Revelation 13:16
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:


Hello everyone.

Today, Bill Koening at worldwatch.org wrote an article about the Mark of the Beast and studies that are being carried out by the United States and the European Union. The Bible is such an fantastic Book and our Lord told us through His Word that this would happen. This plan is on the agenda for the future but I know that we believers will be gone when the Mark is forced on a lost and dying world.

God Bless
Elaine


Impact Segment--U.S., “Former Roman Empire” E.U. Nations ID Experiments Reflect Eerie Shadow Of End Time “Mark Of The Beast” Prophecies


The United States and European Union nations, who were once part of the ancient Roman Empire, are conducting experiments with high-tech identification systems that will make it more convenient to travel and to acquire health care, food purchases and other services. These systems are so technologically advanced that they can be administered to millions of people and make services so convenient that people will not think twice about taking the mark of the beast.


The European Union and its member countries are testing new human identification technologies that can be massively distributed and are the key to open a wide variety of convenient services to those who would accept the IDs. The United States, using the war on terrorism as its reason, is also testing new forms of identification that will make it easier to track people and provide services.


These tests run headfast into the prophecies of Daniel and John in that the former Roman Empire would become the one world government of the anti-Christ who would rise to power and require everyone to worship him by receiving his mark in order to travel, trade, receive medical care and to eat.


In Daniel 2, Daniel interprets a dream of King Nebuchadnezzar about an image of a man that related to various kingdoms in history. The fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, was strong as iron but broke into pieces. Then later, its pieces, represented by the ten toes of the feet of the image, will come together, “And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.(Daniel 2:42)” This is the kingdom that the anti-Christ will unite against Christ in the tribulation. Revelation 13 speaks of the beast (the anti-Christ) who in verses 16 & 17 “causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”


The European Union is comprised of the former “kingdoms” of the Roman Empire—Greece, England, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Austria and Belgium, among others. And an identification system that easily can be administered is a type and shadow of the mark of the beast emanating from these kingdoms. The United States, whose mother country is England, may well be included in this group. Certainly, all these nations are rushing toward some sort of technologically advanced ID system.


There are three factors that make an ID system effective: 1) public acceptance, 2) accuracy and security, and 3) ease of distribution and sign up. Public acceptance comes when it is more convenient to accept the ID than it is to continue doing business the old way. Accuracy and Security are technology related, as is distribution.


Convenience is key to a test program at Reagan National Airport by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) where travelers can stare into an iris scan kiosk and in seconds be on their way to the plane. Others have to wait in the regular, longer security lines. Registration is scheduled to continue for about two weeks, until the TSA gets the 2,000 volunteers it seeks at the airport. Their opinions, and the effectiveness of the equipment in identifying them, will guide the agency in developing a similar nationwide registered traveler program. Moreover, the American Airlines customers who signed up as registered travelers Monday, August 23, 2004 had a few concerns about privacy.


In France, there is growing concern over people with stolen passports crossing borders illegally and participating in terrorist acts. There is an effort to stop that by linking Interpol's 181 member countries to a stolen travel documents database that will let immigration officials at any border post screen incoming passports and ensure that they are not among the thousands of such documents reported stolen each year.

The database, which includes information for 1.7 million stolen passports and other travel documents, is available to all member states, though participation has been sluggish. Two months after the database was ready to receive information in June 2002, only two countries had sent Interpol lists of their stolen passports. Even today, only 49 countries have done so.


Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy. RFID tags sewn into clothing or even embedded under people's skin could curb identity theft, help identify disaster victims and improve medical care, they say. Critics, however, say such technologies would make it easier for government agencies to track a person's every movement and allow widespread invasion of privacy. Abuse could take countless other forms, including corporations surreptitiously identifying shoppers for relentless sales pitches. Critics also speculate about a day when people's possessions will be tagged--allowing nosy subway riders with the right technology to examine the contents of nearby purses and backpacks.


Insider’s Take: It is now no large leap in either technology or acceptance to issue IDs to the populations of nations, paving the way for the anti-Christ to “sensibly” require an ID system for those loyal to him. Even Americans, who are fiercely independent, use a myriad of ID systems from EZ tags on toll roads, to credit card proximity cards at gas stations, to iris scans at airports. The technology and the sensitivity toward personal ID will become so commonplace that most people would never give it a second thought if it were ever required to travel, obtain food, or hospital care. In fact, those are the industries where most of the IDs are currently being accepted—airports, grocery stores and healthcare. Beware!


ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?



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A Trumpet Has Been Blown!

Titus 2:13-15
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Hello everyone.

I am thrilled to be able to share with you an article regarding one of the greatest books to be released today. "The American Prophecies" is a book every American should order and read. I have just ordered my copy and cannot wait for it to arrive. Where is America in light of Bible Prophecy? Mike Evans shares with us critical Bible truths which shout forth a warning to all and a hope for every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He methodically chronicles America's place in history and her future.

I believe with all my heart that we are in a critical time in light of Bible Prophecy and if we are to survive, we must support Israel and her wonderful homeland. If this country turns her back on the Jewish people in the Holy Land, we will go the way of nations of the past. My prayer is that our country will stand with the nation of Israel and with the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

You can go to World Net Daily to order your copy :http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39807

What an exciting time to be a Christian! I pray that all of you have put your faith in the Lord Jesus and are now looking for the blessed hope of His coming.

God Bless
Elaine

BOOK EXCERPT: The Jews' Christian champion'The American Prophecies' tells how 1 man lobbied 10 presidents for Israel.

Editor's note: Mike Evans' new book, "The American Prophecies," topped best-seller charts even before its release, knocking Bill Clinton's "My Life" off the No. 2 spot on Amazon before ascending to No. 1. In his book, Evans explores current events in the light of ancient Scriptures and America's place in biblical prophecy. Today, WND presents Chapter 4 of "The American Prophecies," which tells the remarkable story of one Christian's persistence in seeing that a Jewish state was re-established in the Middle East.

By Michael D. Evans
© 2004 Michael D. Evans

That there seem to be many evidences to show that we have reached the period in the great roll of the centuries, when the ever-living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is lifting up His hand to the Gentiles. "to bring His sons and His daughters from far, that he may plant them again in their own land". Not for 24 centuries, since the days of Cyrus, King of Persia, has there been offered to any mortal such a privileged opportunity to further the purposes of God concerning His ancient people.
William Eugene Blackstone, in his letter to President Benjamin Harrison that accompanied Blackstone's memorial for the re-establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

Revelation 16:7, Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Scripture of 1865

Virtually every American president has in some way been impacted by prophecy. From Washington's divine protection, to every other president's decisions concerning the direction of our nation and its relationship to Isaac and Ishmael, our leaders have navigated the murky waters of foreign policy to decide America's role in world affairs. As our domestic conscience has elected men into office, it has also directed how America will account for its stewardship of the power entrusted to us. It seems that though we were prophetically called on to be used of God in the world, we will also have much to answer for because of our sluggishness in responding to that call and taking our appointed place of leadership.

While the American heart seemed dedicated to helping the Jewish people find a place of peace and security on the earth as the second half of the 19th century dawned, its hands were occupied with westward expansion and solving its own greatest internal moral dilemma, namely the end of slavery and maintaining its Union through a bloody Civil War. While Jefferson had warned that God's justice would not sleep forever concerning the issue of slavery, America would still be caught in its bloodiest conflict ever because of its moral relativism. It took a man with great moral resolve to see the U.S. through this time of division. History can only speculate how events may have turned out had it not been Abraham Lincoln who placed his hand on the Bible in 1861 to be sworn in as the 16th president of the United States. It is quite likely that a man of lesser moral fiber would not have seen his country whole again at the conclusion of his presidency.

"My great concern is not whether God is on our side," Lincoln was quoted as saying. "My great concern is to be on God's side."

While Lincoln's hands were full with the issues surrounding the Civil War, he did at least express sympathy concerning the establishment of a Jewish homeland. In fact, Lincoln even received a prophetic appeal from Henry Wentworth Monk in March 1863. When one of the president's public addresses was opened for questions, from the back rows of the room Monk stepped forward, introduced himself as a visitor from Canada, and asked the president:
"Why not follow the emancipation of the Negro by a still more urgent step, the emancipation of the Jew?"

Lincoln faltered at this. "The Jew – why the Jew? Are they not free already?"

"Certainly, Mr. President, the American Jew is free, and so is the English Jew, but not the European. In America we live so far off that we are blinded to what goes on in Russia and Prussia and Turkey. There can be no permanent peace in the world until the civilized nations ... atone for what they have done to the Jews – for their 2,000 years of persecution – by restoring them to their national home in Palestine." "That is a noble dream, Mr. Monk," Lincoln responded, "and one shared by many Americans. I myself have a high regard for the Jews. ... But the United States is at the moment a house divided against itself. We must first bring this dreadful war to a victorious conclusion- and then, Mr. Monk, we may begin again to see visions and dream dreams. Then you will see what leadership America will show the world!"

However, despite what intentions Lincoln may have had in his heart concerning this issue, he was assassinated before he could act on any of them. Yet God still held the U.S. in His hand as a tool to fulfill prophecy. A new call for American support of replanting Israel in its ancient lands would soon come from a Christian businessman of Oak Park, Ill., who would pick up the torch that MacDonald and others had lit.

Again the push toward a Jewish homeland came from a Christian and not a Jew, but given the Jewish perspective of the time, perhaps this is not so remarkable. From 1881 to about 1920, the United States saw the greatest period of immigration, among which were 3 million Jews from Eastern Europe. It was the time of America's Open Door and the Great Melting Pot. It is not surprising that a Jewish poet, Emma Lazarus, would write the words emblazoned in bronze on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torchWhose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles "Keep ancient lands your storied pomp," cries sheWith silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Palestine at the time was a desert wasteland in the hands of the unfriendly Turks – America held much greater promise to Jews than returning there. In fact, the Jews in the United States came to view America as their promised land. They were comfortable in America's graces and felt no need to seek peace elsewhere. This great sentiment was not without its repercussions, however. As the poor Jews of Europe flooded to America, it not so much answered "the Jewish Problem" as brought it to America. The United States felt it could not hold them all, and sought some other answer.

As a result, in 1921 Congress passed a quota targeting mostly Europeans who were unskilled workers. Another law was passed in 1921 that limited each country to sending the equivalent of only 3 percent of its nationals already living in America in 1910. This law limited immigration to 357,000 people. Three years later, the Johnson-Reed Immigration Restriction of 1924 lowered this quota to 2 percent, while also lowering the base year to 1890 – when only 150,000 people were allowed in. The government's restrictive immigration policy thus cut immigration from 800,000 in 1921 to 23,000 in 1933. Ellis Island's role quickly changed from a depot to a detention center. In 1915, Ellis Island admitted 178,000 immigrants; by 1919 that number had fallen to 26,000. Something different would have to be done to solve the Jewish problem in Europe rather than shipping Jews to the United States.

However, before any of this even really started, God had appointed someone to step forward with a solution – William Eugene Blackstone. Blackstone was born into a Methodist home in upstate New York in 1841, but followed his fortunes west to Oak Park, Ill., after the Civil War. Though he was not an ordained minister, but rather the founder of a construction and investment company, Blackstone was an ardent student of the Bible from his boyhood. In 1878, he published a book called "Jesus Is Coming," which sold more than a million copies (no small feat in a nation of only about 50 million – roughly a sixth of what America's population is today). While the book was offensive to many who had grown comfortable in their American Christianity and were content to live the American dream, it was welcomed by such men as Dwight L. Moody and Cyrus I. Scofield, who appreciated his more literal interpretation of the Scriptures and welcomed a more active and evangelical, missions-minded Christianity. It so touched the American conscience that it "in a large measure set the tone for this period of history."

Blackstone's book was so well documented that it was actually more Scripture than commentary, listing hundreds of Bible passages for the reader to review on their own because of the limited space. It was a hard book for any true believer to ignore.

Suddenly, once again, an American was becoming a beacon to the world pointing to Bible prophecy. The book was eventually translated into 48 languages, including Hebrew, and is still in print today.

Chapter 15 of the book is titled simply "Israel to Be Restored," and starts with this passage: "Perhaps you say, 'I don't believe the Israelites are to be restored to Canaan, and Jerusalem to be rebuilt.' Have you read the declarations in God's Word about it? Surely nothing is more plainly stated in the Scriptures."

From here he goes on to list 89 different Scripture passages that support this assertion. Later in the chapter he further states: "It would seem that such overwhelming testimony would convince every fair-minded reader that there is a glorious future restoration in store for Israel. "I could fill a book with comments about how Israel will be restored, but all I have desired to do was to show that it is an incontrovertible fact of prophecy, and that it is intimately connected with our Lord's appearing."

Perhaps Blackstone's remarks seem somewhat overstated to us some six and a half decades after the birth of Israel as a state, but to those of his time, some six and a half decades before the event, the confidence of his statements was no less than prophetic. Few in America's churches seemed to give any real credence to the possibility that the Jews would ever again have their own land and state, let alone in their ancient homeland with Jerusalem as their capital. For their part, the Jews overall had little interest in the idea themselves. By the outbreak of World War I, only about 20,000 of the 2.5 million Jews in the U.S. belonged to any type of Zionist organization. American Jews were quite happy where they were.

However, Blackstone looked on Israel as "God's sundial." He even went so far as to say, "If anyone desires to know our place in God's chronology, our position in the march of events, look at Israel." For Blackstone, it was the next milestone along the river of prophecy. In what light did the American churches interpret the Scriptures that Blackstone was quoting? How could they have missed the obviousness of these prophecies concerning the rebirth of Israel? They interpreted them as referring to "spiritual Israel" – as the church of the modern day. Wisely, Blackstone had a few things to say about this as well – a subject that would touch on some of the darkest episodes for the descendants of Isaac in the next century. He saw quite plainly that Israel and the church were separate entities with separate futures as applied to their different covenants. God had not forsaken one for the other, but rather had a unique plan for each.

However, by replacing literal Israel in the Bible with the church, Christians of the time no longer had to feel any responsibility to the Jews as God's chosen people. This "Replacement Theology" would be exactly what would quiet the church in Germany during World War II as the death camps sped into full swing. They had no obligation to the Jews. They were "suffering for their sins of rejection of the Messiah." It was as if Jesus' death cut them free from these people rather than grafted them into their tree. However they saw it, this insidious virus – an invisible anti-Semitism – allowed the mainstream German church to look the other way as the most horrific and ungodly things were done.

As Victor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, wrote: "The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment – or, as the Nazis liked to say, 'of blood and soil.' I'm absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desk and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers."
Blackstone's words did not fall on deaf ears in the United States, however. As his popularity rose, so did his activity. In 1888, he and his daughter, Flora, visited Palestine and concluded their trip in London. The trip took about a year.

When he returned, he was more zealous for the cause of re-establishing the state of Israel than ever before. Shortly thereafter, the burden of his heart was to initiate a conference between Jews and Christians to discuss this very topic. The "Conference on the Past, Present and Future of Israel" took place Nov. 24–25, 1890, at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago. It was attended by some of the best-known Christian and Jewish leaders. The assembly passed resolutions of sympathy for the oppressed Jews living in Russia, and copies were forwarded to the czar and other world leaders. However, Blackstone knew that it was not enough to beg mercy from these leaders – the Jews needed a land to call their own within whose borders they could find peace and security. He wanted these world leaders to grant the Jews permission to return to Palestine and establish just such a state. Out of these meetings came the inspiration for the document that would eventually be known as "The Blackstone Memorial."

On March 5, 1891, Secretary of State James G. Blaine introduced William Blackstone to President Benjamin Harrison. Blackstone personally handed the president his memorial, originally titled "Palestine for the Jews." President Harrison seemed like a man who would favor Israel as well, since he chose Psalm 121:1–6 as the Scripture on which he would place his hand as he took the oath of office as the 26th president of the United States:

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

The first paragraph of Blackstone's memorial began simply, "What shall be done for the Russian Jews?" and the second, "Why not give Palestine back to them again?"
It was signed by 413 prominent Americans including John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, heads of several major newspapers, the Speaker of the House, among other members of Congress, the mayors of Chicago and Philadelphia, and several other businessmen, ministers and clergy. It called for a conference to discuss the possibilities of a Jewish homeland – a first step on the road to a Jewish state – and copies were also sent to the head of every European nation.

The letter that accompanied Blackstone's memorial ended with these words:
That there seem to be many evidences to show that we have reached the period in the great roll of the centuries, when the ever-living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is lifting up His hand to the Gentiles (Isaiah 49:22), to bring His sons and His daughters from far, that he may plant them again in their own land (Ezekiel 34, &c). Not for 24 centuries, since the days of Cyrus, King of Persia, has there been offered to any mortal such a privileged opportunity to further the purposes of God concerning His ancient people.

May it be the high privilege of your Excellency, and the Honorable Secretary, to take a personal interest in this great matter, and secure through the Conference, a home for these wandering millions of Israel, and thereby receive to yourselves the promise of Him, who said to Abraham, "I will bless them that bless thee," Genesis 12:3.

While most Americans have probably never heard of William E. Blackstone, the same could not have been said of American presidents from Harrison through Truman. As Blackstone believed that the church could well be raptured at any moment, he became increasingly preoccupied with "God's sundial" – the Jewish people and their promised return to Palestine. He kept the issue before the eye of every U.S. president until his death in 1935. Blackstone not only handed the memorial to Harrison, but would also see it presented to Presidents William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson – William McKinley even signed it. Blackstone's words so saturated these presidents that in 1949, some 14 years after Blackstone's death, Harry Truman, who made the U.S. the first nation to recognize the newborn state of Israel, virtually quoted Blackstone's letter. When he was introduced to some Jewish scholars that year as "the man who helped create the State of Israel," Truman responded with, "What do you mean 'helped create'? I am Cyrus, I am Cyrus!"

Blackstone's memorial was written five years before the father of modern-day Zionism, Theodor Herzl, published his book "The Jewish State" and founded the Zionist movement. In fact, when Blackstone discovered that Herzl's book was practical and political, not prophetic, he marked all the prophecies in the Old Testament concerning Israel's rebirth in a Bible and sent it to Herzl. Blackstone informed Herzl that his proposal to have the Jewish state in Argentina, Uganda, or any other country was unacceptable – it had to be in the promised land of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. Blackstone so greatly influenced Herzl that the Bible containing those marked prophecies is displayed in Herzl's tomb in Israel.

Because of his zeal, Blackstone is perhaps the most famous American in Israel today. While righteous Gentiles such as Corrie ten Boom and Oskar Schindler have a tree dedicated to them for saving lives in the Holocaust, Blackstone has a forest named after him and is mentioned in most textbooks discussing the history of Israel.

Despite his presence before these presidents and his popularity, however, Blackstone would be to these presidents what Moses was to Pharaoh – a voice calling from God, "Let My people go!" but also one that, for the most part, would be unheeded. As Pharaoh vacillated in his decision to release the Jews to go to Canaan (ancient Palestine) after the plagues, so would the American presidents. However, it was not God who hardened presidential hearts as He had done with Pharaoh; it would be the State Department. It was the State Department that incited U.S. protests against the murder of Jews in Damascus in 1840, but now the State Department would silence the U.S.'s response to Blackstone's plea, and eventually welcome America's apathy toward the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

The death knell that sounded over the Blackstone Memorial came in a penciled note from Alvey A. Adee, who was the assistant secretary of state from 1886 to 1924, an incredible 38-year stint in the office that left his fingerprints everywhere in America's foreign policy throughout his tenure and beyond. If Adee felt one way, then it was a good indication of the way any up-and-coming young State Department officers should feel if they hoped for advancement. His note read:
For 30 years and I know not how much longer, Turkey has writhed under the dread of a restoration of the Judean monarchy. Every few months we are asked to negotiate for the cessation of Palestine to the Jewish "nation." The whole project is chimerical [fanciful].

While, in fact, the project was not an impossible and foolish fancy as Adee suggested, his note was enough to infect the State Department with the idea that any action toward helping Israel become a nation again was not only a waste of time, but also not in the interest of peaceful relations with the powers that controlled the region at the time – namely the crumbling Ottoman Empire. A tone was also set in these intellectual halls that the simplistic, black-and-white values and ideas of evangelical Christians such as Blackstone were naive and quixotic. Well-informed diplomats knew more about the values and cultures of the regions involved, so they were in a better place to make policy regarding the issues concerning them.

Slowly the State Department was starting to make its decisions based more on what other nations thought than using the values on which our country was founded. This trend away from the moral clarity of our forefathers and toward the relativism of humanistic secularism is what has turned the State Department into the friend of the United Nations and globalization – more than the friend of their own nation – that it has become today.

A further prophetic insight was realized when William Blackstone's friend Cyrus Scofield published his famous study Bible in 1909. It was greatly inspired by Blackstone's interest in Bible prophecy and his simple, straightforward interpretation of Scripture. In his notes, Scofield interpreted Ezekiel 38 and 39 to mean that Russia would invade Israel during the end times. That interpretation was challenged and even mocked. Many said, "How can you possibly say that? Russia is a Christian Orthodox nation, and Israel doesn't even exist ... nor is there any possibility that Israel will exist." Scofield answered simply, "I don't understand it, and I can't explain it, but the Bible says it, and I believe it." Today no one doubts that Russia would attack Israel – especially since it has been known to regularly target Israeli cities with nuclear missiles – and Scofield's interpretation is almost taken for granted.

William Blackstone was God's voice to a generation. He raised the call for Zionism before the Zionist movement was even founded. Through Blackstone, God was calling on the conscience of America, which had called on Him to save it from the tyranny of the British and from its own divisive internal strife over the issue of slavery. God answered us willingly and faithfully, in both instances keeping America whole through each of these as well as other conflicts.

Now God was calling on America to act on behalf of His chosen people, the Jews – and for more than 50 years, His call went ignored. The fact of the matter was, had any of the presidents who received Blackstone's memorial acted on it – in other words, if they had acted on prophecy instead of disregarding it – it could well have saved the lives of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, as well as the lives of those persecuted in Russia and elsewhere in the world. America's inaction during this time is as responsible for the Holocaust as the silence of the German church in the 1930s and 1940s.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?



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2 Timothy 3:13   But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Watch Out America!

This week we have had the opportunity to view a nest of lies spewed forth out of the Democratic Convention.  Today I received a weekly update from Bill Koening and he has told the truth. America must beware of spin and lies as we approach this November election. I think before I cast my vote I will flash back to 911 and think of who I would rather be at the reigns of our great nation. May the Lord continue to grant us wisdom as we travel through these last days.
Have a great weekend.
Elaine

P.S.

I have included Bill's view on Prophecy for Today!

Talking Points -- Democrats Mask Extremism With Controlled Propaganda Plan; Exposed Deceptions Threaten To Unravel Presidential Bid

The identity of the Democrat Party was at stake this week at the Democratic National Convention. The media consultants found a little surprise in their polling data that indicated Americans would not vote for a presidential candidate espousing a radical leftist view of abortion rights, homosexual marriage, anti-war, soft on terrorism and hard on men and women of faith.

So they did what any self-respecting political spin doctor would do—they crafted a propaganda campaign like none seen since Hitler’s Third Reich. The Democrats took a hard right turn and reinvented their party for nationwide prime time consumption. Gone were the shrill references to the likeable President George W. Bush that he betrayed the country and lied and made up the reasons for war in Iraq. Gone were the radical feminists screaming about having the right to kill their unborn. The homosexual advocates were locked back in the closet for the week, and the American Civil Liberties Union attack on religion in America was swept under the rug.

In a very carefully managed public relations display, the Democratic National Convention played like a heartland America town meeting held at the local Baptist Church. It all looked pretty good. The right words were said. Chords were struck with the American people. The only problem was that it was a propaganda effort based on lies.

When the balloons settled and the floor demonstrations stopped and the flags and signs put away, we have to ask if the real Democrat Party would stand up. But to the discerning ear and eye, all you had to do was listen to the words that were spoken to understand there is a hard-core agenda to turn the United States of America into a West European Socialist nation by the most liberal presidential ticket in the history of the country.

Presidential nominee John F. Kerry spent over 50 minutes addressing the American people in his acceptance speech. He spent a lot of time trying to convince the people, and possibly himself, that he was as good as if not better than the current president when it comes to national defense and foreign policy. His experience as a Vietnam veteran, as a leader, as an experienced consensus builder among nations…and on and on. But the actual lie is in the truth that he has been a part of weakening our national defenses since he returned from Vietnam. His consensus building consists of yielding to the United Nations, on which he has been clear from the beginning of his campaign.

But the most sinister revelation at the convention was the hydrant spewing forth code words that the Democrats want a socialist secular nation. Former President Clinton, in the only truthful moment of his crowd-pleasing speech said that Democrats and Republicans hold very different views of how to meet America's challenges at home and abroad.  He said, "We Democrats want to build a world and an America of shared responsibilities and shared benefits. We want a world with more global cooperation where we act alone only when we absolutely have to."  Mr. Clinton zeroed in on the basic political tenet of the Democrat Party--that a socialist government should empower the people and that the U.S. government should be a part of a larger one-world order.

Teresa Heinz Kerry, in arguably the most bizarre political speech in history, underscored the secular when delivering the crowning statement of her speech, "Today, the better angels of our nature are just waiting to be summoned. We only require a leader who is willing to call on them, a leader willing to draw again on the mystic chords of our national memory and remind us of all that we, as a people, everyday leaders, can do; of all that we as a nation stand for and of all the immense possibility that still lies ahead. I think I've found just the guy. I'm married to him."

Calling on angels of our nature...drawing on mystic chords of our national memory?  Is this how Mrs. Kerry runs the Heinz Foundation, where she has given millions to leftist organizations?  One such group is the League of Conservation Voters, a radical environmental group that has run commercials against President George W. Bush, where, in essence, Mrs. Kerry paid for the attack ads against her husband's opponent.  Another group Mrs. Kerry gives money to is the Tides Foundation, a socialist oriented donor to organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose leadership has had direct ties with the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah.

A class act, Elizabeth and John Edwards took the high road in the presentation of their vision of America. Still, Mr. Edwards danced upon the floor of socialism. Mr. Edwards stirred the crowd with a "Hope Is On The Way" theme to an America united.  He painted a vision of a strong "One America" where there is no difference between the schools, the healthcare, the childcare, the benefits, the jobs, and the opportunities afforded the wealthy and the rest of America.  He said that those hard working people still in poverty are doing their part and that the government should do its part. He said that the Kerry Administration would destroy terrorists and build a stronger military.  John Edwards would make even conservatives believe in the Democrat Party...until they realized what he was really saying.

John Edwards was saying that he wanted a society where there is no wealthy or poor--everybody is on the same level.  He said he wanted to reward work not wealth.  He said that the Kerry team would pay for this new society by taxing the rich--a clear intention to redistribute wealth.  John Edwards was painting the picture of a socialist nation, strong because of its government, not because of the rugged individualism of its people, its families, its faith in God.  If anything, this Democratic National Convention has tried to reach out to mainstream America, but it cannot shake the strong socialist leanings of the most liberal Presidential ticket in the history of the United States.

The Democrats bet the farm that the American people would swallow hook, line and sinker the enticing lie of socialism wrapped in fine words and images. But it is all just window dressing. Even the Spielberg-esque movie of Mr. Kerry’s Vietnam experiences shown at the convention had reenactments…the young John Kerry made the home movies to promote imagery that he was a hero, but some of the images taken under his direction during his four month tour in Vietnam, were staged. Draped in the campaign-theme rhetoric of “Take America Back,” the Kerry-Edwards campaign smacks of a bait and switch play for snookering Americans into accepting socialism where everybody is equal, except some are more equal than others. We must not only hear what Mr. Kerry says, but even more importantly, watch what he does and has done.

Insider’s Take: These are very dangerous people. We must remember that no matter how much the spin artists conjure up a centrist illusion of the Democrat Party, in reality it stands on a platform of extremist support for abortion on demand, radical homosexuality in civil unions and same sex marriages, and human secularism.  The Apostle Paul writes in II Timothy 3 that men shall be lovers of their own selves without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, traitors, and high-minded, "Having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."  And he warns, "from such turn away."  Weigh all things, discern all things against the word of God as "evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."  No matter how alluring the draw, remember to whom you belong.

Impact Segment — Undocumented Muslims Stream Across U.S.-Mexican Boarder; Prophecies of Jeremiah Coming To Pass?
The Muslim Population in the United States is unknown, but estimates range from 600,000 to six million. Muslim clerics estimate the number on the high end. They should know because they are dealing every day in their respective Muslim communities. Others estimate the number closer to two million.
The number of Muslims entering the U.S. is also a guess at best. But the number of people crossing the Mexican boarder with the U.S. illegally who are of Middle Eastern descent alarms boarder police. These are people of whom we have no idea whether they are friend or foe, are members of terrorist cells or are just looking for a job.
The prophecies of Jeremiah 50-51 speak of a land called Babylon that has a lot of similarities to the U.S. It describes Babylon as the least of nations; a nation that has contended against the Lord; a nation of mixed peoples; a land of carved images; and has powerful seaports. The U.S. is the youngest superpower; it has allowed the removal of the Lord from public places; is often called the “melting pot” for its diverse population; is known for its idols; and has powerful seaports.
The Lord tells Jeremiah in 51:14, “Surely I will fill you with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a shout against you.” Locust in Hebrew means “Arab.” And considering that the Bible is full of types and shadows, could it be that the Muslim population explosion in the U.S. will lead to an eventual overthrow of the country or attacks from within the nation that render it desolate and impotent as a world power? This possibility is something that most do not want to consider, especially those running the Federal government, but the entire situation bears consideration, serious consideration.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned about attacks within the U.S. from sleeper cells of Muslim extremists. But the federal government downplays a future significant onslaught of Muslims against the nation because it considers them law-abiding citizens. However, even the leadership of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has ties to the terrorist organization Hamas, has said Muslims should take over the United States.

And what of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of Muslims entering the U.S. from its porous boarders? The Arizona Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper reported during the week of July 18, the presence of Arab-speaking males amid the waves of illegals recently captured. The article is based on separate, first-hand interviews with three U.S. government agents who confirmed that males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have been detained in the past few weeks.

A Border Patrol spokesman confirmed that since October 1, 2003, 5,510 illegal aliens designated as "Other Than Mexican" (OTM) have been apprehended while crossing the rugged terrain in southern Arizona. The term actually means "other than Mexico or other central and South American countries," the spokesman said. Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame declined to say what countries the OTM illegals are from, although he admitted detainees include "people from all over the world." Adame added, "We apprehend them, process them, and turn them over to [the U.S. Department of] Homeland Security and the FBI and that is all I can say." 

According to the Tombstone newspaper, on June 13, 2004, Border Patrol agents from the Wilcox, Arizona, patrol station encountered a large group of illegal border crossers in the Chiricaucha Mountain foothills, just east of what is known as The Sanders Ranch. Agents estimated that the group comprised about 100 people. Border Patrol sources who were present at this mass apprehension state that they seized 71 illegal aliens, of whom 53 were males of Middle Eastern decent. The suspects clearly were speaking through an air vent in the transport vehicle. 

Border Patrol sources, at the risk of being in violation of orders and losing their jobs, offered a subsequent chilling revelation. On June 21, 2004, they and their colleagues from the Wilcox Border Patrol station apprehended another 24 Arabic-speaking males in the area of Pierce/Sunsites. These small towns are approximately 25 miles northeast of Tombstone and not far from the Chiricaucha foothills.  Even more worrisome, the agents say, is that the 24 men who were seized were only part of a larger group. At least half of the group apparently escaped capture and remain on the loose in the United States.

Meantime, the Federal government on July 24 reached an agreement with Russia to relocate some 7,000 Ahiska Muslims as U.S. citizens in the Philadelphia area near a mosque. Seems as though Russia would not let them become citizens and the refugees wanted to come to America. Little is known about this group, but that they practice the Sunni brand of Islam, which is one of the conservative sects that is fighting on the wrong side of the war on terror. The Ahiska Muslims are displaced from as far back as the Ottoman Empire and Russia wants to get rid of them. Turkey, where they originate, apparently doesn’t want them. Enter America who wants to improve relations with Turkey and Russia, who is at war with Muslim extremists who practice the Sunni customs.

Insider’s Take: The rising tide of Islam is alarming. Yes, many are peaceful. But for how long? The Koran requires Muslim believers to hunt down and kill infidels, that is, anyone who does not accept Islam. Jesus said in Matthew 24:10, “Then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.” And Genesis 16:11, 12 says, “And the angel of the Lord said unto her, behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Ishmael is the father of the Arabs, the locusts who are at war with the world. These prophecies are being fulfilled before our very eyes. The hand of judgment is stayed by a praying Christian nation. But if immorality continues in the form of homosexuality, abortion, taking God from the public square and more, judgment can swiftly fall and there are an estimated six million Muslims in the United States who may be happy to assist.

I grew up in Southern Arizona sixty miles from the Mexican border. My father’s cotton and wheat farm was within a few miles of a large Indian reservation that bordered Mexico. Mexicans would come through the reservation frequently looking for work. The very long Mexico/U.S. and Canadian/U.S. borders are very porous so you can’t completely close them off. The federal government announced recently they plan to use Israeli designed drones to help monitor the borders, however, there still are not enough Border Patrol people to stop the traffic.

As we have seen in Israel, the United States, Kenya, Iraq, Bali, Turkey, Indonesia, and other nations that have been targets of terror a few people can create a lot of havoc and public fear. We know the United States is and will remain a target for radical Muslims. Today in Washington D.C. and many other U.S. cities, there are already many Middle Eastern people living in the United States. Many of the taxi drivers, operating in our major U.S. cities are Muslims who tend to be very angry people. Today they are an internal and external security threat. A major terror event or a suicide bombing in America would shake our country to its core. We can only hope and pray that the Lord will intercede, our homeland security comes from the Lord, but as I have stated many times before if we continue to apply pressure on Israel to divide her covenant land, the United States and the international community will continue to experience further judgment for their role in Israel’s internal affairs. Just this week Al Qaeda stated brashly that Europe was a terror target and there will be much blood spilled there, this was stated the very same week E.U. spokesman Javier Solana stated during his trip to Israel whether they [Israel] &ldquolike it or not,” the E.U. was going to be actively involved in the Middle East peace process.

 

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Hello everybody! Today I just had to post this article from the World Net Daily. Ann Coulter is someone whom I admire very much. She does not mind speaking the truth and that is a rare thing in this time of political correctness. Needless to say, we are nearing another election and I am sure most of you realize the importance of this one.

Hope you enjoy this article about the two "John's"!!

God Bless
Elaine


I guess with John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate, he really does want to stand up for all Americans, from those worth only $60 million to those worth in excess of $800 million.

In one of the many stratagems Democrats have developed to avoid telling people what they believe, all Edwards wants to talk about is his cracker-barrel humble origins story. We're supposed to swoon over his "life story," as the flacks say, which apparently consists of the amazing fact that ... his father was a millworker!


That's right up there with "Clinton's stepdad was a drunk" and "Ted Kennedy's dad was a womanizing bootlegger" on my inspirational life-stories meter. In fact, I'm immediately renouncing my university degrees and going to work for the post office just to give my future children a shot at having a "life story," should they decide to run for president someday.

What is so amazing about Edwards' father being a millworker? That's at least an honorable occupation – as opposed to being a trial lawyer. True, Edwards made more money than his father did. I assume strippers make more money than their alcoholic fathers who abandoned them did, too. This isn't a story of progress; it's a story of devolution.

Despite the overwrought claims of Edwards' dazzling legal skills, winning jury verdicts in personal injury cases has nothing to do with legal talent and everything to do with getting the right cases – unless "talent" is taken to mean "having absolutely no shame." Edwards specialized in babies with cerebral palsy whom he claimed would have been spared the affliction if only the doctors had immediately performed Caesarean sections.

As a result of such lawsuits, there are now more than four times as many Caesarean sections as there were in 1970. But curiously, there has been no change in the rate of babies born with cerebral palsy. As the New York Times reported: "Studies indicate that in most cases, the disorder is caused by fetal brain injury long before labor begins." All those Caesareans have, however, increased the mother's risk of death, hemorrhage, infection, pulmonary embolism and Mendelson's syndrome.

In addition, the "little guys" Edwards claims to represent are having a lot more trouble finding doctors to deliver their babies these days as obstetricians leave the practice rather than pay malpractice insurance in excess of $100,000 a year.

In one of Edwards' silver-tongued arguments to the jury on behalf of a girl born with cerebral palsy, he claimed he was channeling the unborn baby girl, Jennifer Campbell, who was speaking to the jurors through him:

"She said at 3, 'I'm fine.' She said at 4, 'I'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing OK.' Five, she said, 'I'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, 'I need out.'"

She's saying, "My lawyer needs a new Jaguar ... "

"She speaks to you through me and I have to tell you right now – I didn't plan to talk about this – right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."

Well, tell her to pipe down, would you? I'm trying to hear the evidence in a malpractice lawsuit.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde on the death of Little Nell, one must have a heart of stone to read this without laughing. What is this guy, a tent-show preacher? An off-the-strip Las Vegas lounge psychic couldn't get away with this routine.

Is Edwards able to channel any children right before an abortionist's fork is plunged into their tiny skulls? Why can't he hear those babies saying, "Let me live! Stop spraying this saline solution all over me!" Edwards must experience interference in channeling the voices of babies about to be aborted. Their liberal mothers' hands seem to muffle those voices.

And may we ask what the pre-born Jennifer Campbell thinks about war with Iraq? North Korea? Marginal tax rates? If Miss Cleo here is going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, I think the voters are entitled to know that.

While making himself fabulously rich by taking a one-third cut of his multimillion-dollar verdicts coaxed out of juries with junk science and maudlin performances, Edwards has the audacity to claim, "I was more than just their lawyer; I cared about them. Their cause was my cause."

If he cared so deeply, how about keeping just 10 percent of the multimillion-dollar jury awards, rather than a third? In fact, as long as these Democrats are so eager to raise the taxes of "the rich," how about a 90 percent tax on contingency fees?

For someone who didn't care about the money, it's interesting that Edwards avoided cases in which the baby died during delivery. Evidently, jury awards average only about $500,000 when the babies die, and there is no disabled child to parade before the jury.

Edwards was one of the leading opponents of a bill in the North Carolina Legislature that would have established a fund for all babies born with cerebral palsy. So instead of all disabled babies in North Carolina being compensated equitably, only a few will win the jury lottery – one-third of which will go to trial lawyers like Edwards, who insists he doesn't care about the money.

Despite the now-disproved junk science theory about C-sections preventing cerebral palsy that Edwards peddled in the channeling case, the jury awarded Edwards' client a record-breaking $6.5 million. This is the essence of the modern Democratic Party, polished to perfection by Bill Clinton: They are willing to insult the intelligence of 49 percent of the people if they think they can fool 51 percent of the people.

So while Michael Moore, Al Franken, George Soros, Crazy Al Gore and the rest of the characters from the climactic devil-worshipping scene in "Rosemary's Baby" provide the muscle for the Kerry campaign, Kerry picks a pretty-boy milquetoast as his running mate, narrowly edging out a puppy for the spot. Just don't ask the Democrats what they believe. Edwards' father was a millworker, and that's all you need to know.


ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?



JOHN3:16

The Great Falling Away Is In Full Swing Now!

2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

Good Morning Everyone.

I have been waiting for the right article to bring to you on this blog site. Well, this morning I found it! The scripture above says it all as far as what we are seeing happen in many of todays churches. The "Great Falling Away" is happining at an even greater intensity than one could imagine and this article made me almost ill at the way these translators brutalize the truth of scripture. These people refuse to reverence Holy Scripture and as result they will face the judgement of Almighty God. The last chapter in the book says it all:

Revelation 22
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

What is a Christian to do in light of what many denominations are doing? I will let Gods Word answer that question. It is found in the Book of Second Corinthians.

2 Corinthians 6:17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.


No longer can we trust tradition or sentimental memories to decide where we worship the Lord. If a church is going along with type of thing or many of the other abominations active today, we need to find a church where the Word of God is revered and the truth is being preached.

God Bless
Elaine


Note: Continue to wach as the Apostate Church moves more and more into the One World Church.

New Bible translation promotes fornication

Archbishop of Canterbury praises
version for 'extraordinary power'

Posted: June 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com


A brand-new translation of the Bible – praised by Britain's archbishop of Canterbury, that nation’s senior Christian voice – flatly contradicts traditional core Christian beliefs on sex and morality.

Titled "Good as New," the new Bible is translated by former Baptist minister John Henson for the "One" organization, to produce what the group calls a "new, fresh and adventurous" translation of the Christian scriptures.



Archbishop Rowan Williams

The 104th archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams – leader of the Church of England – describes it is a book of "extraordinary power," but admitted many would be startled by its content.

"Instead of condemning fornicators, adulterers and 'abusers of themselves with mankind'," says Ruth Gledhill, the London Times religious affairs correspondent, "the new version of his first letter to Corinth has St. Paul advising Christians not to go without sex for too long in case they get 'frustrated.'"

Posted: June 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com


A brand-new translation of the Bible – praised by Britain's archbishop of Canterbury, that nation’s senior Christian voice – flatly contradicts traditional core Christian beliefs on sex and morality.

Titled "Good as New," the new Bible is translated by former Baptist minister John Henson for the "One" organization, to produce what the group calls a "new, fresh and adventurous" translation of the Christian scriptures.



Archbishop Rowan Williams

The 104th archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams – leader of the Church of England – describes it is a book of "extraordinary power," but admitted many would be startled by its content.

"Instead of condemning fornicators, adulterers and 'abusers of themselves with mankind'," says Ruth Gledhill, the London Times religious affairs correspondent, "the new version of his first letter to Corinth has St. Paul advising Christians not to go without sex for too long in case they get 'frustrated.'"

"The new version, which Dr. Williams says he hopes will spread 'in epidemic profusion through religious and irreligious alike', turns St. Paul's strictures against fornication on their head," adds the Times.

The One organization that produced the new Bible translation is dedicated to "establish[ing] peace, justice, dignity and rights for all." It is also focused on "sustainable use of the earth's resources," challenging "oppression, injustice, exclusion and discrimination" as well as accepting "one another, valuing their diversity and experience."

According to Ekklesia, a London-based "theological think tank" that supports the "One" translation:


The translation is pioneering in its accessibility, and changes the original Greek and Hebrew nomenclature into modern nicknames. St. Peter becomes "Rocky," Mary Magdalene becomes "Maggie," Aaron becomes "Ron," Andronicus becomes "Andy" and Barabbas becomes "Barry."
In keeping with the times, translator Henson deftly translates "demon possession" as "mental illness" and "Son of Man," the expression Jesus frequently used to describe himself, as "the Complete Person." In addition, parables are rendered as "riddles," baptize is to "dip" in water, salvation becomes "healing" or "completeness" and Heaven becomes "the world beyond time and space."

Here's how Williams, the top Anglican archbishop, describes the new Bible: "Instead of being taken into a specialized religious frame of reference – as happens even with the most conscientious of formal modern translations – and being given a gospel addressed to specialized concerns … we have here a vehicle for thinking and worshipping that is fully earthed, recognizably about our humanity."

In addition, notes Ekklesia, the archbishop praises Henson's translation for eliminating "the stale, the technical, the unconsciously exclusive words and policies" in other translations.

Here, according to the London Times, are a few sample passages:

Mark 1:4

Authorized version: "John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins."

New: "John, nicknamed 'The Dipper,' was 'The Voice.' He was in the desert, inviting people to be dipped, to show they were determined to change their ways and wanted to be forgiven."

Mark 1:10-11

Authorized version: "And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him. And there came a voice from the heaven saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

New: "As he was climbing up the bank again, the sun shone through a gap in the clouds. At the same time a pigeon flew down and perched on him. Jesus took this as a sign that God's spirit was with him. A voice from overhead was heard saying, 'That's my boy! You're doing fine!'"

Matthew 23:25

Authorized version: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!"

New version: "Take a running jump, Holy Joes, humbugs!"

Matthew 26:69-70

Authorized version: "Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, 'Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.' But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest."

New: "Meanwhile Rocky was still sitting in the courtyard. A woman came up to him and said: 'Haven't I seen you with Jesus, the hero from Galilee?" Rocky shook his head and said: 'I don't know what the hell you're talking about!'"


1 Corinthians 7:1-2

KJV: "Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."

New: "Some of you think the best way to cope with sex is for men and women to keep right away from each other. That is more likely to lead to sexual offences. My advice is for everyone to have a regular partner."

1 Corinthians 7:8-7

KJV: "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."

New: "If you know you have strong needs, get yourself a partner. Better than being frustrated."

ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?



JOHN3:16

What Is Going To Happen?

Matthew 25:21
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


Thanks to Bill Koelning for his perspective on the upcoming election. My how time has passed. It is almost time to go to the polls again. I believe that is one of the most critical elections in the history of America. This one will decide how rapidly America becomes just another country in the New World Order. May God's will be done/ You can visit Mr Koening website at: World Watch Daily

I have to say a word about the loss of our great President. Ronald Reagan. Never before did I feel as safe as when he was our President. I am so thrilled to know that he knew the Lord as Personal Savior. He is now with the Lord and I believe he has heard the above Scripture loud and clear. I also bet my Dad was at the Gates to welcome him home. My Dad was very ill with cancer when Mr Reagan was nominated as President but he had been at the the convention in the 60's when Reagan lost that first bid to run as President. Daddy thought so much of this man and I know he is probably visiting with him as I write this article. At least I would like to think so!

Have a blessed day and may God Bless America one more time!

Talking Points
Behind The Scenes With Five Months To Go, So Who’s It Going To Be: Kerry or Bush?

The polls are calling it a statistical dead heat five months out. Americans seem divided between the embattled President they know and the challenger who wants to be all things to all people. As the election draws near, political pundits are perplexed as to who will eventually occupy the most powerful position in the world—President of The United States of America.


The candidates are at the opposite ends of the political spectrum. There are international forces who wish to destroy the country for its Judeo-Christian roots and there are those from within who wish to eliminate the nation’s Judeo-Christian values and legal system. This election, unlike any before it, is a battle for the very soul of America.

National Security On The Voter’s Scales

Irrespective of the end vote, this election promises to be a referendum on not only the President and his policies, but also about the foreign policy of preemption versus globalism. Never before has one election underscored so succinctly the chasm differences between the candidates regarding foreign policy, despite analysts who insist there are only subtle differences between the candidates. While differences may be nuance, the devil is in the details, as they say.


Democrat challenger Senator John F. Kerry, who would take a decisive turn toward internationalism, would rely on the United Nations and international policing efforts to battle the war on terror. The significance of such a move has far reaching consequences…the least of which is that U.S. national security will become a responsibility shared with the global community, much like that of the Clinton Administration.


President George W. Bush has taken heat from the media and leaders on both sides of the political aisle for his policy of preemption. His “either you are for us or against us” no holds barred stand against terrorism has offended the world community, especially those countries such as France, Russia, China and Germany who have and have had secret multibillion dollar deals with terrorist states. Nevertheless, this national defense plan has focused the war on terror on the Iraqi front where al Qaeda terrorists are pouring in from Iran, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight the “great American satan.” Critics aside, this policy has taken the war to the terrorists and has made them fight in the Middle East deserts rather than in the streets of major U.S. cities.


Those interested in the security of the nation may make a very simple decision in the voting booth: Find the candidate that is supported by terrorists and their allies, and vote for the other guy. Here, the nod goes to Bush.


Domestic Social Civil War

While the United States is leading a global war against terrorism abroad, there is a deep and venomous civil war raging domestically. The candidates severely differ on their approach toward the social nation America.


The nation has marched toward a secular humanist society where traditional values are an unprotected endangered species—and this phenomenon has exponentially increased under the watch of a very publicly Christian president. The leftist juggernaut of activist judges in league with socialist civil rights groups has cornered traditional values at the slaughterhouse gate. The overwhelming majority of Americans (over 60% in all polls), however, are against court decisions to remove the Ten Commandments from the public square, to remove acknowledgement of God in the Pledge of Allegiance, and to legalize homosexual marriage. A slight majority (51%) is against abortion on demand and an overwhelming majority (up to 85% in some polls) is against partial birth abortion.


Yet President Bush, with the majority opinion of Americans with him, has not succeeded in slowing the hemorrhage of bleeding hearts sweeping the nation’s morals down the river Humanism. But Americans know that Kerry, the most liberal in the Senate, would only open the floodgates full throttle.

Jobs may become an issue if the economy continues to improve statistically and the unemployed in Ohio, Wisconsin and California continue jobless through September. No presidential candidate on recent record has lost Ohio and won the White House. Workplace opportunities continue to improve, a slight edge to Bush, otherwise a Kerry neutralizer.


Now For The Strategy…

The Kerry campaign suffers from having a boring, arrogant candidate that is not very likeable and has the most liberal voting record in the Senate. They have bet the farm on portraying the candidate as a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who stands up for what he believes.


Kerry, however, has taken a shelling for his anti-War, pro-communist post-war stances, especially from those who served with him in Southeast Asia. Citing Senate hearings where Kerry condemned fellow soldiers as war criminals, veterans are circulating pictures of Kerry shaking hands with communist dictator Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua fame. And it was recently revealed that Kerry’s mug has a place of honor in the Vietnam War Museum—the museum in Ho Chi Minh City that honors Vietnam war protesters where a 1993 photograph features Senator Kerry shaking hands with the general secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Do Muoi.


Kerry’s strategy has to attempt to focus Americans on the Bush record, the administration’s perceived failings in prosecuting the war in Iraq and the falling popularity of America among so-called allies. Kerry has benefited from an unprecedented hostile media onslaught against the President, but even so, after six months of harsh media criticism of the war, polls show only a statistical dead heat. The Kerry camp must be elated on one hand that a double-digit Bush free-fall has precipitated without spending a lot of campaign cash. On the other hand, however, Kerry’s crew must be perplexed as to why the Massachusetts liberal hasn’t captured a commanding lead. Their only choice is to go negative and hope that international events give them aid and comfort in the eyes of Americans.


President Bush's re-election strategists plan to portray the November election as the first since the Reagan era to offer voters a stark choice between liberalism and conservatism, and they have the money to do it. The Bush campaign has demonstrated unique nimbleness in responding to Kerry and media charges, turning out commercials and placing buys in areas of demographic significance within 24 hours. This has kept the embattled president on even ground despite the negative attacks.


Key will be the battleground states, the top ten with the most Electoral Votes:1. California (55) 2. Texas (34) 3. New York (31) 4. Florida (27) 5. Illinois (21) 6. Pennsylvania (21) 7. Ohio (20) 8. Michigan (17) 9. New Jersey (15), and 10. Georgia (15). The Bush campaign is encouraged that polls indicate the President is holding his own in these states, despite his popularity falling on a national scale. Important to the campaign will be the get out to vote strategy and Republicans say they have been working hard since the 2000 election. The closeness of the 2000 race caused the Republican Party to begin an ambitious, nationwide return to shoe-leather politics. The Bush campaign has assembled an army of volunteers that swung into action months before the Kerry campaign.

Insider’s Take: Insiders are saying if Bush loses another 7% in the polls he can't win. Additionally, an incumbent in the approval range of 45% to 50% is in a danger zone. I have also been told Kerry finishes strong in races. Former Clinton Campaign Guru Dick Morris says Kerry is a weak candidate, and the Bush team is very strong; quick to jump on Kerry's errors. Trump cards: Terror attack in the U.S. and potential problems for Bush if he pushes too hard on Israel. Economic gains could be hammered by oil prices and/or a major terror event. Warren Buffet is very concerned by aggressive derivative trading. Bush's base, while somewhat put off by some of the President’s domestic policies, has a tradition of voting and will remain loyal to the President, as he is the only game in town. The Democrats out number the Republicans (about 43% to 40%) and will need to get the vote out. Secular media, Hollywood and George Soros and friends have Bush in their crosshairs. The world media and many world leaders do not like Bush because they perceive him as arrogant, not falling into line with the world community, and showing too much Texas cowboy bravado in persecuting the war on terror.

If Bush is elected things will be somewhat status quo. If Kerry is elected judgment will fall on America. Prediction Five Months Out: It’s hard to win against an incumbent during wartime.


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Daniel 10:5-13

5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
10 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

Well here we go again with the leftist Socialist in our government. Jack Kinsella exposes what they plan to do with "our kids" (not theirs).

Perilous times are upon us and our only hope is in the Lord. I have been saying for weeks that this war was not only in the physical realm but in the spiritual also. This new scandal reveals the truth of this matter. The same prison that Sadaam used to torture and kill has been used by some of our people for evil. Perhaps the "Demonic Prince of Persia found in the Book of Daniel" has had something to do with this. I believe we need to seriously and continuously pray for our troops in that ungodly land!

God Bless
Elaine

Children of the State?
Should the US Reinstate the Draft?
Commentary on the News
Friday, May 07, 2004
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

A bill co-sponsored by NY Democrat Charlie Rangel and Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel seeks to reinstate the draft that was phased out following the Vietnam War in favor of the current, all-volunteer military force.


In a New York Times Op-Ed on Dec. 31, 2002, NY Democrat Charlie Rangel said, "If we are going to send our children to war, the governing principle must be that of shared sacrifice."
Nebraska's Chuck Hegel echoed Rangel's sentiments, asking rhetorically, "Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?"
Hagel argues that conscription would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."

Rangel likewise claimed the U.S. would be less likely to go to war if soldiers were drafted rather than adequately paid.

Hagel says we need a draft so "the privileged, the rich," as well as the less affluent bear the burden of fighting wars.

Rangel's bill would require "that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."

In other words, the bill mandates a period of involuntary servitude for a select group of young people COMPELLED to do whatever the government decides.

It always fascinates me to hear terms like 'our children' as if they were somehow the property of the state to do with as 'we' will. Following that line of reasoning, wars are declared by their parents -- why don't THEY go fight them?

Charley Rangel won't have to worry about being drafted into the military just as he is beginning the toughest phase of any person's life -- the transistion from adolescent to adult. Chuck Hegel has had thirty years or more to make the adjustment -- maybe he forgot what it was like.

It's hard to be eighteen.

It is even harder if, in addition to all the other burdens that come with that tender age, one has to consider being impressed into involuntary servitude -- UNNECESSARY involuntary servitute -- by virtue of no other criteria than being eighteen?

The Pentagon isn't asking for more troops. Most military units are meeting their recruiting and re-enlistment quotas. There is no need to force unwilling Americans to 'share' the burden -- especially since the burden is imposed exclusively on America's youth.

Rangel's bill is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, Corrine Brown of Florida, William Clay of Missouri, John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, Alcee Hastings of Florida, John Lewis of Georgia, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, Jim McDermott of Washington state, James Moran of Virginia, Pete Stark of California, Nydia Velazquez of New York and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia.

Isn't it fascinating that it is the most liberal wing of the Congress that wants to reimpose what they fought so bitterly against during the Vietnam War? Why would anybody want to dismember America's professional force of volunteers in favor of inducting and training unwilling warriors?

It reveals the core principles behind liberal thinking -- the use of class warfare to promote collectivism. Liberals expect the state to meet their every need. It is an interesting irony that the loudest liberal instigators of class warfare are themselves rich -- something that embarrasses them ALMOST enough for them to give away all their money. Almost.

Listen to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Charley Rangel, etc., etc., as they rail against 'tax cuts for the rich' and ensuring 'the rich' share the burden of military service, as if, in a VOLUNTEER military, somehow, they don't.

Even as a youth, John Kerry was rich. So was John Kennedy. Pat Tillman walked AWAY from riches. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, was poor. (Who doesn't fit in the above group of veterans?)

Because being embarrassed about being rich isn't quite enough for liberals to give away their own money, they salve their consciences by giving away yours. All the while convincing you that the rich guys are getting a free ride on your dime.

This same principle of class warfare and collectivism is behind the push to reinstate the draft.

America doesn't need the draft to maintain its military readiness -- in fact, conscription would drive military readiness down. By the time a draftee was adequately trained to serve in a 21st century, highly technical military force, his two years would be up.

The agenda isn't to 'share the burden' among rich and poor. It is to create a new dragon for them to slay down the road. If they can successfully push through a new conscription, they will automatically create an army of anti-warriors out of the unwilling draftees, their families and their friends.

Then guys like Charley Rangel and John Kerry can join hands, marching at the front of a column of anti-war demonstrators, singing 'Kumbaya' and chanting 'I have a dream' and tapping into America's national discontent to get votes -- you know, just like in the old days.

A successful and victorious America doesn't need liberals to protect them. Which is why they want to bring back the draft, end the war, talk down any economic recovery and write op-ed columns in the New York Times about American 'arrogance' for not surrendering US national interests to the UN.

"The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh." (Ecclesiastes 4:5)

Excerpted from the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest, Volume 32, Issue 2

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