Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

These Wounds
Feb 22nd, 2020
Morning MeditationCount Zinzendorf
Categories: Inspirational

"These wounds were meant to purchase me. These drops of blood were shed to obtain me. I am not my own today. I belong to another. I have been bought with a price. And I will live every moment of this day so that the Great Purchaser of my soul will receive the full reward of His suffering."

OUR LOVE MUST BE SINCERE. (Ephesians 6:24)
Feb 22nd, 2020
Morning MeditationF.M. Meyer
Categories: Meditation;Inspirational;Book Study

There are plenty who say, "Lord, Lord," but who do not the things that He says. It is easy to be profuse in our expressions, and readily swayed by gusts of emotion, and yet to be heartless and loveless. But such do not love with sincerity. They resemble the shallow soil, where the seed soon fructifies, and as soon dies, because there is only rock beneath. For such the apostle had no words of benediction.

But wherever there is sincere love to Jesus, however weak and ignorant the disciple, there is a member of the mystical body, the Church, and one on whom our benediction may alight. You may not speak our Shibboleth or accept our creed; but if you sincerely love Jesus, we bid you welcome and wish you grace.

Spirit of God, baptize us in God's holy fire, that we may begin to glow with the sacred flame, and be burning ones indeed!

Of Interest
Feb 22nd, 2020
Main StoriesDavid Hunt
Categories: Printed Newsletter

The word “Israel” is found 2,565 times in 2,293 verses in the King James Translation of the Bible, while “Jerusalem” is found 811 times in 764 verses.  In contrast, the word “Jerusalem” is not found even once in the Qur’an.  It is a false claim for Muslims to say that “Jerusalem” is their third holiest city.

Let the Headlines Speak
Feb 22nd, 2020
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

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Moscow deploys facial recognition technology for coronavirus quarantine
Moscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus quarantine do so, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday. Russia has temporarily barred Chinese nationals from entering the country to curb the spread of the virus, but has welcomed Russians who return home with an order to spend two weeks at home, even in the absence of symptoms.

Lengthy Dry Spell Raises Concerns About Possible Drought
With hardly a drop of rain in the entire month of February, 59 percent of California is now experiencing abnormally dry conditions according to the Federal Drought Monitor. At Calero Reservoir in South San Jose, it was a nice day to be out fishing for Steve Trimmer, but also something of a guilty pleasure.

Iran elections: Hardliners set to sweep parliamentary polls
Iranians have voted in elections in an exercise widely expected to result in a more hardline parliament loyal to the country’s supreme leader. It is the first such poll since the US renewed sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme, battering its economy. Thousands of moderate would-be candidates were barred from running for not meeting strict election criteria.

Trump plans to raise issue of religious freedom with Indian PM Modi: official
U.S. President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week… Modi’s government has faced large scale-protests at home and criticism abroad for enacting a citizenship law that is seen as discriminating against Muslims and has deepened concerns his administration in undermining India’s secular traditions.

Saudi textbooks call Jews ‘monkeys,’ espouse Israeli expansionist plot
Despite recent suggestions that relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia are warming, students in the kingdom are still being taught that Israel is the “Zionist enemy,” Jews are monkeys, and that the country is in fact plotting to expand its borders to reach from the River Nile to the River Euphrates.

S.Korea Coronavirus Cases Go Exponential As New Infections Soar By 70%; 10 Towns In Northern Italy Put On Lockdown
Can the coronavirus pandemic still be contained?

Incessant heavy rains submerge several provinces in northern Argentina
Heavy downpour continues to batter Argentina, affecting several northern provinces, including Chaco, La Rioja, Salta, and Tucuman. More than a hundred families have been evacuated due to widespread flooding on February 20, 2020.

Severe winter storm hits Norway with heavy snow, resulting in at least 2 fatalities
A severe winter storm hit Norway this week, dumping heavy snow and causing travel and power disruptions across parts of the country. Dozens of people were left stranded on closed roads and at least 2 people lost their lives after an avalanche hit off the country’s north mainland on Thursday, February 20, 2020.

Heavy rains turn roads into raging rivers, trigger deadly landslides
Continuous heavy downpour in Indonesia’s West Java province turned roads into raging rivers and caused landslides in which at least 4 people lost their lives, authorities confirmed on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Flash floods have also affected more than 115 050 people and submerged about 16 000 homes, as well as 47 schools.

Dead Sea Blooms Floral Wonderland for First Time: Ezekiel’s Prophecy Coming to Fruition?
For those who have visited the lowest point on the face of the earth, Ezekiel’s end-of-days prophecy of the Dead Sea coming to life seems impossible, yet recently, scientists have been shocked to discover that the sinkholes appearing around the sea are quickly filling up with fish and other forms of life previously unseen in the inhospitable region.

End Times Heretic And False Teacher Paula White Makes Outrageous Claim That She Was Taken To Heaven And Saw The Face Of God In The Throne Room
It’s starting to feel more and more like I am writing for satire site The Babylon Bee instead of bringing you actual end times news about the lukewarm Laodicean church, and yet, here we are. Another day, another outrageous false claim by end times heretic and Donald Trump spiritual adviser Paula White. Is there no limit to her false claims, is there no end to her distorted and heretical  presentation of the gospel? Apparently not.

Coronavirus infections EXPLODE in South Korea as spread accelerates across Iran, Lebanon and Israel
Literally overnight, CoVid-19 coronavirus infections doubled in South Korea to 204, representing an alarming explosion of human-to-human transmission outside of China and indicating that China was just the first wave of an accelerating global pandemic.

The Blatant “Occult Elite” Symbolism at the 2020 Vogue Ball in Brazil
This elite event featured stars from Brazil and around the world dressed in highly symbolic attire. Here’s a look at these costumes and their hidden occult meaning.

Plague Of Locusts Is Only Intensifying As It Now Covers Africa, Many Muslim Nations In The Middle East And Has Reached As Far As Communist China
I honestly thought that the current locust swarming would have stopped by now, or at the very least lessened, but just the opposite is taking place. It is increasing in intensity, with the locusts eating the food of 35,000 people in a single day. Interestingly, the locust swarms seem to be affecting nations that reject the God of the bible who commands the locusts at His will.

Roger Stone moves to have judge recuse herself for praising ‘integrity’ of jurors
As former Trump aide Roger Stone seeks a new trial, his attorneys now argue the presiding judge in his case must recuse herself.

Pope Francis The Taxman
“Today’s structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development…”

Eternity
Feb 22nd, 2020
CommentaryBaptist Bread
Categories: Bible Salvation

 "...The grass withereth,  and the flower thereof falleth away:" 1 Peter 1:24b

A lonely lady walked through a beautiful flower garden.  It was the end of the season and with some melancholy, she wrote these words on a card and left it on an ancient sundial:

To think of summers yet to come,  That I am not to see:

To think a weed is yet to bloom,   From dust that I shall be!

The next morning as she walked again through the fading beauty of the flowers, she saw the card had been moved and these lines were added:

To think when Heaven and Earth are fled,   And time and seas are o'er,

When all that can die shall be dead,  That I must die no more!

Oh, where will then my portion be?   Where shall I spend eternity?

Someone had read the card and summed up its hopelessness by reminding others of the responsibility one has towards God and the destiny of the soul.  If you are not saved, you ought to be, for your guarantee of tomorrow is as tenuous as the downtrodden blooms of last summer. Friend, "Boast not thyself of tomorrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth"  (Prov. 27:1)

And,"...behold now is the accepted time: behold, now is the day of salvation" (11Cor. 6:2b).   - T.G