Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

Rick Warren is Building the World Church
Jul 12th, 2009
Weekly CommentaryArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;Apostasy

In Revelation 17, we read about a world -wide church that will come upon the scene in the last days. This church will bring all religions together in a union with the  World Government of Antichrist.  In talking about the last days Jesus warned in Matthew 24 about this religious deception, He said that these deceivers would come in His name,  He said that if it were possible even the very elect would be deceived.  We are now living in the last days and we are seeing men coming in the name of Jesus and preaching  a powerless  gospel  on the one hand and at the same time laying the ground work for the apostate world church.

Last week Rick Warren told the Islamic Society of North America that he is “not interested in interfaith dialogue; he is only interested in interfaith projects”. He is saying lets’ forget about truth and just come together to make the world a better place. That is exactly the program of the Harlot Church of the last days. Rick Warren is coming to  Evangelicals in particular, and enticing them to forget about truth and just join the world and the religions of the world to make a better world. That pleases the devil because the truth of the gospel will be put aside. Instead of men and women being translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son they will remain in the kingdom of darkness. Three times in Matthew 24, Jesus warned of religious deception, Rick Warren is doing the very thing that Jesus warned about.

In his Peace Plan Rick Warren has outlined five areas in which we should come together with Liberals, Catholics, Muslims, Hindu’s, Atheists and others to change the world.

Joseph Farah made the following statement.

Rick Warren thinks we should work with Muslims to address certain issues. This is what his so- called PEACE plan is about. The issues on which we are supposed to work together are the following:

-SPIRITUAL  EMPTINESS...How are Christian believers supposed to work  with Muslims on spiritual emptiness without getting them to understand repentance and grace? That is the only way to spiritual emptiness can be addressed from a biblical perspective. That means evangelism.

-CORRUPT  LEADERSHIP...The definition of corrupt leadership from a biblical perspective is leadership not adhering to God’s Word. How are believers to form a new definition that will be palatable to non-believers and still be true to the Bible.

-EXTREME  POVERTY...Jesus does tell believers to minister to the poor, but I fail to see where he  suggests we should do this in conjunction with government programs, non-believers or in the name of other gods.

-PANDEMIC  DISEASES...Is the God we serve big enough to address problems? Do we need to help other gods? Is that a biblical principle?

-ILLITERACY  and EDUCATION...And what are we to teach people? Should we help Muslim nations and Muslim groups to teach their children the Quran? Or do we expect Muslim nations and Muslim groups to permit us to teach their people to read the Bible?

“Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?”  2 Cor. 6:14.

Rick Warren’s Peace Plan has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ or the scriptures. It has everything to do with bringing the religions of the world and the people of the world together in a great world religious union. He is preparing the woman to ride the beast.

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues”  Rev. 18:4.

Revelation 12:17
Jul 12th, 2009
Exploring RevelationArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;Prophecy;Book Study

We are at the midpoint of the tribulation period. The final phase of the age long war between God and Satan now begins. "And the devil was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ", verse 17.

Why is the dragon,Satan, so angry with the woman, Israel? Satan now sees his opportunity to establish his kingdom slipping away, he knows that God is about send Christ to rule over Israel on the throne of David. Satan knows that if he can destroy Israel he can frustrate the purposes of God, so he sets out through Antichrist to annihalate Israel.

This is the third attempt to destroy Israel in the last days scenario.

The first is taking place right now as the world is now turning against Israel and demanding that they surrender to the demands and purposes of the Islamic nations, which would bring about her destruction.  Antichrist will soon come along and become Israel's counterfeit deliverer with his psuedo peace treaty. Satan 's man wants a temple on the Temple Mount, he desires not only to be worshipped in place of God, but he wants to be worshipped in the very place that God has been worshipped in the past. He wants Israel to set up the temple worship and then he will present himself in the temple and demand that the whole world worship him as god. That has always been Satan's goal.

The second attempt to destroy Israel will take place very early in the tribulation period when Russia and Iran and their Muslim neighbours attack Israel as recorded in Ezekiel 38-39.  God will intervene with fire from heaven and deliver Israel from this attack.

The third is mentioned above where God intervenes and hides Israel in the wilderness mountains of Petra.

The fourth will be at the close of the tribulation at the battle of Armageddon, when Christ will descend from heaven and destroy Antichrist and his armies with the breath of His mouth.

I believe we see two groups represented in this verse. First it says, "with the woman", that is Israel.

Then it refers to another group, "the rement of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ". This is the seed of Israel by faith, those gentiles who are being saved in the tribulation period. We read about a great multitude of gentiles being saved and martyred during that time, these are the ones Satan has made war with and killed in great numbers. This cannot refer to Israel because Israel does not turn to the Lord in large numbers until the very end of the tribulation.

The war between God and Satan is gaining momentum and is now about to come to great climax. What is at stake is who will rule the earth, the kingdom of Satan or the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Palestinians reject any Israel-U.S. settlement deal
Jul 12th, 2009
Daily NewsReuters - Ali Sawafta
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinians reject any deal between Israel and the United States that would allow even limited Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, a top Palestinian negotiator said on Sunday.

"There are no middle-ground solutions for the settlement issue: either settlement activity stops or it doesn't stop," Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio.

Erekat said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed that message in a letter on Saturday to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Erekat was responding to reports that Israel and the United States were discussing a compromise that would allow some building in existing settlements under what Israel terms "natural growth" to accommodate expanding families.

A U.S. official denied on Wednesday a report in the Israeli daily Maariv that the Obama administration agreed work could continue on 2,500 housing units whose construction had begun, despite its call for a total freeze to spur peace efforts.

The report followed talks in London last week between George Mitchell, Obama's special Middle East envoy, and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak aimed at healing a rift over continued settlement activity.

The U.S. State Department said Mitchell was expected in the region "soon" for talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials.

Barak has been seeking a deal with the United States that would include initial steps by Arab states to normalize relations with Israel in return for limiting settlement activity.

PEACE TALKS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his call on Abbas to resume peace talks immediately.

"There is no reason for us not to meet anywhere in Israel and I suggest we meet ... to advance peace for the benefit of both our peoples," Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet meeting, held in the southern city of Beersheba.

Palestinians have said they would not revive stalled peace talks with Israel unless its settlement activities stopped.

"If settlement continues Israel will be allowed to build one thousand units here and two thousand units there, which will lead Arabs and Palestinians to believe that the American administration is incapable of swaying Israel to halt its settlement activities," Erekat told the radio.

"The message is clear: settlements should stop immediately."

Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in a 1967 war. Palestinians say Jewish settlements, deemed illegal by the World Court, would deny them a viable and contiguous state.

Obama science czar Holdren called for forced abortions
Jul 12th, 2009
Daily NewsWND - Drew Zahn
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

'Comprehensive Planetary Regime could control development, distribution of all natural resources'

The man President Obama has chosen to be his science czar once advocated a shocking approach to the "population crisis" feared by scientists at the time: namely, compulsory abortions in the U.S. and a "Planetary Regime" with the power to enforce human reproduction restrictions.

"There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated," wrote Obama appointee John Holdren, as reported by FrontPage Magazine. "It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

Holdren's comments, made in 1977, mirror the astonishing admission this week of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of."

In 1977, when many scientists were alarmed by predictions of harmful environmental effects of human population growth, Holdren teamed with Paul R. Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb," and his wife, Anne, to pen "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment."

Holdren's book proposed multiple strategies to curb population growth, and, according to the quotes excerpted by FrontPage Magazine, advocated an international police force to ensure the strategies were carried out.

"Such a comprehensive Plenetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable," Holdren and the Ehrlichs reportedly wrote. "The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. ... The Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits."

The website Zombietime.com has posted photos of text excerpts from "Ecoscience," referencing even further strategies from Holdren and the Ehrlichs, including compulsory adoption of children born to teenage mothers, forced sterilization and other government-mandated population control measures.

A former Teresa and John Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Holdren was appointed as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and confirmed on March 20 to assume the position informally known as Obama's "science czar."

Holdren's track record shows a trend of alarmist viewpoints on scientific issues, including a statement made in 1973 that the U.S. population of 210 million at the time was "too many, and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many." In response, Holdren recommended "a continued decline in fertility to well below replacement should be encouraged, with the aim of achieving [zero population growth] before the year 2000."

The current U.S. population is approximately 304 million.

After the perceived "crisis" of population growth faded, however, Holdren began sounding the alarm over global climate change. In the 1980s Holdren warned of human-caused ecological disasters resulting in the deaths of a billion people before 2020, and as recently as 2006, Holdren warned that sea levels could rise as much as 13 feet by the year 2010.

WND reported Holdren's participation in a panel predicting a dire future caused by global warming and calling for a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions in a report to the U.N.

Gore boasts: 'Global governance' coming with carbon tax
Jul 12th, 2009
You TubeWND - Bob Unruh
Categories: Today's Headlines;World Government;Commentary

Former Vice President Al Gore, whose "An Inconvenient Truth" video epistle on the claims of global warming has not weathered recent scientific research, now has promised at a conference in the United Kingdom that the impending virtual energy tax under the U.S. "cap-and-trade" legislation will bring about "global governance."

Gore, who this year famously left his Nashville mansion's driveway brightly illuminated during the "Earth Hour" event that promoted energy savings, was speaking at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment.

He cited the "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Congress that  by President Obama's own estimate would cause utility bills to skyrocket for American consumers.

Those taxes are good, Gore said.

"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change, and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global government and global agreements," he said.

Only a few weeks ago, a former NASA climatologist asserted global warming simply isn't happening.

While so-called "global warming" was supposed to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, according to many scientists and politicians, since 2005 only one major hurricane has struck North America.

It was reported at the time that a new study by Florida State University researcher Ryan Maue showed worldwide cyclone activity – typhoons, as well as hurricanes – had reached at least a 30-year low.

And two more studies – one by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Germany and another by the University of Wisconsin – predict a slowing, or even a reversal of warming, for at least the next 10 to 20 years.

"The most recent global warming that began in 1977 is over, and the Earth has entered a new phase of global cooling," says Don Easterbrook, professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham.

He maintains that a switch in Pacific Ocean currents "assures about three decades of global cooling. New solar data showing unusual absence of sun spots and changes in the sun’s magnetic field suggest ... the present episode of global cooling may be more severe than the cooling of 1945 to 1977."

Climatologist Joe D’Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project says new data "show that in five of the last seven decades since World War II, including this one, global temperatures have cooled while carbon dioxide has continued to rise."

Gore told the conference he was bringing "good news" from the U.S.: that President Obama had secured billions of dollars for renewable energy work.

He noted that two week ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey bill, "which for all of its flaws does put a price on carbon."

"It's very much a step in the right direction. It achieves real reductions below the 1990 base level by 2020, and that is the threshold that many have said … will dramatically increase the prospects for success," Gore said.

He said "awareness" will drive the change "through global governance."

Gore also discussed a lack of efficiency in energy processes.

At the Climate Depot website, writers recalled that French President Jacques Chirac in 2000 confirmed that the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol – to which the U.S. has not subscribed – is "the first component of an authentic global governance."

He said, "For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance. From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace."

At a later U.N. conference in Bali, Indonesia, Othmar Schwank, who has advocated for global taxes, said wealthly nations like the U.S. need to "contribute significantly more to this global fund."

According to a forum page participant at the London Times Online, Gore's endorsement of such taxes isn't altogether intended to solve problems.

"I've driven by Al's palatial digs in suburban Nashville and it is quite large. He got clowned recently for the size of his power bills and now is mad at the rest of us. He stands to make a mint over the Cap & Trade legislation if passed and signed into law," said one participant.

"We know your Scam Mr. Gore and the Globalists. Make CO2 a pollutant and then turn it into GOLD by trading it on the BOGUS open market for $$$. We know what you and your ilk are up to and we the people will defeat you. Follow the money!" said another.

"Global warming is NOT a problem. Al Gore is a nut. The earth has actually maintained average temperatures since 2001. It amazes me that the EU has drunk the cool aid and is jumping off the cliff with AL like lemmings. I hope the USA does not follow suit," said a third.

WND also reported that a team of scientists with years of expertise in climate issues recently wrote to Congress asserting the "sky is not falling" and there is no evidence man is causing global warming.

The letter was signed by physics professors Robert H. Austin and William Happer of Princeton, environmental sciences professor S. Fred Singer of the University of Virginia, retired manager for strategic planning at ExxonMobil Roger Cohen, physics professor (emeritus) Harold W. Lewis at UC-Santa Barbara and others.

Their names are tied to long lists of initials, including APS, or the American Physical Society; AAAS, or the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and AGU, or the American Geophysical Union.

WND also has reported on the Petition Project, which has compiled the signatures of more than 31,000 scientists, including some 9,000 Ph.D.s, who flatly reject the "global warming" agenda

Flight of 230 North American Immigrants Arrives in Israel
Jul 12th, 2009
Daily News.israelnationalnews.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

The first chartered Aliyah flight of 2009 arrived at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. Two hundred and thirty-two olim (new immigrants) from the United States and Canada were aboard the flight. 

The immigrants are the first of 3,000 olim from North America and the United Kingdom to arrive this summer, on the first of 15 chartered Aliyah flights sponsored by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization and the Jewish Agency.

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Minister of Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver were present to greet the new Israelis.

Forty percent of the new arrivals are children, the youngest a mere seven weeks old. Tuesday's flight also included 60 singles.

Twenty-two of the new arrivals plan to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces. Others will begin jobs in fields ranging from advertising to photography to medicine.

Among the 232 arrivals are those hailing from 19 American states and the Canadian city of Quebec. The immigrants are heading for new homes throughout Israel, from the village of Chispin in the Golan Heights to kibbutzim (cooperative communities) in the south.

Boldly Christ's
Jul 12th, 2009
Thought for the WeekA. W. Tozer
Categories: Inspirational;Exhortation

To become a member of the body of Christ and join with the bride of Christ, you must be born into the family of Christ. It happens by believing in your heart that Jesus is Lord and confessing your faith with your mouth to the people. This is reasonable, and I do not understand why anybody should find fault with it. Suppose you were somewhere in the world, and someone asked you your nationality. Is there anybody here that would be ashamed to say where you were from? Why then should you go through life being secret Christians, too frightened, too scared to say, "I am a Christian"? If Jesus Christ has honored you by finding you and laying His hand on you, you ought never be ashamed of Him. You should be able to stand anywhere at any time and say, "I do not care who knows it. I am a Christian." Be proud. I want the world to know that I am a Christian. From reading the lives of the saints I know I have a long way to go, and I want you to know that, too! I have a sharp tongue and an abrupt manner, and sometimes I say things that hurt feelings. I do not want to hurt your feelings. Just forgive a fellow who is too dumb to know better. I may not be a good Christian, but I am still a Christian. I am a member of the body of Christ. I am in the ark along with the blessed few who have been honored by God with grace, and for that reason I am not ashamed and I do not want you to be. We want a separated-from-the-world, heads-up, knees-bent, living church! Sure we can have our skating parties, gatherings and coffees. Nothing is wrong with that, provided we know that we do not need it. These activities are something on the side so we can relax. Jesus Christ is our center, and so the way to get in is by faith and confession.