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he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
Luke 12:39
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By Joe Kovacs — The popular department store Marks & Spencer ignited controversy when it banned words such as “Jesus” and “Christ” from its flower service, but apparently had no problem with “Allah” and “jihad.”
Now, the British-based multinational chain has responded to customers who complained about the double-standard, and is allowing Jesus back.
According to Christian Today, the store initially blocked the Christian words to avoid their misuse, hoping to avoid any perceived offensiveness.
Obscenities and the word “gay” was also on the banned list.
A company spokesman told Christian Today: “We apologize for any offense caused, it was certainly never our intention. We have revised the words included on the automatic phrase checker which is in place to prevent the use and misuse of certain words.”
Customers who sought to add a free message when they purchased flowers could not complete their transaction if they tried to use one of the prohibited words.
A pop-up message would indicate: “Sorry, there’s something in your message we can’t write.”
The restrictions were revealed by the Sunday Times after Geraldine Stockford was precluded from buying a bouquet for a funeral.
She wanted to say the flowers were from a family in “Christ Church Teddington.”
The full message read: “Thank you for your care and practical help for Margaret in her last days … With love from her church family, Christ Church Teddington.” The late Margaret, 93, attended the church for 87 years.
The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, told the Times: “If Christ becomes an offensive word in a Christian land then all of us should be alarmed.”
Andrea Minichiello Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: “It is a sad state of affairs if the start point is to assume the word Christ is being used to be offensive.”...
Ynetnews.com — A top US official Tuesday warned that the current tensions between traditional allies US and Israel could last until the end of the Obama administration in 2016.
"There are moments of significant agreement and then there are moments of tactical disagreement," US deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken told French radio station Europe 1. "That's the nature of things and I imagine that will continue for the last two years of the Obama administration," added Blinken, who spoke in French....
By Leo Hohmann, WND — Christian supporters of Israel see Tuesday’s address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as more than just a political speech.
They’re calling it a “wake-up call,” and a “warning,” one that appears eerily similar to another from 2,500 years ago in which the Jewish people found themselves in grave danger.
With the Feast of Purim and Netanyahu’s speech converging in the same week, there are lessons to be drawn from history, they say.
Purim celebrates Queen Esther’s brave intervention to stop a plot that, if allowed to go forward, would have led to a genocide against the Jews.
But is the biblical story of Esther replaying thousands of years later?
The threat Israel faces today does include some of the same national players, the same dates and the same stakes, according to Bible scholars and Christian friends of Israel....
SYNOPSIS: One Night With The King chronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia (modern day Iran), and saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes. - Written by Susan Zahn, Publicist
By AUTHOR, Jerusalem Post — Islamic Republic's chief cleric calls for AIPAC shutdown after Netanyahu speech; blames Israel for problems suffered by the West.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed that heightened anti-Israel sentiments across the globe serve as a sign of "divine help" in the Islamic Republic's fight against its arch enemy.
"Increasing global hatred of #Israel is a sign of divine help," he wrote late Monday on Twitter.
Iran's leading cleric came out against the pro-Israel lobby, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the group's annual confab on Monday....
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee. ~ Psalm 83:1-5
By Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press — The strangest thing about Obama’s efforts to achieve friendly relations with Iran, something he has tried to do since he first took office in 2009, is that Iran has made it abundantly clear since its Islamic revolution in 1979 that it hates America and, in tandem, Israel as well.
In an Iranian naval drill on February 25, Iran blew up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier near the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It was a full-size replica of the USS Nimitz. This is the antithesis of friendship, but just to make their position clear, Iranian Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi, commander of its naval forces, let it be known that “We have the most advanced sea mines which cannot be imagined by the Americans.”
But the Americans—in this case the President of the United States and his negotiators—have been making every concession they can to get an agreement that would limit Iran’s ability to produce its own nuclear weapons. Dr. Norman Bailey, an adjunct professor of economic statecraft at the Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C., recently wrote that “The U.S. looks set to present its allies with a dangerous fait accompli on Iran’s nuclear program.”
“The most recent deadline of March 24th means only one thing,” Dr. Bailey wrote in a World Tribune commentary. “A deal has been reached between the U.S. and Iran, which will be announced to the other five participants when the Obama administration decides it is convenient to do so.” The other five obviously have nothing to say regarding the negotiations. At one point, the French foreign minister stormed out of the initial meeting proclaiming “This is a fool’s deal.”...
By Sara Noble, Independent Sentinel — The White House has plans to legalize 13 to 15 million illegal immigrants who will then establish a “country within a country.”
The following Mark Levin interview with Susan Payne is shocking but it also puts all the pieces into place.
Susan Payne is a contributor to WCBM, Baltimore and Co-Host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show,
Unbeknownst to the Obama officials, Ms. Payne was invited to listen in on conference calls at an immigration rally. Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and 16 members of the White House cabinet were on the first call. White House officials were on all three calls. What Ms. Payne learned needs to be immediately shared with Congress and the public.
It should be noted that Ted Hayes, founder of America’s Black Shield, also listened in on these calls....
By Peter Malcolm, Ben Shapiro’s Truth Revolt — According to Channel 10 in Israel, President Obama has reduced American intelligence cooperation with Israel because of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to the incipient U.S./Iran Nuclear deal. The report states that joint efforts by Israeli and American intelligence agencies have been utilized in the past by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as they analyzed Iran's nuclear program, but even though other countries are cooperating with Israel in sharing information about Iran's nuclear program, the United States is now refusing to do so.
Secretary of State John Kerry had initially claimed Israel had no knowledge of the details of the U.S. deal with Iran, but apparently warned Netanyahu on Monday not to divulge details when the prime minister spoke to Congress on Tuesday.
In addition, reports that the U.S. would cut defense aid to Israel because of the differences between the Obama Administration and the Israeli Administration were denied by the U.S. on Monday, and also denied a Kuwaiti paper’s report that said Obama had threatened to shoot down an Israel Air Force strike on Iran's nuclear facilities....
By Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press — The actual blueprint of the method of the madness of the Obama regime has been laid bare in White House plans to develop “A Country Within A country” of 15 Million “New Americans”, a story brought to light by Mark Levin’s interview with Susan Payne.
“Citizens Will Be Cast Into the Shadows”, warns Susan Payne, a contributor to WCBM, Baltimore and Co-Host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show. (Independent Sentinel, February 28, 2015)
Citizens about to be cast into the shadows is only courtesy of the natural order when the current administration in D.C. operates not on the way its own unsuspecting citizens presume, but on a long term in place, carefully mounted ‘Shadow Government’.
It was the ‘Shadow Government’ that built its own “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the military”; a Shadow Government that gives us a false image as Barack Obama as president when ‘Shadow Woman’ Valerie Jarrett, for whom not a single vote was cast, is running the show.
Shocking as it all is, it’s really the uninterrupted cunning of Marxism at work to supplant the people of an entire country.
And now we have more to worry about than Obama’s own military advancing from the shadows while the original one has been gutted to an almost unrecognizable state, or dozens of czars having been put in place as far back as 2009—because the regime is now boldly working on supplanting the American population....
By Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack, Shoebat Foundation — When it comes to Middle East coverage, the western media is plagued with incompetent journalists (if in doubt, read here) who rarely do their homework. Today, there is no such thing as “professional journalism”. There are supposedly professional journalists who are simply cynics and agenda driven. So the story is, especially when it comes to Middle East coverage. This time the story links to the Clinton Foundation and its ties with some nefarious Muslim Brotherhood connections, court documents and “top secret” documents that link Hillary with some shoddy Islamists, which Shoebat.com did its homework in revealing the case. And now with court records coming out of Egypt, the case begins to stink to high heaven.
A Shoebat.com reader recently informed us that “several US media outlets (are) publishing articles… stating Obama and Hillary have now had criminal charges levied against them by the Egyptian government” and wanted to know if there was any information to that effect. Short of a confirmed complaint filed against Hillary Clinton concerning her alleged relationship with Naglaa Mahmoud, the wife of former Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, on which Shoebat.com reported, we had absolutely no knowledge of – nor did we report – that Egypt filed any criminal charges against either Hillary or Obama....
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” ~ Matthew 24:3-14
Store Bans ‘Jesus,’ But OK With ‘Jihad’
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Other approved words: ‘Allah,’ ‘Buddha’
By Joe Kovacs — The popular department store Marks & Spencer ignited controversy when it banned words such as “Jesus” and “Christ” from its flower service, but apparently had no problem with “Allah” and “jihad.”Now, the British-based multinational chain has responded to customers who complained about the double-standard, and is allowing Jesus back.
According to Christian Today, the store initially blocked the Christian words to avoid their misuse, hoping to avoid any perceived offensiveness.
Obscenities and the word “gay” was also on the banned list.
A company spokesman told Christian Today: “We apologize for any offense caused, it was certainly never our intention. We have revised the words included on the automatic phrase checker which is in place to prevent the use and misuse of certain words.”
Customers who sought to add a free message when they purchased flowers could not complete their transaction if they tried to use one of the prohibited words.A pop-up message would indicate: “Sorry, there’s something in your message we can’t write.”
The restrictions were revealed by the Sunday Times after Geraldine Stockford was precluded from buying a bouquet for a funeral.
She wanted to say the flowers were from a family in “Christ Church Teddington.”
The full message read: “Thank you for your care and practical help for Margaret in her last days … With love from her church family, Christ Church Teddington.” The late Margaret, 93, attended the church for 87 years.
The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, told the Times: “If Christ becomes an offensive word in a Christian land then all of us should be alarmed.”
Andrea Minichiello Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: “It is a sad state of affairs if the start point is to assume the word Christ is being used to be offensive.”...
US Officials Warns Tensions With Israel Could Last, As Kerry Lobbies Saudis On Iran
Ynetnews.com — A top US official Tuesday warned that the current tensions between traditional allies US and Israel could last until the end of the Obama administration in 2016."There are moments of significant agreement and then there are moments of tactical disagreement," US deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken told French radio station Europe 1. "That's the nature of things and I imagine that will continue for the last two years of the Obama administration," added Blinken, who spoke in French....
Bibi Showdown With Iran A ‘Replay Of Bible Story’
By Leo Hohmann, WND — Christian supporters of Israel see Tuesday’s address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as more than just a political speech.They’re calling it a “wake-up call,” and a “warning,” one that appears eerily similar to another from 2,500 years ago in which the Jewish people found themselves in grave danger.
With the Feast of Purim and Netanyahu’s speech converging in the same week, there are lessons to be drawn from history, they say.
Purim celebrates Queen Esther’s brave intervention to stop a plot that, if allowed to go forward, would have led to a genocide against the Jews.
But is the biblical story of Esther replaying thousands of years later?
The threat Israel faces today does include some of the same national players, the same dates and the same stakes, according to Bible scholars and Christian friends of Israel....
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SYNOPSIS: One Night With The King chronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia (modern day Iran), and saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes. - Written by Susan Zahn, PublicistThere Is Nothing New Under The Sun
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;
and that which is done is that which shall be done:
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Iran’s Khemenei: ‘Increasing Global Hatred Of Israel Is A Sign Of Divine Help’
By AUTHOR, Jerusalem Post — Islamic Republic's chief cleric calls for AIPAC shutdown after Netanyahu speech; blames Israel for problems suffered by the West. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed that heightened anti-Israel sentiments across the globe serve as a sign of "divine help" in the Islamic Republic's fight against its arch enemy.
"Increasing global hatred of #Israel is a sign of divine help," he wrote late Monday on Twitter.
Iran's leading cleric came out against the pro-Israel lobby, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the group's annual confab on Monday....
End Times Bible Prophecy
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee. ~ Psalm 83:1-5Obama Negotiates Israel’s Destruction
If history is any guide, these negotiations will put the world
on the path to a cataclysm that defies the imagination
By Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press — The strangest thing about Obama’s efforts to achieve friendly relations with Iran, something he has tried to do since he first took office in 2009, is that Iran has made it abundantly clear since its Islamic revolution in 1979 that it hates America and, in tandem, Israel as well.In an Iranian naval drill on February 25, Iran blew up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier near the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It was a full-size replica of the USS Nimitz. This is the antithesis of friendship, but just to make their position clear, Iranian Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi, commander of its naval forces, let it be known that “We have the most advanced sea mines which cannot be imagined by the Americans.”
But the Americans—in this case the President of the United States and his negotiators—have been making every concession they can to get an agreement that would limit Iran’s ability to produce its own nuclear weapons. Dr. Norman Bailey, an adjunct professor of economic statecraft at the Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C., recently wrote that “The U.S. looks set to present its allies with a dangerous fait accompli on Iran’s nuclear program.”
“The most recent deadline of March 24th means only one thing,” Dr. Bailey wrote in a World Tribune commentary. “A deal has been reached between the U.S. and Iran, which will be announced to the other five participants when the Obama administration decides it is convenient to do so.” The other five obviously have nothing to say regarding the negotiations. At one point, the French foreign minister stormed out of the initial meeting proclaiming “This is a fool’s deal.”...
Rand Paul Wins CPAC Presidential Straw Poll
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Rand Paul just won the 2015 CPAC Presidential Straw Poll, with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker coming in second, Ted Cruz third, Dr. Ben Carson fourth and Jeb Bush in fifth place.
The following are the final vote tallies for the top five as well as the next 12 finishers in order in terms or percent per candidate:
25.7 Sen. Rand Paul
21.4 Gov. Scott Walker
11.5 Sen. Ted Cruz
11.4 Dr. Ben Carson
8.3 Former Gov. Jeb Bush
4.3 Former Sen. Rick Santorum
3.7 Sen. Marco Rubio
3.5 Donald Trump
3.0 Carly Fiorina
2.8 Gov. Chris Christie
1.1 Former Gov. Rick Perry
0.9 Gov. Bobby Jindal
0.8 Former Gov. Sarah Palin
0.3 Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
0.3 Former Ambassador John Bolton
0.1 Sen. Lindsey Graham
0.1 Former Gov. George Pataki
1.0 Undecided
0.7 Other...
The following are the final vote tallies for the top five as well as the next 12 finishers in order in terms or percent per candidate:
25.7 Sen. Rand Paul
21.4 Gov. Scott Walker
11.5 Sen. Ted Cruz
11.4 Dr. Ben Carson
8.3 Former Gov. Jeb Bush
4.3 Former Sen. Rick Santorum
3.7 Sen. Marco Rubio
3.5 Donald Trump
3.0 Carly Fiorina
2.8 Gov. Chris Christie
1.1 Former Gov. Rick Perry
0.9 Gov. Bobby Jindal
0.8 Former Gov. Sarah Palin
0.3 Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
0.3 Former Ambassador John Bolton
0.1 Sen. Lindsey Graham
0.1 Former Gov. George Pataki
1.0 Undecided
0.7 Other...
Breaking…WH Plans to Develop a “Country Within a Country” of 15 Million “New Americans”
Citizens Will Be Cast Into The Shadows
By Sara Noble, Independent Sentinel — The White House has plans to legalize 13 to 15 million illegal immigrants who will then establish a “country within a country.”The following Mark Levin interview with Susan Payne is shocking but it also puts all the pieces into place.
Susan Payne is a contributor to WCBM, Baltimore and Co-Host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show,
Unbeknownst to the Obama officials, Ms. Payne was invited to listen in on conference calls at an immigration rally. Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and 16 members of the White House cabinet were on the first call. White House officials were on all three calls. What Ms. Payne learned needs to be immediately shared with Congress and the public.
It should be noted that Ted Hayes, founder of America’s Black Shield, also listened in on these calls....
Listen To This Shocking And Frightening Interview
Mark Levin interviews Sue Payne
U.S. Cutting Intelligence Cooperation With Israel
By Peter Malcolm, Ben Shapiro’s Truth Revolt — According to Channel 10 in Israel, President Obama has reduced American intelligence cooperation with Israel because of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to the incipient U.S./Iran Nuclear deal. The report states that joint efforts by Israeli and American intelligence agencies have been utilized in the past by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as they analyzed Iran's nuclear program, but even though other countries are cooperating with Israel in sharing information about Iran's nuclear program, the United States is now refusing to do so.Secretary of State John Kerry had initially claimed Israel had no knowledge of the details of the U.S. deal with Iran, but apparently warned Netanyahu on Monday not to divulge details when the prime minister spoke to Congress on Tuesday.
In addition, reports that the U.S. would cut defense aid to Israel because of the differences between the Obama Administration and the Israeli Administration were denied by the U.S. on Monday, and also denied a Kuwaiti paper’s report that said Obama had threatened to shoot down an Israel Air Force strike on Iran's nuclear facilities....
Democratic National Committee Members (Obama’s Political Party)
On Why Obama Won’t Use The Term Islamic Terrorism
On Why Obama Won’t Use The Term Islamic Terrorism
Media Research Center (MRC) TV
MRCTV’s Dan Joseph asks DNC members why Obama won’t use the term ‘Islamic Terrorism’
EXPOSED: The Planned Subjugation
Of America’s Population
Of America’s Population
Fundamental Transformation of America: Getting rid of the country that exists, replacing it with a foreign new one
By Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press — The actual blueprint of the method of the madness of the Obama regime has been laid bare in White House plans to develop “A Country Within A country” of 15 Million “New Americans”, a story brought to light by Mark Levin’s interview with Susan Payne.“Citizens Will Be Cast Into the Shadows”, warns Susan Payne, a contributor to WCBM, Baltimore and Co-Host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show. (Independent Sentinel, February 28, 2015)
Citizens about to be cast into the shadows is only courtesy of the natural order when the current administration in D.C. operates not on the way its own unsuspecting citizens presume, but on a long term in place, carefully mounted ‘Shadow Government’.
It was the ‘Shadow Government’ that built its own “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the military”; a Shadow Government that gives us a false image as Barack Obama as president when ‘Shadow Woman’ Valerie Jarrett, for whom not a single vote was cast, is running the show.
Shocking as it all is, it’s really the uninterrupted cunning of Marxism at work to supplant the people of an entire country.
And now we have more to worry about than Obama’s own military advancing from the shadows while the original one has been gutted to an almost unrecognizable state, or dozens of czars having been put in place as far back as 2009—because the regime is now boldly working on supplanting the American population....
Shoebat Exposes Hillary’s Clinton Foundation
And How It Is Mired In Muslim Brotherhood Connections;
Washington Post Up In Arms And Fails To Refute It
And How It Is Mired In Muslim Brotherhood Connections;
Washington Post Up In Arms And Fails To Refute It
By Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack, Shoebat Foundation — When it comes to Middle East coverage, the western media is plagued with incompetent journalists (if in doubt, read here) who rarely do their homework. Today, there is no such thing as “professional journalism”. There are supposedly professional journalists who are simply cynics and agenda driven. So the story is, especially when it comes to Middle East coverage. This time the story links to the Clinton Foundation and its ties with some nefarious Muslim Brotherhood connections, court documents and “top secret” documents that link Hillary with some shoddy Islamists, which Shoebat.com did its homework in revealing the case. And now with court records coming out of Egypt, the case begins to stink to high heaven.A Shoebat.com reader recently informed us that “several US media outlets (are) publishing articles… stating Obama and Hillary have now had criminal charges levied against them by the Egyptian government” and wanted to know if there was any information to that effect. Short of a confirmed complaint filed against Hillary Clinton concerning her alleged relationship with Naglaa Mahmoud, the wife of former Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, on which Shoebat.com reported, we had absolutely no knowledge of – nor did we report – that Egypt filed any criminal charges against either Hillary or Obama....
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Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
Regarding The Last Days
Regarding The Last Days
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” ~ Matthew 24:3-14