Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Signs Pt 20 - Signs in the heavens


Mat 24:29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Mar 13:24  But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
Mar 13:25  And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Luk 21:25  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luk 21:26  Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Signs.

Gen_1:14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years

Signs in the sun, the moon, the stars-  the lights that are in the firmament of the heaven.

We've seen signs in the sun, moon, and stars, and we cannot discount these signs.

The scientists of our world love to explain away any sign.  Yet even as they explain it away with natural phenomena, don't they realize who controls the natural phenomena?  They explain that away as well.

Jesus went about casting out evil spirits- spirits that would TALK to Him as separate entities, and our scientists today would simply say that those people had multiple personalities. We read our Bibles and we are told that Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by Satan himself, and the scientist would simply say- He was hallucinating.  The Bible tells us that there is a great controversy between Christ and Satan, between Love and evil- and scientist simply say that those figures are just made up people  that don't really exist. 

Do you believe in God?

If you believe in God then you have to believe in all He says in His Word.

People can explain away anything they'd like to explain away, it's easy to do and they do it all the time.

I believe in God. I believe in His word. I believe in what He tells me.  The sun, moon, and stars are to be used as signs.

We've had signs- The Great Dark Day, Moon as Blood- May 19, 1780. The Star Shower of November 13, 1833.  And yes, scientist can explain them away- smoke and not unique.  That doesn't matter not a single bit because GOD uses all things for His design.  The smoke, the rare natural occurrence, all wrought by GOD!

What are these signs designed for?  Gullible people?  Gullible for what purpose? Salvation?

Seriously- if you believe in God, in salvation, you are hurting NO ONE at all. You are choosing to believe in LOVE, true LOVE.

The signs God gives to us in the sun, moon, and stars are ALL designed to open our eyes! To wake us up!  To make us look!  To shake us out of our stupor! WAKE UP!  He wants us to WATCH and PRAY!

In Luke we read even more--

Luk 21:25...upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luk 21:26  Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Distress of nations with perplexity- sea and waves roaring.

Let's read an excerpt-

'"The Distress of Nations" -- Verses 24 and 25 of Luke 21 are closely associated together. The KJV tends to obscure this close relationship. In both verses, the English words, "Gentiles" and "nations" are translated from the SAME Greek word. Using the word - nations - in each instance, these verses would read - "And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations (eqnwn), until the times of the nations (eqnwn) be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon earth distress of nations (eqnwn), with perplexity." In other words, the ending of "the times of the Gentiles," or nations is closely associated with "the distress of nations, with perplexity."

The Greek word for "DISTRESS" is Vunoch which means "imprisoned, in the narrows, or straits." The added phrase - "with perplexity" (en aporia) conveys the picture of nations unable to meet the demands placed upon them financially, or the inability to solve the monetary stress. (See The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament by Moulton & Milligan, both articles, aporew & aporia)

It is an interesting fact that the same year which marked the closing period of the times of the Gentiles - 1967 - is also the year which marked the beginning of the financial woes of the nations. In a Special Issue (July 4, 1974) of Myers' Finance & Energy, C. V. Myers wrote: [Gordon Tether in the London Financial Times (June 28, 1974) noted Myers as being "the well-known Canadian financial expert."] - It has now been established over the course of the last seven years - since 1967 - that there is nothing in this world the international monetary authorities can do to stem the advance of gold, or to stem the collapse of inflation - or to avoid the enormous deflation - the global liquidity crunch - and the resulting depressions. Don't doubt this. The monetary morons have demonstrated it to you time and again. Fail! Fail! Fail!

For seven years things have gone from bad to worse; the US$ has been devalued; inflation has undermined world confidence in money; and now the bankruptcies come.(pp. 2-3)

Again in 1975, Myers wrote: -- From all that I have observed of international [monetary] conferences since 1967 I do not believe that any conference is going to come up with any workable answer. It seems that the situation will just continue to deteriorate.

Only six months ago we heard every monetary authority in the world shouting, "either we lick inflation or we are doomed. This is the battle of the century." President Ford said, we have a war, and we intend to fight this war against inflation. The way he is fighting the war against inflation is to add a $70 to $100 billion deficit to the U.S. budget. What happened to all the dire predictions of the result of inflation?

All brains are stunned. They see no answer - so now they begin to think no answer is necessary. Or at least they have decided there is no use thinking about it at all. Therefore, I can only see as the end product, as I have repeatedly said in these letters - and especially after attending the big world meetings of IMF - the answer is a total collapse.

Either the countries will have to go back to a system which will stabilize the money, such as gold - or the social order, not only of the United States, but of all the industrial world, will disintegrate, and from the enormous confusion new governments will arise after much suffering and


p 8 -- bloodshed, starvation and horror. Those governments would be dictatorships.

Recently D'Estaing observed: "The world is unhappy. It is unhappy because it doesn't know where it is going, and because it senses that if it knew, it would discover that it was heading for disaster. ... The crisis the world knows today will be a long one. It is not a passing difficulty. It is actually the recognition of permanent change." (Ibid., March 11, 1975, pp. 1-2)

In the May 24, 1976 issue of his financial letter, Myers again cites the year 1967 as the base year for the beginning of the monetary perplexities which have gripped the nations since then. He wrote - "An enormous war has been going on between the forces of paper and the forces of gold since 1967 when SDR's were first proposed." Then he lists a "score card" in the battle between gold and the paper, Special Drawing Rights:

(1)   The IMF recommendation of Special Drawing Rights in 1967.
(2)   The IMF official acceptance of SDR's, 1969, and the creation of 9.5 billion SDR's during 1970, 1971, and 1972.
(3)   Nixon's break with gold, August, 1971, and the end of the world monetary system devised at Bretton Woods.
(4)   The IMF decision to sell 25 million ounces of gold at 16 auctions over the next two years - thus depleting the international money system of important gold reserves. (p. 1; see Exhibit #4)

In a letter dated, April 23, 1976, Myers noted - "Gold is to money what DEITY is to religion. Without a deity the moral code disappears. Without gold the morality of money disappears: Morality because money loses its store of value, and the man who sweated and worked has lost the fruits of his labor, and that is immoral." In Newsweek (June 19, 1978, p. 21) in an article on the tax revolt, the writer noted "Since 1967, the value of the dollar has declined 47.6 percent, and the average American working family is now barely better off in real dollars than it was a decade ago." The connection between the sign Jesus gave to mark the conclusion of the times of the Gentiles or nations, and the beginning of the "distress of nations" is inescapable. The fact that we are living in this very time should cause us to do some very serious thinking.  --  

This excerpt was taken from the following--

THE HOUR AND THE END

An in-Depth study of Luke 21:24, a prophecy of Jesus Christ about Jerusalem, connected with events just prior to His Second Coming
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Luk 21:26  Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Truth.

Recently we've had A LOT of reaffirmation of the nearness of our Savior's return.

We've had more and more natural disasters, we've had meteorites falling to earth, we've had an economy tank here in the U.S. and worldwide, and truly we are living in the times of FEARFUL living.

We are studying the SIGNS and we are doing this so we will NOT be caught unaware!

Please LORD, help us to keep our eyes opened allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us in all ways! Let us see the signs and hold FAST to YOU remaining safe and secure in YOUR LOVE, knowing that no matter what comes upon the earth that we are not to be afraid in YOU!


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