Muslim Prays at the Vatican

Recently, the Pope invited some folks from other religions to gather at the Vatican and pray for peace.

We have often wondered what really is accomplished in the spiritual realm when you have one person praying to Jesus and others praying to their gods.  Does it cause more harm than good?

Today we find out that the Muslim at the Vatican went off script and asked Allah to gain victory over the unbelievers.

Of course this would surprise ZERO Muslims...and the liberal Christians present are so convinced that everyone is praying to the same god...that they are clueless.

A Muslim imam invited to participate in last weekend’s “prayer for peace” event at the Vatican went off-script and asked Allah to help him gain victory over the unbelievers. To Counterjihad activists this news is no big surprise. Anyone who has delved into Islamic theology and liturgical practice knows that Muslims always insert a call for Allah to defeat the infidel into their prayers. It’s as much a part of praying as “Amen” is to a Christian.

The top management at the Vatican (CEO Francis and the Board of Cardinals) were taken by surprise by what happened, since the translated script they were handed in advance by the imam contained nothing controversial. And none of them understood the spoken Arabic.

However, someone lower down in the pecking order did understand Arabic, and called public attention to the imam’s words. At first the bosses denied the imam had said any such thing. Then, when that story became untenable — or inoperative, to use a more Nixonian cadence — they changed gears slightly. They said, in effect, “Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying ears?”

There are heated debates about this in various Internet fora. The Islam scholar Father Felix Körner, a Jesuit who teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, said the following to RV concerning the incident:
“This verse, perhaps spontaneously selected by someone who then also recited the Koran from memory, actually fitted very well into the overall context of the prayer for peace! There are always three steps in the three religions: We recognise the Creator and praise Him, we recognise our guilt and confess it and we plead for the gift of peace. And all that comes out very beautifully in these three verses of the Koran. To You, God, belongs everything. We repent our guilt and ask forgiveness. And we need your help so that peace and justice can arise. That is the content of these three verses, and for that reason the choice was quite understandable — perhaps spontaneously hit upon, but at any event, well-chosen.”

Here;  http://www.rightsidenews.com/2014061234440/life-and-science/culture-wars/taqiyya-vatican-style.html

Yes!!!  The Vatican seems totally fine with someone quoting the Koran!  And it fits in perfectly with the prayers for peace!!!  There are "always three steps in the three religions..."  because the Vatican wants us to believe that they are all about the same!!  It doesn't matter what you practice...because all paths lead you to God!!

What????  Clearly, that's NOT what Jesus said.

Can you spell C-H-R-I-S-L-A-M?

Can you see how the Catholic leaders are setting up the conditions for all the world's religions to come together in peace, unity, harmony and worship?

Can you sing with me now?..."Kum-ba-yah my lord...kum-ba-yah!"

Can you see how all of us ignorant, stupid, Bible believers who cling to the Word of God are going to GET IN THE WAY of this movement towards one-world-religion?

I can't help but think of the Catholics...with all their claimed miracles, exorcists and praying to saints when I read the words of Jesus in Matthew 7:
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Ouch!!  Can you imagine hearing those terrifying words on that day??  Jesus calls you an evildoer and sends you away...to HELL?

Even the thought of such a thing should be sobering to us all.

One final thought about Catholics...Jesus told us that we would know them by the fruit that they bare....and HOW MANY CATHOLIC LEADERS have been arrested and prosecuted for child molestation? That is some serious BAD FRUIT!

One Catholic priest on the local news last night was asked, "When you were abusing all these kids, did it even enter your mind you were engaging in criminal activity?"  To which the priest replied, "No, not criminal activity...I thought of it more like sin."

Yep!  Guessing he thought he could just say a few extra HAIL MARYS and click his rosary beads a few times to atone for sexually molesting kids!

I wonder if he just skipped the part where Jesus said it would have been better for him to tie a millstone around his neck and end his life right then...rather than continue to abuse these little ones?

Global Financial Ponzi Scheme

Today we ran across an article that seeks to explain why the global financial network will one day come tumbling down.  He even uses the same phrase that we have used over the years..."Ponzi scheme".

The numbers that you are about to see are likely to shock you.  They prove that the global financial Ponzi scheme is far more extensive than most people would ever dare to imagine.  As you will see below, the total amount of debt in the world is now more than three times greater than global GDP.  In other words, you could take every single good and service produced on the entire planet this year, next year and the year after that and it still would not be enough to pay off all the debt.  But even that number pales in comparison to the exposure that big global banks have to derivatives contracts.  It is hard to put into words how reckless they have been.  At the low end of the estimates, the total exposure that global banks have to derivatives contracts is 710 trillion dollars.  That is an amount of money that is almost unimaginable.  And the reality of the matter is that there is really not all that much actual “money” in circulation today.  In fact, as you will read about below, there is only a little bit more than a trillion dollars of U.S. currency that you can actually hold in your hands in existence.  If we all went out and tried to close our bank accounts and investment portfolios all at once, that would create a major league crisis.  The truth is that our financial system is little more than a giant pyramid scheme that is based on debt and paper promises.  It is literally a miracle that it has survived for so long without collapsing already.

When Americans think about the financial crisis that we are facing, the largest number that they usually can think of is the size of the U.S. national debt.  And at over 17 trillion dollars, it truly is massive.  But it is actually the 2nd-smallest number on the list below.  The following are 12 numbers about the global financial Ponzi scheme that should be burned into your brain…

Most people tend to assume that the “authorities” have fixed whatever caused the financial world to almost end back in 2008, but that is not the case at all.

In fact, the total amount of government debt around the globe has grown by about 40 percent since then, and the “too big to fail banks” have collectively gotten 37 percent larger since then.

Our “authorities” didn’t fix anything.  All they did was reinflate the bubble and kick the can down the road for a little while.

I don’t know how anyone can take an honest look at the numbers and not come to the conclusion that this is completely and totally unsustainable.

How much debt can the global financial system take before it utterly collapses?

How recklessly can the big banks behave before the house of cards that they have constructed implodes underneath them?

For the moment, everything seems fine.  Stock markets around the world have been setting record highs and credit is flowing like wine.

But at some point a day of reckoning is coming, and when it arrives it is going to be the most painful financial crisis the world has ever seen.

If you plan on getting ready before it strikes, now is the time to do so.

Here;  http://www.infowars.com/12-numbers-about-the-global-financial-ponzi-scheme-that-should-be-burned-into-your-brain/

Yes!  For the moment everything DOES SEEM FINE!!  Americans are all looking at their retirement accounts and saying, "Wow!  The stock market is way up at record highs and my account value is up about 30% in the past year!  I'm feeling great!!  I'm gonna go build a new house and buy a new truck!"

Of course, they will borrow the money to do these things...which is EXACTLY what the financial magicians of world want to happen.

But can we really just keep kicking the can down the road?  Can we really just continue racking up a lifestyle that we can't afford?  For how long can this continue?

According to this author, when it does pop (and it will) it is going to be, "the most painful financial crisis the world has ever seen."

There's that word "EVER" again!

And when it does pop...WHO might be standing by...ready to come swooping in to offer the world a solution to its massive problems...

Could it be the ANTICHRIST?

And since 2 Thessalonians is clear that the Antichrist WON'T be revealed until AFTER the Rapture....might we be much closer to that event than most people have any clue of?

2 Thessalonians 2
5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

"The one who now holds' the lawless one (Antichrist) back is the restraining power of the Holy Spirit...which indwells in all followers of Christ.  When those followers of Christ are called into the sky in the Rapture...the table will then be cleared for the Antichrist to be revealed....

Pretty exciting times!!!

The Divided States of America

Jesus said this in Matthew 12;
25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.

Does it feel to you that America has grown more divided in the last 15 years?  Is it just our imagination or has the divisions between politicians in D.C. really spread to main street?

Political polarization has brought Washington to a standstill, but the degree of polarization of the American public remains a subject of debate. Does dysfunction in D.C. reflect a similar split among the people? Or has the vast center somehow lost its political voice?

That's the question the Pew Research Center set out to examine this year, starting with its largest political survey ever—a representative sample of more than 10,000 Americans answering a broad range of questions about their political attitudes and values. The first round of results is being released Thursday.

The study should put to rest any notion that polarization is solely a Washington phenomenon. Our research, which relies on a set of questions we've been asking for two decades, finds that the percentage of American voters who adhere consistently to liberal or conservative views has doubled since 1994, to 21% from 10%.

Partisan acrimony has risen sharply as well. Its not just Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell who can't get along. More than twice as many Republicans and Democrats express a "very unfavorable" opinion of the other party as did two decades ago—when Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were doing battle. Most of those strong partisans now argue the other side poses a "threat to the nation's well being." And negative views of the opposing party appear to be a more salient political force than positive views of one's own.

The study also undermines the notion, popular in Washington, of "asymmetrical polarization"—which blames Republicans for causing the division. Using a 10-question index of ideological views, our research shows that liberal thinking has coalesced at least as much as conservative thinking over the past two decades. Broad shifts in opinion on homosexuality and immigration, which used to divide the Democratic base, have helped cause the share of Democrats who hold consistently liberal views to more than quadruple, to 23% from 5%. The share of Republicans with consistently conservative views has increased less dramatically over the same time period, falling from 13% in 1994 to 6% in 2004, before spiking to 20% this year.

The political and the personal have become intertwined as well. Those on the left and the right don't just vote differently; they live differently. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of consistent conservatives and about half (49%) of consistent liberals say most of their close friends share their political views. Thirty percent of consistent conservatives say they would be unhappy if an immediate family member married a Democrat, while 23% of consistent liberals say the same. Far more liberals than conservatives think it is important for a community to have racial and ethnic diversity (76% vs. 20%), while far more conservatives than liberals attach importance to living in a place where people share their religious faith (57% vs. 17%).

What has caused this political fracturing of the American public? Theories abound: A more openly partisan media, an explosion of negative political messaging, technology that allows people to readily connect with the like-minded, gerrymandering of congressional districts, closed political primaries and even higher levels of education are cited as changes behind the trends. Our work at the Pew Research Center to date doesn't address causes. Follow-up surveys by the center in the months ahead will allow us to dig deeper into such questions.

But whatever the cause, the majority of Americans don't like what has happened to their politics. Most are put off by the "us versus them" tone of current political debates, and most prefer political leaders who "are willing to compromise." Roughly half of all Americans, when asked how they want President Obama and Republican leaders to resolve their differences on important issues, say they should split the difference—a "50-50" compromise.

Those voices are increasingly lost in the din. The majority of Americans may not be getting the politics they want. But growing minorities have taken clear sides in the political battle, see high stakes in the outcome and are filled with passionate intensity.

Here;  http://online.wsj.com/articles/alan-murray-the-divided-states-of-america-1402528612

Nope!...it's not our imaginations.  This nation has truly become more divided.

I will let you draw your own conclusions on where this is going and what it all means, but let me point out one interesting fact stated in the article;  Far more liberals than conservatives think it is important for a community to have racial and ethnic diversity (76% vs. 20%), while far more conservatives than liberals attach importance to living in a place where people share their religious faith (57% vs. 17%).

Ok...now think about this.  What group is most likely to be filled with Bible-believing, followers of Jesus Christ?...liberals or conservatives?  Of course the answer is conservatives.  The liberals think they can make the world a better place by orchestrating racial and ethnic diversity!  The conservative-bible reading-Christ followers (like me and most of my readers) could give a rat about race and ethnicity!!  We love all our brothers and sisters once we discover we ARE OF LIKE MIND.

Also notice that when (if?) the liberals get the upper hand in this country, PERSECUTION will come for conservatives who "cling to their guns and religion."

Do you have division in your own family because of Jesus?  I know I do.  Jesus clearly told us that he didn't come to bring peace but a sword.  He told us that families would divide because of him....and we are seeing that play out in almost EVERY family at our church.  So if it's true at our church, I assume it probably it true at your.

I remember reading about the Civil War when I was a teenager and wondering HOW it could be possible that brother could pick up gun against brother, or son against father or cousin against cousin....but of course it happened and killed hundreds of thousands.

Could we be marching towards another time in this country where people are SO DIVIDED that they would pick up arms against each other?  What side would the US military fall on?  Why has Obama fired so many Generals and officers that seem to side with the conservative mentality?

Now imagine that we throw chaos into this wide division.  Imagine what would happen if the financial foundations of our entire system get pulled out from under us...and people don't know where their next meal is coming from and a crushing depression falls on the land....do you think that might be like throwing gasoline on an already-smoldering fire?

One day America WILL FALL!  We have no idea when...but one thing that is for sure...it could happen a lot sooner than most of us think.

Colleges Start Coming After Evangelical Students

So here is another example to add to the "That's insane!" column.

The NYT is reporting that some colleges are now targeting evangelical groups on campus who want to exclude NON-CHRISTIANS from leadership roles.

What??

BRUNSWICK, Me. — For 40 years, evangelicals at Bowdoin College have gathered periodically to study the Bible together, to pray and to worship. They are a tiny minority on the liberal arts college campus, but they have been a part of the school’s community, gathering in the chapel, the dining center, the dorms.

After this summer, the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship will no longer be recognized by the college. Already, the college has disabled the electronic key cards of the group’s longtime volunteer advisers.

In a collision between religious freedom and antidiscrimination policies, the student group, and its advisers, have refused to agree to the college’s demand that any student, regardless of his or her religious beliefs, should be able to run for election as a leader of any group, including the Christian association.

Similar conflicts are playing out on a handful of campuses around the country, driven by the universities’ desire to rid their campuses of bias, particularly against gay men and lesbians, but also, in the eyes of evangelicals, fueled by a discomfort in academia with conservative forms of Christianity. The universities have been emboldened to regulate religious groups by a Supreme Court ruling in 2010 that found it was constitutional for a public law school in California to deny recognition to a Christian student group that excluded gays.

At Cal State, the nation’s largest university system with nearly 450,000 students on 23 campuses, the chancellor is preparing this summer to withdraw official recognition from evangelical groups that are refusing to pledge not to discriminate on the basis of religion in the selection of their leaders. And at Vanderbilt, more than a dozen groups, most of them evangelical but one of them Catholic, have already lost their official standing over the same issue; one Christian group balked after a university official asked the students to cut the words “personal commitment to Jesus Christ” from their list of qualifications for leadership.

At most universities that have begun requiring religious groups to sign nondiscrimination policies, Jewish, Muslim, Catholic and mainline Protestant groups have agreed, saying they do not discriminate and do not anticipate that the new policies will cause problems. Hillel, the largest Jewish student organization, says some chapters have even elected non-Jews to student boards.

The evangelical groups say they, too, welcome anyone to participate in their activities, including gay men and lesbians, as well as nonbelievers, seekers and adherents of other faiths. But they insist that, in choosing leaders, who often oversee Bible study and prayer services, it is only reasonable that they be allowed to require some basic Christian faith — in most cases, an explicit agreement that Jesus was divine and rose from the dead, and often an implicit expectation that unmarried student leaders, gay or straight, will abstain from sex.

“It would compromise our ability to be who we are as Christians if we can’t hold our leaders to some sort of doctrinal standard,” said Zackary Suhr, 23, who has just graduated from Bowdoin, where he was a leader of the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship.

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/us/colleges-and-evangelicals-collide-on-bias-policy.html?_r=1

If you can't see discrimination coming for anyone who claims that Jesus is God and is the ONLY way for salvation...then you have blinders on.

Just think of how ridiculous this is!  The college seeks to disband any Christian organizations if they REQUIRE their leaders to be Christians!!

And what is all this animosity towards Christians fueled by?...."fueled by a discomfort in academia with conservative forms of Christianity."

Yep!  The "smart" people running our colleges have a real problem with Jesus Christ!  They can't tolerate Jesus words when he says, "I am the way, the truth and the life.  No man comes to the Father except through me."  They believe that anyone who believes those words should have any place on any college campus!

And yet, we parents spend BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to send our kids off to these atheist strongholds!

Have we all gone insane?  Who will stand up for Christ and say, "Enough!"  Who will be willing to stand in the gap?

Transgendered Priest at National Cathedral

Do you remember when a VERY RARE earthquake struck Washington DC and damaged the Washington Monument and also the National Cathedral?  I think it was in August, 2011.

Do you remember that a huge crane tipped over as it set about to repair the National Cathedral from the same earthquake damage?

Today we find some more interesting news coming in regards to that same National Cathedral.

The most visible Episcopal church in the U.S. is hosting its first openly transgender priest this month.
The Rev. Cameron Partridge is set to give the June 22 sermon at the Washington National Cathedral in Northwest.

Dean of the cathedral, the Rev. Gary Hall, said in a statement that he hopes Mr. Partridge’s presence sends a message of support for the transgender community.

“We at Washington National Cathedral are striving to send a message of love and affirmation, especially to LGBT youth who suffer daily because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” he said. “We want to proclaim to them as proudly and unequivocally as we can: Your gender identity is good and your sexual orientation is good because that’s the way that God made you.”

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 2012 approved the ordination of transgender persons. The convention also approved a rite of blessing for same-sex unions, a decision that’s been a major contributor to the fracturing of Episcopal congregations. The cathedral performs same-sex marriages.

Mr. Partridge’s visit should be seen as nothing out of the ordinary, according to Integrity USA, a nonprofit that advocates for full LGBT acceptance within the Episcopal Church.

“This is not any sort of shock. This is just a devout minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ who is being given an opportunity to preach the Gospel,” said Vivian Taylor, Integrity USA’s executive director who knows Mr. Partridge as a mentor. “If anything, this is giving folks the opportunity to see a transgender person of faith, living his faith in an honest and meaningful way that absolutely honors the Episcopal faith.”

Bernard Schlager, executive director at the Pacific School of Religion’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry, said the invitation was “an important and historic moment,” as well as “long overdue,” but warned it could also drive further separation within the church.

“As often happens, I think, justice issues such as the full inclusion of LGBT in the full life and ministry of the church are not embraced by everyone at the same time,” he said.

Dawne Moon, an assistant professor of sociology at Marquette University, called the cathedral’s invitation to Mr. Partridge “striking,” given that transgender people are having their voices heard in the national media.

“It seems that the Episcopal Church is working to keep its place at the forefront of the struggle within American denominations to show what some believe to be the all-encompassing nature of God’s love,” Ms. Moon said. “They are also showing themselves to be open to learning about what God and faith look like from many human perspectives, and not just the perspectives of those who conform to a particular social norm.”

Here;  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/9/transgendered-priest-give-sermon-washington-nation/

Sing with me now!...."It's about love, love, love...that's what it's all about...cuz God loves us we love each other...mother, father, sister, transgenders, gays, queers and brother...everybody sing and shout...cuz that's what it's all about...it's about love, love, love...it's about love, love, love!"

Awww...I remember that song from Lutheran Bible camp.  It's so inclusive!!

Wait now...I'm gonna go back through the article and bold out some of the best words of this article.

Inclusion...embraced....historic...acceptance...support...proud...you gotta just love those words!!

Wait a second...he said, "that's the way God made you."....I am so confused...is a transgender person someone who God made as a woman and then he changed to a man?....or is that a trans-sexual?  Is this priest going to be a man dressing as a woman when he gives the sermon...or is he a woman dressing as a man?

His name is Mr. Cameron Partridge.....so maybe it's a woman who was born as a woman...but didn't like the way God made her...so is dressing and acting like a man??...or did she actually have penis made for him....OK, I have no idea...but guessing that he/she is going to be in a big robe...so maybe no one will have any idea....I don't know...but let's sing another verse..."It's about you and me...that's what it's all about...cuz God loves us just as we are...we love each other...mother, transgender, trans-sexual, sister, brother...everybody sing and shout...cuz that's what it's all about...it's about you and me...it's about you and me..."

OK now...everybody give us all a big round of applause!!

I can't wait til the Cathedral let's a Mormon polygamist preach...that would be SOOO inclusive!  God made him just as he is...with all the love he has to give to 5 wives and 20 kids...or how about a Buddhist monk...and a Muslim Imam...and maybe one day a priest of Satan...because you know that Lucifer has been given such a bad reputation!!...he only wants to make the world a better place...and is so left out of main-stream religion.

When that happens we will be so proud of our efforts to include EVERYBODY at our National Cathedral!!!

One final question...if I was a man and married to woman...but then discovered I was really a woman all along...and if I stayed married to that woman...would I then be called a lesbian?  Seriously...this gender stuff is SOOO confusing...I'm glad they are going to teach all these things to our kids...so they won't be as confused as I am!

Demonic "Slender Man" Blamed for Another Attack

Last week we were horrified by the story out of Wisconsin. Two 12 yr old girls stabbed their friend in hopes they would appease a "mythical" entity they had discovered on a horror site.  The girls said this entity was named "Slender Man" and appeared to them in dreams and convinced them they needed to score points with him if they wanted to live in his forest castle....so they decided to sacrifice their friend.

Hmmmm.....sounds like the work of dark forces under the authority of Satan.

Today we find more news of heinous activity performed for Slender Man.

A Cincinnati woman attacked by her 13-year-old daughter is blaming the fictional online demonic entity Slender Man for the girl's behavior.

Slender Man is the same character police say two Wisconsin 12-year-old girls claim influenced them to stab another girl earlier this month.

The woman told NBC affiliate WLWT that her 13-year-old daughter attacked her with a knife in their kitchen.

"She had her hood up and had her hands covered with her sleeves and the mask," the woman said, adding that her daughter was "someone else during [the] attack."

The woman says she discovered disturbing references to Slender Man in her daughter's writing.

"We found things that she had written and she made reference to Slender Man. She also made references to killing," the mother told WLWT. "She even created a world for Slender Man in the game Mine Craft."

Slender Man, a tall, faceless being in a black suit, is a fictional character notorious for stalking and terrorizing children.

Here: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Ohio-Woman-Blames-Daughters-Attack-on-Slender-Man-262420541.html 

Really?  Is he only a fictional character?  Is Satan a fictional character?  Is God a fictional character? How about all the fallen angels?...do they exist...or is that all part of an old fable?

Of course the media is going to say that all of it is fictional.

The really sad part is that many pulpits in churches around the country are also going to say that Satan, hell and demons are all "fictional".

Of course Satan loves it when people don't believe in him....then he can go anywhere he wants and have no opposition.

Certainly our parents and grandparents didn't have to witness stories of kids killing their parents or little girls killing their friends.  It is just one more sign of societal breakdown...and more evidence of what happens to a nation when they turn from God.

You see, I believe the USA is suffering a famine.  Very few Americans have accepted Christ as their savior...hence they have NO INTEREST in reading His words...so they have no idea who our enemy is...and they have no idea how to put on the full armor of God to protect themselves and their children from the Evil One.

Amos 8:11
“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

Because of this we can expect tragic stories about kids killing their parents in homage to demons...to increase.

But please remember the rest of the story for those who trust Christ....WE WIN IN THE END!!!!

Hat tip to Ben R.

Gays Claim Bible Supports Homosexuality

I will be the first one to admit that many of us Christians seem to love pointing out the sin of homosexuality and then singling it out for SPECIAL SIN status....as if it is worse than many of the other sins out there.

But why are so many of us doing this?.....BECAUSE THE GAYS ARE IN THE NEWS EVERYDAY!!

They are screaming and insisting that homosexual acts are NOT SINFUL!

So the louder that they scream...someone with a Bible in their hand has to stand up and say, "Yes, Jesus loves us all...but he hates sin.  And no matter how much you deny it, a man having sexual relations with another man will ALWAYS BE SIN!"

Today we find a video on the uber-liberal Huffington Post that supposedly gives us 7 reasons that the Bible actually SUPPORTS same sex relationships.

What??

Now watch how they twist all these biblical things around....

Watch it here;  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/bible-quotes-arielle-scarcella_n_5439037.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

So....if you were to refute these folks WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?  Would you be able to stand firm and defend what the Word of God actually says?

Of course, the one place they go to make their point is Leviticus 18.  They throw out that law against gay-sex because they argue that we Bible believers have thrown out the ban on shellfish and stoning kids for dishonoring their parents....but yet they CONVENIENTLY ignore the prohibition on gay-sex clearly mentioned in Romans 1.

And how about the lame attempt at saying the word "homosexuality" didn't even exist until the 1800's....so for that reason the word can't possibly exist in the Bible??

Ummm.....the word "Bible" doesn't exist in the Bible....but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

When the Bible talks about men laying with men as they would with a woman.....that is about as clear as you can get that it's describing GAY SEX!

And finally, what a kick that was when the lady in the video says, "As far as religion goes...I think I'm more Buddhist than anything..."

Awesome!!  Then what the heck are you doing making a video that purports to tell us Christians what the Bible does or doesn't say??

And yet, how many gays will watch this video and be led further and further into the lies that surround the homosexual lifestyle?

Lord, deliver us ALL from evil....

Iran's President Visits Turkey for Trade Talks

Ezekiel clearly spoke of WHO would be the players in a LAST DAYS coalition of nations who would seek to destroy Israel.

Two the the nations he spoke of are Iran (Persia) and Turkey (Gomer and Beth-Togarmah).

So if we are in the very last days...one should expect to see signs of this coalition coming together.

Today we see this headline;

Iran's President Rouhani visits Turkey for trade talks

Hassan Rouhani is holding trade talks with senior Turkish officials in Ankara, on the first visit to Turkey by an Iranian president since 1996.

Mr Rouhani is expected to sign agreements aimed at doubling annual commerce to $30bn (£18bn) by 2015.

The neighbours are looking to lift the trade restrictions imposed by the UN over Iran's nuclear programme.

They are also reportedly seeking to improve bilateral ties that have been strained over the conflict in Syria.

Tehran has been a steadfast ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Ankara has backed rebel groups trying to overthrow him.

Their governments are keen to increase trade. Iran is seeking a bigger share in Turkey's energy market, while Turkish firms want to expand in their third largest export market.

Turkey's trade with Iran was $22bn in 2012, before the US imposed restrictions that limited purchases of Iranian natural gas with gold. Last year, trade had declined to $14.6bn.

Turkey's Development Minister Cevdet Yilmaz recently described the international sanctions imposed on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme as "unfair".

Next week, representatives of Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany - will resume trying to draft an agreement that would provide a comprehensive solution to the nuclear issue and see the sanctions lifted.

The Iranian president's visit to Turkey has also brought with it a delicate issue of protocol, reports the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul.

Visiting foreign leaders normally make a trip to the mausoleum of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

But Iran - an Islamic republic - is reluctant to pay its respects to Ataturk - the founder and champion of a secular state, our correspondent says.

For this reason, he adds, no mausoleum visit is reported to be planned.

Here;  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27762139

Russia appears to be the strong leader who will pull this coalition together...but they will meet with a STUNNING DEFEAT when God himself intervenes.

We can't know for sure, but many watchers believe this will be something that happens DURING THE TRIBULATION.  So if, like me, you are a PRE-TRIB guy and believe Jesus will come with a SHOUT before the Tribulation...it's quite exciting to watch the convergence of all these signs...because that means the SHOUT could come at any time.

Ezekiel 38
17 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. 18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. 19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. 23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Pope Jumps Into Middle East Peace Process

This morning I was watching CBS News and they had a story about how the Pope was bringing the President of Israel, Shimon Peres, and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, both together at the Vatican...and they were ALL GOING TO PRAY for peace!

Think about that one second.....who is the Pope going to pray to?  Mary, St. Francis, a previous pope maybe?

And who is Abbas going to pray to?  Allah, of course.

And who is Peres going to pray to?

Many watchers are wondering if we are seeing the formation of the ONE WORLD RELIGION starting to shift into high gear!  Call up Joel Osteen and the Mormons and get them all on board!  The cry from the world says, "Just pray!  We all worship the same god...so just pray to the god that you perceive and feel is god."

“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:6

Pope Francis is a man on a mission to fulfill bible prophecy, and he is getting more done than any other Pope in the last 100 years. Pope Francis is here to make some serious and drastic changes not only in the Catholic Vatican system, in the professing Christianity as well.  He is creating the One World Religion.

The bible, in Revelation 17 and 18, talks about a harlot church that rules the spiritual world. She is wealthy beyond description, and all the kings and mighty men of the earth want to be in a spiritual bed with her. The bible says that she is a city that “sitteth on seven hills”, and is “drunk with the blood of the saints”. This can only be one system, one place, one church – the Roman Catholic Church whose Vatican headquarters sits on the famed Seven Hills in Rome.

This week, not only did Pope Francis hold ecumenical services in the Vatican where he prayed to the moon god of Islam, Allah, he also held high level meetings with megachurch pastor Joel Osteen and US Senator Mike Lee who was there to represent the Mormon church. The actors have taken the stage, with more still arriving, in the unfolding of what will one day soon be the wildest bible prophecy ever told – the Great Tribulation.

““I like the fact that this pope is trying to make the church larger, not smaller. He’s not pushing people out but making the church more inclusive. That resonated with me,” Osteen told the Houston Chronicle. 

The Christian Post reports that according to Westmont College, Francis had invited more than a dozen “North American Protestant leaders” to discuss the question: “Can we find common ground in order to advance the life and ministry of Jesus so more people can experience the joy of Christian faith?”

The ecumenical meeting was a part of Pope Francis’ on-going efforts to bring unity among Christians, previously stating in public remarks, “Divisions among us, but also divisions among the communities: evangelical Christians, orthodox Christians, Catholic Christians, but why divided? We must try to bring about unity.”

However, Pope Francis’s call for unity goes beyond the Christian community. During his recent visit to the Middle East, Francis invited Israeli Jewish and Muslim leaders to join him in prayer for peace for their region at the Vatican this Sunday. Israel’s Chief of State Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Abu Mazen will be joined by a delegation of rabbis, Islamic imams, and Israeli Druze community leaders, according to news reports.

Here;  http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=22485

Jesus clearly said that as the end of the age continues to come closer that people will hate the name of Jesus and hate the people who follow Jesus.  Why?  Because Jesus CLEARLY SAID that He is the ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER!  That means that Muslims, Buddhists, Mormons, moral-atheists, Hindus, Catholics, Osteen disciples,...anyone who doesn't have a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with Jesus IS NOT going to dwell eternally with God.

Terrifying.

According to the Bible there are only TWO possible places we will be 100 years from now....either with God/Jesus in heaven...OR...with Satan, demons and fallen angels in hell.

The world HATES that TRUTH....so they have summoned up an alternate reality....which is that ALL GOOD PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HEAVEN!

And when all those GOOD PEOPLE get together...they start pushing for ONE GOOD RELIGION that they can all agree on.  And the Pope's popularity seems to be pushing this who idea along...rather quickly.

One day, possibly soon, the Antichrist will become involved in this ONE GOOD RELIGION.

The push is on....