Bible Accuracy

Just how accurate is the Bible?

You have to realize that we are speaking about one of the largest books ever written, 66 separate books, all on various aspects and periods of history surrounding human existence in God's universe.

About 40 or so human authors received inspiration from God's Holy Spirit, writing in their own style and language.  These original manuscripts are guaranteed accurate by God.

Some of these original manuscripts have been lost over the ages (ie. human war, fires, sabotage by pagan unbelievers who wanted to hurt and destroy God's true believers, earthquakes, floods, etc.) have taken heir tolls over the centuries.  However, in these few cases of missing originals, we have many second and third copies of the original manuscript, which faithfully re-create and substitute for the original manuscript.

Archeological discoveries are still being made today, and there is hope that the original manuscripts are eventually found.  For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls, as old as 200 BC, were first discovered in 1947 (see here and here) scholars were astounded at how accurately the Bible of today compares with the Bible of 200 BC.  Similar validations occurred when the Nag Hammadi Scriptures dating as old as 250 AD were buried, then re-discovered in Egypt in 1945.

There are 2 major streams for the Holy Bible of today; one from Antioch, the other from Alexandria, Egypt.

Antioch was a Greek city founded around 300 BC on the eastern side of the Orontes River. Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.  Antioch is where followers of Jesus Christ were first called "Christians".

Ancient Alexandria was similar to San Francisco California USA in the 1970's; it had at least one person from every cult.  Here is a flowchart showing the derivation of the various translations of today's Bibles.

Based on my studies, I have concluded that King James version of the Bible is the best.

Subsequent translations and reprinting of the original manuscripts into other human languages and dialects (eg. English, French, Mandarin, etc.) are the work of mere humans, and are therefore still being perfected.

The original manuscripts used no punctuation, and Hebrew is written as strings of 2, 3, or 4 consonants without vowels, and often without spaces between words.  It needs context to achieve full comprehension.  Where variant concepts and ambiguity existed (or to help children and others who are learning Hebrew), Hebrew vowel markings (Niqqud) were sometimes used.

Today, we have something similar to ancient Hebrew with disemvoweling on SMS text messaging such as Twitter (eg. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" becomes "Th qck brwn fx jmps vr th lzy dg").  Context helps achieve accurate comprehension.

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End Times: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Ash Plumes

The Bible tells us that earthquakes, volcanoes, and maybe ash plumes will be an integral part of God's End Times process.  Look at what has happened recently, and consider the possible meaning.

The Bible tells us many times about the sun, moon, and stars that no longer give light to Earth:

Isaiah 13:10  
For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.


Job 9:7  
Who commands the sun not to shine, And sets a seal upon the stars;


Job 3:9  
"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;


Joel 2:10  
Before them the earth quakes, The heavens tremble, The sun and the moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.


Amos 8:9  
"It will come about in that day," declares the Lord GOD, "That I will make the sun go down at noon And make the earth dark in broad daylight.


Ecclesiastes 12:2  
before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain;


Ezekiel 32:7  
"And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.


Joel 3:15  
The sun and moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.


Matthew 24:29  
"But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


Mark 13:24  
"But in those days, after that tribulation, THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT,


Joel 2:31  
"The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood Before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.


Acts 2:20  
'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME.


Revelation 6:12  
I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;


Luke 23:45  
because the sun was obscured; and the veil of the temple was torn in two.


Ezekiel 32:8  
"All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land," Declares the Lord GOD.


Luke 21:25  
"There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

One of the ways of achieving this darkening are supernova that extinguish most or all of a sun's light over many years or decades.  Another quicker way are huge dust or moisture clouds that are so thick, they block out all of the heavens.  Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Nepture have such cloud cover today.

Volcanic eruption is one way to suddenly create such heavy, thick clouds from volcanic ash plumes.  Volcanoes can also put huge amounts of Sulphur (brimstone), Sulphur dioxide, and similar noxious fumes into the atmosphere.   The Bible also mentions sulphur and brimstone.

Therefore I conclude that earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and ash plumes are an integral part of God's End Time process.

In God's End Time Effects on our Solar System?, I mentioned that the number of Dutchsince has been studying and reporting on the prediction of earthquakes on a world-wide basis for the past 8 years.  

earthquakes are up 400% since 1973, and from 1875 - 1975 volcano activity have increased 500%.  More recently the Ring Of Fire (a volcanic active zone around he Pacific Ocean), To dive a little deeper,I downloaded the US Geological Survey's COMCAT worldwide earthquake database for M6 quakes (ie. M6.00 - 6.99).  Here is the info plotted from 1905 till present.

A major anomaly starting June 1949 can be seen, where M6 activity suddenly jumped up to more than double the previous frequency level.  It is unknown if this is a change in reporting methods, measuring methods, or if it's a real change in the Earth's quake frequency.

Here is Dutchsince's latest discussions on Earth's current earthquake activity.


The energy from an earthquake of today travels along the tectonic plate edges and fissures (usual flow directions shown in red arrows on the surface of the Earth) to create subsequent earthquakes downstream within a few hours to 10 days later.  New earthquakes are white concentric circles, and older quakes go pink then red.  The higher the concentric circles appear above the surface of the Earth, the deeper the quake occurred within Earth's mantle.  Due to standing waves traveling along the Earth's crust, and wave singularities (focused energy at a single point, like a satellite dish), often located antipodal to the original earthquake (ie. at the opposite side of the Earth), we can get long distant transfers of earthquake energy.  Recent science shows that when the Earth's rate of spin slows down or speeds up, earthquakes are more likely to occur.  USGS has determined that Earth tides and ocean tides from the moon make some types of earthquakes 3 times more likely.  Others suggest that planetary alignment of Sun, moon, and other planets will have a significant impact on magnitude and frequency of Earth's earthquakes (also see here ).

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God's End Time Effects on our Solar System?

Climate Change is blamed on humans by Mainstream Media and many activists.  Instead, could it be an integral part of God's End Time Process?

Scientists have understood for a very long time that "Water vapor and clouds account for 66 to 85 percent of the greenhouse effect, compared to a range of 9 to 26 percent for CO2".

The Pareto Principle states that 80% of the outcome is caused by 20% of the factors that influence that outcome.  A corollary of this is that cutting the major factor in half is far easier than 100% eliminating the weakest forcing factor..  In other words, focus efforts on the 80% outcome, and forget about the rest.

Applied to Climate Change, we must focus on the clouds, not human caused CO2 in the atmosphere.  The following video tells you about cloud research that has clearly shown that clouds, especially high clouds, are the major source of Greenhouse Effects.



Unfortunately, this research, and many similar branches of research which raise doubt about human-caused Climate Change have been ignored and suppressed for decades.

While there is room for debate about the impact of humans on Earth's weather and climate, does anyone seriously believe that humans have had a significant impact on the weather for other planets in the Solar System (eg. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto)?

If there is clear scientific proof that weather on all planets of our Solar System have been simultaneously changing, not just Earth, should we look for a different cause than humans and CO2?

Here is another video by an amateur astronomer who reports on NASA , ESA (European Space Agency), and other international data that clearly suggests the entire Solar System is changing significantly.

Could this be God's End Times process?



In the above video, you'll learn that:

• Our sun's magneic field is 230% stronger since 1901.
• The Moon has grown a Natrium [Sodium] atmosphere 6,000 km thick.  See NASA.
• Venus has experienced a 2,500% increase in aurorali brightness in last 40 years.
• Mars is experiencing Global Warming, as witnessed by the melting of is polar ice caps, huge storms, etc.
• Jupiter has a 200% increase in radiation hot spots, and colour changes, and its Red Spot
• Saturn has seen a significant increase in X-rays at its equator, and its jet stream activity
• Uranus has had a huge change in surface cloud features, surface brightness has increased 40%
• Neptune has also seen a 40% increase in surface brightness
• Pluto has a 300% increase in atmospheric pressure
• Earth axis has changed, extreme weather changes, earthquakes are up 400% since 1973, from 1875 - 1975 volcano activity have increased 500%, Mudslides hurricanes tornadoes and typhoons have increased 410% from 1963 - 1993, magnetic field strength started to drop in last 2000 years, dropping even faster in last 500 years and become erratic in last 20 years.
• For our solar system, the glowing plasma at the leading edge is now glowing 1,000% more.  We seem to be in a different sector of he universe with very hot, low density celestial clouds.  We are expected to exit the typical cloud cover we have enjoyed for he last 6,000 years.  Once we are more in the open, more cosmic radiation will reach us, with many unknown consequences.

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Devil's Hegemony

"To begin with, I'll paint the town red",
says the Devil to Washington DC USA,
The Judge Magazine, 1885.

God's End Time process is similar to a chess game with Satan; move and counter-move.

Earth has been Satan's domain for quite some time, likely soon after the Fall of Adam & Eve.  The Bible tells us that Satan has a prince in control or influencing most or all kingdoms.  For example:

• Apostle Paul wrote, "We have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)
   
• One of God's Angels sent to Daniel was delayed by 21 days, saying, "The prince [ie. devil overseeing] of the royal realm of Persia was standing in opposition to me for twenty-one days.”​—Daniel 10:2, 13.
• This same Angel subsequently said he would once again have to fight against “the prince of Persia” and another demon prince, “the prince of Greece.”​—Daniel 10:20.

When one government is exercising power and control over a different sovereign government, it's called hegemony.  Hegemony can be practiced by military, economic, energy, food, currency, cultural, political, trade, and many other avenues.

Babylon, Medeo-Persia, Alexander The Great, Greece, Imperial Rome, Papal Rome, England, and United States have all been recognized as leading hegemonic powers in their days.  I suggest Satan and his evil princes have been at or near each of these thrones of power; as well as the secondary powers who opposed the obvious leader.

Today, Satan battles with currency exchange, world finance, food, wealth concentration, and military arms.  To see what Satan is up to, let's look at some of the currency wars going on today.  If we are truly in End Times, today's currency hegemony should closely align with the Biblical prophecies for End Times.

Turkey

Turkey's Inflation Rate, as reported by government
propaganda, and by PPP (Purchasing Power Parity).
As of May 2018, annual inflation rate was 39.2%

Foreign Exchange Rate between US$ and Turkish Lira

Turkey has a population of 80.8 million, is a NATO ally, 98% of the population are Muslim, and 85% are Sunni Muslim (ie. similar to Saudi Arabia).

More & more for the last 2 decades, there has been a growing riff between USA and Turkey.  US hegemony is in high gear trying to exert pressure on Turkey to stay away from Russia, and fully align with US foreign policy.

While this hegemony rages, the people of Turkey suffer more and more.  Inflation, as measured by PPP, rages as high as 39.2% per annum in May 2018.

US$ to Turkish lira exchange rate has exploded in a similar fashion, from 1.18 Lira/US$ in Aug 2008 to 7.0 Lira/US$ in Aug. 2018; a 593% increase in 10 years.  Purchases of foreign energy, technology, vehicles, and food are the hardest hit.  There is a limit on how long this will be allowed to continue.  Either the people will riot against their leaders (who risk a coup), or the government will force the people to rally behind them by some propaganda program or war.  The choices are limited, similar to the Arab Spring in 2010.

Iran

Iranian inflation, as reported by government propaganda
and PPP measurements now top 78.5%/yr as of June 2018

Iran has 80.3 million people, 99.3% who are Muslim, and 93% are Shia Muslims.  Similar to Turkey, Ian suffers under US hegemony.  The US has held a grudge against Iran since the coup against the CIA-installed Shaw in 1979, and the storming of the US Embassy and hostage taking for 444 days from 1979 - 1981.  The latest excuse for US persecution is the allegation that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.  When the 2015 nuclear deal between Tran and world powers was rejected by US President Trump in May 2018, economic, financial, and trade sanctions were snapped back into place, partly in August 2018, and the balance on Nov. 5, 2018.

Iranian Riel - US$ exchange rate was heavily wounded in 2013
when their Central Bank was forced to devalue the currency
by half.  Further slow decay has occurred ever since, with
extreme cuts in Iranian standard of living

Under previous sanctions, the people of Iran suffered greatly.  There have been spontaneous riots in Iranian streets with no need for CIA involvement.  Recently the streets of Iran have heard spontaneous chants of "Death to Khomeini".  As crowds were leaving an Iranian soccer stadium, chants of "Death to the Dictator" were reported.

Knowing what the life-long sanctions have been like in the past, Iranians will do almost anything to avoid them again.

It is unclear how Sunni Turkey and Shia Iran (sworn enemies of each other), may suddenly agree to work co-operatively against Israel and USA.  Perhaps it's as simple as "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

It has been reported that US is ready to pull out of Syria as soon as Iran has left Syria.  Putin has agreed to turn a blind eye towards US Special Forces and Israeli Air Force acting against Iranian troops and supplies inside Syria.  Hezbollah has had a falling out with the Iranian Major-General responsible for training troops inside Syria, so Hezbollah has pulled all their troops out of Syria and returned to Lebanon.  This cut the troops under the Iranian Major-General in half.  As Iranian operations inside Syria are attacked, and Iranians at home are squeezed by US sanctions, a breaking point will soon be reached.

Iran has almost 200,000 GPS-guided rockets ready to launch against Israel.  They have obtained Sarin nerve gas, Mustard Gas, and Liquid Chlorine gas for adding to these rockets.  Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has the Iron Dome anti-missile system deployed, but it doesn't have the necessary capacity against the 200,000 rockets of Iran, Hezbollah (Lebanon), and Hamas (Gaza Strip).  Once the conflict begins, experts estimate Israel can last up to 72 hours.  After that, if the rocket barrage continues, especially with poison gas warheads, Israel may be forced to go nuclear.  The US may be forced to step in to save Israel from certain destruction.

Under this scenario, Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38, 39, 29:10-12, Isaiah 17:1, and Zechariah 12:2-3 are highly correlated with recent history and God's End Time process.

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Love All, Loved By All

Do you love all, and are loved by all?  If not, you'd better pay attention to the following.

Are you a sourpuss with grudges, anger, & enemies?

Can you love your enemies? In Matthew 5:43-44, Jesus added this to the Commandments for Christians:

 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

God's End Times process may be starting very soon, perhaps Nov. 30, 2018 or sooner.

If you have enemies and Grid-Down occurs during God's End Times process (ie. no electricity, phones, TV, Internet, stoplights, transit, water, sewer, food deliveries, etc.), governmental authorities will no longer be able to prevent or settle petty disputes, nor intervene on major crimes.  What is preventing your enemies from seizing this ripe opportunity to settle an old score?

On this basis alone, it's likely a good idea to bury the hatchet soon.  If you aren't worried about the possible consequences of enemies today (ie. you currently have the overwhelming advantage in any battle that may occur today), what happens if your fortune reverses, and you suddenly become poor, sick, lose your position of power, or slowly become old?

Remember, the opposite of love is not hate.  The true opposite of love is indifference (ie. "I just don't care!").  If you can't bring yourself to love at this moment, at least avoid indifference.

If no consequences arise from your anger and trespassing against others during your lifetime, perhaps you should consider what Jesus said in Matthew 6:14–15:

"If you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

If God doesn't forgive your trespasses because you have failed to forgive the trespasses of others against you, then you will have residual sins when you stand before God at the Great White Throne, which means you will be judged sinful and go directly to the Lake of Fire for eternal suffering.  Claiming you know and believe in Jesus Christ won't save you from this terrible fate.  Jesus is quite clear that those who claim to know Him, but live in chronic sin, don't really know Him, and will be turned away from Heaven and thrown into the Lake of Fire for eternal suffering. (see Matthew 7:21-23, 1 John 2:3-6, and Blog: Know Your Sins, Transgressions & Iniquities).

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to put yourself into harms way.  Everybody, including true Christians need to keep a safe distance between themselves and Satan, killers, rapists, con artists, abusive family members, and all other risky people.  Rebuke the sins you uncover, and if they confess and repent, forgive them their transgression.

Do you have mutually reciprocal animosity of hate-hate with your enemies, or is it sometimes one-sided?  In other words:

• Are there some people who consider you to be their enemy, but you are unaware they have strongly negative feelings towards you?


• Are there good Christians who turn the other cheek, accepting you in spite of your anger and bad behaviours towards them?  The more they persist in treating you nicely in spite of the evil you spew at them, the more you see them as weak, Goody-Two-Shoes, and deserving of bullying and abuse?
• Do you hate or despise some people in secret, while pretending to be their friend?

If it's a 1-sided hate (ie. you are neutral or loving towards them, but they have a passionate hate on for you, and you know it), are you safe from the Lake of Fire?

I'm not so sure.  They obviously hold a grudge, so according to Matthew 6:14-15, they are damned to eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire.  You know they are damned by their grudge against you.  Do you have a sliver of glee, or a stone-cold heart about their terrible fate?  Either way, that may not be seen as a fully Christian attitude when you get to the Great White Throne Room.  I suggest you do everything within your power to help the other person overcome their animus towards you.

Under Takiyya, Quran 3:28 and 16:106 permits strategic lies to non-Muslims so that Muslims can protect themselves, their community, or Islam.  In the Bible, people were praised for choosing to oppose evil by concealing the truth from wicked people (see the lying midwives in Exodus 1, and Joshua 2:4–5 for the lies by Rehab about the Hebrew spies within Jericho).  Other than that, love (and/or "tough love") requires open and honest communication.  Truth should be done in a kind and loving manner; not harsh nor used as a weapon.

By writing his, I just realized that I know a few people who may have a grudge against me, even though I wish they didn't.  I guess I have some work to do too, and soon.

In business, I had the opportunity to travel all around the world.  A few foreigners have told me that Canadians are recognized the world-over for being Olympic Gold Metal contenders for passive-aggressive behaviours.  Most Canadians are very nice and polite, but never cross a Canadian, as many Canadians have long memories, and will likely get even when the opportunity presents itself.

Therefore Canadians may need to take a lesson from Jesus' book more than other citizens of this wicked world.

Alan Jacobs, a professor at Baylor University, wrote the book How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.  Listen to an excellent CBC Radio Podcast about his ideas.

Paraphrasing Alan Jacob's ideas and combining it with Jesus' Commandment, I suggest the following for avoiding the creation of enemies, and to extinguish past fires:

1. Listen so as to understand without judging.


2. Count to 10.  While counting, DO NOT think about where you disagree, or how to defeat the other person's position.  Instead, think about where you agree, or have similar values, shared starting points, or win-win opportunities.


3. Immediately feed back the positives.  If necessary, ask a clarification question in a open, fair, non-judgemental manner to ensure you fully understand their position.


4. If, in spite of the first two steps, you get hot under the collar, or want to press your side of the issue, stop and count to 10 again.  Request the necessary time to fully consider the other person's point of view.  Use the break period to cool off, and reflect on the other person's point of view to your confidants, family, and friends; faithfully presenting the other person's view in the best possible light as their faithful agent while they are absent.


5. When you're ready, come back together with your new found friend who can work co-operatively with you so as to keep both of you from suffering forever in the Lake of Fire.

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Know Your Sins, Transgressions, & Iniquities

Through the grace of YouTube, I now know the difference between sin, transgression, & iniquity.  Do you?

Sin is when we try to do the right thing, in alignment with God's Word, but fail to meet the mark.  The Hebrew and Greek terms are related to spear throwing and archery, where the target is hit, but not the bulleye (ie. we missed the centre of the target).  The intent was good, but we unintentionally slipped and fell during the implementation.  Sin is accidental.  Sin in never a premeditated desire to do evil.

Transgression (also known as "trespass", usually regarded as a synonym) is when there is an evil intent.  We know it's against God's Law, but we decide to do evil anyways.  Transgression can also occur in the heart and mind alone, as the opportunity to carry out our intended evil has not yet arisen.

Iniquity has a few subtle definitions. Iniquity is pre-meditation evil, done of purpose, on an ongoing, chronic, habitual basis.  Iniquity can also mean the bending or colouring of a Law so as to take a perverse interpretation, contrary to the obvious, true meaning.  The Devil delights in this technique, and encourages everybody to follow his evil example.  The third meaning is to receive or hold the resulting guilt or punishment for your sins and transgressions (ie. to wallow in your iniquity).  The fourth meaning is someone who acts as if they are a law unto themselves, who do not recognize nor obey God's Laws, who are lawless, or have relative, self-serving morality of their own creation (ie. everything is relative, there are no absolutes, right and wrong depend upon the circumstances).  This worker of iniquity creates their own god in their mind, and give their god a perverted, immoral code that accepts all the evil they wish to commit as good (even though it is evil as defined by God).

Now you know.

Remember, whether its sin, transgression, trespass, or iniquity, true Christian do not habitually live in these evil failings.

If someone is doing evil "X" (eg. lie, steal, cheat, adultery, etc.), then does "X" again, and again, and again, they are living in X as a matter of habit.  X is a chronic, bad habit.  They do not regret X.  They do not repent their failings at doing X.  They do not seek forgiveness for doing X.  This X is iniquity.  This person does not know Christ, is not Born Again, and is subject to gnashing of teeth or weeping as Christ turns them away from them at Judgement Day, as they slowly sink into the Lake of Fire.

However, if someone does "X", realizes their evil, repents, seeks forgiveness, and takes concrete steps to learn from their mistake, and earnestly tries to avoid X thereafter, this is forgivable by God.  They may stumble and fall into the evil "Y" soon after, but they will take the same approach to Y, and eventually set "Y" forever into their past.  In this way, each day they move closer to Christ, and become more and more Christ-like.  This is a true Christian, and Jesus Christ will give them a pure white Heavenly garments and a crown of gold, and allow them to enjoy everlasting life, and avoid the Lake of Fire and the perpetual suffering of sinners.

In Matthew 18:21-22, Jesus says we should forgive our sinning brothers and sisters 70 time 7 fold, (ie. 7*70= 490 times) for their truly repented sin.  If that is what we should do for our fellow humans, we can likely expect that same or greater amount of forgiveness of our sins by Jesus Christ.  Jesus is a far better forgiver than you are a sinner.  Note that this forgiveness for accidental, unplanned sin.  This is not the forgiveness of ongoing, chronic iniquity.  Iniquity is deadly.  There is only limited time and chances for the forgiveness of iniquity.

Whenever we do unrepentant sin or iniquity, we put a drop of poison into our internal well of living water.  The first drop won't kill you.  However, as you do more & more iniquity, you keep adding additional drops of poison to the well.  Soon, the well of living water will turn your stomach when you drink it.  1 Corith. 11:27-30 tells us that eventually, you will be weakened more and more, to the point of being incapacitated, or death by sin.

As your iniquity adds more and more poison to your internal well of living water, the Holy Spirit inside you is also affected.  Your body & soul becomes more and more inhospitable for the indwelling Holy Spirit.  The amount and activity of the Holy Spirit inside you shrinks more and more with each drop of evil poison added to the well.  Eventually, the Holy Spirit can no longer stand living inside you, so it packs its bags, and leaves you permanently, never to come back.  At that point, you no longer have a conscience, and God has permanently abandoned you to your reprobate mind, and a guaranteed spot in Hell, to burn and be tormented forever & ever.  See Romans 1:18-32

Which ending do you choose for yourself?


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*** Original 2018-8-22, Update #1   2019-11-5 ***

End Times: Both Muslims & Christians Agree!

We are in End Times.  Both Muslims and Christians agree.

Pew Research Centre, a world-wide respected surveyor of public opinions, says 41% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ definitely (23%) or probably (18%) will have returned to earth on or before the Year 2050.  Some American demographic groups are as high as 52% convinced.

For Muslims, they believe:

• End Times is the time of Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, the False Prophet 
• Jesus Christ and the Mahdi will appears shortly after the Dajjal appears, and Dajjal will be destroyed by them.

Muslims believe the following signs that the Dajjal will soon appear when:

• People will stop offering the prayers
• Dishonesty will be the way of life
• Falsehood will become a virtue
• People will mortgage their faith for worldly gain
• Usury and bribery will become legitimate
• There will be acute famine at the time
• There will be no shame amongst people
• Many people would worship Satan
• There would be no respect for elderly people
• People will start killing each other without any reason

To me, it seems we are already there.  Many of these signs are the same or similar to those mentioned in the Bible.

I suggest everybody reads my Open Letter to All Muslims (and all Christians, members of all other faiths, agnostics, and atheists)


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Devil's Driving Forces

Things are moving rapidly towards the End Times.  God is making moves.  The Devil is also making moves.  It is somewhat like a spiritual chess game.  Move and counter move.

Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38, 39, 29:10-12, Isaiah 17:1, and Zechariah 12:2-3 are likely all associated with the End Time process.  However, we don't know the sequence, nor when they will occur.

What we do know from these prophesies is that the King of the North (likely Turkey, with its capital Ankara due North of Jerusalem), Persia (today's Iran), Egypt (from Mediterranean to Aswan High Dam), Libya, Ethiopia, and many other Islamic countries around Israel are involved in the End Times.

What will cause an even greater de-stabilization of the Middle East?  Based on the following, all of the Middle East is becoming an even greater powder keg, perhaps approaching unstable nitroglycerine.

• The EU has passed a blocking regulation that orders are EU corporations to continue commercial contracts and dealings wih Iran, and blocks all sanctions against them that might be imposed by USA.
• Iran has held war games in the Strait of Hormuz (between Saudia Arabia and Iran), through which 1/3 of all the world's oil flows on a daily basis, and has threatened to block the straits if the US imposes sanctions against Iran.
• Iranians are protesting in the streets against the rapidly approaching snapback of US sanctions against Iran.  Many have died.  Also see here.
• Iran has an exploding rate of inflation, reaching as high as 65% per year.
  
  

  

  Like Western governments, Iran plays with the published inflation rate,
  while the true rate of inflation is far worse.  The people aren't stupid,
  so the government fools nobody in the end, and destroys trust by lying
  to the people.   Source:  http://www.imi.org.cn/en/?p=4657 and
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevehanke/2018/07/29/irans-rial-is-in-a-death-spiral-again/

  
  
• Today, hours before the US sanctions are set to re-start, Iran is suddenly ready to discuss and negotiate so as to avoid the US sanctions.
• As Iran's currency collapses, Iranians are buying gold as a hedge against inflation.
• President Trump has warned all US allies that any violation of US sanctions against Iran will be dealt with swiftly and severely.
• The Turkish lira has devalued by 20% in the last 3 months (ie. 80%/yr), and Turkish government bond yields have more than doubled in the last 3 years (19%+ interest rate).  This places huge pressures on both the people and the government.
• Turkey has seized the banking assets of US government officials in Turkey as retaliation against US sanctions against Turkey.

For all the above moves on the chess board, I am unsure which moves belong to God, which are the Devil's, or just silly humans arguing and fighting.

Time will tell.

However, we can be assured that the time is short, and The End is near.  With all of the above driving forces (and many more similar ones soon to appear), I estimate a major war in the Middle East on or before November 2018, likely ending in a nuclear exchange by Israel, Russia, USA, China, and/or North Korea.  Not to be left out, once the A-bombs start to fly, India and Pakistan may have a go at each other to settle old scores.

Are you ready to meet your Maker, Jesus Christ?  If not, you'd better get ready.  Soon!  My recommendations are:

•  Detailed Description of Likely End Time Events
• Are You a Full, True Christian?  They are the only ones who go to Heaven, the rest go to Hell
• Roadmap to Heaven (or Hell if you make a wrong turn)
•  God's 13 Commandments for Christians (if you purposefully break one or more of these Commandments on a regular basis, this is a sign that you are not Born Again, and will likely be turned away by Jesus as an unknown stranger and fake Christian, sending you to Hell).

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