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Good Morning Joes and Janes;

How many times have you heard someone say, “the Devil made me do it”?  Sometimes it is in jest, but often we use it as an excuse like we have no control over what we do.  If we didn’t have the Devil, Satan and his fallen angels to influence us then we would not sin.

Another week begins and this morning we are going to jump into a time machine with Sherman and Peabody.  You won’t remember them unless you are over 50 or follow old 60’s cartoons.  They always went back in time to some historical event but I have modified the Wayback Machine to take us forward in time to the last 1000 years of the present Earths existence.

Sherman and Mr. Peabody prepare to travel in the Wayback Machine

If you have had troubles getting into Bible prophecy let me interject a couple of things that have helped me out over the years.   Unless the Bible specifically says or makes plain that a certain text is not to be taken literally then you should take it as a literal event.  An example of this would be a book that I have that was published in 1947.  The author goes to great lengths to show that promises to the Jews were given up when they crucified Jesus on the cross.  Based on this premise and the ‘fact’ that Israel, the land originally promised to the Jews could never be reinstated as nothing like that had ever happened in history; then all of the promises to Israel should now be interpreted as the United States because we are the ‘New Israel’.  Needless to say his book and theory were proved wrong within a year.  In 1948 Israel became a nation again! Read the rest of this entry →