An up close and personal encounter
with one of nature's most deadliest forces!
I do not envy these storm chasers one bit!
My prayers are with the people caught in the path of these storms.
One of the coolest rock songs of the late 1970's, "Baby Hold On"
was a big hit for American singer Eddie Money.
As Rolling Stone critic James Halliday opined at the time, "while
'Baby Hold On' is simple, it's simply catchy and it's bound to get
stuck in your head; which is a good thing in this case."
No argument here.
Take an exciting ride down the arm chair traveler's trail to historic
Tombstone, Arizona- the town "too tough to die"- and the site of
the Old West's most famous showdown at the O.K. Corral.
The Bearded Bible brothers tackle the question,
Is the nation of America in biblical prophecy?
"Then shall the trees of the wood sing out for joy before the Lord,
for He comes to judge and govern the earth."
(1 Chronicles 16:33)
Trees offer to those who love them
A message of peace and rest.
They bring the glow of the setting sun
As it vanishes in the west.
They tell of years that swiftly pass,
With little mark or scar.
They tell of evenings that know naught
But calm of evening star.
Trees offer to those who love them
Infinite wisdom and grace.
Underneath their boughs tree lovers
See Eternity's face.
"The Gift Of The Tree"
Lenore Hetrick
American writer and poetess
These are very strange days...indeed.
Let not your hearts be troubled or let them be afraid.
God is still in control of everything!
"In generations past He permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways;
Yet He did not neglect to leave some witness of Himself for He did you good
and showed you kindness and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons,
satisfying your hearts with nourishment and happiness."
(Acts 14:16-17)
Let us be thankful, Lord, for little things-
The song of birds, the rapture of the rose;
Cloud-dappled skies, the laugh of limpid springs,
Drowned sunbeams and the perfume April blows;
Bronze wheat a-shimmer, purple shade of trees-
Let us be thankful, Lord of Life, for these!
Let us be praiseful, Sire, for simple sights;-
The blue smoke curling from a fire of peat;
Keen stars a-frolicking on frosty nights,
Prismatic pigeons strutting in a street;
Daises dew-diamonded in smiling sward-
For simple sights let us be praiseful, Lord!
Let us be grateful, God, for health serene,
The hope to do a kindly deed each day;
The faith of fellowship, a conscience clean,
The will to worship and the gift to pray;
For all of worth in us, of You a part,
Let us be grateful, God, with humble heart.
"Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed are they who take refuge in Him!"
(Psalm 34:8)
A random act of kindness with recipes included from
the gracious host of At Home With Arlene Williams.
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Happy Passover from the Bearded Bible brothers!
Please pray for the hostages still in Hamas captivity.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
April's beautiful Pink Full Moon will grace the evening skies tonight just
after twilight and will reach peak illumination at 7:49 p.m. (EST). Although
the moon will not be pink in color, this moon coincides with the time of the year
when lovely pink flowering trees and wild pink moss or Phlox flowers native
to North America are bursting out in full bloom.
Hope the skies are clear where you are!
An eye-opening assessment of the current war in Israel, the rise of
antisemitism around the world, and the deterioration of the West,
from one of Britain's best known true conservative commentators,
author and journalist Melanie Phillips.
"Save me, O God, by Your name; judge and vindicate me by Your
mighty strength and power. Hear my pleading and my prayer,
O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
For strangers and insolent men are rising up against me, and violent men
and ruthless ones seek and demand my life; they do not set God before them.
Selah pause and calmly think of that!"
(Psalm 54:1-3)
The latest salvo of accusations lobbied against Israel by the schizophrenic Biden
Administration State Department involves alleged "human rights" violations
committed by members of the Ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda IDF battalion.
As preposterous as this sounds, the real reason they are being targeted is
not only due to their Israeli citizenship or because they are Jews.
It is because of their strong faith in the God of Israel.
A wonderful presentation from Behold Israel's Amir Tsarfati
revealing Jesus through Jewish eyes and the true meaning of
the Old Testament Passover in light of New Testament events.
Recorded at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in southern California.
"Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."
(Psalm 121:4)
Chag Sameach Eretz Israel! Shalom!
"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your
good deeds and moral excellence, and recognize and honor and glorify
your Father who is in heaven."
(Matthew 5:16)
"I feel very strongly, because of my background, that human life is sacred.
Government does not have the authority to permit what God forbids.
And murder is forbidden by God." -Eva Edl
Eva Edl clearly remembers her 10th birthday. It was spent as a prisoner
inside a post-World War II death camp. Today, this 88 year old grandmother
believes that she may die inside a prison in the United States of America.
Charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,
better known as FACE, she faces up to 11 years in prison and
$350,000 in fines, compliments of the Biden Administration's
Justice Department. Her crime? Trying to save unborn lives.
Eva Edl is no stranger to tyrannical government overreach. While
growing up in the former nation of Yugoslavia, Edl and her family, who
were Danube Swabians, an ethnic German-speaking people, were rounded
up in the aftermath of the war in Europe by soldiers under the command of
Yugoslavian Communist dictator Tito and sent off to an extermination camp.
At the camp called Gakova, young Eva barely managed to survive the filthy,
rat-infested conditions where the prisoners shared only one outhouse.
Diseases like dysentery and typhoid were rampant. Meanwhile, her
mother had been sent to work as a slave laborer in the fields. She
managed to escape by smuggling herself into the camp in a wagon
full of corn in order to find her young daughter among the
thousands of prisoners. Soldiers poked through the load of
corn with their bayonets and barely missed Eva's mother.
When her mother finally found Eva lying emaciated with hunger
on a pile of rancid straw, her young daughter was festering with lice
and other vermin and was too weak to walk. Her daughter's condition
made Eva's mother rush outside and vomit. Yet, despite the
horrible conditions the little girl had been subjected to, it
seemed to be a miracle that mother and daughter were
finally reunited inside the concentration camp. Eva
was so weak that she did not recognize her mother at first.
"I just couldn't believe it was her, she remembers. It took a while."
Eva drew her own strength and will to survive from the brave women
in her life then-her grandmother, who voluntarily chose to go with her
to the concentration camp in order to protect her; her mother, who
repeatedly risked her own life to find and reunite her children and later
get them safely to the United States, and her sister, who, when forced
by a soldier to dig her own grave, looked him square in the eye
and dared him to kill her. According to Eva, he didn't.
When Eva finally arrived in America in 1955, she was exposed to
another human rights crisis which affected her deeply and which
would later compel her to spring into action in order to save
other human lives marked for certain death.
While taking a course in English in the late 1960's, a fellow
classmate initiated a debate about the possible legalization of
abortion in the United States. At this time, Eva did not know
the definition of abortion. She was absolutely shocked when
the procedure was explained to her and decided then and
there that no one should have the right to end life in the womb.
Then came the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973
when abortion became the law of the land in America.
Eva was appalled that a mother would be legally allowed
to murder her own child according to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Fast forward a decade later to the 1988 Democratic Convention
in Atlanta, Georgia where Eva discovered that abortions were
being routinely performed in special clinics which openly
touted infanticide as a "reproductive healthcare service".
This survivor of a brutal concentration camp- perhaps inspired
by her own courageous mother's efforts to find and save her amid
the harsh reality of government-instigated tyranny, decided
to become involved in the rescue of unwanted babies.
After discussing the matter over with her husband and receiving
his blessing to participate, Eva attended her first "rescue" joining
other pro-life activists led by Operation Rescue's Randall Terry
to pray outside an abortion clinic in Atlanta, where she and
the others attempted to engage the women utilizing the clinic
in conversation, hoping to talk them out of having an abortion.
Despite her sincere efforts, Eva was arrested that day along
with the rest of the pro-life protesters. She remembers that the
police treated them brutally and actually dislocated the arms
of many of those arrested. Eva recalls that when an officer
put his hands on her shoulders she froze-as she was told to do-
and then she heard someone say, "Just use your nightstick."
Although she was not beaten with the nightstick, the policeman
placed the club behind Eva's arms and hung her on it, nearly
dislocating her shoulders. Then she says, they "just
threw me on the bus. Other people got their shoulders
totally dislocated; others got their heads bashed in.
Some ended up in the hospital."
These protesters were not criminals. They were concerned Americans
attempting to save other Americans from being murdered in the womb.
Yet it sounds as if the police that day were breaking up a prison riot!
"We would put our bodies in front on the entrance of the abortion clinic
which I call the 'death camp' , Eva explained about her rescue missions.
So nobody could come in and kill the babies."
The FACE Act, signed into law by abortion-rights champion and former
President Bill Clinton in May, 1994 prohibits the use of force, obstruction,
or property damage intended to interfere with "reproductive health care
services". Though it claims to also protect "houses of worship and pregnancy
resource centers", under the current Biden Administration, FACE has been
politically weaponized to prosecute pro-life activists like Eva Edl.
Although she claims that she has never committed any acts of violence
while participating in pro-life demonstrations and rescues, the Biden
Justice Department has thrice charged Edl with violating the FACE
Act for participating in an "August 2020 "blockade" of an abortion
clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan; the second charge for an April, 2021
"blockade" in Saginaw, Michigan; and the third for a March, 2021
incident at an abortion clinic in Nashville, Tennessee.
In an interview with The Daily Signal, Eva reflected on her arrests
as compared to the time she was taken away and sent to Gakova.
"When we were rounded up to be killed, we were placed in cattle cars,
and our train was headed towards the extermination camp. What if citizens
of my country would have overcome this fear, and a number of them stood
on those railroad tracks between the gate of the entrance to the death camp
and the train? The train would have to stop. And while the guards on
those trains would be busy rounding up the ones that were in the front
of the train, another group could have come in, pried open our
cattle car and possibly set us free, but nobody did."
Eva later heard stories of people standing by the roadside and weeping
as the cattle cars went by. "But that didn't help us any," she said.
"So when we place our bodies between the woman and the clinic,
we buy time to get our sidewalk counselors the opportunity to speak
with women, and hopefully open their hearts with love for their babies
and let their babies live. We offer them everything there is,
including adoptions. I've offered to adopt babies on the spot...
we are standing between the killer and the victim."
May God bless and protect Eva Edl and all those who courageously
stand for the rights of the Unborn. May every frivolous charge made
by the government against her and other pro-lifers be dropped and allow
true justice to prevail, with Congressional repeal of the controversial FACE Act.
In Jesus Holy Name I Pray
Amen & Amen.
"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
(Genesis 8:22)
From 1959, this short Disney theatrical feature centers around the mysterious
creatures of the land Down Under. I remember seeing many of these fascinating
critters when I visited a wildlife sanctuary during my trip to Australia in 1987.
In this classic presentation, beloved Messianic Bible teacher Zola Levitt
(1938-2006) addresses the forthcoming construction of the much anticipated
Third Temple of the future, the blasphemy of the Antichrist, and the return
of the Messiah to reign on Mount Moriah, the Temple Mount.
Christian researcher L.A. Marzulli with Mondo Gonzales
of Prophecy Watchers address the controversy surrounding the
upcoming Red Heifer sacrifice to take place on the Mount of Olives in Israel.
"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want."
(Psalm 23:1)
In this classic teaching, beloved Pastor Dr. Charles Stanley (1932-2023)
founder of In Touch Ministries discusses how believers can face life's
difficulties with confidence and assurance.
No matter what trials we experience, God will protect
and watch over those who love and trust in Him.
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"The true test of walking in the Spirit will not be the way we act but the
way we react to the daily frustrations of life."
-Beverly La Haye
"For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the Holy Spirit, and the
desires of the Spirit are opposed to the flesh- godless human nature;
for these are antagonistic to each other, continually withstanding and
in conflict with each other, so that you are not free, but are prevented
from doing what you desire to do. But, if you are guided by the
Holy Spirit, you are not subject to the Law. And those who belong
to Christ Jesus the Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions,
and appetites and desires. If we live by the Holy Spirit, let us
also walk by the Spirit. If by the Holy Spirit we have
our life in God, let us go forward walking in line,
our conduct controlled by the Holy Spirit."
(Galatians 5:17-18; 24-25)
In the secret place where once I stood
Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood,
I heard two sisters reason on
Things that are past and things to come.
One Flesh was call'd who had her eye
On worldly wealth and vanity;
The other Spirit, who did rear
Her thoughts unto a higher sphere.
"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on
Nothing but Meditation?
Doth Contemplation feed thee so
Regardlessly to let earth go?
Can Speculation satisy
Notion without Reality?
Dost dream of things beyond the Moon
And dost thou hope to dwell there soon?
Hast treasures there laid up in store
That all in th' world thou count'st but poor?
Art fancy-sick or turn'd a Sot
To catch at shadows which are not?
Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,
Industry hath its recompence.
What canst desire, but thou maist see
True substance in variety?
Dost honour like? Acquire the same,
As some to their immortal fame;
And trophies to thy name erect,
Which wearing time shall ne'er deject.
For riches dost thou long full sore?
Behold enough of precious store.
Earth hath more silver, pearls, and gold
Than eyes can see or hands can hold.
Affects thou pleasure? Take thy fill.
Earth hath enough of what you will.
Then let not go what thou maist find
For things unknown only in mind."
Spirit,
"Be still, thou unregenerate part,
Disturb no more my settled heart,
For I have vow'd (and so will do)
Thee as a foe still to pursue,
And combat with thee will and must
Until I see thee laid in th' dust,
Sister we are, yea twins we be,
Yet deadly feud 'twixt thee and me,
For from one father we are not,
Thou by old Adam wast begot,
But my arise is from above,
Whence my dear Father I do love,
Thou speak'st me fair but hat'st me sore.
Thy flatt'ring shews I'll trust no more.
How oft thy slave hast thou me made
When I believ'd what thou hast said
And never had more cause of woe
Than when I did what thou bad'st do.
I'll stop mine ears at these thy charms
And count them for my deadly harms.
Thy sinful pleasures I do hate,
Thy riches are to me no bait.
Thine honours do, nor will I love,
For my ambition lies above.
My greatest honour it shall be
When I am victor over thee,
And Triumph shall, with laurel head,
When thou my Captive shalt be led.
How do I live, thou need'st not scoff,
For I have meat thou know'st not of.
The hidden Manna I do eat;
The Word of life, it is my meat.
My thoughts do yield me more content
Than can thy hours in pleasure spent.
Nor are they shadows which I catch,
Nor fancies vain at which I snatch
But reach at things that are so high,
Beyond thy dull Capacity.
Eternal substance I do see
With which inriched I would be.
Mine eye doth pierce the heav'ns and see
What is Invisible to thee.
My garments are not silk nor gold,
Nor such like trash which Earth doth hold,
But Royal Robes I shall have on,
More glorious than the glist'ring Sun.
My Crown not Diamonds, Pearls, and gold,
But such as Angels' heads infold.
The City where I hope to dwell,
There's none on Earth can parallel.
The stately Walls both high and strong
Are made of precious Jasper stone,
The Gates of Pearl, both rich and clear,
And Angels are for Porters there.
The Streets thereof transparent gold
Such as no Eye did e'er behold.
A Crystal River there doth run
Which doth proceed from the Lamb's Throne.
Of Life, there are the waters sure
Which shall remain forever pure.
Nor Sun nor Moon they have no need
For glory doth from God proceed.
No candle there, nor yet Torch light,
For there shall be no darksome night.
From sickness and infirmity
Forevermore they shall be free.
Nor withering age shall e'er come there,
But beauty shall be bright and clear.
This City pure is not for thee,
For things unclean there shall not be.
If I of Heav'n may have my fill,
Take thou the world, and all that will."
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"The Flesh And The Spirit"
(Published in 1678)
Anne Bradstreet
(1612-1672)
American Puritan poetess
In keeping with my earlier post remembering "the shot heard around the world"
which marked the beginning of the American Revolution, the number one
song in America on this day in 1975 was "Philadelphia Freedom" by the
phenomenal English singer-pianist Sir Elton John.
Released in February, 1975 a year before America's Bicentennial Celebration,
this song is played in the Franklin Institute's IMAX Theater in Philadelphia
before every show as a tribute to the city's love of freedom and its
impact on the country. The lyrics of the song are also printed
on the walls of the city's Hard Rock Cafe.
In this classic presentation, beloved Messianic Bible teacher and
founder of Zola Levitt Ministries (Our Jewish Roots) Zola Levitt
(1938-2006) looks at the original Exodus and our deliverance
from the wilderness of a sinful life.
Filmed on location in Israel.
"If it had not been the Lord Who was on our side when men rose up
against us, Then they would have quickly swallowed us up alive
when their wrath was kindled against us...Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth! We are like a bird
escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken,
and we have escaped! Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth."
(Psalm 124: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
"The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the
American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards
the Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so
frequently manifested in our behalf."
-George Washington
An excerpt from a letter to Samuel Langdon
September 28, 1789
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
"Concord Hymn"
(1837)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
American poet
"Concord Hymn" was written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk
monument in Concord, Massachusetts commemorating the battles of
Lexington and Concord which took place on April 19, 1775
marking the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
"Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron,
from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and all the hill
country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities."
(Joshua 11:21)
The Anak were a fearsome tribe of giants who lived in the hill country within
the land of Canaan and whom many Biblical historians believe were cannibals.
Could the giants that lived in a Nevada cave system who menaced the American Indian
tribes that lived in the area actually have been the descendants of the biblical Anak?
I read Sara Winnemucca's account of these giants in the book,
"The Giants That Ruled America" by Richard Dewhurst.
