As in the days of Noah and Lot

06/25/10 | Bill Randles

[eskimomosul]

PastorBill,you say “unfortunately we have arrived”...We belivers should do not look upon these times as being of an unfortunate nature.These are the greatest times to be alive..We are ready for the Day our Lord and Saviour comes for his Church..For we are outta here!!!The unfortunates will be those left behind..Make No Mistake for These are the LAST DAYS!!!!!

[UCANSEE2]

The Second Coming has come

The interesting thing about the Bible stories is that one must understand that each lesson refers to life on different levels.

The Second Coming, for instance. It refers to each of us on a daily basis. We go to sleep and are reborn anew each day.

It refers to our lifespan, in that we will have a Tribulation, Armageddon, a Second Coming, and a return to heaven.

It also refers to mankind as a whole. This civilization, this incarnation of man, will have it's Second Coming.

So.... it's not as important whether the Second Coming has 'happened' , as it is to what you do until it does, or while it happens.

[Lera]

Thank you once again Pastor Bill. I always look forward to reading your post.

[Lera]

The cities were destroyed by fire and brimstone just like the Bible says they were . The ash is even visible on satellite images. The sites are loaded with balls of sulfur.

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/sodom_&_gomorrah.htm

[NavyCanDo]

Something unsettling most certainly has been set in motion. I really believe we are on the verge of greatest event in human history, the fulfillment of end-time prophecies.

As a young Christian in the 1970’s I got caught up on reading all of those end-times books in the Bible Book stores. The book captivating me the most, being Hal Lindsey’s book “The late great Planet Earth”. The books were fascinating at the time, I could hardly put them down - but the prophecies seemed so far out into the future I could hardly believe it all could go down in my life time.

We have come a long way since Hal Lindsey’s book.

[chuckles]

You seem positive that you will be "outta here" and not left behind. Just a reminder that many that say "Lord Lord" will not be taken. Also there are foolish virgins that are sent where they "buy and sell" and are left behind, and other parables that speak of servants that aren't doing what God requires and are not rewarded.

I'm not making judgments, but just search yourself and make sure you are as a bride is to her Groom. I go to church with many that say they aren't ready to go because they aren't retired yet, have a new grand baby they want to see grown, or even a vacation that is coming up they are counting on. Many that are "sure" they are going won't be, I fear. As the Bible describes us as "marrying" Jesus, do we feel about Him as we do our spouses? Hopefully we do, but we have about a 50% divorce rate even with church goers. Would you die for Christ? Think about that one for awhile. I know people that say yes, but won't even talk about Him to their own children, won't give to charity or the church, won't even do a favor for family. Their mouth is there, but there is no fruit.

I hope and pray to go, but I would understand if I wasn't taken. When Paul said he had run the good race, I look at the times I remained in my Lazy Boy. He spent his time in prison, was beaten to death, and then came back, and finally died in the cause of Christ. What have I suffered for Christ other than some ribbing for believing the Bible?

Just as an experiment, ask some people you know if they would be ready if Christ came today. I was blown away by the answers I got from some people. Just as the wedding feast parable said they had a new ox to break in, or other excuses, we seem to think it inconvenient if God were to take us on His time schedule.

[Talisker]

The disasters of the old testament were cosmic. You'd have centuries worth of warning of anything like that particularly with the kinds of telescopes we have now, and there is nothing like that on the horizon for any future which is in any rational manner foreseeable.

Well, it may well be on "the horizon." The Vatican operates an advanced telescope observatory in Arizona and Vatican astronomers openly acknowledge ET's as "brothers."

Something is changing. Vatican speak clearly about Extraterrestrials.

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[eskimomosul]

Chuckles,I see very well exactly what you are saying..For Jesus Christ,I am faithful,always true..I couldn’t do what I do with out my lovely wife or Jesus Christ by my side Yes,my life is Blessed.I have a personal relationship with our Saviour Jesus Christ..I work, & live in War torn Iraq.5+ years,and still going..I am willing at any moment to give my life for my Creator,Jesus Christ or my fellow man for that matter.God’s Blessings.

[muawiyah]

Will remember to pop it into the lineup here next time I look them up. At the moment they are featuring just pictures of hundreds and hundreds of far more recent stones further South in Sweden that were put in place by Indo-European people.

You'll want to do a search for: Petroglyph Park russia

Although this is classically Sa'ami territory (part of the Sapma) and for a long time occupied by the Finns, and earlier by the Swedes, it ended up in the hands of the Russians at the end of the Continuation War.

It'll be Finish again, of course.

The references available with this search are usually provided by Finns, Latvians or Russians, and are ever changing. Be prepared to beg for translations on research papers. There's a cottage industry of researchers in this material. Everything has been photographed long ago so what people are doing is dating the glyphs, or linking them together, or providing new interpretations. This stuff can change fast ~ month to month ~ so you might want to make a copy on your own computer of anything you might like to look at again. I have my own copy of the "Lot Interpretation" around somewhere but not handy. Found it about 8 years back.

The Lot story tied together a shamanistic tradition in NORTHEAST ASIA among the Evank (and other reindeer herding people_ with the stone carvings in Russian Former Finland. I would imagine people who know the shamanistic story recognize that it is fairly well parallel to the Biblical story regarding Lot's wife, but it has enough differences to know that it does not draw on that particular source. The discovery of the stones to back up the shamanistic story was well known ~ going back to the mid 1800s ~ but radio carbon dating of the milieu around those stones was the big surprise ~ 7,000 year PLUS dates for those items and others.

That predates the creation of the Abrahamic Jewish religious movement by many thousands of years.

For religious people think of Lot's story as arising out of earlier revelations and histories that God put in your Bible.

[seemoAR]

The Pastor at my small Church preached On Ephesians 5 22-31 this morning. The Wives are to submit themselves to their husbands for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the Church. Several people seemed to be uncomfortable. ;O)

[pastorbillrandles]

You are exactly right- point well taken!

[chuckles]

....."Several people seemed to be uncomfortable. ;O)".....

Yes I know the passage well. It's always funny how the wives part is preached hard and loud, but the part about Jesus giving His life for the Bride and well,...you know, the Bridegroom being Jesus like, is hardly preached at all. It always fascinates me how the wife is supposed to follow her husband when he is a no good bum. I don't think he is "Jesus like" and the head of the family if he gambles and drinks all the money away and expects dinner on the table after a hard night of chasing women. That part of the sermon is always "next Sunday".

If the husband is Jesus like, prays himself up for guidance, and does what the Spirit has led him to do, then yes, I think the woman should thank God for a good husband and father and submit to his leading because he is being led by the Spirit. Otherwise, he gets the broom handle when staggering through the door.

Being a husband and father has LARGE responsibilities if you do it per the Bible.

[seemoAR]

I agree with you 100% but, where is “I think” or “ I don’t think” in the scripture?

[chuckles]

Sorry, I don't get what you are saying? I can't find where a Biblical husband would gamble and drink his money away and expect dinner on the table after chasing women all night but I can find them sitting in pews on Sunday cheering the preacher when he says the wife should submit to the husband. It's not Biblical to expect the wife to submit to an unbiblical husband. Right after the part about the wife submitting is the part about a Jesus-like husband, but it never seems to get talked about. The rub always comes when the wife is supposed to submit and the conversation seems to run aground. If there were more Jesus-like husbands, I think the rates of divorce and women libbers would decline if their husbands were aligned more with God. That's my opinion. I think also that the Bible will back that up if you read between the lines for the meaning of the verses instead of looking for an exact quote. The meaning of the “wedding feast” and the Bride of Christ is explained in a Jewish wedding. That's why marriage is between a man and a woman in the Bible and we say we are against gay marriage. The model is Biblical but not spelled out verbatim. If Jesus is the model for a husband, then I think,( again), that most of us are woefully falling short of what the Bible expects of us to enable a Biblical wife to submit to. If a man is seeking God to rule and reign in his household, then the woman is expected to submit to her husband just as we are expected to submit to God. It just seems that the woman submitting part is preached a whole lot more than the husband being Christ-like.

[seemoAR]

Your opinion is worth just as little as mine. A lot of people, including me, have a major problem with “Thou Shall not”. It is human nature to make exceptions for ourselves. I don’t think God is interested in our excuses.

[Lera]

Found in the Dead Sea Scrolls were parts of the Book of Giants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls I remember reading somewhere that in ancient Mesopotamia the Sumerians claimed that they were a hybrid race between space men and humans according to some of their ancient writings. Wish I could find a link .

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

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