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Hello!  This is my page.  I wanted to have a page of my own to share my thoughts.  There are different topics here so I hope that you take time to look at each page.  From end-times to butterflies, I hope you enjoy.  Be sure to come back often for updates because I will change topics and add more things often.  Enjoy! 

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If you are someone who has not dedicated their life to Jesus Christ and has lived worldly life: now would be a good time to do so.

If you choose to give your life to Christ and submit to his will, he will grant you peace of mind concerning your past sins and freely pardon you.

For
all have
sinned and
fall short
of the
glory of
God

To receive Christ today, pray the sinners prayer. 
I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.  I believe that he took the punishment for all of my sins; he was crucified, he died, and he was resurrected and is alive forevermore.  God, I come to you to ask Jesus Christ into my heart. 

God you said in your word, "If thou confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved".

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Thank you for saving me and forgiving me of all my sins, and cleansing me by the blood of Jesus Christ.

 

 

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Gardening for God:article image

I have found that gardening is just one of the many earthly ways we can relate to God. Many times our natural experiences in this world help us to better understand God, and because of this we can see God in many different ways. Of course God can be described as our Creator, our Master, our King, our Father, and even our Husband. And yet I have found that one of the best ways to understand God is in the light and likeness of a simple gardener. For any reader of the Bible, the multitude of metaphors should make it clear that God is the Gardener, and we are His plantings. In fact, this analogy is so appropriate that the Bible could be renamed “Gardening by God” and it would accurately capsulate what God’s will and purpose for humanity are. In short, mankind is a divine crop of spiritual beings that God plants, grows and harvests at the end of every age so that more of the glorious image of God is revealed. This humble and simple relationship seemed clearly understood by a certain ANOINTED man of God two millennia ago.LadyGreen.gif

JOHN 15:1

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

"My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices,
to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies."
Song of Solomon 6:2


"Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south;
blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
  Let my beloved come into his garden,and eat his pleasant fruits."
   Song of Solomon 4:16

 

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butterfly garden how to's:

different species of butterlies have specific tastes and preferences.  Both in nectar and color choices.  A wide variety of choices will bring a great diversity of hosts to your garden.  Groups of the same variety are easier for the butterfly to see than a single planted flower.

some of the best flower choices are...

zinnia's, asters, butterfly weed, sedum, black eyed susans, daylillies, goldenrod, hibiscus, lavender, marigolds, lilacs, daises, coneflower, redbud, rosemary, and verbena's.

butterflies are cold-blooded insects and they will need a place to bask in the sun.  Place some rocks in and around your flower bed for them.  They are only able to eat liquid so their diet is nectar and standing water. Over-rippened fruit is a huge welcome to a butterfly, and believe it or not they love stale beer!  

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Please check out my "about" page for info on my study of End Times Prophecy and Matthew 24!!


Welcome!!  I have been studying "end time" prophecies for quite a while now.  I truly believe that we are living in that last generation.  I want to share what I know with others and I plan to update this site to include alot of information in the next few days.

 

Be sure to read further down for my "Do pets go to Heaven?" section....

 

what is the rapture???

The rapture is an event that will take place sometime in the near future. Jesus will come in the air, catch up the Church from the earth, and then return to heaven with the Church. The Apostle Paul gave a clear description of the rapture event in his letters to the Thessalonians and Corinthians.

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thess, 4:16-18).

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality” (1 Cor. 15:51-53).

The timing of the rapture is not known. From the Word of God and from sound reasoning--something Jesus used quite frequently--I hope to prove the reality of the pretribulation rapture.

The word “rapture” comes from Paul's "caught up" remark in verse 17. The words “caught up” are translated from the Greek word harpazo, which means "to carry off," "snatch up," or "grasp hastily." The translation from harpazo to “rapture” involved two steps: first, harpazo became the Latin word raptus; second, raptus became the English word “rapture.”


Scriptural Evidence for the Pretribulation Rapture


    The Unknown Hour
    When we search the Scriptures and read the passages describing the Lord Jesus' return, we find verses that tell us we won't know the day and hour of that event. Matthew 25:13 says Jesus will return at an unknown time, while Revelation 12:6 indicates that the Jews will have to wait on the Lord 1,260 days, starting when the Antichrist stands in the Temple of God and declares himself to be God (2 Thes 2:4). This event will take place at the mid-point of the seven-year tribulation (Dan 9:27). Note that some people only see a three-and-a-half-year tribulation. In a way, they are correct because the first half of the tribulation will be relatively peaceful compared to the second half. Nonetheless, peaceful or not, there still remains a seven-year period called the tribulation. When the Jews flee into the wilderness, they know that all they have to do is wait out those 1,260 days (Mat 24:16). There is no way to apply the phrase "neither the day nor the hour" to this situation. The only way for these two viewpoints to be true is to separate the two distinct events transpiring here: 1) the rapture of the Church, which comes before the tribulation; and 2) the return of Jesus to the earth, which takes place roughly seven years later.
    The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
    In Luke 12:36, the Word states that when Christ returns, He will be returning from a wedding. In Revelation 19:7-8, we read about the marriage itself. The marriage supper takes place before the marriage. According to Jewish custom, the marriage contract, which often includes a dowry, is drawn up first. The contract parallels the act of faith we use when we trust Jesus to be our Savior. The dowry is His life, which was used to purchase us. When it’s time for the wedding, the groom goes to the bride's house unannounced. She comes out to meet him, and then he takes her to his father's house. This precisely correlates with the events according to the pre-trib scenario. Jesus, the Groom, comes down from heaven and calls up the Church, His Bride. After meeting in the air, He and His Bride return to His Father's house, heaven. The marriage supper itself will take place there, while down here on earth the final events of the tribulation will be playing out. After the marriage supper of Jewish tradition, the bride and groom are presented to the world as man and wife. This corresponds to the time when Jesus returns to earth accompanied by an army "clothed in fine linen, white and clean" (Rev 19:14).
    What They Didn't Teach You in History Class
    Many groups try to discredit the pre-trib rapture by saying most of the end-time events in the Bible have already taken place. A group of people called preterists claims that the Book of Revelation was mostly fulfilled by 70 AD. If the events described in the Book of Revelation took place in the past, I’m at a loss to explain some of the current situations I see around us: the rebirth of Israel, the reunification of Europe, the number of global wars that have occurred, and the development of nuclear weapons. During history class, I must have slept through the part where the teacher talked about the time when a third of the trees were burned up, 100-pound hailstones fell from the sky, and the sea turned into blood (Rev 8:7-8, 16:21). I think several people would have to question their opposition to the pre-trib rapture doctrine if they knew that the evidence provided to them was based on the understanding that most tribulation prophecies have already occurred.
    The People of the Millennium
    If Christ were to come back after the tribulation, rapture all the saints, and slay all the ungodly, who would be left to populate the earth during the millennium? Only the pre-trib viewpoint can account for this post-trib problem. The Church is raptured before the tribulation, a vast number of souls are saved during this seven-year time frame, and those who make it through the tribulation go into the millennium while the unsaved are cast into hell.
    The Saint U-Turn
    In the pre-trib scenario, after we rise to meet the Lord in the air, we will go to heaven and abide there seven years. At the end of that period, Christ will come down to earth, defeat the Antichrist, and cleanse the temple. In a post-trib rapture, we would rise in the air to meet the Lord, then do a 180-degree U-turn and come back down to earth. Revelation 1:7 states that Christ will appear out of the clouds and come down to earth. Zechariah 14:4 says that His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. If He's already headed our way, why would we need to be caught up to meet Him?
    "Come Up Hither"
    Many pre-trib writers cite Revelation 4:1, which says, "come up hither," as a prophetic reference to the rapture of the Church, leaving Revelation chapters 1 through 3 as a description of the Church Age. After the shout to "come up hither," the Church is not mentioned in Scripture at all. The attention of Scripture switches from the Church to the Jews living in Israel.
    Armies in Fine Linen
    When Jesus returns (Rev. 19:18), an army follows Him. The army’s members are riding on white horses, and they are clothed in fine linen that is white and clean. In Revelation 19:8, we are told that the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. If the saints of God are returning with Christ to wage war on the Antichrist, then it is not possible to have a post-trib rapture without us running into ourselves as we are coming and going.
    The Time of Jacob's Trouble
    In several passages, the Bible refers to the tribulation as a time of trouble for the Jews. The phrase "Jacob's trouble" pertains to the descendants of Jacob. Jeremiah 30:7 says that this time of trouble will come just before the Lord returns to save His people. The final week of Daniel's 70th week is yet to take place. An angel told Daniel that, "70 weeks are determined unto thy people" (Dan 9:24). Scripture never mentions that the tribulation is meant to be a time of testing for Christians. However, some post-tribbers try to claim that they are the ones being tested during the tribulation. To make this so, they need to spiritualize the 144,000 Jewish believers in Revelation 7:2-8 who receive God's protective seal. Placing the Church dispensation into the same time frame as the seven-year Jewish dispensation, as the post-tribbers do, raises one good question: Can two dispensations transpire at the same time? In the past, God has only dealt with one at a time. Having both present during the tribulation would have to be an exception.
    ”He” That is Taken Out of the Way
    Before the Antichrist can be revealed, Paul said a certain "He" must be taken out of the way. According to 2 Thessalonians 2:7, the "He" that must be removed is widely thought to be the Holy Spirit. It has been promised that the Holy Spirit would never leave the Church, and without the working of the Holy Spirit remaining on earth, no one could be saved during the tribulation. The removal of the Church, which is indwelt by the Holy Ghost, would seem the best explanation for this dilemma. The working of the Holy Spirit could go on during the tribulation, but His influence would be diminished because of the missing Church.
    War or Rapture
    (Rev 19:19-21) When Jesus returns at the end of the tribulation, He will be coming for battle. For those who believe in a post-trib rapture, it would be strange to meet your Lord and Savior just as He's rushing into battle. The idea that war and rapture could occur together is difficult to imagine, especially since they transpire at the same moment.
    The Five Foolish Virgins
    The wedding story that Jesus gave in Matthew 25:2-13, I believe, is a parable of the rapture of the Church. It explains how some will not be ready. Jesus clearly states that a group of people will miss out on an event, and will cry out to God to let them into the place where He resides, heaven. Although some try to put this parable in a post-trib context, it doesn't fit very well. The ones left behind in a post-trib rapture will not need to seek the Lord because they'll immediately be confronted by Him and His army of angels.
    God Hath Not Appointed Us to Wrath
    In 1 Thessalonians 5:9, Paul assures us that God has not appointed His people to wrath. This wrath is plainly God's anger that will be poured out during the tribulation. Pre-trib believers interpret this as meaning that Christians will be removed from the earth. Post-trib believers tell a different story. They describe this as meaning that God will protect Christians during the tribulation and pour this wrath out on the unbelievers only. This idea runs against the statement made in Revelation 13:7, in which the Antichrist is given power to make war with the saints and to overcome them. A post-trib view would make God's promise of protection from wrath into a lie. In years past, it was possible to think of being protected from the guns and swords of that day. Today, when any major war would involve nuclear and chemical weapons, it's impossible to expect that same kind of protection. When Nagasaki, Japan was bombed during World War II, the bomb exploded over a Catholic church. Everyone who was in the center of the explosion died--both Christians and non-Christians. The only way to validly interpret God's promise of protection from wrath is by viewing 1 Thessalonians 5:9 as the bodily removal of the Church from this world.
    The Salt of the Earth
    Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth" (Matthew 5:13). When the believers are suddenly removed, the earth will be plunged into spiritual darkness. When this happens, the Antichrist will then be free to control the world.
    God Takes an Inventory
    In Revelation 7:3, an angel descends to earth and seals the servants of God. Two bits of information about this sealing highly disclaim a post-trib viewpoint. The first item is the number of people sealed: 144,000. The second one is that all those who are sealed are from the 12 tribes of Israel. For the events in Revelation 7:3-8 to be true in a post-trib interpretation, either the Church has turned against God or God has turned against the Church. A post-tribber could write a thousand-word commentary about why the Church doesn't need to be sealed. Instead of trying to argue about why the Church is not mentioned or sealed, a pre-trib proponent could just say, "We're already in heaven."
    Noah and Lot as Examples
    The tribulation period is compared to the times of Noah and Lot by Jesus in Luke 17:28. Most people argue over whether the time frame Jesus was talking about in that passage was pre-trib or post-trib. In doing so, they miss an important point. The two circumstances that the Noah and Lot situations have in common are the removal of the righteous and the judgment of the unbelievers. From these two accounts, we see that God prefers to remove His own when danger is involved.
 

We should all remember one thing: Knowing the Antichrist's mother's maiden name isn't the primary goal. Knowing Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and having your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life should be your number-one priority. The jailer asked Paul, "What must I do to be saved?" The answer was, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:30-31).



 

Pets in Heaven?      Do pets go to heaven?

Ecc 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?


Ecclesiastes 3:18-22....

18 I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?


It is considered that man is made up of body, soul, and spirit. God is spirit and God made man in His image--that image is our spirit.

The ancient rabbis taught that animals are made up of body and soul. The soul is what gives an animal its life consciousness and its personality. When a dog dies, its life, its soul leaves the body. Again what makes man unique from the animals is man’s spirit.

The scripture to support that animals have souls is in Genesis 1:24. “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” The word “creature” (Hebrew “nephesh”) is more commonly translated “soul.” Compare Genesis 2:7 where “nephesh” is translated “soul.” “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Strong’s give the following definition to the word “nephesh”
1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
b) living being
c) living being (with life in the blood)
d) the man himself, self, person or individual
e) seat of the appetites
f) seat of emotions and passions
g) activity of mind
1) dubious
h) activity of the will
i) activity of the character


Romans 8
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

 

Exodus 20:10:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, NOR THY CATTLE, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

(He is God of the animals too)


Then we have Balaams donkey-who obeyed the angel of God and spoke:

Numbers 22:21-31


and the laws about the welfare of others:

(the bird and the nest) Deuteronomy 22:6-7


I know that it is written also:


Luk 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

God knows of every sparrow, that is worth but half of a penny, that falls from the sky in death.


So I think........
If he is watching a sparrow as it falls in death.....or knows when each little sparrow takes its last breath, how much more certain I feel that he would undoubtably know when one of his childrens pets die also. I feel that there is a special place for them too.

 

Revelation 19:11:
"And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True."

 

Delight yourself also in the LORD,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart Psalm 37:4

 

Genesis9:8¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9* And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12¶ And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13* I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15* And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17* And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

 

In Romans 8:19-23 the Bible says:

"The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

 

1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.   

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