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When I was a little girl I was surrounded by very successful family members. My aunts were schoolteachers. One even became a college professor. She constantly exhorted me to go to college but never offered any help to do so. Both my grandfathers ran successful businesses most of their lives. Uncles on both sides were ministers - ranging from staid and straight Lutheran style to the more edgy Pentecostal brand.
Common Use - Educational Purposes Only - No Infringement Intended - Click link to YouTube One great uncle was a professional football player, later working as a direct assistant to Vince Lombardi for decades, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers. Another uncle had his own microchip company, before the market fell. Yet another owned a motorcycle dealership, where he also sold amphibious vehicles. Some of my cousins were teachers. Another aunt worked as a doctor on an Indian reservation. My sister has worked for a huge pharmaceutical firm for years. My brother has an enviable position with yet another medical company. My mother worked for the state government. My father though an artist, worked for the Boilermakers' Union, before his passing. My entire family is well-travelled, having gone to the ends of the earth, it seems. Some of them even lived as international missionaries for years, until politics drove them back to ministry in the United States. There were also many veterans in my family - giving us all a patriotic and historical perspective. Both Mom and Dad's families emphasized the importance of education and success. Dad used to always promise me, "Study hard, and I'll send you to college." But they turned out to be empty words. My plan was to go to either Columbia or Oral Roberts University to get a double major in Journalism and Psychology. I also dreamed of going to the Sorbonne, since I had taken several years of French.
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But it was not to be. I was accepted at Columbia, Temple, and Edinburgh Universities, but my parents suddenly divorced, which put an end to my aspirations. Even with a teacher's promised help to get a scholarship, the money equation didn't work out. My rebellion against the Lord for a few short years took its toll, as I struggled against loss of home, loss of family, lack of food, poverty, and the disappearance of all that I held dear. My parents remarried and started new lives, new children, new homes, and rarely gave me a second's thought. There were no cellphones nor internet back in the late 1970's, with which to stay in touch. After being driven by circumstances to repentance, and back into the Lord's Arms, I eventually ended up going to a two-year Bible college. I lived on five dollars worth of vegetables a week, from a farmer's co-op. In my few spare hours I held down a part-time job at K-mart. Eventually, the overwhelmingly restrictive rules, the Spartan living quarters, (four bunks to one small bedroom), being bound to campus during non-working hours, and not being able to pay for my tuition - drove me into a low-paying career as a travel agent. I was strictly on my own, and forced to survive on my own resources, of which there were few. I didn't even own a car for many, many years. From there my life took a nosedive downward, and has recovered only periodically for the rest of the duration. More than once, if not for the Lord, I found myself in situations that could easily have cost my life. I ended up raising a child on my own, working several jobs at a time to do so. Putting a roof over his head, providing food, clothing and entertainment, was never easy. Sometimes I had to rely on friends to babysit while I worked at low-paying jobs, struggling to pay rent, without the benefit of child support. I can't honestly say that my faith never wavered. At times it did. I can't say that I was always thankful. At one point before my divorce from an abusive husband, the only thing we could afford from the grocery store was toilet paper, not even food. To this day I remember how it felt, walking into that grocery store, surrounded by walls and shelves of food, but unable to purchase anything to eat. For several years after my son left home - much to my chagrin - I was finally able to afford more comfortable dwelling places, but never quite able to buy a home of my own. I took real estate classes, and got several real estate licenses. Fortunately I finally managed to reach a bare bones level of success, relative to all I had experienced in my young adult years. Intermittent illnesses would unfortunately intervene and eat up any spare income. After several years of working sixteen hour days, 24/7 on call night and day, the economy crashed. Jobs were like precious jewels, rarely to be found, even for those with bachelor and master's degrees. Many former advanced professionals worked at McDonalds and Taco Bell. Homeless people filled the streets. Waiters and waitresses were former Wall Street traders and bonds market brokers. I went back to a short-term school to redefine myself. From analyzing security vs air conditioning building issues on tall structures, I fell to the depths of cleaning feces and blood off of floors, after changing adult diapers on invalids. The contrast was great. I missed the technical problem solving as I turned my mind to carefully placing pillows under the body of stroke victims, or working with them on their water-borne physical therapy exercises. This I did for ten hours a day, six days a week, no holidays or overtime pay.
Common Use - Educational Purposes Only - No Copyright Infringement Intended The work was just as hard or harder than climbing iron ladders and lifting myself up to building rooftops, to examine and program air conditioning units. Holding up the body of a male adult for nursing purposes, is no small task. But the pay was less than half as much as I had been making. Yet I was FINALLY THANKFUL. I was working again! No more long waits in lines at churches for a few bags of dried beans and spaghetti. No more wandering from office building parking lot to the next, handing out literally hundreds of resumes. No more waiting in line for stale bread and cakes at food handouts. I was working so many hours for so little pay I was finally able to save up enough to move to another state where unemployment was lower. It was also exciting to think that I would be close to my son again, since he had moved to the state after his stint in the Marines. So I finally have a steady job. I am thankful. And I'm helping other people. That is satisfying. But I barely make enough to cover rent and bills. And I am not doing what I had hoped to do in life. My son is angry because I spent so much time working to put a roof over his head. He blames me because he didn't have more than a couple pair of shoes to wear each year while going to school. He didn't have designer clothes or jeans, or a skateboard. He didn't get to do all the things all the other kids were doing. But he was LOVED. For that he is NOT GRATEFUL. Although I manage to write in my spare time, I'm not able to churn out all the books I have in mind. But I AM GRATEFUL for the turkey I received as I went to work yesterday, on Thanksgiving, to "minister" to others more lonely, and more ill than myself. And though I heard nothing from my family at large, who I am absolutely sure were scarfing down huge amounts of turkey, dressing, and sweet potatoes... I am grateful. I get to have a long weekend off. My own free turkey is in the oven right now roasting. I can smell the browning scent as it wafts into the living room. I have two hands to write with. Two eyes to see with. Two legs to stand on. I still have my teeth. I can eat regular food and don't have to have my food ground up like baby-food. My electric works to cook the turkey in the oven, and powers the heat which staves off the cold outside. I have running water, (though not good to drink). I can still buy bottled water. I even have instant mashed potatoes, instant stuffing, and cranberry sauce. And YES. I AM TIRED. But I have paper and pen, and a computer to write. Access to the internet, and a way to broadcast my message... Even though my ministry doesn't even support the cost to have a ministry website. www.lightpointministries.comCLICK FOR LINK I still have my God, Jesus Christ. The one and Only True and Living God. Heaven forbid that I be like the other nine lepers who didn't realize from where their healing came. They didn't take time to return and give Him thanks. (Luke 17:12 ). No matter how little we have, or how impossible it seems - if we are still breathing we can STILL MANAGE to FIND SOMETHING TO THANK GOD FOR.
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So many of the recent astronomical events in the last few years and months have chirped across the Internet that I've been thinking about God's universe and His Creations- the stars.
Watching the Netflix show "Dark Matter" with its instantaneous "Blink Drive" which zooms someone to one point of space-time to another, has me asking many more questions about the universe. I can't help but ask the Living God about the Space -Time continuum, aliens, nephilim, and the transcendent bodies we are promised at the Resurrection, vs Transhumanism as touted in science fiction tales galore.
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed". I Cor. 15:52
A Great show for Science Fiction Fans, but beware - much violence. "DARK MATTER"
For months I have been wanting to go back and read the Book of Job where the constellations are mentioned. Having heard a reminder the other day that Job is believed to possibly be the oldest book in the Bible re-aroused my curiosity of how could Job have possibly known about distinctly named constellations?
When Job was rightfully bemoaning his losses and pain, God questioned Job's faith in Him by asking:
"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, and guide the Bear with its satellites?" Job 30:31-32 NAS
There are also similar references in Amos 9 and Job 9:9, which also mention Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and "chambers of the south."
Pleiades - For Instructional Purposes Only I read an article online "Is The Astronomy In the Book of Job Scientifically Consistent?" The writer of the article J. Warner Wallace was not looking for advanced scientific details (though I am), but rather he expects God's Word to be consistent in a scientific sense. I figure if rumors are true and Einstein DID rely on the Hebrew alphabet Gematria, possibly Bible codes, as well as the translation of the Word "Light" for his study that erupted in the brainstorm creating E-MC squared - then perhaps I could uncover something more by re-examining Job 30.
For Educational Use Only - Common Use rights EINSTEIN'S BIBLE CODE DISCOVERY Of course Job was unable to reply to what had been largely a rhetorical question in the first place. According to Warner Wallace's article "...Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters) is an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus." He continues to explain that it was "classified as an open cluster because it is a group of hundreds of stars formed from the same cosmic cloud, approximately the same age with the same chemical composition...bound together by mutual gravitational attraction." Wallace quotes Isabel Lewis of US Naval Observatory fame as saying,
"Astronomers have identified 250 stars as actual members of this group, all sharing in a common motion and drifting through space in the same direction".
But Wallace further enlightens us by mentioning Dr. Robert J. Trumpler's comment from the book, "Wonder Worlds", wherein he says:
"Over 25,000 measures of the Pleiades stars are now available, and their study led to the important discovery that the whole cluster is moving in a southeasterly direction. The Pleiades stars may be thus compared to a swarm of birds, flying together to a distant goal...leaves no doubt that the Pleiades are not a temporary or accidental conglomeration of stars, but system in which the stars are bound together by close kinship."
"Wonder Worlds" on Amazon.com The Lord emphasizes His point even more deeply when He again challenges Job asking him if he can "loosen the cords of Orion". J. Warner Wallace, on his website COLD CASE CHRISTIANITY.COM goes on to mention that God was referencing Orion's belt, which can be easily seen in a clear night's sky.
"The three stars forming the linear 'band' at Orion's waist...God appeared to be challenging Job in the opposite way he had in the first portion of the verse...Orion's belt is formed by two stars (Alnilam and Mintaka) and one more star cluster (Alnitak). Alnitak is actually a triple star system at the Eastern edge of Orion's belt. These stars (along with all the other stars forming Orion) are not gravitationally bound like those in Pleiades. ...the stars of Orion's Belt areheading in different directions."
Wallace also discusses the fact that Orion is long lasting, "not because its stars are physically connected", but because they expand a greater distance. But because eventually over the millennia Alnita will no longer be perceptible, having shifted too far away, Orion's belt will be unbuckled, just as the Lord inquired of Job. This also gives Job's writing a prophetic slant, if the suffering saint himself actually authored the book. But more importantly, it proves that God Himself created/controls His Universe, and His foreknowledge and power pushes forward the movements of the macrocosm, far beyond man's ability to comprehend. This hints at the irony that we should never challenge God's ability or His purposes, let alone His faithfulness. Before I go to sleep at night I have been reading several pages of a book called "The Universe - 365 Days". It puts beautiful pictures in my mind as I dream of the Horsehead Nebula, and other amazing sweeps of the expanse far beyond our little sphere. It may seem weird, but I can't help but believe that the Lord is leading me in my studies. The other night, reading this gloriously illustrated book, I came across the constituents composing the Universe, as scientists currently understand them: 70% Dark Energy, 25% Dark Matter, and 5% Normal Matter. I was astonished. But as I was researching on the Internet yesterday, about the possibility of so called "blink drives" fictionally supposed to be greater than Faster Than Light (FTL)drives... I came across two extremely interesting videos. I had "googled" the search term "SPACE-TIME ENGINEERING", thinking it might be another way to phrase the terms "Time Control" or "Time Travel". (Time control is more encompassing.) The search topic took me to David Anderson's Time Travel Institute site which I have mixed feelings about, regarding its veracity. However, because Anderson is borrowing the writings of experts in the field I can sometimes learn something new there. The article covered the topic "Space-Time Engineering" and spoke of "bubbles" in the space-time structure, "basement universes", and discussed "negative energy". When I found out that some spaceship drives for FTL travel might require "negative energy" my mental "ears" perked up. One theoretical warp drive requires devising a way to manipulate "negative energy". SPACE TIME ENGINEERING - CETIN BAL - SEE Link Address or go to www.andersoninstitute.com For some reason, the Holy Spirit, (who guides all my studies), led me back to the Perimeter Institute website. At first I kept getting "blocked" as frequently happens since the Internet has been handed over to international control, largely under the auspices of China.
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Erik Verlinde Lecture @ Perimeter Institue 10/4/2017 To be able to listen for free to videos of famous physicists really excited me. So I listened to the featured lecture (above): "GRAVITY NOT A FUNDAMENTAL FORCE - AN EMERGENT PHENOMENON". Dr. Verlinde spoke about the "Information Universe" and "Dark Matter", as well as "Emergent" theory. I couldn't help but think that I had been hearing the concept "Emergent" in many articles I read but wasn't paying close attention because my focus had been on "closed time-like curves" and time itself. I also remembered an article I had read about MIT Quantum Mechanics professor, Seth Lloyd, being interviewed, where he too mentions properties of an emergent type. My mind reviews this article frequently from memory. SHAKING HANDS WITH THE FUTURE But I love to go back and re-read it because Seth Lloyd discusses recently-deceased physicist George Ryazanov, who saw no conflict in believing in God, and no conflict between science and true spirituality. In fact, he practiced the art of "divine downloads", or one would also describe it "divine inspiration". He had a strong desire to unite physics with metaphysics. He realized what so many other scientists have not yet grasped. Physics has come full circle to spirituality. During one such episode, of accessing God's Mind, while he was on vacation in an isolated place, he wanted to review Richard Feynman's Arrow of Time theory. So on paper, George actually completely reproduced the mathematical formulas from memory, but was inspired to add another touch of his own, called "the Two Arrows of Time".
George Ryazanov - Interviewed In Israel - Educational Purposes He believed that time travels in both directions, and like astrophysicist/writer Gregory Benford, believes that information can be passed backward or forward in time.
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Yes. Benford wrote a fictional book applying his concepts to the real world. He even appends a scholarly, scientific defense of the use of tachyons, to message backwards in time. But he has also written many scientific papers defending his positions. ARE NEPHILIM REALLY PART OF END TIMES? As always, I had been praying for insight from God on the discussion of whether the NEPHILIM of old really do comprise a significant factor in End Time Bible Prophecy, as some profess. I had watched a "Grade B" sci-fi movie on TV a few weeks ago that was about an alien invasion in Jerusalem. I watched it mostly because being set in Jerusalem, I could see the local sights and the way people lived there. I won't mention the movie's name for a particular reason. I pray about what I watch on TV because I don't want to put anything in my brain that the Lord forbids. Secondly, so many films and TV shows are now thinly veiled propaganda, if not out-right conscious mind-programming that I am careful about watching certain things. Toward the end of the movie, the aliens became Nephilim. I asked the Lord about it and He responded that it was an abomination to Him. So I turned the movie off, but wondered if this was a reflection of pop-culture, or one of those oft-mentioned prophetic mentions of future events.
For Educational Purposes Only - Common Use Those Christian authors who have been bringing the Nephilim topic to the forefront, keep bringing up the verse:
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man." Luke 17:26
They like to use the verse to support their contention that the End Times will include a FALSE ALIEN DISCLOSURE. One flimsy verse, along with a few others in Genesis chapters three and six, cobbled together to support their new doctrine do not make the basis for an entirely new dispensation. Even if there is supporting archaeological evidence for the previous existence of such beings in other times, it does not necessarily make a strong basis for their return. Many of these authors support the notion that governments, including our own, will FINALLY DISCLOSE information on UFO's and aliens, citing the aliens to be godlike superiors, perhaps posing as Mankind's creators. Even the Vatican seems to be "prepping" for this event. A few days ago the Huffington Post featured an article about a new organization composed of high-level, former "Black Ops" bigwigs, who have suddenly broken away from government to reveal "New Physics" technologies on the horizon, and to prove that alien technologies, UFO's (UAP), and aliens DO EXIST.
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Is this the beginning of the DISCLOSURE that Tom Horn, Steve Quayle, Cris Putnam, Tim Alberino, and L.A. Marzuli have so passionately publicized? Why do I - AS A CHRISTIAN - even spend my time on these topics? Because WE ARE LIVING IN THE END TIMES. I want - NO - NEED to stay aware of everything happening around me. That way I can view contemporary events and technologies, in the light of End Time prophecies. I can examine the ideas put forth, watch the signs in the news, signs in the skies, and try to understand the events that will precede Jesus Christ's Return. He will come IN THE SKIES, just as He promised while every eye watches:
"Behold He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him..." Revelation 1:7
I WANT that resurrection body He promised:
I Corinthians 15:52
"In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye at the LAST trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we SHALL BE CHANGED." I don't need some trans-humanist body made by bio-engineering. No matter how many parts are replaced, gene edits made, or nanite repairs are conducted, that artificial body will only be an expendable machine. . . A faint imitation of God's real creation, and therefore fallible. I also don't need my consciousness uploaded into a somewhat durable container or into an android body. Any attempts to improve on God's engineering can only become a failure in the end.
So, I will keep asking the hard questions such as:
1) Is there life created by God on some other planets, in other solar systems and galaxies? Or are we THE "Goldilocks" Planet?
Common usage - Educational Purposes- No Copyright violation intended 2) Will our upcoming transmuted, perfected bodies, which defy the laws of physics like Christ's did, (John 20:26), when He walked through walls and on water, (Matthew 14:25-27), be the exact type of bodies which transport human consciousness to the outer limits of the Universe? 3) Did Jesus' death and resurrection, once and for all, here on Planet Earth, become the beginning factor for not only Peace here on Earth, but also throughout the Universe or Universes, as the case may be?
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How many of you can honestly say you
have been studying Bible End Time Prophecy for 52 years? How many of you
started learning End Time eschatology as a small child?
Who of you have been watching the
developments of history, technology, science, global economics and world events
for over half a century from the focus of the Bible’s lens? I have.
Maybe it’s not just the eyes of a
child reading End Time scriptures that enable a person to see End Time doctrine
in a different light. Children have a way of looking at things and situations
that tend to “cut through the bull”. They are sometimes more truth-thinking and
more clear-spoken than adults.
Children don’t have the inhibition
adults do. The inhibitions which cause them to bow to peer pressure in the
church. Or to allow themselves to be spoon-fed what is SAID to be “truth”
in the form of man-made opinions.
When I heard in the Baptist church as
a child that the “Anti-Christ” had to be a gay Jew, inwardly I laughed. Even as
a young girl, I knew in my heart that was the fanciful imagination of feverish
male scholars totally misinterpreting scripture.
The fundamental, Baptist church I
attended took that doctrine from the following passage:Daniel 11:20-45 KJV.
Let’s focus for the moment on verse
11:37:
“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, NOR THE DESIRE OF
WOMEN, nor regard any God: for he shall magnify himself above all.”
Some Bible scholars believed this
proved that the Anti-Messiah absolutely had to be Jewish, and could not be
heterosexual.
They believed the “God of his fathers”
had to mean Yahweh, the God of Israel.
In fact, in Hebrew the word “God” in
this passage is translated in Strong’s concordance as “Elohim”, the plural for “rulers,
judges, divine ones, gods – in the ordinary and collective sense.
However, this description could just
as easily apply to a Gentile, so-called Christian, since they too make the God
of Israel their object of worship. Or perhaps if you use “gods” in the
collective sense, it could even apply to a Muslim.
The Muslims are expecting their own
Messiah, the antithesis of the Jewish and Christian Messiah. Theirs is called
the “Mahdi”. They expect him to ride a white horse, and in some cases, have even
identified him as a modern political figure.
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Secondly, the verse goes on to say
that he won’t “regard the desire of women”. In other words, unlike some other
political leaders in history, he won’t be a “womanizer”. He won’t take
advantage of his ruler-ship station to prey upon foolish women for his own
selfish gain. Other things will be more important to him than that.
There are other ways we know that
this passage is supposed to be descriptive of the “Anti-Christ”. See for
example Daniel 11:31 KJV.
“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifices, and they shall
place the abomination that maketh desolate.”
This is a dual prophecy. It applies
to two separate time periods. So many Bible scholars believe this prophecy had
its first fulfillment during the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, who serves as a
prototype or PICTURE of the Antichrist to shortly arrive on the scene.
The original abominable
desolator, Antiochus Epiphanes, gave himself the name, meaning “God Manifest”,
proclaimed himself God, and insisted there was no higher power, as other tyrannical
rulers have done before in history.
This particular Syrian King went into
the Jerusalem Temple and slaughtered Jews, then slaughtered a pig on the altar in the Holy of Holies, desecrating the Holy Place, and made the priests drink the repulsive porcine blood. Ugh!
Although anyone would consider the killing of other human beings a revulsion...
In Hebrew eyes, these unclean acts would have triggered extreme horror, and been
considered, “an abomination of desolation”.
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That particular temple has long since
been destroyed. But there is right now a Third Temple on the verge of being
built in Jerusalem. The Levite priests have been trained. Implements and proper
uniforms have been prepared. Even red heifer bulls have been found and raised in
preparation for this enormous event, the restoration of the daily sacrifices in
the soon-to-be-built Jewish temple.
Therefore, the soon-to-be-recognized Antichrist
is said to going to once again fulfill this prophecy, and desolate the Holy
Temple with an abomination. Exactly how he is going to “pollute” the temple we
don’t yet know.
So just as the first antichrist
prototype prevented the daily sacrifices so shall the second. That I believe.
Daniel 11:32-35 says that the
upcoming AntiMessiah will make war on the saints.
“And such as do wickedly
against the covenant shall he corrupt with flatteries: [LIES] but the people
that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. And they that understand
among the people shall instruct many: yet shall they fall by the sword and by
flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days. Now when they fall they shall be helped
up with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35 And some
of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, AND TO MAKE
THEM WHITE, even to the time of the end, because it is for a time yet
appointed.”
Now, pray tell me – How can the Antichrist
make war on the saints if:
1)All the saints have been whisked away
in the clouds (at a hidden appearance of Christ)?
You can’t justify your
argument by saying that the saints remaining are the 144,000 Jews spoken of in Revelation
7:4 and 14:1. The saints dressed in white around the throne of God, who have
overcome by the Blood of the Lamb, and loved not their lives unto death, are
numberless, and made up of many cultures and tribes. So that just doesn’t apply
or answer the question.
2)If the Holy Spirit has been removed
from the Earth? (As many say the “He who will let, will let” verse 2 Thess. 2:6 is to
read.) The Holy Spirit lives in the Saints.
To the question of item
#2:
II Thessalonians 2:4-6 (NKJV)
also speak of the Antichrist:
“Now brethren,
concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to
Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit,
or by word, or by letter, as if from us, as though the DAY of CHRIST had come.
3 Let no many deceive you by any means for that day will not come unless the
falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.
4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is
worshipped. So that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that
he is God…6 And now you know what is restraining, that he will be revealed in
his own time.”
In the KJV it reads, “what
withholdeth”. The Greek word “katecho” means “hold, keep, possess, stay, TO
HOLD BACK, RETAIN”.
This is the same concept we see in
Daniel 10:13 when he has fasted for 21 days until the archangel finally is able
to reach him, after something has been detaining or restraining. Daniel’s
messenger angel spoke of war in the heavenlies, and that he had been
restrained/detained by another archangel, and warring spirit armies.
“But the prince of the
kingdom of Persia WITHSTOOD me one and twenty days: but lo, Michael, one of the
chief princes came to help me; and I remained there with the Kings of Persia.”
In Hebrew the word AMAD describes
what happened. It means “stood, stand, set, stay, still, appointed, standing,
endure, remain, withstand, waited, establish”.
In other words, Daniel’s messenger
angel was only able to break the grip of the angels warring against him, with
the help of the Archangel Michael. Daniel’s fasting and prayer helped, too, I
am sure, as fasting empowers and accelerates.
So perhaps instead, the reference to
something “holding back” the revealing of the Antichrist is actually an
archangel or archangelic forces as described in both passages…one in Hebrew,
the other Greek.
If the Holy Spirit had
been removed from Earth, because the Holy Spirit is the one who would persuade
men’s hearts to receive Christ/Yeshua as Messiah, then no one would be saved.
God’s Spirit would no longer be present on Earth to convince people of their
sins, change their hearts, lead, comfort and protect them through the
Tribulation.
And, how can Jesus possibly get anywhere near Earth’s atmospherewithout anyone knowing about it,
when major signs in the sky are now predicting His Second and Only Appearing
as the Judge of All Mankind?
I don’t believe that either the Holy
Spirit or the saints will be removed until the VERY LAST TRUMPET SOUNDS. That’s
what the Bible says.
I believe it is not the Holy Spirit that
will be removed or taken out of the way, but rather an Archangel like Michael
which is holding back the forces of darkness and lawlessness. But for how long?
II Thessalonians 2:8 goes on to say,
“And THEN shall that
wicked be revealed whom the Lord SHALL CONSUME with the Spirit of His mouth,
AND SHALL DESTROY, with THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING.”
When our Lord comes back He is
actually going to destroy the Antichrist with the BRIGHTNESS of His Coming.
So if Jesus came back to rapture the
Church before the Tribulation even starts, and He destroys the Antichrist as
the scripture says Jesus will do, then the Tribulation couldn’t start at all. For
the whole thing would have to occur without the Antichrist and his forces of
darkness, because they would have already been consumed by Christ’s coming. MY GOD
DOESN’T DO THINGS HALF WAY!
II Thess. 2:9 says,
“Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power, and signs and lying
wonders.10 With all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.”
2:11 “And
for this cause God shall send them A STRONG DELUSION, that they shall believe a
lie.”
WHY? BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T LOVE THE
TRUTH. DIDN’T WANT ANY PART OF THE TRUTH. WHO IS TRUTH? JESUS. IF YOU LOVE
JESUS, YOU WILL LOVE TRUTH.
He said, “I am the way, the truth and
the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” John 14:6 KJV
IF YOU DON’T TRULY LOVE JESUS WITH
ALL YOUR HEART, THEN YOU WON’T LOVE THE TRUTH. YOU WON’T RECOGNIZE TRUTH IF IT
HITS YOU OVER THE HEAD!
The Church, the Body of Christ, the
Bride, isn’t going anywhere, until the LAST trumpet sounds!
What does the Bible say His Bride
must do before He, Jesus, arrives?
SHE
MUST MAKE HERSELF READY!
Revelation 19:7
“Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to
Him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife HAS MADE HERSELF
READY.”
Ephesians 5:27
“That He might present
it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,
but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
DOES A BRIDE WEAR
WHITE? YES!
Revelation 6:11
“And WHITE robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said
unto them, that they should rest for a little season, until their fellow
servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be
fulfilled.”
Revelation 7:9
“After this I beheld,and,
lo a great multitude, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, of all nations, and kindreds,
and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
with WHITE robes, and palms in their hands…”
Revelation 7:13
“And one of the elders
answered, saying unto me, what are these which are arrayed in WHITE robes? And
whence came they?
Revelation 7:14
“And I said unto him, ‘Sir, thou knowest’. And he said to me, ‘These
are they which came out of the GREAT TRIBULATION, and have WASHED THEIR ROBES,
and MADE THEM WHITE, in the Blood of the Lamb.”
WHEN DOES THE LAST TRUMP BLOW?
Then we also have to compare the
succession of trumpets. We won’t include them all, but just to give you an idea
of the sequence you see that in:
Revelation 8:13 it describes angels
sounding trumpets, and even implies that the “trumpets” are the sounds of the
VOICES of THE ANGELS.
“And I beheld, and
heard and angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, ‘Woe,
woe, woe to the inhabiters of Earth by reason of the OTHER VOICES OF THE TRUMPET
OF THE THREE ANGELS, which are yet to sound.”
The “LAST” trump has to be after
this. Because it’s the LAST TRUMP.
Revelation 9:14:
“Saying to the 6th angel which had THE TRUMPET, ‘Loose
the four angels which are bound in the great River Euphrates”.
WELL THE L-A-S-T T-R-U-M-P-E-T STILL HAS NOT SOUNDED!
I Thessalonians 4:16 reads:
“For the Lord Himself SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A
SHOUT, with the Voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead
in Christ shall rise first.”
If Jesus was trying to be secretive
and not let anyone know He is coming, despite the fact that the Bible says, “Every
eye shall see Him”, DO YOU THINK HE WOULD SHOUT? WOULDN’T THAT ATTRACT
ATTENTION???
Matthew 24:31 says,
“And He shall send his angels
WITH THE SOUND OF A GREAT TRUMPET, and they shall gather His Elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”NO SECRETIVE HALF WAY COMING HERE!
Bu there ARE strange unexplainable
trumpet sounds occurring all around the globe. Scientists haven’t been able to
PROVE any possible explanations for them. Could they perhaps be a sign or WARNING of the TRUMPETS OF
REVELATION?
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I Corinthians 15:52 reads:
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE L-A-S-T
TRUMP: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall all be changed.”
THE LAST TRUMP IS AT THE VERY END!THE LAST!
DON’T YOU KNOW THAT THE DAY OF CHRIST AND THE DAY OF THE LORD ARE THE
SAME THING? JESUS IS THE LORD!
Corrie Ten Boom, a magnificent saint who went through the Nazi camps
because her Dutch family hid Jews in their house; NEVER FOR ONE MINUTE THOUGHT
SHE WAS GOING TO BE ‘RAPTURED’ OUT OF THERE.
IN FACT SHE WARNED ABOUT SUCH ESCAPIST THINKING.
CORRIE TEN BOOM WARNS THE CHURCH
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FAMOUS DOROTHY FROM WIZARD OFOZ
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Dorothy, sorry to burst your bubble, your BALLOON, or whatever the case may be. But you won't get back to "HOME" until the very end. BEFORE THE LORD'S WHIRLWIND PICKS YOU UP - YOU MUST PUT ON YOUR CLEAN, WHITE WEDDING GOWN - WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE!
AND LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF THE VERY LAST TRUMPET!
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.
