tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31697088250323427892024-03-13T13:42:48.488-04:00Luther's BaggageWelcome to my blog; if you are new to this blog, I encourage you to start in the Archives (chapter 1, page 1) to see how Luther packed his baggage.Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-22351598036547812322023-04-04T11:54:00.002-04:002023-04-04T11:54:14.546-04:00 Chapter 7 The Black Regiment<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Important points summarized, as follows: pages 189-215</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“The seventh thing every Christian should know about the founding of America is that many of the clergy in the American colonies preached liberty. The pulpits of New England were especially important in helping to bring about independence. Long before the general population understood the threat to American liberty, some colonial ministers saw what was coming and boldly spoke out about it from the pulpits.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The title black regiment needs explaining. It was the black color of the robes the ministers wore that gave rise to the term the Black Regiment. These colonialists, who were organized under the Black Regiment to protect their towns from the British at a moment’s notice,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>were called Minutemen.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Minutemen were usually laymen from a particular church, led by their minister or deacon. They conducted military drills after Sunday services. Rev. Jonas Clark, for example,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was in charge of the Minutemen in Lexington, Massachusetts, who were attacked in the first conflict of the Revolutionary War.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many people today, especially those on the left, don’t realize that the many of the first settlers of New England were devout Christians. They also downplay the pivotal role that the Great Awakening had in preparing the Colonialists for Independence.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Although there were many in the Black Regiment from other colonies and regions, it was the New England pulpit.. to which this honorary designation was given…. John Adams observed, ‘The Philadelphia ministers ‘thunder and lighten every Sunday against George III’s despotism.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">More important than the freedom of religion is the freedom to change one’s religion. England wanted to do impose their will on the colonies. The British Parliament intended to impose upon all the American colonies membership in the Episcopal (or Anglican) Church. All the hardships the Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, Presbyterians, and Huguenots had endured to escape religious persecution would have been all for nought had England imposed such a requirement on America.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Although the Minutemen were poorly equipped volunteers, they used a unique and effective form of warfare for their day. Wars in the late 1700’s were customarily fought by lining up armies in columns in the open field and shooting at one another until one army retreated. During the Revolutionary War, the British army would line itself up, but the Minutemen, instead… chose to hide behind trees or hills and fight from there.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The danger today to our freedoms is as important today as it was when we broke away from England. The pulpits of America need to preach on returning our country to the Biblical values we were based on so real freedom can continue.</span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-56124581290589305752022-11-29T00:00:00.003-05:002022-12-07T17:21:56.043-05:00The word Abortion is a Euphemism<p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I attend a weekly Bible Study group called Torah Club. The Jewish world goes through the Torah (5 books of Moses) and related readings from the Prophets and Writings in one year. Torah Club does the same thing, but it is directed and augmented by the fulfillment of those same scriptures in the person of Yeshua the Messiah and the writings of the New Covenant. Each weekly Torah Reading has a name. This week’s Torah reading is called Toldot, taken from Genesis 23:1-25:18. In addition to the reading, there is a commentary. I’d like to share some of those comments because they are greatly needed by the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In this week’s portion, Rebekah delivers twins: Jacob and Esau. These two were struggling with each other in the womb up until their birth as Jacob grasps the heel of Isaac who is born first! Their struggle continues when their very different personalities clash with each other, culminating when Esau despises his birthright and Jacob barters it away from him. In addition to this illustration of babies in the womb having a sense of what is going on, the commentary also mentions this interesting thought:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“From the moment of conception, the souls that come to inhabit human bodies are already people. The personalities are already there… They are individuals in possession of their unique souls - transcendent and heavenly beings - each one on his or her mission and path in life.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The word “abortion” is a euphemism, in that it hides what is really happening. The truth is that when a pregnancy is ended barbarically, or otherwise, the beating heart of a human being, who has a different DNA than its mother, is stopped; it kills not only the human body, but separates the heavenly spirit from the body. I can say without a doubt, that this crime saddens and angers the Biblical God who breathed life into the child. There is absolutely no excuse for this travesty. This reminded me of the debate between Dixon and Whitmer in Michigan’s recent Governor election. I think the subject of “abortion” was handled far too gingerly. I might suggest questioning Whitmer as follows: “Governor, how do you determine what is morally right or wrong? Governor, we constantly hear of a woman’s right to choose, but no mention is made of what is happening to the baby! Perhaps, Governor, you could relate to us what the baby is going through when the surgeon’s blade cuts through the baby’s arm as it is sucking its thumb? When you stop the baby’s heart, you are stopping its soul from living out its purpose. Only God knows what that person could have become. It is not a good idea for a person, a state, or a nation to anger the Biblical God this way. It’s like spitting into the wind.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We have all heard of all the senseless killings and attacks in the news. I suggest that our culture's obsession with killing babies has lead to a general cheapening of life. When children see that adults kill babies with little regard to the baby's life, topped off by no regard for what the Biblical God thinks of such things, then I believe that results in an increase in crime. Proverbs 14:34 says: "</span><span style="background-color: #e9eef1; color: #01103a; font-family: arial, helvetica, "sans serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Righteousness exalts a nation,</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #e9eef1; color: #01103a; font-family: arial, helvetica, "sans serif";">But sin </span><em id="yui-gen35" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #01103a; font-family: arial, helvetica, "sans serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is</em><span style="background-color: #e9eef1; color: #01103a; font-family: arial, helvetica, "sans serif";"> a reproach to </span><em id="yui-gen32" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #01103a; font-family: arial, helvetica, "sans serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">any</em><span style="background-color: #e9eef1; color: #01103a; font-family: arial, helvetica, "sans serif";"> people.</span>" Wisdom, according to the Bible, begins with the fear of the LORD. To fear the LORD is to have knowledge and understanding that the Biblical God punishes evil and rewards right living. Our country needs to do everything it can to promote the respect for life by promoting righteousness.</span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-1279412342756084352022-07-27T21:58:00.001-04:002022-07-27T21:58:21.369-04:00 The Great Awakening<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Great Awakening, which occurred in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War, is desperately needed today! It would be wonderful if history could repeat itself and turn our fractured, sinful country around, before it’s too late. Here are a few quotes from chapter 6:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“The Great Awakening was a spiritual movement, not a political one, but it had political consequences as communications were established between the various colonies up and down the eastern seaboard. British historian Paul Johnson says it was the ‘original dynamic of the continental movement for independence.’ The sixth thing every Christian should know about the founding of America is that the Great Awakening, a religious revival, was a key factor in uniting the separate pre-Revolutionary War colonies and in increasing communication among them.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">“As we have seen, America had been founded primarily for religious purposes… The Americans were overwhelmingly church-going, much more so than the English, whose rule they rejected.”</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Great Awakening had its early roots among German immigrants who were most thankful for this “promised land” and for their delivery from poverty in Germany. In 1719, the German pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church, Theodore Felinghuysen, led a series of revival meetings in the Rarity Valley in New Jersey.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another early preacher was a Scottish-Irish Presbyterian named William Tennent in Pennsylvania. He established what would become known as Princeton university. He and his son Gilbert were fiery preachers who practiced… emotional hymn singing along with their sermons. They emphasized Godly living and the need for personal Bible study. This made reading, and therefore, education, a must. This linkage caused the literacy rate to climb to nearly 100% in the late 1700’s. Jonathan Edwards, a prominent preacher during the Great Awakening, would one day become president of Princeton.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jonathan Edwards’ influence reached far beyond this time. Not only were thousands converted through his sermons, but even the unconverted benefited from the social and political consequences of his preaching. He and his wife Sara had eleven children, who were all raised to be Godly people.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Their success as parents was revealed in a study done in 1990, showing that their descendants included 13 college presidents, 65 professors, 30 judges, 100 lawyers, a dean of a law school, 80 public office holders, nearly 100 missionaries, 3 mayors, 3 governors, 3 United States senators, 1 comptroller of the US Treasury, and 1 vice president of the United States.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, the last person mentioned, had a different story. Vice President Aaron Burr lived in rebellion to the Christianity of his childhood. Aaron Burr was a man of low character who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Later Burr would be accused of treason.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Great Awakening had thousands of amazing testimonies where the spirit of the Biblical God moved through entire families, towns, and regions. Edwards wrote about this in his book, <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">A Faithful Narrative on the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton</span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the height of The Great Awakening, the New England churches grew daily. Robert Flood reports that between 1740 and 1742, out of a total population of 300,000 in New England, 25,000 to 50,000 people joined the churches. The movement changed the entire moral tone of New England for the better and justly earned the name of the Great Awakening.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The other famous preacher of the Great Awakening was George Whitefield. Whitefield came from Old England, where he had attended Oxford University with John and Charles Wesley, brothers who were also great evangelists and hymn-writers who would later impact the east coast of America.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">George Whitefield preached from New England to Georgia, uniting all the colonies spiritually before American independence was even a dream. At the same time, Whitefield had a concern not only for the spiritual health, but also for the physical health of the colonies. He founded an orphanage for the children who were unprovided for.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He preached over and over again about the need for being born again. His wife said, ‘It is wonderful to see what a spell he casts over an audience by proclaiming the simplest truths of the Bible. Our mechanics shut up their shops, and the day laborers throw down their tools to go and hear him preach, and few return unaffected.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whitefield returned to America for seven continental tours over thirty years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Even Benjamin Franklin, who was definitely not a man of faith, recognized the beneficial<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>social effects of these revivals and of Whitefield’s preaching:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">“It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk through town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.”</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul Johnson points out that this Great Awakening sounded the death-knell of British Colonialism. The Great Awakening helped to forge the sections of the country together. The chapter goes into considerable detail on the interaction of the British and the Colonialists, but for my purposes, I’ll close with this:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The unified response of the colonies confirms what Paul Johnson has pointed out - that the message of the Great Awakening, which created new men and women in Christ in all thirteen colonies, had undoubted political overtones. Johnson concludes: “The Great Awakening was thus the proto-revolutionary event, the formative movement in American history, preceding the political drive for independence, and making it possible.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The key text for the Great Awakening was Revelation 21:5: “Behold, I make all things new.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Founder John Adams, who later served as America’s second president said, “The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul Johnson wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">“The Revolution could not have taken place without this religious background. The essential difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution is that the American Revolution, in its origins, was a religious event, whereas the French Revolution was an anti-religious event. That fact was to shape the American Revolution from start to finish and determine the nature of the independent state it brought into being.”</span></i></blockquote><p></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-62735397421910489102022-06-08T19:31:00.000-04:002022-06-08T19:31:02.214-04:00Cutting the Cord and SkyWatchTV<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> I recently cut the cable cord and found something far better. I kept the Xfinity internet and added three things instead: 1) Discovery +, primarily so I could get Magnolia Network and the History Channel (though History channel no longer shows new episodes on Discovery plus), 2) Disney +, though its recent announcements that Disney has gone woke has me almost ready to cut that cord too, and 3) FOXNATION. I discovered that ROKU itself has some cool options. For example, <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>Real America’s Voice </b></span>is a very good conservative news station, and <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>NewsMax</b></span> is good too. I’ve also enjoyed an interesting show called the <b>Shape of Pasta </b>on Roku. But the best thing I added to Roku is <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>SkywatchTV</b></span>. It is a free Christian program with some very cool shows that are way more interesting and cutting edge than your “typical” Christian network. Some of its personalities, who are very prolific authors, are Thomas Horn, Josh Peck, and Derek and Sharon Gilbert. Their weekly show is hosted by Joe Horn (I think he’s the son of Thomas Horn). They have a publishing business called Defender Press with some amazing titles. I just finished reading <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">The Messenger</span> by Thomas Horn, <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">The Lost Prophesies of Qumran</span> by Josh Peck, and the <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Ancient Mysteries of the Essenes</span> by Ken Johnson. These are really good.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If you are into streaming, then I highly recommend these alternatives to cable.</span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-722484455867391222022-05-30T23:24:00.000-04:002022-05-30T23:24:02.180-04:00One Nation Under God, Chapter 5<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 11px;">A recent article in FOXNEWS stated that a survey of Harvard University graduates found that only 6.4% have a conservative leaning after attending the elite Ivy League institution.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That’s a good segue into chapter 5 of One Nation Under God, which states The education of the settlers and founders of America was uniquely Christian and Bible-based. It mentions that the early colonial education used the Bible as their chief textbook. The education for the primary grades was based on the New England Primer which taught the ABC’s using wisdom from the Bible. Later, the first United States Congress meeting under the new Constitution in 1789 passed a law directing that each additional state and territory to be added to the new nation should be committed to promoting religion, morality, and knowledge by building schools.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">America’s first colleges, such as Princeton, Yale, and Harvard were all Christian in their beginnings. For example, here is a quote written in stone in a Harvard building:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity: dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another school, William and Mary in Virginia had these three goals (summarized):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><ol class="ol1"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Youth of Virginia should be well educated to learning and good morals</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Churches of America, and especially Virginia, should be supplied with good ministers…</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Indians of America should be instructed in the Christian religion…</span></li></ol><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yale had this to say:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Where there is no religion, there is no morality… With the loss of religion… the ultimate foundation of confidence is blown up; and the security of life, liberty, and property are buried in ruins. (Timothy Dwight, President of Yale, 1798)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Columbia University</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals of mankind. (Benjamin Rush, Signer of Declaration of Independence)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quote from President of Columbia College at one of its graduation ceremonies:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Remember, too, that you are redeemed of the Lord, that you are bought with a price, even the inestimable price of the precious blood of the Son of God. Adore Jehovah, therefore, as your God and your Judge. Love, fear, and serve Him as your Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. Acquaint yourselves with Him in His word and holy ordinances.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Obviously, today’s “progressive” movement is not leading us forward, but is one of entropy where mankind is reverting backward to a time that our founders feared might happen. Look at today’s headlines to see that where there is no life-changing, Bible-based “religion”, our security of life, liberty, and property are buried in ruins,” as Timothy Dwight said.</span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-75888434959082702382022-02-23T10:48:00.000-05:002022-02-23T10:48:08.432-05:00 One Nation Under God - Chapter 4<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">One Nation Under God</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e5ce6a3c-7fff-8766-c6ed-1a18ec322e2c"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Haven for Religious Dissidents. Direct quotes are enclosed in quotes:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The fourth thing every Christian should know about the founding of America is that this nation was in large measure founded as a sanctuary for religious dissidents.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In addition to the Pilgrims and Puritans, this chapter examines the beliefs and accomplishments of people such as Roger Williams who established Rhode Island. Roger was a strong Christian who did not agree with some of the harsher rules of the Puritans. A quote from the chapter is “God [does not need] the help of a material sword of steel to assist the sword of the spirit in the affairs of men.” “Rhode Island was a sanctuary for religious dissidents. Roger Williams called his new settlement Providence to honor God for miraculously sparing his life during his winter flight to the colony and also to honor God’s sovereignty over the affairs of man.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Among the religious refugees who came to these shores in the 17th century were followers of George Fox, better known as the Quakers. The most important Quaker in America was William Penn…The state generally associated with him - Pennsylvania, meaning Penn’s woods. William Penn, born in London in 1644, was the son of a British Naval officer (Sir William Penn). At the age of eleven, the young William had a conversion experience that would affect the rest of his life. It led directly to his strong conviction that every person has the God-given right to determine how he will worship and with whom he would fellowship.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Penn received an excellent education at Christ Church in Oxford, but he was expelled because of his dissenting views. These views were not in conformance with those of the Church of England. His father sent him to France to study…. But Penn studied among the Huguenots… Penn went to Ireland to manage lands and people owned by his father. Later, he learned about Roger Williams in Rhode Island and the mistreatment of of Quakers in Massachusetts. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He later wrote a document called the Concessions for a new settlement called New Jersey in the colonies. By 1680, the Concessions had 150 signers; it was unique in that it promoted the power of the people to elect a governor who would oversee the conformance to the principles in the Concessions. “No man was to be arrested, condemned, imprisoned, or molested in his estate or liberty… no man has the authority to rule over men’s consciences in religious matters. The Quakers also encouraged local Indians to bring their problems to the commissioners and to have a fair trial before a court of six Indians and six settlers.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penn finally went to America in 1682, after deciding the situation for Quakers in England was intolerable. He founded a new colony called Pennsylvania. The land was given to him by England. Nearly 100 Quakers sailed with him to America. Penn wrote the Frame of Government with twenty articles; the first ten concerned the land; the next five dealt with just treatment of the Indians, and the last five were concerned with the laws. Penn oversaw the planning for the city that would be called Philadelphia. It became the cultural capital of America. In the Frame fo Government, religion and government are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chapter goes on to reference other groups, such as Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Huguenots, Anabaptists, and Catholics. These settled in other colonies, such as Maryland</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Calvin greatly influenced the founding of America. While he never lived there, his documents provided the framework for many of the covenants, compacts, and constitutions which ended up in the United States Constitution. John Calvin emphasized the belief that Jesus should not just be Lord over a Christian’s life, but should be Lord over every sphere of life - including politics and government.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later, as 1776 approached, the King of England would later say, “I fix all the blame for these extraordinary proceedings upon the Presbyterians (who were Calvinists).”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. John Eidsmoe, a Christian historian, wrote, “The Presbyterians, with their Calvinist view of limited government and the duty to resist tyranny, were among the nation’s strongest supporters of independence.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our second president John Adams was convinced that the strong influence of Christianity had shaped American republicanism. See the book for his quote.</span></p></span></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-5328315904516704452022-01-06T17:16:00.004-05:002022-01-10T17:28:42.786-05:00The Third Thing Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">One Nation Under GOD</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">By Dr. David C. Gibbs, President of Christian Law Association</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And Jerry Newcombe</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Before moving onto the third thing… I need to acknowledge a few points. While many of America’s early Pioneers were thoroughly Christian, subsequent immigration and generational changes affected the populace over time - and not to our country’s benefit. In addition to that, there has long been a sinister influence that has fashioned many of the details of our country. I’m speaking about freemasonry. As Tom Horn writes about in his many books, most recently Zeitgeist 2025 (the countdown to the Secret Destiny of America), the imprint that freemasonry has had on our seal, our money, and the public buildings - including their layout in Washington D.C. is profound. Here is a brief quote from Tom Horn’s book:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">“It is important to note that besides Benjamin Franklin, as many as forty-four of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were also Freemasons. Numerous US presidents were part of the Craft as well, including Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, A. Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, F. Roosevelt, Truman, L. B. Johnson, and Ford, not to mention additional elites in the Order such as Paul Revere, Edmund Burke, John Hancock, and many more.</span></i></blockquote><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">[Washington D.C.’s] layout intentionally incorporated the esoteric belief system of Freemasonry, especially as it involved astrologically aligning the capital with the constellation Virgo (Isis). In 1793, when George Washington sanctioned the laying of the capitol building’s cornerstone, he did so wearing a Masonic apron emblazoned with the brotherhood’s symbols.” </span></i></blockquote><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">While all of this behind-the-scenes maneuvering affected many of the higher level people and institutions in Washington, the average person in the 1700-1900 period was still being taught morals based on the Bible:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is a quote from THE-BIBLE-USE-IN-AMERICAN-SCHOOLS-1700-1900.pdf</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><blockquote><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"In early American church schools, private schools, and public schools, the Bible was used as a textbook as well as a devotional guide. The 17th century founders of American society discerned in Scripture the patterns by which God directed the whole of human destiny. Hence, the methods and aims of education were finally to be governed by the biblical revelation, and in the most fundamental way God was the one true teacher. This view of education was particularly evident among the Puritans who settled New England in the decades following 1630. Barr says the Bible was a powerful force in education in the 17th and 18th centuries and gradually declined in the 19th and 20th centuries. “Opening exercises began with the Lord's Prayer, Bible readings, and roll call. Even by the mid-20th century, Pennsylvania public elementary and secondary schools began with the Lord’s prayer, Bible reading, roll call, and the pledge of allegiance to the flag.</span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Further, the focus of learning changed during the 1900s, scholars say, to accommodate a world that was becoming more specialized, more scientific. The Bible generally took on a more perfunctory role in the schools -- providing passages for opening ceremonies, a backdrop for religious holidays. During this time, what Lundy calls “biblical illiteracy'' in the culture also crept into the schools. “Neutrality in religion” became the accepted mode in the classroom."</span></i></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, is the United States a Christian country? Jonathan Cahn is famous for establishing that our country is a modern day version of pre-captivity Israel. What happened to them is happening to us now. His books Paradigm and Harbinger II are especially applicable. We, like Israel, are a country that knew the Biblical God and were blessed as a result. But over time, we, like they, departed from the LORD and went our own way. For Israel, it led to invasion and military defeat; for us - who knows? Our extremely weak and incompetent administration, the threats from Russia and China, the brain washing of our schools and universities, plus the ever mutating Covid virus all point to the prophesied involvement with the Global swamp. That’s where the 2025 comes from in Horn’s Zeitgeist book. Is that our intersection with destiny? I hope not.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back to the book:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Conclusion:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Without a doubt, the Puritans helped to shape the future course of the American nation. It was both their theological and political practices, as well as their written agreements for self-government based on the Bible, that have had the greatest impact on America. The third thing every Christian should know about the founding of America is that the Puritan practice of church covenants gave rise to the concept of political covenants, compacts, and written constitutions. Ultimately, these documents did much to inspire the United States Constitution, which survives to this day."</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-13125154642176159922021-12-19T15:40:00.000-05:002021-12-19T15:40:04.321-05:00One Nation Under GOD - second thing every person should know about the founding of America<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><u>One Nation Under GOD</u></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">By Dr. David C. Gibbs, President of Christian Law Association</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And Jerry Newcombe</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">At the Christian Law Association, we see over and over again that the rights of religious people are being trampled in a modern attempt to purge anything religious from American civil life. This attitude is totally foreign to the original founding of America. It seems that we have forgotten our roots.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Peter Marshall, a chronicler of America’s Christian history, makes a striking observation about the Pilgrim settlement: “This was the only place on the face of the earth where free Christian people were creating their own government, electing their own civil leadership - the only time in history, as a matter of fact, when a nation, from scratch, was based on God’s Word.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And so we see that the <b>second thing</b> every Christian should know about the founding of America is that it all began “IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Here is a quote from the chapter:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">“The significance of the Mayflower Compact cannot be over-emphasized. A group of travel-weary, Godly men and women, blown off-course during their voyage, were creating their own government. This new government was not like any other civil government they had ever known. The Pilgrims agreed among themselves and before God to freely submit to a covenant of equality grounded in the governing of self as taught in Scripture.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The obvious source of the Pilgrim’s foundational idea for this voluntary mutually binding agreement was the Bible. Historian Paul Johnson notes: “This contract was based upon the original Biblical covenant between God and the Israelites…</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It is an amazing document for these earnest men and women to have agreed and drawn up, signed by all forty-one “heads of households” aboard the tiny vessel… What was remarkable about this particular contract was that it was not between a servant and a master, or a people and a king, but between a group of like-minded individuals and each other, with God as a witness and symbolic co-signatory.”</span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-33459458822820739052021-12-14T00:03:00.004-05:002021-12-14T00:03:59.313-05:00One Nation Under GOD: Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America - 1 of 10<p> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>One Nation Under GOD</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By Dr. David C. Gibbs, President of Christian Law Association</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And Jerry Newcombe</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I just finished the book</span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><u>One Nation Under GOD</u> </span><span style="font-size: large;">and was saddened and amazed at how it revealed to me a worldview in a country that bears little resemblance to the country we live in today. The culture that controls America has regressed to a shameful degree. Proverbs 14:34 has a truth that our country needs to know and follow. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Righteousness Exalts a Nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.</i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope to do a post for every one of these ten things. In the book, each chapter deals with one of the ten points and ends with a conclusion. I intend to explore these, hopefully with quotes - especially because the fake news has distorted the truth.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first of these ten is about Christopher Columbus. The left has demonized him and torn down his statues. Here is a quote from a book he wrote called the <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Book of Prophecies<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) to sail to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures.</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>…..</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>For the execution of the journey to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah prophesied…</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>These are great and wonderful things for the earth, and the signs are that the Lord is hastening the end. The fact that [the] gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time - this is what convinces me.”</i></span></p></blockquote><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We must continue to remember the great contributions Christopher Columbus made to Western Civilization and must join with Columbus in giving thanks to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has bestowed upon us so great a victory and gift. Every Columbus Day we should celebrate the salvation of countless souls throughout the centuries in America, made possible by his voyage. And may we never forget America’s dependence on God.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So we have seen that the first thing every Christian should know about the founding of America is that Christopher Columbus changed history by his voyage, a voyage that was ultimately motivated by his Christian faith. Next, we will look at a whole group of settlers, beginning with the Pilgrims, who’s devotion to Christ is well known by all, even the ungodly.</span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-47954277736533423032021-09-11T15:44:00.002-04:002021-12-17T23:22:51.148-05:00Jonathan Cahn on the 20th anniversary of 9/11<p><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I urge you to listen to this talk/sermon by Jonathan Cahn, that was broadcast for the 9/11: a 20 year retrospective and organized by Michelle Bachman at Regent University in Virginia Beach. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-56431b75-7fff-2edc-e4f3-17626da00fb3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://www.regent.edu/misc/911-20-year-retrospective/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.regent.edu/misc/911-20-year-retrospective/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-56431b75-7fff-2edc-e4f3-17626da00fb3" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.68; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00833f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEGMENT 8: JONATHAN CAHN</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is based on two books that Jonathan wrote called Harbinger and Harbinger II. I have written about these books in the past; and strongly recommend that you read them, as well as other books he has written. Jonathan has many YOUTube videos as well.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our nation is experiencing perilous times. The signs of its decay surround us on every side. We have called evil good and good evil and persecuted those who stand up for righteousness. Brazen advocates for abortion, gender confusion, crime, military defeats, droughts, and plagues are symptoms of our deep sin. It is not global warming that is the main problem, it is our cold hearts. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I read the “Old Testament” in the past, I used to wonder why the Israelites chose the wrong path over and over again. All that BG (Biblical God) required of them was to put Him first, not follow after idols, and to obey his commandments. In return, BG would bless them by keeping their enemies away, providing all that they would need to live comfortably and they could even be a blessing for the world. But the nation was always one generation away from losing it. I am amazed that in my lifetime things have deteriorated so fast in this country that I don’t even recognize it anymore. Our country, like Israel, was founded upon Biblical principles. The Puritans identified themselves with Israel by settling New England as their Promised Land. George Washington committed the country to God in a prayer in the same church that was struck by falling debris from the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. We can learn a lot by studying what happened to Israel. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take 1 Kings 11:6 for instance; “Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father David.” Verse 11: Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solomon’s son Rehoboam continued the downward trend. He was approached by people from the kingdom who lived north of Jerusalem and said in 1 Kings 12:5 + , “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” So he said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” And the people departed.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon while he still lived, and he said, “How do you advise me to answer these people?” And they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. And he said to them, “What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you should speak to this people who have spoken to you, saying... ‘And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!’</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rehoboam did not follow the sound advice of his elders and, as a result, the kingdom split in two: Israel, with its northern ten tribes and Judah and Benjamin with its two tribes in the south around Jerusalem.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a few exceptions, all of the kings of Israel and Judah continued this downward path. It would culminate in the invasion of Israel by Assyria in 721 BC and a two punch strike against Judah a little later. Babylon struck them first in 605 BC and then 19 years later in 586 BC when they completed the job. Nineteen years. Jonathan Cahn has a chilling chapter in his book Harbinger II that equates what happened to Israel with what has happened to America using the number 19. The time span between 9/11 and the Covid-19 pandemic is 19 years. BG’s grace sustains us now, but for how long? Our bungled defeat in Afghanistan may have left the door open for terrorists to attack us in even more nefarious ways. Perhaps by smuggling a nuclear device through our porous southern border and setting it off somewhere. It could be by a terrorist who was born in the same place as one of the hijackers. The Bible has many examples of irony carried to the nth degree.</span></p><br /><br /></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-9143221466997742212021-09-02T14:50:00.000-04:002021-09-02T14:50:07.252-04:00Isaiah 32: A Reign of Righteousness (is what we need)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> It's been a while since I posted, but as I was shaking my head at the insane debacle that has happened in Afghanistan, I opened my Bible to Isaiah chapter 32 and found that it spoke directly to this situation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I won't reprint the verses, but I'll give you an assignment: Read:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Isaiah 32: 5-7 describes what our sorry excuse for a president has done</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Isaiah 32: 9-15 describes what liberal women who voted against Trump might be feeling now</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Isaiah 32: 1-4, 8, and 16-20 describes what I pray will happen</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Selah</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-18039855286277639282021-01-01T22:13:00.001-05:002021-01-01T22:13:18.676-05:00What if the first presidential debate went this way?<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">What if the first presidential debate went this way?</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c38b623-7fff-65d1-a858-5a788b99d885"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Mike Wallace) Good evening. This is the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joseph Biden...</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You will each have three minutes, without interruptions. to make your remarks. During this time the microphone of the other candidate will be off. There will be a two minute rebuttal after that. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mr. Trump you can go first.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There will be many things to discuss tonight, but there will not be enough time to go into detail, so during this debate I will be recommending some books for you, the American people, to read that will shed more light on what’s at stake in this race. I learned of them through some of my staff who are in a Bible study. They are eye opening and extremely relevant to this election.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I recommend you read three books written by Jonathan Cahn, (spelled C a h n), one by Sean Hannity, and one by Mike Huckabee. First, I will mention those by Jonathan Cahn. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Section 1:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Jonathan Cahn’s latest book- </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harbinger II</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Covid-19 is a judgment by the Biblical God that is directly linked to abortion. The democratic platform is responsible for the killing of 60 million babies since 1973! and the biblical God, who was at the heart of our country’s founding, is very angry with this slaughter. The hedge of protection we enjoyed has been breached, first by 9/11 and now, 19 years later, by Covid-19. This is a parallel to what happened to Israel and Judah. You can read about that in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harbinger</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Harbinger II. Jonathan Cahn has another book, called the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paradigm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, that shows the uncanny parallels of a forty year history in ancient Israel with the last 40 years of our political history. And yes, I am mentioned in it through the person of king Jehu who eliminated Hillary’s counterpart: Jezebel.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Biblical God is watching us. We sing “God bless America”, but we need to understand that God’s blessing is dependent on our behavior. Judah was invaded and went into captivity because they would not repent and change as Jeremiah warned them. Jonathan Cahn is to us what Jeremiah was to Judah. We need to change our ways, because I don’t want America to suffer the same fate as Judah experienced.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">….</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Later:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this section, I recommend Sean Hannity’s enlightening book, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live Free or Die.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It covers the nefarious deeds that the democrats have used against my presidency and what is at stake if this election goes over to the Democrats. The recent exploits of Hunter Biden are explored as are the disgraceful two years and millions of dollars that the democrats wasted on a foolish, fabricated, fake attempt called the Russian Hoax. The liberal media are thoroughly debunked as an extension of the democratic party. Read </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live Free or Die</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> before you vote.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Later:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this section, I recommend Mike Huckabee’s book, the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three C’s that made America Great. It</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a reminder of what America stands for and what we could lose if the radical left takes over this country. The three C’s are Christianity, Capitalism, and the Constitution. As to the first C, I can just hear the roar that will come up from the people advocating separation of church and state. Well, first off, according to our founders, including Jefferson, that is not what they meant, as this quote from Mike’s book, on page 82 shows: </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“In 1855, Congress presented a statement in a House Judiciary Committee report clearly showing that separation of church and state was neither a practiced policy nor something they even considered:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged… In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity… That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our schools need to teach students by having them research what has happened to every country that has tried socialism (and failed) and then compare it to what capitalism has done. Liberal teachers and professors are indoctrinating our children by advancing their far left agendas and leaving Christianity out of everything. The degree to which this has been done is shocking and incredibly dangerous.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><br /></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-50035684284260626612020-12-14T13:46:00.001-05:002020-12-14T13:46:28.813-05:00The Chosen<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been watching a wonderful DVD set called the Chosen. It is directed by Dallas Jenkins and is being paid for through Crowd Funding; in fact it’s the largest such endeavor ever. The 3 DVD set has 8 episodes from season 1 on 2 DVDs, and the third one has a few shorts and 8 sessions where Dallas meets with three men representing Judaism, Catholicism, and Evangelicalism to get their feedback on each episode. It really is well done and I look forward to Season 2, which I understand is almost complete. I recommend that you check them out, get involved with its support, and watch this series.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0b4376a1-7fff-7ca5-7003-85ecdcd397e0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is the introduction from their website (https://studios.vidangel.com/the-chosen):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Chosen is the first-ever-multi-season TV show about the life of Jesus. Created outside of the Hollywood system, The Chosen allows us to see Him through the eyes of those who knew him. No matter where you are at in your journey with Jesus Christ, this TV show is for you.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for wanting to help us with our project! The BEST way for you to contribute is through a Pay it Forward purchase! This purchase goes towards making new episodes and seasons. It also gives you digital access to The Chosen, PLUS it helps others around the world be able to watch for free, which is a blessing for many! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 11pt 0pt 11pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InsideTheChosen/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #07544a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/InsideTheChosen/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YouTube</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #07544a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChosenSeries" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChosenSeries</a></span></p><div><br /></div></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-56488784952509913722020-10-23T15:14:00.000-04:002020-10-23T15:14:18.146-04:00Jeremiah Speaks to us Today<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been thinking a lot about the prophet Jeremiah lately. He figured prominently in Jonathan Cahn’s book Harbinger II. But even before that, God led me to read Jeremiah. There were three events which were highlighted in the recent call to repentance which took place on September 26: Jonathan Cahn’s Return in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Franklin Graham’s Prayer event as the walked around the Mall, and Focus on the Family’s program that evening about Abortion. Jeremiah has powerful things to say about these topics. </span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9766105d-7fff-5196-e20f-c4c7fd603c8d"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">God’s view on life is shown in this verse: Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” It is God who created the baby Jeremiah and God knew him at conception as a human being. Before he was born, God had plans for him. God appointed Jeremiah as a prophet to the nations. To the nations means more than just Judah; it extends all the way to America. Judah had departed from God in every aspect of life, just as in America.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeremiah 2:12-13</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the LORD.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah 3:2-3 And you have polluted the land with your harlotries and your wickedness. Therefore the showers have been withheld, [</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drought in California</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">} And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah 5:23-25 “But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed. They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you. [</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fires in West Coast]</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah had to deal with Fake News and Social Media, just like Trump! [</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CNN, ABC, NBC</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeremiah 13-15 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’ ”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the LORD said to me, “The prophets prophesy </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lies</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart. “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not be in this land’—‘By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeremiah 17: 9-10: “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah 19 as in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COVID-19</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal [</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Molech</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ~ </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABORTION</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">], which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), “therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeremiah 22:2-5: Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word, “and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates! ‘Thus says the LORD: “Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. “For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. “But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,” says the LORD, “that this house shall become a desolation.” ’ ”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><br /></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-26805152328552463772020-09-28T17:38:00.004-04:002020-10-02T22:25:13.892-04:00COVID and the number 19<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jonathan Cahn’s latest book: The Harbinger II, continues the discussion between a man named Nouriel, a business woman named Anna, and a mysterious man named The Prophet. Harbinger set the stage by explaining the details surrounding the attack of 9/11 using the same characters. Especially the reasons why our country allowed it to happen by abandoning our Judeo Christian heritage. This Hedge of Protection was breached by the planes that set out from Boston as they crashed into the world trade center. The Harbinger II adds a detail that the airport was built over the exact spot where the ship carrying John Winthrop, leader of the Pilgrims, landed on April 8, 1630. Eleven more ships would later come to bring 700 more Pilgrims from England to start the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which Winthrop dedicated to God. They saw themselves following the pattern of Israel as they were entering a new promised land. Divine justice is a master at reversing things through promises and curses. For example, in Israel’s early history, ten spies were sent to check out the land that God promised them. With the exception of Joshua and Caleb, the rest of the spies reacted in fear to the giants in the promised land. As a result, God put the nation through forty years of wandering to make sure the children survived and the adults died off. Joshua and Caleb led the way into the Promised Land. This reversal where the adults die and the children survive would play itself out in our day. But more on that below.</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebf11bd3-7fff-352f-78ed-46a5ce891b7b"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I read Harbinger II, I was reminded that God is watching us and our nation. Everything we do is like a test. Are we following the Lord or are we responding in fear and following after other gods? In Jonathan’s book, the Paradigm, he draws a strong parallel between America’s recent political history and ancient Israel’s history. Our current history is acting out what happened to Israel. The other day I was reading how Jeremiah had to deal with critics speaking fake news because he kept warning Judah about the impending judgment. God used Jeremiah to act out their situation by taking a clay jar in front of the people and smashing it on the ground. This demonstration was reenacted by Jonathan Cahn in his spectacular Prophetic Day of Prayer at the National Mall in Washington DC a few days ago on September 26, 2020. The lesson has alarming implications for us; 9/11 was but the first sign with more to come. The invasion of Israel by the Babylonians in 586 BC is a counterpart we don’t want to experience. But if America continues down its moral slide, such a fate is possible, considering that we are already experiencing the judgment of Covid-19. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The main sins of America are the removal of the knowledge of the Biblical God and the Bible from our schools, our laws, and our culture, the redefinition of marriage, calling good evil and evil good, and, above all, the shedding of innocent blood, most notably through abortion.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeremiah 32:35 “And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This horrific practice where a baby was sacrificed on a hot iron idol is like unto abortion where a viable baby in the womb is killed through various disgusting means, whether through chemicals, suction, or utensils which pull its body apart. The insanity of this barbaric practice screams to heaven for justice. So how is this tied in with COVID-19?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The abortion death toll in America is over 60,000,000! Here are some selected quotes from chapter 29: <u>The Plague</u> - where Nouriel and the Prophet interact:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The judgment that came upon Israel for the children offered in sacrifice was the manifestation of the principle of inversion and reciprocity. As they had taken the lives of their children, so their own lives would be taken. The judgment becomes the inversion of the sin.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “So, if a judgment was to come upon the world for such a massive and colossal evil, how would it manifest? What would be the judgment, the inversion, for the sin in which the older takes the life of the younger?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “It would be a judgment,” I said haltingly, almost trembling, “That strikes down… the older… a judgment that focuses its fury on the older, that strikes down the older of that generation.” (Nouriel)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “And?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And spares the younger… the younger of the generation.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “Tell me,” said the Prophet, “how long has abortion on demand been legal in America and in much of the world?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “It was legalized across the nation in 1971, but it began in 1970.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The generation that had robbed millions of their first breath was now struck by a plague that would require of them their last.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “Tell me,” he said, “what nation is it that performs more abortions than any other?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I don’t know.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “China. And where did this plague begin?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “In China.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And what nation, by its example and influence, has led the governments of other nations to sanction the killing of their children?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I don’t know.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “America.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> ...</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “Now let’s go deeper, what state above all other states, has the [most] blood on their hands?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “New York state,” I replied. (Nouriel)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And where in America, of all states, did the fury of the plague center?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “New York City.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “More unborn children had been killed within that city than in any other city in America… So when the plague came upon America, it struck down more people within that one city, than [anywhere].</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “Remember what Jeremiah prophesied of Tophet and the valley of Hinnom.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “That those killed on the day of judgment would correspond to the children killed in sacrifice there.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “Was there anything significant that happened in New York just before the plague came upon the world, anything that happened in the preceding year?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> …”the New York legislature passed to legalize the killing of children up to the point of birth.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The law that left many in shock and others calling it horrific and gruesome. The law that New York enacted with great joy and celebration.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “So they were both set in motion in the same year...and the governor of New York ordered the harbinger, the tower of Ground Zero, the high place of Tophet, to be lit in celebration.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “There was another place,” said the Prophet, “from which the plague came to America, another gate.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “What place?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Seattle, Washington. It was there that the first official case of the virus was recorded. Washington was one of two states in America that followed New York in sanctioning the act of abortion. It was from Washington that the news went forth that the plague had arrived on American shores… Do you know what date appeared next to those headlines?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “No.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “It was January 22. January 22 is the day America legalized the killing of unborn children.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I have a question: Jeremiah prophesied the coming of a pestilence and a judgment that would answer to the blood of the nation’s children. When exactly did that judgment come?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “In 586 BC.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “586 BC was nineteen years after the nation’s first shaking. The first invasion of the enemy.” (Note: see Harbinger I for details)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “So then, could it be that the mystery ordains that nineteen years after the first shaking of America, 9/11, there would come not only another shaking but a plague answering to the blood of the nation’s children… in 2020?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “What number is contained in the name of the plague?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The number nineteen… COVID-19.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And what happens if you open up the Book of Jeremiah and turn to the nineteenth chapter?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I have no idea.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “It leads you to Jeremiah’s prophecy of the judgment and plagues to come upon the nation for the blood of its children.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The nineteenth year, a plague called nineteen, and the nineteenth chapter of the prophecy of the plague and judgment of the nineteenth year… It’s too much to take in.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And yet,” said the Prophet, “there’s more. The word of Jeremiah concerning Tophet was connected to a prophetic act.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Thus says the LORD, ‘Go and get a potter’s earthen flask… And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “So as Jeremiah exposed the nation’s sin against its children and foretold the judgment… he smashed the jar as a sign of the coming calamity and said this:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> … and they shall bury them in Tophet [which is linked to the Potter’s Field] till there is no place to bury.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “So if New York City corresponds with Tophet, the ground of the slain children, what would that mean?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “There were so many deaths that the city’s funeral homes and morgues could not contain them… So the city took the unclaimed bodies to a place called Hart Island… Do you know what that ground is called?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “No.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The Potter’s Field.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “No!”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And yet,” he said, “there’s still more. There’s only one other place in the Bible that speaks of what would happen in Tophet, the calamity and the burial of the dead. It’s another of Jeremiah’s prophecies (seventh and eight chapters):</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Is there no balm in Gilead,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Is there no physician there?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Why then is there no recovery</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> For the health of the daughter of my people?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “Gilead was a place in Israel from which came a healing substance…. Do you remember the name of one of the companies which was offering a medicine for COVID-19?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “No.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “The name of the company was Gilead… Gilead Sciences.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “That’s too…”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “And yet there’s more.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I don’t know if I can take more.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> [I’m paraphrasing the next part]</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “In the Bible, a Jubilee comes every fifty years. From 1970 to 2020 is fifty years. The vote on abortion took place on two days in the New York State Capitol building and then the Assembly, on April 9 and April 10, 1970. Fifty years later, the plague struck America and New York. Do you know when its fury reached its peak in New York?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “No.“</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “April 9 and April 10, 2020.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I couldn’t speak. The Prophet allowed me to stay quiet until I was ready.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “What you’re showing me,” I said, “are the signs not only of a world under judgment but of a specific nation, a nation replaying the template of judgment with eerie and overwhelming precision. I’m looking for an answer for that nation.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “There is one… even for those who have taken part in committing the ancient sin. For greater than any sin is His love…. There is hope.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “I’m not seeing the light in the darkness.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> At that, he rose to his feet. But I couldn’t move. So I just sat there in the middle of Times Square as the lights and colors displayed themselves, ceaselessly, restlessly, for no one.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">****************</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I recommend you get and read this book, and the context for it too: The Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn’s other books are amazing too, especially The Paradigm and the Oracle.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-88985387923122822532020-09-07T15:05:00.000-04:002020-09-07T15:05:10.130-04:00Latter Days in Ezekiel 38:16<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-dcce748f-7fff-0917-71be-8960a0f66de0"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #2e75b5; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Ezekiel 38:16</span></span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it? “Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the latter days</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the popular Ezekiel 38/39 prophecy that many have pegged as being Russia, which was often based on identifying Rosh with Russia, Meshech with Moscow, and Tubal with Tobolsk. But another approach is following what Josephus said about Gog and Magog. He identified Rosh with the word Chief and Magog with a people called the Magogians, which were the Scythians, who lived in Central Asia. Today it is in the southern tip of Russia, Ukraine, and various Islamic republics. Notwithstanding the better interpretation of the terms, a resurgent Russia is still very much involved in the region and it could still be aiding an invasion that is led by Muslim forces. If the “latter days” is now, then the stage is set because everyone north of Israel is their enemy.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-40698641745219971082020-08-21T16:58:00.003-04:002020-08-21T20:37:08.060-04:00More on Jeremiah 49:36-39<p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px;">My last post mentioned verse 39 concerning Edom, but I just read a good book called <u>Iran’s Great Awakening</u> by Dr. Hormoz Shariat that adds some very interesting details to that story. Per Dr. Hormoz, Iran is now having a great secret revival, and will continue to do so in the future. But the best part is that God will set his throne in Iran! (see in </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: red;">red</span></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px;"> below) It’s the only place in the world, other than Jerusalem, where God will do that.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" face="" style="color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Iran has a lot of Biblical history. Five books of the Bible were written there (Daniel, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Habukkuk) and King Cyrus was called by God “My shepherd” for he allowed the people of Israel to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the city and temple and contributed to the effort after the 70 years captivity predicted by Jeremiah.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jeremiah 49:36-39</span></b></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Against Elam I will bring the four winds</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From the four quarters of heaven,</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And scatter them toward all those winds;</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.<span class="s1" style="background-color: white;"> </span>For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And before those who seek their life.</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I will bring disaster upon them,</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My fierce anger,’ says the L<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">ORD</span>;</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘And I will send the sword after them</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until I have consumed them.<span class="s1" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="s3" style="color: #e7000e;"><b>I will set My throne in Elam</b></span>,</p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the L<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">ORD</span>.<span class="s1" style="background-color: white;"> </span>‘But it shall come to pass in the <span class="s4" style="background-color: #f5ff10; color: black;">latter days</span>:</p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the L<span class="s2" style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">ORD</span>.”</p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #010c2c; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The latter days, in this case, will take place in the Millenium. But before that happens, God will bring a great judgement against the rulers of Iran and after they are dealt with, the secret believers and many of the believers scattered around the world will go back to a totally new and different Edom (Iran).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-92078873626341954552020-08-08T13:34:00.001-04:002020-08-08T13:34:55.270-04:00More from Latter Days in Jeremiah<p><span style="color: #2e75b5; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: 16pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah 48:47</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e05e0404-7fff-c617-9800-b40712419a77"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">“Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the latter days</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,” says the LORD. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Thus far is the judgment of Moab.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Today, Moab is the nation of Jordan. Chapter 48 describes the punishment of Moab, which was a kingdom that caused trouble for Israel, but verse 47 says God will bring back the captives. Just as Moab fought Israel, Jordan has been part of the Arab coalition that invaded Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973. The Genesis 12:3 promise (I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you) applies to Jordan as well. While in most cases I have emphasized the literal over the allegorical, perhaps verse 47 is an exception. It could be that the captivity that Jordan is under is spiritual and that in the future there will be a turning to Yeshua in Jordan. </span></span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #2e75b5; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Jeremiah 49:39</span></span></h1><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘But it shall come to pass </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the latter days:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the LORD.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Today, Elam is in the nation of Iran. Just as with Jeremiah’s prophecy for Moab, Elam is mentioned in Genesis 14, as having participated in a war in the time of Abraham, involving Chedorlaomer, the king of Elam, which is in present day Iran. Today, it is obvious that Iran is a hater of Israel. But there is a huge underground church that will hopefully be part of the spiritual rebirth of Iran. Many Muslims in Iran and elsewhere are having dreams and visions about Jesus. Let us pray it continues.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-89972328056889053452020-08-01T19:28:00.003-04:002020-08-01T20:20:08.915-04:00The Latter Days in Jeremiah<span id="docs-internal-guid-0d1d4033-7fff-94be-030f-cad7e064f07d"><font face="verdana"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #2e75b5; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeremiah 23:20</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">latter days</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you will understand it perfectly. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How could this be realized?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Psalm 22:16: Event Prophesied</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For dogs have surrounded Me;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pierced</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My hands and My feet;</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John 19:34: Event Fulfilled</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But one of the soldiers </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pierced</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zechariah 12:10: Past Event Realized (in the Last Days)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pierced</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.</span></p><br /><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The spirit of grace and supplication plus events that we cannot imagine now, will someday cause Israel to believe that Jesus is the Messiah. This will cause them collectively to say '</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord'.</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is the trigger for Jesus to appear in the clouds and his feet will touch down on the Mount of Olives. ‘</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They will look’</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> implies the Messiah is visible before their eyes as He walks through Jerusalem, and the sight of the pierced wounds will bring the confirmation that they missed the Messiah. The One they were waiting for was waiting for them. It will be a poignant reenactment of the Prodigal son parable. For God the Father will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication, because the lost son has come home.</span></font></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-51635708745300361172020-07-17T17:38:00.001-04:002020-07-17T17:38:57.000-04:00The Latter Days according to Isaiah 2:2<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #01103a; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I was in Jerusalem in 1999, I was surprised how hilly it is. I can identify with the phrase “let us go up to the mountain.” Literally speaking, according to the Messianic interpretation, during the early years of the Millenium, when Yeshua sits on the throne in the new Temple atop the Temple mount, the Law - which actually means “Teaching”/ Torah, shall be broadcast around the world. </span></span></div>
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Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-46002019262126096702020-07-09T21:51:00.001-04:002020-07-09T21:51:45.541-04:00The Latter Days, as mentioned in Deuteronomy 4:27-31<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a9c1e6-7fff-f8a3-e680-8324199e147e"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before I begin, let me say that the Bible is full of prophecies that know all about the past and how it ties in with the future and it is 100% accurate. God works through all kingdoms and people through all of history to make things come to pass at just the right time. I can think of no better way to prove God is in control then to recommend that you read the book </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Oracle</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jonathan Cahn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you read through the Torah, History, and Prophets, it is amazing how many times the people and their Kings were given the choice between blessings and curses. As Moses said before he died, “So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants. But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you shall surely perish.” It is hard to understand, with such a stark contrast, why anyone would choose the wrong way. But most of the people in Israel did. I must confess that I sometimes choose the wrong way too. It says that in the latter days, when there are times of distress, Israel shall turn to the Lord. It is something we are all waiting for, though it will come in times of distress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How will God respond with deliverance as the scripture above says? I sometimes wonder if God will take into account the church’s terrible treatment of the Jews, when he judges them (and us). In other words, their negative response up until now, may be partly excusable/compensated because the church has said (mistakenly) to them that Jesus did away with the law. In so doing, we have painted a false picture of who Jesus is. I named this blog Luther’s Baggage because most of the Protestant denominations trace their start to the Reformation. Luther inherited his anti-Jewish and anti-Law views from the Catholic church. The grafted in Gentiles in the ecclesia need to believe all of the scriptures and live in such a way as to make the Jews jealous. I should also say that the covenantal obligations are different for Jewish believers and Gentile believers. But the goal for Gentiles is to become Torah friendly, as in learn and choose because the Master said these things and there is wisdom in them. That comes with time, as Acts 15 envisioned. </span></span></div>
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Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-35330995097097869802020-06-25T21:21:00.000-04:002020-06-25T21:21:12.748-04:00The Latter Days in Numbers 24:14-17 + book corner<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;">
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<span style="color: #00280f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just finished reading Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace. It is a great book that deals with the creation and use of the Atomic Bombs that ended WWII in Japan. I was particularly interested because I taught a week-long CAD class at Los Alamos, New Mexico many years ago. Los Alamos is where the bombs were created. I remember going to a small museum where they had models of Little Boy and Fat Man (the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Los Alamos is a fascinating place.</span></span></div>
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Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-87142744564065002492020-06-17T21:35:00.001-04:002020-06-17T21:35:30.436-04:00in the last days: Genesis 49:1 <h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #01103a; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of the 12 sons, the only one relevant to this study is Judah because the Messiah came through his line. Some other sons, like Joseph, had positive things said about them; but the rest were either negative or inconsequential.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #01103a; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #01103a; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The lines in bold are a Messianic prophecy that has its share of controversy. I remember attending (as a guest) a synagogue 40 years ago in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. After the service, there was a question and answer period with the rabbi. A young person brought this verse up as one that he questioned. As I recall, the rabbi dismissed its Messianic fulfillment in Jesus because the word Shiloh in the majority of the other verses has to do with the town called Shiloh. But the verse is clearly referring to a person (his feet/to Him). The essential question is who is Shiloh? </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #01103a; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Per </span><a href="https://defendinginerrancy.com/bible-solutions/Genesis_49.10.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://defendinginerrancy.com/bible-solutions/Genesis_49.10.php</span></a><span style="color: #01103a; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the majority of scholars propose a different vowel pointing and understand the word [Shiloh] to mean “to whom it belongs.” This proposal has the support of ancient translations, such as the Greek and Syriac versions of the OT, and others. These ancient versions, being much older than the MT, also render the phrase, “he to whom they belong.” This reading is also supported by Ezekiel 21:27 which states, “Until He comes whose right it is.” When this part of verse 10 is taken this way, the passage reads, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver’s staff from between his feet, Until He comes to whom it belongs, And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.” In light of this, the Messianic significance of the verse is much clearer. For it is fulfilled in the NT Messiah (Christ), as indicated by such passages as Matthew 2:6, Luke 1:30–33, Revelation 5:5, and 19:11–16.</span></span>Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-20113860278650486092020-06-15T15:51:00.003-04:002020-06-15T15:51:58.486-04:00The Last Days Verses<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am starting a new series that will probably take 5-10 posts. Based on current events and various prophetic words on the subject of the "Last Days", I searched for that phrase, or its equivalent: the "Latter Days" and commented on them, Here is how I organized it:</span><br />
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<br />Dennis Kananenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903077229281785767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3169708825032342789.post-47079493452646269982020-02-26T15:47:00.001-05:002020-02-26T16:29:07.067-05:00The Lost Kingdom at Malchut 2020<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At Malchut, you are going to be inspired, equipped, and strengthened in your role as part of a growing movement of disciples who are working together to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Malchut means “Kingdom”, a concept at the center of the gospel message. In the kingdom, the King of the Jews will be recognized as the King of kings, and all nations will be subject to the throne of King Messiah. We see you as a leading example of this forthcoming kingdom reality. Malachite is about building. Building relationships. Building a leading community. Building the kingdom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ryan Lambert<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Damian Eisner <span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Boaz Michael<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Aaron Eby</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are now over 500 Torah Clubs in the world! My wife and I have gone through 4.5 years of Torah Club at the Mars Hill church in Grandville, Michigan, and they were exciting times. I hope to be part of another club within the year. If you do not know about Torah Club, then I direct you to: <span class="s2"><a href="https://torahclub.ffoz.org/">https://torahclub.ffoz.org/</a> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The first session at the conference was taught by their director of education Daniel Lancaster. He is also the main speaker at the Beth Immanuel Messianic synagogue in Hudson, Wisconsin. He is an awesome teacher!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The title of his session was the “<b>Lost Kingdom</b>.” Christianity lost touch with many things when it became primarily Gentile - and the Messianic Kingdom is one of those things. You may recall that after Yeshua revealed himself after his resurrection, his disciples wanted to know “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” The time they were referring to is the Messianic Era, or the Millenium. This thousand year period written about by Isaiah, has been hotly debated throughout church history. In fact, I wrote about it extensively in this blog a few years ago when I quoted from a book I have called <b>The Thousand Years</b>. Search in the archives to learn more.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The problem began when the early Catholic leaders (such as Eusebius, Constantine, Dionysius, Jerome, Augustine) started interpreting many prophecies allegorically, rather than literally, which is how the Jews looked at these prophetic utterances. Concepts in the prophets, such as the Torah shall go forth from Jerusalem, the wedding supper of the lamb, a thousand year reign on earth, weapons turned into plowshares (no more war), and the Lion will lie down with the Lamb, were too utopian to be believed and put too much emphasis on Israel. So they were spiritualized for the church. The problem has affected many other teachings as well. The bottom line is that the church stopped believing in the Kingdom era and didn’t teach it. It became lost; the allegory placed the meaning on the church and the truth fell by the wayside with the Jews.</span></span></div>
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