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One's view of the role of human government does not necessarily reflect their view of God's governance or moral law.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney was for abortion rights in the first part of his career. Though he's reversed his decision, I don't see an objection to that stance on a legal level. It's his view of the role of government -- though Romney himself believes abortions to be immoral and wrong. I personally support anti-abortion legislation, but it's quite irrelevant. It amazes me how much people combine politics to faith. It's part of our problems in the church. Quit listening to Limbaugh and O'Reily and get back to the words of Jesus. |
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I was living on the Mississippi in the early 90s. There was a lot of concern that New Madrid would have another big quake, and the damage that it would do, even 200-300 miles away, in river towns.
Where I grew up, about 100 miles from the fault (St. Louis area), I remember tremors that would make hanging lights swing gently. None did major damage. The longer a fault is silent or quiet, the more comfortable people get with it. We all tend to have a mentality, when it comes to dangerous natural phenomena, that "it won't happen to me". Even when the scientists warn us that it is coming. Scientists had been warning Haiti for at least two years. Of course, many of their people, living on less than $6000/year gross income, couldn't have prepared adequately, in a physical sense, if they'd tried. |
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It is odd that throughout the course of history, religious people have been getting it wrong. The religious have been the greatest tool to harm others. Who for the most part were ignorant and totally ignorant of their "so-called" charges of making a pact with the devil. First off, no one makes a league with Satan, because you are either going towards God, or away from God. All the hoo doo voo doo and Anton Szandor LaVey’s church of Satan is mumbo jumbo. Can it attract unclean spirits? But of course, the same way looking at porno on the internet can attract unclean spirits. Yet, making a pact with Satan is total theatrics, and reminds me of a bad B movie, or the Salem Witch Trials. Let’s take for instance the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials got their start when a West Indian slave by the name of Tituba was amusing some of the young girls of Salem village with her stories of her ancient Indian religion. When Puritan religion slammed headlong into ancient tribal religions, it became a powder keg. Where religious imaginations ran wild, and young imaginative Puritan girls became the keepers of life and death. At the end about 33 people died (including a infant, who died in prison) this insanity left Dorcas Good a four year old accused of witchcraft to spend a year chained in prison. Did a four year old, make a pact with the devil? Was a little girl in fellowship with Satan? The high and lofty, arm chair theologians of that time thought so. Not everything is the devil, and not everything is God’s judgement. When God rains down His wrath, no one is left standing, the only thing left is a greasy spot. Today I talked with a few precious Brothers and one Sister in particular who is very dear to my family. With tears in her eyes she told me of her losses, and what she said is what all the Brothers said. Jesus knows all about it. These people aren’t Satan worshipers, these Brothers aren't cutting the heads off of chickens, and pouring the blood over each other’s heads, and spitting rum in the air. These are Holy Ghost filled hard working people who love Jesus, and love their families. People are dead, husbands, wives, aunties, children of all ages, are dead. One Brother took a walk with me, and asked me if God hates the Haitian people and his country. He started to run off a list of all the corruption, crime, kidnaping, prostitution, the huge destruction from tropical storms and hurricanes. I then asked him about Mexico, Columbia, Africa, Nicaragua, I asked if Haiti was more wicked than those places? I told him about the major corruption within the government of Greece and how it is the first of the EU states to declare bankruptcy, I asked, is Haiti more wicked than Greece? New Orleans? Weren’t there Apostolic Churches under water? Is Haiti more wicked than they? Lower Manhattan, is Haiti more wicked than Lower Manhattan? I told the Brother, that Jesus doesn’t want to beat you up, he wants to love you up. We love God, because He loved us first, not because He beat the snot out of us, and brought us to submission. I asked the Brother is everyone in Haiti living for God? He said, no. He informed me that his country turned their backs on God. I said do you live for God? Does your family members live for God? I asked how many people do you know personally, who love Jesus Christ in Haiti? He smiled. When Abraham asked God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham worked his way down from 50 good men, to 10 men. Now, this all before the blood of Jesus Christ, and the in filling of the Holy Ghost. If God is bringing in judgement with Sodom and Gomorrah proportions, don’t you think He would wipe them out as Sodom was? When God sends His sword upon the land, God sends a warning before the sword comes. He sends the watchmen to lift their voice like a trumpet. I have heard recently about individuals who had dreams, and visions, and other intuitive feelings how this disaster was told to them in the Spirit. I’m the kind of individual who doesn’t go for Monday morning Quarterbacks. So, unless the would-be prophets or prophetesses lifted their voice as a trumpet to more than a handful of people in Po-Dunk, then I suggest they save the showboating for someone who needs the entertainment. We here in America have it good, even if you live in a trailer in Kentucky, or a house in Florida. We are blessed, and we know it. Yet, the wicked prosper, and the wicked run our country, our media, our banks. While we sit at computers bathed in a peaceful world, and see tribulation rain down upon, people who either don’t have a clue, or do have a clue and happen to live on a fault line, we should consider, that Jesus is so merciful to those who pray thus, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men. Jesus rebuked James and John, when they wanted to call fire down from heaven to destroy a village in Samaria. They wanted to destroy this particular village because the PEOPLE rejected the Gospel message. Jesus informed these two zealous Apostles that He didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to SAVE THEM. John would later write from Patmos that he was a Brother in tribulation in the Kingdom, in the book of Acts we are told that through much tribulation we must enter into the Kingdom of God. Suffering and devastation is a fact of life, but now we have the Gospel preached to the poor, so they can have the strength to make it through that suffering and gain maturity. You know what one of my Haitian Brothers told me last year? He said Elder Benincasa, people come from Haiti and join American churches and backslide. What about that? How many Brothers, Sisters, and preachers I have met who came from third world countries who ended up either cooling off, or falling off. I stress strongly that I know men and women who stayed strong even while living in the middle of the bright lights and big city. Yet, how do others see us American Christians? Maybe the third worlders see the American Churches as the ones who made a pact with the devil? Mike, start calling Jesus by the name that was perserved by the Greek language 200 years before His birth, and lasted 2000 years after His death, burial and resurrection. The name where millions upon millions have been baptized in. In Jesus name Brother Benincasa www.OnTimeJournal.com |
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Historic Earthquakes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...1780_02_06.php Northwest Florida 1780 02 06 UTC Intensity VI Largest Earthquake in Florida Regimentals and arms racks fell from walls in many barracks; everything in the rooms was moved; doors were sprung. Chimneys were thrown together causing fires. Neighboring houses clashed together, and people buried in the ruins cried for help. This event occurred during a "fearful" storm that was accompanied by violent thunder and lightning and raging seas. Possibly a hurricane. |
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It is well appreciated. In Jesus name Brother Benincasa www.OnTimeJournal.com |
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It amazes me that people think you can separate your faith from politics or anything else in your life. I rarely ever listen to O'Reily and only catch Limbaugh, and Hanity when I have free time or happen to be in the car. So I miss them a lot also. But so far I have not heard them say anything that I don't pretty much agree with. For me, I can't say I am against killing innocent babies and then vote for someone that does agree it is okay/legal to kill them. That would be a hypocrited IMO. |
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Luk 13:1 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
Luk 13:2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? Luk 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luk 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? Luk 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. To me, this is Jesus making it clear that the catastrophe wasn't due to a punishment for sin--because we all deserve to die for our sins. |
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