Audio Commentary: In Adam’s Fall, We Sinned, All :: By Gary W. Ritter

Most of us who are Christians know that when God created Adam, He made Him a natural man out of the dust of the earth. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is the second Adam from the spiritual realm: a heavenly man. Paul outlined this in 1 Corinthians 15:45-49:

“Thus it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

When the serpent tempted Eve, resulting in her and Adam eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the outcome was horrific for them and, of course, for all the generations of mankind that have followed. Their sin became our sin, and it prevented the first couple from experiencing everlasting life in the Garden of Eden. To prevent them from gaining eternal existence, God banished them from the Garden so that they could not subsequently eat of the Tree of Life. God couldn’t have them – the first of all humanity – acquire immortality in their sinful condition.

Sin has separated us from God and made us susceptible to Satan’s wiles. In the flesh, we are subject to his dominion of this earth. We see how this works in 2 Corinthians 4:3-4:

“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

Unbelievers are literally blinded from the truth of God by the veil of sin that brings them death. You’ve likely had an interchange with family or friends who aren’t Christ-followers. In that discussion, you’ve no doubt experienced the frustration of how dense they seem to be regarding the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

You also know that your efforts only go so far in bringing them to saving grace. You’re God’s messenger for conveying His truth, but all the logic and rationale in the world that you might bring to the conversation is useless unless the Holy Spirit convicts them of their sin and need for a Savior.

That Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was quite effective in conveying evil, as the Good became lost in the morass of time.

One of the miracles given by Jesus when He came was a reversal of this situation. Think about Psalm 34:8, which says:

“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”

Consider also John 6:53-57:

“So Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.”

When we turn in faith to Jesus, God the Father forgives us of our sins. We are justified; we become, literally, just as if we have never sinned. And what does our salvation bring? Eternal life.

When Jesus came, He healed the breach between God and man. It is Christ through whom we can once more experience the Good – and not just the Evil – from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”

When we eat of Him, we are no longer condemned to perish. In fact, because He rose from the dead as the firstfruits of the resurrection and donned His glorified body, we likewise have that same hope and promise. We will rise in the pre-Tribulation Rapture of the church and be changed in the twinkling of an eye into a glorified, eternal state of being.

What an amazing future we have because of what Jesus did for us!

Because of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross with the shedding of His blood on our behalf and all that this implies, one truth stands out: Jesus IS the Tree of Life. All who partake of Him will never see death and will be with the Lord forever.

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Death Throes :: By Daymond Duck

On Oct. 29, 2022, I received an e-mail from Brighteon that said:

  • “Europe dies from here forward, and it doesn’t recover for generations.”
  • “It’s done.”
  • “Almost nobody realizes this yet, but the dominoes are already falling.”
  • “Europe is rapidly plunging into a continent on a collision course with total collapse: no industry, no supply chains, no energy, no metals, no fertilizer, and no food.”

I Googled “death throes” and discovered that the Cambridge English Dictionary defines death throes as “the process of dying or ending in a very painful or unpleasant way.”

According to my understanding of Bible prophecy, Brighteon has it right, but in my mind, it is not just Europe; it is all the Western nations. No, it is the entire world.

Evil people are killing freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to buy and sell, freedom to own property, independence, democracy, Christian values (truth, morality, prayer, the Ten Commandments, etc.) because Satan has convinced them they can build back a better society (Build Back Better) without these things.

Evil people are killing the world in a very painful and unpleasant way (Jesus said it will be worse than anything that has ever happened or ever will happen), and the world will not recover until He comes back and builds it back His way.

Follow the facts (governments are deliberately destroying energy independence with winter approaching, deliberately reducing the use of fertilizer during food shortages, deliberately hindering the production of diesel fuel with a shortage looming, deliberately spending massive amounts of money with inflation raging, deliberately developing the technology and laws to track all buying and selling, deliberately creating a global pandemic to track people and reduce the population of the earth, deliberately tolerating violence and crime in many cities, deliberately working to increase abortions and euthanasia, deliberately trying to divide Israel, etc.), and it will become obvious that the government has deliberately put the entire world in its death throes right now.

It will be a slow, very painful death with a target date of 2030 or sooner.

(More: On Oct. 27, 2022, the headline on one article was “Tucker Carlson Says Canada’s Euthanasia Laws Have Reached a ‘Terrifying’ Low. On Oct. 28, 2022, the headline on another article was “Millions of Babies Will Face Death If Democrats Win the Midterms.” On Oct. 29, 2022, the headline on another article was “Child Euthanasia Without Parental Consent. Canada is Considering Just That.” If governments are willing to readily kill babies and senior citizens without consent now, what will this world be like in the near future? Globalists call it depopulation. The Bible calls it the Mark of the Beast.)

Here are some recent articles that appear to tie in with Bible prophecy.

One, concerning food shortages: on Oct. 26, 2022, it was reported that Australia is now requiring dairy farmers to vaccinate their cattle with the Covid mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccine.

A herd of about 200 dairy cows was recently vaccinated, and 35 died immediately.

Some officials are now asking if it is safe to drink milk that comes from vaccinated cows.

(Question: If the vaccination killed 35 cows, almost 20% of a herd, immediately after they were jabbed, is it possible that it killed some humans that died shortly after they were vaccinated?)

Two, on Oct. 30, 2022, World Net Daily (WND) published an article by Art Moore that said a Swiss study found increased levels of troponin (a protein found in heart muscles, but not in one’s bloodstream unless there has been heart damage) in everyone they checked (27 people) that had been vaccinated with mRNA Covid-19.

According to the article, there have been other studies that found heart damage in some people that received the mRNA jab.

(Note: I can’t prove the information, but a reader sent information to me that says whistle-blower nurses in Canada are saying that doctors at the Ontario hospital are vaccinating patients for Covid-19 without their consent while they are under anesthesia. According to the information, doctors say they can order any treatment they believe is beneficial to the patient, but they are telling the nurses not to talk about it.)

Three, concerning food shortages and famine: on Oct. 27, 2022, it was reported that BASF (the world’s largest producer of fertilizer and chemicals) will “as quickly as possible and permanently” downsize its operations in Europe because of high energy prices and burdensome regulations.

Four, energy officials in the UK recently warned citizens to prepare for rolling power cuts between 4 pm and 7 pm in Jan. and Feb. 2023. (Incidentally, on Oct. 26, 2022, the UK’s new Prime Min. restored a ban on fracking in the UK.)

Five, concerning world government: in 2017, Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), boasted that his organization had infiltrated several governments, and he specifically mentioned Canada and Germany.

On Oct. 25, 2022, Alberta, Canada’s new premier, Danielle Smith, said, “I guess I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders, as the head of that organization has. And I think that that is offensive.”

Smith said, “The people should be directing government or the people who vote for them. And the people who vote for me and for my colleagues are people who live in Alberta and who are affected by our decisions.”

God bless her.

Those in positions of power in Canada, the U.S., etc., should be people that citizens of those nations have elected, not rich unelected globalist elites that live in foreign nations.

Six, concerning world government: on Oct. 27, 2022, The New American posted an article by Alex Newman about the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) meeting that will be in Egypt in mid-Nov.

Selected climate change representatives from almost 200 nations, the World Economic Forum (WEF), big business, and others will attend, and the three biggest issues will most likely be:

  • Who is going to pay how much to fight climate change all over the world.
  • How the war against climate change can be used to advance world government.
  • How to advance the war against farmers to increase global control of the world’s food production.

For one thing, it appears to be a global wealth redistribution scheme to transfer massive amounts of money from developed nations to underdeveloped nations.

Pres. Biden’s Climate Change Czar, John Kerry, has already expressed his opinion that U.S. taxpayers will hand over a large amount of money.

Kerry also hinted that there are U.S. industries (fossil fuel industry, for example) that globalists and the UN want to destroy.

Even though some nations are already facing inflation, food shortages, energy shortages, loss of jobs, etc., many have leaders that are ignoring the suffering of their people and pledging to step up their war against climate change.

It is too early to predict what decisions will be made, but one can expect everything to be in favor of the global elite and nothing to be in favor of U.S. taxpayers.

Here is a link to The New American Article.

https://thenewamerican.com/at-un-climate-summit-kerry-wef-argue-u-s-must-pay-reparations/?mc_cid=4668c7bba3&mc_eid=551904ee4c

Seven, concerning the fulfillment of Bible prophecy shortly before the Second Coming of Jesus: on Oct. 28, 2022, Harbinger’s Daily posted an excellent article by Ken Mikle that says:

“The Bible tells us that four things will be in place right before the return of Christ… and these things appear to be coming together perfectly.”

  1. A one-world global government.
  2. A global economic system/one way to buy, sell, trade (Beast system).
  3. A global dictator the Bible calls The Antichrist.
  4. A global false religion the Bible calls The False Prophet.

According to Mikle, “This system (he calls it the Beast system) is already up and running; the only step left is implementing it.”

I agree with Mikle and will add that it is my understanding that every nation on earth has agreed to implement it by 2030 or sooner.

These are major events (not little things) that should cause people to realize that the Second Coming is close.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus (Rev. 22:20).

Eight, concerning the decline of America: on Oct. 25, 2022, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister accused an unnamed nation (he was clearly talking about the U.S.) of manipulating the markets by selling oil that had been set aside for an emergency.

The Saudi Energy Minister added, “It is my profound duty to make it clear to the world that losing emergency stock may become painful in the months to come.”

Biden has sold millions of barrels of oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves, and the Saudi Energy Minister had it right: selling America’s emergency oil to lower gasoline prices and win votes in an election could harm America in the future.

(FYI: Biden has gone out of his way to offend Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the prince is retaliating by strengthening his nation’s ties with Communist China.)

Nine, concerning the decline of America: on Nov. 1, 2022, The Christian Post printed an Op-Ed by Michael Brown that said, “Drag queens reading to toddlers in libraries and schools. Drag queens engaging in acts with children in gay bars. Drag queens performing in our churches. If anything was a sign that God has given America over to depravity, it is this…. But the drag queen depravity goes one step further. It celebrates that which is shameful and normalizes that which is perverse. And it does so in the most exaggerated, even overtly demonic form, with Drag Queens wearing Satanic horns while reading to tiny little children.”

Ten, concerning natural disasters and famine: on Oct. 26, 2022, data released by the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS):

  • 60% of the North Central U.S. is in moderate to exceptional drought.
  • 30% of that area is in severe drought or worse.
  • The water level in the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers is at record low levels, and shipping is hindered in some areas.
  • Out West, the Colorado River has been described as dangerously low.
  • According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, the wheat, corn, and soybean harvest will be much lower than expected.

Ten, concerning distress of nations, inflation, and economic collapse: it has been reported that tens of thousands of people demonstrated in several cities in Germany on Oct. 30, 2022, to protest the sanctions on Russia that are causing record-high inflation (10.7%) and the destruction of Germany’s economy.

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). 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.

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