A storm chaser captures incredible footage of a violent tornado
as it swept through Westmoreland, Kansas.
Please keep the people in the path of these storms in your prayers!
"It's better to be alone than in bad company. If freedom of speech is taken away,
then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
-George Washington
In most states, the defacement and/ or vandalism of a statue whether on
public or private property is considered an act of criminal mischief and is
a felony under the law, punishable by fines and imprisonment or both.
I hope that this same criminal violation will apply to those individuals on
the "occupied" campus of George Washington University in Washington DC
who are responsible for the recent vile attack on a statue of the school's namesake.
According to media reports, a gang of "Pro-Palestine" protesters desecrated
the monument by draping the statue with a Palestinian flag and wrapping
a black and white keffiyeh head scarf around Washington's neck. They plastered
his body with stickers declaring various slogans like, "End The Genocide,
Free Palestine", "The Students United Will Never Be Divided" and
"Anti-Fascist Action". Someone also painted across the granite
base and the plaque of the statue the words:
"Genocidal Warmongering University".
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates recently stated that while
the Biden Administration is "monitoring these (occupied campus)) situations
closely," the president supports "every American's right to peacefully protest."
While I too support the American peoples' right to peacefully protest,
this attack on the statute of George Washington is a grave offense.
It is the cruel work of ignorant cowards with no real love or respect
for this country and for whatever reasons have chosen to break the
law for the "sake of the cause" of the Far Left and Islamic groups
instigating behind the scenes of these increasingly violent protests,
whose ultimate goal is to destroy the United States of America from within.
Like the statue vandalizations and smashing of Revolutionary and Civil War
monuments only a few years ago, these clandestine forces seek to purge from
the national conscience, not only great American heroes like our first
leader, George Washington, who reluctantly, but successfully led the
Continental Army to victory during the Revolutionary War, thus
scoring our freedom from British tyranny, but to permanently
erase America's rich Judeo-Christian heritage.
Unlike our Founding Fathers, many of whom put their very lives
on the line for the cause of freedom, most of these young people
storming across campuses nationwide are clueless when it
comes to understanding the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
or true American History. And what's more, they seem not care.
This is just what our enemies are counting on.
What is happening in America today is a travesty of justice,
and a sore lack of responsible leadership, not only in government,
but in the higher echelons of academia. It seems too many university
and college presidents and administrations have allowed themselves
to be bought and sold to the highest bidder. They have become
willing hostages with their hands tied behind their backs,
for the cause of "social justice" and for the love of money.
Meanwhile, what they and the student "occupiers" exercising
their "right to peacefully protest" fail to realize, in their blind
support for non-existent Palestine, and especially for Hamas,
is that the same monsters who viciously murdered innocent
men, women, and children last fall in southern Israel, are the
same monsters who are planning to come for them tomorrow.
"But when anything is exposed and reproved by light, it is made visible and clear;
and where everything is visible and clear there is light. Therefore, He says,
Awake, O, sleeper, and arise from the dead and Christ shall make
day dawn upon you and give you light."
(Ephesians 5:13-14)
In his sermon, "Disciples In Clay" Dr. Peter Marshall Sr. spoke of Christ's own
disciples after He was crucified, buried, and resurrected. Even though the
Lord appeared to them after He rose from the dead, the apostle Thomas refused
to believe this until he had visible proof. And, although they witnessed His
glorious ascension into heaven and heard instructions from the angels that day,
it was not until these men-who had followed after the Lord for three years,
and who had seen with their own eyes His wonderful miracles and gained
insight from His teachings were filled with the Holy Spirit- that they changed.
"Not until the Spirit came upon them in power were they changed,"
wrote Dr. Marshall. "so that cowardice gave place to courage...unbelief
became a flaming faith and conviction nothing on earth could shake...
jealousy was swallowed up in brotherly love...self-interest was killed
and became a ministry to others...fear was banished, and they were
afraid of no man...no threat, no danger."
Now, Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the
only force that can change people for good. It is the only power in the world
that can change the gears in a man's life from self-will to God's will. It is the
only power that can give a man the right motives- to do what God wants him to do.
And therein lies our hope."
God is very clear in His Word concerning the nation and people of Israel.
As He promised Abraham, "And I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse
the one who curses, dishonors, has contempt for you. And in you all the nations
of the earth will be blessed."
(Genesis 12:3)
Unlike our current political leaders of today, God means what He says.
He never fails in fulfilling His promises. The organized madness
across our land is both irritating and disgusting, as is the obvious
complicity in these anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests on behalf of the
Biden Administration, Hollywood, Big Tech, and the news media.
Although I know we should pray for a change of heart within our
leadership, I feel strongly that our prayers need to focus on the
thousands of disillusioned young people being lied to and
deceived into demanding "justice" for the enemies of God.
We need men and women equipped with 'flaming faith and conviction'
tempered by love and mercy, to storm the gates of heaven on their
behalf, and, with the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit, to be able to
confront and refute the lies of Satan with the sound doctrine of God's Word.
Far more importantly, we need to witness the powerful message of salvation
found only in and through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
We need to continue to intercede on behalf of the nation and people of Israel,
and for many frightened Jewish people here in America and around the world
who are fleeing from persecution and death threats. May God bless the
lives of His Chosen people and keep them safe in His love and mercy.
Please pray against terrorism, both here in America, and abroad,
and that each and every attempt to attack Israel made by their enemies
will fail miserably, and, that the defeat of their enemies will not only provide
the Israeli people will strength and courage, but with a deep spiritual
hunger to know their God.
Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem. There will never be true
and lasting peace in the world, nor real justice, until Messiah comes
to rule and reign from His glorious kingdom there.
Maranatha!
Excerpts from the sermon,
"Disciples In Clay"
from the book,
"Mr. Jones, Meet The Master"
Sermon and Prayers of Peter Marshall
(c.1949, 1950))
Fleming H. Revell Company
The Reverend Dr. Peter Marshall Sr.
(1902-1949)
Scottish-American preacher
Twice-appointed Chaplain of the United States Senate
"Forty days of rain, O Lord... O Lord..."
From Walt Disney's "Silly Symphony" series comes a delightful animated version
of the story of Noah's Ark, first released in theaters this month on April 8, 1933.
In this breaking report, Caroline Glick provides the latest details behind the
outrageous threat lobbied against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and other top Israeli leaders from the International Criminal Court, which
is seeking to place them under arrest for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
Is Joe Biden enabling this move? What is the real goal behind this
ruling from the ICC and how can Israel fight back?
Please keep Prime Minister Netanyahu and his family and the nation and
people of Israel in your prayers. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Maranatha!
In this classic presentation, beloved Bible teacher Zola Levitt (1936-2006)
explains the Feast of Unleavened Bread which annually reminds the Chosen
People that they did not have time to allow the bread to rise when God delivered
them out of Egypt and how the Messiah is represented in the matzo itself.
Filmed on location in Israel, Zola pays a visit to a matzo factory
outside of Jerusalem to see how unleavened bread is made.
"I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your Word.
Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live; and I will
observe Your Word, hearing, receiving, loving and obeying it."
(Psalm 119:16-17)
Thy Word is like a garden, Lord,
With flowers bright and fair;
And everyone who seeks may pluck
A lovely cluster there.
Thy Word is like a deep, deep, mine;
And jewels rich and rare
Are hidden in its mighty depths
For every searcher there.
Thy Word is like a starry host:
A thousand rays of light
Are seen to guide the traveler,
And make his pathway bright.
Thy Word is like an armory,
Where soldiers may repair,
And find for life's long battle day,
All needful weapons there.
O may I love Thy precious Word,
May I explore the mine,
May I its fragrant flowers glean,
May light upon me shine.
O may I find my armor there,
Thy Word my trusty sword;
I'll learn to fight with every foe
The battle of the Lord.
Amen.
"Thy Word Is Like A Garden, Lord"
(1863)
Edwin Hodder
(1837-1904)
Prolific English author
and hymn writer
To truly understand what is going on in the world in these uncertain
and troubling days, believers need to keep their focus on God's
prophetic time clock-the nation of Israel.
As Messianic Bible teacher Amir Tsarfati explains, in the aftermath of
the horrific massacre that happened on October 7th, 2023, God is bringing
His people back to the land He gave them from all over the world.
Meanwhile, the spirit of Antichrist continues to rear its ugly head
on college campuses across America, bolstered by the support of the
duplicitous Biden Administration, Hollywood, and the news media.
The battle lines between the forces of good and evil in the spiritual
and the physical realm are being drawn before our very eyes.
The enemy of the souls of mankind knows better than anyone else that
he is running out of time. Satan is determine to take as many lost human
souls as possible into the lake of fire prepared for him and his angels.
My most fervent prayer today is for the spiritual blindness afflicting
thousands of misguided people here in America and elsewhere will
drop from their minds and hearts and they will seek real truth
found through repentance at the foot of the cross.
Please pray for the conversion of Israel and for the peace of Jerusalem.
Maranatha!
"How precious and weighty also are Your thought to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them! If I could count them, they would be
more in number than the sand. When I awoke, could I count
to the end, I would still be with You."
(Psalm 139: 17-18)
Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness I am with Thee.
Alone with Thee; amid the mystic shadows,
The solemn hush of nature newly born;
Alone with Thee in breathless adoration,
In the calm dew and freshness of the morn.
Still, still with Thee! As to each newborn morning
A fresh and solemn splendor still is given,
So does this blessed consciousness, awakening,
Breathe each day nearness unto Thee and heaven.
When sinks the soul, subdued by toil, to slumber,
Its closing eyes look up to Thee in prayer;
Sweet the repose beneath Thy wings o'er-shading
But sweeter still, to wake and find Thee there.
So shall it be at last, in that bright morning,
When the soul waketh, and life's shadows flee;
O, in that hour, fairer than daylight dawning,
Shall rise the glorious thought, I am with Thee.
Amen.
"Still, Still, With Thee"
(1855)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1812-1896)
American writer and abolitionist
Author of the classic American novel,
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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.
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.
