This is a topic that really struck home for me. You need to hear the story of Dr. T.E. Koshy and we all need to find our roots, it is urgent, time is short, and I feel the Lord still has much for us to do.
Matthew 28:16-20
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Great Commission
16 But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful. 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 [a]Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you [b]always, even to the end of the age.”
UPDATED: (Syracuse, New York ) — Every Christian needs to be able to answer two simple questions: 1) Who is investing in you? and 2) Who are you investing in? In the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:18-20, our Lord Jesus Christ commanded us to go and “make disciples of all nations,” beginning with our own. Sadly, the American Church is experiencing an epic failure of discipleship. Most older believers are not spiritually investing in the lives of younger believers. We are failing to model and transmit Biblical truth and Christ-like character and a passion for evangelism and discipleship to the next generations. Thus the American Church is weak and failing and in desperate need of revival. Thus our nation is increasingly at risk not simply of decline but outright collapse, as I write about in Implosion.
I recently picked up a book by Jack Kelly on the seven things you need to know to understand end times prophecy. It was a quick read but packed full of insights. I am always looking for books that boil down the concepts the Bible lays out around End Times Prophecy, especially those that put it into context and on a rough “time-line”, maybe a better terminology would be “order of events”.
This book does that the best I have ever seen. It also lays out key principles to follow with studying any Bible prophecy including: intended audience, translation, pronoun use, etc.
This book is the new book that I will hand out to those I talk to about Bible Prophecy that are just getting started, unpacking all of God’s wisdom of things to come.
Pick it up and take a look at it, I guarantee you will not be disappointed and will have at least one “ah-ha” moment, I had several.
There are seven pieces of information that are essential to understanding End Times Prophecy. These seven things are the building blocks for the strong foundation we want. They are:
I want to apologize for not posting very much this month. I have felt an overwhelming feeling with everything that is coming at me both from a prophetic as well as personal stand point. I am definitely back and will be posting quite a bit over the next couple of days, as I have quite a back log of draft articles and headlines to share.
This is very disconcerting. It is not like missiles get shot everyday in America. This isn’t Israel, or is that where we are headed. We need to keep an eye on this. You can see from the picture that it is definitely a missile, and a very large one by the trail. There is also a link to video of it at the end of the article.
A video that appears to show a missile launch off the coast of California is so far “unexplained” by anyone in the military, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters Tuesday morning
Col. Dave Lapan said he is not able to concur with an official from North American Aerospace Defense Command/U.S. Northern Command who told Fox News earlier that there was “no threat to the homeland.”
Lapan said the military doesn’t know exactly what the so-called mystery missile was so can’t say it’s harmless.
A local CBS affiliate in Los Angeles on Monday evening captured on video the image of the “spectacular” projectile flying about 35 miles out to sea, west of Los Angeles and north of Catalina Island.
It was a small earthquake, measuring just 3.1 on the Richter scale, but its location in the heart of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has experts buzzing.
The Oct. 15 quake was centered 7 miles northwest of Lathrop, on Union Island. No faults are known to exist in that area, where earthquakes are rare.
The temblor could offer new insights on safety issues in the Delta, where concerns about flood protection and water quality during a major quake have been growing. It is also a reminder that many mysteries lurk below ground – even in California, a nucleus of earthquake research.
“It was a surprise to us,” said Jack Boatwright, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park who is studying the quake. “There’s something down there that we don’t know about.”
Catie Marchini felt the quake when it struck at 4:04 a.m. She and her husband live on the western edge of Manteca, about 10 miles southeast of the epicenter.
“My husband I both woke up, because we heard the house creak and we didn’t know what it was at first,” said Marchini, 29. “It was kind of weird, because both my husband and I are pretty heavy sleepers.”
Marchini grew up on a farm that sits on the quake’s epicenter. Her parents still live there, in a house on Roberts Island, just across the river from Union Island.
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – If there’s one thing the world’s economic powers can agree on, it’s that none of them wants a strong currency right now.
Most advanced economies expect lukewarm domestic growth at least through next year, leaving them unusually export-dependent. The major emerging economies, including China and Brazil, rely on exports too. They all know a weaker currency gives their goods a competitive advantage.
Fears that a currency war may be brewing will likely dominate talks when financial leaders gather at the twice-yearly International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington beginning on Friday.
Something to think about, not only are we tied to China through debt and durable goods, but also the specialized metals that make up a lot of the durable goods we buy and depend on daily…
WASHINGTON—China’s control of a key minerals market has U.S. military thinkers and policy makers alike worried about access to materials that are essential for 21st-century technology like smartphones—and smart bombs.
The concern over supplies of so-called rare-earth elements was highlighted this week by a report that Chinese customs officials had blocked exports of the materials to Japan. On Thursday, Beijing denied those reports. “China doesn’t block rare-earth exports to Japan,” said Chen Rongkai, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce.
Laborers at a rare-earth mine in August in Jiangxi province. China holds the majority of rare-earth materials.
At issue is a group of 17 metallic elements with magnetic properties suited for high-tech applications such as computer hard drives and digital cameras. Rare-earth elements are also key to “green” technology: Energy-efficient light bulbs use europium and yttrium, while hybrid car batteries and wind-power turbines use neodymium.
While rare-earth ore deposits are found around the globe, China’s dominance in mining and processing the elements has raised alarms in Washington. According to an April 2010 Government Accountability Office report, China now produces approximately 97% of the world’s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials that can be further refined into metals (more…)
It is pretty bold of him to say we have dodged depression.
I am not sure any of the economic indicators back that up.
But that doesn’t stop the deception.
If we look to prophecy, we know that the current world’s economy must be brought down and replaced with a cashless system that can be used by the Antichrist to control who can buy and sell.
It is just a matter of timing, we see the tools being created and put in place today.
UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama is calling on world leaders to support new efforts to bring about peace in the Mideast, while declaring the global economy has been “pulled back from the brink of a depression.”
Obama, visiting the United Nations where world leaders are gathered, says “America has joined with nations around the world to spur growth and renewed demand that could restart job creation.”
Economists peddling dire warnings that the world’s number one economy is on the brink of collapse, amid high rates of unemployment and a spiraling public deficit, are flourishing here.
The guru of this doomsday line of thinking may be economist Nouriel Roubini, thrust into the forefront after predicting the chaos wrought by the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the housing bubble.
“The US has run out of bullets,” Roubini told an economic forum in Italy earlier this month. “Any shock at this point can tip you back into recession.”
But other economists, who have so far stayed out of the media limelight, are also proselytizing nightmarish visions of the future.
Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff, who warned as far back as the 1980s of the dangers of a public deficit, lent credence to such dark predictions in an International Monetary Fund publication last week.
He unveiled a doomsday scenario — which many dismiss as pure fantasy — of an economic clash between superpowers the United States and China, which holds more than 843 billion dollars of USTreasury bonds.
“A minor trade dispute between the United States and China could make some people think that other people are going to sell UStreasury bonds,” he wrote in the IMF’s Finance & Development review.
“That belief, coupled with major concern about inflation, could lead to a sell-off of government bonds that causes the public to withdraw their bank deposits and buy durable goods.”
President Barack Obama speaks in Seattle on Tuesday, August 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(CNSNews.com) - In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.
This flooding is truly of Biblical proportions. From the map below, it looks like over half of Pakistan is impacted and the waters are still rising. The Birth Pains are continue to grow….
People try to get to higher ground as flood waters rise
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis have been ordered to evacuate their homes as flood waters threaten several cities in the south of the country.
The flood surge, after weeks of monsoon rains, has breached embankments on the Indus River, inundating villages and swamping vast areas of farmland.
Parts of Pakistan have been described as resembling an inland sea.
After threats from Pakistan’s Taliban, the UN is reviewing security for its aid workers helping flood victims.
A US official said militants planned to attack foreigners delivering aid to the millions of people affected by the devastating floods.
One Taliban spokesman told Associated Press that the presence of foreign aid workers was “unacceptable”.
However, there have been no attacks since the humanitarian crisis unfolded.
‘Pressure increasing’
The UN says more than 17 million people have been affected by the floods, and about 1.2 million homes have been destroyed, leaving five million people homeless.
The floods started in the mountainous north and have steadily surged south, damaging an estimated 3.2 million hectares (7.9 million acres) of farmland – about 14% of Pakistan’s land under cultivation according to the UN’s food agency.
Threats
A US official said threats from the Pakistani Taliban to carry out attacks against foreign aid workers in Pakistan highlighted the group’s “destructive, bankrupt vision”.
Thousands are heading for higher ground in southern Sindh province
White House National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer contrasted the threats of the militants with the “strength of the Pakistani people” trying to recover from the floods and the aid agencies seeking to support them.
“The commitment of the humanitarian organisations… is an example for all of how humanity should be the first and only concern when facing such a tragic disaster,” he said.
If you would like to make a donation to help people affected by the floods in Pakistan, you can find information about how to do so by clicking here.
I had sent a couple of articles on this to friends a few years ago. It was amazing to me that God’s word was being fulfilled right in front of my eyes. And the faith that these men had to begin exploring simply based on the Biblical prophecy, and an obscure one at that. It is truly God’s will. It was this event that really solidified for me, my faith in Bible Prophecy. It sounds strange that such an obscure prophecy would be the turning point, but God works in strange and amazing ways.
I saw the article from the Israel National News on Rapture Ready and then this post on Frank’s Blog where he pulled in what we saw back at the end of last year and before, I know I had to post this. It is very exciting. Israel will be self-sufficient for up to 30 years! Check out the Videos that Frank put up on his site as well (I have embedded them below), they are excellent.
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In my post dated December 28, 2009 I wrote this to you.
“Prophecy Sign: Did you know God warned us that Israel would be blessed in the last days? Guess where these blessings would come from? Can’t get it? Let me show you what the Lord said in Deuteronomy 33 19. “They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer sacrifices of righteousness; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.” Let me ask you a question? What is usually found in the seas and in the deserts in the Middle East? Gas and Oil! Did you know part of Deu. 33:19 was fulfilled in Feb. 2009? Read this. “Last month Delek-Noble an energy exploration partnership, announced a massive natural gas discovery off Israel’s northern coast. According to reports, they may have enough natural gas to supply Israel’s needs for fifteen years. In the energy exploration world it’s generally understood that where you find gas, you find oil and vice-versa. Zion Oil and Gas, founded by John Brown received its first onshore exploration license in 2000. Brown came to Israel in the 1980’s with the belief that a massive oil discovery for Israel was predicted in the pages of the Bible. With nothing but his Bible and his faith John Brown began his quest for Israel’s oil. The company now holds 162,000 acres under license in Northern Israel and is planning to drill its second well next month.” Since God showed us Israel will pull treasures out of the sand one can conclude that the next blessing Israel will have very shortly is they are going to locate a massive oil discovery in their sand. Today I received new that, “The Israeli National Parks Council has granted three major petroleum companies in Israel permission to do exploratory drilling for oil in the Judean Desert Nature Reserve in the Dead Sea region to see if there is a major source of oil in the lowest location on the Earth.” Please watch the news and keep what I am saying to you in your mind because when you see on the news that Israel has discovered massive amounts of oil you will know that it wasn’t Frank DiMora who warned you ahead of time but, the Lord in Deuteronomy. 33:19.” (end of my quote from 2009).
After reading my warning from a year ago read this news was just released. The headline to this report reads as follows: “Central Israel Oil Discovery: 1.5 Billion Barrels” I quote, “Estimates of the amount of oil in the Rosh HaAyin discovery have rises to 1.5 billion barrels, and there is more oil off-shore, but it is not yet known how much of the “black gold” can be extracted for commercial use. The new estimate, along with the gas and oil finds off the Mediterranean Coast, raise the likelihood that Israel will be self-sufficient for energy for the next three decades and even become an exporter of gas. The amount of oil at Rosh HaAyin represents a tiny percentage of Israel’s oil consumption, but development is continuing in the area as well as in the Dead Sea. Economists have noted that the discoveries will have a huge impact on society, creating more jobs and strengthening the shekel against world currencies.”
You may think the oil and gas discoveries as of late are nothing but a “great” coincidence? I can assure you what you are reading about is a blessing right from the Lord and it is a sign of the last days. Put all these very specific signs together and you get a clear picture that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back shortly. j
After you watch the next two videos keep in mind they had a vision of finding oil in Israel based on scripture. As you see from the recent news the oil that used to be hidden is just now being discovered just as the Lord promised.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." -- Ephesians 2:8-10
