More on World Population

No government of a country whose birthrate has fallen significantly below replacement has ever succeeded in once again achieving replacement rate fertility. Once the birthrate falls to what the U.N. Population Division calls “low low fertility,” no combination of government policies and subsidies appears sufficient to re-boost the birthrate.

http://www.lifenews.com/2007/05/21/int-293/

Former Yankees Ball Player charged with Sexual Abuse

A retired Yankees benchwarmer was arrested by Long Island cops, who busted him on charges of the sexual abuse of a child. Rosendo “Rusty” Torres, 63, allegedly victimized an 8-year-old girl he was coaching, law enforcement sources said. Torres was employed as a youth baseball coach and drove a van for the town of Oyster Bay, where the incidents took place, authorities said.

“The first incident involved inappropriate touching. In the second incident, there was contact but not actual sexual activity,” a law enforcement source said. After learning of Torres’ arrest, town officials suspended him without pay and cancelled all clinics he was set to conduct. ”As always, the town stands ready to cooperate fully with any and all law enforcement agencies in this matter,” the Town Supervisor John Venditto said.

A neighbor, Gus Galatatzis, said of Torres, “He’s such a well known, well-liked guy, I’m speechless. Rusty is such a friendly, outgoing guy, I pray to God it’s [the allegations] not true,” Galatatzis said.

This is what I want my readers to know.  This neighbor got it right.  Most child sexual abusers are very likable people, very friendly and outgoing.  That’s how they catch these kids and their parents off guard.  Everybody thinks their great guys until their child is hurt, and those whose children aren’t hurt don’t believe the stories.  And before you know it, there’s a long line of children who are hurt for life!

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/former_yankees_player_busted_for_XAwIQMhmNcbi0hp6YlObeM#ixzz1vnhHWoVp

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The BIBLE SAYS if you vote for a democrat….

The BIBLE SAYS if you vote for a democrat and were to die thereafter you would go to hell

This is not meant to be emotional or inflammatory, it is simply stating a fact and to warn.

The Bible does say that if a person votes for a democrat (the promoters and supporters of sin) and were to die without repenting of that, he or she is going to hell.

I think this is an important message for blacks and hispanics who think they are Christians and who don’t want to offend God but who vote lock step for democrats.

2Thess. 2:12, says that if a pro-gay marriage person were to die today with that stance, they would not go to Heaven. “Then everyone who did not believe the truth, but was delighted with what God disapproves of, will be condemned.” And one way that a person expresses that delight is: how they vote … especially if it’s for a candidate who supports gay marriage or any other sin.

Romans 1:32, “Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things* deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.” And one way we approve is by how we vote. (* “such things” are in the rest of Romans 1:18-31 – e.g. homosexuality, lesbianism, strife, deceit, slander [political sound bites], gossips, idol worshippers, God-haters, atheists – all primarily attributes of liberals.)

Read the rest here http://conservativebyte.com/2012/05/the-bible-says-if-you-vote-for-a-democrat-and-were-to-die-thereafter-you-would-go-to-hell/

To Find Peace and Salvation with God

Please see this short video on the Billy Graham website

http://www.billygraham.org/specialsections/Graffiti/Graffiti.asp

Homosexuality is Wrong before God

Homosexuality is wrong before God.  We are not to be hateful to them, but we can’t say that this behavior does not have devastating consequences both to them and our country if allowed to be the law of the land.

Last week, the President of the United States of America called his people to outright rebellion against the Word and will of Almighty God. Did your minister say anything about it this week?

Coming out of the Closet

Is AIDS the Judgment of God

 

Read the rest at

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1598066

 

 

Isaiah 55-60

Austria, Vienna, St. Charles’s Church The Tetragrammaton Yahweh intended to be pronounced Adonai (see File:Tetragrammaton-related-Masoretic-vowel-points.png). From the window above the main altar in Karlskirche on the south side of Karlsplatz, Vienna. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

55[1-5] Look, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and those who have no money; come, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what isn’t food? and work for what doesn’t satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what’s good, and let your soul enjoy itself in goodness. Listen to Me, and come to Me; hear, and your soul will live and I’ll make an everlasting promise with you, as faithful as the promises I made to David. Look, I’ve given him as a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. Look, you’ll call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you will run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, who has made you great.

 

[6-13] Turn to Yahweh who can yet be found; call out to God who is near. Give up your crooked ways and your evil thoughts, you sinners; Come back to Yahweh your God, who will have compassion; and to your God, who will forgive all your sins. My thoughts and ways aren’t like your thoughts and ways, says Yahweh. As the heavens are higher than the earth, My thoughts and ways are higher than your thoughts and ways. Rain and snow fall from the sky, and doesn’t go back there, until it waters the earth, and makes it bloom and bud, and gives you seed to plant, and food to eat; So it is with My word, which goes out of My mouth and doesn’t come back to Me without doing what I want it to, and It’ll prosper in whatever I sent it to do. You’ll go out with happiness, and be led with peace; the mountains and hills will break out in singing to you; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands. Instead of the thorn will come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree; and It’ll be to make Yahweh’s name well known, for an everlasting sign that won’t ever come to an end.

56[1 Yahweh says this, Keep justice, and do what’s right; for My saving grace is near to come, and My goodness is soon to be made known. Blessed is the one who does this, and the child of one who holds on to it; who keeps the Seventh Day from disrespecting it, and keeps from doing anything evil. Don’t let the foreigner, who follows Yahweh, say, Yahweh will, without a doubt, separate me from the people of God; and don’t let the emasculated say, Look, I am a withered tree that won’t produce fruit. Yahweh says this of the emasculated who keep My Seventh Days, and choose the things that please Me, and hold on to My promise; I’ll give to them in My House and within My walls a name to be remembered which is better than sons and daughters; I’ll give them an everlasting name, that won’t be cut off.

 

[6-8] Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to Me, and to love the Name of Yahweh, to be My workers, everyone who keeps from disrespecting the Seventh Day, and holds on to My promise, I’ll bring to My holy mountain, and make them happy in My House of Prayer. Their offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My House will be called a House of Prayer for all peoples. Yahweh God, who gathers the outcasts ofIsrael, says, I’ll gather others to Myself, besides My own who are gathered here.

 

[9-12] All you animals of the field, come and eat, yes, all you animals in the forest. My guards are all blind, and without knowledge; They’re all mute dogs, which can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to sleep. Yes, these dogs are greedy, and can never have enough; and these are preachers who can’t understand. They all go their own way, trying to get what they can for themselves. Come here, they say, I’ll get wine, and we’ll get drunk; and tomorrow will be like today, only better.

57[1-5] Good people die, and no one takes it to heart; and kindhearted ones are taken away, none thinking that they’re spared from the evil to come. Everyone who does what is right will rest in peace in their graves. But come here, you who do witchcraft, the children of those who are unfaithful. Of whom are you making fun? To whom are you sticking out your tongues? Aren’t you like disobedient children, you unfaithful liars? You have sex among yourselves under every green oak tree, worshiping your false gods; You kill your own children, sacrificing them in the valleys, and in the mountains!

 

[6-10] You’ve chosen the smooth stones of the valley as your gods; so that’s what you’ll get; You’ve even poured out a drink offering to them, and made your offering. Will I be quiet about these things? On a high and proud mountain you’ve made your bed and there you also went up to offer your child sacrifices. Behind the doors and the posts of your houses you’ve set up your memorials to your false gods, and you’ve been unfaithful with them, and have gone up to worship them; You’ve shared your bed, and made a promise to them, and you loved their bed when you saw it. You went to your false god Molech with oil, and put on more perfume, and sent messengers far away, and lowered yourself to the pits of Hell. You tired yourself out; yet you didn’t say, It’s for nothing! You found your strength and didn’t give up on them.

 

[11-14] Of whom have you been so afraid, that you lie, and haven’t remembered Me, nor kept My ways in your heart? Haven’t I held My peace a very long time, and you still don’t respect Me? I’ll tell you of your goodness; and as for what you’ve done, none of it will help you. When you cry, let those who you’ve been serving save you; but the wind will take them, a breath will carry them all away; but those whose safe haven is in Me will get the land, and will have My holy mountain. God says, Clear the way, clear the way, and move the rocks that My people trip over out of the way!

 

[15-21] For this says the high and proud One who lives in eternity, whose Name is Holy; I live in the high and holy place, with  those who are of a broken and depressed spirit, to revive the depressed spirit, and to revive the broken heart. For I won’t fight forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before Me, and the souls who I’ve made would die. For their sinful greed I was angry, and punished them; I hid My face and was angry; and they went on rebelling in their own ways. I’ve seen their ways, and will heal them.  I’ll lead them also, and give comfort to those who mourn. I create praise on the lips of My people. Peace, peace, to those who are far off and to those who are near, says Yahweh; and I’ll heal them. But sinners are like the troubled sea; which can’t rest, and its waters stir up sand and muck. There is no peace, says My God, to the sinners.

58[1-5] Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and tell My people of their disobedience, and to the family of Jacob their sins. Yet they look for Me daily, and want to know My ways. As if they were a nation that did what’s right, and didn’t leave the laws of their God, they ask Me to judge them rightly; and they want to draw near to God. Why have we fasted, they say, and you don’t see us? Why have we troubled ourselves, and you don’t pay attention? Look, in the day of your fast you do what you want to do, and make all your workers work. Look, you fast  to argue and fight, and hit each other with the fist. You don’t fast today, in such a way as to make your prayers heard in heaven. Is this the fast that I’ve chosen? A day for people to trouble their souls? Is it to bow down their heads like a rush, and to put on mourning clothes and put ashes under themselves? Will you call this a fast, and a day that Yahweh accepts?

 

[6-11] Isn’t this the fast that I’ve chosen? To loose the chains of sin, and take off their heavy load, and to let the abused go free, and that you take off every heavy load? Isn’t it to give your food to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are thrown out to your house? And when you see the naked, that you clothe them; and that you not close your eyes to the needs of your own people? Then your light will shine like the dawn, and you’ll be healed quickly; and your goodness will go before you; and the praise of Yahweh will watch your back. Then you’ll pray, and Yahweh will answer; you’ll cry, and I will say, Here I am. If you take away the heavy loads of others, and stop pointing fingers at each other, and speaking hurtful things to one another; and if you do everything you can to feed the hungry, and help the troubled soul, then will your light will rise in the darkness, and you will shine like the noonday; and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make you strong; and you’ll be like a watered garden, and like a creek, whose waters won’t fail.

 

[12-14] Those who will come from you will rebuild the old ruins; you’ll build on the foundations of many generations; and you’ll be called The Repairer of What was Broken, The Restorer of the Way to Live. If you turn away from misusing the Seventh Day, from doing what you want on My holy day; and call the Seventh Day a day to enjoy, and make what Yahweh set aside to be honored; and will honor it yourself, not going your own ways, nor doing whatever you want, nor saying your own words but saying My words, then you’ll enjoy yourself in the worship of Yahweh; and I’ll put you in high places in the earth; and I’ll feed you on the land I gave to your ancestor, Jacob; for the mouth of Yahweh has said it.

59[1-6] Look, Yahweh’s hand isn’t weakened, that it can’t save you; nor is God’s ear closed, that it can’t hear you, but your sins have separated you from your God, and your wrongdoings have made God turn away from you, and not listen to you. You have blood on your hands, and they are filled with sin; your mouth has spoken lies, and your tongue says what is wrong. No one sues because they’re right, and no one goes to court in truth. They trust in their empty lies; they make up trouble, and find sin. They hatch snakes’ eggs, and weave a spider’s web and whoever eats their eggs will dies and what is broken opens up to hatch a snake. Their spiders webs won’t make clothes, nor will they cover themselves with what they’ve made; what they’ve done are acts of sin, and violence is in their hands.

 

[7-11] Their feet run to evil, and they shed innocent blood quickly; they think sinful thoughts and leave a path of pain and suffering behind them. They don’t know the way of peace; and there’s no justice in what they do. They’ve made themselves crooked paths; whoever follows them doesn’t know peace. So justice is out of our reach, nor can we grasp what’s right. We look for light, but we see nothing but darkness; for brightness, but we walk in the shadows. We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes to see and we trip at noonday as in the dark; we are as dead people among the living. We all growl like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We want justice, but there is none; We want God’s saving grace, but it’s out of our reach.

 

[12-15] For our sins are many in Your sight, and they are witnesses against us. Our sins are with us, and as for our wrongdoings, we know them well. We sin and turn our backs on Yahweh, turning away from following our God, speaking of abuse and rebellion, thinking and speaking lying words from our hearts. Justice is backwards, and goodness is out of our reach; truth isn’t in us, and we don’t even know what’s right and wrong any more. Yes, truth is lacking; and those who stop doing evil make themselves prey to those who do evil. Yahweh saw it, and was displeased that there was no justice.

 

[16-21] I saw that there was no one to help you, and thought about there being no one to stand up for you; So by My own power, I brought you My saving grace; and My goodness was My strength; I put on goodness as a breastplate, and a helmet of saving grace; I put on clothes of judgment, and wore passion as a coat; I’ll repay everyone for their actions, having great anger on My enemies, to repay them and will repay the nations what’s due them. So they’ll fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and My fame will rise like the sun; and come like a rushing river, which the breath of Yahweh drives. A Savior will come toZion(Jerusalem), and to those who turn from their disobedience in Jacob (Israel), says Yahweh. As for Me, this is My promise to you, says Yahweh. My Spirit which is on you, and My words which I’ve put in your mouth, won’t leave out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your children, nor out of the mouth of your grandchildren, says Yahweh, from now on and forever.

60[1-5] Get up, and shine; for your light is come, and the light of Yahweh is dawning on you. Look, darkness will cover the earth, and black darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will dawn on you, whose light will be seen on you. Nations will come to your light, and rulers to the brightness of your dawning. Look up and all around you, and see them all gathering themselves together, and coming to you; your children will come from far, and be carried in their arms. Then you’ll see and shine beautifully, and your heart will be very happy and be proud; because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

 

[6-10] Many camels will cover you, coming from Midian, Ephah, andSheba. They’ll bring gold and fragrant oils, and will tell others the praises of Yahweh. All the flocks of Kedar (south ofPalestine) will be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth (Arabs) will minister to you; They’ll come to My altar and be accepted; and I’ll praise the House of My glory. What are these ships that sail like clouds, and fly like doves going home? Without a doubt, the nations will wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish (Spain) will lead them, to bring your children from far away, bringing their silver and gold with them, to worship the name of Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, who has made you well known. Foreigners will build your walls, and their rulers will minister to you; for in My great anger I punished you, but in My grace I’ve had compassion on you.

 

[11-15] Your gates will be open continually, also; They won’t be shut day or night; so that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their rulers will be in your power. For that nation and realm that won’t serve you will die; yes, those nations will be completely destroyed. The beauty ofLebanonwill come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the myrtle tree together, to beautify the place of My safe haven; and I’ll make the place of My feet wonderful. The children of those who troubled you will come bowing down to you; and all those who hated you will bow themselves down at your feet; and they’ll call you “The City of Yahweh,Zion(Jerusalem) of the Holy One of Israel. Just as you’ve been deserted and hated, so that no one passed through you, I’ll make you eternally great, a many generations will be happy in you.

 

[16-22] You’ll also suck the milk of the nations, and will nurse at the breast of their rulers; and you’ll know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and the One who bought you back, the Strong One of Jacob. For brass I’ll bring gold, and for iron I’ll bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I’ll also make your officers peaceful, and your ruler good. Violence won’t be heard in your land any more, neither ruin nor destruction will come within your borders; but you’ll call your walls Saving Grace, and your gates Praise. The sun won’t be your light by day any more; nor for its brightness will the moon be your light, but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. The sun won’t go down any more, nor will your moon hide itself; Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be over. Your people will all do what’s right, also; they’ll have the land forever, being the branch of My planting, and the work of My hands, so that I may be praised. The smallest family will become great, and strong like a nation; I, Yahweh, will do this quickly at the right time.

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Isaiah 61-66

The Mesha stele as photographed circa 1891. The stele describes King Mesha’s wars against the Israelites. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Isaiah 61-66

     61[1-3] The Spirit of Yahweh God is on Me; because Yahweh has anointed Me to preach good news to the humble and has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to free the prisoners from jail, and to let loose those who are trapped; to tell others the year of Yahweh’s grace, and the day of judgment of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to appoint to those who mourn in Zion (Jerusalem), to give to them a wreath for ashes, the oil of happiness for mourning, the clothes of praise for their heavy spirits; that they may be called trees of goodness, the planting of Yahweh, that God may be praised.

[4-7] They’ll build the old ruins, and they’ll raise up the places that were deserted, and they’ll repair the cities that were destroyed, which were deserted by many generations. Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your farmers and gardeners. But you’ll be named the priests of Yahweh; other people will call you the ministers of our God and you’ll eat the wealth of the nations, and you’ll brag about yourselves in their glory. Instead of your shame you’ll have double blessings; and instead of dishonor you’ll celebrate in your land. So in their land they’ll get twice what they had; and they’ll be happy forever.

[8-11] For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate stealing and other sins; and I’ll repay in truth, and I’ll make a promise with them forever. Their children will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them will acknowledge them, and say that they’re the people Yahweh has blessed. I’ll greatly celebrate in Yahweh, My soul will be happy in My God; who has clothed Me with the clothes of God’s saving grace, and has covered Me with the robe of goodness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a rosebud, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are planted to grow; so Yahweh God will cause goodness and praise to grow in all the nations.

62[1- 5] For Zion (Jerusalem)’s sake I won’t hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I won’t rest, until her goodness shines as brightness, and her saving grace as a lamp that burns brightly. The nations will see your goodness, and all rulers your glory, and you’ll be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh will name. You’ll also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal head dress in the hand of your God. You won’t be called the Divorced Wife anymore; nor will your land be called Infertile but you’ll be called Hephzibah (My Happiness is in Her), and your land Beulah (Married Wife); for Yahweh’s happiness is in you, and your land will be fertile. For as a young man marries a young woman, so will your people marry you; and as the bridegroom celebrates over the bride, so your God will celebrate over you.

[6-12] I’ve set guards on your walls,Jerusalem; They’ll never be quiet day or night. You who call on Yahweh, don’t rest, and don’t let God rest, untilJerusalemis set up and made a praise in the earth. Yahweh has promised by God’s strong hand, and by the power of God’s strength, “Without a doubt, I won’t give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners won’t drink your new wine, for which you’ve worked, but those who have gathered it will eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of My Safe Haven.” Go through the gates; make the way for the people; Make the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a flag for the peoples. Look, Yahweh has told others all over the world, “Say to the city ofZion(Jerusalem), ‘Look, your saving grace comes; Look, God will reward you, and repay you.’” They’ll call them “The Holy People,” the “Saved Ones of Yahweh” and you’ll be called “ God Wants You,” a city not divorced.

63[1-6] Who is this who comes fromEdom(Arab nations), with dyed clothes from Bozrah? Who is this who wears wonderful clothes, and marches in great strength? “I, who speak in goodness, am powerful enough to save you.” Why are you wearing red clothes, and why do your clothes look like someone who presses the grapes? “I’ve stomped the winepress alone; and there was no one with Me of the peoples. Yes, I stomped on them in My anger, and trampled them in My great anger; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on My clothes, and I’ve stained all My clothes. For the day of judgment was in My heart, and the year of My saving grace is come. I looked, and there was no one to help you; and I wondered that there was no one to strengthen you. So by My own power, I brought My saving grace; and My great anger strengthened Me. I stomped down the nations in My anger, and made them drunk in My great anger, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

[7-14] I’ll tell you of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has done for us, and the great goodness done toward the family ofIsrael, which God has done to us with mercy, and with great loving kindnesses. God said, Without a doubt, they’re My people, children who won’t be unfaithful, so God was our Savior. In all our trouble, You were troubled, and the angel of the presence of God saved us; In love and pity, You saved us; and helped us, and carried us through all the old days. But we rebelled, and grieved Your Holy Spirit, so You became our enemy, and fought against us. Then You remembered the old days, Moses and Your people, saying, Where is the one who brought us up out of the sea with the shepherds of the flock? Who put Your Holy Spirit in us? Whose power saved us as Moses lifted his hands? Who divided the waters before us, to make the Name of God an everlasting name? Who led us through the depths, as a horse in the countryside, so that they didn’t trip? As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused us to rest; so You led your people, to make Yourself a wonderful Name.

[15-19] Look down from heaven, and see from the place of Your holiness and of Your glory. Where are Your passion and Your acts of strength? The longing of Your heart and Your compassion is kept from me. You are Who we are from, though Abraham doesn’t know us, andIsraeldoesn’t acknowledge us; Yes, You, Yahweh, are Who we are from; You’re the God who saves us. Your Name will be remembered forever. O Yahweh, why do You make us stray from Your ways, and harden our hearts from Your fear? Come back for Your workers’ sake, Your family. Your holy people had it but a little while. Our enemies have stomped down Your safe haven. We’ve become like those whom You’ve never ruled, as those who weren’t called by Your Name.

64[1-4] Oh that you would open the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, as when fire burns the wood, and makes water boil; to make Your Name known to Your enemies, that the nations may shake in fear at your presence! When you did terrible things which we never thought You’d do, You came down, and the mountains quaked at Your presence. Human beings have never heard, nor understood by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for those who waits for God to save them.

[5-7] You meet those who celebrate and do what’s right, those who remember You in Your ways. Look, You were angry, and we sinned. We’ve been sinning a long time; and will we still be saved? For we’ve all become unfit, and all our goodness is like filthy clothes. We all fade as a leaf; and our wrongdoings, like the wind, will take us away. There’s no one who calls on Your Name, who troubles themselves to find You; You’ve hid Your face from us, and destroyed us by our own wrongdoings.

[8-12] But now, Yahweh, You are our Creator. We are the clay, and You are our potter; and we all are the work of Your hand. Don’t be very angry, Yahweh, nor remember our sin forever; see, look, we beg you, we are all Your people. Your holy cities are deserted,Zion(Jerusalem) is deserted like a countryside. Our holy and beautiful house of worship, where our ancestors praised You, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are destroyed. Will You keep yourself from punishing us for these things, Yahweh? Or will You keep silent, and trouble us much more?

65[1-5] I am asked for by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t look for Me. I said, Look at Me, look at Me, to a nation that was not called by My name. I’ve spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who act in a way that isn’t good, following their own thoughts; a people who continually provoke Me to My face, worshiping in the gardens and burning incense on the altars of false gods; who go to graves and secret places to talk to the dead; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of things that aren’t good; who say, Stay away, don’t come near me, for I am holier than you. These are smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all day long.

[6-12] Look, it’s been written before about Me: I won’t keep silence, but I will repay, yes, I’ll repay you for your own sins, and the sins of your ancestors together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and disrespected Me on the hills by worshipping your false gods. So I’ll repay them for what they’ve done first. Yahweh says this, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and someone says, Don’t destroy it, for there’s still a blessing in it, so I’ll do for My workers’ sake, that I won’t destroy them all. I’ll give children to the families of Jacob (Israel), andJudah(southernIsrael) will get My mountains; My chosen people will inherit it, and My workers will live there.Sharon(nearJaffaon the Mediterranean coast) will be a fold of flocks, and thevalleyofAchor(nearJericho) a place for herds to lie down in, for My people who have followed Me. But you who forget Yahweh, who leave My holy mountain, who eat meat and drink alcohol for Gad and Meni, (the false gods of luck or fortune and fate or destiny); I’ll destine you to be killed, and your fortune will be to bow down to die; because when I called, you didn’t answer; when I spoke, you didn’t hear; but you did what was evil in My eyes, and chose to do that which I didn’t enjoy.

[13-16] So Yahweh God says this, Look, My workers will eat, but you’ll be hungry; Look, My workers will drink, but you’ll be thirsty; Look, My workers will celebrate, but you’ll be disappointed; Look, My workers will sing for joy, but you’ll cry for sorrow of heart, and scream for the trouble of your spirit. You’ll leave Your Name for a curse to My chosen ones; and Yahweh God will kill you; and call the workers of God by another name (Christians).  So that those who bless themselves in the earth will bless themselves in the God of truth; and those who make promises in the earth will promise by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and they’re hid from My eyes.

[17-20] For, Look, I create a new heavens and a new earth; and the old things won’t be remembered, nor come into mind. But be happy and celebrate forever in what I create; Look, I createJerusalema place of celebration, and her people a happy people. I’ll celebrate inJerusalem, and be happy in My people; and the sound of crying and screaming won’t be heard there any more. There won’t be any more babies dying at just a few days old, nor will an old person not live out their days; a hundred years old will be young, and if a sinner reaches a hundred years old, they’ll be punished.

[21-25] They’ll build houses, and live in them; and they’ll plant gardens, and eat what they grow. They won’t build, and someone else live in it; They won’t plant, and someone else eat it. My people will live as long as the trees, and My chosen ones will enjoy the work of their hands for a long time. They won’t work for nothing, nor have children that will die; for they and their children are blessed by Yahweh. Before they call, I’ll answer them; and while they’re still speaking, I’ll hear them. The wolf and the lamb will eat together, and the lion will eat straw like the cow; and dust will be the snake’s food. They won’t hurt nor kill anything in all My holy mountain, says Yahweh.

66[1-6] Yahweh says this, heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build to Me? and what will be My place of rest? I’ve made all these things, and so all these things came to be, says Yahweh. But I’ll watch over those who are poor and have a sorrowful spirit, and who shake in fear at My word. Those who kill a cow are like those who kill a human being; those who sacrifice a lamb, as those who break a dog’s neck; those who make an offering, as those who offer a pig’s blood; those who burn spices, as those who bless a false god. Yes, they’ve chosen their own ways, and their soul enjoys their evil ways. So I’ll also choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, no one heard; but they did what was evil in My eyes, and chose to do what I didn’t enjoy. Hear the word of Yahweh, you who shake in fear at God’s Word. Your family members who hate you, who threw you out for My Name’s sake, have said, “Let Yahweh be praised, that we may see your happiness;” but it’s them who will be disappointed. There’s a sound of chaos from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh, who brings judgment on the enemies of God.

[7-11] Before she suffered, she birthed; before her pain came, she had a child. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Will a nation be born in one day? Will a nation be born at once? As soon asZion(Jerusalem) suffered, she had her children. Will I bring to birth, and not cause a child to be born? says Yahweh. Will I, who cause birth, shut the womb? says your God. Celebrate withJerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her, celebrate for happiness with her, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may suck, and be happy with how much milk she has.

[12-16] Yahweh says this, Look, I’ll give peace to her like a river, and she’ll be the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. You’ll suck of it; you’ll be carried on her side, and will be bounced on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so I’ll comfort you; and you’ll be comforted inJerusalem. You’ll see it, and your heart will celebrate, and your bones will grow like the tender grass. The workers of God will know the hand of Yahweh, who will be rightfully angry with the enemies of God. Look, Yahweh will come with fire, whose vehicles will be like a tornado; to bring God’s anger with fierceness, and judgment with flames of fire. For Yahweh will bring judgment by fire, and with weapons, on all people; and Yahweh will kill many.

[17-21] Those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves to go worship false gods in the gardens, following behind their leader, eating pig’s meat, and rats and other things that are bad for them, will be destroyed together, says Yahweh. I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes, that I’ll gather all nations and languages; and they’ll come, and see My glory. I’ll set a sign among them, and I’ll send those who escape to the nations, to Tarshish (Spain), Pul, and Lud (Libya and Lydia and other Arab-African nations), who draw their weapons, to Tubal (Turkey)  and Javan (Greece), to the nations afar off, who haven’t heard of My fame, nor have seen My glory; and they’ll make Me well-known among the nations. They’ll bring all your family members out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, in vehicles, and on horses, mules, and camels, to My holy mountain inJerusalem, says Yahweh,  as the people ofIsraelbring their offering in a clean bowl into the House of God. I’ll choose some of them for priests and workers in the Place of Worship, says Yahweh.

[22-24] For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I’ll make, will last forever before Me, says Yahweh, so your children and Your Name will last forever. From one new moon to another, and from one Seventh Day to another, all people will come to worship before Me, says Yahweh. They’ll go out, and look on the dead bodies of those who have sinned against Me, whose maggots won’t ever die out, nor will their fire be put out; and they’ll be hated by all people.

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Two Mississippi Sisters Safe After Slayings of Mother and Sister

The two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home were found alive two weeks after they were kidnapped. Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister. 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain went home alive, but very tired, scared and itchy from poison ivy. They told the officers who found them that they had not had food or water for three days.

The kidnapper, Mayes claimed to be the girls’ father. He had previously been close to the family. Authorities said Mayes killed Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne on April 27 in their home in Whiteville, Tenn.

Mayes’ wife, Teresa Mayes, is charged with murder in the killings. She told investigators she saw her husband kill the mother and oldest girl, then drove him, the younger children and the bodies to Mississippi. Mayes’ wife, Teresa, also told authorities he killed the mother and older child so he could abduct the other two children. His mother, Mary Mayes, also is charged in the kidnapping but maintains she is not guilty.

Adam Mayes was hiding out with the girls in the woods only a few miles from his home in Mississippi. An officer combing through the area spotted Alexandria Bain face down on the ground about 100 yards behind a church. They also saw the younger girl and Mayes on the ground. Officers yelled for Mayes to show his hands, but he pulled a gun from his waistband and shot himself in the head.

The girls were released from a hospital and reunited with relatives in Tennessee. Family spokesman David Livingston said their father, Gary Bain, was thrilled to have them back, but “you can understand that he is extremely distraught over the loss of his wife and daughter.”

Adam Mayes was previously investigated after a relative claimed that he had child pornography and that she saw him nude while he was shaving the legs of a nude 7-year-old girl, but Mayes was never charged.

Speaking Friday on NBC’s “Today” show, Tate said her daughter would have helped Adam Mayes only because he was a “control freak” who made his wife cut all ties with her family.

“I’m scared about what will happen to my daughter, that she will have to take the brunt of the punishment,” Tate said. “If she participated in any way, it was because she was too scared to stand up to Adam or she was brainwashed.

This is Domestic violence at its worst, in my opinion.  Sounds like this creep kidnapped the girls because he was a pedophile and had his wife under his complete control to help him do it.  She was likely in great fear, not knowing what he’d do to her if she didn’t help him.  But if she is guilty for other reasons, then I hope she gets what she deserves.  If she is a victim herself, along with his mother, then I pray God has mercy on them.

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Looking for a Christian Alternative to Facebook?

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Facebook is beginning to be an unsafe place for Christians to be. There has been news of it becoming a pedophile playground and other concerns as well.  I’m still on there but was looking for a Christian alternative, just in case it gets to bad.  Are you looking for a Christian Alternative to facebook, too?  I think I just found one called Shoutlife.  View my profile at

http://www.shoutlife.com/profile_view.cfm?uid=209788

I hope you will decide to join me there.

 

 

Save the Storks Saves Lives!

I found this cool new website and I think everyone should take a look at their info.

http://www.savethestorks.com/

A staggering 1.2 million storks were shot out of the sky last year alone. Tragically, as these beautiful creatures take flight over the moon, they carry our most precious resources. As they carry these resources, storks journey over perilous regions, unprotected from man’s hunting. Save the Storks is an organization that hopes to save these endangered creatures. OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE: We seek to persuade every abortion-minded mother to choose life and to share with them the good news of Jesus. Using a bus equipped with a state-of-the-art sonogram machine, we are able to intercept abortion-minded mothers at the door of the death clinic to show them an image of their child. We love and deeply care for these women, and we offer them counseling, resources and the Gospel. Our partnerships with nationally known pregnancy centers are key in this ministry. Through these partnerships, we mobilize pregnancy centers to be proactive in reaching women with the hope of life and all the resources these centers already offer. On average, 30 women board our bus every week. Three out of five choose life for their children. Few things in life are more satisfying than empowering women to overcome difficult circumstances and choose life. Vision: to save millions of mothers from the pain of abortion. Plan: place Stork buses everywhere that abortions are being done. Core Values: Proactive. – We want to go to those in need and not wait for them to come to us. Efficiency. – We want to help the most women choose life for the lowest cost. Light-heartedness. – We want to be personable, gentle, and approachable to everyone. Goals: Complete the Dallas stork bus. Find a location for the next bus. Deliver 6 new buses to pregnancy centers in the next 3 years.

Isaiah 19-24

Map of the Ancient Near East during the Amarna period (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Isaiah 19-24

     19[1-4] This is the vision ofEgypt(historically, 701 B.C.). “Look, Yahweh rides on a fast vehicle covered in clouds, and comes toEgypt. The false gods ofEgyptwill shake in fear at the presence of God; and the heart ofEgyptwill fail them for fear. I’ll stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they’ll fight their own family and neighbors; city against city, and realm against realm. The spirit ofEgyptwill fail. I’ll destroy its counsel. They’ll look for the false gods, mediums, witches, and wizards. I’ll give the Egyptians into the power of a cruel leader. A fierce ruler will rule over them,” says God, Yahweh, the God of All Creation.

 

[5-10] The waters from the sea will dry up, and theNileRiverwill be ruined and dry up. All the waterways of the rivers will be ruined. The creeks ofEgyptwill be lowered and dry up. Their reeds and flags will wither away. The fields by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile, and all the planted fields of theNile, will become dry, and be blown away till they are gone. The fishermen will cry, and all those who fish in theNilewill be sad, and those who spread their nets on the waters will suffer. Also those who work in flax, and those who weave its white cloth, will be confused, and not know what to do. The foundations of their civilization will be destroyed. All those who work for money will be greatly depressed.

 

[11-15] The rulers of Zoan (Tanis, Egyptian Government) are complete idiots. The counsel of the wisest counselors of their Ruler has become stupid. How can you say to the Egyptian Ruler, “I am one of the wise, the follower of ancient rulers?” Where then are your wise ones? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh, the God of All Creation has planned forEgypt. The rulers of Zoan have become ungodly idiots. The rulers ofMemphis(ancient capital) believe lies. The leaders of the Egyptian people have causedEgyptto go astray. Yahweh has mixed a spirit of evil in it; and they’ve causedEgyptto go astray in everything it does, like a drunk staggers in vomit. Nor will there be any work forEgypt, which leader or people, preacher or wise ones, can do.

 

[16-20] Then the Egyptians will be very afraid. They’ll shake in fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh, the God of All Creation, who shakes it over them. ThelandofJudah(southernIsrael) will become a terror toEgypt. Everyone who hears of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh, the God of All Creation, which is planned against it. But there will be five cities in thelandofEgyptthat speak the language ofCanaan(Hebrew), and worship Yahweh, the God of All Creation. One will be called “The City of Ruins (City of the Sun,Heliopolis, On?).” At that time, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of thelandofEgypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. It’ll be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh, the God of All Creation in thelandofEgypt; for they’ll cry to Yahweh because of those who abuse them, who will send them a Savior and a Defender, who will save them.

 

[21-25] Yahweh will be known toEgypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh at that time. Yes, they’ll worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make promises to Yahweh, and do them. Yahweh will punishEgypt, both punishing it and healing it. They’ll come back to Yahweh, who will be prayed to by them, and who will heal them. At that time there’ll be a highway out ofEgyptto Assyria, and the Assyrian will come intoEgypt, and the Egyptian intoAssyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. Then,Israel,Egypt, and Assyria, will be in agreement with each other, a blessing in the middle of the earth; because Yahweh, the God of All Creation has blessed them, saying, “Blessed beEgypt, My people, Assyria, the work of My hands, andIsrael, My inheritance.”

 

20[1-6] When Tartan came to Ashdod, in the year (711B.C.) that Sargon the ruler of Assyria sent him, who fought against Ashdod and took it; at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and take off your clothes, and take off your shoes.” So he did this, walking naked and barefoot. Yahweh said, “As My worker Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign to Egypt and to Ethiopia, so the ruler of Assyria will lead away the prisoners of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, barefoot and naked, with their butts uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. They’ll all be upset and confused, because they hoped inEthiopia, and counted onEgypt. The people of this land will say at that time, ‘Look, this is our hope, where we run away for help to be set free from the ruler ofAssyria. And now, how will we escape?’”

 

21[1- 5] This is the vision of the countryside by the water (Babylon). As tornados in the South sweep through, it comes from the countryside, from an awesome land. A terrible vision is told to me. The unfaithful ones have been unfaithful, and others destroy. Go up,Elam(Iran); attack! I’ve stopped Media from sighing. So I am filled with suffering. Pains have taken hold of me, like the pains of childbirth. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am upset that I can’t see. My heart skips, I’m so afraid. The evening that I wanted has made me shake in fear instead. They set the table and watch. They eat and drink. Rise up, you rulers, rub oil on the shields!

 

[6-10] For God said to me, “Go, put a guard on watch and let him tell what he sees. When he sees a troop, riding in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he needs to listen carefully and pay attention.” The guard cried like a lion, “God, I stand continually on the watchtower day and night, staying at my post. Look, here comes a troop of soldiers, riding in pairs.Babylonhas fallen; and all its false gods are broken on the ground.” My people, you’ll be separated like the grain on the floor of the barn! What I’ve heard from Yahweh, the God of All Creation, the God ofIsrael, I’ve told to you.

 

[11-12] This is the vision of Dumah (el-Gof, Dumat el-Gandel?). Someone calls to me out of Seir (Edom, Arab nations), “Guard, what time of night is it? Guard, what time of night is it?” The guard said, “The morning comes, though it’s still night. If you must ask, then ask. Come back later.”

 

[13-17] This is the vision onArabia(715 B.C.). You’ll stay in theforestofArabia, you people of Dedanites. They brought water to the thirsty. The people of thelandofTeima(Arabian Peninsula) met those who are running away with their bread. For they run away from the weapons, from the drawn weapons, and from the heat of battle. For God said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the power of Kedar (a Bedouin tribe) will fail, and what’s left of them, the strong soldiers of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

 

22[1-3] This is the word of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you’ve all gone up to the rooftops to watch? You that are full of shouting, a noisy city, a happy town; your dead aren’t killed with the weapons, nor are they killed in battle. All your rulers run away together. They were caught by their enemies. All who were found in you were tied together. They run away, far away.

 

[4-8] So I said, “Don’t look at me. Let me cry. Don’t try to comfort me for the destruction of the city of my people.           For it’s a day of trouble, and of breaking down, and of confusion, from God, Yahweh, the God of All Creation, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”Elamcarried their weapons, with vehicles of soldiers and riders; and the soldiers of Kir lifted their shields. Your best valleys were full of vehicles, and the riders set themselves in order at the gate.Judah(southernIsrael) couldn’t defend itself; and you looked then to the weapons in the palace of the forest (ofLebanon).

 

[9-13] You saw the broken walls of the city ofDavid, that they were many; and you stored up the waters of the lower pool. You counted the houses ofJerusalem, and broke down the houses to make the wall strong. You also made a storage area between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to the One who had done this, nor did you respect the One who planned it long ago. Then, God, Yahweh, the God of All Creation, called you to cry, to mourn, to cut your hair, and to dress in mourning clothes. Look, now happiness and gladness, killing cows and sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. You say, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we’ll die.”

 

[14-19] Yahweh, the God of All Creation, spoke clearly to me, “Without a doubt, this sin won’t be forgiven you until you die,” says God, Yahweh, the God of All Creation. God, Yahweh, the God of All Creation says, “Go to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, ‘What are you doing here? Who has sent you here to dig out a grave for yourself?’ Why have you cut out a grave on this mountain, chiseling a hole in the rock?” Look, Yahweh will catch you and violently throw you away. Yes, God will grab hold of you tightly, and without a doubt, wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large land. There you’ll die, and the vehicles of your victory will be there, and you will be the shame of your leader’s house. I’ll throw you out of office and you’ll be pulled down from your position.

 

[20-25] Then I’ll call My worker Eliakim, the descendant of Hilkiah, who I’ll put in your place and make strong. Eliakim will have power over your government, who will be a ruler to the people ofJerusalem, and to the family ofJudah(southernIsrael). I’ll give Eliakim the power of the family of David, who will open, and no one will shut; and who will shut, and no one will open. Eliakim will be like a nail that won’t come out of its place, whose family will hold it in honor. Everyone in the family, from the least to the greatest, will hang their hopes on Eliakim, like pots on a peg, who they’ll bring down.  “Then,” says Yahweh, the God of All Creation, “the nail that was hammered in place will fall out. It’ll come loose, and fall and everything that was on it will come loose and fall off, too, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

 

23[1-5] This is the vision ofTyre(Lebanon). Scream, shipmates of Tarshish (Spain)!Tyrehas been destroyed, and there’s no more houses, and no where for the ships to dock. They’re told even from thelandofKittim(Chittim,Cyprus). Be quiet, you people of the coast, whom the merchants ofSidonwho go over the sea have made rich. On theShihorRiver, the grain harvest of theNile, was its pay. It was the market of nations. Be ashamed,Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea is saying, “I haven’t had the pain of childbirth, nor nursed any young, nor brought up any children.”Tyreis gone, as if it never was a city. When the news comes toEgypt, they’ll be very upset at the report ofTyre.

 

[6-10] Go to Tarshish (Spain)! Scream, you people of the coast! Is this your happy city, which is very old, and sent its people far away?  Who has planned this againstTyre, who gives crowns to rulers, whose traders are rulers, who are known all over the earth? Yahweh, the God of All Creation has planned it, to bring down the pride of all who are well known, to bring dishonor on all those who are honored in the earth. Go through your land like the Nile, city ofTarshish(Spain). Nothing will hold you back any more.

[11-14] God’s hand has stretched out over the sea and shaken the realms. Yahweh has orderedCanaan’s strongholds to be destroyed. God said, “You’ll won’t celebrate any more, city ofSidon. Get up and go over to Kittim (Chittim,Cyprus), but you won’t have any rest there.” Look at the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonians,Iraq), whose people isn’t there any more. The Assyrians made it a place for the animals that live in the countryside. They set up their war machines and overthrew its palaces, making it a ruin. Scream, you shipmates of Tarshish (Spain), for your stronghold is destroyed!

 

[15-18] ThenTyrewill be forgotten for seventy years, which is equal to the life of one ruler. After the end of seventy years,Tyrewill be like in the song of the prostitute. “Take a harp and go around the city, you prostitute who has been forgotten. Sing sweet songs. Make many melodies, so that you’ll be remembered. After the end of seventy years, Yahweh will visitTyre, and it will get back to work, but will be unfaithful with all the countries on the face of the earth. Its merchandise and wages will be set aside for Yahweh. It won’t be kept or stored; its merchandise will be for those who live for Yahweh, for their food and clothes.

 

24[1-5] Look, Yahweh empties the earth, and destroys it, turns it upside down, and scatters its people. As with the people, so it’ll be with the preachers; as with the worker, so it’ll be with the employer; as with the buyer, so it’ll be with the seller; as with the lender, so it’ll be with the borrower; as with the saver, so it’ll be with the banker. The earth will be completely emptied and completely destroyed; for Yahweh has spoken this word. The earth mourns and slowly dies. The world suffers and slowly dies. The proud people of the earth will suffer. The earth also has been polluted by its people, because they’ve violated the laws, broken the rules, and broken their promise to God, which was to have been forever.

 

[6-10] So the curse has destroyed the earth, and those who live in it are guilty. So the people of the earth are burned, and few human beings are left. The new wine is gone and the vine withers. All the merry-hearted are sad. The joy of the tambourines stops. The sound of those who celebrate ends. The happiness of the harp stops. They won’t drink their wine singing a song. Alcoholic drinks will be bitter to those who drink it. The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, so that no one will come in.

 

[11-15] There is crying in the streets because the wine is gone. All happiness is gone. The joy of the land is gone. The city is deserted, and the gate is destroyed. The people of the earth will be shaken like an olive tree, and picked over like when the harvest is done. They’ll cry out in the West and shout for their amazement of Yahweh. They’ll cry out from across the sea. So make Yahweh well-known in the East, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the nations across the sea!

 

[16-19] From the farthest part of the earth have we heard songs, praising the righteous! But I said, “I have no hope! I have no hope! Sorrow is mine!” The unfaithful have been unfaithful. Yes, the unfaithful have done very wrong. Fear, the pit, and a trap will catch you people of the earth. Those who run from the noise of those who scream in fear will fall into the pit; and those who come out of the pit will be caught in a trap; for the windows of heaven are opened, and the evil people of the earth will shake in fear. The earth is completely broken and will be torn apart when it is violently shaken.

 

[20-23] The earth will stagger like a drunk, and will sway like a shed in a storm. Its disobedience will pull it down, and it’ll fall and not get up. Then Yahweh will punish the evil forces in the heavens above, and the rulers of the peoples on the earth. They’ll be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in a pit, and will be shut up in prison; and after many days they’ll be judged. Then the moon will be darkened, and the sun won’t shine; for Yahweh, the God of All Creation will reign onMountZion(Jerusalem), and inJerusalem; whose great light will shine in the presence of the leaders of the people.

 

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God still Proves His Word is True through Archeological Discoveries

Jerusalem archaeologists digging in the remains of the closest building to the First Temple yet excavated announced today the discovery of a seal bearing the name Matanyahu, or Mattaniah, as it is rendered in most English-language Bibles.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the “remains of a building dating to the end of the First Temple period were discovered below the base of the ancient drainage channel that is currently being exposed in IAA excavations beneath Robinson’s Arch in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden, adjacent to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount.”

The personal Hebrew seal from the end of the First Temple Period was discovered on the floor of the ancient building. The seal, made of a semi-precious stone, is engraved with the name of its owner, “Lematanyahu Ben Ho …,” meaning: “Belonging to Matanyahu Ben Ho …” The remainder of the inscription has been erased.

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Find a Sex Offender

You, as a parent, have the right to know if a convicted sex offender is living near you and your children may be in danger. Sex offender registry information is available to the public because of Megan’s Law, which was passed in California in 2004. Megan Kanka was a 7-year-old girl who was killed by a known sex offender who had moved in across the street. After her death, Megan’s family worked to make sure that local communities would be notified when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood. All 50 states now have a version of Megan’s Law.

Due to Megan’s Law, sex offenders are now required by federal law to register with the Department of Justice. There are several ways to find sex offenders in your area or near your child’s school.

• U.S. Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Website: The Department of Justice has a database of registered sex offenders and coordinates information with jurisdictions in all 50 states. To find offenders, enter the name, locality or ZIP Code. This is a free service.
• Family Watchdog: Family Watchdog is another free service where you can access information about where sex offenders live and work. The site will also track sex offenders. Sign up to receive email notifications when a sex offender moves within five miles of your address.
• Criminal Check: Criminal Check is another free service to check locations of sex offenders.

If you become aware of a sex offender living in your neighborhood, you need to keep a closer eye on your children and quietly inform others with children in your neighborhood.  Be aware that harassing a sex offender is a misdemeanor, though you must report any suspicious activity involving the abuse of a child to authorities.

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Pedophile wants out of Mental Hospital

Twice-convicted pedophile Sid Landau wants out of a mental hospital he is being held in, even though he was one of the first sex offenders in California targeted by Megan’s Law. Landau was one of the first sex offenders to be targeted in California by this law, which derives its name from Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was sexually assaulted and killed in 1994 by a previously convicted sex offender. This horrible crime led to the creation of state and federal Megan’s Laws that allow police to provide notification when high-risk sex offenders move into neighborhoods. After his later arrest for assaulting a cameraman and serving more time for parole violations, Landau was about to be released in 2000, but was flagged as a sexually violent predator and later committed to a mental hospital for treatment.

Now 70 years old, Landau is fighting to reverse that designation and get out of the mental hospital where he has been for several years. Under a 1996 law, offenders who are convicted of a sexually violent offense, have at least one victim and are diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes them likely to re-offend can be committed to a mental hospital for treatment after a rigorous legal process that involves findings by doctors, a judge and a jury. Offenders are re-evaluated each year and can request a hearing to challenge the findings.

Before his final release in 2000, prison officials referred him for evaluation as a sexually violent predator. In 2010, a state psychologist concluded he could be safely released under supervision because of his age and Landau petitioned for his release, but the director of the Coalinga State Hospital disagreed with the doctor’s assessment.

Despite his age, Landau remains a danger to society and has refused treatment while at Coalinga, said Dan Wagner, the Orange County deputy district attorney handling the case.
“Through the years he’s even by his own admission molested at least 10 children and we think the number is quite higher than that. The amount of damage this man has done is just staggering,” Wagner said. “He’s unchanged, he still is attracted to little boys and we’re convinced that … if he were to be released he’d be molesting again in a short amount of time.”

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Stand Your Ground Domestic Abuse Case

“North Hampton is a Domestic violence free-zone” (Massachussetts) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Marissa Danielle Alexander, 31, was charged with aggravated  assault in August 2010 after she fired a single shot into the ceiling of her  home during a domestic violence dispute. She claimed self-defense against an  abusive husband under the state’s Stand Your Ground law. A judge denied her immunity in a Stand Your Ground hearing and after a jury  found her guilty, she faces 20 years in prison.

Alexander’s husband, Rico Gray, 36, was arrested both in 2006 and 2009 on charges of domestic battery. Charges were dropped in one case and he  was given probation in the other. Alexander had an injunction for protection  against domestic violence against Gray following his latest arrest.

Several months later, Alexander was arrested on the domestic  battery charge involving her husband. She has maintained that Gray was the aggressor, becoming  enraged when she told him she was leaving him. “He assaulted me, shoving, straggling and holding me against my will,  preventing me from fleeing all while I begged him to leave,” Alexander wrote in  a blog posted by her first husband on a website set up in support of her.

In the post, Alexander wrote the attack began while she was using  the restroom. She said she made it to the garage but couldn’t leave when she realized she didn’t have her keys and the garage door was  not working. She said she then grabbed her gun, for which she said she has a concealed  weapons permit, with her fear heightened by her husband’s history of abusing  women, including her. She said she went back inside the kitchen where her husband threatened her life. “I was terrified from the first encounter and feared he came to do as he  threatened,” she wrote. That’s when she said Gray “charged” at her. “In fear and a desperate attempt, I lifted my weapon up, turned away and  discharged a single shot in the wall up the ceiling.”

Alexander wrote that the law states that she had no duty to retreat, but a jury found her guilty as charged March 16. Lincoln Alexander, who is  Alexander’s first husband of eight years, has been involved with the case from the beginning. Alexander said he has witnessed signs of abuse and described Alexander’s accounts of the multiple beatings  she took from Gray, including one that left her with a black eye when she was  eight months pregnant. According to Alexander, his ex-wife was also hospitalized for her injuries the night of her domestic battery arrest. He said he had never had any domestic issues in his marriage with  her.

Read more at Jacksonville.com:  http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-04-21/story/naacp-weighs-what-they-say-stand-your-ground-case-against-jacksonville-0#ixzz1stK2vcSP

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Press Release – Don’t Be Silent: Stop Domestic Violence

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Don’t be Silent: Stop Domestic Violence is a compilation of Kimberly Hartfield’s writings on Domestic violence. Whether you are a victim or someone advocating for the rights of victims, or a counselor who is interested in working with victims, this book will give you a glimpse of what you can do to help yourself or others out of the cycle of abuse. It is written from a Christian perspective and does not necessarily promote divorce as the ultimate answer to domestic violence, but shows how faith in God can help some women through Domestic violence and save their marriage.

 

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Go Fish Ministries, Inc. News Letter May1, 2012

Go Fish Ministries, Inc. News Letter May1, 2012

Jesus said: Follow me and I will make you fishers for others. Matthew 4:19

Sis. Kimberly Hartfield, B.S. M.S. Christian Counselor http://gofishministries.wordpress.com/ Contact or unsubscribe: gofishbooks@gmail.com

 

Counselors’ Corner

May is finally here and the school year is almost over for most of us.  We’ve enjoyed being a part of homeschool co-op this year and I believe it has been good for the kids, too.  They’ve each met some friends and learned a lot this year.  We’ve been on several interesting field trips that we really enjoyed, too.  We just recently went to the Thad Cochran USDA Center  in Poplarville, MS and learned about bugs and blueberries.  We stopped at a little park and had lunch, then discovered a beautiful walking track that went into the woods a little bit.  The spring wild flowers were very pretty this time of year.    

Well this last month has been as good to me as the one before it.  I got three of my published books put on kindle through their Kindle Direct Publishing website.  Between the three books I’ve had about 1500 hits.  These are not actual sales though; it’s more like checking it out from the library.  But I think I’m supposed to get a cut of a $600, 000 dollar pot, which worked out to be about $2.00 a hit last month.  So if this is correct, maybe I’ll actually get a little something for all the work I’ve been doing for nothing all these years.  But God has been good and we’ve been blessed many times over, even with no consistent money coming in.  I’d find furniture on the side of the road, been blessed with kid’s clothes by many Christian friends, been blessed myself with clothes when the lady I used to care for died.  We’d get unexpected money from somewhere every time there was a need.  This month I was really struggling to have money for paying the water bill.  The lady that runs the dollar general store suggested I come out there and sit one day with my books and I had almost forgotten about it.  But one morning I woke up and felt God saying to go and do it.  I opened my Bible and read a few chapters and wound up reading the passage where it says, “Go and sell what you have” so I did.  That day I gathered up about 20 of my Christian books off my shelf and brought some of my own.  I sold all of mine and several more besides.  Then a couple of weeks later, the day before my water was to be cut off, I went back.  This time I gathered up about 200 Christian books and a few of my own.  Before we left for the day, we had sold all but about 30 of the books and had more than enough to pay the water bill, buy a few groceries, and order some more books for my ministry.   

Speaking of my ministry, my website has nearly reached 35, 000 views now, and will probably have reached that by the first of this month.  I pray that God continues to bless my efforts and that whatever I write will bring glory to Him, and wisdom to others.  I know some of the things I write about are hard subjects to read about, but God’s word says that even though these things shouldn’t even be spoken of,  that they should be brought into the light and exposed for what they are.  And it says that whatever exposes them is light.  I pray that I can be a light to the world of darkness.  We know that the truth sets us free and when things such as sexual and domestic violence are kept in silence and darkness, they are perpetuated more frequently, but when they are brought to light and exposed for what they are, people are freed from these strongholds on their lives.  I pray that by my outspokenness on these issues that people will recognize how wrong these things are and how much damage they do to women and their children.  I pray that offenders will repent and that victims will be healed.  God’s hand is not so weak that it cannot save even the worst offenders if they will repent of their sins and change their wicked ways.  And God will defend those who are weak and powerless against their offenders.  Their blood may cry out from the ground as Abel’s did, but like Cain, the offenders will be punished.  And though offenders may repent and be forgiven as King David did when he committed adultery and murder, they will still suffer the consequences of their behaviors.  King David was told that trouble would never leave his house because of his sin, and if you’re familiar with that story, you know that is exactly what happened.   One of his sons raped his daughter, he lost the baby that he and Bathsheba conceived, and one of his own sons turned against him.  Punishment by God is much worse than punishment by man, but God is merciful as well as just.  We must trust in both God’s justice and His love.  God’s word tells us what he requires of us and that is to love mercy, do justice, and take care of the poor.    We can’t do justice, if we don’t speak out on these issues. 

One of my sons recently accused me of abandoning them when I left their father several years ago.  This was heart-breaking to me as I felt the hatred in his voice, but I know I did what I felt I had to do at the time to survive.  When I left, I took several of the children with me and told the boys if they wanted to come with me to get in the car. They refused to do so, so I left them with their father.  I tried to go back about a year later and both their father and the boys were very abusive toward me, so after about a week, I left again.  At that point I knew that they had been brainwashed by their father that I was the evil one for leaving them.  I wonder what may have happened if I’d stayed.  Would I be dead, or like so many others, would I have killed my abusive husband?  Would the boys have grown up seeing their father’s abuse of me and believe there would be no consequences to that kind of behavior?  Would I ever have started my ministry?  I don’t know what the answer is to those questions, but I do know that by leaving, even though I chose not to divorce, I showed both their father and the boys that there are consequences to abusive behavior and that I would not live with them as long as they behaved in that manner.  I have been blamed by some people for leaving the relationship, and blamed by others for not leaving the relationship.  People often don’t understand the dynamics of a domestic violence situation and offer pat answers to complicated issues.   I don’t know whether or not the choices I made were the best ones I could have made, but they were the ones I made and we all have to live with them now.  I pray my sons can forgive me for “abandoning” them physically, though my heart and prayers never left them.  I pray that they learn there are consequences to abusive behaviors before they have to suffer more pain in their lives.  I pray that they learn to treat people with respect, whether male or female.  I trust that God can and will reach their hearts with the truth and that they will be emotionally healed from any thing I may have done wrong to them.  Please pray with me on this.

My garden is still producing a few peas and my tomatoes are just getting big enough to start making some blossoms I hope.  My onions are growing slowly, but they’re growing.  My beans are doing well but very few of the corn I planted came up, so I replanted some more and we’ll see what happens.  I have a few potatoes plants so maybe I’ll get some this year.  Some kind of white termite looking bugs got most of them last year, so I’ll have to see if they come back this year.   All my greens are producing seed now so I’m trying to collect and save seed.  My plum trees all have baby green plums on them now, so I hope I’ll get a few of them this year.   My baby fig trees have leafed out now and are getting some size on them.  My day lilies are getting their first few blossoms now along with my Lantanas. My azaleas that I transplanted are leafing out so I think they’ll make it.  I managed to tame one of the Russian Blue kittens I got and she’s doing well.  The other two were too wild and got outside, so they’re gone now.  I guess they were just too old and set to try to tame them.  My pullets are getting big now and I just bought three little baby roosters, so I hope they do ok.  I know how to clip their wings now, but I still may have to cover the area to keep them in at some point.  Our Christmas bunnies are doing great and are big now, so I went to get a female to go with the two males we have.  She didn’t have any regular rabbits, but I got one that is three-quarters velveteen and one-quarter long-haired.  She’s a beautiful solid white bunny with longer hair.  So far she’s doing well, but she’s young so it’ll be a while before she’s old enough to breed.  I hope we’ll be eating stewed rabbit and chickens eventually, and not have to worry about all those growth hormones and stuff they put in processed meats now.  I hope to eventually be self-reliant and not have to depend on groceries stores, which can easily shut down in natural disasters like Katrina.  As I said before, Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.  Well that’s all for now.  God bless to all and go fish for Jesus!

Notes and Prayer Requests

• Pray for Tommy, who is still not working full time, though he’s doing everything he can. Pray that he get’s back in the police academy this summer. 
• Pray for Amanda, who is expecting their second child, Kody, any day now and is experiencing some pregnancy related troubles.
• Pray for Jonnie to be motivated to go take the ACT soon. 
• Pray for those of my kids that are straying from the faith, and those who are rebelling against God.
• Pray for those people and ministries, which make contact with my website, that they will be blessed and find what they need through it. 
• I am a Christian Counselor and would be willing to provide services to those in need. I have a master’s degree in Psychological Counseling and am an ordained Minister as well. Please pray that I may be useful to God’s kingdom.
• I have published all of my New Testament paraphrases and Old Testament Torah on my new website located at http://gofishministries.wordpress.com/ Also there is a link to my books for sale there too.
• I have started on Isaiah, but can’t seem to work on it consistently, but now that summer is here I hope to have more time to work on it.  Pray for me to have the spiritual passion to get this work finished this year.  Thank all of you who are praying for me on this.

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Isaiah 13-18

Sargon II and dignitary. Low-relief from the L wall of the palace of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 716–713 BC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Isaiah 13-18

     13[1-5] The vision of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. Set up a flag on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand that they may go into the gates of the proud ones. I’ve told those who I have set aside to go; yes, I’ve called My soldiers to punish Babylon for My anger, even those who are very proud. The noise of an army is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the realms of the nations are gathered together! Yahweh, the God of All Creation is calling the army to the war. They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven from Yahweh, and are the weapons of God’s rightful anger, to destroy the whole land.

     [6-10] Scream; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It’ll come as destruction from the Almighty. So everyone’s hands will be weak, and everyone’s heart will fail them for fear. They’ll be terribly upset. Pain and sorrows will overtake them like a woman giving birth. They’ll look in amazement at each other and their faces will burn with shame. Look, the day of Yahweh is coming! It’ll be cruel, with great punishment and fierce anger; to make the land deserted, and to destroy the sinners out of it. The stars of the sky and their constellations won’t shine. The sun will be darkened as it comes out, and the moon won’t shine either.

     [11-16] I’ll punish the world for their evil, and the sinners for their sin. I’ll cause the proud to stop thinking about themselves, and will take the pride of the terrible ones from them. I’ll make people more rare than the finest gold, a person will be more valuable than the pure gold of Ophir. I’ll make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the great anger of Yahweh, the God of All Creation, and in the day of My fierce anger. Like a hunted deer, and like sheep that no one takes care of, they’ll all turn back to their own people, and go back to their own land. Everyone who is found will be killed. Everyone who is captured will fall in war. Their babies will be killed right in front of them. Their houses will be trashed, and their wives raped.

     [17-22] Look, I’ll stir up the Medes against them, who won’t value silver, and as for gold, they won’t enjoy it. They’ll kill the little babies, having no compassion even on the youngest of them. They won’t even spare the children.Babylon, the best of the realms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It’ll never be lived again and will stay deserted forever. The Arabians won’t have their homes there, nor will shepherds let their flocks lie down there. But the wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will play there. Wolves will howl in their great houses, and jackals will live in all their pleasant places. The time is near, and the days won’t be long in coming.

     14[1-6] Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join them, and they’ll unite with the family of Jacob. The people will take them, and bring them back to their land. The family of Israel will have them in Yahweh’s land for workers. They’ll take those who made them prisoners as prisoners; and they’ll rule over those who abused them. In the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard work you were forced to do, you’ll tell this story about the ruler of Babylon, and say, “The abuser has stopped and will never have power over us again!” Yahweh has broken the power and rule of the sinners and the rulers, who hit the people in great anger with many slaps, who ruled the nations in anger, with terrible troubles, which they didn’t restrain.

     [7-10] The whole earth will be at rest, and quiet. They break out in song. Yes, the fir trees will celebrate with you, and with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since the evil ones are humbled, no axe has hit us.” Hell below has moved to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up all the rulers of the nations from off their thrones. They’ll all answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

     [11-14] Your self-importance is brought down to Hell, along with the music you made. Maggots fall from you, and worms cover you. How you’ve fallen from Heaven, morning star, creature of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who troubled the nations! You said in your heart, “I’ll go up into heaven and put my throne above the stars of God! I’ll sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! I’ll go up higher than the clouds! I’ll make myself like the Most High God!”

     [15-20] Yet you’ll be brought down to Hell, to the depths of the pit. Those who see you will stare at you and think, “this is the creature who made the earth to tremble, who shook realms; who made the world like an empty countryside, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release the prisoners to go home?” All the rulers of the nations sleep in honor, everyone in their own house. But you are thrown away from your tomb like an evil offspring, clothed with the dead, who are killed in war, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body stomped under foot. You won’t join them in burial, because you’ve destroyed your land and killed your people. Evil-doers won’t have any descendants to be named after them.

     [21-27] Their children will be killed because of the sins of their fathers, so that they won’t rise up and take control over the earth, and fill the world with their evil cities. “I’ll rise up against them,” says Yahweh, the God of All Creation,“ and cut off their names forever from Babylon and they’ll have no descendants,” says Yahweh. “I’ll also make it a place for the porcupine, and pools of water. I’ll scry it clean with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh, the God of All Creation. Yahweh, the God of All Creation has promised, saying, “Surely, as I’ve thought it out, so it’ll happen; and as I’ve planned it, so will it stand. I’ll break the Assyrian in My land, and stomp them under foot on My mountains. Then they’ll have no power over My people, and they won’t have to work for them any more. This is what I’ve planed for the whole earth. This is My power that will rule over all the nations. For what Yahweh, the God of All Creation has planned, who can stop? God’s hand holds the power, and who can stop it?”

     [28-32] This vision was in the year that the ruler Ahaz died (715-716 B.C.) Don’t celebrate, all you of Philistia, because the stick that beat you (Sargon of Assyria?) is broken; for out of that snake’s egg will come another snake (Babylon), whose egg will hatch a fiery flying dragon (Satan?). The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I’ll kill your people with famine, and what’s left of you will be killed as well. Howl, you people at the gate! Cry, people in the city! You are all destroyed,Philistia; see the soldiers are coming out of the north, and there are no weak ones in their ranks. What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion(Jerusalem), and in it the troubled of God’s people will find safety.

     15[1-4] The vision of Moab(Jordan). In a night, Ar of Moab(Jordan) is laid waste, and brought to nothing; In a night Kir of Moab (Jordan) is laid waste, and brought to nothing. They’ve gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to cry.Moab(Jordan) screams over Nebo and over Medeba. They’ve shaved their heads and every beard is cut off. In their streets, they dress themselves in mourning clothes. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone screams, crying terribly. Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Even the armed soldiers of Moab(Jordan) cry aloud. They shake in fear.

     [5-9] My heart cries out for Moab(Jordan)! The leaders go to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; they go up by the highway of Luhith with crying; and in the highway of Horonaim, they cry over their destruction. For the waters of Nimrim will be deserted; and the grass has withered away, the new grass burns up, and there is nothing green left. So they’ll carry away everything they own, and what they’ve stored up, over the brook of the willows. For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab(Jordan); its screaming is heard to Eglaim, and to Beer Elim. For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; I’ll bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab (Jordan) who escape, and on whoever’s left in the land.

     16[1-5]Moab(Jordan) will send its lambs from Selah as a gift for the ruler of the land to the countryside, to the mountain of the city of Zion(Jerusalem). Their daughters will wait like wandering birds from a scattered nest, at the crossings of the Arnon river. Do what’s right; Counsel them and tell them what to do! Hide them in your shade, like the shadows at noonday! Hide those who are thrown out! Don’t turn against those who are running! Let My outcasts live with you! Be a safe haven for them from the face of their abuser. Those who abuse them will be brought to nothing and their abuse will stop. The abusers will be destroyed out of the land. Then One who will rule in loving kindness will come to power, who will rule in truth, in the family of David, judging, looking for justice, and quick to do what’s good.

     [6-9] We’ve heard of the pride of Moab(Jordan), who is very proud; even of their pride, and great anger, whose bragging means nothing. So Moab will scream for their people. Everyone will cry. They’ll cry for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, which are all gone. The fields of Heshbon, along with the vine of Sibmah, will wither. The God of all the nations has broken down its best branches, which reached even to Jazer, and wandered into the countryside. Its shoots were spread out all over it. They even crossed over the sea. So I’ll cry with the screaming of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I’ll water you with My tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh, because I have judged you and My judgment has fallen on your summer fruits and on your harvest.

     [10-14] You won’t be glad and happy over the fruitful field and the vineyards. There won’t be any singing, or noise of celebration. Nobody will press the wine out in the presses. I’ve made all the happy shouting stop. So My heart sounds like a harp for Moab(Jordan), and My soul cries for Kir Heres. Then when Moab(Jordan) goes up to worship, and tires out in the place of worship, and comes to their place of worship to pray, they won’t succeed. This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab(Jordan) in time past. But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the pride of Moab (Jordan) will be brought into judgment, with all the people; and what’s left will be very small and weak.”

     17[1-7] This is the vision of Damascus. “Look,Damascus is destroyed from being a city, and will be a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer are left. They’ll be for the people, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. Ephraim (northern Israel) will fall, along with those from Damascus, and what’s left of Syria. They’ll be just like the people of Israel,” says Yahweh, the God of All Creation. “Then all the beauty of Jacob will be gone, and the people will grow thin from hunger. It’ll be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, whose arm reaps the grain. Yes, it’ll be like when one gathers what’s left of the grain in the valley of Rephaim. Yet some will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the branches, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel. Then, people will look to their Maker, and they’ll have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

     [8-14] They won’t worship their false gods that they’ve made with their own hands; nor will they have respect for what their fingers have made, either the Asherim (fertility goddess, mother of Baal), or their incense altars. Then, their strong cities will be like the deserted places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were deserted by the people of Israel. It’ll be empty. For you’ve forgotten the God, who saves you with grace, and haven’t remembered the Rock of your strength. So you plant good plants, and set out strange seedlings. In the day you plant, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest goes away in the heat of the day of grief and you’re desperately sorry. Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing waters! The nations will rush like the rushing of much water, but God will turn them back, and they’ll go far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before a storm. At evening, they’ll be terrified and before the morning, they’ll be gone. This is the judgment of those who abuse us, and take everything we have.

     18[1-3] Ah, the land of the rustling wings of insects, which is beyond the rivers of Cush (Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt); that sends messengers by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go quickly, you messengers, to a nation whose people are tall and fierce, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that is measured out and shaken down, whose land the rivers divide!” All you people of the world, and you who live on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

     [4-7] Yahweh said to Me, “I’ll be still, and I’ll see where I am, like the shimmering heat in sunshine, like a mist of dew in the heat of harvest.” For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, I’ll cut off the sprigs with pruning tools, and cut down and take away the spreading branches. They’ll be left together for the hungry birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The hungry birds will feed on them all summer, and all the animals of the earth will feed on them all winter. In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh, the God of All Creation, from a land of tall and fierce people, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that is measured out and shaken down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the Name of Yahweh, the God of All Creation, Mount Zion (Jerusalem).

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Teacher allows Students to become Pen Pals with a Pedophile

A Christian school teacher, Laura Perry, paired her students up as pen pals with a jailed child molester. A lawsuit has been filed against Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Houston, Texas, in response to the teacher allowing her fourth -grade students to be pen pals with a child molester. Perry’s students shared letters with Rickey R. Rowlett, a prisoner on charges of sexual assault against a minor under 14 years of age, who was convicted of the charges and given a sentence of 50 years in jail. Perry’s former fiance, Blake Perry, was also indicted on child porn charges, but was allowed to have contact with students and coach children’s sports at Trinity.

Letters from the children revealed that the students had stated that they wanted to see Rowlett, a family friend of Perry’s, when he was released from prison. Perry allegedly told her students that Rowlett was innocent and was wrongfully incarcerated. She was fired from her position, and the principal who knew of the situation was put on leave.

This teacher would have put children in harm’s way should this criminal have been released, and they might have been exposed to sexual content in the exchange of letters.  I don’t know what this teacher believed, but evidently the courts believed him to be guilty of the charges.  To blatantly ignor a court’s decision and possibly put children in danger, is just wreckless negligence on the part of this teacher. 

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My Author Profile page at Amazon

This is my new Author profile page at Amazon.  It has links to all my books for sale, and my biography. It will also have any upcoming events listed.

Living on the Wild Side: Crisis Gardening and Survival Scavenging in the South is now available for Kindle

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From basic gardening skills to building a log cabin, Kimberly Hartfield gives you a glance at living skills that may be needed in a crisis event, such as long-term unemployment, natural disasters, war, etc. After living through Hurricane Katrina, and being virtually unemployed for several years, Kimberly believes it is necessary to be able to provide for our families, even when grocery stores are closed and access to needed items are not being provided by government intervention. Kimberly gives you a basic introduction to and overview of gardening skills, raising rabbits and chickens for meat and eggs, wild food and medicinal plant scavenging, what you might need in an emergency and even how to build an emergency shelter, or a log house if the need should arise. She has had to learn herself how to do many of these things, and would like to share with you what she has learned over the last few years. God has given her the knowledge to survive and as a Christian, she believes that God wants her to share that information with those who might need it at some point and doesn’t want to depend on the government to bail them out when that time comes.

 

 

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A Little Redneck Theology is now available for Kindle

A Little Redneck Theology [Kindle Edition] is now available for Kindle

A Little Redneck Theology is not a book for average readers who prefer to stick their heads in the sand and ignore issues like sexual and domestic violence. The author, Kimberly Hartfield, from Hattiesburg, MS, wrote her book for those women with strong stomachs and brave hearts, who are not afraid to stand up and speak out. Whether you are still a victim or are now victorious, A Little Redneck Theology was written with you in mind, women of indomitable spirits, who persevere and overcome like Deborah, the prophetess in the Bible, along with many other Biblical examples.

God does choose to call and use women like this to accomplish His will when the situation calls for it. If you are one of those women who are not afraid to step out of the boat of complacency, one of those women who have walked on the waves of adversity, one of those women who have fallen into the depths of depravity, and a woman who has been raised by Jesus Christ in liberty, then God is calling you.

A Little Redneck Theology will hopefully encourage, comfort, and challenge you not to give up when you are in the midst of your storm tossed journey back to the sandy shore of spiritual freedom. You will walk through the valley of the shadow of death and climb the mountain of rejoicing with Kimberly. You will feel the flames of hell and see into heavenly realms as she journeys through the pages of her life with openness and honesty. A Little Redneck Theology is no book for the weak of heart, but it is a book for the spiritually strong woman of faith.
To contact Kimberly send your email inquiries to Christiancounselor@jesuslovesu2.every1.net

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