Really, What does being a Christian Mean?

     I'd say, without question, that over 90% of "Church Members" have no earthly idea of what being a Christian actually means. Add to that that the Bible teaches that less than 50% of the organized "Church" is born again possessing the Holy Spirit. Where does it say that you say? Jesus said it:

1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matt 25:1-13 (KJV)
     All ten were members of the Church (virgins) yet 5 had no Oil (Holy Spirit) in their lamps. They had never accepted Jesus as their Personal Savior, and when He, the Bridegroom, came for His Bride (the Church) they were locked out of Heaven. It is in fact a picture of Jesus' Second Coming and the Rapture.
     Let's look at what kinds of things DON'T make you a Christian:

  1. Being a member of any denomination or church.
  2. Being born and raised in a Christian Home.
  3. Being Baptized
  5. Being Baptized or sprinkled as a child.
  6. Being a Preacher, Bishop, Deacon, Sunday
      School Teacher, Seminary Professor, or Pope.
  7. Thinking you know who Jesus/God is.
  8. Believing God is good.
  9. Simply believing there is a god.
 10. Being good or living a good life. You don't go to
       Heaven for being good.
 11. Reading or even believing the Bible.
 12. Taking Holy Communion
 13. Praying a Rosary, (actually prayer beads are
       Muslim and Catholics didn't use them till after
       the Crusades when Knights brought them back)
 14. Carrying a cross around your neck.
 15. Having loving Christian Parents.
 16. Praying any prayer but The Sinner's Prayer.
 17. Donating time, money or volunteering anywhere.
 18. Tithing or sending money to an Evangelist.
 19. Prayer cloths or relics.
 20. any or all of the above in any combination.

     No becoming a Christian is much easier than any of these things would indicate. Salvation is a Free Gift and simply a matter of accepting who Jesus was and Is (I Am), believing He is who He says He is (I AM), and asking Him to come into your Heart as Personal Savior. Jesus is not a Little Baby who was born in a Manger (feed trough). Jesus is your Creator, and the Savior who died for your sins at the Cross. He came to Earth just to save you, and He would have died if you were the ONLY one lost in sin.
     Church isn't a building like one Catholic Deacon told me. He said God lived there and Catholics lit candles so He wouldn't be alone at night. Yes professing Christians are quite often that dumb. Many churches like the Catholic church don't even bother to Evangelize (preach the Gospel), they don't teach a Personal Relationship with God. They waste time looking for an intercessor (Mary, some imaginary saint, or a priest) when all they have to do is speak directly to God in the Name of Jesus. There actually is no OFFICE of Priest in the Local New Testament Church, (only pastor [or Bishop],and deacon or elder). No Nuns either, and while we are at it no Purgatory.
     So what does being a Christian mean? It means literally "Little Christ". It means that after Giving yourself to Jesus, and accepting Him as your only Hope of Salvation, you are living for Him daily, reading His Word daily, Preaching the Gospel to others daily, Praying for God's will in your life daily, and working to help others in whatever way they need daily. Christian used to be a derogatory term used to make fun of Jesus' Followers. Not much has changed it seems in the modern world. Christian are still made fun of.
     Being a Christian is NOT sitting on a pew once a week. Being a Christian is Living, breathing, voting, and Sharing the Christian Faith. Voting the Bible. You CANNOT call yourself a Christian and vote for anyone in the Democrat Party who's platform calls for the Murder of Babies by Planned Parenthood. You can't support Gambling, Drugs, Pot, etc. or vote for anyone who might. If you are not outraged by Planned Parenthood, Homosexual Marriage, Transgender Bathrooms, Islamic Terrorism, and the Obama Administration in general; You probably ain't no Christian Bubba.
     Jesus still Saves though. Even ex-Democrats.

Who were the Victims at Orlando?

     The Media outlets are all speaking of 49 victims at the Orlando Homosexual Nightclub the Pulse. But there were around 300 people crowded into that den of sin that fateful evening. All were victims, even before the shooting began. They were victims of Satan's evil plan. Satan had drawn them into his web of sin. They were there, drinking, smoking pot, taking ecstasy, Cocaine, Zanax and numerous other drugs, guzzling alcoholic beverages and celebrating the sin of homosexuality.
     No, I am not a homophobe. I am merely stating the facts. Satan had deceived these people into thinking that wild parties and same sex lusts were normal activities. Morals, ethics and Godly Precepts were the farthest thing from these peoples minds; they were there, of their own free will, yet drawn by Satan, to satisfy the most base of human lusts. They came there to sin. Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden, they were victims the moment they began to crave what they knew in their hearts was against God's will for their lives.
     The shooter too was a victim of Satan's plans. All Muslims are victims of a hate-filled false religion, a Cult of death, a cult that in fact celebrates death and killing. Islam (Mohammed's cheap, twisted, and evil plagiarism of the Bible turned into a false religion), teaches rightly that homosexuality is a sin. Islam however, unlike Christianity, doesn't teach about homosexuality to save people from sin, and free them from it, Islam uses the teaching to grow and nourish hate and destruction. Omar Mateen saw this homosexual nightclub as a legitimate target where every participant was an enemy to exterminate. He was taught from birth by Islam to hate all homosexuals. When he got serious about the Koran, he did exactly what it taught, he ruthlessly killed.
     So here at the Pulse that evening we had 300 partying revelers of Satan, in the hands of a member of Satan's Army Islam/ISIS suddenly at war with each other as Satan himself and all his Demons laughed. 49 revelers probably died and went to hell before they could repent of their sin and call on Jesus for Salvation. Perhaps a few lived long enough to do that, I certainly hope so. Satan was allowed to end those lives. True it is God's will that none should perish:
     Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Matt 18:14 (KJV)
But these partygoers chose to be where they were that night. They chose not to obey God and to live in an unwholesome, unnatural, homosexual lifestyle. Did God allow them to die for that reason? Only He knows, but I think the Bible teaches that is often the case. Many verses imply that God's Wrath becomes intolerant of willful sin and rebellion. In the case of the revelers at the base of the mountain in Numbers the earth simply opened up and swallowed sinners.
     then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Num 16:30-34 (KJV)
     So yes, God does judge the world today. Sometimes it is His Personal Wrath, perhaps in the form of a Tornado or Hurricane. This time He chose to allow Satan to destroy a nightclub full of drunken homosexual revelers. But think for just a moment. God loved these revelers deeply. He didn't want them to be enslaved by homosexual sin, they chose that evil lifestyle. It wasn't His will that they should perish in such a way, but it was their choice to be there at that appointed time and place. They chose where they were, Satan orchestrated as he always does, yet God used the time and the place for a greater good. The good is that attention is drawn to the Problem: SIN. Homosexuality is a sin. Islam and all false religions are a sin. Hate is a sin.
      "But you obviously hate homosexuality", you say as you read my words? Yes, I hate the sin, but I don't hate the people trapped in it. I am often trapped in one sin or another myself, but I don't hate myself, I hate the sin. I want myself out, and I want the people out of this evil false belief, that sex can be normal between any other than a man and a woman. It is so simple male mates with female. The male plugs into the female receptacle.
      No matter how hard they try the Supreme Court can't overrule God's Commandments. A male plug will never plug into another male plug, no connection is made when two female receptacles are placed next to each other. It takes a male and a female fit together as they are designed to carry the current. Jesus rightly said:
Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matt 19:4-6 (KJV)
    Marriage is a God-given, Holy Covenant. Homosexuality is Satan's cheap alternative and an Abomination to God. (Meaning literally a stench in God's nostrils) It is not homophobic to want to follow God's Plan. It is not Islamophobia to hate an evil false religion. I have explained many times in my blog that Islam worships a pagan moon idol called Allah. Allah is not another name for God (YHWH). Jesus is NOT just a Prophet, Jesus is your Creator. Jesus is God who came to earth Himself to suffer and die for your sins. Your Creator loved you so much He gave His own Life so you wouldn't have to die in sin in some musty nightclub.

Democrats have Searched through Hell for a Candidate

"That's when they searched through Heaven, and they found a Savior, to save a poor lost soul like me!" There is a story in Revelation about the angels searching through heaven for one who was worthy to open the holy book. No man was worthy, no angel was worthy and John the Revelator wept, but there was one worthy, Jesus was worthy.

And 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. 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
Rev 5:1-3 (KJV)

     In sad contrast; it appears that the Democratic National Committee has searched through its ranks (Hell on Earth) and found only a failed and aged old drunk, Benghazi blood-stained, Planned Parenthood blood-stained, lying, scheming, pitiful candidate named Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a failed, aged, old, lunatic Socialist Bernie Sanders as an alternate to champion their not so grand old KKK supporting Party. They searched all the Liberal Lunatic fringe and these two dismal old failures from the boneyard were all they could come up with. Neither has a single accomplishment to their credit.
     On the other side of Hell, the Libertarian Party has a Pot-Smoking, Drug-Pushing, loser from last time, guy named Johnson who says he agrees with lunatic Bernie Sanders 73% of the time. The Green Party is there too, but again this election year, just a bunch of tree hugging nuts as usual. Neither reprobate party has a chance to win, and truth be known both are probably paid by the Clinton Foundation, George Soros, or some other outside source to split the vote and help Clinton win.
      There has been a lot of senseless conjecture on how Donald Trump would conduct himself if he were President, based on what he has said in the past, whether or not he is a true Conservative, etc. I am satisfied Donald Trump is a Conservative and would do his very best to run this country in a way that would reduce our huge National Debt, bring manufacturing back to our Country, and create jobs. There is absolutely no doubt that he is more of a man than sissy Obama and Woman Card Hillary put together. Obama and Hillary have never ran even a lemonade stand, both have lost their law licenses for corruption, and to this day both are totally void of anything that can be called a genuine accomplishment. I have said many times that Obama couldn't lead a troop of Girl Scouts through McDonald's for chicken nuggets and that goes for Hillary too. Trump on the other hand would just buy the franchise if the service were not fast enough.
     It is an easy choice who to vote for in 2016, if you really care what happens to America. Hillary would destroy everything Obama hasn't already destroyed, and a vote for the Libertarian or Green Party is a totally wasted vote, and a foolish one. That leaves one choice if my math serves me right: Donald Trump! Donald Trump really wants to make America Great Again. He really means it. He really will if we the people will let him. With Hillary we have no choice except failure. With Trump we have a proven business man who knows how to tackle big problems like the ones Obama is leaving us with. 

Who is this Evil ISIS?

     ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It is not ISIL as our foolish President likes to call it. The "L" in ISIL stands for Levant which would include countries like Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and the imaginary Palestine which has never been an actual nation. Obama shies away from saying ISIS because he has messed up so badly and made Syria a major part of the equation. He and Hillary don't want to own up to the mistakes they made there, or the red line they ignored. But the Radical Islamic strongholds are in Syria, certainly not anywhere near Israel as Levant would infer.
     Obama also wants to ignore the first word, "Islamic". Time after time he has lied and said there is nothing Islamic about ISIS, when the fact is there is everything Islamic about it. The only thing Obama really leads the world in is his lying ability and proclivity. He also laughing says he is not a Muslim. He wouldn't be trying to protect the image of Radical Islam so actively if he were not so intimately involved and intertwined in this Evil False religion. Islam has taught Obama one thing, and that is its concept/precept/tactic of "Taqayyi" (in Islam it is encouraged to lie in order to promote Islam). Any and all lies are permitted and boy does Obama take advantage of it.     
     Yes Obama was raised Muslim, educated as a Muslim, and IS a Muslim. Even his former Pastor is a "former" Muslim, no doubt why the not so Reverend Wright wanted his god to "Damn America". Obama too has spent his entire two terms trying to "fundamentally change" America from the greatness she once represented.
     Yes Islam and Obama share one very important goal with ISIS: to fundamentally change the world by conquest, destroy all vestiges of Christianity and Judaism, and install an Islamic Caliphate to rule the entire world ending Civilization as we know it. All three have the same goal, just slightly differing ideologies of how to achieve it. Islam proper is only ever so slightly less violent than ISIS, and Obama is more sneaky hoping to use the United Nations and International Law to install Sharia more gradually as he undoes the Constitution one Executive Order at a time, becomes Secretary General of the UN and ushers in the Caliphate personally.
     So just how Evil is ISIS? Well, how Evil is Satan? It was he, Satan, that gave Mohammed his Evil Koran. It was his demonic perversion that made Mohammed the liar, thief, thug, and pedophile he became, and has since murders millions upon millions of innocent people in the name of a pagan moon god called Allah. Jesus told us He saw Satan's Star fall from Heaven, funny now all Islam now prays to a black meteorite cornerstone in Mecca where all the pagan Bedouin Idols are housed. The crescent moon & star are a symbol of this Evil Cult on every Arab Flag including that of ISIS.
     How perverted is the Koran? Well Satan does the opposite of everything God has said, so yea, that perverted. The Bible teaches love and peace, the Koran teaches hate and warfare. The Bible teaches to preach the Good News of the Gospel, the Koran teaches to intimidate, force and terrorize into submission. Islam does not mean peace as is often claimed. Islam means submission. Submit, pay a tax and agree to convert to Islam and you get to live as a slave to Islam the rest of your life. That is the only peace Islam offers.
     What benefits does one supposedly get for converting to Islam? Well none unless you are into thuggery or sexual perversion. Islam allows you to be a complete thug, and beat, murder or even behead or crucify anyone you don't like. As for sex anything goes. It is said, male homosexuality is frowned upon by Islam, however if the victim of the sodomy is a prepubescent boy it isn't considered homosexuality. Boys are carefully manicured and shaved and kept as slaves for sodomy. Girls are easier, they can be bought and sold and even aged men can marry a 6-9 year old girl. It isn't considered rape even when the girl cries no and has to be beaten into submission. Girls are also circumcised with their clitoris crudely removed so men don't have to worry about women having any orgasm. In Islam women don't have a right to sexual fulfillment so they don't deserve orgasms. Women are for cooking and cleaning and may be beaten at any time men are not content with their behavior. Sex is easier with goats and camels. If a Muslim man wishes to have sex with a goat it is permitted in the Koran. It becomes the goat who has sinned and the goat must lose its life for the indiscretion. Not to fear for the value of the goat; the meat may be sold, not in the original village but it may be sold at a neighboring village. Yes, idiocy like that is in the Koran.
     Not only does Islam maim, terrorize, intimidate, murder, and rape; Islam is responsible for illiteracy, poverty, drug and slave trading, and the spread of all sorts of deadly diseases. One of the nastiest of Islamic practices is the drinking of camel piss. Yes, drinking camel piss. Mohammed himself commanded it. A jug or cup is held in the left hand straight under the camel reliving himself or herself and the urine drank directly, preferably while still warm. Unscrupulous Muslims, and all are unscrupulous, sell this urine not wasting a precious drop. In fact many go ahead an pee in the bottle themselves and sell the mixture without conscience, the whole family routinely peeing into the urine store to increase profits. Not only are camel diseases spread to humans, a host of human diseases are introduced into the entire Arab population. Muslims also don't use toilet paper, using their bare left hands to wipe their butts. This same left had is then used to collect the urine. What nasty people. Never, ever, under any circumstances eat at a Muslim restaurant.
       Muslims mess up their own countries and that's why they are constantly trying to invade other countries. They ruin the economy, wreck the environment, repress the society, and generally reek havoc, then wonder why they are stuck with such a lousy place to live. As the hashtag goes: #IslamIsTheProblem.
     Theologically as I have already inferred, Islam is a Cult and a false religion. Islam has no Savior, no Creator, no Redeemer, and no god. Allah is a pagan moon idol, part of ancient Baal worship. Like all man made idols, Allah has no power. If you knock the idol over inside Mecca it cannot right itself and stand back up. It was carved by a man who is long since dead and gone. Mohammed plagiarized the Bible/Torah and the early Epistles, but rejected Jesus as Creator and his personal Savior. That means that Mohammed is in hell today suffering hells flames for his lies and sin. He has no 72 virgins, with only demons and other sinners to keep him company.
     I frankly could care less about what happened to Mohammed. It is too late for him, but we must care about the millions of Muslims who are deceived by this Evil false belief in this demon possessed madman. These people deserve to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They need to know that Christians and Jesus Love them and want them to go to the real Heaven. They need to understand sin, and know that Jesus died for their sins so they wouldn't have to suffer. They need to know they can be grafted into the Church and become part of the Family of God. Pray for Muslims! Pray for Obama! He is Lost in sin too! He needs Christ in his life just as much as anyone. Let's also pray he is never made Secretary General of the United Nations, that could mean he might be the actual Antichrist spoken of by the Prophet Daniel. Yes ISIS Is that Evil. Wake Up America!

The Sword of the Lord and Gideon

     This is a story about a coward named Gideon who God used to lead an army. God seldom uses the big guy, a superhero, or a Hollywood type. Seems He prefers us everyday, average Joe types. Guys and girls who have failed over and over, even given up and quit; maybe even gone into hiding or AWOL like Jonah. God can make a hero out of a milk cow, He doesn't need hero types, he needs servants who will do His Will, people who will say here am I Lord, send me; people willing to pray and face the challenge at hand.
     One day this man named Gideon was doing what cowards do, hiding behind the winepress threshing wheat so the Midianites wouldn't see him and steal the wheat. He wasn't using the regular threshing floor, he was where he wasn't supposed to be, Gideon was hiding out again, then here came Jesus as the Angel of the Lord. Now any time you see the title Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament it is Jesus. Jesus wasn't only born in a feed trough (manger) in Bethlehem, Jesus is Omnipresent, he was Creator of the Universe long before he was baby Jesus, but Christ isn't dependent on time, He is present in all times and in all places, and when you need Him in your place and time, He is already there waiting on you to notice.
     So there was Gideon threshing his wheat when the Angel of the Lord came up and sat down under a shady oak tree and began to watch. He said something a coward didn't understand, he said: The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
Judges 6:12
     Gideon knew he was no mighty man of valor. I have often imagined him saying, "are you talking to me Lord?",  "not me surely", " I am hiding here in a dark place, hiding from my enemies, I am certainly no man of valor." Yet there was God's Angel talking to no one but the coward himself. God had chosen a coward to lead His Army, a new General for the Army of the Lord, and He had not chosen a born leader, He had chosen Gideon.
     Did your Mother and Father bring you up to be here in Jail today, or did they dream of you being a mighty man or woman of Valor? Does that little boy or girl you have abandoned by your actions still dream of a Valiant Mother or a Daddy who will ride in and sweep them up in strong, loving arms and deliver them from what is troubling them? Or are the out there crying at night; alone, hopeless, desperate, waiting in sorrow? Do you want to be that mighty man or woman of valor you were designed to be? And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14 And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? 15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. 16 And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Judges 6:13-16
     Most of us question the Lord when He calls on us. Gideon was no exception. Why him? He was the least of his tribe, the least and youngest of his brothers, the least likely to be called upon to lead an army. Who was he that a Nation would follow him off into warfare? Sometimes the simple things like just witnessing to a friend or worse a family member seem like War, an overwhelming task to us as baby Christians. Who are we for God Himself to call upon us? But we are who He has chosen. Moses said, "Lord I can't talk." I have said the same.
     Gideon did lead that army, but not till he had further tested God to see as we often do if God is real. I guarantee you friend: God is very real. God is There. God is ready to work miracles in your life this very day. God brought down fire from Heaven and directed where the dew would fall to convince Gideon; He may be more subtle today but He is no less willing to give you the power you need to accomplish your task at hand.
     "And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. 22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face. 23 And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovahshalom (Jehovah's Peace): unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites."
Judges 6:19-24
     Gideon saw and believed the power of the Lord. You can too. It is there just waiting. So is His Peace. Be that mighty man of valor, your Momma dreamed of, be that General in God's Army, be that friend that counsels a brother in need. Be whatever God calls you to be, because it is His Power not yours that will lead you to victory.

Lots of Info in that Empty Tomb

     There is an enormous wealth of Information in the Bible about the Empty Tomb. Important Information about what was there and also about what wasn't.
     I recent years a lot of talk has been squandered and wasted about a Burial Shroud. Forget any Shroud. They were not used in Jesus' time. Jews at the time of Jesus almost universally buried their dead as their ancestors did while captive in Egypt: Wrapped in strips of cloth and preserved with spices and oils. How do we know, because the burial of Jesus' friend Lazarus and his return to the Living, describes most of the details?
     The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
John 12:17

     There is a reason there is so much detail about the resurrection of Lazarus. It is so we can better understand the resurrection of Jesus. There is a reason Jesus waited so long before his journey to the Home of Lazarus. There is a reason Jesus waited the exact length of time He did before calling Lazarus from his Tomb. Remember, every detail in the Bible is there for a reason. So we can understand God's Providential Wisdom, Omnipresence, Omnipotence, and Grace.
    

Christ raises Lazarus, four days after his burial

1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2  that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. 7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

John 11:1-7

     Note that Jesus Knew the exact condition of his Friend Lazarus. Jesus knew Lazarus was sick before Mary and Martha send word to Him. Jesus also knew exactly when Lazarus had died, because as God, Jesus was both there and with Lazarus in Spirit. Jesus waited two days before starting His journey to the home of his Best Friend. It puzzled his disciples, it puzzled Martha and Mary, but not Jesus, he had a Plan for this occurrence long before the foundation of the world itself. As always, though Martha and Mary thought Jesus was 4 days late, Jesus was right on time.
    
     "Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world."
John 11:21-27

     Martha knew that her Brother would rise again in the final resurrection, but she didn't understand that Jesus had prepared a Miracle so all of us could better understand the Love and the Power of God. We see clearly how much Jesus really Loved Lazarus as an individual and how Jesus is truly our Best Friend. It was evident to all how much Jesus cared, because "Jesus wept". The shortest verse in the Bible, yet one of the very most important.
     We see that there was no Burial Shroud from the description of Lazarus trying to free himself from the burial cloths. He was tightly wrapped from head to foot, and a Napkin, probably his own Prayer Shawl still wrapped around his head. He couldn't see, he couldn't get lose from the multiple cloths wrapped around his legs, arms and body, yet he was trying to come forth as his Master had commanded.
     Later at Jesus' Tomb Peter and John also found Jesus' burial cloths. But these were different; still wrapped tightly in the shape of a man, Jesus had risen right through the fabric leaving the cloths undisturbed. No doubt the spices made the cloths stiff and appear as what we would call a mummy shape. Yet Jesus' Prayer Shawl, referred to as a napkin, was folded neatly in another place. A sign of completion.
     No there was a true wealth of information in an almost empty tomb. An undisturbed mass of cloths still wrapped around a missing Body, and in another place someone, some Rabbi, had folded a Prayer Shawl. Jesus' Prayer Shawl. That is all that was there, but that is more Miracle than most of the world today understands. Jesus came through the cloth, through the stone before it was rolled away. Jesus had already journeyed through Hell and carried Paradise away before the Disciples knelt and looked in the tomb. The First Fruit of the Resurrection had already led captivity (the Old Testament Saints) to their new Heavenly Home. He conquered Death, Hell and the Grave quite literally. Amazing Grace in Action.

The Truth about "Moderate" Muslims

     There is NO Moderate Muslim. There are only two types of Muslims:
1. Believers who believe because they have been forced to or else; 2 Believers who are really foolish enough to believe Mohammad’s fabrication.

Mohammed knew some were easily fooled and would worship anything that sounded like a god.

He also knew that most would not; for those he wielded a sword for intimidation, BELIEVE OR BE BEHEADED, SUBMIT OR ELSE, PAY TRIBUTE AND ALLEGIANCE OR DIE

Mohammed’s plan worked.

His thugs enforced Mafia-like rule and weak believers kept their mouths shut and acted like they believed.

These are the “moderate” believers today. Some/many have never even read the Koran. It doesn’t matter if it is true or not, non-believers who admit to not believing don’t last very long. Moderates keep their mouths shut and financially support any and all levels of Jihad because that is what Muslims are supposed to do.

Islam has nothing at all to do with god. It never did. It (religion) was a tool to keep enforcer thugs, thieves and slave traders in line to do Mohammed’s bidding and later his successors. Allah the Moon god said what Mohammed wanted him to say, at the time he needed god to say something.

Today Muslims are trapped in a lie they can’t even acknowledge because they would immediately be targeted.