I would like to comment on Lisa's post yesterday.I for one am not surprised as I have been saying that since January 2007, God has been revealing to me that 2007 was/ is a "watershed" year.The event noted by Pastor Mark Biltz concerning President Bush's visit to the Middle East fulfilling a 3400 year prophecy is just ONE MORE "watershed" event.Remember, a "watershed", is by one definition, an event that causes a "division of time".I have felt all along, that the "watershed year" is counted from June 6, 2007 [the 40th Anniversary of the Six Day War] to May 14, 2008 [The 60th Anniversary of the birth of Israel as a nation, and what the Palestinian's consider is the "Nakba" or "Catastrophe"]Then the event that Lisa reported from Koenig's news would be another such "watershed event."Is there yet another?? watershed event religious in nature that is taking place during this year from June 2007, to May, 2008???
There is another "60th Anniversary" taking place that should be of notice to us. It is the 60th anniversary of the WCC.WCC FEATURE: WCC 60th anniversary
The WCC is not just celebrating a birthday, but the visible and viable commitment of the churches, which despite all their own and the world's divisions reclaim the 1948 affirmation: "We intend to stay together."……….
http://www.wfn.org/2008/01/msg00168.html
Pope and WCC look to Christian unity at ecumenical 'festival'
For the first time, a general secretary of the World Council of Churches has taken part with a pope in a Rome service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity......
http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=1577
Vatican, Muslims Plan 'Historic' Meeting
Catholic and Muslim representatives plan to meet in Rome in the spring to start a "historic" dialogue between the faiths after relations were soured by Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 comments about Islam and holy war, Vatican officials said.
Benedict proposed the encounter as part of his official response to an open letter sent to him and other Christian leaders in October by 138 Muslim scholars from around the world. The letter urged Christians and Muslims to develop their common ground of belief in one God.
Three representatives of the Muslim scholars will come to Rome in February or March to prepare for the meeting, the head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano this weekend.
He did not give a date for the larger meeting, except to say it would take place in the spring…….
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5tuhCZwd9FMdCxdzBzulPYPUy0AD8TTUBK80
What specific event has taken place in the last decade of the past 60 years of the WCC that makes this particular "historic" meeting a "watershed" event???The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification was signed in 1999 at Augsburg, Germany, where Martin Luther nailed his 95 Thesis to the door of Wittenberg Chapel. This "signing" was done to undo the Doctrine of Justification on the VERY SAME DAY in fact!!The "Watershed" issue of the Reformation was the Doctrine of Salvation by Faith Alone.Now another "Watershed" issue is taking place in this very important year. The event is taking place on April 14-17 in Chicago. And the JDDJ signed in 1999 will be addressed at this Christian Unity National Workshop.Do I have your attention yet??Be sure to follow all the links and read them.We are coming to the end of a "DIVIDING TIME" in World History as we know it?
Are you ready to meet the Lord Jesus Christ?
Mary