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*~1Best~*

08/18/08 4:34 PM

#15892 RE: *~1Best~* #15891

Many Christians are openly practicing the fruits of evil instead of the Fruits of the Spirit.

American culture very often promotes working of flesh as we are degenerated over the years.




Galatians 5

19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.




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18But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.







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thrifty

08/18/08 5:13 PM

#15893 RE: *~1Best~* #15891

I don't know how to respond...

So you get the full effect:
(of some of the wars)

Rev.16:12 KJ
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Rev. 9:14-16
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.


9:13-21 By Grant Jeffrey
The sixth trumpet (the second woe) will kill one third of humanity. God releases 200 million soldiers to wreak havoc throughout the earth. (9:16). The enormous army of the kings of the east will cross into Israel from Asia to fight for world supremacy against the armies of the antichrist and his false prophet. This judgment will set the stage for the Battle of Armageddon, ending the seven-year tribulation. (see Da 9:27).

For thousands of years the Euphrates River has served as a great military barrier to armies attacking from the East. However, in the late 1980's Turkey finished construction of the huge Ataturk Dam, designed to control these vast waters. For the first time in history, the flow of this great river can now be stopped at the push of a button. The prophecy of Rev. 9:14 can be fulfilled in our lifetime.

Note that when God makes an appointment with destiny for a person or an empire, that appointment will not be postponed. Amazingly, despite every opportunity to repent, the sinners in the tribulation will refuse to turn from their wickedness (9:20).

The Orient Factor
By William Goetz

China, the world's largest nation with a population of some 1 billion, is considered by many to be another of the nations which astir in accordance with biblical prophecy.

In the context of the three end-time wars predicted in the Bible, there are references to a massive eastern power. Rev. 16:12 refers to the "kings from the East" who come over the Euphrates to do battle in Israel at the time of Armageddon. In what many feel is a companion reference Rev. 9:14-16 states that the number of the army is 200 million demonically energized people. Daniel 11:44 contains another reference to this eastern power which figures in end-time events.

To me, it is quite significant that Mao Tse-tung boasted on several occasions before his death that China could "field a people's army of 200 million militia." This is particularly interesting if it is remembered that, at the time when the apostle John penned his prophecy--some 1,900 years ago-- such an army was absolutely unthinkable. Two hundred million was virtually earth's entire population at that time! For anyone to say that just one nation could have such an army was utter fantasy! Yet today it is a very real possibility.

China has nuclear capacity. In 1979, it completed the Karakoram Highway from Singkiang province down through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. A spur of this highway goes through Afghanistan and Iran to Iraq, where the Euphrates River runs from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.

It requires no great imagination to see that this great eastern power is no longer asleep, but appears ready, or gearing up, to play the role envisioned for her by the ancient prophets.

(Like it or not wars are comming) And sorry for typo's