Submissions by joegracegrace (Joe Grace)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
A dictator will "make war on the saints [the Christian nations],gain power over every nation," (Revelation 13.7).This conquest implies world war. Yes, NUCLEAR war would explain "sudden destruction" at Rapture(1 Thessalonians 4.16-5.3)
We Can DEFINITELY Know When the Second Coming Will Occur.
The date of the RAPTURE is what "no man can know, not even the Son"(Mark 13.32).
But the Second Coming is TOTALLY separate from the Rapture !!
The Rapture occurs at the BEGINNING of the Tribulation Period,
While the Second Coming of Christ occurs at the END of the Trib.
The Rapture occurs at the time of the "sudden destruction"(1 Thessalonians 4.17-5.3),
Which "sudden destruction" is the cause of so many souls departing the world together.
That destruction is the military attack on the nations of "the saints" (the Christians)
By which the...
But the Second Coming is TOTALLY separate from the Rapture !!
The Rapture occurs at the BEGINNING of the Tribulation Period,
While the Second Coming of Christ occurs at the END of the Trib.
The Rapture occurs at the time of the "sudden destruction"(1 Thessalonians 4.17-5.3),
Which "sudden destruction" is the cause of so many souls departing the world together.
That destruction is the military attack on the nations of "the saints" (the Christians)
By which the...
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Dying bodies on battlefields? Or are they human roses blooming?
Before roses open up
They are not flowers,just tight little buds,
Their redness is unseen,
their scent is held back,sealed in.
Likewise with young men going into battle,
Their lifeblood is internal, not visible.
Their souls are bound within their bodies.
But after the slaughter is over,
dying almost-corpses lie prostrate.
From open wounds flowing redness is seen,
like liquid rose petals opening up,
Beautiful manly flowers blooming.
What...
They are not flowers,just tight little buds,
Their redness is unseen,
their scent is held back,sealed in.
Likewise with young men going into battle,
Their lifeblood is internal, not visible.
Their souls are bound within their bodies.
But after the slaughter is over,
dying almost-corpses lie prostrate.
From open wounds flowing redness is seen,
like liquid rose petals opening up,
Beautiful manly flowers blooming.
What...
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Liberals Are Anti-Science
They call Christian conservatives "anti-science"
for holding onto the figure of "6,000 years" as the age
of both the universe and planet Earth, according to the Bible.
(The Bible doesn't really teach that the universe/Earth are that young.
That figure is the result of misinterpretation by socalled experts.)
Science (astronomy) teaches the universe is 13.7 billion years old,
While geology conveys that Earth is 4.6 billion years old.
Those figures are based on the empirical evidence.
Since Young Earth Creationists(YECs) ignore such evidence ...
for holding onto the figure of "6,000 years" as the age
of both the universe and planet Earth, according to the Bible.
(The Bible doesn't really teach that the universe/Earth are that young.
That figure is the result of misinterpretation by socalled experts.)
Science (astronomy) teaches the universe is 13.7 billion years old,
While geology conveys that Earth is 4.6 billion years old.
Those figures are based on the empirical evidence.
Since Young Earth Creationists(YECs) ignore such evidence ...
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Test of the Key is, Can It Open the Lock?
The test of a key isn't, Can you stick it in.
Rather, Does it open up the lock?!
A key can be thought of as the male organ,
for it penetrates into the chamber of the lock.
While the lock is the female organ for it receives the thrust,
and is (potentially) opened up thereby.
Any man who has intercourse with a woman
likes to think she is moved emotionally by his gyrating.
So the test of his manhood isn't just,
Can he get it up and consummate the act
by the depositing of his seed therein.
Rather, can...
Rather, Does it open up the lock?!
A key can be thought of as the male organ,
for it penetrates into the chamber of the lock.
While the lock is the female organ for it receives the thrust,
and is (potentially) opened up thereby.
Any man who has intercourse with a woman
likes to think she is moved emotionally by his gyrating.
So the test of his manhood isn't just,
Can he get it up and consummate the act
by the depositing of his seed therein.
Rather, can...
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How the US Government Is INVITING Russia to Launch Nuclear War
America and Russia both have intercontinental ballistic missiles(ICBMs).
With which to devastate the cities of the other side.
So these ICBMs are called "offensive" missiles.
But then both sides developed "defensive" missiles called ABMs,
designed to shoot down the other side's offensive missile warheads.
These ABMs or Anti-Ballistic Missiles were developed back in the '60s and '70s.
But then Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under JFK and LBJ,
started a movement to ban ABMs (interceptor missiles).
The reasoning is that if...
With which to devastate the cities of the other side.
So these ICBMs are called "offensive" missiles.
But then both sides developed "defensive" missiles called ABMs,
designed to shoot down the other side's offensive missile warheads.
These ABMs or Anti-Ballistic Missiles were developed back in the '60s and '70s.
But then Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under JFK and LBJ,
started a movement to ban ABMs (interceptor missiles).
The reasoning is that if...
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Continuous Day Has Become Endless Night
It's always night ever since she's been gone.
She's dead so why is it that I'm the one
who feels like a phantom, living like a ghost?
An outsider who people don't see,
They look thru me like I wasn't there.
And i ignore them as well.
I live - subsist - in a land of perpetual darkness.
She was the light of my world, she shone like the sun.
Beneath the sheets her womanhood was as
the sun behind the clouds.
Now that she's gone, it's as if I were a captive on a spaceship
Traveling into the blackness of the galaxy,
So far from the sun...
She's dead so why is it that I'm the one
who feels like a phantom, living like a ghost?
An outsider who people don't see,
They look thru me like I wasn't there.
And i ignore them as well.
I live - subsist - in a land of perpetual darkness.
She was the light of my world, she shone like the sun.
Beneath the sheets her womanhood was as
the sun behind the clouds.
Now that she's gone, it's as if I were a captive on a spaceship
Traveling into the blackness of the galaxy,
So far from the sun...
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Yad Vashem
The museum in Jerusalem for the Holocaust is called Yad Vashem.
The library there catalogues the names of the six million martyrs.
Besides their names it also has where they lived, were born -
Anything that can be found out about them.
These people existed, their lives mattered.
Yad Vashem means "Memorial to the Name."
Were they nameless masses that were slaughtered? No !!
They were human beings with names, whose lives mattered !!
(This info comes from "Writing down the Bones," Natalie Goldberg,1986)
Here's some statistics,...
The library there catalogues the names of the six million martyrs.
Besides their names it also has where they lived, were born -
Anything that can be found out about them.
These people existed, their lives mattered.
Yad Vashem means "Memorial to the Name."
Were they nameless masses that were slaughtered? No !!
They were human beings with names, whose lives mattered !!
(This info comes from "Writing down the Bones," Natalie Goldberg,1986)
Here's some statistics,...
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Evolution -- How Does the BIBLE Support It ??
And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures'..God saw that it was good. And God blessed them saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas..'" (Genesis 1.20-22). Note that He doesn't say, "Let Me create the living creatures...".He doesn't do it Himself, rather he lets Nature do the work of creating all the lifeforms of the oceans.
The same theme applies to the land creatures: "And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind...And it was so."(Genesis 1.24). Note it does NOT say that God used His hands to...
The same theme applies to the land creatures: "And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind...And it was so."(Genesis 1.24). Note it does NOT say that God used His hands to...
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How Does the Antichrist Relate to the Rapture?
Seven main points:
(1)The Antichrist is "revealed" as the Destroyer
("the Son of Destruction") at the Rapture of the Church,
Meaning that he will launch mass destruction.
For we read, "That day [of the Rapture] cannot come
except..the Man of Sin be revealed as [the Destroyer](2 Thessalonians 2.3).
(2)Destruction - MASS DESTRUCTION - at the Rapture is confirmed
by the intersecting of the Rapture and "sudden destruction"(1 Thessalonians 4.17-5.3).
I say "intersecting"...
(1)The Antichrist is "revealed" as the Destroyer
("the Son of Destruction") at the Rapture of the Church,
Meaning that he will launch mass destruction.
For we read, "That day [of the Rapture] cannot come
except..the Man of Sin be revealed as [the Destroyer](2 Thessalonians 2.3).
(2)Destruction - MASS DESTRUCTION - at the Rapture is confirmed
by the intersecting of the Rapture and "sudden destruction"(1 Thessalonians 4.17-5.3).
I say "intersecting"...
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How Can God's Mercy Be Also His Justice??!!
We read, "He is faithful and JUST to forgive us our sins
And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness"(1 John 1.9).
Wait a minute. I thought forgiveness = mercy,
While justice means to meet out punishment for sin.
So that mercy doesn't = justice
and justice is distinct from mercy.
So how can mercy = justice?
It's wrong to punish someone severely
if he has been entrapped,
somebody who doesn't know what they're doing.
In that case it is just to have mercy
to the extent that it,the sin,...
And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness"(1 John 1.9).
Wait a minute. I thought forgiveness = mercy,
While justice means to meet out punishment for sin.
So that mercy doesn't = justice
and justice is distinct from mercy.
So how can mercy = justice?
It's wrong to punish someone severely
if he has been entrapped,
somebody who doesn't know what they're doing.
In that case it is just to have mercy
to the extent that it,the sin,...
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Once Saved Always Saved ??
I painted a house once, about 30 years ago.
I did the garage door at the end of the day.
It rained later that evening.
The paint was dry on all of the house except the garage door.
The bottom fifth was completely washed away,
Due to raindrops bouncing off the cement..
So painting the garage door didn't count - it has to dry.
Only then can I say it really has been painted.
Ditto with salvation.Only after a certain point does it become permanent.
Only when you go thru trials without abandoning your faith does it become saving faith.
Clay before...
I did the garage door at the end of the day.
It rained later that evening.
The paint was dry on all of the house except the garage door.
The bottom fifth was completely washed away,
Due to raindrops bouncing off the cement..
So painting the garage door didn't count - it has to dry.
Only then can I say it really has been painted.
Ditto with salvation.Only after a certain point does it become permanent.
Only when you go thru trials without abandoning your faith does it become saving faith.
Clay before...
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Loneliness - the Price of Leadership ?
It's hard to be a leader if no one will follow you,
but the test of any true leader is if they can lead the way ALONE.
But they're not all alone. For they have themselves as their first follower.
Moral of the story: if you don't follow (obey) your own self,
Then how can you claim to be a true leader? You can't.
You've GOT to remain loyal to yourself -
to make up for the betrayal of others !!
Can you believe in yourself when no one does ??!!
If not, you're as bad as the rest !!!
Think about this each day:
Before God created the...
but the test of any true leader is if they can lead the way ALONE.
But they're not all alone. For they have themselves as their first follower.
Moral of the story: if you don't follow (obey) your own self,
Then how can you claim to be a true leader? You can't.
You've GOT to remain loyal to yourself -
to make up for the betrayal of others !!
Can you believe in yourself when no one does ??!!
If not, you're as bad as the rest !!!
Think about this each day:
Before God created the...
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