"Yom Kippur" 2016!!!

So today is 2016's "Yom Kippur" on the Jewish calendar. So what??? Perhaps nothing in particular...but, then again perhaps something very significant, not to Jews only, but to all of us...believing Christians, and atheists, and everyone in between!!!

If World Wars I, and II were significant to all of us ( and they were) then #III should be at least as important to all of us! It will not be one directly involving America, and western Europe, as the last 2 were, but it will probably be of more significant importance to the whole world than they were!

I have said many times that I do not promote myself as some kind of latter day prophet. Let Joseph Smith, and those of his foolish nature answer for their ego-maniacal claim when they stand before the Lord. I make no attempts to justify my beliefs by saying that God gave me some kind of divine inspiration, one way, or another. But I will say that I rather unusually awoke this morning with this Post laying heavily on my heart, not that it was given to me supernaturally while I slept. But it was rather unusual; that's all I'll say about that.

What I will say is that I can read my Bible! (Whoopee, for me!!!) And I can believe what I have read, recognizing what is Biblical truth, especially when it is conclusively proven by recorded history, and sometimes eye-witnesses. Then I can recognize similar current events that have similar results as those recorded in the Bible.

With this perspective in mind, I have drawn certain conclusions, about today, and I offer them up to the reader to humbly consider them as "gospel truth", or foolish rambling, as they choose.

First, I have said many times the Russian invasion of the Middle-East (which was prophecied by the Prophet Ezekiel some 2500 years ago, or so, (in Ezekiel 38, & 39) seems to be the next non-fulfilled prophecy to be fulfilled, and it may be imminent, today. (For more on this prophecy, check out the "Archives" list to the right of this column, pertaining to the "Gog/Magog Invasion of Israel".)

But one may well be expected to argue, "Rick, prophecies are old testament stuff...not for today." Oh really???? Who says so??? Certainly not God (And He should know!). He is, "the same yesterday, today, and forever"; and, "a day unto the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day." If God is real (and I believe He is), He can fulfill His Prophecies as easily today as He did thousands of years ago.

So why today? First, logically, why not? Second, God gave Israel the Holy Day of "Yom Kippur" as their "Day of Atonement", or the day each year that they could be forgiven of all their sins of the previous year. (This was before He sent Jesus to die for all of the sins of all mankind, forever, if we would be humble enough to receive it.)

God has kept Himself from open revelation of Himself to the Jewish people for 2 thousand years. Yet His prophecies have still come true. Namely, the promise that Israel would one day be restored (fulfilled in 1948), and that Jerusalem would also again be their capital (which happened in 1967, though America's President, and Congress are still too foolish to admit the obvious).

The Ezekiel prophecies speak not only of His miraculous deliverance of His chosen people (Israel), but also that He would use this as His way of revealing to Israel that He still loves them, and that (perhaps His anger with them of thousands of years ago, for straying after other gods, is past, and he has forgiven them). What more appropriate day for this to begin to be revealed than on "Yom Kippur", their traditional day of forgiveness. And if it's not today, I'll be looking for it next year, and every year thereafter, until it comes true. But, I suspect that will be sooner rather than later!!! Praise the Lord!