New Year, Same God :: By Holly Spate

 

“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace” (Numbers 6:24-26).

As we enter another new year, be encouraged. Keep this truth close to your heart and on your mind:

We may not know what 2022 holds, but we do know WHO holds 2022.

Are you smiling yet?

The world may change, policies may change, people’s views may change, laws may change, but rest assured, Almighty God never changes! That is a guarantee! It is this truth that should bring peace to both your mind and heart as you enter into a new year. It is the truth in knowing that your heavenly Father sees all, knows all, owns all, and takes care of His children.

It is the truth in knowing God will provide for all your needs and that He will make a way where there may not seem to be a way. He will open new doors of opportunity and will take care of you. He will bring justice to injustices in His perfect time and in His perfect way.

As sons and daughters of the King of Kings, we need to remember and cherish daily the reality that we have a blessed hope because of Christ. We need to keep focused on such truths as we enter the new year, and we need to hold onto and remember those truths as we journey each day in 2022.

As we begin to see events take place and hear things on the news, we must stand on scripture, read our Bibles, pray, share our hope with others, and resist fear. 1 John 4:18 reminds: “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

Matthew 10:28 further reminds: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

With each step we take, with each new day the Lord gives, we must walk in faith, not in fear. We must keep praising, keep believing, keep trusting, and keep walking closely… relying on our Savior for everything … everything!

We must not be moved by what we see but by what scripture promises. We must trust and begin to armor up by putting on the full armor of God as is stated in Ephesians 6:10-11: “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”

We must not give in, give up, or grow weary, but rely on our heavenly Father for strength and all we need each day till He calls us home.

Isaiah 40:31: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

2 Thessalonians 3:13 “And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.”

We must remind our minds and hearts that this world is not our home and to store up treasures in heaven, not on earth (Matthew 6:19-21).

John 14:2-3: “My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 states: “However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

We have so much to look forward to and so very much to be thankful for… all because of our wonderful Savior!

As you take your first steps into a new year, remember: God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good! We may not always understand His ways, but we can fully trust that He sees the full picture and all of His ways are perfect… for our good and His glory.

Deuteronomy 7:9 states: “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”

Psalm 100:5 “For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.”

Ephesians 3:16-19: “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

We have every good thing because of Jesus! We have every reason to rejoice.

As you venture into 2022, put your complete faith and trust in His capable hands and stay close to Him. Take His hand and walk with Him, never letting go. Don’t allow the enemy to steal your joy or to paralyze you in fear.

When you’re tempted to look around, look up. When you feel weary, let Jesus give you rest. When you feel like you want to surrender, stand firm on God’s Word, holding tight to His promises. Be at peace, and be comforted in knowing your Savior is faithful and will never leave you or forsake you… ever!

Just like 2021 and all the years prior, there will be changes, BUT our great God is always the one constant that will never change. So, take His hand, stand on His Word, and find your serenity and rest in Him.

Let His light guide you, His love encompass you, His Word encourage you. May your heart be joyful and at peace as you journey with Jesus into another new year.

Happy 2022!

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The Hour is Late :: By Daymond Duck

Have you noticed that many pastors and church members have no trouble believing that God allowed Assyria to destroy the Northern Kingdom of Israel, He allowed Babylon to destroy the Southern Kingdom of Judah, and He allowed the Roman Empire to destroy the restored nation of Israel?

It is easy for some pastors and church members to admit that the Jews abandoned God, they stopped keeping His Commandments, they started worshipping idols, they started sacrificing their children, etc., so He allowed their enemies to destroy their nation.

But it is difficult for some pastors and church members to admit that God would destroy America or send the Tribulation Period upon the whole world for abandoning Him in our generation.

Some may admit that God’s judgment could fall many years from now, but they refuse to admit that God’s judgment could fall at any moment.

Today, world leaders openly admit that they are planning to establish the New World Order (a world government and world religion) by 2030 or sooner.

Their world religion (called the Global Ethic) ignores the existence of Jehovah and Jesus (the NWO will be led by the Antichrist, a man who will be against Christ, and he will be supported by the False Prophet, a fake that will speak like Satan.).

It is an official, public abandonment of God and Jesus by 2030 or sooner.

In times past, nations have abandoned God, but this will be the first time America and the whole world have officially and publicly abandoned God at the same time.

Godless globalists are even boasting about The Great Reset, the fundamental transformation of America and the fundamental transformation of the world.

The current president of the U.S. has even promised to make it happen.

They are clearly rejecting what the Bible says about Jesus being the only way to be saved, the Ten Commandments, dividing Israel, abortion, same-sex marriage, etc.

If God’s judgment fell upon the Jews for abandoning Him in Old Testament times, why wouldn’t this God that never changes let His judgment fall upon America and the world for abandoning Him?

If this is going to happen by 2030 or sooner, the hour is late.

Here are some stories that seem to have prophetic significance.

One, concerning possible corruption: on Dec. 13, 2021, it was reported that Business Insider Magazine examined the financial disclosure records of 9,000 current lawmakers and the top-ranking members of their staffs.

Investigators found that 35 House members and 13 Senators own Johnson & Johnson stock, 34 House members and 11 Senators own Pfizer stock, and 2 House members and their spouses own Moderna stock (Gen. 6:5-6).

This means:

  • Members of the House and Senate are profiting from mandated vaccinations.
  • It is in their best interest to block medications produced by other companies.
  • It is in their best interest to continue the Covid crisis.
  • And it is in their best interest to require everyone including teens and children to be vaccinated.

In addition to profiting from their stock, they are profiting from Political Action Committees (PACs) that are giving millions of dollars to elect (and re-elect) these people.

(More: the next day, Dec. 14, 2021, Pfizer’s CEO said he originally believed vaccinated citizens would need a fourth jab a year after their third jab, but he now believes vaccinated citizens can’t wait that long. He believes the timeline may have to be moved up.)

(More: On Dec. 20, 2021, it was reported that the personal wealth of Moderna’s CEO has gone up $824 million since Nov. 24, 2021, and the discovery of Omicron. The combined wealth of the top 8 shareholders of Moderna and Pfizer went up $10 billion in just 7 days following the discovery of Omicron. Who knows, they may share some of that with one of their favorite PACs.).

Two, On Dec. 19, 2021, it was reported that starting in May, India put 70,000 health care workers on Ivermectin to prevent them from getting Covid and sent them to the state of Uttar Pradesh to test 241 million people in 97,000 villages for Covid.

Everyone that tested positive was treated with Ivermectin, and India is claiming that they have effectively eradicated Covid in Uttar Pradesh.

Only 201 people out of the last 2 ½ million tested (0.004%) were positive.

India’s “massive success” is being hailed as a “medical miracle.”

Why aren’t Fauci, Biden, the CDC, and others recommending the use of Ivermectin, stopping the death and injury of U.S. citizens, stopping lockdowns, halting the use of masks, opening U.S. businesses and schools, etc. (II Tim. 3:1)?

Follow the money, the campaign contributions, and think “fundamental transformation of the world,” global population reduction, etc.

Three, on Dec. 17, 2021, Pres. Biden warned and tried to scare those that haven’t been vaccinated for Covid by saying the unvaccinated “are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for themselves, their families, and the hospitals.”

He altered his lie that “the vaccinated won’t get Covid” by saying the vaccinated that have taken a booster shot are “protected from severe illness and death.”

In my words, he was saying multitudes of unvaccinated will die this winter, but the vaccinated won’t die.

Biden is uniformed, mentally ill, or lying again because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted that some of the fully vaccinated have got a heart disease called myocarditis, some have got a nerve disease called Guillain Barre Syndrome, some are permanently disabled, and thousands have died.

  • Know that on Dec. 17, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that the death of vaccinated people is accelerating, and about 15,000 vaccinated Americans will die each week starting around Christmas, and this will continue through the early part of 2022 (The conservative group Brighteon said this will be about 600,000 vaccinated citizens this spring, and it could be as high as one million this spring).
  • Know that on the same day, Dec. 17, 2021, it was reported that executives at the CDC said 82% of pregnant women that got vaccinated in the first or second trimester suffered spontaneous abortions (When they say the vaccination is safe, the Biden administration probably doesn’t count this as the death of a baby or a person, but some pro-lifers view it as part of the globalist population control agenda).
  • Also on the same day, Dec. 17, 2021, the CDC reported that 79% of the 43 Omicron variant Covid cases in the U.S. between Dec. 1-8 were people that had been fully vaccinated, and one of the 43 (2.3%) was hospitalized.

So, who is telling the truth – Biden, the FDA, the CDC, or WHO, if any? And considering that someone is lying, why shouldn’t the unvaccinated be skeptical?

Four, concerning the Mark of the Beast: on Dec. 20, 2021, it was reported that about 6,000 people in Sweden have already had a chip inserted in their hand.

These chips can be inserted “in the arm, between the thumb and forefinger, or in other parts of the body” (Rev. 13:16).

Some (not all) of these chips contain the patient’s Covid-19 Passport and can be read with a cell phone.

Five, concerning a covenant of peace in the Middle East: on Dec. 14, 2021, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN said his nation is ready to normalize relations with Israel under the conditions of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative (API), and that if Israel will accept those conditions, all the Islamic nations will normalize relations with Israel (I Thess. 5:3).

The 2002 API would divide Israel, create a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, and establish a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem (Joel 3:2).

Israel will eventually agree to a worthless peace treaty, but Israel cannot agree to a treaty under these conditions (because it would lead to the destruction of Israel).

Six, concerning hyper-inflation and an economic collapse: on Dec. 15, 2021, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced that they may increase their base interest rate by 0.25% three times in 2022 to keep inflation from getting out of hand.

Just know that the Word of God will be fulfilled, and this writer believes there will be hyperinflation and a global economic collapse early in the Tribulation Period (Rev. 6:5-6).

Seven, concerning a falling away from the faith or a lukewarm spirit in the Church at the end of the age (II Thess. 2:3): a recent Pew Research Center poll reported that only 45% of respondents said they pray daily (compared to 55% in 2014).

Eight, concerning all the nations being against Israel during the Tribulation Period (Zech. 12:1-3): on Dec. 19, 2021, it was reported that the UN General Assembly considered 19 resolutions that criticized nations in 2021.

One resolution against Syria was deferred, one resolution was adopted for each of four other nations (North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, and Crimea), and 14 resolutions were adopted against Israel.

Notice that 70% of the UN General Assembly criticism was directed at the only nation that the Bible says all the world will be against during the Tribulation Period (Israel), and the remaining 30% was directed at the rest of the world combined (more than 2/3 of the world’s criticism in 2021 was directed at Israel).

Nine, concerning an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters at the end of the age: on Dec. 21, 2021, it was reported that authorities have confirmed that typhoon Rai killed at least 375 people when it recently struck the south-eastern Philippine islands.

Hundreds of people are injured, the damage is extensive, people are hungry, and the price of water and food items has risen 100%.

Ten, concerning a godless world religion: just a few years ago, Christians were advised not to say Merry Christmas, store clerks would say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, businesses would say Merry Xmas, etc.

The godless World Health Organization (WHO) is now using the Omicron variant of Covid to urge Christians to limit or cancel plans to celebrate Christmas.

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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