Something to take into serious consideration folks. What a panic this would create…
It’s Just Not That Hard
A) All people are sinners in need of salvation
B) Be willing to turn from your sins. Believe in Jesus Christ, the only Son of God as your Savior
C) Confess your sin and your salvation through Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God and His holy sacrificial Blood shed for your salvation.
Congratulations!
Now claim your cleansing from past sins and your now-victory through His holy Spirit. Continue to be obedient to Him, forsaking all other temptations. Tell others about Him and His saving grace from the fires of eternal hell.
Did you know that His mercy endures forever? It’s true, check it out and check out the meaning of the word “mercy” for added emphasis: Psalm 106:1
Shawn Stamback and three friends were scuba diving last weekend off the coast of California exploring a coral reef when they were nearly swallowed by a pair of nature’s biggest beasts, the humpback whale.
The massive whales lunged out of the water with their huge jaws open as they chased a school of fish right next to the swimmers.
“I still don’t know how they got that close to us without us knowing,” Stamback, 39, of San Louis Obispo, told ABCNews.com. “I was probably like six to eight feet away.”
“The first thing that went through my head was that I didn’t want to get swatted by the tail because you see two whales that are moving away from you and you know how long they are,” he said.
Stamback, the owner of Slodivers, a charter scuba diving company, and his three fellow divers were in between dives Saturday morning off Morro Bay in central California when Stamback and another diver decided to dive back in to snorkel.
After a few minutes in the water the two men saw a swarm of fish shoot up to the ocean’s surface. Not far behind them, looking for their next meal, were the two humpback whales.
“I made a bullet to the boat to try to get out of the water,” Stamback said. “I was pretty much in shock. You’re in survival mode.”
Both Stamback and his fellow diver made it back to the boat safely, where they were greeted by their two friends on board who had filmed the close encounter.
“Even the guys that weren’t in the water were pretty shook up about it,” Stamback said. “We laughed it off, but we were all shook up.”
Stamback says he and his friends were just out to explore the coral reef in the area and had no intention of looking for whales. In fact, there were no whales anywhere to be seen in the water, a reminder, he says, to expect the unexpected when in nature.
“You don’t go looking for trouble like that,” Stamback said. “If you’re a scuba diver, everything you do is planned, but you’re out in the wild so you can only plan what you have control of.”
“When something like that happens, that’s you’re reminder that you’re out in the wild,” he said.
Get right with God, these are critical life and death times & circumstances that we are in. What does tomorrow hold for any one of us? Car accident? Sudden heart attack? A coworker gone postal?
For YOUR eternal salvation, this benefits me nothing but benefits you beyond mortal description. Pray this in faith, I can’t pray if for you:
Jesus, I am a sinner and I come to You as my Savior. I repent of my sins and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died to cleanse me of my sins, please cleanse me now. You died and rose again, be my personal Savior Who lives forever.
A frightened impala separated from its herd and trying desperately to elude two hungry cheetahs took evasive action nobody was expecting at Kruger National Park in South Africa. To the surprise and shock of tourists parked alongside a road, the panicked impala escaped by jumping into a car through a window of a Toyota Prado, taking advantage of what the U.K. Daily Express aptly called a window of opportunity. Watch the incredible scene captured by South African tourist Samantha Pittendrigh on her mobile phone:
“We watched the cheetah chasing the impala. We saw a few of them turn around in the bushes towards the road they were running from. All of a sudden we saw the impala jump out of the bushes and then someone started screaming, ‘It is in the car! It is in the car!’
“We heard a little girl screaming in the car. The boy sitting outside the car filming looked a lot younger, so it must have been a family. People in other cars screamed, ‘Open the door! Open the door!’”
Soon, the door opened and the impala exited the vehicle, trotting away having successfully escaped death. The cheetahs, presumably also dumbfounded about the impala jumping into the car, did not give chase.
The world’s fastest land animals did not go hungry, however. Pittendrigh revealed to the Daily Express that they later made a kill 20 yards up the road. Obviously that impala didn’t have the same window of opportunity for escape.
Get right with God, these are critical life and death times & circumstances that we are in. What does tomorrow hold for any one of us? Car accident? Sudden heart attack? A coworker gone postal?
For YOUR eternal salvation, this benefits me nothing but benefits you beyond mortal description. Pray this in faith, I can’t pray if for you:
Jesus, I am a sinner and I come to You as my Savior. I repent of my sins and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died to cleanse me of my sins, please cleanse me now. You died and rose again, be my personal Savior Who lives forever.
Fox With Its Head Stuck In A Jar Approaches 2 Men For Help
The Huffington Post
Wild foxes aren’t known to hang around humans too often, but that changed for one little fox that turned to two men for help after getting stuck in a jar.
As the kit scampered away, the man joked, “Where’s my thank you?” according to a Huffington Post translation.
Red foxes are able to live in many different locales and have been able to adapt to human environments, according to National Geographic. The animal’s resourcefulness has earned it a reputation for being both intelligent and cunning.
Ethereal, 8-foot-long ‘sea serpent’ caught on video
By Deborah Netburn
June 10, 2013, 5:02 p.m.
Scientists have released video of an 8-foot-long, shimmering oarfish taken about 200 feet below the ocean surface — and it is breathtaking.
Elusive and alien-looking, the oarfish has a thin, eel-like body with squiggly iridescent markings that glow blue in the video. It also has a long dorsal fin that stretches the length of nearly half its body, and large round eyes rimmed in silver.
That bright white blob you see in the fish’s spiny dorsal fins is a parasitic isopod — sort of like an ocean version of the roly poly bug — that has attached itself to the fish. It is a common parasite of marine fish, but it is the first time one has been seen on an oarfish, said Mark Benfield, a marine biologist at Louisiana State University.
Benfield is the lead author of a paper describing the oarfish video, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Fish Biology.
Despite its great size, the fish orients itself vertically, with its head toward the ocean surface, and its blunt tail hanging down. This allows the fish to scan the water above for the krill and other small crustaceans that it eats, and may help it appear smaller to predators who are lurking below, said Benfield.
“The striking thing is they swim by undulating their dorsal fin like a propeller, and they can change direction instantly,” Benfield said. “Most of the time they move slowly and stealthily, but when they want to, they can move fast.”
Benfield’s research usually leans toward small sea animals such as zooplankton and shrimp. But since 2006 he has been working with several oil companies stationed in the Gulf of Mexico who have agreed to give him time on their remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to scan the waters for marine life through a project called GulfSERPENT.
The ROVs, which are usually used to find new sources of oil, are not ideal for finding wildlife. They are noisy and large, about the size of small cars, and they shine bright lights and lasers at whatever they see. But Benfield said it is easier to get time on the hundreds of ROVs owned by oil companies stationed in the Gulf Coast than it is on the handful of ROVs around the world that are devoted to scientific research. Since he started working with the oil companies, he has collected about 40 hours of undersea footage from the Gulf Coast a week.
Since 2008, Benfield has captured video of the oarfish on four different occasions through the SERPENT project. The most recent video of the oarfish, shot in 2011, was collected when Benfield was working with the Natural Resource Damage Assessment group to determine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
“We were just finishing up scanning the water column about 200 feet below the surface when my technician yelled,” said Benfield. “I walked into the lab and saw this giant oarfish. I was like, ‘Oh my God,’ and we followed that thing for 10 minutes.”
When you watch the video below, keep in mind that the oarfish is looking at a large, bright, noisy object in the water that is unlike anything that occurs in its natural environment.
“It starts by backing away from us tail-first, and then finally it got fed up and took off,” said Benfield.
The fish shimmers in and out of view for the first few minutes of the video below. If you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, I suggest starting at the five-minute mark to get a good look at it, and then fast-forwarding to the nine-minute mark where you can see it zip away like an underwater lightning streak.
Something to take into serious consideration folks. What a panic this would create…
Did you know that His mercy endures forever? It’s true, check it out and check out the meaning of the word “mercy” for added emphasis: Psalm 106:1
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