Posted on 10/04/2020 3:53:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
One, following the signing of the normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel, it was reported that the U.S. will sell F-35 stealth jets to the UAE.
Critics contend that this will endanger Israel by reducing its military edge over its enemies.
It has been reported that the U.S. has not signed an agreement to sell the jets to the UAE, but there is a plan to sign an agreement with the UAE on Dec. 2, 2020.
It is impossible to predict what will be in that agreement, but because the U.S. has signed contracts to sell the F-35 Jets to other nations (Israel and Poland), the U.S. expects it to take a 6-7 years to get the UAE planes off the production lines.
The idea of a potential agreement tied to a peace treaty with a 7-year timetable is stirring speculation about the future 7-year covenant with many.
Two, concerning world government, on Sept. 22, 2020, French Pres. Macron told the UN General Assembly that France wants “a new era of globalization.”
He said, “We must together lay the foundations for a fairer, more balanced, more equitable, more sustainable globalization.”
Three, On Sept. 23, 2020, Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Vigano offered a letter to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast that said the outcome of the presidential elections in November “will be decisive not only for the United States of America but for the whole world.”
The Archbishop believes the election is a war between American citizens and the demonic forces of the deep state and against the New World Order” (world government; people like French Pres. Macron; Henry Kissinger and George Soros).
Four, last week my article mentioned that Elon Musk has been authorized to put 12,000 satellites (and he wants to up it to 40,000) into orbit to make high-speed Internet and TV service available everywhere on earth.
The article pointed out that this will allow the Antichrist and False Prophet to track all buying and selling, for everyone on earth to see the bodies of the Two Witnesses laying in the street and to see them raised from the dead (Rev. 11).
An astute reader reminded me that this will also allow everyone on earth to see the Second Coming of Jesus (Rev. 1:7).
The writer said, “As I understand it, global satellite internet access will be available in the US to the northern states this year, and it will be available globally by 2025.”
Here is a link to some interesting information about these satellite launches.
www.spacex.com/launch.
Five, Amazon has installed hand scanners at two of its Seattle, WA. stores that reads palms, lets people enter, and allows customers to buy products by scanning their hand.
Amazon believes their hand scan technology will allow people to make purchases in other places, and they expect to install scanners at some of their other stores in the coming months.
Six, on Sept. 24, 2020, it was reported that Arab contributions to the PA have been zero since March and foreign aid contributions have been half of what they were last year.
Overall, Arab gifts and Foreign Aid to the PA are down 85%.
The PA is borrowing money and seeking funding from other sources.
This could ultimately lead to war and/or the worthless 7-year covenant.
Seven, concerning the days of Noah (specifically wickedness or lawlessness), on Sept. 20, 2020, US Att. Gen. William Barr designated NY City, Portland, Ore. and Seattle, Wash. as “Anarchist Jurisdictions” that will lose federal funding for impeding law enforcement, defunding the police, tolerating violence, endangering innocent citizens, etc.
These cities are expected to fight this in court.
Eight, on Sept. 22, 2020, it was reported that billionaire Michael Bloomberg, former candidate for the Democrat nomination for Pres. of the U.S., is likely to be the subject of a potential criminal investigation for paying the fines and restitutions of about 32,000 felons who are mostly black in Florida so they can vote in the upcoming election.
Data shows that 90-95% of the black voters in Florida vote for Democrats, and there is concern that Bloomberg has raised more than $16 million to illegally buy black votes in Florida.
Bloomberg is calling this a political ploy.
This comes on top of earlier reports that NY Democrat Mayor de Blasio’s daughter was arrested with people that rioted there and that 13 members of Democrat Pres. nominee Joe Biden’s staff took up an offering to bail out protesters.
It has also been reported that Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky (Bill and Hillary’s daughter) has bragged about bailing out protesters.
And in the late of night on Sept. 24, 2020, 24 people, including Democrat State Representative Attica Scott, were arrested in Louisville, Ky (where 2 police were shot) for unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, and rioting in the first degree by allegedly breaking windows, damaging busses and trying to set fires.
At least one bailed out criminal is already being accused of committing murder.
If our nation elects leaders that tolerate or participate in illegal or corrupt activity, our nation will reap the consequences of their leadership.
Nine, on Sept. 23, 2020, two U.S. Senate committees (the Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Finance Committee) issued a joint report titled “Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption.”
The most damning evidence came from the files of Pres. Obama, Vice-Pres Joe Biden, the U.S. Treasury Dept., and e-mails sent by John Kerry whose stepson was one of Hunter Biden’s business partners.
According to the report, Hunter Biden and another business partner, Devon Archer, received more than $4 million dollars from a corrupt energy company in Ukraine named Burisma – plus Biden, his family and Archer received millions more from foreign nationals of questionable character.
The report shows potential criminal activity; possible ties to sex-traffickers and Russians; silencing of concerned government officials; a major coverup by Obama, Biden, and Kerry; and that the House impeachment of Pres. Trump and charges of Russian collusion were part of the effort to keep this information from the public.
It has been reported that these things are in addition to Biden’s China connections, this was just a partial report, and more is coming.
Ten, Los Angeles, County Cal. is trying to send Dr. John MacArthur to prison on contempt of court charges for defying an order to limit worship services at Grace Community Church.
The judge presiding over the case has ruled that the case can go to trial.
This could well wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court, and the beliefs of the U.S. Supreme Court Judges and the importance of the U.S. Constitution could very well impact religious freedom in the U.S.
Eleven, Pres. Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace justice Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Barrett has a long history of supporting the U.S. Constitution.
Democrats are calling her a threat to the U.S.
As far as I am concerned, Amy Coney Barrett is not the real threat to the U.S.
The real threat to the U.S. includes trying to remove all mentions of God from our society; trying to lockdown churches; trying to force the LGBTQ agenda on everyone; abortion; bailing arsonists, looters and killers out of jail; defunding the police; including the Muslim terrorist group CAIR in the U.S. government (as Obama and Biden did and Biden seems to be supporting again); disarming U.S. citizens; transforming the U.S. into a socialist nation; surrendering the sovereignty of the U.S. to a world government and an anti-Christ world religion; and more.
I expect things to get worse by the day as the Tribulation Period nears, but it never occurred to me that politicians would openly support things like this.
There is no doubt that we are getting closer to the Rapture by the day.
God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin born, sinless Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, was buried and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.
“You asserted, “The scene in Rev. 4 & 5 takes place prior to the Bema Seat Accounting (Romans 14:10 / 2 Cor. 5:10)”. Um, you will have to show me scripture which supports this claim.”
Happily. Fully ten chapters later, Jesus gathers his harvest of righteousness:
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16 Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
— Rev. 14:15-16
“You further asserted, as if the passage rendered in the Greek says the following...”
That was an example of what you get if you read the English without the words that are inferred from the Greek. When you read the Bible in English, there’s not a word in English for every word in the Greek; the correct translation of one Greek word can require several English words. Verbs are conjugated, and the nouns have declensions, and these things require additional supporting words in English. It’s not that those added words aren’t to be put in; only that in choosing the English phrasing it’s critical that the translator not make choices that communicate ideas not found in the original manuscripts.
The important clue is the 144,000 standing with The Lamb. They are the sealed ones who are connected to preaching THE COMING KINGDOM of Messiah. They are Jews. See chapter seven of The Revelation. You are missing a large clue. The Revelation is chronological, BUT the perspective changes from specifics to general view, from fifty feet to the view from ten thousand feet, so to speak. The views reveal the same event but from different heights as it were. In chapter seven we see from a specific vantage point. In chapter fourteen we see from a broader view.
Because you believe the redeemed during the Church age will go into the Tribulation, you cannot see the shift of perspective. During the Tribulation millions upon millions will turn to Christ along and show up in Heaven under the throne. But they are not The Body of Christ believers. The Lord Himself came in the clouds to gather the Body of Christ Believers who have the Holy Spirit seed and seal upon their spirits. He, The Lord Christ returns to the Father's House with the redeemed Body of Believers amassed during the Church Age.
If you actually want to get a more thorough perspective on The Revelation, I recommend the series by Dr. Andy Woods of Sugar Land Bible Church. It is available on Youtube. We will not clear up much at this point because we are 'talking past each other' based upon what we already believe regarding the Revelation, The Rapture, and the Tribulation events.
Have a spectacular Sunday.
It has been my observation that the inserted words are mostly to clarify what the Greek means as in to what the Greek verb tenses and voices refer in a passage. We sometimes forget that the Greek lacked punctuation.
Well have to agree to disagree.
If we get to The Four Horsemen, and we’re still here, you owe me a drink.
If we vanish before The Antichrist is revealed, I’ll owe you one.
Lol
I grew up in church all pre-trib, Hal Lindsey, any second now, with Larry Norman singin’ “Left Behind” in the background. 40 years of that, and a good Brother asked me in all seriousness, “What if we put all that aside — not chuck it, just shelve it for a bit — read straight Bible without superimposing any of what we think we already know, and see what it says if we let it stand on its own?”
That venture into the Word changed it all. The shift just leapt out in such simplicity, and lack of convolution. I left Hal over there on that shelf as a monument to someplace I’ve been; not with any animosity, just... I’m no longer a customer.
As I read it, The Chruch is here throughout the Seven Seals, and Trumpets, until that Last one rings out.
We’ll see.
I believe we will very soon have an answer to these issues, very soon. Jesus sent the twelve then the seventy to proclaim to The Jews that the Kingdom was at hand (because the King was present then). After chapter twelve of Matthew's Gospel the kingdom offer is withdrawn from Israel and the foundations for the Age of The Grace of God in Christ was opened to all who believe in Whom God sent. Paul even tyells us why the Age of The Grace of God toward all who believe was instituted. That Age of Grace for believing is coming to an end and God will once again focus upon putting an end to sin in Israel (Daniel's explanation for the Tribulation).
Perhaps I will see you int yhe clouds, and then we will know the answers for sure.
When The Father reveals the date, we’ll have us an appointment & compare notes.
And, thank you for the even-toned, thoughtful discussion. Neither of us having won the other over, we’ve at least left a testimony of Christlikeness in discovering the roots of our disagreement.
Did you not read what St John Chrysostom says about the meaning of that passage? Let me recap for you:
CHRYSOSTOM. (Hom. xlvii. 3) He tries to remove their difficulties in another way, as follows, It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: that is to say, You ought to understand My words in a spiritual sense: he who understands them carnally is profited nothing. To interpret carnally is to take a proposition in its bare literal meaning, and allow no other. But we should not judge of mysteries in this way; but examine them with the inward eye; i. e. understand them spiritually. It was carnal to doubt how our Lord could give His flesh to eat. What then? Is it not real flesh? Yea, verily. In saying then that the flesh profiteth nothing, He does not speak of His own flesh, but that of the carnal hearer of His word.
If you read what Chrysostom is saying carefully, he is describing your interpretation as the “carnal” or “flesh” or “human wisdom” interpretation, while those who believe with the inner eye of Faith accept the mystery of the Eucharist without the interference of rationalism laced reasoning.
Again this gets back to the fundamental problem of protestant interpretation of the Word of God. They use their reason as a positive rule of Faith, when in reality it can only be used reliably as a negative rule of Faith insofar as it can rule-out what does not belong to the sacred Deposit of Faith, but it cannot rule-in sacred mysteries that are above the comprehension of human reason.
St John Chrysostom is a friend of mine. He should be your friend too. You have no reason to disown him, neither him nor any of the other Doctors of the Church. If you studied their writings with care and an open and honest mind you would have the scales fall from your eyes.
LOL, you can’t even distinguish the Orgs from the One True Church / Body of Christ Believers begun on that fateful day of Pentecost. Why would I take instruction from you? Besides, I’m leaving this planetary spacetime coordinate system soon, so you can ponder your own ‘instructions’ after the Body of Christ Believers are Departed fro Heaven, there to stand at the Nema Seat and then witness the opening of the seven sealed scroll.
You don’t even see the flawed reasoning where the man flips the Teaching of Jesus (the flesh profiteth nothing) even though the rest of the sentence makes it crystal clear that Jesus was referencing the ‘eating of His flesh profiting nothing since it is the spirit that gives life. Wander along some more. MAYBE God will show you mercy and open your spirit to the truth.
As a Catholic I believe everything Jesus Christ True God and True Man teaches. The Sacred Scriptures are indeed a rule of Faith for me. But your interpretations of it do not constitute a rule of faith for me.
I have shown you what the Doctors of the Church have commented on those passages, but since you do not enjoy the same gift of Faith that I have been blessed with, you have scales over your eyes. I cannot blame you for that, Faith is a gift. It is nothing to boast of.
St John Chrysostom, whom you disagreed with, was the Apostle of the East. He converted millions of pagan souls and established the form of the liturgy that both eastern rite Catholics and our separated brethren the Orthodox use. He is an authority because not only was he a saint and a successor of the Apostles, he was also more proximate to the original text and context of the Gospels than you or I.
It is your reasoning that is flawed. However, God will forgive you from the Cross as He indeed said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
BTW, the only Man Who converted souls is Jesus, by the power of His Holy Spirit upon the hearts of listeners. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God. As the Roman Church leaped into paganism in order to find more converts among the heathen, The OWrd of God shrank in significance and the words of the ECF took the place of spirit filling. Your religion's rituals are now blasphemous and your leadership is thoroughly corrupted. Got goddess in the Vatican? Whew, sure do.
There has always been a distinction between the external structure of the Church and the Mystical Body of Christ. The externals support the interior life of souls.
The Sacraments were never a creation of the Church, they were established directly by our Redeemer; Baptism, the Confession, Holy Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Marriage, and the Last Rites. The Catholic Church is the only place where these Sacraments are confected.
The only things that the Church has supplied something new are prayers and rubrics around the Sacraments, aka “sacramentals”. The Church can supply these and take them away as needed.
But the Sacraments can never be changed.
If Faith comes by hearing, someone has to speak. St John Chrysostom was such a voice. Obviously God’s Grace operated through him, but he had to speak. And he is enjoying his reward.
Pope Francis is a modernist/communist who is more closely aligned with freemasonic ideals than anything Catholic.
Here is a question for you; does Francis do what he does qua Catholic or qua modernist? I think you know the answer.
qua == per se == “on account of being”
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