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November 29, 2020 • 07:30 0

The REAL Story of Modern Thanksgiving Day

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
1THESSALONIANS 5:18

One day a year, Americans gather together with friends, family or business associates–supposedly to meet and give thanks for the good things and abundance which have overtaken them during the REST of the year.

But like so many celebrations, Thanksgiving Day became known for so many OTHER things.

* Well-known parades put together by various enterprises to promote this or that

* Football games.

* Getting a head start on Christmas season shopping.

* Extended family gatherings involving travel, both from near and far.

* And, that most famous of Thanksgiving traditions: a BIG meal, featuring a number of dishes which have come to be associated with a national day of giving thanks.

Any actual giving of thanks?

That appears to be restricted to a few sanctioned events: the minute or so it required to say “grace” before the eating of the traditional Thanksgiving meal OR whenever the “story of Thanksgiving” is told.

And so, a holiday which supposedly was dedicated to the giving of thanks has become a holiday known for so many OTHER activities.

“I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.”
–Psalm 116:17

IF the truth be told, EVERY day should be a day of giving thanks–two or three or MORE times a day.

“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
–Daniel 6:10

Each person has MUCH to be thankful for.

EVEN the least of men and those of modest circumstance.

The REAL story of Thanksgiving Day in the USA was that there was ONE day set aside for men to give thanks.

Actually, EVERY day should be a day of giving thanks for the many benefits bestowed upon each man by his Creator.

The REAL story of Thanksgiving Day in the USA was that a day supposedly DEDICATED to the giving of thanks became a day devoted to so many OTHER things.

The REAL story of modern Thanksgiving Day in the USA has only been highlighted FOR SOME when a holiday dedicated to greed, selfishness and covetousness named Black Friday began on Thanksgiving Day.

Even those only partially paying attention could see that Black Friday was a vile, dog-eat-dog day: news organizations only too happy to promote fistfights over $70 TV sets and Buy-one-get-one-free-while-they-last toaster ovens.

BUT, such stories DO change occasionally.

Each reader COULD alter his or her daily routine to include a time–even a few moments–set aside for giving thanks.

Each reader COULD choose to focus on giving thanks during Thanksgiving Day–instead of the various traditional distractions.

Each reader COULD choose to spend a few moments time focusing on his many reasons to give thanks.

Each reader could CHANGE his individual story of thanksgiving.

How many will do so?

“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.”
1TIMOTHY 1:12-13

IS the reader thankful for his MANY blessings?

OR, is the reader concerned about the many things of this world which he DOESN’T possess?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: November 27-29, 2020.]

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September 12, 2020 • 02:00 0

Labor Day 2020

As the U.S.A. celebrates another Labor Day, the holiday that Americans will remember for 2020 will be unlike any other which came before.

For one thing, anyone who holds gainful employment on THIS Labor Day should get down and offer a prayer of thanks.

Labor Days past all celebrated the American worker and the “contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States.”

A quick question:

How many of those toiling on Labor Day 2020 are working for iniquity?

Labor Day 2020 could just as easily celebrate jobs which are scarce and mostly minimum wage–where once they were good-paying and plentiful.

Employment–and the worldly benefits thereof–is largely a thing of the world AND regular readers should easily know about the things of the world.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
–1JOHN 2:15-16

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
–James 4:4

Since so many protest the mere mention of 1JOHN 2:15-16 or James 4:4, those verses will only be mentioned in passing.

A number of Americans will watch what remains of American football games on TV or in person this Labor Day weekend. BUT, those games and this 2020 football season is VERY different than those which happened previously.

But, to the deceived, it doesn’t matter how much things change; eventually, “things will get back to normal.” IF watching a football game between two teams in a practically empty stadium isn’t enough to convince the deceived that 1- what they consider “normal” will NOT be returning; and, 2- American football is one of those reminders of Americana which must go, then there’s not enough words to EVER convince them of the great changes which have taken place.

How many will spend any time at all contemplating the great differences between this Labor Day and the ones which preceded it?

LABOR DAY 2020: A MUCH DIFFERENT HOLIDAY THIS YEAR

MEANWHILE, there are a GREAT MANY differences between Labor Day 2020 and the ones which came before.

How many of those differences can the reader name?

AND, how many of those differences does the reader believe are SIGNIFICANT?

MORE IMPORTANTLY: does the reader know why all of those changes are occuring at this particular moment in time?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: September 7, 2020.]

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June 20, 2020 • 09:00 0

Summer Solstice!

“But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”
2TIMOTHY 2:16

TODAY–Saturday, June 20, 2020–marks this year’s edition of the Summer Solstice, that pagan party time that surrounds the first day of summer!

And, as usual, Satan’s Mouthpiece (the Corporate Media) is urging the public to CELEBRATE this pagan holy day.

NOT to observe it.

NOT to mark it.

To CELEBRATE it.

Wheeeee!

As befits the celebration of ANY holy day (pagan or otherwise), various rituals are dusted off and trotted out for public consumption.

At least the pagans have mostly quit pretending their summer solstice celebrations are all about the “longest day of the year” or the “first day of summer.”

So, today is the Summer Solstice.

True-blue pagans–as well as those who are merely pagan-wannabees and pagans-in-waiting–usually hold their biggest, most heavily-promoted Summer Solstice celebration at the heart-and-soul of paganism: Stonehenge.

This year, Stonehenge is infamously off-limits due to coronavirus restrictions.

So, in an age where most EVERYTHING is televised, the Summer Solstice festivities will be streamed online from Stonehenge!

Wheeeeee!

As we are now living in the last days of the end times, the reader may expect

More public celebrations of pagan holy days
More shameless promotion from Satan’s Mouthpiece (the Corporate Media)
More pagan rituals and traditions which accompany such days

As well as more fun-and-games from ANY activity which challenges Christianity.

DOES the reader believe that celebrating pagan holy days such as the summer solstice is nothing more than “good, clean fun“?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 19-21, 2020.]

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Filed under: Holidays, NEWS, Prophecy in the News

February 1, 2020 • 09:00 0

IMBOLC: Celebrating Another Pagan Holiday

Has the reader gotten his pagan holiday ducks in a row yet?

IMBOLC is the first big pagan holiday of 2020 and happens on this weekend.

Although many mainstream reference works put IMBOLC during the first weeks of February, tradition has it that the pagan holiday is celebrated on February 2–although Americans usually celebrate this holiday on February 2 and call it “Groundhog Day” AND end times revisions to reference works everywhere put the pagan fest on February 1.

Imbolc or Imbolg ([ɪˈmˠɔlˠɡ]), also called (Saint) Brigid’s Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde, Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde, Manx: Laa’l Breeshey), is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring. It is held on 1 February, or about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

Wiccans and Neo-Druids celebrate Imbolc as one of the eight Sabbats in their Wheel of the Year, following Midwinter and preceding Ostara. In Wicca, Imbolc is commonly associated with the goddess Brigid and as such it is sometimes seen as a “women’s holiday” with specific rites only for female members of a coven.
—Imbolc: Wicca and Neo-Paganism

For readers who are saying to themselves, “Groundhog Day is on the SECOND day of February and this pagan holiday is on the FIRST day of February. That’s close but no cigar.”, keep in mind that years ago, celebration days and other identifying information were often slightly changed to pull the wool over the public’s eyes.

Also, at one time, it was fairly common knowledge that IMBOLC and Groundhog Day were one and the same.

But that was before the end times memory hole got busy.

IMBOLC is still infamous for being a day of weather divination.

Divination is strictly forbidden by God’s Word.

“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD”
–Deuteronomy 18:10-12

What is the scoop on IMBOLC and weather divination?

Imbolc was traditionally a time of weather divination, and the old tradition of watching to see if serpents or badgers came from their winter dens may be a forerunner of the North American Groundhog Day.
—IMBOLC: weather divination

“May be“?

IMBOLC was celebrated by the pagans as the traditional beginning of spring.

To a people whose lives were so wrapped up in the weather (Sound familiar?), this was a very important celebration.

In 2020, TWO pagan celebrations occur on February 2: Groundhog Day (what Americans call IMBOLC) AND the Super Bowl.

IMBOLC is just one more pagan holiday which is losing its mask and coming out of the shadows in the end times. Most of the others can be found on the Wheel of the Year image above.

Because Saturday is February 1 (what is claimed to be the traditional day of the pagan holiday) and Sunday is February 2 (the American version of IMBOLC AND the traditional day of IMBOLC for centuries), 2020 offers pagans an entire weekend of festivities.

DOES the reader make any connection between popular modern holidays celebrated by the culture and the ancient pagan holy days?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: January 31-February 2, 2020.]

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by Jeremiah Jameson
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Filed under: End Time Deception, END TIMES PREPARATION, End Times: What does the Bible say, Holidays, Imbolc: celebrating another pagan holiday

December 29, 2019 • 07:30 0

Christmas Preparations

While visiting a local “big box” store on the day before Christmas, several thoughts were entertained.

Perhaps the reader will now be entertained as well?

THOUGHT #1

A great many speak of preparing or “getting ready” for Christmas.

This “preparation” mostly consists of three facets:

–DECORATING (both indoors and outdoors);

–BAKING (for family, for holiday visitors and for any who hunger for a Christmas snack).

Christmas cookies are popular.

In fact, cookies are so popular around Christmastime, services have sprung up which provide cookies (for a price) for those too busy to bake them.

GIFT PROCUREMENT/WRAPPING seems to take the most time of the three.

In fact, when MOST speak of preparations for Christmas, they mean SHOPPING for gifts. This is also true of being asked, “Are you all ready for Christmas?”

This USUALLY is another way of asking, “Do you have all of your shopping done? Have you found all of your presents and wrapped them?”

THOUGHT #2

There seem to be two schools of thought on buying gifts.

Those who sit down, write up lists (perhaps as soon as immediately after this current Christmas) and look for the “perfect present” for each person on their list belong to this first group.

This group extends to all of those who take their time buying, wrapping and finding “just the right gift tag,” wrapping paper, ribbon and bows for each present.

These are those who lurk on Amazon.com, spend hours online searching and get as much satisfaction from one of their giftees expressing MUCH APPRECIATION FOR THEIR GIFT than from anything else the holiday has to offer.

The second group of gift buyers?

Their special holiday seems to be the day before Christmas.

This is when they dash about, looking for their presents, convinced that they can do as good a job shopping as the careful shoppers do.

Besides, MOST of the last-minute gift-buyers are in a hurry and feel their life is too busy to spend a lot of time planning for buying others a gift.

“C’mon! It’s a Christmas present!”

Of course, there are a few of that second group who SWEAR they will devote more time to Christmas NEXT YEAR. Eventually, experience triumphs and these folks will join a twelve-step program to combat such ideas.

These were the thoughts which intruded on the day before Christmas.

Was the reader entertained?

OR was the reader intruded upon?

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WHAT does the reader think of when asked “Are youready for Christmas?”

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: December 25, 2019.]

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Filed under: Holidays, Christmas preparations

December 29, 2019 • 06:00 0

Christmas Past

After all, Christmas Day IS the one day the world pretends to honor Jesus Christ. When even the most committed pagan or antichrist believer may soften his heart, think a good thought about his fellow man and perhaps contemplate the idea–if not the actuality–of Jesus Christ for a moment.
—Christmas 2018

HAS the reader made it a habit to reflect on Christmas past?

DOES the reader reflect on Jesus Christ during this quiet time?

OR, does the reader reflect on one of the many aspects of Christmas which is irrevocably entwined in the world?

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: December 23, 2019.]

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by Jeremiah Jameson
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Filed under: Holidays, Christmas past

December 29, 2019 • 02:00 0

Christmas Holiday Media Traditions

The last couple of weeks prior to the new year are a time when honored media traditions take place.

No doubt the reader is familiar with one or two of these hallowed holiday media customs?

One of the most-observed aspects of the week preceding Christmas is the replacement of news and other types of stories with feature stories about Christmas, Christmas trees, Christmas shopping, Christmas tips and time-savers, Christmas odd facts: ANYTHING having to do with Christmas–as long as it is not TIME SENSITIVE.

ANOTHER of the frequently-followed media traditions is that for the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, stories will concentrate on lists: “The Best of…“, “The Worst of…“, “The Best of the Worst.” These are the types of pieces which can be written days or weeks in advance, and because they are not time sensitive, they can be published ANY TIME.

And so, newspapers across the fruited plain have PLENTY of pieces to publish during those two weeks preceding the new year.

EVEN IF a good many people are taking a vacation during that time.

As far as THIS publication is concerned: we usually run a few Christmas-based articles around that holiday. But this year, we’re going to try a short Christmas week focusing on that day–even if NO ONE is going on vacation.

IF the reader enjoys these types of articles, he is in luck!

IF the reader does NOT enjoy these types of articles, then he will have to endure it.

This seems like an appropriate time to wish readers a Merry Christmas for 2019.

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival

DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: December 23, 2019.]

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