Rev. Franklin Graham: Japan Quake May Be Beginning Of Second Coming....

To: ReverendJames

Last night as I was reading my sister’s Bible I came across the message that my sister heard in the headphones. Mom wrote it down on Post it notes just after Pat heard it. She stuck the message in multiple Bibles. Jesus is coming soon. Prepare!

121 posted on 03/20/2011 4:53:09 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever

To: ReverendJames

Could the Rapture happen? Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months

A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation. The prediction is based in part on a major solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph wires to short out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires. It was perhaps the worst in the past 200 years, according to the new study, and with the advent of modern power grids and satellites, much more is at risk

122 posted on 03/20/2011 4:53:09 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)

Thing is: all I’m saying is there are several different schools of ideas on how all this will go down. There are pre-millennium, post millennium. There’s pre-Trib, mid-Trib, and post-Trib. It just doesn’t matter when He come but THAT He comes. Looking for signs and wonders just takes away from He that is coming. So quick, look busy.. :)

123 posted on 03/20/2011 4:53:21 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

To: ReverendJames

POSSIBLY 3 DAYS OF DARKNESS???

Stormy past

Solar storms have had significant effects in modern time:

— In 1989, the sun unleashed a tempest that knocked out power to all of Quebec, Canada.

— A remarkable 2003 rampage included 10 major solar flares over a two-week period, knocking out two Earth-orbiting satellites and crippling an instrument aboard a Mars orbiter.

“Obviously, the sun is Earth’s life blood,” said Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics division at NASA. “To mitigate possible public safety issues, it is vital that we better understand extreme space weather events caused by the sun’s activity.”

“Space weather can produce solar storm electromagnetic fields that induce extreme currents in wires, disrupting power lines, causing wide-spread blackouts and affecting communication cables that support the Internet,” the report states. “Severe space weather also produces solar energetic particles and the dislocation of the Earth’s radiation belts, which can damage satellites used for commercial communications, global positioning and weather forecasting.”

Rush to prepare

The race is on for better forecasting abilities, as the next peak in solar activity is expected to come around 2012.

While the sun is in a lull now, activity can flare up at any moment, and severe space weather — how severe, nobody knows — will ramp up a year or two before the peak.

Some scientists expect the next peak to bring more severe events than other recent peaks.

“A catastrophic failure of commercial and government infrastructure in space and on the ground can be mitigated through raising public awareness, improving vulnerable infrastructure and developing advanced forecasting capabilities,” the report states. “Without preventive actions or plans, the trend of increased dependency on modern space-weather sensitive assets could make society more vulnerable in the future.”

The report was commissioned and funded by NASA. Experts from around the world in industry, government and academia participated. It was released this week.

124 posted on 03/20/2011 4:55:32 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)

To: stars & stripes forever

Everyday we look for Messiah to return. But the time is not yet. Too many things have to happen first. But be diligent.

125 posted on 03/20/2011 4:55:42 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

To: ReverendJames

Prophecy states the temple will be rebuilt...I have never found a direct scripture quote that says it will be rebuilt exactly where the other temples were built... the Bible says the temple will be rebuilt...period! On the other hand I have no strong belief about where it would be rebuilt other then close proximity on or near the temple mount. The protesting Orthodox rabinnical students who had studied the matter seemed to think that the temple could be built right there at the wailing wall and still meet scriptural stipulations! So go argue with them. As for me, what I believe, on top of the Mosque or in close proximity...the temple will be rebuilt as the Bible says. The Bible doesn’t even say this was a desirable thing in God’s eyes as since the sacrifice of animals is resumed, this represents the ultimate refusal of many Jews to accept as the final sacrifice, Jesus our Lord. They show that they would rather accept the Mosaic law and smoky gloom of Mount Sinai as opposed to the grace and forgiveness found at Mount Zion as Hebrews explains.

126 posted on 03/20/2011 4:57:20 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Applied Christianity;a study in spiritual fiber optics connecting God's love to man!)

The way I see it is; the only country that is really safeguarding Israel against her enemies is the USA. Once we’re taken out of the equation, Israel is on her own. Then look out.

127 posted on 03/20/2011 4:57:25 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

To: ReverendJames

Well I am listening for him, just like I would listen for a thief...

I will make sure to hear that door knob clicking....

I hope you do as well, and not ignore the click at the door....

128 posted on 03/20/2011 4:58:24 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)

Nice way of putting it. Daniel says on Temple mount. There could always be an earthquake. Lots of that going around these days. Once the mosque is leveled then all bets are off and Israel can do whatever it wants there. If the Muslims yell, so, let them.

129 posted on 03/20/2011 5:00:24 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

To: GiovannaNicoletta; TaraP

The signs He gave us to watch for are happening now, all of them, in conjunction with one another and are getting more frequent with increasing intensity. Just like birth pangs.

I know you have been in conversations with folks of various opposing views to what you espouse here, so you are not a stranger to those arguments. I'm not asking for a defense nor am I criticizing your opinion here. I do have a single question, but let me set it up.

"The signs" you are referring to here, do you believe that there has not been earthquakes, before this last year? That is, everything that you claim to be a sign is nothing compared to a not-so-long-ago comparable event. The Japanese earthquake, though devastating, is not the most severe (e.g. Indonesia '94 9.3; Alaska '64 9.2) the alleged pandemic "Bird Flu" was a total bust and was nothing compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918 (3% of global population died, 500 million effected). Much bigger of every kind of event listed in the Olivette Discourse happened subsequent to the Balfour Declaration which put forth the establishment of a Jewish nation, an event even prominent author and Dispensationalist Tim LaHaye has recognized as the "official re-birth of the nation of Israel". Predictions of the LORD's imminent return were rampant among the relatively small community of Dispensationalists during WW2 where Hitler fulfilled many of the alleged "prophecies" concerning the Last Day's Man of Sin. At that time the US was in the midst of the Great Depression, famines of the Dust Bowl and ENSO famines of Asia and plagues of Malaria abound. The "signs" as you speak, were orders of magnitude more than the same kind of "signs" we might see today. Yet despite all of the prophecies from the Prophecy Experts, the LORD did not return as they promised.

Today, there is no war, at least not as described in Matthew 24 where the "wars and rumors of wars", the word is for a traditional "war" - 'polemeo'. What we see in the Middle East are not 'polemeo' wars, but we see 'stasei' (uprising/riot) and 'anastatosas' (civil rebellion). So you can't play the "wars and rumors of wars" card. There are no plagues and this generation has not seen anything like a severe famine. If people are hungry its because war lords and despots keep the food rotting on the docks. So the traditional signs are completely absent as I write.

So if your imagined "signs" are mere shadows of real "signs" of a generation ago, sufficient where every Dispensationalist Prophet worth his salt was predicting the LORD's return well before the Armistice was signed on the USS Missouri, what made them wrong and your meager "signs" are so overwhelmingly apparent that you claim "ours is the generation"?

The above questions are rhetorical, the next is not. The overwhelming majority of confessing Believers, those whose names are in the Book of Life, never accepted any part of Dispensational eschatology. Dispensationalism itself turns basic Christology on its head. For over one-hundred and fifty years now, every single Dispensationalist who has made any prediction has lied and has been proven to be a false prophet. Every single Dispensationalist over the past few generations has been proven wrong, all of their testimony has failed to be realized. Its a multi-billion dollar industry, with books, television, magazines, radio, internet and traveling conferences and shows all pushing the same "signs" and the same "predictions". They missed the fall of the Soviet Union; and of the European Union zooming past ten member nations; missed the various Jewish wars; didn't see any of the Middle Eastern uprisings; thought the next storm was from Turkey, then when proven wrong changed to Iran, then to Egypt, now Libya; up until Barry Soetoro took office swore that the US would forever be Israel's friend but now your camp can't decide if we are now Israel's friend, foe or none-of-the-above. IOW, despite full-time highly compensated, politically connected, well researched and allegedly deeply spiritual (seeing visions from God saying that so-and-so will do such-and-such), they couldn't successfully interpret a traffic sign let alone the myriad of "signs" from 7.0 earthquakes in Christchurch near Rosh Hashanah to the current melee in the Middle East. There is not a single one of them that can be relied upon to tell us who will be the victor in any of the nations with active rebellions. Not a single one of them can guarantee that Israel will not lose even more land or even be spared another incursion by terrorists.

So finally, the question is: After all of these years of lies, failed prophecies, missed major events and false equivications, what is it going to take for y'all to finally come to your senses and realize that Dispensationalism is a failed eschatological system; or are y'all so invested in anxiety, fear and impending doom that abandoning the "crack cocaine" of Dispensationalism will give you withdrawals that you can't overcome?

130 posted on 03/20/2011 5:00:27 PM PDT by The Theophilus (Pray for Obama (Psalms 109:8))

To: ReverendJames

GOD safeguards Israel, not the USA.....

131 posted on 03/20/2011 5:00:49 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)

To: ReverendJames

Hey! My sister knows what she heard.

... by the way only the Father knows. Do you know something we don't know?

132 posted on 03/20/2011 5:01:36 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever

Oh yeah. I’m sure Yashua will let His people know one way or other that He’s coming for us. That’s why we’re constantly warned to be diligent. We look out for each other. If we see a fellow Christian start to backslide, we warn them, pray for them, help them. To me again, it doesn’t matter what form Yashua takes to come for us, it’s that He does. If I’m wrong on the method, no biggie. But we can’t let ourselves be caught up in the means and forget to look out for the signs.

133 posted on 03/20/2011 5:05:31 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

To: GiovannaNicoletta

Yes we are for sure that generation. I can see it coming, it’s right up head.

134 posted on 03/20/2011 5:07:50 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")

Right now who is supplying Israel with the arms necessary to defend herself? If we cut off arms supplies to her, what do you think will happen?

135 posted on 03/20/2011 5:08:53 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

No, the name doesn’t sound familiar.

136 posted on 03/20/2011 5:09:25 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")

No, the name doesn’t sound familiar.

137 posted on 03/20/2011 5:09:32 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")

Right now who is supplying Israel with the arms necessary to defend herself? If we cut off arms supplies to her, what do you think will happen?

138 posted on 03/20/2011 5:09:36 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

To: TaxPayer2000

I didn’t hear him give any date at all.

139 posted on 03/20/2011 5:10:36 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")

To: stars & stripes forever

You wrote:"Last night as I was reading my sister’s Bible I came across the message that my sister heard in the headphones. Mom wrote it down on Post it notes just after Pat heard it. She stuck the message in multiple Bibles. Jesus is coming soon. Prepare!

I wrote back: Everyday we look for Messiah to return. But the time is not yet. Too many things have to happen first. But be diligent.

Please tell me what ???????

140 posted on 03/20/2011 5:15:05 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)

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