The Judgment to Come

  
"And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" -Luke 12:16-20


There is much confusion and perhaps even a lack of teaching, including inside of the church of the judgements described in scripture, and I hope this quick study will help...and perhaps lead to your further and continued study on this extremely important topic. -W.E. 


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By Pastor Cornelius Stam

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled…” (Acts 24:25).

Judgment to come is stated in Scripture to be one of the first “principles” of its doctrine (Heb. 6:1,2). We live in a day, however, when this fact is held in general disregard and often made light of. Few men tremble, as Felix did, at the thought of judgment to come, probably because few men preach it as Paul did.
Even believers, failing to understand Paul’s great message of grace, too often think of God only as a Being of infinite love, who gave His Son to die for man, forgetting that it was His very justice that demanded so terrible a price for sin and that the flames of the Lake of Fire are but the expression of His righteous indignation at man’s rejection of His love and grace. Believers are also prone to put the mildest possible construction upon those passages which deal with the coming judgment of their conduct as Christians, as though it were nothing more than a joyous handing out of rewards at the close of life’s race.

GOD THE SUPREME JUDGE

That God is, among other things, the great Judge of all and acts in that capacity is the consistent testimony of Scripture.
In Genesis 18:25 He is called “the Judge of all the earth,” in Judges 11:27, “the Lord, the Judge” and in Psalm 9:7 we read: “He hath prepared His throne for judgment.” Paul, by inspiration, calls Him, “the Lord, the righteous Judge” and “God, the Judge of all” (II Tim. 4:8; Heb. 12:23). And in this connection he warns that “it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb. 10:31).

DIRECT JUDGMENT COMMITTED TO THE SON

It is not God the Father, however, but God the Son, who will have direct charge of the future judgment of mankind. The Apostle John, by the Spirit, records our Lord’s own words as to this:

“For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son” (John 5:22).
“And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the ¹Son of man” (John 5:27).

This is reasonable, for as Son of God and Son of man, our Lord has both the right and the qualifications to judge men.
Thus Peter declared to Cornelius and his household that it is Christ who was “ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead” (Acts 10:42). And Paul adds his confirmation to this, declaring that God “hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained” (Acts 17:31). Again in II Timothy 4:1, he refers to “the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead.” Even the judgment at which the service and conduct of believers will be dealt with, he twice calls “the judgment seat of Christ” (Rom. 14:10; II Cor. 5:10).

THE COMING “DAY OF JUDGMENT”

There are various judgments to be distinguished from that “judgment to come” of which Paul reasoned with Felix. There is, for example, the judgment of the world at Calvary—God laying the sins of the world upon Christ (John 12:31). There is also the judgment of the believer’s old nature in his death with Christ (Rom. 6:2,3), the believer’s judgment of himself (I Cor. 11:31), etc. Then too, there will be a future judgment on earth of Israel and the living nations (Matt. 24:27-25:46). But beyond all these, ²there still lies a judgment for sins which will take place after the present life is over, except for those whose sins have already been dealt with by grace through the vicarious death of Christ.
It is of mankind in general that the Apostle Paul declares:

“It is appointed unto men once to die, but AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT” (Heb. 9:27).

Thus our Lord referred to “the day of judgment” as something beyond His premillennial judgment of the living nations, for “in that day,” He said, it will be more tolerable for the people of the land of Sodom (who had long since died) than for His rejectors (Matt. 10:15).
Again, He evidently referred to the same judgment when He said: “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in THE DAY OF JUDGMENT” (Matt. 12:36).
Peter also declares that God will “reserve the unjust unto THE DAY OF JUDGMENT to be punished” and refers further to “THE DAY OF JUDGMENT and perdition of ungodly men” (II Pet. 2:9; 3:7).

NONE CAN ESCAPE GOD’S JUDGMENT

In Genesis 18:25, God is called “the Judge of all the earth” and in Hebrews 12:23, “the Judge of all.” Again, in Romans 3:6, Paul states that God will “judge the world.” The fact that believers have already been judged in Christ only emphasizes the fact that none who have not thus been judged will escape the judgment to come—that all are subject to God’s righteous judgment.
Some Annihilationists deny that there will be a resurrection of the unsaved dead, and argue that therefore they cannot by judged. Other Annihilationists, if they carried their arguments for the “destruction” of the unsaved to their logical conclusions, would have to say the same. But if the Scriptures are clear on anything, it is the fact that there will be a resurrection of the “unjust” as well as of the “just” (Acts 24:15). Indeed, our Lord distinctly stated that “they that have done evil” will “come forth” in “the resurrection of damnation [Lit., judgment]” (John 5:29).
Our Lord is repeatedly called “the Judge of the quick [living] and the dead” (Acts 10:42; II Tim. 4:1; I Pet. 4:5) and, as we have seen, “the judgment” appointed for mankind, apart from Christ, is to take place after death (Heb. 9:27).
Let no man, therefore, entertain the unfounded hope that he can reject the Savior and yet escape being judged for his sins. If God could save even one soul on the grounds of His compassion alone, apart from the death of Christ, He could save all on the same grounds, and the death of Christ would then prove to have been the greatest blunder, yea, the greatest crime ever committed.
Let self-righteous Christ-rejectors, then, ponder soberly over the words of the Spirit through Paul: “Thinkest thou…that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?” (Rom. 2:3).

BELIEVERS ALREADY JUDGED FOR THEIR SINS

As we have intimated, all true believers will escape this judgment for sins, since their sins have already been dealt with on the Cross and they now stand before God “justified from all things” (Acts 13:39), “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph. 1:6), and “complete in Him” (Col. 2:10).
It is true that “it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,” but this passage in its entirety has an encouraging message for the believer:

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment;
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin ³unto salvation” (Heb. 9:27,28).

Hence we read in John 3:18 that “He that believeth on Him is not condemned [judged]” and in John 5:24: “He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation [judgment] but is passed from death unto life” and again in Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation [judgment] to them which are in Christ Jesus.” ⁴

THE GREAT WHITE THRONE

“And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Rev. 20:11-15).

This judgment, which we have already referred to, stands between the passing of the present heaven and earth and the appearance of the new heaven and earth. It is the judgment at which all the remaining dead—all the unsaved dead—will stand before God the Son to answer for their sins.
Terrible as it is to contemplate, it is the final judgment of the ages. In the words of Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, it is “the last word of a holy God respecting sin and all unrighteousness” (Systematic Theology, Vol. IV, P. 412).

NOT A GENERAL JUDGMENT OF ALL

Those who believe that the judgment at the great white throne is to be a “general judgment” of all men have confused it with the judgment of the living nations described by our Lord in Matthew 25:31-46. But these two judgments cannot possibly be the same. In our Lord’s description of the judgment of the living nations, sheep, goats and brethren are referred to, the judgment is held on earth and treatment of the Jew is the issue, while, by comparison, the judgment at the great white throne concerns only the unsaved, the earth will have fled away, and all sinful works will be dealt with. Further, there could be no resurrection at the judgment of the living nations, while men are raised from the dead to stand before the great white throne.
Nor does the idea of a general resurrection and judgment stand the Berean test any better in the light of other related Scriptures.
It is true that we read in Daniel 12:2 that “some” shall awake “to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,” and in Acts 24:15 that “there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust,” but neither of these passages say that the resurrection and judgment of the saved and of the unsaved will occur at the same time. They merely state that both will be raised and judged.
Isaiah 61:2,3 contains a prediction concerning “the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God” in one sentence, but by closing the book after reading only the former phrase, in Nazareth’s synagogue, our Lord made it abundantly clear that these were not to occur simultaneously. The former phrase concerned the day in which He spoke, but the latter concerned a future day. Indeed, we now know that “the day of vengeance” did not even follow immediately after “the acceptable year of the Lord.” ⁵ So it is with the two passages above referred to. They merely say that both the just and the unjust will be raised and judged, but other Scriptures must be consulted for further light as to details of time, etc.
Our Lord’s words in John 5:28,29 already indicate that only “they that have done evil” will arise in “the resurrection of damnation” and that this is thus to be distinguished from “the resurrection of life.”
Should it be objected that our Lord spoke of an “hour” in this connection (Ver. 28), we reply that in Verse 25 He also spoke of an “hour” both coming and then present—an hour which has already lasted more than nineteen hundred years. The language is clearly idiomatic in both cases.
Furthermore, how could there be a general resurrection and judgment when I Corinthians 15:22-24 gives us a definite order of successive resurrections, when I Thessalonians 4:16-18 speaks of a resurrection in which only “the dead in Christ” shall have part, and when Revelation 20:5 speaks of a “first [Lit., former] resurrection” to take place before the millennium and states that “the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished”?

THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF THE UNSAVED DEAD

The great white throne is clearly the final judgment of the unsaved dead. Its purpose, however, is not to determine the guilt of those who stand before it—this was established long before—but rather to manifest sin and deal with it finally, for the fire of the lake of fire has already been kindled in hades. Thus the rich man in hades spoke of being “tormented in this flame” and sought to save his brothers from “this place of torment.” This also explains in what sense “death and [hades]” will be cast into the lake of fire.
Indeed, while “gehenna” is spoken of as synonymous with the lake of fire, our Lord frequently speaks as though His hearers will, if rebellious, be cast into its flames at death—this, simply because the fire has already been kindled. Hence His warnings regarding “gehenna” (Matt. 5:29,30; 10:28; etc.), “everlasting fire” (Matt. 25:41), and “the fire that never shall be quenched” (Mark 9:43-49).

The Scene Described

What could be more terrible to contemplate than the final judgment of the ungodly, where the Son of God, who loved men enough to die in shame and disgrace for their sins, must deal righteously with those who have refused to call upon His name; where sinners will be made to appear before the august majesty of Him who occupies the great white throne where their long-hidden sins will be exposed to the white light of His holiness!

The Throne, Its Occupant and Those Who Stand Before It

The throne is called “great” evidently because of the vastness of its jurisdiction. There the billions of earth’s unsaved will be gathered, from every age of history and every nation of the world.
It is called a “white” throne because its dazzling brilliance will not, like human courts, be sullied by partiality, dishonesty or cruelty. It will be a throne of perfect and absolute justice.
But if the throne is great and dazzling, more so its Occupant. He is not described. He cannot be, for He appears in the infinite glory of His eternal Godhead and, from His face, the earth and heaven flee away and no place is found for them. If only the multitudes before Him could also flee away, but they cannot. He holds the central place and claims the undivided attention of all. Here, at last, sinners will find themselves exposed to the searching gaze of Him who is “of purer eyes than to behold evil” and who “canst not look on iniquity.” Here, finally, their sins will be manifested in their true light as utterly accursed and worthy only of the most dreadful retribution. At first it may appear that there are no witnesses. But the Great Witness is on the throne. A second is in every man’s heart, a third in every neighbor’s face, and all the evidence is in the “books.”
The throne of Revelation 4:2-6 and its Occupant are surrounded by a rainbow of promise, but not so here, for here there will no longer be any hope—only condemnation and doom.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God” (20:12).

There they stand, the highest, who once presumed that their riches or learning or worldly prestige placed them in a position of special privilege—and the lowest, who confused sin with misfortune and supposed that God would not hold such as them accountable. There they stand, the small and the great, now all on the same level, to answer to Him who is no respecter of persons.

The Books and the Book

“And the books were opened… and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Ver. 12).

This can mean but one thing: Complete records have been kept of man’s works. How? Of what sort? For one thing, modern science has discovered that nothing in nature is lost, whether sound or light or motion. Throw a stone into a pond and its ripples travel out to the edge and back endlessly, smaller as they go, but also faster, and leaving their impact upon all that with which they come into contact. Light and sound also keep traveling endlessly into space and are woven into the very texture of things. Whether we like it or not, the words we say are recorded and the proper instruments could pick them up. Edison learned this and Joshua was doubtless more scientifically correct than he knew when he said to the children of Israel:

“Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us, for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which He spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God” (Josh. 24:27).

Let mechanical sound and photo recordings perish, but God will still have a journal of every man’s career in the imperishable record of nature, and also a record, of whatever kind, of the hidden thoughts and motives. The sinner’s biography will be exact and complete, with abundant and overwhelming proof of his guilt.
At the great white throne, the vast library will be opened to scrutiny, to memory, to conscience, and the wicked will be judged according to its perfect record.

The Basis of the Judgment

“The day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel” (Rom. 2:16).

How just are the judgments of God!
Referring here, evidently, to the judgment of the unbelieving at the great white throne, the Apostle Paul points out the reasonableness and righteousness of that judgment. Let us consider this passage carefully.
“God shall judge the secrets of men.” In human courts there are frequently miscarriages of justice because all the facts are not brought to light. At the great white throne this will not be so. On the throne will be the One before whom no secret can remain hidden.

“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Heb. 4:13).

“God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.” This too has been done so that the judgment might by wholly just. Were the Judge God alone, and not also man, it might be objected that such judgment could hardly be fair, but, as it is, men will be judged at the great white throne by One who loved them enough to become one of them that He might understand them, help them, yea, and die for their sins to save them.
“…according to my gospel.” But how, it may be asked, can it be just to judge men of bygone ages on the basis of a message which they have never heard? If it is true that Paul’s gospel was “kept secret since the world began” (Rom. 16:25) until made known to him by the glorified Lord, how can it be just to judge men of all ages according to his gospel?
The answer is that in the Pauline revelation we have the very “[secret] of the gospel” (Eph. 6:19)—that is, the secret of all God’s good news down through the ages. It has now been revealed how—on what basis—Abel, Noah, David and other Old Testament saints were saved; that, because Christ was to die, they could be saved by approaching God by faith in the way that He then prescribed. Thus when mere professors of the Mosaic dispensation, for example, appear before the great white throne, they will not be judged for imperfections in the sacrifices they offered, or technicalities in the Mosaic law which they failed to observe. They will be judged because their sacrifices and religious works were not offered to God in faith. The works for which men are to be judged at that great day will merely be the fruit and evidence of their unbelief, whether “good” works or bad works.
Suppose God, at that day, should judge men on the basis of the law of Moses rather than on the basis of the gospel of the grace of God. No one but Christ has ever been able to keep the law of Moses. How then would it be just to hold men accountable for that which they cannot possibly attain to? The only sense in which the law will enter into the judgment of the unsaved who lived from Moses to Christ is that man’s response to the revealed will of God is ever the evidence of his faith or unbelief, obedience or rebellion (Rom. 2:11-15).
This is why the judgment of the great white throne will proceed on the basis of the good news proclaimed by Paul, that, because of the death of Christ for sin, salvation is, and always has been, essentially by grace, through faith—that never in any age has salvation been denied to one single person who has taken God at His Word and approached Him in His way.
Among the unsaved, of course, there are still degrees of wickedness. Thus, while the phrase “every man” of Revelation 20:13 indicates that there will be no respect of persons at the great white throne, the phrase “according to his works” indicates that the sentence will not be an arbitrary one; that the penalty will be graded to transgression and responsibility. This would agree with such passages as Matthew 11:20-24 and Luke 12:47,48. Indeed, the books will be opened so that each man may see for himself what he did and acknowledge the judgment to be just.

Notes:

1. The definite article does not appear in the original. ↩
2. We do not believe that the sentence of Matthew 25:41 constitutes the final judgment of the enemies of Israel. ↩
3. Lit., “apart from sin,” i.e., apart from the sin question. ↩
4. The rest of the verse in A.V. is an interpolation. It belongs at the end of Verse 4, where it also appears. ↩
5. See the author’s booklet, Now is the Time. ↩ 
   

Mystery! Are Two Men Disposing of Bloodied Corpses on Google Maps? (Video)

What do you see? Is this human remains being dumped or is it some sort of an animal? Are we witnessing a murder scene? Thoughts?

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Powerful Earthquake : 6.9 Earthquake Strikes off the Coast of Northern California Near Eureka (Video)

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EUREKA, Calif. –  A powerful magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of Northern California, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no danger of a tsunami, officials said.
The temblor struck at 9:18 p.m. PDT and was centered 50 miles west of Eureka and about four miles beneath the Pacific seabed, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was followed by about a half-dozen aftershocks, including one of magnitude 4.6.
There were no reports of any damages or injuries though the quake was felt widely and strongly, according sheriff's and fire officials in Humboldt County, which includes most of the populated areas near the epicenter.
The National Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami danger for the region.
More than 1,000 people reported feeling the earthquake on the USGS website. Many reported a long, rolling shake that some said woke children or knocked items off shelves.
Jana Pursley, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center, said that based on the area's tectonics and past temblors, damages or casualties were unlikely.
Earthquakes are very common in Eureka, a city of about 27,000 people about 270 miles northwest of San Francisco and 100 miles south of the Oregon state line. Nearby Arcata is home to about 17,000 people and Humboldt State University.
The area had a magnitude-5.6 earthquake in February, 2012 that did not cause serious damages or injuries.
An offshore magnitude-6.5 quake struck offshore in 2010 and caused bumps and cuts among residents and broke glass in some buildings, but it was about 25 miles closer to land than Sunday nights quake.

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Lost Alien Technology: Are the Pyramids Found in Crimea the Reason for a Coming WWIII?

Crimea Pyramid

Is this also the reason why we went into Iraq? 

-Star Gate Found in IraqThe Real Reason We Went to War

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As we saw previously with Hitler’s quest to search for Atlantis and the Holy Grail–modern oligarchs also seek ancient lost technologies buried by events of the past

By Shepard Ambellas

CRIMEA (INTELLIHUB) — Based on reports out of the region, in August of 2012, Vitalii Gokh, a local scientist, discovered the world’s oldest pyramid found to have been built during the era of dinosaurs.  Although the discovery was made by mistake as Gokh was merely scouting for water, with an invention of his that defines various underground compounds, clues to an entire new realm were opened.
Interestingly enough, the underground pyramid, which measures to be about 147 feet in height and 236 feet across at the base, is also said to contain the mummified remains of an unknown humanoid creature only measuring about 4′–6″ in height.
Reports also state that Gokh helped located 37 other pyramids that exist on the Crimea peninsula near Sevastopol, that are said to have been constructed 65 million years ago, suggesting that a previous civilization may have been wiped out by a massive meteor impact as scientists have always speculated.
It has also been reported that the structures are giving off very specific frequencies, 3 of them. In fact, ForUm reported back in July of 2006 in a piece titled “Scientists to dig mysterious pyramids in Sevestopol”:
“We found extremely strong formation, which includes animal protein, gypsum, liquid glass, gravel. It is a man-caused pyramid, which radiates specific energy in certain periods, “Vitaly Gokh narrated.

Ihor Kotelyanets, aid of the head of Sevastopol national university of nuclear energy and industry, together with enthusiasts decided to confirm or refute the discovery.
More than 20 commissions, including international ones, have visited the place recently. 
Could this be the reason for the recent political and mass militarized mobilizations in and around Crimea?

World Bank WhistleBlower Exposes the Global Puppet Masters (Illuminati), the Biblical Nephilim (Seed of the Serpent) at the Core of the Illuminati!

In an article I blogged about (and still highly recommend) entitled "World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World" I was then introduced by this enthralling woman who spoke words of validation regarding the mere fact that there are an elite that are ruling the world, and it isn't Barack Obama.  I commented in that article that although I found Hudes "refreshing" I also found her naive.  In this more recent interview I again found her interesting, and once again theologically naive and likely influenced by New Age information.  But I do believe the big picture of what she says here, at the top of the NWO ladder are entities that are not human.  No, not at all.

Please also see: DNA Results For Nephilim Skulls In Peru Are In And Results Are Absolutely Shocking

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To all those who insists I am wrong about the Nephilim, the seed of the serpent, the Satanic bloodlines at the heart of the Satanic cabal ruling the world, listen to what Karen Hudes, Ex. World Bank lawyer, whistleblower has to say:
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Quotes from 2 minutes 10 seconds onwards: (Emphasis mine)
“the elite, secret societies .. the Vatican .. they are traitors to humanity! … the one at the very core that’s pulling the strings is a different species! They’re not the human race! They’re called ‘homo-compenses’! They have been on earth together with humanity for before this ice age … “
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“One of the people in that (whistleblower) network is a neurologist who went to Yale medical school. … He was trying to find out what was at the very core of this corruption. [Question:] You mentioned this species, additional species of humans .. [Answer:] No they’re not human. They are so distinct from humans that if they were to mate with humans their offspring would not be fertile!”

 

Huge Cigar UFO Filmed Flying Over Ukraine!

 

Cigar shaped UFO over Brazil 2011

Here is another from Levelland Texas, 1957

Over Russia, 2013

How much aircraft technology do some of the governments of the world have that we don't know about?

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Massive Dinosaur Soft Tissue Discovery In China – Includes Skin And Feathers!

 
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A fossil bed in China that is being called “Jurassic Park” has yielded perhaps the greatest dinosaur soft tissue discovery of all time.  
According to media reports, “nearly-complete skeletons” have been discovered that even include skin and feathers.  But of course if these dinosaurs are really “160 million years old”, that should be absolutely impossible.  Needless to say, this shocking discovery is once again going to have paleontologists scrambling to find a way to prop up the popular myths that they have been promoting.  What they have been telling us simply does not fit the facts.  The truth is that this latest find is even more evidence that dinosaurs are far, far younger than we have traditionally been taught.
Once upon a time, scientists believed that it would be impossible to find anything other than the hardened fossilized remains of extinct dinosaurs.  And if those dinosaurs really were millions of years old, those scientists would have been 100% correct.  But instead, we are now starting to find dinosaur soft tissue all over the place.  The following is an excerpt from a recent Daily Mail article about this new discovery in China…

Almost more impressive than the diversity of the biota is the preservation of many of the vertebrate specimens, according to the study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology.
Fossils include complete or nearly-complete skeletons associated with preserved soft tissues such as feathers, fur, skin or even, in some of the salamanders, external gills.
One is the feathered dinosaur Epidexipteryx whose soft tissues have been revealed by the use of ultraviolet light scanners.
A fossil of the salamander Chunerpeton shows not only the preserved skeleton but also its skin and external gills.

Wow.
Hopefully scientists in the west will get a chance to closely examine these soft tissue samples.
Prior to 1991, you would have been laughed out of the room if you had suggested that we might dig up the soft tissue of dinosaurs someday.
But all of that changed when Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University, did something that was absolutely unthinkable.  The following comes from an article in Smithsonian Magazine…

In 1991, Schweitzer was trying to study thin slices of bones from a 65-million-year-old T. rex. She was having a hard time getting the slices to stick to a glass slide, so she sought help from a molecular biologist at the university. The biologist, Gayle Callis, happened to take the slides to a veterinary conference, where she set up the ancient samples for others to look at. One of the vets went up to Callis and said, “Do you know you have red blood cells in that bone?” Sure enough, under a microscope, it appeared that the bone was filled with red disks. Later, Schweitzer recalls, “I looked at this and I looked at this and I thought, this can’t be. Red blood cells don’t preserve.”
Schweitzer showed the slide to Horner. “When she first found the red-blood-cell-looking structures, I said, Yep, that’s what they look like,” her mentor recalls. He thought it was possible they were red blood cells, but he gave her some advice: “Now see if you can find some evidence to show that that’s not what they are.”
What she found instead was evidence of heme in the bones—additional support for the idea that they were red blood cells. Heme is a part of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the blood and gives red blood cells their color. “It got me real curious as to exceptional preservation,” she says.

Posted below is an excerpt from a 60 Minutes video report about her remarkable discovery…

Of course since that time, many others have also dug up dinosaur soft tissue.  At this point, more than thirty specimens have been discovered and tested, and the specimens have come from an impressive array of various dinosaurs…

The dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures that have yielded their biological material are hadrosaur, titanosaur, ornithomimosaur [ostrich-like dinosaurs], mosasaur, triceratops, Lufengosaurs, T. rex, and Archaeopteryx.

When Schweitzer originally made her discovery public, she was viciously attacked by other evolutionists who insisted that finding dinosaur soft tissue that was millions of years old was absolutely impossible.
And those evolutionists were right.
If the dinosaurs were really that old it would be impossible.
But now sample after sample and test after test have proven without a shadow of a doubt that we really are digging up dinosaur soft tissue.
Schweitzer and other paleontologists that are desperate to prop up their existing theories are now suggesting that “iron in the blood” could have preserved the soft tissue that we are finding for all of these millions of years.
If you believe that laughable theory, I have a bridge to sell you.
But there are a lot of people out there that are so desperate to keep believing their flawed version of “the truth” that they are actually buying it.
If you are interested in more of the technical details of this theory, you can find a more detailed explanation right here.
And of course it is not just soft tissue that scientists have to account for…

It is not just dinosaur soft tissue, either, but the presence of detectable proteins such as collagen, hemoglobin, osteocalcin, actin, and tubulin that they must account for. These are complex molecules that continually tend to break down to simpler ones.
Not only that, but in many cases, there are fine details of the bone matrix, with microscopically intact-looking bone cells (osteocytes) showing incredible detail. And Schweitzer has even recovered fragments of the even more fragile and complex molecule, DNA. This has been extracted from the bone cells with markers indicating its source such that it is extremely likely to be dinosaur DNA.

In this case, I think that it would be very appropriate to apply Occam’s razor.  The reason why we are finding dinosaur bones with soft tissue in them is because they simply are not very old.
And when we carbon date dinosaur bones, it tells us the exact same thing.
Due to the rate that it decays, there should be absolutely no measurable radioactive carbon left in anything that was once living that is greater than 100,000 years old.
So there should be absolutely no measurable radioactive carbon in dinosaur bones.
But instead, that is precisely what we find.  Here is one example…

“In June of 1990, Hugh Miller submitted two dinosaur bone fragments to the Department of Geosciences at the University in Tucson, Arizona for carbon-14 analysis. One fragment was from an unidentified dinosaur. The other was from an Allosaurus excavated by James Hall near Grand Junction, Colorado in 1989. Miller submitted the samples without disclosing the identity of the bones. (Had the scientists known the samples actually were from dinosaurs, they would not have bothered dating them, since it is assumed dinosaurs lived millions of years ago—outside the limits of radiocarbon dating.) Interestingly, the C-14 analysis indicated that the bones were from 10,000-16,000 years old—a far cry from their alleged 60-million-year-old age.”

And the truth is that radioactive carbon is being found in dinosaur bones that have been excavated all over the planet…

Real Science Radio interviewed a scientist returning from the American Geophysical Union’s conference in Singapore where his international team presented results from five respected laboratories documenting significant quantities of Carbon 14 in bones from ten dinosaurs excavated from Alaska, Europe, Texas, Montana, and China’s Gobi Desert.

Additional evidence for the young age of dinosaurs comes from the fact that we find very accurate depictions of dinosaurs in ancient artwork all over the planet.  This is something that I covered in my previous article entitled “Why Does Ancient Art Contain Depictions Of Flying Aircraft, Helicopters And Dinosaurs?”
Considering the fact that we only started digging up dinosaurs a couple hundred years ago, how did those ancient people know what they looked like?
That is something to think about.
I realize that this article is going to directly challenge things that a lot of people have believed all of their lives.
But we are never going to get anywhere if we just have blind faith in whatever the system tells us to believe.
It pays to question everything and to allow logic and reason to lead us to the truth.

Raw Footage, "The Cup and Sword that Intoxicates the Nations": Saudi Arabia Taking Delivery of THOUSANDS of Armored Vehicles

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The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah prophesied about a “cup and a sword” that would be sent out to all the nations of the world in the Last Days, to intoxicate them into a madness, and bring them down against the city of Jerusalem. This “cup of fury” or “cup of trembling” (Isaiah 51:17) is God’s way of drawing a line in the sand, in defense of his Holy name, and of his Holy city. This cup of fury (filled with abominations) will cause the sword to be sent to all the powerful nations of the earth, and to geo-politically entice them into the great controversy over Zion, a controversy that is caused to swirl in the end-times by the Kings of Arabia, and the burdensome conflict over Israel.

   

"For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me"

- Jeremiah 25:15-17

"To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert"

-Jeremiah 25:18-24

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In History and Geography 

Askelon, Azzah, Ekron, and Ashdod were cities of ancient Philistia that make up today’s Palestine. Edom, Ammon and Moab were peoples of north and southern Idumaea that make up today’s kingdom of Jordan. Dedan was of Cush, or Northeastern Africa and Arabia, Tema, a son of Ishmael made up Egypt and Arabia, while Buz, a son of Nahor represented Mesopotamia. Zimri was an Arabian tribe that still represents the Arabian Peninsula. The Medes (Elam) make up today’s modern state of Iran, and Sheshak makes up Babylon. The kings of Tyrus and Zidon make up Lebanon. Uz was the son of Aram, and made up the land of Mt. Seir, and a nation of people that hated Israel.

The Wine Cup

But it is Jerusalem that is the wine cup of God’s fury. It is a cup of fury that has been filling up for centuries! Jerusalem is the city chosen by Jehovah for his name, and yet Israel became enamored of the gods about her and abandoned Jehovah and allowed the holy city to become a harlot. Therefore God has allowed Jerusalem to be trodden down not only of Gentile rulers, but also of pagan gods. Allah (Islam) has laid a claim not only upon Mecca and Medina (Arabia) but also upon Jerusalem, making Jerusalem the bone of contention and controversy between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

    Utilizing the prophet Jeremiah, God is forecasting the 70 year subjection of Israel known as the Babylonian Captivity, but the prophecy peers far out beyond that era to a later time when God would permit (send) a sword from the Arabian lands to the powers in the north, far and near, even unto the kings of the whole earth to entice them into the Valley of Decision scenario depicted by Joel, and the event that we modern eschatologists refer to as Armageddon. (Zechariah 122-3; Joel 3:14; Revelation 16:14-19, 19:18-19) That sword is shown as having its rise in Arabia, among the descendants of the ancient tribes mentioned in verses 18-24. These kings and lands make up modern states of Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula. That sword is likely interpreted to be the religion of fundamentalist Islam. Islam is symbolized world-wide by the sword, and most nations under Islam utilize the sword as its banner.

 

Ezekiel’s Prophecy Concerning Arabia

  Ezekiel 38 and 39 probably is referring to the Saudi kingdom in his prophecy about the Russian invasion of Israel. Ezekiel 38:13 pictures Sheba and Dedan asking of Russia; (Ezekiel 38:13 Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?) Very clearly, the American umbrella of protection-alliance for Saudi Arabia has been removed at this later point in history! (late-tribulation)

    Ezekiel 38:8-13 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, (Israel) and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: (nuclear war?) And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, and Dedan, (Saudi Arabia) and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? (oil perhaps?) hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Excerpts from "Focus on Jerusalem"-