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This film is being made for the masses. It is a call to repentance in accordance with prophetic scripture. The time is right for such a film when everyone is fearful about what lies ahead for America and the world as a whole.

Repentance and the seeking of God’s face is the answer. The name is “The Prophecies” and is a true to life thriller. The story is lifted off the front pages of today’s media – featuring news clips of Isis, race riots, natural disasters and more.

This film is presently being cast and we are looking for crew members with experience as well.

For more information contact Jim T. “Towers” – jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com

There is nothing inherently wrong with making long range plans. But if you are aware of the prevailing times and how they jibe with scripture, then I suggest that you begin to live in the immediate future as well. We can’t go on pretending everything is “hunky-dory,” as we used to say in the “good old days.” Furthermore, in light of the end time happenings surrounding us, we ought to be getting our lives and priorities in order. I would suggest sincere repentance with a capitol “R”, finding your calling, studying the scriptures diligently; adhering to what is written and sincere prayer for our brethren, families, loved ones and our beloved country.

In spite of

biblical prophecy

being played out before our very eyes, we still have some, even so-called Christians, who say, “Where is he that cometh in the name of the Lord or where is the sign of his coming for since the death of the fathers these things have been prophesied.” I would caution you to wake up and smell the coffee. All of the signs of the times are cascading on our heads. Many in America today are living their comfortable lives and are not aware of what’s going on in the world, and don’t want to know. Most of them go about making long range plans as if they were going to live forever. It’s hard to believe a person can ignore the signs and wonders swirling all around him. There are even some Christians who are making plans for things they want to achieve ten years down the line! What arrogance. Obviously they don’t read or care to know scripture as it pertains to the end times.

I’m a firm believer in the inerrancy of the Bible. Lately, upon re-reading the Revelation of John for the umpteenth time, I discovered the believers under the altar of God in chapter 6 who were beheaded for their faith in Christ, and made the connection with the men who are now being beheaded in an ongoing parade by Isis. This alone should be enough to prove to anyone that we are now living in the end times. After all, those who were beheaded for their faith in Revelation chapter 6 are being beheaded right now. How did these acts happen to make their appearance at this precise time in recorded history? If that’s not enough to convince that these are the end times, just take a look at the latest Bible Code.

Although I’m still not convinced that the Bible Code is completely factual, its content is too often phenomenally correct.

Bible Code?…bahhh humbug! Now I ask you, why the God who knows the beginning and the end of things has not been able to disclose a few more tidbits in and through His Word to convince us frail human beings with limited understanding that He truly is the author of Holy Scripture? It’s like He is saying, “Hey people, I dictated what should be written in the Bible, just take a look at this ! can mankind do such a thing as this?

After perusing the internet the other night and casually checking what the latest Bible Code says about 2015-2016 on you tube, I couldn’t help but sit up and take notice of what is said about the very things that are in play right now. Names and places were spelled out as well as key words such as abortion, judgment, America, homosexuals, sin, rapture, repentance. Obama and Netanyahu were mentioned repeatedly! Another thing that blew me away is the naming of seven angels, one after the other. Here are their names, Ramiel, Samiel, Asael, Yuriel, Somiel, Shlinmiel, Raphael, Meshhiel, Azazel, and Abbadon, (Abbadon is another name for the fallen angel – Satan). Could this be the seven angels of Revelation 8:2, plus the other three in that same chapter?

Why are they all referred to in this time frame? Is God trying to tell us something? Could it be that the timing coincides with the actual events described in Revelation chapter 8? If so, then the world can expect to see some pretty fearful and amazing things in the very near future. (Remember, we’re talking about 2015 and 2016.)

I found it amazing that all these words were in close proximity to one another and all you had to do is fill in the blanks as though it were a crossword puzzle. I remember one of the prophets saying that God gives a warning before He passes judgment on mankind, and this could just be it; a message hidden in the pages of the Bible for those who would be living in the final days before the Great Tribulation. Remember too that during the last vision of Daniel, God told him to seal the last revelation up until the end when travel and knowledge would increase. Flight and the internet came to mind. I realize that not all Christians subscribe to this phenomenon, but I say better safe than sorry.

If you’re a skeptic, please don’t try to tell me that you know better than the greatest living mathematicians in the world and a host of other cryptology experts who know about such things. This phenomenon was also written about in notable scientific journals a few years ago, but somehow the general public was only listening to what atheists (who don’t even believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God) had to say about this fantastic find, and didn’t put much stock in it. I think too that the rate of information is such today that we have a tendency to forget what happened yesterday in order to try to follow what’s happened today. Or it could simply be information overload.

I know, I know,….not to worry, we’ll be gone before then, in the rapture… maybe, and maybe not. God may have to dust us off a bit before we take flight, and if we’re only concerned about ourselves and no one else, then I wonder what God thinks about that? Are you really ready to meet your maker?

I don’t know about you, but I want to stay abreast of all that’s going on in the world each and every day, so that I can talk to others about things that pertain to their lives. In sharing this pertinent information with others, inevitably they will say something that makes it possible to share the Gospel with them. I’m using this approach more and more, and it works since everyone has been blindsided by today’s events and no one has an answer, except “Born Again” Christians.

Christians making long range plans are out of touch with what’s happening in the world today. It may be time to quit playing church and do something about these atrocities. I’ve even had some say to me that they don’t watch the news anymore because it’s too disheartening to see what’s going on in our country and the world at large. What ignorance!!

In the meantime, twenty one Egyptian Christians were beheaded by Isis just yesterday, and it seems to be an ongoing event. Already Isis, Al Qaida, Boko Haram and other Islamic extremist groups have killed tens of thousands of men, women and children, mostly Christians.

If what we see going on in our country and the world is any indication of the last days, then by all means we must quit playing church, repent of our apathy and hardheartedness and seek God’s face in earnest.

Jesus said in Matthew 16:3, “And in the morning, it will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering. Oh you hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but you cannot discern the signs of the times?”

By the way,
It’s my understanding that a movie named “David and Goliath” is out right now in limited release around the country. It isn’t showing in my area.
You realize, of course, that a movie “David” was made years ago staring Richard Gere. I think I’ll see it again to see if I can find any discrepancies in the story line.
Yet another football movie entitled “Wood Lawn” is coming out in the fall. What’s with all the Christian football movies? Obviously the screenwriters of these movies have been living their lives vicariously at football stadiums.
YBIC

Jim Torres “Towers”

By Geri Ungurean
As I watch in horror as anti Semitism spreads like a cancerous tumor throughout Europe, and as our White House shows such disdain for Israel and PM Netanyahu, I ponder as to why these things are happening. WHY is there such hatred for my people? Is this something new in the country touted as being Israel’s only friend in the world?

This led me to take a look at history, and what I am finding is this: Although America has proclaimed to be the only friend that Israel has in the world, the actions of our country toward Israel have never backed up the rhetoric — they only expose the evil that America feels and has always felt toward the Jews in their own land.

I thought back to the 1967 miraculous Six-Day War. I was a teen when that broke out. The Lord must have had His hand on me, so many years before I came to know Yeshua as my Lord and Savior. I remember that my heart was so broken, thinking about little Israel, and the magnitude and power of the armies of her enemies converging upon her. Surely this would finish that which Hitler began – the annihilation of my people.

I remember when Israel emerged victorious against her enemies, and how overjoyed I felt. I was so thankful. Back then I didn’t know how much God loved His Chosen; I just kept thinking that Israel must have an incredible and ferocious military! I smile when I think about this now, because it was a miracle from the Lord. He kept Israel “on the map” as He will always do.

Of course, there were lost Israeli lives in that war, but Israel emerged victorious against all odds.
I researched that war recently. It was eye-opening to say the least. I’ve taken much of the rest of this article directly from jewishvirtuallibrary.org

THE SIX DAY WAR – MYTHS VS FACT
MYTH
“Arab governments recognized Israel after the Suez War.”

FACT
Golan Heights, 1949-1967
Israel consistently expressed a desire to negotiate with its neighbors. In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda Meir challenged Arab leaders to meet with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to negotiate a peace settlement. Egyptian President Nasser answered on October 15, saying that Israel was trying to deceive the world, and reiterating that his country would never recognize the Jewish State.

The Arabs were equally adamant in their refusal to negotiate a separate settlement for the refugees. Nasser made clear that solving the refugee issue was not his concern. “The danger of Israel,” he said, “lies in the very existence of Israel as it is in the present and in what she represents.”

Meanwhile, Syria used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell Israeli farms and villages. Syria’s attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966, while Nasser’s rhetoric became increasingly bellicose: “We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand,” he said on March 8, 1965. “We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood.”

Again, a few months later, Nasser expressed the Arabs’ aspiration: “the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people. In other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate aim: perfection of Arab military might. The national aim: the eradication of Israel.”

MYTH
“Israel’s military strike in 1967 was unprovoked.”

FACT
A combination of bellicose Arab rhetoric, threatening behavior and, ultimately, an act of war left Israel no choice but preemptive action. To do this successfully, Israel needed the element of surprise. Had it waited for an Arab invasion, Israel would have been at a potentially catastrophic disadvantage.

In addition to Nasser’s verbal threats, Israel was under actual attack from Arab terrorists. In 1965, 35 raids were conducted against Israel. In 1966, the number increased to 41. In just the first four months of 1967, 37 attacks were launched.

Meanwhile, Syria’s attacks on Israeli kibbutzim from the Golan Heights provoked a retaliatory strike on April 7, 1967, during which Israeli planes shot down six Syrian MiGs. Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union—which had been providing military and economic aid to both Syria and Egypt—gave Damascus information alleging a massive Israeli military buildup in preparation for an attack. Despite Israeli denials, Syria decided to invoke its defense treaty with Egypt.

On May 15, Israel’s Independence Day, Egyptian troops began moving into the Sinai and massing near the Israeli border. By May 18, Syrian troops were prepared for battle along the Golan Heights.

Nasser ordered the UN Emergency Force, stationed in the Sinai since 1956, to withdraw on May 16. Without bringing the matter to the attention of the General Assembly, as his predecessor had promised, Secretary-General U Thant complied with the demand. After the withdrawal of the UNEF, the Voice of the Arabs proclaimed (May 18, 1967):

“As of today, there no longer exists an international emergency force to protect Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any more to the UN about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence.”

An enthusiastic echo was heard on May 20 from Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad:

“Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united. I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.”

On May 22, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israeli shipping and all ships bound for Eilat. This blockade cut off Israel’s only supply route with Asia and stopped the flow of oil from its main supplier, Iran. The following day, President Johnson declared the blockade illegal and tried, unsuccessfully, to organize an international flotilla to test it.

Nasser was fully aware of the pressure he was exerting to force Israel’s hand. The day after the blockade was set up, he said defiantly: “The Jews threaten to make war. I reply: Welcome! We are ready for war.”

Nasser challenged Israel to fight almost daily. “Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight,” he said on May 27. The following day, he added: “We will not accept any coexistence with Israel. Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel. The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.”

King Hussein of Jordan signed a defense pact with Egypt on May 30. Nasser then announced:

“The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle; the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not declarations.”

President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq joined in the war of words: “The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear—to wipe Israel off the map.” On June 4, Iraq joined the military alliance with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

The Arab rhetoric was matched by the mobilization of Arab forces. Approximately 250,000 troops (nearly half in Sinai), more than 2,000 tanks and 700 aircraft ringed Israel.

By this time, Israeli forces had been on alert for three weeks. The country could not remain fully mobilized indefinitely, nor could it allow its sea lane through the Gulf of Aqaba to be interdicted. Israel’s best option was to strike first. On June 5, 1967, the order was given to attack Egypt.

MYTH
“Nasser had the right to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.”

FACT
Israel, 1949-1967
In 1956, the United States gave Israel assurances that it recognized the Jewish State’s right of access to the Straits of Tiran. In 1957, at the UN, 17 maritime powers declared that Israel had a right to transit the Strait. Moreover, the blockade violated the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, which was adopted by the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea on April 27, 1958.

The closure of the Strait of Tiran was the casus belli in 1967. Israel’s attack was a reaction to this Egyptian first strike.

President Johnson acknowledged as much after the war (June 19, 1967):

“If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other, it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Strait of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent maritime passage must be preserved for all nations.”

MYTH
“The United States helped Israel defeat the Arabs in six days.”

FACT
The United States tried to prevent the war through negotiations, but it could not persuade Nasser or the other Arab states to cease their belligerent statements and actions. Still, right before the war, President Johnson warned: “Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go alone.”

Then, when the war began, the State Department announced: “Our position is neutral in thought, word and deed.”

Moreover, while the Arabs were falsely accusing the United States of airlifting supplies to Israel, Johnson imposed an arms embargo on the region (France, Israel’s other main arms supplier, also embargoed arms to Israel).

By contrast, the Soviets were supplying massive amounts of arms to the Arabs. Simultaneously, the armies of Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were contributing troops and arms to the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian fronts.

MYTH
“Israel attacked Jordan to capture Jerusalem.”

FACT
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol sent a message to King Hussein saying Israel would not attack Jordan unless he initiated hostilities. When Jordanian radar picked up a cluster of planes flying from Egypt to Israel, and the Egyptians convinced Hussein the planes were theirs, he then ordered the shelling of West Jerusalem. It turned out the planes were Israel’s, and were returning from destroying the Egyptian air force on the ground. Meanwhile, Syrian and Iraqi troops attacked Israel’s northern frontier.

Had Jordan not attacked, the status of Jerusalem would not have changed during the course of the war. Once the city came under fire, however, Israel needed to defend it, and, in doing so, took the opportunity to unify the city, ending Jordan’s 19-year occupation of the eastern part.

MYTH
“Israel did not have to fire the first shot in June 1967.”

FACT
By using the element of surprise, Israeli forces managed to break through the enemy lines after just six days of fighting and were in a position to march on Cairo, Damascus and Amman. A cease-fire was invoked on June 10.

The victory came at a very high cost. In storming the Golan Heights, Israel suffered 115 dead—roughly the number of Americans killed during Operation Desert Storm. Altogether, Israel lost twice as many men—777 dead and 2,586 wounded—in proportion to her total population as the U.S. lost in eight years of fighting in Vietnam.19 Also, despite the incredible success of the air campaign, the Israeli Air Force lost 46 of its 200 fighters. Had Israel waited for the Arabs to strike first, as it did in 1973, and not taken preemptive action, the cost would certainly have been much higher and victory could not have been assured.

MYTH
“Israel expelled peaceful Arab villagers from the West Bank and prevented them from returning after the war.”

FACT
After Jordan launched its attack on June 5, approximately 325,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank fled. These were Jordanian citizens who moved from one part of what they considered their country to another, primarily to avoid being caught in the crossfire of a war.

A Palestinian refugee, who was an administrator in a UNRWA camp in Jericho, said Arab politicians had spread rumors in the camp. “They said all the young people would be killed. People heard on the radio that this is not the end, only the beginning, so they think maybe it will be a long war and they want to be in Jordan.”

Some Palestinians who left preferred to live in an Arab state rather than under Israeli military rule. Members of various PLO factions fled to avoid capture by the Israelis. Nils-Göran Gussing, the person appointed by the UN Secretary-General to investigate the situation, found that many Arabs also feared they would no longer be able to receive money from family members working abroad.

Israeli forces ordered a handful of Palestinians to move for “strategic and security reasons.” In some cases, they were allowed to return in a few days. In others, Israel offered to help them resettle elsewhere.

Israel now ruled more than three-quarters of a million Palestinians—most of whom were hostile to the government. Nevertheless, more than 9,000 Palestinian families were reunited in 1967. Ultimately, more than 60,000 Palestinians were allowed to return.

After the Six-Day War ended, President Johnson announced his view of what was required next to end the conflict: “Certainly, troops must be withdrawn; but there must also be recognized rights of national life, progress in solving the refugee problem, freedom of innocent maritime passage, limitation of the arms race and respect for political independence and territorial integrity.”

MYTH
“During the 1967 War, Israel deliberately attacked the USS Liberty.”

FACT
The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was a grievous error, largely attributable to the fact that it occurred in the midst of the confusion of a full-scale war in 1967. Ten official United States investigations and three official Israeli inquiries have all conclusively established the attack was a tragic mistake.

On June 8, 1967, the fourth day of the Six-Day War, the Israeli high command received reports that Israeli troops in El Arish were being fired upon from the sea, presumably by an Egyptian vessel, as they had a day before. The United States had announced that it had no naval forces within hundreds of miles of the battle front on the floor of the United Nations a few days earlier; however, the USS Liberty, an American intelligence ship under the dual control of the Defense Intelligence Agency/Central Intelligence Agency and the Sixth Fleet, was assigned to monitor the fighting. As a result of a series of United States communication failures, whereby messages directing the ship not to approach within 100 miles were not received by the Liberty, the ship sailed to within 14 miles off the Sinai coast.

The Israelis mistakenly thought this was the ship shelling its soldiers and war planes and torpedo boats attacked, killing 34 members of the Liberty’s crew and wounding 171. Ships from the Sixth Fleet were directed to launch four attack aircraft with fighter cover to defend the Liberty, but the planes were recalled after a message was received at the White House that the Israelis had admitted they had attacked the ship.

Tapes of the radio transmissions made prior, during and after the attack do not contain any statement suggesting the pilots saw a U.S. flag before the attack on the ship. During the raid, a pilot specifically says, “there is no flag on her!” The recordings also indicate that once the pilots became concerned about the identity of the ship, by virtue of reading its hull number, they terminated the attack and they were given an order to leave the area.

A CIA report on the incident issued June 13, 1967, found that an overzealous pilot could mistake the Liberty for an Egyptian ship. In 1981, the National Security Agency concluded: “While these [signal intelligence of Israeli communications] reports revealed some confusion on the part of the pilots concerning the nationality of the ship, they tended to rule out any thesis that the Israeli Navy and Air Force deliberately attacked a ship they knew to be American.”

Initially, the Israelis were terrified that they had attacked a Soviet ship and might have provoked the Soviets to join the fighting. Once the Israelis were sure what had happened, they reported the incident to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and offered to provide a helicopter for the Americans to fly out to the ship and to supply any help they required to evacuate the injured and salvage the ship. The offer was accepted and a U.S. naval attaché was flown to the Liberty.

In October 2003, the first Israeli pilot to reach the ship broke his 36-year silence on the attack. Brig.-Gen. Yiftah Spector said he had been told an Egyptian ship was off the Gaza coast. “This ship positively did not have any symbol or flag that I could see. What I was concerned with was that it was not one of ours. I looked for the symbol of our navy, which was a large white cross on its deck. This was not there, so it wasn’t one of ours.”

The Jerusalem Post obtained a recording of Spector’s radio transmission in which he said, “I can’t identify it, but in any case it’s a military ship.”

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Congress on July 26, 1967: “It was the conclusion of the investigatory body, headed by an admiral of the Navy in whom we have great confidence, that the attack was not intentional.” Twenty years later, he repeated his belief that the attack was a mistake, telling a caller on the “Larry King Show” that he had seen nothing in the 20 years since to change his mind that there had been no “cover-up.”

In January 2004, the State Department held a conference on the Liberty incident and also released new documents, including CIA memos dated June 13 and June 21, 1967, which say that Israel did not know it was striking an American vessel. The historian for the National Security Agency, David Hatch, said the available evidence “strongly suggested” Israel did not know it was attacking a U.S. ship. Two former U.S. officials, Ernest Castle, the United States Naval Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv in June 1967, who received the first report of the attack from Israel, and John Hadden, then CIA Chief of Station in Tel Aviv, also agreed with the assessment that the attack on the Liberty was a mistake.

Israel apologized for the tragedy and paid nearly $13 million in humanitarian reparations to the United States and to the families of the victims in amounts established by the U.S. State Department. The matter was officially closed between the two governments by an exchange of diplomatic notes on December 17, 1987.

Many of the survivors of the Liberty remain bitter, and are convinced the attack was deliberate. None of Israel’s accusers, however, can explain why Israel would deliberately attack an American ship at a time when the United States was Israel’s only friend and supporter in the world. Confusion in a long line of communications, which occurred in a tense atmosphere on both the American and Israeli sides, is a more probable explanation.

“The Arabs say they want their territory back, but they don’t want to talk to us, and they don’t want to negotiate with us, and they don’t want to acknowledge us.” ~ Abba Eban [1]

FAST FOWARD TO 2015

Does the statement by Abba Eban have a familiar ring to it? The reality of Israel’s entire history since the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948 is that her Arab neighbors do NOT acknowledge the right of Israel to exist.

This has always been why Bibi Netanyahu will not sign any peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. He has said this repeatedly – that until Abbas and his government say that Israel has a right to exist; Israel’s government will not sign any treaty.

We know that the Antichrist will present a treaty for peace, and that Israel will be tricked into signing it. It’s with much trepidation that I think of the upcoming elections in Israel. Just as America has ultra liberals, so does Israel. If a liberal wins the election in Israel, that will set the stage for Antichrist to be revealed, and for Israel to sign the dreaded document.

As they say — the rest is history. We, as believers in Yeshua, know much of history before it happens. We know the One who is charge of history.

He knows and holds the rest of the story in His hand.

“Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.” (Isaiah 41:11-12)

“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.” (Zechariah 2:8)

MARANATHA!

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We’ve got wolves among the sheep. Knowing that some readers are new to the Christian faith, they have to be warned about these heretics and scoundrels. In these final days of human history we must face the facts, and the facts are that there is a great deception going on, a deception to draw people away from the Biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus warned about these so-called wolves among the sheep, saying that in the last days “…. if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.”
Any group of people that deny the deity of Christ, His death and resurrection and deny that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and that no man comes to the Father but by Him is a heretical cultist and /or scoundrel. “For there is no other name, under heaven, given among men, whereby you must be saved.”
It took seventy Jewish scholars to interpret the Pentateuch and Septuagint from the earlier writings of the Holy Scriptures. Then in the last century a single delusional man decided to rewrite the King James interpretation. His name was Charles Taze Russell, the man who founded the Jehovah’s Witness cult. Another such man named Joseph Smith found golden plates in his back yard and founded the Mormon fairy tale in his overt sexual desire to have more than one wife. I like Glen Beck, but obviously this man is out to get ratings and nothing more. I’d like to have a talk with him. There is also one woman named Mary Baker Eddie who founded the Christian Scientist cult. Apparently she was a scientist of some sort.
Did you notice that in each case there was only one delusional person with their own diabolical interpretation of scripture? And it took seventy learned scholars from all facets of the arts and sciences to come up with the King James Version! If there were any mistakes made, they had nothing to do with doctrine. Jesus said, “For verily I say to you that not one jot or tittle shall in no wise be taken from the law till all these things come to pass.” If Jesus was so concerned about every jot and tittle of the Bible, don’t you think He would have been looking over the shoulder of these learned men to make sure they got it right?
Years ago when I didn’t know better, I enjoyed watching some of these wolves prancing about on television on the gaudy TBN sets, claiming to be called of God to preach, teach and exhort. Each had his own peculiar pompadour and/or mode of dress, and even their own gait as they “strutted the boards” – so to speak. Huffing and puffing and strutting like what they thought great pulpiteers, (that’s what these people refer to themselves as, as though it were something to be proud of ) should look like. Modulating their voices and even stuttering as they pranced around on the dais, they’d put on quite a show. One even had a hankie to wipe his brow on occasion as the klieg lights focused on his red, sweat drenched and tormented face.
After awhile women became emboldened and got in on the act as well. I well remember one who could cry on cue, and it would cause her heavy black mascara to run down her face. For all the money involved, even they began prancing and bellowing like a man. One of them, Joyce Meyer, does so in black skintight leather pants that leaves nothing to the imagination.
As time went on and I got to know the Word of God better and better, I began to realize that most of this type of preaching was theatrics. Is it any wonder Hollywood makes these characters the butt of their movies? It’s also no wonder level-headed people think all Christians are fools for believing in these charlatans. Even a child can see the humor and irony of it all, especially if they know of Jesus Christ. Jesus never acted that way, and neither did the Apostles. They shared the Gospel with love and compassion and admonished people to reconsider the error of their ways.
Today we’ve seen it all, and yet these folks just keep coming, even after being exposed, much like our politicians. This expose is not meant to harm anyone in any way. This isn’t about judging people, it’s about warning the young in Christ and the gullible who rely on existential experiences to confirm and try to strengthen their faith. But mature Christians know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, just like the Bible says.
Although there are many more apostates of various colors and with assorted agendas, I would alert you to the more obvious ones.
Number one on this list of audacious charlatans is Russell Howard Browne, “The Preaching Bartender.” Now here’s a guy who’s likened to a bartender dispensing mind numbing alcohol and causing people to get drunk. Although this man has no degree of any kind, he refers to himself as a “Doctor of Theology.” You can purchase a diploma like his on the internet for twenty bucks. This man was first introduced to the world by none other than Benny Hinn back in the nineties. I wouldn’t doubt that Mr. Browne had something on Benny and threatened to expose him unless he agreed to help him enter into his very own ministry, the “laughing” ministry. This is the way many politicians operate, by blackmail.
Benny Hinn, although being exposed time and again, continues to ravage the flock. The sheeple, however, don’t scatter but willingly give him their necks as they lie on their backs in the aisles. Utterly unbelievable! Now here is a man who over the years has predicted certain things would happen over and over, and of course they never did. “If a prophet prophecies something and it doesn’t happen, he is NOT speaking for God.” He has no humility or fear of God and continues to lie to an ignorant and bleating flock.
Creflo Dollar wants your millions to be able to buy a custom jet so he can fly around the country, bringing news of glad tidings to a church near you. Really?….why can’t he fly commercial like the rest of us?
There are many others out there, below are a partial list of questionable characters,
Joel Olsteen, who seldom if ever mentions repentance and salvation through faith in Christ.
Kenneth Copeland and wife, who are self-seeking worldly people.

Richard Bonnke, a man who claims to raise the dead.

Harfouche and wife, a couple of charismatics who are blinded by the glitter of the adoration.

Sid Roth, a messianic “puppeteer” with his own television show who also goes about “slaying” people in the spirit.
Joseph Prince, some say he teaches salvation without repentance. I won’t watch people like that for a minute. We are called to discern the spirits of such people.
People who subscribe to such teachings have itching ears to hear what they want to hear.
Jonathan Cahn gave us “The Harbinger” a couple of years ago. We weren’t sure if the Harbinger was fact or fiction, and we are still unsure. Now comes the Shemita. These two books were very interesting, but why hadn’t we heard of these phenomena before? “Rabbi” Cahn sure looks and sounds like the real thing, and is a great speaker. But then what is he doing hooking up with Russell Howard Browne, an obvious charlatan? Don’t birds of a feather flock together? If he’s real he’d do well to sever bonds with this charlatan and others like him..
Another questionable person is Rick Warren, who wants to unite Islam and Christianity, calling it Chrislam. These two faiths are totally incompatible. Christianity is a faith of love, caring and hope, while Islam is an ideology of heartless murder, confusion and despair.
To be sure there are many more hucksters out there, but the apostle Paul warned us that this would be so, saying “For false Christ’s and false prophets shall rise and show great signs and wonders, to seduce, so that if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.”
By the way, a Christian woman who wants to produce films told me that the characters in the series of movies “Fast and Furious” were supposed to be Christians. Is that so? If so, where is the redeeming value in their films? This same person believes Christians should make family friendly films like “Brave Heart.” (?) She believes she will be able to produce such films in about three years. What do you think? Will America as we know it today even exist three years from now?
I recently watched “Fiddler on the roof” again after many years and I love it still. Now that’s filmmaking!
YBIC
Jim Torres “Towers”.

You wake-up in the morning with your clock radio playing one of your favorite tunes. A smile crosses your face as you reminisce about that place and time. You stretch and yawn, look out of the window at the rising sun. The sky is baby blue with a few white wispy clouds meandering across the heavens. Birds are chirping in the trees.

Then you begin to awaken and remember the things you heard on the news the night before, and you slowly come back to planet Earth and begin to face reality. It’s Saturday and today you have an appointment at the firing range. Someone tried to break into your house last week, and although you never owned a gun, you go out and buy one. You have morals and are a level headed individual. You would never use it unless it was to protect yourself and your loved ones.

We are obligated to defend our loved ones and neighbors, aren’t we?

Recently someone said, “Start locking your doors – the world is changing.” The world is indeed changing, and not for the better. When Obama was running for office, voting Americans wanted CHANGE and they got it – in spades! Change from what? Now we are experiencing change in all of our institutions and in our nation’s morality, real and scary change. To be sure, perversity and sin have always existed, but have you ever seen such rampant evil in your lifetime?

What used to be called good is bad, what’s bad is now called good. White is black and black is white and we have fifty shades of grey in between. Everyone is a law unto himself and people are doing what they well please. There are no absolutes anymore and people will do whatever they can get away with. The apostle Paul tells Timothy, “In the last days perilous times will come…”

Politicians are leaders whom we should be able to look up to. Today, politicos in high positions use their office to rake in the big bucks, and when accused of abusing their office they use terms such as “misspoke” and “I can’t remember.” They lie to excuse their bad behavior. The Scriptures say that this would be so in the end times, and I quote, “In the last days there will be corruption in high places.”

The daily news is coming at us so fast now that by the time we even begin to make sense of a lie or something sinister these folks are doing, something else comes up to make us forget the first injustice. It’s one thing after the other and these people know it, so they continue to play the game “Catch me if you can.”

And if that wasn’t enough, Obama’s henchmen have gone to Israel to try to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu in the elections there. Why? Is it because he is a Jew-hating Muslim? Now tens of thousands are protesting against Netanyahu, the man who would save them from extinction. Their mantra (not surprisingly) is CHANGE.

You can bet that this administration is going to pull out all the stops to try to destroy Israel and topple our country before they leave office. Already they’ve begun circumventing and changing our laws. With open borders they are welcoming in over thirty thousand Muslim Syrians and any subversive who wants to come into our country. Some, but not all of the atrocities our leaders commit can be read about on the internet.

Other news and items are quite astonishing as well. Some have devised New Age philosophies and religions and are absolute loonies, basing these ideologies on manmade thought and practice. That’s why it is imperative for Christians to know Scripture and keep studying Scripture until their dying day, and not only in Sunday school but at home as well. “Study to show yourself approved, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of God.”

The problem is that in many Bible classes continue to cover the same old ground, Sunday after Sunday. The apostle Paul says, “For though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is still a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

Since there is a fierce struggle between the forces of evil and the God-fearing right today, the only alternative would be that all people everywhere come to know Christ. There are programs in the church that teach you how to share Christ with others. Some have come up with using drawings or using their fingers in the shape of a steeple for reaching the sheeple. Ridiculous!

Most of us don’t like being taken for granted, as though we were a number and people can instinctively sense this and are turned off by this methodology. Only by sharing the gospel out of concern can we hope to change the world for the better. But it may be too little too late.

Who would have thought that things could get out of hand so fast? The man who said “lock your doors because the world is changing” was right, and not for the better. In that same vein, Jesus said, “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.”

Jesus is coming back soon and we who love His appearing will be taken up to meet Him in the clouds.

YBIC

Jim Torres “Towers”

jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com

What is the Gospel? There are many good answers to this question, but lets look at what Paul taught us as “The Gospel”.  He clearly defines it in 1 Corinthians 15- 1-4

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

That is the Gospel. He died according to the scriptures, fulfilling countless prophecies exactly! That he was buried and then rose again, fulfilling prophecies.  This is amazing and when I read it as a young person I just kept on going, you could spend hours on this passage alone and try and search for all the scriptures that were fulfilled in his death and resurrection.  However, what I want to point you to today is in verse 2- “unless you have believed in vain”,  the Greek word used for vain is eikē–

Thayers Defines this word as

Jesus said, “ Fear of man is a dangerous trap.” Just what did He mean by saying that? Is that saying so ambiguous that we overlook its significance in the Biblical message?

Now it could be that some of us have decided one way or another, and what might seem right to some may not be right to others. Having been engaged in Street Ministry for many years I take it to mean being afraid of what others think of you. But my conversion over forty years ago was so dramatic I had to tell others about it. I couldn’t believe the peace I was experiencing after crying out to God at the top of my lungs deep in the woods at midnight. I buried my nose in the Bible from that point on. I had to know more about Him.

I may have had some apprehension about witnessing in the beginning, but seeing how people react to the Gospel of Jesus Christ I needn’t have been afraid. I’ve only been rejected twice.

Facing our fears is not an easy thing to do, but like the scriptures say, the more I did it the more confident I became. It’s become second nature to share my faith with any and everyone.

Let me tell you a little story about one such encounter in my street ministry.

It just so happens that I enjoy going out on a Saturday to do a little witnessing. I usually go where the people are, usually a strip mall or shopping center. A small group of Jehovah’s Witnesses were gearing up to go knocking on doors. They stayed in the shade of the few trees lining the parking lot, talking to one another and gathering their courage to go out and make converts. Many times they just spend the day talking amongst themselves, and unable to bolster their courage, they leave for the day. I usually take advantage of a group like this to share the Gospel with them. They more often than not have no reply except to try to foist their literature on me. I leave them knowing God is the one doing the convicting, and so my work is done.

However, on one particular Saturday years ago, as I was driving into the parking lot of a strip mall I spied a big brute of a young man sitting on the colorful patio chairs that were for sale in the front of the Winn Dixie store. He stood out like a sore thumb, with tattoos all over his body and even on his bald head. The tattoos were of snakes, human skulls and flowers. There was a grotesque beauty about them with their iridescent reds, blues and greens. The snakes looked real and sinister crawling up both of his arms. I really can’t remember the tattoo on his head, but I remember the big scar running from the back of his head to the front, just below his cranium. Somewhere on his body was written “Hells Angels.” I think it was on his T shirt.

As I was getting ready to make a left to drive into the parking lot I was asking the Lord for guidance in whom I should talk to. But the moment I laid eyes on him with his head in his hands, I knew he was the one. I parked and thought to myself, “Now you’ve done it big shot, what if this guy is carrying a switch blade in one of his motorcycle boots and is just waiting for someone to slice open?” I took a deep breath and approached him,

“Mind if I sit here,” as I backed up to the adjoining plastic chair.

“Help yourself,” the big burly thirty-some year old man replied.

I couldn’t help but notice his red swollen eyes when he turned to respond to me, so I asked, “Are you alright?”

The big brute replied, “I haven’t slept in days.”

“Why not?” I asked.

“I just got out of the hospital a couple of days ago. I crashed my motorcycle doing seventy and wasn’t expected to live, cracked my skull, got a steel plate put in. I was in a coma for thirty days.

“It looks like you’re going to make it,” I said reassuringly.

“I don’t know, but I sure could use some sleep,” he replied.

“Why don’t you take some sleeping pills?”

“I have plenty that the doctor gave me, but I’m afraid to take them. I’m afraid I won’t come back!”

“What do you mean?” I inquired.

“Well, when I was in the coma all I could see was blackness. I knew I was dead or dying. I was afraid, terrified really. I cried out to God. Oh God, SAVE ME. I have a little boy who I want to bring up. I don’t want to die!…. I don’t know how long it took for Him to answer, but it seemed like it happened right away. Now I’m afraid to go back to that dark place and never wake up again.”

It didn’t take long for my answer to come to mind and I asked him if he wanted perfect peace, a peace that would let him sleep. He answered, “Yes.” “If you repent of your past life and receive Jesus Christ into your heart and life He will forgive your sins and give you a peace that surpasses all understanding,” I said.

“But how do I do that?”

“Just repeat after me in your own words. Lord Jesus I’m sorry for the way I’ve been living and for ignoring you and God the father. Please forgive me and forgive my many sins. Give me the forgiveness and peace that you promised in the bible.”

The big tough Hells Angel blubbered the prayer in his own words, even as the Saturday afternoon shoppers swirled around us, impervious to our presence and caught up in their own thoughts and concerns.

I assured the man that he would have a peace that surpasses all understanding, and that he would sleep soundly tonight. I also told him to get baptized and find a bible-believing church and begin reading the scriptures. Thanking me, he agreed to all that I said, and let out a sigh of relief as if a huge weight had been removed from off his shoulders. We said our goodbyes and he left me to go home somewhere in central Florida and get some sleep.

This and many more such stories and scenes will appear in my book and depicted in my movie “The Prophecies” which is based on my street ministry. One of my favorite verses is; “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of Power, Love and a Sound Mind.”

By the way,

A reader who saw the movie just informed me that the “Four Blood Moons” by John Hagee never once mentioned Jesus Christ! I can’t say since it isn’t showing anywhere near where I live.

I did get chided for mentioning Roma Downy’s Easter T.V. special in my last article, but since I don’t watch television, I only mentioned it in passing, like I did “The Four Blood Moons”.

YBIC

Jim Torres “Towers”