So Earthly Minded, No Heavenly Good

When I was in my 30’s the Lord really awakened me and I started digging in my Bible for the first time.  Raised in an ELCA Lutheran church there wasn’t an emphasis on reading the Bible and the message I got was, “just be a pretty good person and hang out with pretty good people and everything will be OK.”  Clearly, that’s not the Gospel message at all.  One day I was at my office and an older co-worker came in while I was reading my Bible.  When he saw what I was reading he said, “don’t become so heavenly minded that you become no earthly good.”  I didn’t really have a response to that.  Years later I came up with what I should have responded to him, “actually the Bible warns the exact opposite, don’t become so earthly minded that you become no heavenly good.”  So when I saw this article in Rapture Ready it reminded me of that conversation decades ago and I posted some of it below.

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The closer we get to Jesus’ return, the further away many Christians and churches are drifting from the great commission. One well-known statement epitomizes the apathy prevalent in much of our time’s lukewarm, watered-down Western church. The decades-old popular false notion is that someone can be so heavenly-minded that they’re no earthly good. This is the sentiment of many believers who desire to be liked by the world so much that they become virtually indistinguishable from the world they are trying to reach. They have become so earthly-minded that they are no heavenly good. Let’s look at the stark difference between man-made efforts to get the world to like us versus the power of God to save and transform people (Romans 1:16).

Consider how many new churches have popped up in your area recently. Most of these churches are swanky new buildings with cafes, game rooms, bookstores, and next-step areas meant to attract the local community with amenities for everyone. The new buzzword in ministry circles is relevant, and people have built ministries instructing believers on how to be more relevant as if the gospel isn’t enough. The desire to be liked by the world so desperately has rendered many churches and individuals irrelevant in the world to come.

This isn’t a blanket statement, but the first and oftentimes only thing many Christians in America and the West boast about is how great their church is or what a dynamic speaker the pastor is rather than how awesome Jesus is. People are encouraged to connect, plug in, join something, or serve together. My question is this: What are they serving, joining, and plugging into? I’ve talked to some of these “involved people” and genuinely wanted to know and asked them how they got saved. They seem completely clueless about eternal matters. They would say, “I started going to this church last year,” or “I grew up around the church and wanted to reconnect.” It seems like many people are finding community, not repentance and saving faith in Jesus.

Many preachers and ministries have amassed fans and attendees, not converts and disciples, to become more relevant to the world. Why do we collectively plan so diligently on how many bounce houses, backpacks, and pizzas it will take to draw a crowd? Why do we use religious-sounding platitudes instead of words like repentance, judgment, and wrath? This is done because if we face the facts, the modern watered-down Western church is ashamed of Jesus and His words (Luke 9:26). Ingratiating ourselves to the world and being liked by them has become an idol and obsession to the growing apostate church across America and abroad.

Never do the disciples use gimmicks to attract crowds. They count on the power of the Spirit to see them through. The notion that they should set up a programmed affair and use Jesus as a kind of sponsor never so much as entered their heads. -A.W. Tozer

We are told to be in the world, not of it, but many believers become like the world to gain their approval. This is a cover for weak and worldly peddlers of the gospel. This is what groveling for the world to like and accept us looks like. By practicing cunning tactics, we think we can make what is patently offensive and foolish to the world acceptable to them (2 Corinthians 4:1-2). Many Christian leaders surmise that changing our communities and social experiments is evangelism; here’s what one Bible teacher said on the religious platitude of helping to change the world for Christ:

Many Christians never stop to ask what is really meant by such a phrase but have a vague idea that somehow, through their godly influence, Christians will make the world a better place in which to live. Such a goal, in fact, is often presented as though it were part of the Great Commission that tells us to preach the gospel and make disciples. -Dave Hunt, Whatever Happened to Heaven?

Numerous Christian magazines, podcasts, and conferences are focused on ways to be relevant, liked, and irresistible to the world. Some ministries charge nearly ten thousand dollars to instruct churches on attracting and engaging people. I attended a recent Christmas Eve service where large banners proclaimed you were made for more, and the pastor told the audience that God was pleased with them. It seems like our collective efforts to win the world boil down to making people feel better about themselves and improving public perception of Christians. Jesus said that the world would hate us, but to many would-be disciples, the temporary satisfaction of being liked is more important than hearing well done, good and faithful servant.

 https://www.raptureready.com/2024/12/31/so-earthly-minded-no-heavenly-good-by-howard-green/

Eating, Drinking, Marrying, Planting, Building

 We just finished our last blog post by saying that we don't believe an epic financial collapse will happen before the rapture because that would certainly put is all in a position where it would not be, "business as usual."  We then went to Rapture Ready to read what they were posting today and came across this confirmation that I'm not alone in this thinking.

But what is extra amazing is that Terry actually wrote this article and posted it in January 1 of 2018!  Since that time, Trump got kicked out and now got voted back in!  The Democrats had us on the brink of insanity but maybe Trump will get us back closer to "business as usual" which will be the conditions that exist for the civilized world when Jesus blows his trumpet.

Unheralded Prophecy in View

We’ve been over it before in this column. However, things are shaping so rapidly that it again needs our attention. Prophecy watchmen on the wall should pay close attention.

The seminaries consistently ignore this prophetic indicator altogether. Or they steadfastly say it is to be applied to Jews alive during the Tribulation. It is not for the Church.I say–and have done so for years–that the prophecy is specifically for our time–that is, the Age of Grace. I’m referring to Jesus’ foretelling of the time of His next intervention into the affairs of humankind. He described those days as being like the days of Noah and the days of Lot.

The prophecy involved is so important for us to consider as this new year begins that we will include it here in its entirety.

In the Matthew Olivet Discourse account, the Lord says no one can know the day or hour of His coming. He next informs of what this time will be like and what to look for in being watchmen.

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come” (Matthew 24:36-42).

Jesus further expands in the Luke account:

“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:26-30).

We have looked numerous times at these words of Christ. We’ve noted that the time of which He spoke in prophesying these matters could not be the time of His Second Advent. The world will be almost totally destroyed when Armageddon is raging. Perhaps as much as three-fourths of the earth’s population will have died as a result of God’s wrath and Satan’s evil through the Antichrist’s reign. It will not be business as usual.

This prophecy about Christ’s “revealing” indicates plainly that it will be a time of buying, selling, marrying, planting–all of the activities that indicate business as usual. I maintain that because Christ doesn’t emphasize things that are mundane; He was talking here about a time when business was much better than usual.

As long as five years ago, we expressed in this Nearing Midnight column our belief that it would be a time of economic boom, not bust, that would mark when the Rapture of the Church would occur. It would be the “think-not” time because the world, economically speaking, would be doing quite well.

Of course, not all the world is doing well at present, economically or in any other way. This has always been the case. The poor will always be with us, the Lord, Himself, told us.

However, for the part of the world where economies have the capability to thrive, the world, Jesus said in this prophecy, will be doing quite well at the time He is next “revealed.”

Almost every economic indicator is moving upward in America at this moment. This nation is the economic engine for the rest of the world. The better the US does, economically speaking, the better the other nations who have the capability to thrive will do.

I’m dumbfounded at the fact that the true, Bible-teaching seminaries of America see this prophecy as being only for the Jews of the Tribulation. It seems to be a blindness they suffer.

However, I do know why the tremendous economic potential that has burst onto the scene is unheralded by the mainstream news media. They hate Donald Trump, plain and simple.

Now, I’m not so foolish as to think that the economic upswing is one built on sound economic principles. We are in a tremendous financial bubble that continues to grow by the hour. At some point it is going to burst. It simply defies the fiscal laws for it to continue without imploding.

However, it will not come to that point of implosion, I’m of the belief, until the Lord says so. He is allowing it to move exactly toward the prophetic point the Lord Jesus foretold in the above scriptural accounts.

As I’ve expressed many times, this president is God’s chosen man for this hour, a builder, an entrepreneur extraordinaire. But the mainstream news prevaricators refuse to report the tremendous economic growth the nation is experiencing. To do so would move in the opposite direction of trying to bring America down so that the globalists can usurp its wealth and power to construct the world order they wish to establish. They want desperately to destroy this president’s efforts to restore the United States to its former leading status.

Antichrist’s global platform will be constructed, I believe, when the Rapture occurs, and this phenomenal economic bubble explodes and comes down around the ears of an unsuspecting world.

The year 2018 could be the time. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Here;  Unheralded Prophecy in View :: By Terry James - Rapture Ready

UK and its Imminent Financial Collapse

 Like America, the UK has been borrowing money to buy services and things that it can't afford.  Like America they print government bonds and sell them to raise cash to pay for the things they want and need today.  But the UK doesn't own the printing press to the world's Reserve Currency like the USA does.  So as the financial debt bomb begins to unravel there will be nations that feel the collapse first and be hit hardest and nations who get hit later and maybe weather it better.

Let's listen in on the warning coming from an important financial analyst concerning the imminent collapse of Great Britain.

The sequence of events that took place during the last few months of this year, including the presidential elections in the United States and the war in Syria overshadowed important developments in the news cycle, especially on the economic front. One of them is the approaching collapse of Great Britain.

I believe that we are close to the precipice of events that will remain recorded in history, perhaps like the 1921 Weimar republic hyperinflation, 1929 stock market crash, or the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The events will cause a lot of pain for great many people, but if we correctly anticipate them and prepare for the coming changes, at the very least we should be able to weather the storm intact.

About three months ago, on 26 August I published an article titled “The coming collapse of Britain.” If you missed it, give it a scan as it sets the backdrop to this report. During this year’s summer months, British ruling establishment appeared to be in a panic over Ukraine’s imminent military defeat and her debt default. Britain has invested quite massively in project Ukraine, which now looks like a failed investment.

Indeed, on 27 August, only one day after I published that article, Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave a speech in the Downing Street garden, in which he disclosed that there was a “£22 billion black hole in the public finances.” Supposedly, his government only discovered this once they came to power. By “black hole,” Starmer was referring to the government’s unfunded liabilities.

Catastrophic fiscal conditions

To prepare the nation for more bad news, the Prime Minister announced that the October 30 budget would be “painful.” Well, October 30 is behind us and now we know. When the news broke, Deutsche Bank’s analyst Sanjay Raja characterized the budget as, “one of the largest fiscal loosening of any fiscal event in decades.” In the post-war years it was only surpassed in 2020 due to the Covid 19 lockdowns.

The new budget adds £142 billion in new debt, which the government expects to raise in capital markets. But the sheer amount of the planned borrowing took the markets by surprise. As it turns out, Britain’s gross financing needs are double what market analysts had expected.

The painful side to the budget which Mr. Starmer promised will come not only in terms of savage austerity imposed on society’s most vulnerable groups but also in terms of £40 billion in new taxes. The burden of these new taxes will fall largely on British employers, which will in turn hurt the working people. Ultimately, it will also hurt the government. In suffocating the economy, the government will only widen the gap between public spending and its tax receipts. Britain is already running one of the world’s largest budget deficits. Bloomberg’s analyst Simon White had a point when he judged the fiscal picture in Britain as catastrophic.

Here;  The fall of Britain (part 2) - Alex Krainer's Substack

Will we see all this transpire?  2025 is shaping up to be an incredible year as far as shaking goes.  There are lots of nations that seem right on the verge of having a severe shaking.  Will we see the collapse of the financial system?  Or will we see Jesus coming in the clouds before this happens?

No one knows!  But as followers of Christ we can celebrate that no matter what happens, Jesus is in control!  Anything we experience while on earth will be very light and temporary when compared to the glories promised for us in eternity.

Pigs Are Now Flying as MSNBC Admits Illegal Border Encounters Surged During Biden

 For four years we saw Democrats roll their eyes as the reports of illegal border crossings kept rolling in from eye witnesses on the border.  We all knew that the border was less of an issue when Trump was President but the MSM and Democrats refused to acknowledge this fact...until today.

Unless you have lived under a rock or never dared to venture beyond MSNBC or CNN or the front page of the New York Times as your source of 'news', none of this will come as a surprise at all...

But, for those that have lived blinkered from the truth about the border for the past four years, MSNBC just sent your minds to '11' on the 'cognitive dissonance' scale as they dared to show a chart that - hold your breath here for a moment - shows a massive surge in illegal immigration during Biden's reign (especially compared to Trump's).

"The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly," former Obama administration official Steve Rattner sheepishly admits while showing the dramatic chart, shocking his co-host on MSNBC's Morning Joe by admitting that:

"you can see what happened here and Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings were quite low."

“They were running about 74,000 a month when he left office. And they, in fact, did shoot up. Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations.”

“But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month,” Rattner continued.

Enjoy...

As a reminder, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas claimed that the border is secure on multiple occasions prior to a March 2024 impeachment vote in the House of Representatives, despite the fact that the Border Patrol encountered millions of illegal immigrants since the start of fiscal year 2021, according to figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Here;  "Trump Is Not Wrong" - MSNBC Finally Admits Massive Spike In Illegal Immigration Under Biden | ZeroHedge

We really hope that the next 4 years, should Jesus tarry, be filled with exposing all the lies that have filled this country.  Are there really pedophiles and sex traffickers' filing the Democrat/Liberal/Globalist cabal?  Where is the Jeffrey Epstien list?  How has that not gone public?  What really happened at the Capitol on January 6?  Did the Democrats figure out a way to cheat in the 2020 election using millions of mail in ballots sent out because of the Covid pandemic?  How come it was legal and safe to go to Menards and Walmart but somehow wasn't safe to stand in a voting booth BY YOURSELF for a few minutes?  Who killed JKF?  Is there really "strange flesh" gathered and stored by the US Government who then covered up the UFO crash at Roswell, NM in 1947?  Did the FBI really try and keep Trump from running again?

As we said, we hope Jesus is coming really soon, BUT if he tarries we'd like to see some of these lies and mysteries be exposed.

15 Dead in Islamic Terrorist Attack in New Orleans

There were 15 people in Louisiana that woke up on New Year’s Eve day and said to their various friends and families, “Let’s go to Bourbon Street tonight and ring in the New Year”.  Little could they have imagined they’d be dead, and their eternal fates sealed, 12 hours later at the hands of an Islamic terrorist.

America has become pretty dull in the area of common sense.  Do you think we’d allow members of the Nazi religion into America?  I’m questing immigration would check their backgrounds and references and when they find out they are Nazis from some other nation looking to immigrate to America, someone would say no.

So why do you suppose America has allowed so many Muslims into America?  Why block one religion and not another that has proven itself to be equally violent?

Islam’s master plan, laid out by Satan himself, is to take over the entire world for Allah.  He wants every knee to bow to him and NOT Jesus.  The simple plan is to exploit Western nation’s freedoms. “We need to come to America since conditions are so bad in Somalia!”  And all the liberals say, “welcome!  And bring your religion of peace and all your kids and families too!”  Once implanted here they have no plans to assimilate.  On the contrary, they move into enclaves of their own and begin to take over block by block.  The women have 4 kids each.  Do the simple math of what happens in 20 years time to a region where one group has 4 kids and everyone else is having 1-2 kids.  I pray that Trump and his men can figure out how to turn the clock back on the common sense meter for America.

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Louisiana’s top lawyer is vowing an eye-for-an-eye for those believed to be involved in the Bourbon Street terror attack.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill warns, “In Louisiana, we have the death penalty, and we will carry it out!” she writes in a post on X.

The post comes after a horrifying massacre where a suspect drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 15 people. The driver, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran, is dead following a shootout with officers.

The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism.

Murrill tells Fox News there is evidence that multiple individuals are involved but declines to share further details.

Law enforcement remains stationed around the French Quarter and the Superdome, where the College Football Playoff quarterfinal, the Sugar Bowl, was postponed until today.

 https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/bourbon-street-mass-casualty-incident-new-orleans-live-updates

“Biggest Change EVER Seen”

Extreme happenings and articles/news reports using the words “ever” and “never” have been happening with increasing frequency the past decade.  Kind of like birth pangs increase in frequency and intensity.  Today we read about the North Pole.

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Researchers recently published the latest edition of the Earth’s magnetic field map showing that the magnetic North Pole has shifted from northern Canada toward Siberia over the past five years, accelerating as it went. While the magnetic north pole is constantly in motion, Scientists noted that for the first time in recorded history, the pole has changed its speed, slowing dramatically in an inexplicable manner since it was last recorded five years ago from 50 kilometers per year to 35 kilometers per year.

 “The current behavior of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before,” says Dr. William Brown, a geomagnetic field modeler at the British Geological Survey, in a media release. “Magnetic north has been moving slowly around Canada since the 1500s but, in the past 20 years, it accelerated towards Siberia, increasing in speed every year until about five years ago, when it suddenly decelerated from 50 to 35 km per year, which is the biggest deceleration in speed we’ve ever seen.”

https://israel365news.com/399006/magnetic-pole-moving-towards-russia-presaging-malachis-devastating-day-of-hashem/

China Wants Taiwan

The day China invades Taiwan the USA will be at war with China.  How much blood and treasure would we be willing and able to expend?

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According to a report by a national security expert, the People’s Republic of China has ordered the largest military build-up of any nation in the world since Germany in the 1930s, raising concerns about the military threat presented by China.

No one can stop China’s “reunification” with Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s speech on Tuesday, laying down a clear warning to what Beijing regards as pro-independence forces within and outside of the island of 23 million people.

In the past year, Beijing has stepped up military pressure near Taiwan, sending warships and planes almost daily into the waters and air space around the island in what Taiwanese officials view as a creeping effort to “normalise” China’s military presence.

China regards democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory. But Taiwan’s government rejects Beijing’s claims and says only its people can decide their future and Beijing ought to respect the choice of the Taiwanese people.

“The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can sever our family bonds, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification,” Xi said in a speech televised on China’s state broadcaster CCTV.

In his New Year’s speech last year, Xi said China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, and that people on both sides “should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/01/xi-says-no-one-can-stop-chinas-reunification-with-taiwan.html

Israeli Government About to Fall?

It seems like so many nations are split and ready for a serious upheaval.  One has to wonder if this is one more sign that the very last days are upon us.  With enemies surrounding Israel and missiles flying in from all directions one would think Israel would be united in their desire to survive!  But that’s not the case. 

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 Opposition Leader Yair Lapid slams National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as a “TikTok clown” and calls for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his “extremist and deranged government” to apologize to the people of Israel for their actions.

Addressing reporters ahead of his Yesh Atid party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, Lapid says that while his prediction last year that the government would fall in 2024 did not come true, “everyone who was in the Knesset yesterday understood that it will not take long.”

“We saw what happened here yesterday. A pale and weak prime minister, and Ben Gvir was making fun of him in front of the nation. I won’t be tempted to give another forecast with a timetable, but I was only wrong about the date, and I have no intention of apologizing.”

Lapid says that the coalition is only holding itself together because its members know that if elections were held today most of them would not be voted back into the Knesset.

“This government is a sick, corrupt, dysfunctional body, the most extreme and failed government in the history of the country, and it has lost the public’s trust,” he says.

Netanyahu left the hospital yesterday evening, two days after undergoing prostate surgery, in order to vote on a critical budget-related bill after Ben Gvir announced that he would oppose the legislation. The bill passed by one vote.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/lapid-everyone-who-saw-what-happened-in-knesset-yesterday-knows-government-will-fall/

Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Israel

Yep!  It’s kind of tradition to say nice things about the dead and maybe try and ignore the nasty things they did.  Hooray!  Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school for years!  Hooray!  Jimmy Carter built houses for poor people!  Booo!   Jimmy Carter wrote a book about the non-existent “Palestinian people” and accused Israel of apartheid!  Booo!  Carter had meeting with Hamas!  A demonic hoard of Muslim terrorists who dream of doing Satan’s work.

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Jimmy Carter’s death has unleashed a predictable flood of tributes. From his humanitarian work to his “commitment to peace,” the accolades are rolling in. But let’s not mince words: for anyone who cares about Israel and the future of the Jewish people, Jimmy Carter’s legacy is not worthy of praise. It is a stain—a decades-long campaign to undermine the Jewish state and empower its enemies. And yet, some Jewish organizations, most notably the American Jewish Committee (AJC), cannot resist their compulsion to whitewash Carter’s record.

In their official statement on Carter’s passing, the AJC declared, “Jimmy Carter’s decades-long commitment to advancing peace earned him a place on the world stage as a respected statesman and humanitarian. We will always be grateful for his role in facilitating the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.” That’s it? No mention of his anti-Israel rhetoric, his toxic “apartheid” slander, or his cozying up to Hamas leaders who have Jewish blood on their hands? The AJC’s statement is not just tone-deaf; it’s a betrayal.

Carter’s record on Israel is infamous. His 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, accused Israel of imposing apartheid on Palestinians—a libel that delegitimizes the Jewish state and fuels the very antisemitism that Jewish organizations claim to oppose. Carter’s meetings with Hamas, an organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews worldwide, were not about “peace.” They were about legitimizing terror.

Jewish organizations like the AJC should have been leading the charge to call Carter out. Instead, they fell over themselves to avoid offending the memory of a man who spent decades undermining Israel’s existence. The AJC’s spinelessness is not unique; it exemplifies the broader failure of establishment Jewish organizations to stand up for Jewish honor and Jewish pride.

 https://israel365news.com/398995/stop-whitewashing-jimmy-carters-antisemitism-the-need-for-a-proud-and-strong-jewish-leadership/

Parents Who Believe Their Kids are Reincarnated

The article below is in the Washington Post and came across my Apple News Today.  Of course the headline caught my interest.  Little kids saying disturbing things and parents beginning to believe that they are reincarnated.  I just posted a few paragraphs so read the whole thing if you want and try and use your Bible Glasses filled with discernment to see if you can come up with another explanation and also another cure if this had happened to your child.

Note that the article points out that most of these cases happen in Indigenous families whose cultures already believe in reincarnation.  So there’s one clue!  Who and what were Indigenous people worshiping before Christianity came to this land?

Also remember that familiar spirits are running around looking for someone to deceive and they have had centuries to practice their art of deception. If this ever happens to someone you know pray over them in the name of Jesus and command that whatever spirit is harassing your 2 yr old child LEAVE…in Jesus’ name.

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Over the past dozen years, Cyndi Hammons has grown adept at fielding the messages that appear in her Facebook inbox, sent by overwhelmed parents who don’t know what to do about children who seem to be remembering a past life.

“Anybody who is struggling with it, I tell them, ‘You’re going to make it through,’” she says. Mostly, she just tries to listen and offer understanding. “I don’t know that I’ve helped anybody, but I know what it feels like. I know what the fear feels like, what the judgment feels like, and it’s heavy,” she says. “And most cases aren’t solved. Ryan’s was solved. So I was very lucky.”

It didn’t feel lucky in the beginning, when Ryan was waking up sobbing at night and describing things his mother couldn’t fathom: that he remembered living in Hollywood in a big white house with a swimming pool. That he once had three sons and a younger sister. That he drove a green car, and his wife drove a black one.

“It felt like living with someone who had Alzheimer’s, mixed with grieving,” Cyndi says. But that someone was her small child, and all she wanted was for him to feel safe and happy.

Cyndi didn’t tell anyone at first, not even her husband, Ryan’s father. Kevin Hammons was the son of a Church of Christ minister, a police officer in their small town in Oklahoma, and Cyndi knew what he would think. For months, it remained a secret between mother and son. She brought home library books about Hollywood in the 1940s so Ryan could leaf through the pages. When he wanted to collect sunglasses instead of Hot Wheels, or window-shop for suit jackets, or listen to Bing Crosby, “that’s what we did,” Cyndi says.

But Ryan’s night terrors and recollections did not stop, and eventually Cyndi told Kevin what was happening. He didn’t initially accept the possibility of reincarnation, she says, but as a detective, he told her to write down everything Ryan said. Not long after, Ryan saw a man he recognized in one of his library books, a peripheral figure in a photograph of six men: “That’s me!” he told his mother.

Cyndi wrote to Tucker, and in April 2010, with the help of a production crew from the A&E series “The Unexplained,” they were able to identify the man as Marty Martyn, a movie extra and talent agent who died in 1964.

With Tucker and the television crew, Cyndi and Ryan traveled to California to meet Martyn’s daughter, Marisa Martyn Rosenblatt, who was 8 when her father died. She was skeptical — but she ultimately confirmed many of Ryan’s statements about Marty Martyn, including some she hadn’t realized were correct. She didn’t know that her father had driven a green car, or that he had a younger sister, but it turned out both claims were accurate. Marty Martyn’s death certificate cited his age as 59, but Ryan insisted he had died at 61; Tucker found census records and marriage listings that confirmed this, as did Martyn’s daughter.

When the episode of “The Unexplained” aired in 2011, it catapulted the Hammons family into a different realm, where their names were in newspaper headlines, and everyone in their town knew Ryan’s story.

“Kevin and I had professional jobs. I was a county clerk’s deputy for 14 years,” Cyndi says. “We were known in our community.” But that didn’t stop people from telling her their thoughts: Your child needs to find Jesus. You’re a bad parent. Are you doing this for money?

“People don’t really understand this unless they’ve lived it,” she says. “Everything pivoted around protecting Ryan. I didn’t care what anyone thought about me — it didn’t matter. I knew the truth, and I just knew that Ryan had to be okay.”

Ryan is a college junior now. He doesn’t remember being Marty Martyn anymore, and this isn’t a story he shares when he meets people. He still isn’t sure how to label what he experienced: “I’m open to anything,” he says, “but I cannot say with certainty that reincarnation is real.” He says he is at peace with the unknown, focused now on his future.

 https://apple.news/AVBn3g2_iTW6f4xBLFuF5WQ

Here's Another Great Explanation of Daniel's 490 Year (70 x 7's) Prophecy

 Angel Gabriel came to Daniel while he was in exile in Babylon.  He told him it would take 490 years to wrap everything up FOR HIS PEOPLE, the Jews.  From the signing on the decree by Cyrus to release the Jews and return to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls and the Temple, until Messiah was cut off would be 483 years.  And to the day that's exactly when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey on Passover.  So 69 weeks of years (69 x 7) is 483 years...and then the stopwatch stopped of the Jewish prophecy.  Which means there are 7 years left AND THAT'S EXACTLY how long the 70th Week of Daniel will be!  7 years!  It will start when the Antichrist confirms a peace agreement and will end when Jesus returns at Armageddon to set up his 1000 year reign on earth!

When it comes to prophecy, perhaps none is more amazing than the one we call the 70 weeks of Daniel (Dan. 9:24–27). God gave this astounding glimpse of the future to the Jewish prophet Daniel in 538 BC, 48 years after Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and burned Solomon’s Temple to the ground.

Not only does this prophecy pinpoint the exact time the Messiah would be on Earth, but it also reaches thousands of years into the future to describe end-times events still on the horizon, including a unique time of horror and judgment known as the Great Tribulation, as well as God’s final deliverance of a redeemed Israel.

The prophecy begins, “Seventy weeks are determined for your people [Israel] and for your holy city [Jerusalem]” (v. 24). The weeks are weeks of years (Hebrew, “seventy sevens”) totaling 490 years, each being a biblical year of 360 days. This period of years is divided into three parts:

1. Seven Weeks (49 years). “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times” (v. 25).

The countdown began in 445 BC, when Persian King Artaxerxes commanded the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Both the city and walls were reconstructed (Neh. 1—13).

2. Sixty-Two Weeks (434 years). “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off [die], but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary” (Dan. 9:26). Jesus was crucified in ca. AD 33. In AD 70, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple.

3. One Week (seven years, yet to come). “Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate” (v. 27).

As with many prophecies, a time gap exists. Here the gap shows up between the 69th and 70th weeks. After the Messiah’s death and resurrection, God stopped the countdown and inserted the Church Age, the age of grace, which will end with the Rapture when He removes His church from Earth. Then the Antichrist (“the prince who is to come,” v. 26) will appear and confirm a strong, binding covenant with Israel for “one week” (the final seven years). This is the 70th week of Daniel.

Here;  The 70th Week Of Daniel: An Astounding Glimpse Of The Future - Harbinger's Daily

If this still doesn't make sense, please pull up the article above and study it.  Understanding it will make you realize that this is one of the most amazing prophecies in all the Bible.  It will also build your confidence in the fact that the Pre-millennial way of looking at eschatology is the way of looking at things that makes the most sense.

Welcome to the Femosphere

I ran across this article on my Google News.  Women are so confused.  Men are so confused.  Sex is now a commodity that is owned by women and sold to men.  Marriage is no longer valued.  Children are a burden and no longer a blessing.

Lord we need you!  Please come quickly and put things back into order.

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The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially dangerous online spaces of their own: the femosphere.

It is a term used by Dr Jilly Kay, an expert in feminist media and cultural studies at Loughborough University, in a paper published earlier this year. Kay has been researching a reactionary turn among young women, and how a backlash against mainstream feminism has created new spaces online. In the femosphere, instead of “incels” – male involuntary celibates – there are “femcels”, and instead of pickup artists there are female dating strategists and so-called “dark feminine” influencers who encourage women to find men to support them financially.

 Most corners of the femosphere explicitly describe themselves as feminist, so Kay said she was surprised to see that their values seemed conservative, and their philosophy mostly anti-gender equality.

She said: “The logic that they adhere to is that men and women are fundamentally different.”

In the femosphere, as in the manosphere, there’s an overarching belief that life is about survival of the fittest, that men will always hurt women and that will never change, so strategies are needed to conquer the opposite gender.

Kay looked at Female Dating Strategy, which started as a Reddit forum (with more than 250,000 members) and expanded into social media and a podcast. It has a six-point ideology for members to subscribe to, which includes ideas such as: men should always pursue women, women should seek financial contributions from men, and the majority of men have no value.

Mainstream feminism in recent decades has been “very consumer-oriented, all about individual empowerment, emphasising things like women being confident, successful, and women having all the things that men can have”, said Kay. In other words: “girlboss feminism”.

But since about 2018, Kay said, there has been a growing rejection of that idea.

Kay saw beliefs discussed and shared in online forums and via social media influencers that echoed the logic of the manosphere – particularly when it came to dating and relationships.

“Ideas like men are the gatekeeper of relationships and women are the gatekeepers of sex,” she said.

“So women’s currency in the sexual marketplace resides in her withholding sex from men, and you diminish your value if you have casual sex.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/29/welcome-to-the-femosphere-the-latest-dark-toxic-corner-of-the-internet-for-women

Sweden Tells Folks How to Prep to Survive a War

Here in America we haven’t had to fight a war against armed invaders since our independence from the British.  Not true in Europe.  Today we read that Sweden is trying to acquire lots of cemetery space to bury lots of dead if war breaks out.  I can’t fathom that Russia, whose GDP is less than Texas, could afford to fight a war on multiple fronts but the world does appear ripe for war…and someone at the top in Sweden must be sensing it.

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 Millions of Swedes are now receiving copies of a government pamphlet advising them on how to survive an armed conflict.

The move comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring a conventional attack on Russia by any nation supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

The BBC reports In case of crisis or war has been updated from six years ago because of what the government in Stockholm calls the worsening security situation, by which it means Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The booklet – which comes in a range of languages including English, Farsi, Arabic, and Somali alongside Swedish – is also twice the size.

Neighboring Finland has also just published its own fresh advice online on “preparing for incidents and crises.” Norway is following suit.

Sweden and Finland sent out updated civil preparedness guides in November with instructions on how to survive in war. The guides are similar to those in Denmark and Norway.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/sweden-begins-search-for-more-cemetary-space-issues-millions-of-booklets-how-to-survive-a-war