Rev 3:10'Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.
I sense a renewed insistence within me stand firm on what the bible clearly teaches, there WILL BE a pre-tribulation rapture/escape from all event where those found worthy will be JUST LIKE Noah and Lot who escaped ALL of the flood and ALL of the fire and brimstone in their time.
In Rev 3:10 above we see that the Lord commends those servants who "keep the word of my endurance." Did you ever stop to think of what he means there? He's talking about being surrounded by naysayers and critics and yet holding onto his word in spite of it all. Holding on is the key. I am amazed to see what a growing fad it is for "christians" to abandon the plain reading of scripture when it comes to a topic as important as the rapture. We are told clearly that there will be an escape from all and yet thousands upon thousands of people who call themselves christians attack this idea. It's as if Jesus did not say anything about an escape from all but we know that he clearly did. We also have the clear encouragement of the stories of Noah and Lot. People can argue and twist all they want to but the clear teaching of the bible in the cases of both Noah and Lot is, the righteous were spared from ALL of the wrath/judgement that the wicked received.
Being spared from wrath is a promise repeated over and over again in the bible, but the bible twisters would have us believe that we will experience our God's wrath. I can't think of a more unbiblical concept. These people take God's wrath and tell us its "satan's wrath" for example (another satanic/unbiblical idea) to twist the plain meaning we read in the bible.
I find myself on FIRE again within about this topic. For quite awhile I did not, but the fire is re-kindled within me. Many people may not be sure about what's going to happen, but they really really need to settle the matter for themselves. I am 100% absolutely positive, that we WILL SEE a pre-tribulation rapture of the few who are found worthy in this world. How can I guarantee such a thing? The bible clearly teaches it and I have an inner witness now on this subject that is just short of breathtaking.
Satan wants to get his hands on everyone during the 7 years of hell coming to this earth, that's no surprise. What is a surprise is that so many people calling themselves "christians" are helping him through twisting the plain meaning of scripture to shipwreck the faith of many. That makes me angry, its THEFT. As you believe, so you receive and if people can be convinced by other people to give up hope and faith in one of the greatest promises made by God to us in the bible, well, that would be tragic.
I believe its time again to WATCH and WARN people. The people who don't want to hear any of this will argue till blue in the face with their same old tired arguments that hold no water. I have been done with them for a long long time. I have tested all of their arguments and found them to be wanting. They twist and turn the word of God to fit their own agenda and doctrine but they cannot hide true meaning from those filled with the Spirit of God when the Spirit is BURNING within pointing out exactly what was meant. This is reinforced by the idea that taking the bible at face value is the only way to read it. "Spiritualizing" the words in the bible is a satanic tool used to make the bible say whatever a person wants it to say.
In the end, we will see who is found wise (virgins) and who is found foolish (virgins ala Matt 25). It takes no faith at all to figure out that the bible meant what it said it meant AFTER an event takes place. So will it be with the escape from all/noah/lot experience coming to this world. After it happens, the foolish virgins will come knocking on the Lord's door and we know what they will be told. Again, don't shoot the messenger, I'm not judging anyone, the Word of God also known as Jesus himself judges men. The events of history will prove this out.
I have read severe attacks by people who say "how dare you judge anyone" when it comes to salvation by telling people that only a few will be saved! Wait a minute, I NEVER SAID that a only a few will be saved...JESUS DID so the problem is with God has written not me "judging" somebody. We are to remind each other of what has been written and clearly many people cannot handle that. They can only handle the cherry picked portions of scripture that fit their own private pet doctrines and anyone who challenges those doctrines is personally attacked. People attack the messenger personally because they have no biblical ground to stand on to attack the message. FEW will be saved, read Matt 7:13-28. Attack that, not me.
Today is a day of warning and watching. Warning people is NOT judging them. Warning people is an act of GRACE...not judgement but how few have the eyes to see or ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches today.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, grace and peace
Friday, February 05, 2010
The Days of Noah
Luke 17:26"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will
it be in the days of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
The Lord has given me a troubling question for all the naysayers who would have us believe that we will all go through part, most or all of the time of Jacob’s trouble.
That troubling question is, how much “tribulation” did Noah endure in his days? If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah AND naysayers are right that we will all go through at least part of the tribulation,then we should see some “tribulation” that Noah went through comparable to what we see in the book of revelation, but do we? Where exactly do we see in Noah’s experience plague, famine, the righteous being hunted down and slaughtered etc? If we are to believe the naysayers that tell us there is no escape from the coming days of hell on earth, shouldn’t we see the things that will happen during the tribulation in Noah’s experience as well? Well, we don’t. The fact is, we see nada, zip, zero, NOTHING about the description of the days of Noah that would in ANY WAY compare to the days of the Daniel’s 70th week/time of Jacob’s trouble.
Here’s another troubling fact, Noah was in the ark, a place of physical safety while the rest of the world was punished with the flood. So again, I ask you, where was Noah’s “tribulation?” The mid-trib/pre-wrath/post-trib crowd can only respond with a stunning silence. It’s the same with Lot, where were Lot’s “tribulation” events? If the naysayers are right shouldn’t we see tribulation kinds of events happening to both Noah and Lot? Yea, we should but we don’t, so what can we conclude? The mid-trib/pre-warth/post trib crowds are wrong, dead wrong.
The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah, and in the days of Noah life went on as usually for everybody right up to the very day that NOAH ENTERED THE ARK. Then all hell broke loose, but not a moment before:
Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day
Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Noah entered the ark, THEN the flood came and destroyed them all. What part of that don’t people understand? If the coming of the Son of man is going to be just like the days of Noah, then we will enter our “ark” and THEN the “flood” of judgment will come and destroy the world. If Jesus said it he meant it. If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah, then life will go on as usual until the very day we are physically separated from this world by the walls of our “ark” whatever that is. Since we use the bible to interpret the bible, does this jive with what we are told in Luke 21:36?
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Yes, it fits like a glove. Noah escaped ALL, Lot escaped ALL and those of us found worthy will escape ALL as well. The how and when of all this are the Lord’s department, but the “what” has been clearly spoken to us. The wise virgins will keep their lamps full of oil, WATCHING for the Lord and praying in obedience to the command we were given to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all that’s about to happen and stand before the Son of Man.
It’s going to be a very very bad day for those foolish virgins who only come later, after it is painfully obvious that the bible means what it says in plain language, to knock on the Lord’s door asking to be let in. He will tell them “I don’t know you.”
Today is a day for watching and warning. The Lord dropped these words directly into my heart yesterday. Ask the naysayers to prove their point by comparing the days of Noah and Lot to the days of the tribulation. If there was no plague famine or flood inside the ark, NONE, then how exactly is it that we should expect these things for ourselves? If people want to argue until they are blue in the face that they will go through Daniel’s 70th week, then perhaps they personally will get what they argue for.
Every day the facts continue to stack up in support of what the bible says at face value. There is an escape from all and we should pray for it. Many will likely not be watching and ready when the escape shows up, so they will go through part or all of the tribulation. As far as they personally are concerned, they are right to argue that they will go through the tribulation because they probably will, but not everybody will….according to your faith it will be done unto you.
Just imagine what it will feel like to know that some people did escape just as the bible teaches, but you were left behind because your faith and belief placed you in the middle of the tribulation. How will you feel then? How will all the people feel who bought into the idea that there was no escape even though the bible clearly teaches there is one? Perhaps people need to spend a lot less time listening to their “pastors” and spend more time listening to the Holy Spirit. I could truly care less about what most men have to say about God. I want to know what God has to say about God. There’s just way too much deception in this world to be listening to naysayers at this late hour. Determine for yourself what you believe and why you believe it. It would be a pity to miss an escape from the worst days this world has ever seen because some man talked you out of it….
Grace and peace
it be in the days of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
The Lord has given me a troubling question for all the naysayers who would have us believe that we will all go through part, most or all of the time of Jacob’s trouble.
That troubling question is, how much “tribulation” did Noah endure in his days? If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah AND naysayers are right that we will all go through at least part of the tribulation,then we should see some “tribulation” that Noah went through comparable to what we see in the book of revelation, but do we? Where exactly do we see in Noah’s experience plague, famine, the righteous being hunted down and slaughtered etc? If we are to believe the naysayers that tell us there is no escape from the coming days of hell on earth, shouldn’t we see the things that will happen during the tribulation in Noah’s experience as well? Well, we don’t. The fact is, we see nada, zip, zero, NOTHING about the description of the days of Noah that would in ANY WAY compare to the days of the Daniel’s 70th week/time of Jacob’s trouble.
Here’s another troubling fact, Noah was in the ark, a place of physical safety while the rest of the world was punished with the flood. So again, I ask you, where was Noah’s “tribulation?” The mid-trib/pre-wrath/post-trib crowd can only respond with a stunning silence. It’s the same with Lot, where were Lot’s “tribulation” events? If the naysayers are right shouldn’t we see tribulation kinds of events happening to both Noah and Lot? Yea, we should but we don’t, so what can we conclude? The mid-trib/pre-warth/post trib crowds are wrong, dead wrong.
The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah, and in the days of Noah life went on as usually for everybody right up to the very day that NOAH ENTERED THE ARK. Then all hell broke loose, but not a moment before:
Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day
Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Noah entered the ark, THEN the flood came and destroyed them all. What part of that don’t people understand? If the coming of the Son of man is going to be just like the days of Noah, then we will enter our “ark” and THEN the “flood” of judgment will come and destroy the world. If Jesus said it he meant it. If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah, then life will go on as usual until the very day we are physically separated from this world by the walls of our “ark” whatever that is. Since we use the bible to interpret the bible, does this jive with what we are told in Luke 21:36?
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Yes, it fits like a glove. Noah escaped ALL, Lot escaped ALL and those of us found worthy will escape ALL as well. The how and when of all this are the Lord’s department, but the “what” has been clearly spoken to us. The wise virgins will keep their lamps full of oil, WATCHING for the Lord and praying in obedience to the command we were given to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all that’s about to happen and stand before the Son of Man.
It’s going to be a very very bad day for those foolish virgins who only come later, after it is painfully obvious that the bible means what it says in plain language, to knock on the Lord’s door asking to be let in. He will tell them “I don’t know you.”
Today is a day for watching and warning. The Lord dropped these words directly into my heart yesterday. Ask the naysayers to prove their point by comparing the days of Noah and Lot to the days of the tribulation. If there was no plague famine or flood inside the ark, NONE, then how exactly is it that we should expect these things for ourselves? If people want to argue until they are blue in the face that they will go through Daniel’s 70th week, then perhaps they personally will get what they argue for.
Every day the facts continue to stack up in support of what the bible says at face value. There is an escape from all and we should pray for it. Many will likely not be watching and ready when the escape shows up, so they will go through part or all of the tribulation. As far as they personally are concerned, they are right to argue that they will go through the tribulation because they probably will, but not everybody will….according to your faith it will be done unto you.
Just imagine what it will feel like to know that some people did escape just as the bible teaches, but you were left behind because your faith and belief placed you in the middle of the tribulation. How will you feel then? How will all the people feel who bought into the idea that there was no escape even though the bible clearly teaches there is one? Perhaps people need to spend a lot less time listening to their “pastors” and spend more time listening to the Holy Spirit. I could truly care less about what most men have to say about God. I want to know what God has to say about God. There’s just way too much deception in this world to be listening to naysayers at this late hour. Determine for yourself what you believe and why you believe it. It would be a pity to miss an escape from the worst days this world has ever seen because some man talked you out of it….
Grace and peace
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Keep Watch
Matt 25:10“But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
11“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
12“But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’
13“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Luke 21:34“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
We are told to be watching. It is very clear, yet many today would argue with you till they are blue in the face that there's no reason to be watching today. To be fair, people are watching for all kinds of things aside from the one thing Jesus told them to be watching for...HIS RETURN for us. It is also very clear that there is an event coming that you can call whatever you want, but that event will see us PHYSICALLY SEPARATED from the masses of humanity in order to allow us to "escape from all" exactly the way that Noah escaped ALL of the flood and Lot escape ALL of the fire and brimstone of his day. Of particular importance in both the story of Noah and Lot is the physical separation from the places of judgement.
I have no idea how the Lord will do what is about to happen. Will it be by "rapture" or some other method? Frankly I don't care because I know for a FACT , with 100% certainty that the word of the Lord is true, flawless, perfect and this coming separation event will occur EXACTLY as it was written to do exactly what the Lord said he would do. There is a 0% chance that anyone to include all the "other tribbers" (mid-trib/pre0wrath/post-trib) will be able to look back and say there was not an escape from ALL. When it happens it will be clear, but it will also be too late for these people who a. are not watching, because they do not believe Jesus is coming back for us anytime soon, and b. Are not ready, their faith puts them in direct conflict with the Lord's own words, for example they refuse to pray for an escape from all because they do not believe there is an escape from all, nor do they believe there is any need to be watching for Jesus today.
The people who are watching for the tribulation, the anti-christ and everything else BUT Jesus are NOT ready to meet him today, how could they be when the refuse to believe his words? How many times must they be told to WATCH? Watch for what? For HIM.....of particular note here is verse 11 in Matt 25:11“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
Notice the use of the word "later" here. This group that is found not ready comes knocking on the Lord's door AFTER he has come back to take us where he is and what does he tell them?
12“But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’
13“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
He tells these "virgins".....christians presumably ..I DON'T KNOW YOU. That will come as quite a shock for these people won't it? I don't know you? They end up coming to the Lord's door and knocking LATER...AFTER it has become obvious that the Lord should be taken at his word. The bible makes it very clear that those who show up knocking at the Lord's door AFTER it has been opened (see Rev 3-4 for "open door" in heaven) were not ready when it opened. Why? They were not watching when the Lord told them to watch? Why? Their pet doctrines trumped the clear reading of the words in the bible and they chose their doctrines over the plain meaning of scripture.
There's nothing complex about any of this. We are told to watch and be ready for the Lord's return TODAY. NOT at the mid-point of the tribulation, NOT 60-80% through the tribulation, NOT at the end of the tribulation, but right NOW. These people do not believe what God said. If Jesus said there will be an escape from ALL that's about to happen then you can bet life and limb it will there IS an escape from all, its a fact. These people are victims of their own disbelief, which suppresses them and does not allow them to "see." Belief is half of being and ALL of "seeing."
There is no way that those who take God's word at face value will be disappointed. Go re-read Hebrews 11 about all those who believed God and were credited with righteousness for it. The kingdom of heaven has not been given to Ph. Ds and "christian scholars" and the "learned" and "experts" of this world. The kingdom has been given to little children, to those who believe with a childlike faith. The bible clearly teaches us that our Lord actively frustrates the wisdom of the "wise" in this age. I suspect that many "christians" today will be terribly vexed to hear from Jesus' own mouth "I don't know you."
Don't attack the messenger because I am not the one who says Jesus will say "I don't know you" to the virgins who came late. Jesus said that. I am not the one who said that only a FEW will make it through the narrow gate that leads to life, JESUS said that (Matt 7:13-28).
I do not know how, or when the "escape from all" luke 21:34-36 and being "kept from the hour of trial" is going to happen, but I know they will be fulfilled LITERALLY and I know for a FACT that many "virgins" will show up AFTER it happens knocking on the Lord's door asking to be let in and they will be turned away. The Lord is not pleased with disbelief and faithlessness that should be evident.
Could you imagine what you would feel like if your children were about to be faced with the greatest crisis of their life, and you sent a means for them to escape it and most of them snubbed their nose at it? Think you would get upset at them?
According to what you believe, things will be done to you. According to your faith or lack of it, things will happen in your life:
Matthew 9:29 Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to ... Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith will it be done to you"; ...
grace and peace
11“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
12“But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’
13“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Luke 21:34“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
We are told to be watching. It is very clear, yet many today would argue with you till they are blue in the face that there's no reason to be watching today. To be fair, people are watching for all kinds of things aside from the one thing Jesus told them to be watching for...HIS RETURN for us. It is also very clear that there is an event coming that you can call whatever you want, but that event will see us PHYSICALLY SEPARATED from the masses of humanity in order to allow us to "escape from all" exactly the way that Noah escaped ALL of the flood and Lot escape ALL of the fire and brimstone of his day. Of particular importance in both the story of Noah and Lot is the physical separation from the places of judgement.
I have no idea how the Lord will do what is about to happen. Will it be by "rapture" or some other method? Frankly I don't care because I know for a FACT , with 100% certainty that the word of the Lord is true, flawless, perfect and this coming separation event will occur EXACTLY as it was written to do exactly what the Lord said he would do. There is a 0% chance that anyone to include all the "other tribbers" (mid-trib/pre0wrath/post-trib) will be able to look back and say there was not an escape from ALL. When it happens it will be clear, but it will also be too late for these people who a. are not watching, because they do not believe Jesus is coming back for us anytime soon, and b. Are not ready, their faith puts them in direct conflict with the Lord's own words, for example they refuse to pray for an escape from all because they do not believe there is an escape from all, nor do they believe there is any need to be watching for Jesus today.
The people who are watching for the tribulation, the anti-christ and everything else BUT Jesus are NOT ready to meet him today, how could they be when the refuse to believe his words? How many times must they be told to WATCH? Watch for what? For HIM.....of particular note here is verse 11 in Matt 25:11“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
Notice the use of the word "later" here. This group that is found not ready comes knocking on the Lord's door AFTER he has come back to take us where he is and what does he tell them?
12“But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’
13“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
He tells these "virgins".....christians presumably ..I DON'T KNOW YOU. That will come as quite a shock for these people won't it? I don't know you? They end up coming to the Lord's door and knocking LATER...AFTER it has become obvious that the Lord should be taken at his word. The bible makes it very clear that those who show up knocking at the Lord's door AFTER it has been opened (see Rev 3-4 for "open door" in heaven) were not ready when it opened. Why? They were not watching when the Lord told them to watch? Why? Their pet doctrines trumped the clear reading of the words in the bible and they chose their doctrines over the plain meaning of scripture.
There's nothing complex about any of this. We are told to watch and be ready for the Lord's return TODAY. NOT at the mid-point of the tribulation, NOT 60-80% through the tribulation, NOT at the end of the tribulation, but right NOW. These people do not believe what God said. If Jesus said there will be an escape from ALL that's about to happen then you can bet life and limb it will there IS an escape from all, its a fact. These people are victims of their own disbelief, which suppresses them and does not allow them to "see." Belief is half of being and ALL of "seeing."
There is no way that those who take God's word at face value will be disappointed. Go re-read Hebrews 11 about all those who believed God and were credited with righteousness for it. The kingdom of heaven has not been given to Ph. Ds and "christian scholars" and the "learned" and "experts" of this world. The kingdom has been given to little children, to those who believe with a childlike faith. The bible clearly teaches us that our Lord actively frustrates the wisdom of the "wise" in this age. I suspect that many "christians" today will be terribly vexed to hear from Jesus' own mouth "I don't know you."
Don't attack the messenger because I am not the one who says Jesus will say "I don't know you" to the virgins who came late. Jesus said that. I am not the one who said that only a FEW will make it through the narrow gate that leads to life, JESUS said that (Matt 7:13-28).
I do not know how, or when the "escape from all" luke 21:34-36 and being "kept from the hour of trial" is going to happen, but I know they will be fulfilled LITERALLY and I know for a FACT that many "virgins" will show up AFTER it happens knocking on the Lord's door asking to be let in and they will be turned away. The Lord is not pleased with disbelief and faithlessness that should be evident.
Could you imagine what you would feel like if your children were about to be faced with the greatest crisis of their life, and you sent a means for them to escape it and most of them snubbed their nose at it? Think you would get upset at them?
According to what you believe, things will be done to you. According to your faith or lack of it, things will happen in your life:
Matthew 9:29 Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to ... Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith will it be done to you"; ...
grace and peace
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Escape All
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
There is an escape from all coming. That's a FACT. There is a worthiness factor attached to it, that also is a fact. Many people will not be counted worthy of this escape from all, just like many people will not make it through the narrow gate that leads to life (Matt 7:13-28), did you ever stop to ask WHY?
It's become quite a fad in todays so called christianity to cast doubt on whether or not there will be an escape from all. This fad also calls into question how much of the flood Noah escaped. It calls into question how much fire and brimstone Lot had to endure before he escaped. It also calls into question how much the Philadelphia church (Rev 3:10) will be kept from.
The fact is, Noah escape ALL of the flood. Lot escaped ALL of the fire and brimstone. Some people will escape ALL of the coming judgement and some people will be kept from the hour of trial coming on ALL the earth. Those are facts, not my opinions..FACTS straight from God's mouth as written in the pages of the bible.
According to men's faith things happen to them. Doubt sticks a rapier through the heart of faith. Doubt is a tool of the devil who has been asking "hath God really said" from the very beginning. Few will escape, and few will be saved because few take the Lord at his word. Few will be "ready" like the virgins of Matt 25. Few will be WATCHING and PRAYING in FAITH at the time of Luke 21:36 is literally fulfilled.
Just before the command to pray to be kept from all in Luke 21, we see this in Luke 18:
Luke 18:8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and ... ... Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Belief is a major part of "being." Men's disbelief supresses them, they aren't blind, its just that they won't see. What they do not believe, they will not receive. Be careful of what you believe, especially when it conflicts with the commands of God. If we were told to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all, I would suggest we do it. Silly me?
grace and peace
There is an escape from all coming. That's a FACT. There is a worthiness factor attached to it, that also is a fact. Many people will not be counted worthy of this escape from all, just like many people will not make it through the narrow gate that leads to life (Matt 7:13-28), did you ever stop to ask WHY?
It's become quite a fad in todays so called christianity to cast doubt on whether or not there will be an escape from all. This fad also calls into question how much of the flood Noah escaped. It calls into question how much fire and brimstone Lot had to endure before he escaped. It also calls into question how much the Philadelphia church (Rev 3:10) will be kept from.
The fact is, Noah escape ALL of the flood. Lot escaped ALL of the fire and brimstone. Some people will escape ALL of the coming judgement and some people will be kept from the hour of trial coming on ALL the earth. Those are facts, not my opinions..FACTS straight from God's mouth as written in the pages of the bible.
According to men's faith things happen to them. Doubt sticks a rapier through the heart of faith. Doubt is a tool of the devil who has been asking "hath God really said" from the very beginning. Few will escape, and few will be saved because few take the Lord at his word. Few will be "ready" like the virgins of Matt 25. Few will be WATCHING and PRAYING in FAITH at the time of Luke 21:36 is literally fulfilled.
Just before the command to pray to be kept from all in Luke 21, we see this in Luke 18:
Luke 18:8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and ... ... Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Belief is a major part of "being." Men's disbelief supresses them, they aren't blind, its just that they won't see. What they do not believe, they will not receive. Be careful of what you believe, especially when it conflicts with the commands of God. If we were told to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all, I would suggest we do it. Silly me?
grace and peace
Monday, January 18, 2010
An All or Nothing Game
Today while I was out running, the Lord deposited this entire article in my head to deliver to you. It's a short article but a big, no huge idea....One of the foundational questions that the Lord used to get me to start this blog was the question of why will so few people be saved?
Matt 7:13“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
The vast majority or "pastors" preachers and teachers in this world won't touch this subject with a 10 foot pole, but Jesus said it and we need to consider it... WHY will FEW be saved? You can ignore that Jesus ever said it and find out the hard way later, I guess that's always an option too. Unfortunately for most its the most frequently chosen option. Anyway, today the Lord answered that question for me with what is contained in this post.
1. Few will be saved
We just covered that in Matt 7:13-14. We also see over and over again throughout the history of Israel that most were destroyed and only a few, a remnant were saved. This is not a new idea.
2. The bell curve
I don't know how to get that picture of the bell curve down into this section or I would put it here. Simply put, most people fall into the middle, or "normal" part of the bell curve. On either end of the bell curve you have the "few." In the context of what Jesus said about only a "few" making it into the narrow gate that leads to life, where should we be looking for people in the world who will truly be saved? We should look for them among the FEW, not among the many, or the "normal" or the middle, they are out on the edges, you might say they are found among the extremes.
Ever notice how today the really "bad" people are labeled "extremists?" "Extreme" is a really bad title to have today, its better (according to this world) to be found in the middle of the bell curve amongst the many, the "normal," but according to what Jesus said, being there is the broad path that leads to destruction, the path that the "many" take is one I do not want to be found on.
3. Hot or cold or I will spit you out
Running hand in hand with this idea that few will be saved, and the few are found on the edges, not the middle of the bell curve, we have these words from our Lord:
Rev 3:15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Did you read that? Jesus said that because these people are not "extreme," neither hot nor cold, but only "lukewarm" normal, in the middle, the masses, among the most, he is going to spit them out of his mouth. Other translations say vomit them out. In other words, he doesn't want them. Jesus wants hot or cold, one or the other. Most people are neither. Most people think that if they are on the broad path, the popular path surrounded by the masses then they will be safe and in the end their belief for staying in the normal/mass/popular/lukewarm area will be vindicated. Jesus tells us that's a lie and it will get you killed...eternally.
4. "Games" Aren't always for pleasure or trivial or juvenile, they can be deadly serious.
To put it simply, this is an all or nothing game. The "games" that gladiators fought in were deadly. Game theory is what the military uses to predict the deadly consequences of war. All "games" are not created equally, and the game of life is an all or nothing game. We need to be found on the extreme edges of that bell curve we saw above. We need to be hot or cold, on one side or the other, but not in the middle, not with the masses. We need to be found among the few.
Most people don't know where they are going in life, what they really want, who they really are, or what they really believe. They just kind of float along like a rudderless ship allowing the winds of the "masses" to direct their course. Most people have chosen a "lukewarm" path because to be out on the "extremes" where the "hot" and "cold" live just isn't comfortable for them. Most people care more about what the masses say and think than what the Creator thinks, so they end up getting spit out. Do you know what happens to people who get caught in the middle of a war without choosing sides? They get shot at from both sides. That's certainly not a good place to be.
What you have read here was given to me in its entirety by the Lord today. The message is clear, you need to choose sides. Do not be caught with the masses, the "most" that walk the broad path to destruction. We have no idea how much time is left before our Lord shows up for us so while we wait lets decide exactly what we believe, what we want, what we are asking the Lord for, where we are going in this life and the next. Don't spend another day as a "lukewarm" member of the masses who gets vomited out in the end.
grace and peace
Friday, January 15, 2010
A Preview of The Future: Haiti
Have you ever wondered what the future looks like? Look at Haiti right now. That's a preview of the future. While the media rolls camera 24/7 on the second to second happenings in Haiti, I think it would be wise to pan the camera out for a moment to ponder the bigger picture of what we actually see before us.
What do we see in Haiti? Extreme natural disaster? Yes. Death? Yes. Famine? Yes. Disease? Yes. War (people running around with machetes chopping each other down for food)? Yes. Despair? Yes. Okay, so with all these questions answered can we conclude that its not too overly dramatic to say that what we see in Haiti actually is a pre-view of the future? According to the bible, the answer is ....YES.
Matt 24:4Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,a’ and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
and
Rev 6:1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
5When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages,b and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages,c and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
7When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
12I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
As I was watching images of what's going on in Haiti right now, the Lord impressed upon me that its just a preview of what is coming. It's hard to detach our thinking from what's on the screen but really think about it. What is going to be happening on some day during the tribulation/time of Jacob's trouble when millions/billions are dying from the seals being opened/trumpet/bowl judgements etc? What's going to be happening will be worse that what we see on TV in Haiti right now. What will the news crews be saying about it all? Will they admit that what is happening is an act of judgement for man's wickedness and rebellion against God? NEVER. Just like now, anyone who suggests that what happened to Haiti might have something to do with the Lord is labeled a kook/idiot/freak etc.
What do you think they will be saying on brain drain TV during the days of judgement that are coming on the world? It will be very similar to what they say today. 50,000-100,000 and counting people died as a result of the earthquake in Haiti this week. Is that grievous? YES. Does that break my heart? YES. Is more coming???? YES Over 2 Billion people will be killed in the opening salvo of the time of Jacob's trouble:
Rev 6:8 .....They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
What will they be saying on the propaganda tube in those days? Anything BUT, "hey guys, maybe this is the wrath of God... maybe we should repent and get our act together...."
We still live in the age of Grace. Our Lord's hands are still outstretched in mercy to this world, but the days of that mercy grow short. Terrible events like what has happened in Haiti should cause everyone who sees it to take a hard look at their own life. If it happened in Haiti, it can happen where you live too. The Lord is loving and kind, full of mercy and compassion, but he is NOT a one dimensional God as so many portray him in today's "churches." Our God is ALSO a God of WRATH and JUDGEMENT and VENGEANCE and WAR and RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Isaiah 42:13 ... ... The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal:he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies.
Romans 2:5 ... But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment ...
Nahum 1:2 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes ... The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his foes
....and there are tons of other examples you can go look up for yourselves to prove the point. People like to see the pleasant side of our God and they dig holes in the ground to hide their eyes from all the rest. Is that wise?
What I am hearing from the Lord today is not a message of condemnation of the Haitian people, its a call for everyone else to WAKE UP. If a person's heart is not broken to the point of tears over the Haitian people's plight, I'd have to wonder if they really know the Lord. Things like what we are seeing in Haiti work for destruction, but also for GOOD for those whose eyes and ears and hearts are OPEN to the Lord's voice.
The Lord is speaking today. He is speaking all the time. We are the ones who are not listening. We are the ones who are not "seeing." Our God is a God of miracles and turnarounds. A person who sees what happened in Haiti, and sees what is coming in the books of Daniel, Mark 14, Luke 17, Matt 24, and the entire book of Revelation, and turns in repentance, can be spared much of the horror that still awaits the world in the days ahead. That's not a scare tactic, its a statement of fact.
What happened in Haiti is a preview of the future. Terrible times are coming for most of the people who live on the face of the earth. But not everyone is going to go through the horrors of the days ahead. There is a promise of escape we find in Luke 21:36. There is a promise of being kept in Rev 3:10. There are promises in Luke 17 and Matt 24 that some of us will experience the future exactly the way Noah and Lot did in their days. Lot did not put on a fire retardant suit to "endure the flames" of fire and brimstone that fell on Sodom. Noah did not put on a duck floatie to keep his head above the floodwaters in the days of the flood. Nope, they were both physically removed/separated spatially from the fire/bromstone and flood. The bible guarantees us that some people will ehave an experience exactly like Noah and Lot.
Many people argue with the bible. They think that there will be no escape from all. They think that men will go through some or all of the horrors of the time of Jacob's trouble. I believe that as far as those people themselves are concerned..THEY ARE RIGHT. Chances are, most people will not escape from all, be spared in the way that Noah and Lot were. Luke 21:36 tells us there is a worthiness factor involved in the escape from all. The story of Lot tells us that out of an entire city, only Lot and his family made it out alive. Out of the entire world that Noah lived in, only Noah and his family escaped the flood. So most people are RIGHT when they believe they will not escape all..... They are right...but only about their own destiny. According to our faith things are done to us, and their faith places them in the thick of the tribulation/time of Jacob's trouble. Who am I to argue with them?
Matt 9:27As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” 28When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”“Yes, Lord,” they replied. 29Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you”; 30and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” 31But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
I see the terrible times coming. I have faith that every word of the Lord is true and there is an escape from all just as the Lord says there is in Luke 21:36, Luke 17, Matt 24, and Rev 3:10. We are told to pray that we will be counted worthy to escape all that's about to happen, question is, are you praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all that's about to happen? If not, why not? It is an act of direct and willful disobedience not to pray that prayer, especially now that you know you should pray that prayer. But I'm not here to beat you down, I just want to share my thinking with you.
The word of God tells us in Matt 7:13-28 that only a FEW will be saved. FEW will make it through the narrow gate that leads to life, and the many will go down the broad path that leads to destruction. This blog was started in a large part because of that one scripture. My question was, why? Why will only a FEW make it in? That question and the Lord's answers to thousands of questions I asked him opened my eyes to the apostasy that calls itself "christianity" today. Everything about "christianity" from the pastoral system, to worship "services" to "tithing" and every other foundational issue I can think of within today's babylonian form of churchianity is rotten from the ground up.
I have many proofs that this thinking is not false but I only need one proof to prove it all. There are "pastors" and "churches" on every corner of every street in America today and yet DARKNESS, not light is growing by the day over America and the world. Light ALWAYS drives out darkness, no exceptions, every time. So how can all these "pastors" and "churches" be full of light AND darkness also be growing thicker and darker over our country by the day? The only way darkness can triumph is by the complete ABSENCE of light in the land. The absence of light and the advance of darkness only proof I need to offer to prove the point that whatever the so called christian church claims itself to be, it is NOT light because it is NOT driving out darkness. I rest my case.
Consider carefully what is happening in Haiti today. Pray for the people, offer what other help you can, but remember that if it happened in Haiti this week, it could happen here next week. If it did, what would you do? Are you right with the Lord? That's really the only thing that matters.
Grace and peace
What do we see in Haiti? Extreme natural disaster? Yes. Death? Yes. Famine? Yes. Disease? Yes. War (people running around with machetes chopping each other down for food)? Yes. Despair? Yes. Okay, so with all these questions answered can we conclude that its not too overly dramatic to say that what we see in Haiti actually is a pre-view of the future? According to the bible, the answer is ....YES.
Matt 24:4Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,a’ and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
and
Rev 6:1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
5When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages,b and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages,c and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
7When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
12I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
As I was watching images of what's going on in Haiti right now, the Lord impressed upon me that its just a preview of what is coming. It's hard to detach our thinking from what's on the screen but really think about it. What is going to be happening on some day during the tribulation/time of Jacob's trouble when millions/billions are dying from the seals being opened/trumpet/bowl judgements etc? What's going to be happening will be worse that what we see on TV in Haiti right now. What will the news crews be saying about it all? Will they admit that what is happening is an act of judgement for man's wickedness and rebellion against God? NEVER. Just like now, anyone who suggests that what happened to Haiti might have something to do with the Lord is labeled a kook/idiot/freak etc.
What do you think they will be saying on brain drain TV during the days of judgement that are coming on the world? It will be very similar to what they say today. 50,000-100,000 and counting people died as a result of the earthquake in Haiti this week. Is that grievous? YES. Does that break my heart? YES. Is more coming???? YES Over 2 Billion people will be killed in the opening salvo of the time of Jacob's trouble:
Rev 6:8 .....They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
What will they be saying on the propaganda tube in those days? Anything BUT, "hey guys, maybe this is the wrath of God... maybe we should repent and get our act together...."
We still live in the age of Grace. Our Lord's hands are still outstretched in mercy to this world, but the days of that mercy grow short. Terrible events like what has happened in Haiti should cause everyone who sees it to take a hard look at their own life. If it happened in Haiti, it can happen where you live too. The Lord is loving and kind, full of mercy and compassion, but he is NOT a one dimensional God as so many portray him in today's "churches." Our God is ALSO a God of WRATH and JUDGEMENT and VENGEANCE and WAR and RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Isaiah 42:13 ... ... The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal:he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies.
Romans 2:5 ... But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment ...
Nahum 1:2 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes ... The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his foes
....and there are tons of other examples you can go look up for yourselves to prove the point. People like to see the pleasant side of our God and they dig holes in the ground to hide their eyes from all the rest. Is that wise?
What I am hearing from the Lord today is not a message of condemnation of the Haitian people, its a call for everyone else to WAKE UP. If a person's heart is not broken to the point of tears over the Haitian people's plight, I'd have to wonder if they really know the Lord. Things like what we are seeing in Haiti work for destruction, but also for GOOD for those whose eyes and ears and hearts are OPEN to the Lord's voice.
The Lord is speaking today. He is speaking all the time. We are the ones who are not listening. We are the ones who are not "seeing." Our God is a God of miracles and turnarounds. A person who sees what happened in Haiti, and sees what is coming in the books of Daniel, Mark 14, Luke 17, Matt 24, and the entire book of Revelation, and turns in repentance, can be spared much of the horror that still awaits the world in the days ahead. That's not a scare tactic, its a statement of fact.
What happened in Haiti is a preview of the future. Terrible times are coming for most of the people who live on the face of the earth. But not everyone is going to go through the horrors of the days ahead. There is a promise of escape we find in Luke 21:36. There is a promise of being kept in Rev 3:10. There are promises in Luke 17 and Matt 24 that some of us will experience the future exactly the way Noah and Lot did in their days. Lot did not put on a fire retardant suit to "endure the flames" of fire and brimstone that fell on Sodom. Noah did not put on a duck floatie to keep his head above the floodwaters in the days of the flood. Nope, they were both physically removed/separated spatially from the fire/bromstone and flood. The bible guarantees us that some people will ehave an experience exactly like Noah and Lot.
Many people argue with the bible. They think that there will be no escape from all. They think that men will go through some or all of the horrors of the time of Jacob's trouble. I believe that as far as those people themselves are concerned..THEY ARE RIGHT. Chances are, most people will not escape from all, be spared in the way that Noah and Lot were. Luke 21:36 tells us there is a worthiness factor involved in the escape from all. The story of Lot tells us that out of an entire city, only Lot and his family made it out alive. Out of the entire world that Noah lived in, only Noah and his family escaped the flood. So most people are RIGHT when they believe they will not escape all..... They are right...but only about their own destiny. According to our faith things are done to us, and their faith places them in the thick of the tribulation/time of Jacob's trouble. Who am I to argue with them?
Matt 9:27As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” 28When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”“Yes, Lord,” they replied. 29Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you”; 30and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” 31But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
I see the terrible times coming. I have faith that every word of the Lord is true and there is an escape from all just as the Lord says there is in Luke 21:36, Luke 17, Matt 24, and Rev 3:10. We are told to pray that we will be counted worthy to escape all that's about to happen, question is, are you praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all that's about to happen? If not, why not? It is an act of direct and willful disobedience not to pray that prayer, especially now that you know you should pray that prayer. But I'm not here to beat you down, I just want to share my thinking with you.
The word of God tells us in Matt 7:13-28 that only a FEW will be saved. FEW will make it through the narrow gate that leads to life, and the many will go down the broad path that leads to destruction. This blog was started in a large part because of that one scripture. My question was, why? Why will only a FEW make it in? That question and the Lord's answers to thousands of questions I asked him opened my eyes to the apostasy that calls itself "christianity" today. Everything about "christianity" from the pastoral system, to worship "services" to "tithing" and every other foundational issue I can think of within today's babylonian form of churchianity is rotten from the ground up.
I have many proofs that this thinking is not false but I only need one proof to prove it all. There are "pastors" and "churches" on every corner of every street in America today and yet DARKNESS, not light is growing by the day over America and the world. Light ALWAYS drives out darkness, no exceptions, every time. So how can all these "pastors" and "churches" be full of light AND darkness also be growing thicker and darker over our country by the day? The only way darkness can triumph is by the complete ABSENCE of light in the land. The absence of light and the advance of darkness only proof I need to offer to prove the point that whatever the so called christian church claims itself to be, it is NOT light because it is NOT driving out darkness. I rest my case.
Consider carefully what is happening in Haiti today. Pray for the people, offer what other help you can, but remember that if it happened in Haiti this week, it could happen here next week. If it did, what would you do? Are you right with the Lord? That's really the only thing that matters.
Grace and peace
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Earthquake Haiti
Today on CNN the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake was broadcast. One clip they showed had a woman standing in the hills above port au prince screaming "its the end of the world" as smoke rose from the city. I can tell you that the Lord prodded my spirit everytime I saw that clip.
What happened to Haiti is a foreshadow of what's coming to cities all around the world. It wasn't four days ago that another major quake struck off the coast of California. When cities shake and cities are destroyed, we should pay attention. This time it was the Haitian capital, what happens when next time its our capital?
Why Haiti? Why now? If you've ever heard the saying "Haiti is 95% catholic but 100% voodoo" you might be getting warm. A people who worship voodoo gods cannot be at peace with our God at the same time. I believe that a warning was delivered to all of us through Haiti.
What's the point? The point is that thousands of people who woke up yesterday thinking it was going to be an ordinary day, never lived out the entire day. If it happened there it could happen here. Again, so what? The so what is...we must be at peace with the Lord today. We must be ready to stand face to face with him without shame today. It is only by the grace and patience of God and the few remaining true believers in this country that we've been spared today.
Matt 24:4Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,a’ and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Here in America, many people are still living the days of Noah and Lot. Today all around us people know not until the destruction falls upon their own heads:
Matt 24:36“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,f but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
When the flood comes to take people away it will be a little too late to wake up won't it? I grieve for the people of Haiti today, voodoo or no voodoo. I grieve for them more because I see people all around the world who will likely end up the same way. They are so busy with the world that they don't see our Lord's hand in anything, even in paradigm shaking events like what we see in Haiti today.
I believe the Lord stirred my spirit about what happened in Haiti. He didn't comment at all, not a single word, he just kind of tapped me on the shoulder then pointed his finger at Haiti and left the matter for my consideration. What I see I consider to be grievous and I think we should consider ourselves warned. There is a price for wickedness, in this life and in the next. There are benefits to righteousness, in this life and the next.
The people of America need to stop for a moment and examine themselves. The sins of America are stacked high into the heavens. Let's be sure we are right with the Creator.
Grace and peace
What happened to Haiti is a foreshadow of what's coming to cities all around the world. It wasn't four days ago that another major quake struck off the coast of California. When cities shake and cities are destroyed, we should pay attention. This time it was the Haitian capital, what happens when next time its our capital?
Why Haiti? Why now? If you've ever heard the saying "Haiti is 95% catholic but 100% voodoo" you might be getting warm. A people who worship voodoo gods cannot be at peace with our God at the same time. I believe that a warning was delivered to all of us through Haiti.
What's the point? The point is that thousands of people who woke up yesterday thinking it was going to be an ordinary day, never lived out the entire day. If it happened there it could happen here. Again, so what? The so what is...we must be at peace with the Lord today. We must be ready to stand face to face with him without shame today. It is only by the grace and patience of God and the few remaining true believers in this country that we've been spared today.
Matt 24:4Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,a’ and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Here in America, many people are still living the days of Noah and Lot. Today all around us people know not until the destruction falls upon their own heads:
Matt 24:36“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,f but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
When the flood comes to take people away it will be a little too late to wake up won't it? I grieve for the people of Haiti today, voodoo or no voodoo. I grieve for them more because I see people all around the world who will likely end up the same way. They are so busy with the world that they don't see our Lord's hand in anything, even in paradigm shaking events like what we see in Haiti today.
I believe the Lord stirred my spirit about what happened in Haiti. He didn't comment at all, not a single word, he just kind of tapped me on the shoulder then pointed his finger at Haiti and left the matter for my consideration. What I see I consider to be grievous and I think we should consider ourselves warned. There is a price for wickedness, in this life and in the next. There are benefits to righteousness, in this life and the next.
The people of America need to stop for a moment and examine themselves. The sins of America are stacked high into the heavens. Let's be sure we are right with the Creator.
Grace and peace
Monday, January 11, 2010
1/11/2010
I wanted to write something short to you today to let you know what the Lord has impressed on me.
#1
It is incredibly important that above all else we worship the Lord, in spirit and truth. Worship is what the spiritual war going on around us is all about. Satan wants people to worship him, our God wants the same thing, and here we are in the middle.
We must worship and we must be positioned to worship. What I mean by that is, there are many people in the world today who worship our God in vain...
Matthew 15:9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'"
John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
#2
Don't give up hope. If you can, be aggressive in your faith and belief. Expect to see great things from the Lord in the days that remain. I personally am believing for something great. I have the faith and I believe that a mountain that I am speaking to right now will move exactly according to my belief. This mountain that I expect to move will alleviate some human misery in the world and once again validate my faith and belief. I write this to you today to encourage you to lay your faith on the line. Believe.....and watch what happens.
There is coming a day when those of us standing in heaven will look back and marvel at how little we actually did with what was available to us. I do not want to be one of those people who wished it would have been different. I want to be one of those people who tapped into the forces and power of heaven to move mountains on this earth just as our Lord said we would. I hope that you too can stretch your faith and belief a little bit more today and search your heart for what the Lord would have you do with it.
Conclusion
Make personal worship of the Lord your first priority. Who and what we worship is at the heart of the war raging around us. Exercise your faith for great things, be aggresive. Expect to see moutains moved. It does not take amazing faith to move a mountain, it only takes faith the size of a mustard seed. Do you think you can summon up enough faith to compare with a mustard seed? If you can, you should expect to move mountains. How AWESOME. These are the things the Lord has on my mind today.
We are dearly loved children, grace and peace
#1
It is incredibly important that above all else we worship the Lord, in spirit and truth. Worship is what the spiritual war going on around us is all about. Satan wants people to worship him, our God wants the same thing, and here we are in the middle.
We must worship and we must be positioned to worship. What I mean by that is, there are many people in the world today who worship our God in vain...
Matthew 15:9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'"
John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
#2
Don't give up hope. If you can, be aggressive in your faith and belief. Expect to see great things from the Lord in the days that remain. I personally am believing for something great. I have the faith and I believe that a mountain that I am speaking to right now will move exactly according to my belief. This mountain that I expect to move will alleviate some human misery in the world and once again validate my faith and belief. I write this to you today to encourage you to lay your faith on the line. Believe.....and watch what happens.
There is coming a day when those of us standing in heaven will look back and marvel at how little we actually did with what was available to us. I do not want to be one of those people who wished it would have been different. I want to be one of those people who tapped into the forces and power of heaven to move mountains on this earth just as our Lord said we would. I hope that you too can stretch your faith and belief a little bit more today and search your heart for what the Lord would have you do with it.
Conclusion
Make personal worship of the Lord your first priority. Who and what we worship is at the heart of the war raging around us. Exercise your faith for great things, be aggresive. Expect to see moutains moved. It does not take amazing faith to move a mountain, it only takes faith the size of a mustard seed. Do you think you can summon up enough faith to compare with a mustard seed? If you can, you should expect to move mountains. How AWESOME. These are the things the Lord has on my mind today.
We are dearly loved children, grace and peace
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