Psalm 119:121 -128

Amos 8:11 "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]. :13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst."

A famine in the physical sense is a fearful thing. In the days of Amos, it was cataclysmic. Entire cultures could be wiped out by a famine. It is in this sense that Yahweh spoke of another type of famine through the prophet Amos. "...not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:" Many have suggested that these could not possibly the days of "famine". Why? Because we have a host of television networks devoted entirely to christianity and evangelism. Radio stations broadcast "christian music and teachers" from every corner of the globe, while churches stand on every corner of every street, steeples literally fill the landscape. How could this be famine?

"...but of hearing the words of the LORD:" We look not at a famine of religious teaching, but rather of scriptural teaching. How dare we confuse the lawlessness of today's "gospel" with the Words found throughout the whole of scripture. In an age of unfettered "freedom", restrictions are abolished and the boundaries of scripture are despised. The pure word meant to seperate light from darkness is diluted and distorted beyond all recognition. Rather than seperation, today's church strives for unity, at any cost, and even the New Testament instructions of Paul are deemed outdated and divisive.

1Timothy 1:20 "Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme."

1Corinthians 5:11:" But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."

1Timothy 5:20 "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear."

They would revolt against the words of the Messiah Hinself. Matthew 18:15 " Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican."

Could it bebecause this wisdom has it's roots in the law of Yahweh? Leviticus 19:17 " Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him." This comes right before the commandment the Messiah called the second great commandment. :18 "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD."

Yahweh's Word has always DIVIDED the light from the darkness, never united them. So it is now in this day there has truly come a famine not for hearing religious substance, but of hearing the actual WORDS OF YAHWEH!

Psalm 119:126 "[It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law. Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold."

And what makes gold so valuable and precious? It's rareness and scarcity. Take comfort, all who love The Father's Commands, for it is in just such a time when Yahweh shall "work".

Be afraid, all who turn from The Father's Commands, for it is in just such a time when Yahweh shall "work".

Glorious Father Yahweh, Thy word is life itself. Give me, I pray Thee, discernment in these last days before the Return of Yahoshua the Messiah, lest I be decieved or exploited. Keep my eyes upon Thee I pray, and help me not to look to the right or to the left. Let Thy Word be a lamp unto feet and a light unto my path, that I may always bring unto You the Glory You alone deserve.

HalleluYah!

1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.
1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.
1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.
1793 - Ralph Hodgson patented oiled silk.
1861 - Texas voted to secede from the Union.
1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."
1867 - In the U.S., bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
1893 - Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.
1898 - The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT, issued the first automobile insurance policy. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.
1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
1913 - Grand Central Terminal (also known as Grand Central Station) opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world.
1920 - The first armored car was introduced.
1920 - Canada's Royal North West Mounted Police changed their name to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The organization was commissioned in 1873.
1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
1951 - The first telecast of an atomic explosion took place.
1951 - The first X-ray moving picture process was demonstrated.
1957 - P.H. Young became the first black pilot on a scheduled passenger airline.
1958 - The United Arab Republic was formed by a union of Egypt and Syria. It was broken 1961.
1960 - Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They had been refused service.
1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was welcomed in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.
1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.
1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.
2001 - Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.
2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.

Psalm 119: 129-136

Psalm 119:141 "I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts."

We can often feel very alone, very seperated from like minded brethren. Day after day of being buffeted by a world which despises us and exalts itself against all we cling to and believe. Often we are estranged from family and friends. People who we shared much of our lives with and possess endless memories of, now seperated from us by the very beauty of the life we have discovered in our Messiah Yahoshua.

Even so-called brothers and sisters of the faith may drive us from their presence, as we strive for a deeper walk in Yahweh's Holy Spirit. They have not desired the deeper walk, or may have rejected the idea of being "peculiar people". Our true fellowships may be miles and miles apart, seperated not by faith but by distance, which at times seems insurmountable.

We don't eat the same foods, dress the same way, celebrate the same festive days, worship on the same day; even the very Name of our Father in heaven can be source of division, and of lonliness.

Matthew 10:22 "And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."

We are not promised an easy road. In fact we have an absolute guarantee of hardship. We have been told in no uncertain terms the lonliness and seclusion that our road would bring. We are, after all referred to over and over again as a remnant, and a remnant is a very small thing.

But it is precisely to a remnant that the promises of Yahweh are made. Where now is seclusion, soon we will have a fellowship of light unimaginable; not only with our fellow laborers, but with the One True God Yahweh Himself. Where now we are hated, soon we will see our very enemies kneel before us. Where now we are ridiculed as peculiar, odd, or one of those kind of people, soon we will be in the very Presence of the Ever-Living, and seated upon thrones in His Holy Kingdom

James 1:12 "Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."

Take heart, o child of Yahweh Sabaoth. There is a remnant, and our time draws swiftly near.

Oh heavenly Father Yahweh! Thank You for the Power of Your Presence and for the fellowship I have with You. Help me to not look at my present circumstances, but to look forward to Thy coming Kingdom, and the Glory that I shall know before Your Throne. Let Thy Holy Spirit comfort me now, and lead anad guide me in Your Path of Righteousness.

HalleluYah!

1536 - The Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.
1653 - New Amsterdam, now known as New York City, was incorporated.
1848 - The Mexican War was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty turned over portions of land to the U.S., including Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The U.S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and assumed responsibility of all claims against Mexico by American citizens. Texas had already entered the U.S. on December 29, 1845.
1848 - The first shipload of Chinese emigrants arrived in San Francisco, CA.
1863 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens used a pseudonym for the first time. He is better remembered by the pseudonym which is Mark Twain.
1878 - Greece declared war on Turkey.
1880 - The S.S. Strathleven arrived in London with the first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia.
1887 - The beginning of groundhog day in Punxsutawney, PA.
1892 - William Painter patented the crown-cork bottle cap.
1893 - The Edison Studio in West Orange, NJ, made history when they filmed the first motion picture close-up. The studio was owned and operated by Thomas Edison.
1897 - The Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg was destroyed by fire. The new statehouse was dedicated nine years later on the same site.
1913 - Grand Central Terminal officially opened at 12:01 a.m. Even though construction was not entirely complete more than 150,000 people visited the new terminal on its opening day.
1935 - Leonard Keeler conducted the first test of the polygraph machine, in Portage, WI.
1943 - During World War II, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered to the Soviets. Stalingrad has since been renamed Volgograd.
1945 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill left for a summit in Yalta with Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1962 - The 8th and 9th planets aligned for the first time in 400 years. 1971 - Idi Amin assumed power in Uganda after a coup that ousted President Milton Obote.
1980 - The situation known as "Abscam" began when reports surfaced that the FBI had conducted a sting operation that targeted members of the U.S. Congress. A phony Arab businessmen were used in the operation.
1989 - The final Russian armored column left Kabul, Afghanistan, after nine years of military occupation.
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton introduced the first balanced budget in 30 years.
1999 - 19 people were killed at Luanda international airport when a cargo plane crashed just after takeoff.
1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías took office. He had been elected president of Venezuela in December 1998.
2004 - It was reported that a white powder had been found in an office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) later confirmed that the powder was the poison ricin.

Psalm 119:137-144

2Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"

There are many varieties of "christianity" these days, almost as many varieties of "christians". As the centuries have passed many liberties have been taken with the Gospel of the Kingdom. In our modern age many so-called lifestyles, creeds and beliefs have become acceptable to "churchianity", but does that make them acceptable unto Father Yahweh? Not if scripture is to be believed, for scripture boldly proclaims that Yahweh never changes, and that Yahoshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today and forever. He does not alter His thinking according to the whims of society; and just because man now says certain things are now acceptable, that doesn't make it so, no matter how many degrees a man may have nor how convincing his argument may be.

:4 "And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

What is turning away their ears from the truth? Psalm 119:142 "Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth."

In a pleasure mad, freedom obsessed culture, with it's corresponding church, the message of "REPENT!" does not make one many friends. Ours is a solitary existence, forcing us deeper into the Shadow of the Ever-Living God's Wing. While many may be the afflictions of the righteous, even more are the joys of The Holy Spirit. There is joy and life in obediance, and only the time honored message of "REPENT" will actually lead to these.

:16 "At my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge." Have you been in this place? Have you ever, for the sake of righteousness, found yourself forsaken? Take heart, for it is in just such a time that Yahweh reveals Himself more than ever, as our Father. "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me;". Here is glory that the fable lovers shall never know. While they may enjoy the friendship of this world and the reverence of the modern church, they will not know the peace that surpasses all understanding and the joy of the fellowship of The Spirit in this world, and in the world to come.

Blessed Father Yahweh. I Praise Your Holy Name. Thank You Father for calling me out of darkness and into Your glorious Light. Help me, I pray, to stay the course and to not faint, but to run with renewed zeal the race before me, and to be ready for the Brightness of Your Coming.

HalleluYah!

1488 - The Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Diaz landed at Mossal Bay in the Cape, the first European known to have landed on the southern extremity of Africa.
1690 - The first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts colony. The currency was used to pay soldiers that were fighting in the war against Quebec.
1783 - Spain recognized the independence of the United States.
1809 - The territory of Illinois was created.
1815 - The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
1862 - Thomas Edison printed the "Weekly Herald" and distributed it to train passengers traveling between Port Huron and Detroit, MI. It was the first time a newspaper had been printed on a train.
1900 - In Frankfort, KY, gubernatorial candidate William Goebels died from an assasin's bullet wounds. On August 18, 1900, Ex-Sec. of State Caleb Powers was found guilt of conspiracy to murder Gov. Goebels.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax.
1917 - The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1927 - The Federal Radio Commission was created when U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill.
1941 - In Vichy, France, the Nazis used force to restore Pierre Laval to office.
1945 - Russia agreed to enter World War II against Japan. 1947 - Percival Prattisbecame the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, DC. He worked for "Our World" in New York City.
1966 - The first rocket-assisted controlled landing on the Moon was made by the Soviet space vehicle Luna IX.
1969 - At the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed leader of the PLO.
1984 - Challenger 4 was launched as the tenth space shuttle mission.
1988 - The U.S. House of Representatives handed rejected U.S. President Reagan's request for at least $36.25 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.
1989 - South African politician P.W. Botha unwillingly resigned both party leadership and the presidency after suffering a stroke.
1998 - Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker. She was the first woman executed in the U.S. since 1984.

Psalm 119:145-152

2Timothy 4:8 "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

How few there are today that could make such a bold claim. Some might ask, how could Paul make such a proclamation? This was no idle boast. Paul was not looking forward to years and years of living, looking smugly across a great expanse. His death loomed over him. But throughout Paul's "new life" he had faced it many times. There are two significant reasons behind Paul's faith.

1) He knew who he was serving. Paul had more than religion or religious conviction. Paul knew more than a historical God. He was no simple philosopher. No, Paul KNEW Yahweh God! Paul had dwelt in the literal Presence of Yahweh's Holy Spirit. Paul had more than doctrine or denomination, Paul had Yahweh Himself. As a result Paul had seen and experienced the miraculous at every turn. But he also suffered more than any we have ever read about. He had been beaten, stoned, abandoned, imprisoned, lied about, falsely accused, ship wrecked, hungry, cold, snake biten and much more.

No one wants this kind of walk in our modern age! No one will pick up their cross unless it's padded. Many have said that they wanted to see the miraculous it their lives, but they didn't want to pay the price for such a walk. To truly walk in the Presence of Yahweh is to walk apart from the crowd. Paul had walked that walk. Which brings us to the second reason behind Paul's faith.

2) He knew the path he had walked. So many today will talk about heaven, talk about the coming Kingdom, but how many are ready to face what lies between here and there. They're terrified. They see the sin and darkness growing daily around them. They can see the signs of coming horrors, but instead of preparing themselves to face these things in the power of Yahweh's Holy Spirit, they're looking for escape routes. They haven't dwelt in the shadow of the Most High, their path is unproven. Deep down inside these believers are almost at a panic. But Paul faced his destiny with confidence, because he knew that he had walked not A path of righteousness, but THE path of righteousness, and so he looked ahead not to a gruesome death; that was merely the door he had to go through, but to everlasting life, a crown of righteousness. When is the last time you heard a minister, pastor or teacher speak of a crown of righteousness? If you haven't there's a reason.

"...a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." Do you see that? This crown is for those who" love His appearing". These are people who are looking forward to the Return of the King! This life holds little value to such as these, except in what they can accomplish here for Their Redeemer. Paul was saying," I'm ready to be with my Messiah! Whether by His coming here or my going there, I want to be with Him. Everything else is second best.!"

Revelation 21:27 "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."

Do not be decieved. We live in an age of gross spiritual adultery. The church is telling sinners,"Come to gentle Jesus! He will not judge you! Don't worry about the old testament. We're under grace now! Jesus doesn't see your sin, He just loves you and wants you to have your best life now!"

Lies! Multitudes march to death never being told they are condemned. But it doesn't have to be so.

Revelation 22:17 "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." We can look forward, like Paul, and with joy and boldness proclaim,"This world has no power over me anymore, it has no lure for me."

We not only can but we should be praying with every day that comes,"Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Revelation 22:20

Come quickly, Yahweh-Yahoshua, come quickly.

HalleluYah!

1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
1789 - Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1824 - J.W. Goodrich introduced rubber galoshes to the public.
1847 - In Maryland, the first U.S. Telegraph Company was established.
1861 - Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, AL, to form the Confederate States of America. 1901 - "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" opened in New York City.
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid seige to Port Arthur.
1941 - The United Service Organizations (USO) was created.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany's defeat.
1948 - Ceylon gained independence within the British Commonwealth. The country later became known as Sri Lanka.
1952 - Jackie Robinson was named Director of Communication for NBC. He was the first black executive of a major radio-TV network.
1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds.
1964 - The Admistrator of General Services announced that the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had been ratified. The amendment banned the poll tax.
1968 - The world's largest hovercraft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
1973 - The Reshef was unveiled as Israel's missile boat.
1974 - Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1976 - An earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras killed more than 22,000 people.
1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's defense budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the "Star Wars" research program.
1993 - Russian scientists unfurled a giant mirror in orbit and flashed a beam of sunlight across Europe during the night. Observers saw it only as an momentary flash.
1997 - Two Israeli troop-carrying helicopters collided on their way to Lebanon, all 73 soldiers and airmen aboard were killed.
1997 - President Milosevic of Serbia apparently surrendered to the will of his people, ordering his government to recognize opposition victories in local elections held in November 1996.
1998 - In northeast Afghanistan, at least 5,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter Scale.
1999 - Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, was shot and killed in front of his Bronx home by four plainclothes New York City police officers. The officers had been conducting a nighttime search for a rape suspect.
2000 - Austrian President Thomas Klestil swore in a coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. European Union sanctions were a result of the action.
2003 - Yugoslavia was formally dissolved by lawmakers. The country was replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.

Psalm 119: 153-160

2Timothy 4:8 "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

"unto all them also that love his appearing."

I suppose many people think that I am being redundant by constantly insisting that the Return of The Messiah is at our doorsteps. Well, that's because it is. It truly boggles the mind how so many multitudes can see how our present world is unraveling, in perfect step with scripture, yet not take to heart the awesome truth before us. They constantly rationalize, spiritualize and close their eyes to the monumental implications of events unfolding all around us. People really don't want scripture to be fulfilled, they don't want Yahweh's perfect kingdom to come crashing into their everyday lives. Why? Because deep down inside they know that the coming of this perfect kingdom means the destruction of everything else. All of the pitiful plans we have made will suddenly just cease to be. If they were to be brutally honest with themselves, deep inside their thoughts sound like this,"Christ can't come back yet, we're trying to eliminate poverty", or "we haven't set up a christian government yet", or by far the most prevalent,"there's still so many people who haven't gotten 'saved' ".

Sadly, these people aren't going to appreciate The Messiahs return, because they have been enjoying His absence. Yahweh's true Israel people, His true bride, the real citizens of His perfect kingdom, want nothing else but His Return. Whatever it is that we are DOING down here, is only in anticipation of His Return. We want Him to come back, because that's where our hearts have already gone.

It's for this very reason that we grab hold of Yahweh's commandments, His statutes and His judgements. This is not some pathetic attempt to work our way into Yahweh's kingdom, this is obeidiance to the laws He has already established for His kingdom. If you cannot live in submission to those requirements here and now, what makes you think that you will be able to there and then?

2Peter 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless."

It is never hard to tell who is truly looking forward to the Return of the King.

Most Blessed Father Yahweh, Beautiful is Thy Kingdom and it's Holiness. Help me to be ready, O Yahweh, for The Appearing of The Messiah. Help me to not get comfortable in this world here and now, but give me a Holy Spirit Homesickness for Thy Kingdom.

HalleluYah!

1782 - The Spanish captured Minorca from the British.
1783 - Sweden recognized the independence of the United States.
1846 - "The Oregon Spectator", based in Oregon City, became the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast.
1861 - Samuel Goodale patented the moving picture peep show machine.
1885 - Congo State was established under Leopold II of Belgium, as a personal possession.
1881 - Phoenix, AZ, was incorporated.
1900 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which gave the U.S. the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not the right fortify it.
1917 - Mexico's constitution was adopted.
1924 - The BBC time signals, or "pips", from Greenwich Observatory were heard for the first time. They are broadcast every hour.
1931 - Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court. The plan failed.
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1961 - The first issue of the "Sunday Telegraph" was published.
1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria's independence.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2,200-point for the first time. The market closed at 2201.49.
1988 - A pair of indictments were unsealed in Florida, accusing Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, of bribery and drug trafficking.
1994 - White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1997 - Switzerland's "Big Three" banks announced they would create a $71 million fund for Holocaust victims and their families. 2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence to the U.N. concerning Iraq's material breach of U.N. Resolution 1441.

Psalm 119:161-168

Revelation 21:1 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

How can the pitiful plans of men be compared to the plans of Yahweh? Nothing is going to interfere with most people's ideas about the Kingdom of Heaven as much as the ACTUAL Kingdom of Heaven. "Christians" have a great many plans, programs and schedules, but scripture tells us in Proverbs 16:9 "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." and in 20:24 "Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?"

Thus it is here in the final church age of Laodicea," Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: ..."Revelation 3:17. " :20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." This verse is wrongly quoted toward the unsaved sinner by "churchianity", but it was directed to a church, a church that the Messiah was not allowed through the door of.

But it is here at the end of the age that the children of Yahweh should be at the very height of their glory. Our King soon will return. His signs are literally being poured out like rain all around us. Every day should find us rising in expectation, for each passing day brings us closer to the fullfilling of all things. Our hope should be rising to fever pitch.

:3 "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God." Here we have beheld as through a dark glass, but soon we will see the Glory of The Most High God in His entirety. Now we walk day by day, but soon we shall know, even as we are known ( and He knows even the numbers of hairs on our heads ).

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." The Glory of it all! How our hearts should leap within us at the very thought! How much more should we be preparing ourselves for that blessed day!

2Corinthians 6:16 "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

The reward for our obediance cannot even be properly described in the tongues of men. We sanctify ourselves in eager anticipation of the Coming of the Bridegroom. We purify ourselves, looking forward to the absolute joy of the coming of the true Kingdom.

:7 "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Why would we be told to overcome, if there wasn't the need for overcoming something? 1John 2:13 " I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." To be a child of Yahweh, it is assumed that you are overcoming this world and it's darkness.

Revelation 21:8 "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

Those who do NOT purify themelves truly have nothing to look forward to.

Father Yahweh, My Savior and my King, Blessed is Thy Holy Name. Father I look forward to Your Kingdom coming in all Your Glory. Help me to be ready. O Father, look upon and see all that I struggle with, even within my own soul, empower me by Thy Holy Spirit to overcome and be victorious over all sin, and over all the works of the devil in my life.

HalleluYah!

1778 - The United States gained official recognition from France as the two nations signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris.
1788 - Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1815 - The state of New Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1899 - The U.S. Senate ratified a peace treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1900 - The Holland Senate ratified the 1899 peace conference decree that created in international arbitration court at The Hague.
1900 - U.S. President McKinley appointed W.H. Taft as commissioner to report on the Philippines.
1911 - The first old-age home for pioneers opened in Prescott, AZ.
1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.
1937 - K. Elizabeth Ohi became the first Japanese woman lawyer when she received her degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL.
1952 - Britain's King George VI died. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded him.
1956 - St. Patrick Center opened in Kankakee, IL. It was the first circular school building in the United States.
1959 - The U.S., for the first time, successfully test-fired a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.
1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
1972 - Over 500,000 pieces of irate mail arrived at the mail room of CBS-TV, when word leaked out that an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, "The Demand," would be shown.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history.
1998 - Washington National Airport was renamed for U.S. Ronald Reagan with the signing of a bill by U.S. President Clinton.
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan transferred full political power to his oldest son the Crown Prince Abdullah.
2000 - Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Grozny, Chechnya. The capital city had been under the control of Chechen rebels.
2000 - In Finland, Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen became the first woman to be elected president.
2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.
2001 - Ariel Sharon was elected Israeli prime minister.
2002 - A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh to be held without bail pending trial. Lindh was known as the "American Taliban."

Psalm 119:169-176

Revelation 21:23 "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it."

The final seperation of darkness and light. What was begun countless ages ago shall finally be finished. Around those who chose light over darkness, who allowed the light to purify them of all darkness, the ultimate reward: light everlasting. No shadow can loom, no darkness can abide, just light glorious light all around.

:27 "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." What a crushing revelation for those who have not looked forward to The Messiah's Return. They lusted for greater and greater freedom, revolted against boundaries of Kingdom Law, disregarded Yahweh's Standard for holiness, made up their own definitions for sin and holiness; but Yahweh is not mocked. They have found themselves locked out, trapped in the darkness they played and toyed with while on earth.

Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.(anomia-"the condition of one without law," "lawlessness" )"

But for the remnant, there is reward for their sacrifices of this current world. Romans 8:18 "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Whatever heartache, persecution, abandonment or lonliness we have endured on our pilgrimage, they will not even enter into minds in the Presence of the Light which lights the entire world.

Revelation 22:4 "And they shall see his face; and his name [shall be] in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. "

:12 "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Does this promise reach into your heart?

:14 "Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Do not give in, for our reward is great, and all our homesickness shall soon be cured.

Even so, come, Lord Yahoshua!

O Glorious Father Yahweh, how beautiful are Thy statutes. Help me to remember that I am the child of The King, and as Your child, it is even more important for me to uphold Thy Commandments as I represent You before everyone I come in touch with. And help me,O Father, to look not upon any present situation, without looking ahead to the Glory that soon will be mine.

HalleluYah!

1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1877 - The first Guernsey Cattle Club was organized in New York City.
1882 - The last bareknuckle fight for the heavyweight boxing championship took place in Mississippi City.
1893 - Elisha Gray patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents.
1904 - In Baltimore, a fire raged for about 30 hours and destroyed over 1,500 buildings.
1936 - The U.S. Vice Presidentfs flag was established by executive order.
1943 - The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.
1944 - During World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy.
1962 - The U.S. government banned all Cuban imports and re-export of U.S. products to Cuba from other countries.
1974 - The nation of Grenada gained independence from Britain.
1977 - Russia launched Soyuz 24.
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.
1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of the Big Apple.
1986 - Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country. 28 years of family rule ended.
1991 - The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president.
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan died. His son was sworn in as king four hours after the announcement that his father had died. 2001 - Robert Pickett, 47, fired several shots at the White House near the South Lawn. He was subdued after being shot in the knee. No one else was hurt in the incident.

Psalm 46

Romans 12:19 "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."

There are many who believe that scriptures such as this are examples of "The New Testament Church" being under grace, and no longer under any obligation to the Old Testament and it's Commandments, statutes and judgements. Here Paul shows us acting in love and "Christ-like" mercy. What so many "New Testament Christians" don't realize is that Paul is teaching from the Old Testament!

Proverbs 25:21 "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee."

The writers of the new testament had NO NEW TESTAMENT! Their frame of reference was the "Law and the Prophets." When they write about grace, love and mercy, it is from the Old Testament, from The Law and The Prophets that they bring forth their treasures.

As we sanctify ourselves and purify ourselves in preperation for the Glorious Day of His Coming, let us not be led astray by every wind of doctrine and new "emerging" teaching. 2Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;". We have been told before hand, for we see the unraveling of time all about us. Look not to the new and provocative, nor meddle with those who seek change. Plant your feet upon the solid rock of the foundation of all scripture, the Law and the Prophets, and there you will see the love of Yahweh demonstrated time and again, and see in graphic detail the proper love towards our brethren.

The bride of the New Testament was the Bride in the Old Testament, Israel. In the Old Testament married, adulterous and divorced from Yahweh. In the New Tesatment, redeemed and brought back into covenant, rebetrothed unto her Master through the Sacrifice of Yahoshua, and now anxiously awaiting the Day of her Wedding.

O Heavenly Father Yahweh, glorious is Thy Name, and the Name of Yahoshua exalted above every other name. Purify me and make me ready, that I may look forward to the day of Your Coming with boldness and eagerness.

HalleluYah!

1587 - Mary, the Queen of Scots, was executed.
1693 - A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
1861 - The Confederate States of America was formed.
1861 - A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapohoe leaders accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments.
1900 - In South Africa, British troops under Gen. Buller were beaten at Ladysmith. The British fled over the Tugela River.
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria.
1910 - William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.
1918 - "The Stars and Stripes" newspaper was published for the first time.
1922 - The White House began using radio after U.S. President Harding had it installed.
1924 - The first U.S. execution to make use of gas took place in Nevada State Prison.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died on February 6.
1963 - The Kennedy administration prohibited travel to Cuba and made financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.
1968 - In Orangeburg, SC, three college students died during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley after a confrontation with highway patrolmen.
1969 - The last issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" was published.
1971 - The Nasdaq stock-market index debuted.
1973 - U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.
1974 - The three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after 84 days.
1978 - The U.S. Senate deliberations were broadcast on radio for the first time. The subject was the Panama Canal treaties.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.
1993 - General Motors sued NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC.
1999 - In Sri Lanka, 23 rebels were killed in fighting with Sri Lankan forces.

Psalm 49

Revelation 2:1 " Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted."

Ephesus was a literal church, but prophetically speaking, it (along with the other churches spoken to here) also represented an age or segment of church history. As such, Ephesus takes a special place as the very first stage of the church. The name Ephesus meant," to let go", and here we may see the "first love" of this church and this age.

"I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil:" Here there was much virtue. Light was seperated from darkness and those who had become known as "christians" were zealous in their love for Yahweh and for The Messiah. They eagerly "let go" of this world and it's darkness, and shined so bright that "christianity" spread like wildfire, "turned the world upside down", and drew the masses of "put away" or lost Israel, also called "gentiles" back to the Father. Just as we, when we first come into fellowship with the truth, are energized and set aflame.

What was their first love? Yahoshua the Messiah. Here is the danger for all of us. As we continue in our faith, it is easy to become caught up in the "christianity" part, and forget the "Christ" part. Our faith, once alive and on fire, becomes religion, ritual, habit. Not that there is anything wrong with the idea of rituals, but we too often come to look at the ritual as the actual faith.

We must stay ever vigilant, to make sure we stay in fellowship with Yahweh Himself through the lifegiving power of His Holy Spirit. True faith is about communion with Yahweh, not rituals to Yahweh.

O Holy Father Yahweh, help me not to be spiritully lazy, or become slack towards You in anything. Let my heart be open and my resolve firm, so that whatever happens this day I will be found ready.

HalleluYah!

1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president. No candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.
1861 - The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis as its president.
1870 - The United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. The bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS).
1884 - Thomas Edison and Patrick Kenny executed a patent application for a chemical recording stock quotation telegraph (U.S. Pat. 314,115).
1885 - The first Japanese arrived in Hawaii. 1942 - The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II.
1942 - Daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the U.S.
1943 - During World War II, the battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.
1950 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism."
1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight.
1971 - The San Fernando Valley experienced the Sylmar earthquake that registered 6.4 on the Richter Scale.
1971 - The Apollo 14 spacecraft returned to Earth after mankind's third landing on the moon.
1975 - The Russian Soyuz 17 returned to Earth.

Psalm 85

Revelation 2:6 "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." So who were the Nicolaitans? They were a heretical sect that claimed there was no need to obey or acknowledge the Law of Yahweh God. They were attempting to introduce new standards of holiness and righteousness into the church of Yahoshua the Messiah.

It shouldn't be surprising that as long as there have been Yahweh's laws there have been people trying to abolish them, and this was the sin ( or at least the main one which made all the others possible ) of the Nicolaitans. But do notice that word so ignored by the "New Testament Church" of today-hate. Yes, Yahweh/Yahoshua does hate. This may seem terribly contrary to the image of "gentle Jesus, meek and mild" painted by todays "churchianity", but indeed the Messiah hates, and among the things that He hates are the deeds of the Nicolaitans, those law abolishers. And the hatred of the Ephesian church of their deeds also warranted praise from The Messiah. Remember that this was the church that," canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:".This first church divided the light from the darkness.

Psalms 97:10 "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil:", Proverbs 8:13 " The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." Yes, there is a time to love and a time to hate, but in today's world all that is preached is that God is Love. Yahweh God is love, but He is also a jealous God; He is merciful, but is also vengence. He is gracious, but He also hates. To seperate any of His characteristics from the others is not honest. Yahweh does not need us to make Him seem gentler, or to make apologies for His actions or judgements. In so doing we do Him no justice, and we rob the sinner of truly understanding the nature of sin.

But Yahoshua's praise for the Ephesian church rested on their hating what He hated. There are many today that embrace that which Yahweh hates, and then there are others who run about hating things Yahweh never said that He hated. The key to knowing is in the Word and in the Spirit, and one never contradicts the other.

We must be vigilant to guard our selves at all times from straying out of Yahweh's plan.

My Precious Father Yahweh! Guard my heart and my affections, I pray Thee. Put in my heart I pray, love and hate. Love for You and Your Word, love for all my brothers and sisters that I might be constant in prayer on their behalf and help to them in their time of need, love for all who stand in need of Your grace and salvation enough to show them the way. Hate, that I might put away all that does not please You, O Holy Father, and keep my path seperate from all darkness.

HaleluYah!

1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.
1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their exodus to the west from Illinois.
1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.
1870 - The city of Anaheim was incorporated for the first time.
1870 - The YWCA was founded in New York City.
1879 - The electric arc light was used for the first time. 1923 - Ink paste was manufactured for the first time by the Standard Ink Company.
1925 - The first waterless gas storage tank was placed in service in Michigan City, IN.
1933 - The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.
1934 - The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City.
1935 - The Pennsylvania Railroad began passenger service with its electric locomotive. The engine was 79-1/2 feet long and weighed 230 tons.
1942 - The Normandie, the former French liner, capsized in New York Harbor. The day before the ship had caught fire while it was being fitted for the U.S. Navy.
1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
1981 - The Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino caught fire. Eight people were killed and 198 were injured.
1989 - Ron Brown became the first African American to head a major U.S. political party when he was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
1997 - The U.S. Army suspended its top-ranking enlisted soldier, Army Sgt. Major Gene McKinney following allegations of sexual misconduct. McKinney was convicted of obstruction of justice and acquitted of 18 counts alleging sexual harassment of six military women.
1998 - A man became the first to be convicted of committing a hate crime in cyberspace. The college dropout had e-mailed threats to Asian students.
1998 - Voters in Maine repealed a 1997 gay rights law. Maine was the first state to abandone such legislation.
1999 - Avalanches killed at least 10 people when they roared down the French Alps 30 miles from Geneva.
2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future saying that it needed the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
2009 - A Russian and an American satellite collide over Siberia.

Psalm 83

Revelation 2:8 "And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

Smyrna means "anointing oil", and The Anointing of Yahweh was most prevalent during this age of church history which lasted between 100 and 313 A.D., the most intensive time of persecution and tribulation of the christians.

"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich)". Although this age was saw christianity as a whole driven underground by both jewish persecution and Roman persecution, the Messiah proclaimed them to be rich. The church of this age was truly dividing the light from the darkness.

There was no rebuke to the Smyrna church, but rather a foretelling of glorious suffering which was to be their's for being a light in the midst of great darkness. Did Yahoshua promise to deliver them from their tribulation? No. Rather He admonished them to be faithful unto death!

Notice that the crown of life is not offered to just anyone who might "make a decision for Christ". It is offered to those who are "faithful unto death. Just as Paul looked past his own impending doom toward the reward that awaited him, and all that "loved His appearing."

Matthew 10:22 "And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."

Most people want to settle the matter of eternity in a moment so that they can get on with their lives, but we are admonished to " work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Philipians 2:12. But still, people want a "convenient christianity", one that doesn't interfere with all the other areas of life. They don't want to take up their cross unless it is made of lightweight materials and padded for their comfort.. Comfortable christians want no part of this "enduring to the bloody end" buisiness, and "being faithful unto death". But these Smyrna -age believes were believers in the fullest sense of the word. These believers were the true "greatest generation", and are true examples that it is under the crushing of trial and tribulation that our faith is made perfect.

"and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan." :9.

Here we have one of the most ignored statements in all of scripture. Why? Why is this phrase so ostracized by contemporary christianity? It's implications are more vast than most preachers, ministers and evangelists are willing to take on. It challenges the bulk of modern theology and what passes as prophecy teaching today. It cannot be ignored, for it involves blasphemy and stolen identity. There are few who understand the true nature of the Kingdom of Yahweh God or of prophecy, because they have not dealt with this scripture honestly, and in so doing, have themselves come under the sway of this blasphemy.

But if we are to recieve a crown of life, we must not love this world nor fear it's rebuke. We must believe not just in the here and now, but in the reward that is promised to come.

My Father Yahweh, help me to yearn for Thy Coming and for Thy Kingdom! Help me to be a living sacrifice unto You, that I might truly begin laying up treasure in heaven and shunning this world's riches.

HalleluYah!

1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America.
1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.
1812 - The term "gerrymandering" had its beginning when the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, signed a redistricting law that favored his party.
1858 - A French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes. 1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
1936 - Pumping began the process to build San Francisco's Treasure Island.
1937 - General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union, thereby ending the current sit-down strike against them.
1940 - NBC radio presented "The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street" for the first time.
1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 - During World War II, the Yalta Agreement was signed by U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a stewardess by making her initial flight.
1972 - McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish an autobiography of Howard Hughes. The work turned out to be fake.
1979 - Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his followers.
1984 - The tenth Space Shuttle mission returned to Earth safely.
1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris became the first woman to be consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
1990 - Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.
2000 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off. The mission was to gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever made.
2000 - Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline.

Psalm 55

Revelation 2:12 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan's seat [is]: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas [was] my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth."

The name of Pergamos means " to be married to power." The Pergamos Age began in 313 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine called a halt to the christian persecution and made "christianity" the official state religion. Being the official state religion COULD have been a good thing, seeing as how there is NO seperation of church and state in Yahweh's Law for the nation. But unfortunately, this christianity was not the same that multitudes had sacrificed their very lives for.

There is quite a bit of history behind Pergamos, "where satan's seat is". When Babylon was thrown down by the Medes and Persians, the priesthood of the mystery religion of Baal escaped and came to this place called Pergamos. The high priest carried the title "pontificus maximus", a title that would later be bestowed upon the head of this new "married to power" christianity.

The Roman Empire was a pagan empire. The conversion of this empire to christianity was not one wrought by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh, bringing the lost into communion with the Father and obediance unto His Law. This conversion was wrought by subtlety and slight of hand. Pagan customs and beliefs were renamed and repackaged for easier digestion of the idol worshipping masses.

The commandments of the Ever-Living God were changed and soon an unholy hybrid stood as a monolith, demanding to be worshipped. Yahweh's Holy Sabbath was changed to the "venerable day of the sun", the first day of the week when the pagans worshipped their false god/demons. The holy, feast days of the Israelite forefathers were replaced by the holy days of the mysteries of Baal and Ashtoreth. The commandments began to give way to superstitions and traditions of men. In time, this unholy giant would darken all the land, denying the actual scriptures to the people it lead, allowing them only twisted glimpses of corrupted versions. For over a thousand years, this darkness would rule "in the name of Christ".

The gifts and miracles of the Holy Spirit that were so prevalent the first two and half centuries of the church would diminish (but not disappear). There would be a remnant that would not bow before this imposter, but always at a great price.

"Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth." This is none other than the Word of Yahweh God.

Modern "christianity" is overflowing with ideas and practices that have been "christianized". In place of prayer meetings that would last the entire night, we now have "christian rock concerts". In place of deliverance and healing we now have "christian pschiatry and counseling." We have seminars, conferences and every kind of outreach available. In the age of Pergamos the darkness was no longer held at bay, and mixture entered in. We must ask ourselves, should anything that is a product of the world be christianized, repackaged as christian so as to make it more palatable for unbelievers?

If we would see the True Majesty of Yahweh in our lives and in the lives of others, we must hold the line and deliver by His Spirit and His Spirit alone. We must divide the light from the darkness and not waver. Darkness or gloom mean nothing to the blind. Light is what they need to pierce their darkness.

My Pecious Heavenly Father Yahweh, Deliver me I pray Thee from the temptation to make Your Word appear more appealing to others by not holding it up in it's entirety. Help me to resist every urge to make Your Kingdom more appealing to others, by omitting anythng they may not like to hear. Help me Father, to divide the Light from the darkness.

HalleluYah!

1541 - The city of Santiago, Chile was founded.
1554 - Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine days.
1733 - Savannah, GA, was founded by English colonist James Oglethorpe.
1870 - In the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote.
1892 - In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.
1907 - A collision of the steamer Larchmont and a schooler resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident occurred off New England's Block Island.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1912 - China's boy emperor Hsuan T'ung announced that he was abdicating, ending the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty. Subsequently, the Republic of China was established.
1915 - The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, DC.
1918 - All theatres in New York City were shut down in an effort to conserve coal.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential political speech on radio.
1971 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to the company's founder.
1973 - The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs.
1973 - American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge declared that the presidential line-item veto was unconstitutional.
1999 - U.S. President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.
2001 - The space probe NEAR landed on the asteroid Eros. It was the first time that any craft had landed on a small space rock.
2002 - Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S. Congress about the collapse of Enron.
2002 - The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic began at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. Milosevic was accused of war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
2003 - The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties. The complaint was sent to the Security Council.

Psalm 42

Revelation 2:18 "And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first."

"Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not."

Thyratira means ruled by a woman, and when this age started around 606 A.D. the Baal dodtrine of the "Queen of Heaven" had started to take firm root in the Roman church. Once the darkness of paganism was allowed to mix with the faith of the early christians, the inevitable avalanche of heresy and idolatry was only a matter of time. There was a remnant of course, for there is always a remnant. They were hunted and hounded, but they could not be extinguished.

We cannot escape the fact that a little leaven will eventually fill the entire lump. Guard yourself always, for a little sin here and a little sloth there will eventually lead to the ruin of all your testimony, and can undo much that the Father Yahweh may have done.

Mark 13:35 " Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. "

Father Yahweh, glorious is Thy Word and Thy Law. Thank You for the gift of Your Holy Spirit. Keep me, I pray Thee on ever vigilant guard, not just for the external enemies of my soul, but for those enemies that would come from within my own self.

HalleluYah!

1542 - Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
1635 - The Boston Public Latin School was established. It was the first public school building in the United States.
1741 - "The American Magazine," the first magazine in the U.S., was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1875 - Mrs. Edna Kanouse gave birth to Americafs first quintuplets. All five of the baby boys died within two weeks.
1880 - Thomas Edison observed what became known as the Edison Effect for the first time.
1889 - Norman Coleman became the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
1900 - The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor of Germany and the U.S.
1914 - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (known as ASCAP) was formed in New York City. The society was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 - The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality of Switzerland.
1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the German army.
1945 - During World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden.
1955 - Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 - France detonated its first atomic bomb.
1971 - South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.
1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 1297.92 after it topped the 1300 mark earlier in the trading session.
1990 - In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
1991 - Hundreds of Iraqis were killed by two laser-guided bombs that destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad. U.S. officials identified the facility as a military installation, but Iraqi officials said it was a bomb shelter.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.
1997 - The Dow Jones industrial average passed the 7,000 mark for the first time. The day ended at 7,022.44.
1999 - A bomb exploded just outside a government-owned bank in southern Kosovo. Nine people were killed.
2001 - El Savador was hit with an earthquake that measured 6.6 on the Richter Scale. At least 400 people were killed.
2002 - In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh pled innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
2002 - Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

Psalm 57

Revelation 3:1 "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee."

With the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500's began the age of Sardis or "precious stone". The Spirit and the Word of Yahweh began to move upon the hearts and minds of men. Men held in darkness by 1000 years of Roman darkness saw in the precious Word of Yahweh light for the very first time. As a precious remnant renounced the works of Babylon and "came out of her" the Word was made available to all for the first time in centuries, that all might have the choice of light or darkness.

But after 1000 years of pagan Rome, many things would remain lost for a season, and even though renouncing Rome for it's wickedness, the daughters that came out of her would still cling to a great many vain traditions and superstitions. "Coming out of her" was a beginning but the worthwhile men who began this work could only carry the act so far.

2Kings 10:11 "So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining."Jehu was given a divine to commission to bring about a reformation in the Northern Kingdom of Ten Tribed Israel, and he set about it with all the determination he possesssed. :16 "And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot."

All the house of Ahab was destroyed from the face of the earth, Baal temples were destroyed and hosts of priests and worshippers of Baal were slaughtered, until, of this one variation of idolatry scripture says," 2Kings 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. "

Jehu purged Israel of the purest form of the evil of demonic worship, but he too stopped short of the mark.

:29 " Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan".... :31 "But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin."

So it was that in spite of Jehu's ruthlessness, sin still remained and Israel began to be cut short. Just like the reformers that would come thousands of years later to a dispersed and regathered Israel far away, suffering under a similar plague, the purifying, the purging, the reforming, would stop just short of it's glorious mark. Why? "But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart:" So it is that the "daughters " of the great harlot, though at one time full of zeal and the very best of intentions, have come full circle, and now stand side by side with their "mother" and await coming judgement.

As Yahweh calls His People today to "come out of her", will you and I go all the way? Will we show ruthlessness to all the error and sin in our own hearts, or will we pick and choose what we shall purify?

Father Yahweh, forgive me, I pray Thee, for all the slackness that still finds a home in me. Let there be a revival, a reformation, a purifying and a purging, and let it be in me.

HalleluYah!

1778 - The Stars and Stripes was carried to a foreign port, in France, for the first time. It was aboard the American ship Ranger.
1803 - Moses Coats received a patent on the apple parer.
1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the picture.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd member of the Union.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876.
1889 - In Los Angeles, CA, oranges began their first trip to the east.
1899 - The U.S. Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections.
1900 - Russia imposed tighter imperial control over Finland in response to an international petition for Finland's freedom.
1900 - In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts invaded Orange Free State with 20,000 troops.
1903 - The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1912 - The first diesel engine submarine was commissioned in Groton, CT.
1912 - Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. The first president of the organization was Maude Wood Park.
1929 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.
1940 - The first porpoise born in captivity arrived at Marineland in Florida.
1945 - Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joined the United Nations.
1946 - ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world's first general purpose electronic computer.
1961 - Lawrencium, element 103, was first produced in Berkely, CA.
1979 - Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists. He was killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
1980 - Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News."
1983 - A 6-year-old boy became the first person to receive a heart and liver transplants in the same operation.
1985 - Cable News Network reporter Jeremy Levin was freed. He had been being held in Lebanon by extremists.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie because of his novel "The Satanic Verses."
1989 - The first satellite of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit around Earth.
1989 - Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India. The court-ordered settlement was a result of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.
1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery began a series of spacewalks that were required to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.
1998 - U.S. authorities officially announced that Eric Rudolph was a suspect in a bombing of an abortion clinic in Alabama.
2002 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan bill. The bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate, would ban millions of unregulated money that goes to the national political parties.

Psalm 50

Revelation 3:7 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Beginning in the 1700's, the Philedelphia or "brotherly love" church saw the rise of outreaches and revivals, the likes of which none today can remember. Missioaries were venturing throughout the world taking the Word of the Ever-Living God. Horseback preachers rode hundreds, if not thousands of miles in their lifetimes to spread the Gospel and build churches of believers in every town, village and settlement.

In the early part of the 1800's, two significant events took place. For the first time, men began to preach the returning of the Son of Man. Truly the cry began to go out,"the Bridegroom cometh". Simultaneously, the Key of David began to be published to the masses. What is the Key of David? The Israel truth! Queen Victoria sat on a righteous throne, in complete understanding that she was indeed a descendant of David, sitting on David's Throne, ruling over the regathered tribes of Israel. As this key was made known to more and more, greater and greater displays of Father Yahweh's love, mercy and power were made manifest. From those early Israel believers would come the Welsh Revival, the Latter Rain revivals and the outpouring of Yahweh's Holy Spirit. There were imposters to be sure, but never before had Yahweh so vividly shown Himself to His Israel people.

"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."

Ironically, it was also during this time that christianities greatest enemies began to develope and emerge. The Scurge of zionism hatched schemes that would keep the next age mired in war. The lies of higher criticism, psychology and "the rapture theory" all would soon begin chipping away the church's foundation of faith.

We may survive many a storm and tempest holding Yahweh's banner high. We may come through long spells of drought and privation and see our faith strengthened. But when we are at our best, beware! The little things may go unnoticed, and before we are aware, all our victories lay a shambles.

Song of Solomon 2:15 "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:"

Father Yahweh, I thank You for all the ways that You have been at work in my life. I thank You for calling me and seperating me unto Yourself. Help me, I pray Thee to walk worthy of You, and to walk humbly before You, for You are all that has ever made me anything at all.

HalleluYah!

1758 - Mustard was advertised for the first time in America.
1764 - The city of St. Louis was established.
1799 - Printed ballots were authorized for use in elections in the state of Pennsylvania.
1842 - Adhesive postage stamps were used for the first time by the City Dispatch Post (Office) in New York City.
1879 - U.S. President Hayes signed a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1898 - The USS Maine sank when it exploded in Havana Harbor for unknown reasons. More than 260 crew members were killed.
1900 - The British threaten to use natives in their war with the Boers.
1903 - Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants, introduced the first teddy bear in America.
1933 - U.S. President-elect Roosevelt escaped an assination attempt in Miami. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in the attack.
1942 - During World War II, Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.
1965 - Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.
1982 - During a storm, the Ocean Ranger, a drilling rig, sank off the coast of Newfoundland. 84 men were killed.
1985 - The Center for Disease Control reported that more than half of all nine-year-olds in the U.S. showed no sign of tooth decay.
1989 - After nine years of intervention, the Soviet Union announced that the remainder of its troops had left Afghanistan.
1991 - The leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland signed the Visegard agreement, in which they pledged to cooperate in transforming thier countties to free-market economies.
1995 - The FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick and charged him with cracking security in some of the nation's most protected computers. He served five years in jail.

Psalm 51

Revelation 3:14 "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. "

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."

Beyond all doubt, the harshest rebuke and criticism to any of the ages of the church comes at the last to the Laodicean (ruled by the laity or congregation) age which some have suggested started in the mid 1800's, but is far more likely to have begun in the early 1900's. It was here that all the errors of higher criticism, psychiatry, secret rapture of the saints and the mounting zionism were joined with far eastern philosophies, humanism, and a revival of Roman power and influence on the governments of nations and the protestant churches as well. Added to all of this as the age would progress, the "latter rain" of Yahweh's Holy Spirit upon the Israelite believers, was overshadowed and corrupted by a false "charismatic" outpouring, the ultimate goal of which appears to be the reconciling of all "christians" into a unified one-world religion.

This church makes much ado about love, grace, freedom and ministry; yet it harbors a contempt and hatred for the commandments and statutes of the Living God. This church is marked with conferences, seminars, coventions, etc.. It has entire television channels dedicated to "spreading the gospel", but which gospel? This is a church marked by worldliness as no other age for 2000 years has been.

This is a church in love with itself, truly overwhelmed with itself. So hypnotized by it's own wisdom and worldly achievements, by it's numbers and ministries, it never realizes how utterly debased it is in the eyes of the Messiah who is forced to stand outside the door of His own supposed church and knock as a stranger instead of the Lord of the house.

This is the end of all compromise. Once started down the path letting in a little darkness here and a little darkness there, it gains momentum, careening out of control until all we have are our steeples and buildings, a few catch phrases and form of godliness (empty religion) that denies the power threreof.

Beloved brethren, guard yourselves zealously. Give no quarter to sin and it's darkness. Better to be abandoned and despised by brothers, sisters fathers, mothers, wives and children for righteousness sake, than to "spued from The Master's mouth"on the day of judgement.

Merciful Father Yahweh! Look upon Your Israel people and deliver us not just from our enemies, but from ourselves. We are people loaded with sin and rebellion. Turn our hearts back unto You and to Your Pure Word. Let us give ear to Your Rebuke in these final hours and turn back to Your paths of Righteousness.

HalleluYah!

1741 - Benjamin Franklin published Americafs second magazine, "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle".
1804 - A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates.
1857 - The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College.
1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN.
1914 - The first airplane flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco took place.
1918 - Lithuania proclaimed its independence.
1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922.
1932 - The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham for a peach tree which ripens later than other varieties.
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont.
1938 - The U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program was authorized.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines.
1946 - The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut.
1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
1960 - The U.S.S. Triton began the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip ended on May 10.
1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
1987 - John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.
1989 - Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed.
1999 - A bomb exploded at the government headquarters in Uzbekistan. Gunfire followed the incident. The event apparently was an attempt on the life of President Islam Karimov.
1999 - Kurds seized embassies and held hostages across Europe following Turkey's arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
1999 - Testimony began in the Jasper, TX, trial of John William King. He was charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was later convicted and sentenced to death.
2002 - The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods.
2005 - The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations.

Psalm 52

The promises of our Heavenly Father Yahweh are not given to the lukewarm, the dabbler or the casual christian. Many a halfhearted soul has tried in vain to appropriate the promises of Yahweh God, but in the end vanity was truly all they grasped. The nations of Israel are filled with "christians", but this has become a sentimental term at best. Others are filled with ministry and outreach, but they are no more ready to meet the

Messiah on the Day of His Coming than the Buddhist, the Moslem or the Orthodox Jew. Many will cry out in that Day, Lord, Lord we were in the ministry..." But He will declare that He never knew them and banish the workers of iniquity, lawlessness, from His sight.

Over and over scripture shows us that it is to a remnant that the promises are made. Yahweh does not call us to be "christians", but to be fiery shining lights in the midst of great darkness. The Messiah did not suffer the agony of the cross for sunday worship and "rock concert praise and worship services". He died to bring forth a witness against the darkness, that would love not their lives even unto death. We are called to be overcomers.

The promises of Yahweh are to overcomers, people who will DWELL in the secret place of the Most High, who seek Him with ALL their hearts. If ever it seems that our Father Yahweh has abandoned us or not fulfilled His Word, the fault will always lie in our not giving OUR utmost. We are called to overcome the devil, we are told to overcome this world, we are told to overcome sin.

What have you and I overcome lately?

O Heavenly Father Yahweh, Mighty is Thy Name, Glorious are Thy Works! Search me and know me. Light a fire in my soul for You and You alone, O Glorious Father. Forgive me, I pray, for all my complacency, my doubt and unbelief. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit, merciful Father, and glorify Your Holy Name through me I pray!

HalleluYah!

1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.
1817 - The first gaslit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD.
1865 - Columbia, SC, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in.
1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.
1878 - In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones.
1897 - The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA.
1933 - "Newsweek" was first published.
1934 - The first high school automobile driverfs education course was introduced in State College, PA.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Eniwetok Atoll began. U.S. forces won the battle on February 22, 1944.
1947 - The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population. (Westberry v. Sanders)
1997 - Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school. Starr reversed the announcement four days later.
2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director.

Luke 11

Luke 11:20 "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you."

The Kingdom of Yahweh God has become many things to many people. It has been redefined and repackaged many times in order to keep it up to date with whatever contemporary standards may be considered the "norm" at any particular time, but the Kingdom is not so abstract as others might teach.

Also you can tell a great deal about a man and his walk with the Father by how he approaches the concept of "the Kingdom of God". There are those who look to politics and flesh and blood rulers to somehow establish or maintain the Kingdom of Yahweh, even though it is written,"flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom." Others would look to revolution and war to overthrow our present Babylonian world systems and establish Yahweh's kingdom on earth; but these have usually only read just enough scripture get themselves into real trouble. Both of these approaches toward the Kingdom of Yahweh God ironically ignore the most important aspect of a kingdom-THE KING!

Then there are those which have made the Kingdom of Yahweh God into a strictly spiritualised realm of clouds, angels, harps and sweet bye and bye, even though we are told in no uncertain terms that the Kingdom of Yahweh will be found right here on the earth.

The Messiah demonstrated the Kingdom over and over again, by the demonstration of POWER! The Kingdom of Yahweh has a history, but it is not historical, the Kingdom of Yahweh has a future, but it is not futuristic. The Kingdom of Yahweh is very real, very now, and very right here.

And if you are a citizen of the Kingdom of Yahweh, it is exactly where you are right here and now. You may have a glorious future one day, but you are not in the future, you are in the present. You may have had a glorious past or perhaps a pitiful past, but you are not in the past, you are right here right now, which is ironically exactly where the Kingdom of Yahweh just happens to be located at this very moment.

So there should be no pining over that which has passed, nor should we be twiddling our thumbs in waiting. We are given this day, and in this day we should be walking in the power and authority of the Kingdom of Yahweh.

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, do it as unto Yahweh and exalt Yahweh and you will be doing the will of Yahweh.

Precious Father Yahweh, Thank You for this day, for this is the day that You have made, and help me to rejoice and be glad in it. Help me to live as if I had no tommorrow and to glorify You in all that I do.

HalleluYah!

1564 - The artist Michelanglelo died in Rome.
1685 - Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, and thus formed the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1735 - The first opera performed in America. The work was "Flora" (or "Hob in the Well") was presented in Charleston, SC.
1841 - The first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11th.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the President of the Confederate States.
1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time.
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane.
1930 - The planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. The discovery was made as a result of photographs taken in January 1930.
1952 - Greece and Turkey became members of NATO.
1970 - The Chicago Seven defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1972 - The California Supreme Court struck down the state's death penalty.
1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise went on its maiden "flight" sitting on top of a Boeing 747.
1987 - The executives of the Girl Scout movement decided to change the color of the scout uniform from the traditional Girl Scout green to the newer Girl Scout blue.
1998 - In Russia, money shortages resulted in the shutting down of three plants that produced nuclear weapons.
1998 - In Nevada, two white separatists were arrested and accused of plotting a bacterial attack on subways in New York City.
2003 - In South Korea, at least 120 people were killed when a man lit a fire on a subway train.

Psalm 56

1Corinthians 2: 4 "And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. "

Odd. Paul was a man with the very best religious training, yet this was not the basis for his teaching. Paul did not rely upon his storehouse of scriptural knowledge, nor his excellence in philosophy to reach the lost sheep of Israel. Why not? Of all the people who could have reasoned with others, it would certainly seem that Paul would be the man for the job. But Paul knew better. It wasn't logical persuasion that struck him blind on the road to Damascus, it was the power of Yahweh/Yahoshua.

Paul's religious training had put him AGAINST the very God he thought that he served, but it all became clear when from the blinding light,"...why persecutest Me?" Isn't it incredible that as Paul's spiritual eyes were opened, his wise, physical eyes were blinded. Paul was learning a very important lesson. That no man comes unto Yahoshua, except the Spirit of Yahweh/Yahoshua draw him. Paul's conversion wasn't brought about by reasoning nor debate. He was a man struck blind by the hand of the Messiah Himself, and then made to see again by a common believer walking in faith and obediance. All of Paul's wisdom and training were undone.

Once his eyes were reopened he secluded himself and reevaluated all that he had known. He seperated the true Word of Yahweh from the traditions of the elders that had been passed down to him. For three years he seperated truth from fiction, commandment from superstition, and found in scripture Yahoshua the Messiah.

Paul realized that the Holy Spirit of Yahweh could do more in a moment than all the preaching he could muster, and he could muster quite a bit. People truly needed to be taught what thus saith Yahweh; but they need to meet Him in Person and see for themselves that He is not only real, but very much alive. How different the reasoning of today's church. More and more emphasis is placed on patterns, schedules, techniques, programs and demographics. To the original church, the emphasis was on the power of the Holy Spirit and utter reliance upon the leading and guiding of the Spirit.

We would all do well to follow Paul's example and seperate ourselves that we might seperate our sentiments from our faith, and to learn also our utter need for more Holy Spirit and less of ourselves.

Heavenly Father Yahweh, Holy is Thy Name. Father, even at my best I am in constant need You and Your Power. Forgive me, I pray Thee, for any arrogance or pride that I might have been walking in, and help me to be truly humble and dependant upon You and You alone, that I might be a vessel Yours to fill.

HalleluYah!

1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama. He was later tried and acquitted on charges of treason.
1846 - The Texas state government was formally installed in Austin.
1856 - The tintype camera was patented by Professor Hamilton L. Smith.
1864 - The Knights of Pythias was founded in Washington, DC. A dozen members formed what became Lodge No. 1.
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).
1881 - Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.
1942 - Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.
1945 - During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
1953 - The State of Georgia approved the first literature censorship board in the U.S. Newspapers were excluded from the new legislation.
1959 - Cyprus was granted its independence with the signing of an agreement with Britain, Turkey and Greece.
1963 - The Soviet Union informed U.S. President Kennedy it would withdraw "several thousand" of its troops in Cuba.
1985 - William Schroeder became the first artificial-heart patient to leave the confines of the hospital.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty outlawing genocide. The pact had been submitted 37 years earlier for ratification.
1986 - The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping of China died at the age of 92. He was the last of China's major revolutionaries.
2001 - The museum at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center was dedicated.
2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft began using its thermal emission imaging system to map Mars.

Jeremiah 3:11-25

Zechariah 4:6 " Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."

So many traps we fall into because we do not know our Heavenly Father Yahweh as our Father indeed. We look to our own devices, our own intellect, our own strengths. Unfortunately Yahweh is usually very uninterested in these things. The things that He is searching for tend to be the exact opposite. While we imagine that Yahweh wants from us more and better education, more scholarly bible teaching, a more complete outreach, better programs, etc., etc., etc.; what our Heavenly Father is looking for is some simple minded individual to read His Holy Word and just believe, truly believe it with all his heart. A man such as this might truly turn the world upside down.

1Corinthians 1:25 "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men."

One of our main downfalls is the pride and arrogance that somehow all that we experience is about us. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Some have read the bible and concluded that it is about Yahweh's Israel people, but this is an immature conclusion. Everything from Genesis to Revelation is about Yahweh God, Israel is a tool and a vessel that The Father has chosen to reveal and manifest Himself both to and through.

The whole of human history in reality belongs to Yahweh, for all the expanse of time is but a testimony unto Yahweh's power and desire. From the womb to the grave our existence is meant to be a testimony unto Him, yet we mistakenly assume that these are our lives to do with as we wish. Yahweh is wanting to reveal Himself to others, and so very often our "wisdom and knowledge" gets in the way. Even the holiness that Yahweh has called us to is meant to bring Him glory. "He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for HIS NAME'S SAKE." Psalm 23.

2Corinthians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

We may constantly begrudge our own limitations, but in so doing we have limited The Father. " Oh if only I could sing beautifully, then would I sing of The Father before all men." Sing now and sing anyway, for even the croaking of the bullfrog was created by Yahweh. If only I had more education...", You have all the education that you need there on your table. The Word of Yahweh obeyed in faith is of more value than many doctorates in all the errors of men. When we confess our weaknesses and our limitations as excuses, we are actually saying that they are more powerful than the Ever-Living God.

No more excuses. Give thanks unto Yahweh for all that you are, and then offer up your entire self as a living sacrifice unto Him, and He will take all your feebleness and frailty and glorify Himself as you never could.

My Heavenly Father Yahweh, glorious is Thy Name! Help me, I pray Thee, to walk in the power of Your Presence and not in my own. Deons do not fear me, but they tremble before You, O Yahweh/Yahshua. If there be anything inmy life which hinders the working of Your glorious power, I beg You to knock it out of Your way, for You are all that matters.

HalleluYah!

1673 - The first recorded wine auction took place in London.
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act thereby creating the U.S. Post Office.
1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
1815 - The USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart fought the British ships Cyane and Levant. The Constitution captures both, but lost the Levant after encountering a British squadron. The Constitution and the Cyane returned to New York safely on May 15, 1815. The Cyane was purchased and became the USS Cyane.
1839 - The U.S. Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
1872 - Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.
1873 - The University of California got its first Medical School.
1880 - The American Bell Company was incorporated.
1931 - The U.S. Congress allowed California to build the Oakland Bay Bridge.
1933 - The U.S. House of Representatives completed congressional action on the amendment to repeal Prohibition.
1944 - "Big Week" began as U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers during World War II.
1952 - Emmett L. Ashford became the first black umpire in organized baseball. He was authorized to be a substitute in the Southwestern International League.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1965 - Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
1987 - A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, UT. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
1993 - Two ten-year-old boys were charged by police in Liverpool, England, in the abduction and death of a toddler. The two boys were later convicted.
2001 - FBI Agent Robert Phillip Hanssen was arrested and charged with spying for the Russians for 15 years.

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Scripture Reading Proverbs 6

2Chronicles 34:1 "Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left."

Judah had fallen into decay and bore no resemblance to the righteous kingdom of David of old. Wicked kings had brought demonic idols andapostasy into the land, and the land groaned under their corruption. But in the fullness of time Yahweh raised up a king, righteous and bold to lead the people into a revival of holiness.

He raised up a child. All of eight years old he was when he ascended the throne, but in his innocence he showed more wisdom than his forefathers. He walked in the ancient paths and purged the kingdom of all that might offend his Heavenly Father Yahweh. Once the filth was melted down, cut asunder, and plowed under, he set his eyes on restoring the glory to Yahweh's House.

Here in the decay of abandoned worship, a mysterious book was found, the book of the law.

:19 "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes... :21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book."

King Josiah had already shown righteousness by walking in all the light that he knew, but when confronted with THE WHOLE TRUTH, he saw what a terrible predicament they were in. He didnot shrink from the light but embraced it. Neither did he give the responsibility to others or hide behind some false idea such as seperation of church and state, but he, the king of Judah personally led the repentant charge back into Yahweh's holiness.

So it was that Yahweh chose an unlikely hero, a child, to restore a righteous witness unto Himself. If we are to truly live by faith, we will always be pleasantly surprised at the tools ourFather chooses for His tasks.

Heavenly Father Yahweh Father, look upon Your Israel people, for truly have come to a ruined place. Help Your chosen peple to find again Your book of the law, that we might be revived in the ways of true holiness and all our idols be finally cast down HalleluYah!

1804 - The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
1858 - The first electric burglar alarm was installed in Boston, MA.
1866 - Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a dental school. The school was the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati.
1874 - The Oakland Daily Tribune began publication.
1878 - The first telephone directories issued in the U.S. were distributed to residents in New Haven, CT. It was a single page of only fifty names.
1916 - During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France. The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over Germany.
1925 - The first issue of "The New Yorker" was published.
1932 - William N. Goodwin patented the camera exposure meter.
1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera went on sale the following year.
1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
1973 - Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert. More than 100 people were killed.
1975 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.
1988 - In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted prostitute.
1989 - U.S. President Bush called Ayatollah Khomeini's death warrant against "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior."
1995 - Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. He landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Scripture Reading Psalm 10

2Chronicles 34:30 "And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers."

There are far too many in christian israel who cry out for return to so called constitutional government, not realizing the blessings they are throwing away by settling for scraps and crumbs, when they could be dining at the Father's table. It is sad enough that "churcianity" with it's "judeo-christian" philosophies would join hands with the notion of "seperation of church and state", but when the descendants of Jacob-Israel, who otherwise teach the perfect law of Yahweh add their voices to to such false notions, nothing good can come.

Our inheritance is a kingdom, and our Father's government is quite different than what we've seen exalted before times. In Israel of old it was the king who plotted the course of the people, whether holy or unholy. Josiah not only experienced revival in his own life, he then purged Judah of her abominatins and led the peole himself in reconfirming the covenant between them and Yahweh. No where in the law of Yahweh do we see a seperation of church and state. There is no freedom of religion in Yahweh's kingdom, there is only the worship of the One True God, or else. There are many in our modern age who have blinded themselves to the "or else", but it is still there, waiting for them in eternity.

And as much as feeble men would love to mix the pureness Yahweh with the abominations of others, it will not stand. Josiah was moved with fear, not reverance or pious respect, but literal fear of the curses and judgements guaranteed for their apostasy, so clearly spelled out in the "book of the law" Modern churchianity and even many within christian-israel have thrown out the fear of Yahweh, thus manyabominations have entered in, and now there is only a waiting for the judgements, for the curses are abundant around us.

Let us look away from this miserable world, with it's politics and systems, and earnestly seek the Coming of the King, who will not seperate church and state, but rule with a rod of iron, bringing true peace and holiness once and for all.

Our Holy Father Yahweh Father, we thank You that we live in the final days before the Return of the Messiah. Help us to purify our lives and our hearts and to keep our eyes on the coming of Your Kingdom. HalleluYah!

1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
1784 - "Empress of China", a U.S. merchant ship, left New York City for the Far East.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.
1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."
1865 - In the U.S., Tennessee adopted a new constitution that abolished slavery.
1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.
1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.
1923 - The first successful chinchilla farm opened in Los Angeles, CA. It was the first farm of its kind in the U.S.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1973 - The U.S. and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.
1994 - The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.
1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.

Psalm 53

2Chronicles 35:1 "Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month."

Josiah led the people back to the lamb. The national repentance brought on by Josiah, culminated in a Passover celebration greater and more heartfelt than any for many generations.

How long the remnant had waited for such a revival. Yahweh always has a holy emnant unto Himself, even in the darkest of times, and here was no exception. How the few righteous of Jerusalem and Judah must have grieved under the governments of Manasseh and Amon, seeing the cruel bloodshed that filled the land, the abominations that multiplied around them. There was a remnant, unable to overthrow the rebels against Yahweh's law, able only to keep themselves and their families seperate from the wickedness and to cry out unto their Father Yahweh.

And wait. So many presume that they must "do" something about the lawlessness around them, but who are they? Man is nothing without the power of the Holy Spirit both directing them and empowering them. We must never fall into the trap of thinking that our circumstances have some how caught Yahweh by surprise. He has seen from the foundations of the earth each sparrow fall. His mighty plans are launched years before His Name is ever called upon, and long before we, His fleshly tools are even concieved, our Father has ordained our missions.

We must never fret, but rest in His Faithfulness, and wait for His Timing.

Blessed Heavenly Father Yahweh Help me to see, I pray Thee, all that You are doing, not only around me but through me, and to not become anxious over anything, but to trust in You and You alone. HalleluYah!

1574 - France began the 5th holy war against the Huguenots.
1660 - Charles XI became the king of Sweden.
1792 - The Humane Society of Massachusetts was incorporated.
1813 - The first U.S. raw cotton-to-cloth mill was founded in Waltham, MA.
1820 - The Cato Street conspiracy was uncovered.
1821 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries established the first pharmacy college.
1822 - Boston was incorporated as a city.
1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
1839 - In Boston, MA, William F. Harnden organized the first express service between Boston and New York City. It was the first express service in the U.S.
1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.
1861 - U.S. President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take his office after an assassination attempt in Baltimore.
1861 - Texas became the 7th state to secede from the Union.
1870 - The state of Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.
1875 - J. Palisa discovered asteroid #143 (aka Adria).
1883 - Alabama became the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
1887 - The French/Italian Riviera was hit by an earthquake that killed about 2,000.
1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.
1900 - The Battle of Hart's Hill took place in South Africa between the Boers and the British army.
1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
1910 - In Philadelphia, PA, the first radio contest was held.
1915 - Nevada began enforcing convenient divorce law.
1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
1927 - The Federal Radio Commission began assigning frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters. On July 1, 1934 the name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1940 - Russian troops conquered Lasi Island. 1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.
1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
1955 - The French government was formed by Edgar Faure.
1958 - Juan Fangio, 5-time world diving champion, was kidnapped by Cuban rebels.
1963 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
1966 - The Bitar government in Syria was ended with a military coup.
1970 - Guyana became a republic.
1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $4 million more for the release of Patty Hearst. Hearst had been kidnapped on February 4th.
1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Iran's new parliament would have to decide the fate of the hostages taken on November 4, 1979, at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces. 1997 - It was announced by scientists in Scotland that they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal. The animal was a lamb named "Dolly."
1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.
1998 - In central Florida, tornadoes killed 42 people and damaged and/or destroyed about 2,600 homes and businesses.
1999 - In Ankara, Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan was charged with treason. The prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for the Kurdish rebel leader.
1999 - White supremacist John William King was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering James Byrd Jr. Byrd was dragged behind a truck for two miles on a country road in Texas.
2005 - The New York, NY, city medical examiner's office annouced that it had exhausted all efforts to identify the remains of the people killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, due to the limits of DNA technology. About 1,600 people had been identified leaving more than 1,100 unidentified.

This Day in History

Psalm 37

Psalm 123:2 "Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. "

Of all the things we find in scripture, none are as undoing to all our desires as WAITING. It goes against our grain. We long to rush out and save the world. So full of eager plans and expectations, surely we must be meant to fly full fury into the waiting storm. We might even spiritualise our impatience by saying,"but we muust be about our Master's buisiness." But do we even know what is our Master's buisiness? Usually not. Yahweh's buisiness is about bringing us into His image, and this is a buisiness that takes place daily in the mundane affairs of day to day living.

If we were to be truly honest with ourselves, the real reason why we long to launch forward into activity is boredom. We are bored with our jobs, bored with our stations in life and yearn for a little excitement. Be careful, you may end up finding excitement, and end up yearning for the mundane. But to this present time we are being taught, conditioned, conformed into His image who has called us. It is in the mundane living from day to day that our faith is being built up. As we learn to walk in obediance to Yahweh's commandments and statutes, we are learning the very practical matters of walking in the paths of righteousness.

Isaiah 8:17 "And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him."

Many think that they must bring about the last days revival, but how can they bring about what Yahweh has not begun? True, Yahweh's Holy Spirit is bringing a Holy Remnant to fruition, but this has been entirely HIS doing, no one else's. We are not promised a great revival in scripture, we are promised a great persecution and much tribulation in these last days, and that alone will be excitement enough to anyone.

Isaiah 30:18 "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him."

"therefore will he be exalted,". Yahweh is wanting to exalt Himself, not you or I. The world does not totter on the brink of destruction because we are not exalted, but because He is not exalted. We are learning to exalt our Heavenly Father right now. In the home, before our families, on the job, in the jail cell. Live to the fullest the righteousness of Yahweh where you are right now, and all His desire will be done in you and through you.

"blessed [are] all they that wait for him."

Blessed Heavenly Father Yahweh. Please keep me in Your path and let me not begin down any other, I pray. In You alone is everything that I need, and You alone are what all others need. Give me discernment to know the difference between the leading of Your Holy Spirit and my own "good ideas". Only You know the end from the beginning, so I ask You, O Heavenly Father Yahweh, to be in complete control of my path and my life.

HalleluYah!

1803 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled itself to be the final interpreter of all constitutional issues.
1839 - Mr. William S. Otis received a patent for the steam shovel.
1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published.
1857 - The first shipment of perforated postage stamps was received by the U.S. Government.
1863 - Arizona was organized as a territory.
1866 - In Washington, DC, an American flag made entirely of American bunting was displayed for the first time.
1868 - The first parade to use floats occurred in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.
1868 - The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson.
1886 - Thomas Edison and Mina Miller were married.
1900 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck signed the contract to begin work on New York's first rapid transit tunnel. The tunnel would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. The ground breaking ceremony was on March 24, 1900.
1903 - In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an area was leased to the U.S. for a naval base.
1925 - A thermit was used for the first time. It was used to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam that had clogged the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY.
1938 - The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially.
1942 - The U.S. Government stopped shipments of all 12-gauge shotguns for sporting use for the wartime effort.
1942 - The Voice of America (VOA) aired for the first time.
1945 - During World War II, the Philippine capital of Manilla, was liberated by U.S. soldiers.
1946 - Juan Peron was elected president of Argentina.
1956 - The city of Cleveland invoked a 1931 law that barred people under the age of 18 from dancing in public without an adult guardian.
1981 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
1983 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1100 mark for the first time.
1983 - A U.S.congressional commission released a report that condemned the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
1987 - An exploding supernova was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award to Rev. Jerry Falwell that had been won against "Hustler" magazine. The ruling expanded legal protections for parody and satire.
1989 - Iranfs Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death for his novel "The Satanic Verses". A bounty of one to three-million-dollars was also put on Rushidie's head. 1997 - The U.S. The Food and Drug Administration named six brands of birth control as safe and effective "morning-after" pills for preventing pregnancy.
1999 - In southeast China, a domestic airliner crashed killing all 64 passengers.

Job 14

Isaiah 40:31 "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint."

Why do so many professing christians fall by the wayside after much apparent service to the Yahweh? They have led conferences and seminars, cast themselves into one so called ministry after another, but they have never waited upon Yahweh. Why are so many "pastors" and elders falling into unscriptural teachings and practices, calling for making alliances with those which scripture forbids us to ally ourselves with, or teaching from things other than scripture? Why are their so many "christians" calling for us to vote for politicians who are clearly unscriptural or calling for revolution in an attempt to bring about the kingdom of Yahweh? They have not waited upon Him.

This world with all it's darkness takes a toll on us, but in waiting upon Yahweh we are refreshed, renewed and thus are restrengthened to keep going. This is why so many faint by the wayside, fall into error. They have been too busy being busy, and have seperated themselves from their Source of Power and Strrength.

Jeremiah 14:22 "Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things]."

In the end, we can do nothing in ourselves anyway. we have absolutely nothing to offer Yahweh except our faith and our obediance. What happens after that is always HIS wonders to perform, not ours. The world does not languish for lack of Christian radio, internet and television shows, nor is their any lack for books, magazines and brochures. Seminars, conferences and rallies are in abundance. But of righteous men of Yahweh, who seek Him with all their hearts and wait upon Him to send them forth in His Holy Spirit Power and Annointing, there is truly a famine.

Do not get into such a hurry that you find you've run where Yahweh has not led. There is nothing as pitiful as a man of Yahweh without Yahweh; but there is nothing as inspiring as those who are exactly where they are meant to be at the exact moment they are meant to be there.

It is Yahweh's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.

My Heavenly Father Yahweh. help me to be in the very center of Your will this day. My plans and schemes are never as perfect as Yours. Let me walk in the Power of Your Presence, that I might not simply be blessed, but that I will be a blessing and bring glory unto You.

HalleluYah!

1570 - England's Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
1751 - Edward Willet displayed the first trained monkey act in the U.S.
1793 - The department heads of the U.S. government met with U.S. President Washington for the first Cabinet meeting on U.S. record.
1836 - Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun".
1901 - The United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.
1919 - The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC.
1930 - The bank check photographing device was patented.
1933 - The first aircraft carrier, Ranger, was launched.
1948 - Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.
1956 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow.
1972 - Germany gave a $5 million ransom to Arab terrorist who had hijacked a jumbo jet.
1986 - Filippino President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule after a tainted election.
1999 - William King was sentenced to death for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, TX. Two other men charged were later convicted for thier involvement.
1999 - In Moscow, China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Russia's President Boris Yeltsin discussed trade and other issues.
2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.

Psalm 25

Genesis 37:5 "And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren: and they hated him yet the more."

Why do we not see great men working great works of Yahweh these days? True, there are countless reasons we could name, but perhaps the question is better asked, why am I (or you) not doing great deeds for Yahweh? Perhaps you have recieved a dream, a vision or a direction for your life that was even confirmed in the mouths of two or more witnesses. Yet here you are, and the vision is no closer. In fact it would seem that events and circumstances have unfolded that made the dream seem utterly impossible. What has happened? Did you miss a turn somewhere? Was it all a figment of your imagination? These things are possible, but there is one other possibility.

You are in Yahweh's school. Many young men in a fire of zeal have rushed off to bible college or seminary in order to fullfill their heavenly vision, only to have the flames extinguished by the wretchedness of the doctrines and errors forced upon them. But Yahweh has a school all His own, and for those who seek a higher path, this is the only school that will do. It has no structure, it's classes are twenty-four hours a day, day in and day out. There are no diplomas at the end, usually no grand graduations, and the teachers can be the most despicable you will ever meet.

Joseph had a dream. Then he had a second. Leadership and greatness were sure to be his future. But was Joseph ready? To his brothers he was no more than a spoiled brat, overly pampered by his father and becoming arrogant with his own station. And who knows how much truth there may have literally been to these accusations. Was Joseph ready? No.

Joseph had to be humbled, brought to the end of his own opinion of himself, and in so doing, learn the greatness and the nature of the God that had given him his dreams. For Joseph's dreams were not meant for his own exaltation, nor even for the coming glorifying of Yahweh's covenant people Israel. Joseph's dreams, thus his destiny, were intended to exalt and glorify Yahweh Himself.

Genesis 37:23 "And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, [his] coat of [many] colours that [was] on him; And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it. "

So how does this glorify Yahweh, you may ask? Well it is not immediately apparent, but Yahweh is in no hurry in the perfecting of His chosen vessels. He is tending to quality, not quantity. Thus began Joseph's higher education. Betrayed by his own brothers, his precious coat given to him by his adoring father ripped from his body and cast into a pit. And this was more merciful than the original suggestion, for the hatred of his own brethren originally suggested his death. But even here the mercy of the Ever-Living God was ever present. But the point is Joseph's dream had not procured sympathy, love nor allegiance from his own kin, but rather jealousy, envy and hatred. How could Joseph's dream possibly come true?

:28 "Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt."

Now sold into slavery. Does this look like a young man coming to leadership or rulership? So far Joseph's commision, his dream and destiny, have brought him only torment and humiliation. Our paths may seem utterly contrary to good sense, but if Yahweh is truly directing them, rest assured, they are leading you somewhere. We do well not to preconcieve Yahweh's plans and purposes, for our Father in heaven is not working for our glory, but for His.

Merciful Father Yahweh, forgive me I pray Thee, for all doubt, and for not trusting You in the midst of adversity. Deliver me, I pray, from my own selfishness and self pity, and help me to exalt and praise Your Holy Name.

HalleluYah!

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba. He then began his second conquest of France.
1848 - The second French Republic was proclaimed.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public.
1881 - S.S. Ceylon began his world-wide cruise, beginning in Liverpool, England.
1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
1933 - A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Crissy Field for the Golden Gate Bridge.
1945 - In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.
1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile.
1987 - The Tower Commission rebuked U.S. President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.
1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1995 - Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain's oldest investment banking firm.
1998 - A Texas jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.
1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
2002 - In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.
2009 - Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic was acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.

Psalm 27

Genesis 37:36 "And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard. "

To most people none of this would have seemed like a deam coming true. Joseph seemed to be about as far from being a ruler as he could go. So far, Joseph's situation would have been enough to dash the faith of most christians in our modern day. Betrayed by his own brothers, sold into slavery, taken a captive into an alien land, and now sold to an Egyptian. But suddenly scripture makes an incredible proclamation:

Genesis 39:2 "And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian."

Yahweh was with Joseph. How unthinkable to most. Most would demand toknow, "if Yahweh God was with Joseph, why was he allowed to be betrayed, why was he allowed to be turned into slavery?" But our thoughts are not Yahweh's thoughts, neither our ways His. We tend to look to our own comfort as evidence of Yahweh's Hand in our lives. In our covienience and prosperity crazed age, the idea of Yahweh dealing thus with one of His chosen is unthinkable. Yet there it is-Yahweh was with Joseph, even through all this tragedy.

Genesis 39:4 "And Joseph found grace in his (Potiphar) sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] he had he put into his hand."

Joseph could have rebeled. He could have insisted on his divine call to be a ruler, but he didn't. He took his new circumstance and applied himself to doing his best job possible for his new Egyptian master, and in doing so, he brought blessing unto himself and unto his master's household. Humility was already well at work in Joseph's disposition.

Genesis 39:7 "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me."

And so now Joseph is tempted, with that most common of temptations. This one lure alone has shipwrecked more lives than can be counted, and after all that Joseph had endured, some might not have blamed him had he succumbed to the adulteress' advance. But Joseph had other ideas.

:9 "[There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

Perhaps Joseph had begun to question his dreams. Perhaps he had doubted what he had felt was Yahweh's destiny for his life. But hae had not yet begun to doubt Yahweh God Himself. Joseph was going to stand for Yahweh's righteousness even though his own circumstances screamed that he was abandoned. Faith looked past the pain, past the humiliation, past the wrongs he had suffered; and whatever else he may have thought and felt, he would stand for Yahweh God.

:19 "And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled." Gen 39:20 "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the prison."

Can anyone imagine what it must have been like? Betrayed again. He that had done only that which was right was wronged even more deeply. Now he didn't even have his position as overseer of an Egyptian's household. Now he was even worse off than a slave, he was a prisoner in a dungeon. And think of this, Joseph did not go into prison being heralded as a hero for standing up for his faith, oh no. Joseph went into the prison under the stigma of a traitor to his master and an attempted rapist. At least as a slave he still had the opportunity of an honorable slave. Now under this new stroke, he was robbed of the only thing that he had left: his reputation.

:21 "But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it]. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that was] under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and [that] which he did, the LORD made [it] to prosper. "

Can anyone dare say that our circumstances dictate Yahweh's Presence in our lives? Where ever we find ourselves, whatever our paths may lead, we must keep our eyes on the Ever-Living God, and in whatever condition we find ourselves, there is where we are called to exalt Him. It is no good waiting on the pefect circumstance to worship and serve Yahweh. If we do wait, the circumstance will never come. We must shine in whatever situation we find ourselves, for it is then that we will be used.

My Precious Father Yahweh, blessed be Thy Name and Thy Kingdom! Father, I thank You not just for the goodness that I've known, but also for the harshness, for I know that You are creating in me a clean heart and a perfect spirit. Help me my Father not to lose sight of this, and to serve You with all my Heart in the midst of every storm.

HalleluYah!

1700 - The Pacific Island of New Britain was discovered.
1801 - The city of Washington, DC. was placed under congressioal jurisdiction.
1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1861 - In Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland. Five protesting marchers were killed in the incident.
1867 - Dr. William G. Bonwill invented the dental mallet.
1883 - Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine.
1896 - The "Charlotte Observer" published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm.
1900 - In South Africa, the British recieved an unconditional surrender from Boer Gen. Piet Cronje at Paardeberg.
1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.
1933 - The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.
1939 - The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes.
1949 - Chaim Weizmann became the first Israeli president.
1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
1972 - The Shanghai Communique was issued by U.S. President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.
1973 - The American Indian Movement occupied Wouned Knee in South Dakota.
1982 - Wayne B. Williams was found guilty of murdering two young black people. 28 bodies had been found in the Atlanta area over a period of 22 months.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved the telecast of its debates on a trial basis.
1990 - The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush announced live on television that "Kuwait is liberated."
1997 - In Ireland, divorce became legal.
1998 - Britain's House of Lords agreed to give a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.
1999 - Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new hot air balloon endurance record when they had been aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes. The two were in the process of trying to circumnavigate the Earth.
1999 - Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country's first elected president since August of 1983.
2002 - In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.

Psalm 39

Genesis 40:1 "And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. :3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you."

What Irony. Years before Joseph's own journey had started with dreams. Dreams of promise and hope. In the nurture and warmth of his father's home he had dared to look forward to a destiny filled with glory and promise. But instead of finding his dreams he had found only betrayal, hatred, jealousy, slavery, more betrayal and finally a prison. The glimmer of hope he had enjoyed while overseeing the affairs of Potiphar were crushed by the lies of a vile adulteress. His obediance and righteousness had been rewarded with slander and spite.

And now here before him stood two Egyptians bothered by dreams. Was Joseph too, bothered by dreams? Did they still haunt him like ghosts of a distant age?

Yet, here was Yahweh still with Joseph. In the midst of Joseph's spirit crushing circumstances, he still looked around, rolled up his sleeves and did whatever needed to be done. There was no time for whining and complaining. Not only was Yahweh still with Joseph, but it would seem Joseph knew that Yahweh was still with him. So Joseph did all as "unto Yahweh". Thus Joseph did not meet the bitterness of his situation with equal bitterness of heart. "...[Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you." Is this statement evidence that perhaps, Joseph still believed in the validity of his own dreams? If he had indeed doubted his own dreams and the interpretations of them, would he have been so quick to offer his help to interpret others?

:14 "But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:"

Here we have the fist defense of Joseph and appeal for help to anyone other than Yahweh. And how was Joseph's service to to Yahweh and others rewarded?

:23 "Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. "

Father Yahweh, my King and my Saviour, glory to Your Eternal Name! You have not suffered me to remain as I was, but You have begun a work in me to change me into Your Glorious Image. I am Yours, Oh Father Yahweh, not my own, I offer myself to You as a living sacrifice. Help me to stand, O Father, and Glorify You.

HalleluYah!

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad incorporated for commercial transportation of people and freight.
1844 - Several people were killed aboard the USS Princeton when a 12-inch gun exploded.
1849 - Regular steamboat service to California via Cape Horn arrived in San Francisco for the first time. The SS California had left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
1861 - The U.S. territory of Colorado was organized.
1881 - Thomas Edison hired Samuel Insull as his private secretary.
1883 - The first vaudeville theater opened.
1885 - AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated. The company was capitalized on only $100,000 and provided long distance service for American Bell.
1893 - Edward G. Acheson showed his patent for Carborundum.
1900 - In South Africa, British troops relieved Ladysmith, which had been under siege since November 2, 1899.
1911 - Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was organized.
1951 - A Senate committee issued a report that stated that there were at least two major crime syndicates in the U.S.
1953 - In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
1954 - In San Francisco "Birth of a Planet" was aired. It was the first American phase-contrast cinemicrography film to be presented on television.
1956 - A patent was issued to Forrester for a computer memory core.
1962 - The John Glenn for President club was formed by a group of Las Vegas republicans.
1974 - The U.S. and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a break of seven years.
1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm.
1993 - U.S. Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, TX. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed.
1994 - NATO made its first military strike when U.S. F-16 fighters shot down four Bosnian Serb warplanes in violation of a no-fly zone over central Bosnia.
1995 - The Denver International Airport opened after a 16-month delay.
1998 - Serbian police began a campaign to wipe out "terrorist gangs" in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
2001 - The Northwest region of the U.S., including the state of Washington, was hit by an earthquake that measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale. There were no deaths reported.
2002 - In Ahmadabad, India, Hindus set fire to homes in a Muslim neighborhood. At least 55 people were killed in the attack.

Psalm 62

Genesis 41:1 "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: ..."

Two more years of imprisonment. How precious few of us there are whose faith would have endured as Joseph's. His one plea for help was forgotten, as others far less worthy recieved reward and goodness, still Joseph languished in a dungeon for crimes he did not commit. Through all these atrocities we must remember, that Joseph did NO wrong. How would you or I fare in such straits? How do we fare in far less?

:9 "Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:" :14 "Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon:"

Could Joseph have stammered in unbelief when they came to bring him out? What were his thoughts, I wonder. Could he have groaned in his spirit thinking, Oh My God, what now? Or did his faith meet the soldiers sent to fetch him unto pharoah like the sunlight through the clouds after many days raIn?

Joseph was brought to pharoah, and as always he exalted Yahweh God where ever he found himself. The result?

:38 "And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?"

Joseph's reputation was restored.

:40 "Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt."

Not only did Joseph "rule" all of Egypt, but his brothers did indeed bow before him. And he took no vengance for the wrongs he had suffered these many years. Through the wisdom Yahweh gave unto Joseph, not only the Egyptians but all his own family and a multitude of others were saved from the famine and certain death. This was Joseph's time.

Yahweh doesn't always give us a dream, a vision or any advanced knowledge of His Plans for us. Usually when He does so it is meant to sustain us as we enter into His school. Here we will be tested. Joseph learned to be a servant before he became ruler under Pharoah. Perhaps our curriculum is no where near the height of Joseph's, but it would seem that the greater the calling the harder the schooling.

If you are in school right now take heart, for you shall reap in due season if you do not faint. Give praise unto Yahweh and do all that is at your hands right now as unto Yahweh. Keep your heart pure before the Father and cling to His commandments, for Yahweh is bringing you into your time as well.

Blessed be the Name of Yahweh, Your Mercy never ends. I thank You Father for all Your mercy, for all Your love and for the Beauty of Your Holiness. My life is but a vapor, but You are Eternal. Let my life be praise unto You ,O Holy Father, that I may dwell with Thee forever in the Glory of Your Kingdom.

HalleluYah!

1288 - Scotland established this day as one when a woman could propose marriage to a man. In the event that he refused the proposal he was required to pay a fine.
1860 - The first electric tabulating machine was invented by Herman Hollerith.
1904 - In Washington, DC, a seven-man commission was created to hasten the construction of the Panama Canal.
1940 - Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Oscar. She won Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind."
1944 - The invasion of the Admiralty Islands began with "Operation Brewer." U.S. General Douglas MacArthur led his forces onto Los Negros.
1944 - Dorothy McElroy Vredenburgh of Alabama became the first woman to be appointed secretary of a national political party. She was appointed to the Democratic National Committee.
1944 - The Office of Defense Transportation, for the second year in a row, restricted attendance at the Kentucky Derby to residents of the Louisville area. This was an effort to prevent a railroad traffic burden during wartime.
1972 - Jack Anderson revealed a memo written by ITT's Washington lobbyist, Dita Beard, that connected ITT's funding of part of the Republican National Convention.