From boortz.com this am.

I STILL have chills from this one!

The Nostradamus thing may have been a hoax. While no date was assigned to this one, this one is too close for comfort and pretty spooky.

The Nostradamus email making the rounds is a complete and utter hoax.

This pericope from Zephaniah is applicable to many disasters and wars over the centuries and is no more applicable to NYC in 2001 than Dresden in 1945. This passage's true significance is to remind us that the words of Scripture are eternally relevant - regardless of our modern world's assumption that we have "outgrown" the Scriptures.

And the Scriptures have been an important source of solace for many affected by this tragedy here in NYC. Myself included.

Taken in context, those two verses are even more chilling:

14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

" This pericope from Zephaniah is applicable to many disasters and wars over the centuries and is no more applicable to NYC in 2001 than Dresden in 1945. This passage's true significance is to remind us that the words of Scripture are eternally relevant - regardless of our modern world's assumption that we have "outgrown" the Scriptures."

Very well said.

grace and peace to you.God bless

Fortified cities and High Towers in the old testament is referring to the stongholds and idolotry in our spiritual lives.

What verse was available for the 18th of September? Thanks in advance.

This passage's true significance is to remind us that the words of Scripture are eternally relevant ...

My initial reaction was, who is this voice of reason on one of "these" threads. On the money, as usual, wideawake.

My daughter told me of this the day after the bombings and gotta tell you, it got my attention. Thanks for sharing this with us. God Bless.

Bump.

What verse was available for the 18th of September? Thanks in advance.

"Available"? Barring the unforeseeable, they'll all be "available."

But it's that "unforeseeable" that's the scary part.

Because for some, this is one verse that will be "available" only today:

We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:1, 2

If some will not "avail" themselves of the truth of that verse today, the only verse "available" tomorrow will be this one:

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
(Hebrews 9:27

Dan
How Can I Know God?
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Naw. Try Romans 13:4. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

Don't know. Haven't seen the actual calendar. Perhaps someone on FR has one?

This morning a listener telefaxed me a copy of a calendar he had purchased.

Uh huh. Does anybody have one of these calendars to verify? I have my doubts. Aren't these verse-a-day calendars full of 'inspirational' perky feel-good and probably jerked-out-of-context verses? Does that passage look like it would be put on a calendar? Perhaps, but...

Meanwhile, they miss the obvious:

Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

I agree that Scripture is given to reprove as well as comfort. But I do not believe that a commercially packaged calendar intended for the PromiseKeepers (TM) segment of the evangelical book- and knickknack-buying public is a divinely-ordained guide to Scripture.

What's the message? That if you don't read the snippets of Scripture doled out by the "Daily Devotion" line of Christian products you aren't properly approaching God's Word?

If you read Zephaniah's entire prophecy you'll see that the day of wrath he is prophesying is one in which the servants of Baal and other evildoers will be specifically singled out for punishment. The Lord will "search Jerusalem with lamps" for those that disdain His judgment.

I know people who died at WTC. Among those people were many devout Christians who placed their faith, hope and love in the mercy of Christ Jesus and His redeeming power. Not all the victims were those who "have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him" as the prophecy says.

The Lord Himself said that it will rain on the just and the unjust alike. It rained fire on the just last Tuesday.

I wasn't privy to the all-encompassing wisdom of the marketing gurus behind the "Daily Devotions" line of Christian products. My Scripture study plan was for the beginning of Job that day. The Lord allowed Satan to rain fire upon the family of Job in order to test that righteous man. Job's response should be well known - "The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

Job was not being punished, as the victims in Zephaniah's prophecy were, for idolatry and evildoing. The history of Job is not that clearcut and that easy to dismiss - using the Scripture like an astrology manual will not suffice. Likewise, the people who were destroyed by terrorists last Tuesday were not worshippers of Baal - many of them were earnest believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Their history is not clearcut and easy to dismiss either.

#10... Great post.

Right. The other days had things like: "Your wife is messing around on you today", and "Today you will catch the flu from someone at work".

Thank you kindly, bro. Have you seen this one: Jesus Comments on Collapse of Tower and Victim's Suffering ?

Dan

THIS IS GIVING A LOT OF LISTENERS THE CHILLS

This morning a listener telefaxed me a copy of a calendar he had purchased. Every day you would turn a page in this calendar -- and every day there would be a new verse from the Bible for you to consider. The listener forgot to turn the page in his calendar Tuesday morning. He was too busy following the tragedy in New York. When he did open his calendar later in the day -- he was, to put it mildly, in for a shock. The scripture for September 11, 2001 was from The Book of Zephaniah, Chapter 1, Verses 15 and 16.

Read this .... and ponder:

15. That day is a day of wrath, A day of trouble and distress, A day of devastation and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, 16. A day of trumpet and alarm Against the fortified cities And against the high towers.

The calendar is called "Daily Devotions from Godly Men -- Men's Devotional Bible." I understand it is available at Christian Book Stores.

Lets read the rest of it

Zephaniah - 1:15That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

1:16A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

1:17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Please compare this to Isa.59:2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.

We walk as blind men..unable to see God because of sin and..God shuts His ears to the prayer of those that are in sin.....blind men can not see and God will not hear..the message is clear..