Thursday, January 03, 2013

Trust In Jesus

People that I speak to and/or read about and converse with on conservative blog posts within the comment sections of those blogs, are all still so upset, distraught, fearful, hurt and disgusted about the fraudulent re-election of Barack Hussein Obama. Some wonder, why did God allow it?

For those who like BHO, they are THRILLED that God allowed it. 

Those of us, however,  who see the darkness of BHO and the harm that he and his evil cohorts are doing to our beloved nation, wonder how God could have possibly allowed such a disastrous result to happen during the election of 2012.

I can't say that I know the exact reason. Perhaps it has something to do with being a "mercy in disguise." We can't see the meaning or purpose in such an occurrence at this time in our lives, but perhaps we will see it some time in the future.

At the You Tube site where I obtained a copy of the video song ["Trust In Jesus" by Third Day] below;  there are commentators who snub the message of this song;  are blisteringly angry with God and are asking why God did not intervene to save the children in the New town Conn. massacre.  I can't say that I know the reason - but there must be one.  Perhaps it has to do with taking some innocents away from the evils of this world?   Perhaps it has something to do with "mercy in disguise" that we can't see on this side of heaven?

When we focus on only the life we experience on this earth as being "all that there is," the reality of the death of our mortal bodies - no matter at what age this occurs - becomes a cause of deep, deep sorrow that has no relief. 

However, when we trust in Jesus and his promises in the Bible, we see this life as just a blip on the radar screen of eternity.

When an individual person comes to realize and accept his or her need for forgiveness (and finally acknowledges his or her desperate need for salvation in Jesus Christ), the hurts of this world will still give them pain (sometimes, it is excruciating - like the pain those parents must be feeling having lost their little children);  but it's not the unsolvable, non-healing pain as those who have no hope for eternity, no future deliverance, and no personal relationship with God.

I have been there...believe me...I've experienced several very painful times in my life when I lost loved ones "too soon."    However, even when my grandmother died at age 101, it was difficult to let her go into eternity.

We don't like separation from our loved ones. But the promises in Scripture teach us that we will be reunited with saved loved ones in eternal life. Therefore, the separation - for just a brief time when considering all of eternity - could just be an example of a mercy in disguise.

We all grieve deeply over the loss of a loved one.   Recall the shortest verse in the Bible.  Jesus wept.  We have an Advocate, a Deliverer, a Defender, a Redeemer who knows us and sympathizes with our pain and grief.  We can cry out to Him!   But believers do not grieve as those who have no hope. That is the difference between knowing Jesus...and not knowing Him. When life gets tough, or pain enters your life, or deep sorrow happens during the loss of a loved one - listen to this song and continue to Trust in Jesus!

~  Christine





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Trust In Jesus - Third Day Lyrics:


One of these days we all will stand in judgment for
Every single word that we have spoken
One of these days we all will stand before the Lord
Give a reason for everything we've done and what I've done is

Trust in Jesus, my great Deliverer
My strong Defender, the Son of God
I trust in Jesus, blessed Redeemer
My Lord forever, the Holy One, the Holy One

What are you gonna do when your time has come
And your life is done and there's nothing you can stand on?
What will you have to say at the judgment throne?
Well, I already know the only thing that I can say

I trust in Jesus, my great Deliverer
My strong Defender, the Son of God
I trust in Jesus, blessed Redeemer
My Lord forever, the Holy One

There's nothing I can do
On my own to find forgiveness
It's by His grace alone I trust in Jesus, trust in Jesus

I trust in Jesus, my great Deliverer
My strong Defender, the Son of God
I trust in Jesus, blessed Redeemer
My Lord forever, the Holy One, the Holy One, whoa

I trust in Jesus, my great Deliverer
My strong Defender, blessed Redeemer
My Lord forever, oh yeah

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

America's Providential History

About a week ago, the mailman accidentally (or, perhaps, providentially?) left a copy of my neighbor's "Enjoying Everyday Life" magazine in my mailbox.  It is published by Joyce Meyer Ministries.*  I found the same magazine online, and wanted to share a commentary about a book that I think all Americans should read.  The book is entitled, "America's Providential History." by Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell.

The two authors of the book wrote an excerpt and placed it in the "America At Its Best" section of the magazine.  It is entitled "A Land of Religious Freedom:  God's Plan of Colonization for the United States."

I am looking forward to getting a copy of this book.  It was written for the purpose of giving readers insight into God's hand at work as we discover the true and genuine history of America (often, unfortunately, left out of secular classrooms) and the spreading of the Gospel worldwide.

One of the most intriguing aspects of the birth of our nation is contained in this quote:

"Every attempt to colonize...the U.S. was met with failure.  God was preserving [it] for a people He had yet to prepare."

No wonder our Founders spoke and wrote about Divine Providence in our Founding Documents!  They truly knew, realized, and respected God's Hand at work in the birth of our great nation!

Our nation is in moral, financial, educational, and especially spiritual trouble.  Why?  Many reasons, but the lack of good leadership stands out since 2008.  I continue to pray for restoration of our nation and the future appointment(s) of more Godly leaders

~  Christine



The following is a copy of the excerpt:



In 1492, Christopher Columbus [whose name meant “The Christbearer”] opened up the New World to civilization. We all know of this event, but do we know what motivated Columbus to embark on such an arduous and dangerous journey? The following excerpts from his diary will tell us.

“It was the Lord who put it into my mind —I could feel His hand upon me—the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies…

“All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me… There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures… For the execution of the journey to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah had prophesied…

“No one should fear to undertake a task in the name of our Savior, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His Service… The fact that the Gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time – this is what convinces me.”

While Columbus discovered the New World, God did not allow the country from which he sailed to colonize the territory which originally comprised the United States. ...Explorers carried with them the seeds of religious tyranny, and God had plans for America to be planted with seeds of liberty.

Historian Daniel Dorchester writes:

“While thirst for gold, lust of power, and love of daring adventure served the Providential purpose of opening the New World to papal Europe, and Roman Catholic colonies were successfully planted in some portions, the territory originally comprised within the United States was mysteriously guarded and reserved for another—a prepared people.”

During the century following the discovery of the New World, colonization occurred in much of South and Central America. In 1493 the Pope gave Africa, Asia, and Brazil to Portugal and the rest of Latin America to Spain.  This is reflected in the colonization that followed.  Every attempt to colonize the territory comprising the original United States was met with failure.  God was preserving this land for a people whom He had yet to prepare.


In 1497, John Cabot, landing near the St. Lawrence River, laid claim to America for England. At this time, England, as all of Europe lived under civil and religious tyranny, yet…God would be at work in the sixteenth century to assure that this was changed.

B.F. Morris writes of God’s providential hand at work during this era:

“No era in history is more signally and sublimely marked than that of the discovery and Christian colonization of the North American continent.

“The intervening century was in many respects the most important period of the world; certainly the most important in modern times. More marked and decided changes, affecting science, religion, and liberty, occurred in that period than had occurred in centuries before; and all these changes were just such as to determine the Christian character of this country. Meantime, God held this vast land in reserve, as the great field on which the experiment was to be made in favor of a civil and religious liberty. He suffered not the food of Spaniard, or Portuguese, or Frenchman, or Englishman to come upon it until the changes had been wrought in Europe which would make it certain that it would always be a land of religious freedom.”

This copy is an excerpt from Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell’s book, America’s Providential History.

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A Note from Dave Meyer:


In the sixteenth century, God began to move in the hearts of many across Europe—especially throughout England. In order to establish America as a free Christian nation, God had to first do a work in the lives of those who would become the founders of this great nation. America’s Providential History describes how key players such as William Tyndale, the puritans, William Bradford and even people like Henry VIII and “Bloody” Mary each had a part to play in the birth of the United States and how hundreds of others were used by God to develop and establish this nation for His glory. America’s history is truly His story. If you want to read the rest of the story, I encourage you to get this book.
 
This book and others can be found at: Providence Foundation

Hat Tip: Joyce Meyer.org

*Note: This post should not be construed as a blanket approval of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Hopefully, she leads an accurate and true Bible-based Christian ministry.  At this time, I do not have enough information about the ministry to make an informed decision on all that she preaches or publishes.

Monday, December 31, 2012

In 2013: America, If You Don’t Learn Your History, You Will Be Damned To Repeat It!

Last evening, I forced myself (mostly because I can't stand Barbra Streisand!)  to watch the 1973 movie, "The Way We Were."   I recall seeing the movie back in the 70's, but at the time, I was not really interested in Katie's (Streisand character) political activism.  Back then, I was more interested in the romance between the two main characters.  However, as the IMDb website points out it was also about Katie's communist political convictions: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

If you want more information about the movie, you can visit the various sites that share insight and reviews (including Wikipedia).

What I want to concentrate on in this post is the fact that long ago, it was evident that Hollyweird's early leftist leanings were destined to one day reveal it's full-blown socialist/communist approval. What the movie critics and commentators don't mention about the film, is the spin that was placed upon Katie's communist leanings. I found it really disgusting to see the posters of Communist murderer Stalin in many scenes within the movie. Consider that 1973 was not as far removed from the years of Stalin's terrorist dictatorship (when millions were killed) as perhaps the current year of 2012. Too bad that many of those who apparently objected to (or even mocked) "the Red Scare" back then, (and hated McCarthy's exposure of communist infiltration here in the U.S.), didn't see this facetiously titled "Tribute to Communism."

It was comical to see Katie call Hubbell (Robert Redford's character in movie) a "Fascist" at one point.  Being Jewish apparently made her an enemy of Hitler, but not an enemy of Stalin?  As a writer at IMDb points out,

"The era in which these two characters were set was a very interesting time in American history, and the characters' actions during these times created some compelling cinema, particularly when it touched on the Red Scare."

The "Red Scare"??  Well, perhaps We The People should have been paying more attention to that "red scare" of communism because now, most of our government is being run by them!  [But don't take my word for it...see all the links with incriminating evidence at the right top sidebar at CommieBlaster.com.]

We can see the commie/Islamist supporting dictatorship developing at the fastest rate ever;  right before our very eyes here in America under BHO,  his nasty, nefarious handlers, and clueless "you die last" Borg-Bot minions!  [Note the man in the Che RED shirt in photo below.  It was a picture taken in San Francisco years ago at an anti-Israel, anti-Bush rally during the Bush Administration].



 They are all heavily, and relentlessly, working on negating the First and Second amendments to the U.S. Constitution.  I will give just two examples (there are THOUSANDS of examples - just go check out all the links at Commieblaster).

1. CNS News: Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act Against Their Faith.

Excerpt:

CNSNews.com) - In a legal argument formally presented in federal court in the case of Hobby Lobby v. Kathleen Sebelius, the Obama administration is claiming that the First Amendment—which expressly denies the government the authority to prohibit the “free exercise” of religion—nonetheless allows it to force Christians to directly violate their religious beliefs even on a matter that involves the life and death of innocent human beings.

Because federal judges—including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor—have refused to grant an injunction protecting the owners of Hobby Lobby from being forced to act against their Christian faith, those owners will be subject to federal fines of up to $1.3 million per day starting Tuesday for refusing to include abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health plan.

The Obama administration is making a two-fold argument for why it can force Christians to act against their faith in complying with the regulation it has issued under the Obamacare law that requires virtually all health care plans to cover, without co-pay, sterilizations, contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs.

The first argument the administration makes against the owners of Hobby Lobby is that Americans lose their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion when they form a corporation and engage in commerce. A person’s Christianity, the administration argues, cannot be carried out through activities he engages in through an incorporated business.

“Hobby Lobby is a for-profit, secular employer, and a secular entity by definition does not exercise religion,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery in a filing submitted in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

“Because Hobby Lobby is a secular employer, it is not entitled to the protections of the Free Exercise Clause or RFRA [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act],” Delery told the court on behalf of the administration. “This is because, although the First Amendment freedoms of speech and association are ‘right[s] enjoyed by religious and secular groups alike,’ the Free Exercise Clause ‘gives special solicitude to the rights of religious organizations.’”

In keeping with Delery’s argument, the Washington Post, as a corporation, can use its First Amendment-protected freedom of speech to write editorials in support of the Obama administration imposing its contraception mandate on businesses like Hobby Lobby. But the members of the family that created and owns Hobby Lobby, because they formed Hobby Lobby as a corporation, have no First Amendment freedom of religion that protects them from being forced by the government to act against their religious beliefs in providing abortion-inducing drugs.

The second argument the administration makes to justify forcing Christians to act against their faith is more sweeping. Here the administration argues it can force a person to act against his religion so long as the coercion is done under the authority of a law that is neutral and generally applicable—in other words, as long as the law was not written specifically to persecute Christians as Christians, the government can use that law to persecute Christians.
Read the rest: CNS News: Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act Against Their Faith.

First they came for the Christians...

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Then they came for the guns....

There are probably millions of posts out there on the Internet that describe why gun control (excuse me - make that GUN DISARMAMENT AND CONFISCATION) - DOES NOT WORK for WE THE PEOPLE, but disarmament works for EVIL AND NEFARIOUS GOVERNMENTS to take over their populations!

Here's just one:


2. WND: The Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws Exclusive: Ellis Washington has historical chart linking firearm restrictions to genocide

An excerpt of the above article isn't enough.  Here is a copy of it:

Here’s the Formula: Hatred + Government + Disarmed Civilians = Genocide.

What makes the argument so powerful? Two factors. First, it makes common sense: Unarmed, defenseless people have no hope against armed aggressors. Second, it states the historical truth: Evil governments did wipe out 170,000,000 innocent non-military lives in the 20th century alone.

~ Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership website


The pretext: Massacre of the innocents – Newtown, Conn.

I am a professor at a wonderful online school called National Paralegal College (NPC). Shannon Southard, a student there recently raised some very prescient questions on the issue of gun control:

Seems that almost every shooting that has made national headlines recently has involved a shooter suffering from one form or mental issues or another. We had two tragic shootings this week – one in a crowded mall another in an elementary school. Not to mention the awful shooting earlier this year at the movie theater. … Who should be blamed for these individuals being able to commit such heinous acts – lawmakers for allowing access to weapons, mental health professionals for possibly not treating appropriately, society for turning their backs on them?
 
This prompted fellow NPC student, Kathryn Dunigan to remark, “Almost all the mass shooters over the past 20 years, including the ones at Columbine and the Aurora Theater were on mind altering psychiatric drugs. Is gun control really the national conversation we need, or is [it] medication control?”


This comment prompted my response to Kathryn:

Don’t take the easy (unconstitutional) way out. … I want you to reconsider your remarks in light of constitutional history. If you follow Obama’s and the Democratic Party path to disarm law-abiding citizens, then the criminals (who won’t obey any gun laws) will be emboldened to use gun violence without limits. Why? Because they will know that law-abiding citizens will be disarmed and easy prey for criminals to abuse We the People. When in doubt, always follow the Constitution.


I would invite you to read Dr. John Lott’s excellent book dispelling liberal assumptions on the correlation between the access of guns and the proliferation of gun violence. You can read a short analysis of Dr. Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime.”


Note the level of vitriol in the academic community against his theories. Why? Because progressives understand that to effect and increase federal government hegemony and state-control throughout society, the Second Amendment must be repealed. Look at the history of all fascist societies from Robespierre and the Jacobins, the French Enlightenment, Germany’s Otto von Bismarck, to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Franco, etc. The first thing these tyrants want to do as soon as they secured power was to disarm the public and make the STATE (e.g., the army, police, secret police, Gestapo, etc.) the only entity legally allowed to possess guns. Why? So the state can steal your unalienable (God-given) liberties and make you slaves of the Leviathan State. … In my opinion, President Obama has almost taken America to that abyss.

 
The Policy

The great Spanish philosopher George Santayana warned us decades ago: Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) is an organization dedicated to the preservation of gun rights in the United States and “to encourage Americans to understand and defend all of the Bill of Rights for everyone.” The group was founded by former firearms dealer Aaron S. Zelman in 1986. JPFO interprets the Second Amendment as recognizing a pre-existing natural right of individuals to keep and bear arms.


According to the comprehensive research by JPFO, all of America’s present gun-control laws have Nazi origins, evidenced by the group’s shocking accusation that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was plagiarized almost word for word from Nazi legislation. The German Weapons Law, which existed before the Nazis came to power in 1933, was amended on March 18, 1938, by the Nazi government. The JPFO’s claim is based in part by the fact that the 1968 law introduces the “sporting purpose” test to distinguish different types of weapons, similar to the “sporting purpose” test that existed in the German law in question. Sen. Thomas Joseph Dodd (father to Sen. Chris Dodd) was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46) and had reviewed copies of the Nazi 1938 firearms law as the 1968 Gun Control Act legislation was being drafted.


It is very probable that it was none other than Sen. Thomas Dodd who brought copies of the 1938 Nazi German Weapons Law, had that language literally translated and copied into America’s 1968 Gun Control Act which would explain why the two laws are almost identical. History tells us that the 1938 Nazi law facilitated the disenfranchisement, imprisonment and murder of millions of Jews and millions of other untermensch (sub-humans, undesirables). The 1968 Gun Control Act has already lead to the disenfranchisement of our Second Amendment rights, imprisonment and the needless maiming and murder of countless citizens who, due to liberal fascist anti-gun policies, could not lawfully use a firearm to defend themselves.


Examine carefully the JPFO chart below detailing the history of global gun control laws in just a few selected countries over the past 100 years; it is a Who’s Who of hatred of liberty, government fascism, disarmed civilians and genocide.





The Postlude


America, you have a constitutional natural right to be armed in order to protect yourself, because under U.S law the police have no duty to protect the average person. The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution) are all unalienable rights, which meant that they are God-given, self-evident truths, natural rights that originated from God, the Bible and Natural Law and therefore can never be lawfully taken away by man or the State.


America, if you don’t learn your history, you will be damned to repeat it.


Hat Tip and Read more in the comment section at WND: The Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws

Hat Tips to all links.

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Also see:


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#myjihad: Jihadists behead Christian and feed him to the dogs' as fears grow over Islamist atrocities - Obama is backing these guys. Obama. supports. the jihadists. But it's our ads - they're the problem. "Syria rebels 'beheaded a Christian and fed him to the d...
 
 
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

G. Beck's Monologue: The exotic life of Barack Obama

As this video goes on, the more I chuckled; and eventually broke out into a belly laugh!  It does start out with a serious and dangerous quote of a  statement of violence against whites.  However, as the discussion goes on, the hilarious monologue that Glenn does with the audio of Obama's book describing a zoo in his childhood back yard led to the biggest belly laugh!  Enjoy:

Of all people, Barack Obama should know that Americans are not a people that are close-minded or bigoted. Need proof? No one has had a more unique upbringing than the President. And yet, could a man with the diverse and exotic life of Barack Obama been elected President if Americans weren’t a nation of people who were open-minded? Glenn lays out all the evidence in the amazing monologue above!

And if you need a reason to watch, check out some staff photos from the rehearsal at this link!

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It's the end of the year...we all need a laugh!

~  Christine

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Hat tip: Glenn Beck.com

Friday, December 28, 2012

Newspaper Reveals Bias In Rejecting Letters-to-the-Editor

Via email, my friend Bing (Irv) sent me a copy of a letter-to-the-editor that was obviously rejected due to bias and disagreement with the content of the letter rather than for any reasonable, or truly logical basis or cause.

I thought that his letter was so spot on!  Therefore, I am sharing it with readers here at Talk Wisdom.

Included below the letter, are the lame excuses that the so-called assistant "editor" (more like an anti-Christian bigot!) wrote back explaining why Bing's letter was not published.

You will then read his great response, and her second (and STUPID!!) response.

The stomping on free speech by the liberal leftist lunatics of the media of mass deception and corruption is very obvious within the email letter exchange below!

~  Christine

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Bing (Irv) wrote:

Atheism exists not because their adherents don'’t believe in God, but precisely because they do. It is visible in the presence of the ACLU, the derogatory letters in the Times of Christians, and the intentional downplaying of Christmas. Atheism is manifest in the hate for God that they exhibit, but that leads to the question of why do you hate something so badly if it is unreal; a myth?

Atheism exists to escape the consequences of which their inner beings are aware, and they must deny God in the hopes that if they complain loudly enough He will go away.

You know, they are right. God has left our country and the result is immorality, the “"me"” generation, the get what you can mentality, and the class warfare that inevitably comes with the “takers” of life. From it springs the demented mentalities of school shootings that are blamed on the physical presence of guns, rather on a lack of the mental presence of a loving God.

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This was her response:


Irv,

The same standards and rules apply to the letters to the editor under the new management. Opinion-based letters are accepted, but letters that get too technical, theological, specialized or scientific are not accepted.

Thanks,

Jennifer Ianni
 

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I (Irv) sent her this:
 

The paper, by its rejecting letters on that basis, are contributing to the dumbing-down of our society.

Adolph Hitler made the observation that, "All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."

BTW, you never addressed my specific letter. Would you, or would you not, since you do some editing?

The letter appears to me to be culturally significant to the times and the motivation of many people.

We are in an amoral/me decline that appears obvious.

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Her response:

Irv,

I ran this letter by my editor, and he and I both agree that this is letter is making a theological argument and is not an opinion letter. Therefore, it violates our policy.

We are a general circulation newspaper, and the letters need to reflect that.

Take care,

Jennifer Ianni
 
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The North County Times lost me and my family as customers over 11 years ago!  I can see that they have become even worse in their blatantly obvious bias since that time.
 
~  Christine
 
 

Video: Former KGB Official Explains Plan Unfolding in America

Found the following video today via Commieblaster over at Before It Is News.  What is haunting about it is the fact that it was taped 25 years ago!!  In between, the video producers show the nefarious individuals, groups, and actions of those who hail BHO; as well as the results that happen when people are duped into trusting socialism/communism.

Here is the description:

This Video is by a former KGB official who defected. He explains in great detail how the plan to subvert America has unfolded and where it may go. A must view for those concerned about their country:



It's amazing how brain-dirtied the ObamaBorg Bots (a.k.a. "useful idiots" as described in the video) are!  They refuse to see BHO's iniquity and horrid beliefs; his terrible policies and plans to destroy America are right out in the open - at least they are clearly seen and heard by those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

The "gimme-dat" crowd will continue to walk right into his trap of communism/Islamo-fascism without a whimper - until the economy collapses and they don't get their free stuff any longer.    Then, their "useful idiot" status will be gone.  Who knows what will happen at that point?  Well...the video gives us hints and it will be very ugly!

Unfortunately, history often repeats itself and people don't learn from history (e.g. Weimar Republic), so they fall into the same traps of evil leaders (in this case, a puppet kind of leader whose handlers are a combination of nefarious corruptocrats like the world has never seen before).

Today, we could add on the evil of radical Islam-fascism that has taken hold in the Middle East from the original cuddly and sweet-sounding "Arab Spring."

In the comment section of my previous post, I shared the following Bible prophecy verses:

Isa 30:1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin;


Isa 30:2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!


Isa 30:3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be [your] humiliation.



Read the entire chapter for complete context, but also note these verses:


Isa 30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever:


Isa 30:9 That this [is] a rebellious people, Lying children, Children [who] will not hear the law of the LORD;


Isa 30:10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see," And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.


Isa 30:11 Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us."


Isa 30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them,


Isa 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.



Hmmm...sounds like a prophecy that applies to America today as well.

People, we are seeing end times Bible prophecy happening right before our very eyes!

Are YOU prepared...spiritually speaking?

Hope so...

~  Christine

Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Angel of the Lord in Old Testament

A few weeks ago, I had a long conversation with some Jehovah's Witnesses (JW's) who were canvassing my block.  We had an interesting conversation.  I knew that as a group, they are told not to vote so I asked them if they were happy that BHO was re-elected.  Many of them said "no," but....and then went on to share why they don't vote and why we must honor those who are elected to office.

Honor? I said in disbelief! 

When I asked them if the German people should have "honored" a murdering tyrant like Hitler who killed 6 million Jews, as well as millions more (including Christians); they really didn't have a good answer.  When I pressed them about why their organization forbids them to vote, one young lady answered, "because Jesus wasn't political."

Well...THAT'S because He is the Son of God!  He had to be about the business of His Father in heaven.  Does that mean that as believers and followers of Christ we should not be involved in politics?  Simple answer:  NO!

Prior to that brief discussion about politics, I asked them two pertinent questions that negate their organization's beliefs and might challenge their adherence to their religion.

First, I pointed out that when Jesus taught the disciples to pray and baptize new converts, he told them to:



Mat 28:19   "Go therefore [fn] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,


Mat 28:20   "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, [even] to the end of the age." Amen. [fn]


I asked them why the term "name" is in the singular?  No one answered so I went on to explain that JW's are in error when they claim that Christians who believe in the Trinity are "worshipping three gods."  I explained that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are "three persons in one God."  The term "trinity" isn't in the Bible, but it is man's way of describing the concept of  "three persons in one God." 

It is important to recognize what Jesus said the Matthew verses.  They were all stated after he was resurrected!

 Note the preceding verses:



Mat 28:16   Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.

Mat 28:17   When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

Mat 28:18   And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.


During his three year ministry on earth, Jesus claimed that he and the Father are one.  This fact answers why "all authority has been given to Him in heaven and on earth."  Jesus is God!!  He humbled himself and became man for our sakes - and for our redemption and salvation.

Notice that even though the resurrected Jesus stood before the disciples - some doubted.  This is an indication that even though people actually witnessed Jesus' resurrection from the dead - some still doubted.

Fast forward to today. There are millions of people who refuse to recognize Jesus as Lord - even some who would consider themselves to be in a "Christian" religion. Many are known as being liberal while adhering to the cross less gospel. Others are cults (various forms of heresy) that skew what is written in the Bible for their own purposes. This is why it is IMPERATIVE that you read and study the Bible for yourself - so that you can recognize the errors of cults, heresies, and the cross less gospel liberals who would steer you away from the One True God, His Word - the Bible, and His Living Word - Jesus Christ.

Back to the JW's.

I asked them who they thought was the "Angel of the Lord" in the Old Testament.  I gave an example saying, "who was it that Jacob wrestled with."  One answered, "that's Michael."  So I quizzed them further and shared that whenever the term "angel" was used in the Old Testament, most Bible scholars agree that it was a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. 

Here is  one example:

Gen 48:16 The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them, And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

Only God can redeem people from evil!

Two excellent websites that share more information about this:

Lamb and Lion Ministries: The Angel of the Lord His Identity, Manifestations, and Roles

Reformation Online: Christ in the Old Testament

The JW's claimed that it was Michael who appeared as the "angel of the Lord" in the Old Testament. 

I encouraged the JW's who chatted with me outside on my street (I was walking my dogs at the time) to do some research into these differences and not to rely on what any religious leader might say.  We all need to seek the truth from God's Word before accepting what any man might tell us.  In fact, any pastor who is genuine and biblically oriented will tell his congregation to research the Bible for the truth regarding any topic that he preaches on.   Pastors can make mistakes because they are human.  However, when a "mistake" is monumental (like the example below), then it is very important to discover whether or not such a pastor is trustworthy in the future.

I told them the story about a pastor who wrote a hugely popular book a few years back (Rick Warren:  Purpose Driven Life) and how during a Bible study leader meeting, a video was shown where Rick Warren discussed the upcoming "Purpose Driven Life" Bible study series.  At one crucial point in the video, Warren completely left out the need to repent of our sins before accepting Jesus Christ into our hearts as Lord and Savior!  I told them how alarming that was for me and two other women at the leader's Bible study meeting!

I don't know if my concerns about the  JW religion fell upon deaf ears or not, but I hope that they will consider what I said and do some necessary research on sound doctrine to find out the truth.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Significance of Jesus' Birth in Bethlehem

Last night, during the Christmas Eve service, Pastor Miles McPherson of The Rock Church in San Diego shared the fact that the small town of Bethlehem has significant meaning regarding the birth of Jesus Christ.

"Lehem" means "bread."  "Beth" means "house of."   Put them together and we have "house of bread."

It is only fitting that the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, who is the Bread of life,  would be born in a city that is named, "House of bread."


 

 

Jhn 6:35   And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Jhn 6:48   "I am the bread of life.

Jhn 6:51   "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."

Merry Christmas everyone!

~ Christine