.THIS ARTICLE IS FROM YEAR 4, APRIL 6 AND HAS NOT YET BEEN REWRITTEN
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Many people are dismayed, upset, and perplexed, all because it seems as if destructive forces are breaking down and tearing apart the very backbone and fabric of this society.
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Even our school systems are becoming lawless by their very wicked policy of grooming small children, encouraging them to embrace sexual perversion.
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Our government is rapidly bringing itself into financial ruin because of excess spending and endless borrowing.
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And much of the populace no longer cares for the rule of law, but some are even beginning to engage in mob rule, and occasionally even mob violence!
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Many judges no longer rule impartially, but according to politics and political correctness.
So what is the problem? Why do things seem to be breaking down?
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What most people have forgotten, or are unaware of is, that it is God who rules over the affairs of Mankind. And He is the divine Judge. And He will render unto Mankind the just recompense of our ways!
For example, even among the reputed, “upright” citizens of this society, there has been an erosion of morality.
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To a large extent, the general populace no longer obeys many of the required ordinances of man.
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Many seemingly upright citizens will cheat on their income taxes.
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Many will begin a project around the house which requires obtaining a building permit of some kind, and ignore those requirements because of cost and inconvenience.
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Many will ignore the laws and speed limits on the streets and highways.
Well, there are many areas of life in which we have broken the laws.
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And why has this happened?
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Simple! The fear of God is no longer restraining most people. Yes, there is a lack of healthy fear in these atheistic societies for this world’s Divine Lawgiver!
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much”
Luke 10:16
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And so, God looks down on this lawlessness and eventually decides, “to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.“. Jeremiah 17:10
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God is removing the restraints from Mankind. And that decadent society opens its floodgates to corruption and lawlessness.
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And that is what we are now seeing in this society!
Listen to this fearful prophecy…“And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:14
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Here is the awful judgment which is now falling upon this decadent society! Lawlessness!
What must be done is, for any man, woman, or child, who desires to escape the awful judgments of God, to turn away from our own individual lawlessness, and pray for God’s chastening Hand to purify us from our iniquity! This is our only hope!
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Listen…“Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God…
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to heaviness.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord,
and He shall lift you up.”
James 4:4, 8-10
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Here is the prescribed remedy for our backsliding ways!
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And this is not just some 24-hour work! No this is a prescription for a lifetime! And it will be our joy to enter into this type of relationship with our Lord. Yes, repentance is a joyful work, even though it may be mingled with many tears, even as it is written by Paul in 2nd Corinthians 6:10…“As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing…”
“Dear Lord, Help me to escape this awful and fearful judgment which seems to be falling on this society. Let me hide myself in Thy secret pavilion until the indignation be overpast…
“Multitudes, multitudes in the ‘Valley of Decision’…
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for the day of the Lord is near in the ‘Valley of Decision’.”
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“The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining…
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“The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem…
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“And the heavens and the earth shall shake…
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“But the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
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Joel 3:14-16
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LOCATING THIS CONSTELLATION GROUP…
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Look eastward in the early summer through fall. Find the Cassiopeia Constellation. Cassiopeia is the Mount of Blessing. In the sketch, it is the farthest mountain to the left. In the sky, it is the northern-most of these three mountains when facing eastward. It resembles a pyramid.
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Then find the second pyramid to its right (south).
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Then go a little further south to the next third pyramid. The third snow-cap is the Destroying Mountain Constellation.
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These three pyramids are the snow-capped portion of these three mountains in this sketch. (of course, you won’t see the snow-caps in the sky. They are just an embellishment in this sketch to present a concept-EDITOR).
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THE VALLEY OF DECISION CONSTELLATION GROUP.
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They appear in mid-summer in the eastern skies in pre-dawn hours. These are made of Cassiopeia (mount on left), and various stars from the Andromeda Constellation (valley) Pegasus (Mount of Cursing (middle mount) & Destroying Mount (right)), and Pisces (Broad Way to Hell). The galaxy which appears to be climbing the Mountain of Blessing is the Andromeda Galaxy.
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The above Wikipedia star-chart shows this amazing constellation group as it appears from June to fall, just prior to the winter constellation group. Actually, these Valley of Decision Constellations appear in early summer in the pre-dawn hours. (Editor of this website has sketched in this constellation group onto this above Wikipedia star-chart.)
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THE DESIRE OF AGES, BY ELLEN G. WHITE
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this chapter of the audio book about the Gospel of Jesus Christ in His life and ministry.
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 recording #146, a small 30 minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s 90 minute nightly talk shows. This particular program aired in the last few years of his 50 year radio ministry, and includes caller’s questions regarding his teachings on “the end of the church age”…
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before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
and the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
Malachi 4:5, 6
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Well, here we are at the end of time, and Elijah hasn’t shown up yet, or so it seems. And the above passage says that, “he (Elijah) shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers.”
Yes, both fathers AND mothers share an equal responsibility in raising children who will one day be fitted for Heaven.
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Well, by scrolling down this page, Ellen White has a wonderful little chapter dedicated to mothers and how they might raise their children in such a way that they will grow up to be a blessing to Heaven and a blessing to this world as well…
THE READER IS INVITED AND HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO SCROLL DOWN AND LISTEN TO THE 12 MINUTE AUDIO READING OF THE CHAPTER, “THE MOTHER”, FROM ELLEN WHITE’S BOOK ON HEALTH, “THE MINISTRY OF HEALING”.
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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1st FACE…THE NIGHT-WATCHMAN
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“MOON IS CONFOUNDED”… The first face, a man’s face, is easy to see.
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It is that proverbial ‘Man in the Moon’.
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Most have seen it.
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Even as little children. (The other two faces are not so easy to see. But let’s concentrate on the first face.)
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Notice that the ‘Man in the Moon’ appears as though he is looking down at the Earth.
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‘Shock and Awe’!
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That’s the look on his face.
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Sadness too!
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You might even see the tears running down his cheeks. (“Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.” Psalm 119:136)
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The Moon is spoken of as a “faithful witness”.
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God’s covenanted law is spoken of as a faithful witness as well.
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Listen to the Psalmist…
…It (God’s covenant with David shall be established for ever as the Moon,
and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.”
Psalm 89:37.“
Notice here that God is comparing His Covenant to the Moon as a “faithful witness”.
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The Moon reflects the light of the Sun, just as Christians should reflect the light of the Sun of Righteousness, Jesus, who should be in their daily lives.
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And so the Moon fulfills the verse from Psalms which proclaims… “Praise ye him, Sun and Moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.” Psalm 148:3
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MINISTRY OF HEALING, BY ELLEN G. WHITE
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this chapter of the audio book about the practical aspects of everyday living, such as diet and child rearing…
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 recording #221, a small 30-minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s 90-minute nightly talk shows.
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This particular program aired in the last few years of his 50-year radio ministry, and includes caller’s questions regarding his teachings on “the end of the church age”…
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! 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!
Well Okay, maybe you could say that Camping’s May 21st, 2011 prediction was an error, since he didn’t realize that there was to be a tarrying time, so that God can complete His victory over Satan’s kingdom of this present, selfish world.
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But the Lord intentionally allowed this error, so as to give the world its second, “wake-up call”.
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And God’s sleeping saints really needed more time to prepare to meet their God.
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Yes, God purposely wanted this call to be made that, “the end has come!”
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…
“With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets:
he shall slay thy people by the sword,
and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.”
Ezekiel 26:12
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THIS STAR-CHART: This is a Wikipedia star-chart, in which this site’s editor has sketched in these three constellation (without the Holy-Ghost-Rider Constellation).
Notice how the right front hoof is trampling on the tail of the Dragon.
Also notice his eye is a star.
It’s best seen when in the western half of the sky.
It is found in mid-sky traveling from east to west.
In January, it is in the west after midnight.
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.
It is found on the opposite side of the Dragon Constellation from Orion.
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, perhaps the greatest argument used by atheists have to do with God allowing evil…even condoning evil…even engaging in evil.
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And yet, God plainly reveals to us, “An enemy hath done this”
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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,. 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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And yet, ultimately, each and every man woman and child will realize that Heaven’s government is the one true way to everlasting joy! And our prayer today is that they will come to this awakening prior to the Great Judgment on the last day!
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 these spiritual metaphors try to teach us…
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“Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.” Isaiah 24:23
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When God created the Moon and the stars, He ordained them to “rule the night” (Gen. 1:16). 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. But as the Moon must reflect the light of the Sun, in order to be a light to the world, so also must the Christian reflect the light of Jesus, to be a spiritual light to this planet in rebellion.
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“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.
This is an incredible object-lesson about when the child of God allows the world to come between him and his Lord.
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!
They made a wonderful babysitter for parents who needed to go to their jobs each day.
And of course, parents turned over much of their children’s upbringing to the governments.
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Of course, this was part of the master-plane by “the god of this world”, Lucifer, now given the office of “the Devil and Satan”.
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Now Lucifer could slowly transform the public schools into his very own indoctrination centers
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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.
Even mothers were now free to do whatever they wanted to do each weekday.
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Everyone was now happy with this arrangement.
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. Millions of unseen evil angels were now working stealthfully through this massive secular institution called public schooling, to turn out God-hating, atheistic antichrists.
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Now, while there were many dedicated teachers and administrators in the public-school systems, 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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“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.
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? 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. Yes, many social/political commentators are now blaming the social media for creating a “mob-mentality”, especially among younger, more naive people. 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! 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. 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. 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).
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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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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)
Many years ago, two young boys were walking by some religious schoolground. The first boy said to the other, “Let’s get a drink from this water-fountain.”
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Out of the clear blue, the other young boy disdainfully retorted, “Naw, that’s ‘Jew-water’!” The first boy didn’t answer back, but looked dumbfounded at such a comment (probably mostly because he was a student at that same religious school).
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But the fact is, the second young boy had absolutely no idea what he was saying!
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After all, it wasn’t even a Jewish school, but actually was operated by some Christian denomination.
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Years later, the other boy, now fully grown, thought back and wondered, “Why in the world did I make such an outrageously harsh and stupid denunciation, especially since I had not the slightest clue what a Jew actually was at such a young age?!”
“We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.”
Psalm 79:4
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The Bible reveals that Satan has been attacking Israel and the Jewish people almost since the days of Abraham. Certainly, Abraham’s son, Isaac, had a number of his wells stolen by Philistines and others. (See Genesis 26)
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The Old Testament is literally saturated with true accounts of Israel’s conflicts with Philistines and others.
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Nazi Death-Camp Corpses Wagon – Buchenwald-18th – Wikimedia – Public-Domain
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“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against…spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:11, 12
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But the Bible reveals that it is not merely mortal people who are the only ones persecuting God’s people.
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Listen to God’s Word…
“Put on the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:11, 12
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Here we see that our true enemy is that invisible spirit of evil, who works through the human race to create all the sins and troubles which this world is literally dripping with!
Christian and Apollyon – Pilgrim’s Progress – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you”
1st John 3:13
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It’s truly amazing to see how quickly the hatred for the Jewish people has intensified and spread its venomous tentacles in every direction!
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But should we be surprised to see all the hatred which exists today against Jews? Oh yes, such hatred is only to be expected by those who live in today’s “Philistine” (This name is now corrupted to “Palestine”).
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Nevertheless, it’s amazing to see the same hatred for Jews by a great multitude from practically all nations! It is the same hatred which Adolph Hitler and the Nazis had for the Jewish people!
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THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.“
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Yes, it’s not difficult to see the Nazi spirit arising up today! And this hatred is largely propagated by today’s media Goliaths, whom the Bible prophesies “and he spake as a dragon”!
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Just go on the Internet and be horrified at all the vitriolic disdain cast down upon the Jewish race! Or read about the violent attacks on Jews in many western nations! And it is very probable that many hate-filled young adults, until recently, could not even be able to locate Israel on a map! And yet, they somehow have an innate hatred for Jewish people!
Stop Israel aggression – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Arthur Szyk – 1894-1951 – Jewish Children To Be Shot as Dangerous Enemies – cropped – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me (Jesus) before it hated you”
John 15:18
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But don’t believe for a minute that such unexplainable pandemic hatred will only exist for Jews!
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No, but rather, Satan will increasingly turn his guns on the Christian community, as well: on those who are the “called, and chosen, and faithful.” Revelation 17:14
Nazi Stabs Bible – Wikimedia commons – US Public Domain (2)
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If There’s a Devil, Then There Must Be a God!
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Here’s the point to this article and an epilogue to its beginning little story about the young boy who didn’t want to drink supposed “Jew Water”.
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You see, this boy grew up being thoroughly indoctrinated by society and years of public schooling into the ideology of atheism.
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However, one night this confused little boy (now grown, about 30 years old) had an encounter with demonic spirits-beings. And instantly he realized, to his utter shock and amazement, that there actually is an unseen spiritual realm. And by simple logic, he concluded that if Satan exists, then there obviously must be God! And if God and Satan exist, then the Bible must likewise be true!
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And this is the main truth which today’s article presents: this world’s innate hatred for Jews cannot merely be coincidental, and should convince us that we are living in the midst of a cosmic conflict between the unseen forces of good and evil!
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
Proverbs 25:25
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The Good News is, that God is now calling all people to return to Him, crying out for a new heart, which will put a fervent brotherly love and compassion, not only for the Jewish people, but for each and every lost soul!
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And, for those who are suffering persecution from the loyal citizenry of this antichrist world-system, God is allowing these troubles in the hope that we might pray to our Savior, “that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men…”, and further cry out, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
2nd Thessalonians 3:2 & Luke 23:34
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Bible Study Group – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License
“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…
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The Book of Job (pronounced with a long “O”) was an inside look at how “the god of this world”, Lucifer, now titled “Satan”, created circumstances designed to cause Job to angrily lash out at God.
(2nd Corinthians 4:4 for “god of this world” reference)
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First, Satan caused Job to lose all of his vast wealth.
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He then killed all ten of Job’s children who were together, celebrating a sibling’s birthday.
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Then, if all that wasn’t horrific enough, Satan covered Job’s body with puss-filled boils.
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And if that wasn’t enough, Job’s three friends came and began to accuse and criticize Job, saying he deserved all his troubles!
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Job rebuked by his friends – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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“Now all these things happened (to God’s Old Testament People) for examples: and they are written for our admonition…”
1st Corinthians 10:11
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As this above verse from 1st Corinthians reveals, all those Old Testament stories were orchestrated by God to be examples of the evils which everyday people also must encounter in this world of sin.
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“In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”
Job 1:22
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And just as Satan attempted to provoke Job, so too, Satan will likewise attempt to provoke all humans, especially Believers to become angry at God.
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Quite often, secularists will point out all the bad things in the world as an example of why there cannot be a loving God.
“And if there is a God,” they often say, “He must be a horrible monster-tyrant!”
Protest – Atheists in Pride Parade – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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SATAN’S FOOTPRINTS & FINGERPRINTS PROVE HIS EXISTENCE!
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As we behold all the evil, tragedy, sorrow, and suffering in the world, it should wake us up that there is, indeed, a literal personage called Lucifer, the Devil, and Satan!
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And just look at how well orchestrated much of the evil is!
All of a sudden, some new evil arises, all over the world!
This too, is evidence that such phenomena are being orchestrated by unseen evil agencies.
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OPPORTUNITY FOR MATURITY & GROWTH
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While the humans are obviously perplexed by all the wickedness in this fallen world, Christians are encouraged by God to take advantage of the situation.
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In other words, as each Christian encounters various acts of evil during each day, they may use each and every adverse incident to their own advantage and Christian growth.
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Prayer for USA – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
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“whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
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For example, when a rude cashier insults us, we can react in with Christlike silence, patience, and forgiveness, remembering Jesus’ words…
“But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil:
but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek,
turn to him the other also.”
Matthew 5:39
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Supermarket- grocery store – check-out-wikipedia-public-domain
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Or as we encounter some drug-addicted street-person causing a public spectacle, we can, instead of condemning them, sympathize with their unfortunate life of poor choices, caused by the “Enemy of Souls” who has beaten them down at every turn throughout their life!
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Or when we read of some unjust word, deed, or lawlessness committed by political leaders, we can cry out to God, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!” Luke 23:34
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“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience…But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
Romans 5:3 & James 1:4
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In conclusion, God has allowed evil to continue for a number of reasons. Not only is God showing mankind that selfishness only leads to unhappiness, suffering, and death, but He also uses mankind’s evil to teach us patience, forgiveness, sympathy, and understanding for all lost souls. And even our own sins teach us that we are no better than others, and desperately in need of God’s grace and mercy!
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“THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME, I’M JUST A-PASSIN’ THROUGH!”
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It might do well for us to learn this above song, “The World is not My Home, I’m Just A-passin’ Through”, and sing a few lyrics everytime I’m tempted to get angry over some injustice in this world.
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to look up and lift up my head to remember that this world is not my home, and that it is actually Satan realm…
But the long oval-shaped body has relatively few stars, but can been seen, howbeit with a dark starry night.
The four stars of the front fins are made partially of Taurus.
This Dragon constellation appears in the eastern horizon about mid-summer in the pre-dawn hours, spewing his flood-waters northward toward the Woman of Revelation 12 (Woman in Travail).
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“HE HATH NOT REWARDED US ACCORDING TO OUR INIQUITIES”
Psalm 103:10
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And yet, in spite of all such sadness and woe, God has graciously allowed mankind to enjoy many things in His supreme desire to bring them back from their rebellion against Heaven!
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And every wise man and every wise woman will properly ascribe the world’s evil to its rightful progenitor: Satan, the fallen rebel angel!
“THEY SHALL BEHOLD THE LAND THAT IS VERY FAR OFF!”
Isaiah 33:17
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But one day soon, those who are wise will cross that dark river, only to enter into the Promised Land in which everlasting joy and peace and brotherly kindness will never again be marred by sin and sorrow!
And right now, those who have been given true wisdom will take time out of their busy day to, “taste and see that the Lord is good”, as they consider all the many pleasant and happy things which mankind enjoys each day! (Psalm 34:8)
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, so also must the Christian reflect the light of Jesus, to be a spiritual light to this planet in rebellion.
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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.
This is an incredible object-lesson about when the child of God allows the world to come between him and his Lord.
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.
One day almost 15 years ago, my daughter, Denise called me and tearfully shared her fears about having her first child and becoming a mother…“Dad! I’m so sad!”
“Why, Denise? What’s going on?”
“I’m just so afraid of becoming a parent”, Denise tearfully confessed. “I like my life! I like doing whatever I want, whenever I want! I don’t think I want all the responsibilities and demands of motherhood! I don’t want to give up my self-focused life!”
I’m not sure just how I responded to Denise, since she was already halfway along.
But that was the first and last time she lamented her fears to me about this new chapter in her life.
But, a few months passed and Natalie Jane was born. And Denise and Matt were so happy and proud to be new parents! And they began building their life around their little family.
But once again, Denise became “with child” a second time! I heard not even one complaint or tear-filled fear! Denise and Matt seemed to be settling quite nicely into their new responsibilities!
But Denise was so happy with her new life, she desperately wanted a third child. But it just didn’t seem to be God’s will for another child. And yet, after some sad disappointments, she was once again going to have one more child!
And before long, Gabe was born! Rambunctious and energetic, little Gabe came happily crashing into the world!
And now Matt and Denise have three fine children, Natalie, Connor, and Gabe! And Matt and Denise have become so focused on their children, dedicating themselves fully to rearing up their kids to be happy, healthy and fulfilled!
And it has been a great joy of mine to watch them all grow and thrive.
And it is a joy to see little Gabe growing up so nicely, receiving so much love from his parents.
And one of my regrets is that Denise’s loving Mother, Becky, is not here to experience these joys with us!
But my daily prayer is that one day, Becky and I will be able to walk along the highways and byways of eternity with our kids and grandkids!
(Roughly about 200 days or so, from becoming an Ex-Atheist)
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“LOOKIN’ FOR A POT OF GOLD!”
(Lyric from the 1969 Creedence Clearwater hit, “Stuck In Lodi Again”)
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Have you ever wished that God was like a genie in a bottle? And maybe you could get just three wishes: perhaps a long, healthy life, marital bliss, and a financial fortune to enjoy?
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Well this little excursion promised to be just that!
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Yes, maybe, just maybe God is perhaps a “genie in a bottle”, or some kind of a, “heavenly goose that lays golden eggs”!
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As the songster once sang…“Seekin’ my fame and fortune, lookin’ for a pot of gold!”
Well, I couldn’t make up such a far-fetched and even crazy story; or maybe I should rather call it, “A true account”, which this chapter is.
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But I’ll simply report it like it happened and you can decide if you’re going to believe it or just decide that…“The writer of this chapter is out of his ever-lovin’ gourd (like this poor deluded individual in an insane asylum, depicted in this very old picture to the right”).
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Nevertheless, if you do decide that this is merely the work of a crazy man, never fear, you have plenty of established medical and psychiatric professionals who will backup your assertion 100%!
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Anyway, I’ll mostly recount this true little story, trying not to make too much analysis, and let you decide for yourselves…
We arrived at a little resort on the Pacific ocean.
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We parked our car, and went over to the little ferry, which would take us to this little island resort (not the island photo here, of course! Just a very tiny island).
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But just as soon as we boarded the ferry, the spirit began talking in a sort of mocking way, “Oh yeah, this is your fantasy! This is your fantasy!”
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And actually, it did somewhat remind a person of Fantasy Island.
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Very beautiful and jungle-like!
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So, we boarded the ferry, and in a very short time, we arrived on the island.
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But the spirit kept telling me, “Yes Chuck, this is going to be your Fantasy Island!”
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And so, I was somewhat anticipating a sort of exotic mystery (which would be a welcomed respite from the torment which I had been abundantly experiencing!).
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Maybe I was to find riches here! Or maybe some promise of future glory!
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Well whatever lay in store for me had great promise of being that proverbial, “pot of gold!”
By the way, for your information, Fantasy Island was a hit TV series, in which various people went to a certain resort on an unnamed island, to have some semi-magical or semi-mystical dream-come-true experience.
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And there was often a life-lesson which would be learned by the participants, by the end of the show.
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Carlos Montalban played Mr. Roarke, who orchestrated these semi-magical experiences each week.
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Well-cultured and always dressed in white, Mr. Roarke guided his guests into a fantasy which would often change the life of his guest…always for the better.
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Here’s what Wikipedia says about that show…
…Airing from 1978 to 1984, the original series starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out their fantasies, albeit for a price.
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Roarke was known for his white suit and cultured demeanor, and was initially accompanied by an energetic sidekick, Tattoo, played by Hervé Villechaize. Tattoo would run up the main bell tower to ring the bell and shout “De plane! De plane!” to announce the arrival of a new set of guests at the beginning of each episode –
So, we arrived on the island, and immediately rented a little bungalow.
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It was only $15 American dollars per day, which even back then, was a bargain for an ocean-front resort, not to mention, this was an island resort!
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And of course, I was totally focused on what the spirit had in store for me, especially with his suggestions that this was gonna be some sort of Fantasy Island experience.
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I wondered about what might happen, to make this experience like that TV show.
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I honestly was looking around to see if there was some sort of Mr. Roarke, or at least a “Tattoo”.
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But there was no Mr. Roarke here to conduct anyone’s fantasy, and not even a little “Tattoo” riding around in a golf cart!
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As a matter of fact, there was hardly even another living soul on this tropical island, as I recall! (Oh, maybe I was just not paying much attention to anybody but myself, and my own set of issues.)
Not long after we arrived, Becky decided that some other family members needed to be here.
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So, she went back to Guatemala City.
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I stayed on the island.
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And so, with the spirit having such a gift of gab, and always willing to TALK MY EAR OFF, there was not a moment of boredom here, (nor of silence).
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And so, I merely roamed the little island, sometimes sitting in a hammock, under the shade of a palm tree, and talked with the spirit.
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And mostly, I remember that he went over and over on this burning question, as to just who I was in a former life….Jesus….or Hitler.
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But I must say, most of the time on this so-called, “Fantasy Island”, he inundated me with the possibilities of me being Jesus (in a former life), and of all the glorious things awaiting me.
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“YOU’RE HAVING MY BABY”…NOT!
(Title from the 1974 Paul Anka/Odia Coates hit, “You’re Having My Baby”)
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But as I was sitting under a palm tree, he then began to present to me a big story of how, not only I, as Jesus, was reincarnated, but also other Bible people, namely Mother Mary…
…“Yes Chuck, Mother Mary has also been brought back many times over the centuries. As a matter of fact, remember when you talked your girlfriend into getting an abortion, she didn’t want to have?”
“WHAT A LOVELY WAY OF NOT SAYING HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME”
(lyrics from the 1974 Paul Anka/Odia Coates hit, “You’re Having My Baby” with the word, “NOT” added)
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This inconvenient event happened a number of years earlier.
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I was an atheist.
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But I tried to convince myself that abortion wasn’t murder.
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In spite of that, the thought kept coming back to haunt me, that having an abortion would be preventing a life from coming into the world.
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So, it was an undeniable fact that this abortion too, would be preventing a life: a human life from coming into the world!
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So upon deciding to have one anyway, I tried and tried to shake this thought, “Outta My Head!” But I couldn’t! I just couldn’t shake it! This inescapable and inconvenient truth kept coming back again and again to torment me, even though I was pretty much an atheist, back in those years! I would be preventing a life from coming into the world. Dirty rotten MURDER!
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In my heart of hearts, I knew it was!
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But on the day of the scheduled abortion, my girlfriend had a miscarriage (at least that’s what I was told at the time.) “That little girl you had, or should I say, almost had, was the soul of Mother Mary. You killed Mother Mary, Chuck! God was going to bring Mother Mary back into the world! And you killed her! You murdered Mother Mary!” The spirit was now telling me, that my insistence on her having an abortion put a stress on her, ultimately causing my girlfriend to have the miscarriage.
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And so began the spirit to bombard me with guilt about this sad chapter in my past. “Do you know what that little girl’s name was going to be that you killed? I had never really thought about this. “You were going to name her “Heather”.
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At this point I felt horrible! Not only was I responsible for that miscarriage, but that child had the soul of Mother Mary! And now the spirit was personalizing this by telling me the name that would’ve been given her: Heather!
(NOTE: As I look back on this episode, it seems that this horrible scenario presented to me by the spirit, was possibly a somewhat bizarre twist on that old anti-abortion argument…”What if Joseph had convinced the Virgin Mary into having an abortion of the Savior of the World?”)
Anyway, I was wearing a ring my former girlfriend had once given me. It was a gold band with my birth-stone.
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The spirit began coming down on me hard, about how I treated her. “And she gave you that ring with all her love, you schmuck! And all you gave her was that tiny diamond ring! You no good piece of…” s#!@&t !”
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All I could do was just to take this verbal whipping! And oh man, was I feeling really low! A real creep was I!
Then the spirit reminded me of an incident which I went through a few years earlier, when an old public-school friend from back in Salem came by to visit me while I was working at the restaurant. He just showed up one day at our family restaurant. (This incident was in about 1976 or so, 3 or 4 years prior to this Island experience.)
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This old friend was dressed all in white: peasant shirtand pants. Clothes you might expect to see on a person living in the tropics. And now that I think of it, he did say he was currently living somewhere in the Hawaiian Islands.
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RING OF FIRE… My old friend was saying some strange things! And at one point, he saw this very same ring now being discussed. He told me it was a very special ring, and that it glowed with an aura emanating from it. He asked if I would take it off. So I did, and gave it to him. He started dancing around the back banquet room (which was closed off to the public at that moment), holding up this ring above his head, saying weird things about the ring: saying that the ring glowed with some supernatural light! He talked about the ring as if it was of great importance. He then climbed on one of the banquet room chairs, and held the ring as high as he could. He was saying something about the ring being “very high” or something like that. Making such a big deal about a ring!
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“Poor guy”, I thought, “He’s really flipped out!” My old school buddy and his white suit was totally “off his rocker”!
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Now, years later, on this so-called Fantasy Island, the spirit was reminding me of this incident from the 70’s, with my old friend and this ring. “He was prophesying to you Chuck. I was controlling him. He was telling you how precious was the love given you by that girl!” I had little trouble accepting what the spirit was telling me. As a matter of fact, I still believe that my old friend in white was being led by spirits. His behavior was so bizarre that day, I can’t attribute it to anything else!
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”THIS “GOLDEN” RING DOESN’T SHINE FOR ME ANYMORE”…
(play on lyrics from 1965 hit song by Gary Lewis & The Playboys, “This Diamond Ring”)
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“I want you to take that ring and toss it into the ocean! Toss it, you no good p#$&%S%$T” I began to walk down to the black-sand beach which was only a hundred yards away, looking at this “special ring”, overwhelmed with guilt of how I rejected her love… “God really hates you because of how you treated her! And she only gave you love! Toss that ring you no good SOB!! TOSS IT!!”
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And so I took this nice ring and tossed it as far as I could…into the ocean.
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I really felt bad about the way I treated almost all my girlfriends. And I really never realized how heartless I could be at times.
Well, these flashbacks of the past ended, perhaps as quickly as they began.
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And I must admit, because of this experience (and others), I became a changed person. In the future, I would try to be more honorable. Not that I was perfect, because I wasn’t.
Now Becky arrived the next day with her family. So things became much more lively.
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And this little island had several large swimming pools, and an open-air restaurant. Becky’s parents also came there. We all had lunch on this nice restaurant patio overlooking the ocean, just a few hundred feet away, or less.
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Belize wikipedia share-alike license. By Eseiglihp. (Sunset on Caye Caulker). Click here for link.
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“CHICKEN-SALAD SANDWICH, PLEASE…AND…UH…HOLD THE FLIES!”
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The waitress took our order. They ordered Spanish food. I, being from the good ol’ U.S. of A., ordered a chicken salad sandwich. The waitress soon brought our food. I opened my chicken salad sandwich to inspect it. Upon opening it, I saw a big fat oversized black fly still in mint condition, laying there in the chicken salad, hidden under the bread. I lodged my complaint in English, and it was interpreted to the waitress And after a little discussion, Becky interpreted to me that the waitress replied, “Just take it out”. I objected. And my objection was interpreted back to the waitress, saying that I wanted another sandwich (Which, of course, would be standard procedure back in the states!)
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In a few minutes she came back with “another sandwich”. I opened it, and thankfully, there was no large fly in it. But upon closer examination, I noticed an indent, very suspiciously in the exact same spot where the fly was located in the “other” sandwich! And after thinking about it for a few moments, I gave up and decided to make no further objections… and just shut up and eat the stupid sandwich!
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Now why am I telling this little story? I don’t know. I just think it’s a funny story, even though it wasn’t so funny at the time.
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But anyway, in a few days I would be eating something far worse than flies!
After a few more days, Becky and I got back on that same ferry which brought us to this island. And in a few minutes we were back on the mainland.
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But I guess it was kind of anticlimactic at that time, considering how I was led to believe this was going to be some sort of fantasy. But that’s what happened. I was somewhat disappointed that nothing semi-magical happened, like it often did on that TV show.
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And there was no little fella named Tattoo running around the island either.
And if that isn’t enough of a wash-out story, I just found out (as I’m writing this) another disappointing fact. WE WEREN’T EVEN ON AN ISLAND! We merely took a ferry across an OUTLET OF WATER ALONG THE COASTLINE BECAUSE IT HAD NO BRIDGE! We were actually still on the mainland of Guatemala.
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What a disappointment!… NOT ONLY WAS THERE NO FANTASY…THERE WASN’T EVEN AN ISLAND!!!
Now if that’s still not enough of a wash-out, I was also later informed that some time after we left there, a big Pacific storm came along and completely destroyed the entire resort!
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Well, it serves them right for sticking that fly in my chicken salad sandwich! Not really! Just kidding! Just kidding! Actually, I would eagerly and enthusiastically go back there, flies or no flies! It was a really nice and inexpensive resort! (Well, of course, I did lose that beautiful and expensive gold ring. And oh yeah, I also went to sleep with a lit Marlboro in my hand on the last day, and caught my mattress on fire, which I paid for.)
(Lyric from the 1969 Creedence Clearwater hit, “Bad Moon On The Rise”)
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When we arrived back home at Becky’s parents, the weather became cloudy. During a dark night, there was a thunderstorm. I went up on the roof, because I learned by experience, that the spirit would answer questions using the lightning.
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And up there. all alone on that roof, it seemed like I could see across all the houses and townhouses for blocks. The night looked like one of Van Gogh’s more dreary paintings! And the lightning put on a show for free!
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In the distance, the electric air and the kaboom of the lightning caused the dogs around the city to bark and howl, which only made things that much more eerie! And as I said, the spirit would answer simultaneous to the lightning flashing. So I would ask something concerning whether I was Hitler or Jesus, and other such things. I could perceive no time delay between the lightning flash and his answer in my mind. His answers would be either “yes”,or “no”.If he didn’t want to answer, he didn’t say anything.
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I’m not sure how many nights this went on. Maybe just that one night. But I was bombarded with guilt over the miscarriage I caused, which resulted in the death of “Mother Mary’s” reincarnated soul. Of course by now, I didn’t know what to believe at this point. This spirit was as changeable as a fickle teenager.
(Lyric from the 1969 Creedence Clearwater hit, “Bad Moon On The Rise”)
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One night, Becky and I were going to her Father’s church service. He had a very active church, which met seven nights a week, plus twice on Sunday! And as usual, there were many people gathered together on this weeknight service. Of course I couldn’t understand anything they said. It was all in Spanish. But there was lots of music, lots of singing, and an abundance of hand-clapping!
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KA-BOO-O-O-M…
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After much music and singing, it came time for Papa to begin preaching. During the service, the lightning began to flash outside. They had left the entry double-doors open, so I thought I would use this opportunity to ask the spirit more questions, and wait for the lightning and the spirit’s response. I figured that such a holy place as church might be the perfect place to get the answer I needed. And so I would look back at the open doors and ask a question, and wait for the lightning to flash. Now I can’t remember exactly what was happening right at the moment, as far as the church service. But I distinctly remember asking the question “Did I really kill the Mother Mary?” The lightning would flash, and a simultaneous answer would come, “Yes!”, or “No!”.
And as I recall, I repeated this question several times.“Did I kill Mother Mary?…..Did I kill Mother Mary?”And about the second or third time…as soon as I asked the question, The spirit shouted, “NO-O-O-O-O-O!!”…and simultaneous to his answer, both the lightning and thunder cracked so loud, it was both blinding and deafening!
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But at the very same moment as that answer, the lightning completely turned the neighborhood white with the loudest crack you might have ever heard, resulting in the lights going out in the church and throughout the entire neighborhood!
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The lightning had caused the lights in the church and all through the neighborhood to go completely out! Now I was convinced that somehow the spirit had control over the lightning, in some way.
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Needless to say, the power outage brought the church service to a screeching halt! The noise of the service was quickly replaced by questioning voices throughout this darkened sanctuary. At least for 20 or 30 minutes, the service had ended until the power came back on throughout the neighborhood. Until it did come back on, everyone went outside the church in order to wait.
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As I said, the spirit shouted “NO-O-O!!”,totally in-sync with the lightning flash/thunder and the neighborhood power-outage. This was a loud answer from Heaven, as far as I was concerned. “NO”came the answer I was hoping for! “NO” I didn’t kill Mother Mary, after all!
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But then the spirit began to somewhat confuse the issue by saying, “Did God say “NO!”, or did He say, “KNOW!”???
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Well, what could I do with such an ominous and confusing answer as this? And so, I decided to just, “Let it be”.
Nevertheless, that lightning storm put the “final lid down tight”on all this “Me killing Mother Mary” nonsense!
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But also, this excursion to “Fantasy Island” put the final “cork in the bottle” on all this idea about God being some sort of, Ponzi-scheme”, in which you stroke some brass lamp, and “VOILA!”, a magic genie appears and offers you three wishes!
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No, as we left, I was disappointed there was no mystical experience!
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No earthly riches!
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No promise of future glory!
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Only the knowledge of what a miserable wretch and scoundrel I really had been through much of my “adult” life!
In this above passage, the Lord is foretelling of a day when the churches will no longer tolerate the true Gospel of Jesus and Jesus alone.
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And there are many today who believe that we have come to that very time in which the attendees of most, or perhaps, ALL churches demand an “itching ears” gospel.
This article describes this 3rd Moon-face, who is steeped in unbelief and as a result, seeks after the things of the world.
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Yes, this rabbit, or rodent-like earth-hugger thinks that worldly Mammon will somehow supply the lack caused by God’s supposed inability to provide for all our spiritual, physical and social needs.
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So let’s listen for a moment as this Sadducee-Seeker is being described…
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:”
Isaiah 30:9, 10
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This above passage describes this Moon-Beast to a tee! “Smooth things” are what his “itching ears” long to hear!
And because this furry and adorable little forest creature (the Sadducee-Seeker) loves to have his ears tickled, the Devil has conveniently provided him with a congregation which accommodates his desires.
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“HAVING ITCHING EARS”
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Again, the Apostle, Paul, spoke of this condition, in the following words…
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
And this Moon-Beast loves to hear sermons about “grace-alone”, because he is often told that grace-alone excuses him from dying-to-self.
And to this poor Sadducee, that’s very good news!
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After all, the last thing this Moon-Beast wants is to give up his life of foraging in the field.
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Yes, this friendly little Seeker wants a gospel which allows him to continue seeking after the cares & pleasures of this world, but with the promise of Heaven too!
And such movies as Pollyanna (and there are many similar ones) have been a strong deterrent over the past years, against any Hellfire preaching in today’s pulpits.
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And this itching-ears gospel according to Pollyanna, is mostly what this Moon-Beast’s pastor preaches, either by sermon, or by personal example.
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Yes, his words are “smoother than butter” (Psalms 55;21), and the example of his own life speaks of “smooth things”;
of fun and frolic, of amusements and hobbies.
Of dreams about ambitious careers and promises of better and more affluent tomorrows.
Of long life in this world, and retirement packages, affording a life-of-leisure in some little haven here on earth!
With such a knowledge, this Sadducee-Seeker would realize that he doesn’t need a world-loving gospel.
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PEOPLE NOT THE PROBLEM!
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The real enemy here is not,“flesh and blood”. No, but our true battle is “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
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Yes, Satan is the master chess-player, and has hedged us in on every side, by his lies and deceptions in attempt to corrupt the current condition of the church-world to the point that there is no more Salvation there.
But the Good News is that God is calling His people to come out of the Babylonish confusion which is the current condition of today’s churches…
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Listen…“And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, 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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God has indeed furnished a table in the wilderness. (Psalm 78:19)
And for those who are escaped from spiritual Babylon will be delighted to discover that spiritual “bread shall be given him, his waters shall be sure!” Isaiah 33:16.
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Yes, our daily heavenly manna will be provided, and the waters of grace will freely flow in the spiritual mountains where we must flee!
You have to admit that the so-called “Big Bang” explosion went off extremely well, especially being the product of a chaotic accident in a godless…uh…whatever!
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After all, just look how it turned out! Extremely well!
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For example, the resulting universe is doing pretty well, wouldn’t you agree?
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For example, here we are in our solar system, which makes a wonderful and dependable time-piece! Yes, each orb in our solar-system stays pretty consistent in their rotation around the sun.
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And speaking of luck, how about all those atoms?! Yes, this universe is made up of a whole lot of tiny electromagnets, which somehow forms everything…including we humans! Yes, pretty amazing when you think that somehow this entire universe consists of these powerful particles of energy, each holding together.
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And isn’t it so lucky that we have our beautiful blue sky! After all, it could’ve been some horrible color. And how about those clouds?! Aren’t they great as they bring in the much-needed rain to water the earth and trees, giving drink to man and beast and all living things?
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And how about those myriad laws which govern the universe and everything within?! Yes, it could’ve been a universe of complete chaos! Just ask any scientist why science is so enjoyable to study. He’ll tell you that science is such a thrill because of all the consistency of the laws of nature.
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And just ask any poet about the wisdom found in nature! That poet will confess that nature is a wonderful and poetic teacher of truth!
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And how about those babies?! Yes, isn’t it extremely lucky that babies are so cute? And even animal babies are so joyful and fun to watch!
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And what about families?! Isn’t it so wonderful to have families who love one-another?!
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And what about a smile?! Isn’t it so wonderful when people smile a genuine smile of friendship and/or compassion? After all, the big bang could have made us like those hideous space aliens we see in the movies!
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And what about music?! We are extremely lucky to be able to enjoy music! And art! And poetry! And dramas!
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And isn’t it so lucky that lightning-striking-pond-scum produced so many interesting life-forms, and so many beautiful plants and animals?! Isn’t it so lucky that nature has so many beautiful, majestic things to enjoy?!
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And isn’t it so lucky that we humans are also the result of lightning-striking-pond-scum. And isn’t it so lucky that humans became the crowning act of the Big Bang, in that mankind has the mental capacity to explore and ponder all these wonderful accidents of nature?!
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Well, this article could go on and on about all the so-called “lucky things” which supposedly were produced by some mindless cosmic explosion…chaos into order and design.
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But the true reason why things turned the way they did is because they are the product of an infinite omnipotent super-mind…God! And this eternal Spirit-Being has placed mankind in a universe with countless evidences of His existence and love. And though this little planet also tells of evil, and is marred because of the consequences of sin, the goodness and love of God still shines through.
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 these spiritual metaphors try to teach us…
Pray for Our Nation sign – Wikimedia – Share-alike-lic.
When God created the Moon and the stars, He ordained them to “rule the night” (Genesis 1:16).
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.
But as the Moon must reflect the light of the Sun, in order to be a light to the world, 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.
This is an incredible object-lesson about when the child of God allows the world to come between him and his Lord.
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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And yet, while “I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I?” may have become outdated, name-calling is still very much in vogue!
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As a matter of fact, just look at the world of politics, for example.
The vitriolic name-calling which flies back-and-forth between opposing political parties!
Such derogatory tags as “They’re all a bunch of Nazis!”,
or “He’s a modern-day Hitler!”,
or “You’re a real ‘such-and-such-phobe’!”
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Well, these are just a few of the most common derogatory names (along with some really choice four-letter-smears!)
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YELLOW JOURNALISM ALIVE & WELL!
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Well, just like children in a sandbox, is today’s political arena!
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One political party attempts to smear the opposition, using the worst-of-the-worst smear-tactics.
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And of course, major-media-yellow-journalists all jump on board, and echo the daily smears, all in hopes of prejudicing the listening public against the media’s political foes.
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SATAN, A TIRELESS ENEMY
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But how can we blame them?
After all, the “god of this world” has worked 24/7/365 to create a society which encourages such immaturity!
And so much of television, radio, and Internet caters to that immaturity.
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Yes, a great deal of television, Internet, and the recording industry attempt to appeal to the younger generation on a very low level which often hinders them from growing up properly (this web-editor also being also a victim, once-upon-a-time).
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“but whosoever shall say, ‘Thou fool’, shall be in danger of hellfire!”
Matthew 5:22
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Now, just what does God have to say about all this name-calling?
Listen to the very words of Jesus…
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“But I (Jesus) say unto you,
That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause
shall be in danger of the judgment:
and whosoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca’ (Chaldee for “worthless” or “empty”)
shall be in danger of the council:
but whosoever shall say, ‘Thou fool’,
shall be in danger of hellfire!”
Matthew 5:22
Anger during a protest – by David Shankbone – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike-License
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“THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR(WAVES)”
Ephesians 2:2
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It is not uncommon to hear so-called Christian Internet-commentators using some derogatory tag against people they don’t like.
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But those of us who have committed this sin, need to wake up and beg and plead for mercy, grace, and deliverance from our heavenly Father!
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Announcer with microphone – svg – Wikimedia – Public-Domain
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“They (the men of this generation) are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another…”
Luke 7:31, 32
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On the other hand, the world will, no doubt, continue to engage in such childish behavior.
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After all, that’s pretty much what sin is…childishness.
The Good News is that today is still the day of salvation!
And as Christians, we can go into our quiet place of prayer, and ask for that mercy, grace, and deliverance from all such Spirit-quenching sins!
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And though “weeping may endure for a night”, yet when we finally do get the victory over this pernicious sin, we can be assured that…“joy cometh in the morning!” Psalm 30:5
Pray for Our Nation sign – Wikimedia – Share-alike-lic.
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, …
Prayer – Mother and Daughter – Wikipedia – (cropped image) the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews?
for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”
Matthew 2:1, 2
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There exists a lot of intrigue regarding just what star did the Magi from the East follow, which led them to the First Advent of our Savior.
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The Bible speaks of Arcturus as a possibility…“canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” Job 38:33.There’s nothing that is impossible for God! Arcturus may very well have been that star.
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FULFILLMENT OF WISE-MEN OF OLD
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But there is a much greater question that confronts Mankind today.
Because, just as a single star guided those wise men to the coming Savior, so also, God is just now giving us many stars, to guide us safely to the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior!
And so, these starry signs seem to be the fulfillment of those wise men following the star, 2,000 years ago!
The Bible says that “companionship” speaks a lot about who we are.
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Have you ever heard the expression, “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are”?
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The Bible asks the very same question, but in a somewhat different way… “Can two walk together, except they are in agreement?” Amos 3:3.
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But this next verse seems to be an answer to the previous verse. Just listen… “…we…beholding…the Lord…are changed into the same image.” 2nd Corinthians 3:18.
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This verse confirms that associating with Jesus we become in agreement with Jesus.
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EVIL ASSOCIATIONS AFFECT US
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But this principal of “who we walk with”,also works in the negative sense…
“Be not deceived:
evil communications corrupt good manners.”
1st Corinthians 15:33.
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By associating with bad influences, we imperceptibly begin to take on those evil attributes.
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“Be not deceived” this last verse states.
Every time Scripture issues the warning, we need to realize that Satan will try to deceive us on that very point.
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HEAVENLY ROLE-MODELS or HELLISH ROLE MODELS?
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As most everyone in the Christian community understands, the Bible uses not only Jesus, but mere mortals, such as Paul, to be role-models for Christians to admire and emulate.
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But Lucifer, now called Satan, fully understands this, and has given us his own role-models, for us to conform to.
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And now, with television, radio, the printed page, and high-tech devices, like never before this Master-Destroyer now projects his own selfish image to the world!
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And as a result, they eventually begin to emulate those images in their own personal daily lives!
“(Jesus) Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person…” Hebrews 1:3
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And speaking of images, the above verse states that Jesus, being the eternal Son of God, was the express image of God.
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But these things concerning the Godhead are far higher than any human can understand.
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And yet, one thing is for sure: Jesus was, and is in constant communion with the Godhead, of whom He is an integral part. Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit are One.
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Now this concept brings home to each and every Believer the very same concept: “whose companion am I?Who do I admire? Who do I look up to?”
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Here is the first object lesson.
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Just as Jesus is one with the Godhead, so must we be one with Jesus.
As discussed elsewhere in this website, the Sun seems to correspond to the First Commandment.
Likewise, Mercury, which is the second heavenly sphere in our solar system, seems to correspond very nicely to the Second Commandment.
Both the second heavenly sphere (Mercury) and the Second Commandment (no images) are closest to the ‘Sun’.
That is to say, just as planet Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, so is the Second Commandment right next to the First Commandment (God compares himself to the Sun many times in Scripture).
This above passage from Mark 7 was spoken by Jesus to the Pharisees and scribes. And in this list of evils which proceed from the hearts of men, Jesus mentions “an evil eye”.
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And God has inscribed this sign upon the face of the Moon!
Yes, this 2nd face is that of a wolf-like character with an upraised eyebrow as he appears to be looking down upon this world in judgment!
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You see, this wolf-like character represents proud Pharisees, because the Pharisees were the “Moral Majority” of their day.
They were very outwardly correct and very judgmental of all those whom they thought to be less moral than they, themselves!
There are three faces in the Moon, etched by God Himself.
These faces present, not only the condition of God’s house, but also, the condition of the Human Heart.
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The first face is that of a man.
The other two faces are those of a scavenger and also a predator.
The first face represents the True Worshipers.
The other two represent the two classes of Christians that existed in Jesus’ day: the Pharisees, and the Sadducees.
The Pharisees were the Proud Scorners.
The Sadducees were locked in by unbelief.
They didn’t believe much of the Bible.
While the second face representing the Pharisees, as they professed belief in the Bible, loved the sins of pride, the 3rd face (Sadducees) continually sought after the things of the world.
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Yes, these faithless ones (represented by this 3rd face), didn’t believe that being Christ-like could bring the joy necessary to be content.
So, this 3rd face is a Seeker, so to speak.
Just as the little furry critters are constantly seeking after food, so too, many Christians are constantly seeking after, and nibbling of the things of the world.
Priesthood – the Holy of Holies – www.thebiblerevival.com – Public Domain
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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 joke and mock “the silly and absurd notion” that Satan is a very active and powerful force controlling the peoples of this world, by laughingly saying…“The Devil made me do it! 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 amount 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 evil, antichrist spirit is more than anybody is willing to accept, much less even admit!
Now, according to “experts”, the cause of this plague are unknown to this very day, although theories range from “Mass Psychosis” to “Demonic possession”.
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And this same Wikipedia article notes that similar phenomena occurred at various times and places in Medieval Europe.
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PENTACOSTAL SIGNS & WONDERS
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Nevertheless, such phenomena has continued on, even unto this very day. One such event occurred, taking on a religious form, which has been tagged as the Azusa Street Revival…
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Listen to Wikipedia…Another local paper reporter in September 1906 described the happenings with the following words: “…they cry and make howling noises all day and into the night. They run, jump, shake all over, shout to the top of their voice, spin around in circles, fall out on the sawdust blanketed floor jerking, kicking and rolling all over it. Some of them pass out and do not move for hours as though they were dead. These people appear to be mad, mentally deranged or under a spell. They claim to be filled with the spirit…”
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This event has been credited as the beginning of the modern-day Pentacostal Movement. And still to this day, there are churches and evangelists which conduct large gatherings in which are Non-Biblical phenomena such as, “Falling Backwards”, “speaking in unintelligible babbling”, “Dancing in the Spirit”, “Drunkenness in the Spirit”, “Laughing in the Spirit”, etc….
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But even going outside of the churches, there are many unexplained phenomena occurring in the secular world.
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One such unexplained occurrence is growing phenomenon of “Gender Confusion” in which millions of people are no longer happy with their God-ordained gender. Thus we are seeing not only the public being overtaken by this unnatural compulsion, but the government and medical community has joined in this cultish phenomenon, even surgically removing sex-organs of people of most all ages, to somehow quell the perverted desire to become the opposite gender.
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Nevertheless, credit for all these various forms of so-called “Mass Psychosis” must be given to the dark forces which rule over this crazy world.
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Yes, the Bible reveals that Lucifer was long ago given rulership of this antichrist world-system! Listen…”2Co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
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Even though there has been strange and demonic phenomena through history, today’s high-tech world has become the end-times engine for a grand perview of Satanic activity. Yes, now the entire world is increasingly able to watch through the high-tech p[ortals and see the workings of that “Prince of the Power of the Air”, as he sweeps through the nations with societal tsunamis, bringing judgment on the nations, overwhelming us with the increasingly horrific depths of sinful madness! Yes, just as giant waves of the ocean come, one-by-one, so are we flooded with one form of madness after another, whether in the music world, or sports, or government, television, Internet.
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GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
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If there is any Good News in all of this world’s insanity, it is offer of Salvation in which we may aquire “Peace that surpasses all understanding!”
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Yes, by turning our eyes upon the Savior of the world, we may obtain “perfect peace” and divine rest” in a world which rages as the troubled sea which cannot rest.
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).
Not too long ago, the Leaders of the land were pressured to address the border crisis in which millions of foreigners were flooding into the United States.
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And because the calls for help became so loud and critical, the embarrassed leaders announced the creation of “The Border Czar” who promised to “get to the root cause of the migrant invasion”.
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Well, as media commentators predicted, that was the last time the “Border Czar” addressed the crisis. And the problem got much worse.
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Many who favored this invasion claimed that Jesus would be in favor of allowing poor people to come into a wealthy nation.
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But actually, God warned His people to jealously guard their borders…“‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.” Numbers 33:55
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The Lord only allowed individual foreigners to come into The Promised Land on the condition that he renounced his former gods and instead, embraced the religion of Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews.
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But today, millions of citizens of the western nations are perplexed, even horrified by the moral/political/financial breakdown of society!
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“Why have we become so lawless?” is the question of the day.
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“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
1st Timothy 6:9
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Yes, God in His mercy gave this nation His manifold blessings, knowing how His people suffered so greatly through the centuries of the Dark Ages of Europe! And He allowed the the Reformation nations to grow and thrive.
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But nations rise and nations fall. And though God greatly blessed The Reformation Nations their material abundance eventually became a curse.
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JUDGMENTS NOW FALLING…”And the cities of the nations fell”
Revelation 16:19
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It is obvious that God has left America to itself. Judgments are now falling…National debt climbing by billions every week, Irresponsible government spending, decriminalization of street-drugs, collapsed borders, increasing crime, cities-in-anarchy, rampant-sexual-perversion, rising immorality, corrupt justice-system, corrupt political system, censorship of free speech, decadent-school-systems, increasing brotherly-hate, increasing sodomy,
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“Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.”
Matthew 24:12
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The general populace is greatly confounded by the government allowing the borders to be flooded with anyone and everyone crashing into the western nations. Many are deeply saddened to see all the lawlessness abounding. And yet, God’s people knew that lawlessness would abound in these last days before the 2nd Coming of Christ.
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Now, the so-called “party of compassion”, in their perverted understanding of compassion, pride themselves that they are showing mercy to those from poorer countries, allowing them to lawlessly crash through the borders of the western nations.
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And yet, while they “showing compassion” to one group, they are trampling on other groups who must suffer the consequences of allowing millions of non-citizens to come in and deplete the recourses of taxpaying citizens!
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“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
Psalms 9:17
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But to get a fuller understanding of the underlying cause of the breakdown and collapse of the western nation, we must realize that the above verse from Psalms 9:17 is now being applied to the western nations which once embraced the Christian Reformation. Yes, the nations which once rejoiced in the Protestant Reformation have now turned their backs on Heaven and have pursued materialism, hedonism, secularism, and other related endeavors.
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FAVORITE CAUSE OF THE MONTH
time for the 7th Head to be exposed?
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY”
Proverbs 25:25
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But even though the world was seemingly going mad, and sinking into the bottomless pit of sin, God was allowing all these things for the purpose of purifying His saints, and helping them to place all their hope and trust in Him, instead of trusting in Man, and in the institutions of men.
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And now, realizing that there was nothing left in the world for them to lean upon, God’s abounding grace caused His remnant people to fully trust in the exceeding great and precious promises of His Word. Thus, the saints of God began to shine in such a way that the secularists and apostate churches could not ignore! The promises of God’s Word now became like stepping-stones of safety in an upward highway of holiness out of the craziness and abject evil which burned like a fiery furnace all around the world! Now, the church became like highly polished gemstones, purified as precious gold and silver, and shining even as the Sun! And thus, God’s purpose of the Great Tribulation was fulfilled, and Christ was ready to return for His true Church, and God would bring them to be with Him, in Heaven.
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to escape this awful and fearful judgment which seems to be falling on this society. Let me hide myself in Thy secret pavilion until the indignation be overpast…
Pray for Our Nation sign – Wikimedia – Share-alike-lic.
In Revelation, theDragon of Revelation 12is described as having seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns. However, the Dragon of Revelation 12 Constellation up in the night sky does not. But God has faithfully created this 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 comprised of ten stars.
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The main body of the wave has seven stars (#’s 1 thru 7, in the sketch), and the tip of the crest of the wave has the other three stars, (#’s 8, 9, 10).
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So in this wave, we see the same 7/10 numbering found in the Revelation description of the heads/horns/crowns of the Dragon.
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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).
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Listen again…“When the waves of death compassed me…THE FLOODS OF UNGODLY MEN made me afraid. The sorrows of Hell compassed me about;” 2nd Samuel 22:5.
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ATHEISM AND THE NUMBER “6”
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And so, without going into a lengthy discussion, let’s just say that of all the 7 heads of Antichrist, the head which most closely aligns with atheism would logically be the 6th head. And why the 6th head? The Book of Revelation, Chapter 13 warns that the Antichrist Beast has a number of 666. And it describes this number as being the “number of a man”. The number “6” in Scripture has to do with “Man”. It is a number which reminds of the 6th Day of Creation; the day that Man was created. Man was created on the 6th day. And so, Mankind is very much connected with the number “6”
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And since atheism is the religion which holds Mankind as the supreme ruler of Earth, then the number “6”, being the number of Man, seems to correspond to the 6th head of Antichrist, very well.
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Now these ideas may not be “written in stone”, as the saying goes. And nothing hinges upon, nor falls apart, with or without these theories. But sufficed to say, there is strong evidence that these concepts have biblical support.
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And so, this 6th star in the Revelation 12 Dragon’s wave of water, would correspond to the 6th head of the Antichrist Beast. And as already said, “waves” in Scripture, represent the many false ideologies which Satan has flooded the world with, throughout time. So that is why this Signs Of Heaven website believes that atheism was the 6th head of Antichrist.
photo – music headphones – psychic-Ganzfeld – Wikipedia – Public-domain
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We humans get proud of our accomplishments: our talents and abilities, our outward beauty, our charismatic personalities, our good work-ethics, our genius, our inventive ideas and discoveries, our physical strength, our good morality.
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Yes, these are only just a few of the many areas in which we humans are filled with pride.
The story of King Nebuchadnezzar makes a fitting example of how people take credit for their accomplishments.
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Listen, “…they shall make thee (King Nebuchadnezzar) to eat grass as oxen…
until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men,
and giveth it to whomsoever He will…
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing:
and He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth:
and none can stay His hand,
or say unto Him, What doest Thou? …
and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.”
Daniel 4:32, 34, 35, 37
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Yes, after having lived for years as a dumb animal, old King Nebuchadnezzar ultimately understood that his wisdom and might, and strength and accomplishments were only possible because God permitted him to have those qualities.
Listen to Isaiah’s prophecy concerning the great day of God’s wrath…
“For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty,
and upon every one that is lifted up;
and he shall be brought low:”
Isaiah 2:12
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Yes, the Day of the Lord (which has already begun) will finally reveal to us just how foolish and unintelligent we really are!
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ABOVE PICTURE: Unfunny Judgment Day Cartoon – a party tonight – signsofheaven.org
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GET ON BOARD THE ARK OF SAFETY!
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But there is a way of escape from all this!
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Yes, it is still the day of Salvation.
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And all are invited to jump ship from this sinking Titanic planet, and climb aboard the Ark of Salvation, which is leaving this doomed world, for the wonderful Promised Land: a land of joyful song and innocent laughter.
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A land in which we will never grow old but be forever young!
“Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.” Psalms 45:6
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Now, this 3rd brightest star in the night heavens, Arcturus, seems to very nicely fulfill the prophecy, “there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel”Numbers 24:17.
But where would the scepter be in this prophecy? After all, it speaks not only of a star rising, but also of a scepter.
Here is a star-chart from Wikipedia, in which the editor of this site has sketched in this Cross/Scepter Constellation.
The stars in this star-chart are accurately placed, and thisCross/Scepter Constellationstands out in brilliance, among the other stars in the night sky.
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The sketch below is the Summer Constellations, as seen when looking west.
Well, if you look just to the south (south is to the left in this sketch) of Arcturus, you will see what appears to be a scepter.
But this scepter also appears as a Cross.
And this constellation has been named, theCross/Scepter constellation.
It can be seen in January, in the pre-dawn hours.
Each night, it appears a little earlier, as it slowly inches its way westward.
Finally, this constellation dips below the western horizon, in the fall, not appearing again till January, back in the eastern sky.
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Now, as earlier stated, this wonderful prophecy(“there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel”)has its greatest fulfillment in the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jesus is represented by that glorious Star.
And His death on the Cross is truly His scepter of authority.
“Psa_9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
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“Write the vision,
and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it!”
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Dear Reader, like Habakkuk says, it’s time to “RUN!”
Habakkuk 2:2
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, I pray that You would take me out of the horrible slimy pit of lukewarmness, and give me the ability to run the Christian “race with patience”…
“And there appeared a great wonder (or sign) in heaven; a woman…And there appeared another wonder (sign) in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads…And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God…And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” Rev. 12:1, 3, 6, 15
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Here is a sketch of this Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12. This is the Winter Constellations of Signs Of Heaven. Besides Orion and his Horse, we also see pictured in this sketch, the Dragon of Revelation 12.
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This Revelation 12 Woman Constellation is fleeing. As you can see, the Dragon Constellation is spewing a flood of water in her direction, as is written… “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” Revelation 12:15.This wave of water represents Satan’s lies, and his false teachers who tell those lies.
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ABOVE STAR-CHART – Early Winter in the east – Orion, Revelation 12 Woman (AKA Ursa Major) – Revelation 12 Dragon (AKA Hyades, Pleiades, etc.) – Goodly Horse in Battle with Rider (Camelopardelis, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, etc…) – www.signsofheaven.org – Not for profit use!
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GOD’S MESSAGE: FLEE!!
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Beholding the Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12 Constellation in winter, it seems that God is trying to get a very important message across to His people: that His Church is to flee! But what are they to flee from? Well, you can go to the article titled “The Fleeing Woman of Revelation 12 Constellation”
For our primary example of how God often works, Ellen White spoke of the Sabbath in terms of the letter of the law, as does the Old Testament.
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And to this very day, most of her adherents cling to this teaching.
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But as the January 27 devotional (click here) attempted to teach, the Sabbath Rest which remains to the people of God is not merely a one-day-per-week, 24-hour long rest from physical labor, but rather is a spiritual rest which we receive in Jesus.
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And this 24/7/365 spiritual rest is the true seal of God!
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And of course, there are a number of articles and devotionals on this website dealing with this.
And Sunday worship? Well, one can probably conclude that when she spoke of Sunday, it is actually just symbolic of anyone who loves this present, Babylonian, sun-worshiping world, and yet attempts to serve Christ at the same time.
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It is merely symbolic of any act of rebellion against and rejection of the commandments of God, for the “commandments of men”(“But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:9).
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And let’s face it, living for and loving this present selfish world is the greatest of all acts of rebellion by Mankind against the commandments of God!
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ABOVE PICTURE: The Pied Piper of Television
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WHOSE CHARACTER IS WRITTEN ON MY HEART?
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Therefore, we must not get the idea that merely attending church on either Saturday or Sunday will determine which camp we are in: the Saved or the Lost.
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But rather, it is just whose name is written in our forehead (our heart): either the character of Christ or the character of Satan; this is what truly determines just who has the true seal of God or who has the true Mark of the Beast!
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ABOVE PICTURE: The Most Holy Place in the Heart
ABOVE PICTURE: Mark of the beast – pub. dom. – Wikipedia
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STUDY, NOBLE BEREAN, STUDY!!!
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Nevertheless, every Noble Berean is highly encouraged to listen to the audio reading of Chapter 27 of Ellen White’s book, The Great Controversy, by simply scrolling down toward the bottom of today’s devotional.
“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.
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Walking through this sin-darkened world, witnessing to those who take notice that of a truth, Jesus is present within you.
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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.
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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).
ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this 44 chapter audio book is a brief history of the Church, from the Cross of Christ forward to the Return of Christ.
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 small 30-minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50-year long series of 90-minute nightly talk shows…
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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!
And while yesterday’s devotional (click here) focused more on the 7th-Day Sabbath, today’s devotional will briefly explore into the true fulfillment of the 1st and 2nd beasts of Revelation 13.
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And while Ellen White did an amazing job of looking forward in time from her vantage point in the 1880’s, we now have a much broader perspective, as we see exactly how things have unfolded in these last days.
And while Ellen White referred to the Church of Rome as the antichrist beast, it must be remembered that the antichrist beast described in chapters 13 & 17 of Revelation is actually symbolic of the kingdom of Satan, this entire antichrist world-system.
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Yes, the antichrist beast is comprised of kings and kingdoms (including the apostate portion of Christianity).
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The Church of Rome was merely the 5th head of the 7-headed beast, even though that “Great Harlot” church played the primary role as persecutor of God’s people throughout most of the New Testament history. (See Revelation 17:1 & 19:2 for “Great Harlot” reference)
Likewise, the 2nd beast of Revelation 13, the False Prophet, while originating in the United States, is actually the spirit of the “Prince of the Power of the Air, that spirit which now works in the children of disobedience” Ephesians 2:2
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In other words, rather than being merely a single nation, this 2nd Beast, the False Prophet, is none other than the diabolical spirit-being, Satan, as he works invisibly through the hearts of men who are actuated by his antichrist spirit.
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And this two-horned spirit agency of evil, is working around the clock and around the world to compel the human race to bow down and worship his antichrist world-system, thus giving him homage he so greatly desires.
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SATAN’S CHARACTER MANIFESTED THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS
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For an example of how Satan compels humans to worship him, the television broadcasts the various qualities of his character on a 24/7/365 basis: anger, lust, unbelief, pride, violence, revenge, greed, selfishness, and a form of counterfeit goodness, etc….
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These qualities are seen in the various daily TV shows and advertisements, howbeit are greatly disguised by a shroud of counterfeit goodness, humanitarianism, friendliness, and morality.
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STUDY, NOBLE BEREAN, STUDY!!!
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Now, time does not permit this short devotional to explore into the exact nature of the Beast’s Mark.
In the meanwhile, every “Noble Berean” is encouraged to listen to today’s 21-minute audio of Chapter 26 of Ellen White’s book, The Great Controversy, by simply scrolling down to near the bottom of this page.
Pray for Our Nation sign – Wikimedia – Share-alike-lic.
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THE NOBLE BEREAN IS ALSO HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS 25 MINUTE AUDIO BIBLE STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH (#285) CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF THE 7TH-DAY SABBATH, CONDUCTED BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING…
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.
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Walking through this sin-darkened world, witnessing to those who take notice that of a truth, Jesus is present within you.
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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.
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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).
ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this 44-chapter audio book is a brief history of the Church, from the Cross of Christ forward to the Return of Christ.
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 small 30-minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50-year-long series of 90-minute nightly talk shows…This is Open Forum Show #77
Rom_10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Isa 14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isa 14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Joh_3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Cross of Jesus Christ – cropped photo – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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To His right is a thief, likewise suffering on a cross. To His left is another man, also being crucified for his sins. One man turns to the Savior…”Lord, remember me when You come into your kingdom. The other man continues mocking Jesus.
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And watching all this is a crowd of curious onlookers, each one trying to decide, “Is this man hanging on that Cross, truly the Son of God as He claimed to be?”
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The Cross is a wonderful picture of God’s great love for the world. Picture the Savior, lifted up above the earth with outstretched arms, calling to all…”Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ”
And the call goes out to each and every human…”All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people”
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Yes, the Savior of the world is still stretching forth His hands, calling to each and every one of us,Joh_3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
In 2012, this constellation was revealed. It is comprised of all the other constellations on this website, as they appear in the night-sky. The only way to really see this constellation, is to become very totally familiar with this website. This is because this incredible constellation spans both the summer and winter skies. This constellation is actually in a semi-circle, as it appears in the night-sky. These pictures, however, show it as it would appear straightened out.
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There is an old song which goes… “The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest Hell…
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But the last verse of this song says… “Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.”Now what makes all this so extremely interesting, is that this verse was found scribbled on the wall of a deceased “insane” person’s cell in a psychiatric sanitarium, upon removing his corpse.
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And little did this “insane” man realize, that God had actually written His love and inscribed that love on the scroll (of the sky). And God had actually stretched that picture of love from sky to sky, just as the song-verse said.
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And now God has revealed this heavenly portrait of the Son of Man, writhing in pain for a planet who cares very little for Him. (These constellations span both summer and winter sky, and this constellation in this picture to the right actually appears much more curved in the sky.)
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And just like the Bible, God has made these signs in such a way, that they are true enough for the Believers to believe; but doubtful enough for the scorners to scorn.
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“With the merciful Thou wilt show Thyself merciful;
with an upright man Thou wilt show Thyself upright;
With the pure Thou wilt show Thyself pure;
and with the froward (crooked) Thou wilt show Thyself froward (unsavory).
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Now, there is absolutely no scripture which commands us to abstain from trying to see the spiritual meaning of the various stories found in the Gospels, or the Old Testament!
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And so, this phantom hermeneutic has no biblical origin!
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It was totally contrived by theologians of the past and is still a cardinal rule of interpretation to this very day!
And so, as a result, the vast majority of Christians have been locked out from understanding much of the Bible!
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As an example, most Christians cannot understand that the Old Testament prophets, when speaking concerning Israel and Jews, were also speaking of the Church!
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And so, they cannot see the spiritual truths which are so often veiled in allegories, parables, types, and shadows!
The problem is that when carnally-minded men try to interpret spiritual truths, they tend to gravitate towards an earthly interpretation!
The theory, “Like likes like”applies to these carnally-minded men!
They, being earthly, are attracted to earthly interpretations!
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For instance, when trying to understand the meaning of locusts, in Revelation, Chapter 9, they will invariably attempt to find some earthly meaning!
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They cannot see the spiritual application, that locusts represent the various ways that God allows the Devil to destroy our spiritual crops, so to speak!
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In other words, God, in His attempt to bring us to repentance, will sometimes allow the Devil to remove our earthly blessings!
“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna”
Revelation 2:17
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The Good News is that once God gives us spiritual eyes to see the deeper truths of Scripture, the “hidden Manna”, which is literally found all through the Bible!
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And as we become nourished up in that hidden Manna, we then can begin to walk that upward pathway, which leads us to the “Jerusalem above”!
A new constellation has been revealed, as of about May 29th, 2014.
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This constellation appears as a snake. Its body is comprised of stars from the Bootes Constellation, and its jaws are made of the four stars which Babylonians saw as the head of Draco, the Dragon. It also has a small single star for an eye.
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Now in this constellation is a group of five stars, which will be called “The Five Foolish Virgins Stars”. These are located on the opposite side of the Glorious Crown of 12 Stars, from the Five Wise Virgins Stars. But one big difference between the two is, that The Five Wise are curved around the Glorious Crown, while the Five Foolish are curved away from it!
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For example, even among the reputed, “upright” citizens of this society, there has been an erosion of morality. 
There is no fear of God before their eyes. ” 
And so, God looks down on this lawlessness and eventually decides, “to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.“. Jeremiah 17:10
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So what can we do about all this?
to purify us from our iniquity! This is our only hope!
THE DESIRE OF AGES, BY ELLEN G. WHITE
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Well, I couldn’t make up such a far-fetched and even crazy story; or maybe I should rather call it, 
came along and completely destroyed the entire resort! 
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ng the “number of a man”. The number “6” in Scripture has to do with “Man”. It is a number which reminds of the 6th Day of Creation; the day that Man was created. Man was created on the 6th day. And so, Mankind is very much connected with the number “6” 
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