Publisher's note:  The Reverend Billy Graham has been 'America's Pastor' for decades.  As he nears what are likely his last days and years, he is still doing his amazing work and is sounding the alarm for the imminent return of our Lord.  As a follower of Christ and an observer of our ever degrading, immoral, and Godless culture, I could not agree with Billy more.  I wish him many more blessed days and years of service.

WND and Billy Graham:  Just as Noah did in ancient times, world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham is sounding the alarm that the Second Coming is “near” and signs of the end of the age are “converging now for the first time since Jesus made those predictions.”

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly “biblical prophecies are being realized.”

And last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., claimed the world has entered the last days.

“When you see up is down and right is wrong, when this is happening, we were told this: that these days would be as the days of Noah,” Bachmann said.

The remarks by Graham, Netanyahu and Bachmann come amid a steadily rising wave of public interest in the end times, as demonstrated by recent polls and New York Times and Amazon.com bestselling books such as “The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America’s Future,” by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, and “Four Blood Moons: Something is About to Change,” by Pastor John Hagee.

In September, a poll by the Ventura, Calif.-based Barna Group found 4 in 10 Americans – and 77 percent of evangelical Christians – believe the “world is now living in the biblical end times.”

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Publisher's note:  Once again, my friend Dawn has been inspired and inspired me with a very basic and simple article.  She is absolutely correct, many of us do seem to make demands of Jesus when we pray as if He should drop everything else and tend to our perceived need.  Amazing insight.

Dawn Ellen:  Jesus is not our servant, we are His servants. He is not at our beckoned call, so we must seek His face no matter how long it takes for Him to answer.  Dare we demand anything from our Lord?  Never!  

In the Churches today there seems to be arrogance. Christians are demanding that the Lord answer their prayers.  They reject the Lord’s will and try to force the Lord to abide by their will.  I see the Lord’s people shaking their fists to the ceilings in Church saying, “Because it is in Your Word, You HAVE TO do it."  

Actually, He doesn’t need to do anything.  Yet, He looks down on us and pours His mercy upon us. He may not answer your prayer the way you want, but He answers it according to what you need at the time.  

Your life is not about “answered prayer,” but about the Lord growing and enriching your faith.  It’s about humbling yourself before the throne in recognition that you are nothing in His sight but for His blood, He sees us as His Redeemed.  I refuse to assume I know the Lord’s mind or His will in my life.  I refuse to be arrogant and demand He answer my prayers the way I want Him to. Yes, I have unanswered prayer in my life for 35 years now, but I am a changed person, a grounded in the Word person, and a person with unimaginable faith in my Savior.  I dare not go before the throne with an arrogant spirit, but a spirit of complete humility knowing I could have been thrown into the depths of hell for all eternity.

Publisher's note:  I for one am very interested to find out what this amazing find reveals.  Will it prove to be a hoax dreamed up by either side of the historical faith issue, or will it contain yet more proof of the earliest prophecies and the history of Judeo/Christian faith?  Time and study will tell.

Fox News:  Scholars are calling a rare Hebrew text dating back to the 9th century the earliest known Jewish prayer book, predating the world's oldest Torah scroll.

The 50-page book is 4.3 inches tall and about 4 inches wide and is written in an archaic form of Hebrew, on pages of aged parchment. The text includes 100 Jewish blessings and discusses topics such as the apocalyptic tale of the End Times and the Passover Seder.

Carbon testing dates the prayer book to the year 840, which is 300 to 400 years before the oldest known Torah scroll from the 12th and 13th centuries.

"This find is historical evidence supporting the very fulcrum of Jewish religious life," said Jerry Pattengale, executive director of the Green Scholars Initiative, the group that announced the find. "This Hebrew prayer book helps fill the gap between the Dead Sea Scrolls and other discoveries of Jewish texts from the ninth and tenth centuries."

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As a number of you know, I've been struggling of late regarding the fate of some very close friends. I've shed a lot of tears, been praying and fasting a lot, which are both very good to do even when things are all honky dory, and in general just trying to get a handle on things. Things are never really 'honky dory' of course, but we all do our best to cope with the bad and learn from it as we enjoy the good. 

Those friends I speak of ask why and all I can do is shake my head because I don't know; then I talk to God and ask Him "why...why do I see people you've brought into my life that I love hurting and dying?" "Why do their families have to endure this?" 

Sometimes it seems that He doesn't hear me or them, and doesn't hear our prayers and suffering; and then, just about when I'm reduced to a helpless puddle of tears where it's just me and Him simply communing together, I see the simple little message below. I didn't write it and I sure don't know who did, although I think His hand was on it because it surely reminded me that it's all going to be okay...He's in control, He's got my family, my friends, and all of it in in the palm of His hands. And He's simply waiting...waiting for us to just let go and trust Him. Anyway, here's the simple message:

"WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO EXPLAIN DEATH TO THOSE WHO HAVE JESUS AS THEIR MASTER"

A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side."

Very quietly, the doctor said, "I don't know."

"You don't know? You're a Christian man, and you don't know what's on the other side?!"

The doctor was holding the handle of the door; On the other side came a sound of scratching and whining, and as he opened the door, a dog sprang into the room and leaped on him with an eager show of gladness.

Turning to the patient, the doctor said, "did you notice my dog? He's never been in this room before." "He didn't know what was inside. He knew nothing except that his master was here, and when the door opened, he sprang in without fear." 

"I know little of what is on the other side of death's door, but I do know one thing...I know my Master is there and that is enough."

My friends, I don't know every concern that each of you faces. Some of you know the friends of which I speak, many of you have friends and loved ones that are in similar situations or may have passed. In any event, I believe that our Heavenly Father brought this story to me to calm my soul and to share it with you. 

I'll leave you with this quick prayer. 

Father in Heaven, many of those reading these words are hurting tonight. It may be a financial need, a broken heart, an illness, or so many other issues. I know and trust that You are watching over them and have the answer to all of their needs. Please let them read these words of encouragement and be richly blessed and comforted, now, and always. Father, I lift them up to you in the matchless name of your blessed Son, Jesus the Christ.