18th Dynasty of Egypt & Moses

The Exodus?

Many have taught that the Exodus happened under Ramses II. But this is several hundred years after the date given in scripture for the event-partly because of Hollywood...

 

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 6:1

 

 

Depending on which chronology one uses it takes you back to either 1446 B.C. or 1450 B.C.

 

Amosis I

Led a successful rebellion of Upper Egypt (the south with its capital at Thebes) against the Hyksos. (Rulers still holding Lower Egypt in the north and of Semitic stock). Remember that a new Pharoah rose up in Egypt who knew not the Hebrews....could that be the rise of a new dynasty? It would explain why they hated the Hebrews who were also of Semetic stock.

 

Amenhotep I

Expanded the temple at karnak. His is the only royal mummy not unwrapped by archaeologists becasue of the style of his facemask.

 

Thutmosis I

Was the first king to be buried in the famous Valley of the Kings. Built fortresses along the southern border and exanded military conquests into Mesopotamia.

 

Thutmosis II

Ruled only a short while and was co-ruler with his half sister Hatshepsut. His mother was a lesser wife, not the queen wife.

 

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut?

Female Pharoah of Egypt who assumed full reign when her half brother, Thutmosis II, whom she was forced to marry, died. She was the daughter of Thutmosis I & his queen wife.

She had no children of her own. So could she have been the "princess" who found and raised Moses? Also, notice that the name "mosis" was popular at this time. This would explain why Moses was being groomed to be a Pharoah in the kings court. But Hatshepsut eventually had to end with another co-reign with the young son of Thutmosis II, Thutmosis III.

 

 

 

Thutmosis III

Known in Egyptology as the "Napoleon of ancient Egypt" for his conquests, especially throughout the Levant, Syria and into Anatolia (modern day Turkey). He was the son of Thutmosis II by  a women not his wife (which was his co-ruling half sister hatshepsut).

Thutmosis III

When Hatshepsut died Thutmosis III assumed the throne in full control. This could explain why when Moses heard that Pharoah had died (while hiding in Midian) that he was afraid to return to face Pharoah. The Pharoah that died would have been his adopted mother Hatshepsut. And with Thutmosis III reigning alone now, he would of been afraid to face him. Likely they would have been rivals in their youth training for the  throne. Thutmosis III clearly would have considered Moses a threat to the throne.

Thutmosis III is the reign where the Egyptian book of the dead was completed-which took their paganism over into outright occultism & spiritualism.

Since Thutmosis III took their religion to new heights against the God of heaven & was the most powerful militarily of all the pharoahs, it would also seem likely that this would be the pharoah which God would challenge-both personally and their religion. Since God is no pansy-He would logically tackle the biggest boy on the block to make His case. There was no one bigger in Egyptian history than Thutmosis III.

Also since 1972, it has been known that his mummy isn't his. Thutmosis III would have been between his early 70's to mid 80's when he died. His mummy is around his early 40's. So the question is WHY? Could it be that his mummy was washed away in the Red Sea. Since the soul was believed to transmigrate from the pyramid, it is logical they put another in his place with the hopes that his soul would find its way to that soul then begin its ascent. Sort of like a place holder.

Amenemhab claims that his death was-

"The last day of the 3rd month of the 2nd season...

He mounted to heaven, he joined the sun:

the divine limbs mingled with him who begat him."

This would correspond to March 17, 1450 B.C.

 

Amenhotep II

Was the 2nd oldest son. He had been serving as a high priest for Lower Egypt in Memphis. So what happened to the oldest son? Young Amenhotep had been away crushing a revolt in Syria for his father. We know that he went around burning villages across Egypt in a fit of rage. Why? Could it be that when he returned home with the army, he found his father had died in the Red Sea, his older brother & heir to the throne dead, his own eldest son dead, the Hebrew slave labor gone, Egypt in shambles after the 10 plagues, a large part of the army gone in the Red Sea, some of his own people leaving with the slaves as the "mixed multitude", and his Egyptian gods humiliated. So he was likely burning the villages left behind by the Hebrews.

 

Thutmosis IV



Dream Stela at the Sphinx

Thutmosis IV was also not the 1st born. He was the 2nd born. He would later make up the dream stela to explain why. He claimed that their gods promised to make him pharoah instead if he removed the sand building up around the Sphinx. "Scholars" think that maybe he had his brother done away with so as to inherit the throne. But how about his older brother had died as a child in the palace of his grandfather during the 10 plagues......?

 

Amenhotep III

Was the reign where Egyptian economic prosperity reached its peak. Had the Luxor temple built.

 

Akhenaten

Akhenaten & Nefertiti playing with their daughters

Originally known as Amenhotep IV but changed his name to relfect his new religion.

It would be logical that something like the 10 plagues and the Exodus would have had a major impact on the psyche & religion of the nation. Enter Akhenaten.....

He began a new religion centered on ONE god. This god was represented by the sun disk, but the images carried warning not to worship the image or the sun-for the image was considered to be just a symbol for the new religion. This god above the sun was considered the only true god and thus all other religions and gods were banned. Akhenaten even built a new capital named Amarna for the religion. He also had a pillar with part of a quotation from the writings of Moses. Since the states of Palestine were technically tributaries of Egypt, it is easy for them to have had contact.

Obviously there would have been an internal simmering of resentment to the losing gods of Egypt that could have boiled over after a few decades when a leader was found for the movement. Could have been as simple as a tutor planting the seeds in the mind of a young pharoah with stories of the God of the Red Sea crossing. But who knows.....

So was this monotheistic "god" of Akhenaten the worship of the Hebrew God, or an attempt to worship Him, but not in the same way? Or was it just a totally pagan religion that happened to be monotheistic. We'll let you decide for yourself...

His famous queen was Nefertiti.

 

Smenkhkare & Neferneferuaten

Painted bust of Nefertiti discovered in Amarna in 1912

The theories as to who Smenkhkare was are all over the palce including a male, a female, a general, a legitimate hir, etc. Some are not sure if this pharoah actually ruled or not.

As for Neferneferuaten, there is confusion, but some believe it was Nefertiti ruling for a short while as a female pharoah after the death of her husband, Akhenaten.

 

Tutankhamun

His origianal name was Tutankhaten, reflecting his fathers new religion. But soon after assuming the throne he changed his name, and restored the old religion. The capital city of Akhenaten was closed and left to the desert sands of time. He was also known to the west as the young, short lived King Tut.

Mummy of King Tut on Tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Gold

"God has always tried His people in the furnace of affliction. It is in the heat of the furnace that the dross is seperated from the true gold of the Christian character."
Patriarchs & Prophets p.129 E.G.W.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;
Revelation 3:18

Prayer / Communion

Prayer isn't supposed to be just about asking for something.
It is designed to be communion with God.
And when he had sent them away,
he departed into a mountain to pray.
Mark 6:46

Creation Moment 2/16/2013 - Gould wrote it

Evolutionist the late Stephen Jay Gould, who invented the evolution of punctuated equilibrium evolution (becasue the fossil record doesn't support evolution), said the following about evolution & racism-
-- “Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory” Ontogeny and Phylogeny, 1977

But what does God say? And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, Acts 17:26

2 Evolutionary Views of mankind (Notice above-God has only ONE view of mankind)

"The two opposing views regarding the origin of human “races” are pluralism and unitarism. The advocates of pluralism – in Darwin’s days outnumbering the unitarists – believed that “races” were created separately and represented separate species. One of the protagonists of pluralism was the Swiss/American Harvard professor Aggasiz, who defended the pluralists view that there were eight primordial human species, each created in a different geographic zone. The defenders of slavery clung to pluralism and were moreover convinced of the superiority of whites.
Unitarism, the concept of common descent of all man, accommodates Color Foundation, because it is the basic link between all people on earth irrespective of their present biological characteristics such as the color of their skin." ColorFoundationWeblog

IN the NEWS - UFO Panic?

A meteor flew over the Russian Ural mountains and apparently crashed-some reports are that the Russian military shot it down. The crash caused hundreds of injuries, knocked out cell phone and shattered windows.
At least 20,000 rescue workers have been sent into the region. It may be part of asteroid 2012 DA14 which is to pass close to earth within about 24 hours. It is being monitored by NASA.
And as one could expect in the internet age--the UFO conspiracies are growing and some people are apparently truly panicking over the thought.

Watch the Meteor over the Urals caught on tape

http://www.youtube.com/embed/4ZxXYscmgRg

 

Katrina, South Pacific Tsunami,Haiti Quake,
Japanese Tsunami, Iceland Volcanic Eruption,
Sandy & now this over the last 8 years....

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:

Daniel 12:1

Will something of this nature-on a much bigger scale of course-be part of the time of trouble? Just wondering....

Idle Minds

"The mind left to itself is generally
low,
sensual, and
corrupt.
* Satan educates idle minds."
Testimonies for the Church vol.1 E.G.W.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15

Creation Moment 2/15/2013 - The Evolution Spin Machine: How its Press Releases Work

National Library of Medicine Films

"The media spin machine works like this: university media departments prepare press releases along with the scientific papers authored or co-authored by their own researchers.
Naturally, they have a vested interest in making their researchers and professors look good, to reflect well on the university. These press releases are embargoed till the paper is published (sometimes a little before), but are visible to science reporters until the agreed on date for public release. Amalgamation services like EurekAlert (an arm of the AAAS) gather the press releases from multiple universities and labs; their links become feeds for inside reporters. EurekAlert explains the Embargo Policy:

When applied to published material, an embargo is a prohibition against publicizing information before a certain date. By placing an embargo on the dissemination of research that is scheduled to be published, EurekAlert! can release information early, giving journalists the time necessary to write accurate and well-researched articles on a given topic. By respecting the embargo, journalists assure themselves of continued access to information in advance of publication.

As a result, the public is inundated with media campaigns like this one before anyone has the chance to analyze the raw evidence. Since most academic institutions and the AAAS that runs EurekAlert are strongly pro-Darwinian, as are most of the secular science reporters, the pro-Darwin forces can blitz the world, gaining a strategic advantage over skeptics.

 If you read Janet Browne’s excellent biography of Charlie (Charles Darwin: the Power of Place) you learn how he got the power of place. His aggressive X-men founded the journal Nature expressly for the purpose of promoting the new materialistic, secularist philosophy “as science.”

Over the following decades, Darwin’s defenders came to occupy influential niches in British and American intellectual life. Together, these men would also control the scientific media of the day, especially the important journals… Darwin’s opponents failed to achieve anything like the same command of the media or penetration of significant institutions. (p. 129)" CEH

 

....he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Psalm 101:7

St. Valentines Day - the truth about it

Thou art all fair, my love;

Song of Solomon 4:7

In 269 AD Valentine was sentenced to death by a 3 part execution consisting of beating, stoning then beheading. He was in  trouble under the Roman Emperor Claudius for secretly performing weddings for Roman soldiers. Claudius had banned soldiers from marrying because he thought single soldiers fought better without the worry of their wife and children.
Valentine had healed a Roman leaders daughter of blindness so impressivly that the father converted to Christianity.

The last words he wrote were to the girl he had healed----ending with "from your Valentine."
Valentine became a feast day as a saint in the Catholic Church.
The story entered the circle of romance as part of the age of courtly love of the middle ages.
It is believed that the reason the Church placed the feast of Valentine in mid-Feb. was to "Christianize" the pagan festival Luperci, which was a fertility festival dedicated the the Roman god of agriculture as well as Romulus & Remus-the mythical founders of Rome. On this day the pagan priests would sacrifice a dog & goat in a cave where Romulus & Remus were thought to have been raised. They would dip strips in the blood and go around smearing it on women who liked it since they thought it would make them fertile over the next year. Then the bachelors would gather and draw out names of the women and be paired up with the ones they drew out of an urn. Sometimes they would end up married-sometimes not.

 

SDA News - Give Kids a Smile Event

From Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands (a U.S. Territory) - "The Saipan Seventh-day Adventist Clinic provided dental services amounting close to $15,000 during its Give Kids A Smile event last Friday.
Now on its fifth year, the annual event is held in observance of the National Children's Dental Health Month, which seeks to raise awareness of the importance of oral health care among the youth.
SDA Clinic dental hygienist Lori Serna said a total of 59 children were served by about 20 staffers during the event, with some of the youngster's families falling in line as early as 5am.
Services included dental exams, extractions, fillings, and fluoride treatment, among others." SaipanTribune

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Luke 18:16

Judgment Seat also called Mercy Seat

And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exodus 25:21
His judgement seat is also known as His MERCY SEAT

Politics of "Coveting"

Today in politics, not just overseas marxist & Socialists, but here in the U.S., even in the 21st century, some use coveting via class warfare for votes. Appealing to ones jealousy of what someone else has more of, and hinting at "leveling" the playing field by taking from one group and transfering wealth to another.

Even in the 21st century the violation of the 10th Commandment
is encouraged by some in the political debate

"The deadly sin that led to Achan's ruin had its roots in covetousness, of all sins one of the most common and the most lightly regarded. While other offences meet with detection and punishment, how rarely does the 10th commandment so much as call forth censure. Covetousness is an evil of gradual development." Patriarchs & Prophets p.496 E.G.W.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Exodus 20:17

Creation Moment 2/14/2013 - Solar System Diversity

"....while extremely varied, the four innermost planets have rocky outer shells and metallic cores. The four outermost planets are vastly different and each possess their own identifiable features.
"Looming over all the attempts to explain planetary diversity, however, is the chilling specter of random chance," " YahooNews

I have an answer to explain PLANETARY DIVERSITY- Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,  Hebrews 11:3
 

Poll on the Holy Spirit

A Poll of "Christians" by the Barna Group
"...most Christians do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force, either. Overall, 38% strongly agreed and 20% agreed somewhat that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.” Just one-third of Christians disagreed that the Holy Spirit is not a living force (9% disagreed somewhat, 25% disagreed strongly) while 9% were not sure."

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,

baptizing them in the name of

#the Father, and of

#the Son, and of

#the Holy Ghost:

Matthew 28:19

Uhmm...if we are already to be baptized in the names of the Father & Son-then WHY would we need to be in a 3rd name if that name was only a "symbol"? Obviously the Godhead consists of 3 entities.

Mazes of Philosophy

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.

Colossians 2:8 NIV

"Many wander in the mazes of philosophy,
in search of reasons and evidence which they will never find,
while they reject the evidence which God has been pleased to give."
Patriarchs & Prophets p.432 E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - Vatican struck by Lightning

"Lightning hits St Peter's hours after Pope Benedict stuns cardinals with first resignation in 600 years." MailOnlineUK Interesting........

 ...and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
Revelation 17:3

Sing Hallelujah performed by the Maranatha Singers

Sing Hallelujah performed by the Maranatha Singers
http://www.youtube.com/embed/MdzaFJgazTY
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
1 Chronicles 16:9

Creation Moment 2/13/2013 - The Archer Off by 68,000? or More?

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

1 Corinthians 3:19

"NASA launched the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) spacecraft in 2001. Its purpose was to make precise measurements of subtle variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). Some cosmologists interpret the CMB to be an "afterglow" of a time from about 375,000 years after the supposed Big Bang.
NASA reported that the WMAP measurements had "improved knowledge of these six numbers [that are important to Big Bang cosmology, such as the age of the universe, density of atoms, etc.] by a total factor of 68,000, [emphasis theirs] thereby converting cosmology from a field of wild speculation to a precision science."
Of course, this is a tacit admission that cosmology up until now has been wild speculation! Why, then, have Christians been browbeaten to accept these admittedly speculative origins stories?

Although such an increase in the precision of these numbers is technically impressive, the heart of the origins debate is in the assumptions used to interpret the data, not the precision of the measurements themselves. Even high school science students are taught that measurements can be precise without necessarily being accurate. A classic example is the archer whose arrows consistently cluster closely together, albeit four feet left of the target. The archer is precise but inaccurate.
The press release claimed that the WMAP measurements had confirmed specific predictions of the simplest version of "inflation," a hypothesized accelerated expansion of the universe that was invented in order to alleviate fatal problems in the original Big Bang model. The claim of support for inflation is based upon the fact that fluctuations in the CMB have properties predicted by the simplest model of inflation. At first glance, this might seem to be good news for the Big Bang model and inflation theory.
However, although the press release claims that the results "support" inflation, it does not state that inflation itself has been confirmed, and for good reason. Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University, as one of the world’s leading inflation theorists, has produced another version of the Big Bang model that makes similar (and in some cases, identical) predictions about fluctuations in the CMB, even though his model does not include inflation.
If two different Big Bang models (one with inflation and the other without) make similar predictions about fluctuations in the CMB, then the confirmation of such predictions cannot be used as an argument for inflation." ICR

-------The Archer here is probably off even more than 68,000--------

Effect of Sin

"It is the effect of sin to deaden the moral perceptions, so that the wrongdoer does not realize the enormity of the transgression."
Patriarchs & Prophets p.361 E.G.W.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, Ephesians 4:30

IN the NEWS - Pope to Resign

There will be a new replacement in the line of the Little Horn as the current occupant of the head of the power has announced he is retiring at the end of the month.  ....and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. Daniel 7:8
"POPE Benedict XVI will resign as leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics at the end of the month, the first to do so in nearly 600 years..." TheAustralian.com
A Lesson Learned
"Given the shocking nature of this announcement, the rumors are already swirling. Initial coverage on CNN immediately questioned the impact of the Church's child abuse sex scandal on the Pope's decision. It's amazing how quickly some in the media are willing to discuss that possibility, while going to painstaking efforts to avoid sex scandals that involve Democrat politicians. The burgeoning sex scandal story involving Democrat Senator Robert Menendez is just the latest example of this." SeanHannity
 

Creation Moment 2/12/2013 - Lost World Found - Question:How Long?

A LOST WORLD was recently "discovered" in the jungles of New Guinea-the part that belongs to Indonesia....So the QUESTION is - HOW LONG before the Darwinists begin to spin about the creatures?

"During a 15-day stay at a camp they had cut out of the jungle, the conservationists found a trove of animals never before documented, from a new species of the honeyeater bird to more than 20 new species of frogs.
"We were like kids in a candy store," said Beehler, a bird expert with Conservation International in Washington, D.C. "Everywhere we looked we saw amazing things we had never seen before." The team spent nearly a month in the Foja Mountains on the western side of New Guinea, the part belonging to Indonesia.
On the second day the lakebed group made another suprising find when a male and female Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise came into the camp to perform a mating dance.
Until now the homeland of this "lost" bird had been unknown. It was the first time Western scientists had even seen an adult male. "We had forgotten it even existed," Beehler said."
National Geographic



The "Lost bird" of Paradise

"It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth," said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the group.
The team recorded new butterflies, frogs, and a series of remarkable plants that included five new palms and a giant rhododendron flower.
The survey also found a honeyeater bird that was previously unknown to science. He said that even two local indigenous groups, the Kwerba and Papasena people, customary landowners of the forest who accompanied the scientists, were astonished at the area's isolation.
Mr Beehler said some of the creatures the team came into contact with were remarkably unafraid of humans."
BBC


The LORD hath made all things for himself:
Proverbs 16:4

 

Law of the Nations Vs. God's Law

"The laws of the nations bear marks of the infirmities and passions of the unrenewed heart; but God's law bears the stamp of the divine."
Patriarchs & Prophets p.465 E.G.W.

Great peace have they which love thy law:
Psalm 119:165

6 Best Doctors

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:19

Creation Moment 2/11/2013 - Genetic Mutation Clip

Watch clip on Genetic Mutation & Evolution
http://creation.com/creation-tv?fileID=9IfV5iRQbIU

...and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:15

3 Views of "Hell" - Between the Pillars of the State of the Dead

The 3 Common views of "Hell" in order of their popularity

1) TRADITIONAL
An actual place of eternal torment for the lost
Some Calvinist believe some end up there by the will of God while others believe people end up there by human choice.
Catholicism teaches a two-fold approach: Purgatory & Hell

2) ANNIHILATIONISM
"Hell" is the Lake of Fire at the End which burns up the wicked once & for all. Not an eternally burning place.
The human "soul" is NOT immortal. The dead are dead until the resurrection.

3) UNIVERSALISM
ALL will be saved.
If "Hell" exists at all, it is a temporary place.

But between these 2 PILLARS of Scripture on

the State-of-the-Dead is where the truth lay.

Man is MORTAL
Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Job 4:17
God is IMMORTAL
...the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto;
1Timothy 6:15,16

That place to lay would then be the grave until the resurrection

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,

some to everlasting life,

and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Daniel 12:2

 

"And by and by the gates of heaven will be thrown open to admit God's children, and from the lips of the King of glory the benediction will fall on their ears like richest music, Come ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."

Matthew 25:34/Steps to Christ p.89 E.G.W.

Poll about satan

And Satan answered the LORD,
and said,
Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
But put forth thine hand now,
and touch his bone and his flesh,
and he will curse thee to thy face. 

And the LORD said unto Satan,

Behold, he is in thine hand;

but save his life.

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD,
and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 2:4-7

And he said unto them,
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luke 10:18

A Poll of "Christians" in America by the Barna Group found the following views on satan-

"Four out of ten Christians (40%) strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” An additional two out of ten Christians (19%) said they “agree somewhat” with that perspective. A minority of Christians indicated that they believe Satan is real by disagreeing with the statement: one-quarter (26%) disagreed strongly and about one-tenth (9%) disagreed somewhat. The remaining 8% were not sure what they believe about the existence of Satan."



"Satan exults that he is regarded as a fiction."
Testimonies for the Church vol. 1, p.342 E.G.W.
 

 

SCAM ALERT - Juanita Bynum

The self proclaimed Pentecostal "prophetess", Juanita Bynum, is making news all over the Christian web blogs.

The self proclaimed "prophetess",
While not typing in "tongues",
Is busy giving foolish radio interviews
STOP giving $$$$ to her ministry
--SCAM Alert--

First, she has declared in a public interview, that she has been "with women" ---in the Biblical sense. This, besides lots of men and of course one remembers her past comments of alcoholism. (All this while being a "prophetess").
Second, she once again has generated buzz by typing in "tongues" on her FB page.

There seems to be some Lessons we can all learn from Juanita Bynum--

1) She ain't--NOR ever was-- a "prophetess" of God.
2) No one should look to a preacher as a role model-because they are human like the rest of us.
3) Also, some people will do or say anything for attention-even air their own dirty laundry foolishly.

Beware of false prophets,

which come to you in sheep's clothing,

but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them by their fruits.

Matthew 7:15,16

 

* P.S.-One may remember back in 2011 when she first did her typing in tongues stunt-she lashed out at her critics as "spiritual bullies" for not "believing" in typing in tongues....
*http://www.youtube.com/embed/niJSoEG4oxg
Local news report about Bynum beat up in an Atlanta parking lot a
few years ago by her pastor/ex-husband

*http://www.youtube.com/embed/dzgF5Ho5a1E
Watch Bynum talk about bricks

Text Message - If Paul could have sent a Text #8

For both he that sanctifieth

and they who are sanctified are all of one:

 

for which cause he is not ashamed

to call them brethren,

Hebrews 2:11

Lesson Stamped on Sacrificial System

A Lesson was Stamped upon every ceremony in the Sacrificial System

 

For the wages of sin is death;

Romans 6:23

Puritan Corner - Growth

"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes."
by Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30

Creation Moment 2/10/2013 - Report Censored

A scientific report that undermines the supposed 60,000,000 years-ago-that-dinosaurs-existed mentality was censored from public view--

"A team of researchers gave a presentation at the 2012 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Singapore, August 13–17, at which they gave ¹⁴C dating results from many bone samples from eight dinosaur specimens. All gave dates ranging from 22,000 to 39,000 years, right in the ‘ballpark’ predicted by creationists. But if dinosaurs really were millions of years old, there should not be one atom of ¹⁴C left in them.

This was a joint event of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). It appears that the researchers approached the matter with considerable professionalism, including taking great pains to eliminate contamination with modern carbon as a source of the ¹⁴C signal in the bones. The lead presenter was Dr Thomas Seiler, a German physicist whose PhD is from the Technical University of Munich.

One of these reports states that afterwards, “the abstract was removed from the conference website by two chairmen because they could not accept the findings. Unwilling to challenge the data openly, they erased the report from public view without a word to the authors...

Two of the report’s physicist co-authors, Professor Dr Robert Bennett and Dr Jean de Pontcharra, till recently with the French Atomic Energy Commission’s Grenoble Research Centre, are urging colleagues to do their own carbon dating of dinosaur bones. They say that the media should be encouraging scientists to do this also, presenting the findings openly and honestly at similar conferences. This would certainly be in the interests of scientific truth—especially following the repeated findings of soft tissue in dinosaur bones, and now even seemingly irrefutable DNA in dinosaur specimens. The public has the right to know the actual chronology of the dinosaurs, and indeed the history of the earth." CMI

The foolishness of man perverteth his way:

and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

Proverbs 19:3

 

During Plagues of Egypt: MERCY

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field;

for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field,

and shall not be brought home,

the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

Exodus 9:19

"Thus in the midst of judgment the mercy of God was displayed, the people were tested, and it was shown how many had been led to fear God by the manifestation of His power."
Patriarchs & Prophets p.269 E.G.W.

How long will the Plagues Last?

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,

death, and mourning, and famine;

and she shall be utterly burned with fire:

Revelation 18:8

 

Some wonder how long the 7  plagues of the last days will last. No one knows, but Scripture gives us a possible hint. When it says "in a day", and since a day = a year in prophecy, it seems logical within a day means less than 12 months.

SDA News - SDA Dr. Ben Carson speaks at National Prayer Breakfast

All the saints salute you,

chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.

Philippians 4:22

Watch Dr. Carson at National Prayer Breakfast
http://www.youtube.com/embed/PFb6NU1giRA

Dr. Ben Carson, an SDA, considered one of the top neurosurgeons in the world, as well as a staunch Creationist, spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. 0bama was there and looks not-to-happy during the last half. Dr. Carson was critical of obamacare and set the record straight on class warfare (which 0bama brought up at last years National Prayer Breakfast when he tried to use the Bible to justify his class envy politics). Dr. Carson uses tithe as an example for those who say that all pay a certain percentage isn't fair. That somehow the richer ones aren't hurting enough--Dr. Carson counters by asking where does it say that someone has to hurt? And 0bama didn't look to happy about that.

Here is a small portion on healthcare: "Dr. Carson encouraged a program where newborn babies are given health savings account as an alternative to Obamacare.

DR. CARSON: Here's my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed -- pretax -- from the time you're born 'til the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members, so that when you're 85 years old and you got six diseases, you're not trying to spend up everything. You're happy to pass it on and there's nobody talking about death panels.

Number one. And also, for the people who were indigent who don't have any money we can make contributions to their HSA each month because we already have this huge pot of money. Instead of sending it to some bureaucracy, let's put it in their HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care." RealClearPolitics
 

As RUSH Limbaugh put it- "In this case, we have an ideal replacement for Obamacare that is much better, that promotes the health care industry, that promotes cost savings, that promotes competition, and it gets everybody covered. Dr. Carson said the one thing that Obama and the Democrats do not want to hear. Instead of sending all of our money to some bureaucracy, let's put it in our health savings accounts. Now people will have some control over their own health care."

 

Text Message - If Paul could have sent a Text #7

What shall we say then?

Shall we continue in sin,

that grace may abound ? 

God forbid.

 

For the wages of sin is death;

but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:1,2,23

IN the NEWS - Don't Panic

"Those who make predictions according to the study of feng shui -- or literally "wind-water" -- are influential in many parts of Asia,...
As they bid farewell to the Year of the Dragon, the fortune tellers warn that the "black water snake" that emerges to replace it on February 10 -- the first day of the Lunar New Year -- could be a venomous one that brings disaster.
Previous Snake years have been marked by the September 11, 2001 terror strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people, the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The 1929 stock market plunge that heralded the Great Depression also occurred in a snake year." France24News

Let now the astrologers,
the stargazers,
the monthly prognosticators, stand up,
and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Behold, they shall be as stubble;
the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
Isaiah 47:13,14

Actually I didn't think any of you would panic over the Chinese year of the snake. :) Here we go with another potential "Mayan 2012" type craze in 2013 over this nonsense. If anything terrible happens in 2013 it will not be because of this Chinese zodiac's snake year.

 

Creation Moment 2/9/2013 - Blaming SDA's Again

Here is yet another writing blaming the SDA Church for Creationism-as an SDA I say THANKS-we'll take the "BLAME"....

"The study of logic is always interesting—especially the study of logical fallacies. One of these logical fallacies is known as “The Genetic Fallacy.” This fallacy is where an argument is judged to be right or wrong, depending on its supposed origins, rather than on the merits of the argument.

Karl Giberson, who served until recently as executive vice president of BioLogos, has written what they euphemistically label as a “scholarly essay,” entitled “Adventist Origins of Young Earth Creationism.” His argument is two-fold: First, he claims that young-earth creationism is not biblical and that 150 years ago or so, people would not have believed it. Second, he claims that the ideas of young earth creationism originated in Seventh-Day Adventism.

We will deal with the second accusation first, because this is an example of the Genetic Fallacy. Its thesis is this:

1. Seventh-Day Adventism is wrong.
2. Young Earth Creationism came from Seventh-Day Adventism.
3. Therefore Young Earth Creationism is wrong.

According to Giberson’s article, Ellen White, the main influence behind Seventh-Day Adventism,..Giberson claims that our creationist positions are based on the expansions of Bible accounts in White’s book Patriarchs and Prophets. He states, “In a curious twist of history, modern young-earth creationism can be traced to her visionary expansion of the Genesis flood narrative.”

Giberson proceeds to refer to George McCready Price. Price was an amateur geologist, also an Adventist. He wrote a book, called The New Geology in 1923, which rejected the prevailing uniformitarian views of the time. Giberson then claims that the famous book, The Genesis Flood, by John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, is simply a rewording of Price’s book.

Even if Giberson’s contention were true, that would not invalidate The Genesis Flood. However, it is not true. Whitcomb and Morris start from scripture. If some ideas coincide with Price, then that simply means that Price’s ideas cannot be all wrong, despite Giberson’s innuendo.


In arguing that Young Earth Creationism is a recent aberration, Giberson appeals to The Fundamentals—a series of booklets published between 1910 and 1915, which define Christianity’s fundamentals. These works gave rise to the term “fundamentalism.” Giberson states:

[The fundamentalists] were not united in rejecting evolution as a mechanism of creation. And there was no rejection of the scientific research that indicated that the earth was far older than 10,000 years.

Is that so? This is easy to check, because copies of The Fundamentals are readily available. Baker published a four-volume set of The Fundamentals in 1998. In volume 1, we read:
The beginning of Genesis, therefore, is a divinely inspired narrative of the events deemed necessary by God to establish the foundations for the Divine Law in the sphere of human life, and to set forth the relation between the omnipotent Creator and the man who fell.

In summary, Giberson’s arguments are puerile and disingenuous, as well as illogical. The subtitle of Giberson’s book Saving Darwin is “How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution.” It is a shame that he couldn’t write a book with the legend “How to be a Christian and believe what God actually says.”" CreationToday written by Paul Taylor

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Genesis 2:1-3

Profess & Practice

My little children,
let us not love in word,
neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18
"The reason why our people have not more power is that they profess the truth, but do not practice it."
Testimonies for the Church vol.4, p.613 E.G.W.

Another MYTH of the Mythical "Secret" Rapture

Another part of the "Secret" Rapture MYTH is that God will secretly rapture His people before the triblulation (or time of trouble) from earth so they won't have to go through it---but the problem with that MYTH is -

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Matthew 24:21,22

It is for the sake of the "elect" that the days of tribulation are shortened. The "elect" of God, His people, will live through it.

He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose,
walking in the midst of the fire,
and they have no hurt;
and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Daniel 3:25

God did not remove Noah from the flood, but rather preserved him through the flood

God did not save Daniel from the den of the lions, but rather preserved him in the lions den

God did not prevent the 3 friends of Daniel from being put into the fiery furnace, but He preserved them in it among the flames

Elijah performed by Rich Mullins

Elijah performed by Rich Mullins
https://www.youtube.com/embed/y4MPLlzWTms?list=PLT70zxsi10M9pNlwb8Myrd0JUVR9uKMyF

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kings 2:11,12

Text Message - If Paul could have sent a Text #6

That they should seek the Lord,

if haply they might feel after him,

and find him,

though he be not far from every one of us:

 

For in him we live,

and move ,

and have our being;

Acts 17:27,28