Wow, you have been totally blinded.

Jesus was describing the events that would be occurring just before His second advent. He gave the riddle as a sign for when to look for the second coming.

God has given signs when to leave the cities.

The reason Jesus says remember lots wife, is so those who see the fulfillment of the signs of the times will remember what will happen to those who delay their exit from the cities.

Moses was the first to put the word of God to paper.

In the visions and dreams that God gave Moses are the fundamental prophetic keys which unlock prophecies throughout the Bible.

When Moses had a vision by God about ROME destroying Jerusalem thousands of years later and God used the word EAGLE to do so, this sets bible precident for use of the word to be about the armies of Rome.

Jesus said the destruction of Jerusalem is parallel to the second coming. He said where the corpse is the eagles will gather.

This is to say that when the corpse is in power the armies of Rome shall gather again. Soon will be the sign to leave the cities (Sunday Law) and if we delay we would be destroyed like Lot's wife. How easy, yet you make it so difficult.

"By the Spirit of Inspiration, looking far down the ages, Moses pictured the terrible scenes of Israel’s final overthrow as a nation, and the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Rome: “The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.” {PP 467.1}
The utter wasting of the land and the horrible suffering of the people during the siege of Jerusalem under Titus (Rome) centuries later, were vividly portrayed: “He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed.... And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land.... Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee.” “The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, ... and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.” {PP 467.2}

This is a prophecy that was fulfilled in history verifyably, prophesied by Moses over 1,400 years earlier.

The repeat of history will fulfill the second seige of Israel with the Roman armies against the true people of God. The SDA church is the only church which fulfills the marks of the end time church, which keep the commandments of God and have the Spirit of Prophecy, and from our congregations is the true testimony of Jesus Christ. The remnant come from the SDA church, prepared by the message and complete in the image of the glory of God.

I'm afraid it is the truth. I'm not blind. I wish it was otherwise.

Pope Francis Has a Few Words in Support of Leisure
By MARK OPPENHEIMER
Published: April 26, 2013

On Tuesday, “Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words,” a book of conversations with the man who was then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, will be published in English (Putnam; $24.95). These interviews from 2010 with two journalists in Argentina yield cute facts about the new boss of the church — a favorite movie? “Babette’s Feast” — but not much interesting theology.
But one passage in the book, at first glance rather slight, ends up insinuating a radical note into the proceedings. On a close read, it seems that Pope Francis believes that we must — indeed, that God is calling us to — relax. Responding to the question, “Do we need to rediscover the meaning of leisure?” Pope Francis replies: “Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. But this is being destroyed, in large part, by the elimination of the Sabbath rest day. More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.” In such cases, he concludes, “work ends up dehumanizing people.” New York Times reporting.


-Read whole article here-

You don't see how far this has gone Mountain Man?

Read that article, the New York Times are allowing an editorial that sounds like prostelitizing for Catholic appologetics,

"The idea of a Catholic exalting the Sabbath sounds particularly peculiar in the American context. In the United States, Catholics were never the great proponents of Sabbatarianism, observing Sunday as a special day, for worship or rest. That was a Protestant thing. (What? J.T.)

"From the moment the Puritans arrived, they began enforcing laws to reserve Sunday for churchgoing. Over time, what came to be called “blue laws” covered different activities, and varied by state. Some laws forbade hunting on Sunday, others the sale of liquor, others any commercial activity. In religious towns, cultural norms made some recreation, like sports, taboo as well. As a child being raised in a Pentecostal family, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, wasn’t allowed to ride a bicycle on Sundays."

(There is so much information to glean from these words it makes my head swim. This is the mind of the masses.They are so convinced that Sunday is the Sabbath that they call it that publically and most still do not know it was changed. Look at how the lines get blurred in that article like it doesn't matter what day it is...)

"Today, the laws are disappearing, relics of a time when Protestant culture was more dominant. Connecticut, for example, finally decided to permit Sunday liquor sales last year. And in the United States, Sunday has lost its sacred character. Most Christians see little conflict in going to church in the morning, then watching a football game — maybe with the family, or maybe at a sports bar — in the afternoon.
The Sabbatarian tradition is upheld, in a serious way, by some small groups of religious Protestants and, of course, by observant Jews. And, it so happens, by those who think of themselves as both Christian and Jewish. “Messianic Jews,” who believe in the divinity of Jesus but pay special attention to the Jewish roots of Christianity, are often very attached to Sabbath observance."

Where is the distinction that Jews observe the Sabbath on SATURDAY the seventh day of the week?

This blatant disrespect seems orchestrated, don't you think? The New York Times reporting like this?

But no such article would be complete without bashing on Sabbath keepers...

"Sarah Posner, a staff writer for the ReligionDispatches.org Web site, recalled a conference of messianic Jews she attended last year in Ellicott City, Md. “They weren’t selling their books, CDs and DVDs on Saturday, because they didn’t want to exchange money,” Ms. Posner said. “But they were using electricity” — which traditionally observant Jews would not."

The whole article makes God weep. We are much further advanced into the breach than most people in our church will admit.

Continuing...

"But in Catholicism, as Pope Francis suggests, the Sabbath actually is supposed to matter — the whole day, not just Mass. For as the catechism teaches, in Paragraph 2185, “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord’s Day, the performance of the works of mercy, and the appropriate relaxation of mind and body.”

The Catholic Church has been recovering this teaching at least since 1998, when Pope John Paul II published his apostolic letter “Dies Domini.” There, he writes that “even in those countries which give legal sanction to the festive character of Sunday, changes in socioeconomic conditions have often led to profound modifications of social behavior and hence of the character of Sunday.”

Last October, about 250 bishops met in Rome for a conference on the movement called the New Evangelization, which focuses on reawakening faith in those already baptized. One of their conclusions was, “Even though there is a tension between the Christian Sunday and the secular Sunday, Sunday needs to be recovered” — in keeping, they wrote, with John Paul’s “Dies Domini.”

Of course, those who preach a relaxing Sabbath, with friends and family, are often working hardest on the day they exalt. For clergy members, the Sabbath is the busiest workday of the week. One charm of the book “Pope Francis” is how much we learn about the new pope’s pastimes, like reading the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin and listening to Verdi’s operas. One imagines that now, more than ever, Sunday is not his day for leisure reading, nor a good time to catch a showing of “Babette’s Feast.”


Mark.e.oppenheimer@gmail

I guess we know where the New York Times stands in this matter.

Actually with hurricane Katrina, there were some saying that. And look at the world trade towers. Think congress was able to pass all those laws in just a few days? Think again. It was pre-planned, just waiting for the right conditions. Whether the towers were planned or not, I do not know, but congress took advantage of the circumstances. Think there aren't yet more restrictive laws already planned and just waiting to be put in place when the next disaster happens? Think again!