Rumors of War With North Korea

We came across another RUMOR OF WAR in today's news.

This time it is Russia warning that America is pushing North Korea too hard and war could break out.

Top Russian military officials have warned that Washington's hardline approach to nuclear-armed North Korea could result in a catastrophic war in East Asia, as satellite imagery revealed new activity at a nuclear reactor site.

Vice-Admiral Igor Kostyukov, first deputy chief for the main directorate of the Russian military's general staff, accused President Donald Trump and his administration Thursday of having escalated the feud between the U.S. and North Korea, which has continued to develop nuclear weapons in spite of multinational sanctions and foreign military pressure.

As Kim Jong Un prepared to become his country's first supreme leader to meet a sitting U.S. president, the Russian military leader told the seventh annual Moscow International Security Conference that the White House's rhetoric and Pentagon's military buildup only served to destabilize peace in the region.

The previous day, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu also warned of a potential conflict on the Korean Peninsula at the Moscow gathering, which drew delegations from more than 90 countries. He urged the U.S. to embrace peace rather than focusing on military exercises, such as the ongoing "Foal Eagle" drills currently being jointly held with South Korea.

"We believe that there is no military solution to the Korean problem. Pressure and threats are not an effective means of settling the crisis. Moreover, the constant instigation of the situation and the demonstration of the military force may lead to incidents and even an armed conflict whose consequences may affect the entire region," Shoygu said, according to Tass.

He also noted that Russia had been established close ties with its Asian allies, including China, India, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, and was seeking new countries including Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Defending the U.S. "maximum pressure" strategy, Trump's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Alex Wong credited the president's approach with accelerating the current inter-Korean peace talks, which have also seen Kim visit China in the young leader's first-ever foreign journey while in power.

"A number of years before President Trump came to office – there really wasn’t any movement. There was no diplomatic movement on the ground, and the only movement you saw was the slow, creeping expansion of North Korea’s nuclear program. And in that light, I think we’re in a pretty good place right now," Wong said during a press conference Monday.

http://www.newsweek.com/russia-says-us-pushing-north-korea-war-photos-show-new-activity-nuclear-873857

The More We Evolve; The Less We Need God

If you are interested, here is a show you can watch that is broadcast on PBS and NPR.

It's called THE MORE WE EVOLVE, THE LESS WE NEED GOD

Watch for the photo in the background that shows a monkey changing into a man and then the evolved man throwing a cross into the garbage can.

Does God have a place in 21st century human affairs? For many, the answer is an unapologetic yes. Belief in a higher power, they argue, is the foundation of human consciousness and the soul of all social, political, and scientific progress. Further, some claim, humans are biologically predisposed to embrace religion and require faith to live moral lives. Others are far more skeptical. For them, adherence to faith and religious tradition serves only to fracture communities and prevent humanity from embracing a more enlightened, reasoned, and just social order. As we look to the future in uncertain times, should spirituality and religion play a central role in human evolution, innovation, and discovery? Or has God become obsolete? 

Here;  https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/more-we-evolve-less-we-need-god

Can you see how this is all fitting into the Last Days narrative that the Bible says will happen?

Can you see how many on planet earth might actually celebrate after the rapture?  When they look around and see that all of the "intolerant folks who cling to an ancient book filled with myths and old wive's tales", are gone....they very well might say, "Finally!  Now we don't have those bigoted idiots standing in the way of gay marriage, polygamy, gender issues, free sex changes, free college, gun control, free-choice abortion and electing 100% socialists in the House and White House!  Finally!  Peace, love and tolerance will rule the world."

Maybe this helps explain when the Bible says;
"While they are saying, 'Peace and Safety!', destruction will come upon them suddenly."

As you add up the death and destruction spelled out in Revelation and begin to understand what is going to happen to all these foolish people who chose to reject the knowledge of their Creator and instead chose to embrace the lies of evolution (everything came from no one and nothing)....it is impossible to even comprehend.

But Jesus, our Savior, tells us plainly in Matthew 24;
“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

Universe Could End With Big Bang

Some scientists are saying the entire universe started with a big bang.  And now those same scientists are saying it could also end with a big bang.

I'll just post the end of the article because it's interesting to note that they state the BIG BANG like it's a fact...instead of a theory that science can't prove or observe.

The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 by researchers smashing subatomic protons together at the Large Hadron Collider, has a specific mass.

If the researchers are correct, that mass could change, turning physics on its head and tearing apart the elements that make life possible, according to the New York Post.

And rather than burning slowly over trillions of years, an unstable Higgs boson could create an instantaneous bang, like the Big Bang that created our universe.

The researchers say a collapse could be driven by the curvature of space-time around a black hole, somewhere deep in the universe.

When space-time curves around super-dense objects, like a black hole, it throws the laws of physics out of whack and causes particles to interact in all sorts of strange ways.

https://www.sciencealert.com/second-big-bang-could-end-the-universe-with-unstable-higgs-boson-particle

You see, if you repeat a lie long enough and loud enough....so it will just become a fact.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Russia and China Roll Out Gold Backed Currency

For any of my readers who believe that the U.S. Dollar will ALWAYS be the world's reserve currency...and that we will ALWAYS be able to borrow $1 trillion per year and pay the interest with printed money from our own printing press....you may want to reconsider.

China and Russia have rolled-out plans to create a new currency that's 100 percent backed by gold.The new monetary system is designed to end the US dollar's dominance as the world’s default currency.Since 2015, Russia's Central Bank has been building its vast gold reserves.By the end of 2017, it had accumulated 1,828.56 tons making it the world's fifth largest gold reserve.

The United States' looming trade war and the overhang of debt have raised concerns on many levels as the dollar's keeps decreasing and the national debt spiraling out of control.

Gold Telegraph reports: Russia has been aggressively increasing its gold reserves for a reason.It has seen the US dollar dominate as a global currency and is working with China to end the US/Western currency supremacy.Their strategy appears to be working. Russia and China are in the midst of rumors of introducing gold-backed futures to circumvent the U.S dollar. The US dollar has had no gold-backing since 1933, nor has the US increased its gold reserves for a decade.

With speculation of Russia and China working on a gold-backed currency, a shift in monetary power from the West to the East seems to be their ambitions.The situation between East and West is exacerbated by recent tensions between Russia and the UK, since the alleged Kremlin poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.British Prime Minister Theresa May has ousted 23 Russian diplomats from Great Britain.Geopolitical tension is once again, high.

http://www.neonnettle.com/features/1353-russa-china-unite-to-create-100-gold-backed-currency

So what does it look like if the other world powers start teaming up together and demanding that they be paid in OTHER CURRENCIES besides the US Dollar?

Let's just say that it would turn out to be very, very bad for Americans.  And all those $1000/month truck payments that folks signed up for over these past 4 years will suddenly be very painful when the confidence in our financial system begins to unravel.

Saudi Prince Says Iran Leader “Worse Than Hitler”

Wow!  Can you even imagine that this could have happened even a year ago?

We wonder how much Trump naming Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital had to do with getting this ball rolling?

The leftists screamed that it would start WWIII but instead maybe it forced the Arab world to re-look at their policy of supporting the Arabs of Palestine who recently invented the name "Palestinians".

The heir to the Saudi throne has lambasted Iran, saying its Supreme Leader is the first side of a “triangle of evil” along with the Muslim Brotherhood and extremist Islamist groups like Isis.

In an echo of former U.S. president George W. Bush’s 2002 reference to Iran’s supposed role in an “axis of evil,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told The Atlantic that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was akin to Hitler and headed a regime that wanted to spread “extremist Shiite ideology.”

The crown prince added that if Tehran got its way, “the hidden Imam will come back again and he will rule the whole world from Iran and spread Islam even to America,” referring to the final savior of humankind according to Iran’s Twelver Shia faith.

He said: “The second part of the triangle is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is another extremist organization. They want to use the democratic system to rule countries and build shadow caliphates everywhere… And the other part is the terrorists, al-Qaeda, ISIS, that want to do everything with force.

http://www.newsweek.com/irans-leader-worse-hitler-and-wants-spread-islam-america-says-saudi-prince-869194

Flood Warning for Prophecy Watchers

Does it seem like a lot of prophetic news is now coming at us like a flood?

Earthquakes, wars, rumors of war, Ezekiel 38 coalition, 3rd Temple, Jerusalem, perversion everywhere, drug abuse (magic arts) abounds, a famine of the knowledge of the Word of God, apostasy, false teachers, false doctrines, Damascus being destroyed, etc...

As we all know, birth pangs start out mild and far apart but eventually come like a flood and won't cease until the baby is born.

Check out this great article from Rapture Ready today.  Many prophecy watchers are sensing that events are now coming at us like a flood.

The angel Gabriel told Daniel the end “shall be with a flood” (Dan. 9:26). A flood is often preceded by clouds. The clouds of wars and rumors of wars, world government, Israel’s rebuilt Temple, an economic collapse and more are on the horizon. They will be followed by a flood. The only question is timing.

Concerning wars and rumors of wars, in his Update 16 March 2018 report, Sean Osborne (retired military man and prophecy expert) said, “The war rhetoric is as high as Eschatology Today has ever seen it over the past three or four decades.”

Israel recently admitted that she bombed a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007. When asked why Israel admitted it after more than ten years of censorship, Israel’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said, “It is the message to our enemies in both the near and distant future.”

Put another way: Israel’s admission that she bombed a nuclear reactor in Syria is a warning that she will bomb a nuclear reactor in Iran if she has to.

That is as serious as a rattlesnake bite, but the rhetoric from Israel is just part of the story.

Another part concerns a meeting at the White House of officials from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the UAE. They established a Supreme Committee to coordinate their diplomatic and military efforts to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons and to make sure that they are ready militarily if Iran responds with violence.

Yet another part concerns the fact that the U.S. has just upped its aid to Israel’s missile defense program to $705 million in 2018. This record-breaking sum is being given because of the growing threat of war in Israel.

Concerning world government, the very popular speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly, Laszlo Kover, recently told the Hungarian people, “Our biggest battle is about to begin.”

That is an ominous statement considering the fact that Hitler’s Germany occupied Hungary during
WW II, and about 300,000 Hungarian soldiers and more than 600,000 civilians died during that war.

But Mr. Kover is right; two thirds to three fourths of those on earth will die when the Antichrist is handed the reins of a world government during the Tribulation Period.

With regard to the efforts of George Soros and others to enslave the Hungarian people under a world government, Mr. Kover said, “We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”

Wake up America! Pres. Trump is trying to stop world government. But Mr. Soros is trying to accelerate it, and he is not willing to stop at Hungary’s border. He is buying swampy politicians in the U.S. too.

Concerning Israel’s rebuilt Temple, 23 members of the Jewish Sanhedrin have signed a letter to the Arab religious leaders. The Jewish leaders hope to get all 71 members of the Sanhedrin to sign their letter, and it says, “The time has come to rebuild the Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in its ancient place.”

The writer of this article believes it will be the Antichrist that gives the Jews permission to rebuild the Temple, not the Arabs, and it will be early in the Tribulation Period, not before the Rapture.

Nevertheless, we should not overlook who is planning to send this letter (the Sanhedrin) and what it says about the time (now) and the place (the Temple Mount in Jerusalem) for a rebuilt Temple.

Concerning an economic collapse, with less than 1 day to read a 2,232-page spending bill, the U.S. House and Senate approved a $1.3 trillion spending spree.

America’s national debt is now over $21 trillion and going up like a rocket (see www.usdebtclock.org). It will probably be more than $174,000 per taxpayer by the time this article is posted.

No nation has ever owed so much in the history of the world; and few, if any, believe the U.S. will ever be able to get out of debt.

When America goes down, the whole world will go down with it.

Prophecy Plus Ministries, Inc.
Daymond & Rachel Duck

http://www.raptureready.com/2018/04/01/flood-warning-daymond-duck/

Of course we hope that America WON'T go down until Jesus comes in the clouds and summons His bride to meet him there.

But even the casual observer of America can see that the divide we are currently experiencing hasn't been seen for 150 years....since the last Civil War that ravished America.

Great Commission That Most Christians Don't Know

It's a sad state of affairs here in so -called "Christian America" when the majority of folks who call themselves Christians have no clue what the Great Commission is that Jesus left us with in Matthew 28.

A little over half of American churchgoers are not familiar with the term "Great Commission," according to a study conducted by the Barna Group and the Seed Company.

The "Great Commission" is a term used to describe Jesus' call to evangelism in Matthew 28:18-20: "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

In a report released Tuesday, Barna found that 51 percent of church attendees in the United States were unfamiliar with the term "Great Commission."

From there, 25 percent of respondents said they heard of it but did not recall its "exact meaning," 17 percent knew for sure, and 6 percent said they were not sure.

"The data indicates that churches are using the phrase less, which may reveal a lack of prioritizing or focusing on the work of the Great Commission, but may also indicate that the phrase, rather than the scriptures or the labor, has simply fallen out of favor with some," noted Barna.

Barna's report on the familiarity American Christians have with the term "Great Commission" comes a few months after the American Culture & Faith Institute released a study showing that American churches are not emphasizing evangelism.

An organization headed by Barna Group founder George Barna, the ACFI, noted last December that a decreasing number of churches "emphasize and equip people for evangelism these days, and the results are obvious and undeniable."

"The implications of ignoring gospel outreach — especially among children, who are the most receptive audience to the gospel — are enormous," stated ACFI.


"All the 'church growth' strategies in the world cannot compensate for the absence of an authentic transmission of the good news of what Jesus Christ has done for humanity."

https://www.christianpost.com/news/51-percent-of-american-churchgoers-unfamiliar-with-the-term-great-commission-barna-222234/

Yep!  The failure of the church in America over the last 50+ years has been the false belief that getting people to sit in our pews on Sunday will make them all disciples.

How about all of us?  Are we part of the 49% or part of the 51%?

Do we know that Jesus' plan for all of us is to BECOME His disciples and then go make other disciples...who can, in turn, go and make other disciples?

How many of us do that?

"Yea, but Dennis, I give money to my local church so they can hire pastors and staff so THEY can go and make disciples.  I don't want to do that myself, because I have never been to seminary and have never read my Bible so I'm not qualified to make disciples.  Besides that, I'm already saved....and isn't that really the main thing?"

As one pastor recently said, "Salvation is free and it costs you nothing.  But, discipleship is expensive because it costs you everything."

Do Something!!

After the Parkland High School shooting there was a trending hashtag on Twitter to #doSomething.

The students said they no longer felt safe in school.  A nationwide protest was orchestrated (guessing the kids didn't orchestrate it) to protest gun violence.

Ummmm....whose NOT against gun violence?  Every gun owner and NRA member I know is against gun violence.  But of course the NRA wasn't invited to the protests.

Anyway, they did DO SOMETHING at Parkland and required see-through plastic backpacks, new student ID's that have to be carried at all times and a bigger security force to protect the kids.

So do you think those Parkland kids are now happy that something was done?

They led a national march. Now Parkland students return to a school they say 'feels like jail'

(CNN)Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School return to class Monday, their first day back since organizing one of the largest youth-led protests in US history.

But these teenagers won't be returning to a normal high school experience. Instead, they'll be met with strict security measures which are intended to protect them from another mass shooting but have some students feeling as if they'll be learning in a prison.

"Going to school is really so hard, and now it's going to be so much worse," said Isabelle Robinson, a senior. "A lot of the people I've talked to are dreading going back."

Five weeks after Nikolas Cruz entered their Parkland, Florida, school and killed 17 students and faculty, MSD students led March for Our Lives rallies on March 24 in Washington and across the country. Their #NeverAgain movement has raised millions of dollars, won accolades, attracted celebrity support and pushed the issue of gun control into the national spotlight.

After the march, the students took a week off for spring break. Now they'll have to contend with a complex mix of grief over their slain classmates and excitement over their burgeoning movement.

"The march was amazing," said Daniel Bishop, a sophomore. "It was such an amazing experience to be there as a Parkland student, to experience and see all of us come together and talk about what we want to see happen."

But six weeks after the shooting and more than a week after the march, many of the students' legislative goals have not been realized.

"There's still that sense of melancholy, because what's going to happen from this?" Bishop said. "It's not like there was a magical bill that was passed that fixed all the things after the march. That didn't happen."

On top of that, Parkland students say they're apprehensive about their school's increased security measures.

MSD students will only be allowed to carry clear backpacks on campus and will be required to wear new student IDs at all times.

There will be an increased police presence on campus, as Gov. Rick Scott provides extra Florida Highway Patrol officers to beef up security and provide support to Broward County sheriff's deputies. Students will have limited points of entry to the school.

The school district also says it's considering whether to install metal detectors at the school's entrances. A letter from Principal Ty Thompson sent to families on Friday said that step has not been taken yet.

"It feels like being punished," Robinson told CNN. "It feels like jail, being checked every time we go to school."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/us/parkland-florida-students-return-school/index.html

So what the heck did you marching kids actually want?   You said you didn't feel safe going at school anymore and now the adults have done everything in their power to make you feel safe....but now you feel like you are in jail?

Hey kids....here's your first lesson in freedom.

And then check out this paragraph for irony.....

Many students, like Robinson, aren't happy about the new security measures. She pointed out that the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was not a student of Stoneman Douglas at the time of the shooting, so the new security measures that appear to target students are counterproductive.

Oh but wait!.....most of you "student activists" want to target legal gun owners by passing more laws that criminals won't follow anyway?  That seems counterproductive....

And this one....

"I get it," he said, but, "it feels like we are losing individualism. I understand why they are doing it, but if a person wants to bring a gun on campus, they just aren't going to put it in their backpack."

Oh but wait!  If a criminal wants to bring a gun to school, aren't they just going to ignore the GUN FREE ZONE signs?  Also, the point of the clear backpacks is so they CAN'T put a gun in there...so less places to hide a gun.

Putin, Turkey and Iran Are Planning Another Meeting

Does it seem to you like prophetic headlines are starting to come like a flood now?

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day visit to Turkey from Tuesday where he will meet his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the Kremlin said on Monday.

Putin and Erdogan will also officially launch the first unit of Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power station, the Kremlin said in a statement.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5216966,00.html

The three main-named players of Ezekiel 38 are having a meeting...AGAIN!

What do you suppose they are going to talk about?....ummm....maybe the destruction of Israel?

Russia wants its natural gas, Iran wants Israel destroyed and Turkey wants Jerusalem as a jewel in their revived Ottoman Empire.

How nice!

Remember, this is the first time in HUMAN HISTORY that this coalition has come together, but yet Ezekiel prophesied that it would happen in the very last days, and he wrote this down over 2700 years ago.

Of course 2700 years seems like a large amount of time from a human perspective, but for God it just happened a few days ago.