TOWARDS THE END
A Tropical Storm has hit the Philippines and one month of rain
fell in 6 hours. The flooding and destruction is enormous.
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Venezuela summit - South is going South - Latin America looking
to hook arms with Africa.
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Gadhafi - the mad man is on the world stage again. Was at the UN
and now wants to drop down into Canada before he heads home.
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Iran has 2nd nuclear tech. plant hidden in the hills. Supposedly
for electric power making, but can be used to tip the "A" bomb in
missile rockets. The Jewish homeland of Israel are very
concerned. I guess they would be, with Iran having a leader that
would like to obliterate the Jewish homeland of the face of the
earth.
Iran has also sent up another rocket. Flexing its muscles and warning
to others. What a desolate wilderness is much of Iran, from that rocket,
well the plane I guess that took the sight of the rocket.
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Embryos - in IBF planting - creating human life in a dish and
then into a woman's womb. The big company that does this, has
admitted that mistakes were made, possibly in about 100 cases, so
the wrong parents got the wrong child. The company has publically
said it is most sorry for human error. DNA will be done to prove
which child belongs to which parents.
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HOSEA'S WARNING
by Brooks Alden
Have you ever heard that expression, "It will come back to
haunt you? I'm sure all of us realize that there is invariably a
payback for our transgressions, whether that payback is a
financial reversal, a loss of health, of career, a family setback
or what have you. The Bible refers to it as "reaping what we
sow". Perhaps the chastisement will not appear the same day, or
even the same year, but it will come surely as summer follows
spring. And it seems that the greater student of Scripture one
becomes, the quicker the chastisement follows the transgression.
Yet, so it is with the western Israel nations. Chastisement is
the penalty for travelling the wrong path. We should know better
because the Bible tells us so, in so many different places. Let's
look at just one example. Around 780 BC, the northern House of
Israel was warned through the prophet Hosea that their wicked
behaviour would not be tolerated by God Almighty. I believe this
holds true for the Israel nations today, that that prophecy is
being fulfilled before our very eyes. Of course, most today will
dismiss such a notion and will hold to the dogma that it was
fulfilled long ago, end of story. Still, I don't believe the
story was inserted into the Bible by God to serve only as a
history lesson. I believe what was prophesied for the northern
House of Israel at that time is prophesied for True Israel today,
particularly the Anglo-Saxon nations. If you review Hosea 4, you
can easily compare True Israel today to the nation in Hosea's
time.
Through Hosea, God began by addressing the children of
Israel, "For the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of
the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of
God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and
stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood
toucheth blood." This is a sad description of what is going on in
our Israel nations today.
Think of this! The people at large have been unfaithful to
the Lord, have not kept His Covenant, violence rules the land and
killings are everyday events, including the millions of aborted
babies. We have reached the point of which the prophet Ezekiel
wrote, "the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full
of violence." (7:23)
In no uncertain terms, God made it clear that the people are
no better than their priests who, because they would not hold
fast to the truth, they would stumble about, as in darkness, that
is, they will not be able to see the truth. Our theologians
today are stumbling; very few indeed really understand God's
Word and are preaching false doctrine, based on what is generally
perceived as right, a new reality of doctrine that doesn't
offend. This includes a growing new definition of Jesus Christ,
fashioned to blend with other religions and it is shocking how
those who claim to be Christian so easily adopt this new reality.
It is, as Jeremiah 5:31 tells us, "The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to
have it so ...." "And my people love to have it so!" Why wouldn't
they, they believe what is being taught, that the Law has been
done away with. Besides, there is no jeopardy in the mostly
milk-toast sermons and those who attend conventional churches can
always get a little "rock band" or other type entertainment, and
not come away with any real thought of God's chastisement. And
so, as Hosea 4: 6 so clearly states, "My people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge." Anyone who doubts this has only to look at
the decline of greatness and the wealth of the western nations
over the past fifty years. Our nations simply do not know God
anymore and the internal rot has resulted in the rejection of His
Ways. Today our leaders make frequent pilgrimages to other
powerful non-Christian nations, our hands wide open begging and
our pride bringing us down even further.
And what is God saying! He makes it clear in Hosea 4:6,
"because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten
the law of the God, I will also forget thy children". Reading the
balance of chapter 4 and then onto chapter five, it is a
frightening reminder of what going "a whoring" did to Hosea. 5:15
makes God's intention very clear, "I will go and return to my
place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in
their affliction they will seek me early." This passage is
powerful, for it is a double witness to 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my
people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and
pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will
heal their land."
Still, God has good news for us. Obviously something is
going to take place to wake us up, maybe it is some huge calamity
that will get us to our knees. Perhaps a calamity so great that
the curses of Deuteronomy 28 will come clear to us and we will no
longer be able to bear them. A calamity so great that the
prophecy of Ezekiel 34:27 will come to pass, "......and they
shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord,
when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them
out of the hand of those that served themselves of them."
A simple formula, "turn back to God and He will save us." It
will happen just as Hosea 6:1-2 prophesies, as we proclaim,
"Come, and let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he
will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up. After two
days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and
we shall live in his sight." ........
The calamity that is coming that will drive our nation to its
knees should not be looked upon in fear. It is like the woman in
travail, the pain and discomfort will quickly give way to great
joy. We will then know the full impact of that part of the Lord's
Prayer, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done, on earth as in
heaven.
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I would have to disagree with Brooks on "not fearing." Though it
will be for a moment, it is a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the Eternal God (so it is written in the New Testament).
The prophets of old declare our peoples of the Western world,
will go into war and captivity by our lovers, the end time
Babylon/Roman Empire now rising in the united Europe. Ruled or
guided by a "woman" false church of the Babylon Mysteries, this
Holy Roman empire will finally one day, strike at us and our
nations will face a one third death from war, a one third death
from pestilence, and the remaining one third taken as slaves,
scattered into the wind. By the time 2 years of the last 3 and
1/2 years of this age is over, our nations of Israel will have
only 1/10 of its population left alive. But indeed there is hope
and there is deliverance. During the last 1 year - the time of
the "day of the Lord" or "day of God's wrath" - He will start to
revive us. Many, if not most, will see the true way of salvation,
they will find their true God once more. They will cry, they will
weep, they will bow their heads, in shame and sorrow. They will
realize the falseness of their old path to destruction. They will
REPENT in dust and ashes. They will SEEK their Lord and King.
They will cry out to Him, and He will answer them with love, with
mercy, with grace, with DELIVERANCE FROM THE YOKE of their enemy
lovers. And when He does return, when the last trumpet will
sound, and He comes with the power and MIGHT of the heavenly
host, to battle and win against the powers of evil and darkness,
He will bring His people, the children of Israel and Judah from
the far ends of the earth. They will come as to make the old
Exodus from Egypt be as nothing in comparison. It will be the
time of the restitution of all things; Israel and Judah will be
restored, they will be ONE people again, living in the Promised
Land, living under their Lord and King, Christ Jesus. It will
indeed be the time of the Kingdom of God on earth. The world will
be AT ONE with its creator. Satan will be chained up. Deceptions
will be cast into the deep blackness of the sea. Light and
righteousness and the laws and word of God will go forth from
Zion, from Jerusalem. The feasts of Trumpets, Atonement,
Tabernacles, will be the reality fulfilled.
What a BLESSED day that will be! What JOY! What PRAISE! What
GLORY! What LIGHT! What SALVATION! What TRUTH!
WE LONG FOR IT TO COME O LORD!!
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