SINNERS CANNOT RECOGNIZE THE TIMES OR EPOCH'S OF ALMIGHTY GOD. TRUE BELIEVERS CAN AND DO! One example of why some Christians can't see clearly is because of the deception of Satan, concerning the churches. Matthew 24: 4-5 There are so many denominations claiming to be of CHRIST, but they are merely social clubs under the banner of being a church! Denominations were inspired by Satan to divide THE REAL CHURCH AND ITS PEOPLE from true worship. THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, AND ONE church. JESUS said:

Matthew 16:18 (King James Version) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Ephesians 4 (American Standard Version) 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

If he [Satan] could get you to believe that your church is better than the one over there, then false doctrines, traditions, and church laws can and have been created by man. These laws or rules have absolutely nothing to do with the BIBLE and its teachings. Many churches today are preaching doctrines of demons, and not the HOLY SCRIPTURES. They are not warning their congregations about the sin in their lives, or hell itself, and the punishment to come. Some churches have even put laws in place where communion is concerned. Many require that you be a member of that particular denomination in order to take communion. THE ARROGANCE! But they are right about one thing, it is their faith and not the faith in the one and only GOD! Laws and Doctrines made by man (Legalism)and not of GOD!  JESUS never put any conditions on taking communion, and believers had better reject anything that is not in the BIBLE, or of God.

Matthew 26 (Young's Literal Translation) 26: 26-29  26And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, `Take, eat, this is my body;' 27and having taken the cup, and having given thanks, he gave to them, saying, `Drink ye of it -- all; 28for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out -- to remission of sins; 29and I say to you, that I may not drink henceforth on this produce of the vine, till that day when I may drink it with you new in the reign of my Father.'

In Matthew the 16 Chapter verse 4, we see that JESUS is scolding the Pharisee's and Sadducee's by saying:, " 4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. What is this sign that our LORD is talking about in this declaration? The name Jonas or Jonah we all remember from the BIBLICAL account of his encounter with the WILL OF GOD!   GOD sent the prophet Jonah to preach to the people who lived in Nineveh in Assyria. They were enemies of the Israelites. Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared that if the Assyrians were converted, they might harm his people. He tried to get out of it, by running away in the opposite direction. God caused a great storm on the sea, and Jonah was thrown overboard by the crew and swallowed by a great fish. After three days in the belly of this great fish, Jonah repented to the lord. The fish coughed him up on the beaches of Nineveh, where Jonah, immediately did what GOD had instructed him too do. Jesus was in the tomb for three days and then rose up from death! He is the Resurrection! Another sign of Jonah is that there were other so called men of GOD in Nineveh, however, only Jonah was there to preach the authoritative word of GOD! Like today, many are called, but few are chosen. And even fewer are preaching the true Gospel.

The Pharisees and Sadducees were opposed to each other in principles and in conduct; yet they joined against Christ. They did this because they were losing their congregations to JESUS! They also desired a sign of their own choosing: they despised those signs which relieved the sick, raised the dead back to Life, healed the blind, the maimed, the deaf and dumb. They called for something else which would gratify the curiosity of their proud hearts. It is great arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisy, to dismiss the signs of God's ordaining, to seek for signs of your own devising. The only sign that they were going to get, is JESUS, Himself. This brings me to a point that is missing in today's church. Many Jews of CHRIST'S time worshipped him. The mass's were flocking to JESUS, because they recognized him as the SON OF GOD spoken of by the prophets! These JEWS were the rich, the poor, the important and not-so-important. Even the occupying Romans started to believe in Him. Yeshua, came to the JEWS first, and then to the whole world. What we as believers should be practicing as our Faith in HOLY GOD, is the same faith that the JEWS practice and believe in.

Even though he is the Son of GOD, like Jonah, JESUS was sent to earth by GOD to deliver the best message of all. Salvation! He would have to die and spend three days where death resided! Jonah, he went through the streets of the city, crying, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed." When the king and the people heard this, they were in great fear. The story of Jonah shows GOD'S interest; not only in Israel but in all mankind. It teaches that men must repent of their sins, through our LORD JESUS. It also tells how GOD made use of His prophets, even when they did not want to carry out His messages.

Here is a list of some other signs that JESUS foretold would be present in "The End Times". See if you can recognize any of them being present today in America and the World.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.                                                                                                                      Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.                                                                                                                 Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.                                                                                                                   There shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers (various) places.                                                                                                                Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted (the Nation of Israel), and shall kill you (Killing Jews is what is happening right now): and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. (Christians and Jews are hated throughout the world because of JESUS)                                                                                                                   For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.                                                                                                       3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (Sodomite Priest's as the head of certain churches)

One of the last signs of the End Times is the FALLING AWAY of the Church by what the BIBLE says are scoffers, walking after their own lusts! In Jude's days of the early church, Gentiles were joining the church without having much knowledge in the Prophets of Old, nor of the worship of JEWS. They didn't realize how dedicated the Jewish Nation had been throughout history to their relationship with this GOD. And many brought behavior that was not Holy to GOD!

Jude 1:4-5 (King James Version) 4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

These are very harsh words that describe what the church started to look like back in the time of Titus. This occurred because of the Gentiles that were being converted to the Jewish God. They started to out number the JEWS that were in the Church. The Gentiles were joining the church in the thousands and started to changed the demographics of the early church. Paul and the original men of GOD that started the first church, had to appoint leaders over the many startups. Over time these leaders started to change their relationship with the JEWS. And as time passed through the Centuries the JEWS were alienated from their belief in CHRIST, by the Pharisee's and Sadducee's. In addition, the Prejudice of the Church towards JEWS really took off, separating even more of the true Gospel of Christ that originated with the Jewish people. (This will be dealt with more in dept at a later date) Remember that JESUS was the fulfillment of everything that had been spoken of by the prophets and was the redemptive sacrifice that was foretold of by the prophets, especially the prophet Isaiah. Jesus himself said:

Matthew 5 (King James Version)  17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

In addition, there would be the falling away from the true Gospel. This is exactly like the many churches that exist today. They give this great show of praise and worship, and can raise millions of dollars in gifts, but are they really teaching the Gospel? Or is it a bad copy of the real thing? No mention of going to Hell, or dealing with the real issues of the spirit for the times that we find ourselves. Not one word  that the CHRIST was a JEW and followed what all have termed "The Old Testament". There is no Old or New Testaments, only one Book. The HOLY BIBLE! There is a New and Old Covenant! The New Covenant is the superior excellence of the priesthood of CHRIST, above that of Aaron, and is shown from that covenant of grace, of which CHRIST was Mediator. The law not only made all subject to it, liable to be condemned for the guilt of sin, but also was unable to remove the burden of guilt, and clear the conscience and soul from the sense and terror of it. Whereas, by the BLOOD OF CHRIST, a full remission of sins was provided, so that GOD would remember them(SINS) no more. 

We were warned of the great falling away of believers in our time. This is what's happening right now all around us. When people who believe in Sodomy can become  priest's, then you should take heed not to go to that Church!

2 Peter 3 (King James Version) 2That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Take for example the fact that the early church goers in Paul's days began going to Synagogue's to learn about GOD and JESUS. They would join this belief in JESUS the Jew and then go to the synagogue to learn about his beliefs and traditions. Yes, they did attend the newly formed church where Paul and Silas were preaching of the CHRIST, in addition to going to the synagogues to learn of the things of GOD! Remember, JESUS himself did not come to change what the Jews knew, but to fulfill the laws of the prophets. This is why there is no Old and New Testament, but only one continuous book called, "The Holy Bible".  JESUS practiced JUDAISM! Here is what he said:

John 15 (King James Version) 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Matthew 5 (King James Version)  17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

In the book of Matthew, it starts with the Genealogy of CHRIST precisely to show that he is the One that was spoken of in the Days of Old. How did we as believers in CHRIST get so far from this knowledge, that what we are practicing as a Believer is nothing more than JUDAISM. The Bible never mentions the word "Christianity", however it does mention "Christian" three times! And this was in reference to the Gentiles that were joining the church being graphed into the Jewish belief in GOD through JESUS the CHRIST! You must decide as individuals. You have the capacity to read the word of GOD, reason with your own mind, judge with your own heart, and see with your own eyes, are you really worshipping the One and Only True GOD?. Judge for yourselves whether or not this is happening in your own church. Many preach this feel good gospel, but never address the many issues like the killing of innocent babies, or even something as simple as the ways in which we vote as Christians. Today's churches have all of this junk called denominations, and church laws that have absolutely nothing to do with the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Isaiah, and JESUS! And the men who are over these churches are no more than the Pharisee's, Scribes, and Sadducees that were around when JESUS was here on the earth. Read what JESUS said about these types of religious leaders that proclaimed to be of GOD, but did not teach or do the things of GOD:

Matthew 23: 13-15 (King James Version)

13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Look around you and ask JESUS to open your eyes that you may be able to see. If not for the JEWS, there would be no Salvation! Salvation came because YESHUA took the BOOK that no man could open, out of the hand of GOD and broke the seal that was in place. The Lamb of GOD was the only one worthy to do so. If not, everyone that has ever lived would be condemned because of the first sin of disobedience by Adam and Eve!

Revelation 5 (King James Version) 1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

4And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

6And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 7And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

8And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

The "END TIMES", ARE WE IN IT? I WOULD ANSWER YOU WITH A YES! Who then will recognize it? Only true Believers who understand more than just the word "Christian". But, who fundamentally, worship the true GOD, with the Reverence and Awe of Who He Is! Keep watching, as YESHUA has instructed us too do. But not like the rest of the world watches. The HOLY SPIRIT that reveals all knowledge and truth will show you the things to come with HIS EYES! Beware of things like global warming and climate change, because to believe in these things, says to GOD that HE doesn't control the weather. That HE has not foretold that these things were to happen in the Last Days! And that man is in control and not our HOLY HEAVENLY FATHER!

                                                   Rome or America

To lose your Soul as a Great Nation, destruction follows and nobody seems to perceive its means of arrival. A beautiful Nation losing her Love for the LORD, the very thing that has caused her greatness and Majesty. She is blindly running headlong towards the great abyss that flourishing nations before her, found themselves toppling into. Once a Powerful Nation, reduced to little more than obscure memories of her existence. Never to be seen again, because she sold her birthright to the highest bidder, expediting her demise. Her former Grandeur viewed like the landscape of some distant land that once was, but is now a mire shadow of the dream she aspired to become. Tossed onto the scrap heap of time, never to be seen or marveled at for the excellence for which she began, but merely besmirched as a footnote in the annuls of time. Disregarded as a failure! Relegated to the past, never to lift her head from the crucible of history, nor realizing her incapacity to comprehend the extinguishing of Liberty's flame. Her citizens DEAD to reason, suffering from the obesity of luxury, immorality and callous indignation to her first love, The Lord! This most dangerous of roads paved with great riches, indifference, apathy, entitlement, corruption, and finally sold for a price to foreigners. With fear and trembling she contemplates the weight of a tax laden citizenry on which she rode, as she ponders the death approaching on the Horizon. Only in the final moments of her destruction does she scream, "The Road"! Only now, in her final moments of existence does she understand "Once the road was traversed, there was no return, for it was but One Way! And it led to HER Destruction!

Michael Minor © 2009 Michael Minor

Matthew 16 (King James Version) Matthew 16:1-4                                            1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. 2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Sin brings storms and tempests into the soul, into the family, into churches and nations. You can clearly see from what JESUS declared to the Pharisees and Sadducees that they were a "wicked and adulterous generation. They were living the way they wanted, and not the way GOD had instructed. These men knew Jewish traditions and the Laws of Moses, and yet [Like America], they continued to do that which was Evil and Wicked. In spite of the knowledge of Righteousness, they continued in their Sins.  The same situation exist right now in America! We have the knowledge of what GOD has said is RIGHTEOUSNESS, yet we fail to do what is right before GOD. Sin is stupefying, and we are to take heed lest at any time our hearts are hardened by the deceitfulness of it. Are these the Signs of the END TIMES? To be in the End Times, does it just require a Wicked and Evil Generation to exist? Many have existed long before our short lived nation. So, what does the Bible say about the Signs of The End Times? Who will be able to recognize and understand the times for which they live, and who will not? Is it clearly stated in this Holiest of Books, what kind of signs we are to look for?  The BIBLE has the answer to these questions and much more. 

JESUS declares in the fourth (4) verse of Matthew 16 that they were "Wicked and Adulterous". This tells us that sin had  BLINDED them. We know this because in the previous verse three (3) he questions their blindness by asking, "O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times"?  They couldn't even recognize their sinful condition nor see clearly enough to understand that, Jesus was "The Messiah" spoken of by the Prophets!  Are you Blinded by the Idols of this world? Idols like the lewd, suggestive, pornographic music video's, whorish clothing worn by the mass's, your cars, homes, education, vulgarity of the people, greed of your leaders, and the disingenuousness of the media and people in general! You seek wealth first and not the Lord! Jehovah has said, "You have taken Idols into your Hearts and put the stumbling block of your iniquity before your face. Why should you ask me for anything"? You are all estranged from GOD because of your Idolatry. Are you caught up in the accumulation of wealth for all the wrong reasons? Do you believe in your heart that you can live the way that you please, because you live in modern times, and your life style has nothing to do with HOLY GOD? What are you believing in? These societal conditions that we see today have occurred, due in large part to the ever increasing rejection of CHRIST! This generation grew up without the BIBLE in school, and very little knowledge of The LORD! Clearly, these things can cause a Nation to be blinded and not recognize the times in which they live. 

Matthew 24 (King James Version)  11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Here's another Sign to consider. If you say you believe in GOD or JESUS the CHRIST and are a true Christian, how is it that you can't see the time in which we live is the Wicked and Evil time that JESUS warned about. Iniquity "does abound" everywhere, and people who claim too be Christians, not only participate freely in it, but are quick to defend their actions. You must become a true believer of the Gospel, and not just a believer in some Church or Denomination. Your salvation "HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DENOMINATION OR WHETHER OR NOT YOU TOOK COMMUNION! It has EVERYTHING to do with your OBEDIENCE TO WHAT is WRITTEN IN THE HOLY BIBLE, AND TO WHAT GOD HAS SAID IS RIGHTEOUSNESS! To be obedient is to follow what he has directed all of us to do. That is to follow his Commandments! Period! Our Holy GOD has called the things that man would create or perform on HIS or HER own "THE SINFUL NATURE OF MAN". For sin, there is a punishment! You only have to look at the news and see the results of Sin. Christ spoke of the wrath to come, which is beyond comparison and worse than the many hours, weeks and years of pain, some have to suffer as a consequence of their unlawful indulgences. And if such afflictions are severe, how dreadful will be the everlasting punishment of the wicked!

Another sign of the End Times can be found at the end of the verse listed above. Matt. 24:12  "the love of many shall wax cold". You only have to look at current events to see that Love is fleeting. Take the case of little Caylee Anthony or the toddler Riley Ann Sawyers. Both mother's are presumed to have murdered these sweet innocent babies.  Click here: Riley Ann Sawyers or Caylee Anthony       these are just two (2) examples of when a soul gets away from the Laws of our GOD, such as America has been doing! When a person ignores the Commandments of GOD and refuses to be obedient to HIM, the penalty is pain, suffering, murder, lewdness, hatred, unnatural lusts', lying, deception, and all the evils of the heart. As Americans, do you want this Nation to be Destroyed? I mean literally, or, have you become so pompous to believe that its improbable or impossible. Some of the things that are happening to us right now, such as the breakdown of the family and economy, lack of honor in our politicians, mothers murdering their born and unborn, teachers having sex with students, can be traced back to children growing up without the knowledge of GOD. When you vote for a politician and you can't recognized the truth from a lie, this reflex your distance from Holy GOD. Jesus is the "Light of the World", and The Holy Spirit is "The Spirit of Truth"! If you can't discern fact from fiction then, YOU DO NOT HAVE CHRIST IN YOU! 

John 14:17 (King James Version)
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

Remember, to be Saved is to believe in your heart and confess with your mouth. Believing in your heart means, that you will believe the entire Bible. This brings to the Christian obedience to the word, which is the Bible! Only through this acceptance of Christ can a person truly be saved. If you confess with your mouth, but don't do the things that GOD has commanded us to do, then you are fooling yourself, and the truth is not in you. For JESUS said:

Mark 7:6 (King James Version)
He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

DECEPTION IS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK! Look at your television at any given time, and you will see News Anchors, Politicians, Directors, Producers, so called Christian Church's, many well know Pastors and Evangelist, Commercial Advertisers, and many others, all of them deceiving the masses. We are in the End Times, and the majority of them (preachers)are not preaching anything about where we are today.

Matthew 24 (King James Version) Matthew 24:3-53And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Revelation 12:9 (King James Version)    9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Who is getting GOD's church ready for the events to come? Just like the Sham Wow commercial, where the guy pours cola on a swath of rug, and then blots it up with his product. If you watch closely at that scene, he lifts up the rug to show the cola. When he puts it back down, the cola has been already wiped clean, before he starts to blot it with the product. People are being deceived on every front. When you voted in this last election, did you really get what you thought you were getting? Or have you noticed that you were Deceived! AGAIN I ask you, how can you proclaim that you are a CHRISTIAN, AND VOTE FOR A MAN THAT BELIEVES IN THE KILLING OF INNOCENT BABIES Click Here, SODOMITES TO BE JOINED IN MARRIAGE Click Here , AND A "DO AS I TELL YOU TO DO NOT AS I DO" MENTALLITY? He tells the Nation that we have to turn our thermostats down, while he turns his up to 78 degrees. And the excuse is, "because he is from Hawaii". I thought that he lived in Chicago, one of the coldest winter places on the east coast! Obama represents everything that JESUS and HOLY GOD said not to do! HYPOCRITES, ALL who voted for him!  Jesus said to the believer [Christians] "Do Not be Deceived"! Yet Christians everywhere, are being deceived.