What's to come?

During my life Israel has always played an important role as an indicator of the end times but recently I came to realize that while they do play a role it is the role of the antichrist and not of the chosen people.

If you are interested in following that line of thought you can search through my past articles and read the ones concerning Israel. I suggest, "Who are the chosen people?" and "I will bless those that bless thee" as a starting point. Anyway, just because I have misidentified Israel's role in the past, doesn't mean that they do not play a part in indicating the end days. I wouldn't be dogmatic about this but it is worth writing down before the facts play out.

So, what happens over the next few months? Well, if the nation-state of Israel being back in the land has any bearing on end days timing, I am convinced it will all play out before Passover of 2013. Why Passover? Well this Passover will leave Israel with only 3 1/2 years left before they turn 70 years old in 2017.

You may say, "Jonn, Israel became a nation in 1948 so 70 years later would bring us to 2018 not 2017." That is correct but remember the prophecy, it says from the going forth of the commandment, not the actual beginning of the state.

Of course all of this is based on the skewed understanding that is taught by the churches today, but the antichrist will wish to capitalize on these mistakes and use them to his advantage. If millions believe it, then why not give them what they want?

Anyway, from the going forth of the commandment in 1947 leaves us with Israel turning 70 in 2017. Then removing 3 1/2 years, to account for the tribulation, leaves us at the Passover of 2013 just mere months from now.

Let me be clear. There will be no reason to believe that physical Israel plays any large predictive role in prophecy if nothing happens on this date. When Israel turned 40, everyone believed 40 years was a generation and that that generation would not pass, but it did. At the time the case could be made that a generation was longer than 40 years but time is running out for that line of thought.

If 70 years goes by and nothing happens then there is no reason to continue to look to physical Israel as a major indicator of prophecy, it begins to stretch the imagination that longer than seventy years could still be considered a generation. Plus, Daniel tells us that 70 weeks are determined (or seventy feasts of weeks -pentecosts-) on Israel so if anything is going to happen it must be now.

Here is what I am looking for. Sometime before Passover there will be some sort of grand destruction. Perhaps the world economy falls, perhaps Israel uses nukes in an attack on Iran, perhaps a false flag attack that we are not expecting. Regardless of what shape it takes it must happen within the next few months. Why? Well, as you know the antichrist is given power to rule 42 months and by Passover 2013 there will be left 42 months before Israel's 70th birthday.

As you know God is very precise. So, on Passover, if physical Israel is any indicator, the final 3 1/2 years will have begun. If nothing happens by then I for one will question Israel's standing as a prophecy marker. After all, true believers already know that the real Israel is not in the Middle East anyway but we are Spiritual. So any fulfillment of Israel's prophecies, I will look to Spiritual Israel for the fulfillment, not physical.

However, I will tell you right now it certainly isn't much of a stretch to see everything falling into place. A surprise nuclear strike on Iran by Israel or a world economic collapse could quickly place Israel in the world's driver's seat by March 2013. Once there, everything will be running full force. For 42 months the world government will be given power to overcome the saints. Many will fall but many will be given safety in the wilderness also. As of this moment all of this stuff looks very possible.

So, I may come back and update this with more details (as I have written it down very quickly as a witness). I have skipped over some important details but the jist of it is here and will stand. I will say that the more I consider this the more I see it happening. We are just one disastrous event away from an official world government taking power and the little horn must rule. We will have our answer very quickly.

I am not telling you this is definitely going to happen, just that if physical Israel has any meaning as an end times marker then it must happen. If nothing happens you can stop looking so closely to physical Israel for any large end-times timing clues and rather begin looking to Spiritual Israel to fulfill those.

Don't misunderstand me however, physical Israel will still be an important player just not as the "main time-piece" we have always considered them to be. PASSOVER 2013 will tell.

Jonn

Dean Gotcher audio

Hi all,

I am please to announce that the meeting with Dean Gotcher was a success and I also wanted to let everyone know that the audio track is available for download here. It is listed beside the heading "BRISTOL, TN  2012-11-08". Please listen to the presentation and spend some time at Dean's site, and don't forget to listen to the other audios there also, this is truly life changing stuff.

It is amazing how easily our entire society has been fooled by the methods that Dean alerts us to. We have been and continue to be driven like a herd of sheep, all of us trying to do our own wills, which is the most basic form of Satanism. Jesus never did His own will but rather always did the will of His Father, even unto the death.

It is Satanism because to worship the Devil does not mean that you seek out what the Devil wants you to do and then obey him. No, that is God's hierarchy, not the Devil's. The Devil gains control over you, not by having you do his will but rather by having you do YOUR will. In the process of chasing of your own goals and dreams, instead of doing what God would have you do, Satan gains control over you and you become his servant. I will say it again, TO DO YOUR OWN WILL IS TO WORSHIP SATAN.

Jesus never tells us to do what WE want to do but always that we should obey the commandments and do the will of the Father. We actually believe that doing what we want to do is a good thing. We encourage people to do what THEY want to do and follow THEIR dreams. That sounds good doesn't it? Well, there is nothing good about it. You should never do what you want to do unless you have permission to do it from the Lord.

However, today this form of obedience is scoffed at and anyone who attempts to hold to a fixed belief is attacked as being closed minded, rude and selfish. Christians who follow what the Bible says instead of doing what they want to do will find surprising resistance in all areas of their lives. Still, this way of thinking is exactly what Jesus was attempting to demonstrate to us, don't do what you want to do but rather do what your Father in Heaven wants you to do.

Well, I just wanted to let everyone know that the meeting was a success and I hope this article has piqued your interest. Dean Gotcher is the master of bringing out this understanding and his website is full of articles and audios from his meetings and radio shows. If you are serious about your Christianity you cannot afford to be without this information. I encourage you to spend lots of time there and support Dean by sending a gift or purchasing his books and DVDs. You can click here for his homepage or use the "Authority Research" link in the sidebar.

Blessings.

Dean Gotcher

I wanted to let everyone know that I am honored to have Dean Gotcher coming to the area on November 8th to speak. We will be meeting at the Outdoorsmen Meeting Hall in Blountville, Tenn. at 6:30. The building is located on 11W between Kingsport and Bristol and is just behind the IBEW Union Hall.

Please feel free to stop by but be ready to hear some hard truth. Dean is the master of exposing the evil dialectic formula that has been thrust upon our society like a Pandora's Box. Dean has dubbed this process "the Diaprax" or simply the practice of the dialectical process and after he exposes it many become offended because they realize that they are steeped in it and rather than repent they decide to lash out.

Almost everyone you know uses this process and those who do not use it are usually singled out as being hateful, intolerant and maladjusted. Such is our society today, that those who speak the language of God are considered unworthy and those who speak like dragons (Diaprax) are loved by all.

Well, be that as it may, I am pleased to have Dean and his wife Karen coming in November. Please pray for Dean as he makes his way southward after doing several other presentations from Illinois to Maine. If you would like to visit his website it can be found at www.authorityresearch.com, which I have listed in the sidebar.

Giant Rotten Tomato

I began to wonder the other day as I pondered on all the articles of the economic collapse that is soon to come upon us and the world. The secular writers carry on about how bad it is going to be, and from their point of view it would be. Facing this collapse without God must be a fearful thing but for the remnant of Israel it is not so bad.

First off, we will be protected by God during this time, just as He protected Israel while the plagues were hitting Egypt. Sure we will be in the midst of it and that will be bad enough but we are not concerned about our physical wealth and welfare but rather we are concerned with spiritual things. The fall of the dollar is of little significance to us. In fact it could actually be a good thing as far as that goes.

I mean getting rid of the dollar also means getting rid of the evil that is attached to it. It means getting rid of the money grubbing idiots that have greedily destroyed any virtue that we once had as a nation. It means being rid of the society as we have it today where most people walk around staring into little electronic boxes playing games and reading text messages.

Yes, it is a terrible world we have constructed. I for one will be glad to be shed of it and the sooner the better. Until then you can still respond to the Gospel message of hope and salvation for your soul. There is still a little time left before it all goes completely bad.

But just as fruit goes through stages, so will our country and the world. Consider, as a tomatoes ripens it is good to eat, soon however it begins to decay. At first it is still good to eat, just cut off the small bad section and it is fine. Later however, it isn't so easy.

Soon the tomato is just plain rotten and fit for nothing but the compost pile. At this point if you leave it laying around it attracts all sort of bugs and flies. It begins to stink up your house and even gets so bad that you can't bring yourself to even touch it in order to throw it away, you actually have to scape it off the plate with a knife into the compost pile.

Such is the state of our country, yes in fact the entire world. It is a giant rotten tomato and it must continue through the same cycle as the tomato does. There is no stopping it. You can no more stop it than you can prevent a tomato from also going bad. The only hope would have been to turn back to the Lord and only He is able to preserve, but that was not to be.

Fortunately for Christians, we understand that a new day is soon coming. A one thousand year period where we will reign and rule with Christ. He will rule with a rod of iron and things will be set back as they were intended. While spiritually we are with Him there now (for in eternity there is no beginning or ending) but physically we are still staring at the problem of getting this giant rotten tomato into the compost pile without getting it all over us.

My advice is to stop trying, set your eyes upon Him. He will clean all this mess up soon enough, study the Word, prepare yourself to have an answer for any man who asks you of the hope that is within you. Pray and follow Jesus with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding.

Blessings to the Remnant of Israel.

Out of Place Artifacts

I came across another article I had written awhile back and it dovetails nicely with the next one called "Behold now behemoth". This one looks at the topic from a concept known as OOPART or (out of place artifacts).

I hope these two articles make you think. They are not simply interesting reading, they devastate the current scientific understanding that is taught in schools all over the world. These two simple stories show all of evolution to be false.

OOPART - THE DISCOVERY OF SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T BELONG UNDER CURRENT SCIENTIFIC THEORY, YET THERE IT IS.

Having located the wreckage of a ship suspected to have sunk during the 1600’s, a treasure hunter begins diving expeditions. Much to his joy he soon discovers a large treasure trove of coins among the wreckage and after recovering the treasure he sits down with his crew and begins to catalog the find.

All of his research has told him this shipwreck is from the 1600’s. The coins mostly dated from hundreds of years ago and the other recovered items also seem to suggest that the ship must have sunk during this time. However, as he is searching through the coins, he discovers a few quarters dated 1964. This is an example of what has become known as “OOPART”, or an “out of place artifact”.

This is something present that should not be present based on modern scientific understanding. There are many examples of this phenomenon with us today but many times instead of realizing the obvious realities these objects bring with them we simply continue believing a theory that can’t possibly be true.

For instance, evolution theory tells us that dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and that no one throughout all of human history has ever seen a living dinosaur. In fact, they tell us, it was not until the 1800’s that anyone even knew they existed since that was the time the first bone was discovered and also when the term “dinosaur” was created.

So then how is it that we see a vivid description of a dinosaur in the book of Job from our very own Bibles? It appears to me that Job must have seen a dinosaur in order to be able to explain one in such detail and while the full description Job gives us in Chapter 40:15-24 is too lengthy for this short article a choice reference will make my point. The book of Job tells us:

“Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.”

The mention of the behemoth moving his tail like a cedar seems to be the part that sends most evolutionists into a conniption fit. They claim to have logic and science on their side but for the life of them they cannot come up with a creature that eats grass and moves his tail like a cedar other than the brachiosaurus.

Even modern Bibles try to tell us this verse is talking about an elephant or hippopotamus but if you have ever seen either of these animal’s tails you would have to laugh at such a ridiculous suggestion. NO, the truth is that man lived side by side with dinosaurs for many years and today we believe lies about them.

If we are going to maintain any intellectual honesty at all, we must accept the truth. Just as our intrepid treasure hunter had to realize his error we too must realize what these OOPART occurrences mean.

Behold now behemoth!

Below is a short essay on the topic of dinosaurs in the bible that I wrote as part of an email sent out earlier this year. It begins with a summary of varying church positions today. If you have any questions concerning this topic please send me an email. Blessings.

 

Jonn.

 

Some of the more liberal churches today, including the Catholic church, outright teach evolutionary thought as true. However, while most Protestant churches do not outright teach it, they would claim that they do not have a problem with it because they tell us God decided to use long periods of time to perform his work, this is known as the "Gap theory" or the "Day age theory", both assume large periods of time inserted in Genesis to account for the billions of years.

 

Then there are those churches who say they do not believe in evolution at all and they teach the biblical story of creation but they don't make much of a fuss over their children being taught evolution in every school in the nation. The salt has lost its savor I suppose.

 

Lastly, there are those who do not feel it is important enough to worry about and that it is an impossible subject to understand and therefore they know nothing about it and don't want to know anything about it.

 

Having summarized the current church's teaching of the subject, I will point out that in every case our schools are teaching evolution in some form or another to our unsuspecting students. For instance, they tell them that no person has ever seen a living dinosaur. They tell the kids that not until the 1800's did anyone even suspect that dinosaurs had ever walked the earth. This of course was when the first "fossil" was uncovered and the term "dinosaur" was created.

 

It should have been the churches from the very beginning to put a stop to this lie because within the very pages of our Bibles is a description of a dinosaur. In the book of Job, chapter 40 it states.

 

"Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares."

 

Notice the part that says "he eateth grass as an ox" and "he moveth his tail like a cedar" The creature he is describing is not the elephant or hippopotamus because their tiny tails do not "move like a cedar". It also couldn't be a crocodile or alligator, since they don't eat grass. The only creature that moved his tail like a cedar tree and ate grass as an ox would be the brachiosaurus, apatasaurus or diplodicus.

 

The long necked, long tailed dinosaur clearly walked the earth with Job as he is told in the Bible to " Behold now behemoth" how can you behold something without being able to see it for yourself? Yet today we are told that no person ever saw a living dinosaur but, according to the Bible, Job saw them.

 

This one fact pulls the rug out from under evolutionary thinking. If the dinosaurs didn't live millions of years ago then the "fossil record" is false. If the fossil record is false then the "geologic column" is false. If the geologic column is false then the "geologic time scale" is false and the whole of evolutionary theory breaks down.

 

How could there be a description of a dinosaur when no one was supposed to have known about them at all, much less write down such an accurate description of a living dinosaur?

 

I hope this will generate some discussion, perhaps it is a hard truth to realize but it is the truth. Man lived with dinosaurs for many years before they died out. If this fact is true then we can only stare in awe at the machine we call secular society and their massive push to teach lies to each and everyone of us and to what end?

 

So, it is good to know that we believe the Bible, not because we are outdated do-gooders who want to keep people from having fun but rather we believe the Bible because it is true, it is scientific and it is the Word of God.

Losing my life in this world

"And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
 
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:34-36

What does it mean to lose your life for the sake of the gospel? This may sound like an easy question but like everything else it has many layers in its true meaning. Of course, being outright killed for the gospel like we see in the case of most of the disciples is the most extreme example and the highest level of fulfilling these passages but what do we say about the other levels?

Each day we are supposed die to the flesh and be crucified with Him but how is that the case when we obviously are not literally killed each day. It becomes clear that the understanding again is very much a spiritual understanding.

Our flesh has many lusty desires and each day we choose whether or not to fulfill these desires. Many among us have absolutely no idea how to control the fulfilling of these desires or even that they are supposed to. All they know is fleshly life. So duped are they that they don't even realize they are spiritual as well as fleshly so therefore they concentrate all their efforts on pleasing the only thing they see as important or should I say the only thing they see at all.

Whether it be the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye or the pride of life. We see all of humanity rushing to please whatever evil manifests within their hearts. People rushing like madmen all after one purpose, fulfilling the desires of their pathetic, selfish flesh.

The Christian, however, desires things not of this world but of the world to come. So when our flesh rises up against us and demands that we fulfill its desires it can be a terrible time. We are so easily distracted by its seemingly ever growing power over us. As we attempt to deny our flesh it seems to pound louder and louder at the door.

Simple hunger pains that at first are easily dismissed, eventually grow into the shakes and then eventually to the point that your mind is consumed with nothing else but filling your belly and it will not focus on anything else.

Your body brings to bear every weapon at its disposal to force you to give it what it wants. Eat or die it will say and you will believe it because in your world it is way too true. You will die if you don't eat but only a fleshly death, your spiritual self will not suffer in the least.

We should constantly practice and strive to deny our flesh, not just in fasting, which we should do often, but in all areas of our lives. Embracing the death of our flesh in everything should be a constant goal. Whether the dimming of our eyes, the lack of energy in our bodies or simply depriving ourselves of the purchase of a desired object. These should all be seen as times of rejoicing instead of a time of panic and dread.

Rejoice if your eyes can not see as well as they used too, your fleshly eyes have deceived you way to often anyway and what a grand opportunity to allow your spiritual eyes the chance to not only grow but take the supreme position as your preferred method of seeing.

Rejoice if your body is experiencing a lack of energy, this gives your spirit opportunity to grow and less energy makes it more difficult to fulfill the sick, disgusting desires of your evil heart. I rejoice that my body is experiencing all these things and that I will one day cross over from this pathetic existence into a much better one.

Now, I am not telling you to lift up sickness and desire to be unhealthy, but rather simply to focus on the spiritual things and rejoice at each turn when the flesh can be defeated. If in the body's infirmities we are able to overcome it, then by all means let the body be filled with infirmities! It is a rare person who can overcome a healthy body filled with vigor and energy.

No, the body filled with vigor and energy desires to do things of the flesh, it is strong and cares little for anything other than filling its own desires. The spirit is usually suffocated in the presence of a strong, youthful body. Therefore, I desire a weak body that I may have a strong spirit.

So what I am saying is by allowing our bodies to weaken we can possibly gain an advantage over them and possibly now you can see why true Christianity is a path seldom walked. Who would read this and say "Wow! What a great idea. Let's allow our bodies to die so we may live!" Do you know anyone, or would you yourself say this is a good idea and one that you would follow?

I think not because nearly everyone you meet is worried about one thing and one thing only. That is the pleasing of their flesh, whether by going to the doctor or buying the new car or whatever else you can think of, it really matters not about the details as long as the flesh is pacified. I say rather let it die and the sooner the better.

Of course it would be foolish to intentionally seek to live in a sick, unhealthy body. To intentionally eat things that are bad for you or to do things that cause you to be unhealthy is wrong and that is not what I am espousing here. All I am saying is that if you happen to be in this state then rejoice and do not whine or focus on things to specifically "recapture" your youth or some other nonsense.

That would be like committing suicide to quicken our trip to heaven. That is simply not how it works, we are not the ones who make those decisions. If we follow Him first, the physical state of our bodies will be of less and less importance.

We will find that we will be given the precise amount of health or infirmity to accomplish what He wants us to accomplish with nothing more or nothing less left over. For in having too much we rush off to do our own wills and too little has us not completing the work He has for us to do. Desire to have just the right amount!

Do His will and do not seek to do your own will. For as we are told again in Matthew 16:25 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."