Implanted Bombs

Last week the TSA searched a 95 year old woman in a wheelchair before she could get a plane.  They even looked in her diaper to make sure the white woman from the Midwest wasn't planning on blowing up the plane.

Today we find out that the TSA might have to get REALLY tough and start doing cavity checks on everyone.  Why?  Because intelligence has found out that Muslim terrorists have looked into the possibility of having explosives surgically implanted in a would-be bomber.  That would sure make them hard to detect!

The US has warned airlines of a potential threat from militants surgically implanting explosives.

It came after the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to security officials and foreign counterparts alerting them to the threat of "body packing".

See it here;  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14061884

Of course the article goes on to say that some experts think this technique is HIGHLY UNLIKELY....just what they said about suicide bombers hijacking planes and flying them into buildings.

The Western world thrives on openness and freedom to move about.  These terrorists know that if they want to shut down our already slow economies....they just need to continue making us fearful and paranoid.  With that...they are already doing a good job.

Don't Get Married

What leads to the breakdown of society and civilization?  Simple answer is:  the breakdown of the family.

Of course we see this all around us as broken homes lead to unsettled children which turn into unsettled adults.  And we see teachers throwing their hands in the air as they are expected to feed, clothe, educate and council an entire generation of children who are getting little care and attention at home.

So what happened to the ideal situation of a God fearing man, marrying a God fearing woman and raising God fearing children who live by biblical principals and become good citizens of this country?

It's all crumbling.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge".

Now today we have an article that supports the idea that this marriage thing, that God designed, is further fraying.

More than 2 million couples will get married in the United States this year alone. Several hundred thousand of these couples should reconsider, postpone their weddings or not get married.

Shocking new statistics released recently by the U.S. Census Bureau suggest that Americans may no longer need marriage. For the first time ever, fewer than half of the households in the United States are married couples. In the past decade, the number of unmarried couples increased 25 percent as more people chose to cohabitate. A Pew Research Center study last year put it more succinctly, finding an increasing number of Americans now believes marriage is "becoming obsolete."

See it here; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-neil-clark-warren/on-second-thought-dont-ge_b_888874.html

Holy Co-habitation!  Americans may no longer need marriage??!!!  Well that certainly goes well with the other idea that most Americans also harbor...we no longer need GOD!

Friends, this country is heading for a train wreck.  I don't know the day or the hour....but this nation will not stand unless we repent IMMEDIATELY and turn back to the ONLY ONE who can save us.

Cash In Decline

Who uses cash anymore?  It is certainly more of a requirement today to possess a plastic card than to possess cash.  Try traveling on a plane and renting a car without a credit card.  Can't be done.

So this article falls into the "one world currency-mark of the Beast" category of what we are watching for.

WASHINGTON — The number of dollar bills rolling off the great government presses here and in Fort Worth fell to a modern low last year. Production of $5 bills also dropped to the lowest level in 30 years. And for the first time in that period, the Treasury Department did not print any $10 bills.       

The meaning seems clear. The future is here. Cash is in decline.       

You can’t use it for online purchases, nor on many airplanes to buy snacks or duty-free goods. Last year, 36 percent of taxi fares in New York were paid with plastic. At Commerce, a restaurant in the West Village in Manhattan, the bar menus read, “Credit cards only. No cash please. Thank you.” 

NOW PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS PARAGRAPH:

This is very profitable for the United States. Currency is printed by the Treasury and issued by the Federal Reserve. The central bank pays the Treasury for the cost of production — about 10 cents a note — then exchanges the notes at face value for securities that pay interest. The more money it issues, the more interest it earns. And each year the Fed returns to the Treasury a windfall called a seigniorage payment, which last year exceeded $20 billion.        

To meet foreign demand, the Fed has licensed banks to operate currency distribution warehouses in London, Frankfurt, Singapore and other financial centers
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In March, largely because of the boom in $100 notes, the value of all American notes in circulation topped $1 trillion for the first time.

See it here; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/business/07currency.html?_r=2&hp  

Can you believe that??  There is such a demand for foreignors to hoard $100 bills that the Treasury has licensed currency distribution warehouses in foreign lands!!

Can you imagine what is going to happen at the rapture of the church when millions of Americans disappear?  The USA financial system will come crashing down and drag every other country in the world right down with it.  When the smoke clears and the Anti-Christ is revealed....a new financial system will be needed to replace the one that crashed.  And eventually that system will require some sort of bar code that will be stamped on your body in order to buy or sell anything legally.  The Bible tells us that anyone who DOES take that mark will be condemned and will have given up any chance of EVER making it into the Lamb's Book of Life.         

Apocalyptic Dust Storm

Most of you have probably seen the photos from the dust storm that blew into Phoenix a few days ago.  It was the biggest dust storm EVER to hit smack dab in the middle of that city.  But just in case you haven't seen the photos of this mile high storm rolling over the city....you need to see it here;

http://theweek.com/article/index/216958/the-apocalyptic-time-lapse-video-of-phoenixs-dust-storm

The video: Near sundown on Tuesday, the people of Phoenix were swallowed in a massive cloud of dust that knocked out power to almost 10,000 people, shut down the airport, and turned swimming pools into mud pits. Although such storms are very difficult to predict, several intrepid photographers had enough warning to ready their cameras for the mile-high, 100-mile-wide haboob — the Arabic term for this kind of dust storm, used in the Sahara and Arizona. The 100-mile-wide storm "moved like a giant wave" through the city, temporarily burying skyscrapers. In this time-lapse video (Watch it below), Mike Olbinski stood atop a four-story parking garage to capture the 60 mph wall of dust.

Of course we all know that this is simply one more ominous sign that our God, full or mercy, is giving to this sound asleep generation...as it was in the days of Noah.

Government Debt and You

A reader sent me this little YouTube video that quite clearly explains what happens when Uncle Sam spends more money than he takes in.

See it here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG1DUn8mMwk

Notice how the video ends with a comment about global economic collapse...and how that has never happened before so it's "pretty scary".  The narrator then says something about preparing for this....but doesn't offer any tangible advice on how he believes we should be preparing.

Hat tip to Guy B.

America Under Divine Judgment

America has been a pretty outstanding country these past 235 years....far from perfect but MUCH better than most countries the world has seen.  How did we get this blessing?  Of course we got it directly from our God, the God of Israel, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Trinity that includes Jesus Christ.

Focus on the Family had a speaker last week that reminded us how the Constitution was put together by God fearing, Christ following Christians (except for Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin) many of whom were ordained ministers preaching the Gospel.

This country has been blessed because followers of Christ also happen to make good citizens of society...and our founding fathers knew that the documents they were laying out to form our Constitutional Republic were reliant on keeping that population as Christ followers.

So how far have we fallen in the last 60-70 years?

John MacArthur says we are already under divine judgment....and we would have to agree. 

Evangelical preacher John MacArthur spoke at the 2011 Resolved Conference in Palm Springs, Calif., Saturday evening, saying America’s sins were akin to that of Israel’s and the nation was under divine judgment.

“Materialism, drunkard pleasure seeking, arrogant conceit, defiant sinfulness, moral perversion, and corrupt leadership… Do you not see [them] in America?” MacArthur asked a roughly 3,000-strong Christian audience at the four-day conference which began June 24.

The head pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., MacArthur identified Israel’s six sins leading to six curses on that nation from Isaiah 5, saying those misdeeds were not isolated to Israel.

Author of more than 150 books, the evangelical leader said, “I look at America… people say what is wrong with this country. That is what’s wrong with this country. Right there. They have rejected the Word, the law of the Lord, the Holy One Himself.”

Talking about the sin of arrogant conceit, he said America was guilty, too. It is “when a society does not want to hear from God, but wants to be its own authority where every man does that which is right in his own eyes and feels that he is the ultimate authority, he is the ultimate source of truth,” he explained.

See it here; http://www.christianpost.com/news/john-macarthur-says-america-is-under-divine-judgment-51584/

Thank you heavenly Father for the blessing of living in the USA for all of my life.  It has been a privilege.  Father forgive us for squandering those blessings and believing we no longer needed you to keep this country great. Forgive us for worshiping false gods of materialism and in the process ignoring Your word and  Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Mormon Ads

If you have had your TV on in the last year you have probably seen the Mormon ads that end with a good looking man or woman saying the phrase, "My name is Tony...and I'm a Mormon."

So what's up with all the Mormon ads?  Simply put...it's just another tool of Satan attempting to lead people away from the Truth of Jesus Christ.

But Dennis!...Mormons call themselves "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints".....so they are Christians just like you and me!

If that's what you believe, you better read up on Joseph Smith and the "revelation" that he claimed to have and ask yourself whether or not it lines up with the Gospels of Jesus Christ.

We believe all this push by the Mormons falls into the category of, "false Christs and false religions...attempting to lead the elect astray".

NEW YORK CITY — You see them everywhere in New York City these days: smiling, happy faces looking down from billboards, beaming from subway advertising placards, flashing by on top of hundreds of taxi cabs and illuminating Times Square on a huge video display.

Mormons. Everywhere.

The faces are part of the LDS Church's "I'm a Mormon" advertising campaign, which was tested in nine different U.S. cities during the summer of 2010 and launched two weeks ago in New York City. The campaign hopes to attract people to the church's mormon.org website, where visitors can, according to a church press release, "read the profiles of more than 30,000 Mormons, chat live with representatives who will answer questions about the faith and watch dozens of videos giving a glimpse into the lives of Latter-day Saints from all over the world."

And so far, it seems to be working.

"Since the launch of the New York campaign, we've noticed a significant increase in visitors to mormon.org," said Scott Trotter, spokesperson for LDS Church's Public Affairs Department. "Most of the recent traffic to the site is coming from mobile devices. This change suggests people 'on the go' are visiting the site after encountering the ads."

As a religion, branding a religion, I can't recall [another one] offhand," Fisk said. "It's quite a testimonial. [The campaign] shows how different people come from different backgrounds and are all joined by the same common belief.

"Here," she continued, "[Mormons] are really trying to drive home the point that they are Christians and are 'one of you.'"

See it here; http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700147893/LDS-advertising-campaign-elicits-significant-increase-in-website-visitors.html?pg=1

They want the world to believe they are Christians and "one of you"?.....EXACTLY!!!

Now I encourage you to be a Berean and read up on the Mormon faith and decide for yourselves if Mormons are following Jesus Christ....or if they have all been led astray by a charismatic man named Joseph Smith who ADDED a whole bunch of false things to the Gospel.

"You are either for me or against me."  "You are gathering or scattering".

So is Mormonism gathering true followers of Christ or scattering?

Flotilla Delays

The Flotilla II has been attempting to sail to Gaza...but they keep running into problems.  Of course we know the world would love to use this event to provoke Israel and to further isolate them from the international community, but for various reasons the Flotilla organizers simply can't get the ships to sail.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday expressed satisfaction with efforts to stop the Gaza-bound flotilla. "We are witnessing a positive development concerning the flotilla," he said.

"The governments of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey are working to curtail this thing. It's a result of extensive work by the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office.

"It's obvious to all that Gaza is ultimately open to all civilian goods and it is also obvious that the flotilla is a provocation which elements such as Hamas are exploiting," Barak said. He noted that malfunctions continue to delay the ships from departing.

It is yet unclear when and how the flotilla will set sail. One of the Free Gaza movement leaders Hawida Araf told Ynet that the groups are still trying to pressure Greece into reversing its decision to ban the ships' departure.

She said they have not ruled out departing without approval but admitted the current flotilla may have run its course. "Israel may stop the flotilla now but not for good. This is not just about the ships, but Israeli policy in general. 

"We are part of what goes on in Bilin, Jerusalem and the international movement against Israeli police. We will ultimately set sail and achieve our goals."

See it here;  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090378,00.html

Maybe they should try and organize a humanitarian flotilla for Darfur or the Congo?  How about the poor Syrians who are being butchered?  Or how about Ethiopia?  Why such huge concern for Gaza where the market places are full and the gate to Egypt has recently been opened?

Of course we know the reason....the world has a supernatural  hatred for Israel and Jews.  And doing anything to taunt them, criticize them or pressure them, is what the world wants to do.