EXODUS

I spent the last several weeks STUDYING the book of Exodus. Here are just a few of the gems I found:

We must make a plan. 1:10.

They refused to obey the king's orders. 1:17.

They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God. 2:23.

God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 2:24.

God knew it was time to act. 2:24b.

Moses took a closer look. 3:4.

I am aware of their suffering.3:7. I have been watching closely. 3:16. I am well aware of my covenant with them. 6:5.

Three-day journey: 5:3; 11:22; 19:11; 23:14; 34:13.

Every Israelite woman will ask for articles of silver and gold and fine clothing from the Egyptians.3:22; 11:2.

Aaron is on his way to meet you now. 4:14; 4:27.

I have empowered you. 4:21.

When they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped. 4:31.

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob as El-Shaddai-God Almighty-but I did not reveal my name, Yahweh, to them. 6:3.

I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh. 7:1.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three when they made their demands to Pharoah. 7:7.

"This is the finger of God!" the magicians exclaimed. 8:19; 31:13.

I will make a clear distinction between my people and your people. 8:23; 9:4; 9:26; 11:7 11:23.

I have spared you for a purpose-to show you my power and to spread my fame throughout the earth. 9:16.

I've also done it so you can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians. 10:2;13:8.

We won't know how to worship the Lord until we get there. 10:26.

Then a loud wail will rise throughout the land of Egypt, a wail like no one has heard before or will ever hear again.11:6.

When I see the blood I will pass over you. 12:13,33.

They stripped the Egyptians of their wealth. 12:36.

There were about 600,000 men, plus all the women and children. 12:37.

The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 years. In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the Lord's forces left the land. 12:40-41.

Do not break any of the Passover lamb's bones. 12:46.

The Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army. 12:50.

You have been set free. 13:4.

God will certainly come to help you. 13:19,21.

Order the Israelites to turn back and camp by
Pi-hahiroth between Migdol and the sea. I have planned this! 14:2,4.

The people of Israel left Egypt with fists raised in defiance. 14:8.

Don't be afraid. Just stand still and watch the Lord rescue you today. The Egyptians will never be seen again. The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm. 14:13-14.

All Egypt will see my glory and know that I am the Lord. 14:18.

The Lord opened up a path through the water with a strong east wind. The wind blew all that night, turning the sea bed into dry land. So the people of Israel walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on each side. The deep waters became hard. 14:21-22; 15:8.

So Moses cried out to the the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. 15:25.

If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you. 15:26.

I'm going to rain down food from heaven for you. 16:4.

In the morning you will see the glory of the Lord. 16:7.

Manna (what is it?) was a flaky substance. It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers. 16:14,31.

Pick up two quarts for each person in your tent. 16:16.

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, who had been a worshiper of Baal, becomes a believer. "I know now that the Lord is greater than all other gods, because he rescued his people from the oppression of the proud Egyptians." 18:11.

What are you really accomplishing here? 18:14.

This job is too heavy a burden for you to handle all by yourself. 18:18.

I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 19:4.

If you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me. And you will be my kingdom of priests, my holy nation. 19:5-6.

There was a long, loud blast from a ram's horn, and all the peole trembled. They stood at a distance, trembling with fear. 19:16; 20:18.

All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. 19:18.

Your fear of him will keep you from sinning. 20:20.

An accident permitted by God. 21:13.

You must not call on the name of any other gods. Do not even speak their names. 23:13.

I am sending an angel before you to protect you on your journey and lead you safely to the place I have prepared for you. Pay close attention to him, and obey his instructions. Do not rebel against him for he is my representative, and he will not forgive your rebellion. But if you are careful to obey him following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will oppose those who oppose you. For my angel will go before you and bring you into the land. 23:20-23.

You must serve only the Lord your God. If you do I will bless you with food and water, and I will protect you from illness. 23:25.

Make no treaties with them or their gods. They must not live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me. 23:32-33.

Moses took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. 24:7.

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadam, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel climbed up the mountain. There they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself. And these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them. In fact, they ate a covenant meal, eating and drinking in his presence! 24:9-11.

Then Moses climbed up the mountain, and the cloud covered it. And the glory of the Lord settled down on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from inside the cloud. To the Israelites at the foot of the mountain, the glory of the Lord appeared at the summit like a consuming fire. Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mounatin. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. 24:15-18.

Accept the contributions from all whose hearts are moved to offer them. 25:2.

I will meet with you there and talk to you from above the atonement cover. 25:22.

Insert the Urim and Thummim into the sacred chestpiece. These are the objects used to determine the Lord's will. 28:30.

I have specifically chosen Bezalel. I have filled him with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, ability, and expertise in all kinds of crafts. I have given him special skill so he can make all the things I have commanded you to make. 31:2,3,6.

When Moses prayed the Lord changed his mind. 32:14.

The lie: I simply threw it into the fire-and out came this calf! 32:24.

Let me know your ways so I may understand you more fully and continue to enjoy your favor. 33:13.

Your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth. 33:16.

I will call out my name, Yahweh, before you. For I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose. But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live. 33:19-20; 34:5-6.

Moses immediately threw himself to the ground and worshiped. 34:8.

I will perform miracles that have never been performed anywhere in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people around you will see the power of the Lord.
34:10.

Never make a treaty with the people who live in the land. 34:12.

Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. 34:28.

His face had become radiant because he had spoken to the Lord. 34:29.

All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved came and brought their sacred offerings to the Lord. 35:21.

The Lord had given Bezalel and Oholiab the ability to teach their skills to others. 35:34.

The people had given more than enough. 36:5.

Bezalel made the ark. 37:1.

The people brought 43 million dollars worth of gold, and 2 million dollars worth of silver for the Tabernacle. 38:24.

Bezalel made gold thread by hammering out thin sheets of gold and cutting it into fine strands. 39:3.

Moses took the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant and placed them inside the Ark. 40:20.

Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. Moses could no longer enter the Tabernacle because the cloud had settled down over it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. Now whenever the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out on their journey, following it. But if the cloud did not rise, they remained where they were until it lifted. 40:36-37.

CHINA'S HUGE OIL SPILL

Revelation's warning about creatures in the sea dying does seem apocalyptic now. Check out these pictures of what just happened off the coast of Dalian, China. The Chinese won't even reveal how many millions of gallons have gone into the Yellow Sea.

The Gulf of Mexico is approximately 600,000 square miles compared to the Yellow Sea, which is 146,700 square miles. In other words, the Yellow Sea is about one-fourth the size of the Gulf of Mexico.
But these pictures pretty much tell the story. One reporter said "The oil is half-solid and half liquid and is as sticky as asphalt." This means that it is even worse than the Gulf spill. I was actually on this China beach several years ago when I entered North Korea without a passport!

Here are the pictures:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-oil-spill-grows-official-warns-evere-threat/ss/events/wl/071910chinaoil

DEAR VIRGINIA

I get some very interesting emails from those who are reading my blog. Here is an answer I recently sent:

Dear Virginia,

Sin has caused Americans to be in a very deep sleep and only another event worse than 9/11 will awaken them. Our nation has four very real enemies: muslims, mexicans, inner-city blacks, and our very own government, who will arrest you if you do anything to these other three groups. Even our own soldiers, policemen and border guards are being prosecuted when they don't follow the "rules of engagement" to the letter of the law. What is behind this madness? It is very simple: Obama wants the voting bloc of these three groups. Without it he does not have a ghost of a chance of being elected again. Sheriff Paul Babeau (Google him) has had several of his deputies murdered by illegals. These violent mexicans have taken over a huge area in his Arizona county. When the Sheriff was interviewed on FOX news he asked for 3,000 troops to come and help him arrest the illegals and force them back into Mexico. He wants to do his job by protecting the citizens of the United States from both drug smuggling, human trafficking and the crimes associated with both.
So far all he has received is silence from the White House. But the White House is very quick to donate our tax dollars to these drug lords in the form of food, housing, medical aid and education . . . all free, for them, of course. Is this insanity? And the DOJ has dropped the charges against blacks in Philly who stood at poling booths with batons, threatening white and black voters.

Now, more recently, an extremely angry black man, who is a member of the New Black Panther Party (which claims to be peaceful), is walking city streets with a megaphone telling mobs of people, "Kill the white people. Kill their cracker babies!"

Of course, nothing is being done to him.

Imagine how quickly a white person would be arrested for asking white people to kill nigger babies!

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has responded, and I quote, "The law should not be used against black wrongdoers because of the long history of slavery and segregation." So from now on it is just us "crackers" who will get arrested for breaking the law.

Sheriff Babeau has many threats on his life.
But he has vowed to continue the fight to secure our borders and fight drug smuggling and human trafficking across Arizona. Sheriff Babeu stated, “We don't have enough Deputies to respond to local emergencies and to protect our Pinal County families. I understand this threat, yet I will not run in fear or change my support for SB1070 and my demands for President Obama to secure our border with 3,000 armed soldiers in Arizona and start building the fence again. I'm always armed and as every law enforcement member knows, we always have to be aware of our surroundings and possible threats.”

America is fast becoming a Third-World Country. Just a few years ago you would not have believed that you could have your life threatened when you went to vote.

We need a Great Awakening from God. Without it we are doomed. Our Sunday night group is praying according to Psalm 149 to bind our kings with shackles. The spiritual weapons we have at our disposable are effective and very, very powerful . . . more powerful than violence. Use your God-given weapons in this Psalm to save our nation!

Just In: Peaceful Black Expo Week July 18 in Indianapolis: Celebrating 40 years of "culture"!

Three separate shootings left 10 people wounded and scattered hundreds in downtown Indianapolis during the crowded Indiana Black Expo, police said early Sunday.

Police spokesman Lt. Jeff Duhamell said authorities made no immediate arrests directly tied to the shootings and investigators were seeking leads to the suspects.

None of the victims' injuries were life-threatening, Duhamell told The Associated Press, adding police had made three unrelated arrests on weapons charges.

The shooting began when several shots rang out around 9:30 p.m. Saturday near Circle Centre mall, leaving eight people wounded and sending people running, Duhamell said.

He said a second shooting occurred nearby just minutes after the initial shooting and left one young man wounded. He added that the third shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m. and left another man wounded.

Duhamell said the shooting victims were all males between 10 and 18 years old. He said most were taken to two area hospitals where they were in good condition early Sunday. One person was treated at the scene.

Authorities say none of the shootings occurred at venues playing host to Black Expo activities, but police patrolling amid the crowd moving about the downtown area quickly converged on the scene.

"It's pretty unusual to have this many shots in one time. It's very unfortunate," Duhamell said.

Duhamell said investigators had no immediate report on a possible motive but were trying to determine if any of the shootings were gang-related.

He said hundreds of officers had been assigned to policing the 10-day event, which concludes later Sunday.

SHADES OF BELSHAZZAR

By Bob Glaze

In Daniel chapter five, an unknown
came to the throne of Babylon. The
Bible says that he was the son of
Nebuchadnezzar, but more likely
his grandson. He evidently had no
experience at ruling anything, but
was good at organizing community
parties. He was given Babylon
because of his loyalty to his ruling
dynasty. He never asked for advice
before making a decision; pride was
his guide. He thought he could do no
wrong and that the entire kingdom
was there for his pleasure.
He tempted God by using the
temple treasury to impress his
lustful guests. While his kingdom
languished, he drank wine and dined
in the palace with those that would
agree to anything to gain his favor.
He mocked God by praising the idols
of his ancestors. According to recent
finds, his actual father was Nabonidus. Like father, like son—so his favorite god would be the same god his father worshipped,who is shown on a relief praying to the moon god (www.livius.org). Belshazzar had witnessed Nebuchadnezzar’s failures and successes and had learned nothing from them, or he had simply ignored them. He never admitted fault, and his answer to inexperience and inability to rule was to ignore the problem or bribe someone
else to take care of it. He didn’t realize his destiny until he saw the handwriting on the wall and his dream of stardom suddenly became a nightmare.
Because of his intentional and continual disregard for the God of Heaven, God sent him a message in Daniel 5:5–6, “In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the
king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.” When he received the message from God, none of his buddies could help him. Only
Daniel, God’s man, could be honest enough to tell him the truth. This was one time he could not buy his way out of the problem.
Daniel refused his gift and delivered God’s message: “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN”—“God hath numbered your kingdom, and finished it. You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Your kingdom is divided, and given tothe Medes and Persians.” That night,the king of the Chaldeans was killed and Darius the Median took over the kingdom.
There is nothing new under the sun, and suddenly this little messiah was a thing of the past.
Enter Barack Hussein Obama. We have today another ruler of the same shades as Belshazzer. He was thrust
onto the political scene out of obscurity with little or no notion of how to run a government. His only experience was organizing community meetings and
parties for his political cronies. His cronies always seemed to be Socialists such as William Ayers, a member of the “Weather Underground,” who was
a fugitive for ten years for bombing the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, and other government buildings. The FBI labeled his organization as a “domestic terrorist group.” Even Hillary Clinton during the campaign said that his association with Ayers should raise eyebrows. Because he was one of theirs, the Chicago union thugs helped him get into the White House. He represents the ruling dynasty of these Chicago minions and is paying back their support with
political appointments in the form of czars that don’t answer to Congress.
He is a narcissist, and it has never occurred to him that he could possibly be wrong. He wields the presidential wand with reckless abandonment. Like Belshazzar, his linage is dubious at best. He either can’t or won’t issue his birth certificate that
proves he was born in the United States. He is only eligible to be president if he was born here. To hide his real identity, the day after his inauguration, he issued a presidential directive that all of his personal records were to be sealed.
He is ruling over a nation that is foreign to him, and he treats the citizens like they are the foreigners. Our country—not his country—is in serious trouble. While this nation is languishing in financial and spiritual turmoil, he fiddles while Rome burns. He demands that we sacrifice our future and happiness to meet his goals of messiahship . . . just because he says so. While his subjects are in dire straits, doing without jobs, food, and medicine, he is spending the national treasure on wining and dining other low–class aristocrats to try and improve his stature among world leaders. During 2009 alone, he wasted over $10 million on his lavish White House parties,entertaining the likes of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. Somehow I don’t believe our founding fathers would approve of such a poor use of our tax money while at the same time lowering our international prestige.
Robin T. Lakoff, Ph.D., a linguistics professor and psychotherapist at Berkeley, known as “Robin of Berkeley,” has this to say about Obama: “Obama will not change. He will not learn from his mistakes. He will not grow and mature from on–the–job experience. In fact, over time, Obama will likely become a more ferocious version of who he is today. Why? Because this is a damaged person. Obama’s fate was sealed years ago growing up in his strange and poisonous family. Later on, his empty vessel was filled with the hateful bile of men like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers. Obama will not evolve; he will not rise to the occasion; and he will not become the man he was meant to be. This is for one reason and one reason alone: He is not capable.”
However, the straw that broke the camel’s back was not the feasting and drinking in Babylon, but the blasphemous use of God’s treasures and the worship of strange gods. Nabonidus, Belshazzar’s father, worshipped several gods, one of which was Sin, the moon god. It was symbolized by a crescent moon.
Most certainly, the god of Belshazzar’s father would have been his god. And like Belshazzar, Barack Hussein Obama has a thing for those who worship the moon god. That would be those like unto his father, a known Muslim. Obama even said in his book, The Audacity of Hope, that if the winds shifted against the Muslims, he would side with the Muslims. Since most Muslim organizations such as Hamas have been declared terrorists and enemies of the United States, he is guilty of treason—aiding and abetting the enemy. In 2009 alone, his administration pledged
$900 million to the West Bank and Gaza, much of which surely ended up in the hands of Hamas.
In September 2009, Obama pledged $400,000 to Qaddafi’s Libyan charity run by the Qaddafi family—$200,000 would be given to his son’s charity and $200,000 would be given to his daughter’s charity. Libya is a sworn enemy of the United States.
Obama has consistently stated that he is not a Muslim, but a Christian. After all, he attended Rev. Wright’s church for over 20 years. That alone should prove that he is a Christian, right! However, in Muslim countries he is consistently referred to as a Muslim and at times has admitted the same. According to one source (www.vicmord.com), Victor Mordecai reported: “My wife Rachel, who monitors Arab language broadcasts for Israel Radio, picked up a revealing statement on the ‘Round Table Show’ on Egypt’s Nile TV. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he had a one–on–one meeting with Obama, who told him that he was a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father and stepson of a Muslim stepfather, that his half–brothers in Kenya were Muslim, and that he was sympathetic to the Muslim agenda. He asked the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic American issues (like health care reform), he would show the Muslim world how he would deal with Israel.”
Qaddafi stated in a recent speech more than 10 times that Obama is a Muslim brother. The Muslim world believes that he is a Muslim, and I am inclined to believe them. While he refuses to observe “National Prayer Day,” he honors his Muslim friends by inviting them into the White House to celebrate Ramadan with a great feast with wine served in goblets paid for by American taxpayers, predominately Christians. This sacrilege included his own princes and concubines. The guest list also included a large number of Muslim leaders from around the world (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com).
While he refused to host a group of Christian pastors and leaders, he desecrated the house that Christians built. With these words he added insult to injury to the American Christian community: “Indeed, the contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country. . . . So on this occasion, we celebrate the Holy Month of Ramadan, and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture—in ways both large and small. And with us here tonight, we see just a small sample of those contributions.” While Obama continuously courts the sodomites, perhaps the most damaging thing that Obama is doing is his continuous bad treatment of Israel. He sides with the enemies of Israel while revoking our aid to our only friend and democracy in the Middle East. His recent treatment of Mr. Netanyahu is deplorable and will not go unnoticed by God. Obama is not presidential material and has shown his true colors in meetings with both Muslim and Israeli leaders as he boastfully shows contempt for God’s people and land.
Barack Hussein Obama has shown all of the shades of
Belshazzar. He has feasted and drank wine while the enemies approach the walls. He has replaced the God of Heaven with his loyalty pledged to others. Surely, the hand of God will soon reveal to Mr. Obama his future. God has been writing on the wall for some time now . . . and Obama has been found wanting.
That message might read as follows: “Barack Hussein Obama, you have been weighed in the balances and been found wanting. Your total disregard of Me and your complete disdain for My people have sealed your fate. Henceforth, your dreams of anarchy are finished.”
Who will he turn to? Is there a Daniel among us?

The judgment of God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPtaMgqOwL4