Standing in support of Israel, Jews, and believers in all the nations, in the name of Jesus (Yeshua). Sharing biblical truth, encouragement, news and prophecy.
Show# 3420 | Aired on February 22, 2018
A Morningside Studios Production Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker welcome special guests Evangelist Alveda King and Doctor Stephen E. Strang as they discuss the value of prophecy.
Quotes
Violence against another person, period, is wrong. -Alveda King
The goal should be healing and not anarchy and if we don’t carry it all to the cross, then it’s going to be anarchy. -Alveda King
What we need to do is have a paradigm shift in this country so people begin to understand what’s really important and that is the Lord. -Steve Strang
Scriptures
2 Samuel 23:3 NLT The Spirit of the Lord speaks through me;his words are upon my tongue.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 MEV Pray without ceasing.
Romans 3:23 MEV For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Acts 2:17 MEV ‘In the last days it shall be,’ says God, ‘that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
2 Timothy 3:6 MEV Those of this nature creep into houses and captivate silly women who are burdened with sins and led away with various desires.
Billy Graham will finish the same way he started – under a large white tent in front of thousands of people.
Family spokesman Mark DeMoss announced Wednesday evening that Graham's funeral service will be held Friday, March 2, at 12 noon in a canvas tent set up near The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Graham's coffin will be moved from the funeral home in Asheville to Charlotte on Saturday, Feb. 24.
Graham will lie in repose at the Graham Family Homeplace from 8 a.m.to 10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. The public will be allowed to pay their respects to the great preacher during that time.
The funeral service is private and will include family members, friends, and community leaders who were touched by Graham's ministry. Approximately 2,300 people will be invited to attend the 90-minute service.
Graham personally approved the planning and details of his funeral arrangements years before his death and made sure the focus will not be on him, but on the gospel. His son, Franklin Graham will give the funeral message, while his brother and three sisters will speak briefly to honor their father.
Graham's preaching ministry first gained national prominence in 1949 when he held a crusade in downtown Los Angeles under a large white tent, also known as a "canvas cathedral."
"His family and team members thought it would be fitting to also conduct his funeral service under a tent as a reminder of how his public ministry was launched," DeMoss said.
Graham's casket was hand-made by Angola Prison inmates in 2006, at his request.
Graham will be buried next to his wife Ruth, who died in 2007, at the foot of the cross walkway at the Billy Graham Library.
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Billy Graham's son, Franklin, says the elder Graham would want the world to know one thing about his death: That heaven is real.
In a statement posted to Facebook, the younger Graham writes:
Franklin's post has more than 57,000 shares and 22,000 comments as people rushed to offer their condolences.
"No doubt ... Standing in the glory of God!" writes one person.
Another says: "Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Saddened deeply by his loss from our earthly presence yet rejoicing that Rev Graham is in the presence of the Lord and is experiencing unbelievable joy in the presence of the holy angels."
And another commented: "Heaven Is Where God Is, ,,,an I'm Surely Going,,,,, God Bless You an ur Entire Family!!!!!!!"
Jessilyn Justice@jessilynjustice is the director of online news for Charisma.
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While unwavering in his support of Israel, US President Donald Trump has quietly echoed his predecessors in labeling the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as problematic.
But a group of Israelis on hand for the construction of a new settlement on Wednesday insisted that once he understands the importance of their enterprise, Trump will change his tune.
The new settlement is called "Amichai" and is situated not far from the biblical town of Shiloh in central Samaria. It is being built, with government approval, for those Jews forcibly evicted from the unauthorized settlement of Amona several years ago.
This week saw the first temporary houses erected in Amichai, with more permanent homes to be constructed in the coming months.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva, settler leader Avi Roeh said of the expected international backlash:
"This is a beneficial period and we, as the State of Israel, must take advantage of this, including by declaring sovereignty over the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
"I think that the American administration is completely with us, and the moment that we explain the importance, [the US] understands it, because it is disconnected from the pressures of the Arab countries."
PHOTO: Bulldozers late last year began preparing a barren hilltop for the new Jewish settlement of Amichai. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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To understand how the world will end, you must first understand it's beginning, says Del Tackett.
Christians often throw around biblical books like Daniel, Revelation and Ezekiel as holding the secrets to the end times, but Tackett says it is Genesis that can truly open up a believer's eyes. In Is Genesis History, re-releasing in theaters for one night on Feb. 22, host Tackett, the former president of the Focus on the Family Institute, explores the details of the foundations of the earth and how Satan has twisted truth to deceive generations.
"[Peter tells us] there will come a time where there will be scoffers, where the promise of His coming escapes their notice," Tackett says. "But this takes us back to creation and the created world. [God] formed the world and destroyed the world, and people willfully unnoticed this. The Greek word here implies they were capable of noticing but it willfully escaped their notice. And God will one day again destroy it all with fire, which lays out a very high view of the metanarrative of God, creation, the fall of man, the judgment and flood, and the way to restore all things. He will destroy all things and then restore all things, and when we lose that understanding, we find ourselves in a position of scoffing historically at what God said He did."
When Is Genesis History? first released last year, theaters sold out showings across the country, and Fathom events ranked it as the No. 1 inspirational film for 2017. For 2018, Fathom decided to re-release the documentary and increase the 750 theaters showing it to 850.
The film returns to the big screen at a time when even Christian circles are turning away from biblical accounts of creation and embracing a theistic evolution.
"As a culture, society and people begin to openly declare that there is no God, then we have to by necessity reject the record of God's account, we have to reject the notion He has spoken to us, and in that kind of context, man is then left to determine his own right and wrong, and what always ends up happening is might makes right," Tackett says.
Understanding Genesis is critical to understanding how the world should work in both basic morals and overarching societal guidance.
"This has been seen in nation-states in the past that [might makes right] will always lead to oppression, lead to atrocities, eventually lead to destruction of that culture. When a people turn away from God, people will weep eventually, and that extends to our understanding of social order," Tackett says. "When that happens we have no basis, have no divine understanding of God's design for the state, of God's design for marriage, family, business, and how it's supposed to be carried out, no design for community. What happens, then, to male and female? We are racing rapidly towards a total cluelessness when it comes to the notion of male and female."
Tackett's personal history influences his role as film host. He created Focus on the Family's The Truth Project, a nationwide project to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ. He served more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as the director of technical planning for the National Security Council.
His secular accreditation provide proof to unbelievers that the film's claims are accurate. The sought-after speaker stands on truth when he argues the first book of the Bible gives the answers to questions humans have asked for millennia and can be verified through science.
"If you look at the history of the people who have taken the accounts in the Bible and at some point made the declaration that it was historically inaccurate," Tackett says. "In many cases, all of these accusations were found to be faulty. For a long time, for example, there was the position that there was never a King David, nor were there Jews in Egypt, nor did they migrate from Egypt into modern the Palestinian era. Archaeological evidence later uncovered that the Bible got this correct. Want to look at historical record associated with Jesus, His miracles, death, resurrection? The historical account was attacked, held to be a nonvalid/mystical analogy. There has been a tendency for people to try to take the historical record and turn it into something else, either inaccurate history or genre analogy or myth or poetry. The history of those attempts has in almost all cases that I know of—especially archaeological—the Bible gets history correct, and it gets history right on origins, as well.
"The most important things to understand is who we are," Tackett says. "It's very easy to get caught up in scientific paradigm that attempts to tell us about our origins, that our origins are through a mindless random process of evolution that has produced us by chance. This creates a fundamental platform for who we are as human beings, telling us we're no different than any other element in the universe around us. A dog is a pig is a rat is a boy. There is nothing about the human race that has meaning or purpose beyond existing. It drives humanity toward a narcissistic kind of life where we basically are after pleasure, comfort, 'all about me.' It's a very self-centered thing. ... That critical understanding of who we are, the Genesis account tells us we are a special creation by God. In the context of our existence on earth, it provides an understanding of right, wrong, good evil, hope in midst of fallen world. These are extremely critical aspects of understanding our origins, or we fall."
(Jerusalem, Israel) -- The Associated Press is reporting that the Rev. Billy Graham -- a humble giant of the Christian faith -- has been called home to be with the Lord.
He was 99.
Please keep his family and staff in prayer as they process his loss, and simultaneously set into motion long-prepared memorial service plans.
Let’s also thank our Father in heaven for using this farmer's son from rural North Carolina to boldly proclaim the Gospel to more people face to face than any other person in human history. He preached in stadiums and arenas to more than 200 million people, as well as to tens of millions of more souls via radio, TV, film, books and other forms of media.
Rev. Graham had a profound impact on my own life and faith, as I known he had on many of you. I first had the honor to meet him in the spring of 1989 when I worked on the evangelistic campaign he was conducting at Syracuse University, and worked closely with him and his team organizing a special Q&A forum he conducted for S.U. students after the tragic downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which had 38 Syracuse students on board.
More recently, just a few years ago, Anne Graham Lotz invited me to come to Montreat, North Carolina, to teach the Scriptures at The Cove retreat center, and to meet with and pray for the aging servant of the Lord. It was a very special and deeply moving time.
I pray now that even in his passing, his memorial service will be used by the Lord to proclaim the good news of God's amazing grace and love to hundreds of millions -- maybe billions -- more people in the U.S. and around the world. So many still need to hear the simple truth of the Jewish Messiah who came to teach and love and suffer and die on the cross, and yet to rise again on the third day, all in fulfillment of the Hebrew prophets. So many still need to know that the Messiah has come to give forgiveness and eternal and abundant life to anyone who will repent and call on the name of the Lord Jesus to be saved.
May he not only be remembered, but may his example be followed humbly and boldly.
(photo: Rev. Graham with my pastor, Dr. T.E. Koshy, and myself at a reception for student leaders at Syracuse University in April 1989)
