September 23, 2017

[Stretch]

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
2Timothy 3:1-7

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.
John 8:47

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
1 Cor. 2:14

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:13-23


The Parable of the Banquet...

1Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come. 4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fatlings have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, and another to his business. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

7The king was enraged. He sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city. 8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy. 9Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’

10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes. 12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’

But the man was speechless.

13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot and throw him outside into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

14For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Matthew 22:1-14


Whose Son is the Christ?

41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?”

“David’s,” they answered.

43Jesus said to them, “How then does David, in the Spirit call Him Lord? For he says:

44‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at My right hand,

until I put Your enemies

under Your feet.”’ (Psalm 110:1)

45So if David calls Him Lord, how can He be David’s son?”

46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
Matthew 22:41-46

[Stretch]

Argument of the mentally deficient:

"The Bible is the word of God"
"How can you be sure it's the word of God?"
"Because the Bible tells us so"
"Why believe the Bible?
"The Bible is infallible"
"How do you know it's infallible?"...

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"Argument of the mentally deficient"......you seem to be the only one constantly engaged in that argument month after month in the forum.

No believer will argue with you because it is a worldly argument made to stir up strife. You do not understand things of the Spirit because you do not believe.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
Proverbs 26:4

[Phantasmal]

You and Althea are off topic...this isn't about the end of the world. No one knows the time or hour of that. This is watching for specific signs God told us to look for along a Biblical timeline leading towards Daniel's 70th week. All Biblical prophecies thus far have been spot-on accurate when it comes to days, weeks, months and years. You haven't studied this from the source so you have no frame of reference other than worldly charlatan con men.

They have?????

[domer76]

"Argument of the mentally deficient"......you seem to be the only one constantly engaged in that argument month after month in the forum.

No believer will argue with you because it is a worldly argument made to stir up strife. You do not understand things of the Spirit because you do not believe.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
Proverbs 26:4

lol

The response to criticism of your book is always amusing and predictable. We can expect a cut-and-paste from that book every time. Always circular, you thumpers.

Speaking of belief, tell us about that big boat with all those animals, Thumper. Or the myriad of the other children's stories you unthinkingly purchase hook, line and sinker.

No wonder you're a Trump supporter. You can be suckered in to anything.

[PostmodernProphet]

except maybe domer......he always seems compelled to post the same stupid things......

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They have?????

The Biblical prophecies? Yes. That's why I showed all that math on the 1st page or 2. Most all of this is found in Old Testament books such as mainly Daniel... then Joel, Isaiah, Ezekiel & Zechariah.

[Phantasmal]

The Biblical prophecies? Yes. That's why I showed all that math on the 1st page or 2. Most all of this is found in Old Testament books such as mainly Daniel... then Joel, Isaiah, Ezekiel & Zechariah.

Sorry, I disagree, the Gospels were written to fit those prophesies. They are taken out of context and divorced from their original meaning, like Mary being a virgin, Jesus being born of the lineage of David and his being born in Bethlaham.
mm

[Stretch]

And, all the events prophesied by both, by different authors, over a couple thousand years, with complete synchronization of texts (before the age of computers, copy/pasting, digital files, photography and libraries), a Messiah who was born, lived and died exactly to those prophecies and all leading to events which have been transpiring through the last couple thousand years perfectly occurring according to scientific evidence (astronomical & geological) and timelines are.....................either mere coincidence or a bunch of Hebrew copycats?

No.

Taken to its logical conclusion from your lack of faith and abundance of skepticism, we also can not believe any accounts of world history prior to 1800 basically. We can not accept writings of Aristotle, Socrates, Sun Tzu, Plato, Parmenides, Descartes, Confucius, Aquinas, Cicero, Shankara, Maimonides, Khayyam, ad infinitum..........

Nor can we believe maps of the world showing the history of nations, cities, boundaries and changes made to any and/or all of these through centuries. All the archeological evidence from Israel, Palestine and Egypt are all made up and 'planted'. Genealogical records were started by someone with too much time on their hands and complete rubbish. The history of Sicily alone from 750 BC and all its occupants by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, French, Germans, Spanish, Italians and even British is just fictional writings.

Nor can we believe any and/or all of written historical accounts of ancient world leaders, their government systems, famous wars & battles with the reported results, religions, their families or even their very names...........simply because they were handwritten and well...maybe all of civilization was copying something they saw or heard elsewhere and appropriated credit for it.

[Stretch]

Indonesia raises Bali volcano alert to highest level

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for the Mount Agung volcano on the tourist island of Bali to the highest level, and more than 11,000 villagers have left their homes around the mountain, officials said Friday.

It was the third time in little more than a week that the alert level was raised. The Department of Meteorology, Climate and Geophysics said there has been a "tremendous increase" in the mountain's seismic activity, indicating a greater probability of an eruption, though it couldn't give a timeframe.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said no residents or tourists should be within 9 kilometers (6 miles) of the crater and within 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) to the north, northeast, southeast and south-southwest.

Waskita Sutadewa, spokesman for the disaster mitigation agency in Karangasem district around Mount Agung, said nearly 11,300 villagers have been officially evacuated. He said the real number of displaced might be two or three times that, since many have voluntarily fled their houses.

The agency says evacuees are staying in temporary shelters, sports centers, village halls and with relatives.

The 3,031-meter (9,944-feet) Agung last erupted in 1963, killing about 1,100 people and hurling ash as high as 10 kilometers (6 miles).

The mountain, 72 kilometers (45 miles) to the northeast of the tourist hotspot of Kuta, is among more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia.

The country of thousands of islands is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

More than 7,000 of the evacuees were in the 840 square kilometer (325 square mile) Karangasem district, which is home to about 408,000 people.

[Stretch]

Hezbollah has 10,000 fighters in Syria ready to confront Israel, commander says...

Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group is an army with 'infantry, rockets, tanks, elite forces,' building tunnels, military bases for future war.

Hezbollah has more than 10,000 fighters in southern Syria ready to confront Israel, a commander for the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group has said.

“Hezbollah has over 10,000 fighters deployed in southern Syria. Hezbollah is an army of infantry, rockets, tanks, elite forces,” the Hezbollah official told the Middle East Eye website this week, amid tensions surrounding the shooting down by the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday of an Iranian-built drone launched by the group as it attempted to cross into airspace.

The commander said the fighters were based in areas surrounding the Golan Heights and that tunnels and military bases were being built for a possible confrontation with Israel

“We are operating as we do in south Lebanon, but of course in a veiled manner,” he said.

Speaking of the truce in southern Syria, under the auspices of Russia and the United Nations, the commander said that the “de-escalation plan is better for us. We are working with more freedom, there are no more bombings.”

The commander said that the next war with Israel may start from Syria but “what really matters is where will it end, will it be in Netanya, Haifa or Kiryat Shmona?”

On Tuesday, Israel used a Patriot missile to shoot down the drone launched by Hezbollah and scrambled fighter jets to the area where the device was set to cross into Israeli airspace, but ultimately did not need to use them as the interceptor missile was able to destroy the target.

The Patriot interceptor missile was launched from a military installation in northern Israel, near the city of Safed.

After the drone breached the “Bravo line” that marks the Syrian border and entered the demilitarized zone — but not Israeli airspace — the IDF “decided to intercept it,” army spokesperson Lt. Col. Yonatan Conricus said Tuesday.

In a statement, the IDF said it “will not allow any infiltration or approach toward the Golan Heights area by terrorist figures from Iranian forces, Hezbollah, Shiite militias or Islamic Jihad.”

According to Conricus, the air force monitored the unmanned aerial vehicle from its take-off at Damascus airport to the demilitarized zone that separates the Israeli and Syrian Golan Heights.

“We monitor everything that flies toward the State of Israel and follow it closely for any potential threat,” he said.

Conricus said Military Intelligence was able to identify the drone as Iranian-built and Hezbollah-launched based on the army’s arrays of sensors in the area and its years of experience monitoring the group.

The spokesperson said the drone appeared to be performing reconnaissance mission in the area. It was not immediately clear if the drone was armed.

Shortly after the incident, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned that any country or terrorist group that threatens Israel will “pay a dear price, very dear.”

The debris from the drone landed near the Syrian city of Quneitra so the IDF was not able to recover it, he said.

The Patriot missile system was designed by the United States to intercept incoming missiles and aircraft. It has been deployed in Israel since the 1990s, but first saw anti-aircraft combat during the 2014 Gaza war, when a battery shot down an unmanned Hamas aircraft over the port of Ashdod.

Israel has long been concerned by its nemesis Iran’s ongoing efforts to establish itself in southern Syria, near the Golan Heights.

Jerusalem fears that the Iranian presence in that area would serve as a springboard for terrorist groups to attack Israel in the future.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been negotiating with his counterparts in the United States and Russia to establish an Iran-free area around surrounding the border, but to no avail yet.

Earlier this month, tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers participated in the largest military drill since 1998, simulating war with Hezbollah for 10 days.

The exercise was named “Or HaDagan” after Meir Dagan, a former Mossad chief and IDF general who died last year.

Israel last fought a full-scare war with Hezbollah in 2006’s Second Lebanon War, and tensions have remained high even as the northern border has remained relatively quiet since.

This exercise was touted as a chance to practice failures or military shortcomings exposed during the war.

Led by Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of between 100,000 and 150,000 short-, medium- and long-range missiles and a fighting force of some 50,000 soldiers, including reservists.

While Israeli military officers often discuss a future conflict with the terrorist group as a matter of “when, not if,” the assessment of the IDF is that Hezbollah is not currently interested in renewed warfare with Israel at present, due to its active involvement in the Syrian civil war, which have caused it significant strategic problems.

[PostmodernProphet]

Sorry, I disagree, the Gospels were written to fit those prophesies.

sorry, your ignorance is not historical theology....

[Phantasmal]

sorry, your ignorance is not historical theology....

CINO

[MAGA MAN]

I can't count how many times in my life I'd heard these predictions. I'm still here. LOL

[Buckly J. Ewer]

So when September 23rd comes and goes with no catastrophic "end of times...
Will Stench admit that the Buy Bull is full of fantasy and bullshit?

LMFAO!

[iewitness]

this fulfillment of prophecy is a source of joy and awe to me. I appreciate your research and time to post it, mr. stretch. I think the "Sabbath of return/ rest of return" is basically "jubilee" and it reminds the faithful of the restoration and rest to come... Thank you, Jesus. p.s. "jubilee" is a calamitous, ear shattering sound...http://biblehub.com/hebrew/8643.htm.... http://biblehub.com/hebrew/3104.htm....