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“If all over the world the woman is allowed freedom to grow to her potential, there will be many, many women enlightened; many, many women mystics, poets, painters. And they will enhance not only the woman’s part of the world – because the world is one – they will enhance the whole world. They will give man also new dimensions because their ways of seeing things are different. Man looks at things in one way; the woman looks from a different perspective. Life will become richer.

“It is for the betterment of both man and woman that the woman should be given every freedom and equal opportunity for her individuality. Then there will be a sense of humor. And the woman can laugh more gracefully than man, she has every potential for it – but it is repressed, condemned, criticized. She has lived a life of such misery that you cannot hope that she will show some sense of humor.

“But the day is not far away…then the whole earth will be full of laughter. Instead of talks about war, instead of politicians giving speeches all around the world, instead of the sermons of stupid priests who know nothing, it will be far better that every man and every woman is able to see the hilarious side of life and to enjoy it.”

There are those who feel and think we're heading for WWIII, with all the terror that is going on in AND around the world. But Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior so warns us in Mark Chapter 10, and throughout His words that, this is not the end... but these are SIGNS we should be watchful of, prayerful about, and pay attention to, and to make sure our souls are ready for when the end of time does come suddenly upon us unexpectedly, that our heart are in right standing before A HOLY GOD WHO WILL RIGHTEOUSLY JUDGE US...

It is said, that "ISIS is accomplishing its goal in its ability to create immense levels of fear and confusion, prejudices, paranoiacs and paralysis for many people and nations."

There are also those who are unrealistically calling out for "solutions and asking what shall we do", and saying foolish things like, "let's kill all the terrorists and Muslims, and this will bring terrorism to an end." How absurd can this be? Firstly, how can you kill the enemy when you can't see or find the enemy, and you know not where or who the enemy is among us or how or when he/she will attack? Secondly, what is going on is not about US although, it involves US as a people. When one body of people are hurting, the whole body of people in the world are hurting, because it effects us as a people, it doesn't matter your race creed or color, or religious faith or influences. This is just how God designed and created us to be connected with one another in spirit, just as we are connected together as a people with Him in one spirit and in one body.

What is happening in the world around us with terrorists is a spiritual happening, that will only end with spiritual warfare, not military warfare, or a people warfare... ITS A GOD VS. SATAN WARFARE! written in Bible Prophecy predestined to take place... satan has assigned devils and demons to certain areas across the land and regions in the world to rob, steal, kill, and destroy GOD'S CREATIONS OF MANKIND. ITS A POWER STRUGLE BETWEEN GOD AND satan. As Christian believers in Jesus Christ and the written word of God, many of know these things, and this is why those of us who are strong in our faith are not up in arms about what to do or how to end all this that is going on, because we already know God has His time to end this mess before the coming Day of the Lord. Therefore, we must suffer loss at the hand of satan and his troops (ISIS, others terrorist), but great is our reward.

Therefore, Be informed that WWIII, is NOT in the near future no matter what ISIS or Russia or any terrorist groups or nation does or does not do, UNTIL GOD HIMSELF has so decreed it to be so... WWII,IS THE END TIME as we will know this time on earth will come to an end, because it will INDEED involve Israel as God has so already decreed in prophecy before the foundation of the world, before any of us were born... QUESTION IS, ARE YOU READY? because THIS WILL BE THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO SET UP HIS KINGDOM THAT IS TO COME AND NO ONE WILL HAVE TIME TO GET READY AFTER THE FACT!!.

What Role Will Islam Play in End-Times Prophecy?
by John Claeys
Terrorism was introduced to the United States via radical, fundamental Islamists (Muslims) on 9/11. Since then, Muslims have planned and carried out a vast number of international terrorist bombings and attempted attacks.

With about 1.5 billion in population, Muslims are found in virtually every sphere of the world and comprise 22% of the world's populace. So, not surprising is the fact that Islam is the second-fastest growing religion in the world.

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....is it ISIS don't head for Israel ?.. ..I mean they are the true ememies of the Middle East..right ?

by Curtis Peter van Gorder January 2012

A city where I used to live is dotted with deserted public telephone booths. Obsolete and derelict, they stand silent and empty, eerie reminders of their former usefulness, now simply taking up sidewalk space, useless to all but a few spiders that are ever quick to spin their webs in out-of-the-way corners. Ten or twenty years ago, these booths were a vital means of communication. Long replaced by cell phones that are more convenient and capable, these relics are no longer worth the trouble, either to keep up or to tear down.

Those old phone booths strike a sad chord in me. They remind me of people who are stuck in the past because they couldn’t or wouldn’t adapt to the new. Any of us can become like that. If we focus on the past instead of the present and future, we will get out of touch with the world around us and be left behind. The world is ever changing, and we need to be ready to change with it, to learn new skills and continually strive to make progress. That is true of both our physical and our spiritual lives.

The past year was full of learning experiences for me. I moved from the Middle East to India and started a new job. That was certainly challenging. Change is often downright difficult, but I’ve found that it usually works out for my good. I’ve needed to adapt to my new location and situation, and I’ve acquired some new skills in the process.

Human nature seems to want things to remain static, but the ways we did things yesterday are often no longer the best approach to the needs of today. Regardless of whether or not we change with the times, what was cutting edge yesterday often doesn’t cut it today. Take a look at the rapidly changing world of computerized gadgetry to see what I mean. I recently looked through back issues of a popular electronics magazine and couldn’t help but chuckle at the products that were being hailed as “innovative” in their day, but are outdated now.

As the saying goes, “Time and tide wait for no man.” We had better move with the times.
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Your potential lies ahead of you—whether you’re 8, 18, 48, or 80. You still have room to improve yourself. You can become better tomorrow than you are today.—John C. Maxwell



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Emmanuel means "God with us"! Matthew 1:23 KJB

A compilation DECEMBER 4, 2014

What is Christmas? The answer may just surprise you.

For many, Christmas is the time to think of Jesus Christ as a baby in a manger. While the birth of Christ is a special and miraculous event, it isn’t the primary focus. The central truth of the Christmas story is this: the Child of Christmas is God.

Christmas is not about the Savior’s infancy; it is about His deity. The humble birth of Jesus Christ was never intended to conceal the reality that God was being born into the world. (John 1:1-4)

But the modern world’s version of Christmas does just that. And consequently for the greater part of humanity, Christmas has no legitimate meaning at all.

I don’t suppose anyone can ever fathom what it means for God to be born in a manger. How does one explain the Almighty stooping to become a tiny infant? Our minds cannot begin to understand what was involved in God’s becoming man.

Nor can anyone explain how God could become a baby. Yet He did. Without forsaking His divine nature or diminishing His deity, He was born into our world as a tiny infant.

He was fully human, with all the needs and emotions that are common to us all. Yet He was also fully God—all-wise and all-powerful. (Colossians 2:9)

For nearly 2,000 years, debate has been raging about who Jesus really is. Cults and skeptics have offered various explanations. They’ll say He is one of many gods, a created being, a high angel, a good teacher, a prophet, and so on. The common thread of all such theories is that they make Jesus less than God. But the biblical evidence is overwhelming that this child in the manger was the incarnation of God.

One passage in particular, written by the apostle Paul, captures the essence of Jesus’ divine nature and underscores the truths that make Christmas truly wonderful.

Colossians 1:15–20 says, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For … all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross.”—By John MacArthur

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It was therefore necessary for Jesus, who is the second person of the Trinity, to become incarnate, to take on full humanity, to be both fully God and fully man, to make salvation possible. (1 Corinthians 15:20–22)

Often people focus on the deity of Jesus and push His humanity into the background. But while Jesus was God living on earth in human flesh, He was just as human as you and me. He had the same physical needs and weaknesses that we have. He had the same physical and mental limitations. He had the same emotions. He was tempted to sin and had internal spiritual suffering, just as we do. He was a man, and He was born, lived, and died just like any man. He had human nature, meaning both a material body and a rational soul, or mind.—Peter Amsterdam

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The true meaning of Christmas is love. God loved His own and provided a way—the only Way—for us to spend eternity with Him. He gave His only Son to take our punishment for our sins. He paid the price in full, and we are free from condemnation when we accept that free gift of love. “But God demonstrated His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8




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As the boys grew up Esua(the birth of the Caucasian nation ) was his dads favorite.... Jacob (the birth of the Hebrew nation ) was a mommas boy.....Esua was out hunting was hungry afterwards and this shall forever change history....Genesis chapter 25v30-34.....And Esau said to Jacob Feed me, i pray thee with that same red pottage for i am faint;therefore was his name called Edom;And Jocob said ,sell me this day thy birthright,And Esua said behold im at the point to die ;and what profit shall this birthright do to me?and Jacob said, swear to me this day;and he sware unto him;and he sold his birthrights to Jacob.Then Jacob (father of the Hebrew nation )gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus Esau despised his birthrights ...during Issacs last says he was blind so he called Esua told him to prepare a meal and he would give him his blessing....Their mother was listening dressed Jacob as Esau prepared a meal and Jacob stole Esau s blessings as well.....which is why the edomite jews say their the real Hebrews.....which is why the level of brutality (during slavery ) never seen before in the history of mankind.......this was a war between two nations that were fighting inside their mother's womb....so yes it doesn't get more personal

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Matthew chapter 24 is quite clear on the subject of Jesus’ Second Coming, when He is going to return to gather all those who have received Him as their Savior and take them with Him back to Heaven--an event commonly referred to as “the Rapture.” The rest of the Bible is also clear on when this happens. That’s why for nearly 1,800 years practically every Christian believed Jesus would come back after the period He refers to as “Great Tribulation”--three and a half years of intense persecution.

It’s only in the last couple of hundred years that people like C.I. Scofield (1843-1921) came along with the false doctrine that Jesus would come before the Tribulation. “Don’t worry, Jesus is going to come and take you out of this world before the trouble comes, so you won’t have to suffer.” Naturally that became a very popular doctrine because it was just what everybody had been waiting to hear. (2 Peter 1:20)

In Matthew 24, Jesus’ disciples ask Him what will be the sign of His return, and Jesus answers with not one but a number of signs--wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, persecution of Christians, a proliferation of false prophets, lawlessness, a pervading lack of love, and the Gospel being preached in every nation. “Then,” He says, “the end will come” (Matthew 24:4-14).

Beginning with the next verse, Jesus tells us what we can expect during the Great Tribulation--the last three and a half years leading up to His return, which is also the last half of the Antichrist’s reign. “When you see the ’abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place... then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:15,21). We find out in the book of Revelation that this “abomination of desolation” is an image of the Antichrist, or Beast (Revelation 13:14-15). Both Daniel and Revelation tell us that this image will be set up in the holy place at exactly the middle of the Antichrist’s seven-year reign (Daniel 9:27; 12:11; Matthew 24:15-21; Revelation 13:5).

When does Jesus come back for us?--That’s also plain as day: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days” Jesus returns (Matthew 24:29). Jesus doesn’t say that when we see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place He’s about to rescue us out of this world, away from the Antichrist and the trouble to come. He warns us to head for the hills (Matthew 24:16 Daniel 7:25; 12:11; Revelation 13:5).

Some people who teach a pre-Tribulation Rapture go so far as to say that it’s going to be a secret Rapture--that nobody is going to see Him except the saved. Nobody else is even going to know He came. All of a sudden a bunch of us are just going to disappear, and those who are left behind won’t know what’s happened to us.

If the Rapture is supposed to be a secret, why will the Lord make so much noise and put on such a show when He comes? His Word tells us that He’s going to “come in the clouds with great power and glory.” In fact, it says that “every eye shall see Him.” They’ll hear Jesus, too, because He’ll “descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and a great sound of the trump of God.” And why are all of the unsaved going to mourn?--Because they’re going to see and know what’s happening (Matthew 24:27,30; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 1:7). It will be the greatest spectacle the world has ever seen.

And there it is again, plain as day: After the dead rise to meet the Lord, “then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). If we got raptured before, then what are we doing still here?

Continued in “Left Behind?: Part 2”


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We believe that God’s Law of Love as explained in Matthew 22:35–40 should govern every aspect of a Christian’s life and interactions with others. An expert in the Mosaic Law tested Jesus with this question: “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” We therefore believe that a Christian’s actions should be motivated by unselfish, sacrificial love—the love of God for our fellow man.

God’s Law of Love is the ultimate fulfillment of Biblical law, including the Ten Commandments, as it fulfills the intent of such laws. “All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Galatians 5:14). We therefore believe that through Christ’s salvation and His Law of Love, Christians are released from the Mosaic laws in the Old Testament and are no longer required to observe them. Instead, they are held to a higher law—Christ’s Law of Love, which should guide all their interactions with others.

Romans 13:8–10 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

Galatians 3:23–25 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Matthew 5:38–46 You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away. You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?


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Prayer is the link to communicating with, and to God. This is the confidence that we have knowing that, when we make our prayer request (s) known to Him according to His will, His plans, and His purpose'for our lives... He hears us, and His peace will rest upon our hearts and in our minds through Christ Jesus.

Father God, grant me Your peace and'grace to accept the things I cannot'change; Give me courage, strength, and Your wisdom to change those things I can change; Bless me with Your spiritual knowledge and understanding, and self-contentment to know the difference between THE things I can change and those things I cannot change. In THE mighty name of Jesus THE Christ, AMEN!

People need to pray always without ceasing.

John 8:21-30

21 So He said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

22 So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

He said to them, 23 “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

25 So they said to Him, “Who are you?”

Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from Him.”

27 They did not understand that He had been speaking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. 29 And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”

30 As He was saying these things, many believed in Him.

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