A declaration of non compliance!
Soon the antichrist will arrive on the scene to take control of the world market. He will force the world to take his mark also known as the mark of the beast. No one will be able to buy or sell without having the mark displayed on their forehead or right hand. The mark is his number and that number is 666 or the mark will be an image of him or his name. When this happens the religious world that rejects this forced mark will proudly put the name Jesus on their forehead or on their right hand or an image of Jesus on their forehead or right hand to show their defiance of the beasts mark and their loyalty to Jesus. In doing so, the people that put the name Jesus or image of Jesus on their right hand or forehead to defy the forced number of the beast (666) will be in full compliance of Revelation Chapter 13’s mark of the beast. Wait. What? Read The Mark of the Beast https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-mark-of-the-beast-the-apostasy-revised-edition-michael-w-brault/1146180254;jsessionid=D89A50F794202490CB74535BE063D937.prodny_store02-atgap02?ean=9798331449384

Happy New Year! The year began after the sunset last evening, but we are still in the day! We recognize the first day of the month by observing the sky for the first sliver (one-seventh) of the moon in the western sky. We had cloud cover last night.

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Biblical News for the End Times Christian Believer

The PASSOVER (correction)
According to stellarium.org the new moon appears in the sky in the evening of April 9th which makes Passover in Chicopee Massachusetts begin on the evening after sunset of the 23rd of April on the Gregorian calendar. I verified this with the program.
Originally I had stated that the new moon appearing on April 10th and I apologize. If stelllarium is correct and I think it is, the error had us observing Passover a day later than the appointed time according to Enoch’s explanation of how the new moon is calculated. The book of Enoch is a biblically endorsed extra biblical text that was quoted from in the book of Jude.
As for calculating the New Moon, we must turn to Enoch for guidance on what constitutes the New Moon:
Enoch 77:6
“And when the moon rises one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light becomes full in her on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her light is accomplished”
This solidifies the full moon is not considered the first day, as some would ascribe, but the middle of the month (15 days into the cycle).
Enoch 77:11-12
“During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days, and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the heaven. 12. And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her”
The New Moon is the first visible sliver per Enoch (light rises upon her), as it says the first day, she is called such and we also learned that on the 15th day her light is accomplished, or full (full moon).
You can download stellarium and set the date and time from your location and it will show you where the sun moon and stars are in the sky. The screen shot image shows the new moon in the south west from Chicopee, MA

Judgement or love
How do we love our neighbor? First, we must ask ourselves, who is my neighbor? Someone might say that our neighbor is the person next to us. This could be anyone in our lives. When we boil it down we can conclude that your neighbor is every one that isn’t you. I see many posts about the lack of gratitude from people when some form of generosity has been shown. Imagine that you are stuck in a situation with someone in your life and maybe things are fine or maybe it is a very difficult relationship. You have tried everything to make things right or you do everything to avoid them because you just want peace. They are so selfish. All they do is take, take, take. No matter what you do you still you get a result from them that makes you feel used and there is no gratitude from them when you try and love them anyway. What did Christ tell us to do? He said to love your neighbor as you love yourself. So how do we love our neighbor properly? Believe it or not, the answer is an extremely selfish one. You must go out of your way to decide what you would want in the situation if you were them. You bake that cake for them with all the bells and whistles that you would desire and the frosting that you would want in the situation if you were them and you give them the result that you would want for yourself. This is how Christ told us to love our neighbor. Now the most important part… Christ never told us to focus on the result of our generosity... Their gratitude is not the reward we are supposed to desire. The absence of gratitude from the receiver of our generosity is the thing that Satan would have us focus on so that we would develop an attitude to stand against Christ’s command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Christ’s action plan is for us to love them that use us. The greatest reward that we should desire is to know that we showed his light by giving our neighbor the love that we would desire for ourselves. Who is my neighbor? Everyone that isn’t you. Go and do…

If you kept the Sabbath as instructed your focus would be on the Creation and not the universe.

70 X 7 = Forgiveness
Mathew 18:21-22 

The Last Trump

You boldly proclaim that you are waiting for the sound of the last trumpet because you believe the sounding of the last trumpet is the announcement of the pre-tribulation Rapture.

1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Okay, so if that is the last trumpet when is the first Trumpet sounded?

Rev 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

Many believe Rev 4:1 is the rapture event. The common belief is that the voice John heard is the trumpet that is spoken of in 1 Cor 15:52. Which would make “coming up” into the pre-tribulation rapture. All because he heard a voice saying, “Come up hither,” and doing so right before all the bad stuff happens in most of the chapters that follow. This event that John participates in cannot be the rapture however because as stated, the first voice he heard is as a trumpet. As soon as Christianity assigned the Rapture to John saying, “Come up hither” they botched the event with the contradiction between the sound of the first trump and the sound of the last trump. The two verses cannot contradict each other in order to keep the claim of Rev 4:1 as being the rapture event for the living believer and the dead in Christ. Simply put, the first trumpet sound of the revelation cannot be the last trumpet sound when seven more trumpets are yet to sound for the 7 trumpet judgments’ of Rev chapters 8-11.

1 Cor 15:52 says that the grand event will be at the sound of the last trump. So when is the last Trumpet sounded or perhaps the last voice as a trumpet heard in scripture? Let’s back up for a minute. What exactly is a trumpet in scripture and when were the Israelites told to blow them? Is there some kind of significance to the sound of a trumpet? Why do we assume that the last trump is blown from Heaven by an angel? Could it be that the last Trump is actually blown by one of us among the living during the Feast of Trumpets or some other assigned time when a trumpet is required to be blown according to Moses and the Prophets?

As stated, we also have the 7 trumpet judgments to consider. None of them from the first to the last alludes to the event where the dead in Christ rise and then the living Join Christ in the air. What I believe has transpired is that Christianity wants desperately to believe that it will not participate in the great tribulation, that it has grasped at straws by assigning Rev 4:1 as the only place in Revelation where the church can be removed before the bad stuff unfolds. They even go as far as stating that the churches are not mentioned in Rev anywhere after chapter 3.

Friend, John was told to write EVERYTHING in Revelation to the seven churches. I am not denying that the rapture will happen, I am just saying that I no longer believe it will happen before the Tribulation period begins.