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I loved watching the movie Avatar.  To say it was one of the most graphically stunning movies I have ever seen would be to understate the situation.  The storyline was pretty average however this is quickly forgotten – especially when you watch it on 3D!

I remember walking out from the cinema’s and having a chat with my wife as to “how boring the real world seemed” compared to the reality portrayed in Avatar.

I even read how many people had committed suicide after watching Avatar as they couldn’t stand to live in the “evil real world”. 

And to top it off, it has become the most watched movie at the Cinema’s ever.  Period.

Quite an achievement!

However, while I watched, I was also really uncomfortable at the overt Pagan and New Age themes running rampant throughout the story line.  What was uncomfortable was that it really, REALLY appealed to my fallen sinful nature.

It painted a picture of utopia – and my flesh loved it.  And I knew it was wrong – for so many reasons.

And tonight I come across Mark Driscoll’s take on Avatar.  And in typical Driscoll style, he slams the movie for what it is – and advert, albeit an expensive one, for paganism…

Fulfilled Bible prophecy and current events are merging ever so closely together.  It completely staggers me as to what’s happening in the Mid-East, the global financial crisis, one world government, technology, terrorism etc – and even bizarre themes like Ufo’s and the Occult.

It almost feels as if there is a kind of “quickening” happening in the world today as we move closer to the return of Jesus.  What once seemed so impossible, now is considered logical.

For example..

• The global financial crisis – now we have sovereign countries screaming for a global currency as the only solution. 
• Terrorism – we now have individual freedoms thrown out the window to protect us form the so called terrorists – basically forming a world wide police state.
• Technology – you think the VeriChip is the mark of the beast?  Try researching nanotechnology and the theory of “transhuman” – makes VeriChip look like Play School!
• The Mid East – ancient prophecy says that Israel will one day encompass a land mass currently occupied by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.  An impending war on our horizon can actually see this happening very soon!

These are just some areas moulding together allowing the literal fulfilment of Bible prophecy to take place in our generation.  Just think of Israel!  For 1900 years it was non-existent.  And then just over 60 years ago it exploded into reality again.

God is up to something these days.  Satan knows his time is short.  The quickening is happening.

These are some of the reasons behind my new blog called, “Bible Prophecy Blog.”  It’s simply a site where I repost articles from various authors who find Bible prophecy fascinating.  At times, I need to be discerning when it comes to the vast amount of material published out there.  This is due to people twisting the meaning of Scripture to suite their own theological leanings.

Occasionally I plan to post my own thoughts also in an attempt to tie in together all that I read and research.  So it’s a site designed to capture my thoughts and the thoughts of others as we experience current events in a way that opens the door to actual Bible prophecy being fulfilled.

If you’re interested, check it out here.

Sin – a simple three letter word which has devastated  mankind from the beginning.  It’s a topic no-one wants to talk about.  And yet all have been touched by it and have felt the effects of it.

Mankind has excelled in so many ways.  But along every step of progress, sin has walked side by side.  And as mankind has increased its abilities, so to has the power and effect of sin.

Thousands of years ago, the Apostle Paul discussed the cunningness of sin in the following way…

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Rom 7:15

So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Rom 7:17-24

It’s inside you.  It’s inside me.  It’s inside every human on this planet that has ever lived. It’s cunning and relentless.  It desires nothing else but to satisfy it’s own desires.  And the scary thing is that it’s me – and it’s you.

I Am Sin

Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Jesus.

Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a first class scumbag.  Apart from being accused of human rights violations in Iran, rigging Iran’s elections to give him a second term, sending his country into economic sanctions by blatantly ignoring international efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear program, arming terrorist organisations in the Mid-East, calling for the destruction of Israel…..

I’ll stop there as the list can simply go on and on.  This guy is a first class loser.  He actively promotes himself as an apocalyptic figure destined to bring on the end of the world via the destruction of Israel.

Given the fact that Iran is nearing its capacity to make a nuclear bomb, announcing new plants for it’s rocket production and even sent a rocket into orbit with animals and worms on board, people better start to take notice at how a whacko like Ahmadinejad – and the means and technology he has access to – can make a significant impact in their lives and the lives of millions in the Mid East – especially Israel.

You see Ahmadinejad has a huge gripe towards the nation of Israel and is hell bent on it’s destruction.  One of Ahmadinejad’s biggest controversies is that he is a Holocaust denier – he hates the fact that Israel, as a nation, was born after the atrocities of World War 2.  And yet, in the same breath, utters the words…”we will create the next holocaust” – this just shows how depraved this man is.

Below is a video which conveys just how sensitive the Holocaust still is in the minds of Israelis – every year, a siren goes off and everyone stops, dead in their tracks, to honour the 6 million Jews murdered in World War 2.  In light of this footage and the graphic images of World War 2 of murdered Jews, just imagine how despised Ahmadinejad in Israel and amongst those who know their history.

As Dwight Eisenhower accurately stated after World War 2…

Get it all on the record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened”

Ahmadinejad – you are that bastard.

Be sure to grab yourself a free Audio Book download of Mark Driscoll’s, “Religion Saves: + nine other misconceptions” – available now @ www.christianaudio.com.

This book is based on the same titled sermon series held at Mars Hill Church in Seattle.  Check out the sermons here.

Basically Mars Hill Church opened up a web based survey and asked for people to post any questions they would like Mark Driscoll to address.  After receiving thousands of questions and thousands of votes against these questions, the top ten areas were addressed in a sermon series and a book was put together.

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