12160 Social Network2024-03-29T12:26:05ZHabel ben Medardohttps://12160.info/profile/HabelbenMedardohttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1961405502?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=watchmen-on-the-wall&user=38sz4zsuc2jo4&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHer atheist parents were surprised when their three-year-old began to describe dreams and visions from Godtag:12160.info,2013-12-21:2649739:Topic:13813452013-12-21T07:24:13.337ZHabel ben Medardohttps://12160.info/profile/HabelbenMedardo
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<h1 class="entry-title">For child art prodigy Akiane, Jesus is for real</h1>
<p>By Mark Ellis</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">For child art prodigy Akiane, Jesus is for real</h1>
<p>By Mark Ellis</p>
<div id="attachment_1005" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1005" title="Krimarik, Akiane with paintings age 17 2011" src="http://blog.godreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/300x200xKrimarik-Akiane-with-paintings-age-17-2011-300x200.jpg.pagespeed.ic.RGREdggJlo.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Akiane with Jesus paintings</p>
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<p>Her atheist parents were surprised when their three-year-old began to describe dreams and visions from God. This inexplicable direction in their daughter’s life, combined with a remarkable talent in art and poetry, inspired her family to re-examine their own lives.</p>
<p>“My life began in an unusual way,” says Akiane Kramarik, 17, who spent her early years in rural Illinois. By unusual, she refers to her underwater birth in “a shack” on the edge of a cornfield. “Our family had no money, no friends, no relatives, no television or radio. Our life was quite simple — long walks in nature, open <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">conversations</span>, and hands on explorations of knowledge,” she says.</p>
<p>Her mother, Forelli, is a Lithuanian immigrant educator. Akiane’s father, Mark, is a chef from Chicago with a Catholic background. In her early family life, there was no prayer, no discussions of God, and no visits to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">church</span>. Yet in the insular atheistic environment her parents created – free from media influences or even outside babysitters – Akiane suddenly began to talk about God.</p>
<p>She spoke of colorful dreams and visions about heaven, Jesus, and God’s amazing love. Her stunned parents realized her intense focus on God could not have come have been inspired by anything in the world they created for her. Indeed, Akiane seemed to be having supernatural encounters with the living God.</p>
<p>“Most of my spiritual experiences I kept secret, so as not to overwhelm my parents,” she says.</p>
<p>At a tender age, God implanted the desire to articulate her divinely-inspired dreams and visions into art. “When I was four years old, suddenly I started experiencing vivid impressions about different dimensions and a great desire to express them through art,” she says. Initially, she utilized whatever medium was on hand: candles, lipstick, fruits, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">vegetables</span>, charcoal or pencils.</p>
<div id="attachment_1008" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 510px;"><img class="size-large wp-image-1008" title="Jesus by Akiane Kramarik" src="http://blog.godreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/500x666xJesus-by-Akiane-Kramarik-768x1024.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rU22CQiK8_.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="666"/><p class="wp-caption-text">“Prince of Peace” by Akiane</p>
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<p>At eight-years-old, Akiane decided she wanted to paint the face of Jesus, based on the visions she received. She looked for a person she might use as a artist’s model for a long time, and finally told her family they should pray for God to send someone.</p>
<p>On the day they prayed, a mysterious carpenter showed up at their <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">front</span> door looking for work. Akiane took one look at the man’s facial features – remarkably close to the vision she received – and told her mother he was the one.</p>
<p>In humility, the man initially said he was not worthy to represent his Master. But reluctantly, the man agreed, although he asked to remain anonymous.</p>
<p>Akiane’s painting of Jesus was a painstaking effort. “The ‘Prince of Peace’ took me 4o hours to paint and another 20 hours of working with model sketching,” Akiane says. Akiane deftly works with light and shadows to create powerful impressions. “The light side of his face <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">represents</span> the truth, the dark side represents suffering,” she notes.</p>
<p>Colton Burpo, the subject of the book “Heaven is for Real,” identified this painting of Jesus as the closest representation of the Savior whom he witnessed in his dramatic vision.</p>
<p>Both Akiane and Colton were struck by the beauty of Jesus’ eyes. “All I remember were the eyes,” Akiane says, “ and they were like no other colors that were ever created. The closest color I can depict through paints is a sapphire hue.” Colton identified the color of Jesus’ eyes as blue-green.</p>
<p>In 2010, Akiane told Seattle station KCTS that her spiritual epiphanies caused her parents <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">to start</span> seeking <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">answers</span>. “We went through almost everything,” Akiane said. “We went through being Christian, being a Catholic, we studied Buddhism. At this point every one of my siblings have their own path toward a spiritual enlightenment.”</p>
<p>“I have my own and my parents have theirs and my brothers have theirs,” she continued. “I’m the same person as when I was four-years-old. I haven’t changed.”</p>
<p>Akiane’s discovery of God seems remarkably personal. “Since nobody told me who God was, I found God myself. He’s been there for me through the years. I don’t belong to any denomination or religion. I belong to God.”</p>
<p>To eliminate any confusion, however, Jesus is first in her mind. “He is the only way to God — the only way to heaven and joy,” she states. “My personal views on Jesus have only matured and deepened since age 4. As I grow I see how vast and unlimited His love is.”</p>
<p>“Jesus remains my highest authority, love, and God,” she adds. “I pray <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">every day</span> that people will one day follow Jesus, His teachings and feel His love.”</p>
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<p>Akiane completed her second painting of Jesus, “Father Forgive Them,” at age 9. “I have painted about 10 paintings of Jesus,” she says, “including his mother Mary and many paintings of His creation. My current painting is another tribute to Jesus, a very special portrait, titled ‘IAM.’”</p>
<p>As Akiane gets older, some of the early dreams and visions have begun to fade in her memory. “Although I have forgotten most of my early heavenly contacts, my recent visions continue in a special way,” she says.</p>
<p>“I alone know how important Jesus is for me. Instead of writing it is best for me to express (this) through my personal <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">connection</span> — art. I portray Jesus how I see him, as human and as divine.</p>
<p>“My art is only a representation of what I see — Jesus’ glory is beyond any description!”</p>
<p></p> THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, GOG, MAGOG, AND CHEVRON OILtag:12160.info,2013-04-29:2649739:Topic:11852492013-04-29T02:19:44.158ZHabel ben Medardohttps://12160.info/profile/HabelbenMedardo
<p>"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime." <br></br> - Honore de Balzac</p>
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<p>"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime." <br/> - Honore de Balzac</p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="350"><p>"And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,<br/> "Son of man, set thy face against <b><u>GOG</u></b>, the land of <b>Magog</b> (i.e., the <b><u>CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS</u></b>[1] ), the chief prince of (<b><u>Rosh</u></b>[2] ), Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,<br/> "And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O <b><u>GOG</u></b>, the chief prince of (<b><u>Rosh</u></b>[3] ), Meshech and Tubal:<br/> "I will ... put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army ...<br/> "<b>Persia (<u>Iran</u>)</b> ... and ... the house of Togarmah of the <b><u>north quarters</u></b>, and all his bands: and many people with thee.<br/> "Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.<br/> "... <b><u>in the latter years</u></b> thou shalt come ...<br/> "... <b>like a storm</b>, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. (Ezek. 38: 1-9)</p>
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<h3>INTRODUCTION: SOMETHING IS <br/> "AFOOT" IN THE CAUCASUS</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000019.htm"><img src="http://www.antipasministries.com/images/buttons/button177.gif" align="right" border="0" hspace="10"/></a>There are strange things happening in the Caucasus Mountains, that area of the world that 2,500 years ago filled the extreme northern horizon of the Hebrews (Ezek xxxviii. 15, xxxix. 2) and where some say Eden was located - where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate, in Armenia somewhere, perhaps on the shores of the Araxes [the river that certain people say is the biblical river Gihon (Genesis ii. 13)]). It's an area dominated by craggy mountains and deep gorges - a wild and untamed place that has about it a disturbing feeling of "long-ago" - as if it had suddenly appeared straight out of the Old Testament. Ancient Assyrian inscriptions refer to the territory as <i>Mushku</i> and <i>Tabal</i> [Gk. - <i>Moschoi</i> and <i>Tibarenoi</i> (the Bible: "Mescheck" and "Tubal")][4]. The Bible says that the Caucasus is the dwelling place of "<b><u>Gog</u></b>"[5] - that great and foreboding angelic prince the Scriptures say will initiate the momentous events of the "End of Days." [Please see Ezekiel 38; we also refer you to chapter 6 of the <b><i>Antipas Papers</i></b>, "The Gog / Magog War;" also, please see Dwight Pentecost, <i>Things To Come</i>, and Robert Duncan Culver, <i>Daniel and the Latter Days</i>.]</p>
<p>It is here, in this remote and half-forgotten part of the earth that a new and extremely dangerous struggle has begun that is pitting the West [essentially, the United States and her NATO allies (particularly Turkey)] against the Russian Federation and Iran, a struggle that very few Americans are aware of, and one which - except insofar as what's happening in Chechnya - has been carefully hidden from them by the corporate media. What's America up to there? What business does the United States and her NATO allies have in insinuating themselves into this area, thereby precipitating the clash? And what are they doing sponsoring a new military alliance in the region involving five former republics of the now defunct Soviet Union? Americans may have stumbled into more than they had bargained for here, for there are spiritual forces at work in this part of the world beyond the imagining of most mortals and against which flesh and blood cannot prevail.</p>
<h3>WORLD-RULERS OF DARKNESS</h3>
<p>I am, of course, more than aware that such statements - predicated as they are on a belief in spiritual powers greater than man - cannot help but elicit scornful notice and contemptuous sneers from secularists and non-believers - people who refuse to concede reality to powers that are greater than man. But the effort by secularists and non-believers to discount these powers is so absurd that it borders on the moronic. At best, it's innocence masquerading as sophistication; at worst it's folly pretending to be wisdom (Romans 1:22). The fact of the matter is, however, powers far greater than man control his destiny - and though unseen and little suspected by the rulers of earth, there are "principalities," "powers," and "world-rulers of darkness" who are really in charge of this world and who direct the affairs of man - and with whom, as the Apostle Paul tells us, we have to wage a fearful warfare:</p>
<blockquote><p>"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high (i.e., heavenly) places." (Eph. 6:12)</p>
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<p>Secularists - who fail to recognize this fact, but who - nonetheless - fancy themselves to be exposers of the "flesh and blood" wickedness in others - wield little more than wooden swords against what are really only shadows. Secularists can speak only of "good" and "evil," but not of the dragons beyond those comfortable conceits. They battle against phantoms they cannot by any means see, and expose nothing more than the secondhand sins of their flesh and blood adversaries, while never coming to grips with the real powers which stand behind that flesh and blood.</p>
<p>But we as Christians should not be so deluded. Ignorance in such matters is not a virtue insofar as the Bible is concerned. The Apostle Paul warns:</p>
<blockquote><p>"But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that ... (these things) should overtake you as a thief.<br/> "You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.<br/> "Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober." (I Thess 5:4-6)</p>
<p>Continue reading at: <a href="http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000171.htm">http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000171.htm</a></p>
</blockquote> Bible Prophecy In The News March 2013tag:12160.info,2013-04-17:2649739:Topic:11760632013-04-17T23:59:41.082ZHabel ben Medardohttps://12160.info/profile/HabelbenMedardo
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