Until the Time of The End

Go your way, Daniel, because the words [of the vision] are closed up and sealed “until the time of The End.”  Many will be purified, made spotless and refined; but the wicked will continue to be wicked.  None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.  Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.  As for you, Daniel, go your way “till The End”.  You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise to receive your alloted inheritance.

Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.  When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them.  Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless “until the time of The End”; for it will still come at the appointed time.

Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.  But you, Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll “until the time of The End”.  Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.

(excerpts from chapters 11 and 12 of the Book of Daniel)

Photo was taken in Liberia, Lofa County–Feb. 2009

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I Press Toward the Mark

“Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:13,14

Thank you everyone who have shown me love and empathy in regards to the loss of my Liberian photos.  I was hoping to have used them to write more stories, “as the Lord gives me utterance”; but now I see that God has another plan for me—that of forsaking “all” and “everything” that “I may [intimately] know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering”.  I CAN go on in the power and strength of the Holy Spirit!  I will NOT go off the air. 

 However, I need your fervent prayers.  This is not about production on a website for my glory.  This is about the power of God to change lives, of others and my own.
“Here I am Jesus, use the little bread roll in my basket.  Take it and multiply it to feed the hungry all over the world.  I love you, Jesus…..Ruthie.”

Photo was taken in Liberia, Nimba County–Jan. 2009

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