tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52039271165463940352024-03-13T13:55:02.897-07:00Prophezine - Bible Prophecy & World EventsHere at the Prophezine blog, one will be able to read what is on my mind. My primary focus is Bible Prophecy and World events. We live in the middle of no-where Texas and I also share a lot of my homesteading, survival, preparedness ideas as wellAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-74973082116304814542014-11-04T06:38:00.003-08:002014-11-04T06:38:21.816-08:00Righteous Anger - The Victorious Warrior or The Compromising Whelp <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="259" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px;" width="180" /></span></b>In my past articles I have taken on some topics that over the years, the feminized emasculated church has turned from.<br />
Because we do not take the time to really read the bible, but instead
listen and watch all the famous preachers, teachers and such. Today
they tell us what is in the bible instead of us finding out on our own.<br />
Well over the years we have had a more feminine influence than we
have had of biblical masculinity. Thanks to this softer, more “caring”
and “loving” ideas (which is total bunk by the way) we now have a more
emotionally, experience driven church than one that relies solely on
God’s Word.<br />
It is God’s Word plus experience, feeling, leaning on our own understanding, and the list goes on.<br />
Like it or not, these are all feminine traits. Women base a lot of their “truth” on feelings and emotions. This is a fact.<br />
Men base their “truth” on logic and plain “yes” or “no”, mission oriented results.<br />
Like it or not, this is how God sees things as well. God is very
binary, yes – no, black – white. There is no gray area and in fact God’s
Word warns about this.<br />
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James 1:8 (KJV) A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</div>
Speaking of the Laodicean church today Christ said –<br />
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Revelation 3:16 (KJV) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.</div>
In fact we are warned but trusting our emotions (heart). God says that the heart (our emotions) are deceitful above ALL THINGS.<br />
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Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?</div>
Yet we are where we are today because we have feminized the church and gone against God’s Word and its teachings.<br />
Because we (most men) have lost the testicular fortitude to do what
is right and stand our ground, we now have the touchy feely sugar coated
church today.<br />
No one is willing to call a spade a spade.<br />
In the past articles I showed where Christ himself got angry, wielded
weapons, took on soldiers and bowled them down, got in people’s face
and yes called them names the described their true selves.<br />
In today’s world Christ would be called intolerant, hateful, mean
spirited, and all the other names that the emasculated feminized church
likes to toss around out there today.<br />
Christ was a man’s man, not this Brad Pitt effeminate looking sissy boy that so many put out there today representing Christ.<br />
If men stood their ground, remained being grounded in God’s Word and
retained the boldness, I believe that our nation would be a different
place than what we have today.<br />
So what do we have today?<br />
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<b>Starbucks Produces Sicko Sodomite Cross Dressing Commercial</b></h4>
As reported by Christian News Network…<br />
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“Starbucks has released its first homosexual-themed commercial this week, featuring two crossdressers.</div>
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In the one-minute commercial, Starbucks
Corporation featured the top two contestants from RuPaul’s “Drag Race”
season six: Adore Delano and Bianca Del Rio.</div>
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Starbucks has been a long-time supporter of homosexuality.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">Source - </span><a href="http://christiannews.net/2014/11/02/starbucks-releases-first-homosexual-themed-commercial-featuring-crossdressers/"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></a><a href="http://christiannews.net/2014/11/02/starbucks-releases-first-homosexual-themed-commercial-featuring-crossdressers/">http://christiannews.net/2014/11/02/starbucks-releases-first-homosexual-themed-commercial-featuring-crossdressers/</a><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
I do not know about you, but this is sick, I mean really sick.<br />
But where is the righteous anger over this?<br />
I can hear all the feminized pastors out there saying, “oh we just need to love them into heaven.”<br />
What a stupid thing to say.<br />
Folks, these people are morally and spiritually depraved via their
own free will. These people are reprobates, they are now enemies of God.
They know of God, His saving grace and His Son Jesus Christ. In fact,
they go to gigantic extents to spit in God’s Face to the point of making
“sex toys” in the image of Christ, Moses, and the Cross.<br />
So this idea that these reprobates do not know about God is sugar
coated thinking and an unwillingness to do what is right and call these
people reprobates. We then need have nothing todo with them what so
ever.<br />
I look at other things going on out there. Both sides of the
political idea has no back bone and both settle for milk toast than be
men and leaders as they were voted in to be.<br />
Where is the righteous anger in the church today? Have we been
hammered down (Stockholm’s syndrome) so much that to think anything
negative is all of a sudden hate speech?<br />
I guess to talk about this, we need to define what righteous anger is.<br />
<b>First – Righteous Anger reacts against actual sin</b>. We are
called to define the sin/ true evil biblically. Males who stick their
appendages into other males backsides are called Sodomites. This act is
in violation of God’s Word. But thanks to the effeminate emasculated
church today, we are welcoming these people into churches today and even
preach from the pulpit instead of recognizing reprobates and enemies of
God. These people do not want to change, they force their sin upon us
and force us to accept and change. Righteous Anger says NO MORE and puts
the foot down and boldly speaks up.<br />
<b>Second – Righteous Anger focuses on God, His Kingdom, Rights, and Concerns.</b>
NOT on our little kingdoms, rights, and concerns. Yep, this is a biggie
to many. See we like to blur that line and make “our” rights, concerns
and such the same as God’s. Our anger needs to be God centered and not
self-centered. We need to have Godly motives based on His Word. But
because we lack knowledge of His Word or rely on some watered down
bastardization of His Word, then it is natural that we are ignorant of
truly what is Godly motives and not. The key is to accurately viewing
things as offensive is not enough. We must view things primarily as
offending God and not ourselves.<br />
This is why I say that I am not going to spend another penny in
Starbucks ever again. If enough people truly had the fortitude to stop
going to Starbucks and give up their caffeine addiction then how much
money would Starbucks loose? Let me remind you that the sodomite
community that they are pandering to is only what.. 2% - 3% of the
population? The only reason they are where they are is the old adage…
the squeaky wheel gets the grease. They have allowed their evil anger to
drive them and they have won. Where we have allowed our Righteous Anger
to be subdued and therefore we have lost.<br />
<b>Third - Righteous Anger is accompanied by other Godly qualities and we express it in Godly Ways.</b>
This is the tough one, because we can allow the flesh gain control in
the blink of an eye. See, Righteous Anger retains self-control. We must
keep our head and wits about us without cursing, screaming, raging, or
flying off the handle. We must remember that we are always God’s
Ambassador.<br />
In some of my studies I talk about duels, when we are exercising our
Righteous Anger we are at that time in a duel. Not only are we battling
ourselves remaining focused and sharp, but we are also battling the
other person and the moment that we do lose our cool and stoop to the
level of the heathen, then we have lost.<br />
I am all in favor of being stern, identifying people by their true
character(calling a spade a spade), even defending myself if the person
wants to get physical. But I will not cower, and I will stand in the
duel. People know truth and justice when they see it. They also know
evil and perversion when they see that as well.<br />
People to this day still fill movie theaters where it is good vs evil
and the masses are always glad with good prevails over evil.<br />
To do this at times, Righteous Anger must be involved and we must be willing to stand our ground.<br />
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is why it is critical that we be in God’s Word and truly know right
from wrong, good from evil and those gray areas that the enemy likes to
throw into the mix. When we know God’s Word and educate ourselves we are
able to fight those who wish to oppress us with their evil and expose
the darkness to the light.<br />
But as long as there are emasculated, effeminate, spineless, willing
to bend at sin men who refuse to stand for what is right and show a
little righteous anger. We will never gain the high ground that we have
lost over these years all because we did not have the testicular
fortitude needed to do the right thing in the first place, not advocate
the chain of command that God put in place.<br />
But we are where we are because man basically wussed out and did not
want to do the hard work anymore. Today men want to sit in the lazyboy
and watch sports all day wasting all that time on their sports addiction
instead of studding God’s Word?<br />
So many men have lost their way because the lack the knowledge of
God’s Word. They have accepted these watered down churches and watered
down bibles. Instead of being real leaders, it is easy to just go with
the flow and accept these sugar coated bastardiaztion of what Church and
the Bible should be.<br />
No wonder we have no Righteous Anger, we have no power of God what so
ever and no I am not talking about this so called Charismatic voodoo
garbage people equate to God’s Power.<br />
I am talking about the fortitude and courage that allows us as
Christians to stand for the truth. And until we get back to the real
Word of God (The Authorized King James Bible) we will continue to be
worthless whelps accepting the sugar coating instead of doing the right
thing and being those true Godly Leaders that the world so desperately
needs.<br />
IF I have made you mad, good, maybe it will wake something up in you
where maybe you will start standing for truth, justice and everything
right again, instead of just going with the flow and accepting it.<br />
The word for that is compromise.<br />
Compromise is for the emotional person not willing to draw the line in the sand.<br />
Compromise is for the person that does not want to get involved.<br />
Compromise is for those people who like having their heads buried in the sand as the world pass them by.<br />
Compromise is for the lazy and unwilling, thinking that they have paid their dues in life and now life owes them.<br />
Compromise is for those who do not want to rock the boat.<br />
Compromise is for those who do not have the courage to do what it takes, especially when times get tough.<br />
Compromise is for those who would rather let the world win than stand for God, even when it isn’t the popular thing to do.<br />
I can go on, but you get the message.<br />
We no longer have Righteous Anger because so many people have compromised themselves with God.<br />
What would have happened if Jesus Christ compromised instead of dying on the cross for our sins, where would we be today?<br />
We need to cowboy up and suck it up. The world is a filthy horrible
place today. Instead of sitting on the sidelines compromising, we need
to get back in the game again.<br />
It means getting angry at what angers God.<br />
It means having courage to shine the light on the evil that is so prevalent today.<br />
It means drawing that line in the sand and not going to Starbucks
anymore no matter how much you like that coffee and need that caffeine
fix.<br />
It means being willing to righteously angry and to fight the
compromise that has become the terminal cancer in the churches today.<br />
William Burke is attributed to saying “ For evil to prevail, all a good man has to do is nothing.”<br />
Well, that “nothing” has been going on now for a very long time. We
have lost our country to these stinking reprobate enemies of God. Now we
can either continue to compromise or we can start doing something about
it.<br />
As long as we are here, we are accountable. We will have to stand
before him for our complacency. Those of us who boldly stood, we will be
rewarded well with crowns and mansions. Those who did not have the
fortitude and courage to stand for God, scripture says they will get
sticks for their eternal reward. If you think God is going to give the
compromiser the same rewards as those of us who had the courage to stand
when it was tough, think again.<br />
It is time for the righteous anger to rise up and we need to stand
for what is right again in light of God’s Word and not based on our own
fleshly feelings, thoughts, and emotions.<br />
We need to drop the whole touchy feely thing and get back on the hard narrow road.<br />
What will be interesting is to see how many will accept the hard challenge and how many will continue their compromising ways.<br />
When we get to Heaven we will see who the true warriors were and who were the whelps that came up lacking.<br />
Makes me wonder, how many people will be in heaven wishing they had
the fortitude to show righteous anger and stand for the truth? How many
will have made it in by the skin of their teeth knowing they wasted so
much time here on earth compromising on God, His Son, The Gospel and His
Word?<br />
What sort of person will you be when you get to heaven?<br />
Will you be the victorious warrior or the compromising whelp?<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="123" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px;" width="85" /></span></b><br /><br /></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-5666594226428344502014-10-31T11:58:00.002-07:002014-10-31T11:58:29.576-07:00Happy Commit Spiritual Adultery Against Christ Day
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><img alt="spiritual-adultery-edited" height="289" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2014-oct/spiritual-adultery-edited.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="424" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Well
it is that day of the year again when "Christians" dump Christ and
choose to wallow in the muck and mire of the enemy. I call it spiritual
adultery, in other words, basically sleeping with a whore once a year.
People will make all kinds of excuses about how fun it is or what a
great way to reach people, ... Yada, yada, yada.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Sleeping with a whore is
sleeping with a whore no matter how fancy or dirty she may be. One is
committing adultery no matter what.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Wives, how would you feel if you found out your husband was entertaining a woman of the night once a year?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Men, what if you found out your wife was entertaining a male prostitute once a year?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Get what I am saying here?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">So why do we commit spiritual adultery with Satan on one of his highest holidays?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">You enjoying sleeping with the Whore Satan? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I know that I am ticking off a lot of people right now saying what I am saying, but like it or not, that is what you are doing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Because Jesus Christ is
"not visible" before our eyes, we have no problem getting in bed with
that prostitute and we justify in so many ways.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I know for a fact that I
am going to get a bunch of email from people telling me that I am wrong,
being judgmental, I am a pharisee, why can't I let the kids have fun,
Kirk Cameron says it's ok, etc, etc, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Listen, you want to whore
around with Satan... Go for it, it does not effect me one way or the
other. Who it does matter to is the one who paid the price for your very
soul. He was tortured, whipped, scurged, bled, mocked, hung on the
cross and died a horrible death all for you... And how do you repay that
love? You go get in bed with Satan once a year dressed up as what ever
and unite yourself with the enemy all in the name of fun and the flesh. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">You are then going to
sleep off the spiritual hangover all day Saturday and then go to Church
on Sunday and talk to all the other spiritual adulterers about all the
"fun" you had.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Again, how would your husband or wife feel if you did the same thing and cheated on them? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Pretty bad right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I bet if you cheated on your wife or husband you would also feel pretty guilty too, right?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">SO why don't "Christians" feel the same guilt when they cheat on Christ with Satan?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Scripture says...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">1
Corinthians 10:21 (KJV) Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the
cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the
table of devils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Galatians
5:17 for the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye
cannot do the things that ye would.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">1John
2:4-5(KJV) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word,
in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are
in him.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Here is a statement by Harry Ironside, a great fundamental pastor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">"Error
is like leaven, of which we read, "A little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump." Truth mixed with error is equivalent to all error, except that it
is more innocent looking and, therefore, more dangerous. God hates such
a mixture! Any error, or any truth-and-error mixture, calls for
definite exposure and repudiation. To condone such is to be unfaithful
to God and His Word and treacherous to imperiled souls for whom Chris
died." --H.A. Ironside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong>True Christian or Just Another C.I.N.O.?</strong></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Time to do a check up from the neck up and REALLY ask yourself, Who Do You Serve?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">What distinguishes a true Christian from a C.I.N.O.? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">In most cases the answer is one word - guilt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Those who are truly Christians are convicted when they sin and feel guilt whenever they do sin ( and we all sin).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Those who aren't true
Christians don't feel guilt, either because they have quenched the Holy
Spirit or because they were never saved in the first place. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If fact, one of the sure ways to find out if you are really saved is how you react to sin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If you just shrug it off and say "everyone sins" then you have problems. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If you hate every sin you have committed and feel guilt every time, it is safe to say that you are saved.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">SO if you are going to choose to whore around with Satan tonight, ask yourself the morning after, how do you feel?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Guilty or just "shrug it off" because everyone is doing it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Then ask yourself who do you really love - Christ or Satan?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If you liked whoring around, felt no guilt and justified it, odds are you aren't one of His.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">See, it is a common lie told by many CINOs - "It's who you know that gets you into heaven."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Actually, this is wrong. It is who knows YOU.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Here is what I mean. I
know George W Bush, he was the president, lives in Texas, and I was able
to drive up to his front gates when we lived there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If I drive there today and
pull up to his gate, Secret Service agents will stop me, look me in the
eye and ask me what I am doing there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">My responce "Well I am here to see George W" and flash him the perly whites.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">He asks my name, checks his list, asks if I have an appointment and does not see my name on the list.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">WHY?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Although I know of George W Bush, he does not know me. So am I gaining access to this former president?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Nope, nada, no way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Same goes with Christ.
Just because YOU know Him does not mean HE knows you. Well, He does in
His God manner, He knows everything. But what you are not, is one of His
children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Scripture says...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Matthew
7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is
in heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">23 And then will I profess unto them, <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>I never knew you</strong></span>: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> So, if you choose to go
out whoring with Satan tonight and you claim the title Christian. Look
yourself in the mirror and get real with yourself and ask "Who do you
REALLY serve?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I hope these words sting
and cut to the bone. It is the truth and it does not matter if you like
it or not, it still is the truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">If you do not like what I
am saying and I am just being mean and hateful, news flash - the truth
sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">No sugar coating and no halloween candy from me. No siree....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">So the choice is yours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Stay true to your first love, or go whore around with the enemy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">What will matter is how you will react to your choice / action the morning after. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">That will tell who you REALLY care for, love and serve. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Be ready for an eye opener one way or the other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="150" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px;" width="104" /><br /><br />By Ray Gano</strong></span><br />
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with what we have needed and also blessed us from time to time with things we
have wanted. There is a difference too. But we were able to prioritize and
finally get multiple years of food, medical supplies as well as arms to protect
ourselves and our home.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Fast forward to today and we are facing yet
another possible storm, that storm is called Ebola. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Reports are showing that the spread of
Ebola is starting to become exponential. In fact, the head of the World Health
Organization stated that this outbreak "is moving faster than our efforts
to control it".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">I am not trying to be a fear monger, what I
am trying to do is fulfill my job of being a watchman. In the days of high
walls and castles, it was the job of the watchman to stand upon the wall and
call down into the city what is going on and what he sees approaching the city.
He had a vantage point that those in the city did not have. He was able to look
out upon the horizon a great distance. He could see far and report on
advancements of armies and even storms. If it was within eyesight, the watchman
could see it and report on it. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA">God states in scripture the importance of
the watchman as well as his responsiblity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Ezekiel 33:2-6 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son of man, speak to the children of thy
people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of
the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA">3 if when he seeth
the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span lang="EN-CA">4 then whosoever
heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come,
and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">5 He heard the
sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he
that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">6 But if the
watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not
warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken
away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">That is my job and I try to do my job as
good as possible. I try not to be “sensational” like others out there, but also
try not to “sugar coat” things so that it is more palatable. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">My latest book is going to be titled "Survive The Coming Storm - EBOLA CRISIS"<br /> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"> It is my hope to have it finshed by Aug 8th and push
it out to Amazon Kindle. I am going to also try to push it out on iBook
and Nook. We will see. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Please pray that this book does well and helps people if the situation arises.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-20962533540764809372014-06-11T08:25:00.002-07:002014-06-11T08:25:16.916-07:00The Lord is Our Shepherd – Psalms 23 <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="259" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px;" width="180" /></span></b><span>I
love the 23rd chapter of Psalms. It speaks to me on so many levels. It
helps settle the turbulence that is in my heart when I read the horrible
goings on in the world. It also helps me to remember that HE, God the
Father is still in charge and that HE will see us through. </span><br />
<span>The Lord is my shepherd … it is interesting that so often we
place man on a pedestal. I have to admit that it happens to me, people
put me up as some great holy guy know it all and then they realize that I
am just a sheep, just like them. Just like you. </span><br />
<span>The Lord is our shepherd and because of that we will not have
want. He is there for us and even though we have other “sheep” we learn
from and align with, at the end of the day they, us, you are all still
sheep in need of the one true shepherd. </span><br />
<span>That is not to discredit those of us who are called to lead and
be in the service of The Lord. But sometimes it goes to folks head and
it gets the best of them. </span><br />
<span>I look at all these famous bestselling pastors out there.
Caught in adultery, homosexual trappings, drugs and debauchery. They
think they are above it all and forget that they are just sheep like
everyone else. </span><br />
<span>Knowing that The Lord is my shepherd is comforting. At times
the weight of the world sits so heavy on my shoulders. That is when this
chapter helps me realize what I really am and who is really in charge. </span><br />
<span>God is in Charge, He is my shepherd. Because He is in charge, His grace is sufficient for me. I shall not want. </span><br />
<span>Back when we first moved out to the ranch in New Braunfels we
were given some sheep to take care of. Boy did we learn a lot from
watching the sheep. They are really stupid and stubborn creatures. I now
know why Christ refers to us as sheep so often. Because we are stupid
and stubborn as well. </span><br />
<span>That is why I find verse two so humorous. He MAKETH me to lie down in green pastures.</span><br />
<span>When we had our sheep they were constantly trying to get out
onto the ranch. We had great green grass, good feed, fresh water all the
good things that sheep love. But the grass was always greener on the
other side of the fence. One time two of them escaped and it took me
several hours to wrangle them back. I had to lasso them and literally
drag them back into the safety of the yard. Both of them kicked and
fought me every step of the way. I was really tempted to just leave them
out there, but I knew that they would end up as coyote food once it
became night. </span><br />
<span>Like our sheep, God makes us lie down in green pastures. Why?
Because he loves us and he is protecting us from the predators that are
out there. But we constantly want to escape so we can partake in the
“greener grass” that we believe is out there. </span><br />
<span> He leadeth me beside the still waters. Like the green
pastures, God knows what is best for us. If we just get to that point
where we will submit to His will and not our own, we will find out that
the waters HE LEADS US TO is the freshest and quenches our thirst like
none that we can ever find on our own. </span><br />
<span>But the key is to submit to HIM and allow the Lord to lead us. It is something hard for a sheep to do. </span><br />
<span>But if we do, “<span class="text">He restoreth my soul.”</span></span><br />
<span class="text"><span>This is something that all of us need today.
The world is so hard and it seems like it is pressing in harder and
harder on us daily with all the trials and tribulations that we as
Christians endure. I am reminded again of His Grace. It is sufficient
for us and is there for us even in our darkest times. He sees us through
and restores our soul. </span></span><br />
<span class="text"><span><img alt="the-lord-is-my-shepherd" height="274" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2014-june/the-lord-is-my-shepherd.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="380" />When
we finally submit and start walking with Him, allowing Him to lead, “He
leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”</span></span><br />
<span>God leads us in the way of being one of His children. He
instructs us through His Word and directs us through that still small
voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to us through our conscience. After a
while we start to see His providence at work in our lives because we
came to the point of trusting him and stopped being stubborn. </span><br />
<span>This is our duty. In past writing I taught of the Servant –
Warrior. To walk that path of duty is the truly pleasant way. When we
submit to the shepherd and He becomes our King we discover that the path
of righteousness is a path of true peace. </span><br />
<span>The key is submission, like the sheep finally submitting to the
shepherd. We cannot walk these paths unless God both lead us onto them
and lead us in them. </span><br />
<span class="text"><span>Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,</span></span><span><br /> <span class="text">I will fear no evil: for thou <i>art</i> with me;</span></span><br />
<span>This is the peace that walking the path of righteousness gives.
Even though we are facing all sorts of trials, life changing events,
maybe even death, God promises to be with us. </span><br />
<span class="text"><span>thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.</span></span><span></span><br />
<span>When we see these mentioned the first thing that comes to mind
is hooking the sheep with the shepherds crook. That is the big curve in
his staff and that is how he captures sheep who do not want to listen
and try to run off. The rod or a goad is a stick with a sharp point that
prods us in the direction that the shepherd wants us to go. </span><br />
<span>When we buck against the goad, we feel the prick. </span><br />
<span>Scripture says… </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the
wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies,
which are given from one shepherd.</span></div>
<span>When we finally learn to submit to His rod and His staff, we
realize that there are boundaries. See boundaries for sheep is a very
good thing. The boundaries are there to protect us and keep us safe.
They help us to live a life of peace and tranquility in Him. His rod and
His staff they comfort us. They remind us of the boundaries the
shepherd has put in place because He loves us and wants the best for us.
</span><br />
<span>Like the sheep we used to have, we wanted them to be protected
and live a life of safety inside the boundaries of our yard. The coyotes
and other things were out on the ranch that could lead to their
destruction and kill them. </span><br />
<span>When we do submit and we learn the boundaries He has placed
before us and we learn to live within those limits, rules, laws and we
come to realize that life is good. </span><br />
<span class="text"><span>Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:</span></span><span><br /> <span class="text">thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.</span></span><br />
<span>Even in the midst of trouble, trials, hardship and affliction,
we realize that His Grace is there. He gives us a peace that only God’s
Grace can provide, so much so that our cups runneth over. The key is to
remember that we are the sheep and He is the shepherd. In submitting to
the will of the shepherd is the only way that we will have that peace
that pours over us. Much like warm fragrant oil being poured over our
head. The warmth of the oil envelops us and the sweet fragrance fills
our nose with soothing smells that calms us. </span><br />
<span>Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:<br /> and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.</span><br />
<span> When we are in that place of peace, it truly is a place of
goodness and mercy that the shepherd provides and will continue to
provide all the days of our life. </span><br />
<span><img alt="shepherd-carry-sheep" height="300" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2014-june/shepherd-carry-sheep.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="359" />This is what it means to dwell in the house of the Lord forever. </span><br />
<span>The Lord is our shepherd, and our King. He alone is the one who
sees us through the storms when we allow him to be our shepherd. But
when we buck against the staff and run wild in rebellion, the shepherd
will come after us and drag us back to Him, even with us kicking and
screaming like the stubborn sheep we are. </span><br />
<span>Do you know what a shepherd does if he has a sheep that continues to buck against him and run away? </span><br />
<span>He breaks their legs so that the sheep cannot walk and then
must be carried by the shepherd. This in turn causes the sheep to bond
to the shepherd and that sheep will never stray very far from the
shepherd. The sheep remembers the pain and will continue to have that
“ghost pain” for the rest of his life reminding him of the consequences
of running away and rebelling against the shepherd. </span><br />
<span>But if the sheep does not learn and bond with the shepherd, the
shepherd will eventually kill the sheep. The shepherd realizes that the
sheep will lead other sheep astray and endanger the entire flock. Sheep
are natural followers and from time to time there rise up sheep that
are rebellious. So for the sake of the flock, the rebellious sheep is
taken away and put to death. It does not happen very often, but it does
happen. </span><br />
<span>I highly encourage you to memorize the 23<sup>rd</sup> Psalm. It will be there in your heart when that dark time falls upon you, and yes, dark times are coming. </span><br />
<span>The more that we are able to equip ourselves with His Word in
our heart the more we will be able to weather the storms that are
beginning to bear down on us in these last days of the last days. </span><br />
<span>Trust in the one true Shepherd and submit to Him. He is the way, the truth and the life. </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Psalm 23</strong></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>A Psalm of David.</span></div>
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<span>1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.</span></div>
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<span>2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:</span></div>
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<span>he leadeth me beside the still waters.</span></div>
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<span>3 He restoreth my soul:</span></div>
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<span>he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.</span></div>
<span><b><span><br /><b><span><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="150" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px;" width="104" /></span></b><br /><br />By Ray Gano</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-7595827624746596842014-06-09T20:15:00.001-07:002014-06-09T20:15:09.934-07:00The Final Generation??? By Ray Gano
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img align="right" alt="finalgeneration410-200" height="210" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/finalgeneration410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="400" /></span></b>Do we or do we not serve a God of logic and reason? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Well the answer is obvious, we serve a God of logic and reasoning. To confirm that all we need to do is look at His creation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If we
serve a God of logic and reason, then why do so many of us believe in
things that almost equate to being a fairytale and worse, given no
critical thought at all? </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew 24:34(KJV) Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Many
folks point to this verse when speaking of the last day / end times.
Some say that the countdown clock started in May 1948, others say it was
June 1967 when Israel finally took back the city of Jerusalem and won
control of the Temple mount. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Both points are promoted, but I stand upon the birth of the nation that took place in 1948. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The issue that I want to focus on is this, IF we are the final generation, then why do we bow down to the god of time?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">"WHAT?? The god of time?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Yes, often when asked a question that is hard to answer, many people say "it is just a matter of time." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Many
people ask, "when will the rapture take place? " Common answer is "Well,
God tells us not to set dates, but it is just a matter of time."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">As a side
note, let me state right here that I am one who stands upon the
imminent return of our Lord, so please don't send me emails giving me
grief about timing and such. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">There are
many out there proclaiming that there is an upcoming middle east war
and even claiming it to be a fulfillment of some of the prophecies found
in scripture. You see it in discussion forums, emails and even some
popular bible prophecy teachers newsletters and websites.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">" We will
see prophecy come to pass this summer 2013, you mark my words. And if
things don't turn out, well it is just a matter of time till they do."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Foolish Statements</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">With the election of the new Pope, we hear foolish statements like "The antichrist will be an Italian of roman catholic decent."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Or this "Russia is going to invade Israel and then we are going to get raptured out of here." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Or this, "
a European antichrist with his forces are going to kill all the
Christians by beheading them, Revelation 20:4 tells us so."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Or this, " The coming war is the fulfillment of Psalm 83"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Or this.. " Islam is going to be wiped out this summer in the Israel war."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Do you get the idea at what I am trying to point out here?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">People are making foolish statements that have little if any biblical backing what so ever. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Often
they are thrown out there without any logic or reasoning given what so
ever. The sad thing is that I have heard some of these statements come
from the very teachers whose books we read, TV shows we watch, ect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What's more is that you yourself have heard these sort of things out there too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What is the common theme in all of this?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If things don't work out, all of these are backed up by the god of time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">" It will happen - it is just a matter of time."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This is why I ask, are we the final generation or not? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">People
quote this verse all the time and then state something else that
completely contradicts the final generation found in Matthew 24:34.</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> It is like the old Hollywood Indian saying you see in the movies.. "white man speaks with forked tongue."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, if we are the final generation then that means we are running seriously out of time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="new-pope" height="255" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/new-pope.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="342" />What is the flip side of that? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We are
NOT the final generation and all those bible prophecy that have come to
pass, well, all those were just chance, a winning roll of the dice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It is like we have become accustomed to having our cake and eating it too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Either these things that are being taught are going to take place here soon,… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">because we are the final generation,… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">OR they are not and we are not the final generation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In fact, let me pick on some of these statements to clarify.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>"The antichrist will be Italian of roman catholic decent."</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This is
one that has been tossed around out there for a while now, and I hate to
say it, but time has just about run out on this one. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">How has it run out?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Everyone can clearly see that Europe is being taken over by Muslims, this is a fact. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Based on
birthrate studies, in order for a culture to maintain itself for more
than 25 years the required fertility rate must be 2.11 children per
family. Historically a culture has never reversed a fertility rate of
1.9 children per family. AND IF the fertility rate hits 1.3, it is
impossible for that culture to reverse because it would take that
culture 80 to 100 years to correct itself. In fact there is no economic
model to sustain a culture during that time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Let's look at the birthrate of Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">France 1.8<br /> England 1.6<br /> Greece 1.3<br /> Germany 1.3<br /> Italy 1.2<br /> Spain 1.1</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Across
the European Union that consists of 31 countries, the cultural
fertility rate is 1.38. Historical research tell us that these numbers
are impossible to reverse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="islamic-rage-boy2" height="256" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-news-watch/islamic-rage-boy2.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="468" />In just a matter of years, Europe as we know it will cease to exist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But Europe is growing and birthrates are high. What is taking place? Immigration.. Islamic immigration. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Who are having all the children? Muslims.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Based on
the numbers and information above, I do not see some Italian guy coming
to power being backed by the catholic church when 1/3 of all European
children will be born to Muslim families by 2025.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It is a
fact that Islam will not bow to a Italian man backed by the Catholic
Church. But the Catholic Church will bow to Islam and this has been
historically proven time and again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But what is the answer given by those who support this idea? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">"Just give it time, you will see. Some Italian guy from Rome will rise up, you mark my words."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Well they are dutifully marked and it is looking like they are coming up wanting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, the sands of time are running out. We do not have the luxury of time any more if we are the final generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Do you know that most census offices worldwide utilize as the timeframe of 25 years for a generation as an average?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But we are speaking biblically here. How long is a biblical generation? <br /> <br /> Scripture says… </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Psalms
90:10 (KJV) The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and
if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In other words, the number of years people live on the average is 70, possibly 80 if they are strong and of good constitution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">To back this up, Matthew in his reciting of Christ's generations follow the Psalms 90:10 definition of a generation, 70 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew
1:17 (KJV) So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are
fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto
Christ are fourteen generations.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew
is using the Psalm 90 definitions of generation in order to tell a
specific chronological time story of our Lord Jesus Christ. So if
Matthew is using it pertaining to and qualifying our Lord, we should use
it also.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So with
all that said, and just doing simple math, 1948 70 years comes to 2018.
That is approximately 5 years. Well taking into account that 2013 is 1/4
over, we have a little over 5.5 years left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Now I do
not want to get emails saying I am date setting, I am not. What I am
showing is logic and reasoning. Either we are the last generation or we
are not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Continuing
on and looking at the birthrate of Muslims in Europe, what are the odds
of an Italian man backed by the Catholic Church coming to power,
uniting Europe as a force to rule the world in just 5.5 years?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Will Islam just sit back and let this happen? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If you say "Yes," you are kidding yourself and rejecting logic and reasoning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The
problem is that these people who promote this idea have lost the ability
to mix fairness with objectivity and are suffering from an acute case
of "Don't confuse me with the facts my mind is made up!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In other
words they worship at the feet of the god of time and feel like they
have all the time in the world for their ideas to jell together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">On the other hand, how many Muslims are looking for the Mahdi to come and establish the global one world caliphate?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Who do we as Christians look to in scripture to create a global one world government in these last days?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Think on this for a moment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Here is another one the defies logic and reasoning…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>" A European antichrist with his forces are going to kill all the Christians by beheading them, Revelation 20:4 tells us so."</strong></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Revelation
20:4 (KJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Like the Italian AC, this is another one that is surrounded by illogical ideas when being promoted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In fact I produced a 10 minute video taking this topic on. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">You can watch this video at <a href="http://prophezine.com/index.php?subid=7&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2431&mailid=750">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fVwv7r-Nqw</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Many
people point to the Catholic Church being the ones who will help the
Antichrist dispatch all the Christians worldwide. A majority of the
popular authors promote the idea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="on-killing" height="366" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/on-killing.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="250" />I have been reading a book titled "<i> On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill In War and Society"</i> written by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This book
was written to explain a startling fact: throughout most of military
history, up until the end of World War II, the vast majority of soldiers
(between 75% and 95%) have refused to kill their fellow man. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Brigadier
General S.L.A. Marshall, who studied this phenomenon during World War
II, found that no more than 20% of soldiers would "take any part with
their weapons". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The
interesting fact is that these results can be found throughout time and
across cultures, from Alexander the Great who lost only 700 men in years
of fighting, to tribesmen in New Guinea who remove the feathers from
their arrows before going off to war, to the soldiers at Rosebud Creek
in 1876 who fired 252 rounds for each American Indian they hit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Grossman conducted very in-depth research.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So what was happening to these soldiers? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">These
fighting men were resorting to a number of options, and I mean anything
that prevented them from having to kill their fellow man. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So what did these soldiers do? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Some fell
back to support positions running supplies, ammo, messages. Some tended
to the wounded carrying them off the battlefield. Some even faked
injury themselves and even others ran away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In fact many just fired into the air just above the enemies heads. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In Civil
War times, conscience-stricken soldiers also had the option of
pretending to fire - that is, loading up their muskets, mimicking the
movements of a firing soldier next to them, and pretending to recoil. <br /> <br />
Do you know at Gettysburg there were over, 27,574 muskets were found on
the battlefield? Over 90% of these guns were loaded. On the average a
good soldier can load and fire a musket about 4 times in a minute. So
logically speaking the chances of these muskets representing mostly
soldiers killed JUST before they were getting ready to fire is pretty
slim. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Do you
know that over 12,000 muskets were found with multiply-loads down the
barrel? In fact, at Gettysburg they found over 6,000 of them loaded with
3-10 rounds apiece? That means that the soldier "Faked" firing the
weapon and then went through the procedure to reload the weapon. They
consciously objected to killing their fellow man. So they just went
through the paces to look like they were fighting the battle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Clearly
this shows that among soldiers a deeply ingrained resistance to killing
is prevalent when faced with killing other human beings. But this isn't
just with soldiers, it is with man in general, he does not want to kill
his fellow man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Now what is interesting is that Grossman uses most of his book to discussing the ways in which this resistance can be overcome.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">How can this take place? Simple, training and brainwashing is conducted upon the soldier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Revelation 20:4 tells us the Christian martyrs will die, that is a fact.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But here
is what I have to ask, were are the huge number of forces that are being
trained to dispatch Christians? In fact we also need to include Jews
as well because we know that Jews will also be persecuted against during
the tribulation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>How Many Will Die?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">According
to the website adherents.com, there are 2.1 billion Christians
worldwide. This number also includes Mormons, JWs, ect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So how many of these will go in the rapture? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Scripture gives us clues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In
Matthew 7, which I consider one of the bibles most troubling chapters in
all of scripture, we see Christ who is speaking to Christians /
believers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Scripture says…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew
7:13-14 (KJV) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be
which go in there at: </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Christ
himself tells us that there are many believers who are on the broad way
that leads to destruction. He also tells us that those who are on the
narrow way, the Lord tells us that "few there be that find it."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Now I am
not talking about losing one's salvation. I am one who stands on if a
person is saved, they cannot lose their salvation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="oprah" height="264" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/oprah.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="220" />What
is being presented in this chapter are those who claim the title, but
are not true Christians. These Christians In Name Only, or what I refer
to as C.I.N.Os.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What do I mean by that? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Simple
example, Oprah Winfrey publicly claims to be a Christian, but we clearly
see that her fruits do not show it. We cannot judge ones heart, but
based on her fruits, I would speculate that she is one of those on the
broad way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So how many is "few there be that finds it?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">To be
honest I don’t know, but to look at the logic of this situation let's be
fair and keep things simple and say 1 billion Christians are raptured. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Of those who are left, again keeping it simple to explain logic let's say that 1 billion "Christians" are left behind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We also have to remember that there are approximately 14 million Jews in the world as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We know based upon scripture that 2 thirds of the Jews living will be persecuted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Zechariah
13:8 (KJV) And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the
LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall
be left therein. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">That is approximately 4.6 million Jews left in the world with 9.3 million being persecuted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">My question is, who is being trained and brainwashed to kill 1 billion, nine point three million Christians and Jews worldwide? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Do we see the Catholic Church stepping up to the plate to fulfill this large order? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What about other false religions out there? Maybe Mormons? What about New Agers? What about the dreaded Freemasons? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Here is another point to consider. Studies show that it takes approximately 2-3 people to execute one person.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Now we
know for a fact that there will be Christians and Jews who do survive
the tribulation, scripture tells us of the nations who will populate the
millennial kingdom. This is a fact. So not all 1 billion, nine point
three million Christians and Jews worldwide will die. But a good number
of people will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So again, I have to ask who is being trained to dispatch these millions of people? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">FACT - We
know that man has an aversion to killing other human beings, Christian
morals or not, that is clearly shown in the multiple military studies
conducted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">FACT - We
also know from scripture that "beheading" will be the method of choice
so we cannot blame nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of mass
destruction. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It will be the simple "off with their head" solution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">"Well Ray, the "restrainer" will be taken out so all hell will break lose." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Good
point, but it does not negate these studies. Grossman in his book talks
about Alexander the Great who lost only 700 men in all his years and
campaigns of fighting and concurring the known world. He also
experienced the same unwillingness to kill. Alexander lived at the time
prior to the restrainer. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, the unwillingness to kill our fellow man is ingrained into us. God's law is written upon all of our hearts.</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Romans
1:18-19 (KJV) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; <br /> <br /> 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We know
that the restrainer was not present during Alexander's time. There are
other "pre-restrainer" cases in history that back this up as well. We
also know that the law of God is known to all men because it is written
upon our hearts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The only
way to overcome this unwillingness to kill our fellow human being, is to
be subjected to training and brainwashing. In fact the longer that the
person is exposed, the less remorse and mental trauma one will
encounter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Knowing
that millions will die at the hands of the Antichrist and that a
generation is 70 years. Where are the masses of people being trained
today to kill their fellow man?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Last Generation?</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Remember
that based upon Psalms 90:10 a generation is 70 years. Again looking at
Israel becoming a nation in 1948 and using simple math we get the year
2018 being the approximate end of the generation. Seeing that we are
about on quarter through 2013, that gives us approximate a little over
5.5 year to train millions to behead and kill all those during the
tribulation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">"Well Ray, I have heard that there are guillotines all over the US in secret FEMA camps just waiting to be used." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Again, an unwillingness to think critically or objectively. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="guillotine" height="273" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/guillotine.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="364" />If this was the case, who is the company that produced all these guillotines? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Where are they located? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Based on the statement above, they had to be shipped all over the US. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Where are the truckers to drove these guillotines all over the US? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What about the people who loaded and unloaded the guillotines from these vehicles? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What about the people who worked in the no-name factory who built these guillotines?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What
about eye witnesses of some form or fashion, or innocent bystanders who
happened to be in the right place at the right time? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The truth about a secret is that no matter what, it will not remain a secret very long specially if it is a government secret. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In
regards to this story, there are too many variables that would easily
expose the production of these guillotines taking place in this nation.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In fact
ramping up a company, training the workers and in these financially
stressful days, finding the money, stockholders, and financial backing
to achieve this as well as dispatching all those Christians, I think 7.5
years is not enough time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Again there are too many variables that could go wrong in keeping this a secret. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Now
playing the devil's advocate, and taking the US alone, how many true
blue Americans would put up with a large number of guillotines being
produced in secret? Someone would expose this, there would be pictures
posted on facebook, videos on you tube. More proof of the company would
come out followed by investigations and then congressional hearings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, a
tool of death like the guillotine, would not go unnoticed and would be
reported to the public the moment that the company came into existence .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> Just
look at the 9/11 conspiracy, the Obama birth certificate conspiracy or
what about the old idea that men did not land on the moon and it was
all shot on a movie sound stage? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">All these
are well known, the conspiracy of guillotines all over the US is a myth
and does not have any provable facts based on logic and reasoning to
support it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">BUT,
let's just entertain this idea for a moment and say it is true, you
would still need 2-3 people trained and brainwashed to kill their fellow
human being day in and day out, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week non-stop
because we are dealing with millions. Look how long it took Hitler to
kill six million Jews. We are talking at least a billion people here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Here is
another point. Our own military is trained to kill and have put into
practice these ideologies to help overcome the resistance to kill and
still they are ineffective. Look at how many of our gulf war and
Afghanistan war vets come home with post traumatic stress syndrome
because they have been trained and have killed, and yet they are still
suffering the consequences of taking another's life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The
American fighting man and woman are some of the best trained soldiers in
the world, but what is missing is the brainwashing making killing a
part of their lives. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Scripture says… </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This is often seen as a blessing to Christian parents, but when viewed from another angle, it is seen as a curse. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="islam-kids" height="284" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/islam-kids.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="378" />Who has been training up their children to kill at such a young age? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">You know and I know… Islam. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">How many Muslims are there worldwide? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">According
to adherents.com, it is estimated that there are 1.5 billion Muslims.
This study was also conducted around 2001. It is believed that nearly
one-fourth of the world’s population today is Muslim. Without firm
numbers it is believed that there are more than 1.5 billion, to quite
possibly 2 billion with Islam being the fastest growing religion in the
world today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So taking
into account that Christians will be taken out in the rapture, that
Islam is the fastest growing religion and that many will die at the
hands of the antichrist, there is only one group of people that fit the
ability to meet Revelation 20:4 and that is Islam. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Points to consider about Islam …<span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Muslims are taught to hate Christians and Jews<br /> Muslims are taught to kill the infidel<br /> Beheading is the standard form of execution<br /> Muslims are taught from a young age to die for the cause of Islam<br /> Muslims are taught to kill for the cause of Islam</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But here
is the stickler, all the countries mentioned in scripture that are
associated to Christ's physical return are all Muslim countries and are
clearly named. There is no refuting that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">For
example , the chapters in Isaiah 13 - 29 all deal with Christ's literal
second coming and the destruction of Israel's enemies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Isaiah 13 Burden of Babylon, <br /> Isaiah 14:24 Burden of Assyria, <br /> Isaiah 14:28 Burden against Philistia (Gaza), <br /> Isaiah 15:1 Burden of Moab, <br /> Isaiah 17 Burden of Damascus & Samaria,<br /> Isaiah 18 Burden of Ethiopia <br /> Isaiah 19 Burden of Egypt <br /> Isaiah 21:13 Burden against Arabia <br /> Isaiah 22 Burden against Jerusalem (occupied by enemy),<br /> Isaiah 23 Burden against Tyre. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">All of these are Muslim counties. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In fact every time the sword of the Lord is mentioned, it is always in association to a Muslim country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Ezekiel
30:4- 5 (KJV) And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain
shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall
take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. </span></div>
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Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub,
and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the
sword. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We must
accept the fact that Islam and the descendant of Ishmael, Esau and Lot
are the last day players. Over and over again they are mentioned by name
in scripture. Not the EU, USA, New York or Rome. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We as
students of bible prophecy have forgotten that this whole situation
started in Genesis with the children of Abraham and a battle over the
promised land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The
problem, there are many who refuse to look at the logic and reasoning.
Like many of the statements believed above, they do not want to be
bothered with the facts because their mind is made up to what they want
to believe even when it is clearly in black and white and contained in
God's Word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Conclusion</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">I personally believe that we are the final generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If we are
the final generation as many in the bible prophecy arena are teaching,
we must contend with logic and reasoning and not fairytales. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Just because something has been taught for the last 50-100 years, does not make it so. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We are
called to look down at scripture and then peer out to the horizon to see
how the world fits within scripture, not how scripture fits within the
ideas that are being taught in the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We as students of bible prophecy need to put away all the books of men and look at what scripture is truly teaching.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We have
forgotten to go to God's Word and apply Acts 17:11 to make sure that
what is being taught holds true to scripture. But more than that, it
must adhere to logic and reasoning because our God is not a God of
confusion nor does He lie. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Therefore if it is not God who is in error, we have to ask "who is?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The obvious answer is man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We need
to once again learn how to think critically, with an objective mind. We
have got to stop allowing people to "spoon feed" us what they believe we
need to know and this includes me as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It is the Holy Spirit which teaches us and it is He who will illuminate the truth if we apply God's logic and reasoning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We also
need to come to the realization that if we are the final generation that
scripture talks about, then there are some issues at hand that we need
to contend with and not push it off to the god of time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We need
to admit that there are things that we have once believed that do not
fit scripture as well as the timeframe given the days we are living in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We must come to the understanding that If scripture fits, we must submit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">There are
going to be those out there who will argue the timeframe of a
generation, when did that generation begin, when will it end, ect.
Personally that does not matter, time is still time and it is ticking
down. An extra 20 or so years will not really matter if we are the final
generation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="islam-eu" height="241" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/islam-eu.gif" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="375" />Taking
into account of the Muslim demographics presented, that situation is
not changing and only some fairytale idea of all the Muslims being taken
off the earth in some miraculous event is absurd. Yes, there are folks
out there who believe that all of Islam will be destroyed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The fact
that an event like that is not even mentioned in scripture either except
at Christ's literal second coming when He destroys the enemies of
Israel should tell you something about the idea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Therefore
we need to decide if we are the final generation or not. If we are that
final generation, we have a limited amount of time in this generation
for things to come together logically because we serve The Omniscience
God of logic and reason. (all knowing all seeing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">More
importantly, we need to start holding our teachers feet to the fire and
challenge them with God's Word as well as logic and reasoning. We need
to start asking the hard questions and demand solid biblical as well as
logical answers. Not these fairytale ideas that were dreamt up some
50-100 or more years ago when Israel was not a nation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We need
to reexamine what we have been taught with a sound mind allowing the
Holy Spirit to teach us and not the latest popular teacher with the
bestselling book. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, I
hold myself up to the same scrutiny as well. If I am wrong, I am willing
to admit that I am wrong if shown from scripture to be incorrect. I
have admitted error before and I have no problem recanting something
said in error. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But one
has to ask, how many others are out there with all their books, DVDS,
CDs, studies, TV shows on the line? How many are out there are willing
to admit that they are wrong when presented with sound logic and
reasoning in light of all their books, DVDs, CDs, ect?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Odd are
that they will stick to the "Don't confuse me with the facts my mind is
made up! Besides, it is clearly stated in my book, CD or study guide,
so how can I be wrong?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If that is the answer you get, then we need to question pride being the culprit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Scripture says…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If we are
the final generation, we have a lot of work still needing to be done.
Millions upon millions do not have any knowledge of the Lord our God,
nor the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. We no longer have the
luxury of time and must be about the Lord's Work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">BUT… if we are NOT the final generation, then we have all the time in the world and can worship at the feet of the god of time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What you need to do is ask yourself "what generation are we? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The final generation or the one serving the god of time?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img align="left" alt="ray-gano-med" height="147" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 6px;" width="102" /></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>By Ray Gano</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-91094145401873450732013-11-17T12:17:00.000-08:002013-11-17T12:17:28.585-08:00Keys To Spiritual Survival – The Armor of God <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="177" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="123" /></span></b><span>In
the past few articles we have learned about applying the Third Party
Rule (Proverbs 3:5-6) in our lives. We have discussed “Living in God’s
Grace” and “Living in God’s Sovereignty.”</span><br />
<span>In this article I want to talk about how to start bringing
these things together so that you can be effective and be able to stand
against the wiles of the enemy. </span><br />
<span>As I have been saying, we are living in the last days of the
last days. Now more than ever we need to cleave to God, His Word; His
Ways and live a life holy and acceptable unto Him. </span><br />
<span>But so many people who are good bible believing Christians have
forgotten how to do these things or have been attending churches that
refuse to teach the true tenants of the faith. </span><br />
<span>This is why I feel it is important that we wear the armor of
God daily, and make a concerted effort to truly wear these tools of war
and understand why it is important to wear these daily. </span><br />
<span>So what does it mean to wear the armor of God?</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="full-plate-armor" height="405" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/full-plate-armor.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="255" />Men Beating Each Other Silly with Swords </span></b><br />
<span>Here is a little story that some of you may have heard before.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b><br />
<span>Back in my college days I used to be involved with group that
is called the SCA, also known as the Society for Creative Anachronism.</span><br />
<span>Those involved would role play as if they were living in the
King Arthur days. They would wear armor of all sorts and go bash each
other over the head with rattan swords. </span><br />
<span>What is interesting is that today it is actually seen as an
official form of martial art.Well, I was one of those guys who enjoyed
beating each other senseless. Now to be honest I was getting beaten on
more than I was beating on others.</span><br />
<span>At one of these events I happened upon one of the well-known
"knights" and struck up a conversation. One thing led to another and he
let me hang out with him for the weekend, kind of being his "squire."</span><br />
<span>In these circles this was seen as pretty cool, especially if your knight was well known. Mine, he was well known.</span><br />
<span>This guy was really into the SCA, he owned a complete set of
full plate armor. In fact he built it himself and was actually world
renown for his ancient armor work. Rumor had it that he has even worked
on some of the armor that is in the tower of London. Yep, he was that
good.</span><br />
<span>Well, I got a chance to try on his armor. It was about 50-60
lbs of steel wrapped all over my body from head to toe. Wow… it was
pretty cool.</span><br />
<span>Now this is what was interesting; here I am standing in his armor and he comes over and barely pushes me with his index finger.</span><br />
<span>I just about fell over backwards because I was not used to
wearing so much weight let alone know how to fight in it. He laughed and
kept me from falling over backwards.</span><br />
<span>In that short moment he taught me a very valuable lesson that still sticks with me today.</span><br />
<span>What I learned was that it was different for him because when
he was out on the "battle field" he was running and jumping and hitting
people with his sword, bashing people with his shield, going full bore.
He was also often the winner of the tournaments and have been made
"king" of the local SCA group several times. This is a very high
position in the SCA and it also meant that you were a true warrior.</span><br />
<span>Me, it was all I could do to just to keep standing up.</span><br />
<span>So why could he run around in this armor and I barely was able to stand?</span><br />
<span>Several things.</span><br />
<span>1 - He literally wore his armor every day in one form or another, so it became a part of him.<br /> <br />
2 - Because he and his armor were one, this "trained" his body. This in
turn conditioned him and he was always ready for the fight.</span><br />
<span>I tell this story because the armor of God needs to be seen the
same way. It is not something that you just "throw on" and then think
you are going to go out and do battle.</span><br />
<span>You need to consciously train and live in the armor daily.</span><br />
<span>Why? So when that evil day does come, you have done all that you can to train...and having done all, then stand and fight. </span><br />
<span>If we are not wearing the armor daily, how does our “spiritual
muscles” strengthen? If we are not used to wearing it and the armor
becomes like a second skin, how long will we last in battle when that
evil day comes?</span><br />
<span>By not actively wearing the armor daily we will fail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Failing Due To The Lack of Training</b></span><br />
<span>Archilochus who was an early Greek poet as well as a warrior stated the following… </span><br />
<span>We do not rise to the level of our expectations.</span><br />
<span>We fall to the level of our training. </span><br />
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<span>How often do we watch these action adventure movies and get caught up in them?</span><br />
<span>We watch the good guy chase down the bad guy, the fight ensues
and the good guy stomps the bad guy into the ground. He then picks him
up, cuffs him and hauls him away. </span><br />
<span>If you were put in the position where you had to fight for your life, how long could you fight? </span><br />
<span>2-3 minutes? </span><br />
<span>How about 3-5 seconds? </span><br />
<span>A battle for one’s life often lasts a minute, most likely less
because the person who is attacking is usually better trained and has
the endurance to last the entire fight. </span><br />
<span>The common man, well they can barely last 10 maybe 20 seconds tops before he gives out and is exhausted. </span><br />
<span>Yes we watch these movies and say we can do that.</span><br />
<span>Sure we may play fight in our mind and run different situations through our head. </span><br />
<span>But unless you physically train, you will always fall to the level of your training. </span><br />
<span>The same goes for spiritual battles.</span><br />
<span>Unless you train consciously utilizing the armor of God daily, you will also fail and fall to the level you have trained at. </span><br />
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<span>Ephesians 6:13 (KJV) Wherefore take
unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in
the evil day, and having done all, to stand.</span></div>
<span>The armor will not protect us as much as it should have because
even though we are wearing it, our effectiveness in it is greatly
minimized. </span><br />
<span>We have to actively train in God’s armor, pushing those spiritual muscles daily. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Pieces of God’s Armor</span></b><br />
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<span>Ephesians 6:14-18 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; </span></div>
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<span>15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; </span></div>
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<span>16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. </span></div>
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<span>17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: </span></div>
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<span>18 Praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints;</span></div>
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<span>I want to help explain what each piece of the armor does both in the real world and the spiritual world. </span><br />
<span>Starting with the head and working our way down…</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Helmet of Salvation</span></b><br />
<span><img alt="the helmet of salvation" height="227" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/the%20helmet%20of%20salvation.png" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="150" />The
helmet was the most noticeable piece of armor. In many cases was
ornate, etched and often decorated with a plume with brightly dyed
feathers or colored horsehair. The helmet was one of the most critical
pieces of armor, it protected the brain. It was designed to protect the
wearer from blows with a sword, a war hammer or battle ax. A good helmet
would not allow these weapons to pierce it but if designed properly, it
would deflect these blows giving the soldier maximum protection. </span><br />
<span>Why do we wear the the Helmet of Salvation?</span><br />
<span>Simple, to protect our brain. There is an old computer saying, “G I G O” Garbage In – Garbage Out. </span><br />
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<span>Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</span></div>
<span>We are to meditate on the Word of God, renewing our minds daily. </span><br />
<span>In Deuteronomy chapter 6 we read what is often referred to as the Shema. </span><br />
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<span>Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: </span></div>
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<span>5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. </span></div>
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<span>6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: </span></div>
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<span>7 And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest
in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up. </span></div>
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<span>8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. </span></div>
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<span>9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.</span></div>
<span>So our helmet of salvation helps protect our brains, the very
places we think and contemplate. Without the helmet, we are vulnerable
to the deadly blows of the enemy that will in turn, effect the brain’s
thinking and reasoning power. </span><br />
<span>Have you ever noticed that when you are in the word of God daily that you find it easier to not “sin”?</span><br />
<span>Sure we all sin, but when we are in His Word and renewing our
minds, we are more conscious of what it is we are doing and often choose
not to disobey Him. That is the helmet of salvation at work. It is
protecting your brain so that you can then in turn make proper and right
decisions for God, and not fall for sin. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Breastplate of Righteousness</span></b><br />
<span><img alt="breastplate of righteousness" height="320" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/breastplate%20of%20righteousness.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="258" />The
Breastplate was really often work of art. Each breastplate was custom
made for the soldier that wore it. Often a casting was made of the man’s
torso. This casting then allowed the armorer to make a breastplate that
would be a perfect fit to the one who would wear it. </span><br />
<span>Breastplates often had the coat of arms or royal crest with
which the knight gave his allegiance too. At times there were additional
decorations telling about the warrior and polished to a brilliant
mirror finish that was blinding in the sunshine. </span><br />
<span>Despite the beauty and craftsmanship, the breastplate was very
functional piece of armor protecting the heart, lungs and other vital
organs from penetration through its metal shell.</span><br />
<span>It was also the main piece which the back, shoulders and arm
pieces of armor often hung and were attached too. It was the main
support for the pieces that did battle. It literally assisted in holding
up the weight of the other pieces.</span><br />
<span>In the spiritual it is righteousness that helps us stand. In
fact the word righteousness simply means, “Right standing before God.” </span><br />
<span>Now what is interesting is that in legal terms it means “being found innocent.” </span><br />
<span>In Isaiah 59, the chapter in Isaiah that prophecies the Messiah, we read the following…</span><br />
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<span>Isaiah 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate. </span></div>
<span>Many Christians do not live like they have been made righteous
through the blood of Jesus Christ. The majority Christians today walk
around in constant guilt and condemnation, feeling like failures and not
‘worthy’ to serve God, or worse to receive His wonderful blessings from
Him. </span><br />
<span>The devil is constantly bombarding us with fiery darts and
missiles of lies and accusations always reminding us of past sins we
have committed. </span><br />
<span>Without the breastplate of righteousness, these missiles will impact us and penetrate our heart.</span><br />
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<span>Psalms 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. </span></div>
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<span>Proverbs 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Belt of Truth – Having your loins girt about with truth</span></b><br />
<span><img alt="the belt of truth" height="194" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/the%20belt%20of%20truth.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="259" />The
belt is not the most noticeable piece of the armor, however, it is
actually the central piece that holds all the rest securely in place and
provides for every need during battle. </span><br />
<span>The belt was broad and made of sturdy leather. From it hung an
overlapping skirt of leather straps which on the inside surface were
armored with small rectangular pieces of metal held in place by
decorative rivets which showed on the outside. It was these straps /
apron that protected the loin.</span><br />
<span>The belt also had specialized hooks and holders on which to
secure the scabbard that contained the sword at the proper angle, the
quiver which held lances, and an apparatus on which to rest the large
battle shield. Also, on the belt were clips with which to hold the
breastplate in its proper place. It also held pouches the soldier’s
supplies like bread, oil and water, an extra knife, coin purse, etc. </span><br />
<span>Srcipture says…</span><br />
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<span>John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. </span></div>
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<span>John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. </span></div>
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<span>2 Corinthians 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, </span></div>
<span>Just as the belt is central to the armor of God, the written
Word of God, the absolute truth of the Bible is central to all that
pertains to spiritual warfare.</span><br />
<span>If one has a weak belt, then the armor will not hold together
in the time of need, that critical part of the battle. If your belt is
weak and breaks, you lose all your armor and become vulnerable on the
battle field. This is why the belt was thick, and well-oiled and well
cared for. It was also the one piece of armor that was worn both on and
off the battlefield. It is what equipped him for day to day life as well
as life on the battle field. </span><br />
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<span>1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: </span></div>
<span>Today it is critical that we adhere to the absolute truth of
God’s Word. It is what holds all of what we are as Christians together.
If we are wavering in the truth, we do not believe in absolute truth, or
we lack the truth in our hearts, then when that day comes our belt of
truth will fail us and we will lose the armor with which we wear. </span><br />
<span>This is why truth and standing on the truth with all your heart is so vital. </span><br />
<span>Think about this for a moment. </span><br />
<span>The Truth is Incorruptible. </span><br />
<span>The Truth is Indestructible. </span><br />
<span>The Truth tells us who we are, what we have and what we can do. </span><br />
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<span>John 17:17 Jesus says, “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth.”</span></div>
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<span>John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. </span></div>
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<span>John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Shoes of the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace</span></b><br />
<span><img alt="shoes-peace" height="250" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/shoes-peace.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="237" />The
Shoes of the warrior were no normal footwear. Every military gives
great care to supply the soldiers with the best and most appropriate
footwear they are able for the assignment the soldier is given.</span><br />
<span>The warriors shoes / boots usually consisted of an elaborately
cut and laced leather. the soles had layers of metal and leather with
‘hob nail’ spikes or cleats often extending one-half inch, to in some
cases ‘inches,’ from the sole so that the soldier could plant his foot
into the ground thus preventing him from being moved. </span><br />
<span>Some shoes had toe spikes and or built-in spurs with which to
do damage to the enemy. The uppers of the sandals were often armored by
small overlapping pieces of metal riveted to the leather straps. </span><br />
<span>In addition, attached to the uppers of the sandal were
removable metal or leather greaves that extended up over the kneecap
protecting the knees, shins and ankles.</span><br />
<span>Before you go somewhere today, you have to equip yourself for
the occasion. You take into consideration the place you are going, the
climate as well as the terrain.</span><br />
<span>If we do not have good shoes or the right shoes, we will tire out and most likely not get to where we were planning on going. </span><br />
<span>This is why armies for generations to present realize that
shoes were critical. Armies move by foot and if those feet are not well
protected, well cared for, and properly fitted, the army is not going to
get very far. </span><br />
<span>The battle was lost before the army could even get to the battle field.</span><br />
<span>As Christian warriors do you know our mission that all of us have been called to?</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: </span></div>
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<span>20 Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world. Amen.</span></div>
<span>This is one of the reasons why I Iove the KJV bible. In the modern versions the word YOU is used here in place of YE. </span><br />
<span>When YOU is used, people have a way out or an excuse to say
that Christ was just talking to the disciples here. The responsibility
of sharing the gospel is shirked because of the modern versions.</span><br />
<span>Where by using the word YE as is used in the KJV, it is a
direct command. A command by Jesus Christ himself not only to the
disciples, but also directed directly at us as well. </span><br />
<span>YE is addressing anyone who is reading or hearing this command.
YE also makes it a command because Christ is addressing us personally. </span><br />
<span>So when we are called to GO YE to all nations, that means put
on your shoes and go. We are called to take the gospel of peace of The
Lord Jesus Christ to all the world. </span><br />
<span>If we ware ill equipped and have not put on the proper shoes, how far do you think we will be able to get?</span><br />
<span> </span><span><img alt="steel-buckler-3" height="232" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/steel-buckler-3.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="351" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>The Shield of Faith</b></span><br />
<span>I love the following verse…</span><br />
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<span>Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.</span></div>
<span>There are three types of common shields used by warriors. </span><br />
<span>First, a small disc held in the offhand often 6” inches in
diameter to 16” inches in diameter. This type of shield was called a
“Buckler” and often used in close quarter combat, duels, etc.</span><br />
<span>The next was an actual shield and was approximately 24”-36”
inches diameter round, this was not only used in defense, but at times
in offense. Going in first with the shield, the opposing force would hit
the shield. The shield would flip up where the edge was then facing the
oponent. The warrior would use the extended edge of the shield to then
“trap” the opponent and allow the warrior to freely attack the person by
using the sword that was now hidden under the shield that trapped the
opponent. </span><br />
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<span>The final shield was a large rectangular shield approximately
60”x30” in size. This rectangular shield called a “thureos”
(thoo-reh-os) in Greek literally meant “a door,” because it looked like
the soldier was carrying a full sized door that was leather covered. </span><br />
<span>The warrior could stand safely behind this large shield thus protecting him from the arrows and such being hurled at him. </span><br />
<span>A good shield was made of six layers of thick animal hide
specially tanned and woven together making them as tough and durable as
metal yet relatively light weight. The leather shields could be soaked
in water before battle so that in the event the enemy would rain fiery
projectiles on them, the fire would be extinguished on impact.</span><br />
<b><span>So why is it called The Shield of Faith? </span></b><br />
<span>Along with being large and relatively light, it also had the
ability to hook together with other shields and create a wall with which
the army was protected. This tactic was often referred to as the “Roman
Turtle.” </span><br />
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<span>The Thureos or “Door Sheild” in the “Turtle Formation”</span></div>
<span>In this position, the army was protected from all sides as well
as above. The negative is that the army could not see where they were
going. So they depended greatly on the captain who was behind them and
riding a horse to direct their steps and tell them to go here, go there,
turn left, turn right. </span><br />
<span>See if they broke the shield wall, arrows, spears, fiery darts
were able to penetrate and would injure or kill those who standing
inside the turtle formation. </span><br />
<span>The soldier had to trust and obey the captain and walked in
blind faith listening only to the commands the captain gave and nothing
else. </span><br />
<span>The very survivability of the entire group of soldiers depended
on all the soldiers trusting and obeying the orders of the captain at
the time the orders are given. </span><br />
<span>Failure to do so would compromise the entire unit’s safety.
Injury and death was the result of not acting immediately on the orders
of the captain. </span><br />
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<span>Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.</span></div>
<span>When our captain who is Christ Jesus speaks, we are to obey. </span><br />
<span>How does God speak to us? It is through His Word, the Word of God; the Bible. </span><br />
<span>Our faith grows by hearing God’s Word spoken into our hearts.
This is why it is so critical that we have good preachers and teachers
who preach from God’s Word. Expository teaching, taking the bible verse
by verse is the best way to learn God’s Word. </span><br />
<span>This is why so many Christians are weak in their faith, they
lack solid pastors who are teaching their congregations chapter and
verse. Expanding on God’s Word and going into the “meat” of the Word and
not staying only with the “milk.”</span><br />
<span>Babies require milk, but warriors require meat. It is the meat
of the Word that strengthens our faith in His Word, Law, Commands, and
proper living. </span><br />
<span>We follow Christ in blind faith allowing Him to direct our
paths and lean not on our own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5-6 – The Third
Party Rule) </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Sword of the Spirit - The Word of God </span></b><br />
<span><img alt="sword of the spirit" height="300" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/sword%20of%20the%20spirit.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="400" />The
sword is the primary weapon of the warrior and was greatly feared. A
true sword master could take on 5+ men at once and dispatch all of them
in a short amount of time. In the hand of someone who is educated the
lightweight and well balanced double edged sword was quick and deadly. </span><br />
<span>The razor sharpened edges of the broad blade was made to cut
and slice. The tapered point was designed to easily penetrate and
disembowel the enemy. It was well known that if true warrior ever would
unsheathed his sword -- he would use it.</span><br />
<span>The sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. </span><br />
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<span>2 Timothy 3:16 -17 All scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: </span></div>
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<span>17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.</span></div>
<span>The more we have God’s Word in our hearts the more of a “master
of the sword” we become. The better we know our personal bible, the
more of a master of the sword we become. </span><br />
<span>In fact, remember in Sunday school having “Sword Drills”? </span><br />
<span>The students would have the bible flat on the table and hands
in the air, the teacher would call out a verse and the first one to the
verse got to read it. </span><br />
<span><img alt="1-sword-drills" height="194" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/2013-sept/1-sword-drills.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="259" />If
you were really good, the teacher would take the better students and
let them hold the bible between their two flat hands and the thumbs on
the pages. Then the verse was called out and the first one to get to the
verse won the round. </span><br />
<span>This is being a Master of the Sword / The Word. Not only do you
know your scripture, you know where to find it and how to get to it
quickly. You are able to flip to a verse and in many cases just open up
your bible and be just a few pages off. </span><br />
<span>You as a sword master know how to apply scripture, where to
apply scripture and teach others how to find, use and apply scripture.
You are a master of The Sword of God, His Word. </span><br />
<span>One thing, the sword of the spirit is a double edged weapon and
it will cut both ways. So you can use it for good as well and use it to
hurt people. We see this take place a lot in today’s world. The sword
being improperly used to hurt, manipulate and force people through
coercion. This is using the sword for error, not for good. </span><br />
<b><span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">We Are Warriors For The Lord</span></span></b><br />
<span>It is our duty and assignment is to stand in the gap shoulder to shoulder with the other soldiers of the Lord as He places us. </span><br />
<span>We are to resist every attack of the devil. Holding the ground,
refusing to be moved, healing the oppressed and destroying every work
of the devil. </span><br />
<span>We are warriors for the Lord. </span><br />
<span>Scripture says… </span><br />
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<span>Psalms 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. </span></div>
<span>But alone we are just single fighters. It is when we are together that we are able to charge the gates of hell. </span><br />
<span>This is why it is so important to be in fellowship with other
Christian warriors who love the Lord. When we do this it helps us keep
our spiritual batteries charged to the fullest level. We are able to
pray for each other, learn from each other, encourage each other. </span><br />
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<span>Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</span></div>
<span> Iron sharpens iron and when we become accountable not only to
God, but to other warriors, we then become better warriors for the Lord
we serve.<br /> <br /> Many of you know that we are living in the last days
of the last days. We are sitting upon the razor's edge. Now more than
ever we need to keep the batteries charged at full, the powder dry and
ready for the fight. <br /> <br /> We do not know when we will be called
upon to fight, but when we do, we want to be completely ready, and not
caught at our lowest level of training.</span><br />
<span>If you do not train and wear the armor of God daily you will lose the battle and become a casualty of the battlefield. </span><br />
<span>The enemy, when he comes, he will most likely ambush us. So
when the fight comes to us, and it will, there will be no time to "put
on" the armor. By that time it will be to late. If we do not have the
armor on at the time of the ambush, we will become just another casualty
of war.</span><br />
<span>So I challenge you brothers and sisters in the Lord always be ready for the fight. </span><br />
<span>The fight will come to you for our enemy prowls in the shadows
like a ravaging lion waiting to pounce on us when we are not looking.</span><br />
<span>What do we need to ensure? And having done all – To Stand.</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<span>Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto
you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the
evil day, and having done all, to stand.</span></div>
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<span><b><span>By Ray Gano</span></b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-8831295395466788742013-07-17T09:11:00.000-07:002013-07-17T09:11:24.939-07:00Living as a Changed Man or Living as a Filthy Pig? <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="filthy pig-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/filthy_pig-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" /></span>Once Saved, Always Saved, But Are You Truly Saved?</b><br />
I have been feeling the need to write a series of articles in these
last days of the last days dealing with salvation, due to all the
deception taking place in the world today.<br />
To start things off, let me pose to you the situation that we are currently facing.<br />
According to American Religious Identification Survey, 76.5% of
America identifies with some form of Christianity in America. This study
included Mormons and Jehovah’s Witness in among the title “Christian.”
(1)<br />
Now here is another study, one which I find very interesting by George Barna.<br />
Barna Survey Examines Changes in Worldview Among Christians over the Past 13 Years<br />
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<b>The Definition<br /> </b><br /> “For the
purposes of the survey, a “biblical worldview” was defined as believing
that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all
of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be a real being or
force, not merely symbolic; a person cannot earn their way into Heaven
by trying to be good or do good works; Jesus Christ lived a sinless life
on earth; and God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world
who still rules the universe today. In the research, anyone who held
all of those beliefs was said to have a biblical worldview.”</div>
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<b>The Conclusion</b><br /> <br /> “The same
questions were asked of respondents in national surveys by Barna in
1995, 2000 and 2005. The results indicate that the percentage of adults
with a biblical worldview, as defined above, has remained unchanged for
more than a decade. The numbers show that 7% had such a worldview in
1995, compared to 10% in 2000, 11% in 2005, and 9% now.” (2)</div>
The numbers are going down with those who maintain a biblical worldview.<br />
So my question is, how can you claim to be a Christian, when only 7% - 9% of America maintains a true biblical world view?<br />
But here is a more interesting question, which percentage factor do
you fall into; the 90% who do NOT hold to a biblical worldview or the
7%-9% who do?<br />
Now to narrow this down even further, if you are part of the 7% -9%
that maintains a biblical worldview, are you truly saved and how do you
know / prove it?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Strait Gate or The Wide Gate</span></b><br />
I want to present to you some if not THE scariest verses to a
Christian that there is in the bible. Folks, these verses should terrify
you if you claim the title Christian.<br />
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Matthew 7:13 - 23 (KJV) Enter ye in at
the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that
leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:</div>
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14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</div>
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15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</div>
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16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?</div>
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17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.</div>
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18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</div>
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19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</div>
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20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</div>
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21 Not every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven.</div>
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22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?</div>
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23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.</div>
I have been doing a lot of study on Matthew 7. I have been reading
commentaries, listening to sermons, ect. My conclusion is that Matthew 7
of God’s Word is one of the most profound chapters for Christians
living in these last days of the last days.<br />
The Profound facts are…<br />
1. In Matthew 7 Christ was talking to and addressing professing
believers and not the unbelievers as has been taught for the past 50 or
so years.<br />
2. That many who are claimed “Christian” and think they are
believers, are in fact non-believers sold a lie and are destined to
hell.<br />
3. There are many wolves in sheep’s clothing deceiving and selling many the lie thus leading many to hell.<br />
4. Nothing good at all comes from a false teacher… NOTHING.<br />
5. Finally, it is not our acts / works / fruit that save us, it is our acts / works / fruit that prove we have been saved.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Are You Truly Saved And Walking The Way?</span></b><br />
I am a person that stands on the fact that once a person is truly
saved, they cannot loose their salvation. In other words I stand on the
doctrine of Eternal Security.<br />
Eternal Security is the idea that once a person is truly saved, he can never lose his salvation.<br />
The primary verses I stand upon are the following…<br />
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1 John 5:13 (KJV) These things have I
written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may
know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of
the Son of God.</div>
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John 6:37 (KJV) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.</div>
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John 6:39-40 (KJV) And this is the
Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I
should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the
Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise
him up at the last day.</div>
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John 10:27-28 (KJV) My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them
eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand.</div>
But here is the point that I am getting to with a question to
consider. How does a person know he was ever saved in the first place?<br />
I want to point back to Matthew 7:13-14<br />
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Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV) Enter ye in at the
strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</div>
If you read these two verses you see that there are actually two gates and two ways.<br />
You see, we have been teaching about the gate since the day of
Pentecost, but it seems that in the last 50 or so years, we have
forgotten to teach about The Way, which is also spoken of by Christ.<br />
If you remember, my first profound point that I made about Matthew 7
is that Christ is addressing the professing believer / Christian and NOT
the unbeliever or heathen. We know that this is fact due to the context
Christ was speaking.<br />
Who else in the world’s religions truly call Jesus Christ “Lord
Lord”? No one but a professing Christian. Not even the Mormons, who DO
NOT admit to Jesus as THE LORD, but “a lord” and the same goes with many
of the other cults out there that claim connections to Christianity.<br />
It is only the professing believer, as we read in context that Christ
was addressing and talking about and who addresses Him as LORD.<br />
So when we read in verse 13 about the Wide Gate and the Broadway, it
is professing “Christians” who have entered that Wide Gate and are
walking that Broadway.<br />
But there is more. We learn in reading Matthew 7 about false teachers
and how we are called to judge them by their fruit, but in reading, we
see that we are judged by our fruit also.<br />
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Matthew 7:20 (KJV) Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</div>
See, that is the $500,000.00 question that has been forgotten these past 50 or so years.<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How Do We Know People Are Christians? </span></b><br />
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know by the fact that they are walking upon the narrow way as Christ
clearly teaches. It is by our fruit that we are producing. If we are
walking upon the narrow way, we will produce fruit according to that
path.<br />
Another point, is that if you are truly born again the World will
hate your fruit, but if you are a “Christiain In Name Only (C.I.N.O)
then the world will love the fruit you are producing.<br />
Examples of the Religious World Fruit…<br />
- Fighting against Global Warming<br /> - Fighting for equal rights for homosexuals (Sodomites) and Gay Marriage.<br /> - Fighting for pluralism in the religious world.<br /> - The end justifies the means.<br /> - All roads lead to Heaven.<br />
Where we learn in scripture that the world loves it’s own and the love of the father is not in that person.<br />
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1 John 2:15-17 (KJV) Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the
love of the father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the
lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is
not of the father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and
the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.</div>
But that is if we are walking The Narrow Way, our fruit is as follows…<br /> <br /> - Obeying God’s Word and a thirst to learn the deeper things of God.<br /> - Living a Holy and acceptable Life pleasing unto God<br /> - Our love for the brethren, delight in church and fellowship<br /> - Our desire not to sin and a life of continued repentance<br /> - Judging all through the lens of God’s Word and not of the World.<br />
To the world, those things above seem foolish and to the person
walking the Broadway, these things seem impossible. You see we can not
achieve those things listed unless we have the Holy Sprit working in our
lives and the power of the Lord giving us His strength to do so on a
daily basis.<br />
The sad thing is that many believe we are on the Narrow Way, but we
often forget the most terrifying part that Christ speaks of about this…
FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT.<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How Do We Know That We Are Walking Upon The Narrow Way? </span></b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
James 2:14 -19 (KJV) What doth it profit,
my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can
faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of
daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye
warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which
are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it
hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast
faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will
show thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one
God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.</div>
NOTE - here that I am not talking about Salvation, also known as The Gate.<br />
I am addressing The Way.<br />
See there is a true salvation and a false salvation. Christ calls it
the Wide Gate & Broad way the false salvation vs. the Strait Gate
& Narrow Way which is the true salvation.<br />
“For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat.”<br />
If you have chosen the false Christ – the wide gate – and you are
walking upon the broad ways, you are leading a life destined to
destruction believing you are one of God’s children, when in fact you
have been lied to and believing a deception.<br />
How do we know we are on The Narrow Way? We know because our life
reflects a life growing more and more in Christ. We live a life where we
have presented our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, not only in our public life, but our private life as well. We have
not conformed to this world: but we were transformed by the renewing of
our mind, that we may prove what is good, and acceptable, and the
perfect will of God.<br />
Let’s read what Romans 12:1-2 states…<br />
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Romans 12:1-2 (KJV) I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</div>
If you are walking on the narrow path you will naturally show an outward practical holiness as a mark of one saved by grace.<br />
Let me be very clear here; I am also not talking being saved by works
here either. One cannot be saved by works, and in fact if someone tells
you can get to heaven from works, run away from them as fast as you
can. It is only through the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which we
are saved.<br />
For Christ said…<br />
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John 14:6 (KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV) For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.</div>
It is Jesus and Jesus alone who is the Strait Gate. The problem is
that many have chosen the Wide Gate thinking it is The Narrow Gate. That
is because we preach about “The Gate”, but no longer “The Way.”<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Living as a Changed Man or Living as a Filthy Pig?</span></b><br />
Charles Spurgeon stated the following…<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
“The man who is born for heaven "hath not
lifted up his soul unto vanity." All men have their joys, by which
their souls are lifted up; the worldling lifts up his soul in carnal
delights, which are mere empty vanities; but the saint loves more
substantial things; like Jehoshaphat, he is lifted up in the ways of the
Lord. He who is content with husks, will be reckoned with the swine.
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward and portion in
this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy.”</div>
<img alt="pig" height="337" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/pig.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="450" />Imagine
that there is a pig and I am standing about 100 ft away from a pig. To
one side of me is a beautiful 7 course dinner and to the other side of
me is a large bucket of slop.<br />
The pig is released, which side is he going to run to?<br />
To the slop side of course!<br />
Why?<br />
Because he is a pig and that is all that pigs know.<br />
Now imagine if you will that we were able to change that pig into a man, all the while he is eating the slop. What will happen?<br />
The odds are that he will lift up his head and look around at his
environment and then spit out the slop he was feeding upon when he was a
pig.<br />
Why?<br />
Because he is no longer a pig that is able to feed upon slop, but a
man needing a form of food to give him nutrition so that he might live.<br />
This man is now a new creature and is no longer a pig.<br />
Now from time to time he may even have pig thoughts about the
wonderful slop he once ate when he was a pig. He may even go to the slop
bucket from time to time, smell it, look at it. But the moment he feeds
upon it what will happen? He will spit it out because he is no longer a
pig but a man. Even if he as a man he forces himself to eat the slop,
which men are able to do, it will eventually cause him to vomit it all
up and make him sick possibly unto death because his body no longer
accepts slop because he is a new creature.Now if one thinks he is a man
and can still stomach the slop day in and day out, what makes him think
he was changed into a new creature in the first place? If he is feeding
upon the slop of the world and does not get sick to his stomach, maybe
he was never changed into new creature in the first place and to this
day remains a pig.<br />
Scripture says…<br />
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2Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) Therefore if any
man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Ephesians 5:5(KJV) For this ye know, that
no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an
idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Hebrews 12:6(KJV) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.</div>
When we are truly converted, we can no longer stomach the slop of the world, the fleshly sin that we once indulged in.<br />
When we entertain the sin, and all of us do from time to time, it
makes us sick with guilt and shame because it is the Holy Spirit working
in our lives chastening us from the inside out because God loves us as
His children. Scripture says that God chastens His own.<br />
…That my friend is part of walking The Narrow Way.<br />
<img alt="repentant-man" height="332" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/repentant-man.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="276" />The
man can not be changed back into a pig no matter what. He is now a new
creature and that change can never be reversed. He will be that way
forever, a new creature.<br />
Now what you need to fear is if you are living a double life and living in sin; AND… God isn’t chastising you.<br />
You may ask, how do you know God is chastening you? Oh believe me you
will know. Your life will be absolutely miserable, that is until you
repent and get back on the narrow path.<br />
But more importantly, you as one of His children KNOWS that you are
called to repent and a refusal to do so is rebellion unto the Lord. Your
own heart, soul and mind call you to repent, but you may choose to
still run.<br />
Friend; God will let you run, but for only a short distance, then he
will chastise you, bringing you to your knees and bringing you back as
His own.<br />
If you do not have God working and changing and chastening you in
your life and you are claiming to be a Christian, you need to rethink
your salvation and ask if you are truly saved in the first place.<br />
There is no such thing as a Carnal Christian living long periods in
the world. In fact there is no such thing as a “carnal Christian” in the
first place. Either you are saved (a new creature) or you are not ( a
filthy pig)<br />
If you are, you are not saved. God does not let you run very long if
you are one of His and if you are one of His, you know this for a fact
because you yourself have experienced exactly what I am stating and you
know it is true.<br />
If your ways are not His ways and you do not feel God’s Hand
chastening your life, odds are that you are not born again and are just
one of those who checked of a box, raised a hand and that is about all.
You are one who has walked throw the Wide Gate and is upon the Broadway
bound for hell.<br />
You have no fruit showing that your life has been changed by Christ.
Instead your life reflects that of the world and a love for the world.
It is the worldly music you listen to, the sex driven TV shows you watch
the things of the world you indulge in. They are not the ways of the
Lord, but the ways of the world. In fact you are like the many,
indulging in the world, your sin, the flesh and walking upon the broad
way which leads to hell and your fruit show it.<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How Do I Know That I Am Truly Saved And Walking Upon The Narrow Way?</span></b><br />
First John lists ways we can know that we are one of God’s elect…<br />
<b>(1) If we keep His commandments </b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 2:3 (KJV) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.</div>
<b>(2) If we keep His Word </b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 2:4 (KJV) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him</div>
<b><img alt="rejection-collage" height="542" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/rejection-collage.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="330" />(3) if we walk in love</b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 2:5 (KJV) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.</div>
<b>(4) If we love the brethren</b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 3:14 (KJV) We know that we have
passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that
loveth not his brother abideth in death</div>
<b>(5) If we love in deed, not only in word </b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 3:19 (KJV) And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.</div>
<b>(6) If we have the Holy Spirit within us</b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 3:24 (KJV) And he that keepeth his
commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he
abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.</div>
<b>(7) If we love one another </b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 4:13 (KJV) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.</div>
<b>(8) If we don’t continue in sin </b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 5:18 (KJV) We know that whosoever
is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.</div>
Walking through the gate, is the first part, but we must make sure
WHICH gate it is that we have truly walked through and this is why
Matthew 7 is one of the most terrifying chapters in all of scripture.<br />
Christ said the following…<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Matthew 13:3-9 (KJV) And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they
had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no
deepness of earth:</div>
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6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.</div>
If you are truly saved, you are as the good ground that brought forth
good fruit, but if you are not, the seed that was sown was cast upon
stony place, where the sun scorched or among the thorns. All of that
seed did not produce good fruit and in all cases withered away and died.<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><img alt="jesus is the only way" height="357" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/jesus%20is%20the%20only%20way.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 6px auto;" width="562" /></b><br />What Did Christ Tell Us? </span></b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Matthew 7:20 (KJV) Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</div>
If you have gotten this far with me and are asking yourself “ Are You Saved?” You need to examine yourself.<br />
Do you love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind? Do you obey
His commandments? When someone looks at you, do they see the world or do
they see someone who reflects a life of Christ?<br />
OR… do you make excuses and tell half truths about yourself.<br />
Folks, a half truth is a full lie and you are not fooling anyone, but
more than that, God knows and you are not fooling Him either.<br />
Folks, if you are not saved, it is true that you can fake a lot of
this. But as we have seen by many of the false teachers out there, it is
only for a season and sooner or later they fall and their true secret
lives are reveled. What do you do when you are alone and no one is
watching? What are your private pet sins that you indulge in and truly
enjoy? What “Christian” masks do you wear, fooling those around you and
even yourself?<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Romans 8:5-8 (KJV) For they that are
after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after
the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot
please God.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (KJV) Know ye not
that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit
the kingdom of God.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1Peter 1:15-16 (KJV) But as he which hath
called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1John 2:3-6 (KJV) And hereby we do know
that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know
him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not
in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth
in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.</div>
I pray to continue this series as the Lord leads me. I am deeply
concerned about the church today. Many have chosen the Broadway because
that is what they have been taught. The sad thing is that it is a lie
that leads to hell.<br />
But more importantly, you need to sit yourself down right here and right now and really examine yourself.<br />
Scripture says…<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV) Examine
yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye
not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates?</div>
After that, ask yourself…<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Who Do You Serve? </span></b><br />
Jesus stated the following…<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
John 14:6 (KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</div>
If you do not have Christ in your life, you will spend eternity in
hell. This is a fact. It does not matter if you believe this or not, it
is the truth spoken by Jesus himself. If your name is not written in the
Lambs Book of Life you will go to hell for what you have not done and
that is accepting Christ as your personal savior. To be placed in the
Lamb Book of Life, you need to turn your life completely over to Him.
Having “head” knowledge or “just believing in Christ” is not the same as
having “heart” knowledge with Christ living in your heart. Even the
“devils” believe in God.<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
James 2:19 (KJV) Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.</div>
We work hard at Prophezine to show that Bible Prophecy is coming to
pass. Because of this fact, we know that the Bible is true. Since the
Bible is the true and is the inerrant word of God, there is a heaven and
there is a hell.<br />
If you claim the title of “Christian” then take account of yourself
this day. Many claim the title, but we read in God’s Word that the title
does not get you into heaven.<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
Matthew 7:21-23 (KJV) Not every one that
saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but
he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?</div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.</div>
Who you serve will determine where you will spend eternity. If you
are not serving Christ and a true child of God, then you are serving
Satan and a child of the enemy.<br />
If you are not 110% sure, then take account of yourself, your very life depends upon it.<br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
1 John 1:9 (KJV) If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.</div>
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<b><span><img alt="forgiven1410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/forgiven1410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="410" /></span></b><span>God
commands us to repent and to believe. He does not ask, does not invite,
or any of these other warm fuzzy ideas that are so popular today.</span><br />
<span>Even though so many say it, He is not standing at a door knocking. </span><br />
<span>What He wants is for us to repent and come to Him.</span><br />
<span>I know that what I am saying is causing people’s hackles to raise, but it is the truth.</span><br />
<span>He commands...</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: </span></div>
<b><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What is Repentance?</span> </span></b><br />
<span>It is a change of mind. We were going one way and now we have turned a full 180 degrees in the opposite direction. </span><br />
<span>Repentance is not knowing you are a sinner. Repentance is where
God opens your eyes to the fact that the littlest of sin breaks you,
and breaks your heart. Repentance is the realization that one single sin
separates us from a Holy and Just God. Repentance through the Holy
Spirit’s conviction makes your sin real, you are disgusted.</span><br />
<span>It is repentance that causes you to make a choice. </span><br />
<span>It is through conviction and repentance that God presses upon
our hearts that we are sinners. He causes us to wake up and realize that
we are lost and we are going to hell. </span><br />
<span>We are all sinners and there is nothing that we can do to change that. </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; </span></div>
<span>The question that we need to be asking ourselves is "are we truly saved?" </span><br />
<span>In today's sugar coated churches what is being preached today is not the gospel.</span><br />
<span>Salvation is not sitting in church on Sunday mornings.</span><br />
<span>Salvation is not checking some boxes on a 3x5 card. </span><br />
<span>Salvation is not raising your hand when the pastor asks.</span><br />
<span>Salvation is not saying some mantra prayer. </span><br />
<span>Now can all these lead to salvation?</span><br />
<span>Yes they can. But what these things really lead to is repentance which then leads to salvation.</span><br />
<span>Here is the scary thing, if you have only checked a card, raised a hand, repeated some mantra, odds are you are not saved. </span><br />
<span>Sure you go to church, live a good life, and say all the right things. </span><br />
<span>But until you have come the point where you realize that you are a sinner who is completely lost, you will continue to be lost. </span><br />
<span>It is only when you come to the realization that you are a
sinner in need of a savior. That point where you realize you are truly
lost. It is only at that time that you can then ask God to forgive you
of your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. </span><br />
<span>There is nothing that you can do, no good works, nothing. There is not one good work that will get you into heaven. </span><br />
<span><img alt="jesus woman washes feet" height="276" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/jesus_woman_washes_feet.gif" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="369" />There is only one thing. </span><br />
<span>The only thing that you are able to do is seek God's
forgiveness and believing upon Jesus Christ to forgive us of our sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</span><br />
<span>See, before you can be saved you need to realize that you are
lost and until you come that realization, you will continue to be lost. </span><br />
<span>Here is God's promise to us. </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</span></div>
<span>What many people today miss is that to come to that
realization, one needs to understand that they are sinners. But not only
sinners, they need to understand that it is their sin that is holding
them back from a loving father. </span><br />
<span>It is the Holy Spirit that illuminates our sins to us. It is at
that moment that we have the free will to either accept that we are
sinners and have remorse over that and repent...</span><br />
<span>Or we ignore the Holy Spirits convicting voice and harden our hearts till the next time. </span><br />
<span>That is if there is a next time. </span><br />
<span>If one continues in their sin, we harden our hearts. It gets harder and harder to hear the Holy Spirits convicting voice. </span><br />
<span>But here is a fact. Sooner or later the Holy Spirit will stop convicting us and then He will turn us over to a reprobate mind. </span><br />
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<span>Romans 1:28 And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Easy-Beliefism is Rampant</b></span><br />
<span>In scripture it states... </span><br />
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<span>John 3:16 For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life. </span></div>
<span>In today's world the word "believe" has changed greatly. </span><br />
<span>To believe as spoken of in John 3:16 is to fully trust in God. A belief and trust that your very life depends upon it. </span><br />
<span>Scripture tells us that even the devils believe. In fact do you
know that the devils are more pious than us? Yes it is true. They KNOW
God and BELIEVE. So much so that they even tremble with respect. </span><br />
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<span>James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. </span></div>
<span>See, even the devils believe, but are they saved? </span><br />
<span>How many of us tremble with respect?</span><br />
<span>The seventh chapter of Matthew is the most terrifying chapter in scripture, at least in my opinion. </span><br />
<span>What many people do not realize is that in chapter seven of
Matthew, Christ is talking to us, the believer, the Christian. It is a
chapter that warns us to not buy into the easy-beliefism that is taught
today. </span><br />
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<span>Matthew 7:22-23 Many will say to me
in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? </span></div>
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<span>23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.</span></div>
<span>Many will say to Him “Lord Lord.” </span><br />
<span>We Christians are the only ones who call Christ Lord. </span><br />
<span>“We have done this in your name and have done that in your name.”</span><br />
<span>In the following verse the Galatians are talking to Paul about what they have done.</span><br />
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<span>Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. </span></div>
<span>THEM - “ Hey Paul, well I am circumcised” </span><br />
<span>PAUL – Yea, so what.”</span><br />
<span>THEM – “ Well Paul, I am UNcircumcised’ </span><br />
<span>PAUL – “Yea so what, that does not get you into heaven”</span><br />
<span>Get what Paul is saying? </span><br />
<span><img alt="faith4s" height="301" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/faith4s.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="300" />US – “hey we go to church -- we have been baptized – we have raised our hand – we have checked a 3x5 card.” </span><br />
<span>CHRIST – “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” </span><br />
<span>It is only by grace thru faith. The very act of believing in
Him, your life for Him, your all, your faith, your trust, your very
being.</span><br />
<span>You want to understand what it means to really believe? </span><br />
<span>Here is the definition…</span><br />
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<span>Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service.</span></div>
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<span>2 And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</span></div>
<span>That is the definition of belief that John 3:16 talks about. </span><br />
<span>It is the faith and understanding that you alone can do nothing
to get to heaven, it is only through Jesus Christ who paid the price
that you will one day be able to be with our heavenly father. </span><br />
<span>Belief is not the sugar coated “believing” that is preached today. </span><br />
<span>It is waking up at 3:00 AM in the morning, in a cold sweat
realizing that we are all filthy sinners and that all of us fall short
of the Glory of God.</span><br />
<span>It is a belief where you cry out to God and ask, no almost beg
because you are so convicted to forgive you of the sins you have
committed in light of all that Christ did for you by dying on that
cross.</span><br />
<span>You beg for forgiveness and that He become your savior. </span><br />
<span>It is at that time that we truly believe, it is at that time we submit our all and say “my life for you God.” </span><br />
<span>It is at that time that you really understand. </span><br />
<span>See, we all walk around saying that we are Christians and know Christ. </span><br />
<span>But in reality that is not the important thing. </span><br />
<span>What is important is that Christ knows us. </span><br />
<span>For example, we may all say we know the president. But if we
showed up on the front lawn heading into the white house the secret
service would tackle us to the ground and take us away. </span><br />
<span>All this time we are screaming “I know the president! – I know the president!” </span><br />
<span>It does not matter. </span><br />
<span>Now, if the president came out of the white house and pointed
to you and called you by name, then the secret service would let you be,
because he, the president, knows you. </span><br />
<span>It is the same way being a Christian.</span><br />
<span>This is why it does not matter what we do, it will not get us into heaven. </span><br />
<span>What matters is who we know, or better yet, who knows us. </span><br />
<span>It is at the moment of our salvation that God does a literal miracle in our lives. He recreates us into a new being. </span><br />
<span>So if we are not truly saved, we are not that new creature. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Just Another Carnal Christian – You Will Know Them By Their Fruits</b></span><br />
<span>If you are a new creation, then God will be working in your
life changing you from the inside out. Sometime this change is fast,
sometimes slow, but we are always changing. What is taking place is that
our old fleshly selves are being changed more into the likeness of
Christ. </span><br />
<span>When we are saved / born again we are instantly created a new. This is how Christ knows us. </span><br />
<span>See if we are not saved, Christ will not know us. </span><br />
<span>So how do we know we are saved? </span><br />
<span>Scripture tells us the following… </span><br />
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<span>Matthew 7:16-20 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? </span></div>
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<span>17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. </span></div>
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<span>18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. </span></div>
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<span>19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. </span></div>
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<span>20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</span></div>
<span>If we are saved, we produce good fruit. If we are not saved,
then we do not produce good fruit. This is why I say that good things do
not come out of bad people. Scripture backs that up. It is by our fruit
that we know we are His or not. </span><br />
<span>Now do we who are saved still sin? </span><br />
<span>Yea sure we still sin, in fact we sin the moment we wake up
till we sleep and even when we sleep we may be having not so good
dreams. </span><br />
<span>So the big question is this, “How do we know we are saved?” </span><br />
<span>PZ Insider Pastor Mark Thomas told me the following…</span><br />
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<i><span>What distinguishes a true Christian from a C.I.N.O.? (Christian In Name Only) </span></i></div>
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<i><span>In most cases the answer is one word - guilt. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>Those who are truly Christians are convicted when they sin and feel guilt whenever they do sin (and we all sin). </span></i></div>
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<i><span>Those who aren't true Christians
don't feel guilt, either because they have quenched the Holy Spirit or
because they were never saved in the first place. </span></i></div>
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<i><span> In fact, one of the sure ways to find out if you are really saved is how you react to sin. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>If you just shrug it off and say "everyone sins". Then you have problems. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>If you hate every sin you have committed and feel guilt every time, you are saved.</span></i></div>
<b><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So How Do You React When You Sin?</span> </span></b><br />
<span>Me, I hate it. Just sitting here writing this causes conviction
over things I have done. I hate that all I seem to do is sin. If it
isn’t one thing, it is another. An angry or impure thought, a slip of
the tongue, an unchristian gesture, a sinful gaze. </span><br />
<span>I understand when Paul calls himself the chief of all sinners. I am in line right behind him. </span><br />
<span>I try and try and try, but no matter what I fall from grace. It
is a battle that we fight and will continue to fight till the day we
are with Him. </span><br />
<span>But it is His grace that is sufficient for me. It is His loving
forgiveness knowing that I will mess up. It is His understanding that I
am trying and it is my hope that when the day comes I hear Him say
“Enter my kingdom my good and faithful servant.”</span><br />
<span>I hate that I sin and here I am in the ministry, shouldn’t I be more “holy” or something? </span><br />
<span>Living a right life in the last days is a minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month journey.</span><br />
<span>Those of us who are called His children, we need to continue to
fight the good fight. Keep pushing forward. Never stop walking up hill,
never stop rowing against the current. To stop is to understand that we
start slipping backwards towards the world and further from Him.</span><br />
<span>Do you want to see an example of good fruit? Here is something that a friend send me from a pastor in Zimbabwe…</span><br />
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<i><span>"I am a disciple of the Messiah. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>I will not let up, look back or slow down. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>My past is redeemed, my future
is secure. I am done with low living, small planning, smooth knees,
mundane talking, cheap giving, and dwarfed goals. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position or popularity. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>I don't have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised or rewarded. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>My face is set; my goal is sure. My road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>My God is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, delayed or deluded. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>I will not flinch in the face of adversity, not negotiate at the table of the enemy or meander in the maze of mediocrity. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>I am a disciple of the Messiah. </span></i></div>
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<i><span>I must go until He comes, speak
of all I know of Him and work until He stops me. And when He comes for
His own, by the grace of God, He will have no problem recognizing me,
because my colors are clear." </span></i></div>
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<i><span>- Unknown Zimbabwean Pastor</span></i></div>
<span>How many of us are that sold out for Christ? </span><br />
<span>How many of us display this sort of fruit? </span><br />
<span>How many of us burn with this sort of zeal?</span><br />
<span>Are we one of His?</span><br />
<span>Will He know us? </span><br />
<b><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Are You One of His?</span> </span></b><br />
<span><img alt="19-forgiveness" height="490" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/19-forgiveness.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="336" />If Christ came back today, would He know you? </span><br />
<span>Have you truly believed in Him? </span><br />
<span>Have you come to a point in your life where the realization of
your sin disgusts you and you know that there is nothing that you can do
to get to heaven? </span><br />
<span>Have you come to a point of conviction and turned to Christ asking for real forgiveness? </span><br />
<span>Would you truly lay down your life, paying the ultimate price, before you renounced Christ? </span><br />
<span>If you answered NO to any of these, you need to do a check-up from the neck up. </span><br />
<span>There is a chance that you are not born again and a new creature in Christ. </span><br />
<span>I know that I would you rather live in a cardboard box and give
up everything instead of going back to that old sinful life I once
lived. </span><br />
<span>I look back at what I was and there are times a pit grows in my
stomach and I can’t believe the things that I did before I truly
committed my life to Him.</span><br />
<span>If you are not sure that you are one of His, you need to ask
the Holy Spirit to do a work in your life. You need to ask forgiveness
and repent, believing and trusting in our Lord Jesus Christ. </span><br />
<span>Before you can be saved, you need to realize that you are first lost. </span><br />
<span>That lost means that you are going to hell and forever be apart
from our loving Father. Hell is the absolute separation from God. But
on top of that we will burn for all eternity, never having peace, never
having joy. It will be utter misery, pain, suffering and the ultimate in
being alone. </span><br />
<span>That is what will be your destination if you are not saved. </span><br />
<span>Are you saved? </span><br />
<span>Christ COMMANDS us to repent so that we can be saved.</span><br />
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<span>Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: </span></div>
<span>But Christ also gives us this promise.</span><br />
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<span>1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</span></div>
<span>I know that you want more. </span><br />
<span>You thought you prayed a prayer, maybe you raised your hand in church, checked a 3x5 card.</span><br />
<span>You thought that you were born again. </span><br />
<span>You bought into easy beliefs which is NOT scriptural no matter what you think or what you may have been told. </span><br />
<span>If you call yourself Christian and want more, stop right now
and give your all to Him. Ask Him to forgive you and cleanse you of all
your sins. Submit to Him and ask Him to be your Lord and Savior. </span><br />
<span>If you honestly believed in Him, you are now a new creation,
God will start changing you daily. Walk away from the things of the
world and start living your life for Him. </span><br />
<b><span>If I can help answer any questions you may have, please feel free to contact me, my wife and I are here to serve. </span></b><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-68257784638672764202013-06-19T08:56:00.001-07:002013-06-19T08:56:10.585-07:00The Pitfalls of Compartmentalizing <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="compartmentalized-life-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/compartmentalized-life-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" /></span></b><span>As
many of you know, I come from a security / investigative background.
When I research I conduct it like one would conduct an investigation. </span><br />
<span>I am one who constantly digs for the truth. </span><br />
<span>Recently in my investigations of doctrinal ideas, the Christian
walk, etc, I have discovered that somewhere along the line we stopped
looking at things as a whole, and started to compartmentalize. </span><br />
<span>Some of you may be asking, what is so wrong with this? </span><br />
<span>In today’s hectic fast paced world, compartmentalizing one’s
life helps one deal with so much that is thrown at them. Many of us have
learned to live this way for the sake of self-preservation in this
crazy world. </span><br />
<span>The problem is that living a compartmental life is a pitfall.</span><br />
<b><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What is Compartmentalization?</span> </span></b><br />
<span>We all know what a compartment is.</span><br />
<span>It is commonly defined as a space in which that space is then subdivided.</span><br />
<span>Looking at it another way is to think of your home as a floor plan. </span><br />
<span>Look at your bedroom. It is a compartment, where you sleep, the
kitchen, another compartment, is where you cook and eat, the bathroom
is another compartment where you bath and go to the bathroom. </span><br />
<span>Due to our fast paced world, we humans have a tendency to
compartmentalize things in our life so that we can control them better,
deal with the stress and other issues that come with what the world
doles out. </span><br />
<span>In doing this we provide a way that seems “reasonable” to us so that we can then interact with the world. </span><br />
<span>When we are at our job, we act one way. When we are with friends, we act another way. With family we act another way, etc, etc. </span><br />
<span>In many cases we have learned to adapt to our environment and
then assert certain values, attitudes, beliefs, and language depending
upon which compartment we may be in at that time.</span><br />
<span>And that is the pitfall.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Be Ye Holy</b></span><br />
<span>Scripture says…</span><br />
<span> 1 Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.</span><br />
<span>See maintaining one compartment of our life as “holy” does not render our whole life as holy.</span><br />
<span>If one compartment of our life is “unholy” then the whole of our life is unholy before God. </span><br />
<span>Wow Ray, that is hard. </span><br />
<span>Yes it is. It is something that I believe that all of us deal with, myself included. </span><br />
<span>The more we compartmentalize the more we lie to ourselves thinking we are doing a great job.</span><br />
<span>That is the pitfall of compartmentalizing one’s life. </span><br />
<span>Compartmentalizing creates </span><span>hypocrisy because in one compartment we live a holy life, yet in another compartment we may live like hell. </span><br />
<span>When we compartmentalize we are able to rationalize and justify
our actions. That is because we are not living at that moment in the
“holy” compartment. </span><br />
<span>Instead we are living in the “who cares, live like hell” compartment. </span><br />
<span>Here is a great example of a compartmental life that I think you can relate with. </span><br />
<span>It is Sunday morning before church. If you have kids you know
exactly where I am going. The morning is hectic, the kids are raising
cain, you can’t find your tie, your wife is trying to get dressed, made
up, hair done. Kids are fighting over the prize in the cereal box and
all this time you need to head out the door. </span><br />
<span>You get out the door and kids are fighting in the car. You
scream at them to shut up, daughter starts crying because you yelled.
Wife yells at you because you lost it and by this time you are
approaching the church parking lot. </span><br />
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<span>As soon as you pull in, you shift into your “going to church”
compartment. You calm down, life is good, push back the frustration, etc
etc. </span><br />
<span>If does not matter that WWIII was taking place in your home 30
minutes earlier. You are now in another compartment and life is good. </span><br />
<span>This is just an example of the hypocrisy of trying to live a
compartmentalized life. One moment you are a complete jerk, another you
are that “man of God” that everyone loves. </span><br />
<span>Add to this the “get drunk on Friday night” compartment, “join
the guys from work and go to Hooters” compartment, “swearing like a
sailor” compartment, and the list goes on. </span><br />
<span>Do you see how easy it is to fall into hypocrisy? </span><br />
<span>Here is the kicker. </span><br />
<span>I think it is safe to say that when we are completely honest
with ourselves, all of us can admit that we live a compartmentalized
life in one form or another. </span><br />
<span>NOW….If we are living like this, compartmentalizing sin and our Christian walk, what does it make us? </span><br />
<span>Hypocrites.</span><br />
<span>But that is not all and this is why compartmentalizing our lives is a pitfall. </span><br />
<span>Because we have compartmentalized so much, we have made God’s compartment smaller and smaller. </span><br />
<span>In fact we get His compartment so small that after a while we start asking God “why He isn’t in our lives anymore?”</span><br />
<span>We start questioning Him, and doubting him, etc. </span><br />
<span>What we forget is that God never left us. We have made His compartment so small that we no longer have any fellowship with Him.</span><br />
<span>Out of this lack of fellowship with God rises no longer needing
God in our lives. We start standing on our own, and “doing it my way.” </span><br />
<span>Pride moves in, the heart become more and more hardened and we continue to compartmentalize God right out of the picture. </span><br />
<span>By this time we get to this point we are fully backslidden and wallowing in the muck and mire of the world. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Getting Back to God</b></span><br />
<span><img alt="bound to the world" height="374" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/bound%20to%20the%20world.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="375" />You
have been living a compartmental life now for a while. Life is not
good. There is that special place in your heart that has a void.</span><br />
<span>Then it happens.</span><br />
<span>It is about 3:00 AM in the morning when the world is quiet and we wake to a still small voice. </span><br />
<span>It is the Holy Spirit talking to us.</span><br />
<span>We can do one of two things. Ignore it, which is another form of compartmentalizing. </span><br />
<span>Or we can pay attention to His still, small, convicting voice
and start digging through all those compartments trying to come into
fellowship with Him once again. </span><br />
<span>You are wide awake and it becomes a moment in your life where you start asking yourself…</span><br />
<span>“Why did you do this, why did you leave God?”</span><br />
<span>You then talk to God…</span><br />
<span>“God, why did I compartmentalize you out of my life? Please forgive me and please let’s have fellowship once again.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>If We Confess Our Sins</b></span><br />
<span>It is at that moment that we realize that we have
compartmentalized Him out of our lives. It is also at that time when we
realize that we need to confess our sins to Him and re-establish that
fellowship. </span><br />
<span>I love 1 John 1, in verses 6- 9 it deals with the pitfalls of compartmentalizing as well as gives us the solution. </span><br />
<span>Please note my comments in the brackets.</span><br />
<span>1John 1:6-9 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and
walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: -- (This is us
compartmentalizing, justifying, rationalizing, etc )</span><br />
<span>7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin. -- (This is how we are to live )</span><br />
<span>8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. -- (This is the result of us compartmentalizing,
justifying, rationalizing, etc )</span><br />
<span>9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. -- (This is the
solution to compartmentalizing) </span><br />
<span>Once we have been forgiven of our sin and cleansed from all
unrighteousness, the compartmentalization that we have been putting
ourselves through seem to disappear. </span><br />
<span>That is till we start compartmentalizing again. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>How To Not Go Down The Compartmentalizing Path</b></span><br />
<span>1 John 1:6-9 gives us a good idea, but there is more that we
need to do. Otherwise what happens is that we start living a roller
coaster life of sinning like hell, then repenting, then sinning, and
then repenting. </span><br />
<span>Living a miserable life like that is not what the Lord had in store for us. </span><br />
<span>To stop living this sort of depressing un-victorious life we need to do one thing. </span><br />
<span>That is to fully submit to God.</span><br />
<span>We need to submit to Him, His ways and His Word. But we do not like this, we like to rebel.</span><br />
<span>When we compartmentalize, we start thinking on our own, start
standing on our own, start doing things on our own. There is no
submission.</span><br />
<span>We compartmentalize so that we can deal with sin that we want to live in, and the guilt and stress of living in it.</span><br />
<span>Yes there are things that we do not want to do. We do things
like yelling at the spouse and kids, looking at things you should not be
looking at, doing things you should not be doing is all the outcome of
compartmentalizing. </span><br />
<span>The answer is to fully submit to Him and live our lives like an
open book before Him and others. It is God, not us, that starts to
guide us and direct us. (Proverbs 3:5-6)</span><br />
<span>What is wonderful is that He takes care of those things that we had to compartmentalize.</span><br />
<span>Just so you know, we compartmentalized so that we are able to
deal with the world as well as the stress and guilt that comes along
with that. </span><br />
<span>Now I am not talking about living a life where you are tempting
God. For example not showing up to work and thinking God will magically
have all the bills paid and food on the table. We need to live in
accordance to His Word.</span><br />
<span>Depending on Him fully is not living a life looking through rose colored glasses or having your head in the sand.</span><br />
<span>When we submit to Him fully, we open those doors of fellowship and we come just as we are. The stress and guilt are gone.</span><br />
<b><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img alt="man sad bed" height="321" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/man_sad_bed.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="300" />How Do We Fellowship?</span> </span></b><br />
<b><span>We need to spend time talking to God</span></b><span>. I
know that during my day I talk to God often. It is kind of like when I
am talking to Tracye. I just talk to Him and let Him know what is going
on or I ask for His favor.</span><br />
<span>For example these past few weeks have been time consuming and I
have not been able to write an article. This morning I asked God to
help with this and give me an article that would help people. You are
reading that answer to prayer right now. </span><br />
<span>Prayer works. </span><br />
<b><span>We need more time in His Word</span></b><span>. If you
really want to hear the voice of God, read His Word. When you read the
bible, you are literally letting the voice of God into your mind.</span><br />
<span>I am reminded of Romans 21:2</span><br />
<span>Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. </span><br />
<span>How we are transformed into a person who submits to Him is by
the renewing of our mind. We do that by reading His Word so that His
Word is in our mind. </span><br />
<span>The Holy Spirit authored the Scriptures to be read and understood. He delights in making himself known to us through his Word.</span><br />
<span>Scripture says… </span><br />
<span>John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</span><br />
<span>Right there is a great promise. That the Holy Spirit will teach
us but more than that, He will help us to remember those things that we
have read in His Word when the time comes where it is needed.</span><br />
<span>Have you ever been talking to someone about the Lord and you
are able to quote a verse out of the blue and not know where it came
from?</span><br />
<span>That is because at some point you read that in His Word and it
became a part of you. The Holy Spirit brought it back to you at that
time and place. </span><br />
<span>Now, if you have not been reading much of your bible, you don’t have much to lean on for the Holy Spirit to help you remember. </span><br />
<span>This is why reading your bible is vitally important. </span><br />
<b><span>We need more time with other bible believing Christians. </span></b><br />
<span>Scripture says… </span><br />
<span>Hebrews 10:25a Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together…</span><br />
<span>We need fellowship with others because if we do not have this,
we stagnate. Like a pond that is sitting with no fresh water coming in,
it will soon stagnate and become poisonous. </span><br />
<span>Our Christian walk will do the same if we do not fellowship
with others. When we stagnate, we compartmentalize. Then we start that
process of justifying, rationalizing, etc etc all over again and God is
compartmentalized right out of our lives again. </span><br />
<span>We need to stop compartmentalizing things in our lives. We need
to learn to submit to Him fully. He has our best interest in mind. </span><br />
<span>We see what happens when we take control, we fail miserably. </span><br />
<span>Compartmentalizing is a pitfall that sometimes take a long time to come back from. </span><br />
<span>Submit to Him today and discover His still small voice again. </span><br />
<span>1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.</span><br />
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<span><strong>By Ray Gano</strong></span><br />
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<span><strong>About the Author:<br /><br />Ray & Tracye Gano are the Executive Directors of the web ministries Prophezine and Survival 4 Christians.They serve people world wide with a weekly newsletters, daily news updates, community based website, Internet radio shows and You Tube broadcasts. Ray recently released his book "Survive The Coming Storm - The Value of a Preparedness Lifestyle" which has been moving up on the book charts.<br /><br />Please visit Prophezine by going to http://www.prophezine.com<br /><br />Or visit Ray's Blog Survival4 Christians = http://survival4christians.blogspot.com/<br /> </strong></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-32093653127295303532013-06-16T08:52:00.000-07:002013-06-16T08:52:14.079-07:00It Just Keeps Getting Worse <span>This past week people need to mark on their calendar as a week to remember.</span>
<span>Why? </span><br />
<span>Our loss of privacy was basically flushed down the toilet all in the name of safety and security. </span><br />
<span>What is alarming is the rate that it has taken place.</span><br />
<span>This morning I woke up and read the following on Drudge Report…<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls</b></span></div>
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<span>WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program
under which it is collecting business communications records involving
Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to
a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.</span></div>
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<span>The order, signed by Judge Roger
Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a
Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services,
to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the National Security Agency
all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within
the United States, including local telephone calls.”</span></div>
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<span>Source - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html</a> </span></div>
<span>That is not all, come to find out that this collecting of phone calls and such is targeting Americans and not Foreigners. <br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners</b></span></div>
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<span>The National Security Agency has
long justified its spying powers by arguing that its charter allows
surveillance on those outside of the United States, while avoiding
intrusions into the private communications of American citizens. But the
latest revelation of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance shows that it
has focused specifically on Americans, to the degree that its data
collection has in at least one major spying incident explicitly excluded
those outside the United States.</span></div>
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<span>In a top secret order obtained by
the Guardian newspaper and published Wednesday evening, the FBI on the
NSA’s behalf demanded that Verizon turn over all metadata for phone
records originating in the United States for the three months beginning
in late April and ending on the 19th of July. That metadata includes all
so-called “non-content” data for millions of American customers’ phone
calls, such as the subscriber data, recipients, locations, times and
durations of every call made during that period.</span></div>
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<span>Aside from the sheer scope of that
surveillance order, reminiscent of the warrantless wiretapping scandal
under the Bush administration, the other shocking aspect of the order
its target: <b>The order specifically states that only data regarding
calls originating in America are to be handed over, not those between
foreigners.</b></span></div>
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<span>Source - <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/05/nsas-verizon-spying-order-specifically-targeted-americans-not-foreigners/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/05/nsas-verizon-spying-order-specifically-targeted-americans-not-foreigners/</a> </span></div>
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<span>This is not all that has taken place this past week. There was a
critical case that the Supreme Court heard and ruled on that effected
the 4<sup>th</sup> amendment, the unwelcome search and seizure. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Supreme Court OKs Taking DNA From Arrestees</span></strong></div>
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<span>Deciding its biggest genetic
privacy case of the term, a fractured Supreme Court said today that the
states may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes.</span></div>
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<span>Privacy groups and law enforcement
officials were closely watching the case because at least 27 states and
the federal government have regulations requiring suspects to give a DNA
sample upon some type of arrest, regardless of conviction. In all the
states with such laws, the DNA records are cataloged in state and
federal crime-fighting databases.</span></div>
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<span>In a 5-4 decision, (.pdf) the
justices reversed a 2012 ruling from Maryland’s top court, which had
said that it was a breach of the Fourth Amendment right against
unreasonable search and seizure to take, without warrants, DNA samples
from suspects who have been arrested for crimes ranging from attempted
burglary to murder. In the end, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that
swabbing the inside of a suspect’s cheek to acquire a DNA sample was “an
advanced technique superior” to fingerprinting, mugshots and even
tattoo matching.</span></div>
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<i><span> “A DNA profile is useful to the
police because it gives them a form of identification to search the
records already in their valid possession. In this respect the use of
DNA for identification is no different than matching an arrestee’s face
to a wanted poster of a previously unidentified suspect; or matching
tattoos to known gang symbols to reveal a criminal affiliation; or
matching the arrestee’s fingerprints to those recovered from a crime
scene. DNA is another metric of identification used to connect the
arrestee with his or her public persona, as reflected in records of his
or her actions that are available to the police.”</span></i></div>
<br />
<span>Folks, this means that all an officer has to do is take your
ID, which is the first stage of being under arrest / detained, once in
that mode, the officer can ask for a DNA sample. </span><br />
<span>I know that there are some law enforcement officers out there
that will disagree. Thing is that the slippery slope has been stepped
upon and now there is no going back. </span><br />
<span>Imagine being stopped on the street by Homeland Security, asked
for your ID (papers) and then they whip out a little device and ask to
“prove” your identity with a DNA sample. If you do not have one on
record, the device will record it and add it to the database. </span><br />
<span>These two events have changed our privacy rights in a major way. </span><br />
<span>The powers that be will now know everything you say
electronically. Yes, this was for phone records, but it is just another
jump to include all electronic devises and forms of communication. What
we forget is that the powers that be have been listening in for years
now, they just came out of the closet about it. </span><br />
<span>Finally, it was reviewed the IRS was being used against the
American people in a nefarious way and a serious abuse of power. What we
are finding out is that the IRS was specifically targeting conservative
patriotic Christian Americans as well as conservative Jewish groups. </span><br />
<span>If you did not vote for the current administration or your
group was speaking out against the current administration, your group
was targeted for audit, fines, even revoking non-profit status. </span><br />
<span>What people may not understand is that when a group’s
non-profit status is revoked, ALL TAXES since the conception of the
non-profit group are then due, and with interest as well. </span><br />
<span>So you want to wipe out a non-profit group? Yank their
non-profit status and let them be responsible for all the back taxes.
Can’t pay? Those in charge go to jail.</span><br />
<span>So we can clearly see that Conservative Christians and Jews need to be concerned. </span><br />
<b><span>What? Me, Worry? </span></b><br />
<span>Now I know that some of you reading this think that I have my tin foil hat on a little too tight..</span><br />
<span>Some of you may be saying” Oh it isn’t that bad. They will not target us.” </span><br />
<span>Yea? Think again. </span><br />
<span>I got the following from my friend Bill Wilson…<br /> <br /> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Because You Need To Know</span></b></div>
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<span><img alt="bill-wilson-2012" height="313" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/authors-directory/bill-wilson-2012.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="238" />It
is Wednesday afternoon as I write this. I wanted to keep it fresh in my
mind. My wife, son, his girlfriend and I were pulling up to our house
after having a nice lunch together. I noticed a dark BMW pulling up
behind us, waiting for us to walk across the street and I motioned him
on. A Middle Eastern looking man dressed in a casual shirt and jeans
came into my driveway and asked if I was William Wilson. He identified
himself as Amir with the FBI and wanted to know if he could ask me a few
questions. He said that someone under the "See something, say
something" program reported me as a suspicious person perhaps involved
with terrorism. He asked if I was driving a red Camry in April taking
pictures of an oil refinery in Delaware. </span></div>
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<span>He opened my "file" while
explaining that this is not his case, but someone else's. Then he
corrected himself saying that it was not really a "case." He said that
he was undercover and because he lived in Montgomery County, he offered
to do the interview with me instead of having the other agent drive out
from Baltimore. I could see the file. It had my picture, and other
information that I couldn't quite make out. He explained that someone
had reported me taking pictures of a Delaware oil refinery from a red
Camry in April. He asked me several ways if I had a Camry, was in
Delaware in April, and other questions about it. I do not have a Camry,
nor was I ever in Delaware taking pictures of an oil refinery.</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>He questioned me: Is there anyone
who you have "pissed off" lately? Is there anyone who would have a
reason to turn me in to the FBI. What might I have done to cause this?
Do I hate anybody or [implied] any group of people? Am I against the
government? I told him I am a patriot. I told him that I have written a
column for over 11 years and I am critical of Islamic terrorism, and
some things like the FBI shooting the boy in Orlando. He asked if I ever
get threatened. I told him from time to time I do, but if it gets
serious I tell them I am uncomfortable and will turn them into
authorities if it continues. He assured me that he believed there was
nothing to this complaint and his report would reflect such.</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>He suggested that I take
precautions such as making sure my address was not on my website. He
also knew what cars I owned and drove. I will say that it was a very
non-threatening type of interview although it is creepy and I wonder
what is next. You need to know because I believe there is safety in
numbers and the more who know, the safer we are. Notwithstanding, I am
calling on the Lord and praying Ephesians 6:17-19, "And take the helmet
of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all
saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open
my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel." Please pray
for our protection. </span></div>
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<span>Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!</span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Bill Wilson</span></div>
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<span><a href="http://www.dailyjot.com/">www.dailyjot.com</a> </span></div>
<span><br /> Around March of 2012 Tracye and I were sitting in the back
yard watching the sun go down. We were talking about the things that
are taking place and the concerns we had, </span><br />
<span>I asked Tracye “What is it that you’re most concerned about?” </span><br />
<span>She said “Them showing up at our front gate and taking us away.” </span><br />
<span>Folks, a lump formed in the pit of my stomach that I will never
forget. Husbands, how would you feel if your loving wife said that to
you in all seriousness and earnest? </span><br />
<span>It would break your heart. </span><br />
<span>July 3<sup>rd</sup> 2013 Tracye and I were returning from
running errands. It was about 4:00 in the afternoon and we were coming
up on a crest of a hill, once over the hill we can see our house off in
the distance. </span><br />
<span>When I drove over the crest I just happen to look to my left at which time I slammed on the brakes. </span><br />
<span>Tracye startled said, ”What’s wrong?” </span><br />
<span>I said “Do I see what I think I am seeing?” </span><br />
<span>Tracye looked and said “What is that?” </span><br />
<span>I said “Tracye, I think that is a drone.” </span><br />
<span>She kind of gasped and looked again. She then agreed with me. </span><br />
<span>We sat there for about 10 seconds watching it fly by. </span><br />
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<span>If you would do a reverse flight path, it flew right over our property. </span><br />
<span>When we lived in Texas, we lived within the vicinity of three
drone airports. The closest was located in San Marcos Texas, about 10
miles away. </span><br />
<span>Folks, I have “heard” of people being pulled and questioned like what happened to Bill. </span><br />
<span>But Bill is the first person that I actually know that this sort of thing has happened too. </span><br />
<span>I have been warning about these sort of things taking place for a while now. </span><br />
<span>I have also tried to show historical correlation between what
took place during the onset of Nazi Germany and what is taking place in
our own nation today. </span><br />
<span>Daily I am blown away at what is taking place in the country I
served, and yet I do not recognize her at all or what she has become. </span><br />
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<strong> By Ray Gano</strong><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-53893334293781232812013-04-30T12:22:00.001-07:002013-04-30T12:22:19.991-07:00Who Are The Elect? <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><img alt="secondcoming4-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/secondcoming4-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="357" /></span></b>Recently
I have been doing some word studies trying to ascertain the proper
definition of words so that I can have a full understanding with what I
am writing, preaching and teaching about.<br />
Scripture says...<br />
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James 3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.</div>
What James is saying that we should not look to be teachers and
preachers, because those of us who are, we will come under greater
scrutiny from the Lord when we stand before Him.<br />
With every article I write, I always try to keep this in mind. I will
give an account for my words one day when I stand before the Lord.<br />
It is my greatest desire that when I do stand before Him, He will say "Enter my kingdon my good and faithful servant."<br />
<b>Ideas of Men VS. God’s Word </b><br />
In doing this study, I have come to realize that there are a lot of
things that we have been taught that do not stand up to the Word of God.<br />
How do I know?<br />
When we use God's Word to define The Bible itself, I am finding out
that we have been taught "man's opinion" and not what God's Word clearly
teaches.<br />
So why question things that have been nicely laid out for us by all these great teachers and wonderful books they have written?<br />
Because 2 + 2 is not adding up to 4 when we really allow God's Word to define itself in light of men's books.<br />
Here is the portion of scripture that alerted me.<br />
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Matthew 24:31 (KJV) And he shall send his
angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</div>
See when I read it then read the commentary, the commentary was stating that the "elect" was Israel.<br />
Hmmmm, something just did not ring true.<br />
Call it a gut instinct or something, but what I was "being told" the
verse meant Israel, but I knew that this did not line up with what God's
Word was saying.<br />
We can clearly see from this verse that it is talking about the rapture, right?<br />
In fact, let's use scripture to define scripture....<br />
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1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 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:</div>
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17 Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</div>
We see the same things taking place in Matthew 24 and 1 Thessalonians 4.<br />
Matthew used the word "elect" in Chapter 24.<br />
We also see in 1 Thessalonians 1 Paul identifying the elect...<br />
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1 Thessalonians 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.</div>
So we can see that both Matthew and Paul refer to the elect as the ones being gathered up in the rapture.<br />
This is using scripture to define scripture. In other words, this is proper hermeneutics, proper study.<br />
Now, let's look at these two portions of scripture Matthew 24 and 1 Thessalonians 4. What do we see here that is common?<br />
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1 - We have angels present</div>
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2 - We have the trumpet sound</div>
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3 - We have the gathering together</div>
Both of these verses are clearly talking about the same event, correct?<br />
We can see that it is talking about the rapture.<br />
It also answers “Who” is the rapture for?<br />
The rapture is for the believer, His elect.<br />
So, here is the quandary I have.<br />
Why do a lot of teachers and authors state that in Matthew 24 the elect spoken here is NOT believers, but Israel?<br />
I honestly believe that it is because an idea was put out there a
long time ago and that idea molded into a doctrine and that doctrine has
become cemented in theology today.<br />
See a man named Scofield who lived about 200 years ago decided to put
it in his study notes. Then a gentleman named Moody came along and
produced what is called "The Scofield Study Bible."<br />
If you have a Scofield bible, Scofield states that in Matthew 24 that Israel is the elect.<br />
What?<br />
Now I am going to let a lot of you know that I have not been a fan of
Scofield for some time now. This is why my "Sword" of choice is the
Thompson Chain Reference Study Bible - KJV.<br />
I have also read papers and a biography about Scofield, and let's just say that he was not a cool guy.<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/The-Incredible-Scofield" target="_blank"><img alt="scofield-book" height="458" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/scofield-book.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="321" /></a>I guess you could call him the Rick Warren / Joel Osteen of his day, with a lot of personal baggage.<br />
A very eye opening book to read is titled "The Incredible Scofield and His Book" By Joseph M. Canfield<br />
Book Here >>> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/The-Incredible-Scofield" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/The-Incredible-Scofield</a><br />
Canfield's book goes into a lot of historical documentation about Scofield and how he lived his life.<br />
There are a lot of things that bothered me about Scofield, for example...<br />
Scofield abandoned his wife and children and refused to support them.<br />
Scripture says...<br />
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I Timothy 5:8 says “ But if any provide
not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath
denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”</div>
When his first wife Leontine originally filed for divorce in July 1881, she listed the following reasons:<br />
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<i>“ (he had)…absented himself from his
said wife and children, and had not been with them but abandoned them
with the intention of not returning to them again…has been guilty of
gross neglect of duty and has failed to support this plaintiff or her
said children, or to contribute thereto, and has made no provision for
them for food, clothing or a home, or in any manner performed his duty
in the support of said family although he was able to do so.” </i>(1)</div>
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<i>Cyrus Scofield had several other
incidents of a downright dishonest nature after he supposedly became
saved. The fact that in 1892 he began calling himself Doctor Scofield
without producing any Doctorate degree from any Seminary or University
is the least of his devious activities. Even the details he gave in his
story of conversion are proven to be fabricated, including the time,
place and other particularities, thereby placing doubt on the whole
story.(2)</i></div>
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<i>He was a self-promoter in every sense
of the word, even lying about being able to comfort and calm the entire
city of Belfast, Ireland with a sermon he delivered there the Sunday
after the Titanic sunk. (3)</i></div>
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<i>CYRUS I. SCHOFIELD IN THE ROLE OF A CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER</i></div>
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<i>“ Cyrus I. Schofield, formerly of
Kansas, late lawyer, politician and shyster generally, has come to the
surface again, and promises once more to gather around himself that halo
of notoriety that has made him so prominent in the past. The last
personal knowledge that Kansans have had of this peer among scalawags,
was when about four years ago, after a series of forgeries and
confidence games he left the state and a destitute family and took
refuge in Canada. For a time he kept undercover, nothing being heard of
him until within the past two years when he turned up in St. Louis,
where he had a wealthy widowed sister living who has generally come to
the front and squared up Cyrus’ little follies and foibles by paying
good round sums of money. Within the past year, however, Cyrus committed
a series of St. Louis forgeries that could not be settled so easily,
and the erratic young gentleman was compelled to linger in the St. Louis
jail for a period of six months.</i></div>
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<i>Among the many malicious acts that
characterized his career, was one peculiarly atrocious, that has come
under our personal notice. Shortly after he left Kansas, leaving his
wife and two children dependent upon the bounty of his wife’s mother, he
wrote his wife that he could invest some $1,300 of her mother’s money,
all she had, in a manner that would return big interest. After some
correspondence he forwarded them a mortgage, signed and executed by one
Chas. Best, purporting to convey valuable property in St. Louis. Upon
this, the money was sent to him. Afterwards the mortgages were found to
be base forgeries, no such person as Charles Best being in existence,
and the property conveyed in the mortgage fictitious…” (4)</i></div>
<br /> This article is not about tearing down Cyrus Scofield. Many
people have come to the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ though the
Scofield bible.<br />
There is an old saying, if God can use an ass to speak to men, he can use ______________.<br />
… Insert Cyrus Scofield.<br />
What I am trying to paint for you is that Scofield was the "popular"
preacher of the world during that time. Again, like Rick Warren and are
Joel Olsteen are today, Cyrus Scofield was back then.<br />
It has been Scofield's notes that millions have leaned upon and
because they are included in the Scofield study bible, no one questions
it.<br />
Here is something else that I found troubling when I was doing my research.<br />
There are no records that can be found where Scofield even claimed
that he was a repented man, washed in the blood of Jesus Christ for all
his sins and that Jesus Christ was his personal Lord and savior.<br />
You would think that there were some records of a personal testimony
somewhere. Some record of Scofield telling his testimony to someone.
When I heard of this, I searched pretty deep and I have not found any
record.<br />
So why have we as the church allowed this person who appears to be a
lukewarm Christian and most likely a "Christian In Name Only" (C.I.N.O)
at best to influence generations of pastors and lay people?<br />
When the Scofield bible was published, Moody the publisher, sent
copies to just about every pastor there was in the US and England.<br />
What this did was cement Scofield's ideas into the minds of men.<br />
Yes, the Scofield bible was widely accepted, but there were the critics out there too.<br />
But over the years those criticisms we forgotten and Scofield became a
'solid name" thus his commentaries were completely accepted without
question.<br />
The logic went like this.... If Moody published The Scofield Bible,
and because Moody put his stamp of approval on it, it has to be correct
and be doctrinally sound.<br />
Look at how many of us go to these commentaries in our bibles and give it a "PASS" and not think about it at all.<br />
We tell ourselves, "Well "so & so" wrote this great book.
Obviously it has to be right because he has sold so many copies over the
years and he is such a popular person."<br />
Isn’t that how it usually goes? <br />
What has taken place over the past two hundred years is that we as
Christians have gotten lazy and instead of seeking out the truth via
God's Word, we have had all these great authors and teachers pre-chew
our scripture for us and then regurgitate it up for us so that we can
better digest it.<br />
Let me paint it for you this way...<br />
Don't you realize that all this pre-chewed scripture has lost a lot
of God's vitamins and nutrients? (God's meaning and definition) What has
gotten mixed in is the saliva of man and because of that, we have
latched on to man's ideas vs. what God's Word really says.<br />
In today's fast paced world we have become dependent upon this
pre-chewed food, and we have forgotten that we have the ability to dig
into God's Word ourselves.<br />
We have forgotten to be good Bereans like Paul tells us to be in Acts 17:11.<br />
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Act 17:11 These were more noble than those
in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of
mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.</div>
<b>Letting God's Word Define The Elect</b><br />
So how can the elect be Israel where God's Word itself clearly says the elect is something different?<br />
Romans 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh
for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.<br />
<img alt="bible" height="315" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-news-watch/bible.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="316" />Right there scripture states that Israel is not the elect.<br />
Out of 16 times that the word elect is used in the bible, and as many of you know, I only use the KJV, we find the following...<br />
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- 10 references refer to all believers in general</div>
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- 2 refer to believers who are specifically Gentile</div>
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- 1 refers to believers who are Jews</div>
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- 2 refer to Jesus Christ himself</div>
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- 1 refers to Jacob the person as being God's elect</div>
Here are the scriptures so that you can see this for yourself - be a good Berean...<br />
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Matthew 24:22 - 24 And except those days
should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's
sake those days shall be shortened.</div>
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23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.</div>
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24 For there shall arise false Christs,
and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch
that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</div>
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Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</div>
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Mark 13:20 And except that the Lord had
shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's
sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.</div>
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Mar 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:</div>
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Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false
prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it
were possible, even the elect.</div>
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Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his
angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from
the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.</div>
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Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div>
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Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.</div>
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Romans 9:11 (For the children being not
yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God
according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;)</div>
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Romans 11:5-7 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.</div>
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6 And if by grace, then is it no more of
works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is
it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.</div>
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7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.</div>
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Colossians 3:11-12 Where there is neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,
bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.</div>
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12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God,
holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind,
meekness, longsuffering;</div>
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1Thessalonians 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.</div>
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2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all
things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.</div>
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Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an
apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the
acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;</div>
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1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit,
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto
you, and peace, be multiplied.</div>
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1 Peter 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained
in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect,
precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.</div>
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2 Peter 1:10-11 Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if
ye do these things, ye shall never fall:</div>
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11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.</div>
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2 John 1:1-2 The elder unto the elect lady
and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also
all they that have known the truth;</div>
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2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.</div>
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Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I
uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit
upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.</div>
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Isaiah 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake,
and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have
surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.</div>
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Isaiah 65:9 And I will bring forth a seed
out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine
elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.</div>
Here is what Webster's 1828 English Dictionary states...<br />
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<b>Elect</b></div>
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ELECT', v.t. [L. electus, from eligo; e or ex and lego; Gr. to choose.]</div>
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1. Properly, to pick out; to select from among two or more, that which is preferred. Hence,</div>
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2. To select or take for an office or
employment; to choose from among a number; to select or manifest
preference by vote or designation; as, to elect a representative by
ballot or viva voce; to elect a president or governor.</div>
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3. In theology, to designate, choose or select as an object of mercy or favor.</div>
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4. To choose; to prefer; to determine in favor of.</div>
<b>The Golden Rule of Interpretation</b><br />
<img alt="dr-david-l-cooper" height="455" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/dr-david-l-cooper.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="291" />Dr.
David L. Cooper, was the founder of the Biblical Research Society and
he stated the following... "When the plain sense of scripture makes
common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its
primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the
immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and
axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise."<br />
In other words...<br />
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A. Seek the plain, literal meaning of the Scriptures</div>
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B. Seek the figurative meaning only when the facts demand such an interpretation</div>
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C. Study every statement of the Scriptures in context ("A TEXT APART FROM ITS CONTEXT IS A PRETEXT")</div>
If you have been a reader of mine for a year or so, you know that
this is something that I tend to harp on. We need to stick to God's Word
and let His Word define itself.<br />
If you are interested, you can learn more about the Rules of Interpretation at -- <a href="http://www.biblicalresearch.info/page7.html">http://www.biblicalresearch.info/page7.html</a><br />
See without having a true common sense rule to understanding God's
Word, our flesh can be allowed to run down bunny trails proving that the
Grass was created to be purple and that the sky was created to be
green.<br />
This is why having a good grounding in hermeneutics and realizing
that God's Word defines itself, not man defining it, is so important.<br />
<br /> <b>Conclusion</b><br />
We need to start being good Bereans and start seeking the scriptures
out to see if what man is saying is true according to the Scriptures,
NOT according to the popular books and commentaries.<br />
We need to remember that the best interpretation of scripture is
God's Word itself. Who better to define His Word than God the Creator
and Author of The Word?<br />
In this study, we clearly see that when Scripture is talking about
the "Elect," God's Word defines it as Believers in God / Jesus Christ.<br />
It is the Elect that one day will be gathered up from all the corners
of the earth when we see the angels in the clouds with the Lord, and<br />
We hear that trumpet, The Trump of God sound.<br />
So if you have put your faith in all these popular books, and these
shiny teethed teachers with "aerodynamic" hair, then you might want to
start doing a checkup from the neck up and start digging into God's
Word.<br />
We need to start building our houses upon the Rock of Jesus Christ
and His Word and stop latching onto all these fancy men who sure sound
good and weave a nice tale.<br />
The only way to do this is putting their books down, and start picking up our only true source, God's Word.. The Bible.<br />
A word to the wise, drop all these modern versions also and stick
with the one bible that has been through the fires of testing, the King
James Bible. It has been with us for over 400 years and God himself
promises to preserve His Word. I believe that preserved Word for the
English speaking people is the KJV.<br />
I hope that this article / study has given you something to think
about and to strive to be a better Berean when it comes to reading,
studying and digesting God's Word.<br />
<b><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="163" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="113" /><br /><br /><br />By Ray Gano</b><br />
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<br />
<b>ENDNOTES</b><br />
1 - Quoted from the papers in case No. 2161, supplied by the Atchison
County Court – reproduced by Joseph Canfield, The Incredible Scofield
And His Book, p. 89<br />
2 - Canfield, op. cit., pp. 65-68<br />
3 - Canfield, op. cit., p.239-240<br />
4 - Canfield, op. cit., pp. 79-80 – as taken from the files of the Kansas State Historical SocietyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-47466232156203285362013-04-24T18:44:00.000-07:002013-04-24T18:44:09.185-07:00Under The Shadow of The Almighty <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="storm-tree-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/storm-tree-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="410" /></span><span></span></b><span>A
lot has taken place over the past week or so. We have had terrorist
events in Boston, almost half of the city of West Texas has been
destroyed due to an explosion. We have had other explosions in other
areas of the US. </span><br />
<span>David Kupelian wrote an article recently titled “Americans 'snapping' by the millions.”</span><br />
<span>He opens his article with these words…</span><br />
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<i><span>Terrorism. Chaos. Fear of the
future. In the age of Obama, America is undergoing a “fundamental
transformation” – that much everyone knows.</span></i></div>
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<i><span>But what few seem to realize
about this transformation is that the sheer stress of living in today’s
America is driving tens of millions to the point of illness, depression
and self-destruction. Consider the following trends:</span></i></div>
<ul>
<li><i><span>Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of
injury death for Americans. Even more disturbing, in the world’s
greatest military, more U.S. soldiers died last year by suicide than in
combat;<br /> <br /> </span></i></li>
<li><i><span>Fully one-third of the nation’s employees suffer chronic
debilitating stress, and more than half of all “millennials” (18 to 33
year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night,
including large numbers diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder.<br /> <br /> </span></i></li>
<li><i><span>Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention shows that one in five of all high-school-aged
children in the United States has been diagnosed with ADHD, and likewise
a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in
five preteens – children aged six to 12 – have been medically diagnosed
with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;<br /> <br /> </span></i></li>
<li><i><span>New research concludes that stress renders people
susceptible to serious illness, and a growing number of studies now
confirm that chronic stress plays a major role in the progression of
cancer, the nation’s second-biggest killer. The biggest killer of all,
heart disease, which causes one in four deaths in the U.S., is also
known to have a huge stress component;<br /> <br /> </span></i></li>
<li><i><span>Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older
are currently taking SSRI antidepressants – those highly controversial,
mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s “suicidality” warning
label and alarming correlation with school shooters. Women are
especially prone to depression, with a stunning 23 percent of all
American women in their 40s and 50s – almost one in four – now taking
antidepressants, according to a major study by the CDC;<br /> <br /> </span></i></li>
<li><i><span>Add to that the tens of millions of users of all other
types of psychiatric drugs, including (just to pick one) the 6.4 million
American children between 4 and 17 diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed
Ritalin or similar psycho-stimulants. Throw in the 28 percent of
American adults with a drinking problem, that’s more than 60 million,
plus the 22 million using illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin,
hallucinogens and inhalants, and pretty soon a picture emerges of a
nation of drug-takers, with hundreds of millions dependent on one toxic
substance or another – legal or illegal – to “help” them deal with the
stresses and problems of life.</span></i></li>
</ul>
<span>We are a nation that has lost its spirit, its drive, its
happiness. We have replaced that with being angry, which in turn breeds
anxiety, fear, confusion, hopelessness and depression.</span><br />
<span>Tracye and I have felt what we call a “foreboding” just hanging
over us. In fact we were just talking today about how little sleep
Tracye was getting. I didn’t get a great restful night’s sleep either.
Sure I could sleep, but we would wake up still tired and not very often
did either of us feel fully refreshed.</span><br />
<span>The stress is so heavy that it seems like you can cut the air with a butter knife. </span><br />
<span>It seems like our nation is being destroyed and there is nothing that we can do about it. Look at all the stress elements.</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span>Economy going to hell</span></li>
<li><span>Crime is rampant, murder is up, rape is up, theft is up, etc, etc.</span></li>
<li><span>People are being fired at a drop of a hat and companies are
laying off. And when hired again you can’t work over 29 hours and your
wage is half of what it was.</span></li>
<li><span>4 Million on food stamps and food prices are going through the roof.</span></li>
<li><span>Drug, alcohol, sex along with every vice known is drastically up in use.</span></li>
<li><span>Children are in utter rebellion and parents no longer care what happens to them. </span></li>
</ul>
<span>And the list goes on and on. </span><br />
<span>See, I am one who believes that this is on purpose. </span><br />
<span>The past four administrations has been pushing the US towards
global socialism. Many of the goals they have set a very long time ago,
have come to pass. </span><br />
<span><img alt="putin-nukes" height="262" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/putin-nukes.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="372" />Yes,
there have are in fact goals to bring down our nation. Don’t believe
me, read it for yourself. It was even entered into the Congressional
Record… </span><br />
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<span><strong>Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 </strong> </span></div>
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<span>Current Communist Goals EXTENSION
OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 . </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs.
Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent
of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which
she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of
communism in America. </span></div>
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<span>At Mrs. Nordman's request, I
include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current
Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked
Communist," by Cleon Skousen: </span></div>
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<span>[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen] </span></div>
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<b><i><span>PZ NOTE – All the bolded lines have taken place / been enacted.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span>1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. </span></b></div>
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<b><span>2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. </span></b></div>
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<b><span>3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. </span></b></div>
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<span>4. Permit free trade between all
nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or
not items could be used for war. </span></div>
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<b><span>5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. </span></b></div>
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<b><span>6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>8. Set up East and West Germany as
separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the
German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>9. Prolong the conferences to
ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests
as long as negotiations are in progress. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>11. Promote the U.N. as the only
hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up
as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some
Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the
U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other
as they are now doing in the Congo.) </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>16. Use technical decisions of
the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their
activities violate civil rights. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>17. Get control of the schools.
Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist
propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers'
associations. Put the party line in textbooks. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>18. Gain control of all student newspapers. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>22. Continue discrediting
American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An
American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from
parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless
forms." </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>25. Break down cultural
standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books,
magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>27. Infiltrate the churches and
replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible
and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a
"religious crutch." </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>28. Eliminate prayer or any
phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it
violates the principle of "separation of church and state." </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>29. Discredit the American
Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with
modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide
basis. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>31. Belittle all forms of
American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the
ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more
emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>32. Support any socialist
movement to give centralized control over any part of the
culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health
clinics, etc. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>38. Transfer some of the powers
of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral
problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can
understand [or treat]. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>39. Dominate the psychiatric
profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive
control over those who oppose Communist goals. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>41. Emphasize the need to raise
children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute
prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive
influence of parents. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<b><span>42. Create the impression that
violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American
tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and
use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>45. Repeal the Connally reservation
so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing
jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction]
over nations and individuals alike. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">Source
Microfilm: California State University at San Jose Clark Library,
Government Floor Phone (408)924-2770 Microfilm Call Number: J 11.R5 </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix Pages A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12 </span></div>
<span class="fn"><span>Kupelian </span></span><span>stated in his article the following… </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>“Such a radical change <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">cannot</span></em> be accomplished while Americans are calm, happy, content and grateful for their blessings. Citizens <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">must</span></em>
be unhappy and stressed out. Indeed, widespread popular discontent has
always been the required fuel for leftist transformation.”</span></div>
<span>What is taking place is not by chance, it has been planned for a
long time and we see this communist / socialist plans now replacing our
American way of life…right before our eyes.</span><br />
<b><span>Where Is The Hope?</span></b><br />
<span><img alt="pslm-91" height="286" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/pslm-91.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="435" />Our hope is not in the things we do, what laws we make or people we elect.</span><br />
<span>There is only one true hope, which is Jesus Christ our Lord. </span><br />
<span> But the sad thing is that people will not turn to Him. One of
the reasons is that they have no idea who God, Jesus or what His Word
has to offer.</span><br />
<span>We as Christians have the means at or fingertips to help us
through these hard times, but how many of us really take solace is God’s
Word?</span><br />
<span>One of the greatest and most powerful chapters in God’s Word is Psalms 91.</span><br />
<span>In this one chapter alone there are great promises from God
that give us peace and I know when I read it I feel a peace within me.</span><br />
<span>This chapter has gotten me though some dark times in my life
and I know that Tracye has also leaned upon this chapter in some of her
dark times as well. </span><br />
<b><span>Psalms 91</span></b><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Psalms 91:1-16 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.</span></div>
<span>It is believed that David wrote this for Solomon, knowing that
he would be King one day. He wanted Solomon to KNOW God and that God
would be with him through thick and thin.</span><br />
<span>It is also rumored that Kings and Noblemen would read this and have it read to their troops prior to battle.</span><br />
<b><span>Lean On Him</span></b><br />
<span>No matter what takes place in this wicked world we live in, God is there for us. He will see us through. </span><br />
<span>Find that “secret place,” which I believe is being in His Will.
Once you are there, do all you can to stay there and don’t venture
away.</span><br />
<span>I know that it is hard but what we need to do is cleave to the Lord and His Word like never before. </span><br />
<span>What we are experiencing is the beginnings of the storm that so many have been talking about.</span><br />
<span>The only way to battle this is grounding yourself in Him and His Word.</span><br />
<span>We read in Romans 12 the following… </span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>2 And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</span></div>
<span> It is only through the renewing of your mind, which equates to
the study, reading and meditation of scripture that will help you stay
within God’s Will. </span><br />
<span>The more you read His Word, the more you start thinking and understanding the ways of the Lord. </span><br />
<span>Folks, there may come a time where we may not have access to the Bible. I highly recommend that you start memorizing verses. </span><br />
<span>Psalms 91 is a great chapter to memorize, it will get you through so many trials and hardships. </span><br />
<span>We are living during a time of great upheaval. The enemy truly has the high ground and we who truly love Him are the minority. </span><br />
<span>In all of this, there is opportunity, the opportunity to be a
light in the darkness for others who have lost their way. A chance to be
salt to the world who do not know of Christ and God’s gift of eternal
life. </span><br />
<span>It is through hardship that the church is purified and out of
that, many souls do come to the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span><br />
<span>We are living at a time where we need to really choose who we
will serve. I am not saying who we are giving lip service to, but heart
service. </span><br />
<span>The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. God is wanting people of action and those who really love Him.</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice
of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I; send me.</span></div>
<span>God is calling people to step out of the boat and get out on the water with Him. </span><br />
<span>You call yourself a Christian? We are coming to a point where we need to prove it.</span><br />
<span><img alt="stormoflife" height="338" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/stormoflife.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="403" />As I have said, the enemy has the high ground. His soldiers are winning the battles. </span><br />
<b><span>Faith Without Works is Dead<br /> <br /> </span></b><span>In James we read the following…</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>James 2:14-26 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>16 And one of you say unto them,
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them
not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast
faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will
shew thee my faith by my works. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>23 And the scripture was fulfilled
which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for
righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>25 Likewise also was not Rahab the
harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had
sent them out another way? </span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. </span></div>
<b><span>Conclusion</span></b><br />
<span>It is God’s Word that gives us power. Until we have God’s Word in our heart, we lack that power.</span><br />
<span>Renew our minds with His Word. Get back to really reading the scriptures and meditate on them daily. </span><br />
<span>With God’s Word working through us, we will have the courage that is needed to exercise the faith that is expected. </span><br />
<span>And then having done all, we then stand for Him.</span><br />
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span>Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto
you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the
evil day, and having done all, to stand.<br /> <br /> </span></div>
<span><b><span><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="259" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="180" /><br />By Ray Gano</span></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-53036698176450531882013-03-31T23:15:00.000-07:002013-03-31T23:15:02.948-07:00The Final Generation??? <div class="bodycontent">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img alt="finalgeneration410-200" height="210" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/finalgeneration410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="400" /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do we or do we not serve a God of logic and reason? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Well the answer is obvious, we serve a God of logic and reasoning. To confirm that all we need to do is look at His creation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If
we serve a God of logic and reason, then why do so many of us believe
in things that almost equate to being a fairytale and worse, given no
critical thought at all? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Matthew 24:34(KJV) Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Many
folks point to this verse when speaking of the last day / end times.
Some say that the countdown clock started in May 1948, others say it was
June 1967 when Israel finally took back the city of Jerusalem and won
control of the Temple mount. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Both points are promoted, but I stand upon the birth of the nation that took place in 1948. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The issue that I want to focus on is this, IF we are the final generation, then why do we bow down to the god of time?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"WHAT?? The god of time?"</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Yes, often when asked a question that is hard to answer, many people say "it is just a matter of time." </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Many
people ask, "when will the rapture take place? " Common answer is
"Well, God tells us not to set dates, but it is just a matter of time."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As
a side note, let me state right here that I am one who stands upon the
imminent return of our Lord, so please don't send me emails giving me
grief about timing and such. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There
are many out there proclaiming that there is an upcoming middle east
war and even claiming it to be a fulfillment of some of the prophecies
found in scripture. You see it in discussion forums, emails and even
some popular bible prophecy teachers newsletters and websites.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"
We will see prophecy come to pass this summer 2013, you mark my words.
And if things don't turn out, well it is just a matter of time till they
do."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Foolish Statements</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">With the election of the new Pope, we hear foolish statements like "The antichrist will be an Italian of roman catholic decent."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Or this "Russia is going to invade Israel and then we are going to get raptured out of here." </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Or
this, " a European antichrist with his forces are going to kill all the
Christians by beheading them, Revelation 20:4 tells us so."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Or this, " The coming war is the fulfillment of Psalm 83"</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Or this.. " Islam is going to be wiped out this summer in the Israel war."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do you get the idea at what I am trying to point out here?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">People are making foolish statements that have little if any biblical backing what so ever. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Often
they are thrown out there without any logic or reasoning given what so
ever. The sad thing is that I have heard some of these statements come
from the very teachers whose books we read, TV shows we watch, ect. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What's more is that you yourself have heard these sort of things out there too.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is the common theme in all of this?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If things don't work out, all of these are backed up by the god of time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">" It will happen - it is just a matter of time."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This is why I ask, are we the final generation or not? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">People
quote this verse all the time and then state something else that
completely contradicts the final generation found in Matthew 24:34.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> It is like the old Hollywood Indian saying you see in the movies.. "white man speaks with forked tongue."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, if we are the final generation then that means we are running seriously out of time. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="new-pope" height="255" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/new-pope.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="342" /></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What is the flip side of that? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
are NOT the final generation and all those bible prophecy that have
come to pass, well, all those were just chance, a winning roll of the
dice. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It is like we have become accustomed to having our cake and eating it too.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Either these things that are being taught are going to take place here soon,… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">because we are the final generation,… </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">OR they are not and we are not the final generation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In fact, let me pick on some of these statements to clarify.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"The antichrist will be Italian of roman catholic decent."</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This
is one that has been tossed around out there for a while now, and I
hate to say it, but time has just about run out on this one. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How has it run out?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Everyone can clearly see that Europe is being taken over by Muslims, this is a fact. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Based
on birthrate studies, in order for a culture to maintain itself for
more than 25 years the required fertility rate must be 2.11 children per
family. Historically a culture has never reversed a fertility rate of
1.9 children per family. AND IF the fertility rate hits 1.3, it is
impossible for that culture to reverse because it would take that
culture 80 to 100 years to correct itself. In fact there is no economic
model to sustain a culture during that time.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Let's look at the birthrate of Europe.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">France 1.8<br /> England 1.6<br /> Greece 1.3<br /> Germany 1.3<br /> Italy 1.2<br /> Spain 1.1</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Across
the European Union that consists of 31 countries, the cultural
fertility rate is 1.38. Historical research tell us that these numbers
are impossible to reverse.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="islamic-rage-boy2" height="256" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-news-watch/islamic-rage-boy2.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="468" />In just a matter of years, Europe as we know it will cease to exist.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But Europe is growing and birthrates are high. What is taking place? Immigration.. Islamic immigration. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Who are having all the children? Muslims.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Based
on the numbers and information above, I do not see some Italian guy
coming to power being backed by the catholic church when 1/3 of all
European children will be born to Muslim families by 2025.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It
is a fact that Islam will not bow to a Italian man backed by the
Catholic Church. But the Catholic Church will bow to Islam and this has
been historically proven time and again.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But what is the answer given by those who support this idea? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Just give it time, you will see. Some Italian guy from Rome will rise up, you mark my words."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Well they are dutifully marked and it is looking like they are coming up wanting. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Folks, the sands of time are running out. We do not have the luxury of time any more if we are the final generation.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do you know that most census offices worldwide utilize as the timeframe of 25 years for a generation as an average?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But we are speaking biblically here. How long is a biblical generation? <br /> <br /> Scripture says… </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Psalms
90:10 (KJV) The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and
if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In other words, the number of years people live on the average is 70, possibly 80 if they are strong and of good constitution.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To back this up, Matthew in his reciting of Christ's generations follow the Psalms 90:10 definition of a generation, 70 years.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Matthew
1:17 (KJV) So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are
fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto
Christ are fourteen generations.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Matthew
is using the Psalm 90 definitions of generation in order to tell a
specific chronological time story of our Lord Jesus Christ. So if
Matthew is using it pertaining to and qualifying our Lord, we should use
it also.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So
with all that said, and just doing simple math, 1948 70 years comes to
2018. That is approximately 5 years. Well taking into account that 2013
is 1/4 over, we have a little over 5.5 years left.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now
I do not want to get emails saying I am date setting, I am not. What I
am showing is logic and reasoning. Either we are the last generation or
we are not.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Continuing
on and looking at the birthrate of Muslims in Europe, what are the odds
of an Italian man backed by the Catholic Church coming to power,
uniting Europe as a force to rule the world in just 5.5 years?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Will Islam just sit back and let this happen? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If you say "Yes," you are kidding yourself and rejecting logic and reasoning. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The
problem is that these people who promote this idea have lost the
ability to mix fairness with objectivity and are suffering from an acute
case of "Don't confuse me with the facts my mind is made up!"</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In
other words they worship at the feet of the god of time and feel like
they have all the time in the world for their ideas to jell together. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">On the other hand, how many Muslims are looking for the Mahdi to come and establish the global one world caliphate?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Who do we as Christians look to in scripture to create a global one world government in these last days?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Think on this for a moment.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here is another one the defies logic and reasoning…</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">" A European antichrist with his forces are going to kill all the Christians by beheading them, Revelation 20:4 tells us so."</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Revelation
20:4 (KJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Like the Italian AC, this is another one that is surrounded by illogical ideas when being promoted. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In fact I produced a 10 minute video taking this topic on. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You can watch this video at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fVwv7r-Nqw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fVwv7r-Nqw</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Many
people point to the Catholic Church being the ones who will help the
Antichrist dispatch all the Christians worldwide. A majority of the
popular authors promote the idea.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="on-killing" height="366" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/on-killing.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 6px;" width="250" />I have been reading a book titled "<i> On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill In War and Society"</i> written by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This
book was written to explain a startling fact: throughout most of
military history, up until the end of World War II, the vast majority of
soldiers (between 75% and 95%) have refused to kill their fellow man. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Brigadier
General S.L.A. Marshall, who studied this phenomenon during World War
II, found that no more than 20% of soldiers would "take any part with
their weapons". </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The
interesting fact is that these results can be found throughout time and
across cultures, from Alexander the Great who lost only 700 men in
years of fighting, to tribesmen in New Guinea who remove the feathers
from their arrows before going off to war, to the soldiers at Rosebud
Creek in 1876 who fired 252 rounds for each American Indian they hit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Grossman conducted very in-depth research.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So what was happening to these soldiers? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">These
fighting men were resorting to a number of options, and I mean anything
that prevented them from having to kill their fellow man. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So what did these soldiers do? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Some
fell back to support positions running supplies, ammo, messages. Some
tended to the wounded carrying them off the battlefield. Some even
faked injury themselves and even others ran away. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In fact many just fired into the air just above the enemies heads. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In
Civil War times, conscience-stricken soldiers also had the option of
pretending to fire - that is, loading up their muskets, mimicking the
movements of a firing soldier next to them, and pretending to recoil. <br /> <br />
Do you know at Gettysburg there were over, 27,574 muskets were found on
the battlefield? Over 90% of these guns were loaded. On the average a
good soldier can load and fire a musket about 4 times in a minute. So
logically speaking the chances of these muskets representing mostly
soldiers killed JUST before they were getting ready to fire is pretty
slim. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do
you know that over 12,000 muskets were found with multiply-loads down
the barrel? In fact, at Gettysburg they found over 6,000 of them loaded
with 3-10 rounds apiece? That means that the soldier "Faked" firing the
weapon and then went through the procedure to reload the weapon. They
consciously objected to killing their fellow man. So they just went
through the paces to look like they were fighting the battle.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Clearly
this shows that among soldiers a deeply ingrained resistance to killing
is prevalent when faced with killing other human beings. But this isn't
just with soldiers, it is with man in general, he does not want to kill
his fellow man.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now what is interesting is that Grossman uses most of his book to discussing the ways in which this resistance can be overcome.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How can this take place? Simple, training and brainwashing is conducted upon the soldier.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Revelation 20:4 tells us the Christian martyrs will die, that is a fact.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But
here is what I have to ask, were are the huge number of forces that are
being trained to dispatch Christians? In fact we also need to include
Jews as well because we know that Jews will also be persecuted against
during the tribulation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How Many Will Die?</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">According
to the website adherents.com, there are 2.1 billion Christians
worldwide. This number also includes Mormons, JWs, ect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">So how many of these will go in the rapture? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Scripture gives us clues.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In
Matthew 7, which I consider one of the bibles most troubling chapters
in all of scripture, we see Christ who is speaking to Christians /
believers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Scripture says…</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Matthew
7:13-14 (KJV) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be
which go in there at: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Christ
himself tells us that there are many believers who are on the broad way
that leads to destruction. He also tells us that those who are on the
narrow way, the Lord tells us that "few there be that find it."</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now
I am not talking about losing one's salvation. I am one who stands on
if a person is saved, they cannot lose their salvation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="oprah" height="264" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/oprah.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="220" />What
is being presented in this chapter are those who claim the title, but
are not true Christians. These Christians In Name Only, or what I refer
to as C.I.N.Os.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What do I mean by that? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Simple
example, Oprah Winfrey publicly claims to be a Christian, but we
clearly see that her fruits do not show it. We cannot judge ones heart,
but based on her fruits, I would speculate that she is one of those on
the broad way.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So how many is "few there be that finds it?" </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To
be honest I don’t know, but to look at the logic of this situation
let's be fair and keep things simple and say 1 billion Christians are
raptured. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Of those who are left, again keeping it simple to explain logic let's say that 1 billion "Christians" are left behind.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We also have to remember that there are approximately 14 million Jews in the world as well.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We know based upon scripture that 2 thirds of the Jews living will be persecuted. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zechariah
13:8 (KJV) And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the
LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall
be left therein. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">That is approximately 4.6 million Jews left in the world with 9.3 million being persecuted.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My question is, who is being trained and brainwashed to kill 1 billion, nine point three million Christians and Jews worldwide? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do we see the Catholic Church stepping up to the plate to fulfill this large order? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What about other false religions out there? Maybe Mormons? What about New Agers? What about the dreaded freemasons? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here is another point to consider. Studies show that it takes approximately 2-3 people to execute one person.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now
we know for a fact that there will be Christians and Jews who do
survive the tribulation, scripture tells us of the nations who will
populate the millennial kingdom. This is a fact. So not all 1 billion,
nine point three million Christians and Jews worldwide will die. But a
good number of people will.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So again, I have to ask who is being trained to dispatch these millions of people? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">FACT
- We know that man has an aversion to killing other human beings,
Christian morals or not, that is clearly shown in the multiple military
studies conducted. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">FACT
- We also know from scripture that "beheading" will be the method of
choice so we cannot blame nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of
mass destruction. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It will be the simple "off with their head" solution.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Well Ray, the "restrainer" will be taken out so all hell will break lose." </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Good
point, but it does not negate these studies. Grossman in his book talks
about Alexander the Great who lost only 700 men in all his years and
campaigns of fighting and concurring the known world. He also
experienced the same unwillingness to kill. Alexander lived at the time
prior to the restrainer. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Folks, the unwillingness to kill our fellow man is ingrained into us. God's law is written upon all of our hearts.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Romans
1:18-19 (KJV) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; <br /> <br /> 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
know that the restrainer was not present during Alexander's time. There
are other "pre-restrainer" cases in history that back this up as well.
We also know that the law of God is known to all men because it is
written upon our hearts. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The
only way to overcome this unwillingness to kill our fellow human being,
is to be subjected to training and brainwashing. In fact the longer
that the person is exposed, the less remorse and mental trauma one will
encounter.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Knowing
that millions will die at the hands of the Antichrist and that a
generation is 70 years. Where are the masses of people being trained
today to kill their fellow man?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Last Generation?</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Remember
that based upon Psalms 90:10 a generation is 70 years. Again looking
at Israel becoming a nation in 1948 and using simple math we get the
year 2018 being the approximate end of the generation. Seeing that we
are about on quarter through 2013, that gives us approximate a little
over 5.5 year to train millions to behead and kill all those during the
tribulation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">"Well Ray, I have heard that there are guillotines all over the US in secret FEMA camps just waiting to be used." </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Again, an unwillingness to think critically or objectively. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="guillotine" height="273" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/guillotine.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="364" />If this was the case, who is the company that produced all these guillotines? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Where are they located? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Based on the statement above, they had to be shipped all over the US. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Where are the truckers to drove these guillotines all over the US? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What about the people who loaded and unloaded the guillotines from these vehicles? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What about the people who worked in the no-name factory who built these guillotines?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What
about eye witnesses of some form or fashion, or innocent bystanders
who happened to be in the right place at the right time? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The truth about a secret is that no matter what, it will not remain a secret very long specially if it is a government secret. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In
regards to this story, there are too many variables that would easily
expose the production of these guillotines taking place in this nation.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In
fact ramping up a company, training the workers and in these
financially stressful days, finding the money, stockholders, and
financial backing to achieve this as well as dispatching all those
Christians, I think 7.5 years is not enough time. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Again there are too many variables that could go wrong in keeping this a secret. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now
playing the devil's advocate, and taking the US alone, how many true
blue Americans would put up with a large number of guillotines being
produced in secret? Someone would expose this, there would be pictures
posted on facebook, videos on you tube. More proof of the company would
come out followed by investigations and then congressional hearings. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Folks,
a tool of death like the guillotine, would not go unnoticed and would
be reported to the public the moment that the company came into
existence .</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Just
look at the 9/11 conspiracy, the Obama birth certificate conspiracy or
what about the old idea that men did not land on the moon and it was
all shot on a movie sound stage? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All
these are well known, the conspiracy of guillotines all over the US is a
myth and does not have any provable facts based on logic and reasoning
to support it.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUT,
let's just entertain this idea for a moment and say it is true, you
would still need 2-3 people trained and brainwashed to kill their fellow
human being day in and day out, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week non-stop
because we are dealing with millions. Look how long it took Hitler to
kill six million Jews. We are talking at least a billion people here.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here
is another point. Our own military is trained to kill and have put into
practice these ideologies to help overcome the resistance to kill and
still they are ineffective. Look at how many of our gulf war and
Afghanistan war vets come home with post traumatic stress syndrome
because they have been trained and have killed, and yet they are still
suffering the consequences of taking another's life. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The
American fighting man and woman are some of the best trained soldiers
in the world, but what is missing is the brainwashing making killing a
part of their lives. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Scripture says… </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This is often seen as a blessing to Christian parents, but when viewed from another angle, it is seen as a curse. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="islam-kids" height="284" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/islam-kids.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="378" />Who has been training up their children to kill at such a young age? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You know and I know… Islam. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How many Muslims are there worldwide? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">According
to adherents.com, it is estimated that there are 1.5 billion Muslims.
This study was also conducted around 2001. It is believed that nearly
one-fourth of the world’s population today is Muslim. Without firm
numbers it is believed that there are more than 1.5 billion, to quite
possibly 2 billion with Islam being the fastest growing religion in the
world today.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">So
taking into account that Christians will be taken out in the rapture,
that Islam is the fastest growing religion and that many will die at the
hands of the antichrist, there is only one group of people that fit the
ability to meet Revelation 20:4 and that is Islam. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Points to consider about Islam …<span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Muslims are taught to hate Christians and Jews<br /> Muslims are taught to kill the infidel<br /> Beheading is the standard form of execution<br /> Muslims are taught from a young age to die for the cause of Islam<br /> Muslims are taught to kill for the cause of Islam</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But
here is the stickler, all the countries mentioned in scripture that are
associated to Christ's physical return are all Muslim countries and are
clearly named. There is no refuting that.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For
example , the chapters in Isaiah 13 - 29 all deal with Christ's literal
second coming and the destruction of Israel's enemies. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Isaiah 13 Burden of Babylon, <br /> Isaiah 14:24 Burden of Assyria, <br /> Isaiah 14:28 Burden against Philistia (Gaza), <br /> Isaiah 15:1 Burden of Moab, <br /> Isaiah 17 Burden of Damascus & Samaria,<br /> Isaiah 18 Burden of Ethiopia <br /> Isaiah 19 Burden of Egypt <br /> Isaiah 21:13 Burden against Arabia <br /> Isaiah 22 Burden against Jerusalem (occupied by enemy),<br /> Isaiah 23 Burden against Tyre. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All of these are Muslim counties. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In fact every time the sword of the Lord is mentioned, it is always in association to a Muslim country.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ezekiel
30:4- 5 (KJV) And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain
shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall
take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub,
and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the
sword. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
must accept the fact that Islam and the descendent of Ishmael, Esau and
Lot are the last day players. Over and over again they are mentioned by
name in scripture. Not the EU, USA, New York or Rome. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
as students of bible prophecy have forgotten that this whole situation
started in Genesis with the children of Abraham and a battle over the
promised land.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The
problem, there are many who refuse to look at the logic and reasoning.
Like many of the statements believed above, they do not want to be
bothered with the facts because their mind is made up to what they want
to believe even when it is clearly in black and white and contained in
God's Word.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conclusion</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I personally believe that we are the final generation.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If
we are the final generation as many in the bible prophecy arena are
teaching, we must contend with logic and reasoning and not fairytales. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Just because something has been taught for the last 50-100 years, does not make it so. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
are called to look down at scripture and then peer out to the horizon
to see how the world fits within scripture, not how scripture fits
within the ideas that are being taught in the world.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We as students of bible prophecy need to put away all the books of men and look at what scripture is truly teaching.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
have forgotten to go to God's Word and apply Acts 17:11 to make sure
that what is being taught holds true to scripture. But more than that,
it must adhere to logic and reasoning because our God is not a God of
confusion nor does He lie. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Therefore if it is not God who is in error, we have to ask "who is?"</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The obvious answer is man.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
need to once again learn how to think critically, with an objective
mind. We have got to stop allowing people to "spoon feed" us what they
believe we need to know and this includes me as well. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It is the Holy Spirit which teaches us and it is He who will illuminate the truth if we apply God's logic and reasoning. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
also need to come to the realization that if we are the final
generation that scripture talks about, then there are some issues at
hand that we need to contend with and not push it off to the god of
time. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
need to admit that there are things that we have once believed that do
not fit scripture as well as the timeframe given the days we are living
in. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We must come to the understanding that If scripture fits, we must submit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There
are going to be those out there who will argue the timeframe of a
generation, when did that generation begin, when will it end, ect.
Personally that does not matter, time is still time and it is ticking
down. An extra 20 or so years will not really matter if we are the final
generation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><img alt="islam-eu" height="241" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/islam-eu.gif" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="375" />Taking
into account of the Muslim demographics presented, that situation is
not changing and only some fairytale idea of all the Muslims being taken
off the earth in some miraculous event is absurd. Yes, there are folks
out there who believe that all of Islam will be destroyed. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The
fact that an event like that is not even mentioned in scripture either
except at Christ's literal second coming when He destroys the enemies of
Israel should tell you something about the idea.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Therefore
we need to decide if we are the final generation or not. If we are that
final generation, we have a limited amount of time in this generation
for things to come together logically because we serve The Omniscience
God of logic and reason. (all knowing all seeing)</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">More
importantly, we need to start holding our teachers feet to the fire and
challenge them with God's Word as well as logic and reasoning. We need
to start asking the hard questions and demand solid biblical as well as
logical answers. Not these fairytale ideas that were dreamt up some
50-100 or more years ago when Israel was not a nation. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We
need to reexamine what we have been taught with a sound mind allowing
the Holy Spirit to teach us and not the latest popular teacher with the
bestselling book. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Folks,
I hold myself up to the same scrutiny as well. If I am wrong, I am
willing to admit that I am wrong if shown from scripture to be
incorrect. I have admitted error before and I have no problem recanting
something said in error. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">But
one has to ask, how many others are out there with all their books,
DVDS, CDs, studies, TV shows on the line? How many are out there are
willing to admit that they are wrong when presented with sound logic and
reasoning in light of all their books, DVDs, CDs, ect?</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Odd
are that they will stick to the "Don't confuse me with the facts my
mind is made up! Besides, it is clearly stated in my book, CD or study
guide, so how can I be wrong?"</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If that is the answer you get, then we need to question pride being the culprit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Scripture says…</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If
we are the final generation, we have a lot of work still needing to be
done. Millions upon millions do not have any knowledge of the Lord our
God, nor the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. We no longer have
the luxury of time and must be about the Lord's Work. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUT… if we are NOT the final generation, then we have all the time in the world and can worship at the feet of the god of time. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What you need to do is ask yourself "what generation are we? </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The final generation or the one serving the god of time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>By Ray Gano</b></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-42309500415164013262013-02-28T16:41:00.000-08:002013-02-28T16:41:06.150-08:00Utter Blaspheme <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<strong><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="172" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="119" /></strong>If you have not been paying attention, things are not going to well here in the US.<br />
While Tracye and I were at the Future Congress Conference, we tried to “get a pulse” on how people felt out there.<br />
What was interesting was the general agreement. In almost everyone we
talked to, there seemed to be this cloud of foreboding hanging over the
nation, at least for those who seemed to be paying attention to what is
going on out there.<br />
Many pointed back to the elections and said that they have not “felt
right” since that time and it seemed like that “cloud” was getting
thicker and more “hopeless.”<br />
Tracye and I were visiting some friends Saturday and we were talking
about this and my friend Mike said something rather profound, at least
it was for me.<br />
He said that America has lost her blessing over night. “Just like Sampson did.”<br />
<img alt="barack-obama-painting" height="230" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/barack-obama-painting.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="399" />Wow...
The picture of Sampson asleep and being betrayed by Delilah. cutting
off all his hair, thus sealing his fate and losing his blessing from
God.<br />
That is what has happened to us here in the United States, we have
lost our blessing. God's hand of protection and favor has moved off this
land.<br />
That is the “foreboding” that we feel, well more like what we do not feel.<br />
We who are true bible believing Christians no longer feel His divine
hand over this nation and what we are feeling is the enemies oppression.<br />
I am not sure and this is pure speculation, but imagine what Sampson
must have felt when he was waking up and then realized that his
strength was gone. The blessing that was once upon him was no longer
there.<br />
Scripture says...<br />
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Judges 16:16 - 20 And it came to pass,
when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his
soul was vexed unto death;</div>
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17 That he told her all his heart, and
said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have
been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my
strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other
man.</div>
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18 And when Delilah saw that he had told
her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines,
saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then
the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in
their hand.</div>
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19 And she made him sleep upon her knees;
and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven
locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went
from him.</div>
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20 And she said, The Philistines be upon
thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as
at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD
was departed from him. </div>
Friends, we need to come to the realization that the Lord has
departed. His hand of blessing and protecction is no longer on this
land.<br />
In fact something totally bizarre has taken place. Something that I do not think has taken place for a long time.<br />
What is that?<br />
The deification of a man.<br />
If I look at all that has taken place, it is this one event that is utterly inconceivable.<br />
Since the election we have been seeing more and more talk of our current president being “The Savior” the “Second Coming.” <br />
Jamie Foxx, at the Soul Train Awards said the following..."It's like
church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor
to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama."<br />
<img alt="obama1" height="447" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-article/obama1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="334" />But that is not all...<br />
'Street vendors and souvenir stores across Washington, D.C. are
selling posters depicting President Obama as Jesus Christ — and one
national news publication called him the “Second Coming.”<br />
The poster, which does not have the official endorsement of the White
House, features an image of the president in prayer with the headline,
“Prophecy Fulfilled.”'<br />
“Barak is of Hebrew origin and its meaning is ‘flash of lightning,”
the poster notes, referencing a passage in in the Old Testament book of
Judges.'<br />
I learned that a Florida A&M professor named Barbara Thompson
published a book titled “The Gospel According to Apostle Barack.”<br />
In this book she is comparing and likens Obama to Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
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“I learned that Jesus walked the earth to
create a more civilized society, Martin (Luther King) walked the earth
to create a more justified society, but, Apostle Barack, the name he was
called in my dreams, would walk the earth to create a more equalized
society, for the middle class and working poor,” she wrote in an excerpt
published by The Daily Caller. “Apostle Barack, the next young leader
with a new cause, had been taken to the mountaintop and allowed to see
over the other side.”</div>
At the Democratic National Convention street vendors were selling an
array of products including a prayer garment embroidered with President
Obama’s name — along with a calendar that declared him “heaven sent.”<br />
Nothing like this has taken place in a very long time, hundreds if not a thousand years. The deification of a man.<br />
This alone is blasphemy and this alone calls for our nation to be
judged. Look at everything else we have been doing. Killing millions of
our babies, the unbridled hedonism, homosexuality run amok, the
lawlessness, THE RAGE.<br />
If nothing else was taking place in the United States, this alone is
so mind numbing that the consequences of this making a god-man... I
can't even imagine what is going to befall this nation.<br />
We are a nation beyond repair. We have set our course and there is no turning the ship around.<br />
We need to wake up and face this fact.<br />
What we need to do is think and pray about what we are going to do.<br />
We are now in the minority big time. How many true bible believing Christians are there here left in the United States?<br />
A million?<br />
Maybe two?<br />
If you are reading this then I would lay odds that you are part of
the remnant. That means that God has already been stirring your heart as
to what you should be doing.<br />
He has been doing the same with Tracye and I. This is one of the reasons we have been preparing for hard times ahead.<br />
Do not kid yourself, our nation is no longer the nation that many of
us grew up in. This nation has changed and is being changed for the
worse.<br />
There is no fixing it.<br />
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There is no “ waiting till the next election.”<br />
I honestly believe that this was the last one.<br />
The “other side” now has the reigns and are in full control of the electorate.<br />
Anything they want to do, any law they want to change, they will do
it and they have the voters needed behind them to make it so.<br />
The fact that this administration subverted the constitution with
over 20 executive orders regarding the second amendment, should wake you
up.<br />
I have pointed out the following...<br />
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Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.</div>
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Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.</div>
God stated this twice for a reason.<br />
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What are we going to do? Tracye and I have been praying for direction
and guidance, and we believe that God is showing us what needs to be
done. We continue to walk in faith knowing that He will show us the way.<br />
I am reminded of the following...<br />
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Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the
Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I,
Here am I; send me.</div>
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Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you
the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil
day, and having done all, to stand.</div>
We need to be willing to say “ Here am I – Send Me!”<br />
The evil day is at the doorstep, have we been “doing all” so that
when that evil day comes upon us we can say that we have truly “done
all” and then “to stand”?<br />
<strong><strong><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="172" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="119" /></strong><br /><br />By Ray</strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-3595005295080063212013-01-27T18:35:00.002-08:002013-01-27T18:35:38.809-08:00A MAJOR Answer To Our Prayer Requests<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"></span>
<img alt="pz-insider-logo-blue-border" height="154" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-logo-blue-border.jpg" style="margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" width="135" /><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">A MAJOR Answer To Our Prayer Requests</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Tracye and I wanted to report that major prayer has been answered.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">As many of you know, Tracye and I have been praying for direction for a long time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It seems that for the last couple of years we have been in what I describe as a holding pattern.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The one
thing that we knew is that where we are now was going to change; in fact
around April 2012 we felt a "releasing" of sorts. We are not ones to
just move on a whim so we have waited on God to give us clear direction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We have been checking out many areas here in the US from N Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina. We even took a trip to Belize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Because
Belize has been on our radar for so long, we had to rule it in or rule
it out. Well God let us know that Belize was not for us personally. But
that does not mean it is not right for others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">I have
been working with a ministry down there that is helping Christians
relocate, and I even know of a few PZ Insider families who have been
called to Belize and are now setting up down there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><b>A Phone Call</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We have
been asking all of you to please pray for us and that God give us
direction. Things are taking place in this nation that are absolutely
mind boggling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">I believe that things are going to get much worse before they get better.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It was about the beginning of August and I got a phone call from my good friend Gary Kah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="gary-ray-john-web" height="374" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/costa-rica/gary-ray-john-web.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="548" /></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> Gary Kah - Ray Gano - John Price</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">For those
of you who do not know, Gary is the author of several books including
the best seller "En Route To Global Occupation." We have known each
other now for about 25 years and always looked forward to the fellowship
at conferences and such.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Gary and
his wife have been working pretty hard with speaking engagements all
over the US and even in Europe. But something came up and Gary had to
have an operation on his shoulder. That meant a lot of down time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So they
took advantage of this and saw it as the Lord telling them to take a
much needed sabbatical. So they packed up their bags and headed south.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">That is when I got the phone call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">"Hey
Ray -- This is Gary, can you guess where we are… Costa Rica!! You have
got to come down here, it is incredible, God is doing some incredible
things."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So Tracye and I prayed about it and asked God to help us go visit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">As many of you may know who are linked into our <strong><a href="http://prophezine.com/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=1962&mailid=706&subid=7" target="_blank">Facebook</a></strong>, this past September we went down to Costa Rica and we were very pleased.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">But what
is interesting is that not only was Gary Kah there, we found out that
John Price, author of "The End of America" just recently relocated down
there.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="cr-home-1" height="313" hspace="5" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/costa-rica/cr-home-1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="418" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><b>The Big News? Prophezine is Moving To Costa Rica</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We believe that God is calling us to Costa Rica and He has opened the doors for us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">With this relocation, Me and Tracye see our work here at Prophezine actually expanding.</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Just
so you know, nothing is going to change, PZ Insider Report, PZ News
Watch, PZ Survival News will still go out like clockwork.</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In fact because we are there, I believe that we will have a little more of a "free voice" to report on things that we observe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">One thing
I would like to put back on the front burner is getting PZ Radio back
up and running with a focus again on Preaching, Teaching and looking at
what is going on Globally. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">
It is my desire to see Prophezine become a voice of encouragement to
"The Remnant" not only in the US but an encouragement globally.
Christians will need it in the coming days.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><b>God Has Opened Up a Home and a Vehicle To Us</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">God has
paved the way so that we can rent a 2 bedroom house, but that is not
all. He has provided a car that we can purchase at a very good price.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We say
that "He paved the way" because our new landlord loves the Lord and is a
Christian also. She has been praying for a good family to move into her
home, and she has been trying to rent it for over a year. She told us
if we were not the ones, she would finally take it off the market and
accept it is not in His will to rent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So it is neat to see when we ourselves are an answer to someone else's prayers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Again that is just half of it, He also provided a car so we can get around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Our new landlord had a car and we just happen to ask her if it was for sale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="cr-home-2" height="356" hspace="5" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/costa-rica/cr-home-2.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="475" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">She
told us that she brought it back from the US and really did not drive
it much. She gave me the key and I started poking around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The more I
looked, the more I noticed that this car was hardly driven. I finally
checked the mileage and I could not believe what I saw. Only 36,000.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">So we asked her the price and she came back with $6500.00.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Tracye
and I could not believe what we were hearing. See, in Costa Rica you
cannot pick up a reliable, low mileage, never been in an accident , well
taken care of car for under $10K.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This was a HUGE answer to prayer for us and the second big thing that we asked God to do if He wanted us down there.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><b>More Details To Come</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Somehow the rumor mill is already churning and we are getting emails about this relocation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In the coming days and weeks we are going to be putting out more details like…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- The many reasons WHY we are relocating</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- How we are getting down to Costa Rica</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- Prophezine's role in supporting "The Remnant" both in the US and abroad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- Getting Residency in Costa Rica</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- Cost of living in Costa Rica vs here in Texas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- What other ministries are doing and how we are getting involved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- What is going on in other countries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- Prophezine's role in reaching even more people for Christ globally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">- How PZ Insiders can benefit with us in Costa Rica</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In His Service,</span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> Ray & Tracye Gano</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> Prophezine</span><br />
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<img alt="rainbow-costa-rica-web" height="625" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/costa-rica/rainbow-costa-rica-web.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 5px auto;" width="592" /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This is a picture of the hills outside of Grecia or Sarchi Costa Rica</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">photo by Tracye Gano</span></center>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-67602953240460248912012-12-18T19:06:00.003-08:002012-12-18T19:06:19.571-08:00THE RAGE <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="the-rage-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/the-rage-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" /></span></b>I hate to say this but… things are going to get worse.<br />
There are times that being a watchman on the wall is not to fun.<br />
Right now is one of those times.<br />
Here it is the Christmas season, but what is weird is that it sure does not feel like Christmas.<br />
In fact, is it me or does there seem like some cloud of impending doom hanging over everyone's head.<br />
Tracye and I were talking about it on the way home from church.<br />
She was mentioning that there just seems to be something "not right."<br />
Usually during this time people are a little more happier, patient, loving and kind.<br />
This year, nothing.<br />
Watching the black Friday chaos was crazy in and of itself. People trampling other people just for an iPad.<br />
In our discussion I mentioned that I started to feel it the day after
the election. In fact since the election I have maintained some mild
form of the funk / impending doom and have not been able to shake that
feeling.<br />
Tracye, the same thing. Just a weird hollow feeling.<br />
Neither of us can call it "depression." Well maybe the day after the
election we could. But now that we are in December and the election is
over, that post election doldrums are not effecting me anymore.<br />
This is something different.<br />
Now something kind of happened this weekend that is interesting.<br />
Then it came to me.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>The Rage</b></span></div>
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I was sitting at my computer doing my
typical scanning of the news seeing what was going on, reading my email
and having my morning coffee.</div>
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Then it hit me.</div>
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<img alt="the-rage-evil-world" height="311" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/the-rage-evil-world.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="415" />What we are witnessing, what we feel building, that impending doom… it is THE RAGE</div>
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We have all been feeling it.</div>
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When ”The Rage" started to surface, it
was an isolated instance here and there. No one was really paying
attention to it, that is unless you are a watchman on the wall.</div>
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What was weird is that it wasn't till sometime last week when "The Rage" really "popped up" on my radar.</div>
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Yes all of us knew that we are living in the last days and perilous time shall come.</div>
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But to finally put a "name" to what it
is I have been feeling, I felt like one of those pieces in the prophetic
puzzle just dropped into place.</div>
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Think about it for a moment.</div>
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For the past few years it seemed that
the "air" has been getting thicker and thicker. So much so that one
could almost cut it with a butter knife.</div>
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It was thick enough that people knew something was up, but they could not put their finger on it.</div>
Last week I put out an article titled "Dec 21, 2012 - The Day The Crazies Come Out"<br />
If you have not read the article, you can read it here > <a href="http://tinyurl.com/the-crazies-come-out"><span></span></a><a href="http://tinyurl.com/the-crazies-come-out">http://tinyurl.com/the-crazies-come-out</a><br />
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A few days later this headline shocked the nation.</div>
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"At Least 28 Dead in Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School"</div>
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<span>As you
probably know, a deranged "shooter" shot his own mother, then stole her
car and took some of his mother's guns. He then drove it to a local
school where he forced himself into the school "like a mad man" and
killed over 28 people, most of which were children.</span></div>
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<span>Wow… that did not take long, the crazies are starting to come out.</span></div>
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<span><img alt="woman crying on cell phone" height="247" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/woman%20crying%20on%20cell%20phone.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 55px;" width="364" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Internet lights up with a buzz of speculation and finger pointing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Why would anyone do that? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">What would be the cause? </span></div>
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It was reported that the shooter wrote he was hoping that Dec 21 was the end of the world. He wanted the world to die.</div>
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The day after the shooting I was surfing around on Facebook and noticed a post from one of my readers.</div>
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It was one of those 3D Technicolor posts</div>
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Now some of you may know what I am
talking about when I say that this was one of those 3D Technicolor
posts. It is some article or something that jumps off the page and
totally catches your attention.</div>
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I remember it clearly because the light bulb started to go off.</div>
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A piece of the puzzle identified itself and clues started to make sense.</div>
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Here is what I read… (note - names and places have been changed in respect the identity)</div>
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Second time in two
weeks we've been crime victims in Huntsville. Both times, at the hands
of an entitlement minded ... ahem... 'person' who thought we 'owed'
them.</div>
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Last night, Mapletreet Mall. Woman cuts us off when we're waiting for a parking space.</div>
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Actually pulled up
close enough behind us that we couldn't back up enough to let the guy
out of his space, then she lays on her horn to prove she's not going to
move, and we had been sitting there waiting for the guy to get in his
car.</div>
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Jack gets out, asks her why she did it. No answer, just an angry 'you owe me' stare.</div>
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So, without another word, Jack gets back in the car, we go find another parking spot.</div>
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Then, the witch shows up, says she's 'taking down our numbers' and that 'her boyfriend is on his way to come 'kick your a**!".</div>
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Kid you not, threatens us and everything.</div>
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We walked away, went to find the security guard, he walks out with us, woman is gone.</div>
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He said, 'this happens all the time, they're getting worse and worse around here'.</div>
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We come out later, you guessed it, the witch keyed our vehicle...</div>
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Whatever happened to
treating others better than yourself? I've had to honestly, 'pray for
those who despitefully have used me'...over and over the last few
weeks...and months.</div>
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God help us...We're a sad nation to live in these days... It used to be better in this country.</div>
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This was a turning point for me.</div>
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There was something here that I could not really put my finger on.</div>
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Then of a sudden it popped into my head.</div>
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The Rage.</div>
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But that is not all, there was another piece of information, something there.</div>
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See, I don't know about you, but when
something like this happens, it kind of burns a place in the ol memory
banks and I start doing what I call "chewing on it."</div>
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I am sure that you have done something like this also in the past.</div>
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There was some sort of information, or
something that you kept thinking about way back in the back of your
mind. At times your subconscious is thinking about it, analyzing it,
breaking it down, sectoring it up into pieces so that you can zone in on
that speck of information.</div>
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A lot of times you do not even realize you are thinking about it, but you are.</div>
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Then all of a sudden, the light bulb goes off.</div>
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What went off in my head? …. Noe as in Noah and the ark.</div>
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<b> <img alt="the-rage-night terror1" height="348" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/the-rage-night_terror1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="423" /></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>As in The Days of Noe</b></span></div>
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After all that chewing these past few days, that was the light bulb.</div>
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"The days of Noe."</div>
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What did the Days of Noe have to do with what happened to my reader in the parking lot as well as the shooting in Connecticut?</div>
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Matthew 24:37 KJV But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</div>
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Let me explain how I was feeling at that moment. Some of you know this because you are watchmen also.</div>
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Imagine that I gave you a single piece to a 1000 piece puzzle.</div>
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Let's say that the puzzle was a picture
of a lake in the Swiss alps surrounded by trees and those cute little
Swiss homes you see in all those picture post card.</div>
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Your single piece of the puzzle has some
green on it, but you really can't tell if it is grass or trees, and
also specks of grey, which could be any part of the lake edge or sides
of the mountain.</div>
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Looking at that one single piece out of a 1000, can you say where it goes exactly?</div>
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One might after a very long time of
studying the picture for a few months, but even then, unless you have
other pieces to go off of, you really do not know where that one piece
of the puzzle goes and does it fit or not.</div>
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So here is a puzzle piece that you hold up and shout " I HAVE IT!"</div>
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Then it dawns on you at the same time
that you really do not know what you have except a piece of a 1000 piece
puzzle and you have no idea where it fits within that 1000 pieces.</div>
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But you know that piece of the puzzle is something important.</div>
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What you need is more pieces so that the picture of the puzzle starts to take shape.</div>
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My puzzle is called "The Rage" and that more and more pieces of the puzzle are starting to show up.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Christ Warns Us…</b></span></div>
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Two days before Christ was to be
crucified, He and the 12 disciples sat upon the mount of Olives. His
disciples asked Him the following…</div>
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Matthew 24:3 KJV And
as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?</div>
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Christ responded to them and He spoke
about a number of signs that would take place. All of which would take
place during a certain generation. It was during what is called "The
Olivette Discourse" that a specific prophetic warning would be issued.</div>
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Matthew 24:37 KJV But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</div>
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It is the Olivette Discourse that Christ gave to help people recognize the time of His second coming.</div>
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What is interesting is that because
Christ speaks of Noe / Noah and the Great Flood, He is verifying it as a
historical fact and not a made up story as many like to portray it as.</div>
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In this He is also reminding people of the evil wickedness that took place during that time and how God handled it.</div>
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But something that is often overlooked
is that He is also encouraging us to study closely the characteristics
of the days before the Flood, because these would also characterize the
days just before His return.</div>
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The first great age of human history was brought to its climax in the days of Noah.</div>
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Everyone that Noah knew was also his
relative in one way or another. It is even speculated that due to the
very long life spans that man lived during this time, Noah might have
met his great great grandfather, Adam.</div>
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Again, this is speculation. But it shows you that there is a lot about that age that we do not think about.</div>
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<img alt="the-rage-nephilim1" height="318" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/the-rage-nephilim1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="480" />It was during this age also that sin was introduced into the world.</div>
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Eve was tempted to doubt the word of God
by Satan. If you remember, Satan, in the form of a serpent uttered
these words to her "hath God said?"</div>
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Genesis 3:1 Now the
serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God
had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?</div>
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From that very first bite of the apple
the true ugliness of man was born and passed on in the life of Cain. He
was the world first liar and murder, something else we do not often
think about.</div>
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It was out of Cain's rebellion to God that a godless civilization came about.</div>
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It was through his descendants that man
fell into cesspool of wickedness and corruption that even the most
imaginative person today is sickened in an attempt to grasp the
magnitude of how far man fell into sin.</div>
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Sin and the fall of man was so bad that
even God was grieved to His core. He actually regretted making and
putting man upon the earth.</div>
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Genesis 6:5-6 And
GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.</div>
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6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.</div>
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The Rage was at its height at that time.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Another Piece of The Puzzle Drops Into Place</b></span></div>
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Ok, this is where things start to get out on a limb.</div>
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But I am reminded of the following quote by Stonewall Jackson…</div>
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"truth trampled to the ground is still the truth"</div>
Today PZ Insider Kip posted the following to our PZ Forum…<br />
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"Is this zombie attack going to be real or something made up? Zombies should be fiction like, come on."</div>
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Yep, when I saw the email come in, the light bulb went off… jumped off the screen in 3D Technicolor.</div>
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Now I want to say that I do not believe
in the walking dead. But I cannot say with 100 percent authority that it
could not happen.</div>
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But we cannot rule out the demonic
possession of a body near death, or someone who has opened themselves up
to full demonic possession. History and lore are full of stories from
ages past. "The truth trampled into the ground is still the truth."</div>
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Now why did this jump off the page to me?</div>
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Because for some unknown reason, I have
been researching this topic and the possibility of throngs of utterly
insane people doing unimaginable things in mass.</div>
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Again, look at this past week's shooting
as well as the rise in horrendous crime not only here in the US, but
all over the world.</div>
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<img alt="the-rage-man-stabs-kids" height="265" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/the-rage-man-stabs-kids.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="354" />Did you catch this headline a few days ago?</div>
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<b>Man Stabs 22 Children At Chinese Elementary School</b></div>
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BEIJING (AP) — A man
wielding a knife wounded 22 children and one adult outside a primary
school in central China as students were arriving for classes on Friday,
the police said.</div>
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The attack, in the
village of Chengping in Henan Province, happened shortly before 8 a.m.,
said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is
located.</div>
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The attacker, Min
Yingjun, 36, was subdued by security guards and taken into custody by
the police, said the officer, who declined to give her name, which is
customary among Chinese civil servants. Guards have been posted at
schools across China after a spate of attacks in recent years. (1)</div>
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Now, gettting back to what PZ Insider Kip said…</div>
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"Is this zombie attack going to be real or something made up? Zombies should be fiction like, come on."</div>
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Remember what took place in Florida over the summer?</div>
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<b>'Cannibal' shot dead for eating homeless man's face</b></div>
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A naked Miami man
was shot dead after being found eating another man's face on a highway
off-ramp in a drug-induced rage. Rudy Eugene, who authorities suspect
may have been high on a dangerous new street drug known as "bath salts,"
had to be shot four times by a police officer to halt the cannibalistic
attack. (2)</div>
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I saw this story and was amazed at what was taking place in the world.</div>
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Could this really be happening?</div>
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Yes it was, but when it did, I did not know it was The Rage yet, but I knew it was some turning point.</div>
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But this was just one of the first cases to come about.</div>
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As the months progressed, we would hear more of these types of stories.</div>
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Some were blamed on drugs, some others
alcohol induced stupors, others just out and out crazies caught gnawing
on people that they have attacked.</div>
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But it wasn't just here, it was also starting to appear all over the world.</div>
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<b>Mob Killings and Cannibalism in The Congo</b></div>
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Right by the bodies,
people were walking around with bottles of alcohol in their hands
[another witness reports some present were on drugs]. When we got there,
a young girl asked us: “Do you want me to show you what we do with
criminals who come here?” Another girl insisted: “Yes, go on, show
them!”, and, egged on by the group of people around her, the first girl
bit into a piece of burnt human flesh.</div>
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We had already
heard, as we made our way to the scene, that people had been eating
these corpses. When we got there, people could speak of nothing else -
the fact that angry residents had eaten pieces of dead bodies during the
night [FRANCE 24 does not have footage from that night, but we do have
footage that shows decapitated dead bodies]. And it’s not the first time
this has happened after a mob killing. (3)</div>
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Most people don’t believe something can
happen until it already has. It isn't stupidity or weakness, that’s just
human nature. It is something called the "Normalcy Bias" and it effects
just about everyone.</div>
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<img alt="the-rage-the walking dead2" height="346" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/the-rage-the_walking_dead2.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 5px auto;" width="613" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>What is the "Normalcy Bias"?</b></span></div>
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The normalcy bias,
or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a
disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a
disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in
situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and
on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in
its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of
the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it
never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope
with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have
difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before.
People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way
possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious
situation.(4)</div>
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When you are a watchman, you see the "Normalcy Bias" more often than not.</div>
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People don't want to believe what is
happening. They would rather bury their heads in the sand and just
forget it all. We watchmen even do it ourselves.</div>
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What we need to understand is that this problem was not going away, in fact it was growing.</div>
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This isn't some "B" horror flick that
was playing on Saturday afternoon "Creature Features", this was real
life and it is starting to get worse. </div>
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Remember the guy who ate off the face of the homeless guy? You remember what they blamed that action on?</div>
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Yea, "Bath Salts," a new synthetic drug
that you can purchase at just about any smoke shop or gas station that
was on the wrong side of town.</div>
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Was "bath salts" the culprit?</div>
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No, but it did have a very minor part to play in all of it?</div>
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Possibly.</div>
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Was it a sole cause?</div>
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No, it was just one of many paths that The Rage took.</div>
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The wonderful thing about the Internet is you can find out just about anything, if you know where to look and how deep to dig.</div>
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There are days I thank Al Gore for inventing this wonderful world of information…. Yea right.</div>
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Remember that 1000 piece puzzle of the Swiss alps? Well what is the first thing you do when you start putting a puzzle together?</div>
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You find the edges. The edges are the
beginning of the picture. Once you have the edges in place, pieces start
to fall into place.</div>
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That is what is happening here.</div>
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The pieces are beginning to fall into place.</div>
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The picture is starting to form, but see through a glass dimly.</div>
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It has been building ever so slowly, but now it seems to be picking up speed.</div>
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The Rage is out there, but I am not the only one noticing it.</div>
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<b><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="259" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="180" /><br /><br />By Ray Gano</b></div>
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<strong>Endnotes</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">1 - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world/asia/man-stabs-22-children-in-china.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world/asia/man-stabs-22-children-in-china.html?_r=0</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">2 - <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/miami-face-eating-attack-lasted-18-agonizing-minutes/story?id=16458696">http://abcnews.go.com/US/miami-face-eating-attack-lasted-18-agonizing-minutes/story?id=16458696</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">3 - <a href="http://observers.france24.com/content/20121214-hellish-scenes-mob-killings-cannibalism-dr-congo-">http://observers.france24.com/content/20121214-hellish-scenes-mob-killings-cannibalism-dr-congo-</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">4- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias</a></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Rage is Growing - The Rage is Here</span></strong></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-37622191222968413272012-12-13T20:07:00.001-08:002012-12-13T20:07:40.498-08:00Life Under Hitler? Yes, We Are That Close <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img alt="life-under-hitler-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/life-under-hitler-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" /></span></b>With
the huge win from the current administration and the clear
understanding that the electoral college is now dominated by one party, I
honestly believe that this was our last election.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you know that the current administration won with the lowest approval rate ever?</span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you notice that the President
really did nothing to campaign per sey or was very laxidasical about it?
In fact, I was talking to a PZ Insider from England and he stated that
it almost appeared to him that the President "gave up" and knew he was
going to lose.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, he didn't give up. I honestly believe that he knew that he was going to win no matter what.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The following is a post from the Ulsterman website quoting Valerie Jarrett …</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span>The part that really stuck out to me was when I overheard the rep say that Jarrett told them, <br /> <br />
“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone
not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t
forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us
will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress
won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after
this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” <br /> <br /> She was
talking directly to about three of them. Sr. staff. And she wasn’t
trying to be quiet about it at all. And they were all listening and
shaking their heads and smiling while she said it. Pretty creepy.</span></em><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Valerie
Jarrett is Obama's most Senior Advisor, and in fact the scuttlebutt at
the Whitehouse is that her office is the brains behind the
administration.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jarrett made this statement on Nov 1, a few days prior to the election.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prophetic? I don't think so. I believe she already knew something and that they had the election in the bag at the get go.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Something that people are starting to take notice of is that this
administration likes to release information just before a holiday or
late Friday afternoon so that they can have a weekend to observe what
the reaction is.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This memo, National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for
Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs , was released the day before
Thanksgiving on Nov 21, 2012.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What this memo does is lay out the guidelinesfor executive agencies to establish “effective insider threat programs.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In other words, They have now put rules in place to keep an eye on possible insider whistleblowers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Here’s what the relatively short memo said (Note: Emphasis added):</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>This
Presidential Memorandum transmits the National Insider Threat Policy
and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs
(Minimum Standards) to provide direction and guidance to promote the
development of effective insider threat programs within departments and
agencies <strong>to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security</strong>. These threats encompass <strong>potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or the Nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information</strong>,
including the vast amounts of classified data available on
interconnected United States Government computer networks and systems.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The
Minimum Standards provide departments and agencies with the minimum
elements necessary to establish effective insider threat programs. These
elements include the capability to <strong>gather,
integrate, and centrally analyze and respond to key threat-related
information; monitor employee use of classified networks; provide the
workforce with insider threat awareness training</strong>; and protect the civil liberties and privacy of all personnel.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The resulting insider threat capabilities <strong>will strengthen the protection of classified information</strong>
across the executive branch and reinforce our defenses against both
adversaries and insiders who misuse their access and endanger our
national security.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So you want to rule the world and put things in place to be able to
do so? First thing you do is make just about any information about your
agency be "classified." This way people have to jump through hoops to
get access to that information and by the time they do, it is to late
and has been implemented or the information is out of date.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="adolf-hitler" height="525" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/adolf-hitler.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="375" />Another thing is eliminating insiders who will see said information and then blow the whistle on you.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That is what this memo in essence has done.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More and more there are things being put into place that is eroding our freedoms and strengthening the powerbase.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like it or not, we are repeating history, specifically the pre-WWII Germany's history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>America's Holocaust? </b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, it is going on and has so for some
while. What makes this administration different is that it is the most
extreme pro-abortion president ever to seek reelection. He was also the
most pro-abortion member of Senate and the most pro-abortion legislator
to serve in either house of congress.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> The business of killing
our own babies is reminiscent to that of the Nazi campaign of
dehumanizing the Jews to justify their brutal treatment. Since they were
able to do that to the Jews, they then were able to dehumanize any
group of people that resisted and spoke out against the Nazi regime.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What people often do not realize is that
over 11 million people died at the hands of the Nazi's. 6 Million of
them were Jews the others were bible believing Christians, Catholics and
others who were in resistance to Hitler and his treatment of the Jews.
There were also a small number of malcontents that Hitler wanted done
away.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eugenics and Euthanasia Under Hitler</b></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Regime was also obsessed with eugenics and later it was discovered, euthanasia.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The official definition of eugenics is as follows….</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">The</span> <span style="color: #333333;">study</span> <span style="color: #333333;">of</span> or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human <span style="color: #333333;">species</span> <span style="color: #333333;">or</span> a human population, especially by such means as discouraging <span style="color: #333333;">reproduction</span> by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have <span style="color: #333333;">inheritable</span> <span style="color: #333333;">undesirable</span> <span style="color: #333333;">traits</span> <span class="secondary-bf">(negative eugenics) </span> or <span style="color: #333333;">encouraging</span> <span style="color: #333333;">reproduction</span> <span style="color: #333333;">by</span> <span style="color: #333333;">persons</span> <span style="color: #333333;">presumed</span> to have inheritable desirable <span style="color: #333333;">traits</span> <span class="secondary-bf"><span style="color: #333333;">(positive</span> <span style="color: #333333;">eugenics)</span> (1)</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most popular way to "discourage" those that they deemed having the undesirable inheritable traits was to kill them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The official definition of euthanasia is as follows…</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Also called mercy killing. the act of
putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding
extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an
incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. painless death.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was common practice to have elderly
or mentally handicapped people be taken away to "hospitals" so that they
can be "better cared for." Months later a letter would come letting the
next of kin know that the person died unexpectedly and that the
government has taken the responsibility of the disposing of the body for
the benefit of the family and not wanting to cause any hardship.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Nazis actively worked towards
assuming power over Germany with the goal of allowing only the most
desirable human beings to reproduce.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obama's appointment of John Holdren as his <span>Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy</span> (or more informally, "Science Czar") shows that there is a eugenicist agenda.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> Michelle Malkin published an anonymous Internet sleuth findings on John Holdren, Obama appointment as "science czar". (2)</span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is his findings…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">These
ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put
forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director
of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant
to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — informally
known as the United States’ Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored
in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country
wrote that:</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>•
The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs
intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>•
Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from
them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>•
People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables)
“can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in
other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>•
A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global
economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives —
using an armed international police force.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>This guy took these ideas right out of the Nazi SS play book.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can a U.S. President possibly appoint such a person to an office
in the White House? That is unless he feels the same way. People tend to
surround themselves with like minded people.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is just one example. Hiter had Josef Mengele, this administration has Holdren.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="change-ledrrs" height="395" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/change-ledrrs.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 5px auto;" width="604" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Socialism is Socialism and is ALWAYS to the left</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It has become a popular misconception in 90% of the lay people today
that Nazism is an "extreme right wing" political movement. What people
do not understand is that the word "Nazi" is an abbreviation for the
"National <b><i>Socialist</i></b> German Workers Party."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Socialism and Communism is always from the left and one step away from communism.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were socialist. The current administration is also socialist and communist to the core.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What people need to understand is that under socialism / communism millions upon millions have died.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The horrors inherent in socialism have made themselves all too well
known and yet people still do not seem to grasp what is going on here.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Warfare and bloodshed is the soul of socialist ideology and its adherents.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If someone disagrees with you and your socialist plan, there is a simple solution, kill them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Socialism is socialism. There is no difference and the outcome is always the same. The current administration's <span>socialism</span> is the exact same that made Adolf Hitler so evil.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">President Obama's unprecedented assumption of powers to himself and
his office is remarkably and frighteningly similar to Adolf Hitler's
rise to power in Germany.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obama has already suspended <i>habeas corpus</i> (with the help of
George W Bush who laid the groundwork) by claiming the right of
indefinite detainment of potential terrorists <span>without<i> charges</i></span>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This occurred very shortly after his Department of Homeland Security
issued two reports (3) labeling Bible believing Christians, Veterans,
supporters of Ron Paul, believers in certain amendments of the
Constitution, those who promote devolution of Federal power to the
states, and those who hold to Pro-Life beliefs as <span>potential terrorists</span>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These people, now deemed as potential terrorists, can now can be rounded up and detained without charges legally.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How long will it be till the next of kin get a notice that their
family member died unexpectedly and for the good of the family, the body
has already been disposed of.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="obama-hitler-purple" height="335" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-insider-reports/obama-hitler-purple.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 6px auto;" width="510" /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hitler did the same thing and it all falls within the standard operation procedures of Socialism and Communism.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are now living under an administration where the rule of law will
be implemented by executive orders, making Congress irrelevant.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hard core socialism and communism that were once driven underground
in many places around the world have now resurfaced with a vengeance
here in the United States. But that is not all, they have now taken
over.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One has to wonder how long we will still have freedom of speech, movement, assembly, and control of our private property?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those who stand on Biblical Christian faith have been made out to be
second class citizens and now churches who stand on God's Word will be
driven underground. When this happens it will allow the forces of evil,
humanism, secularism, hedonism, socialism, communism to prosper among
the millions of Americans whose only god is their material possessions,
their entertainment and pleasure.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The American people are being made into slaves. The welfare-dependent
Americans (over half of the US population today, with over 47 million
on food stamps), unions, and illegal aliens have chosen for the rest of
us the dark path of serfdom to big government and to socialist utopia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which, will always end up as every socialist / communist utopia ends up…. It massive bloodshed.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The days of Hitler are not far off and in fact are a whole lot closer than we may believe.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="170" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="118" /><br /><br />By Ray Gano</b></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Endnotes</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1- <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eugenics">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eugenics</a></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2- <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/10/the-ghoulish-spirit-of-margaret-sanger-lives/">http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/10/the-ghoulish-spirit-of-margaret-sanger-lives/</a></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 - <a href="http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/12/homeland-security-document-targets-most-conservatives-and-libertarians-in-the-country/">http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/12/homeland-security-document-targets-most-conservatives-and-libertarians-in-the-country/</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-22849473309651749732012-11-28T17:42:00.003-08:002012-11-28T17:42:56.962-08:00The Shaking To Come - Our Talks in Costa Rica <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><img alt="shaking-nation-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/shaking-nation-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" /></span></b>As
some of you know, we went down to Costa Rica for several reasons, but
one of the main reason was to meet with some other watchman ministries.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I want to thank several of you who helped us with this as well as
some of the ministries who also helped make the way for us to go down.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While we were down there we had a good time, made new friends and re-established relationships.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tracye pointed out that God really blessed us weather wise. October
is usually the wettest month of the year and yet, we really did not have
much rain except in the evenings. What is interesting is that the day
we left, it started to rain all day. But when we were in the different
towns we were visiting, barely any rain at all; in fact we had some of
the most beautiful spring like weather one could have.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When we met up with our watchmen friends, God really blessed that
time as well. We had some good quality time to talk about what is going
on, specifically in the US. We talked about other things going on in the
world, but the US seemed to be the topic that we kept coming back to.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One thing that came out of this meeting is something that was obvious, we are no longer a good nation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead of standing for truth and what is right, we are defending
political wars. Wars dealing with power, greed and shedding of innocent
blood and viewing that as just "casualties of war."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We no longer defend the innocent and the bloodshed of the innocent runs deep.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We as a nation have lost our moral and spiritual barring. We have
forgotten to be good and because of that we are no longer great.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="alarm" height="274" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/alarm.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="394" />Instead of doing what is right, we continue to taunt God with our sin and rebellion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I have to ask, is this anything new to you who are watchmen?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No, not really. It just hammers it home again and confirms what God
has been impressing upon those of us who are watchmen. If you are
reading this, you are probably shaking your head yes as well.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes being a watchman is not the job we wished we had. But it is the job God has appointed us to do.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With it comes responsibility, which most of the time is not a
welcomed one. We are the ones who are called to warn the people. Because
if we do not warn them, the blood of the innocent is on our hands. So
we must warn and shout it from the roof tops so all can hear. Only then
can we say we did our job of warning the people.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But we believe that the time of warning is coming to a close and God is starting to make His move upon this nation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But that is not all.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Something else that kept coming up, was that there seems to be a noose that is tightening around our nation's neck.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our historic enemies are surrounding us, and we the people do not care.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our enemies see us as a long awaited prize waiting to be plucked and taken over.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">America, like ancient Israel has been called to repent. Over and over again God has given us warning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Saved and unsaved disregard the warnings even when it is right before their eyes. They still refuse to repent and submit to God.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am not a prophet and I am not claiming some prophetic word either.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What I have done, is just been a good Berean and gone to God's Word and sought out examples from the past.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are clearly there, you just have to read and study.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">King Solomon once stated that there is nothing new under the sun.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Man will continue to repeat himself and his poor decisions that he
makes. He will repeat his sinful history over and over again. This is a
fact and today we see it taking place right before our eyes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like ancient Israel, our enemies are beginning to surround us and we still do not give heed to this warning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="putin-nukes" height="254" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/putin-nukes.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="361" />Russia conducted major nuclear tests. Did the people care? No, in fact the news was barely even reported.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Russian bombers enter US airspace, do we care?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Russian Subs have been found to be patrolling in the Gulf of Mexico, do we care?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our nation is being eroded from within due to our sin, hedonism and selfishness. Do we care?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our historical enemy Islam is growing like a cancer in our own nation, do we care?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">China holds debt over our heads as a weapon, do we care?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When faced with all of this what is our response?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Let's eat and drink and be merry; for tomorrow we die!"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AKA… Party Hardy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sound familiar?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am reminded of the book of Isaiah. In it the prophet tells the
people that God is calling the people to repentance. This was at a time
when Jerusalem was surrounded.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What was interesting is that the people did not care that they were going to die.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scripture says…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 22:12 - 13 And in that day did the
Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness,
and to girding with sackcloth:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying
oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and
drink; for tomorrow we shall die.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our nation is reflecting what once took place in Ancient Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God is the same yesterday, today and forever.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When a nation turns from God, the outcome will always be the same;
and yet people refuse to heed the warning and continue to buck against
God.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God will send warnings trying to get the attention of the people.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="tower2-9-11" height="300" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/tower2-9-11.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="400" />As
I have stated before I believe that 9-11, the financial fall of 2008 as
well as other events were warnings from God calling our nation to
repentance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Christian and non Christian alike refuse to acknowledge it. They make
excuses, drum up lies, say good times are ahead of us, God's blessing
our nation, etc., etc., etc.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, this is the same thing that ancient Israel did when the Assyrian king Sennacherib laid siege Jerusalem.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They refused to listen to the warnings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 30:9 - 11 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 Which say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like the days back then, so are the days today.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We The People do not want to hear about our sin and the need to
repentance. The churches today preach a "God is love", a sugar coated,
false prosperity message that leads to hell and damnation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The overall message coming out of many pulpits today is… "Oh, we
don't want to offend the people. They don't need to hear about hell and
damnation. We just want happy people giving to our building fund and our
TV programs and our other efforts so that everyone feels warm and fuzzy
all over."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While I was down in Costa Rica visiting with the other watchmen, God
inspired upon me that He is getting ready to really shake this nation to
the core.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like ancient Israel, I do not think that we are going to repent.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As much as I like to quote and have hope in 2 Chronicles 7:14, I
don't think we will come to that, at least not in the near future.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The price and consequences of our sin and rebellion has caught up with us.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I explained what we are facing and the other watchmen agreed. They have seen the writing on the wall too.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We were talking and we called what we believe is about to transpire. We dubbed it "The Shaking."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> "The Shaking" What We Will Soon Be Facing</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I and others believe that the time of mercy is over. God has given
our nation chance after chance to repent and all we have done is spit in
His face.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As with ancient Israel which God shook, we too will go though our
time of shaking our nation to its core. It is God's way of trying to get
our attention.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are just some of those things I believe what God will use to shake this nation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><img alt="fiscal cliff" height="255" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/fiscal_cliff.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="341" />The Financial Cliff </b>-
starting Jan 1 this nation will face some major financial cuts and
major rise in taxes across the board. This will take its toll on
millions. If this is pushed off, then we are probably looking at June
2013 before something is done. If the can is kicked down the road a bit,
the Feds will start up the printing presses with gusto just trying to
keep the economy afloat. This in turn will cause even more drastic
inflation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If this is pushed off, look to Europe to collapse first, thus causing everyone to run to the dollar.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those of us watching, this will be a flag we need to watch for. When
we see this take place, we will know that our time is just around the
corner.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What this will do is will falsely prop up our economy. Many will cry
out "happy days are here again." Then all of a sudden we will wake up
and realize that we have flown off the cliff and gravity is about to
take hold.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And when it does, we will fall and probably fall very hard.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Inflation Beginning To Run Amok</b> - We are amazed at the prices
of things already starting to go up. We don't buy food that much because
we eat from our pantry and shelf reliance items. But recently we have
seen prices almost double. Just yesterday my daughter bought some dish
washing soap for the dishwasher. It was $8.00 for a small bottle where
the last time we purchased it was around $4 - $5.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">80-20 ground beef five lbs for $16.95. That is almost $4.00 a lb and with that you are paying for 20% fat.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A 2 lb block of cheese has doubled from $3 - $4 to over $8.00.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are just a few examples of inflation taking hold in every day America.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Food Prices Going Up / Shortages of Food</b> - As with everything
else, food is also effected by inflation. But what people forget is the
lack of food and shortage of crops that was produced the last three
years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are now at a place nationally where we have used up our supplies
from past harvests and the harvests prior were not able to replenish
what we as a nation consumed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This winter I believe we will see some major increases in the cost of
food to the point there will be people who cannot afford to buy food.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But what we need to remember is that hungry people do desperate things to feed their families.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Already we have 45 million people on food stamps, what will happen
when our nation's coffers cannot afford to pay that food stamp bill? Our
nation's debt is going to be our down fall and eventually food stamps
like other government welfare programs will be effected.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Another Housing Bubble Will Burst</b> - With the baby boomers
selling off their homes so they can down size. A glut of homes are
beginning to form. 2016 the peak children of baby boomers will be in
range to start purchasing new and these used homes. But with approx 72
million homes being put on the market and only 45 million baby boomer
kids able to purchase, that puts the housing market in the negative.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In other words to prevent a housing bust, baby boomer kids will need
to purchase two homes to keep the housing economy alive. We know that
they will not do this, so house values will drop like a lead balloon and
along with that a large chunk of our economy will go down with it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you realize how much the home industry drives our economy?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think about everything that goes into a home, keeps a home running. Everything that makes a house a home will be effected.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><img alt="erisa-lawsuit-bp-article-4" height="237" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/erisa-lawsuit-bp-article-4.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="358" />ERISA Law Going Into Effect</b>
- This is a biggie and if nothing else crushes our nation, this will.
When the baby boomers bought, companies made millions throughout the
years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now all these Baby Boomers have money that they have saved for retirement via their 401(k), IRAs, ect.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Between 1995 and 2005 the millions of people who followed the “Work
hard, save money, get out of debt, invest for the long term, and
diversify, diversify, diversify.” advice lost an estimated $7-9
trillion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the 2008 collapse they lost even more of their retirement. In fact many were wiped out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We now are facing 2016 where 2,282,887 baby boomers that are turning
seventy. The ERISA Law states that at age 70, retirees will be forced to
start drawing out and paying taxes on the retirement funds.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where is all this retirement money being housed?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the stock market.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2017 the number of retirees jumps to 2,928,818 more people. That
is about 700,000 more people than the year before that will start
selling and pulling their money out of the stock market too.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just in these two years close to 5,211,705 people will start pulling
money out of the stock market via selling off shares of 401K, IRA, and
other self directed retirement accounts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That many people will affect the economy and more people will be
added each year for approximately 20 years. That is if the market lasts
for 20 more years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What we need to remember is that all in all, that is a lot of stock being sold, or at least trying to be sold.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the kicker.... What happens when millions of people start selling millions of shares of stock?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The prices start to drop and fast.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The laws of supply and demand will come into effect, and the odds of major panic just increased enormously.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If none of the other major events bring this nation to her knees, ERISA will and do it very quickly to boot.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overnight millions upon millions of baby boomers and anyone else
saving for retirement through one of these retirement vehicles will be
broke. Inflation and supply and demand will make these accounts
worthless. The stock market will fall like no other throwing us into a
major economic crisis like this nation has never seen before.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><img alt="repent-300x226" height="226" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/repent-300x226.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="300" />Will We Repent?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After all the shaking, will the people turn to God after all?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If we are following what Israel did in the past, which we have pretty much have followed step by step, then the answer is, No.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The people, even many Christians today will continue to choose rebellion over God's Word.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like Israel, the people refuse to heed the watchmen warnings ...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 30:9 - 11 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 Which say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Woe Unto Them...</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Isaiah we read about the sins of the nation who have turned their
backs upon the Lord. They shake their fists in defiance and taunt God.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God in return tells the people, "Woe unto them..."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up
early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue
until night, till wine inflame them!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil
good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But out of all the five woes mentioned in chapter 5, the woe found in verse 18-19 is the one that is most telling...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 5:18 -19 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19 That say, Let him make speed, and
hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One
of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is where our nation is today. Utter rebellion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We parade our sins in pubic so they are pridefully on full display.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We shake our fist at God and challenge Him to "make speed and hasten
His work." In other words "proclaim your judgment upon us God, we do not
care. We know our fate before us, let's just get it over and done with.
"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This attitude that we display today is the same attitude that Israel had as we can see here in Isaiah 22...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord
GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to
girding with sackcloth:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness,
slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let
us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We are past the repentance stage and as much as I do not want to say it, I believe we are a nation past the point of no return. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It will take years of pain and even possible bloodshed to break our rebellious spirit and return to a nation serving God.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I do believe that we will get there, but the price we will pay will be great. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So these and other "shakings" will take place. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But to get to the place of pain, something else needs to take place. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It happened to Ancient Israel. God
is a constant unchanging God. So that means that our nation will need to
go through it as well. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What will that place of pain and suffering be? </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I will discuss that in my next article. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="259" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="180" /><br />By Ray Gano</b></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-81206027399131557612012-09-27T08:14:00.002-07:002012-09-27T08:14:43.974-07:00The Antichrist - The Charismatic Leader <div class="article-rel-wrapper">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="charlesmansonseyes-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/charlesmansonseyes-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" />Daniel
7:8 (KJV) I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among
them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first
horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like
the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> Daniel 7:20 (KJV) And of the ten horns that were in his head, and
of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that
horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose
look was more stout than his fellows.<br /><br /> It is from these verses in Daniel which we gain a little bit of information about the coming Antichrist.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> The primary point that I want to focus on is that we know he will be a powerful and charismatic leader.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Charisma is the ability to exercise diffuse and intensive influence
over the normative or ideological orientations of others (Etzioni,
1961). As a result we can identify charismatic leaders by their effects
on their followers such that followers of charismatic leaders:
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a) have a high degree of loyalty, commitment, and devotion to the leader;<br /><br /> b) identify with the leader and the mission of the leader;</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> c) emulate his values, goals, and behavior;</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> d) see the leader as a source of inspiration;</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> e) derive a sense of high self-esteem from their relationship with the leader and his mission; and</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> f) have an exceptionally high degree of trust in the leader and the correctness of his beliefs. (1)</span></span> </div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To be a charismatic leader, one has to have followers, that is why "leaders lead."<br /><br /> If one does not have followers, then how are they leaders much less a charismatic leader?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Here is an interesting point, most charismatic leaders do not "take" the power, the power is always given to them.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> A good example is to look at is Adolph Hitler's rise to power.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span><strong>Adolph Hitler's Rise to Power</strong></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><img alt="hitler_time" height="400" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-news-watch/hitler_time.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="287" /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was Germany's economic depression that really set the stage for the rise of Hitler and Nazism.<br /><br />
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the US called in its loans to
Germany, and because Germany could not pay back the loans, the German
economy collapsed. The number of unemployed grew; crime grew, people
starved on the streets. This is the common fallout to a FIAT based
economy. It was out of this crisis that the German people looked for
someone to blame. They also needed hard solutions. In this case Hitler
offered them both, and Nazi success in the elections grew. </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Germans turned to Nazism because they were desperate. The number of
Nazi seats in the Reichstag rose from 12 in 1928 to 230 in July 1932.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Power is given.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
But as we know from history Hitler did not gain the power he wanted.
It was his goal to become "Chancellor" but that did not happen.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
In November 1932 elections were held in Germany and although the Nazis
were gaining in popularity what did happen is that they failed to get a
majority of seats in the Reichstag. Because of this Hitler pitched a
huge fit and those in power listened.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Franz von Papen was
Chancellor of Germany at that time, but he could not get enough
support in the Reichstag either. So Hindenburg and von Papen were
having to govern by emergency decree under Article 48 of the German
Constitution. It is at that time they offered Hitler the post of
vice-Chancellor if he promised to support them. Well Hitler refused,
in fact he demanded to be made Chancellor. So Von Papen and Hindenburg
took a risk and on the 30th of January 1933 Hindenburg made Hitler
Chancellor. This was a huge mistake on the part of Hindenburg, he
thought he could control Hitler, and history shows how wrong he was.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> So as we can see even in the case of Adolph Hitler, the power was given.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span><strong> The Power is Given</strong></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> The case will be the same with the Antichrist, his power will be given to him by those who follow and support him. </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
It is a fact that we are living in the last days. Based on Biblical
Prophecy that has come to pass, many agree that we are also living
during the final generation.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Stating that and also understanding that power is given and not taken, I have to ask the following…</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> "Where / who are those who will follow the Antichrist today?"</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Looking back at the characteristics of those who follow a charismatic
leader, what group of people can we point to today that fit that
description?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Many people point to the Catholic Church, but it
is a known fact that the Catholic Church is losing numbers. In fact
when the rapture takes place (looking at a pre-trib) there will be some
Catholics who are also part of the rapture thus diminishing their
numbers even more.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Many people point to the New Age followers, but even their numbers are far less than that of the Catholics.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Same goes with Freemasons, Mormons, and just about any other religion out there.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> So who is left?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Islam.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Many people out there keep looking for some smoke and mirror European
who will rise to power. But to gain global influence, the numbers have
to be there to support the leader.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> But people refuse to look at the obvious that is taking place.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
"Europe has become an incubator for Islamist thought and political
development. Since the early 1960s, Muslim Brotherhood members and
sympathizers have moved to Europe and slowly but steadily established a
wide and well-organized network of mosques, charities, and Islamic
organizations. Unlike the larger Islamic community, the Muslim
Brotherhood's ultimate goal may not be simply "to help Muslims be the
best citizens they can be," but rather to extend Islamic law throughout
Europe and the United States." (2)</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Europe does not have the
numbers to support that idea. The very fact that by 2025 all of Europe
will be predominately Muslim is also another indicator that a western
Antichrist is not feasible. England in the next several years will in
fact become a Muslim nation and there is nothing that the British can
do about it. The birthrate of Muslims in England far out weight that
of the British nationals and they have lost the battle. England will
fall to Islam and is doing so right before our eyes.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> In fact we are seeing the beginnings of that taking place in the US as well.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Where / who are those who will follow the Antichrist?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Who will give him the power?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> All logic points to Islam and who is their leader?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> They call him the Mahdi, we call him the Antichrist.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Interesting enough is that when we read scripture, the Bible points out
many ways to identify the Antichrist. These very same points are also
the same points that Muslims are looking for in their leader the Mahdi.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> While many people are looking for this "smoke and mirror" European, Islam is looking for their leader.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><img alt="anti-jew" height="286" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-news-watch/anti-jew.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="468" /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many
who seek out a European Antichrist seem to always fall back on one
excuse or another and cannot point to solid facts, but instead point to
what appears to be fairytales and hopes in something non-existent.<br /><br />
An example of that is that some point to the mysterious Illuminati.
Well where are these people? Who are they and where are their numbers?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Do you see what I mean? There may be a small group of people who are
elites, but they need more to truly effect change on the same level that
the Antichrist will effect. Do I believe in these folks? Yes I do,
but like the Catholics, New Agers and such, they do not have the willing
human resources at hand in the numbers needed.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> An interesting
situation took place at Prophezine this weekend. We were hacked by
Muslims from Turkey. We were probably hacked because we take a stand
for what is right and expose Islam for what it is, a death cult from
the pit of hell.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Why is it that one can stand out in the very
center of town and scream at the top of their lungs the horrors of the
catholic church, freemasons, Mormons, new age, ect. and not one thing
happen to them except possibly strange looks from those who pass by.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> But what would happen to the person who would do the same thing except speak out against Islam?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> How long would that person be standing there in the middle of the town square?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Odds are not very long, and everyone knows that to be true, before
some Muslim or Policeman came to stop them of their "hate speech."</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
In fact, with all those who are calling out catholic church,
freemasons, Mormons, new age, ect, where are all those hackers
bringing down the sites of those speaking out against them?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Think about it, where are those Catholic Hacker groups fighting in cyberspace against those who defame Catholicism?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> What about Freemasons, Mormons, New Age, ect,?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Do you know of any?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> I don’t.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Like it or not, the idea of a European AC is showing itself to be just
smoke and mirrors idea and we need to pull our heads out of the sand
and critically look at what scripture is clearly telling us.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> In fact here is a list comparing what is taught about the Mahdi and what is known about the Antichrist. </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span><strong>Mahdi verses the Antichrist</strong></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> * Both Deny Trinity And Cross</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> * Both Deny The Father And The Son<br /> * Both Are Blasphemous<br /> * Both Are Called Deceiver<br /> * Both Claim To Be Messiah<br /> * Both Kingdoms Suffer A Head Wound<br /> * Both Work False Miracles<br /> * Both Ride A White Horse<br /> * Both Attempt To Change The Law<br /> * Both Deny Women’s Rights<br /> * Both Rule Over Ten Entities<br /> * Both Are the Source of Death and War<br /> * Both Use Military Force<br /> * Both Honor Their God with Gold and Silver<br /> * Both Honor a God of War And Advance His Glory Through War<br /> * Both Condon Rape<br /> * Both Usher Seven Years Peace Treaty<br /> * Both Deceive And Destroy By Peace<br /> * Both Break Treaties<br /> * Both Love War for Booty<br /> * Both Desire World Domination<br /> * Both Lead A Turkish-Iranian Invasion<br /> * Both Exalted As God<br /> * Both Ascend To Heaven<br /> * Both Are Described As Beautiful And Wise Bird<br /> * Both Are Light Beings<br /> * Both Are Pride Filled<br /> * Both Are Lords of This World and the Underworld<br /> * Both Are Called the “Son of the Dawn”<br /> * Both Are Afflicters<br /> * Both Are Cast Out Of Heaven<br /> * Both Are “The Lords of Demons”<br /> * Both Are Possessed<br /> * Both Practice Beheading<br /> * Both Desire Israel’s Destruction<br /> * Both Occupy the Temple Mount<br /> * Our Messiah is their Antichrist—Their Antichrist is our Messiah<br /> * Both Stop the Rain<br /> * Both Enjoy Desecrating Bodies (2)<br /><br /> Where is a list like this for a European Antichrist?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span><strong>Only a Few Muslims Believe in the Mahdi?</strong></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><img alt="islamic_rage_boy3" height="278" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/pz-news-watch/islamic_rage_boy3.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="470" /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Folks,
we need to set the record straight, it is not just some small
percentage of Islam that believes in the Mahdi. That is an idea falsely
reported by a small group who have not conducted their research
properly although say that they have.<br /><br /> To say it plainly, all
of Islam is looking for the Mahdi and that is a proven fact. It is this
fact that those who teach this "small percentage" idea refuse to
acknowledge. Be it pride, fear, loss of support, whatever is the
motive, they refuse to acknowledge this and they have made their minds
up that they are correct instead of facing the provable truth.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
What people need to understand is that Islam is the complete 180 degree
opposite of Christianity. Their teachings are satanically inspired and
basically "flip" what is taught in God's Word, the Bible. It is
Satan's oldest ploy, "hath God said?"</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Their hero the Mahdi in scriptures is our enemy the Antichrist.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> While we await the Second Coming of Christ, they await the coming of Mahdi.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
What Satan did is take God's Word and made all what is wrong… right,
all what is good.. bad, and all what is true… false. We are literally
seeing Isaiah 5:20 being fulfilled.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Isaiah 5:20 (KJV) Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter! </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Folks, Islam has have a high degree of
loyalty, commitment, and devotion to their cause and will have to their
future leader the Antichrist / Mahdi.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> They are the fastest
growing religion in the world today and they already have surpassed in
numbers that of the Catholic Church and they are gaining on
Christianity.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Islam also represents a complete system including
political, social, economic, legal and religious. There is no
separation of church and state. This is the very system that is
foretold to us in Revelation 13</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Revelation 13:16-18 (KJV) And
he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number
of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six
hundred threescore and six.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Islam and the Antichrist / Mahdi
are already of one mind and of one mission, that is to rule the world
and create a global caliphate / government. All who stand against them
will be offered to convert to Islam or die by the sword and beheaded.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Islam already emulates the values, goals, and behavior of the coming
Antichrist / Mahdi. Just look at how Christians are already severely
persecuted all over the world living within Muslim occupied lands. Even
many are losing their heads just as Revelation 20:4 states…</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Revelation 20:4 (KJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were
beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which
had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Many in Islam already see
the Antichrist / Mahdi as a source of inspiration, and even derive a
sense of high self-esteem from their relationship with the leader and
his mission. Just look at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, and
how closely he associates himself with the Antichrist / Mahdi.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Finally Muslims will have an exceptionally high degree of trust in the Antichrist / Mahdi and the correctness of his beliefs.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Why?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Because he is one of them, he will be a Muslim coming out of Islam who
will then do as all dictators do and turn on those who gave him his
power to secure his standing. They then embolden themselves to the
point of seeing themselves as God. But we know for a fact that the
Antichrist will take it even further.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Scripture says…</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> 2
Thessalonians 2:4 (KJV) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in
the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> We need to
dig into God's Word and allow it to be our filter to what we see taking
place in the world. God's Word is very clear when we look down upon
the written word and then look up and out upon that horizon, what is it
that we clearly see?</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> We have to face the facts and say that we
see Islam at the doorstep and not some European with some smoke and
mirror "new world order" religion. We have got to stop shoving square
pegs into round holes hoping that they will fit because that is what we
in the west have been taught.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> We need to give ourselves
permission once again to read scripture for ourselves, allowing the
Holy Spirit to properly guide us to what is truly there.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> It
isn't the latest and greatest author on the scene that tells us what
our future holds. We have got to lay these "filters" aside because it
is only the pure word of God that will direct our every step.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />
Folks, I know this is a real mind bender because I was there myself,
that is until I got to a point and put all the books aside and looked
down into my Bible and then looked up and out to the horizon. It isn't
the news that guides us, nor is it books, DVDs or even TV shows. The
only reliable absolute truth is God's Word.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> Psalms 119:105 (KJV) Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. </span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><strong>Endnotes</strong></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> 1 - CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP: STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTING SOCIAL CHANGE</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> By</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /> C. Marlene Fiol - University of Colorado - Denver <br /> Drew Harris - Fairleigh Dickinson University <br /> Robert House - University of Pennsylvania <br /><br /><a href="http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/l_change/publications/House/Charismatic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/l_change/pu...ns/House/Charismatic</a></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Leadership - House .doc.<br /><br /> 2- They Must Be Stopped by Bridgette Gabriell</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /> 3 - God's War on Terror By Walid Shoebat</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><b><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="173" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="120" /><br /><br />By Ray G</b></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-58649237943176806672012-07-20T17:13:00.001-07:002012-07-20T17:13:51.359-07:00<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">BRANSON CONFERENCE REVIEW & PICTURES</span></strong></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-hotel-email" height="410" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-hotel-email.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="353" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This
is the morning of the conference. Got up and checked emails. Not much
going on so we headed down stairs after getting dressed and started
setting up.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-hatty" height="353" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-hatty.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="353" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Tracye
and I got down to our table and PZ Member Hatty came over and said
"HI". She wanted to get a book and take some pictures. No her eyes are
not closed, she is looking down in her purse, she was getting my book at
the same time. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="bella-guns-table" height="499" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/bella-guns-table.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="499" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Yep...guns
and cute dogs. I kept telling folks that the AR-15 is to draw in the
guys and the Yorkies were to draw in the gals. FYI... yea it works too.
This is what our table looked like once we got it set up. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-onni-table" height="574" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-onni-table.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="574" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Things
started to pick up and I try to always autograph the book when someone
purchases it. As you can see the dogs were being "watch dogs" over the
table. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-tracye-johnson" height="406" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-tracye-johnson.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="511" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It
was a real blessing to see PZ Member Johnson at the conference. He is a
former teacher who could not teach what he was being asked to teach.
Some of the stories he told us was incredible. People, if you can help
it, don't send your kids to public school. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-doc-margolis" height="445" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-doc-margolis.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="445" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Doc Marquis author of the well known book <i>Secrets of the Illuminati.</i> His table was right across from ours, interesting information as well as incredible past / life Doc came from. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-gary-tom" height="420" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-gary-tom.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="420" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">It
was great to talk to Gary Steerman for a bit as well as Tom Horn.
Prophecy in the News were the hosts of the conference and were very good
hosts in deed. It would be an honor to come speak for Gary and Prophecy
in the News again. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-gordon" height="379" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-gordon.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="379" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Gordon
McDonald from K-House. Gordon and I go way back to the old days when
bible prophecy was getting its start on the web. If you have been to a
conference where Chuck Missler is speaking, odds are you met Gordon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-chuck" height="408" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-chuck.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="408" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Me
and Chuck Missler. They were one table down from ours. We got to yack
it up with Chuck when things were slow and other speakers were speaking.
Rumor mill is correct, K-House does have offices set up in New Zealand
and it is an established base of operations. In fact after the
conference I heard that Chuck was flying back down again. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> <img alt="ray-avi-2" height="457" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-avi-2.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="457" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The
person we spent the most time with was Avi Lipkin. In fact his hotel
room was right next to ours. Avi observes the sabbath, so he and his son
shut down their table around 8:10PM to ensure they were not working on
the sabbath. Around 9:00ish Tracye and I walked up to our room and we
heard Avi and his son singing the sabbath songs, lighting the candles
and giving the prayer. We stood there outside their room and listened to
their singing and such. It was weird, we were both blessed hearing
that. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-avi-1" height="435" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-avi-1.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="435" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Avi
wanted a better picture and one where he wasn't being so silly. In the
other, Avi was telling us a joke at the time. If you ever get a chance
to go hear Avi speak, do it. Out of all the speakers, Avi had the most
to say in my opinion. He is out there issuing a warning to our nation.
He is totally against the direction our Muslim president is taking us
and in fact stated that this administration has "cut a deal" with the
Saudi King to allow hundreds of thousands of Muslims into our country in
exchange for low oil prices around the time of the elections. The
rumored price for a gallon of gas was $2.55. To be honest if it drops
below $2.85 it would raise the red flags with me with what Avi told us. I
am going to try to get Avi on PZ Radio in the near future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="noah-hutchens-table" height="460" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/noah-hutchens-table.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="535" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Noah
W. Hutchings & Larry Spargimino AKA South West Radio Church was
next to our table again this year and that gave Tracye time to talk to
Noah about things going on in the world.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img alt="ray-steve-craig" height="467" src="http://prophezine.com/images/stories/branson/ray-steve-craig.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="612" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We
had the chance to sit with some interesting gentlemen, Steve and Craig.
Steve is a farmer and was telling me his major concerns about the food
supply. See Steve owns several thousand acres and grows beans and corn.
He also informed me that due to the serious lack of rain as well as the
intense heat that this nation has been having, his crops this year are
destroyed. It isn't only him, he stated that farmers from all over the
nation are seeing the same thing happen to them. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Steve
and I talked at leangth about putting up food supplies. He told me that
he is literally scared to death about the lack of food this nation has,
or better yet does not have. He told me that we have till around fall
time frame and food prices are going to start jumping and jumping up
high. He is seriously concerned that store shelves will be literally
empty. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">For
those of you who have listened to PZ Radio, I have had Lorri Harden on
several times. Lorri is not only a PZ Insider, but also the scientist
that works for the Dept of Agricultrure for the state of Oklahoma. She
has been saying the same thing on our show.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">What
is interesting is to hear it from one who is the producer. Steve was
telling me that a major famine was on the cusp for this nation because
of so many crops failing. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Craig,
who is a rancher was also telling me that his cattle ranch is in sad
shape as well. No rain thus no water for the cattle. Pasture land is
already dead and the ground turning to dust. He was already breaking
into his winter feed and did not know how he was going to make it
through the winter since he is feeding his cattle all that he had. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Craig's
only option was to sell early and hope that he can recoop his losses.
That means also selling females as well. So getting his herd to bounce
back was going to take some time. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Steve said that all he can do is chop up what he has left of his crops and hopefully sell them for feed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Steve
heard me talk on True News and was one of the reasons he attended. He
was interested in our findings with Belize. In fact a lot of people were
very interested in our findings. Steve has spent time down there and
supports missionaries in Placencia , located in the southern tip of
Belize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">We easily had about 15-20 couples come up to us and ask us about putting together a christian community down there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><img align="left" alt="jonathan-cahn" height="160" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/authors-directory/jonathan-cahn.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="138" /></strong>The
one thing that we noticed more with this conference over the last one
is that more people were concerned with the direction this nation is
going. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Many
of the speakers echoed their concerns about the current administration
gaining office once again. The words "Police State" - "Civil War" -
"Hyperinflation" and "Economic Catastrophe" kept being heard from the
stage. My first two sessions were literally standing room only and many
people took up seats on the floor. My last session was on Sunday at
2:30PM and still just about every seat was taken. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">There
were no "silver bullets" being offered except to get ready. The analogy
of "Noah's Ark" was also being echoed a lot. Build your ark now while
you still have the opportunity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><strong> </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Jonathan Cahn was one of the key note speakers and he echoed a lot of what was already being said. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">He basically stated that our nation is now seeing God's judgement and it just going to get worse, that is if we do not repent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">I
met Jonathan on the elevator and spoke for a few moments. When I
introduced myself he was very familiar with PZ and appreciated our work
here. He told me that he wanted to get with me and talk. Negative was
that there was a pressing matter and had to leave the conference and fly
out at 3:00AM in the morning. I will catch up with him and when I do I
will let you know how our conversation goes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">A
lot of talk was going on about Syria and the middle east. The general
consensus of this was that Assad will resign from power and the Muslim
Brotherhood will be put in his place. At least with Assad we know what
we are getting. Well we know what we are getting with the Muslim
Brotherhood as well. I heard conversations here and there also saying to
keep an eye on Jordan, they may be the next to fall to the brotherhood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><img align="right" alt="ussofa410-200" height="200" hspace="5" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/ussofa410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Another
topic that seemed to be on a lot of people's minds was how much Russia
is really becoming prominent today. People were very upset that our
current administration was basically cow-towing to Russia and Putin in
particular. Russian troops now being stationed as well as Russian
Special Forces being trained in the US. Russian Bombers flying into US
Airspace, our reduction of weapons while Russia is stocking up again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The
scenario of Russia coming in under the UN and "policing" the US in the
event of martial law was also being spoken and bantered about. It was
agreed that this is a viable situation and something that we need to be
concerned about as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">In
fact in response to this some asked if we should be concerned with
China. It is believed that China and Russia will work together. China is
"the brains and money" while Russia is the "muscle and military." Both
will work together if the opportunity presents itself to bring our
nation down. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Over
all the mood of the conference was very hopeful even in the light of
all that is taking place. Tracye and I were very surprised how many
people were interested in preparedness and our Shelf Reliance Food. We
handed out every card we had for Shelf Reliance and in the few days we
have been home, we have taken several orders.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-29501604543785013172012-07-03T09:03:00.002-07:002012-07-17T09:30:13.780-07:00Israel - America & God's Judgment - Solutions #1 - Return To God's Word<div class="bodycontent" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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the past several months I have been reporting on my research showing
the similarities between Israel and America when they turn their backs
against God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Israel and America are the only two nations that were dedicated to God, His Word, His ideals, morals and principals.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">America is NOT God's chosen people, nor is America in a covenant with God . </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Over these past few months I have tried to present the truth. Truth
in history, truth in scripture and based on trends and events I have
tried to present truthfully what I think the future holds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">To be honest, it has not been a cheery ride and I know many are distraught with all that I have presented.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">My plan now is to present solutions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now I am going to come right out and say that some of these solutions
you will not like, nor will you be willing to submit to them. The
reason is that we have forgotten what it truly means to be a Christian, a
servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have fallen in love with having
one foot in the world, and one foot in a relationship with Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Romans 12:1-2 (KJV) I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">When you show people this, they do not like it; and I have to admit
that even I have times where I "buck" submission to the Lord, His Word,
morals, ideals and principals.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Even we as Christians no longer fear God nor do we live a holy life
acceptable unto God. We may claim it, but when it gets down to rubber
meeting the road, we don’t.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">See this is our downfall. Like it or not we still live a pretty
rebellious life, and yes I am putting my own self into that same group
as well. But the good news is that we all can do better, much better.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b> What is solution # 1? </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Getting back to God's Holy Word that has been preserved for the
English speaking world; that being the only Authorized Version of the
Bible, The King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I am not going to get into a bunch of debates over versions and such.
But what I am going to point to is the founding fathers and those
Americans who fought and died in the wars that allowed us to declare our
independence from tyranny and oppression.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There was only one version around, that just about every home,
school, business and yes even our own government offices had, that was
The King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Do you realize that almost the entire nation had one version of God's Word? They were united through that one source.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Here, ponder the following…</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A study was conducted at the university of Houston by Donald Lutz and
Charles Hyneman. Their study was later published as the book <i>The Origins of American Constitutionalism. </i>On
pages 136-149 of Origins, Lutz summarizes the results of a 1984 paper
in which he and colleague Charles Hyneman analyze some 15,000 items of
American political commentary published between 1760 and 1805. The
purpose of the paper was to determine the sources that most influenced
the development of American political thought during our nation's
founding period.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Can you guess what was the most influential source used by our
founding fathers? What Lutz and Hyneman showed was that the King James
Bible was the most frequently quoted source between 1760 and 1805.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why the King James? Because they did not have the 300 plus different
versions to pollute, pervert, and divide their thoughts, minds, actions
and unity like we do today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What people seem to forget is this… <span style="text-decoration: underline;">things that are different, are not the same</span>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Our founding fathers and those who fought for our independence were all in one accord with one Bible, the King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">That is what we as a nation have gotten away from.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In proverbs we are given a warning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">We as a nation have allowed the generations to wear down our
standards. Look at how many organizations, Christian and non have worked
to attack the one bible that this nation was built upon.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Again, I am not trying to argue versions here. What I am stating is fact, it is clear cause and effect.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Because we as a nation have allowed watered down, feminized,
spineless, non convicting versions of the Bible, we are where we are
today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We are a nation that no longer holds to resolve nor has conviction. We ourselves have been watered down.</span><br />
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have become weakened and lack the true power of God working in us. It
is like we have two legs and one arm tied behind our backs instead of
the full strength and power of God working through us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Let me show you an example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Psalms 144:1 A Psalm] of David Blessed be
the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to
fight: - Authorized King James Version</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">This is what I call a "Warrior Verse." In this verse you can feel the resolve and the strength of the Lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">BLESSED BE THE LORD.. . MY STRENGTH. We derive our strength from God.
This in and of itself motivates because He is our strength. Can you
imagine those who fought for our independence drawing strength from this
one line alone?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">WHICH TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR AND MY FINGERS TO FIGHT.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Think about what they thought, the one true and holy God is with me.
He is my strength, He will teach my hands to war and my fingers to
fight. With God for me being my strength and teaching me, who can stand
against me?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Do you see the resolve, the conviction, the motivation?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When I read this verse, I feel like I am holding a banner and I plant
it into the ground with determination and resolve. I draw the line, I
will not retreat, God is my strength, He will be with me in this battle.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now read these modern versions …</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Psa 144:1 A psalm of David. Praise the
LORD, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers
skill for battle. - New Living Translation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Psa 144:1Of David. Praise be to the LORD
my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. - New
International Version (NIV)</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Folks, we need to be critical… things different are not the same.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Blessed and praise, two completely different things</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Strength and Rock are two completely different things.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Teaches and trains, close but two different things.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What has been stripped is the conviction and resolve that the King James version had.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I would go to battle and hang my life on Psalms 144:1 that I read in
the King James, I am not sure I would find that sort of resolve in the
modern versions we call the bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">That is what our forefathers had. They had the resolve to stand take
up arms against tyranny. They had the knowledge and understood what it
meant to be a slave to tyrants because they based their events on the
Authorized Version of God's Word.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Where is that resolve, that conviction, that power, that resilience today?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is not there, because we have stepped away from the ancient
landmarks. We allowed God's Word to be compromised by watering it down
to suit our own selfish desires instead of living a holy and acceptable
life unto Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But to top that off, we have allowed reconstructed history to also
take hold. We no longer have absolutes. Not only has the enemy defiled
the good name of The Authorized King James Version, he has also attacked
our Christian heritage and our forefathers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It vexes my spirit to hear people regurgitate garbage saying that we
are not a nation founded on God's principals and standards. It also
vexes my spirit when they steal the truth about our founding fathers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In fact, of the 55 founding fathers, we know for a fact what their sworn public confessions were.</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-eight were Episcopalians </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Eight were Presbyterians</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Seven were Congregationalists </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Two were Lutheran </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Two were Dutch Reformed </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Two were Methodist </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Two were Roman Catholic </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">One is unknown</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">And only three were deists. </span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.sunoven.com/gano" target="_blank"><img alt="Sun Oven Special Offer" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/banners/300x250_sun-oven-banner-ad.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" /></a>Revisionist
history is stealing and moving the ancient landmarks. These wolves in
sheep's clothing have and stolen our heritage. What is sad is that we as
Christians are buying this revisionist propaganda hook, line and sinker
and we allowed it to happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And we wonder why we are where we are today?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We are where we are today because we have allowed ourselves to be
dumbed down and become ignorant of the facts, our past and our heritage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hosea 4:6 (KJV) My people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also
reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Our founding fathers had something we don’t.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They were united under the Authorized Version of The King James Bible. This is a fact.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They fought and many gave their lives, spilt their blood for true freedom.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They understood all of this and more because of one thing, they were
educated from the one source of absolute truth for the English speaking
world, The King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>So What is Solution #1? </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We need to get back to what our forefathers stood on. We need to
recapture the conviction, resolve, steadfastness, strength, and power of
God working through the hearts of men.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We regain that by getting back to our foundations.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Like it or not, that foundation is the King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">You can give me excuses, but I point to history and fact. The founding fathers had something we no longer have.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The hope and the solution is there if we push away the excuses. That
is if we are man and woman enough to get on our knees, submit to God,
as well as His promised and preserved Word. The very same Word of God
our forefathers had, The Authorized King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Bloodshed Spilt Upon Our Soil </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I honestly believe that very hard times are coming.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Historical trends show that bloodshed has been spilt for this nation
about every 100 years. Two out of the three hundred years those times of
bloodshed was on our own land. Odds are that the bloodshed we face
today will also be upon our own soil.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If you don't want to believe this and everything else I have presented, that’s up to you. I can't make you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What I do believe is that I am going to put every positive odd that I
can put into me and my families favor. If it means submitting to the
Bible our forefathers used, then so be it, I will submit, trust and
obey.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I know that my resolve, conviction, strength, and faith will not waiver what so ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why? Because I have the power of God's Word living in me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It isn't watered down, feminized, made weak, reworded, nothing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is God's preserved Word and I have God's promise…</span><br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Psalms 12:6-7 (KJV) The words of the LORD
are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven
times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from
this generation for ever.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="mommy-liberty" height="414" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/mommy-liberty.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="414" />That
is the absolute truth. That is truth that allows a man to stand against
insurmountable odds like our forefathers did standing against the
greatest military in the world when they faced England.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Let me remind you, it was not Europe's elite that built this country.
It was a handful of Godly men who stood on God's Word. They were a
bunch of rag tag commoners, laymen and even some explorers, all armed to
the best of their ability both physically and spiritually.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It was their spiritual resolve, determination, conviction , strength
that bore this nation. All of which was rooted deep within them from one
primary source, The Authorized Version of The King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They had it, we don't, but we need to get back to it if we are to survive the coming storm.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If we don't our nation will be lost.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">No matter what, one cannot claim the spiritual resolve,
determination, conviction , and strength from these modern versions. Try
as you may, but when the pressure finally hits, people will fold like
cheap lawn furniture. The proof is all around you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">God's preserved Word is what will save us. Watered down counterfeits won't.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Is this nation worth it?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Is it worth overcoming whatever pride issue you may have and get back to the solid truth of God?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Or have you totally bought into the last 100 years of revisionist
history defiling the KJV, our forefathers and our Christian heritage?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Me, I submit and stand with God's promise of preserving His word. I stand on the King James Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">You?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Joshua 24:15 (KJV) And if it seem evil
unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side
of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but
as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><img alt="ray-gano-med" height="259" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/israel-america/ray-gano-med.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="180" /><br /><br />By Ray Gano</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1 - <a href="http://www.inplainsite.org/html/founding_fathers.html">http://www.inplainsite.org/html/founding_fathers.html</a></span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-17173369751397857022012-05-28T11:51:00.001-07:002012-05-28T11:51:03.313-07:00Prophezine - Remembering This Memorial Day<div class="article-rel-wrapper" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="memorialday-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/memorialday-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 5px;" width="410" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello PZ Insiders, PZ Members, Friends and Family,
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today is one of those days that have lost its meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It isn't a day we go around saying "Happy Memorial Day," because there is nothing happy about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is a day of remembrance and to give honor to our sons & daughters who have paid the price for our freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the past I have put out an issue as if it was just another
Monday. But this year I felt compelled to ask that we stop the news,
the articles and give a pause this day so that we can give thanks for
all those who served, spilt blood, and even died for our nation's
freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Several years ago I had a very moving experience meeting a young soldier who was finally going home from war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I asked him why wear your uniform if he is finally going home?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His response, "“This time it is for sentimental reasons, I am wearing it for the last time. I wanted to wear it going home.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See, John sustained major burns. He was missing both of his ears,
scars on his face, his arms and hands in elastic bandages. He was
someone hard to look at, but your eyes kept coming back to him
standing there a proud soldier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The following story is my recount of my meeting with this soldier
named John. I try to share it every Memorial day as a part of a PZ
Insider issue, but today I want it to stand on its own so that we can
truly grasp the gravity of the sacrifice our men and women serving
today in our armed forces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now more than ever I feel we need to remember the price paid for our freedom which is slipping away so quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I encourage you to pass this on to all your friends, family, fellow church members, etc. <br /><br />We need to remember the sacrifice and honor it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>John, where ever you are, I pray that God is blessing you and that His favor shines brightly upon you and your family.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In His Service,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ray & Tracye Gano<br />Prophezine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<br /><b><br /><span>I Don’t Know What To Say…He Paid The Price</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>By Ray Gano</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ever have one of those days when you really do not know what to say because you are deep in thought?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today is one of those days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I was at the airport a few days ago and I was observing a young
soldier going through the screening process. He was in his battle dress
uniform, pressed and starched, standing there as the security officer
waved the metal detector over and around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You could see a humble but proud troop, he was going home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The soldier sustained major burns. He was missing both of his ears,
scars on his face, his arms and hands in elastic bandages. He was
someone hard to look at, but your eyes kept coming back to him standing
there a proud soldier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Once finished I saw the security officer help him with putting his
back pack on. Then the soldier and an older woman that accompanied him
walked out of the screening area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You see, I have seen this soldier before and the last time he was
wearing his jeans, shirt and a black cowboy hat. While he was leaving
the screening area I asked him where his cowboy hat was and I smiled
and stated “So they are making you fly home in your uniform heh?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He smiled back and answered “Nope, this time it is for sentimental
reasons, I am wearing it for the last time. I wanted to wear it going
home.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This young soldier moved me very deeply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img align="right" alt="He Paid The Price" hspace="5" src="http://prophecyforum.com/gano/clip_image001.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" />He paid the price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While waiting for his flight to leave, I noticed that he was having
some lunch, smiling and talking to the older woman accompanying him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I went over and introduced myself and he told me his name was John. I
found out that the woman was his proud mother taking her young soldier
son back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I asked if I could sit and talk with him a bit. They both agreed and I took a seat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I told John that his statement about wearing his uniform for the last time moved me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I also told him that I wanted to personally come over and thank him for his service and for the price he paid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ray, he said “I have been blown up twice and I was set on fire. With all that I have been through, you want to know what?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“What” I said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I would do it all over again, every single minute of it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I did not know what to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A lump rose up in my throat and tears were welling up in my eyes.
Here was one of America’s sons and I was honored to be sitting here
with him.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I asked him “does it bother you to be in this situation?”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">John said “ nope” as he smiled.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">“ Ray, do you have kids?” he asked</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">“Yes I do, I have 4, two on their own now and two still at home.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">He asked me the ages of the ones still at home and I told him eleven
and twelve years old, a boy and a girl. We talked about where I lived
and a bit more about my family.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">He said “sounds like you have a good family and that you are a good
father. I want you to know something. I was over there just for them,
so they would not have to go.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The lump grew larger and my eyes welled up, then a tear escaped and
dripped down the side of my face. I was in awe. You see the tears were
not tears of sadness; they were tears of pride and honor.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I looked upon the scars and wounds that he sustained; he smiled and
continued talking to me. The feelings that I felt are hard to explain. I
was proud, joyous, humbled and honored.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We talked a bit more and then I got up and wished him and his mother
a safe trip. I thanked him once again for the service and sacrifice
that he made. He kind of brushed it off with a smile and a sparkle in
his eye and said, “I’d do it all over again, no need to thank me.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As I walked away, my mind went to our Lord. I asked Him to bless
John and his family and a continued safe trip. He was going home to a
hero’s welcome with friends, family and the town waiting for him at the
airport.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I was glad.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I went into thought and the still small voice told me that the way I
was feeling, is just a glimpse of how I would feel when I would
personally meet Jesus, the one who paid the ultimate price. Once again I
was in awe over what our Lord gave to us. And you know what? He would
do it all over again, just because He loves us so much. The lump and
the tears returned while meditating on what Christ did for us and His
joy to do it all again if given the chance, much like John.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I wanted to share this story with you this Memorial Day. I hope that
you remember our troops who are paying the price and those who paid
the ultimate price. Say a prayer and think of them during this day of
remembrance . They and their families have given up so much .</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">John 3:16 - 17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Think of the scars and the wounds that our Lord sustained, and give
thanks to our Lord in Heaven. He paid the ultimate price so that
through Him the world might be saved.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">If you see one of our young men or women in uniform, go over and thank them.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">They have paid and continue to pay the price.<br /><br />Ray Gano</span></div>
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-15618366488824524222012-05-09T20:07:00.001-07:002012-05-09T20:07:06.750-07:00Answering "My Stand on Rosh/ Russia"<div class="bodycontent" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="russian_tank" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/russian_tank.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" />I
have been getting emails asking me about my stance on Russia as well as
my reference in my article series - The Mystery of Rosh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Here is just one of many examples that I have gotten…</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>From the last article, couldn't understand for sure where you
stand on Russian leading a coalition against Israel. What part is in the
Koran? I am a firm believer in the coalition that is even now being set
up. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now I know that it goes against the common idea out there, but I
believe that the "doctrine" of Russia leading some coalition is based on
a falsehood originally taught from the Koran.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
I ask that you please take the time to read my series "The Mystery of
Rosh" so that you fully understand where I stand, and why I am looking
at Russia in the series "Israel - American & God's Judgment." And
why I do not see them as part of the "coalition" against Israel. If you
have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>THE MYSTERY OF ROSH</strong><br /><br />Is Russia ever literally mentioned in the bible?</span><br />
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">This is a question I have been asking for a while now. But all we seem to be getting is the same convoluted information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Everyone points to Ezekiel 38-39 and says "see right there.. Russia."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well to be honest I see Meshech ,Tubal, Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, Togarmah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">These are all real places, in fact Meshech ,Tubal, Gomer, Togarmah are all found in Turkey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Persia is modern day Iran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ethiopia is still the same as well as Libya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But Russia is not named literally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So why literally name all the other countries involved and then allegorically name Russia?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When you ask the scholars you get something like this…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ras = Rosh which = Russia because the “T” in Tiras
really needs to be dropped off to form Ras so that they can become
part of the Table of Nations found in Genesis 10; THEN migrate all the
way from the Balkans then to the North of the Black Sea and then to
the Caucasus Mountains. WHICH.. after moving there, they then move to
form Russia, Moscow and Tobol'sk which is north of the Balkans area.</span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whew!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As we know, many people state that they believe this
idea, but to date I still can’t find Russia in the scriptures and they
can’t clearly show me it either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that this all falls under “assumed knowledge.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Assumed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that the idea of Russia being told for over
150+ years has now become doctrine. Everyone "assumes" that Russia is
in the bible, but no one can clearly point to it.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Like the story of the king who had no clothes, everyone sees Russia when she is clearly not there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So again we ask, where did the whole Russia idea originate from?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well I believe I have found the possible smoking gun in where the idea of Russia originates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So where did we get the idea of Rosh / Russia that has been taught all these years?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Koran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So let me get this straight Ray - from LeHaye, to
Billionton, to Scofield and Fausset, all of us over the years have
been quoting an idea based in the Koran.?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I can see your face and it's disbelief right now. It looks the same way mine did when doing this investigative work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I remember saying to myself “The Koran? No way, it can't be. ”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like you sitting there right now, I did not want to
believe it, but I found when digging in the old books what appears to
be the solid evidence proving it to be true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And you know what? It has been right in front of us all these years but no one clearly saw it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But more on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Way back in the “olden days” the early 1800s…1825 to
be exact. There was a man named Joseph Freiherr (Barron) Von
Hammer-Purgstall, who was a Austrian orientalist. He was also seen as
one of the "jet setters" of his time.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="von_hammer" height="399" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/von_hammer.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="303" />Jet-setter ok, but what is an orientalist?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Someone who likes and studies the Orient, Middle East,
Asia, ect. It was a popular thing to do back then when you were of
royalty and or wealthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For fifty years Hammer-Purgstall’s primary drive in
life was to find an original manuscript of 1001 Arabian Nights so that
he could share it with the world. It was one of those "celebrity
facts" that everyone in Europe and the Middle East knew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If Esquire or Star gossip mags were around back then,
they would follow Von Hammer's travels in trying to find 1001 Arabian
Nights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While on his travels, Von Hammer also made it his
business to write books on things he saw, and things he discovered
about the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Von Hammer wrote and published numerous books he
translated from Arabic, Persian and Turkish authors. They were hastily
written papers on oriental history, institutions, manners, literature
food and culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See, we have to remember that the Middle East held a
"romantic" idea in many people's minds. It was artful, mysterious,
with completely different ways and customs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We have to also remember that there was no such thing
as the internet and news of faraway lands took time to be written.
But, if you were an author that could "crank out " books about the
Middle East, then you became a popular author as well as popular
person with "celebrity" status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So to put it bluntly, Von Hammer appeared to be one of
the leading “pulp fiction” authors of his time and his books were
always on the "best sellers" list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I guess to put it in modern times, his work was a
step above those harlequin novels and gossip magazines you see at the
cash register checkout line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moving forward…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of the books he wrote was called “Sur Les Origines
Russes” which was published in 1825. In this book he claimed that he
discovered the origins of Russia. This was big news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But come to find out, his "discoveries" were based on just one verse of the Koran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See Von Hammer found this one line in the Koran and
built an entire book around the idea. But due to his somewhat less
that resourceful research, it caused him to have many critics of his
rather footloose work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In fact Von Hammer was severely criticized by Friedrich Christian Diez (1794-1876), who, in his book <i>Unfug und Betrug</i> (1815), devoted nearly 600 pages of abusive criticism to Von Hammer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Are you getting the picture here?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We have a pulp fiction jet-setting Barron who likes to
crank out books on the Middle East. It does not matter if they are
true or not, the people back in Europe are eating them up. They dream
of being sheiks in the desert, riding the spice caravans, genies in
bottles, camels, kus-kus and things like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Von Hammer wrote about it and he made a good living doing it too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am not saying that he was a bad guy, in no way. My
research shows that Von Hammer had the ability to speak ten languages,
traveled the world, and had great connections. But his problem was
poorly researched and hugely speculative points in his work. See it is
that lack of research and holding to the truth that was his down fall
scientifically and scholarly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But why should he care, his books were primarily for
"mental entertainment" based merely on grains of truth, if one could
put it that way. If you think about it, he must have spun some pretty
good tails in his books to pay for all those trips to the Middle East .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While conducting my own journey in finding the truth, I
came across a humorous but serious letter published in “The Asiatic
Journal” dated January 1825. It is kind of hard to read because of the
writing style being verbose and colorful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let me help in setting the stage here…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This letter was written by a “Turkish Philosopher”
from Jaffa, who also dealt in tobacco and pipes. He is writing to the
editor of The Asiatic Journal because he is upset over work he
discovered where Von Hammer is making his claims about the origins of
the Russian people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">How did he discover this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While wrapping up soap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The Asiatic Journal and Monthly</strong></span></div>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">During this time the Pasha was not receiving the
monies due from the taxes, so out of his infinitesimal wisdom he
brought in a tons of alkaline and ordered all the merchants to start
making soap. See in his thinking lots of soap means lots of sales
which means a lot of tax money for the Pasha. I tell you this because
if you have a lot of soap, you will need to be package it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is where we pick up with our Turkish Philosopher in his letter to the editor published in The Asiatic Journal…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Going one day to a printing office in order to get
some waste paper in which to wrap up his genuine Jaffa soap, he
received a mass of printed sheets upon which to his great joy he
discovered Arabic Persian and Turkish characters together with French
and other European tongues a smattering of which he had acquired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He took these sheets home to his shop and found them
to be a learned work entitled Sur les Origines Russe Extraits de
Manuscripts Orientaux par MJ de Hammer, St Petersburg 1827. (<i>On the Origins Russians - Excerpts from Oriental Manuscripts</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Upon slightly looking through the work, he conceived
that it was a continuation of the Arabian Nights and he invited his
neighbours to come and listen to the tales which he proposed to
translate verbally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Upon more attentive examination however, he was
mortified to find that it was an historical work: historical tales, he
remarks, are far less amusing than others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And can you guess my dear Editor what is intended to be shewn in this history which I bought to wrap round my Jaffa soap?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The most honourable most learned most profound most
fertile M de Hammer cream of the ulemas of Vienna and ornament of
Namcheh writers, wishes to convince the world that our prophet make
mention of the Russians in the Koran; that he has discovered proofs in
oriental writers that the Russians formerly inhabited Great Bucharia
and that the Cossacs of the Don existed in the tenth century !</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And upon what think you does M de Hammer build these curious conjectures?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Upon а verse in the Koran which refers to certain Asshab-ar- Ras or the people of Ras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But no one had ever before imagined that Asshab-ar-
Ras could refer lo the Russians, who, whilst our good prophet was
rightly prohibiting his disciple from drinking the bad wine of the
Hedjaz, quaffed at their ease in total ignorance of him, the excellent
beer of Scandinavia. Ebn Kathir, one of our theologians has written a
long chapter upon this passage of the Koran in which I confess I
cannot discover a grain of common sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My late father had abundant reason to dislike imams
with their tedious verbiage and to refuse to let them have tobacco
without the money down for truly all that Ebn Kalhir in his parade of
frivolous erudition has written upon the meaning of the phrase
Asshab-ar- Ras is not worth ten drachms of Latakia tobacco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yet M de Hammer who quotes this whole chapter Ebn
Kathir has printed the Arabic text with a sort of a French translation
and he attaches as much importance to and seems to believe as firmly
in all the pious reveries of this superstitious doctor as if he had
been promised for it a place in the paradise of Mahomet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Turkish Marchand-Philosophe then proceeds to
criticize the translations of M Von Hammer from the oriental tongues
and it must be confessed that he has established some proofs of gross
negligence if not of ignorance.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">It would be inconvenient to detail the various
instances alleged ïn this letter we shall select one or two as
examples of the rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the first place the letter writer has shewn by
various instances that M Von Hammer has misunderstood participles and
mere parts of speech for proper names and has consequently called into
existence nations which have only a “grammatical origin.”</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Of such nations you will find so large a number in M
de Hammer's book that you may make of them an empire more powerful
than that of Austria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Наvе you ever heard of such nations as these the
Tamlessans, the Anjars, the Shefnans, the Burghaz, the Esroussiyas,
the Ssafers, the Ssakars, the Ashans, the Gharams, the Kbolekhs, the
Muharikas, the Birkets?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All these people derive their birth from the pen of
the learned M de Hammer in exactly the same manner as the respectable
Ikiliars which signifies free will, opinion, M Von Hammer makes а
proper name and the brave gerundive nation of the Munfeshas.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Take for example the country of Birket (or the basin):
I will lay you a wager that you will not guess in a thousand trials
what country it is although it is well known to you. It a Russia my
dear Editor Efiendi!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is the way in which M de Hammer translates a
passage from the geography of Ahulfeda: “Okek is the boundary of the
саmр of the king of the Tartars of the country of Birket, which docs
not extend further.” Yet his majesty the king of Hama has condescended
to say in a manner perfectly intelligible to those who know his
language; “the encampments of the great horde of the Tartar sovereign
of the empire of Bergueh-khan extend as far as Oukek, but they do not
go beyond that point.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I need not remind you that Bergueh was one of the
successors of the famous Batu, the conqueror of Russia; but M.de
Hammer has confounded the name of this Mongol Khan with the Arabic
word birket, which signifies lake, pool, or basin, of which he has
made his wonderful “country of Birket.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">M.Von Hammer, it appears, has erected his hypothesis
as to the Asiatic origin of the Russian nation upon a passage in
Masoudi. Our philosopher gives M.Von Hammer’s translation, and
compares it with his own, “made according to the manner in which the
Arabic tongue and eastern geography are understood at Jaffa.”</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Certainly the discrepancy is not a little astonishing.
The term in Masoudi, which M.de Hammer considers to mean Russians, is
plainly shewn to signify no such thing; and the Turkish philosopher
maintains that such a critic and such a geographer as M.de Hammer
might deduce the origin of the Russians from the moon.</span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This lively and critical letter concludes in the following serious manner:</span></div>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">But I have written to much already, my dear Editor
Effendi, about a work which at Jaffa will infallibly be treated as it
deserves. I shall think I have fulfilled my object if my observations
shall inspire you and your readers with a proper distrust of the
translations which the learned Austrian orientalist pretends to make
of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish texts, and with which he is
continually inundating the literature of several European nations.
Such rhapsodies ought to excite the indignations of every lover of
science, because they embarrass the progress of oriental studies, upon
which they throw an unfavorable light, by making people believe that
the writings of the best authors are tissues of absurdities and
nonsense; and because they, moreover, propagate errors, by imposing
upon the good-nature of your laborious compilers, who adopt without
suspicion these wretched versions, and the false data which result
there from, and incorporate them in their works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To make the literary world acquainted with the
intrinsic value of this sort of materials, which it is incessantly
loaded with, under titles at once pompous and mysterious, is, in my
opinion, to render a service to science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/asiatic-journal-von-hammer">http://tinyurl.com/asiatic-journal-von-hammer</a></span></div>
</blockquote>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">In other words, by exposing Von Hammer, it is the
writer's desire to expose him for the “pulp fiction” writer he really
is. It is the hopes that the true scholarly world will disregard his
work regarding Russia and his other fabled findings.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Are you beginning to understand who Von Hammer is and what he wrote?</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Enter Gesenius</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="wilhelm gesenius" height="275" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/wilhelm%20gesenius.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="200" />It
is here where we pick up the Christian Lexicographer Wilhelm
Gesenius, professor of Theology at the University of Halle in Prussia.
It is he who played the key role in propagating the whole Russia
paradigm.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">You see, it is his Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon
originally published in German in 1827 and then later published in
English in 1846 where we are able to point the finger.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">In this work we see that Gesenius makes “Rosh” not
only a proper noun, but he is also professing that the word /
translation for the Rosh is in fact Russia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">See the word for Rosh in the Hebrew occurs in the
Authorized King James 598 times throughout the OT; and it is always
translated as a title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">head 349</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">chief 91</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">top 73</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">beginning 14</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">company 12</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">captain 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">sum 9</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">first 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">principal 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">chapiters 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">rulers 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nowhere is Rosh referenced as a land, an area, people or tribe.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">So where did Gesenius get this idea of Rosh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yep, you guessed it, Von Hammer.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="gesinius---hebrew-lexicon" height="612" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/gesinius---hebrew-lexicon.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="549" />In
fact you can see here in the 1846 printing that Gesenius gives Von
Hammer the credit in his Lexicon for Russia being Rosh as he
“discovered” it "<strong> in the Koran."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In fact, to this day you can go to any Gesenius Hebrew
and Chaldee Lexicon and still find the reference to the Koran and Von
Hammer. This has been right in front of our noses all this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Please, google it yourself and see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is it beginning to make sense here?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All these years, we have been teaching an idea which has turned into a doctrine which is based from the Koran and not scripture.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">But more than that I have to ask, is Gesenius truly checking his sources, or is he merely propagating an idea?</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">I could easily see how he might be propagating the idea, you see, Gesenius was not a historian.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">In his definition, Gesenius cites Byzantine era writer
Fosslan as a source of historical significance but goes no further.
Just a quick blurb and he is done with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gesenius does not give any real ancient sources to
which he can anchor the Rosh / Russia claim. Again, just the blurb and
it is over and he is done with.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">You can clearly see that he doesn’t even reference the Septuagint (LXX) which where the Rosh idea is clearly shown.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">In many other instances of his lexicon you can see
where he clearly references the Septuagint. So why not here? Rosh is
in the Septuagint, so why did Gesenius not reference at least so
called “ancient” document?</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Folks, this is the very document that many modern
scholars point to when they refer to when the point to a Rosh / Russia
scenario.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What I believe is that Gesenius was propagating an idea and not something based on scriptural fact.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Think about it logically for a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is the country Russia we are talking about here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They (Russia) are the supposed be "THE" invaders of
Israel and all we have is a short blurb from Gesenius with really no
details except his dogmatic statement being “<i>Undoubtedly the Russians?</i>”</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">This is rather uncharacteristic of the famed lexicographer.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Where is his proof that Rosh is “<i>Undoubtedly the Russians?</i>”</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">This point magnifies the fact that Gesenius leveraged the idea from the very popular writer, world traveler Von Hammer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gesenius is impressive and a great man of God, but it
must be remembered that Gesenius was a great lexicographer and
grammarian, not an authority on ancient history. He is making some
rather out of character moves in this statement regarding Rosh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Think about this for a moment, Gesenius is a man of
detail, he is a lexicographer, and the details are his job. So why is
he lacking the details on one of the scriptures most well known
players in the last days?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="aram---gesenius" height="564" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/aram---gesenius.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="304" />For example, here is what he has to say about Syria or Aram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As you can see Gesenius goes into great detail about the word Aram/Syria quoting verses, places, examples, ect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Compare that to Rosh and Russia’s definition and it seems to be lacking in the detail Gesenius was known for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Again it is this sort of evidence that points to that
possibility that Gesenius was more influenced by Von Hammers work,
than originating the idea himself or that of the earlier 10<sup>th</sup> century Fosslan.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">To give Gesenius credence, why would he question Von
Hammer? Von Hammer was a well known orientalist, world traveler and
an Austrian Barron who personally worked for the Austrian embassy in
Constantinople. The guy had some good credentials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But there is more that could have influenced him in point blank naming Rosh as Russia.</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">You see Russia was in the news… a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In fact 90% of the news about Russia was not good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1800…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a major European power, Russia could not escape the
wars involving revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Czar Pau became
an adamant opponent of France, and Russia joined Britain and Austria
in a war against France. Russian troops under one of Russia's most
famous generals, Aleksandr Suvorov, performed brilliantly in Italy and
Switzerland. Paul, however, reversed himself and abandoned his
allies. This reversal, coupled with increasingly arbitrary domestic
policies, sparked a coup, and in March 1801 Czar Paul was
assassinated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1812 Napoleon Invades Russia, Russia wins due to the winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian -Turkish War 1828-1829</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian-Murid War 1834-1859</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian Conquest of the Syr River Basin 1849-1854</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Crimean War with Russia, England, France 1853-1856 (this was a biggie)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian-Kokandian War 1864-1865</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian-Bukharan War 1865-1868</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian Conquest of Tashkent 1865</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian-Khivan War 1873</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian-Turkish War 1877-1878 (another major war)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anglo-Russian Crisis 1877-1878</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian Siege of Geok Tepe 1879-1881</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian Conquest of Merv 1884</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Russian-Afghan War 1885</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then there was the Jewish Pogroms in Russia 1903</span></div>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">An estimated 50,000 Russian Jews were murdered in a
series of massive pogroms that began at Kishinev, Bessarabia
(Moldova). The attacks, encouraged by the Russian government, did not
appreciably moderate popular unrest and the onset of the 1905
revolution; instead, they strengthened the growing revolutionary
movement, while also greatly multiplying emigration to America and
spurring the development of Zionism. Souce - <a href="http://www.onwar.com/">http://www.onwar.com</a></span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As you can see, just about every 5 -10 years Russia
was either invading someone, at war or in conquest of some area,
people or nation. They are the bad guys of Europe and they are
constantly wreaking havoc on the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>A Mistake That Dropped Through The Cracks?</strong></span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">On the 23rd of October, 1842, Gesenius died at the age
of fifty-seven. His manuscripts, papers, research, etc., were
entrusted to his friend, Prof. Rodiger, in order that he might
complete the work of Gesenius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A great amount of detail was given to make sure the works of Gesenius was properly given his rightly due.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is what the preface of Gesenius “ Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon says…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“This translation was conducted on the following plan :
Each root was taken as it stands in the "Thesaurus," and the "
Lexicon Manuale" was compared with it; such corrections or additions
being made as seemed needful : the root and derivatives were at once
translated, every Scripture reference being verified, and, when
needful, corrected. A faithful adherence to this plan must insure, it
is manifest, not only correctness in the work, but also much of the
value of the “Thesaurus," in addition to the “Lexicon Manuale "<br />Source - Gesenius’ Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon Preface – S.P.T. - SOME, February 24th, 1846.</span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So we can clearly see that the trustees of Gesenius’
work held him in very high regard and respect. Out of that I can see
that they did not want to deviate from Gesenius’ words, findings or
details. Couple this reverence with what Russia was doing in the world
and one can see how the “Rosh” definition was not questioned by the
trustees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Finally we come to the smoking gun that Von Hammer based his analysis on, the very crux of this “discovery.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ere the days of these (Meccans) the people of Noah, and the men of Rass2 and Themoud. Koran - Sura Qaf 50:12</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="q-15" height="869" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/q-15.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="542" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="q-15-cut-out" height="365" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/q-15-cut-out.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="612" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I personally do not speak Arabic, nor have a copy of
the Koran. So I asked my friend, Walid Shoebat, who happens to speak
Arabic and was a former Muslim to make sure this is in fact correct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is Walid’s comments…</span></div>
<blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="walid-shoebat-dir" height="147" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/authors-directory/walid-shoebat-dir.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="147" /><em>The Quranic reference is from Sura Qaf 50:12 which is more of Quranic fiction then a reference to Russia.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>Ibn Jarir stated that the dwellers of Ar-Rass were
the people of one of Thamud's villages. Allah sent a prophet to them
called Huzlah Ibn Safwan.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>They denied and killed him, so Allah destroyed
them. Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Al-Hassan narrated: "The dwellers of
Ar-Rass had a well sufficing them and their land. They also had a just
and good-hearted king. When he died, they were much grieved for him.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>After four days Satan took his form and said: 'I
was not dead, but I kept absent from you to see your reaction.' They
were very joyful. He commanded them to set up a curtain between him
and then and told them that he would never die. A great number of them
believed him and were fascinated with and worshipped him.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>Then Allah sent them a prophet telling them that
it was Satan who was addressing them from behind the curtain. He
forbade them to worship him and commanded them to worship only Allah
and no partner with Him.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>In spite of that, they killed their prophet and threw his body into a well. Therefore, Allah destroyed them and their homes."</em></span></div>
</blockquote>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">But how did Von Hammer make the connection?</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">He dropped the “T” from Tiras found in the Table of Nations that is referenced in Genisis 10:2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Von Hammer notes that the earliest form of recorded
Semitic language they had the tendency to drop or change an initial
"T" sound in a name; specially if the initial "T" was followed by an
"r" sound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was not a conclusive finding nor a “norm” in grammatical studies. It was purely a speculation on that part of Von Hammer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He figured that If you drop the initial "T" from Tiras
you are left with "ras" and that provided the “proof” he needed to
write his treatise “Sur Les Origines Russes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If one continues on with this form of mental
gymnastics and word play it makes complete “logical sense” to Von
Hammer and the others that Ras or Rass as found in the Koran is the
very same thing spoken about in Ezekiel 38:2 which has the Hebrew word
“Rosh.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Von Hammer’s conclusion was naturally they must be the same people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What has taken place is our Turkish philosopher’s worst dreams came true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The western world latched on to sloppy work of Von Hammer through the respected work of Wilhelm Gesenius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Because Gesenius’s work is so respected, this has been
passed down for the last 150+ years through many of the great bible
prophecy teachers and theologians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Because it has been taught for over 150+ years and is
backed by Gesenius, the idea of Rosh / Russia is now a cemented
doctrine of Christendom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No one ever thought that Gesenius might not check his
resources, but it appears that he did just that and did not conduct
his due diligence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today Russia being Gog /Magog has become what we call in the modern vernacular as the “gospel” truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Von Hammer’s error to lives on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And it all originates from the lie we call the Koran.<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>THE MYSTERY OF ROSH Pt II</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In part one I show where Gesenius named Von Hammer as his
“historical” source in naming Rosh as “undoubtedly Russia.” That is a
pretty dogmatic statement when we find that Von Hammer was really
nothing but a pulp fiction author. I also show that this whole “Rosh”
idea is actually inspired by the Islamic Koran and in fact Gesenius
gives the Koran the credit in his own lexicon.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But in our journey to discover the truth, we uncovered yet another problem.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The idea of Rosh is based on the Septuagint. In fact you can tell
if a bible is based on the Septuagint by looking at Ezekiel 38:2</span><br />
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Septuagint – Eze 38:2 – Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, στήρισον τὸ
πρόσωπόν σου ἐπὶ Γωγ καὶ τὴν γῆν τοῦ Μαγωγ, ἄρχοντα Ρως, Μοσοχ καὶ
Θοβελ, καὶ προφήτευσον ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 38:2 (NASB) “Son of man, set your face toward
Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 38:2 (NAS 1977) “Son of man, set your face
toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and
Tubal, and prophesy against him,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 38:2 (RV) Son of man, set thy face toward Gog,
of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and
prophesy against him,</span></div>
</blockquote>
<div align="left">
<span style="font-size: small;">Here is what the King James 1611 AD Authorized Version states…</span></div>
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 38:2 (KJV) Son of man, set thy face against Gog,
the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him,</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><img align="right" alt="King-James-I-England.jpg" border="0" height="343" src="http://www.acousticprophecy.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ac894_King-James-I-England.jpg" width="241" />Note, no “ROSH”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Prior to King James and his Authorized Version we had the Geneva
and Bishops bible that were the mainstay of Christian scripture.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Geneva 1587 AD Bible states Ezekiel 38:2 and the following…</span><br />
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 38:2 (GEN) Sonne of man, set thy face against
Gog, and against the lande of Magog, the chiefe prince of Meshech and
Tubal, and prophecie against him,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Source – Geneva Bible – IMPRINTED AT LONDON by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Qveenes Maiestie. 1587. Cum priuilegio.</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">Again, no “ROSH”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Finally the Bishops 1568 AD Bible states Ezekiel 38:2 in the following…</span><br />
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 38:2 (BISH) Thou sonne of man, set thy face
towarde Gog, the land of Magog, which is the chiefe prince at Mesech
and Tubal: prophecie against him,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Source – Bishops Bible – The holie Bible conteynyng the olde Testament and the newe, 1568</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">And again, no “ROSH”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The word for Rosh in the Hebrew occurs in the Authorized King James
598 times throughout the OT; and it is always translated as a title.</span><br />
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">head 349 chief 91 <br />top 73 <br />beginning 14 <br />company 12 <br />captain 10 <br />sum 9 <br />first 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">principal 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">chapiters 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">rulers 2</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">Nowhere in scripture is Rosh referenced as a land, an area, people or tribe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Eatons Bible Dictionary states the following:</span><br />
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Rosh</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Eze_38:2, Eze_38:3; Eze_39:1) is rendered “chief”
in the Authorized Version. It is left untranslated as a proper name in
the Revised Version. Some have supposed that the Russians are here
meant, as one of the three Scythian tribes of whom Magog was the
prince. They invaded the land of Judah in the days of Josiah.
Herodotus, the Greek historian, says: “For twenty-eight years the
Scythians ruled over Asia, and things were turned upside down by their
violence and contempt.”</span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Strongs Exhaustive Concordance states the following about Rosh</span></div>
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">H7218</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ראשׁ</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">rô’sh</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">roshe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the
head (as most easily shaken), whether literally or figuratively (in
many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.): – band, beginning,
captain, chapiter, chief (-est place, man, things), company, end, X
every [man], excellent, first, forefront, ([be-]) head, height, (on)
high (-est part, [priest]), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum,
top.</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">Why doesn’t the Authorized King James, The Geneva and the Bishop’s
Bible not contain the ROSH proper noun? Instead it maintains the
proper hermeneutical use of the Rosh adjective meaning Chief.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why? Because they are not based off of the Septuagint.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So what is the Septuagint?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek that is
believed to have been translated around the third century B.C.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><img align="right" alt="septuagint.jpg" border="0" height="547" src="http://www.acousticprophecy.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/94453_septuagint.jpg" width="292" /></strong><br /><strong>Septuagint Background</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Upon the death of Alexander in 332 B.C., one of his four generals,
named Ptolemy Lagus, took over Egypt as King. He crowned himself
Ptolemy I Soter which literally means “Ptolemy the Savior”. It is
Ptolemy who built the Great Library of Alexandria, the center of
knowledge, but more than that, it was the home of Gnosticism.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Once Ptolemy died, Ptolemy II Philadelphus (r. 285-246 BC)
continued his father’s legacy. In his effort to make the Great Library
the best center of learning in the known world, Ptolemy Philadelphus
sought to translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek. The
problem was that his staff found Hebrew to be a difficult language to
understand, and they were not sure of the many phrases or meanings
found in the Hebrew text. So</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ptolemy appointed a team of Gnostic seventy scholars, each fluent
in Hebrew and in Greek, and assigned to them the task of translating
the Hebrew text. Legend has it that he had 72 scholars who translated
the Septuagint in 72 days, thus the Roman numeral abbreviation of LXX
or 70.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Here lies the problem, it was these Gnostic scholars who translated the Hebrew text into the Greek.<strong> </strong><br /><strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>What is Gnosticism?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is based off of the Greek word gnōsis, which translates to knowledge.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Gnosticism is a diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting
of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that
humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an
imperfect god. In the days of old, they pull both from Christianity
and Judaism and formed it into a mysterious hodge podge of esoteric
beliefs. A close modern day equivalent is the Theosophical Society
founded by Madame Helena PetrovaBlavatsky. Like the Gnostics of old,
they are seekers of knowledge as well as followers of the “Bearer of
Light” (knowledge) Lucifer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is these Gnostics that while translating the Septuagint from
Hebrew to Greek added to the text as well as left out script. It is
noted that the Alexandrian School is recognized as one of the greatest
sources of corruption, and it is the Alexandrian influence which
permeates some of the oldest manuscripts, The Septuagint being a
primary along with Vaticanus B, Sinaiticus Aleph. A side note, the
Septuagint also contains the un-canonized books of the Apocrypha which
is not found in the original Hebrew either.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />For those who will say that the original 1611 KJV included the
Apocrypha, The King James translators knew the Apocrypha was not
scripture, so they placed it BETWEEN the Old and New Testament as a
HISTORICAL DOCUMENT, not as scripture.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It should be known that the Septuagint is not inspired and is a not
a preserved text of scripture. Christ as well as the apostles did not
quote from it, even when it was suppose to be in existence during
their life time. The very fact that the Septuagint’s history and
Gnostic character should be proof enough to give one pause for
thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The light cannot have anything to do with the dark.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Scripture says…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Luke 11:36 (KJV) If thy whole body therefore be
full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light,
as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.</span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jack Moorman in his book “Forever Settled” observes:</span></div>
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“The original LXX version of Job was much shorter
than the Hebrew; it was subsequently filled in with interpretations
from Theodotion. Proverbs contains things not in the Hebrew text at
all, and Hebrew sentiments are freely altered to suit the Greek
outlook. The rendering of Daniel was so much of a paraphrase that it
was replaced, perhaps in the first century AD, by a later translation
(generally attributed to Theodotion, but differing from his principles
and antedating him), and the original LXX rendering is nowadays to be
found in only two MSS and the Syriac. One of the translators of
Jeremiah sometimes rendered Hebrew words by Greek words that conveyed
similar sound but utterly dissimilar meaning” (Moorman, Forever
Settled).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dr. Donald Waite author of “The Defense of the King James Bible” summarizes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“It can be clearly seen … that the Septuagint is
inaccurate and inadequate and deficient as a translation. To try to
reconstruct the Hebrew Text (as many connected with the modern
versions are attempting to do) from such a loose and unacceptable
translation would be like trying to reconstruct the Greek New
Testament Text from the Living Bible of Ken Taylor!!” (Waite, The
Defense of the King James Bible)”</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">The Septuagint and modern translations based upon the LXX
translates the Hebrew word Rosh in all its uses by the Greek word
“Ros” or “Rhos” as a proper noun of a people and a place.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Septuagint is a questionable document and it is one of the
“smoking guns” where the whole Rosh = Russia paradigm originate. Both
the American Version and English Version both utilize the LXX as a
primary document. Both of these versions were also brought into
existence around the late 1800s, early 1900s.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is these modern versions having the “Rosh” error, coupled with
Gesenius’ work amplified the Rosh = the Russia paradigm and cast the
whole idea into what has become hard…concrete… doctrine.<strong> </strong><br /><strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The Septuagint – Proper Interpretation – Rules and Hermeneutics </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Authorized King James Version, the Geneva and the Bishops all
allow for the Golden Rule of Interpretation, The law of recurrence,
and the rule of a text apart from the context is a pretext.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The use of the noun “the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal” found in the modern versions does not.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Let’s examine this for a moment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There are established rules of interpretation. These rules apply to
all scripture, including the prophetic pages like we find in Ezekiel.<br /><img align="right" alt="Dr-David-L-Cooper.jpg" border="0" height="455" src="http://www.acousticprophecy.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/85641_Dr-David-L-Cooper.jpg" width="291" /><br />The
late Dr. L Cooper, the Founder of Biblical Research Society coined
the most famous of rules known as the “Golden Rule of Interpretation.”<br /><strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The Golden Rule of Interpretation</strong></span><br />
<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“When the plain sense of Scripture males common
sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary,
ordinary, usual, literal meaning, unless the fact of the immediate
context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and
fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise. “</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">In other words, this law states that ALL biblical passages are to
be taken exactly as they read unless there is something in the text
indicating that it should be taken some other way than literally.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I go back and remind you that “Rosh” in the Hebrew occurs 598 times
throughout the OT; and it is always literally translated as a title
when dealing with a person. The defenders of Rosh as a people or place
do not observe that.<br /><strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The law of recurrence</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This law describes the fact that in some passages of scripture
there exist the recording of an event, then it is followed by a second
recording of the same event but with more or less detail.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In fact Ezekiel 38:1-23 and 39:1-16 is an excellent example of the law of recurrence.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ezekiel 38:1-23 gives a complete account of the invasion of Israel
from the north and the subsequent destruction of the invading army.
This is followed by the second block of scripture, Ezekiel 39:1-16,
which repeats some of the account given in block one with added
details regarding the destruction of this invading army.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Often readers see Ezekiel 39 as a continuation of 38, but in fact
it is repeating the story from different prophetic vantage points.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In both cases Rosh is not used as a proper noun for a people or
place, but in fact support the Rosh adjective meaning chief, leader,
head, ect.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The defenders of the Rosh=Russia paradigm often point to the NASB,
AV,EV, RSV, ect as their proof but ignore the fact that all of these
are based upon questionable error prone text found in the Septuagint.<br /><strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>A Text apart From The Context is a Pretext</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A verse can only mean what it means in its context and must not be
pulled out of its context. When it is pulled out of context, it is
often presented as meaning something that it cannot mean within the
context.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">As I have shown “Rosh” in the Hebrew occurs 598 times throughout
the OT; and it is always translated as a title. The defenders of Rosh
as a people or place do not observe that and in fact ignore the
context of “Rosh” being “Chief, leader, head” and replace it with
people.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I ask again, if this is the true use of the word Rosh, why didn’t God make that clear?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why is Rosh seen as Chief, Top, Leader, ect 598 times in scripture
but for this one and only time found in Ezekiel 38:2 – 3 all of a
sudden it is a people or a place?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The defenders of the Rosh = Russia Paradigm are blatantly
disregarding this rule. The verse clearly shows and stands for Chief,
leader, head. That is the context that is clearly presented.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Let’s take it from another angle.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Hebrew word s being used are “nish” “rosh” which equals “prince
chief” when literally translated; this is how the original Hebrew
(Massoretic text) renders this.<br />“Nish” “Rosh” clearly does not equal Russia.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But the defenders of the Rosh = Russia paradigm stand on the
wording in the Septuagint, which is a Greek Translation of the Hebrew.<br /><img align="right" alt="ages_strongs_lg.jpg" border="0" height="257" src="http://www.acousticprophecy.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c415e_ages_strongs_lg.jpg" width="185" /><br />Let’s review the terms “Nish” and “Rosh” in the Strong’s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">H5387</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">נשׂא נשׂיא</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">nâśîy’ nâśi’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">naw-see’, naw-see’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
From H5375; properly an exalted one, that is, a king or sheik; also a
rising mist: – captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.
</span><blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">H7218</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ראשׁ</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">rô’sh</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">roshe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the
head (as most easily shaken), whether literally or figuratively (in
many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.): – band, beginning,
captain, chapiter, chief (-est place, man, things), company, end, X
every [man], excellent, first, forefront, ([be-]) head, height, (on)
high (-est part, [priest]), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum,
top.</span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">The term “Chief Prince” clearly works well when we translate Hebrew
into English. The context properly conveys a strong leader of leaders
within the nations mentioned in Ezekiel 38. He is the “head”(rosh) of
a confederacy which goes against Israel.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In the original Hebrew (Massoretic Hebrew Text) we see the accents
of “tiphha and Zaqeph-gadol. Now for those of you with Hebrew
knowledge you should note that the Tiphha appears under the resh of
the Hebrew word – ‘rosh’; while the Zaqeph-gadol appears on the top of
the sin of the Hebrew word ‘nish’ (nasi).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So what does this mean?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Whenever the Zaqeph-gadol accent appears, it is always used in connection with a pause.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Are you lost yet? Stay with me and do not skip this. It is really important as I will show you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Christ said that every jot and every tittle matters. Based upon
this statement, Christ could not have ever quoted from the Septuagint
with all its errors as well as being a translation from Hebrew to
Greek even though it was believed to be in existence in His day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Zaqeph-gadol accent is the Hebrew mark for a pause in speech.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In Hebrew it reads…</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">“the prince (Nish), — PAUSE – chief (Rosh) of Meschech and Tubal”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So reading the verse would go something like this when literally translated.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Vs2….set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince, – -
PAUSE — chief of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him…</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Vs3…”Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the prince, – - PAUSE — chief of Meschech and Tubal.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But Ray… Scripture reads Chief Prince, not Prince Chief.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Excellent point!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Being from the western world we read left to right, where as Hebrew is read right to left.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When looking at Hebrew Prince Chief = Chief Prince. Simply put, it is backwards due to the Hebrew.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When reading these verses and being presented in the proper context this makes absolute sense.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But let’s take what the defenders of the Rosh = Russia paradigm and put it to the same test.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Here is what their version sounds like … ” O Gog, the nish (prince) rosh (Russia) of Meshech and Tubal.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In their version there is no pause as Zaqeph-gadol accent shows.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But even with a pause, “Prince “PAUSE” Russia of Mechech and Tubal”
it just does not sound right and it makes no grammatical sense what
so ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I mean what is “Prince Russia of Mechech and Tubal?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Do you see what I am showing here? When read in proper context the
Rosh = Russia version kind of sounds like gibberish. Don’t you agree?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In fact, their very verbiage and context does not make sense what so ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But what surprises me the most is that authors, teachers and
scholars would rather lean on the Gnostic inspired Septuagint than
stand on the original Massoretic Hebrew text.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why are they leaning on a translation, Greek to Hebrew, and refuse to go to the source, the Hebrew .</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Jewish people were chosen to be the oracles of God’s Word, is that not correct?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If that is the case then why go to some translation the comes from
Egypt when you have the very best source already available, the
Massoretic Hebrew text?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Folks, when scripture fits, we must submit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">As we have shown here scripture, the Massoretic Hebrew text vs. the
Greek Septuagint, does in fact fit and it is supported by the proper
rules of interpretation and hermeneutics where the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Septuagint does not.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So I ask, why the unwillingness to submit to what is clearly shown in scripture?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why all the mental gymnastics?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why the need to make something out which is not there?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But here is THE BIG QUESTION…</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why are we looking at Russia and not Turkey?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">These are questions that we need to ask the authors, teachers and scholars.</span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379626456369881751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5203927116546394035.post-27774775927018156772012-04-03T09:59:00.003-07:002012-04-03T09:59:21.396-07:00America & God's Judgment Pt. 6 - Israel's Captivity Took Place in Two Stages<div class="article-rel-wrapper" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="obama-medved-410-200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/obama-medved-410-200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" />In 721 BC –The Assyrian invasion took place. The northern kingdom of Israel was taken into captivity.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Hezekiah, who was ruling Judah, he was a good king. He observed the
ways of God and he listened to Isaiah the prophet of God. Judah was
spared, Israel was captured.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Years later a new king came to power. His name was Coniah , son of
Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah. (1) Because Coniah was evil,
and turned his back upon God, worshipped other gods, Judah's conquered.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But it was not conquered by the Assyrians, no; they were conquered by a greater and newer power, the Babylonians.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The ground upon which the nation was dedicated by King Solomon was
destroyed, the heart of Israel, Jerusalem and the temple. Babylon, a
greater and stronger power took over not only Israel, but Judah as well
killing over 100,000 Jews. All of the land was now in captivity because
they did not repent. Their evil leaders turned from God and God judged
the entire nation.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">After many years of rebellion, in spite of God's warning signs,
Israel still did not repent and finally the judgment came. The Northern
part of Israel would be taken by Assyria. Then Judah, would be taken to
Babylon where they would remain for 70 years.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Following In The Same Footsteps as Israel Took 2700 Years Ago</b></span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We see that through God's judgment Israel is scattered. Fast forward
to our nation turning from God and instead of being "scattered" We have
become prisoners in our own country. Our nation is occupied and the
occupation is growing stronger and stronger every day. We have bowed to
our attackers and become subject to them.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We do not want to admit this, but it is true. Many of our God given
freedoms have been lost, and what has been put in place is a form of
double standards.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Our occupiers call it Dhimmitude.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Here is how Wikipedia defines Dhimmitude…</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Dhimmitude is a neologism first found in French denoting an attitude
of concession, surrender and appeasement towards Islamic demands. It is
derived by adding the productive suffix -tude to the Arabic language
adjective dhimmi, which literally means protected and refers to a
non-Muslim subject of a sharia law state. (2)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Like Israel</b></span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">When Assyria, the inventors of terrorism, was the world power, Israel
was captured and her people exiled northward to the area of the Middle
East.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The captivities began in approximately 740 BC, when the tribes of
Reuben, Gad, and eastern half-tribe of Manasseh were carried away by one
of the first successful Assyrian invasions.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This is recorded in both 2 Kings and 1 Chronicles …</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2 Kings 15:29 (KJV) In the days of Pekah
king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and
Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">1 Chronicles 5:26 (KJV) And the God of
Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of
Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought
them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this
day.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="daniel-luckenbill" height="300" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/daniel-luckenbill.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="300" />Daniel Luckenbill, author of " Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylon" states the following…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Assyrian cuneiform mention 27,290
captives were taken from Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom of
Israel, by the hand of Sargon II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sargon records his first campaign on the walls of the royal palace at Dur-Sarraku (Khorsabad):</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In my first year of reign *** the people
of Samaria *** to the number of 27,290 ... I carried away. Fifty
chariots for my royal equipment I selected. The city I rebuilt. I made
it greater than it was before. People of the lands I had conquered I
settled therein. My official (Tartan) I placed over them as governor.
(3)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">So as we see after many years of rebellion, in spite of God's
warnings, Israel still did not repent and finally the judgment came.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This judgment was to come as captivity in two stages. First the
northern part of Israel would be taken by Assyria. Later, the southern
part, called Judah, would be taken to Babylon where they would remain
for 70 years.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Like Israel, I believe that 9-11 was our first judgment. We have been
occupied by the modern ancestors of the Assyrians, the very same who
invented terrorism. Instead of being captive in a foreign land, we are
now captive in our own. We (Christians) are slowly being subjected to
live under the unwritten rules of Dhimmitude, but those rules are slowly
being put down as law, in favor of anything but Christianity. Creeping
Sharia is taking place and I see more and more of our land is being
taken captive.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Many of you may be doubting that we are in fact occupied.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There is a simple way to prove it.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Go to your town's main square and start protesting something, let's
say evolution or the Catholic Church. You hold signs, scream at the top
of your lungs, march around, etc.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">People are going to look at you as some sort of nut case, many will laugh and mock you, but you will not garner much attention.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="voting" height="207" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/voting.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="275" />Now
go to that same place and start holding signs, scream at the top of
your lungs, march around protesting Islam and what will happen?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">People will be fearful, police will be called, you will probably be
shut down in a moment's notice all out of fear of retaliation by those
who occupy our land.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Don't think it is true? Then I challenge you to try it yourself.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As I pointed out, God is not a respecter of persons, but He does honor the office of responsibility.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The office of Responsibility is ordained by God. So it does not
matter what that "person" believes, it is the office with which that
person holds that is important.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I know that it is hard for people to separate the two, but there is a
difference. There is the person and then there is the office.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">God deals with the office of responsibility. This is why it is so
vitally important that when we elect people into positions of
responsibility that we put God fearing, God loving men in those offices.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">That is why it is so important that our leaders are God fearing men,
because it is their "worldview", be it Biblical, Humanistic, Atheistic,
Hindu or Muslim, that will dictate their actions when they are holding
that office of responsibility.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Over and over again since 9-11 our leaders have stood in defiance to "our enemies" but more than that, in defiance to God.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Not once since 9-11 has our nation's leader called for the nation to repent and turn to God asking Him to heal our land.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Here is what George W Bush said the Tuesday night, after terrorist attacks on New York and Washington…</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="president-george-w-bush" height="300" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/president-george-w-bush.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="415" />"Our
first priority is to get help to those who have been injured and to
take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the
world from further attacks.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The functions of our government continue
without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington which had to be
evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight and will
be open for business tomorrow.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business as well.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The search is underway for those who are
behind these evil acts. I've directed the full resources for our
intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible
and bring them to justice. <b>We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them</b>.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I appreciate so very much the members of
Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on
behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have
called to offer their condolences and assistance.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">America and our friends and allies join with all those who want peace and security in the world and <b>we stand together to win the war against terrorism</b>.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Tonight I ask for your prayers for
all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered,
for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I
pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken
through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."</i></b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is a day when all Americans from
every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America
has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. "(4)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Our leader at the time of the attack did not seek God's Forgiveness, nor did he recognize the fact that we were being judged.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Instead of calling us to humble ourselves and call upon Jehovah God, he calls upon "a power greater than any of us."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">He continues the defiant claim that many in congress , senate, state and local leaders proclaim.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">" We stand together to win the war against terrorism."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">" We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for
justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do
so this time."(4)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">September 13, 2001 was a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for
the Victims Of the Terrorist Attacks. Proclaimed by the President of the
United States of America.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The following is the text of that proclamation.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001,
terrorists attacked America in a series of despicable acts of war. They
hijacked four passenger jets, crashed two of them into the World Trade
Center's twin towers and a third into the Headquarters of the U.S.
Department of Defense at the Pentagon, causing great loss of life and
tremendous damage. The fourth plane crashed in the Pennsylvania
countryside, killing all on board but falling well short of its intended
target apparently because of the heroic efforts of passengers on board.
This carnage, which caused the collapse of both Trade Center towers and
the destruction of part of the Pentagon, killed more than 250 airplane
passengers and thousands more on the ground.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Civilized people around the world
denounce the evildoers who devised and executed these terrible attacks.
Justice demands that those who helped or harbored the terrorists be
punished -- and punished severely. The enormity of their evil demands
it. We will use all the resources of the United States and our
cooperating friends and allies to pursue those responsible for this
evil, until justice is done. We mourn with those who have suffered great
and disastrous loss. All our hearts have been seared by the sudden and
sense-less taking of innocent lives.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We pray for healing and for the strength to serve and encourage one another in hope and faith.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I call on every American family and the
family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance,
honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks
and comforting those who lost loved ones. <b>We will persevere through
this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing
and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and
united, "one Nation under God."</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH,
President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do
hereby proclaim Friday, September 14, 2001, as a National Day of Prayer
and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on September
11, 2001.<b> I ask that the people of the United States and places of
worship mark this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance with noontime
memorial services, the ringing of bells at that hour, and evening
candlelight remembrance vigils. I encourage employers to permit their
workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services
to pray for our land. I invite the people of the world who share our
grief to join us in these solemn observances.</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
my hand this thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand one, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the two hundred and twenty-sixth.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">[signed] GEORGE W. BUSH</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Not once does Bush recognize and proclaim that our nation has turned
from God. Not once does he call our nation to humble ourselves, seek His
face and seek repentance.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">What he does proclaim is a continued defiance in the face of the enemies and the face of God.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The answer at that time was a simple answer…</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) If my people,
which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But instead we stood proud with words like "We Will."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">" We will persevere"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"We will find healing and recovery"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"We remain strong and united"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But here is the statement that send shivers down my spine, a
statement that many people did not "hear" and what I believe is a
prophecy by our leader proclaimed upon our nation.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"All our hearts <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">have been seared</span></b> by the sudden and sense-less taking of innocent lives."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Websters 1828 Dictionary defines seared as the following..</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Seared</b><b> </b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>SE'ARED</b>, pp. [from <i>sear</i>.] Burnt on the furface; cauterized; hardened;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Our hearts have been hardened, and in fact our hearts continue to be hardened.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Folks, our president, due to the office of responsibility basically
proclaimed a curse upon us as a nation. Knowingly or unknowingly the
curse was uttered and to this day our hearts are still hardened.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But Bush is not the only president. Our current president, Barrack
Husain Obama - one who sympathizes with the growing occupying enemy; has
continued that stance in defiance.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Barrack Husain Obama's inaugural address January 20, 2009 reiterated
the vow of defiance, to rebuild, to begin anew, and rise from the ashes
on our own and without the collective prayers and sanction from God.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="obama-speech-415x458" height="344" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/obama-speech-415x458.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="311" />Instead of seeking God's face, he kept stating.."WE WILL"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">“…Starting today, we must pick ourselves
up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. …
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The state of our economy calls for action, bold and swift. And <b>we will act,</b> not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>We will build</b> the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>We'll restore</b> science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>We will harness</b> the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And <b>we will transform</b> our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>All this we can do. All this we will do…</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Like many that night, I remember watching this in our own home. This was history being made and it was “The Moment.”</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But I also was troubled as a Christian recognizing the unrelenting pride and determination when President Obama stated…</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">…<b>We will not apologize</b> for our way of life, <b>nor will we waver</b>
in its defense. And for those who seek to advance their aims by
inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our
spirit is stronger and cannot be broken -- you cannot outlast us, and <b>we will defeat you</b>…</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I was watching as Obama gave this speech. My stomach sank and a
moment of dread came over me. Did the American people realize what this
man just said?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Like President Bush cursing us with a searing/hardening of our
hearts, I believe our current president has "prophesied" our doom.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As with Israel, God uses the enemies to judge the nation.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In the past I have written showing the similarities between America and what took place in Israel found in Isaiah 5.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Our current president has knowingly or unknowingly basically spit in
the face of God's judgment. In doing this, I believe that he has cursed
us as to how I believe God will react to our defiance.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that He will act against us as he acted against Israel, the only other nation to be dedicated to Jehovah God.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">He will lift up an enemy (ensign) from a far and they shall attack with speed swiftly.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Here is how Isaiah describes it…</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Isaiah 5:25-30 (KJV) Therefore is the
anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched
forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did
tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">26 And he will lift up an ensign to the
nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth:
and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">27 None shall be weary nor stumble among
them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their
loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their
bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their
wheels like a whirlwind:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">29 Their roaring shall be like a lion,
they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of
the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">30 And in that day they shall roar
against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land,
behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="searing-heart" height="256" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/searing-heart.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="320" />Obama
has uttered a curse upon our nation, just as President Bush did with
"searing our hearts". Both while holding the position and office of
responsibility.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Again, this is a position of responsibility that is ordained by
Jehovah God that over sees a nation that is dedicated to Jehovah God,
Creator of All.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The curse of our seared hearts continues to show itself. We are a
nation that refuses to turn from our wicked ways. We refuse to repent,
we continue to stand in defiance. It is that defiance that will be our
down fall.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But there is still the remnant.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Those who recognize and see clearly that 9-11 was in fact a judgment know that we need to turn our nation from its evil path.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">There are those of us who are bible believing Christians which recognize the need to heed and submit to 2 Chronicles 7:14.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">If we as a nation refuses, what will follow will be like Babylon
swooping down on Israel. God warned His people with Assyria. They heeded
His warning but for only a season. Eventually the whole of Israel was
judged though her enemies, the mighty Babylonian kingdom.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Jehovah God raised up an ensign from a far and they attacked with
speed swiftly, over taking Israel, capturing them and put them in
bondage.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that this to will be our fate for not turning back to Him.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As proclaimed, our hearts have been seared.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Could we change? We could, but to be honest I do not see it to be
very likely because our hearts are in fact seared / hardened against Him
and instead. Only God can change that hardening of a nations heart.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">That January 13th 2001 we prayed for healing, but skipped the part
about " shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">On 9-11 we were attacked by the ancestors of Assyrians, inventors of
terrorism, and now they occupy this land; growing like a cancer.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But my fear is not that, my fear is the mighty Babylonian kingdom.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Like Israel, we had our version of "Assyrians" attack us through God's judgment.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that we will have our own version of "Babylon" also attack us, that is if we do not turn from our wicked ways.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">"Our Babylon" has been growing again in might. In fact they have
re-elected a president who ruled with a mighty hand. Once his term for
president ran out, he ran for prime minister. While in both position,
ultimate power over the his country never wavered. Just recently his
country had elections for president and he ran again and recently won
the office once again, continuing his power over his country.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">For some time they have hated us. Their plan of our destruction has
been taking place over 100 years. Proof of this is staring us right in
the face from the oval office.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Now I am going to go out on a limb here and say that if you are one
of the remnant, you know in the pit of your stomach who we believe "Our
Babylon" is.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">This morning Tracye gave a gasp as she was reviewing the morning's
news, something that I have not yet done because I am putting today's
issue together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The headline that shocked her was …</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><img alt="obama-medved" height="270" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/obama-medved.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="360" />During missile defense talk, Obama tells Medvedev he'll have 'more flexibility' after election</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">President Obama assured Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev Monday that he'd have "more flexibility" after the
November election, during a conversation that appeared to focus on the
touchy issue of missile defense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Obama, during a sit-down with Medvedev in
Seoul, urged Moscow to give him "space" until after November. The
conversation was relayed by a TV pool producer who listened to the
recording from a Russian journalist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility," Obama told Medvedev.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Obama appeared to be asking Medvedev to
relay this point to Vladimir Putin, who recently won election to return
to the Russian presidency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"On all these issues, but particularly
missile defense ... this can be solved but it's important for him to
give me space," Obama said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Medvedev told the president he understood the "message about space. Space for you ..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>After Obama noted he'd have more
flexibility in the future, Medvedev told him: "I understand. I will
transmit this information to Vladimir."<i> (Putin)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">U.S.-backed plans for a missile defense
shield in Europe have been a sensitive subject in Russia, and one that
Putin exploited during his presidential campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The White House, though, downplayed the conversation between Obama and Medvedev. (6) - emphasis mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I want to state right here right now that I am not a prophet, nor do I
claim any prophetic gift. I am just a watchman on the wall who is
looking out across the vast area. I cannot say with any certainty what
will happen.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I have been warning about what I call The Coming Storm for some time
now. I believe that God will send "minor" storms to continue to try to
wake us up. We see that in natural disasters that are supposed to happen
once a century, but seem to becoming the norm yearly.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that He is using the sabbatical year as another means to get our attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9-11 was a sabbatical year and the 2008 fall of Wall Street, which dove tails along with 9-11 was a sabbatical year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next sabbatical year will be 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>The Remnant</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I also believe that God has set apart a remnant, watchmen who had the
foresight to see the enemy coming and hid themselves just like those
did in ancient Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Scripture says…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Proverbs 22:3 (KJV) A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In fact several chapters later Solomon repeats himself word for word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Proverbs 27:12 (KJV) A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The watchmen on the wall have been putting two and two together,
trying to warn our nation. See I am not alone in this, in my research I
have found others who also are saying the same thing.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I get calls and emails weekly, out of the blue from people feeling
the same "urgency" to prepare and be ready, just like Tracye and I.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that once the storm hits we will have a chance to share the
gospel, but even more, help establish the spreading of the gospel like
we once did many years ago. Very few good, Godly missionaries are going
out to all the world. In fact many are coming home because no one wants
to support them anymore.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that we have a chance. If a nation can be saved due to the
prayers of one Godly man, then we can make a difference here.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Christ told us to "Occupy Till He Returns."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">To be ready "in season and out of season"</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">And to "Always be ready to share the hope that is within us."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I believe like Noah and Joseph, we need to prepare to "survive the coming storm."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The only thing that will save this nation is returning to Jehovah
God, and the only way to do that is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ,
showing that people are lost and destined to an eternity to Hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The answer?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) If my people,
which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">More To Follow ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Endnotes </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1- Jeremiah 22:11-30</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmitude">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmitude</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3 - Luckenbill, Daniel David. <i>Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylon</i> - ISBN 1-85417-049-X</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4 - <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-11/us/bush.speech.text_1_attacks-deadly-terrorist-acts-despicable-acts?_s=PM">http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-11/us/bush.speech.text_1_attacks-deadly-terrorist-acts-despicable-acts?_s=PM</a>:US</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5 - <a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911memonationaldayofprayerandremembrance.htm">http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911memonationaldayofprayerandremembrance.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6 - <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/26/obama-tells-medvedev-hell-have-more-flexibility-after-election-during-missile/">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/26/obama-tells-medvedev-hell-have-more-flexibility-after-election-during-missile/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><img alt="judgment-pt5-410-x200" height="200" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/judgment-pt5-410-x200.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="410" />In this series I have been trying to show that God has caused judgment to come upon our nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He has been trying to get our attention, but instead of heeding the judgment, we have ignored it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In fact instead of humbling ourselves and seeking His forgiveness, we
have gone in the opposite direction and have stood in defiance to God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I have shown that God is not a respecter of men, but He does in fact
honor and listen to offices of responsibility. When these offices speak,
make supplication, stand in defiance, God hears these and acts upon a
nation either through blessing or through curse.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Out of ignorance, our leaders have cursed our nation reinforcing the defiance by speaking a curse found in Isaiah 9:10.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the
sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." - (KJV)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I have shown that the ground of consecration, the ground our nation
was dedicated to God has in fact become the ground of judgment. Just as
ancient Israel ground of consecration, the temple mount, the ground our
nations dedicated to God was also destroyed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">That ground was Ground Zero once owned by St Paul's Chapel, the only building that survived the attack on 9-11.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">How St Paul's was saved was by a lone Sycamore tree that was slammed
to the ground from an "I-beam" flying across the area destined to hit St
Paul's Chapel.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The twin towers, the symbol of the strength of America, her "bricks"
had fallen. The sycamore was cut down, that lone tree that protected the
ground this nation was dedicated upon, uprooted.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We have seen the curse come to fruition when out of our pride and
determination to "rebuild" we laid the "hewn stone" the cornerstone at
Ground Zero. We also replaced that sycamore that was cut down with a
cedar.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">God has been trying to warn us. Through His mercy He has been providing His signs to wake up our nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="wtc-9-11" height="452" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/wtc-9-11.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="376" />But many have not seen the signs and they have gone ignored. We have refused to heed the warning that He sent on 9-11.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>Take Away The Hedge and Break Down The Wall</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In the early days after 9-11 our leaders kept repeating a verse, that
verse was Isaiah 9:10. Most of the city officials and community leaders
would paraphrase it or just reference the fallen bricks and often throw
in "We Will Rebuild." It all made good press in a time of calamity and
brought a nation together for a very short season.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When we read about God judging ancient Israel, we see a patter take place over and over again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">God breaks down what He allowed to be built.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Then He uproots the foundations.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Scripture says…</span><br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Jeremiah 45:4 (KJV) Thus shalt thou say
unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I
break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this
whole land.</span></div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Isaiah 5:5 (KJV) And now go to; I will
tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge
thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and
it shall be trodden down:</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">We see that with ancient Israel the temple was destroyed and then the people were uprooted from the land.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He has followed the same pattern with our nation, the only other nation dedicated to God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He broke down the twin towers and uprooted the sycamore saving St. Paul's Chapel.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He did this and gave us these signs out of mercy in hopes that our nation would return to Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The falling of the twin towers and the cutting down of the sycamore are in fact two images of His judgment upon this nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We did not get it and we missed the message being sent because we were not paying attention.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>So He Warned Us Again</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The World Trade Center sat upon the very ground that our nation was
dedicated to by our first president George Washington to Jehovah God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This World Trade Center complex was a symbol of our power, both
physical being the tallest buildings in the world for a number of years,
to our economic power.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Not only were many of the financial elite housed in those buildings, but the twin towers also housed the COMEX commoditie<i>s </i><em>trading floor.</em><em> </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So it is this area where our nation was born, the Island of
Manhattan, Wall Street in particular, which was and still is the focal
point of this nation's economic and financial foundation.<em> </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>My Small Connection</b></span><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is interesting that even I have a personal tie to this area. See
my ancestors sailed on the ship The Beaver, which sailed from Amsterdam
under Captain Pieter Reyersen arriving in New Amsterdam (Manhattan
island) May 9, 1661.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now here is the interesting part, I was born May 9, 1961… 3oo years later.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Now this has nothing to do with the series I am writing, but it is
just an interesting side note. My family was there when all this was
taking place. <em><br /> <br /> </em><b><span><img alt="wallstreet-1" height="402" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/wallstreet-1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="533" />New Amsterdam</span><em> </em></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">New Amsterdam (Manhattan island) was the primary trading post for the Dutch at that time who owned and operated from that area.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In the 1640s, a basic picket and plank fences denoted plots and
residences in the colony. Later, the Dutch West India Company
collaborated with the city government and constructed an earthen wall on
the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. It is believed
that this was to protect against English colonial encroachment and / or
attacks from native Americans who also lived in the area.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Dutch named this "de Waal Straat"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In these early days, local merchants and traders would gather at
different spots along the wall to buy and sell food, goods, supplies but
also it became popular for the financially elite to trade shares and
bonds along the wall. Over time the buying, selling and trading divided
the businesses into two classes, the auctioneers and the dealers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In 1699 the wall was removed to expand the area, but the name of the street," Wall Street", kept its name.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This is the very same Wall Street which Federal Hall resides, the
very same place where the birth of our government took place on April
30th 1789 where our first president, George Washington was inaugurated.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">As I mentioned, traders and speculators would gather together to
trade stocks, bonds, and commodities. See what we need to remember is
that New Amsterdam (Manhattan island) was the primary hub for all trade
coming into and going out of the colonies at that time. The "new world"
was a a place for the enterprising individual could make his fortune.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Soon it became tradition to meet at a point on Wall Street where a
buttonwood tree stood. This gave the buyers and sellers a shaded place
to meet as well as a local landmark so that all could identify where to
buy, sell and trade.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In 1792 the traders decided to create an association with each other. This agreement was called "The Buttonwood Agreement."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The premise of this agreement was to make the market more
"structured" and "without the manipulative auctions." A commission
structure was created so that a standard commission rate could be
charged. What this did was give those who signed the agreement a lower
commission rate but those who did not sign could still participate in
trading, but commission was set at a higher rate to, buy, sell and
trade.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The organization born of the agreement would be known as the
Buttonwood Association. Later renamed the New York Stock and Exchange
Board, and finally what we know today as the New York Stock Exchange.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Finally, can you guess what sort of tree the buttonwood tree is?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If you came up with a sycamore, you are correct.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>The Sycamores Are Cut Down… Again</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We did not heed His warning at 9-11.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So He warned us again, but this time a different sycamore fell.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="nyse" height="275" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/nyse.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="315" />See
seven years after 9-11, another sycamore fell. In fact this falling of a
sycamore was a direct result of the action God took on Sept 11, 2001.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In Sept 2008, that earlier named "buttonwood (a sycamore) association", which was formed on Wall Street… was cut down.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On Sept 29th 2008 Wall Street and the world experienced the greatest
economic collapse since the great depression, that was the seizing of
Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. See on Sept 7th the federal government took
control of both of these corporations. Over half of the mortgages in the
nation was backed by either Fanny Mae or Freddie Mac.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With the government swooping in to "rescue" these failing
corporations, the government gained control of over half of the
mortgaged homes in America, thus placing them now in the control of the
US Government, in effect nationalizing most of the housing market.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With the US Gov doing this, there was a major backlash in the markets
and it caused global upheaval, but particularly on Wall Street itself.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This upheaval in turn caused a cataclysmic collapse that shook the
world even more than the downfall of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, what was
going to take place over the next few days was the fall of Lehman
Brothers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On Sept 7 Mae and Mac collapsed. The collapse echoed and knocked the
foundations out from under Lehman brothers two days later, Sept 9th. On
that day Lehman lost 45% of its stock value.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On Sept 10th 2008 Lehman announced that it lost of 3.9 billion dollars (1)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The next day Lehman's stock plunged again, setting the last nail in the coffin.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Looking back at 9-11-01 Lehman Brothers occupied three floors of
Number One World Trade Center. Its global headquarters was located in
Number Three World Center were severely damaged and rendered unusable by
falling debris, displacing over 6,500 of Lehman's employees.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It was on Sept 11, 2008 that Lehman's was died. This echoed down Wall Street, to Washington and reverberated all over the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Fed Reserve then came in and with a series of actions, prevented
the total destruction of Lehman thus ending what many saw as a complete
implosion of the US and global economy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On that same day, Sept 11, 2008, AIG also sent up a cry for help due
to the domino effect taking place. They too were in danger of also
collapsing and the feds had to act fast.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Lehman and AIG, two of the largest and strongest financial
institutions in the world fell and sucked the rest of the world's
economy down with it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="wallsteetdies" height="304" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/wallsteetdies.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="396" />This was seven years after the fall at Ground Zero.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This nation was being shaken a second time by God trying to get our
attention. What he did was uproot the sycamore once again. But this
sycamore was the buttonwood tree association.</span><br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Jeremiah 45:4 (KJV) Thus shalt thou say
unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I
break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this
whole land.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">See what is interesting is that both 2001 and 2008 were Sabbatical
years. Now our nation is not commanded to observe the Sabbath year, but
He can use it as a form of judgment for a nation that is dedicated to
Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Had it been, fifty, seventy five, a hundred years ago Godly men would
have recognized these events clearly and seen it as the providence and
judgment of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Our nations pastors would preach that our nation needs to repent and
called the congregations back to Him. But no longer are the preachers
preaching a message of sin and repentance. Instead they preach a sugar
coated message with the goal being fannies in seats and full offering
plates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Complacency, greed, selfishness have taken the place of the preaching
of the depravity of man and how we are lost and destined to Hell if we
do not turn from our wicked ways, repent and believe upon Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Today it is only a handful of us watchmen who are standing upon the wall that have been sounding the alarm.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But all of that is now changing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A storm is coming.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">That storm is called God's Judgment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He has warned us twice, both times at 9-11, both times on at the end
of the sabbatical year. A time where not only a nation’s food production
is halted and the land given a rest, but also a year effecting the
financial, economic arenas of the nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">See we often remember giving the land a rest, but we forget that all
debt was to be forgiven at the end of the sabbatical year. In fact on
the 29th of Elul.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The 29th of Elul 5768 on the Jewish calendar also coincides with Sept 29th, 2008.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On that day, the last day of the Sabbatical year, the Dow lost approximately 2,700 points.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On that morning, September 29, on the floors of the New York Stock
Exchange the day's trading began with an ill omen and many of the
traders were actually spooked.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What happened?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="obamaburnscons" height="389" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/article_images/obamaburnscons.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="497" />The opening bell would not sound.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On that same day before congress were plans to try to prevent and
rescue the implosion that was taking place. But the people spoke and the
rescue plan did not pass.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Wall Street collapsed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On that day the market itself lost over seven hundred points. This
was the worse day in Wall Street History. This event shattered the
confidence of the market.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The DOW lost 25% or 2,700 points. Billions upon billions of dollars
were lost, vaporized, up in smoke. Savings accounts and retirement
accounts that were there one moment were gone in the next due to being
overly invested in mutual funds that lost massive amounts of money.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The words spoken by our leaders once again have come back to haunt the people.</span><br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen down,
but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we
will change them into cedars.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">God's judgment is in fact here and we are still not paying attention.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But worse, our leaders again have spoken, still in defiance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">More to follow…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><img alt="ray-gano" height="185" src="http://www.prophezine.com/images/stories/authors-directory/ray-gano.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="128" /><br /><br /><br />By Ray Gano</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>End Notes</b></span><br />
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