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The Coming Dearth
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words
of the LORD
Amos
8:11
In regards to Political Correction, if one was to question it's value and motive, along side traditional values and virtue, as well as old fashion common sense, one would see it as a spiritual front for a sinister agenda, built on the Straw man pretence of "guilt". In other words, if one is to use the term for "she" in reference to a ship, you are branded guilty of sexism. If one is to call a certain individual an American Indian instead of North American Native, you are branded guilty of racism. If one is to advertise a game of golf for married couples, you are branded guilty of discrimination, as you apparently have no regard for non married partnerships. If one is to speak out against same sex marriage you are branded guilty as a "gay basher", and are viewed in the same light as brutal thugs who viciously attack little helpless old ladies to steal their hand bags. With threats of libel and the legal system ganging up against you. The list goes on!! We could document the horror stories pouring in from around the world and bore our audience silly. Or even jolt the odd one out of their armchair trance! Maybe?
In the area of politics, if one is to stand up to the 'open flood gate' policies of allowing unmonitored refugees and immigrants into your nation, are you branded a right wing extremist, nazi, racialist. The fact that a citizen is speaking out of genuine concern for the common good and preservation of law and order in the land he has been brought up to defend, is rendered of no consequence or significance. It may win a few votes for a while, until his or her party is infiltrated, and turned against them.
Why does one individual whale get international headlines when it is freed from an ice pack at a huge financial expense, or one individual seal getting bashed to death on a remote beach? Are animals more important than humans? To the global elite they are! Hence, the big push behind evolution promoting animals on the same level of importance as man. After all ... "we are only at a different involvement level, where some beasts may eventually progress past human development." The preoccupation and collective employment of saving animals, the environment, and our planet, can also be an effective tool for swaying the emotions of the masses into a sense of "global achievement" ... and pulling at the human heartstrings of the population to accept government intervention removing the individuals liberties.
Nothing can stand in the way of the N-W-O. The whole idea is to disarm the populace with the idea of spiritual neutrality and mutual understanding, removing what is left of 'the absolutes', and nations individual sovereignties, so we can all be one big mixed bag of compliant would-be serfs, ruled by an élitist few, who know what's best for all mankind. The focus no longer is a matter of what is harmful to an innocent individual, but what is aiding the New Wave of saving the planet.
Of course, the exercise is easy, once past moral landmarks are removed, due to the way depraved human nature can be exploited, anything can be redefined to look good. And once all past land marks of ethical quality and integrity have been removed, will there be one barrier left hindering the Plan of the Invisible Government of the New Age Order ... namely the unedited and politically incorrect Holy Bible.
The outlawed book:
Already plans are well under way to discredit and eventually ban the Holy Bible, blocking the word of God from the world's masses, so World Government will not be obstructed in any way. With the drive on "zero tolerance" against all that is deemed "extremist", "sexist", "hate mongering", "right wing", "anti gay", "anti environment", "anti Mother Earth", "anti abortion"; and the new age Strawman erecting, and branding together the non complaint as vermin who need to be rooted out. Bible believers will, and are already, being lumped with those who are an enemy to world progress.
As it was at the commencement of the church age, so will be it's climax before it's exit:
John 7:7. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 15:19. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Deny the book and you will become a friend of the world. Uplift the book (and I don't mean cuddling or kissing it like it was a good luck charm) and you will be branded along side the book. Already, a request has gone out to ban the Old Testament in the New Europe:
At the beginning of the church age there was a dearth coinciding it's entrance. So too will there be a dearth on the word of God coinciding with the church's exit
An important promise from the Throne:
My word is not bound, neither will my word return void.
Two chief proofs we are in at the end of the End Times:Amos 8:11. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Today, the word of God is being attacked from all quarters. From the outside using confusion. Hence, the many bible versions flooding the religious market. And two, from the inside ... Bible Correctors who will stop at nothing if it can mean they will become the final authority when it comes to "ministering truth".
The major reason this is becoming effected is through an end time change in forgetting the flood
More proof we are at the end of the end:
Prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes!
Am 3:7. Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Two indications Jesus gave which would be proof of living in the last days were:
Proof One ... The days of Noah and Sodom (Luke 17: 26-30):
Opposites, contrasts, variances, and preoccupation's (confusion, in other words):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.As it was in both Noah's and Lot's day, they did eat and drink. Which has become a major universal preoccupation in our time ... wining and dining, pleasure and leisure, drunkenness and moderation.
Now notice how scripture predicted there would be a mixture at the end ... of contradictions and opposites. This would be a sure sign as well as the product of end time confusion.
Also notice in Noah's day only, were they both marrying and giving up marriage. Its only been in the last twenty years this has become a major phenomenon. But that's not all, as it does not mention this phenomenon in regards to Lot's day. This is because in his day men had become so perverted, they only had eyes for people of the same gender.
Therefore, as taken from scripture, evidence supporting being in the last days would be a mixture of such preoccupation's as weddings, divorce and homosexuality, occurring side by side. Along with buying, selling, planting and building.
Just like the environment we are living in now ... Conflicts and peace, bust and boom, wealth and famine, depression and buoyancy, recession and affluence; all at the same time. Bingo!! These things have all emerged into this day, at the dawn of the new millennium.
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.Proof Two ... as Noah's day (verse 26 again):
.Population explosion:
Another thing that happened during Noah's lifetime, was the earth began to multiply:
Gen. 6:1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth ...
Taking into account when people in Noah's day lived about one millennium, over a span of about 1,500 years, the earth would have been filled (like it is today) with billions of people. For it has only been over the last 100 years or so, the population of our planet has multiplied. Again, more solid evidence we are now living in the days of the Son of man's return.
Reborn in a day in 1948, and its capital recaptured from the Gentiles in 1967. Whether you are pro Israel, anti, or neutral, you can't deny this miracle and prophecy being fulfilled in our time, signalling the soon coming time of Jacob's trouble.Next ... the fig tree: Israel: More indications given from scripture:
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.Rev. 16:12 ... The rise of China: Two thousand years later the Euphrates literally dries up for a whole month in 1990 when President Ozal pulls a lever at Ataturk Dam, diverting the whole river for 2735 km. This effected millions who rely on this river for agriculture and industry. Although Turkey has promised never to do it again, already threats have been made due to the Kurdish raids into Turkey from neighbouring Syrian and Iraqi bases.
With the American threat gone (due to the Lord judging America sometime in the near future), unlike the Japanese expansion in W.W.II being thwarted, nothing will be able to keep in check the sleeping giant of the Orient ... China, breaking out and consolidating Asia, Australasia and Oceania (hence, kings of the east), before sending her masses eastward across the dried up Euphrates. Incredible!! But the bible says it will happen!
We have drunken our water for money ...Lam. 5:4 ... Water as a weapon: Another prophecy fulfilled in our life time:
The Ataturk Dam was a timely advent for Israel who has had a chronic water shortage for some years now, as they have been able to work out a deal with Turkey (although an Islamic nation, an ally against the common enemy Syria) for importing water to their tiny nation. Just setting up this scheme cost $400 million alone, not counting the cost of the water or barging it in. This also puts Israel in a rather awkward position with her former enemy, during this era of compromising land for peace.
Israel has now tied her hands. The Gulf War proved this. Watch for more of her country being eroded, both geographically and militarily until she is controlled from outside, possibly from an engineered type conflict similar to what's happened in Yugoslavia. (written months before Kosovo crisis)
... and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.Rev. 8: 10-11 ... The China Syndrome?? (See the movie): Recently (Aug. '98) on Radio Rhema, Bill Capitonio of Slavic Outreach revealed how the lower encasements of Chernobyl were still burning out of control, and how no one has an answer for the problem. Also, how the radiation was seeping out into the water table and the whole surrounding area is contaminated, possibly forever. What has been more startling is how the whole thing has been played down by the authorities, how tens of thousands have died as a result, as far away as Romania and Bulgaria, and how millions of people have been effected.
Interesting to note, Chernobyl in Slav means wormwood. And I believe the name of the star Wormwood is a destructive devil that was sent to bring judgement.
It will also be interesting to see if this meltdown turns into what is known as the China Syndrome, Rev. 9: 1- 3:
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star (Wormwood) fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit (access to the earth's bowels). And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit (release of poisonous plutonium?), as the smoke of a great furnace (the melt-down?); and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit (the same thing occurring as volcanic ash is released?). And there came out of the smoke (a plague of locusts looks like smoke) locusts (radioactive burning ash embers?) upon the earth : and unto them was given power, as the scorpions (the ash stung people) of the earth have power.
With the advent of two world wars this century, along with the greatest slaughters of human life, the nuclear bomb threat, and chemical and bacterial weapons of mass destruction, at no time in history has such a great cry came up from the earths populace for peace and safety:Jer. 8:11 ... Peace, peace; when there is no peace: 1 Thes. 5:3. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
It is no coincidence that one of Binyamin Netanyahu's catch phrases after he was sworn in as Israel's Prime Minister was "peace and security", capturing the mind frame of the people along with the spirit of the so-called International Community.
War is okay today (someone always makes a financial profit), as long as there is no casualty rate or body bags to be displayed on TV. As long as it is waged for the cause of peace; so the notion goes! The Bible makes it plain there will be no peace without Jesus being King and paints a picture of sudden destruction and ruin coming upon false hope and wishful thinking. The time is short. Jesus is still, as always, the answer.
This occurrence should be major biblical proof that we are in the end time:2 Thes. 2 ... The great falling away: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed (v.3) ...
William Booth, the founder of the Salvationist Movement, prophesied at the turn of this century a day would come when forgiveness would be preached without repentance. There is every indication to prove we are now living in this era as all the mainstream churches give way to New Ageism, Modern Cabalistic Judaism, and false spiritual manifestations, which are not in accordance with the word of God.
Many so-called believers are now following signs instead of their bibles, with the basic superstitious belief that because it is supernatural, it must be of God.
What has caused them to succumb to such delusion? ... because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved (v.10). More proof the day of Christ is at hand.
... many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.Dan. 12:4 ... Civilization advancement: Since Daniel we have had both the wonder of the Grecian and Roman civilizations, followed by the trough of the middle ages. Next came gun powder, changing traditional warfare forever. Then the agricultural revolution, followed by the advent of the industrial revolution last century, producing the motor car and the conquest of flight. Since World War Two until now, knowledge has increased more than what it did from Daniel right up to World War Two. Potentially, now with the discovery of the micro-chip, all this knowledge, covering all time, can be stored in one place electronically. Therefore, with both easy access to world travel, and increased knowledge being available at our finger tips, are we living in an age where the above scripture has become a reality for the first time.
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.Rev. 11:3 ... The two witnesses in Jerusalem: The above scripture still refers to the near future, when the Lord will present two prophets in the city of Jerusalem who will be observed and feared by the whole world in the closing hours (v.9):
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
The question is (and no doubt would have been poo-haa'd by sceptics in time gone by) ... how could the whole world simultaneously view the centre of Jerusalem at one given moment? Today, through the development of sophisticated hi-tech there should be no sceptics around, with the advent of such things as TV and satellite dishes. Also, we now have the internet. And did you know you can go on-line, at any given time, and view the centre of Jerusalem. That's right!! We are taking about the Wailing Wall site, where a camera is set up in motion, monitoring the site, around the clock, twenty four hours a day. See for yourself? You could even make a link to your own web page.
You'd better believe it ... time is getting very short!!
History repeating itself:
Ecclesiastes 1:9. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:
As was the beginning of the church age, so shall the conclusion of the church age be.
Similarities: Both ages relate not only the commencement of a new century, but also to the commencement of a new millennia, where technology and civilization were reaching their peak. There was a world government, a world economy, with a Romanized world religion, based on a collection of imported pagan superstitions.
Yes, all roads lead to Rome. As it was then, so is it be now. For this system gave its power to Nero (after the reign of Claudius Caesar), a type of anti-christ. The city of Jerusalem had become multi-cultural under the Romans, before it was eventually overcome and sacked, along with its residue being scattered. And things are gathering momentum for a repeat in our time.
Nero outlawed the sect called the Way (Christians). The world government today will shortly be outlawing all bible believers as sects and undesirable cults. As the church age began with believers, who were not building earthly institutions, but meeting in home group settings, so shall its climax be with people who only honour and make hallow the name of Jesus. Who will only propagate the Kingdom and not promote their own "thing". The two or more who gather in His name.
An environment for home churches:
In regards to the hour in which we live, the advantage believers have above those who stay in the denominations are as follows:
They are more accessible to the voice of God ... Dad direct through our older brother Jesus. Meaning, there are no unnecessary go-betweens, like religious red tape, hierarchies and church bureaucracies getting in the way; as the voice of God is no longer muzzled, muffled or filtered.
The Western Conventional Church has had its day, now it is capitulating with every one else to the spirit of the New Age, and is now part of the Super Church, the Great Whore of Revelation. Certain members who are adhering to the simplicity in Christ, are gradually leaving her as they hear the Spirit beckoning ... Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.
There is a call to the wilderness, the refreshing
place of God. Where believers are finding the reality of the scriptures,
and learning to put their complete trust in their Provider, who said,
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
A little prep for the here and now:
Take heart, things are going to get intense and bumpy. The Lord never promised it was going to be easy. However, the Y2K bug alert has come and gone, like another fad to cash in on, with Christian Ministries using it as a money spinner. Remember, the Jupiter Effect back in the early eighties? Then the Haley Comet fizzer? Even with the recent meteorite shower publicity (which has always occurred late November by-the-way) makes you wonder whether it has a lot to do with a 'millennium conditioning' social engineering campaign. (written about Sept. 98) Remember the Telethon national appeals back in the 80's, which were held globally by the way? Like the Millennium celebrations made everyone feel everyone was taking part, giving a sense of belonging and that mankind could create his own sense of hope, independent of his Maker.
In the Days of uncertainty, when God promised He would shake all things, the will just live by faith and trust completely in the word of God, the scriptures:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added
unto you.
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