I have also been reading books by Grant R. Jeffrey. He does a good job of explaining biblical prophecy and also how current events relate to Bible prophecies. Most conservative evangelical scholars firmly believe we are the generation which will see the Rapture and the Return of Christ. (The Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus Christ are actually two separate events.) Although the Rapture has always been possible at any time since Christ ascended into Heaven, we are seeing events happen and come together like no previous generation. In Matthew, Christ said that the generation which sees the budding of the fig tree would be the generation which sees the Return of Christ. In the Bible, the fig tree is used as a symbol for Israel. When Israel became an established nation again in 1948, that was the budding of the fig tree. Christ said this generation which witnessed this rebirth of the nation would not pass away until all these things were fulfilled, meaning the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Jesus to rule the earth. The Bible also teaches that a version of the Roman Empire will be revived in the last days. It will be a ten- nation confederacy. We now have this in the form of the Western European Union of which Rome, Italy is a part. The signs are all around us. The Rapture can happen at any time and the rest of the needed elements for the Tribulation to take place can fall into place shortly thereafter. The Tribulation is referred to in Scripture as the “time of Jacob’s trouble”. It has a dual purpose. One is to purify the Jewish nation and prepare them to realize that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and to accept Him. The other purpose is to pour out God’s wrath on the unsaved who have rejected Christ during this period of grace in which we are now living. You might say it is to give them a taste of Hell while there is still time to repent, although to wait until the Tribulation to be saved will almost surely result in martyrdom. During the Tribulation, Israel will have a restored Temple according to the prophecies. They have now determined that the Muslim Dome of the Rock would not prevent the Temple from being rebuilt, since it is not on the original site of the Jewish Temple. Israel has already been in the process of creating the utensils and artifacts necessary for the Temple worship. They re-formed the Sanhedrin a few years ago. They have been in the process of drawing up the Temple plans for some time now. One Jewish leader has stated that it could be build within one or two years of whenever it is started. This does not need to happen necessarily before the Rapture takes place.

What does all this mean? It means I hope you are ready to meet Christ. If you are not saved when the Rapture occurs, you will be left to face the Tribulation with all of its horrors. For those who are left behind and become Christians during the Tribulation, it will almost certainly mean martyrdom according to Revelation. If you have never repented of your sins and trusted Jesus Christ to be your personal Savior, I suggest you do it now. Then you will have nothing to fear. You can look forward to meeting Christ in the air when He comes to deliver us from the wrath which is soon coming upon the earth.

(This is a true story and you can find out more by Googling
Herman Rosenblat. He was Bar Mitzvahed at age 75
August 1942. Piotrkow, Poland

The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously. All the men, women and children of Piotrkow’s Jewish ghetto had been herded into a square.

Word had gotten around that we were being moved. My father had only recently died from typhus, which had run rampant through the crowded ghetto. My greatest fear was that our family would be separated.

‘Whatever you do,’ Isidore, my eldest brother, whispered to me, ‘don’t tell them your age. Say you’re sixteen.

‘I was tall for a boy of 11, so I could pull it off. That way I might be deemed valuable as a worker.

An SS man approached me, boots clicking against the cobblestones. He looked me up and down, and then asked my age.

‘Sixteen,’ I said. He directed me to the left, where my three brothers and other healthy young men already stood.

My mother was motioned to the right with the other women, children, sick and elderly people.

I whispered to Isidore, ‘Why?’ He didn’t answer.

I ran to Mama’s side and said I wanted to stay with her.

‘No, ’she said sternly.

‘Get away. Don’t be a nuisance. Go with your brothers.’

She had never spoken so harshly before. But I understood: She was protecting me. She loved me so much that, just this once, she pretended not to. It was the last I ever saw of her.

My brothers and I were transported in a cattle car
to Germany .

We arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp one night weeks later and were led into a crowded barrack. The next day, we were issued uniforms and identification numbers.

‘Don’t call me Herman anymore.’ I said to my brothers. ‘Call me 94983.’

I was put to work in the camp’s crematorium, loading the dead into a hand-c ranked elevator.

I, too, felt dead. Hardened, I had become a number.

Soon, my brothers and I were sent to Schlieben, one of Buchenwald’s sub-camps near Berlin

One morning I thought I heard my mother’s voice.

‘Son,’ she said softly but clearly, I am going to send you an angel.’

Then I woke up. Just a dream. A beautiful dream.

But in this place there could be no angels. There was only work. And hunger. And fear.

A couple of days later, I was walking around the camp, around the barracks, near the barbed-wire fence where the guards could not easily see. I was alone.

On the other side of the fence, I spotted someone: a little girl with light, almost luminous curls. She was half-hidden behind a birch tree.

I glanced around to make sure no one saw me. I called to her softly in German. ‘Do you have something to eat?’

She didn’t understand.

I inched closer to the fence and repeated the question in Polish. She stepped forward. I was thin and gaunt, with rags wrapped around my feet, but the girl looked unafraid. In her eyes, I saw life.

She pulled an apple from her woolen jacket and threw it over the fence.

I grabbed the fruit and, as I started to run away, I heard her say faintly, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow.’

I returned to the same spot by the fence at the same time every day. She was always there with something for me to eat - a hunk of bread or, better yet, an apple.

We didn’t dare speak or linger. To be caught would mean death for us both.

I didn’t know anything about her, just a kind farm girl, except that she understood Polish. What was her name? Why was she risking her li fe for me?

Hope was in such short supply, and this girl on the other side of the fence gave me some, as nourishing in its way as the bread and apples.

Nearly seven months later, my brothers and I were crammed into a coal car and shipped to Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia ..

‘Don’t return,’ I told the girl that day. ‘We’re leaving.’

I turned toward the barracks and didn’t look back, didn’t even say good-bye to the little girl whose name I’d never learned, the girl with the apples.

We were in Theresienstadt for three months. The war was winding down and Allied forces were closing in, yet my fate seemed sealed.

On May 10, 1945, I was scheduled to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 AM..

In the quiet of dawn, I tried to prepare myself. So many times death seemed ready to claim me, but somehow I’d survived. Now, it was over.

I thought of my parents. At least, I thought, we will be reunited.

But at 8 A.M. there was a commotion. I heard shouts, and saw people running every which way through camp. I caught up with my brothers.

Russian troops had liberated the camp! The gates swung open. Everyone was running, so I did too. Amazingly, all of my brothers had survived; I’m not sure how. But I knew that the girl with the apples had been the key to my survival.

In a place where evil seemed triumphant, one person’s goodness had saved my life, had given me hope in a place where there was none.

My mother had promised to send me an angel, and the angel had come.

Eventually I made my way to England where I was sponsored by a Jewish charity, put up in a hostel with other boys who had survived the Holocaust and trained in electronics. Then I came to America, where my brother Sam had already moved. I served in the U. S. Army during the Korean War, and returned to New York City after two years.

By August 1957, I’d opened my own electronics repair shop. I was starting to settle in.

One day, my friend Sid who I knew from England called me.

‘I’ve got a date. She’s got a Polish friend. Let’s double date.’

A blind date? Nah, that wasn’t for me.

But Sid kept pestering me, and a few days later we headed up to the Bronx to pick up his date and her friend Roma.

I had to admit, for a blind date this wasn’t so bad. Roma was a nurse at a Bronx hospital. She was kind and smart. Beautiful, too, with swirling brown curls and green, almond-shaped eyes that sparkled with life.

The four of us drove out to Coney Island. Roma was easy to talk to, easy to be with.

Turned out she was wary of blind dates too!

We were both just doing our friends a favor. We took a stroll on the boardwalk, enjoying the salty Atlantic breeze, and then had dinner by the shore. I couldn’t remember having a better time.

We piled back into Sid’s car, Roma and I sharing the backseat.

As European Jews who had survived the war, we were aware that much had been left unsaid between us. She broached the subject, ‘Where were you,’ she asked softly, ‘during the war?’

‘The camps,’ I said. The terrible memories still vivid, the irreparable loss. I had tried to forget. But you can never forget.

She nodded. ‘My family was hiding on a farm in Germany, not far from Berlin,’ she told me. ‘My father knew a priest, and he got us Aryan papers.’

I imagined how she must have suffered too, fear, a constant companion. And yet here we were both survivors, in a new world.

‘There was a camp next to the farm.’ Roma continued. ‘I saw a boy there and I would throw him apples every day.’

What an amazing coincidence that she had helped some other boy. ‘What did he look like? I asked.

‘He was tall, skinny, and hungry. I must have seen him every day for six months.’

My heart was racing. I couldn’t believe it.

This couldn’t be.

‘Did he tell you one day not to come back because he was leaving Schlieben?’

Roma looked at me in amazement. ‘Yes!’

‘That was me!’

I was ready to burst with joy and awe, flooded with emotions. I couldn’t believe it! My angel.

‘I’m not letting you go.’ I said to Roma. And in the back of the car on that blind date, I proposed to her. I didn’t want to wait.

‘You’re crazy!’ she said. But she invited me to meet her parents for Shabbat dinner the following week.

There was so much I looked forward to learning about Roma, but the most important things I always knew: her steadfastness, her goodness. For many months, in the worst of circumstances, she had come to the fence and given me hope. Now that I’d found her again, I could never let her go.

That day, she said yes. And I kept my word. After nearly 50 years of marriage, two children and three grandchildren, I have never let her go.

Herman Rosenblat of Miami Beach, Florida

Never give up on your miracle.
A company named Atlantic Overseas Pictures is producing a film about them. Pictures of Herman and Roma are posted on the site.

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Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over one year before this election:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.10 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
7) Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it’s Congress that makes law - not the President. He has to work with what’s handed to him.

Quote of the Day……..’My friends, we live in the
greatest nation in the history of the world.  I hope you’ll
join with me as we try to change it.’ — Barack Obama
Taxes…Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.HTML

Taxes under CLINTON -1999 Taxes under BUSH-2008
Single earning:                                          Single earning:
30K - taxed- $   8,400                             30K - taxed $   4,500
50K - taxed  $ 14,000                              50K - taxed $ 12,500
75K - taxed  $ 23,250                              75K - taxed $ 18,750

Married earning:                                       Married earning:
60K -   taxed  $16,800                             60K - taxed $ 9,000
75K -   taxed $ 21,000                             75K - taxed $ 18,750
125K - t axed $ 38,750                            125K -taxed $ 31,250

Barack Obama promises to return to the higher tax rates if elected. It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever.

If elected, Barack Obama has already promised that he will repeal the Bush tax cuts, and amazingly, a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie ‘The Sting’ with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don’t even know what happened.
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?   Read this:
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.  Read on…

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I have included the URL’s for verification of all the following facts.

1.      $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
2.     $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3 .      $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://wwwcis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4.     $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML
5.      $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at: http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
&nbs p;   Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/T RANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.   Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl..com/t9sht
12.  The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14.  ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ‘
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we really this stupid in this country??

I hope you will email this post to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. until we restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

If anyone has a better explanation of the difference between Republican and Democrat I”m all ears. THIS explains politics in simple terms that even a Democrat can understand.

Dear Dave,

October 8, 2008

The upcoming election is the most critical election in the history of our nation. The very future of our nation’s foundation is at stake. Every person will be affected. If the liberals win, then our foundation will no longer be based on the traditional Judeo-Christian morality. It will gradually but assuredly be based on an ever shifting, ever moving foundation. If the liberals win, the damage can’t be stopped with elections two, four or forty years from now. America will forever be changed. We will keep seeing a gradual and growing hostility toward people of faith, especially Christians. The morals of our nation will continue to decline. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price.

In case you may think I’m a “the sky is falling” type of person, you should know: When it comes to predictions, I am a very reserved person. But not on this one. I cannot overstate the damage a liberal victory will do to our country. The upcoming election is the most important in the history of our nation. Yes, if the liberals win you will lose some of your religious freedoms and free speech rights. Churches and pastors will not be exempt. You will not be allowed to say certain things about a particular group. Every item of the homosexual agenda will be approved. All the laws protecting the unborn will be wiped away.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of the Nov. 4 election. That is why I urge you to vote and encourage your family members, friends, Sunday School class and church members to vote. America’s future – the future of your children and grandchildren – is at stake.

Sincerely,

Don

Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

Here are my comments: Conservative Christians- GET OUT THERE AND VOTE !!

I’ve been around for a number of years and in my opinion, although all presidential elections are important, I don’t believe we have ever have had one as crucial as this one. Obama is just plain dangerous. And with a Democratic controlled Congress we WILL lose some of our freedoms if he is elected.  Your vote will make a difference. Many politicians call themselves Christians, but the Bible says by their fruit, we will know whether or not they truely are. I think if you examine some of Obama’s fruit, you find, he falls short of what a Christian really is.  Do a lot of praying before this election and if you are slanting towards Obama, ask God to give you the gift of discernment. This is one election, I think, where a lot of Christians could use it. Don’t be mislead by words. Put your Christian and moral principles before your wallet. I know a lot of us are hurting financially right now, but it is of the utmost importance to let Christian principles be your guide in this election.  The liberal press has been trying to smear Palin because of her “inexperience”. I think they have it backward. Obama is the one you can call the “apprentice”.  The press has made a lot about being “one heartbeat away from the Presidency”.  They seem to think McCain is going to kick the bucket his first week in office. Even if that did happen (God forbid), I would much rather have Palin in the Oval office than Obama. Why? Because I can have faith in a Christian President who knows where to find the true source of wisdom-God.