daily rambliniscings

Yet today, I dare say that less than 20 of us SDAs (out of 18.8 million) in the whole world can correctly calculate the Day of Atonement.

This day is described in detail in Leviticus 16 and 23. The wording used is the same as for the 7th day Sabbath, which us Adventists keep, but why we don’t see a need to keep this day, which is the beginning of Jesus’ ministration in the Most Holy Place, is a mystery to me.

Whatever the case may be, even if you don’t agree that we should keep this day holy, can you give a good defense to anyone who says that the Day of Atonement in 1844 was not on October 22? That is important, isn’t it? Beware, even the current Karaites say that we are mistaken on this date!!!

I made a little video about how to calculate it, which can be viewed here:

Revelation 13 has foretold an unholy alliance between two beasts. It will be between the RCC (1st beast), and US (2nd beast). When these two link up, there will be hell on earth.

Doug Batchelor of Amazing Facts has made a 9 minute video explaining how the pope’s recent radio broadcast shows that the pope will be calling for Sunday “celebration” when he talks in America. Of course those who are knowledgeable about Bible prophecy know that Sunday worship will be promoted by Babylon at the end time, and the 144,000 will worship God on his holy 7th-day Sabbath.

This article of July 11, 2015, in the New York Times (no friend of true Christianity) shows where we are in that process:

His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the “dung of the devil.” He does not simply argue that systemic “greed for money” is a bad thing. He calls it a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.”

Having returned to his native Latin America, Francis has renewed his left-leaning critiques on the inequalities of capitalism, describing it as an underlying cause of global injustice, and a prime cause of climate change. Francis escalated that line last week when he made a historic apology for the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church during the period of Spanish colonialism – even as he called for a global movement against a “new colonialism” rooted in an inequitable economic order.

The Argentine pope seemed to be asking for a social revolution.

Yes, it is coming. The west, led by America, is in the throes of destroying not only its physical capital by piling up huge mountains of debt, but also moral capital by promoting murdering babies and legalizing acts God calls “abominations”.

The Great Whore will rule for 3 1/2 years over the 10 kings.

This video has several amusing parts to it.

nytimes article on foreigners being basically abducted and tried in the US

Tomasi told Crux that in the first instance, he hopes the statement will galvanize nations around the world to provide humanitarian aid to Christians and other groups suffering at the hands of ISIS, “so they can survive and stand up for their own rights.”

Beyond that, Tomasi said, the crisis requires “more coordinated protection, including the use of force to stop the hands of an aggressor.”

“It will be up the United Nations and its member states, especially the Security Council, to determine the exact form of intervention necessary,” he said, “but some responsibility [to act] is clear.”

福知山廃線のハイキングのビデオを御覧下さい。

The video I made of it is here:

On Tuesday I was eating lunch along a stream/big ditch down in the town, and a woman walking her dog stopped and talked with me for a while, and after hearing i was vegetarian, told me to wait while got something. Well, she came back with around a dozen apples, dozen oriental pears, and two dozen super-nice tomatoes! Wow!

Thursday, somebody’s dog came to our house and stayed around 6 hours until we could find the owner. It is very rare to see a dog not on a leash in the town or in the subdivision here, so it was quite interesting.

Then Friday, while stopped at a stop light on my bicycle, a biggish, youngish man holding a cup of coffee and some papers called out to me in a loud voice: “gaijin!” (furreigner). I thot he might be mentally unstable, so kind of backed up. He started coming closer and still calling out loudly and asking where i was from. I got off my bike and backed it up quickly. He started coming towards me quicker, and just then the light changed, and i got on my bike and made a wide berth around him while he was shouting at me to obey traffic rules. Weird.

On the Sabbath i went to see my best SDA friend in Japan. I’ve known her for around 18 years. We worked closely to help the homeless, and she is the one who put a lot of energy and effort into helping me spread the 5,000 Japanese editions of the 1858 Great Controversy book. She has always been very powerful and active, so it was a shock to see her barely able to walk or hold a dish this Sabbath. She said she can’t grasp dishes etc., and her left leg has shooting pains. She had her husband call the ambulance two nites prior, and they couldn’t get a reading on her pulse. They called around to a few hospitals to take her to, but since the ER people didn’t have a good grip on her condition, all the hospitals refused to take her. She got upset with that, and just had them drive her back home. It is getting close to my time too, i’m afraid. No, not really afraid of going downhill, just that i recognize where i am in life, and see myself going down too.

What was nice, was that her husband (non-christian) seems to have his heart softened by all this, and he studied Mark 9 with us where we read “Help increase my faith”. He has mentioned he wants to become Christian, but i think he is afraid of what his father would say, so is holding off. I just hope he makes up his mind before it’s too late.