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Life After Death: Angels – God’s Messengers
Are angels alive today on planet Earth? Why can’t we see them if they are? What is a fallen angel? Do angels have wings? How will Christians relate with angels in Heaven? Can angels take on the appearance of a human today in order to deliver a message?
Life After Death: Angels – God’s Messengers
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Acts 28:11-31 You and I are meant to be Acts 29
The apostle Paul finally arrives in Rome as God had promised. He is a prisoner without charges against him. He isn’t put in prison, but is given a house to live in with a Roman guard where he can minister to those who come there. This is the final video from Ray on the book of Acts. His two-year project is complete with this teaching.
Acts 28:11-31 You and I are meant to be Acts 29
11 At the end of three months we set sail on an Alexandrian ship which had wintered at the island, and which had [a]the Twin Brothers for its figurehead.12 After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days. 13 From there we sailed around and arrived at Rhegium, and a day later a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli. 14 [b]There we found some brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days; and thus we came to Rome.15 And the brethren, when they heard about us, came from there as far as the[c]Market of Appius and [d]Three Inns to meet us; and when Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
16 When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.
17 After three days [e]Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren,though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our [f]fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.18 And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground [g]for putting me to death. 19 But when the Jews[h]objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I had any accusation against my nation. 20 For this reason, therefore, I [i]requested to see you and to speak with you, for I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel.”21 They said to him, “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren come here and reported or spoken anything bad about you. 22 But we desire to hear from you what [j]your views are; for concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.”
23 When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening. 24 Some were being persuaded by the things spoken, but others would not believe. 25 And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, 26 saying,
‘Go to this people and say,
“[k]You will keep on hearing, [l]but will not understand;
And [m]you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;
27 For the heart of this people has become dull,
And with their ears they scarcely hear,
And they have closed their eyes;
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart and return,
And I would heal them.”’
28 Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will also listen.” 29 [[n]When he had spoken these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.]
30 And he stayed two full years [o]in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him, 31 [p]preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all openness, unhindered.
Acts 28:11-31 You and I are meant to be Acts 29
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I have been searching for more than a week to find the perfect film to end the old year and begin the new. I finally found it on BillyGraham.org, a website I highly recommend to you. This beautifully filmed and absolutely true group of stories underlines the heartbeat of Billy Graham and me. Enjoy its impact as we enter 2015.
Defining Moments: Stories of Hope with Billy Graham
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“Unbroken” is a movie that is playing in theaters all over the United States and in many other countries this month. Directed by Angelina Jolie, it tells the amazing story of Olympic champion runner Louis Zaperini, who soon after the Olympics entered the military during World War II.
“Unbroken” reveals Zaperini’s champion spirit while under two and a half years of extreme torture in Japanese concentration camps. Liberated by Americans at the end of World War II, Zaperini was freed but not free from unending nightmares from the hell he had been through. Dr. Billy Graham with Jesus Christ changed all that for him. Here’s the gripping story… – Ray
The life story of “Unbroken” Louis Zaperini
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Monday November 24, 2014
The Bill Keith Report
News And Commentary
Greetings to our readers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 162 foreign countries.
Your comments are welcome!
If you believe the information in this edition of The Report is worthwhile, please tell your friends about it.
Please be sure to scroll down and see the pictures and Bill’s written report.
More Global Warming? Say What? Some Headlines:
Harsh Cold to Set Records in South
Fifty Percent of Lower 48 States Covered in Snow
Four Feet of Snow expected in Upstate New York
Idaho Breaks Cold Record from 1880!
NOAA: Winter 2013-14 Among Coldest on Record
Record-Breaking Arctic Cold
Errors in Medicare Payments Cost Taxpayers $4.5 Billion in 2013.
According to the office of the Inspector General, the United States Department of Agriculture issued over $2.4 billion in improper payments on Food Stamps during 2013.
The Obama administration has released five more prisoners from Guantanamo. Many of those released earlier have joined ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Glenn Beck’s Response to Obama’s Declaration of Amnesty: “We are now living in the shadow of a king…without the rule of law…There is no United States…I don’t know if it will ever come back.”
Obama Denies Gruber, but Facts Deny Obama
Last week, most Americans were shocked when MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber — well known as the chief architect of Obamacare — said he and others purposely lied to the American people about the coming effects of the healthcare law.
Gruber also said that the American people were too “stupid” to understand the new law so it was necessary to lie to them. Ho hum!
Now enter President Obama. He said Gruber really didn’t have much to do with the Affordable Care Act. That he was a minor player. But records reveal Gruber visited the White House 19 time and, others report, on one occasion he met with the President in the Oval Office for several hours.
Financial records also reveal that the Obama Administration and several states paid him a total of almost $6 million dollars for his work on Obamacare.
That’s a pretty good salary for a minor player.
“America’s Preacher” — A Word for the American People
CNS News quoted America’s beloved evangelist, the Reverend Billy Graham, saying our children in this land are growing up in a “lawless and wicked age” that is filled with the “philosophy of the devil, who says, ‘Do as you please."”
According to Reverend Graham, rearing children in today’s culture is difficult because “we have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it. We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible.”
“Many Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age…” he said. “We are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation.”
Reverend Graham also pointed out that, “Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol…Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to young people.”
Reverend Graham said one of the fundamental problems is the failure of parents to fight “the devil in the home” through discipline and, as a result, “children are allowed to go wild.”
Big Mess in Social Security Disability Payments
There were $2 billion in Social Security disability claims approved by mistake in 2013, according to the U. S. Inspector General.
Newsmax reported “A small group of Social Security judges have improperly approved disability claims for nearly 25,000 people who didn’t qualify, costing taxpayers $2 billion over the past seven years…”. The price tag will grow by nearly $300 million next year because many of these people are still getting benefits…”
Investigators began their probe when they noticed that some judges were approving 85 percent of the claims.
Republican Representative Darrell Issa of California said “The Social Security Administration’s failure to conduct timely medical eligibility reviews has resulted in rubber-stamped decisions that have and will continue to cost taxpayers billions in improper rewards. In failing to take meaningful disciplinary action at the Social Security Administration on even the most egregious cases of mismanagement, taxpayers are left to wonder who is looking after their tax dollars.”
Al Sharpton! Is There No Shame?
Reverend Al Sharpton, this country’s best-known race hustler who has preached racism and violence over the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, is also a friend and confidant of President Obama. Some insiders say Sharpton hand-picked Loretta Lynch to succeed retiring Eric Holder as U. S. Attorney General.
Now it comes to light that Sharpton has a lot of shady dealings for which he has not been held accountable.
The New York Times reported “Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records…show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him…”
According to the Times, Sharpton’s National Action Network appears to have been financed by not paying federal payroll taxes to its employees.
The Times said “Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network have repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords.”
But Sharpton recently held a press conference where he denied that he owed the money.
Comment: Mr. Sharpton criticizes others for various reasons. Yet he has a lot of skeletons in his own closet. The Bible has a word for that.
President Obama’s Amnesty: Formula for Chaos
President Obama granted amnesty to some five million illegal aliens Thursday night.
In so doing, he became the Lone Ranger, violated the Constitution, and went against the will of the majority of the American people. The Constitution grants all matters concerning immigration to the Congress.
Erudite Washington Times columnist Wesley Pruden said this may be good news for the illegals in this land but “it’s not good news for anyone who appreciates law and order on the border.”
Pruden said the President’s action is like a golden ticket to millions of others in Mexico, and in Central and South America. “Come on in, I’ll find a way to make you legal later,” is the message the President sent to millions of others who want to come to the United States.
Pruden said “But all his declaration of amnesty will do is guarantee that “hell on the border will continue, probably get worse.”
Comment: As I watched the President’s amnesty declaration Thursday evening, as always, he was smooth as silk as he tried to build his case for the action he was taking.
But what he didn’t say was more important than what he said. And, a couple of times, he really stretched the truth as he often does.
For instance, he said deportations of illegals are down lower than they have been in years.
Of course they are! He ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop most deportations.
Also, he said that there are not as many aliens crossing into this land as in earlier years.
But Mr. President, what about the 68 million children? And what about reports from the Border Patrol agents that the influx of aliens is increasing so fast they can hardly control the border any longer?
Commentary
Why Did He Do It?
Recently Peggy Noonan, veteran columnist for the Wall Street Journal, noted that President Obama is the loneliest president since Richard Nixon.
Noonan wrote in her column “The Republicans don’t like him…The Democrats don’t like him, for their own reasons plus the election loss…Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …clearly doesn’t like him at all.”
Noonan is certainly correct since President Obama has made more enemies — and fewer friends — than any President in recent history.
He betrayed the Eastern Europeans when he removed the missile shield that protected them from Russia’s missiles. He infuriated the Israelis by siding with the Palestinians. Some in his administration compared Israel to an apartheid nation like the former South Africa.
China pulled the wool over his eyes in a climate change agreement whereby the American people are expected to do everything. But the Chinese do nothing until 2030.
He abandoned this country’s hard-won victory in Iraq by going against all of his military advisors as he removed all troops from that land.
He promised to intervene in the mass killing Syrians by Syrian President Assad, then backed out.
Interestingly, from the beginning of his presidency, he reached out to the Muslim nations and now they make fun of him.
Noonan pointed out that in the Beijing summit last week “there was no sign the leaders of the world had any particular regard for him.”
Then, the November 4 election. All of his policies were firmly rejected by the voters as they handed both houses of Congress over to the Republicans. His supporters basically didn’t even have enough confidence in him to turn out to vote.
Not one single democrat running for the U.S. Senate campaigned on Obama’s record, Obamacare or amnesty for millions of aliens in this land.
Also, Obamacare is becoming more and more unpopular each day with the American people. The final nail in the Obamacare coffin was when Jonathan Gruber, chief architect of the law, said it was necessary to lie to the American people to get the law passed because the voters are too “stupid” to understand it.
When he was running for President, Obama told the American people he planned to do three things: redistribute the wealth, pass nationalized healthcare and completely transform America.
What he didn’t understand was that the American people didn’t want the nation transformed at least not into his image of what America should be. Neither did they want him to destroy the best health care system in the world.
It took the people six years to grasp the immensity of what he was trying to do. But they finally understood on November 4.
Hence, the President realizes that, to some degree, he is no longer relevant. And, with his larger-than-life self image, he had to get back in the news. Amnesty seemed to be a partial answer for him. But what will he do next?
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Monday November 24, 2014
The Bill Keith Report
News And Commentary
Greetings to our readers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 162 foreign countries.
Your comments are welcome!
If you believe the information in this edition of The Report is worthwhile, please tell your friends about it.
Please be sure to scroll down and see the pictures and Bill’s written report.
More Global Warming? Say What? Some Headlines:
Harsh Cold to Set Records in South
Fifty Percent of Lower 48 States Covered in Snow
Four Feet of Snow expected in Upstate New York
Idaho Breaks Cold Record from 1880!
NOAA: Winter 2013-14 Among Coldest on Record
Record-Breaking Arctic Cold
Errors in Medicare Payments Cost Taxpayers $4.5 Billion in 2013.
According to the office of the Inspector General, the United States Department of Agriculture issued over $2.4 billion in improper payments on Food Stamps during 2013.
The Obama administration has released five more prisoners from Guantanamo. Many of those released earlier have joined ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Glenn Beck’s Response to Obama’s Declaration of Amnesty: “We are now living in the shadow of a king…without the rule of law…There is no United States…I don’t know if it will ever come back.”
Obama Denies Gruber, but Facts Deny Obama
Last week, most Americans were shocked when MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber — well known as the chief architect of Obamacare — said he and others purposely lied to the American people about the coming effects of the healthcare law.
Gruber also said that the American people were too “stupid” to understand the new law so it was necessary to lie to them. Ho hum!
Now enter President Obama. He said Gruber really didn’t have much to do with the Affordable Care Act. That he was a minor player. But records reveal Gruber visited the White House 19 time and, others report, on one occasion he met with the President in the Oval Office for several hours.
Financial records also reveal that the Obama Administration and several states paid him a total of almost $6 million dollars for his work on Obamacare.
That’s a pretty good salary for a minor player.
“America’s Preacher” — A Word for the American People
CNS News quoted America’s beloved evangelist, the Reverend Billy Graham, saying our children in this land are growing up in a “lawless and wicked age” that is filled with the “philosophy of the devil, who says, ‘Do as you please."”
According to Reverend Graham, rearing children in today’s culture is difficult because “we have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it. We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible.”
“Many Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age…” he said. “We are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation.”
Reverend Graham also pointed out that, “Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol…Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to young people.”
Reverend Graham said one of the fundamental problems is the failure of parents to fight “the devil in the home” through discipline and, as a result, “children are allowed to go wild.”
Big Mess in Social Security Disability Payments
There were $2 billion in Social Security disability claims approved by mistake in 2013, according to the U. S. Inspector General.
Newsmax reported “A small group of Social Security judges have improperly approved disability claims for nearly 25,000 people who didn’t qualify, costing taxpayers $2 billion over the past seven years…”. The price tag will grow by nearly $300 million next year because many of these people are still getting benefits…”
Investigators began their probe when they noticed that some judges were approving 85 percent of the claims.
Republican Representative Darrell Issa of California said “The Social Security Administration’s failure to conduct timely medical eligibility reviews has resulted in rubber-stamped decisions that have and will continue to cost taxpayers billions in improper rewards. In failing to take meaningful disciplinary action at the Social Security Administration on even the most egregious cases of mismanagement, taxpayers are left to wonder who is looking after their tax dollars.”
Al Sharpton! Is There No Shame?
Reverend Al Sharpton, this country’s best-known race hustler who has preached racism and violence over the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, is also a friend and confidant of President Obama. Some insiders say Sharpton hand-picked Loretta Lynch to succeed retiring Eric Holder as U. S. Attorney General.
Now it comes to light that Sharpton has a lot of shady dealings for which he has not been held accountable.
The New York Times reported “Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records…show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him…”
According to the Times, Sharpton’s National Action Network appears to have been financed by not paying federal payroll taxes to its employees.
The Times said “Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network have repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords.”
But Sharpton recently held a press conference where he denied that he owed the money.
Comment: Mr. Sharpton criticizes others for various reasons. Yet he has a lot of skeletons in his own closet. The Bible has a word for that.
President Obama’s Amnesty: Formula for Chaos
President Obama granted amnesty to some five million illegal aliens Thursday night.
In so doing, he became the Lone Ranger, violated the Constitution, and went against the will of the majority of the American people. The Constitution grants all matters concerning immigration to the Congress.
Erudite Washington Times columnist Wesley Pruden said this may be good news for the illegals in this land but “it’s not good news for anyone who appreciates law and order on the border.”
Pruden said the President’s action is like a golden ticket to millions of others in Mexico, and in Central and South America. “Come on in, I’ll find a way to make you legal later,” is the message the President sent to millions of others who want to come to the United States.
Pruden said “But all his declaration of amnesty will do is guarantee that “hell on the border will continue, probably get worse.”
Comment: As I watched the President’s amnesty declaration Thursday evening, as always, he was smooth as silk as he tried to build his case for the action he was taking.
But what he didn’t say was more important than what he said. And, a couple of times, he really stretched the truth as he often does.
For instance, he said deportations of illegals are down lower than they have been in years.
Of course they are! He ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop most deportations.
Also, he said that there are not as many aliens crossing into this land as in earlier years.
But Mr. President, what about the 68 million children? And what about reports from the Border Patrol agents that the influx of aliens is increasing so fast they can hardly control the border any longer?
Commentary
Why Did He Do It?
Recently Peggy Noonan, veteran columnist for the Wall Street Journal, noted that President Obama is the loneliest president since Richard Nixon.
Noonan wrote in her column “The Republicans don’t like him…The Democrats don’t like him, for their own reasons plus the election loss…Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …clearly doesn’t like him at all.”
Noonan is certainly correct since President Obama has made more enemies — and fewer friends — than any President in recent history.
He betrayed the Eastern Europeans when he removed the missile shield that protected them from Russia’s missiles. He infuriated the Israelis by siding with the Palestinians. Some in his administration compared Israel to an apartheid nation like the former South Africa.
China pulled the wool over his eyes in a climate change agreement whereby the American people are expected to do everything. But the Chinese do nothing until 2030.
He abandoned this country’s hard-won victory in Iraq by going against all of his military advisors as he removed all troops from that land.
He promised to intervene in the mass killing Syrians by Syrian President Assad, then backed out.
Interestingly, from the beginning of his presidency, he reached out to the Muslim nations and now they make fun of him.
Noonan pointed out that in the Beijing summit last week “there was no sign the leaders of the world had any particular regard for him.”
Then, the November 4 election. All of his policies were firmly rejected by the voters as they handed both houses of Congress over to the Republicans. His supporters basically didn’t even have enough confidence in him to turn out to vote.
Not one single democrat running for the U.S. Senate campaigned on Obama’s record, Obamacare or amnesty for millions of aliens in this land.
Also, Obamacare is becoming more and more unpopular each day with the American people. The final nail in the Obamacare coffin was when Jonathan Gruber, chief architect of the law, said it was necessary to lie to the American people to get the law passed because the voters are too “stupid” to understand it.
When he was running for President, Obama told the American people he planned to do three things: redistribute the wealth, pass nationalized healthcare and completely transform America.
What he didn’t understand was that the American people didn’t want the nation transformed at least not into his image of what America should be. Neither did they want him to destroy the best health care system in the world.
It took the people six years to grasp the immensity of what he was trying to do. But they finally understood on November 4.
Hence, the President realizes that, to some degree, he is no longer relevant. And, with his larger-than-life self image, he had to get back in the news. Amnesty seemed to be a partial answer for him. But what will he do next?
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Billy Graham was the greatest evangelist of the twentieth century. He knows at 96 that he has very few days left on this Earth and then his spirit and soul will step out of his body and he will be with Jesus Christ and with his beloved wife Ruth who is in Heaven already (2 Corinthians 5:8). It’s easy to know that you’re close to your deathday at 96. But not everyone lives 96 years. Most of us don’t. You may be a very young person, but there are no guarantees on how long you will live. So Billy shares his final message with us after all the years of introducing people to Jesus Christ. He’s asked himself the question that he now asks you. Are you ready to die?
I thought I would go to Heaven if I died from the time that I was 16 and went forward at the First Baptist Church of San Jose, California, to go through the formalities of asking Jesus Christ to be my Savior. It was a one-time asking and then I lived without a real relationship with Him until I was 30. Once every so often I would recognize His reality, but it was as if He lived on some far distant planet and though I called myself a Christian, in honest moments I knew there was a great gulf between us that I created by not giving any further thought to Him. My lifestyle would have convinced others that I was no Christian at all. At best, I was religious, which means acting what I perceived as the role of the Christian in times when I wanted to impress others.
I think Christ honored my asking Him to save me when I was 16. But it was when I was 30 that I fully realized Christ is alive (Hebrews 13:8) and wants to do so much more than simply hand people “Get Out of Hell Free” cards. You can see the difference in the life of Billy Graham and his “abundant life” (John 10:10). But it doesn’t take becoming an evangelist, pastor or missionary to have an abundant life. All it takes is asking Jesus Christ to come into you and to forgive you for all your sins. That’s been Billy’s message throughout his lifetime. And the tragedy is, so many many people think that message is just too simple. It isn’t. Christ was brutally tortured and was nailed to a cross ON PURPOSE so that you could be saved (Romans 10:8–11). He doesn’t tell you to clean up your life before He will save you. Salvation is a come as you are party!
Salvation is just the beginning of eternal life (John 3:16.) If you’ve been self-centered rather than Christ-centered until this moment, invite Him to join you in whatever you’re doing for the rest of your life. Prayer is simply talking with God and it’s meant to be a two-way street. He wants to talk with you too. In fact, He wants to be your closest friend. He won’t smother you with dead religion, but He is the real reason for living. He’s where excitement really is. There is no life without him. Like the little boy in “Sixth Sense”, I see dead people all the time. They even think they are alive and so do the people around them. But without knowing Christ or knowing Him casually, there is no abundant life.
Franklin Graham says this is undoubtedly Billy’s last message to the world. Don’t miss a minute of it. Follow Dr. Graham’s directions and believe him. People from almost every country have done that and found the abundant life I’ve been talking and writing about. If you haven’t already, this is your hour of salvation. Take full advantage of it.
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