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I don't see why Russia is making a dangerous move here. Russia has nothing to do with the Ezekiel prophecy. The belief that Russia is involved is a misunderstanding of the word 'Rosh'. Russia is trying to prevent the overthrow of Assad, the last of the standing Middle-East dictators who is preventing the complete control of the ME by Muslim radicals. Putin is completely aware of the dangers of Islam and he knows that Sunni Islam has almost complete control in that part of the World. The so-called freedom fighters who are against Assad are all radical Sunni terrorists and they include members of ISIS and al-Qaeda. Putin is merely siding with Iran (who are Shias) and they support Assad. Putin is well aware of the dangers of all forms of Islam, both Sunni and Shia but at the moment he is supporting the Shia side, because as he has said time and again (for those who can be bothered to listen) - 'a balance of power is necessary to prevent World conflict.' The only one playing dangerous games here is Obama who has constantly supported the rise of militant Islam. Obama is against God, hates Israel, and would love to see Islam destroy Christianity so that the Illuminati NWO can take control. Putin on the other hand is the only major World leader who is actively fighting against the NWO.

Maybe the prophesied destruction of Damascus is forthcoming.

The Nobel prize is not what it once was and has degraded into a farce. Both Barack Obama and Yasser Arafat have won peace prizes. That should tell you everything! Whether you like Bob Dylan's lyrics or not, they are simply NOT literature. They may be poetic and they may be meaningful, but they are NOT in any way literature and they were never meant to be literature but were designed to be accompanied by music and not published in print (even if they subsequently have been). It's all part of the dumbing down of society. Reality TV, the Kardashians, rappers, bland pop music, mimimalist modern art designed to shock rather than educate or inspire, these are all part of the re-education process. I've no criticism of Bob Dylan himself, by all accounts he is now a born-again Christian but he wasn't when he wrote most of his lyrics. He was possibly on drugs when most of them were written.

Putin has told Israel that the weapons sent to Syria will not be used against Israel, providing that Israel stay out of any conflict.

The Bible says nothing about the Holy Spirit being taken away, it merely mentions the 'restrainer' being taken away. There are a number of speculations as to what the restrainer is. Some claim it is the Archangel Michael, some claim it is the Church and so on. If it is the Holy Spirit then there can be no new believers during the Tribulation, as it is the Holy Spirit that convicts a person into becoming a believer and safeguards a believer from being deceived. The Bible tells us that believers will be persecuted during the Tribulation, so that they may not buy and sell, and that some may even be beheaded. The Bible also tells us that those who have been beheaded will reign during the Millennium. How can non-believers reign during the Millenium when Christ is in charge and how can there be any new believers if the Holy Spirit disappears? Thus the removal of the Holy Spirit and the pre-Trib rapture of the Church is clearly shown to be irrational nonsense that contradicts scripture. The pre-Tribulation doctrine is false teaching. It comes from false prophets such as Schofield and Darby, and has no basis in the Bible. The fact that it has been unknown throughout most of Christian history and was only conceived by false teachers, should be a warning to those Christians who have fallen for it.

I'm frankly not interested in what you're willing to accept or not accept. I didn't write my post for your approval. I've already claimed it was only speculation. If you don't like speculation then don't get involved with threads where people speculate. And if God has dealt with the problem then there are no more nephilim and no nephilim occurred after the flood, and there were no giants including Goliath who according to your theory didn't exist! God after all is the Alpha and the Omega, so everything is fine, has always been fine and always will be fine.

There are no scriptures supporting it which is why I claimed it was a possibility, not a given fact, because no scriptures deny it either. You see, it's possible that God knew there were traces of the defective hybrid gene left in mankind (from one of the wives) but he allowed this to occur as it was only a very remote chance occurrence that the gene would be passed on and any instances where it did get passed on could be carefully managed so as to make the gene eventually become extinct altogether. This management involved careful 'pruning' which is why occasionally the Hebrews were commanded to kill any nephilim who did reappear. The only reason I suggest this possibility is because if the fallen angels did keep on mating with human women, they could make this hybrid gene reappear at anytime with every new incident that they had indulged in their forbidden sexual relations. So maybe God did everything that he could to stop the angels from misbehaving again and then later took care of anybody who passed the existing gene on after the flood. Just a thought. But it's only speculation as I really can't say with any certainty. As for the re-occurrence of nephilim today, maybe the angels are up to their mischief again.

There is a possibility that the second wave of giants came from the corrupted blood of Noah's son's wives.

I don't think anybody claimed that Noah was a hybrid. They are actually claiming that he wasn't a hybrid (unlike some others).

No, there is no accurate translation in modern English. Even the NKJV with the best of intentions is slightly corrupted. Your best bet if you want to understand it in modern English is to stick with the KJV but read each verse back to yourself (slowly) in your own modern colloquilaism. Eg: I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. Isaiah 43:11-12 Read back as: "I.... yes me, I am God, and alongside me there's nobody else who is a savior. I've declared, saved, and I've also shown (when there was no false god, pretending to be God among you). And therefore, you are my witnesses" - this is what God says. Make sure that you don't change the meaning at all. If in doubt, go back and read it again.

I won't panic. I'll be relieved that the terrible Tribulation is finally over - at last!

The believing Christian Church will NOT be raptured before the Tribulation starts. This is simply NOT scriptural and is a fantasy of false prophets. Jesus even tells us that will be persecuted in Matthew 24. It couldn't get simpler and more plain than that.

That's not what I'm talking about. God does NOT punish the righteous. So why would he punish those who don't worship the Beast? Answer: He wouldn't. So the Tribulation is NOT God's judgement. God's judgement is the wrath that comes afterwards.

You're confusing love with lust. God wants me to love my sister. He does not want me to have sex with her. God wants me to love little children. He does not want me to be sexually attracted to them. God wants me to love other men and treat them as my brothers. He does not want me to go to bed with them. I can love another man. I can care for him, I can feed him when he is hungry. I can grieve for him when he dies. I can love him with all my heart. I am not permitted to have sex with him. God does not care about who I love. God does care about who I have sexual relations with. I hope that answers your question.

No. If it is not for the believers then why are those who refuse to take the mark being punished? Does God punish the righteous? Is God preventing people from buying and selling, and beheading those who refuse to worship the beast? According to you if we want to please God we must all take the mark and worship the Beast, after all we don't want God to persecute us do we? The Tribulation is a terrible time for the righteous. It is the AntiChrist who is persecuting those who refuse to take the mark. It is the AntiChrist who is responsible for the terrible Tribulation, not God. God's wrath comes afterwards!

The Tribulation is not God's judgement. The Tribulation is an act of persecution caused by the AntiChrist. The Tribulation has nothing to do with judgement, so yes we will go through tribulation like thousands of martyrs before us. God's judgement comes AFTER the Tribulation. Since when has God ever asked evil beings to do his work for him?

He changes like the wind.... he has never had a serious attempt to try and destroy radical Muslim terrorists, just a few half-hearted airstrikes here and there.... just for show!

Obama is against Assad but he's not against the rebels (who are not the poor downtrodden victims of Assad's government as the Media would leave you to believe). Obama supports the rebels who are actually al-Qaeda and ISIS recruits. President Barack Hussein Obama supports and funds radical Islam whenever he can.

It takes time. Your addiction will not go away overnight. When you submit yourself to God, you are telling him that the future that you want involves living life by his rules. If you let the Holy Spirit guide you, you will eventually overcome. Don't be put off by setbacks. God does not expect you to conquer sin in an instant, in fact sometimes it may feel as if he has abandoned you, but he hasn't. He could solve your problems in an instant, he has the power to do so.... but sometimes he doesn't and he has a reason for it. There may be a lesson that you have to learn and God wants you to be patient and find out what it is.

Christians can experience demonic oppression but they can't experience full possession. Although some bold and cheeky malevolent spirits may try, they are soon repelled by the Holy Spirit. They don't often try it again. It's usually something that new Christians may experience, especially if they were involved with malevolent practices before they found Jesus. Satan is after all, only trying... and I hate to say this, but I can't blame him. After all, he knows his time is short and he is desperate. He will test new believers, to see if they really are believers or not. They have left his domain and he wants to try and see if he can get them back, but unfortunately for him, we serve somebody far more powerful.

Ok, fair enough

I'm not talking about nightmares, I'm talking about sleep paralysis and 'night terrors' which are independent phenomena. Nightmares are just nightmares and they are not the same thing.

My own experience of sleep paralysis would often occur just before waking up. I had the feeling of something or somebody pressing down on my chest as if trying to enter my body. It was terrifying, and I just had to wait until I had woken up fully and could move then it would disappear. On one occasion my eyes were slightly open and could see everything in the bedroom including the entity which was a very dark human-like figure but I couldn't see a face. I could also hear the sounds of people talking in the rest of the house. After I found Jesus, the entity tried one more time, but after trying to call out for Jesus (I didn't succeed as I could not speak, but I thought it out) the entity jumped off me and disappeared. I have never experienced such a thing again and that is why I believe that such attacks are demonic in nature. My curiosity led me to look into this and my experience echoes the experiences of many others. There are other testimonies of people who have suffered such attacks, but the attacks stopped after they became Christians. Some alien abductions are similar in nature, occurring when a person is asleep in bed. Many Christians are aware that extra-terrestrials don't exist and aliens from other planets are really deceitful demons or fallen angels pretending to be E.Ts.

It's the same sort of thing. Fallen angels interfere with our dreams and try to mess with our heads. I'm glad that you've left Wicca and found Jesus.

What secular 'experts' have to say is not really my concern. Secular scientists and experts also claim that we evolved from monkeys and that there is no God. They don't have a great track record when it comes to understanding spiritual issues. Demons ARE definitely responsible. My own periods of sleep paralysis stopped after giving myself to Jesus.