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ELLEN BARKIN HOPES HURRICANE KILLS ‘EVERY PRO-LIFE, XENOPHOBIC, GAY-BASHING SOB’ AT THE RNC

(LifeSiteNews.com) – In the aftermath of the Family Research Council shooting, prominent voices on the Left have not tapped down their violent rhetoric against their opponents. Two Baby Boomer celebrities have taken to Twitter to hope pro-life, pro-family individuals and U.S. Congressman Todd Akin suffer a drowning or a same-sex rape, respectively.

On Sunday, Ellen Barkin expressed her hope that Tropical Storm Isaac would smash up the Republican National Convention in Tampa and drown all its delegates.

She retweeted the message of one of her followers that read: “C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC ” Barkin did not express any disagreement in her retweet.

The storm is expected to grow into a Category 1 hurricane before slamming into the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/ellen-barkin/2012/08/28/ellen-barkin-hopes-hurricane-kills-every-pro-life-xenophobic-gay-bashing-sob-rnc#ixzz25ReQeM00

LET’S STUDY REVELATION # 27

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THE VISION IN HEAVEN – THE INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF GENTILES

 “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;  And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.”  (Revelation 7:9-12).

The scene shifts back to heaven and is still part of the parenthesis. It is assumed by most, that these are Gentiles who are saved during the Tribulation. The vision is in heaven and takes us forward to the return of Christ as King of kings and Lord of Lords. See verses 15-17. “Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.  For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”

The sealed Jews are protected, and go through the Tribulation. These Gentiles are saved during the same time period, but aren’t necessarily protected from torment and physical death. Obviously, these are righteous Gentiles who have received the Gospel of the Kingdom, or they were instrumental in the protection of Jews during the Tribulation. (See Matthew 25:31-46.) We are told in that text that Gentile nations will be saved because of their humane treatment of the Jews during those awful days.

If Gentile nations are to continue to procreate during the Millennium, then it stands to reason that not all Gentiles will be killed. The teaching that all who do not receive the mark of the Beast will be killed cannot be accurate, unless they are all resurrected in natural bodies as Lazarus was.

If the sealed Jews serve as evangelists and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to the entire world, many of these Gentiles will be the fruit of their labors. Their Gospel will be a Gospel of faith and works. One must overcome and endure to the end. Their gospel is not the Gospel of grace by which believers are saved today.

It has always been God’s plan to evangelize the earth with His Good News. This He will accomplish through a converted Israel. In the following Scriptures Israel is blessed first, then that blessing extends to the Gentiles!

“…I will bless thee…and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:2-3).

“He will be merciful unto his land, and to his people” “Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people:” (Deuteronomy 32:43).

“God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.

That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.” (Psalms 67:1-2).

“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious” (Isaiah 11:10).

The 144,000, no doubt, are the ones who will partially fulfill that plan.

The idea that the Bible contains more than one Gospel offends many of the brethren. We understand their concern. For many years we, too, held to the same belief. However, when challenged by others concerning this matter, it became clear that the Bible does have more than the Gospel of grace by which we are saved.

Luke 18:31-34 ought to help the reader understand that the twelve knew nothing of Christ’s upcoming death, burial, and resurrection. THEREFORE, none of them ever preached it as part of their gospel during His earthly ministry.  “Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.  For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:  And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.  And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.”

The reaction of the twelve, and of the women, after His death, ought to convince the greatest skeptic that the Gospel which we preach today was not the Gospel of the Kingdom, which was preached in the four Gospels and early Acts period. The Gospel preached in the Tribulation will be the Gospel of the Kingdom and will require both faith and works to enter the Kingdom. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).

Jesus, John, and the twelve, all preached the same Gospel; and it did not contain one word about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease” (Matthew 4:23). This is the same Gospel that will be preached during the Tribulation.

“And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”  (Revelation 7:13-17).

It is said of these that they “washed their robes…” (v. 14). This washing resulted from their overcoming-faith in the crucified, resurrected, and returning King of Israel; and their rejection of the mark of the Beast. This is what is meant by, “washed their robes …in the blood of the Lamb.” This washing was something they did by suffering unto death as Jesus did.

When the writer of the Book of Job said Job was a righteous, upright, and a perfect man, he was not speaking of Job’s position in Christ. Job did not have the imputed righteousness of Christ as believers do today. He was speaking of Job’s practical righteousness.

These also have that practical righteousness because they “washed their (own) robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” The washing white of their robes, “in the blood of the Lamb,” means they suffered unto death, as did the Lord Jesus Christ. This is how they washed their robes and made them white in His blood. These words are action verbs and are figures of speech depicting their suffering unto death.

These, in verses 13-17, may be in the New Jerusalem as described in Revelation 21 and 22. Obviously, Gentiles will not serve in Ezekiel’s millennial temple; therefore, the temple in which these Gentiles stand is the eternal temple, which appears after the thousand-year reign of Christ, and the earth is burned up…  “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21:3-4). “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Revelation 22:1). It is true that Gentiles will serve Christ in the Millennium, but it is inconceivable that they will be in the temple, since the Kingdom is given to Israel.

THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

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By Ken Blue

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, and peace;

With these we find that all our worries do cease.

 

Longsuffering, gentleness and goodness of heart,

Demonstrate the kindness that Jesus did impart.

 

Faith, and meekness, and temperance every day;

These are the fruit the Spirit seeks to display.

Galatians 5:22-23

 

STEPS TO DESTRUCTION

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By Ken Blue

 

Making friends with the ungodly. Friendliness and friendship are not the same. You become like those who are your friends.

 

 Having a goal to get rich. Those who have this as a goal have a distorted view of life, of values, and of people. They are users.

        

Dishonoring your parents. A lack of respect for parents reveals an ungrateful and selfish heart.

 

Feeding your mind on trash. You are “trashy” because you feed on trash.

 

Drinking alcohol and using drugs. These distort your judgment; making fools of men and women.

 

Having the “late” habit. Successful people value time. When you are late, you show you have little or no respect for others.

 

Having the “I don’t care” attitude. This is an attitude of indifference, and shows that you are lazy, selfish, and spoiled.

 

Having the “I quit” habit. Those who quit when the going gets rough, show they are wimps, and are totally lacking in character.

 

Giving your mind and body over to sex. Sex is intended for married couples. When you ignore this, you destroy your self-respect, your conscience, your reputation, and your health.

 

Rejecting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. By rejecting Jesus as Lord and Savior, you miss the purpose for this life, and eternal life at death.

 

HOW DID HARRY REID GET RICH?

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August 15, 2012 4:00 A.M.

 

 

 

 

 

His career in public service has ended up being remarkably lucrative.

By Betsy Woodruff

Try this thought experiment. Imagine that someone grows up in poverty, works his way through law school by holding the night shift as a Capitol Hill policeman, and spends all but two years of his career as a public servant. Now imagine that this person’s current salary — and he’s at the top of his game — is $193,400. You probably wouldn’t expect him to have millions in stocks, bonds, and real estate.

But, surprise, he does, if he’s our Senate majority leader, whose net worth is between 3 and 10 million dollars, according to OpenSecrets.org. When Harry Reid entered the Nevada legislature in 1982, his net worth was listed as between $1 million and $1.5 million “or more,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. So, since inquiring minds inquire, let’s try to figure out how Reid’s career in public service ended up being so lucrative. He hasn’t released his tax returns, which makes this an imperfect science, but looking at a few of his investments helps to show how he amassed his wealth.

In 2004, the senator made $700,000 off a land deal that was, to say the least, unorthodox. It started in 1998 when he bought a parcel of land with attorney Jay Brown, a close friend whose name has surfaced multiple times in organized-crime investigations and whom one retired FBI agent described as “always a person of interest.” Three years after the purchase, Reid transferred his portion of the property to Patrick Lane LLC, a holding company Brown controlled. But Reid kept putting the property on his financial disclosures, and when the company sold it in 2004, he profited from the deal — a deal on land that he didn’t technically own and that had nearly tripled in value in six years.

When his 2010 challenger Sharron Angle asked him in a debate how he had become so wealthy, he said, “I did a very good job investing.” Did he ever. On December 20, 2005, he invested $50,000 to $100,000 in the Dow Jones U.S. Energy Sector Fund (IYE), which closed that day at $29.15. The companies whose shares it held included ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and ConocoPhillips. When he made a partial sale of his shares on August 19, 2008, during congressional recess, IYE closed at $41.82. Just a month later, on September 17, Reid was working to bring to the floor a bill that the Joint Committee on Taxation said would cost oil companies — including those in the fund — billions of dollars in taxes and regulatory fees. The bill passed a few days later, and by October 10, IYE’s shares had fallen by 42 percent, to $24.41, for a host of reasons. Savvy investing indeed.

Here’s another example: The Los Angeles Times reported in November 2006 that when Reid became Senate majority leader he committed to making earmark reform a priority, saying he’d work to keep congressmen from using federal dollars for pet projects in their districts. It was a good idea but an odd one for the senator to espouse. He had managed to get $18 million set aside to build a bridge across the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz., a project that wasn’t a priority for either state’s transportation agency. His ownership of 160 acres of land nearby that stood to appreciate considerably from the project had nothing to do with the decision, according to one of his aides. The property’s value has varied since then. On his financial-disclosure forms from 2006, it was valued at $250,000 to $500,000. Open Secrets now lists it as his most valuable asset, worth $1 million to $5 million as of 2010.

How Reid acquired that land is interesting, too. He put $10,000 into a pension fund his friend Clair Haycock controlled, to take over the 160-acre parcel at a price far below its assessed value. Six months later, Reid introduced legislation that would help Haycock’s industry, a move many observers said appeared to be a quid pro quo, though Reid and Haycock denied that the legislation was the result of a property deal.

We don’t know how much more money Reid has or how he made all of it. For that, we’d have to see his tax returns.

— Betsy Woodruff is a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institut.  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314025/how-did-harry-reid-get-rich-betsy-woodruff