Is correct eschatology important part 2.

I was listening to a show on the prophecy club and got an idea.  I want to flesh it out here and see if it flies.  Several years ago there was a card game called the Illuminati game.  One of the cards showed tall buildings fall.  another showed wars.  One of the last cards had aliens.  These cards have turned out to be uncannily accurate.  So the last card supposedly is the Alien card.  One of the things we know about Satan is that he is not stupid.  He knows the Bible better then most Biblical scholars.  He has twisted it in more ways than most of us have heard of.  One of the major theologies is one known as amillennialism.  This says that there will be no tribulation but Jesus will return at any moment and we start eternity.  If the next event is for an Alien invasions.  Who do you think will be invading?  Of course we don't believe that there are aliens from other planets but they are from another dimension.  Sometimes known as the multiverse.  They have been thrown out of heaven so they are playing around down here.   We have been prepared for years for their arrival by many science fiction movies.  If these guys show up and then someone shows up  to save the day.  And that person claims to be the Christ and has all kinds of lying signs and wonders then the millions of people who hold the a millennial view will  automatically fall for it.

Almost every place the Bible talks about then kinds it starts with a warning to not be fooled.  Many will come in my name.  And If they say that I am here or I am there then don't believe it.  There will be a strong delusion that if it were possible it would deceive the very elect.  If someone shows up and says that he is God and performs the miracles, and the Pope buys it, then you better not.That is the Beast.  The man of sin.  The son of Perdition.  Of course we know that the rider of the white horse that shows up first is not the true Christ.  He is antichrist.

Which gets back to why we study eschatology.  We study it so that we are on the same page with God.  The Bible is 4/5ths history and 1/3rd of that is pre-written in the form of prophecy.  Many times it is mixed together.  We must strive to study it and know it so that we know what God's plan is.  Hosea said that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.  We don't study this stuff.  While are what if scenarios may or may not work, we are always required to know the text so that when it does happen, we can say ah ha, that is what is going on.  Daniel said that this knowledge would be sealed until the end times.   Revelation said, don't seal it for the Time is at hand.  Well the time is at hand.  Keep looking up.  Your redemption is drawing neigh.

Earthquakes, Tornados, and Volcanos Oh My!

Wow, has the last two weeks have been exciting if you are following earth changes, Matthew 24 prophecies or any of the other one of the multitude prophecies concerning the end times.  Here is just a short list.  Since an 8.6 earthquake struck in Indonesia last Tuesday, we have had no less then a dozen 6.0 or higher earthquakes throughout the planet.  We generally see them on the ring of fire but a new one popped up this morning on the border between South American plate and the Antarctic plate in the middle of the south Atlantic. 

Tornadoes and Hail have not only hit in Mid America from Amarillo to Minneapolis, We have also had them in South Arabia. The hail pictures I have been seeing have been as large as 18 inches.  It is now at an incredible size.  Baseball and softball size hail has become the norm.  We had the large tornadoes last year but this year it started even earlier.

Volcanoes.  Well that has been incredible watching.  Costa Rica has two going off.  Mount Etna is going off in Italy.  There are several going in Indonesia.  According to the extinctionprotocal  forty-nine volcanoes have gone off since the first of the year. 

Two things I want to know.  Why doesn't the mainstream media talk about this more?  Why do I have to read about this is sources like blogs to find out what is going on?  The second thing I want to know is what is causing all this?  There have been many explanations.  Everything form HAARP to Frac well drilling to the approach of Nibiru(Wormwood).  I will tell you that any one or all of these could be working together on it.  We may never know until after the fact or in heaven. 

What we do know is that the earth is groaning.  It is cracking up.  It is in convulsions.  It is in birth pangs.  What that means is that the time of Tribulation is near.  If you see the Christmas decorations going up in the store, you know Thanksgiving is close.  If you see these signs you know the rapture is near. 

Time to get right with God.  Keep your ear to the ground and an eye on the sky. 

Is it time to call the midwife?

Looking the the usgs.gov website, there has been a whole lot of shaken going on.  You can also say the hits just keep on coming.  When you look at it you see the size of the quakes getting larger and more frequent.  In the last twenty four hours we have had two 8. earthquakes in Samontra,  Two Six point earthquakes in Mexico,  5.9 off the coast of Oregon.  5.3 in Japan.  There has been an interesting one in Utah and one off Nova Scotia.  

Jesus said when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilence and earthquakes in diverse places look up.  Look up for redemption draweth neigh.   Matthew 24 calls this the beginning of sorrows.  The Greek word is odeen which is the pains of childbirth.   I have four children myself and have been there for each of the births.  I know what that looks like.  I've been there when we had the children at home and when we had them in a hospital.  So we won't get into the whole midwife/hospital controversy in this post.  Though at another time and another place that would be a great discussion.  The thing I am seeing is the time is approaching.  What a doctor or a midwife would say is, when the contractions are close together, then we are ready to deliver.  There is something called Braxton-Hix contractions.  They are false labor pains.  A woman who is in touch with her body knows the difference.  With this round of earthquakes and the frequency of them happening, I say we are beyond Braxton-Hix and ready to call  the midwife to come and deliver the baby.

The question now becomes are you ready?  To be ready is simple.  Call upon the name of the Lord and you shall be saved.  For those who have already done so, are your garments, cleaned and pressed and ready.  Time to pray up.  Time to look up, for our salvation draweth neigh.  

G.O.S.P.E.L

This is the g.o.s.p.e.l.  What more can I say.

Hey Hated

A response to Stephen Furtick’s Hay Haters video

                               

Hey Hated, We know this is not about us.  That is why we walk to a higher standard.

You say we are not suppose to judge.  But everywhere Christians in the Bible show discernment; there is high praise for that Church.

Hey Hated.  Many of us never knew you existed until you had to put out a video saying that we were persecuting you.

Be real, you think that you were the church of Smyrna;  I see no one breaking in and murdering all your members.  Come with me to a church in Iran or China and find out what being hated really is.

You claim that thousands have come to know Jesus Christ in your services.  Yet not a one of them  has been taught how to study the Word of God.   You lead them to salvation but you don’t teach them to become disciples.

Hey, hated.  You say that you have such great outpourings in your services.  Yet when you stand before Jesus on the judgment day, he’ll say I never knew you.  Depart from me you workers of iniquity.

You have a form of Godliness but deny the power thereof.   From such I am commanded to turn away.

Yes, this is not about us.  This is about being a part of the church of Jesus Christ. 

I agree that we need to be more loving.  The Church of Ephesus, while it was strong in its doctrine, would not have let you or your type teach in their church;  yet Jesus said they lost their first love.  For that he was going to take away their candlestick. 

But you are the church of Laodicea. Jesus said that you are neither hot nor cold.   Because of that he will spew you out of his mouth. To such Jesus commands you to buy from him gold, tried in the fire; white raiment, that you should be clothed; and eyesalve that you may see.  He is knocking on the door of your church.  If anyone opens the door, he will come in and fellowship with them.

This is not about a new day.  This is about preparing for the Day of the Lord.  A day which cannot come unless there first being a falling away.  There is a reward for those of us who stand until that day. 

Hey Hated.  You are really loved.  We wouldn’t even be talking to you unless we knew that there was hope for you.  We are not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Repentance.  Do you even know what that word means?  It means that you are lost in your sins and that the proper judgment for what you have done is death.  Paul said the wages of sin is death.  It means an eternity in Hell.  I know you don’t believe in that place.  It is only mentioned in the Bible in fifty-four verses. 

It means that God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.  That word begotten was left out of your Bible too.  It means that Jesus was the only son born from the seed of God himself. Because of that death, we have all been given the power to become the sons of God.  But it is only through the second birth.  Don't be amazed when I say, Ye must be born again.

The word repentance means that you acknowledge that you are a sinner and have need to turn from that sin and pursue a life of Holiness.  I admit most of us are not there.  That is why I can only call myself a sinner saved by grace.  This is a doctrine you won’t teach because you don’t understand it yourself.  Turn from your wicked way today and be loved. 

Campaign 2012

I think it is funny how the  polls keep floating one person or another as the front runner in the Republican nomination process.  Each candidate has had a chance to be out front and each one has been met with reality except two.  Both of which have had their share and both need to have a down before we can have a winner.  The biggest problem is that most of America has had a chance to learn about global politics.  We have responded with the Tea Party on the Right and the Occupy movement on the left.  Both movements have been co opted by the politicians to get them to say what they want them to say.  That leads to a real problem when we vote for people because we believe they are one way on the campaign trail and they turn into something else in office.  Some of it is their fault and some of it is ours.  I think the election of all of the last few presidents show us that it is our fault on all of them.  Getting back to the current field of presidents let's look at them and their baggage and see who if anyone is worth getting our vote.

The Front runner is Mick Romney.  A conservative Mormon who was the governor of a liberal state.  Massachusetts.    Most people in America look at conservative and say that is enough for me but they fail to look at the persons religion or record.  As a governor he brought a state health insurance bill to Massachusetts know colloquially as Romneycare.  Very similar to Obama care and Teddy Kennedy used it to draft the national version of the law.  Romney said in a recent interview that he did a lot of things in Massachusetts that he wouldn't do as president because of the demography of the country.  Is that true?  If you are willing to do something different in Texas then you do in Massachusetts, it says that you are not true to your principles but flow with the waves of public opinion.  Can you say where is Reagan when you need him?  Also his religion.  The Mormon church is preparing a Temple in Washington for the prophesied Mormon president.  If you don't like Muslims in government now under Obama, you will not like Mormons in government under Romney.

The next consistent polling person is Ron Paul.  Ron Paul has done much to spread the idea of End the Fed.  His ideas on cutting  taxes and spending need to be adopted by all republicans.  The big problem is that most of the other candidates are so dependent on corporate money to run for office that they cannot run on his principles.  The big issue with Ron Paul is his foreign policies.  They are a throwback to the 1910's when we were debating joining the first world war.  I am afraid that the world is now too dangerous to do that.  We will have an attack on US soil if we do.  If you believe that all the terrorist are run by the CIA, you would also have to agree that the CIA would attack America to get us back into foreign conflicts.  So we are playing a dicey game with foreign policy.  Also, Ron is also considering running as a third party candidate,  Independent or Libertarian., based on how the early states go.  He will have to make that decision rather early.  Before the Texas primary in March.  He cannot be on the Republican primary ballot in March and the Libertarian in November in his home state. 

Right now the third runner is Newt Gingrich.  Probably the most intellectually smart man in the race.  Don't let this catholic fool you.  He is a communitarian.  That is a Democratic socialist.  He was the one that brought us NAFTA.  He Promoted the book Third Way to his colleagues as speaker of the House and set us in a course as a do nothing congress.  I heard someone say, he could work with the democrats better then any other candidate.  I don't think that is a good thing always.  Also, as a look at his home life shows that he is not stable.  Having gone through three marriages.  I wouldn't want to be his current wife. 

The last one rising high in the poles was Herman Cain.  An articulate black man who has run his own business and a few other peoples business.  He is know as the Godfather of the republicans.  Haveing been president of Godfather's pizza.  His big baggage comes in one of those great jobs he had.  Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve.  If you are a Ron Pauler and want to End the Fed then Herman Cain is not the person you want there.  His big push is for the 9 9 9 tax plan.  9% income tax, 9% capital Gains and 9% sales tax.  Sounds like a good plan if you are used to paying 35% tax but let's look at that again.  Right now over 50% of  Americans pay no Income tax and get a rebate on their taxes.  That will not bod well for them.  Adding a sales tax on top of what we are already paying will not work either because that will drive up the cost of purchasing and we will buy less.  Not good for jobs.  On Foreign policy, I have not seen anything on that.  He is an unknown.

The greatest rise and fall in the polls goes to Rick Perry.  The third term Republican governor of Texas.  His main campaign strength has been the economy of Texas.  But then as people started looking at Perry and who was backing him, he fell off.  The first strike was his 2010 visit to the Bilderberg meeting in Switzerland.  The Bilderbergs are an American European government conference where leaders try to understand each other's government.  At least that is the benign way of saying it.  Others think they are running the world.  His second strike is that a lot of his support is from the new Religious right.  This is not your Jerry Falwell's.  This would be your Dominionist thinking Christians.  The ones that think that it is our job to take over government and the other seven mountains of the seven mountain mandate which Glen Beck, a Mormon also endorses. Non Christians and most Christians are not keen on that idea.  Then people started looking at his Texas record.  That became very disturbing.  Yes Texas has high job growth but low in insured workers.  What that is saying is that most of the jobs in Texas are low wage.  Also, Texas is good in the Amount of money on hand.  The thanks to that is not our government, but our constitution.  The constitution of Texas requires a balanced budget over two years and does not allow for an income tax.  What was done this year to accomplish that was pretty bad.  A lot of spending cuts that were not popular.  Rick Perry has done much to stand up for state rights.  But has he gone too far is some of those stands? 

Michelle Bauchman is one who has done well in polls.  She is an interesting character representing the sentiments of the Tea Party.  Her big problem is she is so to the right that she can't reach to the left.  The one debate that I saw her in left me thinking is she going to sit their and argue with people or is she going to get down to business and get something done?  Her personality seems like it lends itself well to being a congresswoman but not towards being POTUS.

Their are others, but these are the leading candidates.  On the democratic side, no one has stepped forward to challenge our current president whom I see a vulnerable.  The big problem is that the best candidates all work in the Administration.  It would take a governor or a congressman to challenge him.  I don't think any of the current congressmen have what it takes to win outside of their own state. 

Where does this leave us in America.  Not good.  I really don't see any good leadership out their.  Prophetically, there has been a prophecy of a Mormon president and one of a Pretty woman as president in the end.  Those prophecies are contradictory in my opinion.  If Ron Paul runs third party will that hurt the Republicans in November?  I think that depends on who is the Republican candidate.   

So in conclusion.  I am not going to indorse any one candidate.  What I am going to say is that they all need to be carefully vetted and you need to come to your own conclusion.  You need to look at all issues, foreign, economy, social issues, and make up your own mind.  Here in Texas I don't have to vote until March.  I will use that time to make up my own mind. 

October 1, Play on

Rosh Hashanah has come and gone.  Elenin alignment has passed.  Obama is home from Denver.  This has reminded me of something I told the captains before a volleyball match I officiated last night.  I told the girls to play until they hear a whistle.  God has instructed us to work until we hear the last trumpet.

How many times do we quit because we think that we will be gone.  We act like we do when we know when the last day you will be at a job.  I don't care what you guys do I won't be here to suffer the consequences.  Wrong attitude.

We have a pastor that is facing the death penalty in Iran.  We have a major situation in the U.N. with the Palestinians asking for a state.  We have a budget crises in our government.  We know the dollar is imploding.  Wall Street is in turmoil.  We have an election coming up. There is a lot to do here on earth.  Has your neighbor been witnessed to?

As the pretrib activist, I have to encourage you to play on.  Keep going.  Finish the course that God has laid out for you.  Play until you hear a whistle.