Sound The Midnight Cry

“The Duck Test”

Ronald Reagan once quoted the saying, “If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck!” Everybody laughed but understood the duck test.

Once again, many in the world were shocked when a new law was passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear colored badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.

“This is reminiscent of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.”

Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth. It would make religious minorities immediately identifiable and allow Muslims to avoid contact with non-Muslims.

The new law was drafted two years ago, but was stuck in the Iranian parliament until recently when it was revived at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“The world should not ignore this,” said Rabbi Hier. “The world ignored Hitler for many years -- he was dismissed as a demagogue, they said he’d never come to power -- and we were all wrong. There are some very frightening parallels here,” he said.

Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly described the Holocaust as a myth and earlier this year caused international outrage by publicly calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

This law and other policies coming from Iran coupled with their ignoring U.N. threats of sanctions if they don’t stop their nuclear program are simply a prelude to the rise of the anti-christ and Persia’s once again coming to power. God’s people are not fooled nor are they ignorant of the signs pointing to the return of Jesus Christ…there’s no doubt about it. “Quack, quack, quack!”

Babylon the Great—Alive and Well?

One of the milestones in end-time prophecy — Babylon being restored as a major political, spiritual and cultural center — is being conducted with the help of U.S. taxpayers.

According to news reports, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is sinking millions of dollars a year into the rebuilding of the one-world government, end-time city. The U.N. organization is working relentlessly toward the restoration of Babylon in order to turn it into an international cultural center, a hub of commerce and tourism. These plans were recently revealed after UNESCO and some Iraqis complained that the U.S. military built a helicopter pad over an area targeted for future restoration.

The Web site of the U.S. mission to UNESCO is promoting the fiscal year 2006 commitment of $5 billion by President Bush to the Millennium Challenge, pledging to increase the amount by 50 percent over the next three years. U.S. funding of the Millennium Challenge and other U.N.-sponsored programs within UNESCO enable the organization to busily work on the Babylonian restoration project.

Saddam Hussein began the rebuilding in 1976 with the money and expertise the U.N.’s most radical promoter of the one-world order — UNESCO. UNESCO is also actively enacting many of these one-world initiatives in America ’s public schools regarding religion, homosexuality and family planning.

Scripture teaches us that the Anti-Christ will setup his seat of authority in Babylon and move it later to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem during the Tribulation. And UNESCO, which is trying to teach our children, the next generation, to be a one-world-order generation, is diligently rebuilding Babylon.

Lift up your eyes…Jesus is coming soon!

Religious Potpourri!

Religious leaders from a mix of worldwide faiths met last week at Georgetown University for an interfaith forum being held in the United States for the first time.

The two-day International Prayer for Peace is the largest interfaith gathering in the world. This year, 100 speakers from many religions, including Roman Catholics, Jews, Methodists, Muslims, Mennonites, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Shintoists addressed the assembly. Charity groups, academics, journalists and diplomats will also took part.

Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick welcomed the crowd of 500 and called the interfaith summit the dream of Pope John Paul II, who started the meetings 20 years ago. “He knew the more we could get on the same page, the same place, the same relation to a God that loves us all, the more powerful our prayers would be,” McCarrick said. One of the main topics this year dealt with resolving conflicts between faiths. Religiously motivated terrorism also is a central theme.

This assembly is setting the stage for the false church that is to arise in the last days. It is predicated upon the idea that all religions have common ground on which to unite. This is false and those that ascribe to it are deceived.

Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” [John 14:6] There is no other way to God except through Jesus Christ. There is only one way, one truth and any other way is a path to deception and ultimately eternal damnation.

Forces are at work to deceive people into believing lies. This too is a warning from scripture. One of the biggest lies of recent years is about to be unleashed in the movie, “The DaVinci Code.” Join us at LIFE Church...the truth will set you free!

Cashing In?

Author and financial planner Ethan Pope in his recent book, “Cashing it in: Getting Ready for a World Without Money” brings to light many current moves in the area of global finances.

Pope believes the coming one world global currency, all electronic, will be here in a few short years. He states that we see shades of it even now with debit cards, credit cards, electronic banking, and more. The effort is global, not just the Western world.

Already some consumers are ready to sacrifice some privacy due to the threat of more terrorist attacks. But how much will we be willing to compromise? Proponents spout the benefits, but remember, for each benefit, there is a down side.

• There would be a decrease in crime and as a result a savings to Americans alone of about $1 billion a year.
• The elimination of counterfeit money.
• The elimination of money laundering and a decrease in drug trafficking.
• No check writing, stolen checks, or lost checks.
• Global transactions will be easy. You can buy anything simply all over the world.

And what about the negatives?

• Hackers and other criminals can get your information through identity theft.
• Someone will view every transaction you make.
• This will require a national identification system and every transaction you make will be recorded.

E-cash is on the way. Will this just play out in the Tribulation with the one world system when cash is worthless anyway and a “mark” necessary? The author speculates that this is a run-up to that.

 

One only has to look at what is taking place around us to see things are coming to pass as predicted. For the believer, we look up. For the unbeliever, is it any wonder the Bible says that men's hearts would fail them for fear? Only “God is the stability of our times.” (Isaiah 33:6)