THE PEPSTER'S POST: A Voice in Cyber Space: ARIEL SHARON DEAD AT 85 AND AMERIKA CONTINUES TO DECLINE FURTHER

Ariel Sharon, dead at 85!

When I first heard the news today, on Saturday, January 11^th, 2014 it was from my wife, who told me. The first thing she told me this morning. I have written about the United States being in decline for some time. I have repeatedly warned my friends and everyone I could about Barack Obama and how he would prove to be not the promise of “hope and change” that was marketed to the public which it was sucked in with in 2008, but that he would be an unmitigated disaster to this country, to its allies, and to Israel most of all.

I warned about these things. Now I am warning about another thing. Ariel Sharon is dead. I just finished reading a book that I highly recommend to everyone. It is titled The Rabbi Who Found Messiah. It is the story of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, a beloved and highly respected leader in Israel who years ago had a dream in which he had a vision of the Messiah who appeared to him. There are some very important details about what the Messiah told Rabbi Kaduri which he shared which are in this book.

The first thing the Messiah did was to tell Rabbi Kaduri his name, and this is of great significance, because in order to know the Messiah, to recognize Who He is, one must know His name. What Rabbi Kaduri did was to write the Messiah’s name on a piece of paper. Now what the aged Rabbi wrote on that piece of paper he gave to his son and to his disciples with strict instructions that they were not to open it and read it until the anniversary of his passing. Shortly after he gave this information for his followers to hide away until a year after his death, Rabbi Kaduri got ill and he passed away.

Also disclosed to him by the Messiah was the time of His coming, though He did not disclose a date for it. The Messiah told Rabbi Kaduri that He would be coming shortly AFTER ARIEL SHARON’S DEATH. When The Messiah gave Rabbi Kaduri this information, Ariel Sharon was in the peak of health and very active in Israeli politics. As people know, shortly afterwards, Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke, and then another one in which he never recovered, and until today, had still been under. Ariel Sharon is now dead. This is of great significance. Messiah is coming.

Now as to what was written by Rabbi Kaduri pertaining to the Messiah’s name, a year after he passed away, all of his followers and many beyond in Israel and all over the world, held their collective breath, because no one of most of these people knew or had any idea Who the Messiah is, what His name is, and anything else about Him. When they opened the note and read it the shock of it was felt all around the world. The ramifications for Judaism and Christianity is still being debated to this day. This is what Rabbi Kaduri wrote in Hebrew followed by its English translation:

“Yarim Ha’Am Veyokhiah Shedvaro Vetorato Omdim.”

This is the English translation:

“Concerning the letter abbreviation of the Messiah’s name, He will lift the people, and prove that His Word and Law are valid.”

The acronym of the first Hebrew letters of each word in that sentence when placed by themselves next to one another spell YeHoshWaH, which in its shorter and abbreviated form spells Yeshua! This is the Hebrew name of Jesus! There is a very good reason the Messiah had to give Rabbi Kaduri His name, and it is because for thousands of years, Judaism has kept this information from the Jewish people and the name of the Messiah is not known by most Jews because of the belief that He has not come. It was necessary for the Messiah to introduce Himself to Rabbi Kaduri and give him His name, because like Joseph was not known to his brothers and to his family because they had sold him years before, so the Messiah has remained unknown to Israel and His face has remained hidden to His people for many years to this day. Only a few; a remnant of Israel has come to personally know the Messiah and His name, and so it is this day, but things are about to change. The significance of this name is such that it has been authoritatively said about Him and declared with great boldness, “He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders (the leaders and rabbis of Judaism), but which became the chief corner stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:11-12)

And so, it is of great significance that it is this name that is beginning to be rediscovered by the Jewish people, as more and more begin to understand and recognize Who the Messiah is and has been all along, and that now that Ariel Sharon is dead, fulfillment of Rabbi Kaduri’s other half of this great prophecy is about to happen in our lifetime; the coming/return of the Messiah. So are we surprised to read about the decline of the Post-War West where the United States was the leading nation, and witness the corruption and crumbling of our own republic right before our eyes as self-serving politicians sell our nation and the legacy of the founders bequeathed to them to our enemies for a loaf of bread at the expense of future generations of our young? Yes, the United States some say does not appear in prophecy. I have written a book about this titled The Truth about The Harbinger: Addressing the Controversy and Discovering the Facts About This Prophetic Message, in which I address this question biblically.

So the United States does not appear to be in prophecy. Some say it is. But, whether or not it is in prophecy, it depends on G-d’s people – Jews and Christians – and how we as a people in this nation react to the warnings G-d has given US which my book describes in vivid detail, as well as The Harbinger. It is also depends what we do with this information. The ancient people of Nineveh were warned by Jonah of G-d’s impending judgment. What follows is the biblical record of G-d’s warning through Jonah, and how the people of Nineveh and its leaders reacted to it:

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk. Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

(Jonah 3:1-10)

Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, a nation and a people who were not part of Abraham’s family or posterity, who had no part or portion with Abraham, Isaac, or Israel, G-d’s people and chosen nation; a nation without any covenant with G-d or His people, and who did not know Him and did not have His Scriptures; but so great was the Lord’s compassion and lovingkindness, that in His foreshadow of what He was about to do through His Messiah by blessing the Goyim (nations) through Him, He warned this Gentile nation by sending one of His Hebrew prophets to its capital to speak His word to them.

And though it contained not a single shred of hope that they would be forgiven, for G-d had not made this promise to them; when they one by one, from the greatest to the least, and their leaders recognized that they had brought judgment and wrath upon themselves, and these leaders proclaimed a fast so that all the people of this great city could seek G-d for themselves; it says God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. (Jonah 3:10) We as individuals must do the same. Our leaders must do the same. And yes, there must be a proclamation as Lincoln proclaim during the Civil War Between the States, of a Day of Fasting and Humiliation so that the nation may seek the Lord G-d, and for G-d’s people to call upon His name. If indeed the United States is not in prophecy, it may be because G-d has left America’s fate up to US. Will we do as the people of Nineveh did, or will we scoff at G-d’s clear warnings and proceed to oblivion? The choice is ours to make.

Now let me make this clear, the Messiah made it quite clear when asked about His return to earth; when this would take place, and when G-d was going to restore the kingdom to Israel and restore creation to G-d. He did this on two separate occasions, the first was as He and His disciples were exiting the temple, and He replied to them in this way:

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.”

“Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.”

(Matthew 24:36-44)

And the second time is after His resurrection, when He met with them in Jerusalem, and they again asked Him when He was going to liberate Israel from its enemies and restore the Davidic Kingdom and restore creation for G-d. On this occasion, He replied to them in this manner:

So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

(Acts 1:6-8)

When I posit that the Messiah shared with Rabbi Kaduri when His coming/return was going to take place, He did not give a date, an hour, or a day, but only said that Ariel Sharon would die before His return/coming. This is not putting a date on His coming, but giving a marker or signpost to go by during these End Times we live in to appreciate how close Messiah’s coming/return is. This time however, He is not coming as a man, but as Daniel the prophet describes Him on the clouds with all of G-d’s angels with Him.

Yeshua came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

And Yeshua answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will mislead many. You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. This good news of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Shabbat. For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you in advance. So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

“But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great shofar and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”

(Matthew 24:1-31)

This corresponds with the vision of Daniel where He sees One like a Son of Man approaching the Ancient of Days, and an everlasting kingdom is given to Him, whereupon He will rule the nations. This is the Messiah of Israel, the Holy One, and the One with whom Rabbi Kaduri had this vision. The signs of His return/coming are all around US. The United States is in steep decline, and declining faster every day. Our leaders are the worse in our nation’s history, and they’re not working for US, but for those whose interest do not characterize our own, and are not in our best interests or those of this nation, at least as its founders envisioned them.

I write now this report for you to read as continuing evidence of this degeneration of our nation and the people who lead it. Are we surprised that self-serving politicians amoral and immoral politicians run our nation? Am I surprised to hear of one governor’s malicious behavior against a city mayor caused so many problems to commuters as they went to work that day, and that this vindictive little man now seeks the Oval Office as his Democrat opponent does? A woman who allowed the death of several of our fellow Americans when action could have been taken to save their lives in Benghazi on the night of September 11^th, 2012? That this entire investigation has been purposely swept under the rug because she once again is running for the White House? What do these people take US for!!!????

The political corruption mill keeps regurgitating them over and over and over again, with the same faces every four to eight years, and we are done with this! And we keep seeing the two parties playing their usual game of “bipartisanship” as they play their roles in order to continue to soften the public’s resistance to their pet projects – affordable healthcare – immigration reform – gun control/confiscation – global warming/climate change con – and many more where eventually we see resistance to them giving way to “compromise,” followed by full and open capitulation to them by the leaders of both parties. We’re tired of the games. We’re tired of the lies. We’re tired of the corruption. We’re tired of being the losers with every battle these people pretend to have with one another. We’re tired of the merry go round and want to get off. If there is one thing to look forward to, it is the soon coming/return of the Messiah. And boy will things change when He does.

Jose J. Bernal

Systems Analyst

As a man thinks within himself, so he is.

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Proverbs 16:33

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"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.".--- Author Unknown

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"THERE IS NOTHING MORE FRIGHTENING THAN ACTIVE IGNORANCE." -- Goethe

"To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth." - Unknown Author

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles that he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 – 1915

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An excerpt from Taber’s Truth, You Can’t Bully God:

“Our military is under attack from an atheist movement from within the Pentagon that is working very hard to force Christianity from our military forces. Recently, at Ft. Hood, a unit receiving a deployment briefing, prior to going to Afghanistan, were told if they supported a certain political movement or Christianity, they would be punished. They were told both the political movement and Christianity were hate groups and support of either one would not be tolerated. This account is verified by Christian soldiers who were present but fear punishment if discovered. Their careers could be jeopardized by coming forward or by rebutting this threat. I understand that it is difficult to watch your career go away or to be jobless but there comes a time when we must trust everything to Jesus and step up and speak up!

Regardless, the agenda to force Christianity out of the military is well under way. A Chaplain at an Air Force base in Alaska was forced to remove a blog post because the title was, “There are no Atheist in foxholes.” Mikey Weinstein who is the presidents religion czar in the Pentagon took offense to the title because he is an atheist and ordered the base commander to have the chaplain remove it. How childish! This man is behind this movement to strip Christianity from the military ranks and has labeled them monsters and haters among other ridicules names. He doesn’t know who he is up against; these are bullying type tactics. He threatens and the pressure is on from the top brass down to the lowest rank. That is how bullying works. The bully makes the threats and the one being bullied has a choice to either stand up to the bully or succumb to the bully’s demands. In the military, it is all about rank and when something comes out of the Pentagon, it usually gets attention and is carried out! We need to pray for our Christian service members and ask the Lord to give them spiritual strength to stand up to these bullies.

Why ObamaCare is a fantastic SUCCESS!!

Wayne Allyn Root
October 21, 2013

There are two major political parties in America. I'm a member of the naïve, stupid, and cowardly one. I'm a Republican.

How stupid is the GOP? They still don't get it.

I told them 5 years ago, 2 books ago, a national bestseller ago ("The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide"), and in hundreds of articles and commentaries, that ObamaCare was never meant to help America, or heal the sick, or lower healthcare costs, or lower the debt, or expand the economy.

The GOP needs to stop calling ObamaCare a "train wreck." That means it's a mistake, or accident. That means it's a gigantic flop, or failure. It's NOT.

Message to the GOP: This isn't a game. This isn't tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to hijack America and destroy capitalism.

This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism.

It's not a failure, it's Obama's grand success.

It's not a "trainwreck," ObamaCare is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate- so we agree under duress to accept big government.

Obama's hero and mentor was Saul Alinsky -- a radical Marxist intent on destroying capitalism. Alinksky's stated advice was to call the other guy "a terrorist" to hide your own intentions.

To scream that the other guy is "ruining America," while you are the one actually plotting the destruction of America. To claim again and again in every sentence of every speech that you are "saving the middle class," while you are busy wiping out the middle class.

The GOP is so stupid they can't see it. There are no mistakes here. This is a planned purposeful attack.

The tell-tale sign isn't the disastrous start to ObamaCare. Or the devastating effect the new taxes are having on the economy. Or the death of full-time jobs. Or the overwhelming debt. Or the dramatic increases in health insurance rates. Or the 70% of doctors now thinking of retiring- brining on a healthcare crisis of unimaginable proportions. Forget all that.

The real sign that this is a purposeful attack upon capitalism is how many Obama administration members and Democratic Congressmen are openly calling Tea Party Republicans and anyone who wants to stop ObamaCare "terrorists."

There's the clue. Even the clueless GOP should be able to see that.

They are calling the reasonable people the patriots the people who believe in the Constitution ... the people who believe exactly what the Founding Fathers believed the people who want to take power away from corrupt politicians who have put America $17 trillion in debt terrorists?

That's because they are Saul Alinsky-ing the GOP. The people trying to purposely hurt America, capitalism and the middle class are calling the patriots by a terrible name to fool, confuse and distract the public.

ObamaCare is a raving, rollicking, fantastic success. Stop calling it a failure. Here is what it was created to do. It is succeeding on all counts:

1. ObamaCare was intended to bring about the Marxist dream -- redistribution of wealth.

Rich people, small business owners, and the middle class are being robbed, so that the money can be redistributed to poor people (who vote for Democrats).

Think about it. If you're rich or middle class, you now have to pay for your own health care costs (at much higher rates) AND 40 million other people's costs too (through massive tax increases).

So you're stuck paying for both bills. You are left broke. Brilliant.

2. ObamaCare was intended to wipe out the middle class and make them dependent on government.

Think about it. Even Obama's IRS predicts that health insurance for a typical American family by 2016 will be $20,000 per year. But how would middle class Americans pay that bill and have anything left for food or housing or living? People that make $40K, or $50K, or $60K can't possibly hope to spend $20K on health insurance without becoming homeless.

Bingo. That's how you make middle class people dependent on government. That's how you make everyone addicted to government checks. Brilliant.

3. As a bonus, ObamaCare is intended to kill every decent paying job in the economy, creating only crummy, crappy part-time jobs.

Why? Just to make sure the middle class is trapped, with no way out. Just to make sure no one has the $20,000 per year to pay for health insurance, thereby guaranteeing they become wards of the state. Brilliant.

4. ObamaCare is intended to bankrupt small business, and therefore starve donations to the GOP.

Think about it. Do you know a small business owner? I know hundreds of them. Their rates are being doubled, tripled and quadrupled by ObamaCare.

Guess who writes 75% of the checks to Republican candidates and conservative causes? Small businesses.

Even if a small business owner manages to survive, he or she certainly can't write a big check to the GOP anymore. Money is the "mother's milk" of politics. Without donations, a political party ceases to exist. Bingo.

That's the point of ObamaCare. Obama is bankrupting his political opposition and drying up donations to the GOP. Brilliant.

5. ObamaCare is intended to make the IRS all-powerful.

It adds thousands of new IRS agents. It puts the IRS in charge of overseeing 15% of the U.S. economy. The IRS has the right because of ObamaCare to snoop into every aspect of your life, to go into your bank accounts, to fine you, to frighten you, to intimidate you. And Obama and his socialist cabal have access to your deepest medical secrets.

By law your doctor has to ask your sexual history. That information is now in the hands of Obama and the IRS to blackmail GOP candidates into either not running, or supporting bigger government, or leaking the info and ruining your campaign.

Or have you forgotten the IRS harassed, intimidated and persecuted critics of Obama and conservative groups?

Now Obama hands the IRS even more power. Big Brother rules our lives. Brilliant.

6. ObamaCare is intended to unionize 15 million healthcare workers.

That produces $15 billion in new union dues. That money goes to fund Democratic candidates and socialist causes -- thereby guaranteeing Obama's friends never lose another election, and Obama's policies keep ruining capitalism and bankrupting business owners long after he's out of office.

Message to the GOP: This isn't a game. This isn't tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism.

This isn't a trainwreck. It's purposeful suicide.

It's not failing, it's working exactly according to plan. Obama knows what he's doing. Stop apologizing and start fighting.

Oh and one more thing Conservatives aren't "terrorists." We are patriots and saviors. We represent the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. We are the heroes and good guys. Unless you get all this through your thick skulls, America is lost forever.

Should the Church Prepare for the Fall of America?

9:00AM EST 1/10/2014 Joseph Mattera

For the past several years, a growing number of prophetically and culturally astute leaders have been predicting the decline of the United States. Also, books like the New York Times best-seller The Harbinger have issued dire warnings to America based on biblical principles and Old Testament prophetic passages.

There have been predictions as dire as the total breakup of our union, preceded by mass rioting and chaos (catalyzed by runs on banks and economic calamities), to a severe economic crisis far worse than what happened globally in 2008. All in all, most I speak to portend a major financial correction is soon coming in the market.

I have been saying for several years that I believe the year 2016 or sooner will be a time when many looming calamitous issues will converge and cause societal disorientation and economic woes equal or greater than the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Since the 2012 presidential election, there have been many ominous signs of huge American decline in global influence: China and Russia have been saber-rattling and spewing out military threats; the NSA spy scandal has alienated our allies and further validated our ideological enemies; the military is experiencing mass cutbacks in spending; Iran is continuing to move forward with its nuclear program with impunity; Obamacare has proved to be a disaster, with the president caught lying about its devastating effects from millions losing their health coverage (and, worse yet, losing faith in their leader); and the federal government continues to pump billions of printed dollars into the economy to superficially keep the nation afloat.

Possibly the biggest catalyst for mass chaos and social disorientation will be when the nations of the world stop using the U.S. dollar as their primary currency and switch to other currencies to purchase oil and other major commodities. This would probably mean the Federal Reserve would no longer be able to print mass amounts of money to pay down our debt, which could result in our whole nation becoming like the city of Detroit—bankrupt!

Someone might ask me if I have given up hope for the United States. I have indeed given up hope that our nation will repent and turn back to God en masse due to the results of recent national elections and also because biblical and church history has shown that whenever a nation becomes prosperous and trusts in a (seemingly) stable government, its people are less likely to trust and seek God diligently. Mass disorientation may be the only thing that can happen to our nation in order to wake us up and turn us back to God!

In many ways, I believe the greatest call of the church today is to prepare to serve communities in the event our state and federal agencies go bankrupt and cannot function at capacity any longer. The church needs to almost function as a shadow government and be ready, in the same way the church leadership and bishops took the lead in serving cities in the late fifth century after the Roman Empire’s infrastructure collapsed.

I have firsthand experience in this subject on a smaller scale. After the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, we in New York City were involved with mobilizing about 150 pastors to be clergy crisis responders. We networked and trained many professionals for future emergency responses, and we worked closely with the New York Police Department in our communities to monitor the state of affairs. The body of Christ in our city organized a multisite memorial service for the fallen heroes that was broadcast nationally. Also, after Hurricane Sandy, I and other leaders, both local and national, galvanized an emergency response to meet the immediate needs of the hardest-hit communities in the Tri-State area even before FEMA and the elected officials knew what they were doing!

Unfortunately, these emergencies may only be a microcosm of the kind of national response we will need shortly if things do not change drastically for the good in our country. Whether or not the United States will have a full collapse or just a huge shakeup, everyone I speak to with any knowledge of economics knows a severe correction is just around the corner.

The following are some of the things the church can do to prepare for a national emergency:

1. We need to network our professionals.

In every church, there are professionals we can network who can be mobilized to serve a community in the case of a disaster. This would include folks in the medical field, emergency responders, military personnel, psychologists, community leaders, elected officials and the police.

2. We need storehouses of time-sustainable food and energy.

In case our distribution infrastructure is disrupted, churches can store generators, emergency equipment like first-aid kits, flashlights and food that can serve the needs of the most vulnerable within their congregations and communities.

3. We need alternate forms of savings other than paper money.

A coming economic crisis may wipe out whole savings accounts. This is why many are purchasing gold, silver and real estate and finding ways to protect their money long-term—although in an all-out emergency, gold and silver will not be any help in the short term. Food may be the most valuable resource. (I am definitely not saying it will come down to this.)

4. We need to prepare our local congregations to lead with a biblical worldview in every area of life.

When there is social disorientation, it grants believers the unique opportunity to fill the vacuum of leadership in all the major spheres of culture. We need to capitalize on this opportunity by providing leadership with problem-solving skills that are informed by what the Bible has to say regarding economic and political principles so that newly formed policy measures will be blessed of God and not perpetuate the same humanistic systems.

5. We need unity and communication systems in place among churches in every region.

During the critical hours in New York City in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack and Hurricane Sandy, we already had key relationships in place among pastoral leadership in our city that enabled us to have practical, strategic responses and galvanize help where needed.

6. We need long seasons of fasting and prayer for awakening and revival.

For several years before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we had already been galvanizing hundreds of folks from many different churches to pray because we sensed something ominous was about to occur. Consequently, after the attack, an incredible church-planting movement was launched by several national ministries that has been slowly increasing the Christian demographic of Manhattan.

7. We need alternate systems to educate our children.

If there is a wholesale collapse of the infrastructure, the public education component will be greatly diminished, and in its place many churches may have to start schools and many parents may want to consider home schooling their children as an option moving forward.

8. We need to network with key elected officials and community leaders.

Every church will need to effectively utilize relationships with marketplace leaders on a large scale so they can respond to a community crisis if they want to remain relevant—especially if there is societal unrest and a deterioration of our most fundamental necessities.

Joseph Mattera is overseeing bishop of Resurrection Church, Christ Covenant Coalition, in Brooklyn, N.Y. You can read more on josephmattera.org or connect with him on Facebook or Twitter.

The Great Crash of 2014

Dear Reader:

My name is Michael Lombardi. You may have heard of me.

Back in 1986, I founded a publishing company with the purpose of showing individual investors how they could beat the stock market. Since then, Lombardi Publishing Corporation has served millions of customers in 141 countries.

In fact, over the past two years alone, more than one hundred million people received one of my financial videos.

We’re widely followed by investors because we have been recognized as a predictor of major economic events before they happen.

Speaking specifically about the stock market:

In December of 2001, when many investors were weary about the stock market in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I told my readers to buy small-cap stocks.

This is an exact extract from an e-mail I sent to thousands of my clients on December 18, 2001:

“There are good reasons for small-caps to do so well with investors… If you want to be in the market on the long-side, small-cap stocks are the only game right now.”

The Russell 2000 Small-Cap Index rose about 100% from when I made that call until 2007 when I told my readers to get out of stocks.

And I was one of the first major advisors to turn bullish on gold. Throughout 2002, I urged my readers to buy gold stocks. Many of the gold stocks we picked in our financial advisories in 2002 to 2005 doubled and even tripled in price by the time I told my clients to get out of stocks in 2007.

Yes, 2007 was the year I really turned negative on the stock market. On November 29, 2007, I sent this e-mail to my thousands of clients:

“The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the other major stock market indices finished yesterday with the best two-day showing since 2002. I’m looking at the market rally of the past two days as a classic stock market bear trap. As the economy gets closer to contraction, 2008 will likely be a most challenging economic year for Americans.”

Months after I wrote the above, it was widely recognized that October 2007 was the top for the stock market.

I correctly predicted the crash in the stock market of 2008 and early 2009. I even wrote an obituary on the stock market in the fall of 2008 that made me somewhat of a forecasting legend.

Here’s an excerpt of the e-mail I blasted to over 100,000 of our customers on October 6, 2008:

“A Stock Market’s Obituary: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. After a strong and courageous battle, the Dow Jones fell victim to a credit crisis and finally succumbed on Friday, October 3, 2008, when it fell decisively below the mid-point between its 2002 low and its 2007 high.”

The Dow Jones Industrials fell approximately 40% after I wrote this now famous “Stock Market Obituary,” finally hitting bottom in March 2009, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 6,440.

And finally, it was in March 2009 that I started telling my readers stocks were oversold. On March 2, 2009, I sent an e-mail to my thousands of personal followers with the subject line, “Stocks at a 12-year Low; Time to Jump In?” In that e-mail, I stated:

“There are great stock bargains developing in the small-cap market where many stocks are now trading at single-digit price/earnings multiples.”

The Russell 2000 Small-Cap Index gained about 175% from when I wrote that e-mail in 2009 to today.

I’ve spent the last few minutes telling you about my past predictions on the stock market so you have an idea of the kind of investment research and forecasts we’ve made for our customers through the years.

It’s important that you know who we are—and what we have done to accumulate a following of millions of investors—so you take what I have to say next very seriously.

“A Dire Warning for Stock Market Investors” is a major prediction from our firm, the repercussion, if we are right, will affect investors for years to come even if they are not currently invested in the stocks.

“Today’s Stock Market Is Set Up for a Huge Collapse”

Our prediction is that today’s stock market is setting up for a huge tumble…a collapse that will make the stock market crashes of 2008 and 1929 look like a cake-walk.

I know. It’s a dire prediction. But we believe the makings for this collapse have already been put into place. You see…

As the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression hit America in 2008, the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve pulled out all the stops to save the economy from the abyss.

The government put money into private “too big to fail” corporations and borrowed trillions of dollars to help jump-start the economy.

The Federal Reserve did its share by taking four major steps to “save the economy at all costs.”

The Fed:

1.Brought interest rates to historic lows;

2.Made money available to big banks that were in trouble;

3.Bought U.S. Treasury bonds for the first time in history; and

4.Created trillions of dollars in new money out of thin air.

But the Fed has gone on too long with its unprecedented monetary stimulus. By keeping the money “flood gates” open for so long, we believe the Fed has inadvertently created a stock market bubble.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has moved from 6,440 in March of 2009 to over 15,000 today. That’s the biggest uninterrupted point gain for the Dow Jones in history—a whopping gain of 9,000 points.

But take the rising stock market out of the picture, and all the sudden, the economy doesn’t look that great.

In fact, current economic statistics are outright pathetic.

Corporate earnings growth has fallen back to the lowest pace since 2009.

And while the government gives us a manipulated “official” unemployment rate that sounds like it’s improving, the real unemployment rate, when you include people who have given up looking for work and who have part-time jobs but want full-time jobs, has been sitting over 14% for years.

People dependent on government handouts now outnumber people with private-sector jobs in 11 states.

Take Social Security out of the picture and one out of every four Americans, 25% of the population, now lives below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics.

Yes, poverty in the U.S. has reached a 50-year high.

As for the real estate market, while the media tells us the housing market is getting a lot better, it’s far from a real recovery. According to my firm’s own research, the real estate rebound has been very, very weak.

Data compiler CoreLogic says 10.3 million homes in the U.S. economy still have negative equity.

When we look at the rest of the world, all major economies are in trouble. Japan is back in recession. Many eurozone countries are in a depression and not coming out of it. The two largest economies in Europe, France and Germany, are seeing their economic growth coming to a halt.

The bottom line: this is the biggest disconnect between the economy and the stock market in history…and it all has to do with the stock market being artificially inflated by the Federal Reserve’s prolonged massive monetary stimulus.

Understanding the Three Phases of a Bear Market

The great majority of investors can’t fathom what’s about to happen to the stock market, because they don’t understand the historic three phases of a secular bear market.

Phase One of a bear market brings stock prices down sharply. That’s what happened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from 14,164 in October 2007 to 6,440 on March 9, 2009—a tumble of 54%.

Phase Two of a bear market is when the bear lures investors back into stocks. The bear gives investors and analysts the false sense that the economy is improving and that it’s okay to own stocks again. The bear has done just that—a masterful job at convincing investors it’s a great time to own stocks again.

Once the vast majority of analysts and investors believe the stock market is safe again (that’s exactly where we are today), the final phase of a bear market, Phase Three, gets underway and ultimately brings stock prices back down again.

Six Indicators Pointing to a Stock Market Collapse

and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

Our research and analysis has led us to six proven and time-tested stock market indicators that are all signaling the stock market rally that started in 2009 is about to end abruptly.

The good news is that you could protect yourself from the stock market collapse headed our way. The better news is that, if you position your portfolio properly, starting today, you could actually make money during the next devastating down leg of the market while others struggle like never before.

I present those six proven and time-tested indicators one-by-one here, right now, so you can see for yourself why this stock market is teetering on collapse and how you can profit from its demise.

1. Corporate Insiders Dumping Stocks at Record Pace

Executives and insiders are selling stock in the companies they work for at the fastest pace since 2007—the same year the Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at 14,164 before crashing all the way down to 6,440 by March 2009.

According to Maryland-based data compiler Washington Service, there were more corporate insiders dumping stocks last month than anytime since 2007. NYSE public company insiders are selling stock at the rate of $10 of stock sold for every $1.00 of stock bought—the fastest selling pace for insiders in about five years—according to Vickers Weekly Insider Report.

Even more troublesome, corporate insiders’ buying of stocks in the companies they work for has dropped to the slowest level since 1992!

Historically, when corporate insiders have become such major sellers of stock, the stock market has fallen sharply lower in the weeks and months that follow.

Yes, corporate insiders selling stock at such an accelerated pace is worrisome, as it signals we are at a market top. But there is one way you can actually profit from this action as the general stock market comes down again.

How to Profit as Insiders Dump Stocks is a special research report we’ve put together to show individual investors how they can make money as corporate insiders liquidate stock in the companies they work for.

The report gives you a history on just how reliable the indicator of following corporate insider actions has been over the years, focusing on a little-known ETF you can use to make money right now as corporate insiders continue to dump stock.

For a report like this, where we have hours invested in researching, compiling and writing it, we usually charge $95. Later in this presentation, I'll show you how to get this report for free when you try my Crash Survival Letter.

2. Stock Advisor Bullishness Hits Multi-Month High

Stock advisors are more bullish today than they have been in two years. Throughout history, the stock market has done the opposite of what the majority of stock advisors expect it will do—and that’s why this contrarian indicator is so important

According to data compiler Investors Intelligence, stock market advisors are more bullish today than they have been since April 2011.

And what happened after bullishness ran so high with stock advisors in April 2011?

The Dow Jones Industrials experienced a major drop of 2,500 points from the end of April 2011 to October 2011.

I’ve been following this sentiment indicator for years. Whenever stock advisors get too bearish and believe stocks are going lower (like they did in March of 2009), the stock market does the opposite and rallies.

And whenever stock market advisors get so bullish, like they are today, the stock market always tanks. It happened in October 2007. It happened in April 2011. It’s going to happen again now.

To show investors how to specifically profit when stock market advisors turn overly bullish, as they are today, we’ve prepared a report called Two Best Money-in-the-Bank Trades Investors Can Make When Stock Advisors Turn Mega Bulls.

We have hours invested in this special investor research report. We plan to sell it for $95. You can get it for free when you try my Crash Survival Letter.

3. VIX Says This Stock Market Reminiscent of October 2007

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, often referred to as the “fear index,” sits today where it was in 2007, just before one of the worst market sell-offs in history.

The CBOE Volatility Index measures the implied volatility of the S&P 500 index options. When this fear index is down, it’s saying investors are not worried about risk in the stock market. Historically, whenever investors think there is no risk in the market, that’s when stocks turn against them.

Of all the six indicators I’m disclosing today, the VIX, as it is also often referred to, has captured every major market turn in history. And right now, the VIX is trading at the same level it did in 2007, just before the stock market collapsed.

To give individual investors some history on just how reliable the VIX is as an indicator and how to play it for profit, we’ve just put the finishing touches on a special investor research report called Ten Times My Money Playing the VIX Fear Index.

In this report we give you a specific security you should buy today before the stock market starts its road back down. This security sells at $18. Last time the stock market tanked, this security sold for $200!

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4. Companies Propping Up Earnings with Record Buybacks

Stock buybacks are a clever way for companies to prop up per-share earnings.

In 2012, we saw more stock buyback programs than we’ve ever seen in history, with 70% of the S&P 500 companies buying back stock.

As an example, a company can make the same money this year as it did last year, but if it buys back 10% of its stock this year, last year’s earnings of $2.00 a share will become $2.20 a share this year—an ingenious way to paint a picture of earnings growth.

So, to prop up earnings, companies are buying back their company’s stock at a record pace.

The board of directors of International Business Machines has authorized IBM to buy back a staggering $11.2 billion of its stock.

Meanwhile, Apple Inc. just announced it was buying back $50 billion worth of its shares!

Bottom line: earnings growth for corporate America has stalled, so companies are buying back their stock to prop up per-share earnings.

Our firm closely monitors companies that buy back their shares, as these particular companies have a history of seeing their stock prices rise after they announce new stock buyback programs.

One ETF we follow, in particular, goes up in value as more companies announce stock buyback programs. This stock is up 25% over the past five months alone, and we expect the stock to double in price from here as the coming collapse in the stock market that we are predicting forces companies to announce even more stock buybacks to support their stock prices.

You can learn all about this ETF in a report we’ve prepared called Double My Money on Public Company Stock Buyback Programs. This report is priced at $95; you get it free when you try my Crash Survival Letter.

5. Bond Funds Buy Stocks Too?

As crazy as it sounds, bond funds have gotten into the stock market action and are buying stocks too!

Under SEC rules, a mutual fund has to invest 80% of its assets in the asset type described in the mutual fund’s name. Hence, a bond fund has room to invest 20% of its fund into assets other than bonds. And while one would think bond funds, which are conservative in nature, would put any extra money they have into Treasuries or money market funds, they are buying stocks instead!

In fact, the number of bond funds that now own stocks has just hit an 18-year high.

According to data compiler Morningstar Inc., an unprecedented 352 bond mutual funds now hold stocks in their portfolios.

Just as night follows day, you can bet that once the stock market starts moving lower, the net asset values of bond funds that have invested in the stock market will drop too. And if you know anything about bonds, you know once they fall, unit holders get nervous and run for the door, putting more pressure on bond prices.

A new report we’ve completed, called Triple Profit Play from the Bonds That Won’t Survive, focuses on an ETF we believe will skyrocket in price as the collapse of the stock market takes bond funds that are heavily invested in stocks down with it.

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6. NYSE Margin Debt Surpasses Pre-Financial Crisis Record

To maximize their leverage and make as much money as possible from the stock market when it is rising, traders often buy stock on margin—that means they borrow money from their brokers to buy even more stock.

The New York Stock Exchange publishes statistics that show how much money investors have borrowed against the stocks they own. In July 2007, NYSE margin debt reached a record high. That means that just before the stock market crashed in 2007, investors borrowed more money than ever before to buy stocks.

Fast-forward five years to today, and we’re there again. The amount of money investors have borrowed against stocks they own on the NYSE has reached a new record of $384 billion—surpassing the previous record set back in July 2007—and we all know what happened after that—stocks fell 40%.

Right now, investors are so convinced stocks will continue to rise, they have borrowed to the tune of $384 billion to leverage their long positions on stocks. As history has proven, whenever investors leveraged so much, stocks have fallen badly. This is an ominous and frightening indicator of what’s ahead.

Our research report, Single Best Profit Trade to Capitalize on Overextended Stock Market Investors, gives you a specific stock you can buy that goes up in value as overly leveraged stock market traders head for the exit on the next market downturn.

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Why It Will Be So Bad This Time Around

Thanks to the historic actions of the Federal Reserve, the stock market has become a bubble again. The six proven and time-tested indicators I have just talked about all point one way—to another stock market collapse.

But this time around, the after-effects of the next leg of the bear market could be much worse than what happened in 2008 and 2009, and even the Great Depression, because the Fed has run out of monetary tools to support the economy and the stock market.

The reality is that the Fed can’t lower interest rates below the zero they are at today, and the more paper money the Fed prints, the greater the risk of inflation and the higher long-term interest rates will rise, stifling the economy.

Just like 1929 and 2009, as the stock market collapsed, American consumers pulled back on their spending and the economy got back into recession. The same thing will happen now.

But this time, the government won’t be able to help us with the economic downturn because the government has no money left to bail us out!

The government is overextended. If it was a business, it would be bankrupt. The reality is the government is existing on the money the Federal Reserve prints and gives to the government to survive.

Hence, as farfetched as it may sound, the stock market crash that is about to happen will put us in a recession that will be much worse than the 2007–2008 recession and it will hit as deep as the Great Depression.

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