“Until the last few years, the boundary changes that will be
necessary you would have never thought about anybody changing,because in your
lifetime, and my lifetime and in our parents’ lifetime, the edict was, ‘We don’t
change boundaries.’
“Now you can see how, just like that, they can evaporate and
new ones show up, and all that does is tell you that God’s Word can come through
right on the money, quicker than people think that it can.
“All those changes that have to take place in the Middle
East, you just look at it and you say, ‘Wow, that’s not so hard to understand
how some of these passages in the Prophets can come to pass,’ because the
boundaries are really artificial anyway. God’s going to devour all those
enemies.
*****
“After World War I,
the French, the British and the Allies drew up national boundaries in the
Middle East and that’s why you have a funny-looking country like Saudi Arabia,
where the border lines go up through the dessert, and countries like Jordan and
Iraq that have their own funny-looking boundaries.
“Iraq was really three different countries and they made one
country out of it and gave military sanction to it.
“After World War II, one of the things the Allies decided
was that the all of the national boundaries that were there at the beginning of
the war would be respected; that no one would change any of the national
boundaries. In other words, one nation wasn’t going to absorb another nation.
“After the Berlin Wall, all of a sudden that rule kind of
went away because when the Communists fell, Yugoslavia, for example, was a
whole bunch of little countries held together—Tito held it together with a gun.
“It was the Clinton Administration that did the first
boundary changing in Europe. Now, Putin in Russia wants to change the
boundaries up there to what they were and everybody says, ‘Ooh, you can’t do
that,’ and he says, ‘Well, you did it 20 years ago.’
“Now the Arab and Persian world are saying, ‘Hey, those
boundaries; we didn’t set them up. We didn’t agree to them,’ and they’re going
up in flames."
*****
In the same study, Jordan talked about how healing in the Bible
has nothing to do with what you hear and see talked about with the faith
healers.
“Did you know that the largest faith healing outfit on the
planet is the Roman Catholic Church? You think of Benny Hinn, Oral Roberts,
A.A. Allen, Peter Popoff and all that crowd of wackos, but the biggest bunch of
‘healers’ is Romanism. People make pilgrimages to Lourdes and that kind of
thing.
"I remember years ago reading about a Catholic priest in New
Jersey who had the gift of healing people’s heart disease and then when he
died. They cut his heart out, put it in a big pickle jar, put stuff in it and
it’s sitting on an altar for people with heart disease to come and pray. You
know the old saying, ‘High pay, high mass; low pay, low mass; no pay, no mass’?
That’s where that came from.
“You go into the mission in San Juan Capistrano and go to
the back of it and there’s this little alcove with a board that has 30-some
names on it. At the top it says, ‘People who’ve been prayed for and healed in
our Mission.’ The idea was is if you came, prayed, got healed, they’d add your
name to it.
“By the way, they teach that the healing is in the atonement
and that Jesus is going to heal your body if you take Him and take the mass and
that kind of stuff.
“In the Bible, the healing program is at the Second Coming
of Christ when He removes the curse of sin on creation and then He heals His
people from the diseases that sin had brought and gives them the blessings of
health and wealth that He promised them.”
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