Fear of Islam is Rational

Have you ever been called an Islamophobe?

A phobia is an irrational fear about something.  The word Islamophobia simply isn't accurate because the fear of Islam has proven itself, over and over again, to be a rational fear.

Please take 5 minutes to watch this video that explains why many people are totally justified, sane and rational in their fear of Islam.

Watch video here;  http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/why-a-fear-of-muslims-and-islam-is-perfectly-sane-and-rational/

Maybe Planet X Really Does Exist?

About 4-5 years ago there were books and videos running around books stores and YouTube talking about Planet X, sometimes called Nibiru.  If you read the books or saw the videos they talked about a massive planet in our solar system that comes along once every some thousands of years and totally upsets planet earth.

The reports said that when it comes by planet earth it so screws up our gravity that conditions on earth totally fall apart.

I remember watching some of those videos pre-2012 and thinking to myself, "Wow, this is crazy. Certainly if there was a planet in our solar system that large, NASA and others would have found it long ago!"

Now today we read this;

The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.

The claim is the strongest yet in the centuries-long search for a “Planet X” beyond Neptune. The quest has been plagued by far-fetched claims and even outright quackery. But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations. “If you say, ‘We have evidence for Planet X,’ almost any astronomer will say, ‘This again? These guys are clearly crazy.’ I would, too,” Brown says. “Why is this different? This is different because this time we’re right.”

If Planet X is out there, Brown and Batygin say, astronomers ought to find more objects in telltale orbits, shaped by the pull of the hidden giant. But Brown knows that no one will really believe in the discovery until Planet X itself appears within a telescope viewfinder. “Until there’s a direct detection, it’s a hypothesis—even a potentially very good hypothesis,” he says. The team has time on the one large telescope in Hawaii that is suited for the search, and they hope other astronomers will join in the hunt.

Here;  http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system

Of course we have no idea to believe that Planet X has ever caused any havoc on earth but we find it interesting that scientist are just discovering this massive planet right now.

Many of us believe that the rapture of the church could be an event that happens sooner than later...at least we hope it does.  Listen to what Luke says will be one event that happens during The Tribulation which follows the rapture....

Luke 21:26
People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.

Imagine what would happen if the humans on planet earth were told that an asteroid or planet was coming towards planet earth and was going to crash into it or screw up our gravitational field? Imagine further if they start seeing this heavenly body appear in the sky as it draws closer and closer with each passing day?  Do you think that might make lots of people faint as they watch their impending doom approaching from the heavens?

Of course we have no idea if this recent discovery of Planet X has anything to do with what Jesus told us about in Luke....but it is interesting to ponder all the same.  If Planet X begins careening towards the earth or moon, the event may certainly qualify as the heavenly bodies being shaken.

Stay tuned for this recent discover of Planet X

If you want to plug into YouTube and see a whole bunch of videos on Nibiru Planet X and the impending disaster it will bring to earth...you can start watching those here;

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwVsD9bAPjA

Marco Rubio Gives His Testimony to an Atheist Questioner

Take a few minutes and watch the video of Presidential hopeful, Marco Rubio, explaining to an atheist why Jesus Christ is central to everything in his life.

On a day when Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have dominated the headlines, I wanted to share with you this exchange between Marco Rubio and an atheist questioner. Rubio’s presentation of his beliefs — beliefs that I share — was winsome, compassionate, and — above all — true. American democracy, featuring so many direct, personal encounters between voters and candidates, can yield its profound moments. This was one:

See video here;  http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430036/marco-rubio-responds-atheist-civility-and-truth

This video clip was posted on the National Review who just yesterday came out against Donald Trump.

The words of Marco Rubio were inspiring and I would suggest that we all pray for him.  The powers of Satan will certainly start raining down on him and his family if he continues to speak boldly like this.

Trumps Vows to Move Embassy to Jerusalem

Jerusalem is in the news again today.  This time with The Donald making some valid claims that the Jews and Israelis might agree with?

 Donald Trump said he would move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

“They want it in Jerusalem,” the front-runner among Republican presidential candidates said in an interview posted Tuesday by The Brody File, a Christian Broadcasting Network show. “Well I am for that 100 percent. We are for that 100 percent.”

Congress passed a law in 1995 mandating the move of the embassy to Jerusalem, but allowed the president a waiver. Each president since then has routinely exercised the waiver, citing the national security interests of the United States.

Calling US President Barack Obama “the worst thing that has ever happened to Israel” for negotiating the recent Iran-nuclear deal, Trump pledged loyalty to Israel.

“I will be very good to Israel,” he said. “People know that. I have so many friends from Israel. I have won so many awards from Israel. I was even the grand marshal for the Israeli Day Parade a few years ago. So I will back Israel.”

Here;  http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Trump-pledges-to-move-US-embassy-from-Tel-Aviv-to-Jerusalem-442091

Wow!  That would sure make Jerusalem a "cup of trembling."  The Muslim world would come even further unglued.

Saudi Cleric Bans Chess

This one is fun.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A video clip of Saudi Arabia's top cleric saying that the game of chess is "forbidden" in Islam because it wastes time and leads to rivalry and enmity among people has provoked heated debate, and widespread criticism, among Arabic Twitter users.

The clip was shared on YouTube in December, gaining traction in recent days on social media. Some Twitter users mocked Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdelaziz Al Sheikh, saying chess is an intelligent game and that is why conservative clerics decry it. Others defended his religious advice, saying that many other Islamic scholars have also warned that the game can be addictive and cause people to lose focus from their daily prayers and remembrance of God.

Saudi Arabia's influential religious establishment adheres to a strict Sunni Islamic ideology known widely as Wahhabism.

Similarly, Shiite Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani previously declared that chess is religiously prohibited because it could be used for gambling, which is not permissible in Islam.

In the 44-second clip, Al Sheikh says "the game of chess is forbidden," backing up his statement by referring to a verse in the Quran that bans gambling, intoxicants and idolatry. Answering a question posed to him by a viewer on the Saudi religious Almajd network, the mufti says chess "wastes time and money and causes rivalry and enmity" because it makes rich people poor and poor people rich.

Despite some top religious scholars frowning upon chess, the Saudi sheikh's opinion is not seen as a formal edict that could lead to a ban on the game in the kingdom. Games such as backgammon and cards are popular among men in the Middle East.


Muslims, who introduced chess to Europe, have been playing the game since the 7th century in Persia.

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/21/world/middleeast/ap-ml-saudi-forbidden-chess.html?_r=0

Hmmmm.....the Persians (Iranians) invented chess in the 7th century....so guessing this all may be more about the spat between The House of Saud and their arch enemies the Shi'ites of Iran?

Were the Nephilim in North America?

Genesis 6
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Hint;  all angels are created beings so are translated from Hebrew as 'sons of God'.  So the fallen angels are the 'sons of God' referenced in this passage.

So if the Nephilim were on the earth before the flood, we should find some skeletons washed into the mix of dinosaurs and other piles of bones buried.  Also, if the Nephilim were on the earth AFTER the flood (because they started breeding with women again) should we expect to see some evidence of some giant people skeletons buried around?

Over 1000 accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have reportedly been unearthed from ancient burial sites over a two-hundred-year period in North America. Newspaper accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos and Smithsonian ethnology reports have carefully documented this. These skeletons have been reported from coast to coast with strange anatomic anomalies such as double rows of teeth, jawbones so large as to be fit over the face of the finder, and elongated skulls, documented in virtually every state. 

Smithsonian scientists identified at least 17 skeletons that stood at over seven feet in their annual reports, including one example that was 8 feet tall, and a skull with a 36-inch circumference reported from Anna, Illinois in the Smithsonian Annual Report of 1873, (an average human skull is about 20 inches in circumference). The Smithsonian Institution is mentioned dozens more times as the recipient of enormous skeletons from across the entire United States. The skeletons mentioned no longer seem to exist regardless of their actual size, and the remaining ones that were on display were removed and repatriated by NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). While the authors certainly support this law, it does present a moral and ethical conundrum in terms of trying to ascertain the proof everyone wants to see - physical evidence of giants.

In this unique Top Ten, we look at some examples of giant skeletons that were reported from across ancient North America (although we warn you now that Number 1 is so large, we admit it may not be authentic).

Our countdown begins at one of the most important mound sites in America, and quite possibly the world.

See the Top Ten here;  http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/top-ten-giant-discoveries-north-america-005196#ixzz3xorDM9an 

"Yeah Dennis....I really don't believe it all that Genesis stuff.  I mean really, did Jonah get swallowed by a fish and spend three days and three nights?  Did God really part the Red Sea and then drown the Egyptian army in it?  Did the Jews really march around Jericho for 7 days before the walls fell down?Did Noah really have a bunch of animals on an ark and be part of only 8 survivors of a global flood?"

Oh....so you don't believe in that Old Testament stuff?  How about the New Testament stuff?  Was Jesus born of a virgin, impregnated by God/Holy Spirit?  Did Jesus actually die and then come back to life in a glorified body? Could he pass through walls in his new body?  Could Jesus actually bring the dead to life?  Did he really ascend into heaven?  Is he really seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty?  Is he really coming back?Will there really be a rapture?  Is Jesus really the only way to salvation?  Is hell for real?

Friends, you better believe the "Old Testament stuff"....because if the OT is lying, then how much confidence can we have that the New Testament isn't also lying to us?

"Yeah but Dennis, I can just pick and choose the parts of the Bible that I like...the parts that make me feel good.  And then I just ignore the parts that are too confusing, judgmental or that don't make sense in modern days."

If you are saying this with your mouth and believe it in your heart...you better back WAY UP to step one of being born again and test yourself to see if the Spirit is actually in you.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?

World is Awash in Temple Talk

The book of Daniel says that one day the Antichrist will sit in the third Temple (the 2nd Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD) and declare himself to be God.  Jesus warns the Jews in Israel that when they see this event they better run fast from Jerusalem because the Antichrist is going to start killing them.

This should be another hint to all of us who are WATCHING the prophetic news all around us, that The Tribulation is close when the world starts talking about building the 3rd Temple.  And of course the Temple Institute in Jerusalem has been making preparations for years and even has most of the Temple instruments, goblets, ephods, etc... already made and just waiting for the Temple to be built.

"See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes." (Malachi 4:5)

The world is suddenly awash with talk of rebuilding the Jewish Temple. This is one of the last pieces of the jigsaw that yet needs to fall into place. It is another significant indication that we are right at the gates of the Tribulation period itself.

The second Temple of Jesus time was constructed over a period of thirty to forty years. If the Temple were to be constructed today it would be built in a fraction of that time. The Temple Institute in Israel have already made many of the sacred artifacts needed for use in the Temple itself.

The Temple Institute have prefabricated large sections of the Temple structure, as well as drawn up comprehensive and complete architectural plans, so that when the right time comes these pre-made sections can simply be taken to the site and built into the superstructure of the Temple itself. It is even possible to visit their website and view an in-depth three dimensional computer tour of what the newly built Temple will look like after its completion.

Other crucial pieces of the Temple, much more difficult to construct than the building itself, have also been completed and are now ready for use. Based in the Old City area of Jerusalem, the Temple Institute have concluded the reconstruction of the sacred Temple altar, to the specific and exacting standards prescribed in the Pentateuch. This absolutely essential piece of the jigsaw means that the Jewish nation now have the holy alter necessary to once again begin offering sacrifices. It is the altar itself which would make the sacrifices offered on it holy before God. Aside from the Holy of Holies, it is the lynchpin of the entire Temple. It is now ready for use.

It should not be underestimated how significant this development is. Building this altar has been quite an undertaking; approximately 5 meters (16 feet) tall and 16 meters (52.5 feet) wide, with four "horns" or raised corners, and a ramp. It is unique. Nothing like this altar has been seen on this earth in two thousand years.

To complete the preparations, the Temple Institute have also made all the priestly garments necessary for a priesthood to minister on this alter. Even going so far as to train priestly families in the conduct and expectations of a Priest who ministers inside a newly built Temple.

Passover sacrifices have been reenacted and practiced so that the mechanics of the process are understood and more closely adhere to the standards laid out by the Law of Moses. They have, in effect, carried out historically accurate trial runs in preparation for the real thing.

Understanding this process is in itself is also no small undertaking. The roots of the sacrifice are found in the Book of Exodus. Ahead of the last of the 10 plagues on Egypt, the death of the firstborns, God tells Moses to speak to the people of Israel and instruct each household to obtain a lamb on the 10th of Nisan. The lambs should be kept until the 14th, when the people of Israel should slaughter them at dusk. Later, they should take its blood and put it on their doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they are eating. The fire-roasted lamb s flesh should then all be consumed that night with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. This process has now been practiced a number of times.

Pure olive oil fit for use in the Menorah of the Temple has been produced in the last few months, the only time this has happened since the fall of the Second Temple. The production of four and a half litres of the precious olive oil this year was an extremely complex process due to the necessity of keeping it pure according to Jewish law. In addition, ceramic flasks to hold the oil also had to be made to conform to the standards of religious purity required for use in the Temple itself. The production of the olive oil required precise knowledge of an extremely specialized and complex area of Jewish law.

Oil of this quality has not been produced since the beginning of the diaspora of the Jews in 70AD. Literally nothing like this has been seen in Israel for two millennia.

The Temple Institute is well advanced in its efforts to produce a Red Heifer of such purity that it satisfies the exacting standards set forth in the book of Leviticus as being suitable to purify and re-dedicate the Temple itself, thus making it fit for worship and sacrifice once again.

A perfect Red Heifer or para aduma, a three-year-old female cow with totally red hair that is supposed to be able to restore a state of purity after ritual slaughter is exceptionally rare. Indeed, so rare are perfect Red Heifers that none have been seen for over two thousand years. They just have not been born. Jewish sages and Rabbi s through the ages believed that perfect Red Heifers being born is itself a signal from God that the rebuilding of the Temple should begin in earnest.

Red Heifers are being born right now in 2015-16, and many believe they will meet the exacting standards of perfection set out by the Pentateuch. Rabbis within Israel therefore believe that the rebuilding of the Third Temple is an imminent event.

The Temple will ultimately be rebuilt in Jerusalem as it is crucial to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Beginning with Daniel, who had a vision of the Temple in Daniel 9:27, Jesus himself echoed Daniels warning about an abomination standing in the holy place in the last days in Matthew 24:15. Paul also mentioned it in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. The Temple Institute are making this future biblical prophecy a close approaching reality through their work and dedication.

The only thing that seems to be needed from this point on is the political will to move this process forward. All they seemingly need is the go ahead. All things humanly possible are being done to prepare for the rebuilding of the Third Temple.

However, there remains hugely significant problems which must be overcome before even a stone can be put down.

For political and safety reasons rebuilding a Temple would seem almost an impossibility at present. This is because Islam currently controls the Temple Mount and for Jews to destroy the Dome on the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosques so as to build the Jewish Temple would likely provoke an immediate world war.

Amazingly, these political and safety impediments on rebuilding the Temple are not the most significant problems.

The current focus of a raging debate within Judaism is exactly who has the authority to begin the rebuilding process of the Temple itself? Is it God, the Messiah or someone else? Nobody really knows and there is no consensus on this absolutely vital issue within Judaism.

Without resolution of who has the authority to rebuild there can be no Temple, and these are the reasons why.

The problem of who has the authority to begin the rebuilding process exists because nobody today really knows exactly where the Holy of Holies from the Second Temple is located on the Temple Mount. This is the reason why Jews are forbidden from entering the precise area where the second Temple was built, in case they inadvertently stand on the sacred and consecrated area which housed the Holy of Holies. To do so, even inadvertently, is punishable by death under Mosaic Law.

The second major stumbling block is that all Jews are currently ritually impure, which also prevents any Jews from entering the precise area where the Temple used to stand. In order to become ritually pure Jews would need the ashes of a Red Heifer which would need to be administered by a priest who could trace his family and ancestral lineage back far enough to validate his claim to priesthood. No such priest exists who can trace his lineage to this exacting standard. The reason is that when Israel and Judah were dispersed to the four corners of the world into Diaspora, all lineage records were lost.

This therefore means that under Mosaic Law there are no priests eligible to ever administer the ashes of a Red Heifer and therefore able to make Jews ritually pure enough to ever enter the Temple complex area. It is a terrible catch-22 situation.

The next major problem concerns the Altar of the Temple itself, specifically the location of the Altar. The Law of Moses is very precise about exactly where the Altar must be located. It cannot simply go anywhere, it needs to be in exactly the right place. When they built the Second Temple the Jews used reliable witnesses who could testify to the correct spot. In fact the prophets Haggai, Zephaniah and Malachi are believed within Judaism to have been the three witnesses used to verify the Altars correct location.

No such witnesses exist today. Even if a Temple could be built they could never offer sacrifice in it as they simply do not know where to locate the Altar. They have absolutely no idea where it should go, no idea whatsoever.

Assuming though that they were able to rebuild the Temple in exactly the right spot and then locate the Altar allowing for sacrifice, also in exactly the right spot, the Temple would still need Priests whose genealogy can be absolutely determined and verified. No such verification exists anymore. It would be a Temple with no priests.

The next major issue is the High Priest. There can be no functioning Temple without a functioning High Priest. To appoint a High Priest there needs to be a Sanhedrin, 70 - 71 ordained Rabbis acting as the Supreme Council of all Israel. There can currently be no Sanhedrin that satisfies Mosaic Law because each Rabbi must satisfy Mosaic Ordination, which was transmitted from Rabbi to Rabbi since the time of Moses. Mosaic Ordination ceased in 358 AD because of persecution. Although a re-established Sanhedrin was set up in 2004 it still lacks the religious and governmental authority needed to take the process forward. There can be no legitimate Sanhedrin and therefore no legitimate High Priest.

These problems are insurmountable. There is no human solution to them.  On the face of things then, there can be no Temple.

Here;  http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=66

Of course most of my readers know that the Jews who haven't accepted Christ as Messiah will actually be welcoming the Antichrist into their midst.

So stay busy spreading the Good News that Jesus paid the price for our redemption and all we have to do is believe and Him and WE WILL BE SAVED!  Salvation has NEVER been easier and more grace filled than it is right now!  Today is THE DAY of salvation!!

"But Dennis, I want to live like the world!  I like to sleep with women, get a little drunk, make lots of money and do a little smoke on Saturday nights with my home boys...plus I don't have time nor interest to read some old book called the Bible!  Tell you what....if I see a Temple go up in Jerusalem and see some Antichrist running around taking over the world....THEN I will ask Jesus to save me!  How's that for a plan?  Then I can have my cake and eat it too!"

Ummmm.....that ain't gonna happen.  The NEXT THING on God's timetable is the rapture of the church.  It's gonna happen fast and Jesus will come quickly when the Father sends Him.

Whomever believes they can blow off Christ and then accept him IF they see the Antichrist is making a bad plan.  You might get hit by a car tomorrow or you might be left behind at the rapture and then get deluded by the lies of Antichrist, the beast and the False prophet.

Look at the signs all around us that something big is happening.  Then acknowledge that YOU ARE A SINNER and ask Jesus, in the quietness of your heart, to save you from your sin and the coming wrath of God, that ALL sinners deserve. The wrath of God may soon be poured out on this world...and the ONLY way you are going to escape it is by trusting in Christ BEFORE it happens.

"No man comes to the Father except through me."--Jesus

Can a U.S. Company Ban Muslim Prayer Breaks?

Should a U.S. company be coerced into installing Muslim foot baths, pray rooms and prayer breaks to appease their Muslim employees?

Muslim employees can only leave work to pray during meal breaks, according to a new policy imposed at Ariens Manufacturing in Brillion, Wisc.

“It is absolutely discrimination on its face,” employee Adan Hurr told WBAY News. “Allow me to pray so that I can go back to work and do what I love to do, which is working for Ariens. But we are not allowed to do that.” 

Islamic faith requires Muslims to pray five times a day. Until the new policy was announced Thursday, Muslim employees at Ariens were permitted to leave their station at the production line to pray twice during their shifts. While practicing the five-minute prayer, the Muslim employees would allocate their duties amongst coworkers.

The policy change affects 53 workers, and only ten of these employees have indiciated that they would like to continue working at Ariens under the new policy. 

“We pray by the time,” a former Ariens employee Ibrahim Mehemmed told WBAY. “So they say, ‘If you don’t pray at the break time,’ they give us this [unemployment] paper to just leave.” 

Advocates say employees at the company, which makes lawn mowers and snow blowers, and is located about 25 miles south of Green Bay, are being forced to quit.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) states that employers do not have to accommodate a religious practice if it causes “undue hardship” to the company by decreasing “workplace efficiency." 

"Unless they can prove 'undue hardship,' and that is definitely what is at the heart of the matter," then the policy change is illegal, Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview Monday. "What one company thinks is an undue hardship is not actually. It is always a matter of debate and compromise." Mr. Hooper notes that federal law requires employers to offer “reasonable religious accommodations” to workers of all faith. 

But Ariens has thus far stood by their policy change. 

“We are open to any of the employees returning to work under the new policy or will look for openings in shifts that do not coincide with prayer time,” the company said in a statement. “We respect their faith, and we respect their decision regardless of their choice to return to work or not.” 

Hooper says that Ariens' claims of "undue hardship" accusations are unfounded.

"In this case, it seemed that things were going well. Ariens obviously had Muslim employees that were taking their prayer breaks and operating efficiently. What changed?" asks Hooper. Regardless of Ariens' reasons for the policy change, Hooper feels it wasn't urgent enough to leave almost 50 employees without a job.

"While we're working this out, let's go back to your original policy that seemed to work and then we can talk about some resolution that meets the needs of all parties," says Hooper.

Some fear Arien’s policy may cause a mass exodus by Green Bay’s Muslims. 

“If someone tells you, ‘you pray on your break,’ and the break time is not the prayer time, it will be impossible to pray,” employee Masjid Imam Hasan Abdi told WBAY News. “If they got fired now, there’s no way they’ll get to stay in Green Bay. They’ll have to move to find work.” 

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/us-company-ban-muslim-prayer-breaks-just-did-193255402.html

Where does it all end?

At the Minneapolis airport a few years ago the Muslim cab drivers refused to carry passengers who had been drinking or were carrying alcohol.

Then at some Target stores some Muslim cashiers refused to check out customers who had purchased pork products.

St Cloud State University recently installed Muslim Foot Baths to appease their Muslim students and the public high schools in St Cloud have also allowed Muslim prayer rooms to be built.

I wonder what would happen if Christians tried to use the public foot bath to wash feet like Jesus did?Or how about if they asked to pray to Jesus using the Muslim prayer rooms at the schools?

What about the folks who worship the god Baal?  One of their worship practices is to have Temple prostitutes, male and female, and have sex with them as worship to Baal.  Would employers and public schools set aside a special place for Baal worship....so the men could "worship" and then get back to the assembly line with their minds clear and their god worshiped?

It's so ludicrous....I don't know where to start.

Sadly the world is turning upside down but there are SO FEW PEOPLE on planet earth who have a Biblical worldview that everyone else doesn't even realize they are upside down.

"Narrow is the path that leads to eternal life and FEW will find it."

62 People Control 1/2 of World's Wealth

I'm a capitalist.  Human nature dictates that people need some incentive to get up out of bed everyday and try to better themselves.  Socialism has always ended in death and misery for those living under it.

But something has gone very wrong with the rich folks gathering wealth over these past 50 years.

It used to be that the owner of a successful U.S. company could expect to earn 10-15 times more than his workers.  Now they demand to make 1000 times more.

Why?

Greed and a total lack of Biblical world view.

Just 62 people own as much as the poorest half of the world's population put together, according to a report by Oxfam.

The finding has sparked calls for urgent action to tackle the mounting "inequality crisis".

The aid charity said in 2010 the total wealth of the 388 richest people was needed to equal the poorest half of the world, but that number fell to 80 last year and stands at 62 now.

The Oxfam report, published ahead of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, also said the wealth of the richest 1% - around 73 million out of the world's 7.3 billion people - was now as much as everyone else on the planet combined.

World leaders, including David Cameron, are being urged by Oxfam to clampdown on tax-dodging by the rich, which it said was depriving poorer countries of cash that could be spent on education, health, and measures to combat poverty.

Here;  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/18/worlds-62-richest-as-wealthy-as-poorest-half-report-says.html

Of course the world's ONLY answer is to try and tax the rich people and close up all the loopholes to force them to pay more money.

Of course that won't work.

The problem is a problem of the human heart.  It's wicked....and all the laws in the world aren't going to fix that.  The human heart is beyond cure.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

It has been said that if you took all the wealth in the world and distributed it equally to every person on planet earth that within just a few generations all the once wealthy folks would be wealthy again and the poor would be poor again.  I believe it.

Did you see all the poor people spending their last few dollars on lottery tickets last week?

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Slams West Bank Settlements

Israel is God's Holy Land.  Yes, what the world calls the West Bank, God calls it Judea.

Now we read that the U.S. Ambassador to Israel thinks America knows better what should happen with that land.

TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S. ambassador to Israel criticized Israel's West Bank settlement policies at a high-profile security conference Monday, a rare public rebuke from Israel's top ally that drew an angry response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Daniel Shapiro said that Washington was "concerned and perplexed" over Israel's strategy of building West Bank settlements. Speaking to the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, a top Israeli think tank, he said Israel's continued expansion of settlements raises questions about Israel's intentions and its stated commitment to establishing an independent Palestinian state. Shapiro added that Israel had also legalized some West Bank outposts despite pledges to the United States not to do so.

"Too much vigilantism goes unchecked and at times there seem to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians," he said.

In the West Bank, Israelis are subject to Israeli civil law, while Palestinians are governed by Israeli military law, which offers far fewer legal protections. Palestinians and rights groups say that Israelis suspected in violence against Palestinians are rarely brought to justice, while Palestinian attackers are quickly arrested or killed.

The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din said Shapiro's comments were grounded in data they have been collecting that showed an 85 percent failure rate in investigating ideologically-motivated crimes by Israelis against Palestinians.

Over the past decade, the group says it has monitored the police's handling of 1,104 investigations opened following complaints of Palestinians. It says indictments were served against suspects in just 75 of these cases.

Shapiro's remarks sparked a terse response from Netanyahu, who said they were inappropriate at a time of heightened violence with the Palestinians.

On Sunday, an Israeli woman was stabbed to death by a Palestinian assailant in her home in a West Bank settlement. On Monday, another woman was stabbed and badly wounded in another West Bank settlement.

"The ambassador's comments, on a day when a mother of six is being buried and a pregnant woman is stabbed, are unacceptable and untrue," Netanyahu said. "Israel enforces the law on Israelis and Palestinians. The one responsible for the diplomatic stalemate is the Palestinian Authority, which continues to incite and refuses to negotiate."

Over the last four months, Palestinian attacks have killed 25 Israelis and an American student. At least 146 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire. Israel says 101 of them have been attackers while the rest have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

Israel contends that the violence is the result of a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement. The Palestinians argue it is rooted in frustrations over Israel's nearly 50-year occupation.

The international community considers the settlements, built on lands Israel captured in the 1967 war and claimed by the Palestinians, illegal or illegitimate.

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/18/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-us.html?_r=0

"I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.", says God to the nations who curse Israel.

It would seem that America wants to test whether or not this statement is true.

Now make a list of the nations who have cursed Israel and the Jews over that last few thousand years. Do you see any of them still at the helm of being a world power?  Spain?  Iraq?  Iran? Greece? England? Italy? Germany?  Turkey?

America is not mentioned ANYWHERE in Biblical prophecy as being around in the Last Days.  Why do you think that is?

The fact is that every nation has a shelf life...a start and an end.  Might America be approaching the end of it's shelf life?

We think so....

Press 1 for Spanish, 2 for Arabic, 3 for Farsi

It's a fact that the single factor that bonds a people group together is language.  Most likely it has been that way since God confused the people at the Tower of Babel about 4000 years ago.

What a travesty that now you can live and thrive in America without knowing a single word of English...."Press 1 for espanol" says just about every operator on every customer service site that a person can call.  We even broadcast multiple TV stations in Spanish!!

Today we find this article that Britain may be about to tackle this problem.

LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday threatened to deport spouses who don’t learn English as part of a wider government effort to stamp out segregation and tackle radicalization.

Speaking to the BBC, Cameron said that those who speak poor English are “more susceptible to the extremist message.”

Cameron also said the British government would spend £20 million ($28.6 million) on English lessons for women.

While the lessons will be targeted at immigrant woman from “isolated communities,” Cameron highlighted the Muslim community in particular, saying that there were 38,000 Muslim women in the U.K. who don’t speak any English, and 190,000 who spoke poor English.

Here;  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/18/britains-cameron-says-if-you-dont-learn-english-you-may-be-deported/

Uh-oh....looks like Mr Cameron may have touched the deadly third rail....he highlighted the MUSLIM COMMUNITY!!

Now let's just stand back and watch the liberal fur fly!!

"You can't do this!!!  It's racist!!"

Ummm....yes we can.

Just imagine if America had started teaching public schools in German, French, Norwegian or any other language that was coming to America.  Our great nation would have NEVER been able to accomplish all that we have.

Disney's "Magic" Wristband

Revelation 13
16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

We know it's coming!  We can see all the signs shaping up for the fulfillment of The Great Tribulation and here we find another one!  Disney is betting that people will want a magic wristband that let's you buy or sell anything in the magic kingdom!

IF YOU WANT to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disney World. Then, reserve a meal at a restaurant called Be Our Guest, using the Disney World app to order your food in advance.

The restaurant lies beyond a gate of huge fiberglass boulders, painstakingly airbrushed to look like crumbling remnants of the past. Crossing a cartoon-like drawbridge, you see the parapets of a castle rising beyond a snow-dusted ridge, both rendered in miniature to appear far away. The Gothic-styled entrance is teensy. Such pint-sized intimacy is a psychological hack invented by Walt Disney himself to make visitors feel larger than their everyday selves. It works. You feel like you’re stepping across the pages of a storybook.

If you’re wearing your Disney MagicBand and you’ve made a reservation, a host will greet you at the drawbridge and already know your name—Welcome Mr. Tanner! She’ll be followed by another smiling person—Sit anywhere you like! Neither will mention that, by some mysterious power, your food will find you.

“It’s like magic!” a woman says to her family as they sit. “How do they find our table?” The dining hall, inspired by Beauty and the Beast, features Baroque details but feels like a large, orderly cafeteria. The couple’s young son flits around the table, like a moth. After a few minutes, he settles into his chair without actually sitting down, as kids often do. Soon, their food arrives exactly as promised, delivered by a smiling young man pushing an ornately carved serving cart that resembles a display case at an old museum.

It’s surprising how the woman’s sensible question immediately fades, unanswered, in the rising aroma of French onion soup and roast beef sandwiches. This is by design. The family entered a matrix of technology the moment it crossed the moat, one geared toward anticipating their whims without offering the slightest clue how.

How do they find our table? The answer is around their wrists.

Their MagicBands, tech-studded wristbands available to every visitor to the Magic Kingdom, feature a long-range radio that can transmit more than 40 feet in every direction. The hostess, on her modified iPhone, received a signal when the family was just a few paces away. Tanner family inbound! The kitchen also queued up: Two French onion soups, two roast beef sandwiches! When they sat down, a radio receiver in the table picked up the signals from their MagicBands and triangulated their location using another receiver in the ceiling. The server—as in waitperson, not computer array—knew what they ordered before they even approached the restaurant and knew where they were sitting.

And it all worked seamlessly, like magic.

Here;  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013&version=NIV

You see friends, as we experience change pushing us toward The Tribulation, we are being prepared, slowly, to accept what will happen.  Of course the change has come at an incredible pace for the last 50 years but in the last 20 we simply aren't amazed anymore. We now have cell phones we can talk to and ask some lady named Siri any question imaginable and she will answer us!

When the future government says they will quit taking cash as any form of payment but instead prefer VISA CARDS, PAYPAL or ETF....no one will bat an eye!

A few years later when all the retail stores announce they will quit accepting cash, no one will bat an eye!  We will just let them swipe our $zeroes directly from our iPhone app!

A few years after that the global government will announce that in order to save money printing, transporting and guarding cash, stop the spread of germs and to discourage drugs and sex trade there will no longer be ANY CASH issued.  The entire economy will now transact on electronic transactions.

Hello Antichrist!  We saw you coming we just didn't think it was gonna happen so fast!

Hat tip to Tom F.

Iran Prepping for Armageddon?

Many followers of Christ, including me, believe that there will be a time when Jesus will return in time to put an end to the battles of Armageddon.  We believe it because Jesus said it and Jesus is the perfecter of our faith and the Creator of the Universe....so what He says merits our attention.

But what if you believed that the world was going to come to an end and the Islamic Mahdi was going to show up, kill all the Jews and Christians and usher in the 13th Caliphate to rule the world with Shariah law?  And what if you believed that it was YOUR JOB to help cause the chaos necessary for the Mahdi to come?

And lastly, what if you believed all that and had access to armies, tanks and atomic weapons?

Iran has prepared almost 200,000 young men in countries across the Middle East to help with the arrival of the Mahdi, a Muslim leader who will usher in justice prior to the Day of Judgment, a Revolutionary Guard commander said earlier this week. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said recent violence across the region, including the rise of the Islamic State group, was a sign the arrival of the messianic Muslim leader was imminent, the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reported.

Jafari said the current developments in the region, “the formation of [the Islamic State group] and Takfiri [extremist] groups, and the events that occurred in the past years are paving the ground for the emergence of Imam Mahdi,” Middle East Monitor reported. "You can now see the positive results in the readiness of nearly 200,000 young armed in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.”

Shiite Muslims generally believe the Mahdi will arrive following a period of widespread violence and instability, and will usher in justice and an event like the Armageddon, the conclusive battle between good and evil. The comments come as Iran has grown increasingly entangled with several regional conflicts, including in Syria, where Revolutionary Guard forces have been battling to support the embattled dictator Bashar Assad.

The conflict, which has broken down along sectarian lines, has given rise to apocalyptic theories, as war in the region was prophesied by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the Syrian war, and millions more have been displaced.

Several regional leaders expressed disapproval of the Iranian general’s statement, reported Asharq al-Awsat, a London-based Arabic language newspaper. A spokesman for the Yemeni government said Jafari’s comments were seen as “direct aggression against Yemen and a violation of its sovereignty.” Houthis have been battling the Yemeni government for months and are believed to be backed by Iran.

The region has seen intensified sectarian tensions in recent weeks, particularly in the aftermath of the execution of a popular Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia, a country with a Sunni majority. The execution sparked protests in Shiite communities across several Muslim countries, including in Iran where protesters attacked the Saudi embassy.

Saudi Arabia and several of its predominantly-Sunni allies in the region cut diplomatic ties with Iran following the embassy attack. The execution and outcry that followed was seen as exacerbating already tense relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, two of the Middle East’s major powers.

Here;  http://www.ibtimes.com/iran-preparing-armageddon-islamic-republic-backs-shiites-syria-iraq-afghanistan-2267065

I'm sure you all saw that Iran was the top headline story AGAIN this morning.  They released five Americans they had detained for various bogus claims including one Christian pastor.  Today was also the day the $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets were set to be released since Iran supposedly honored their end of the nuclear agreement that Team Obama made with them.

Now ask yourselves, in what alternate reality could it possibly be a good idea to release $100 billion to a country that is one of the world's top sponsors of Islamic terrorism?

Also please note that Iran just arrested some U.S. Sailors last week and even though they are signatories of the Geneva Convention which strictly prohibits taking pictures of POW's in uniform....Iran proudly showed the video all over the world of their American prisoners bowing at the barrels of Iranian soldiers.

So now Iran has showed the world they can mock the US military AND STILL GET $100 billion released by Team Obama.

Iran is a NAMED PLAYER OF THE LAST DAYS IN THE BIBLE.  They were called Persia until 1935.  The fact that they are in the news EVERY DAY should not surprise Bible readers.  They are coming up on stage exactly as the Bible said they would.