs right before Revelation chapter 12.
In addition to the woman clothed with
stars symbolizing Mary, who birthed Messiah in Bethlehem, the female figure can
also be interpreted as Israel. The twelve stars could portray Israel’s tribes.
The child still represents Messiah Yeshua, born of the tribe of Judah, from Jesse (the Root), and of the House of David.
As mentioned previously, the astral
line-up which occurred in approximately 3 B.C. is slightly different than the
astral alignment of Sept. 23rd, 2017.
Only 9/23/17 narrows the alignment to
the fall equinox. Only in 2017 will the moon “under her feet” occur a few days after a new moon.
Leo, around her head, comprises nine
main “stars”, but on only this occurrence do Mercury, Mars and Venus provide the 10th, 11th
and 12th reflective bodies to make up “12 stars”.
The most unique part of all is
Jupiter. Although it lines up within the framework of Virgo every dozen years,
in 2017 Jupiter enters “the virgin’s” womb. A woman’s travail and pain of
childbirth are equated with “tribulation”. Will Jupiter leave Virgo just as the
“Tribulation” begins?
The reasons above explain why only in
Sept. 2017 do all the pieces fit.
The author of “watchfortheday.org”
also suggests that Jupiter will be in the sign of Taurus on the 9th
day of AV, 2024 (also a year of solar eclipse across the U.S.).
In Hebrew, Taurus equates to “Coming Judge”.
We must recall Matthew 24:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And there shall
appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of
the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory.”
“SIGNS” mean portents, warnings or
foreshadowing of things to come.
Those who said in the past, “Oh
people have talked about Jesus coming back for hundreds of years”, did not live
in a time period when a synchronicity of signs occurred, as is happening now.
The Bible warns those who foolishly mock.
Israel became an official nation
again in 1948, fulfilling Bible prophecy. As the Jewish people have been drawn
there in modern times again, from many other nations, Bible prophecy is
fulfilled.
Isaiah 66:8 reads,
“Who hath
heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring
forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children.”
When questioned by His disciples how
they would recognize the timing of these events He responded, after a long
passage of certain signs to watch for…Mark 13:28 and 30:
“Now learn a parable of
the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know
that summer is near.”
“Verily, I say unto
you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.”
Many Bible scholars believe verses 28
and 30 go hand in hand, marking the rebirth of the nation of Israel. They also
believe that the generation of those who live to see these events would not die
before the Return of Messiah.
A biblical generation is seventy
years. Israel became a nation again in 1948. Add 70 years and it brings us up
to 2018. I am not setting dates. Just telling you what I have learned over the
years. You can draw your own conclusions.
I can’t placate myself with
mind-soothing imagery of being whisked out of "Oz" like the proverbial “Dorothy”,
as a large majority of the Christian church does.
The proffered scriptural basis for
the rapture theory is extremely flimsy. An entire dogma has sprung up on the
basis of a only a handful of verses cobbled together and rationalized.
But that's so easily imagined by the soft, spoiled, American-pasteurized Christian, expecting fast food, fast fixes, comfort, ease, and luxury that neither the rest of the world nor millions of martyrs of the past could have ever conceived.
Neither Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Corrie Ten Boom, Nora Lam, nor millions of God's Chosen People of the Holocaust, would have considered themselves so "special", so privileged, that they could escape the ravages of the hurricanes of history that devoured them, and their loved ones in spite of fervent faith.
Yes, they hoped to live. But like the long list of heroes of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11:33-35, we must ponder the possibility that we too may be called to give our all for our faith in God...
"Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection..."
REMEMBER THAT THE CROWD OF MARTYRS IN REVELATION 7:9-14, THOSE DRESSED IN WHITE, WHO WOULD NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST - WAS BEYOND NUMBER.
IF YOU THINK YOU WILL ESCAPE, YOU WILL MISS THE CLUES, EVEN AS THEY HAPPEN BEFORE YOUR EYES. YOU WILL SAY, "ON NO, THAT CAN'T BE THE 'MARK OF THE BEAST BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BEEN WHISKED AWAY YET".
OR YOU WILL SAY, "OH NO - THAT COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE THE ANTICHRIST, BECAUSE AFTER ALL , WE HAVE TO BE "RAPTURED" BEFORE HE APPEARS."
YOU WILL TAKE THE MARK. MISS THE BOAT, AND POSSIBLY LOSE YOUR HEAD ANYWAY...IN THE PROCESS.
Believing that one will be magically
carried away before the horrors begin is escape-fantasy promoting apathy. It
provides an excuse for not focusing on Christ’s soon Return or the actual
events preceding it.
It allows people to put off
repentance, allows them to hang onto their greed, self-focus, and put off
living a life pleasing to Our Messiah, except for Sabbath Day, and even then maybe living the "saintly life" only for an hour or two.
I truly believe we are living in the
final generation before the Return of Jesus/Yeshua. The thought of going through all
the huge events expected to occur does not thrill me. However, having an idea of what may come, allows me to strengthen myself psychologically, and increases my faith because it stirs me to greater depths of getting to know the Lord and His Word.
The thought doesn’t frighten me
either. Always the curious sort, and an observer of history, I hope to be
documenting all the details. Knowing that my Rock, the Lord, is protecting me,
chases away fear.
What does make me happy is the
thought of seeing my Messiah face-to-face, receiving a brand new body (which
doesn’t grow old, fat, or get sick). And seeing the wheezing Earth cleansed and
refreshed, (hadash) with even more
gorgeous vistas, but with pure air and water to take in, as we soak in the
Light of His Glorious Presence, where He rules from The New Jerusalem during His New Millennial reign on Earth. The New Golden Age of Earth. That - and HE is the Light to hope for at the end of the dark tunnel of Tribulation.
Like a spiritual Lighthouse I long to be a beacon of hope to the spiritually starved, and stress-ravaged across the breadths of America and beyond. READ THE NEW BOOK: I FELL FOR PARIS ordered off my website or soon to be on Amazon Kindle ebooks.
Although like Paul, I have definitely not "arrived" I hope that some of my insights and experiences will help others on their spiritual journey.
Also a food and travel buff, I decided to share my pleasant experiences with others as I saunter along the highways and whizz by overhead in the skyways.
