Friday, 26 June 2009

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  The World is a Different Place this Morning...

  ...A common sentiment it seems.

  As shocked as I was to hear about Michael Jackson's passing yesterday (when a friend told me, I actually laughed - I honestly thought she was joking at first), and as heartbreaking as the images of Ryan O'Neal leaving the hospital after Farrah Fawcett's passing were, we can't lose sight of what's really going on in the world.

  Amid the headlines and photo essays dedicated to the "King of Pop," hidden in small print, I found this article...

   

  Ahmadinejad calls Obama meddler, likens him to Bush

  TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.S. president inexperienced, compared him unfavorably to President George W. Bush and suggested he apologize for "interfering in Iran's affairs."

  "Do you think that this kind of behavior is going to solve any of your problems? It will only make people think you are someone like Bush," the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

  "You are at the beginning of your way and you are gaining experience, and we do not wish the scandals of the Bush era to be repeated during your term of office," the Iranian leader said.

  President Obama, who has been in office for five months, has been treading a careful line on Iran, which has seen two weeks of street demonstrations following a disputed presidential election there.

  Pro-government security forces have cracked down on the protests, with officials saying 17 people have died. Unofficial reports suggest the number is much higher.

  Official results gave Ahmadinejad a 2-to-1 victory over his nearest rival, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi. Moussavi says the results were rigged.

  Obama has said Iranians must be free to demonstrate peacefully, and his administration Wednesday withdrew invitations to Iranian diplomats around the world to attend U.S. embassy Fourth of July parties.

  The extension of invitations last month was seen as a cautious outreach to Iran, which has not had diplomatic relations with Washington for 30 years.

  Obama wrote secretly to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before the election, Iranian sources confirmed Wednesday.

  Obama said Tuesday that Iran's government must justify itself not in the eyes of the United States, but in the opinion of its own people.

  "A sizable percentage of the Iranian people themselves ... consider this election illegitimate," he said at a White House news conference.

  "It is not too late for the Iranian government to recognize that there is a peaceful path that will lead to stability and prosperity," he said. "We hope they take it."

  Ahmadinejad said Thursday that even 5- and 6-year-olds would not allow insults to the Iranian nation, telling Obama: "We hope that you will avoid interfering in Iran's affairs and somehow express your regret so that the Iranian nation can become aware of your regret. If there is real change, the Iranian nation will welcome it."

   

   

  I know that I just posted my "Declaration of Independence" from things worldly that would try to bind and torment me.  But, even so, it is necessary to remain vigilant.  Even the Bible tells to watch and pray, so that we are not caught unaware. 

  So, aware I will be. 

  And that article's last paragraph sounds like a threat to me.

  So yes, the world is a different place today.  Not because of the high profile deaths of yesterday, for as callous as this sounds, people die every day.  No, the world is a different place than it was yesterday, because we are that many hours closer to time drawing to a close. 

  The stage is being set, both spiritually and politically for the end of the ages, beneath our very noses, and we are allowing ourselves to be distracted by the blinding flash and glitter that is icon worship. 

   

  Luke 21:8-36:
        ⁸And He said, Be on your guard and be careful that you are not led astray; for many will come in My name [appropriating to themselves the name Messiah which belongs to Me], saying, I am He! and, The time is at hand! Do not go out after them.

       ⁹And when you hear of wars and insurrections (disturbances, disorder, and confusion), do not become alarmed and panic-stricken and terrified; for all this must take place first, but the end will not [come] immediately.

      ¹⁰Then He told them, Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. [II Chron. 15:6; Isa. 19:2.]

      ¹¹There will be mighty and violent earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences (plagues: malignant and contagious or infectious epidemic diseases which are deadly and devastating); and there will be sights of terror and great signs from heaven.

      ¹²But previous to all this, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be led away before kings and governors for My name's sake.

      ¹³This will be a time (an opportunity) for you to bear testimony.

      ¹⁴Resolve and settle it in your minds not to meditate and prepare beforehand how you are to make your defense and how you will answer.

      ¹⁵For I [Myself] will give you a mouth and such utterance and wisdom that all of your foes combined will be unable to stand against or refute.

      ¹⁶You will be delivered up and betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and [some] of you they will put to death.

      ¹⁷And you will be hated (despised) by everyone because [you bear] My name and for its sake.

      ¹⁸But not a hair of your head shall perish. [I Sam. 14:45.]

      ¹⁹By your steadfastness and patient endurance you shall win the true life of your souls.

      ²⁰But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know and understand that its desolation has come near.

      ²¹Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside [the city] get out of it, and let not those who are out in the country come into it;

      ²²For those are days of vengeance [of rendering full justice or satisfaction], that all things that are written may be fulfilled.

      ²³Alas for those who are pregnant and for those who have babies which they are nursing in those days! For great misery and anguish and distress shall be upon the land and indignation and punishment and retribution upon this people.

      ²⁴They will fall by the mouth and the edge of the sword and will be led away as captives to and among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled (completed).

      ²⁵And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth [there will be] distress (trouble and anguish) of nations in bewilderment and perplexity [without resources, left wanting, embarrassed, in doubt, not knowing which way to turn] at the roaring (the echo) of the tossing of the sea,

      ²⁶Men swooning away or expiring with fear and dread and apprehension and expectation of the things that are coming on the world; for the [very] powers of the heavens will be shaken and caused to totter.

      ²⁷And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great (transcendent and overwhelming) power and [all His kingly] glory (majesty and splendor).

      ²⁸Now when these things begin to occur, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption (deliverance) is drawing near.

      ²⁹And He told them a parable: Look at the fig tree and all the trees;

      ³⁰When they put forth their buds and come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and perceive and know that summer is already near.

      ³¹Even so, when you see these things taking place, understand and know that the kingdom of God is at hand.

      ³²Truly I tell you, this generation (those living at that definite period of time) will not perish and pass away until all has taken place.

      ³³The sky and the earth (the universe, the world) will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

      ³⁴But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard, lest your hearts be overburdened and depressed (weighed down) with the giddiness and headache and nausea of self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries and cares pertaining to [the business of] this life, and [lest] that day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose;

      ³⁵For it will come upon all who live upon the face of the entire earth.

      ³⁶Keep awake then and watch at all times [be discreet, attentive, and ready], praying that you may have the full strength and ability and be accounted worthy to escape all these things [taken together] that will take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.

   

  Even so, come Lord Jesus.

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