"Get Right or Get Left"

Politics isn't the only arena in life becoming polarized. A line also exists between "true" Christians and false ones.

We learn from the Parable of the Wheat and Tares in Matthew 13: 24-30 that Satan works to deceive the church by mingling his children (tares) with God's genuine believers (wheat).

Tares closely resemble wheat, but are poisonous to human beings. They are indistinguishable from wheat until the final fruit appears. Farmers would weed out the tares just before the wheat harvest. Until Christ returns, both genuine believers and false converts will be allowed to remain together--but God Himself will separate the two. Those who aren't right, will be left.

According to the Nelson Study Bible: True Christians are born again. The Greek word translated again can mean either "from above" or "anew". The new birth, or regeneration (see Titus 3:5) is the act by which God imparts spiritual life to one who trusts Christ. Without this spiritual birth, a person cannot perceive spiritual things (see 1 Corinthians 2:10, 13-16), nor can they enter the Kingdom of God.

In other words, the "natural" person or those without the Holy Spirit are barred from Heaven at death.

To remedy this deplorable situation, God sent His Son to die for our sins, in our place. God then raised Jesus from the dead. Belief in Jesus' resurrection and our own is central to the gospel. God will grant eternal life to all who believe Him.

Jesus said, "Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven. So don't be surprised at My statement that you must be born again. Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit" (John 3:6).

Genuine faith always produces change. Got Questions.org explains it this way:

When a person receives Christ, tremendous spiritual changes take place, and true converts will eventually produce spiritual fruit--the evidence of a changed life. And, ultimately, spiritual fruit is the test of true salvation.

False converts may be able to deceive themselves (and us) into believing they belong to Christ, but they certainly cannot deceive God.

A wise man once said: "Truly converted sinners have trusted Christ alone, display a love for God, His word, and His people. They turn from their sin, work to spread the Good News of the Gospel and wait eagerly for the return of their Saviour." -- Got Questions.org

"God's promise of entering His place of rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to get there. For this Good News--that God has prepared a place of rest--has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn't believe what God told them. For only we who believe can enter His place of rest" (Hebrews 4:1-3).

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News:

• Business Insider: Russian state-sponsored media threatens U.S. with 100-megaton nuclear doomsday device after key arms treaty fails
• The Israeli Wire: Israel successfully test Arrow 3 Anti-Missile, sending strong warning to Iran; self-defense measure backed by U.S.
• The Washington Times: Scientists: 'No evidence' climate change causes extreme cold or disrupts Polar Vortex

"Russia & China: Preparing For Nuclear War?"

This week Russia and China are holding the largest ever joint war games that will include simulations for nuclear warfare, according to U.S. Defense officials.

The drills, known as The Vostok 2018, have been condemned by NATO as a rehearsal for "large-scale conflict", and come at a time of escalating tensions with the West.

According to official Pentagon reports, "Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has re-defined its national security and defense postures, and both documents point towards China and Russia, rather than terrorism or climate change, as the biggest threat to the U.S."

It appears that Moscow and Beijing have become BFFs and forged what they described as a "strategic partnership" in opposition to what they consider the U.S. global domination.

"They feel they need to embrace to deal with the increasingly high pressure and containment from the U.S., said Yue Gang, a retired Chinese Army colonel and military expert.

"For Russia, the increasingly robust alliance with China is particularly important amid growing tensions with the U.S. and its allies and a looming threat of more biting U.S. sanctions," reports Fox News.

According to Business Insider: "It's unclear how China and Russia may coordinate nuclear war, as they have very different models of nuclear strategy. Russia holds the most nuclear warheads in the world, and has employed them on a growing number of dangerous and devastating platforms. Russia hopes to soon field an underwater doomsday device that could cripple life on earth for decades. Also, U.S. intelligence reports indicate Russia is struggling with a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile.

"China, on the other hand, has taken the opposite approach to nuclear weapons by opting for minimum deterrence."

Any way you cut this "strategic partnership" looks like another prophetic puzzle piece falling into place. Even the name Vostok seems to fit. Vostok means 'east'--as in 'Kings of the East?'

"Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River, and it dried up so that the Kings of the east could march their armies westward without hindrance. And they gathered all the rulers and their armies to a place called Armageddon in Hebrew."  Revelation 16: 12 & 16

A wise man once said: " The kings of the east in Biblical prophecy refers to another sphere of power which was to arise in the world at the same time as the great Northern Power, Russia." --Hal Lindsey, author

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News:

• FNC: U.S. intercepts two Russian nuclear-capable warplanes; second time this month
• DEBKAfile: Russian air defenses shown at Vostok 2018 exercise taking place in Siberia; advanced S-400 and S-300 systems tested.
• Behold Israel: The head of the Atomic Energy Organization in Iran announced: "We just completed the construction of a manufacturing facility for very advanced centrifuges."