WONDERS FROM THE CREATOR

Photo by AuntNet/Blue Morpho Butterfly

While visiting a friend’s blog, I found that he had posted an amazing 4 and 1/2 minute video of God’s creatures doing their work.

I hope that you have a chance to view Manny’s post called Wonders from the Creator.

God’s blessings…

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WHY DO WE SUPPORT ISRAEL?

Photo by hoyasmeg taken aboard Galilean boat ride from Tiberias

Gary Stearman and his guest, David Brennan, discuss the reason most Christians support the Nation of Israel.  Mr. Brennan’s statement about the identification of the 4 horns is interesting but quite speculative. Skip Gary’s stated ad if you wish.

While you are at the Prophecy in the News Channel, you should also watch “A Difference of Opinion.”  Gary speaks of the U.S. government’s current, different opinion than Israel when it comes to Iran.

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Why Do We Support Israel? and A Difference of Opinion

Related:

Obama – The Anti-Israel President (After clicking on title, scroll down to view video)

The Preoccupation with Israel Gary Stearman sits down with Jimmy DeYoung.

AMAZING GRACE ON THE BLACK NOTES

Photo By Fire Bird Flame

Amazing Grace

“At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded.  He says, ‘A lot of people don’t realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano.  Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who used to be the captain of a slave ship, and many believe he heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant.’”

Amazing Grace

I would like to thank Madge Franks for this very inspirational and instructive video.

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THERE’S A RAINBOW SOMEWHERE, YOU WERE BORN TO BE THERE, YOU’RE JUST RUNNING IN CIRCLES – ‘TIL YOU REACH OUT YOUR HAND TO THE KING OF HEARTS

All alone drifting wild/Like a ship that’s lost out on the ocean

Everyone’s a homeless child/And it’s not hard to understand

Why we need a Father’s hand

(C) There’s a rainbow somewhere/And you were born to be there

But you’re just running in circles

Till you reach out your hand to the King of Hearts…

Pockets full of pain and fear/That’s a load there’s just no need to carry

Let it go and leave it here/Now there’s no price that’s left to pay

With one more mile or one more day. (C)

You can try to catch the wind/But in the end you’re only wasting precious time

Life can really be so kind/Once you find the truth and follow, go on follow, follow (C)

Randy Stonehill, 1976

“BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH”

Call me odd, but the past few times I’ve tripped through the book of Revelation I’ve started from the last chapter and read it backwards.  Chapters 22, 21, 20…a literal interpretation of these chapters is, I think, the best one and easily understood.  When I get to the next few chapters, things aren’t so clear to me.  A “great harlot” is mentioned in the preceeding three chapters (19,18,17).

I’ve been curious about the identity of this “Babylon.”

“Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls;

“For in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!”  (Rev. 18:16-17)

The title of this post (Rev. 17:5) is written on the forehead of a woman sitting on a scarlet beast.  She is clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls.

The Bible calls this writing “a mystery.”

Will this “Babylon” be an actual city as Dr. Henry Morris (well-known author of The Genesis Record) speculated in The Revelation Record? (The most literal interpretation of Revelation I’ve read.)

Or will this “Babylon” be something else?

It is amazing to me that the mainstream media has spent so much time on the sex-abuse scandal at Penn State.  Yet, the godless mainstream is silent when 10-year-old boys parade rainbow flags down the streets of American cities wearing nothing but their underwear.  I believe the term connected with these events is “gay pride.” The participants seem to get younger every year.

How could incidents like the one at Penn State not be happening?

A 13-year-old boy raped an 8-year-old the other day.  I know because a reliable source told me.  It happened in the town in which I live. My source also told me that the boy had no remorse.  I couldn’t help but think of the verse in 1 Timothy (4:1-2) that notes that in the “latter times” consciences will be “seared as with a branding iron.”

After listening to Pastor Hoggard’s thoughts in The Sacred Feminine, I may be closer to my answer about the identity of the “Mother of Harlots.”

I had read Christian sources that tell the two stories that Pastor Hoggard shares towards the end of his report.

How much longer will it be before God says “ENOUGH?”

“God’s timepiece” (Israel) is under great stress; the world is broke and looking for a savior.

People are turning to the wrong spirits for help.

It is happening in “Christian” churches of every denomination.

It is obviously difficult for Pastor Hoggard to speak of such things.

It is difficult to hear of such things.

As I refuse to deny the blessed hope that I have in Jesus Christ my Lord, I cannot bury my head in the sand and deny the earth is wearing out like a garment.

I don’t know when Jesus will return and I don’t know how it will all play out.

I do know that there will be a new heaven and a new earth someday.

There will be no more tears.

There will be no more death.

There will no longer be mourning,

or crying,

or pain.

He who sits on the throne will make all things new.

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THE SACRED FEMININE

A recent article by Kevin Johnson entitled Revelation: The Time is at hand -XXXV gives a few opinions on this subject.  I hope Mr. Johnson is correct that the “rapture” takes place before the great tribulation.  I know the rapture and the great tribulation will happen because of Matt. 24 and 1 Thess. 4:16.  While hoping for a “rapture” before the great tribulation, I don’t have a definite opinion on the “when” of the event.

Here’s Mr. Johnson’s view of Revelation 18: Revelation The Time is at hand XXXVI (Published 12/6/11) He lines up with Dr. Morris when he writes:

“Babylon will not only be restored as a city, but will become the commercial center of the world, and then will be destroyed at the end of the Great Tribulation.”

He later states:

“This ‘spirit’ of Babylon has the world firmly in its grip today.”

Mr. Johnson goes on to say:

“Keep in mind there are two Babylons of Revelation. There is the religious or ecclesiastical global “super church” comprised of all of the world’s religions, including apostate Christianity, then there is the commercial Babylon.”

Will Mr. Johnson and Dr. Morris be right about a literal Babylon?

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A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD

AMEN!!!

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THE GOOD-O-METER

“Sola Sisters are two sisters who were saved out of New Age Spirituality, and who now have a deep love for the Word of God. Instead of standing on the shifting ground of whatever new teaching-fad-class-book-technique-discipline-etc. to come along, we now stand firmly upon the Rock of Christ.”

This is the description given by the authors of the “Sola Sisters” blog at

http://solasisters.blogspot.com/2011/10/good-o-meter.html

It is where I found this interesting video:

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RECENT INTERVIEW WITH CHUCK MISSLER DISCUSSING PROPHETIC END TIMES EVENTS

Chuck admits to quite a bit of speculation in this interview.  Nevertheless, he covers a variety of subjects using scripture as his guide.  I found the interview instructive and thought provoking.

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PERSEVERANCE

“…steady and continued action or belief, usually over a long period and especially despite difficulties or setbacks”

I’m no runner.  I don’t think one has to be to be moved by this video. I know this is a repeat.  Every once in while I like to watch it.

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COMFORT

“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do the rest who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, and remain until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and we shall always be with the Lord.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

My belief grows stronger with each passing day that it is possible that I will be alive when these 2000 year old words come true.  In either case, whether alive or dead at the fulfillment of the prophecy, the words bring great comfort.  I hope they have the same impact on you.

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