The Feast of Trumpets

The Bible shows that the Rapture will occur during Rosh Hashanah!  At least this is what the speculation is being talked about in the religious circles.  An  in depth study is what's needed on this, but I have come across some videos explaining what it is, and its quite fascinating!  I would love to hear from Jews about the accuracy of the video, and I would love to hear from Christian Scholars who believe this to be true. 

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

My 911

 

     I was running late for work as usual. Seeing as I worked 15 minutes from the Galleria, I could take my time. It was close to 9am and I was about to turn off Good Morning America when they announced a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Just as I was about to turn the tv off to head for work, I saw the 2nd plane coming in the background of the smoking towers and slam into the 2nd tower. As that happened, a synchronized gasp between myself and the hosts of the show was what I remembered. I stood there in disbelief. "What is going on?" I remembered thinking. I finally composed myself enough to go to work. At that time, I was working in an International Building. People from all walks of life. and that Tuesday, we were scheduled to have a fire drill. well, we didn't have the drill that day. Thank God! With all the commotion of the day, everybody just figured that it was postponed. Come the next morning. Another beautiful day. I went to work but I couldn't concentrate. I hadn't heard from friends in New York and I wanted to hear from everybody I knew. I kept calling friends and getting calls asking if they had heard from so and so. Everyone was accounted for but one. All at once, the fire alarm goes off! All you see is lawyers and secretaries running down the stairs in frantic! I saw one lady who kept on typing in her chair like nothing was happening, and me thinking how crazy the woman was. Once we got down to the outside of the building with everybody else, we're all standing around wondering what was going on. I took it upon myself to ask the building people, and that's when he shouted for all to hear that it was a false alarm! They had gotten the date of the fire drill wrong and forgot to turn it off! Needless to say, everyone was on pins and needles at work. Nobody wanted to be there. But we knew we had to keep things going. At night time, it was like living in a Terminator movie with the black hawk helicopters hovering over the city. Nobody could sleep. we watched the news all night. Oh yeah, That one unaccounted friend who nobody had heard from was one of the many who walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to stay at a coworkers apartment because she couldn't get to her home.  We found out a few days after. And today, Sept. 9th, well, today is her birthday.
     This was my 911. What's your story?

The Prosperity Deception

 

     It saddens me to see so many people being caught up in the false teachings of the Prosperity Gospel. This is the preaching that says that God wants you to be healthy and wealthy, and all you have to do is claim it and believe in order to get it.  This is nowhere  found in the Holy Scriptures, but yet, people are being deceived by this notion at alarming rates. (Galatians 1:6-10)  This new age positivity gospel that says you can twist God's hand and demand He give us the desire's of our heart is a false premise.  This thinking deify's man and reduces God. It cheapens the true Gospel of Christ and what He did on the cross for our sins.  Because if God can be manipulated in to giving us things, then there is no need for a Savior and God is not really who He claims to be. (1 John 4:1-6) Is it any wonder that so many people are being turned off by Church and God, when the message preached night and day is a self worshiped gospel?  The focus should not be on you and what you can get, but rather on what He did and how He can work within you to fulfill His will for your life.  (James 4: 1-3)  God never promises  health, wealth and prosperity to all.  For even Jesus didn't have these things! In other words, it's not about you.  Its about Him.  Your best life now is found in a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, not in  fallen man.  God never promised that the Christian life would be easy, but through Christ, you can have peace in any circumstance, because HE is in control! (Philippians 4:19)

http://www.campuschristians.info/articles/joelosteencritique.html

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