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12/8/09 From God The Father - A Letter Given to Bethany and Timothy, For the Churches of Men, And For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Bethany] Beloved, wake up! Sound the trumpet! The time is now!... Stop your wicked ways!
Thus says The Lord God: Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up... WAKE UP! My sleeping children, even now I hold all your tears, which will flow down your cheeks in bitter remorse... Even now I feel the rending of your hearts. I behold you trembling in fear... Looking, but not finding... Seeking, yet left desolate... Wake up! The time is now! Beloved, how is it I find many among you, who say they are of Me, and know My will, yet refuse to walk in it?...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Timothy] Yea, My Salvation is revealed... The signs of My coming are before their eyes...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Bethany] Yet I hear no shouting from the roof tops...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Timothy] I hear only wind... Likewise are the words of this people among the churches of men... Wind, a passing breeze, barely able to move the smallest of branches...
Oh ignorant and wayward children, who refuse knowledge and reject correction, you dwell in kings’ houses and sit upon your thrones of pride. Woe to you, self-appointed kings and princes, you shall by no means escape when calamity comes. The end is come, your houses are left to you desolate and shall be torn down. Because you have refused knowledge and have set yourselves above correction, forsaking the voice of The Lord your God and persecuting His prophets when they are sent to you, you shall become outcasts in your own land. You shall become a vagabond in the street, a beggar in great want, drinking your own tears... Wailing... The sound of which carries through the streets of the hard of heart, barely noticed... With none stopping to lend a hand... Lo, I have not known you...
And when the day comes, where you shall call My name aloud, boasting of all your works in My name, I shall turn My face quickly, and say, “I never knew you”... You workers of iniquity, honoring lawlessness in the name of your Redeemer. You have defiled My name and caused many to turn from Me, because of your bitter and perverse doctrines... Even by this place of torment, which you have made, also being passed down to you by the harlot. This blasphemy in which you revel, according to your own wickedness, upheld by your own wrath and because of your own judgment... Where you have appointed yourselves in My stead... Also causing those among you to worship Me, with the filth of the heathen on their hands, with pollution on their faces, with uncleanness in their ears... That which you have made Me, oh churches of men, I AM NOT!... You are your own!... Left to your own devices, sitting in the filthiness of your fornications, seeking after all worldly lusts... Therefore, you are still guilty, and your sins remain uncovered.
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Bethany] What will come of this world?... Nothing... Dust and ashes. I shall destroy, I shall tear down... It shall all burn, with the everlasting fire of My vengeance...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Timothy] It can not be quenched... I shall purge the whole breath of the whole earth... I will not spare! Says The Lord in His anger... Behold, even the dust shall be licked up by the flames of My hot indignation. I shall destroy your cities, bring down all your tall towers, and break apart all man-made sanctuaries... Breaking them to pieces. Every temple shall be torn down... Of every religion. Not even one church shall remain standing, though men have endeavored to place My name upon them... My name is not there, My presence is removed, neither do I dwell there...
I am a great and mighty King, The Holy One of Israel!
I dwell not in any houses, built by human hands...
I dwell in the hearts of men...
For I am God, and there is One Savior...
And He shall go from temple to temple,
And search them thoroughly, to find out if I have dwelled there,
To see whether or not His name is written there...
To look upon the tables of their hearts for My Commandments,
Which I had first given to the children of Israel,
Whose adoption you were to become...
One olive tree...
Even as many diverse branches, growing beautifully...
Even as the children of Israel were to grow,
To produce a multitude of sweet grapes from The Vine,
Which was sent and given up for them.
Yet what do I see?!... Bitterness and sour wine, an awful spewing from the mouths of My own children. Because you have become a wild and unruly grapevine, dwelling in a field amongst briars and thorns...
Thus Says The Lord: I will bring you out from among them, yet the vines from which you have grown shall not escape. They shall be left in a field of judgment... Where the hail, mixed with fire and blood, shall beat down upon it. A great scorching wind shall come upon it, and the fire shall break out, burning up all the briars and thorns from among you... With you, oh abominable vine, severely pruned and pulled up by your roots... So you may again be planted at My feet, where you shall sprout anew, growing quickly, producing a multitude of fruit in a single season... Soon cut off, perishing... Taken to Heaven...
And My crop shall yield its harvest in due season, according to the time appointed...
To the glory of My name.
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Bethany] Therefore, beloved, do not waste one more moment in the ways of the world...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Timothy] Stop committing adultery with strange men, who have alluring lips and smooth voices... Cease from your adulteries committed with the harlot, drink no more from the cups of her fornications, lest you suffer her fate, which shall be fulfilled. For her ways are not My own, and the doctrines of estranged men have no part with Me, nor the traditions thereof, which I hate... For whosoever remains on their part has no part with Me; and whosoever continues to revel in their sins, the same shall be cast into darkness, where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Bethany] Sound the trumpet, shout from the rooftops! This world is fading... Even now has it come to its end and will be left in ashes, according to My everlasting fire, which shall surely devour it... Nothing shall be left standing!... Wake up! The time is now!... What are you doing, My children?!...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Timothy] Where is the fear of The Lord?.. No one trembles. Churches of men, you lack knowledge, your understanding is corrupted... Where is The Word of Truth?!
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Bethany] Seek understanding!.. Get wisdom!...
[Thus says The Lord, by His servant, Timothy] The kind of which is in Me, and can only be received in The Holy One... Your Only Salvation and Escape! Crown Him King!... Not in platform, nor by vain doctrine... Plead with your God, in His name, that He may reign in your hearts.
See, I have called you to awake these seven times... Yea, ten times will it be spoken by My prophets... Yet you still fail to discern, nor have you awakened from your slumber. Therefore, according to each call you fail to heed, plugging your ears, in where you have refused Me, and according to how you have ignored this trumpet, shall it be accounted to you for refinement. Yes, you shall keep your life... Though it will be required of you in the world, you shall surely keep it... And you shall escape, as one escaping through flames of fire. Then you will know I am The Lord... Even I am He, who exalts the meek and uplifts the lowly... He, who humbles the haughty and abases the proud...
Yea, in the presence of your Shepherd shall you serve Me,
Worshipping forever, in spirit and in truth,
In the Kingdom of My joy, which has no end...
For it is by Him you are purified, by His blood are you made white...
For in Him does the fullness of The Father dwell...
By Him is My promise brought to pass, according to how I had spoken it...
I shall be your God and you shall be My people, forever and ever.
Amen... And amen.
What is this December 25th holiday? Why the presents, reindeer, stockings, and tree? Do these all add up to a recipe for something and if so what are the ingredients making?
Imagine I took a recipe for chocolate cake, and put liquid paper to cover over and erase the title of the recipe. So, rather than a title and ingredients the sheet of paper had only ingredients listed. Then suppose I followed the instructions of that recipe, would I be baking a chocolate cake or would it be something else? It would still be chocolate cake, right? We agree about that, I'm sure.
Now what if someone found my recipe and then wrote a new title on the sheet of paper calling it "breakfast cereal." After following the recipe would they have breakfast cereal or would they have chocolate cake?
I guess my point is that when you follow a recipe you make a dish and that dish is the same no matter what you call it later. The recipe ingredients define what it is, not the title on the recipe.
So, lets look at the ingredients of Christmas to see if it really is a Christian celebration.
I haven't even gotten around to the Yule log, flying reindeer and the shaman they carry in the sled, nor have I mentioned the sick sexual meanings behind the red holly berries and the white berries of the mistletoe.
Simply put, the celebration that takes place on December 25 is an unholy pagan druid festival and witches sabbath. All the ingredients are there and in place in a comprehensive step by step process that recreates an abomination in the sight of God.
When we assemble all the parts of the recipe, and then write a different name on the recipe, we are not fooling anyone. Just like the chocolate cake recipe, we are still celebrating as a pagan even as we try to re-label it for Christian consumption.
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TEXT:
12/16/05 From God the Father -
A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear, Regarding the Modern "Holidays"
Transgression
Thus says the Lord: This world has altogether become a house of harlots, who continually go out to commit fornication with the unclean and revel in their adulteries against God, altogether forsaking Him who I sent to them so they may turn away from their ways and become completely clean...none of these have harkened. They remain shackled to this world and its fornications of sin, intermingling honor with dishonor, praise with blasphemy, and sin with purity. Woe! My children, you have all fallen into the snare of the devil. Can you not see, My children? Open your eyes and read the writing set forth in stone, written by the hand of God, the everlasting Law etched with burning fire, blazing as a torch so you may not stumble in the darkness which surrounds you.
Another Light have I sent, the Everlasting Light of the world. He, too, do you men of vanities try to cover over, so you may shine in His place. You shall be utterly destroyed and thrown into eternal darkness, forever separated from life and your God. Repent! And give Me glory according to the New Covenant by which you are saved. Call on My name, by the name of He who I have given My name. He is the One who shall save you from the Lord’s Day, and He is the One who shall destroy you if you will not come. By Him were you made a vessel unto honor... you have all become vessels of dishonor, heaping to yourselves vanities and sin. You shall be crushed and thrown into the fire!
Now hear My words, you proud blasphemers! Shall you continue to corrupt love?...Christ Jesus, the Lord and Savior, is Love Everlasting. Give Him honor and glory, forever and ever! He has glorified My name by His sacrifice on the cross, and I have glorified Him by My name that stands forever. He is the Ensign, the waving banner for all time. Call on His name, shout it to the heavens! He is your Shepherd, the True Vine, and you are His branches. I shall prune all branches that grow in Him, making them stronger and more and more liken unto Him from which they grow. To all those who say, ‘Here I am. I also grow from the Vine.’ You are all liars and a malignancy, growing where you should not. You shall be cut out and thrown into the fire.
The wrath of the Lamb is coming! Did you think I would stay silent during the time appointed?...I shall shake the heavens and the earth, and stir up the seas. People of this earth, stop breaking My commandments, and blaspheming My name and the name I have given My Son. You shall not have His name associated with sin. His name shall only be for a song on your lips and a sweet-smelling savor.
I shall speak plainly, so those slow to understanding may hear, though their ears are dull and their eyes are dim.
These modern holidays, Christmas, Easter and Halloween, are abomination in the eyes of the Lord God Almighty. I shall destroy them and wipe them from the face of the whole earth. No more shall you break My commands, and revel in sin, in the Son’s name. My countenance is turned against you! says the Lord of Hosts. You shall not blaspheme the name of Christ!...You and your detestable idols, your false worship, your misuse of My name and the Christ’s, your vanities, your greed, your envy, your lusts, your drunkenness, your gluttonous appetites, your fornications, your false witness and lying to your children, your covetousness, your thefts, your murders causing those to destroy themselves...all you do is adultery against your Lord.
I have given you many days to honor My Son...you forget them all, especially the one I have given you every seventh day. What do all these things have to do with Me? Why do you do them in the Son’s name? Give the gift of His name...by His name are you saved, no other. Stop these vain babblings! You speak things in ignorance of the Truth. Shut your mouths, stop your blaspheming. Be silent before your Lord, and speak to Me in spirit. You have all become as the pagan and the heathen, by which all your holidays have their origins. Abomination! The harlot has led you into temptation by her false witness. She shall be left utterly desolate, destroyed by her own judgment which crushes her beneath the feet of the Holy One of Israel, broken by her iniquities, and put to death by her denial of the Truth she replaced with the cups of her fornications...filling the Lord’s cup with His indignation which He shall pour out, full strength, on the whole world.
Amen.One commandment broken is all commandments broken.
One sin, reveled in My name, are all sins accounted to you.One sin, repented in the Christ’s name, all are forgiven you.
I know your hearts, My children, and I know whether or not you have become fully converted in your spirit...
you can not lie to your God.
Come to Me, in all truth and supplication, by Him who I sent to you in Truth, being the Truth Absolute,
utterly void of darkness.
He is light...by Him shall you walk into life.He is the Way, the only One under Heaven...
Walk in Him, and you shall find Me.
Fiction:
I went to the local tavern and picked up a gal. We went home and made out. My wife walked in on us and seemed upset. I calmly walked over to her with a smile that begged her approval. "Great to see you" I said with confidence, "I'm glad you saw how passionately I was kissing this other gal, because once you know how I was thinking of you the whole time, your going to be so impressed of that expression of love toward you ..."
OK, that sounds absurd, doesn't it? How could anyone be that stupid to think that the wife would be pleased at all if her husband was getting it on with a harlot while thinking about her the whole time?
Doesn't that even make it more disturbing that he was thinking about her?
Here is the sad thing: I've been that stupid. It would be bad enough if I had been that stupid with my wife, but that is not what I'm talking about. I've been that stupid with God.
It is written that redeemed saints are the bride of Christ. I'm married to Him, and so are you if you are a believer.
Truth:
While I am in the world I went and got seduced by the December 25th holiday and other pagan festivals. It wasn't long before I was passionately enthralled in these things. God could see me do this, and I just confidently explained to God that "I was thinking of Him the whole time." No. That's not how I said it. It was more like, "Jesus is the reason for the season" or "Lets keep Christ in Christmas." But the bottom line is that I was acting a harlot and sleeping around on Him, while trying to justify my adultery by saying I was thinking of Him as I did it.
Yeah, I'm that stupid.
Currently:
I'm sorry. I've blown it. I've repented. I ain't sleeping around any more. No more justifying it. I don't want to do that anymore to the God that I love. I love Him because He first loved me.
He has proven it to me. As often as I blow it, He is there to forgive me and pick me up from all my stumbling. He welcomes me back into a pure relationship even though I have played the harlot over and over. And I'm getting so convinced that He'll forgive and love me that I don't care to wander as much as I have in the past. All that leads to regret, and there is no regret in His arms for He fulfills every longing of my heart.
THUS SAYS THE LORD:
This world has altogether become a house of harlots, who continually go out to commit fornication with the unclean and revel in their adulteries against God, altogether forsaking Him who I sent to them so they may turn away from their ways and become completely clean...none of these have harkened. They remain shackled to this world and its fornications of sin, intermingling honor with dishonor, praise with blasphemy, and sin with purity. Woe! My children, you have all fallen into the snare of the devil. Can you not see, My children? Open your eyes and read the writing set forth in stone, written by the hand of God, the everlasting Law etched with burning fire, blazing as a torch so you may not stumble in the darkness which surrounds you...I shall speak plainly, so those slow to understanding may hear, though their ears are dull and their eyes are dim.
These modern holidays, Christmas, Easter and Halloween, are abomination in the eyes of the Lord God Almighty. I shall destroy them and wipe them from the face of the whole earth! No more shall you break My commands, and revel in sin, in the Sons name. My countenance is turned against you! says the Lord of Hosts.
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HERE is a study on modern holidays.
HERE is something I recently posted about scripture vs. Christmas.
HERE is one more thing that I recently wrote concerning the pagan roots of Christmas.
Celebrating Christmas or not celebrating Christmas has become a touchy issue for many. Even in the news we see certain groups trying to take “Christ” out of Christmas (For instance, a “holiday” tree instead of a “Christmas” tree, and “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.
On the other side we see many churches and Christians trying to keep “Christ” in Christmas. I also felt this way just a short time ago, until I learned the truth of Christmas’ origins and began to look at it from the Lord’s point of view. Of course, the change in my point of view started with the Letters in Volume One (click here for these Letters), which are also included in this study: "Does The Lord Approve of the Modern "Holiday" of "Christmas"?.
There is a surprising irony to this situation. Those people who are trying to take Christ out of Christmas are motivated by their own evil “antichrist” desires. When in fact, unknowingly, they are accomplishing what the Lord calls of His people to do, His followers who walk in the Truth with eyes wide open. And then there are those people who proclaim themselves Christians who are trying to keep Christ’s name associated with what the Lord despises.
I know many of you who love the Lord think you celebrate Christmas the way it should be celebrated. I know and understand your point of view. I used to feel the same way. You must ask yourselves some very important questions.
Christmas and the Ten Commandments
What if Christmas broke one of God’s commandments, just one? Would you still celebrate it? Obviously this is a question for Christians only. What if it broke more than one? Or are some of the Lord’s commands not as important as the others?
What if I told you it breaks EIGHT OF THE TEN?
Commandment One: “You shall have no other gods before Me.”
The date of December 25th originated from the worship of the sun god whose birthday was December 25th. In an effort to ease the converted pagans into their new Christian faith, the Catholic church at the time decided to meet the newly converted pagans “half way” and adopt many of their customs and rituals into this new holiday. Thus the day changed from “birthday of the sun god” to “birthday of the Son of God”. (Refer to this study: "Does The Lord Approve of the Modern "Holiday" of "Christmas"?)
Commandment Two: “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in Heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below.”
Christmas trees and santa fall into this category. The use of holly, greenery, mistletoe, lights, etc. all originated from the pagan rituals which included worship of false gods and their idols. In regards to santa: You say, “He is not real. It doesn’t matter.” But it does matter to God. Are not all idols imaginary and made by human hands, “neither speaking, nor hearing”? Even though it seems harmless, the Lord still finds this detestable. Also, does santa lead people away, or to, Christ? Isn’t he just an artificial replacement, an “idol”? (Refer to this study: "Does The Lord Approve of the Modern "Holiday" of "Christmas"?).
Commandment Three: “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.”
Christ Jesus is in God and God in Him. Jesus said His name is God’s name, the name God has given Him. “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name - the name you gave Me - so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave Me” (John 17:11-12). We should not associate the name of Christ with any other name than the name God has given Him. (see further down to understand why christmas is a misuse of the Lord’s name)
Commandment Six: More people commit suicide during the holidays than any other time. (Murder of self).
Commandment Seven: Many people commit adultery and fornication during this time due to drunkenness and parties.
Commandment Eight: Theft increases during this time of year.
Commandment Nine: False Testimony is abundant. Everywhere you turn, people are lying about this being Christ’s true birthday, to their children and to themselves. Santa is a lie. For alot of people, the pressure of competition leads them to lie about gifts they’ve received or haven’t received, money spent, etc.
Commandment Ten: We teach covetousness to our children. This is actually taught to them by default, through lack of any kind of correction. Children learn to care about receiving more than about giving, and they always want what everyone else has. For most children Christmas has become an endless “wish list”, not a day for giving back to the world, but for the world to give to them. As for adults, there is constant competition and envy of their neighbor’s lights, decorations, new snowblower, etc. (whether we admit it or not).
Most people agree Christmas is supposed to be about Christ and His birth. Pretend you are Jesus Christ, looking down from above on this modern-day Christmas. What would you see?
• A celebration of His birthday on the 25th, which is not His birthday, but the pagan sun god’s birthday.
• The use of decorations, rituals, and practices originating from pagan worship of false gods.
You would also see six of the seven deadly sins:
• Vanity (materialism)
• Pride (materialism)
• Envy (Coveting what everyone else has or receives)
• Greed (Love of money & things)
• Lust (lusting after things and of course, christmas parties)
• Gluttony (Overeating and overindulgence)
And all this in Christ’s name. Is it really a “mass for Christ” or a blaspheming of His name? You decide.
No matter how people whitewash Christmas, or rationalize it, it is what it is in the eyes of the Lord. Paul said, “God will strike you, you white-washed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law...” (Acts 23:3). Shall we try to wash only the outside of a cup, leaving the inside filled with abominations and sin. Jesus said, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence” (Matthew 23:25).
In the Bible you will not find anyone celebrating Christmas. You will find many verses saying not to mix true worship with false worship, or holy days with unholy days and practices (please refer to this study: "Does The Lord Approve of the Modern "Holiday" of "Christmas"?).
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11/26/09 From God The Father - The Lord’s Words Given to Timothy During an On-Line Bible Study Fellowship, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
Regarding the “holiday” of men, called Thanksgiving
Thus says The Lord: To those among you who take part... Let them not sin in doing so.
Yet if one takes part, let them give thanks to the one true God only, in the Name of The King... For by Him do all things consist.
Yet wiser still is the one who has drawn very close to Me, and sees past this holiday’s veneer, for it is of men and the world... I am not in it, nor is it in My honor. Be separate from the world, and be separate even as I have called you... Have no fellowship with the unbeliever, nor with those who push out the lip and make light of My words and persecute My beloved, in open and in secret. Yes, you shall go to them... Only when I command you, and at the time I appoint, when I fill you to speak... I am The Lord.
This holiday of men has not aroused My anger, because they, who first took part in it, had a heart to honor Me, yet today it is not so. However, in the giving of thanks am I well pleased, for this is pure worship. Yet I call you, who are Mine, to grow wise in Me... To heed My Spirit which I have given you, to see with greater eyes... To be set apart for My glory... To be separate from all that which is of the world, and is corrupted by the hands of men and their wicked hearts.
Yea, bow down and give thanks seven times per day...
From morning to sunset give thanks, from to day to day worship your God...
And give thanks, without ceasing, for The Lord your Righteousness...
For in Him is your life, and by Him shall you receive all I have prepared for you.
In Him are all things brought forth,
And in Him do all good things come to their completion.
He IS... Even as I Am...
The Kingdom...
The Power...
And The Glory...
Forever and ever!...
Says The Lord, who reigns and has come!
Hear Me now, once more, My sons and daughters...
Thus says The Lord, to His greatly beloved, and for those of you in the presence of your kindred: Do not deny Me... Neither by speech, nor in silence, nor in action... Do not deny My name.
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"Let All in the Earth Partake of My Word, and Be Brought Into Deep and Profound Silence. And Let the Obstinate Stay Silent, Let Him Open Not His Mouth to Speak... Let Him Be Quiet and Consider, Says the Lord."
4/24/08 From God the Father and Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ -
A Letter Given to Timothy, For Timothy, and For All Those Who Blow the Trumpet
[God the Father:] Timothy, lift up your pen, and write these words I speak to you this day, and give them to My servants who blow this trumpet I have placed in your hand.
Thus says the Lord of Glory:
I shall not share My glory. Neither shall any, who speak against Me, be given a voice. Neither shall any, who mock My name and My voice, be given any voice at all...
For the Day is at hand, when they shall be struck dumb,
and crumble in fear for those things coming upon the earth.
Therefore, My Word stands, and shall not be moved. Whether they will hear or forebear, it shall stand, even to the slaying of their hearts... this is but the beginning. Soon, all shall be brought to fruition, soon shall all be brought forth... it shall be completed, it shall surely come to pass... it shall be done. Therefore, let those, who do wickedly, continue therein; and let those, who do and seek righteousness, continue to walk therein.
Yet I tell you this, My servants: When it is within your power to silence the scoffers, do so... give no voice to the wicked. For to do so is to enable satan. Know you not what the Scriptures say?.... If anyone comes and does not hold to this teaching, do not invite him in. Neither give them place, nor part, in that set forth for the Lord and His proclamation. This would be to give him platform to perpetuate his evil ways, which is to enter into partnership with him. To allow their comments is to welcome them in.
Let them shout to the Lord their controversy,
let their outcry enter into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth...
He shall repay, He shall surely give a punishment and a harsh correction.
And if they choose to stand until the end, beating their chests, shaking their fists toward Heaven, even with a stretched-out arm and a stiff neck, I will destroy them... they will be consumed and blotted out, says the Holy One of Israel. For the Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, even to the dividing of flesh and sinew, even to the destruction of both soul and body. For all creation was brought forth of the Word... and by His Word and with My word, it shall be finished, it shall be completed.
Yet you ask, ‘What of those in agreement and those who are not against you, Lord? Even all on our part?’ I say to you, what of yourselves? For whose glory do you write? Is My Word in need of supports to prop it up?...
Let all behold My Word.
Let them look upon it as an ensign and waving banner,
brought forth, even as it were, a trumpet, blown continually upon the wall.
Let its sound rush through the streets of the cities.
Let its noise be carried into the wilderness, even to the outermost isles.
And let those, who have ears to hear, listen, and be silent before their God, and pray...
even to the taking up of a quiet lamentation, the putting on of sackcloth and ashes,
even to the great wailing and many tears, over that which I am about to do and bring upon the earth,
and even because of that brought forth already.
Let all the world be put under My feet.
Let all things be put into subjection to the Son, your King, the Holy One!
Let all, in the Earth, partake of My Word, and be brought into deep and profound silence.
[Jesus, Our Lord and Savior:] For what can one add to, or take away from, the Word of the Most High? Let My beloved say, “Amen” ... Even, “Amen and amen. Your will be done, oh Lord”.
And to the rest, let them flee and hide themselves from He who sits on His throne. Let them scurry about, neighing as they go. Let them speak against you by the walls, both open and in secret. For what is it to you, My servants? For against whom do they speak? Whose voice is it they withstand?... Your own?! Rather, count it all joy, that you have suffered scorn on My account, for likewise have their fathers done to all My servants, the prophets, throughout the generations...
I am the Lord!... Vengeance is Mine! I shall repay!
Servants, trust and obey. How can one blow any trumpet while talking? How can one behold My form, when caught up in all these perverse disputings of the heart and mind, soon brought forth in speech, leading into more ungodliness? Give the adversary no occasion to speak, when it is within your power to do so... you are My body. Neither give the wicked man and the scoffer any voice at all, when you are able, for in this you have blessed him in the shutting of his mouth. For a man is defiled, by what is brought forth from the heart and given voice by his mouth. And those sins, not covered by the Lamb, shall be weighed in the balances.
Beloved, give nothing to them... honor Me. Let them eat silence and abide in the same, until, per chance, they turn from their turmoil and repent, in where I shall free them. Beloved, pray for your adversaries. For they fight not against you, they contend with Me... they have hated Me first. And if they hate Me, they will hate My body also, of which you are. And how much more shall they reject and persecute My mouthpiece, even of all these who are sent and speak for Me?
Therefore, beloved servants, trust and obey.
Run not ahead, nor lag behind...
take My hand, going only where I lead you, and do only as I command you...
I am the Lord... even I have bought you.
I am the One who has loved you from the beginning,
who remains with you until the end, and even forever after.
I am He who stays, and I am also He who shall let....
Trust in Me.
I Can Wait No Longer
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11/10/09 From Jesus Christ, YahuShua HaMashiach, Our Lord and Savior - A Letter Given to Timothy, For Christopher and For The Lord’s Witnesses, And For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear - A Letter to this nation and to the churches of men
To you, My son, My voice is not yet given. Be still and wait for Me, for I am coming quickly, and I shall overcome the world once again. Yet before I do so, I shall first overcome My servants, and you will behold My face, being consumed in My glory. Then shall My voice and My Word fill you as the water fills the sea, from your innermost parts to every cell, within every fiber... It shall course through you, as your blood courses through your veins, and we shall be one. In that day you will no more speak with your own authority, you will no more stumble, but you will walk fully upright in Me and you shall go straight forward. You will not turn when you go, for I will be with you, even I shall dwell fully in you... And no one can turn Me aside, nor halt My purpose, once it is established...
For My witnesses shall leap upon the hills
And pass through the high mountains.
They shall run through the streets as a deer,
And climb up the strongholds as the raging lion scales the tree...
And all the wicked birds, and all birds of prey,
All screeching birds who loft in it, shall be cut down...
They shall be cast down and torn to pieces...
For STRONG IS THE LORD! Hot is His anger!
Therefore, I shall give you, My witnesses, power over these detestable birds, and you shall stomp them in pieces, you shall break them apart and tear them to pieces, without hand... For I AM THE LORD!!! And who shall stand against Me?!
Who are these, who have come to blaspheme My name... These, all these squawking birds... And they who keep them, giving them sanctuary and offering them a home?!
Therefore, thus says The Lord...
The Only One who reigns in power, who is clothed with majesty and comes in great glory:
The time has come, and for many has it also ended!
No more!... No more! Says The Lord.
NO MORE!
I AM COME!...
And My wrath shall be poured out,
In great torrents of running waters mixed with fire and blood...
The time has come!
And that stored up shall be released from its hold,
And that filled up shall be overturned...
Yea, the great chalice of The Father’s reckoning.
And so I call to My servants to wait, wait upon your King...
For I AM COMING QUICKLY!
I shall fill My vessels and send them into battle, and they shall strike at the nations with the sword of their mouths, the sword which is Mine and I have beset in them, according to that which has been en grafted in their hearts. Behold, with their left hand they shall strike down their enemies, and with their right hand uplift the oppressed... I am The Lord... And I shall surely perform it by them. Then shall the multitudes tremble and know I am The Lord, and I am with My witnesses... Even I dwell within them, with eyes like flaming fire.
The Day has come...
I can wait no longer...
For the cries of the oppressed,
And the cries of the hungry and every starving child,
And the cries of the believer and the penitent,
Have reached deep into the ears of The Lord of Sabaoth...
For they are murdered in every corner, and persecuted from city to city.
And of the unborn:
They are broken in pieces, in every city where satan dwells...
Broken and murdered before My eyes!...
Shall I not repay?! Says The Lord...
The Lord who has come to destroy and punish!...
Shall I not repay in full?!
Have any of these churches of men brought an offering before Me, on their behalf? An offering of tears for the afflicted?... NO!... They have not come, nor have I heard an outcry; nor have I seen any, amongst these churches of excess, strip themselves of all their fine apparel, that they may clothe another; nor have they bent down the knee, nor offered the hand to even one of these, I sent to them, asking...
Evil and wicked generation!
I have sent to you My witnesses, even I have sent to you the needy...
Yea, angels have come to you, all you who call of yourselves Christian.
Yes, I have sent many...
Even without ceasing have they been put in your path...
Blind children!... Wicked vipers!
Let it be known... I HAVE SEEN IT!
I have watched, and I have listened...
I have beheld your hearts and read every intention...
You have been weighed, oh churches of men...
And you, oh nation not desired, you have been judged...
You have been found wanting...
Oh most rebellious and unruly children.
Therefore, thus says The Lord your Maker, even I who bought you: Your kingdom is finished, and your sanctuaries shall be torn down. And of your gates, they shall be left wide open, and your enemies shall come in and take their spoil.
Churches of men, I have given you time to reveal your faith by works, to show yourselves to be Mine, that I live in you and that you know Me, and what is before My face continually?... A stiff arm and a stretched-out neck, a face full of haughty and high looks, and a mouth teaching blasphemies in My own name!
And so I leave you alone... Desolate...
All your lampstands taken, all your candlesticks put out and toppled...
You are estranged... I know you not...
Tears... Tears, with deep and heavy sorrows.
My bride is no more My bride...
She has departed from Me and lusts after others...
She remains a harlot...
And so I leave her to her own devices, with six months to repent...
For MY Bride is chosen...
She has been called and shall be lifted up from her weeping...
She is Mine, and her I know.
And she, yes she, has also known Me,
And has continually sought My face and listened for My voice...
With her lamp filled and ready, with her eyes gazing upward...
Singing soft melodies in her heart, to the praise of My glory.
BEHOLD!...
I will come and marry her, and she will be taken...
Caught up to My Father’s house for seven days...
Her bridal week shall be fulfilled, and we shall be together...
And I shall wipe away all her tears...
Every one she shed, on the behalf of others...
Even every one she shed over all this evil, because of all this death and oppression...
Every one she shed, in repentance...
Even every one she shed, and I have counted...
Every tear she shed, in seeking her Bridegroom....
Every tear of LOVE...
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The Sounding of the Trumpet and The Day of The Lord
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10/23/09 From God The Father and Jesus The Christ, YahuShua HaMashiach, Our Lord and Savior - A Letter Given to Jayse and Timothy, For Jayse and Christopher, And For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
It is time, says The Lord...
I shall send you both to serve in the name of The Most High, even by the name of My Son, by which He is called, Jesus... Christ... The Lord. My judgment is poured out, My glory is put forth, My name shall resound in all the earth!... Yea, even as the sound of a blasting trumpet, which is continually blown by My servants, the prophets, and has now been made known to the multitudes, also having gone out amongst the people in your own land. Even among many nations afar off, it shall continue to blow, until the day comes in where I remove My bride...
I tell you the truth, that day has come, says The Lord.
Look, for it is at the door!... Behold, I have passed through!
And those who hear and give heed to its sounds and this warning, they will be given robes of white in the sanctuary of The Lord. And to those who forbear, woe to them, for they shall partake of My judgment and taste of the hot anger of The Lord their God... Even unto refinement shall they go, walking through the fire, accompanied by much death... A stream of flowing tears and much wailing, deep and heavy sorrows. For lo, none have seen the like, nor have they beheld that which The Lord has prepared, nor have they taken part from the table of The Lord’s judgment, in the manner with which this generation has now began to sup... No, not since The Lord stretched out His hand over Egypt has anyone seen the like. Woe to this generation!... For they shall also drink from the cup of The Lord’s fury, which shall be poured out in full measure... Says The Lord God Almighty.
Shall I not discipline those I love?... Shall I not give correction?! And what of the wicked, shall I not punish them?... Even to the punishing of all those who forget God and spit upon His Son, they who hate the sound of His name... MY NAME... The name I gave Him, The Holy One... YahuShua.
I shall destroy! Says The Lord...
Death... Much devastation shall come...
And what a sound shall come up, what a cry shall be heard,
Passing through the streets and down all the alleyways...
Oh such a great wailing and gnashing of teeth,
Says The Lord, who has come to judge and make an end.
I, even I, shall cause destruction and overturn... And your nation and your land shall be cast down. It shall be left in ruins, it shall fall, it shall no more stand by all its filthy pride, with all its pomp and arrogance, as though it remains a king upon his throne, saying within himself, ‘I shall never fall, I shall never be as the beggar.’ Woe to you, oh nation not desired, you are fallen already and shall soon be left as the vagabond in the streets, with no one to give him rest or shelter from the storm. For you stand divided against yourself and have forgotten your God, and seek no longer to know His Christ. Nor of His ways do you consider, that you might please your God by walking in them.
Yet hear Me now, oh filthy people. This I concede, and of this I will confess concerning you: You are united and have become one people... A people of transgression!... In this you remain united.
Hear the Word of The Lord!...
And know, all you peoples, it is I, The Lord God Almighty who has done it!
Behold, the time has come, to reap the harvest and gather in from the fields...
And to judge the earth...
Reap, oh Son of Man, reap!... Bring My children home!
Destroy all this wickedness, and judge the nations...
Thus says The Lord in all His fury:
I AM COME!
My servants, this is what I say to you: Endure, with all patience and in trust, for much death has come... An overflowing scourge shall overtake the nations. The wicked one awaits to be loosed, and evil shall no longer be held back. I have removed My hand, says The Lord... Evil reigns! For the time has been appointed and shall continue, until the day comes when all the earth beholds The Son of Man in His majesty, coming upon the clouds with great power and glory.
My sons, let your hearts not be troubled, for you have the name of The Lord written within you... Lo, even The Father’s name shall soon be placed upon your foreheads. And not one stone shall by any means bruise you, nor shall any part of all this wickedness touch you... No, not even one hair upon your heads shall be lost. For it is I who goes before you... Even I shall be with you, in your goings out and comings in. Behold it is I, even I, who shall dwell fully in you in that Day... And it is MY voice to which all things must give heed! For I am The Lord and there is none like Me! Therefore, submit to Me, and I shall carry you through this storm, wherein you shall also give Me perfect praise.
According to these words, let it be so: In thirty days you shall be established, and after forty you shall receive the prophet’s reward. I shall send to you My angel, yea, My messenger and servant, Gabriel, and he shall impart to you wisdom and the Word of The Lord. Then, you shall go out with the trumpet upon your lips, with the new song in your hearts... Yea, you shall march to and fro in all the earth, going wheresoever I send you, doing all things which I ask of you. For in you both I am well pleased, for it was pleasing in The Father’s eyes that you be established as such... Servants, of The Most High God, in the Day.
Even now, Jayse, you have become My servant, a prophet, and soon shall you come into a completion of your faith, according to My will and that time which I have purposed, for I am The One who shall cause it to happen within you, and by Me shall it be fulfilled... In Me and through Me. Behold, you shall behold My form and embrace Me tightly, says The Lord... Yea, I shall come into you, and you shall sup from My table in the house of The Lord.
Christopher, listen to your brother, for he speaks for Me, and I have placed My voice within Him, and have appointed him to speak in My name. Even you, My son, have come to know the voice of The Lord your God, and so you shall also speak for Me in the Day. For now, continue on, abiding in Me, with all trust. Know and remember, and keep this knowledge close to your heart... In all things, The Lord God Almighty is with you, leading and guiding your every step.
As I had moved in My servants of old, both living in them and speaking through them, going before them and counseling them by My Spirit, the same Spirit by which My Word was put forth, causing all both great and small to tremble at its sound and by its power... So shall it be for you both in The Day of The Lord. For I, The Lord, do continually stand before you... At all times I am with you, leading you upon the path which has been appointed for you, according to the will of The Father. Take heed, My sons, servants of The Most High God, witnesses of My coming, adopted sons of the branch of Levi, you have I appointed as watchmen, and you shall continually blow the trumpet, this trumpet I have placed before you...
The Lord has come in all His anger!...
His arm is outstretched in His indignation!
And your nation, it is given up...
It is an offense to Me and knows Me not...
Betraying The Lord of Glory at every turn,
No more knowing their right hand from their left,
A continual backsliding, perpetrating sin and blasphemies without ceasing,
Abominations in the streets, evil and wicked devices in every corner...
How long shall you tempt Me?!...
How long shall you try the patience of The Lord your God?!...
I am come out of My Sanctuary!...
I have lifted up My eyes to judge! Says The Lord.
Even all these churches of men play the harlot, even to the reveling in their adulteries against God, choosing to forsake the knowledge of God in their thoughts, forgetting His ways in action... Rather embracing the knowledge of men and all the lusts thereof, seeking greedily for gain. For they do not seek out My ways, nor keep My commandments... Nor do they embrace The Holy One as He is, in seeking to really know Him, even to walk in Him, to know His ways, by which they would have pleased their Father in Heaven.
Therefore, thus says The Lord: The churches of men are given up, spit out and cast into darkness, where there shall be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. For the pride of men has blinded them from the truth, and I take no delight in their vain worship. For many have made and worshiped false gods and set up idols, even praying to the dead, altogether forsaking The One who was sent to them, even He, The Holy One, The ONLY Mediator between God and man... They have become gods unto themselves! Says The Lord... Saying and teaching others, in My name, that Christ and My Word in Scripture is the way into riches and material possessions. Oh yes, they shall surely receive, and in a day they shall receive it!...
I shall give to them poverty...
And for their possession, a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness...
For they have forsaken The Truth!
Nor can they discern their right hand from their left hand.
They shall be struck dumb, and left desolate,
Utterly void of light and My Spirit, says The Lord God of Israel... I know them not.
I am The Lord!
As for you, My sons, you shall be established, filled, and sent out... Lo, you shall surely gather and shout The Lord’s proclamations, says The Lord.
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Thus Says The LORD: Behold, I am against you, oh nation of harlots! I had made you strong and gave you blessings beyond compare. Yet you turn your face from Me, even the One who bought you in His own blood...beaten, scourged and mocked, even pierced for your transgressions! Yet you turn your back on Him and use His name, even the very name I, Myself, have given Him, as a cursing! Desecration! Blasphemy! You, oh nation not desired, you are given into the hands of your enemies...
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Ever drive around with an expired sticker on your windshield? I have. It is miserable, because you think that every siren you hear is coming after you. And you think that behind every corner is a speed trap that will take you down for the expired sticker.
That is the feeling of condemnation. It is a consciousness of wrongdoing ever present in mind. Like you are on borrowed time, and the IRS is looking for you. It is this condemnation that steals your life.
My stomach is in knots when I am like this, and I don't sleep as well, etc. It is like my body gets messages from my mind, that I am cursed, and then it produces the curse in my body - sickness, sleeplessness, etc. This is living under condemnation.
So looking deeper at why this feeling of condemnation overshadows me, I recognize that I think I have blown it and the other shoe will drop, so to speak ... because the sticker matters.
But, what if the expired sticker is just for an oil change? And I have convinced myself that I can get a ticket and a trip to jail for an overdue oil change! Then all my condemnation is FALSE condemnation. My lack of confidence before the authorities is based on a lie. I shrink back, but not based on knowledge. I have the awful feeling because my believing has locked me in a prison of doubt.
The same is true if the government repeals the laws about registration and inspection stickers, and I don't know about it.
As a Christian, I have felt that way with God. Lack of confidence, doubting, wanting to get my "stickers up to date" before I let Him see me. This is what religion produces ... a sticky feeling of condemnation. But there is no condemnation for us. We have every reason to be bold before the throne. Christ has given us His stickers, and they never expire.
Why shouldn't I tell a mountain to go into the sea, and it leap and plunge? Well, it must be because of my believing. I am doubting that whatever is true about Christ has become true about me. That I am no longer condemned. That my guilty quotient is the same as Jesus' guilty quotient. That I am as pure before God as Jesus Himself, even better than any innocence that Adam had. To the measure that my believing doubts these things, I shrink back, and try to avoid God and His drag net. I have nothing but doubt about what I say to mountains, etc. It is all tied together.
Literally, whenever we get to the point where our believing matches reality, we can walk with pure innocence in this world, and no accusation can stick to us. We can be so confident in our infused perfection through Jesus, that there is no less of a reason for God not to grant our request for a mountain to be cast in the sea, than for Jesus Himself to say the same request.
Mar 11:23
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not [CONDEMN HIMSELF] in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith
I changed the word "doubt" with "Condemn Himself" above and I submit that the Greek translation bolsters my point.
Those of us that are in Christ, have every reason to be bold, if we can ever get our believing to match reality.
It is only lack of belief in Jesus that any redeemed saint can feel any condemnation whatsoever. Jesus has unlocked that cell, and it cost Him dearly to do so. Lets arise and come forth and leave that prison, knowing that any stumbling is no excuse to wallow in self-condemnation. We fall, but lets fall forward into His arms, not delaying in fear and doubt ... for we know His love has cast all these stumblings into the sea of forgetfulness.
In Him we HAVE reconciliation, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of God's grace in Christ Jesus our Lord.
"I died...behold, I am risen...and I live forever...amen. And so, also shall the righteous man live. Even if this same one turn and stumble, his salvation is in no wise lost to him. He has an Advocate with the Father, and One who stands for him, having already paid for his transgression. For lo, his sin is remembered no more and cast into a dark sea of forgetfulness." - Jesus
(besides, such a mind set on Jesus will stumble far less anyway.)
Oh yes I am. Apparently I have not been delivered of my shame just yet anyway. Have you ever thought about the ways a person could possibly be ashamed of Jesus? I had a major slap in the face just recently--due to my inability to stand up for Jesus. I've had this friend I've known for about fifteen years. I lost contact with him, and have just recently found him on Facebook. Turns out, he's embraced the homosexual lifestyle with full force. I sent him a friend request and he never answered me. A couple of weeks later I sent him a mail asking why he wouldn't talk to me...
Here's his response:
"Hey hun...I know u'r a beautiful person & I want to say hi...I just worry a bit I guess because it's taken so many yrs to accept myself how I was born (gay) & ok I know u'r religious (which I respect cuz my mom is too, etc) ...I would never want to change u but I guess I worry u might want to do that to me or judge me & just don't want to go thru that again, etc. I'd luv to reconnect & be FB friends....I'm the sweetest guy around & from my memories of u, I know u r too...just talking out loud right now (thanx to a few too many beers..haha)...what r ur thoughts?...am I worrying fr nothing?"
So, you know what MY RESPONSE WAS? Shoot, I'm too embarrassed to even put it on here. Something along the lines of: "Oh, I won't judge you....oh no, not me, I can keep my beliefs to myself...I won't force you to believe anything I believe..." blah blah blah.
I'm ashamed, and would like to run and cover my face in embarrassment!
Do you know what Jesus says those who are ashamed of Him?
Luke 9:26
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His [own] glory, and [in His] Father's, and of the holy angels.
OUCH! I have since repented...and I know I have been forgiven....
These things are a big deal though. These little "slips" of denial. No different than Peter, and his words when asked if he was one of Jesus' disciples--"He denied it and said, "I am not!"
I need to stop this. I write my struggles for a couple of reasons. It's so common amongst us, yet we are so ashamed even of our own selves to admit that is indeed what we have done! Also, I want to remind all of us of the sobering words Jesus says of those who deny Him. He will be ashamed of us. I do not want Him to be ashamed of me. I do not even want the thought to cross His mind.....
I am so sorry...
Proverbs 31 (NKJV) -
10 Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life. 13 She seeks wool and flax, And willingly works with her hands. 14 She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar. 15 She also rises while it is yet night, And provides food for her household, And a portion for her maidservants. 16 She considers a field and buys it; From her profits she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds herself with strength, And strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives that her merchandise is good, And her lamp does not go out by night. 19 She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hand holds the spindle. 20 She extends her hand to the poor, Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy. 21 She is not afraid of snow for her household, For all her household is clothed with scarlet. 22 She makes tapestry for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land. 24 She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies sashes for the merchants. 25 Strength and honor are her clothing; She shall rejoice in time to come. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness. 27 She watches over the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her: 29 "Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all." 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates.
Recently I got this message in my inbox from a stranger:
QUESTION: Hi Trent, Thankyou for taking the time to read my email. I have been with my partner for 3 years, we are both really strong christians and really love God with all our hearts. But there is one thing we both find so hard to control and it is sex. I pray and i ask for forgivness and i try i really do try to stop but i give into the flesh i wish i could just stop this have you got any tips of how i can control temptation i really want to live a proper christian life. Will God forgive me? I really want to turn my life around and become a better person i dont want to let God down. Thanks Annie
After thinking and praying, here is what I was inspired to write this young lady:
Your definition of what it looks like to be delivered from the temptation of sex probably looks like this: "We are living together and sharing our lives together like a married couple but because we are not married we choose to not have sex together."
Here is my definition as a contrast: "We have learned that we just can't handle living together without sex so we have arranged to live apart until we are ready for marriage."
I never want to hear about how you are have ever had success living together without sex. Instead, a sign of maturity in you would be if you told me that every night you live together you have sex. In actuality, the nights that you refrain are probably the same nights that you or he burns with passion for each other. Don't comfort yourself thinking anything good was accomplished when the desire is there, but no action was taken.
You can tell maturity in a young child at a cliff's edge.
In the western US there is a geological feature known worldwide called "The Grand Canyon" ... I'm sure you have heard about it. There are basically cliff edges everywhere. These cliffs are shear and steep and anything near the edge risk plummeting to a speedy and irrecoverable fall. So, lets imagine two children next to one of these cliffs.
One child runs to the edge and leans out over it trying to look cute or brave.
The other child holds its parents hand and is in constant touch with the boundaries with a mindful awareness of what deadly mistakes can be made around the edge.
Which is mature?
Which is immature?
{name omitted}, if I may be frank with you, I don't think much of your maturity right about now. You are playing with fire, by putting yourself into situations that you cannot handle. You are not going to be delivered from such a circumstance, anymore than someone seeking to be delivered from alcoholism by being able to drink heaps of it without a buzz. Such a person should not expect that kind of deliverance. Not deliverance in the middle of the activity but BEFORE the activity. A person delivered from alcoholism, knows their limitations and weaknesses and stays away from bars and parties that have alcohol. They are foolish to wonder why they can not keep going to these events and stop stumbling.
Your problem is that you are a really strong Christian. You should be weak, and mature and know your limitations and stay far away from the cliff's edge.
But I fear you are too strong to take my advice. You can handle it right? You can take the situation and not fall, because you are strong enough, right? (I'm just being tough on you for your good ... I hope I am wrong.)
Let me tell you what I would do if I lived with my fiance before we were married.
SEX! Lots of it!So guess what?
We didn't live with each other before marriage. We didn't sleep over or none of that stuff.
Why?
I could not handle it and neither could she ... but unlike YOU ... we KNEW IT!Don't be like that foolish kid that races to the edge of the cliff and wonders why they keep falling off. Stay in safety and far away from the edge. This awareness of weakness is true strength and true maturity if you will take a more excellent way.
Ripening for the harvest,
Trent
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How Many Ways are Their into Everlasting Life?-- http://gracehead.com/index.php/2009/05/08/how_many_ways_are_there_into_everlasting
Search Results for "hell" in The *Complete Jewish Bible (*contains the OT & NT)-- http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=hell§ion=0&version=cjb&language=en
Here is an eye opener - Parallel Bible search for "hell"--
http://bible.crosswalk.com/ParallelBible/bible.cgi?word=hell§ion=0&language_one=en&version_one=nkj&language_two=en&version_two=cjb&new=1&oq=hell
The TRUTH About "HELL" (Q&A Bible Study and the WORD of the Lord)-- http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=75675745&blogID=344767602&Mytoken=EF3C2813-534A-49BF-AF7DFB12A8A741E473173061
20 Scriptural Reasons to DISbelieve in the Doctrine of Hell.-- http://gracehead.com/index.php/2009/04/19/p1216
New Word from the Lord concerning "hell" in the English translations-- http://trumpetcallofgodonline.com/index.php5?title=The_One_Who_IS%2C_and_Was%2C_and_Is_To_Come%2C_Shall_Gather_and_Return_in_His_Glory%2C_and_Evil_Shall_Be_No_More_in_the_Earth..._And_That_Which_Was_in_the_Beginning_Shall_Be_Again..._Evil_Blotted_Out%2C_Righteousness_Reigns
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Who, Among You Oh Israel, and Among You Oh Olive Branches, Have Fasted Unto Me?! Says The Lord God
7/27/09 From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy During an On-Line Bible Study, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear - (Regarding Believers in Christ Taking Part in a Jewish Fast During the Month of Av)
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2/26/09 From YahShua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior -
A Letter Given to Timothy, As spoken by the Lord during an on-line Bible Study
For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
THERE...
I...
AM...
UPON....
MY....
THRONE!
You need look no further, nor in any other direction. There I am... With you and in you... Always... Even to the end of this age and ever after.
Look up, My beloved. Look upon My face, for it does continually shine upon you... Why look anywhere else? Here am I... Choose Me, for I have already chosen you. Even from the foundation of the world you were Mine.
And you are in life because of Me.
No one can snatch you from My hand, says the Lord YahShua.
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I don't know exactly where I'm going with this post, but I'm burdened to clear the air on a couple of points ... so bear with me as I get this off my chest.
I've spent a good deal of effort on GraceHead.com explaining how inferior the written Word (scripture) is to the Living Word. Here (http://bit.ly/1o5YRm) is a list of articles to this effect. The point is that the Lord is the SOURCE of the scripture. And that He makes it true, not the other way around. I stand behind these points, but I'm taking the time in this article to temper the remarks so that I don't give the wrong impression.
It occurs to me that anyone could make a case that the scripture is essential to us, even if it is not essential to God. And the only proof that they would need is the existence of scripture. In other words, we MUST have needed it or it would not be here. That may seem obvious, but I've been delivered from the fear of saying obvious things. :-)
This reminds me of something I said when asked if we really need prophets. My answer was not really from me, and it still doesn't sound like me. However, some inspiration arose in me to say this: "If God sends prophets, then a prophet must have been needed. If no prophets are sent, then none are needed."
So, we have the Old and New Testaments, and even though God could re-inspire equivalents at any time ... He preserved these things because the need for them never subsided. Likewise, we have new written Word ... as a Final Testament ... and its very existence is all we need as proof of its need (authenticity is another topic ... here I am presuming its authenticity for the sake of discussion.)
An analogy of this would be that a if a doctor gives a patient a cure, one could say that we don't NEED the cure, because we have the doctor and as long as we have the doc, we can get the medicine at any time ... but that would be a bit too far, wouldn't it? We might had better say, that we MUST NEED the cure, or else the doc would not have prescribed it. The issuance of the prescription is THE evidence of the need of the prescription ... and likewise the issuance of the Letters closes the debate on whether or not they are needed by their mere existence and nothing more.
Perhaps the analogy is even more fitting when you consider that God is called "The Great Physician."
Of course, the argument is moot for any so-called word from God that is demonstrably false (Book of Mormon comes to mind.) ... but like I said earlier, authenticity is another subject for another day.
by Trent - from Oct 2005
There have been some allegations about Jesus being a racist, and I thought I would clear it up, since I know Jesus and have known Him for several years. The truth is that Jesus is a racist. The allegations are correct.
The obvious question is which race bears the brunt of His hate, and I think that you will see that one race in particular is the race that He hates. But, what you may not know is that Jesus thinks that flesh counts for nothing, so the race that He sees is not one that can be seen in the body of flesh, rather He sees the races of the inner man. In the inner man there are two races: Adam and Christ. Apart from your body you are either one or the other of those two races.
In my experience, Jesus does not try to get along with the race of Adam. Coexistence is not an option. He wants to kill the entire race of Adam, and one day will see its extinction. Here is the problem with the race of Adam - they are all inferior, and they will perish like flowers in a vase. They seem to be learning about life, but all the while they are dying. And if they let Jesus get ahold of them then He'll just go ahead and finish them off, by throwing the Adam life in the garbage, and replacing it with His own life.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
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10/24/04 From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
When those people, being called of themselves Christians, ask you, 'To which church do you belong?', you shall answer them, "I belong to no church named of men. I belong to My Lord Jesus. Together, with all those who are His, is the Church in which I dwell."
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1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 (New American Standard Bible)
do not despise prophetic utterances.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;
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Here is a question that I got from a friend on Facebook.
If the letters to your friend Timothy ARE in fact from God, then that means that the prophecies in those letters MUST happen.....right? Since prophecy from our God is 100% accurate...
The reason I ask is because I have known sooooo many people who claim to have been given a message or revelation from God....and they boldly predict events to come....but they end up being wrong. (Which means either the one who gave them the message is a lier, or they faked the whole thing.)
Lets always discern what we hear and read. A huge event of the end times is people falling away.
Here is a reply, that I punched out on my crusty old laptop ...
Hi there.There is always tension when a prophet issues something from God. On the one hand, one should not despise prophecies. On the other hand, one should pay attention to cry false and to shun a corrupt source if and when their words show to be untrue. So, the tension is in looking at both the current word and all the words as a whole.
It gets easier once you find a fault, because you no longer have to deal with the source. One fault or error in what a prophet states and they are no longer to ever be viewed as God's messenger again.
It is difficult when someone has yet to be seen as false, because even though confidence is gained by the certainty and accuracy of their prophecies, one cannot use that confidence to rubber-stamp approval on any future prophecies or to turn a blind eye to what was said even from the beginning. All of it as a whole and every detain therein should be constantly re-examined and shown to be true. It should be always shown to be spotless in any examination or it should be treated as no better than the book of mormon or other demonstrably erroneous so-called prophecies.
I believe Timothy is true and is receiving from God. Nevertheless, I am always looking for new ways to nail down what is said and keep track of it with the rigor that it deserves. Does this mean that I am still skeptical? Well, I must admit that I certainly do believe it is authentic, but that does not give me the escape to treat the Words lightly or to quit testing them.
God speaks to me, not like Timothy, but in the Voice within. And even though it is from Him, I don't always hear it right and want Him to reaffirm His words over and over until I understand clearly. This going over and over would apply even more to any voice from God outside of my heart claiming to be from God.
I have spreadsheets, with predictions in the Letters, and links back to when (the date of origin) they were issued and the latest possible fulfillment thereof. When Timothy saw what I was doing, and making with the spreadsheets, he offered to help and has added to the list ... even from among his private letters (as opposed to the published letters on the site and pdf.)
I wish there were more people that took this approach to the integrity of what Timothy is delivering, but I don't know of anyone else that is doing it. Just what I am doing with Timothy's help as far as I am aware.
Anyway, you are right to say that one falsehood demolishes the ministry of any prophet. When I first set out to read the Letters, I was looking for that one falsehood. Now, several years later, I still am on the lookout, even though I stand convinced of them.
So, my advice to you would be to never take my word for it or anyone else's. Examine and test things for yourself with much prayer and much going over and over in prayer to see if you are really hearing right and really giving the situation the due gravity that it deserves.
This is not a time for herd mentality and just going along with the crowd, letting them decide things for you. The crowd is notoriously led astray, and prone to error. This is a time for study and prayer and to live with integrity before the Lord ... for when we are called to account for this life, the crowd will not be standing next to us as a defense if we get things wrong. We each will stand before Him and He is able to make us stand. Therefore, with stamina and longsuffering, let us be diligent with what is before us, so that on that day we will have no regrets.
Ripening for the harvest,
Trent
If I had a mind to brag a little, I could probably do it without looking ridiculous, and I'd still be speaking plain truth all the way. But I'll spare you. I don't want anyone imagining me as anything other than the fool you'd encounter if you saw me on the street or heard me talk. Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty!
At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness.
Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size - abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.
Truly, God blesses with wealth and plenty ... even in abundance. One would be ignorant of a great amount of scripture not to see that.
My point is that is fine, but I don't care. I just don't lust after it. He gives and takes away. Amen. So be it. Come what may.
You may have heard this story, but I'll tell it anyway:
A king in great delight scattered his most precious possessions in the courtyard, and announced that it is out of love for his subjects that they could come into his courtyard and behold these marvels and treasures. Seeing the crowd and filled with charity, the king announces to all that came, "My beloved," he said, "look around and whatever catches your eye that your heart might desire ... anything in the courtyard ... wrap your arms around it and it shall be yours."
You can imagine how one after another picked beautiful statue and golden sculptures with gladness and the king gave with gladness. However, one boy puzzled and pondered these things.
"Please don't be angry," he said to the king, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Of course."
"Really? Have you thought about what this really means?" the boy continued, "I can put my arms around anything in the courtyard and it will belong to me?"
"Try me right now. Test me, my child" said the king with authority, "whatever your heart desires will be yours if you wrap your arms around it."
And with that, the boy fell to his knees and with tears the boy clutched the feet of the king. Now, with greater tears the king said loudly, "You, my child, are wiser than all the rest. You have chosen wisely for it is in possessing me that you possess all I have."
You see?
Beloved, I know God is good and gives to us out of His abundance ... I just don't care. I'm not interested, and I'll happily go without what others have. I have enough of those things. I just want the King.
Can anyone offer Him? Is anyone promoting Him and lifting up Him? What programs and systems are there out there for people like me that want only Him?
Sure, I get it ... some people want the gifts and the treasure. Fine. I understand. My interest is in the Giver. That's just me.
We all get to choose, beloved. What our heart desires will be given. Our heart is revealed through choice and God fixes our choice for us whether we choose Him or the alternative.
Remember the disciples? One asked if they could go and say goodbye to loved ones first. Jesus said to him: "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." He chose. Jesus fixed his decision for him.
Still other disciples asked to sit at the Lord's right and left hand, and were asked by Jesus if they could drink from the cup that the Lord would drink from. They said to Him, "We are able." He said to them, "My cup you shall drink;..."
Once again, they chose, and the Lord fixed their choice for them, making it real and honoring their decision. And know this, these two disciples did indeed drink from His cup, as they, the sons of Zebedee, were brutally executed for their faith.
Choice. There is lots of it. We choose. God honors and settles our choices. Among the choices are wealth and health and so on. A heart is revealed by choosing those gifts. But for me the best choice is none of those things. I've experienced wealth, and I've experienced something better.
My heart is not into those things. If all those things are "added to me" for seeking Him first, then so be it. If they are not and I am denied claim all the blessings in this life that are promised to those that seek Him first ... then I truly hope that I never notice while enraptured by His companionship.
The requisite for resurrection power is the marks of death. In knowing more about the Lord, I can take each step He has prepared for me, even those that include suffering and discomfort, if needs be. There are things to learn in discomfort that cannot be learned in comfort. We cannot know the peace He provides without turmoil. We cannot expect to learn of deliverance if we are always in safety. We learn through contrasts, and I welcome it.
Here is a head-scratcher for you ... where was Jerusalem before the first day? I'll give you a hint, there are many earthly towns named after the metacosmic Jerusalem, even one of them in New York State, USA ... even one town in Israel. The heavenly Jerusalem that I am talking about is not a part of this cosmos. It is beyond the seven days of creation, and even beyond this universe.
Revelation 21
... the former sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished), and there no longer existed any sea. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ...
Revelation 3:12
... the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which descends from My God out of heaven, and My own new name.
I understand our fascination with the material cosmos, I really do. It is easy to think of something real only in terms with how we can see, touch, taste, or smell it.
When a physical blade scraps through our physical skin, we hurt. We are flooded by our senses that are only in tune with the material (and blind to spritual reality), and so it calls to us with the deception of true substance and reality, when it is nothing more than a figment of time in constant flux ... revealing its identity as transitory and fading. That physical blade, was space dust, then magma, then ore, then a fender, then a can, then a bullet, then a brake-pad, and finally made into a blade. What will it be 100 years from now? 1000 years from now? Its identity is only founded on the figment of temporal illusion. In other words, its identity changes over and over throughout time. When this planet is enveloped by the next supernova, or a blackhole churns this corner of the galaxy again, that physical blade, that seemed so real ... will cease to impress from the grand scope of time. Even less impressive is the creation, with revelation of the Eternal.
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
The deluge of sensitory input through our five senses, convinces us that only what is physical is what is real. Our minds are given over to materialism, to the point that we begin to think of God's Spirit as something that is less than what is physically apparent. Our materialistic minds lend Spirit less credit as a substance than a faint vapor. Only because it is not seen, nor felt, not touched, nor tasted. Spirit is merely subtle to our senses, it is completely invisible to us ... inaudible ... and immaterial. Yet the mystery is that it is far more substantial than anything that is visible, material, or audible. The Great I AM is that He is that He is. And the creation simply comes and goes ...
So, understand that I can't go along with theology that deminishes God's promises to something as trivial and faint to me as a merely physical material hope and promise, something for our eyes to behold, and hands can touch, and our nose can smell. To me that would tarnish the surpassing luster of what I know of Spirit that is far surpassing what is detected by our physical senses. I view those notions as materialisticly pandering, and carnal invention, and spiritually blind.
2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.1 Corinthians 2:7-11
No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"— but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
If an idea of the Kingdom is what I can see with my eyes (like a physical city on a physical planet) then why would I want to gaze at something that cheap and temporary? What is "revealed to me by His Spirit" are things that "eyes cannot see," "nor ears hear," "nor minds conceived." The glory that I am destined for is "before time began" ... even Eternal Life - God's own Life.
Jerusalem, Israel as a residential town, seen with physical eyes, yet it is perisible and transitory, not eternal and absolute as God's Kingdom. The "heavenly Jerusalem" where my hope lies does not have a population of a million, nor billion, nor trillion. The population is 1, for it is the "City of God" and the glory of the nations will be brought into it.
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11/23/05 - From Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.
Thus says the Lord to His people, who abide in marriage as they should:
As I have given up of My body for all those I love, even unto death, likewise should all those, who love one another, love them as I have loved you. In all ways did I submit unto My bride, which is also My body, even unto the relinquishing of My power over her, nor did I judge My bride. Because of this, she has become My bride. In the same manner, she must give of herself unto Me to make the union complete and everlasting. The Father has given her hand to Me, and I have called unto her, saying, “How I long to gather you into My arms, and love you as My own, and make you My bride. Come and see...I have already prepared a place for you. Become My virgin and accept these robes of white, and walk in them and wear them well, so we can walk together in the Garden, forever and ever.”
Now listen with ears open: As I have done, do likewise, for any bride joined must be cleansed and made fit for her husband. Also, all earthly husbands must also become clean, lest your holy union be unclean. The Father gave you marriage, by which you come together as one, in His name.
So then, when there is division or separation, how then can two come together, as one in the flesh, when a division in spirit remains? I have told you already, and you also know within your hearts, that all those in marriage must first come together in spiritual intimacy, closer than flesh. Then can you fulfill this closeness through that which is fleshly. This is also a gift from the Father and should be treated as such, according to how He has commanded you and how you should receive it and experience it.
Those in marriage can reach new heights of ecstasy through the unification of flesh. Only by this union, being that which is a completion, or a finishing, of love’s desire that you become completely one, because you had first become one in the Spirit, with all thankfulness to God for bringing you together in His name, under His commandments.
One can not give into complete abandonment of oneself, melding into the love of another, unless first absolute trust is established. Trust is earned, not given. So all those, who first trust in God because of what He has done by way of Me, have placed the Cornerstone in their marriage...and from this Foundation can all new and shining houses be built, and those that already exist be strengthened.
When one of you two has an obstacle or stumbling block, then you both have fallen; and as two together, as one, must all these adversities be overcome. All those, who overcome together in Me, will receive even greater things than these which they now think will lead them into happiness. As We, the Father and the Son, are long-suffering, so then shall you be...love is patient.
Remember that any rent, which is not quickly mended, is made worse with time, further tearing away from the fabric of your marriage. Mend all rents speedily, and with a greater thread, and with more tender hands than in the past.
As all things are made new in Me,
so then, all those, who believe in Me,
must be remade in My image, walking in My ways...
so goes restoration in marriage...
your marriage of old must die
and be forgotten through forgiveness,
and be completely remade on a new foundation...
This is a process, My beloved little ones.
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10/28/04 - From God the Father, A Letter Given to Timothy - For Timothy and His Wife, and For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.
God the Father:
When lying together, remember the decrees of God concerning these things of sex and intimacy:
You shall not lie with another outside of marriage...with your spouse only shall you lie.
Even sex before marriage, called fornication, is adultery.
You shall not think of others, but your spouse only, nor of unnatural acts.
You shall not lie with your wife during her monthly shedding of blood.
You shall not partake in sodomy.
You shall not behold others in sin (pornography) with your eyes. To do so is to sin with them.
No man or woman, in all creation, shall lie with another of their same gender. This is abomination in the eyes of the Most High and full of blasphemy! I gave unto man, by Adam, woman. From his side did I form her, and he who was one became two, and they two became one again in marriage...two of one flesh...man and woman. I saw that it was very good.
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Excerpt from: Volume 6. > Understand Love, Know Forgiveness...Partake of the Whole Fruit of the Spirit, and Make It Part of You.
[Jesus speaking:] Here is wisdom: Following one’s desire for love is not sin, but giving into temptation, which is against the commandments of God, is sin, and will only lead to pain. Physical love is reserved unto marriage as a special gift, whose outcome leads to great and lasting depths of love in marriage, bringing forth more gifts from God in the form of your children, who are the fulfillment of that love, being equally you and your husband in them. Oh. what joy to those, who have the blessing of children. Even those who have not conceived, or were not able, who have complete faith in Me, shall receive many children in My Kingdom to come. To all children is the Kingdom assured.
My Kingdom is coming...all My sparrows shall fly to Me. Amen.
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Thanks,
Trent
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1. Signs of the End of This Age - Present Time
This includes earthquakes, wars, storms, Israel's statehood, etc., as foretold by the prophets and Jesus in the Bible. These are not part of the judgments, but are just markers or signs of the end of the age. At this time, Jesus is separating the "wheat" from the "tares" as told of in the New Testament. (For signs of the end of the age, please read Matthew 24 and Luke 21. The "wheat" and the "tares" parable is Matthew 13:24-29).
2. First Resurrection. First Harvest of the End of This Age.
This first resurrection is for those who belong to Christ, both those who have died in Christ and those who are still alive. At this time, Jesus is gathering the "wheat" into His barn. The redeemed have to be gathered up before the judgments and tribulation start because the innocent and forgiven(those who are truly converted in their hearts, in whom Jesus sees of Himself) will not be judged or punished. "For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive, and are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." (Thessalonians 4:16-17)
3. Seven Years of Judgments from God & Tribulation from the Antichrist
During the seven years of judgments from God, He will: Judge the people, punish the wicked, and loose more harvest (the wild wheat) from the hand of the evil one. All, who call on Jesus' name during this time of tribulation, will be saved. The judgments include the plagues, etc. as told of in the book of Revelation. These plagues are literal...by no other means will the people be awakened or their hearts softened. The tribulation is from the antichrist (beast) and includes the persecution of the new believers and his war against them. The Second Harvest takes place during these seven years. Any believer, dying during this time, goes directly to Jesus, to be with those of the First Harvest.
4. Christ Returns and Establishes His Kingdom on Earth
When Christ returns, He will destroy the antichrist (beast) and his false prophet. Jesus will bind satan for one thousand years, and He will bind all the "tares" or wicked, who are left, and destroy them. (The "tares" are destroyed, a permanent state - not an endless torment). The beast's army will be destroyed with the sword of Jesus' mouth and the brightness of His coming.
5. Thousand Year Millennium - Seventh Day, a Period of Resting and a Reward for the Redeemed
This period of one thousand years is a period of resting and a reward for the redeemed. They will live and reign, with Christ, on earth. During this millennium, satan is bound. He will not be able to tempt the people.
6. Second Resurrection. Satan is released.
At the end of the thousand year millennium, satan is released one last time. Also resurrected, during this time, are all those who did not take part in the First Resurrection.
7. Final Judgment
All the books will be opened. This is the time of final decision for those who were not part of the First Resurrection. All prophets, who have ever lived, will be proclaiming the truth to the great multitude outside the gates. All people, who have chosen Christ, from the beginning until now, will be safely inside the gates. Also during this time, the newly redeemed will be welcomed in the gates, before the final battle happens.
8. Final Battle
Satan, and all those who follow him, will rage war against the holy city and the Lord. All of satan's army will be consumed by the fire from Heaven. Satan will be cast into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet were thrown. All of the books, and death, will also be cast into the lake of fire. Anyone, whose name is not written in the Book of Life, shall be cast therein.
9. Eternity with the Lord...We will be forever with the Lord. Amen.
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." Revelation 21:3-4
PreTribRAPTURE - Dion Hyden - myspace.com
Date: Jun 11, 2009 10:37 AM
Subject: Is baptism necessary for salvation?
Body: http://www.rbc.org/questionsDetail.aspx?id=46078
Is baptism necessary for salvation?
While baptism is an important act of obedience, it isn't necessary for salvation. The only requirement for salvation is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ ( John 1:12-13; 3:16-18; 6:28-29 ; Ephesians 2:8-9 ). In the first century, baptism always followed immediately as the first step of obedience, so much so that it is often mentioned alongside of faith as part of the "package" that brought a person into the body of Christ ( Matthew 28:19 ; Mark 16:16 ; Acts 2:38 ). However, passages like John 1:12-13 , Romans 3:21-31, 4:1-12, 5:1 , and Ephesians 2:8-9 make it clear that it is God's grace through faith alone that bring salvation.
The misunderstanding by those who teach that baptism is necessary for salvation stems in part from a failure to recognize that the New Testament was written by people who were familiar enough with baptism to understand that it was the normal means of expressing conversion. In that context, early Christians would be less likely than ourselves to misunderstand the symbolism in the apostle Paul's words:
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:3-4).
He could use the expressions "baptized into Christ," "baptized into His death," and "buried with Him through baptism into death" with the confidence that his readers would realize that he was using the language of symbolism. Obviously baptism doesn't cause us to die physically with Christ or to be buried in the tomb where His body was placed. It expresses our desire to live a victorious Christian life and symbolizes our identification with Jesus Christ through faith, by which we share in the benefits of all He did for us.
We recognize symbolism, for example, in the wedding ring. A ring doesn't physically cause unending love and devotion, it symbolizes these qualities. Likewise, wearing a gold band doesn't make the wearer a faithful spouse. Its symbolism is an outward expression of an inward reality and can be a helpful reminder of fidelity.
Verse after verse in the Scriptures, both in the Old and New Testaments, clearly affirm salvation by grace through faith alone. Abraham, David, Moses, Daniel, and a host of Old Testament people were never baptized and yet are heroes of the faith, heirs of salvation. The dying thief who repented was promised companionship with Jesus in Paradise even though he died without baptism ( Luke 23:43 ). If we interpret the few passages that seem to make baptism a requirement for salvation in the light of the hundreds that declare salvation is by faith alone and the many that clearly make baptism a symbol, we will find them in perfect harmony with the great body of biblical truth.
*ANOTHER BLOG Regarding baptism and salvation--> http://gracehead.com/index.php/2007/11/13/p747
by Trent - originally posted October 2005
Jesus is NOT the answer. I don't care how many bumper-stickers say otherwise.
Jesus IS the WAY. Let me explain the difference.
For the sake of discussion, I asked my sister-in-law (who is from Spain) to translate a sentence for me from English into Spanish. Here is her answer: "Spanish spanish spanish-spanish, spanish spanish spanish spanish spanish spanish."
She made spanish into the ANSWER of her translation, instead of the WAY of her translation.
(again for the sake of discussion) I asked a friend mathematician to handle these three problems. Here is his answer: "3X2 = mathematics ... 5 / 4 = mathematics ... 185 - 667 = mathematics."
He was about as helpful as my sister-in-law, don't you think? See the chaos that can happen when someone mistakes the WAY for the ANSWER?
In the first case Spanish was the WAY she was supposed to derive the answer, and in the second example mathematics is the WAY that he was going to handle the questions ... but they inserted the WAY AS the answer.
This is absurd, no? And it is just as absurd to say that Jesus is the ANSWER, when He is the WAY.
The ANSWER always is concerned with "what" ... but it is a far greater thing to know the WAY, because every WAY is concerned with "HOW." If you know HOW, or then you have hope no matter what unforeseen thing comes against you.
Jesus is the HOW 
to handle the unforeseen things.
Just think about knowing HOW to speak Spanish opens up infinite ways to communicate something. Just think about knowing HOW to use mathematics can make limitless questions (not just the ones that you have memorized) answerable. Jesus, likewise, is the WAY, and we thus know HOW to live.
Creation's ultimate purpose is to glorify God. Jesus is the WAY.for me, a part of the creation, to glorify God. Without the WAY, then I am doomed to fall short of the glory of God. I cannot glorify God on my own, apart from Him I can do absolutely NOTHING, but continue in slavery to sin.
The WAY is Jesus. He is HOW.
I may never know what I should have done in the past, but I know HOW I should have done it ... The Way, before, was Jesus. I should have exchanged my inabilities for His ability.
I may never know what I should do tomorrow, but when I get there ... the highest calling for me is that Jesus be the WAY, the actual HOW, it gets done ... not by my might, nor by my power, but by His Spirit, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus.
And as for right NOW, I won't know the answer for what I should do to glorify God, but if I find the WAY, Jesus, then He will supply the answer, even in this very moment.
To every thing that we are so strong as to come up with the answer, we consider that Jesus is irrelevant. We say that we can handle this one, and we call on Him later, if we need Him. Why? We skip the Way. Thus, the answer that we come up with on our own is a guess in the dark. Clearly we have lost our way, without Jesus. And without Jesus, we only think that we know the answer, but we don't.
So, I say that for as many things that I think that I know HOW to handle, it is exactly those things of which I have yet to repent. Why? Because Jesus is the WAY ... He deals with HOW. And by His Spirit, all things are possible.
Whenever a truth, is THE Truth, it is an untruth.
When I get ahold of the Way, then He leads me to all the answers. Jesus is the Way, and every other way, isn't the Way.
I don't have all the answers. Infact, I don't believe that Jesus is the answer. Jesus is the way to all the answers.
When you teach mathmatics, you don't teach the answers. Math instructors teach the way to the answers, and once a student has the way, then they won't ever lack an answer.
I'll say alot of things that are just plain wrong, but what did you expect? I am not the answer-man. Those things that I say, that make you want to question everything that I previously said is a wake up call to you that I don't have the Truth in a doctrinally packaged form.
Those wake-up calls in your life are given to keep your eyes on Christ, instead of men.
9/1/06 - From Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior, A Letter Given to Timothy - For the Lord’s New Disciples and His Scattered Little Flocks, and For All Those Who Have Hears to Hear
Oh My dearly beloved of My right hand, why do you wander? I have gathered you into My love, yet you do not obey My voice. I have listened for your voices, yet I have not heard them.
Beloved little flocks, I have sent to you one from your own family, so you may hear My own words in this present time, and know Me. He is not just My prophet. Timothy has become an example in the midst of you, for he does follow Me wherever I lead him. Yes, beloved, he does stumble, but understand this: He is consumed with My love, and he has put Me first and foremost in all things...body, mind, spirit. He does pray without ceasing and obeys My Word. Do you not know there are many peoples, of all kinds and nations, even unto the chief princes, who desire to hear and know what I have given you by this one ordinary man?
Thus says the Lord, your Savior, who has plucked you from the fire: Obey My Word. Do not wait. Go out and testify. You fear, and so you hesitate. Do you not know that your beloved are drowning in this world of sin? Even all these, who deny My name by word and deed, also will I deny before the Father. I have taken their sins to the cross, yet they do not accept Me. All those, who obey My teaching, will...live...forever! What, then, of these who obey not? Shall they enter into My rest purely by the words of their mouths?...Verily, I say to you, they shall not pass from judgment. They have sown the seed of Truth in the wind, quickly carried away, shown to be a lie, exposed by the Light of My coming. What is faith without works?...Nothing...a lie spoken in selfishness. What of works without faith?...Vanity....a false good, a mere boasting, covering a hard heart turned from the Truth. Therefore, all, who obey My Word, are of the Truth. And all, who obey not, are not of the Truth, and are left in great want, not having been led by My Spirit into salvation, denying the power thereof, lost in the great chasm of illusion, called the world, where they will remain...refined by fire, in the Father’s judgments, for seven days (years).
So then, My lost children, I ask you, where are you, and where are you going? You do not know My will at all. You remain trapped in your own vexed spirits, snared by the enemy you see in the mirror. I know whether or not you have love for Me in your hearts, and all those who remain in My love. Yet even these limit My glory, that I have placed within them, continually putting this world and themselves before Me. What then? Shall I cast them away for disobedience’s sake?...Surely not. Though you disobey, I remain obedient. Though you doubt, I remain steadfast. I can not deny Myself, nor will I deny those who call on My name in truth.
Therefore, My children, you shall all take up a fast this Sabbath day as a recompense unto the Lord, spending this day in prayer and supplication, whereupon at day’s end, you shall know I am the Lord and be strengthened by your wanting...
For I am the real food and the real drink.
And all those, who partake of Me,
live in Me and I in them.
Thus is the inheritance of the redeemed:
Eternal life in My presence,
and My joy fulfilled in them in the Kingdom,
to the glory of the Father.
Amen.
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6/2/09 From Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, YahShua the Messiah -
A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
It has come up before Me among My flocks, this question, and now of your wife also. For your sake, Timothy, I shall answer, for you came and humbled yourself before Me, sincerely seeking to hear, even if it means your correction... Not at all doubting the word of your brothers in the Scriptures of Truth, nor that Word in the Volumes, which reveals My glory according to that gift which was seemingly rejected... Then, once again, received by repentance, sincere remorse, proven also in action.
So then, My beloved lambs, indeed you remain babes and yet lack understanding. Nor can you see past that wall you have built up in yourselves, which yet blocks your vision... Tear it down, so you may see! Soften your forehead, and perk up your ears, and wipe your eyes... See clearly and hear My Word.
Before you in the Scriptures, you see the man called Judas who betrayed the Son of Life unto death... Who, by receiving the bribe, revealed the Son of Man’s location, even leading His accusers to Him, not realizing that each step taken was bringing him that much closer to destruction by his own hand, and that out of extreme remorse for what he had done... Only realized because of My spirit which had returned, whereby his walk with satan had ended... Where he again took the money, the price for which I had been weighed, and cast it down at the feet of the guilty... Who then took the money and bought the Potter’s Field, as it is written, the Field of Blood, where Judas also hung himself.
Therefore, Judas could not buy a field with the money he did not own, nor did it enter his mind. Rather those, with evil and hardened hearts, bought the field to bury those they saw as unworthy in their eyes... Whereby a sign was made and fulfilled by Judas, written in his own blood, splattering it that no man may ever be buried there. And so it remains to this day... the desolate Field of Blood.
And of Judas, he shall be with Me in paradise. Do not speak to the contrary, lest I leave you upon the earth at the Last Day, for the blaspheming of the Spirit and My words...
For I am the Lord...
And of all those the Father has given Me, I shall lose not one.
Therefore, oh wicked and hard-hearted sheep, do you really know Me?... And of that one sin, which cannot be forgiven, of which Judas did not commit? For though he died before Me, his sins I also bore, even crucifying them upon the tree in My own body.
And though some have fallen asleep in death,
While others are destroyed by death, even at their own hand,
I ask you, does death have the last word?!...
By NO means...
For I shall raise them up at the Last Day!
For I have granted them the victory,
Even as I am the Victory, being the First Fruits from death...
And those given Me shall likewise be first.
And those, who think of themselves as first and well-deserving,
While condemning others in their perverse judgments of the heart and mind,
Never coming into the true knowledge of who I am...
They shall be last.
That, which is accomplished in Me, is, and was, and is coming quickly...
Even from the foundation of the world, it was finished and completed,
For I had overcome the world from the beginning...
ALL is Mine.
And this is the will of the One who sent Me:
That I should not lose any of all those He has given Me
But should raise them up on the Last Day. ~ John 6:39
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Is Jesus God or the Son of God?
God's being must be removed for anything else to exist. So in the beginning we have a formless void. Of what is it void? It is void of Eternity for the creation is temporal (within time.) It is void of infinity also, thus God could form finite - multiple entities within it, while He remained beyond the creation ... as it were "moving on the waters." I give this background, because most people are predisposed to view the cosmos as the substance and God's being as a faint or sortof minimal fill?in?the?blank whatever. But, the deep revelation is that God is the only stable and formidable substance that is unchanged and persistent, and He compressed His being to remove Himself from the realm wherein we are created and live. But, just as it began; it will end. This is for only a season, and the collapse draws ever closer to the "last day."
So, there is a natural gulf between man and God of impossible dimension ... there is no compatibility between finite and infinite. There is no natural way for Eternal and temporal to be intimate ... and thus God is to us - a Consuming Fire.
Man wants to be intimate with the Creator, and He with us, so God sends an umbilical cord to a little box- the ark. And later He sends it to a little room - the Temple's "Holy of Holies." But, that did not really provide any kind of intimacy. Only a priest would get to interface after a ritual of painstaking detail to show just how far below we are to God, and then the priest did not have much to report but we are sure that it was all distorted anyway by the priest's organic intellect. Anyway, this is all leading up to God's intention to send that umbilical cord to Mary's womb. The temple was just an appetizer.
Down the umbilical cord travels the Spirit of God and at the end we find a Man. That man was born in Bethlehem - Jesus Christ - God with us.
So, Jesus (while never being less then God) decided to behave as never more then man. Why? He came here to reconcile the infinite nature of God and the finite nature of the souls of men - to make peace between He and us. But, also because if He chose to behave like God, then that would not teach us anything. We have no hope to behave like God, thus He behaves like man - He prays to the Father, and He receives instruction from the Father to obey, and He even says, "I always do what is pleasing to the Father." Pretty cool, eh?
John 8:23
But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Now, the Christ is not a creature formed out of the void of the cosmos. He is from above. Jesus is the ONLY Begotton. He descended directly from beyond, from infinity, from eternity ... from the Father. And He reconciles us by offering us that life from beyond - eternal life. But, there is a great price to pay for reconciling our nature with His, and that price is demonstrated at the cross.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Not much of a trade: our ungodliness for His Godliness, but the swap was made. and it has brought peace to those that are born from the void, as we now can be born of the Spirit - even the Spirit of God, the same Spirit that animates the Son of God, and that is eternally present beyond the creation with the Father.
It is because Christ is the very substance of the being of God that we can partake of Him to have eternal life. Now, God's umbilical cord, Christ ... has umbilical cords to men, of which I am one of the men that has agreed to have this done unto me. Now I have eternal life, which is the same life that is in Christ as I am attached to Him, and His life is the same life as the Father as He is attached to Him. Pretty cool, eh? ... and I did none of this. Christ did it all. All I had to do is agree to have it done to me.
All anyone has to do is invite, yet not all are willing to do so. (not that "the willing" have anything to boast about.)
We don't work FOR salvation.
We work FROM salvation.
So, our good works do not secure a change in enternal destiny.
RATHER, our change in eternal destiny changes us into fit vessels for good works that He has prepared for us to do.
We work because we are already saved, and by virtue of this gift and the deposit within by which all of the divine attributes are now being mingled and infused into our innermost beings ... we awaken to new desires and new wants.
Tit 2:14
[Christ] gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.
These wants are "strange" to us, and our new desires appear "strange" to the world. For "strange" means that it is come from beyond this world.
I am vexed by my faithlessness. I want to be rid of sin (some sins more then others.) And I don't know of a single thing that I have ever done that lead me to these desires. I don't credit bible-study, greek-parsing of scripture, quiet-time, prayer-warrior ... nothing! It must be something that GOD is doing in me that is the genesis for this soul in this ape-suit to be so concerned with the things of God and His kingdom.
So join me, if it suits you to, and lets encourage each others growth in this realization of God's Kingdom, and its manifestation in our wants and our works. And as this occurs we can both delight and give praise and honor to Whom it is deserved, for never once have we ever been able to produce such fruit. We bear (not produce) the fruit of the Vine.
by Trent - from Dec 05
"Scripture statements concerning the nature of God...affirms His unity....But the Scripture as plainly affirms the distinction of persons in the Godhead. 'Unity in plurality and plurality in unity' is the great assertion here...it must not be forgotten or denied, that there are continually exhibited within [the Bible's] pages, in bold relief, truths seemingly opposed to each other...The twofoldness of truth as offered to our view in Holy Writ, is one strong argument of its not being the work of man. It is the glory of man's intellect to produce ONENESS. ..." (Robert Govett, "The Twofoldness of Divine Truth," Norwich, 1892)
Most church-goers seem to think that salvation is getting forgiven, and that is the extent of it.
"God forgives people so that they get to go to heaven even though He would otherwise be really mad that they sinned."
I would estimate that at least 8 out of 10 church-goers would say something similar, wouldn't you?
I look at getting forgiven as just an appetizer. Reconciliation doesn't really feed anybody's hungry soul. One can be forgiven and reconciled but not really saved. In fact, everyone is reconciled though many have been saved of nothing. Even our famous John 3:16 shows that salvation isn't a clean and dirty issue, but a life and death issue.
If we have died of cancer and someone finds the cure, what good is it to us? Sure, they could administer the cure to us, but what good is that to a corpse?
Our cancer is sin and the wage of sin is death. So what good is it if someone comes along and rids us of what killed us? Are we not still dead?
Provided that we have died of cancer and someone finds a way to revive us, but has no cure for cancer, then why even bother reviving us? Take a dead cancer victim and give them life, while they still have cancer, and they will shortly die again. Perhaps immediately die again.
Through salvation we are taken from death to life, does not come without the cure for what killed us to begin with. In fact our remedy is really two-fold. Thus it is written:
Romans 5:10
"For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!"
I am putting the emphasis on the part of the equation that scripture emphasizes - salvation by His Life!
by Trent - from Dec 2005
What motivation do we have to witness? Should we set out to change anyone?
If you are ever compelled to say something, then say exactly that, by the Spirit, and with the words that He gave you to say.
If the Spirit tells you to instruct the dean of students of a seminary then march into their office and instruct them! If the Spirit tells you to hush while some ignoramus is begging you to tell them the gospel, then hush!
If the Spirit tells you to give everything that you own to somebody that is dripping with gold, then immediately give it away. If the Spirit tells you to withhold spare-change from someone who is dying of starvation then don't you give them a penny.
Start living according to the Spirit. Start walking by the Spirit, and abandon all of your thoughts and plans.
You think that everyone needs to know what you know? Well, that might be, but the need is not the call. Wait on the call, and when you do this you will be as a fisher of men. Stop deciding when to cast your net all day and hear one word from the Master ... and watch what happens, with such feeble effort applied to His specific call to action. Your boat will not be able to bring ashore all that will be accomplished in simple trusting obedience.
Right now all evangelical thrusts of mainstream Christianity have all lost their way. They are all about how man can be instructed by their carnal mind, hoping and planning to bring in a harvest through calculated resource management and supervision. That is mere training on how to walk according to the flesh, not according to the Spirit. Lets forever repent of any lonely un-holy ambitions and acts of devotion that have no origination from the Spirit. That stuff is just sinning and calling it good. It is wood, hay and stubble, and just exhausting ourself in the meantime with nothing to show for it.
I witness to reality on this blog, but only because it would be more exhausting to hold it within. God has placed this song in my heart, and I am revealing this true-condition as I speak. I don't care it if moves one person closer to God. I don't care if it makes some people go to war with God. What you do with it is your own business. There isn't anything "in it" for me one-way-or-the-other. My satisfaction comes just be getting it off my chest and the relief does not depend on your response.
By the Spirit, I know about and witness to a reality that is revealed to me. Do with it, however you want to. Whether you "amen" or scoff at it, I only want your true condition to be revealed. If nothing else, I only encourage that we be true and lay aside all pretense, even the pretense of ignorance with regard to what has been revealed to us.
Revelation 22:11
"LET him who does wrong continue to do wrong; LET him who is vile continue to be vile; LET him who does right continue to do right; and LET him who is holy continue to be holy."
Revelation 22:10-12 (in Context) Revelation 22
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The more I grow, the more I realize that relationship is the crux of it all.
Often we approach the relationship to God with a systematized forensic understanding of the basis of relationship (ie. the facts of the gospel.) ... but at some point, we begin to realize that the relationship makes true those facts ... not the facts making true the relationship ... and all that stuff, no matter how much we think we have it figured out, is meaningless apart from God, Himself ...
What if there was no Bible (as the past has shown to be the case) and no religion (see Abraham) ... would there not be an essential table set at the heart of man that seats only two? Would there not be a place in the very heart of us to build something of a personal and unique understanding between God and each of us? And wouldn't this fit under the heading of "relationship?"
Then what is all this religious stuff we pile up around this table, so that we can hardly see it?
You are blessed. You are loved. You are building something that religion cannot replace, when it is you and the Lord baring your heart to each other ... crying and shouting, being heard, and understood ...and seeing how the other responds.
I have found the most impressive communication of God's love has come to me after shaking my fist and cursing Him.
This is how we ripen for the harvest ...
I was recently asked this question: Are Fairies part of the occult, sorcery or witchcraft? What about Celtic Crosses, Celtic jewelry & other Celtic symbols? Are these things ok to have?
Here is what I wrote in reply:
It isn't beneficial to cling to worthless idols.
Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the LORD says: "What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.What the Bible calls an "idol" is anything (and I mean ANYTHING) that we run to for comfort in times of trouble and calamity BESIDES the Lord. We just aren't suited to cling to things that cannot help us. Anything other then the Lord are worthless at helping us in those times. We should always take the opportunity of trouble to cast our cares upon the Lord and run to Him for rescue, and to drop anything we were holding onto that isn't the things of God.
So, we don't need to be experts on what is or what is not sorcery, occult and witchcraft to get the idea that something is not of God. It isn't hard to figure out what is God and what is not, for there is none like Him. What is hard is to radically apply the principle of idolatry to our lives.
You see, the idols that I run to in times of trouble have not been fairies or jewelry or pretty designs. The idols that I have clung to in the past are intimidation, anger, bullying, charm, deception, lying, piety, pride, elitism, complaining, grumbling, unbelief, distrust, exclusiveness, insincerity, lust, and so-on. Some people go to recreational drugs, or other people to deep into self-righteousness and image building as a way to "keep up appearance" in times of trouble. Did you know that there are many people whose idols are higher education, and seminary training? Those things are inherently bad, but when you run to those things INSTEAD of God in times of trouble then you are on shaky ground ... even if you run to the Bible, or church.
There is a funny story in the Gospels of Jesus going on an mountain with a few close disciples. And on the mountain the disciples witnessed a marvelous event, where Jesus was found talking with Moses and Elijah. (Matthew 17 and Mark 9 and Luke 9.) Peter was there, and he was very impressed. The reason is because the Bible of their time was the Old Testament, and it had two parts: The Law (which was written by Moses) and the Prophets (which was written by God's prophets like Elijah.) So, seeing Jesus with those two, seemed like a fantastic sight to Peter, and he blurted out:
Luke 9:33 As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." (He did not know what he was saying.)Peter wanted three tabernacles. One for Moses. One for Elijah. One for Jesus. Do you think that was a good idea? Do you think that Moses and Elijah were worthy to be treated as idols? Or is the Lord the only one worthy? Well, God did not make us wait long for the answer to these questions ...
Luke 9:35-36 While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. A voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him." When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone.Now, that settles it. Jesus is alone at the mountain ... and He should also be alone in the mountain of our heart. If Moses and Elijah were not worthy to be there, then what about all those things that we run to in times of trouble and calamity? If those two don't stand up next to Him, we should not put anything else on equal standing with the Lord ... not "fairies" and not "Celtic symbols" ... but more so those other things ... gossip, slander, anger, charm, flakiness, piety, hypocrisy, and even Christian devotion. We aren't meant to serve two masters. We each need to come to the place where we quit building tabernacles and shelters on our mountain except for the Lord. And we run only to Him.
Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and [fill in the blank]
4 days ago, I got an interesting question in my inbox.
How might Jesus' treatment of outcasts influence Christians today?
my answer ...
Yours is an excellent question, and a very open / broad question. Likewise, my answer is broad. Please follow up with more details if you were looking for something more specific.
Jesus' life is an example of how a human should live. He was always dependent on the Father in Heaven, for what to say, and do and where to go, and when to go there. He was a clear glass, invisible and therefore a perfect vessel for the visible expression of the invisible God. Demonstrating the best way to live, and giving glory to the Father, Jesus calls us to do the same and live dependently up the Lord Jesus for all we do and say. As we abide in Him, His life will express itself through us as though it was us, but it is actually Him..The influence of the Lord Jesus upon Christians is direct, and indirect. First indirectly merely demonstrating, then directly as He, Himself, actually causes the dependent Christian to walk in His ways.
We can be, as dependent Christians, clear as a glass window, so that people will see Jesus, through us. We can shine His light, and that light will be as counter-culture today as it was, when Jesus shined it 2000 years ago.
Here are some things that Jim, a friend of mine, says regarding what His expression of life will be. An abiding branch will bear (not produce) these types of fruit towards the "outcasts."
Concern for Little Ones - Matt. 18:6-11; Mk. 9:42-50
Contrary to typical methods of religious recruitment, God is interested in the little ones, the least, the lowly, the "losers," the "lost." Religion touts their celebrities, people with big name recognition, people with money. Religion is concerned with winners and conquerors, people who can be lifted up as trophies of success. Jesus explains that God's grace is extended to those in need, the "have-nots," and if we repudiate them or cause them to stumble and be scandalized by our attitudes, then it would be better if we had a millstone hung around our neck and should sink into the depth of the sea. Stumblingblocks to receptive faith and participation in the kingdom will surely come, Jesus indicates, but woe to the religionists who create stumblingblocks to faith. The lowly, the outcasts, the "have-nots" are not dispensable; they are not spiritual "throw-aways". In fact, Jesus notes, your physical body-parts such as hands and feet and eyes are more dispensable than are these needy people. Severe judgment, "salted with fire," awaits all religionists who hinder the "little ones" and the "lost ones" from entering the kingdom of Christ. Salt can be good, though, and the pervasive characteristic of salt should permeate and season all of our interpersonal relationships. The seasoning of the character of Christ will preserve our kingdom interactions from the rottenness of religious contention and exclusivism.
Matthew, the toll-tax collector, called to follow - Matt. 9:9; Mk. 2:13,14; Lk. 5:27,28.
Walking along the seashore must have been a relaxing respite for Jesus since He was so often crowded by onlookers and seekers. Even so, a large following developed and Jesus taught them until he met Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at his toll-booth. As many in this region of mixed races and religion had both a Hebrew name and a Greek name, he might have had a dual name of Levi Matthew, and it is the latter of these by which he is more popularly known and identified elsewhere. Levi was a Jew who was employed by the Roman government to collect tolls, tariffs and custom taxes, and was referred to as a "publican," for he engaged in such public duty. Since Capernaum was on the primary trade route from Damascus, Levi would have been collecting highway tolls for using the road, import and export taxes on merchandise traveling in either direction, farm taxes, fishing taxes, along with fees and taxes on almost any other objects and activities that he and his superiors could think of taxing. His position allowed for much abuse and graft, embezzlement and extortion. It is not difficult to see why first-century Jewish patriotism regarded tax-collectors as collaborators with the oppressive occupying power of Rome. They were regarded as traitors who had sold out to the enemy of God for mercenary motives. There was an intense hatred for these legalized criminals who seemed to have "a license to steal." Pharisaic tradition regarded them as morally unclean and unacceptable, to be ostracized as outcasts in the same category as harlots, thieves, gamblers and common criminals, allowing for no association without contamination and moral pollution.
Without respect for religious and cultural traditions, Jesus came to make Himself available to all mankind regardless of their race, nationality, sex, morals, vocation, economic class or other concerns. Jesus does not seem to have shared the narrow patriotic attitudes of the zealots of His day, who regarded paying taxes to Rome as an unfair imposition. He did not engage in the pretensions of religious and social respectability which would ostracize the civil servant employed by Rome. He invited Matthew to become His disciple, saying, "Follow Me." Again we must note the ontological basis of identification with the very person and being of Jesus in contrast to religious solicitations to follow after and identify with a cause celebre based on a particular ideology. Matthew followed Jesus and became true to his name which means "gift of God."
Concern for the Lost - Luke 15:1-32
The Pharisees were separatists who in their self-righteous elitism sought to avoid defilement and maintain ceremonial cleanness by disassociating from all sinners, i.e. those who did not conform to their teaching and practices. They were scandalized that Jesus would engage in the impropriety of having table-fellowship with the down-and-outs, the social outcasts and the unacceptable, thus accepting them as equals. Jesus tells three parables that explain His behavior and freedom of association with "losers" and the lost.
Though religion may be content to count the number who have remained faithful and not strayed, such is not the modus operandi of the kingdom. Since the Jewish religionists were not of Jesus' flock (cf. John 10), they would not have been able to understand how the divine Shepherd functioned. "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (II Peter 3:9). God has individual compassionate concern for the lost who are willing to repent by recognizing their lostness, changing their mind so as to admit their inability and act in reliance on God's grace ability. The pious, self-righteous religious rule-keepers do not regard themselves as needing to repent in this way, and so remain stern and sour in their proud propriety. They never understand the celebration of joy in the divine recovery and restoration of fallen mankind. Joy (chara) is the attitude and expression that results only from experiencing the grace (charis) of God in Jesus Christ.
Religion is content to count the coins in the coffer and devise manipulative schemes to induce others to contribute additional coins. The attitude of God within the kingdom is like that of a poor woman who has lost one-tenth of her savings. Searching for the lost coin in every crook and cranny, she celebrates with joy when she finds it, just as God rejoices over the restoration of one sinner.
Birthrights were important in the Jewish religion and culture of the first-century. When a son initiated the breakdown of family solidarity by demanding his portion, and then squandered such in sin and failure, he would be much despised. The additional degradation and disgrace of tending swine was so offensive and abominable to Jewish thinking that they regarded such a person as a Gentile and a lost cause. The son in Jesus' parable of the "lost son" recognized his desperate need and inability to resolve his predicament, and was willing to confess such and become a day-laborer for his father. God's love and compassion for discredited and admitted failures is portrayed in the forgiveness of the father toward the son and the generous grace that restored him to full relationship as a son. In the Christian kingdom of Christ there is joyous celebration accompanied by the abundant lavishment of God's gifts of grace when the lost have been found.
The older brother in the parable serves as the portrayal of religion which has contempt for failures and "losers" who cannot or will not do it correctly and conform to expectations. Like the older brother, the Jewish religionists were "angry and refused to go in" to the kingdom celebration. Like Jonah, they were angry that God should exercise compassion and mercy upon those who repented. In like manner as the older brother was recounting his propriety and rightness, religion often engages in the bookkeeping and record-keeping of their performances, obedience and correctness, assuming a moral superiority and pride of virtue that should be able to claim exclusive rights before God. In their self-righteous calculation of their self-efforts, they regard it an unfair injustice that God should extend grace to sinners and failures.
Jesus was explaining His behavior by contrasting the proud contempt of the Jewish religionists with the grace of God within the kingdom which He came to bring in Himself. Only in the admission of our inadequacy are we free to accept the adequacy of God's grace (cf. II Cor. 3:5).
Here is something stupid: Separating from friends and family or those with whom you fellowship just to follow after someone that God choose to be a vessel to deliver a message (prophesy) to you. That would be like running off with the mailman who delivered a parcel ... as if the mailman had anything to do with the parcel.
Equally as stupid is if the prophet took their calling as a lofty perch of elitism. That is like the mailman, himself, actually thinking that they had something to do with the parcel. A real prophet wants no credit, nor do they deserve more credit than a ordinary message deliverer, dutifully carrying out their service to the Lord.
Most stupid of all would be the neighbor who assumes when they see a recipient get a parcel, and they become full of jealous suspicion and spite ... sprinting across the street to get a running-start to kick the mailman in the nuts, and then slapping the recipient, knocking the parcel to the ground and then stomping on it repeatedly until it is bashed and broken, thinking that they were doing everyone a favor because that mailman was about to have an affair with the parcel receiver when nothing of the sort was going on. ... That neighbor is hopelessly deluded by the flattering notion that God set them up as the recipient's Holy Spirit and is emotionally charged with the projected fantasy of fearful expectation about the lure of the mailman.
by Trent - from Sept. 2005
One of the things that I like about the story of Penecost is that the Holy Spirit descended on all sorts of people. In fact, there is no demographic that is suggested as the type of person that the Holy Spirit descended on. They weren't in a religious posture. It wasn't for those that were "trained." Education meant nothing. Gender meant nothing. Even the language that they spoke meant nothing. It is simple.
Only those that show up - and are empty ... can be filled.
So by the filling, I can minister, and so can others minister to me. I don't put them through any more requirement (educational, training, gender, etc.) than the Holy Spirit put me through, nor than did the Holy Spirit put others through on Pentecost.
I wish you to know that simplicity also. The simplicity that erases levels of elitism, and destroys self-validation. It is the simplicity that makes every saint of equal inheritance by the grace of the Almighty through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes!
We are.
Absolutely and without question ... no doubt ... We are equals.
If you belong to Jesus, having accepted Him ... then we are spiritual equals. I don't need to know anything else, for nothing else matters.
However, I can't help but be reminded how often I hear a different tune. How is your scripture memorizing? How about your witness? Oh dear, you don't have a church? Has God blessed you like me? What about maturity? ... etc ...
Seems like we have a mess, doesn't it. Well, lets not let others drag us into their unbelief. The moment you detect this elitism attitude, just have this question ready to ask: Provided that we are both Christians, are we spiritual equals?
You have reason to worry if they even hesitate for a second in their answer. The most important person to ask would be your pastor ... and then the other church leaders. Let me know what happens if you do this ... I don't attend church meetings where one clergy-type person is in charge, and I only hang out with people that answer the question as I do, so I don't often get the chance to ask it.
Romans 3 NIV 22. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24. and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
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Answer: ONE!!!
John 6:53 -
Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have NO life in you.
John 14:6 -
Jesus said to him, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 3:16 -
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.John 3:16 CJB
"For God so loved the world that he gave His only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed."
John 5:24 -
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
John 6:27 -
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."
John 6:40 -
And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 6:47 -
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
1Ti 1:16 -
However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
Acts 4:12 -
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
------YET MANY CHRISTIANS SAY THAT SIN AND THE REJECTION OF CHRIST IS ANOTHER WAY INTO EVERLASTING LIFE (OR 'EVERLASTING LIVING TORMENT', THEY SAY). WHAT IS THE PENALTY OF SIN AND REJECTING CHRIST'S SALVATION?------
How do you feel about people who torment and even torture other people? I mean think about a history channel special on torture or a movie you saw that had human torture, etc.
Was it good? Did you feel good about it? Or was it pure evil?!
----YET YOU SAY GOD DOES THIS!---- And not only that, but He does it forever and keeps people alive so He can torture them some more! What are you saying about your God, who became flesh and died in your place?!... the GREATEST of ALL LOVES. And what are you calling Jesus who spoke all the verses above, recorded in the Gospel of John?!
-----YOU ARE CALLING YOUR OWN SAVIOR A LIAR!-----
The penalty of sin is: DEATH!
Romans 6:23 -
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1/14/06 - From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD!:
Listen, all you churches of men! Shall I, even I, torment My beloved, they who are tormented continually by he who is, and has, torment in his vesture? Satan is the tormentor. Not knowing, My children, by your own mouth, you have called your God satan. Repent, therefore, and mend your ways, forsaking your corrupt and evil teachings. Become, again, a child of God, and learn to walk uprightly, leading others into love, by love, not fear.
The second death is that grave from which one shall not be raised, nor awakened, for they have been cast out...abiding in outer darkness, forever separated from God and their part in life. These know not anything, forevermore returning to that which they were formed from. This is the eternal state of My punishment for those who have chosen death, by their forsaking of My Gift, wherein is life everlasting. So then, they under condemnation are dead. In no way are they part of the living, nor are they living in torment. Their inheritance is lost, they have been blotted out...a broken vessel of dishonor received by the earth once again.
My Son did sleep in the lower parts of the earth...His tomb...for three days.
By no means did He descend into the evils of man’s imaginings.
He is the Pure Light. Never has He had any part in darkness. He shall destroy it utterly.
He is risen!
And all those, who follow and believe in Him, shall also rise and live...meeting Him in the air.
Forever shall they be with their Lord and their God, where all shall find mercy and love.
Amen.
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(From Vol. 4, Letters from God and His Christ):
1/14/06 From God the Father -
A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
Proclaim NOT the Hell of the Church of Men...In Their Words is No Mercy Found, Only the Makings of Satan
THUS SAYS THE LORD: Listen, all you churches of men!
Shall I, even I, torment My beloved, they who are tormented continually by he who is, and has, torment in his vesture? Satan is the tormentor. Not knowing, My children, by your own mouth, you have called your God satan. Repent, therefore, and mend your ways, forsaking your corrupt and evil teachings. Become, again, a child of God, and learn to walk uprightly, leading others into love, by love, not fear.
The second death is that grave from which one shall not be raised, nor awakened, for they have been cast out...abiding in outer darkness, forever separated from God and their part in life. These know not anything, forevermore returning to that which they were formed from. This is the eternal state of My punishment for those, who have chosen death, by their forsaking of My Gift wherein is life everlasting. So then, they under condemnation are dead. In no way are they part of the living, nor are they living in torment. Their inheritance is lost, they have been blotted out...a broken vessel of dishonor received by the earth once again.
Stop blaspheming your God!
Have greater understanding of My mercies that endure forever.My Son did sleep in the lower parts of the earth...His tomb...for three days.
By no means did He descend into the evils of man's imaginings.He is the Pure Light. Never has He had any part in darkness. He shall destroy it utterly.
He is risen!
And all those, who follow and believe in Him, shall also rise and live...meeting Him in the air.
Forever shall they be with their Lord and their God, where all shall find mercy and love.
Amen.
(Excerpt from Vol. 1 - "The Great I AM", Letters from God and His Christ):
[God] Blaspheme His name, and you blaspheme Mine...you shall be destroyed. Life I give...and I shall take it away, unless you repent. There is no life in death; all sleep forever unless the Son calls you to awake.
Fear not, I do not punish eternally that which I have created and given My image. Those, who will not return to their Father, and have become the sons, daughters and concubines of satan, to them will the Lord say, "Dust to dust. No more shall you partake of the Tree of Life or the river therein. You have forsaken He who has given to you freely, and forevermore is your inheritance lost and given to another." Oh mourning, great mourning in all the land, My beloved have become a sore and a sickness. I have sent the Healer...you would not have Him, nor drink of His cup freely offered. So you shall be with your adopted father in the lake that burns forever, and be no more. Rest, oh My beloved who have become mortally ill. Rest, all you wicked, evil has wearied you...rest forevermore. Your light has gone out, and you have been blotted out.
(Excerpt from Vol. 5 - "The Truth Absolute", Letters from God and His Christ):
Thus says the Lord God of Israel, God of Heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen, known and unknown, The God of All, The Only One True God: All else is fantasy and corruption and vexation of spirit, a leading away from the Truth, a valley of dead and dry bones, darkness and blackness, a void of lifeless nothingness...thus is the second death, of which the redeemed in Christ need not fear. These have passed from death into life, despair into joy, and judgment into salvation...taken from the earth to their rightful places, I have prepared for them, paid for in blood by the Lamb.
[God] And you, oh wicked, true concubines of satan, even you wicked vipers who do shake your fists at Heaven and spit at the King, the Holy One, come and hiss at My chosen, the redeemed from among men, the firstfruits to My glory in Christ...you shall be brought down to hell, the grave. From dust had I formed you, you broken vessels of great dishonor, and to the dust shall you return. Thus is the eternal state of My punishment, thus is the punishment by My own hand: Destruction of the wicked in the lake that burns, consumed in an instant, gone from My presence for eternity. Darkness, outer darkness, nothingness is your reward, and you shall never even know you had received it or received it not. You shall know nothing, nor have ANY part in life. It is taken from you and shall never again be granted to you...your inheritance is lost. This, oh perverse generation, is the eternal state of My punishment and the eternal recompense for all My children, who have forsaken Me utterly in their willful adoption by satan, the evil shepherd of the goats made fat, fat for the slaughter...you are consumed...
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Catholics seem to have a problem with saint worship, and no saint seems to be so widely revered then Mary, the mother of Jesus. I'm not familiar with all Catholic practices, but that criticisms appears to have merit. I just wonder why the logic that Protestants use does not carry through to their own practices.
Usually the criticism addresses Mary as a fine person, but not worthy of any special regard because God just had to pick somebody, and it just happened to be her. In other words, God could have chosen any other womb, or at least others could have qualified. It wasn't that the Father was just waiting for someone as special as Mary to come along before He sent Jesus to earth. She was just blessed to be available when God needed someone like her.
I agree. But, don't use that argument against my sacred cows!
I like to think that I am special. I like the flattering gossip at the prayer meetings, when we talk about those that have fallen away, and ministries that strayed off-track. I don't have to say it directly: "I am glad that I am not as other men"- can be read between every smug declaration.
Surely, I wound up-right by my own doing, and others (if they had my fortitude, and my will-power, and my smarts) could stay free from disrepute, and scandal, right?
Am I alone with this flesh tenancy? I must admit it. I don't like it, but sometimes the evil thoughts come into mind. In fact, it would shock you how much time is spent at the Bible-studies that I go to doing exactly this.
God help us, to be free of this! We are vexed by the self-righteous self-exaltative notions that we have it together on our own and others do not. Help us be boastful only of our weakness and how the Lord Jesus has saved wretches like us! You, Lord, didn't need our strength, smarts, nor will-power to accomplish this work in us. Our intellect did not lead us to all Truth ... it is Your Spirit.
We are nothing. You are the Lord.
We give you 100% credit for whatever purity has arrived in us, for on our own we can do nothing. Whatever wisdom, whatever strength, it is You, Lord Jesus!
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus' Name.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
amen
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This is simply one of the most powerful poems ever written in the English language, ... or ANY language for that matter. It's a gem that is truly worth memorizing. GOD GIVE US THE GRACE TO LIVE THIS POEM ! . . .
From prayer that asks that I may be
Sheltered from winds that beat on Thee,
From fearing when I should aspire,
From faltering when I should climb higher
From silken self, O Captain, free
Thy soldier who would follow Thee.
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From subtle love of softening things,
From easy choices, weakenings,
(Not thus are spirits fortified,
Not this way went the Crucified)
From all that dims Thy Calvary
O Lamb of God, deliver me.
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Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire;
Let me not sink to be a clod;
Make me Thy fuel, O Flame of God.
~Amy Wilson Carmichael
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3/5/05 - From Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
Timothy, write these words to the nations, so they may hear and know.
The Lord God, Creator of Heaven and earth, has come. Even now am I, the Savior, the Holy One of Israel, in your midst. I am also coming quickly in full power and great glory. I bring with Me absolute authority to judge and destroy the wicked and he who is called wicked in his ways. Also will I bind him who has deceived many and caused My lambs to go astray. All these things have been ordained from the beginning by the Father. For His glory will all that is written come to pass, and those things written of the end become manifest in the earth, the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars, for the time is upon you, My children. Return to your first Love, the Love that formed you, the Love that held you, the Love that desired for you to be made in His image, the Love that loves you, the Love that wants to be with you forever. Come now, accept My love. It was out of love that I gave Myself for you, nothing held back. It is My love for you that brings Me back to save you from, and take you out of, that which has hurt you. My love for you is great, so great that I will recreate the entire world for you, so in love you may reside with Me forever. There is no greater love than that of the Father for His children, and so it is manifest through His only Begotten for you, oh peoples of the earth. His love knows no bounds, for it is as the universe, even more so.
Therefore, how much more will be His anger and wrath against those who have hurt, persecuted, stoned, scourged, imprisoned, murdered and torn the flesh of His beloved. Do you not know you are His treasure, His most precious gemstones? I have come to do all that He asks concerning those He loves and who love Him. I come to hide away those special ones who have the light of His love in them, who have accepted He who the Father of Love had sent in love, for love's sake, to die for all.
Oh you peoples of the earth, turn from your wicked ways, and accept the love of the Father through His Son, for His love is so great for you that He will remember your sin no more, and cast away your iniquities.
I, the Son, carry full power and authority as the Father. Still I plead with you, come! Come to Me and be healed, for the Father's love is without end. So much is His love for you that He will risk losing you, so you may choose for yourself...either to love your God, or to His eternal anguish, love yourself and the ways of the world, which lead to destruction and death. Love is a gift, freely given and freely accepted. You can not have love when it is forced upon you. This leads to hate, and is contemptible in His sight. The Father's will is that none are lost. He has also given you the will to choose. His love, and that of the Son, is near to everyone. You only need take My hand. I will lead you from the valley of the shadow of death into the light of salvation. Take My hand, take My hand, all peoples. Grasp it, and come with Me as you are.
Come, all those who know not My ways...I will show you.
Come, all those who have been abandoned...
I will comfort you and give you shelter.
Come, all those who are crippled...let us run and leap for joy together.
Come, all those faithless...I shall fill your cup, and watch how it overflows.
Come, all murderers...watch Me raise you, and all who sleep, from the grave.
Come, all you who blaspheme...I will give you a new voice.
Bring with you all those who are blind and deaf, for they too shall see and hear.
Indeed, come all those who have sinned against Me, take My hand.
I will lead you to the waters where I shall wash you,
and where your new clothes hang upon the tree
which grows next to the stream.Come one, come all...
ask, and it shall be given you.All things are possible with God and made manifest through the Son.
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Hell exists.
Hell will be destroyed. (Rev. 20)
Hell is obviously temporary, but don't tell that to the proponents of the doctrine of hell, which deny that destruction (to perish) is God's ultimate punishment for the damned. Rather, many church-goers are told that the damned never perish, and go on living without end in misery.
This doctrine of unending conscious torment is propped up with scripture passages taken out of context. These passages at first glance may seem to make the annihilation of the damned look impossible, but look closely. Here are 20+ passages that people have tried (and failed) to use as refutation of the scriptural understanding of the utter destruction of the damned.
1) Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Question: How can the unsaved weep if they no longer exist?
Answer: They weep on the way to destruction.
Have you seen a kid weep and gnash his/her teeth when a parent takes away xbox privileges? Multiply that by a thousand and you will glimpse the childish agony of the spoiled brats who cannot be thankful for the existence that they were given, as they wail when existence is taken from them.
2) Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.Question: How can the unsaved bow before Christ if they no longer exist?
Answer: They cannot, and neither do they need to. Those that are annihilated will surely bow down ... and shortly thereafter they will be destroyed.
3) Mat. 26:24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Question: How can the condition of the damned be worse than before they were born if he no longer exist?
Answer: Is it really better to live a life with your will set in rebellion against God than to not ever exist. Has anyone ever made a case for the benefits of a life spent scattering away from Him rather than gathering to Him?
Lets play basketball and I'll run around with the ball while you and others attempt to play by the rules. I'll just make a mockery of it and keep drop-kicking the ball until it is warped and laugh the whole time, injuring half the other players on the court and you tell me it is better for me to have played that way, than if I had not played at all.
4) Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Question: How can the damned dwell with devouring fire and everlasting burnings if they no longer exist?
Answer: That passage in Isaiah used a rhetorical question. It is like saying: "Who can ride the bus without a pass?" The reader is to come to the obvious conclusion that it is impossible to ride the bus without a pass.
IOW, it is impossible to live / dwell in devouring fire. That is what Isaiah 33:14 is saying.
This question unwittingly misuses a passage in which the only comprehension of its meaning is in support of annihilation.
5) Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.Question: How can the damned be an abhorring to all flesh if they no longer exist?
Answer: This straw-man question is a complete distortion of the verse.
Observation #A - CARCASSES are never living. ALL carcasses lack life otherwise they are NOT carcasses. Hence this is a primary passage against the unbiblical doctrine of unending conscious torment.
Observation #B - no carcass has the wherewithal to sustain a worm that keeps eating it without ever turning away from it. The obvious conclusion of the passage is that not only are the wicked dead, but they are eaten away to nothing by a worm that never turns away from them
Observation #C - no carcass that is burned with an unquenchable fire can outlast the fire ... rather the fire burns away the carcasses over time, since time is no object to an unquenchable fire. So not only are they dead, and eaten away to nothing with worms, but any chance that there could be anything left will be burned away by an unquenchable fire. ... no unending torment.
Observation #D - Any part of mankind that sees this will surely look upon it as an abhorrence ... which means that all of mankind (that remains ... ie. exists) abhors the death and destruction of those that are no longer part of mankind.
6) I Corinthians 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.Question: How can the enemies of Christ be under His feet if they no longer exist?
Answer: "Under His feet" does NOT imply a living state of existence. "Under His feet" is a phrase that invariably means subjection submission, and conquered ...
Is a dead foe, not also a conquered foe? When we (the allied forces) put Nazi Germany under our feet were they all remaining alive?
7) Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Question: How can the unsaved be beaten with stripes if they no longer exist?
Answer: Annihilationism (ie, the doctrine that includes John 3:16 in a literal sense - "perish") takes into account that there will be punishment and retribution ... culminating in utter destruction.
So if someone is "beaten" and later will "perish" - these are not mutually exclusive notions ... one can experience both.
8) Rev. 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Question: How can the unsaved be without the city if they no longer exist?
Answer: The city represents existence itself ... true existence which is the realm in which God dwells. To be apart from the City of God is to be apart / away from existence.
Annihilationism requires that God's enemies be beyond the walls of the city, so it is no surprise to see it in scripture.
9) Psalm 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.Question: How can Christ give the heathen for an inheritance if they no longer exist?
Answer: This implies a false extrapolation of the meaning "heathen" to mean those that are under God's wrath during judgment. Rather, this is talking about the heathen nations / gentiles that God offered the nation of Israel. The plunder here is the cities and property of the gentile nations within the physical realm at that time. The souls of men belong to the Lord who can (and will) destroy not only the body but the soul of men who reject Eternal Life found only through Jesus. (Mt 10:28 )
10) Isaiah 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Question: How can the believers posses the heathen, if the heathen no longer exist?
Answer: This passage is OBVIOUSLY talking about the living human gentiles that will be possessed as property. It is not talking about the eternal disposition of their souls given away by God. God has not given the destiny of human soul away to anyone ever. One wonders, is the argument that there are personal slaves traded and owned in New Jerusalem?!?!
11) Eze. 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
Question: How can the damned know that the Lord poured our His wrath on them if they no longer exist?
Answer: The Lord poured out wrath on Sodom and Gomorrah. Both cities were turned to ashes. WHO in their right mind would make a case that the people who dwelled therein do not know that the Lord poured out His fury on them. I assure you that is an accurate figure of speech.
While we are on the subject ... the Bible makes Sodom and Gomorrah as examples of eternal judgment and notice that nobody was endlessly tormented in either city ... rather they were all destroyed without languishing in agony.
2Pe 2:6
and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;Jude 1:7
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
12) Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Question: How can the damned be in torments if they no longer exist? How can the damned converse with The Father if they no longer exist?
Answer: The passage in Luke 16 is a parable.
Just a parable, not a thesis on the afterlife, but an illustration that is useful instruction in this life on how to live.
You missed the point if you think the parable was Jesus' trick to contradict what He said elsewhere about destruction of the soul ... and perishing without His life.
HERE is a video explaining the parable.
13) Revelation 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.Question: How can the torment of the damned yield smoke if they no longer exist?
Answer: The wrong question is asked.
Here is the right question:
How can they yield smoke if they are living?Living tissue gives off water vapor and steam when burned.
Dead tissue gives off smoke.
14) Luke 13:26-28 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Question: How can someone who no longer exists see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and themselves thrust out?
Answer: The ruse in this question is the omission of the next verse where the damned are actually sentenced by being excluded from eternal life.
In other words, this is the conversation that the Lord has with the damned before their damnation begins ... and the punishment is exclusion from eternal life ... ie. to not go on living for ever and ever.
15) Matthew 25:44-45 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Question: How can the damned converse with The Son if they no longer exist?
Answer: They talk during judgment, then they shut up when they experience second death. Of course, they are dead by then so ...
All you need to do is read the next verse.
16) Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Rev. 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Question: How can the damned have the same fate of being tormented day and night for ever and ever as the devil and his angels if the damned no longer exist?
Answer: Forever and ever comes to a conclusion at the second death. Forever and ever is not "eternity" ... Rather, it just means "for the ever" ... or as long as time exists. After the "last day," time is no more, and forever and ever is also no more.
Just as there was a first day (before which was nothing except the the Great I AM) there will be a last day (after which there will be nothing except the Lord God and those who are ONE with Him.) Thus, we must be born a second time unto eternal life, or perish with the rest of creation when "heaven and earth disappear."
The realm of existence called "New Jerusalem" has neither day nor night. They don't exist. So how can someone still be tormented "day and night" at this point?
17) Matt. 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Question: What are the unsaved not to come out from if they no longer exist?
Answer: This is another one, like before that is a parable about how to live in this life. It is not a thesis on what the afterlife is like.
Besides it says in very explicit language that there is "by no means" any "coming out from."
18) Revelation 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Question: If the non-elect were annihilated, why does God say they will have no rest?
Answer: Eternity is denied the damned. They may get day and night, but not Eternity ... and alot of good that will do them on the LAST day.
When we enter the eternal state, we do not enter a place that has day or night.
Rev. 21:25 "... In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; "
19) Luke 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Question: Why does God command us to fear Him (and not man) IF all that God will do is ultimately cause cessation of life (which is all that man can do anyway)?
Answer: Matthew's version of this teaching contains information that is missing in the question. Specifically, Matthew includes what God will ultimately do that is far more than any man can do ...
Matt 10:28 "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
20) Luke 12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Question: why are the unsaved to fear being cast into hell, if hell is no more than just a cessation of life? Aren’t there those who voluntarily cause their own life to cease? And don’t they wish that that is all that will come of it, and nothing more?
Answer: Aside from the answer given for 19 above ... The drive to keep one's self alive is one of the strongest drives that each of us have. Avoiding second death is a strong motivation ... strong enough, in fact, that those who choose against Eternal life through Christ Jesus the Lord, will have done so whether they go off to cessation of life or life of perpetual torment. However, they do not go off to perpetual torment, as scripture reveals. They go off to destruction.
Matt 7:13"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it."
Mark 9:43,45,47
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
... And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
... And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,48 'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'Question: Why would it be better to live in this life without a hand, foot, or eye (conscious pain) than to have one's existence cease (unconscious of any pain)?
Answer: Aside from the questioner making "the avoidance of pain" being the apparent goal to life, there are important parallels that the Lord's teaching makes worthy of pointing out.
When you gouge out your eye it is dead and useless for vision ... the thrown off part of your body does not continue to live. Same when you cut off your arm. The arm ceases to feel anything and will not languish in agony. It is cut off and no longer a part of the living.
Jesus uses this as a comparison to the second death ... which likewise is not a continuance of living nor a continuance of sensing pain, but a complete cessation of being alert and alive.
The scripture could only be a support for the doctrine of unending conscious torment if instead of how Jesus taught, He said something like rub your eye till it bleeds and swells shut if it offends you, and put burning needles in the skin of your hand if it offends you. But that is not what He taught, is it?... He doesn't say to torment your body parts, but instead to cut them off and remove them from ever feeling anything good or bad ever again.
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4/19/06 - From God the Father and Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
[Jesus] Hear the Word of the Lord, the Risen One, your Redeemer: I had come to you as a man, clothed in the flesh of men, humble, My glory set aside; God become man, living as all have lived in the body, but not as man lives in the spirit...for I am clean, having no sin in My body nor in My spirit, having obeyed every command of the Father...blameless.
[God] Behold the Lamb of God! Without spot or blemish, sent to die for the sins of the world, bearing the full weight of transgression in His own body. My Son, You are and will always be the Risen Lamb of God, whereby You took the leaven of the world, having completely unleavened all men, once, for all time, by Your blood, having been the perfect sacrifice for sin, acceptable to God, whereby men have been reconciled to the Father. They, themselves, becoming, once again, My sons and daughters, free to enter the Garden and My love, from which they shall never again be separated...their new life lived in, and for, Christ Jesus, the Lord and Savior, in whom I am well pleased.
[Jesus] So then, little children, and all who gather in My name where I am also, a holy convocation, have understanding of the plan of the ages and creation, which in the sixth day, the leaven of sin had entered into the garden; and on the seventh, God rested and blessed the seventh day.
As I have come and unleavened men by the cross, so must all those, who live in Me, crucify their lives, taking up their crosses and following after Me each day. For these six days of the feast have you made a physical representation of My command to you. You are forgiven...go out and sin no more. And be then separate from other men and all worldly desires, a strange and peculiar people who remain in My love.
The seventh day is the consummation of the six gone before, the cleansing completed, resting from Our works against temptation and evil. For I am coming quickly, and I, too, shall make a complete end to transgression and sin, and all that which leads My children into temptation. First have I unleavened all, who believe in Me, in their bodies...I am your Passover. Now, I am returning to make a complete end of all the leaven that fills the whole world. In seven days (years), I will accomplish it!...the Last Week. Then rest...peace...one thousand years.
Six days, creation...the seventh, rest, holy. Six days since Adam...the seventh, rest, holy. Six days in the week...the seventh, rest, holy. Six days shall you feast...the seventh, rest, holy. Drink and eat in remembrance of Me. Be filled with the glory of the Lord. Amen.
I am the Risen One, who has come to live in you.
By Me shall you overcome, for I had overcome all things from the beginning...
I am the Beginning and the Ending, Alpha and Omega...
All has become new, because of Me and through Me.
Amen.
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"Tell them of My sacrifice in love, of which you have accepted, and is the love which is of such a kind that they long for with all their being and realize it not. For they are those, who have received of the Word on the wayside, where satan came quickly and snatched away all I had planted in them. So you must continually plant without ceasing, until the day the latter rains come, where I will fulfill the increase in them..."
~ Jesus
"I see concern for all who dwell in need and lack. Tell them who is, and was, and will be the fulfillment they seek."
~ Jesus
"Beloved, bear fruit after the kind I have given you. What profit is there in sharing with another that which they already have? Feed the poor in spirit; give them your portion. My bounty is plentiful, given freely to all My people who hunger and thirst. Tell them that you were lost, naked, hungry, thirsty and sick. Now you are whole, for I, Christ Jesus, have found you, and you live in Me...My body, My bride. Look, also, how I have clothed you in these fine linens of white, and tossed away your old rags. No longer are you naked; no longer do you try to cover yourself with sackcloth. Also have I fed you, for My words are bread and as sweet as honey in your mouth, and fill that void within you. You have also drunk deeply of My cup that overflows, for it flows to every part of your life, bringing forth love and understanding. You were so very sick, mortally ill. In Me are you healed...no disease or even death can be found in you. You are a new creation, and shall never again see corruption, for all new creations will be plucked from the earth and replanted in the garden at dawn on the new day, and flourish in the light of the Lord.
Shine, My lamps...put your light upon the stand.
Feed those whose bowls are empty.
Do not give up or give in... the Lord is your Helper; and His Spirit, your guide...."
~ Jesus
Click here for the answer---> Does God approve of Modern Easter?
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Matthew 25:6
And at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!'
I am taking the time to witness to you that I have heard this cry about which the Lord Jesus foretold.
You can hear it too. Goto: http://TrumpetCallOfGodOnline.com ... and hear for yourself.
I don't believe church-goers when they say that Jesus said "no man knows the time and the seasons."
... because my bible reads: "know that it is at the doors when you see these things" Matt 24:32-33.
Rather it says we do not know the "day" nor the "hour." But we do what we are asked in "due season." (vs 45)
Maybe the problem is that church-goers would prefer that everyone else was in the dark about that which Paul said we should "know perfectly." (1 thess 5:2)
No man knows the day or the hour, but where is it written that it is proper to turn a blind eye to the seasons and times when the markers of His return are shown before our faces on a daily basis?
Read more!"all gifts have ceased and there are no more prophets.""Therefore you do NOT lack ANY spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. " (1 cor1:7)
Some say we all lack 100% of spiritual gifts since the New Testament is finished. I believe as Paul, ... that we retain 100% of all gifts as we wait eagerly for the Lord's return.
"Paul got on to the Thessalonians because they thought the second coming was imminent and they all quit their jobs."What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:29 - 31)
Some err in the expectation that He is coming before His time. Others err in the expectation that He is delayed and won't be here anytime soon. Please let us be counted among those that are correct, and if not correct then let us be a people like Paul who err towards too early rather than too late.
"[Jesus] will come like a thief in the night and thieves always break in when you least expect them to" as an excuse to have no watchfulness and to be unaware"And at midnight there was a cry made: `Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.' Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps." ... "and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut." (Matt 25:6,7,10)
Some don't hear the cry and are caught unawares but all of this teaching is so we are warned to not let it happen. Shall we then let it happen saying that is the way God wants it?
To WATCH the Video, click blog title above or HERE---> *Transgression - Thus Says The Lord AGAINST Man's Holidays!
Excerpts:
THUS SAYS THE LORD:
This world has altogether become a house of harlots, who continually go out to commit fornication with the unclean and revel in their adulteries against God, altogether forsaking Him who I sent to them so they may turn away from their ways and become completely clean...none of these have harkened. They remain shackled to this world and its fornications of sin, intermingling honor with dishonor, praise with blasphemy, and sin with purity. Woe! My children, you have all fallen into the snare of the devil. Can you not see, My children? Open your eyes and read the writing set forth in stone, written by the hand of God, the everlasting Law etched with burning fire, blazing as a torch so you may not stumble in the darkness which surrounds you...I shall speak plainly, so those slow to understanding may hear, though their ears are dull and their eyes are dim.
These modern holidays, Christmas, Easter and Halloween, are abomination in the eyes of the Lord God Almighty. I shall destroy them and wipe them from the face of the whole earth! No more shall you break My commands, and revel in sin, in the Sons name. My countenance is turned against you! says the Lord of Hosts.
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When studying the man's "holidays" verses God's Holy Days always focus on God's Word and what it actually says. Do not add to it or take away from it.
Let me try to simplify these in a comparison:
holidays-------------------------Holy Days
seem to be of the Truth------Reveal the truth about God
not in the Bible---------------mentioned throughout Bible
mix paganism with Truth----pure Word of God/prophetic
corruption of truth------------pure Truth
man-made---------------------God ordained
profain Jesus' name-----------Glorify Jesus' name
renamed by men-------------named by God for a reason
lead people away-----------point to the Messiah > Jesus
reveal the mind of men---------reveal the mind of God
point to false god's------------point to Jesus
replacements (unholy)---------original > Holy
break the commandments-----honor the commandments
plan of men to appease the pagans----"Plan of the Ages"
defiles Christ in practice-----Glorifies Christ in the practice
commanded by men-----------commanded by God
kept by believer and unbeliever alike----believers only
kept by world-------------kept by Jesus and the Apostles
Easter (pagan goddess name)----FirstFruits (word used for Jesus by Paul)
Note: Easter is actually celebrated by Christians on the correct day and mostly for the right reasons. Only the name is an abomination and the modern practices.
Jesus actually rose from the dead on a Saturday at sunset, which is also the beginning of the Holy Day First Fruits which continues through Sunday until sunset.
[*For the Chronology of Jesus' Crucifixion Click here]
Also, most of the holiday desecration is in the practice and in the decor or symbols attached to them which are pagan and are related to the worship of false gods.
[*To read more Biblical and historical evidence regarding these MODERN HOLIDAYS and their origins verses GOD'S HOLY DAYS and what they truly mean, click here ---> TrumpetCallofGod.com/pdfs/holy_day_study.pdf]
Do you ever wonder why one ape was chose to sit in a zoo and another was chosen to sit in a spaceship? One is launched into orbit and the other flings poo at zoo goers! Well, we may never know who nor how these decisions come about, but I'm sure one ape is not that different from the next.
Sometimes I see it! I'm His monkey. He picked me for something and I'm finding that out each day ... same with you too. He could launch one of us in orbit and set the other one in a different situation. We are along for the ride either way. He has to pull the levers and punch the buttons!
There is no use for even an astronaut to brag, because it they have sent rats to space, it is Mission Control that does all the work. Likewise, I can't take credit for anything He does in Me that reflects His glory, grace, and goodness. He gets the glory. I'm just along for the ride, while all the buttons and levers are controlled by Him. He could pick anyone, so there is no use bragging or thinking too highly of myself. After all, I'm just God's monkey .. .and I'm grateful to be put to use for anything He wants.
"""It is not that we are competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us; on the contrary, our competence is from God. """ ~ Paul (2 Cor 3:5)
If there is one thing that most scoffers have in common, they demand rights and proof. Some of these people have said that Christianity just didn't work, when they gave it a try. I've scoffed and said the same exact thing. But what were we really trying?
How could we have called Jesus our King and still dictatorially disregard His rule, by upholding a personal-rights ultimatum?
If you have never read a medical waiver, my advise is to not read it. Just sign it, and be done with it. You are signing all your rights away, so just embrace it. Once you have signed it, you have agreed to not complain if the doctor cuts your head off during hang-nail surgery on your small toe. You are basically saying that you are at the surgeon's mercy to fix what he can fix with none of your rights to interfere or grumble about his methods. But, refuse the waiver; and you refuse the cure.
The first time that I made God my Lord, I screwed it up. I did not sign the waiver. I held my rights.
What would you say about someone that grumbles and calls a surgeon fraud because he couldn't cure a thing? What if this same miserable patient didn't tell you that the surgeon did not cure them because they refused to trust his fix, and refused to sign away their rights? Does their criticism of the surgeon hold water, or did they simply count the costs as too high?
I was just such a patient.
1 Chronicles 29:22
They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD that day. Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time, ...
Who was the real cause of my misery? What was the cost of my cure?
When I became desperate, I found that even the right to be well, is not too much of a cost to surrender. I acknowledged Jesus, KING a second time.
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QUESTION by Charli:
Since we have our rest in Jesus, and what was once physical is now spiritual, why would the sabbath be a day?
If Jesus is truly our rest (which of course He is) and things that once were physical are now spiritual (the temple, inward holiness rather than outward....) then what reasons do we have to still keep the sabbath on a certain day? This is a genuine question, and I thank all for their responses.
Answer by Trent (inspired)
What does love look like?
A good indication that two people are in love is when they give one another gifts and wrap them in pretty paper with a touching note attached. Next time your beloved gives such a gift it is wise to open it and not just toss it aside, but take a moment to carefully examine what is given ... if it is clothes, then it is nice to try it on. If it is a necklace then ask your beloved to help you with the clasp (if required) so that you can wear it. It is nice to ask why they picked out the pendant and what it might mean, or otherwise engage in conversation about it.
In contrast, what would you think about a person who is loved and given such a gift, but instead refuses to open it? What if they open it and treat it with disregard or even worse ... with disdain / anger as if the devil wrapped it as a trap and placed it at your doorstep as a cruel trick? Would that reaction to the gift indicate mutual love or hatefulness?
And so I speak to you as someone who was so hateful to leave the gift wrapped and treat it like my beloved was tricking me for many years. I only speak to you about what I have done. Now, even upon occasion a friend would come along and say they opened the gift and love it, but I struck at them with my mouth and with my thoughts birthed in darkness and ignorance. I suppose there is something in human nature that fears what they do not know about ... and it is perhaps for this reason that the Lord made it clear ... its not a trap ... it is a gift!
Mr 2:27
And He said unto them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."I will tell you something that very few will understand, but I will say it anyway. These things (sabbaths and holy days / feasts) that I once treated with disdain, I now treasure as wonderful gifts from my Lord and Savior. I don't ever want to try to get by without them, but I didn't know that until I finally decided to experiment one day ... and give the gift a try. I opened the gift! And AFTERWARD God opened my eyes!
I don't know if your experience will be different than mine, but for me ... I didn't "get it" until I DID it. It was still a mystery ... I still was not sure it really was a gift.
Fastforward 1 year or so since my first Sabbath experience: God and I are giving each other presents constantly ... He always gives me more than I can give back ... and He always has a gift waiting for me every week. That is the way I see each Sabbath, now. I never would have guessed I would end up like this ... like a quivering lover delighted and opening one gift after another ... with glee each time. Thus, this has inspired me to make my whole life a gift to Him ... I just want to ... what else could someone do with so little to give, but just to honor Him in all my ways the best I know how ... and in the meantime do my best to open each new gift He gives me ... as a lover would open a gift ... no hate fullness found anymore.
You may not "get it" until you DO it. That's the best thing I can tell you.
by Trent (originally posted on 8/20/05)
The funny thing about God's glory is this: "You cannot separate God from His glory." Wherever God is; there is where you will find His glory, and wherever His glory is; there He is. But that is not the whole glory story.
The funny thing about God's glory (where I am concerned) is this: "God will not give His glory to another," and I am an other, so I am a potential threat to the glory of God.
I love banks. I give my money to banks. Now, the bank can do almost anything they want with my money. They can count it, stack it, fold it, store it, sniff it, microwave it, and roll around in it (but that is getting pretty weird,) but there is one thing that I don't want them to do with it. It is unacceptable for them to pocket the money for themselves.
There are times when I am an unacceptable vessel for God's glory. I'm just not "safe" for the glory. There are times when I want it for myself. The real war is not between good and evil. The real war is between the Creator's glory and the creation's glory. Too often, we are like the fallen angels.
We may act like the bank that takes the money.
It is said that Billy Graham has led millions to the Lord. It is said that the Apostle's healed thousands and raised the dead. It is said that Moses lifted up a staff, and the sea parted before him. Now, why am I not a vessel of more of God's glory? I'll tell you the reason. The reason that I am not a vessel for that much glory, is because one reason. On the other side of the Red Sea, someone would have said, "Great job!" And I would have replied, "Thanks." (what I should say is: "Why thank me? Glory to God. I did nothing.)
A bank would do better to return in-full, whatever was given.
Chronology of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion & Resurrection:
The chronology of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection is critically important because the first three Holy Days, commanded by God that we keep forever, are fulfilled through these events. He was crucified on Passover, "slept" in His tomb during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and was resurrected on First Fruits.
Jesus "slept" in His tomb three days and three nights as He, Himself, spoke of in Matthew 12:40, saying,..."the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth". The "heart of the earth" refers to His tomb, or grave, not the man-made "hell" most churches proclaim. To say that One such as Jesus, being completely sinless and pure, being the Son of God, would descend into the lake of fire, which is saved for the wicked, or worse yet, He somehow descended into a fictitious pit of torment*... this is blasphemy! "Hell", is the grave. Jesus descended into His grave for three nights and three days. (*To better understand the truth about "hell" click here--> Regarding the FALSE Teaching of "Hell").
The crucifixion transpired on Passover.
Scripture, very clearly, shows that Jesus Christ was crucified on Passover. This is especially important to note because Jesus, is, our Passover, solidifying further that He is, indeed, our Messiah.
Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto Him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? And He said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto Him, The Master saith, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at thy house with My disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the Passover. ~ Matthew 26:17-19.
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the Passover. Will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? ~ John 18:39.
Chronology of Jesus' Crucifixion:
Please note: The Hebrew calendar observes Holy days from the evening of one day to the evening of the next. Therefore, Passover occurred from sundown on Nisan 14 (Leviticus 23:5) to sundown on Nisan 15, and so on. The Feast of Unleavened Bread began at sundown on Nisan 15 and lasted seven days, ending at sundown on Nisan 22.
Nisan 14 (Tuesday evening - beginning of Nisan 14): Jesus ate an evening Passover meal with His disciples and instituted the New Covenant symbols..."And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat. This is My body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:26-28).
Tuesday night, after their meal, Jesus was betrayed by Judas, and arrested in the Garden of Gethsamane. During the night, Jesus was brought before the high priest (John 18, Luke 22, Matthew 26, Mark 14.)
Early Morning of Nisan 14 to evening, the beginning of Nisan 15 (Wednesday morning to Wednesday evening): Jesus was brought before Pilate early in the morning on Wednesday (Mark 14:2 & 15:1). After enduring scourging, mocking and severe beatings during the day on Wednesday, Jesus was crucified and died around 3 p.m..."And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani? That is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save Him. Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost" (Matthew 27:46-50). This was the preparation day for the annual Sabbath, not the weekly Sabbath...(Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54).
The bodies could not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day..."for that sabbath day was a high day" (John 19:31), so Pilate besought that their legs be broken. The legs of the two criminals, crucified with Jesus, were broken, but Jesus' legs were not broken because He was already dead (John 19:31-33). Jesus' body was then placed in the tomb just before sunset..."When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed" (Matthew 27:57-60).
In Matthew 12:40, Jesus tells us..."As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth". Wednesday night was the first night and Thursday was the first day that Jesus slept in the tomb.
Evening, beginning of Nisan 15, to evening, beginning of Nisan 16 (Thursday evening to Friday evening): This was the "high day" Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread (John 19:31 & Leviticus 23:4-7). (The Feast of Unleavened Bread began the night before at sundown). It is described as the day after the "Day of Preparation"..."Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate" (Matthew 27:62). Thursday night was the second night and Friday was the second day that Jesus slept in the tomb.
Evening, beginning of Nisan 16, to evening, beginning of Nisan 17 (Friday evening to Saturday evening): The high-day Sabbath now past, the women bought and prepared spices for anointing Jesus' body before resting on the weekly Sabbath day, which began at sunset on Friday..."And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him" (Mark 16:1)...and "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56). Friday night was the third night and Saturday was the third day that Jesus slept in the tomb. He arose at the end of the Sabbath, on Saturday, at sunset.
Evening, beginning of Nisan 17 (Saturday evening): The women rested on the weekly Sabbath (Luke 23:56), according to the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8-11). Jesus rose at the end of the Sabbath, EXACTLY three days and three nights after His burial..."Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from Thee. But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:38-40). This day was the Feast of First Fruits, which was observed on the day after the weekly Sabbath following Passover (Leviticus 23). Jesus arose Saturday evening, at sunset, this being the beginning of First Fruits. This is why Jesus is called the "first fruits" of those that slept..."But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20).
Nisan 18 day (Sunday): The women brought the prepared spices early in the morning, and at that time Jesus had already left His tomb..."Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them" (Luke 24:1 & John 20:1), finding that Jesus had already risen..."And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus" (Luke 24:2-3, also Matthew 28:1-6, Mark 16:2-6 & John 20:1). He did not rise Sunday morning, but at sunset the day before.
Why is the true chronology so important?
This does away with “Good Friday”, “Easter Sunday*” and one of the false reasons the churches use to justify changing the Sabbath to Sunday.
By rightly dividing the Word in the Bible, God’s glory is revealed!... Showing all that whatsoever God does is very purposeful, precise and always points to Jesus, for He is the fulfillment of all things! Amen.
*NOTE: Easter is a form of the name, Ishtar, who is the pagan goddess of fertility. This is where the symbols of “easter bunnies” and “easter eggs” originated.
The correct Biblical name of this day should be First Fruits, NOT Easter. Easter is actually celebrated by Christians on the correct day (which begins Saturday at sunset, and concludes Sunday at sunset), and for mostly the right reasons... Only the name and the modern practices are an abomination to God. For more information, please see “God’s Holy Days vs. Man’s Holidays”, pages 6 - 7 and 14 - 16).
LEARN MORE using LINKS below:
Jesus... THE LAMB OF GOD: The TRUE Chronology of the Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection--> http://trumpetcallofgod.com/pdfs/THELAMBOFGODstudy.pdfRead MORE about God's Holy Days here--> http://www.TrumpetCallofGod.com/pdfs/holy_day_study.pdf
**OVERWHELMING Evidence for Saturday being the TRUE Sabbath and that we should indeed obey the 4th Commandment:
click here ---> 7th Day is the Sabbath(Saturday) - 25+ Bible Verses, Confessions From Clergyman and more!
The Bible study link above contains Biblical and Historical Evidence including:
-25+ Bible Verses
-Old Testament Evidence: God Commanded His People To Keep the Sabbath
-New Testament Evidence: Jesus Christ Honored the Sabbath, even in death
-The word for Saturday in other languages is a variation of Sabbath
-The Calendar Has Remained Unchanged
-Why and When the Sabbath Was Moved to Sunday, the First Day of the Week
-Confessions From Clergyman
-Letter from God regarding the Sabbath and the Moral Law
5/23/06 - From God the Father and Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
[God]
Look up, the Lord comes, the Lord of Sabaoth comes, the Lord of Hosts, King of kings, Lord of lords...upon His mount of white, He comes. He shall gather His saints, and lift up the flock of the slaughter, and heal all who were trampled under the feet of oppression. Even all those, who were beheaded for their testimony, shall rise and abide forever in His presence. My people, the Lord is with you...He has always been with you. He dwells with His people, having never departed, though He had ascended out of their sight...still He remains fastened securely to the hearts of the blessed, the redeemed of the Lord. “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of this age”, says the Son of Salvation. Hear His words, every one, and take much comfort. Remember His words, “I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself. That where I am, you may be also”, says your Lord.
[Jesus]
Why, then, do you not believe Me, beloved? The Father had sent His messengers, saying, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand here gazing up into Heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen Him go into Heaven.” I tell you the truth!...I am come! I have come already! I am coming again! And I shall return in glory as a roaring lion! Yet you do not come to Me, neither do you know Me. Why do you not understand My speech?...For I proclaim it to you through men, in your tongue, yet you will not listen. You can not bear to hear, your heart is far from Me...married to the world, lost in the deluge of lies, false truths called science and religions that do not proclaim My name. I AM THE TRUTH! of which I was born into this world as a man to testify. I testify again through My servants, yet you will not hear them. Even all of you, who dwell in the churches, woe, I say to you. Do I live among you? Do you even know My name? You all sleep...a slumber in a bed filled with man’s conceit and doctrine, built on the foundation of unbridled arrogance.
[God]
Thus says the Lord your God: You shall surely come to not. Churches of men - REPENT! Tear down all you have built up by yourselves, of yourselves, and for yourselves. Tear down your four walls and begin again in Me, says the Lord. Obey My Word as it is written...cast away all you have written. Oh sons of men, shall you proclaim God’s will? Do you have His understanding? Have you spoken to My prophets? Have you saved your people from death? Were you crucified for Me?...I died for you. I am in the Son, and He is in Me.
Thus says the Lord: Offer yourselves upon the altar; crucify your lives. Then, only, shall you begin to know Me. Follow the Christ! says the Lord. He is your Teacher and your Safety in the time of troubles, which has come upon you. Assuredly, I say to you, little children, you do not know Him...you have no love for your God in your hearts.
[Jesus]
If you loved Me, then you would follow Me and obey My commands. Make your lives a living sacrifice...yea, a living monument to the Lord. Do it now! Do not wait...Judgment is nearly upon you. The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord has come, and I shall carry out His commands in all the earth. So then, beloved, where do you stand? You must awake and ask yourselves, ‘Who do I live for? And by whose blood am I established in life?’...I AM THE SOURCE OF LIFE! Live in Me! Do not just abide, but live! Eat, breathe, move in Me. In everything you do, praise the Lord your God. Honor Me, and you honor Him who had sent Me.
Thus says the Lord Christ, your Redeemer: You are all lukewarm water, even now growing cold. You have become lovers of self rather than lovers of God. Therefore, I shall spit you from My mouth...I do not know you. My people, hold your lamps up so I may behold your faces. Shine your lamps on your houses, so I may behold your works, all your works you have done. Lo, I have heard your voices shouting My name, saying, ‘We believe in you, Lord. We proclaim your name.’ Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you. Your lamps have went out, and you have no oil and nothing at all with which to relight them. Neither are you willing to go out and buy that which you lack. So you sit there in the dark, folding your hands, waiting in vain. Come out! Embrace the Light! Leave your earthly home...abide in the Spirit in the house of God! How long shall I wait for you, beloved? How long will you put Me last in your lives? How long will you desecrate My Sabbaths?
Thus says the Lord: I dwell not in the churches of men made by human hands! I dwell in the hearts of men, who truly love Me and continually seek to know and obey Me. I dwell in the temple of God made by His hands, fashioned in fragile flesh, housing the spirit of life.
Listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: Come back to Me...return to your First Love. Embrace the Word, which I am. Be born once again...born out of this world into the Truth, which is absolute as spoken from the mouth of God. Be born again in spirit and faith...and rest in, and know, I am the Lord. Obey all I have taught you, and I will return the lampstand to its proper place, and no longer will you sit there in the dark, fading into slumber.
The Lord has come, the trumpet is sounding.
Churches, awake!...And prepare the way of My coming.I am coming very quickly.
Oh peoples of the earth, oh mountains, oh valleys, oh hills, oh plains,
even all creatures and foundations of the world,
tremble in fear of the Lord!
The whole world shall shake and crumble at the coming of the Lord.
His countenance is an all-encompassing fire burning all in the heat of His wrath.Listen to the Trumpet, heed its warning...escape to the Father’s house!
I don’t like the teaching of “original sin” ... why lay at the feet of a newborn baby all the sin that has come before. How could God create that which is impure though it has done nothing? Let the children stand before we claim they have fallen.
I don’t like the teaching of “only this life” ... we do not lock the doors on people who had the misfortune of living in a culture that is devoid of the gospel. So, let it be known that all those resurrected into judgment will give answer to their willingness with the revelation of Christ and His gospel standing before them… and many will come to Him during that day who during this life never wanted to or never knew.
I don’t like the teaching of everlasting torment. No parent gets tired of talking to their children so they just torment them instead. We throw folk like that in prison. What a poor witness to warp scripture in such a way that makes it seem as if torture is God’s hobby. Annihilation is everlasting punishment, but it is not everlasting torture.
I don’t like the teaching of universalism either. Not only do you need to cut whole sections of the Bible out, but most universalists do bold mental calisthenics to make words like “destroy” to mean “preserve and refine.”
The fact of the matter is that all will stand before the Lord and see Him as He is… and hearts will be revealed. Nobody that wants to belong to the Lord with humility and willingness will ever be denied. Ignorance, rebellion, youth, mental handicaps, etc. ... none of that stuff will cause the process or the revelation of hearts to be obscured.
3/22/08 From God the Father and Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
Regarding those who say the Holy Spirit would never tell you to obey the Moral Law (The Ten Commandments).
[Jesus Christ] Timothy, concerning these perverse disputings which plague your mind, why do you let it be so?... I shall speak for the sake of My elect, tamed and untamed, humble and unrefined, of which both shall enter into My rest at the Last Day.
Timothy, this sin is grievous, and should not be spoken, nor uttered, in such a manner. Yet they have proclaimed it, even with complete ignorance of the Truth; neither seeing the folly of their speech.
You shall not blaspheme the Holy Spirit!
Neither shall anyone who claims My name,
taking to themselves My name and the Free Gift,
then in turn, go and pervert it before many witnesses as a show,
even proclaiming their own righteousness before men.FOR I, ALONE, AM THE LORD!
I am the Lord YOUR Righteousness!
How is it, then, that all these come before Me, saying aloud, that I, even I, who they say dwells in them by My own Spirit, the Spirit of God, of whom they also say they walk in, then turn and blaspheme... even on the highest order, saying and standing by that which I abhor, asserting that the Spirit of the Most Holy would never say to obey the Moral Law of the Father, which is also holy, just and good... even speaking against that which is fulfilled and upheld in Myself, even against that which I have magnified in Myself, even in all those in which I dwell and live?... Blasphemy! Desecration! Great folly!
Shall the Father of Lights send that Spirit of Himself, even to the great outpouring on all flesh, only to have it then stand against Him?... The Lord can not, nor ever shall, stand divided against Himself! Therefore, Timothy, and all who have received ears that hear, you already know to which spirit they speak of, for it is already named, and remains present in the world, even now...
It is written, even as I had spoken it through My servant, brought forth by the Holy Spirit,
“Now the Spirit expressly says, that in the latter days, some will depart from the faith,
giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons”...
of which the spirits are called and named, even the spirit of antichrist.Shall I not give correction?! ... Shall I not discipline?!
Shall I, even I, reward any who speak such things?!
Do not these speak lies in hypocrisy, having their consciences seared, with, as it were, an hot iron? For they, in vain, seek to honor Me with their lips, while at the same time keeping their hearts far from Me... they do dishonor Me, even that part of Myself of which I have poured out, which they have yet to receive.
Beloved, who call yourselves by My own name... receive of Me! Know you not, the Holy Spirit is of Me, also causing you to remember even all I have taught you? How, then, can the Spirit speak contrary to Me?! Get wisdom, seek understanding, and cease from these blasphemies against God and the Spirit, which is Holy and received in Me. Repent in all humility, rededicating yourselves to Me by means of the Truth, and not according to all these perverse doctrines of men taught amongst the churches. Return unto Me, even as a child, and assuredly I say to you, you will enter into My week of rest and escape all these things, which are coming upon the earth. Forebear, and stand tall with a stretched out neck, and you shall be abased... even a great humbling in the Day of the Lord.
Thus says the Lord God: For this is how you shall know the children of God: They keep the Commandments and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. For if one comes and has the Testimony, yet seeks not to keep the Commandments of God, he is a liar and has not received. And if one comes saying, keep the Commandments, yet has not the testimony of Jesus Christ, this one also shall be found a liar. For both neither know the Son, nor their God; neither do they have any love for God in their hearts. For these are unprofitable servants, lacking wisdom; neither do they abide in faith. For the knowledge of God has departed from them, whereby they have come to feast upon all these bitter and perverse doctrines of men in authority... refusing the true bread, even the Word of My mouth, which all shall live by.
These shall be taken and cast into darkness, wherein the time will pass and the door is shut, leaving them outside... where they shall behold all they have built, and whereupon they sat with pride and haughtiness, crumble and burn, even before their own eyes.
Yet the Lord is not without mercy...
They shall keep their lives,
but will escape as one escaping through flames...
the Refiner’s fire which shall rage even seven times...
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth!And all, who call on the name of the Lord in that Day,
even according to the great remnant, of which the Lord shall call,
these shall see the angels of Heaven going up and coming down
on the Son of Man in those days.Therefore, repent and turn,
and then prove that you have truly received, by new works and pure testimony...Even as an example of Christ in you...
Becoming a lampstand, a beacon of hope amongst all this darkness...
A renewed and refined people for My name,
of My name, the name of My Son.So as it is written, let it be done, says the Lord.
November 25, 2007! Remember that date!
That is a date that is in common for three people. They all related similar dreams that they had that night or the night before.
One of them is interpreted, but you have to read both links to get the interpretation.
Here is the link #1: http://amberquest.livejournal.com/33712.html
Here is the link #2: http://trumpetcallofgodonline.com/index.php5?title=Recompense
For Video, Click Here (or the title above)--> *Shout His Name! Blow the Trumpet! Shout to the Masses! (*voice & fx)
Letter TEXT, click here--> http://trumpetcallofgodonline.com/index.php5?title=Shout_His_Name!
SOME EXCERPTs:
Behold the hand of God!
For I shall visit the earth! I shall visit!... Says the Lord God!
I shall visit in My wrath! I shall come as a storm! Even a consuming fire!...
Therefore, My beloved, blow the trumpet!
Shout to the masses in all manner of speaking and devices.
You hold the Key to Salvation in your hearts,and there it is within your understanding...
Shout... His... Name!Read MORE at: http://www.TrumpetCallofGodOnline.com
[*Watch the Vid here--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdNdYt6V9o ]
6/13/08, From God the Father.
A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.
YahShua, The Everlasting Stone.
Thus says the Lord, even the God of Abraham, the Everlasting:
I have set up a Stone, a true and tried Stone, One of which shall never be cast off, nor can it ever be moved, though to many it has become an offense. And to My own it, even He, is called Wonderful, a great blessing... even a wonder. And still, towards others, a cursing - the wicked of heart, the froward, who do continually pollute His name... My Name!... the name I gave Him - Yah!... Your Salvation!...
Everlasting Father...
Prince of Peace...
King of kings, Lord of lords!
Immanu El...
I Am.
The Rock is put forth once again...
It shall destroy, even to the crumbling of all foundations, the casting and pulling down of all pillars. Nothing that upholds, in the name of men, shall withstand... all shall be thrown down, all shall be brought down.
The Rock, in which all these builders have rejected and covered over, is set up, even the Head of the Corner.
Everlasting praise.
Your King has come, and will gather,
and is returning in great fury...
Give Him all glory.
All things shall bow!... even every knee.
Even all things upon earth,
under the earth and those things in Heaven.
All things shall bow down...
all shall give Him glory and call Him Lord!
Thus says the Lord: Choose! Again, I say, Choose! Be broken atop this Stone, or be ground to dust beneath the Mountain. For He, called Christ and Jesus - YahShua Ha Mashiach - also being called Yeshua, is the Source of Life, even as I am the Creator of all things... the Source.
Abandon all this death... run swiftly. The end has come and shall progress quickly. Even in great haste shall My hand move across all these waters, even within these ten days... and in seven it shall be finished, it shall surely be concluded.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision!...
Swift Judgment to My left, reward on My right.
Come up, My people.
Come up and partake of the Feast I have prepared,
even from the beginning... Come.
The Feast of Tabernacles.
Peace.
Rest.
One thousand years and forever.
Neverending joy in The Beloved, in Whom you are accepted.
Amen... and Amen.
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TrumpetCallofGodOnline.com > Volume 7 > God’s Will
*3/7/08* From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
Thus says the Lord to the United States:
Obama shall lead you, and by him shall My will and judgment against your nation be fulfilled, for all its forsaking of Me and My Israel. And so I have brought from among your enemy, even one from Ishmael, to rule over you for a time and a season, foreordained, until that foretold is accomplished, and the king of fierce countenance(antichri_t/Dan 8:23) shall rule. Then, by that deception conceived of by your enemy and this transgressor(Obama), him(Obama) being full of lofty and elevated words, lies, and dark speeches sold as hope, will it return against him ten-fold of the same, by him called “perdition”(antichri_t/2Th 2:3 ).
For even the evil of this present world is set within the confines of My will. Evil acts and brings forth of its own, yet is unaware that nothing is hidden before Me. Neither has anything come to pass, nor will be, that I have not already beheld.
And this, oh arrogant and deceived generation, is why I said all was written and completed, even before the foundation of the world...
The God of all, even of all that is known and unknown,
the Creator of all things...
The Everlasting, who is from everlasting to everlasting...
I AM.
*Watch the Video HERE--> GOD'S WILL
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11/4/08 From God the Father - A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
When Obama was announced the winner, the Lord said in a loud voice:
“Now you shall see the heavens opened, and My wrath poured out on this nation! They shall come to know the hand of God in His anger, and I shall do so quickly, for all their forsaking of Me, and for all their murdering of the innocent, says the Lord God!”
The most remarkable discovery I have ever made, and find completely inexhaustible in searching and exploring is that God is jealously and madly in love with me.
He cannot be indifferent. Nothing is alright-fine. He is either thrilled or vexed ... like a great coach that wants his team to win and examines every aspect of every player on the team ... that is how He, God, is like towards me winning and getting further and further with Him. He examines everything and has opinions about it all. He likes what is working and wants me still to improve. He is greatly vexed and wrought with sorrow the moment I slip and fall. Yet, He is always there to set me upright and get me on my way.
YES! a thousand yesses to the question. Yes, God cares for you! It is not like worldly "concern" it is more like obsession and devotion ... God cares more than you could ever fully know.