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Something from Nothing

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:1-5 KJV

Written by Curtis Peter van Gorder April 2011

While visiting my dad for his 85th birthday, we watched some of our old family movies. It was funny to see my brother as a one-year-old, crawling around, playing with the puppies, and eating from the dog’s food dish. To think that this cute little baby would grow up to be a distinguished college professor and international lecturer! It got me thinking about how God makes special people out of nobodies. We come into this world naked and helpless, and God transforms us into the unique people we each are through our experiences and choices.

It’s been said that God delights in making something out of nothing, and I believe it. In fact, I believe that God made everything out of nothing.

Skeptics ask, “How could the universe have been created from nothing? The laws of science say that nothing can ever be created or destroyed—only rearranged. You have to have something to start with.” Perhaps the clearest and most compelling answer I’ve found to that argument is put forth by James Perloff in Tornado in a Junkyard.1

The most widely accepted theory of the universe’s origin says that, at one time, all mass and energy were compressed in a tiny “cosmic egg.” Then the egg exploded, creating the universe in the Big Bang. …

But the Big Bang itself violates natural law. The laws of physics state that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. This is the First Law of Thermodynamics, the law of conservation of energy. As the well-known physicist Paul Davies wrote in his book The Edge of Infinity, the Big Bang “represents the instantaneous suspension of physical laws that allowed something to come out of nothing. It represents a true miracle.”2

If one allows for an event beyond natural law—a “true miracle,” as Davies put it—then it is logically inconsistent to exclude other events, such as creation by God. If there was a “cosmic egg,” who put it there? The cosmic chicken? Scientists have always agreed that there is a cause for every effect. How then can the greatest effect of all—the universe itself—have arisen without a cause?

That cause, I believe, was God’s command. God spoke and—BANG!—the universe was created.

1. James Perloff, Tornado in a Junkyard (Arlington, Mass: Refuge Books, 1999), 29.

2. Paul Davies, The Edge of Infinity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), 161.

*Curtis Peter van Gorder is a 60 year young American who married a Dutch woman (Pauline) 37 years back. He has 12 grandkids. He is an effusive writer for magazines and short stories. He is also the director of Elixir Mime--workshops and theater for the deaf; the director of Elixir Scripts--producing inspirational screenplays; a motivational writer and speaker for the MOVE program; and a puppeteer and professional mime and animator for the event company Party Pixie. He lives in Mumbai, India.

[My computer is down, won't be on again till next month. God bless and keep you trusting! Much love and prayers!!Keys]

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Joseph’s Technicolor Painting

By Janet Kluck 03/15

We all have them—plans that didn’t turn out the way we’d hoped, prayers that seem like they didn’t make it past the ceiling, dreams that break and are shattered as we wonder what went wrong. We keep going, but often these apparent failures remain etched in our mind along with a question mark. Why didn’t things turn out the way I had planned or hoped or prayed?

In the animated film, Joseph, King of Dreams, there is one scene where Joseph, after having been sold by his brothers as a slave and taken to Egypt, has been bought by Potiphar and is seen scrubbing a floor. He visualizes his brothers laughing and mocking him. His tasks are made even more miserable by the resentment and anger he’s holding on to.

Of course, if anyone had a right to be angry and sorrowful, it would have been Joseph. He had been betrayed by the very ones who should have protected him and stood up for him—his own family. Whatever Joseph’s plans might have been, they were broken to pieces and scattered among the sands on his long trek to Egypt. His future outlook was certainly bleak!

But as Joseph found out, the story didn’t end there. Despite going through many more hardships and difficulties, Joseph ended up in a position to save the future of a nation and his family at the same time. And through all that God did for him, he learned just how vast and perfect God’s plan is. God can take the most terrible occurrences and transform them into hope and a future. Joseph’s dreams did come true, just not in the way he had expected, planned, or dreamed.

Imagine there is a gorgeous painting hanging on the wall of an apartment. It was painted by a great artist and contains contrasts of images, colors, shapes, and elements if you could see it in its entirety. But you’re not inside the apartment, and the only chance you have of seeing it at all is through the keyhole, where you can catch only a small glimpse of the darkest, most shadowed section. You might think, What a dark and depressing painting! Why didn’t the artist use brighter colors or grace the canvas with more light?

This is so often our perspective of our own lives. We focus on the dark spots, the losses and perceived failures. But all the while, our life is a beautiful, colorful, joyful, and bright painting; the problem is that we are viewing it through a tiny keyhole. If we could just see our lives from a bigger, more complete perspective, so many other elements and colors and highlights would come into view, and that tiny image would be transformed into the marvelous masterpiece that it truly can be in God’s eyes.

Maybe those dark spots in our lives represent a broken friendship, a painful breakup, a new opportunity falling through, or a feeling that our goals and dreams are slowly being swept away by life just being the way it is—complicated, busy, and not always in our favor. All of that can change, though! God can mend a broken heart if you give Him all the pieces.

I read recently that we cannot disappoint God, because He already knows that we can’t be perfect. He is fully aware of our failures, setbacks—and even sins—and He still loves us with more intensity, care, and compassion than we can begin to comprehend. If we try to figure God out or fully understand His plan, forcing things to fit into our very limited perspective, we’ll only be disappointed in ourselves and even in Him when things don’t turn out the way we’ve dreamed and hoped.

He has His own dream for our lives—one filled with splashes of light and blends of color, depth, and texture—and He’s waiting by the canvas with a brush, ready to paint it into reality. All we have to do is give Him room to work and make something beautiful.

*Janet Kluck is a blogger and mother of 10, who resides in the U.S.

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What Comes Next

Compilation August 2014

To die is landing on some silent shore
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, ’tis o’er.
—Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
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I shall hear in heaven.—Attributed last words of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
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Not all the subtleties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
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Earth is the land of the dying: we must extend our prospect into heaven, which is the land of the living.—Bishop George Horne (1730–1792)
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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Let us consider, beloved, how the Lord continually shows us that there shall be a future resurrection, of which He has made our Lord Jesus Christ the first fruits. Let us contemplate the resurrection that takes place every season before our eyes. Day and night declare a resurrection to us. The night lies down, and the day arises; again the day departs, and the night comes on. Let us behold the fruits of the earth. The seed is sown. It fell into the earth dry and naked; in time it dissolves; and from the dissolution the power of the Lord raises it again; and of one single seed many arise and bring forth fruit.—Saint Clement of Rome (d. 99)
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We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death as ending; let us rather think of life as beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting; let us think of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. And as the voice of death whispers, “You must go from earth,” let us hear the voice of Christ saying, “You are but coming to Me!”—Norman Macleod (1812–1872)
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.—Aristotle (384–322 BC)
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If God hath made this world so fair, where sin and death abound, how beautiful, beyond compare, will paradise be found!—James Montgomery (1771–1854)
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WHY DOES GOD ALLOW WARS?

"If there is an all-powerful God behind the scenes," people often ask, "why would He allow such horrible wars? Why doesn't He put a stop to all that if He's in control?"

Although God hates war and its blood-thirsty perpetrators and is soon going to intervene and set things right when He "destroys them that destroy the Earth" (Rev.11:18), He hasn't yet because in so doing, He would have had to put a stop to the main idea of His whole Great Design--Man's Choice!

Man brings all this evil upon himself through his own sins, his own hand, literally dying by his own hand because of his refusal to receive the Lord, follow God or obey His Word! But if the people would just turn to the Lord and repent of their sins and ask for His forgiveness, He would lift the curse, and remove the whole thing, but they won't! So He has to let the wars come and all the horrors that man brings upon himself, to show what a mess mankind is without the Lord!

Are you a person of peace?--Or a wager of war! "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God!" (Mat.5:9). Join the peacemakers and help bring peace to the hearts and minds and souls of men!

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That Winning Feeling

Written by Abi May March 2015

He considers himself a winner, but some might wonder how he’s come to that conclusion. His body is bruised and scarred from numerous beatings. His life on the road has left its mark too. On top of it all, he’s lost his freedom, and the likelihood of execution is looming over him.1

He had a promising start, born with the top grade of citizenship that could have opened so many doors.2 Yet since embracing the new faith, he was falsely imprisoned on numerous occasions,3 violently interrogated,4 shipwrecked three times,5 and even stoned once!6 He narrowly escaped several conspiracies,7 but he certainly didn’t escape all violence.

Nor was it just the ferocious opposition and rejection—he also faced poverty and want. He wrote, “To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. … We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world.”8 All in all, he had a lot of troubles, to the point that sometimes his life seemed unendurable.9

Under these circumstances, it seems almost beyond belief that he can boldly declare: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return.”10

Paul considered himself a winner because any outward appearance of failure was dispelled by the inner satisfaction of knowing that he had done what God expected of him. He had secured the ultimate win—and we can too, if we use our gifts and time for God’s glory. (Hopefully, our own unique life path will include a lot less battering than the valiant apostle Paul’s!)

Ever Brighter

The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.—Proverbs 4:18 NIV

Dear Jesus, please come into my life and accompany me on my path, whatever it may hold.

1. See 2 Timothy 2:9.
2. See Acts 22:28.
3. See Acts 16:19–25; 21:27–33.
4. See Acts 22:22–24.
5. See 2 Corinthians 11:25.
6. Acts 14:19.
7. See Acts 9:23–25; 23:12–15.
8. 1 Corinthians 4:11,13 NIV
9. See 2 Corinthians 1:8.
10. 2 Timothy 4:7–8 NLT

Abi May (also credited as Chris Hunt) is a freelance writer and educator in Great Britain, and also active as a volunteer in healthcare advocacy.
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JESUS SAID, "I CAME NOT TO DESTROY THE LAW, BUT TO FULFIL IT!" (MAT.5:17).

When Jesus died, the Law was done away with! His sacrifice was the final sacrifice as far as God was concerned!

Everything in the Old Jewish Temple was an illustrated sermon of Christ and His Church. God was continually giving them illustrations of what He intended for His Church and their relation with Him to be like. When Jesus finally came, the Temple and all of that illustration was done away with. As far as God was concerned, "that which was perfect had come," in Jesus, and all of that which was merely a picture of things to come, that was all done away with then because we have the real thing--Jesus--and the real Church--us, His Body.

The Mosaic Law was only a shadow of realities to come. The Law was only our schoolmaster to bring us unto God, Paul says, and to show us His absolute perfection and perfect righteousness which it was impossible for us to attain! (Gal.3:24). And when its purpose was fulfilled, its usefulness was fulfilled, it was finished!

Although the Law came by Moses, grace, mercy, forgiveness, love and truth came through Jesus Christ, our Salvation! (Jn.1:17).

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Getting Up and Going On

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. - For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. Job 23:10 & 14

A Compilation June/2011

If you feel that you have made mistakes, taken wrong turns, even failed miserably at this or that, you’re in good company. Many of God’s heroes in the Bible did too, but they learned from their mistakes. And God came to them, sitting in the midst of failed dreams or disappointed hopes, and gave them a new reason to live. That’s what He can do when we give up on our own plans and projects and decide to try His. He gives us goals to help us grow and move in the right direction, and then He helps us attain them. Give Him a chance. Let Him give you the good things He has for you.—Nana Williams

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.—Albert Einstein

Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself, How did I get through all of that?—Author unknown

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.—Oprah Winfrey

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett

Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s okay to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.—H. Stanley Judd

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.—Tom Hopkins

Adversity pushes the envelope of accepted performance. Until a person learns from experience that he can live through adversity, he is reluctant to challenge himself to press his limits. Failure prompts a person to rethink the status quo.—John C. Maxwell

Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life’s most important battle—he defeated the fear of trying.—Robert H. Schuller

Anything wonderful can happen in that little margin of time when you don’t give up but keep on believing.—David Brandt Berg
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KEEP THE GOSPEL SIMPLE!

God's mercy doesn't hang on legalistic theological technicalities.--Who knows how little a child can understand, yet Jesus said, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven" (Mat.18:3). You gotta be a baby!--And babies don't waste most of their time arguing over theoretical theological doctrinal shibboleths!

The Bible was intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world. Why should God cover its true meaning in such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it? It's the Devil who is the author of confusion! He tries to make Salvation seem so complicated or so difficult that people can't understand it.

Don't be led away from the simplicity of the Gospel, the Good News of God's Love in Jesus! (2Cor.11:3). Not everyone can understand strong doctrine, but everyone understands love.--So stay on the main line! Preach the most important doctrines of all--Jesus and His love and His Salvation!

Let's not argue over doctrine, let's get souls saved! GBY!

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In Search of Truth - Final

IF SELF-DENIAL, SACRIFICE AND SUFFERING ARE NOT THE WAY TO SALVATION, WHAT THEN CAN I DO TO SAVE MYSELF?

NOTHING!--You CAN'T save yourself! Yet the central belief of almost all of Man's religions is that Man is basically good and righteous, and he CAN save himself. In fact, after careful analysis we can safely conclude that there are really only TWO schools of religious thought and belief in the World: The DO-IT-YOURSELF religions and the GOD-ALONE-CAN-SAVE-YOU kind!

MOST of the World's religions teach their followers that they can save THEMSELVES by their own piety and good works, by their own holiness, by their own sufferings, their own self-denial, or by their own obedience to the laws and traditions of THAT particular religion!--But NO man yet has ever been good enough to earn or merit his own salvation!--"For there is not a righteous man upon the Earth who always does good and never sins."--Ecclesiastes 7:20.

In the very beginning, God originally intended for each of us to have a close personal relationship and communication with Him. He wanted to be our closest FRIEND, Someone Whose Love, faithfulness, concern and care we could always count on.

But God did not want to MAKE us be friends with Him. He could have easily created us all to AUTOMATICALLY obey and worship Him, like some kind of robots, but He didn't want to FORCE us to love or obey Him. This is why He allowed both good AND evil to be revealed, so that we could each make a personal CHOICE, so we could voluntarily CHOOSE to love and obey Him, or rebel and go our own way.

Sad to say, each of us has made the WRONG choices at some time or another. We have acted selfishly, unkindly and unloving, not only hurting others, but even hurting GOD Himself, Who as our loving Heavenly Father, is saddened when He sees we are going the wrong way.

But despite all of our troubles, problems and imperfection, God still LOVES us and WANTS to be close to us, to be our nearest and dearest Helper and Friend. Yet no matter HOW earnestly and sincerely we try by our OWN piety, good works, suffering etc. to become close to Him, to become one with Him, to become "enlightened" by Him, to attain salvation from Him, we will ALWAYS fall SHORT of reaching this goal.--"For ALL have sinned and come SHORT of the glory of God!"--Romans 3:23. No matter HOW good or righteous we try to be, no matter how severely we discipline ourselves or strive to attain godliness or salvation, it is simply not within Man to save HIMSELF!

WHAT THEN CAN I DO TO BE SAVED?--MUST I RESIGN MYSELF TO REMAINING FOREVER SEPARATED FROM GOD?

God is so great, so high, so almighty, so BEYOND our limited human understanding and comprehension, that it is impossible for us to fully understand or grasp Him or His ways. He says, "As the Heavens are high above the Earth, so high are MY ways above YOUR ways, and MY thoughts than YOUR thoughts!"--Isaiah 55:9. But He so much wanted to help us and to become our close Friend that He sent Somebody Who could SHOW us His Love, Somebody Who could live WITH us as a man, Who could EMBODY and show us what God Himself is like.

God loves us so much, He doesn't want us to have to suffer separation from Him. When we're without God's Love, our hearts can never be truly satisfied, and we will remain spiritually empty and lifeless. So to bring us His Everlasting Life and Salvation, He sent His Own Son, JESUS, to Earth almost 2,000 years ago.

Jesus was miraculously conceived by the Spirit of God and born to a young virgin girl named Mary. He grew up to become, in a sense, a PICTURE of His Father, so we could SEE what the great invisible Creator is LIKE.--And that picture is a picture of LOVE, for all Jesus did was go about everywhere doing good, helping others and teaching about God's great Love for us all.--Matthew 11:28 John 14:6 Luke 4:18.

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A Discussion about Infidelity

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Matthew 9:13 KJV

By David Berg and Members of the Family Mission 8/76

(From a discussion about a conversation with the newlyweds at our hotel, David and Jean:)

When she said she could not forgive her husband for Infidelity, she was saying that she loved herself more then Him! She worshiped Fidelity more religiously than God! She valued, in other words, his total Faithfulness to her more than Love Itself! For to Forgive is Love--Divine Love!

To say you cannot forgive is to say you cannot have the love of God! You cannot love as GOD loves, because that's all God does all the time--Forgive! God has forgiven His wife the Church for infidelity thousands and ten thousand times! He forgave Israel and the Church for innumerable infidelities--Spiritual whoredom!

The Divine Supernatural Miraculous Infinite Marvelous Love Of God Is Love Enough To Forgive! If you don't have love enough to Forgive, you don't have Love--because forgiveness IS love! Jesus Himself said following the Lord's Prayer: "If you cannot forgive men Their trespasses, neither will your Father in Heaven forgive you Your trespasses!" (Matthew 6:15)

THEY WORSHIP MARRIAGE--THEY MAKE IT A GOD! It is a worship of the LAW. It is a form of LEGALISM:--It's got to be THIS way or ELSE--ALL or NOTHING at all! It's a worship of the LAW more than LOVE, forgiveness or mercy. It's LEGALISM: "Thou shalt NOT!"

THE WORSHIP OF MARRIAGE LAWS IS A LEGALISM--THAT THE LAW IS INVIOLABLE! The legalists say that NOTHING can supersede it--not even the LOVE, mercy or the grace of GOD! And if they violate the LAW, they CANNOT be forgiven!

THIS IS THE JUSTICE OF THE DEVIL, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SATAN! This is what HE advocates all the time! "They have broken the LAW!--JUDGE them!"--Just like the Scribes and Pharisees!

"FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US!" If WE'RE only going to be forgiven the way we forgive OTHERS, and be shown the mercy that we show OTHERS, some people are going to be in a pretty bad fix, especially the churches and churchy Christians, who are almost the most UNFORGIVING people I know of!

EVEN THE PUBLICANS AND THE SINNERS AND DRUNKS AND THE HARLOTS ARE MORE UNDERSTANDING AND MORE FORGIVING, because they KNOW they're that way and they can't HELP it and they're more MERCIFUL, more FORGIVING because they'd like to be forgiven THEMSELVES! But SOME people are SO self-righteous they think they NEVER make a mistake! They're ALWAYS right, so why should they ever have to be FORGIVEN, why should they have to forgive OTHERS?

IF YOU CAN'T FORGIVE, YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY HAVE REAL LOVE OR REAL HUMILITY! You haven't got MERCY, because love IS forgiveness and mercy! Which kind of person are YOU?--The just, unforgiving, unloving, unbending, unmerciful proud SELF-RIGHTEOUS?--Or the merciful, loving, yielding, forgiving, humble, unrighteous SINNER saved only by the grace of GOD!
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TO TRULY GIVE IS TO GIVE CHEERFULLY!

God likes people who are cheerful givers, who give voluntarily because it makes them happy and because they know it pleases the Lord and they're helping others, expecting nothing for themselves in return. That kind of giving, true giving, can be the greatest of all pleasures, because as the purse is emptied, the heart is filled!

"The Lord loveth a cheerful giver" (2Cor.9:7). We must give willingly and in love, if we want our giving to do any good and if we expect any credit for it from the Lord!

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (James 1:5 NIV)

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The Message of the Crucifixion Pt. 1

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 KJV

By David Brandt Berg Apr 03, 2015

Tonight Christians around the world are celebrating the Lord’s Supper and the Lord’s Passion. On this day, known worldwide as Good Friday, there are many celebrations and observances of the Lord’s last day here on earth before His crucifixion. Literally hundreds of millions of Christians, at least professing Christians, have been celebrating this day and especially this night. Some have been celebrating all week, beginning last Sunday with Palm Sunday, the commemoration of our Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

Thanks to Jesus’ death and resurrection, you and I were brought into the kingdom, and the kingdom moved its headquarters to the New Jerusalem on high. He was no longer a mere king of the city of Jerusalem and the little kingdom of Israel, but the King of the whole universe, the kingdom of God!

He was the King of kings and Lord of lords and the King of the entire universe, as well as the whole world and heavenly Jerusalem—rather than a mere earthly, physical, ancient little Middle Eastern city called Jerusalem. He became the King that He was and showed His power by dying on a cross, crucified like a common criminal. But even in that moment of His death, God showed His power that this was His Son in whom He was well pleased, as the earth shook and heaven thundered and people trembled at the manifestation of the wrath of God over their iniquity.1

Nearly the whole world is compelled to honor Jesus’ birthday and His death day, the two most outstanding events in His life, and one more, Easter Sunday, His rising day, Resurrection day, to live aloft forever in an immortal, eternal body, which shall live forever—like us—in the heavens. “We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.”2

Hundreds of millions of professing Christians around the globe—be they Catholic, Protestant, or nondenominational—are celebrating the last day of Christ’s life here on Earth before His mortal death, as well as the Last Supper. The Feast of the Passover was a celebration, a feast in which the Jews were celebrating an event of their salvation from death by the blood of a lamb killed in a certain ceremonial way that night, cooked in a certain ceremonial way, and eaten with joy and thanksgiving that God had saved them from annihilation in Egypt.

The original Passover event was a happy occasion, a feast, a holiday. Jews came from all over the world, and Gentile believers as well, to celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem. It was a happy occasion, not at all sad. It was only going to be sad for one small group eventually, but at first it wasn’t necessarily sad. The Lord found His disciples a place to have the supper by a miracle, and I’m sure provided the food for them, and they sat down and enjoyed a good meal. And then they had the first Communion or Eucharist.

They even had lamb stew that night. We know it was a kind of a soup, otherwise they wouldn’t have been sopping the bread in it.3 They drank wine that night too. And it wasn’t until they were through eating and drinking that the Lord suddenly took more of a sober bent and train of thought and began to predict what was going to happen and to somewhat solemnly lead them into a ceremony, one of the few that the Lord commended. It seemed to be something which He considered believers would want to observe to commemorate His death. “As oft as ye do this, ye do it in remembrance of Me.” And Paul said, “Ye do show the Lord’s death till He comes.”4

1 Matthew 27:51.
2 1 John 3:2.
3 John 13:26.
4 1 Corinthians 11:25–26.

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In Search of Truth Pt. 7

BUT HOW CAN ANY RELIGIOUS PRACTICE BE WRONG IF IT'S DONE SINCERELY?

The Bible tells us that Satan, the Devil, is an arch-DECEIVER, and is often "transformed to APPEAR as an angel of LIGHT."--2 Corinthians 11:14,15. The Devil often mixes in a lot of TRUTH and a lot of GOOD with his lies in order to make his deceit all the more clever. It's true that many of Satan's demons are OBVIOUSLY evil, violent, destructive and horrific, but many times the Enemy of our souls will try to CHARM and lull people into his deceptions by baiting his trap with some TRUTHS!--To lure his victims into his clutches!

If the Devil didn't teach any GOOD or any TRUTH, most people wouldn't swallow his LIES! So he wraps up his bitter pill in a sugar coating--which may look and taste good at FIRST, but it will result in severe spiritual INDIGESTION!--In fact, it is usually pure POISON, and if you SWALLOW it, it will ensure your spiritual DEATH!

So it is of vital ETERNAL importance that, in your search for Truth, you find the TRUE God, the God of LOVE, Who LOVES you and wants to SAVE you! No amount of religious forms, ceremonies, rituals or traditions can ever bring you the wonderful soul-satisfying peace, joy and love that can be YOURS once you have a living relationship with the living God!

MANY RELIGIONS TEACH THAT IT IS NECESSARY FOR US TO SUFFER IN ORDER TO TRULY PLEASE AND DRAW CLOSE TO GOD.--IS THIS TRUE?

No!--As we mentioned earlier, God is LOVE, and He LOVES you very much and wants you to be HAPPY! This is WHY He's placed you here in this beautiful World in the first place! He intended for you to ENJOY living, and has given you the ability, the senses and the environment to do so. He created you to ENJOY the life He's given you, and to love and enjoy HIM forever!

But sad to say, a lot of people do not realise that God wants them to be happy. Their concept of religion is like that of the young boy who, while walking home from a religious service that he attended with his strict and ultra-religious grandfather, stopped and spoke to a neighbour's mule. As he stroked the mule's nose he said, "You must be an awfully RELIGIOUS creature, you have such a long, SAD face!"

To many, godliness and saintliness are supposed to consist of a denial of all human happiness and general enjoyment of any kind. Some go so far as to believe and teach that any kind of physical pleasure must be SINFUL or WICKED!--And they think that godliness consists of such suffering, pain, self-torture, self-denial and self-crucifixion that you must be in utter MISERY and AGONY in order to get close to God! This, thank God, is NOT the case according to the Bible!

Nevertheless, some poor folks are so obsessed with a fetish for self-denial and self-torture that they actually sit on nails, put skewers through their cheeks, walk barefooted on hot coals, whip themselves and even have themselves nailed to crosses!--PURPOSELY suffering all kinds of physical torture because they think that the more they SUFFER, the more "RELIGIOUS", "holy" or close to God they will become!

It's true that there are times when we may need to sacrifice or suffer, but according to God's Word in the Bible, we do not have to do it on PURPOSE, as some kind of means to gain personal merit or favour with God! If we suffer, it's usually because God ALLOWS it for some reason, but it's usually a result of our sacrificing and giving of ourselves in order to help OTHERS.--NOT because we necessarily ASK for it or WANT it or think we are gaining any MERIT or righteousness by it.

TFI [Posted Video - Speech you were never supposed to see - by Jonathan Cahn]

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Obama Takes Total Control of Internet

APRIL 8, 2015 POSTED BY THEA

New Executive Order: Obama Takes Total Control of Internet: Declares ‘National Cyber Security Emergency’

Via shtfplan

It should be obvious given the recent hacks against essential infrastructure that America faces a major cyber security threat from foreign governments and rogue organizations. In just the last few years it has been reported that hackers have infiltrated everything from critical physical components that manage water utilities to 23 orbiting spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The problems have been highlighted by major cyber security firms like Symantec and McAfee.

The threat is real and the government knows it. In an open letter to her successor, outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that a massive attack against the U.S. power grid is imminent.

Notoriously known as “Big Sis” for her role at the Orwellian mega-agency, she claims the supposed ‘imminent’ event will pose challenges to all aspects of life, and make powering homes, providing food and facilitating transportation difficult. Napolitano seems so sure, one wonders how she knows that such a catastrophe is not only possible, but sure to happen, as she prepares to officially leave office September 6th.

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*OBAMA ORDER CREATES NEW AUTHORITY TO RESPOND TO CYBER THREATS TO BE USED IN ‘TARGETED MANNER’

*OBAMA ORDER ALLOWS SANCTIONS FOR CYBER THREATS

This new authority, yet another layer of government oversight, we are sure is for your own protection and in Obama’s words will “augment work to fight cyber threats.” All your internet is belong to us…

The national and economic security of the United States depends on the reliable functioning of the Nation’s critical infrastructure in the face of such threats. It is the policy of the United States to enhance the security and resilience of the Nation’s critical infrastructure and to maintain a cyber environment that encourages efficiency, innovation, and economic prosperity while promoting safety, security, business confidentiality, privacy, and civil liberties.
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Full Executive Order via Zero Hedge

The new Executive Order will, among other things, give the government access to all infrastructure components that they deem critical to national security. That means everything from physical power grid components to virtual servers like your web hosting company.

As used in this order, the term critical infrastructure means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.

So, basically everything that is connected to a network now falls under the control of the U.S. government. And whatever policy the government says needs to be followed will be followed.
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The signing of the National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order grants the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor, the Department of Defense and other agencies complete control of all US resources, including the ability to seize, confiscate or re-delegate resources, materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense as delegated by the following agencies.

Full report here: Executive Doomsday Order: Obama Authorizes Gov to Seize Farms, Food, Processing Plants, Energy Resources, Transportation, Skilled Laborers During National Emergency.

Now all they need is another crisis, whether real or imagined, to implement what will be nothing short of martial law on the streets of America.

EndTimeInfoUpdate TFI [Posted Video - Obama, Control's The Internet!]

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In Search of Truth Pt. 6

“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:14-15 ESV

However, in the process of time and through lack of accurate records, many of these accounts have no doubt become considerably exaggerated and distorted by word-of-mouth into some of the incredible tales, legends and epics that are with us today. But the fact remains that there ARE countless millions of spiritual beings, who compared to us humans, ARE actual "gods" and "goddesses", supernatural inhabitants of the Spirit World--some good, and some evil--who are struggling in that realm to either bring Salvation or damnation to Mankind!

Of course, some of the World's major religions do not believe in or worship a PERSONAL God at all. Instead, He is viewed as a sort of "Supreme Reality", "Ultimate Principle" or "Absolute" that is underlying the Universe. This rather undefinable concept of the Almighty is usually perceived as a God Who generally remains rather distant and aloof from specific human needs, individuals and circumstances. However, the Bible tells us that the true God is very personally concerned about EACH one of us, and that "as a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who love Him."--Psalm 103:13.

Other religions, recognizing the marvelous wonder of the beauty and balance of Nature, have concluded that the physical CREATION itself must be God, that everything we can see is a manifestation or part of God. Such a view is actually very close to what the Bible itself says: "For He is before all things, and by HIM all things consist. For OF Him, and THROUGH Him, and TO Him, are all things, and in Him we live and move and have our being!"--Colossians 1:17; Romans 11:36; Acts 17:28. Because He is the great Power Who has created all things, in a sense God IS a part of all things and all things are a part of Him, from the vast galaxies of the heavens to the cohesive power of the tiniest atom!

Perceiving the close link between the invisible Creator and the visible things He has made, some religions give reverence and worship to the Creation itself--the Sun, the Moon, the mountains, the wind, the seasons etc. But the Bible tells us that we can worship and PERSONALLY know and have a living relationship with God HIMSELF, so therefore we do not need to "worship and serve the CREATION more than the CREATOR."--Romans 1: 25. He does not mind us admiring, marveling and wondering at the beauties, glories and miracles of His handiwork, His gorgeous Creation, but He doesn't want us to glorify or worship the THINGS that are MADE while neglecting their MAKER!

Another means by which millions try to attain spiritual enlightenment is through MEDITATION. Although the dedication of many sincere seekers who follow this path is admirable, those who place themselves in the trance-like state that is necessary for deep meditation should beware!--For although they may indeed FIND some of the supernatural spiritual powers they are seeking, they may also discover that while in the trance-like state of deep meditation they have opened themselves up to the unseen forces of the Spirit World.--And if they are not genuinely PROTECTED by the Spirit of the one TRUE God, they can easily be misled and fall prey to DECEIVING spirits and become demon-possessed!

TFI [Posted Video - Life without a Microchip Implant will be difficult]

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In Search of Truth Pt. 5

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. 1 John 4:1-5 KJV

IS THIS "GREAT SPIRIT OF LOVE" THE ONLY SPIRIT THAT EXISTS?

Although He is the one and only CREATOR, the one ALMIGHTY God, there are also many LESSER spiritual personalities and powers whom He has created.--In fact, there is an entire REALM, the SPIRIT WORLD, in which there are countless MILLIONS of spiritual inhabitants, who, though usually invisible to our mortal eyes, exist just the same. There are both GOOD spirits--Angels and the Heavenly spirits of those who once lived on Earth but have passed on to live with the Lord, as well as BAD spirits--demons or devils! But God alone is the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent ALMIGHTY Creator! All of these other spirits are lesser personalities who operate within the bounds which God Himself has established for them.

The GOOD spirits, the Angels of God, are busy loyally serving Him. The EVIL forces of the Spirit World, the devils and demons, are in REBELLION against God, and are followers of a powerful rebel angel known as Satan, or the Devil. He and his forces are an opposing force who are in constant spiritual WARFARE with the good forces of God. Instead of trying to love and help Mankind and draw us CLOSER to God--like the Angels do--these demons are constantly seeking to deceive, conquer and destroy Man, trying to influence and sway him to rebel AGAINST God! It is the Devil and his forces who are largely responsible for much of the chaos, confusion, cruelty, carnage, and destruction that we see in today's troubled World!

One of the main preoccupations of the Devil's evil spiritual forces is to try to hinder and prevent Man from finding and entering into God's eternal Kingdom of Love, Light and Salvation. The Bible says Satan is "the god of THIS World, who BLINDS the eyes of those who do not believe in God, to prevent the light of the Truth of God from shining unto them."--2 Corinthians 4:3,4.

So it is vitally important for you, as a sincere seeker of Truth, to be very careful and discerning in your search for the realities of the Spirit World, lest you be hindered or deceived by the Devil or one of his lying spirits!

WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER GODS OF THE WORLD'S GREAT RELIGIONS?

As mentioned earlier, some of the "gods" that many people have been taught to worship today were actually MEN, the FOUNDERS of their particular religions. Although these men never professed to be divine, after they died and several generations of believers passed, the respect and veneration their followers gave them grew, until they ultimately began to be looked upon and worshiped as GODS!--A development which these founders never desired or intended!

In other religions, such as the World's great PANTHEISTIC religions in which a large number of different gods are worshiped, it is quite possible that some of the epics and legends concerning these deities were originally based on actual events and battles that took place in the Spiritual Plane--could very well have originated with genuine spiritual personalities and past struggles within the Unseen Realm.

TFI [Posted Video - "Scripture End Time Lights"]

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Something from Nothing

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What Comes Next

That Winning Feeling

Getting Up and Going On

In Search of Truth - Final

A Discussion about Infidelity

The Message of the Crucifixion Pt. 1

In Search of Truth Pt. 7

Obama Takes Total Control of Internet

In Search of Truth Pt. 6

In Search of Truth Pt. 5

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