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Are You Uppity Or Useful? :: By Jim Towers

Published on: by RR10

Well, it’s Saturday again, and I’m fixin’ to go to church once again. As usual, “I was glad when they said, let us go the house of God.” Forty-five years and counting. My, how time flies, especially as you get older and your friends and neighbors are dropping like flies. I live in a high falootin’ city with gated communities all over the place and golf courses everywhere.

I was driving through this place over twelve years ago and fell in love with it – especially all the cultural stuff, flowers, and such.

The church I attend is a Presbyterian one where most everyone has a degree or a pedigree and plenty of money. Most of them are uppity, and if they knew I sometimes mingle with the downtrodden and orphans, they wouldn’t touch me with a ten-foot pole. They hardly speak to me as it is, especially since the photo of me with Solo and Lolo appeared on Rapture Ready.

It may have been a mistake for me to have had it on, giving the folks the wrong impression of my character.

Such appears to be the case with one of my readers who just happens to live here too. Mrs. M. wrote to ask me where I worshiped, and I extolled my chosen church where the pastors are a class act. We agreed to meet up in the near future, and the near future has arrived, but – she seems to have forgotten our agreement. I’m beginning to think it was because of the photo I had taken of Solo, Lolo, and me. Showing my true nature – but you can rest assured that I mix well and have had dalliances with the rich, educated, and powerful. In fact, D.J. Trump was writing me every day to get my thoughts on this and that and even e-vited me to his place at Mar-a-Lago, which I summarily declined (my calendar being full these days). Funny thing is, he was always asking for a few bucks, and this man uses a gold-plated throne in his throne room.

I can hold my own with intellectuals and, in fact, love a good conversation with people with opposing views. Still, though, I’ve noticed that I seldom have takers. One look at me, and they turn the other way. It’s like they never saw anyone so confident and straight-backed as I am. But that’s just the way my pa taught me to be.

When he thought his “friends” were pulling his leg, he would say, “Don’t be a horse’s behind.”

I, too, don’t suffer fools and am not easily fooled by anyone. (It’s called the spirit of discernment.) However, I do forgive an uneducated or uninformed man of their folly, as with Solo and Lolo, knowing that Satan has them bound to his ways. With these, we must be patient but persistent in helping them find their way to Christ Jesus. Like our Savior, we shouldn’t quench the smallest hope they might have that someone cares about their eternal fate. That is why I try to walk in other people’s shoes, as it were, pertaining to salvation.

I know it seems odd to see someone embracing another in a public place while praying for them (God forbid), but the way I understand scripture is that we Christians should do just that.

Knowing that people everywhere are hurting and grieving, I can often be found acting a fool just to share my joy with them.

Being trained in the theatrical arts, I know just about every song from Broadway plays and often wake up singing them. For example, this morning, I woke up singing “76 Trombones” from the musical “Music Man.” Yesterday it was “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'” from “Oklahoma” – Oh what a beautiful mornin,’ oh what a beautiful day – I’ve got a wonderful feelin’ – everythin’s going my way – Oh what a beautiful day!

Yesterday, while visiting my healthcare provider, I burst out in song in the examination room to her delight and the delight of an assistant nurse. I’ve been boning up on my Spanish and a couple of well-known Spanish folk songs, and knowing that my doctor was originally from Cuba, I burst out with – “You sou un homre sincero – de onde crese la palma, you soy u hombre sincero de onde crese la palma – Gantanamera, guajida – Guantanamera – Guantanamera – guajida Guantananamera!

The doctor and her assistant were amazed that I knew the old folk song and joined in, humming. Singing is contagious and uplifting. In fact, King David wrote many songs and played the harp as well and did so in between wielding a sword in his many battles with Hebrew enemies.

Life is short, so why not use every waking moment to reach out to others, especially family and friends.

In my theatrical training, I learned to enjoy singing on stage in public and am even considering doing so as a portion of my plea to help redeem America – one way or another. Nothing else seems to have worked out for my “Evangelistic Plans.” Maybe music will do the trick.

Because nearly everyone loves music, I think it would be a way to draw crowds and share the gospel with them. What do you think?

I’m running out of ideas as the Epoch draws to a close, and we may not get another chance to rescue America. All will be lost.

The Godless and radical left is doing all they can to win this war of the minds. So, let’s hold strong, singing “Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus – going on before.

YBIC

Jim Towers

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 the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places and Moses himself.

2,000 Years :: By Dale V. Nobbman

Published on: by RR10

Have you ever paused for a moment to ponder the fact that exactly 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ was alive as a human being living on this earth in Israel? Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man was dwelling with mankind for a brief span of approximately 33 years, working as a carpenter with his earthly father, until he began his Christian ministry the last 3 years of his physical life here on Earth. In A.D. 24, Jesus had not yet begun his ministry.

400 years ago, come the year 2030, three direct lines of my ancestors came to America. I am a 12th generation American descended from those three lines on my mother’s side of the family. They represent primarily my Scottish, English, and Dutch ancestral lineages. Two sides arrived with the Puritans at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in April of 1630, and the third line arrived in May of 1630 at the Dutch colony in New Netherland (New York).

Four hundred years is a long time, but it reaches only one-fifth of the way back to the time of Jesus’s earthly life. Therefore, at the very minimum, I would need to line up at least 60 of my direct line ancestors in each family line to reach my ancestors who were living in the days of Jesus’ time on Earth. Just think about the billions of little things that had to go just right over those 60+ generations (much longer if families could be traced back to Noah) for you and me to be here today.

If just one link in that chain had been broken along the way, if even one direct line family member would not have married the person they did, or never married, or had died prematurely from illness or accident, or in war, you and I would not be here. So, the way I see it, that takes a heap of perfect planning on the part of Almighty God! Truly amazing!

On one hand, 2,000 years seems like a very long time, but at the speed life goes by today, a hundred years goes by mighty fast, making 2,000 years feel like a much shorter time span. After all, one thousand years is but a single day on God’s timetable (2 Peter 3:8).

The Bible cites a lot of big, round numbers. I personally think it would be simply great if Jesus would come back to rapture Christians from the earth even 2,000 years from the time of His resurrection or His ascension to heaven from the Mount of Olives, which took place 40 days after His resurrection. That timetable would put the Rapture of God’s Church (Christians) within reach during our lifetimes, and the current ‘signs of the times’ according to Biblical scripture certainly seem to reinforce the Rapture happening soon as a very distinct possibility.

What a thrill it would be to be part of the Rapture while we Christians today are still living. It will certainly be the ultimate experience for Christians still living on Earth at that time, even though the Bible says it will be accomplished in the ‘blink of an eye.’ But this is all just hopeful thinking on my part because not a single person knows the exact time the Rapture will take place, and the Bible makes that fact perfectly clear.

But be comforted in the fact that even if we die before the Rapture, Jesus will not forget us at the time of the Rapture. He will raise all Christians who have lived and died over the past nearly 2,000 years to meet Him in the air in order to give us our resurrected, incorruptible bodies, which will be fit for entrance into the New Heaven and New Earth to come.

However, the only way to become a raptured Christian is to be a believer in Jesus Christ (before the Rapture), as the Son of God and the Lamb of God came to Earth to redeem us from our sins and make us righteous with God the Father by dying on a cross, shedding His blood for us, defeating death by His own resurrection, and thereby becoming our Savior.

John 3:16 in the Bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life.”

In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”

We cannot be saved by our family bloodlines. It does not matter how many of my 60 or so direct ancestors in each of my bloodlines over the last 2,000 years became Christians. Believing in Jesus is a personal decision only YOU can make. It is between you and Jesus.

Romans 10:9-10 says, “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.”

Despite the troubles in the world today, it is truly an awesome time to be alive and maybe be in the generation of people who will experience the Rapture before our physical death.

I do not think we pause often enough to seriously contemplate our miraculous personal existence on this planet, made possible only by the grace of God. We should follow more often the Biblical instruction found in Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.”

No matter when the Rapture takes place, the Bible advises Christians to be ‘watching’ for the return of Jesus Christ. Let us all say, come quickly, Lord Jesus! Let it be so—Amen!