By Bob Barney 

Are we living in the last days? Are we in the end times? Is the return of Jesus Christ right around the corner? These are the questions that many of us ask ourselves whenever we read the book of Revelation or the Gospel of Matthew concerning the return of Jesus Christ and His kingdom of God that He is bringing with Him. 

First of all, there is a misnomer with the term, “end times” that most people have. Jesus was never talking about the end of the world, neither was John in his book of Revelations.  What both men were talking about is best described with the phrase “the end of the age” of mankind.

When God created man, Adam and Eve to be exact, a new age upon this earth began. It was the age of mankind, and it began approximately 5 to 6000 years ago as best we can tell. Adam was set up to rule the earth during this age but because of his sin, Adam lost his right as ruler of this age–the age of mankind. Many are not aware that the Bible plainly states the Earth is much older than man. In fact, those who believe the earth to be billions of years old are not necessarily in conflict with the Bible at all! It is very possible that the earth is very old. In Genesis the correct translation of God creating the heavens and the earth is that God re-created the earth after a cataclysm that is not mentioned. This former earth was under the rulership of the great archangel Lucifer, the angel who rebelled against God and became Satan. If Adam had not sinned, he would have been the ruler of this age. But Adam did sin and was not able to replace Satan as the ruler of this age.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ, one that is rarely ever presented in churches today, is that Jesus as God is coming back to replace Satan as the ruler of this earth and usher in a new age. When Christ returns, he is bringing the kingdom of God with Him, a government that will have no end, and the age of man will come to an end. That is the gospel that is not preached today. Jesus was not merely talking about salvation, He was not talking about how to get to heaven.  What he was talking about was bringing God’s government to earth, complete with God’s Laws and God's Love.

Those chosen to be Christians in this age have not been chosen for the personal reward of going to heaven when they die, because the plain truth is that we do not! Rather our mission is to help God prepare for the return of Jesus Christ as the king of this earth and to establish God’s government here, as it is now in Heaven. We don’t go to heaven when we die, we resurrect from the dead upon the return of Christ to rule with him as spiritual beings.  Do yourself a favor and read 1 Corinthians 15.  Paul clearly explains the state of the dead when we rise from the dead and where we will be when we rise.  It is such an easy chapter to read, I think you will be amazed that you maybe have never read it!  We have coming to us, an incredible awesome destiny! Unfortunately ministers who proclaim the Gospel just do not proclaim this truth! They leave the average person out there in total ignorance of the real plan of God.

I will not be telling you when the age is to come to an end because frankly, I do not know. Your preacher does not know, the Pope does not know, and some holy roller out in the desert does not know! So don’t be fooled! We must and always be prepared for the return of Christ, but we should live with the understanding that it may not happen in our lifetime. Doing anything else is doing the work of Satan to draw us away from God’s plan and eventually cause us to fail in our mission. Don’t be deceived, do not trust charlatans who would steal your money and your soul for their own gain. Christ made it clear that only He knows the exact time of His return, and we would not know. What He did give us were signs to allow us to understand in general when the time of His return was at hand. Simply put, we are to look for these signs.

#1: Wars and everyone talking about war all over the world.

#2: There would be earthquakes in places where they should not be. Earthquakes and regions where earthquakes always have been are not signs, but earthquakes in regions that do not have them, is a sign.

#3 False Christianity would become the accepted religion. Notice, I did not say FALSE RELIGION, I said false Christianity. Paul said for us to be aware of “another gospel” that was already being preached in his day. Paul warns in Gal 1:6-9: "I marvel that you are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.” That false gospel has been preached since at least AD 50. It changed Saturday to Sunday, and Passover to Easter. It replaced the Law of Christ with lawlessness. 

#4 A worldwide financial collapse (the Black Horse of Revelation) which will lead to the reformation of the Holy Roman Empire, which is Europe and NOT RUSSIA!

#5 Worldwide poverty and death brought about by wars, especially from the pale green horseman of Revelation. We will see food shortages in America, England, and the modern world! Genetically modified crops will begin to fail, food will be in short supply, and poverty disease and death will follow. Not in Africa or some third world nation, but in the modern Western World - America under Obamacare, and European health care systems will be reduced into killing machines, wiping the earth clean of seniors and sickly people. Hitler’s final solution will become reality to BILLIONS on earth, and not just to Jews and the disabled. 

#6 The love of people will go away. Even Christians, (myself included), have been so overwhelmed by the evilness in this world, pretending to be “hope and change” that we will see the tribulations that are coming on the evil people as God’s just judgement. We will not care. We should care, but we won’t. Only in constant prayer and mediating on Christ’s words, will we be able to overcome the hatred that is building in our souls towards those that have caused all these calamities.

#7 Finally we will see signs in the heavens themselves. Comets and shooting stars, asteroids hitting the earth and all sorts of natural destruction, not caused by man-made global warming, but made by God as punishment to those on this planet who refuse to obey God’s Laws. The final sign we will see in heaven is the LORD GOD, we call Jesus Christ, the Yahweh of the Bible, riding on His horse, as bright as the sun itself, coming to this planet to take His place on His throne, here on planet earth, replacing and destroying the lawless and evil people of this world.

Then, Revelation will be completed. The healing will begin, but not a moment sooner.

Written by Bob Barney

Sri Lankan army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony's Shrine after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than hundred people were killed and hundreds more hospitalized from injuries in near simultaneous blasts that rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, a security official told The Associated Press, in the biggest violence in the South Asian country since its civil war ended a decade ago. (AP Photo/ Rohan Karunaratne)

There is a war going on that is completely unreported in the news.  It is a war that kills hundreds of people a month, yet it is not on the front pages of your newspapers, nor can it be found in any of the top stories on our tv news like how Ukraine floods the airwaves and worldwide web. 

Who is the target?

Christians.

Yes, there is an all-out assault on Christians and the wizard behind this sinister plot is Satan.

The demons that help Satan conspire to kill Christians are the Deep State, the media, Big Pharma, Big Business, of course the Elitist Globalists, and as hard as this is to swallow, THE BIG CHURCHES!

They all represent lies and death, because Satan is the father of lies and the master mind behind death.

There is one of the most elaborate national celebrations of liberty leading up to Independence Day that is worth mentioning. The annual celebration is called the U.S. Catholic Bishops’, “Fortnight for Freedom” event. It consists of fourteen consecutive days of masses, songs, homilies, prayers, videos, receptions, readings, lectures, and other events staged in cathedrals and churches around the country; millions of Catholics are involved. In the words of chairman Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, the 2016 event, now in its second week, is aimed both at celebrating this “nation, conceived in liberty” and at bringing attention to “the new and emerging challenges that are before us.”

Do you think during this event anyone ever mentions anything about the persecution and slaughtering of fellow Christians? NO is the answer and begs the question as to why not?

This lack of knowledge and/or acknowledgment has cost the lives of millions of Christians over the last 100 years. Satan and his minions in the media desire to keep Americans blinded to the truth about such atrocities.

Let us look at some horrifying statistics as reported by the 2021 World Watch List (WWL), latest annual accounting from Open Doors of the top 50 countries where Christians are the most persecuted for following Jesus:

Every day, 13 Christians worldwide are killed because of their faith. Every day, 12 churches or Christian buildings are attacked. And every day, 12 Christians are unjustly arrested or imprisoned, and another 5 are abducted.

Too many Christians are shocked by what is happening because they do not understand what the Bible says about the world becoming dramatically worse before the return of Christ. They also do not believe that the United States—the dominant country in the world right now—is even mentioned in biblical prophecy. They are blissfully unaware that the Bible refers to, (hundreds of times for that matter), who the United States of America is as well as other Western democracies. (Click here: America and modern nations in in Biblical Prophecy).

We are written about very specifically in the Word of God and told what is going to happen to our country and its people because of sin. What is sin? The Bible gives us only one definition of sin and that is, “for sin is the transgression of the Law”, 1John 3:4.

This is an appropriate segway to take a look at the state of our country a little bit deeper.

World Net Daily reports "Two shocking and unprecedented megatrends are unfolding simultaneously in the United States of America right now.

"The first is the explosion of what can only be described as openly predatory targeting of America’s children by legions of “gender activists” obsessed with seducing, grooming, and recruiting kids into the phantasmagoric transgender world of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical amputation of healthy body parts and astronomical suicide rates”.

"Incredibly, this wild celebration of transgenderism is being praised, promoted and funded by the ruling class at the highest levels, from the White House on down, while all who sound the alarm are demonized and canceled”.

"At first, this trend manifested most notably as “drag queen story hour” events hosted in public libraries across the nation, during which innocent toddlers would be made to sit at the feet of severely mentally ill men (often made-up to appear openly demonic) and be regaled with tales of heroic LGBT characters. But that was just the warm-up."

Tucker Carlson recently put it, “Having some purple-haired loser in a nose ring convince your six-year-old to get a sex change is not why most people send their children to school.”

These are examples of sin, examples of the transgressing of the Laws of Our Creator.

What is law?  The Law is the Ten Commandments and the Laws found in the Torah (The first five books in the Bible) which almost every Christian church claims have been done away with by Christ Himself; this is nonsense. Christ is the God of the Old Testament who wrote the Law with His own finger!  So-called Christians churches teach lawlessness!  No wonder we have the world we have today of crime and no punishment.  The churches want the Ten Commandments in our schools, but not in their own halls.

Wake up America. You are being lied to by a group that wants you dead or turned into slaves. Your freedoms have been erased and your government has become your enemy!  The FBI, the Military that Fox News worships, and many of our police departments have been taken over by liberal satanist that are being used as instruments to arrest you illegally and shoot you down in cold blood if you dare to be a patriot.  

The final End Times are yet to come, and The Plain Truth of it is that God says that America will become enslaved. Hopefully if enough of us wake up and turn to God at this time, the prophecy of our decline and America's eventual demise will not be fulfilled in our lifetime.  Honestly, I feel it is too late already, but effective prayer and a shift of our hearts toward God can change everything.

By Bob Barney (First published in May 2019)

The mission of The Plain Truth is to warn the world of the coming events prophesied in the Bible that will bring impact and change to all our lives. For most, it is difficult to understand these ancient predictions and therefore impossible to see them coming to life in the here and now. The Plain Truth diligently scans world events and today’s headlines to help connect these dots and make the warnings forecasted thousands of years ago easier to understand.

Many will read about people like Ezekiel, Micah, and Zechariah and the prophesies of nations like Assyria, Ephraim, and Edom and not have a true understanding because they are not familiar with who the key players are in the world today. Once our readers are informed of who’s who in scripture then their eyes can be opened and as a result will be able to see how God is talking to every one of us from the pages of the Bible!

Here is an example of some of The Plain Truths teachings of who's who: Assyria is Germany, Edom is Turkey, and Ephraim is the United States of America. It is also important to know that the United States of America, Britain, Scandinavia, and France as well as most of the nations of Western Europe are in fact the Lost Tribes of Israel.  Since most prophecies concern these 10 lost nations, once we learn these facts, we can then understand that many if not most of these warnings from God were meant for our eyes, today!

Which brings me to some earth-shattering news...

In today's topic of our sun, it is important to understand that we may be on the verge of a cataclysmic event within the next two years!  The western world and life as we know it may be altered and this is not a Chicken Little type of a warning; it is in fact a warning from NASA and many of the top scientists of the world! This warning fulfills God's prophecies concerning the destruction of our nation by both natural and man-made events. Please take the time to educate yourself and be prepared for what could be the most life changing event in your lifetime. If you prepare yourself, you can survive what may befall the entire globe. If you are not prepared, you will end up like the victims of Katrina or Japan!

We will be following the happenings of these celestial events and hope you will continue to look for The Plain Truth in your daily lives.

Giant Sunspot Doubles Size in 24 Hours and Points Right at Earth

A huge sunspot that has doubled in size in just 24 hours now faces Earth, threatening to send a solar flare our way. If a nuclear bomb went off in the high atmosphere over the United States, it could possibly take out the electrical grids over most of the country. Likewise, a huge solar flare could create widespread devastation by knocking out electricity, experts say.

Also Read the Official Government Report claiming millions could die!

Political Science 101 fact:  Restrict movement and you restrict freedom.. Like Nazi Germany.... "Show me your papers!" This is what Biden and Democrats are doing.  Restrict people from driving.  That's the plan, please don't be fooled.

The Story from Breitbart.com....

President Joe Biden on Wednesday again promoted his infrastructure dreams of taking people out of their gas-powered vehicles and putting them on trains and other forms of public transit.

“We’re investing almost $100 billion in public transit and rail, for all the studies show that it will take millions of cars off the road and significantly reduce pollution if there’s a serious transportation system available,” he said.

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By Bob Barney

My family and I, and all of those who understand Bible prophecy have been awaiting signs from God that will bring on the END TIMES, as spoken by Jesus in Matthew 24.

Today in the wake of a worldwide panic, caused by nit-witted world leaders and the press, many are panicking needlessly that The Great Tribulation has started... IT HAS NOT! Although we have biblically been in the END TIMES since the first century, waiting for Christ to return, we are not even close to the Great Tribulation, the terrible times that will come just 7 years before Christ returns, when upwards of 90% of the world's population will die... That's like 6-7 billion people! 

What we are witnessing today is fear based upon ignorance. God says in His word, "My people die because of their lack of knowledge," and so it is so today.  Hysteria and panic, caused by a severe cold-like virus has caused the world to shut down. Either we have the most stupid leaders today, or the most evil.  Whatever they are, they are going to find a backlash to their actions like they could never realize.

Now Covid seems to be over, the new scare is World War III caused by the Russian assault on Ukraine.  Now, we have the right to be scared of a war which could easily turn nuclear killing millions of people, but that doesn't mean it's the Tribulation.  Many thought WWI was the end of the era before Christ returned.  Others later said WWII.  Well that didn't work out so well.

This is not the tribulation

Contrary to media reports, this is not the Tribulation.  The Tribulation will be when a real virus or a world war can kill 2 billion people occurs, when a great nuclear war will kill 2-3 billion and false religion will kill another billion or so!  We are not even close to that scenario ---yet.

The panic going around the world is being spread by fake news, and a task force that does nothing but spread hysteria to a panicked population. As I reported in many articles in the last few years, COVID was not anywhere the pandemic that H1N1 was, or the Spanish Flu, or especially the Black Death in the Middle Ages that killed over 200 million people out of a population probably less than 600 million!   That's a third of everyone you know dying!  These plagues where of biblical proportion, not this one.

The Ukraine war too is probably a red herring as well.

The problem is that world leaders are using these scare tactic scenarios to stop the rise of nationalism that has scared the heck out of them since the election of President Trump, and has been raging around the world. The Deep State elite fear that they are losing their power, and they are trying to get it back again, using fear to do so, not unlike those preachers who spread the fear of burning forever in hell if you don't obey them (a lie by the way, we do not go to a place of torment -EVER).  Dr Fauci is like the old time fire and brimstone preachers who preached fear rather than The Plain Truth.  More people in the world are still dying of the flu, than coronavirus.  More Christians around the world are being slaughtered for their beliefs than this so-called pandemic.

Ben Franklin understood just how governments gain control over their people.  Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Patrick Henry added to this idea with his famous speech, "“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided,” he said, “and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past."

God forbid if we choose to give up our liberty, because we fear dying.  Henry continued, “The war is actually begun!  Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty”

I hope not!  Fear God, NOT what man can do. Paul wrote, "If God is for us, who really can be against us!"  That is as true today's it was then, some two thousand years ago.  We have nothing to fear if we have God who is in control of everything!

No, this is not the tribulation, so realize that the world is to continue, and nobody but God knows for how long.  It's a question of what rights that we ignorantly are willing to give up.

During the Tribulation,  an event known as "The Riding The Four Horsemen" will occur, which will be God's wrath on the world.  Garner Ted Armstrong's 4 part series of what the four horsemen represent. They are, The The Rider on the White Horse, which represents FALSE CHRISTIANITY, The Rider on the RED HORSE, which represents unprecedented world wars, The third Horsemen, that rides a BLACK Horse, represents inflation, depression and famine, and the FOURTH HORSEMAN on a PALE-Green Horse that represents pestilence and Death.  

Many are not aware that the Four Horsemen prophecy mirrors Jesus' famous Olivet prophecy found in Matthew 24 when He is asked when the Tribulation will start and when the end of the world will be.  He told His followers this: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ^{(White Horse)}For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I, (Jesus) am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.  You will hear of wars and rumors of wars ^{(Red Horse)}, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.  Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.^{(Black Horse)}  All these are the beginning of birth pains.

 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death^{(Pale-Green Horse)}, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.  At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,  and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.  Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,  but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

We are in no way even close to these times, but they will happen!  God says so, and it's time that everyone prepares for what's next and draw near to Christ before the door to salvation is closed.  God is real, His word, the Bible is real and factual!  Prophecy is HISTORY before for happens!  It is like reading a newspaper describing an awful event, years before it is ever published!

AMERICA IS LOST ISRAEL:      Many, including myself have written over the years articles proving who the lost ten tribes of Israel are.  Most in the world today do not know that Israelites are not Jews!  Only the tribe of Judah (with Levi and parts of Benjamin) make up modern and ancient Jews.  There are 10 other tribes that the Bible says were taken into captivity a 100 years before Babylon took the Jews into captivity.  These lost ten tribes were enslaved by the ancient Assyrian empire, who were the descendants of modern Germany (Read this incredible article on this HERE.)

The peoples of Western Europe (Denmark, France, Scandinavia, Ireland, Great Britain and Spain) are actually identifiable Israelite tribes.  America, the literal 13th tribe coming out of Joseph, and you can prove it.

Whenever you see prophecies in your Bible, you will see that some prophecies are especially for Judah (Jews) and some prophecies are written especially to "The House of Israel" and the House of Jacob.  This always refer to the lost ten tribes and especially Great Britain and America.  

Did you know that God told Jacob that one of his son's Joseph's desendents would make up the single most powerful nation in the world?  It's in the Bible.  Who has been the single most affluent powerful nation in the world?  

Jacob also knew that the firstborn son of Joseph would make up the most powerful commonwealth of nations.... England.  It's there for you to read for yourselves.  If God is real, and you believe the words of the Bible, you can only come to the conclusions above!

ISRAEL (America and the Western lost tribes) WILL BE DESTROYED BEFORE The Great Tribulation

I have stated many times, and will do so again. It makes no difference to your spiritual Christian fate if you understand who America is.  If you declare Jesus Christ as both God and Savior, AND YOU OBEY HIM, and not a church figure, then you will be saved!  Whether you follow the Sabbath, or Sunday ignorantly, it does not matter.  If you understand God's Holy holidays, or follow pagan Christmas and Easter, it doesn't matter - IF YOU BELIEVE and OBEY as best as God has informed you - YOU WILL BE SAVED!

However, being saved, and UNDERSTANDING prophecy are two distinct points.  To understand what is happening today, will happen tomorrow and beyond requires you to understand prophecy and WHO THE PLAYERS in THE END TIMES WILL BE! 

Once one realizes just who we are today, then that person can understand the prophecies that lie ahead. The "time of Jacob's trouble" comes from Jeremiah 30:7 that says, "Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it" (KJV). What is this "time of distress for Jacob"?  Jacob, is another name for Israel, as he was re-named Israel by Jesus (as the Lord of the Old Testament) after having a wrestling match with him! When Jacob blessed his grandsons (only Joseph's two boys), Jacob said, "Let MY NAME be given to these two lads."  His name Jacob would always refer to only the tribe of Joseph.

God had promised He would someday restore His people to prosperity, meaning the land of Israel. The Lord would save them from it. Jeremiah 30:8-9 make it clear that this time would be a period in which God's people no longer served other masters, but would serve the Lord and "David their king, whom I will raise up for them" (v. 9). This is during the millennium, which follows the Great Tribulation when Jesus rules here on earth for 1,000 years.

However, although probably closely (in God terms) near the Great Tribulation, God predicted that Jacob, or Israel -- would be destroyed by plagues, wars, fear and panic because they refused to obey the Laws of the Living God.  In my commentary,  I explain God's warning to the American people, written 4,000 years ago that reads like today's headlines!

God says that because we no longer obey His laws, and have turned our back on God, He would destroy us, and take us into captivity!  The Lord Jesus, THE GOD WHO SPEAKS IN THE Old Testament told Moses,   if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands,  and if you break my covenant by rejecting my statutes and treat my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my Commandments,    I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your alien enemies will eat them.  I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!"

Does that sound like today? 

I know, and am convinced by the world of the Living God, that America will be destroyed, along with "lost Israel" of Western Europe, Canada and Australia.  It will happen.  Is this the way Satan (the father of lies and fake media, also known as the God of this world) will destroy the west through lies and panic?  That may be.  It is very possible.

GOD IS IN CONTROL

Friends, I beg you, in the name of Jesus and the Father DO NOT PANIC as the rest are in these times. Regardless of whatever happens in this age, if you have Jesus you have life!  Do not worry about the life you have today, which will end whether it be today or not, set your eyes on the future life you will have with Jesus.  That is the message. God controls everything.

Paul writes concerning today and our people, "I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.  God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:  “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”?  And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”   So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.  What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain.The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,  as it is written:

⁹ And David says:

Yes For OUR SAKE God will save the world from total destruction.

The God of this world is NOT in control

Some Christians who understand that Satan is the God of this world mistakenly think that Satan can do whatever he wants without the approval of God.  He cannot!  God has allowed Satan to rule on Earth and basically do whatever he wishes EXCEPT when it concerns one of God's people. There is no better example of this, than in the the book of Job.  

Job 1 and 2

In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

He had seven sons and three daughters,

and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.

One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."

Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."

"Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied.

"Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.

But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."

The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,

a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,

when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship

and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.  The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."

In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Then another day came for the angels to meet with the Lord. Satan joined them for this meeting with the Lord.  The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you been?”

Satan answered the Lord, “I have been roaming around the earth, going from place to place.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him. He is a good, faithful man. He respects God and refuses to do evil. He is still faithful, even though you asked me to let you destroy, without reason, everything he has.”

 Satan answered, “Skin for skin!  A man will give everything he has to protect himself.  I swear, if you attack his flesh and bones, he will curse you to your face!”

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, Job is in your hands, but you are not allowed to kill him.”

 So Satan left the meeting with the Lord and gave Job painful sores all over his body, from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.  Job sat on the pile of ashes where he was mourning and used a piece of broken pottery to scrape his sores.  His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your faith? Why don’t you just curse God and die!”

 Job answered, “You sound like one of those fools on the street corner! How can we accept all the good things that God gives us and not accept the problems?” So even after all that happened to Job, he did not sin. He did not accuse God of doing anything wrong.

The lessons of Job....

Three things that should be noted here:

1 Although Satan is the God of this world, He must ask God to do anything to a person under God's grace.

2 God sometimes allows us to be harmed, and we must accept whatever God Does!

3 God even admits to Satan that God was provoked and acted in a way He should not have! “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him. He is a good, faithful man. He respects God and refuses to do evil. He is still faithful, even though you asked me to let you destroy, without reason, everything he has.”

God allows things too happen to us, but we are to deal with it.

Paul again instructs us in Romans.

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!  For he says to Moses,

 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”  Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”  But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?  As he says in Hosea:

 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

²⁹ It is just as Isaiah said previously:

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.

 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.  

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?  But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

The Day Is Near (Even in Paul's time 2,000 years ago)

 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.  

The night is nearly over; the day is almost here.

So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh

In conclusion friends, DO NOT FEAR ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE. Get yourself in alignment with God's will and you will be saved! Satan has no power over God's people! NONE, ZILCH!  God is in control, whether you like it or not.  Most I know, do not.

I will conclude my remarks again by the comforting words of Paul who says:

More Than Conquerors

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?  Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.  Who then is the one who condemns?  No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written:

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God Bless you all!  Believe in Him who Died for you!  Believe also in Him who resurrected Jesus and will do the same for you.

God Bless you, Friends!

In Christ name,

Bob Barney

From being unable to stand on one leg, to walking slowly and struggling to stand up: All the subtle signs you're at risk of an early death, according to science

Supreme Court OVERRULES Roe v. Wade saying the 'Constitution does not confer a right to abortion': Ends nearly 50 years of constitutional protection for terminations

The Supreme Court overruled the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision Friday morning by upholding Mississippi's restrictive abortion ban. 'The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,' the decision said. Tensions over the future of abortion rights in the country have been running high since a draft opinion of Dobbs was leaked - and showed that the high court's conservative majority was poised to push whether abortion was legal back to the states. 

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There is a story in the Bible about the first King of Israel, King Saul, who tried to talk with a dead prophet named Samuel; it didn't end well for the King as GOD KILLED HIM for his efforts!  The Plain Truth is that not one of us can talk with the dead as the dead are asleep according to the Bible. I realize this does not jive with what you may have been told but we do not go to heaven or hell when we die, we, in fact, go to the grave and await a resurrection from our sleep.  This is what God says and the funny thing to know is secular science even agrees with me!

 Here are some interesting quotes from the Bible:

Ecclesiastes 3:19 For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity. 20 All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

Ezekiel 18: "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die". That was God’s Truth being spoken by HIM in the Old Testament, and He says the same thing in the New Testament, word for word!  In Matthew 10:28 Jesus says, "Do not fear the one who can kill your body, but fear HIM who kills both body AND SOUL..."

1 Cor 15: verse ¹² But tell me this! Since you believe what we preach, that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying that dead people will never come back to life again? ¹³ For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ must still be dead^… 22 Everyone dies because all of us are related to Adam, being members of his sinful race, and wherever there is sin, death results. But all who are related to Christ will rise again. ²³ Each, however, in his own turn: Christ rose first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will become alive again."

There it is, clearly written and simple to understand. Christ is the only human being that has risen from the dead.  Christians who die will not be resurrected nor will they inherit their spiritual eternal life until Christ returns.  As for those who are not Christians and for the majority of those who have ever lived including many false pagan worshipping ‘Christians’, the Bible states in Revelations: 

20:4Then I saw thrones, and the people sitting on them had been given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for proclaiming the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They all came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

5This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.) 6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. For them the second death holds no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years. ...... . 12I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. 13The sea gave up its dead, and death and the graveb gave up their dead. And all were judged according to their deeds. 14Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. 15And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Don't be fooled by Alexa or anyone else. The dead ARE DEAD! You cannot speak to them.

Here is the Alexa story courtesy of WND.COM...

Alexa working on allowing conversations with dead relatives

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"Reaching God Speed" is published by Fidelis Books, a division of Post Hill Press.

(Note: Due to extraordinary demand, Amazon has temporarily sold out of hardcover editions of this book, but paperbacks are still available. The publisher is reprinting hardcovers at this time. Meanwhile, hardcover versions may still be available through other booksellers, including Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and ConservativeReaders.)

A brand-new book awakening people's minds to the hidden, Spirit content of the Bible was released as an audiobook on Wednesday, with no charge for those who sign up for a free trial on Audible.

The best-seller now being heard is "Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secrets Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything" by author Joe Kovacs.

"I am truly grateful and humbled that 'Reaching God Speed' now has an audible voice broadcasting the significant messages of God conveyed in the book," says Kovacs.

"Scripture says 'faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God' (Romans 10:17 NKJV), so hopefully this will increase everyone's faith substantially.

"Jesus also said: 'If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear' (Mark 4:23 NKJV). So I pray this new tool will help people open their ears so they can better understand what's being broadcast on the Spirit or parable level of Scripture, what I call 'God speed.'"

If consumers choose not to use Audible's free trial, the cost of the audiobook is $24.95 on Audible and $21.83 on Amazon, and a free audio sample of the reading can be heard at both those locations.

"Post Hill Press is honored to publish Joe Kovacs' brilliant book," said Anthony Ziccardi, the company's publisher.

"Joe brings to our everyday life a better understanding of Scripture and many of the world's great mysteries."

One of those mysteries unleashed worldwide this week by God's Holy Spirit deals with a key verse about the resurrection of Jesus, which Kovacs says packs an astounding double and triple meaning when we open our spiritual ears to hear.

The author says the sentence to focus on in John 20:1 is: "She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb."

"Beyond the physical event that everyone already understands," Kovacs explains, "there is a Spirit-based parable message being aired here, and to grasp its meaning, we only need to connect the dots with the rest of the Bible. It's actually quite easy and fun to do."

"Let's start with the stone. We all know what a stone is. It's a rock. And who famously is called a rock as well as a stone in the Bible? Yes, it's Jesus Himself!"

Just a few of the verses calling Jesus a rock or stone include:

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  'How About Banning Fentanyl?': Tucker Unloads On Biden Administration's Proposed Ban

The Plain Truth is that we are not producing enough electricity to charge cars!  We need 100 Nuke Plants or more to do that!

Bob Barney:  (quotes from WND.COM)

Quotes From:  thefederalist.com

Bob Barney:

Former Treasury Secretary and longtime Democrat Larry Summers recently co-authored an important paper analyzing long-term inflation trends and statistics. The paper demonstrates that changes to the way the federal government measures inflation via the Consumer Price Index since the Carter era understate the current scope of the problem – and the challenge the Federal Reserve faces in getting inflation under control today.

Anyone old enough to remember the 1970's inflation realizes that inflation today is at least two to three times worse than under Jimmy Carter.  And the answer to this discrpency is once again your government. 

Two changes to the inflation measure—one a one-time methodological change, and the other a long-running trend—explain much of the apparent difference in CPI rates between the late 1970s and today. The first comes from a 1983 move by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to remove homeownership costs from the CPI measurement and replace them with a metric called owners’ equivalent rent.

For instance, in the early 1950s, food and clothing comprised roughly half of the total Consumer Price Index, as opposed to approximately 17 percent today. The shift means that more elements of the CPI come from “sticky” industries and sectors—ones less amenable to sudden price shifts. While a grocery store or clothing retailer changes its prices quite often, for instance, manufacturers of computers or other durable goods alter their prices less frequently. The fact that the latter types of sectors dominate the CPI compared to prior decades suggests that wringing inflation out of the economy will not happen overnight, nor very easily.

Summers famously predicted last February that inflation would accelerate if Democrats rammed through their $1.9 trillion “stimulus” legislation. Sure enough, it did. His newest analysis therefore bears watching, as does one ominous conclusion: that bringing inflation down to the Fed’s desired 2 percent level “will…require nearly the same amount of disinflation as achieved under [Federal Reserve] Chairman [Paul] Volcker.”

The Plain Truth is America is in trouble. <ost American's don't even realize that our demise was predicted in the Bible. Most have no idea exactly who Canada, Britain, France, and America is identified in the Bible. If they did, they would be worried.

Believe it or not, the Bible is as current and relevant today as the day when it was first written. The fact is that it is even more relevant today because much of what was predicted by the prophets was meant for today and beyond and not for the time these men were living! The hard-to-pronounce nations mentioned in the pages of prophecy written so ,long ago still exist, and you can prove it to yourself! God has given us tools to understand His predictions for our world and has had uncanny accuracy that nobody could ever duplicate without divine influence. God has rightly predicted:

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🙏 Gallup Poll: Belief in God Among U.S. Adults Dips to All-Time Low

Major Decline among young adults, Liberals, Democrats

Scandalous and glamorous: Glorious pics capture the heyday of The Watergate where Nixon's team schmoozed with the great and the good... before it all came crashing down 50 years to the day

Vintage LIFE Magazine photos showcase the Watergate in mid-century splendor, years before it became embroiled in a scandal that destroyed Richard Nixon's presidency. The six-building complex containing apartments, offices and one hotel is where countless political heavyweights, Georgetown hostesses, well-connected socialites and influential makers with a long string of pearls and dark money would party with either party: Democrat or Republican, it didn't matter.

Anna Chennault, a Nixon power broker held court from her glamorous penthouse apartment where she hosted an array of glittering high profile guests including Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover (top right). One columnist once said her living room 'resembled nothing so much as a set in a James Bond movie.' Other Nixon- acolytes like Maurice Stans (bottom left) who was the president's Transportation Secretary and later finance chairman, also lived in the Watergate before he pleaded guilty on give counts of campaign fraud. Martha Mitchell, (enjoying the in-house hair salon) was the wife of the Attorney General and the Watergate's first whistle-blower. Mitchell was subsequently drugged and tranquilized in an attempt to keep her mouth shut.

(SPUTNIK NEWS) – A whopping 1.8 million people died from lung cancer globally in 2020. It is the second most common type of oncology, according to the World Health Organisation.

The natural herbal compound berberine may effectively stop the growth of lung cancer cells in a laboratory setting, a new study has revealed.

The survey was conducted by researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), who, like their colleagues elsewhere, have been attempting to find treatment options related to lung cancer. Currently, no cure is known for the disease.

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