This video discusses how the biblical prophets predicted the rise of the demonic religion of Islam in the days before the second coming of Yeshua the Messiah. This would coincide with the end-times spiritual apostasy of Jews and Christians, and would be part of Elohim’s divine plan to lovingly discipline his wayward children and bring them back to him through repentance resulting in spiritual revival and the eventual demise of Islam.
Ever get the Independence Day blues — reflecting on how America has gone to the dogs spiritually! I did this year. Why are we so backslid spiritually? Why are our leaders so preoccupied with forcing evil agendas upon us? Where are we going from here? What does the future hold for us? What’s the solution to the problem? What can I do about it?
The Bible speaks of living in perilous times in the last days (1 Tim 4:1; 2 Tim 3:1–9) where men are living in total rebellion against YHVH, abandoning their biblical faith for demonic belief systems, and have become lovers of money and themselves. They are blasphemers, unholy, unloving, pleasure seeking God-haters.
By in large, Americans, and most people in general don’t care about YHVH. They’re too self-absorbed and caught up in the pursuit of materialism, pleasure, and self-gratification to care about that out-of-date religious, Bible stuff.
What’s more, the church is sick—lukewarm to the core. Most churches are more concerned about their building fund and the pastor about his denominational status and retirement than about preaching the hard truth of the Bible. Most Christians are only a few steps behind the values of the world. The lordship of Yeshua? What’s that? Follow the Bible? What an archaic idea. Few read or study the Bible or pray anymore. Few really seek YHVH with their whole hearts. You’re considered a weird throw-back if you do.
It seems as if YHVH is far away, uninvolved and disinterested in the affairs of men—that Yeshua will never return as the Bible promises. Where is the promise of his coming as Peter opined in his second epistle? There will be scoffers pursuing their own lusts feeling that all things continue as they have from time immemorial (2 Pet 3:3–4). It’s easy to acquiesce to this mentality. However, the day of YHVH’s judgment is coming unexpectedly as a thief though (v. 10).
Yeshua prophesied that a time is coming just before his second coming when men’s hearts will fail them for fear. Great distress will come upon nations (Luke 21:25–28).
But what about America? What about the other so-called Christian nations? Is there hope for them? What does the Bible prophesy will happen to them in the end times? This is what I was pondering on July 4th this year.
Because Bible believers have backslid, become fat and lazy, self-absorbed and given over to pursuits of materialism and hedonism and have forsaken the God of the Bible, he is now dealing with them as a loving parent deals with his wayward child—through tough-love discipline. He is now spanking them, and he, among other things, is using Edom to do it!
Who is Edom? Perhaps you recall that name from the back corners of your memory as being a biblical personality. But what could that have to do with you and me? Ah-ha! That’s where the timelessness of the Bible comes in. The Bible gives us the answers!
Next: Islam Is YHVH’s Paddle to Provoke the Jews and Christians to Repentance
What does it mean to have a circumcised heart? What’s an uncircumcised heart? How does one go from having a hard and stoney heart to a soft heart upon which YHVH can write his Torah—his instructions in righteousness? This video discusses this critical, salvational issue.
Here is a study guide to go with this video—
The heart of man in its natural, spiritually unregenerted state is hard, obstinate and rebellious toward the Torah-instructions of YHVH Elohim. Man can’t help himself—this is just the way he is innately. This is the bad news. the good news, however, is that YHVH Elohim, man’s creator, knows how to fix the problem. The solution is the “rain” of YHVH’s Holy Spirit, which can fall on the stoney ground of men’s heart, soften that hard ground, and allow the good seed of Elohim’s Word to germinate, grow and eventually bear spiritual fruit. A day is coming in the near future prior to the return of Yeshua the Messiah when YHVH will pour out his Spirit upon many people causing them to forsake their wicked and rebellious ways and turn to him in loving obedience.
The Bad News: The Problem Is Man’s Sinful Condition
We must first discuss the bad news before we can talk about the good news. Sadly, modern gospel preachers often omit or only lightly touch on or water down the bad news of the sinful condition of man’s spiritually unregenerated heart. Here’s what the Word of Elohim has to say about men’s heart
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful [sly, insidious, deceitful, slippery] above all things, and desperately wicked [to be weak, sick, frail, to be incurable, to be sick]: who can know it?
Rom 3:10–18 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after Elohim. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.
Rom 7:14–25 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of Elohim after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank Elohim through Messiah Yeshua our master. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of Elohim; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Messiah Yeshua, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against Elohim: for it is not subject to the law of Elohim, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please Elohim. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of Elohim dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Messiah, he is none of his.
Heb 3:7–19 Wherefore (as the Ruach HaKodesh saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden [to render obstinate, stubborn] not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief [unfaithfulness, faithless, want of faith, unbelief, weakness of faith], in departing from the living Elohim. For some, when they had heard, did provoke [exasperate, to rouse to indignation]: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [unfaithfulness, faithless, want of faith, unbelief, weakness of faith].
Heb 4:6–7 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief [obstinacy, obstinate opposition to the divine will]: Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden [to render obstinate, stubborn, to be hardened, to become obstinate or stubborn] not your hearts.
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of Elohim.
1 John 1:8–10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
The Good News: The Father Is Calling His Prodigal Children Back to Him
Because of man’s sinful rebellion against Elohim, which commenced at the tree of knowledge, man has been in a state of spiritual wandering, separation and exile from a loving relationship with Elohim ever since. This reality is illustrated by two notable historical examples from the pages of the Bible. Because of sin and rebellion, YHVH cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, and similarly, he cast Israel out of the Promised Land because of their apostasy from the Torah. Continue reading
In the sobering article below (see link), the author outlines trends that he believes indicate that America’s social fabric is literally ripping apart at the seams at an alarming rate.
Like a watchman on the wall, I’ve been watching these trends develop for many years, and all I can say is this: America (and the other nations of the world too!) needs a spiritual revival! America (and the world) needs Yeshua! America needs to get back to the spiritual values of the Bible if it’s going to survive.
Sadly, like an adolescent teen in stubborn and prideful rebellion against his parents, America is locked in a fight against the God of the Bible and refuses to submit to the values contained therein that helped make this nation great, and that also have the power to turn this nation around.
Let me be honest. My life and our ministry is dedicated to helping to restore the spiritual values of the Bible, and to bring people into a living, personal and a powerful relationship with Yeshua the Messiah through His Word, the Bible. This is our only hope individually and collectively as a nation and as a world!
Now here’s the article—
By Michael Snyder, April 23, 2013
Read this article at http://www.infowars.com/america-1-in-fear-stress-anger-divorce-obesity-anti-depressants-etc/