Would Jesus Vote For Gay Marriage?

There is a vote going on today in Ireland to legalize gay marriage.

If you want to see how clueless human beings are as to WHO Jesus is, WHY He came to earth and WHAT He did for us.....continue reading this article I will post below.

How would Jesus vote in the gay marriage debate?

If Jesus were somehow plonked down in the middle of us right at this very moment he'd be horrified.

He'd be horrified at the female ankles. At the men with cloth tubes on their legs. He'd be appalled at money lenders, food banks, Beyonce, and the cost of a loaf of bread.

And if you asked him about gays, and gay marriage, and fertility treatment and surrogacy and divorce he'd probably be disgusted that in 2,000 years we've done so much and changed so very little.

But then Jesus was a product of his time. A human being who pooped and peed just like the rest of us do, with an extra big helping of charisma, a slight touch of crazy, and plenty of credulous fans.

A bit like Nigel Farage, but nicer to foreigners.

He was convicted of rebelling against his rulers by preaching unwelcome political messages and had there been a Guantanamo Bay he'd have been thrown in it, except there wasn't so they executed him instead.

Then his body disappeared, and everyone went "ooh it's a miracle, he must have been the son of God as we have all been saying for ages and it definitely wasn't that someone buried him overnight in order to make us think this".

He was, among other things, a great PR man, an exponent of radical social change, and almost certainly a Liberal Democrat.

And he would, quite flipping obviously, have let the gays have their cake.

He would vote yes to gay marriage, too, because the alternative isn't stopping anyone being gay but stopping them from being equal citizens, which is the kind of two-tiered thinking the Romans and the Pharisees had and which he'd be appalled to notice a lot of people still have today.

He would then probably stop to point out that, had he wanted to manifest himself in the modern era, he would not have chosen to do so in a piece of toast and then tell us all to go to hell.

Because if you believe in Jesus or any other prophet, and you believe in the things they supposedly said and which have been misreported ever since, then presumably you believe in pretty much whatever you're told to.

Yet all the prophets have told us to be more decent to each other, and we're still asking ourselves whether we should.

If that doesn't cause the Almighty to repeatedly headdesk I don't know what will.

The alternative, of course, is to make up your own mind without reference to flawed texts or the opinions of a long-dead individual about whether gay people are people like anyone else.

Jesus would tell you to catch yerselves on, and you know it.

Here;  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-would-jesus-vote-gay-5741948

Holy blasphemy!!  I only posted a few paragraphs but you should go to the article and read the entire thing.

Also, #VoteYes is a trending hashtag on Twitter today as all the folks in the twittosphere attempt to shove gay marriage onto Ireland....with a huge Catholic population.

Of course the article was written by atheist or a confused CINO (ChristianINnameOnly) who clearly has no clue Jesus' death for our sin was planned by the Trinity since before the foundations of earth!

There are going to be a lot of surprised (What??  You ARE real?) and then terrified (What?  Hell is real and you WERE the only way?) people when Jesus returns.

These idiots at The Mirror newspaper WILL bow their knees one day to Jesus....and their words of calling Jesus crazy and saying He would certainly contradict his Father to appease the desires of sodomites in Ireland WILL be played for them at judgment day.

Luke 13:28 
“There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.  --said Jesus

Just in case you are a new reader....let me be clear....you don't go to hell because you have homosexual lusts, heterosexual lusts, animal lusts or adultery lusts...you will find yourself in hell because of your sin and your refusal to accept Jesus Christ as the ONLY sacrifice capable of washing you white from your filthy life.  Hell is our default option.  We are ALL HEADING THERE FROM BIRTH....unless Christ saves us....and you accept it through faith.

Religious Colleges May Lose Tax Exempt Status

Chances are good that the Supreme Court is going to make same-sex marriage the law of the land...and it could happen soon.

Discrimination against gays is already illegal....so what happens to a conservative college that refuses to encourage/support/advocate gay relationships?  Well....maybe the Federal Government decides to pound on them using the IRS.

A conservative religious rights commentator believes if the Supreme Court decides in favor of proponents of same sex “marriage,” religious schools could be at risk of losing their tax-exempt status.

During arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding same-sex marriage, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli admitted that religious colleges could lose their tax-exempt status if the court rules in favor of same sex marriage.

Travis Weber, with the Family Research Council, says that observing religious principles should not be considered discrimination.

“Now of course this is silly because these schools just support traditional marriage and it’s their religious view of marriage that drives this,” he says. “There’s no discrimination at all. But nevertheless it’s conceivable that the courts could buy the government’s argument in this case."

Weber believes if this trend continues, those refusing to endorse same sex marriage could face fines and potentially even imprisonment.

“There is a way around this,” he adds. “The clearest way, the best way, is for legislation to be passed at the federal level and the state level around the country protecting people who support traditional marriage from the government, from the government discriminating against them, intruding into their affairs and penalizing them because of their beliefs.” 

Here;  http://onenewsnow.com/education/2015/05/19/religious-colleges-may-be-in-danger-of-losing-tax-exempt-status#.VV9vX_lViko

You can take it to the bank that if Christian colleges begin losing tax exemptions that Christian churches won't be far behind.

We hope our solid, Bible believing churches aren't getting caught up in the mirage of wealth and prosperity that appears to be breaking out all over the country....and instead are making contingency plans for how they are going to keep their doors open if they are soon forced to send 30% of their offering income to Uncle Sam....because they refused to marry a lesbian couple.

"Oh Dennis....that could never happen.  This is America!  We have freedom to discriminate and be intolerant of anyone we choose!"

Ummm....no you don't.  You can't refuse to marry black people in your church just because of their skin color.

And now that the gay-agenda has successfully told the lie that discrimination against gay behavior is the SAME AS discriminating against black skin color.....you just watch the walls fall.

Proverbs 22:3
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

Global Debt Load at Unprecedented Levels

"So Dennis, tell me again...WHY it is that you insist on posting all these articles warning that our financial system, our families and our society are on the verge of breaking down?  Do you get some kind of perverse joy from pointing out how rotten humans and our systems are?"

Joy?....no.

Urgency to wake people up and encourage them to get right with The Lord?....yes.

Ezekiel 33
2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.’

So....if The Lord puts something on your heart and you REFUSE to do it....your refusal may end up feeling like anxiety.

The financial world is clearly a false idol and a false foundation for most Americans.  It would be within God's pattern to tear down false idols right in front of the folks who are worshiping them...and leave everyone standing around with their mouths open saying, "What just happened?"

Did you know that there is more than $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet?  And since close to 3 billion of those people survive on less than 2 dollars a day, your share of that debt is going to be much larger than that.  If we took everything that the global economy produced this year and everything that the global economy produced next year and used it to pay all of this debt, it still would not be enough.  According to a recent report put out by the McKinsey Global Institute entitled “Debt and (not much) deleveraging“, the total amount of debt on our planet has grown from 142 trillion dollars at the end of 2007 to 199 trillion dollars today.  This is the largest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and those numbers mean that we are in substantially worse condition than we were just prior to the last financial crisis.

When it comes to debt, a lot of fingers get pointed at the United States, and rightly so.  Just prior to the last recession, the U.S. national debt was sitting at about 9 trillion dollars.  Today, it has crossed the 18 trillion dollar mark.  But of course the U.S. is not the only one that is guilty.  In fact, the McKinsey Global Institute says that debt levels have grown in all major economies since 2007.  The following is an excerpt from the report…

Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, debt continues to grow. In fact, rather than reducing indebtedness, or deleveraging, all major economies today have higher levels of borrowing relative to GDP than they did in 2007. Global debt in these years has grown by $57 trillion, raising the ratio of debt to GDP by 17 percentage points (Exhibit 1). That poses new risks to financial stability and may undermine global economic growth.

What is surprising is that debt has actually grown the most in China.  If you can believe it, total Chinese debt has grown from 7 trillion dollars in 2007 to 28 trillion dollars today.  Needless to say, that is absolutely insane…

China’s debt has quadrupled since 2007. Fueled by real estate and shadow banking, China’s total debt has nearly quadrupled, rising to $28 trillion by mid-2014, from $7 trillion in 2007. At 282 percent of GDP, China’s debt as a share of GDP, while manageable, is larger than that of the United States or Germany. Three developments are potentially worrisome: half of all loans are linked, directly or indirectly, to China’s overheated real-estate market; unregulated shadow banking accounts for nearly half of new lending; and the debt of many local governments is probably unsustainable. However, MGI calculates that China’s government has the capacity to bail out the financial sector should a property-related debt crisis develop. The challenge will be to contain future debt increases and reduce the risks of such a crisis, without putting the brakes on economic growth.

What all of this means is that our long-term global economic problems have gotten much, much worse.  This short-lived period of relative stability that we have been enjoying has been fueled by unprecedented amounts of debt and voracious money printing.  Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that this is a giant financial bubble, and in the end it is going to unwind very, very painfully.  The following comes from a Canadian news source…

At the beginning of 2008, government accounted for a smaller portion of the debt pie than corporate, household or financial debt. It now exceeds each of those other categories.

“The current situation is much worse than in 2000 or 2007, and with interest rates near or at zero, the central banks have already used up their ammunition. Plus, the total indebtedness, especially the indebtedness of governments, is much higher than ever before,” said Claus Vogt, a Berlin-based analyst and co-author of a 2011 book titled The Global Debt Trap.

“Every speculative bubble rests on some kind of a fairy tale, a story the bubble participants believe in and use as rationalization to buy extremely overvalued stocks or bonds or real estate,” Mr. Vogt argued. “And now it is the faith in the central-planning capabilities of global central bankers. When the loss of confidence in the Fed, the ECB etc. begins, the stampede out of stocks and bonds will start. I think we are very close to this pivotal moment in financial history.”

Sadly, the truth is that Wall Street is headed for a very painful awakening.

What we are experiencing right now is the greatest financial bubble of all time.

What comes after that is going to be the greatest financial crash of all time.

199,000,000,000,000 dollars of debt is about to come crashing down, and the pain of this disaster will be felt by every man, woman and child on the entire planet.

Here;  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-debt-to-gdp-ratio-for-the-entire-world-286-percent

Also please remember from a recent post that Revelation 18 says THREE TIMES that the financial world will be destroyed in ONE HOUR.

"But Dennis, you can't be serious!!  I have been saving money in my 401k for 30 years now and next year I plan on moving to Arizona and spend the rest of my life living off my savings and reading romance novels by the swimming pool!  I deserve this....and these articles are doing nothing for me except making me anxious about my future!"

Good!  You should be anxious about your future if you have forgotten that YOUR ONLY PURPOSE for being on earth is to make relationships with other people by showing them Christ's love and then when the opportunity presents itself you TELL THEM about Christ's love by sharing the Gospel and clearly telling them that salvation comes ONLY through Jesus Christ.

Men's souls are hanging in the eternal balance right now!  Men (and women) that you and I know. The Holy Spirit is preparing the soil and it's our job to scatter the seed.  How much seed have we scattered in the last week?  The last month?  The last year??  EVER??

If we start to ponder that question and realize that we have spent more time watching NASCAR, golf and football than we have EVER spent sharing the Gospel or making disciples....maybe we should repent of our false idols and start being obedient today.

Strange Trumpet Sounds Coming From the Sky

We first posted on these strange noises some years ago.  It would seem they haven't quit and are still being heard all over the world.

A mysterious noise from the sky is continuing to baffle people all over the world - as well as giving those who hear it sleepless nights.

Sounding like a trumpet or a collective from a brass section of an orchestra, a selection of videos shot from the Canada to Ukraine, via the U.S., Germany and Belarus show strange goings on above us.

And the eerie sounds have been continuously heard at all different times and locations for almost a decade. 

The first video posted on YouTube recording the unusual, unearthly sounds, was in 2008 when a user recorded the strange sounds in the sky from Homel, in Belarus. 

That same year another anonymous user shared the 'ear-deafening' sounds that they insisted 'were not a hoax,' from a quiet neighbourhood believed to be in the U.S.

Kimberly Wookey from Terrace, British Columbia in Canada first captured the alien sound in June 2013, and since then she has managed to capture several recordings of the noise with her most recent being on May 7 this year. 

Listen to them here:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3084260/What-strange-sound-sky-Noise-heard-globe-nearly-DECADE-explanation.html

Some folks believe these noises are being made by "aliens"....and that they are doing them to prepare the people of planet earth for their soon arrival. (for new readers; we believe "aliens" are really demons in disguise, sent to deceive)

Some folks think it's the voice of the archangel (mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 4) warming up for a massive trumpet blast to signal the rapture of the church.

Some folks believe that it's Satan (Prince of this Earth) orchestrating these noises so he has an explanation for those left behind after the rapture...to explain what the loud trumpet noise was that preceded millions of folks leaving this earth

Some folks believe it's power lines vibrating in the wind.

Some folks are so sound asleep as to what is going on that even if the dead were brought back to life they wouldn't wake up.

Some folks believe it's just one more strange thing that has recently started happening all over the world for the first time EVER!...WHY?....because the earth is groaning.

Romans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Saudis to Buy Nukes from Pakistan

Ahhh!....the plot thickens!!

It's almost like the Prince of the Earth is moving chess pieces around the world seemingly unfettered and will soon say, "Checkmate!"

Saudi Arabia to buy nuclear bombs from Pakistan: report

Saudi Arabia will join the nuclear club by buying “off the shelf” atomic weapons from Pakistan, US officials told a London newspaper.

The Saudis — who financed much of Pakistan’s nuke program — are fearful of international efforts to keep its enemy Iran from acquiring a bomb, the Sunday Times of London reports. The Saudis think the deal, backed by President Obama, will actually accelerate Iran’s nuke push.

Saudi Arabia has talked for years about acquiring a bomb from the Pakistanis. “The House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward,” a former US defense official said.

Here;  http://nypost.com/2015/05/17/saudi-arabia-to-buy-nuclear-bombs-from-pakistan-report/

Well duh!?  Why not just buy the nukes right off the shelf and ready to vaporize millions?

Why waste all the time with centrifuges, engineers and inspectors when you can just send a semi to your Sunni relatives and Pakistan and say, "Hey Moustafa...remember how WE PAID for all your centrifuges and engineers to make you a huge atomic bomb so you couldn't be threatened by India?? Remember how we said that if we ever needed a few nukes in return for that favor, that you would gladly give them to us?....well, that day has come.  What day can we send a truck to collect two or three nukes?"

The world is ONLY going to get more complicated and even more dangerous.

"Oh Dennis, I'm tired of hearing, 'Danger!  Danger!  Danger!'  The world has always been dangerous and we always survive.  50,000 years from now, there will still be some nut job saying 'Danger!  Danger! Danger!' as he points at his Bible and looks at the headlines in the news.  Hopefully mankind gets smart enough to make that stupid book illegal!  All it does is preach gloom, sin and hell!"

I seriously doubt we are going to go 50,000 years, 5000 years or even 50 years.  Israel is back in her land surrounded by her enemies.  USA is cursing Israel. Scoffers are scoffing. Atheism is growing. Muslim nations are acquiring nukes while chanting "Death to America!", and the Bible speaks of a day coming when the financial world gets destroyed in one hour.  We can certainly all agree on one thing....if a nuclear bomb went off in Manhattan and killed millions and totally destroyed Wall Street and all the bankers and brokers sitting at the desks making money trades....in ONE HOUR the entire Western Financial World would be destroyed.

We are NOT LIVING in a "Business as usual" time.  Levers have already been pulled and the seeds of destruction have already been sewn....we just don't know when those seeds are going to pop out of the soil and start bearing fruit....but we can't hardly comprehend how this global debacle of hatred and wickedness can continue on for another 5 years...forget about 50 years.

The War on Cash

The Bible clearly says a day is coming when anyone who wants to buy or sell anything will need to use some type of electronic system that involves having a mark to access it.  This precludes using cash, hence many refer to this future-prophetic event as a 'cashless system'.

We know that for the new system to come into place that our old system needs to fall out of place. The foreshadowing signs seem to be everywhere.

Remember friends, we are the FIRST GENERATION to have the technology capable of fulfilling this 2000 year old prophecy that John the Revelator clearly saw.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Rev. 13:16-17).

The War on Cash

There was once a time in America when it was not all that uncommon for people to purchase a new or used car with cash. Today, it has become almost impossible for someone to use paper money to buy any type of powered vehicle. Most people would blame inflation for making cash impractical for large transactions. The average cost of a car has gone from $3,000 in 1970, to the current average of $35,000.

The real reason you can’t use cash is because the government has been slowly clamping down on the availability of large notes. Right now, the highest denomination produced by the Department of Treasury is a $100 bill. There was a time when banks had available $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 notes. In 1800s, there were a variety of thousand dollar notes in circulation.

I have a friend who deals with rare currency and he told me all large notes are now worth more than their face value. He said the most common $500 note is worth around $750 and the $1,000 note is worth around $1900. The $5,000 notes were printed in very limited quantity, so many of them are now worth more than $50,000. The $10,000 note has been valued as high as $125,000.

The standard explanation for why the government has retired large notes is the need to control the illegal drug trade, money laundering, and even terrorist activity. The true motivation has everything to do with taxation. Washington is in desperate need of money, and it wants to make sure your stash is within grasp.

The government also wants to be able to prevent your money from leaving the country. This need has become a reality in France; a country with an insanely high tax rate. French Finance Minister Michel Sapin brazenly stated that it was necessary to “fight against the use of cash and anonymity in the French economy.”

The French have recently implemented several measures to restrict the use of cash:

Residents can only make cash payments of more than 1,000 euros, down from the previous limit of 3,000 euros.
Foreign tourists can only receive payments of 10,000 euros, down from the previous limit of 15,000 euros.
Any cash deposit or withdrawal of more than 10,000 euros during a single month will be reported to the French anti-fraud and money laundering agency—Tracfin.
Any freight transfers within the EU exceeding a value of 10,000 euros must be reported to French authorities.
With Greece struggling to avoid bankruptcy, it too has taken on draconian measures designed to target cash. The central government has set-up capital controls by raiding pension funds, it has confiscated the funds of local government cash, and has enacted surcharges on all cash withdrawals.

The U.S. federal government is just as broke as most other nations, but it has managed to avoid financial calamity by maintaining an “all is well” front. Behind the happy smiles is a growing plan by regulators to tighten their grip on cash. Anyone who engages in a cash transaction over $10,000 runs the risk of generating a suspicious activity reports (SAR). The Homeland Security Act requires all banks to monitor the activity of its customers.

We’ve reached a very slippery slope by allowing Big Brother to snoop into our bank accounts. If you give the feds partial access to your personal information, they will find a justification for gaining full access. The Justice Department is already saying it wants financial institutions to look at smaller transaction that may be connected to nefarious activity.

It would be nice to know if someone wrote a $200 check to a known drug dealer. If it means turning the country into a police state, the price for that useful information is too high.

The day may soon come when people trying to make cash withdrawals are asked to explain why they need their money. There have been a few cases where people’s bank accounts have been taken over by the feds, but these are based on the suspicion of criminal activity. Once we become a Greece or France, it’s very difficult to reverse the process.

The ultimate goal of the government is to get rid of all cash. Under a 100% electronic system, there is no place to hide from federal oversight. The average citizen fails to see the danger that comes with losing our financial sovereignty. If Adolf Hitler had the technology we have today, he could have used it against the French underground, the Jews that were hiding from him, and all those who plotted his downfall.

Man now has all the technology needed to establish a global, cashless community. At this stage, the only thing really missing is the political will to set the Mark of the Beast into motion.

Here;  http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html

Yesterday in adult education class at our church, a 54 yr old man raised his hand and said that in the past few months he has felt an marked increase in the urgency he is feeling that time may be short and that he just needs to be obedient to what he feels called to do...that something big is coming.  He asked for a show of hands of others in the group who were feeling the same way and most of the hands went up.

Of course there is nothing scientific about that little group of hand raisers in Buffalo, MN....but it would confirm that many of us are agreeing with the increased urgency that MANY prevalent prophecy writers are warning us about.  They can "feel it in their bones" that something big is on the horizon.

Remember, the NEXT BIG PROPHETIC happening on God's calendar would be the Rapture of the church.  If you hear a loud trumpet and start to see the graves of departed Christians open up and fly to the sky....you will know that your work on earth is done.

Sing with me now!...."Some glad morning when this life is over, I'll fly away!  To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away!"