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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Why Should I Persist In Prayer?
God wants us to persist in prayer. Anything in life that is
worth something cost some effort to obtain. We don’t just find the diamonds as we’re walking along the beach or in the woods. They are usually some place
deeper that requires some digging. We don’t find gold just laying along side
the road. No, we've got do some mining. We’ve got to get to work to find it. So it is
with answers to our prayers. We need to work for those answers. We need to be
persistent with God like Jesus showed in the story of the unjust judge.[1]
Where the woman had to persist and the judge said, “This woman is going to wear
me out if I don’t give her what she requests.”
In the parable the Lord is trying to teach us the importance
of persistence. It is not that God does not want to give us those things they
we desire. He even says that He will give us those things that we desire. But
in the process He wants to teach us some important lessons. He wants to get us
in shape spiritually. Just like with an athelete who has to do his training and
training and training. And then, after much travail he gets what he desires and
wins the race. So it is with us and our answers to prayer. Apostle James tells
us “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”[2]
God gives the Holy Spirit to them that obey Him. So we need
that obedience so that when we pray we have the confidence that God will hear
and answer our prayers. Jesus said, “If a man love me, he will keep My words:
and My Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with
him.”[12]
And Apostle John wrote, “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that,
if we ask any thing according to His will, He hears us: and if we know that He
hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired
of Him.”[13]He also
wrote, “For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows
all things.”[14] We
shouldn’t have any condemnation, but we might because of sin, So we can ask God
for forgiveness and we can pray because God is bigger than our sin and bigger
than our problems. As we draw nigh to God, He will draw nigh to us. Apostle
John continues, “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence
toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His
commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”[15]
[1] Luke
18:1-8
[2] James
5:16
[3] 1 Kings
18:41-46
[4] Genesis
18:20-33
[5] Daniel
10:2-3
[6] Daniel
10:12-14
[7] 2 Samuel
12:15-23
[8] Ruth
2:16
[9] Luke
11:5-8 or to 13
[10] Matthew
18:21-22
[11] Hebrews
12:11
[12] John
14:23
[13] 1 John
5:14-15
[14] 1 John
3:20
[15] 1 John
3:21-22
[16] 1
Thessalonians 5:17
[17]
Ephesians 6:12
[18]
Proverbs 14:26
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Por que devo ser persistente na oração?
Dennis Edwards
Deus quer que persistamos em oração. Qualquer coisa na vida
que valha algo custa algum esforço para obter. Você não encontra os diamantes
enquanto caminha pela praia ou na floresta. Eles geralmente são um lugar mais
profundo que requer alguma escavação. Você não encontra ouro apenas deitado ao
lado da estrada. Não, você precisa fazer alguma mineração. Você precisa
trabalhar para encontrá-lo. O mesmo acontece com as respostas às nossas
orações. Precisamos trabalhar para essas respostas. Precisamos ser persistentes
com Deus, como Jesus mostrou na história do juiz injusto. Onde a mulher teve
que persistir e o juiz disse: "Essa mulher vai me desgastar se eu não der
o que ela pede".[1]
Na parábola, o Senhor está tentando nos ensinar a
importância da persistência. Não é que Deus não queira nos dar as coisas que
desejamos. Ele até diz que nos dará as coisas que desejamos. Mas, no processo,
Ele quer nos ensinar algumas lições importantes. Ele quer nos colocar em forma
espiritual. Assim como um atleta que precisa treinar e treinar. E então, depois
de muito trabalho, ele consegue o que deseja e vence a corrida. O mesmo
acontece conosco e com nossas respostas à oração. O apóstolo Tiago nos diz:
"A oração fervorosa e eficaz de um homem justo vale muito".[2]
Elias orou pedindo chuva e disse ao rei Acabe que a chuva
estava chegando.[3] Então
Elias mandou seu servo olhar para o mar e ver se ele podia ver a tempestade no
céu. Cada vez que o servo voltava, ele dizia: "Não há nada lá, nada,
nenhuma nuvem no céu". Então Elias o enviou de volta, uma vez, duas vezes,
três vezes, quatro vezes, cinco vezes, seis vezes, sete vezes. Na sétima vez, o
criado voltou e disse: "Bem, acabei de ver um pouco de nuvem por aÃ. Não é
quase nada. " Elias se levantou e disse: "Vá, vamos sair daqui. Em
breve haverá uma tempestade. Vamos lá." E ele foi correndo e encontrou
Acabe no caminho de volta a Jezreel. Então, precisamos ser persistentes,
persistentes na oração.
Abraão foi persistente.[4]
Ele tinha seu sobrinho Ló lá em Sodoma com sua famÃlia. Deus disse a Abraão que
ele iria a Sodoma para ver se é realmente tão ruim quanto os relatórios que ele
estava recebendo. E se fosse, Ele iria destruÃ-lo. E Abraão pede ao Senhor e
diz: “Senhor, você destruirá os justos com os injustos? O que há cinquenta
justos na cidade, você a destruirá por cinquenta? E o Senhor responde: "Se
houver cinquenta, não a destruirei". E então Abraão persiste: "Mas
Senhor, e se houvesse apenas cinco a menos, você destruiria se houvesse
quarenta e cinco justos encontrados na cidade?" E o Senhor responde:
"Não a destruirei por quarenta e cinco homens justos".
Abraão persiste novamente, e novamente com Deus, até que
finalmente chega a dez. E Abraão diz: "Senhor, e se fossem apenas dez,
você o destruiria por dez?" E o Senhor diz: "Se houver dez homens
justos em Sodoma, não o destruirei por causa dos dez". Mas sabemos o fim
da história. Deus destruiu Sodoma porque não foram encontrados dez homens
justos. Mas Ló, sobrinho de Abraão, escapou da cidade com sua esposa e suas
duas filhas mais novas com a ajuda de dois anjos. Ló escapa, embora seus
descendentes não se mostrem muito justos e geralmente sejam um problema para os
descendentes de Abraão. No entanto, eles eram da famÃlia e Abraão sentiu-se
compelido a interceder por eles e pedir a Deus que fosse misericordioso e os
salvasse. Mesmo que tivessem deixado de realmente seguir o Senhor. Abraão foi
persistente.
A BÃblia está cheia de exemplos de perseverar na oração.
Daniel orou por três semanas apenas com alimentos básicos.[5]
Mas havia forças espirituais lutando contra ele recebendo as respostas para a
oração que ele desejava. Houve uma batalha espiritual. Ele precisava ser
persistente ou talvez não tivéssemos recebido algumas dessas profecias nos
"últimos dias".[6]
O rei Davi escreveu muitos salmos bonitos, nos quais pediu a Deus que o
salvasse de seus inimigos. Na questão de seu pecado na morte de Urias e no
adultério com Bate-Seba, o filho de Davi adoeceu até a morte.[7]
Davi jejuou e orou por sete dias implorando pela vida da criança. No sétimo dia
a criança morreu. Davi aceitou a vontade de Deus e foi e adorou diante do Senhor.
Davi era persistente em oração, mesmo quando Deus não inclinou seus ouvidos
para ele.
Ana, mãe de Samuel, era persistente em oração quando não
tinha filhos. Deus respondeu sua persistência e, como resultado, o profeta
Samuel nasceu e passou a servir o Senhor e a liderar Israel e ungir os dois
primeiros reis. O livro inteiro de Rute é uma história de persistência. Quando
Naomi se despede de Ruth e diz que ela pode voltar para sua famÃlia agora que o
marido de Ruth, o filho de Naomi, morreu. Rute persiste com Naomi e Deus e diz:
“Me ordena a não deixar você, ou a não seguir depois de você: pois para onde
você for, eu irei; e onde você alojar, eu alojarei: seu povo será meu povo, e
seu Deus, meu Deus.”[8]
No final, Deus recompensa muito Rute por sua perseverança.
Precisamos perseverar em oração por nossos filhos e filhas.
Precisamos perseverar em oração por nossos amigos e familiares e pelos entes
queridos e vizinhos, e por nossos funcionários do governo. Precisamos
perseverar em oração.
Outro exemplo é a parábola do homem que recebe um amigo
viajante em sua casa à meia-noite.[9]
Ele não tem comida para dar a seu amigo inesperado que chega tão tarde. Então
ele vai para outro amigo que mora perto dele e diz: “Ei, acorde! Eu preciso de
comida. Um amigo meu veio e não tenho nada para dar a ele. Você tem algo que
possa me emprestar? E seu amigo responde: "Ei, eu já estou na cama. É
tarde demais. Volte amanhã." Mas o outro sujeito grita: “Não, não, eu
preciso disso agora. Meu amigo está saindo de manhã cedo. Ele está aqui esta
noite e eu preciso lhe dar comida, mas não estava esperando por ele.
Levante-se, por favor.” Seu amigo, mesmo sendo amigo, não queria se levantar,
mas, como persistiu, levantou-se e deu a ele tudo o que precisava.
É assim que precisamos estar com Deus. Precisamos persistir,
orar e orar novamente, e orar novamente. E ore sete vezes, se necessário.
Talvez precisemos orar 49 vezes como quando Pedro perguntou ao Senhor quantas
vezes devemos perdoar nosso irmão: “Sete vezes?”[10]
e Jesus respondeu: "Não, sete vezes setenta." Sete vezes setenta é
quatrocentos e noventa. Jesus realmente não quis dizer literalmente
quatrocentas e noventa vezes, mas quis dizer que precisamos perdoar
repetidamente. É a mesma coisa com a oração. Precisamos orar repetidamente. Precisamos
ser persistentes em oração com a expectativa de que Deus responderá, que Deus
ouvirá e responderá.
Algumas pessoas dizem: “Oh, você só precisa orar uma vez. Se
você ora muitas vezes, isso mostra falta de fé.” Não tenho certeza se esse é
sempre o caso. Talvez em algumas situações seja. Mas acho que não é sempre
assim. Penso que Deus nos deu esses exemplos de perseverança para nos mostrar
que precisamos perseverar em oração com Ele para obter as respostas que
desejamos. Muitas vezes, não é porque Deus não nos ouve, ou porque Deus não
quer responder às nossas orações. É porque Deus quer trabalhar em nossa vida.
Ele está esperando que as condições estejam corretas em nosso coração, ou no
coração de nosso ente querido, esteja certo. Ele está esperando responder à nossa
oração, para que, quando responder, a resposta traga os resultados desejados.[11]
Orar sem cessar por todas as situações
que encontramos. Lembrar que orar não é o mÃnimo que podemos fazer, mas o
máximo. É o mais importante porque dá a Deus a chance de trabalhar. Jesus, obrigado por todas as nossas bênçãos. Obrigado por
esta crise que está ocorrendo no mundo, para que possamos reaprender essas
lições importantes. Quando tudo está indo bem, quando parece que nada de
importante está acontecendo, nossa fé fica mais lenta e ficamos preguiçosos e
gordos e precisamos de algo para sacudir-nos. Certamente agora temos algo que
nos sacudiu e nos despertou do nosso sono espiritual. Agora podemos orar,
Senhor.
[1] Lucas
18:1-8
[2] Santiago
5:16
[3] 1 Reis
18:41-46
[4] Gêneses 18:20-33
[5] Daniel
10:2-3
[6] Daniel
10:12-14
[7] 2 Samuel
12:15-23
[8] Rute
2:16
[9] Lucas
11:5-8 ou 13
[10] Mateus
18:21-22
[11] Hebreus
12:11
[12] Joâo
14:23
[13] 1 João
5:14-15
[14] 1 João
3:20
[15] 1 João 3:21-22
[16] 1 Tessalonicenses
5:17
[17] Efésios
6:12
[18] Provérbios
14:26
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Is the Corona Virus Epidemic Leading Us Towards a One World Governemnt?
Dennis Edwards
In a recent interview on CNN at the beginning of the Corona
Virus outbreak, Iraeli writer of New York Times best selling book, Sapiens, YuvalHarari made an interesting statement. He said the world needs new leadership.
The world doesn’t want to follow America with its “Me First” ideaology. The
world needs a leader who will look out for the needs of the world, not merely
his own country, but of the whole world. Harari was calling for new world
leadership to come to the fore, because he says the world is tired of the old
leadership. The world is in desparate need of new humanitarian global
leadership. A leader who’s got the whole world in his mind, but not in his
hands. For many years now we have been hearing the cry amongst many
politicians for new global leadership.
Congressman Larry McDonald said the following a short time before he died. "The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to creat a one-world government combinding super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control....Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." Congressman Larry McDonald was killed when the Soviets shot down Korean airlines flight 007 in 1983. At that time he was one if not the most outspoken opponent of the New World Order. Was it just a coincidence that McDonald was on that doomed flight? Or was the accident's intent to bring about his death?
The famed British historian Arnold Toynbee (1889 -1975) was
correct when he said, “The nations are ready to give the kingdoms of the world
to any one man who will offer us a solution to our world’s problems.”
The first
president of the United Nations General Assembly, Paul–Henri Spaak, who was
also a prime minister of Belgium and one of the early planners of the European
Common Market, as well as a secretary-general of Nato, affirmed, “We do not
want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of
sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all the people and to lift us up
out of the economic moras into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and
whether he be God or the devil, we will receive him.”[2]
Now with the Corona Virus epidemic and the economic problems that will ensue
the world climate seems ripe for such a man.
David Rockefeller was often accused of being involved in a
secert group of elite financiers who were seeking to control the world through
their financial power over government and business worldwide. In his Memoirs
written in 2003, Rockefeller confessed, “Some even believe we (the Rockefeller
family – closely tied with the european Rothschild family) are part of a secret
cabal working against the best interest of the United States, characterizing my
family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the
world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – One
World, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I’m proud of it.”
In 1994 at a United Nations Business conference, he said, "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." Later he would write, "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promoses of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto determination practiced in the past centuries."
President Bill Clinton’s professor and mentor at Georgetown
University, was Carroll Quigley. In Quigley's book Tragedy and Hope, he accidently
leaked out the information about the Rockefeller & Rothschild plans when he
wrote, “The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim,
nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private
hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of
the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled…by the central banks of
the world acting in concert, by secret agréements arrived at in frequent
meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank of International Settlements in Bassel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a concentration of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other financial groups."
"Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."[Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley, 1966]
Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and the Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. Both these boys helped make Great Britain a part of the Coalition of the Willing in the Iraq war. Both were warmongers at that time. But now, you tell me, they are working for global change and global educational opportunities? Something is wrong with that picture. It just doesn't fit together. I don't think I am exaggerating by saying both Blair and Brown are working to bring about a stronger world community and government, a one-world government, the very goal of our friend David Rockefeller and his European counterparts.
In Portugal, we find Durão Barroso was also part of the Coalition of the Willing. He facilitated the possibility of the Americans using the military bases they have in the Portuguese islands of the Azores for the second Iraq war. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal at the time, a term of office he did not complete. Barroso quickly was promoted to the President of the European Union which he held for ten years. Afterwards he obtained a lucrative position with the London branch of Goldman Sachs International amongst other consulting opportunities. Now, besides being one of the top men in the Bilderberg Group, he is also CEO of one of Bill Gates vaccine/pharmaceutical research and development companies.
In other words, politicians who behaved well and followed the orders of the financial masters are later rewarded with good jobs in the private sector when they leave the government. Those leaders who were intransident and disobedient to the finacial powers had problems, lost their position in the government, and some even died from suspitious circumstances. John Perkins in his best-selling book Confessions of an Economic Hitman confirms in more detail everything Quigley has revealed. The quote in the image above is as follows: "This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, was built mainly through economic manipulation, cheating, fraud, seducing people in our way of life, through the economic hitman. I was very much part of that. " John Perkins author of The Economic Hitman.
Dennis Healey (above) former British Labour Party leader who had held the position of Defence Minister and Chancelor of the Exchequer said after his retirement from politics, "World events do not happen by accident, they are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce. Most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings."
Many years earlier Disraeli, (seen above with Queen Victoria), twice Prime Minister in the 1800s, wrote in his political novel Coningsby, "The world is governed by very different personages than what is imaged by those who are not behind the scenes."
Even the famous French leader Napoleon (above) had a word to say on the banking situation in 1815. "When a government is dependent on bankers for money, they (the bankers) and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland: financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain."
Napoleon, to escape the hands of bankers and finance his wars in Europe, sold France's rights to the Northwest Territory and Louisiana in 1803 on the continent of North America. USA President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) paid Napoleon $15 million in gold for the land. Jefferson had been willing to pay up to $10 million for the Louisiana port alone. The Americans were overjoyed.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) fought against central bankers during the Civil War, when they demanded exuberant interest rates on money lent to the government, between 24-36%. With the high costs of the war, the return to bankers would have been tremendous. To solve his problem, Lincoln, as President of the American government, printed his own currency, called Lincoln Greenbacks, to pay Union soldiers. After his assasination, Greenbacks were withdrawn from circulation by bankers.
Otto Von Bismark (1815-1898), chancellor of Germany for almost 20 years, lamented in the late 1860s about what happened after Lincoln died and said: "Lincoln's death was a disaster for Christianity. There was no man in the United States big enough to wear his boots and the bankers went back in to grab the riches. I am afraid that the foreign bankers, with their cunning and devious tricks, will fully control America's exuberant wealth and use it to systematically corrupt civilization. " A prophecy that surely has been fulfilled.
James A. Garfield (1831-1881) in the photo above, was the twentieth President of the USA and served only four months. Garfield was able to put his financial knowledge, acquired through his experience on the congressional finance committee, to recover government bonds that paid 6% interest. The Treasury managed to refinance them at 3.5%, which saved $10 million a year for the government - about 4% of the total budget at the time. The fact that he was economically intelligent did not make bankers happy. Two weeks before his assasination in the 1880s he made the following statement. “Whoever controls the volume of money in our country (the private Central Bank that has been “designated” to do the banking business of the government) is absolute master of all industry and commerce, and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top (owners of the Central Banks), you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
Josiah Stamp (above) died at the age of 61 during the Nazi bombings of London. He was one of the richest men in England at the time, and had been director of the Bank of England. Let's read his thoughts on banking in the following quote he made while on a visit to the United States. "Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control credit.”
“The real menace to our Republic is the invisible government that, like a giant octopus, spreads its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head of it is a small group of bank houses, often called international bankers. This small circle of powerful international bankers virtually runs our government for its own selfish ends. They practically own both political parties ... (e) they control most of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to introduce or expel public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt clique that makes up the invisible government." John F. Hylan (1868-1936), Mayor of New York from 1918-1925 from a speech spoken on March 26, 1922. The book The Shadows of Power by James Perloff confirms much of what these various quotes have revealed.
Some analysers of the Corona Virus crisis believe that the
epidemic may have been manipulated by some hidden powers, the elite, including
Big Pharmacy companies, to push the world into accepting obligatory vaccines and or greater surveilence or more government control over their lives. But the problem is that today’s modern technology, that’s begging to be
implemented, can be used for draconian purposes. For that reason the public at
large has been weary of biometric technology. The technology sounds too much
like the “mark of the beast” of Revelation.
Barroso - Portuguese Prime Minister, Blair - British PM, George Bush Jr., Aznar - Spanish PM.
In confirmation of the above quote, when we look at the "Coalition of the Willing" who worked with George Bush Jr. to promote and facilitate America's second war with Iraq, what do we find? We find both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair (below) rewarded in the private sector after their time in government, a time in which they helped push Great Britain into the coalition with America when public opinion was greatly opposed to it. Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change "which proclaims its ambition as being to help make globalisation work for many, not the few," works primarily with African nations helping them get on board to the international community.
“And he (the Antichrist world
leader) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name…and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.”[3]
However, the Corona Virus scare may very well convince
humanity that “security and health” are to be valued over “privacy and freedom,”
as suggested by Harari in his CNN interview. We could very well be moving into
a technocratic state where politicians become obsolete and scientific
technocrats help rule the world controlled by a small minority of rich
corporate companies in the hands of the elite 1% of the world’s population. The
group is sometimes called the Bilderberg group. A more sinister title is “the
Illuminati.” Daniel Estulin has written a fascinating book about them.
The present econmic shutdown, it is feared by some, is being
manipulated to create a financial crash. The aim of the crash is to do away
with the present global international monetary system and bring in a New World
Order of crypto-currencies. A post epidemic economic system may very well bring
in a cashless society that unites government and banking under the same global
corporations who will rule the world. The central banks are in fact private
corporations working together with government to “assure” a sound and stable
economic situation. These central banks actually end up dominating and
controlling local governments and help the powers behind the scene move forward
their plan for world domination.
But some of you might think, "How can you say that about our world leaders, surely they are not all evil men. You are exaggerating things, Dennis, our leaders are not so bad." I think we should look to the Bible and see what it has to say about the spiritual forces in play. First let's look at Jesus's own words from His temptation in the wilderness before beginning His ministry.
"And the devil, taking Him up into a high mountain, showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. (Could he have shown Jesus the future kingdoms, also?) And the devil said unto Him; All this power will I give thee and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whosoever I will I give it. If you therefore will worship me, all shall be yours."[Luke 4:5-7]
We see that the devil is temporary in control of the kingdoms of the world and he will give those kingdoms to those that in some shape or form worship him. It is very rarely that some one climbs to the top in business, politics, or entertainment who manages to stay true to Godly convictions.
Compromise of Godly principles is usually the pathway to success. Demonic spiritual influences are in play in government, bussiness, and entertainment so that those that get to the top will be obedient to the evil spiritual forces. Apostle Paul wrote, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."[Ephesians 6:12]
In his letter to Timothy, Apostle Paul gives a strong warning about the last days. He writes, "This know also, that in the last days perilous (or dangerous) times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent (without self-control)." (In the picture below we see Prince Andrew talking with Jeffrey Epstein [deceased] both who have been accused of lacking self - control with girls under the legal age of eighteen.),
Continuing with Apostle Paul's description of men in the last days, "fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."[2 Timothy 3:1-5,7,13] We are certainly in these days.
"Throughout history, the structures of government have tended to coalesce around other forms of power-in modern times, primarily around economic power. So, when you have national economies, you get national states. We now have an international economy and we’re moving towards an international state-which means, finally, an international executive. To quote the business press, we’re creating "a new imperial age" with a "de facto world government." It has its own institutions-like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, trading structures like NAFTA and GATT . As you'd expect, this whole structure of decision making answers basically to the transnational corporations, international banks, etc. It’s also an effective blow against democracy. All these structures raise decision making to the executive level, leaving what’s called a "democratic deficit"-parliaments and populations with less influence."
"Not only that, but the general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know." [Noam Chomsky, The New Global Economy, chapter The Prospoerous Few and the Restless Many, 1993] In the above picture we see the flags of the Central Banks of the world owned by the Rothschild family. Is your countries flag found there?
We see Chomsky saying that the New World Order of cooperate government is growing up around us and the majority of the people are oblivious to it.
Maybe they are not being properly informed. Maybe the media is feeding the public the "truths" that their owners are interested in the masses believing. In the USA all the news outlets are controlled by only six financial families and Europe is not much different. That is why Alan Watts, whose brother worked in intelligence, warned,
"Never watch television. Never watch television. It's the best scientific indoctrination device ever invented. Never watch television. Why do you think the government made it a right for everyone in Britain to own a television? Why do you think China and India are under the same program right now? Because they love to be entertained? Do you really believe that? Most of your ideas and opinions are formed by what you see. Never watch television. You can't even watch a movie unless you do it critically. Never watch television." [https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/18rcyl/alan_watts_never_watch_the_television/]
In the book of Micah we read, "The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up."[Micah 7:2-3]
In the New International Version the last part of the verse reads, "the powerful dictate what they desire - they all conspire together." In other words, the richman controls both the politician and the judge. They are in conspiracy together against the poor. That is why we have the saying, "There's a law for the rich and there's a law for the poor."
In Isaiah we read, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."[Isaiah 5:20] Do I need to expound on this? Look at abortion: the women having abortions and the clinics offering abortion are seen as enlightened, while those protesting abortions in favour of saving the unborn child's life are seen as religious nuts. We used to believe God's word where it says, "Thou shall not kill." But today, it's more convient to kill than to take care of an unwanted baby.
Do I need to show you any more? I have a shocking passage in Ezekiel to go over. I will take it from the New International Version. "He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east. He said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the destestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger?"[Ezekiel 8:16-17]
God was angry because the people were committing spiritual adultery worshipping the gods of the people around them. They had abandomed the Lord, the true God and Maker of Heaven and of Earth, to worship the false gods, the demons of the peoples and nations around them. Twenty-five of the leading men were even bowing down to the sun right in the temple of the Lord. A woman was praying to a demon at the entrance to the temple. Seventy of the elders of the people were worshipping idols in the court of the temple.
Ted Turner - media mongrol, Bill Gates Sr. - lawyer, former Director of Planned Parenthood, George Sores - financier, David Rockefeller - world banker, Bilderberg Group, standing behind the widows of former American financial giants who created their own espianage ring between the two world wars.
Dr Fauci, who was helping to direct America's Corona Virus response, with the same group of gentlemen and widows within an enlarged group. Bill Gates father and Dr. Fauci go a long ways.
The Lord later explains that the twenty-five men were "leaders of the people...these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city." [Ezekiel 11:2] Then we wonder why things never seem to go right in government. Our leaders are being influenced by wicked spiritual powers and they are yielding to them or to those men who are controlled by those evil powers. There is a conspiracy against the Lord and few there be that stand against it. If you do stand against it, you might have financial problems or get a bullet in the head.
But the Lord is seeking men and women who will heed His call and stand up against the wickedness we are seeing in the world. We read, "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."[Ezekiel 22:30] The disciples of Jesus Christ were such men and died for their beliefs and actions in trying to bring God's truth to the people. But just as the powers that be killed Jesus for exposing their hypocracy, so they killed the early disciples and will kill anyone today who stands up to them and tries to expose their shenanigans: John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. etc.
Martin Luther King Jr. said. "I stll believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may."
If the present crisis does result in a financial crash, it
will most likely be worse than 1929. Millions of poor around the world may
starve to death as the drickle-down effect of world capitalism grinds to a halt.
We are already hearing reports of businesses closing and food rotting because
it cannot be properly processed, stored, and transported to foreign markets
dependent on such imports. Jesus Himself warned that “famines, and pestilences,
and earthquakes, in divers places” would be a sign of “the beginning of
sorrows.”[4]
In the book of Revelation the angel that talks to Apostle John tells us that the "merchants were the great men of the earth; for by their sorceries were all nations deceived."[Rev. 18:23] We think we are intelligent and more informed than men before us, but are we being deceived? Noam Chomsky writing about the world government that is growing up behind our backs consisting of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, G-7, Treaty agreements, etc, wrote,
"Throughout history, the structures of government have tended to coalesce around other forms of power-in modern times, primarily around economic power. So, when you have national economies, you get national states. We now have an international economy and we’re moving towards an international state-which means, finally, an international executive. To quote the business press, we’re creating "a new imperial age" with a "de facto world government." It has its own institutions-like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, trading structures like NAFTA and GATT . As you'd expect, this whole structure of decision making answers basically to the transnational corporations, international banks, etc. It’s also an effective blow against democracy. All these structures raise decision making to the executive level, leaving what’s called a "democratic deficit"-parliaments and populations with less influence."
Maybe they are not being properly informed. Maybe the media is feeding the public the "truths" that their owners are interested in the masses believing. In the USA all the news outlets are controlled by only six financial families and Europe is not much different. That is why Alan Watts, whose brother worked in intelligence, warned,
In the New International Version the last part of the verse reads, "the powerful dictate what they desire - they all conspire together." In other words, the richman controls both the politician and the judge. They are in conspiracy together against the poor. That is why we have the saying, "There's a law for the rich and there's a law for the poor."
In Isaiah we read, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."[Isaiah 5:20] Do I need to expound on this? Look at abortion: the women having abortions and the clinics offering abortion are seen as enlightened, while those protesting abortions in favour of saving the unborn child's life are seen as religious nuts. We used to believe God's word where it says, "Thou shall not kill." But today, it's more convient to kill than to take care of an unwanted baby.
The photographer who took the above picture won a Pulitzer Prize for it. But he later committed suicide as he had done nothing to save the child who was dying. His conscience wouldn't let him live. How many poor African children will die as a result of the economic collapse from the Corona Virus shut down? What will each of us do about it?
Some observers and analysts of history believe that the
Hegelian Problem-Reaction-Solution paradigm has been used by the hidden powers
that be to gain their goal of world supremacy. “First a problem is created and
designed to elicit a certain reaction out of the public. Then the people demand
something to be done about the problem and willingly accept the pre-planned New
World Order solution; a solution that always envolves actions or legislation
that never would have passed under normal circumstances.”[5]
1. Manditory vaccines with new technology that can be used to identify the individual giving the government draconian control over its citizens if desired.
2. A financial crisis to bring into a cashless society and cryto-currencies not based on the American dollar.
3. Famine and death in Africa as a result of the disruption of the international monetary system and the transportation of food stuffs to Africa and thus a decrease in the population of that continent.
4. Disruption of normal political process to allow governments to make certain desired actions without the normal due process of government and ultimately getting the public to accept such measures.
5. A universal health system based on government control and financing.
6. The establishment of a global government to deal with the possibility of future assassin viruses and or help organize the financial situation due to the financial collapse because of the extended quarteen measures.
2. A financial crisis to bring into a cashless society and cryto-currencies not based on the American dollar.
3. Famine and death in Africa as a result of the disruption of the international monetary system and the transportation of food stuffs to Africa and thus a decrease in the population of that continent.
4. Disruption of normal political process to allow governments to make certain desired actions without the normal due process of government and ultimately getting the public to accept such measures.
5. A universal health system based on government control and financing.
6. The establishment of a global government to deal with the possibility of future assassin viruses and or help organize the financial situation due to the financial collapse because of the extended quarteen measures.
We don’t know exactly where all the present circumstances
are leading. We do know that we have been warned of an ominous future
predicted by George Orwell in his futuristic novel “1984,”and the prophecies in
the Bible, especially chapter thirteen of Revelation. Modern cinema has also warned
us or programmed us to accept a “Hunger Games” type of future where a few super
rich control the masses for their own pleasure.
Aldous Huxley, who knew the direction the elite were taking, wrote, "By means ever more effective methods of mind - manipulation, the democracies will change their nature, the quaint old forms - elections, Parliaments, Supreme Courts, and all the rest - will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite soldiers, policemen, thought - manufacturers and mind - manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."
Immediately after the tribulation of those days, or the
tribulation trumpets found in Revelation chapters eight and nine, Jesus will return in the sky to
rescue His elect, the true believers.[23]No
secret rapture will occur before the end of the tribulation period. Revelation
shows us that the trumpets of tribulation are actually being poured upon the
wicked and causing a 1/3 destruction on many aspects of life.[24]
Some of the imagery used in the description made by Apostle John to describe
these events and destruction may very well indicate some sort of nuclear
exchange during the tribulation period. Whatever it is, the events are pretty
horrendous and 1/3 of mankind dies during it.[25]
It may be during or at the end of the tribulation period or
at the beginning or during the wrath of God that Babylon the Whore will be
destroyed in one hour by fire.[26]
Some eschatology students believe Babylon is symbolic for present day America
as the epitome of the capitalist system and thus the political system destroyed
by the Antichrist and his alliance. Will Russia, with her European and Middle
East allies, one day destroy America by some pre-emptive strike which America will
be unable to respond?
The Bible tells us the Antichrist will destroy the mighty
and the holy people.[27]
America is definately the mightiest military on the planet and yet in it reside
many Christians who understand to some degree much of the prophecies we are
discussing. Some verses in Ezekiel seem to suggest that Russia (Magog) also will
be destroyed with fire along with those that dwell carelessly in the isles.[28]
Again could the isles be a reference to the richer nations like America,
Britain, and Australia, all allies of one another and Israel, receiving
judgment at the same time, along with Russia?
In Zecharia we read, “And this shall be the plague wherewith
the Lord will smite all people that have fought against Jerusalem.” (Is He
referring to spiritual Jerusalem which is all believers in Christ, or physical
Jerusalem the actual city? I am under the impression He may be talking of His people, or bride which symbolizes all His followers. Some eschatology teachers
believe the nation of Israel will be converted during those days and turn back
to God and accept Jesus as the Christ. and therefore they believe the above verse is talking about physical Jerusalem, the city of converted Jews in the last days.)
“Their flesh shall consume away while
they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”[29]
We could easily interpret that prophecy as signifying a nuclear event. In WWII
in Japan, at the time of the nuclear explosion, the eyes of those who looked at
the fireball melted away. In Isaiah we
read something similar, “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and
shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord comes out of his place to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.”[30]
It is at the last trumpet, the seventh trumpet, at the end
of the great tribulation period, but before the wrath of God, that Jesus
rescues His followers in the famous rapture event.[31]
His children are brisked away to enjoy the marriage feast with Jesus in
heavenly places[32] while
the wicked on earth are receiving the vials of the wrath of God of Revelation chapters fifteen and sixteen. The 45-75 day period[33]
of the wrath terminates in the Battle of Armageddon which takes place just
outside of Jerusalem in the Valley of Megido.[34]
Jesus actually physically comes down and lands in Jerusalem with the armies of
heaven in an apparent invasion from outer space or from another dimension. We,
the true believers, will participate in the battle.[35]
The Antichrist and his false prophet and the Devil will be
thrown into the bottomless pit, the lake of fire, for a thousand years.[36]
While Jesus and his resurrected saints help those humans who managed to live
through the wrath of God to restore the earth. The Bible calls this new
dispensation the Millenium, a thousand years of peace on earth under seemingly
new atmospheric conditions bringing longer life and changing the pre-millenium
nature of animals to an idylic harmony. Let us read some verses from the Bible
on the Millenium.
“But with righteousness shall He
judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall
smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips
shall He slay the wicked (Christ at His return). And righteousness shall be the
girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reins. The wolf also
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the
calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child
shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on
the cockatrice’s den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountaon
(kingdom): for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea.” [37]
"And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."[Micah 4:3]
“…and I saw the souls of them
that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which
had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark
upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ
a thousand years. Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first
resurrection (the rapture): on such the second death has no power (He won’t
have to face the White Throne Judgment Seat after the Millenium period.), but
they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand
years.”[38]
Again, we see God is showing His patience with mankind
trying to lovingly convince them to serve and follow Him. But after the 1,000
year period, the Devil is loosed for a little season and goes out to deceive
the nations once again. He is successful and organizes an attack against
Jesus’s earthly headquarters in Jerusalem.[39]
It’s a this point that God has to destroy the surface of the earth by fire
which Apostle Peter seems to be writing about in his espistle.
“But the (final) day of the Lord
will come as a theif in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervente heat, the earth also and
all the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these
things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness, looking for and hastenting unto the coming of the
day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with a fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His
promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.”[40]
God then forms a new heaven and a new earth.[41]
All mankind who have not accepted and lived for Christ will be raised to life
and face the Great White Thrown Judgment Seat where each will be judged by his
works whether they we evil or whether they were good.[42]
But you don’t have to face that fate. You can receive Jesus today and dedicate
your life to Him today. If you do you will come before the jugment seat of
Christ[43]
on your death and you will not have to face that White Thrown Judgment at the
end of time. You can be saved by faith in Christ today and start living and
working for His kingdom, today, here and now, and receive the rewards of your
works in the world to come. Or you can live for yourself and do your own thing
and face the White Thrown Judgment Seat at the end of time where you will be
judged by your works. Some will get to continue to live and will continue their
training and learning, while others will face a more harrowing future, maybe
even eternal death in that lake of fire. Whatever the lake of fire may
represent, it doesn’t sound like a good place to go.
It’s up to each one of us
what we want to do for eternity. God’s calling each of us today, right
now. He loves every one of us and has wonderful plans for each of us if we’ll
just accept Him into our lives.
“For I know the plans I have for
you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope and a future.” [44] “But as
it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.”[45]
Jesus says He’s knocking on our hearts door,[46]
just waiting for us to answer. If you are lonely and needing a friend, a
Saviour from your own failings, just call out to Jesus today and ask Him into
your heart. Then begin your training by reading His book the Bible. Try to
follow His commandments to love God and to love your neighbour as yourself.
It’s not really that difficult and you don’t need to be religious to do it.
If
you need help in your walk with Jesus you can visit my blog at fightforyourfaith.blogspot.com or you can call or whatsapp me at 0351 915016534 or write to me at dennismedwards@gmail.com . God loves
you and has great expectations for you, if you’ll only give Him a try.
[1]
Johnston, Jerry; The Last Days of Planet Earth; Harvest House Publishers, 1991;
pp. 129-131.
[2] Roy,
Michael; The Future Foretold; Aurora Productions Inc., 1997, pp.64-65.
[3]
Revelation 13:16-18
[4] Matthew
24:7-8
[7] Daniel
11:24
[8] Daniel
9:27
[9] Daniel
7:24, Daniel 2:41-42, Revelation 17:12-13
[10] Ezekiel
38-39 (Magog)
[11]
Revelation 13
[12] Daniel
11:24
[13]
Revelation 13:3
[14] Daniel
9:27, Daniel 11:30-31
[15]
Revelation 13:18
[16] Matthew
24:15,21-22
[17] Daniel
9:27, 11:30-31
[18]
Revelation 13:15
[19] Daniel
7:25, 12:7, Revelation 11:2,3; 12:6,14, 13:5, (Daniel 9:27)
[20] Daniel
7:25, Revelation 13:7, 12:17,
[21]
Revelation 13:7
[22]
Revelation 7:3, 9:4
[23] Matthew
24:29, I Thessalonians 4:15-16, 5:9
[24]
Revelation 8:7-12
[25]
Revelation 9:15,18
[26]
Revelation 17:16-18, 18:8
[27] Daniel
8:24
[28] Ezekiel
39:6
[29]
Zechariah 14:12, see also Isaiah 13:6-13
[30] Isaiah
26:20-21
[31] Revelation
10:7, 11:15, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
[32]
Revelation 19:5-9
[33] Daniel
12:11-12
[34]
Revelation 16:16
[35]
Zechariah 14:3-5, Revelation 19:14-15
[36] Revelation
19:19-20, 20:1-3,
[37] Isaiah
11:4-9,
[38] Revelation
20:4,6
[39]
Revelation 20:7-10
[40] 2 Peter
3:10-13
[41]
Revelation 21:1
[42]
Revelation 20:11-15
[43] 2
Corinthians 5:6-10
[44]
Jeremiah 29:11,
[45] 1
Corinthians 2:9
[46]
Revelation 3:20, Acts 17:27-28
