STRONG FAITH BY CHRISTIANS IN NIGER DESPITE THEIR HORRIFIC PERSECUTION!

Pray for Niger Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Praising God in burnt-out buildings The Christians of Niger have gone back to church – meeting in the shells of buildings destroyed in the wave of attacks two weeks ago. "It was important because a Christian who lives alone is not strengthened in his faith. As the Bible teaches, we are encouraged when we're together… It’s also an occasion to show the ability of the Church to face trials, because after what happened Christians are in great need of spiritual support," said Rev Kimso Boureima (President of the Evangelical Alliance in Niger) Stories of faith and forgiveness are coming out of Niger – read the full story

"TIME OF THE SIGNS - PART TWO" FROM THE EXCELLENT TERRY JAMES PROPHECY LINE.

New post on Terry James Prophecy Line Time of the Signs – Part 2 by Terry James       Christ’s words indicate something of humankind-ending power. This statement follows His warning of wars and rumors of wars for the very end of the human history timeline that immediately precedes His second advent. All flesh will die if Jesus doesn’t return upon His divinely scheduled appointment time!     The question naturally emerges: Do we see any such power upon the world scene today? I, perhaps, don’t even need to go into answering that–at least not very deeply. That power to destroy all flesh has been on the scene as a major sign of where we are on God’s prophetic timeline since 1945. The first atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, flashed that sign across the night desert sky in a stupefying instant. Soon "Little Boy” and “Fat Man” incinerated and blew apart almost 200,000 Japanese citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.     The hydrogen bomb tests, coupled with intercontinental ballistic missile developments, made the whole world aware that the planet’s inhabitants could well be living on borrowed time. These weapons, yielding unfathomable power to destroy, continue to scream from the billboard of forewarning while this generation nears the denouement of the age. Weapons of such horrific magnitude must certainly be the subject of and reason for Jesus’ “wars and rumors of wars” sign being issued for the terminal generation. And this prophetic sign must, it follows because of that world-destroying weaponry being ubiquitous today, refer to our present generation of earth dwellers.     Third World powers and terrorist organizations lust after weapons of mass destruction. Potential for developing atomic weaponry is on the agenda of governments. North Korea, Iran and other nation-states race forward with nuclear programs, defying the international community as the G-8 and others try to prevent World War III. Sign 3: Nations and Kingdoms in Distress      The most obvious category given by Jesus  that we are in the time of the signs is that involving the geopolitical disposition of nations. No observer of the world scene today who believes that God has told the end from the beginning can look at the way countries are prophetically juxtaposed and not see the end times are upon this generation. Let’s look more closely at this third end-times prophecy Jesus put forth while on top of the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Jerusalem of His time while still in His flesh body: “Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom” (Lk. 21:10).     The Lord forewarned tremendous ethnic upheaval at the time just before His second advent. We’ve looked many times at the Greek term used here, translated into the KJV as “nation.” The Greek term is ethnos, meaning “ethnic” in English. Jesus said that the end times would be marked by ethnic hatred and strife. “Kingdom” against “kingdom” can be interpreted nation-state entities or countries will be at war or about to go to war. These wars and rumors of war will present unprecedented levels of danger to the peoples that inhabit the “kingdoms,” is the implication. We have looked at why this is so. The nuclear and other threats from weaponry of mass destructive capability brings our time to this level of concern.      Jesus, when considering the Luke account of His Olivet Discourse, goes on to express this fact in expanding upon the time of the signs: “And there shall be…upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity…” (Lk. 21:25b).     Threat of calamitous destruction, should there be all-out nuclear war, is obvious. Worry about such potential catastrophe certainly fits Jesus’ prediction of end times perplexity and distress among the nations. The causes of this Armageddon-like potentiality, however, seems to be now coming into focus.     During the Cold War, there seemed little rhyme or reason why kingdom should rise against kingdom and want to destroy each other and the rest of the world with thermonuclear warfare. The unofficial doctrine termed "Mutually Assured Destruction" (MAD), in fact, kept the superpowers, with their potentially world-ending nuclear stockpiles, from doing the unthinkable–attacking each other just for the sake of empire building or stopping empire building. Again, there was no rhyme or reason–at least not enough--that convinced the leaderships of the superpowers to pull the nuclear trigger. Warfare on such a horrific scale was absolutely a no-win scenario for all concerned. The Catalyst      Now, in this, our generation’s time of the signs, a reason to go to Armageddon-like war might just be in view. The catalyst that just might be a large part of galvanizing the nations of the world into a collective mindset that throws MAD out the window of sanity, thus bringing all into the valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:2), isn’t so far fetched to contemplate.     The thirst, thus the lust, for petroleum looks more and more like a potential reason to cause all to gather at Megiddo on the plain of Jezreel. The nations in distress, with perplexity, exactly describes the industrialized nation-states of Planet Earth while they scramble to secure for themselves the black liquid gold that can fire their engines of wealth production.     While there is talk of alternative fuels, none of practical development and implementation looks to be in view for decades ahead. The oil-rich Middle East is the logical  place to look first in the attempt to secure energy producing fuels. Oil in the region surrounding God’s chosen nation, Israel, is the quickest, most accessible such arena of supply. The Nations in this Time of the Signs     The alignment of the nations pertinent to Bible prophecy, as they are presently positioned and are dynamically rearranging, are eerily similar to the configuration Jesus and the Bible prophets forecast for the time just before Christ’s return to put a stop to Armageddon, and to prevent the end of all flesh on Planet Earth.     Rosh (Russia) sits due north of Jerusalem. The nation who will produce the evil leader called “Gog,” those of us who hold to pre-trib rapture eschatology believe, struggles internally and externally to become again a superpower to rival the United States. To do this, that prophetic nation will need energy to fire the engines of its industrial base.     Iran, the area where ancient Persia largely sat, is in the throes of international turmoil while it seems unalterably determined to produce nuclear weapons. At the same time, it is allying in many ways with Russia, in keeping with the Ezekiel 38 and 39 prophecy that foretells its joining forces with Gog to attack over the mountains toward Israel. All the while its leader declares his desire is to erase all Jews from the Middle East.     Nations of the area of the ancient Roman Empire have put aside centuries of disputes and warring to form a reviving Roman Empire. The EU looks more and more to fit the prophetic Daniel 9: 26-27 template in a way that can be denied only by those who refuse to acknowledge that Bible prophecy is to be interpreted as literal.     The great dragon nation, China, is perhaps the oil-thirstiest of all of the industrial giants. The prophetic scenario is not difficult to embrace that this behemoth, which by itself could field the astonishing, prophetically stipulated 200-million-troop force, will move toward the Middle East at some point yet future.     Despite recent attempts to slow the use of petroleum a degree, this emerging industrial titan, with its one-and-a-half-billion people, looks to be developing into becoming the king of the kings of the East of Revelation 9 and 16.     Modern Israel, the greatest sign in this time of signs, is positioned almost precisely where the prophet Zechariah foretold, as recorded in Zechariah 12:1-3. Most all of the distressed, perplexed nations of the world seem focused on God’s chosen people as the key to war and peace in the Middle East, thus the key to world peace. Again, modern Israel sits at the center of the region where the planet’s greatest pools of petroleum reside beneath what the world calls the Holy Land. It is a land destined for man’s most destructive war, then to become the heart of Christ’s glorious 1,000-year kingdom.

"A CHIP UNDER THE SKIN" - NEW SWEDISH TECHNOLOGY REPORTED BY THE BBC - IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST NEARLY UPON US?

New post on Now The End Begins Swedish Tech Company Begins Human Microchip Implantation Of Its Employees by NTEB News Desk Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16,17 (KJV) After the Rapture of the Church, the unsaved will not only have to face the Antichrist, they will also have to decide whether or not to willingly receive his mark in either in their right hand or in their forehead. So in preparation of that day, the Devil is working overtime mentally condition people right now that human chip implantation is not only beneficial, but that it's also unavoidable. Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier. BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones receiving his human implantable microchip. That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand. On the day of the building's official opening,the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too. Human Microchip Implantation Hannes Sjoblad says he and the Swedish Biohacking Group have objective - preparing us all for the day when others want to chip us. "We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped - the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip." Then, he says, we'll all be able to question the way the technology is implemented from a position of much greater knowledge. Read the rest of this story on BBC...

HERE ARE THE LATEST PROPHECY NEWS HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR YOU TO PERUSE THIS WEEKEND.

Prophecy News Headlines

	Where Is America In Bible Prophecy?  Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression The signs of the times are everywhere – all you have to do is open up your eyes and look at them. When a pregnant woman first goes into labor, the birth pangs are usually fairly moderate and are not that close together. But as the time for delivery approaches, they become much more frequent and much more intense. Economically, what we are experiencing right now are birth pangs of the coming Great Depression .............  Click here for full story
	Israel: God's Timepiece  Is Hezbollah Trying To Draw Israel Into A Ground Offensive? It may be too soon to point to a new, cohesive Hezbollah strategy along Israel’s northern border. And yet, repeated rocket fire at Israeli targets in the Golan Heights Tuesday prompts speculation that the Shiite terror group and its ally, the Syrian regime, are seeking to draw Israel into a ground offensive ..........  Click here for full story
	Israel: God's Timepiece   '15,000 Young Gazans Complete Hamas Terror Training Camps Thousands of recruits as young as 15 learned how to kidnap soldiers, use weapons, and infiltrate into Israel though tunnels at a Hamas paramilitary training camp in Gaza...........  Click here for full story
	Increase In Knowledge and Technologies  Biometrics To Replace Passwords... Sooner Than You Think Once the territory of futuristic films, soon biometrics may just spell the end for passwords...........  Click here for full story
	Christian Worldview and Issues  Eight Reasons Why Some Full-time Pastors and Staff Should Go Bivocational Some of you reading this post may need to get a new job. At least you may need to get an additional job. Without a doubt, many churches will always need full-time vocational pastors and church staff. I am not suggesting all of you, even the majority of you, should go bivocational. But I do believe more of you should consider this path .........  Click here for full story

HAMAS ANTI-JEWISH HATE CAMPS ARE TRAINING 17,000 TEENS IN PALESTINE!

New post on Now The End Begins 17,000 Terror Teens Being Trained In Hamas Hate Camp In Palestine by Geri Ungurean The Hamas version of Boy Scouts have a motto, but it's not "Always be prepared." It's more like "Always kill a Jew." "Hamas, a member of the Palestinian Unity Government, has published photo proof of the terrorist organization committing war crimes by training thousands of teenagers in “military youth camps.”TheHamas version of the Boy Scouts dresses the children in military uniforms, preaches sermons of hate against Israel and for the “love of death,” and teaches skills they will need to lead them there, such as using assault weapons." [1] - source THE TRUE FACE OF ISLAM The Palestinian Authority signed the United Nations Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC) which prohibits soldiers under the age of 18. But they have signed many other agreements, and have not honored any of them. They don't have money to furnish housing for their people, but they seem to have plenty of money to finance these camps for their children to learn how to kill Jews.

THE HIGHLY RESPECTED RAYMOND IBRAHIM ARGUES THAT THE WEST IS DESENSITISED TO ISLAMIC VIOLENCE!!

The West: Desensitized to Islamic Violence

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-west-desensitized-to-islamic-violence/ Following the January 7 massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, where Islamic gunmen killed a dozen people because the satirical magazine had mocked the prophet of Islam, one thing has become clear: the amount of atrocities committed in the name of Islam all around the world have become so frequent, so ubiquitous, that other, lesser hostilities by Muslims, which might once have been newsworthy, are now completely falling by the wayside, seen as minor and insignificant—commonplace, almost expected. Thus, while Islamic gunmen were massacring “infidels” in Paris (and elsewhere), “everyday Muslims” in Europe were engaging in less dramatic, but no less significant behavior. On Friday, January 9—Friday being when Muslims get most riled during mosque sermons and when non-Muslims are frequently attacked—“foreigners” in Italy, believed to be Muslims, attacked a man kneeling in prayer before the statue of the Virgin Mary, tore the photo of a loved one from his hand, and then broke and urinated on the Virgin Mary statue. By the time police arrived at the chapel the attackers had already fled. Ten days later, also in Italy, a crucifix near a populated mosque was shattered to pieces. Immediately after this incident, according to the report, “People have already strongly reacted across social networks. They are outraged at this new blow to their deepest feelings, to their beliefs. People can’t take it anymore.” Nor did the municipality’s Councillor Giuseppe Berlin of the civil list “Your Town” mince words... KEEP READING ALSO NEW: * Raymond Ibrahim Interview: Relativism, the Media, and Islam * Picture: Islamic State Atrocities ‘Built on the Prophetic Approach’

Pastor JD Farag's Mid-East Prophecy Update – January 25th, 2015

We Are Witnessing the End Times: Joel Richardson & Larry Spargimino

IF OBAMA AND THE POPE ARE NOT THE ANTICHRIST, THEN WHO WILL IT BE? HERE IS AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU OF THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WILL FIT THE BILL?

An example of what the Antichrist will look like by Daniel Knezacek (Jan 19th). 

by dknezacek

There is a politician in the world today who exemplifies the way the Antichrist will behave, at least in the early stages of his reign.

Would you think I am talking about B. Hussein Obama? Well, actually no. Lots of people speculate that Obama is the antichrist, but he is too divisive to be that person. America is more divided now than it was in 2009 when Obama took over. Obama specializes in pitting people against each other. This is not a characteristic of the biblical Antichrist.

Obama lectures Europe on how to avoid terrorist attacks

How about the pope? I hear lots of people saying that pope Francis is the Antichrist, or at least the false prophet. The pope is very Antichrist-like, to be sure, but he is not the Antichrist, nor the biblical false prophet, of Revelation 13:11. The false prophet comes our of the “land” which is a reference to Israel. He is Satan’s attempt to get Israel to worship the Antichrist, and thus needs to have a Jewish background in order to have credibility with Israel, and Jews.

The pope is also very divisive, and many of his pronouncements have alienated many conservative Roman Catholics against their leader!

The pope is alienating conservatives

No, the pope may be A false prophet, but he is not THE false prophet, nor the Antichrist.

As I have said in “The Spirit of Prophecy” the pope is a stand-in for the false prophet. Satan is creating a villain, in the pope, so he can be destroyed to distract attention from the real False Prophet, and Antichrist. He is a decoy, and a dupe.

You can also expect that Satan will set up some world leader to take the fall for the Antichrist.  Because of what Christians have been saying about the Antichrist we can expect this person will most likely come from Rome, Italy, or at least the EU or some successor to the EU.   He will be another decoy.

But, there is a world politician today who is a better fit with the Antichrist, than either Obama or pope Francis; General al Sisi of Egypt.

Al Sisi at St. Mark Cathedral Christmas 2014

Please don’t get me wrong; I am not saying that al Sisi is the actual Antichrist. Not at all. I am only saying that his character is more like the Antichrist, than anyone else I can think of.

General Al Sisi is a unifier, and is smarter than just about any political leader in the west. He is also kind to minorities.

As Raymond Ibrahim noted in a recent article about al Sisi, during a Christmas meeting in St. Mark Cathedral, a Coptic Church, he was constantly met with cries of “We love you!” and “Hand in hand!” from the Christians at that Church. Al Sisi is the first Egyptian leader to have entered a Christian Church at Christmas.

This is the kind of welcome the Antichrist will receive around the world!

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. Daniel 8:25

And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom:but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Daniel 11:21

The Antichrist, the Beast, shall conquer the world with peace, not through war. He will come in by being charming, and kind, and behind-the-scenes-manipulation, and will only show his true colours at the mid-point of the Tribulaton, after he has consolidated his power. By then it will be too late, of course.

I know this is confusing to some but there will be at least two major wars before the Tribulation begins; Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38-39. These are Church-Age wars, and in the aftermath of these major destructive wars, the Antichrist will come bearing an olive branch, and shall promise peace.

Like al Sisi, the Antichrist will have a Muslim background, and in the same way, he will disregard the laws of his father’s God; Shariah!

To Christians this is a good thing! Shariah is very evil, but I believe it was created for the same purpose that Satan created the Roman Catholic Church; to distract the world from the greater evil which is coming. Can the Antichrist’s rejection of Shariah be found in the bible? Yes it is! You can see it in Daniel 11:37

36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. 37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

Notice that verses 36-37 separate “the God of his fathers” from “the God of gods”. The god of his fathers is a monotheistic god, who is not the God of gods; not the God of the bible.  The best guess would be the god of the Qur’an, known as Allah.

He will take over at a time when the world is recovering from the Gog/Magog war, when only one in six of the invading soldiers returns home.

And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: Ezekiel 39:2

The attacking nations of Ezekiel 38-39 are almost entirely Muslim, and when they return home they will expect to be able to marry multiple wives, as has been a practice in that part of the world since ancient times. This time, however, a governor, or administrator, shall be appointed who will prohibit this practise.

This event will be met by applause from western Christians, but what they will not realize is that they are applauding the Antichrist!

(Compare the Antichrist’s policy to that of Jesus Christ in Isaiah 3:25-4:6)

A lot of Christians, even western Christians, like what they see in al Sisi. A lot of Muslims like him too, and even a lot of Jews like him. After the barbarism of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is like a breath of fresh air! He is a man who could make Egypt great again, and a light of tolerance to the world! (Lucifer means “light bringer”)

After saying this, I must reiterate; No I do not think al Sisi is the Antichrist. He’s more like a dress-rehearsal, and I think it is likely that he will be deposed by the Muslim Brotherhood, and/or ISIS, before the Psalm 83 war.  

The truth is that I like what I see in al Sisi!  When we see the Antichrist, at first, we will like what we see; Only discernment from the Holy Spirit will show us who he really is!

The real Antichrist will come from the little nation of Jordan, but he will be a lot like al Sisi, at least in the early stages of his reign.