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Good morning, my dearly beloved, you all are my love. I need your love in return. We all know as Christians that we must face turmoil. I am one that faces many and I need your prayers, because my life is in danger and the church is in danger and the prayer ministry is in danger. I have been fighting sickness, weakness, pain, and demonic warfare. We as the body of Christ welcome you all to our 90th Sunday service assembly, The Church Ministries must go on when Jesus returns, I hope that this group of people and gathering are one in worship and prayer and in spirit and in truth, we will be the innocent ones to man’s tradition. We are following the early church and sound doctrine, only from the word of God and the inspiration of these words and communication which come from Our Lord. We follow the bible and the truth and we welcome anyone who would like to join us in prayer and love from our hearts. That is our purpose, to share what we have with one another, to grow with one another we are a race that plants seeds, the seeds of the good news of Jesus Christ. The end times are here and we can see destruction of our planet and we see many false churches and doctrines and false men trying to teach New Age and all other myths and signs and wonders which Jesus told us ahead of time to warn the elect. We are the elect. We are the Christians and we do not follow the ways of this world, we do not follow the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh or the pride of life, we honor God and we are nothing but humble servants and we shall serve The Lord forever and follow His ways, not the ways of man. We try as humans to live quiet lives, wholesome, honorable, and share our respect and love for all of mankind. We are simply branches attached to the vine and we will produce much fruit because we have nothing to hide, we are men and women of the Cross of Christ and we will carry our crosses the rest of our days through eternity. Our devotion is to love Jesus and spend a relationship with Him so we can grow in all aspects of true early Christianity. The Church welcomes you all this holy day of The Lord and King. May God bless all of your families, friends and neighbors. We ask that the Lord rebukes all evil from our flesh, our minds, our souls and our hearts. May we all be clean, may we all prosper and share the light of Christ and The Father as we fellowship with each other through The Holy Spirit.

Dear Heavenly Father, We love you and cherish You, You have been such a wonderful God to us. We are here to worship You and praise Your name. All who are reading this aloud. We are the assembly of Christians, we are assembled in truth and love towards You and Your Son. The Church wants to open our hearts to You, please send the Spirit of hope and love to our assembly. Please send us the anointing. We need Your strength to worship and honor You better. Many things are happening in our world. People are dieing, suffering, starving, and going without water in our streets. Disaster has struck again. We need Your help, we need Your compassion, please send Your Angels to all the helpless areas, please Father help these souls, we do not know Your judgment, we know You are wise and have reasons behind all Your actions. You are a God of honor and a God of truth. Please forgive us of all sins. All who meet here and all the ones who are part of this assembly and all the ones who hear this prayer, please guide us, please hold us in Your loving arms, please protect us and heal us to our extended families, friends and neighbors in all areas, that this prayer reaches. O God, please understand all our different ways, cultures, languages, and up bringing. Please keep the doors of Heaven open for us Father, we open our ears and eyes to You so we understand Your communication to us through The Holy Spirit. We repent of all our iniquities and we fall before You in the Spirit praising Your Name O God and worshipping Your Son in whom we dedicated our lives and service from the days past, today, and forever, In Jesus Name, Amen.

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night. When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape. [1Thes 5:2-3 AMP]

You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these events are the beginning of birth pains. [Matt.24:6-8 HCSB]

"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. [Luke 21:25 NIV]

And he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.

As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. 31So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. [Luke 21:29-31 ESV]

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. [Zech 12: 2-3 KJV]

In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. [Zech. 12:6 KJV]

The LORD said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you. I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others. I will bless anyone who blesses you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you. [Gen. 12:1-3 CEV]

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May all who love this city prosper. [Psalm 122:6 NLT]

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; [1Pet 3:18 ASV]

And then this: We can tell you with complete confidence--we have the Master's word on it--that when the Master comes again to get us, those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the dead and leave them behind. In actual fact, they'll be ahead of us. The Master himself will give the command. Archangel thunder! God's trumpet blast! He'll come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise--they'll go first. Then the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master. Oh, we'll be walking on air! And then there will be one huge family reunion with the Master. So reassure one another with these words. [1Thes. 4:15-18 AMP]

Jerusalem has been that city that attempt after attempt has been made to find a way to bring peace to the Middle East, specifically between Israel and the Palestinians. Each time the peace talks have come to a standstill because of Jerusalem. Exactly as the prophets of God foretold 2,500 years ago, Jerusalem has become a 'cup of trembling' and a 'burdensome stone' just as predicted. Everyone is afraid to mess with Jerusalem, and everyone who has tried has failed.

There are many cities in the world today that are famous. Some for their location, some for their great size, some for their climate and resources, some for their industry and some for their historical significance. Jerusalem is in a bad location, extremely small, has a terrible climate, very few resources and little industry. So what is it that's so important about Jerusalem? The mere mention of Jerusalem often causes world leaders to tremble! What is it about Jerusalem that causes the whole world to stop and watch when events are happening that involve Jerusalem? How can one of the oldest cities in the world, have so much effect on our lives today?

Remember the effort to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David collapsed in failure, as have all preceding

efforts. The Israelis blame the Palestinians. The Palestinians blame the Israelis. Both sides accuse the US of being biased for the other. And the

stumbling-block, as President Bush announced as the summit collapsed, was Jerusalem.

The Ignored Issue Behind the Conflict:

Always, it comes down to Jerusalem. And when it does, it stops the peace process dead in its tracks. Why is this one, dusty little city in the middle of a tiny country so valuable to both sides? Jerusalem has none of the qualities that explain the founding of a great city. It isn't by a seaport. It isn't on a river. It isn't on a trade route or caravan trail. It isn't on a major

natural source of fresh water. It isn't strategically located for military defense purposes. There has been

only one reason for the centuries of passion that have been lavished upon it. Jerusalem's earliest history ties it to the realm of the spirit and God. It was first mentioned in Genesis 14:18-20, circa 2000 BC, as being the home of Melchizedek, the mysterious but great Priest of the Most High God to whom even Abraham bowed and gave

tithes. The city was then called Salem (peace).

When Abram learned that Lot had been captured, he called together the men born into his household, 318 of them in all. He chased after Kedorlaomer's army until he caught up with them in Dan. There he divided his men and attacked during the night from several directions. Kedorlaomer's army fled, but Abram chased them to Hobah, north of Damascus. Abram and his allies recovered everything--the goods that had been taken, Abram's nephew Lot with his possessions, and all the women and other captives. As Abram returned from his victory over Kedorlaomer and his allies, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). Then Melchizedek, the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High, brought him bread and wine. Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And blessed be God Most High, who has helped you conquer your enemies." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered. The king of Sodom told him, "Give back my people who were captured. But you may keep for yourself all the goods you have recovered." Abram replied, "I have solemnly promised the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, that I will not take so much as a single thread or sandal thong from you. Otherwise you might say, `I am the one who made Abram rich!' All I'll accept is what these young men of mine have already eaten. But give a share of the goods to my allies--Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre." [Gen 14:14-24]

When the human race began to increase, with more and more daughters being born, the sons of God noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful. They looked them over and picked out wives for themselves. Then GOD said, "I'm not going to breathe life into men and women endlessly. Eventually they're going to die; from now on they can expect a life span of 120 years." This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones. GOD saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil--evil, evil, evil from morning to night. GOD was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. GOD said, "I'll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds--the works. I'm sorry I made them." [Gen. 6: 1-7 Mess]

God looked and did not like what he saw, God grieved ! His heart was filled with pain as he declared that he was going destroy, wipeout, annihilate mankind, and the animal population of the earth. He saw the wickedness of mankind and except for Noah and his family all would be exterminated. So the countdown began, God gave creation 120 years of warning!

But Noah was different. GOD liked what he saw in Noah. This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. 1God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting--life itself corrupt to the core. God said to Noah, "It's all over. It's the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I'm making a clean sweep. "Build yourself a ship from teakwood. Make rooms in it. Coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it 450 feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof for it and put in a window eighteen inches from the top; put in a door on the side of the ship; and make three decks, lower, middle, and upper. "I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction. "But I'm going to establish a covenant with you: You'll board the ship, and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives will come on board with you. You are also to take two of each living creature, a male and a female, on board the ship, to preserve their lives with you: 2two of every species of bird, mammal, and reptile--two of everything so as to preserve their lives along with yours. Also get all the food you'll need and store it up for you and them." Noah did everything God commanded him to do. [Gen 6:8-22 Mess]

So what was really going on? What were the days of Noah really like? What was life like before the flood?

A couple of days before Jesus was crucified, his disciples asked him "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" They wanted to know, when Jesus would return and what would be the signs before his return? Jesus replied:

"Then, the Arrival of the Son of Man! It will fill the skies--no one will miss it. Unready people all over the world, outsiders to the splendor and power, will raise a huge lament as they watch the Son of Man blazing out of heaven. At that same moment, he'll dispatch his angels with a trumpet-blast summons, pulling in God's chosen from the four winds, from pole to pole. "Take a lesson from the fig tree. From the moment you notice its buds form, the merest hint of green, you know summer's just around the corner. So it is with you: When you see all these things, you'll know he's at the door. Don't take this lightly. I'm not just saying this for some future generation, but for all of you. This age continues until all these things take place. Sky and earth will wear out; my words won't wear out. "But the exact day and hour? No one knows that, not even heaven's angels, not even the Son. Only the Father knows. "The Arrival of the Son of Man will take place in times like Noah's. Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ark. They knew nothing--until the flood hit and swept everything away. "The Son of Man's Arrival will be like that: Two men will be working in the field--one will be taken, one left behind; two women will be grinding at the mill--one will be taken, one left behind. So stay awake, alert. You have no idea what day your Master will show up. But you do know this: You know that if the homeowner had known what time of night the burglar would arrive, he would have been there with his dogs to prevent the break-in. Be vigilant just like that. You have no idea when the Son of Man is going to show up. "Who here qualifies for the job of overseeing the kitchen? A person the Master can depend on to feed the workers on time each day. Someone the Master can drop in on unannounced and always find him doing his job. A God-blessed man or woman, I tell you. It won't be long before the Master will put this person in charge of the whole operation. "But if that person only looks out for himself, and the minute the Master is away does what he pleases abusing the help and throwing drunken parties for his friends the Master is going to show up when he least expects it and make hash of him. He'll end up in the dump with the hypocrites, out in the cold shivering, teeth chattering. [Matt. 24:27-51Mess]

So clearly, Jesus gives us a prerequisite to understanding the time of his Second Coming, the understanding of the Days of Noah. Genesis, chapter 6 unfolds the story of the Flood. It's more than just a historical account, there is, upon close examination of the scripture, some rather disturbing implications. We have fallen angels having relations with earthly women, producing huge, demonic, Super-Beings !

I am printing two sections from two translations to make it eastier to understand .

Then a sign will appear in the sky. And there will be the Son of Man. All nations on earth will weep when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. At the sound of a loud trumpet, he will send his angels to bring his chosen ones together from all over the earth. Learn a lesson from a fig tree. When its branches sprout and start putting out leaves, you know that summer is near. So when you see all these things happening, you will know that the time has almost come. I can promise you that some of the people of this generation will still be alive when all this happens. The sky and the earth won't last forever, but my words will. No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven don't know, and the Son himself doesn't know. Only the Father knows. When the Son of Man appears, things will be just as they were when Noah lived. People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day that the flood came and Noah went into the big boat. They didn't know anything was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man appears. Two men will be in the same field, but only one will be taken. The other will be left. Two women will be together grinding grain, but only one will be taken. The other will be left. So be on your guard! You don't know when your Lord will come. Homeowners never know when a thief is coming, and they are always on guard to keep one from breaking in. Always be ready! You don't know when the Son of Man will come. Who are faithful and wise servants? Who are the ones the master will put in charge of giving the other servants their food supplies at the proper time? Servants are fortunate if their master comes and finds them doing their job. You may be sure that a servant who is always faithful will be put in charge of everything the master owns. But suppose one of the servants thinks that the master won't return until late. Suppose that evil servant starts beating the other servants and eats and drinks with people who are drunk. If that happens, the master will surely come on a day and at a time when the servant least expects him. That servant will then be punished and thrown out with the ones who only pretended to serve their master. There they will cry and grit their teeth in pain. [Matt.24:30-51 CEV]

So what really brought about the Flood? It was the emergence of a race of beings known as Nephilim?

Genesis 6 indicates that the "sons of God" (B'nai Elohim) took wives of the "daughters of men," which gave birth to the "Nephilim." What on earth was going on?

The B'nai Elohim is a term that refers to angels. It occurs four times in the Old Testament and is rendered "Angels of God" in the ancient Septuagint translation. The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim, which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones. (The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means "earth-born." This is often misunderstood to mean "giants"--which they also happen to have been, incidentally.)

The B'nai Elohim saw the daughters of Adam, that they were fit extensions. And they took wives for themselves from all those that they chose...The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the B'nai Elohim CAME IN TO the daughters of Adam, and they bore to them -- they were Powerful Ones which existed from ancient times, the men of name. (from the Interlinear Hebrew Bible Genesis 6)

The word which is translated, "giants", in the King James version of the Bible is, in Hebrew, "Nephilim", which means, "Those who fell, or ... the fallen ones". Jude, the brother of Jesus describes them as "angels, having left their first estate in heaven". These fallen angels came to earth for a serious purpose.

The "fallen ones" sought to merge with the bloodline of Adam, because of the promise to send a redeemer through Adam's kinsman. The Hebrew says that the Sons of God saw that the women were a fit "extension", for they sought to extend themselves into this realm from the spirit realm, as well as to extend themselves into the "children of the promise" the lineage of Adam. Satan tried to prevent the eventual birth, in the distant future, of the Messiah.

The mating of human beings with angels resulted in hybrid creatures, evil spirits with human bodies. The human \ angel hybrids began to corrupt and destroy the human race, resulting in the Deluge, "the end of all flesh" except Noah and his family.

The Bible uses other names to describe these degraded fallen angels and their descendents in addition to the word Nephilim, they are. . . .

For over a thousand years the Nephilim corrupted the earth and oppressed mankind. The Bible states that the giants existed before the flood and even after that time, Gen. 6:4. This contradicts tradition but is historically upheld by accounts in Exodus where descendents of the Nephilim are encountered in Canaan by the Israelites. The Apocryphal Book of Enoch, a 1st century B.C. extra Biblical manuscript quoted by Jude and John, details events of the fallen angels. It describes their punishment and even their names. Some of the Nephilim perished, at least their bodies perished, beneath the waters of the flood. The leaders of this rebellious act were chained until judgment day at various locations in the earth. Jude and John also relate this account. Job 26:5 KJV says, "Dead things are formed from under the waters". This seems to imply that men were killed under the waters of the deluge.

The original Hebrew text relates something much more mysterious. The literal translation is, "The Rafa were made to writhe from beneath the waters". The word Rafa is only found in scripture identifying the "fallen angels", and is never used to denote the "human dead" anywhere in the Old Testament. The historical basis for the interpretation of Gen. 6 as an account of fallen angels is consistent. Philo, Josephus, Epiphanius , Hilarius , are some of many examples.

The book of the Jubilees remarks that Jared or Yeh-red, an Old Testament patriarch, was so called because in his days the angels descended upon the earth - Yaw-rad "descend" . It is interesting to note that "Jordan" comes from that same root word denoting "descent, coming down or falling" - Yar-dane "the place of the descent". Jordan, "place of the descent", is located in the ancient boundary of Israel. Israel is currently a major location for sighting UFOs, and the fallen angels in disguise as "aliens".

The Book of Enoch explains that the Sons of God descended first onto the mountain called Hermon which in Hebrew means desolation, in the land of Jordan the place of the descent. Desolation is exactly what Satan and his angels intended to make the earth by destroying the descendents of Adam -- desolation has been the plan of the rebel angels from the beginning.

It was the infusion of these strange beings into the human predicament that brought on the Flood of Noah. The Flood was preceded by four generations of prophets/preachers warning of the coming judgment: Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.

It seems that this was part of Satan's stratagem to corrupt the line of Adam to prevent the fulfillment of the Messianic redemption. Noah was apparently unique in that his genealogy was still uncorrupted.

The strange events which led to the flood are also alluded to in ancient mythologies. The legends of the Greek "titans"--partly terrestrial, partly celestial--embrace these same memories. (The Greek titan is linguistically linked to the Chaldean sheitan, and the Hebrew Satan.) So where did these sinning (fallen) Angels come from?

Then this further message came to me from the LORD: "Son of man, weep for the king of Tyre. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: You were the perfection of wisdom and beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone red carnelian, chrysolite, white moonstone, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald all beautifully crafted for you and set in the finest gold. They were given to you on the day you were created. I ordained and anointed you as the mighty angelic guardian. You had access to the holy mountain of God and walked among the stones of fire. "You were blameless in all you did from the day you were created until the day evil was found in you. Your great wealth filled you with violence, and you sinned. So I banished you from the mountain of God. I expelled you, O mighty guardian, from your place among the stones of fire. Your heart was filled with pride because of all your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth and exposed you to the curious gaze of kings. You defiled your sanctuaries with your many sins and your dishonest trade. So I brought fire from within you, and it consumed you. I let it burn you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching. All who knew you are appalled at your fate. You have come to a terrible end, and you are no more." [Eze. 28:11-19 NLT]

You were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing [wings], and I set you so. You were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [like the paved work of gleaming sapphire stone upon which the God of Israel walked on Mount Sinai]. [Ezek. 28:14 AMP]

That's right, Lucifer, who became Satan was kicked out of Heaven and when he went, a third of the Angels went with him. These were the fallen Angels:

The strange events of Genesis Chapter 6 are also referred to in the New Testament. Peter refers to events preceding the flood of Noah:

For God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them to be kept there in pits of gloom till the judgment and their doom. [2Pet. 2:4 AMP]

(Peter uses the term tartarus, here translated as hell. This was a Greek term for "the dark abode of woe, the pit of darkness in the unseen world." Homer's Iliad portrays tartarus "as far below Hades as the earth is below Heaven..."

Also, in Jude, it mentions them:

And angels who did not keep (care for, guard, and hold to) their own first place of power but abandoned their proper dwelling place--these He has reserved in custody in eternal chains (bonds) under the thick gloom of utter darkness until the judgment and doom of the great day. [The wicked are sentenced to suffer] just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent towns--which likewise gave themselves over to impurity and indulged in unnatural vice and sensual perversity--are laid out [in plain sight] as an exhibit of perpetual punishment [to warn] of everlasting fire. [Jude 6-7 AMP]

Scripture warns against meddling with the spirit world. The punishment which overtook the angels that sinned was to emphasize the serious nature of apostasy: beings of a higher order than ours have been hurled down into a dark place of confinement where they have remained for thousands of years.

God has not changed His attitude toward them; time has not mitigated the seriousness of their sin. False teachers are prewritten into condemnation.

So it's over right, no, the flood did not end the meddling of the Fallen Angels nor Satan's attempt to thwart the plans of God...

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. [Gen. 6:4 NASB]

Genesis 6:4 leaves us with a haunting, almost chilling three words, "...and also afterward", could the Nephilim have survived the flood? Could this strange being produced from the union of fallen angels and earthly women, a hybrid race called the Nephilim or "fallen ones", still be around? According to Genesis 6:4, they were still around after the flood.

After the flood we find that the Bible mentions several occurrences of "giants" appearing, specifically the giant-races of Canaan. Actually the Bible mentions a number of such tribes: the Rephaim, the Emim, the Horim, and Zamsummim, that were giants.

"When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD. "And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. [Deut. 12:10-12 NASB]

The Kingdom of Og, the King of Bashan, was the "land of the giants".

(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit. [Deut. 3:11 NASB]

all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses struck them and dispossessed them. [Jos. 13:12 NASB]

We also find Arba:

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)

Then the land had rest from war. [Jos. 14:15 NIV]

Anak, and his seven sons (the "Anakim") also as giants, along with the famed Goliath and his four brothers.

A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him. [1Sam. 17:4-7]

Now send a message immediately and tell David, 'Do not spend the night at the fords in the desert; cross over without fail, or the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.' " Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A servant girl was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they could not risk being seen entering the city. But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it. His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it. When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem. After the men had gone, the two climbed out of the well and went to inform King David. They said to him, "Set out and cross the river at once; Ahithophel has advised such and such against you." So David and all the people with him set out and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, no one was left who had not crossed the Jordan. [2Sam. 17:16-22 NIV]

Sort of puts the story of "David and Goliath" in a whole new light when you realize that Goliath was a Nephilim and that he had four brothers. When God had revealed to Abraham that the land of Canaan was to be given to him, Satan had over 400 years to plant his "mine field" of Nephilim!

When Moses sent his twelve spies to reconnoiter the Land of Canaan, they came back with the report of giants in the land. (The term used was Nephilim.)

33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." [Num. 13:33 NIV]

Their fear of those terrifying creatures resulted in their being relegated to wandering in the wilderness for 38 years.

When Joshua and the nation Israel later entered the land of Canaan, they were instructed to wipe out every man, woman and child of certain tribes.

They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. [Jos. 6:21 NIV]

It would seem that in the Land of Canaan, there again was a "gene pool problem." These Rephaim, Nephilim, and others seem to have been established as an advance guard to obstruct Israel's possession of the Promised Land. Was this also a Satan's plan?

26"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. [Luke 17:26 NIV]

So what does Luke 17:26 really mean?

"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. [Luke 21:25-26 NIV]

What things are coming upon the earth? Is it possible that the Bible is referring to UFO's and their occupants? Could this be part of the End-Time scenario called the "Great Deception"? Are the Nephilim involved and present today?

Jerusalem, the Historical Enigma:

Jerusalem is often called the City of David. It was King David of Israel who, on instructions from God, bought a threshing-floor for 600 shekels of gold from Ornan the Jebusite. Ornan was willing to donate the land, but David insisted on paying the full price for a clear title for what is today the most strategic 35 acres on earth -- the Temple Mount. It was on this site David built an altar and offered burnt offerings. And it was on this same site that his son Solomon was directed to build God's Temple. Jerusalem became the one place on earth where God's manifest presence dwelt -- in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's Temple.

This is why the City is much more than a plot of earth, or stones, or buildings, or culture, or ancestral traditions to the sons of Israel. Without Jerusalem, Judaism has no ultimate meaning. Without Jerusalem, Israel's God has no place for meeting with His people. Indeed, without Jerusalem, the Chosen People feel there is no validity to their existence. This is almost an impossible burden for any city to bear, yet this burden is forever a part of the legacy of Jerusalem. And so it has remained for three thousand years since it's founding by Israel's greatest

king. Love for this city and all it represents preserved the Israelites as a unique and peculiar people down

through the centuries.

Every year, in the homes of

Diaspora Jews the world over, Passover ended with the prayer, "Next year, in Jerusalem." In 70 AD, the Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple completely. The gold that decorated it melted down between the massive stones of the Temple itself. To get at the gold inside, the

soldiers virtually dismantled it, piece by piece. Thus was Jesus prophecy of thirty-seven years earlier

literally fulfilled. He said that "not one stone would be left standing on another." The Temple, the seat of

God's earthly throne was lost to the Jews. It was now the time of the Gentiles. All that remained was the hope of 'Next Year, in Jerusalem'.

Jerusalem - Prize of War:

Ironically the City has experienced little of that for which it was named. Peace has been more of a prayer and a hope than a reality. What Jesus predicted about the interim condition of Jerusalem -- from its Roman

destruction until its return to the Israelites at the time of His Second Coming -- became literally fulfilled.

Listen to His prophecy,

"And they [Israel] shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles

UNTIL the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled."

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by soldiers, you will know that it will soon be destroyed. If you are living in Judea at that time, run to the mountains. If you are in the city, leave it. And if you are out in the country, don't go back into the city. This time of punishment is what is written about in the Scriptures. It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children! Everywhere in the land people will suffer horribly and be punished. Some of them will be killed by swords. Others will be carried off to foreign countries. Jerusalem will be overrun by foreign nations until their time comes to an end. [Luke 21:20-24 CEV]

In Jerusalem's early history, it was caught between the conquest ambitions of the great empires of

antiquity. Israel sits in the middle of a land bridge that connects three continents. Anyone who wants to build an empire that embraces Asia, Africa and Europe, has to conquer the key span in the middle of that bridge -- Israel. And since its capital is Jerusalem, it came in for one siege after another. The Assyrians, Hittites, Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans --

all in turn sounded their war trumpets at the gates of Jerusalem. God miraculously delivered Jerusalem many times. However, their greatest danger was never from without, but from within. Because of Israel's frequent departure from faith in their God, He brought upon Jerusalem a destruction about which His Prophets had long warned them. This happened twice in their history, exactly fulfilling the prophetic warnings they had been given.

Tradition Many years after Mohammed's death, some

teachers of Islam began to claim something that would bind the passions of all Muslims to Jerusalem forever. A myth was created that Muhammad and his horse were miraculously flown to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the night of his death. Muhammad ascended to heaven on his horse from the rock on which Abraham had been willing to sacrifice his son. And of course they believe that the [son was Ishmael, not Isaac]. Based on this teaching, Jerusalem is the third Holiest Site in Islam. Only Mecca and Medina are seen as more important. The blood that has been spilled because of this teaching is beyond calculation. And yet the past is nothing compared

to the blood that is soon to be spilled over this.

According to the Prophet Zechariah, this ancient conflict between Ishmael and Isaac over Jerusalem will

by the fuse that starts the last war of the world. Now that this issue has been made part of Islam and Judaism,

solving it is impossible. Muslims believe that to give Israel Jerusalem, is to confess that the Qur'an and the Hadith, the holiest teachings of Islam, are wrong. Israelis believe that to give up Jerusalem is the same as saying their Holy Bible is wrong, and that all of their sufferings in exile were for nothing.

Who Owns Jerusalem?:

The Israelis claim ownership of the city as their historical capital. In other words, they claim right of

prior ownership. The Israelis have a legal claim to the city as the spoils of war. The Israelis captured the

city in 1967 when they defeated the invading Arab armies, including Jordan. Israel also captured what was historically Judea and Samaria. Today, it's called the West Bank.

The Jordanian citizens caught on the wrong side of the border at the end of the war were abandoned

by their government. They were shoved into refugee camps and presented to the world as the Palestinian people. From one of these refugee camps in 1968 emerged Yasser Arafat and, overnight, Jordanian refugees were

transformed into the ['Palestinian people']

. President Clinton said the Camp David talks failed because of the two sides' refusal to compromise over Jerusalem.

Jerusalem was founded by King David. God gave title deed to Jerusalem to only one people, the Jews. Jerusalem is the only city with a place in eternity. The Arabs say Jerusalem is their holy city, despite the shabby

treatment it historically received at their hands and the lack of support for that designation in their Koran.

By the mid-19th century, the city was a neglected backwater where Jews were in the majority. Israel

refuses to divide the city, claiming it will remain their eternal, undivided capital forever.

Yasser Arafat demands the city be divided and the half with the Temple Mount be given to him for his capital city. Both sides can't be right. King Solomon was once faced with a similarly perplexing dilemma. Two women both claimed the same baby. Solomon offered to divide the child in half. One woman agreed, the other refused. Solomon concluded the one with the right to the child is the one who refused to divide it. It will take someone with the wisdom of Solomon to get these two sides to agree on

anything where Jerusalem is concerned

The Only City God Claims as His Own:

To sum it up, this is what the Jew believes is at stake here. Jerusalem is part of being a Jew and part of being

a Jew is Jerusalem. Without one, the other cannot exist. It is the city of the Promise. Isaiah predicts that

Jerusalem will be the world's capital city during the Messiah's 1000 year reign on earth. The survival of

Jerusalem is critical to the survival of Judaism. To the Jew, if Jerusalem ceased to be, then the Bible would be

wrong.

God Himself calls Jerusalem His holy city at least eleven times. And it is the only city on earth so designated. God declares, "it is the City called by my

Name." As I previously mentioned, Jesus said that "Jerusalem would be trodden down by the Gentiles UNTIL

the times of the Gentiles were fulfilled." Jerusalem remained in the hands of the Romans and Byzantines until 638 BC. The invading Muslims drove them out and held the city until the 11th century. It changed hands a number of times after that. Then came the Crusaders. The City was passed back and forth between the Crusaders and the Muslims until the 13th Century. Saladin permanently drove out the Crusaders at that time. The Mamelukes of Egypt took over in the 14th century. Jerusalem fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1517. The city was ignored for the next five hundred years. Jerusalem was of no importance in the Muslim Turkish Empire.

The final stages of Jerusalem's destiny was set up by the British take over in 1917. When the British terminated their Mandate over Palestine May 15th, 1948, the Israelites declared the State of Israel. After nearly twenty centuries of war, conquest and neglect, the city survived. And so did the Jews, confidently praying each Passover, "Next year, in Jerusalem".

Dividing the Indivisible:

At the Camp David meetings, the US and Israel supported a plan that would give Yasser Arafat his Palestinian

state and his capital in Jerusalem. You'd think that finally, Arafat would have jumped at the offer, if peace

was truly on his agenda. That solution would have expanded Jerusalem's borders, then redivide the city. The expansion would include West Bank Jewish settlements into the new Israeli city of Yerushalyim, Hebrew for Jerusalem. The new borders would also incorporate Arab villages into the city. That portion would become the Arab capital Al Quds. The Palestinian parliament would be in the Arab neighborhood of Abu Dis, in sight of the Dome on the Temple Mount. This sleight of hand with the borders of the city would give the Arabs everything they previously demanded. Arafat turned it down.

It was a good thing for Barak that he did. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Olmert was furious. As he put it, "it's either a divided Jerusalem or its not." Any compromise involving Jerusalem would have failed in the Knesset anyway.

Nearly a third of Israelis are ultra-Orthodox Jews. Without their support, Barak's government would collapse like a house of cards. If Arafat had accepted the compromise, it is unlikely he would have survived long enough to sign it.

The prophet Zechariah said that in the last days,

Jerusalem would become a "burdensome stone" and that all who try to shoulder that burden will be "cut to pieces." The warning is given to "all the people of the earth [gathered] against it." The prophet Daniel prophesied that someone would come up with a workable peace plan. Daniel 9:27 speaks of someone confirming a seven year covenant between Israel and her enemies. The covenant is broken mid-way through over an incursion into the same holy places currently responsible for Camp David's failure.

The Modern Period of Western Interference:

In 1917, the Balfour Declaration gave most of the land of the Middle East to the Jews. The grant was given in gratitude for the invention of an important new weapon by a Zionist Jew named Weizman. After World War One, the British realized the Arabs had all the oil. At the San

Remo Conference in 1923, Churchill redrew the map of the Middle East - freehand - dividing whole tribes into

different nations. In the process, Churchill gave away most of the land promised by the Balfour Declaration. In one stroke, Churchill set in motion most of the conflicts of the Middle East of the 20th century.

In recent times, the balance of power in the Middle East has been shifting like the desert sands. the

Pentagon announced a $900 million arms deal with Egypt to improve 35 Apache attack helicopters. The deal also includes advanced detection equipment for Egypt's air

force of US built F16s. The Pentagon closed a $500 million deal with Saudi Arabia involving delivery of

5000 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles. And we sold Kuwait $190 million worth of artillery and tanks. Thanks to the Russians, and now to the US arms industry, the Middle

East is a huge armed encampment, waiting to explode.

The "Peacemaker":

Jerusalem, the city of peace, has known only war for most of the last two thousand years. Between the wars, its various invaders occupied it. When not being contested in battle, its occupiers and the world at large largely ignored it. By the nineteenth century, few Americans even knew it still existed as a real city.

Today, it is headline news on a daily basis. Most Americans know more about Jerusalem than they do about

any other city on earth apart from Washington and their own hometown. Exactly the way the Bible predicted it

would be, thousands of years in advance. The same prophets also predicted the coming peacemaker. Those prophecies were dependent on the fulfillment of Jerusalem's unlikely position on the world's center

stage.

Jerusalem is where it should be in the last days, a powder keg, both politically and spiritually. The

powder keg of the Middle East is tailor made for Daniel's peacemaker. The Apostle John spoke of this

coming peacemaker as the "rider on the white horse. " He's the first of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.

John sees him with a bow, the symbol of war, but no arrows. Daniel says that "by peace he shall destroy

many" before he is "broken without hand" by the Prince of peace. He is the antichrist, and the stage is set for his appearance.

The fate of Jerusalem is set, it will happen! Is your fate set? If your not sure or if you would like to learn how to make sure that you will not miss out on the greatest news of all. The only thing that you will regret, is that you didn't do it sooner! We need to be saved, and all must come to Salvation, I can’t see anyone be left behind when they just have to be taught a simple view of the Love of Christ, but still the Father chooses and makes His choice,

For people can't come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them from the dead. John 6:44 NLT

You may think you have gotten to this point by shear coincidence, It may appear that this world is rapidly falling apart, it might seem that mother nature is out of control, it might look as though immorality, senseless killings, increasing violence and hatred could not get any worse, but it's going to happen. The Bible tells us of a catastrophic cataclysmic group of events that will take place shortly before the second coming of Jesus Christ. Are we seeing these events? Are we living in the last days? The answer is both yes and no?

Yes we are living in the last days, no the events we are seeing now are only the beginning. It’s going to get much worse before it gets better. It doesn't take a Bible scholar, or a scientist to figure out the times in which we live. All one has to do is look outside, the weather is extreme to say the least. Record highs, record lows, record winds, record flooding, record storms, record droughts! The world's weather is rapidly changing and so is the world's population. The thing is is this last encounter with hurricane Katrina and the events that are taking place right now and before that was the Tsunami, This has been a clear devastation and so many deaths and there is so many questions to be answered, I am completely shocked at all of this.

The population of the world is skyrocketing out of control. This in its self brings about natural consequences; increased food shortages, wars, territorial disputes, social disturbances, water shortages and other environmental impacts upon this planet. So if all these things are just the beginning, when and what are the signs we should be looking for?

To learn the signs, we have to see what the Bible says regarding them. Jesus had a Question and an answer session with his disciples on the Mount of Olives and they asked him what will be the sign of your second coming and of the end of the age? Jesus answered them by saying:

Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. [Matt. 24:6-8 NIV]

So according to the very words of Jesus, the things we are seeing are just the beginning of birth pains. There has always been wars, famines, earthquakes and distress between nations, but the kind of events about to come upon this planet will be the worst ever. Thank God, the Bible tells us exactly when the actual birth pains will begin and to what extent and severity they will be.

"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation, 'spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— [Matt. 24:15 NIV]

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. [Matt.24:21-22 NIV]

The abomination of desolation? What is that all about? We learn from the prophet Daniel that there will come a time when Israel will have a third temple. They will be living in a time of peace and prosperity that the world has never seen. A man will come out of nowhere and take the world by surprise. He will be able to do incredible miracles. He will bring about world-wide peace, he will bring prosperity to all, he will even accomplish something no man has ever been able to do. He will bring peace to the middle-east. He will sign a peace treaty with Israel that will guarantee 7 years of peace. Sound to good to be true, will it is, because right in the middle of this 7 years of peace and prosperity this man will enter the third temple of Israel and proclaim himself to be God! That's the abomination of desolation, that's when all hell breaks loose and the real birth pains begin.

The real birth pains, the Bible tells us, will take place during the time of greatest distress this world has ever seen. Nothing has nor ever will come close to the events about to come upon this planet. As the Bible says, unless those days be shortened, no one would survive at all! There is only one sure way to survive and perhaps you already know how so find out!

Yes, I want to survive you say, well good, because I have some Good News for you! Someone has already bought and paid for your way of escape. Of course this did not come cheap, it cost this someone their very life. You mean someone cared about me, so much, that they were willing to give their life so that I might survive what's about to happen to this planet. Oh yes, and it gets even better, not only will you escape the coming perils but you also receive eternal life! Just who is this person you ask?

This person is Jesus Christ. He loves us all, so much, that he was willing to die in the most humiliating and painful way of execution ever thought of by mankind, crucifixion! Oh I've watched movies and seen pictures of the crucifixion, it wasn't so bad, you say. You've seen worse, you think!

Well let me tell you what really happened. Its the greatest love story ever told. Jesus was betrayed and arrested and brought before the high priest, where false witnesses accused him of blasphemy. Then he was blind folded where he was spit upon and repeatedly hit and slapped in the face. It's hard to avoid hits when you’re blindfolded. Next, his own disciples disowned him by denying they knew him. Then he was brought before the governor and the governor offered to release him, but instead the very people He had come to rescue, demanded the release of a known thief and murderer by the name of Barabbas.

Jesus was then flogged and as was custom in those days He was flogged with a ca-to-nine-tails, a whip with nine long strips of leather at the very end. To each one of the strips was tied a piece of metal, glass or bone. With each swing of the whip the pieces would dig into and rip out pieces of flesh off the back of Jesus (Sorry for such graphic details, but that's the way it was). Victims were only whipped 39 times, because no one lived past that amount. Historians write that the bowels of Jesus were revealed on his backside.

Next he was further mocked, stripped of his clothing, his beard was completely plucked out, He had to wear a crown of thorns upon His already bloody and swollen forehead. He was given a scarlet robe and a staff, where once again He was spit upon and hit over the head with the staff, as the soldiers chanted 'Hail to the King of the Jews'. Then He was led away to be crucified.

Jesus carried the heavy, splintered cross upon his bloody and torn back as far as he could. Next, spikes were driven through His hands and feet, Jesus was barely clothed and unrecognizable as a human being as the cross was hoisted up in the air between the crosses of a thief and a murderer for all to see.

Being so weak and unable to lift himself away from the cross to take a breath, Jesus died. A spear was jabbed into his side to make sure he was dead. Both water and blood trickled out, doctors tell us that the water was a sign that his heart had actually burst. Then, to add insult to injury, the soldiers rolled dice to see who got His clothes. Jesus did more than just die upon that cross, every sin, past, present and future that you and I ever committed or will commit was cast upon Jesus on that cross. Paid in Full!

For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, [1Pet. 3:18 NIV]

Yes, you can't keep a good man down. Jesus was raised from the dead. He defeated death and right now he is in heaven preparing a place for you, and all who believe in him, a place beyond our wildest dreams or imagination. A place where we will live for eternity, with new bodies, that never decay, no more sickness, no more dying. Jesus paid the ultimate price, because he wants us to reap the ultimate reward. That reward is to know Him and letting Him into our hearts and lives, becoming a True Believer.

Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. 1Thes. 4:13-18 NIV

We call it the Rapture or the Great Escape, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, every true believer in Jesus Christ shall just vanish off the face of the earth to be with the Lord. Back on earth, the 7 years of false peace and safety shall begin, giving way to the real birth pains of destruction during the last 3 1/2 years of this period the Bible calls the Great Tribulation. Except, it won't be so great for those who are left behind.

How to become a true believer, its really quite simple. First you have to admit that you are a sinner, you are one, we all are, and now you can become a saved sinner. How would you like to have to stand before God and have every lie, every bad thought, every time you broke the law, every bad word you have said, and how many times you made another brother stumble or hurt someone, written in a book with this large list and your name is at the top and there are pages and pages all about you, and we all know through our lives there would be many pages, But the thing is when you accept Jesus into your life and heart, the pages in the book are wiped clean and all you see is your name and an empty page.

So you get comfortable and sit or stand or kneel or lay on your face, what ever makes you comfortable, even sitting in a chair, and You pray to both the Father and Jesus and admit to the fact that you are a sinner and you admit that you need forgiveness and explain in your own words how you are sorry for all the bad things that you have done, and in the prayer you explain to Jesus that you want Him to guide your life and welcome Him in to yourself ,into your heart, and explain the simple prayer that you really thank Him for all He has done for you and how He took all the pain and suffering so you could be clean and pure, like the falling snow, and then tell Him how much you mean to you for being hung on the cross and then dieing all for you, and thank Him for taking your spot and taking all the pain and abuse for you, and now you ask Him that you want Him to be the Lord and King of your life. And that is about it, say amen and you are saved, not much to it. Next you want to read the bible and seek out looking for right one, and He will help you grow and to be joyful knowing that your eternal life starts now, so you are going to be with Jesus forever. Then ask Him to start to direct you life and to start to teach you how to live His way and not the way of the world.