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As the Day of the Lord (the coming "Apocalypse") draws near ... what does God expect of us?

   "But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,       (Prophecies of the coming 'Apocalypse' and Armageddon)

     in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,

     and the elements will melt with fervent heat;

     both the Earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.  

     Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,

     what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,  

     looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of God,

     because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire,

     and the elements will melt with fervent heat?  

     Nevertheless we, according to His promise,

     look for new heavens and a new Earth

     in which righteousness dwells.  

     Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things,

     be diligent to be found by Him in peace,

     without spot, and blameless"

     (2 Peter 3:10-14)     (Prophecies:  The coming "Rapture"... Jew and Gentile ... please don't be "left behind")       (God's Promise ...)

From Israel:  A Prayer For 5771 ... America and Israel Should Draw Strength From The Past and The Future

--Jerusalem Post/Caroline Glick    (Israel back as a nation in 1948:   A remarkable mathematical Bible prophecy)    (Prophecies of Messiah's Return ...) 

Iran Crosses Critical Line For Arming Nuclear Missiles ... Iran To Sign Defense Treaty During Lebanon Visit

--Debkafile       (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war)       (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will go to war ... and  will attack and invade Israel)    The time draws near ... the Bible warns Iran (Persia), with Russia ('Magog'), and a coalition of allies (including Turkey and Sudan) will attack and will invade Israel.  In Ezekiel 38-39 the Bible warns this coming war between Iran (Persia) and Israel will take place sometime after Israel has been re-gathered into Her land as a nation (which was fulfilled on May 14, 1948) ... this prophetic war has never yet taken place ... the only time in history Persia (Iran) has ever gone to war against Israel was to help Israel throw off the yoke of the Byzantine Empire around 614 AD.  The Bible warns the US will NOT defend Israel.  According to the Bible, Israel must stand alone ... with God.  For when this coming war does finally start, the United States (for reasons yet unknown) will be unable or unwilling to help Israel defend herself.  Although the Bible warns the invading armies will be ultimately destroyed by God, it will be a devastating war for both Israel and the whole world.  Bible scholars are divided as to whether this coming war is part of the prophetic battle of Armageddon or will just precede the battle of Armageddon in order to prepare the path for the coming Antichrist (a coming 'world leader' who will enforce a 'peace plan' upon Israel).  All people of the world should be sitting on the edge of their seats with white knuckles watching this terrible prophecy slowly start to unfold ... while those who call themselves Christians (followers ... both Jew and Gentile ... of Jesus (Yeshua), the promised Messiah) are told to "examine" themselves in the Word and in faith to insure they are not just 'almost' Christians (Matthew 7:21-23) who are "lukewarm" in their faith in Jesus (Yeshua) and God's Word (Revelation 3:14-16) ... for Jesus (Yeshua) the Messiah warns all to, "Watch, therefore, and pray always (not just sometimes), that you will be counted worthy (through His worthiness) to escape all these things (the terrible events of the coming 'Apocalypse') that will come to pass" ... (Luke 21:36) ... for the Bible promises believing Christians (faithful and sincere believers in Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach in Hebrew) who are alive at that time and have endured in their faith in God's Word are not "appointed" to this coming time of "God's wrath" that will be "poured out" upon the whole world ... (1 Thessalonians  1:10 ... 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11)

Israel and Russia Sign Defense Accord ...

--Middle-East Newsline   (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will attack and invade Israel ...)   (You either believe God's Word or you don't ...)

                                Putin Was/Is A High-Ranking Russian KGB Spy ... Whose Side Do YOU Think He Is On?

Iran Labs and Missiles Transferred To Nuclear Plant ... Where Russian Engineers Have Lived and Worked For 15 Years

--Debkafile       (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will attack and invade Israel ...) 

Russia OKs Advanced Cruise Missile Sale To Syria ...

--World Tribune        (Prophecies ... Damascus-SYRIA will be utterly destroyed)       (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will attack and invade Israel ...) 

Lebanon Becoming Iranian Colony ... Leader Bows Down To His Father's Assassins ... Silence From The West

--Jerusalem Post/Caroline Glick      (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will go to war ... and  will attack and invade Israel)

Israel's Best Soldier ... "A (Recent) Legend Whose Photo Cannot Be Published Even Posthumously"

--Ynet News  (Israel)       (Prophecies ... Israel and Jerusalem (and Gaza) AFTER becoming a nation in 1948) 

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We are told we must be "born again" to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven  . . .

   "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.  

     This man came to Jesus (Yeshua) by night and said to Him,

    "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God;

     for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."  

     Jesus answered and said to him,

    "Most assuredly, I say to you,

     UNLESS one is born again,

     he CANNOT see the Kingdom of God."  

     Nicodemus said to Him,

    "How can a man be born when he is old?

     Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"  

     Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you,

     unless one is born of water and the Spirit,  

     he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.  

     That which is born of the flesh is flesh,

     and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  

    "Do not marvel that I said to you,

    'You MUST be born again.'"      (Through faith in the Messiah of Israel ... Christ Jesus)

     (John 3:1-7)        (God's Promise ...) 

Hartford (Connecticut) City Council Meetings To Begin With Muslim Prayers ...

--Drudge/NBC Connecticut         ("Allah"... Archaeology and history show "Allah" was (and is) the ancient Babylonian-Arabian MOON god)   

The FIRST Commandment ...

   (Exodus 20:3)

Number Of US Citizens Falling Into Poverty Increasing In Record Numbers Under Obama and the Democrats ...

--Fox News    We are now being "represented" and led by those who promote Abortion, Homosexuality, and Dividing the Land of Israel ... three things the Bible warns God despises and will bring pain and distress upon those people and nations who practice (and approve) of such things ... and until we as a people and nation turn away (repent) from these things and turn back to God our troubles and judgment will continue to grow worse and worse.    (GOD'S  LAW:  Homosexuality and abortion)  

The Bible warns ...

     "WOE to those who call evil good,

       and good evil"

       (Isaiah 5:20)     ("Woe" is a terrible, terrible curse)  

Hollywood Showed Support For Islamic Terrorists At Gitmo By Wearing Orange Ribbons To 2008 Oscars ...

--World Tribune     (Bible prophecies describing 'The Generation of Armageddon' ... includes "Traitors")

Florida College Orders Police To Remove Several People Promoting Conservative Student Organization ...

--WND     (Prophecies ... The coming Antichrist)     (Democrat Party "brown-shirts" violently enforcing a "jack-boot" form of Soviet-Marxist-Socialism is not too far away ... believing Christians beware ... and believing Jews beware.)

U.S. (Obama and the Democrats) Backs $1 Billion Loan For Mexico To Drill For Oil In Gulf ...

--Fox News     Obama and the Democrat Party's scorn for America ... they are freely handing out money so foreign nations can create new jobs and prosper ... while laughing (and partying) at the White House as our unemployment lines grow longer and longer and longer.

Earlier:  U.S. (Obama's) $2 Billion Loan to Brazilian Oil Company (Petrobras) Riles Conservatives ...

--Fox News    (Brazil is now a Russia-Iran-China ally ....)    (Bible prophecies describing 'The Generation of Armageddon' ... includes "Traitors")

Earlier From Russia:  "BRIC" Alliance Unites Brazil, Russia, India, and China ... Prepares To Add South Africa

Russia and India To Colonize The Moon ... (Obama Has Cancelled Our Space Programs)

--Pravda  (Russia)       (Prophecies ... KNOWLEDGE AND TRAVEL will increase around "the time of the end")

Earlier:  Obama, George Soros, Petrobras, Brazil & Offshore Drilling Double Standards ...

--Michelle Malkin  

Florida Pastor Plans To Burn Islamic Koran (Quran) As Protest On 9-11 ...

--Drudge/WSJ   ("Outrage" is being expressed across our nation and world ... yet where was the "outrage" when Bibles were burned?  An effective demonstration would be to simply place a Bible and Koran side by side for study ... it quickly becomes evident which one is the Original and which one is the Fake.)

Earlier:  Islamics Burn Bibles and Destroy Crosses ...

--Drudge/AC News    (A Note on ISLAM'S violence ...)    (Not much media coverage or political "outrage" when this happened ...)

Obama Lashes Out Against Burning Koran ... UN Sec'y General and German Chancellor Join Chorus

--AFP  (France)     (Archaeology shows "Allah" was (and is) the ancient Babylonian-Arabian MOON god)      (Prophecies ... False Prophets would rise)

Earlier:  US Military Burns "Unsolicited" Bibles Sent To Afghanistan ...

--Drudge/CNN    (Prophecies ... The coming Antichrist)     (Who stood up for the Bible like they are now standing up for the Koran?)

Earlier:  US Military Confiscated And Destroyed US Soldier's Bibles In Afghanistan ... (But Don't Burn a Quran)

--WND/OneNewsNow         (Prophecies ... Believing Christians will be hated)        (Prophecies ... The coming Antichrist)

Christians Stabbed and Beaten In Indonesia ...

--Fox News    (A Note on ISLAM'S violence ...)  

Afghan Taliban Commander Killed By NATO and Afghan Forces ...

--Fox News          (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war)

Green Beret to Get Posthumous Medal of Honor ...

--Military.com          (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war)

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You CAN start over ...

   "Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah (Christ),

     he is a NEW creation;

     old things have passed away;

     behold, ALL things have become new.  

     Now all things are of God,

     who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach in Hebrew),

     and has given us (believing Christians ... followers of Messiah)

     the ministry of reconciliation,  

     that is, that God was IN Messiah (Christ)

     reconciling the world to Himself,

     NOT imputing their trespasses (sins) to them,

     and has committed to us (believing Christians ... followers of Messiah)

     the Word of reconciliation.  

     Now then, we are ambassadors for Messiah (Christ),

     as though God were PLEADING through us:

     we implore you on Messiah's (Christ's) behalf,

     be reconciled to God.  

     For He made Him (Messiah) who knew NO sin   ("as a Lamb without spot or blemish"...)

     to be sin FOR us,

     that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

     (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)    (God's Promise ...)        (Prophecies of Messiah from the ancient Jewish Scriptures ...)

Russia-China Military Alliance ("Security Grouping") May Counter NATO ...

--Russia News Agency     (Prophecies:  Russia and allies will attack and invade Israel)      (Prophecies:  China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind)

Earlier:  Russia Claims The Arctic ... Canada's Saber-Rattling and Russia’s Strategic Interests

Earlier:  China Claims Vast Amounts Of The Strategic Yellow Sea ... Plants Flag Using Submersible

U.S. Intelligence Warns China Is Using Front Companies To Acquire US Components For Iran ...

--World Tribune     (Prophecies:  China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind)     (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will attack and invade Israel)    

Russia's Most Powerful Warship Returns Home After Tour-Of-Duty ...

--Russia News Agency     (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will go to war ... and  will invade Israel)

Russian Mobile TOS-1 Destroys Enemy With Fire And Waves Of Pressure ... (Video)

--Russia News Agency    (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war)        (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will go to war ... and  will invade Israel)

Russia To Export 600 Of Their New Advanced "5th-Generation" Fighter Jets ...

--Pravda  (Russia)      (Prophecies:  Russia, Iran, and allies will go to war ... and  will attack and invade Israel)      (The Obama Administration cancelled our F-22 Raptor "5th Generation" fighter jet ... Obama and the Democrat Party's DEFENSE policies are based on Marxist-Socialist (Soviet) doctrines and strategies of weakening, crippling, and destroying America's military and national defense ... NOT strengthening it.  Simply step back and watch ... every Democrat Party (Marxist-Socialist ideology) defense policy now weakens our Military's ability to defend and protect us ... and strengthens Russia-Islam-China's ability to attack and destroy us.)

British Intelligence Reacts To Body Of Top-Secret Computer Expert Found Inside Locked Case In Apartment ...

--WND     (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) 

Libya's Gadhafi Says Islam Should Reign Over Europe ...

--WND      (Prophecies:  10 nations of the ancient Roman Empire will REUNITE and will rise in great power) 

Netanyahu Claims Nation of Israel Agrees to "Palestinian" State ...

--Israel Nat'l News     (Prophecies ... Israel and Jerusalem (and Gaza) AFTER becoming a nation in 1948)   (This would mean the leaders of Israel are now willing to surrender the land of Israel including most of land given to Judah (the Tribe of Messiah) and Hebron (where the Patriarchs including Abraham and Joseph are buried ... also which God gave to Caleb for his faithfulness with Joshua) and Bethlehem (where the prophets said Messiah would be born ... Micah 5:2).

     "When you SEE these things happening,

       know that it (the coming "Apocalypse") is NEAR  --  at the door!"

       (Mark 13:29)        (Prophecies: The coming "Apocalypse" and Armageddon)      (Prophecies:  The coming "Rapture"... please don't be "left behind")  

Note:  Many people today do not know whether or not they (or their loved ones) will go to Heaven.  Many have not been adequately (or honestly) taught what the Bible actually says and teaches ...

Many also don't realize God’s loving offer (see below) contains both a "BLESSING” and a "CURSE”. . .

   "For God so loved the world

     that He GAVE His only begotten Son,

     that whoever BELIEVES (trusts) in Him      (to trust in Jesus alone to save us from our sins and from Hell)

     should NOT perish (in Hell)

     but have everlasting life (in Heaven).

     For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,

     but that the world through Him might be saved (into Heaven).

     He who believes in Him is not condemned (to Hell ... the "second" death);

     but he who does NOT believe (in Jesus Christ)

     IS condemned (to Hell) ALREADY"     (The consequence of sin without Christ Jesus ... Yeshua Ha'Mashiach in Hebrew.)

     (John 3:16-18)   (Jesus greatly LOVED us to save us from Hell ... all God asks is we love Him for all He has done for us.)

   "For by GRACE you have been saved (from your sins and from Hell)

     through FAITH (in Jesus Christ),

     and that not of yourselves;

     it is the GIFT of God,   ("Grace" is getting something we don’t deserve…we can't earn this gift of life in Heaven)

     NOT of works,   (we cannot enter Heaven through any “good deeds” we have done ... or think we have done.)

     lest ANYONE should boast."   (We are told it’s a gift from God … we just have to thankfully (and lovingly) receive it.)

     (Ephesians 2:8)    

For the ASSURANCE of Life in Heaven (and of having ALL of your sin and guilt completely removed) . . . A.C.T. NOW!!! 

-  Acknowledge you are a sinner ... and have sinned against God's Law

-  Confess your sins to God

-  Trust (believe) completely in Jesus Christ  (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach in Hebrew) ...

     -  He (lovingly and willingly) died for all of your sins on the Cross ... and His innocent blood washes away ALL our sins

     -  He was buried ... 

     -  He was raised (Resurrected) from the dead the third day ... and now waits to see if you are "with" Him or "against" Him

-  Turn back to God ... and turn away from sinful activities ("repent") ... He will welcome you with tears of joy.

If you do these things … sincerely and in faith … the Bible promises you can have the complete assurance of eternal life in Heaven.  The Bible tells us Jesus (Yeshua) did all the work for you when He bore all of your sins and died on the Cross ... and was buried ... and was raised (resurrected) from the dead (as "firstfruits" of the coming Resurrection) through the awesome power of God.  The Bible says you can’t add anything to it!!!  When you believe and trust in (and love) Jesus Christ as your "Savior" (who lovingly saves you from your sins and from Hell) ... and then turn away from your sinful ways and turn back to God ("repent"), you can have the complete peace and assurance in your heart that when you die, you will enter into His Kingdom of Heaven ... forever and ever … it’s God’s Promise!!! 

The only thing God asks a NON-believer to do is to "believe"... Jesus (God) did ALL the work ... life in Heaven is OFFERED as a GIFT!!! 

Grace and Shalom