Divorce Parties!

It appears that Sin City is hosting a new kind of party!

LAS VEGAS -- Joe Siquig didn't have a bachelor party before getting married four years ago.
So four years later, he finally threw the epic party he didn't get to have. But this time, it was for his divorce.

 
He hired Vegas party planner Sam Zand, CEO of Vegas Atmosphere, to reserve the best cabana at the Venetian's TAO Beach, which has played host to the likes of Jay-Z and Heidi Klum.


On a warm Saturday afternoon in October, 31-year-old Siquig and a group of male friends are dancing with bikini-clad women in their private cabana, which hovers over the pool like a stage. Pop songs blare over speakers. Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines throws everyone into a frenzy. Some of the ladies climb on the sofas and tables.

Now, Vegas has become a popular destination for a new type of party celebrating a different milestone: a divorce. Party planners are increasingly adding divorce parties to their repertoires because of the increased demand from men and women alike. If a bachelor party is the last chance to be naughty for a while, then the divorce party is the first chance to be naughty again.

"It's about creating a new chapter in your life," says Glynda Rhodes, who started her Vegas-based business, The Divorce Party Planner, after going through her own divorce. "There are so many days you want to stay home and be dark. Now it's about: What do you want to do with your life?"

There were 2.1 million marriages in 2011, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's 6.8 marriages per 1,000 people. There were almost half as many divorces: 3.6 per 1,000 people.
 

"Divorce parties are gaining in popularity because, unfortunately, there are a lot more divorces these days," says Warren Berkowitz, product development manager for the New York-based Forum Novelties, which has seen an increase in demand for divorce-related party favors.

Here;  http://www.usatoday.com/experience/las-vegas/best-of-vegas/las-vegas-divorce-parties/3999897/
 

Rare Storm Leaves Jerusalem Snowed In

Just more evidence of global warming...oops, I meant to say climate change.

Jerusalem on Friday night was in the midst of a storm feared to be “three times worse” than the snows that had hit Thursday and earlier Friday, and much of the rest of the country was grappling with stormy conditions expected to last into Saturday.  

In what was described by Channel 2 as the “worst storm in decades,” much of northern Israel was also hit by snow and heavy storms, as were large parts of the West Bank. Israel and the Palestinian Authority were working together to grapple with power outages and other aspects of the storm’s impact.

Haifa was hit with its first snowfall in 22 years, according to officials, and Tel Aviv was battered by heavy rain and hail.

The electric company said it was manning a situation room to receive reports of outages and calling in emergency workers to help restore power to those affected in certain parts of Jerusalem, Mevasseret Zion, Har Adar, Abu Gosh and Tzur Hadassah where many power lines were hit by trees and branches.

 

It remains unclear whether the company will be able to resolve the mass outages as weather conditions worsen, with some reports indicating it may take up to two days for full power to be restored.

 

Workers were facing difficulties reaching certain areas due to fallen trees and power lines.

 

“We did not anticipate the storm to be on this scale,” Oren Helman from the electric company told Channel 2 news.

Earlier Friday, Ben Gurion Airport closed briefly as the unprecedented winter storm — bringing the heaviest December snows on record to Jerusalem — continued to batter the country for a third day.

Here  http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-braces-for-storm-three-times-worse-than-what-has-been-seen-so-far/

Makes me wonder if this "unprecedented" storm has anything to do with the fact that John Kerry is in Jerusalem...most likely sticking his finger in God's eye?

The weather even featured in talks between visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he was briefed on the emergency measures.

Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, said the snow made him feel "at home."

"I have heard of making guests welcome and feeling at home. This is about as far as I've ever seen anything go ... giving me a New England snowstorm," Kerry said as he viewed a snow-covered Old City of Jerusalem with Netanyahu.

Here;  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=250744485

Just another day of crazy, unheard of, record breaking, coldest, hottest, strongest, largest, most powerful, unprecedented weather EVER seen by man.

Hmmm....makes one wonder what BIG THING could be on the horizon....

Luke 21:28

When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

More Facts on the "Religion of Peace"

It turns out that atheists might be suffering discrimination and death in many countries.  Now here is a BIG SURPRISE...all 13 of the countries that kill atheists are...wait for it....MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

(Reuters) - In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday.

And beyond the Islamic nations, even some of the West's apparently most democratic governments at best discriminate against citizens who have no belief in a god and at worst can jail them for offences dubbed blasphemy, it said.

"This report shows that the overwhelming majority of countries fail to respect the rights of atheists and freethinkers although they have signed U.N agreements to treat all citizens equally," said IHEU President Sonja Eggerickx.

The study covered all 192 member states in the world body and involved lawyers and human rights experts looking at statute books, court records and media accounts to establish the global situation.
A first survey of 60 countries last year showed just seven where death, often by public beheading, is the punishment for either blasphemy or apostasy - renouncing belief or switching to another religion which is also protected under U.N. accords.

But this year's more comprehensive study showed six more, bringing the full list to Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

In others, like India in a recent case involving a leading critic of religion, humanists say police are often reluctant or unwilling to investigate murders of atheists carried out by religious fundamentalists.

Across the world, the report said, "there are laws that deny atheists' right to exist, revoke their citizenship, restrict their right to marry, obstruct their access to public education, prevent them working for the state...."

Here;  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/10/us-religion-atheists-idUSBRE9B900G20131210

Sad.

Hey Reuters News Service...would you EVER dare to do a report on how many nations persecute, imprison, torture and murder Christians?

I wonder when the liberal media will wake up and say, "Hey...is it possible that Islam is a blight on humanity?  It seems that everywhere it goes it breeds poverty, ignorance, lack of innovation and violence."

Don't hold your breath....

Most Volcanic Eruptions EVER!

Did you know that one major volcanic eruption can put the whole planet into a super cold spell?  Yep!  It's true!  When all that dust, dirt and ash gets blown into the atmosphere it can do strange things in stopping the suns rays...which can lead to crops not growing all summer long.  It's happened before and it will happen again.

And yes, if crops don't grow the famine is the end result.

Have you noticed that this December is unusually cold so far?  Could the fact that we have had a record number of volcanoes erupt in 2013 be responsible?  Certainly an unusually calm solar cycle is playing a significant role in producing all of this cold weather, but as you will see below the truth is that throughout human history volcanic eruptions have produced some of the coldest winters ever recorded.  In fact, there have been some major eruptions that have actually substantially reduced global temperatures for two to three years.  So should we be alarmed that the number of volcano eruptions this year was the highest ever recorded?  Could it be possible that we are heading for a period of global cooling as a result?  And if the planet does cool significantly, could that lead to widespread crop failures and mass famine?  Don’t think that it can’t happen.  In fact, it has happened before and it is only a matter of time until it happens again.

I knew that we were seeing an unusual amount of volcanic activity around the planet so far this year.  In fact, I wrote about it in my recent article entitled “Why Have 10 Major Volcanoes Along The Ring Of Fire Suddenly Roared To Life?“  But I had no idea that we were on the verge of a new yearly record.  So I was shocked when I visited the Extinction Protocol today and discovered that we have witnessed a record number of volcano eruptions in 2013…

This year will go down on record, as seeing the most volcanic eruptions recorded in modern history. The previous number was set in 2010, at 82 volcanic eruptions for the year. The number of volcanoes erupting across the planet has been steadily rising from a meager number of just 55 recorded in 1990. While most scientists may readily dismiss any significance to the latest figures and may be quick to say the planet is just experiencing normal geological activity, it does raise other concerns about just what may be transpiring within the interior of our planet. The average number of volcanic eruptions per year should be about 50 to 60; as of December 5, 2013, we already at 83. Volcanic eruptions are one way the planet dissipates a dangerous build-up of heat, magma, and pressurized gases. The planet’s outer core is thought to flirt with critical temperatures in the range of around 4400 °C (8000 °F). Any rise or major fluctuation in interior gradient could have profound and disruptive effects on processes whose very properties are government by convective heat emanating from the planet’s outer core: magnetic field propagation, tectonic plate movements, sea-floor spreading mechanics, and mantle plume activity. Mantle plumes or hotspots are thought to be the central mechanism which fuels the vast underground chambers of many of the world’s supervolcanoes.

The effects of volcanic eruptions on recent winters are modest in scale, but historically have been significant.

Most recently, the 1991 explosion of Mount Pinatubo, a stratovolcano in the Philippines, cooled global temperatures for about 2–3 years.

In 1883, the explosion of Krakatoa (Krakatau) created volcanic winter-like conditions. The four years following the explosion were unusually cold, and the winter of 1887-1888 included powerful blizzards.  Record snowfalls were recorded worldwide.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Indonesia, occasioned mid-summer frosts in New York State and June snowfalls in New England and Newfoundland and Labrador in what came to be known as the “Year Without a Summer” of 1816.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island’s livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population. Northern hemisphere temperatures dropped by about 1 °C in the year following the Laki eruption.

In 1600, the Huaynaputina in Peru erupted. Tree ring studies show that 1601 was cold. Russia had its worst famine in 1601-1603. From 1600 to 1602, Switzerland, Latvia and Estonia had exceptionally cold winters. The wine harvest was late in 1601 in France, and in Peru and Germany, wine production collapsed. Peach trees bloomed late in China, and Lake Suwa in Japan froze early.

Here;  http://thetruthwins.com/archives/record-number-of-volcano-eruptions-in-2013-is-catastrophic-global-cooling-dead-ahead

Yes...I HAVE noticed that December has started out particularly cold....

Most certainly we need to get Al Gore on this!  I hope we realizes that we could be on the cusp of falling into another major ice age!  I, for one, don't want a mile thick glacier to form again over Buffalo, MN!

We need to stop the solar storms, stop the earthquakes, stop the volcanoes and stop the perma frost from melting!

Did you know that if the Yellowstone super volcano were to erupt that America would be wiped out?  Did you know that the lava dome at Yellowstone is rising...and that thousands of little earthquakes have been buffeting the entire area over the past few years...maybe this is a harbinger that it is getting ready to blow?

Of course God continues to sit on His throne and laugh at the folly of men.  We like to believe that we control our destinies...but in reality have control of virtually nothing.

Pope Named "Person Of The Year"

The Pope sure seems to be making the news as of late.  Remember when the old pope quit and they thought it would takes weeks or months to vote a new one into power?  What a surprise that it only took a few votes.  Some info (take it or leave it) coming from within the Papal vote said that the Cardinals gathered at the Vatican actually heard an audible voice telling them to elect Pope Francis...and that's why he was voted in so quickly.  Was that really the Holy Spirit talking?...or may it have been another spirit talking?

Well, anyway, the Pope is now Time Magazine's PERSON OF THE YEAR!

One lady I heard interviewed said, "I really like what the Pope is saying!  He's saying much better things than all the other Popes were!"

Really??  Is he tickling your ears more?  Do you like what he is saying about "not judging gays, perverts and adulterers"?  Do you like what he is saying about Islam being a great religion?  Do you like his universalist chatter that seems to be heading towards uniting all the "great religions" of the world?

Would that be a "good" thing according to the Bible and the words of Christ?

Pope Francis has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2013 beating out N.S.A. leaker Edward Snowden, who was named runner-up for the annual honor.

The final five contenders also included singer Syria's President Bashar Assad, Edith Windsor, the late lesbian activist whose case against the IRS paved the way for same-sex marriages in the United States, and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

The first Latin American pope in history was elected to lead the Catholic Church following the resignation of Benedict XVI on March 13th. Since then Pope Francis has captured the hearts and minds of the millions with his lack of pretension and outspoken populism which has given him the nickname "The People's Pope."

"Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly – young and old, faithful and cynical – as has Pope Francis," wrote Time's managing editor, Nancy Gibbs. "In his nine months in office, he has placed himself at the very center of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power."

The 76-year-old Argentinean assumed the office during a bleak time for the Catholic church – ensnared in scandal, corruption and a loss of followers to evangelical Protestant orders. Time notes the Pope's compassion, humility, and focus on the poor has "changed the music" of the Catholic church and in the process has become "something of a rock star."

A spokesman for the Vatican, Jesuit father Federico Lombardi, issued a statement in response to the honor stating that the pope is "not someone who seeks fame and success, because he has put his life at the service of announcing the Gospel of the love of God for mankind. It is pleasing to the Pope that this service should appeal and give hope to women and men. And if this choice of ‘Person of the Year’ should mean that many people have understood this message – at least implicitly – the Pope is really happy about this."

Here;  http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2013/12/11/pope-francis-named-time-magazine-person-year-for-2013/

Yes!  God loves every human being!!  So much so that he sent His Son, Jesus, to die a horrendous death so that ALL WHO REPENT and BELIEVE IN HIM will not have to suffer the fate of fallen mankind...which is eternity in HELL!

So what's wrong with the social gospel that the Pope seem to be heading towards and that so many people love to hear about?  IT HAS NO POWER TO SAVE FROM HELL!!

Doing good things and loving your neighbor DOES NOT relinquish you from your sins...and it DOES NOT excuse you from deserving a Christ less eternity in hell.  We are all GUILTY!

Men desperately WANT to hear that God loves them JUST THE WAY THEY ARE!!  Are you screwing your secretary behind your wife's back...no worries...God loves you!!  Are you satisfying your perverted lusts by sleeping with multiple men at gay orgies...no worries...God loves you just the way you are!!  Are you a selfish, greedy businessman who steals wealth from innocent people as your way of "doing business'?....don't fret...God loves you no matter what you do!!

NO!!  Telling people this lie is preaching ANOTHER GOSPEL which Paul warned us would increase in the Last Days!

The ONE, TRUE GOSPEL is that Jesus paid our price for sins, once and for all, on the cross.  And all who look upon Him, repent of their sins, and confess with their tongue and believe it in their hearts that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh...WILL BE SAVED!

It matters not how much time you give at the food shelf, how much money you give to the Humane Society, how many conversations you have with elderly shut ins, or any other good works that you have done.  In the end, without faith in Christ...all those works are simply menstrual rags.

And that, my friends, is the big problem with the social gospel.  It's a bunch of feel-good people doing feel-good things that have NO POWER to save them from the current wide path they are on that leads straight to hell.

It's hard not to look at this Pope and wonder if he may be the FALSE PROPHET that will be coming in the Last Days. 

Now the 12th Imam Can Come

I believe most of you are familiar, by now, with the Shiite belief that the 12th Imam is soon coming.  Is there anything wrong with this belief?  No...I guess if you want to believe that we all become kittens living in blankets when we die...that's up to you...just so you don't plan on killing anyone who doesn't share you belief.

However, we MIGHT want to understand what certain Muslims believe because some may be willing to do things to MAKE THOSE EVENTS happen.

For instance, what if some millions and millions of Muslims believe that violence, mayhem, collapse and destruction on earth MUST happen IN ORDER for their promised savior, the 12th Imam, to return?  What if you found out that they may be more than happy to nuke numerous countries knowing that they will be destroyed in the end...because they believe this type of chaos MUST be present on earth for the 12th Imam to come?

Now what if you found out that many of the leaders of Iran and the leaders of Hezbollah and some other Shiite terrorist organizations, were working to make the world collapse?

Among the many who decried the Obama Administration’s catastrophic capitulation to the nuclear ambitions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, none spelled out its potential consequences as trenchantly as Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett: “We awoke this morning to a new reality,” he said Sunday. “A reality in which a bad deal was signed with Iran. A very bad deal. If a nuclear suitcase blows up five years from now in New York or Madrid, it will be because of the deal that was signed this morning.”

If that happens, it will also be because of the Shi’ite belief in the return of the Twelfth Imam. According to Islamic tradition, the dispute between the majority Sunnis and the Shiat Ali (Party of Ali) began upon the death of Muhammad in 632. The Sunnis contended that the prophet of Islam had made no provision for a successor as political, military, and spiritual leader of the Muslim community, and that therefore the Muslims should choose the best man among them as their leader. The nascent Party of Ali, on the contrary, claimed that Muhammad had designated his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor, and that the successor of Muhammad had to be a member of the prophet’s household.

“Hearts,” warned Mohammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, in his last message, “will become inaccessible to compassion. The earth will be filled with tyranny and violence.” He was speaking of the time of his reappearance, explaining that he would only come back to the world when the evil that Muslims were suffering was at its absolute apex. In this he echoed a Shi’ite tradition of the words of the prophet of Islam himself, Muhammad, who prophesied that the Twelfth Imam would be “the Resurrector” and explained: “He will fill the world with peace and justice as today it is filled with violence and tyranny.”

That violence and tyranny is not incidental to the theology of the Twelfth Imam, which has revenge as its core and essence. The Shi’ites began to teach that the Twelfth Imam would return at a time when the Muslims were oppressed as never before, and suffering worse than ever. The Imam, in the company of Jesus (re-imagined, as in Sunni Islam, as a Muslim prophet), would finally end the horrific persecution of the true believers, taking up arms against their enemies and conquering and Islamizing the world.

This eschatological revenge fantasy would be of no concern to anyone but pious Shi’ites and religious anthropologists were it not for the element of Shi’ite tradition that requires that the earth be “filled with tyranny and violence” before the Twelfth Imam can return.

There is no requirement that non-Muslims must be responsible for that violence; Shi’ites filled with religious fervor, like the Ayatollah Khamenei and the mullahs behind him, could hasten the Twelfth Imam’s return and the consummation of all things by, say, launching a nuclear strike against Tel Aviv or some other Infidel outpost, knowing that by doing so they would almost certainly be provoking a retaliatory strike that would subject the Muslims in Iran to more defeat and repression than even the Shi’ites had previously suffered. That would be enough to bring the Twelfth Imam out of the well where he is said to be hiding.

But that is a matter of religious hope and speculation; the devastation that would supposedly lead to his reappearance, however, would be all too real. The two powers that the Iranian mullahs have long designated as the “Great Satan” and the “Little Satan” – America and Israel – would be the only targets of an Iranian attempt to hasten the Twelfth Imam’s coming.

A nuclear strike from Tehran into Israel could kill, estimates say, upwards of twenty million people, completely destroying the Jewish State.

Barack Obama, by acceding to the Iranians’ nuclear ambitions, has given a tremendous impetus to these revenge fantasies, probably not realizing or caring that Iran’s mullahs take the prophesies of the Twelfth Imam very seriously indeed – seriously enough for them to bet the entire world upon them. Obama has just made the odds appear to them to be considerably more favorable than they were just a week ago.

Here;  http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/now-the-twelfth-imam-can-come/

Our battle is NOT against flesh and blood...but against Satan and his evil forces who are here to seek and destroy.  Islam is NOT from God...so it HAS to be a tool from Satan.

Jesus said it clearly....you are either FOR HIM or AGAINST HIM.... so clearly these forces within Islam are against Him.

Keep praying for all of these lost souls.

Life's Short...Get a Divorce!

Now here is an article, and a billboard, that really sticks a finger in the eye of God.

(CNN) -- A recent article in The New York Times noted that the nation's divorce rate -- which plateaued for years at around 50% -- has significantly dropped -- to just above 40%. As almost an aside, the writer mentioned that only one group, the 50-plusers, have seen their rate of divorce surge 50% in the past 20 years.

They cut a swath through history partly because of their bulk -- 26% of the U.S. population -- and partly because of their critical approach to the status quo. As young adults, large numbers of them were part of the civil rights, anti-war, gay rights and women's movements. Books and magazine articles in their time attacked (and counterattacked) traditional gender roles -- and the institution of marriage and its traditions.

 

Boomer women experienced more recreational sex and more sex partners than women in previous generations. New job opportunities and careers helped create the changes in household formation (such as who was or wasn't home during the day, who did less or more housework, and who wanted more or less sex) that disrupted traditional marriage.

 

As a result, the boomers experienced decades of relationship innovation, creating cultural confusion about whether marriage was necessary, and what made an excellent -- or even adequate -- marriage.

 

As boomer men and women wavered between choosing self-fulfillment over older traditions of duty, loyalty and lifetime marriage at any cost, the institution of marriage became, over time, more of a voluntary association than a predictably permanent one. Sociologist and demographer Andrew Cherlin has written that between the 1960s and '70s the divorce rate skyrocketed, correlating exactly with the first divorces at the leading edge of the boomer generation. And while the rate leveled out in the 1980s, a large number of people had already defected toward new opportunities for emotional and sexual self-fulfillment.

 

At age 55 or 65, they look at spending 20 or 30 more years with the same person -- and unlike their parents, whose sense of duty was stronger and opportunities to repair weaker, they are ready to walk if things aren't up to their hopes, dreams or delusions about marriage.

 

Here;  http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/09/opinion/schwartz-baby-boomer-divorce/

 

Yes!!  What a beautiful legacy to leave for your kids and grand kids!!  If your marriage isn't up to your "hope and dreams"...then just walk away!!  There is better sex and more happiness for YOURSELF someplace else!!  The grass IS greener with somebody else...and once it's not, why not walk away from them too!!

 

God must be so proud....

 

Again I ask the question...when is God going to say "ENOUGH!"?

Do Christians and Muslims Serve the Same God?

Anyone who has been reading my blog for any length of time knows that the Muslim god called Allah, IS NOT the same God of the Bible. 

Of course much of the liberal world and liberal "Christians" have a big desire to insist that they DO worship the same god...because they desperately want to pull together ALL RELIGIONS of the world by insisting there are many paths to heaven...and it matters not WHO you worship because "as long as you are spiritual"...it all works out in the end!!

Clearly, this is a lie from the pit of hell and directly contradicts what our Master clearly said, "..no man comes to the Father but through me."

Does God care what we call Him? Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? These are questions many Christians are asking these days, and for good reason.

For some time now, feminist theologians and a host of others have suggested that Christians should adopt new names for God. One denomination went so far as to affirm names like “Giver, Gift and Giving” in place of “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” to be used in worship. Feminist theologians have demanded that masculine pronouns and names for God be replaced with female or gender-neutral terms. But to change the name of God is to redefine the God we reference. Changing the name of God is no small matter.

Christians must keep this central principle from the Bible constantly in mind as we consider some of the most urgent questions we face in the world today. We must certainly have this principle in mind when we think about Islam.

Several years ago, a bishop in the Netherlands attracted controversy when he argued that Christians should call God “Allah” in order to lower theological tensions. He also argued that calling God “Allah” would be commonplace in Christian churches within a century and that this would lead to a synthesis of Islam and Christianity.

More recently, an Islamic court in Malaysia ruled that only Muslims can use the name “Allah” in print publications. “The usage of the word will cause confusion in the community,” the chief judge ruled. Oddly enough, Christians may well agree with this Islamic judge. To call God “Allah” is to invite confusion.

Muslims do not speak of God as their heavenly Father. In the Islamic faith, Allah is not only a different name for god; the deity it designates is far more impersonal than the God of the Bible. Father—the very name that Jesus gave us as the designated name for use in prayer—is a name that simply does not fit Allah as depicted in the Quran.

Furthermore, Muslims claim that Allah has no son. This represents a head-on collision between the God of the Bible and Allah. For as the Bible makes clear, the one and only true God is most perfectly revealed as the Father of the Son, Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of John, Jesus repeatedly teaches that no one has truly known the Father, except by the Son. In one of the most clarifying verses in the New Testament, Jesus declared Himself to be “the way, and the truth, and the life,” adding, “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

Because Muslims deny that God has a son, they explicitly reject any Trinitarian language. From the very starting point, Islam denies what Christianity takes as its central truth claim: the fact that Jesus Christ is the only begotten of the Father. If Allah has no son, then Allah is not the God who reveals Himself through the Son. How then can calling God “Allah” not lead to anything but confusion—and worse?

Islam teaches that the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemous. But the Christian faith is essentially and irreducibly Trinitarian. The Bible reveals that the Father is God, that the Son is God, and that the Holy Spirit is God. Jesus is not merely a prophet, as acknowledged by Muslims; He is God in human flesh. This is precisely what Islam rejects.

Here;  http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/42005-do-christians-and-muslims-serve-the-same-god

So stand firm, friends! When someone ignorantly declares that Muslims worship the same god as "everyone else" tell them VERY LOVINGLY that of course that is not possible.  When they demand why you believe this,  just tell them because the God of the Bible is ALSO JESUS CHRIST and the Holy Spirit.  Anyone who denies that Christ is God cannot be worshipping the same God as Christians.  Period!

Then some will insist that Jesus is in the Koran.  In which your response can be, "that might be, but clearly the Jesus of the Koran IS NOT the Jesus of the Bible...anymore than Jesus, the baseball pitcher from the Dominican Republic, is the Jesus of the Bible.

Coldest Temperature EVER Recorded!

This report isn't super prophetic...it just has the word EVER in it...so we can see that extreme things seem to be happening almost on a daily basis...kind of like birth pangs that just keep getting closer and closer.

A new world record for the lowest temperature on the surface of the Earth - minus 91.2 degrees Celsius – was recorded by the scientists in Antarctica near the Japanese station "Dome Fuji."

 This was reported on Sunday by the British newspaper on "Sunday Times". Previous planetary record - minus 89.2 degrees Celsius - was recorded in 1983 at the Russian Antarctic station "Vostok". Amongst the stations located around the icy continent, Station "Dome Fuji" is located at the highest peak, at an altitude of 3786 meters above sea level.

Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2013_12_08/Lowest-temperature-on-Earth-Antarctic/

Stunning Stock Market Chart

I believe that most of us can agree that the stock market has become one of our false gods.  Every TV and computer we turn on scrolls the DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE (DJIA) across the bottom of the screen.  Every cell phone that we buy has a stock market app built right in so we can see it every minute of every day.  If the market is up...that is "good news".  If the market is down that day...that is "bad" news.

It would be safe to say that more people in this country spend more time looking at the stock market ups and downs than they do reading the Word of God.

Of course we also know the stock market has been very volatile over the past few decades.  During the 1990's it went up, up, up and every American believed they would be a multi-millionaire by the age of 50....until the DOTCOM crash came and saw some tech stocks collapse.

Then following that crash the real estate market started going up, up, up and dragged the stock market back up with it through about the end of 2007...and then both those markets crashed.

And now the stock market is back up over 100% from where it was in March of 2009...so where might it be going?  The article referenced below shows a chart that lays today's stock market over the stock market chart from the 1920's....and it is pretty interesting to say the least.

With the Holiday shopping season off to a slow start according to preliminary retail sales numbers and with the stock market sitting near all time highs, one can’t help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn’t really doing as well as we’ve been told by the experts.

The evidence suggests that we can expect devastating global economic changes in 2014 as a result of our national debt, further impoverishment of the working class, and massive new tax burdens resulting from President Obama’s health care legislation. The fundamentals, by most accounts, are indicative of an economy on the cusp of atotal detonation within the next year.

Now, with the prospect of an abysmal shopping season for retailers because of tapped out consumers, the first quarter of 2014 could cause serious problems in financial markets as a result of lackluster performance in corporate earnings.

What’s more, the trajectory of our stock markets over the last eighteen months has been eerily reminiscent of markets back in 1929, right before the crash that led to a decade’s long depression in America.
Ken Jorgustin of Modern Survival Blog writes:

Is there a major financial crash in our near future? You must check out this stunning analogy between the current day Dow Jones Industrial Index compared with the time period 1928-1929 leading up to the memorable stock market crash…
The pattern of stock price movements looks VERY close to the lead-up to the 1929 top.
A lead-up to just any old top is one thing, but the 1929 top was followed by a memorable decline, which makes it all the more worthy of our attention…

Ken stops short of predicting that stock markets will do the same thing this January as they did in 1929, but take a look at this amazing comparison and decide for yourself if it’s possible that this whole thing will break wide open on or around January 14th of 2014:

See article here;  http://www.infowars.com/stunnning-chart-todays-stock-market-is-eerily-reminiscent-of-1929/

Is our financial god, Mammon, some day going to collapse in a heap of rubble?  Yep.  Do we know when this is going to happen?  Nope.  Would it surprise us if it happened sometime soon?  Nope.  Will it surprise the world if the U.S markets collapse in a heap some day?  Yep.  Will the world be really surprised if it happens one day soon?  Yep...really surprised, because in their minds everything is getting better and the god of Mammon is now standing up strong on both feet!  Real estate, stocks and jobs are all coming back!!  Happy days are here when Mammon reigns!!...says the world.

So what kind of people ought we to be...and how shall we live...knowing that everything we see on earth will one day be gone and that every false god will one day be wiped out?

Where should we be investing the majority of our time?  Where should we be laying up our treasure?

Hat tip to Adam G.

Catholic Teacher Fired For Gay Wedding

Another day...another gay headline.

 A gay teacher at a Catholic high school was fired Friday after he applied for a marriage license.

Michael Griffin was fired from Holy Ghost Preparatory School after administrators said his obtaining a license to marry his same-sex partner was a violation of his contract.

Father James McCloskey, the school's headmaster, said in a statement that faculty at the school are required to follow church teachings, NBC Philadelphia reported.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/07/catholic-teacher-gay-marriage/3906639/

I'm guessing there is going to be outrage directed at this school.  HELLO!!!  It's a CHURCH school!  You can't teach there if you are adulterous, perverted or gay!  Deal with it...or go apply at a public school!

Quakes Hitting Oklahoma

Lots of quakes happening every day in very diverse places.  Oklahoma has been rumbling today.

A magnitude-4.5 earthquake in central Oklahoma shook residents Saturday, just weeks after the two-year anniversary of the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the Sooner state, and was followed by two smaller temblors later in the day.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/magnitude--earthquake-rattles-central-oklahoma/article_e42d0d12-4178-5647-a5cd-6a2fefcafb70.html