Is a “Cashless Society” a Sign of the End?

American Vision ^ | July 20, 2009 | Gary DeMar

[just me]

End Times? We should be taking our Country back out of the hands of the heathen.... We are being judged. This Nation has fallen from grace because of “false religion”. I walk with Christ I don’t need to wait for His return.. All scripture concerning these matters has been filled. I think we are about to find out God won’t be mocked....

[Dr. Eckleburg]

We are in the endtimes.

Indeed. We have been for 2000 years.

Amen. As bad as it gets, it's still post-resurrection. Therefore, as sing "Joy to the world; the Lord is come."

[Uri’el-2012]

Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, close up
and seal the words of the scroll until
the time of the end.
Many will go here and there
to increase knowledge."

There are a few things which tell us that we are in the "end times"

1) the re-gathering of Israel by YHvH in the land given to them by Him after two millennia in 1948
2) the recapture of G-d's holy city, Jerusalem by His people.
3) The increase of knowledge ( the internet)

In 1948 the transistor was invented since then we have followed Moore's Law; doubling the transistor density every 18 months.
In 1948 information took hours to days and sometimes weeks : today video is only delayed by propagation delay of the speed of light.
The internet which provides all of the world's knowledge at our fingertips came out of space travel and the transistor.

4) World travel has exploded since 1948

5) the fastest humans traveled since early times was by horse;
in the twentieth century speeds increased to from 10mph to 400mph by 1948 to 25,000 mph in 1962.

6) Today we see the Prince of Persia with nuclear weapons planning war against Israel,
he is being helped by Gog and Magog in Moscow.

7) We also see the Revived Roman Empire ( EU ) distancing themselves from Israel.
The US is no longer the lone supporter of Israel.
The 0bama administration is now coming against Israel.

8) The Bushes were raised in the traditions of Replacement
Theology and forced Israel to give up land mandated by YHvH.

9) The 0bama administration currently in power is turning Israel over to Satan.

Every important event G-d has acted on a Torah defined Feast.
Y'shua offered himself as our Pesach Lamb on Passover,
Y'shua died for all sin on the day the leaven is removed on hagMatzoh,
Y'shua rose from the dead on the feast of First Fruits and
sent the Ruach Ha Kodesh to breath on His apostles on the Feast of Weeks.

The fall feasts begin with a forty day period of 'Teshuvah ', which means "to repent or return"
It begins in the sixth month of the Religious Calendar, and concludes on
the tenth day of the seventh month, which is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Each morning for thirty days in the synagogue following the morning prayers, a trumpet (shofar) is blown

This leaves Yom Teruah ("the day of the awakening blast") the feast of Trumpets with it's final trump
Ten days later Yom Kippur the day the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies, Cleansing of the people's sins,
Succoth, the day when we enter our temporary dwellings
and the final gathering after the seven days of the feast of Booths.

It is curious that of all these feasts the only one for which
the hour and day are not known is YomTeruah when the final trump is blown

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Great homepage excerpt...

A favorite book passage: "...secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him" John Lyle in Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Einstein said that the only reason for time was so that everything doesn?t happen at once.

Everything already has happened at once in the mind of God.

[BuckeyeTexan]

The forehead symbolizes the mind (i.e. what one believes) and the hand symbolizes our actions (i.e. what one does). God said that his laws will be written on our hearts and minds. He didn’t mean literally. Our heart symbolizes what we love and treasure. Our mind symbolizes what we believe.

Jesus used many parts of the body to represent concepts, such as the eyes being the lamp of God. Jesus spoke of what comes out of our mouths from our hearts making us unclean, meaning what we speak comes from our hearts or what we love and treasure. He never meant any of those things literally. They were all symbolic.

It is consistent with Christ’s teachings to suggest that the mark of the beast on our foreheads and/or our hands is symbolic of what we believe and what we do. The same verse in Revelation 14 that references the mark of the beast also says that those who receive it will drink of the wine of God’s fury that has been poured full strength into the cup
of his wrath. Those who don’t love and serve Christ will experience God’s fury and wrath but not by drinking a literal glass of wine. Nearly all of Revelation is symbolic.

Revelation says that only those who keep God’s commandments will enter Heaven. Christ said that the 1st & greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind. He said the 2nd commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. We keep those commandments through what we believe, what we love and what we do. If we focus our lives on keeping those 2 commandments, then we needn’t worry about receiving the mark of the beast because our minds, hearts and hands will be focused on worshiping and serving Christ.

I realize that many Christians worry about if and how technology will be used in end times. God would never allow his children, whom he loves and gave his son for and who love him in return, to be duped into receiving the mark of the beast. God gives us free will so we can choose him. Receiving the mark of the beast will be a choice to reject God and serve and worship Satan. Yes, Satan will deceive people causing them to reject God by denying him, not loving him, and not serving him. But never fear that you will be deceived into receiving the mark of the beast because if you love and serve God, you will not and cannot reject him.

This is a sensitive subject and I know many truly believe that the mark of the beast will be a physical mark on or implanted in the body. I ask you to simply consider what I’ve written, read the scriptures, and pray for guidance from the Lord. Just because we’ve been taught something all our lives doesn’t mean it’s true or that we have to believe it. Seek out your faith through God’s perfect word not through man’s errant predictions.

Blessings.

[Quix]

All scripture concerning these matters has been filled.

= = =

That’s one of the most outrageously uninformed, unaware, silly, untrue statements I’ve ever read on FR, or the net, for that matter.

[Quix]

Thanks.

Well put.

Far better than I.

How do you explain such blindness as we see on such threads as these in such matters?

Incredible. Boggles my mind.

This statement:

“All scripture concerning these matters has been filled.”

is TOTALLY off the wall. How does one even think such a thing if they have truly read The Bible and considered daily news items the last several decades?

I don’t know what the ratio currently is of unfulfilled END TIMES PROPHECIES TO FULFILLED ONES. Have you seen anything on that?

[Quix]

I disagree with much in that post yet think you make some very good points.

I don’t believe Revelation is mostly symbolic, per se though I haven’t counted the symbolic verses vs the literal ones vs the both ones.

[BuckeyeTexan]

See my post at #26. I wrote something similar.

In my opinion, it doesn’t matter if the end comes tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or next decade. If I love the Lord and am serving him faithfully, then my name is in the Book of Life - literally or figuratively.

[Marysecretary]

Sigh, indeed. I wonder how these folk will feel when Christ returns and they are looking up and saying, “What happened?”

[tbw2]

What is replacementarian? Obamacare jokes Obama jokes

[just me]

You listen to Hal and do your silly bible codes and news paper head lines, I’ll stick with scripture.....

[Marysecretary]

I heartily agree with you regarding the Feast of the Trumpets and the importance of the Jewish feasts in the life of Jesus.

[Quix]

Sticking with Scripture leaves that statement

utterly preposterously ridiculous and most UNBIBLICAL.

[Quix]

INDEED.

[Quix]

Those who believe that The Christian Church

utterly and totally replaced the children of

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Scripture including all prophecy Scriptures

I call REPLACEMENTARIANS

because they are utterly contrary to God’s clear statements in Scripture about HIS EVERYLASTING PROMISES TO HIS BUDDY ABRAHAM AND ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB’S SEED.

Contrarian,
bull-headed,
smug,
arrogant,
self-righteous,

. . . all seem to collect together around some ideas well above average.

[topcat54]

Contrarian, bull-headed, smug, arrogant, self-righteous,

Not to mention the writers who spout endlessly without saying anything yet cannot see the log in their own eye. Empty vessels from start to finish. Line upon line of vapor. With all the substance of a

[Quix]

So, please tell us . . .

when did the

TWO END TIMES WITNESSES . . . . AFTER A GOOD PERIOD OF MIRACULOUS EVANGELIZING INCLUDING CALLING FIRE DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN ON THEIR ENEMIES . . .

WHEN DID THEIR DEAD BODIES LIE IN A STREET IN JERUSALEM AFTER THE GLOBAL SATAN WORLD LEADER'S RISE TO POWER

IN FULL VIEW OF THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE 3 DAYS?

PLEASE, PLEASE TELL US ???WHEN??? those three days were ALREADY FULFILLED, that you insist were already fulfilled.

Of course it would be better for you to give the time in terms of our conventional calendar. Star-dates a la Start Trek will not be accepted. Nor will Mayan calendar stated dates.

Of course, humbled retractions are acceptable, too.

[Quix]

Your characteristic paradoxical confirmation of the truth is persistently welcome.