WHAT IS THE SUREST SIGN OF THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN THE NEAR FUTURE?
April 25, 2007
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Are earthquakes, famines, and pestilences, the surest sign that the coming of Messiah is very near? NO – WHAT FOLLOWS IS!
“A group of Israeli and US Conservative Rabbis will try to pass a resolution next week at the Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts that would force Israel’s rabbinic seminary to adm it
homosexuals.” (Quote from Jerusalem Post Article which follows our Article)
When mankind begins to believe what they did just before the flood, and at Sodom and Gomorrah, is acceptable as a human practice – THAT IS THE SUREST SIGN!
Luke 17:26-30 – And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. [28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. [30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Mankind was going on with the everyday practices of life, but they had perverted the morality God created in them to reproduce as he directed. What they did is clearly described in graphic terms in Romans 1:24-32, and what God did to them when they reached the pits of immorality, is laid out in Luke 17:26-30. God is about to do the same thing
to this generation.
BEFORE THE FLOOD AND SODOM & GOMORRAH
Romans 1:24-32 – Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: [25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. [26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: [27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; [29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, [30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, [31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: [32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Do you think this generation has reached the immorality pit level of verses 29 to 32 in Romans 1:29-32? I am certain of it. And it lets me know that war is on the immediate horizon in the Middle East, and that we are going to see more and more earthquakes, famines, and pestilence. Why am I so certain it is supposed to be like that, just before the coming of Messiah? Because Paul describes the l ast day generation
as having the same characteristics as the pre-flood and pre-Sodom generations, and indicates their folly will be manifested to all men, as was the case in the flood and Sodom episodes.
PRE-ARMAGEDDON GENERATION!
IS IT THE SAME
?
II Timothy 3:1-9 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [8] Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. [9] But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
I Timothy 4:1-3 – Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Rabbis try to pass pro-gay resolution
Matthew Wagner, THE JERUSALEM POST
April 25, 2007
A group of Israeli and US Conservative Rabbis will try to pass a resolution next week at the Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts that would force Israel’s rabbinic seminary to admit homosexuals.
“Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly has called for full civil rights for Gays and Lesbians,” write the proponents of the resolution, “therefore be it resolved that the RA calls for all of the rabbinical schools the world over that ordain Conservative/Masorti rabbis to admit applicants without regard to sexual orientation.”
Rabbi David Lazar, who has been conducting same-sex commitment ceremonies for over a decade in open disregard for Conservative Judaism’ s official
stance, is one of the rabbis behind the initiative.
“We have the prerequisite 25 signatures we need from RA members,” said Lazar, spiritual leader of the Tiferet Shalom Congregation in Ramat Aviv and founding director of RIKMA, a social activism movement.
“We cannot go on denying peoples’ rights. Most Israelis can’ t afford
to study in America for five years.
Besides, they wouldn’t be getting the training they need to serve Israeli congregations.”
Rabbi Andy Sacks, Director of the Israeli Rabbinical Assembly, who is also a supporter of the resolution, said that the Israeli seminary’s admission policy did not reflect the majority opinion in the movement. But he doubted that the RA’s Resolution Committee would support the initiative.
“The committee agenda is already full.
Besides, I doubt the committee will go out of its way to reopen the homosexual issue.”
Rabbi Einat Ramon, dean of the Masorti/Conservative movement’s Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem, who decided last month against admitting openly homosexual seminary students,
attacked the resolution.
“It challenges the very concept of pluralism,” said Ramon. “There are three legitimate rulings on the issue [of admission policy for homosexuals]. We chose one opinion while other seminaries chose another. We expect our decision to be respected just as we respect the decisions of other seminaries.”
Ramon’s admission policy decision came just days after the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York – the main seminary and flagship institution of Conservative Judaism – said it would start accepting openly gay and lesbian students, after scholars who interpret Jewish law for the movement voted to allow it.
The more liberal University of Judaism in Los Angeles, California had already decided to accept homosexuals to its seminary.
In December 2006 the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly ratified three conflicting halachic opinions. One written by Rabbi Joel Roth upheld the prohibition on gay rabbis that the committee passed overwhelmingly in 1992. Another rebutted the idea that homosexuality was biologically ingrained in every case, and suggested that some gay people could undergo “reparative therapy” to change their sexuality.
The third opinion, authored by Rabbis Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins and Avram Reisner, accepted gay rabbis and blessed same-sex unions, as long as the men did not practice sodomy. Israel is not alone in its refusal to accept homosexual rabbinic students.
Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of Latin America’s Conservative seminary, the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina has publicly announced that his institution would not admit homosexuals, claiming that Latin America’s strong Catholic influence makes the move unrealistic.
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