Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Ezekiel 38: "The Gog - Magog War" - A Warning From God To Russia



Ezekiel 38: "The Gog - Magog War" - A Warning From God to Russia

The Book of Ezekiel was written between 593 and 565 B.C. during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews. Here in Ezekiel chapter 38 there is a prophecy of a war against Israel from a country named Magog and her allies. Magog is led by its leader called "Gog." Israel was scattered as a nation in 70 AD and so Israel ceased to be a nation. Ezekiel chapters 36 and 37 prophesies of Israel being restored as a nation once again. This happened in 1948 and Israel took back Jerusalem in 1967, which became Israel's capital. This is the first time ever in the history of the world has a nation been scattered and ceased to exist then roughly 1260 years after her destruction Israel became a nation once again.

Ezekiel 38 and 39 foretell of a coalition of nations attacking Israel in the Last Days and of a mighty Divine Intervention, which miraculously delivers Israel. This coalition of nations is headed by modern day Russia.  This war will follow shortly after the war between Israel and the Arabs as prophesied by Obadiah, Psalms 83 and Isaiah 17 in which Israel will totally destroy the Arab nations.  The  Magog coalition will meet a similar fate except that the God of Israel will be their destroyer.  

Sunday, June 19, 2011

WARNING! THE APOSTATE CHURCH IS HERE!


WARNING! THE APOSTATE CHURCH IS HERE!
We are at the END of the End Times!  Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled daily.  Jesus warned us in Matthew 24 "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many ...." (verse 11)"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect" (verse 24).  He further warned, "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many ...." (Matthew 24:4,5).

The Apostle Paul echoed a similar warning in referring to the last days: "Let no man deceive you by any means." A time of deception is coming, says Paul, so take care.  The Great Lie reveals that the spiritual deception to which Christ referred, though it will of course involve rank unbelievers following false Christs and false prophets, will and has infected the professing church, it will involve a great "falling away," or apostasy"for that day [of the Lord] shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin [Antichrist] be revealed, the son of perdition" (2 Thessalonians 2:3).

This video confronts the "feel good" "seeker friendly"heresy that is flooding the church.  Prophecy IS being fulfilled! A word of encouragement - even though apostasy is rampant, God WILL have a harvest in this last hour.  There WILL be one last outpouring of His Spirit!  The Gospel WILL be preached unto ALL nations and THEN the end will come!  Matthew 24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

Apostasy and a move of God at the same time?  Yes, in every awakening there was a "falling away" or apostasy.  Even during Jesus ministry on earth, hundreds of disciples left Him in one day because they could not endure His teaching.  So it will be in this last hour.  

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Old Fisherman - A Father's Sacrificial Love

"The Old Fisherman"
Mary Bartels Bray 
Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the clinic.
One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. "Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face ... lopsided from swelling, red and raw. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'til morning."
He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success. No one seemed to have a room. "I guess it's my face ... I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments..."
For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me. "I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning."
I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. "No thank you. I have plenty." And he held up a brown paper bag.
When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him for a few minutes. It didn't take long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury.
He didn't tell it by way of complaint. In fact, every other sentence was preface with a thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast. But just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, "Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won't put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair."
He paused a moment and then added, "Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind."
I told him he was welcome to come again.
On his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.
During the years he came to stay overnight with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery ... fish and oysters packed in a box with fresh young spinach or kale ... every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these, and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.
When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. "Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!"
Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illness' would have been easier to bear. I know our family will always be grateful to have known him. From him, we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.
Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse. As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all ... a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket.
I thought to myself, "If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!" My friend changed my mind.
"I ran short of pots," she explained," and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, until I can put it out in the garden."
She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining such a scene in heaven. "Here's an especially beautiful one," God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. "He won't mind starting in this small body."
All this happened long ago ... and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Ezekiel 38 - The Gog - Magog War


THE WAR OF EZEKIEL 38 IS NEAR!
The prophecies in Ezekiel 38 & 39 were written over 2,500 years ago. They detail an attempted surprise attack on the nation of Israel. As if torn from today's headlines, these passages detail who is involved, what they will do, why they will do it and how they will be defeated.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Rapture of the Church - Will You Be Left Behind?


The Rapture of the Church - Will You Be Left Behind?


Matthew 24:42 " Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming."  The prophetic End Time signs are rapidly being fulfilled.  Jesus warned us that when we see these signs coming to pass that our "redemption draws nigh." 


Tragically, many professing Christians are asleep, involved in sin, or engrossed in the things of this world.  Many excuse their lukewarmness, apathy and outright sin!  They have deceived themselves.  We have returned to the "Days of Noah," where sin is the norm and righteousness the abnormal.  It permeates the world and the church!  Jesus warned, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."  (Matthew 24:37-39)


Is this happening?  Drinking, drunkenness, wild parties, adultery, rampant divorce, premarital sex, homosexuality, drugs, and living the "good life" are prevalent in the world and in the church!  There is no fear of God and no shame!  Yes, the "Days of Noah" have returned with a vengeance.

Jesus said that He is coming will be like a thief in the night.  No one knows when a thief is coming.  In Matthew 24: 42-44, He warned, "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."


Soon, He will rapture His faithful, prepared and watching believers home to Heaven.  Many will be left behind as Matthew 24:40-41 records, "Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left."  The churches and altars will then be full of weeping and sorrowful people but it will be TOO LATE!!!!


ARE YOU READY??  IF NOT, GET READY!!  THE TIME IS NEAR!!



Thursday, June 09, 2011

Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes



Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes

The Jewish People and the City of Jerusalem have a 4,000 year old historic relationship. This video gives a quick glimpse into the history of this ancient city and the rightful Jewish claim of ownership upon it.

THE PRESENCE OF GOD DESCENDS UPON AND TRANSFORMS A TOWN



THE PRESENCE OF GOD DESCENDS UPON AND TRANSFORMS A TOWN: MANCHESTER, KENTUCKY

By the early 2000s, vicious feuds, crushing poverty, pervasive corruption, and epic drug abuse were so prevalent in eastern Kentucky that any family that could was fleeing to greener pastures. Those who stayed behind fought a running battle with hopelessness as illicit drugs threatened to consume an entire generation. And then it happened. As a desperate band of believers cried “Enough!” the Presence of God descended on the town of Manchester, and transformed it into the City of Hope.



Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Heaven is For Real ~ 4 year old Colton Burpo's "A Glimpse of Heaven"



 4 year old Colton Burpo's "A Glimpse of Heaven"

Is there life after death? Just ask 4-year-old Colton, who emerged from life-threatening surgery with astounding details about heaven! Colton's detailed account includes floating away, seeing God's throne, and meeting relatives---including his sister who died in a miscarriage (and whom his parents had never mentioned).  

Charles Wesley - An Incredible Life That Shook The World




Charles Wesley - An Incredible Life That Shook The World
Three young Englishmen gathered with 60 other people for a New Year's prayer meeting on Fetter Lane in London.  The date was January 1, 1739.  Charles Wesley, his brother John and a friend George Whitefield continued in prayer until 3:00 in the morning.  John records in his journal the phenomenal event that took place:
"About three in the morning, as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried our for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground.  As soon as we were recovered a little from that awe and amazement at the presence of his Majesty, we broke out with one voice, ‘We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord."
The Holy Spirit filled the Wesley brothers and George Whitefield and commissioned them for an incredible work that would shake two continents for God.  That work would affect the lives of millions and even save the English-speaking world from the ravages of the French Revolution.  The First Great Awakening swept the British Isles and the American continent.  These three young men preached to tens of thousands in the open air, in cemeteries, on town squares and anywhere that people would listen.  
Charles was one of the most dynamic of these preachers.  His commitment to spreading the Gospel of Christ knew no bounds.  On one occasion, he traveled without sleep for three days in rain to make an appointment.  More remarkable than his preaching was his powerful gift of writing hymns.  He wrote 4,000 hymns, many still sung by Christians today.  This video is a glimpse into the remarkable life of a man sold out to God.  



Saturday, June 04, 2011

Prophecies About To Be Fulfilled

                                
                  Prophecies About To Be Fulfilled


The Arab nations of the world will attack Israel in a coordinated effort to annihilate the state (Psalm 83).


Israel will soundly defeat the Arab alliance (Zechariah 12:6).


Israel will dwell in security and prosperity (Ezekiel 38:11).


A Russian coalition consisting mainly of Muslim nations will invade Israel (Ezekiel 38:1-17).


The Russian coalition will be destroyed supernaturally by God (Ezekiel 38:18-23 & 39:1-8).


The Antichrist will intervene and guarantee the security of Israel, enabling the Jews to rebuild their Temple (Daniel 9:27).


At the end of three and a half years, the Antichrist will enter the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem and declare himself to be God (Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15-18, & 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).


The Jews will reject the Antichrist, and he will respond with an attempt to annihilate them, killing two-thirds of them in the process (Revelation 12:13-17 & Zechariah 13:8-9).


At the end of the Tribulation, when the Jews have come to the end of themselves, they will turn to God and receive Yeshua as their Messiah (Zechariah 12:10, Romans 9:27-28, & Romans 11:25-27).


Jesus will return and regather all believing Jews to Israel (Deuteronomy 30:1-9).


Israel will be established as the prime nation in the world (Isaiah 2:1-4 & Micah 4:1–7).


The Lord will bless the Jewish remnant by fulfilling all the promises He has made to Israel (Isaiah 60:1-62:7).


The blessings of God will flow out to all the nations through the Jewish people during the Millennial rule of Jesus (Zechariah 8:22-23).

Friday, June 03, 2011

Run For Your Life



RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
We are living in perilous times! Apostasy, false doctrine, and false "gospels" are sweeping through churches.  What is going on?  Where is the "Faith Once Delivered to the Saints?"  This video gives a powerful warning to "RUN" from the deception of the present hour.



Thursday, June 02, 2011

The Imminent Middle East War - the Prophecy of Psalm 83


The Imminent Middle East War - the Prophecy of  Psalm 83
The Middle East is in turmoil.  Revolutions, protests, riots and violence are sweeping the Arabic nations.  Governments are being overthrown.  Something immense is taking place!  Now, this "Arab Spring" is focusing on Israel.  On May 15, Israel's 63rd birthday, thousands of Arab protesters tried to breach Israel's borders on four fronts.  The Israeli army showed great restraint. In June 2011, thousands of Arab protesters will again attack Israel's borders.  They will attempt the same in September 2011.  The Prime Minister of Israel has declared that they will be met with force.  Israel will protect her borders!  
The Prophecy of Psalms 83 is about to be fulfilled.  Israel will be attacked on all sides by the Arabic nations, who have vowed to exterminate her.  This video gives insight into this ancient prophecy.