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- Catholics’ Faith in Francis (or the Church) is Misplaced - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2018 from Richard Ruhling“Even if a day arrives when the Catholic Church is pure, none of us will live to see it,” says Margery Eagan in her Boston Globe article (1-29-18) discussing the pope’s visit to Chile. Some people can stumble over the truth, get up and go on as if nothing ever happened. Dr. Richard Ruhling, ...
Views: 1197 - 7 Clues to Identify the Harlot of Revelation 17 - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2018 from Richard Ruhling“All roads lead to Rome.” Christ is the only way to God (John 14:6) but He is the Truth, and if we follow truth as we understand it, we get to God. Note: This isn’t against sincere Catholic believers, but against a hierarchy that knows the system is phony, but participate in the deception. ...
Views: 1195 - A Biblical Answer to the Omnibus-Muslim Problem - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: The Omnibus Budget Bill to be voted Friday, Dec 11, will provide $1.2 Billion for “nearly 700,000 green cards – or lifetime residency cards – to migrants from Muslim nations over the next five years (as we did over the last five years),” said Senator Sessions of AL, re Friday’s vote. ...
Views: 1192 - Drug Companies Pay MDs to Prescribe Opioids that Kill 33,000 Yearly - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2017 from Richard Ruhling$46 million was paid to 68,000 MDs for their opioid prescriptions as kick-backs, according to the CDC. “This is outrageous and just the latest example of how drug companies are killing people with their products,” says Dr. Richard Ruhling, a retired physician who once relieved a doctor for a ...
Views: 1188 - Is it Time to Blend Drudge’s “Have Exit Plan” with Christ’s Warning to Flee Military or Martial Law? - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2014 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Many see trouble coming from government spending and then printing money non-stop. And the gov is preparing for the trouble by buying billions of bullets and armored vehicles. The Bible has warnings for what we see. Before Christ saves us in the sky, heeding His words could save us in ...
Views: 1186 - Why the Bad Weather—This Theory May Be As Good As Any - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2018 from Richard RuhlingThe cover story of Popular Science, Sept 1995 reported a little known Pentagon project, stating that bad weather is coming. If you can control your enemy by weather, that's good, but are we the enemy? The National Weather Service tweeted that snow, ice, strong winds, and flooding will plague ...
Views: 1184 - Cancer and Liars When “Talking All the Health Benefits” of Coffee - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2016 from Richard RuhlingA World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report has reversed a 25-year-old categorization of coffee from a “possible carcinogen” to “inadequate evidence” that it causes cancer. (Mercola.com) They should have looked back 35 years to the New England Journal ...
Views: 1182 - A Surprise Sign of God's People for When the Pope Comes - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: God has given set times [mo'ed] as appointments for us. The pope's visit to Congress falls on one of them Happiness is based on relationships described in the 10 Commandments. People who break them—people who lie, steal, kill or commit adultery are not happy people and will not be in ...
Views: 1180 - Non-militant Islam Better Than Godless America; the Problem is the Quran - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2016 from Richard RuhlingSummary: The Bible uses political cartoons to represent nations. In the book of Daniel we find a ram in the Middle East pushing west, but it is stomped by a goat that flies from the west “at the time of the end.” That will be the end of militant Islam, but the ram is a more noble creature than a ...
Views: 1179 - Obamacare Is Bondage & Bureaucracy by Congress; They Don't Want It for Themselves - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2016 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Governments world-wide are in a crisis that will widen and deepen till they crumble like the image in the 2nd chapter of Daniel. The US Constitution was a gift of freedom by godly men who honored the biblical model of self-government. If people will not govern themselves well, there are ...
Views: 1176 - Bad Laws, Lawyers & Judges Ruining US: Examples—Starbucks & Pharma - by Submitted on May 19, 2017 from Richard RuhlingStarbucks was ordered by a judge to pay a woman $100,000 because the lid to her coffee popped off and she got 1st and 2nd degree burns. A 1st degree burn means erythema or redness; a 2nd degree burn means a blister forms. Too bad we can’t all get a blister from Starbucks and collect $100,000. ...
Views: 1173 - A Surprise Sign of God's People for When the Pope Comes - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: God has given set times [mo'ed] as appointments for us. The pope's visit to Congress falls on one of them Happiness is based on relationships described in the 10 Commandments. People who break them—people who lie, steal, kill or commit adultery are not happy people and will not be in ...
Views: 1172 - Israel Mourns Destruction of Both Temples on the 10th of Av; Do We Understand Those Appointed Times? - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2014 from Richard RuhlingSummary: History tends to repeat. With militant extremists who don't honor truces or peace-fires, their call for a 3rd Intifada is serious. August 7 is the 10th of Av, counting from the new moon crescent. “In the 5th month [counting from spring, Exodus 12:2] in the 10th day...Nebuchadnezzar ...
Views: 1169 - A Concern for Israel’s Premature Return (Aliyah) - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2016 from Richard RuhlingSummary: With mounting hostility to Israel, the return of Jewish people to the land of Israel is seen a premature. This is seen from a biblical perspective that needs further consideration… As Israelites whose ancestors were conquered by the Assyrians and later scattered among the nations, ...
Views: 1168 - Six Reasons for Jerusalem's Impending Destruction at Passover - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2016 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Hebrew prophets forecast an end-time destruction of Jerusalem. Five 'when-then' signs point to 2016 for apocalyptic events. History supports Passover as a time of impending Judgment. Bible believers should consider selling Jerusalem properties and keeping Passover elsewhere. 1. Five ...
Views: 1166 - 2018 Events Predicted in All-Time Best-Seller--the Bible - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2018 from Richard RuhlingWar, famine, earthquake, pestilence, society chaos are seen, end-times in Matthew 24. Summary: Trump’s ok of Jerusalem as capital of Israel sets the stage for a papal-influenced United Nations to react with hostility. Jerusalem’s destruction would be a sign of impending judgment on the US ...
Views: 1165 - A Surprise Sign of God's People for When the Pope Comes - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: God has given set times [mo'ed] as appointments for us. The pope's visit to Congress falls on one of them Happiness is based on relationships described in the 10 Commandments. People who break them—people who lie, steal, kill or commit adultery are not happy people and will not be in ...
Views: 1163 - Solar and Lunar Eclipses Suggest an Impending Apocalypse this Spring - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2015 from Richard Ruhling“The sun shall be darkened and the moon turned to blood before the day of the Lord,” Joel 2:31. The Bible says we “know the times and seasons perfectly,” 1Thessalonians 5:1. This suggests we should at least know the year for when "the day of the Lord" comes with “sudden destruction,” verse ...
Views: 1162 - Extreme Health—A Concept Whose Time Has Come! - by Submitted on May 28, 2015 from Richard RuhlingOlimpic winners didn't get there by moderation. Moderation isn't the key to anything except mediocrity. We are under-utilizing the benefits of pure air, sunlight, absteemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet and use of water. While a lukewarm tub-bath is relaxing example, but the extremes of ...
Views: 1161 - Biblical End-Times Begin This Fall - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: A complex of astronomical signs, economic conditions and sabbatical cycles point to this fall and next spring for the biblical end-times. Biblical information indicates the religious year begins in the spring, (Exod 12:2) six months after the civil year begins as currently observed in ...
Views: 1158 - God's Name is not Lord and the Lord's Name is Not God: How We Hallow His Name & Why It's Important - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: The 3rd Commandment (Exodus 20:7) was intended to protect God's name, but when translators removed His name and replaced the four letters called the tetragrammaton, with LORD in all caps, They took His name in vain (made it empty as they made it into a generic title). Elijah turned ...
Views: 1158 - Obey Papa? The Pope's Call for Unity to Heal a Prophetic Wound Involves Risk & Loss of US Freedoms - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: All the Protestant reformers saw the papacy as the “little horn” power claiming the title of God while persecuting the saints and changing the Commandments, Daniel 7:25. In Revelation 13, we see the beast [political cartoon] as an amalgamation of a lion, bear, leopard and dragon ...
Views: 1158 - How the Pope, the Economy and America are Related - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: The pope with more gold than anyone, is not like Donald Trump, wanting to help America to do the same. Those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. Trouble for America is impending as money and freedom fade. As a college student, I spent a summer in Colombia and ...
Views: 1156 - A Surprise Sign of God's People for When the Pope Comes - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: God has given set times [mo'ed] as appointments for us. The pope's visit to Congress falls on one of them Happiness is based on relationships described in the 10 Commandments. People who break them—people who lie, steal, kill or commit adultery are not happy people and will not be in ...
Views: 1150 - Two Antichrists? How CS Lewis Helps Pat Robertson & Joel Richardson on the Horns of a Beast Dilemma - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Which is the antichrist--the pope or the coming Imam Mahdi of Islam? Pat Robertson seems to be questioning the historic Protestant view of the papacy as the antichrist power, impressed with the work of Joel Richardson and a “MidEast Beast.” Before we throw the baby out with the bath ...
Views: 1150 - Latin America Is Proof Of The Pope's 'Great Words' - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Latin America is proof that the pope's US/UN agenda for “common good” and a New World Order has little value. South America, colonized by Catholic priests, have had Catholic government for centuries and they are still in poverty. I spent a summer in Latin America as a student ...
Views: 1149 - Six Biblical Signs Support Apocalyptic Events Impending In 2016 - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2015 from Richard Ruhling“Like a frog that doesn't know when to jump from slowly heating water,” we are coming to the boiling point, based on biblical signs of the apocalypse. Six news items from this past year suggest that trouble is impending. 1. Signs of Corruption: Obama Gave $79 Million to the Catholic Church ...
Views: 1149 - 3 Tipping Points Toward Middle War & Prophetic End-Times - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2018 from Richard Ruhling#1. Trump’s Making Jerusalem the capital of Israel was opposed by the pope and 126 countries in the United Nations in spite of several previous presidents agreeing to the idea but not doing it. #2. Trump’s plan to pull out of the Obama-era Iran Nuclear Treaty if Iran doesn’t make significant ...
Views: 1146 - An Overlooked Cause of EU, UN and US Problems Needing a Biblical Solution - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Human wisdom tends to centralization and building big government. The European Union isn't working well, and it's an omen for what's coming under UN control. There's better information that could help us avoid serious trouble. Wisdom is looking at life from a biblical perspective. ...
Views: 1146 - Revisiting the Rapture--How Imminent Is It? - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: This topic is like a minefield with many hazardous conclusions drawn from texts taken without context. This article offers a broader spectrum of ideas and contexts than most Christians have considered. If you Google “Rapture September,” more than a million results suggest this is ...
Views: 1146 - Harbinger II: You thought same-sex marriage meant America is going down? Wait a month! - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: The Harbinger was about a series of events that needed explanation in Cahn's best-selling book that warns of impending judgment. Harbinger II needs little explanation except to note that the Supreme Court decision for same-sex marriage came on a date that resonates with biblical meaning ...
Views: 1144 - Biblical End-Times If These Muslims Cross the Border to Attack Jerusale - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2018 from Richard Ruhling“’Muslim demonstrations’ are nothing new. Googling that phrase gives 1,300,000 results. But if one adds the word ‘violent,’ there are 2,450,000 results, suggesting that violence occurs nearly twice as often. If this happens with the result of destruction in Jerusalem, the biblical end-times are ...
Views: 1143 - Reasons For Catholic Christmas, Jewish Hanukkah & Christ's Birthday On the Feast of Tabernacles - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Christmas originated as a pagan holiday, blessed by the pope in the 4th century. Hanukkah commemorates a miraculous victory of Jews fighting for freedom ~175 BC. The birth of Christ was most likely on the Feast of Tabernacles, 500 years before the birth of Christ, the prophet ...
Views: 1140 - Two Antichrists? How CS Lewis Helps Pat Robertson & Joel Richardson on the Horns of a Beast Dilemma - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Which is the antichrist--the pope or the coming Imam Mahdi of Islam? Pat Robertson seems to be questioning the historic Protestant view of the papacy as the antichrist power, impressed with the work of Joel Richardson and a “MidEast Beast.” Before we throw the baby out with the bath ...
Views: 1140 - Europe’s Crisis and the Vatican Connection to Islam--How and Why the Papacy Created Islam - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2017 from Richard RuhlingThe Vatican strategized through Mohammed’s wife, Khadijah, a wealthy Catholic who arranged for her Catholic cousin, Waraquah, to mentor young Mohammed. (Google) more information in video link below. Both religions have Mary, Fatima and war to force conversions in common. Islam’s Quran is ...
Views: 1138 - Five Reasons For US Megaquake This Spring - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2016 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Five 'when-then' signs from 2015 signal the 'day of the Lord,' and suggest this spring. Multiple Bible texts support an earthquake as initiating the end-times. 1. “The day of the Lord” begins with an earthquake (Joel 2:10,11; Zeph 1:7,10, 1Thess 5:2,3) and it was signaled by the ...
Views: 1137 - How 7 Simple Health Habits Can Make a 30-Year Difference - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2017 from Richard RuhlingDr. Lester Breslow, Dean of UCLA’s School of Public Health, discovered that 7 Simple Health Habits make a difference in 30 years of life between the person who broke those Golden Rules compared to those who observed them. So what are they? They are best remembered by this picture and ...
Views: 1137 - God--Damn It, or Praise Him? A Tribute to Science and Einstein By a Scientist - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2016 from Richard RuhlingScience has been in the news because of the discovery of gravitational waves that Einstein, a century ago, said existed. Are we brilliant--or maybe retarded because of our unwillingness to admit something else Einstein said—that God is not a magician? Since science put men on the moon, some ...
Views: 1136 - Adverse Drug Reactions Are #1 Cause of Illness, Disability & Death Says Physician Blaming Drug Ads - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2016 from Richard RuhlingWhat we’re seeing is a damnable practice of prescribing drugs for almost any symptoms when most problems are not serious and will get better without any treatment, or a simple change in diet. The oft-quoted JAMA figure of 106,000 Adverse Drug Reaction deaths (4-15-1998) were in hospitals, but ...
Views: 1131(1 vote) - A Surprise Answer to Yahoo’s Question, What Do Crowns Have to Do With Catholicism? - by Submitted on May 11, 2018 from Richard RuhlingYahoo’s report of the Met Gala had photos of numerous women wearing crowns with commentary on the crowns of kings, popes and Catholicism, mentioning the crown of thorns that Christ wore, but with no comment on the disparity. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (5-8-18) Maybe ...
Views: 1130 - Two Antichrists? How CS Lewis Helps Pat Robertson & Joel Richardson on the Horns of a Beast Dilemma - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Which is the antichrist--the pope or the coming Imam Mahdi of Islam? Pat Robertson seems to be questioning the historic Protestant view of the papacy as the antichrist power, impressed with the work of Joel Richardson and a “MidEast Beast.” Before we throw the baby out with the bath ...
Views: 1130 - Immigration: How the Statue of Liberty Changed America and How We Became Like Biblical Egypt - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2017 from Richard Ruhling“Give me your tired, your poor…yearning to breathe free.” The Statue of Liberty has welcomed “the huddled masses” from every continent since 1865, but immigration has transformed the US. Early Americans took huge risks of death at sea and from Indians or starvation in the New World because ...
Views: 1128 - Obama Seen As President At Christ's Coming In Pastor's Dream 30 Years Ago--How It Could Be! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2016 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Jack Darnall dreamed of an African-American president with Obama's description, well-liked at first, but he became a 'terrible dictator.' The dream was not shared widely because it seemed impossible in the 1980's. Jack Darnall, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor was running a 'prepper' ...
Views: 1123 - The Greatest Discoveries of a Lifetime as Seen by a Retired Physician - by Submitted on May 23, 2017 from Richard RuhlingThe greatest discoveries that we can make are not those of technology, but how to have health, happiness and purposeful living that brings a better destiny, says Richard Ruhling, MD. At 75, Ruhling is enjoying all of the above better than when he was 35 and had headaches that helped him ...
Views: 1123(1 vote) - Biblical Clues to Christ’s Hebrew Name and Jesuit Mischief with Jesus - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2017 from Richard RuhlingChrist implies that we don’t understand the parables—we are asleep with lights out in Matthew 25:5. The next verse says ‘midnight.’ It’s dark, and hence a need of oil in the lamps to find the way to the wedding. There is parallel imagery in the Song of Solomon representing Israel’s wisest ...
Views: 1122 - Beyond Baloney, What the Solar Eclipse Really Means - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2017 from Richard RuhlingAn email from a friend cites some guru who says next week’s eclipse means “the end of the world!” This is baloney, and probably nothing huge will happen August 21 to endorse the significance of the eclipse. “Signs of the times” should be taken in their context and it is interesting that ...
Views: 1121 - Overflowing US Border is in Bible Prophecy, But That Doesn't Make It Good or God's Will - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2014 from Richard RuhlingSummary: America's border problem is prophetic. Rome has conquered US, and a growing majority will vote the pope as leader of a New World Order as rapid changes continue. “At the time of the end” the king of the north “overflows” the king of the south in Daniel 11:40. In Bible times, Egypt ...
Views: 1121 - Most Christians in Denial or Presumptuous, Failing Readiness for Impending Calamity & Martial Law - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: US Christianity could be like the lukewarm church of Laodicea that had a materialistic focus. We can't bring ourselves to see impending changes that take us out of our comfort zone. We don't see end-times impending nor hear Christ's words that could ready us. We are poorly prepared in ...
Views: 1119 - College Education—America's Dream For Gold Is Turning Brown - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: College isn't needed for most jobs. College costs too much and has too much we don't need or want. Wikipedia lists many trades for which training costs less, takes less time and has a higher likelihood for a job. Instead of four years of college, four of medical school and four of ...
Views: 1116 - Judgment on Jerusalem at Passover & US at 2nd Passover as Jubilee Begins - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2016 from Richard RuhlingA third intifada is likely this spring (Zechariah 14:1,2) and a US megaquake in May ('as the days of Noah') because 'the day of the LORD' was signaled by the solar and lunar eclipse and Iran Nuke Treaty last year,” The view is like our connecting dots for pictures we drew as kids. In this ...
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