Okay, so these in Berea were more noble, because they:
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1. “Received the Word with all readiness of mind.”
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2.“And searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
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And so, these Bereans were ready to receive new teachings, which no doubt, conflicted with the supposed, “orthodox” teachings of that day.
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Thus, there was an open-mindedness which permeated their hearts, and a willingness to search the Scriptures daily, in hopes that these seemingly new teachings were indeed true!
A few years ago, a certain radio Bible teacher made the seemingly failed prediction that May 21st, 2011 would be the last day of earth’s existence, because of the long-afore-promised return of Christ in the clouds of glory.
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And of course, when that day came and went, the world began throwing verbal stones at Harold Camping.
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But in reality, nothing failed!
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No, nothing in Camping’s prediction failed!
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But God purposely allowed this tarrying-time to awaken His sleeping saints, to prepare them to shine forth in the soon-coming, Day of the Lord!
But Harold Camping, when alive, was the first one to admit that he was very capable of error.
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After all, on each one of his nightly telephone call-in programs, he probably cautioned his listeners 6 to 10 times per night, “Don’t trust me! I have feet of clay! Trust only the Bible! The Bible, the Bible, the Bible! The Bible is the only infallible Word of truth!”
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Every nightly call-in program was replete with this same warning, “Read the Bible! Study your Bible!”, instead of trusting Harold Camping, or any other Bible teacher!
“Dear Lord, Help me to be an open-minded seeker of truth, even if it means giving up a very highly regarded Church opinion! Let me be willing to investigate any seemingly new teaching if it appears to have some biblical validity…
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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN
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HOLY-GHOST RIDER CONSTELLATION
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THIS STAR-CHART: This is a Wikipedia star-chart, in which this site’s editor has sketched in these three constellations (without the Holy-Ghost-Rider Constellation).
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Notice how the right front hoof is trampling on the tail of the Dragon.
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Also notice his eye is a star.
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It’s best seen when in the western half of the sky.
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It is found in mid-sky traveling from east to west.
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In January, it is in the west after midnight.
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As winter progresses, it can be seen earlier and earlier in the evening. a dark sky with good star-visibility is best, but not absolutely necessary to see this constellation.
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It is found on the opposite side of the Dragon Constellation from Orion.
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And as already stated, this Goodly Horse Constellation can be seen best in mid-winter when it is in the western side of the sky, and you are looking at it while you are facing west.
EXCERPTS FROM THE OPEN FORUM QUESTION/ANSWER RADIO TALK-SHOW…
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this Open Forum #23, a small 30 minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50 year-long series of 90 minute nightly talk shows…
So, in this little series, the subject of those noble Bereans has been introduced. And today, it is still worthy of a little more exploration into another area of concern.
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Let’s look at the key Bible passage… “And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming there, went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” Acts 17:10, 11
Okay, so those in Berea were more noble, because they:
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1. “Received the Word with all readiness of mind.”
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2.“And searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
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And so, the Bereans were ready to receive new teachings, which no doubt, conflicted with the supposed, “orthodox” teachings of that day.
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Thus there was an open-mindedness which permeated their hearts, and a willingness to search the Scriptures daily, in hopes that these seemingly new teachings were indeed true!
In today’s devotional, the message of the 2nd angel of Revelation 14 will be our focus…”And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” Revelation 14:8
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Here is a message which, while written in veiled allegorical language, yet with a little study can readily be seen to be speaking of the apostate church-world.
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Yes, while the Old Testament reveals that Babylon is a spiritual picture of Old Testament Jerusalem, nevertheless, Galatians 4:25, 26 reveals Jerusalem in the following revelation by Paul… ”For this Agar (Sara’s handmaid) is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem (represented by Sara) which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”
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So, Paul here reveals that both Sara and her handmaid, Hagar, were given by God to be spiritual allegories representing both the Church-apostate as well as the Church-faithful. Yes, here we have the two divisions within the church-world: those in the Church who are unsaved, and still in bondage to their sins, and those who have truly become “Born Again” into the kingdom of Heaven, which is, “the Jerusalem above”. And Hagar represents false salvation by useless human works, while Sara represents true Salvation by the promise of God’s grace.
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And so, when the Bible speaks of spiritual Babylon, we need not look any further than the Jerusalem which is still in bondage to sin, i.e., the apostate portion of the Church.
Now there was one man who warned of these things to the world. His name was Harold Camping. And he faithfully preached that today’s church-world has become apostate, and as a result, has been vomited out of the mouth of Jesus, even as it is written…”So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.” Revelation 3:16.Today’s Church, because of a lack of religious persecution, has gone headlong after the vain pleasures and ambitious pursuits of the world.
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But for over 30 years, Harold Camping faithfully encouraged his radio audience to attend church each week, even though he realized how apostate they were becoming.
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“Do the best you can to find a church which is reasonably faithful to the Bible. Don’t set your expectations too high”, Camping could often be heard advising his nightly callers.
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Harold-Camping – former CEO of Family Radio
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“FOR THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE”
2nd Timothy 4:3
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However, in the last 20 years or so, of his 50-year ministry, Camping finally understood that it was his duty to give the 2nd angel’s message that the churches had surpassed the limits of God’s forbearance.
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And so, after much study and much prayer he eventually reversed his stance by finally giving the message… “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. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:4, 5.
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And being a master mathematician, Camping calculated many biblical time prophecies concerning the time of the end, when the Revelation 18 message was to be given to… ”Come out of her, My people.”
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And no, Harold Camping was not an actual angel, but was merely a fallible human giving a message symbolized by an angel flying in Heaven.
Even though the Three Angel’s messages was first preached via Ellen G. White, during the last half of the 1800’s, her message went mostly unheeded by the world, and even to a great extent by her own fellow church leaders in the Seventh Day Adventist denomination.
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But God raised up Camping to repeat these errors, plus additional errors which Mrs. White was not enlightened to present.
One of Camping’s great teachings was on the infallibility of the Bible. As a matter of fact, Camping oft repeated a daily warning…”Don’t trust me! Study the Bible for your own selves! Check out what I teach against what the Bible says! I too have feet of clay, and am not to be trusted as the Bible is to be trusted. The Bible is the only infallible Word of God! Study, study, study!”
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On Camping’s daily 90-minute question/answer radio talk-show, he could be heard faithfully uttering this disclaimer perhaps a dozen times each night…“Don’t trust me! Trust only the Bible!”
Nevertheless, in spite of his several erroneous beliefs, Camping was a self-taught theologian of the first order!
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Aware of the many other gross errors being promulgated in the modern-day seminaries, Camping studied for his own self, for about an average of 4-6 hours daily. And his daily radio Bible studies thoroughly scoured the Bible, word-by-word, verse-by-verse, often taking several years of individual daily 25-minute audio Bible studies to complete even one particular book of the Bible. For instance, his study into Jeremiah contains well over 600 individual 25-minute audio studies!
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And in those daily studies he thoroughly dissected each verse, often referring to the Hebrew for word analysis, plus much cross-referencing of other related passages found elsewhere in the Bible.
“Dear Lord, Help me to be an open-minded seeker of truth, even if it means giving up a very highly regarded Church opinion! Let me be willing to investigate any seemingly new teaching if it appears to have some biblical validity…
FINALLY WALKING UPWARD INTO THE HIGHWAYS OF ETERNITY
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Day by day, you will find yourself walking, like the Disciples, spreading the precious Gospel seed wherever the Spirit leads.
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Taking the lovely name of Jesus, with every word spoken. Walking through this sin-darkened world, witnessing to those who take notice that of a truth, Jesus is present within you. Even like faithful Enoch, walking through the highways and byways of life in this world, spreading the Gospel-seed of unpretentious love.
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Day by day, you will become more and more closed in with God. Moment by moment, your heart will become intertwined with God’s heart, eventually two hearts beating as one heart.
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And just like Enoch, when the appointed time of sojourning on earth is finally done…you will walk onward…and upward…and into the highways and byways of eternity.(“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” Genesis 5:24).
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If you have ever watched debates between atheists and Christians as to whether God exists or not…
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…perhaps the greatest argument used by atheists has to do with God allowing this world to be so evil…even condoning all the evil…even engaging in it!
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“An enemy hath done this”
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And yet, God plainly reveals to us, “An enemy hath done this”. Matthew 13:28
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Nature reveals two entirely different forms of government: one of unselfish love, and the other of self-serving.
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And so, as we look out upon the world, we see the remnants of God’s beauty and love, often overshadowed by the results of mankind’s sinful selfishness!
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Now, of course, atheists will use this dichotomy in the world to make their argument against worshipping God.
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Yes, they will conflate God’s love with mankind’s evil, showing that if God does indeed exist, He is a heartless monster, bringing evil upon poor humans.
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“For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
Romans 14:11
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And yet, ultimately, each and every man woman and child will realize that Heaven’s government is the one true way to everlasting joy!
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Yes, on that great Day of God’s Judgment, it will be revealed that God’s Way was the one true Way.
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And then will be fulfilled the followed prophecy…“every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” Romans 14:11
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But our prayer today is that they will come to this awakening prior to the Great Judgment on the last day!
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Dear Lord, Please open my eyes to see the joy and the beauty of God’s creations. Open my ears to hear the heavenly message which nature’s witnesses try to teach us daily…
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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN
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HEAVENLY OBJECT LESSON
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When God created the Moon and the stars, He ordained them to “rule the night” (Genesis 1:16).
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The Moon, especially when it is full, can light your pathway through the night, as it reflects the light of the Sun.
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So too, the Christian is to be a light to the world: to this sin-darkened world.
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But as the Moon must reflect the light of the Sun, in order to be a light to the world…
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…so also, must the Christian reflect the light of Jesus, to be a spiritual light to this planet in rebellion.
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Listen…“Ye are the light of the world…
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Matthew 5:14-16
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However, during an eclipse, the Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon, preventing that sunlight from shining on the Moon’s face.
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This is an incredible object-lesson about when the child of God allows the world to come between him and his Lord.
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Like the eclipse, that person no longer reflects the light of Jesus, because his or her love of this dark world of sin has eclipsed the light from the“Sun of Righteousness” (see Malachi 4:2).
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And so, this is just one of the many poetic truths seen in the Moon. (For more on this subject of an eclipse, you may link to the article… “Lunar Eclipse & Spiritual Eclipse”)
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As the western nations began to transform from an agrarian economy to the industrial age, public schools began to make a whole lot of sense!
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They made a wonderful babysitter for parents who needed to go to their jobs each day.
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And of course, parents turned over much of their children’s upbringing to the governments.
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Well, this was merely part of the masterplan by “the god of this world”, Lucifer, now given the office of “the Devil and Satan”.
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And Lucifer could slowly transform the public schools into his very own indoctrination centers.
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“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
Isaiah 8:20
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And Satan now enlisted a myriad of secularists and atheists to begin to purge out any trace of Christianity in the succeeding generations of school-age children.
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And parents could now be freed up to pursue their jobs and careers.
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Even mothers were now free to do whatever they wanted to do each weekday.
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“For many…confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist”
2nd John 1:7
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Now, while there were many dedicated teachers and administrators in the public-school systems…
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…nevertheless, because they chose to live free from Heaven’s authority, made them useful pawns for “the god of this world” to use in this, his massive world-indoctrination camp.
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“…there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies”
2nd Peter 2:1
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Everyone was now happy with this arrangement.
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Everyone was happy, that is, except God!
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Yes, God was very unhappy, because He knew exactly what Satan was doing behind the scenes.
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Millions of unseen evil angels were now working stealthily through this massive secular institution called public schooling, to turn out God-hating, atheistic antichrists.
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“Mine eyes do fail with tears…for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.”
Lamentations 2:11
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This above verse from Lamentations is a lament by Jeremiah because of Satan’s destruction of the Church, both Old Testament and New, symbolized by“the daughter of My people”.
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And God exhibits His sorrow through Jeremiah’s tears because of the lack of Biblical instruction among Children, symbolized by their “swooning in the streets” from lack of heavenly nourishment.
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And today, far too many parents are so invested in the pursuit of earthly pleasures and prosperity…
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…that children are often left to themselves, to be largely educated by secularist programs and atheistic schooling.
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY”
Proverbs 25:25
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Well, the very Good News is, that God has allowed us time to “Come out of her (Babylon), My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4
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Yes, this Babylonish world-system is ripe for God’s final judgment.
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And anyone and everyone, from parents, children, and teachers, grandparents, singles, inmates, government leaders, etc., are invited to join in the end-time exodus out of this tragic world.
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Yes, there is awaiting us an everlasting world: a new world, in which we will be forever happy and forever young!
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NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR CHILDREN’S SALVATION!
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Oh yes, the road ahead may be rocky and rough.
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But just remember what Jesus endured to save our soul!
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There is no sacrifice too great if it means salvation for our children!
Isa_59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Psa 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psa 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Back in the 1970’s, a certain saying was popularized…“The Devil made me do it! The Devil made me do it!”
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And this was merely mocking Christians, who were seemingly obsessed with pointing the finger at the Devil.
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Then they could all laugh and mock “the silly and absurd notion” that Satan is a very active and powerful force controlling the peoples of this world, by mockingly saying…“The Devil made me do it!”
But the horrifying fact is, the Devil does indeed cause the vast percentage of the world’s inhabitants to do a great number of things!
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After all, Ephesians, Chapter 2 reveals a truth that practically nobody realizes or accepts! It is perhaps the most egregious truth in all of the Bible!
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And this verse is, “…the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:”
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And let’s face it! The idea that the entire world’s inhabitants are filled with this antichrist spirit is more than anybody is willing to accept, much less even admit! (See 1st John 4:1-6)
Have you been watching the news lately?! A lot of very angry protesters! And in so many places at the same time!
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Have you ever wondered why these events seem so well-orchestrated?
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Doesn’t it seem odd how so many people could get so worked up over the same thing?
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Oh yes, people might just assume that some Dr. Evil might be spending billions to orchestrate such movements. Or maybe this high-tech world is the culprit.
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Yes, many social/political commentators are now blaming the social media for creating a “mob-mentality”, especially among younger, more naive people.
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And many are blaming the public schools and universities for grooming young people into evil ideologies.
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And of course, most of these protestors actually do have legitimate complaints about this or that. Or at least, they think they have legitimate complaints.
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Well, all these factors are, no doubt, greatly contributing to societal tsunamis which sweep through the world, one-after-another!
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And not only protests! Just think about the pop music world, and how young teens all over the world simply go crazy over some new pop-singer-idol!
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Screaming and fainting young fans around the world in adoration over some young pimple-faced rock-singers.
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Or maybe some new craze, like surfing, or skateboarding, or dancing, or fashion, or vehicle, or new ideology…
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Yes, yes, yes, this instant communication world is greatly the reason for all these societal-tsunamis which sweep over the world.
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And yes, there are a few Dr. Evils out there, giving their billions to incite mob-violence.
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But there is a Dr. Evil who is the true orchestrator of all societal tsunamis.
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He is the unseen spirit of evil whom the Bible refers to as “the god of this world”. 2nd Corinthians 4:4
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to not be fooled by this very deceptive world…
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“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” Revelation 12:3
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In Revelation, the Dragon of Revelation 12 is described as having seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns. However, the Dragon Constellation up in the night sky does not.
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But God has faithfully created the wave of water, in such a way, as to illustrate this same concept of the seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns. Because this wave of water is basically composed of ten stars.
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The main body of the wave has seven stars (#‘s, 1 thru 7). And the tip of the crest of the wave has the other three stars (#’s, 8, 9 & 10). So we have this 7 and 10 numbering. And this gives us a great clue, as to where in the Bible we should look, to find out the riddle as to just what or who do these 7 heads, 10 crowns, and 7 horns represent. Because, the Bible speaks very much about floods and waters as being associated with Satan (the Dragon).
ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO BEGIN FOLLOWING THIS 650+ AUDIO BIBLE STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH EACH DAY ON THIS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.
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THIS IS STUDY #349 PRESENTED BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING…
Do not forsake me, oh my Savior Renew Your mercy this new morning Do not forsake me, oh my Savior Stay, by my side…
For this world’s god’s a hurtful Killer If I’m Your son I must be brave Cause I must face the one who hates me Without Your power, every hour I’d lie a coward in my grave
Oh, to be torn ‘twixt love and duty S’posin’ I lose my fair-eyed beauty Look at that big hand move along Nearin’ high noon
Where he made a vow while in state’s prison That it would be my life or his I’m not afraid of death, but oh What will I do if you leave me?
Do not forsake me, oh my Savior You promised me You’ll never leave So, don’t forsake me, oh my Savior And through Your power, Your grace and power, I will slay that Dragon dead
Wait along Wait along Wait along Wait along
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that May 21st, 2011 would be the last day of earth’s existence, because of the long-afore-promised return of Christ in the clouds of glory.
capable of error. 
QUESTION/ANSWER RADIO TALK-SHOW…
