Christian Clergy Welcomes Islam Then Bows to It

This is sad.

Jesus clearly said that HE IS THE ONLY WAY for humans to attain salvation.

So how could so many "Christians" believe that Islam and their contradictory beliefs have ANYTHING to do with followers of Christ?

There is a disturbing and growing trend in Italy and Europe.

For the first time in more than 700 years, Islamic songs resonated in Florence's Cathedral, the Church Santa Maria del Fiore. 

Under the famous Dome of Brunelleschi, Islamic melodies accompanied Christian ones. The "interfaith initiative" was promoted a week after the barbaric massacre by Islamist terrorists in Paris at the magazine Charlie Hebdo, and included "Koran is Justice" and other such "hymns".

A priest in the south of Italy then enraged parishioners by dressing the Virgin Mary in a Muslim burqa for his church's Christmas nativity scene. 

The pastor of the parish of Saints Joachim and Anne in Potenza, Father Franco Corbo, said that he had the special crèche constructed "in the name of dialogue among religions". 

These interfaith initiatives are based on the gradual elimination of the Western-Christian heritage in favor of Islam.

Another priest in Italy also eliminated the Christmas nativity scene at the local cemetery because "it could offend Muslims". Father Sante Braggiè said there would be no crib in the cemetery in the northern city of Cremona because it may anger people of others faiths or people whose relatives are not buried there:

"A small corner of the cemetery is reserved for Muslim graves. A crib positioned within sight of them could be seen as a lack of respect for followers of other faiths, hurt the sensibilities of Muslims, as well as Indians and even atheists".

In Rebbio, the Italian parish church of St. Martin was preparing the end of Mass. Suddenly a veiled woman, Nour Fayad, took the floor and read the verses of the Koran which announce the birth of Christ. The initiative was intended by the priest, Don Giusto della Valle, as "a gesture of dialogue".

In Rozano, near Milan, headmaster Marco Parma, then scrapped his school's Christmas carol concert: he decided to ban traditional festivities at Garofani school, "to cause no offence".

In July, for the first time during a Mass in Italy, a verse of the Koran was recited from the altar. It happened in the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, during a ceremony in memory of Father Jacques Hamel, who was slaughtered by ISIS terrorists in France. 

While Catholics recited the Creed, a delegate of the mosque of al Azhar Mosque in Cairo softly repeated an "Islamic prayer for peace".

The Catholic clergy is probably disoriented by Pope Francis himself, who was the first to allow the reading of Islamic prayers and Koran readings from the world's most important Catholic facility. 


http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=924

Of course this sad news shouldn't surprise us.  The Bible clearly tells us that in the Last Days there would be lots of people who call themselves Christians falling away from the Gospel.

Giant Coffins Discovered May Prove Biblical Nephilim?

The headlines just keep coming.....

I'm going to guess that 99% of my readers are aware of the Nephilim spoken of in Genesis 6....so I won't bother explaining that story again.

Mysterious giant coffins discovered in Egypt in 2012, may prove the existence of the Biblical Nephilim, and the discovery of said tombs further confirms the historical happening of the great Biblical flood.

The 24 boxes, or tombs, were re-discovered in Egypt in 2012, and they were once originally discovered by Ramesses II some 3300 years ago. The mainstream theory regarding the boxes is that Ramesses II built the burial site, but it is more likely that the early Egyptians only discovered this burial site. Just how could the Egyptians move over 24 tombs that weigh roughly 100 tons each?

Mainstream archeology claims that the burial site was for Apis bulls and that Egyptians believed the Apis bulls were incarnations of the deity Ptah. But, were the Bulls supposedly only incarnations? Or were the Bulls actually chimeras?

Some experts are claiming that the Egyptians did not build these boxes, but rather, they were left on Earth by ‘aliens.’ Interestingly enough, that actually makes more sense than the mainstream theory, that the Egyptians built these tombs with copper hand tools.

The head of Egyptian archeology when announcing the discovery to mainstream media, instead of flat out lying, stated that they don’t know how the Egyptians created the tombs. The tombs are unique because of the angles, the skillfulness of the stone cutting is accurate to just a few microns.

https://christiantruther.com/fallen/nephilim/giant-coffins-egypt-biblical-nephilim/

"Oh Dennis....this is all just such crazy stuff I can't imagine it could be true!  Aliens, fallen angels breeding with women, pyramids, 100 ton coffins...."

Let me remind you once again that you believe in a God that you can't see who SPOKE the universe into existence and sent part of himself to be born of young virgin Jewess named Mary, who died and was raised from the dead and has been alive in an unseen realm for the past 2000 years but sent His Spirit in indwell in all believers!

If you can believe all that....you shouldn't have much problem believing that Satan and his demons have been doing some pretty crazy stuff these past 6000 years too!

Think about it.....Satan is the Prince of the Earth and also the Prince of the Powers of the Air.

Why Russia, Turkey and Iran are Natural Allies

Saw this headline today, front and center on Google News.

Why Russia, Turkey and Iran are natural allies

The ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia, Turkey and Iran has opened the way to peace talks in Kazakhstan between the Syrian government and opposition. The Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will play peacemaker and the timing of the conference will enable participation by the new US administration. However it’s not yet clear how this process might tie in with any putative “grand bargain” between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

But however the US fits in, the rise of a Russian-Iranian-Turkish triumverate is a hugely significant development. On paper at least, these countries are not natural allies. On the contrary, they have a long and distinguished history of rivalry and warfare extending back centuries and stretching into recent decades. During the Cold War, Turkey was a key NATO ally; Iran supported the Afghan rebels against the USSR, while the USSR supported Iraq against Iran.

But after the end of the Soviet Union, Russia’s relations with both countries greatly improved. Iran’s opposition to Russia during the Chechen wars of the 1990s was muted; Russia was worried about external ideological influence over its largely Sunni Muslim population, but it feared Saudi Arabian Wahhabism far more than it did Iranian Shiite influence.

More than that, Russia has kept up close relations with both sides in regional rivalries. This means consistently engaging with Iran economically even as it seeks to contain Iranian influence in the longer term, and maintaining good relations with countries for whom Iran represents a direct threat, in particular Israel, but also Saudi Arabia.

Read it here;  http://theconversation.com/why-russia-turkey-and-iran-are-natural-allies-70819

Jesus told us to WATCH!  (Mark 13)  Honestly, if he was upset at the Jews for failing to recognize the signs of his first advent....why wouldn't he be upset at this generation when they fail to recognize the signs of his 2nd advent.

Furthermore, as we recently wrote about, the rapture is a sign-less event, BUT, the Great Tribulation will have lots of signs and as you read this article it is logical to say the building coalition of Russia, Turkey and Iran is one of them.

Read Ezekiel 38-39 again.

Catholic Church Says to Think of Aliens as our Brothers

The Bible warns that in the Last Days men would be led astray by doctrines of demons.

One possible fulfillment of this would be if demons/fallen angels were masquerading as aliens from outer space and appeared to men and told them new information about Jesus and the Gospel.

For the last 70 years planet earth has been prepared to accept aliens from outer space because of the barrage of Hollywood movies and millions of UFO sightings all over the world.

Today we find out more information that the Catholic church may be further preparing people to accept their aliens 'brothers'.

In a 2008 interview, Fr. José Gabriel Funes, Director of the Vatican Observatory, asked a provocative question: “To say it with St. Francis, if we can consider some earthly creatures as 'brothers' or 'sisters', why could we not speak of a ‘brother alien’?”

Fr. Funes’ question was based on the uncontroversial notion that all creatures have a kinship of some kind, but his comments fanned the flames of Vatican-UFO conspiracy theories. One website wondered if “the Vatican [is] easing humanity toward alien disclosure?” Another proclaimed that “the Catholic Church is getting ready to offer communion to extraterrestrials.”

The possibility of extraterrestrial life remains an ongoing conversation with no signs of it dying down anytime soon. Is there a Catholic view of the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life?

The Vatican's Alien Conferences

Though the Catholic Church has largely stayed on the sidelines of the conversation, the Church hasn’t remained entirely silent on it either.

In the same interview mentioned above, Fr. Funes also said, “Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures over the earth, so there could be other beings, even intelligent [beings], created by God. This is not in contradiction with our faith because we cannot establish limits to God’s creative freedom."

According to the press bulletin listed on the Vatican website of the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2012, Werner Arber, a professor of Microbiology at the University of Basel and the President of the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences in Switzerland, told the participants, “At this time, we assume that life may also exist on some extraterrestrial planets.” He did qualify himself, though: “[B]ut we are still waiting for scientific evidence for this assumption.”

But most importantly, the Vatican hosted a conference on the subject of extraterrestrial life in 2008. According to a CBS News report, “thirty scientists, including non-Catholics, from the U.S., France, Britain, Switzerland, Italy and Chile attended the conference, called to explore among other issues whether sentient life forms exist on other worlds." And that conference was “not the first time the Vatican has explored the issue of extraterrestrials: in 2005, its observatory brought together top researchers in the field for similar discussions.” The Church had no official conclusion on the existence of extraterrestrial life from the conferences.

“The Catholic Church has always believed in extraterrestrial intelligences,” says Randall Smith, Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. “[W]e call them ‘angels.’ It’s only the rather cramped view of the Enlightenment theorists that insisted man was entirely alone in the universe.” - 

See more at: http://aleteia.org/2013/08/19/e-t-my-brother-a-theology-of-space-aliens/#sthash.3l6cc4ek.dpuf

The article goes on to ask if aliens would need Christ since they weren't descended from Adam so they weren't born into sin like humans are.

Here's the deal people....if (when?) different humanoid beings land in some ship on the White House lawn and get out telling some incredible story about how they seeded life on earth thousands of years ago...or that they are brothers of Jesus and that humans were NOT created in God's image....or that humans never sinned, in fact we are behaving exactly as they programmed us...so quit having guilt and enjoy life....ALL OF THESE WOULD CONTRADICT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

So the folks left on earth (hopefully this doesn't happen until after the rapture) would need to decide;
A)  I don't believe the aliens and will cling to my Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
B)  I do believe the aliens and will throw away my Bible

The Bible warns that in the very last days there will be a great falling away from the Gospel.

Maybe it has something to do with demons pretending to be aliens from another planet?

Turkey and ISIS Now Descend into Open War

ISIS claimed responsibility for a savage attack in Turkey where a gunman opened fire and killed some 39 people and injured dozens more on New Year's Eve in Istanbul.

According to this article ISIS and Turkey did have an "live and let live" attitude towards each other through 2014 and 2015.  But that is now over.

The massacre targeting New Year's Eve revelers at an Istanbul nightclub illustrates that the relationship between ISIS and Turkey has shifted from an uneasy peace to an all-out war, according to experts.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the shooting, identifying the attacker who killed 39 people as "a heroic soldier of the caliphate." The group said the rampage had been carried out "in response to a call" from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, although it didn't say whether it directed or merely inspired the perpetrator. They did not identify the attacker by name or provide proof he was acting on their behalf.

Michael Horowitz, director of intelligence at Middle East-based political risk consultancy Prime Source, suggested that Sunday's attack signaled that ISIS had initiated "open war" with Turkey, which boasts NATO's second-largest military.

Throughout 2014 and part of 2015, Turkey and ISIS had "an implicit understanding," according to Fawaz Gerges, the author "ISIS: A History." Their mutual approach was live and let live, he added.

During that period, Ankara prioritized unseating Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over direct engagement in the war against the Sunni militants.

In Sept. 2014, Turkey managed to negotiate the release by ISIS of 49 hostages who had been captured at the country's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. ISIS is not the type of group to give up hostages in exchange for nothing. No details were made public, but some observers suspect a quid pro quo of some type — perhaps a tacit non-aggression pact.

"If ISIS had any political vision or imagination, it would have maintained that non-aggression pact with Turkey," Gerges said.

In  the following months, Turkey did little to impede the flow of foreign fighters passing through its borders on the way join ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

And despite international pressure, Turkey didn't join the fight against the terrorist group, even as the horrors it perpetrated became ever more brutal.

See it here;  http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/turkey-isis-istanbul-attack-signals-descent-open-war-n702611

One has to wonder if Turkey's open war on ISIS will end up drawing Russia and Turkey CLOSER TOGETHER in preparation for the Ezekiel 38 coalition?

Ezekiel 38
4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.

I believe it's an old Arab saying...."Your enemy's enemy is my friend."

Did Obama Just Set Off Gog and Magog?

Please remember that people of the Jewish religion also read the book of Ezekiel.  Of course they read it with a different world view.  They believe it will happen around the time that Messiah is set to arrive.  Christians, on the other hand, know that Messiah has already come and they await his return.

Also, while reading the linked article it becomes more easy to understand HOW the Jews will end up accepting the Antichrist as their Messiah at the beginning of the 70th Week of Daniel.

Of course our blessed hope as followers of Christ is that He already came for His bride and WE AREN'T ON EARTH ANYMORE!

That being said, check out this article from a Jewish source that wonders if the Ezekiel prophecy is close to becoming reality.

Redemption advocate Eli Soble connected the US abstention from the latest anti-Israel vote in the UN Security Council to the advent of the great war of Messianic days in a video that has gone viral since its release on Facebook on December 26.

In this video which has been viewed more than 26,000 times, Soble asserts that it’s “a sign of redemption, a sign that Moshiach is close” that the nations are trying to take Jerusalem and Israel away from the Jewish people.

“The great Jewish prophecy of Gog and Magog is…the last great barrier before we reach redemption, and it’s appearing, it’s materializing, right before our eyes,”Soble announced.

He mentioned a recent news article in Reuters about the upcoming Middle East peace conference scheduled for January 15 in France. Reuters stated that France will call together “some 70 countries” in Paris to discuss the situation in Israel. Soble explained that the Torah considers the phrase “70 nations” to symbolize all the nations of the world, even if the actual number exceeds 70.

Soble retold the Jewish teaching that Sennacherib was supposed to be Gog when he came against Jerusalem in the time of King Hezekiah. He called Sennacherib an avowed atheist and narcissist. Without actually pointing a finger directly, Soble made the point that President Obama’s recent move in the UN Security Council echoes the narcissistic flaw of Sennacherib.

The connection between Gog and Obama was made more directly in November 2015. Breaking Israel News published a viral news story about a 15 year-old Israeli boy named Natan who had a near-death experience. In a video interview, Natan, a previously secular student, returned from his experience quoting Biblical prophecy regarding the End of Days. In that video, Natan clearly named President Obama as Gog. 

Natan described his vision of Gog and Magog. “It’s going to be something that is called a very big war. And everybody – the whole world – will be involved in that war.. Everybody! All the goyim (nations), all the Arabs, everyone will come against the nation of Israel and will fight in that war.

“The person who will start the war will be somebody named Gog… I am certain of who it is. Obama. President Obama. He will be the one who starts that war.”

As Soble described it, “the nations will come up with a plan to take Eretz Yisrael (Israel) and Hashem (God) will thwart their plans and it will lead to the revelation of Moshiach (Messiah).”

Soble encouraged his viewers to understand that this UN vote, and the upcoming meeting in France, are part of the messianic process and not to be fooled into thinking they are purely  political maneuvers.

He ends on an upbeat note, by reminding people that “Moshiach is very close, the redemption is very close. We have to take heart and be joyous and improve ourselves as much as we can… and add in goodness and kindness in the context of Moshiach.”


Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/81280/obama-just-set-off-gog-magog/#YwbrUUYf1F4wkXwV.99

What?!?!  He thinks Obama is Gog?!?

Now THAT is interesting!

Christians tend to look at the Ezekiel 38 prophecy and name Russia's leader as Gog, Russia, some old Soviet nations, Turkey, Iran and some North African Muslim nations that make up the Ezekiel coalition.

As we ponder this, let's remember that Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy and the Holy Spirit indwelling followers of Christ are going to have a better understanding of prophecy than the unbelievers.

Matthew 13
10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Digital Currency Bitcoin Was Top Performer of 2016

The march towards a cashless society continues.

Today we ran across this blurb while reading an article reporting on the best and worst performing asset classes of 2016.

It was a particularly bad year for any currency called the "pound." The Egyptian version was the worst performer in 2016 as the nation took the dramatic step of allowing it to trade freely in an attempt to stabilize an economy struggling with a dollar shortage and concerns over social unrest. Britain's pound tumbled after Brexit and never recovered. 

On the other side of the spectrum, digital currency bitcoin was the best performer this year, rising more than 100 percent as capital controls in places like China and isolationist rumblings in the U.K. and U.S. have fueled interest in alternate currencies.

When it comes to currencies issued by governments and central banks, the Russian ruble has been the best performer of the year as the oil market rebounded. 

Here;  http://www.wealthmanagement.com/equities/here-are-best-and-worst-performing-assets-2016?NL=WM-27&Issue=WM-27_20170102_WM-27_462&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_2&utm_rid=CPG09000005582247&utm_campaign=8073&utm_medium=email&elq2=7f553645d1174afabec1bc99aa28753c

As you know, Bitcoin is a digital currency that doesn't actually exist in the form of paper, but instead is actively traded and used totally in cyberspace.  You would need to sign in to your account online in order to buy or sell anything using Bitcoin....and maybe one day soon you will need to scan a mark on your right arm in order to get access to it at all?

There are actually two prophetically interesting points in this little blurb on currencies...one is the bitcoin and the other is that Russia had the best performing paper-money currency.  Of course lots of prophetic eyes are currently on Russia and a strengthened ruble would mean that Putin could buy more guns, tanks and missiles from arms dealers using his rubles.

As we and other have said....if Putin isn't Gog of Magog...he certainly is "Gog-esque".

Iran Collects Cash, Gold

A big story from last year was Team Obama lifting sanctions on Iran, who also happens to be the world's largest state sponsor of Islamic terrorism.  And what came on the heels of that news was jumbo jets loaded with foreign cash being flown to the regime...brought to them courtesy of the red, white and blue.

So while the USA says we are in a war on terror...we most certainly have indirectly become one of the largest sponsors of Islamic terror giving Iran access to billions of cash.

Score one for Team Obama and his 8 year tour of "Blame America".

WASHINGTON—In the three years since a preliminary nuclear deal was struck with Iran, Tehran has received more than $10 billion in sanctions relief from around the world in the form of cash and gold, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The large shipments of gold and cash, from oil funds unfrozen in numerous countries, represent the kind of financial relief that made Iran’s leaders eager to complete the international nuclear accord. Some of the cash and gold went to Iran while the U.S. and other world powers negotiated with Tehran on a final nuclear deal. More shipments took place after final deal went into effect last January.

This tallying of the sanctions relief to date includes payments previously announced and others that haven’t been. In one previously unreported payment, the U.S. authorized Iran to receive $1.4 billion in sanctions relief between when the final deal was struck in July 2015 and when it took effect, according to the U.S. officials.

Some U.S. lawmakers and Middle East allies contend that the shipments of cash and gold, a highly liquid form of money, can be used to fund Iran’s allies in the region, including the Assad regime in Syria, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and the Houthi political movement in Yemen.

“Forking over cash and gold to the world’s leading state sponsor of terror is incredibly dangerous,” said Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who sponsored a House-passed bill to ban such payments.

Iran denies that it sponsors terrorism. It has complained that the sanctions-relief funds it is owed are coming too slowly. A spokesman for the Iranian government didn’t respond to a request for comment.

In exchange for mothballing its nuclear program, Tehran has been entitled to nearly $115 billion in sanctions relief over the past three years. It has struggled to access much of its money through more traditional financial channels, such as transfers through foreign banks that once were off limits.

The U.S. Treasury Department has long scrutinized large cash payments because of concerns they could be used by criminal gangs, narcotics traffickers or terrorist organizations. International sanctions, however, have long restricted Iran’s access to global financial and banking systems, making other forms of payments necessary.

Here;  http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tally-of-iran-sanctions-relief-includes-more-than-10-billion-in-cash-gold-1483112751

As I watch these Satanically inspired nations collect gold to plot against Christians, Jews and Israel....I was reminded of a serious warning give by the prophet Zephaniah which clearly has yet to be fulfilled.

Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.