3.31.2011

What do Glenn Beck and the Ayatollah Khomenei have in common?



So as I've been keeping up with world events lately, I noticed something a little disconcerting. Take a gander at the following recent news clippings:

NY Daily News 14.3.11

Glenn Beck says Japan's earthquake might be a "message" from God.

"We can't see the connections here," he said on his show Monday. "I'm not saying God is causing earthquakes - well I'm not not saying that either!"

"What God does is God's business," Beck continued. "But I'll tell you this...there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."

Beck continued trying to make a connection between human behavior and the natural disasters that have wreaked havoc in Japan, even casually mentioning "radical Islam" before revealing what he called "the answer."

"The answer is, buckle up!" he said. "Because it's going to be a bumpy ride."

In light of the disasters that have devastated Japan, the Fox host stressed people should follow the biblical Ten Commandments, or what he referred to as "10 rules of thumb."

"What do you say we start doing those things?" he asked. "Because the things we are doing really suck. And they're notgetting better."

(click here to read more)


The Daily Planet Dispatch 28.3.11

A new video set to be released by the Iranian government and targetting Muslims all over the world, describes the latest Middle East troubles as a sign that the prophesied Mahdi, or Twelfth Imam, is near, heralding the End of Times or Judgement Day and the destruction of Israel.

(click here to read more)

Is it just me, or do those ideas sound eerily familiar? You know, it's just like the devil to use somewhat disreputable characters to discredit the truth (Acts 16:16-18.) Disasters are one way God gets our attention (Luke 21:11, 28; 1 Kings 19:11-13) The Ten Commandments are indeed where we should be focusing in the last days (Revelation 14:12.) Time is short.

The question is, are we--the world's foremost experts on end-time events, as delineated in the Bible--going to sit idly by while Glenn Beck and Iranian imams steal our lines??

Excelsior...

5 comments:

  1. This is serious stuff. So eerily surreal and exciting all at the same time.

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  2. Wow! Thanks for the update. I'm so bad about keeping up with the news, so it's good to hear what's going on. And I agree with Emily.

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  3. Is it legalistic to think that following the 10 commandments will appease a vengeful God? Maybe some Adventists can teach them about grace.

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  4. I like Dorinda's comment. I've been reading a book called Changes That Heal by Dr. Henry Cloud. He made this point about how after the fall grace and truth were separated. But, when they are brought together in the Gospel we are brought back to an unbroken relationship to the One who is reality. They can steal our lines, but they can't fake the influence of a redeemed life.

    "And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death."--Revelation 12:11

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