Sex With Animals Remains Banned in Germany

Have you ever heard this when you are in a debate with a liberal?  "If people are born with a sexual desire then it should be their human right to pursue it!"  Of course the liberal is typically arguing his beliefs on gay sex and how there is nothing wrong with it.

I will then ask the same liberal, "So if a person is born with a desire to have sex with animals, should that be allowed, encouraged and celebrated too?"

At this point in the discussion, I've had liberals say, "That's sick and ridiculous!  No one says that! No one is out there having sex with animals!"

At which point I have to say, "Are you kidding me?  Of course there are!  So are you telling me that you are intolerant of people who enjoy animal sex?  Well then you are beastophobic!"

After all, if someone can call people who disapprove of gay sex, "homophobic"....then it stands to reason that someday, someone will start calling people who disapprove of human-animal sex, 'beastophobic".

But mark my words, the news about bestiality is going to end up in our headline news more and more as we slide further and further into these last days.

Here is today's headline from BBC

Sex with animals remains banned in Germany as legal bid fails

Two complainants have failed in their attempt to get Germany's constitutional court to consider their claim against the laws banning sex with animals.

The two unnamed individuals say they are sexually attracted to animals.

They sought to get the court in Karlsruhe to consider whether the existing rules are unconstitutional.
But the court threw out their claim, ruling that the effect of the ban on the complainants' right to sexual self-determination was justified.

The court said that protecting animal welfare by seeking to prevent them being the victim of sexual assaults was a legitimate aim of the law - which remains unchanged after the court's decision.

Germany's animal protection laws set out fines of up to €25,000 ($27,700; £19,000) for forcing animals to participate in what is termed as unnatural behaviour.

Here;  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35611906

Of course the proponents of human-animal sex will testify that while some animals may not want to participate in this "unnatural behavior" that there are, in fact, many animals who are more than willing to engage.

These laws will be challenged more and more as men and women continue to rebel against God and get more wicked and more perverted.

The Bible mentions bestiality in four different passages. Exodus 22:19 says, “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.” Leviticus 18:23 declares, “Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.” Leviticus 20:15-16 commands, “If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” Deuteronomy 27:21 agrees, “Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal.” From these verses, it is abundantly clear that, according to the Bible, bestiality is a horrible, unnatural, and abominable sin.

Judges 21:25
25 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

In these Last Days, the world refuses to listen, believe or obey God's word;  everyone does as they see fit.

Confrontation Coming With China?

China is flexing its muscles as it continues to manufacture sand bars in the South China Sea and then claims them as "territory" and then lays claim to the oceans around the sand bar as National Waters.

Of course this has disturbed many nations like Japan, Philippines, and Viet Nam.

USA has reportedly sent Navy ships into the area to continue sailing through these International Waters....realizing that if we cease sailing there it will become a "use it or lose it" situation.

The disputed waters are home to shipping lanes where some $5 trillion of merchandise flow through every year.

China has deployed anti-aircraft missiles on a disputed South China Sea island in a major escalation of tensions with the United States over the world’s most lucrative shipping lanes.

Taiwan’s defence ministry told The Telegraph that it has confirmed the existence of the missiles on an island in the Paracel chain that are occupied by Beijing but also claimed by Taipei and Vietnam.
Commercial satellite photographs obtained by Fox News appeared to show that Beijing has placed two batteries of eight missile launchers with a reported distance of 125 miles and radar-targeting equipment on Woody island.

A US official later told the New York Times that the Pentagon also has “evidence”, believed to be satellite imagery, that the Chinese military has deployed surface-to-air missiles on the island.
China later appeared to defended the installation at a regular media briefing. Hong Lei, a foreign ministry spokesman, said that while he was not aware of the specifics of a missile deployment, any armaments would be used for defence and were not part of a military build-up.

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi dodged questions when asked about the reports at a press conference, criticising the Western media for the “creation” of news stories. 

President Xi Jinping has previously pledged not to “militarise” the region. But the missiles represented a significant new stage in Beijing’s claim on the 1.35 million-square-mile waters through which ships carrying $5 trillion of international trade pass each year.

The reports of the deployment pose a fresh challenge from Beijing to Barack Obama who had struck a defiant tone over the South China Seas just a few hours earlier at the end of a summit with leaders of South East Asian nations.

To Beijing’s fury, the US has sent Navy ships and Air Force planes on patrols across the waterways recently in a signal that it does not recognise China’s claim.

“The United States will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows,” Mr Obama said in California before the news of the missiles emerged.

He called for “tangible steps to lower tensions including a halt to further reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed areas”.

Here;  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/12160782/China-missile-island-south-sea-Paracel.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM88763&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Wor_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Wor_New_2016_02_17&utm_campaign=DM88763

Ouch!!  Missiles deployed?  Tough talk?  US Navy heading that way to?

Oh yes, and please remember that China's economy is in a miserable situation BUT THEY OWN HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN USA DEBT!!

In essence, USA has been borrowing money from China so that we can afford our massive military expenditures.

Is it just me?....or does the world seem like its heading into a massive pickle...as the nations rage.

Acts 4:25 
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: “‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

A Famine of Biblical Knowledge

How many of us have been "doing" church since we were little kids?  How many sermons have we listened to?  How many times have we taken communion?  How many of us could explain to someone else even the basic story of the Bible...Old Testament and New?

Answer?

Very, very few.

Most Christians know enough about the Bible to be dangerous.

The Bible in America is a massive industry ($2.5 billion) yet it is the best seller few read and fewer understand.

The Bible has become a moving target. One can strip it down, twist it, misread it, add to it, supplement it, and even overrule it, and, unfortunately, 95 percent of the congregation will not realize it.

Why? Because Americans no longer know the Bible. The evidence is overpowering that contemporary Christianity is Bible-ish, at best, and at worst, in some cases, Bible-less.

The American Bible Society releases an annual State of the Bible report and their research is persuasive in understanding the declining influence of the Bible in America.

Everyone has an opinion about the Bible. Politicians attempt to use the Bible, Grammy-award winners quote it and Hollywood has portrayed it on the big screen.

Yet one problem remains: most are oblivious to the Bible s basic content, meaning, and message.

Across the pond, the results are even more dramatic: one-third of British parents thought Harry Potter was a thematic plotline derived from the Bible.

The Bible is not held in the esteem it once was. Over the last 150 years, America has drifted from its Biblical focus. In an election season, it is remarkable to recall that, though he was not a member of any church, the Bible was valued as an authority in America so much so that Abraham Lincoln quoted from it four strategic times in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. President Lincoln used words ascribed to Jesus in Matthew 18:7 and using the Bible --- pronounced God s judgment on our nation for her moral bankruptcy of slavery.

The unwillingness of many Americans to dig deeper into the Scriptures is not related to a lack of options. The Gideons give away a Bible every second. One publisher sells more than sixty different editions of the Bible.

Clearly, the challenge of biblical illiteracy in America is not because of a shortage of Bibles, but rather knowledge and appreciation of the Bible s message.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=140#Q35uEw8rIXjcuVwp.99

Jesus asks us what good salt is if it loses its saltiness?  In other words, what good are Christians who don't know their Bibles any better than non-believers?

How can we stand against the atheists and scoffers attacks when they ridicule us for being against homosexuality but have no problem wearing clothes woven of different fabrics?

How can we stand against false teachers when we have no idea how to measure their words against scripture?

How can we respond to people who say, "I don't care for the God of the Old Testament...so if I'm going to read from the Bible I only use the New Testament."

It's a sad state of affairs people....so let's make sure we are part of the solution and not part of the problem!  If you aren't reading the Word of God regularly and studying it with others to sharpen your knowledge.....we are probably going backward.

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

Game of Monopoly Goes Cashless

We have blogged frequently on the coming push for a cashless society.  The world is being prepared to accept the eventual system which will totally electronic and will require a mark of some sort for every buyer and seller.  This will give the governments of the world unlimited access to track every transaction and also root out crime...which uses cash as their medium.

The war on cash has been in the works for a very, very long time, but the propaganda campaign to convince an always gullible public to accept the scheme seems to have been hatched in earnest late last spring. For example, here are a few excerpts from the post, Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash:

Martin Armstrong noted at the time:

I find it extremely perplexing that I have been the only one to report that there is a secret meeting in London where Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University and Willem Butler the chief economist at Citigroup will address the central banks and advocate the elimination of all cash to bring to fruition the day when you cannot buy or sell anything without government approval. When I Googled the issue to see who has picked it up yet, to my surprise Armstrong Economics comes up first. Others are quoting me, and I even find it spreading as the Central Bank of Nigeria, but I have yet to find reports on the meeting taking place in London when my sources are direct.

Other newspapers who have covered my European tour have stated that the “crash” of which I speak is the typical stock market rather than in government. What is concerning me is the silence on this meeting where there are more and more reports about a cashless society would be better.

If we look at the the turning points on the ECM, yes they have been to the day when there has been a concentration of capital in a particular market. However, it has also picked the turning points in political decisions such as the formation of the G5 with 1985.65, the very day Greece asked for help from the IMF in 2010, to the day of 911. What we better keep one eye open for here at night is this birth of a cashless society coming in much faster than expected. Why the secret meeting? Something does not smell right here.

To which I added my own observation:

In the mind of an economic tyrant, banning cash represents the holy grail. Forcing the plebs onto a system of digital fiat currency transactions offers total control via a seamless tracking of all transactions in the economy, and the ability to block payments if an uppity citizen dares get out of line.

Here;   http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/02/16/latest-version-of-monopoly-is-called-ultimate-banking-and-is-completely-cashless/

Saudi Arabia and Turkey Preparing for Massive Invasion

The chess pieces for the Last Days continue to be moved into position....and they all seem to be drawing into Syria, right on the border of Israel.

350,000 soldiers, 20,000 tanks, 2,450 warplanes and 460 military helicopters are massing in northern Saudi Arabia for a military exercise that is being called "Northern Thunder".  

According to the official announcement, forces are being contributed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia and several other nations.  

This exercise will reportedly last for 18 days, and during that time the airspace over northern Saudi Arabia will be closed to air traffic.  This will be the largest military exercise in the history of the region, and it comes amid rumors that Saudi Arabia and Turkey are preparing for a massive ground invasion of Syria.

If you were going to gather forces for an invasion, this is precisely how you would do it.  Governments never come out and publicly admit that forces are moving into position for an invasion ahead of time, so military exercises are a common excuse that gets used for this sort of thing.

If these exercises are actually being used as an excuse to mass forces near the northern Saudi border, then we should expect an invasion to begin within the next couple of weeks.  If it happens, we should expect to see the Saudi coalition storm through western Iraq and into Syria from the south, and it is likely that Turkey will come in from the north.

The goal would be to take out the Assad regime before Russia, Iran and Hezbollah could react.  For the past couple of years, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their allies have been funding the Sunni insurgency in Syria, and they were counting on those insurgents to be able to take down the Assad regime by themselves.

You see, the truth is that ISIS was never supposed to lose in Syria.  Saudi Arabia and her allies have been funneling massive amounts of money to ISIS, and hundreds of millions of dollars of ISIS oil has been shipped into Turkey where it is sold to the rest of the world.

The major Sunni nations wanted ISIS and the other Sunni insurgent groups to take down Assad.  In the aftermath, Saudi Arabia and her allies intended to transform Syria into a full-blown Sunni nation.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=132#6JwiuTbwsVDz7BHv.99

Going Cashless Builds Steam

I'm going to blogging from my iPad for the next few days and it's not as easy to type and edit from as my PC....so I will be brief in my comments.

In the past few weeks Norway and Sweden had major banks who expressed an interest in making their societies cashless.  This push is going to continue and may start to happen really fast.

There is a global movement to ban the usage of paper currency. The war on cash has been waged by the mainstream media, government leaders and banking institutions. We’ve all heard propaganda that says cash is dirtied by drug dealing, terrorism, money laundering, and tax evasion. 

A few days ago, Norway’s largest bank, DNB, jumped aboard the cashless society bandwagon by calling for a total end to cash. Norway has already been moved in that direction. Research polls show that only about 6 percent of Norwegians use cash on a daily basis. Several banks in Norway no longer offer cash in their branch offices. 

DNB must be working for Big Brother because it cited the lack of government control as a key reason why we need to go cashless. According to the DNB bank’s executive Trond Bentestuen: 

“Today, there is approximately 50 billion kroner in circulation and [the country’s central bank] Norges Bank can only account for 40 percent of its use. That means that 60 percent of money usage is outside of any control. We believe that is due to under-the-table money and laundering.” 

It wasn’t long ago that the average man on the street would be upset by the news that the government had the power to track the financial transaction of all its citizens. Today, people are all too willing to give up their personal freedoms to please the government. After the Homeland Security Act allowed federal agents to snoop into our bank accounts, the stage was set for the monitoring of all financial transactions. 

It is increasingly argued that high denomination notes make it easier for criminals to smuggle and hide large sums of cash. Rob Wainwright, director of Europol at a London on terrorism, said the 500-euro note, the $100 U.S. note, Switzerland’s 1,000-franc note and Britain’s 50-pound note should be eliminated to make it harder for evil doers to transfer funds. 

I think the worry over large bills is a bunch of nonsense. There was a time when American banks had available $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 notes. When the $10,000 note circulated, it was worth twice the annual income of most Americans. There was no talk of it being too convenient for criminals. The concern over the higher denominations is so silly, it’s clear that some other agenda is at work. 

The greatest factor that is driving the world toward a cashless monetary system is the massive debt that nations have accumulated. Fiat money is based on the endless expansion of debt. Unfortunately, there is a point where the numbers become so large they can no longer be managed. Just printing currency becomes a major problem. 

The printing of money becomes very difficult when the numbers reach into the billions and trillions. Venezuela’s currency, the Bolivar, is rapidly dropping in value. To keep up with hyperinflation, President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the printing of five billion bank notes. Because the money was printed outside the country, it had to be flown in on three-dozen 747 cargo planes. 

The total currency (actual cash in the form of bills and coins) in the U.S. financial system is a little over $1.36 trillion. In order for the U.S. to print $1 trillion in $100 notes, it would take 100 semi-trailers to move this amount of currency. 

The U.S. debt reached the point where it doubles with each presidency. When George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001, our debt stood at $5 trillion. When President Bush left office in January of 2009, it had increased to $10 trillion. By the time Barack Obama leaves office, the Federal debt will be at $20 trillion. 

If we go from $20 to $40 trillion, there wouldn’t be enough cotton in Georgia to produce the banknotes needed to manage the increase in the money supply. Since we don’t want to tempt those drug dealers and terrorists by adding zeros to our bank notes; a cashless system seems to be inevitable in the future. 

Anyone who is a student of Bible prophecy should recognize that the cashless system we are moving toward is the long predicted mark of the beast. The Antichrist 666 identification is a fearful thing because all who freely take the mark will be condemned to hell, and all who reject it will be locked out of the banking system. It is my hope that the readers of this article have their trust in Jesus and are ready to escape this corrupt financial system. 

“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).

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