An URGENT Open Letter from Ray Sopp:
Sopp Ministries: Open Letter: The Day of the
Lord!
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:19 PM
Subject: Sopp Ministries: Open Letter: The Day of the
Lord!
This ministry God has called me to do is toward both the
professing Christian and nonbeliever alike: To warn as many as I can before the
great and terrible Day of the Lord.
This has become a very, very heavy burden upon my heart as I
look at the fruit which is produced by the "Church" at-large. Its fruit is
identical to this world! The "Church" at-large is actually reflecting the world
in its overall behavior! Using statistics, there is NO appreciable
difference.
Where is the light? Where is the witness? Where is the
Gospel?
I humbly come before you with this request: I would deeply
appreciate it if you can help in any way to encourage people to visit this
ministry’s
website, and/or please consider giving a donation to this 501(c)3
nonprofit ministry. Either would be a great help in my effort to reach the lost
both within and without the "Church" at-large.
Thank you and God bless you for your prayerful
consideration.
WHY are the nations in an uproar,
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
The kings of the earth take their stand,
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed:
"Let us tear their fetters apart,
And cast away their cords from us!"
He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.
Then He will speak to them in His anger,
And terrify them in His fury:
"But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain."
"I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, 'Thou art My Son.
Today I have begotten Thee.
'Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Thine inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Thy possession.
'Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron.
Thou shalt shatter them like earthenware.'"
Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.
Worship the Lord with reverence,
And rejoice with trembling.
Do homage to the Son, lest He become angry, and you perish in the way.
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blest are all who take refuge in Him!
-- Psalm 2, The Holy Bible
WORLD NEWS: April, 2008 : Massive emergency drill in Israel:
From an April 9th radio interview:
GLENN BECK: How about Barack Obama saying that he wants to meet with the leaders of Iran? What do you say? Jimmy Carter says let's meet with Syria, that will be fantastic. Meanwhile Israel is preparing for war. Israel is doing these drills. Do we have Joel Rosenberg on the phone? He's in Jerusalem. Hello, Joel.
ROSENBERG: Hello, Glenn, how are you doing? Three days away. Hang in there.
GLENN: Three days. Then I'm free at last, free at last. Joel, tell me about the drills that are happening right now in Israel and they say, you know, this is just ordinary run-of-the-mill stuff but you say it's not, right?
ROSENBERG:: No, this is very, very significant. The entire country of Israel is engaged in a five-day exercise, the largest emergency drill ever performed in this country, a country of 7 million people. 1.7 million schoolchildren today had a race in the bomb shelters practicing as one part of the nationwide effort to prepare for a massive avalanche of missiles coming down from Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. We just met with the Israel welfare minister ...
*snip* (skipping a bit further down the transcript - d.h.)
ROSENBERG:...But you are absolutely right. Radical Islam is a mirror image and therefore a massive distortion of the Jewish and Christian scriptures but there's a lot of similarities. It's just completely opposite.
GLENN: Right.
ROSENBERG: They have a war of Gog and Magog, a Russian Iranian alliance that attacks Israel but they feel it wins.
GLENN: Wait, wait. I just want you to slow down on that.
ROSENBERG: Okay.
GLENN: Gog and Magog, anybody who is a Christian grew up hearing Gog and Magog and you don't even know what it is. It is Iran and Russia aligning themselves. It's already been done. It's an amazing thing when you look at -- well, let me ask you this because this is what you do for a living now, Joel. Would you say that most of the big things are either, have already been done or they are on the verge of being done? The players and the pieces are in place to be able to get you to the end time?
ROSENBERG: Absolutely. You know, there are a thousand prophecies in the Bible. More than 500 of them have already been fulfilled. The last almost 500 of them deal with specific events that happen in the last days. Now, I'm literally looking out of my window in a hotel looking at the Mount of Olives and the temple mount here in Jerusalem as I speak to you and on the Mount of Olives Jesus was asked by the disciples, hey, when are you coming back and what should we watch for, what are the signs of your return. Now, Jesus could have given a very Washington political answer, a Rumsfeld answer: No comment, next question. But he doesn't. He answered the question. And when you look at that list and you look at events that are happening in this world today, it's kind of eerie because you can check them off one by one and then when you expand that list to look at other references to, quote, the last days or the latter times in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, you start saying, my goodness.
For example, you just described this prophecy of the war of Gog and Magog which as you and I have talked about before is Russia and Iran. Now, what's amazing about that is that Russia and Iran have never had an alliance with each other in the 2500 years since Ezekiel wrote the prophecy. Now, is that proof that the prophecy is going to be fulfilled in our lifetime, much less soon? No, you've got to be careful not to overreach. However --...
Read the whole interview here
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/8554/
Visit Joel Rosenberg's website
http://joelrosenberg.com
AND A TIME TO PRAISE:
I know some of you don't get out and about much, and for some times are pretty tough - but my friend Pat Hall has been having a great time singing Karaoke on-line at a free site called SingSnap - http://www.singsnap.com and meeting others from around the world. Pat is shut in with severe health issues - she has had an infection recently that was complicated by heart, lung and asthmatic conditions - but she's enjoying herself anyway. My rural dial-up won't let me take part or I'd be there in a heartbeat myself, logging on to praise the Lord to my heart's content even when I'm all alone and far away from the rest of you. Just thought I'd share this super resource with you all. Remember, the Lord lives in the praises of His people! :-)
Here's a bit of an intro to the site as Pat shared it with me a few days ago:
YES, THE GENERAL WEBSITE TO SINGSNAP.COM IS CORRECT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A MEMBER TO LOOK AROUND AND LISTEN. OR YOU CAN JOIN FREE AND BE ABLE TO RUN AROUND EVERYWHERE AND LEAVE COMMENTS ON SONGS. WE HAVE MEMBER NAMES, THAT IS HOW WE ARE LOCATED. THERE ARE TABS AT THE TOPS OF THE PAGES WITH DIFFERENT THINGS ON THEM. MANY PEOPLE JOIN JUST SO THEY CAN COMMENT ON MUSIC AND DON'T EVEN RECORD. I AM GOING TO SEND YOU SOME DIRECT SITES FOR MY MUSIC, AND IF YOU CLICK ON IRISHBELLE TO THE RIGHT OF THE MUSIC PLAYER, IT WILL TAKE YOU TO MY PROFILE. THERE ARE TABS ABOVE MY PROFILE. ONE IS RECORDINGS WHICH HAS ALL MY SONGS ON THOSE PAGES. ANOTHER IS FEATURED ON. THOSE ARE DUETS DONE WITH ME BY OTHERS. WHEN SOMEONE PICKS UP MY SONGS AND RECORDS WITH THEM, THEY APPEAR ON THEIR SITE, NOT MINE, BUT THEY ALSO APPEAR ON MY "FEATURED ON" PAGE. THERE ARE SOME REALLY NICE PRAISE DUETS ON THERE.
REMEMBER, I DO SECULAR COUNTRY SONGS, SOME SOFT ROCK, LOTS OF OLDIES, BUT MOST PRAISE AND WORSHIP AND COUNTRY. AND SOME OF THE COUNTRY SONGS ARE ALSO PRAISE SONGS. I WILL SEND YOU SOME. JUST REMEMBER, THAT RESPIRATORY INFECTION REALLY AFFECTED MY VOICE, BUT I STILL SING ANYWAY. KIND OF RASPY. BUT I THINK SOME OF THE OLDER SONGS ARE BETTER AND MORE CLEAR. I WILL DO BOTH, SEND YOU SOME INDIVIDUAL ONES I THINK YOU LIKE AND THE SITE SO YOU CAN LOOK AROUND IN THERE..
WHEN I FIRST JOINED I BECAME KIND OF ADDICTED TO THE SITE. I HAVE MET PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AUSTRALIA, ENGLAND, DENMARK, GERMANY, SWEDEN, PHILIPPINES, ON AND ON. OF COURSE, I HAD FRIENDS FROM SOME OF THOSE COUNTRIES ALREADY. WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY HERE IS THAT I WAS FEELING LIKE I WAS NEGLECTING MY PRAYER WARRIORS AND REQUESTS, I TRULY NEVER WAS, I STILL READ AND ANSWER REQUESTS. BUT I WAS ONLY IN SS A FEW DAYS WHEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO MINISTER TO SOMEONE CAME UP. SOMEONE I HAD MET WHO I FELT FROM HIS WORDS WAS PULLING AWAY FROM THE LORD. I WROTE HIM WHAT I WAS FEELING AND HE WROTE THAT HE FELT I HAD GREAT INSIGHT AND HAD HELPED HIM AND WOULD I PRAY FOR HIS FAMILY. HE THEN LISTED ALL THE NEEDS AND I SENT THEM OUT TO THE PRAYER WARRIORS. NEXT THING I KNEW, HE WAS ASKING ME TO PRAY FOR FRIENDS AND COULD HE SEND THEM TO ME. SO I VIEW SS DIFFERENTLY NOW, AND SEE IT AS A NEW VENUE THE LORD HAS PRESENTED TO ME TO REACH PEOPLE IN HIS NAME.
THEY DON'T DO ANY TUTORIALS WHEN YOU JOIN, NONE THAT I COULD SEE, BUT NEW FRIENDS HELPED ME AND I JUST LEARNED BY TRIAL AND ERROR. IT'S A HARD THING TO EXPLAIN, BUT IF YOU LOOK AND LISTEN, YOU CAN GET ANYWHERE IN THE SITE IF YOU ARE A MEMBER. I JUST LOOK AT THE TABS AND TRY DIFFERENT THINGS.
I BELIEVE THIS IS THE LAST SONG I HAVE DONE. MY MIC IS BROKEN, BUT I CAN USE IT IF I HOLD IT UP. THAT'S DIFFICULT TO DO WITH THE ARTHRITIS, SO WE SHALL SEE. ANYWAY, IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THIS SONG, IT'S PURE COUNTRY, BUT ALSO GOSPEL WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE WORDS. HOPE YOU LIKE IT, WISH I WAS IN BETTER VOICE. WILL SEND SOME MORE. THIS ONE SHOULD COME RIGHT UP WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE URL.
LOVE,
PAT
E-mail: IRISHBELLE23@msn.com
LINKS & RESOURCES:
Links to SingSnap and a few of Pat's songs. Isn't that just like our wonderful Lord, to present us with an opportunity to come together with others all over the world and unite in song? We praise You, Lord, and ask that You bless our time together and use it to Your glory and the salvation of souls:
Richest blessings, one and all!
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