CHRISTIAN STREET PREACHERS TELLS THE MUSLIMS WHERE TO GO, AND WHAT THEY THINK OF THE KORAN AS THEY RIP UP PAGES FROM IT IN FRONT OF THEIR MOSQUE!!

Christian Street Preachers Go In Front Of Mosque, Rip Up The Koran, And Say “This Book Is Filled With Ridiculous Lies!”

by Ted on April 19, 2015 in Featured, General

By Theodore Shoebat

Street preachers in Arizona went in front of a mosque and began to rip the Koran and cry out that “This Book Is Filled With Ridiculous Lies!” Here is a video from the local news:

Here is the fully video:

According to one report:

A Valley street preacher is causing some problems for the Islamic Community Center.

Dean Saxton has been preaching outside the mosque the past couple of Fridays.

“He shouts things like, ‘your religion is ridiculous,’ ‘your prophet is a liar’ and ‘you will burn in Hell,'” said Imam Ahmad Shqeirat.

Saxton calls himself a Christian and believes anyone who is not will go to Hell. Saxton and a few of his supporters spent last Friday harassing Islamic Community Center members as they walked inside.

Saxton could be seen on cellphone video shouting, “You will die. God will kill you.”

Saxton said he plans to continue his protests outside other mosques in the Valley.

“They may say my words are hateful but their religion is killing people and bombing people,” Saxton said.

This past Friday, Saxton stood alone outside a north Phoenix mosque holding a Quran that appeared to have several pages ripped out. During a previous protest, Saxton was seen ripping pages out of what appeared to be a Quran.

Outside the gated mosque, in an unmarked car, were two Phoenix police officers who said they were aware of Saxton and were there to make sure things did not get out of hand.

"THE UNSAVED ARE A HEARTBEAT FROM HADES" BY ALAN FRANKLIN FROM THE "FREE PRESS ONLINE". COME AND HEAR ALAN "LIVE" AT TURF IN CROSS KEYS ON SATURDAY, THE 16TH MAY.

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The unsaved are a heartbeat from Hades. What happens after we die? by Alan Franklin.

What happens after we die should be a question we all want answered. After all, one in one of us dies..... do we go to Heaven, Hades, oblivion or have a  "soul sleep" under that nice churchyard tree?The place to look for answers is The Bible and here is an outline of a sermon I am preaching at Tongham Christian Fellowship on Sunday, April 19. I will not give it as written - these are just guidelines. 

This is a true story. Two believers we knew did door to door evangelism. One day they knocked at the home of an old lady. She came out angrily and told them to go away.  The Christians told us later: “We got this impression from the Lord: that was her last call.”

Her time was up. She chose to spend eternity separated from the Lord. She is now dead and knows her mistake. It’s too late. Our time is short. My grandma died in 1977, when even then the world was fast getting darker. If things were bad she would look at the news and say “ain’t it awful?” She died unsaved, as did all my family. It’s more awful for them now.

Pat recently witnessed to a man who runs a shop. This was a man who had once taught Sundayschool. He knew enough to know better than the answer he gave to Pat when she urged him to repent and be saved. He said: “I’ve still got some sinning to do.” Yet that man could step out of his shop today and be run over by a bus! We never know.

People often say things like this: “Well, I want to be saved and go to Heaven, but I want to wait until next week to say that prayer, because this week there are some things I plan to do that God wouldn’t like.” One young man actually said that. He made an extremely foolish decision. He was going to wait one week and commit some more sins in the meantime. God is not mocked, folks. That young man never saw ‘next week’. He was killed in an accident before he had another chance to accept the gospel and put his faith in the Lord Jesus.

Famous evangelist and prophecy teacher Barry Smith once preached a salvation sermon in New Zealand – today is the day of your salvation. A woman went forward and accepted the Lord into her heart. About half an hour later, driving home, she was killed in a road accident. These are true stories, by the way.

There will be preachers among  the unsaved: “I never knew you.” These terrible words of the Lord Jesus will ring out as some famous preachers are cast into hell. 'Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? 'And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.' Matthew 6:21-23.

Who are these people? Jesus told us the ones to watch out for. What do they do? 'Many will say to me in that day, “Lord, Lord”…' They speak as if they know the Lord personally. But He does not know them. They act like they belong to Him, but they do not. They use the right words, the right jargon, they know our language, they talk Bible talk. They talk the talk, but they cannot walk the walk because they are not really Christians at all. They have never been born again (born spiritually by trusting in Jesus).

The Who rock group used to sing: I hope I die before I get old.” Their drummer, Keith Moon, died at 32 He became addicted to alcohol and acquired a reputation for decadence and dark humour; his nickname was "Moon the Loon."  Like me he was born in 1946: he died in 1978 from an overdose of a drug intended to treat symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. He got his wish to die young. He regrets it.

One of John Lennon’s famous songs was Imagine, of which Lennon stated: "'Imagine', which says: 'Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,' is virtually the Communist manifesto…” One world, world peace, the ideas of someone who thought men working together could make the world a perfect place. He described the song's meaning as "Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it is sugarcoated it is accepted ... Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey."

Man’s sin nature ensures that we will never improve the world if we cut out the Lord. Lennon knows better now but too late: he was shot in 1980, aged 40. Three fans then committed suicide.

Those who are pushing for - and will get – permission to give people “assisted suicides to ease their suffering” have no concept or belief in the division on death.

So who is going to Heaven? It’s a real place, you know, a wonderful place, but modern ‘thinkers’ rubbish this and would have you believe that there is no such place. No God, no Heaven, no Hades, no Lake of Fire. How convenient for them, as they can then do anything they like.

The Bible has some very bad news for them. There is a God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit; there is a place called Heaven; and, worst of all for them, there is most definitely a place called Gehenna. How do we know? Because God has not left us ignorant. He has revealed all this to us in His book, the Bible, which is really a divine library of 66 books written by 40 authors over 1500 years.

The Bible puts it this way: ‘There is none righteous, no not one.’ And what happens to sinners when they die? Jesus made it abundantly clear that they will end up in the lake of fire, a real place of torment for all eternity. But this is not fair, you might cry. We can’t help being what we are, fallible, sinful people; we want to be good, but we just can’t manage it all the time! What must we do to be saved? How do we escape the sinners’ fate? For it is worse than we can imagine…..

Sheol (Hebrew) and Hades (Greek) are the temporary place of torment for the souls of the wicked dead. Prior to Christ's resurrection, saints were kept and comforted in the now vacant half of Hades, known as Abraham's Bosom.

Gehenna (Greek, but from a Hebrew name) is the Lake of Fire for the permanent place of torment of the souls of the wicked dead in their resurrected bodies. We should more truthfully and forcefully explain to people what they are being saved “from.”

Our Lord recounted this story in Luke 16:20-28  (NASB)

²⁰ And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. ²² Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ 

In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’²⁵ 

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. ²⁶ And^[a]besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ ²⁷ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house— ²⁸ for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

Should the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke  16 should  viewed as a literal account or as a parable?

Many orthodox writers treat Luke  16 as a literal account.27 They deny that it is a parable on the grounds that (1) the beggar must have been a real historical character because his name was given; (2) Abraham was a real historical character; and (3) in parables names are not given. Thus many orthodox writers say the story of the rich man and Lazarus is a literal account.

Those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life should have no fear of this terrible fate. By faith in Christ and His blood shed on the cross for our sins, we are destined to live eternally in the presence of God.

Before Christ’s ascension, believers as well as unbelievers were said to enter Sheol or Hades. After Christ’s resurrection, the New Testament pictures believers after death as entering heaven to be with Christ (Phil.  1:23), which is far better than Hades. They are present with the Lord (2  Cor.  5:6-8), worshipping with the angelic hosts of heaven (Heb.  12:22, 23) at the altar of God (Rev.  6:9-11). Thus believers do not now enter Hades but ascend immediately to the throne of God.

Pope Francis has said that Atheists are saved.  This was the headline in The Huffington Post: Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics

The story continued: Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists, who could be saved by doing good works because Jesus died for everyone.

The Pope’s  amazing assertion was, of course, thoroughly unbiblical. It violated two  fundamental biblical principles.

The first is the Bible's clear statement that salvation is by grace through faith and not by works (Ephesians 2:8-10). The second is that salvation is dependent on faith in Jesus as one's Lord and Savior. Jesus Himself said, "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (John 17:3).

So, it is impossible to be saved by good works, and it is equally impossible to be saved apart from faith in Jesus. In fact, Jesus declared, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me" (John 14:6).

If Atheists can be saved by doing good works, what is the purpose of the Church? And why did Jesus bother to come to this earth and experience the horror of the Cross? All false faiths are works based.
Those who do read the Word of God know  there is a sharp division on death, when believers are once and for all separated from non-believers – Christ rejecters.

"When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair; When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.’

Those words, the first verse of the famous hymn ‘When the Roll is Called Up Yonder’ were written by James Black, a Sunday School teacher in Pennsylvania, in 1893. One Sunday he called the roll and one girl was absent.

She was the daughter of a drunkard. He was disappointed at her failure to appear and commented: ‘Well, I trust that when the roll is called up yonder, she’ll be there.’ Later that day, his heart was filled with sadness at the thought of the girl and when he sat down at the piano, the words and tune of the hymn just came to him. He did not change a single note or word.

If you are a child of God, your spirit is immediately ushered into the bosom of Jesus by His  angels. Your spirit remains in Heaven, in the presence of God, until the time of the Rapture.

When Jesus comes for His Church, He brings your spirit with Him, resurrects and glorifies your body, making it eternal in nature (1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4). When Jesus returns to earth WITH HIS CHURCH we reign with Christ for a thousand years and then live eternally with Him on the new earth (Revelation 20-22).

To repeat: Spirits of those who rejected Jesus go to Hades at death. This is a place of torments where each spirit is held until the resurrection of the unrighteous which takes place at the end of the millennial reign of Jesus. At that resurrection they are taken before the Great White Throne of God where they are judged by your works and then condemned to the "second death," which is in the "lake of fire".(Revelation20:11-15)

Some of the greatest confusion about life after death relates to the intermediate state between death and eternity. Some people like Adventists and JWs advocate a concept called "soul sleep." They argue that both the saved and unsaved are unconscious after death until the return of Jesus.

Here are what some false faiths claim:

• Catholics: When you die you go to purgatory to burn for your sins. Jesus’ sacrifice was not enough. You have to pay for your own sins
• Islam – People in Hell will be mainly women- read from Cults and Isms
• Mormon heaven- men will have wives. Women will be eternally pregnant.
• JWs -144,000 in heaven
•  Soul sleep –also Adventists

But the Bible says our spirit does not lose its consciousness at death. The only thing that "falls asleep" is our body — in a symbolic sense. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:8 that he would prefer to be "absent from the body and at home with the Lord." In Philippians 1:21 he observes, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." He then adds in verse 23 that his desire is "to depart and be with Christ." Paul certainly did not expect to be in a coma after he died!
The spirits of the righteous dead could not go directly to Heaven before the Cross because their sins were not forgiven. Instead, their sins were merely covered by their faith. The forgiveness of their sins had to await the shedding of the blood of Christ (Leviticus 17:11; Romans 5:8-9; Hebrews 9:22).

Heavenly hogwash…

Many people’s idea  of Heaven is of a spirit world where the saved spend eternity as disembodied spirits, floating around on clouds, playing harps.

A Mistaken View

That sounds tedious. Yet everything the Creator does is fresh and original and infinitely varied. The choice for true believers couldn’t be laying unconscious in the grave for eons of time or the prospect of being a disembodied spirit with no particular identity or personality
These thoughts about life after death are contradicted in the Bible. Spiritists – “life goes on” think they can find out about the afterlife by contacting demons. The way to really do so is via Bible prophecy, making it all the most astonishing that most churches don’t study it.
When you search out the truth it is utterly different and exciting. 

We, the promoted saints, have a close up view as the Lord returns at the Second Advent – we are witnesses of  His glory

We will next witness the Great White Throne Judgment when the unrighteous are resurrected to stand before God. We will see perfect holiness and justice in action as God pronounces His terrible judgment upon this congregation of the damned who have rejected His gift of love and mercy in Jesus Christ (Rev. 20:11-13).
Jesus will be fully vindicated as every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord. Then the unrighteous will receive their just reward as they are cast into the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:14-15).
The Bible says that ultimately the saints will spend eternity in glorified bodies on a New Earth (Revelation 21:1-7). Such a concept was anathema to the Greek mind of Augustine. If the material world is evil, then he reasoned that the material world must cease to exist when the Lord returns. Augustine solved the problem by spiritualizing what the Bible said. He did this by arguing that the "new earth" of Revelation 21 is just symbolic language for Heaven.
Augustine's views are held by most professing Christians today, both Catholic and Protestant. That means that most of Christianity today teaches Greek philosophy rather than the Word of God when it comes to the realm of end time prophecy and life after death.

Preparing for Eternity

One thing is certain: "Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that 'Jesus is Lord!'" (Isaiah 45:23; Romans 14:11). Your eternal destiny will be determined by when you make this confession.

If it is made before you die, then you will spend eternity with God. If not, then you will make the confession at the Great White Throne judgment before you are cast into Hades. To spend eternity with God, your confession of Jesus as Lord must be made now. 

RAYMOND IBRAHIM SAYS "IT IS REFRESHING" TO HEAR DAVID CAMERON CALLING GREAT BRITAIN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY AND DEFENDING THE FAITH!! HE OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT KNOW CAMERON AS WELL AS WE DO, AND IBRAHIM IS PROBABLY NOT AWARE THAT CAMERON IS ZOOMING ALL OVER THE UK AT PRESENT STATING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT WILL APPEASE MINORITIES IN HIS NEVER ENDING ELECTION CHARADE! VOTE FOR THE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE!!

On Easter, UK’s Cameron Speaks Up for Persecuted Christians, Obama Tells Christians to be Less Hateful

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/on-easter-uks-cameron-speaks-up-for-persecuted-christians-obama-tells-christians-to-be-less-hateful/ In a world where Western leaders and politicians regularly distance themselves from their Christian heritage, preferring to tout “multiculturalism,” United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron’s Easter message is refreshing. Among other things, Cameron (see video below) made it a point to say “that we should feel proud to say, ‘This is a Christian country.’ Yes, we’re a nation that embraces, welcomes and accepts all faiths and none, but we are still a Christian country.” Indeed, the Islamic Umma – where non-Muslims are not “welcomed” or “accepted” — comes to mind. People need to remember this dichotomy – that the West, thanks to its Christian heritage, developed in a way as to be open and tolerant of others, whereas the Islamic world has and likely will not. In fact, Cameron also urged his fellow citizens to speak out about the persecution of Christians: We have a duty to speak out about the persecution of Christians around the world too. It is truly shocking that in 2015 there are still Christians being threatened, tortured, even killed because of their faith. From Egypt to Nigeria, Libya to North Korea. Across the Middle East Christians have been hounded out of their homes, forced to flee from village to village; many of them forced to renounce their faith or brutally murdered. To all those brave Christians in Iraq and Syria who practice their faith or shelter others, we will say, “We stand with you.” Meanwhile, U.S. President Obama—who is on record saying “we are no longer a Christian nation” and, unlike Cameron, never notes the Islamic identity of murderers or the Christian identity of their victims—had this to say at the Easter Prayer Breakfast: “On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I am supposed to love. And I have to say that sometimes when I listen to less than loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”... KEEP READING NOTE: Please visit RaymondIbrahim.com for many more new posts from the last few days

A TRIBUNAL RULES THAT A CHRISTIAN WAS WRONG TO TALK ABOUT HER FAITH!! WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS WORLD COMING TO!! MARANATHA PLEASE LORD JESUS!!

Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Donate online Breaking News Tribunal rules Christian was wrong to talk about her faith An Employment Tribunal in London has ruled that a Christian occupational therapist waswrong to talk to her Muslim colleague about Christianity. Victoria Wasteney has worked as a senior occupational therapist in east London for eight years and has an exemplary record. But an Employment Tribunal has now backed Victoria’s employer, the East London NHS Foundation Trust, claiming that it was inappropriate for her to pray for her colleague, give her a Christian book and invite her to church events. The decision leaves Victoria out in the cold for being open and honest about her Christian faith. It also leaves unchallenged workplace environments that are increasingly restrictive when it comes to discussing faith at work. Contact your election candidates about Christian freedoms Witness and challenge Victoria’s colleague had encouraged Victoria to talk about her faith, willingly agreed that she could pray for her and even accepted an invitation to a church charity event. Despite the fact that Victoria didn't force her views on her colleague at any point, in June 2013 her colleague made a formal complaint. Victoria was then suspended for 9 months pending an investigation. This happened even though her colleague had never complained to Victoria personally and had often initiated discussions about Victoria’s faith. In February 2014 an internal disciplinary panel found Victoria guilty of three charges of misconduct related to the accusations of “bullying and harassment”. Now the Employment Tribunal has backed up the decision of Victoria’s employer. 'Strained relationships' Victoria commented: “I conducted all my conversations with my colleague in a sensitive and appropriate way. I knew she was from a different faith background and I was respectful of that. Surely there should be room for mutual conversations about faith, where appropriate, in the workplace?   “I am extremely disappointed with the Tribunal’s decision to side with my employer. There is already an unnatural caginess around faith and belief which is an obstruction to building meaningful relationships in the workplace.   “This decision will only perpetuate that, to the detriment of working relationships in the NHS.” Victoria’s case shows the serious problems with the ‘equality and diversity’ framework. It is driving people apart in the workplace, not bringing them together. These strained relationships mean that work productivity ultimately suffers as well. 'Forced to hide identity' Andrea Williams commented, “Are these the kind of workplaces we want, where people are forced to hide their identity and the things that matter most to them? Such an environment is detrimental to meaningful working relationships and ultimately to productivity. “With the general election fast approaching, what will political parties do about the place of Christianity in the workplace, particularly in the NHS? “The current ‘equality and diversity’ framework is having the opposite effect to what was intended. It is driving different people apart, not bringing them together, by breeding an atmosphere of mistrust in which people constantly feel as if they are walking on eggshells. “Victoria’s case clearly demonstrates this. What will our politicians do to restore trust in the workplace?” Contact your election candidates about Christian freedoms Next steps We’ve given Victoria expert legal support without charge and will continue to do so as she appeals the decision. Victoria hasn’t done anything wrong and the decision of the Employment Tribunal should reflect that. But there’s something even bigger at stake — the freedom of men and women to be open and honest about their Christian faith at work.

"THE NEXT FORESHOCK!" FROM THE SPLENDID TERRY JAMES PROPHECY LINE!

New post on Terry James Prophecy Line The Next Foreshock! by Terry James Many years ago, I put together (was general editor of) a book with a number of prophecy scholars, broadcasters, and writers. That book was called Foreshocks of Antichrist. The compilation of chapters dealt with issues and events of the times, issues and events the other authors and I believed significant in considering prophecies that surrounded the coming of Antichrist to power, as foretold in chapters of the books of Daniel, Revelation, 1 John, and others. That was about 1996, I think, and I believed, at the time, that conditions could not ripen much more so far as the world’s being ready to reap the bitter harvest the Antichrist will bring was concerned. I was wrong, of course, which proves we must never be too quick to think that things can’t get much worse. They can, and have, gotten worse, since my great, now deceased, colleagues such as Dr. John Walvoord, Dave Breese, Zola Levitt, and many others, dissected the issues of our time with the omniscient scalpel of God’s Word in that Harvest House book almost 2 decades ago. Back then, Israel was in a peace process –just as now. Then it was Yasser Arafat, Yitzak Rabin, and Bill Clinton working on the Oslo Accords. Peace was in the offing, and some thought this was the covenant in the making that would bring Daniel 9: 27 to fruition. But, Rabin, prime minister of Israel, was assassinated, and Bill Clinton soon fell into the Monica Lewinsky quagmire that exposed his infidelities and held the nation’s rapt attention for months. Earthquakes came again and again, seemingly in greater numbers and intensities. The Middle East teetered constantly on the edge of igniting into major conflict in that region, and beyond. It looked more and more as though the world could not move into a mode that was any more prepared for the coming of Antichrist and his global dictatorship. But, I was wrong. Things could get worse –much worse. The next shocker that stepped up signals of the prophetic times occurred Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Giant, fuel-laden passenger jets slammed into the twin World Trade towers in lower East Manhattan, and into the Pentagon, and another aircraft headed for the nation’s capital was forced into a Pennsylvania field by heroes on the plane. Planet Earth seemed to go into an even higher level of stage-setting for the coming Antichrist. Fear spread among Christians and non-Christians alike, and churches –you will remember—were filled the following Sunday. I, myself, was asked by my pastor to speak to my own church about these startling events. It was a time of trepidation about the future and reflection on how to best cope under the changed circumstances. It was a foreshock that had overshadowed other terrorist attacks and other events of recent times. Terrorists from the Middle East –the land of the Bible, and of Bible prophecy—had turned up the heat on the Armageddon boiler. Things seemed to settle. Then came fears of Saddam Hussein developing weapons of mass destruction. This meant, also, an economic stranglehold on the oil supplies of the world, if he could get into position to hold Middle Eastern oil hostage, and to threaten Israel and other of his neighbors. The tension again was raised. The fast track to Armageddon seemed back on the rails. Fear that Armageddon lay right around the next geopolitical corner was not assuaged, while George W. Bush and the American military planners and state department forged military alliances for the assault on Hussein’s Iraq. The alliances were less numerous than those put together by the first President Bush to be sure, but nonetheless, they were more powerful in ability to accomplish the task due to advancing technologies for war-making. The battles for Iraq succeeded, but the larger war on terrorism rages still, while the whole world waits for the next proverbial shoe to drop. Europe looked like the next major foreshock to the coming tribulation and Antichrist’s regime of global government. The talk and actions of trying to forge an EU Constitution for a time had all of us looking with great wonder at developments, in consideration of prophecies in the book of Daniel. But, again, the foreshock –for the moment—seems to have fizzled just a bit, with the EU showing signs of fiscal crumbling. The greatest tsunami ever to be recorded, following the great quake in the Indian Ocean, stunned Asia and the rest of us as well. More than 285 thousand people are believed to have lost their lives –maybe even more. This event, combined with the most prolific and record-setting hurricane season in the history of record-keeping, at the time sent national and international news media to us who study and comment on prophetic matters, in an almost frenzy of wanting to know if God was telling Planet Earth something. The foreshocks, when they manifest themselves –the birth pangs— continue to get stronger. The longer the lull between contractions, the more shocking the calamities that follow seem to be. This might be the potential Caldera-supervolcano of foreshocks— silent, seething, building, swelling, while God’s cup of wrath fills to the brim. We presently watch what many refer to as a building bubble of pending catastrophes. The economic insanity has every nation on earth filled with distress and in perplexity. All out war in the Middle East is about to explode, with Israel looking closely at Iran’s nuclear program that threatens to destroy the Jewish state. But, for some reason a preemptive strike that would ignite conflagration continues on hold, as if the very Hand of God is preventing it from happening. We are in a lull. The lull has brought apathy among Christians that itself dangerously smacks of endtime prophecy: “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh” (Mat. 24:44).