[Dr. Thorne]

Dr. Missler lays out the potentially devastating issues we face today. He promises a strategy for dealing with these in upcoming issues of the KHouse Personal Update. When those articles appear, I will post links.

[jazzlite]

...”Dr. Missler lays out the potentially devastating issues we face today. He promises a strategy for dealing with these in upcoming issues of the KHouse Personal Update. When those articles appear, I will post links.”...

Thank you. I want to read those links.

[Mrs.Z]

Ping.

[upchuck]

Bump to every FReeper. This is a must read column. Dr. Missler has laid it all out.

I do, however STRONGLY disagree with this one paragraph

Food stamp assistance grew from 17.2 million recipients in 2000 to 47.7 million in 2013 (one in seven Americans)! Where’s the “recovery”? Eleven million U.S. citizens today receive disability payments, 57.6 million receive Social Security (and growing rapidly), and 82 million households are on Medicaid.

Medicaid is 100% funded by the taxpayers. Social Security, on the other hand, is paid by the recipients. I know that SocSec is paid from the General Fund. But I didn't vote to take the Social Security Trust Fund and fold it into the General Fund.

[PapaNew]

I believe God's word for us today specifically about the increasing darkness around us is Isaiah 60:1-2.

"Arise, shine for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord arises upon you and his glory is seen upon you."

I believe that God himself and the gospel of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ must first "shine in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Cor 4:6) and "with open face beholding the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image form glory to glory by the spirit of the Lord" (2 Cor 3:18).

As we grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, beholding his glorious person, we are changed into His image. "Glory" (greek "Doxa") in the New Testament means "inherent, intrinsic worth evoking a good opinion which brings honor."

As we receive God's good opinion of us because of Jesus' perfect and completed sacrifice for us, we can arise and shine for others to see. The darker it gets the brighter we shine.

Don't focus on the darkness. Focus on Jesus and let his good opinion of you change you into His image for all to see. Jesus said we are the light of the world. That is our calling in these last days.