spreading 3 angels' messages
There was a lot of chatter a couple of years back in the “Occupy movement” about the “one percent”. Supposedly, THEY are the bad ones, the ones ruining everything in society.
With this video, I show my partial agreement, but the “one percent” may not necessarily be the same group of people they are thinking of! youtu.be/x5WA3t6gQm0
http://youtu.be/x5WA3t6gQm0
This pope is showing his true colors more and more recently. As everyone who is interested in end-time events probably already knows, he sent a little video to Kenneth Copeland’s group of pastors last January, calling for them to come back to the Roman Catholic Church. He also made the strange analogy of asking the Protestants to “come to Joseph” with the idea of getting help in their time of need, but made two huge mistakes with that analogy – Joseph was NOT the first born, and Joseph was in the land of Egypt (Babylon)!
Then he recently went to Jerusalem, trying to do his part obstensibly for peace, but more likely to get respect to be the “king-maker” in future negotiations, and probably also to get some of that land in Jerusalem, as Satan has always wanted to put his headquarters there. Daniel 11:45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Yesterday he called for people to take Sundays off work. He said: “that spending Sundays with family and friends is an “ethical choice” for faithful and non-faithful alike”. “Francis said the priority should be “not economic but human,” and that the stress should be on families and friendships, not commercial relationships. He added: “Maybe it’s time to ask ourselves if working on Sundays is true freedom.””
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-no-sundays-good-not-just-faithful-130300599.html
It looks like the gloves are being slowly removed. May all of God’s people be awake to the times!
Jack Walker, a member of the “Ridgetop Awakening Group” has passed away at the age of 86. Jack Walker was kind of the leader of the Ridgetop group. I don’t really remember him, but have a very faint feeling that he was a fun guy.
My mother was a believer in the Awakening message by Robert Brinsmead in the mid 1960s up to around 1972. This caused extreme friction in our family, as my father was very much against the “offshoots” as they were termed, and more derisively “Brinsmeads”. One of my first recollections of life is of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor of the church in Madison Tennessee screaming at my mother, and then later, my mother hurrying away with me into the neighborhood/fields behind our house to escape my dad who we could see driving his car looking for us, knowing that he would kill us if he found us in his rage.
There was an uneasy truce with frequent flare-ups in our house after that incident. Often, on Sabbaths, my mother would drive the 25-30 miles or so to Ridgetop Tennessee where she would fellowship with like-minded believers in the Awakening message. Normally I would listen to a few minutes, and then run off downstairs to play or whatever. Towards the end of that experience, I remember sitting in an old building in Coalmont Tennessee with maybe around 20 people, and the solemnity, earnestness, deep study etc. has left an impression on me that I thank God for, and for which I keep longing will be resurrected or even exceeded before I go the way of all humans.
In 1972 when Robert Brinsmead came to Nashville TN, he was teaching that Ellen White isn’t to be trusted, and even the first few chapters of the Bible can’t be taken literally. I can still remember my mother standing up in front of around 200 people at the Ramada Inn conference room, asking with tears in her eyes if he was rejecting the authority of parts of the Bible and Ellen White, and then leaving when getting an affirmative response. So after being rejected by the official SDA structure, she now was rejected by the Awakening people too. That was the single, bravest thing I’ve ever seen anyone do in my life. Sadly, most of the Awakening people were following Robert Brinsmead, instead of the truth, and Jack Walker, along with around 95% of them, left the truth and started forging their own path.
There was no more contact between myself and any of the Ridgetop Awakening people after that incident until around 2009 when I met Mr. Poulton at the Lebanon TN SDA church. At the potluck we talked a bit, and he was so lost in a fog of “no 2 apartment sanctuary in heaven, Jesus did it all on the cross” etc. I knew that Robert Brinsmead had gone from disbelieving Ellen White to rejecting the Sanctuary and Investigative Judgment to rejecting the Sabbath, and recently is on record as saying that he isn’t even sure if there is a God or not, but would like to think so, so I expected that.
Somehow I found Jack Walker on the internet in 2011. He remembered me, or more rightly, my mother, and kindly sent me a picture taken around 1968 with a young boy standing in front of him. Sure enough, it was myself 🙂 We had a few emails pass between us, but it was sad to see that he had rejected the basic truths of Adventism. He wrote me once: “The atonement was made on the cross. It is another human error to place the atonement some where in the last days.” He believed that Jesus will save all people except only those who outright reject him. I pleaded with him to come back to his earlier understanding of the Bible and Adventist and Awakening doctrine, but he wasn’t moved. Then yesterday, this email about his passing…..
Another piece of the puzzle that is my life is fixed forever in place in one respect, and lost forever in one respect. How is it with my soul today? With yours?
UPDATED 4/13/2014 I’m really gratified to see the General Conference officially suspend the Record Keeper 🙂 Since i uploaded this video 2 months ago showing problems in the RK, and asking them to either cancel or fix it, it has gotten over 3,200 views. Interestingly, almost 700 of those views have been in the last 24 hours! Anyway, it is great to see that at least some of our leaders are more interested in staying true to God’s words than they are to cater to the popular excitement. May someone make a video that not only is interesting, but that stays true to the inspired words God gave Ellen White to write.
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The Record Keeper is a movie sponsored by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to try and tell the story of the Great Controversy by Ellen White in a moving picture format.
I made a video to show the church’s position, the official trailer, and the first episode along with my recommendation to fix it to faithfully follow the inspired words in the Great Controversy book.
Jesus was the master story-teller, and the Holy Spirit says thru Ellen White that we are to use good illustrations etc. to fix the words in the mind. We also have instruction to be careful of drama. So there is a tension in any project of this nature.
Personally, i really like the steampunk style (steampunk means future-type things with a Victorian-era setting), so find this movie visually appealing. However, there are several places where it is not faithful to the book, and, in fact, teaches contrary to the book.
So my recommendation is for this movie to be redone, fixing the scenes to conform to the truth as found in the book. It would be worse to teach a false gospel, than to teach no gospel at all.
Ariel Sharon, former leader of the nation of Israel, has passed away after being in a coma for several years. Does this mean the appearance of the anti-christ is soon?
While Ariel Sharon would seem to have nothing to do with the anti-christ at all, there is a very interesting story behind this.
Yitzhak Kaduri was a Kabbalist, Jewish rabbi. As such, he practiced magic and charms as Kabbalists do. He was highly revered by many as a “righteous” man because he spent most of his time copying down ancient Jewish literature. He died around the age of 104-108, but here is where the story gets interesting. He wrote a note to be opened after his death that would explain who the Messiah was. In the note, if you take the first letter of each word, it spells the Hebrew name for “JESUS”. Needless to say, many of his followers rejected this message.
Kaduri said that the Messiah would appear after the death of Ariel Sharon. At the time he said that, Sharon was in good health. But just 2 months later in 2006 he had a stroke which incapacitated him until his death yesterday, January 11, 2014.
Up to this point, the evidence would seem to point to a “Damascus Road” experience like Paul had, where someone who kicked against the pricks had a revelation of Jesus and gave their heart to him. Then it would mean that Jesus would be coming soon. BUT! Here is where the story gets quite strange. Several high-profile Christians, most noticably Carl Gallups (of youtube ppsimmons fame), have promoted this rabbi’s testimony. There is a book called “The Rabbi who found Messiah” which is at 1,165 sales position among all books on Amazon as i write this. This “messiah” that Kaduri spoke of is supposedly someone who was already alive in Israel when he said this, and won’t even know he is the messiah, but will fulfill all the prophecies, and then will finally be accepted as the messiah by all Israelites as they regain total control over their ancient land.
“Anti-christ bells” should be going off in all Bible students’ heads. Of course this whole episode may be just another false flag of Satan to rile his false Christian and Jewish subjects up, and get people prepared in the future to accept him more readily as the true messiah, but still, this bears watching, as Satan may be planning to use this in some way as a springboard to introducing his last, almost overpowering deception – his appearance as Jesus Christ, the true messiah.
May we be wise as serpents, harmless as doves, aware of what is going on around us, yet not falling for any story that is contrary to what the Lord has revealed to us in the Bible and Ellen White writings.
On October 26, 2013, USA Today published an opinion piece advocating closer relations between the United States and Vatican. This should ring prophetic bells for every student of prophecy, especially as they read Revelation 13 in light of this.
The blatant disregard of history with its documentation of the Catholic Church being responsible for the murder of more Christians than any other organization in history is amazing to behold.
“The past few years have seen cordial but cooling relations between the United States and the Vatican. Since President Obama took office, he has visited the Vatican just once, and the administration has demonstrated little more than a perfunctory interest in the Holy See’s diplomatic role in the world. This is a lost opportunity at a critical time for America. U.S. foreign policy has much to gain from its relationship with the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church. No institution on earth has both the international stature and the global reach of the Holy See — the “soft power” of moral influence and authority to promote religious freedom, human liberties, and related values that Americans and our allies uphold worldwide.
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President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ted Wilson, gave a video report of the state of the church on November 14, 2013. While being quite powerful, and pointing out 4 areas of concern in the church, he fails to address the fact that the SDA church officially approves of abortion.
Pastor, until you publicly repent for this heinous sin, your requests to God for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit will never come.
It took parts of around 3 months, as i really wasn’t super interested in the subject, but something kept driving me to get it done, so today i’ve finally uploaded a new video on how the sacred name movement is teaching error. Their insistence that everybody has to use what they believe to be the Hebrew name for God, in an attempt to “go back to our roots”, is more akin to black magic incantations where you have to say the name of God just right, or you are being disrespectful at best, or blasphemous at worst.
To use unfamiliar words in foreign languages to refer to God is never commanded in the Bible or Ellen White’s writings, so let’s just leave off this device of Satan to further confuse God’s remnant people.
昨日、近くの日曜日の教会に行って、中畑有里さんのコンサートを聴いた。 教会で聴いたコンサートの中でこの５年ぐらいで一番良かったじゃないかぐらい感動した。
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Sitting in front of this computer basically all the time i’m not teaching is not a good way to live, and wanting to test myself to see if i still have what it takes to “just go”, i did a couple of hours of research on the net, then filled my backpack, and took off for Awaji Island on my trusty steed – a normal “mama chari” (called so because it is what mamas use to go shopping with, having a big basket in the front and a bell that goes “chari chari”. 🙂
The main website for info is here: “bicycling around Awaji”
From my house to the ferry in Akashi is 70km, then 155 around the island, then 70 back, so altogether, i went around 300km (186 miles). I checked the map to Akashi, and wrote down some notes, but within 30 minutes i had already missed my first turn, so just kept going in the general direction i thot would take me there. Umeda was reached in 1:10, and Kobe in 3:30, and the ferry in Akashi in 5:45. I have no idea why coming back it only took 1:40 to Kobe, and then a long 5:30 from there back to the house. Of course the darkness did make me slow down quite a bit…
Some of the highlights as i remember them: There were lots of up-downs going next to the Dai-ni-Keihan Expressway, but the bicycle path is great. After that, it was just sidewalks with occasional sneaks onto the main road all the way to Akashi. Most pro-type cyclists just go with the traffic, as they go much faster than i do anyway, so they don’t have problems like i experienced several times where the sidewalk ends and you are left with the choice of trying to cross a big intersection with the traffic, or else pushing your bike up and over (or under) a bridge to get to the other side.
And it was hot; 35C (95F) in the shade, and of course i was out in the sunshine, but at least the breeze created helped keep the sweat from blinding me.
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The FAO is forecasting record cereal production for 2013, thus easing prices. It is interesting that “green” madness in calling for ethanol to be used in cars is one large factor in keeping the price of corn high.
“record cereal production”
Let’s be thankful to God for this time of plenty (^-^)
God’s words are very powerful, as every Christian knows and attests to. Many Christians today tho, believe that it is OK to change God’s words around to suit the circumstances. Even in the Seventh-day Adventist church, which makes so much of keeping parts of the Bible, other parts are not seen as necessary, and the inspiration of the Bible is held in doubt by nearly 100% of the “scholars” in the church including the “conservatives”.
I believe all the words in the Bible are from God, and that we change even one of them at our peril. God did not just give the ideas to the prophets and they wrote the best they could, but that they were inspired by the Holy Ghost and wrote down the actual words of God.
Deuteronomy 18:18-19 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him.
And of course this famous passage of which Jesus quoted from when tempted by the Devil to turn stones into bread: Deut 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
What does this have to do with sonoluminescence? Actually, what IS sono……? “Sonoluminescence occurs when a sound wave of sufficient intensity induces a gaseous cavity within a liquid to collapse”. So what, you say? Well, what happens when that “bubble” collapses is awesome. The effect has been nicknamed “star in a jar” by some, because when the conditions are right, the bubble glows with an intense light. Some people think that fusion may even be occurring, as it looks like the temperatures on the surface of this bubble are millions of degrees.
This short youtube video is what got me interested in this phenomenon: youtu.be/LWO93G-zLZ0 It is part of a longer bbc program where they tried to debunk it, as the bbc is the self-proclaimed arbiter of truth in the world. Rusi Taleyarkhan is a scientist who claims to have observed fusion by this method, but his work has not been replicated elsewhere.
What is exciting to think about from a believer in the power of God’s words, is how God made this world and upholds it. The Bible consistently says he “spoke” and it was “done”. So perhaps this is a small scientific explanation of how that works. I have seen other videos where scientists surmise that perhaps God’s words are so powerful, that they can physically create the lattice-work for all material from nothing, for real. Of course i believe God did make everything from nothing by speaking, but have never considered how that could be accounted for from a human understanding of science until now. So this is pretty exciting to me.
Ezekiel 12:25 For I [am] the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
Let’s follow all of God’s words and consider the power they have, and be looking forward to and hastening the day of their fulfillment./font>
There are many things said to affect length of life. Some studies that have come out recently show that restricting caloric intake can lengthen life: low calorie diet Also, Seventh-day Adventists were featured in a comprehensive study recently, showing the vegetarians tend to live longer, and the more vegetarian you are, the longer you tend to live: Adventist Health Studies Fast walkers tend to live longer too: walking speed effects Living in a “rich” country tends to help, and having faith has been shown to statistically increase longevity: faith matters in longevity.
However, there are some factors tending against me: Marrieds tend to live longer, people with pets tend to have longer lives, and people who have agricultural pursuits usually live longer.
But the secret to really long life is given clearly by Jesus in John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
夕べある景色が示された。 全部明かすのを気が許さないかも知れないが、少し明かします。 非常に大きな火の玉が地球に落ちてきて、広い家が破砕されたようだった。 ある人が「神の裁きは地球にやって来るのを知ってたけど、こんなに早く来るとは思わなかった。」 他の人は「知ってたか！ 何で教えてくれなかった？ 私たちが知らなかったよ。」 至る所にこういうのが聞こえた。
あちらこちら、この叫び声が聞こえた。 「主が来た！ 来たぞ！」 多くの人は会える準備をしていなかった。 しかし、何人かは「主を褒め称えよう！」と言ってた。
「何で主を褒め称えている？」と突然襲ってくる破壊に遭う人が尋ねた。
「待ちに待ってた事がやっと見えたから。」
「こういうのが来るのを信じたなら、何で教えてくれなかった？ この事を知らなかったよ。 何で知らせないままで済んだか。 何回何回も会ってたのに、知り合いになって、この来るべき裁きと神様を従わないなら滅びる事を教えてくれなかった。 もうおしまいや！」という恐ろしい返事が返ってきた。
恩恵期間が残る間、ダニエルと同じように固く立つようにと神に願いましょう。 親よ、世に来ようとする事を子供に教え、安らかな心で主に会えるような準備を指導しましょう。
On July 1, 1904, God gave Ellen White a dream about fireballs destroying houses, signaling his soon coming. Revelation 8:8 “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;” I believe that this will happen in the future for a final fulfillment.
This video took me almost 4 weeks to get into its final form. It is very short, not even 2 minutes long. Hopefully it will help wake someone up to the closeness of the end time:
http://youtu.be/MexHsKlNt-c
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Last night a scene was presented before me. I may never feel free to reveal all of it, but I will reveal a little. It seemed that an immense ball of fire came down upon the world and crushed large houses. I heard some say, “We knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth, but we did not know they would come so soon.” Others said, “You knew! Why then did you not tell us? We did not know.” On every side I heard such words spoken.
From place to place the cry arose, “The Lord has come! The Lord has come!” Many were unprepared to meet Him, but a few were saying, “Praise the Lord!” “Why are you praising the Lord?” inquired those upon whom was coming sudden destruction.
“Because we now see what we have been looking for.”
“If you believed that these things were coming, why did you not tell us?” was the terrible response. “We did not know about these things. Why did you leave us in ignorance? Again and again you have seen us; why did you not become acquainted with us and tell us of the judgment to come, and that we must serve God, lest we perish? Now we are lost!”….
May God help us to stand, like Daniel, in our lot and place during the days of probation that remain. Parents, teach your children regarding the things that are coming upon the earth and lead them to prepare to meet their Lord in peace
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The above is a compilation i did from 2 sources that are very similar. (Untitled Manuscript, a sermon preached in Nashville, Tennessee, July 2, 1904.) Letter 217, 1904, p. 4. (To W. R. Young, .July 3, 1904.)
I remember when young about a quote from Ellen White where she saw balls of fire over New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. But i cannot find that quote now. If anybody knows about it, please tell me.