Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

Maranatha!
Jan 1st, 2007
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I have been studying prophecy for some 60 years. Great Bible teachers of the 30s, 40s and 50s laid out in detail from Scripture how the events leading to the rapture expositions fulfilled in great detail.

We are surely approaching the midnight hour of the church age! Signs are multiplying as never before. The stage is being set for the last act in the drama of Man’s rebellion against God.

Jesus said, we “cannot know the day nor the hour”, but He also said we can know it is “near, even at the doors.” Jesus also said “Watch” and “be ready”.

Jesus also said to the religious leaders of the day of His earthly ministry, concerning His first coming, “Ye can discern the face of the sky but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Paul said, “But ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief”. In other words, you’ll be able to see it coming.

The writer to the Hebrews said the same thing, “and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.” Again, in other words, there will be a specific generation that will see the approaching day of the Lord and the rapture that will precede it.

We are that generation!

Others have longed for and anticipated the Rapture. Some have seen distant undulations of the coming Day of the Lord, but we can see that the trumpet is about to sound!

If you are not saved, turn to Christ now, in repentance and faith. If you are saved, make sure your life is pure and sound the warning to all around you!

The Rapture has always been an immediate possibility, the stage setting events preceding the tribulation period could have occurred after the Rapture. However, today we are seeing the stage setting events occurring prior to the Rapture, changing the Rapture from an immediate possibility to an immediate expectation. There is no contradiction here, there seems to be a progressive aspect to end times revelation.

Daniel 12:8, 9 “… then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And He said, go thy way, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed to the time of the end”.

Israel and the Land
Jan 1st, 2007
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God promised the land of Canaan to Israel. Later the Romans would rename it Palestine.

Those who now claim to be Palestinians have no claim to the land of Israel. There never has been, in all of history, a Palestinian people, nation, government, language, culture or economy. This is an indisputable fact. As late as the 1950s the Arabs refused to be called Palestinians.

Those who claim to be Palestinians claim to be descended from a Palestinian people who lived for thousands of years in a land called Palestine. That claim is a hoax! Yet the world accepts that lie as the basis of a false peace that they have attempted to force on Israel.

The Purpose or effect of it all is to force Israel off the land God promised her.

The Promise “Unto thy seed will I give this land” Genesis 12:7 The land in which the Canaanites once dwelt was given to Israel by God.

The Promise Clarified notice in Genesis 13: 14 and 15 three words “all” the land, “thy seed” the Jews and “forever” including our own day.

God made a covenant with Abraham in Genesis 17: 7 & 8. God cannot lie and God cannot break His covenant.

Abraham’s seed identified Gen 26:3 spoken to Isaac; Gen 35:12 spoken to Jacob.

The seed is not through Ishmael as Islam claims but through Isaac and Jacob.

Loss of Possession of the land and judgment

Deut 4:25-27 Disobedience and sin would result in loss of possession of the promised land

The promise of ultimate restoration and blessing Jer. 30:11, 31:35-37, 32:37

There is a struggle going on today over God’s promise to Israel. That struggle is between God and Satan involving the land, Israel and her enemies. That struggle was foretold 2,500 years ago in Ezekiel 36: 2,5.

Two regatherings of Israel were foretold - one in unbelief which is right now and almost complete and - one in redemption at Christ’s second coming.

Today the world is adamant that Israel cannot possess the land God covenanted to give her. The General Assembly of the UN recently voted 157 to 7 that Israel must give up the Golan Heights, Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem.

The EU has stated the same proposition. President Bush has stated that Israel must give up much of her land to allow for a Palestinian State.

The World is headed for a showdown with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

“For behold, in those days and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land.” Joel 3: 1,2

Is America in Prophecy?
Jan 1st, 2007
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Where does America fit in the end time events? Most prophetic teachers say America is not found in end time events. Three factors must be considered:

I. America is the only superpower in the world today

Her military and economic powers totally dominate the world scene. That great power is preventing the end time scenario from unfolding. As the tribulation period begins to unfold, the EU (Revived Roman Empire) must begin to rise to be the dominant power in the world. America must fade off the world scene.

II. America through its change of policy over the last decade has placed herself in danger of the judgment of God.

Her policy of seeking to establish a Palestinian state on Israel’s land will certainly result in judgment. That judgment will remove her from any influence in the Mid-East.

III. On the News wires there is now a steady drumbeat of ominous warnings to America. I cannot begin to deal with all of these warnings, but let me give you just a few excerpts:

The End of Dollar Supremacy - The Iranian government has finally developed a new weapon that can destroy the financial underpinning of the American empire. The US Dollar dominance is coming to an end.

The US National Debt is now $8,000,000,000,000 (8 trillion) - there are no assets to back that debt. America must borrow 3 billion dollars every day to pay the interest on that debt. That money comes mainly from China, Saudi Arabia, India and Japan. If those countries lose confidence in the US Dollar and refuse to lend that money the US economy will collapse.

- Chuck Misler 18/07/2006

US Dollar Facing Imminent Collapse - Even as the stock market is hitting new record highs, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Dept are quietly coordinating a devaluation of the dollar that the Bush administration hopes will be a slow decline rather than a dollar collapse.

John Williams, an experienced professional econometrician states, “China today is holding an unprecedented one trillion US dollars in Foreign Exchange Reserves. During the Thanksgiving Holiday, an announcement by China that their Central Bank planned to diversify Foreign Exchange holdings away from the dollar caused the dollar to drop in value on international currency markets.

Since then the dollar has dropped to a 20 month low against the Euro.”

“You’re dealing with mass psychology here”, Williams argues. “The Central Bankers around the world know they are going to take a hit on their dollar holdings. None of the Central Bankers want to start a dollar panic, but none of the Central Bankers want to be the last out of the dollar either.”

“There will be a Central Bank, most probably in Asia, who will start the move away from the dollar and when it happens, you’re going to see other Central Bankers covertly trying to follow. The move will magnify very quickly and it could become a full-fledged panic and a dollar collapse.”

-- Jerome R Corsi WND

The Plan to Destroy America via the dollar - it has become apparent that there is a new strategy to destroy America. It is a new kind of warfare designed to destroy the value of American Currency via a carefully coordinated attack against our dollar by a coalition of our enemies, and based on the rapid shrinking of the dollar’s worth, despite economic boom, it appears to be working.

Certain countries have begun quietly divesting themselves of US Foreign Exchange holdings, converting them to Euros.

Since China is the world’s second largest holder of US dollar Foreign Exchange Reserves, it has the power to create a catastrophe. At the same time Venezuela and Iran are now demanding that all payments for oil be paid in Euros, not dollars.

-- Hal Lindsey 08/12/2006

Other Ominous Warnings for America - Al Qaeda American Hiroshima - for some time now there has been a threat that terrorists working within the US would detonate nuclear devices, which would be strategically placed. It could possibly be dirty bombs with high yields of radio-activity. It has been long reported that Russian nuclear bombs have been stolen or bought on the black market by wealthy oil producing countries.

Iran’s EMP Threat - one single nuclear missile set off at high altitude over the central area of the US would knock out all electronic and electrical activity for months or even years. It would reduce America to third world status.

We take no delight in these prospects; we weep for America and Canada and pray for a return of our nations to obedience to God.

We are reminded of a memorable statement by Billy Graham some 50 years ago. He said, “If God doesn’t judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah”.

That was before 50 million babies were murdered in their mothers’ wombs, before homosexuality was legitimized, before heterosexual immorality swept over the land (37% of babies born in America last year were born outside of marriage), before God was ruled out of the schools, before materialism had totally gripped the hearts of our people, before the family was systematically destroyed and before apostasy had swept over the evangelical church.

Is God about to set America aside so that the end time prophetic scenario can play out?

George Bush:
Jan 1st, 2007
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Addressing the opening of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, President Bush said (12/12/06) the establishment of a state of Palestine along side the state of Israel is still one of the great objectives of my presidency.

Stan Goodenough said, "The American leaders resolve to divide up the land of Israel, and despite the persistent daily proof of the Palestinians refusal to ever accept Israel’s right to exist, is putting America unavoidably in line to face the judgment of a vengeful God."

Kofi Annan used his influential position to perpetuate the inaccurate yet universally accepted perception of the mid-east conflict. He said "people everywhere are outraged by Israel’s disproportionate use of force against the Palestinians, and by Israel’s continued occupation and confiscation of Arab land." In other words, he told the heads of state gathered before him bringing an end to the conflict by meeting Arab demands would have a positive affect and was thus a priority for every nation on earth.

The following is a commentary by Stan Goodenough. Washington’s resolve to play midwife to the birth of an Arab state on Jewish lands appears not in the least bit weakened by the steadily accumulated evidence, as the latest opinion polls again show, that the vast majority of Palestinians still support the traditional PLO position, according to which the establishment of a Palestinian state will assure the ultimate destruction of the Jewish one.

By maintaining their support for the realization of this Arab ambition, America’s leaders are, unwittingly or otherwise, aiding and abetting those determined to destroy Israel.

Today the White House sees this as a legacy to aspire after and achieve.

History makes a strong case for the argument that God brought the United States into being expressly in order that Israel would have a God-fearing nation allied with her against an increasingly godless world.

And indeed, stemming directly from its unique heritage as a nation founded on deeply driven Judeo-Christian pilings, America has more than any other nation, assisted and supported the reconstituted Jewish homeland since its 1948 rebirth.

That backing has, however, been whittled away by liberal forces working to bring America in line with the anti-Israel policies and practices of virtually every other country on the globe.

Just how far this erosion has gone was abruptly revealed in 2002 when Bush became the first American president to verbally commit himself to helping create a Palestinian state on Israel’s biblical patrimony.

According to His Word, God, the One Who has restored the Jews to their land and is in the process of restoring the land to the Jews, will not stand for this. He is fully committed to securing Israel and warns those who seek to devour her.