“We Are Seeing It…”
Blessings folk!
Let me ask you to take some time to view two short videos.
These reveal something that has been in my mind for years now.
I received this from Gary North...get his stuff daily...here is what he said…
We know that the pace of social change is accelerating.
This is because the cost of bandwidth is falling.
Falling bandwidth costs? That is the main cause? Yes.
In a wired world, cheaper wires determine the future of society.
Before, the engine of social change was the falling cost of accumulating digital information, beginning in 1890 (the first digitized census -- punch cards) through -- approximately -- the advent of the World Wide Web in 1995.
Why do I lay so much emphasis on information costs as the central factor?
Because information is at the heart of society.
Think of the modern world without Gutenberg's invention of movable type.
We would still live in the Middle Ages.
Since 1890, the cost of gathering and manipulating information has fallen exponentially. It was cut in half every three years, 1910-1950.
Then it was cut in half every two years, 1950-1985.
Then every 18 months, 1965-2000. It is now falling by half every year.
Nothing in man's history has every doubled this rapidly for a century -- and not just rapidly, but at an accelerating rate. This is truly unique in man's history. Nothing else compares with it.
Today, the falling cost of distributing new information is the engine of social change. Why? Because the distribution technology opens up existing markets or creates new markets for the financially average Joe. He need not be too media savvy these days. Blogs and YouTube have opened up these markets. These markets are beyond government control. They evolve too fast for the regulators to police.
The flood of information is overwhelming the Establishment and its various sub-establishments. There is nothing that it (they) can do about it. They are like Soviet bureaucrats when the photocopy machine replaced carbon paper.
They could not do without it, but they could not survive with it.
Two short videos produced by Socialnomics have the same format. First, a series of brief statistical reports that show change on a colossal sale at breakneck speed. Second, background music provided by Fatboy Slim -- music that is simultaneously grabbing yet alien. That's what we are facing socially. The music conveys this.
The first video is the latest summary. It is out of date. It is not yet four months old.
Here is what I’m thinking.
Gary is correct.
Also, we are literally seeing the fulfillment of what God told Daniel.
At the end of his life, Daniel asked the Lord what all this meant? What of the dreams? What of the visions? What of the experiences? Daniel was old...likely over 100, yet he did not understand all.
God’s response?
Daniel 12
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
In the last verse God tells Daniel that he would go his way and rest - he would die. But, he would arise again at the end of the days.
Just prior to this, Daniel had received some amazing information. Read carefully.
Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
I am convinced. What we are experiencing with the rise of the “information age” is that of which the Lord spoke to Daniel.
People are running to and fro. Just in our family, we think nothing of hopping on a plane and being 850 miles away in 3 hours.
Knowledge is increasing. These videos show how.
Video 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY&feature=player_embedded
Video 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&feature=player_embedded
So, what is the point for us?
What are you gonna do?
Are you using email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace (does anybody use that anymore? 
), blogs, websites, etc. to the praise and the glory of God?
Gone are the days when we would wait months to receive a letter of correspondence.
Gone are the days when we awaited “a wire.”
Gone are the days of the telephone call.
Gone are the days of email...fewer and fewer depend upon it.
We are in the time of instant communication...text, chat, Skype, status.
Are you using all for the Kingdom?
If you are true believer, then you are the one that the Lord will use to touch folk.
You are the one in whom He will release answers.
You are the one who manifest love.
Quit waiting to “take someone to church.” You are the church.
Quit insisting that they talk with some “professional”. You have the Most High God dwelling in you. Depend up Him.
Be ready in season and out of season.
Use all that He has granted unto us...to the praise of the glory of His grace.
Take it to the Lord.
Listen for what He is saying.
I suspect that He is revealing plans beyond anything we could imagine!!
Blessings!
“Jesus, Hope of the…”
Blessings Folk!!
I assume that all have heard of the earthquake that occurred in Haiti this past week.
The damage, suffering, death, etc. is nearly incomprehensible...even with video evidence streaming before us daily.
There are some things we should do.
We must pray without ceasing for the Haitians.
We must help as the Lord leads.
We must give heed to the Word of the Lord, realizing that the days are short.
Yesterday, during our corporate gathering as the Body, we sang one of my favorite songs, “Jesus, Hope of the Nations”...a wonderful song of truth from Brian Doerksen, a great, humble psalmist of the Lord. http://www.briandoerksen.com
Well...here...read the words…I’ll include the chords so you can play along!
Better yet. Listen to it as you follow words. (Mp3 file attached...different computers will handle it different ways...click name, icon, etc.)
08 Hope Of The Nations
HOPE OF THE NATIONS
(Matthew 12:21)
A D/A
Jesus, hope of the nations
AD F#m
Jesus, comfort for all who mourn
EDE
You are the source of heaven’s hope on earth
A D/A
Jesus, light in the darkness
AD F#m
Jesus, truth in each circumstance
EDE
You are the source of heaven’s light on earth
D A/C#
In history, You lived and died,
Bm7 E
You broke the chains, You rose to life
AD
You are the hope, living in us
EA
You are the Rock, in whom we trust
F#m D E D/F#
You are the light, shining for all the world to see
AD
You rose from the dead, conquering fear
EA
Our Prince of Peace, drawing us near
F#m Bm7 ED
Jesus our hope, living for all who will receive
A (D A D A )
Lord we believe!! ( Lord we believe Lord we believe )
BRIAN DOERKSEN
©2002 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music CCLI 2638278
What had been going through my mind for days was “Jesus, Hope of the Haitians.”
We sang it that way. A prophetic proclamation of truth.
Jesus told us of many things that would occur in the last days. Here is one.
Matt 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
KJV
Last week there were earthquakes in Haiti, Oklahoma, Argentina...
More will come. Read all of Matthew 24-25 soon.
Why do such things occur?
The “big answer” is that due to the rebellion of man sin and death came into the world.
God is totally aware of these things.
It breaks His heart.
Could God have stopped the earthquake? Absolutely.
Why did he not? We do not know. But, we do know in Whom we trust.
Much has been said and written about Pat Robertson’s comment about a curse upon the people of Haiti.
I’m probably saying “more than I know”, as Paul Harvey would say, yet this is what I’m thinking at the moment.
There is historical evidence that the Haitian people were the first to throw off the chains of slavery. They resisted their oppressors, the French at the time, and their oppressor’s god - christianity in the form of catholicism. Apparently the Haitians decided to side with the enemy of their enemy - satan.
Now, do not hear me wrong.
I’m not saying that the earthquake occurred due to a particular act.
Such will increase in the last days.
Rom 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
NASU
I am saying that there is a battle within the heavenlies between the forces of light and darkness.
I am saying that things happen within the physical due to the sin of man in the garden of Eden.
I am saying that the perversion of the truth is leading many astray.
If the French had come to Hispaniola as bearers of the True Light rather than conquerors and oppressors with a religion, what might have happened?
The sad truth is that the perversion of the gospel and Body of Christ caused an entire nation to side with the enemy.
Today, many Haitians adhere to a volatile cocktail of voodoo and catholicism.
The blood of Jesus will wash them clean.
Many within our society adhere to a destructive mix - materialism and “christianity.”
The blood of Jesus will wash us clean.
Finally, the last portion of Genesis 9 gives insight.
Gen 9:20-27
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
KJV
This passage has been used too often to support despicable deeds that are not of God.
This passage does give us some understanding. Perhaps we will discuss it later.
For now, whether we are of the lineage of Shem, Ham or Japheth, only the blood of Jesus will break the curse of sin and death.
Proclaim the freedom available through the Blood of Jesus.
Speak the blood of Jesus over yourself, over your family, over all around you!
One more thing.
Take a moment and give thanks today for one of the greatest leaders that the Lord has raised upon our land.
A man of absolute faith and trust in the Lord.
A man of impeccable character and lifestyle.
A man who led a nation through the most troubling of times.
A honorable warrior.
A fearless man of the Kingdom.
Robert E. Lee
Today is Robert E. Lee day...celebrated in seven states.
Pray today for those on the prayer page - http://www.dalemoore.tv/page9/page9.html
We have just started a new study - 2 Samuel/1 Chronicles “David: A Man After God’s Own Heart”. Join us. If local, you can come to class gatherings. If distant, you can participate in varied ways via the internet - http://tinyurl.com/ybh9f7z
Blessings!