Beware the Mark of the Beast: Antichrist Control of Food and Water

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:16-17

Shortly after a pseudo-miracle, the False Prophet will institute the mark as a means of total control.  Those not accepting the mark will be put to death as Revelation 13:15 makes this clear.  "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."  Massive food and water shortages will evidently contribute to the "need" to control both.  Again, because man lives by God's word as well as physical food, humanity's rejection of the Word of God will force a situation where they will need to heed Satan and his False Prophet to eat.  What a terrible time!


This point is certainly proven as events in Revelation 6 remind us of global shortages and economic collapse.  John wrote of the dreaded black horse of famine riding worldwide.  One can almost hear foot stomps of this horse awaiting the pronouncement of the third seal. "And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Revelation 6:5-6)." It will take a days wages for a meager meal at this time.  What a terrible time!

Could we now be seeing the beginnings of the shortages as a warning of the nearness of the Antichrist and the ensuing Tribulation?  In scenes reminiscent to Hosea 4:1-3, the mysterious mass deaths of animals continue worldwide with one of the most recent being herd animals in the Middle East and Europe dying of either disease or mysterious causes.  The list of animal species succumbing to mass termination is staggering: fish, marine mammals, various birds, manatees, cattle, goats, big horn sheep, deer, starfish, and crabs just to name a few.  Some of the causes seemingly are identified while others are mysterious.  It is obvious that something is wrong; furthermore, the black horse of Revelation 6 will not be released until after the Tribulation begins.  Consequently, the bottom line is that natural means of obtaining food will be greatly diminished.  We are already seeing the beginning of sorrows!  What a terrible time!

Why not just plant a garden and live off of home grown vegetables while saving seed for the next season?  Unfortunately, this will not work either.  Large corporations now control nearly all seed sales.  Most seed available has been genetically modified and/or hybridized to the point that it will not yield adequate returns in future generations.  By the third generation of a garden with these modified seeds there will be no viable return.


Unmodified or non-hybridized seed, for the most part, has been confiscated and placed in storage facilities like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault located on the Norwegian Spitsbergen Island.  In essence, you are already dependent on large corporations like Monsanto for food. What happens when an evil ruler controls the world's food supply and the keys to the seed?  Less than 3 percent of the available seed has not been hybridized and laws in some places actually prevent their use for various excuses.

Entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

Recent news adds another bizarre twist to the control of food as well.  Scientists are diligently working to produce meat in laboratory settings.  Is there something they know that we don't about the availability of herd and poultry animals?  

What about water?  Do you know that many states in the US currently have laws on the books claiming that rain water is state owned?  A car sales owner recently found this out as he was fined for using the water accumulating on his auto dealership as a means of saving money used to buy water for washing cars.  Also, there have even been international discussions on placing all fresh water under global governance.  Like food production, all water may soon be regulated.  

Yesterday, I drove about 80 miles round trip in a triangle pattern through the country.  It used to be fairly common to see dead deer every few miles on a trip such as this.  Rather than seeing deer (I saw one), coyotes were along the roadside where deer may have once been seen.  There must have been around 10 dead coyotes which had been hit by traffic.  Where have all the deer gone in this state?  The point is that game and fish will eventually not be available as the terror called the Tribulation heats up.  

So much more needs to be said!  These are but the beginnings of signs and sorrows for a Christ rejecting world.  What about you?  Will you wait until it is too late and you must bow to Satan and assuredly go to Hell for accepting the mark or face martyrdom in the future? There is an escape now!  Will you accept the warnings and the grace of God now that is found in Jesus Christ?  Make your decision quickly!  Jesus Christ is Soon2Come!

   
Mysterious Animal Deaths--This Is No Wheres Near a Complete List!
Mystery disease kills 1000 sheep in Saudi - Emirates 24/7
Incurable Virus Killing Thousands Of Lambs : Truth Frequency News
Lamb Virus: Deforms, Kills Lambs, Spreading In South Of England, May Be Caught By Cattle | UK News | Sky News
gulfnews : Thousands of dead tuna found floating off Dubai
More than 50 dead fur seals wash up in Australia - Telegraph
Dead dolphins washed up on shore
Over 200 dolphins dead in northern Peru
Dead fish found in Virginia community of Henrico County - FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather & Sports
Garowe Online -Somalia: Tonnes on dead fish wash up on Puntland shore

Wildlife biologists believe they now may know the cause of bighorn sheep die-off above Dubois

Test Tube Meats
Test-tube meat to be available this fall, scientist says | Fox News
Scientists working on $330,000 test-tube-meat burger - latimes.com
Test Tube Meat Coming, But Stanford Biologist Hails New Meat Alternative
New ‘mystery meat:’ Should you eat a lab-grown burger? | Fox News


Genetically Modified Organisms
Nanoparticles in food, vitamins could harm human health | KurzweilAI
Activist Post: New Research: GMO Food Far Worse Than We Think
Bio Piracy is a crime against Humanity and our farmers! | News24
Kevin Myers: We need to produce much more animal meat, and if that means mass-feeding our livestock with GM foodstuff, then so be it - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie
Proposal Would Require Labels On Genetically Modified Foods « CBS Connecticut

Water Shortage and Control
Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water
Can Water Scarcity Bring Down a Government? Yemen Spirals Out of Control – Water Matters - State of the Planet
Why selling our water isn't such a wet idea | Herald Scotland
Rural View - February 9 - Rural View - Blayney Chronicle

Beware the Mark of the Beast: Preparations

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

The False Prophet, the devil's archetype of the Holy Spirit, is charged with drawing humanity into allegiance with the Antichrist.  John the Revelator saw his rise like a lamb with two horns, and the horns are symbolic of power in the physical and spiritual realms.  This deceiver is pictured as a lamb as he will appear to be a great religious leader striving for peace in the world; however, there is no peace without the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.  Therefore, the False Prophet's power is not from God. The Beloved Apostle makes this clear with the unveiling of his true power source, Satan.  He will speak with the power of that sly ol' dragon to deceive the masses.  

Mocking Christ's teaching that man does not live by bread alone, the False Prophet also seeks to control all commerce for the Antichrist with the mark of submission.  Without the mark, no man can eat.  Man will have to live, then, by the words of Satan in order to eat since they would not live by the Word of God that brings salvation.  The mark brings the opposite of salvation, however, damnation.  Obviously, the words of the satanic trinity are poison to the soul.

In order for the mark to be effective universally some important preparations would need to be in place. Unlike prior generations, these preparations are not only possible today, but they could easily be implemented now as they are visible to anyone searching.  The list of those conditions needed follows:

1.Universal surveillance

2.A means to make a traceable mark

3.United world government—Government as God

4.One international monetary unit

5.Complete control of all food and water

6. A means to incarcerate or eliminate dissenters

7. Control of media

8. The destruction of the concept of individual nations.

9. Voices calling for syncretism--the belief that there is no ultimate truth and all religion holds truth.

It would be impossible to review all nine of the above conditions, so only two will be considered in this post--universal surveillance and a traceable mark.  First, the means and methods to spy on the masses are here now.  One hint of this universal technology actually comes from the teachings of Jesus, himself, on the last days before His holy Millennial Reign.  But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. (Luke 21:9)  Jesus reveals that there will be much in the news.  Men will hear of earthquakes and disasters in other places--diverse places.  There will be droughts, and famines, and pestilences worldwide.  Also, there would be fearful signs seen in the sky.  How long do you think it would have taken in the 1800s and before to hear of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan?  Today, you hear about it in real time.  We also hear of wars and rumors of war in the Middle East as soon as it is reported.  There has never been the ability to report the news as there is today, and one part of news reporting is gathering information.  

Think of all of the different methods currently employable for watching individuals and gathering information: 

•Computer surveillance

•Telephones and mobile telephones

•Surveillance cameras

•Social Network Analysis

•Biometric surveillance

•Aerial surveillance

•Data mining & profiling

•Corporate Surveillance

•Human operatives

• Satellite Imagery

•Identification & Credentials

•Surveillance devices, or "bugs"

•Postal services

Is there any doubt that you are being watched?

Add to this the ability to insert some sort of technology into or onto the body of any human and the nightmare scenario of Revelation 13 becomes clearer.  That technology is already in place as well.  Like universal surveillance capabilities, it is also specific to this generation; therefore, it is yet another of the many signs that this is the time period that John and the other prophets saw.  The Tribulation is upon us.  Just consider a few of the following articles as proof.  However, before you do, get your heart right with God by calling on Christ for salvation.  Hurry!  Jesus Christ is Soon2Come!

666 Technology and Universal Surveillance

Future wars may be waged with mind-controlled weaponry, Royal Society warns

BBC News - World's biggest biometric ID scheme forges ahead

Could erasing memories block chronic pain? | KurzweilAI

Intel’s chip plans bloom in Arizona desert - FT.com

30,000 drones in American skies, civil liberties in jeopardy

America prepares for super WiFi...but you wont be able to use it in populated areas | Mail Online

US Government Looks To Mine Social Media To Combat Terrorist Attacks, Uprisings | Fox News

FEMA wants to monitor news coverage of its activities nationwide, 24/7 | Government Security News

Tories table 'lawful access' bill today to monitor online activity

There is so much more news out there!  Are you paying attention to the signs of the times?

Beware the Mark of the Beast: What Is It?

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:16-17

What is it?  A comment to a friend brought a new teaching about the mark to light last evening, so I thought I would address it.  Like many things pertaining to the last days, it seems that the enemy is working diligently to confuse and distort the truth.  Whether it is the rapture, the 2nd coming of Yeshua, the mark of the beast, or a whole host of other eschatological ideas, many are teaching information that deviates from the word.  Why?  My guess is that the enemy is sending disinformation to hide the true meanings in order to deceive the masses.

The word translated "mark" in the text above is only found once in the Greek New Testament.  It is the word charagma.  By definition, it is something that is physical; however, it is also evidence of a spiritual decision.  Blue Letter Bible outlines the meaning as such:


1)  a stamp, an imprinted mark a) of the mark stamped on the forehead or the right hand as the badge of the followers of the Antichrist b) the mark branded upon horses

2)  2) thing carved, sculpture, graven work, a) of idolatrous images. 

It 

It   It is apparent that these definitions portray and clearly imply a physical, visible, tangible, and discernible mark of some sort that will be found on, in, or both on and in the body of those following after rebellion.

There seems to be a host of sites and teachers who are claiming that the mark is just thought.  They propagate that the mark is simply an act of rebellion, disobedience to God, the acceptance of deception, or the act of rejecting Christ while choosing the Antichrist.  To support their teachings, they are trying to take numerous verses from the Old Testament and link them to this particular verse in Revelation.  One such verse is Deuteronomy 6:8 which states, "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes." Most of these claim that the Jewish people simply accepted the LORD and then they were spiritually marked by the LORD as God's children.  While that is true (God has a spiritual mark, the blood of Jesus on the heart of His children), they still have a problem with the very word "sign" that they are using to support their theory.   

The word that is translated as "sign" is the Hebrew word 'owth.  Like the Greek word charagma, this word denotes something physical, something that can be seen. Note its definition also from Blue Letter Bible:  

1) a sign, signal  a) a distinguishing mark b) banner  c) remembrance d) miraculous sign e) omen f) warning

2) token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof

Now, how did the people of Torah interpret this and keep this law?  By wearing phylacteries, portions of scripture placed in boxes or strips of leather or paper which were bound to the right hand and/or forehead.  This is a practice that is still followed today!  They have made a choice to follow GOD wholeheartedly, and the phylacteries are a visible and material means of showing their devotion.  Even Jesus would have worn these and He rebuked those who wore excessively large ones to gain attention as hypocrites in Matthew 23:5.

Modern Jewish Man Wearing Phylacteries on the Right Hand and Forehead

In its context, the mark of the beast is used as a means of total control.  Without it, you cannot buy nor sell.  This requires some sort of item to be in place that will assure the local grocer that you have sworn allegiance to the Antichrist and that you are eligible to make purchases.  Now use common sense!  How can the butcher, baker, or candlestick maker see rebellion, lies, disobedience, or deception.  If this interpretation that the mark is simply a concept is true then Christians should not be able to go to market today as they have sworn allegiance to Christ and rejected the Antichrist spirit that is already in the world.  All ages would have had the mark present, and it would not be specific to the last 3.5 Jewish lunar years of the Tribulation.  It just doesn't make good sense now does it?

This is why many believe that the mark is not only the rejection of God, but that there is also a physical component attached to it which one can detect.  It is for this reason that many consider the mark to be some sort of technological invention such as an insertable microchip or a computer readable tattoo.  It fits with the text in that we can clearly see that this technology is around us today.  Furthermore, it is specific to this generation and not something that could be found in the entire church age as the above false notion would imply.  

The fact that we do see this sort of ability to control all commerce through some sort of technology is another clear warning that the End of this Age is upon us.  We will explore more about the mark another day, but I want to address you.  If you have not yet prayed to Christ and asked to be covered by His blood in the full pardon of your sin, do it today!  Truly, Jesus Christ is Soon2Come!  

Mark of the Beast Technology?

Implantable Microchip Awaits FDA Approval | TopNews New Zealand

Microchip Implanted to Deliver Drug Shows Promise in Trial - NYTimes.com

Microchip for Osteoporosis - YouTube

The Future of Medicine: Microchip Implants Beneath the Skin | IdeaFeed | Big Think

We The People Will Not Be Chipped! - News

RFID Implant Law Hidden in Obamacare Calls For Implementation By March 2013 | Photonic Portal 2037

Intel’s chip plans bloom in Arizona desert - FT.com

Return America! Return!

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Joel 2:12-14

Like other books in the Bible, the literary structure of the Book of Joel is a chiastic pattern.  Briefly, a chiasm is an ancient literary device that placed a symmetric pattern into the text.  The purpose was to highlight a specific theme.  This device is very common, and it is found in the New Testament as well.  Patterns revolve around a center point, a point of reflection, and the verses above are the center point, the point of reflection--an appropriate title!  (For more information on this literary device, read The Literary Structure of the Old Testament* by David Dorsey.)  Anyways, the message of the entire book is RETURN!  It is the very message God is shouting to a fallen America as well as the entire world.

The pattern of Joel would be classified and an ABCDABC pattern.  Let's look at it:

A.  Devastating locust invasion—(1:2-14) (Locusts are a type of demons) 

·         Four locust species are devouring the land

·         There is a destruction of grain—new wine and oil  (I am sure you know these types and shadows)

·         The trees are withering

·         Theme: dried up, empty, withering, destroyed, wailing, mourning

     B.  Suffering of all creatures due to the invasion—(1:15-20)

·         Short unit

·         Topic-The coming day of the Lord

·         “I will call on you, O LORD

·         All creatures, including animals, are suffering due to judgment

          C.  The LORD is the bringer of the locusts (He has withdrawn His protection) (2:1-11)

·         The Day of the LORD is near; destruction of agriculture

·         Locusts are warriors and soldiers

·         The earth and the heavens shake

·         The sun and moon are darkened

·         YAWEH thunders at the head of His army (2:10-11)

·         Judah becomes a desert waste

               D.  CENTER: God calls for repentance! The stress is on repenting to bring the blessing (2:12-17)

A.  The promises that the devastation will be reversed—(2:18-27)

·         Reversal of the devastation of the four species that devoured

·         A restoring of the grain, new wine, and oil (Remember—Gospel types!)

·         The trees are rejuvenated (Psalm 92:12)

·         Theme: rains, watering, renewal, refreshing, filling, rejoicing, gladness

     B.  In the future all of Judah will experience God’s blessings (2:28-32 & 3:1-5)

·         Short unit

·         Topic-The coming day of the Lord

·         Everyone who calls  on the name of the Lord shall be saved

·         All will experience God’s blessings

          C.  In the future, The Lord will bring armies (remember the locusts of Revelation) to protect Judah and their enemies will be  utterly destroyed by Christ

·         The Day of the Lord is near

·         Warriors and soldiers gather

·         The heavens and the earth shake

·         The sun and the moon and the stars are darkened

·         YAHWEH thunders against the nations

·         Edom will become a desert waste

       

A.  So what is your choice America?  Will you turn?  World, will you seek the GOD of grace who saves to the uttermost or reject His grace only to receive His justice.  It is apparent that the locusts are here.  Demonic doctrines are taught in every public sphere.  Mankind is following the doctrines of devils today just as Paul warned!  "What doctrines preacher?"  The doctrine that teaches that EvoLIEtion, adultery, abortion (murder), homosexuality, pedophilia, drug addiction, pornography,.....on and on the list goes--that it is OK to believe in or commit such godlessness because GOD is nothing but love and He "understands".  These are the doctrines that teach the lie that grace is a license to sin.  Do those teaching such not see that they are the subjects of Jude 1:4?  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.  The overwhelming grace of God, the awesome love of Christ's cross should call us to strive to forsake sin not accept it.  Find the grace that changes you to the core, the very grace that makes you more than a conqueror.  Return to God and strive to allow Him to wholly deliver.  Deal with your sin daily at the foot of the cross in meekness.  

B.  Can't anyone discern that the nation is suffering due to this demonic invasion?  Our schools are unsafe, our streets are filled with violence and drugs, our entertainment is perverse and godless, our government is ever growing towards totalitarian control, our colleges are filled with wretched philosophies, and our churches are growing colder.  Those churches which dare to preach against sin are emptied while "saints" heap to themselves teachers who will preach them happy and not challenge to holiness.  Churches that make Christianity another form of entertainment and not a house of prayer are filled to overflowing. Yes!  There is an invasion going on!

C.  Don't you see that these are the signs that the Day of the LORD is near upon all heathen (Obadiah 1:15)?  The world is growing ever godless because it is mirroring the days of Noah and Lot.  All that is left without repentance is the fearful look towards cataclysmic judgment that is sure to follow!

D.  Return America--Return World!  Turn with weeping and fasting and wailing and mourning.  Rend your hearts in prayer before a merciful, loving, yet just Savior.  "Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?"  Take time to reflect on God and His call!  Reflect on repentance!  Turn!

Will their be a blessing series of ABCs for America? Will there be a second set for you? Only if you turn.  There is a day when God turns the tide of sin through Christ, but will you be a part of it.  Return!  The choice is yours.  Return!  Do it quickly because Jesus Christ is Soon2Come!

*Dorsey, David A.  The Literary Structure of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academics 2004

Satan Declared War On You!

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Isaiah 47:9

Psalm 2 is a great commentary on the folly of waging war against the LORD.  Resistance against the LORD and His Messiah will not succeed no matter who leads the charge nor how many are involved in the attack.  The Almighty is clear, it will be HE who has the last laugh as stated in verse 4, " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision."  Truly, who is like the LORD?  No one!  Don't think that you can ever win in your rebellion as you are warned,  "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name (Exodus 15:3)." He who dwells in eternity, who knows the end from the beginning, who has the breath of life of every man in His hand knows that the ultimate triumph will be His.  Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is LORD to the glory of God the Father.  Therefore, He offers grace when He states in verse 12, "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him."

The Bible is clear.  Supernatural power has but two sources--the divine and the demonic.  God's power has redemption as the underlying theme.  It is the outreached hand of God that extends grace and mercy to a fallen creation in rebellion to His rightful rule.  Can you hear that call of grace in Psalm 2:12 quoted above?  Turn to Jesus as those who do will be blessed, or choose to remain in rebellion and see Him as your judge.  What do you want to see in Christ: The Lion or the Lamb?  The demonic, on the other hand, leads us far from the truth of redemption and strengthens us in rebellion against God the Undefeatable One!  Humanity's attention is turned from the cross as a purposeful deception until death lifts the fog of the lie from temporal human eyes.  Within a split second of death multitudes will sadly know that they were horribly deceived about Jesus--FOREVER. Even the leader of the demonic, Satan himself, knows that his demise is certain and eternal.  His only means of hurting God is to blind the eyes of humanity for whom Jesus died to save.  Furthermore, the Bible is also clear that demonic deception is another key characteristic of the days before the return of Christ.  

Over the past few weeks, the alarm indicating a rise in demonic deception is blaring like an air raid siren.  Ironically, that is what it is.  The New Testament calls Satan the god of this world, and the power of the air.  Paul taught this concept when called the adversary, "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience (See Ephesians 2;2)."  Later, in Ephesians 6 we learn that our warfare is really not against people like Madonna nor Nicki Minaj (who I had never heard of until last week).  These are but poor souls blinded, abused, used by the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spirits of wickedness in the air around us. They are blinded with the pseudo power of the enemy so that they never come to the knowledge of the truth in Christ.  It is for this reason that Christians need to focus not on the blinded human but on the Antichrist spirit that is enabling the delusion.  Ultimately, it comes down to this--what did you do with Jesus Christ?  Did you trust the revelation of God and by faith accept the gift of pardon in Christ, or did you allow yourself to believe a lie when the truth of God was shared with you?

The picture above shows a tarot card and a part of the performance by Madonna a week ago Sunday during the Super Bowl halftime show. Speaking of this performance on Aderson Cooper, Madonna said, "“The Superbowl is kind of like the Holy of Holies in America. I’ll come at halfway of the “church experience” and I’m gonna have to deliver a sermon. It’ll have to be very impactful.”  Can you notice the overwhelming similarities in the images?   First of all, let me warn you!  There is a spirit behind demonic tools such as tarot cards that can enslave, oppress, and even possess you so run from this wickedness as if your life depends on it--it does!  However, the symbolism and the message that Hell is sending compels me to share with you the meaning of this card and the satanic rite done in full view of the world.  The chariot card is about rebellion, being the master of one's own destiny, and it involves being armored to fight a war.  Did you get that?  It is about warfare.  It is a declaration of war. The show may have seemed innocent enough, but the underlying interpretation is that the enemy is warring over the soul of a nation and ultimately the entire world.  

Add to this the performance of Nicki Minaj's performance at the Grammy Awards the other night and you will see that demonic foolishness is being flaunted in the face of every American and even a world audience.  In essence, demonic blasphemy against the LORD and His Christ is on the rise.  Nicki's exorcism performed on an international stage that included levitation, mocking what is holy, mocking speaking in tongues,and the Holy Spirit is not only foolish, it is a dangerous act of war.  (Poor Nicki, open your eyes to Jesus and be truly delivered!) Does this nation really want that?  Isaiah warned Israel that following the false gods of their neighbors would lead to destruction.  Many of the gods that Israel went after are the exact same demonic powers being portrayed on stage before the eyes of the nation.  The prophet, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, warned that the results of such war and rebellion would be the same results that war always brings--a loss of life.  

Satan is called the prince of the air because he is seen as a usurper of the ministry of Christ.  Jesus, the second man on the cross, the second person of the Trinity, the second Adam is the only acceptable mediator.  Again, the scripture says, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (1 Timothy 2:5-6)."  Satan and his cohorts are trying to block that intercession by taking up strategic positions in the air around you.  His declaration of war is a way of saying the he will block the prayers of America.  Sorry devil!  The prayers of the righteous are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. There is open access for every believer who understands that the gates of hell cannot prevail against the shed blood of Jesus that opens clear access to the throne of grace.  His war is designed to keep you from praying, then.  Watching his rites on TV may be doing just that!

God pleads for you to understand the seriousness of such actions.  His word reminds us that these are all signs that He must soon deal with rebellion of the world permanently.  Don't be like those mentioned in Revelation 9 who will not repent of such acts only to face God as a foe.  Understand Paul's warning and see that this is the last days and perilous times are here!  Choose to come out of the blindness of satanic deception into the marvelous light of the cross. Turn to Jesus. He is Soon2Come!

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Scandalous!

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 16:1-3

In proper context, Jesus reminded his disciples that eventually a time would come when they would be driven away from the synagogues where the mostly Jewish early church worshiped.  This was to be just the start of the church's persecution.  As Tertullian would wisely state in Apologeticum, ""the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church".  Satan tried his best to stamp out the flame of the Holy Spirit filled body of Christ, but each stomp just started a new flame elsewhere until the entire world was filled with fire of the gospel.  He has not yet learned that persecution tends to build mature believers evermore zealous to share the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It is very evident that this persecution, however, is ever growing.  Furthermore, it is one of the many signs that we are ever closer to the hoof beats heralding the return of Christ the King of Kings.

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Matthew sheds more light on the persecution that the church will see in the last days.  Quoting Jesus he wrote, "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another (Matthew 24:10)."  The implication is that persecution will become so prevalent that some will turn fellow believers in.  As the world draws near to the rapture of the church, the coming of the Antichrist, and the beginning of the Tribulation worldwide persecution will increase.  The word translated as offended in the above passages is even more telling.  It is the Greek equivalent of the English word "scandalize".  As Satan's forces in futility make their last ditch effort to  stop the church, a church that the gates of hell cannot prevail against, he will try to slow it down with universal persecution.  The enemy will seek to scandalize the Body of Christ.  We know that the plight of many Christians worldwide is terrible, but it is the persecution beginning to erupt in once Christian nations that should make us understand the seriousness of the hour!

Take into consideration a few trends seen in the news over the last few days. It shows that Christian persecution is on the rise.   

Has Obama Declared War on Christianity? | Lutherant | a Chron.com blog

From the readers: The all-out war on Christianity

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk - Washington Times

Fighting Obama’s assault on religious liberty

Atheists sue to remove Jesus statue from Big Mountain
Christians Clash With Jesus on Abortion, Gay Marriage, Survey Finds, Christian News  Christians at odds already even as Jesus warned!
Should Christians Spank? Miss. Bill Could Mean Life Imprisonment for Parents, Christian News

Add these subtle changes to the rise in support for Islam in many western nations with other changes in moors and values, and you can see that universal persecution is just on the horizon.  Even more, add this to the many attacks on the US Constitution and you will see that there is great trouble brewing in America.  It is another sure sign that Jesus Christ is Soon2Come!  

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