Mohamed Attacks in Ohio

When we heard today that a dude hacked some people in Ohio with a machete, we wondered what his name might be?  Chris?  John? Frank?

Nope.

Surprise!  His name was Mohamed.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-machete-attacker-acted-his-own-police-say-n517716

I'm sure the liberals are already out there reminding us that Islam doesn't have a problem?

Trump's Ban on Muslims

As most of us know Donald Trump called for a temporary ban on letting Muslim refugees come flooding into America until Congress can figure out "what the hell is going on."

Of course the liberals and the media went ballistic and made fun of The Donald in every conceivable way they could. They simply couldn't say the word "ridiculous" any more than they did.

But did The Donald actually make a good suggestion?  Europe is imploding because of all the Islamic refugees they let flood in.  Isn't the President of the United States sworn to protect us against all enemies....foreign AND domestic?

Trump's call to ban the entry of Muslims to the U.S. seemed to indicate that it should be temporary, until the American leadership has figured out what in the complex reality of the Muslim world – religious, political, economic, cultural, and so on– contributes to turning a significant portion of Muslims into jihadi operatives at war with the United States.

Despite numerous terrorist attacks carried out by extremist Muslims inside the United States, Americans have not turned against their Muslim neighbors; on the contrary, Americans and Europeans in general have continued to be accommodating, tolerant, even protective, of Muslims in their midst, in keeping with their secular and liberal democratic values.

Americans have watched the unabated spread of terrorism and warfare in the name of Islam; the intensity of hatred in Muslim countries directed towards the United States; the attacks on Americans by extremist Muslims, and the betrayals by Muslim countries that have been receiving American assistance, such as Pakistan.

The elite in Muslim-majority states is mostly, if not entirely, responsible for the wretched state of affairs that has left those states at the bottom of the list of countries when measured in terms of economic development, human rights, gender equality, education, freedom and democracy.

For the elite in third world societies, a getaway to America has meant a readily available exit to avoid being held accountable for their misdeeds.

Herein lies the irony of a Trump's proposed ban: it would greatly affect the Muslim elite and, consequently, compel them to begin taking responsibility for how they have mismanaged their societies and impoverished their people.

Here;  http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7364/trump-ban-muslims

Wow!  Islam really is a blight on the planet.  It breeds ignorance, corruption and mayhem everyplace it goes.

HOW CAN THE LIBERALS be so blind to this reality?

The only thing we can propose is that the DELUSION has started.  Those people who have rejected Jesus Christ are simply losing their ability to connect the dots and to think logically.

Pope and Patriarch Meet After 1000 Year Schism

The Pope is meeting the leader of the Russian Orthodox church in Cuba today.  This hasn't happened since the Catholic Church had a split in the year 1054.

The meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Cuba on February 12 may turn out to be not only the most significant ecclesiastical event, but one of the most momentous political events in recent years.

Since the schism of 1054 when the church separated into an Eastern and Western part, the differences have been irreconcilable and the two have not engaged in any dialogue. Leaders, political and military, know the strategy of divide and conquer. Although the Eastern Church, as well as its Western sister, has seen enormous development after the schism and has created cultural progress, the rule that division weakens an entity also applies to Christianity.

The church in Russia was oppressed and weakened under the Communist regime, and the Western church has been engaged in a struggle against the tide of secularization and the religion of scientism since the Enlightenment. In recent times both parts of the church have been under pressure, culminating now in persecution of Christians on a massive scale.

This trend is global, but is particularly severe in the Middle East, where ISIS commits horrible atrocities against Christians, as well as monasteries and churches. The persecution even threatens to remove Christianity from the lands whence the faith originated.

The persecutions in the Middle East are the immediate cause of the meeting. According to the Pope’s spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi and Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, the meeting has been considered for a number of years. Nonetheless, the announcement was a surprise when it was made, just one week before it was to take place. As recently as January this year, Hilarion denied that a meeting was being planned. Now it seems the political situation in the Middle East, the horrible persecution of Christians and the threat of destruction of the Christian community in the region have compelled the Pope and the Patriarch to agree to meet as soon as possible.

The meeting is intended to produce a joint declaration signed by both church leaders. Its character will not be theological, as dialogue in this area is held within the framework of the International Commission for dialogue between the Catholic Church and all the Orthodox Churches. It will be a statement on the various aspects of cooperation and shared testimony that the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church can offer the world today. In particular, it will address the problem of persecution of Christians in the Middle East, but also the issues of secularization, the protection of life, marriage and the family.

This means that the meeting springs from the need and desire of the churches to form a joint front, or joint ministry to a world disintegrating before our eyes: moral decay, political depravity and dissolution of values. World War III looms like darkness threatening to engulf us all with the rising tension in Syria and Turkey, Western proxy wars and Russia’s intervention. Not to mention the growing tensions between the West and Russia springing from the crisis in Ukraine.

The ability of the patriarch and the pope to rise above their disagreements to address the far more serious problem of persecution of Christians offers an example to be emulated by politicians. Uniting to overcome a greater evil is the solution the global community ought now to pursue. A fragmented Western world will be fatally unable to stand up to radical Islam. Which other Christian voice can now speak with the authority needed when liberal democracy is becoming increasingly feeble in its struggle against radicalized Islam?

A church united on this matter can therefore achieve enormous political impact without casting the Patriarch or the Pope in the role of world politicians. 

Here;  https://www.rt.com/op-edge/332167-christians-pope-patriarch-meeting-cuba/

Why is this interesting?  Because it appears to move us closer to the day when there will be a one-world-religion...and the Pope seems to be at the center of just about every effort to pull the world's religions together.

Could the Pope be the False Prophet spoken of in Revelation?

We have no idea.

However, if the Rapture happened today we believe he may be a great candidate for the job.

Fear of Vengeful Gods

I ran across this article from a science journal.  They make an attempt to explain how it seemed to benefit the "evolution" of mankind when men believed there was a vengeful God who was watching them and willing to punish them.

Belief in an all-seeing punitive god motivates people to be more charitable towards strangers outside their own family and community, particularly to those of similar beliefs, researchers have found.

A study, published Wednesday in Nature, suggests religiosity may contribute to greater cooperation and collaboration despite geographic separation.

“People may trust in, cooperate with and interact fairly within wider social circles, partly because they believe that knowing gods will punish them if they do not,” the study’s authors wrote.

“Moreover, the social radius within which people are willing to engage in behaviors that benefit others at a cost to themselves may enlarge as gods’ powers to monitor and punish increase.”

To explore these ideas, researchers studied 591 people from eight diverse communities in Brazil, Mauritius, Siberia, Tanzania, Fiji and Vanuatu.

People in these communities adhere to a wide array of religions such as Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism as well as local traditions such as animism and ancestor worship.

The participants played a game in which they were given the option to exercise financial favoritism towards themselves and their local community, or to be completely impartial by obeying the roll of a die, which could mean giving money to a distant person of the same religion.

In an accompanying commentary, Dominic D P Johnson from the University of Oxford pointed out the study did not explore whether the influence of an all-seeing powerful punisher on fairness would extend to individuals from different or no religious persuasion.

However, he said, the results offered “the most explicit evidence yet that belief in supernatural punishment has been instrumental in boosting cooperation in human societies."

Here;  http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/fear-of-vengeful-gods-may-have-helped-societies-expand-160211.htm

Funny!  Our Creator did tell us to love our neighbors as ourselves.  He did tell us to take care of the stranger.  He did tell us not to murder anyone, not to steal any one's spouse, not to lie, cheat or steal anything!

He also told us that He loved us so much that he was willing to send His Son to make atonement for us because He knew what a MISERABLE  job we would do keeping His commands!

And yes, He did warn us that if we rejected His Son, there would be NO OTHER WAY to enter eternal life and live with Him forever.

Thank you Jesus for saving a wretch like me!!

Israel to Build Fence Around Entire Nation

Netanyahu has announced Israel's plans to put up a fence around the whole country.  He said they need to protect themselves against the 'carnivorous animals' that live in their neighborhood.

I'm guessing "carnivorous animals" means a certain stripe of angry Muslims, hell-bent on killing Jews and destroying Israel?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced his intention to “surround the entire State of Israel with a fence,” including sealing off openings in the West Bank security barrier.

Speaking during a tour of the Jordan border area in the south, Netanyahu said the extensive project would also address the potential threat of cross-border tunnels into Israeli territory.

“If you’re thinking of erecting a fence there you have to take into account that they could tunnel underneath it,” Netanyahu said. “The people who said that there is no significance to [retaining] territory in the modern age should go to Gaza.”

In its 2014 conflict with Israel, the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, as well as firing thousands of rockets and mortar shells into Israel, used a network of subterranean passages to infiltrate Israeli territory, launch attacks and in one case, during fighting inside Gaza, kidnap the body of an IDF soldier.

“In our neighborhood, we need to protect ourselves from the carnivorous animals,” Netanyahu said in an apparent reference to extremist Islamist movements.

Unlike the borders with Egypt and Jordan, where both sides of the fence are in relatively open areas, Netanyahu hinted at potential problems implementing a reinforced barrier in West Bank “where you have built up areas, buildings along the separation line.”

But, the prime minister added, Israel is “formulating a plan to seal off the openings in the security fence in the West Bank.”

“At the end of the day, in the State of Israel as I see it, there will be a fence like this one [the border fence with Jordan currently under construction] surrounding its entirety…We will surround the entire State of Israel with a fence, a barrier.”

Netanyahu called the border project a part of a “multi-year plan to surround the entire State of Israel with security fences to protect ourselves in the current and projected Middle East.”

The project, which is also set to include a new fence along the border with the Gaza Strip, will cost “many billions,” he said.

Here;  http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-unveils-plan-to-surround-the-entire-state-with-a-fence/

Let's watch and see if the world has a cow when they read this announcement.

Of course Israel might be seizing on the best time to announce and build a wall, because the world is watching the chaos that is happening in Europe.  They may be connecting the dots and understanding that THIS is what happens when YOU DON'T have walls.

NASA Bans Jesus

We know the world hates Jesus.  Darkness doesn't like the light.

However, I still think it is surprising to a lot of us Bible readers just HOW FAST that America flipped over.

We went from a place where most of the nation believed that the Bible could be trusted and Jesus was celebrated.....to a country where the Bible is mocked and Jesus can't be spoken of without getting in trouble with someone.

Today, we discover that NASA seems to have a rub with Jesus.

The name of Jesus is not welcome in the Johnson Space Center newsletter, according to a complaint filed on behalf of a group of Christians who work for NASA.

The JSC Praise & Worship Club was directed by NASA attorneys to refrain from using the name ‘Jesus’ in club announcements that appeared in a Space Center newsletter.

“It was shocking to all of us and very frustrating,” NASA engineer Sophia Smith told me. “NASA has a long history of respecting religious speech. Why wouldn’t they allow us to put the name Jesus in the announcement about our club?”

Liberty Institute, one of the nation’s largest religious liberty law firms, threatened to file a federal lawsuit unless NASA apologizes and stops censoring the name ‘Jesus’.

The JSC Today newsletter is distributed electronically and includes a number of Space Center events – from salsa dancing lessons to soccer camp. 

NASA issued a statement late Monday – that did not refute Liberty Institute’s charge.

“NASA does not prohibit the use of any specific religious names in employee newsletters or other internal communications. The agency allows a host of employee-led civic, professional, religious and other organizations to meet on NASA property on employee’s own time. Consistent with federal law, NASA attempts to balance employee’s rights to freely exercise religious beliefs with its obligation to ensure there is no government endorsement of religion. We believe in and encourage open and diverse dialogue among our employees and across the agency.”

Since 2001, employees had gathered during their lunch hour to pray and sing and read the Bible. There had been no censorship issues until last year.

Liberty Institute attorney Jeremy Dys told me the club had placed an announcement in the Space Center’s newsletter – announcing the theme of their meeting, “Jesus is our life.”

Following is the complete posting that appeared in the May 28, 2015 edition of JSC Today:

Join with the praise and worship band “Allied with the Lord” for a refreshing set of spring praise and worship songs on Thursday, June 4, from 11:15 a.m. to noon in Building 57, Room 106. (The theme for this session will be “Jesus is our life!”) Prayer partners will be available for anyone who has need. All JSC civil servants and contractors are welcome.

“Soon after that, the legal department called the organizers and told them they could not use the name Jesus in their announcements,” Dys told me. “They said, no Jesus.”

Here;  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/02/08/nasa-bans-word-jesus.html

"No Jesus!"

It makes me wonder if NASA would also say, "No Mohammad!"

Muslims Plan for Their Messiah

The demonically led rapists and murderers of ISIS are expecting the Islamic Messiah to come soon.  He is known as the Mahdi. ISIS is made up of Sunni Muslims. They believe global chaos will bring about his return and they want to be agents of chaos to spur his return.

The apocalyptic regime in Iran, (whom Obama just appeased) is also expecting an Islamic messiah to come soon.  He is also known as the Mahdi. Iran is made up of mostly Shi'ite Muslims.  They believe global chaos will bring his return and they want to help make the chaos.

So why is Iran is currently fighting in Syria alongside the Russians trying to exterminate ISIS if they are both wanting the same thing?

Well....it's complicated.....

Read on.....

The Islamic Mahdi is eagerly awaited by various sects of Muslims around the world, but most notably ISIS and Iranian leaders. Both share the belief in the establishment of a global Islamic state and in the annihilation of non-Muslim nations. And both are actively working towards the fulfillment of the prophecies that would see the Mahdi rule the world.

While there are differences about the details of who he is and what he will do, both share the belief in the establishment of a global Islamic state under his rule and in the annihilation of non-Muslim nations. And both are actively working towards the fulfillment of the prophecies that would see the Mahdi rule the world.

As Dr. Majid Rafizadeh further explains in his recent analysis for frontpagemag.com, these apocalyptic Muslims also believe that this is The End for non-Muslims. As such, Muslims should prepare the world for the coming of the Imam Mahdi (also known as Muhammad al Mahdi) who would establish global Islamic rule and eradicate non-Muslims.

Apocalyptic Muslims have long believed that the appearance of the Mahdi would coincide with a civil war in the lands of sham [Syria], which will destroy the country. In addition, Iraq will be in engulfed with domestic military conflict. They also believe that other non-Muslims will become vulnerable to Muslims and Islamic rulers.

It's interesting to note all the developments that have been taking place especially over the past few years, encouraging and lending credence to the beliefs and hopes of apocalyptic Muslims. But who exactly is this Mahdi expected to be?

According to Dr. Rafizadeh, the Shiite clerics of Iran believe that Mahdi is the child of Muhammad, the hidden Imam and the twelfth Imam. They argue that Muhammad al- Mahdi was born thousands of years ago and disappeared to reappear later when certain signs emerge. On the other hand, the apocalyptic Muslim leaders of the Islamic State believe that Mahdi has not yet been born but this is the time that he will appear in the world.

More importantly, anyone who rules the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic State (currently Khamenei and Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi) considers himself as the only true representative of Imam Mahdi on earth, so long as the Mahdi remains hidden.

This belief is hinged on prophecies attributed to the prophet Muhammed: "Even if the entire duration of the world's existence has already been exhausted and only one day is left before Doomsday, Allah will expand that day to such length of time as to accommodate the kingdom of a person from my Ahlul-Bayt [family of Muhammad] who will be called by my name..."

Neither Iran nor ISIS is passively waiting around for this outcome; rather they are actively and aggressively pushing for its speedy realization. As Michael Kaplan for Ibtimes.com recently reported, Iran has prepared almost 200,000 young men in countries across the Middle East to help with the arrival of the Mahdi, according to Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari.

Here;  http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=102

Hey!....wait a second....could this dude, the Mahdi, actually be the the dude that Revelation says will come sailing in on the white horse of peace but end up deceiving the world...like the Antichrist?

Remember friends, the Antichrist will not be revealed until after the rapture of the church.  The restraining force of the Holy Spirit is what is currently holding him back.  And when the Holy Spirit filled humans of earth are taken away with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet call of God....crazy, crazy stuff will happen on planet earth!  Everything from Revelation 4 on will happen after the Rapture.

Author Joel Richardson believes the Antichrist will be a Muslim.

Book of Daniel says the Antichrist will come from the Romans because they are the ones who destroyed the Temple in 70 AD.

Richardson says it was Arab soldiers in the Roman army who were actually given the task of destroying the Temple in 70 AD.

Others say the Antichrist will have to be Jewish since, if he wasn't, he would never be allowed to sit in the 3rd Temple and declare himself to be God.

What if he ends up being a Muslim whose mother was Jewish?  Would that work?

All we know for sure is that there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who want the Jews and Christians all killed and they are working hard for the day when their Messiah will return and kill everyone who ISIS and Iran haven't killed already.

This whole Muslim mess is not going to end well!  I don't care how many COEXIST stickers you plant on the bumper of your Prius.....those stickers will not stop a horde of passionate, hate-filled Muslims with a death wish and a desire to see Allah and the Mahdi take over planet earth.

Can I remind you of one other thing?  We know that Mohammad/Satan/Koran stole things from the Bible and twisted them for their own demonic purposes.  Revelation tells us that one day Jesus will return and slaughter all the people who haven't accepted him.  His robe will be splattered with blood and the blood will flow to the depth of a horse's bridle.  I'm guessing Islam stole this passage and twisted it to say Mahdi was going to return to slaughter all the Jews and Christians.

The huge difference is that Jesus reminds his follower to NOT TAKE VENGEANCE because He tells us that "Vengeance is mine!"  Followers of Christ don't want to kill anyone.  True followers of Muhammad and Allah seem to want to kill lots of people themselves!  We witness it everyday with suicide bombings.

Asteroid Coming to Earth?

Have you noticed all the movies/TV shows made in the last 20 years that have something to do with a massive asteroid slamming into earth and killing lots of people?  Or the one with Bruce Willis where he is sent up in space to set off a nuke on an asteroid to save planet earth?

Are these just interesting movies or are we being prepared for something?  If so, by who is preparing us...and for what?

Check out this article that was on Google News today that speaks of an asteroid coming our way.

Keep your binocular aside and get ready to watch a 30-meter wide asteroid zoom past earth so close that we will be able to watch it in the sky. The asteroid, 2013 TX68, will not impact earthlings during its flyby on March 5, but it may pose some threat in near future, as per the NASA.

When the asteroid will pass close to earth, it will be just 18,000km away from us, or 14 million kilometers. It will definitely not crash down on earth this year, but there are chances that it may hit us in 2017.

What will happen if the 2013 TX68 asteroid will have a collision with earth? According to the NASA, the space body will pose no threat to earth and its people. If 2013 TX68 hit our planet, it will just produce an air burst of about twice the energy of the Chelyabinsk event, the NASA added.

“The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern. I fully expect any future observations to reduce the probability even more”, said Paul Chodas, manager of the CNEOS, in a press release of NASA.

Science community has also said that the 2013 TX68 will not impact life on Earth. About three years ago, a 15-meter-wide asteroid hit earth in Chelyabinsk, Russia. That time, it released a shock wave that led to broken windows and damaged buildings in the area. More than 1,500 people were injured, as per reports.

The new near-earth asteroid will come closer to earth than our moon ever does. Scientists around the world will be monitoring the rare event that may not occur for a long time.

Wired News reported that, Asteroid impacts, even those much smaller than the 10 kilometer dino killer that hit the Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago, have fundamentally altered the history of life on Earth. In addition to being crazy portents of doom, they have brought organic material and maybe even water to the Earth’s surface.

Here;  http://nhv.us/content/16024241-nasa-says-2013-tx68-will-miss-earth-next-month-may-have

So it's not going to hit us this year....but there is a chance it may hit us in 2017?

But fear not, if it does hit it will only be twice as big as that massive fireball that rocked that city in Russia a few years ago.  It won't be an extinction level event!

Whew!!  Good to know!!

NBC just started airing a show a few weeks ago on Thursday nights called YOU, ME AND THE APOCALYPSE.

I have watched the first two episodes to see what the story line is.  Turns out there is a massive meteor heading to planet earth that is expected to kill about everybody.  The US President announces it to the world with 34 days left til impact.  One of the characters is a Catholic priest and he is given the task by the Vatican to explore if this world-ending event has anything to do with the RETURN OF CHRIST!!  The priest is played by Rob Lowe and the show is a comedy!!

Friends, you simply can't make this stuff up!

Of course the Prince of this world knows what Revelation says....

Revelation 8
8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

Hmmmm.....sure sounds like some meteors are going to smash into planet earth and royally affect all those folks on earth who have rejected Christ and been left behind.

Latest Signs of Financial Turmoil

The powers that control planet earth want us to believe that everything is looking great for the world's financial markets.  Job growth is up!!  Budget surplus in MN!  Unemployment applications down! Gas prices down!  Inflation totally within acceptable limits!!  Corporate balance sheets are great!!

But are things really that great?

We found this article a few days ago in the New York Times and now it would seem that even the liberals might be asking questions about why global financial markets are so volatile.

European stock indexes have closed lower, adding to recent losses amid heightened market volatility around the globe.

The governor of the Bank of France, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, claims the volatility in financial markets is "excessive."

Greece's stock market has fallen to its lowest level since 1989 while the country's borrowing rates in the bond markets have spiked up to levels last seen during the more acute phases of its crisis.

Confidence in the global economy remains "strikingly low," according to FXTM research analyst Lukman Otunuga.

The selling pressure across Europe's stock markets has intensified, with worries over the health of the region's banks at the forefront of investor concerns.

One sign the global economy is not as healthy as many had hoped has been the collapse in the price of oil.

The recovery in Europe's stock markets is fading as futures markets predicted a lower opening on Wall Street.

Perhaps more remarkable than the 5.4 percent reverse posted by Japan's main stock market was the news that the interest rate on the country's benchmark 10-year bond became negative for the first time ever.

Gold has been on the rise as the precious metal benefited from its perception among investors as a safe haven. On Monday, it rose to just shy of $1,200 an ounce, its highest level since last June.

Banks have been at the forefront of the selling pressure in Europe in recent days as investors worry about their ability to deal with a worse-than-anticipated global economic outlook.

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/09/world/europe/ap-financial-markets-the-latest.html

As we have said numerous times, the Bible tells us that one day the world's financial system will collapse....and when it happens it will happen in a flash!!  In one hour!!!

Revelation 18
11 “The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore— 12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; 13 cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
14 “They will say, ‘The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.’ 15 The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn 16 and cry out:

“‘Woe! Woe to you, great city,
    dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
    and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!
17 In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’

We tend to believe that the world will continue to have a functioning financial system until after the rapture.

Why?

Because Jesus told us conditions will be pretty much "normal" on planet earth up until the time He comes for us in the rapture.  "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be...."

People will be eating, drinking, shopping, marrying, planting, reaping, etc...

After the rapture we believe the world will be in chaos but not total anarchy.

Why?

Because the Antichrist will need to come in and offer up a GLOBAL SOLUTION to the sudden problem of so many millions of Americans vanishing.  Think about it...America is the current anchor-foundation to the entire global financial system....and the rapture will have serious implications to the U.S. dollar continuing to be the RESERVE CURRENCY of the system.

Into this vacuum will step a charismatic world leader.  He will offer up some type of new world order which will include a cashless, electronic financial system that all parties will need to register with in order to use it.

We believe that what we are seeing today, as we read the above article, is the foreshadowing of the events that will crash the current system in order to make way for the new one.

"So Dennis!  What the heck are we supposed to do?  I'm scared!!  What's going to happen to all my money I've worked so hard for?  What happens if I lose my precious house, my precious retirement plan, my social security, my savings at the bank, my cash in my gun vault??"

Jesus tells us all to hold the things of this world VERY loosely.  When we grip our hands around anything and close them up tight...Jesus can't remove things that are a hindrance to us and also he can't put anything in your hands that he wants you to have.

Let's all be asking the Holy Spirit what He wants each of us to be doing in these Last Days.  I guarantee you that He will not give us all the same answer.  For some of us it might be best if He takes it all...because He knows our stuff has become a false idol.

For others He might put the cattle from a thousand hills into their hands...because He knows they can handle it and will use their new found abundance for Kingdom work.

Think about it.....

Are we scared....or are we obedient?

Russia Warns That Turkey is Planning a Syria Invasion

The wars and rumors of war continue to build in the Middle East.

Today we find a report from Russia that Turkey is planning a military invasion of Syria.

Developments on the Turkish-Syrian border give serious grounds to suspect that Ankara is planning a military invasion in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“We have serious grounds to suspect intensive preparations by Turkey for a military invasion on the territory of the sovereign state of Syria,” Major General Igor Konashenkov, Defense Ministry spokesman, told journalists.

“We are recording more and more signs of concealed preparations by the Turkish military,” he added.

The spokesman reminded that Moscow had previously provided the international community with irrefutable video evidence of Turkish artillery firing on Syrian populated areas in the north of Latakia Province.

“We are surprised that the talkative representatives of the Pentagon, NATO and numerous organizations allegedly protecting human rights in Syria, despite our call to respond to these actions, still remain silent [on the shelling by Turkey],” he said.

Turkey is supplying terrorists in the Syrian cities of Idlib and Aleppo with manpower and weaponry, Konashenkov said.

The spokesman showed the media a photo of the Reyhanli checkpoint, saying that “through this very border crossing – mainly at nighttime – the militants, who seized the city of Aleppo and Idlib in northwestern Syria, are being supplied with arms and fighters from the Turkish territory.”

Turkey is trying to conceal its illegal military activity on the border with Syria and has canceled an agreed Russian observation flight over its territory because of that, Konashenkov said.

“Such steps carried out by a country, which is a NATO member state, in no way contribute to the strengthening of trust and security in Europe,” the spokesman told journalists.

Konashenkov called the cancellation of the Russian observation flight over Turkish territory “a dangerous precedent and an attempt to conceal illegal military activity near the border with Syria.”

The violation of the Open Skies Treaty by Ankara won’t go without a proper response from Moscow, he said.

Konashenkov also said Russia has boosted all kinds of intelligence and surveillance activities in the Middle East.

“So if someone in Ankara thinks that the cancellation of the flight by the Russian observers will enable hiding something then that’s quite amateurish.”

Here;  http://www.eurasiareview.com/05022016-russia-claims-turkey-planning-military-invasion-of-syria/

For all of you prophecy readers who are paying attention to Ezekiel 38, we know that Russia, Iran and Turkey will one day form a coalition and set their sights on Israel.

So even though this tension between Russia and Turkey seems counterproductive in bringing about that prophecy...we can rest assured the SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN that will put this coalition formation back on track.

Russia and Iran are already fighting together in Syria...right on Israel's doorstep.  Now Turkey just needs to smooth over it's spat with Russia get on board!

As you also know, Israel recently discovered massive amounts of natural gas and oil.  This could be the "booty" spoken of in Ezekiel 38 that Russia seeks from Israel?  It could also be the "hook in the jaw" that God uses to draw them out onto the battle field....where they will be decimated by the hand of God.

Wow!  Amazing times we are witnessing!!