- 'And the Moon into Blood'
- Iran Revises Story of Esther, Labels Purim a Day of Mourning
- Iran Has Enough Enriched Uranium to Build 4 Nuclear Bombs
- Some Pastoral Thoughts on the Christian and Voting
- The Normalcy Bias and Bible Prophecy
| Posted: 10 Jan 2011 01:38 PM PST By Jack Kinsella The Omega Letter The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.” (Joel 2:31)Throughout history, solar and lunar eclipses have been taken as a sign from Deity. In 585 BC, a solar eclipse darkened the battlefield during a pitched battle between the warring Medes and Lydians.At the sun’s disappearance, both sides
|
| Iran Revises Story of Esther, Labels Purim a Day of Mourning Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:52 AM PST By Ryan Jones Israel Today In a couple of months, Israelis and Jews around the world will celebrate Purim, marking the deliverance of the Jews of the Persian Empire from extinction 2,300 years ago. In Iran, the center of the ancient Persian Empire, the date will be marked with mourning and anger.For years already, Iran has been teaching schoolchildren that Purim marks the massacre of 75,000
|
| Iran Has Enough Enriched Uranium to Build 4 Nuclear Bombs Posted: 10 Jan 2011 09:35 AM PST By Joel C. Rosenberg JoelRosenberg.com “Officials say Iran already has enough low-enriched uranium stockpiled to create as many as four atomic weapons if it decided to further process the fuel,” reports the Wall Street Journal this morning. “The U.S. and the IAEA also worry Iran could have deployed advanced centrifuges at clandestine sites.”To put this in context, in September 2009, Israel’s
|
| Some Pastoral Thoughts on the Christian and Voting Posted: 10 Jan 2011 08:50 AM PST By Dr. Andy Woods Sugar Land Bible Church The recent elections raise an important question: Does the Bible have anything to say about the Christian’s role and responsibility in voting? The answer is both no and yes. The answer is “no” in the sense that the Bible does not specifically command us to cast ballots. The reason for this omission is that the types of governments that existed in biblical
|
| The Normalcy Bias and Bible Prophecy Posted: 10 Jan 2011 08:11 AM PST By Todd Strandberg Rapture Ready I've been in the business of warning people about the end times for several decades now. One of the hardest tasks is convincing people that danger is coming their way. They have fallen prey to what is commonly called the normalcy bias.The normalcy bias occurs when people underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This
|
