Monday, March 13, 2023

The Importance of Bible Prophecy

 



The Importance of Bible Prophecy – ALL NEWS PIPELINE ON THE BANK COLLAPSES - 1,000 Migrants Stormed El Paso Bridge Turned Back - Trump implementing NESARA Law - Russia To Quit Trading Oil & Gas With West - SG Anon & Derek Johnson - The Diversity Delusion – Proof CCP Money Flowed To Biden Family and more.

Researched & Comments by Pastor Gary Boyd

March 13th 2023

 

 THE BLAZE - Glenn Beck Explains: This Is How Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed! - Must Video - Monday, March 13, 2023 14:07 - Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by regulators last week, marking the biggest bank failure since the 2008 collapse. So what happened? And what does this mean for YOUR finances? In this clip, Glenn explains exactly how SVG collapsed, why the Fed is to blame, and why working with a FDIC insured institution is IMPERATIVE. https://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2023/03/glenn-beck-explains-this-is-how-silicon-valley-bank-collapsed-must-video-3080599.html

ALL NEWS PIPELINE: This Is How Bank Runs Lead To The 'New World Order' And The 'Great Financial Reset' And How This Latest Banking Fiasco Is Tied To The Ongoing COVID/Vax Genocide And 'Depopulation' – March 13th 2023 - By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die - While Susan Duclos had warned on Sunday that 'Black Monday' could be a wipeout for countless people across the planet as the Silicon Valley Bank collapse worked its way into being the 2nd biggest banking collapse in US history, we've got to take another look at that still breaking story from different angles, with both that story over at Coin Telegraph which reporting on how the Silicon Valley Bank failure is urging regulators to step in due to claims that nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank are small businesses and how these bank runs are being used to lead to the 'new world order' and 'great reset.' With that Coin Telegraph story warning that Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) decisions concerning the future of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may affect regional banks across the United States, putting trillions of dollars at risk of a bank run, keep in mind that YOUR MONEY and the 'American taxpayer dollar' will be used by the govt when they 'move' to 'stop' this financial crisis, proving the overall point of Susan's March 12th story, once you deposit that money in the bank, it's no longer yours. https://allnewspipeline.com/Bank_Runs_Lead_To_New_World_Order_And_Great_Reset.php

MAIL ON LINE: 'It doesn't help them make their case': Moment heavily-armed Mexican military and US border officers repel more than 1,000 migrants who stormed El Paso bridge - Mexican military appeared alongside CBP officials on a border bridge in Mexico - Around 1,000 migrants tried to rush the Paso Del Norte Bridge in El Paso earlier - The group, consisting mostly of men, women and young children, were stopped - By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 02:13 EDT, 13 March 2023 | UPDATED: 07:47 EDT, 13 March 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11852693/Mexican-military-border-officers-repel-1-000-migrants-stormed-El-Paso-bridge.html

NESAR/GESARA NEWS: Trump implementing NESARA Law - NESARA Sections implemented so far: > Eliminating the Federal Reserve System: FED was nationalized and merged the treasury. > Payroll taxes eliminated. > Increases benefits to senior citizens. > Ceases all aggressive, U.S. government military actions worldwide. > Establishes peace throughout the world. > Releases unprecedented prosperity with enormous sums of money for humanitarian purposes. - NESARA Sections to be implemented soon: > Cancels all credit card, mortgage, and other bank debt due to illegal banking and government activities. > Creates a new U.S. Treasury rainbow currency backed by gold, silver, and platinum precious metals. > Enables the release of over 6,000 patents of suppressed technologies. > Monitors elections and prevents illegal election activities of special interest groups. > Initiates new U.S. Treasury Bank System in alignment with Constitutional Law. > Abolishes the IRS. Our Articles are proofing it is really happening: Source: https://gesara.news/live.html

BLP: Russia No Longer Plans on Trading Oil and Gas With West - By Jose Nino - Mar 10, 2023 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced on March 10, 2023 that it will no longer rely on trade partners in the Collective West for its energy trade. Instead it will shift its energy policy eastward where it will trade more with India and China. “To put it bluntly, the change is that we would not rely on any partners in the West anymore. We would not allow them to blow up the pipelines again,” Lavrov said to reporters in the Indian capital of New Delhi, on March 10.  In this instance, Lavrov was referring to the Nord Stream pipelines that US military forces reportedly blew up after allegedly receiving direct orders from US President Joe Biden to do so. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/russia-no-longer-plans-on-trading-oil-and-gas-with-west/

SG Anon & Derek Johnson Update: The Truth WILL Come Out - Wrap Up (Video) - Monday, March 13, 2023 9:43 - The truth is going to come out about it all, the corruption, the lies, the dirty dealings! SG and Derek, among others are in this video for a wrap and analysis about this and MUCH MUCH, MORE! - https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/03/sg-anon-derek-johnson-update-the-truth-will-come-out-wrap-up-video-3789946.html

HEATHER MCDONALD - The Diversity Delusion - America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyranny. Professors correcting grammar and spelling, or employers hiring by merit? Racist and sexist. Students emerge into the working world believing that human beings are defined by their skin color, gender, and sexual preference, and that oppression based on these characteristics is the American experience. Speech that challenges these campus orthodoxies is silenced with brute force. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/diversity-delusion?msclkid=0178c06c55511363aa48a46366a441ea

The Great Feminization of the American University - Monday, March 13, 2023 5:28 - https://beforeitsnews.com/education/2023/03/the-great-feminization-of-the-american-university-2462166.html

CANADA FREE PRESS - Date With Idiocy: US Flailing Under Fantasy Tour as Blind Ideologues Reject Reality - By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--March 13, 2023 - The United States traded our historically high standards and commitment to reality for sleepwalking into a fantasy world where no positive outcomes are possible because our “elite” ideological fantasists avoid reality. Consider we have wholesale rejected everyday truths and the most basic facts. But as millions of illegals pour over the border, men pour into women’s sports, the poor drown under discretionary inflation, we all know how using cancel culture to kill American reality will turn out. (Comment: This is the true work of the Critical Race Theory Marxists who are successfully destroying life as we once knew it here in the cradle of democracy these United States of America. Every society communists have enlightened they have eventually destroyed. This all needs to be nipped in the bud soon by our nation’s patriots or our beautiful country will be gone forever.) https://canadafreepress.com/article/date-with-idiocy-us-flailing-under-fantasy-tour-as-blind-ideologues-reject

WIREPOINTS: 22 states, including every Illinois neighbor, cut income taxes permanently, but not Illinois. – Wirepoints - March 13, 2023 - By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner - State lawmakers across the country have given their residents permanent tax relief over the last two years. In all, 22 states have cut individual tax rates since 2021 as a result of booming state-government revenues. Michigan is the latest state to cut its income tax, triggered by overflowing coffers. That means every single one of Illinois’ neighbors have cut taxes within the last few years. Instead of tax cuts for Illinoisans, Sen. Robert Martwick, an ally and surrogate for Gov. J.B. Pritzker, recently filed new legislation calling for a progressive tax scheme – never mind most of the country is moving away from progressive taxes and toward flat structures, and that Illinoisans rejected a similar proposal in a 2020 referendum. https://wirepoints.org/22-states-including-every-illinois-neighbor-cut-income-taxes-permanently-but-not-illinois-wirepoints/

"It's As Bad As We Thought": CCP Money Flowed To Biden Family According Bank Records, Documents Obtained By House GOP - BY TYLER DURDEN - SUNDAY, MAR 12, 2023 - 08:58 PM - Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have been working with four witnesses with close ties to the Bidens, who have provided documents and other evidence tying the Bidens to the Chinese Communist Party. "It’s as bad as we thought… Since we’ve last spoken we have bank records in hand.  We have individuals who are working with our committee," Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures." https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-bad-we-thought-ccp-money-flowed-biden-family-according-bank-records-documents

GLOBAL RESEARCH: Short List of USAID Subversion Operations - The “protests” in Georgia follow the State Department’s subversion template. - By Kurt Nimmo - Global Research, March 12, 2023 - Let’s take a look at USAID, the United States Agency for International Development. The first thing to know: the agency is run out of the State Department. Its pubic relations cover is to provide “international development.” This is code for fomenting regime change and undermining elected governments not on-script with the neoliberal agenda. Second point: USAID is basically a cutout for CIA activity. David H. Price, in his “Cold War Anthology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology,” documents how “activists” working for USAID pass on information of use to the CIA. https://www.globalresearch.ca/short-list-usaid-subversion-operations/5811695

ATLAS SHRUGS - WOKE AND BROKE: While Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed, Top Exec Pushed ‘Woke’ Programs - By Pamela Geller - on March 12, 2023 - Asleep at the wheel While Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, top exec pushed ‘woke’ programs - A head of risk management at Silicon Valley Bank spent considerable time spearheading multiple “woke” LGBTQ+ programs, including a “safe space” for coming out stories, as the firm catapulted toward collapse. https://gellerreport.com/2023/03/woke-and-broke-while-silicon-valley-bank-collapsed-top-exec-pushed-woke-programs.html/

The Clintons Couldn't Hide This! Down She Goes! No Deals! Nobody Escapes! - Sunday, March 12, 2023 13:22 - https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/03/the-clintons-couldnt-hide-this-down-she-goes-no-deals-nobody-escapes-3789909.html

MAIL ON LINE: Trading temporarily HALTED in dozens of banks after shares fell by up to 75% when market opened at 9.30am - moments after Biden said 'US banking is safe' - as contagion spreads to heavyweights Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JP Morgan - Western Alliance Bancorp's stock price dropped by three quarters, First Republic Bank dived 67 percent and PacWest Bancorp plunged more than 35 percent - Major US banks were also hit: Wells Fargo down 7.5 percent, Bank of America 7.4 percent, Citigroup 5.8 percent and JP Morgan 2.7 percent - Biden attempted to shore up trust just minutes before the market opened, telling reporters: 'Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe'  - By ROSS IBBETSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 07:33 EDT, 13 March 2023 | UPDATED: 11:38 EDT, 13 March 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11853651/Bank-shares-plummet-71-pre-market-trading-despite-Bidens-backing.html

JERUSALEM POST: Silicon Valley Bank fallout starts to spread around the world - SVB had branches in Canada, the UK, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel and Sweden, and the scenes coming out of California are just the beginning. - By THOMAS SEAL, MARK BERGEN, HANNAH MILLER/BLOOMBERG NEWS/TNS Published: MARCH 12, 2023 07:54 - Updated: MARCH 12, 2023 07:57 - https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/banking-and-finance/article-734050

ISRAEL TODAY: Is Biden Trying to Overthrow Netanyahu? Israeli official claims protests calling to topple Netanyahu government are receiving funding from Biden Administration. - By Israel Today Staff | Mar 12, 2023 at 8:30 am - The ongoing demonstrations in Tel Aviv and other parts of Israel are about more than just opposing the specific policies that make up the government’s judicial reform package. They are about removing from power Benjamin Netanyahu, whom protesters say is a dictator and a criminal who cannot legitimately hold the office of prime minister. And according to some Israeli and American officials, those domestic opponents bent on overthrowing Netanyahu are being fueled by money from the US Administration of President Joe Biden. (Comment: The Obama/Biden communist regime of course wants to rid themselves of Bibi because he wants the real Promised Land back. The communists empower Hezbollah & Hamas by funding the Palestinian Authority who give money to the terrorist arm that kills Israelis and anyone who resists there influence. Their plan is, however, not working. More Intel later.)   https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/is-biden-trying-to-overthrow-netanyahu/

LIFE SITE NEWS: US must immediately withdraw from WHO to escape medical tyranny: international law expert - Human rights attorney Dr. Francis Boyle is calling on U.S. citizens to urge Congress to immediately withdraw from the World Health Organization to avoid 'dictatorial' health controls that override every level of government. - An international law expert is calling on the United States to immediately withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) to escape an imminent “medical dictatorship” that would seize control of countries around the world. A “coup d’etat” against the U.S. will be carried out using the WHO as a “front organization” if the U.S. continues its membership in the WHO as two of its currently pending “treaties” are passed, warned human rights attorney Dr. Francis Boyle during a Stop Vax Passports Task Force Webinar. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-must-immediately-withdraw-from-who-to-escape-medical-tyranny-international-law-expert/

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS: Netanyahu: Those who try to attack us will pay the price - Prime Minister Netanyahu vows home of Tel Aviv terrorist will be demolished, salutes soldiers who eliminated terrorists near Kedumim - Israel National News - Mar 12, 2023, 7:21 PM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Israeli security personnel who eliminated three terrorists near the town of Kedumim in Samaria Sunday, and vowed to demolish the home of the terrorist responsible for a shooting attack in Tel Aviv last Thursday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368617

Christian Artists Descend on US Capitol, Fill Rotunda with Worship, Prayer - 7 Members of Congress Join Them - By Elizabeth Delaney - March 11, 2023 at 5:00pm - It would seem that there’s a stirring in the hearts and minds and spirits of some Christians. “Let Us Worship” and Turning Point USA Faith are two faith-based movements with a heart for worship, prayer and revival. They have partnered with each other and are making their way around the nation to the various state Capitols, as well as Washington DC to inspire others in prayer for revival. https://www.westernjournal.com/christian-artists-descend-us-capitol-fill-rotunda-worship-prayer-7-members-congress-join/

 

 

 


The Importance of Bible Prophecy

by Dr. David R. Reagan

Published on: March 7, 2013

Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

March 13th 2023

 

A Playground for Fanatics or Green Pastures for Disciples?

Although prophecy constitutes almost one-third of the Bible, its importance is constantly downplayed by those who dismiss it as having no practical significance or by those who object to it on the grounds that it is a “fad” that takes people’s eyes off Jesus.

 

Revelation 19:10 says that “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Thus, if prophecy is properly taught, there is no reason for it to divert anyone’s attention away from Jesus. In fact, it should serve toemphasize the centrality of Jesus.

 

Is prophecy practical? Consider that all the New Testament writers testify to the fact that the study of prophecy will motivate holy living. What could be more practical than that?

 

Prophecy does not have to be either faddish, other-worldly, or impractical if taught properly. Nor does it have to be a playground for fanatics. It can and should be green pastures for disciples.

 

Reasons for Study

1) Validator of Scripture — Fulfilled prophecy is one of the best evidences I know of that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. The Bible contains hundreds of fulfilled secular prophecies pertaining to cities, nations, empires, and individuals. Jeremiah predicted the Babylonian captivity would last 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11-12). Isaiah stated that the children of Israel would be sent home from Babylon by a man named Cyrus (Isaiah 44:28; Ezra 1:1). Daniel predicated the precise order of four great Gentile empires (Daniel 2 and 7). The destruction of Babylon was foretold by a number of the Hebrew prophets (Isaiah 13). In the New Testament, Jesus predicted the complete destruction of Jerusalem 40 years before it actually occurred (Luke 21:6).

 

2) Validator of Jesus — The Bible contains more than 300 prophecies about the first coming of Jesus, all of which were literally fulfilled (see Appendix 1). Every aspect of the life of Jesus was prophesied — the place of His birth, the nature of His birth, the quality of His ministry, the purpose of His life, and the agony of His death. Consider, for example, the prophecy in Psalm 22:16 that the Messiah’s hands and feet would be pierced. That prophecy was written by David about a thousand years before the birth of Jesus. It was written 700 years before the invention of crucifixion as a form of execution. The literal fulfillment of so many prophecies in the life of one individual transcends any mere coincidence and serves to validate that Jesus was who He said He was — the divine Son of God.

 

3) Revealer of the Future — Prophecy serves to tell us some things that God wants us to know about the future (Deuteronomy 29:29; Amos 3:7). God does not want us to know everything about the future, but there are some things we must know if we are to have a dynamic hope. Thus, prophecy assures us that Jesus is coming back, that He will resurrect us, and that He will take us to live forever with Him and God the Father. In this regard, Peter likens prophecy to “a lamp shining in a dark place” (2 Peter 1:19). Paul makes the same point in 1 Corinthians chapter 2. He begins by observing that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor has the mind of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him. But in the next verse Paul says those things have been revealed to us by God through His Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10).

 

4) Tool of Evangelism — Prophecy can be used as a very effective tool of evangelism, as illustrated in the story of Philip and the Eunuch (Acts 8:26ff). Philip used Isaiah’s great suffering lamb passage (Isaiah 53) to teach that Jesus is the lamb who was slain for the sins of the world. Matthew and Peter both used fulfilled prophecy in the life of Jesus as one of their basic evangelistic tools. In fact, Peter referred to prophecy constantly in his first gospel sermon on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:14-39). He preached that Jesus had been crucified and resurrected in fulfillment of Hebrew prophecies. Later, Peter referred to fulfilled prophecy as one of the greatest evidences that Jesus was truly the Son of God (2 Peter 1:16-19).

 

5) Tool of Moral Teaching — People often overlook the fact that the Hebrew prophets were forthtellers as well as foretellers. In fact, the prophets spent most of their time using God’s Word to spotlight societal problems. They called their listeners to repentance, true worship, social justice, and personal holiness. One of the great recurring themes of the prophets is that “obedience is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22 and Hosea 6:6). That statement means that in God’s eyes, obedience to His commands is more important than outward religious practices such as offering sacrifices. Prophecy is thus a great repository of moral teaching, and those moral principles are still relevant today. (See Amos 5:21-24; Micah 6:8; Isaiah 58:3-9.)

 

6) Generator of Spiritual Growth — Prophetic knowledge encourages patient waiting (James 5:7- 8); provokes earnest watching (Matthew 24:36,42); inspires dedicated work (2 Timothy 4:7-8); and enhances our hope (Titus 2:11-14). The result is holy living. Paul exhorts us to “behave properly as in the day,” because the time is at hand when the Lord will return (Romans 13:12-13). Likewise, Peter calls us to gird up our minds and be sober and holy as we look forward to the revelation of Jesus (1 Peter 1:13-15).

 

Advice & Counsel

In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Paul writes that all of God’s Word is “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” That includes God’s Prophetic Word. In 1 Thessalonians 5:20 the apostle Paul pleads with us to treat prophecy with respect.

 

Peter warns us in his second epistle, that one of the signs of the end times will be the appearance of “scoffers” who will cast scorn and ridicule on the promise of our Lord’s return (2 Peter 3:3ff). The great tragedy of our day is that many of the loudest scoffers are religious leaders who profess to follow Christ. Such leaders crucified Jesus the first time He came. They now scoff at His promise to return.

 

A good example of what I’m talking about is the “Jesus Seminar” that has been operating for the past few years. It is composed of forty New Testament “scholars” from a great variety of Christian seminaries in America. The seminar has been meeting every six months to vote on the sayings of Jesus as recorded in the four gospels. They hope to produce a new version of the gospels in which the sayings of Jesus will be color coded: red, if He said it; pink, if He may have said it; grey, if He probably did not say it; and black, if He definitely did not say it.

 

When they voted on the sayings of Jesus regarding His Second Coming, they voted that all the sayings were spurious and had probably been “made up” by His disciples. What apostasy!

 

Spiritual Food

God’s Prophetic Word is food for our spiritual growth. We need to take it off the shelf. We need to open it up and feast upon it, and we need to do so with believing hearts.

 

The book of Revelation promises blessings to those who read it (or hear it read) and who obey it (Revelation 1:3). It is the only book of the Bible to promise such a specific blessing, but all God’s Word is designed to bless us spiritually (Psalm 119), and that includes the Prophetic Word.

 

Key Scriptures about Prophecy

Let’s conclude with a reminder of what the Word of God itself says about the value of prophecy. In this way we can be assured that the effort we expend in looking at the prophetic Scriptures will be time extremely well spent.

 

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever.” (Deuteronomy 29:29)

 

“Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7)

 

“I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done. . . I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it.” (Isaiah 46:9-11)

 

“[Jesus said] ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.'” (Matthew 5:17)

 

“[Jesus] said to them, ‘These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.'” (Luke 24:44)

 

“Of Him [Jesus] all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.” (Acts 10:43)

 

“The prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.” (1 Peter 1:10-11)

 

“But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” (2 Peter 1:20-21)

 

“The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Revelation 19:10)

 

 


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