We are living in one of the most exciting times in this world’s history as we await the return of Jesus Christ.

Imagine an area the size of London being covered two feet deep in 50p coins. Somewhere in the middle is one with a red dot. Now, imagine a blindfolded person being given only one chance to pick up the marked coin. Impossible?

That is the same probability as just eight prophecies about the Return of Christ being literally fulfilled, estimated as one in ten to the seventh power, i.e. one with 17 zeros = 100,000,000,000,000,000. This is a number so big we cannot begin to comprehend it, but it gives us some idea of how amazing it is that so many prophecies are, in fact, being literally fulfilled today.

His Promise is certain:

“In My Father’s House are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” (John 14:3, The Bible).

Jesus Christ is coming back again for His Church. First, believers will see Him as they meet the Lord in the air, known as the Rapture of the Church. Then we return with Him after the Great Tribulation when He stands on the Mount of Olives and every eye sees, every knee bows and every tongue confesses He is indeed Lord.

What a Day that will be!

Are you READY for His Return?

Val

These are very critical and prophetic days we live in and we will be examining powerful evidence for the Soon Return of Christ as we look at current events in the light of Biblical prophecy.

Many wonder about the Rapture of the Church. Will it happen? Is it a Biblical truth? When will it happen? I will be presenting Biblical evidence for this exciting event on the Church calendar so don’t miss it.

Let’s prepare ourselves, our families and especially our children and grandchildren for the Second Greatest Event this world will ever experience. The first was when the Lord came the first time – now we look forward to His Promised Return.

Earthquakes, pestilences, war and rumours of war, the global financial situation and much more will come under the spotlight this weekend.

Be sure to attend if you live in the vicinity of Durban.

Venue: St. George’s Presbyterian Church, Wellfreer/Admiral Road, Bluff, Durban, South Africa.

Dates: Friday – Sunday, January 20-22, 2012.

Val

In a legal brief filed with the US Supreme Court, Hillary Clinton has urged the justices not to call Jerusalem part of Israel.

At issue is the birthplace designation on passports given to US citizens born in Israel. The Administration’s policy is to require those born in the Jewish capital to have their place of birth listed as Jerusalem rather than Israel.

This rule applies to no other capital city on earth; its only purpose can only be to refuse to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish state.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case of nine-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky, who was born in Jerusalem in 2002. His parents want his birthplace listed as Israel.

Congress passed a law in 2004 requiring Israel be listed as the place of birth to those born in Jerusalem at their request, but the State Department headed by Hillary Clinton has refused.

They may as well say people born in London aren’t British!

The “world” seems determined to divide up the Land God gave His Chosen People, a job antiChrist will complete. “Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.” — Daniel 11:39.

How close are we to the Return of Christ and the Rapture of the Church?

Look up, believer, and tune in your ears for the trumpet blast!

Yes, the Rapture is on schedule and no amount of arguing will change God’s plan. Soon the Church will meet Him in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Val

P.S. Pop along to The Internet Church and listen to Ray Ludik sing “I Can’t Keep My Eyes Off The Clouds.” Your spirit will leap with you!

“My wife is having a baby,” he said excitedly.

“That’s nice,” I responded, thinking he wanted a lift to the local hospital.

“You don’t understand,” he shouted. “She is having a baby right now in the Church kitchen.”

We rushed through the sanctuary to the kitchen and, sure enough, there she was on all fours about to give birh. The Zulu people in South Africa are a hardy folk and I knew the baby was on its way.

I ran to the little chapel and interrupted about forty folks enjoying an early morning prayer meeting.

“Come, help deliver the baby!”

I could just see the whites of forty pairs of eyes, but no-one moved.

“You’re all parents and grandparents. You’ve been there. You know what to do…” I said as panic began to set in.

“We will help!”

I turned around to see two middle-aged bachelors. They had never been married and I doubt they had ever held a baby.

“We know what to do,” they said. “We saw it on TV.”

One rushed to find some newspaper and water (he’d seen that on TV) and the other stood over the hapless lady shouting “Push.”

I was on the ‘phone to the hospital and shouting “DON’T PUSH!!!!”
at the same time.

Fortunately for all of us, the ambulance arrived on time, but it was touch and go. The contractions were really coming thick and fast – and so was the baby.

It made me realise the truth of what Jesus said. The more “Signs of the Times” we see happening in our world .. the more the world’s contractions increase .. the closer is the Return of the One Who was once The Babe of Bethlehem.

I’m looking forward to His Return with great anticipation. How about you?

Val

“Listen to the statutes… teach them to your children and your grandchildren.” – Deuteronomy 4:1, 9

Jesus said the love of many would grow cold in the End Times. Despite our profession of faith, the facts speak loudly about the general level of spirituality among believers. The only true source of spiritual sustenance is the Inspired Word of God and neglect is causing many Christians to suffer from Spirtual Malnutrition.

Recently comedian Jay Leno asked his television audience to name one of the Ten Commandments. One person ventured: “God helps those who help themselves.” Leno asked if anyone could name the four Gospels. No one could; but responding to another question, almost everyone in the audience could name the four Beatles.

As biblical instruction wanes, large numbers of young people are biblically illiterate. Our society is developing a profound ignorance of Jesus. Many don’t understand the term “Good Friday” or the meaning of our basic Christian vocabulary–grace, sin, redemption, and salvation.

The number of people who read the Bible “occasionally” has declined from 79 percent in the 1980s to 59 percent. Only 16 percent of Christians say they read the Bible daily. (Clayton Hardiman, Bible Literacy Slipping, Experts Say, at Religious News Service, posted at home.snu.edu/~HCULBERT/literacy.htm)

Read your Bible every day. Teach it to your children. Don’t depend on others to do it. Offer to lead Bible classes at your church, and volunteer to work in the children’s ministry. Reversing the tide of biblical illiteracy is going to take all of us doing our part.

“Many Christians expect the world to respect the book they neglect.” -E.C. McKenzie

Source: David Jeremiah

Though the US has promised to veto the measure if it passes, the fear is that such an action would unleash a torrent of terrorist activity against Israel…and possibly the United States as well. Bosnia and Herzgovina along with Columbia are the two remaining undecided members of the Security Council. If either of them chooses to vote for the resolution, a harvest of death and destruction will almost certainly result.

Now is the time for urgent prayer for the peace of Jerusalem and the protection of Israel. Our support of God’s Chosen People has never been more important than it is at this present moment.

Source: Jerusalem Prayer Team

Val

“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.” — Matthew 24:23-25.

I have just watched a YouTube video of a man(iac) who professes to be Jesus Christ. The sad thing about this is that he has a growing band of followers – intelligent, educated Australians – who believe him.

Only believe the Living Word and what He says in His Written Word. These are dangerous times we are living in as the Return of Christ comes closer.

Here’s the link if you are interested. It should make every genuine follower of the Real Jesus Christ weep.

Sunday Night: Inside Australia’s Chilling New Cult (A.J. Miller)

I believe we are living in the end of the End Times.

Val

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then LOOK UP, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21:28).

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Obama and Netanyahu met at the United Nations Wednesday, and the two said only negotiation can resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Both the United States and Israel have strongly opposed the Palestinians’ plan to bring a statehood bid before the U.N. Security Council on Friday. (Today)

“We both agree that this is the only way to achieve peace,” the National Journal reported the Israeli leader saying, while thanking Obama for his support. “I think this is a badge of honor, and I want to thank you for wearing that badge of honor,” he said of the U.S. promise to oppose the Palestinian bid.

Earlier on Wednesday, Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly for the third time in his presidency. The Washington Post reports that the president said he is frustrated by the lack of progress on peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but stressed that there is “no shortcut” to ending the conflict.

It has been one year since Obama told the General Assembly he hoped to see a Palestinian state born by now, and Wednesday he said creating such a state alongside Israel is still his goal.

“But the question isn’t the goal we seek; the question is how to reach it. And I am convinced that there is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades,” The Times of India reported the president saying. “Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians who must live side by side. Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians—not us—who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them: on borders and security; on refugees and Jerusalem,” he added.

In his meeting with Netanyahu, Obama reiterated words from his speech to the assembly, the National Journal reported. “One-sided actions in the U.N. will achieve neither statehood nor self-determination.”

While many do not support Israel and the prime minister, activists from Christians United for Israel sent him more than 45,000 emails in 24 hours, expressing support for his efforts to defend the State of Israel at the UN.

The email states, in part: “As you stand before the representatives of so many hostile nations, we want you to know that you are not alone! There are millions of Christians in America and around the world who stand with you! We believe fervently in Israel’s right to exist and right to defend herself from attack like any other nation. And we agree with you that peace cannot be imposed by a hostile U.N.—it can only result from negotiations.”

John Hagee, CUFI founder and national chairman, said: “We are of course painfully aware that as Prime Minister Netanyahu takes the podium at the U.N. he will be speaking before a largely hostile crowd, but the people of Israel can rest assured that across our country and around the world millions of Christian Zionists stand with the Jewish State.”

In a further move to show support for Israel, Obama was due to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later on Wednesday, and appeal him to not present U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with a membership application on Friday. (Today)

Source: Charisma News

Note from Val: The Signs of the Return of Christ are being accelerated right now. The prophesed Middle East Crisis looks ready to explode. The global financial crisis is just waiting for antiChrist to step in with his financial plan (see Revelation chapter 13). Folks, we are in the Home Run.

Noted Christian author and speaker Hal Lindsey says the ‘Last Days’ are here, as Bible prophecies made thousands of years ago seem close to fulfillment.

“The prophets Zechariah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah all prophesy that, in the last days, a reborn nation of Israel will find itself alone and friendless with its back to the sea, surrounded by enemies with no one and nowhere to turn,” Lindsey says in a recent Hal Lindsey Report. “Does this sound familiar?” he asks. “Friends, those days are here.”

As the perils to Israel seem to grow day-by-day, Lindsey sounds the alarm. “Seldom have we seen a nation face — at one moment — so many lethal threats to its very existence,” he notes.

The recent attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo was one ominous sign. After being incited at a demonstration in Tahrir Square, thousands of Egyptians marched to the Israeli embassy. “Hundreds of them attacked the building, tore down the concrete walls, and breached the consulate. They looted files, trashed the offices, burned the Israeli flag, and came within moments of lynching the six Israeli security guards who remained behind after the entire diplomatic staff and their families were evacuated to Israel,” Lindsey notes.

Lindsey believes the turn in Egypt’s relations with Israel is unmistakable. ” Need we a clearer indication that Egypt’s military leaders will not have the will or courage to defy the Muslim Brotherhood and maintain the 1979 Camp David Accords with Israel?” he asks.

In addition to a hostile enemy on its southern flank, a worldwide political storm gathers against Israel in the United Nations. The Palestinian Authority is asking the U.N. to recognize the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem as the sovereign nation of Palestine — based on the pre-1967 borders. “It’s a slam dunk in the General Assembly since Arab and Muslim nations and their sympathizers hold a voting majority, but a vote in the GA has no legal weight until ratified by the Security Council,” Lindsey notes.

While the Obama administration has indicated it will veto the resolution, Obama also hopes it won’t reach that point. “A US veto will put him in an awkward position since he has promised a state to the Palestinians and assured the Muslim world that if anyone could get it done, it would be him. They believed him and are now publicly and loudly using his own words against him,” according to Lindsey.

He believes Israel will be at great risk if Palestine is recognized in the U.N. ”Israel would only be nine miles wide at one critical point. It would mean that from the hills of the West Bank (Palestine) the terrorists can physically see Tel Aviv. That would be child’s play for the rockets and missiles of the terrorists or the national military of the new state,”Lindsey notes.

“Further, Israel would no longer have the recognized right to enter Judea or Samaria (the West Bank) or East Jerusalem to protect Jewish settlers, tourists, or any of the Jewish or Christian holy sites. They could no longer enter those areas or Gaza to destroy missile and rocket launch sites operated by the Palestinians. To do so would be seen as an invasion of sovereign territory and give cause to Palestine’s “allies” to rush to its aid.”

Such a turn of events will only embolden Israel’s sworn enemies. “Revered Israeli statesman, Abba Eban, once referred to those indefensible borders as the “Auschwitz borders” because of the danger they posed to Israel,” Lindsey notes.

Turkey, once considered a friend in the region, has also turned against Israel under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan. “Turkey was the second Muslim nation to recognize Israel in 1949 (Iran was the first) and was the only Muslim nation with a formal military alliance with Israel,” Lindsey notes.

But now, Turkey has renounced the alliance, expelled Israel’s ambassador, and recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv. Further, Erdogan has threatened to send Turkish warships to challenge any Israeli naval presence outside Israel’s 12-mile territorial waters.

” Turkey is furious with Israel for interdicting the “Freedom Flotilla” that it sent to bust the Egyptian-Israeli maritime blockade of Gaza in May of 2010. After the passengers of the Mavi Marmara attempted to lynch the Israeli boarding party, a battle ensued and nine Turkish nationals died,” Lindsey notes.

Lindsey sees another side to Erdogan’s posturing. “Erdogan’s ulterior motive is to restore Turkey to its pre-World War I status as leader of the Islamic world and the dominant power in the Mediterranean and Middle East. He sees himself as the emerging regional strongman. That’s why he’s slowly dismantling Turkey’s secular government and rebuilding Turkey as an Islamic state. He’s touring the Arab and Muslim nations and loudly touting his record of challenging Israel and defying the West. He’s aligning Turkey with Iran and Hamas and insinuating himself into the politics of other nations. Though Turkey is prominent member of NATO, which it joined when Russian Communism was the common enemy, Turkey is increasingly withdrawing from the West now that radical Islam is the common enemy.”

As Israel finds itself increasingly isolated on the world stage, with its back against the wall, surrounded by hostile nations, the prophecies of Zechariah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah all seem closer to fulfillment in these ‘Last Days.’

Note: Hal Lindsey’s reports are featured on TBN, Daystar, Inspiration, CPM Network, various local stations, www.hallindsey.com or www.hischannel.com.

Note by Val:

Absolutely true! Watch the “Fig Tree” in these End Times. We are sitting on the edge of the Return of Christ and the Rapture of the Church is the next big item on our calendar. Be aware and prepared, Church.