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Date 10/7/15? PROPHECY UPDATE NEWS HEADLINESYesterday's Prophecies - Today's HeadlinesHEADLINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH?TRACKING BIBLE PROPHECY spirit of the intifada, with restraint on both sides UN chief condemns recent killings of Palestinians, without mention of Israeli terror victimsIsrael raps BBC for 'unethical' terror attack headlinePalestinians' Abbas says does not want escalation with Israel Abbas: Palestinian Violence 'Helps' Israel'PA instability adding to unrest' Netanyahu threatens to change up coalition over security critique Netanyahu: Answer to Palestinian violence doesn't include new settlement construction Settlers: US, Europe pressured Netanyahu to reject our request for more building US denies ultimatum over West Bank settlementsPilgrim season in danger as fear grips JerusalemDespite Rising Violence, Christians Lead Global Prayer Initiative Near Temple MountJohn Kerry: Temple Mount Must Remain 'In the Hands of Jordan'UN Asks Iran to Help Foment Peace in SyriaRussian military officials visit Israel for Syria talksRussia dismisses claims its jets hit Syria's Palmyra as 'absolute lie' Russian TV forecasts 'good weather for bombing' in SyriaReport: Mounting evidence that Russians are using cluster bombs in SyriaIs Russia sending 150,000 troops to Syria to battle ISIS?Russia invites foreign military officers to Moscow to coordinate Islamic State fight Russian ministry: Turkey suggests joint working group over Syria ops Erdogan warns Russia not to destroy friendship with Turkey after incursions Russia says ready for talks with Turkey to avoid 'misunderstandings' in Syria US: Russia says ready to resume US military talks on Syria air safety Ukraine parallels seen in Russia's Syria push, Obama under pressure to do moreFrance plans UN resolution targeting Syrian barrel bombs Syria's skies crowded with multiple air forcesJordanian MP's Son Joins ISIS, Carries Out Suicide AttackThousands of refugees in Jordan return to Syria EU launches operation to seize migrant smugglers' boatsNuclear smugglers sought Islamic State, other terrorists buyers7 killed in ISIS suicide bombing in Yemeni capital Islamic state claims suicide attacks on Yemeni government, Gulf troops Report: Syrian Christians Cry 'Jesus!' Before ISIS Mass Beheading11 Christian Missionaries Crucified and Beheaded Near Aleppo, SyriaBoko Haram terrorists allegedly kill 11 soldiers in Chad White House: US airstrike on Afghan hospital 'profound tragedy'Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days Emails show Clinton rejected peace talks with Libya in 2011Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over''No place at the United Nations': Ex-UN General Assembly leader accused of pocketing $500,000 in bribesMerkel, Hollande to present common front for EU in crisis Obama Administration and UN Announce Global Police Force to Fight 'Extremism' In U.S.Deal reached on Pacific Rim trade pact in boost for Obama economic agendaObama: Trade Deal '40 Percent of the Global Economy'China cautiously welcomes Trans-Pacific free trade dealHatch says Trans-Pacific deal 'woefully short,' as Obama begins selling pactAmerica's cities will collapse into utter chaos the day the EBT cards stop workingUN delay could open door to robot wars, say experts Hillary Clinton vows executive action on gun control if elected presidentBoy, 11, accused of killing 8-year-old neighbor with shotgun; witnesses say it was over puppyJustice Department set to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Finike, Turkey5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Illapel, Chile5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Raoul Island, New ZealandPopocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 23,000ftTyphoon Choi-wan Takes Aim at Northern Japan for Late WeekHawaii to Escape Direct Hit From Hurricane OhoHurricane Joaquin Batters San SalvadorJoaquin to Target Europe Starting This WeekendGuatemala declares mudslide-hit community uninhabitableMultiple Dam Failures Aggravate Dangerous Conditions in Flood-Ravaged South Carolina'Ant island' floats on South Carolina floodwatersBushfires rage in Australia as 'Godzilla El Nino' takes affectLunar eclipse detects global cooling (but only a little)New climate pledges invigorate UN talks but deemed insufficient to halt dangerous warmingResearchers find weak link in flu vaccineHouse panel takes up GOP push for special committee probing Planned ParenthoodHarvard Doc Fired for Telling Truth about HomosexualityHouston transgender bathroom bill debate centers on differing definitions of 'men'Tennessee County Introduces Resolution Begging God Not to Destroy Them Like Sodom and Gomorrah for Gay MarriageOregon bakery owners refuse to pay damages in gay wedding cake caseThe Next Big Science vs. Church Battle: Can Transhumanism and Christianity Co-Exist?Workers remove Ten Commandments monument from Oklahoma Capitol groundsPeruvian Teen Convulses After Playing Ouija Board AppDoomsday coming? End of the world is imminent, say Christian believersPROPHECY UPDATE NEWSLETTERSTAY INFORMED, GET EQUIPPED, BE ENCOURAGEDPre-Millennium - Pre-Tribulation - PrePARED*If you missed an issue or did not receive your daily copy - All Newsletters are archived at:?? TODAY'S NEWSLETTER...?Featured Article: Rebuilding an Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Babylon??Netanyahu curtails German trip to deal with worsening Palestinian terror crisis??Russia to continue fighting in Syria through spring??Massive Oil Deposit Found in Southern Golan. The 'Hook in the Jaw??Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake up in an America without Electricity and Society Will Totally break Down??A Pope for Which Season???Daily Jot: Prophecy at work--Putin in the Middle East?Daily Devotion: Authentic Spirituality?FEATURED ARTICLE?Rebuilding an Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Babylon - By Paul McGuire - most radical planetary change is about to happen on planet Earth, change so all-encompassing and all-pervasive that most people will have great difficulty processing the enormity of this unprecedented transformation of life as we now know it. What makes this event, which some have called "Leviathan," so unique are the genetic, scientific mind control, surveillance, and related technologies which have never been at Man's disposal before. I am about to describe what many people believe is just another climate change treaty, but in reality represents a paradigm shift for Mankind and the history of human civilization itself. Yet this planetary transformation will be billed as both eco-friendly and sustainable.?The COP21/CMP11 Climate Summit will take place from November 11- December 30, 2015 in Paris, France so it is called "Paris 2015." This is the largest diplomatic conference ever to take place in Paris, with over 40,000 participants, and it is supposed to produce a binding agreement obligating every nation on planet Earth to agree to climate goals in order to hold "global warming" to less than two degrees Celsius. But this is the world's most serious attempt to install through covert means a permanent world government something like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. What appears to be a somewhat benevolent and soft totalitarian state with a bright happy face on it is in fact the most ruthless elimination of national sovereignty and the independent nation state the world has ever seen.?It will the embodiment of what Aldous Huxley termed the "Final Revolution," where through drugs, chip implants, and programming the masses of planet Earth will voluntarily enter the "concentration camp of the mind," where entire societies will have their liberties taken from them, but they will enjoy it and learn to love their slavery through propaganda and brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. This planetary transformation will transition individual men and women into the "Hive Mind" or "World Brain" that H.G. Wells wrote about.?There are two kinds of history, the scientifically engineered narrative version of history taught by the educational system for indoctrination and producing a collectivist group think, and real history, which is a factual rendering of what happened to Man throughout the history of human civilization. Beginning with the super-civilizations like Atlantis, hierarchal forms of consciousness were developed, so that a slave class was created to serve what Plato referred to as the ten philosopher kings, or ten god kings of Atlantis. This system was perfected after the Flood of Noah at Babylon, where Nimrod developed "Mystery Babylon" and the world's first one world government, one world economic system, and one world religion. This "Mystery Babylon" system created a hierarchal system of rulership where the god-kings ruled the masses through a system of supernatural religion, economics, and government. This system has continued in all the great empires of Earth through a network of occult societies, which have passed on the science, occult-technology, and supernatural powers to secret elite groups which moved from Babylon through Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Europe to the EU and United States today. Other civilizations, such as ancient Tibet, China, India, and the Incan and Mayan Empires, also received this secret knowledge. In our new book, The Babylon Code, that I wrote with my co-author, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Troy Anderson, we extensively explain and document the role secret societies have played in passing on this knowledge of the "Illumined Ones" throughout history.?To put this in its simplest terms, the world has been ruled by a cult since the beginning of time. But this is no ordinary cult; this is a cult of the world's elite and is composed of the wealthiest families on planet Earth, scientists, intellectuals, Prime Ministers, and Presidents. This secretive global elite with its occult philosophy is about to end the era of independent nation states forever and replace it with a Leviathan-like techno-feudal global oligarchy where the middle and lower classes serve the one percent, the elite, like slaves in their eco-friendly global plantation where people will be programmed to love their slavery.?What is not understood by most, but explained in The Babylon Code, is that the secret knowledge of "Mystery Babylon" is distributed in a hierarchical manner so that only those on top of the pyramid have the full knowledge and then compartmentalized information is distributed down the food chain on a need to know basis. What exists is a highly sophisticated caste system, the kind of caste system alluded to by Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, where people were genetically bred into different classes of people like "Alpha, Beta, Theta" and so on.?Many of the people whom you might think have access to complete knowledge, like presidents, prime ministers, vice presidents, CEOs, high level filmmakers, and university professors are actually "controlled" through programming and are only given a certain level of knowledge. All across the world through what could be termed "Hive Mind" or "World Brain" programming, countless millions of people, including the media, politicians, college students, and the idealistic environmentalists, along with social activists have their consciousness frozen in the electric tangerine dream perception of John Lennon's Utopian song, "Imagine There Is No Heaven" and they are unable to see through the holographic and computer generated virtual world of the false promise of an artificial Utopia. Artificial Paradise is the hologram your mind has been programmed to see, but what lies behind it is brutal cruelty and dehumanization like the SS troops and the Third Reich.?Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich was not an accident in history; it was a prototype of the coming scientific dictatorship. The Third Reich was a DNA and mind control dictatorship ruled by an elite with occult knowledge and power. In the future, the scientific dictatorship will employ a much higher level of sophisticated programming so that people will not even be conscious of the brutality of the concentration camps, ovens, and gas chambers. They will be redesigned and their minds re-programmed so that they will believe that they are walking through a doorway to Heaven. ?The Nazis MK ULTRA mind control and Monarch Programming was the equivalent of the Model T Ford, as far as scientific dictatorships go. Its overly barbaric, cruel, and hyper-fascist modality will be replaced by a kind of "Paradise on Earth" model. Just like "Virtual World Sex" will be more common than real sex, the scientific dictatorship of the future will operate on eco-friendly terms like, "green," "organic," "sustainable development," and "Agenda 21," and will pretend to be building a cleaner, environmentally friendly world where "social justice" will prevail and "equal access to income" will be the order of the day. ?The Nazis implemented the early prototype of the scientific dictatorship and it was an occult dictatorship with clear Satanic rituals and practices. But the Nazis and the Third Reich also embraced and promoted environmentalism and a kind of worship of nature. The father of German Social Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), believed on the basis of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory that racism was essential to the "survival of the fittest" and that racism and environmentalism go hand in hand. He believed in racial evolution and that Aryan Europe had been compromised by a Judeo-Christian worldview. Germany's early Green Movement was based on environmental racism. Adolph Hitler and the Nazis promoted environmentally friendly policies and "sustainable development." The Nazis developed what was called "spatial planning," which became the basis for the EU's and the UN's environmental plans. The former Nazi Kurt Waldheim was instrumental in turning the UN into a pro-environmental organization and it was former Nazis in the Green Party who promoted the concept of global warming.?Although there is rational, moderate environmentalism and there are good environmental groups, there exists an environmental fascism promoted by elites at the UN, who believe in radical population reduction, genocide, militarism, and totalitarianism. Beneath the surface of what could be called good environmentalism exists the Nazi occult allegiance to the Thule and Vril societies. The Nazi symbol of the swastika goes back to the secret societies of ancient Tibet. When the Russian occultist Madame Blavatsky created the Theosophical Society in 1875, she promoted the worship of Lucifer. Her disciple Alice Bailey, who had been in constant contact with a "Tibetan spirit guide," established Lucis Trust, formerly Lucifer Trust in 1922. From Lucis Trust emerged World Goodwill, founded in 1932, which is represented at the United Nations and plans to usher in the return of "Christ" (not the Biblical Christ). The goals of Lucis Trust and World Goodwill are written down in what is called "The Plan." Lucis Trust and its World Goodwill initiative have been embraced by some of the most powerful people in the world, such as Henry Kissinger, John D. Rockefeller, presidents, prime ministers, and some of the wealthiest people in the world. Their goal is a New World Religion and a New World Order.?In order to achieve this goal the United Nations developed a "World Core Curriculum Manual" to educate the youth into a One World Philosophy, which will activate a "World Brain" and a "Group Mind." The "Common Core" educational curriculum comes out of this. ?The secret societies, which stem from ancient Babylon, understand the importance of the use of language and symbols in controlling human behavior. George Orwell, the author of 1984, illustrated quite well how totalitarian states manipulate language to control the masses. In 1984, Orwell develops terms like "group think," "Newspeak," "Freedom is Slavery," etc. to reveal how language can program people into believing a positive is a negative and a negative is a positive.?Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany because the German people and especially Christians voted him into office. Adolph Hitler understood the power of promoting the "Big Lie" and often stated that the bigger and more outrageous a lie was, the more likely the masses would believe it. The Nazi Party was an environmental party and the beginning of the Green Movement. Hitler planned to use eugenics to breed a master race. But the occult elite who put Hitler into power were acting on the principles of Social Darwinism, "culling the herd" and getting rid of "useless eaters." In the same way, The UN Plan for Sustainable Development and Climate Change are simply eco-friendly terms which hide the true nature of their agenda, which is the radical reduction of population of planet Earth from seven billion people to 500 million.?The Luciferian Elite who control this world believe that they have the "divine right," as did the god-kings or the rulers of ancient Babylon or the ten philosopher kings of ancient Atlantis, to rule over the masses of people simply because the elites believe that they are genetically superior. This elite has simply recycled the oligarchic view that they have the right to reduce the population of slaves and lower classes in the same way as its owners can reduce a herd of cattle. The elite reject the view that every man and woman is created in God's own image and therefore every life is sacred.?The entire history of Mankind going back to ancient Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and the European kings and queens is one where the ruling class or upper one percent is viewed as a master race, who have the right to exploit, enslave, and kill their slaves. The science of eugenics, developed by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, taught that through selective breeding the purity of a master race must be preserved. Adolph Hitler headed an occult dictatorship based on the theory of a master race and what Nietzsche called the ubermensch or superman. The English ruling class and the elite classes in America, people such as Prescott Bush or Averill Harriman, both admired Hitler and helped to finance him. The Royal Family in England secretly admired the Nazis and there have been photos recently discovered where young Princess Elizabeth practiced the Nazi salute in the 1930s.?Hitler actively experimented with the science of eugenics in the holocaust operations of Tiergarten Four and the concentration camps. Julian Huxley, the brother of Aldous Huxley, wrote in the 1946 official "UN Document UNESCO, Its Purpose and Philosophy": "Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychological impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to move forward with its eugenics program." Huxley advised simply changing the politically charged terms like "eugenics" into more acceptable terms like "environmental protection" and "ecology."? The COP21/CMP11 Climate Summit or "Paris 2015" is really about global radical transformation and the development of a master plan to establish a Green World Dictatorship whose goal is to radically reduce the world's population through sterilization, abortion, the promotion of alternative sexual lifestyles which do not involve reproduction, ruthless cutting back on food production, the creation of wars, famines, plagues, and man-made food and water shortages using GMO "terminator seeds," which cannot grow a crop after one harvest, vaccines that damage people's health and/or sterilize them, and weather modification technology which creates artificial droughts.?Pope Francis plays a key role in this in that he has become the champion of the UN Climate Change agenda and "sustainable development." The upcoming "Paris 2015 Conference" is intended to enforce the most binding climate control goals, which require setting up a global dictatorship to anyahu curtails German trip to deal with worsening Palestinian terror crisis - the Israeli cabinet launched measures Tuesday, Oct. 6, for "strengthening anti-terror defense" - such as cameras in the sky - and officials labored to spread word that the surge of Palestinian violence of the past week was beginning to ebb, Israel was hit that night from offside by a vicious pro-Palestinian upheaval in the Tel Aviv suburb of Jaffa. Hundreds of Israeli Arabs swarmed onto the streets to hurl rocks and burning containers at police, passing buses and Jews on the street. Six police officers were injured. Fired up by the radical Israeli Northern Muslim Movement, the rioters brandished Palestinian flags and yelled "Allah is Great!"? and "With our blood we shall redeem Al Aqsa!"?The Army Radio Station studio was besieged for five hours.??At length, the police announced the disturbance had been brought to an end by negotiations with Arab community leaders in Jaffa.??That strategy was part and parcel of the efforts made by IDF officers to bring an end to the surge of Palestinian violence besetting Jerusalem and the West Bank through revived negotiations with Palestinian security chiefs and soothing rhetoric poured out for the public by government and military officials. But the gap between that rhetoric and the unruly situation on the ground was impossible to bridge. The rocks and firebombs kept on flying - even after three killer-terrorists' homes were demolished in Jerusalem Monday night.?Here too, the measure failed to impress as a deterrent because the punishment was meted out for terrorist crimes committed in 2014 and were therefore a year old - evidence of Israeli's extremely slow response to murderous terror.?Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu finds himself cornered by two conflicting crises. While facing popular demands to quell Palestinian violence that caused four Israeli deaths and 30 people injured during the High Festivals, he is confronted with a mutiny within the government coalition and his own Likud party. At least half a dozen ministers angrily reject the line taken by the prime minister and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon for the past year - that the terror crisis must be handled "calmly and responsibly" - as nothing but softness on Palestinian terror.?Netanyahu has shot back by threatening to break up the government, which is less than a year old - either by inviting the opposition parties to join a new national unity government or calling a snap election.?This threat is fairly hollow. Replacing the mutinous ministers with members of the Labor opposition is a non-starter since its leader Yitzhak Herzog scarcely controls his own party. A coalition with Yair Lapid's Future party and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu would be harder to control than the present lineup.??Netanyahu finds himself in this corner because he is handling the two crises by political means as part of the same problem.?This tactic is taken by Palestinian extremist leaders as a sign of Israeli weakness and encourages them to pour more fuel on the fire of anti-Israel violence. Ineffective measures, such as the cameras in the sky, which never worked on the 443 highway to Jerusalem, for instance, make things worse. The trickle of rockets from Gaza contradicts Ya'alon's pledge to stop it.? A proactive, creative hand against the escalating Palestinian violence would gain the support of all the ministers and ease the popular sense of pervasive insecurity.Russia to continue fighting in Syria through spring - Aaron Klein - confirm Moscow targeting U.S.-backed rebels?Russia is in Syria for the long haul, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials.?The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told WND there is information Moscow is in the midst of drawing up plans for military operations in Syria through at least the spring of 2016.?The officials confirmed U.S. accusations that Russia is not only targeting ISIS but is also carrying out strikes against U.S.-backed rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.?The officials said that in less than one week, Russia has done more to advance the international war against ISIS than the combined achievements of Western forces fighting in Syria during the last two years.?The information comes as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg affirmed Tuesday that Russian ground troops were stationed in Syria.?The illuminating documentary "End Times Eyewitness," featuring Joel Richardson, takes you on an fascinating, firsthand journey to the front lines of the ongoing Middle Eastern revolutions.?Stoltenberg also blamed the Russians for a second incursion by Russian planes into Turkish airspace, sparking fears Moscow could expand its offensive beyond Syria and amid reports the Iraqi government may formally request Russian intervention there.?"Russian combat aircraft have violated Turkish airspace." Stoltenberg said, according to NATO's website. "This is unacceptable.?"We also have seen two of them, two violations of Turkish airspace," he added. "Intelligence that we have received provides me with reason to say it doesn't look like an accident."?Stoltenberg said Russia's first incursion into Turkish airspace took place Saturday and the second was on Sunday.?Stoltenberg referenced the "substantial buildup of Russian forces in Syria," which he said includes "ground troops in connection with the air base they have."?Echoing U.S. complaints, the NATO official said, "I'm also concerned that Russia is not targeting ISIL (ISIS) but instead attacking the Syrian opposition and civilians."?On Tuesday, the British tabloid Mirror newspaper quoted sources saying Vladimir Putin's hardcore Spetsnaz unit and a covert para battalion were on the ground assisting the Syrian ground campaign against the rebels.?One military source told the newspaper Putin's marines "are there to guard the airbases they are using against sabotage by rebels."?"But Spetsnaz and air-assault troops are not there to provide security to static objects, they are extremely aggressive and highly trained," the source said.?"They are there to mop up after airstrikes, call in airstrikes, go on extremely covert missions against rebels and ultimately wipe them out."?Last week, WND reported Russia's first airstrikes in Syria were followed immediately by a series of major Syrian army ground operations targeting rebel positions, including in some areas not controlled by ISIS.?Two Lebanese sources told Reuters that hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to fight alongside Hezbollah and Syrian forces backed by Russian airstrikes.?"The (Russian) air strikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies," one of the sources said, according to Reuters.?"It is possible that the coming land operations will be focused in the Idlib and Hama countryside," added the source, described as being familiar with the military and political developments.?Russia has insisted it only targeted ISIS positions. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that the Russian air forces are working in conjunction with the Syria military to "exclusively" target ISIS.?"Rumors that the targets of these strikes were not [ISIS] positions were groundless," Lavrov stated.????Massive Oil Deposit Found in Southern Golan. The 'Hook in the Jaw? - Michael Kaplan - ?Israel Oil Discovery: Massive Reserve Could Meet Domestic Demand, But Obstacles To Production Lie Ahead?A massive oil reserve has been discovered in the Golan Heights by an Israeli energy company, regional news outlets reported Wednesday. The find by Afek Oil and Gas, confirmed to be 10 times larger than the average oil field worldwide, could boost Israel's relatively young oil industry and meet domestic energy demands.?"There is enormous excitement," Yuval Bartov, the oil and gas chief geologist for Afek, told Channel 2 News, according to Globes. "It's a fantastic feeling. We came here thinking maybe yes or maybe no and now things are really happening."?Israeli oil companies were searching for oil around the clock, with little success until the latest discovery. It was first announced last month, but the size of the find was only confirmed recently. Afek Oil and Gas is a subsidiary of American company Genie Energy. Since Israel's founding, companies have drilled 530 exploratory wells in search for oil, but few of them have turned up commercially viable product, The Times of Israel reported.?The recently discovered oil reserve was expected to provide billions of barrels of oil. However, given the current low price of oil, extraction will have to be inexpensive in order to make the field profitable.?The reserve would bolster Israel's oil industry. Noble Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Houston, announced the discovery of a gigantic natural gas field in the Mediterranean in 2010. Israel has since met much of its domestic needs and has also signed agreements to export its oil, including to neighboring Egypt.?The newly found reserve is not without controversy. Numerous environmental groups and residents of the Golan Heights are bitterly opposed to the drilling, expressing fears that it could damage the region's landscape. When Afek first began exploration in the area late last year, environmentalists filed a petition against drilling that ultimately reached the High Court of Justice.?The international community considers the Golan Heights occupied territory, further complicating oil production. Much of the Golan Heights was captured from Syria during the war in 1967, and Israel's sovereignty over the region remains contested.?Coming Soon!The Fate of Damascus and the Psalm 83 War?About the time of the end the biblical prophet Ezekiel tells of a future invasion of Israel by a vast coalition of nations, known as the battle of Gog and Magog, we find this in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. As we read the headlines in the newspapers of today, and witness the conflicts in the Middle East, it's not hard to imagine that this invasion prophesied over 2600 years ago, could be fulfilled in the immediate future.? Ezekiel 36-37 predicts a gathering of the Jews to the nation of Israel, which will be followed by this massive invasion.? For 19 centuries, the Jewish people were scattered throughout the world, and until May 14, 1948, there was no nation of Israel to invade.? With the nation of Israel now a reality, the stage seems set for the war that will usher in the tribulation and the rise of the Antichrist; a war that will end with the destruction of Israel's enemies by God Himself, and lead to the signing of a peace treaty with the Antichrist.?As you read Ezekiel 38 and 39, it isn't just the creation of the nation of Israel that makes this prophecy seem likely to be fulfilled in the near future.? The nations that God tells us will form this coalition against Israel seem more likely now than perhaps ever before to form just such an alliance." The leaders of this coalition will be Russia and Iran, and currently both of these nations are right on Israel's doorstep, under the pretense of battling ISIS in Syria. I believe that there are a couple of unfulfilled prophecies that will lead-up to this massive invasion of Israel, and as we read today's headlines, we find that the fulfillment of these two prophesied events,?could happen very soon! ?The Fate of Damascus and the Psalm 83 WarThis exciting new DVD will be released on?*10/23/15 and you can pre-order this new DVD right now. When you pre-order a DVD not only are you making sure that you receive your copy at the time of release, you are also helping to help to fund the production of the video. (*subject to change)To Pre-Order this Video on DVD Click Here!The Truth About Halloween: Trick or Treat? - Preview - To order this DVD visit our store!This DVD cover's the history and origin of what has become a billion dollar industry, is it really just harmless fun? 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We are about to enter a time like no other time, a time that no man has ever seen, a time like no other time in the history of this world, as a matter of fact we are about to enter the end times. Since the dawn of mankind, there have always been wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, pestilences, disease, strange-weather and false Christ's just as Jesus predicted. Fast forward nearly 2,000 years since Jesus made this prediction, and you have today's headlines lining up exactly with the Word of God. The big thing?isn't?that these events?are happening today, is that they are all happening at the very same time! Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right before our very eyes.? Fulfilled prophecy is increasing in frequency and intensity just like birth pains, and Jesus said when you see these know that I am near, even at the door.All the signs of the last days are converging at the same time. Bible Prophecy is happening right before our eyes and like birth pains, ?the predicted events are happening more frequently and more intently. Never, in the history throughout the world have so many forces, including economic, scientific, techno-logic, ecologic, cultural, geopolitical, moral, spiritual and religion, converged together to bring this world that's already teetering over the edge into the abyss, to a point of no return. "CONVERGENCE" brings it all together and will clearly show where all this heading and what people need to do!CONVERGENCE -This DVD is Now Shipping!!!CLICK HERE TO ORDERElectromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake up in an America without Electricity and Society Will Totally break Down - By Michael Snyder - would you do if the power grid went down and never came back up?? One of these days, and it could be a lot sooner than most people think, we will all wake up in a country without electricity.? And considering how utterly dependent we have become on technology, that is a very frightening scenario to consider.? How would Americans react if nothing worked?? Just imagine a world where everything electronic is dead.? I am talking about lights, cell phones, computers, televisions, ATMs, heating and cooling systems, credit card readers, gas pumps, cash registers, refrigerators, hospital equipment etc.? When the power goes out for a few hours, that can be a major inconvenience, but what if it went out all over the nation and it didn't come back on for months or even years?? This is one of the greatest potential threats that the United States is facing, and yet very few people are even talking about it.?An electromagnetic pulse attack could potentially send our nation back to the 1800s in a single moment, but very few of us are equipped to handle life without technology.? Tech guru John McAfee recently wrote an article in which he expressed his belief that 90 percent of the population would be dead within 2 years of such an attack...?Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure, would wipe out 90% of the human population of this country within two years of the attack. That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.?You may think that is an unreasonably high estimate, but it turns out that it is the exact same number that the EMP Commission used in their report to Congress back in 2008...?What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.?In 2009 the congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, whose co-chairmen were former Secretaries of Defense William Perry and James Schlesinger, concurred with the findings of the EMP Commission and urged immediate action to protect the electric grid. Studies by the National Academy of Sciences, the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Intelligence Council reached similar conclusions.?So what has Barack Obama done to protect us from such an attack??Absolutely nothing.?But there are others in the government that are very, very concerned about this threat.? For example, NORAD recently moved back into Cheyenne Mountain, and the potential for an EMP attack was given as the primary reason for the move...?The Pentagon is moving the headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) back into Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs, Colo., a decade after having largely vacated the site.?Why the return? Because the enormous bunker in the hollowed-out mountain, built to survive a Cold War-era nuclear conflict, can also resist an electromagnetic-pulse attack, or EMP. America's military planners recognize the growing threat from an EMP attack by bad actors around the world, in particular North Korea and Iran.?An EMP strike, most likely from the detonation of a nuclear weapon in space, would destroy unprotected military and civilian electronics nationwide, blacking out the electric grid and other critical infrastructure for months or years. The staggering human cost of such a catastrophic attack is not difficult to imagine.?For years, most experts have assumed that an EMP attack would be conducted by exploding at least one nuclear weapon high up in our atmosphere.? And that could definitely happen someday.? But now governments all over the world are working on other ways to deliver an EMP strike, and many of them do not involve nuclear weapons at all.?The U.S. government is among those that have been doing this kind of research.? The U.S. Air Force now reportedly has the capability to conduct an EMP assault against individual buildings or power stations.? The following comes from the Daily Mail...?For years, scientists have been attempting to create such a weapon as part of Champ, or the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project.?Now, the US Air Force claims it has advanced the technology, and says it can deploy it using the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM).?There are fears a well targeted attack could knock out multiple power stations.?'This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,' said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works.?And we also know that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have also been developing EMP weapons.? This next excerpt comes from DefenseNews...?The possibility of man-made EMP events has grown in tandem with the technological sophistication of America's adversaries. It is widely known that both Russia and China already have this capability, and both countries have carried out serious work relating to the generation of EMP in recent years as part of their respective military modernization programs.?Now, rogue states Iran and North Korea may not be that far behind. Iran, for example, is known to have simulated a nuclear EMP attack several years ago using short-range missiles launched from a freighter. North Korea, meanwhile, has acquired the blueprints to build an EMP warhead, and in July of 2013, a North Korean freighter made it all the way to the Gulf of Mexico with two nuclear capable missiles in its hold.?Why are these other nations developing these technologies??To use them against us someday of course.?Many are particularly concerned about what Iran has been doing.? In a piece for an Israeli news source, author Dr. Peter Vincent Pry explained that Iranian military documents actually discuss conducting such an attack against the United States...?Iranian military documents describe such a scenario-including a recently translated Iranian military textbook that endorses nuclear EMP attack against the United States.?Thus, Iran with a small number of nuclear missiles can by EMP attack threaten the existence of modernity and be the death knell for Western principles of international law, humanism and freedom.? For the first time in history, a failed state like Iran could destroy the most successful societies on Earth and convert an evolving benign world order into world chaos.?And it wouldn't take much to completely disrupt electricity generation in America.? In a previous article, I discussed a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report which made the following jaw dropping statement...?"Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer."?Are you starting to get the picture??We are far more vulnerable than most people realize.?And even if we are never attacked by an EMP weapon, scientists tell us that it is inevitable that a massive solar storm will produce a similar result someday anyway.? Back in 1859, a massive solar storm that came to be known as "the Carrington Event" fried telegraph machines all over Europe and North America.?NASA says that there is a 12 percent chance that a similar solar storm will hit us within the next ten years, and if that happens the consequences will be absolutely catastrophic...?NASA is warning that there's a 12 percent chance an extreme solar storm will hit Earth in the next decade, sending out massive shock waves that would knock out grids across the world.?The economic impact of this doomsday scenario could exceed $2 trillion - or 20 times the cost of Hurricane Katrina, according to the National Academy of Sciences.?I don't know why more people aren't concerned about this.? There are things that the federal government could do to harden our electrical grid, but they aren't doing them.?This is a foreseeable danger, but our "leaders" are not taking it seriously.?And even if nobody ever purposely attacks us, scientists insist that it is only a matter of time before the sun unleashes an electromagnetic pulse that fries our electronics.? In fact, we have had some very close calls in recent years.? The following is an excerpt from a book that I co-authored with Barbara Fix entitled "Get Prepared Now"...?Most people have absolutely no idea that the Earth barely missed being fried by a massive EMP burst from the sun in 2012 and in 2013. And earlier in 2014 there was another huge solar storm which would have caused tremendous damage if it had been directed at our planet. If any of those storms would have directly hit us, the result would have been catastrophic. Electrical transformers would have burst into flames, power grids would have gone down and much of our technology would have been fried. In essence, life as we know it would have ceased to exist - at least for a time. These kinds of solar storms have hit the Earth many times before, and experts tell us that it is inevitable that it will happen again.?It amazes me that such a small percentage of the population is taking this threat seriously.?An electromagnetic pulse could bring down our entire society in a single moment at any time, and all of the experts assure us that it will happen someday.?But our politicians are just sitting on their hands and most Americans mock the idea that we need to be concerned about this.A Pope for Which Season? - Dr. Steve Elwart - ?(Ed. Note: Steve Elwart was raised a Roman Catholic and studied to be a Catholic priest. He had a self-described "Martin Luther moment" and later left the seminary and Catholicism. Steve went on to pursue a Ph.D. from Louisiana Baptist University and is now an ordained minister. He continues to have contacts with members of the Catholic clergy both inside and outside the Vatican and has obtained insights in the current workings of the Roman Curia.)?"More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning. He is a man of many excellent virtues; I know not his fellow. For where is the man (in whom is so many goodly virtues) of that gentleness, lowliness and affability and as time requires, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes and sometime of steadfast gravity - a man for all seasons."?- Robert Whittington, 1520?In his stage play about Thomas More (later made into a movie of the same name), Robert Bolt used "A Man for all Seasons" as a title because he believed Thomas More remained a man of principle, acting only as his conscience dictated. He remained constant in his belief and did not bend to the political winds of the time. He was constant "in all seasons." He stayed true to his beliefs even though it cost him his life.?Please note, the following is not meant to be an apologetic for the head of the Roman Catholic Church; it is to merely serve as a guide to help explain some of the goings on during his stay in the United States. Some of the things written about the Papal visit in the United States were written out of ignorance and out of context and can serve as a disservice to the writer. We as Christians need to be discerning in our discussions. When the information we spread is inaccurate or uncharitable it can tarnish the larger message of the love and salvation brought to us by Jesus Christ.?Instead, exalt the Messiah as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have. But do this gently and respectfully, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak evil of your good conduct in the Messiah will be ashamed of slandering you.?- 1 Peter 3:15-16 (ISV)?Now that Pope Francis has completed his tour of the United States it may be a good time to look at his visit and look at his words and his actions and put them in the context of his life, his culture and his Church.?Many try to compare the current Roman Catholic Pontiff Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) to Thomas More because they feel, he too, stays true to his beliefs. A more accurate summary of his visit may be one of vacillation and trying to be all things to all people.?Pope Francis himself believes that Thomas More is a good role model for these times. (Francis has said he prays to More every day.) The times in which More lived mirror today's time. The early 16th century saw the break up of Christianity, a loss of central authority and a fragmentation of European society. Where the 1500s saw a schism between Catholicism and Protestantism, primarily over who was the temporal head of the Church, today's fracture is much deeper. Our war rages over the collapse of traditional virtues across the entire West - along with the rise of moral indifference and a cheerful nihilism.?As there are many parallels between the two eras, there are also parallels between the two men. While More was a religious man, he was also a prominent lawyer and judge. Pope Francis is not only the religious head of a Church, he is also the secular head of a state. It is that duality that colored the pontiff's statements during his visit.?It is said that a key to understanding the Bible is to "think Jewish." So too, the key to understanding Pope Francis is to "think Catholic." Pope Francis' style of communication differs greatly from his predecessors and this has caused confusion within the Church. Many of the things he said while in the United States were very nuanced and while some of what he said may not have made much of an impression on many people who heard his words, they sent shock waves to many others. In one example of papal persuasion, days after Francis permanently removed a German bishop for his lavish spending on a renovation project, the Atlanta archbishop apologized for building a $2.2 million mansion as his residence. He moved out of his 6,000 square foot Buckhead residence and turned it into a rectory for priests.?At almost every utterance, people took to the airwaves and blogosphere and opined on the pope's political persuasion. One statement would label him a liberal while the next sentence in the same statement would label him an arch conservative.?Pope Francis himself is a charismatic man. A writer for the Huffington Post has written that America has a "man crush" on Pope Francis. He has been called "The People's Pope." When he was elected pope, he appeared before the crowd for the first time without papal finery. He chose a simple white cassock and zucchetto (cap). While traveling in the United States, he traveled in a Fiat automobile rather than the "Popemobile." After delivering an address to a joint session of Congress, Francis went directly to the homeless at Catholic Charities - an itinerary designed to send the message that his priority, and that of the Church, is the people who live at the margins. (Francis was heeding the warning whispered to him by a Brazilian cardinal just moments after he was elected pope: "Don't forget the poor.")?Liberal or Conservative??While conservative Catholics in the U.S. maintain the pope affirms traditional Church teaching on homosexuality, several Catholic gay advocacy groups claim the pope is paving a new path and hope this visit will be a step toward the Church accepting openly gay and lesbian Catholics.?One homosexual who praised him for his "who am I to judge" comment in an informal interview later wrote, "So much for my respect for Pope Francis. He's just lost a lot of respect here in the USA," when the Vatican confirmed he met with Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis. Davis was jailed in early September for refusing to sign the marriage license of a homosexual couple who wished to have their civil marriage certified by the state of Kentucky. (Davis and her husband had come to Washington for another purpose - Mrs. Davis was to receive a "Cost of Discipleship" award on Sept. 25 from The Family Research Council.)?Even in this case, one has to go beyond the sound bite to get the true flavor of the story. If one reads the entire interview from an informal news conference on the papal flight returning from Buenos Aires, translated into English at , Francis was speaking of those with a homosexual orientation, and not approving of any behavior:??A gay person who is seeking God, who is of good will-well, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this in such a beautiful way, it says, Wait a bit, as is said and says: "these persons must not be marginalized because of this; they must be integrated in society." The problem isn't having this tendency, no. We must be brothers, because this is one, but there are others, others. The problem is the lobbying of this tendency...?With Kim Davis, the meeting needs to be taken with a grain of salt as well. The Davis meeting was between two people with only Mrs. Davis' version of the meeting being publicized. While the Vatican has since distanced the pope from the meeting, given the pope's repeated statements on religious freedom, his comments to Mrs. Davis, "Stay strong!" and "Thank you for your courage," may have been meant more along those lines than alluding to her stance on same-sex marriage, a theme he avoided during the other parts of his trip.?John Gehring, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, a liberal advocacy group, said Francis' intent was not to escalate America's culture wars but to illustrate the contradictions within them.?Part of the Francis effect is making the left and the right a little bit uncomfortable, and, mission accomplished. I think Pope Francis affirms religious liberty, and he rejects the culture wars. That's something we need to grapple with.?Either way, neither the ad hoc interview nor the meeting with Mrs. Davis can define the pontiff's position on homosexual marriage.?Is He Godless??On Pope Francis' second day in the United States, he addressed a joint session of Congress. Much has been made of him not mentioning Jesus' name during his hourlong address. Nor did he invoke Christ's name when speaking at a White House reception. While it is incomprehensible to many that the man who is called the Vicar of Christ would not invoke His name, the Roman pontiff also serves another role. He is also a Head of State. (He was introduced to Congress formally as "the Pope of the Holy See.") Those in the Catholic Church would also say that the main message he wanted to convey was one of religious freedom. The argument goes that if he would have invoked Christ's name, it would have diluted his main message and alienated non-Christians.?Given all the above, Francis still claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ and there was a huge missed opportunity to invoke Jesus name, head of state of not. As Paul said:?And whatever you do, whether by speech or action, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.?- Colossians 3:17 (ISV)?Is He Even Christian??The Internet exploded when Francis spoke at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. In his homily, he made the statement "Jesus Christ and his life, ... ended in failure, the failure of the cross." His comments called into question whether he even believed in the divinity of Jesus Himself. Many of those that traffic in professional outrage left out part of the quote. The pope's comments, in context, reads:?Ours is to plant the seeds: God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.?Even some of those that left in the critical phrase "humanly speaking" missed the point. John Loeffler in his Oct.3 "Steel on Steel" broadcast called this "theological sniping."?What Francis was saying was during the time of Jesus, people expected the Messiah to lead a triumphant rebellion against the Romans and reign as a Davidic king. Instead, the Romans killed him, and they did so in a particularly painful and humiliating way. From the perspective of most people of the day, based on their expectations of what the Messiah would do, he looked like a failed political revolutionary.?We know, however, as Chuck Missler often says, "The death of Jesus Christ was not a tragedy; it was an achievement."?The pope's use of the phrase, "humanly speaking" told his audience that the pope is setting up precisely this kind of contrast between the human and the divine perspective.?Is He a Communist??The pope spoke a lot about "economic justice" while he was in the United States. His comments made many conservatives in the United States very uncomfortable. Francis' remarks triggered a debate about his political leanings. His U.S. speeches, combined with statements made in South America have led right wing pundits to place him politically somewhere between a neo-socialist to an outright Marxist.?A look at his papal encyclical Evangelii Gaudium (Gospel of Joy), gives insight into his thinking on economic systems.?In the encyclical the pertinent section is "The economy and the distribution of income." In it, he makes statements, such as, "Inequality is the root of social ills," and "We can no longer trust in the unseen forces and the invisible hand of the market." These statements harken back to the socialistic slogans of the liberation theology, developed mainly by Latin American Roman Catholics in the 1970s. It emphasized liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation. It has rightly been called Christianized Marxism.?The thrust of what he was saying was that we are living in a global economy and economic decisions now affect the entire world. People who know the pope have voiced his concerns for the poor such as the people that work for pennies a day making garments and electronic components in places such as China and Thailand for export for Western nations. It is that perspective Francis had when authorizing the letter.?He is also a product of his times. From 1976 to 1983 Francis' home country of Argentina was in the grip of the military dictator Col. Jorge Rafael Videla. This was a man responsible for the torture, murder and disappearance of thousands of political opponents and other political opponents. He also dispensed favors and government contracts to businesses and political cronies who grew rich at the expense of the vast majority of the Argentine population. What the then Fr. Bergoglio experienced was not capitalism, but "crony capitalism" and fascism.?Climate Change?In one area the Roman pontiff broke new theological ground was in climate change. In remarks to the largest gathering of world leaders in U.N. history - close to 200 prime ministers, presidents and potentates, Pope Francis blamed environmental degradation on "a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity" that causes untold suffering for the poor who "are cast off by society." This address follows his 180-page encyclical he wrote on the subject "Laudato Si'" (On Care for Our Common Home). Among other issues was a moral call for action for phasing out fossil fuels.?His comments, a repeat of what he said the previous day at the White House admonished against:?... a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity [which] leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged.?Francis called on the world's rich nations to pay their "grave social debt" to the poor and take concrete steps on climate change, saying failure to do so presents an undeniable risk to a "common home" that is resembling a "pile of filth."?While the pope's comments and papal letter may have been birthed from the best of intentions, there are enough wide openings that have been inserted into them by those pushing for global control over climate change to the benefit of their scheme.?One needs to remember that these papal encyclicals are not written by the pope himself, but by a team of writers, many of them with their own agendas. They may reflect the pope's overall intent, but other agendas may hide in the details of the letter.?Former Vatican observer and child rights attorney Elizabeth Yore stated she was "shocked at the leftist number of experts [the Curia] brought in to the Pontifical Academy," citing population control advocates Jeffrey Sachs and Hans J. Schnellnhuber, who helped co-author the Vatican's April 2015 climate change encyclical.?This begs the question of whether the pope is being used for a larger agenda of which he may not be aware.?A Danger to Avoid?There are many things in the pope's theology of which to be critical. The errors in the doctrines of transubstantiation, sacraments, conditional salvation by works, Mary's place in the Church, prayer to saints, etc. are all deep and significant. We need to be discerning when critiquing the words and actions of others, be it laymen or religious leaders.?We all have the obligation to reach out to Roman Catholics. We should love our neighbors of whatever faith they hold. We should befriend them and spend time with them. By doing so, we earn the right to lovingly critique their views.?When we critique them, however, we need to be accurate in our criticism and do so in a spirit of love without resulting to ad hominum arguments.?Daily Jot: Prophecy at work--Putin in the Middle East - Bill Wilson - ?The US "president" has created a mess in the Middle East. He supported an overthrow of stable governments (although not necessarily good governments) through the Arab Spring revolts in partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda. He targeted Syria, a vassal state of Iran, also for overthrow. In his efforts to rid Syria of dictator Bashar Assad, the US supported not only al Qaeda, al Nursa and a handful of other terrorists groups, but also the Islamic State. The IS is brutally advancing throughout the Middle East, torturing, beheading, crucifying, raping and pillaging anyone who does not agree with them. Then the "president" supports Iran offering it billions of dollars and a way to expand its nuclear program.?Now Russia's Vladimir Putin is stepping in as a force to be reckoned with. The power base is shifting in the Middle East and this has significant prophetic implications. Putin, in support of allies Iran and Syria, has determined to eliminate IS. This is a wild card for the US "president," who has given lip service to eradicating the world from the IS, but has in reality supported it as a balance against Iran. With Putin stepping in, the US "president's" plan of Muslim Brotherhood unification of a worldwide caliphate is now in jeopardy. Strange enough is the "president's" support of Iran at the same time. But overall, it seems that the "president" is taking great steps to see an overall unification of Islam in the Middle East.?This does not seem possible with Putin stepping in to eradicate IS and to bolster Iran's puppet, Syria. Indeed, the Syria-Iran supported Hezbollah and other terrorist groups will be bolstered by Putin's actions. This places Hezbollah on the mountain tops of the Golan Heights, within clear sight of Israel. And it gives Hezbollah the backing of Russian bases that are being anchored in Syria. Let us not be deceived, however. Islam's goal is to eliminate Israel from the face of the world map. Islam is very strategic and Russia long has been an ally. While it appears that Putin and the US "president" are at odds over their policies, the end result may well align with both prophecy and Islam's quest to eradicate Israel.?So where is the prophecy in all this? I do not believe it is found in Ezekiel 38. It may be the very start of how Ezekiel 38 will someday play out, but it is not this as yet. Jesus, however, in laying out exactly what would happen in the end times warned us in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you." There is a lot of deception in the current Middle East events. Jesus went on to say, "And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." We are seeing the impact of wars and more is to come.Daily Devotion: Authentic Spirituality - Greg Laurie - ?"And when He had removed [Saul], He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.'" -Acts 13:22?The most spiritual people I have ever met always have been very down to earth. Theirs is not some phony, head-in-the-clouds sort of spirituality, which is weird religion and mysticism. I have met people who try to come off as extremely spiritual, even in the way they talk. It doesn't impress me.?On the other hand, I have had the opportunity to meet and spend time with some very godly people. I have always found from our times together that the most godly people are also the most fun. They are the most real. They are the most straightforward and honest, and they are quick to admit their own shortcomings. (That is a virtue, not a flaw.)?God called David a man after His own heart (see Acts 13:22). And if you want to know what made David tick, just read his psalms. In Psalm 34 he wrote, "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth" (verse 1).?We know that David had a deep hunger for God and a strong commitment to do what was right. He wrote in Psalm 57, "My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise" (verse 7). That was David's heart: focused, not fickle, meditative, yet brave and courageous. He dialed in on something and stayed with it.?In many ways, David was the very opposite of his predecessor, King Saul. Saul came from a loving home, while David apparently came from a home where he was neglected and even disliked. Saul was attractive on the outside, but inside he was vain, shallow, and devoid of true integrity. 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