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I went to a local town prayer meeting at a local business last night with a family member. It was so refreshing to us both. People from every denomination met to pray for our town, our leaders, our country. We would read scripture like in Isaiah about if G*ds people who are called by His name will humble themselves and repent of their sins He will hear our prayers and heal our land and oh what a time of prayer and repentence we all  had and begged G*ds mercy on us, our leaders, and our country. I cant begin to tell  you how good it was for everyone involved. My family member said to me as we were driving home, I feel something right here and pointed to the upper section of the chest just below the chin. I asked my family member if it was painful or good and they said it was good. Then again asked me what is it? I smiled and said that is the Holy Spirit! What a great night! No matter what is ahead and we are not stupid that we cannot read the signs we will be held safe by the HOLY SPIRIT Himself!
Anyway we would all read together a verse of scripture, then sing songs, then stop and pray together and we would repeat this over and over. Wow. That is G*d moving in my town. I was able to distribute tea party invites too to help to bring others to meet and pray as well. I have something that was given to me that I would like to share with you as well so I will go back on and put it in because its rather long. Sorry.
I will not deny the power of my G*d to tear down strong dark powers and principalities at our bidding through us, who are weak and flawed to show His majesty and His plans are far above my plans but He also listens to my prayers and others and I refuse to be afraid but to have courage and I can read the signs of His wonders, Can you?

I received this and I share it with those I love in the Lord Jesus! Quote:

"Something of Historic Proportion is Happening"
by Pam Geller

I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. ....

Something of historic proportions is happening....


We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we know can never pay back...

We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve,... has "loaned" two trillion dollars over the past few months,... That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.


We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents..Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate.... and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

..We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic..

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare .. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.)..

And now we have elected a man ...  All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary .
..
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930's. In those times, ..was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, ..he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises...

...

Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe....And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors...

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me; I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades..
..  I pray I am wrong.  I do not think I am.
END QUOTE

Wstruse says:

In your last post to me you proposed that Abraham left Haran at the death of Noah.   This is not supported in anyway by a contextual reading of the text.    “Father” Noah is not implied or indicated in any way.  In fact if you carefully look at the other “fathers” of Abraham several of them died about the same time as Noah.    Nahor, Peleg and Reu all died about this time.  According to your chronology Reu’s death was closer to the departure date of Abram than the death of Noah.  So why don’t you use Reu as the “father” of Abram.
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PELEG "Divided" AM 1757 + 239 = AM 1996 (BC 2056).
"In the days of Peleg was the earth divided."
Peleg was the 1st of the Fathers to die.
AD 1996 (AM 6048) is 2000 years from the birth of Jesus.
AM 6048 - AM 1996 = AM 4052 (year 0).
Now BC 4052 is AM O, the creation of Adam.

NAHOR "snore," "snort," AM 1849 + 148 = AM 1997 (BC 2055)
Nahor was the 2nd to die the following year.

NOAH "rest" AM 1056 + 950 = AM 2006 (BC 2046).
Now Noah, the true Father of earthly creation, man and animal, under
the Noahic Covenant, was the 3rd to die when Abram was age 58.

It was 17 years later when Abram departed for Canaan. He was to be
the Father of a new Covenant with the Promised Seed of Isaac and the
greater fulfillment of Jesus.

From Adam to Noah is 10 generations ending with the rainbow.
From Shem to Abram is 10 generations ending with circumcism on the
8th day.[symbol for cutting off of sin].

The Spiritual numbers 10 + 7 = 17; 1 + 7 = 8.
10 = earthly completeness
7 = heavenly completeness
17 = heavenly and earthly completeness
8 = Jesus, new beginnings

There are 7 elements in God's promise to Abram:
Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father's house,
To a land that I will show you
1) I will make you a great nation,
2) I will bless you
3) And make your name great
4) And you shall be a blessing
5) I will bless those who bless you
6) And I will curse him who curses you
7) And in you all the families of the earth
       shall be blessed.  
[GENESIS 12: 1-3]

It should be noted that Noah's flood came on the 17th day of the 2nd
month.
It should also be noted that Joseph was sold into Egypt at age 17.

Jesus loves you!
   RAB  

Day of Atonement

Yahweh said to Moses, "The 10th day of this 7th month is the
Day of Atonement...
This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,
wherever you live.
It is a sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves,
from the evening of the 9th day of the month until the following
evening you are to observe your sabbath.'


Jesus loves you!
    RAB  

...who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of
Noah while the Ark was being built. In it only a few people, 8 in all,
were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now
saves you also- not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of
a good conscience toward God.
It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into
heaven and is at God's right hand- with angels, authorities and powers
in submission to him.
[I PETER 3: 20-22]

Ark construction AM 1536 - AM 1656 (BC 2396)

Jesus loves you!
RAB  

End-Times Order of Things To Come

With that framework --that Israel is back in the land, which is surely a fulfilling of prophecy-- let us look at where things unfold from here on God's end-Times timeline.

Rapture - While the storm clouds of apocalypse gather and approach, Christians attuned to God's whole word should watch, according to the Lord Jesus Christ. They should be aware of the elements of that approaching storm of tribulation. Things of society, cultures, in every endeavor of life, will, at the same time, seem to be business as usual. Times will be like the days of Noah and Lot at the moment of His next intervention into the affairs of humanity, according to Jesus. (Read Luke 17: 26-30.) It will be a catastrophic intervention. Jesus will step out on the clouds of glory and shout "Come up here!" (Rev. 4:1-2). All Christians - those who accept Christ's blood atonement for salvation (born-again believers) will instantly be with Jesus above the earth. (Read 1 Cor. 15: 51-55 and 1 Thes. 4:13-18.) Millions of people (those raptured) will vanish, will disappear from the planet before the astonished eyes of those left behind. Those who have gone to be with the Lord will be taken back to heaven, where He has prepared a place of eternal dwelling for them (Jn. 14:1-3). The bema judgment (to give rewards for service to the Lord while on earth) will take place. Crowns will be handed out to God's family. The marriage supper of the Lamb will occur (Christ's Bride made ready for the wedding), then the Wedding Feast (Revelation 19:9). Things on Planet Earth will be gearing up for the great end-time storm. God, the Holy Spirit, according to 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, will remove as restrainer during the times following the rapture.

World Leader Comes Forth - The nations of earth will be in chaos. The turmoil will cause severe ramifications while governments seek to restore civil order and regain governmental and economic equilibrium. Profound shifts of power will likely take place, with the EU becoming the new superpower, absorbing America's power and authority, the U.S. having lost the most people in key places, thus having suffered the most loss of control. According to prophecy, one man will step forward to proffer a plan to quell the fears of war in the Middle East (Daniel 9:27). This prophecy correlates to Revelation 6: 2, with the rider on the white horse riding forth.

Peace Covenant Confirmed - The great world leader will arrive just in time to look to be the shining knight on the white horse. He will have the answer to the looming all-out war in the Middle East. He will be able to sell a seven-year peace plan that is already available, apparently. Israel will agree to the covenant, as will her enemies, and, in effect, the whole world will accept the European leader's masterful sales pitch. But Israel's acceptance will fly in the face of God. This "covenant made with death and Hell," as it is called in Isaiah, chapter 28, will cause God's judgmental wrath to begin to fall.

Attack upon Israel - The Gog-Magog attack prophesied by Ezekiel is one that is controversial, so far as to where it will fit into the end-times timeline is concerned. Some has the event just before or in conjunction with the rapture, while others believe it will happen right after the rapture or nearer the mid-point of the seven-year tribulation period. Russia is destined to present some of the most fearsome trials and tribulations for Israel. Gog, "chief prince of Rosh," is the leader of Russia described in Ezekiel 38 and 39. In ancient language, Gog means "leader." "Rosh" is the ancient name for the land of Russia. In the last days, Russia will be the leading nation of the Gog-Magog coalition of nations that will make a move against Israel and be defeated by a supernatural act of God. Persia (Iran) comes right along beside Russia, in prophetic parlance. According to Ezekiel 38:5, Iran will aid Russia in attacking Israel before or during the tribulation. Even now, Iran acts as a destabilizing force in the world.

144,000 Evangelists - The Lord will not allow the dark, satanic realm to go unchallenged. God will seal (protect from Satan and his minions) 144,000 Jewish men with the gospel message of Jesus Christ, the only way to salvation, redemption, and reconciliation to God, the Father. (Read Rev. 7: 3-8.) These will proclaim the gospel message throughout the world. Millions upon millions of people will hear the message and become Christians of the tribulation period.

Two Old Testament-Type Prophets Preach - Two Jewish men will be placed during this period for preaching then Gospel, and for pointing the finger of judgment if repentance isn't forthcoming. No one knows for sure who these men will be, but there seems good evidence that at least one of them will be Elijah, the Old Testament prophet whom God took up from earth in a fiery whirlwind. The Satanic governmental regime will seek to kill these men, but will not be able to do so until God allows. Anyone who tries to kill them will, in like manner, be killed, according to the prophetic Word. Finally, the regime will be able to kill them. There dead bodies will lie in the streets of Jerusalem for three days, then they will be resurrected to life, and will lift into the sky before the astonished eyes of their murderers and of the whole world