Obama Brings Judgment on America

President Obama made the public statement in his speech on Thursday May 19, 2011 that Israel must pull back to its 1967 borders and allow the creation of a Palestinian state within her borders.

Since that statement, there have been devastating tornados in America. Joplin, Missouri Fire chief Mitch Randles estimated that 25 to 30 percent of the city was damaged. "It cut the city in half," Randles said." These tornados have been the most vicious tornadoes in half a century.

Joplin was cut in half just like Obama wants to do to Israel.

I post these correlations when they happen in the hopes of bringing peoples' attention to it in such a way that they will take a closer look and learn what it's all about.

If I had no other reason to believe in God, the Israel story would be enough. May others find the Lord as they learn about this story and come to repentance.

Look here for more information:

God's Covenant With Israel

History of Judgment Within 48 Hours

Are You Scoffing? Harold Camping and the Rapture

The world is laughing, the world is scoffing, about the "Rapture," because an old man spent incredible amounts of money to spread the word that the Rapture was going to happen on a certain date.

What bothers me the most about it is the reproach on the Gospel. Camping made a laughing-stock out of the very real doctrine of the Rapture. Indeed, the Scriptures tell us that EXACTLY THAT would characterize the last days.

"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.'"
2nd Peter 3:3-4

Scoffers.

Ironically, producing scoffers is exactly the fruit of the false prophecies of Harold Camping and others like him. He isn't the first, there have been many. They set dates, and when the dates come and go, scoffing is the fruit. In the early years of my walk with the Lord, I fell for it several times. Men would write books explaining why such and such a date was going to be the time of the Rapture. These were not unintelligent men, and their arguments were convincing. They told of how planets would be lined up in a certain way, and what that meant, and used many other convincing signs that the Rapture would happen at such and such a time. To a young Christian, and especially to those who have had a lot of pain in their lives, these theories gave them hope. But I can speak as one who fell for those theories several times, the great disappointment it produced is enough to turn people away entirely from any more talk of anything "religious." And of course, that's the Satanic intent.

Why is it so hard to understand:
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven..."
Matthew 24:36

That very clearly states that anyone who has some theory that the Rapture takes place on a certain day, is automatically disqualifying that very day.

The Rapture surely WILL come. There is no "sign" given beforehand, no Bible prophecy that needs to take place pointing the way to it. If there IS any sign, it's the scoffers.

While there is NO indication we can look for to anticipate the Rapture, there ARE some things that show us we're in that period of time. It's sort of like when you see Christmas decorations being put out in the stores, you know Thanksgiving is near.

The Bible has a LOT to say about "the last days." We know that the last days are characterized by God's restoration of the nation of Israel, along with the powers of hell doing everything in their power to prevent it. We know there will come a world ruler who will win the hearts of all the people but who will be a very evil man, sort of like when Hitler came to power and the masses "heiled" him, yet he turned out to be one of the most evil men in history. This coming world leader will be far worse, and will have the power to do "signs and wonders," thus deceiving many. We know there will be a world currency, and no one will be able to buy or sell unless they sign on to that economy and pledge allegiance to that world leader, the Antichrist. We know that the time leading up to that period will be characterized by great earthquakes, famine, disease, and many wars and rumors of wars.

Every generation has had earthquakes or epidemics or famines or wars. Historians can recall "the great earthquake of..." or "the war of ..." or the great epidemic of...." Indeed, almost all generations have had some "great" trauma. But what will characterize the days leading up to that last seven-year period will be that these things will ALL be there at the same time, and will increase in strength and intensity, as Jesus said, "like birth pangs." And that's exactly what we're seeing now.

The other necessary part of the picture is that Israel must be in the land that God gave to her forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Old Testament prophets forewarned them that they would go into world-wide dispersion and will be without their God or their Temple or their nation for a very long time, but "in the last days" God himself would bring them back from their world-wide dispersion and place them once again in the land given to their forefathers. And after 2,000 years of dispersion, God has now brought them back to their land. It even mentions that they will be speaking Hebrew, a language that was lost for millenia much like the Latin of the Roman Empire. Hebrew, like Latin, would disappear and be found only in religious writings. It's an awesome thing to witness, Israel is back in her land, speaking Hebrew as the common language in her country.

We've seen Israel put back into the land promised her. We see the powers of hell determined to destroy her. We've seen the combined disasters of earthquakes, wars, famine, and disease all happening at the same time and increasing in frequency and intensity.

We can't know the day or the hour that the Lord will come for believers, but we CAN see that the prophesied events of the last seven years are clearly imminent. Scripture tells us that the believers in the Lord Jesus Christ will be removed BEFORE that last seven year period begins.

Don't let men like Harold Camping cause YOU to be a scoffer. Harold Camping is actually a sign of the last days, causing men to scoff and bring reproach to the Gospel.

For more information on the Rapture, look here:

The Rapture

End Of The World On May 21?

Some of you have heard that either the world will end or the Rapture will happen on May 21.

The Bible tells us that one characteristic of "the last days" is that people will be scoffers, disbelieving the coming of the Lord. Read it in 2 Peter 3:3. I have come to see that those who set dates that come and go are actually producing the scoffing.

NO ONE knows the day or the hour of the Rapture. And those men who come up with reasons to believe it will happen at a certain time are actully doing harm to the Scriptural truths about the very Rapture they're misrepresenting.

The Rapture can happen at any time, there is nothing that needs to happen before the Rapture can take place. And Scripture tells us that NO ONE is going to know the date beforehand.

But that is not so concerning the end of the age. There ARE things that have to take place before the end. Those things are very observable and everything IS moving alarmingly in that direction. But there yet remains much that has to take place beforehand. There is a period of seven years that will precede the end of the age, and that period has NOT begun yet.

Here's an article addressing the issue concerning May 21.
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs019/1101818841456/archive/1105555339726.html

And here is a brief discussion of the Rapture itself:
What Is The Rapture?

While it is clear that the end of the age is NOT going to happen this year, the Rapture is something that will happen without warning, so if you're an unbeliever or a scoffer you just might get left behind. Once that happens, the terrible things of the Book of Revelation will begin. Jesus said it will be a time of tribulation worse than has ever previously happened on the earth or ever will thereafter.

To be saved, and to be spared the most awful time in world history, you must be born again. If you want to know more, here are two places where these issues are explained:

Born Again, What Does That Mean?

Who Is Jesus Christ?

Who Would Ever Have Believed...

Incredibly, in an historic meeting in Cairo yesterday, the terrorist groups Hamas and Fatah signed a unification declaration.

What does this mean? Why should I care?

If you have the big picture, you'll easily see what it means. You need to see the big picture, because it will bring you to realize the eternal implications for each one of us.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been uprisings across the Middle East. Leaders have been ousted and the countries are still in chaos. It's no coincidence that each of these countries have suddenly had cataclysmic revolutions all at the same time. There is a common force behind it all.

The Islamic Brotherhood has three main goals:
1- Submission to the Koran
2- To bring the whole world under Islamic Sharia law
     by using whatever force necessary
3 - The destruction of Israel off the face of the earth

Who could ever have anticipated that the opposing Islamic factions would ever, could ever, unite? Generally, Sunnis hate Shiites and Shiites hate Sunnis and so it has always been. But there is one thing that unites them all: their hatred for Israel and their determination to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, and to bring THE WHOLE EARTH under submission to Allah.

So now we see a Middle East-wide revolution taking place, toppling dictators and bringing a supposed "democracy" to all involved. But to anyone who knows the Koran and the history of Islam, it's an oxymoron: democracy is not possible in Islam, in fact, is contradictory to Islam. Islam demands subservience to its tenets (as listed above) and harsh Shariah law prevents individual choice. So what is coming is a unification of Islam across the Middle East, the imposition of Shariah law forbidding all opposition, and the carrying out of its goal to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

There's no other way to explain the consistent revolts across the entire Middle East than to understand that there is a central unifying force behind it. If you know the prophecies of the Bible, you'll easily see where this is going. Scroll down to the post before this one, for a more detailed explanation.

As of right now, there is a planned march of hundreds of thousands of Islamists upon Israel, scheduled for May 15. Will this lead to the Psalm 83 war? We can't know that yet, but what we do know is that everything is pointing to it; whether it be now or later, it's going to happen. What's happening now is clearly uniting the Muslims in the Middle East in their common goal of the destruction of the Jews.

We need to watch this closely, as this may be the time of the destruction of the "Palestians," which will bring in a period of false peace during which the Antichrist will arise and form a covenant with Israel for a period of seven years, which he will break at midpoint.

Is that where this is going? We can only watch, but woe to those who do not watch. Those who believe that the Lord will come for his Church before the events of the seven last years, the time of the Antichrist, these believers are watching closely because one thing we DO know, He will return for his own before then.

In other words, anytime now.