Great video excerpt from the movie/documentary "Megiddo II The New Age"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Do you live a fullfilled life...?
Have you ever pondered the thought that mankind has an emptiness that can never be satiated... a hole that never seems to get filled... no matter how much we pursue wealth, fame, or power... it is never enough...
All of us have been born this way... it drives a Donald Trump to continue to build bigger and more elaborate buildings... a politician to seek higher office, and a captain of industry to seek more money... it propels men who are already wealthy beyond measure to steal from those less fortunate and a drug dealer to sell to children, or a pornographer to exploit women and children for money... the sad news is that we will never... ever... find fulfillment. We lack one thing... GOD!
If God is love... if God is happiness and He is the very center of these things... which He claims to be, and that His Son Jesus Christ is the center of that center... then rationally speaking we must start with Him to find what it is that completes us... namely... HIM and His Chosen One... JESUS! If we seek Him with all our heart.. we will find Him... once we find Him, we find fulfillment. just a thought...
All of us have been born this way... it drives a Donald Trump to continue to build bigger and more elaborate buildings... a politician to seek higher office, and a captain of industry to seek more money... it propels men who are already wealthy beyond measure to steal from those less fortunate and a drug dealer to sell to children, or a pornographer to exploit women and children for money... the sad news is that we will never... ever... find fulfillment. We lack one thing... GOD!
If God is love... if God is happiness and He is the very center of these things... which He claims to be, and that His Son Jesus Christ is the center of that center... then rationally speaking we must start with Him to find what it is that completes us... namely... HIM and His Chosen One... JESUS! If we seek Him with all our heart.. we will find Him... once we find Him, we find fulfillment. just a thought...
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Government Prepping "Clergy Response Teams"
We're taking a break from a scripture study to bring you this announcement... The government is prepping "Clergy Response Teams" in the event of martial law. To do this the government had to repeal the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. They did this last year. Here is some info on the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878...
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.
The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act during peacetime...
...The original Posse Comitatus Act referred essentially to the United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956 and the Navy and the Marine Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. The United States Coast Guard, when acting in its peacetime capacity (originally as part of the Treasury Department, later the Department of Transportation, and now within the Department of Homeland Security), is not included in the Act. However, if in wartime, a portion of the Coast Guard were subsumed within the Department of the Navy, as it was during World War II, that portion would lose its federal police power authority and responsibility over the federal law enforcement duties of its civilian mission. This law is often relied upon to prevent the Department of Defense from interfering in domestic law enforcement.
PLEASE WATCH...!
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.
The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act during peacetime...
...The original Posse Comitatus Act referred essentially to the United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956 and the Navy and the Marine Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. The United States Coast Guard, when acting in its peacetime capacity (originally as part of the Treasury Department, later the Department of Transportation, and now within the Department of Homeland Security), is not included in the Act. However, if in wartime, a portion of the Coast Guard were subsumed within the Department of the Navy, as it was during World War II, that portion would lose its federal police power authority and responsibility over the federal law enforcement duties of its civilian mission. This law is often relied upon to prevent the Department of Defense from interfering in domestic law enforcement.
PLEASE WATCH...!
Thursday, September 03, 2009
2 Timothy 3:1-2
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
ok... so these two verses give specific characteristics of what people will be like in the last days. We know the verse is referring to the last days because it specifically says "in the last days difficult times will come" So are we in difficult times? Are these times any more difficult than the times of the past? The answer in my estimation to both of these questions is YES. Yes, we are in the most difficult times in world history. You may be saying "How are these times more difficult that the Great Depression, World War II, the Black Plague, Communist Russia, Nazi persecution of the Jews, or any number of other difficult 'times'?" The simple answer is... these times only effected regions of the world and had specific beginnings and specific endings. However, these current times are progressively getting worse and have no end in sight. For example, the world is going through climate change. Whether this climate change is global warming or global cooling it is definitely global and the changes cannot be stopped by any effort of man. The effects of these global climate changes will effect all the earth and all who dwell on the earth. Some of these climatic changes have been cataclysmic... Hurricane Katrina, massive earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, and massive fires in areas not known to have fires in the past (ex. Florida). The loss of life and property in these events are staggering compared to times past.
Let's look at the world pandemic situation for a moment... We are currently undergoing a H1N1 virus (swine flu) alert that has the entire world panicked while it prepares for massive outbreaks of flu this season. The world has also been braced for H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) that has a 50% mortality rate. If these two super-flu virus' combined they would create a virus that would be devastating to the entire planet, and we haven't even looked at the HIV/AIDS virus that has plagued the world for the last 30 years.
How about the world financial situation...? The standard by which the world measures its currency is against the U.S. dollar. Currently the U.S. dollar is extremely weak. The American economy is the worst its been in decades and there is no short or long term solution to bring the U.S. out of its current depression. Unemployment is at a national all time high, and the government is now in the business of buying out corporations to bail them out of certain failure. This includes the banking system. As I write this I am still currently on unemployment after being laid off of my job in July 2008 and there are zero job prospects in my field, especially in the area in which I live. World leaders in Russia, France, and China have called on the United States to create a world currency in the same manner as the Euro was created. The mindset is that a one world currency would be stronger than the U.S. dollar currently is. Although the United States and Barack Obama in particular have said they would not entertain any ideas of a one world currency, it is being very carefully examined as a remedy to the current decline of the American dollar.
How about Islamo-fascist terrorism? Certainly this is felt on a global scale and effects every person on the planet. Since 9/11 the world has faced the possibility of radical Muslims attacking ruthlessly in the name of Allah. The U.S. military has been engaged on two fronts combating terrorism and the nations that support terrorist. Whether you agree or disagree with the U.S. policy is not the issue here, only that the lone world super-power is engaged militarily, and politically in a global issue.
So, we've looked at a few things that support the current time as the last days spoken of in the first verse. I will leave you with the words spoken by our Lord from Matthew 24:4-14...
"4And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
5"For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
6"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
7"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
8"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
9"Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
10"At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
11"Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
12"Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.
13"But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.
14"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."
We will look at verse 2 tomorrow...
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
ok... so these two verses give specific characteristics of what people will be like in the last days. We know the verse is referring to the last days because it specifically says "in the last days difficult times will come" So are we in difficult times? Are these times any more difficult than the times of the past? The answer in my estimation to both of these questions is YES. Yes, we are in the most difficult times in world history. You may be saying "How are these times more difficult that the Great Depression, World War II, the Black Plague, Communist Russia, Nazi persecution of the Jews, or any number of other difficult 'times'?" The simple answer is... these times only effected regions of the world and had specific beginnings and specific endings. However, these current times are progressively getting worse and have no end in sight. For example, the world is going through climate change. Whether this climate change is global warming or global cooling it is definitely global and the changes cannot be stopped by any effort of man. The effects of these global climate changes will effect all the earth and all who dwell on the earth. Some of these climatic changes have been cataclysmic... Hurricane Katrina, massive earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, and massive fires in areas not known to have fires in the past (ex. Florida). The loss of life and property in these events are staggering compared to times past.
Let's look at the world pandemic situation for a moment... We are currently undergoing a H1N1 virus (swine flu) alert that has the entire world panicked while it prepares for massive outbreaks of flu this season. The world has also been braced for H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) that has a 50% mortality rate. If these two super-flu virus' combined they would create a virus that would be devastating to the entire planet, and we haven't even looked at the HIV/AIDS virus that has plagued the world for the last 30 years.
How about the world financial situation...? The standard by which the world measures its currency is against the U.S. dollar. Currently the U.S. dollar is extremely weak. The American economy is the worst its been in decades and there is no short or long term solution to bring the U.S. out of its current depression. Unemployment is at a national all time high, and the government is now in the business of buying out corporations to bail them out of certain failure. This includes the banking system. As I write this I am still currently on unemployment after being laid off of my job in July 2008 and there are zero job prospects in my field, especially in the area in which I live. World leaders in Russia, France, and China have called on the United States to create a world currency in the same manner as the Euro was created. The mindset is that a one world currency would be stronger than the U.S. dollar currently is. Although the United States and Barack Obama in particular have said they would not entertain any ideas of a one world currency, it is being very carefully examined as a remedy to the current decline of the American dollar.
How about Islamo-fascist terrorism? Certainly this is felt on a global scale and effects every person on the planet. Since 9/11 the world has faced the possibility of radical Muslims attacking ruthlessly in the name of Allah. The U.S. military has been engaged on two fronts combating terrorism and the nations that support terrorist. Whether you agree or disagree with the U.S. policy is not the issue here, only that the lone world super-power is engaged militarily, and politically in a global issue.
So, we've looked at a few things that support the current time as the last days spoken of in the first verse. I will leave you with the words spoken by our Lord from Matthew 24:4-14...
"4And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
5"For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
6"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
7"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
8"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
9"Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
10"At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
11"Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
12"Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.
13"But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.
14"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."
We will look at verse 2 tomorrow...
2 Timothy 3
Let's start a dialog on 2 Timothy 3... Let's look at versus 1 through 13 specifically. Let's see if these versus specifically speak of these current times, or could they be applied to most any time in history... please feel free to comment on these versus with anything you feel is pertinent. Let's try to use examples that build a solid foundation for our positions... I will post my position as to how each of these verses can only relate to these current times and my hope is that you the reader will post your views.
2 Timothy 3
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.
10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.
10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
MacArthur on the Purpose Driven Life
Although I dont subscribe to all of John MacArthur's teachings, I do believe he is a man of God with, for the most part a solid message... please watch and enjoy this excerpt from one of his sermons...
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