Sliding Into The Abyss

⁴ For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, ⁶ and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. (Hebrews 6:4-6)

Nothing exemplifies the horrific apostasy described in Hebrews 6:6 in the words "fallen away" like Katy Perry's public display of Satan worship performance at the Grammy Awards. On further review, I was right the first time; it was a public display of Satan worship. Katy's performance of "Dark Horse" (a truly uninspired monotonous monotone three minute waste of time that melodically falls somewhere between chanting and grunting) packed every possible satanic symbol you could imagine on to the TV screens of the world thanks to CBS. 

Her performance started with Katy inside a crystal ball on a dark stage decorated with bare twisted trees, rock out cropping and horned demons. In the back ground a sinister voice is heard: “She casts spells from crystal balls. Invoking spirits. She put me in a trance.” After that the ball is raised and Katy is freed, wearing a skimpy costume emblazoned with a glow-in-the-dark red cross of the Knights Templar. It's all down hill from there. 

OT Tuesday: Daniel and the 70 weeks

It's been years since the destruction of Jerusalem, and Daniel did a little research when Darius took over Babylon. Danial discovered that Jeremiah recorded that God promised the desolation of Jerusalem would only last 70 years. Those 70 years were drawing to a close and Danial was wondering how God would restore Jerusalem. God has revealed to Daniel the future of world empires that have yet to be dreamed about, but Jerusalem and her temple lay in ruins and the population of Judah was still captive in Babylon, Daniel wants to know about his hometown. 

So in Daniel 9:3 he began to pray, he fasted and wore sack cloth and ashes and began his prayer with confessing the sins of Israel to God. Daniel's confession of sin is in Daniel 9:4-15, he finishes his prayer begging God to restore Jerusalem, the temple, and His people as promised to Jeremiah. As Daniel prayed the angel Gabriel came to him again while he was praying and said “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding." and told Daniel that when Daniel started his prayers God commanded him to go to Daniel and explain God's plan for Israel. And with that Gabriel gave Daniel a vision that has been discussed, reviewed, studied, argued over, and prayed over ever since. 

Choose Wisely

I Can Never Go Home Again

A friend of mine is finally getting married! I'm so happy for her, and it looks like the Lord finally led her to true love. I'd love to be there to celebrate with her and her new husband but there's a bunch of things keeping me away - my folks are in poor health and I'm spending as much of my free time with them as our budget allows, and other than budgetary matters travel is not a fun thing for me. I've been all over the world and to be honest, most of it was against my will. For me the joy of traveling ends somewhere a little west of Independence Pass which is about a 3 hour drive from here. 

There's one other thing keeping me away from her wedding: It's in New York. And as everyone now knows as a Pro-life, Pro-marriage, Pro-constitution Christian I'm no longer allowed in New York State. 

"Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, pro-assault weapons, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York because that’s not who New Yorkers are." - NY Governor Andrew Cuomo

41st Anniversary of Roe V. Wade

Some facts about abortion that abortion proponents probably would be happier if you didn't know:

Of the 57,045,175 abortions performed in the United States since 1973 statistically 4,500,00 were to save the life of the mother (8%), 57,000 were due to rape (1%) and 20,000 (<0.5%) were due to incest. In other words he number one reason given to make abortion legal covers less than 10% of abortions performed. (Source)

The number one reason given for having an abortion is "The timing is wrong" (Source)

60% of women who have an abortion afterwards suffer from suicidal ideation and half of them actually attempt suicide. Other post-abortion psychological disorders include alcohol and drug abuse, eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia nervosa) sexual dysfunction, and child neglect or abuse. (Source) 

A new study in China found a link between abortion and breast cancer. The study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Causes and Control, found a 44 percent increased breast cancer risk after an abortion. It also found that the risk grew significantly with subsequent abortions – a 76 percent increase after two abortions, 89 percent after three. - (Source) (Source) A follow up study in India published in the Indian Journal of Cancer confirms that women who have abortion are 636% more likely to have breast cancer than women who carry their babies to term. (Source)