The Lord is Not Slow to Keep His Promises as some count slowness

POPE, PLO AND UNITED NATIONS PLAN INTERNATIONAL CITY IN JERUSALEM: 

CNN says Pope-Francis will come to Holy Land on May 25-26, 2014. Pope Francis since his election, told Israel he will visit, and is widely expected to make the trip... “ I invited him to the Holy Land,” PLO-boss Abbas said after a 30-minute private audience with the pope in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace (their first meeting).

In 1948, the Vatican created the office of Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine, which had jurisdiction in British Mandate Palestine, Transjordan (now Jordan) and Cyprus. The Vatican has had a bilateral agreement with the PLO since February 15, 2000. UN resolutions 181 and 194 call for an “International Regime” to take control of the proposed International City in Jerusalem (Not controlled by the Palestinians or Israelis; READ: Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2). READ ON..

I love the Word of God, and the more that I read the Holy Bible, the more the Holy Spirit guides me to greater understanding of how to teach the Grace, Love, Patience, Longsuffering and Truth of God. THE LORD IS FORGIVING (see 1 John 1:8-10).

Throughout history, mankind has disobeyed God, but the Lord has kept calling mankind back to Himself. God did not abandon mankind, our ancestors walked away from God and taught others to defy the Lord...

The Tower of Babel and its people were the first apostate New World Order (NWO) that defied God.

The most interesting thing that I find about the book of Genesis is that two of the greatest nations that hold faith in the God of creation (Hebrew and Muslim) began with the account of Abram, a man that the Lord counted as righteous because of his faith (Genesis 15:6).

However, the religion of Islam and the ancient worship of Allah in the Near East was a pagan worship of the moon god and the daughters of Allah.

Sin or Nanna (Sumerian: DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA) was the god of the moon in the Mesopotamian mythology of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with Semitic Sin.

Sin/Nanna himself is present in the form of a crescent moon. The well-known Middle East scholar H.A.R. Gibb has pointed out that the reason that Muhammad never had to explain who Allah was in the Quran is that his listeners had already heard about Allah long before Muhammad was ever born (Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey, New York: Mentor Books, 1955, p.38).

Allah was the name of the principal deity in Mecca who had three daughters: Uzzah; Lat; and Manat. According to their traditions they acted as Allah's Intercessors.

The name that Ishmael's mother used to refer to the Lord was not Allah, it was El-roi.

Genesis 16:7-13 (NLT)

7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur. 8 The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?”

“I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied.

9 The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.” 10 Then he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.”

11 And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the Lord has heard your cry of distress. 12 This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”

13 Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord, who had spoken to her. She said, “You are the God who sees me”[a]. She also said, “Have I truly seen the One who sees me?”

Footnotes:

a. 16:13 Hebrew El-roi.

[bold emphasis added]

God said that Ishmael and his descendants, "would raise their fist against everyone, and everyone will be against them. Yes, they will live in open hostility against all his relatives” (Genesis 16:12). The prophet Muhammad put an end to the pagan worship of idols and polytheism and went to war with the other clans, but after his mysterious death in AD 632, his followers reinstated the pagan worship of the moon god and the daughters of Allah. Nevertheless, Isaac and Ishmael's descendants have an everlasting Covenant with God.

Genesis 17:9-14 (NLT)

The Mark of the Covenant

9 Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility. 10 This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised. 11 You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased. 13 All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my everlasting covenant. 14 Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”

The recent ban in Germany on circumcision defies the everlasting Covenant between the Hebrew people and descendants of Ishmael, who God also blessed as the father of 12 princes and a great nation (Genesis 17:20-21).

THERE IS AN ATTACK ON MONOTHEISM NOT JUST CHRISTIANITY:

One such LAW to watch that is already underway globally to attack Orthodox Jews and Muslims, is the October 2013 motion by the former Council of Europe (COE) Member of Parliment Marlene Ruprecht, which called RITUAL MALE CIRCUMCISION a “violation of the physical integrity of children” and urged the members to initiate a public debate with human rights as the foundation.

These laws restrict the rights of Muslim and Jewish parents to keep the Biblical and everlasting Covenant of Circumcision between God and them. THE UNITED NATIONS' INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM POLICY, LED BY THE VATICAN, CONTRADICTS ITS OWN MANDATES AND THE HOLY BIBLE!

Genesis 17:15-27 (NLT)

Sarai Is Named Sarah

15 Then God said to Abraham, “Regarding Sarai, your wife—her name will no longer be Sarai. From now on her name will be Sarah.[a] 16 And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants.”

17 Then Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. “How could I become a father at the age of 100?” he thought. “And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?” 18 So Abraham said to God, “May Ishmael live under your special blessing!”

19 But God replied, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac,[b] and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant. 20 As for Ishmael, I will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year.” 22 When God had finished speaking, he left Abraham.

23 On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him. 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, 25 and Ishmael, his son, was thirteen. 26 Both Abraham and his son, Ishmael, were circumcised on that same day, 27 along with all the other men and boys of the household, whether they were born there or bought as servants. All were circumcised with him.

Footnotes:

17:15 Sarai and Sarah both mean “princess”; the change in spelling may reflect the difference in dialect between Ur and Canaan.

17:19 Isaac means “he laughs.”

The split of Abraham's (Abram's) descendants began well before Ishmael and Isaac were born by the human attempt to bring about God's promises to Abram (Galatians 4:21-31).

Genesis 21:8-13 (NLT)

Hagar and Ishmael Are Sent Away

8 When Isaac grew up and was about to be weaned, Abraham prepared a huge feast to celebrate the occasion. 9 But Sarah saw Ishmael—the son of Abraham and her Egyptian servant Hagar—making fun of her son, Isaac.[a] 10 So she turned to Abraham and demanded, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son. He is not going to share the inheritance with my son, Isaac. I won’t have it!”

11 This upset Abraham very much because Ishmael was his son. 12 But God told Abraham, “Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted. 13 But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar’s son because he is your son, too.”

Footnotes:

21:9 As in Greek version and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew lacks of her son, Isaac.

WHAT ABOUT THE LAND PROMISED TO ABRAHAM AND THE HEBREW PEOPLE, AND HOW ISHMAEL'S DESCENDANTS BECAME APOSTATE AND IDOLATROUS?

Genesis 15:12-21 (NLT)

12 As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him. 13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. 14 But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth. 15 (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.) 16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”

17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. 18 So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt[a] to the great Euphrates River— 19 the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Footnotes:

15:18 Hebrew the river of Egypt, referring either to an eastern branch of the Nile River or to the Brook of Egypt in the Sinai (see Num 34:5).

Islamic tradition relates that Muhammad received his first revelation in the Cave of Hira during one of his isolated retreats to the mountains in the 7th century AD (six centuries after the completion of the last book of the Holy Bible, Revelation).

The Quran did not exist in book form at the time of Muhammad's death in AD 632.[1][2][3] There is agreement among scholars that Muhammad himself did not write down his revelations, because he was illiterate.[4]

The descendants of Abraham were both Hebrew, Egyptian and Syrian. Jacob married the Aramean (Syrian) sisters Rachael and Leah (Genesis 28-50 through Exodus 1), and the ancient Israelites became a great nation in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 26:5 (NLT)

5 “You must then say in the presence of the Lord your God, ‘My ancestor Jacob was a wandering Aramean who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt. His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt they became a large and mighty nation.

The Egyptians fearing that the ancient Israelites were too powerful and would take control of Egypt, took away the ancient Israelites freedom and liberty that was established under Jacob's son, Joseph (Genesis 50; Exodus 1).

Exodus 1:1-17 (NLT)

The Israelites in Egypt

1 These are the names of the sons of Israel (that is, Jacob) who moved to Egypt with their father, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 In all, Jacob had seventy[a] descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.

6 In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation. 7 But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.

8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.[b]”

11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king. 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became. 13 So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. 14 They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.

15 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah: 16 “When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver.[c] If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.

Footnotes:

1:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek version read seventy-five; see notes on Genesis 46:27.

1:10 Or will take the country.

1:16 Hebrew look upon the two stones; perhaps the reference is to a birthstool.

The deadly attack on US diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, could have been prevented if Washington had not allowed arms shipment to reach al-Qaeda-linked militants, said Accuracy in Media (AIM), a group launched to unearth truth behind the 2012 ordeal.

“The White House and senior Congressional members deliberately and knowingly pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in order to topple a ruler [Muammar Gaddafi] who had been working closely with the West actively to suppress al-Qaeda,” the Citizens Commission on Benghazi (CCB), said in an interim report released recently.

As a result of such policy, there has been “utter chaos” in Libya, across North Africa and beyond, “the spread of dangerous weapons (including surface-to-air missiles), and the empowerment of jihadist organizations like al-Qa’eda and the Muslim Brotherhood,” the group said in the document, entitled “How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror.” The commission, set up last year by US center-right press watchdog Accuracy in Media (AIM), is comprised of retired senior military officers and CIA insiders and experts. Its goal is to answer the remaining questions about the September 11, 2012 attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Allah was a Church of Rome, Byzantine Empire and Arab concoction of the ancient moon god religion to separate the descendants of Ishmael from the Jewish people (because the Jewish leaders did not recognize Muhammad as a prophet). Muhammad commanded Muslims to pray towards Jerusalem, the prayer direction of the Jews, but then rescinded this and told them to pray towards the Kabah in Mecca. The Qur'an records the reaction of the people when Muhammad decided to change the prayer direction.

THIS WRITING IS NOT POLITICAL IT IS IMPERATIVE TO YOUR SOUL AND SANCTITY OF FAMILY VALUES

While the Tea Party continues to divide and conquer the Republican party, you must stop and look at what is the strategic plan...This is not an attack on Republicans, it is an attack on conservative Evangelical (Bible believing) Christianity. The Antichrists aka Anti-Yeshua are also attacking the Hebrew people, who know their God (Daniel 11:31-45).

Hillary Clinton, Liberal Pastor Jim Wallis, who has served as a faith adviser to President Obama

In the January/February 2014 Editorial of the FRIENDS OF ISRAEL (FOI) bi-monthly magazine, ISRAEL MY GLORY, the editor wrote:

"There has been a been a controversy over whether or not America is a Christian nation. U.S. President Barack Obama believes not. In 2009 he declared Americans "do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values." But what is the source of the "set of values" by which we are bound?

THIS THINKING PROPAGATED BY OUR PRESIDENT AND PASTOR JIM WALLIS THAT AMERICA IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION LENDS ITSELF TO THE GREAT APOSTASY AWAY FROM GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE CULT OF THE MITHRAS & ISLAM

Today, the Vatican and international powers want to suppress the Truth and oppress Egypt, Israel and Syria, because they know the historical fact that Abraham's descendants are Hebrew, Egyptian and Syrian. The Islamic clans (Muslim Brotherhood, Sunnis, Shiites and esoteric Sufis, etc.) of the Near East know that their pagan worship of the moon god and the daughters of Allah made secret pacts with the Roman "catholic" worshippers of the sun god, Mithra.

Impression of the cylinder seal of Ḫašḫamer, ensi (high priest) 
of Sin at Iškun-Sin ca. 2100 BC.
Sin/Nanna himself is indicated in the form of a crescent moon.

Deuteronomy 4:19 (NLT)

19 And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.

The Mithraic Mysteries were a mystery religion practised in the Roman Empire from about the 1st to 4th centuries AD---when Constantine the Great tried to supplant the Christian underground movement with the word, "catholic" at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. The name of the Persian god Mithra (proto-Indo-Iranian Mitra), adapted into Greek as Mithras, was linked to a new and distinctive imagery. Writers of the Roman Empire period referred to this mystery religion by phrases which can be anglicized as Mysteries of Mithras or Mysteries of the Persians;[5][6] modern historians refer to it as Mithraism,[5] or sometimes Roman Mithraism.[7][8]

The Mithraic Mysteries were popular in the Roman military.

The Khorda Avesta (Book of Common Prayer) also refer to Mithra in the Khwarshed Niyayesh (Litany to the Sun), "Homage to Mithra of wide cattle pastures,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 5), "Whose word is true, who is of the assembly, Who has a thousand ears, the well-shaped one, Who has ten thousand eyes, the exalted one, Who has wide knowledge, the helpful one, Who sleeps not, the ever wakeful. We sacrifice to Mithra, The lord of all countries, Whom Ahura Mazda created the most glorious, Of the supernatural yazads. So may there come to us for aid, Both Mithra and Ahura, the two exalted ones,"(Khwarshed Niyayesh 6-7).

Ahura Mazda (also known as Ohrmazd, Ahuramazda, Hourmazd, Hormazd, and Hurmuz, Lord or simply as spirit) is the Avestan name for a higher spirit of the Old Iranian religion who was proclaimed as the uncreated spirit by Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism. Ahura Mazda is described as the highest spirit of worship in Zoroastrianism. The literal meaning of the word Ahura means light and Mazda means wisdom. Sól (Old Norse "Sun") or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: Sunna ("Sun"), is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology.

Sól was the solar deity in Ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods. The first, Sól Indiges, was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period. Only in the late Roman Empire, scholars argued that the solar cult re-appeared with the arrival in Rome of the Syrian Sól Invictus, under the influence of the Mithraic mysteries.

POPE, PLO AND UNITED NATIONS PLAN INTERNATIONAL CITY IN JERUSALEM

PLO-boss Abbas gifts a painting of the proposed "International City" of "Palestine Bethlehem, the city of peace” to Pope Francis.

CNN says Pope-Francis will come to Holy Land on May 25-26, 2014. Pope Francis since his election, told Israel he will visit, and is widely expected to make the trip... “ I invited him to the Holy Land,” PLO-boss Abbas said after a 30-minute private audience with the pope in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace (their first meeting).

1 Thessalonians 5:3-4 (NLT)

3 When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape.

4 But you aren’t in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won’t be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief.

Isaiah the prophet wrote that all the glory of Kedar will come to an end (Isaiah 21:16). Kedar may refer to: Qedar or Kedar, the second son of Ishmael; Qedarites or Kedar, an Arab tribal confederation named for Ishmael's son; Kedar, Gush Etzion, an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem near Maale Adumim; Lord Shiva or Kedar, a Hindu god. In 1948, the Vatican created the office of Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine, which had jurisdiction in British Mandate Palestine, Transjordan (now Jordan) and Cyprus. The Vatican has had a bilateral agreement with the Palestine Authority and PLO since February 15, 2000. UN resolutions 181 and 194 call for an “International Regime” to take control of the proposed International City in Jerusalem (READ: Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2).

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST UNTIL CHRIST RETURNS

Matthew 24:1-8 (NLT)

Jesus Foretells the Future

24 As Jesus was leaving the Temple grounds, his disciples pointed out to him the various Temple buildings. 2 But he responded, “Do you see all these buildings? I tell you the truth, they will be completely demolished. Not one stone will be left on top of another!”

3 Later, Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives. His disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?[a]”

4 Jesus told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, 5 for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don’t panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won’t follow immediately. 7 Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. 8 But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

Footnotes:

24:3 Or the age?

Regardless of the international efforts of the United Nations, Vatican, British, France, EU, Russia and the United States, there will be no peace in the Middle East until Christ returns.

2 Peter 3:9-10 (NLT)

9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.

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Poor Knight for Christ Francis Kelly, XU

Endnote: THERE IS NO PERFECT CHURCH IN THE WORLD. On the congregational level, a Non-denominational Bible-based church, Baptist or Methodist church usually provides worship, fellowship and community that most Roman Catholics and Anglicans seek—where Christ is the Only head of the church, not a despot. After all Christianity is all about a personal relationship with Jesus.

Hebrews 10:25 (NLT)

25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of His return is drawing near. 

Footnotes:

1. Tabatabai, Sayyid M. H. (1987). The Qur'an in Islam : its impact and influence on the life of muslims. Zahra Publ. ISBN 0710302665.

2. Richard Bell (Revised and Enlarged by W. Montgomery Watt) (1970). Bell's introduction to the Qur'an. Univ. Press. pp. 31–51. ISBN 0852241712.

3. P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis (1970). The Cambridge history of Islam (Reprint. ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780521291354.

4. Denffer, Ahmad von (1985). Ulum al-Qur'an : an introduction to the sciences of the Qur an (Repr. ed.). Islamic Foundation. p. 37. ISBN 0860371328.

5. Beck, Roger (2002-07-20). "Mithraism". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition.

6. Origen, Contra Celsus, Book 6, Chapter 22. "After this, Celsus, desiring to exhibit his learning in his treatise against us, quotes also certain Persian mysteries, where he says: 'These things are obscurely hinted at in the accounts of the Persians, and especially in the mysteries of Mithras, which are celebrated among them...' " Chapter 24 "After the instance borrowed from the Mithraic mysteries, Celsus declares that he who would investigate the Christian mysteries, along with the aforesaid Persian, will, on comparing the two together, and on unveiling the rites of the Christians, see in this way the difference between them."

7. "Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies". Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies. "The Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies (EJMS) is a revival of the Journal of Mithraic Studies edited by Dr. Richard Gordon. It is a place where researchers on Roman Mithraism can publish the product of their research and make it freely available for other interested people."

8. Beck, Roger (2002-07-20). "Mithraism". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, "For most of the twentieth century the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity."