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Posted on October 9th, 2009

Written by Rob Robinson

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The current Prophetic world view is changing rapidly every day. Bible Prophecy Update (B.P.U.) provides the latest updates in the field of Bible Prophecy as they relate to current events that are happening around the world. We search the internet, newspaper articles, intelligence reports and other prophecy web sites to bring to you a concise and informative one source web site
Revelation 19:10… For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
This means that all of the important subjects that are contained in the Bible are centered around Jesus and therefore any complete Bible Prophecy web site should contain not only updates on Prophetic events, but also many of the other subjects that the Bible deals with. For this reason you will find hundreds of practical studies on a variety of subjects that concern your life and your walk with Jesus Christ on this blog.
Bible Prophecy Updates, Obama Watch, Rob Robinson, The Antichrist, The Book of Daniel, The Tribulation

Posted on October 11th, 2009

Written by Rob Robinson

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The Coming Peace Plan

From Daniel’s description of this new world leader, his rise to prominence will occur very quickly. The power that he will gain to enable him to unite the Israeli and Arab leaders to sign a peace treaty for “One Week”, an Old Testament catch phrase for seven years (Genesis 29:27), will come from the worlds ability to accept just such a man as a peace maker in a very short period of time.
What events could propel a man onto the world scene so quickly and enable him to make peace with two nations so diversely apposed to each other, in a way that no other man has ever been able to accomplish?
When I opened my Amazon Kindle Saturnday morning, to the news that President Barack Obama had won the coveted Nobel peace prize, I read with great interest.
The similarities between his rapid rise to fame and the world’s acceptance of him as a great “savior” and that World leader described in Daniel chapter 9 were incredible.
Bible Prophecy Updates, Middle East, The Last Days

Posted on September 3rd, 2010

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‘We Seek Peace to End Conflict Once and For All’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scheduled to give historic speech in Washington, state he hopes for lasting peace. ‘I came here to find a historic compromise. President Abbas, you are my partner in peace’, Netanyahu slated to say. Netanyahu is hoping to commence a process in Washington which will end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “once and for all.” In a special speech to be delivered Wednesday night at the White House Netanyahu is slated to state he does not seek a cease fire but lasting peace. “I am very pleased to be here today to begin our common effort to achieve lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” Netanyahu is slated to say. “I want to thank you President Obama for your tireless effort to renew the quest for peace. I want to thank Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Mitchell, the many members of the Obama administration and Tony Blair, who have all worked so hard to bring Israelis and Palestinians together here today.” The prime minister will also want Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah “for their support of these talks and for their continuous efforts to promote peace, security and stability in our region. “
Bible Prophecy Updates, Middle East, Obama Watch, Rob Robinson, The Antichrist, The Book of Daniel, The Book of Revelation, The Rapture of the Church, The Tribulation

Posted on September 3rd, 2010

Written by Rob Robinson

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An Early and Later Fulfillment of Prophecy

With the latest attempts by the Obama administration to make peace in the middle east, those who watch the current events around the world in anticipation of the coming of Jesus become very excited. Whether or not the current effort will be successful at securing a seven year peace treaty as described in the Book of Daniel chapter 9, remains to be seen.
There are many articles on the internet referencing the fact that Obama has shown signs of being either the antichrist himself or like the antichrist. This writer would not go so far to make either of those statements as neither of these possibilities are clear at the present time. No one really knows that a particular aspect of Bible prophecy has been fulfilled until after the fact. We know that in the last days before the seven year tribulation begins, there will be a great move in the middle east similar to the current effort, that will ensue into a seemingly miraculous set of events, finally bringing peace to the decades long struggle.
According to the Bible, part of the peace process will be that Israel will be allowed to rebuild the third temple on the very same site as the former two temples. In order to do this, the muslim world would need to allow the construction of the temple next to the existing dome of the rock. Today no one but a muslim can even approach the temple mount. To allow any Israeli to begin a jewish house of worship next to their revered mosque would be of epic importance. Never the less, we know that when this final seven years do begin, midway into the seven year tribulation, an event will happen that will set into motion the final 21 plagues of the Book of Revelation and bring the return of Jesus to the earth with His church to set up a one thousand year kingdom of righteousness. Then at the three and one half year mark of the seven year peace agreement, a statue of antichrist will be placed in the holy of holies in the new temple and it will come to life. A command will be given to worship the new world ruler as God, who will be the antichrist. Jesus called this event the “Abomination of Desolation in Matthew chapter 24.
Daily Devotional

Posted on September 3rd, 2010

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Devotional: Friday September 3, 2010

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way. (1 Samuel 12:23)
It can be tempting at times to give up on God’s people! They are so imperfect and can be so sinful, yet they are His people. Samuel had thoroughly warned the Israelites of the dangers in appointing a king over Israel. Yet they wanted to be like the nations around them, insisting that they were willing to pay any price. Almost as soon as the people were granted their desire, they recognized their sin. But it was too late. What was Samuel to do? They had ignored his warnings. Now they wanted him to continue to minister to them. It would seem appropriate for Samuel to abandon them and allow them to suffer the consequences of their actions. Samuel knew, as Jesus knew, that God sends His servants to the sick, not the healthy (Matt. 9:12). Samuel did not take the people’s response as a rejection of him but as an indication of their walk with God. Samuel was serving God, not the Israelites. When God commanded him to minister to them, he could do nothing else, despite their resistance to his message.
Bible Studies, Chuck Smith

Posted on September 3rd, 2010

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Bible Study: Psalms 29-31

Let’s turn now in our Bibles to the book of psalms beginning tonight with the twenty-ninth psalm. The psalm begins with an exhortation to give unto the Lord the ascription of glory and strength. The call is to the mighty. Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength (29:1).
It is good for us to be reminded of the greatness of God. It is so easy for us to become overawed with the greatness of our problems. The difficulties of life. The hardships that we face. The mountains that we must cross. And we become so involved in ourselves in the situations of life that we oftentimes lose perspective and our problems become overwhelming for us. And we forget the greatness of God. We forget the power of God. We forget the glory of God. And so this giving unto the Lord glory and strength or ascribing to God that glory and strength helps us to deal with our own situations. Because I begin to see then my problems in the light of God’s power, rather than in the light of my own ineptness. My own weakness. And it is always strengthening, faith building, to spend time just in praising the Lord for the glory, the strength, the power of His might.
Bible Prophecy Updates, Breaking News, Israel Fulfilled Prophecy, Obama Watch, Signs on the Earth, The Tribulation

Posted on September 1st, 2010

Written by Rob Robinson

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Signs of Antichrist: Obama Wants a Signed Peace Agreement

When the time of the seven year tribulation is upon us, there will be a massive move to make peace in Israel. The peace, according to Daniel Chapter 9 will come by a “Covenant”, or agreement between many nations and Israel. The signing of this peace treaty is the opening of the first seal in Revelation Chapter 6, verse 1. Either just before or just after the signing of this peace agreement, Jesus will remove His church from the earth at the event described in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4:16-18. Then after a short three and one-half years of peace, the new world ruler who brought the peace treaty, will have a statue of himself erected in the newly built temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, and proclaim that the world should worship him.
This is the event that Jesus described in Matthew 24:15-22 called “The Abomination of Desolation”. This event will trigger the opening of the second seal in Revelation chapter 6 that will bring war. As the third through seventh seals are opened, the judgments and plagues upon earth grow progressively worse leading into the blowing of the seven trumpets and finally the pouring out of the seven bowls of Jesus wrath upon the earth. In the totality of these twenty-one judgments, nearly two-thirds of the population of the earth will perish. All those who refuse to take the mark of the beast and worship him, but instead chose Jesus Christ, will be beheaded as described in Revelation 20:4. It will be possible to be saved during the last three and one-half years of the Great Tribulation, but it will cost you your life. Important to remember that if a person cannot live for Jesus Christ now before the Great Tribulation begins, they most certainly will not be able to wait until the tribulation begins to die for Jesus Christ. Better to receive Him now while there is still time.
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Posted on September 1st, 2010

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Devotional: Thursday September 2, 210

So when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?” (Exodus 18:14) In our zeal to please God and advance His kingdom, we Christians often take on responsibilities that God never intended us to have. One of the great challenges of the Christian life is determining what God does not want us to do! Our intentions are admirable: We love God, we love His people, and we see many needs around us. But sometimes our good intentions cause more harm than good.
Moses was aware of the need for someone to settle disputes among the Israelites. Someone had to help those former slaves learn how to live together as the people of God, so Moses took it upon himself to meet this need. Long lines of unhappy people, hoping to have their cases heard, stood before Moses each day. Moses spent day after day carrying the weight of his nation’s problems on his shoulders. Finally his father-in-law, an outsider, witnessed what Moses was doing and challenged the wisdom of his actions. Moses was taking on more than he could handle. He was wearing himself out trying to do what was impossible for one person. In doing this service alone, Moses was robbing others of an opportunity to serve the Lord. He was also doing a disservice to his people, who otherwise could have had their issues resolved much sooner.
Bible Studies, Chuck Smith

Posted on September 1st, 2010

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Bible Study: Psalms 24-28

As we continue our study through the Bible, it is thought that the background of the twenty-fourth psalm was David’s preparation to bring the Ark of the Covenant from the place of Obededom on to the tabernacle that David had built on mount Zion in Jerusalem. David’s first endeavor to bring the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem ended in disaster. David had a good idea. The ark of the covenant had been captured during the reign of Saul by the Philistines. It was nothing but problems for them and so they decided to send it back to Israel. And they made a cart and they hitched up a couple of oxen or actually cows to it, and the cows came back to Bethshemesh in a direct line mooing all the way. The people of Israel, when they saw the ark of the covenant, rejoiced and they took it to Kirjathjearim, where it stayed.
But then David decided he would bring the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem and rather than inquiring of the Lord and seeking the law of God in how the ark of the covenant should be moved, he followed the pattern of the Philistines. He just got a cart, set the thing on the cart and started to bring it back to Jerusalem. The cart began to tip, one of the fellows, Uzza, reached out to steady it but in touching the ark of the covenant, God took his life and David feared the Lord. He said, Don’t bring it any further. Leave it right here. They were at the house of Obededom, and so they left the ark of the covenant there.
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Posted on September 1st, 2010

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Devotional: Wednesday September 1, 2010

The LORD is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. (2 Chronicles 15:2) Our response to God greatly determines His presence in our lives. If we seek God with all of our hearts, then we will find Him (Jer. 29:13–14). The Lord wants to have fellowship with us, but He will not force a relationship upon us. We cannot reject fellowship with God and expect Him to remain near. He does not merely follow us throughout our day in case we need His assistance. If we continue to forsake Him, a time will come when we desperately need Him and He will not be near (Isa. 59:1–2).It is an affront to sovereign God to treat Him like a servant who should wait upon us. God will relate to us on His terms, not ours. God desires a close walk with us. He will make His presence real and personal if that is our desire. If we repent of our sin and seek God on His terms, we can look forward to intimate fellowship with Him (James 4:8–10). We are to continually seek Him, not content to enter a new day without the assurance that God is walking beside us.
Bible Studies, Chuck Smith

Posted on September 1st, 2010

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Bible Study: Psalms 21-23

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalm 21 as we continue our journey through the Bible beginning with the twenty-first psalm. In Psalm 20, David offered a prayer unto the Lord. He asked the Lord to hear him in the day of trouble. To send him help. To strengthen him. To grant unto him according to God’s own heart, to fulfill the counsel. And the prayer was, Lord, fulfill all of my petitions. Now it is felt that Psalm 21 was written in response to the Lord’s answer to David’s prayer. If Psalm 20 was a prayer out of trouble, he was needing help, crying unto the Lord. The Lord helped him and so Psalm 21 is a psalm of acknowledgment of the help of the Lord. The answer to the prayer. And thus, The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation (21:1) Notice back in Psalm 20, “There are some who would trust in chariots, some in horses: but we will trust in the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and we stand upright. Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call” (Psalm 20:6-9). So now God has answered and the king is rejoicing in the strength of the Lord. The hand of the Lord has delivered. In His salvation, how greatly shall he rejoice (21:1)! All of us have prayed in the time of trouble. It’s almost a natural response when we’re in trouble to call unto the Lord.
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Posted on September 1st, 2010

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Devotional: Tuesday August 31, 2010

So Jesus answered and said to him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Mark 10:51) It is hard to believe that the Lord would ask us what He could do for us. However, sometimes that is the question we must answer. Bartimaeus was blind, and he knew exactly what he wanted Jesus to do for him: restore his sight. Yet he received much more than physical sight! He received salvation, for Jesus knew Bartimaeus’s heart was faithful. Bartimaeus immediately used his gift to become a follower of the Savior. Jesus also asked James and John what they wanted Him to do for them. They requested the most prominent places in His kingdom. This time, Jesus answered that He could not give them what they asked. Their request was selfish, and it brought dissension among their fellow disciples (Mark 10:41).
Only when we pray according to God’s will is He pleased to grant our requests (John 15:16). We will not see our prayers answered if we ask selfishly (James 4:3). If God refrains from giving us what we are asking, we should evaluate our prayers. Are our motives selfish? Are we asking for far less than God wants to give? (2 Kings 13:19; Eph. 3:20). Are our requests worthy of the God we approach? Do we lack the faith God requires to give us our desires? (Matt. 17:20). Is there unconfessed sin? (Isa. 1:15). God delights in responding to our requests (Matt. 7:7). If we will ask according to His will, we, like Bartimaeus, will receive far more than we anticipated! (Jer. 33:3).
Bible Studies, Chuck Smith

Posted on September 1st, 2010

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Bible Study: Psalms 17-20

Psalm 17, a prayer of David. This is a prayer thought to be offered to the Lord at a time when he was being pursued by Saul. From the style of the psalm, it would seem to be one of David’s earlier psalms. In the earlier psalms, David was asking the Lord to bless him for his righteousness’ sake. Now in David’s early life, he had a tremendous faith in God. You remember the stories of his exploits because of his faith in God. Killing of the lion, the killing of the bear, his willingness to go out against Goliath because of his trust in the Lord. And that early trust in the Lord was manifested by his response to Goliath when he said, Am I a dog that you would send a child out to fight me and he said to David, Go home before I cut you up and feed you to the birds. And David expressing that kind of faith and confidence that he had in God said, You come against me with a sword and with a spear. But I come against you in the name of the living God that you have defiled. And I will cut you up and your whole army and feed you to the birds. He had that kind of confidence in God (1 Samuel 17). He was very respectful of God’s anointed. Though he had every reason to turn on Saul, and even opportunity to do so, to take vengeance upon Saul who had been pursuing him without a cause, David did not lift a hand against Saul because he recognized that God’s hand of anointing was upon him. God had anointed him to be the king over Israel and he refused to touch the anointed of God even though the anointed had long left Saul, David would not put his hand against him.
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Posted on August 30th, 2010

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Signs of the Last Days: Teens Becoming ‘Fake Christians’

If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and you may be responsible. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Translation: It’s a watered-down faith that portrays God as a “divine therapist” whose chief goal is to boost people’s self-esteem. Dean is a minister, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” a new book that argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on this self-serving strain of Christianity. She says this “imposter” faith is one reason teenagers abandon churches. “If this is the God they’re seeing in church, they are right to leave us in the dust,” Dean says. “Churches don’t give them enough to be passionate about.”
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Posted on August 30th, 2010

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Devotional: Monday August 30, 2010

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:18) The world abounds with people whose sin has alienated them from God. Christ’s sacrificial work has restored Christians to a love relationship with the heavenly Father. As Christians, we are appointed as ministers of reconciliation. Once Christ dwells within us, we become His ambassadors, and we entreat others to be reconciled to Him (2 Cor. 5:20). We are God’s messengers of peace, urging others to return to God (Matt. 5:9). Sin breaks our relationship with God; it severs relationships with others as well. Broken relationships are the epidemic of our day. Sin alienates family members, separates friends, divides churches, and destroys marriages. Sin creates mistrust, jealousy, hatred, and greed, all of which devastate relationships. Only Christ has the remedy for the disastrous effect of sin on human relationships. As His ambassadors, we are to take the message of reconciliation to a broken, divided world. We urge reconciliation first with God, and then with each other.
Bible Studies, Chuck Smith

Posted on August 30th, 2010

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Bible Study: Psalms 10-16

Shall we turn to the tenth Psalm. This tenth psalm speaks about the wicked. Mistakes that wicked people often make in their thoughts concerning God. The psalm begins with the cry of the psalmist. Why do you stand far off, O LORD? why do you hide yourself in times of trouble (10:1)? God, the Bible says, is slow to anger. He is plenteous in mercy. He allows people to go a long way before He does anything. And oftentimes as the wicked are going in their ways, we wonder, Lord, why do You just stand off and let this person get by with it? Lord, why don’t You act? Why don’t You bring judgment upon them? I with the psalmist many times have wondered why God was so patient with people. Why God didn’t just cut them off immediately, as I would do if I were God. And then he begins to talk about the wicked. The ones that he wanted God to take care of. The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined (10:2). Lord, don’t stand off. They have set the poor up. It’s really a tragic and unfortunate thing that the poor people are many times the victims of the charlatans. There are people who prey upon poor people. They run advertisements for their schools and so forth and, Learn the trade and make fifty dollars an hour and all. They get the poor to sign off their houses and everything else with the thought in mind that I’m going to be able to really advance and get ahead and they take advantage. So David says, “Let them be caught in the devices that they have imagined.”
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Posted on August 29th, 2010

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Atheists Doctors More Likely to Hasten Death

LONDON — Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious, according to a new study in Britain. Dr. Clive Seale, a professor at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, conducted a random mail survey of more than 3,700 doctors across Britain, of whom 2,923 reported on how they took care of their last terminal patient. Many of the doctors surveyed were neurologists, doctors specializing in the care of the elderly, and palliative care, though other specialists like family doctors, were also included. Doctors who described themselves as “extremely” or “very nonreligious” were nearly twice as likely to report having made decisions like providing continuous deep sedation, which could accelerate a patient’s death. To ensure doctors are acting in accordance with their patients’ wishes, Seale wrote that “nonreligious doctors should confess their predilections to their patients.”
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Posted on August 29th, 2010

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Devotional: Sunday August 29, 2010

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10) There are many motivations in the Christian’s life. One is our awareness that one day we will give an account of our lives to Christ, as He sits in judgment upon humanity. It is much more comforting to believe that Christians will be ushered into heaven with no questions asked about our faithfulness upon earth, but that is not what Scripture says will happen. Paul cautioned that in the final day of judgment every Christian will give an account for his or her actions. This expectation terrified Paul and motivated him to strive to please God in everything he did (2 Cor. 5:9–11). Paul knew that although he might ignore the Spirit’s quiet voice during His life on earth, a time of accounting would come when he would have to explain why he had rejected God’s instructions. Paul never carelessly assumed that, because of all he had done for God’s kingdom, God would overlook his sin. Instead, he understood that to whom much is given, much is required (Luke 12:48).
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