A bi-word ? AFRICAN-AMERICANS.….

³⁷ And thou shalt become an aston­ish­ment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whith­er the Lord shall lead thee.

38 Thou shalt car­ry much seed out into the field, and shalt gath­er but lit­tle in; for the locust shall con­sume it.

³⁹ You will plant vine­yards and cul­ti­vate them but you will not drink the wine or gath­er the grapes, because worms will eat them.

40 Thou shalt have olive trees through­out all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thy­self with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

41 Thou shalt beget sons and daugh­ters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

43 The stranger that is with­in thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

45 Moreover all these curs­es shall come upon thee, and shall pur­sue thee, and over­take thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hear­ken not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his com­mand­ments and his statutes which he com­mand­ed thee:

The sto­ries of young black men being killed by white police are spark­ing a nation­al con­ver­sa­tion. However, pub­lic respons­es to these painful sto­ries reveal an alarm­ing racial divide. From an unarmed teenag­er killed in Ferguson, Missouri; to a 12 year-old boy shot dead in Cleveland; to a white police offi­cer on video chok­ing a black man to death in New York City; and a star­tling series of sim­i­lar sto­ries from across the coun­try and over many decades — our reac­tions show great dif­fer­ences in white and black per­spec­tives. Many white Americans tend to see this prob­lem as unfor­tu­nate inci­dents based on indi­vid­ual cir­cum­stances. Black Americans see a sys­tem in which their black lives mat­ter less than white lives. That is a fun­da­men­tal dif­fer­ence of expe­ri­ence between white and black Americans, between black and white par­ents, even between white and black Christians. The ques­tion is: Are we white peo­ple going to lis­ten or not?

White Americans talk about how hard and dan­ger­ous police work is — that most cops are good and are to be trust­ed. Black Americans agree that police work is dan­ger­ous­ly hard, but also have expe­ri­enced sys­temic police abuse of their fam­i­lies. All black peo­ple, espe­cial­ly black men, have their own sto­ries. Since there are so many sto­ries, are these real­ly just iso­lat­ed inci­dents? We lit­er­al­ly have two crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tems in America — one for whites and one for blacks. Are there police uses of force that are under­stand­able and jus­ti­fi­able? Of course there are. If our soci­ety was­n’t steeped in a gun cul­ture, many of these shoot­ings could be avoid­ed. But has exces­sive, unnec­es­sary, lethal force been used over and over again, all across the coun­try, with white police killing unarmed black civil­ians? Yes, it has, and the evi­dence is over­whelm­ing. But will we white peo­ple lis­ten to it? Will white par­ents try to imag­ine how it would feel to have “the talk,” to tell their own chil­dren that they should­n’t trust those who are sup­posed to serve and pro­tect them? That’s hard to lis­ten to, hard to hear, hard to rec­og­nize the legit­i­ma­cy of oth­er par­ents’ expe­ri­ences when they are so dif­fer­ent from your own. It’s time to lis­ten — for us white Americans to lis­ten to black Americans; for white par­ents to lis­ten to black par­ents; for white Christians to lis­ten to black Christians. This may be the most impor­tant thing we have ever had to do: to lis­ten, real­ly listen.

Do we believe what we say about the uni­ty of “the body of Christ” or not? In the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 12 speaks of one body with many members.

For just as the body is one and has many mem­bers, and all the mem­bers of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.… For the body does not con­sist of one mem­ber but of many… As it is, there are many parts, yet one body… that there may be no dis­cord in the body, but that the mem­bers may have the same care for one anoth­er. If one mem­ber suf­fers, all suf­fer togeth­er; if one mem­ber is hon­ored, all rejoice togeth­er. (RSV)

Another ver­sion of 1 Corinthians 12:26 trans­lates, “If one part suf­fers every part shares its suf­fer­ing.” What would it mean to share in the suf­fer­ing of our broth­ers and sis­ters of col­or who suf­fer from a racial­ized crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem? Racial rec­on­cil­i­a­tion is a com­mit­ment at the heart of the gospel. If we say we belong to Christ, that mis­sion of rec­on­cil­i­a­tion is ours too. What does racial rec­on­cil­i­a­tion mean now in the face of America’s racial divide over polic­ing and the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem? Let’s get prac­ti­cal. If you have African Americans at your work­place or at your church, ask them to please talk to you about this, to tell you their sto­ries — then lis­ten. If you don’t have any black or oth­er mem­bers of col­or in your church, it’s time to ask why. Reach out — and ask your pas­tor to reach out — to black and Hispanic church­es in your com­mu­ni­ty or city. We must find safe and authen­tic ways to hear each oth­ers’ sto­ries, across the racial bound­aries of our church­es. Reach out sen­si­tive­ly to black par­ents at your chil­dren’s schools. Ask to hear their sto­ries. Talk to the black par­ents of your chil­dren’s class­mates and team­mates. Or maybe it’s time to real­ize not hav­ing chil­dren of col­or at your chil­dren’s school or on their teams is a big part of the prob­lem. Parents talk­ing to par­ents and hear­ing each oth­ers’ sto­ries may be the most impor­tant key to mov­ing for­ward in the church and in the nation. White peo­ple need to stop talk­ing so much, stop defend­ing the sys­tems that pro­tect and serve them, and stop say­ing “I’m not a racist.” If white peo­ple turn a blind eye to sys­tems that are racial­ly biased, we can’t be absolved from the sin of racism. Listen to the peo­ple the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem fails to serve and pro­tect; try to see the world as they do. Loving our neigh­bors means iden­ti­fy­ing with their suf­fer­ing, meet­ing them in it, and work­ing togeth­er to change it. And, for those of us who are par­ents, lov­ing our neigh­bors means lov­ing oth­er peo­ple’s kids as much as we love our own.

Jim Wallis is pres­i­dent of Sojourners. His book, The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided, the updat­ed and revised paper­back ver­sion of On God’s Side, is avail­able now.

Follow Jim Wallis on Twitter: www​.twit​ter​.com/​j​i​m​w​a​l​lis

This sto­ry was first pub­lished in the Huffingtonpost​.com

Bishop Charles E. Blake, the Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, used his pul­pit on Sunday to pub­licly apol­o­gize for the actions of one of the speak­ers at COGIC’s 107^th Holy Convocation in St. Louis.

In a ser­mon that has gone viral, Superintendent Earl Carterpreached a mes­sage that that called gay men “sissies” and expressed that he hoped they would “bleed from their butts,” among oth­er shock­ing statements.

“I got some­thing for all these homo­sex­u­als just walk­ing around here with your pock­et­books, with your tight pants and your bowtie, and you’re walk­ing like a girl, you need deliv­er­ance,” Carter said in his ser­mon. “I’mma tell you why you need deliv­er­ance and I’mma tell you what’s wrong with you walk­ing ‘round here, look­ing like a sis­sy. If they don’t want nobody to say noth­ing about you, I’m gone say some­thing about you. You’re per­vert­ed and you’re lost!”Carter, who is Senior Pastor of Christ Ministries Church of God in Christ, Orlando, FL, went on blame fel­low pas­tors for allow­ing gay men to be active in their min­istries. “I blame some of these preach­ers. You got the sissies up here doing praise and wor­ship,” he sermonized.

Now Bishop Blake, who is Senior Pastor of West Angeles COGIC in Los Angeles, is con­demn­ing the actions of Rev. Carter.

“On Saturday evening, November the 8^th, one of our more than 15 speak­ers used terms and spoke in a way that was offen­sive and inap­pro­pri­ate. “Though he alone is respon­si­ble for the nature and tone of his remarks, it was on my watch that this took place. Even though I was not present at the ser­vice on that night, as Presiding Bishop, I apol­o­gize for what seemed to be a harsh, uncom­pas­sion­ate, dis­re­spect­ful spir­it on the part of that speak­er,” Bishop Blake pre­sent­ed, from a pre­pared statement.

The 74-year-old church leader went on to address Andrew Caldwell, the 21-year-old attendee whose dec­la­ra­tion of “I’m Not Gay No More” has become the lat­est viral craze and caused both the COGIC orga­ni­za­tion and Christianity as a whole to be pub­licly ridiculed and criticized.

“I also apol­o­gize to Andrew Caldwell, a young seek­er of The Lord who came forth and made state­ments on that night on his change of heart and his pur­pose. His tes­ti­mo­ny lit­er­al­ly went viral and has brought upon him crit­i­cism and sar­donicism. We extend our love, our prayers and our sup­port that young man as he seeks to know God and to serve God,” offered Bishop Blake.

In con­clu­sion, Bishop Blake expressed that the actions of one bad preach­er is not reflec­tive of entire COGIC denom­i­na­tion and of Christian believ­ers as a whole.

“We believe that we should reflect the love and com­pas­sion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in all that we do. And we do not in any way com­pro­mise our bib­li­cal posi­tion against same-sex unions are in favor of bib­li­cal teach­ings on mat­ters of sex­u­al con­duct, but at the same time we expect that our cler­gy and laity will be civ­il and con­sid­er­ate as they speak to men and women regard­ing issues relat­ed to our Christian faith. We love all peo­ple regard­less of their faith or their moral stan­dard. And when we fail to express our­selves with love and humil­i­ty we con­tra­dict the wit­ness we strive to have to the world. The Church of God in Christ whol­ly con­demns acts of vio­lence against and the sub­ju­ga­tion of any per­son to ver­bal and phys­i­cal harass­ment on the basis of their sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion of sex­u­al stance,” he con­clud­ed. http://​alwaysal​ist​.com/​f​a​i​t​h​/​b​i​s​h​o​p​b​l​a​k​e​-​c​o​g​i​c​a​p​o​l​o​gy/

PUBLISHERS NOTE

When Christians are faced with tri­als and tribu­la­tions they must ask them­selves what would Jesus do. Jesus was not afraid to speak truth to pow­er while he was on Earth ‚> In fact there are ample doc­u­ment­ed instances where Jesus stood up to the estab­lished order and spoke clear­ly and unequiv­o­cal­ly about sin and what it takes to enter into his father’s Kingdom.

♦When he healed the woman who had a Spirit of Infirmity he was chas­tised by Church lead­ers because he healed the woman on the Sabbath day . Instead of rejoic­ing at the mirac­u­lous heal­ing of one of his con­gre­ga­tion, the ruler “answered with indig­na­tion” because an inter­pre­ta­tion of the law has been transgressed.

Jesus chid­ed them. Luke 13:10 – 17 :

¹⁵ The Lord answered him, “You hyp­ocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or don­key from the stall and lead it out to give it water? ¹⁶ Then should not this woman, a daugh­ter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eigh­teen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

¹⁷ When he said this, all his oppo­nents were humil­i­at­ed, but the peo­ple were delight­ed with all the won­der­ful things he was doing.

♦Matthew 21 vs 12 : 12And Jesus entered the tem­ple and drove out all those who were buy­ing and sell­ing in the tem­ple, and over­turned the tables of the mon­ey chang­ers and the seats of those who were sell­ing doves.13And He said to them, “It is writ­ten, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are mak­ing it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”…

There is ample evi­dence of Jesus ris­ing up in Righteous indig­na­tion and assert­ing his Father’s words.

Too many in the Christian Church are afraid of speak­ing out on hot but­ton top­i­cal issues for fear they will be ostra­cized. Jesus Christ was ostra­cized. His dis­ci­ples were ostra­cized for fol­low­ing him and preach­ing the word. Some Pastors are afraid of offend­ing the queer com­mu­ni­ty, Some are afraid of los­ing the mon­ey com­ing in on Sunday morn­ings. Is that what Jesus told us to do? Did Jesus ask us to bow to sin and apol­o­gize for the truth?

Pastors if the World is hap­py with your ser­mons you are serv­ing the prince of the world.

As Christians we must be care­ful to show love as Jesus did and as he charges us to love. One thing we must nev­er con­fuse, is lov­ing the sin­ner and the sin. God loves the sin­ner but he hates sin. 

Some in the church has dis-empow­ered the church with false teach­ings which are not sup­port­ed by Biblical teachings. 

The world is watch­ing what we Christians do. They laugh at us because many of us are doing the same things we did before we claimed we got saved. They call us hyp­ocrites . It’s time for the church to come out from among them and be like a bea­con on a hill that can­not be hid. 

If that means being ostra­cized by the world then so be it.

Minister Farrakhan speaks the word of God as it should be preached . The way Christian Ministers and Pastors should , unafraid of chas­tise­ment, and ridicule.

lets lis­ten to Minister Farrakhan.

Christians use the Bible as the source of their Theological beliefs. Muslims swear by the Quran . Other Religions also have their Holy books which serve as guides to their form of wor­ship. Christianity the Religion prac­ticed large­ly in the Western World is now com­ing under increased scruti­ny as intel­lec­tu­als and oth­ers not con­tent to have blind faith are ques­tion­ing cer­tain teach­ings in parts of the Bible.

Exodus 21:1 – 4 “If thou buy an Hebrew ser­vant, six years he shall serve: and in the sev­enth he shall go out free for noth­ing. If he came in by him­self, he shall go out by him­self: if he were mar­ried, then his wife shall go out with him. If his mas­ter have giv­en him a wife, and she have born him sons or daugh­ters; the wife and her chil­dren shall be her mas­ter’s, and he shall go out by himself.”

Deuteronomy 15:12 – 18 “And if thy broth­er, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the sev­enth year thou shalt let him go free from thee.And when thou send­est him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away emp­ty: Thou shalt fur­nish him lib­er­al­ly out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that where­with the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.”

Exodus 21:7 “And if a man sell his daugh­ter to be a maid­ser­vant, she shall not go out as the men ser­vants do.”

Regarding the beat­ing and killing of slaves, the Book of Exodus con­tains laws regard­ing pun­ish­ment for the one who kills the slave as well as injunc­tions to avoid injur­ing the eyes and teeth.

Exodus 21:20 – 21 “And if a man smite his ser­vant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be sure­ly pun­ished. Notwithstanding, if he con­tin­ue a day or two, he shall not be pun­ished: for he is his money.”

Exodus 21:26 – 27 “And if a man smite the eye of his ser­vant, or the eye of his maid, that it per­ish; he shall let him go free for his eye­’s sake. And if he smite out his manser­van­t’s tooth, or his maid­ser­van­t’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.”

The Book of Leviticus pro­hib­it­ed the harsh rul­ing over oth­er Israelites, but that slaves could be tak­en from the Gentiles.

Leviticus 25:44 – 46 “Both thy bond­men, and thy bond­maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the hea­then that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bond­men and bond­maids. Moreover of the chil­dren of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their fam­i­lies that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your pos­ses­sion. And ye shall take them as an inher­i­tance for your chil­dren after you, to inher­it them for a pos­ses­sion; they shall be your bond­men for ever: but over your brethren the chil­dren of Israel, ye shall not rule one over anoth­er with rigour.”

Also, in Leviticus, a dis­tinc­tion is made between the hired ser­vant and the slave.

Leviticus 25:48 – 53 “After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his fam­i­ly may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem him­self. And he shall reck­on with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be accord­ing unto the num­ber of years, accord­ing to the time of an hired ser­vant shall it be with him.”

There are many more instances in the Bible where the Abominable Institution of Slavery is active­ly con­doned and counselled.

Many opposed to Christianity, par­tic­u­lar­ly intel­lec­tu­als of African Ancestry point to these instances which they believe to be the very words which kept their fore-par­ents in bondage for hun­dreds of years.

The insti­tu­tion of Slavery has been around since the begin­ning of man’s record­ed his­to­ry. Man has sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly engaged in the enslave­ment of each oth­er. Those enslaved were gen­er­al­ly on the los­ing end of wars. Others became bonds­men as a result of debts they incur.

Some believe the New Testament did not con­demn the prac­tice either, some go fur­ther to say Jesus him­self did not con­demn it. Some who come from the class which owned slaves argue that the Bible gives the prac­tice legit­i­ma­cy. Those who are descen­dants of those who suf­fered and died under the cru­el yoke of enslave­ment, points to this as exact­ly the why the Bible should be shunned, at least by black people.

I do not have the answers for these ques­tions. Was the issue of slav­ery so deeply ingrained in human cul­ture that the Bible actu­al­ly coun­selled how it should be handled? 

When the woman broke the pre­cious Alabaster box of Ointment and washed his feet, Jesus chid­ed his dis­ci­ples who com­plained that the Ointment could have been sold and the pro­ceeds giv­en to the poor.

Matthew 26:6 – 13

While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expen­sive per­fume, which she poured on his head as he was reclin­ing at the table. When the dis­ci­ples saw this, they were indig­nant. “Why this waste?” they asked. 9 “This per­fume could have been sold at a high price and the mon­ey giv­en to the poor. Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you both­er­ing this woman? She has done a beau­ti­ful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you,[a] but you will not always have me. When she poured this per­fume on my body, she did it to pre­pare me for bur­ial. Truly I tell you, wher­ev­er this gospel is preached through­out the world, what she has done will also be told, in mem­o­ry of her.

This was an acknowl­edge­ment by Jesus that there would always be poor with us. Are the Scriptures relat­ing to Slavery an acknowl­edg­ment that Slavery and servi­tude would for­ev­er be with us?

Whether the issue is Servitude or Poverty, it is impor­tant to rec­og­nize that the fact that the Bible ref­er­ences both mal­adies is not proof they are sanc­tioned by God. In fact the Scriptures are explic­it­ly clear on how God wants us to treat each other,

If we fol­low God’s Commandments the issues of Slavery and Poverty are moot. We may chose to ignore God and live with our choice, he gave us free-will. Let’s not point to bits of pieces of writ­ings which we believe indict the Christian Religion,then assume we are indict­ing God Almighty. There is much in the Bible which we can dis­agree with, it does not make the exis­tence of God a less obvious.

Unless you have a prob­lem with a scrip­ture which says “Thus saith the Lord”, you are mere­ly indict­ing some­one’s writings .

Continuing our series on events hap­pen­ing around the world, we look today at Sink-Holes.

Sink-holes have popped up all around the world . In case after case Scientists and local offi­cials have explained the rea­sons that the holes have appeared.

In Russia, the ground moves you. Berezniki’s sink­hole began in 1986 and just grows worse with each pass­ing year. It’s unstop­pable. Currently it’s over 200m deep, 80m long and 40m wide. In case you’re think­ing “Berezniki? Who cares?” you should know that 10% of the world out­put of potash comes from this area, and the sink­hole is very close to destroy­ing the mine’s sole rail line.

ABC news 7 reports that the homes that are pre­car­i­ous­ly bal­anc­ing on the edges of the sink­hole in Sumter County are locat­ed in the retire­ment com­mu­ni­ty known as The Villages, and what start­ed as just a tiny open­ing in the earth a few weeks ago quick­ly turned into a rag­ing maw of doom. Giovanni Velocci, a neigh­bor who lives across the street from the two homes, said he was on his morn­ing walk when he noticed the sink­hole that had opened up the pre­vi­ous night.
Read more at http://​www​.inquisitr​.com/​1​2​2​0​5​7​1​/​s​i​n​k​h​o​l​e​-​i​n​-​o​r​l​a​n​d​o​-​t​h​r​e​a​t​e​n​s​-​t​o​-​d​e​v​o​u​r​-​h​o​m​e​s​/​#​s​h​M​v​O​t​I​k​R​3​T​I​w​R​c​Y​.99

These are just a few of hun­dreds of instances where Giant sink­holes have appeared in ran­dom places . These events have Scientists baf­fled . In some cas­es Authorities are able to fig­ure out why they appear, but in oth­ers their appear­ance leaves Authorities baffled.

What does the Bible say about these events?

Matthew 21:25 – 28
“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars: and on the earth dis­tress of nations, with per­plex­i­ty, the sea and the waves roar­ing. Men’s heart’s fail­ing them for fear and the expec­ta­tion of those things which are com­ing on the earth, for the pow­er of the heav­ens will be shak­en. Then they will see the son of man com­ing in a cloud with pow­er and great glo­ry. Now when these things begin to hap­pen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemp­tion draws near.”

We ignore these events to our detriment !

Events con­tin­ue to hap­pen all over the Globe, yet Main Stream Media con­tin­ue to keep us in the dark. I do not pre­tend to know what their motives are, so I won’t spec­u­late. What I do know is that many events are going under report­ed or not report­ed at all.

Unexplained danc­ing lights in the skies , or UFO sightings.

Thousands of dead tur­tle and doves rained down on roofs and cars in an Italian town were vic­tims of their on greed, an expert claimed today. Residents in Faenza described the birds falling to the ground like ‘lit­tle Christmas balls’ with strange blue stains on their beaks. Initial tests on up to 8,000 of the doves indi­cat­ed that the blue stain could have been caused by poi­son­ing or hypox­ia. Hypoxia, a lack of oxy­gen, is known to cause con­fu­sion and ill­ness in ani­mals. It is also a com­mon pre­cur­sor to alti­tude sick­ness. It comes after two mil­lion dead fish were found to have washed up on shores in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. That inves­ti­ga­tion comes just days after the deaths of an esti­mat­ed 100,000 fish in north­west Arkansas, which is being blamed on disease.

Cold water stress exac­er­bat­ed by a large pop­u­la­tion of the affect­ed species (juve­nile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill.’ Preliminary tests of the water in Chesapeake Bay have shown the qual­i­ty was accept­able, offi­cials said. http://​jowar​rior​.word​press​.com/​2​0​1​1​/​0​1​/​0​9​/​w​h​y​-​a​r​e​-​a​n​i​m​a​l​s​-​d​y​i​n​g​-​a​l​l​-​o​v​e​r​-​t​h​e​-​w​o​r​ld/

In many cas­es when the­ses events occur local author­i­ties quick­ly come up with expla­na­tions as what may have caused the event. Notwithstanding, whether birds die from eat­ing too much, or pol­lu­tion caus­es the death of fish, do these expla­na­tions negate Biblical prophesies?

Irrespective of cau­sa­tion these events are occur­ring just as the Scriptures said they would. Does man’s expla­na­tions and guess­es make these events any less true?

ARE THESE THE EVENTS THE BOOKS OF DANIEL AND REVELATION PREDICTED?

UNEXPLAINED NOISES HEARD AROUND THE WORLD.

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A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a con­tro­ver­sy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. 

Luke 21:25 – 26

But con­cern­ing that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heav­en, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Luke 21:25 – 26

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dis­tress of nations in per­plex­i­ty because of the roar­ing of the sea and the waves, peo­ple faint­ing with fear and with fore­bod­ing of what is com­ing on the world. For the pow­ers of the heav­ens will be shaken.

END TIME EVENTS

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1. Matthew 24:29 – 31:29 “Immediately after the dis­tress of those days ” ‘the sun will be dark­ened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heav­en­ly bod­ies will be shak­en.’ 30 “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man com­ing on the clouds of the sky, with pow­er and great glo­ry. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trum­pet call, and they will gath­er his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heav­ens to the other.

5. Matthew 24:14:And this gospel of the king­dom will be preached in the whole world as a tes­ti­mo­ny to all nations, and then the end will come.

6. Matthew 24:23 – 25:23 At that time if any­one says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and per­form great signs and mir­a­cles to deceive even the elect — if that were pos­si­ble. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.

7. Matthew 24:21 – 22:21 For then there will be great dis­tress, unequaled from the begin­ning of the world until now — and nev­er to be equaled again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would sur­vive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

8. Luke 21:23 – 24:23 How dread­ful it will be in those days for preg­nant women and nurs­ing moth­ers! There will be great dis­tress in the land and wrath against this peo­ple. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be tak­en as pris­on­ers to all the nations. Jerusalem will be tram­pled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted

The LORD is my shep­herd; I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of right­eous­ness for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the val­ley of the shad­ow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they com­fort me.

You pre­pare a table before me
in the pres­ence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely good­ness and mer­cy shall fol­low me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for­ev­er.

Fear not, for I am with you, be not dis­mayed, for I am your God; I will strength­en you; I will help you; I will uphold you with My vic­to­ri­ous right hand.
Isaiah 41.:10

We believe that Jesus died and rose again; and so it will be for those who have died in Christ. God will raise them to be with the Lord for­ev­er. Comfort one anoth­er with these words. 1 Thess. 4:14, 17 – 18.

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, says the Spirit. They will rest from their labors, and their deeds fol­low them. 
Rev. 14:13

1. Jesus said, “Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.” — John 16:22
2. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. — Luke 6:21.