Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Jonathan Cahn Announces 'The Oracle' Release - CHARISMA HOUSE

Jonathan Cahn Announces 'The Oracle' Release

4/1/2019 CHARISMA HOUSE

New York Times' best-selling author Jonathan Cahn is releasing his newest book, The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled, on Sept. 3.

Over the years, Cahn, the subject of a New York Times feature article last month, has written several smash hits, and devoted readers clamor for his work.

The Oracle will help readers know what the future holds and what the past is hiding, as well as open their eyes to groundbreaking mysteries that will impact not only how they understand the past, but also how they can be ready for the future.

In The Oracle, Cahn, author of the New York Times' best-sellers The Harbinger, The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries and The Paradigm, opens up the jubilean prophecies and a mystery so big that it has determined everything from the rise and fall of world empires to two world wars, the current events of our day, the future, end‐time prophecy and much more. Ultimately, The Oracle will reveal the secret that lies behind end‐time prophecy and the mystery of the end of the age.

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As with The Harbinger and The Book of Mysteries, Cahn reveals the mysteries through a narrative; a traveler is given seven keys, each for the opening of one of seven doors. Behind each door lies one of the seven streams of the jubilean mysteries. Readers are taken on a journey through each door and vision to uncover the ancient secrets that lie behind the world‐changing events of modern times.

And as with Cahn's other works, readers will find that the mysteries revealed within the pages of The Oracle are absolutely real, amazing, life‐changing and mind‐blowing, as they build upon Cahn's vast knowledge of prophecy.

Cahn's earthshattering book The Harbinger became an instant New York Times' best-seller and brought him to national and international prominence, followed by three more best-sellers. Long before writing these books, he was known for opening the deep mysteries of Scripture and bringing forth messages of prophetic import. He leads Hope of the World ministry, an international outreach of teaching, evangelism and compassion projects for the needy. He also leads the Jerusalem Center/Beth Israel, a worship center made up of Jews and Gentiles, people of all backgrounds, just outside New York City, in Wayne, New Jersey. He is a much sought‐after speaker and has been called the prophetic voice of our generation. He has spoken at the United Nations, on Capitol Hill and to millions of people around the world.

For more information on The Oracle, visit TheOracleIsComing.com. The Oracle is published by Front Line, an imprint of Charisma House.

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Monday, April 1, 2019

How To Mow Your Yard - Special Edition of Now Think On This by Steve Martin

How To Mow Your Yard

Steve Martin

(A Special Edition - April Fool's Day!)

During the late winter/early spring days of 2019, I belonged to a group of men who met every other Tuesday night. This was a time of personal and team uplifting. At the end of each hour and a half, we were given a “heartwork” (homework) assignment, to help us grow in the creativity the Lord had given us, and to share it with the other men at the next meeting.

My writing was completed on April Fool’s Day, after the request was made the week before to develop a procedure for the best way to mow a lawn. The assignment stated that the best processes are to be clear, simple, efficient, and produce a consistently good result. Then we were to share our writing at the next session, and see how many different ways people came up with, to do the same thing.

All as part of how this relates to God always accomplishing His plan, while allowing variation in how some parts of it are completed.

Read it and enjoy. But don’t think about it too much, as I used some creative freedom in my writing. (Unless you want to give it a try later, providing you have a yard to mow!)

How To Mow Your Yard

1. Have on hand or buy a front wheel drive mower. If you are over 60, and haven’t depleted your bank account as yet, buy a rider. That way you can race it during NASCAR season and pick up extra bucks.

2. The wider the cutting blade on your rider the less time will be consumed during your total pleasurable procedure. And you can still count those 10 calories you will burn by just climbing up into the seat, if you are on Weight Watchers.

3. Prior to the mow, fill the gas tank as needed. Be sure to use non-leaded gas, and not diesel. Diesel will smoke up your whole yard and the neighbors will call the fire department.

4. Check the oil stick to make sure it is at the “Full” level before operation. Do not overflow, should you think you need to pour more in. That too will produce heavy black smoke, with a very putrid smell, if lit by the spark plug. Should that occur, go buy a new mower. You will need it.

5.
If you have a “pull start” mower, hold down on the starter handlebar, while pulling quickly back with

the white rope. Be sure to do this in one smooth motion, as you do when pulling in a largemouth bass, with the beautiful boat sitting in your front drive, making your neighbor Greg jealous. But be sure not to overextend yourself when pulling, so as not to waste too much energy. The bass are said to be bigger this year, and you will need your full strength.

6. At most, one or two pulls should start the engine, engaging the blades below deck in a rapid, clockwise motion. Do not attempt to check the speed of the blade rotation, as this could result in serious arm damage. Then your bass season is really shot.

7. If there is a front and back yard, do the front one first, in case it begins to rain, or you are forced to stop due to severe exhaustion (if you don’t have a rider.) Completing the front yard ahead of the rest of the grass (or weeds, whichever case you have) will help your yard look nice enough to beat the annual competitive neighbor named Jim Jones.

It will also keep the HOA (Home Owners Association) off your back, when they drive through the development with their Polaroid camera, checking for grass height. You don’t want yours to be over the allowed 1.68” maximum height level permitted allowance.

8. Mow in a back and forth motion, while keeping your turn around radius to 1.34 ft. Again, this will impress your neighbors with the fine curves of your turns and make your grass extra pretty. Much like the stroke of an artist’s paintbrush.

9. Be sure to have the blade low enough to clip all dandelions at the proper height. Though they look absolutely gorgeous in the spring, the wine you make from the yellow flowers tastes better when correctly cut. Don’t wait until the dandelions go to seed. These tend to get caught between your teeth when sipping on your wine. They ladies won’t like that.

10. Upon completing your full three-hour task, note the 258 calories you burned off in your summer calorie-keeping journal. Then sit down on your back wooden deck, the one that needs a new paint job (next summer is fine), and have a nice glass of Southern home-brewed pink lemonade, or an Arnold Palmer (half lemondade and half sweet tea), depending on your style. You deserve it! But if you rode a rider, then you are only permitted a half glass. Your calorie burn count would have only been 129, due to the foot action on the gas pedal.

Steve Martin
Now Think On This #405

April Fools Day (04.01.19)

(originally for my “heartwork” for Men’s Group at church

Retail Layoffs Are 92 Percent Higher In 2019 – And Now Even Wal-Mart Is “Quietly Closing Stores” - Michael Snyder

Retail Layoffs Are 92 Percent Higher In 2019 – And Now Even Wal-Mart Is “Quietly Closing Stores”

Posted: 31 Mar 2019 Michael Snyder

Just like we witnessed during the last recession, major retailers are laying off tens of thousands of workers, and it looks like this will be the worst year for store closings in all of U.S. history. Many are referring to this as “the retail apocalypse”, and without a doubt this is one of the toughest stretches for retailers that we have ever seen. But many believe that what we have witnessed so far is just the beginning. After all, if retailers are struggling this much now, how bad will things be once the next recession really gets rolling?

Of course the truth is that things have been rocky for the retail industry for quite a few years, but the numbers are telling us that this crisis is really starting to accelerate.

According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, retail layoffs were up a whopping 92 percent in January and February compared to the same period a year ago. The following comes from NBC News…

More than 41,000 people have lost their jobs in the retail industry so far this year — a 92 percent spike in layoffs since the same time last year, according to a new report.
And the layoffs continue to mount, with JCPenney announcing this week it would be closing 18 stores in addition to three previously announced closures, as part of a “standard annual review.”

Yes, competition from Internet commerce is hurting the traditional retail industry, but it certainly doesn’t explain a 92 percent increase.

And very few retailers have been able to avoid this downsizing trend. At this point, even the largest retailer in the entire country has begun “quietly closing stores”…

Walmart is closing at least 11 US stores across eight states.
The stores include one Walmart Supercenter in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Walmart Neighborhood Market stores in Arizona, California, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington.

For decades, Wal-Mart has been expanding extremely aggressively.

They have plenty of cash, and so the only way that it would make sense for them to close stores is if they anticipated that we are heading into a recession.

Here is a list of the addresses where Wal-Mart stores are closing…
6085 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, Arizona
3900 W. Ina Road, Tucson, Arizona
1600 Saratoga Ave., San Jose, California
712 N. Western Ave., Liberal, Kansas
1229 NE. Evangeline Trwy., Lafayette, Louisiana
3603 Broad River Road, Columbia, South Carolina
1757 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy., Morristown, Tennessee
2501 University Commons Way, Knoxville, Tennessee
7000 Iron Bridge Road, North Chesterfield, Virginia
2864 Virginia Beach Blvd., Virginia Beach, Virginia
7809 NE. Vancouver Plaza Dr., Vancouver, Washington

Of course Wal-Mart is in far better shape than almost everyone else in the industry. One of Wal-Mart’s key competitors, Shopko, has just announced that they will be shutting down all of their stores…

Shopko will liquidate its assets and close all of its remaining locations by mid-June.
The company was unable to find a buyer for the retail business and will begin winding down its operations beginning this week, the company said in statement released Monday. The decision to liquidate will bring an end to the brick-and-mortar business that began in 1962 with one location in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

And personally I was very saddened to learn that Lifeway Christian Bookstores has also decided to close all their brick and mortar stores…

Lifeway Christian Bookstores announced last week it would be closing the doors of all 170 brick and mortar stores, in a pivot to focusing on digital and e-commerce.
“The decision to close our local stores is a difficult one,” said Lifeway Chief Executive Officer Brad Waggoner. “While we had hoped to keep some stores open, current market projections show this is no longer a viable option.”

Whenever I do an article like this, I always have some readers that try to convince me that this is only happening because of the growth of Internet retailing.

And yes, Internet retailing has been growing, but it still accounts for less than 10 percent of all U.S. retail sales. In addition, it is important to point out that Internet retailers had a very disappointing holiday season just like brick and mortar retailers did.

Ultimately, the truth is that the U.S. economy has been steadily slowing down in recent months.

During the months of December, January and February, the amount of stuff being moved around the country by truck, rail and air was lower than during all of those same months a year earlier. The following comes from Wolf Richter…

Now it’s the third month in a row, and the red flag is getting more visible and a little harder to ignore about the goods-based economy: Freight shipment volume in the US across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – in February fell 2.1% from February a year ago, according to the Cass Freight Index, released today. The three months in a row of year-over-year declines are the first such declines since the transportation recession of 2015 and 2016.

I have a feeling that when we get the final numbers for March that they will show that this streak has now extended to four months.

Right now, unsold goods are starting to pile up in U.S. warehouses at a rate that we haven’t seen since the last recession. Many retailers that are barely clinging to life will simply not survive if economic conditions continue to deteriorate.

Unfortunately, it appears that things are only going to get rougher for the U.S. economy in the months ahead.

So more retail workers are going to get laid off, more stores are going to close, and there are going to be a lot more stories about our ongoing “retail apocalypse” in the mainstream media.

About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally-syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including Get Prepared Now, The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters. His articles are originally published on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News. From there, his articles are republished on dozens of other prominent websites. If you would like to republish his articles, please feel free to do so. The more people that see this information the better, and we need to wake more people up while there is still time.

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PureFlix's Pro-Life 'Unplanned' Movie Takes 5th Place in Weekend Box Office - CBN News Steve Warren

"Unplanned" movie trailer (screen capture: YouTube)

PureFlix's Pro-Life 'Unplanned' Movie Takes 5th Place in Weekend Box Office

CBN News Steve Warren 3.31.19

Unplanned, the new movie that tells the true story of former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson, took 5th place at the box office on the movie's opening weekend.

The film by writer-directors Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, which is distributed by PureFlix, was estimated to have earned $6,110,000 through Mar. 31 after three days of release, according to the website Box Office Mojo.

The film opened in 1,059 theaters across the country on Friday.

It was the second-best opening weekend for a PureFlix film behind God's Not Dead 2 ($7.6 million), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie stars Ashley Bratcher (90 Minutes in Heaven, War Room), Brooks Ryan (Overexposed) and veteran film and TV actress Robia Scott.

As CBN News reported, the film depicts Johnson's emotional decision to quit her job after watching an abortion via ultrasound.

"It's a little surreal, if I'm honest, to watch someone play out the worst version of yourself in a film," Johnson told CBN News during an interview on the set of the film.

"But it's also just a good reminder that God can literally use anything from our past and use it for his glory and use it for his kingdom," she added.

Solomon and Konzelman, who also wrote "God's Not Dead" and "God's Not Dead 2," believe with the passing of radical abortion laws in New York and other states, "Unplanned" is the right film "for such a time as this."

"This is sort of our last wakeup call I think politically because these laws are being enacted now," said Konzelman. "We as Americans, as people of faith. One of two things is going to happen. We're either going to rise up and say this is wrong or we're going to become accustomed to it and it's going to become the new norm."

For more information about the movie or to purchase tickets, click here.

Watch Unplanned's trailer below.

Brazilian President: ‘I Love Israel’; First Temple Seal Discovered in Jerusalem! Hamas Threatens to Bomb Tel Aviv; Latest from Israel! - United with Israel

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