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ISRAELI RABBIS SAY CURRENT EVENTS COULD LEAD TO "WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG"

 Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., June 3, 2010) -- A pastor friend of mine who is helping us set up the 2010 Epicenter Conference in Philadelphia later this month just sent me an urgent text message with this headline from Israel National News: "RABBIS: FLOTILLA CLASH SIMILAR TO GOG AND MAGOG PROPHESY." As you might expect, it caught my attention right away. Excerpts:

* "The Rabbinical Council of Judea and Samaria issued a statement Thursday in which it said that the results of the incident in which Israel intercepted a flotilla trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza seem like the Biblical description of "the beginning of the Gog and Magog process where the world is against us, but which ends with the third and final redemption….

* "The Council was formed by Rabbi Zalman Melamed of Beit El and includes leading religious Zionist rabbis who are the spiritual leaders of communities in Judea and Samaria.<More>

 

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Much Ado About Something

Glenn Peck

It is said a 90 year old grandmother chased after General Sherman’s Blue Jackets after they destroyed her family farm and home. She was armed only with a broom and her family attempted to restrain her by reminding her she couldn’t do anything with just a broom. She said, “Children, I may not whip ‘em but I sure can let them Yankees know whose side I am on.”

This is how I feel about the soon to be convened Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, FL. I doubt if this article will appear before the Convention concludes, but at least I can let the movers and shakers associated with the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force know I oppose the underlining thrust of their report.

Few, if any Southern Baptists, disagree with the imperative to reach all language and people groups with the life changing, eternity changing message of salvation in and through the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is in the details where the rubber meets the road. The task force proposes a major changes in the Cooperative Program. Many of the task force members, and several past presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention come from churches that give small percentages of their total budget to the Cooperative Program and instead contribute to what they are calling Great Commission Giving.  <More>

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How Long Do We Have?

(Submitted by Garnet Cole.  Author unknown.)

 

 About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the  University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian  Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'

 'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'

' From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.' <More>

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Proof Obama is Muslim:

The following is from Bud Ames, Mooreland, Ok.  We believe EVERYONE in America ought to see this.  It is a video showing plainly Barack Obama IS A MUSLIM as he explains in his own words.  Hasten to view this before it gets "pulled."

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28     

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Stem cell infusion is one of the most promising cures for cancer and regeneration of tissue (such as repairng spinal cord injuries, sightless eyes, etc.)  Many animals are capable of tissue regeneration.  For instance, some animals with long tails can regenerate their tails if cut off.  In human beings, the liver is the only organ that can regenerate itself, and even that is limited.  The following article offers hope to the many hopeless people who have suffered such injuries.  Ed. 

Miracle Stem Cell Cures

By Chuck Colson

(Published Date: February 22, 2010) 

No doubt you’ve heard how adult stem cells are providing amazing cures. Oh, you haven’t? Well, I’ll tell you why.

It sounds like something out of science fiction—or “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not”—but it isn’t.

Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports the story of Russell Turnbull, who tried to break up a fight while riding home on the bus one night. For his pains, Turnbull ended up getting ammonia sprayed into his right eye, which scarred his cornea. Turnbull lost most of his sight in that eye, and suffered pain every time he blinked.

But now Turnbull has had his sight almost completely restored, thanks to a pioneering procedure using stem cells. Adult stem cells.  <MORE>

 

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FORGIVENESS: A Most Difficult Assignment for Believers 

Perhaps no greater, or more difficult, task exists for the Christian than the necessity of forgiving those who “trespass against us.”  In any case, we need to remember Jesus taught, “…if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you...  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matt 6:14,15 KJV).  

While most Christians are cognizant of this teaching, many steadfastly refuse to obey it.

A man once told me that he could not be saved.  When I asked him why he would think such a terrible thing, he responded, “Because I hate my sister, and I just can’t forgive her for what she did.” 

In fact, in this matter of forgiveness, most Christians either overlook or ignore altogether the teaching of Jesus that we must take steps to rectify our misdeeds to others.  Jesus said, “…if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift” (Matt. 5:23, 24 KJV). This teaching reveals clearly that if we have in any way wronged someone, we must take the imitative by asking those we have wronged to forgive us. 

Are you harboring bitterness or animosity against your brother for something he has done to you?  If so, you MUST forgive his sin against you in order for God to forgive you of your sins. 

Have you wounded another by some selfish deed?  You MUST go to that one and make things right before God can forgive you your sins.  You will never have peace in your heart until you obey the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  

Forgiveness is not an option—it is a mandate!  Ed.

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