Global Financial System is Coming

Here is what we do know;  the current financial system needs to get out of the way in order for the Global Financial System that the Bible speaks of in the Last Days, to make its entrance.

So we KNOW that the current system is going to fail....we just don't know WHEN.

However, there are increasing numbers of hints that the table has been set and the triggers have been loaded....

Central banks around the world are meddling with their currencies through massive easing, none more so than Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial.

“The Fed is supposed to be the steward of the dollar, which is still the world's reserve currency,” Journal editors write. “But since the crisis Mr. Bernanke has all but declared that the rest of the world can take care of itself.”

Central banks around the world have had to respond to the Fed’s easing program with easing of their own “to keep their currencies from rising too fast,” the editorial states. “Mr. Bernanke is the band leader in this round of monetary nationalism.”

As the size of government has grown, the importance of controlling the money supply has increased. “In the U.S. and U.K., a major side benefit for politicians of near-zero interest rates and bond purchases is that they help to finance huge government deficits at rock-bottom rates,” The Journal editors write.

“Fixed or more-stable exchange rates would impose a discipline on government spending that few politicians of any stripe really want.”

Meanwhile, editors of The New York Times argue against government manipulation of currencies in an editorial of their own.

“Such misguided thinking can lead only to chaos and retaliation,” The Times editorial reads. “If all countries were to competitively devalue their currencies, the result would be a downward spiral that would benefit no one, but could lead to high inflation.”

Here;  http://www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/Bernanke-central-banks-leadership-currencies/2013/02/15/id/490552?s=al&promo_code=1276F-1

Remember friends, "monetary easing" is just another way of saying "creating money out of thin air."  Common sense tells you that printing paper money can't create anything OF VALUE.  If it was that simple, every nation on earth would just print money and hand it out to all their citizens and make everybody wealthy!! 

Also remember what we have said numerous times over the past years....currency wars lead to trade wars and trade wars lead to shooting wars.

To many folks watching, it appears the currency wars have started.

Russian Meteor Was "Lord's Message"

Well...this is interesting....

YEKATERINBURG, February 15 (RIA Novosti) – A meteorite which injured hundreds of people in Russia's Chelyabinsk Region on Friday was "the Lord’s message to humanity," a senior local clergyman said.

“From the Scriptures, we know that the Lord often sends people signs and warnings via natural forces,” Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust Feofan said in a statement released on Friday.

"I think that not only for the Ural [regions] residents, but for the whole of humanity, the meteorite is a reminder that we live in fragile and unpredictable world,” the clergyman said.

He called on people to support each other and pray to God in thanks for saving the world from a devastating disaster.

Here;  http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130215/179493189.html

Good for him! 

Yes!  Thank you Jesus for sparing the world from destruction...and giving the LOST WORLD one more day and one more chance to REPENT and turn to You for salvation.

Of course, we DO KNOW that one day a fiery mountain is going to crash into the sea and cause all sorts of problems for unrepentant man during The Tribulation....but the rapture has to happen first!!

What an exciting time to be alive!  Praise God!

Meteor Slams Into Russian City, Hundreds Injured

The headline story this morning seemed like it could have been right out of the book of Revelation.

I was watching CBS Morning News and the reporter started the story saying something like, "The sky over this Russian city had something of biblical proportions happen this morning when something like burning rocks slammed into their city."

If you haven't seen the video, you really must watch it.  The whole sky lit up as a meteor the size of a bus broke through the atmosphere and rocked some sonic booms that blasted out windows, scared the heck out of thousands and then slammed into the city where it injured hundreds.

It looked like something from a Hollywood movie about Armageddon.

Almost 500 people have been injured after a huge meteorite flared spectacularly in the skies above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. It broke windows, damaged buildings and caused panic as mobile networks overloaded.

Videos from the scene at 9:23am local time showed objects plunging through the clear morning sky and erupting into enormous fireballs to the sound of multiple explosions. Long vapour trails were seen hundreds of miles away.

"I didn't understand what was going on," said Galina Zaglumyonova, who lives in Chelyabinsk, a city of over a million people to the south of the Ural mountains.

"There was a big explosion and then a series of little explosions … our first thought was that it was a plane crash," she said. The alarms of all the cars on the street went off after the loud bangs.

The Russian Academy of Sciences estimated that the meteorite weighed about 10 tons and entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph), shattering about 30-50km (18-32 miles) above ground.

Russian officials said that they had already found where the main chunk of the meteorite had fallen, on the outskirts the city.

At the last count, 474 people had been injured with over 20 hospitalised, according to Russia's emergency situations ministry. The figure rose throughout the morning and is expected to continue to rise. Many of those who suffered were hit by flying glass, but there were no reports of any deaths or life-threatening injuries.

Zaglumyonova told the Guardian that the windows of her balcony were shattered by the explosion, and the clay pots containing plants on her windowsill were broken.

Mobile networks were down for about two hours after the meteorite plunged to Earth as people attempted to call each other and find out what had happened, she added.

Here;  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/15/hundreds-injured-meteorite-russian-city-chelyabinsk

For those of us who read the Bible, this is simply one more dramatic event that reminds us to stay focused on the return of Christ.  It reminds us that one day, maybe soon, a loud trumpet is going to sound and a voice is going to call us into the clouds...and human history will NEVER be the same.  The old ways of things will vanish in an instant...and will NEVER return. 

But for the godless folks who have already hardened their hearts against the warnings of God, we are reminded of the words from Revelation 16:10, "Men gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done."

How many warnings could God send before people would finally open His Owner's Manual for Humans (aka The Bible) realize that ALL HAVE SINNED and that ALL NEED A SAVIOR and that GRACE IS FREE FOR THOSE WHO REPENT AND ACCEPT?

The sad answer is that MANY will never repent....no matter how many strange signs appear in the skies.

Even so, Come Lord Jesus!

"Severe Epidemic" of Sex Diseases Warns CDC

What do we know about sex outside of marriage?  Since it falls outside of God's perfect plan for us....it is sin.....since it is sin, there will be something disgusting as a consequence.

So what happens when an entire society ignores God's perfect plan?  Lots of disease, pain and misery....and LOTS of sexually transmitted diseases...that cost society $ billions....that we have to borrow from other godless countries....and won't be able to pay back.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control released data Wednesday revealing that 20 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are diagnosed each year nationwide, costing some $16 billion in taxpayer funds.

Half of the 20 million new infections affect people ages 15 to 24 - who only make up a quarter of the population, according to the statistics.

'STIs take a big health and economic toll on men and women in the United States, especially our youth,' CDC epidemiologist Catherine Lindsay told NBC News.
 
Much of the $16 billion in annual healthcare costs that go to STI's is spent on patients with HIV/AIDS, who require lifetime care.

Here;  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278457/CDC-warns-Valentines-Day-eve-severe-epidemic-sexually-transmitted-diseases-sweeping-nation.html

Meanwhile, Hollywood just keeps pumping out more movies and TV shows that glorify sex outside of marriage and send our kids the obvious message that if you aren't screwing by age 15....you have a big NERD problem...and you better go get laid...QUICK!

Satan sure loves perverting God's plans.

Happy Valentines Day!

Catholic Church is the Only "True" Church

Too bad all you Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists and Free Church people!  Only the Catholics are part of the "true" church....because all the rest of you refuse to accept the primacy of the pope!!

Now bow and worship the pope so YE CAN BE SAVED!

The Vatican issued a document Tuesday restating its belief that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ.

The 16-page document was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a doctrinal watchdog that Pope Benedict used to head.

Formulated as five questions and answers, the document is titled "Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church."

It says although Orthodox churches are true churches, they are defective because they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope.

The document adds that Protestant denominations — called Christian Communities born out of the Reformation — are not true churches, but ecclesial communities.

"These ecclesial communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood … cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called 'churches' in the proper sense," it said.

Here;  http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2007/07/10/vatican-church.html

So let's ponder this for a moment....if the Catholics have a billion+ followers, most of whom are clueless and have never read their Bibles....and the Muslims have a billion+ followers, most of whom have never read their Korans OR the Bible....and you mix them together in a NEW RELIGION called Chrislam.....then rapture the TRUE bride of Christ so that the Holy Spirit is withdrawn....the insert the Antichrist and give him supernatural powers given by Satan to gather in the Hindus and Buddhists who already have hundreds of gods.......you have an awesome recipe for the FINAL 7 YEARS before Jesus returns to sit on the throne!

What a day, glorious day, that will be.

Financial Conditions "Never Seen Before"

Yep!  Even though we have been focused on Iran, North Korea, gun laws and Super bowls here in America....the financial condition of many nations continues to deteriorate...and many really have no clue what might happen because they have NEVER seen conditions like this before.

Depending on your point of view, global central bank policies either are going to imperil financial markets or simply propel prices to a place beyond imagination.

The answer, though, could be both.

Investing professionals, even the best and brightest, can't seem to make up their minds whether the U.S. Federal Reserve and its global brethren are the salvation or the doom of capital markets.

They're just trying to survive under conditions they say they've never seen before.

The Fed alone has sent its balance sheet to the $3 trillion mark in freshly created money, while central bank easing has been aggressive as well in Europe, China, Japan, and elsewhere.

"All asset classes have an upward bias now — precious metals, stocks, bonds, real estate, art. That upward bias is robust and we have not experienced anything like it in our lifetimes," said David Kotok, chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors. "The limit to which those prices can rise is beyond our normal imagination. It's huge."

That, however, is not the talk of a raving bull trying to pump up the markets. It's merely the observation of an investing veteran who believes markets are being manipulated to historic levels, putting investors in a place where they can only ride the tide — at their own future peril.

Here;  http://www.cnbc.com/id/100450668

Never seen before?!  Hasn't been seen in their lifetimes?!  That sounds interesting!!

What we do know is that interest rates are the lowest they have EVER been in the history of interest rates.  How long can the Federal Reserve continue 'buying' Treasury Debt with Monopoly money??

The answer is;  As long as people BELIEVE the Monopoly money is REAL!

But Dennis, what happens when people find out that the Federal Reserve didn't really have the $3 trillion dollars with which to "buy" all those assets?

The answer is:  What happened to Bernie Maddoff when people found out that he didn't really "buy" all the assets that he had listed in the investor's mythical portfolios?

Yep!  People fled his portfolio in a hurry!  The first ones to smell the rat cashed in and got some money from the poor suckers who were still coming in with fresh cash to the scheme.  But the vast majority made a run on the Bernie Maddoff Bank and found out that there were not nearly enough assets to cover what they thought they had.

Think about it....if China, Japan, Russia, Wells Fargo, US Bank, Brazil and others who own about $5 trillion of funny money, backed ONLY by the FULL FAITH AND CONFIDENCE IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT...all decide to cash in at the same time....how would Uncle Sam cover all those demands?

Now here is the amazing thing....the USA is currently viewed as the LEAST WORST FINANCIAL HOUSE OF CARDS!  And if we are sitting on the edge of this precarious cliff...what can that possible mean for the GLOBAL FINANCIAL HOUSE OF CARDS if Europe, Japan, Venezuela, etc...also start to fold at the same time??

You can ALMOST smell a NEW WORLD ORDER and a NEW WORLD CURRENCY coming down the pike.

Jesus take the wheel....please.  Mankind is driving off a cliff.

"Alarming" Water Loss in Middle East

Jesus said there will be famine in the Last Days.  What can cause famine? 

One simple answer is;  No water!

No water means no food!

DOHA (Qatar): A NASA study found that an amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effects of a 2007 drought.

The study, to be published Friday in Water Resources Research, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, examined data over seven years from 2003 from a pair of gravity-measuring satellites. Researchers found freshwater reserves in parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran along the Tigris and Euphrates river basins had lost 117 million acre feet (144 cubic kilometers) of its total stored freshwater.

About 60 per cent of the loss resulted from pumping underground reservoirs for ground water and another fifth due to impacts of the drought including declining snow packs.

Read more: NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/nasa-alarming-water-loss-in-middle-east-1.217558#ixzz2Kjzrvg6w

Florida Judge Approves 3 Parents on Birth Certificate

Well, we knew it would just be a matter of time.  What happens when two lesbians want a baby and a gay man donates his sperm to the cause??  Yep!!  Three parents all get to be on the official birth certificate!!

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida judge has approved the adoption of a 22-month-old baby girl that will list three people as parents on her birth certificate -- a married lesbian couple and a gay man.

 

The decision ends a two-year paternity fight between the couple and a friend of the women who donated his sperm to father the child but later sought a larger role in the girl's life.

The ruling means the child's birth certificate will include a biological father and both women as parents in an unusual arrangement approved recently by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge.

"We're trying to do the right thing for Emma," Filippazzo said. "We want Emma to have it all, and we believe by doing it this way, including him in a birthday or Thanksgiving, it'll be a nice addition for her."

"We believe the best interest for Emma is for him to have a role in her life, but not as a parent," she said. "The role is this is mommy's good friend who helped your moms have you because they wanted you so badly."

Here;  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/florida-judge-approves-birth-certificate-listing-three-parents-233555185.html

Yes mam!  They just want baby Emma to "have it all"!

Right is wrong, wrong is right, up is down and down is up, wisdom has vanished!

"And so God made woman and made another woman for her to have sex with and love her.  But since they couldn't have kids by 'becoming one' God provided a helper for them, a gay man named Massimiliano, and he gave them his seed in a cup so that the women could plant the seed in whichever woman agreed to carry the baby."  Book of Man 1:4-5

Hat tip to Julie E.

Petrus Romanus

Petrus Romanus is Latin for "Peter the Roman".  According to the Prophecy of the Popes, Peter the Roman will be the last Pope...and will have a hand in leading folks to the one-world-religion that Antichrist will preside over.  Another way of saying this is that the next Pope WILL BE the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation.

Author, Thomas Horn, wrote a book that just came out in April 2012 that is written about this final Pope.  The title of the book Petrus Romanus.  I'm guessing that Thomas Horn is going to be busy on the Christian-Prophecy stations and sites right about now as the Pope resigned yesterday, and it was the first time in 600 years and sets up the possibility of Petrus Romanus taking the stage.

Publication Date: April 15, 2012

For more than 800 years scholars have pointed to the dark augury having to do with “the last Pope.” The prophecy, taken from St. Malachy’s “Prophecy of the Popes,” is among a list of verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, “Peter the Roman,” whose reign would end in the destruction of Rome.

First published in 1595, the prophecies were attributed to St. Malachy by a Benedictine historian named Arnold de Wyon, who recorded them in his book, Lignum Vitæ. Tradition holds that Malachy had been called to Rome by Pope Innocent II, and while there, he experienced the vision of the future popes, including the last one, which he wrote down in a series of cryptic phrases.

According to the prophecy, the next pope (following Benedict XVI) is to be the final pontiff, Petrus Romanus or Peter the Roman. The idea by some Catholics that the next pope on St. Malachy’s list heralds the beginning of “great apostasy” followed by “great tribulation” sets the stage for the imminent unfolding of apocalyptic events, something many non-Catholics would agree with.

This would give rise to a false prophet, who according to the book of Revelation leads the world’s religious communities into embracing a political leader known as Antichrist. In recent history, several Catholic priests–some deceased now–have been surprisingly outspoken on what they have seen as this inevitable danger rising from within the ranks of Catholicism as a result of secret satanic “Illuminati-Masonic” influences. These priests claim secret knowledge of an multinational power elite and occult hierarchy operating behind supernatural and global political machinations. Among this secret society are sinister false Catholic infiltrators who understand that, as the Roman Catholic Church represents one-sixth of the world’s population and over half of all Christians, it is indispensable for controlling future global elements in matters of church and state and the fulfillment of a diabolical plan they call “Alta Vendita,” which is set to assume control of the papacy and to help the False Prophet deceive the world’s faithful (including Catholics) into worshiping Antichrist.

As stated by Dr. Michael Lake on the front cover, Catholic and evangelical scholars have dreaded this moment for centuries. Unfortunately, as readers will learn, time for avoiding Peter the Roman just ran out.

See here;  http://wheresgodinallofthis.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/0583sva-petrus-romanus-the-last-pope-2/

Remember friends, we need to constantly discern what is FROM GOD vs. what SATAN HAS PLANNED.  God is constantly revealing the ENEMY'S plan to the Children of the Light.  And of course we are NOT SAYING that Peter the Roman IS GOING TO BE THE LAST POPE...No....we are saying that all of this talk surrounding Popes, lightning strikes, 900 yr old Malachy prophesies, Illuminati, and once in 600 yr occurrences...all MAY BE POINTING to something that God WANTS US TO SEE.

"But you, brothers, are NOT in the darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.  You are all son of the light and sons of the day.  We do not belong to the night or to the darkness."  1 Thess. 5:5

Yep!  Sounds like Paul heard it from Jesus directly that we will have a light to shine on the dark plans of Satan IF Christ is abiding in us....and just maybe He wants us to see the darkness in the Catholic Church so that we know the nearness of "this day."

Amen!  Even so, Come Lord Jesus!

Coincidence or "Godincidence"?

Last night we were at Small Group Bible study and the conversation turned to Satan's plans to attack followers of Christ.  We even quoted the verse about Satan being a hungry lion prowling about looking for whom he may devour.  We also talked openly about Satanic attacks and how Satan comes after those whom he sees in the front lines of the battle and how so many folks who call themselves Christians will NEVER be in the battle because they don't believe there is one.

This morning I recieved this daily devotional, via email, from Pastor Greg Laurie.  Could that all be a coincidence.....or is it just one more "Godincidence" coming from the Holy Spirit who works together through ALL THINGS for those who love Him?

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The Reality of Godly Living

	Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

—1 Peter 5:8

The Christian life is the greatest life there is. God takes a life that was empty and aimless and headed to a certain judgment, and He turns it around and transforms it. He removes all of our sin. That is more than enough right there, but then He puts the righteousness of Jesus Christ into our spiritual bank account. That is called justification. He removes the guilt that haunted us, fills the emptiness inside of us, and literally takes residence in our hearts. This all comes as a result of the gospel, believed and followed. That is the good news.

The bad news is there are some new problems that come along with all of that. You get rid of an old set of problems and inherit new ones. As the great Bible commentator Ray Stedman said, "A Christian is one who is completely fearless, continually cheerful, and constantly in trouble."

Once you become a Christian, you have a very aggressive adversary that has set his crosshairs on you. That adversary is the devil, Satan, and he wants to undermine you. He wants to bring you down. The Bible warns that "all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution" (2 Timothy 3:12). That word "persecuted" means to be hunted, to be harassed.

So we need to be aware of that and not be surprised when we discover that the Christian life is not a playground; it is a battleground. I think a lot of people believe in a watered-down gospel, and thus they have a watered-down faith that, in reality, isn't faith at all. They have heard so many sermonettes, they have turned into Christianettes.

If you live a godly life, the reality is that persecution will follow.

Lightning Strikes Vatican

The CBS Morning News must have felt it was newsworthy enough to  show photos and talk about it during a segment....the Vatican was struck by a lightning bolt within hours of the Pope resigning.

Charlie Rose even asked an Archbishop if he thought that was some type of "sign".  And the Archbishop, instead of just smiling, went on to say that he DID think it was a sign from God that the Catholic church was supposed to go on with the choosing of the next Pope.

Of course what makes it all rather eerie is the Prophecy of the Popes that we blogged about yesterday.

Maybe it is a sign?...a sign that the next Pope will be the False Prophet spoken of in Revelation?

A sign from above? Lightning strikes Vatican hours after Pope's shock resignation

The lightning touched the roof of St. Peter's Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic churches, hours after Benedict XVI's shock announcement

See photos here;  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/lightning-strikes-vatican-day-pope-1704295

I'm sure it was all just another coincidence.  God would never use signs from nature to give us any warnings.  This is the 21st Century!  We KNOW that all these things have scientific reasons behind them and that the archaic belief that earthquakes, famines, floods and storms were sent by God as signs, have no basis in reality. (extreme sarcasm alert)

Iran Won't Talk til U.S. Stops Pressure

Iran says they want The West to quit applying economic pressure on them because of their nuclear program.  They say they will talk about their nuclear program when U.S. stops pressure.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that he is ready to have talks with United States if the West stops pressuring his country, the latest in a series of hints from leaders in both Washington and Tehran about the prospect of direct bilateral negotiations over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program.

 

However, Washington is highly unlikely to relax sanctions on Iran — and Tehran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on key state decisions, says that his country won't negotiate under threat. This makes it hard to envision how talks could take place.

Ahmadinejad is in his final months of his term of office and his followers are weakened by a feud with the Islamic Republic's clerical establishment. His latest statement, which implies that he is an equal player with Khamenei in foreign policy matters, may simply be an attempt to appear as though he is still politically relevant.

"You pull away the gun from the face of the Iranian nation, and I myself will enter the talks with you," Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the 1979 revolution that toppled a Western-backed monarch and ushered in the Islamic Republic.

He said the West had recently taken a "better" tone toward Iran — a nod to statements made by Vice President Joe Biden last week, in which he said the United States was prepared talk directly to Iran. But the Iranian president said this was not enough.

The West claims Iran's nuclear activities are aimed at developing weapons. Iran denies it seeks atomic arms, saying its nuclear fuel is only for energy-producing reactors and medical applications, and insists that its operations will continue.

"The Iranian nation will not give up one iota of its rights," Ahmadinejad said. "Your efforts had aimed at preventing us from become nuclear, but we did."

However Ahmadinejad admitted that sanctions have taken a bite. "Today, because of dishonorable pressure by enemies, people are under pressure. The government is concerned about the uneasy situation of a big portion of the country."

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/ahmadinejad-ill-talk-us-pressure-stops-092548564.html

Wow...the government is concerned about the UNEASY SITUATION in Iran?  That is quite a statement coming from Ahmadinejad.

It certainly makes you wonder if the whole Islamic world is going to go into a period of unrest?

Remember, unrest can breed overthrow...and overthrow can lead to anarchy and lawlessness...and lawlessness can lead to PEOPLE CALLING OUT FOR SOMEONE TO SAVE THEM AND RESTORE ORDER.

It certainly seems like a FOUR LANE HIGHWAY is being paved for the coming Antichrist to drive down on his road to becoming a world leader.

Pope Resigns! False Prophet Next in Line?

The breathless news we awoke to today is that the Pope resigned.  Reportedly, this is the first time in over 600 years that this has happened.

Upon hearing the news, the first thing my mind turned to is the Papal Prophecy given by St Malachy.  Supposedly he had a vision and was given all the names of the Popes for the next hundreds of years and the vision concluded with the final Pope who will be called Peter the Roman...and Peter the Roman is supposedly the FALSE PROPHET who rules with the Antichrist.

Remember, the book of Daniel hints strongly that the Antichrist will come out of the revived Roman empire.  Furthermore, MANY prophecy watchers believe that is exactly what will happen...so Rome has always been high on the radar. 

Of course this also is the explanation for the FEET OF IRON AND CLAY that Jesus Christ will smash when he returns...as given to us by the vision of Daniel and the giant statue made of gold, silver, bronze, iron legs and feet of iron and clay.

Since my brain went exactly to that thought upon hearing the news, I figured that Rapture Ready may be thinking the same thing...and sure enough, they quickly put it at the top of the list in their NEARING MIDNIGHT segment which is put our every Monday morning.

Flash: Pope Benetict XVI to Resign

Word broke at about 7 a.m. est that Pope Benetict XVI has announced he will resign as pope of the Roman Catholic Church, effective February 28, 2013.

Reportedly, he is the first in 600 years to step down.

He gave as his reason that he is no longer up for the job, physically. This stunning development sets into motion a flurry of suppositions and questions, of course, regarding just who will be the next pope.

Tom Horn’s and Chris Putnam’s book, Petrus Romanus, was the subject of a recent book review on Rapture Ready. It’s theme is the prophecy by the Catholic Church’es St. Malachy, who predicted a string of popes that will conclude with the final pope –Peter the Roman.

The popes have, it has been determined, followed Malachey’s succession line to the letter, with the next to final pope being, it is said, of the order of the olive –which Pope Benedict chose to claim upon ascending to the papacy.

We have received many copies of today’s announcement from the Vatican. Great interest pervades the community of prophecy students, especially of the Pre-Trib view, in the matter of the line of succession of popes.

If this pope adopts the name of Petrus Romanus, or something similar to do with the name of the apostle Peter, we might be looking into a most profound development in prophetic progression. If he chooses some other name that is diametrically different, the line of Malachy’s prophecy regarding Roman Catholic popes will have been broken.

We watch, with you –and with great interest.

--Terry

 

This is all incredibly exciting because 2 Thessalonians clearly says that the Antichrist WON'T BE REVEALED until AFTER THE RAPTURE!

 

While we have NO IDEA THE DAY OR THE HOUR of our Lord's return...Jesus himself said that when you see ALL THESE THINGS begin to happen, then lift up your heads, start looking into the sky and be ready for the trumpet to sound calling us all into the clouds to meet Christ.

 

If today were the day....are you excited to meet Jesus?  Are you READY to meet Jesus?

 

If we can't answer 'Yes!" to either of those questions, maybe today is the day when you ask yourself why you aren't excited and ready to meet YOUR King. 

Today is the day of salavation for any who have not accepted Christ!