Don’t Mess With God :: By Jim Towers

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles

Have you seen the latest James Webb photograph of the “Hand of God” in the farthest reaches of space? The time may soon come when this phenomenal telescope enters the very gates of God’s throne room – would you then believe in His existence?

The year before last, I gifted the leaders of my church with framed photos of the “Hand of God” taken by the Hubble telescope. Today, a photo of the “Hand of God” taken from another direction by the James Webb telescope shows a clearer and somewhat different perspective in the far heavens. This one, however, also includes ‘God’s portrait’ as well! (If you look closely at the bottom of the picture, you will see a faint outline of the “Head of God” in profile, a photo that I will post on my website for your scrutiny.

The James Web telescope is allowing us to see things we never saw before in the outer reaches of space. Lately, there has also been a lot of speculation about “black holes” in outer space and parallel universes. To go along with that speculation, there is talk of us living within a hologram. But I beg to differ. (Anyone who’s ever been hospitalized will tell you that we are “real” entities suffering real pain and hospital food – yuk!)

Houston, Texas, was under assault last week, with power down for over a million homes and businesses—just when the heat index is climbing ever higher. Pennsylvania is catching hell as well, with hailstones as big as softballs doing much damage to cars and windows. We in Florida are experiencing extremely hot weather, too; this prompts me to believe that God is trying to get our attention. (Many young people are finally coming to their senses about the reality of God and are being baptized.)

While these are times of warnings and testing, Jesus said, “In THIS life, you WILL have TRIALS and TRIBULATIONS.” Not IF or MAYBE. Nevertheless, He continues to say that He has OVERCOME the world and that there will be better times ahead eventually. Yet, mankind will do anything to avoid acknowledging or answering to our majestic, awesome, and gracious God. What is it going to take for mankind to realize that they didn’t create themselves and could never have created even a potato, much less a custard apple. (A custard apple is a tropical fruit with a thick skin filled with custard-like mush inside.) My son grows the tree in his tropical Plant and Fruit farm on our back forty.

All we’ve ever created in the world is chaos and confusion, yet we won’t acknowledge the enormity, creativity, and power of our majestic creator. Think of all of God’s gifts to mankind: food, water, wind and rain, ice, veggies and fruits, flowers, and grass. If we take time to smell the roses or magnolia blossoms, we can’t help but be grateful for all the beauty he has created for our enjoyment, as well as countless varieties of birds and animals.

On our property, my son grows tropical and exotic fruit trees and plants, the likes of which I had never known before. Papaya, different kinds of mangoes, tropical sugar apples and custard apples, three different types of bananas, and different berries are for sale around the world. Trees seem to be a favorite for God to work with, providing shade and wood for humanity to make shelter and to produce maple syrup and cinnamon for consumption, as well as rubber. And let’s not forget our wide variety of nuts – and bamboo, which is often used in making kitchen utensils, rugs, furniture, and now bedsheets as well – while some people even eat the new and tender shoots. Incredible!

But the greatest gift of all is some intangible thing we call “Love.” That feeling we get when we find the special someone with whom we want to share our lives is a thing that happens when the endorphins in our brains run amok and make our lives worth living.

As we partake of these wonderful treats and gifts, we can’t help but marvel and thank God for His creativity. Considering all of this, we can’t say that God is wrong in chastising us. He is doing it for our own good – to salvage our eternal souls.

Yes, today, here in S.W. Florida, the heat index was 101%, and we will soon be going into a heat advisory, which was by what some attributed to a huge solar flare, while others of us know that the Bible says that in the “Last Days,” there will be immense heat waves that will prompt mankind to repent or face more of the same for eternity.

But it doesn’t have to be that way if we seek God’s face in earnest and receive Christ as Savior and Lord. Why, even our most jaded and cynical comedians and celebrities are coming to terms with their shallow, self-absorbed lives and are being baptized. These are people who have adoration, fame, and fortune. People like Jim Carrey and Russel Brandt are now claiming to have found Christ and being baptized, as well as others. This, I suspect, is fear of what’s coming in the world in these Last Days.

Self-assertiveness is a wonderful thing, but to put oneself in the place of God is a dangerous prospect. There are way too many roads to take in life – such as self-indulgence, reckless ambition, self-pity, and hate, as well as jealousy. Making the wrong choices can lead to disastrous consequences, especially since we will all give an account to God our Father – even for every idle word.

The Bible also says not to make promises to God that you don’t keep (Ecclesiastes 5:4-5). God is a jealous God, so don’t make Him get angry with you. If you do something you know is wrong, confess it, and He will forgive you – in the extreme.

Look at it this way: if you are a loving father, and your son or daughter disobeys you – wouldn’t you forgive them if they repent and ask for your forgiveness? What decent father wouldn’t? On top of that, the Bible says God is love, and He created this esoteric feeling we have come to call love. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; AND thy neighbour as thyself.” It’s all as simple as that.

YBIC

Jim Towers

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You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com My book Visions, Miracles, Peace, and Power can be ordered on Amazon Books and Kindle. You can also find me on my newly restructured website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com which now features videos of worldwide events taking place in present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places, and Moses himself.

 

End-times Betrayal :: By Terry James

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles, Terry James

The one signal that most powerfully proves where the world is currently located on God’s prophetic timeline is Israel’s present position within the panoply of nation-states.

It is undeniably obvious that Israel today stands in the bull’s eye of rage. This is true in the case of being targeted by the Jewish state’s perennial antagonists, the Arab and Persian Islamist enemies. It is true in the case of the entire international community, whose constituent nations see Israel as the congestive blockage to regional and world peace. But it is the growing antagonism by this United States presidential administration’s operatives that is most disconcerting, while this beleaguered planet wobbles toward a time of unprecedented trouble.

As a matter of fact, that coming time of unparalleled strife that will bring all nations to Armageddon is termed “the time of Jacob’s trouble” by Isaiah the prophet:

“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7a).

And, it is Jacob’s trouble—the prophesied end-of-days dastardly treatment of Israel by the nations of earth—that will cause the God of Heaven to bring them to Armageddon. This is what the prophet Joel foretells:

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:2).

This will be the gathering of the nations of earth predicted in the book of Revelation:

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty…. And he gathered them together into a place called, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon” (Revelation 16:14, 16).

This will be the culmination of humankind dealing treacherously with God’s chosen people, the Jews. The Lord’s promise to Abraham includes severe repercussions for anyone who would curse the progeny of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:

“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:3).

God’s declaration is most dramatically validated by looking at twentieth-century history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made hatred of and genocide against the Jews the focus of the unalloyed evil they spewed. The ashes of the Führer and his Nazi colleagues are scattered in ignominious disgrace across the landscape that Josef Goebbels and the Nazi propagandists arrogantly boasted would be über alles—the all-powerful homeland for their thousand-year Reich.

Any consideration in research of Germany’s history involving the last two years of World War II and the years immediately following must acknowledge that it was as if the very wrath of God was upon the nation. Such documentation includes black-and-white film footage of German men and women forced by Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower to walk by the skeletal remains of thousands of Jewish corpses. That, Eisenhower stated, was so that the German people and the world would never forget the Holocaust. Its aftermath would forever be recorded.

Yet today, mainstream news journalists are more and more denying the genocide that took perhaps six million Jewish lives as well as the lives of other peoples. They show their loss of memory—even their anti-Semitism—by not jumping full-force down the throats of the elite Ivy League professors who regurgitate the lie that the Holocaust is a fable conjured by the Jews of the world. Rarely is there a repudiation of such blatant lies coming from the would-be destroyers of the Jewish State and the Jewish people.

Tragically, the refusal to educate generations that came after World War II on the truth about the insane treatment of the house of Israel is leading to a future time of even greater atrocities, thus judgment, according to God’s Word. The God of Heaven will react violently—more violently even than He reacted to the death-dealing of the Nazi demoniacs:

“The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it…. It shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:1–3, 29).

Now we come to the matter of “end-times betrayal.” This blog entry’s title is emphatic in its pronouncement because the maneuvering actions by this president’s political party in dealing with Israel are wrapped in an impenetrable fog of political doublespeak. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham made manifest the doublespeak in his grilling of the Democrat secretary of state, who is a former top general in the American military establishment.

Lindsey Graham [grilled] Defense Secretary Austin on the Biden Administration’s freezing of weapons shipments to Israel, [asked] if Austin would support dropping the atom bombs on Japan.

Graham asked, “What’s Israel interested in? Do you believe Iran really wants to kill all the Jews if they could? The Iranian regime. Do you believe Hamas is serious when they say we’ll keep doing it over and over again? Do you agree that they will if they can?” Austin answered, “I do.” He also answered in the affirmative when asked if Hezbollah was a terrorist organization. (“Lindsey Graham: ‘Blocking weapons to Israel obscene, Hiroshima, Nagasaki on steroids,’| Israel National News – Arutz Sheva, May 8, 2024)

This former general admitted in the committee probe that Israel, in effect, had a right to defend itself. But at the same time, he, as secretary of defense for the Biden administration, withheld promised vital weapons shipments Israel needs to keep its raging enemies from a repeat of October 7, 2023, when Hamas slaughtered and raped 1,200 or more Israelis and others in an unprovoked attack. Hamas, as of this writing, is believed to continue to hold many hostages, including a number of corpses. The terrorist captors reportedly continue to rape and torture their captives.

President Biden himself said he would never give Israel offensive weapons, only defensive ones. This itself is an insanely irrational response to the matter of America remaining faithful in its commitment to its chief ally in the Middle East–the only truly democratic nation-state in the region.

Israel is one thing more. It is the only invincible nation on earth. And America has nothing to do with its invincibility. Here are the words of the One who will never betray His chosen nation’s promise of invincibility:

“This is what the Lord says, ‘He who appoints the sun to shine by day, Who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,’ declares the Lord, ‘will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me’” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).