America's Financial Crisis

There are 3 significant books which warn of crisis:

America's Financial Demise (2010) by Ethan Pope

The Coming Economic Earthquake (1991) by Larry Burkett

The Coming Economic Armageddon (2010) by Dr. David Jeremiah

All three are by respected Christian authors. Read them!

Where is Our Josiah?

The United States of America has turned away from God.
We have a President who omits “by their Creator” when he
quotes the Declaration of Independence. He has not been
going to church because it would “create too much of a
distraction for the worshipers.” He and his family did
go this month – the speaker was a Muslim!
How different this is from Josiah in 2 Kings 23: The
king went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of
Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and
the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small
and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of
the book of the covenant.
Most - if not all – of the nation's problems can be
traced to immorality. Most marriages now end in divorce –
even for Christians; most births are out-of-wedlock; tens
of millions of able-bodied folks do not work and are
dependent on productive citizens for their care; illegal
aliens are supported by United States citizens; dependence
on God has been replaced by dependence on government; laws
are passed and not enforced; the federal government has
illegally intervened in matters not enumerated in the
United States Constitution; etc.
“Poverty in America” has increased despite trillions of
dollars spent on the “War on Poverty.” Much of this
“increase” is due to an erroneous use of statistics by
“category” rather than individual. Those self reliant
Americans who are “poor” at some point in time are not
poor 10 years later. The “poor” in America have “stuff”
(TV, car, electricity, indoor plumbing, cell phone, washer,
dryer, dishwasher, etc.) that families in other countries
can only dream about. Many of the truly poor have made bad
decisions - dropped out of school, became pregnant, divorced
the productive spouse and had no skills to earn a living,
etc. The politicians made laws (CRA, 1977) making it easy
to get housing with little or no means to pay for it;
threatened or sued banks and mortgage companies to force
them to make bad mortgage loans; loosened laws on the
financial industry and failed to enforce them; and then
blamed everyone else for their failure.
When the financial system “collapsed”, the government
illegally intervened. Contract law was ignored and
political supporters were rewarded at the expense of the
American taxpayers. Media commentators like Ed Schultz
of MSNBC stated to callers that GM and Chrysler received
“loans” from the government and were not bailed out. He
got several calls since some people were well aware that
the taxpayers and the unions have an ownership interest
and creditors lost their priority given by contract law.
American schools are failing. They teach the
“evolution” lie in science class although there is
nothing scientific about it. Testing and peer review are
not possible because there is no data; only secular
explanations which reject God for concepts that science
cannot explain. Kids are taught the mechanics of making
babies without the moral lessons necessary. Abortion –
which is murder of a human being – is the “progressive”
solution to irresponsible parents. Homosexuality is
taught as normal rather than an abomination. Climate data
is "selected" to show an immanent "global crisis."
Where is our Josiah? I believe that Jesus Christ will
rapture His Church at any moment and seven years later
establish His Kingdom on Earth. Those who rejected Him
will spend an eternity in the lake of fire, while those
who have put their trust in Him as Savior will be with
Him forever.

GOD or government?

1 Samuel 8:10-18
Warning concerning a King
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people
who had asked of him a king. He said, "This will be the
procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take
your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and
among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots.
He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of
fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest
and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his
chariots. He will also take your daughters for perfumers
and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields
and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his
servants. He will take a tenth of your seed and of your
vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants. He
will also take your male servants and your female servants
and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his
work. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves
will become his servants. Then you will cry out in that day
because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but
the LORD will not answer you in that day."

Is Obama a Christian?

Is a person a Christian if he says that he is? The
Bible says in 1 John 4:1,
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether they are from God, because many
false prophets have gone out into the world. By this
you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and
every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God;

Some Americans believe that BH Obama is a Christian
because he does good things for others. The fictional
character Robin Hood did good things for others, but he
was a criminal. I would argue that Obama does not obey
the law. A Christian is to obey the law.

Psalm 122: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they
prosper who love [God].

BH Obama has offended our ally Israel. The Jews are
still God's Chosen People. That has not changed. When
Obama genuflects to a Muslim king, he offends Israel.
In his speeches to Muslims, he speaks as one of them.
His wife speaks of Kenya as his home country. BH Obama
was schooled in Muslim schools during his formative years.
He will not release a Birth Certificate or any early
records (his COLB has no verifiable information). His
public spokesperson Robert Gibbs says that building a
mosque near ground zero of the 9/11 murders is a local
issue for NYC. BH Obama then gives his Presidential
approval speaking before a pro-Muslim audience (applause).

I believe that BH Obama is a Muslim. A key tenet of
Islam is "deceive your enemy" (infidels).

Christian counseling

Dr Benjamin Spock wrote a book called "Baby and Child Care"
which was used as a guide by new parents. He had to publicly
apologize for being wrong. At least one generation was
raised according to these wrong principles - which differed
from those taught in the Bible. One does not have to
proselytize in order to advocate Biblical principles. A
Christian cannot ignore the Bible since it is the source of
TRUTH (John 14:6, Romans 1:25).

The Old Man

Our house was directly across the street from the
clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. 
We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to
outpatients at the clinic. 
    One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there
was a knock at the door.  I opened it to see a truly
awful looking man.  "Why, he's hardly taller than my
8-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped,
shriveled body.  But the appalling thing was his face,
lopsided from swelling, red and raw. 
    Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening. 
I've come to see if you've a room for just one night.  I
came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore,
and there's no bus 'til morning." 
    He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon
but with no success, no one seemed to have a room.  "I
guess it's my face ... I know it looks terrible, but my
doctor says with a few more treatments .." 
    For a moment I hesitated, but his next words
convinced me: "I could sleep in this rocking chair on the
porch.  My bus leaves early in the morning." 
    I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the
porch..  I went inside and finished getting supper.  When
we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. 
"No, thank you.  I have plenty."  And he held up a brown
paper bag. 
    When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch
to talk with him a few minutes.  It didn't take a long time
to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded
into that tiny body.  He told me he fished for a living to
support his daughter, her 5 children, and her husband, who
was hopelessly crippled from a back injury. 
    He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every
other sentence was preface with a thanks to God for a
blessing.  He was grateful that no pain accompanied his
disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer.  He
thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.. 
    At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room
for him.  When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were
neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. 
    He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his
bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, "Could
I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? 
I won't put you out a bit.  I can sleep fine in a chair." 
He paused a moment and then added, "Your children made me
feel at home.  Grownups are bothered by my face, but children
don't seem to mind." 
    I told him he was welcome to come again. 
    And, on his next trip, he arrived a little after 7 in
the morning.  As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart
of the largest oysters I had ever seen!  He said he had
shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be
nice and fresh.  I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. and I
wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for
us. 
    In the years he came to stay overnight with us, there
was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or
vegetables from his garden. 
    Other times we received packages in the mail, always by
special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh
young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed.  Knowing
that he must walk 3 miles to mail these, and knowing how
little money he had made the gifts doubly precious. 
    When I received these little remembrances, I often
thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he
left that first morning. 
    "Did you keep that awful looking man last night?  I
turned him away!  You can lose roomers by putting up such
people!" 
    Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice.  But, oh!,
if only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses
would have been easier to bear. 
    I know our family always will be grateful to have
known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the
bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God. 
    Recently I was visiting a friend, who has a greenhouse,
as she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful
one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. 
But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented,
rusty bucket.  I thought to myself, "If this were my plant,
I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!" 
    My friend changed my mind.  "I ran short of pots," she
explained, "and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I
thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. 
It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the
garden." 
    She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly,
but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. 
    "Here's an especially beautiful one," God might have
said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. 
"He won't mind starting in this small body." 
    All this happened long ago - and now, in God's garden,
how tall this lovely soul must stand. 
    The LORD does not look at the things man looks at.  Man
looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the
heart." (1 Samuel 16:7b) 

Will You Get a New Body?

...flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep,
but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the
trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
imperishable, and we will be changed.
For this perishable must put on the imperishable,
and this mortal must put on immortality.

Only true believers - those baptized into Christ by
the Holy Spirit - will be changed. This is a spiritual
baptism, just like the "baptism now saves you" in
1 Peter 3:21 is spirit - rather than water - baptism.
Noah and his family stayed dry!