Shaun Bill elected term ends in 2017 He is off the school board.
Clint Heinold elected term ends in 2017 He is off the school board.
Kelly Scarfe elected term ends in 2017 She is off the school board.
Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019 [Will she run for reelection after the results of this election?]
Board decisions have consequences. Elections have consequences.
Note: [ ] = my additions
Roe vs. Wade decided January 22, 1973 = 44 years ago as of January 22, 2017
Over 44 years of government sanctioned murder of our own children. Evil personified!
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Four months after the 44th year of the illegal, unconstitutional Roe vs. Wade decision, approximately 328,767 babies within the womb have been murdered because of federal government sanctioned evil based upon one million murders of babies within the womb per year. And the murders continue day after day. What has Congress done to stop the unconstitutional murder of our own children?
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Petition: http://nationalprolifealliance.com/lacAM_petition.aspx?pid=0219&npla=EH17
Abolishing the murder of babies within the womb by Congressional law will actually be faster and more effective than waiting on the court. Right now there are five justices on the court who support the murder of babies within the womb. The four radical Leftist justices appointed by Democrat Presidents and Justice Kennedy. Therefore, to even have a chance of the court reversing, we need two more Constitutional Justices and the second one has to replace one of the five pro-murdering babies within the womb justices. Even then, it would take a couple of years, at least, to get the case through the court system.
Passing a law of Congress is the best way of ending the terror of our American holocaust. The best way to abolish the murder of babies within the womb. The best way to stop any State from passing a law allowing the murder of babies within the womb. And it is also best constitutionally.
Life for all persons within the United States including babies within the womb is guaranteed and protected by the Declaration of Independence, Amendment V of the United States Constitution, and Amendment XIV of the United States Constitution. No court, no government body, no individual can constitutionally sanction the murder of babies within the womb. All such decisions, laws, and regulations are patently unconstitutional and illegal and should be immediately abolished by Congress by law!
Statistically, everyday of delay over 2,700 babies are murdered in the womb through abortion using 1 million abortions a year as a baseline. It is past time to attack the evil of murdering babies within the womb on every front with every legal weapon we can use until the murder of babies within the womb is abolished completely throughout the United States and its territories. Murder of babies within the womb is a horrendous evil that needs to and must be terminated.
Sign the petition to Secretary Price to help put an end to taxpayer funding of Planned Murderhood.
Click here to sign the petition.
http://www.stopp.org/price-petition/
No organization that murders babies within the womb and/or supports and promotes the same should ever receive federal government money either directly or indirectly.
The latest released video exposing Planned Murderhood and the murder of babies within the womb industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1ycCmX3uU
Above video was removed by youtube as it censors video that is in opposition to its LEFTIST agenda.
New link to the video:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=746_1495760241
This one has now been removed too. What does the murder of babies within the womb industry fear? The truth and the truth getting out to the world. No better proof than this censorship.
Newer link to the video:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-need-4-intact-limbs-planned-parenthood-abortionists-describe-beheading-ri
As of 1PM CDT Saturday 5/27/2017 the video is at this link. I do not know how long it will remain. I am listening to it as I write.
As of 3:33AM CDT Sunday 5/28/2017 the video has been removed.
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This video does not exist.”
Censorship by the Left reigns supreme in the United States of America.
Preview The Center for Medical Progress
Petition to Defund Planned Murderhood NOW!: https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/congress-must-de-fund-planned-parenthood-immediately.html
NO organization, including Planned Murderhood, which is involved in any way with the sinful, evil, barbaric practice of murdering babies within the womb should ever receive our taxpayer money!
The lies of Planned Murderhood supporters and promoters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjSPsVuS8g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=456b90d2cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-456b90d2cd-86729901
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The UN is a completely failed organization. It needs to be defunded
¨ For its attacks on the sovereign State of Israel,
¨ For its promotion of and support for murdering babies within the womb and the radical homosexual agenda.
¨ For supporting and promoting the scientific nonsense of man-made global warming,
¨ And for its call for one world government in direct violation of the sovereignty of the United States of America.
¨ Then, the US needs to get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US
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A brief quiz on the Constitution:
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Isaiah 1: 1-31 (NIV)
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem [Applicable to the United States today, in my opinion. GOD is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. HE is righteous, just, and true yesterday, today, and tomorrow!] that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me [The United States has and is rebelling against GOD!]. The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel [the United States] does not know, my people [the United States] do not understand.’
Woe to the sinful nation [the United States], a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel [the United States] and turned their backs on him.
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege. Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!], we would have been like Gomorrah [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!].
[Read Genesis 18 and 19 for the Biblical account. Genesis 19: 23-29 (NIV)]
“By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he [GOD] overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities [A righteous act by a righteous GOD WHO destroyed evil people who refused to repent from their evil. And yes, I believe the account and so did JESUS the SON of GOD. HE referenced Sodom and/or Gomorrah several times. Matthew 10: 15 (NIV) “Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.”]—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he [GOD] brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.”
This is also why homosexual radicals attack Christians who speak out against homosexual behavior. Christians who know the Bible know that homosexual behavior is sin punishable by spiritual death. There is NO “right” to homosexual behavior and people are NOT born homosexual. Homosexual behavior is learned behavior. Therefore, people do not have to be involved in the behavior and people can repent and STOP being involved in the behavior!]
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom [the United States]; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah [the United States]! ‘The multitude of your sacrifices—what are they to me?’ says the Lord. ‘I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you [the present or the future for the United States?]; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening [the present or the future for the United States?].
Your hands are full of blood [the present for the United States as we as a nation MURDER over a million babies a year through government sanctioned abortions!]!
Wash and make yourselves clean [Will we?]. Take your evil deeds out of my sight [Will we?]; stop doing wrong [Will we?]. Learn to do right [Will we?]; seek justice [Will we?]. Defend the oppressed [Will we? Who are more oppressed than murdered babies?]. Take up the cause of the fatherless [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s]; plead the case of the widow [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s].’
‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient [Stop rebelling], you will eat the good things of the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her—but now murderers! Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.’
Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. ‘You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.’”
Update: https://twitter.com/Politics1com?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politics1.com%2F
“Politics1.com @Politics1com 21 minutes ago [9PM CDT 5/16/2017]
South Carolina Congressional District-5: State Representative Ralph Norman narrowly wins GOP runoff with 50.3%; will join House Freedom Caucus if [when] he wins June 20 special general election.”
Late last week, I did three posts on this race. A down to the wire race where turnout may well have been the difference. Who can best get their supporters to the polls?
Further update from Senate Conservatives Fund:
“Yesterday [Tuesday May 16, 2017], Conservatives won an important victory in the Republican primary runoff election for Congress in South Carolina’s 5th district. SCF [Senate Conservatives Fund]-backed Ralph Norman (Republican - South Carolina) defeated establishment-backed Tommy Pope (Republican - South Carolina) in a very close race.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and groups with ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan (Republican - Wisconsin) spent heavily in an attempt to defeat Norman because he said he would join the House Freedom Caucus.
But conservatives fought back and out of 35,000 votes cast, Ralph Norman won the election by 203 votes [In some elections, every vote counts.] !!
It’s a major victory for our principles and I want to thank our supporters for making it happen. Ralph Norman would not have won this race without your help.”
Update on Planned Murderhood facilities that are closing:
Two more Planned Murderhood facilities closing in Colorado:
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/19/planned-parenthood-abortion-business-closes-two-clinics-in-colorado/
Planned Murderhood does not provide healthcare video:
https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10155273054558728/?utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=cb5b583ece-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-cb5b583ece-86729901
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] says it needs hundreds of millions in taxpayer funding to help pregnant women. Yet when moms need prenatal care, ultrasounds, and adoption services, Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] turns them away and tells them to ‘Google it.’ How is the abortion [murder of babies within the womb] giant using our tax dollars [Over half a billion dollars of federal money in the last fiscal year and funded by a Republican Congress through the 2016-2017 fiscal year that ends September 30, 2017.]?”
https://garydemar.com/bible-prophecy-pundits-neutralizing-christians-end-time-claims/
“How Bible Prophecy Pundits are Neutralizing Christians With Their End-Time Claims
Gary DeMar | May 23, 2017
Once again, prophecy prognosticators are predicting that Jesus is going to wrap up everything in our generation because things are so bad the end must be near [A familiar story. The first time I heard it was in high school and the year was to be 1973. In the “teacher’s” mind there was no doubt. He claimed all the pieces fit. He was wrong. All have been so far. Eventually, someone may accidentally get it correct just as a broken clock is correct twice a day.]. A recent article written by Britt Gillette that appears on the Prophecy News Watch website says as much:
‘The signs of the Second Coming are all around us. When His disciples asked Jesus to describe the signs, He gave them several. The Jewish people back in possession of Jerusalem (Luke 21: 24-28) … the Gospel preached throughout the world (Matthew 24: 14) … the arrival of the exponential curve (Matthew 24: 3-8) … and more.
‘The Old Testament prophets also pointed to a number of signs. An increase in travel and knowledge (Daniel 12: 4) … the rise of a united Europe (Daniel 2: 42) … the rise of the Gog of Magog alliance (Ezekiel 38-39) … and more.’
‘Today, all these signs are either present or in the process of being fulfilled. Yet for 1,800+ years, none of these signs were present. Think about that. None of the signs. But today? Today, they’re all around us.’
Keep in mind that the passages referenced above have been used for centuries to prove that the end was near for their time [As well as others. Of course, even in the time of Paul there was concern that JESUS had already returned. II Thessalonians 2: 1-2 (NIV) “Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.”]
End-time speculation is not new. It has a long and failed history going back centuries and has led to a form of prophetic inevitability resulting in Christian passivity [And that passivity is the problem. Why do anything to expose and stop evil because “JESUS will return very soon?”]
‘If Jesus is coming back in my generation, then why expend time and effort to fix what can’t be fixed. Why rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic? It’s all going down.’
As Christians waited for the soon return of Jesus, humanists, secularists, and materialists have infiltrated every part of society. Instead of fighting against the invasion, an end-time escapist eschatology was invented [From satan. Is this why the church did very little when Roe vs. Wade was handed down in January 1973. It was just another end time evil that can’t be stopped because Jesus will soon return?] with disastrous results. In Hal Lindsey’s book [His first book on the Second Coming was The Late, Great Planet Earth and was published in 1970. I read it during the time of publication but don’t remember when. I don’t recall him giving specific dates. I doubt that he did. Most such authors hedge their bets and don’t give specific dates. They also use past events to “prove” their predictions of future events.] The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon [The Late, Great Planet Earth was the first and only book of his I have read.] he wrote, ‘The decade of the 1980’s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it [Or not. Always hedging just in case.].’ In addition to his questionable interpretive claims, consider these comments from Lindsey:
‘What a way to live! With optimism, with anticipation, with excitement. We should be living like persons who don’t expect to be around much longer.’ 1
‘I don’t like clichés but I’ve heard it said, ‘God didn’t send me to clean the fish bowl, he sent me to fish.’ In a way there’s a truth to that.’ 2
If the end is always just around the corner based on certain prophetic texts linked to current events, then why bother or even hope to rebuild a failing and collapsing world [And that’s the problem. False prophecy leads to incorrect actions.]?
We’ve seen such speculation before in the French Revolution, World War I, World War II, and nearly every dramatic event throughout two millennia of history. If you want to read a chronicle of end-time speculation, take a look at Francis X. Gumerlock’s The Day and the Hour: Christianity’s Perennial Fascination with Predicting the End of the World. Send a copy to your end-time speculating friends.
I often hear, ‘But this time it’s different. We really are living in the last days and Jesus is coming soon.’
Today’s prophecy neophytes are under the false assumption that what they are reading in books and magazines, articles posted on the internet, seeing on television, and hearing on the radio and from pulpits are recently discovered end-time truths of what they believe are current events that match up with particular prophetic passages. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Charles Wesley Ewing, writing in 1983, paints a clear historical picture of how prophetic interpretation based on current events turns to confusion, uncertainty, and in some people unbelief when it comes to predicting an end that disappoints [And EVERY prediction so far has disappointed.]:
‘In 1934, Benito Mussolini sent his black-shirted Fascists down into defenseless Ethiopia and preachers all over the country got up in their pulpits and preached spellbinding sermons that had their congregations bulging at the eyes in astonishment about ‘Mussolini, the Anti-Christ,’ and to prove their point they quoted from Daniel 11: 43, which says, ‘And the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.’ Later, Benito, whimpering, was hung by his own countrymen, and preachers all over America had to toss their sermons into the scrap basket as unscriptural [His death being a “minor” detail.].’3
Ewing goes on to mention how Hitler’s storm troopers took Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, North Africa, and set up concentration camps where millions of Jews were killed in what has become the modern-day definition of ‘holocaust.’ Once again, preachers ascended their pulpits and linked these events to Bible prophecy and assured the church-going public that Hitler was the antichrist [Both Hitler and Mussolini basically at the same time.]. When the allies routed the Nazis and drove them out, sermons were once again tossed out or filed away to be revised at some future date hoping people’s memories would fade [And it seems that their memories do fade.].
The next end-time-antichrist candidate was Joseph Stalin, the leader of godless Communism, a movement hell-bent on conquering the world. ‘But on March 5, 1953, Stalin had a brain hemorrhage and preachers all over America had to make another trip to the waste basket.’4
Let’s take the above prophetic claims one at a time. First, the Olivet Discourse found in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 describes events leading up to and including the destruction of the temple and the judgment on Jerusalem that took place in AD 70. Jesus makes this clear when He told His first-century audience, ‘This generation will not pass away until all these things take place’ (Matt. 24: 34; Mark 13: 320 [sic. This should be Mark 13: 30. There is no Mark 13: 320. I did not check all these passages and the others. I did the Mark one because I knew 320 was incorrect.]; Luke 21: 31). Every time ‘this generation’ is used in the gospels it always refers to the generation to whom Jesus is speaking (Matthew 11: 16; 12: 39; 41, 42, 45; 17: 17; 23: 36; Mark 8: 12; 13: 30; Luke 7: 31; 11:29, 30, 31, 32, 50, 51; 17: 25; 21: 32). There are no exceptions. Grant Osborne summarizes the argument well:
‘(T)his generation’ (ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη) in the gospels always means the people of Jesus’ own time (11: 16; 12: 41-42; 23: 36) not, as some have proposed, the generation of the last days in history, the Jewish people, the human race in general, or the sinful people.’5
William Sanford LaSor writes, ‘If ‘this generation’ is taken literally, all of the predictions were to take place within the life-span of those living at that time.’6 These are just two examples of many who hold this position. See my soon-to-be-released book Wars and Rumors of Wars for a list of Bible commentators who interpret the Olivet Discourse in the same way.
This means that Luke 21: 24-28 and Matthew 24: 14, since these signs occur before Luke 21: 31 and Matthew 24: 34 they must have taken place before that first-century generation passed away.
Second, the New Testament does not say anything about Israel becoming a nation again. To the contrary; it only refers to its judgment (Matthew 21: 18-22; 24: 2-3; Luke 19: 43-44). Israel did become a nation again after the Jews returned to their land from the Babylonian exile (Daniel 9: 2; 2 Chronicles 36: 21; Ezra 1: 1; Jeremiah 25: 11-12; 29:10; Zechariah 7: 5; Nehemiah 1). The temple was rebuilt and the nation was reestablished. The fact that Jews were living in Israel during Jesus’ day proves that this is true.
Third, contrary to Britt Gillette, Luke 21: 24-28 does not say that Israel will become a nation again. Consider what is said in verses 31-32: ‘So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place.’ Jesus is not describing what will happen to a future generation. The use of the second person plural (you) and the near demonstrative ‘this’ make it clear that Jesus had that generation, and that generation alone, in view [Agreed. JESUS was answering the question asked by those disciples: Mark 13: 1-4 (NIV) “As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!’
‘Do you see all these great buildings?’ replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.’
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, ‘Tell us, when will these things happen [“Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”]? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?’].
Fourth, what about ‘the Gospel preached throughout the world (Matthew 24: 14)’? The Greek word translated ‘world’ is not kosmos (world) but oikoumenē and means ‘inhabited earth’ or ‘empire boundary.’ It is often translated ‘Roman Empire.’ The same Greek word is used in Luke 2: 1: “Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth [oikoumenē].’ Rome could only tax those within the boundaries of its own empire, not the whole wide world.
Fifth, it is written that the faith of the Roman Christians had been ‘proclaimed throughout the whole world (kosmos)’ (Romans 1: 8). Paul wrote to the Colossians ‘the gospel,’ which had come to them, had also come to those ‘in all the world (cosmos)’ where it was ‘constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as in’ them (Colossians 1: 6). (Even if Jesus had used kosmos in Matthew 24: 14, the above passages would indicate that Jesus’ words were fulfilled.) This was so true that Paul could write, “the hope of the gospel . . . was proclaimed in all creation under heaven’ (1: 23). In fact, the gospel had been ‘proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world [kosmos]’ (1 Timothy 3: 16). Paul concludes his letter to the Romans with the following:
‘Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations (Matthew 24: 14: ‘as a testimony to all the nations’) leading to obedience of faith; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.’ (Romans 16: 25-27)
Based on the above biblical evidence, it is untrue to say, ‘yet for 1,800+ years, none of these signs were present.’ These signs were present in the first century as the Bible makes clear and as many Bible expositors have pointed out for centuries.
What about Gillette’s claim that an ‘an increase in travel and knowledge (Daniel 12: 4) … the rise of a united Europe (Daniel 2: 42) … the rise of the Gog of Magog alliance (Ezekiel 38-39) … and more’ are signs of the end [Contrived. This is one of those “He proclaimed, therefore it must be true.”]?
Like the above passages, these verses also have been used repeatedly to ‘prove’ the end was near for people in past generations. For example, John Cumming (1807-1881) considered ‘railway traveling’7 to be a reference to ‘many shall run to and fro’ (Daniel 12: 4). Current prophecy writers like Hal Lindsey are just as ingenious when they see modern transportation systems and computer technology as a fulfillment of Daniel 12: 4 [Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it seems that prophecy “not yet fulfilled” is in the eye of the beholder.].8 This is such a discredited interpretation that it’s embarrassing to read that anyone still believes and teaches it. Even many die-hard dispensationalists reject the idea that the ‘increase in knowledge’ refers to ‘the recent explosion in knowledge.’9
What does ‘knowledge will increase’ mean? James B. Jordan, in his commentary on Daniel, The Handwriting on the Wall, offers a helpful explanation:
‘Those who take verse 4 [in Daniel 12] as referring to events at the end of history believe that Daniel’s prophecy is ‘sealed up’ until that time. Only as the second coming of Christ draws near will we be able to understand prophetic truth. Hal Lindsey, of course, believes that the end is near and that he, unlike previous generations of Christian thinkers, understands the previously hidden prophetic truth [Don’t they all.]. The sealing of the book, however, does not mean that it cannot be understood, but rather that the angel has told Daniel all that he is going to say at this point in history. The book is unsealed in Revelation 5-6, and in Revelation 22: 10 the completed book is left unsealed because there is no more to be said.
Prophetic speculators take note of the fact that with the coming of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes, people ‘go to and fro’ much more than ever before in history. Scientific knowledge has also boomed in recent years. We can say, of course, that a thousand years from now people may be going to and fro even more than they do now, and there will be even more knowledge around, so how can anyone know that our own generation is the time verse 4 is pointing to [Because they all know that JESUS is returning soon just as some thought in the time of Paul and the apostles.]?
The real point, of course, is that this kind of ‘interpretation’ of verse 4 is possible only by wrenching the text completely out of its context and then dreaming up possible meanings… (T)here is plenty of going to and fro in Daniel 11 and that is pretty clearly what verse 4 refers to…10 (T)he increase of knowledge is pretty obvious: As time goes along and the predictions in Daniel 11 are fulfilled decade by decade, the prophecy will be better and better understood.’11
The Hebrew word for ‘knowledge’ in Daniel 12:4 is not a reference to a mass collection or a library of data.12 Knowledge is used as revelational information about God and His works. It’s most likely that the knowledge being described in Daniel 12: 4 is related to the new covenant and the coming of the promised Redeemer [Isn’t that the ultimate purpose of Old Testament prophecy? The new covenant, the SAVIOR of mankind, the MESSIAH? Why would Old Testament prophecy be concerned with the end of the world even before the CHRIST has come to save the world. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Why would GOD do that in HIS prophecy? The concern is the MESSIAH not the end of the world.]. Since the focus of the Bible is on Jesus (Luke 24: 25–27) [Luke 24: 25-27 (NIV) “He said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?’ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.], we should expect that this is what God had in mind when the angel told Daniel that ‘the knowledge’ will increase. What redemptive significance does a Google search have to do with God’s redemptive plan for His people? Zacharias and Elizabeth (1: 5-25), Joseph and Mary (1: 26-56), Simeon (Luke 2: 25-32) and Anna (2: 36-38) had an increase in knowledge as the realities of the old covenant were unfolding in their day. The Scriptures ‘testify’ about Jesus (John 5: 39). Jesus uses Daniel 7: 13 as the defining event in His ministry (Matthew 24: 30), something His accusers should have understood (26: 64). This is the ‘increase in knowledge’ that the angel was describing. Prophecy writer Thomas Ice recognizes that the interpretation followed by Lindsey, Morris, Gillette, and so many other pop-prophecy analysts found on the Internet have misread and misapplied Daniel 12: 4.13
It could be argued that the New Testament itself is the increase of knowledge: ‘For God, who said, ‘Light shall shine out of darkness,’ is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ’ (2 Corinthians 4: 6). Then there is the negative side to the promise of an increase in revelational knowledge: ‘Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering’ (Luke 11: 52).
What about the Gog and Magog prophecy found in Ezekiel 38-39? There is nothing new under the same. These two prophetic passages have been used over the centuries as proof texts to some end-time bad guy from their era. In reality, the prophecy was fulfilled long ago during the time Haman the Agagite tried to kill all the Jews (Esther 3). See my book The Gog and Magog End-Time Alliance for a detailed study of Ezekiel 38-39.
Brian Walsh writes:
‘Build houses in a culture of homelessness. Plant gardens in polluted and contested soil. Get married in a culture of sexual consumerism. Make commitments in a world where we want to always keep our options open. Multiply in a world of debt. Have children at the end of history. Seek shalom in a violent world of geopolitical conflict and economic disparity. This is Jeremiah’s word to the exiles. This is Jeremiah’s subversive word to us. And in this vision, we just might see, with Jeremiah, a future with hope.’
01) The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1970), 145.
02) “The Great Cosmic Countdown,” Eternity (January 1977), 21.
03) Charles Wesley Ewing, “The Comedy of Errors,” The Kingdom Digest (July 1983), 45.
04) Ewing, “The Comedy of Errors,” 45-46.
05) Grant R. Osborne, Matthew: Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2010), 899-900.
06) William Sanford LaSor, The Truth About Armageddon: What the Bible Says About the End Times (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1987), 122.
07) Robert H. Ellison, “John Cumming and His Critics: Some Victorian Perspectives on the End Times,” Leeds, Centre Working Papers in Victorian Studies: Platform Pulpit Rhetoric, ed. Martin Hewitt, volume 3 (Horsforth, Leeds: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, 2000), 79.
08) Ed Hindson and Lee Fredrickson, Future Wave: End Times Prophecy, and the Technology Explosion (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House, 2001); Peter Lalonde and Paul Lalonde, Racing Toward . . . The Mark of the Beast: Your Money, Computers, and the End of the World (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House, 1994).
09) Mark Hitchcock, The Complete Book of Bible Prophecy (Wheaton, Illihnois: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999), 176-177.
10) “run to and fro—not referring to the modern rapidity of locomotion, as some think, nor to Christian missionaries going about to preach the Gospel to the world at large [Albert Barnes], which the context scarcely admits; but, whereas now but few care for this prophecy of God, ‘at the time of the end,’ that is, near its fulfilment [sic], ‘many shall run to and fro,’ that is, scrutinize it, running through every page. Compare Habakkuk 2: 2 [John Calvin]: it is thereby that ‘the knowledge (namely, of God’s purposes as revealed in prophecy) shall be increased.’” (Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, et al., A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments (Oak Harbor, Washington: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), Daniel 12: 4).
11) James B. Jordan, The Handwriting on the Wall: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision, 2007), 624-625.
12) “An increase in travel toward the end of the age is not the idea of the phrase ‘will go here and there.’ In a number of Old Testament passages (e.g., 2 Chronicles 16: 9; Jeremiah 5: 1; Amos 8: 12; Zechariah 4: 10), (the) Hebrew . . . denotes ‘to go here and there’ in search of a person or thing, and that is the meaning here. An ‘intense’ searching seems indicated by the verb form. The purpose of this search will be ‘to increase knowledge.’ Yet Gabriel was not predicting a mere surge in scientific ‘knowledge,’ and so forth, in the last days. The article appears with ‘knowledge’ (literally, ‘the knowledge’), showing that a particular kind of ‘knowledge’ was intended, that is, when and how Daniel’s message is to be fulfilled. As the time of fulfillment draws nearer, the ‘wise’ will seek to comprehend these prophecies more precisely, and God will grant understanding (‘knowledge’) to them.” (Stephen R. Miller, Daniel (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001), 18:321).
13) Thomas Ice, ‘Running To and Fro.’ Ice gets a lot right in this article but applies its fulfillment to a post-rapture Great Tribulation.”
It seems that everyone who tries to use Old Testament prophecy to predict the Second Coming of JESUS ignores this passage from the New Testament said by JESUS HIMSELF:
Matthew 11: 7-15 (NIV)
“As John’s [John the Baptist or more correctly John the Baptizer] disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: ‘What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings’ palaces. Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written:
‘I will send my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way before you.’
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it. For all the Prophets and the Law [of the Old Testament. The only Scripture known at that time was Old Testament Scripture.] prophesied until John [Do you understand? Old Testament prophecy, according to JESUS, the SON of GOD, prophesied until John the Baptizer. Therefore, the prophecies were purposed toward JESUS the MESSIAH and NOT toward the Second Coming of JESUS the CHRIST.]. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
The responsibility of every Christian is to do his best in all areas of involvement as guided by the HOLY SPIRIT UNTIL his earthly body dies or until CHRIST’S Second Coming whichever comes first. We do not determine when that Second Coming occurs. We should not stop working to expose evil and wait for the Second Coming. That is not our responsibility and purpose. Our purpose is to serve the LORD until HE comes again or our physical body dies.
II Peter 2: 1-3 (NIV)
“But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.”
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