The great temple viewed by the apostles was truly a magnificent structure to look upon, from the Mount of Olives.  In Matthew 24, Jesus predicted its soon destruction, and the generation living at the time of the apostles would witness the fall.  This took place in 70 AD some 40 years later. It is interesting to note that almost no record exists of any christian converts being killed by the Roman attack.  Interest... Read More

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Ezekiel 38-39 is past.

Is Ezekiel 38/39 really about an attack upon the little jewish state of Israel as so many dispensationalist trumpet?  I think not, but It does make an interesting story line, especially when elaborated and adorned with phantasmic imagery.  The beat goes on and the dollars flow except to those that say the truth.  I would contend t... Read More

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Many evangelical Christians believe the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of numerous Old Testament prophecies about the restoration of Israel to its homeland and that this in turn reveals the nearness of the rapture, the Tribulation, and the return of Christ. Hal Lindsey asserts that the political restoration of Israel in 1948 is “the most important prophetic sign to herald the era of Christ’s return.”

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On November 4, 2008, the world was glued to the U.S. election results.

“Today America elects ‘The President of the World,’” read the daily issue of Al Chourouk, a Tunisian Arabic paper. “We [are] witnessing an election that might as well be all ours,” wrote Koh Lay Chin of the Malaysian New Straits Time.

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On May 15 2009 I had two dreams.

In the first dream I was with my father and sister moving furniture upstairs because of an impending flood. There was a woman in one of the upstairs bedrooms (and I assumed she was my  mother because of the others that were in the dream). I was told that she was going to have knee surgery, and that when she came home from the hospital she would be in that room for four months (as opposed to the expected three). But that she would spend those months... Read More

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