Psalm 15 Chiasm

LORD,

who shall abide in thy tabernacle?

 who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

Psalm 15:1

Ps15:1-5 P(15:1a) 15:1 A psalm of David. (15:1)    A(15:1b)    15:1 LORD, who may abide in your tent?       B(15:2a-5a)       List of good person    A'(15:5b)    15:5 Whoever acts like this shall never be shaken.(15:5)

A: The person who shall never be shaken. B: List of good person.

On the Streets of Babylon: Chip fear Gripping the Streets

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to be a Fear of "chips", based on a misinterpretation of the Mark of the Beast, once again Gripping the Streets of Babylon....

"Thousands of Swedish citizens are having microchips implanted under their skin to replace credit cards, keys and personal identification – an invasive action that is sure to draw concern from privacy advocates and perhaps End Times theologians, too.

Agence France-Presse reported that about 3,000 citizens have taken the step out of a sense of convenience.
Some pastors and End Times theologians believe microchipping will play a role in the End Times, although by their biblical interpretation it will look different than in Sweden. Pastor John Hagee said in 2012 the problem begins “when the nation and the government start forcing you to wear a chip and they start forcing you to keep laws that you don’t want to keep.”
In 2017, pastor Dave Doyle from Hope Christian Fellowship Church in Iowa made headlines when he warned against microchips being implanted. He was referencing a company that was allowing employees to use microchips for identification.
"I take microchipping as a form of the mark. There's many pieces of the mark, and then again, all these pieces of the mark is designed to control," he said, according to CBN.com." BCN

Creation Moment 6/28/2018 - Mt. Rushmore Lesson

".... natural causes do not do things that are “complex” and “specified.” The exact arrangement of the rocks on the sides of Mount Rushmore can be said to be “complex,” but we suspect intelligent agency only in the case of Mount Rushmore, because the arrangement there is also “specified” — it accurately depicts the faces of four U.S. presidents. ....the origin and evolution of life involved the creation of many things that are complex and specified." EN&V
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
Colossians 1:16

 

THE GREAT CONTROVERSY: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 25

God's Law Immutable

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RszcCdiBe7Y?list=PLA5C7629D1527F981

Within the holy of holies, in the sanctuary in heaven, the divine law is sacredly enshrined--the law that was spoken by God Himself amid the thunders of Sinai and written with His own finger on the tables of stone.

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament.  Revelation 11:19.

The importance of the Sabbath as the memorial of creation is that it keeps ever present the true reason why worship is due to God--because He is the Creator, and we are His creatures. The Sabbath therefore lies at the very foundation of divine worship, for it teaches this great truth in the most impressive manner, and no other institution does this.

The founders of the nation wisely sought to guard against the employment of secular power on the part of the church, with its inevitable result--intolerance and persecution. The Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," and that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States." Only in flagrant violation of these safeguards to the nation's

liberty, can any religious observance be enforced by civil authority. But the inconsistency of such action is no greater than is represented in the symbol. It is the beast with lamblike horns--in profession pure, gentle, and harmless--that speaks as a dragon.

---The wide diversity of belief in the Protestant churches is regarded by many as decisive proof that no effort to secure a forced uniformity can ever be made. But there has been for years, in churches of the Protestant faith, a strong and growing sentiment in favor of a union based upon common points of doctrine. To secure such a union, the discussion of subjects upon which all were not agreed--however important they might be from a Bible standpoint--must necessarily be waived.  

---When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result.

---The image to the beast represents that form of apostate Protestantism which will be developed when the Protestant churches shall seek the aid of the civil power for the enforcement of their dogmas.

---Since those who keep God's commandments are thus placed in contrast with those that worship the beast and his image and receive his mark, it follows that the keeping of God's law, on the one hand, and its violation, on the other, will make the distinction between the worshipers of God and the worshipers of the beast.

This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

1 John 5:3; Proverbs 28:9

IN the NEWS - A Space Babel?

But thou, O LORD,

shalt laugh at them;

Psalm 59:8

"Feel like the world is going to the dogs? Want to get away from it all? Here's a solution: become a citizen of the nation of Asgardia and hope it makes good on its promise to colonise the moon.

Asgardia was founded just 20 months ago, and it already has about 200,000 citizens, a constitution and an elected parliament. It has a leader, Igor Ashurbeyli, who was inaugurated on Monday.

It also has grandiose ambitions.

*It wants to build up a population of 150 million within 10 years.

*It plans to set up "space arks" with artificial gravity in outer space where humans could live permanently.

 

"This day will certainly be recorded in the annals of the greatest events in the history of humankind," Ashurbeyli said in his inaugural speech to an audience of several hundred in the Hofburg, Vienna's former imperial palace.

"We have thus established all branches of government. I can therefore declare with confidence that Asgardia – the first space nation of the united humankind – has been born," said Ashurbeyli, a Russian engineer, computer scientist and businessman.

 

Asgardia - named after Asgard, a world in the sky in Norse mythology - says its citizens now live in more than 200 countries, outnumbering the United Nations' 193 member states. Becoming a citizen online is free.

 

It wants to attract the 2 percent of the world's population that is "most creative". Asked how that was working out so far, Ashurbeyli said, "Citizenship selection will continue. It might even involve IQ tests."

Ashurbeyli said he intends to have

*satellites providing Internet access around the globe in five to seven years,

*space arks operating in 10 to 15 years,

*and finally to establish a permanent settlement on the moon within 25 years.

 

Asgardians now pay an annual membership fee of 100 euros. It plans to collect taxes on businesses and private income, which it says will be kept very low.

"For this early phase of Asgardian nationhood ... I am primarily responsible for its financing, along with a number of other donors who are citizens of Asgardia," he said." Yahoo

Someone is LINING THEIR POCKETS of a 100 euros a pop...

IN the NEWS - Eldest Daughter Returning?

"For centuries the Catholic Church has held a special place for France, latching on to its rising stars from Charlemagne to Napoleon III. Even as religious heads rolled from the guillotine in Paris, pontiffs never really abandoned the dream that the prodigal daughter of the Church might return.
As French President Emmanuel Macron makes his way to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis on Tuesday, a first for the newly elected leader, the question hanging in the air is: Has the eldest daughter of the Church returned?" CRUX

1: It was France which became the first official Catholic nation post fall of the Roman Empire. It was Clovis who made Catholicism the official religion with the implementation of the Breviary of Alaric as official Law throughout his realm posting a copy in every county. This gave the state the right to be used by the ecclesiastical powers to enforce church policy.
This is why France has always been called the "eldest daughter" of the Church.
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Daniel 11:31
2: It was France who later dealt the deadly wound to the beast power in 1798. A French general, under orders of Napoleon, removed the Pope from power by force....what had been happening leading up to that was Catholic nations in the mid 1770's began removing Papal appointments and replacing them with secular clergy. It began in Austria and 1798 was the culmination of the loss of all temporal powers temporarily.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;
Revelation 13:3

ARCHAEOLOGY: Human Sacrifice & Molech of Ammonites

"In 1955 the late Australian archaeologist John Basil Hennessy excavated a Late Bronze Age (13th century B.C.) building he identified as a temple near the airport in Amman, Jordan.

In the center of the solidly built structure were two circular flat stones, one on top of the other, that the excavator identified as an altar with which a large number of burnt offerings were associated.

 “The most surprising feature of all in the final analysis of the material is that the several thousands of small bone fragments are almost exclusively [over 90 percent] human … There can be little doubt that a major concern of the ritual at the Amman airport temple was the burning of human bodies.”

Hennessey’s general impression was that the bones represented an “immature group.” One was of a youth 14 to 18 years of age.

Larry G. Herr, who continued the excavation briefly in 1976, also found fragments of many human bones around a stone pile about 20 feet from the temple. This stone pile had functioned as a pyre: “Many small fragments of burned human bones were strewn all about the building, but their thickest concentration was near the stone pile.” The bones “were primarily from adults”.

If the site was a temple where humans were sacrificed, it could have served the ancient Ammonite capital of Rabat Ammon, 1.5 miles to the west, although the site mystifyingly also contained Hittite, Mycenaean and Egyptian artifacts.

The Ammonite god to whom the humans were presumably sacrificed was Milkom (or Molech). Jeremiah rages against those who offer up their sons and daughters to Molech in Jerusalem’s Ben-Hinnom Valley (Jeremiah 32:35;). Finally, Solomon built a shrine near Jerusalem “for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites” (1 Kings 11:7)." BAR

Congregations (by Geo-Political Regions) Indianapolis Suburbs / Indiana

COUNTIES- (Hamilton, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks, Boone)
For More Regions see Link: https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2018/05/congregations-by-geo-political-regions_18.html

CATHOLIC        

Roman Catholic - 23

Catholic Church, Danville, Indiana

ORTHODOX

   EASTERN
        Greek Orthodox - 1
   ORIENTAL
        Antiochian Orthodox - 1
         Coptic - 1
MAINLINE PROTESTANT  
ANGLICAN
       Episcopalian - 11
       Anglican Church of North America -  5
       Anglican Catholic - 1
   LUTHERAN
       Evangelical Lutheran Church of America  - 14
       North America Lutheran - 2
       Lutheran Missouri Synod - 18
       Lutheran Wisconsin Synod - 2
       Evangelical Lutheran Synod - 1
       Free Lutherans - 1
       Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ - 2
   CALVINIST
         PRESBYTERIAN
                Presbyterian Church U.S.A. - 18
                Presbyterian Church America - 3
                Orthodox Presbyterian - 1
                Evangelical Presbyterian - 1
                Korean Presbyterian Church  - 2
         REFORMED
                 
            DUCTH REFORMED
                 Reformed Church in America - 1
                
   ZWINGLIAN
                  
        ANNABAPTIST
               BRETHREN
                    Church of the Brethren - 2
                    
               MENNONITE
                    Conservative Mennonite - 1
                    Missionary Church - 4
                  AMISH
                    
                   HUTTERITE
   CONGREGATIONALIST
       Congregational Christian Church - 1
       United Church of Christ - 5
       Evangelical Free Church - 2

   HUSSITE
   WESLEYAN
       United Methodist - 85
       Free Methodist - 4
       Evangelical Methodist - 2
      African Methodist Episcopal Church - 3*
      African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion - 1*
     

United Methodist Church, Shelbyville, Indiana

RESTORATIONIST 
   Disciples of Christ - 27
   Christian Church & Churches of Christ  - 68

   Christian Union - 2
    

EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT

   BAPTIST
              American Baptist USA - 30
              American Baptist Association - 6
              Regular Baptist - 11
              Southern Baptist - 38
              Free Will Baptist - 1
              Missionary Baptist - 4
              Reformed Baptist - 3
              Baptist/Converge Worldwide - 2
              National Missionary Baptist - 2*
              
   MISCELLAEOUS EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT
             Calvary Chapel - 1
             Independent Fundamentalist Church - 2
             Bible Blueprint Church - 3
             

7th Day Adventist Church, Cicero, Indiana

       HOLINESS
             Wesleyan - 25
              Evangelical Church - 1
             Church of the Nazarene - 23
             Church of God (Anderson, IN) - 21
             Missionary Alliance - 5
             Churches of Christ - 22
             Salvation Army - 2
             CHARISMATIC
             Assemblies of God  - 22
             Pentecostal Church of God - 3
             Church of God (Cleveland, TN) - 7
             Church of God in Prophecy - 4
             Foursquare Gospel - 1
             Vineyard Church - 3
            
                  ONENESS PENTECOSTALSIM
              United Pentecostal - 15
       SABBATARIAN
              7th Day Adventist - 9
              Messianic Covenant Congregations - 1
                        ARMSTRONGISM
                          

CONVERGENCE

                                                        CHRISTIAN - NEW AGE
 

 

--NON DENOMINATIONAL CONGREGATIONS -- 125 --

OTHER
MORMON - 16
REFORMED MORMON - 2
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES - 8
QUAKER - 21
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE - 1
UNITARIAN - 2
CHRISTADELPHIAN - 1
NON- CHRISTIAN
 Muslim - 2
 Judaism - 1
 Bahai - 1
 Buddhist - 3
 Hindu - 1

(* denotes what are labeled "Black Protestant")
The city of confusion is broken down:
Isaiah 24:10

2000 - (R) Bush/Cheney 72%-28%

2004 - (R) Bush/Cheney 74%-26%

2008 - (R) McCain/Palin 62%-38%

2012 - (R) Romney/Ryan 68%-32%

2016 - (R) Trump/Pence 67%-33%

 

Creation Moment 6/27/2018 - Brain Size

"We’re all human, but some of us have brains twice the size of others. And areas inside the brain can vary, too. What does this mean?

P. K. Reardon and a team of neuroscientists, publishing new research in Science, studied the brains of 3,000 individuals and found a lot of variation. To evolutionists, this should be surprising, because we’re all members of the same species, Homo sapiens, and all humans are interfertile. We can all learn to eat the same food, we can learn each other’s languages, and we can make children. The same variability we see in body shapes and sizes, hair types, eye color, skin color and other outward traits extend inside our brains as well. Reardon’s team tried to bring evolution into the picture, but how successful are they?

Brain size variation over primate evolution and human development [growth from the embryo] is associated with shifts in the proportions of different brain regions. Individual brain size can vary almost twofold among typically developing humans, but the consequences of this for brain organization remain poorly understood. Using in vivo neuroimaging data from more than 3000 individuals, we find that larger human brains show greater areal expansion in distributed frontoparietal cortical networks and related subcortical regions than in limbic, sensory, and motor systems. This areal redistribution recapitulates cortical remodeling across evolution, manifests by early childhood in humans, and is linked to multiple markers of heightened metabolic cost and neuronal connectivity.

Their use of “recapitulates” sounds awfully [literally ‘awful-ly’] like Haeckel’s discredited Recapitulation Theory, which has been thoroughly debunked by Jerry Bergman in his new book Evolution’s Blunders, Frauds and Fallacies, ch. 10. The organization of human brains today has nothing in common with evolution from a presumed ape-like ancestor. It is not retracing evolutionary steps. Certain human brain regions are larger than others, but Reardon’s team presents no transitional forms on which to base that claim, and watching a baby grow doesn’t reveal what mythical path an ape took on the road to humanity.

The methods and findings indicate a great deal of subjectivity and assumption. The only sound conclusion from this study of 3,000 individual brains (people who responded to an advertisement) is that the humans show a large amount of variation in size and shape of their brains, and yet they are all members of the same species.

The paper could get by easily without any reference to evolution. Reardon et al. could simply show differences between human and ape brains, and show the extent of variability between human brains. That would be science. Asserting any Darwinian connection between apes and humans, without demonstrating how blind chance could have crossed that chasm, goes far beyond the data." CEH

And God said, Let us make man in our image,... Genesis 1:26

THE GREAT CONTROVERSY: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 24

In The Holy Of Holies

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xl6l9AUKHs8?list=PLA5C7629D1527F981

The subject of the sanctuary was the key which unlocked the mystery of the disappointment of 1844. It opened to view a complete system of truth, connected and harmonious.

Now in the holy of holies they again beheld Him, their compassionate High Priest, soon to appear as their king and deliverer. Light from the sanctuary illumined the past, the present, and the future.
Daniel 8:14, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed, and the first angel's message, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come, pointed to Christ's ministration in the most holy place, to the investigative judgment, and not to the coming of Christ for the redemption of His people and the destruction of the wicked. The mistake had not been in the reckoning of the prophetic periods, but in the event to take place at the end of the 2300 days.
The coming of Christ as our high priest to the most holy place, for the cleansing of the sanctuary, brought to view in Daniel 8:14; the coming of the Son of man to the Ancient of Days, as presented in Daniel 7:13; and the coming of the Lord to His temple, foretold by Malachi, are descriptions of the same event;
When the work of investigation shall be ended, when the cases of those who in all ages have professed to be followers of Christ have been examined and decided, then, and not till then, probation will close, and the door of mercy will be shut. Thus in the one short sentence, They that were ready went in with Him to the marriage: and the door was shut, (Matthew 25:10) we are carried down through the Savior's final ministration, to the time when the great work for man's salvation shall be completed.
While the investigative judgment is going forward in heaven there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God's people upon earth. This work is more clearly presented in the messages of Revelation 14.

PSALM 1 performed by KIM HILL

PSALM 1 performed by KIM HILL

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NIelWZty9Ow?list=PLT70zxsi10M-VwwwvwWMVapJTSXowlnhv

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,

nor standeth in the way of sinners,

nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD;

and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,

 that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;

his leaf also shall not wither;

and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Psalm 1:1-3

 

Chiasm of the 1st Sabbath

GENESIS 2:1-4

A. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

B. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;

C. and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

B. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

C. because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

A. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created,

A. The Creation
B. 7th Day
C. Rest

Truth about DEATH

"Many people around the world turn to religion to answer questions about death and the afterlife, especially when someone is facing his own mortality.

Strangely, even a brief glance at many of the world’s religions reveals that
--many theologies glamorize death,
--promising rewards in the afterlife,
--including increased understanding of God and the universe
--and even, in some cases, supernatural powers that were unavailable during the mortal life.

Death often seems more attractive than being alive.

But the reality of death is that it should be avoided at all costs. Death is the worst thing to ever happen in all of existence.
Life is a precious gift we are unable to recreate once it’s gone. The truth about death lays plain the harshness of the grave.

The Bible declares triumphantly, “Death is swallowed up in victory” (1 Corinthians 15:54). The mystery of death will become the memory of death, and its horror will disappear from reality forever."
AmazingFacts

Papal Notes - Hiding behind Bloodshed for Ecumenism

"Pope Francis on Saturday told a group of African Christian leaders that when it comes to helping a continent that’s been “stripped,” beaten and left half-dead, there can be no division among churches.

“Although significant disagreements may exist between us on theological and ecclesiological issues, there are many areas where the leaders and members of the various communities of the Christian family can set common goals and work together for the benefit of all,” Francis said.
The pontiff compared Africa to the parable in the Gospel of Luke that speaks of a man who traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho, then “fell into the hands of robbers who stripped him, beat him and went away, leaving him half-dead.”
If there’s a conviction that the continent’s problems would be better resolved by tapping local human, cultural and material resources, he said, the Christian duty is clear: to accompany efforts “to favor a wise and ethical use of those resources.”

A shared commitment to promoting peace in the many areas of conflict in Africa, he said, has to be a priority, as should be concrete forms of solidarity. According to Francis, Church leaders have a duty to help individuals put work together at the service of the common good, defending “the dignity, freedom and rights of all.”
The root of many of these conflicts is perhaps what led the pontiff to urge Christians in African societies to foster coexistence among “differing ethnic groups, traditions, languages and religions.” For the same reason, he said, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, he added, is also urgently needed in Africa." CRUX
Q: Who decides what is "wise" use?
Q: Who decides what is "ethical" use?
Q: What does "ecumenism" among Christians have to do with peace on the African continent? If the main problem is Islam (Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, AQIM, Lybian civil war, etc.) what does Christian "ecumenism" have to do with that?
Q: Once again, where does anyone hear Francis, as a religious leader, calling sinners to repentance?
.....and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3 (even the African continent)
 

Creation Moment 6/26/2018 - Reflecting His Image: Together

"Echoing Genesis 1:27 and 2:24, Jesus said, “From the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall...be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’” Mark 10:6-8

Genetically, except for enucleated (cells without a nucleus) blood cells, every human body cell is either male (XY chromosomes) or female (XX chromosomes).

All healthy humans begin life with sex chromosomal differences: the Y contains over 200 genes, of which 72 code for proteins, while the X contains over 12 times as many, fully 874 genes.
After a zygote (a fertilized egg) is formed, thousands of genetic differences are created due to an epigenetic process called imprinting. This system turns off a wide variety of genes in males and a wide variety of other genes in females depending on whether the gene came from the father or the mother. The result is that many genetic differences exist between the sexes well before birth.

Adult males and females also have different physiological reactions to alcohol due to variations in alcohol dehydrogenase—a detoxifying enzyme. Alcohol dehydrogenase breaks down ethanol, and as a result females exhibit higher alcohol metabolic rates than males. In other words, liquor tends to have a stronger effect on women.

Having males and females perform some mental activity, such as reading a paragraph or looking at a picture, often shows significant differences in their brain scans.

Even sleep cycles tend to be different. Females tend to go to sleep earlier, wake up earlier, and are more active in the morning than males. This fact has an adverse effect on boys and is one of several reasons for their poorer school performance compared to girls from first grade through college.

Genetic and other research continue to find evidence of built-in differences in males and females, confirming the biblical record about the implications of God separately creating human males and females for slightly different, but compatible, roles. Together, they reflect His image." ICR

PSALM 97: The Reign of the Lord

Psalm 97:

Click on Link to hear Psalm 97

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gilTyMd9I-U

"This enthronement psalm....The imagery of the Lord’s presence may be the basis of some New Testament passages’ descriptions of the second coming.

I.          The Announcement of the Reign of the Lord (97:1-2).

II.         The Effect of the Reign of the Lord (97:3-12).

 A.  On His Foes (97:3-9);

 B.   On His Friends (97:10-12).

  And all have reason to rejoice in Christ's government.

 

DIVISION.

The psalm divides itself into four portions,

each containing three verses.

 

The coming of the Lord is described (Ps 97:1-3);

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. vs.3

its effect upon the earth is declared (Ps 97:4-6);

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. vs.5

and then its influence upon the heathen and the people of God (Ps 97:7-9).

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: vs.7

The last part contains exhortation, urging to holiness (Ps 97:10-12).

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: vs.10

 

 

 

---Deep Lesson from vs.2---

 Clouds and darkness are round about him. God doth govern the world mysteriously. As there are mysteries in the word, so in the works of God; "things hard to be understood", (2 Peter 3:16)....The Psalmist may have in mind the appearance of God at Mount Sinai, which was marked by a thick cloud on the mountain and the smoke of a furnace....

---Thought on vs.3---

A fire goeth before him...This is a poetic description of the same kind of phenomenon that happened at Mount Sinai...."Our God in grandeur, and our world on fire."

 

---Message of Psalm 97---

At the remembrance of his holiness vs.12 - But why should you give thanks at the remembrance that God is holy? Because he has said, Be ye holy; for I am holy: and in holiness alone true happiness is to be found. False Christians hate the doctrine of Christian holiness."

Charles Spurgeon/BooksOfTheBible/SamuelSlater/AdamClarke