King David said, “The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.   The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming,” Ps. 37:12-13.  Here’s a prime example.

It’s possible, if you’re on the Internet getting your news like you should be, that you’ve already heard this.  I have.  But I’ve not heard it so concisely presented as by Gary Bauer (Campaign for Working Families) did in a recent end-of-day email he sent out.  This is relevant to the end times (check out II Tim. 3:1-5).  Now the left and their cronies are so cock sure of themselves that they’re lying right out in open — repeatedly, this is just one example — and no one seems powerful enough to put a stop to us.  Deceit is raging in our world!

by Gary Bauer

There is a shocking report today from the Daily Caller exposing a vast left-wing media conspiracy to save Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign by shutting down reporting on Jeremiah Wright.

This goes way beyond charges of media bias. This is much more than one reporter allowing his or her own opinions to slant coverage of an issue. This involves a cabal of journalists from multiple news organizations conspiring to control the news and plotting to impugn the reputations of other journalists all in an effort to aid a candidate for president of the United States. And it reflects a well-documented pattern.

After the Jeremiah Wright controversy emerged during a 2008 presidential debate, members of Journolist (an online community of liberal journalists, professors and activists) recognized the potential threat to Obama and began strategizing about how to respond. True to the Saul Alinsky playbook, their reaction was not to repudiate Jeremiah Wright, but to condemn those who dared to question Obama about his long-term relationship with Wright. Here was the plan, articulated by Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent:

“What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. …let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. … If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Change the subject by calling your opponents racists. If this sounds familiar, it should. It worked for the Left during the 2008 campaign, so it has continued doing it for the past 18 months. “Racism” became the Left’s retort to any policy disagreement. Whether it was town hall protestors worried about ObamaCare, Tea Party activists worried about out-of-control spending or Obama’s policy toward Israel, in the fevered brows of liberals, racism was always the culprit motivating every critic.

With a media establishment so willing to protect him – even willing to ignore the virulent anti-Americanism and racism of Jeremiah Wright – it’s no surprise that Obama feels free to distort the truth to advance his agenda.

by Jeffrey Folks (American Thinker)

By Jack Kelley

Whenever I get several questions on the same subject within a few days, I assume someone is trying to give me a topic for the feature article. This is especially true if it’s unrelated to anything I’ve recently written about, as was the case this week.

The questions this time concerned a view taught by some that Israel is the bride of God and the Church is the bride of Christ. In the Bible, God often describes our relationship with Him in terms of a marriage. He does this for our edification, to help us understand Him better. For example, when Paul said he wanted to present us to the Lord as a pure virgin (2 Cor. 11:2), he meant that just as a virgin bride has never been defiled by any sexual relationships before being joined to her husband in marriage, he didn’t want us to be defiled by any false doctrine or idolatry before being presented to the Lord at the rapture.

As for Israel, one of the most intimate portrayals of the way God felt toward His people can be found in Ezekiel 16.

The Bride Of God

‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. (Ezekiel 16:3-5)

When God called Abraham, He was creating the Israelites out of the idol worshiping Gentile world. Right from the beginning the world seemed to be at odds with them.

” ‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!” I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew up and developed and became the most beautiful of jewels. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, you who were naked and bare.

” ‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine. (Ezekiel 16:6-8)

This is reminiscent of the night Ruth came to the threshing floor and asked Boaz to spread the corner of his garment over her (Ruth 3:9). It’s a sign of promise and protection. You could say this was the point at which Israel became the bride of God.

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Well, over two MILLION people have already viewed this, and perhaps you’re one of them.  But it’s powerful and very important, so I’ve decided I want to add it to my site and if you’re one who hasn’t seen it yet, I challenge you to do so.  It’s just shy of eight minutes long and well worth it!

From Prophecy In the News

Gary Stearman: Back to the Vatican for a moment.  they have their own astronomer.  They have their own observatory, and they’ve been peering into the heavens, they’ve been listening to all the reports about UFOs, and they have concluded — their astronomer Gabriel Funes said, “We believe that at a certain point in the near future these alien entities are going to reveal themselves to mankind.  We should prepare ourselves for this because,” Gary paraphrased, they will come as saviors, if you will, and he specifically said they may be vastly superior to us — even morally — because they may not have ever experienced original sin, such as we did.  Therefore we should look to them as far above human potential.

In this segment, Gary Stearman and his guests, Tom Horn and L.A. Marzulli, cover some more fascinating aspects of the UFO phenomena, relating these aspects to Scripture.  Here are  a couple more quotes to whet your appetite:

Tom Horn: Father Malachi Martin [Catholic] was asked . . .why is the Vatican so heavily invested in the study of deep space — talking about that VAT observatory?  He answered, “because they know what is approaching us and that it could be of the utmost importance. . .

L.A. Marzulli: Several UFOs were recently sited over the Vatican that were filmed and recorded and posted . . . I think what’s happening — from my perspective — we’re being set up for the coming great deception . . . How does one get 1.8 billion Muslims , 2.3 billion “Christians” to somehow change their paradigm, somehow change their worldview? . . . The Vatican, I believe, is setting the stage for the coming great deception . . . they know and they’re trying to prepare the masses in some way . . .

Heidi thinking out loud (so to speak):

Jesus said that if it were possible the very elect would be deceived by great signs and wonders in the tribulation (Matt 24:24).  The verse makes it sound like it’s not possible.  Howcome?  Is it because we’re gone?

If, as some surmise, the man in the office of pope during the Tribulation ends up being the false prophet, wouldn’t that fit hand-in-glove with the quote Gary Stearman provided from Gabriel Funes that possibly the “aliens” may be on a “higher moral plane and without original sin?”  What a standpoint from which to promote the Antichrist, especially if, as some speculate, he too is considered to be part “alien.”  (Dan. 2:43)

It is true of any prophecy that we are waiting to see fulfilled that we can only know all the specifics of how God will bring it about after the fact.  But some of the theories these gentlemen present are, at the very least, thought-provoking.

From Israel Today

Tens of thousands of Israeli Jews gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday to mark Tisha B’Av and publicly mourn the loss of Israel’s ancient temples and the “Exile of the Divine Presence.”

Millions more Jews from Israel and around the world joined in by reciting prayers of lamentation.

But Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the Temple Institute of Jerusalem, insists the time has come to stop mourning and to turn Tisha B’Av into a day of yearning and anticipatory prayer, especially in light of the rebirth of the State of Israel.

“Tisha B’Av was not intended to be a day of perpetual mourning, but rather, a bridge to the future; the yearning and desire which our mourning inspires is designed to motivate us to rebuild,” Richman wrote on the Temple Institute website.

Richman noted that while at least half of all Israelis want to rebuild the Temple, “we hear many excuses, such as ‘who are we to rebuild the Temple? We are not ready. The time has not yet come. The Temple is a thing of the past.’”

But, the rabbi explained, this is not different than the attitude of the people of Israel during the time of the prophet Haggai, who urged the rebuilding of the Temple following the end of the Babylonian exile. “Thus said the Lord of Hosts: This nation has said, ‘the time has not yet come.’ But I say, it is time for the Temple of God to be rebuilt!” (Haggai 1)

“The renewal of Israel and the building of the Holy Temple is a process that has begun and is now unstoppable,” concluded Richman. “This nation is preparing to ‘rise up like a lion’ (Numbers 23:24). We are moving ever closer to the day on which we can truly say, without jaded cynicism or facetiousness but with true sincerity, that Tisha B’Av is no longer relevant, for it will have turned into a day of gladness.”

From WorldNetDaily.com

Georgia student told to read ‘gay’ lit, attend ‘pride parade,’ change beliefs

Jen Keeton, a student in ASU's Counselor Education Program given a choice: Her faith or her degree

A lawsuit against Augusta State University in Georgia alleges school officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling the choice of giving up her Christian beliefs or being expelled from the graduate program.

School officials Mary Jane Anderson-Wiley, Paulette Schenck and Richard Deaner demanded student Jen Keeton, 24, go through a “remediation” program after she asserted homosexuality is a behavioral choice, not a “state of being” as a professor said, according to the complaint.

Also named as defendants in the case that developed in May and June are other administrators and the university system’s board of regents.

The remediation program was to include “sensitivity training” on homosexual issues, additional outside study on literature promoting homosexuality and the plan that she attend a “gay pride parade” and report on it.

Where has higher education in America gone? Find out in “Freefall of the American University”

The lawsuit, filed by attorneys working with the Alliance Defense Fund, asserted the school cannot violate the Constitution by demanding that a person’s beliefs be changed.

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Wow, talk about “News You Should Know,” this would be pretty near the top!  The Washington Post has recently created an entire Web site called Top Secret America that mirrors a section on the Washington Post Web site. The entire site is based on a two-year investigation by reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin.  A section on the site entitled “A Note on This Project” states, “The articles in this series depict the scope and complexity of the government’s national security program through interactive maps and other graphics. Every data point on the Web site is substantiated by at least two public records.  After viewing the video, I encourage you to find some time to explore their Web site.  –Heidi

By Jimmy DeYoung

Originally posted on July 20, 2010

Today Tish B’Av, the 9th day of the Jewish month Av, is the day on the calendar in 586 BC and 70AD that both the first and second temples were destroyed. The first temple being destroyed by the Babylonian army led by Nebuchadnezzar and the second temple devastated by General Titus and the Roman army.

Jews on this day gather near the area where these temples once stood at the Western Wall and during the 25 hour fast they read the book of Lamentations and pray for the temple to be rebuilt by next Tish B’Av, a prayer that has been prayed every day for over 1900 years.

This Tish B’Av hundreds and thousands of Jews marched to the Temple Mount led by Gershon Solomon, head of the Temple Mount Faithful, to not only read Lamentations and pray for the rebuilding of the next temple, but to also protest American pressure to even give up the Temple Mount to the Palestinians for a Palestinian state.

Jimmy’s Prophetic Prospective on the News

Even as America applies pressure on the Israeli government to give up the Temple Mount, there are Jews preparing to follow through on their prayers for a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount. They have everything ready to build the next temple and fulfill Bible prophecy.

On Tish B’Av hundreds and thousands of Jews gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and at the seven gates that lead up onto the Temple Mount to read the book of Lamentations and to pray for the temple to be rebuilt by next Tish B’Av.

US pressure on Israel to give up the Temple Mount is in the face of God’s plan for this sacred piece of real estate. 2500 years ago the ancient Jewish prophet Zechariah prophesied that the Messiah, Jesus Christ, would come back and build His temple, the kingdom temple, on the Temple Mount (Zechariah 6:12). I must remind you, however, that before Jesus builds His temple, there will be a temple in the seven year Tribulation period (Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15, II Thessalonians 2:4, and Revelation 11:1.) This next temple will be desecrated by the false messiah, the Antichrist. All preparations have been made for that temple, the tribulation temple, to be rebuilt and they could start construction today.

On Tish B’Av remember – Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

By Heidi Swander

When I returned to the office after my vacation a few weeks ago I walked in excited, carrying a movie I’d viewed over the break, and said, “Jan, you’ve got to watch this!  You’re really going to like it.  It’s just what you’ve been looking for!”  I kept up the enthusiasm until finally, Jan took the 85 minutes necessary to watch it.  The movie was Unidentified, a thought-provoking dramatic film by producer and director Rich Christiano (whom Jan just interviewed this past weekend) that not only provides a balanced perspective of the UFO phenomenon but also challenges viewers to consider life’s most important question — the destiny of their souls.

You see, I knew that Jan has wanted to find some product to present to ministry followers that would factually address this topic, but also one that wouldn’t be viewed as fringe.  That’s a tough assignment because there are so many hoaxes, and so much of this subject has been appropriately viewed as extreme.  We did carry Chuck Missler’s excellent book Alien Encounters for a time, and it generated quite a bit of interest. Also some scorn. (I guess that’s to be expected, even though Chuck’s thesis included many facts, scholarly quotes, and scripture references that are difficult to refute.) But this . . . this was just the ticket! A movie: Entertaining, inspirational and educational — including a respectable number of intriguing facts behind the phenomenon sprinkled throughout the movie.

In the bonus feature, “A Special Message From the Director” Rich says, “A lot of people ask me if I believe in UFOs. I don’t believe in aliens — not even for a second. I do think it’s demonic.”

Many Bible and science scholars agree with Rich’s conclusion. In his aforementioned book, Chuck Missler explains, “A number of UFO researchers have concluded that modern-day aliens may very well be the modern-day equivalent of fallen angels or demonic entities.  Dr. Pierre Guerin, a well-known UFO researcher in the 1960s and 1970s, examined the nature and activities of aliens and concluded, ‘UFO behaviour is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it . . . the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably identical.’”

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