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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Doing It God’s Way

Posted on June 7, 2014 by nhiemstra

Let’s face it, as you continue your walk of faith, you are going to face choices, decisions that you will have to make that will be testing your desire for obedience, over your desire for convenience. Becomes you belong to the family of God, you can go to your Father any time for His guidance and direction. But here’s the question . . . do you actually take advantage of that immediate and convenient access? Or . . . are you rather, well, pretty self-confident and figure you can figure things out for yourself?
Tell you what, turn over to the fifth chapter of II Kings, and you will read a story about a man named Naaman, who almost rejected his own healing. What? Because of his stubbornness and pride. The first verse tells us who Naaman was.

“Naaman, the commander of the Aramean king’s army, was respected and highly honored by his master. Yahweh had given Aram a victory through Naaman. This man was a good soldier, but he had a skin disease..” (II Kings 5:1)

See what I mean? Naaman was someone important. He was prosperous and he was successful. A the captain of of his soldiers, he could do just about anything he wants to do, and well, get just about anything he wants. Here’s the problem, he had some kind of horrible disease. But help was just about to come from the most unlikely person.

As I explained, Naaman was a soldier and it just so happened that on one of its raiding expeditions against Israel, he captured a girl who became a maid to Naaman’s wife. One day she told Namaan’s wife, “If only my master could meet the prophet of Samaria, he would be healed of his skin disease.” So Naaman got ready to go to the king of Israel and present him with all kinds of gifts. He wrote a letter to let the king know he was going to be in Israel. The king was pretty upset because he knew there was no way he could heal Naaman. However, the prophet, Elisha, heard about this and he sent for Naaman to come to him.

“When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes in distress. He asked, “Am I Elohim? Can I kill someone and then bring him back to life? This man sends someone to me so that I can cure his skin disease! All of you should realize and understand that he’s trying to pick a fight with me.”
But when Elisha, the man of Elohim, heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a messenger to the king. He asked, “Why did you tear your clothes? Please let Naaman come to me and find out that there is a prophet in Israel.””(II Kings 5:7-8)

Naaman went to Elisha’s house and Elisha sent a messenger to tell Naaman to “Go to the River Jordan and immerse yourself seven times. Your skin will be healed and you’ll be as good as new” (II Kings 5:10b).
Yeah, it sounds a little odd to me, too, but did Naaman rush right over to the Jordan River and follow the prophet’s instructions? Nope, of course not! He was ticked off because Elisha wouldn’t come to him personally and call on the name of the Lord to heal him. You have to remember that Naaman was a big shot . . . and well, his pride was hurt. So much so, it kept him from accepting what was available. He was used to being treated with dignity and with much pomp and circumstance! When he snapped his fingers, people jumped. (You know the type).
If you keep reading, you are going to find that his servants showed him that if he was told to do something hard and heroic, to perform a great epic adventure, he would have done it. “So why not this simple, ‘wash and be clean?’”

So he did it. He went down and immersed himself in the Jordan seven times, following exactly as Elisha told him to do, and what happened? Amazingly, his skin was healed; it was like the skin of a little baby. He was as good as new! As Goober Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise!“
Look at that. All Naaman had to do was obey. No, the instructions didn’t make any sense, because there was nothing special about the waters in the Jordan, but all he had to do was follow God’s instructions. What I am trying to say is that Naaman wanted to do things his own way, because his worst enemy was his pride. Once he was able put down his pride and do what he was instructed to do, he was healed!
The answer to his worst problem came through simple obedience to what the prophet of God told him to do. I believe that sometimes all of us are like Naaman. We become aware of our sin problem, the thing that separates us from a relationship with the God of Creation, and figure we can make peace with Him our way, on our terms. But folks, it doesn’t work that way. Christ is our living peace. He has made peace for us. All we have to do is accept His Sacrifice, and run to our Father!

But here’s what happens. When we need help, of any kind, we are too proud to go to our Father or to another brother (or sister) in our church for prayer or help. We simply reject the help that is available to us. Like I used to tell my kids, “If its raining, use an umbrella.” The point being, when help is available, make use of it! Instead, our nasty pride stands in the way, or we fail to be obedient to the wisdom that we find in God’s Word.
The answers to our problems are found in simple obedience to the Word of God. “Trust the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Nickolas

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Shavu’ot (or Pentecost)

Posted on June 4, 2014 by nhiemstra

Earlier, during the Christian celebration of Passover, the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection–and Jews celebrated Pesach–or Passover, Matza–or Feast of Unleavened Bread and Bikkurim, or Firstfruits (which occurs the day immediately after the first day of Matza). So the first 3 festivals (of 7) occur in turn the 14^th, 15^th, and 16^th of Aviv.
Then, 50 days later, is the celebration of Shavu’ot, the Feast of Weeks (non-Jews know it as “Pentecost“). This year, the festival began yesterday, June 3, 2014. Open your Bibles and let‘s read a bit of Deuteronomy 16.

Count seven weeks from the time you start harvesting grain. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Yahweh your Elohim has given you. Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Yahweh your Elohim along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Yahweh your Elohim will choose for his name to live. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and obey these laws carefully —Deuteronomomy 16:9-12

Christians know Shavu’ot better as Pentecost; Pentecost is simply the Greek word for Shavu’ot. As you probably know, Pentecost was the day that the Holy Spirit came to live within those who trusted Yeshua as Savior. It was the day that all those Jews started speaking in tongues. I have said this many times but as a teacher I guess I get a pass for repeating myself: Pentecost was not a day that was created by Christians to commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost was already a 1300 year old Holy Day by Jesus‘ time.
What happened is that Pentecost (Shavu’ot) was a prophetic foreshadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And naturally, as all prophecy is 100% accurate and flawless, that is exactly what happened—the Holy Spirit came on the summertime Feast Day of Shavu’ot.
While the arrival of the Holy Spirit is the Christian reason for the day, the Jewish people see it as something else. In fact for the Jew it comes from an agricultural standpoint, the nearly two-month period from the time of Firstfruits until the time of Shavu’ot covers the grain harvesting period of both the Barley and the Wheat harvests.
What this means is that while Firstfruits signals that the harvesting of the Barley will begin within a few hours or days, Shavu’ot signals the end of harvesting the wheat. What I mean is that the Barley harvest begins around the time of Firstfruits and then ends around a month later. At the proper moment during the second-half of that 7-week period the wheat harvesting begins, and then at Shavu’ot (the end of the 7 week period) the wheat harvesting ends.
The second meaning of Shavu’ot for Hebrews is that it is celebrating the time Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai. The Scriptures show us that it was around 50-days after Israel fled Egypt that Moses received the Law from God–so there is an amazing connection between Moses receiving the Law of God written on stone tablets and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Remember how Jeremiah prophesied that a day would come when God would write His Laws on the hearts of those who love Him? The New Testament confirms that it was on the day that the Holy Spirit came—Pentecost, Shavu’ot! God wrote His Laws on our hearts on Shavo’ut–Pentecost.
God‘s first set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Moses, just as God‘s second set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Yeshua.
Interestingly, when YHWH gave Moses those law at Sinai, the people were to write the Law on their own hearts. They were to do this by thinking—pondering–meditating on those laws night and day. However, in Jeremiah’s prophesy, the Lord said that when He renewed the giving of the Law this time, He was going to write those Laws on the hearts of His people.
In both cases the Law was to be written on the human heart, but in the first case the individual was to do it himself, and in the second God would do it supernaturally. That is cool!
Something else that is cool about Shavu’ot (Pentecost), is that it is uniquely inclusive! Israel is told to include males, females, slave, free, Levites, orphans, widows, even strangers (ger) (Ger are non-Hebrews (gentiles) that have decided to bond themselves to Israel but they‘re not circumcised). What I am getting at is that those who can be included in the meaning of Shavu’ot do not have to become official Hebrews through the b’rit milah, the circumcision ceremony.
What this means is that anyone who wishes to call Yeshua their Lord can be Hebrews or non-Hebrews, but they must bond themselves to Israel (as Paul says, “be grafted in”); yet that bonding does not mean that a ger needs a circumcision ceremony to make them (us), official Hebrews. We can remain gentiles and yet still be part of Israel just as the scenario is in the Torah. Why are you still sitting down in your chair? You should be running around and shouting with excitement!
Earlier, during the Christian celebration of Passover, the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection–and Jews celebrated Pesach–or Passover, Matza–or Feast of Unleavened Bread and Bikkurim, or Firstfruits (which occurs the day immediately after the first day of Matza). So the first 3 festivals (of 7) occur in turn the 14^th, 15^th, and 16^th of Aviv.
Then, 50 days later, is the celebration of Shavu’ot, the Feast of Weeks (non-Jews know it as “Pentecost“). This year, the festival began yesterday, June 3, 2014. Open your Bibles and let‘s read a bit of Deuteronomy 16.

Count seven weeks from the time you start harvesting grain. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Yahweh your Elohim has given you. Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Yahweh your Elohim along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Yahweh your Elohim will choose for his name to live. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and obey these laws carefully —Deuteronomomy 16:9-12

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Monday, June 2, 2014

China Flexes It's Nuclear Submarine Power In Warning to US/Asian Neighbors

China Flexes It's Nuclear Submarine Power In Warning to US/Asian Neighbors

June 02, 2014 | Bill Gertz

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China has deployed three nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to a naval base in the South China Sea, according to a recent photo of the vessels that appeared on the Internet.

The three Type 094 missile submarines were photographed at the Yalong Bay naval base on Hainan Island, located at the northern end of the South China Sea.

The submarines appear to be part of China’s plan to begin the first regular sea patrols of nuclear missile submarines.

Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, voiced concerns about Chinese missile submarines in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee in March.

“China’s advance in submarine capabilities is significant,” Locklear said. “They possess a large and increasingly capable submarine force. China continues the production of ballistic missile submarines. … This will give China its first credible sea-based nuclear deterrent, probably before the end of 2014.”

Disclosure of the strategic submarine deployment comes as China sharply increased tensions over the weekend after one of its naval vessels rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat in disputed waters claimed by both countries in the region.

Meanwhile, China on Tuesday called recent Japanese military aircraft incursions during joint Chinese-Russian war games in the East China Sea both dangerous and provocative, further escalating tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.

The photograph of the three missile submarines is the latest example of state-controlled media signaling new strategic nuclear capabilities by China.

The submarines, also called the Jin-class, are equipped with 12 multiple-warhead JL-2 submarine launched ballistic missiles that have a range of up to 4,900 miles.

Meanwhile, one of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarines based in Guam last week deployed for missions in the Asia Pacific and likely will conduct surveillance of China’s submarine forces in the region.

The submarine was monitoring a large Chinese-Russian joint naval exercise in the northern East China Sea that ended this week.

The Air Force also has begun long-range Global Hawk drone flights over Asia as part of a summer deployment of two of the unmanned surveillance aircraft to Japan.

On Tuesday, a Chinese general called the intrusion into military exercises by Japanese warplanes “dangerous” and “provocative.”

“Japan unilaterally stirred up the military jets’ encounter over the East China Sea,” Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff of the People’s Liberation Army, told Xinhua, referring to the Japanese jets’ confrontation by Chinese jets.

The jets flew in the unilaterally declared Chinese air defense identification zone that Tokyo, Washington and other Asia states do not recognize.

The incident occurred as Chinese and Russian warships were engaged in naval maneuvers.

“Japan’s move, like its decision to purchase the Diaoyu [Senkaku] Islands in 2012 so as to change the status quo, is very dangerous and provocative,” Sun said

The encounter between Japanese and Chinese jet fighters took place May 24 over open waters as the Japanese sought to monitor the military exercises.

The Vietnamese fishing boat sank Monday after colliding with a Chinese patrol vessel near the disputed Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea, where China raised tensions by beginning undersea oil drilling.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the vessel sinking is troubling.

“We remain concerned about dangerous conduct and intimidation by vessels operating in this area by the Chinese,” she said. “We continue to call on all parties to exercise restraint and take steps to lower the tensions and conduct themselves in a safe and, of course, professional manner.”

Relations between Hanoi and Beijing remain tense over the maritime dispute. Protests were held recently in communist Vietnam against communist China.

There have been unconfirmed reports that Chinese military forces were massing near the Chinese border with Vietnam. The two nations fought a brief conflict early 1979, after Chinese forces invaded and captured several cities before retreating.

Regarding the missile submarines, Andrei Pinkov, a military analyst with Kanwa Defense who reported on the submarines May 1, said the three submarines at Hainan are a sign Beijing is speeding up the pace of deployments. Also, a review of the photo indicates that one of the three submarines could be a more advanced missile submarine called the Type 096, based on an analysis of the length of missile submarines, he stated in his journal Kanwa Defense Review.

The deployment is “intended to give the new SSBN better protection in the deep waters of the South China Sea,” Pinkov stated, using the military acronym for ballistic missile submarine.

Hans M. Kristensen, an analyst with the Federation of American Scientists, said China now has three or four Type-094s.

China over the past decade has built an extensive naval infrastructure for its underwater forces, including upgraded naval bases, submarine hull demagnetization facilities, underground facilities and high-bay buildings for missile storage and handling, and covered tunnels and railways to conceal the activities from prying eyes in the sky.

It is not known if the Chinese will deploy actual nuclear warheads with the submarines or continue the past Chinese practice of keeping warheads in central storage sites for deployment in a crisis.

“The South Sea Fleet naval facilities on Hainan Island are under significant expansion,” Kristensen stated in a recent blog post. “The nuclear submarine base at Longpo has been upgraded to serve as the first nuclear submarine base in the South China Sea.”

The base also includes a submarine tunnel that is part of an underwater complex of nuclear facilities on Hainan.

The Washington Free Beacon first reported in July that China would begin the first sea patrols of the Type 094 some time this year.

China conducted a test flight of the JL-2 missile, the system to be deployed on the Type 094, in August 2012.

A report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center last year stated that the JL-2 “will, for the first time, allow Chinese SSBNs to target portions of the United States from operating areas located near the Chinese coast.”

China’s jingoistic Global Times published an unprecedented report that revealed a nuclear missile strike on the western United States with JL-2 missiles could kill up to 12 million Americans.

The Obama administration and senior Navy officials were silent regarding the nuclear attack threat, which included graphics showing nuclear plumes and collateral damage caused by radiation.

The congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated in a report several years ago that China is planning to deploy an anti-satellite missile on its missile submarines.

Anti-satellite missiles are key elements of China’s anti-access, area denial capabilities designed to drive the U.S. Navy out of Asia.

China only recently began publicizing its nuclear missile submarine forces, mainly through semi-official disclosures on so-called military enthusiast websites.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/June01/014.html#8z2dAppRWL7gzXqh.99

Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Cross in Our Bodies

This is a pretty neat story and an interesting thing that few of us know. It's brief, so please read. (FROM A DOCTOR)

A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio... And I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....

He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is... How He spoke the universe into being... How He breathes stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire.. Etc. Etc. Then He went on to speak of how this star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO knitted our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING it (fascinating from a medical standpoint, you know.) . And I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during medical school as I learned more and more about God's handiwork. I remember so many times thinking..'How can ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this???'

Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who created all this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.

And then I lost my breath. And it wasn't because I was running my treadmill, either!!!

It was because he started talking about laminin. I knew about laminin.. Here is how Wikipedia describes them: 'Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue' You see.... Laminins are what hold us together... LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all this already. But what I didn't know is what they LOOKED LIKE..

But now I do. And I have thought about it a thousand times since (already)....Here is what the structure of laminin looks like... AND THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal' of it.... If you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see....

Now tell me that our God is not the coolest!!! Amazing. The glue that holds us together.... ALL of us..... Is in the shape of the cross. Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind.

'He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible And invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or Authorities; All things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him All things HOLD TOGETHER.' Colossians 1:15-17

Call me crazy. I just think that is very, very, very cool. Thousands of years before the world knew anything about laminin, Paul penned those words. And now we see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are held together... One cell to another.... By the cross.

You would never in a quadrillion years convince me that is anything other than the mark of a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin 'glue' would look like long before Adam breathed his first breath!!

What I found when I googled laminin !!!!!!!!!!!

The cross is supposed to be swinging when you receive this. I hope it still is. This is cool - had to pass it on. I think we could all use a miracle. I know I certainly can!

'Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen.

"Lord, when doubts fill my mind, when my heart is in turmoil, quiet me and give me renewed hope and cheer" (Psalm 94:19 LB).

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. Dr. Albert Schweitzer

The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. G.G.Vest

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