Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. This is a day set aside to be thankful for all the blessing in life. We have breath, and life and most of us have lots to be appreciative of. Family, friends and loved ones. A nation that may be torn apart and divided along political and sectarian reasons, but is still the only hope for the world. America, a bastion of hope and freedom where all men are created equal and have opportunities that the majority of the world long for.
My greatest thanks is to Almighty God who sent us a savior. His name is Jesus and he is the most blessed hope for mankind. Salvation, forgiveness and hope is only found in His saving grace. If you feel troubled or lost, maybe even thinking of ending it all by taking your own life, rethink that thought. You have a savior. He is closer than a brother, call upon Him now. He will fill your heart with peace. The Bible tells us there is no other name given to save us. Believe in Him. confess him as your Lord and he will save you.
New life in Christ will transform you into a new person. That is why it is called being born again. All things will pass away and all things will become brand new. Jesus is the answer to life.
It is certainly not a surprise in the world we live in that hatred of Jewish people is on the rise. I say that, however, a part of me thinks it’s absolutely mad that we have forgotten the terrors of Nazi Germany so quickly. The Jewish people have a saying “never again,” speaking of the holocaust. Unfortunately never again happened on Oct. 7th 2023. I am not here to deal with that, we have spoken on that hideous attack with all its atrocities on many occasions.
The point of my essay today is to share the reason of this demonic hatred of a people that really are a bother to no one. They live their lives. They make the world better through their scientific and cultural activities. All they really want is to live in peace in their homeland, yes it is theirs from antiquity. Given to them by God to the Patriarch Abraham, passed down to Isaac and Jacob. In that same line we find our Savior Jesus Christ. Aw, now we are getting somewhere.
The pure demonic hatred is found from the beginning. From Haman, the Roman emperors, to Hitler and all points in between. It all started in the garden. It still flourishes today. The anti-christ spirit that lives in this world was spoken of in 1 John 1:18. It was alive then and it is on steroids today. The pure hatred brandied about on our college campuses by Marxist professors and students rivals the rise of Nazism in the 30’s in Europe. So it really is a sign of the times, but also a deep thread of evil that a sinful unrepentant world loves to soak in. Evil has to hate something or someone, and the Jews are an easy target.
Surprisingly even some Christian denominations have forsaken the Biblical command to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. To lift up and pray for a people who through them came the sure Word of God and our Messiah. God is not finished with Israel. The very fact that this small country bothering no one is under heavy attack military and economically is proof they are still a part of God’s plan. Replacement theology is a lie.
The backlash to this is the saying of the radical Islamist who declare boldly they are coming for the Saturday (Jews) people first then the Sunday (Christians) people next. Mark my words the anti-Christ spirt is targeting and will increase attacks on churches and Christians. We are already seeing this happen in Europe, Africa, and Canada. Not surprising. This so called religion of peace, demands to “convert or die.”
Hate Israel if you want, but if you do, you will be standing and fighting against Almighty God. I choose to stand with Israel. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything they do, but it does mean I want to be on God’s side. I stand with the Word! I stand with Israel!
Below is an excellent article that captures so very much about the stamina and drive of the Jewish people and a small nation called Israel. Rh
This is an excellent article by Alister Heath, a British journalist for the Daily Telegraph:
There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.
Beginning in 1740, George Whitefield preached seven times in America. He spread the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War.
Whitefield‘s preaching stirred crowds with enthusiasm, which was criticized by the formal, established churches of the day. When they closed their doors to him, Whitefield began preaching out-of-doors. Crowds grew so large that no church could have held the number of people, sometimes being as large as 25,000.
In one sermon, George Whitefield proclaimed:
“Never rest until you can say, ‘the Lord our righteousness.’ Who knows but the Lord may have mercy, nay, abundantly pardon you? Beg of God to give you faith; and if the Lord give you that, you will by it receive Christ, with his righteousness, and his all … None, none can tell, but those happy souls who have experienced it with what demonstration of the Spirit this conviction comes …”
“Oh, how amiable, as well as all sufficient, does the blessed Jesus now appear! With what new eyes does the soul now see the Lord its righteousness! Brethren, it is unutterable … Those who live godly in Christ, may not so much be said to live, as Christ to live in them … They are led by the Spirit as a child is led by the hand of its father … They hear, know, and obey his voice … Being born again in God they habitually live to, and daily walk with God.”
George Whitefield was one of the first ministers to publicly preach the Gospel to slaves. This profoundly influenced many preachers, such as Rev. Samuel Davies, and denominations, such as Baptists, Methodists and Quakers, to be inclusive of blacks.
A young black teenager named John Marrant heard Whitefield preach in Charleston, South Carolina. Marrant converted and went on to become one of America’s first black preachers, even preaching among Cherokee, in England and in Nova Scotia.
George Liele, a black slave in Georgia, heard a Great Awakening preacher. He converted and began preaching with such conviction that his master freed him. Liele founded one of America’s first black churches–Silver Bluff Baptist Church in Beach Island, South Carolina, 1773, and then became one of America’s first foreign missionaries, arriving in Jamaica in 1792.
George Whitefield advocated for the improvement of the treatment of slaves, though he sadly held the typical 18th century view which accommodated the institution of slavery.
It was not until 1770 that Pennsylvania Quaker Anthony Benezet pioneered the movement to abolish slavery by founding the Negro School at Philadelphia, and, in 1775, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, of which Franklin became the president in 1785.
Benezet’s school was inspired by Whitefield, who had first proposed in 1739 that Philadelphia have a Charity School for blacks and poor orphan children. Franklin later merged the Charity School with his newly formed Academy of Philadelphia.
Franklin helped finance the building of an auditorium for Whitefield to preach in, after which it became one of the first buildings of the Academy, which turned into the University of Pennsylvania.
I am praying for another Great Awakening in the United States to bring repentance and restoration. Our nation has had at least three great moves of God. Lord we pray for one more! We you join with me to see one last move of God before it is too late. Every major issue that divides our land is a moral issue. It will take moral solutions, not political ones. Rh
We live in a world saturated with sin, which frequently comes across as death-obsessed. Look around and you’ll quickly see how many in our culture demand abortion, the death of the unborn. Our schools and government continue to push for transgenderism and LGBT ideology, the death of innocence and basic biology. Society, it often seems, craves complete subjectivity, the death of truth itself. And yet, death has another sly sickle swinging in the lives of vulnerable people, and it goes by the name of euthanasia — the death of hope.
For someone already questioning their life, fed up with the troubles of this world and looking for a way out, euthanasia seems a fitting route. But really, it’s a tragedy, and one being heavily promoted in various parts of the world. A major culprit of this life-ending system is Switzerland, which recently brought attention to their soon-to-come “portable suicide pod,” Sarco. In less than 10 minutes and at the cost of $20, this pod will rob you of your life.
The Last Resort (LR) is the organization presenting this with the inventor Philip Nitschke of Exit International (EI), and they noted they “saw no legal obstacle to its use in Switzerland, where the law generally allows assisted suicide if the person commits the lethal act themselves.” According to LR executive Florian Willet, the suicide pod, which was first unveiled in 2019, already has people “queuing up.” It currently only holds someone as tall as five feet eight inches, but “the development team is seeking to build a double Sarco so couples could end their lives together.”
The way it operates is by replacing the oxygen inside the pod with nitrogen, which then leads to death by hypoxia. “I cannot imagine a more beautiful way [to die],” Willet added. “[B]reathing air without oxygen until falling into an eternal sleep.” For someone who chooses this route, these are the last words they will hear from a robotic voice: “If you want to die, press this button.”
As Nitschke explained, “Within two breaths of air of that low level of oxygen, they will start to feel disorientated, uncoordinated and slightly euphoric before losing consciousness. … We will be able to see quite quickly when that person has died.” And once that button is pressed, he noted, that’s it — “There’s no way of going back.”
In a conversation with Annabelle Pechmann, a current intern with Family Research Council’s Communications Department, it became clear her heart for bringing awareness to the dangers of euthanasia and its threat to the sanctity of life. To The Washington Stand, she explained that Sarco’s launch in Switzerland seems to be “a wake-up call to our society in the West,” and especially for those of us in the church. She urged, “As Christians, [it’s important] to start preparing policies against this happening in places such as America.”
From Pechmann’s perspective, euthanasia is a “type of genocide,” and arguably, it’s been largely off the radar of most Americans. But “we shouldn’t wait until a policy or a nonprofit or some piece of legislation comes out to declare that this is acceptable … in our country” before we counter it, she urged. “The time to stand against such evil is now.”
This suicide pod, as it’s been deemed, is a machine created by people who claim to be doctors yet have dedicated the majority of their work to making death more convenient. Allegedly, Sarco is reserved for people over the age of 50. But as LR advisory board member Fiona Stewart said that if someone 18 or older was severely ill, “[W]e would not want to deny a suffering person based on their age.” And digging deeper, it becomes evident that someone like Nitschke has podcasts, videos, workshops, and more, all of which promote death — even if you’re physically healthy.
Indeed, if you look at the Sarco website, it includes these phrases like “(Re)design Death” and “what if we dared to imagine that our last day might also be one of our most exciting?” The page specifically states, “The elegant design was intended to suggest a sense of occasion: of travel to a ‘new destination.’” This is a system glorifying and romanticizing death. As Pechmann emphasized, “Last time I thought about it, human beings still feel pain, death still exists, and suffering occurs in this broken world. To state that euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are part to solving people’s problems, well, it is only adding to them.”
The truth is, as Pechmann eloquently said, euthanasia does not provide “hope, a cure, [or] a change.” And yet, these are what people need most. More than just needing them, we need hopes, cures, and changes that are eternal — all of which are exclusively offered in Jesus Christ.
As I read about Sarco, becoming increasingly mournful over this flippant view of life and death, the words from Matthew 6 came to mind. “Look at the birds of the air,” Jesus said. “They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” He went on, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 6:26; 28-30).
In the strife of life, perhaps there are fewer comforts greater than knowing our Lord loves us. “Come to Me,” Jesus tells us, “All you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). To not only serve an all-powerful God, but one who genuinely cares about us — oh, how sweet is this truth. Because even when life doesn’t feel worth living, His promises give us hope to endure; His truth gives us council to move forward; His grace opens the door to eternal life with Him. One day, we will be free of sin, where pain, death, and all suffering will be no more. This is what the Christian life is all about. Truly, to someday live eternally with our Maker is all we need to live joyfully now, despite the vexations that arise as we wait for that day.
Suicide is simply not the answer. Christ, in any and all things, is. As a church, my prayer is that we can take heartbreaking information like what is coming out of Switzerland and be stirred to more passionate evangelism. Don’t you realize? We have the truth every person walking this earth needs. Christ, as Paul wrote in Phillipians 4, is the key to contentment and the key to fortitude. Christ, as Pastor Charles Spurgeon stated, is a perfect Savior who “hath all power in heaven and in earth to save souls.” He has the “power to meet all needs … in all cases … at all times.”
Christ, Spurgeon concludes, “is the God of all grace to us. Deep as our miseries and boundless as our sins may be, the mines of His unfathomable love, His grace, and His power, exceed them still.” This is what broken souls need. Not a pod that permanently erases all hope and life, but a Savior who is a permanent hope, and offers eternal, painless life.
We are that generation that will see the return of the Lord. I truly believe that from the bottom of my heart and from the cry of the Spirit. Even so come Lord Jesus.
Israel’s rebirth in 1948 and it’s continual victories over it’s enemies have proven that God is in control of their destiny. After wars, and multiple violet terror attacks, Israel is stronger than it’s ever been.
What comes next, we know, but the timetable is up to the Almighty. Know this for certain, that Israel will stand and not be driven into the sea. The inner circle around Israel that seeks it annihilation will have their threats turned back onto them and they will suffer a crushing defeat. the Israeli army will with God’s help prove victorious and live in a short time of peace, having vanquished their mortal enemies.
The outer circle and the lands from the north and the far north will be dealt with by God with 100 pound hailstone falling upon them and they shall also be devastated and destroyed. This war will be short with God proving who He is and that His word and His people will always survive and live and prosper in the land given to them many centuries ago. Praise the Lord!
God is faithful to His Word! Psalms 138: declares “For you have magnified Your Word above all your name.” Rh
Today I would like to speak about the Bride of Christ as opposed to the Body of Christ. I will attempt to explain my reasoning why I believe that they are two distinctly different entities of the Church. The Body of Christ consists of all who have confessed Christ as their savior. The Bride of Christ are the ekklesia or the sold out bond-servants of Christ. Let me explain.
I do not believe there are different levels of Christianity. Some worship Christ for salvation only, and still enjoy worldly desires. They may even be oppressed in mind or have certain desire or lust they are trying, but unfortunately not able to completely overcome. They settle for a good Christian life, but with fleshy struggles. Their Bible study and prayer is sporadic and their discipleship is non- existent. The growth track they are on keeps their desire in the milk of the Word, not meat. They have not exercised their learning beyond the simplistic doctrines of the Church. They live in the elementary aspects of basic Christianity. To grow in Christ, find a mentor, get into a good Bible Study, find someone you trust to be a battle buddy to share and pray with. Most importantly read the Word! Neglecting the Word is neglecting Jesus. (John 1:1) Remember Jesus was not a man that became the Word, but the eternal Word who took on flesh and became a man. (Philippians 2:5-11) Fully God and fully man.
In Matthew 25 we have a parable of the wise and foolish virgins. The wise virgins are a type of the true Bride of Christ. They have a full supply of oil (Holy Spirit) and are ever watching for the Messiah to come back. May I ask, are you full of the Spirit, and longing to be filled every day? Their desire is to follow and please the Lord Jesus. They are aware of the time we live in, meditating on Christ and praying even if it is just a few minutes several times throughout the day. Following Paul’s admonition to pray without ceasing. The constant desire of bond-servants of God is to be pleasing to Christ and walk in submission to the Holy Spirit. They aren’t perfect, but they long to be transformed into the very image of Christ, “partakers in the divine nature of God”. (2 Peter 1:2-3),
The church is to be, sanctified, cleansed and presented to Christ without spot or blemish. (Ephesians 5:26-27)
A glorious church.
There are two priorities of the Bride, the Word and the Spirit. Worshiping in Spirit and Truth. (John 4:24) Live in the Word, and walk in His Spirit!
The Spirit and the Bride say “Come!” (Revelation 22:17)
You were born for such a time as this. Be strong and courageous for God chose us for this particular time. If He chose us, He will sustain us!
Maranatha – Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus. Amen! Rh
As I was reading in Ezekiel this morning I came to a powerful insight for us today. Ezek.11:16 talks about how God is dispersing Israel because of their sin and apostacy. But in the midst of that God tells them in v.16 that when they are driven out of Jerusalem, and scattered “He will be a little sanctuary (Holy Place) for them in the countries where they have gone”.
Powerful, even under the judgement of God, which I believe America is under at the present time, God always tempers with grace. Grace is divine favor or getting what we DON’T deserve! What a beautiful picture of the everlasting love of God.
If you are in a tough place this is not the time to give up. Reach out to the Lord, He is only a whispered prayer away. Rh
Dolly Parton’s new song issues staunch to believers. Dolly composed a song called “Don’t Make Me Come Down There” after having a dream about God. He was standing on a mountain top, looking down on us and in my dream I heard Him say, ‘Don’t make Me have to come down there. My children, you had best beware. If you don’t pay attention, consequences will be dire. Don’t make Me have to come down there.’”
For those of us who have been in church their whole life, the state of the church is really not good. Yes we have some great churches, but on the other hand many are nothing more than country clubs. The state of America is the fault of the church as it has tried to be relevant and not the body of Christ. Anyone is welcome in our churches, but just don’t stay the way you come. Preach repentance and transformation. It’s time to awaken a sleeping giant to transform themselves into the Army of God to battle the evil that is permeating America. God needs a warring church, not the Laodicean Church..
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