Okay, I know that Hezbollah is drilling troops just north of the Israel border in Lebanon, (in violation of resolutions and treaties and all civil behavior,) and I know that Iran released a video targeted to Muslims vowing to destroy Israel in the immediate future. I realize that there is civil war bubbling up in Syria to Israel’s north eastern border, AND I know that the Jezreel Valley or Plains of Megiddo are in North Israel, sandwiched between Hezbollah’s drilling troops, Syria’s brewing war, and in easy reach of the devastating weapons Iran has. (By the way, for those of you who don’t speak Greek and don’t know that the Jezreel Valley and the plains of Megiddo are two names for the same fertile region in Israel, you might be interested to know that the Greek translation is “Armageddon”.) (Did you know Armageddon is a real place? It is.)
I’m also interested in Obama’s “coalition” where he brings US troops into the fray and then refuses to lead them. He calls on various other groups of “Kings of the earth” to do this. Couple this with the fact that the Iranian video released yesterday vows to “continue to stir up war against Israel in all the Arab nations as fulfillment of Muslim prophecy that before the advent of the Messiah, Israel will be destroyed.” (It’s almost the same in Hebrew and Christian prophecy except that the Messiah saves Israel at the last moment.) (See it with subtitles on drudgereport.com if you don’t speak Farsi, the language of Ahmadinejad.)
Lets see. Jesus warned us in the New Testament (Matthew 24) that right before his coming there would be: wars and rumors of wars (check) famines (check) pestilences (check) earthquakes in divers places (check) false prophets (check) iniquity abounding (check) love of many shall wax cold (check) (I heard on the radio this morning of a woman here who killed her husband and then cooked him. The radio announcers were joking about it.) The gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world (check, with the Internet, is there a place where there is no access to the Gospel of Christ?)
Anyway, yall get the point. Prophecies dating back thousands of years are being fulfilled all around us.
But life feels pretty normal doesn’t it? How many of my dear readers assume that when things get bad, the federal govt or the Red Cross will rescue us?
The thing I’m wondering today is how do you legislate food? If Congress makes a law that says stores have to give away their wares to the hungry whether they have money or not, does that mean that Walmart will suddenly be feeding the nation?
I have some important information. You might want to share this with others. Food doesn’t come from Walmart. Food doesn’t even come from trucks. Food doesn’t come from factories.(No, Honey! Food does NOT come from McDonalds!) Food comes from the earth. It has to grow in the earth. All food on the pyramid needs water and light to grow. Did I mention that the wheat crop in OK will begin to be plowed under if we don’t get rain within a few days? Lots of rain, but not too much rain. Of course the hay crop has also failed so ranchers are deciding whether to slaughter beef while the price is still strong or change to another form of feed. They have to guess right, or the cost of food, transportation, packaging and selling will leave no profit for the farmer. If a farmer can’t profit from the killing of an animal (or the harvest of any substandard crop) no matter how badly they want to, they can’t harvest. And the Lord didn’t promise us rain, he promised us famine.
I really hate to be hungry. . .I think it’s wise to store non-perishable food. For those of you to whom this idea is novel, human’s can maintain relative good health eating a diet of grain, milk (I recommend powdered, since the other gets really nasty PDQ) salt, and a source of sugar. (It really doesn’t matter what form the sugar takes, it’s for energy and palatability). Dry beans store well and are highly nutritious and the same is true of lentils and dry split peas. Dry potatoes are good for that too.
Whether you are Christian or Jew, read the last of the old Hebrew prophets, Malachi (last in the old testament for those of you who don’t speak “Bible”) before you dismiss this information with a chuckle. Consider that Isaiah, Daniel, Malachi and Jesus Christ Himself all described our day in detail. Scoffers have ever been with us. Don’t be one of them.
I’m also interested in Obama’s “coalition” where he brings US troops into the fray and then refuses to lead them. He calls on various other groups of “Kings of the earth” to do this. Couple this with the fact that the Iranian video released yesterday vows to “continue to stir up war against Israel in all the Arab nations as fulfillment of Muslim prophecy that before the advent of the Messiah, Israel will be destroyed.” (It’s almost the same in Hebrew and Christian prophecy except that the Messiah saves Israel at the last moment.) (See it with subtitles on drudgereport.com if you don’t speak Farsi, the language of Ahmadinejad.)
Lets see. Jesus warned us in the New Testament (Matthew 24) that right before his coming there would be: wars and rumors of wars (check) famines (check) pestilences (check) earthquakes in divers places (check) false prophets (check) iniquity abounding (check) love of many shall wax cold (check) (I heard on the radio this morning of a woman here who killed her husband and then cooked him. The radio announcers were joking about it.) The gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world (check, with the Internet, is there a place where there is no access to the Gospel of Christ?)
Anyway, yall get the point. Prophecies dating back thousands of years are being fulfilled all around us.
But life feels pretty normal doesn’t it? How many of my dear readers assume that when things get bad, the federal govt or the Red Cross will rescue us?
The thing I’m wondering today is how do you legislate food? If Congress makes a law that says stores have to give away their wares to the hungry whether they have money or not, does that mean that Walmart will suddenly be feeding the nation?
I have some important information. You might want to share this with others. Food doesn’t come from Walmart. Food doesn’t even come from trucks. Food doesn’t come from factories.(No, Honey! Food does NOT come from McDonalds!) Food comes from the earth. It has to grow in the earth. All food on the pyramid needs water and light to grow. Did I mention that the wheat crop in OK will begin to be plowed under if we don’t get rain within a few days? Lots of rain, but not too much rain. Of course the hay crop has also failed so ranchers are deciding whether to slaughter beef while the price is still strong or change to another form of feed. They have to guess right, or the cost of food, transportation, packaging and selling will leave no profit for the farmer. If a farmer can’t profit from the killing of an animal (or the harvest of any substandard crop) no matter how badly they want to, they can’t harvest. And the Lord didn’t promise us rain, he promised us famine.
I really hate to be hungry. . .I think it’s wise to store non-perishable food. For those of you to whom this idea is novel, human’s can maintain relative good health eating a diet of grain, milk (I recommend powdered, since the other gets really nasty PDQ) salt, and a source of sugar. (It really doesn’t matter what form the sugar takes, it’s for energy and palatability). Dry beans store well and are highly nutritious and the same is true of lentils and dry split peas. Dry potatoes are good for that too.
Whether you are Christian or Jew, read the last of the old Hebrew prophets, Malachi (last in the old testament for those of you who don’t speak “Bible”) before you dismiss this information with a chuckle. Consider that Isaiah, Daniel, Malachi and Jesus Christ Himself all described our day in detail. Scoffers have ever been with us. Don’t be one of them.
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I have felt very much the same way for quite some time. It is obviously getting closer. There are still some things that have to happen before the second coming, but it wouldn't take long to for them to happen.
There are very few that have not been fulfilled if we understand Isaiah's symbolic language and discard those that have developed outside the cannon of scripture. Two prophets preaching in Jerusalem for 1000 days (from Revelations) and the hailstorm the size of a talent (about 78 pounds)are two obvious ones that, as far as I know have not been fulfilled. Any others that you can think of?
just got back from Macey's caselot sale… 🙂
Thought-provoking. By the way, I love the way you write, Beth — it's just like you speak. Straight-forward and to the point.
Thanks for the compliment Lezlie. And Marseille, you dear girl, I'm so GLAD that you went to the caselot sale. For the uninitiated, that's where Macey's grocery store sells cases of foods for VERY low prices. Wise folks buy enough of items they use, (not just items to store for a rainy day)to last a year while they are at their very lowest prices.
The rebuilding of the Temple in Jeruselum where the Dome of the Rock now stands. An interesting and well researched/documented book is "The Coming of the Lord" by Gerald N. Lund published by Bookcraft. Not sure if it is still in print. Our copy was a 17th printing in 1982.
I limit my comments to canon. If you follow the footnotes in most non-canon works that direct you to scripture, you'll see that many prophecies have been fulfilled in ways they never thought of. The problem with books like Lunds that seem "well researched and documented" is that they are quoting non-canon sources. The scriptures they quote don't say what they imply they say with the footnote. This particular reference (in Lund's book) you'll recognize as the "Olympic scripture." If someone has a definitive scripture, I'd love to be corrected!
what I was looking for, thanks