May 31, 2007

  • What happened today in speech class

    So remember the girl from yesterday that was going to speak on pro-embryonic stem cell research?  Well today she instead talked on children watching too much tv (in excess of over 4 hours per day). 

     

    Later though in her group that was talking about unsolved mysteries, she was talking about topics in a book called Old Souls.  Her main subject was a gal whose first words were Hi Leila.  as this girl got older she was able to by the age of 5 give a phone number, her name, husbands name, 13 brothers' names, and her childrens names.  The family was able to find these people and it turned out that who she claimed to be had been trying to call her daughter prior to having heart surgey.  She died on the operating table having never reached her daughter by way of the phone.  This girl met with the children and asked if they received specific items of jewelry upon her passing.  She was also mad at the husband for having remarried and kept in contact with him and he with her mutually over the course of the rest of his lifetime.  This gals mom before giving birth to her said a woman came to her in her dream and said she would be visiting her soon.  Years later when they acquired a photo of the woman the little girl claimed to be, the mom said it was the woman who appeared to her in her dream.  According to the scientist who wrote the book, reincarnation can happen to some not all people if they have unfinished business...so I posed the question and so did others that wouldn't this girl have gone back to herself when the woman "inside" her was finally able to talk to her daughter?  Or like in many cases the children may just be sensitive and know these things they are told by - in my opinion demons - but as they get older would no longer be as sensitive to those things. Or it is possible that in some cases, not all, the parents are filling the child's head with these notions. Regardless of the why and how's, I want to share with you my point in saying all this.  This gal in speech class said that the author of the book said that Judeo-Christian religion was the only one which didn't believe in reincarnation but that even their own Jesus talked about it in Matthew 11:10-14 and said that John the Baptist was Elijah and that HE wasn't speaking metaphorically.

     

    Of course I looked up the passage.  KJV was the Bible I had with me

     

    10For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

     11Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

     12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

     13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

     14And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.

     

    And I can see why a Nonnie (the author of this book is most likely not a believer, as in common among many misled scientist, I said many not all...so there) might think Jesus is saying John is Elijah.  But we know that true Elijah never died but was just taken up to heaven in a chariot but we also know It is appointed unto men once to die and then comes the judgement.  Jesus did not promote reincarnation...that John the Baptist came in the spirit and manner of Elijah.

     

    AS this gals group was still speaking I hemmed and hawed as to whether I should say anything.  I felt led to say something but not in front of everyone as to embarrass her, unlike the boy who embarrassed and put me on the spot yesterday did, so I waited until she was on her way to her seat to get her things before leaving. I know it is ok to be ignorant of the things in the Bible but it would have been wrong of me to stand idley by while this girl seemed to have believed what she read in that book.

     

    I casually said, "You know I have an issue with your speech."  I told her about the spirit and manner of Elijah and that Jesus was not teaching reincarnation. She agreed that the author could be wrong and there was no harm done.  In one way I feel bad for having to say something but in another way I feel relieved to have said something...does that make sense?

     

    OK now for those who are familiar with Anna's and Stephanie's weblogs and recent topics

    One group's topic was Catastrophies

    One gal said something interesting about a a compass and that there is true north and magnetic north...so in the event of needing to find your way and roads are blocked/not there....it would be good to know that and that a compass could be as much as 20 miles off depending on where you are...also good to know.

    One guy (the one who embarrassed me)  talked about YellowStone super volcano.  He said millions of years ago the land mass of the U.S. moved over this volcano...that this volcano doesn't move but rather the land mass does. He said it used to be in low east Idaho and over the years moved to it's current location passing thru Wyoming to get there. Of course this was all before this was known as the U.S.   He said that 2.2 million years ago it erupted and covered everything in ash. 

    After his speech we were allowed to ask questions.  the concern was here in our area what would happen to us if it were to erupt....he said we would all be dead.  He said the last time it blew about 6400 years ago and they have fossilized animals from the Nebraska area that have ash in their bones/lungs.  He said that eruption wiped out everyone except 10-12,000 people and that is why we can trace our lineage back to the same few people. ( (is anyone else rolling there eyes?) )

    He said the volcano erupts about every 6000 years...so we cuold be due for an eruption but things like hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes would precede this eruption.  Our teacher pointed out that we have been having an increased amount of those disasters.  So the guy also said Old Faithful would be an indicator because it is always so regular and constant on it's spouts but lately it has been gushing sooner than normal...then he said it could be decades after these indicators started appearing before it would erupt.

    he said when it did erupt it would effect the entire U.S. in that it would be covered in a foot of ash and anything w/in a 100 mile radius would be incinerated.

    I am not sure how far away northern MO is from this super volcano but if we would all be dead....then other states closer to us would be also. 

     

    OK all of you who talk about YellowStone erupting...what are your findings?

     

    Speaking of preparedness - anyone see Blast from the Past movie - the family lives underground for like 35 years complete with food, electricity, and water.

     

     

     

May 30, 2007

  • Persuasive Speech

    I talked about how I was grieved by the passing of amendment 2 last fall in our state.  I talked about how the amendment wasn't just about making stem cell research legal, but rather in the words of the major research group supporting it, it was so down the road they could gain access to embryoes for research.  That is the part that grieved me and I did think that research would be tax payer funded but one kid in class said after my speech that he didn't want to start a fight and he did agree that amendment 2 was misleading but he reiterated the fact that the amendment was only about stem cell research remaining legal and he said the major institute that will be doing the research first is privately funded....so I rebutted that may be so but they have much more money than I or any other couples who would like to adopt these embryoes and so this institute will just buy them up to kill them.  This kid is getting a degree in mechanical engineering - he said focus is biomedical...so of course he would be more open to stem cell research...I mentioned one of the many alternatives - bone marrow derived stem cells, but there are also umbilical cord blood stem cells and maybe some more out there.  I never said I was against stem cell research just against the killing of embryoes to obtain them when other alternatives were available.

     

    However another girl came up to me and asked me not to question her speech because she made hers on being for embryonic stem cell research but now after listening to me was no longer sure....so YAY....my persuasive speech at least got one person thinking.

     

    One more speech / group assignment to go....and then that speech credit is all mine...PHEW

     

May 29, 2007

  • Where have I been?

    May 18th - June 1st  Speech class....so far we've had lots of busy work assignments and I have been doing good on those.  We have given 2 speeches so far.  I got 22 out of 25 points on my first and 47 out of 50 points on my second.  I have to give a persuasive speech tomorrow and we have a group symposium on Thursday.  I am not sure if we will actually get through everything in just 2 days or if it will take longer.  Continued prayers appreciated.

    People I have met - 2 gals in the class are muslim.  I wasn't sure if they were just because they still lived at home or what.  I have heard them use curse words - and yes I know some don't think this is wrong but I would think their religion would say it is...also one of the gals wears thong undies and has her nose pierced and I can't imagine they don't have a rule against that.  One gal gave her informative speech today on the palestinian/Israeli conflict.  She said if we recognize Israel than we don't recognize palestine and vice versa.  She said that palestine is like her 2nd home and then she asked if we were told we had to get off our land, would we go or stay and fight.  I have talked to her outside of class and she did ask something interesting.  Since she speaks both arabic and English, she herself wonders what language do bi-linguals think in?  Good question...anyone else bilingual that can answer? 

    Today a little after 1pm when I pulled in our parking lot, I smelled natural gas and could hear a hissing sound.  The direction the wind was blowing and the direction of the sound clued me in that it was the 4-plex next door.  When I opened my door, I asked DH if he could smell the gas...sure enough he could so we called the If You Smell Gas number.  So after DH called it in, the land lady called.  We wondered how she knew about it so fast, but figure the gas company must have called her since everything is in her name.  She got over as fast as she could and DH said to tell me she said thank you to me because I caught it.  Apparently the people who mow the grass knicked something and it cracked so 2 gas company trucks showed up to repair it. They are gone now so hope all is ok.

    Tomorrow I give my persuasive speech on Embryonic Stem Cell research and Thursday we give our group symposium and our chosen topic was should we be aware of the prophecies and what they project for the future?  I am the moderator, I have to give a 5 minute speech as an overview and then I have to introduce the other speakers as my panel and then we all ask each other questions and then I close us out and open it up for the audience to ask questions...confused?  me too.  Our 4 end time prophecies to discuss are the global warming induced ice age, mayan calendar, nostradamus, and Biblical.

    I got 3 more stops on my internet time and then gotta work on my group speech then revise and practice my persuasive speech....

     

    Catch ya by next week.

     

     

May 26, 2007

  • Endtime Ministries 5.25.07 article(s) of interest

    Bush Authorizes New Covert Action against Iran

    The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government. Sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say President Bush signed a "nonlethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions. According to officials, the covert plan is designed to pressure Iran to stop its nuclear enrichment program and end aid to insurgents in Iraq.

     

    ((Anyone else get Alias images when reading that?))

     

    End EU constitution stalemate: Solana

    Believing that the EU Constitution deadlock is undermining the EU ' s influence in the world, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged the bloc to resolve the two-year-old stalemate. Solana is backing efforts by Chancellor Angela Merkel to launch a blueprint for reforms of EU structures that would be in place from mid-2009.

     

    Google's goal: to organise your daily life

    The race to accumulate the most comprehensive database of individual information has become the new battleground for search engines. The Google search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. But so far Google has limited to two years the amount of time it will store a user's internet search information because of concerns from privacy activists.

     

    Temple Mount Controversy Continues

    Record numbers of Jews have ascended the Temple Mount since a large group of religious-Zionist rabbis issued a public call to visit Judaism ' s holiest site. On Jerusalem Day, for the first time in recent history, multiple groups of 40 or more Jews were allowed to ascend the Temple Mount. " There has been a marked increase in Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount since the large group of rabbis ascended.

     

    Quartet to meet in Berlin amid MidEast violence

    The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators are to meet in Berlin. The evening meeting of Quartet members will follow a gathering of Group of Eight (G8) foreign ministers. Germany has pressed its partners for a revival of the Quartet. 

     

    ((what is this??))

     

    Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers
    President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency. The " National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive " was signed on May 9. The president would be able to assume the power to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency. The new directive appears to supersede the National Emergency Act which set up Congress as a balance of power that could "modify, rescind, or render dormant" emergency authority if Congress believed the president acted inappropriately.

     

    ((Pastor P if you are reading, here we go, now the next president will also have much more power and capablilty to declare martial law))

     

    Israel, Vatican resume tax dispute talks

    Israel and the Vatican are in a dispute over church properties and taxes. While Israel wants the church to pay taxes on churches, shrines, monasteries, and cemeteries, the Vatican claims that their tax-exempt status was defined centuries before Israel became a country. Talks are further complicated because of disagreement over whether Israeli law or the Vatican treaty should prevail.

     

     

May 19, 2007

  • Endtime Ministries 5.18.07 article(s) of interest

    Merkel's pushes for a new EU constitution

    Angela Merkel's drive to revive the EU constitution entered a new phase this week. With only a few weeks left until the German chancellor presents her "road map" for a new treaty, diplomats say a rough consensus has surfaced over a pared-down version of the charter. A pared-down version of the treaty may eliminate parts of the original document that hinted at such things as EU statehood and a European flag and hymn.

     

    Ex-chief rabbi opposes new moves to visit Temple Mount

    Former chief rabbi Abraham Shapira, responding to a visit to the Temple Mount by dozens of religious-Zionist rabbis, said that such visits are forbidden for Jews. Rabbinical authorities barred Jews from visiting the mount because the exact location of the Temple and the Holy of Holies has been unknown, and rabbis feared that Jews would unknowingly set foot in forbidden areas. Rabbi Zalman Melamed, chairman of Beit El Yeshiva agreed that Jews may not visit the Temple Mount at this time. However, he added "Next year we will visit the Temple Mount together, with the ash of a red heifer, without arguments and without questions."

     

    Top EU diplomat Javier Solana receives Charlemagne Prize

    Javier Solana, 64, the European Union's top foreign-policy official, was presented with the Charlemagne Prize. Solana said he valued the award more than a Nobel Prize. The Charlemagne Prize was created in 1949 to honor service to European unity.

     

    Blair plans to encourage inter-faith cooperation

    Friends of the outgoing PM have said that Tony Blair is planning to act as an ambassador for multi-faith dialogue in Britain and abroad. Blair recently declared: "The tragedy is that Christians, Jews and Muslims are all Abrahamic religions. The leading pioneer of 'New Labour' is planning to set up a Blair Foundation and it is thought that one of its main aims will be to promote further communication between Christians, Muslims and Jews.

     

     

     

May 18, 2007

  • College update

    At the beginning of the year, I had 4 classes left in order to get my AAS in Accounting.

    I took 2 of those classes from Jan - May 15th....and I am happy to report I received a final grade of A in both !!

    Last night I could barely sleep even though I am really tired. Yes, I did pray for peaceful sleep but am glad the LORD woke me at -- my for some reason usual time of around -- 5:30-5:45am...ish...

    I took my BBT temp and then went into my son's room and he sleeps with the local Christian music station on because he likes background noise and what better background noise then songs singing Praise to Yeshua - ya know!!!

    So as I was taking my temp I was just telling Yeshua how much I need HIM to be with me today because today is the first day of my 10 day intercession speech class - only took me 10 years to work up the nerve to take it and still it feels like torture.

    Went into my son's room and this song was playing


    We Love You Jesus
    By Shane and Shane
    5/18/2007
    5:47 AM

    It is a catchy little tune and even though it's us saying to HIM that we love HIM, I feel as if HE is saying it to me also...and I know HE said it first!!

    Now if I could, I know you lift me up daily for healing and the ability to conceive, carry, and deliver another/more healthy child/ren...and I do appreciate it.

    I would also like to ask for the next 2 weeks, the ability to do well in speech class. Not nervous,  good, interesting and well put together topics and well presentation, etc....

    Thank you.

May 16, 2007

  • As seen at yahoo news earlier today...

     

    Greenpeace builds replica of Noah's Ark

    ISTANBUL, Turkey - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat — where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood — in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday. ......

     

    Morons:  the ark itself is still there somewhere on that mount but there are people guarding it and keeping us away. Also do these people think another world wide flood is coming?  If so they are for sure nut cases....  they should be getting FireProof Insurance and that can only come from Yeshua! 

    I John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.

    Romans 10:9-119That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.   10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.   11For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

    John 15:10 - If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

    Matthew 7:13-14 - 13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:  14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

May 15, 2007

  • Quick Post

    I took Accounting Spreadsheets final last night - got 100%...and I have a 100% in that class so - EASY A!!

    Took biz communications final about an hour ago...will be happy to receive at least a B in that class...should know by the 5th day of this week.  (u figure it out)

    Start dreaded speech class on the 6th day of this week....went to the bookstore - can you believe they want $65 for a "textbook" that you have to open to put in to a 3 ing binder that I will only use for 2 weeks...besides I thought this was speech class, aren't we just going to make speeches?

    that class runs from May 18th- June 1st and that's day 2-6 every week from 9am-1pm...

    So I may be absent except for posting my out of order Heart Ablaze notes -which turns out I was told we weren't having church one night but some people ended up showing up and so they went ahead in the DVD w/o me...and I have been wanting to see part 6 since the first time we saw part 5 - several months ago....

    don't tell me we don't have church and then do have it....please.

     

    Also decided to find out what Hebrew date we were born on.

    DH - 5th of Tishrei (was a Sabbath that year) on our calendar that is October 3rd
    DS - 11th of Av - the 3rd day of the week that year (although he was due on the 8th of Elul a 2nd day of the week)  July 31st on our calendar
    Me- 19th of Kislev (3rd day of the week that year and also funny because my birth date is a 19th of the month...LOL and I am sure Hebrew days and our days numbers don't line up that often) December 19th on our calendar

    Go there and tell me your Hebrew birthdate.

May 12, 2007

  • This past week

    5/07/07 - Adoption info meeting

    foster to adopt hurdles - classes - DH's work schedule may not allow

    private infant adoption hurdle - $10,000 - yes able to pay it back after tax time credit, but finding the money to use until that time, well...

    5/09/07 - Free consultation with a TCM doctor.  DH is all for this route at this time...in fact he did hear me say the flouride in the water is affecting me, my thyroid thinks it is the iodine it needs and absorbs it...so I have to have bottled water and take an iodine supplement. - Finally a doctor that finds out what is wrong with me, that doesn't say well your ultrasound and labs say one thing but you don't look like anything is wrong - BTW totally thankful for that!!!

    5/10/07 - School Day at the K (that's the Royals for non KCers...)  we got to see a local news team do weather experiments and stayed for about 1 inning of the ballgame -that ended with us losing 3 to 17 against the A's...because DS had gymnastics at 3pm....we started gymnastics at 1:45pm on Thursday and got asked to change to 3pm on Tuesday back in January and then again this month to move to another class.  I know we get shuffled because I only have one kid to find a time slot for while other moms have many kids that need to come on the same day.  However, I did like the 3 pm time yesterday, a smaller group and not so noisy in the gym area.

    Another 5/09/07 event and the major reason for this post:

    Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit was here since Feb. and I just got a chance to see it.

    It started with a 7 minute glimpse of the DVD on it -which referenced something about a million years ago - I lost it at that point and so based on that I was no longer as "geeked" about seeing it.

    found it interesting that a shepherd by the name of muhammad found the cave with the clay jars that held some of the first scrolls found.

    They talked of the Qumron area and thought it was the Essenes who they said were Manasseh, Ephraim and Judah.  That they believed they were  the 1st Christians, that they wanted to remain seperate from the "defilement" that was taking place in Jerusalem.  That they held to the verse in Isaiah about one calling from the wilderness to make way for the Lord - referring to John the Baptist -and I think the exhibit said something about him having hailed from that area. 

    These Essenes started counting their days from the 4th day as the first- the day the luminaries were created- they also used a calendar of 364 days based on the sun...and thought those in Jerusalem erred by using a lunar based calendar. 

     

    They had a timeline on the wall that was interesting.  On the bottom you see all the things commonly taught about history of that time...but on the top they showed all the biblical times that should be in our "textbooks" but ya know that wouldn't be "PC" to do so. 

    I noticed the timeline area for Christ birth showed 3 kings named Herod and Herod the great they said reigned ended in 4 BC where as Herod Agrippa(?) reign started 4 BC...so I wondered more about which Herod tried to kill Christ as an infant/toddler (?)....

    They had on display a KJV from 1604 and said it is referred to as the "He" version because they translate Ruth as he and not she...LOL - --- but what I found of interest was the book of maccabees(?) was included in the KJV of 1604??? any ideas

     

    They also had the gutenburg on display - have no idea what language that was.

    And the Geneva had pictures in it - it look liked a dictionary. 

     

    They quoted some things I know I have read in the book of Daniel as being apocrypha...?

    the movie and also the display of the copper scroll talks of a great treasure...I piped up during the movie about knowing what treasure they are referencing...and told the people around me all about the segment that you can watch in the 2.5 hour Spring Feast Part II on the left hand side of this weblog....it's in there somewhere...watch it and be wowed.

    I do remember on the Psalm scroll reading the words.

    O Give thanks to the LORD, for HE is good, for HIS steadfast love endures for ever.

    It was equal to Psalm 136:1-9  but they used love instead of Mercy as KJV says  - so I wonder which decade of english was being used to translate? I see the ESV uses the word steadfast in that passage.

     

    Another thought I had was they said someone must have hidden them to protect them from falling into the wrong hands...but I wonder if some of evil found them and wanted to hide them, so the people wouldn't know the truth...

    also things there that caught my curiosity were a book of Josephus's writings and mentione of something called War Rule and Community Rule.

     

May 11, 2007

  • A Heart Ablaze - Part VII

    Yes, we were told we already saw part 6...but we haven't met for home study/church since April 12th so I guess it's easy for people to all think we are on a different part.   My sister and I agreed we hadn't seen part 6 and I take notes and as far as I know I haven't missed a Thursday night that we were meeting so... anywho here is part 7...

    3 verses from the bread basket (from memory because I forgot to write them down, it was a long day...School Day at the K and DS to gymnastics and then home to shower and change for Church)

    John 14:21 - He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

    Deuteronomy 33:27a - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms:

    I Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.


    Counter Culture or Sub Culture?

    Ephesians 2:2 - says our enemy is the prince of the power of the air - or atmosphere based on his position created for Ezekiel 28:14

    so he can work in atmospheres but so does the Spirit of YHWH see Genesis 1:2

    Atmosphere develops climate which becomes culture. 

    To illustrate pointed out that the original culture of the U.S. came about by the atmosphere of the U.S. that was based on the fact that godly men prayed over the Constitution.  Now the enemy is trying to change that by first changing the atmosphere and down the line.

    Music can by-pass a persons intellect - why it is used in many commercials (think jingles)

    If Believers are stronger in YHWH than sinners are in their sin = good control of atmosphere (and vice versa)  also if a person is weak in the Belief and relationship with YHWH then they can gravitate towards the sin atmosphere.  Develop a strong Spirit to control the atmosphere.

    II Corinthians 4:4 - In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.   He said we will either purposely forsake the mannerisms of the world or will go back to them.  Put those worldly desires under the Power of The Cross.

    the enemy can entice but your desire is what leads you astray and makes you do wrong.  Renounce that former life and put it under The Cross.

    Create an atmosphere the Spirit of YHWH delights to dwell in.

    Leviticus 18:3 - After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

    Paul said the same in Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed (with) to this world: but be ye transformed (above) by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

    John 15:18-19 -  18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

    Have you tried to become accepted by the world?  Does the world hate you?

    Unbelieving Romans have writings that describe the early Believers (the ones taught by the apostles) say that they submitted to the laws of the land but lived by a higher law.

    Counter culture --> early Church, opposed the values and behaviors of the society - and did/does not change with society.

    Acts 2:40 - And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

    Sub culture --> today's 'c'hurch - connected with society overall.

    For example even PG movies today would shock our entire society about 60 years ago...even movies with out excessive swearing and nudity/violence...have glorified rebellion, affairs, etc.

    Again, does the world REALLY hate us?  Are we sanctified?  really Set apart?

    He said if you showed someone from 60 years ago a bathing suit we wear today we woudl shock them for sure.  He said our clothes should conceal not reveal.  That we would not want to sit where wrong speech and actions/thoughts are, not want to be where the very things that drove the nails into Yeshua are being displayed.

    He said if a person in darkness is around someone that exudes Light, they will be uncomfortable.  ((I wondered what happens in a marriage where one spouse is a Believer and the other is not. I wondered if the unbelieving spouse would feel sick around the Believing spouse or would they get used to the feeling and just not be bothered by it anymore. After the DVD I asked this and several agreed that the unbeliever would eventually either be convicted or flee.  Even if the wife did all the things the Bible tells her to do to live out her Belief in front of her husband.  He could be won over but then again he could leave. We are just to live out that Belief, regardless.))

    He reminded us that at first Lot pitched his tent outside the city to be able to enjoy it's fruits but avoid it's wickedness.  Yet, 6 chapters later we see he has a house inside the city.  II Peter 2:6-8

    He said there is Godly violence -take the account in the OT for example and there is also ungodly violence and things that are just Lewd entertainment.

    He said even one's work place can seem disgusting but it doesn't vex you because it is your mission field.  But purposely choosing wrong will vex you.

    How close do you want to be with YHWH? Create an atmosphere in accordance with HIS Word, He delights to dwell there. 

    I Thessalonians 5:22 - Abstain from all appearance of evil.

    Ephesians 5:11-12 - 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.   12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

    He said we don't just talk about DVD's we watch them and enterain ourselves and talk about it. 

    He said that some (not all, so don't go there) problems we bring about by what we choose.

    Get friends who fill you in accordance with YHWH's Word.  Not ones who cut you down or talk about wrong things.

    SiDeTrAcK: about this time, 2 bunnies were playing in the yard and they reminded me of the story DS and I are reading in Lessons from the Farmyard by CLP. 

    Ezekiel 44:9-12 and 15-16

    He said yes this was prophetic of the 2nd temple but must be applied to Christ's Kingdom.

    That the priest who did not go the way of the world would get to minister to HIM but those who did just got to watch the house. 

    I Peter 1:14-16 - 14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:  15But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;  16Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

    QADASH (Hebrew for holy as seen here) - to set apart, of purity, a cut above.

    Many people hear purity and think they must wear their hair a certain way and dress a certain way, but when we have all of Yeshua and none of the world, we will want to dress appropriately...and that would just be modest ((...no tight clingy, revealing clothing, but doesn't necessarily always have to be a dress.  Yes sometimes there are appropriate times for dresses and sometimes gals need to wear a modest pair of pants.))

    The Creator of all the universe is  most beautiful.

    Everyone in heaven wants to be in HIS throne room and do not want to be anywhere else. 

    Do you want to follow The LAMB wherever HE goes or take care of the house? 


    interesting conversation afterwards.  They were talking about past generations here in the U.S. and how we have come so far.  I mentioned that I get the atmosphere thing because we know that about every 20 years or so it seems we have a culture shift.  the enemy seems to get ahold of the teen/early twenties and they want to rebel against their "fuddy duddy" parents and do those things that they weren't allowed to do at home. Many countered me about training a child in the way they should go and when he is old he won't depart from it...and that many do come back to the right way...but my point was yeah, after they have kids or hit their thirties...which there was about 10+ years there where many new adults are doing wrong and it catches on and become "socially" acceptable.  So I got them and I think they got me too.

    Then I countered that yeah at home you could train your kids right but 7-8 hours a day 180+ days a year they are with a teacher that might not share your views.  One guy spoke up and said that it didn't used to be that way.  Opinion was kept out of the classroom but today you have your S,D,&R rebels from the 60/70's teaching.  So the lady who mentioned Proverbs 22:6 said that's true and more people should put their kids in private school or homeschool.  I said yeah and then you hear opposition about how you should send your kid to public school to be a witness, to that I say my foot, it's easier to pull a few down than to lift a mulitude up, especiall young kids still learning in their walk. 

    I know us in the homeschool community agree we do not want our children being thrown in with the sharks.

    Of course the conversation included private school as an option because there is a lady there who works at one...but then there is me and I homeschool. 

    I agree many kids at private schools are the rif-raff thrown out of public schools and just because they attend a private school and are made to take a Bible class does not mean they understand it, accept it as Truth, or even know it.  And I am sure you could tell me stories of homeschooled kids by supposedly "c"hristian parents and the kids don't Believe either.  But I still say one on one or even one on a dozen of your own kids allows for you, the parent who has known your child longer than someone who only sees the 180 days...can instruct your child in YHWH's ways...and yes at some point they get to decide for themselves when they know HE is calling out to them to either Believe or not.

    HomeSchool is BEST!!