Friday, June 24, 2016

Now That UK Voted to Exit EU....Now What?

Let's think about this historic vote that happened yesterday and has the stock markets "plunging" today.  Was it GOOD or BAD?

Just like anything these days, the answer to that question depends on who you talk to.

The fact is that the EU is a bloated bunch of bureaucrats who sit around wondering how they can pass another law to look productive while paying themselves enormous salaries....that's the bad part.

The good part of the EU is that the English haven't had to fight the Germans for over 70 years...and the French haven't had to fight anyone since they invented crepes...and the Spaniards haven't tried to colonize anyone in quite some time AND Russia might think twice about invading a country in the EU.

Seriously, Europe was the death continent for 2000 years and just MAYBE the EU has served a big part of keeping Europe from engaging in any more big ugly wars.

Here's what Steve Forbes has to say about it.

THE BREXIT VOTE is a disaster, political and economically. After the initial shock wears off there will be happy talk that maybe it won’t all be so bad.

Don’t believe it.

The vote will intensify the centrifugal forces tearing apart the EU. The whole thrust of post-WWII diplomacy has been to bring the European nations together in order to avoid the disasters that plagued Europe and the world during the first half of the 20th century. The EU has made a series of major mistakes, in particular creating a massive, corrupt bureaucracy that has spewed out an avalanche of petty regulations (what the shape of a banana should be).

For all its flaws, however, the EU played a critical role in enabling the former dictatorships of Spain and Portugal to make the transition to the liberal democracies they are today. It also did the same for the ex-communist countries of central and eastern Europe. These countries made major reforms that went against powerful domestic interests in order to win membership in the EU.

No wonder Vladimir Putin hates the EU and was horrified that Ukraine wanted in. He wants Russia to dominate Europe, and the unraveling of the EU plays right into his malignant hands.

Two big and more immediate blunders brought the EU to this existential crisis.

One was economic. European policymakers refused to make the structural changes needed to get their economies growing again: cutting taxes; easing stifling regulations, especially those concerning crippling labor laws; reining in spending; and reducing the size of the bloated public sectors.

Britain should have been a champion of Thatcheresque free-market reforms like those that had turned the Sceptred Isle from being Europe’s sick man into its most dynamic economy. It could have put together a bloc of EU members to counter Brussels’ statist tendencies–most of the formerly communist countries, as well as the Dutch (who also want out of the EU) and some others, would have rallied to this banner. But it chose not to do so.

When the economic crisis hit Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, the response of Germany and the EU was to demand austerity, but it was of the pro-big-government, anti-private-sector variety. Taxes went up and some public services were cut, but the government sector was spared! A better formula for stagnation and anemic recovery couldn’t have been devised. Ireland, thankfully, refused to raise its ultra-low corporate tax rate of 12.5% and recovered far faster than the others.

The second blunder, of course, was immigration. Angela Merkel’s impetuous decision to let hundreds of thousands of Mideast refugees into a continent that has badly handled the integration of past immigrants–notoriously letting virtual self-governing areas arise that became a haven for terrorists–was the breaking point.

These two egregious errors have already led to the rise of fringe, anti-liberal parties. Even Germany’s politics are becoming worrisome. The most popular political figure there is a member of the Green Party. The second-most popular is the foreign minister, a socialist, who says Germany must come closer to working with Russia.

Europe’s disarray may well lead Russia to make moves to subjugate the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, under the guise of protecting minority Russian populations (for the record, most of those people want no part of Putin’s Russia). Moscow has been engaging in a series of ominous military exercises in that area.

Sadly, in the face of such an eventuality, President Obama’s response would be ineffectual. These countries are part of NATO, the most successful freedom alliance in history, and a successful Putin move would mark NATO’s death.

The Brexit vote may also spell the doom of the U.K. itself. Scotland voted heavily to remain, and Scottish nationalists are already pushing for another independence referendum.

The uncertainty created by the Brexit will hurt economically. New trade agreements take time to work out and enact, and the negotiations for this divorce will be extremely contentious.

One other baleful outcome of Britain’s exit will be the fate of Gibraltar. Its status as a British possession was effectively taken off the table because both Britain and Spain were part of the EU. Eventually, a Spanish government may decide to play the nationalist card and take moves to effect Gibraltar’s return to Spain.

Here;  http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/06/24/why-the-brexit-vote-is-all-around-bad/#6c943a0735ba

Of course you guys can get on Google as well as anyone and find articles that say Brexit is the best thing that could have happened!

The Bible says that the nations of the world will NEVER be at peace.  The Bible also says that wars and rumors of war will continue through all of human history.  Ezekiel told us to watch for Russia to make some moves along with Iran that could be huge in the very last days.  Daniel and Revelation tell us to watch for some type of coalition involving 10 nations....does Brexit have potential elements of all these things?

Yep.

Brexit could prove to be a very prophetic event indeed.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Rare Tornado in China Kills 75 and Looked Like "The End of the World"

Strange weather events continue happening with such a pace that most people have grown immune from the news.

Today we read that a rare tornado in China injured hundreds and killed dozens.  One man said it was like the end of the world.

The tornado hit a densely populated area of farms and factories near the city of Yancheng in Jiangsu province, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) south of Beijing.

Nearly 500 of people were injured, 200 of them critically, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Roads were blocked with trees, downed power lines and other debris, while heavy rain and the possibility of further hailstorms and even more tornados was complicating rescue efforts, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The disaster has been declared a national-level emergency, and on a trip to Uzbekistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered central government bodies to provide all necessary assistance.

Tents and other emergency supplies were already being sent from Beijing, CCTV said.

The network showed people carrying the injured to hospitals, cars and trucks lying upside down, street light poles snapped in half, and steel electricity pylons crumpled and lying on their side. Power and telephone communications were knocked out over a broad area.

"I heard the gales and ran upstairs to shut the windows," Xinhua quoted area resident Xie Litian, 62, as saying. "I had hardly reached the top of the stairs when I heard a boom and saw the entire wall with the windows on it torn away."

The roof then collapsed as he raced downstairs, Xie said. After sheltering in a corner for 20 minutes, he emerged to find the neighborhood transformed into a wasteland. "It was like the end of the world," he said.

Here;  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/23/powerful-tornado-kills-more-than-50-in-china-state-media-report.html

Do you know how many times in the recent past that people describe the tornado, earthquake, flood, tsunami or hurricane as "the end of the world" or "armageddon"?

Could it be a foreshadowing of the coming Great Tribulation?

Jesus said the strange/rare events around the world will start like birth pangs and get worse and worse.

So what is causing all these events?  Global warming OR God using nature to wake up a lost, broken, apathetic and complacent populace?

Orthodox Jews Coming to Christ?

I hope that many of my readers already know that thousands upon thousands of Muslims are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus as the Christ.

Today we find more evidence that Jesus is is also moving in the Jewish communities.

Analysis from a news portal on the Messianic Jewish community in Israel has claimed that some in the Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, who are often opposed to Jewish people turning to Jesus Christ, are experiencing a "spiritual meltdown of historic proportions" and are reexamining their beliefs.

"It would appear that the haredi community is quietly experiencing a spiritual meltdown of historic proportions. These people, who literally spend all their waking hours in Torah learning, are so starved for the real Word of the LORD that hundreds are willing to read 'forbidden' material in order to find Him," Kehila News reported, reflecting on a Hebrew-language article published earlier in June on MyNet, the city of Petach Tikva's news site.

Kehila News said that the article serves as a warning to citizens in the city to "beware of the propaganda" being distributed by Messianic groups, which is a common complaint by the haredi against Jesus-believing Jewish people.

The news portal argued that in part, the article is nothing special, as it makes the same accusations against the Messianic community as it does every year, namely that Jesus followers are practicing deceit by embracing Jewish customs, that their leaders are motivated by lucrative salaries, that they recruit new believers through entrapment, and indoctrinate minors to leave the Jewish faith.

Christians and Jewish followers of Christ are often accused of such actions by the haredi, which has also led to legislation seeking to supress religious freedom. In June 2015 it was announced that the Jerusalem Municipality has been obliged to consult with the city's Rabbis before allowing Christians to host events in the city, fearful of gatherings that would see to convince Jews to follow Jesus.

Kehila News added: "A few Israeli believers were asked by MyNet if they understood why the ultra-orthodox are so hostile toward us. Their answers focused on what the haredim think of us, ranging from the perception that they 'sometimes come to accept us after they get to know us' … to the conviction that 'they are against us no matter what we do.'"

The news portal reflected that the "real reason" behind anti-missionary panic in Petach Tikva is that the "Messiah is so powerfully reaching those of our people who have lived all their lives 'behind the Torah Curtain,'" that even the haredi are recognizing the truth now.


Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/ultra-orthodox-haredi-jews-spiritual-meltdown-turning-to-jesus-165448/#p5lqcMmmYV7wMZtp.99

What is the answer for a broken world filled with war, terrorism, violence and hatred?  Is it a Republican President?

Nope!

How about another Democratic President?

Nope!

How about more gun control laws...or more social programs?

Nope!

The only answer is Jesus!

There is only ONE NAME given in all of creation who has the power to save the souls of men...JESUS!

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

90,000,000 to 150,000,000 Radical Muslim Extremists on Earth?

Experts all seem to agree that there are about 1.5 billion Muslims on earth.

What if we found that 7-10% of those would fit the definition of being radical, extremist or support other Muslims who are radical extremists?  Should that be a problem that the world should understand?

Here are some more comments from author and Middle East Expert, Joel Rosenberg which confirms that facts that 7-10% of Muslims have beliefs that should concern the rest of us but may help to give us some rational, logical talking points when we find ourselves in that water-cooler discussion with others who may have a different opinion or are ignorant of the entire topic.

On Sunday, I made the following assertion during an interview on the Fox News Channel:

"There’s no question that the vast majority of Muslims — 1.6 billion Muslims in the world — are not violent. They’re not dangerous. They’re not a threat. But all the polling shows that between 7% and 10%, roughly, of the Islamic world does believe in suicide bombings, does support the Islamic State’s violence, does support al Qaeda. So this is a problem because in a world of 1.6 billion Muslims, that’s upwards of 160 million people who could be recruited and drawn into violence in the United States or around the world."

A number of you have asked for the data behind such an assertion. So let me explain the sources I've used over the years to develop a rough estimate of the number of Muslims that could reasonably be considered "Radicals." Let's start with data from 2007. Then we'll look at more recent data gathered between 2013 and 2015.

How Many Radicals Are There? (Gallup Data From 2007)

In 2008, authors John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed published a book titled, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Esposito was a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University and founding director of the school’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Mogahed, herself was a devout Muslim, and was executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. (I cited their work in a non-fiction book I wrote in 2009, Inside The Revolution, about trends in the Islamic world.)

As Esposito and Mogahed stated in their introduction, “This book is the product of a mammoth, multiyear Gallup research study. Between 2001 and 2007, Gallup conducted tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 nations that are predominantly Muslim or have substantial Muslim populations. . . . In totality, we surveyed a sample representing more than 90 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, making this the largest, most comprehensive study of contemporary Muslims ever done.”

What these two scholars discovered was fascinating, and sobering.

First, the good news. After asking scores of different questions to test attitudes and intentions, the Gallup poll revealed that upwards of 93 percent of Muslims worldwide in 2007 fit Esposito and Mogahed’s definition of a “moderate”—that is, peaceable, nonviolent, and traditionally religious but unlikely to pose a threat to Western security interests. In Egypt, for example, 94 percent of Muslims said they would like to have a constitution that would guarantee “allowing all citizens to express their opinion on the political, social, and economic issues of the day.” In Iran, 93 percent said they wanted such personal and political freedom, as did 90 percent of Muslims in Indonesia, the world’s largest Islamic country. In Turkey, 93 percent of Muslims believed women should have the right to vote, as do 89 percent of Muslims in Iran and 90 percent in Bangladesh. Nine in ten Muslims in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Lebanon believed that women should have the same legal rights as men. All very good news, indeed.

Now the bad news. While the overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide were moderates in 2007, about 7 percent at the time would have been classified as Radicals. That is, they were supportive of anti-American and anti-Western terrorism, believed it is fully justified, and thus were sympathetic of and potentially helpful to violent Islamic extremists. This constituted the pool from which current Radical jihadists are recruiting future jihadists, and thus they pose a serious threat to Western security interests.

“According to the Gallup poll, 7 percent of [Muslim] respondents think that the 9/11 attacks were ‘completely’ justified and view the United States unfavorably,” Esposito and Mogahed concluded. “By focusing on the 7 percent, whom we’ll call ‘the politically radicalized,’ we are not saying that all in this group commit acts of violence. However, those with extremist views are a potential source for recruitment or support for terrorist groups. . . . They are also more likely to view other civilian attacks as justifiable.”

At first glance, 7 percent may seem like a relatively small number. But the implications of such results are staggering. Seven percent of 1.3 billion Muslims equals 91 million people. It may comfort people to know that the vast majority of the world’s Muslims are peaceful people. But how comforting is it to know that 91 million Muslims are “politically radicalized”? After all, were these 91 million people to form their own country—the Islamic Republic of Radicalstan, say—they would represent the twelfth largest country on the planet, having twice the population of Spain, nearly three times the population of Canada, almost ten times the population of Sweden, and more than twelve times the population of Israel.

Extensive polling also found that the Radicals were not necessarily more religious than moderate Muslims; nor did they necessarily attend mosque more frequently or read the Qur’an more often. They were simply differently religious. That is, they were fully devoted to a radicalized interpretation of the Qur’an, such as the theologies taught by the Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayyid Qutb, and Osama bin Laden.

Moreover, these Radicals did not tend to be poor, uneducated, unsophisticated people living in some hovel somewhere, though there are certainly Radicals who come from impoverished backgrounds. According to the Gallup poll data, the typical profile of a Radical in 2007 was young, male, smart, college-educated, financially well-off, technologically literate, highly mobile, deeply determined, and thus incredibly dangerous. According to the study:

49 percent of political Radicals are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine. 
62 percent are male, while 37 percent are female. 
67 percent have secondary education or higher. 
65 percent say they have average or above-average income. 
As I noted in Inside The Revolution, not all scholars agreed in 2007 with the Gallup data that only 7 percent of Muslims were Radicals. Other research suggested the 7 percent figure may have actually been too low. According to a 2007 Pew Research Center poll, 28 percent of Egyptian Muslims said they believed suicide bombings against civilian targets were sometimes or often justified; 17 percent of Turkish Muslims agreed, along with 10 percent of Indonesian Muslims, 14 percent of Pakistani Muslims, 29 percent of Jordanian Muslims, and 46 percent of Nigerian Muslims. (See Andrew Kohut, “Muslims in America: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream,” Pew Research Center, May 22, 2007, http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf, accessed June 24, 2008.)

How Many Radicals Are There? (Current Polling Data From Pew Research)

Where are we now, nearly a decade after the sweeping Gallup study?

First, the global population of Muslims has increased to more than 1.6 billion, up from about 1.3 billion.

Second, looking closely at more recent data in recent years, I'm less comfortable saying only 7% of the Muslim world would be considered Radicals and now believe the figure is more likely between 7% and 10%. This still shows the vast majority of Muslims are not a threat to us. But, of course, 10% of 1.6 billion is a staggeringly large number of people from which the Radicals can recruit.

Here are some of the data I've been looking at:

Consider a November 2015 study by the Pew Research Center examining support for the Islamic State in Muslim-majority countries:

Lebanon -- 0% support for ISIS 
Israeli Arabs -- 1% 
Jordan -- 3% 
Indonesia (256 million people, 87% of whom are Muslims) -- 4% 
Palestinians -- 6% 
Turkey (80 million people, 99% Muslim) -- 8% 
Pakistan (200 million people, 96% Muslim) -- 9% 
Malaysia (30 million people, 61% Muslim) -- 11% 
Nigeria (181 million, 50% are Muslims) -- 14% 
While this Pew study did not look at every Muslim country, the data are helpful. They corroborate the premise that the vast majority of Muslims do not support ISIS. However, they also reveal that overall, roughly 7% to 10% of Muslims do, in fact, have a favorable view of the violent -- even genocidal -- theology, strategy and tactics of the Islamic State. In some specific countries, support for ISIS is even higher than the median.

Consider also a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center examining Muslim support for al Qaeda.

The key finding was that after all the violence inflicted on the world since the mid-1990s -- and perhaps especially after all the Muslims that have been killed by al Qaeda in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Muslim support for the al Qaeda terror movement has been dropping.

"In our 2013 poll, a median of only 13% among Muslims across the 11-countries surveyed had a favorable view of al Qaeda," reported the Pew Research team. 
"The highest support was in the Palestinian territories, where 35% of Muslims had a favorable view of al Qaeda. But elsewhere, less than a quarter of Muslims held a positive opinion of the extremist organization. Support was lowest in Lebanon, where only 1% of Muslims had a favorable impression of al Qaeda." 
"Support for al Qaeda among Muslims plummeted most dramatically in Nigeria, by 40 percentage points, during the 2010 to 2013 time period, probably as a result of increased terrorist activity by al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram," notes Pew. 
"In Jordan, [support for al Qaeda] fell by 21 points among Muslims during the same time period." 
Note: while Pew finds that an average of 13% of Muslims worldwide supported al Qaeda in 2013, it seems likely that three years later that percentage has continued to drop and may be closer to 10% or 11% today.

Consider several 2013 and 2014 reports by the Pew Research team showing that Muslim support for suicide bombings against civilians to defend Islam has dropped significantly over the past decade or so. 

"Overall, support for suicide bombing and related forms of violence has declined in the last decade across the Muslim publics surveyed," noted Pew researchers.

In Indonesia -- again, the world's largest Islamic country -- Muslim support for suicide bombings against civilians dropped from 15% to 9%. 
In Pakistan, support for suicide bombings dropped from 41% to just 3%. 
In Lebanon, support for suicide bombings dropped from 74% to 29%. 
In Jordan, support for suicide bombings dropped from 57% to 15%. 
In Nigeria, support for suicide bombings dropped from 34% to 19%. 
"For the most part, support for suicide bombing is not correlated with devoutness," observed the Pew researchers. "Generally, Muslims who say they pray five times per day are no more likely to support targeting civilians to protect Islam than those who pray less often. The only exception is the Palestinian territories, where 66% of Muslims who pray five times per day say suicide bombing is often or sometimes justified versus 49% of those who pray less than five times per day."

Conclusion

The bottom line is that is right and fair and accurate to say that the vast majority of Muslims are not violent, not dangerous and do not pose a threat to the national security of the United States or our primary allies.

But the data are also clear that roughly 7% to 10% of the world's Muslim population do hold Radical theological, eschatological, ideological and political beliefs that cause them to support the murderous vision, strategies and tactics of the Islamic State, al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. This represents upwards of 160 million people. Not all will become suicide bombers or join violent jihadist movements. But this is the pool from which the followers of Radical Islam are recruiting.

It is, therefore, critically important that American and other world leaders closely study the theology and eschatology that is motivating this minority of the Muslim world to support the killing of civilians.

If we refuse to properly study and define our enemies, we will never be able to defeat them. And if our leaders continue to misunderstand the nature and threat of the evil we face, they will continue to be blindsided by future attacks.


New World Order

I ran across this video that is a compilation of numerous world leaders saying the words NEW WORLD ORDER.

Here;  http://youtu.be/XkNH1bVg3HA

Is Satan the Prince of this world?

Yep.

Does Satan want to drag this world to hell with him?

Yep.

Does Satan like Christians and our attempts to thwart his plans by spreading the Gospel?

Yep.

Does the Holy Spirit living within Christians restrain evil on earth?

Yep.

Will Satan one day set up a New World Order promising the inhabitants of the earth peace and safety?

Yep.

Are all these leaders saying NEW WORLD ORDER a foreshadowing of that day that is coming?

You will have to decide.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Dems and Repubs Each Shift 180 Degrees

Did you know that not so long ago it was the Republicans who were saying they wanted more people put on the NO-FLY LIST and/or TERRORIST WATCH LIST and that it was Democrats who were saying "Whoa!  Not so fast!!  What about due process?!"

Today they seem to have flipped.  The Dems and liberals are saying "We need to take away the right to purchase guns from anyone on those lists!"...and the Republicans are saying, "Whoa!  Not so fast!! Who is on that list and why are the on it?"

I ran across this article from The Atlantic which is a liberal leaning magazine and please notice that it's from last December BEFORE the recent shooting in Orlando.

It’s a familiar story of the post-September 11 era: Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a partisan fight over the “no-fly” list created after the attacks. One party insists that the nation must take common-sense measures to protect citizens and the homeland. The other party howls that it’s an outrageous violation of due-process rules and part of a slide into lawlessness. All that’s different now is that the dominant voices in the two parties have flipped 180 degrees.

During his Oval Office speech Sunday night, President Obama said: “Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.”

Republicans reject that argument. “These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism, they wind up on the no-fly list, there’s no due process or any way to get your name removed from it in a timely fashion, and now they’re having their Second Amendment rights being impeded upon,” Senator Marco Rubio, a top Republican presidential candidate, said on Sunday.

Last week, prior to the massacre in San Bernardino, House Republicans blocked debate on the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act. On Thursday, the measure failed in the Senate as well. While its sponsors say the bill would prevent those on terror lists from acquiring guns, the law doesn’t specify whether it would bar those on the no-fly list or on several other federal watchlists.

What’s striking about this debate is how closely it mirrors the argument during the George W. Bush administration, when Democrats warned against the excesses of the list and Republicans defended it. The current debate suggests the extent to which the leading voices in the parties are willing to rearrange their positions around hot-button issues like gun rights, and shows how civil liberties tend to be treated as a tactical tool, exalted when they’re politically useful and forgotten when that’s more expedient.

Before September 11, the government did maintain a list of people who were not permitted to get on planes—16 of them, according to 60 Minutes. The list quickly grew after the attacks, though the government doesn’t report exact figures, making it tough to tell where things stand at any given moment. By 2006, 60 Minutes reported, there were 44,000 people on the list, plus another 75,000 for whom the feds called for extra screening. The no-fly list is also part of a much larger set, the Terrorist Screening Database, which the government compiled in 2003. In September 2008, an FBI deputy director told Congress there were 400,000 people on that last, 97 percent of them foreigners.

How does someone get on the watchlist? Who knows! The government says it gets thousands of tips a day, but it won’t tell you whether you’re on it, and it won’t tell you how to get off, as my colleague Conor Friedersdorf explained in 2012. The enormous size of the lists inevitably led to confusion, false positives, and outrage. Even Senator Ted Kennedy managed to end up on the no-fly list. So did Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam.

“If his name got on the list in error, is that happening to other citizens and are they experiencing such difficulty in resolving the problem?” Kennedy’s spokesman told The Washington Post.


Over the late 2000s, pressure grew, and the no-fly list actually shrank significantly, to about 4,000. But after the failed Christmas Day “underwear bomber” attack in December 2009, the Obama administration reversed course and significantly ramped up the list. By 2013, according to documents obtained by The Intercept, there were 47,000 people on the no-fly list, topping the Bush administration’s high. Obama’s decision was driven in part by national-security hawks in his own party, including California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who called for a more aggressive list after the failed attack.

Here; http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/no-fly-list-inverted-politics/419172/ 

Yes!  Good question!!  How do you get your name on The List?  And how do you go about getting your name off The List?  And WHY did Team Obama put the editor of a conservative magazine on The List?

They couldn't or wouldn't say....

Well, that should be concerning to all Americans....kind of like it should be concerning to all Americans of WHY the IRS targeted Conservative institutions?

Hey, did you know that if you are a foreigner that you can't buy guns in America?

Hey, did you know that 97% of the people on that list are foreigners?

So really, what does it accomplish if the Democrats want to block people on the NO-FLY LIST from buying guns when 97% of them can't buy already?

Yawn....more evidence of Liberals attempting to look like they are doing SOMETHING.  Certainly they don't want to talk about the 160,000,000 Muslims who are extremists and/or support extremists and who are successfully inserting themselves and their theology/ideology into the USA.

Final Redemption is at the Door

Can you imagine what a blessing it will be IF we are the generation that Paul spoke of in 1 Thessalonians?  Think about it, there have been some 40 generations since Jesus ascended into heaven...and what if WE are the generation that never sees death but instead get to hear the trumpet blow, see the dead in Christ rise and then in the twinkling of an eye we get new bodies and get swept up into the clouds to meet Jesus!!

Seriously....how exciting is that?!?

As my readers know, there is no shortage of people pointing to reasons they believe that we are in the last days of normal, business as usual, human history....and that something BIG is on the horizon.

Many religious Jews think something big is coming.

End of Days Expert Declares: “The Final Redemption is at the Door”

Geula (redemption) is exceedingly near and we need to make others aware of its impending arrival. These are two core messages delivered last week in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel by prolific author and End of Days expert Rabbi Pinchas Winston to an audience of English-speaking olim (immigrants to Israel).

Rabbi Winston compared the urgency with which people need to focus on the forthcoming redemption to having a plane reservation. When a person who has to board a plane at a certain time, everything that day is oriented around the awareness that the most important task of the day is being on that flight at departure time.That’s how concrete becoming focused on geula should be. That’s what it means to have geula-consciousness, he explained.

In his lecture, Rabbi Winston made a clear connection between chaotic current world events, such as extreme weather and Islamic terrorism, and the urgent necessity for redemption.

“Today, it is so much easier than, let’s say, 10 years ago, to want Moshiach (messiah) to come, because things are out of control… If you step back and look at all the events of history, everything is so ‘Armageddon-ish’. It’s actually quite bad. The world is actually tremendously unstable.”

Rabbi Winston gave credit to God for the fact that the world hasn’t already imploded on itself.

“The only reason why we are sitting here so calmly right now is not because the world has stability. It’s because HaKadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed Be He) has His finger in the dike.”

In addition, Rabbi Winston’s study of Judaism’s mystical tradition, known as Kabbalah, helped him recognize “how much of a role human will plays in actually creating and building the realities we want and often need.” Later, he studied Quantum Physics and was captivated by the discovery that “human observation plays a role in determining the outcome of experiments, and life in general.”

These ideas, along with his impressive command of Jewish history and Torah sources helped propel his thinking. “What I realized, and what I came to understand, compelled me to produce an entire seminar based upon these ideas.”

“I no longer had any choice,” he shared with Breaking Israel News, “at least with respect to these ideas. I had to get out there and do my part to energize our national will for redemption, while there is still time.The Final Redemption is at the door. It will be our collective national will to let it in that will let it occur peacefully.”


Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/70138/end-days-expert-declares-final-redemption-door/#JMUwHAipJBekV5wI.99

Now ask yourselves a question....have these Jews looking for redemption accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior?

Nope.  If they had they would be watching for the RETURN of Jesus as Messiah.

But please remember that the Jews and Israel are God's timepiece.  As we watch what is happening there we can get a sense as to what time it is on God' prophetic clock.

The Jews are back in the Holy Land for the first time in 2000 years, they have an "exceedingly great" army and now a large number of those Jews want to build the 3rd Temple and many want to do it to usher in the savior.

Sadly, they will be expecting someone....but it will be a false Messiah that the New Testament calls the Antichrist.

But as Christians we can see the convergence of ALL THESE THINGS happening at once so we can reflect on Jesus and Paul's words and say, "Even so, Come Lord Jesus!"

1 Thess. 4
15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.



Monday, June 20, 2016

Four Critical Points to Remember Regarding Islamic Extremism

Best-selling author and speaker, Joel Rosenberg, had this to say today via email;

If you read nothing else from this column, please read and remember these four critical points:

While it's absolutely true that the vast majority of Muslims are not a threat to us, it's also true that the vast majority of terrorists in our time are motivated by, driven by, even consumed by a radical, violent, murderous and bloodthirsty interpretation of Islam. That may not be politically correct to say, but that's the truth. 

If American leaders are not studying the theology and even the eschatology of Islam -- and the civil war going inside Islam between the Radicals (jihadists) and the Reformers (moderates) and their vastly differing interpretations of Muslim history and Islamic scriptures -- they're not going to understand what drives our enemies to kill us. 

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blind-sided by it. 

Neither President Obama, nor the two presumptive presidential nominees -- Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump -- have demonstrated that they have truly studied and understand the theology and eschatology that is driving our enemies. Until they do, and until they develop and are committed to executing sound national security strategies consistent with the actual threat of Radical Islam, they will continue to put Americans and our allies in grave danger. 

Please remember to pray for President Obama and all our leaders in Washington DC.  If we don't pray for them....who will?

Also please pray for the future leaders that we will elect this coming November.  There can be no doubt that this great nation is hanging in the balance.

Brexit Could Happen

How's everyone feeling about all the "gloomy" headlines?  Are you remembering that we followers of Christ are supposed to be "awake" and not sound asleep as to what is happening around us?

Are you remembering that we followers of Christ are supposed to be filled with the joy of salvation regardless of the headlines happening around us?

Are you remembering that people don't really like to be around people who are negative, frowning and serious all the time?

Are you mindful that if people don't like being around you...it may be because you are negative, frowning and serious too much of the time?

Hey friends, yes, the world is shaking!  Yes, the schemes of man will ultimately fail!  Yes, one day the human governments will all come crashing down...BUT....we have the GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION!  And GOOD NEWS usually makes people smile and be joyful!

So let's redouble our efforts to engage with people around us who are desperate to hear that Good News.

Now with that being said, let's understand where earth's foundations and schemes of man are shaking today.

Have you heard about the the vote coming up later this week in the United Kingdom?  There is a very real chance that voters in the UK will go to the polls and elect to leave the European Union (EU)

On June 23rd, a vote will be held in the United Kingdom to determine if Britain will stay in the European Union or not.  This is most commonly known as the "Brexit" vote, and that term was created by combining the words "Britain" and "exit". 

If the UK votes to stay in the European Union, things over in Europe will continue on pretty much as they have been.  But if the UK votes to leave, it will likely throw the entire continent into a state of economic and financial chaos. 

And considering how bad the European economy is already, this could be the trigger that plunges Europe into a full-blown depression.

So if things will likely be much worse in the short-term if Britain leaves the EU, then it makes sense for everyone to vote to stay, right?

Unfortunately, it isn't that simple.  Because this choice is not about short-term economics.  Rather, the choice is about long-term freedom.

The EU is a horribly anti-democratic bureaucratic monstrosity that is suffocating the life out of most of Europe a little bit more with each passing year.  So if I was British, I would most definitely be voting to leave the EU.

And in recent days, the campaign to leave has been rapidly picking up steam.  In fact, two of the latest major surveys show that "leave" has taken the lead...

An ORB poll for the Telegraph showed 48 percent of Britons would vote to remain in the European Union, while 49 percent would vote to leave.

A YouGov poll for the Times of London showed 46 percent preferred to leave, while 39 percent wanted to remain.

Two other recent polls have "leave" ahead by 10 points, and there is another that actually has "leave" winning by 19 points.

The "leave" movement got a big boost just recently when the Sun officially endorsed that position.  The following is an excerpt from the editorial that announced this decision...

Here;  http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=423

The Bible tells us that one day Jesus will return and tear down ALL the governments of man...but before that the Antichrist will put together a government and ultimately use it to persecute everyone who refuses to take his mark.

So the rumblings in Europe this week MAY be just one other sign that we are living in the last generation.

Luke 21:28
When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”