THE PHONE RANG,
As I was pulling out of my daughter's driveway in Iowa. "Did you use your debit card at the Food Lion store in Asheville, North Carolina, earlier this afternoon?"
I informed the voice on the other end of the line that I've never been to Asheville, North Carolina. She replied that my debit card was being suspended, that these purchases would not a charge to my account, and that a new debit card would be issues soon. That wasn't the first time I'd received such a call, and it may not be the last!
Perhaps you've has the same experience---someone gaining possession of your credit or debit card information and attempting to use it. It's called "Identity Theft",. You'd think that, in this digital age, with all the hi-tech gizmo's and methods we have to verifying identity, it would be very difficult--even impossible -- for someone to steal your identity. I mean, look at the sophisticated ways we have of determining identity.
We've been using fingerprinting data for about 150 years. DNA is commonly used to identify people these days and now machines can do palm prints, even eye retinal scans.
It seems like identity theft would have been easier in the past when there was no photo IDs, telephones, or even a telegraph. Back then people might have traveled with a letter of credit, or even of an introduction. Still considering travel modes, it did not take a great journey for anyone, to be in a area within which not person would have known him.Plus one that has been gone a long time, returning may find that few even recognize him!
Story tellers aft use mistaken or actual identity theft, as Shakespeare oft used in his stage plays, as well as Alexander Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask," about a French King's twin, and Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" and the lesser known "Puddin' Head Wilson" all used I.D theft.
Ironically, it's greatly due to our DIGITAL AGE that makes identity theft so much easier. Many of us do our banking, and purchasing and even paying our bill over the Internet!.This is where all our information regarding our total identity is transformed into nothing more than a set of Ones ans Zeros, either inside telephone, Fiber-optic or the ether, via transmitted signals.
Then these Ones and Zeros are verified not by any human, but simply via a series of computer algorithms.If, then the wrong people get a hold of my digital information, and uses it, the algorithms at the other end have no way of knowing that this new information coming in is NOT from me!
It seems like identity theft would have been easier in the past when there was no photo IDs, telephones, or even a telegraph. Back then people might have traveled with a letter of credit, or even of an introduction. Still considering travel modes, it did not take a great journey for anyone, to be in a area within which not person would have known him.Plus one that has been gone a long time, returning may find that few even recognize him!
Story tellers aft use mistaken or actual identity theft, as Shakespeare oft used in his stage plays, as well as Alexander Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask," about a French King's twin, and Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" and the lesser known "Puddin' Head Wilson" all used I.D theft.
Ironically, it's greatly due to our DIGITAL AGE that makes identity theft so much easier. Many of us do our banking, and purchasing and even paying our bill over the Internet!.This is where all our information regarding our total identity is transformed into nothing more than a set of Ones ans Zeros, either inside telephone, Fiber-optic or the ether, via transmitted signals.
Then these Ones and Zeros are verified not by any human, but simply via a series of computer algorithms.If, then the wrong people get a hold of my digital information, and uses it, the algorithms at the other end have no way of knowing that this new information coming in is NOT from me!
WHERE DOES, OR CAN, ALL THIS BRING US?
This leads to a whole range of opportunities for the thieves, who are unscrupulous, at best.
NOTE: (JB) Ive had my hard drive encrypted, and for a price they give me the code to unscramble all my information, of 100's of Bible lesson. I just just hit delete! Not going to reward crime, with payment! Besides do so once, they';; just come back again and again!
Sadly it is NOT just IDs they steal, but Rod Douglas, a ID theft and scam expert, says, they can take such things as "cell and land line services, cable and satellite TV services, Power , Gas and electrical services, Internet payments intercepted, for health Insurance, car insurance and the like, not to mention home and all mortgage payments rental housing, all payments we make for all our purchases! They can even use your ID to gain employment, and even to deceive the police when {they're} arrested, and set free!
In point of fact, money maybe the least of our worries, of those victimized by ID theft. Christine DiGangi, an editor for Credit.com, said, "While most theft victims don't personally lose money, thieves can leave a trail of poor financial behavior under a victim's name, translating into negative accounts on credit reports and lower credit scores. Victims whose personal information was misused are more likely to experience negative accounts on credit reports because of ID theft than those whose existing account information is stolen."
Identity Thieves, don't just want your money, they want to be YOU! To exercise power over you, and all that you own! Yet, when we stop to think about it, the ULTIMATE IDENTITY THEFT would be to steal the identity of God!
STEALING GOD'S IDENTITY.
The Holy Bible speaks to just that type of crime----
Isaiah 14:12-15 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
NOTE:(JB) many a person, believes that Satan the devil, is not real but a myth to scare people into churches! Yet they ignore the pure evil men do because of him, plus he has powers far beyond ours, yet any and all so-called 'Natural Disasters" are God's will many say, but it's all belongs to Satan, who God uses to wake us all up from our stupors!
Revelation 12:7-9 "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
NOTE: I use this passage whenever I teach about the fall of man, when sin entered into this world! At that time I firmly believe that The Father/God/Creator, put this world in quarantine, to prevent the spread of sin to other worlds of His creation, and have them turn out as earth did! Read Matthew 24, Mark 13, and, Luke 21, and look at all the natural upheavals coming to us at unprecedented rates, and THINK!
Having lost in Heaven and all the other worlds he won over Adam and Eve, who rebelled against God wish, sinned and thus lost their immorality..[ "Thou shalt surely die..." Genesis 2:17]
It was at that point Lucifer, now known as SATAN [Hebrew for opposes] began to reap what he coveted, worship: in the guise of false gods. When the times drew near for Jesus to come to earth, Lucifer/Satan inspired numerous aspiring people to falsely claim that were the Messiah. It was his purpose to steal the Identity of God's Son and thereby continue to sow confusion and discredit Him, even to this very day!
Matthew 4:1-9 "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."
NOTE: Other than the full GODHEAD, all others, are CREATED BEINGS, by the will of the Father, so just how big an ego does Satan have? Big enough, to draw many to his side as we can see------
Revelation 13:2-3 "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."
NOTE: A study of Daniel up to chapter 7 will show: A. a beast power, is a earthly kingdom that puts church and state as one! B. The dragon is primarily Satan, but is also the Bible's name for Pagan Rome, as that great and terrible beast, the two only powers not named by Daniel. Those who know history will know that the Popes of Romes do and have sat, on the thrones of the Caesars! This also God caused to be written---"...and the dragon [Satan] gave him his power, and his seat.. and great authority"
If you deny this, ask self why, 96% of all Christians obey Rome's call for Sun-Day worships, in place of the Bible's Sabbaths?
Mark 2:27 " And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:"
NOTE: To all who hold that the Seventh day Sabbath was ONLY for the Jews, do YOU see the word JEW in read above?
Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: 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 maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."
QUESTION: "How did mankind arrive at a seven (7) day week, why not 10, and have a 3 week month system? [They tried, in both Russia and France}
Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
This is earth's "Birth Certificate"! Plus a God-given weekly memorial to His Creative actions, because He knew that the silly notions of Evolution would soon come from Satan's mind into the minds of many! The time frames of our day, months and year are all set by the rotations of earth, moon around the sun, so the week came from???? GOD!
Satan failed of course, in both Heaven and in his attempt to temp Jesus, as well as to kill Him by ordering his army to kill all males under two in Bethlehem and area around it!
Jeremiah 31:15 "Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not."
Matthew 2:16-17 "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,"
Note: Can YOU now see the why the God's Word is tomorrow's news today? Rehel is Rachael.
But Satan did not stop there, as you read and learned in Revelation 13:2, he's not above changing the hearts of people as he has done in----
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?"
CATHOLIC NATIONAL, JULY 1895: "THE POPE IS NOT ONLY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS CHRIST, BUT HE IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, HIDDEN UNDER VEIL OF FLESH."
Who was this Pope this monthly new letter was speaking about? Pope Leo XIII who said this in his ENCYCLICAL LETTER of June 20, 1984---- "WE HOLD UPON THIS EARTH THE PLACE OF GOD ALMIGHTY."
NOTE: Rome has many, Jesus loving people, who shall enter into the kingdom, God's eternal Kingdom. but their leadership members?????? That's for God to decide! Remember ONLY GOD can forgive our sins, no priest is able, beyond sins by others to his own person!
So, how would one go about trying to steal the identity of Jesus Christ?--- always go to the Word of God...
Matthew 24:23-28 "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together."
Revelation 1:7 "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."
Note: HIS REWARD shall be with Him, thus all HIS OWN shall be resurrected and changed into immortals, and all who reject Him shall perish! Hence the eagles who will feast upon their flesh
Now claiming to be Jesus is easy, as He's been pictured in so many differing ways, BUT what if this imitation also preforms miracles of healing the sick?......
Revelation 13:13-14 "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."
Note: Calling down fire from above, would that not grab attention? Plus if they were kind, soft spoken and walk upon the after how many would think this is the true and real Jesus? Only those who know not the Holy Bible!-----
2 Thessalonians 2:8-9 "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,"
Note: Satan, is the first supernatural being we shall see in his body, taking on the appearance of Christ, and claiming to be Him! BUT he is the "INSTEAD OF CHRIST" THE ANTICHRIST.
2 Corinthians 11:14 "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light."
NOTE: It is Satan that produces all those Mary sightings, as well as the wounds of the people, imitating Jesus' wounds, plus all those bleeding carvings, issuing either blood or olive oil! Yes he can fool even----
Matthew 24:23-27 "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Note: How can men read into that passage anything remotely the meaning of a "Secret Rapture?" Many a man has made a fortune writing about this stuff! BUT-----
Matthew 16:26 "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
QUESTION: "What do anti-counterfeiters study, the real of the fake bills? They study the real ONES! Just as we must study the real Jesus so we can recognize the the counterfeit one portrayed by Satan! And we have but one book to study Him from the Holy Bible! So get to know Him personally via the word and prayers and you'll not be fooled by an imitation!
Prayer is talking to and with a FRIEND!
Thank YOU for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Need MORE? Visit your Seventh day Adventist church, any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM. Please know God loves you much more than you can know!
Other sites: aftv.org blbn.org. amazingdiscoveries.org
jb.
Need MORE? Visit your Seventh day Adventist church, any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM. Please know God loves you much more than you can know!
Other sites: aftv.org blbn.org. amazingdiscoveries.org
jb.
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