THERE IS HOPE FOR THE LOST, DYING, ALCOHOLIC, ADDICT! ....

You Must Be Born Again!!

Hello Friend. It is appointed unto man once to die and then after that the Judgement. EVERYONE will live forever. Heaven If one chooses Christ Jesus, Hell if one refuses to choose Him, therefore remains in their sins. The Dark days ahead are signs of the end of the age noted by famines, earth quakes, floods, wars and rumors of wars.. and the coming 'Great Tribulation' period spoken of in the Book of Revelation. But, The BEST is yet to come for those who know Christ Jesus as their Savior!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BOUND BY SIN FRIENDS...THERE IS A WAY OUT AND IT IS JESUS CHRIST!
If you will Repent of your sins and Call upon Him with a broken and contrite heart, He will pardon you and make you a brand new man, a brand new woman.

Call upon Him today for He loves you. It doesn't matter where you've been or what you've done..Jesus Christ Loves you and wants to Save you!

Call on Him today! (while there's still time.) -Rev.Debbie ♥

AS WE WAIT FOR HIM...

He is coming back for a bride. Brides are in love, they plan, prepare and are consumed with the upcoming wedding, they don't hide things from their Fiancee, they are totally focused on how lovely life will be with him. That is how Christians should be with Jesus and His coming, not half-hearted, filled with sin and unforgiveness, caught up in worldly things and putting the wedding on the back burner as if the bride doesn't care or is too busy to get focused.
A groom wants a bride who loves him. Who constantly has him and their future in mind.
A bride who waits daily, and watches for the day to arrive when they will be together, forever!
A bride who is consumed with thoughts of the wedding and their never ending life together.
I truly believe a groom wouldn't want a bride who is getting high, fornicating with whomever they chose, swearing, getting drunk, lying and stealing.
Do you think Father God would want a bride like that for His Only Begotten Son?
I wouldn't want a bride like that for my son.
Some that say they are Christian...sure act exactly like the unbelievers. Weird, huh?
Jesus never turned His back on anybody. Why are some turning their backs on Him?
It's like...they believe He'll come for them someday, but not this day.
They figure that they can behave badly now, He'll forgive 'em.
(I mean...He always does, doesn't He?)
He won't really care what they do, will He? I mean, "this life is rough", they'll say.
"I didn't know!", they'll cry. They'll be left behind when He comes. Why can't they see it?
Why don't they want to see? Why don't they really love Him? Why don't they even care?
He's almost here. So soon now.
Perhaps today, even!

WATCH AND BE READY – ARE YOU READY?

Churches Find End Is Nigh

The Number of Religious Facilities Unable to Pay Their Mortgage Is Surging

ROSEVILLE, Calif.—Residential and commercial real-estate owners aren't the only ones losing their properties to foreclosure. The past few years have seen a rapid acceleration in the number of churches losing their sanctuaries because they can't pay the mortgage.

Just as homeowners borrowed too much or built too big during boom times, many churches did the same and now are struggling as their congregations shrink and collections fall owing to rising unemployment and a weak economy.

(Members of 'The Family Church' at a service)

Max Whittaker for The Wall Street Journal -

Since 2008, nearly 200 religious facilities have been foreclosed on by banks, up from eight during the previous two years and virtually none in the decade before that, according to real-estate services firm CoStar Group, Inc. Analysts and bankers say hundreds of additional churches face financial struggles so severe they could face foreclosure or bankruptcy in the near future.

"Churches are the next wave in this economic crisis," says Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., president and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a non-profit civil-rights group, who works with pastors around the country to help churches negotiate better terms with their bankers.

Religious denominations of all kinds have suffered in recent years as donations have declined, with many Catholic parishes closing and synagogues merging their congregations. But the property-financing problems have been concentrated among independent churches, which while seeking to expand lack a governing body to serve as a backstop to financial hardship.

"Religious organizations may be subject to the laws of God but they are also subject to the laws of economics," said Chris Macke, senior real-estate strategist at CoStar. Many troubled churches, he said, are in states such as California, Florida, Georgia and Michigan, which also have some of the highest home-foreclosures rates in the country.

In many cases, churches ran into trouble after borrowing to build bigger houses of worship needed to accommodate growing congregations in once-booming housing markets.

Pastors Rich and Lindy Oliver decided their Family Christian Center needed more space after their congregation rose from a few hundred in the early 1990s to 650 by 2002. The church borrowed $4.2 million and began building a new 1,000-person sanctuary on 11 acres in Orangevale, Calif., including classrooms and a space for adult learning.

Across the U.S., churches are losing their sanctuaries because they can't pay their mortgage debt. Some borrowed too much or built too big during boom times and now are struggling as congregations -- and collections -- shrink.

But when housing prices across California began tumbling in 2006, followed by a surge in unemployment and foreclosures, many congregants moved away, and those who were left reduced their tithing sharply. Meanwhile, the property, valued at $8.5 million in 2002 was appraised at just $2.5 million in 2008.

Stretched to the limit, the pastors stopped making payments. "I just told the bank to take it," Mr. Oliver said. "If you're a church with a piece of property upside down and no one will refinance the loan or lend you more money, there's not really another choice but to walk away."

Bankers and lenders typically are reluctant to "foreclose on God" and seek to work out deals with churches. But none proved possible in the Olivers' case.

These days, Mr. Oliver said his church, renamed The Family Church, was "doing what the rest of America is doing—we're cutting back and simplifying." In November, the Olivers raised $700,000—not nearly enough to rescue the previous church—from donations and personal loans from church members and used it to lease a former furniture store in a strip mall in Roseville, Calif.

Traditionally, lenders considered churches good risks because of the weekly cash flow generated by tithing, as well as the moral compulsion felt by most pastors to pay down debt.

Like many churches, Mr. Oliver used bond financing, not a straight mortgage, to fund construction. Historically, churches wanting to build turned to their governing bodies or to specialized lenders that originated fixed-rate 25-year to 30-year mortgages. During the real-estate boom,

But during the real-estate boom, regional and community banks attracted churches with lower rates on shorter-term loans. At the same time, some bond underwriters began offering churches more money up front if they issued so-called compound-interest bonds. In such cases, churches often paid nothing until the bonds came due years later, but then had to pay both the principal and accrued interest, which often doubled the amount they owed.

Many such bonds come due in the next few years. But with property values down and cash in short supply, many churches won't have the funds to payand will have trouble refinancing. "In 2011 and the next couple of years, we're going to see a big maturity wall hitting these churches," said Scott Rolfs, head of Wisconsin-based investment bank Ziegler and Co.'s Religion and Education practice.

Many churches have also been upended by plain mortgages. Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Sacramento took out a $1.9 million mortgage to acquire a $2.3 million 18,000-square-foot property in 2004 that included a church and two retail spaces. Johnny Zapara, the pastor, had refinanced his own home for $400,000 to make a down payment and expected to pay most of the $17,000 monthly payment with income from retail tenants.

When one of the tenants went out of business and a new one couldn't be found, Vineyard subsidized the payments for two years. Eventually the church ran out of money. and couldn't refinance because the value of the property had fallen sharply.The lender foreclosed earlier this month.

"A building does not make a church. We will find a way to continue," Mr. Zapara said. •

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While I'm not speaking of the church in the article in particular, because I've never been there, I'll speak now of churches overall.

Churches, in my opinion, need to be focused on delivering the Word of God, nothing less. People need to hear the Word in these difficult times! Churches can't sway from that! Just so they can preach 'feel good' sermons that are just fluff, totally non-offensive, non-confrontational, politically correct, with no talk of sin, conversion, repentance, heaven or hell, the coming of the Lord in the air, in the clouds, etc.

People need to be fed!

I believe that Ichabod churches won't stand in the hard times.

That's why, we have church at home now, ourselves.

(it's Biblical, see below.)

1 Corinthians 16:19 -"The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house."

(Of course....that's just my opinion. -Blessings!-Rev.Debbie ♥)

''Enduring To the End''
by, Jack Kinsella
(Omega Letter Editor) - www.omegaletter.com

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. (2nd Peter 3:3-4)

For most of the past two thousand years, the scoffers had a point. In terms of Bible prophecy and the return of Christ, things remained pretty much the same from the close of the Apostolic Era until roughly the beginning of the 20th century.

When Jesus was asked by His disciples, “What shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the world?” He began with a warning against deception:

“Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My Name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24:4-5)

That was the first sign and for sixteen hundred years, that was the only sign prophecy-watchers had to work with – the succession of popes claiming to be the physical representatives of Christ on earth.

And all things 'continued as they were' down through the centuries. Until we got to the 20th.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” (24:6)

Until eclipsed by its successor, the Great War (1914-1918) was called “The War to End All Wars”.
It was the first world war pitting the Western Allies against the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires.

Jesus noted that “all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” What does that mean?

In 1917 the British government approved the Balfour Declaration which said in part;

“His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

A month later, Lord Allenby captured the city from the defending Turks following an intense battle in which Allenby’s forces incurred 18,000 casualties while the Turks lost more than 25,000.

But it took the events of another world war and its aftermath before the prophesied restoration of Israel as a Jewish homeland was realized in May, 1948.

“But the end is not yet.”

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” (24:7-8)

The following month, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on West Berlin. The Western Allies responded to the blockade with the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies over the blockade directly into West Berlin.

The first overflight took place on June 24, 1948, an events historians credit as marking the start of the Cold War. That conflict lasted for a half century without either side ever directly firing a shot at the other – the ultimate rumor of war.

The Cold War was fought around the world in tiny ethnic internal conflicts like those in Africa the two Koreas and the (formerly) two Vietnams. (“nation against nation” = ethnos against ethnos) The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union after the First Gulf War.

The First Gulf War was a coalition of kingdoms that ultimately blossomed into what has become, from the perspective of al-Qaeda, a war between civilizations.

“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for My Name's sake.” (24:9)

The 21st century has so far witnessed an unprecedented assault on all things Christian or Jew – the Christian for following Christ and the Jew for rejecting Him. At the same time, nobody dares to offer offense to Islam.

“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.” (24:10)

Recall Comedy Central’s predicament of a few months back. There was a huge protest by both the Christian and Jewish communities over their proposed cartoon series “JC” that mocked both God and Jesus. The louder the protests, the better Comedy Central liked it.

At almost the very same time, Comedy Central’s “South Park” ran a cartoon featuring Mohammed. The network heavily censored it and even vacated their offices in response to death threats.

“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” (24:11-13)

The assault on the Gospel needs no comment. It is worth mentioning that the most lucrative business model on the internet is the porn business. Every other day it seems, there is a new report of a family murder-suicide.

“Enduring to the end” in context is a reference to staying true to the Gospel – an increasingly difficult proposition in the brave new 21st century.

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” (24:14)

Do you see the progression? It is an outline of history that begins with the Balfour Declaration and ends with the Gospel of the Kingdom being preached into all the world for a witness unto all nations – an impossibility before the Internet Age and virtually unavoidable since.

Anywhere that the internet is, the Gospel is there. And there are few places left on earth not wired to the world-wide web. But when the Gospel has been preached worldwide to all the nations, then comes “the end.”

But according to the Lord, “the end” isn’t the same event as His Second Coming.

Notice what happens after what the Lord describes as “the end.” His attention shifts to the abomination of desolation that occurs during the Tribulation and His focus narrows to those living in the region of Jerusalem whom He warns to flee.

Note the chronology carefully. First comes “the end.” After “the end” comes the abomination of desolation by the antichrist and after that, the Jews are told to flee from Jerusalem.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

This is NOT the Rapture. This event takes place after the Tribulation. It is neither secret nor signless – all the tribes of the earth will mourn when they see Him coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. This isn't the same event described by Paul in 1st Thessalonians 4:16-18.

“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

Jesus doesn’t send His angels to gather the Church, He comes for them Personally. The Church isn’t gathered from the four winds or from one end of heaven to the other. It is caught up, first from the grave, and then from the surface of the earth and into the air.

In the Matthew 24:31 event, His elect are gathered from heaven, where they already are.

“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints . . .”(Jude 14)

So where are we now? We’re somewhere between the Gospel of the Kingdom being preached into all the nations and the Rapture of the Church. That’s a very narrow corridor. The Lord is coming.

“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1st Thessalonians 4:18) •

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Stay true to Him friends.

The unbelieving world needs to see Christians separate and set apart for God's glory!
Why would they feel they need to be a Christian if their living is more righteous and holy then the Christian's living?
They'll think, "if that wicked jerk is going to Heaven, I should be a shoe-in for a place there, too."
They won't see Jesus at all.
We have to be Jesus Christ to the world!
The world needs to see Jesus in us, Every minute of every day!!
As time draws closer to His arrival, we need to draw closer to Him!

My best to you friends! -Rev.Debbie ♥ -
(Just wanted to remind you again, if you're looking for September's Bible Studies,
they were posted on August 30th!
-just 2 days ago, friends!)