7 Sep 2020

Published on: by RR7 Category:Prayer Center

FINISHING THE RACE

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1-2).

Brethren, I feel strongly, as do many others, that we’re in the “home stretch,” so to speak, that this is the last call before the church age ends and we’re taken up to escape the coming wrath. We don’t expect the news to be good for the most part, given the lateness of the hour, but reading through so much of it daily is having a negative effect on me. So, I will be highlighting areas of concern rather than going into detail of all the who, what and where. Hang in there, brethren; keep spreading the gospel of Christ while we still can, and praying for those who are lost and hurting.

EXTREME WEATHER

The southwest United States is mired by drought.

Heavy rains and devastating flooding: in Nepal, Afghanistan, India, Chad in Africa, Sudan

Typhoon Haishen is taking aim at southern Japan and South Korea just days after Typhoon Maysak brought damaging winds and flooding rainfall to parts of these areas.

PLAGUES AND PLANDEMICS

US Divorce Rates, Depression Soar Amid COVID-19 Plandemic. It’s not just loss of jobs, end of school for children or nonstop panic the mainstream is stirring up in an effort to knock out President Trump. The COVID-19 panic is having even more profound effects on the American society.

COVID test/scam, overwhelming number of false positives. According to The New York Times, potentially 90% of those who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus in their bodies that they don’t need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing. Leading public health experts are now concerned that overtesting is responsible for misdiagnosing a huge number of people with harmless amounts of the virus in their systems.

New polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine. The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad. Two children in Sudan were paralyzed in March and April. Both had been recently vaccinated against polio.

LAWLESSNESS/WICKEDNESS ABOUNDS

The insanity continues with BLM and Antifa. These are Marxist and anarchist organizations bought and paid for to take down the only nation standing in the way of the totalitarian communist government that the Left wants to put in place.

Negating American history – BLM/Antifa embody ISIS on U.S. soil. It wasn’t that long ago that ISIS swept across Syria and Iraq, bulldozing historical shrines in an effort to eradicate the past. The purpose was to replace history with its own version that would legitimize its claim to govern and control the social order. Radical Islam is built on precisely this kind of senseless anger as is the amoral anarchy of Marxism we see roving our streets. It’s called justice by the mobs but it isn’t justifiable. It is the manifestation of what God described in the Book of Judges where “every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Read the rest of the article at the above link.

Antifa Serves the Leftist Elite. Liberal elites tolerate Antifa violence because these black-masked thugs do their dirty work for them.

LAST DAYS OF LOT RETURNED

California Legislature Softens Sex Offender Registry Requirements for Sodomy With Minors. Democrat Sen. Scott Weiner, a gay politician who represents San Francisco, first introduced SB 145 in January 2019. The bill “would exempt from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.”

Abortion Abomination

Biden lands Planned Parenthood endorsement in U.S. presidential race
The political advocacy arm of reproductive-services provider Planned Parenthood on Monday endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for U.S. president, calling his race against Republican President Donald Trump a “fight for our country’s very survival.”

APOSTASY AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

A Great Falling Away – 30 Percent Of Evangelicals Don’t Believe Jesus Is God. Even though the Bible and traditional teachings of the Christian Church hold that Jesus truly existed as both man and God, among the key findings of the biennial State of Theology survey from Ligonier Ministries conducted with LifeWay Research, is that 52% of American adults believe that Jesus was a great teacher and nothing more.

Pope Francis is again hawking the bogus global warming agenda (aka ruse for global government). He hailed the indigenous communities that “live in harmony with the land and its multiple forms of life” (aka Mother Earth worship). He says creation is groaning because humans are destroying it. Not true. It’s groaning under the weight of all the sin in the world. (See Romans 8:18-23).

DEMONIC DELUSION

UFO Spotting Has Replaced Bird Watching as Pandemic Obsession. In the wake of the coronavirus, sports stadiums have fallen silent, shopping malls have been turned into ghost towns, and bars have emptied. But the skies—depending who you ask—have gotten a lot busier. Allegedly, sightings are rising and 2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for close encounters

WARS AND RUMORS OF WAR

Isaiah 17 still awaits:

Eleven killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes near Damascus Monday night. While Syrian officials are accusing Israel of being behind the attack, the IDF has yet to comment or confirm. Iranian and Syrian military were allegedly killed in the strikes.

Arabic media: Israeli airstrikes made on strategic T-4 airbase in Syria. Arabic media reported on Wednesday night that Syrian air defense confronted an attack on the strategic T-4 airbase in the Homs province of Syria. The base is located in the desert, near the ancient city of Palmyra, and is an important station for the planes and weapons systems of the Syrian regime and Iran. Iran has allegedly moved drones and air defense systems here in the past.

Iran’s uranium stockpile is 10 times over the limit set by the nuclear deal.

Rise of the Kings of the East

China set to double size of nuclear arsenal as tensions over Taiwan increase. A new Pentagon report warns the Chinese military is ramping up production of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles and working on a system to launch them from the air.

‘PEACE’ WITH MANY

Saudi Arabia to open its airspace to Israel in nod to Middle East peace. Saudi Arabia announced it would allow Israeli flights to the United Arab Emirates to cross its airspace, in the latest sign that the Middle East is slowly moving in the direction of normalized ties with Israel. “These are the benefits of a peace that is genuine,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said.

Bahrain Set to Normalize Relations with Israel. Bahrain is set to be the next Gulf country to normalize relations with Israel. Washington looks to mediate the peace talks between the two countries and hopes to hold the official normalization ceremony before the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. The report follows the historic peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, which was brokered by the United States in August. Bahrain will also allow flights between Israel and the UAE to use its air space.

Egypt’s Sisi: UAE-Israel deal ‘step to Mideast peace’. Egypt’s President al-Sisi said the UAE-Israel normalization accord represents a step towards regional peace by preserving ‘Palestinian’ rights and Israeli security. In a phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Sisi voiced his support for “any steps that would bring peace” to the volatile Middle East.

CONCLUDING SCRIPTURE

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31).

31 Aug 2020

Published on: by RR7 Category:Israel Watch

“Christian” Anti-Semitism

I received a communication recently from someone that clearly has some skewed views of the Jews’ attitude toward Gentiles. I’ll leave that at that.

We can wonder why self-identifying Christians see Israel and the Jews through the wrong lens. Today I’d like to talk about one of those reasons, one that isn’t talked about a lot.

I realize there are differing views in the Church regarding origins, but I’d like to give you my view, for what it’s worth.

For 10 years, I was senior editor for Master Books, the “creation-evolution” publisher. Co-founded by Henry Morris and Tim LaHaye, Master Books presented the “creationist” perspective in science. It was the first professional effort of its kind. I always found it interesting that Morris, a strong creationist, also loved Bible prophecy and LaHaye, the prophecy icon, embraced creationism.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that much of the leadership in either camp views the other warily. Not these men; they blended what I believe to be a biblical worldview: Scripture speaks plainly about both our origins and where we are going.

I knew both men and will always be grateful to them for their uncompromising beliefs.

Interestingly though, I have also noticed many more leaders over the years that fully embraced creationism yet gave the cold shoulder to prophecy, or vice versa. I could name them, but you know most of them. I did have a top creationist whisper to me once at a conference that he believed as I do about prophecy; he just couldn’t say it publicly!

Why? His constituents are, for the most part Lutherans, Presbyterians, and evangelical groups that are, in my view, “good” on creation but lacking in prophecy understanding.

Anyway.

As I’ve written before, my good friend Dr. Thomas Sharp of Creation Truth Foundation, said something to me 10 years ago that was profound.

He was researching his latest book and said that he felt in his spirit that he was guilty of only teaching “half the Bible.” One of the top creationist speakers in the world, he said to me, “Jim, I cover Genesis 1-11 just fine. It’s Genesis 12-50 that I need to shore-up!”

It hit me like a thunderbolt. It explained this oddity to me, creationists cool to prophecy and vice versa.

In essence, Doc was telling me that the two camps so emphasize their respective biblical passions that they minimize the other. I think he’s entirely correct.

We’ve been taught in this country for the last 95 years (since the Scopes “Monkey Trial”) that evolution can be compatible with the Bible. Today, many evangelicals identify as “Theistic Evolutionists,” those that harmonize the Bible with “modern science.”

I think this is a serious error for many reasons, but for our purposes today, this view severely impacts how we see the Jews, both in history and prophetically.

It’s fine for us to disagree and dialogue, but to me it is very clear that the Bible’s early chapters are very clear. In fact, as a journalist, I see them as a strict piece of news reporting. In the beginning, God did this, and that. It isn’t complicated and more importantly, it isn’t open to a harmonizing with the philosophy of naturalism, that everything we see came about through random processes. This is classic Darwinian philosophy.

What I’m attempting to say is this: if one makes any allowance for some of Genesis to be myth, then that opens a door for the rest of it. If we say that Genesis 1-11 is partly true history, then the same holds true for Genesis 12-50.

And what is Genesis 12-50?

None other than the beginnings of the Jewish Nation.

It is all history, rooted in revelation we would not otherwise have access to. God told us how He made the world, and He told us then how He brought His Chosen onto the stage of history.

I have no problem at all believing that God created the world in six days, just as I have no problem believing that a man, Abram, was called out of Ur. I have no problem believing that a 600-year-old man and his sons built a rescue ship to ride-out the judgment of God’s worldwide flood, just as I have no problem believing Joseph set the stage for the 12 Tribes of Israel.

It’s all history, and it’s all true.

A faulty understanding of our origins puts us on a slippery slope of not understanding the Jews in history. We can then believe that they are “Christ Killers.” If we open the door to Adam and Eve being partly or wholly myth, that mindset easily can continue through Jonah, Solomon, and even Christ Himself.

In my years at Master Books, I had many, many conversations with young people that had been influenced to believe in evolution. Their logical outcome was that it is now difficult to believe that Jesus had ever existed. Or that He was indeed resurrected from the dead. The list goes on of bedrock beliefs jettisoned on the ocean of Darwin.

Edward J. Young, a wonderful scholar a couple generations back, once stated something profound about Genesis:

“Genesis one is the prelude to a severely historical book, a book so strongly historical that it may be labeled genealogical.”

Wow! This one statement is the clearest rebuke to theistic evolution, or full-blown Darwinian philosophy, that one could make. It also maintains the centerpiece of the Jewish people in God’s Redemptive Plan.

All this is fodder for further discussion, I know. But I hope you can begin to think that what I’ve written here this week has some foundation. One certainly can believe in Theistic Evolution and be saved. I have never conditioned salvation on one’s view of either origins or prophecy.

What I want you to consider is that when we allow any part of Scripture to be called into question historically, we bad outcomes await the Jewish people.

Think about it.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com