THE UNTHINKABLE IS THINKABLE!
THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBURG
THAT WILL SLOWLY EXPOSE A BOTTOM
OF WHICH MANKIND IS SURELY UNAWARE
THAT WILL BRING SORROW IT CAN’T BEAR!
SUN EXCERPT INCLUDED CAN MAKE AWARE!
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April 22, 2008
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Unbeliever, if you ever needed to turn to Christ to save you from the wrath that will follow a pattern of famine that is now slowly developing across this planet – IT IS NOW!
Believer, if you ever needed to draw close to the Christ who saved you – IT IS NOW!
It is time for believers to seek a house of God that teaches the truth about baptism and the church, become a part of it by baptism, and serve God in it. – THE TIME IS NOW BECAUSE THE DAY IS APPROACHING, AND I AM EXHORTING YOU TO DO IT NOW! I URGE YOU TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURES AS THEY TESTIFY TO HOW IMPORTANT THE LOCAL CHURCH, THE HOUSE OF GOD, IS TO THE GOD WE ARE SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP.
HOW CAN YOU KNOW THE TRUTH OR HOW TO BEHAVE IN IT IF YOU DON’T ASSEMBLE WITH IT?
I Timothy 3:14,15 – These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: [15] But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH IS THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, the pillar and ground of the truth.
AND HOW CAN YOU GET ANY CLOSER TO GOD THAN BEING A PART OF THE ASSEMBLY WHERE HE DWELLS. I HAVE HAD THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST LIVING IN ME SINCE I WAS 12 YEARS OLD, AND HE WILL NEVER LEAVE ME NOR FORSAKE ME, BUT I NEVER DID NOT GET REALLY CLOSE TO HIM UNTIL I SUBMITTED TO A SCRIPTURAL BAPTISM TO BECOME PART OF A LOCAL, VISIBLE ASSSEMBLY WHERE HIS SPIRIT DWELLED.
“Ye” in Ephesians 2:22 and I Peter 2:5 is plural.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
1 Peter 2:5 – Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
I EXHORT YOU, BY THE WORD OF THE LIVING GOD, TO TAKE THE TIME TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING VERSES. A WAR IS LIKELY TO BREAK OUT AT SOME POINT IN TIME BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015, AND WHEN IT BEGINS IT WILL EVENTUALLY END WITH FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON WHICH ENDS AT THE SECOND ADVENT OF JESUS CHRIST. A LOCAL CHURCH THAT TEACHES THE TRUTH IS
THE HOUSE OF THE LIVING GOD. BELIEVER, IF THERE EVER WAS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE YOU NEEDED TO BE IN SUCH A CHURCH – IT IS NOW!
Hebrews 10:21-25 – AND HAVING A HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD; [22] Let us DRAW NEAR with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. [23] Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) [24] And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: [25] NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES TOGETHER, AS THE MANNER OF SOME IS; BUT EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER: AND SO MUCH THE MORE AS YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.
A BEGINNING OF FAMINE THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BRING HUNGER ON A WORLDWIDE BASIS IS ONE OF THE SIGNS THE DAY IS APPROACHING.
Revelation 6:8 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The red horse rider has a sword that sheds red, the color of blood shed in war. The black horse rider causes the black circles around the eyes associated with the hunger of famine. The pale horse writer is death, producing the pale color of a body that died of plague.
Begin Article from New York Sun
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 21, 2008
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occ asionally uttered expletives
as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy.
“Where’s the rice?” an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said.
“You should be able to buy something like rice.
This is ridiculous.”
The bustling store in the heart of Silicon Valley usually sells four or five varieties of rice to a clientele largely of Asian immigrants, but only about half a pallet of Indian-grown Basmati rice was left in stock. A 20-pound bag was selling for $15.99.
“You can’t eat this every day. It’s too heavy,” a health care executive from Palo Alto, Sharad Patel, grumbled as his son loaded two sacks of the Basmati into a shopping cart. “We only need one bag but I’m getting two in case a neighbor or a friend.
The Patels seemed headed for disappointment, as most Costco members were being allowed to buy only one bag. Moments earlier, a clerk dropped two sacks back on the stack after taking them from another cus tomer who tried
to exceed the one-bag cap.
“Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting rice purchases based on your prior purchasing history,” a sign above the dwindling supply said.
Shoppers said the limits had been in place for a few days, and that rice supplies had been spotty for a few weeks.
A store manager referred questions to officials at Costco headquarters near Seattle, who did not return calls or e-mail messages yesterday.
An employee at the Costco store in Queens said there were no restrictions on rice buying, but limits
were being imposed on purchases of oil and flour.
Internet postings attributed some of the shortage at the retail level to bakery owners who flocked to warehouse stores when the price of flour from commercial suppliers doubled.
The curbs and shortages are being tracked with concern by survivalists who view the phenomenon as a harbinger of more serious trouble to come.
“It’s sporadic. It’s not every store, but it’s becoming more commonplace,” the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, James Rawles, said. “The number of reports I’ve been getting from readers who have seen signs posted with limits has increased almost exponentially, I’d say in the last three to five weeks.”
Spiking food prices have led to riots in recent weeks in Haiti, Indonesia, and several African nations. India recently banned export of all but the highest quality rice, and Vietnam blocked the signing of a new contract for foreign rice sales.
“I’m surprised the Bush administration hasn’t slapped export controls on wheat,” Mr. Rawles said. “The Asian countries are here buying every kind of wheat.” Mr. Rawles said it is hard to know how much of the shortages are due to lagging supply and how much is caused by consumers hedging against future price hikes or a total lack of product.
“There have been so many stories about worldwide shortages that it encourages people to stock up. What most people don’t realize is that supply chains have changed, so inventories are very short,” Mr. Rawles, a former Army intelligence officer, said. “Even if people increased their purchasing by 20%, all the store shelves would be wiped out.”
At the moment, large chain retailers seem more prone to shortages and limits than do smaller chains and mom-and-pop stores, perhaps because store managers at the larger companies have less discretion to increase prices locally. Mr. Rawles said the spot shortages seemed to be most frequent in the Northeast and all the way along the West Coast. He said he had heard reports of buying limits at Sam’s Club warehouses, which are owned by Wal-Mart Stores, but a spokesman for the company, Kory Lundberg, said he was not aware of any shortages or limits.
An anonymous high-tech professional writing on an investment Web site, Seeking Alpha, said he recently bought 10 50-pound bags of rice at Costco. “I am concerned that when the news of rice shortage spreads, there will be panic buying and the shelves will be empty in no time. I do not intend to cause a panic, and I am
not speculating on rice to make profit. I am just hoarding some for my own consumption,” he wrote.
For now, rice is available at Asian markets in California, though consumers have fewer choices when buying the largest bags. “At our neighborhood store, it’s very expensive, more than $30” for a 25-pound bag, a housewife from Mountain View, Theresa Esquerra, said. “I’m not going to pay $30. Maybe we’ll just eat bread.”
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