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The Meekness of Moses Text: Numbers 12:1-15  I.         If a little boy came up to and announced, “When I grow up, I want to be the meekest man on earth!” What would you think?            A.        Oh, intellectually we know that meekness is a good thing. It is one of the fruit of the Spirit - Galatians 5:22-23             B.        But most of us have this image of a skinny, unassuming guy with a high pitched voice and a timid way of approaching people.            C.        You see it in the definitions of meekness                        1.         “Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness”                         2.         “Compliant: evidencing little spirit...

Jesus supports the IDF and he wants his believers to be the best soldiers they can be. That was the message conveyed by members of the local Messianic Jewish community via sacred texts, prayer and talks, to a group of 18-year-olds who took part this week in a premilitary program called Netsor. "I am a soldier of God," said Boris, an intense redhead accepted to an elite combat unit, who is one of the 28 young men and women who participated in Netsor. "I will do my best during my service in the IDF to serve God spiritually and physically....

20 FOLD, 20 FOLD, JUDGMENT IS UPON AMERICA On June 08, 2009, I saw the following photo at www.drudgereport.com. (photo of the $20 over the White House) Underneath the picture was this caption: CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT. I IMMEDIATELY heard these words: 20-fold, 20-FOLD, again I say, 20-FOLD is come upon this White House and upon this land." Stunned, I asked the Lord, the Great God of Heaven and Earth, "What does this mean?" This prophetic word has taken two days to come forth for me. The following is the interpretation of the photo and the matter. DESCRIPTION...

On October 19, 2008, seventeen days before the US Presidential Election, Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Joe Biden again made one of his prescient and memorable "gaffes:" Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. We are about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. …Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a GENERATED CRISIS, to test the mettle of this guy. (emphasis, smb) President FD Roosevelt recognized ‘unintentional...

Aligned For The Second Coming Asher Intrater Israel May 13, 2009 There is much talk of correct "alignment" in the Body of Messiah around the world today. I agree. We need to be aligned spirit, soul and body. We need to be aligned with God's will. We also need to be aligned with the Second Coming of Yeshua (Jesus). To be aligned is to be "ready". We need to be aligned and ready for the Second Coming BEFORE it happens. Elijah is coming first and will restore all things – Matthew 17:11.This gospel of the kingdom must be preached in...

Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles, there exists another world, an underground world of illicit trade in-not drugs or sex-but bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Street vendors may sell you an illegal bacon dog, but hardly anyone will talk about it, for fear of being hassled, shut down or worse. Our camera caught it on tape. One minute bacon dogs are sold in plain view, the next minute cops have confiscated carts, and ordered the dogs dumped into the trash. Elizabeth Palacios is one of the few vendors willing to speak publicly. "Doing bacon is illegal," she explains. Problem...

The Western church’s growing tendency to blur theological differences and not uphold the absolute truth is contributing to the threat of radical Islam to the Western world, said a highly respected expert on Islam. Patrick Sookhdeo, the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, said churches are moving away from central doctrines that teach about separation and instead conforming to secular society’s ideology of inclusion. “When faced with the uniqueness of Christ we become inclusive. He loves everybody so we talk about love, and hell and damnation goes out the window,” said Sookhdeo. “It becomes too...

Doctors remove 3-inch toothbrush from 31-year-old woman’s nose; woman claims she does not know how the brush got there; doctors shocked that she lived with it for two months. Doctors at Sapna Health Care Hospital in Ghatkopar, who operated on a 31-year-old woman on Saturday, were shocked at what they saw lodged in her nose — a three-inch piece of a broken toothbrush! The offending object had been lodged in the woman’s nasal cavity for two long months and had been causing her terrible pain. So how did it get there? The woman claims she is not sure. She says,...

A Maryville woman who went to court on Aug. 14 for a child custody hearing says she was persecuted because of her religious beliefs at the hands of the Blount County judicial system. According to Jo Anne White, what was supposed to be a standard child custody hearing turned into an almost hourlong “Bible study” in the courtroom in spite of the repeated protests of her attorney, Kevin W. Shepherd. After a detailed discussion of her religious beliefs — documented in court reporter transcripts obtained by The Daily Times — and a brief recess to chambers, Blount County Circuit Court...

A father embroiled in a custody dispute posted phony ad on the Internet offering to give away his 5-year-old boy to make his wife look bad, investigators said Wednesday. The ad, written as if it were placed by the mother, listed the boy as "free to a good home" on the popular Craigslist Web site. "I've had him now for five years. I've somewhat abused him, but I cannot control myself or him," the ad read. "I have mental problems. DCF (The Department of Children & Families) won't remove him. His father lives in California and has no contact with...

WASHINGTON - It's Nov. 8, the day after the election. The costliest and nastiest campaign for control of the House in history is .... not yet over. Instead, in this hypothetical case, both parties are short of the 218 seats needed to guarantee control. The outcome will be decided by run-off elections in Louisiana and Texas, recounts in a half-dozen races that are too close to call and perhaps a party switch or two. Unprecedented? Yes. Impossible? Absolutely not, given an era of polarization that has produced a presidential election so close the Supreme Court had to settle it, and...

Posted: September 26, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com 'Voices of Heaven' ordered not to sing sacred music Ruling from Michigan school administrator leaves visiting artists upset The all-star choir visiting from Europe was called "Voices of Heaven" but members were told by a Michigan school district not to sing sacred songs while on campus, leaving the artists bewildered and district parents enraged that the German singers would return home with such an impression of the United States. The order came recently from Supt. Charles Breiner of the Howell School District in Michigan just as the Eberbach, Germany, choir...

A Pakistani teen who embraced Christianity has escaped death at the hands of her family, who unsuccessfully demanded she recant her faith, an international ministry group says. Voice of the Martyrs said the girl, identified only as Diana, now is in hiding for her life. She grew up in a strict Islamic family in Pakistan, the group said, and her life was "typical" until she met a girl named Mary who was a Christian, and Diana decided to embrace the faith. "When Diana's family learned that she had become a Christian, they repeatedly beat her and insisted she return to...

As the writer Jonathan Raban has observed, there is a generation of Islamists in the West, young men whose insecurities and search for certainty make them vulnerable to an ideology of purity. And, once they embrace Jihadism, their life in the West becomes "a hazardous survival exercise in enemy-occupied territory" with temptations to impurity everywhere. Taking up arms against that society becomes not just a cleansing exercise, it also confers on the young terrorist a sense of mission and superiority. Just like the Nazis of 1930s Germany they want to purge corrupt cosmopolitan influences. The parallels with the rise of...

September 14, 2005 What Jesus' Birth May Have Looked Like By ANITA GATES Even some conservative Christians are willing to allow that the Nativity scene presented in church pageants and Christmas decorations may not be absolutely accurate. That means the shepherds, three wise men bearing gifts, Mary and Joseph, their baby son (lying in a manger), a couple of angels and maybe a star overhead. "The Birth," the first episode of the National Geographic Channel's "Science of the Bible," which has its premiere tonight, sets out to determine what Jesus' birth really looked like. It takes the job seriously, with...