To all who have responded to this thread:
Please accept my warmest thanks for your posts, comments, and links. This certainly is an education.
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If you find an article or thread which should be brought to our attention, and I havent seen it, perhaps you could post it or the link on this thread to my attention. Others who are interested in developments, just pull up the thread and see if there is anything new.
As stated earlier, I am willing to alert people to articles as I run across them, but I am seeing that we are facing a Hydra, and we will see evidence of its activity in many areas. I can see that if this ping list were to be properly administered, it would be a consuming job. I am not able to do that proper job at this time. That is why I am suggesting this thread as a possible solution to bringing such things to light in a central place. Just a suggestion. I’m certainly open to others.
I join others on this thread who express that there is much to hope for. There is indeed evil in the world. But we who are tied to the God of the Old and New Testament know that there is recourse. God is greater than all of the evil crawling on the earth. He also has a plan. We can choose to be a part of that plan and by His grace and power, He will have the Victory. But in my opinion, it is a partnership. We can’t do it without Him, and He has set things up so that He will not do it without us asking Him to do so.
For those who are inclined to pray, I am grateful for your intercessory prayers for our nation and this earth and for God’s children everywhere.
God bless all of you, and thank you again.
I dont know what you are proposing when you say We cant do it without Him. What exactly are you proposing is the goal of what we should do? What would you propose should be the end result?
Prophesy tells us that there is a plan and God has told us what will be. Your He will not do it without us asking Him to do so is in error. God is not constrained by our wishes. He has told us what is coming and nothing will stop that progression. We pray They will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
In response to the many revelations on the Sabbath year, after writing Shemitta I went back to Genesis 4 to look at the old Cain & Abel story in more depth. Verse seven in particular is, in my opinion, a horrible rendition of the Hebrew, having little to nothing to do with an offering. Instead, it is about the nature of agriculture being feast or famine, and that Cain will be forced to take action to feed his family. Abel's death looks more to be by assimilation than by conflict. It's just the nature of agro-urban civilization to dominate their nomadic brethren into oblivion.
It is critical that people learn how relationships between the urban public and the people who make their life on the land are key to their survival. Note that the Agenda 21 creates a self-contained prison capable of mass-extermination at the flip of a switch: No water, no power, no sewerage, no fuel, and surrounded by a "greenbelt" infested with hostile animals. Where would you go? Whom would you expect to find?
Here are a couple of articles which you might find relevant to our studies:
Attacks on Israel
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43490717/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
Does Executive Order brings Hamas to our shores?
http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related To Gaza
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the ``Act’’), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 27, 2009
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