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January 20, 2010 by toosmalltosucceed I just finished reading an article on news and local beat section of NBCMiami.com It was about how S.Florida legislators from West Palm Beach. Representative Mary Brandenburg introduced a bill in which would prohibit anyone under 16 from getting a tattoo in the Sunshine State. The only exception would be for medical reasons. Last…
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While the majority of Southern Baptist faculty members are premillennialists, some professors are re-examining their eschatological positions.
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Today, younger generations are exchanging the doctrine of last things as viewed by their fundamentalist forbearers for what some of them prefer to describe as Kingdom-oriented living.
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Old Testament scholar Lamar E. Cooper of Criswell College offers insights on premillennial dispensationalism and related issues.
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“Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond,” a book in Zondervan’s popular Counterpoints series, provides a useful dialogue on the major millennial positions of Christian eschatology.
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Phil Hotsenpiller, teaching pastor of Yorba Linda Friends Church, describes the biblically-inspired series as “24 meets The Da Vinci Code meets Left Behind.”
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For centuries, many have wondered about the identity of a biblical leader who will do Satan the devil’s bidding, trying to thwart the plans of Jesus Christ shortly before His prophesied return to Earth.
That character has come to be known as “the antichrist,” even though the Bible never uses that word to describe any single person.
Now, after endless speculation suggesting Presidents John F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush could possibly be the End Times Bad Boy, there’s a new viral video placing the current occupant of the White House into the club.
An American Christian has produced a brief film for YouTube that connects one statement by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke to President Barack Obama.
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These riots, according to his prophecy, will encourage the “old, hard-line Soviet guard” to seize the moment and rain down nukes on the United States, killing at least 100 million of us. –
The LA Times reports There were about a dozen believers in the two front rooms, men and
women of all ages, squeezed together on couches and dining room chairs.
All
of them had broken with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
over polygamy and other departures from what they believe was the
original vision of the church founder Joseph Smith. And all said they
regarded Freeborn a prophet.
The cluttered room was filled with
Bibles and religious tracts, government maps depicting potential
nuclear targets, and framed photographs of mushroom clouds.
For
90 minutes — while two boys played on the carpet with a calculator and
a marked-up Book of Mormon — the adults read aloud selected biblical
verses, passages from Smith’s biography and text pulled from an
unidentified website.
After each reading, they discussed how
these fragments all pointed to a singular end: nuclear destruction
brought on by the Lord’s wrath.
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An author and end-times scholar believes Barack Obama will continue the disastrous policy of trying to force Israel to give up more of its covenant land, including the city of Jerusalem, to create a Palestinian state. –
One News Now reports Author John McTernan fears Obama’s policies will hasten God’s judgment on America. He wrote As America Has Done To Israel, which he recently updated to include the current financial meltdown.
McTernan believes that presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and
George W. Bush have pursued an Israel policy that has brought on 45
major natural and man-made disasters on the very same days the American
government has pressured Israel to divide the land. He contends the
situation will only worsen under the new president-elect.
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They’re still ready for Armageddon at the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious sect that for almost two decades has kept a bomb shelter stocked for 750 people deep in a forest near Yellowstone National Park. –
AP reports that Church leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet
has been silenced by advanced Alzheimer’s disease. And her followers
say they’ve given up the assault rifles and armored vehicles they
amassed in the late 1980s — part of a post-nuclear war “re-emergence”
plan that brought national notoriety and a federal investigation.
Scrambling
to stay current as it reaches its 50th anniversary, the church has
transformed itself into a New Age publishing enterprise and spiritual
university. But still in the background is its “insurance” against the
end — the shelter buried beneath a hillside on the sect’s 7,500 acre
Royal Teton Ranch.
There, more than 20
feet underground, 22,000 hours of video and audio recordings of Prophet
survive. They’re stacked alongside periodically rotated,
floor-to-ceiling crates of canned fish, dried meats, grains and cooking
oils.
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The former Archbishop of Denver, J. Francis Stafford, told a university audience in Washington, D.C., last week that the election of Barack Obama has ushered in a time of trial for America. –
Rocky Mountain News [CO, USA] reports Stafford described the president-elect as “aggressive, disruptive
and apocalyptic” in remarks quoted by the Catholic News Agency on
Monday.
Since then, his statements have gained momentum on various Internet
sites, including YouTube. He is one of a number of prominent Catholic
clerics, including Denver archbishop Charles Chaput, who have voiced a
variety of criticisms of Obama.
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A group of seven Amish farmers in Michigan say the state’s insistence that they use radio frequency ID devices on their animals “constitutes some form of a ‘mark of the Beast’ and/or represents an infringement of their ‘dominion over cattle and all living things’ in violation of their fundamental religious beliefs,” according to their lawsuit. –
The Telegraph [UK] reports The Amish, members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination, are best known for
their literal interpretation of the Bible and their simple lifestyle.
The livestock registration is intended to create a national tracking system to
help contain outbreaks of diseases such as mad cow disease, or foot and
mouth.
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The Earth remains intact after the start of the largest particle physics experiment ever conducted, at CERN in Switzerland, following high profile scares that it might destroy the world – a sign, say academics, of the media’s “science illiteracy”. –
Ekklesia reports One key aim is to find the Higgs boson, the so-called “god particle” that some theorists believe give matter its mass.
It involves using the £5 billion Large Hadron Collider housed in a
27 kilometre underground tunnel located on the Swiss-French border,
which is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force.
This will re-create conditions moments after the Big Bang, some 13.7
million years ago, enabling physicists to understand what the Universe
was made of billionths of a second after the explosion of the
singularity that gave rise to all matter.
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Best-selling author Dr. Tim LaHaye says there are many reasons why end-times prophecy is not being taught in U.S. churches. –
One News Now reports “Today, we have some subtle teachers who have gone to secular
colleges and have been brainwashed into secular humanism,” said LaHaye.
And
because they have these degrees and they are Christians, Dr. LaHaye
says many individuals are brought into seminaries and Bible schools.
“[A]nd in the process they give the secular idea that we ought to
allegorize prophecy, or we ought to spiritualize it,” he adds.
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Even though Russia has advanced south into Georgia, a best-selling new Bible prophecy book says suggestions this signals an imminent march into the Middle East are mistaken. Instead, says Bill Salus, author of “Isralestine,” the world is about to be surprised by a different kind of devastating regional war involving Israel and its Arab neighbors. –
WND reports that “Isralestine: The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East,”
currently rising to the top of the prophecy charts, says scholars have
missed a significant piece of what the Bible reveals about the future
of the region. And it has many of them reconsidering their prophetic
model for the near future.
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Russia’s invasion of Georgia has caused a uproar in the international community and further strained Russia’s diplomatic relationship with the West. These events could help pave the way for the famed battle prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39. It is during this battle, that God will directly intercede to protect Israel from Magog and its allies: –
The Jerusalem Connection reports Magog founded the Magogians, thus named after him, but who were by the Greeks called Scythians. (6)
Another first century writer was Philo, (7) who also identified
Magog with southern Russia. But most of our information comes to us
from Herodotus, who wrote extensively in the 5th century B.C.
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It’s not “666,” but it’s close enough to the New Testament’s “mark of the beast,” says a small religious group in West Virginia who has won an exemption from the state’s requirement that driver’s license photos be stored in a digital database. –
WND reports Phil Hudok, a high school physics teacher in Randolph County, Pastor
Butch Paugh and 12 others raised the issue in 2006 during meetings with
Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Joseph Cicchirillo as the
state prepared to bring its driver’s license policy in line with the
federal Real ID Act, passed a year earlier. Under Real ID, states would
be required to share information about licensed drivers, including
photos, with agencies in other states.
Under the agreement worked out with the DMV, members of Paugh’s group will be allowed to have their DMV pictures taken at the Capitol DMV office where a hard copy will be kept on file. The digital version, however, will be deleted from the computer system.